The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1925, Page 1

a . Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, al ¥ ‘ fost Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, Bees SUBSCRIPTION RATES: outside Chicane. by mail $800 per year. WEDNESDAY, BE BRUARY 18, 1925 <>-M' - Funtismna' os, ile W. Woskoges Ade cose me -Price 3 Cents WOONSOCKET TEXTILE WORKERS | AS WF.SEE IT || UNANIMOUSLY FAVOR THE UNITED {__"* g.2 snarer FRONT AGAINST THE WAGE CUTS HERE are £IGHTH 4 VE Meee | (Special to The Daily Worker) aires in ty NEW YORK yy INSOCKRT, R, I., Feb. 16.—A mass meeting here Saturday night oie at ce Partai ae mill workers, members of three different unions and unorganized r ‘workers, unanimously decided to support the united front movement, advo- Th 043 of the tribe in the arn shee poy hy air it nal are to take|c@ted by the Workers Party and the T. U. E. L., calling upon their different Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! . Vol. HI. No. 32. SWEDISH HCTINS fPacamst Lockout as Russian _\UIICA COTTON TODAY; WORKERS RAISE FUNDS FOR AID MILLS TIED UP (Special to The Dally Worker) ia STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 16.—The Swedish employers’ association } threatened today to lock out 130,000 workers. The workers have returned 4 the challenge by a threat to call out 250,000 workers on a general strikes } It Is reported by telegram from Oslo, (formerly Christiania)’ Norway, i Agi ei z ions and officials to lay aside their differences in the present crisis and 4 that a dispatch fi M Sovii i i Mr. Conwell seriously, they are put-|¥ . , * n ata patch from Moscow, Soviet Russia, to an Oslo newspaper says that ° ting up a good batting average as far| &¢t together to resist the wage cut and speeding up’ system. Try Hard to the workers of Soviet Russia are raising great funds to send relief to strik- Strikers Refuse to Ac- as honesty is concerned. It is very Robert Minor spoke, to show that the workers face the need, either to Revolt ers in Scandinavia, England, Germany, Poland and the Balkans. doubtful if pickpockets would make] give up all hope of resistance and to accept fhe 25 or 30 per cent reduction as good a showing. ———*that is in prospect, with the abolition * of all labor unions, or else they must HE MORNING POST of Great HOWAT F move quickly and boldly to accept Britain publishes a story to the the united front policy. effect that his ‘holiness, the . pope, Face Great Possibilities, s “In the possibility immediately la shortly pit on 8 di _ ahead,” declared Minor, “is to be seen tele stnk iiy ain ai ea one. the makings of an industrial organiza- 1 cept Wage Cuts the Daily worker) |FIGHTLESS “PROGRESSIVES” TURNING (Special to The Dally Worker) Secs une vent BLUE AS REACTION GLORIES WITH |,,o°'C™ oor, Xo%: £2. Se We great disaster at the APPROACH OF CAL’S INAUGURATION | '2"* °ot:2" Vater comnany aye com und last Wednes- pletely tied up by a strike. ied. With th hot mediate cause of the strike is an at- , venir es By LAURENCE TODD tempt by the employers to enforce a way ticket. The pope placed all his tion of textile workers fully as large iss muttering omi- (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) ten per cent wage cut. Pyprae se: as the United Mine Workers. In fact, ughter of the 135 J 7 aes eggs in Mussolini’s basket and when it is that or complete defeat and de- ) WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—An atmosphere of profound pessimism on the The employes of the two textile that monster meets his Waterloo as giiiestion ot Unloutem fits calla’? ne ato the pits of the} part of “progressives,” and of confident aggressiveness on the part of out-| mills who are on strike, resisting the he is destined to, soon, his spiritual = ine 4 Wage and speeded to) spoken reactionaries and crooks, marks the approach of the Coolidge inau-| 10 per cent reduction in wages which said. “For any organization which conditions to produce} guration ceremony. ally in the Vatican will go down with x was to be forced on them, have .suc hin. " sages pers ee ee ecko Git he “reparatil fording to the Dawes! = For on March 4, the new congress ‘will take office, the administration | ceeded in