The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 6, 1925, Page 1

\ The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Gor) ie ae 2 Rut “AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHEATY. CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR A Lively Discussion—Some Dead Ar- guments, Fitzpatrick’s Ghost. Com. munists Fight for Fundamentals. jj F there were no Communist. dele- I gates to the Chicago Federation ‘of Labor it might strike the Musi- fana’ union in whose hall the sessions are held to provide an orchestra to play the “Dead March” during the proceedings. It would be a dead body, politically speaking. As it is, the presence of a Communist is enough to @ause a feeling of tension behind the Uttle round table which John Fitzpat- rick, president, belabors with his gavel, whenever he desires to add em- phasis to his arguments, such as they se 6 was quite a lot of excite- i -ment at last Sunday’s meeting of )the federation. It originated, inno- @ently enough when Comrade Arné | Bwabeck, delegate from Painters’ Lo- ea} No, 194, rose to protest against the action of Thomas F. Kennedy, (@elegate from the C. F. of L. to the Bi Paso convention of the A. F. of L fm endorsing the military training camp system engineered by the Am- erican: capitalist class and railroaded thru the convention under the leader. of the late Gompers and his sate- was in contradiction to past policy of the federation Swabeck pointed out. The speaker very telling speech, criticizing Paso. convention, its sins of “FP Vtatst militarism, unemployment, the organization of the unorganized, n particular reference to the fizzle made by the so-called eommittee for the organization of the steel workers. He was followed on @he floor by another delegate, not a Communist, who took exception to the ‘action of Delegate Kennedy in com- the Chicago Federation of La. avmilitarist program. It was evident that Fitzpatrick did not edy’s report to be brought the floor, as it was not read to dy but deposited in the columns eration News, which is not widely read, for various reasons. f ee © , a very sign, ‘cant incident ‘B océurred. A delegate from the Metal Polishers, by the name of Diehl @ kite in the form of an unmask- suggestion that the Communists a i & g i 4 bly. He referred to those criticized Kennedy's report as "an epithet which may be responsible for the way some ‘et the delegates “flew” at him late 7 : ATH DIEHL made such a hovel argument in favor of the military training camps that it de \#erves to be recorded in history. If not stumble on it accidentally, be given credit for more fertility of imagination than one the United Mine. Jack Waltdmmedu SUBSCRIPTION RATES: [poses and a $5,000 FIREWORKS EXPECTED IN HERRIN WHEN ANTI-KLAN SPEAKER OPENS _ UP ON KU KLUXERS NEXT SUNDAY gSpecial to The Daily Worker) MARION, III, Jan.6.—John Wilkinson, former head of District No, 21, ‘ers of America, and secret service agent for Gov- \¢ the Oklahoma klan war, announced here today that would speak in Herrin, next Sunday, Wiikinson was the principal speaker at an anti-klan meeting held here afternoon. He will remain in Williamson county he sald. — COURT PUSHES ATTACK: CALLS MINOR FEB. 22 Plan to Carry Fight to U.S. Supreme Court ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Jan. 5. —C..E. Ruthenberg, national executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, is in jail here tonight, under sen- tence of three to 10 years in ine, for aving “assembled with” his comrades in the national con- vention of the Communist Party at Bridgeman, in this state, in 1921. The fight to secure Ruthenberg’s release on bail, pending an appeal to the United States supreme court, will be carried to the Michigan supreme court at Lansing, tomorrow. Sentenced to State Penitentiary Judge C. W. White, in the Berrien county circuit court, in imposing sen- tence, refused to allow Ruthenberg to remain at liberty pending the appeal. The sentence of Judge White calls for imprisonment in the Michigan state prison, at Jackson. That the Michigan prosecutors, sup- ported by the U. S. attorney general’s office at Washington, is planning to push the trials of the other Commun- ists arrested, -including William Z Foster, William F. Dunne and a score the case of Robert Minor, former edi- tor of The Liberator, and now car- toonist of the DAILY WORKER. The Minor case is set for Feb. 2, but it is thought 1t will not be called, until Feb. 9, when prospective jurymen have been ordered to appear. It is expected that the Michigan su- preme court will act on the appeal to In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. the U. S. state supreme court on Jan. 15. * Court Room Is Crowded. Ruthenberg arrived here early to- day from Chicago and appearéd in court accompanied by his attorney, Isaac E. Ferguson, of Chicago. The court room was as crowded as on the