The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1925, Page 2

eae ee Page Two THE DAILY WORKER WORKERS GIVE SOVIET FOE HOT RECEPTION IN NEW YORK (Continued from page 1) Budience began to yell at the top of their voices. Cries of “Down with Weinberg! Down with the socialist traitors to the workers!” were heard above the din. Weinberg Draws Jeers. Finally after tremendous work on the part of the police, the meeting be- came fairly quiet. Weinberg tried to speak again, pleading with the mem- bers of the Workmen's Circle not to insult their chaimman—himself. More shouts. “Who elected you? Whose . leader are you?’} Act one repeated. The gangsters busy again. The work- ers busy again, doing their share. Ev- erything was turmoil. The “Forward” clique of socialists decided to call reinforcements. Around four o'clock in walked about a score of husky sluggers. They took their places in the aisles, like guards in a penitentiary, and waited for the signal trom their bosses. They were not kept long waiting. Viadik introduced Abramovich. Si- lence reigned. The first three rows stood up—looked around—saw nobody rising but themselves, sat down again. No applause. Workers Cheer Soviet Rule. Then Abramovich, agent of white guardism, emissary of the blood-spill- ers Of the socialist Second Internation- al commenced. He proceeded without interruption until he mentioned “Soy- jet Russia.” At once the hall was shouting—‘“Long live Soviet Russia! Long live the first Workers’ and Farm- ers’ government!” “Mister” Abramovich lost his self- control entirely. He could not imagine that so many Bolsheviks would turn up at a meeting in America called by the yellow socialists. He turned pale. He jumped and stumbled in speech He was continually interrupted. The gangsters got to work. Like wolves they were. Seats were upset. The whole crowd of perhaps 2,000 people for a half hour massed themselves in one big group tumbling over the seats, rolling on the floor. Women screamed continually as gangsters plied their trade. A dread- ful sight, when socialists who pretend to represent the workers call the po- lice of the capitalist government and hire sluggers to beat down workers who voice their protests against at- tacks on Soviet Russia. But above all the din the shouts came—“Long live Soviet Russia! Down with yellow traitors! Long live the Communist In- ternational! Long live the Workers Party!” And threaded thru it the song of the International. The traitors on the platform were deathly pale. They had met much more than they wished to meet. They all tried to quiet the crowd. One af- ter another took the chair and plead- ed. It did not help. All were trying to rescue their coats and their fami- lies and go home. Judge Panken and Hillquit conferr- ed. They telephoned the police. A new troop of 250 police and detectives arrived, rushed into the hall. The “committees” of gangsters went out- side. The police used their hickory night sticks. Abramovich found his voice and asked the crowd to be quiet. “For every lie you tell, we will shout,” it replied. The meeting could not proceed. By- ery word Abramovich ° uttered, the workers shouted “It’s a lie! Long live Soviet Russia! Long live the Com- munist movement!” Abramovich was very excited. “The Labor Defense Calls for $7,500.00 Bail to Release Ruthenberg The Labor Defense Council is now busily engaged in raising the $7,500.00 ball necessary for the re lease of C, E. Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers (Commun- Ist) Party. Comrade Ruthenberg Is now In Jackson, Mich., prison, pend- ing final arrangements for his re- lease on bail. Justice Louls Brand- els, of the United States supreme court, granted a writ of supersedas, and set bail for Comrade Ruthen- berg, after Justice “McReynolds had refused to grant the writ. According to Justice Brandeis’ de- cision, the U. 8. supreme court must mow review Comrade Ruthenberg’s case and decide on the constitution- ality of the Michigan criminal syn- dicalism law under which Comrade Ruthenberg was sentenced. “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” is coming to Ashland Auditorium Feb. 6. . PHILADELPHIA, ATTENTION! Lenin Memorial Meeting SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1925, 8 P.M, Broad and Spring Garden Streets SPEAKERS: LULU TEMPLE - M. J. OLGIN OF NEW YORK, Soviet Press and Dele Meeting starts promptly at 8:15 F to the Fifth Congr R. BAKER, Secretary, Philadelphia Workers Party, OLIVER CARLSON OF CHICAGO, ‘Educational Director, Dist. 3, Freiheit Singing Society — International Orchestra Motion Pictures of Lenin's Life, Funeral and Communist May Day Demonstration at Lenin’s Tomb in Moscow, Brazier Tells of Fight Against Deportation Moves any The Federated Press) NE YORK, Jan. 20.