The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1925, Page 2

poi RA EE Page Two UNITED MINERS LEVY SPECIAL ASSESSHIENT Officials Say Treasury Needs Money (Special to The Dally Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 27. —The executive board of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, at its last meeting here. decided to assess every member of the organization $1.00 addi- | tional dues for the months of February and March. The money is needed accord- ing to a circular letter sent out to the membership, from the in- ternational office, to meet the} Papeeeee of the organization. The letter is signed by John L. Lewts, president; Philip Murray, vice-presi dent and Thomas Kennedy, secretary- treasurer. eee Members Surprised. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan. 25—Mem bers of the United Mine Workers here are surprised to learn from the circu lar letter from international headquar ters, that the international treasury needs replenishing, in view of the boast made by William Green at the last convention of District 12, on the strength of the treasury. Green stated | that the treasury was very strong. | What happened to the funds since | then? Were they used up in printing fake ballots and employing thugs tc | insure that Lewis and company were | properly counted in? “The Bronx” Rejects Abramo nl __Th es Re ee (Continued from page 1) * judge, August Claessens, so- alist clown and James Oneal, social- ist petty boss, Abramovich spoke for only a few minutes and had to stop abruptly. Morris Lunin, one of the members of the Workers Party, asked for the floor for ten minutes, to correct the false statements made by Abramovich, but was beaten and thrown out thru the fire escape. The traitors to the working class with thefr renegade, Abramovich at the head, who came here with the pur- pose of spreading falsehood about Soy- et Russia and the Communist move- nent received a hostile reception when they tried to speak. The hall vas stormed ‘with shouts for Soviet tussia and the audience refused to isten to Abramovich’s lies. Altho hundreds of people were attacked and many severely, wound- i, by the detectives and police, the orkers fought for their lives and houted “Down with the traitors.” n many corners of the hall there were pools of blood where gangsters had eaten up members of tne audience, incliding women and children. Near the ticket office were detec- tives and Forward officials who glanced over each ticket buyer, to see hat no class conscious worker was allowed to enter the hall. After ques- tions were asked them,.“Why did you come to the meeting?” and after being j examined they were admitted to the hall under the eye of gangsters, slug- gers and detectives. The Forward clique had prepared themselves for real bloodshed. They had murderers and drunken bandits wearing badges of socialist commit- teemen. On one side of the hall fs a large room. The underworld gunmen were here drinking and shouting that they would teach the Bolsheviks a lesson this time. As soon as the meeting opened, it could be seen that Money to Fight, Yes! Militant miners are willing to pay | the dollar assessment and can assure | tho international officers that the er | tire membership of the unfon will alsc | pay it willingly if they know that the | money will be used to fight the operat- ors and not to strengthen the Lewis | machine by placing another batch of | patriots on the payroll. If the money | is to be used to fight the operators | who have violated the Jacksonville | agreement, and to put on an organizing drive in the open shop territories there is mo doubt but the members| will be more than anxious to pay the assessment. Walter Nesbit, secretary-treasurer, of District 12, fas notified the locale that the old we pension plan, submit- ted to the meuybership in the recent elections was not carried by the necessary two-thirds vote in order to make it legally adopted in accordance with the provisions of the internation al constitution. Some stoolpigeons of the Farrington machine raised the ques. tion of the legality of levying the as- sessment and the international execu. tive board decided that it could not be legally put into effect. Make the Bosses Pay. The Farrington machine decided to resubmit the matter to another vote, knowing quite well that they cannot get the necessary two-thirds vote as the members are more interested in a fighting program that will bring them better wages than a scheme for which they must pay ont of their own pock- ets. The militants believe that the soal barons who have grown wealthy at the expense of the sweat of the miners should be made to pay for old age pensions and not the workers themselves. Farrington wants to get out of the old age pension plan so he got one of his henchmen to appeal to Lewis. He is a pastmaster