The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 8. a o D>) e ef = *% whP ASO | yao Eee 2 se % ay Ss AST Sunday's meeting of the Chi- 1; cago Federation of Labor was rather quiet. The officials have gev- eral ‘sponge-like propositions which are used to soak in the energy of the delegates until it comes near time for somebody to rise and say: “I move that all business mot transacted be're- ferred to the executive committee.” This motion is always carried, as ev- erybody is anxious to go to bed after being snoozing ‘on the uncomfortable chairs while the label committee, the grievance committee, the schools com- mittee or the sewage committee turns on the same old record. se @ ‘HE labor leaders will find time to talk about everything but some matter that vitally affects the inter- ests of the workers. While politics is tabooed in the unions by the non-par- tisan policy of the A. F. of L., nothing else is taken seriously by the reac- tlonaries at the Chicago Federation of Labor, but politics—capitalist politics. eee INN A. E. GALE) formerly of L Mexico, and other parts not so well known, has bobbed up in Aurora, Mo., as the editor of a pink (literally) sheet called The Lifted Lid. It is as crazy a Tag as was ever conceived in the brain gf a nut posing as a radical. Gale is an -unexpurgated edition of the kind of egomaniac, who imagines that the world waits on his words. Such a specimen is Haldeman Julius, editor of @- flock of magazines and husband of a woman who made a prosperous business man out of him. Julius, however, is an unabashed turn- coat, who brazenly repudiated his so- cialist ideas, while Gale is still pollut- ing the atmosphere with his nauseat- ing literary concoctions. “es «@# NOTHER freak who thinks he is mor at the expense of vegetarianism Worker. gotten out by th’ business of- fice staff to add a little ovelty to our anniversary. celebration. He puts meat-eating Communists and child la- bor exploiting capitalists on the same footing. If he is a Communist, then I am a bishop. To prove that a man can be a Communist and a vegetarian at the same time, he cites as ex- amples: Urban Ledoux, the freak who gets a group of hungry unfortu- nate victims of capitalism into a New York church every year for the sake of publicity and among others, Linn Gale. It is hard to,say whether peo- ple become fanatical vegetarians be- cause they are crazy or become crazy hecause they are vegetarians. ee 8 HETHER a person should eat meat or not as part of his diet denends on many factors. It may be good for some and bad for others. But there are several hundred schools of health, and each one of them picks on some innocent aruce of diet and puts it.on the verboten list. One of these fellows told a . friend of mine that cow’s milk was intended oply for calves and that if meat should be eat- en at all, it should be devoured on the hoof tiger fashion. He took his cue from the tiger, who usually lives in SUBSCRIPTION RATES; RKERS REPUDIATE SOVI Lenin Memorial coum on | ee ee ‘n a recent issue of a mir‘ature Daily Eutered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, et the he Omee at Chicago, lilinois under the Act of March 8, 1878. Outside Chicage. by In Chicage, by mail, $8.00. per. year. mail, $6.00 per year. COCLIDGE WOULD HUSH UP PARIS TREATY SCANDAL Tries to fee Dawes Plan from Debate (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The denial of Secretary of State Hughes that America has been plunged into the European po- litical arena by Coolidge, whose representatives signed the agreement of allied finance ministers based on the Dawes plan, has by no means con- vinced many senators that Hata knows what he is talk- ing about. Hiram Johnson of California, point- ed out that “responsible parties in every foreign signatory country, take a directly contrary view,” To Gouge Germany. The agreement signed by Kelloge Coolidge’s new secretary of state, anc the European powers, is a financia’ arrangement whereby the Unite’ States gets a percentage of all money that is extracted from the German workers under the Dawes plan. Altho the’ Coolidge administration ander the control of J. P. Morgan, in ‘augurated the Dawes plan, and the | American bankers practically forced England, by threatening to withhold jloans from these countries, Coolidge is anxious to keep the ~Dawes plan away from. the senate. Coolidge-Morgan Plan. Coolidge does not’ want publicity ished on his close connection with the |Morgan banks. Nor does he wish his political enemies in the senate to air his entrance into European affairs while he pretends to be against “Eu- ropean entanglements.” The European statesmen have been told of the situation and have sud denly hushed up all exultant newspa- per comment on the entrance of Am erica into the merty European game of staving off the establishment of Soviet governments, and at the same time milking the German workers dry. London Hushes Up, The London foreign office has mant- fested “disapproval” of all those “toc eager to look upon the Paris agree- ment as the return of the United States to active participation in Eu- ropean affairs.” Those statesmen who were themselves a few days ago mak- ing these statements are now clamp ing_a rigid censorship on all such newspaper comment. Winston Churchill, chancellor 0’ the exchequer, who made a speech