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lly Page Two GLEVELAND WILL HOLD BiG SAGCO- VANZETTI MEET Labor Unions Unite with W. P. in Protest CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 9. — That the workers of Cleveland are deeply interested in securing freedom for their fellow workers, Sacco and Van- zetti, is demonstrated by the response to the call issued by the Workers Par- ty of Cleveland far a great mass meet- ing and demonstration for the release of Sacco and Vanzetti, and against all persecutions of workers. This meeting will be held on Sun- day evening, March 1, in the En- gineers’ Auditorium, Ontario and St. Clair Aves., and preparations are be- ing made for a packed house. Many Unions Respond. The labor organizations of Cleve- land have been circularized with an invitation to a united front confer- ence February 13 in the Labor Temple, 2586 Euclid Ave., to further the ar- rangements for this great demonstra- tion of working class solidarity, and already many unions have been heard from favorably. All working class or- ganizations are urged to send dele- gates to this conference, and every militant must be on the job to see that his organization supports this meet- ing to the fullest extent. The following resolution was adopt- ed unanimously by Local No. 195, Auto Workers’ Union: “WHERDAS, the real reasons for the persecution of these workingmen are their ploitical opinions and their activity in the labor movement, and therefore their conviction and contin- ued imprisonment are in violation of freedom of thought and expression, and the right of organization, upon which the organized labor movement is based, therefore be it “RESOLVED, that we demand the release of Sacco and Vanzetti and con- demn the perversion of justice by the courts as exhibited in this case, and be it further “RESOLVED, that this resolution be given the widest publicity.” THE DAILY, WORKER PITTSBURGH MACHINIST LODGE CONDEMNS C. P. P. A. AND BACKS WORKERS PARTY UNITED FRONT (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH. Pa., Feb. 9.—Pitts' Bill Johnston’s co-operation with the burgh machinists are not only against bosses on the railroad and in the in- dustries, but are showing signs of knowledge that his unity with the bosses politically is just as dangerous to the workers. The medium of this political unity is the conference for progressive political action, Both of these are the pet schemes of Bill Johnston altho the Pittsburgh machinists have repudiated his “B. & O. Plan” but they had not until now learned the danger in the C. P. P. A..————_______________. and that it is more dangerous because it is a way to fool the workers. But the T. U. E. L. has been busy expos- ing the capitalist nature of the C. P. PL AS Adopted by Westhouse Lodge. This was brought to the attention of the machinists in this district by the following resolution which was adopted at the Westhouse lodge, where delegates were instructed to bring it into the district council. When the resolution came to the vote in the district council, thé vote was tie and it took the chairman of the council to cast the deciding vote against the resolution. Resolution on the Conference for Pro- gressive Political Action. Whereas, the conference for pro- gressive political action (C. P. P. A.) will hold a conference in Chicago on February 25, 1925. Whereas, the C. P. P. A. is part of the LaFollette movement which is not a labor movement, but a combination of so-called liberal capitalist politi- cians, bankrupt socialists, and reac- tionary union officials, and includes prominent “open shoppers,” and Whereas, the purpose of the C. P. P. A. is not to organize the workers and poor farmers for active political struggle against their exploiters, but on the contrary to subject the exploit- ed masses to the leadership of small capitalists and professional politi- cians, and Whereas, the C. P. P. A. is organ- ized on a basis of representation which secures it from rank and file influence and insures its complete domination by the class collaboration- ist officials, and Whereas, the most burning need of the working masses at present is to ONE FRONT AGAINST WAGE CUTS (Continued from page 1) sides against any of these little un ions. But I tell you they have got to get together now in this crisis and cut out this division which is bring- ing you te ruin. ‘You rank and file workers have got to force these vari- ous textile unions to amalgamate now, quickly, and y have got to get a single industrial union of all the tex- tile workers without exception or dis- crimination. Majority Have No Union. “And these existing little organiza- tions can’t hog it all, either, and pre- tend that they now represent the workers. The truth is that the vast majority are not organized at all. They won't be organized unless you take it on yourselves to do it thru your united front committee. “These mill owners claim that they have to reduce your pay to ‘meet the competition of the southern mills’ where they say that wages are 26 to 30 per cent lower than in New Eng- land ‘because there has never been any labor organization in the southern mills." “Then, by God, it’s time for you to put some labor unionism into the south. Again, you can’t