The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1925, Page 2

Page Two NATIONAL GROUPS JOIN FORCES FOR LABOR DEFENSE Great Gotham Bazaar Opens Wednesday NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 8.—The at- tempt of the United States govern- ment of Wall Street and Teapot Dome to crush the party of the work- ers in America, the Workers (Com- munist) Party, by imprisoning its leading members in Michigan's state penitentiary, will receive a fitting re- ply from the class conscious workers in New York City when the doors open on one of the biggest bazaars ever organized in this city. The affair will begin on Wednes- @ay evening, February 11, and will run full blast until Saturday evening. It is held under the auspices of the Labor Defense Council and the In- ternational Workers’ Aid and the pro- ceeds will not only be used to defend the victims of American capitalism, but the victims of the White Terror in every country in the world. Every radical organization in New York that believes in the class strug- gle is represented and the program offered does credit to the artistic abil- ities of the working class. Among the organizations that will participate in the program are: the Freiheit Singing Society, the Paterson Mandolin orchestra, the Finnish Gym- nastic and Choral clubs, the Ukrainian Workers’ Chorus, the German mass Declamation Society, the Workers’ Dramatic League, the modern school and of course, the Young Workers’ League and the inimitable Juniors. ALLIED DEBTS TO BE PAID BY GERMAN WORKERS (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, England, Feb. 8.—Great Britain will not expect France to pay her war debts to England until France can secure payments from Germany, the British note to France which will be made public Monday will declare, it was said in official circlies. It is also intimated that England will use the money paid her by France to pay England’s war debt to the United States, The note will declare, officials here say, that England will be ruled by the general principle that Great Britain does not ask for more money from Burope than the amount Great Britain is pledged to pay the United States. Britain presumes, the note will con- tinue, that payments will be forthcom- ing from Germany. If Germany does not pay, then Britain will not expect the allied debtors to make up for the German shortage. The note will invite France to make @ definite offer regarding the payment of its debt to Great Gritain. The for- eign office would welcome a visit from Premier Herriot to discuss the matter, the note will say. World Labor in Big Protests for Lives Of Sacco and Vanzetti (Continued from page 1) walls of which Ferrer was shot, Raion Merino Gracia has sent a letter call- Ing on the workers to come to the aid of Sacco and Vanzetti. Gracia, leader of the Spanish Communist Party, has been in prison several years, but is more interested in see- ing the workers protest against the fate which awaits Sacco and Van- setti than in asking them to demand his release. Face Fascisti Rule. The workers in America can hardly realize the difficulties which will face the workers who plan the holding of protest meetings in Spain and Italy. In both countries the demonstrators will be faced by the clubs and guns of the fascists but the plans to hold meetings are being made. In all countries a united front of all working class elements has been formed to make the protest day the biggest thing ever seen. In Russia the trade unions have tak- en it on themselves to see that the meetings will be a huge succesa, Many Meetings In U. S. In the United States protest meet- ings will be held from one end of the country to the other, The Work- ers (Communist) Party will have a large part in arranging many of the meetings and furnishing speakers for others. Boston, New York, Pitts- burgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco will all have meetings. Hundreds of little meetings will be held in mining towns all thru Penn- sylvania and the middle west. Joseph Ettor, leader of the famous Lawrence textile strike, and who him- self faced the electric chair in a case growing out of that strike, will speak in Detroit March 1. To Accomplish Big Things. Bttor has already made several speeches in Massachusetts on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti and is about to begin a tour of the east ending with his Detroit speech. Indications are that March first will go down in working class history as , on which united action accom- big things. | | JAPAN KICKS OUT || WHITE GUARDISTS | FROM RUSS EMBASSY (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, Feb. 8.