The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1925, Page 2

‘ " Page Two BORAH IN FAVOR OF MISSION TO SOVIET RUSSIA Plays Political Poker with Cal Coolidge By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.— Recognition of the Union of Soviet Republics may be given earlier by the government of the United States as a consequence of the resignation of Hughes and the selection of Kelloge as secretary of state. And even so, it may be delayed a long time. After the bombshell contained in the announcement of the Hughes-Kellogg shift had re- verberated around Washington for a week-end, and the cabinet members, chiefs of the repub- lican national committee and standpat senators of the old guard had each confessed that) they had had no warning of the} explos.on, they found this to be the most acceptable theory. First—Coolidge was tired of being} called a little man, surrounded by big men such as Hughes, Hoover, Mellon and Stone, Second—Melion was tired of the un- wavering superiority of Hughes, and of the activity of Stone in cleaning up the department of justice—in spots that were wet. Third—Kellogg, a born courtier, had made @ great fuss over Coolidge when the vice-president first came to Wash- ington, while other senators looked with disdain upon the “dumb bell” presiding officer. Fourth—Mellon, as the real mana- ger of the Coolidge regime, approved of the obsequious quality of Kellogg, and of Kellogg’s having telephoned to Hughes whatever transpired in meet- ings of the senate foreign relations committee, Fifth—Coolidge knew he dared not offend Mellon, but he could replace es and Stone by personal agents of his’own without causing Mellon to shed sny tears. Six h—Coolidge and Mellon, know- ing that Hoover wants to run for the presidency next time, were willing to, let Herbert stay or resign as he may see fit, after witnessing the fate of Hughes and Stone. Recognition Sentiment Grows. But Russian recognition is another matter. Dwight Morrow of Morgan & Co., classmate of Coolidge, has been a pro-recognition fan for a year past. 80 has Col. Blethen of the Seattle Times, who begged the president to do something in that direction, last sum- mer. Coolidge replied to Blethen as he replied to senators, that he would take action “after a while,” when con- ditions were more favorable. Chairman Borah of the foreign ~ela- tions committee keeps silent. He was not,consulted as to Hughes’ successor, altho it was well known that 16 had voiced to Coolidge his impatience at Hughes’ stubborn refusal to face the Russian issue. All he knows is that Coolidge has not been so anti-Russian as Hughes has been, and that if Cool- idge is convinced that American bus:- ness wants diplomatic relations with Russia restored, Coolidge will order Kellogg to begin negotiations. And he knows that with the departure of Hughes the tendency of business opin- fon will be to swing toward a recog- nition policy, not wholly dissociated with hunger for mineral concessions. Moreover, Coolidge needs Borah’s help in getting anything thru the sen- ate in the next two years. Would Sound Out Soviets. Borah wants Coolidge to send an unofficial commission to Moscow to study the situation and sound out the Soviet cabinet on terms of commercial and diplomatic peace. Borah and Cool- idge will now sit down to a game of political poker. Children Burn to Death. CANTON, Ohio, Jan. 14.—Helen Spriggle, 11, and her brother, Leon- ard, 4, were burned to death today when fire destroyed the home of their grandparents here. Their father, Nel- son Spriggle, in an adjoining room ‘EMME AND VOTAW EXPELLED FROM ST. PAUL ASSEMBLY IN DEFIANCE OF UNION LAWS BY REACTIONARIES (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan, 14.—After elaborate preparations and the appli- eation of the most high-handed methods, the reactionaries in the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly succeeded in expelling Comrades Julius F, Bm- me and O. R. Votaw, both delegates from Machinists’ Local Union No, 459, at a meeting held Friday night. Every available reactionary vote was necessary, and right wing delegates were in attendance who had been | activities of Starkey j ticket, seldom seen before. Since the election of Frank T. Starkey as president two years ago, he has succeeded with the active coopera’ tion of a gang of business agents, in building up a reactionary machine iné————————_—_____—_—______- the central body which has determin- ed apparently to wage relentless war upon every progressive who has suc- ceeded in being elected to that body A campaign has been carried on in the locals to defeat progressive delegates and the attack upon Comrade Emme and Votaw was timed to come when the greatest reactionary strength had been marshalled. Our Farmer-Labor Fight. The recent contest for representa: tive in congress furnished the long looked for excuse for charges prefer- red against these two comrades. <A pamphlet appeared in the course of the campaign in support of Comrade Emme on the farmer-labor ticket, in which statements which have not even yet been denied were made about the and Mahoney who were supporting Oscar E. Keller, a recactionary on the republican It was charged that these comrades were responsible for the pamphlet and that its appearance and their con duct was detrimental to the labor movement of St. Paul. The trial com mittee composed