The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1925, Page 1

- Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Vol. Il. No. 26. ‘AS WE SFF_IT _ By T. J. O'FLA fH g eee F Wall Street ever king would look ington than a mere ‘pir. ror have at its disposal two funkeys-trau. ed in the art of wearing black silk knee breeches. They are, George Har- vey and the present American am- bassador at London, Mr. Kellog. The latter gave a dinner to the king of England, not that the king needed it, but Kellog is leaving for the United States to take over Charles Hughes’ job and he thought it only proper that he should show the king what a yankee could do in or around the court of Saint James. se * HE women who wore tight shoes were not pleased because the king did not sit down after he rose from the dining table. Because the king did not sit nobody else did. If the king had sported a pair of bunions, chiro- podists would go out of business, such is the devotion of our American paras- ites in England to royalty. Bunions would become as popular as cross- word puzzles are now. te ee ARREN S. STONE, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and chairman of the man- aging board of the scab Coal Rivers Colleries company has called a con- ference of the chief executives of the sixteen standard railroad labor organ- izations, to take place in Chicago on February 20, the day prior to the con- vention of the conference for progres- sive politictl action. Stone was one of the founders of the C. P. P. A. but it appears that he is not very proud of his offspring. The announced in- tention of the meeting is in Stone’s words: “for the purpose of defining and outlining their position in so far as their further activities and con- nection -with the conference for pro- gressive political action are concern- ed.” The prospects are not very bright for the poor C: P. P, A. It may be turned over to the socialists in return for their self sacrifice in burying the socialist party. ** © public is: miniously out of the reichstag be- cause of his involvement in the Bar- met scandal. Another scandal has been unearthed in the post office. A leak of $15,000,000 took place under the Marx-Stresemann regime. The in- dustrialists are accused of forcing the government to turn over the gigantic sum of $500,000,000 to them while the passive resistance war took place in the Ruhr, se € ‘HIS at a time when the workers were toiling one extra hour for nothing in order to carry on the fight against Poincare. There is more trouble in store for the industrialists and for the social democrats who stood by them against the Com- munists, the only elements that sup- ported the workers against the coal and steel barons. ss ‘HE capitalist papers all over the world thought they saw in the controversy between Trotsky and the central committee of the Communist Party, the beginning of a severe crisis in the Soviet government. But despite the services of their stoolpigeons they do not yet realize what a highly dis- ciplined organization the Communist Party of Russia is. It is the party that forms the government by the mandate of the workers and pea- sants. . sr 8 HEN Trotsky lost the confidence of the Communist Party, as the Soviet Union Review points out, his offer of resignation from his position as president of the revolutionary. war council was accepted. But he is still a member of the Communist Party, and the entire party, which has over half a million members supported the, central committee of the party so wholeheartedly that the counter revo- lutionary hope of a split in the Com- munist Party has gone a glimmering. Soviet Russia was never so strong either industrially or politically as it is today. This is good news for the workers of the world. th die J 'VEN one of the most reactionary papers in England, John Bull, ad- mits this. This paper in its issue of (Continued on Page 6.) 17 CITIES SHOW JUMP IN RETAIL COST OF FOOD IN JANUARY WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—The re- tall cost of food took a jump In 17 cities during January, ranging one per cent to 4 per cent the depart- ment of labor announced today. Louisville and Peoria had an in- crease of 3 per cent; while Detroit, Indianapolis and Springfield, (1il.,) incre two per cent, ranma oe SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Pp R wegnte ee 150 | sey county division of the farmer-labor federation; the fake unity manifesto is an anti-Communist document, an editorial is devoted to attacking the Workers (Communist) Party, and a is reproducecd in six point type. It is an effective scorching of Mahoney's position. and the only reason Mahoney published it in his paper is to prove ITALIAN FASCIST COUNCIL TAKES for an international alllanes of fascists, it was announced today. