The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 7, 1925, Page 1

| "The DAILY WORKER i Raises ++ 9,Standard for ante and er ) THE DAIL Batered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the WEDNESDAY, JA In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago. by mail, $6.00 per year. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: RY 7, “TEXTILE WORKERS: ORGANIZE AND _ AS'WE SEE IT || FIGHT?” IS SLOGAN ISSUED BY THE TE soar gcaing T.U. E. L. NATIONAL COMMITTEE MONG. ‘the editorial sapheads to f"% partly blame the Communist In- | ternational for reaction in Europe is | the gentleman who presides over the Seattle Union Record, once a rather progressive sheet, but now even worse than the: Milwaukee Leader, which is saying a mouthful. This much can be:said forthe Leader. It is not hypo. éfitical. Berger flaunts his political nakedness~before the public with as Nittle self consciousness as a drunk taking the sun on a busy thorofare | with nothing on to obstruct Old Sol’s rays. TO ALL TEXTILE WORKERS—ORGANIZED AND UNORGANIZED: Comrades and Fellow-Workers: The National Association of Textile Manufacturers has announced that the industry must be saved from foreign competition by a series of wa cuts, an Increase of working hours and a general speeding-up of the workers. This ts a declaration of war upon the workers in the textile Industry whose fabor piles up the enormous profits that allows the textile millionaires to maintain summer and winter homes, ride in limousines, hire high-salaried lobbyists, bribe lawmakers and judges and pay policemen, gunmen and militiamen to club, shoot, bayonet and jail striking textile workers as has been done in every textile strike from Lawrence to Paterson. This is an old excuse—this talk of competition. Sometimes It is the “competition” of the southern mill-owners that brings on a cut in wages in northern mills; sometimes it is the other way about, but always the textile workers and not the textile barons suffer.. Today it is “foreign competition” and tomorrow it will be something else. it all means that these greedy capitalists want the last ounce of strength from the workers and want to pay the lowest possible price for it. The textile workers are either without any union or divided Into small craft unions. There is no unity among the textile workers like there is among the bosses and this is the reason that wage cuts can be put over. The textile workers need a powerful industrial union—all the textile workers in one union. This is the immediate program of the Trade Union Educational League for the workers in the Textile Industry: their denunciation of the Communist " International. An industrial union of the workers against the industrial union of the “ os bosses! Nil could:blame;the:C:Lforeac|, icy front of ALL the textile unions and textile workers against as. ‘atte. Sannion sa ade alle the United Front of the textile millionaires! . those who ‘opposed the war in ited States for the passage of criminal syidicalism laws. Be. that’ high-priced genius, George peraeth Shaw, took a wallop at the unist International, every sec- | gmd-rate liberal pen pusher in the ‘United States feels obliged to follow | regrettable that the calm existence should Bloody Riots « on Increa ROME, Jan. 64 ing continued thru day, three being a a ae) Seattle Union Record, pretends to be a frieqd of Soviet Russia, but those, who know the history of the Russian revolution should be able to grasp the fact that without the Com- munist Party of Russia, which is the Dackbone of the Communist Interna- @onal, the workers’ and peasants’ rule wauld topple in short order. Yet we find people who go into ectasies—for | of Rome, carrying | | | | i} | | F public. consumption—about the So- H ducting searches, newspapers. After several un tempts to storm d'Italia, the cro ceeded in setting office on fire, stroying it. Mattina, in burned down. At ‘Setri Ponete, center of revolu' fire broke out, ¢ lira damagea. Sestri. a huge arsenal and n Some of the oppo appeared for the first most of their pages the Fascisti had ee were filled with ad editorials were allowed, — Aldo Oviglio minister of justice, now president of the ¢ puties, was appofi Salandra has resi presentative in the: Museolint is exps yiet Republic, aping the capitalists in Resistance to all wage cuts and Increases in hours! Abolition of child labor! One Union in the Textile Industry—Amalgamation of ALL the unions into an industrial union! Instead of wage cuts—more wages.. Instead of longer hours—shorter hours! Instead of many little Unions—One Giant Union and the Industry for the workers! Organize ‘and Fight! mreorcpececrt= LABOR HATER Pigeweer >| OROWE TO HEAR STRIKE DISPUTE vocative” | actions of those who were "(nspired ‘with the spirit. of rebellion. Coal Drivers Officials Agree to It COMMUNIST DEPUTIES IN REICHSTAG RAISE A STORM FOR AMNESTY (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Jan. 6.—Riotous scenes attended the opening of the reich- stag. During President Ebert's ad- dress, Communists interrupted the president with shouts of “Amnesty! Amnesty! Free the prisoners.” President Ebert called the house to order, but when quiet was re- stored a Communist deputy rose and started a speech In behalf of work. ing class prisoners. Ebert peremp- torily ordered the speech stopped. PAY BOOST FOR POSTAL WORKERS I$ REFUSED Senate Upholds Cal’s Veto (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6.