—Richard Brazier, secretary of the New York branch of the General Defense Com- mittee, has been fighting deportation of radicals thru Ellis Island. He re- ports an active movement by .Call- fornia authorities to get rid of active members of the Marine Transport Workers’ Union, a sailors’ and long: shoremen’s organization, via the de- portation route. Patrick L. Jordan, Karl Schurz and H. Titland, all arrested in San Pedro, while selling union literature were held months for deportation in the Los Angeles prison and deported at the end of the year. Jordan was sent thru Ellis Island to Ireland; Schurz and Titland were ordered to work their way to the other side from the port of Galveston, Schurz to Germany and Titland to Norway. Others are awaiting deportation in California. Communists accuse me of lying,” he said. “I challenge any Communist to deny the facts I have presented.” <A} worker in the rear of the hall arose and cried out clearly, “I accept your challenge!” Abramovich did not like that. The mass loked threatening. Thru the chairman the scoundrel answered that no question would be answered. The worker who accepted the challenge he hypocritically put out, was, of course, carried out of the hall and pummelled. This is how Abramovich “proved”. his “facts” against challenge! Viadik whispered to’ Abramovich and the meeting was ended. The work- ers streamed out singing the Interna- tional. The following is the incomplete list of workers severely wounded: Wag- ner, Feinzweig, M. Gotfried and many more whose names are not yet ob- tained. Feinzweig’s face was cut by @ gangster’s knife. Hours later, after Abramovich had escaped by a side door into an automobile, groups of workers were singing rebel songs in front of the hall. This is the first meeting Abramovich received from American workers. It was a demon- stration for Soviet Russia. Farmer Commits Sulclde. COFFEEN, IIL, Jan. 20. — Henry Brackenbrush, 59, a farmer, committed suicide here today by tying a rope around his neck, fastening one end of the rope to a tree and hitching the other to a team of horses. He whipped the horses until they pulled his head off. Patronize our advertisers. MINNEAPOLIS PLEDGES AID 70 THE VICTIMS OF MICHIGAN PERSECUTION By CARL SKOGLUND Secretary, Minneapolis, Minn., City Central Committee, Workers Party. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 20—The city central committee of the Workers Party of America expresses its solidarity with and will stand be- hind Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg and all other comrades imprisoned for political bellefs and convictions, and has already started an energetic cam- paign to organize a local Labor Defense Council to arouse the workers of this locality for the defense of workers who fight in their interests. All differences of opinion must be laid aside and every worker be ral- ‘led*Into a united front to prevent working class leaders from being im- prisoned by the henchmen of the capitalist: class. The best and most efficient way to give proof of your solidarity will be by having the organization of which you are a member to send delegates to the Labor Defense Council meeting to be held every Monday evening at 617 4th Ave. So., beginning at 8 o’clock. Uniess ,you answer this call to action by being present yourself and having every other worker with whom you come in contact do the same, you have not done anything constructive on behalf of the protection of the working class. ELECTRICIANS GET INTO FIGHT ON CHILD LABOR Omaha Unionists Call Meeting for Jan. 22 (Special to The Dally Worker) OMAHA, Nebr., Jan. 20.—The cam- jaign of the local militants of the Trade Union Educational League on the child labor question is already reaching beyond the state boundaries into Iowa. As a result of this cam- paign Council Bluffs (lowa) Lodge No. 93 of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen has appointed a committee of three to co-operate in the united front against child labor exploitation. It is believed that other unions in Council Bluffs will take similar action and make it possible to call a conference of locals on the child labor question in the near future. Omaha Conference Called. The campaign in Omaha has already progressed to such an extent as to make possible a conference, Thurs- day, of the committees from the Inde- what to do with the Underwood |pendent Club, Workmen's Circle Muscle Shoals