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. UNITED FRONT AGAINST WAGE CUTS CALLS UPON LAWRENCE > TEXTILE WORKERS FOR ACTION (Special to The Daily Worker) BH, Mass., Feb. 9.—A big mass meeting of textile workers in Paden Theatre here on Friday night unanimously resolved to ‘euts and the speeding-up system, to compel the amalgamation of al exltting textile workers’ unions into one industrial union, and to assist the striking textile workers of neighboring towns. United Front Committee at Lawrence. The meeting was calléd by the Lawrence United Front Committee for the first pay-day of the new reduced wage scalé, which the workers com- memorated with this outburst of pro- test. MAHONEY T0 BE The united front committee is com- posed of about thirty members rep- resenting the Franco-Belgian Club (a Fakers Are Gunning for His Scalp workers’ organization which functions (Special to The Daily Worker) as a labor union), an Italian work- ers’ group, a Syrian workers’ group, ST. PAUL, Minn. Feb. 9.—The Communists of St, Paul are causing ues Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at, t " WEDNESDAY, a French-Canadian workers’ group and four branches of Workers (Com- munist) Party. This town, the,scene of such heroic struggles of the past twelve years, including the world-fam- ous strike, of 1912, that of 1919 and that of 1922, is today practically with- out the slightest fragment of a union as much excitement in the dove cote of the reactionaries in the labor move- ment here as the radicals in the city across the river. William Mahoney, erstwhile progres- sive, has taken it upon himself to rid the farmer-labor party, or what is left of it, of the Communists, His sue- organization. Robett Minor, the principal speak- er, representing the Workers (Com- munist) Party, appealed to the textile workers to revive the old traditions of Lawrence as a stronghold of the fight- ing kind of working class. Pointing out that 70,000 workers in New Hng- land cotton mills had already been struck by the wage cut, Minor said cecss in doing so is not likely to bring that the plan of the employers constt- him any laurels more comfortable Daeditens wie pate: Py iee ta kas te tarteniee sibel bn er the whole living standard of an pleane. entire working class population. “It Mahoney's heart was set on getting rid of Otto Wangerin, secretary of the Ramsey county division of the farmer-labor federation. at its recent convention on Jan. 31, But when the votes were couhted Wangerin was wearing his characteristic smile and Mahoney wore the face of a “Jiggs” who met his “Maggie” at the door while trying to sneak over to Dinty is called a 10 per cent reduction,” said Minor, “but that is deceptive. The Moore’s for a game of forty-five with the boys. straight cut often runs as high as 26 Wangerin Re-elected. per cent, and even that is not the worst. A Fifty Per Cent Cut! In other words, Comrade Wangerin was reelected. This caused Mr. Ma- to wal ice loudly. and ioe in the “Down in Providence and in Natick the B. B. & R, Knight Co. has cut the ‘weavers’ piece work scale 50 per cent. They have been using old machinery. Now they have put in new maga- zine looms, and they are trying to force the weavers to run twice as many looms as before, speeding up beyond human endurance. “But here in Lawrence it will be dividends in the yelira, 1915-1920 and *watéred its stock to three times the tavestment—is not satisfied in reduc- ing’your pay 10 per cent. They are now preparing to put im the 72-loom | System. One weaver is to take charge not of 16 or 32 looms, but 72! Double Work For Less Pay. “T understand furthermore that the Pacific Mills here have begun to force the spinners to take 18-size spindles instead of 9-size. All of this means that they are determined to get, not merely the same amount of produc- tion for less pay, but double the amount of production for less pay. What “Going Slowly” Means. “Now, what are you going to do about it? There have been some plans offered. Mr. Wm. T. MeMahon, pres- ident of the United Textile Workers, is said to have made proposals as to what to do about it. I hope I don’t do him an injustice, but