The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 3, 1925, Page 1

NEW YORK EDITION T Vol. Il. No. 19. AS WE SE. 2°", . $ By T. J. O'FLAHE, ** %° LAS o ae) 'HRIFTY France refuses t *,* 2“), ° " the rajah's ald to London * #% 7 extradition warrant. You don’t who the rajah is. Well, well, how getful people are! .The rajah, of so. place or other in India, but very ric, was the victim of an amorous plot conceived, hatched and-executed by an attractive female with the ald oi an. jrate husband. When the rajah thot he was entirely surrounded by friends, the door burst open, the hus. band appeared, the lady screamed an¢ said in the time honored way to the rajah:; “You big brute, etc.” Busines: of producing check book to soothe wounded pride of irate husband. see OW, this rajah had an aid de camp, who, instead of aiding the rajah, aided the blackmailers in separ ating the Hindoo prince from $700, 000. When the blackmailers wer: Placed on trial in London and the rajah was dragged into the limelight the British government insisted that the rajah should be known as “Mr A.” The British feared the effect of the scandal on its loyal subjects ix India. Getting back to Captain Ar. thur. He is an Irishman, and recol lecting that Ireland was now more or less independent, threw himself on the protection of the Free State and in- formed France to that effect. ue ie E did not want to be extradited to England. It happens that at this moment France needs cash very badly and her creditors are parked on her doorsteps. Whether Captain Arthur has $700,000 or note do not know but France insists that a citizen of the Irish Free state does not have t¢ leave France except of his own free will. It might also be remembered that the president of the Irish Free state was in France recently and gave expression to the joy that surged up within him at the recollection of the number of times the blood of Irishmen and Frenchmen was poured out to- gether against the common enemy England. He forgot 1914-18 when the three “bloods” flowed into the same sewer or. trench.. The probability that : itish blood is “the French refusal: to recognite an extra dition warrant. F > 2. 4 'HE Rev. Lawrence M. Hight, meth odist preacher, who killed his own wife and afterwards another woman's husband, has turned to rhyme. He hag written what he is pleased to call a poem and is offering it to the public No doubt it will have 4 ready sale. Ii is the “come-all-ye” type and blanc the devil for ail the preacher's trouble At ‘the risk of again offending the delicate sensibilities of the local kli grap of the ku klux klan, we cannot help observing that old nick seems tc put it all over on Jehovah in battler between the flesh and the spirit. G ee N army lecturer gloats over. the various kinds of poison gas avail- able for the next. capitalist slaughter feast. There are many kinds, some sc deadly that even a few whiffs of it would destroy whole armies. Unfor- tunately, however, it is impossible, to manufacture this extremely deadly gar in large quanitities. Pehaps if the militant preachers of the . church prayed patriotically to their God, he would perform the necessary mirack< and permit the nation with the most dollars to manufacture the ideal gas. The workers can rest assured how- ever that their demise will be nicely arranged for, tho it is a shame they must depend on mustard gas. which is not near so deadly as others. But then, there are explosive shells, dum dum bullets, liquid fire and other re. finements of civilization. Yes, and lots of preachers to sign your creden tials on your way to the great be- yond. If the capitalists do not sit uy nights worrying about providing us with the means of existence they don’t miss anything in their efforts t look after our exit. ae @ A HOBOKEN butcher recently cele brated his 105th birthday. When such an eyent takes place it is cus tomary for reporters and dieticians tc inquire of the victor in the struggle against the grim reaper how he did it | Sometimes one of these tough custom ers, as if they were on the payroll of a physical culture or “health” school | spins a yarn of life devoted to good works, plenty of exercise and absten- tion from spirituous liquors, indulg eyce in tobacco and polygamy. But the Hoboken butcher was an old sin ner and gave as the reason for his im mortality, the fact that he always did the opposite of what his doctor ad- vised him. When told to quit smok- ing on penalty of death, he selected ¢ stronann DEAAG Ot. tobeota. . * . llega He war warned against heavy meals bu De ee er tees cece te Oe (Continued on page 3) » SUBSCRIPTION