The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Munroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES | By mail: $3.50....6 months VG .00....8 months By mail (in Chicago only | 7. $4.50....6 months $2.50...8 montha $6.00 per year $8.00 per year A@dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. ~. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Lapateeiea WILLIAM F, DUNNE Ei MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager | 4] ®ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- | Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <> 290 | 51 Miners’ Lives—$3,900 Each | Fifty-one miners dead in Sullivan, Indiana—| killed by a gas explosion. Even the capitalist press, always careful of the} interests of the mine owners, is forced to admit that a coal cutting machine broke thru the wall of a gas-filled abandoned shaft and flooded the mine with the death-dealing explosive. The only conclusion that can be drawn, in view | of the scientific accuracy of mining engineering, is that the owners knew the workings were danger- | ously close to this reservoir of gas, but that the coal in that part of the face was good and cheaply | obtained. | The owners sent the men to their deaths for quick and easy profits. We hear continuously of the “risks of capital,” but it is noticeable that these risks do not extend to| the capitalists themselves. No coal mine owner is | Chicago, Iinels | Advertising rates op application ever killed in a coal mine. | With a callousness that is characteristic of the | capitalist press when the lives of workers are! weighed against dividends, it remarks that the| families of the murdered miners will get $200,000 | under the Indiana compensation law—carefully giving the total of the blood money paid by the state and not the miserable amounts allotted to| the families deprived of their breadwinner—$3,900 for wives and children. One thing is certain. This disaster will not hold the front pages of the capitalist press like the death | of one lohe cave explorer—Collins—did. Too many workers might begin to ask themselves why it is} always the workers that must die in capitalist in- dustry in return for a bare livelihood while the capitalists escape its hazards. There ean be little doubt that the present unem- ployment in the soft coal fields is an important factor in such disasters as that in Indiana. Jobs are few and far between and.the bosses have been able to break down many of the safety rules. The workers themselves, with competition for the jobs | 80 keen are forced to take chances that otherwi: ise | would bring a strike. It is easily seen that the disaster is part of the vicious circle of robbery of the workers, unemploy-| ment and capitalist control of industry and goy- ernment. = The ku klux klan is powerful in Indiana. It even | has Some followers among the miners themselves, | but it serves only to divide the Indiana workers | along national, racial and religious lines; its ac-| tivities in this situation will be to pray over the| bodies of the American-born miners and ‘to thank its 100 per cent American god that some hated for- eigners were among the victims. What must be the answer of the coal miners to | this slayghter of their fellow workers? It must be renewed work within the union for a fighting program that will have as one of its provi- sions the inspection of all workings by the miners | themselves, the absolute power to decide whether a mine is safe independent of all the boss-owned state | and national inspection agencies. It takes a real union to enforce such a provision and that kind of a union will be built only by fol-| lowing the program of the Workers (Communist) | Party and the Trade Union Educational League. The wage cut in the woolen mills is a sign that the bosses mean business. Only a united front of all the workers in the textile industry will con- vince these robber barons that the workers also mean business. Connecticut Enemies of Children Indications are that-the child labor amendment will be defeated by the Connecticut legislature. The many child slaves in the mills of this state are such | choice bits of profit making machinery that the | bosses are extremely desirous of keeping their chains tight. The Connecticut chamber of commerce has been unusually active in its opposition to-this measure. lt has conducted one of those self-starting refer- endums among its members, the arguments for and against prepared by persons selected by the chair- man of this organization of exploiters. The argu- ments of the open opposition are no more damaging