The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard-§ a Workers’ af .- ers’ oe ie ee \e WORKERS PARTY ENTERS CHICAGO CITY ELECTIONS Securing Signatures Is Our Immediate Job In. the coming aldermanic elections on February 24, 1925, the Workers (Communist) Par- ty, Local Chicago, is entering candidates in various wards. The immediate task of the Workers Party and Young) Workers League members will be to get sufficient signatures to place the Communist candidates on the ballot. Time Is Short Only a short time is available for that purpose, and comrades therefore must get busy immediately and go out every day in their locality to get the necessary signatures. Every petition must be in the local office, 166 W. ‘Washington St., Room 303, by FRIDAY EVENING JANUARY THE 23rd. The number of signatures required vaties in each ward depending upon the ‘size of the ward. An average of about 500 signatures is necessary in each which is not a very great number if'our comrades will be properly active. « All captains of the wards have been fully supplied with material. Branches of the Workers Party and Young CHICAGO CANDIDATES ENDORSED BY WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY Candidates nominated by the Workers (Communist) Party for the spring aldermanic elections are as follows: 8rd WARD—E. L. Doty, candi- date; R. Minor and Gordon Owens, captains. Branches participating: South Side English, Englewood Eng- lish, South Side Scandinavian and Polish South Side, 11th WARD—Victor Zokaitis, can- didate; J. Manus, captain. Branches Participating: Lithuanian No. 6, South Slav No. 1, Ukrainian No. 1, and Y. W. L. No. 3. 22nd WARD—L, Cejka, candidate; A. Overgaard, captain. Branches participating: Czecho-Slovak Nos. 1 and 3, Lithuanian No. 5, Y. W. L. No. 4, Lithuanian No. 77, Douglas Park Jewish, 24th WARD—H. Epstein, candi- date; William F. Kruse, captain. Branches participating: D. P. Eng- lish, Italian West Side No, 2 and Y. W. L. No. 1. 28th WARD—N. Dozenberg, candi- date; W. Ozol, captain. Branches participating: Lettish and West Side Scandinavian. 32nd WARD—Peter M. Lucas, candidate; M. A. Stolar, captain. Branches participating: Ukrainian No. 1, Polish N. S., Russian, Y. W. L. No. 5. 33rd WARD—J. L. Engdahl, can- didate; N. J. Christensen, captain, - Branches participating: N. W. Eng- member of the’ party has been assign. ed to cover a certain territory to get signatures on petitions and should ar- range to cover that territory immedi- ately. Report Once A Week Members should not delay when they have gotten the lists filled but should report at least twice a week to their branch committee. This is a so-called non-partisan elect- ion, that is the names of our candi- dates do not appear as running under the label of the Workers Party. How- ever, our activity will make it a Com- smunist campaign. Every registered voter and citizen Mvjng in a ward and who has not signed any other petition for another candidate ‘in the coming aldermanic Dock Strike Ties mania is threatened with a shortage 34th WARD—Harry Brooker, can- didate; I. L. Davidson, captain. Branches participating: N. W. Jew- ish, Italian Terra Cotta, Y. W. L. No. 6, and the Roumanian Branch. 44th WARD—J. W.. Johnstone, candidate; Walt Carmon, captain. Branches participating: Finnish, Lakeview, Scandinavian, North Side English, German and Y. W. L. Up Tasmania; Two Thousand Stranded (Special to The Daily Worker) HOBART, Tasmania, Jan. 7.—Tas. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago. by mail, $6.00 per year. : CAPITALISTS IN election is eligible to sign petitions to place our candidates on the ballot. Comrades’ in - uring petitions should make cert .n of the fact that _the signer has not signed for another candidate, otherwise the name will be thrown out. | citizen and yoter in that ward. Also comrades should see that the signer gets his full name and address on the petition and is duly qualified , Carry Daily Worker Bundle In connection also with the imme- di e drive to place the Communist candidates onthe ballot, we are con- ducting a DAILY WORKER drive. Every comrade who goes out to secure signatures must take a bundle of THE DAILY WORKER with him and must leave a copy at each place he visits. Also comrades.are to take subscrip- tion cards and try to get subscribers for THE DAILY WORKER and there is every possibility of excellent suc- cesses for THE DAILY WORKER if this is done carefully and systematic. ally. { : bitin’ In this region. GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING OF Y. W.L. IN NEW NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 7.—A general membership meeting of the Young Workers League of New York will be Casino, 142 Second Ave. At this meeting the bey Sanson National Executive Committee on the work of the gue and Comrade John Williamson, for the N. E..C. Discussion will f ‘At Is the duty of every member om the league to be pr sent at this meeting, 80 that a large representation - Comrades, cancel all other meetings. Get after every member who may not know of the meeting and bring him there, { STAR CASINO es Street and Park Avenue, » New York City ve Wepretary of the | of food and other necessary supplies, owing to the dock strike, which has completely tied up all commerce, Over 2,000 visitors and tourists in Tas- mania are stranded, and some whose business is pressing have chartered steamers. ANOTHER STRIKER MURDERED IN THE ANTHRACITE REGION (Special to The Dalty Worker) SCRANTON, Pa, Jan. 7.