The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1925, Page 6

i Ks ! SET RES thrown on the scrap pile of capitalist industry. 3 Page Six noue eames aeewers wena mnteamtm THE DALTY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. (i tie a nical aaa ads Cala. 5258 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50...8 months 96.00 per year 98.00 per year AQdress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 4918 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ® puNNa see EItore stemecnee Business Manager Mntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <=> 290 French Press Sees Pacific War The conflict between American and Japanese imperialist interests in the Pacific is having, its international repercussions. From France comes the news that a portion at least of the French press is awnouncing that a choice must be made—that the nation must decide soon which of the contestants it is.to support. The Sans Fil, an influential Paris paper, edited by Hyancithe Philouze, a close friend of Premier Herriot, says: “Now with the Russo-Japanese treaty signed it is clear to anyone studying the international situation that France is called morally and geographically to take up a position in the Pacific battle which will de- cide the hegemony of the east.” In the war towards which the imperialists of the United States and Japan are driving at head- long speed, in spite of the recent expressions of accord designed to lull the masses into a sense of security, there will be fewer neutral nations than in the last holocaust. Every one of the great cap- italist powers has vested interests in the Far East and the expression of the French press is, like the attitude of the Italian government in the last struggle, nothing more or less than a notification to the world that the French imperialists are will- ing to throw their support to the highes bidder. They come into the arena of international politics like a prostitute to a county fair. It is significant that the French press also has stated categorically recently that one of the clauses of the Russo-Japanese treaty provides that Japan shall, as a partial return for concessions in the iron, coal and oil of Saghalien island, build for Soviet Russia a certain number of battleships of the latest type and, in other ways is trying in American parlance, “to throw a scare into” the allies and the United States. It makes little difference whether the battleship story is true. The fact remains that Japan, on friendly terms with Soviet Russia, the dominant power in the Far East, and with the Saghalien iron, coal and oil—the essentials of modern war- fare—as a foundation for her national economy, is in a far stronger position than ever before in her history and, in this wicked world, with its doctrine of the survival of the slickest, it is quite possible that by building battleships for Soviet Russia, Japan sees an easy way to get around the 5. Washington pact. Soviet Russia looks with great interest but little worry at the storm that is brewing in the cap- ialist world. She feels assured that whatever dan- ger for the workers and peasants of Russia lies in giving the Japanese government accession to raw materials on Saghalin, it is but a temporary one. The growing strength and militancy of the Jap- anese workers and peasants is a guarantee that whatever the Japanese capitalists get will within a few years be the possession of another member of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The situation of the workers of ‘America is dif- ferent from that of the Russian workers. The American government is an imperialist government the creature of the finance capitalists and the big industrialists. It will use every means to drive the American workers to slaughter in the Pacific when the need arises, and the open expectation of war voiced by the French press is proof that the Workers’ (Communist) Party of America is in- dulging in no idle maundering when it warns the American workers of the coming conflict and urges them to organize against the bloody plans of their rulers. Advertising rates op application From the Other Side The Chicago Tribune occasionally publishes editorials from the DAILY WORKER under the caption “The Other Side.” We herewith reciprocate in some measure by eae a news story from the Sunday Tribune, “Pleads For Fine So He Can Get In Jail; “A white haired man, 82 years old, was sen- tameed to pay a fine of $100 and no costs or seeve ninety days in the home at Oak Forest yesterday by Judge Howard Hayes. And the @id man thanked the judge with tears in his ‘ “The octogenarian is Pat Kelly, no address. He walked into the central police station to beg alms and was arrested for vagrancy. Jndge Hayes looked at him and said: “Dis- ” “Please fine me,’ begged Kelly. ‘I haven’t any place to go and it’s liable to get cold again. Fine me enough so I'll have to go to jail’ ” Our only comment is that we are indebted to The Tribune for this further proof that capitalism has only jails for those who survive after being Chicago, IMinels | The Height of Futility President McMahon of the United Textile Work ers’ Union is quoted as protesting in hortified sur prise at the boss-controlled antics of one Wood, a government conciliator, who is doing a little strike breaking in the textile industry. Brother McMahon, according to reliable reports, will complain to Calvin Coolidge and the Davis- steel trust