he is qhoted as proposing an appeal to the United States senate, to the general court of Massachusetts and to the so-called ‘civic bodies’ of business men and church ladies. The policy is also at- tributed to him of ‘going slowly’ about this matter. most devilish habit of nosing in whe they. did not belong vee “fooling” the’ workers. Why the ein iaka persisted. ‘in lecting Wangerin, Mahoney does not jay, tho he sincerely believes they are not revolutionists. To add to Mahoney’s mental anguish Wangerin ‘ntroduced a resolution condemning he so-called “unity conference” called vy the reactionaries for the purpose of liquidating the federation as a labor political party and making it respect- able in the bourgeois sense, The reso- tution caused so much discussion that no action was taken on it until the next meeting. Mahoney as Red Balter. The DAILY WORKER is getting under Mr. Mahoney's political hide. In the current issue of his paper, a leading story on the front page is taken up with an attack on Wangerin, the Communist secretary of the Ram- signed statement by Mahoney replies Going Slowly Means Going to Defeat. “What does that ‘going slowly’ mean? I'll tell you what looks bad about it. You know there is a popu- lar belief that in the textile industry if a strike is put off thru January and February, and then March, after that there is no strike. I don’t know what there may be in the theory, but it is the belief of this country based on its past experience. Then what does this advice to ‘go slowly’ in February with wages already cut—what does this advice mean? It sounds as tho Mr. McMahon doe8 not want any re- sistence to be. made to the cuts. Wh friend is he? Is he organiz- ing ‘civic bodies’ of church ladies to attend to your affairs? Why is there no organization—rapid organization of textile workers going on? The church of | ladies are too busy spending the divi- dends of their husbands’ textile stocks. You will have to depend on yourselves. “You will have to depend on your- selves in organizing yourselves. In this crisis you cannot afford to make any concessions to the petty. ambi- tions—or worse-—of this or that labor leader who hi job as head of some one of the dozen varieties of labor un- fons which claim to be the whole show but which have only a fragment of organization—and in this city n organization whatever. I don’t want to attack any labor union, I don’t take , (Continued on page 2) to a ‘recent article in the DAILY WORKER by Earl R. Browder, en- titled, “Mahoney—Agent of Minnesota Bankers.” Comrade Browder’s article to the capitalists that the Lodiiamniate SPRINGFIELD, Il, Feb, 9—Watch, dogs of the state treasury. came back office until July 1.” ‘The attorney general says the sum oto or pte sao 1, 1925, > Charge Against Workers Falls. BARCELONA.—A re-check of the accounts of the telephone company here today showed that the charge of embezzlement of five million pese- tas against employes was incorrect, the company jounced, The em- ployes who were arrested ed, UP QUESTION OF WORLD ALLIANCE PERN RED - ROME, Feb; 4aescrnat bn eounell will dlecape:nprepoeal this week i SEATTLE FAKERS CENTRAL COUNCIL Trades Council for Michigan Defense (Special to’ The Dally Worker) SEATTLE, Wash., (By Mail)—The Central Labor Council was packed last Wednesday night by the reactionaries in the grand. Opening of the fight to expel the Col nists from the coun- cil. Delegateg from two locals; Team- sters 174, and Plumbers 32, that had not been affiliated with the central body for “a ears were lined up during the ek and when they ap- peared to take the pledge on Wednes- day night the favors applauded vigor- ously. Several : 2 of the Seattle Union Record*ate devoted to the at- tack on the Communists. It appears that E. B. Ault, editor of the privately owned alleged 1 ‘labor sheet has made a better job going over to the enemy than 1} prototype; Robly D. Cramer of Mitheapolis. The Seattle Record is nO Tonger owned by the Central Labor Union. it is owned’ by a@ profit making concern, the central body selling endorsement for $165,000.. Thig is the extent of the Record’s labor character. The lead in the attack on the Communisis taken by the react- jonary Building Trades Council, which met the previon: week and arranged to bring the plumbers and teamsters But “it will ‘one night ‘to do that pers Bible af Steamfitters Local iber of the executive State Federation of the radicals demanded autora. Ene action representative 