—The Japanese au- thorities yesterday took over the Russian embassy and notified the remnants of the old counter-revolu- tionary white guard government to vacate. The embassy will be turned over to the Soviet ambassador and will soon be occupied by the representa- tive of the workers’ and peasants’ government of Ru Lewis Machine in Mild Panic Over Union Referendum (Continued from page 1) cuse the Lewis tellers of making any mistakes in counting the votes in favor of the radicals. In fact, it is a well founded belief in labor circles that the reactionaries never allow themselves to be defeated in an elec- tion as long as they are able to count the votes. Yet Voyzey polled almost half as many votes as Lewis and Staples re- ceived more than half as many as his opponent, Phil. Murray. The vote for Green shows that he is the most popular member of the Lewis ma- chine while his opponent, Joseph Nearing, was less known than the other progressives. It's a Gloomy Outlook! An official of the Typographical Union, in a conversation with a leader of the Carpenters’ Union, commented on the growing menace of the progres- sive movement to what he termed the “bonafide leadership of the trade union movement,” but he expressed no hope that anything could be done to stop it, admitting that expulsions were futile in view of the tactics of the Trade Union Educational League, which is the leader of the left wing fight in the entire trade union field. “They make more trouble for us fight- ing to get back again, than they make on the inside,” he declared: The more expulsions, the more trouble, said this official, and the carpenters’ lieutenant with whom he was conversing, nodded his head. Lewis is said to have expressed tear that the morale of the progressive will be so strengthened by this vote that they might push for the special convention to give Howat and other miners’ leaders a square deal and a fair trial. It is reported that the neces- sary five districts have already voted for a special convention. That the vote for the progressive candidates was a thinking vote is shown from the following titles of the Progressive Miners’ election program: Nationalization of coal mines; shorter work day and week; unemployment; alliance between miners and railroad workers; Dawes’ international “open shop” plan; international affiliation; amalgamatio~; independent political action; for class struggle against class | collaboration; special convention to) sive Howat and other Kansas miners a fair trial; organize the unorganized; national agreements only; direct elec- tion of organizers; secession and dual unionism; Lewis violates miners’ pol- icies; recognition of Soviet Russia. Chinese Strike and Boycott Hits Fish Trade of Americans (Spectal to The Daily Worker) PEKING, China, Feb. 8—“American interests”—which the American work- ers know nothing about—again are in conflict with the Chinese people. And again the Aemrican government treats the Chinese nation as a conquered and subject people. The American consul at Foochow, has telegraphed the legation here that “American interests” in Foochow are in a@ critical condition owing to a student strike, with subsequent riot- ing, on account of a boycott of Ameri- can dried fish. ~ The government here, when the Am- erican legation demanded satisfaction, ordered the students’ union disbanded and its leaders arrested. However, the local governor of Foo- chow has ignored the order and the boycott continues along with the strike. The American Oriental Bank and other American firms are com- plaining that they cannot sell the fish they have imported and that the car- goes are rotting. French Attack U. 8. Loans. PARIS, Feb. 8—French industrial loans floated in New York were at- tacked today by the French newspa- per Petit Bleu, American financiers will make the French government “pay dearly for these dolalrs when the loans mature,” it is said. SALZMAN TOUR IN DIST, 5 Feb. 11 to 18—Cannonsburg, Hous- ton, Midland, Meadowlands, Feb. 21—Pittsburgh, general mem- bership meeting. Feb, 25-26—Wheeling, W. Va. Feb. 27—Bellaire, Ohio. Feb. 28-—Powhatan Point, Ohio, March 1—Neffs, Ohio, March 2—Yorkville, Ohio, March 8—Martin’s Ferry, Ohio. March 4-5—Dillonvale, . March 8&—Pittsburgh. ganizational conference, Distriot or- FAKERS DISRUPT CENTRAL BODY IN MINNEAPOLIS Smith Slates Harthill for Cramer’s Job (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 8.— After three years’ work, Paul J. Smith has succeeded in changing the name of the Minneapolis Trade and Labor As- sembly to the Central Labor Union of Minneapolis and Hennepin County. He has also succeeded in expelling a few Communists from the central body and in getting a lively scrap un- der way. According to all indications the fight has barely started. The object of the reactionaries led by Smith is to secure a stranglehold on the cen- tral body, so that they can form a united front with the Citizens’ Alli- ance, an employers’ organization that has built up one of the most efficient organizations of stool pigeons in the country. Former Police Chief. Smith has, as one of his chief lieu- tenants, a notorious faker by the name of Lewis Harthill, who is run- ning a hold-up sheet called Minnesota. Harthill was police chief under Van Lear. He is a stupid person, and is very easily satisfied, as far as titles are concerned, but it takes a lot of money to make him sleep easy. All he wants now is the editorship of the Labor Review, which is run by Robly D. Cramer. Cramer has done everything pos- sible to please his foes, but unfortun- ately, Harthill wants his job, and tho Cramer did penance in sackcloth and ashes for his past progressive sins, Harthill will not be satisfied until he steps down from the editorial chair of the Labor Revie Stevens Back Again. The fight is an interesting one. Dan Stevens, veteran leader of the Paint- ers’ Union and former secretary of the assembly was