accomplishing a feat which aie Another Defeat for the to be‘largs enough to go hilo the tar| Pt eae ourgeoisie, from the| will attempt to force the new senate to confirm the nomination of Warren|has apparently been an impossibility : 7 ss lest creature of the’ to be attorney general, and the two*— theretofore. The two mills are com- OVIET RUS®IA. is spending Notor F k southern states and organize the mills are joining hands| political parties financed by special $35,000,000 for food relief, accord- tous Farer thereunder a single direction. Rp Be Bee ta forsetall af rivil it it thei ear | pletely tied up. “I do not ask you t i . < A Tress Wig mnite ey _ DEER SE: These workers are composed of the ing to a news dispatch from Moscow. iiieing dene Sak you to Sup.eae te eruption ing great show of|tions to rivet the Garret-Wadsworth 1 Heloe “sihe * upitners” conte The government is providing the peas- (Special to The Daily Worker) ion,” said Minor, “on the contrary. “sympathy,” 4 iigMathiée'* dehentlitient por ‘the’ tede loom. fixers, ring spinners, carder: FY ants with sowing material for the next| MULBERRY, Kans., Feb. 16—Can-| You must stick by any union you are and weavers. harvest. This must be another dia-!didates endorsed by Alexander Howat|in with all your strength and use all bites ; * gage het a tt ee ee ational Strike Endorsed bolical plot on the part of the Com-|4nd the anti-Lewis elements won an | your poweg within it to compal tt. to ut interference, and an % The strike was wholeheartedly and munists to seduce the peasantry.|Verwhelming victory over their op-|join, with all of the other existing eat a bourgedis; gro; Of this “shackles” amendment, the 9 | enthusiastically endorsed y the This, however, is the kind of seduc-|PoOnents when Matt Walters, of Scam-| textile unions in a single front for ea legislative committee of the American mon, first president of the United | this crisis.” Mine Workers in District 14, after 32}McMahon Makes a United Front years was again elected president as With the Bosses. a result of the elections held here last} Minor then read a letter which was Tuesday. blazoned yesterday in the mill own- The Lewis men, Variot and Lavery |°"s’ Dewspapers, writtne by William were snowed under. Another Howat|7- McMahon, president of the United supporter. Harvey was elected in-|Te%tile Workers. In the letter McMa- ternational board member. hon denounces the united front move- < ment, denounces the Workers Party Special Convention as a revolutionary organization and A special district convention is ex-|attacks James P. Reid and Robert pected @ result of the election, the} Minor specifically as men who are re- miners ‘have already voted for this sponsible for the “un-American” unit- tion the peasants like. The czar would have sent his cossacks to shoot them down, instead of complying with their requests for aid. ‘8 'HE craziest forgery of the many, recently sprumg on the reading BA a that published last Sunday in the Chicago Tribune. It is alleged to be a secret order from the Com- munist International to the Workers Party of America, concerning the dis- bursement of funds for “painting the ‘government officials, + 7 Utica Trades Assembly at its regular Federation of Labor says, in a special meeting Jat. ‘Dasmdiay, averting. aan , labor bureaucrats! plea to the house: ne eiiee cite was t taking the fore-| jt is revolutionary. If adopted, 13 0 SUR Paneeere. Cek mee eee to avert the anger} states could defeat any future amend- in the city, represented in the central body, was pledged to the strikers. ment. In these days when great in: E. H. Dunnigan of the United States / Sent his condolences | terests command powerful engines of | of General Count von propaganda, it is not necessary for Asks Congress Probe} cepartment of labor appeared in the role of mediator and suggested that that the kaiser and) us to tell you how easy it would be, ‘ ‘ Ae meen oe cn en ome vou we! Deltas al Farmers: |i. workers accept five per cent de empress,” “have|feat an amendment drawn in the in- (Special to The Dally Worker) peer hella is they indignant- shaken” the di- le. ‘Thirty-fiv. . pean brie y Milt Gar atiaka. cock an| WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 16—| Several of the strikers interviewed, are incensed at this|amendment with substantial unaai Herbert Hoover dominates the U. S.