of reactionaries, had refused to hear the charges on their merits, by limiting the hearing to one svening and by not requiring the ac- cusers to prove that the statements were not true. The committee ac- ceped Secretary Seigel’s “assumption that the statements were false,” as fact. Every principle of fairness and par- liamentary rule was violated in the determination not to allow a discus- sion of the conduct of the trial or of the merits of the case before the as: sembly. Only after the committee’s report sustaining the charges and a motion that the delegates be expelled was Comrade Emme able to get the floor. Altho repeatedly interruptec and heckled by the chairman, he suc ceeded in presenting the essential facts to the body, but facts and fair- ness did not count, because the reac- tionaries had the votes. Gang Destroys Record of Hearing. The chairman ruled that sections of the constitution of the A. F. of L could not be read, many decisions of the chair were appealed from and sustained by the reactionaries. So ashamed of their methods and afraid that the rank and file unionists migh‘ get hold of a transcript of the pro ceedings were they, that the note: taken by a union stenographer wer ordered turned over to the secretary who immediately destroyed them. Both delegates insist that they wil! fight the case to the limit, and intend to carry the question of their expuision to the local unions in a referendum under a provision of the by laws, which rigit the reactionaries tried to deny them. Their local will doubtless back them up since, it is one of the most progressive in the city. A United “ront with Capitalist Press. The widest publicity was given to the expulsion in the capitalist press. Hither a reporter was admitted for the purpose, or else some reactionary very carefully prepared the news stor- ies, which contained some minute de- tails. Especially notorious’ was the attempt to discredit delegates of the Teachers’ local who fought the reac-| tionaries on the floor. } The reactions of fair minded people in the local labor movement to last night’s election is decidely favorable. They are beginning to see where the leadership is leading—to the ruin of the labor movement, Tribesmen Drive Out Governor. RABAT, Morocco, Jan. 14.—Accord- ing to news in official quarters here today, the Riff tribesmen at Sheshuan have revolted against Abdel Krim, Riff leader, driven him out and nomi- nated their own governor. ~ Gales Destroy Telegraph Wires. DUBLIN, Jan. 14.—Gales all over Ireland had isolated many Irish towns from communication with England was forced to jump from a second: story window, after making ineffec- tual efforts to rescue his children, HANS K PHILADELPHIA NOTICE Famous Celloist, will participate at the and Scotland today. Trunk and local telegraph and telephone wires were blown down. INDLER ARGENTINE PROFESSOR KNOWS THE YANKEE IMPERIALIST CHRIST (Special to The Daily Worker) BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 12—Dr, Al- fredo Palacios, dean of the faculty of juridical and social sciences at the University of La Plata today de- clined an invitation sent him by Samuel Guy Inman, executive sec- retary of the American section of the so-called “committee on co-oper- ation” in Latin America, to attend a congress on christian work to be held at Montevideo, Uruguay, be- ginning March 27. Dr. Palacios’ refusal is based on the ground that the holdings of such a congress on the initiative of Am- erican churches implies “the exten- sion and strengthening of the mater ial powers of North America: over the South American peoples.” COMMUNISTS IN CHAMBER ATTACK FASCIST TERROR Herriot Expulsions Aid Mussolini (Special to The Dally Worker) ROME, Italy, Jan. 14.—The 19 Cum- munist members of the chamber of depu'ies attended parliament yester- day, and made speeches, denouncing the fascist government and Mus solini’s electoral law. The Commun- ists charged that Mussolini is giving only one vote to the workers as com- pared to two votes for the fascist bureaucrats and three votes for the nobility. Former Premier Salandra bani his possession a document showing that the fascisti have organized violence as a means of keeping control of the government in the variots provinces. Former premiers Orlando, Salandra and Giolitti have united to fight the fascisti electoral law. They declare Mussolini is not qualified to conduct a new election and must resign. The pope, who in the main works hand in hand with the fascisti mur- derers, has declared the law aimed at free masonry in Italy may affect the religious orders of Jesuits, Domin- icans and other “holy” orders. The pope has let it be known that he knows Mussolini will do nothing against him, but is afraid the law may be interpreted to his detriment by some later government. The under secretary of state for in- ternal affairs declared that one of the Communists expelled from France by the Herriot government has been sentenced to a long term of imprison- ment by an Italian court for “arson.” He declared that all of the Italian Communists expelled from France were arrested at the frontier and are being held in prison. The under secretary's speech showed clearly how Herriot has been playing into the hands of the fascist government by his attacks on the Communists. | j, The meeting of the council of min- isters has decided to submit a