of such tricks. something was about to happen. It could also be notice that the gangsters were ready to start as soon as the orchestra started to play. Traitors Welcomed with Hisses. ‘When the chairman, J. Boskin, gen- eral secretary of the Workmen’s Circle, started speaking, at the same time, Abe Cahan, editor of the For. ward, Abramovich and a few more form. They were welcomed by the audience with a big boo that raised the roof. After that, the audience was divid- ed into two battling camps. On one side the gunmen, with “socialist” badges, and thugs of the underworld and the police, and on the other side, the workers. The workers were shout. ing that they would not let a counter- revolutionist make his nest with the Jewish workers here. Cahan Is Hissed. When the chairman introduced Abe Cahan, hisses and booes rang thru the hall for several minutes, The gang- sters, armed with clubs and knives, and using their fists, attacked the audience. Chairs were fiying, and the electric lights in the rear were turned out. The police filled the hall. Many women got hysterical and fainted, and the yellow gang on the platform, fearing for their lives, sent for the police with a captain at their head. “We'll Treat "Em Rough.” The captain came and stood by the platform, and ordered the committee- men to get out. He said, “We will treat rough any disturber.” But this helped very little. As soon as Abram- ovich started to talk, he was interrupt- ed by shouts: “You are a traitor. You support the counter-revolution.” The meeting was repeatedly inter- rupted and one after another the yel- lows on the platform asked for mercy and asked the audience to quiet down. An answer came from the crowd. “Take out your hired sluggers and slaughterers.” The mass booed and shouted, rap- ping with their chairs, ealling to Abramovich that he is Schefdemann’s and Noske's friend. They shouted “Your hands are still filled with the blood of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. You want to kill us like you did Liebknecht and Luxemburg,” the crowd shouted. The hall was turn- ed into a real battleground. Scratched faces and black eyes were seen everywhere. The big crowd walked out of the hall in a mass demonstration for Sov- fet Russia. As they marched out they sang “The International.” Shouts were heard, “Down with the traitors,” “Long live the Soviet Republic,” “Long live the Communist Interna- tional.” yellow socialists came up on the plat- BLDG. TRADES COUNCIL GALLS SCHOOL STRIKE Open Shop Architect to Blame The Carl Schurz high and the Grant elementary school construction jobs are tied up by a strike order of the Building Trades Council over the open shop supervisory architect of the board of education, Edgar W. Martin. All crafts are called out. Expectation is rife that the strike will spread to the other twelve schools now under construction and Martin, who is cordially hated by all real union men, is, by his favoring of scab building contractors of the “Landis award,” going to be the one responsible for the continued over- crowding of the schools by blocking the new construction work. The buildings struck are supposed to be ready by September and to furnish a part of the seating room for the then expected excess of 120,000 children, of whom 100,000 are now not taken care of. WORKERS’ BOOK WANTS are quickly, accurately and satisfactorily filled at Jimmy Higgins Book Shop The book you want, (and often cannot get elsewhere) the paper you want to read, the magazine you would like to see or buy—can in most cases be shown you at once. And if we haven't what you want, we can get it quicker than the next one—because we like to please our custom- OUR SPECIALTIES: Radical and Communist Books, Pamphlets and Periodicals (of both the American and British labor movements) Scientific, Historical & Philosophical Works Modern Fiction and the Classics Write us, phone us or visit us. No order too large, and none too small to receive our serious attention. Jimmy Higgins Book Shop 127 University Place (Just off Union Squi New Yo jare at 14th Street) rk City Phone Stuyvesant 6015 (This book shop is a Workers Party institution.) AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) the play is still running (to crowded houses in Moscow. Izvestia, the offi- cial organ of the Soviet government published Shaw’s letter in full, and took it quite mildly. The Russians think as much of Shaw as they ever did. That is, they think, that as a Marxist he is a good vegetarian. sn FEW paragraphs that appeared in this column under date of Jan. 14, got under the hide of the editor of the Klan Kourier, which is publish- ed in Washington. selected for the attention of the night THE DAILY WORKER CARPENTERS FOR SQUARE DEAL TO THEIR MEMBERS Local 181 in Demand for Reinstatement The members of Local No. 181 of the Carpenters’ Union