—The bill increasing the salary of postel | employes, which was vetoed during the last session of congress, failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds ma- jority vote yesterday evening. The veto was sustained by the senate. Coolidge’s “exposure,” charging that six postal officials bribed the sec- retary of the post office committee in the senate, may have had the desired effect of adding a few votes againgt the bill which Coolidge has fought so bitterly. According to the rules agreed to, SOVIET RUSSIA went to jail and to the gallows. made trouble,and-eventually the they fought for were made, human race advanced another Society has now reached the where further progress is impos- p under the capitalist system. The unist International is directing > forces of world revolution -against » capitalist system. But the capi. are not taking it lying down, as the liberal pacifists would advise the ‘workers to do. They are fighting and tend to fight. -It is regrettable but , ‘The -workers must quit or ey will- fight because they do nothing. else unless they are die in the midst of plenty. ‘will not do. Until capital- “i overthrown there will be reac: ia Europe and elsewhere even if Communist International did not Guards Plot Invasion (Special to The Daily Worker) A conference between officials of the coal teamsters’ union and of the coal merchants’ association, which lasted most of Monday, ended with the union officials agreeing to send the men back to work at once, without a definite agreement’ or decision on the unions’ demands, and with State’s Attorney Crowe appointed as arbitrator. Had the strike lasted many days, and an injunction been issued, as it almost certainly would Have been, it would have been State’s Attorney Crowe’s men who would have arrested the strikers for picKeting. Crowe’s of- fice was active during the Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers strike, his assistants arresting the pickets and manhand- ling young girls. Crowe is one of the worst labor-haters in the city. The Chicago Federation of Labor officials opposed him in the last elections. The first session of the “arbitration board,” consisting of James Lynch business agent of local union 704, and Tim Lynch, secretary of local union 782 for the teamsters, and two re- presentatives of the coal merchants, with Crowe as umpire, begins on Fri- day. Charles C. Fitzmorris of the Globe Coal company, and Michael Ready, representing the team owners and independent dealers, will endeavor to prevent the men from getting their demands. The coal drivers are fighting for an increase in wages of one dollar per day. They also demand that they are not be requiretl to load and unload now current in Germany. Munich Paper Reveals Plot. Russia intends against the €zecho-Slovakia, the interests. of labor banking by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America bas a,paragraph entitled “U. 8. Leads World. Labor Movement, Why. this is so, Carver, eridently echoing the sentiments of eet the Amalgamated Cloth- ‘orkers, hastens to prove. Car. er tells us thst eg Buropean leaders antedeluvian class in. America. the ich newspaper. . Wrangel’s White Guards Again.: in the Balkans. The French nationalists, Nicholas’ troops. Kluxere Wrangle. seventy cents an hour. Lasene Te Casi eres pl 6 senator. Senator Moses failed to bring the new postal bill backed by Coolidge be- fore the senate as 4 substitute for the vetoed bill. Moses’ bill was pre- sented after the Sterling bill, also backed by Coolidge, had to be with- drawn because the newspapers pro- tested against the high postal rates for news publications. Denies Negotiations For Franco-German Trade Are Broken (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, Jan. 6.—-The German delega. tion, here to negotiate a Franco-Ger man commercial treaty, issued a state- ment. this efhernaes a had proken to keep each other out of tho state. GALES, WALL STREET LACKEY, SENDS TROOPS AGAINST PEASANTRY (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, —Federal troops have been sent to guard the farm lands of United States Consu ent W. 0. Jenkins, government ents said today. The troop mover ment followed the complaint of Jen- kins that agraristas (peasants) were trying to confiscate his crops. This was the second attempt in a month fo rob hie farm, Jenkins reported. Results et additional general angele meetings are announced as follows: é ty ipmasbins, ° minority, 19 1 Distr Benjainin for -mino ST HAMMO , IND—Membership meeting including Whiting, East lana Harbor and East Hammond voted: majority, 10; minority, | Speakers: majority, J. W. Johnstone; minority, Robert Minor, -CORRECTION—The vote at the meeting in Pittsburgh, Sunday, was: minority, 38. The original report published gave #1 te the bpwvinte mining sub-district voted: majority, 7; organizer Max Lerner spoke for majority; Herbert at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. OSAVE ber of de- place him. 8 Ttaly's re ue of nations. TALK OF EUROPE Monarchists and White BERLIN, Jan. 6.