The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1925, Page 2

Page Two JENSEN TACTICS FAIL TO KEEP QUT BILITANTS THE DAILY WORKER ANMESTY GRANTED. FORMER EREMIES BY SOVIET RUSSIA ROSTOV ON DON, Russia-—Am- nesty has been extended to all those HEROIC DRIVER TELLS STORY. . OF RACE WITH DEATH IN WILD BLIZZARD TO SAVE NOME VICTIMS By GUNNAR KASSEN. NOMB, Alaska, Feb. 3-—My big black dog Balto must get all the credit as far as my part of the journey goes. SOCIALISTS IN MILD QUARREL WITH HERRIOT Chicago Journal Was Not Turned Over To Its Employes by the Owner who during the elvil war allied * 5 In the long trek across the snow covered and blizzardy trail {t was Balto’s| themselves with the Wrangel and Against Him on Papal a eyes that saw when human eyes failed. Deniken anti-Soviet army, Premier Compromise Balto ts the leader of my 13 black Siberian malamutes and I do not| Rykoff announced at the first con- Local No. 181 Demands Me That Hutcheson Act Harry Jensen’s strong arm men falled to prevent the illegally expell- ed members of Carpenters’ Local Un- lon No. 181, from attending thelr un- lon meeting last Monday night. The rank and file insisted that the raib| roaded militants get Inside and so they did. As usual, the chairman refused to open the meeting until the expelled | members retired, but as those mem- bers have been illegally deprived of | their membership and consequently | of their means of livelihood at their | trade, they refused to comply with the autocratic chairman’s orders. He was acting under the instructions of | Harry Jensen, local satrap of “czar” Hutcheson. “Hutch” Is In Florida. | It Was learned at the meeting that | Hutcheson is now enjoying the balmy breezes of Florida, and has no time to comply with the demands of Local No. 181, that he give a speedy de- cision on the appeal from the ruling of the chair in expelling the five mem- bers. . The meeting did not open until 9:30 p.m. The chairman wanted to “ad- journ” the meeting before it opened, but the rank and file insisted on do- ing business. When the chairman decided that he had better open the meeting, a motion was made demanding that Gen- eral President Hutcheson of the in- ternational give a speedy decision on the appeal from the illegal ruling of the chair in declaring the five mem- bers expelled without complying with the laws of the brotherhood. Jensen ts Furious. The chairman consented to put the motion, despite the frantic appeals of Harry Jensen, who raved around the platform and tried to incite others to use violence. He was advised by the indignant members that if ne started any trouble, they would see it thru. He therefore, calmed down and was chagrined to see the motion pass- ed unanimously, The members are extremely angry over the cold-blooded manner in which the general president refuses to consider their appeal for justice for their fellow workers and they are more determined than ever to see that the officials are not going to make a laughing stock out of the laws of the organization. Report-30 Drown in Wreck MARSBRILLES, France, Feb. 3.— Thirty passengers and members of the crew of the steamer Saigon were drowned when the vessel foundered, according to captain of the steamer Jerusalem, which docked here today. THUGS, TAKE _ NOTICE! You can generally know a thug By the nose upon his mug. These gangsters, you can plainly see Are ready for some de- viltry. The gatman with the bright red nose Is sure some pippin; to- night his toes Will slide along the pol- It was my dog’s intelligence and greatest odds. 120 miles from Nome, making a 40 mile mush, near Bonanza to deliver the packet of serum to Olson of Bluff at Golovin. Olson gave the package to me at Bluff and my leg of the race was on, I left Bluff at 10 p. m., Sunday night. It was a storm all right. I took four hours and 20 minutes for the first 20 miles. I had to travel in a flerce storm, a regular blizzard. There was eight feet of snow on the ground at one point. Then how dark! I passed Solo- |mon’s road house at Saftey without seeing it. I could not see the trail or the trail marks. Just Balto was there going up and down, up and| own. I was supposed to meet Ed. Rohn another relay man there, but it was so dark I missed him and so decided to continue on to Nome. I thought it best—better than cause delay look ing for him and changing dog har. ness. Now the blizzard was abating some- what but still I could not see. I decided to trust to fate and Balto. I was sure he would come thru. He did. But my dogs were just in the last act. To the other drivers and dogs most credit is due. They had the harder mush—more difficult- jles. : And for them I know I can say ar for myself—we were glad to serve. se * Nome More Hopeful. (Special to The Dally Worker) NOME, Feb. 3.