473, and a council of Widels gives central bodies power to oust any delegate against whom written; charges are preferred by three membérs, but provides that a trial be givemthe accused member. According ta@* the Seattle Union Record, which seems to be on the inside of the conspiracy, the faction that leg. the fight against the Com- munists at the: last meeting of the council, were busily engaged Thurs- day morning following, preparing writ- ten charges ,egainst half a dozen of the Communist members of the coun- cil. _ It is rather significant that William J. Tracey, secretary-treasurer of the building tradea department of the American Federation of Labor and John Coefield, president of the Plumb- ers and Steamfitters International Union, are here on their way to San Francisco. Metal Trades Fight Gag Law The Seuttle Labor Record, ‘publish-. ed interviews with several labor fakers who are opposed to any kind of radicalism but did not publish a line from any delegates who support- ed the Communists. The M. T. Coun- eil, passed a resolution condemning the criminal syndicalism laws ‘and urging the Central Labor Counc‘l to protest the action of the Michigan state supreme court and pledge sup- port to Michigan victjms of criminal syndicalism laws, There were ‘thirty new delegates rushed in at the last meeting to take part in the attack on the Communists. They were from the plum®ers and steamfitters; teamsters, taxi drivers; garbage wagon drivers; card and label league; molders and pressmen. This tg about the composition of the re- actionary “majority.” WI ORRE it Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. EBRUARY 11, 1925 «agg» Publish CHARGE WARDEN SOLD SOFT BERTHS 10 RICH ~ CONVICTS I ATLANTA ({Speclal to The Daily Worker) ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 9.—Trial of A. E. Sartain, former warden and L. J. Fletcher, former assistant warden, at the United States prison here, were ordered today by Judge | Irwin after he had listened to a lengthy argument by attorneys for the defense, who had demanded a continuance. Sartain and Fletcher are being tried under indictment charging they solicited and accepted bribes from prisoners in return for soft berths. COAL BARONS PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. ORGANIZE SCAB UNION TN W.VA. Treason and Reaction Wrecks U. Mi. W. of A. (Special to The Daily Worker) CHARLESTOWN, W. Va., Feb. 9.— While John L. Lewis and his reaction- ary machine were engaged in waging war on the radicals in the United Mine Workers of America, the coal operators were busy destroying the union In West Virginia. Today, noth- ing is left 6f the union but a skeleton of its former self in this stronghold of open shoppers and black reaction. Coincident with the announcement that Wall Street was putting thru a $100,000,000 coal merger in the Fair- mont-Clarksburg-Morgantown district, came the news that a fake labor u ion under the name of the “Mine Workers’ Association of West Vir- ginia” had taken out a charter at the office of secretary of state. The pres!- dent of this scab union is Thomas Cairns, a former president of District The Labor Lieutenant. Evidently Cairns is the labor leu- \tenart of the coal operators, He has his fake unjom and -an-}— nounced that the object ofthe asso- ciation was to “preserve the.,coal in- dustry of the state from destruction” and the incorporation would show good faith and convince operators that when negotiating wage contracts the association “would be responsible for faithful performance of contractors.” This stoolpigeon, in a public state- ment, undoubtedly written by the at- torney for the coal operators, say: “It has been established in the courts and elsewhere that there has been a con- spiracy to cripple production of the ¢oal mines in West Virginia” and tells of the tent colonies all over the state where the strixing miners and their children are huddled in cold and hunger. These gallant unionists have battled for years against the most bloodthirsty and heartless group of ex- ploiters in the United States. Yet Lewis and company instead of assist- ing them have spent thousands of dol- (Continued on page 6) Two Probes Into Train Wreck That Took Six Lives KANSAS CITY, Kan., Feb. 9.