RATES: «, WOEL READY (0 LEAD NEW In’ Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago. by mail, $6.00 per year. WAR ON SOVIET PREMIER CAB C0. British Minister Lies to Russian Envoy That a fresh military attack against Soviet Russia is in the course of preparation, is the view of the diplomatic corres- pondent of the London Daily Herald. According to the Herald, Wrangel’s troops, now in Bul- garia, are being reorganized and equipped for a fresh assault on che Soviet government in the spring. That an attempt to organize such an attack is contemplated, can be ga- thered from the recent flock of coun- ter-revolutionists who have arrived in America, These include the wives of white guard generals as well as the notorious yellow socialist Abramo- vich. Thé object, of the aristocratic visitors is to raise funds for the white forces, while the yellow socialists aim to poison the minds of the American workers against the Soviet regime. At the same time Emma Goldman is given columns of publicity in the London press, for her tirades against the workers’ government. The effu- sions of this parasite are cabled to America, from which she was deport- ed a few years ago. The following article throws light on the part played by British diplo- macy in the new combination. de- signed to overthrow the workers’and gel armies—one in each country. They will be under the control of their own officers. General Wrange! himself will commend in Serbia. Gen- eral Skouro in Bulgaria. The head- quarters will probably beat Pirot. In. Russian “white” circles here, in Paris, and in Berlin, no secret is made of the belief that these new armies are destined to take part in an attack on Soviet Russia in the spring. April or May is mentioned as the month in which operations are to begin. Reported British Moves. That in itself is serious enough. But even more serious for us is the persistent report that British diplo-) macy has played, and is still playing, an active part in this new war in- trigue. It is said that it was at the in- stance of Great Britain that the Serb (Continued on Page 3) CAMPAIGN, BEGUN BY COMMUNIST UNIONS, TO RAISE PAY OF ALL WORKERS, STIRS FRENCH NATION By CARL BRANNIN (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) PARIS, Jan. 21 (By Mail.)—After a long and bitterly contested struggle ORGANIZES FOR KU KLUX KLAN Letter to Its Employes Says Join or Quit The officials of the Premier Cab company, which is tech- nicaily a union taxi-cab con- cern, are members of the ku klux kian and are making .a drive to force every employe to either join the klan or lose his job, letters sent to employes of the company admit. The letter, which are unsigned, with the sentence, “This letter is to be re- garded as strictly confidential,” typed across: the bottom, are presumably sent out by officials of the Premier company. They are dated Indian- apolis, Indiana, where the nationa} headquarters of the company is locat- ed. The letters declare that “nig gers, foreigners, catholics and jew: will not be employed by the company.” They urge the employes to join the klan threatening to dismiss all em- ployes who do not comply. The letter, a copy which was brought in to the DAILY WORKER by an employe of the Premier Cab com- pany, states in full:— Letter Boosting the Kian Indianapolis, Indiana, December 20th, 1924. ess *: bigs a ‘ ¢apadity of Taxicab driver and hat it is his belief you are eligible for NATURALIZATIOIN asa 100 per cent AMERICAN and membership in our order which is composed of Amer- ican born, white Protestants. “We are aiding our Chicago Branch in their efforts to induct into the realms of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan every eligible employee of the Premier Company in your city. It is the desire that the Premier Company be 100 per cent American from the President down to the most humble employee and when ail are enrolled as members of the Klan we want to say not only to the people of Chicago, but ‘to the entire United States. We are 100 PER CENT AMERICAN. Our cabs are manned by 100 PER CENT AMERICANS and every male em- ployee is a good loyal Klansman. We do not employ Jews, Catholics, Nig- gers or Foreigners. Our employees owe their allegiance to their country, the United States of America and not (Continued on page 3) : E DAILY W Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1925 TT GUSTS TWO CENTS TO PRODUGE A LOAF OF BREAD FOR SALE BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 1.