| showed envelopes with amounts mark- ‘ out in- ‘ i throne under the (Continued on page 2) department of agriculture in the in-| ed on them ranging from $11.86 to a 9 a torests, not of the farmers, but the 00. vhic! to how to go about mobiising the] onventoe but the Lewis gang in the|ed front movement. ee sR: large exporters, George 'N. Peek of| noticed in particular peel ag ‘0 how to go about mobilizing the} district office refused to carry out the} McMahon with the full help of the resented is the Moline, told the house agricultural | << rilnis Shawn: eae tue Meee ak masses for that purpose. The various] wishes of the rank and file. capitalist press, distorts the facts to ed by the agent of RESCUERS FIND council. he demanded an immediate |femiics, with children ta care f paragraphs contradict each other and} In the December election Howat re-|make it appear that the “united front” lalism, the spokesman ry Se ee ee investigation of Hoover’s activity i j if 5 ti and inscribed with the amounts $16.95 Boe Souter Se voi i ‘hai pig 5 among the farmers. It was onarged and $18.45 respectively. These, the * Roeigil adidas ts aa that Hoover influenced Coolidge’s pol- reporter was informed, were the sal- style. ceived a great majority of the vote but the vote was thrown out. What Lewis will do now to Howat’s support- is another new union. He twists the words into the alleged name of a mythical union called “the united an icy on farm relief, and worked in the ‘ a P if eid ers is a subject for speculation. front textile workers” and attacks mpathy” and that of interests of the ‘big exporters and {srs U7awn by the two men oh HE forgery business is now flour- Tremendous Majority Minor and Reid for the alleged dual pialism, which like the againat the farmers. gah a RE Se bs ishing in Europe, particularly unionism. f ducted. ‘The Vote has*hét'yet been audited, since France recognized Soviet Rus- Stating that the united move- |, Ke Fe ce cniaoe armars, Againet, Him. Comparison of Wages ‘sia, The fake docutnent which the] Pub the returns. from. the locals show wit te ht shew uateas mae al t ened ure stili enact-| Discovery of Collin sj, 'o% miter that Hoover nad die}, Sepiy to questions regarding the lying Trib. was-only too glad to pub-| 4avy majorities for the Howat forces.| oq attention to the reactionary utter-}ed before the building to which the ry fated. he xeport in part of the agricul |. wparisoh between wages: received lish was stolen from the files of the| Reports from 22 locals give the follow- | ances of McMahon in the present cris-| hodies were brought, as only the male Made at 2:45 Takal .cotamisston: which recently Me: ti ene: teica oniille affected ‘by the Soviet embassy in Berlin according] !™& returns: Walters, 1,082; Variot,|is which he said indicated certain | relatives are: permitted ‘to identity the 4 ported to President Coolidge on farm- to the Tribune Berlin liar. What it]°61; Harvey, 993; Lavery, 470. ., {friendship for the mill owners and} dead, the women and children being| _, ‘Special to The Daily Worker) er, relief . Iegisiation, He said the should be doing there, was not even} Alexander Howat, former district | ‘Willingness to help for the workers barred until,ghécharred and shattered CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 16.—Floyd| farmers of the country do not sup- made a subject for speculation. No] President, whose fight smashed the in-|to accept the cut. Minor declared Dediea hee A th coffins Collins was officially announced lo-| port the policy concerning agricul- Mohawk Valley Cotton Mills recetve doubt this yarn is on a par with that] @Ustrial court law, is now working at| emphatically that the Workers Par- ; cated in:his Gand Cave prison &t 2:45) Cure - which “hha been ‘advanced by| average between $21.00 and $28.00 about “Bill” Haywood being in Trebi- Sheridan mine 19. Tho Lewis, pre. ty is truly a revolutionary party. In], o'clock this afternoon, and was de-| Secretary Hoover. per week, the weavers in the ‘New zond, Armenia on his way to Leaven- Spe his