the jungles where butcher shops don’t |Cougratulating America on her “re- exist. Unfortunately, for his theory, |tarn to the European arena,” has been man and the tiger have different |roundly criticized, not because he tastes and different duties to perform, | lied, but because he untactfully told therefore, they see about getting their |the truth, thus getting Coolidge into vitamines in a different manner. somewhat of a mess. He has let it 0° Bre be known that he will “take the first OME people object the use of |opportunity to make a speech in ¢ meat as an article of diet on ethi-| different tone.” The United States, cal grounds, for the same reason that|has after all signed the agreement, people object to the wearing of furs |and the European statesmen are will- by women. It means the slaughter of jing to say anything that will prevent ' (Continved on page 3) — (Continued on page 2) TEXTILE WORKERS STRIKE AT GOODYEAR MILL, 300 MORE OUT (Special to The Daily Worker) | NEW ‘BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 20—A strike of 250 weavers was declared | at the Potomska mill here today in consequence of a wage reduction of 10 | per cent, which effective today in New Bedford cotton mills. Sixty |; weavers and. loom fixers, employed at the Goodyear and gs Tire fabric — j had wane om ne In the day. A Pageant Commemorating the Death of the WHY ROT BRAND ’EM ON THE FOREHEAD Of NOTCH THEIR EARS? NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—A system whereby every person in New York would be forced to. carry a card containing his photograph and fing- erprints, all registered at police headquarters, was recommended by Police Commisisoner Richard E. Enright at a dinner given him to celebrate his return from South America. ALL CAPITALIST GANG MOVES 10 BREAK STRIKE Government, Fakers and Business (Speciat to The Dally Worker) WILKESBARRE, Pa., Jan. 20. —All the forces of capitalism, particularly its labor lieuten- ants, are endeavoring to throttle the strike of 60,000 miners. of District No. 1 here today. From the headquarters of the capitalist government at: Wash- ington have arrived two “con- eillators,” Thomas. Da: .y td i] who now, tho unable until this date to see any grievances of the anthracite miners, is sud- denly solicitous about them g0- ing on strike. The state of Pennsylvania is alsa on the job, also suddenly diseovering that there are things to. be settled to which it was formerly deaf and blind. “Me And God.” Cappellini is issuing statements hourly to the capitalist press trying to frighten the miners with. all sorts of dread penalties of they break the “sacred” contract. Qne of his mani- festoes sounds like the decree of a. king, reading, “Therefore, as President of District 1, and by the authority vested in me, I, Rinaldo Cappellini, call upon you and urge every member of this organization to keep inviolate the contract under which we are working.” From Indianapolis, John L. Lewis, betrayer of many a miners’ strike, is wiring threats against the strikers and encouragement for Cappellini. Business men of the whole district are appealing to Governor Pinchot to avert the strike. The special committee of the strikers and those who threaten to strike is busy protecting the local treasuries from Cappellini’s attachments and is discussing. filing a bill in equity. to prevent Cappellini and other district officials from drawing tlieir pay until they call a special district convention to try charges against these. officials. Miners’ Standing Solid. The special committee , of union officials, appointed by John.L. Lewis just arrived here to make a final effort to crush the strike.. The grievance committees scheduled to meet here today are, however, standing pat and demanding both a settlement of grievances against the companies and a special — district convention to hear their grievances and charges against Cappellini and company. It’s An Ill Wind, Eto, SPRINGFIELD, ML, Jan. 20.— Au- thority to issue bonds and increase rates to pay for damage from tho ice’ storm which levelled wires in the central and western part of the state last month, was granted the ‘Illinois Telephone companies today by the Tliinois commerce commi: ‘The Magic Red Star| Lenin Memorial Da Ashland Auditorium, ‘Ashland Ave, & Van Buren ADMISSION 25CENTS "of ldbor, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1925 CARPENTERS’ CONSTITUTION Hatcheson 1'sTools Make Farce of Union Laws | The “constitutional” fakers who are defying the will of the majority in Lo 0. 181, of the carpenters’ union, gave another example of how little they care for the Jaw of the organization, jast- Monday night, when the president refu to entertain a resolution preferring . charges against the local president for his violation of the constitution of the international - brother- hood. Thestruggle in Local 181, arose over the illegal expnision of five mem- bers of the union by a ukase from the president, acting under the instruc- tions of Harry Jensen, a member of the local and also president of the dis- trict council. Jengen is the real “presi- dent” of Local 182 and attends every meeting to guide his tools along the thorny. path whieh he has mapped out for them. Jensen fears that if he missed one meeting, his flunkeys would not be able to hold their owl, as they have less braing.than he