—Despite reports that the new serum may prove use- (Continued from page 1) “T tried to save her but I couldn’t make it thru the smoke and fire,” he said. Yaeger hurried away immedi: ately after his testimony to attend th« funeral of his sister at Hammond Indiana, No Way of Escape. J. Roberts, told how;he carried Mrs Earl out of the building dying. “Mrs. Earl had no way of escaping from the building except thru my door, whic) was locked,” Roberts testified. “Her screams woke me up. I unlocked the door, but could not see Mrs. Earl thrv the smoke. After taking my wife to a safer part of my apartment, I again looked for Mrs. Earl, and under the smoke saw her lying in the hall. ? dragged her out, and took her to the yard. She died yesterday morning. She was trapped.” Doors Locked. Ray G. Overall, a chauffeur, told how the water was not working on the night of the fire. The tenants had to flush the toilets from the hot water faucets, which were the only ones working, Overall said. “I heard a man scream, and then saw the smoke,” said Overall, who think any other leader in Alaska could have brought me in safely, I wish I could tell you the story of the whole race but I am so sleepy. Leonard Seppella finished his run, #————————_______. Firetrap Relic of World’s Fair Days bravery that won in the face of the less and that the epidemic was bring- ing new cases, Nome faced its plague with a strong heart and for a time forgot its sufferings to pay tribute to the men who made the fight against death, Gunnar Kassen, the musher who drove the dog team in the final dash here and his 13 black Siberian dogs were the heroes of the camp. Kassen was forced to tell again and again his story of the race and re vealed that the outstanding driver of the battle against the elements was John Sommers, veteran mail carrier Sommers, Kassen sald, left Kalta- gat on his leg of the dash at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon and reached Unalkleet at 3 o’clock Saturday morn ing after driving all thru the night. His lap of the course was thru heavy timberland over deep and drifted snow with huge avalanches of snow blocking the trail. It was the most difficult leg of the race, yet despite the great difficulties he en- countered Sommers pushed on and on and finally triumphed. None was happier in Nome than Kassen’s bride, formerly Miss Anne Carlson. She was among the first te} greet the musher after his arrival. Kassen is employed by the Ham- mon Consolidated Goldfields com- pany. He is a friend and associate of Leonard Seppella, the champion musher and with him has made many perilous treks on the trail. None of the containers holding the serum were broken, Dr. Welch said He planned to thaw out the serum gradually. go as bad or: worse than the 82-flat tenement at 5830 Blackstone Ave | that snuffed out the lives of sever people when -it burned down las! week, fire department witnesses testi fied at the coroner’s inquest. Similar blazes are liable to break out at any time, with just as fatalre sults, Horace McLane, chief of the 16th battalion declared. The fire de partment can’ do nothing, as the fire- ordinances are inadequate he said The fire department witnesses asked for more stringent fire ordinances. Bulding Like Many Others. The known death toll was increas: ed to seven ‘when Mrs. Alice Earl, 56 died at the Tlfnois Central hospital Two other women who were tenant of the building have been missin; since the fire and are also thot t have perished in the fire. They were seen after the fire; according to somc of the witnesses at the inquest. “Is this old building materially dif ferent from a large number of othe: buildings?” McLane was asked at the inquest. “No, it is just as well constructe¢ as many others. It was inspected ir 1920 and the fire laws were complie¢ rooms on the third floor. “I tried to get my wife out the back way, but thc door was locked. I then escaped from the floor below.” Couldn't Get Work. Overall testified that he had been unable to fiind work for severa’ months. “I had not paid my rent for three months,” he said. “I couldn’ get any kind of work.” Gordon Galloway, a milkman whe roomed on the third floor, told hov the fire escapes were filmsy and in adequate. “From my room the onl; fire escape was a ladder, which reached only as far as six feet below and to the side of my window. I had to jump the distance.” Galloway first took his wife to a fire escape {1 a different apartment, but after going for his clothes, found that he coul¢ not get thru the flames to reach hii wife again. He then jumped to the ladder below his window. Cc. L, Batley, a railroad machinis! working for the Illinois Central rail road, advanced the theory that leaky gas pipes became ignited and caused the blaze. “It was a very old build ished hall At the Red Revel Mas- querade ball. ing,” Bailey said. “The gas pipes were old, and. perhaps a leaky gar Pipe became ignited.” There are many firetraps in Chica Look for it every day beginning with next Saturday's paper. Little and John Reed are some of A series of short sketches on outstanding characters in’ the American radical and labor movement. Skidmore, Wietling, Sorga, Silvis, Powderly, Parsons, Most, De Leon, Debs, Mitchell, Gompers, St. John, Bill Haywood, Joe Hill, Frank labor movement that will be treated in this series, the interesting personalities in the with.” The