The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1925, Page 1

Insure the DAILY WORKER To the Last Spike! Vol. II. No. 39. Snare GEN ep oO { e1GHTH i wew VOR g<it ———w” AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O)FLAHERTY HEN the British labor party as- sumed office, the Communist press all over the world exposed the leaders of this party as a group of accomplished renegades who. were itching for the opportunity to’ serve the ruling classes of England. This criticism was resented in many quar- ters. The British labor.party, it was assumed because of its name, repre- sented the interests of the working class. It should be given a chance. It was. * * Before March 5 3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES:. =i.) MINE GOVERNOR SMALL, WHO @ THE CHILD LABOR 4 In Chicago, by’ mall, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicagc, by mall, $6.00. per year. Entered as second-class matter September 21, 19284 a BOA AVE SACCO-VANZETTI WASS MEETING IN MANY CITIES Workers Hold Protest Demonstrations Mch. 1 icola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti must not die,” is the ery of the militant workers thruout the world. FTER several months in office the British labor party succeeded in only one respect. It proved that the Communist criticism was justified.” It proved that MacDonald, Thomas, Webb, Clynes and Walsh and the rest of his majesty’s government were just as willing as its tory and liberal pre- decessors to use the mighty power of the robber empire against the slaves on whose bleeding backs the imperial structure rests. Bombs and shells for the subject races. Government strike- breaking for the British working class. This was the policy of tne Brit- ish labor party. . s+ Ts British labor party is out of office, but its leaders have not changed .a whit. Philip Snowden is criticising his successor, Winston Churchill for surrendering to France at the Paris conference. The social- ist Snowden accuses the tory Church- ill of negligence in safeguarding the interests of British its French rivals! Ramsay MacDon- ald and J. H. Thomas are defending the South African trip of the prince of Wales from the attacks of the left elements in the labor party. eee ECENTLY when the question of an additional appropriation for the prince’s South American trip came ‘up-in commons, David Kirkwood, an emotional. radical ‘from the Clyde spoke against it. Some acid comment on. the uselessness of the royal family was indulged in by the left wingers and by the one lone Commanist in the house. About ninety labor votes were cast for Kirkwood's motion to reduce the appropriation for the princely junketing’ trip: MacDonald and practically every member of the British labor government voted with the tories. dbase 4 HE prince is also booked for a trip to South Africa. The initial arrangements were made by J. H. Thomas, colonial minister in the Mac- Donald government. This visit is the object of attack by the rank and file elements in the British labor party and trade union movement. Ramsay MacDonald again rallied his right wing socialists to the defense of the prince of Wales. So did Mrs. Philip Snowden. Now here comes J. H. Thomas, His defense of the princely jaunt is more damning than anything that could be written by any enemy in criticism of his position. oe 8 HOMAS says: “I, as a minister was specially responsible and I say not only from personal knowl- edge but from correspondence that there was an overwhelming demand on the part of the people of South Africa to see the prince visit their shores. If he is serving the country by going, as I believe he is, then who is there in our party; or in ‘any other party, who would dare.deny that he is entitled to have his expenses paid for the trip?” *. ¢ 'HIS is the. type of, labor” politi- cian that was held, up as an ideal before the. eyes of the 7 abor takers at the.C. P. P. A. Conference; by Mor- ris’ Hillquit. This is the | Abramovich type, the type that, puts, the ‘interests of the “country” above the “interests of the working class. The “interests of the country” under capitalism means the interests of the capitalists. The prince of Wales is simply a drum- mer for British imperialism, ‘a royal advertisement for ‘the goods of the British capitalists. The British labor party is today the most vigotous de- fender of the house of Wettin. RA Pd HEN MacDonald was premier, he won the lasting hostility of the British miners thru his insistence that any bill introduced for the nationaliz- ation of mines should include a pro- vision for compulsory arbitration. The experience of the British wotking class with a socialist government is a valuable one. The socialists every- where have proven themselves to be the most willing tools of capitalism. The capitalist class in America are not yet reduced to the extremity of being compelled to call in their yellow allies, but when that time comes, the call will be sent out and the response On March 1, protest meetings are be- | ing held in all cities of the country. | The I..W. W., the Sacco-Vanzetti de- | fense committee, and other