The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 248. e Bats s a ° MANY CITIES T0 OBSERVE DAILY WORKER'S BIRTH Hold Celebrations from Coast to Coast The first anniversary of the DALY WORKER will be cele- brated by all Workers Party branches and district organiza- tions from coast to coast with dances, entertainments, balls, and meetings which have been arranged by the various sec- tions of the party. These celebrations will com- memorate the wonderful strides that have been made by the Communist movement since the first English language daily Communist newspaper was born just a*year ago. The first DAILY WORKER birth. day party will be celebrated in Chi- cago Monday evening, Jan. 12, with a program of music, games, dancing and speeches at Impérjal Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. Supper will be served without charge at the Chicago celebra- tion, which will jubilate over the splendid accomplishments of the past year and discuss fhe prospects of the DAILY WORKER for 1925. A news- paper will be made up by the editors and members of the staff, which it is promised, will be “just full of good news and cartoons.” The Chicago af. fair will be in. charge of Comrades Gussie Kruse and Natalie Gomez, of the business office of the DAILY celebration in New York will be com. bined with the observance of the anni- versary of the death of Karl Lieb- ‘knecht, and Rosa Luxemburfig. The district New York office of the Work- ers Party and the Young Workers’ League have issued a statement which ‘says, “On Jan. 11 the Com- munist youth the world over will commemorate the death of Karl Lieb. knecht and Rosa Luxemburg who six years ago were foully murdered by the military henchmen of the socialist leaders of Germany. As proof that the traitors of the working class are doomed and that the revolutionary movement, of the workers—the Com- munist movement—is rapidly advanc- ing, and gathering more and more re- cruits to its fold, we will have at the same time the celebration of the first anniversary of the DAILY WORKER Mellon, oo BSGRIPTION RATES: ANGRY MINERS IN PROTES am ~ 2 ye wet Lar at & ae ane ~ ° Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago. by mail, $6.00 per year. MILLER, COMMUNIST, IS MEMBER OF NORTH DAKOTA STATE LEGISLATURE By ALFRED KNUTSON, (Special to The Daily Worker) BISMARCK, N D., Jan. 8.—The North Dakota legislature has just started its session here and the political line-up is as follows: The nonpartisan leaguers have control of the house of representatives and the “I. V. A.,” or independents, control the state senate by one vote. The leaguers who are house members are “raring” to go and apparently “full of fight,” firmly believing that it will be possible for them to really do something by getting thru some “progressive” legislation, evidently forgetting that they are operating in @ capitalist legislature and within the frame-work of the private business system of capitalism, which, of course. render impossible any changes that will really help the farmers. The New Governor. A. G. Sorlie is the new nonpartisan league governor. He is pretty much to the right of even the average leaguer in North Dakota. His calibre can be easily ascertained thru state. ments he has made since his election, namely, that farmers, bankers and business men should all work together for the good of North Dakota. Such‘a policy will, naturally, play directly into the hands of the investment com- panies, the bankers and the grain thieves, who possess both political and economic power, and who are very anxious to be on good terms with the farmers in order the more readily to exploit them. Communist on Job. Comrade A. C. Miller, working farmer, is the only Communist mem- ber of the state legislature. He comes from Williston in the north- western part of the state and was elected to the house of representa- tives, representing the 41st legisla. tive district. He has been a member ofthe Workers Party for over a year. In an interview Miller declared that “it was a hopeless task for the farm- ers and workers to expect any relief under-the. capitalist system, and: that the work of a real workers’ represen: tative should be directed towards edu- cating all exploited farmers and work- ers to realize the necessity of build. ing up their own system.” MELLON'S GANG GROOMS PEPPER FOR FAT JOBS Making Horse Trades with Pinchot (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Andrew secretary of the treasury the first Communist Daily in the having acquired control of the repub world in the English language.” The Liebknecht memorial will be held in the afternoon and the DAILY (Continued from page 1) ATTENTION CHICAGO DELEGATES OF LABOR DEFENSE AND |. W. A. lican organization thrudut Pennsyl- vania thru the collapse of the Ware machine in Philadelphia, is reported to be preparing to change his repre- sentation in the U. S. senate. He is expected \to find a place on the federal supreme court, or a big European embassy, for Sen. Pepper, who has still four years to serve Then he will put former Gov. Sprou) in the senate. If Gov. Pinchot, in return for cer The Chicago Conference for De- |tain concessions by Mellon as to ap- fense and Relief, comprising all propriations from the legislature to branch delegates to/the Labor De- |carry out ‘some of Pinchot’s minor fense and Aid, will meet Saturday afternoon, Jan, 10, 3:30 shart, at Greek Hall, 722 Blue Island Ave. International Workers’ | plans, will agree to name Sproul to succeed Pepper, the latter will