bullding was construtec as a world’s fair building in 1893 when the present fire laws were not yet passed. Business Men’s Jury. The “business men’s” coroner's jury consists of Frank F. Holmes of the Insurance Hxchange, C. C. Taylor o/ the Central Actuarial bureau, E..C Fischer, of the Employers Liability Assurance corporation, G. A. Mavon L. F. Menard of the Standard Acci dent Insurance company and Dr. El. dorado Scott, 6343 Kenwood avenue There is no worker on the jury. The buildings and zoning commit. tee of the city council declared tha! they will ask the board of education to delay starting its new building program until all preventable fire hazards are eliminated. The commit tee will visit the scene of the Black stone Ave, fire today. Maritime Labor Herald Gets Big Advertising By Steel Co. “Expose” HALIFAX, Can. Feb, 3—Invaluable free publicity for a labor weekly ap- peared in two Halifax newspapers as a double page advertisement paid for by the British Empire Steel corpora- tion. One page of the ad was a full page reproduction of the Maritime Labor Herald of Jan, 8, edited by J. B, McLachlan, and published at Glace Bay, N, 8. In that issue the Labor Herald gave considerable space to pointing out to the miners that the best weapon avail- able to fight the corporation is the 100 percent strike. The minimum circulation of the two datlies—The Halifax Herald and Morn- ing Chronicle, in which the ad appear- ed, totals 60,000. It is reported that the advertising thus accorded the labor paper has increased its weekly circulation by 1100 copies and that subscriptions are coming in from points never before touched by the pape, : gress of the Soviets of the northern Caucasus. All who returned to Russia after the collapse of the counterrevolu- tlonary campaign will have thelr election privileges restored. In announcing amnesty, Premier Rykoff sald: “The past must be ‘burled; we must establish greatér unity among all nationalities In this! district; we must lighten the labors of the peo- ple; we must forget’all that ocour- red during the olvil War. We must establish the electoral rights of the whole population, “The government has sufficient proof that those who opposed the Bolshevik regime are ready now to engage in peaceful labor, having recognized that thelr hostility to- ward us was a mistake.” M. Rykoff announced further that certain categories of peasants and workmen would also be liberated from prison and that the govern- ment would annul the greater part of the old agricultural tax which had remained uncollected for sev- oral years past. “tn doing this,” continued the premier, “the government wishes to create In northern Caucasus a situa- tion which shall bring all into closer contact for the welfare of the Soviet Union.” SUFFERERS FROM IRISH FAMINE WELCOME DEATH Children Are 'Shoeless and Hungry DUBLIN, Feb. 3.—Relief associa- tions began sending oil stoves and oi! to the famine districts of west Ireland today. ‘ Depressing reports come from Gal- wey. Travelers tell of shoeless chil dren with hunger indelibly imprinted on their thin faces;,,mothers witl babes at their breasts’ and showing signs of under-nourishment; and de pressed men, all unemployed and liv. ing in miserable stone and sod roofe: hovel. Death has not, made any grea inroads on these people, but many would welcome death, travelers said rather than continue to endure the daily pangs of hunger and suffering from the cold. 2 Seven in Two.Rooms. One tiny hut housesi a family of seven in two rooms. All day long they crouch about a heap of smolder ing wet peat which gives off so little heat it could be picked up from the hearth. Another cabin of two rooms holds e family of twelve who sleep in tw« beds and on the flagstones of the hearth. Even the hovellike homes of these people appear to add to thei: discomfort, for the rain-soaked sod roofs and stone walls hold moisture until the sun dries it out. The daily fare in the famine dis. tricts consists of tea and bread for breakfast, tea and bread at midday In the evening dry, unbuttured bread Some families have a small store of be-dwarfed potatoes which represents their year’s labor. Thése potatoes are harbored closely and are rationed carefully. ; POWERS ANXIOUS TO AVOID FIGHT OVER PATRIARCH (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, Feb, 3.——The' British, French and Italian*governments are anxious to avoid getting invol¥ed in hostilities because of the rupture between Tur- key and Italy over the expulsion of the Greek patriarch’ from Constan- tinople. The three govertiments are en- deavoring to prevent the crisis be- tween Greece and Turkey from developing into an open break. Greek Workers Cool. Reports of indignation over the ex- pulsion of the patriarch come from Greece, but the Greek workers are keeping quite cool and have no inten- tion of shedding any of their blood tm order to salvage the dignity of the bourgeoisie which have been|200 municipal day laborers, will re-|Ppoems wounded when the nie advised the| ceive $6 instead of $5.50 a day, The|witz and a talk on “Why you religious leader to take up his bed|*@lse was granted unanimously by |Join the Y. and walk. As England and France, the two nations most interested in the doings of Greece and Turkey, are not now ready for war, it is likely that the in- cident will become part of history with no more horrible results than several scare headlines, oe “The Beauty and the Bolehevik” Is ‘coming to Ashland Auditorium Feb, 6.