back again with a hew set of credentials the meeting after that at which he was expelled. His credentials were turned down, of course. But Stevens will be’ back again and again. Smith has written a new constitu- tion for the new central body. One of its provisions excludes ,“Commun- ists, members of the I. W. W. and other dual or revolutionary organiza- tions.” The present officers of the central body may hold office until next May. After then, eleetions will take place annually. Trade unionists are wondering who is paying Smith for his work here. For three long years he has not turn- ed-in the name of a new member to the trade unions, tho he is drawing his salary as an “organizer.” Is he getting paid by the Citizens’ Alliance? The question is pertinent, and Minne- apolis trade unionists would like to hear what Smith has to say in reply. Another provision in the constitu- tion prevents Cramer from acting as an officer of the Central Labor Union or representing that body as a dele- gate. Hitherto, Cramer was the rath- er automatic delegate from the assem- bly to all political gatherings at which the council was represented. This clause bars him from being a dele- gate to the farmer-labor federation. He is now a member of the state cen- tral committee and of the city cen- tral committee of the federation. Threat to Lift Charters. Paul Smith, the A. F. of L. dicta- tor, declared that if the local unions insisted in sending Communists to the Central Labor Union as delegates, after warning that they were unsatis- factory, the international officers of the locals would be called upon to take approriate action, which means lifting the charters of the locals. It is now a fight to the bitter end BF tween the progressives led by “thé: Communists and the reactionaries led by the “czars” of the A. F. of L. 15,000 Furriers Get Wage Increases in New Agreement BROOKLYN, N. Y., Feb. 8—Wage increases of approximately 10 per cent will be paid to Brooklyn fur dressers under the new two-year agreement signed with employers. First class floor workers are to re- ceive a minimum of $50 a week in- stead of $45; second class, $44, in- stead of $40; third class, $35, with prevision that all third class men, now employed in shops shall receive 10 per cent increase in wages. Floor workers employed at time of settle- ment are to receive not less than $35 and new, inexperienced workers will start at $30 and receive $35 at the end of six months. Apprentices are to be retained by firms at conclusion of ap- prenticeship period and paid not less than the minimum scale for full fledged floor workers provided in the agreement. About 1500 workers make the addi- tional wages under the new agree- ment. Watchmen are to become mem- bers of the union and are not to work over eight hours daily nor receive less than the minimum wage of the agree- ment. Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! A 2 20,000 MARINE MINES, LAID DURING” WORLD WAR, PERIL, SHIPPING AMSTERDAM, Feb. 9—Twenty thousand deep sea mines are slowly rising to the surface In the Baltic and adjacent waters and are becom- ing a formidable menace to \ship- ping, according to A, FI Nether- lands consul general In Hamburg. In a report published here re- cently Mr. Flaes says that during the war 60,000 mines were laid be tween Bergen, Norway, and the Baltic archipelago, | Forty thousand of them have been recovered in some way. er other; mostly, it is assuméd, ‘thru the chains by which they ene secured being gradually eaten away by the action of the sea water. The rest are still undocounted for, and they are reappearing gradually in unexpected places, The consul gives warning that the Baltic, the Bothnian guif, and “the Finnish waters will not be entirely free for a long time to come. Labor Officials Hear Mayor Dever Talk on Traction Mayor Dever is expected to an- nounce today that, contrary to his former statements, he will approve the purchase price of $163,000,000 for Chicago's traction lines. This price was the contract price provided for in the 1907 city ordinances. The bank- ers have demanded this price for the traction lines, and in spite of the statement previously made by the mayor that he would not meet the ex- horbitant terms of the bankers, Dever has let it be known he is about to give in to them. The officials of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor, who conferred with Dever again Saturday have made no decision as to their attitude on the dever traction ordinance. John Fitz- patrick, president, and Hd. Nockels, of Labor, and Victor Olander, secre- tary of the Illinois Federation of La- bor, were in conference with Dever, Ald. Schwartz, Special Attorney Je- rome Frank, Assistant Corporation Counsel W. Holly, Oscar Nelson, vice- president of the federation, and John Walt, also of the Chicago Federation of Labor, They made no statement after the conference. It was declared by eity hall attaches, however, that the mayor told the un- ion officials that “he could not avoid” the price of $163,000,00@ The labor union officials are said to have asked for more time to consider the ordin- ance before taking a stand. ’ seoretary, of the Chicago Federation Bankers Want Two Thirds Jury Verdicts And No Legal Defense The Illinois Bankers’ Association wants to abolish trial by jury—that is the practical meaning of a recom- mendation by the organization’s crim- inal code and practices committee of which C. W. Terry is chairman. It re- commends that convictions be made legal in all criminal cases if only two- thirds of a jury so vote, The Illinois Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation is now fighting against a bill introduced at Springfield to provide for trial by jury in cases of so-called “contempt of court” in labor cases. The Bankers’ Associatioh goes much further. In addition to the two-thirds re- commendation, the committee recom- mends that the association “discour- age” lawyers defending “persons charged with robbery and like crimes.” 