The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1925, Page 6

go } Page Six F——_—__} THE DAILY WORKER. ret Publiskod by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W.*Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months ; ies months By mail (in Chicago only): “ $4.50....6 months $2.60...8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Adress all mail and make out checks to : THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE oe EGitore MORITZ J. LOEB... meee Business Manager Chicago, Hlinels ®ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <=> 290 Advertising rates op application The Starvation Policy Five members of Local 181 of the Carpenters’ Union have been deprived of their means of making a living at their trade thru a ukase delivered by General President William Hutcheson. Our readers are justified in assuming that those penalized workers committed some serious offense against trade union principles to merit such drastic punish- ment. But what are the facts? The penalized members are admittedly among the most active trade unionists in Local 181. Far from being punished for violating any trade union principle, either in letter or spirit, they are pun- ished for defending those principles against the bureaucracy which uses the cowardly weapon of starvation in order to take revenge. When the fakers signed an agreement with Chicago contractors which provided for punish- ment to the extent of suspension from the union of any member who refused to work with strike- breakers or to handle non-union-made material or to.work under the protection of police and gunmen, the expelled members, with others, signed their names to a resolution protesting against this scab contract. The resolution was passed by the local and sent to the international convention. After the convention was over and Hutcheson felt that he could use highhanded methods with impunity, he instructed his local stoolpigeons to prefer charges against those who signed the resolution. The story of the farcial “trial” has already been told in the columns of the DAILY WORKER. There was no trial but instead a huge frameup. The chairman of the trial committee falsified the record and the president of the local declared the five members expelled against the almost un- animous protest of the local. Those five carpenters were expelled for being sterling trade unionists. For taking the lead in legally protesting against a scab agreement they are threatened with permanent divorce from oc- eupation at their trade. This, mark you, not by the employers directly, but by the officials of the Car- penters’ Union acting for the employers. That the expelled members have the confidence of their fellow workers has been demonstrated by the action of the members of Local 181, who have taken up their cause and are fighting splendidly for them. Even tho the fakers have pronounced the expelled militant non-members, the latter have attended every meeting of their local since their illegal expulsion over the protests of the reaction- aries, who used uniformed gunmen to awe the rank and file without success. This is a fight which concerns not alone the members of Local 181, but every union carpenter in America. It is part of the struggle waged by the left wing in the labor movement against the tools of the bosses who now pose as labor leaders. The illegally expelled members of Local 181 are good fighters, and the local is to be congratulated for the splendid example of working class_solid- arity it has given in standing shoulder to shoulder with them. There must be no let-up in this fight until the reactionary bureaucrats are forced to sur- render and another victory chalked up for militant trade unionism. Drifting Towards Recognition Nothing succeeds like success! This old truism hits the nail on the head in reference to the un- doubted change in the political atmosphere at Washington on the question of recognition of Soviet Russia. Hughes is almost out and Sam Gompers, his chief labor lieutenant in the anti-Soviet camp, is dead and nearly forgotten. The Soviet govern- ment, for whose downfall the capitalists of the world have prayed and worked for several years, is growing in strength every day. Most of the great powers have made up their minds already that they must inake the best of a bad bargain and recognize facts. Hughes, the champion optimist of the diplomatic world, held out after all others had given up hope. He expected that the czarists led by the yellow socialists would yet be able to bring the Soviet regime tottering to the ground. His exit from the state department speaks eloquent- ly for the faded hopes of the American bourgeoisie. One year after Lenin’s death the proudest gov- ernment of the bourgeoisie is about to acknowledge the power of its