The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1925, Page 2

MN 2 Page Two GENERAL STRIKE THREATENS SCAB LAUNDRY BOSSES Union Head Loses Eye After Attack by Boss (Special to The Dally Worker) BROOKLYN, N. Y., Feb. 19.—The two striking laundries, the Clovelen and the Erasmus are shut down tight, despite the treachery of the Jewish Daily Forward. The Forward has made it known that it will stop reporting the progress of the strike on account of the fine publicity and afd given the laundry workers by thé Party, the DAILY WORKER, and the Jewish Freiheit, which has been gratefully accepted by the strikers. The Forward made objection to fact that the union was receiving the help of the Workers (Communist) Party. Ball of Slugger Raised The bail of William Dorfman, who ‘was arrested after leading sluggers in an attack on William Berman hea of the Laundry Drivers’ Union, ha: been raised from $5,000 to $10,000 The doctors announced at the hospital where Berman is in a serious condi tion, that there is no hope of saving Berman’s eye. The preliminary hear- ing of Dorfman’s case is to come up Friday, Dorfman is a laundry boss. The Forward’s treachery ,and Ber- man’s injury have not dampened the enthusiasm of the strikers. On March 2 the contracts in all the laundries in the city expire, and unless these con- tracts are renewed and the union is recognized, a general strike of all Brooklyn laundry workers threatens. The laundry workers are holding a mass meeting on February 27 at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 229 Sack- man St., The bosses have made no attempt to use scabs, fearing a general strike. Transfers Case to Escape Prejudice of the Ku Klux Klan FREEPORT, L. L, Feb. 19—Ku klux klan republicans will not let Mrs. Jeanne Marino Doane get a fair trial in Freeport on the charge of holding a street meeting without a permit several days before election, she declares. Mrs. Doane told of a klan fiery cross burning beside her home—only one of the many threats she has re- ceived, she said. Justice Dike, after hearing her story, transferred her case to the grand jury in Nassaul county. Turks Conclude Ten Million Dollar Deal with American Firm CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 19—The government has ordered the military commander at Diarbkr to take ener- getic measures to repress the Kurd element, even to use airplane bomb attacks, should he think them neces- sary, a press dispatch states. The Turkish government has enter- ed into a ten million dollar contract with the Ulon contracting company of New York for the irrigation of the Maritza valley, it was announced to- day. The Maritza is the principal tiver of eastern Turkey. STAGE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY PLAY AT SOVIET SCHOOL A Russian revolutionary play will be staged at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St. this Sunday, Feb. 22, at 8 p. m., in honor of the sec- ond anniversary of the Russian Communist Daily Novy Mir. The affair will be celebrated under the auspices of the Technical Aid So- eiety and the Russian branch Work- ers Party. All who understand the Russian language are urged to attend, Valet AutoStrop . Razor —Sharpena Itself Workers | ac’ The Safety Razor that Sharpens Its Own Blades COMPLETE OUTFITS $1.00 & $5.00 Por Sale #t All Stores Selling Razors and Blades THE DAILWIWORKER LOEB, BUSINESS MANAGER DAILY WORKER, MAKES TORRID REPLY TO SCABBY PRINTERS’ AGENCY Open Shop Employing Printers’ Association, 4 1202 Monadnock Bik., Chicago, Ml. In reply to your invitation that we should purchase a ticket to attend the “graduating exercises” of your scab apprentice school on Feb. 24 I wish to state that the Daily Worker Publishing Co. does not intend to give any support whatever to your association, its scab school, or any of the scab herding activities that you are or- ¢——————___________. ganizing. Since its organization this com- pany has been employing trade union men in every department, and we have no intention of deviating from this course. In spite of all the high-flown ses used in your publicity, your ty is on a par with any other seab-herding, strikebreaking agency in this country. Your conception of efficiency in the printing industry is one that would rob the workers of any form of organization with which to protect themselves from the goug- ing of the boss printers. Your chief backer, T. E. Donnelly, is notorious for his anti-union activi- ties in this Gity, not only in the print- ng industry, but also in the building ndustry, as chairman of the Landis ward committee, which leads the at- tack on the unions in the building in- dustry. The money which is to be present- ed to your scab apprentices at your “graduation exercises” is a fine “eome on” scheme by means of which you hope to lure other young work- ers into being used as tools to break the wages and conditions of the work- ers employed in the printing industry. No doubt it is a good investment from your point of view, if it will aid you in organizing a corps of scabs against the union printers. Our organ, The DAILY WORKER, continually advocates the amalgama- tion of all the unions in the printing industry into one departmentalized industrial union. This step would put an effective stop to