bill to parliament conferring dictatorial powers upon Mussolinf by permitting him and his police to make any changes in the civil and penal code |which they see fit. The bill increases greatly the penalties in the penal code which can be directed against the op- position and the Communists, Yesterday thirty Communists were arrested at a meeting they were con- ducting in Rome. Deputies belonging to the Aventine opposition continue to remain away from parliament. Steel Production Declined Ten Per Cent in 1924 WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—Hx ports of iron and steel in 1924 were ten per cent less than exports in 1923, the department of commerce an- nounces, Production of both pig iron and steel ingots was the lowest since 1915 last year, with the exception of THE DAILY WORKER FASCISTI JAIL AO COMMUNISTS Fear Attack From the French Border (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, Jan. 14.—Forty Communists were arrested yes- terday by the fascisti in Rome, charged with “plotting against the state.” Many conflicts broke out in cities of Italy. Workers held large parades, carrying the Red Flag. Fascisti, in trying to capture the flags, precipitated clashes in which both sides suffered oasualties. Mussolini, fearing that French and exiled Italian Communists’ will organ- ize in France and attack the fascisti thru the French border, is massing thousands of soldiers along the bor- der. In this maneuver of fortifyin the French border, however, Murso- lini is weakening his armed forces in the central and southern portions of Italy. The Unita, Communist daily paper printed in Milan, has been again sup- pressed, after being confiscated 4u times by the police in the ten months of its existence. The newspaper Messaggero Tosca- no, in Pisa, has been burned to the ground. The Communist organiza- tions, workers’ clubs, and even some religious organizations have been de- stroyed in Pisa. Mussolini’s attack against the free masonry of Italy is now in full swing, and the masons are being persecuted in Italy wherever the fascisti can lay hands on them, Minister of In- terior Federzoni jointly with Minis- ter of Justice Rocco, has introduced a bill in the Italian parliament that aims particularly at the masons, stipu- lating that all associations and in- stitutions must submit their consti- tutions to the police, together with a list of their members. The move against the masons has been inaugu- rated by Mussolini in an attempt to induce the pope to take a more active part on behalf of the fascisti. How- ever, many of the fascisti belong to the masons, and if Mussolini’s acts go beyond the stage of threats a split is expected to develop in the fascisti. x Can't Prpduge “Ben Hur” i ’ The American motion Picture com- pany producing the spectacle “Ben Hur” has become entangled in the political dissension in Italy and will return to the United States, accord- ing to a statement issued today by the company. “Due to the uncertainty of condi tions, both political and social, the company will return to America Jan 17,” the announcement said. Information which reached London today regarding the departure of the film company producing “Ben Hur” appeared to have been censored. The company has been working in and about Rome more than a year. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. OFLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) er, but they realize that unless they hang together they may ‘ang sepa- rately. Stranger things than the lat- ter have happened. Judging by the speed with which fascism is traveling downward today, Mrs. Drake may not enjoy her membership very long. . . ae ((REGORY ZINOVIBV, president of 1 the Communist International took the whiskers off George Bernard Shaw’s eriticism of Marx and the Communist movement dutring 4 speech delivered recently in Moscow. “Shaw, flower of the petty bour- geolsie, considers himself above Kar) Marx but if we compare both, Shaw appears as a scarcely visible speck of dust,” said Zinoviev. He pointed out that the teachings of Marx had con- quered one-sixth of the earth’s surfac and expressed the hope that Shaw would live long enough to see the workers take over the rest of the world, an operation which would very likely involve the loss of many swelled heads. Shaw is a clever fel: low and a luxury to the bourgeoisie, who enjoy his sharp thrusts at them. They do not fear him however, as he proved his loyalty to the ruling clase during the war when he prostituted his intellect in support of the British government—for pay. Le, © editor of the Davenport Free Press, a socialist publication, has JUBILEE CONCERT the depressed years of 1921 and 192g, |"0t much confidence in the future of of the FREIHEIT GEZANGS VEREIN Z. Haber, Director. | Accompanied by Miss Ellengrig. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1925 At Witherspoon Hall, Juniper and Walnut Street Tickets aro sold at: The Fretheit Office, 340 South 5th Street; by according to the department. the socialist party. Bugene V. Debs, Pig iron production was given as|*® if rising Rip Van Winkle-like from 31,100,000 long ‘tons in 1924, ag|* Pre-war slumber, calls for the re- against 40,361,000 long tons for 1923, |9°6antzation of @ “militant socialist while there was a drop of 16 per cent |D&TtY, based upon the class struggle.” in the production of steel ingots and|T%® Davenport editor says: “The 8. castings as compared to 1923, P. will hold a special convention in 'S. P. will decide to go back to its job FOR SALE:—Two chairs, chiffonier,|is that the 8, P. has been ‘reorgan- the members of the Gezangs Verein and 621 York Avenue, Chicago on the date of the C. P. P. A. confab, and it is not unlikely that the Wanted: of furnishing raw material for old Good strong trunk cheap. party platform planks, The trouble with French beveled mirror, cheap, |ized’ about forty eleven times and will Call Monroe 4712. Comrade W abor Renegade; “Brass FOR “TREASON’| Check” Press Greets Him By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL 'ODAY, the “Brass Check” press throws its columns wide open to Paavo Nurmi, the long distance runner, from Finland. Editorials are solemnly written about him. hailed as a new world wonder. He is The subsidi ed press speaks of Nurmi. as one “Brass Check” to another. For Nurmi turned traitor to his class in Fiinland; and treason to the working class is applauded the world over by capitalist press harlots. That is an inter- national policy generally accepted. Nurmi has sold himself for a price. He is accepted.. He can therefore depend on a tremendous reception in all capitalist lands, as well as in the United States. But he will not go near Soviet Russia. That would be different. * * * @ Nurmi was of the Finnish working class; paper hanger by trade. He belonged to the Finnish Workers’ Athletic Club that has produced some of the world’s best athletes. The time for deciding just where he stood came to Nurmi during the Finnish revolution, when the workers of Finland sought to establish their own Soviet Republic. and Nurmi turned White. It was Red or White, Nurmi as a member of the Finnish Workers’ Athletic Club would not be welcome in the United States. He would be denounced as Bolshevik, and Communist, and immediately deported as a threat to the stability of American capiitalism. But Nurmi the White Guardist is received with open arms. Heis honored for having turned renegade to his class. He is applauded for joining the White Guard Finnish athletes who went to the capitalist Olympian Games. Being expelled from the workers’ athletic clubs and rejected by the working class is held to his credit. That is the way oppressors fawn on those who surrender to them out of the working class. * * * * The story is told of the Persian couriers employed by the Turkish sultan to run from Constantinople to Adrianople and back. They were good and obedient slaves; as docile before their master as Nurmi is today. If they had made the fight for their class they would have suffered the fate of the heroic Spartacans under the Roman Caesars, Olympic chronicles tell of the Greek runners like Ladas, who fell dead as they completed the course. It is told how they were buried in state, crowned by the victor's chaplet. They did not win less notoriety than football heroes and baseball stars do now. Today, and in the thousands of years ago, the story has always been the same; these sports have been used to keep the minds of the masses off their real troubles. * 2 But all that has changed, as Nurmi well knows, because very few Finnish workers in this country attend the running contests in which he engages. The masses of Finnish workers in this country belong to the Communist movement. They have an effective boycott against Nurmi. These work- ers are allied, not only in Finland, but also. in this country, with the Red Sport International. With the spread of the social revolution this Red International must gradually eclipse the capitalist Olympic Games. Thus do the rising Red waves of labor's world struggle for power even touch this phase of our lives. Pardon Sales by Governor Winked at By Kansas Solons TOPHKA, Kans., Jan. 14.—A legis- lative probe of the pardon situation in the administration of Governor Johnathan W. Davis, is not contem- plated, it was intimated today by C. R. Hope, new speaker of the house. James Finley, personal attorney of Governor Ben S. Paulen and head of the joint investigating committee of the last legislative, will submit his committee’s report when the session reconvenes tomorrow and the commit tee will bé discharged, Hope said. A canvass of leading members of both houses of the legislature bore out the attitude of the speaker, They declared that the investigation was fathered by a group of democratic friends of Davis. Governor Paulen and Finley Sunday were preparing for the investigation, but now, it is in- dicated, the legislature would be per mitted to take its own course without recommendation from the governor. In the meantime all steps in the pardon action are marking time. The county attorney’s office was gathering evidence for the preliminary hearing of Davis and his son Russell on Jan 23. Lore Lectures at Workers’ School in New York Friday. NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Ludwig Lore will lecture on current events, Fri- day, Jan. 16, at the Workers’ School, 208, Hast 12th street, 8 p. m. Comrade Lore will review the im- it facts of current history which workers should know in order to carry on their battles in the labor move- ment. ‘The class in Current Events meets every Friday night at the school head- quarters, and is open to all. Wreck in Smudge Fog. LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan, 14— Plunging thru dense clouds of “smudging” smoke near San Bernar- dino fruit groves today, a Pacific Electric express car ploughed into the rear of a freight train, killing one man, probably fatally injuring another and hurting one other less seriously, Police Protect Jap Diet, TOKYO, Jan. 14.