—Steve Frely, 21, a miner, was shot to death while standing witn a group of striking miners in front of a store at Old Forge, near here early today. Frely was cond striker em- ploye of the Pennsylvania Coal com. ' pany to be murdered within 24 YORK CITY, JAN. 16 held Friday, Jan. 16, at Stuyvesant 's_will be discus jue, will speak / a8 pos: CONFERENCE TO ‘DISCUSS SPOILS) Revisit Scenes of the Versailles Pact (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Jan. 7.—The thieves have gathered to quarrel, in a polite way, over the plunder. Representatives of the twelve allied robbers, including six fin- ance ministers, assembled in the famous clock room of the foreign office palace and were called to order at 2 o'clock. Recalls the Lb. -d. It is the same room where the three old men, now either dead or political- ly dead—Wilson, Lloyd George, and Clemenceau, drew up the tangle of tm- possible penalties called the treaty of Versailles. The specific purpose, it was an- nounced, was to make a division among the allies of-German repare- tion payments on the basis of the Dawes’ plan. Europe Has Something Else. Representatives of the European states do not conceal, however, that the most important ‘question to. be | { geen” discussed is the me of the lites! An delegations gee: can are anxious to begin the discus- sion of the thorny debt question. The solution of the problem, it is held, depends entirely upon the solu- tion of the French war debts to the United States and Great Britain. The Roumanian, Jugo-Stavian and Greek delegates have been told that what their countries will recetve will de- pend upon what concessions are re- ceived by France from her creditors. Opposition to. Funding?” One thing that appears certain to unbiased observers is that the re- funding of the $7,000,000,000 which France owes the United States and Great Britain is as distasteful to the French as the cancellation of that sum is unacceptable to the American and British taxpayers. French newspapers, regardless of Political opinion, oppose the idea of a complete restitution, and they have much to do with the education of pub- lic opinion. Frenchman and Briton Clash. A highly important talk between Finance Minister Clemente! of France and Winston Churchill, British chan- cellor of the exchequer, was held this forenoon. Mr. Churchill opened the discussion by setting forth the well-known Brit- ish standpoint that Great Britain must receive from her war debtors, sums equivalent to those she must pay the United States. The French finance minister’s re- ply was that the French were obliged to take exactly the same attitude— that France likewise could not forgive her debtors while obliged to pay her creditors, American Pressure Charged. Up to that point, it appears, the conversation was easy in tone. It grew more difficult when M. Clemen- tel began to place responsibility for the diminution in “reparation .pay- ments which France may expect from Germany, charging it to the other al- Hed and associated power. France's finance minister, Clemen- tel, was elected unanimousty to the presidency of the international con- ference, however, on the motion of Churchill. More Rall Layoffs. CLINTON, Iowa, Jan. 7.—The Chi- cago & Northwestern road is laying oq still more’ boilermakers and ma- chinists at its Clinton shops. Ameri- ead is yiay Mussolini Disarms Anti- Fascist Troops. (Special to the Daily Worker) ROME, Jan. 7.—A strike in the textile industries which be- gan at Breda, has spread thru- out the northern part of Italy. The textile employers have de- clared a general lockout. Mussolini, learning that the Italian troops are sympathetic to the workers and peasants, and are ready to fight against the fascisti, has begun to dis- arm all national troops. General Diaz and General Giardino, the two leaders of the army, are against the fascist gevernment. All Communist Psrty branches have been raided and declared “dis- solved” by order of Mussolini. The socialist and liberal parties and as- sociations have also been “dissolved,” The newspaper Gazzettino di Ven- ezia was burned to the ground in Venice and the newspaper Gustizia has been suppressed by the prefect of Milan. The fascisti have so far refded 665 private homes and supreszed over 200 opposition organizations. Rioting and general unrest are on the increase. Outbreaks occurred in Milan, Carrara, Ferrara, Florence and Venice, and for a time were beyond police control. Ex-Premier Salandra’s change from support of the faecisti to the opposi- tion has caused a division in the lib- eral party. Some of the liberal depu ties have passed to the opposition with Salandra, while others are re- maining with fascisti party. The fascist lherals are now being led by ex-Minister~ Sarocchi, who resigned | © from the cabinet to relieve Mussolini of embarrassment. Foreign. newspaper correspondents in Rome have’ been hounded by the Vv E> 290 Published daily except Sunday PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill, Heip Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! by THE) DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents | RUSHED TO ‘PEN’ INCUSTODY OF COUNTY SHERIFF Bail Is Denied Him by State Supreme Court (Special to the Dally Worker) JACKSON, Mich., Jan. 7.