department of labor and ask for re- dress. In the language of the day, we say to brother McMahon, “try and get it.” How anyone who has been in the trade union movement as long as McMahon has, and where the oppression of the bosses and their support by the agencies of the government is as naked and un- ashamed as it is in the textile industry, can have escaped absorbing some knowledge of the function jof capitalist government as a super-strikebreaker is rather hard to understand, but McMahon seems to have accomplished the feat. Instead of telling the textile workers that gov- ernment conciliators are by virtue of their jobs agents of the bosses, McMahon fools them with the hope that the removal of a clumsy capitalist tool will aid the workers, It is possible that the ob- noxious Wood may be cast into the outer darkness for not being slick enough to fool even MeMahon, but he will be replaced by another of the ophidian species who will wriggle a little more elusively. Let. President McMahon stop worrying about federal conciliators, organize the scattered strikes of skilled and semi-skilled textile workers into a general strike in the industry, let him work mili- tantly for amalgamation of the innumerable feeble textile unions into a powerful industrial union, let him abandon the futile hope that the textile bosses will give anything that the power of the workers does not force, let him recognize the class nature of the struggle and the fight against wage cuts and he will get results. Wilk he adopt and urge such a program? He will not. He believes in the capitalist system, denies the class struggle and is therefore the type of labor leader that complains because a government con- ciliator does the kind of work he is hired to do— disrupt and demoralize striking workers’ organiza- tions. McMahon himself would be federal conciliator, only he has better pickings as the reactionary head of the United Textile Workers. The puerilities of the McMahons are sufficient proof that nothing of benefit to the workers can be expected from such leadership. The united ‘front from below of the textile workers, in accord with the program of the Trade Union Educational League, is the only avenue of escape from the auto- cratic rule of the textile bosses. , Send in that new “sub” today! The Miners-Answer Lewis Sixty-six thousand votes for the left wing slate in the United Mine Workers’ election is ample justification for our claim that there is a decided revival of militancy in the labor movement. The Lewis administration was able to poll, steal and otherwise secure a total of 136,000 votes and when we take into account the methods used in previous elections we can be certain that many thousands of votes for’the left wing were never counted—or if counted were placed to the credit of the administration. It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the left wing candidates actually ran ahead of the administration. ‘5 The left wing candidates were practically un- known outside of their districts and that they were able, in the face of intimidation and expulsions to roll up 66,000 votes with no campaign except dis- tribution of leaflets, is a tribute to the militancy of the miners and their knowledge of and loyalty to the left wing program. The left wing had no money, it could put out no speakers, it had no press except the DAILY WORKER which cannot reach all mine districts effectively as yet and the program was the most advanced ever put forward by the left wing. There is no other conclusion possible than that the left wing vote was a vote for the left wing pro- gram—not for individuals. The vote cast by the left, the elements that fol- low the lead of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League, is the most important development in the American labor movement since the left wing began its work. Picture the situation. William Green, as secre- tary of the United Mine Workers of America, led the fight on Communists in the American Federa- tion of Labor as represented by William F. Dunne. Lewis sponsored a series of anti-Communist ar- ticles that were published by the entire reactionary labor press. Members of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party were expelled because of their affilia- tion and at the last convention of the union the administration made the Communists and their activities the major issue. In the face of all this the left wing, led by the Communists, registers the greatest gains ever made and appears as a mighty force in the biggest union in the American Federation of Labor. We stop here to give three rousing cheers for the militant miners who have given the kind of a reply that counts to the lies of Lewis, Murray, Green and other tools of the capitalists and the capitalist state in the American trade union move- ment. Yes, there IS a real and rapid growth of the Com- unist-led left wing in the unions: © * sy, Coolidge and Hoover have another plan to “help the farmers.” Our advice to the farmers is to see that the chicken coop and granary doors are locked every night. YALUABLES: IN KIEV MONASTERY ARE DISCOVERED Counter - Revolutionary Plot Brot to Light (Special to Hi Dail KIEV, Feb. 8.