hated and implacable foe. When Lenin died the enemies of the working class drew a breath of relief and renewed their hope for a weakening of the proletarian dictatorship and a consequent weakening of the Soviet power. But tho Lenin died, Leninism remained and the mighty monuments to Lenin, the Russian Communist Par- ty and the Communist International welded the workers and peasants of Russia together into a chain which the imperialists of the world were un- Re ee ee THE DAILY WORKER able to break. And behind the workers and peas- ants of Russia stand the workers and peasants of the world who battle to the death to defend the Soviet regime which is the government of the world proletariat. The United States is drifting towards recogni- tion of Soviet Russia, not with benevolent inten- tions but out of necessity. The world bourgeoisie would rather use the dagger, but they know it would be splintered on the steel shield of the Red Army. The Sun Never Sets on the American Dollar United States marines are busy in Shanghai. South America is dotted with them, but that is Wall Street’s special sphere of influence. The aver- age American baseball and cross word puzzle ad- dict, thinks it just as’natural for Wall Street to send. American troops to collect its bills in Hon- duras, or Brazil as it is for an employer to use the police to beat up strikers, Wall Street is not alone the unofficial capital of the United States, but also of South America. But what about China? A country on the other side of the world! China is a long way off, it is true, but not too far away for the American dollar to establish a footing. And wherever the American dollar goes, there also goes the American marine and the American battleship and the American army. That is just what the United States’ armed forces are for—to protect the dollar. The people of China are fighting to release them- selves from the embrace of the American dollar and the British pound and the French franc. They want their country for themselves and they want the fruits of their labors for themselves. The capi- talist powers have different aims. They want to keep the Chinese disunited so that they can fleece them separately and gobble up their country. The struggle for the unification of China now being carried on under the leadership of Sun Yat Sen is fought by the imperialists under the leader- ship of America and England. Soviet Russia alone stands for the unity and prosperity of the Chinese masses. The American dollar is out for profit at the expense of the Chinese, therefore American marines are in Shanghai to defend the dollar. Immane from Jail Communists are anything but immune from jail, but it’s different with a Communist paper. The DAILY WORKER has as hard a time trying to break into prison as Communists have trying to keep out or break out after they get in. There are thirty-eight miners imprisoned at the Moundsville, West Va., penitentiary. They are there because of participation in a demonstration during a-strike when the gunmen of the operators opened fire on the miners. In the melee a sheriff was killed. The rank and file miners were instructed to plead guilty by their attorneys who were also the law- yers of the district officials of\the United Mine Workers of America. The miners hold their fake leaders responsible for the incarceration of their comrades, who are now serving prison terms as high as ten years in some cases. . Those prisoners were glad to read The DAILY WORKER. which the warden consented to admit some time ago. But the exposure of the treachery of the fakers in recent issues was instrumental in inducing the leading faker in district 7 to make a visit to the Moundsville penitentiary, not to assist the imprisoned miners but to deprive them of the consolation of reading a working class daily. The warden, on the appeal of Pat Fagan, barred The DAILY WORKER from the prison. It seems there is no limit to the treachery of the labor fakers. They have resorted to many despic- able methods in their efforts to remain on the backs of the rank and file and assist the bosses in keeping the workers in slavery, but when a labor leader’s vengeance reaches in behind the prison bar where his treachery has landed his victims, words fail to describe such perfidy. Coolidge established the custom of settling cer- tain politieal matters after a breakfast table dis- cussion. Most of the troubles of the workers under his administration spring from the fact_that their problems consist largely of the difficulty of getting breakfast. : Landis Scabbery Thomas E. Donnelley, president of the citizens’ committee to enforce the Landis award, was quick to answer the challenge thrown down by the Glaziers’ Union when they tied up nine school jobs rather than work with scab Landis award sheet metal