working |class bodies are making common cause with the Workers (Communist) Party in a nation-wide protest against the continued imprisonment of Sacco and Vanzetti as punishment for their activity in leading the oppressed workers of the textile industries in Massachusetts. It has been shown over and over again that Sacco and Vanzetti were condemned to death by a capitalist judge on a framed up charge of mur- der, and with the use of perjured tes- timony. Chaplin at Chicago Meet. Tn Chicago on March 1, Ralph Chap- lin, the well-known poet and member of the I. W. W., Jack Johnstone, sec- retary of the Trade Union Educational League, and Antonio Pressi, editor of the Italian Communist paper, Il Lavo- capitalism from | ratore, will speak at a mass meeting in Emmet Memorial Hall, Taylor and Ogden streets, at 2:30 p.m. The meeting has been arranged by the Chi- cago local of the Workers Party. The Central Opera House in New York has been engaged for the Sacco- Vanzetti protest mass meeting to be }held.at.2 p. m., March 1. The speak- ers will inclite Frank Bellanca of the Amalgamated ‘Clothing Wor Pro- | Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Moissaye J. Olgin, and Juliet Stuart Poyntz. The New York meeting will be held under the auspices of the Sacco-Vanzettti' des fense committee, Italian locals’ of: the: needle trades unions, and the Work- ers (Communist) Party. A conference called by the: Work- ers Party of » Worcester, Massachu- setts, was held on Friday night in the Day building to rally the..work,. ers to the defense of Sacco and Van- zetti. Thirty-five delegates represent- ing twenty organizations went on re- cord demanding the release of the two class war prisoners and pledging the support of their respective organiza- tions. The conference took the name of the “Sacco-Vanzetti defense confer- ence of Worcester,” affiliated with the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee of Boston. The executive committee of the local conference consists of Evald Anderson, Joseph Ginsberg, J. John- son, H. Sidney Bloomfield, Arne Halo- nen, Harry Epstein, David Kaufman, Gunhilde Helle, and Guiseppi Paggilli. Local unions and Italian organiza- tions will be enlisted in the campaign. Worcester is the home town of Judge Webster Thayer, who presided at the trial and sentenced Sacco and Vanzet- ti after hearing the framed up eyi- dence. - The Labor Defense and Free Speech council of .western Pennsylvania is conducting the Sacco-Vanzetti meet- ing in Pitjsburgh, Pa., in the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., March 1, at 2 p. m., The workers of the steel and |, coal center will protest against the capitalist frame up against the two labor leaders.. Arturo Giovannitti will be the principal. speaker. “Let us save Sacco and Vanzetti from the capitalist hangmen” will be the slogan of this meeting. A big parade will be held in Bos- ton, followed by & mass meeting in Fanueil Hall. Ettor Sp Joseph, Ettor,. electric chair fo, s in Detroit. ne himself faced the his activity as an organizer in the great Lawrence tex- tile workers strike will speak at the Detroit Sacco; Vangetti mass meeting on March 1, , The Connectiéit district of the Workers (Communist) Party, in co- operation with the Sacco-Vanzetti de- fense committee, is also holding meet- ings in Bridgeport, Hartford, Stam- ford and Waterbury on March 1, Warren Gets O. K. of Senate Committee for Attorney General WASHINGTON, Feb, 24.—Breaking a deadlock of six weeks, the senate Judiciary, gommittee today approved the no} ‘of Charles B, Warren as attorney general. The vote was Ite fessor Felice Guadagni of Boston; ost Office at Chicago, THURSDAY, EBRUARY 26, 1925 POSES ENDMENT, IS FLAYED BY W RK ERS PARTY The Workers (Communist) Party of Dis! letter to Governor Small concerning This letter, points out that Small cannot much of labor unions or of any workers, if he “pussyf issue of child slavery. The letter is as follows: so 8 An Open Letter to Governor Small T the last elections many work- ers and trade unionists within the state of Illinois supported your candidacy, being lead to the belief that you were a friend of labor, As the result of an active campaign on your behalf by high salaried trade union officials you received the en- dorsement of many local unions and central labor bodies of the state, as a friend of labor. You of course re- ceived the endorsement of the petty bourgeois LaFollette state organiza- tion, The Workers (Communist) Party then declared that no friends of labor could be found among the agents of the privileged class. It pointed to’ your record as a representative of capitalism and reminded the workers of the fact that you, as the leader of the Illinois delegation, participated in the republican convention which had nothing but scorn for labor and nominated the. two outstanding reac- tionaries, Coolidge’ and Dawes, to head their ticket. Today we repeat that all these representatives of cap- italism are the bitter enemies of la- bor. A New Team—But No New Policy You have now been inaugurated for another term, hailed by those who want to