your scab- herding activities, which you are able to indulge in today because of the lack of united action among the many craft unions in the printing industry. We hope you will publish this let- ter in your scab Open Shop News, as you do any statement made by printing concerns against the print- ing trades unions, It is also our hope that in the near future the printers’ union will put an end to your scab- herding association in company with other sinister institutions and the wage system itself. The motto of the DAILY WORKER, official organ of the Workers (Communist) Party is “a united front of all workingclass organizations against the capitalists and their instrument—capitalist gov- ernment!” You are part of the sys- tem we fight and this precludes any Possibility of being interested in your activities except to expose them to workers whom you may have duped into betraying themselves and their class. Moritz J. Loeb, Business Manager, DAILY WORKER. CAL MAKES PLEA AGAINST TAX ON LARGE FORTUNES Silent One Yells About Confiscation Threat WASHINGTON, D. C.,. Féb, 19.— President Coolidge denounced federal and state inheritance and estate taxes, defended the holders of large fortunes, and made a plea that the rich should not be so taxed, in a speech here be- fore tax “experts.” “A prime danger in the ‘tax on estates is the removal of the inspira- tion to work in order to build up a busi- ness or create a property. Personally IT do not feel that large fortunes pro- perly managed are necessarily a menace to our institutions and there- fore ought to be destroyed. -On the other hand, they have been and can be of great value to our development,” Coolidge said. Commenting on the federal govern- ment’s “imposition” in the revenue act of 1924 of an estate tax the ‘highest bracket of which was raised) from 25 to 40 per cent, Coolidge charged con- gress with having sough “social legis- lation in the guise of taxation,” de- claring the rich should not have been taxed so heavily. “The overlapping of federal and state inheritance taxes,” Coolidge said, “has resulted in a situation that amounts to virtual confiscation. The government should withdraw from this field of taxation.” Panic in the Subway. NEW YORK, Feb. 19,—A short circuit in a heater in a crowded Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit company subway train caused a panic during the morning rush hour today that »rought injury to more than a score pe passengers and sent four to a hos- pital. School Children Badly Injured As Concrete Wall Falls OLIVET, Mich., Feb, 19,.— Four Winton township unit school girls were suffering serious injuries today and several other school children es- caped injury when a concrete wall weighing two tons fell on them as they were preparing to leavé the build. ing at the close of school yesterfay afternoon, | The injured girls are Grace Walker, Marian Southworth, Agnes Halsey and Ruth Sloan. The most seriously in- jured are Miss Southworth and Miss | Halsey. The wall was constructed a short | while ago to separate the boys’ and | sirls’ cloakrooms, PITTSBURGH NOTICE! An Important DAILY WORKER agents conference will be held Feb. 22, at 5 p, m. at the International Ly- ceum, 805 James St. Matters of importance will be taken up. This is urgent—be there, Patronize our advertisers, .boasts of the socialists. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1.) of a new social order coursing thru her veins. USTRIA is broke. In fact Aus- tria is so down and out that even the salvation army will not take her in. Austria was one of the proud The social- ists proved they were real democrats by allowing the capitalists to hold on to the country tho the socialists had the power to take it over if tney had the will. Now the capitalists have stripped Austrial naked and hundreds of thousands of Austrian workers are walking the streets with a job. Aus- trian papers tell of aged bank clerks, with bald heads, in the role of walk- ing advertisements. On the bal Portions of the head you may read such inscriptions as “Buy two in one shoe polish,” or “Bring your gums to Dr. Snippers; he'll put teeth in them.” Our American white collar slaves whe now glory in an occasional smile from their masters should think of the present plight of their brothers in once proud Vienna. ** * RANK FARRINGTON, president of District 12 of the United Mine Workers of America, supported Len Small, in the recent elections. The DAILY WORKER suggested that Frank did not throw his support to Len without a consideration. Now we learn that Hugh Willis, former mem- ber of the district executive board has resigned from the executive board to, accept a position from Small as supervisor of securities with the Illinois industrial commission. 