—Special police pre- cautions were being taken today to prevent violence on the part of mal contents when the Japgnese diet re Jap Government Plans to Sign Pact with Soviet Russia (Continued from Page 1.) organized; he forced Herriot to make raids on the Communists and he got the pope to issue a denunciation of Soviet Russia. But the tory government is singing a different song today. It was denied at the foreign office today that Brit- ain had anythifig to do with the for- mation of the anti-Soviet federation; that it protested against the Soviet legation in Albania or that it pro- tested to France against the turning over of the Wrangel fleet to Russia. To Conclude Agreement. On the contrary it was intimated that the tory government would en- deavor to negotiate another trade agreement with the Soviet government as soon as the election threats fade into the hazy recesses of public mem- ory. Trade between Russia and Eng- land has been picking up lately and the British business appetite is whetted for more profits. ‘ The effect of the report of the Brit- ish trade union leaders on what they found in Russia has been conducive to this change of attitude on the part of the tory government, tho it was generally believed by those who watch politics closely that the tory election threats were only vote catch: ing maneuvers and not to be taken seriously, Build the DAILY WORKER! + HE new Assistant Thursday, January 15, 1925 eames Re /Nurmi, White Guard, Is NINE SCHOOL JOBS STRUCK BY GLAZIERS Board of Education Fa- vored Open Shop The violation of an agree- ment with the Glaziers’ Union by the board of education's supervisory architect, Edgar W. Martin, is tying up construction of nine new public schools which are to house part of the 100,000 children now crammed into insanitary, unsafe and un- comfortable makeshifts. It is a fight against the “open shop” Landis award committee, which has evidently, persuaded Martin, if not more of the board of education, ao fight the building trades unions which do not accept the Landis “open shop” agreement, even if an agreement with the union has to be broken. Board of Education Broke Promise, George H. Myers, the Glaziers’ busi- ness agent, declares that Martin let contracts to the open shop firm of William Hallis and company after promising to cease hiring non-union men on the same job with members of the Glaziers’ Union. Meyers says, “I saw Martin several months ago and told him it would not do to have union men and Landis award men working on the sate job. At that time this Hallis outfit had a contract for two schools and Martin promised he would not be given any more. But since then Martin has let contracts to the firm for nine schools and our union members were Called off the job and will be kept off until Martin keeps his word.” *: Painters’ Union May Be Involved. As the Glaziers’ Union is a part ot the Painters’ Union, which has a writ- ten contract with the s¢hool board, the building trades workers expect that further action may bé taken by the larger unions of the building trades. The schools affected are the Grant, Brenato, Shurz High, Tilden Te¢hni- cal, Douglas, Crane High, Shaske- speare, Warren and Wentworth addi- tions. Shuts Off Competitive Bidding. Martin, it appears, is also shutting off competitive bidding by juggling — construction specifications to favor the open shop contractors. The strike may tie up the nine School jobs until fall instead of per- mitting them to be opened for use in May. COURT REFUSES TO TRY RADICH, CROATIAN CHIEF Holds Charge Against Him Inadequate BELGRADE, Jan, 14. — The king and queen of Jugo-Slavia left Paris a few days ago for a mountain resort ‘somewhere in Jugo-Slavia,” but will not return to Belgrade in the near future unless present plans are changed. There is a very tense situation re- sulting from the reign’ of terror car- ried on by the present government against the workers and peasants. Raditch, the Croatian peasant leader, who was recently arrested here, on a charge of high treason, was ordered released by the court as the charges could not hold water, The government attorney appealed — from the court’s decision and pend- ing the outcome Radich and his as- sociates remain in prison, CORRECTION. In yesterday's issue a mistake was made in giving the amounts contrib. uted for DAILY WORKER insurance Policies, The correct amounts for Nucleus No. 1 is $50. For Nucleus No 3, $11.) “In Memoriam—Lenin” to be shown ‘TONIGHT at Gartner's Thoater. Secretary of the Navy has proposed that the Navy’s slogan be changed from “Join the Navy and See the | World” to “Join the Navy and SHOW the World.” To the American Imperialists this should be an acceptable amendment. To us well, the question is, are the Imperialists going to SHOW us or are we going to SHOW them? A former soldier answered this RIGHT when, today, he sent to us $25 of the. bonus money he had just received. He sent it to the DAILY WORKER for insurance a as icies, because he knows that the DA WORKER leads the offensive against berialist wars. This ex-soldier