6 a Joe Manley to Speak. NEW YORK, Feb, 8—The down- town English branch of the Workers Party, which meets at 208 East 12th street, will hold its regular educa- tional meeting this Wednesday, Feb. 11. The speaker of the evening will be Joseph Manley, Trade Union Edu- cational League organiser of the east- ern states. Comrade Manley has had wide experience in the trade union field and his talk should prove highly interesting. Visitors ane permitted to attend educational meetings. Isaac Goldstein, ing, Moved to ” Unemployed Unionist Weibel, aged 55, a carpenter by trade, out of employment for many months, killed himself one morning last week. He leaves a wife, three sons and a daughter. port work in the building line the most prosperous in years with a scare- ler in Second-hand Cloth- Tears by Emma Goldman's Recitals of Bolshevik Barbarities Labor Must Keep Its Pies and Feet on Earth If It Would Conquer World By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Bh George William Norris, United States senator from Nebraska, appeals to God in an effort to find out where the “common people” are to get pri against the in- roads of big busineia, Norris, like ebollette, believes inthe “good man” theory of capitalist politics. But to his way of looking “Cal” Coolidge is appointing anyone but “good men” to the high places in official power in Washington. The “good man” baa! especially in politics, presup- joses the power of the individual as supreme over organ- izational strength. Ostensibly republican, Norris thinks that if enough “good” republicans can be elected, the “common people” will be saved from the depredations of the standpat G. 6. P. machine and its Wall Street master. Coolidge thinks differently. He wouldn't be the idol of the capitalist dictatorship at Washington if he didn’t. Cool- idge believes in an organized strength that works smoothly in every cog. That is why he is changing the parts, and getting new ones where needed, in the capitalist government of which he is the nominal head. Here and there, tried and true servants of the money power are being substituted for those who-show any signs of vascillation or independence in the service of their mas- ters. The elevation of Harlan Fiske Stone, from the attorney generalship, the post recently held by Harry Daugherty, to a place on the bench of the United States supreme court, is just the beginning. Morgan's lawyer, John “Wallstreet” Davis, did not get elected to the White House. Instead, another Morgan law- yer, Stone, becomes a supreme court justice. With Morgan and Company's lawyer mpong a in the na- tion’s high court, the business of which is to be restricted largely to cases affecting the moneyed interests, other branches of the American dollar oligarchy are planning similarly to entrench themselves. The sugar trust is to get Charles B. Warren, of Michigan, into the attorney general's office, in the place vacated by Stone. The railroads are to put T. F. Woodlock on the Inter- state Commerce Commission, and thru him control that im- portant body. W. E. Humphreys, hailed as the “nation’s greatest re- actionary” is scheduled for the federal trade commission. All of which causes Senator Norris, of Nebraska, to rise excitedly in his place in the U. S. senate and ask: “Tell me, Oh God, tell me, where the toiling millions of the honest, common people of this country are going to be protected in their rights as against big business.” f Perhaps Norris will get an answer about the time that the Reformed Seventh Day Adventists correctly predict the end of the world. Which will be never. This is not the first time that a capitalist politician has turned to god. During the great unemployment crisis of 1907, William Howard Taft, appropriately named “Bill the Fat,” was called on for his solution of the jobless evil. He readily responded with, “God.knows.” . * & & But the difference between Taft and Norris is very clear. Taft turns the eyes of the “common people” toward god and then joins with other upholders of the capitalist og in going thru their pockets. Taft and Cooll ‘e big cogs, and important cogs, in the capitalist political machine. Norris is a fifth wheel, useful in his way to the capitalist masters. He will join LaFollette in aiding capitalism fight the Communists whenever necessary. He can be dropped completely when capitalism needs him no longer. The workers and farmers, thru observing the care and persistence with which the capitalist dictatorship is being strengthened at Washington, must learn by this example to look to the building of their own