than those of its handpicked defender. This hypocritical method of fighting measures for the protection of children, together with open and unashamed attacks by the more powerful groups, is testimony to the arrogant and brutal nature of capitalist rule in {le United States. Only the highest kind of conscious discipline and well-knit militant organization of workers can oppose a solid and effective*front to a class that fights so stubbornly for the smallest of its priv- ileges, Every day get a “sub” for DAILY WORKER | eed a member for the Mle en jattach themselves to the LaFollette kite. A Joint Funeral . Joint funeral services for the O/ P. P, A. and the | socialist party began Saturday in the Lexington |Hotel. There was’ some acrimonious dissension among the pallbearers, but the morgue-like at- mosphere was evidence that the only thing in the United States deader than the ©. P. P. A. is the socialist party and that the only thing deader than | the socialist party is the body of the Unknown Sol- dier, The only difference is that, having been dead longer, the corpse of the Unknown Soldier does not smell so bad. Lest anyone thinks that the above remarks are |a reflection upon rank and file worker delegates at |the conference, we hasten to say that there were few present. The conference in its initial session, before the railway labor officialdom adjourned the Cc. P. P. A. sine die, was composed of these sleek gentlemen, delegates to the national convention {of the socialist party and the most motley collec- tion of paranoic preachers, briefless lawyers, with |such a generous sprinklingof miscellaneous squirrel food, that our furry friends need not fear a famine. The handful of workers who were present were deprived of a vote by the report of credentials com- mittee. In none of the speeches, not even in that of Debs, was the word revolution mentioned nor was there |any basic difference in outlook between the railway | brother! hood officials and the socialists present. All wanted to cater to the middle class—the socialists by a middle-class party, the brotherhood official- dom by working with this element in the old | parties. The speeches were devoid of any bitterness. The socialists assured the railway chiefs that they had the highest personal regard for them and the Shepherds, Robertsons and Manions reciprocated. “We are all travelling the safme road,” was a |phrase that was used’ over and oyer again. The gathering had as much mass character as a sewing society and if any sort of a new political | party comes out of it will be the personal property |of LaFollette, dependent upon his leadership for any appeal it will make to the middle-class electors. The socialist party delegates came to the con- | ference to collect a following, but they have not sueceeded even in differentiating themselves from the 57 varieties of nuts who made up the majority of the dele; . The attitude of the railway broth- erhood officialdom toward the socialists was one of polite contempt and not that of hatred and fear with’ which they regard the Communists. The socialist party is dead. Its remnants must As an independent entity it exists today merely upon what |publicity and support it obtains by virtue of its jwar on Soviet Russia and the Communist Interna- \tional and this is a suicidal method as most jof the parties of the Second International have already ned. The C.:P. P. A. is dead. The socialist party of America is dead. Long live the Workers (Communist) Party of America! Soviet Recognition The Communists will take the announced igten- }tion of the Coolidge administration to open’ nego- | tiations with the Soviet government more calmly | than any-other section of the American people. We have had the fullest confidence at all times that the strength of the workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment of Russia combined with the inescapable con- flicts between the capitalist nations would force |recognition. The socialists will intensify their op- position to Soviet recognition, the professional alarmists will continue to bray and the offensive against the Communists may become more wide- spread, but Soviet Russia will be recognized. American capitalism will try to save what it can in the Far East after the blow dealt it by the Russo- apanese treaty. It will not have much success because here: too it meets the imperialism of Great Britain as well as that of Japan, while over all is the constant and growing force of Communism among the masses of Asia. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Mussolini’s New Nemesis Mussolini mobilizes troops along the Egyptian frontier and another knotty problem presents itself for solution to the imperialist European rulers. Internal Italian affairs will be stirred also to a |new heat by this move. The Aventine opposition has returned to the chamber of deputies and with the threat of war facing the Italian masses as a result of the Egyptian imbroglio there is every prospect for renewed outbreaks of popular indig- nation. Danger of war is perhaps the.one thing at pre- sent that will unite the anti-fascist middle-class elements opposed to Mussolini and rally the masses of the workers to the fighting program of the {Italian Communist Party. War is the last thing |that Mussolini should hold over the heads of the Italian workers and that he does it is a tribute to the power of the economic and political forces that are driving Italian capitalism to its death. Arbitration for the bosses is played out in Nova Scotia. The miners welcomed the “arbitrators” recently appointed as “tools of the British Empire Steel corporation” and then sent them back to the headquarters of that company in Ottawa. Workers in the United States can learn a whole lot from these fighting Canadian coal diggers. The expulsion of the’secretary of the Carpenters’ Union of the Mexican Federatign of Labor because of his Communist speeches shows that the “Mon- roe doctrine of Jabyst is being applied. Gompers ‘is dead, but his antitworking class policy lives, sp eatane THE DAILY WORKER POSTAL BILL IN HOCK AS-SOLONS BOOST. OWN PAY Give Selyés" Raise of $2,500 a Year (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 22.— The senate voted almost unanimously against rescinding its action in voting an increase in salary for senators from $7,500.00 to $10,000.00 per year. Senator Norris 6f'Nebraska moved to reconsider the’ Action, but was howled down, only (Senators Borah, and Magnus Johnson of Minnesota supporting him. Johnson ‘was defeat- ed ip the last election and is not af- fected by the raise, It is argued by yh that the sen- ators were inconsistent since they did not provide means of. raising money to pay the increase, as Coolidge in- sisted be done in the. case of the ill- paid postal employes. The Ball bill, which was passed by the senate, provided-for salaries of $15,000.00 each for the. vice-president, the speaker of the house, and for all cabinet officers. The raise in pay for Dawes, Longworth and the cabinet members will be $3,000.00 a year a piece, Senator Smoot of Utah, as chair- man of the finance committee, report- ed the Ball bill favorably to the sen- ate, in spite of the fact that he has been a bitter foe of wage increases for the postal workers. The bill raising the pay of the postal workers is still rocketing back and forth between the house and senate. | MUSIC | Bush Conservatory Orchestra. Offers Musical Classics By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. The Bush conservatory orchestra Gave its second program of this sea- son at Orchestra Hall last Tuesday night. Bush conservatory programs are worth hearing when one is. not in the mood for the new or the startl- ing, because they are made up of old standbys in the ¢oncert literature. This particular. program opened with the “Ruy Blas” overture, the time honored prelude written by Men- delssohn for Victor, .Hugo’s play of the same name. “ Blas” is more vigorous music than.js generally as- sociated with the sohn, and goes to show ‘that the German could on occasion, write more than langorous whisperings from fairyland. This was followed by two move- ments of the Vieuxtemps fourth vio- lin eoneorto, played Edwin Schultz one of the pupils of Richard Czerwon- 4y, tue orchestra conductor. Vieux- temps was foo good a violin virtuoso to write a remarkable concerto. Of the two movements played, an an- dante and a march, all the interest is centered in the solo, and the orches- tra has no more individuality than an accompanying harmon But the vio- lin solo is full of catching, whistleable tunes. Schultz’ hi me tone, but his intonation is frequently ragged. Followed the great and passionate prelude and love-death of the Wag- nerian opera “Tristan and Isolde,” the vocal solo of the latter section sung by Julia Rode. There was pol- ished, perfected orchestra playing in the prelude, but in the love-death the orchestra drowned out the voice. This was Czerwonky’s fault, not Miss Rode's. A suite of dances from a little known opera of Saint-Saens, “Henry VIII,” opened the second section of the program. This music has not been played here abouts in so long that it is again