name from getting on the|fact it is the Communist Party and cons pons a those bane hints his saath evar ape lb er England ‘mitt pens ‘hatambbobasinn allot as candidate for district pres-| th 1 isti: vi ty. y a preliminary examination. ic! of a te worth prison... The capitalist editors 4 och rresie Coby a peep A neha Gen. H. H. Denhardt, M. E. Posey,| ence over the department of agricul-| Were averaging between $25.00 and ident tho he was nominated by 90 per| What is the Matter With Unity? i are too experienced to believe this 7 20, pei at is atter .! nity’ ” “ $31.00. The oilers and cleaners in .j cent of the locals, he is still the lead-| He asked, “Why does McMahon ob- Dr. William Funkhouser, and H. T.| ture,” sald Peek. “They do not fa- 7 = ~ “ mind of bank bat they rundt for what “pee at Carmichael made the announcement| vor industrialization of the country | Utica—which is combined in one job of the discovery of Collins’ body. At|at their expense.” here—receive $20.50 per week, while ever propagarida they can get out of|°™ of the miners in District 14, (Continued on Page 6) It. | Many people. will take it’ without 2:50 no doctor had entered the shaft,| Peek alluded to the long conflict be-|in New England the oilers receive SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE but the official medical commission, | tween Secretary Wallace and Hoover $21.30, ber week for which they care question at its face value. including Major E. C. Francis of| over a national policy in aid of agri-|for 270 machines, and the cleaners, walk-out as some of the New Eng- land mills, it was learned that while the weavers in the Utica Steam & T should not'be forgotten that the IS REPRESENTED BY DELEGATE > gpes Bowling Green, Major M. M. Moss and | culture. caring for 50 machines, get $14.50 per fake “Zinoviev” letter sprung in I. G. Scott Slated for ‘ill Pr cago, were week. The cleaning and oiling is two Dr. William Hazlett of Chicago, ii cot yi ari AT THE CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL|” "Expulsion |stnr'o wioveres'o cots way | pieugrare. Net Famer, [Sate hi hew Hara helped considerably to defeat the la- pi viser Gf thé président'on agriculture while in Utica the two are combined bor party. Similar forgeries have re- * . Wome a into one job and the salary is lower. cently appeared in France and in Ju- By AARON FISLERMAN By CARL SKOGLUND. Minneapolis Carpenters | matters since 1922,” said Peek. “Re-|'n'0 one Job and the salary is lower. (Special to The Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Wash. (By Mail.)—Terrorized by a deadly fear that the Com- munist delegates to the Central Labor Council, who have continuously and (Spectal to The Daily Worker) * commendations made by the agricul- Paper MINNEAPOLIS, Mina, Feb. i¢—a| Will Act on Ouster| tire "committes seem to me to be in {4 in New England $36.10, letter has been gent to all local unions of Chicago Militants the interest of the exporters and not Low Wages go-Slavia. Premier Herriot of France is now suing Liberte, a reactionary newspaper, for publishing false news 4 f the farmers. I believe these re- Roving men tending 53 frames re- of Communist activities in, France.|Unceasingly held up the searchlight on the local labor fakirs and exposed |in Minneapolis, by the executive com. Oo} ren ames Not that Herriot wished to protect the] ©VeTY treacherous scheme of theirs, will thwart and destroy their new attempt|mittee of the Central Labor Union, (Special to The Daily Worker) present the Hoover influence as they | ceive $18.00 in Utica and in New Eng- Communists. His object was to mini- to betray organized labor, by turning over the entire organized labor move-|asking them to elect delegates that MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 16. — Car- do his policy. land they recgive $21.30 and have only mise the strength of their propa- ment, bag and baggage, to the bosses and particularly, the big contractors in will obey and follow out the policies penters Union, No. 7, had a very well Demands Investigation. 