The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1925, Page 1

| ‘world for dukes, particularly Russian ieee The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standar?“\r a Workers’ i z# 2% a ar os Leson = Ty > \e Vol. II. No. 7. | PTION RATES: “00 MINER RUTHENBERG ADMITTED 10 $7,50 BAIL BY JUSTICE BRANDEIS AS MCREYNOLDS DENIES WRIT (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19.—A writ of supersedeas was ranted C. E. Ruthenberg, national executive secretary of the lorkers (Communist) Party by Justice of the U. S. Court Louis Brandeis Sunday. As soon as the technical Supreme details are arranged Comrade Ruthenberg will come out of the Jackson, Mich., penitentiary on $7,500 bail. Brandeis set the bail at $7,500 after Justice McReynolds, who has jurisdiction over most Mic te 4 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHEATY. ‘CT RAND DUKE BORIS VLADIMIR- OVICH of Russia, (there is no cash in the title in Russia), is here for a good time. Congressman La- Guardia copped a little publicity by ‘suggesting that the duke be fumigat- ed before beingallowed to land. The aristocratic visitor denied that he is here to overthrow the government. It’s being run to suit him, he declares. se 6 last time . Boris was in this he distinguished himself by drink- “ng champagne out of a chorus girl’s ‘shoe. This time he may sip moon- shine from her hip, if that is where they carry their flasks. The duke is nothing if not gallant. That is about all’he can show as an excuse for con- suming his vitamines. The duke trav- @lled first class, but the rest of his came second. It’s a tough We mang JLJ"RAM JOHNSON is back in the news again. He saw his chance when Kellogg signed the agreement swith the allied powers providing for participation by the United States in the work of skinning Germany thru the Dawes’ plan. Johnson has not been so happy in many months. He dntroduced a. motion requesting Sec- retary of State Hughes to come across «with the documentary evidence on the Dawes’ plan and everything con: ed with it. Fellows like Johnson ‘stand for the capitalist system alright, Dut the interests they represent put @ tack on Wall Street’s throne every nes in a while, eee USSOLINI manages to keep his q stiletto yet. But his prospects ‘are none too good despite Arthur Brisbane's insistence that everything fs alright on the Tiber. Arthur used to be @ radical once, a sort of a social- ist-progressive, but he is now a mil- Honaire. He receives $100,000 a year from William Randolph Hearst for turning out his daily column of rub- Dish. Mussolini stands for capitalism. So does Brisbane. The latter has brains enough to know that. when Benito passes in his checks, the Com- munists will be on his heels with a dictatorship of the proletariat instead of @ dictatorship of heavy industry. ee capitalist papers no longer re- fer to the socialists as “reds.” They reserve that title for the Com- munists, A French socialist in the defended the government of course. A clash followed which was headlined by the press: “Socialists and Reds Clash in Chamber.” We are not com- / | A Great Working Class Leader | higan cases, denied the writ of supersedeas and refused to ad- mit Comrade Ruthenberg to bail. Frank P. Walsh of New York and Kansas City, and Isaac Ferguson of Chicago, made the appeal for the writ. Law Unconstitutional The two lawyers for Comrade Ruth- enberg claimed that the criminal syn- icalist law of Michigan under which Ruthenberg was sentenced is unconsti< tutional, as it denies the right of free speech and assemblage. They further declare that no intent of criminal injury was shown by the Berrien county prosecution. Comrade Ruthenberg was found guilty of ex- pressing his communistic opinions, and of “assembling with” other Commun- ists at the August, 1922, national con- vention of the Communists. Supreme Court Get Case The United States supreme court must now pass on the constitionality of the Michigan criminal syndicalist law. The constitutionality of any state syndicalist law has not yet been pass- ed on by that body. Benjamin Gitlow is now out of Sing Sing penitentiary on bail, pending a hearing before the U. ‘supreme. <ourt on’ the™ - ality of the syndicalist law. These laws were stated at the time of their passage to: be “war-time acts” to prevent foreign enemies of the United States from en- gaging in activity in this country against the United States, but they have been used from the start by the employers against labor, and against those who tried to strengthen the ranks of the militant workers. Ruthenberg Now in Prison Comrade Ruthenberg has been con- fined in the Jackson, Mich., penitent- iary for the past two weeks, after the Michigan state supreme court at Lansing refused to reverse the con- viction and sentence of three to ten years at hard labor and $5,000.00 fine imposed by. Judge Charles White at St. Joseph, Michigan. Comrade Ruth- enberg had not yet been put to work in the prison, which has one of the most damnable prison labor contract systems in the country. Ruthenberg is still in quarantine. Jackson Prison Worst The Jackson prison boasts that the prisoners make one dollar or slightly more a day in the jute mills and shoe shops. But the prisoners are worked like slaves, under penalty of cruel and vicious pypishment, and are made to turn out more work than the lowest paid -non-union factroy labor. The working conditions are of the worst, prisoners frequently contracting tu- berculosis in the rotten, dust filled air of the jute mill. Brakeman Is Killed. LITCHFIELD, ILL., Jan. 19.