have any ef- fect on the south unless you have one, single, huge textile union covering the whole country. And that’s anoth- er reason why you have to force these little unions to merge into one huge organization and draw the unorganiz- ed majority into it. Otherwise there will be no labor unions north or south, and soon they'll be reducing the south- ern wages, and then yours again. “But then they say they have to meet foreign compefition. By their hideous Dawes’ plan, they reduce the German workers to starved beggars working in rags, and then they say they have to reduce you toward the same standard to ‘meet the competi- tion.” “What is the lesson of that? Simply | that you've got to extend your organ- ‘ization, not only thruout all New Eng- Hand, and not only thruout Alabama, | Georgia, the Carolinas and the whole country—but also thruout all the coun- tries of the world, internationally. “Now I'll tell you that something has already been done in this line. The Red International of Labor Unions is already organized. The more advane- ed workers of France, Italy, Germany, Poland, England, the United States and Russia, in this Labor Union In- ternational, are bringing the unions of the whole world into a solid block, a united solidarity for resistance on a world scale against this huge attempt to crush the workers into worse and worse slavery. “I advise you workers to rely on Chicago, Please Help NOW! yourselves—build up and support your united front rank and file committee. Organize yourselves rapidly, and tell the mill bosses to go to hell with their wage cuts.” French and Italian Speakers Gust Lescarbeault, a French-Canad- ian mill worker, made an impassioned appeal in French for the textile work- ers to organize and resist the wage cut, and to spread their organization to the other mill towns. He was followed by Joseph Salerno, famous in this district for his militant leadership of the textile workers in the past big strike battles, who spoke in Italian. He insisted on solidarity, and he didn’t hesitate to speak plain- ly of a strike. The audience, largely of Italian workers as becomes this dis- trict, wildly applauded him. Samuel Bramhall, a carpenter pro- minent for many years in the Law- rence labor movement, was chairman. John J. Ballam, district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, made an appeal for concrete organiza- tional steps, and introduced the follow- ing resolution, which was passed un- animously: Resolution of Lawrence Textile Workers, Mass Meeting Feb. 6, 1925 The textile workers of New Eng- land are now facing a concerted drive on the part of the mill owners to re- duce wages; The Everett mills, Pacific mills, the Acadia mills and the Lawrence Duck mill have already made wage cuts averaging from 10 per cent to 22 per cent; ; Speeding-up systems, in which oper- ators are required to run from 26 to 72 looms have been instituted; In Manchester, Fall River, New Bed- ford, and in the Blackstone and Paw- tuxet valleys the mill owners have slashed wages; Wage cuts, longer hours, speeding up!—that is the message of the textile bosses united in the National Associa- tion of Cotton Manufacturers. Some of the companies that make this an- nouncement paid up to 262 per cent dividends in the period of 1915-20, on watered stock; In answer to this challenge of the textile millionaires, thousands of tex- tile workers are on strike; The bosses are united in their drive to reduce the textile workers to slave conditions. The textile workers are divided into many unions, and none of these is strong enough, to say nothing of of the great majority who are un- organized and who must be organized. In view of the above conditions, we, the textile workers of Lawrence, in Fifty thousand letters to be mailed out from 19 South Lincoln St. (phone Seeley 3563) for the Labor Defense Council. Help us fight the reaction in Michigan! Volunteer! anne eacemnemiililnieenanemtane ence) unify all forces of labor for a real struggle against wage cuts, against child labor, against the jailing and persecution of working class militants and for the defense of the foreign born workers, and Whereas, the policies of the C. P. P. A. can have no other effect than to raise illusions in the minds of the workers, thereby distracting the at- tention of labor from its real needs and weakening its fighting power, and Whereas, the Workers (Communist) Party of America, the T. U. BE. L. and other labor bodies are carrying on an agitation for a united front of labor and the poor farmers for an organ- ized political struggle against the of- fensive of our enemies, the capital- ists, and their government, are opposed to the C. P. P. A. and will carry on a struggle against the attempt of their organization to im- pose upon us their policies of class collaboration on the political field which can only serve the interests of the bosses, and That we refuse to participate in any of the conferences of the C. P. P. A. and call upon every labor or- ganization to do likewise, That we endorse the United Front Campaign of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party and pledge our support in the struggle against wage cuts, against child labor exploitation, against the criminal syndicalist laws, for the defense of the working class militants in the Michigan cases, and for every other measure that will strengthen the forces of labor against the capitalists, and be it further” Resolved, That copies of this reso- lution be sent to the international offi- cials, and to the labor press. mass meeting assembled in the Win- ter Garden this 6th day of February, 1925, do resolve: 1—That we will resist all wage cuts and speeding-up systems and call upon our brothers and sisters to organize and fight the wage cuts and speeding-up systems. 