resign within the remaining two years of Pin- chot’s term. G@therwise Mellon will Ite first big job is the running of /have to wait until Pinchot leaves of- our biggest motion picture venttre, “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” at Ashiand Auditorium, Thursday, Feb. . & Tiekets and advertising matter | ready. } There is to be souvenir advertis- ing program. Space costs $20 per page, down to $3 for card space. Delegates and others are urged to bring along some advertisements from business houses and workers’ organizations. Be on time—722 Blue Island Ave., fice. \ Snooks Will Snoop In Atlanta Federal Prison After Jan. 20 WASHINGTON, Jan. 8,—Appoint: ITALY UNDER MILITARY LAW OF MUSSOLINI Communists Tortured in Prisons (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Jan. 8—A state of martial law exists today in Italy in everything but name. Prefects have been ordered to take any emergency measures they wish to keep the Fascisti in control of the country and suppress the opposition, regard- less of the present judicial statutes, The jails are being filled with Com- munists and workers who are against the fascisti rule of terror. These pris- oners are being tortured in an effort to make them “confess” crimes against the state. Cases have come to light in Rome of prisoners who have had their eyes gouged out, their hands an feet crushed and their bodies muti. campaign of suppression of opposition organizations. More prisoners are be- ing assaulted and all but a few of the fascisti members who were jailed for violent crimes have been released. Former Premier Giolitti is expected to become the new leader of the Aven- tine opposition. All under-secretaries of state who were not members of the fascisti party have resigned, under pressure from Mussolini. Signor Rustignac, a fascist and for- eign correspondent of the New York, Italian daily newspaper, Il Progresso Italo, has been arrested and quizzed by the senate. He is charged with being implicated in the Matteoti mur. der, The Communists are demanding a social revolution and the seizing of power by the workers, as the only means of crushing fascism for all time. Fascist police raided the Commun- ist headquarters in Milan, and an announced they had, “seized docu- ments incriminating ten dangerous radicals said to have been implicated in many Red outbreaks.” The fascisti are declaring everyone who opposes their mad rule of bayonets as “danger- ous.” OMAHA T.ULE.L, TAKES UP CHILD LABOR BATTLE OMAHA, Nebr., Jan. 8.—The Omaha general group of the Trade Union Edu- cational League is plunging into the child labor fight in earnest. Secretary David Coutts is sending letters to all local unions in this territory urging them to appoint a committee on the child labor question, The Workers Party is also getting ment of John. W. Snook, warden o!|into the fight here. The City Central the Idaho state penitentiary, as war | Committee has made overtures to the den of the Atlanta federal prison, wat | toca) independent officially announced today by Attor | Saturday afternoon, Jan. 10, 3:30p, | M°Y Goneral Stone. m.. Branches that have no delegates | should have secretary or C. C. C, _ delegates attend. | George Maurer, Labor Defense. | -William F. Kruse, International Workers’ Aid. | STAR CASINO Street and Park Avenue, : New York City 107th Snook will take office about Jan. 20 or as soon as he can adjust his af:| yet for definite action, fairs in Idaho. (LaFollette) ¢lub suggesting a united front campaign on the child labor question, While time has been too short as the activity of the T. U. B. L. and Workers Party militants has already aroused consid- “In Memoriam—Lenin” to be shown erable discussion in the local labor dan, 15 at Gartner's Theater. movement. bs 1h Pledged to Straggle for Workers Only sting, held nue last An enthusiastic w at 722 Blue Island A’ night, ratified the aldermanic candidates and the program on which they will seek to rally the workers of Chic: ; The major po! 1of the eve- ning was spent in ig the ;program, for workers are inter- ested in definite fighting the stra: capitalistic political he: have on the Chicago w program covering of municipal D which is of interest working men and” adopted. ures for and for WORKERS, “We do not repeat pretensions of the oth we have a. program all classes. We state program will bring no banking kings, me! etous grasp. But to all working class n gling for I “Now, when great numbers of work- ers are suffering from unemployment, when police and injunctions are called in by the bosses to break all strikes, when the working class standard of living is being steadily forced down, when gigantic municipal traction steals are being engineered; when working class children are suffering from inadequate and improper school- ing—it is neces: to come forward with a program which exposes the real issues in the aldermanic elections to be heid on Febritary 24—~a program which faces the issues frankly, and which railies the working men and women of Chicago for struggle against the capitalists on the basis of the im- mediate interests of the workers.” The issues covered by the program include: Public utilities, traction, un- employment, education, police, the use of the injunction against workers, child labor, race discrimination, muni- cipal employes, contract letting, hous- ing and the right to vote. Each of these issues is not only treated in a general way, but also practical ways and means of attain- ing the end sought are pointed .out. The working class