48 frames to tend. Carder fixers car- the building industry, on the “Industrial Peace” scheme, the reactionary busi- ness agents, after a hard struggle, succeeded last Wednesday night, putting the Seattle Labor Council on record, by a vote of 93 to 33, in favor of un- seating Communist delegates. . Each Communist delegate will be given a separate trial after charges have been preferred against him by 3 co-delegtes, according to the decision pace elie sci Bae: UR Oe eee eal MUSCATINE, IOWA, po tg RE EE LOST BIG BATTLE, of the American Federation of Labor.| attended meeting Feb. 13th. When| “We want an investigation of his |'"& for 40 frames get $24.75 in Utica, Every daily capitalist paper in Min-| many matters of importance were dis-| activities concerning agriculture mat- and on 40 frames in New ‘England neapolis, has carried statements from] oysceq, a resolution had been received | ters. We know of his friendship for |$27.35 is paid. Doffers in Utica are special representative Smith, who 18/from the Detroit Carpenters’ Union| Julius Barnes, the grain exporter, paid $1.50 per frame and in the New termed a figure in the “cleaning ur| no, 2140, and Chicago No. 181, asking | head of the United States grain cor-|England mills $2.93 per frame. It was of the labor movement of Minneapo-|+nat the union go on record demand-| Poration during the war. Hoover and (Continued on Page 6) lis,” stating that:the labor movement ing a fair trial for expelled members Barnes opposed the McNary-Haugen in Minneapolis»has been truely dis-|o¢ the Brotherhood of Carpenters and| Dill which was indorsed by farmer or- AMERICAN LIARS SCORE credited by extermists within the local] Joiners, The secretary was instruct- ganizations. Barnes led the oppost- ANOTHER HIT; HAYWOOD ganda, he being blamed for the rapid Communist growth during the past seven or eight months, “* A C. BEDFORD, the chairman of “the Standard Oil company, de- red recently that the churches are losing out in the competition against the movies. As many people go to see the movies in one day as go to all churches in one week. As a rule movies are not up to much, but once To accomplish this, it was necessary for the reactionary business agents to induce the seating of 25 delegates from ultra conservative locals which labor movementiand that he now ex-/oq to make an investigation and re-| 0D a8 president of the United States pects the co-operation of all those who port next meeting when the local chamber of commerce, not as a grain believe in “American institutions” and] ynion will take action. exporter. 1 in a while, a screen drama succeeds i Patiala parca tg a “> Se. the trade unioumovement. In the regular meeting of the Paint- Big Business Backs Him. in slipping by with some of its original cided to reaffiliate with the latter vn Interested in Booze ers Union No. 186 held Tuesday, Feb.| “We want an investigation of Hoov- : virginity intact, granting that it ever the promise and expectation that the| Every delegate from local unions 10th, Dan W. Stevens was re-elected|er to ascertain what may be his in- (Special to The Daily Worker) had any. Most movies are designed for intellectual paupers, but at least, topics of the times and various fea- tures that usually go to make the main attraction bearable, are worth looking at. So much cannot be said for the church, ** ET it be clearly understood that we are discussing the relative merits of church and movie purely from the point of view of interest. ‘The capitalists support the church as ® matter of business, but as Bedford points out they are losing proposi- tions, Not one in a thousand now be- lieve the silly rot that fossilized preachers give forth, The preachers do not believe it. Science has knocked veligion into a cocked hat long ago. Even a oun who believes in hell now- vitys—ts considered oldfashiqned. ‘The best the capitalists can do with) their immense church property is to invest it in movies. They have plenty of material for good actors in their priests and ministers. will be expelledéeunless they are will-| a8 delegate to the Trades and Labor} terest in the exporters and to what MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb. 16.