has, which is not At least ninety a Got A’ New Idea. When last Monday night's meeting opened, the chairman made a show of being a devoted adherent of the con- stitution and said the meeting could not be held until the expellea mem- bers removed themselves from the hall. This was a noveity, as they had attended all other meetings since they were “expelled” and had gotten the password in the regular manner. The yew instructions from Harry Jensen, prove that the fakers are getting nervous and are afraid that the rank and file may not be able to hold their patience much longer. They have seen a few fakers iding up the business of the meeting for sever- al weeks and they are going to stand for it indefinitely. The Czar's Letter. At Monday night’s meeting, the president read the letter from Hutche- son which stated thet the appeal of the members against the railroading pogrom did not act as a stay of sen- tence and that the “expelled” mem- (Continued on page 2.) E™ PROFIT SHARING AS A WAY T0 CUT WAGES SHOWN IN TEXTILE MILL NORTH ANDOVER, Mass., Jan. 20.—Sutton’s Mills, manutacturers of Woolen coatings and suitings, have distributed to approximately 400 em- ployes $8,700, one-half interest In the increased profits effected in the month of December, 1924, by in- creased production thru their ef- forts. The “nice” boss, it Is thus seen, will give 400 workers $8,700 or about $22 each, if they first give. him $17,400 or about $44 each. This is called “profit sharing,” and the “sharing” is supposed to be done by the boss, but is always done by the workers. And when the bosses persuade workers to follow the same game the Sutton Mills put over, they suf- fer a real reduction of wages in proportion to their output, CONFISCATE ALL TRACTION LINES W.P. TELLS CITY Deoer’s Traction Deal Hits a sa Snag ‘The’ ‘olty cotinett ‘committee on local transportation has de- manded that the city be given either a majority control of the traction lines when it retires a major portion of-the debt, or that Mayor Dever’s traction or- dinance be rejected. The alderman deciared that the ordinance is, in effect; a‘grant of per- petual franchise to: the ’ private in- terests now controlling the stock in the traction lines. The traction lines, thru Silas Strawn, their attorney, have told the people of Chicago they can take it or leave it, just as they choose, but that they do not intend to give the city control of the lines until every cent of the certificates now owned by pri- vate interests is paid for by the city. Bankers Insolent. “The city has no money and cannot finance purchase of the lines by any other method,” Strawn told the city council. The aldermen pointed out that the city may never be able to completely refund the debt, and there- fore, if Dever’s ordinance were passed, (Continued on page 2) BUILDING THE DAILY WORKER TASK OF EVERY WORKERS PARTY MEMBER Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., CHICAGO LABOR JOINS 1 HUGE DEWONSTRATION Big Memorial Meeting at Ashland Auditorium Tonight the thinking work- ers of Chicago, in myriad thou- sands, will bend their way to-! wards the Ashland (Carmen's) Auditorium, to join in the com- memoration of the first anni- versary of the death of Nicolai Lenin, leader of the workers’ revolution. Workers Rally to Communism. Last year thousands of workers gathered ‘at meetings in Chicago and thrueut the couatry to hear the slo- gan—“Lenin is dead—Long live Len- inism.” This year, more than ever before. the truth of the teachings of Lenin is apparent to the world’s workers. With the Coolidge-Morgan govern- ment actively entering Germany to enslave her workers under the Dawes plan, with the white terror being insti tuted by the bourgeois dictators in Bureps and ‘the colonies, the workers | are rallying around the Communist In ternational, founded by Lenin. With the decline of capitalism, the working classes of the world realize more than ever that the road to their emancipation leads thru_the.. Soviet ‘state, ant the tactics to be usd to achieve the rulé of the workers are the tactics taught ‘by Lenin. Prominent Speakers. The speakers at tonight’s Lenin me- morial meeting are to be Earl R. rowder, acting secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, J. Louis Enagdshi, William F. Dunne, Arne Swabeck, district organizer of the Workers Party and Gordon Owens,} prominent Negro Communist. Twenty-five thousand Communists in| Berlin paraded in memory of Nicolai Lenin a few days ago. because they know that it was Lenin | who instilled the iron discipline intc the Bolshevik Party of Russia, that enabled the Russian Communists to overthrow the imperialistic regime of the czar and the bourgeois Kerensky regime, and establish the Soviet gov- ernment. |. Lenin Fought Opportunism. Lenin relentlessly fought all petty bourgeois menshevik thot thruout th world. He csrried on an unceasing war against the traitorous Kautsky; of the world who betrayed the work- ers because they thot the proletarian revolution “wasn’t nice.” Lenin war @ true friend of the working cless of America, and warmly welcomed the American delogates to the first con gresses of the Third (Communist) In- jof workers The worker: | of the world cherish Lenin’s memory | ternational which he founded. Long Live Leninism. Tonight the Chicago members of the Workers (Communist) Party, and