The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1925, Page 1

NEW YORK EDITION Vol. Il, No. 21. pi wie § AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHEATY. (NFORTUNATELY, Myron Crozier, the 108-year-old barge captain who died in New York recently, did net have a nose for publicity, else he would have informed the public how he managed to live so long. But he hed friends who tell us that Crozier, who was a barge captain, had one in- fallible prescription for .every dis- ease, and it was strong liquor, When @moking among women became al- most universal, which came to pass when the captain was around nimety he deserted the weed, declaring that the luxury became the hall mark of bffiminity, His friends believe the eaptain’s early death is due to the difficulty of securing the right kind of medicine under prohibition. . t ee MPEROR WILLIAM SIMMONS, former chief gazook of the ku Inx klan, but now a retired emperor Om a pension, does not know how to stay quiet. He is a typical American L5 beige business man. Imperial Evans of the K. K. K. bought ‘out Simmons’s interest in the mor- ons and gave the original manager of the imbeciles a life pension of one thousand dollars a month. The em- peror took the money and considered himself free to start again. His next venture was the knights of kamelia, by which he proved that the women of the species ate quite as nutty as the male. They flocked to the order | 4m thousands. In order to retain a | monopoly on his graft, the imperial wizard, again bought out Simmons. eee you cannot keep a good man down. Here comes the ex-emperor with a new organization to keep this in the grip of white protest- It is labelled the “Knights of Fiaming Sword.” Most of the oth- (@ crazy titles are already in use. }Stmmons sent a copy of the constitu- ‘fegued a “royal proclamation.” ‘stead of inviting sapheads into the |“Imperial Realm,” Peter W. Collins, side kick of the David Goldstein, is again | aay og warpath peddling his rubbish | ‘on a question of which he is bliss- ignorant, i. e., Communism. “Pete's” claptrap went fairly well be- ‘ fore the war, but that great tragedy ! « a the eyes of millions of work- principal: visible means of support before the war was @ book called “The Nation of Father- less Children.” The war disposed of seven or eight million fathers and po- tential fathers and left millions children fatherless and millions o' Women husbandless. The capitalists ‘ whom Goldstein defended, were re- sponsible. That fact the cur could | ot deny, eee "Pras is now working for the ‘Knights of Columbus. His last ) public appearance was in East Liver- 4 (posl, Ohio, a hotbed of ku klux klan- vi which is the obverse of the me- \ }dal of which the Knights of Columbus 1 its brand of religious bigotry is reverse. Collins might defend the 1 religion as a substitute for } bwhat he is pleased to call “the evils of | Communism” under better auspices the Knights of Columbus.in view of what Bishop Gallagher of De- the | of the: Second International. 'T< | it seemed that international illiamson” to the. T= old reliable. potitieal’ idtot, | ‘quest “for power... The one . at ng | img’ Agure in this uprising Sieains ra THE REAL STORY OF HERRIN The DAILY WORKER is n vi bac nd of the struggle that has’ SM ‘seeking to undermine and weaken the | ri LENINISM IS WINNING STRONG G RIP ON THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS ae ; , By J. 0. BENTALL, , (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY.—Madison Square Garden, the largest andi- torium:in the United States, filled to the brim, with thousands turned away, echoing with the enthusiasm of 16,000 workers who had come to honor the memory of their best beloved comrade and revolutionary leader, Nikolai Lenin, creator of the Communist Party of Russia that overthrew capitalism and established a workers’ and Peasants’ republic, organizer of the Third (Communist) International that 'is cementing the working class of the world Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at 1 "| Galaide Ghuccce by nas, 3eoe'nte yew, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1925 NEW~s~...< MEMORIAL MEETING SHOWS Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER , ! Post OMes at Chicago, Hlinols under the Act of March 3, 1879. for 1925! 