—C, E. Ruthenberg, national execu- tive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, is in the Michigan state prison here to- night, after a hurried trip from the. Berrien County jail at St. Joseph. Comrade Ruthenberg has be- gun to serve his sentence of from three to ten years, for “assembling with” other Com- munists at the 1922 national convention. Capitalists Demand Pound of Flesh. Because he dared to speak in behalf of the working class, advocating “alt power to the workers,” and the over: throw of the capitalist system» of ex. ploitation, the employers, thru. thei sent of the rank and file. A few weeks ago they decided to end their troubles by expelling five la reds, but these darned reds refused to be expelled and herein lies the story. | They have been denied a working+ “EXPELLED” LEFT WINGERS STILL IN UNION; OTHER MEMBERS ARE lor this ie atry thru Comrade Ruthen _ FORCING HANDS OF OFFICIALS —e 181 of the-carpenterstton-“Gte in var ‘awtat '| pickle, they have been in this piekle for quite some time, in fact it dates back to the time when W. L. Hutcheson, general president, and Harry Jensen, district president, signed a Landis “open shop” agreement without the con-~ agents the U. S. department of justice and the Michigan courts, are striking blow at the Communist movement | berg. In tho custody: of Sheriff Fred . Franz, Comrade Ruthenberg was. tak- en fromthe Berrin’ cpunty jail, at st: Pes Joseph, to Jatkson, to begin his sen- tence. Bail was denied to-Comrade Ruth enberg, by the supreme’ court of chigan, sitting at Lansing, on Tues. day. A telegram was received from Comrade Ruthenberg by Isaac Fergu- card, but they still work, they have been denied the new pass word but they still attend the union meetings. Furnishing Comédy. Monday night one of the supposed expelled members asked the chairman why he refused to give them the pass word and yet allowed them to attend the meetings. The president was stomped, he said he did not know. However the answer to this puzzle is, that the members would not allow the expelled members to be removed. New York Express and | Western Indiana Train | Collide; Four Injured | A misunderstanding in signals caus- ed the wreck of the crack B. & O.| New York express and a train on the Western Indiana railroad on the south side here, last night. One coach was demolished and four son, his attorney, which said, “Am jleaving for Jackson today.” The telegram was dispatched from Niles, which is near Jackson, and shows that Comrade Ruthenberg has |already been transferred to the Michi- |gan state prison at Jackson. He must have been hurried secretly out of the Berrien. county jail at St. Joseph, Michigan, for the St. Joseph papers said that Ruthenberg would be kept in St. Joseph for several days. Goes to Supreme Court After Jan. 15. The Michigan supreme court will Some time ago one member was fin- jothers derailed, but only four persons ed one dollar and another two dollars | Were injured, none seriously. No one for daring to defend the expelied mem- |W48 killed. bers, last night by motion the mem- bers remited the fines. The fight has (Continued on Page 2.) formally wash its hands of Comrade Ruthenberg’s case on Jan. 15, when the final plea for an appeal will be disposed of by the Michigan court, (Continued on page 2) Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum. OUNG Workers and Communists of America! The sentencing of the executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, C. E. Ruthenberg, to a prison term of from 3 to 10 years, and a fine of $5,000, is the beginning of a new ferocious drive against the entire working class movement in this country. The re-election of Coolidge, the republican arch- reactionary tool of imperialism, has given impetus to renewed persecution not only against the Com- munists but also against every section of the labor movement, against every attempt of the workers to better their conditions. It means a more con- centrated drive by the bosses of America to lower wages, increase the working day, and breat, up the trade unions; it means the increase of exploita- tion and more energetic preparations for new im- fascist police. ‘Their homes ‘have been raided, their offices searched, and several of them placed under ar- rest. “Polikuehka” is coming to Gertner’s Independent Theater, Jan. 15. perialist wars. Young workers of America! As that anctlots of the working class which suffers the greatest in the industries, mines and fields, which is the first to be dragged into capitalist wars, which is dis- criminated against in almost every field of in- Daily Worker Jubilee, Concert and Ball Sunday, January 11, Afternoon and Evening Stand by the Michigan Defendants! A Statement by the National Executive Committee of the Young Workers League dustry—both in the trade unions and in the shop— it is your duty to rally to the defense of the reyo- Intionary leaders of the working class. The persecu- tion of the Michigan Communist defendants is an attack on the entire working class, Unite against the persecution of Communists and all other fighters for the working class! Demand the abolition of all criminal syndicalism laws and the release of all political prisoners! Demand more wages and less hours instead of lower wages and longer hours! Join the struggle to abolish child labor! Abolish the discrimination against young work- ers in the unions and in the shops and mines! Unite for the six-hour day and five-day week for all young workers! Join the Young Workers League for the struggle against capitalism, the exploitation of the young workers, and the coming of new imperialist slaughters! YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE OF AMERICA,* John Williamson, National Secretary. Tickets for sale at District Office, Workers Party, 208 E. 12th St., and Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 127 University Place, | i Admission 50c