—In his interview with the Pravda representative, Re- tau, the chief of the Kiev state intelli- gence department, Comrade Ivanov stated that already last*spring, his de- partment got to know that part of the church treasures which ought to have been given up in 1922\during the famine, were concealed’ fn the Kiev- Pechersk monastery. “Most of these valuables were buried im the ground and sealed up in cellars. On Dec, 16, the state inéélligence de- partment began the séhrch for these valuables which lasted séveral days and nights. There were brought to light 350 carats diamonds, 50 carats uncut diamonds, scores of carats of rubies, sapphires and pedfls, one and a half poods gold (one/pood 36 Eng- lish lbs.) 1 pood ducat-gold, 40 poods silver, etc. Search Reveals Church Plots. Among the things which were found there was also a considerable number of various church property: priests’ vestments, covers, altar vessels and two bags full of bonds. It is charac- teristic that the monks did not pay heed to the “sacredness” of the ob- jects: gold patens were buried in lat- rines, cups were hidden in a box con- taining gold drain-pipes, panagies (im- ages worn round the neck by bishops) and diamonds were found buried in the garden of the Kitaey Soviet farm, 25 verts from Kiev. Among the things which were found there was also a voluminous counter- revolutionary correspondence with the Patriarch Tikhon and other prominent opponents of the Soviet. ‘government such as Antonious Khrapovitsky. Monks Starve Midst Wealth. These treasures Were: hidden by Archimandrite Clement, ‘the monas- try’s business manager. \His helpers were—the Archimandrite Macarius and the Abbot Eustratius. Fifteen people, belonging to ‘the “upper stratum” of the monastery have been arrested. The ordinary monks did not know anything about these misdeeds of the monastery “Soviet.” They expressed their profound indignation when the treasures were brot to light, for ac- cording to their accounts, some of the inmates died last year of starvation, while their superiors_ al verything in plenty. Nome Holding Its Own in Fight on Diphtheria Plague NOME, Alaska, Féebj-8—This far northern isolated city is holding its own in a fight against diptheria. No new cases have been officially 're- ported and Dr. Curtis Welch, Nome’s lone physician, declared today he thot rushing of antitoxin here by airplane would assure completé ‘checking of the plague. jae Work of making the’ trail from Ne- nana to Nome for the “aviators was started today by signal men. Ekimos Suffer. A pathetic story was related by the authorities today ‘when an Eskimo family was discovered with one child Worker) dead, and five other children suffering with the disease. The father was found making a crude coffin, from scrap lumber in the same room where the five victims were critically ill. Transport Workers Released. ALABAMA, Feb. 8.— 13 seamen arrested during the on the hall of the Marine Transport ‘kers at Mo- bile in November hav been released. AS WE SEE iT |\CLEVELAND HOLDS! | oevounces pouceman By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) is sitting precariously on his throne. The fact that the left wing vote was cast for men barely known outside of their own districts is proof that the vote was a real left wing vote for the left wing program and not a tribute to some popular leader, as might be said had Alexander Howat been running. in ‘HE old Minneapolis Trades and Labor, Assembly is abolished. This is the only way the Communists could be gotten rid of, as The DAILY WORKER pointed out when the fak- ers failed to oust Dan Stevens in their first attempt. But the Communists are not easy to get rid of. The capi- talists have learned this to their -cost and the labor fakers will not be any more successful. Paul J. Smith, the dictator from Washington, has not yet granted the new Minneapolis Central Labor Union a charter, The funny thing about the situation is that Robly. D. Cramer, who led the successful fight to oust Dan Stevens is now go- ing to be repaid by the fakers with the loss of his job just as soon as Smith succeeds in putting the bosses’ stoolpigeon, Lewis Harthill, former chief of police under Van Lear, over as editor. oe 8 ‘HIS is the usual - reward of the renegade. Cramer played with the radicals until he saw his meal ticket jeopardized. Then he went the way Fitzpatrick and Nockels in the Chica- go Federation of Labor went, and BR. B. Ault, of the Seattle Uniofi Record. When two fakirs want the same job there is liable to be trouble. Hart- hill, who is now editing a scandal sheet called Minnesota and acting as stoolpigeon for the employers in de- nouncing every radical worker in Minneapolis to the bosses, wants to edit the Labor Review. Harthill is working with Smith. One ‘of the clauses in the new constitution provid~ es that the editor of the Labor Review shall not act as an officer of the Cen: tral Labor Union or act as a dele- gate from that body. Cramer is get< ting the reward of his treachery sud< den and sure. Anna Louise Strong, Writer and Lecturer, Returns from Russia (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Anna Louise Strong, under the pen name, Anise, is in New York after two years’ so- journ in Russia and lectured at Com- munity church on Sunday evening on her observations in the land of the Soviets, where she lived in everyday | contact with the workers and saw their rapid progress in field and fac- tory and schoolroom, \She will tour this country to lec-| ture on the John Reed Children’s col- ony, one of the most interesting edu-}! cational centers in Russia. Her dates in the immediate future will bring her to Boston, and New Bedford, Mass., and to Bloomington, Ill, after which she goes to Chicago, where she lec- tures before the Chicago Women’s club on March 11, and before the Fri- day morning forum in the same city on March 13. She will return to Rus- sia. Movies for Workers South Bend, Theater, 1125 W. Division St., Feb. 11. St. Paul, Minn.