2—That we will work for amalga- mating all existing unions’ into one industrial union of all textile work- ers. 38—That we pledge ourselves to assist our striking fellow-workers and to join them in the struggle against the textile millionaires. The Workers (Communist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League, which initiated the present united front movement and which took the lead in bringing about the demonstration in Lawrence, is work- ing tooth and nail to establish similar committees with other workers’ organ- izations and groups in all mill towns of New England, and to hold similar demonstrations everywhere. Much success has already been had. The united front committee in Prov- idence, R. L, arranged meetings for Middlesboro, Mass., Sunday, Feb. 8, and for Providence Sunday, Feb. 15, among others. That the campaign in the Pawtuxet Valley, Blackstone Val- ley, Fall River and New Bedford will soon begin to show results, is the belief of the Providence committee. TWO DEAD, SCORE INJURED INN. Y, SUBWAY CRASH Blame Fog When Three Trains Come Together NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Two persons were killed, a score injured and hun- dreds of children and adults trampled when panic followed a triple rear-end collision of three crowded, seven-car subway trains today. The collision resulted from the heavy fog, obscur- ing the tracks, which run above the surface at the point of the collision. The crash was the most serious of several resulting from the fog. Struggling, fighting passengers striv- ing to leave the wrecked trains con- tributed to a panic that menaced oth- er lives, Three ambulances were sent to the scene, with police and firemen reserv- es to ald in getting the injured from the smashed cars. Nine Hurt In Brooklyn, Nine persons were hurt when two elevated trains went together in Brooklyn, Four other persons were injured when a subway train and an elevated train met in Long Island city. a A dozen trans-Atlantic liners were |. held up at quarantine because they could not negotiate the Narrows. Give Million For Embassy WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—A bill ap- propriating $1,200,000 for a new Amer- jean embassy building at Tokio was approved today by the senate foreign | Washington St. or Tom Bell, 1118 W. Washington Blvd, relations committee, - Therefore, Be It Resolved, That we | COTTON Sra VILL Bosses Fomenting Race Feeling Among Workers By ROBERT MINOR. (Special to The Daily Werker) PAWTUCKET, R. 1, Feb. 9.— A mass meeting of strikers of the Green- halgh Cotton mills here yesterday, de- cided unanimously to continue the strike begun a week ago against the wage cut and to begin picketing the mills this morning when the company attempted to reopen. The picket line was on duty before daylight today and no worker or scab entered the gates. The strikers held another mass meeting this morning at Carpenters’ Hall and reported the strike one hundred per cent solid. Not- withstanding the success, here and de- spite the general nature of the textile struggle thruout Now England, Will- jam T. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers yesterday de- clared his policy to be agaist calling & general textile strike to resist the wage cut but only to “fight at the weakest point.” Workers of the Ninegret Mills here yesterday in a mass meeting at Car- penters’ Hall, were practically unani- mous in expressing their desire to strike against the ten per cent wage cut. McMahon addressed the meeting and persuaded them to take no action. The strike of 250 girls of the Paw- tucket Hosiery Mills now in its fifth week, was reported at a mass meet- ing yesterday to be without a break, lend Picketing being entirely success- ful. ewe FALL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 9.—An attempt to precipitate a race riot in the Fall River strike situation was made last night when a fight in the Flint street district apparently incited ‘by provocators, involved a hundred Syrian and Portuguese mill workers. Four men are under arrest. No cause can be found for the disturbance ex- cept that unknown persons started shouting denunciations of Portugese workers in the Syrian working class district of Flint street and similar de- nunciations of Syrian workers. Thru- out this section mill Owners have be- gun systematically offering the jobs of striking Syrians to Portugese and the jobs of striking Portugese to Syr- tans. Syrian workers imported from Lawrence by means of misrepresenta- tions to scab on the atriking French- Canadian and native:fworkers of the Nemasket Mills at Miidleboro, Mass., havé in some ingtaneés. been pei - ed to return to Lawrence after a strik- ers’ committee explained the situation to them. SENATORS SLAM MUSSELMAN PACT Declare Treaty Is Not Good for U, S. WASHINGTON, Feb, 9,.