bill, the republican branches, Workers Party and local steering committee of the house today |trade unions. bans decided to send it to joint conference} The Railway Carmen's Local of the with the senate, in an effort to recon-|Bluffs passed the resolution against cile its differences with the Muscle|child labor similar to those adopted Shoals bill passed by the house. by other Omaha labor unions. NEW COOLIDGE ATTORNEY GENERAL REVEALED AS TOOL OF SUGAR TRUST; RECORD SHAMES THAT OF DAUGHERTY eater icc tieioge (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Charles B. Warren’s appointment as attorney general came under fire in the senate today when a special sub-committee began an investigation of charges that he engaged in lobbying activities back in 1918 on behalf of the beet sugar interests. Confirmation of the ap- pointment fs thus held up indefinitely, Senators Borah, republican, of Idaho, and Walsh, democrat, of Montana, are members of the sub-committee. They plan to review all the testimony ¢relating to Warren contained in the records of the sugar investigation of 1921 and the lobby investigation of. 1913. Records of the 1918 investigation dis- closed that Warren appeared as a witness and testified he had been is- sued stock by the American Sugar Refining Co., in six of its subsidiary companies. Another part of the record being studied was Warren's testimoney that he bought $450,000 worth of subsidiary stocks from the sugar company so it could reduce its subsidiary holdings and escape prosecution as a “trust,” Administration leaders were somo- what perturbed over the investigation, but planned to rush thru Attorney- General Stone's promotion to the sw preme court before night, Waterways Committee At Capitol Hears Plea for Great Lakes Canal WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The water level thruout the Great Lakes system has been lowered from 5 to 8 inches by diversion of water at Chicago, Brig. Gen. Harry Taylor, chief of army en- sineers, told the senate waterways committee tofay at its hearing on a proposed canal'from the Great Lakes to the gulf. Taylor says Lake Michigan lost 5.8 inches, Lake Erie 5.52 inches, Lake Ontario 5.76 inches, Lake Huron 5.8 inches, the St. Clair River 4.8 and Lock 52 in the St. Lawrence River 8.52 inches. Teachers’ Salaries Revised. The committee appointed to study teachers’ salaries met with Superin- tendent William McAndrew to discuss a complete revision of the Chicago public school teachers’ salaries. What the revision comprises and how it’will affect the present salaries could not be learned either from the committee or from the superintendent. Muscle Shoale in Conference. WASHINGTON, Jan, 20.—After mill- ing around for several days undecided American Correspondent for the 8, C. I Admission 256 Cents BRITISH TORY GOVT, REFUSED SOVIET TRADE GETS MORE JOBLESS (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Jan. ployment situation In England ,con- tinues to grow worse, according to a@ statement issued tonight by the ministry of labor, Figures present- ed by the ministry show 1,370,800 persons are on the lists of the un- employment exchanges. This Indl- cates an Increase of 83,916 unem- ployed over last week's figures, and 40,125 more than during the corre- sponding week of 1924, Coolidge Would Hush Up Paris Treaty Scandal (Continued from page 1) the nullifying of the Dawes agreement. At the Paris foreign office the agreement is being called the “Logan agreement,” in order to shield Am- bassador Kellogg, the principal Amer. ican signing the agreement, so that Kellogg will meet less opposition tc plan his appointment to Hughes’ post bac Coolidge. The senate “irreconcilables” are de- manding information on the reserva tion asked by Ambassador Kellogg, providing that America have freedor of action in any issue arising out of the operation of the agreement. The allies refused to make this reserva tion, but Kellogg signed anyhow. thus making the agreement subject to senate approval. Altho this demand- ed reservation was widely reported in the press, the state department flatly denies, altho refusing to give the press.an authorized quotation. U. 8. to Enslave Germany. Under the agreement, according to the European statesmen, the United States may be called on to help en- force the Dawes plan on Germany, thus aiding im the gouging of th« German workers by the allies. Upon hearing of the senate opposi- tion, Kellogg immediately got busy among his pals in France and Eng- land, and, six days after the treaty was signed, arranged with the allies to alter phrases in the