—Bread has been selling at two cents a loaf in a part of Boston, It is baked at Fort Strong and a @ixteen-ounce loaf selia at the quartermaster's sales stores at two cents, This price, ac- cording to the quartermaster’s de- partment is what it costs to make the bread. But—this not for the public. The bread is sole to members of the mil- itary, naval and coast guard serv- ices. t | Bosides this cheap cost of bread, potatoes are selling at 15 cents peck. With an organized Soviet government we could make and sell bread for even less than this and everyone could get it. WORKER BEATEN AND ARRESTED FOR UNION WORK Organized Shoe Factory a treare (Special to The DB Worker) ‘BROOK! N. Mildred Shoe Co., 108 St., Brooklyn, was fired, beaten up, and arrested‘ for trying to organize the shop. He is now under $200 bail. Olenberg joined the Protective Shoe Workers’ Union, and tried to get the rest of the workers =~ Probe Oni FIRETRAP TAKES SIX LIVES; CITY LAWS ARE JOKE Reveals Housing Plight of Chicago Workers The six members of working- class families who died in the firetrap blaze at 5830 Black- stone Ave. were sacrificed to the greed of the landlord and the neglect of the administra- tion of Mayor Dever to take care for the lives of Chicago’s working people. The loss of life in the bieze is the latest example of deaths of workers all over the country in firetraps thai violate city, state and national fire laws, Law Violated. The back doors were locked, in vic lation of the law, questioning prior tc the inquest that begins this mornin; revealed. There was only a thinlac der fire escape in the front, no fire es cape being supplied in the rear. Afte the fire started, the occupants of th« overcrowded house choked the fire escape and six died before they could force their way out of the bilding. Thirty-two Years Old. The wooden interior, dried fo thirty-two years, was so much tinder > Feb. 1.—|acting fire chief, Marshal Seyforlicls ; of|stated. The building was erected i: | 2893, during the year of t ply with firé laws enacted time. It was also found by firete: that the apartament house doors or ened inward instead of outward, in vi olation of the law. “Lack of proper fire escapes made the building a deatt trap” Seyferlich said. City Neglects Inspection, No inspection of the building ha¢ . world’s in the shop to join. Somehow | een made by the city fire inspector: the foreman of 'the shop caught |for four years, and buildings commis wind of this and informed Olen- |5!02¢", Frank Doherty, frankly admit berg that he was fired. ; ‘When he asked for explanation the foreman began to abuse, him. Olen- berg as a militant naturally would not allow himself to be bulldozed, and ted that the city is not safeguardins the lives of the millions of Chicago’: workers. The fire inspection in this city ic wholly inadequate he admitted. Doh. answered back. At this point the erty tried to lay the blame to the cit; Zoreman, knowing that he had the council saying, “We have only twent) “lew” and “order” of the city to inspectors to cover the entire city, protect him, began to beat Olenberg.| WV recently warned the city council But» Olenberg proved too much for | the danger of attempting to make the bosces tool, and the foreman did|{"SPection with this small force and not get,the best of it. Tho foreman |sked for 50 more men, but were re- naturally fell back on the “repre-| fused.” sentative of. law and order” and called a--policeman who arrested] Mayor Dever has promised the Olenberg. usual “investigation,” but it is being recalled that only a few months age a prea aye bay Joar: Seep 4 fire on Blue Island Ave. snuffed ou activity, and what is more as a result | ‘© lives of ten men, and altho an in- of the action of the foreman, many of vestigation was conducted ‘at that the young workers have had a chance; ‘ime no action was taken. to see the whole system of capitalist} Today, as alwa: hundreds 0° exploitation in all its nakedness; ‘and thousands of Chicago’s workers, fore will not be fooled any longer by the|°d to live in the worst of tenements sweet phrases of capitalist “de-|vecause of their smal! wages, are mocracy.” constantly in danger of a fiery death The Y. W. L. will have a good shop | because the over lords of the city care nuclei in this factory im a chortime,|nothing for the safety, comfort or Dever Does Nothing. Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. MORE ANTI-SOVIET WAI Deathtrap Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Price 3 Cents FACTS ORLD DAWES PLAN T0 CHAIN ALL EUROPE TO WALL STREET BEING DRAWN UP AT PARIS (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Feb. 1.