all who are loyal to the revolutionary working class will meet to hear Am- erica's leading exponents of Leninism do honor to hissmemory and explain the. great contributions made by Len in toward the emancipation of the workers by means of the overthrow of the capitalist exploiters and the establishment of the rule of the workers thruout the world. Minneapolis Meeting. Lenin memorial meetings are being held ‘in all principal cities and indus trial’centers of ‘the country. The Lenin memorial meeting in Minneapo Ms, where the- Communists have re- sisted- all, efforts of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats to break up the labo movement there, will be held Sunday Jan. 25 in the Finnish Hall, 1317 Western Ave, Warl Browder will be (Continued on page 2) " ' (Special to The Onily Worker) ; NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Jan. 20.—That it is the task of every mem- ber of the Workers (Communist) Party, and not of the English language speaking séctions alone, to build the DAILY WORKER, Is the demand raised by the DAILY WORKER agents of New York City in a declaration adopted as follows: To the District Executive Committee and the Central Executive Committee! Comrades: The meeting of DAILY WORKER agents of New York, consisting of fourteen branches, unanimously adopted the fol- lowing: “That we request of the district executive committee and the: central executive committee that they immediately launch an educa- tlonal campaign to impress upon the membership of the entire party the fact that the DAILY WORKER is not merely the organ of the English speaking membership, but that it is the OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA, and that its upbultding Js an essential task for every federation of our party and the Communist duty of EVERY party member, no matter iWin language ‘he speaks.’ \ ' Fraternally transmitted, L. E. KATTERFELD, er Daily Worker New York Agent. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 8 P.M. WILLIAM F. aan ae Party and Young Workers League, Local Chicago Music. by Young SPEAKERS: EARL BROWDER J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ARNE SWABECK Help Insure THE DAILY. WORKER for 1925! Price 3 Cents Chicago, Ill. T FOE eeting Tonight JENSEN MOCKS ABRAMOVICHIS FORCED TO FLEE ATN.Y. MEETING Gathering Turned Into Communist Rally (Special to The Daily Worker), NEW YORK, Jan, 19.—(By Mail.)—Many workers were se- verely injured and scores bruis- ed when an indignant audience in the new Star Casino revolted yesterday after- noon against R. Abramovich, murderous menshevik agent of the Russian counter-revolution when he started to vilify the Soviet republic, aided by the yellow socialist “Forward” gang speakers. Sponsored by Hiliquit. Abramovich escaped in an automo- bile furnished by the “Forward” gang's. sluggers and protected by 400 Police called by Morris Hillquit and Judge Jacob Panken, while the meet- ing was turned into a demonstration for Soviet Russia and the Communist movement. Abramovich, who came to America for the special purpose of attacking Soviet Russia, getting money for men shevik counter-revolution and incit jing the labor fakers of America to |more venemous attacks. on the left wing, was cer the darling of the yellow socialist “Forward” clique who jtook every precaution to prevent |what happened. | Gangsters and Police Help. Prepared beforehand, police and jeangsters flooded the hall as Soon as the major part of the few thousand in the audience were seated. The committee in charge, in spite of these demonstrations of thuggery, could not for long suppress the mass demon |stration that broke loose. Tho the gangsters and the police jhad their share in the meeting. As a |worker here and there cheered for | Soviet Russia or heckled the speakers {he was set upon and knocked about | by the police or gangsters, yet the mass could not be repressed. Viadeck Makes Threat. When the meeting opened there was |storm’in the air. B. Charney Viadeck |chairman of the meeting, in the open: {ing speech threatened what he called “the disturbers.” The meeting was divided into two sections. In the first three rows were the “Forward” clique. They clapped at every chance or upon in- structions. The great majority of these present did not, however, ap- plaud either Abramovich or any other speaker, The first few speakers were received in comparative calm. The noise started when Weinberg the chairman of the Workmen's Cir- cle, was introduced and started to greet Abramovich. He praised the counter-revolutionist as a wonderful “socialist” and in concluding said: “Inthe name of the 100,000 mem bers of the Workmen's Circle, I take great pleasure in turning over the key of the organization to Abramovich.” Refused to be Betrayed. Waves of shouts broke out. “Not we! Not we! Not in our name!” came from all over the hall. “Who gave you permisgton to turn over the key of the Workmen’s Circle to a traitor against the working class?” Pandemonium broke loose. The gangsters attacked the workers every- where, but the battle was not alto- The workers de- themselves while the whol¢ (Continued on page 2) gether one-sided. fended A Troop of Little Reds has been practicing for six weeks for its part in = Lenin Memorial meeting, be held at the Ashiand ude torium. DUNNE GORDON OWENS Workers League Orchestra,