—Roy Cody, 25, of Mattoon, brakeman on the Big Four train number 54, was killed near here today when he fell from the rear of the train. His head struck a rail, breaking his neck and crushing his skull. Lenin Memorial Meetings. UTICA; New York.—A Lenin me- morial meeting will be held here on Wednesday evening, Jan. 21, at 131 Washingthon street, Labor Lyceum at 8p. m. Work Scarce in St. Louls. ST, LOUIS—Canvassing St. Louis union offices, one hears everywhere the same story of large numbers of members out of employment. The situation is growing more acute. Death of the In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago. by mail, $6.00 per year. New York state criminal’ |under which the work shall be shared, |The operators submitted a “yellow | work to the miners, but they refused ADMISSION 25 CENTS NEW YORK EDITION OF DAILY — WORKER HAILED BY COMRADES “ By SYLVAN A. POLLAGCK, NEW YORK COMRADES! -The publication of a special New York edition of the DAILY WORKER is a significant stép, following closely the anniversary of the first year of its existence. It is the spréading out of our daily into a real national force; a power In the American labor movement. A considerable portion of every issue. will be devoted to New York news, in conspicuous parts of the ‘paper, which is a.golden opportunity for the New York comrades to use the DAILY ae ee oT mates and frien larger scale WORKER to strengthen all of ‘their Z then ever. before, ‘ various activities. In our trade union work, with a} One more thing must be done. All workers paper, yet, a Communist pa-| of, us should consider. Ourselves a com- per, to back it up, the T. U. HB, L.| mittee, of one, to help sitpply the news militants will have a mighty weapon} to. make, the New York edition of the to push the program, they are present-| DAILY WORKER what it actually is— ing. Front page articles on local]. WORKER'S DAILY, Send into the strikes, lockouts, etc., will mean a tre-| New. York office all news of the labor mendous impetus will be given to this] movement. that other Workers should branch of our activity. know about. y In fact, all branches. of our work| The New. York edition of the DAILY will be greatly benefited. It will) re-] WORKER published in Chicago is the sult in the building of a stronBer-and | transition period bet the past and larger section of the party in the east.|a DAILY WORKER, PRINTED IN However, that is not enough. Hach} NEW YORK CITY! ~ Let our slogan be: “A DAILY and every worker must do this or WORKER PUBLISH! IN NEW her share. They must broadcast far I and wide this happy news and back it] YORK CITY BEFORE THE END OF 19251" 4 JOBLESS MINERS | [2 HOLD MEETING up by obtaining subs from their shop- TCT TWELVE EXECUTIVE. SENDS PROMISE TO ACT (Special to The Worker) SEATTLE, Wash., Ji hy 19.—To C. h E. Ruthenberg, care 1 Browder, 1113 W. Washington 4, Chicago, Mm. > ‘Se The executive. committee of Dis- trict Twelve In regular mesting as- serabled. this day, Jan. 18, greet your courageous fight for Commun- ism and send you our comradely greetings and assure with you in this struge tensive among the work- ers of this district and we will not “rést until :you are free again. Aaron Fislerman, chairman. N. H. Tallentire, secretary. GOV. ‘AL’ SMITH JOLTS LABOR ON CHILD SLAVERY Nationwide Drive Is On Against Amendment By H. M. WICKS. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 19.— The Tammanyite politicians at the head of the New York State Federation of Labor received a sever jolt’ from their “friend,” Governor Al. Smith, when that asstute against the immediate ‘ratifica- tion by the state legislature of the child labor amendment to the United States constitution. Thus, the governor ofNew York, elected by labor and socialist votes on the democratic ticket against an ava- lanche of republican votes that swept every other democrat out of office, lines up with the most bitter and out- spoken opponents of labor, much to the discom@ture of James P. Holland, president of the State Federation of Labor, and the local officials of the New York City Central Labor Coun- cil. Encouraged by the successful refer- endum in Massachusetts where, at the last. general election, the measure was defeated by a vote of 3 to 1, the ex- Dloiters of children, under the leader. ship of ‘the national manufacturers’ association, have become converted to the principle of “democracy” and are urging referendums in every state. Since, it is. the various. state legis- (Continued on page 5) Demand the Release of C. E. Rathenberg By JOHN MIHELIC. (Special to The Daily Worker) consider unemployment was held in Belleville Sunday. The conference opened at 10 a. m. and adjourned at 5 p. m. Delegates present represented 18 locals. Reports from the delegates showed many miners in the Belleville sub-district without employment, and many mines closed down. Farrington Helps Operators. The delegates from the O’Fallon Lo- cal, No. 705, reporting regarding the effort of the miners to force the O’- Fallon coal operators to put into practice the clause in the agreement dealing with the sharing of work be- tween the miners who are unemploy- ed and those working, said that the operators are trying to interpret the clause to their