—An international Dawes plan to take care of allied debts is in prospect for Europe. The same experts who drafted the Dawes plan, whereby Germany is made into a colony of American imperialism, are likely to formulate the “Dawes Debt Program,” according to Willis H. Booth, president of the international chamber of com- + merce and vice-president of the Guarauty Trust Co., of New G GED TEN York, One International Busy. Action to formulate a Dawes’ plan witl be taken this summer, Booth says, and would be the outcome of negotiations which the internacional chamber of cotamerce is now carrying on, he said. Lively comment in financial circles followed the newspaper announce ment that Booth was in France on a gemi-official debt mission. Booth made clear that he had not beén ‘sent to France by the American government for the specific purpose of negotiating a setiiement of the Tranco-American debt. Not Concerned with “Any Isolated Debt.” “The assumption in the newspapers that Lanrin Paris to negotiate the Franco-American debt is a regretable mistake,” said Booth. “I have abso- solutely no official mission here to perform. I am here only for the in- ternational chamber of commerce. The chamber will take up the entire inter-allied debt question as a whole. but I have no intention of entering into any discussion of any isolated (Continued. on Page 2.) LAWS SCORED BY CHICAGO LABOR Delegates Vote Against Resolutions Committee The delegates to the Chicago Federation of Labor yesterday overruled the recommendation of the resolutions committee and almost unanimously reaf- firmed the attitude of the feder- ation towards the criminal syn- dicalist laws and the workers indicted and convicted under their provisions, including the Communists.arrested by agents of the department of justice for attending a convention in Bridgeman, Michigan, in 1922. The resolutions committee which is a creature of Fitzpatrick and Nockels recommended that a resolution from Local No. 337 of the International Association of Machinists be “received and filed.” It protested against the action of the supreme court of the state of Michigan in up- holding the conviction of C. E. Ruth enberg, urging opposition to the crim Olenberg stated, as the League is at|lives of the workers of this city. present very popular among the Had No Chance. young workers, who saw the League} When battalion chicf, Horace Mc- member in action. (Continued on page 2) of more than six weeks the sardine cannery workers at Douarnenez on the coast of Brittany have their wage increase of 25 per cent. The women return to werk without any discrimination against the strikers. For night work they will receive double pay, The gain secured brings wages up to about inal syndicalist laws, which are di rected ageinst the entire labor move ment and calting on the workers tc demand pardon for Ruthenberg and 5.2 cents an hour or 52 cents for a day of 10 hours. The men relatives of the women cannery workers have gone back to their boats. Practically no fish were brought in during the strike. A gang of French fascists brought by the bosses from Paris provoked a quar- rel with men of the village and shot six of them. Thus far no arrests vhave been made for this crime. Communist Mayor Active. age er (the ) is $1.10 to $1.35 fhe ad offices ga). 08 ‘The y is provided by law killed | the country. ‘|chamber attempted unsucesstully to tion Bank | part in the strike of 1920, Since longer hours are required to provide a bare living at the curroat rate of ges, with food and clothing -high Bread is 644c a pound, su- gar 7%c, pork chops 35c, steak bbc, mutton 42c a pound, work shoes $2.35 @ pair. Rents are kept down by regulation and are relatively low, but the con- gention is very bad. The average bedroom is used: by several people. The cost of living is not fluctuating much, ' One of the last acts of the chamber of deputies and the senate. before -jadjournment late in December was an amnesty bill permitting a large number of political exiles to return to Communists the ‘the bill provide for the restora- of jobs to railwaymen who took portation of radical foreigners by the’ ine a fable there is consitler- a ¢ capitalist press, Ori aed Wana « 4 : etal, anew Wijae & ‘Weavers of the Dwight Manufacturing Co. in the Chicopee mill are striking against 10 per cent wage reductions affecting the entire plant. The tac- the recent roundup and de-|tory, employing 1,200 workers, 1s lean FIRST TEXTILE STRIKE ARREST . MADE AS STRIKES CLOSE MILLS (By Thi ted Press) FALL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 1.