fool the workers, as a pro- gressive. Once more you are show- ing your true color. You. have re- fused to recommend for adoption’ by the Illinois legislature the child labor t to the-constitution, _ “‘Thtuout the country the physical ‘dhd moral well being of the youth is being destroyed by inhuman child. ex- ploitation. While the bosses thereby Incréase their profits the child labor practice also enables them to reduce wages in general, lower working con- ditions and weaken the unions. There were in the state of Illinois, acéording to the United States census of 1920, at the time that census was taken, 36,933 children between the “lage of 10 and 16, working in industry and on the farm. 31,132 were em- ployed in factories and like occupa- tions. Ever since, these numbers have increased. Since 1922, statistics shows an increase of nearly three times in the number of children em- ployed. On The Side of Capital These facts are known to you Gov. Small, and yet you have refused to recommend for adoption by the Illi- nois state legislature the child labor amendment to the constitution. Once again you show yourself clearly on the side of the bosses. _ & bill has now been introduced in the state legislature providing for the submitting of the ratification of the child labor amendment to a referen- dum at the general elections next year. To this the capitalist politi- cians who are in control are reported to have tentatively agreed. Unquest- ionably you as well as they are cher- ishing the Hope that you will thereby avoid putting yourself on record as enemies of labor and be able to main- tain your allegiance to capitalism ‘while depending upon the capitalist machinery of propaganda to defeat the measure, Unite Against Child Slavers! The Workers Party, District No. 8, urges all workers and trade unionists of the state of Illinois to unite in a demand for the ratification of the THE SPIKE'S THE THING, SAY ACTORS— THEY MAKE A HIT! Not “on with the play,” but “down with the spike,” is the APA that ‘two stage friends of the DAILY WORKER have adopted. They are Richard and Carl Haupt, each of whom sent the DAILY WORKER their dollar Tuesday to help hammer home the last spike. “How can | get the DAILY WORKER while | am travelling?” Richard Haupt wants to know. “I will’ be making a different town every day on a circuit chautauqua and if it is at all possible, | want to get the DAILY WORKER. ¥ ne find two| dollare to se- ‘paper in its fight inst system,—two more nails r of capitaliem.” 8 has issued’ an open evil of child labor. ager expect the support "and dodges the burning UNION MINE BY OPERATORS JOHN L. LEWIS ® The Daily Worker) WL, Feb, 24— The e inty Coal company’s ‘Nocated here, has been in, throwing out of work previously employed. the ever ONE hi (Spr ROY. Franklin: Mine. Ni closed. the 735° child tution by However, ui idement to the consti- {Mlinois state legislature. use children are forced to work: of the poverty of their an@\a child labor law that does | Provide government sup- port for) apehild going to school is useless, Welgurther urge the demand iment maintainance of dren of workers and the funds for this pur- from special taxes on poor fai pose to high in < What u going to do about it, Governor Your record before and since taking .office tells us that you will othing ‘to injure the child-exp employers and at the same tin ‘to keep up the pose of a “fi dabor.” But the work- ers cann »fooled forever. The question fild labor is. one on which mo “friend of labor” can afford to Len Small, you will find #hi to your cost! RS PARTY | settee District No. RELIET SOCIETY © REJEGTS FRIENDS OF ABRAMOVICH Communist Foils Anti- Soviet Committee A committee of followers of Ra- phael Abramovich, which asked for financial aid from the Ershter Krinker Untershtutzing Verain, was told to go about its business and refused aid at the last»meeting of the Verain at Humboldt Hall, 2292 West Division St. This action was taken after Com- rade Tikatsky, member of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, spoke against the motion to give the Abramovich followers $10, which they asked for the purpose of “helping the political prisoners in Russia.” The committee was asked to wait outside while the motion presented by a member of the Verain who was also a member of the Workmen's Circle, was being discussed. Comrade Tikatzky opposed the motion, declar- ing that those represented by the com- mittee were'the counter revolutionists who helped Kolchak, Dennikin, and Wrangel in their attack on the work- ers of Soviet Russia. 4 Comrade ‘Tikatzky, who is vice-pres- ident of the Verain, boldly resisted the attempts te give this counter-revolu- tionary committee any of the work- ers’ money. |The Abramovich com- mittee, while! waiting behind the door to hear the sresult of their appeal at/Comrade Tikatzky’s ex- ‘jtheir treachery to the Comrade ‘Tikatzky’s speech threw the meeting»into an uproar. Some of the members attempted to beat up the Communist, but were held back by other members, * After thoro:discussion, the vote was taken, and the Verain went on record by a vote of eleven to ten to refuse to aid the counter-revolutionists. The Abramovich followers were called in and told that there was “nothing do- ing” and dejectedly departed. TALEIL. GENERAL MEETI = LEFT WING WINS LOCAL 2,1.L. 6. W. INNEW YORK CITY Completely Whip the Reactionaries NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 24.