290 Published Daily | { Sunday by THE DAILY WORKUR ° <> PUBLISHING CO, Iild W. Wasvington. Blvd. Chicago, I. Price 3 Cents ij capitalists. raigé’ the ery of national strife. and, rad® differences, but when the worker derstand that their in- terests are the same they will all join hands.” _ League’s Austria Doomed; Dawes’ Germany Shaken; Placed a little boy of twelve on thé platform and nobody expected he would deliver an address to 16,000 people, until his voice rang, ‘Clear and loud so that every one hear, and the words, “bourgeois,” | p' t” ism,” “class @lidarity,” “Third Inter- ' “dictatorship” rolled And plainly as tho they ay use. Young Morris into one powerful body, that challenges the capitalist system and puts to rout all counter-revolutionists, pre- sented, on Sunday afternoon, the best answer to traitors lined up with the WORKER IS INJURED AS ARMOUR PLANT GOES UP IN SMOKE murderous crew of Abramovich and the ‘Second (socialist) International. That a year after his death, Lenin stands out as the one bright star of hope and the living embodiment of every principle that points to work- ing class emancipation, was clearly WORTHINGTON, Ind, Feb. 3— apo nye Pa this aga ec Armour and company’s packing ipped by the emotion of the hour thin. vast: throng. gtebding: p-ae.the plant here was destroyed by fire to- first number of the program, “The In- day with a loss of approximately ternational,” was rendered by the | $225,000. While fighting the fire, Freiheit Singing Society and the com-| Carl Kaiser, an employe, was seri- ously injured when an ammonia tank exploded hurling debris high into the air. ( The plant, consisting of a five- story frame building and a two-story brick annex, was a center for poultry packing in this district. About 1,000 bined Freiheit and Hungarian Work- ers’ Symphony orchestras, manifest- ed the power of a never dying Lenin- ism that advances with renewed ergy as the days and years go by. The demonstration reached its cli- max when C. E. Ruthenberg, national secretary of the Workers Party, just released from the Michigan state pris-| dressed poultry were destroyed, on, was introduced and took his place, | —————————$—$___ the nyproorepel table. It is risen sleep peacefully when we pronounce any man ever receiv: 8 hearty an ovation in this yast, audi-|‘%° ame, Lenin. Here we are tell- torium as this true champion of the ing them that the Red army is alive, working class, when wave after wave | millions of Communist youth are be aed et ga as of jalive; the Third International is alive. “The nation: starting in 4) Abramovich is a dead one! The czar dozen groups, swelling into ‘one great |i, dead. Capitalism in Russia is anthem of the sixteen thousand work- | joa.» ots who could nos be subdned in their! Jack statchel of the Young Work- effort to show appreciation of ers’ League, spoke on “Lenin and the thefr released comrade. Revolutionary Youth, “Prisons only steel the will and de- termination of the workers to. great- er effort,” was Ruthenberg’s first sen- tence. “We have had many upris- portant element in the working class was the young, for when others grow ings and revolutions in the course of acne ak oo a a ee sad hi history, when oppressed peo- ple hae endeavored ee Lenin Knew Power of Youth. ty eet n R Hot" mulated the first scientific program, |Tialst*war. Lenin taught that paci- "based on a clear analysis of the capi: |fsmviilk not a workers’ slogan, but talist system, and in 1917 this pro-| ar by’the workers for the workers gram, won its first victory and stood | ®aimst'the oppressors. Mobilize the the actual test of a living fact. children and inspire them with the “Lenin showed,” Ruthenberg went |SPirit.of Lenin. First we must have on, “that the working class must ‘be |@-Party, then the Young Workers’ organized on the basis of the every- League, and as important as these are day struggle. The first. great step | the juniors.” must be to establish a proletarian| Olgin who spoke in Jewish was state. Capturing of capitalist parlia-|heartily received, and pointed out ments cannot bring working class vic- | that when the workers in Germany tory, There must be @ new form of | 0d the workers of Poland and of all use of the workers in power, the Sov- | °rganized and disciplined, they can iet form which Lenin helped to es- | Win against the capitalists. He show- tablish in Russia. To gain.'this the | how the workers in every walk of revolutionary workers must ally them- | life and in every part of the globe selves with all producers, workers in| have taken Lenin as their friend, the shop and farmers in ‘field, the | Comrade and leader. Filipinos under capitalist imperialism Katterfeld Speaks for “DAILY.” and the Negroes under cepitalfst ex} 1. E. Katterfeld, New York agent ploitation, for the DAILY WORKER, reminded “A movement based on science and | the audience of the significant words conscious understanding \ehallenges | of Lenin when he said, “The most im- capitalism in the United States. It/portant weapon of the workers in broke down and destroyed: capitalism | America is a Communist Daily in the in Russia and will do the same in| English language.” “We can honor every country on the globe.” Lenin best by our hearty support of Lenin Still Leads. the working class press, and the “Tho dead, Lenin is still leading,” | DAILY WORKER is now here to be said-Ben Gitlow, chairman, in his| Used 4nd spread. It is on the news opening remarks. “We are living in| stands in New York and all workers the most imperialistic period of capi-| should buy it,” said Katterfeld. talism,” he went on, “but we are also |. was represented splendidly fe ‘ ishimura, who told of the Lenin in Japan, and said only Japan is accepting Com- fast but China and the islands sea are coming on rapidly. ‘Whénever the working class takes |, fight,” said Nishimura, “the New International Created, member what happened ten years ago, the year of the ‘trayal ‘of ‘the workers by government that lends itself to the |other countries get their Red army, up F' RKERS OF NEW YORK DECLARE. __ SOLIDARITY WITH RUSSIAN LABOR Tho resolution adopted at the Lenin Memorial mvoting in New Y¥ . 