—444 Rice St., Feb. 20. Milwaukee, March 7. San Francisco, March 21. Ind.—White Eagle Wis.—Pabst Theater, When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WOR KER. 6d at ‘this affair. MASS MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT To Talk Fight Against Bosses’ Offensive CLEVELAND, Feb. 8. — A mass meeting ‘against unemployment, wage cuts and open shop drives has been called by the Cleveland Workers Par- ty for Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 8 p. m., in the Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union Hall, 2182 Hast 9th St. Jobs are scarce in this city and the employment agencies and offices are crowded daily with men seeking a chance to make-some profit for the boss in return for the price of a meal ‘or two; but the chances are few and far between, , % Not All Rosy. The building industry is fairly busy Dramatic League, the Modern School have been unable to connect with a job for weeks.at a time. The cloth- ing manufacturers have taken advant- age of the poor state of the market in order to. wring concessions from the Amalgamated, Clothing Workers, both in the way of increased output, and actual reduction of pay. A Danger to All. To those fortunate to have fairly steady work, and to those whose con- dition is better because of the pro- tection of their union, unemployment is a vital problem because no work- er is Sure of escaping longer or short- er periods of no work; and because the existence of a large army of un- employed constitutes a danger to or- ganization and a great handicap to the maintenance and improvement of living ‘standards. Under the slogan of “A United Front of Labor Against the ‘Capitalist Offensive,” the Workers Party of Cleveland, calls upon the workers of Cleveland, employed and unemployed,, to-join in this meeting of protest against the unemployment situation; and.of action towards the meeting of this great evil. of capitalism. GOOD EATS SURE FOR CLEVELAND BANQUET FEB, 15 (Special to The Daily Worker) " CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 8.—Sunday, Feb, 15, 6:00 p. m., is the time; the place is ‘the Pythian Castle, 1624 Hast 80) 55th, between Payne and Superior; the occasion, banquet and enetertain- ment by local Cleveland, Workers Party.” The committee has secured the services of experts in the cooking art who promise to prepare a meal which will be fit for a true fighter in the stru le for working-class emancipa- . Following the “eats,” there will general good time, with after- imner speeches, music and some ex- tra surprises in the line of entertain- ment. = Sympathizers and friends of the party: as well as. members are expect- To insure reserva- tion) the office should be notified no later than Wednesday, by calling Ran- dolph 4065, or dropping a line to 5928 Euclid Ave., Room. 13. In the afternoon, before the ban- quet, @ general membership meeting will be held, at the same location, starting at 2 p.m. All party members are expected to attend this meeting whether they are able to remain for the banquet or not. Alfred Wagen- knecht, district organizer, will take up the united front campaigns now being conducted by the party; and Herbert Benjamin will report on the shop nucleus; following which the meeting will be open for discussion on the ex- tremely important question of party reorganization. FOR BRUTALITY, EDITOR 18 THROWN INTO PRISON VIRGIN ISLANDS, Feb. 8.—Roths- child Francis, editor of the Emanel- pator was convicted of criminal libel on Jan. 10 and sentenced: to 30 days in prison for the publication of an article denouncing an un- named policeman for brutality. Francis was tried without jury by Judge Washington Williams, whom Francis has opposed _ politically. The case will be appealed. PRESIDENT MAY FIRE WILBUR IN AIRCRAFT ROW Has Long Been at ‘Outs’ ... with Navy Head WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8.—That President Coolidge may take advan- tage of the quarrel over aircraft now going on between army and navy of- ficers, to dismiss Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, is being rumored here today. Coolidge has not forgotten that Wilbur went against the Coolidge tactics toward the southern Negroes on a speaking tour some months ago. At that time Wilbur was hastily recal- ley by Coolidge, after the navy secre- tary had declared the republican party a champion of the southern Ne- gro. Coolidge has followed Harding's policy of agreeing with southern democrats that the Negroes should not have social equality. A weeks ago Wilbur appeared before the congresisonal committee investigat- ing the war machine of ‘the country, and declared it “untenable and ridicu- lous” to think that an airship could destroy a battleship. Wilbur told the committee that Coolidge was opposed to an independent, and a larger air service. Coolidge, however, refused to con- firm Wilbur’s statement, and intimat- ed that Wilbur “went too far” in speaking for Coolidge. Now that Brigadier General Mitch- ell has created a row by charging the war and navy departments with ineffi- ciency, Coolidge may take advantage of the probe and dismiss Wilbur. Call on Liberals to Pack the C. P. P. A. in Chicago « on Feb. 21 WASHINGTON, | Feb. 8—Two hun- dred individual liberals have been in- vited to take part in the national con- ference for progressive political ac- tion in Chicago on Feb. 21. Hamilton Finally Arrives. LONDON.