—The strong un- dercurrent of a new offensive against Soviet Russia, so marked in the re- cent acts of Austen Chamberlain, the new tory foreign minister of Eng- land and the anti-Soviet concordat of the white guard Balkan and Baltic states, has a variation in the rumor Hints that Grand Duke Nicholas of a military. attack oviets aided by France, Poland. and the Balkan states are contained in an ar- ticle published by the Munchener Neueste Nachrichten, a leading Mun- The nucleus of Nicholas’ army, it is stated, will be the remnants of Gen- eral Wrangel’s forces now assembled notably ox-President Millerend, are named as especially favoring the alleged forth- coming attempt to wrest Russia from the Bolsheviki. To Poland, it is said, vas been offered the Ukraine as the price of her aid, and Germans are warned that German soil-- probably Bavaria—may be used for mobilizing SACRAMENTO, Cal.—Within the u the senate took a vote on the vetoed coal in addition to their duties as |bill before four o'clock and debate |Past month sis waering factions of truck drivers. They are now paid|was limited to ten minutes for cach California charters to Secretary of State Frank Jorden, or have sent in petitions or gone to courts in attempts 1925. <™ Your Militant Fighters! TO THE WORKERS AND POOR FARMERS OF AMERICA: Brothers! Comrades! The revival of the Michigan ca the sentencing of C. E. Ruthen- berg to prison for three to ten years, is the first step to a general cam- paign against labor! The Supreme Court of the State of Michigan on Dec. 10, decided against the appeal in the case of C. E. Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers Party of America, upholding the constitutionality of the so-called “criminal syndicalist” law. Comrade Ruthenberg was thereupon sentenced, on January 5, by Judge White of the Berrien County Court, to a prison term of not less than three years and not more than ten years. Comrade Ruthenberg was refused bail and immediately locked up in jail. Following the sentencing of Comrade Ruthenberg comes the an- nouncement that all the others were indicted in the Michigan case will be brought to trial. This will include such outstanding representatives of the militant labor movement of America as William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Robert Minor, etc. The class conscious workers of America are now in danger of losing the active services of a large number of militant fighters in the cause of labor. Once more the master-class of America has laid its brutal hands upon the militant fighters in the cause of the oppressed and exploited masses. Once more your enemy, the capitalist class, has set in motion the oppressive machinery of its government to seize from your ranks and lock into prison those who stand for your interest and lead the struggle against your capitalist exploiters. Capitalist reaction is again raising its ugly head. It is preparing the ground for new wage-cuts, “open shop” campaigns, and general persecu- tion of the labor movement. . Rally to the defense of your class, your organization, and your mili- 7. e©¢ @¢ © ING THE FRUITS OF THEIR, VvigTORY! and Guirase agailist the labor move- mént, the American capitalist class is reaping the fruit of its victory in the last presidential election. The backwardness of the American working masses, the open betrayal of such labor leaders as dominate the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, and the sham and futility of capitalist democ- racy, which is nothing but a dictatorship of the capitalist class, all this enabled the republican party to entrench itself in power in the interests of capital. The government of Strikebreaker Coolidge and “Open Shopper” Dawes has fired its first shot in a general campaign against the labor movement. Wage cuts and “open shop” drives are being prepared in every indus- trial center in the country. Unemployment is ravaging the ranks of labor, greatly weakening the fighting abilities of the workers. Child labor is utilized by the capitalists to further undermine’ the fighting strength of the working class. Capitalism in America is triumphant! Like a beastly bird of prey it is preparing to jump at the throat of of the working class. The working masses of America must unite their forces to defend themselves and their organizations from these new attacks of the capitalists. *_. © @ THE WORKERS PARTY éauts FOR A UNITED FRONT! The Workers (Communist) Party of America is the revolutionary political party of the American workers and poor farmers. The Workers Party stands for a militant and merciless struggle against capitalist exploitation, for the complete abolition of capitalism thru the establish- ment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which is a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. The Workers Party is unqualifiedly opposed to the parties of Big ‘Capital, the republican and democratic parties, and to the political movement of small capital and its hangers-on, the LaFollette movement. The Workers (Communist) Party is carrying on a militant struggle against wago-cuts, against “open shop” drives, against unemployment, against child