—An overwhelming victory was won by the left wing in the election that was ! finished this morning in Local No, 2 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union when the left wing elected the chairman and the entire executive board leaving the reaction- aries without a position and far in the rear in spite of the machine tact- ics and right wing propaganda, under the leadership of Meyer Pearistein who was imported from Chicago to carry out a systematic attack on the progressive: Win Two to One When the skies cleared it was found that’ the lowest vote given for any of the left wing candidates was } over 1,000 while the highest vote the reactionaries could muster was 500. The left wing candidate for chair- man, Brother Boruchovitz, received 1,800 votes against 400 for Nachlin the machine man. The entire executive board was elected with big left wing majority. 5 Has 14,000 Members Local No. 2 is the most important in New York consisting of over 14,- 000 members. With this election the left wing will have 22 delegates, to the Joint Board out of a total of 60. The left wing is also in control of the whole administration of Locals 2, 9, ’ present! A me ‘ship of rates eae cent ot | the whole New York membership. The present victory is the more sig- nificant on account of the tremend- ous efforts made by the right wing element. To leave no stone unturned the machine sent Meyer Pearlstein from Chicago to take charge of the situation. He pulled every rope for the reactionaries and used every means to carry the election in favor of the backward element. The mem- bership gave him his proper reward. Now To Build Union The organization is now bending all its energies to build up the local and intensify its work for amalgamation and for the organization of the open shops. Life and sunshine is spread all over the ladies’ garment workers in the entire city and the prophecy of great-things to come is nearing ful- fillment. Miners’ Union Pays Death Insurance of Anti-Klansman MARION, IIL, Feb. 24.—The death claim of Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, who was shot and killed by S. Glenn Young, the klan raider in Herrin, on January 24, has ‘been allowed by the United Mine Workers of America, accroding to an announcement made here today. Thomas was a member of Miners’ Local Union 1248 at Herrin. At the time this death claim was being paid, federal agents were busy at Benton destroying the evidence that Glenn Young had captured in Williamson and Franklin counties raids and. which had been held for trials. Say Kluxer Abandoned Child Deputy sheriffs at the same time, were serving a warrant on Burr Owens, klansman, who took up Young’s battle as raid leader and has been accompanying Mrs. Young, the blinded widow, on her speaking en- gagements charging child abandon- ment, Owens gave bond. Green Made President of Pan-American Fake Federation of Labor WASHINGTON, Feb, 24.—William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, has been elected president of the pan-American Fe- deration of Labor by the executive council of the latter body, in session in Washington. . Venezuelan workers were admitted, to affiliation at this meeting. ORKER. Iinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Ie A RNR AS i CO., 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. AST IN INDIANA STREETCAR MEN SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH THE TEXTILE MILL STRIKERS UTICA, N. Y., Feb, 24.—Division 82, Street Carmen's Union, assessed itself $1 per member for the bene- fit of the steiking textile workers of Utica and a check for $470.00 was paid into the local’ United Textile Workers war chest. Both the U. T. W. and the man- agement of the Utica Steam and Mohawk Valley Cotton Co., have re- jected a compromise proposition suggested“ by E. H. Dunnigan, me- diator of the U. S. department of labr, for a five per cent cut. The union stands flat against any cut and the bosses want 10 per cent. JENSEN'S THUGS FAILED TO AWE CARPENTERS Local Votes to Seat “Expelled” Members Several thugs under the leadership of Harry Jensen and a small army of policemen failed to prevent the five illegally expelled members of Local 181, from being present at the meet- ing last Monday night. Jensen and his gangsters were at the door, but the rank and file made sure that the railroaded brothers who were deprived of their right to work at their trade, should not be dei admittatice. _When, Meeting opened a vote They, mesng rane ete should be compelled to leave the hall. Several carpenters were standing up looking at the battalion of policemen but when the question was put and those who favored the five expelled members leaving were asked to stand up, everybody but the cops and Har- ry Jensen rushed for seats. The fak- ers did not ask those opposed to stand but the rank and file stood up. The vote in favor of the illegally expelled members staying in the hall was pass- ed almost unanimously. ~NEW YorK | W YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents DEATH NEAR FOR 123 MINERS IN GASSY COAL PIT One Dead, Another Is Seriously Burned VINCENNES, Ind., Feb. 24.