— ing tools in thé hands of the class|Assembly and his credentials were | extent he is directing the affairs of | Reports from the American capital- collaborationists: At the last meeting| presented to last Wednesday’s meet-|the agriculture-departmept. We are! ist newspapers saying that William of the assembiyvafter the Communists| ing of the central body, when Pres-|‘nformed he is- so influential that| Dudley (Big Bill) Haywood had re- had left the hall‘a motion was made|ident O. T. Anderson used his old| some of the most experienced and| turned to the United States, are to ask the state legislature and con-| parrot-phrase, “out of order.” ablest experts there are to lose their] without foundation in fact. gress to modify the Volstead act,— Positions because of opposition to Haywood has just returned from allowing manufavture and distribution pani shane nen —««:2 |his views. Hoover has maintained| the Ukraine and the Caucasus of light wines and beer. It was rumor- FRANK HALL NEGRO that the sphere of the activity of the | where he spoke at sixty-five meet- ed by many non-Communist delegates , ’ department of agriculture ceases and| ings in behalf of the International that the reactionaries did not dare to NEW PRESIDENT OF THE that of the department of commerce} Workers’ Aid, an organization begins when the farm products leave| which gathers funds and other ne- introduce this motion before the l, L 6, W, U. LOCAL NO. 132 the land and are started for the mar-| cessary support for the relief of Communist delegates would be ousted. One of the delegates of the Plumbers’ Union Local No. 32, Frank W. Cot- terill, is a member of the chamber of commerce and vice-president of the “industrial peace and educational as- sociation” local branch, ; The vote of the Communist dele- gates does not»by any means, repre- sent their full strength, as many of the progressive and sympathizers delegates left the meeting in disgust, Must Submit ¢ to Horrors of Sweating System By DAVID COUTTS. (Special to The Daily Worker) MUSCATINE, Ia., Feb, 16— This small town of a little over sixteen thousand is suffering from a period of reaction following one of the most bitter struggles in the history of the workers of America, This reaction has been further ag- gravated as a result of the’ world war until now the splendid spirit of solid- arity exhibited by almost the entire population of the thriving latle town has been utterly destroyed, The iron heél of the absentee stockholder has come to crush the worker and cast a black pall over the entire populace, Women Enslaved at Heintz Factory. The famous “57 varieties” has a large pickle plant at Muscatine. This factory has made a reputation as a brutal sweater of female workers, (Continued on page 4.) before the vote was taken, and many house-cleaning had taken place. kets. We do not think this doctrine | workers in prisons In capitalist others were not present. Irregularity Alderman I. G. Scott, who has not sound.” countries, on theroll call vote taken, was also| 2e!ped to put over the policy of ex-} NEW YORK, Feb. 16— Frank wit mein adjunea’" "| abr avy otro abr | pregent of Cac at inernsiost (GENEVA PROTOCOL’S “PEACE PLAN” bitter attack by the reactionaries and} The local te Cloak Button Workers. DI TCHED BY EU ROP EAN P OWERS Ever since the general strike, the fosaradices DAs supctes :to, A Ladi stated for expulsion next meeting. He| The strike called by the union Is Communists and the progressive forces have held control and full sway has given a statement to the press! practically over, since most of the that the ‘ght. tab Miaeanolie Conttal Shee selitecs The toadeteiviet Intgs. PARIS, Feb. 16.—The foreign office announced this evening that the over the reactionaries.. However, the decision of the A. F. L. executive Labor Union im for the purpose of disarmament conference that was to have met in June after ratification of committee, at the insistence of Sam- breaking the labor control of the city the Geneva protocol has been abandoned absolutely. A spokesman for the council, enabling a group of office office indicated that there was no possibility now of Great Britain working uel Gompers and Bill Short, president of the State Federation of Labor, last) seekers to. secure a “ple card” for Re ask therker fr Mis. out a combined policy with its dominions before the league assembly meeting themselve: In September,