1 b. 1, at Madison Square Garden, was us followse _ bg well as two groups of the women’s | ®t on the first: workers’ republic, | and editor ot the Sans Fil, signs an Whereas, this first anniversary of the death of Nicolal Lenin marks the [labor bureau, No, 2, and No..6. ‘The |*0!d that, “Peters evidently read only | orticte, in which he stats pointblantt Both Face Money Crisis ilies to che the ta COOLIDSE MAY REWARD AUSTRIA, WHITE GERMAN CABINET tralized the organiza- (Special to The Daily Worker) unist movement and 4 WASHINGTON, * Feb. 3.—Hoenry rty in Russia function lo- q E Ford's offer to work with the govern: a a gically and Water organized the Com- ment in. the development of Muscle munist Ini ional which gives di- Shoals for the production of nitrates rection and ites the policy of all League Laboratory Up| cu vy restseu costars, « wes | Lather Gave Millions to »Charles trict No. 2, W how Lenin tion of the made the Communist 4 He contrasted this with th inctions of the Second ° declared officially at the White House o ye ich Was merely a for Auction this*afternoon. Indastrialists mail was exchanged Officials said that the president was a id complaints iodged, (Special to The Daily Worker) not familiar with the details of Ford’s (Special to The Daily Worker) He called )all the workers to join VIENNA, Feb. 3.—Austria is about| offer, but that there was “a possibili- BERLIN, Feb, 3.—The Kaiserite gow the Workers "Party, the Communist ls pyt up the shutters and go into| Y that the government micht find 0c-| somone of Hane Luther is ne. sooner Party of America, based on the prin- mourning. As an independent nation, casion to take advantage of it, in office than it finds itgelf involved ciples of Lenfnism. Nina Gui ‘a, dramatic soprano, won the 1 with her pleasing selections, @ the Fretheit Singing this creature of the league of nations na scandal surpassing even that of 3. wre ental ‘ is a ghastly failure. the famous Barmat case in which the The league has decided that keep- . social democrats were proven to have ing Austria as an independent repub- ‘ extended state credits to an enter+ Society the mass of people iio fe-ont . ‘ had been one of i ly a waste of good money and prising concern that ha ee with'so musi thusiasm that nothing they are looking around for a pian to the socialist party’s most generous would. stop: the ‘ap- get the white elephant off their hands. financial supporters. — the io of th rs Dr. Zimmerman, the league’s dicta- What the Lutherites are charged hi ea Sian fs at tala TS | tor, admitted that despite the financial with is having turned over the gigan — is hese * ede jugglery practiced by the committee tic sum of $150,000,000-—-almost ag evidenced’ pthe fine contpliments of international bankers that owns # much as was loaned to Germany unde? om a Lente Wenge: and Austria, a financial crisis cannot be is . the Dawes plan—to the big industrial eh Lhe : averted. Financial ruin is around the ists of the Ruhr in compensation fos Gotey Sg ge wth i ge corner. RE Rs their losses under the French occupa How to avert the crisis is the big i i: tion. well ss Political prisonars question. Some favor annexing Austria Communist Legislator These payments were made, whea repeal of Be paktp lnm tired to Germany. This plan has the sanc- Introduces Sab ject Luther| was finance minister and Syndicalist JAWS. ‘ion of the socialdemocrats and the J Stresemann was chancellor. The re catholic party, both strong factors in (Speciat to The Dally Worker) publican papers and particularly the Austrian politics. ‘ The second proposal is that Austria become a member of a union of Danubian states. The third an Italian protectorate. Owing to the jealousy between the powers, agreement as to the disposi- Communist press is demanding BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. 