most interesting day of the trial that resulted im Ruthenberg’s convic- tion; the same court room that saw the disagreement in Foster's trial, af- ter a long and hard fought legal bat- tle. Ruthenberg was not permitted to address the court, stating his views as | Statement by Ruthenberg | “I have this to say: I ama Communist. I have openly stated from the witness stand in this court the principles which as a Communist I advocate and sup- port. I deny that there is any- thing ‘criminal’ in these prin- ciples. “If as the courts of this state have held, to advocate the principles of Communism constitutes a crime, it is because the class in présent day society which profits thru the exploi- tation and oppression of the masses has used the governmental power which it controls to make advocacy of ideas and principles which threaten its social privileges, a crime. “IT am not charged with commission of any act in the state of Michigan except that of ‘assembling with’ the Workers (Communist) Party of Am- “Jerica. It is charged that the Workers (Communist) Party of America is an organization which violates the law. (Continued on Page 2.) Matered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilinols under the Act of March 3, 1878, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1925 <> PUBLIS: Published daily except Sunday by THE Help Insure THE DAILY .WORKER for 1925! DAILY WORKER HING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Price 3 Cents (OLT SHAKES MUSSOLINI RULE henberg Sentence 3-10 Years: Bail Denied | __e e Cee RD E 0e_—_191 EUROPE AWAITS CRASH My ce BIG BUSINESS: “Why, Bill Johnston, you are a genius!” KENNEDY SUCCEEDS GREEN AS SECRETARY-TREASURER OF THE MINE WORKERS’ UNION OF AMERICA SETTLEMENT OF- COAL STRIKE UP Teamsters Get No Pay Raise Yet : The three thousand members of the Coal Teamsters’ Union wjll return to work this morning after a one day day strike that completely tied up Chicago coal deliveries, and threw a scare into industrial, commercial and municipal users of coal. A conference between the union officials and repre- sentatives of the coal merchants as- sociation, which met during the great. er part of yesterday at the Atlantic Hotel, agreed that the men shoud re- turit to work while committees rep- resenting both sides “arbitrated” the differences. The outcome of the conference is at least a temporary victory for th: coal merchants’ association, as the arbitration. It was stated at union headquarters that the men will work starting today, on the scale deter mined by the “arbitration” commit- tees. The strike was effective while it lasted, the union drivers tieing up coal deliveries even of the small in dependent coal dealers. The large companies made on effort to deliver coal yesterday. At one o’clock yesterday afternoon the conference between the repre- sentatives of the Coal Teamsters’ Un- ion and the coal merchants’ associa- tion was still going on, no agreement having been reached. “ In spite of the fact that Marshall Keig, member of the Coal Mer- chants’ association, earlier had term- ed the demands of the coal drivers as “ridiculous,” as soon as the strike went into effect the coal merchants asked T. J. Lynch and Milton Booth, presidents of local unions 704 and 782, for a conference. The conference was expected to be over at two o'clock but near that time chairs and food were sent for and a prolonged con- ference appeared li! “We are far from any agreement aid one of the representatives of the strikers in the conference. The strikers are demanding an in- crease of $1.00 per day, and working regulations which exempt them from having to toad coal from the trucks they drive, The union headquarters at 637 8, Ashland Blvd., announced that no or. ganized However, seeing to it yesterday that no coal trucks were allowed on the streets ex- cept those for hospitals or orphanages, ' (Continued on page 2) REED COLLEGE IN NEW WAR ON ALL REDS, LIBERALS PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 5.—The re- gents of Reed college, a privately en- dowed Portland institution once fam- ous for its liberal educational experi- ments, are giving notice to the stu- dents that there are some things in the established order that are sacred. When Pres. Richard Scholz died the students wanted Alexander Meikle- No Hurry. The Oregon Liberal, published at 216 4th St., declares that the regents | are determined to sit hard on econo- mic heresies in the student body. “The cry set up that youth is respon- sible for the dissatisfaction at Reed,” says The Liberal, “is a smoke screen to hide the fact that economic teach- By Robert Minor president of District No. 17, United Mine Workers of America, was selected international secretary-treasurer today by the miners’ executive committee to succeed William Green, who became president of the American Federation of Labor following the death Samuel Gompers. TELEPHONE OPERATORS’ STRIKE TIES UP LINES AT HARRISBURG, ILL. (Special to The Daily Worker) HARRISBURG, Ill, Jan. 5.