— One miner was killed, another was serious- ly burned and the-lives of 123 others were endangered today when a gas explosion shook the mine of the Standard Coal Co., at Wheatland, 15 miles east of here. Ed Cross of Vincennes, was the miner killed. ‘William Ferguson of Wheatland, was burned on the face and arms. Claim Ferguson Wil! Recover, At the hospital here where Fergu- son was taken, it was said he would recover. With the recent mine disaster at Sullivan fresh in their minds the mine workers were thrown into a near pan- ic following the flash and explosion. Cause of the blast has not been de- termined but the mine is of the “dry” type and it was believed ignition of a pocket of mine gas was responsible. Property Not Damaged. Immediately after the disturbance, a check was made of all the 125 mtn- ers who entered the shaft this morn- ing. From this report mine officials definitely announced Cross and Fergu- son were the only vierrms. No serious damage was done to the mine workings, it was said. Miner Killed by Train. DUQUOIN, IIL, Feb. 247A coroner's inquest' was being held today into the ath of Martin Kerr, 49, miner, who was killed when struck by a train here last night. Paperg found in his “pockets indicated “he canis fom she Indiana. He had been working at West Frankfort, Illinois. Chicago Metal Trades Make a Note of This! Due to the fact that The Red Revel Masquerade Ball falls on the date of our regular group meeting (Sat. Feb. 28) the Metal Trades group of the T. U. E. L. meeting has been postponed to Saturday, March 7, 7:30. MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF “ LABOR SAYS $1 ENUF FOR BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 24.—Merely thirteen dollars a week! 3 A WEEK WAGES WORKERS TO EXIST That is the highest minimum wage for the millinery workers which the Massachusetts law should recognize, recommends the minimum wage commission of the department of labor and industries a’ the millinery wage board, which has dollars is the highest minimum recommended; minimum is $6. fter a public hearing on the report of been’ provisionally approved. Thirteen for least skilled workers the How a worker can exist on low wages is explained in a statement issued by Albert A. Allendorf, president of the retail milliners’ association, and one of the new members to be included iu the millinery wage board. He does not say he lives on low wages him- self, however. Professions Won't Get Much. Allendorf gives the weekly budget of a worker's expenses which was ap- proved by the board at a recent meet- ing. Some of the items are most in- teresting, particularly those allowing 40 cents weekly for doctor, - dentist and oculist; twenty-five cents for self- improvement and twenty-five more for recreation. The budget for starvation follows: Board, lodging and carfare.-..$9.20 Clothing. .... 2.00. Doctor, dentist and oculist.. 40 Church ..... AB Self-improvement 25 Vacation 40 Recreation 125 Reserve for emergency. 40 Insurance 10 Incidentals 25 $13.90 Allendorf says the allowance for doctor, dentist and oculist, was made larger than it would otherwise have been made because most millinery workers wear glasses, Newspapers are included in f-improvement.” (This would leave the worker, after purchasing his daily paper not quite enough for the purchase of an ordi- nary magazine and nothing for books.) We'll Choose a Decent Burtal. The ten cents for insurance will en- able a death policy for $226 for a 20- NORTHWEST HALL TOMGHT — year old man and one of $192 for one of 25 years. “Enough,” says the re- tail milliners’ president, “for decent burial.” A “decent burial” would be, indeed, quite attractive compared to trying to live on $13.90 a week. Forty cents a week is allowed for emergency expenses in view of the seasonal nature of the industry. The emergency is not, of course, the need for forming a union. Yet anyone working on this wage would need to organize. It is recommended that the $13 minimum wage figure be raised or lowered according to fluctuations in the cost of living. The $13 is only a maximum, and applies to employes who are at least 19 years of age and have been in the industry at least four seasons of 16 weeks each, AMERICAN GUNBOATS AID IMPERIALISTS TO MAKE ATTACK ON CHINA WASHINGTON, Feb. 24,—Amer- jean gunboats have secured the re- lease of the American ship Chi Chuen, which was seized by the Chinese government at Kwei Chow- fu, and Captain Hawley, master of the ship, according to dispatches received by the state department of Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, Amer ican minister at Peking. The boat was alleged to be smuggling arms into China to aid the Anglo-Amer- lean conspiracy to overthrow the present Chinese government, a” a