new. Evidently the Henry VIII that the opera is con- cerned with is the “English king of many wives (who, by the way, was @ composer of some, ability) for the dances are all in Scotch style. Saint- Saens was a com) r of peculiar adaptability. He , adopt for a day or a week any ‘le, because he had little that cou called a style of his own. In these dances he. uses the Scotch five note scale and kes the men- tal associations of. and plaids and a rich brogue.” His shrewd or- chestral chemistry be heard in the second movem called “Idyll Ecossaise,” (Sco! ll) wherein a melody in the panied by a drone iff the cellos, pro- duéing as near an mn of a bag- pipe as can be — orchestra. instruments, Harold Sanford ed the first thovement of one ao great class- ics of piano literature, the first con- certo of Chaykovski. ‘This is the “grand style,” to cop @ phrase of our favorite musical essayist; It Is a masterwork of the first order. It has solo is accom- name Chaykovski, the Russian’s sweetness of melody, his power and his melancholy. Sanford played it a bit more slowly is traditional, but with excellent leistanding of ‘\its meaning, The program wy up with the ever popular “Ma c the Boyars” by Halvorsen. When you bu: get an “Ad” for the DAILY RKER, oe (Continued from page 1) notwithstanding. the comparatively high degree of organization already prevailing among its workers, should have no unified national labor mive- ment. To those who are familiar with the problems confronting the Cuban workers—the fierce opposition of gov- ernment, sugar kings, tobacco lords and shipping magnates, and the sel- fishness and treachery of so-called “labor leaders”—the reason ts clear, Nevertheless, a nation-wide labor or- ganization in Cuba must and will be formed. Hands to the Task, The untiring activity of the: Ha- vana Federation of Labor and the re~ sponse which the Cuban unions ‘have given to the general congress of last December are guarantees that neither. General Crowder, nor the big biuisi- ness interests, nor the traitors with- in the ranks of labor itself can’ pre- vent the formation of a militant Con. federacion General de Trabdajacores in Cuba. You have been delegated by your unions for that purpose. Hands to the task! Cuba is a country without vast dis- tances and without those sectional differences which have sometimes temporarily divided the workers of other lands. As the editor of Justicla points out, the technical problems of confederation in Cuba should be rela- tively easy of solution. Once estab- lished, the Confederacion General de Trabajadores will be a mighty and flexible weapon for the defense of the workers and peasants on all parts of the island. Cuban workers are among the most exploited in the western hemishpere. The big sugar and tobacco companies, enjoying profits of hundreds of mil- lions of dollars each year, wrung from the toil of the Cuban workers and peons, pay out to their wage slaves only a mere pittance and force them to live and work under the most abominable conditions. Isolated struggles of the workers, however - stubborn and’ courageous, are of little avail against these giant combines of capital, directed from Wall Street. There must be » single confederation of labor, witn tocal units thruout the island, capable of dealing powerful blows simultaneous- ly at a number of different points. The organization must be determined to fight thru the class struggle to the bitter end, until the overthrow of cap- italism and the establishment of a new society by, for and of the work- ers. WARDEN GUILTY OF GRAFT GETS 18 MONTHS BIT Priest Gets “Off Easy by} pa Squealing (Special to The Daily Worker) : ATLANTA, Ga., Feb, 22.—Albert E. Sartain, formerly warden at the Unit- ed States penitentiary here, and Law- rence Riehl, both of Columbus, Ohio, were found guilty here today by a jury in United States district court of having conspired to solicit and ac- cept bribes from prisoners at the in- stitution in return for “soft berths.” L. J. Fletcher formerly deputy ward- en at the prison, was found not guilty. The catholic chaplain of the prison turned state’s evidence and was not sentenced, altho he admitted his guilt. Sartain was sentenced to a year and six months in the Uftited States pris- in it all that one associates with the | on and Riehl to a year and a day. Riehl was informed by Judge Erwin that his sentence was lightened be- cause he was not an official at the prison, The verdict was announced fifteen hours after the jury had retired from deliberation. The maximum penalty is two years in prison and fine of $10,000. Attorneys