| ACT NOW By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ODAY, all the world Is told that John C. Eastman, late editor and owner of the Chicago Journal, has left that epee gig to its employes. “LEAVES JOURNAL TO. EM- LOYES,” says the big headline in the Journal itself, which should leave no doubt about it, On the face of things, this would indicate that Chicago’s workers, at least those employed on the Journal, were to have a daily paper of their own. By employes one visions the printers, the stereotypers, the mailers, the pressmen, the office staff, the workers in the editorial rooms, even the newsies, oe * 8 But no one is kept long in doubt as to the real facts behind the misleading headlines. The paper doesn’t go to the employes at all. The workers on the Journal were never in the mind of the publisher, Eastman, when he made his will. The much heralded “employes” consist merel high officials of the Chicago Journal company; Eastman’s closest businoss associates. Take a good look at them:, W. Frank Dunn, president; O. L. Hall, vice-president, and H. C. Deuter, treasurer. The Journal had to be continued after Eastman’s death. It wasn’t in the nature of things that he could take it along with him. Someone had to have the ownership of the paper. The “employes” certainly didn’t get it. The workers, all the way from reporters to pressmen, have no more proprietary right in the Journal today, than they had before Eastman died. This title is lodged, according to the best traditions of abou ownership, in the hands of the business trio, to whom astman turned over this Property. of three It isn’t written in the newspaper game, no more than in any other industry, that the workers should get control under capitalism. The business of publishing newspapers is being monopolized just like the running of the steel industry. Hearst is the greatest newspaper monopolist. His Chi- cago Herald-Examiner has grown because of the sustenance it won from the graves of The Chronicle and The Herald, two morning dailies that it drove out of its field. Its sole competitor is The Tribune, a giant corporation, alone taking millions of dollars annually in profits, * * The Journal prides itself on two things. It claims to be the oldest daily newspaper in Chicago. It is also Chicago's only democratic newspaper. But things that are old are ready for death. There is really no reason for the continued existence of The Journal; no more than there is for the Evening Post. Vic Lawson's “open shop” Daily News, and the scandal mongering Evening American, also a Hearst property, thoroly cover the field. They give the master class ail the service that it really needs, It should, there- fore not _be surprising if the Journal should in time decide to die. Then the other capitalist sheets would publish: long news articles and editorials relating the failure of turning over such a delicate peer. a@ newspaper, to mere “em- ployes.” They would merely be publishing the sequel to the fiction they have already set afloat. Xe * The consolidation of the various capitalist newsp: however, increases the necessity of the workers buildin: their own press. The Journal proclaims that it has “stead- fastly fought on the side of law and order, public decency, official honesty and civic »reform.” Every other capitalist sheet, if it cannot say as much, can at least claim it. What the workers, in city and country, need are néwspapers that will fight for the working class against the capitalist class. There is only one daily newspaper in the English lan- guage, published in these United States, that is doing that at the present time. That newspaper is the DAILY WORK- ER, the official organ of the Workers (Communist) Party. The DAILY WORKER welcomes the consolidation of the forces of its enemy. It sees in the growing capitalist press monopoly, the developing solidarity of its enemy, that must become apparent to city and land workers, forcing them into a realization of the necessity of building their own press. * The DAILY WORKER belongs to workers. It is their weapon; wielded by the organized American Communist ‘movement. Its triumphant record shows that the workers can successfully conduct a class organ of their own. The DAILY WORKER is the forerunner of many DAILY WORK- ERS, to come in all the big centers of the nation. John C. Eastman’s death marked the passing of the last of the private owners and personal editors of an American ate 0 he DAILY WORKER marks the joint effort of work- ers to build a press of their own; one of the chief weapons, not only in crushing the opposition capitalist press, but in helping to abolish the whole capitalist system; when. the workers will take over the world TURK CAPITALISTS Syracuse, N. Y., Had APOLOGIZE TO RUSS oe ee PARIS, Feb. 3.