are determined that their broth- ers who were railroaded with- out trial by the local officials on the instructions of Harry Jen- sen and “Czar” Hutcheson” are going to have a square deal. This was demonstrated at a meeting of the local last Mon- day night when a resolution signed by a majority of the members present protested against the expulsion of five members without trial and in violation of the constitution, The resolution says in substance that the offense of the expelled mem- bers was in signing a _ resolution criticising the Chicago agreement as being against the interests of the union and having it adopted by Local No. 181 and sent to the general con- vention in Indianapolis. Mlegally Ousted. That the members were expelled over the protest of the membership who were denied a vote on the mat ter, the president first declaring them suspended and the records afterwards being doctored to read “expelled.” That the majority of the trial com- mittee has signed an affidavit declar- ing that the report of the chairman of the trial committee submit- ted to the membership was not the same as the one agreed upon by the trial committee in session; that the report was a distortion of the facf, as the defendants did not plead guilty as reported by the chairman of the trial committee. The resolution demands that the five members be immediately restored to full membership and given a work- ing card, and that President Hutche- son be requested to compel the of- ficers of the local to live to the constitution. The five “expelled” members came to the local meeting last Monday and took their seats as usual. When the password was taken, and the an- nouncement made that everything was in order to open the meeting, the chairman stated that thee Were five’ expelled members’ in the hall, and that the seasion could not open until they left. One of the defendants asked if the decision of the international president on the matter was yet received. Hutcheson had this appeal for a month, but it appears he is*too busy expelling members in Detroit, Phila- deiphia and other cities to have any time to spare in providing trade union- ists who incur his anger, with work- The paragraphs |ing cards. Another expelled member stated shirt editor dealt with the amorous |that the only thing in order was to misadventures of a minister of the proceed with a@ trial of the five mem- gospel, who happened to be of the fe-| bers, who were never tried legally and male sex, and the husband of anothe: woman, whom she seduced; the rela tions of a prohibition enforcement agent and a school teacher. Comment was made on these items not out of malice for those involved because they happened to be of the protestant faith but because of the growing effi- never convicted. There was no reason why the five members: should leave the meeting, he declared. They were neither tried nor convicted. They were perfectiy willing to leave if the members so decided. : Jensen Howled Down, About this time Harry Jensen came ciency of satan who seems to take a|running up to the front and shouted devilish delight in putting temptation | that this “is not @ Bolshevik meeting” in the way of his rival’s earthly ag-|and ordering the chairman to either ents: clergymen and reformers. my as: © | off the reel that the writer gets his daily instructions by radio from the Vatican and cites as evideticellin support of this contention (besides my Hibernian cognomen) the follow- ing argument: “It is regarded by real Americans of Chicago as passing strange that O’Flaherty’s column con- tained no mention of a Roman catho- lic priest who was shot and killed in the act of entering a house in Web ster Groves, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, some months ago, It is known that agents of the knights of Colum- bus foreed an entrance to the morgue and stripped the skin from the finger of the dead priest in an attempt to prevent identification. The priest van- ished mysteriously from Virdun, Ml. and positive identification was estab lished by neighbors who had known him for many years.” see HE DAILY WORKER has often stated that the ku klux klan was collection of morons organized by un- scrupulous money sharks, This or ganization is sometimes used by the employers wherever it serves thetr vurpose. The above quotation is the sraziest piece of rubbish ever con: ceived in the diseased brain of a relig- {ous fanatic. It is offered as proof of our contention that klansmen are psychopathic subjects. See “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” at Ashland Auditorium Feb. 5, open the meeting or close it. The chairman, obeying Jensen's orders, Klan Kourier assumed right meekly declared the meeting ad- jJourned, but as he had not declared the meeting opened yet it was rather difffeult for it to be adjourned. The membership howled Jensen