candidates of the Workers Party are all pledged to this program. i Revolution Only Real Solution. The program concludes: The above program of immediate demands touches issues which are vital to every working man and woman in Chicago. Everyone of these issues is a direct outgrowth of the present systein of production for private profit—-that is, of capitalism. Because of the monopoly which the bosses maintain over ‘the factori¢s, machines, etc., the workers are ob- liged to toll long hours for meager wages, while the goods that they pro- duce are taken by the capitalists. With the .capitalist domination over schools, press, etc., it is obvious that the workers have no real opportunity in this election. Capitalist “demo- cracy” is nothing but a sham. There can be no real solution of the great problems weighing down upon the workers until capitalism is over- tbrown—until the workers seize con- trol of the governmental power and .| Street, Chicago, Ill. take over industry. This will be ac- complished thru the establishment of (Continued on page 2) * ee See ' - 290 OMice at Chicago, Illinois under the Aet of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, JANUARY 9,-1925 Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. T.U. E. L. CALLS UPON ALL WORKERS TO UNITE AROUND LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL AGAINST WHITE TERROR In a statement issued by the national committee of the Trade Union Educational League, it calls upon all militant workers to form a united front with the Labor Defense Council to figh t the “criminal syndicalism” laws and “sedition acts,” instruments used by the employing class-of the United States militant workers We print to tyrannize over and their organizations. the statement in full: | T. U. STATEMENT | The Trade Union Educational League has, ever since its birth, urg- ed the workers to solidify their forces against the menace of white guard suppression going under the guise of laws against “criminal syndicalism.” It was the efforts of the T. U. E. L. that aroused the wide support among the unions for the Communists whose convention in Michigan was raided by the agents of Daugherty and Burns in 1922. Workers Fortify For Attack. Today there is a new cause for unity of all workers, Communist and non-Communist, organized and unor- ganized, of all races and conditions. The supreme court of Michigan has upheld the conviction of C. E. Ruth- enberg under this infamous law, the charge being only one of “assembling with” other people not-yet convicted of anything, and on Monday, Jan. 5, Ruthenberg was sentenced to from three to ten years in the Michigan penitentiary and bail denied. Foreseeing this sentence after the action of the supreme court of Michi- gan, the Trade Union Educational League has begun a new campaign to unite all workers who believe in de- fending any worker imprisoned by the capitalist class for class reasons, around the Labor Defense Council, with offices at 166 West Washington rer ine. . has issued a call for all mili- tant workers, to take up in thelr un- ions and fraternal organizations, the issue of the defense of the victims of the Michigan “criminal law. Among the first to respond is local 2376 of the United Mine Work- ers, Christopher, Ill. The resolution of these coal miners, which appeared in the DAILY WORKER Jan. 5, should. serve as a model for every worker who will take up the fight in his local union to defeat the tyran- nical reaction in the state of Michi- gan and free all the workers now standing in the shadow of prison. National Committee, Trade Union Educational League. SENATE GIVES MUSCLE SHOALS syndicalist” | STRIKING MINER MURDERED AFTER | MAKING SPEECH Shot Down on His Way Home from Meeting (By Federated Press.) NEW YORK, Jan. 8,—The first mur- der has taken place in the hard coal strike near Scranton, say reports from the anthracite capital. Samuel Pace a leading strike committeeman, and secretary of the Bwen Colliery local, where the unofficial walkout against the Pennsylvania.Hillside Colliery originated, was slain by gunmen near his home in Pittston. Several. days ago the writer got ac quainted with Pace and had a long visit with him at his home on Pine street, Pittston. He was a_ short, strongly built young man of 31, full of confidence in the strikers’ cause and active night and day in the strug. sle. Pace had a wife and three chil dren but he said he and the rest had | no thought of discontinuing the fight until they got assurance that their grievances would be adjusted. The meager reports give no inkling of the murderers. Fourteen steel jacketed bullets are said to have pierced his body as he was returning, escaped in an automobile. Pace told me of some hostile inter- ference by the state police. It occur. red after he had delivered a strike speech. The Pennsylvania-Hillside company agents had called a meeting of miners in the union hall of the Underwood local, several miles out of Scranton. About 125 men assembled out of 1,200 members of the local. The company men urged the men to go back to work. Pace took the floor and exposed the trick that was being played on the men—it was not a regular union meeting. He urged the men to stand by the \fight. As he left the hall, tal- ing a group of workers with him, six state policemen— the “Cossacks” of ill fame—seized him and searched him, finally releasing him. But the work of Pace and others was success. ful. The back-to-work movement was a TO POWER TRUST Underwood Bill Passed by Senate WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8—The senate today passed the Underwood bill, turning the Muscle Shoals power project, worth many millions of dol- lars, over to private interests. It is well-known in Washington that the huge power trust, controlled by J. P. Morgan and his bankers, was promoting the Underwood bill. Dur- ing the discussion of the Underwood bill a Washington newspaper charg- ed that, “If the Underwood bill pass- es, a steal will have been put over on the people of the United States which will put Teapot Dome in the shade.” The power trust, which will event- ually gain control of Muscle Shoals thru the workings of the Underwood bill at millions of dollars below the cost of the power project to the Unit- ed States, owns the Alabama Power company, which will eventually con- trol Muscle Shoals. Muscle Shoals consists of several huge dams, houses and hotels on a large tract of land, and large nitrate manufacturing projects. Senator Norris’ bill, providing for the retention of the project by the government, was sidetracked by the senate, Daily Worker Jubilee, Concert and Ball Sunday, January 11, Afternoon and Evening x eect ati a fizzle, about 26 responding, instead of the 450 announced in the papers by the company. (These figures were verified to the writer by a Scranton Times reporter.) Later the local un- fon called its own Underwood meet- ing, with 800 present and a ringing resolution to stay on strike was passed. Pickets were put on the line The killing of Pace is likely to have an opposite effect from that which the murderers intended. Brookhart’s Seat in Congress Is Contested Before U. S. Senate WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.— Informal notice of the contest of the seat of Sen. Brookhart, republican of Iowa, in the new congress was filed in the senate today by Senator Robinson, democrat of Arkansas, minority lead- er. The petition of contest was filed by Robinson for Daniel F. Steck, democratic defeated by Brookhart by a few hundred votes. T. U. E. L. Meeting in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 8.—-The St, Louis branch of the Trade Union Edu cational League meets Tuesday -eve ning, Jan. 18 at 8 o’clo¢k at Workers Party Hall, 2412 No, 14th street, John Braun will lecture on the Trade Union Movement. Pe en + Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Price 3 Cents CAPPELLINI IS DENOUNCED AS “UNION BETRAYER His Smoke Screen Is of No Avail (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKESBARRE, Pa., Jan. 8. —When Rinaldo Cappellini, district president, United Mine Workers of America, called a mass meeting of the striking anthracite miners to “explain” things yesterday afternoon he brought upon himself the most complete defeat a union be- trayer has ever suffered in this district. The Pittston armory was crowded with 4,000 angry min- ers and Cappellini caught literal hell. They called him “traitor” and ac. cused him of selling them out. They ‘howled down his accusation that Com- munists were his only opposers and for hours plastered him with epithets as he stood alone on the platform. Can't Fool 'Em No More. “You can fool all the people, some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all of the time,” declared one leader of the strike commit- tee, quoting the famous saying of Lin. coln. The-Italian coal miners, aroused to a high pitch of indignation at the-mur der of Sam Pace and Steve Frely, and the brazen treachery of the district Oappetini. y= 8 2 Cappelini was hardly disguised in his role of coal operators’ agent. The mask of union officer was thin in- deed. He dared not trust his life and limb to the members of his own un- ion, and tho he stood aldhe on the platform, he had the protection of a cordon of police, forty plain, clothes- men and a squadron of “Cossacks” near at hand. a “No” Shakes Building. In “explaining” the strike, Cappe- lini declared that only two of the grievances which had been unsettled for months in violation of the agree- ment, justified the strike, and that men affected had returned to work. He demanded to know if he had made good as a district president—and the “Noes!” fairly took the roof off the building. Cappelini’s entire record was at- tacked and raked from stem to stern in office and out, and heckling con- tinued until a genuine riot threatened, Affairs at Critical Stage. Affairs in the mine workers’ organ- ization reached a critical stage Sat- urday when delegates from twenty unions of the Glen Alden Coal. com- pany urged by resolution the coming of President John L. Lewis to this (Continued on page 2.) CHARLIE HUGHES MUCH PLEASED AT VICTORY OVER GREAT BRITAIN (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—Marked Satisfaction was expressed at the state department today over the progress being made at Paris in im- pressing on the allied finance min- isters the justice of the American claim to equal participation in the Dawes annuit! Colonel James A. Logan reported to the department after his confer- ence with Winston Churchill, Brit. ish chancellor of the exchequer, that the basis for an agreement had been reached. Paris dispatches today say that after half an hour’s session the meeting of the conference was ad- Journed until Monday, when reports will be received from certain exe perts, who are to have informal meetings meanwhile. Tickets for sale at District Office, Workers | Party, 208 E. 12th St., and Jimmie Higgins | Book Shop, 127 University Place. | | Admission 50c | a aw president, were foremost in attacking oe §