agreement in a belated attempt to keep it out of the senate. “There is no question of al- tering the meaning of the text of the stipulations,” it was announced in Paris. The changes were simply pro- posed to avoid the necessity of secur- ing the ratification by the senate thus saving Coolidge from embarass- ing publicity. eck Bist 4g Kellogg discovered that by limiting the American share of the graft taken from Germany to $350,000,00¢ the agreement necessitated the ap- proval of the senate. Kellogg there fore made his move to amend the agreement after it was signed. He feared, Kellogg said, that the senate might ‘not ratify the agreement. Kellogg signed the full agreement. applying to the amount of money al) the allies should receive from Germany instead of merely signing the sectio: portaining to American claim8. Now the allies and the Unitec States will go into Germany and dig out of the already impoverished peo. ple as much money as they can. Confiscate All Traction Lines W. P. Tells City (Continued from page 1) the private lines would be given a perpetual franchise to replace the pre- sent franchise which expires in 1927. The aldermen deplored the fact that Dever’s plan “cannot be passed with- out newspaper support,” The bankers insolently told the aldermen that “we have gone very far already in allowing three neutral members on the board of control,” and declared that no one has any con- structive criticism to offer in place of the bankers’ proposal. Communists Offer Solution. The traction situation will be mud- dled until the people of Chicago boldly take the traction lines away from the bankers and run them for the use of the people. This is the demand of the Workers (Communist) Party candi- dates in the coming aldermanic elec- tions. The Communists demand “Uni- fied surface, ‘L' and subway, munic- {pally owned.” They demand the oper- ation of the traction lines thru special workers’ committees and the exist- ‘ing transportation unions of the trac- tfon employes, They demand the im- mediate removal of all public utilities from the ownership of private capital- ists, and confiscation of franchises by the city, The Communist candidates are pledged to work for direct manage- ment of public utilities, with workers controlling them, and the service to be conducted ‘for use and not for rofit. They declare that thru this means better service and a reduction of fare can be achieved. ment, defalcation 20.—The unem- | 35 BANKS FAIL IN SIX MONTHS WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—Thirty-five banks with approximate liabilities of $18,000,000 were placed in the hands of receivers between July 1 and Jan. 1, It was announced today by the treasury department. Causes of failures during the past year were given In official reports as heavy withdrawals, large losses, Injudicious banking, crop losses, bad manage- af officers, Inability to realize on loans, excessive loags and Labor Must Dispossess, Not Attempt to Buy Out Thieves of Capitalism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ToPAY: the treasury department at Washington informs the nation that 67 persons reported net incomes of more than $1,000,000 during the year 1922. This information is now two years old. Perhaps the government officials feared the shock of this news on the workers who engaged in the ' big strikes of this year, and on the million farmers who went bankrupt. But these facts are revealing just the same. This report shows the largest list of incomes in the million-dollar class since the war profit year of 1916, It far eclipses the 15 super-intomes reported for 1921. Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury, the Pitts- burgh millionaire, is himself one of the top notchers among these multi-millionaires, which also includes the two Rock- efellers, “John D.” and-“John D,, Jr.” with the two Fords, Henry and Edsel, heads of America's two richest families, . os: * These figures help put a crimp in the widespread pro- paganda of the subsidized-press to the effect that the mass- es, with their savings, are popularizing the control of great corporations, The post-election Wall Street financial boom is still being hailed as a great movement on the part of the millions, investing their money in the stocks of the great trusts not merely a gambling proposition. Not only the lower middle class, but also workers on a large scale, are urged to invest. Thus the banks of the Bro- therhood of Locomotive Engineers urge their depositors to, put their funds into railroad stocks, claiming this will be the means of putting pressure'to bear