and the chairman down. An old-time member of the local and a former ex-president took the floor and said that while he ms not in love with the defendants, he be- leved in everybody getting a fair trial, So far as he could see, this was @ case of railroading the defendants and he was opposed to any such policy, The resolution was signed willing- ly by the members present. The fight against the expulsion policy of Jensen and Hutcheson will be carried to other locals thruout the country. What is taking place in Chieago, in Local 181, is but part of a policy of expulsion that is being put into effect by Hutche- son all over the country, The members of Local 181 are de termined that their officiais must live up to the constitution and laws made by themselves, Until they do this the Jensen lackeys in Local 181 will find themselves confronted with the hos: conspiracy and corruption while head tility of the membership, eternal Attack Germans in Jugo-Slavia. . BELGRADE, Jan. 27—Assailants believed to be government supporters were sought by police today after an attack on Doctor Kroft, leader of the {on in Washington in 1922,” he said. German Jugo-Slav Party. Kroft was |“Thompson-Forbes-Mortimer! Corrup- seriously hurt, as were two friends |tion, bribery, Langley booze! who wore accompanying him home}you this case strikes at the founda from a political meeting, “He (Lenin) Lit Up with a Powerful Light the Whole of the Path Ahead of the W Meeting Next Sanday Afternoon at Madison European News Shows Socialists Active Wing of Capitalist Reaction By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL TOPAY. as always, murderers do not like to be confronted with their bloody deeds. That is one reason why the “socialists” howl so furiously when faced with the criminal deeds of Rafael Abramovich, whom they have brought into their midst. Abramovich, coming to the United States as the ally of American “socialists” clearly reveals the alliance of Hillquit and Cahan with the would-be hangmen of the successful bolshevik revolution of the Russian workers and peasants. Abramovich becomes the connecting link, if one is necessary, between the American “socialist” counter-re- volution of words, and the European counter-revolution of deeds against the first workers’ republic, * Cd « Abramovich is in the United States as the spokesman of the Second (socialist) International; the international of war ministers and capitalist jingoes poisoning the working class by their presence in its ranks, The blood on the hands of these “socialists” was not only drawn from the veins of the working class to redden the battlefields of the world war; but it Is also the blood of the Russian workers and peasants slain after the war in de- fending their revolution against world imperialism. It is the blood of the hundreds of thousands of martyrs in almost every land, of the world social revolution, victims of the in- ternational reaction. ° e ° e Two items in the day’s news unmask the “socialist” breed that has sent Abramovich to the: shores, and that has received him and is sponsoring his meetings in the United States, bg Readers of the DAILY WORKER are already familiar with the barbarous terror that was recently invoked against the Communists of Esthonia, one of the Baltic states border- ing Soviet Russia. “Socialists” are members of the Estho- nian government that arrested 149 Communists, many of them deputies elected by the workers and peasants; that ordered a state of siege in order the better to carry out its bloody tyranny and that later sent to the gallows some of the most prominent and self-sacrificing and therefore the most dangerous of the Communists. This was done against the protest of the Communist international and the Russian Soviet government. This Second (socialist) International of Vandervelde, Noske, Ebert, MacDonald, Thomas and Scheidemann went thru the gesture of asking the Esthonian “socialists” to ac- count for their murderous alliance with Esthonian capital- ism, the agent of British-French imperialism. Here is the outspoken reply of the Esthonian “socialists”: “WE DECLARE ALL THE ACTS OF THE GOVERN- MENT TO BE JUSTIFIED, AND ALL MEASURES OF THE GOVERNMENT TO BE NECESSARY AND DICTATED FROM REASONS OF THE SAFETY OF THE REALM. FOR THE SAME REASONS WE VOTED FOR THE HANDING OVER OF POWER TO THE MILITARY AND ENTERED THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF HELPING IT IN ITS STRUGGLE AGAINST COMMUNISM.” Thus the Esthonian “socialists,” spawn of the Second (socialist) International, confess themselves the eager ally of the military fascist dictatorship that rules in Esthonia only because of the support it receives from West European capitalism. Similarly in Hungary under the fist of the Horthy terror. Even those socialists driven from their homes by the Horthy dictatorship, that