workers, Donnelley, chief of the seabs, speaks up and or- ganizes open shoppers for battle. Where is John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor and the logical man to take issue with Donnelley? Fitzpatrick spoke vehemently against the Communists at the last meeting of the federa- tion. It seems that, he is not so ready to even speak against the open shoppers of Chicago, The Landis award, the board of education, the school committee, Mayor Dever and all other capi- talist lackeys and groups are united against the glaziers. This is but another proof of the futility of the non-partisan political policy of the reac- tionary labor leaders, It is further evidence of their complete bankruptey. Donnelley, the scab leader, has spoken for his class. What has Fitzpatrick, the trade union leader, to say? Send in that new “sub” today! HUGHES BROKE HIS DIPLOMATIC NECK OVER RUSS Politically He Is Now as Dead as ( Gompers WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.— The opinion that Secretary Hughes decided to quit the Cool- idge cabinet because of a differ- ence with the president over relations with Soviet Russia is becoming Stronger every day. Senator Borah has not denied re- ports that he delivered an ultimatum to the cabinet on this question which is one of the big planks in Borah's platform. Coolidge does not relish the idea of having the Idaho senator on his neck, and as the president has no past worth speaking of to live up to. except a reputation for silence, he does not feel that a reversal of policy on Russia would detract from. his fame. - . The feeling is. becoming stronger in Washington that the Hughes’ policy toward Russia had a very detrimental ffect on United States interests in the-orient. The American. capitalists believe—without justification, how- ever—that Soviet Russia’s benevolent policy toward China and her ap- proachment with Japan was in retali- ation against the United States. The Soviet government's policy in China is in harmony with its program for international peace and the lifting up of the oppressed and subject peoples and the emancipation of the workers of all lands from exploitation. Hughes In Dumbbell Role. According to reports credited here in political circles, Coolidge recently asked Hughes for information on the treaty now under negotiation between Japan and Russia. Hughes replied that his spies were not able to get 2 copy of the draft, but did not const- der it of any consequente to the Unit- ed States, as Russia was a negligble power in his opinion. This answer was so childish that it angered the president, who told Hughes that Sen- ator Borah’s views on Russia were more in accord with the senate’s views than those of the secretary of state. It was_ that Hughes po- litely informed Coolidge, he would like to go on a long hunting trip. An American commission to discuss terms with Soviet Russia may be ap- pointed by Coolidge shortly after Mar. 4, It would follow the same procedure us that of the committee that smooth- od the way for the resumption of di- plomatic relations with Mexico. Dever’s Traction Plan Gives Magnates All—City Nothing Mayor Dever’s traction ordinance sells out the people of the city of Chicago, to the traction magnates} whe are the only ones receiving any bene fit from it, it was disclosed in the city council. The bill gives the priv ate traction lines a franchise of 4( years, which is just twice the length of the franchise now allowed by city law. It allows the traction lines to retain control of the city lines unti all certificates issued are absorbed by the city. The ordinance allows a rate of fare sufficient to pay all charges, without the necessity of obtaining authority from the Illinois.commerce commis sion, relieves companies from order: of the commission, relieves them from having to pave’ their rights of way and from paying taxes, and allows them to retain control of the tractior times until every cent of indebtednes: is paid by the city. The subways may be used free by the traction lines when built, accord ing to the ordinance. Coolidge and the Press, WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—' Calvin Coolidge today’ assurred reporters shat no immediate change in foreign lolicy need be expected as a resul: of the resignation of Secretary of State Hughes. While the president was careful to calm the fears of the most anti-Rus- sian section of the American capltal- ist class, that a complete reversal of policy on Russia was to be expecte, in the near future, it wa significant to note that he said, “Russia hay mde some progress toward cond: ‘lons necessary to renewed relations.” This is considered the diplomatic way of saying that by the time the -nofficlul steps which it is expected Coolidge proposes to take, looking to- ward relatins with Russia, have de- veloped sufficiently, the president will decide that the Soviet government has made enough progtess to warrant oficial recognition, To Develop Cotton in Sonora. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 15.—Gen. Obre- gon, former president of Mexico, will start a stocking mill in cotton plant in the state of Sonora, in order to de velop cotton acreage there it was an nounced today. NS. i | _ THE CLIQUE OF NATIONS DEMANDS, “GIVE!” i The Clique of Nations is tryin; STRIKEBREAKER JUDGE CAUGHT IN GRAFT DEALS : 5 He Issued Injunction eRe . ‘ Against Strikers By MARTIN A. DILLMON (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) EAST ST. LOUIS, I, Jan. 15.— Former referee in bankruptcy Charles B, Thomas, now under investigation by the department of justice, was ap- pointed to office by federal Judge English, . notorious injunction judge during the railroad strike. Thomas resigned under fire, but his quitting will not halt the probe of his alleged activities in connection with an al- leged bankruptcy ring. Thomas, it is alleged, was permitted while referee to appear before Judge English as attorney in bankruptcy cases, contrary to federal statutes; that the funds of firms and individuals undergoing bankruptcy in English’s court were deposited only in certain banks in some of which English and Thomas were stockholders; that de- spite his status as referee, Thomas was appointed receiver by English at bloated fees of many concerns. Stole a Million. Representative La Guardia, New York, attacked English in a speech on the’ floor of the house last May, after the judge had dealt leniently with a notorious war profiteer. Said the con- sressman: “We read in this morning’s newspapers the disgusting report of a federal court judge, who stole $1,000,- 000 from the government during the war, on the pretext of a weak heart was let off with a fine of $12,500. This man is Henry Joyce, who was the marine manager of the Central Rail: road of New Jersey. His two corpora- tions that participated in the loot did not plead guilty to a weak heart, but pleaded guilty to the crime and were jet off with a fine of $1,000 each. I consider such a slight fine simply dis- graceful”, Asked to name the judge, the congressman replied, “Judge George English,” Amnesties Foreign Trade Last Year Up To $8,198,000,000 WASHINGTON, Jhn. 15.—America’s foreign trade in 1924 totalled $8,198,- 00,000, the department of commerce announced today. ‘The favorable balance of trade was lose to $1,000,000,000. An excess of $°%,000,000 gold exports over imports for December, was announced. It was ‘ho first month since 1920 in which exports exceeded imports, Gold imports for 1924 totalled $319, 720,000 compared to exports of $61, 648,000, Last year $322,715,000 in gold was imported and $28,643,000 ex- ported, 4 to collect from the German workers accordin; Dawes plan. Bromley, of the British trade union delegation at Moscow, by drawing personally the one below. Friday, January 16, 1925 (By Deni, in Moscow Provda.) to the suggested this cartoon > I. C. C. Upholds Freight Rates. WASHINGTON, Jan, 15.— Freight rates on bituminous coal in carloads from southern Illinois coal fields to held by the interstate commerce com- mission today as reasonable. The commission declined to authorize a i cut in the rates. 4 New his bonus money yesterday, “York Wiped. Out in a Day Bi civilian population of New Y ork City will be slaughtered in the next war. This world’s financial center and metropolis will be turned into a burning charnel house under the attack of poison, asphyxiating and incinerating gases by an air fleet of a foreign power. Inhabitants, fleeing to the outskirts of the city will die there as the gases from the aerial bombardment take effect. Fine prospects! Brig. Gen. Lord Thom- son, secretary for air in the recent labor gov- ernment of England tells us this good news! The nation which, when the next war breaks out, has the biggest, swiftest and best air fleet will be the nation which will sit upon the highest peak of the mountains of human skel- etons the next war will produce. The DAILY WORKER received $50 from Frederick, South Dakota, today. There must be comrades in this city that are not at all enamored with the prospects the next im- perialist war holds out tous. These comrades know that the DAILY WORKER is one hundred percent opposed to imperialist wars and for proletarian ascension to power durs ing the war, should it come. And that ex-soldier, who sent us $25 of sent another $25 to the WORKERS MONTHLY today. He must mean business. And you? Are you helping to insure the DAILY WORKER for the coming year, You'd better: For we'll need it to help us fight the vultures, to assure a workers’ victory over the murderous im- perialists. $15,000 Are in! Now Dou oe a