—' first arrest of a striker in the fight of the fine goods weavers and loom fixers of the Lincoln, Davol and Barnard mills against recently announced wage cuts is that of Charles Sahad for “disturbing the peace.” Pickoting strikers threw snowballs at automobiles carrying strikebreak- ing workers away from the Lincoln mill, The strike is in its third week and more than 700 workers are strik-¢————_—___________ ing at the two paca mills alone, Farmer-Labor Group PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Feb. 1. — A ter Communist in hi f the Elizabeth mills is th * 5 . Daan the perme ‘ot 20 doffers. ‘The Minr neapolis. Election cotton yarns plant employs 400. work- ore, MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 1.—At a meet- ing of the farmer-labor federation held January: 27, L. A. Roseland, Commun- ist, was endorsed as candidate for alderman of the tenth ward, The municipal election will be held in April of this year. Roseland will be running against George Guider, a re- actionary, the present alderman, SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. 1, — an a result of the 150 weavers’ A unlon orgenizer from New rd is reported on his way to or- “The Beauty and the Bolshevik’: Ie coming to Ashland Auditorium Feb. 8. se ttiet we Uh abe be lis comrades who may be corvicted later, in case the United States su preme vourt uphoid« the decision of the Michigan courts. Shows Resolution Important. When the reading clerk announced that the recommendation of tho reso- lations committee was to “receive and file” the resolution from Local No, 337 (Continued on page 2) HEAD OF KLAN SUED BY PITTSBURGH PAPER AS THIEVES FALL GUT PITTSURGH, Pa, Feb. 1.—The Daily Dispatch Publishing company, owner of the New Daily Dispatch here, today filed suit in the United States district court against Sam D. Rich, head of the K. K. K. in Penn- sylvania, for at least $620,000 for al- leged breach of contract in connec- tion with a stock selling arrange- ment concluded between th Paper and Rich and damages ed by the newspaper In connection with Rich's alleged breach of con- trast, Poh ate diame DENIED RIGHT 10 CRITICIZE JUDGE Jailed forWaging Fight Against Landlords (Special to The Dalty Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 1.— Captain Harry Allen Ely is to- day in the Tombs awaiting transfer to the penitentiary to serve a sentence up to three years for differing with a judge about the ruling in cases effect- ing the robber rents imposed on the tenants in New York. Fought Gouging By Landlords. Ely is the president of the Fredera- tion of ‘Tenants’ Associations of Greater New York, which S peer active for some time in fighting the battles of the gouged tenants and has been. suceessfui.-.in.mapy. .¢asas defending wronged members of the sssociations. This has so angered the landlords that they have decided to get rid of the meddlesome captain. To do this successfully they brought a case of libel against him in which Municipal Court Justice William J. A. Caffery was supposed to be the injured party, Conviction followed and the captain has been exempt from rent for a whole night and will be thus exempt. for upwards of three years, if the sentence stands. But Walter W, Ife, President of the Bronx Tenants’ Association, says no, He has called a meeting of several committees of different assoctattons and a fight is already a husky one, tho young. The fssue will be on free sneech and free press and, beside the workers who generally know the (Continued on page 6) ENVOY SPEAKS OF MATERIAL FRENCH DEBTS Little Matter of Four Billion Dollars (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Tha@ hope and expectation prevailed among administration officials today that France shortly will approach the United States with a definite, concrete proposition for the discharge of her $4,000,+ 000,000 war debt, No other interpretation, they sad, could be placed on the first official statement made in this country by the new ambassador from France, Emile Daeschner. In this statement, made to President Coolidge in person, the ambassador said France was “firmly solicitous of paying her material debt.” The acuteness. oi the Franco-Amer ican debt controversy could hardly have been more strikingly illustrated for it is unusual, if not unprecedented, for an ambassador to refer this point edly to an existing diplomatic problem at the moment he is presenting his credentials, France's “material debt” consists of slightly in excess of $4,000,600,000, rep. resenting $2,900,000,000 cash advanced by the United States treasury together with interest at the rate of 5 per cent tor approximately seven years, Subscribe for “Your Daily,” for the DAILY WORKER, a A Ly \