own advantage. The coal operators claim this clause gives them the right to dictate the terms dog” agreement for the sharing of to sign. Protests were made by the O'Fallon miners to Farrington and the other District 12 officials, The officials however, did not aid the miners, prac- tically agreeing with the coal operat- ors’ interpretation of the clause. Call for Unemployed Organizations. A resolution was passed by the Belleville conference providing for the organization of the unemployed min- ers in the Belleville sub-district. A resolution was also passed demanding state and national legislation for the relief of unemployed workers, and fa- voring joining hands with other unem ployed organizations that may be formed thruout the state and nation. Demand Ruthenberg’s Release, The convention demanded the re- peal of all criminal syndicalism laws and the immediate release of C. BE. Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) © Party. from Jackson, Mich.» penitentiary where he is serving a term of from three to ten years for expressing his Communistic opinions. y A committee of five was elected with power to call future unemploy: ment conferénces and carry on other work in behalf of the. locals repre- sented at the conference. * The Magic Red Star| Lenin Memorial Da _ TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1925 olitician came out <p> 290 25,000 GERMAN WORKERS I BIG LEN MEMORIAL NORE WEAVERS JOH FALL RIVER STRIKE AGAINST WAGE CUTS FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan. 19.— One hundred and fifty leno and plain weavers from the Davol Millis have joined the strike movement against the ten per cent wage re- Berlin Labor Denounces the Dawes Plan (Special-to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Jan. -19.—Twenty- five: thousand Communists pa- raded in Berlin yesterday. to commemorate the death of Nicolai’ Lenin. Floats in the parade de- nounced the newly formed Luther cabinet and the Dawes of the 7,000 iniprisoned German Communists. “The proletarian revolution cannot be won.in parliament”, one of the Communist speakers declared, “with the corpse of the capitalist system only will we be able to build an eter- nal monument to Lenin and Liebk- necht”. Denounce Dawes Plan The 25,000 Communists marched thru the working class. section of Berlin. One of the huge floats in the parade bore a guillotine, with a figure representing Uncle Sam following hehind it leading a German worker to his death. . The guillotine was labelled, “Dawes Reparations settlement German lavor’s enslavement thru the Dawer Plan”. Communist speakers at many who gathered by the thousand that it meant the exploitation of German “it ticaraieailaai abel “aaa Calt For Amnesty ‘The parade contained floats carry- ing, prison cells, with Communists and workers inside them calling to the crowds, “Free us, free us”. Groups of wailing children in the parade shouted “Give us our fathers.” Women in red hats marched to the rythmical cry of “amnesty, amnesty”. The monarchists also held a demon- stration in Magdaburg, where react- ionary generals called for Ebert's re- moval in favor of a kaiser. Flog Worker Refusing Starvation Pay SHREVEPORT, La.— F. A. Cum- mings, a laborer, was flogged by a self-appointed Shreveport vigilance committee because he would not work at a local sawmill where he had been offered employment. Cummings says that wages were so miserably small plan, and depicted the suffering | duction, The Davol, Lincoln, Gran- ite and Barnard Mills are now out. Weavers of the Davis Mills are said | to be returning after promise to set- tle part of their grievances, Thomas F, McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers, is ex- pected in Fall River as reinforce- ments for Organizer Riviere who is conducting the strike of Dyers and Bleachers at the Kerr Mills. THOUSANDS TO ATTEND LENIN MEMORIAL HERE Celebrate Ruthenberg’s ReleaseAlso Tomorrow Thousands of workers are ex- pected to gather tomorrow night to. commemorate the death of Nicolai Lenin, founder of the Third (Communist) In- ternational. At the meeting in the Ashland street corners denounced the Dawes Auditorium, Ashland and Van plan and told the German workers | Buren Sts., Wednesday night, at 8p. m., the militant workers of Chicago will also have a neg Te ‘leas of C. E. Ruthenberg, executive secretary-of the Workers, (Com- munist) Party on bail. by the United States supreme court. Review Achievements Thru Leninism. They will also rejoice that the DAILY WORKER, the only Commun- list daily newspaper printed in’ the English language, has so successfully passed its first birthday. The speakers will tell what Lenin meant to the toiling millions of Am erican workers, and how he establish- ed the Communist International to bind the proletariat of the world to- gether into a powerful and well. dis- ciplined army for the overthrow of the exploiting class and the triumph of the rule of the workers of the world. They will also review the growing power of the militant workers who that he preferged to starve while not jrely on the tactics of Leninism, and employed to” working and just the same. Russians at French Art Show. MOSCOW . Jan. 19. — The French cabinet has decided to invite the Sov- iet government to participate in the art exhibition to be held in Paris. LOWER HOUSE IS AGAIN CLOSED BY MUSSOLINI No Elections Soon, Says Dictator ROME, Italy. Jan. 19.