—The senate foreign relations committee late today considered the Lausanne treaty with Turkey which has been pigeon-holed for more than a year. The treaty would establish full diplomatic relations with Turkey, broken off during tho war. Upon invitation of Senator Borah, republican, of Idaho, chairman, Sen- ator King, democrat, of Utah, appear- ed before the committee in opposition to the treaty, declaring it was “un- fair to the United States.” After more than an hour’s discus- sion, the committee failed to reach an agreement and postponed until Wed- nesday further consideration of the treaty. Washington Solons Out for Nice Picking Quizzing Big Trusts WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—T wo gigan- ic federal investigations, one into the General Electric company’s trust act- ivities, and the other {nto the tobacco industry, appeared certain this after- noon when the senate began consider- ation of the Norris and Ernst resolu- tions. The investigation wero linked when Senator Norris, republican of Nebra- ska, offered his electric trust resolu- tion a6 an amendment to the tobacco inquiry proposed by Senator Prnst, republican, of Kentucky, Both investi- gations would be conducted by the federal trade commission. MILITANTS ATTENTION! The Chicago Trade Union Educational Le to Earldom By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Socialist-Laborite Helps CONTINUE FIGHT) Raise Imperialist Agent in Britain dl Pall King George V., the titular head of British imperial- ism, plans to advance his loyal Field Marshal Lord Allen- by to an earldom. It was Allenby who recently helped save Egypt for the British empire. He held it with the usual bloody British methods, aided by prisons and executions. But Allenby didn’t do the job alone. His chief supporter was James Ramsay MacDonald, Britain’s late labor premier, whose foreign policies were so suited to British imperialist rule that it is declared Stanley Baldwin, as premier, and Austen Chamberlain, as foreign secretary, in the present con- servative cabinet in London found no reason to modify the position which MacDonald had taken with regard to Egypt. * * It was Lord Allenby personally that persuaded Mac- Donald, against the protests of British workers, to champion the cause of British control of the Sudan, with a military protectorate over Egypt and the guardianship of the Suez Canal. British labor forced MacDonald to recognize Soviet Russia; it forced his government to drop the attack on the editor of tho Communist Workers’ Weekly. But at no time were the workers in England able to turn MacDonald a hairs- breadth from the accepted policies of the empire in Egypt, as well as in India, China and eign infiuence. It is therefore on the shoulders of the MacDonald other spheres of British for- ‘OV= ernment, that illusioned workers put into power, that Allen- by rises from a lord to an earl; on the shoulders of Mac- Donald whose feet rest on the on the temporarily defeated peoples. Writin Frederick Allenby is showered with the words as follows: “Perhaps one of the principal bones of murdered Egyptians, aspirations of the Egyptian in the New York Times, Sunday, February 8, unliffe Owen, presumably a Britisher, tells why gifts of the British rulers, in services rendered by Lord Allenby in connection with the Egyptian situation, and one which has hereto- fore received but little attention, was his conversion of James Ramsay MacDonald to the vital necessity and policy of English predominance in Egypt and in the Sudan.” sf British imperialism gives ** * its greatest rewards to those who advance its foreign policies. It may be that MacDonald, Thomas, the Snowdens, Henderson and the rest may yet be knighted. But the MacDonald allies of imperialist rule are caught between the growing power of the British Communist Party on the one hand and the Egyptian Communist Party on the other; both moving under the guidance of the Communist International. “MacDonald and Thomas do not express the wishes of the working masses of this country, just as your govern- ment has nothing to do with the btn gh 3 Lon was the recently sent message o ° masses of your coun- the Communist Party Great Britain to the Egyptian peoples. “Continue your fight! Let us work together for the creation of a real com- monwealth; to emancipate the workers upon the principle of equality without any distinction of race, color or creed.” When the workers realize that Allenb - * has become an earl thru the aid of the so-called “socialists” of MacDonald's labor party, then British toilers, as well as labor in Egypt, India, and elsewhere thruout the British empire, will recog- nize more than ever the necessity of a revolutionary organ- ization to wage the Communist stru; Let King The revolutionary masses, once in as well as in the colonies. his earls while he may. le for power, at home eorge the Fifth make motion, will quickly topple then all into dust. HOUSE CURTAILS | |"*"Dscitheria Epidemic TALK ON POSTAL PAY RAISE BILL House Bill Draws Fire of Newspapers (Special to the Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 9.