—Leon Blum, leader of the socialist party in the French chamber of deputies criticised premier Herriot’s foreign policy towards Ger- many which his party supported last week after Herriot threatened to re- sign if the socialists withdrew thetr support. In a secret caucus prior to the ses- sion of the chamber, the socialists decided by a vote of 27 to 11 to re- frain from voting'on Herrtot’s propos- al to establish an Alsasce-Lorraine diplomatic mission to the Vatican. The socialists however decided that they would vote for Herriot in the event Herriot called for a vote of con- fidence in the government. Wall Street's Tools That the socialists are anxious to stand in the good graces of the Amer- ican capitalists 1s shown by Blum’s speech during which he said: “We can consider that Germany is practically disarmed. We prevented the chamber from adopting a resolu- tion to placard Marin’s speech because we do not wish America to believe that the entire chamber approved of Marin’s remarks.” Juarin criticized the U. S. for demanding payment of her war debts. Senator Borah Wants to Talk Money with Mussolini’s Bandits WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, wants Italy to pay her war debt to the Unit- ed States. As a step towards bring- ing that delicate question to public attention, Borah addressed a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, a well-known admirer of the fascisti, de- thanding information regarding the amount Italy owes to the United States government and when the cre- dits were granted. . The amount of the Italian debt, with interest added is now about $2,- 000,000,000. It is known that pro- posals looking toward a settlement of the Italian indebtedness are not popular with Benito Mussolini. “Big Five” Packers Violate Law and Plot More Grabs (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. the “big five” packers with continual violation of the government “anti- trust” degree, Senator Frazier, rep., North Dakota, this afternoon called upon the senate to enact his bill plac- ing the packing industry under the direct control of the federal trade commission. Frazier urged haste, he said, be- cause it was rumored the consent de- gree, forbidding the packers from en- gaging in “unrelated industries” was to be set aside, leaving them free of government regulation. Tinker with Leaky Law to Restrain New Jersey Bosses NEWARK, N, J., Feb. 3.—An amend- ment to the disputed no-night-work- for-women bill providing penalties of $50 for first violation and $200 for second is being prepared for present- ation to the New Jersey state legis- lature. The new law was inoperative for lack of penalties. It provides against work by women between 10 p. m. and 6 a, m. and is being fought by a group of textile mill, laundry and glass fac- tories. Pull Cuts Out of Eight Hour 5 Plutes Let it Pass WORKERS AUD PEASANTS (Special to The Dally Worker) _ CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 3—As @ result of the insulting conduct of Turkish police, who surrounded the Soviet steamer “Lenin” a few weeks ago at this port and would allow no one to land or go aboard, the Turk- Ish capitalist government has been forced to apologize to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Raise Day Laborers to $6. SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco's |by Y. W. L. choruses; three memoria’ bright today with the announcement ‘Young Workers’ League held a me-|that many objectionable features that mastlla) Montiag ‘She ‘ott: hiabimetispesaaed. tty Aetent, $0 AA Mes Rosa Luxem! ‘Bducational| been toned down. rms a amma te pypen rr were agreed to at a conference in Chi- playlet, Schoolgirl,” written py |°aB and the measure is now on its Comrade Fanny Gardner was wel’ given, Comrade Chalotte Moskowitz|°* DY Pape county said. There were also a piano solo by David Durfsky; interpretative dances by Caroline Duane; memorial songs 2,381 COAL MINERS by Comrade Charlotte Mosko- should W. Ls" by Comrade] — ¢spectat to The Dally Warker) the board of supervisors, . we WASHINGTON, D, C., Feb, 4— The meeting was very well attend | Coal mine accidents cost the lives HAVE A HEART! od and several joined the league | of 2,381 miners in 1924, which, al- Put Your Interest For Our David Perlmutter gave a talk On| though a slight decrease of 77 from COMMUNIST CHILDREN Marxism at the last regular meeting | the 1923 total, shows an increase in INTO ACTION Tho Workers’ Relief Committee 1*| the number of deaths to the coal Come to The running a moving picture Feb. 9,| produced. The death rate mil- JUNIORS’ DANCE matinee and evening of “From Death| tion tons of coal mined 1924, FEB. 14, 1925 to Life” giving a story of Russian! being 4.27, compared with 3.74 dur- Workers’ Lyceum farmers., This will be at the Alcazar Ine bea. eee Senn of ee On Bureau of Mines ¥4 feo etn Ae i 4 TRL ae ac ines np tama PRIS * here, Repersentative Mrs. O'Neil Get an “Ad” for the Dally Worker. —