upon railroad directors in wage negotiations. It was in the year 1915 that the Commission on Indus- trial Relations made its report showing how helpless the masses are in the financial grip of the Wall Street money oligarchy. This was the year prior to the greatest number of incomes in the million-dollar class. This commission found: that: ' The contro! of manufacturing, mining and transporta- tion industries is to an increasing degree passing into the hands of great corporations thru stock ownership, and con- trol of credit is centralized in a comparatively small number of enormously powerful financial institutions. These fin- ancial institutions are in turn dominated by a very small number of powerful financiers, * * * © On this basis, supported by facts, this commission de-~ clared that the final control of American industry rests, therefore, ih the hands of a small number of wealthy and powerful financiers. Thus, in the case of the United States Steel dorporation, the final control pope Ay . sin, d ee Boh use. This i ite of the fact that this steel trust had, in , ttt sey shareholders. It is shown that one and one-half per cent of these stockholders held 57 per cent, or a voting majority of the stock. Similarly in the American Tobacco Co., the tobacco trust, 10 stockholders owned 60 per cent of the stock. This is true of every other great trust. * * * ®@ It might be well to restate some other facts for the benefit of those workers who are being lured by their offi- cials into believing that they can buy out the trusts. Ten ears ago, before the wealth of the nation was doubled, six inancial groups and affiliated interests employing 2,651,684 wage earners, had a total capitalization of $19,875,200,000. These six financial groups controlled 28 per cent of the total number of wage earners engaged in the industries inves- tigated. The Morgan-First National Bank group alone controls corporations employing 785,499 wage earners. The lives of the men, women and children of the whole working class are therefore subject to the dictation of a relatively small number of men. This group gets smaller and smaller, as the power of the money oligarchy grows, Wall Street does not mind selling stock to wage workers, and white collar slaves of the middle class, during “good times’ at high prices, and then buying back this same stock at low prices during “bad mon That is part of the money- ng blood-sucking business. ae * even the ane elementary study of the capitalist system must convince the uninitiated of the impossibility of “buying out” this money power. Only the complete dispos- session of these capitalist thieves, who have already plund- ered labor too long, will suffice. The exploited workers and poor farmers must come to power thru their own Soviet State that will completely obliterate thru the might of the proletarian dictatorship, the whole capitalist system. te Today Adopts _| South Side Streets Senviieh’s Report on Filthy But Dever Oil Investigation Spouts “Sanitation” (Special to The Daily Worker) Mayor Dever denounced Canadian power interests at public meetings held thruout the city Monday night, to ask the war department to allow to withdraw a larger amount of water from Lake Michigan, “Chicago” is trying to get as much water as pos- sible out of the lake, but denounces attempts ofvother cities to do likewise. Mayor Dever spoke in the interests of sanitation, Dever said “Chicago” wanted the water, but did not say what business interests are hiding behind the municipal campaign for “sanitation.” e South side Negroes who have been endeavoring for a score of years to have Federal and other streets cleaned of debris and garbage are amazed at Dever’s sudden interest in “sanita‘ tion,” WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Seven months after the close of the famous ofl investigation the senate this after: noon gave its formal approval of the Walsh report flaying the Doheny and Sinclair leases and bitterly assailing former Secretary of the Interior Fall. The report filed by Senator Thomas J. Walsh, democrat, of Montana chief oil “prosecutor” was opposed by ad: ministration senators because of its attack on Secretary Denby and ite declaration that President Harding had acted “without authority by law,” in transferring the oil reserves from the navy to the interlor department. The report was adopted by a vote of 40 to 30. New to Remain, WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Postmast- er General Harry 8. New will remain in the cabinet after the fourth of March and all the immediate assist ants to him