has imprisoned and murdered tens of thousands of workers, are now raising their voices against the latest treason of the Hungarian “socialists.” These exiles in Vienna, Austria, complained to their Second (socialist) International of the treason of the Hungarian “socialists” tolerated by the Horthy regime, who are freely working with Horthy’s premier, Bethlen, and co-operating with the Horthy government. It can be depended on that the Second (socialist) International, that sends the enemy of the Soviet Republic, Abramovich, to the United States; that condones the alliance of the “socialists” with the fascisti in Esthonia for the war on Communism, will also find a way of excusing the pact between the Hungarian “socialists” and Horthy, the hang- man of the Hungarian working clase. But the workers in all of these countries will fight this alliance. They will overthrow it, just as they did in the Russia of Kerensky, to create the Russia of Lenin. Even America’s workers will successfully combat this alliance. Not only Abramovich, the agent of the Second (socialist) International, will be repudiated, but all those responsible for bringing him here, including the Hillquits, the Cahans, the Weinbergs, the Pankens and all their breed. Even the most humble worker and poor farmer will in time learn what these “socialists” really are; these “‘so- cialists” who so loudly protest when toilers from the rank and file dare interrupt their bloody and murderous program. The storm raised by workers at the Abramovich meetings is a healthy sign indicating that even American labor is on the right road to its final emancipation from capitalism and its “socialist” lackeys, Forbes Prosecution No Help from Coolidge, White House spokesman today Tho trial of Charles R. Forbes for |f the recent statement of of the United States veterans’ bureau revealed a “seam of dirty intrigue seldom depicted before a jury,” Ralph F. Potter, one of the government law- yers, told the jury yesterday. “It is an ugly picture of what went the health of its population, Earthquake in Norway. I tell tions of the integrity of the nation.” ‘The damage was inconsequential, Square Garden. Sean a ae ced President Coolidge’s ut orsemat of war Weeks in which he charged the law, the city meanwhile taking Chicago to comply immediately with OSLO, Norway, Jan. 27—~Many in- habitants of the Nummedal district of Norway fled their homes when two earthquake shocks were felt there, according to advices received today. orking Class.”—N. Y. Memorial ie, a a ry) RUTHENBERG IS WELCOMED BACK FROM MICH. PEN. Served Three Weeks; Out on Bail C. E. Ruthenberg, national executive secretary. of the Workers (Communist) Party, was back at this desk in the na- tional office of the party yester- day after serving three weeks of a three to twelve year sen- tence in Jackson, Michigan pen- itentiary. Ruthenberg was released trom Jack- son prison at twelve o'clock, Monday, after the writ of supersedeas issued by Justice Louis Brandeis of the United States supreme court had gone thru the hands of the supreme court of Michigan. George Maurer, secretary of theLe bor Defense Council brot the order to release Comrade Ruthenberg signed by the clerk of the Michigan supreme court at Lansing, to Jackson. Com- rade Ruthenberg was then released on $7,500 bail pending an appeal to the United States supreme court. Ruthenberg worked for nine days as ,}@ clerk in the aluminum shop. For his nine days work Comrade Ruthen- berg was given $2.49 as pay, which he has donated to the Labor Defense Council for the defense of the other Communists arrested in the raid on the Bridgeman convention in August 1922. Donates “Wages” to Defenee. “As clerk in the aluminum shop I earned the sum of $2.49 for my nine days work,” Comrade Ruthenberg told the DAILY WORKER. “Since the state of Michigan has caused the Com- munists considerable expense it is but proper that it donate something for the defense of the Communists. Therefore I am turning this sum ove: to the Labor Defense Council to go toward the expenses of defending the other Communists arrested under the Michigan criminal syndicalism law.” All Day In Cell, During the first week of imprison: ment Comrade Rathenberg was locket in his cell for 24 hours a day under. going what is known as “quarantine,” Comrade Ruthenberg told the DAILY The convicts working under the Michigan state prison industries mak« sometimes as low as fifteen cents pe: day, Comrade Ruthenberg declared The piece workers, by working a’ breakneck speed, sometimes make ai high as two dollars per day. THE CLASS IN ECONOMICS TO BEGIN TONIGHT Find Footprints of Dinosaur. BRIONI ISLAND, Italy, Jan. 27- footprints of a prehistoric anime be of the Dinosaur family, twenty by fitteen inches, They hav been found in the mud i several parts of the islands, When you buy, get an “Ad