—With one investigation baffled, two others got under way today to seek the cause of the wreck of Missouri Pacific pas- senger train No. 104, which side- swiped a freight near Nearman, Kan- sas, late Saturday with the loss of six lives. The death of Kenneth Bunker, soldier, at Fort Leavenworth, Sunday, made the sixth death. The i5 injured were improving to- day. An unofficial inquiry by the railroad ,failed to find any cause for the wreck, reporting the road and equipment in good condition and that engineer Mar- vin Wodell was running within his schedule speed. PHILADELPHIA CEMENT WORKERS, LOCAL 592, DENOUNCE CRIMINAL SYNDICALIST LAW, MICHIGAN CASES - (Special to The Daily Worker) * PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 9.—Cement Finishers’ Local No. 692, at their regular meeting, with about 400 members present, unanimortsly passed a resolution protesting against the criminal syndicalist law in Michigan under which C, E. Ruthenberg, secretary of the Workers Party, was found guilty of “assembling with” the Communists and sentenced to prison for a period of from 3 to 10 years, Dunne and 28 other men and women active in the Jabor movement, are about to be triod under this law, and unless the labor movement takes de- finite steps toocombat this law and come to the defense of the Michigan cases, a precettént will be set, after which any militant labor leader can be railroaded to prison for actively participating incthe interests of the workers, Members of the Trade Union Educational League who introduced the resolution pointed out that Robert Minor, William Z, Foster, William F, CLAIM “RED” RUSSIANS MAN AN ARMORED TRAIN FOR SUN YAT SEN PEKING, Feb. 10.—Consular reports from Canton today stated that Sun Yat Sen's troops are being assisted against Chen Chiung Ming's forces by an armored train consisting of a locomotive and two cars manned entirely OY “red” Russians, NEW YORK EDITION ed Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKHUR Washington Bivd, Chicago, 1, Price 3 Cents WASHINGTON CONFESSES PARIS PAGT DRAWING U. $. INTO DAWES PLAN CHANGED AFTER SIGNING (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 9$.—Official admission was made by the state department today that certain textual changes were made in the Paris agreement, under which the United States be- came an official partner in the Dawes plan in exchange for 2% per cent of the revenues received, some days after it was origin- ally signed at Paris by Ambassador Kellogg and the allied repre- sentatives. These changes, however, were of “little consequence,” it was said at the department, and changed neither the context nor the ultimate purpose of the agreement. After the agreement was signed, the state department ex~ plained, it was found that certain “obvious errors” were con- tained in the language, whereupon the delegates re-assembled Ship Sinks; Drowning 17. LONDON, Feb. 9.—Seventeen per- sons were drowned when the steamer Kilidini sank, Lloyds received word today. Information of the sinking reached Bombay, but the location was not it. Children Lack Schools of the changes as “incidental” and other treaty charges by this agree-|¢ighteen months of profit scooping, Secretary Hughes has contended|who must use the miserable cattle and also fail to fulfil said contracts, many of the buildings having the ap red during the administration of The visitor is greeted with a large sit company’s family. wage workers in their factories in- transferred to P. S. No. 5, an anti- past few months the kluxers had ®} companies these mililons of dollars it, a 10 an ni ot sb ey Baan Ber are demanding for the children of for Billy Sunday and the holders of number of the union members, creat- | sive. and agreed upon a protocol to correct these errors. The second meeting was hedged about with ¢——-___________—_- considerable secrecy, and it was only a few days ago that press TRACTION GANG Knowledge that the agreement was COLLECTS HUGE changed after its adoption, and after the official textyhad been given world- } wide publication, served to increase | the suspicion with which the senate irreconcilables viewed the whote transaction. “unimportant” was calculated today (Special to The Daily Worker) to allay this suzpicion aad forestall} NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Licking their any further outbreak in the senate|chops in happy contentment after hav- such as occurred some days ago. ing collected $690,362 from the city for One of the changes made was they alleged failure to dig a few shovelfulre insertion of a clause stating that Amer-) of dirt in the B-M. T. subway near ica should get its 2% per cent “after | Brodway in alleged fulfillment of con- ment.” the