—Ac- cording to present plans the new postal workers’ salary increase and postal rate raise bill, presented to the house by the post office committee, will be driven thru the house under a NOME, Alaska, Feb. 9.—Nome : to- day faced the most cheerful outlook since the diptheria epidemic broke out. Dr. Curtis Welch, in charge of the fight against the epidemic, reported conditions were slowly improving. No new Cases were reported and the sick were reported recovering. Prospects were bright for the ar- rival of a fresh supply of antitoxin— this time via air route. Preparations were nearly complete for the flight of a plane carrying more serum from Fairbanks. It was expected to stop at Ruby and Kaltag. Temperatures of 80 below zero were reported along the special ‘rule curtailing debate. Amend-| route. Ont ments are expected to be limited to those introduced by the post office committee. The bill was attacked by the news- Paper publishers as soon as it was placed before the house by the com- mittee. They objected on the ground that it raised the zone rates on second class mail, Instead of the salary increase being retroactive to July 1, as the senate postal bill provided, the house bill makes the raise retroactive only to Jan. 1, 1925. The house postal bill, if passed, will have to go to a conference between representatives of the senate and the house to settle diffrences between the Moss bill passed by the senate, and the house bill. It is probable that the raise for the postal workers will still be hanging fire when congress ad- Jourtis. When you buy, for the DAILY t an “Ad” ORKER. ie is arranging several cam- paigns which will requite the services of about a hundred people for the distribution of leaflets. If you recognize the necessity of the battle against the labor bureaucrats volunteer for this work, Get in touch “Address, and phone qumber, with Martin Abern, Room 303, 166 W. Send in your name, RIFFS CONTINUE TO HOLD SPAIN'S TROOPS AT BAY Moslems Warn Allies Against Interference TANGIER, Morocco, Feb. 9.—Spain now has 200,000 men in western Mo- rocco fighting the Riffs, led by prince Mahmed Ben Abdel Krim, brother of the sultan. The Spanish troops have not been able to blockade the Riffs, who have free access to Tangier, which they claim they could capture at will, It is declared that Spain would need 1,000,000 men to success- fully blockade the Riffs. Two thousand Moslem delegates to the Khilafat conference meeting re- cently at Balgaum, India, passed a resolution condemning the Spanish at- tack on the Riffs, and warning Eng- land and France against attempts to intervene against the Riffs on the side of Spain. The resolution declares:— “This conference offers its warmest congratulations to the heroes of Riffs, who under their gallant and ‘intrepid chief, Ghazi Amir Abdul Krim, have so bravely defended their liberties and whose glorious feats of arms have filled the world with admiration and astonishment. This conference con- demns the unrighteous and wanton attack of Spaniards on Riffs and the barbarous atrocities committed by them during the course of the war. “The conference further warns Eng- land and France that any attempt on their part to deprive the Riffs of the fruits of their hard-earned success and to crush their liberties as is fore- shadowed in the recent utterances of their ministers will be treated as an act of hostility towards the Moslems of the world.” The chamber of deputies of France has granted Marshal Lyautey addition- al credits of 5,000,000 francs to be used by the French in Morocco to pre- pare for war against the Riffs. The government of Syria had given this money for the upkeep of French troops there, but the chamber voted to use the money to prepare against the Riffs in Morocco. The Communists voted in a body against the war appropriation. All other parties, including the socialist deputies, voted to send more troops to the colonial possession. GOOLIDGE FAILS TO PUT CHARLES WARREN ACROSS His Steamroller Runs In- to Red Tape Bog WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—With a bitter fight threatened by a democratic- insurgent coalition, the senate judic- iary committee today unexpectedly postponed final action on the nomin- ation of Charles B. Warren of Detroit, as attorney general to succeed Harlan F. Stone. The committee discussed the ap- pointment in secret session for two hours and then adjourned without having reached a decision. Members of the committee declined to comment on the reason for the de- lay. Senator Sterling, republican of South Dakota, acting chairman said the nomination would be considered again at another meeting. This was an unusual procedure and indicated further delay in the committee’s final action. Indications were the nomination would be tied up indefinitely despite administration efforts to force early confirmation. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. he Way From England! The following shipment of the latest pam- phlets will be in our hands within the next few days— Rash in Your Orders Now! Work Among Women ose sued CONS & COPy Decline of Capitalism, by Varga...............35 cents a copy Between the Fourth and Fifth Congress __ (A report of the E. 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