7 ere NOTHER labor faker and also a member of the United Mine Workers, Martin J. Flyzik, president of District 10, in the state of Wash- ington has accepted a job as super- visor of safety with the department of labor and industries of that state. He was appointed by the recently elected governor. Flyzik was a “pro- gressive” one of the tribe expected to organize the “third party” which is now very much up in the afr. The labor faker looks upon a union of- fice as a stepping stone to a job in the capitalist government. Armour Is Eliminated As Packer by Bankers NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—A syndicate headed by Blair and company has of- fered at $23 a share, 750,000 shares of class A participating common stock of the Armour & company of Illinois, Purchasers of this stock will have the privilege of subscribing for the class B stock of the company at $14 a share, This is the first offering of any common stock of the Armour and company, Both classes of stock will be lsted on the Chicago stock ex- change and the New York curb mark- et. The offering represents part of the company’s stock already issued and outstanding, and is not new financing. The Armour company made a pro- fit of $18,300,000 in 1924, Clemente! Expects $100,000,000 PARIS, Feb, 19-The United States has unofiicially, promised to lend France $100,000,000 as soon as the French budget 4s voted, Finance Min- ister Clemeritel told the chamber of deputies today,” « CARMEN DISCUSS LOYALTY: OATH TO GARITALISTS Trade Union Unity Is Urged by Speakers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 18.— Lodge No. 299 of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen held its regular meeting Monday, Feb. 1¢, with more members present { at any meeting in months. The réfugal of Carl Skog: lund to take the new’ obligation of the Minneapolis Trad@siand Labor As sembly (or rather’ the Central Labor Union) providing fora declaration of loyalty to the ‘present capitalist strikebreaking gore! ment and con- taining a repudiation of membership in any revolutionaty jorganization was discussed at length. A decision wag,made to take this matter up again in the next regular meeting at 9 P.M. The expressed sentiment of the membership was, as, one member stated, “We must put on our fighting clothés and see to it that the local unions will have the right to choose their own delegates and that these delegates be seated in accord- ance with the laws of the American Federation of Labor.” Working Class Unity Skoglung pointed out in his report that the only “crime” the Communists had committed wag the exposing of the betrayals of the interests of the working class by the reactionaries and the adyocation of workers’ and farmers’ control of the industries and the machinery of government. He also pointed out that it was necessary to unite the trade unions for the pur- pose of raising the standard of living for the whole working class instead of a few highly skilled workers as has been the policy: of the A. F. of L. up until now. 9!) V. F. Anderson thé president of the local made a statement in which he sald thi hee the birth of the amalgamati ement in 1922, a great stride for had been made for the uniting the different rail- ‘that this move the bitter opposi- officialdom and e present attack reactionary of- ‘the left wing. lon Balked ito refusal of the al officials to that the basis was the desire of ficialdom to des' Carmen's He called atten carmen’s inte! comply with the »tin in their refusal to §) mation question the members, an urged all the me: sto vote and work for the holi of an interna- onal convention in September, where he grievances of our organization can be redressed. Alderman Theodore Jensen, a mem- ber of Lodge No. 299, was present and save a short talk on the conditions existing in the local labor movement. Refreshments were served and every member present enjoyed himself and pledged support to the organization in spite of all obstacles, Workers Party Urges Aid to the Famine Stricken in Ireland (Continued from page 1.) syes of the rebel Irish workers and peasants, while women and children huddle around their cold hearts and men search in vain for employment. Pledges Aid The Workers (Communist) Party of America, section of the Communist In. ternational, sends its sympathies to the stricken workers and peasants of Ireland. It greets a people that never hauled down the flag in surrender to British tyranny, but battled thru cen- turies for freedom. It does not forget that the Irish workers and peasants under the leadership of the great re- volutionist James Connolly raised the flag of revolt in darkest days of the world war, n the working class of the world were killing each other in behalf of their capitalist mast- ers. The Workers (Communist) Party of America pledges its aid to the workers and peasants of Ireland in their distress, . Its thousands of members from all countries and’ of every race and color will answer the call for assistance. The Workers Party sends greetings to the vanguard of the Irish working class who under the leadership of the Comniunist International and the Red international of Labor Unions are waging the battle to free Ireland from he clutches of British imperialism and its creature the Fyee State and to raise the banner of a victorious Irish workers’ republic, Central Executive Committee Workers (Communist) Party of America WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, Ch an C, E. RUTHENBERG, Ex. Sec'y, i of for that reason Report U. &. Vessel Seized, SHANGHAI, Feb, 19—An Ameri- can upper Yangtze steamer has been seized by the Chinese military au- thorities Kwéichowfu, Szechuen prov- ince, according to a message received here today from ‘Ichang, an upper Yangtze port, the captain of the