—The deadlock in the strike of telephone operators of the Murphysboro Tele- phone company here continued to- day with another conference be- tween union leaders and company officials scheduled for this after. noon. Harrisburg business interests are New Appointments on Foreign Service of Soviet Russia By Rosta News. MOSCOW.—(By Mail.) — L. Ganet- ing at Reed is to remain well in hand |**¥, member of the collegium of the and, that the students shall not do} People’s Commissariat of Foreign Af- too much prying around the founda- | rs, has been appointed chairman, | tion stones of economic privilege lest they discover just what conditions are. No Social Radicalism. “These are days when you may be as radical as you please about the depths and structure of the sidereal universe or the chromosomes of guinea-pigs, but a little digging now and then on the question of the dis- tribution of the economic income of the local community or the nation is held up as dangerously radical and evidence of an impulsive revolt of youth which must be sternly curbed.” Results of Membership Meetings The general membership meetings held on Sunday, Jan. 4, to discuss the | ™eeting at Naples. and J. Yanson, member of the colle- gium of the P. C. of Forcign Trade and formerly minister of foreign af- fairs of the far eastern republic, and Mr. Brodovsky, counsellor of the U. S. S. R. embassy at Berlin, have been appointed vice-chairmen of the Sov- jet delegation for the negotiations with Germany relative to the con¢lu- sions of the Soviet-German treaty 6f commerce, DPature Dee Test, Worker fr Mg majority and minority theses, went on record for the majority with the fol- lowing vote: BOSTON—Majority, 111; minority, 106. James P. Cannon, representing the C. E. C. and Jay Lovestone, the minority. PHILADELPHIA—Majority, 147; minority, 96. William . Foster spoke for the C, E. C. and Benjamin Gitlow for the minority. PITTSBURGH—Majority, 62; minority, 31. Alexander Bittelman spoke for the C .E. C. and Max Bedacht for the minority. BUFFALO—Majority, 80; minority, 31. Speakers: Earl R. Browder for the C. E. C.; J. Louls Engdahl for the ELIZABETH, N. J—-Majority, 30; minority, 3. Rebecea Grecht repre-| w= _' sented the majority position and Benjamin Lifshitz the minority. minority. & mene IN TTALY; NEWS OF FIGHTING ESCAPED FASCISTI CENSOR (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Jan. 5.—Private advices from Italy today sald that the internal situation there was extremely serious, with both fascists and anti-fascists in the smaller towns aroused to high pitch, . | Serious conflicts have broken out and the police do not | know what course to follow, these advices said. Large numbers | of police stood by and watched the fascisti wreck the Nuvo Glor- nale, a newspaper of Florence, fearing to take a stand against | the mob, It is reported Mussolini plans to create a directory of three himself and two generals—and impose martial law as a means of bringing order to Italy, but this is believed unlikely, at least at present. subject to long delays in trans- two years to insert fascism in the mission. Salandra Quite Mussolini, normal life of the country has been destroyed.” There were evidences in London today that the heavy censorship in Italy is being+ maintained, if not tightened | » News of the troubles there i (HE WATCH DOGS The secession from the black shir ¥ WORLD FNIPIRE party of former Premier Salandra har come at an inopportune tiine for Mussolini. J “I have lost faith in fascism,” Sa-| ¢ landra said. ‘“‘My wort: for the pasi| * To offset this adverse event, how- ever, Mussolini today had the delirious approval of the fascist newspapers, who pledge him. to continue the re- Senators, Financiers and Observers Unite (Special to The Dally Worker) position” for the funding of her $4,000,000,000 war debt’ to the United States was officially re- vealed today as only an empty gesture,*which for the present does not afford a suitable basis on which serious funding nego- tiations can be begun. The communication which Ambassador Herrick forwarded to the state department over the week end was not addressed to the American government, or did it come from the French government, but was a “per- sonal memorandum” from Fi- nance Minister Clementel which contained no definite nor con- crete suggestions for payment. In view of this fact, it was said to doubtful whether the American debt funding commission even would storation of tranquility to Italy.” To Oust Opposition Deputies. It was believed a decree would be forthcoming soon, declaring that all deputies who do not attend sessions of parliament would be deprived of their seats. The boycott had been the weapon of opposition deputies and their means of showing their