for the convicted men announced they would immediately ask for a new trial. Coolidge Plan to Abolish Taxes on Estates Opposed WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—A. clash in the next congress over tax revision, which will split the republican ‘ma- jority into two distinct groups, was predicted here today as a result of President Coolidge’s flat advocacy of repealing federal inheritance taxes. Influential republican members of congress expressed disapproval of the president’s proposition. Among them was Rep. Wm. R. Green of Iowa, chairman of the pow- erful ways and means committee, which will have charge of framing tax revision, The proposal to get the federal gov- ernment out of the inheritance tax field, probably will be included in the Coolidge-Mellon plan, which is to be presented early in the 69th congress. It will be opposed by the democrats generally and by quite a few repat licans. ite Soldiers Die in Tram Wreck. “" MANILA, Feb, 22—Three American army officers and three soldiers were killed and 14 persons were injured day when a crowded tram car o' turned at Corregidor. ‘ Cubans to Join: Fight on Imperialism » The struggle will not end with the formation of the Confederasion Gen- eral de Trabajadores. The Cuban workers must become part of the world revolutionary movement led by the Communist International and the Red International of Labor Unions. Against Wall Street Imperialism. Cuban workers do not need to be reminded that their struggle is an international one—and above all, a struggle against the imperialist pow- er of Wall Street. Three-fourths-of all the capital invested in Cuba is Wall Street capital. Strikes i the sugar and shipping industries are strikes against Wall Street. It was Wall Street that stood back of the Cuban government last summer in the ‘brutal suppression of the strikes ‘in the sugar centrals. It was Wall Street that sent American battle- ships to Havana harbor during the general strike of the harbor work- ers. So long as the power of Wall Street is left undisturbed, Cuba will be a free country only in name and the emancipation of the Cuban workers from wage slavery will be only an idle dream, Consciously or uncon- ‘sclously, the Confederacion General de Trabajadores. will have to fight against Wall Street. We Ask Your Solidarity. 5 The Pan-American Anti-Imperialist League, consisting of labor unions, peasant organizations, co-operatives, students’ groups, Communtst parties, ete., calls upon the Cuban National Labor Congress to join with the workers of North, Central and South America in a concerted struggle against American imperialism. We ask you to make common cause with us against the common enemy. More important than. anything else, however, is the immediate establish- ment of the Confederacion General de Trabajadores in Cuba. This your convention must not fail to do. Therb have been other attempts in the past but all were disrupted or nullified. No more delays, comrades! No more postponements, The best elements of the Cuban labor movement are rep- resented in your convention. Forward to the Confederacion General de Tra- bajadores! Viva “ef movimiento trabajador de Cubaf Viva 1a"g6lidaridad obrera ‘paname- ricana! ° * Viva la*solidaridad obrera mundial! PAN-AMERICAN ANTI-IMPERIAL- ist LEAGUE, (! “Manuel Gomez, Secretary. CONGRESS VOTES TO “MISE ITS OWN PhY rae w GTON, D. C., Feb, 22.— Congress Voted today to raise its own sala Bya of 237 to 93, the house passed the senate bill under which salariesof ‘members of the house and senate ate raised from $7,500 a year to $10,000. The measure also’ provided for in- creasing the salaries of cabinet members, the speaker of the house and the vice president from $12,500 to $15,000 ‘a year. The bill to increase the salary of postal employes is still hanging fire. GOVERNOR DROVE _ HARD BARGAIN ~ INPARDON SALE (Special to The Daily Worker) TOPEKA, Kans., Feb. 22.— Test- imony that Carl J. Peterson, former |/ state banking commissioner, had told him over the telephone on Dec. 18, after negotiations for the parole of Walter Grundy, convicted Hutchinson banker: “I. got to the governor, and the best we can do is $4,000,” marked the direct testimony of A. Lewis Os- wald, Hutchinson attorney, in the preliminary hearing of Peterson and former Governor Jonathan M. Dayis ‘| on charges of conspiracy and solicit- ing a bribe. ae Finally Cut Price Later, Oswald testied, the allege price was cut to $2,500 but when he came here Jan, 9, to complete the negotiations, he found the case of Fred W. Pollman, paroled banker of e which resulted in the arrest of Davis, and his son, Russell, was public and he realized the efforts for Grtiaidy, were ended. “Gunboat Busy. ‘SHANGHAI, Feb. 20.