ves- sel was arrested the American passengers on bo are being de- tained, the message+eaid. co Battle Lines Are Clear; It Is the Communists Against the Capitalists By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL 'ODAY, there is a whole host of legislatures meeting in various states, all legislating for the’ per pero class. They are a part of the capitalist state; the dictatorship of America’s capitalist pe class. The make-up of the Illinois state legislature, similar to the personnel of all other state legislatures, shows how well equipped this lawmaking body really is to serve Its cap- italist master. Nearly one-seventh of the legislature, 61 out of 204 members, consists of lawyers, the most cringing humans in the service of the almighty dollar. {It is they who must up- hold the myth of the sanctity of oppressive capitalist justice. Its “law ’n order,” even in the shape of the lynchers’ rope, is sacred to them. oe @ Attorneys in the lower branch of the state legislature number 42; in the senate there are 19. Both are therefore well equipped to discover even the slightest taint of working class legislation that might appear. These lawyers are the bellwethers that lead the rest of the legislators in the way they should follow. These followers do not need much urging to keep in line. They do it as a matter of habit. There are profes- sional politicians, many of whom have “studied law.” In the house there are 15 members who hold other public of- fices, cogs in either the democratic or republican old party machines; 13 farmers, ten each of real estate and insurance men, nine merchants, and seven who combine real estate with insurance; with a sprinkling of automobile dealers and publishers, grain dealers, housewives, teachers, team- sters, printers, two bankers, two who combine banking and farming. There are one each of other so-called occupations: cigar dealer, motor repairman, contractor, restauranteur, manufacturer, painter and decorator, junk dealer, lather, barber, hotel’ keeper, realtor and banker, coal dealer, insur- ance man and farmer, miner, merchant and farmer, preach- er, hay dealer, confectioner, oil dealer, editor, doctor, with only one who confesses that he has “retired from business.’ This make-up of the state legislature shows how im- licitly big business entrusts its lawmaking to the small Reuraectel. There is not a real worker or poor farmer in the whole outfit. The farmers listed are “rich farmers,” most of them turned landlord and gone to town to live, tak- ing up politics for diversion. The housewives are not the mothers in working »class families; but nearly always the wives of big profiteers seeking this sideline in their parasitic lives. Notice the sprinkling of small bosses. It it safe to as- sume that this category includes the “painter and decorator, lather and barber.” There is always a “miner” in the state legislature; nearly always some reactionary official who has betrayed the Miners’ Union to the mine barons before the rank and file could throw him out, William Green, now pre- sident of the American Federation of Labor, as a “miner,” got some early notoriety as a democratic member of the Ohio state senate. } . These are all chosen from their geographical districts, supported by precinct organizations, the power of the old party machines. . s. * * © There are no spokesmen in Springfield for the 100,000 coal miners in the state, for the steel workers, for the rail- road workers; no representatives. of labor in any industry. Industrial representation would be Sovietism, say the cap- italist spokesmen. It would be “unconstitutional.” It would strike at the roots of all American traditions. And a lot of other claptrap stuff that should sound like cheap tommy- rot in the ears of the whole working class. Labor, under capitalism, may send its own representa- tives—Communists—to Chicago's city hall, to the state capi- tol at Springfield, to congress in Washington. This will be done; even as a Communist sits today in the North Dakota state legislature. The duty of these elected Communists, in these comfortable roosts of the political agents of the great exploiters, will be to raise the standards of the revolution for the overthrow of the whole Ganitalist system, It is well that the workers in Chicago, Minneapolis and other cities, where election campaigns are now being held, understand these facts. If they want the Soviet Rule of labor in the mines, the mills and the factories, supported by the poor farmers on the land, then they will vote for the program and the can- didates of the Workers (Communist) Party. If they choose to suffer longer under capitalist exploita- tion then they will vote for the shyster lawyers, the real estate sharks and other bourgeois riff raff who sell them- selves, for small favors, into political bondage to great cap- italists. This last category includes also the “socialists,” shown by the classic exposure of the crooked relations between the German “socialists” Bauer, erstwhile premier, Richter, Berlin chief of police, and others, with the Barmat Brothers, big financiers. The issue narrows: Communism or capitalism? On which side are you? Muscle Shoals NOTICE, Steal Is Up for TWIN CITY MILITANTS! All militant BUILDING TRADES workers