labor, and against the use of the so-called “criminal syndi- calism” laws to throtile the labor movement. The Workers Party is waging an energetic struggle for the release of Tom Mooney, Sacco and Vanzetti, and all other prisoners of the class war. The Workers (Com- munist) Party of America, which is the only political party of the American workers and poor farmers, calls upon the oppressed masses and their organizations to rally to the defense of their militant fighters. Down with the “Criminal Syndicalism” Laws! Down, with the prosecution and jailing of militant fighters in the cause of labor! Down with Unemployment and Child Labor exploitation! Resist wage-cuts and “open shop” drives! Demand the release of all prisoners of the s-war! Hail the United Front of Labor, the unity of all workers in the Struggle Against Capitalism! WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, Wm. Z, Foster, Chairman. C. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. Compromise Contract . Ends Phone Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) HARRISBURG, Ill, Jan. 6.—The strike of telephoue operators em- ployed by the Illinois Southern Tele: phone company ended today when the representatives of the telephone oper- ators union and the telephone com. pany signed a compromise agreement. Southern [llinois business men were PITTSTON,. Pa., Ja a meeting of tha miners’ union. men running away. Pace was found represented in the conference, which | i" his body, Pace is a world war veteran and one of the miners on strike Janped until late Monday. night, be this district for more cme: four weeks, “ns ; . wad. py yA th i PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., oT COURT EDICT Rally to the Defense of RUTHENBERG Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents Chicago, Ill. APPEAL SET FOR JAN. 17 30 Other Cases Will Be Tried (Special to' The Dally Worker) ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Jan. 6— The case of C. E. Ruthenberg, now in jail here, will be taken to the U. S. supreme court on January 17, Isaac L. Fer- guson, attorney for the Com- munists, declared today. Ruthenberg is now held with- out bail following the sentence “‘lby Circuit Judge Charles E. White, who sentenced him to from three to ten years and a fine of $5,000 for “assembling with” other Communists in their national convention in August 1922. Ruthenberg will probably be moved to the state penitentiary at Jackson today.- A writ of error has been filed with the Michigan supreme court at Lans- ing, asking for bail pending appeal to the United States supreme court. On January 15, the new appeai for a rehearing will be disposed of by the Michigan supreme court. The next step in the fight for the release of Comrade Ruthenberg, will be an application to a judge of the United States supreme court, asking for bail pending the hearing of the case by that body, Comrade Ferguson told the DAILY WORKER. The U. S. supreme court will then set a date for the hearing of the case. The trial of the remaining 30 Com- mainists. arrested at the Bridgemati conventioy will be pushed, O. L. Smith, of Lansing, assistant attorney general stated. Robert Minor, noted Communist speaker, writer and. cartoonist, will be the next to go to trial. Minor’s case will come before Judge White during the February term. He is scheduled to appear on February second. Minor was arrested in Coblenz, dur- ing the war, charged with spreading propaganda among the soldiers in the American expeditionary forcees. He is at present writer and cartoonist for the DAILY WORKER. Ruthenberg, who was -brought to trial in the spring of 1923, after the Foster trial, was found guilty of “criminal syndicalism,” on the charge of “assembling with” other Commun- ists. The U. S. degartment of justice co-operated with the Berrien county authorities thruout the trial. The sen- tence, however,. was postponed until after election, it being thought best by the government to keep up the sham of observing the free speech clause in the constitution until after Morgan’s money had safely elected Coolidge. One of the chief witnesses against Ruthenberg was Jacob Spolansky, whose real name is Shpoliansky, and who posed as 2 “good American” dur- ing the trial. Spolansky acted as a stool pigeon in the socialist party and later in the Communist movement. He was recently fired from the bu- reau of investigation of the U. S. de partment of justice. NOTORIOUS KLAN INCENDIARY TO RAID THIS CITY HERRIN, IL, Jan. Young, noted ku klux klan raider. of Williamson county fame, today refus ed point blank to deny reports that he had been selected by the grand dragon of the realm of Illinois of the ku klux klan to lead the klan’s pro- posed drive to “clean up” Chicago, but admitied that his work in Will. famson county was “about done.” ANTHRACITE COAL STRIKE’S OFFICIAL SHOT TO DEATH AT PITTSTON, PA. elal to The Daily Worker) Bloodshed marked the strike of the 12,000 min. ers of the Pennsylvania Coal company today when Sam Pace, 31, secretary of a local union, was shot to death as he returned home he after attending Residents who heard the shots rushed into the street in time to see two ad in the snow with fourteen bullets 6.—-S. Glenn” ata