—The aviator Hamilton, who was reported missing following his ettempt to fly from Milan, Italy, over the Alps, has arrived safely at St. Moritz, Switzerland, word from there said today. - PREFERENCE SHOWN FOR U. $. DOLLARS IN FIGHT FOR SO, AFRICAN MINES CAPE TWON, South Africa, Feb. 8.—A diamond war between Ameri- can and British interests was seen today by mine owners in the re- ported offer of an American syndi- cate to purchase the entire output of the Debeers’ Premier Diamond mines. J. P. Morgan, the New York financier, was said to be Interested in the American syndicate. Hereto- fore the output of the Debeers’ mines has been sold to an English syndica' Herrin War Heritage of Fight on Miners (Continued frame from ae 1) pussy-footers. Some! of the officials are just plain scared and others of them are in polities ‘and looking for jobs.” er Phase of ClassiStruggle. Taken by and the klan and counter-klan fight in Williamson coun- ty can be said to be therely a phase of the class struggléeff Without ques- tion, Glenn Young represented inter- ests who were chéaffing under the strain caused by the solid organiza- tion of the southern Illinois miners. Even the mine union officials, referred to above, who talked with the utmost caution, said there was ground to be- lieve an under current of wage cut Propaganda is at work here. They wouldn’t talk about the klan. They merely said that m: who are mem- bers of the klan led as soon as their members| es to light. They make no eff find out who are members and are not and they haven't, they cial position reg: ferent sources WORKER came in leged that even were members of Precisely what particular interests sent Young to Herrin cannot be prov- Dit- the DAILY t with al- en. But Young was obviously pos- ing when he said he came to clean up the county. The mere fact that his immediate following was composed for the most part, of thugs and old- time boozers makes his expressed in- tentions ridiculous,’ And more than one miner's wife was known to. have complained about the “good stuff” her husband got in Glenn Young’s “soft drink” parlor on W., Madison street, Herrin, God's Army With Young. Whoever sent him to Herrin sent him to make trouble. He made plen- ty. He got the whole riff-raff of the county behind him. And in addition he got the preachers, With the ex- ception of one or two and the catholic priest, every man of god in town was preaching klanism from his pulpit and making a hero of Glenn Young. Un- der Young's leadership the klan man- euvered into every office in the coun- ty except the sheriff's. They are try- ing to get that now. . If they do, there is no telling what-will happen to the United Mine Workers, While the most of the mineps and especially the foreign born mini are belligerent ‘enowgh against the klan in Williamsorcounty, they have no leadership. ‘Their own officials are either klansmen or spineless. With Ora Thomas gone and the sheriff go- ing, the miners are on the way to be- ing made the victims of whole sale campaigns by klansmen in complete control.of the county. In a conversation with some min- ers in West Frankfort, in Franklin county, next to Williamson, the DAILY WORKER was told: “Any- time the men in Herrin need any help, we're all ready.” One prominent min- er in West Frankfort said, “If Sheriff Gallagan .would send out a call to-/|'T morrow he conld get six thousand men from this county to go in there and help him... . Young's Successor. The killing of Glenn Young and Ora Thomas by no means settles the issue in Williamson county. Things are like- ly, 4f anything, to be far worse than before. John L. Whiteside, the new klan leader, told the reporter as he at at his desk in his garage office, ‘Just because Glenn's gone, don't matter.” He was playing with a big colt automatic and was surrounded by a half dozen not so nice looking pharacters who, smirked when he said it. The fact that Governor Small was the state administration is perfeatly willing to let the klan run the coun- ty. The last reports from Spring- field state that Sheriff Gallagan has agreed to leave the state, Gallagan is in conference with the governor and a committee of klansmen sent by the county board of supervisors, all of om but one, is a klansman. Galla- has agreed to let Deputy Sheriff Parks take over his office. But when, saw Parks this afternoon, he said he would not under any circumstances take the post of acting sheriff. Miners Quitting Klan. Many miners haye recently quit, the Klan, They are beginning to get their eyes open. There are very miners in the klan now, altho at @ great many flocked in. If any lead- ers spring up there are some terrible bi in store for Williamson. The miners are being hard hit in more ways than one. Most of the mines are not working in southern Illinois. ‘The reason is that coal orders are be- ing concentrated in the non-union flelds of Kentucky and elsewhere. Three more mines have shut down in the past few days. If this condition keeps up and it is further aggravated by ‘outside support to the anti-labor klan forces, as will probably be ‘the case, the Lester mine be a skirmish compared to that will follow on such