3— that Luther and Stresemann be tried The resolution of ‘A. C. Miller,|before the supreme court. It is um likely, however, that anything of the the Communist, asking for ca tan slaoe recognition of Soviet Russia by : Compensating the Plutes. this country was discussed in : 1 to b tion to be made of Austria is difficult. “4 THe BAXmeRts, were. supposed to be of is }imade in accordance with the goverm ve ssian. sien ome tat pega bs Thsaeg Man By ein Mment’s decision to gompensate the em» "8 deficit for tno year 1924}league” representatives were wis $200,000,000 andthe) banks refuse | clear! to lend any more moneys Austria is a stronghold of sociakdemocracy ‘and was. one of the boasted conquests of the Second International. during the passive resistance against in favor. @ proposal |tne French invasion. submitted by Miller, but lacked| Ail the beneficiaries under the pay the courage to support it in the | ments were members of the people's open.. Besides ‘Miller, Represen-| party or supporters of the extreme tative H. F. Swett, of Kidder jrisht. Hugo Stinnes, Fritz Thyssen, county, spoke in favor of the |the. Mannessmann group and Hert resolution. | D.°'L. Peters, of |Yom. Hoesch were among had bos * ones. ie coal trust receive: rf) peat Pistia te ALY bony Ari oot | 525,000; the chemical trust, $12,500, pl , Spoke agains id M | and the Rhine shipping trust, $11, a viva voce vote about twenty | 975,000. voted in its favor. Miller said that “twenty-one coun- tries, among them some of the leading SOVIET RUSSIA ms of the world, had already re- cosnized Soviet Russia and the United s is losing valuable trade to oth- SPLITS JAPAN er countries hecause ft refuses to deal with the Russtans,. The result is,” he continued, “that our factories are not working at full capacity, and in some instances, shutting down altogether, with thousands of workers in this| PARIS, Feb. 3.—The consumation country walking the streets looking | of the Soviet-Japanese treaty is canse for work ‘and getting into the bread; ing considerable flutter among the lines. Shiploads of tractors are be- | gentlemen of Versailles who look upon ing sent to Russia from Germany, | the league of nations as an instrument while we who are manufacturing the | especially designed to oppose Soviet best tractors in the world, cannot find | Russia and all it represents. 2 market for them.” Breaks ‘Up League of Nations Working Farmers Favor Recognition. ieneaa alt. Ria H. F. Swott, working farmer from which absorb French interest’ is the Kidder county, urged consideration of reported agreement by Japan not to the measure, sdying thet “Miller‘was | eac0 in. any hostile combitiation These are occupied every evening |!0oking at things in an international) yo oiost Russia. of the month almost, for outside of the | WaY And that he could ‘see tarther| ““y5an is one of the original mem: railroad brotherhoods, there are eight- | ‘han most of us. and Lam convinced,” | i206 of the league of nations:and as con locals meeting at the Labor Tem. | He sald, “that: there are communities | sn is bound by the articlos of tha ple, among them the teathsters, with |S! ovor North Dakota that are in'fa-| covenant to take part » with! other forty members, and the hodcarriers, | Vor of recognizing. Russi nations in the coercion of Russia Then we learned that “Hob” Lyons | Representative D. L..Peters showed should she engage in any actvof age was up from Des Moints last week | his utter ignorance of the subject ‘he gression against other members ‘of tha and lined up a few for a new cooks’) 95 trying to discuss, stating that! ioa-ue as for instance. the Baltiq and waiters’ local, Russia owes the United States $300,- states or Poland, t Farmers and Women defn Up. 000,000 which the Soviet. government But by this treaty the Japanese gov. ‘ hav repudiated. It is morally.wrong ernment seems to have accepted an Boone trade unions are ambitious | for any government to recognize a nel itn act estat, politieully, so practically all locals are | government founded on bloodshed and entire! .. gon iy ie eT eae represented in the legislative council, | murder,” he said. orried Over. vy, which is “non-partisan,” and extends Hyacinthe, Philouze, iatimate pers out into the county, with the aflllia- Hastily Yonstructed to Milk Visiting Throngs The building at 5830 Blackstone Ave., which burned down Saturday, snuffing out the lives of seven ten- ants, was ca@nstructed as a world’s fair building sin 1893, when present fire laws were mot yet passed, George Erickson, one of the tenants in the building, told:the DAILY WORKER yesterday. Even when: constructed thirty-two years ago, the ‘building was a flimsy fretrap, hastily constructed for worl¢ fair purposes, Erickson said. Old and in Bad Repair. The building was old, and badly re- paired, with faulty plumbing, worn wooden floors, inadequate fire escapes and small flimsy apartments, the testimony of the tenants revealed at the coroner's inquest yesterday. George Erickson, who rooms on the first floor, testified that he had to go thru a room stored with furniture tc get to his apartment. “None of the walls or floors: were well finishéd,’ Erickson, a mechanic, testifled. “The floors were old:and worn. There had been varnish atsone time but it was all rubbed off." B. Yaeger, ailaborer in a ware house, who occupied the apartment in he second floor,: told how his sister Mrs. Elizabeth: Pryor, was trapped on the third floor. (Contiriwed on Page 2.) It’s your paper—Build on it! BOONE, IOWA, TO HEAR ‘REDS’ FEBRUARY 12 (Special to The Daily Worker) BOONE, Iowa, Feb. 3.