class power. Never before was it so apparent that the banking, trans- portation and other great interests absolutely dominated at Washington. These interests have all power today; to be used as they see best fit. The fight to oppose that power is led by the Communists. All those exploited workers and poor farmers who would fight effectively for their own inter- ests must join the Communists. While Norris, LaFollette and their ilk have their eyes on the stars. Let labor keep its eyes and feet on the earth, so that it may ultimately win and rule. ; ity of men. Weibel was fifty-five, a good workman, and carried a union card, Union cards in this city are about as welcome as @ poor man at a chureh gathering. In ‘Southern Scab Town Kills Himself (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8.—George New Raids in Egypt. CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 8—Further ar- Tests were made today by officials in renewed rafds in connection with the death of Sir Lee Stack, sirdar of Egypt, several months ago. During the night police raided a number of houses. Capitalistic newspapers re- THERE’S A DIFFERENCE!— In the comparison of the persecution of Revolutionists by the White Terror—and the treatment of counter-revolutionists in Soviet Russia. You will find it in “White Terrorists Ask For Mercy” —by MAX BEDACHT Just off the press, this indictment of the “socialist” traitors of the revolutionary move- ment will prove a valuable addition to a worker's library. 5 CENTS A COPY 3% cents in bundle orders. RUSKIN COLONY STRONG FOR THE DAILY WORKER Kluxers Have Rifles, So Have Colonists By M. ZENIN. (Special to The Daily Worker) TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 8.—Yesterday 1 visited Ruskin, Fla., a town that was organized about 15 years ago as a socialist colony by McCay Miller and Dr. Hmery of Toledo, Ohio. Tho the leaders have turned yellow and are not known any more to the revolu tionary movement, their followers ‘have remained hard boiled reds, According fo Aaron R. Long, a miserable stunt performed by the or. ganizers of the colony, was discovered only a few days ago, When the ground was sold to the members they were assured that there are no mortgages of any kind on these grounds, and now after many years had gone by, a genuine heavy mortgage was pro- duced on the ground of James R. Walker, one of the colonists, and the rest them are now anticipating the same surprises in the near future, It is believed here that the introduc. tion of a mortgage to one member of the colony is just a trick thru which the people responsible for these mort- gages hope to beat the colony, one by one, but the colonists are no fools, and are beginning to organize in order to put up a strong fight. Friends For the Dally. James R. Walker, an enthusiastic sympathizer of the Workers Party, the Communist International, and its mouthpiece in America, The DAILY WORKER, has invited me to come here. He had also made arrangements that I should address the colony at the school house on behalf of the daily and the party, but on account of my encotintering here with an Ohioan who has declared himself as a mem- ber of the ku klux klan and attempted to give me a forceful argument with a shotgun that the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Monthly are un- American, I have decided to post- pone the meeting for a more oppor- tune time, for fear that he may get reinforcements from the neaby town chapters of the ku klux klan and the meeting would turn into a bloody battle, because our sympathizers, with long range rifles in their hands, have decided that no one shall lay a hand on me as long as I am representing a workers’ and farmers’ revolutionary cause. T have obtained here three subscrip- tions for the Workers Monthly and two for the DAILY WORKER, remit- tances for which you will find en- closed, and skipped town. I will, how- ever, take another flopdown into Rus- kin in the near future, for there is a unanimous desire on the part of the colonists to join the Workers (Com- munist) Party, The Carpenters’ Union in Tampa has promised to give me news for the daily, but on account of the long hours I am forced to work here, I was ‘unable to tend to them, to my sorrow. Bill Giving Muscle Shoals to the Power Trust Goes to House WASHINGTON, Feb, 8—The Mus- cle Shoals eonference report is now before the house. Altho several important changes were made by the house and senate conferees, the report incorporated all the fundamental features of the Un- derwood bill that passed the upper chamber. Administration leaders announced they would demand early action on the report so that Muscle Shoals 1 islation may be finally disposed of at this session. The Underwood bill turns the pro- ject over to private interets at mil- Mons of dollars below its cost to the government. Big Liner Damaged by Fire. ANTWERP, Belgium.—Fire which broke out aboard the Hamburg-Ameri- can liner Odenwald today, damaged the vessel to the extent of $1,000,000, it was estimated by ship’s officers, The Daily Worker 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, It, For the enclosed $..r.ossossssssessesuee SENA...1nscoples of “White Terrorists,” etc., to: NEI snesrssiegeceserncerrsvetantnnencovssersersenele Street .. CHEY sssee