will meet In Room No, 2, and all METAL TRADES workers Senate Approval! WASHINGTON, Feb. 19,—The ad- ministration was faced today with its last great obstacle to adjournment of congress March 4, when the senate resumed final consideration of Muscle Shoals legislation, ‘ Republican leaders were confident of approval for the Underwood bill, as it came from conference, without unnecessary delay. They were in- formed by opponents of the bill, how- ever, that debate would last “at least two days.” 4 The administration’s worries lay in the possibility of a filibuster by the bill’s opponents. The Underwood bill as it came from conterehee, pro- vides for the leasing of Muscle Shoale to private corporatione’ for almost nothing, compared to its. $160,000,000 sive value, ott in Room No, 4 at 617 4th Ave., So. Minneapolis Saturday evening, 8 P. M,, Feb, 21st. Every militant working in the metal and building industries should be present with- out fall. St. Paul workers espectal- ly should be present. Patronize our advertise: Ay | Pedainvsnws NMiasquerade Ball Given by FINNISH BRANCH, WORKERS PARTY at IMPERIAL HALL, 2409 No. Halsted Street Saturday, February 21 COMRADE LOSES JOB FOR TRADE UNION AGTIVITY K. K. K. Unionists Side with Bosses » (Special to The Dally Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb, 19.—Com rade George Papcun, a member of the Cleveland Workers Party and Young Workers League locals, was fired from his job on account of union ac- tivity. Comrade Papcun was very ac- tive in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, Thrift Lodge No. 92. Comrade Papecun was fired by the boss because he belonged to the Workers Party and Y. W. L. He was given 16 hours to decide whether he would rather quit the W. P. and Y. W. L., or lose his job. Thru his activities as chairman of the mill committee the membership in the mill increased from 35 to 135. The company soon tried to find a way to get rid of the ter- rible “red,” because thru his work Papcun usually received favorable de- cisions in the mill committee. Conse- quently they fired him. The reaction- ary officials, members of the ku klux klan, are fighting on the side. of the company and have postponed action at two meetings. This .is a case that is causing a great deal of discussion in the mill. This is not the only case. Take, for instance, Brother Nolan, who has been fired because of breaking a roll thru no fault of his own, but thru the faultiness of the roll itself. Also be- cause Brother Nolan was active in the lodge and helped support. Papcun, is @ reason why the reactionary officials now will not back Nolan up. Comrade Papeun is putting up a strong fight. The strong left wing tendency in the union will back him up in his fight to expose the local and national of- ficials. Comrade Papcun was exempted from dues payments for a time because of being unemployed, but now the ku kluxers.in control of the local demand that he pay up all his back dues. The activity of the reactionaries against Papcun is in strong contrast to their inactivity in keeping up the union, as the membership of the local is de- clining. Sacco-Vanzetti Protest Meeting in Chicago, March 1 (Continued from page 1) the release of Sacco and Vanzetti. The results of the first conference of del- egates from 12 large local’ unions in this city with representatives of the Workers Party and the Young Work- ers League and a number of influent- ial fraternal organizations assures the tremendous success of this demonstra. tion. Every delegate has promised to visit at least one other union that is not yet represented in the conference. In this way it is expencted to secure the support of scores of additional labor organizations, An executive committee of seven members has been elected at the first meeting of the conference. Max J. Silinsky business agent of the Jour- neymen Tailors’ Union in this city was elected chairman of the confer- ence. A V. Severino member of the Bricklayers, one of the delegates of the Workers Party was elected secret- ary treasurer. Other members of the executive committee are William Polk president of the Street Railwaymen’s Union, John Steele secretary of Local No. 867, of the Painters’ Union, Her- bert Benjamin, Carl Hacker and Geor- ge Papcun. Stee! Workers to Protest YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 19.— Two monster mass meetings in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti will be held in Mahoning Valley on Sunday, March Ist. In the afternoon a meeting will be held at the Hippodrome hall, Warren, Ohio, and in the evening a meeting will be held at the Ukrainian hall, 525 West Rayen Ave., Youngstown, Ohio. Speakers in the various languages will address both meetings and a spe- cial program is being arranged by the committee in charge of the meet- ings. The dastardly frameup of two in- nocent workers by the barons of New Bngland will be vigorously protested against by the steel workers in Ma- honing valley. . Readers of the DAILY WORKER are urgently requested to make spe- cial note of the meetings and attend the one in their locality. ver Closes Schools Il, Feb. 19.—Forty cases of scarlet fever were reported here today by physicians. The total population is only eight hundred. All schools have closed.