— A United States gunboat is being sent from Wan Hsien to Kwei Chow Fu in an effort to obtain the release of the American steamer Chi Chuen, which was seized by military there and its crew arrested. icin Feb, 22—The Prussian “diet this evening declined, 221 to | 218 to give the Marx cabinet a vote of confidence. The cabinet has been “office only a few days. ‘| equal: work. JACK-GAVEEL, LW. W., FAVORS UNITED FRONT Article Appears in Tomorrow’s Daily By HARRISON GEORGE In tomorrow’s Trade Union Edu- cational League Section, the DAILY WORKER will run an article from Jack Gaveel, whom all I. W. W. with a knowledge of their organization's history, will remember as one of its’ bést fighters before, during and after ‘the war, Joining the I. W. W. in 1923, he be- came prominent in the organization in 1916 and 1917; and was indicted ‘with the Chicago group according to my recollection, but was never ap- prehended. He did not, as many did, however, run away from the strug- gle, or become a “tired” radical; or lose the fine wobbly spirit which prompted him in the days I knew him, to take a ‘real Marxian’ posi- tion, a Leninist position, toward ‘the imperialist war. Imprisoned Three Years and Deported Jack Gaveel was a fighter, and when the organization was in the war crisis. stood loyally by it on the firing line. He held many positions in the I. W. W. and discharged re- sponsibility with credit. Finally he was imprisoned by the venomous “criminal syndicalism” law of Call- fornia and spent three years at San Quentin, where he led the first strike of 54 wobblies against discrimination by forced continuous work tn the jute mill. When he was released from San Quentin he was held incommunicado at Ellis Island and then suddenly de- ported while very ill. Now he writes from Hamburg, Gor. many. Jack Gaveel asks questions of ‘the I. W. W. that it must answer, That he now realizes the overwhelming necessity of a fight on capitalism based on the tactics of the Red In- ernational of Labor Unions, although when in San Quentin he did, as-I recall, write critically in opposition to it, is proof of the fact that. the program of the R. I. L. U. in the ‘face of actual conditions, is sound enough to win to its banner the best revolu- tionary elements of the I. W. W. The article of JJack Gayeel (and other M. T. W. members’ 1 | favoring the R. I. L. U. position). evi- dences a rising tide in the earnest revolutionary membership of the W. W. which will not forever bre the obstructions of anarchist opposi- tion and sectarian isolation, Understanding Just Beginning - In view of the coming conference for unity of the marine workers of the western hemisphere, called by the M. T. W. of the I. W. W., these signs of life in the M. T. W. are of pro- found importance. Seamen, ‘on the whole, cannot be the same sort of shortsighted muddlehead as is’ the stump-rancher editor of the Indus- trial Worker. Although it is manifestly impos‘ sible to send every I. W. W. to Ham- burg or Moscow to let practi¢al ex- perience teach him to quit following anarchist and confusionist leaders and think for himself, still there is no doubt that the I. W. W. and R. I. L. U, are ultimately bound ti fight side by side against the on- slaughts of capitalism. HOLD COMMUNIST MASS MEETING MONG NEGROES What the Workers (Communist) Party, the American section of the ‘Communist International has put forth as its demands for the Negro workers in ‘the present aldermatic elections, will be the chief subject under discts- sion at a mass meeting to be held ‘to- night, Monday, at 8 P. M., at the South Side Community Center, “3201 So. Wabash Ave. -For the quarter of a million Ni workers of Chicago, the wakes (Communist) Party demands: m ¥. Absolute social, economic and political equality for all workers, re- sardless of race or color: } 2% Equal pay for all workers ter »8.°Abolish Jim-Crow neighbor- hoods, .restaurants, theaters, trains and schools. 4. Fight the ku klux klan. 5. Fight police terrorization ot friendly association between the races. 6. Absolutely equal admission to and rights in all trade unions. The speakers will be Edward L, Doty, Communist leader among the Negroes of Chicago, at present a plum- | ber and formerly railroad and 6 yards worker, Gordon Owens, Negro | printing trades worker and known Communist and Karl Reeve, revqfer tor the DAILY WORKER, Get “your tickets for Red Revel Ball ¢ February 28. ir of Monroe and Ashland Bivd. ~ Ashland Avenue j