traction barons are now eyeing a This change had the effect today of | Still bisger gold nugget in the lap of further convincing the irreconcilable | the city valued at a bit in excess of senators like Johnson, republican, of $30,000,000¢ California, that the Paris agreement Easier Way to Get Shekels. really is “a treaty” and consequently! The traction interests have played should be submitted to the senate for |iong and successfully at the game of that the agreement was not a “treaty,”|cars going to and coming from work, and thus was of no concern to the|but while this game has netted the se) ate. " fatlings’ millions of dollars every month theré appear's to be w still eas- ier way to rake in the shekels, Being DUBU QUE, 10) IOWA, in possession of the city government it is rather easy to have said govern- WiLL SEE § 0 Ni I; whereupon the barons sue and collect. Digrified judges sit high above the IK common-herd and grant anything the bosses ask for. Sa Much satisfaction was expressed by DUBUQUE, Io,, Feb. 9.—This town] the counsel, J. W. Hilly, who repre- sented the city in the first suit over the pearance of age and neglect. There rain ua quite ‘a large number of big | Mayor Mitchell. So it was not the ‘actories that make it look like a bee }rault of the present Palm Beaching at and the reports given by the mayor. That should be balm enough workers as to conditions makes the e t f wax fat at the expense of sweated dollar steal, 9 matter so small that it, will not pay for more than a couple ot} sign board at the railroad depot sta- ting the population is 42,181; factories 120; wholesale houses 40; churches Te wowld he eres? amd evade tn: pemee 33; academics 4; colleges 3; univers- out that the pending suit for $30,000,~ ities 1; semitaries 1: parks 8: and 000 is on the basis of contract breach, railroads 4. “4 “i * | under Mayor Hylan. How can Hilly) get comfort out of that? But maybe Upon another sign board they ad- the traction gang can. In the meantime 170 school childrem creased 18.3 per cent and production 133.0 per cent. This shows the pros- pective factory site seeker that Dubu-|@ted building at Webster avenue kue wage slaves are speeded up over | #84 188th street, the Bronx. j one hundred per cent. Investigate the Children, . The city is estimated to be 50 per} ‘These impudent school lads anf cent Roman catholic, about 15 per cent | jassies got it into their heads that if, strong organization. A counter move’ can also make provision for a di ect cae sss gp netted school house. There may be som which promised to publish the names |Dolshevik_kids 10 the case at hand, of cvery kluxer in town. They pub- ini call ix Fa ren and not the robbers get’ the first chance now the paper has ceased publication. abe payne a K hee K, America a more civilized treatment. Lie Meagelleanty + The authorities are investigating The ‘result of these names being | ihe school children—not the traction publistied in a catholic community | tnioves, started a boycott. Every littie “hero” white slaves, against the jesuits, black slave, foreign devils or reds, came out of his hole and hollered in large type that he was not and never had been a kluxer, ing a bitter factionalism that has com- pletely demoralized the niovement, A few of the old-time socialists and at least one wobbly havo joined the kluxers, dispatches from abroad told of Barons Sit Pretty ‘As The state department’s explanation the deductions of sums allotted for} tract, the failure causing a delay of ratification. collecting nickels from the workers ment make contracts with the barons gives the impression of being old, fact that the Broadway fumble occur- workers. sprees of one of the dudes in the tran vertise that between 1910 and 1920 have gone on strike against being are foreign born, and up until the jing city can pay over to the traction’ Lishedyabout 50, the Srst week, cien in the workers’ republic of Russia and that had prontised to save his country The kiifxers have roped in quite a (Continued on Poge 4.) Fever in Famine District, DUBLIN.--A mild fever developed today among sufferers in the famine districts. The fever has been term- ed “flu,” but physicians in the west of Ireland said it was due to malnu- trition, Children Die In, Fire TUSTIN, Mich., Feb. 9—Dewoy, 4, and Mable, 3, childgen of Mr. and Mrs, Oman Waters, are dead today, vietins of a fire which destroyed the family home. The parents had left the ehilds 4 ian ven alone in the home, bea \