disap- proval of “Mussolini despotism.” Mussolini practically has placed |Italy on a basis of martial law, with the strictest orders for suppression of antifascist organizations, special militia guarding the railway stations and the fascist prefects authorized to mobilize the black shirt militia, A railway strike under Communist | leadership is said to be in preparation to prevent the movement of fascist troops. The government has ordered the dissolution of the Italia Libera associa- tion, composed of former soldiers who be suffering as the result of the tie up | be assembled to consider tl the federation. He/a Communist on trial in a capitalist|teamsters have as yet gained nothing | ‘ohn, ousted liberal president of Am-| of all telephone service. Mayor uy als hea cates aie: communication. A copy Pgelsisgss, was overripe but|court, before sentence was passed. | by their walkout. The coal merchants | xerst, to be appointed but the regents | Patterson today notified both fac- Fiselets end. Oapecit Clash to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon there was still time. This/ after sentence, however, he issued a| declared that the drivers are return | named Norman Coleman, practically | tions that they must get together | poxn gone veveers pl o iteq (fOr his information, M. Clemental’s to look impressive but | statement declaring that: ing to work on the old scale, pending }1n unknown figure. , and end the strike. wr sanuary. 5. —— Rome waite memorandum was devoted almost en- tirely to an exposition of French public opinion on the general subject of war debts. If examination of the French memo- randum bears out the information concerning it cabled from abroad— parliament. that France has proposed a ten year As far as learned these measures|™°Tatorium and an interest rate of included (1) the strengthening of the |®€-balf of one percent over a period railway militia to prevent attempts at|f eighty or ninety years—then it is sabotage, (2) sequestration of the|©DSidered certain here that the com- headquarters of political associations|™{ssion will reject the terms propos. which had not yet been specified and|@, and call upon the French govern- (3) giving the local prefects authority} Ment for something more in keeping to mobilize the “black shirt” militia, | With the the American policy. Amer- Sham Attack on Rome. ican imperialism insists on its over- In Rome and other cities the militia | lordship. mobilized itself. Fifteen hundred} The chief hope of administration “black shirts,” fully armed, performed jofficials today was that the French maneuvers outside Rome, executing | Communication would be found to con- 4 sham attack on the city. They were | tain sufficient “meat” to warrant seri- subsequently congratulated by the new | ous funding negotiations. eatteosnenyg hpreeng re later | Bulwarking Senators on the Job. ey paraded the streets of the city. ., Exceptionally heavy cordons of sol- ti ag! ne re of real asete dlers surrounded the principal opposi. ions can forestall an outbreak in con. tion newspaper offices and the Grandi.” OVer pt eh bear eri Orient (Masonic) lodge, will not be calculated to improve Fragmientary reports from Bologna |p 22eo-American relations. No less mention serious rioting in the course ae # oxen senators, some. of, thek of the’ fascist reunion there, ‘Minor | buiwarks of the administration, are disturbances attended a forbidden | P2aning to express Cinmeeivan) com: cerning France's policy of quasi-re- b; pudiation of her war obligations, known whether other opposition par- Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, ties will also be suppressed, chairman of the foreign relations com- The resignation of Sig. Casati PO at aay Ho will point out, | among minister of education was confirmed ter things, that the American tax- today. | Payer is now being taxed one per cent Ay |@ year on the British debt, being ap- Youn RR x, Mawtt ie ‘ a breathlessly yesterday to learn the measures whereby Premier Mussolini, in accordance with his speech on Sat- urday, would “clear the air” and “break the Aventine sedition,” mean- ing by this the resistance of the de- puties who were staying away from If the French debt is settled on any- thing like the terms France {s re. ported to have “unofficially” proposed, American taxpayers will make up the (Continued on Page | proximately $50,000,000 a year. | | - Yo RR newal of the. fascist administration, ‘and ‘omission. » ,0t..other. prominent party. members, TO ARBITRATION a Be tinal 7 (Spécial to Fhe Daily Worker) ; ‘They consider Guacae sincere poet F RSUINGT ON. Jal Bm oe eT ‘ * the’ Get was shown in the calling for trial of : 4 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind,, Jan. 6—Thomas Kennedy, 40, of Hazelton, Pa|as only the preliminaries in the “re-|/Fance’s much heral rO- dealt wit Menace of cap! Sc Ri EN ree * snail? oo