—The starving Jof the world crisis in the ranks of in- ternational capitalism. * Amateur Radio Achievement. LONDON, Jan. 19.—The first ama- teur two-way radio communication be- tween Europe and South America was established today. An eEnglish amateur radio operatof conversed with a member of the Rice explora tion party at Boa Visto, 800 miles in land,’ The ameteur used an 800 ‘watt set. . Floods Sweep Georgia. ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 19.—Virtually the entire southeast today was theat- ened with enormous property damage from floods rolling down the valleys after three days of constant rain. The downpour continued. Three trainmen wero killed and several persons were chamber jinjured in, two wrecks attributed to of deputies hag adjourned after pass- ithe raing, ing Mussolini's new electoral bill, and hearing the Communist deputies de- nounce the rule of fascism and call for the rule of the workers. , The elect- Latvia to Recognize Soviets. MOSCOW, Jan. 19.—It is reported oral bill must pass the senate, where | ‘hat negotiations are soon to be start- the opposition is now concentrating its |@4 between Latvia and the Union of efforts against the bill. Speculation whether Mussolini will soon reconvene | Commerce, Socialist Soviet Republics for the con. in Rome dwells on|Clusion of a Sovict-Latvian treaty of (The political treaty be- the chamber, or wait until after the }tween the two countries was conclud- Matteotti murder trials, in which Mus-|¢d four years ago.) eolini and his; aids are implicated. Mussolini repeats that.he wili not call a general election for many months. 8 P.M. Ashland Auditorium, Ashland Ave, & Van Buren Auspices, Workers Party and Young Workers League, Local Chicago WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, See “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” at Ashland Auditorium Feb. Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING: CO., 1113 W. Washington’ Blvd., Chicago, Il. PLAN T ee | | SPEAKERS: WILLIAM F. DUNNE _ EARL BROWDER J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ARNE SWABECK Music by Young Workers League Orchestra, Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Price 3 Cents 94 UNIONS IN HARD COAL PITS FAVOR WALKOUT Lewis Regime in Threat to Outlaw Struggle (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKESBARRE, Pa., Jan. 19. —Sixty thousand anthracite miners of District No. 1, United Mine Workers of America, threaten to strike on Wednes- day as a result of a meeting Sunday of the. joint grievance committee representing 94 local unions. To Spread the Strike. If the strike comes, as it seems cer- tain to come, it will be in open de- fiance of John L. Lewis, international president and the renegade radical Rinaldo .Cappellini, the discredited president of the . district. Both of these traitors to the miners interests have, of course, warned that charters will be revoked and the miners “out- lawed.” The miners, in turn, are depending on spreading the strike until so many are “outlawed” that only the qus, union officials are left and the general violation becomes le- gal by force of numbers and. power. Miners Oppose Any Split. Bitter hostility is shown against the suggestion’ ‘raised by Tony Panne, chairman of the 12,000 Pennsylvania Coal company’s miners now on strike, that these men would split from. the U. M. W. of A. The miners are deter mined to stay in the international and clean .out. the fakers. The iseting’ Sunday was “alied” to * hear charges against the district exe- cutive and to prepare impeachment of Cappellini for refusal to call a special district convention as provided by the constitution. to settle grievances against both the bosses and: Cappelini. Committee Report Brings Explosion. Further | dilly-dallying over the charge against Cappelini became. evi- dent by the report of the special com- mittee which merely advised that if satisfaction was not secured thru the union. courts, the case might get fa- vor in the county court by a plea in equity. It was then that Tony Panne threw the meeting into angry disorder by threatening to split the Pittstom 12,- 000 men of the Pennsylvania company from the U. M. W. of A. if no action was to be taken and such a report were adopted. Many motions to spread the strike thruout the district were, however, made from all sides by rank and file miners who strenuously opposed Panne’s provocative utterances. But immediate strike motions were quick- ly withdrawn because time was need- ed to guard the treasuries of the lo- cals against attachment by the treach- erous officials. Special meetings of all the locals are being held before Wednesday, when another joint meeting will be held. Also there is the double purpose of getting the rank and file sentiment solidified and to await the final action of the district board which promised a meeting to consider the question of a special convention. Cappellini shows worry over the ac- tion of the meeting and is holding sessions with other officials at his home and the district office, mean- while confering over the long distance telephone with John L. Lewis at In- dianapolis. “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” is coming to Ashland Auditorium Feb; 5. A Troop of Little Reds has been practicing for six weeks for its part in the Lenin Memorial meeting, to be held at the Ashland Audi- torium. GORDON OWENS re