—A brief visit to this little town of 14,000 population, a farming, mining and railroad divi- sion center, reveals many things of interest. Perhaps the most remark- able is the many different crafts that have unions here, Hodearriers and Teamsters. Boone, being a railroad division point, all the brotherhoods have lodg- es. The miners have also got a local union that meets at the Boone Labor Temple. The temple is in the center of the town, and has two halls on the second floor. Upholds Soviet Before Legisiators. | sonal friend of Premier Herriot, ¢loses tion of four farmers’ organizations as | Miller, replying: to this ignorant as-| ly allied with the Herriot government, “ iy the. capitalist »papers. Time and/| that Russfa ceded a part of Sakhalin tarian’ nen Litters Hh pais Sy Vapenbcl ey pera & > oe against the first workers’ od mpg ea iy Sroup about | cain the Soviets have; offered to dis-| isiand containing enormous petroleum Then sounded the vo! 4 e i ot _per- Whereas, these enemies are tho will create a new international’ And| the colonial peoples, and the new international has been creat- Whereas, Soviet Ru: geols organizations tried to prevent) destroy her, is consolidating her fore- this meeting. You know their names.| es and broadening her influence, and It would be very bad if they could] Whereas, all the important govern- ments of the world realizing the im- portance of Soviet Russia for inter- national intercourse have been com- Pelled to recognize her, Be It Resolved, that we, the work- ers of New York City in mass meet- ing assembled, do hereby strongly mn those elements which are power of the first workers’ and pea- sants’ republics in whatever guise {they may appear, whether as capital- 4st exploiters, ezarist counter-revolu- ‘Houaries, or social’ c agents Rete Bo was/is) ‘ orkers | the agents of the bourgeoisie, and all oppressors of the working class and ganization, but all its affiliations are represents the hope of th r ed. We understand that seven, bour-} whole world and despite all attempts of * Se ae cunts of the | cuss the debt question and the coun-| deposits, to Japan in return for the World tteperialists, the ‘sostal: traitors, | Ts palieal council t8:@ Jogal, or} sain ot thm “Buaslane amounted | Texto government's pledge to conse to more than the whole dobt,” Miller | truct the latest and most formidable ee widledine ho nae ee said. “There was Bakimetiov,” he con-| warships for the Soviets. » ‘3 | tinued, “who for a long time repre- es peney an auxiliary to the state fed- herbed Cb ‘qth Set Rireudiy aor. H Will P Pad papa county legislative asso. |¢™?ment in this country and to whom | 4OUSC WWII Fro! of the Second International, and ie Boone 'y legicls this government paid $187,000,000 al Acts Be It’ Further, Resolved, that we | ‘i#tom, their full name, will also put | i415 money being’ used to pay capital- Alleged Mlegal A hereby doclare our full solidarity with |"? Candidates for election in the coun- |i. in the United States who had Of Illinois Judge the workers andi peasants of Soviet |‘ this spring. money coming from Russians in the — Russia, and pledge ourselves to sup-| Fire Fighters and Street Car Men. | cays of the czar, and much of this | WASHINGTON, Feb, %.—An investle port them wholeheartedly in their| Then there are two locals not usual-| vast sum was. also.used for counter- | gation into the allered official miscons struggle, and ly found in small towns, fire fighters | revolitionary Purposts, The farmers | duct of Federal Judge English, eastern Be It Further Resolved, that this |and street railway employes. Many | and the workers of Russia aro stand- district of Illinois, was ordeted meoting calls upon the United States | large towns cannot boast of such or- | ing solidly back of their government,” | by the house judiciary conimittee, — government to put an end to the bar- | ganizations, but apparently every | Miller added. © nb It will be made by a sub-committee ers now existing between the Sov- | craft that has a dozen workers {s or-| Many non-pantisan league represent- consisting of representatives Bofse, fot government and the United States, | ganized in Boone, atives congratulated) Miller upon his | Iowa; Christopherson, South Dakota; and to recognize the Soviet govern-| They have fairly good control on | talk. Hersey, Maine; Michener, Michi ment as representing the will of the |the job and now aspire to run the 37) republicans; Summers, ‘Texas; ' workers and peasants of that ier of the town and county. There} Subsdribe for “Your Daily,” | man, Arkansas, and Weller, New York, oy __ (Continued on page 4.) for the DAILY WORKER, democrats, the capitalist governments to < ? f ' ee loyers for-losses ‘sustained by- tieng ~