will also remain, it was announced at the White House today, New recently aided Coolidge to defeat the pay raise for postal employes. (hemes een Wednesday, January 21, 1925 | TRAIN KILLS FATHER OF FIVE OH WAY TO WORK AT DANVILLE DANVILLE, Ill, Jan. 20. — The Chicago bound Nashville limited on the Chicago & Eastern Iilinols rail- way due In Chicago at 10 o’clock a. m. early today struck and Instant. ly killed Bert Crane, a laboring man of Hillsdale, Ind., a was walk- ing northward on the tracks. A southbound freight train on the oth- er main track drowned the approach of the flyer. Crane was the father of five small children and was en- route to his work at the W. E. Dee brick plant when killed, Jansen Mocks at Constitution of the Carpenters’ Union (Continued from page 1) bers were not entitled to a working card, One of the defendants took the floor and asked if he would be allowed to make a statement. The president ruled that the meeting was not yet opened, ‘ Tne defendant then explained the whole case, telling of the fake. trial, how the secretary faked the record, that the officials of the local made a mockery of the constitution and in short, that there was no trial accord- ing to the laws of the organization. Another defendant read the affidavit signed by a majority of the trial com- mittee, which stated that the defend- ants did not plead guilty as stated by the lying secretary who acted as pro secutor, judge and jury. Caught In A Lie. The secretary got himself into a hole, when President Hutcheson re- quested information from him after the appeal against the “railroading” reached Indianapolis. The local satel- lite, in his letter to Hutcheson craw- fished on his first statement written into his faked report of the “trial” to the effect that the expelled mem- bers pleaded guilty. In his letter to the “czar” he stated that they admit- ted signing the anti-Landis award re- solution, which was the cause of their expulsion but denied violating the law of the union. Thus the secretary was proven a liar out of his mouth and in his own handwriting. After the defendants hed their say at last Monday night’s meeting they left the hall voluntarily, as the presi- dent declared that the meeting could not be held while they were present. Faker Under Charges. After the “expelled” members left, charges were preferred against the president on the ground that he vio- lated the constitution and presented in the usual manner. A motion was made that they také the usual course, which means that a trial committee would be elected at the next meeting. But the president who earlier in the evening had shown so much devotion to the constitution now showed his contempt for it by refusing to enter- tain the motion. Harry Jensen was on the job prompting his actors in the art of defying the will of the mem- bership. : The fakers have substituted the dic- tatorship of a few reactionaries for the will of the majority and evidently they have the assurance of Hutcheson that they can ride over the constitu- tion with impunity. Jensen's Strategy. The members of Local 181 are ex- hausting all legal avenues for redress of their grievances as well as their patience. The fakers evidently con- sider the constitution as a sort of bible to be interpreted in whatever way best suits the interests of High Priest Hutcheson and his altar boys, But there is a mit to human patience and it is only a question of time when the great majority of Local 181 will show the few crawling lickspittles of Hutcheson and Jensen that the rank and file intend to run their own union. The strategy of Jensen is to tire out the members, He hoped they would lose interest in the fight. But they are not of the type that can be bam- boozled. They know the fakers’ game and they are determined to fight to the finish—and win! Chicago Labor : * Joins in Huge (Continued from page 1) the principal speaker. Dan Stevens, who was the center of the recent fight in the local Trades and Labor As- sembly will open the meeting as chair, man. A splendid musical program has been arranged. At tonight’s Lenin memorial meet: ing in Chicago, the Young Workers’ League, which has co-operated in all arrangements for the meeting, will supply the music. Admission will be only 25 cents. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 20,— Regula- tion of the horse thief detective asso- ciations, now in operation largely as alleged adjuncts of the ku klux klan, is provided for in a bill introd the house by Representative r republican, Indianapolis, today. Stirring Revolution- ary Music will be furnished by the 20