The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1925, Page 1

Insure the DAILY WORKER To the Last Spike! Before March 5 Vol. Il. No. 40. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY- 3 ‘HE latest addition to the red-] ing crew of American hack writers” is the stage,,and movie clown,. Will Rogers. While Rogers ‘satirized the ruling classes he made a reputation tor himself as a wit, But now that he has heard the whistle of his masters, and has turned his nimble mind over to the capitalists, his stuff would not do justice to even a respectable half- wit. ** N his ‘syndicated monologue dated Feb, 21, Rogers begins by discuss- ing Americanism and finds that there is no sich animal. He finds that the great, gréat majority of the American people are normal. Only a few reds are abnormal. Rogers does not’ pos- sess the virtue of novelty in wading in to attack the enemies’ of his paymas- ters. He uses all the hairy and hoary sneers that the reactionaries of this country have been hurling at the “reds” ‘for generations. Soap boxes without soap. Faces with plenty of whiskers. ae ak J OGERS did not like the Communist meeting in Madison~ Square Gar- den. Practically every. capitalist hack in, the country took a slam at that demonstration. He did not like the idea of denouncing the eapitalist sys- tem, under \which clowns like Rogers, get along so,well. Not, that the former movie man does, not know bet- ter. “He dogs. On many occasions his: articles were clever tho veiled attacks on the capitalist system. But he heard “his master’s voice. He is now com. peting with that other pen prostitute, Arthur Brisbane, in howling for pre- Paredness. Money is eloquent. “ 7 & & JALMAR BRANTING, former Swedish socialist premier is dead. His, passing will be no loss to the working class such as the death of Lenin was, .Branting was a socialist and one of the most useful allies of the allied capitalist during the war and! after. .In his early days in the so- cialist movement, like many other renegades he suffered imprisionment, for his ideals. But he was: not of the | w+ stuf of which mavtyrs‘wre made @ he succumbed to the flesh pots of cap- italism. ‘Branting. like MacDonald in England was oné of the most faithful supporters of the Swedish royal fam- ily. Let the bourgeoisie mourn his loss; the workers should not. ee A. MACKENZIE until recently the Chicago’ Daily News correspond- ent in Soviet Russia, has been doing excellent work for his masters since he shook the dust of Russia off his feet. His work is all the more dan- gerous since his articles, during most of his sojourn in the workers’ repub- lie were rather fair, or at least as fair as conld be expected from one who saw the drama of the building up of a new order thru capitalist spectacles. While the correspondents of the Chi- cago Tribune were spinning yarns of imminent Bolshevik disaster Macken- wie warned his readers that Soviet rule was strong and in no danger of overthrow. see UT he is now in America and no doubt is acting under the instruc- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: TIDANK ANN FILE | [S4cco-vANzETTI MASS GEN PO Box EIGHTH AVE NEW YORK NY Ur THE LLG THE DAIL Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the’ FRIDAY, Outside Chicage, by SHAE ER so LIKE ‘300 Volunteers H elp Organization Drive NEW YORK, Feb. 25—More sig- nificant than most strikes is that the strike of ladies’ clothing workers is being carried on by over 300 volun- teer organizers. The present struggle of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, is one of the rank and file without the official organizers directed from above, and the volun: teers are proving thenfselves entirely loyal and thoroly capable. Workers Are Determined In the third week of the organiza- tion campaign launched in the dress industry against the open shop, with a strike called in over, 150 establish- ments, the workers are more determ- ined than ever to continue till all their demands are granted, being en- couraged to.a firm stand by the act- ion of more than 70 of the struck houses that have already signed up. When this volunteer committee got the permission of the Joint Board of Cloak, Skirt and Dress Makers’ Un- ions it at once set out to formulate demands and line up the open shops. Meeting resistance it called upon the joint board to pull down the shops that refused to sign up. Over 30,000 workers went out and are sticking tight in all the shops that fail to maké the agreement with the union. The rank and file have proven that. they can take charge and carry on work in a most effective manner, flouting the interference of the. boss- es aided by the police and hired sluggers. Without pay this committee of 300 is working day and night and getting results that haye astonished the whole working class in New York. Their organization campaign is paki to all industries and the orkers everywhere are enthused by the fervor. and. devotion: ‘and women that are so successful in the present struggle, They carry 6n all picket duty and look after me ings and hall attendance with “keen |" insight and definite orderliness, _~ Committee is Attacked Recently a committee visiting ‘a shop was trapped by the bosses and assaulted with knives and scissors and bludgeons. One women was the victim of a slugger who split her head making several stitches necessary. SuEbe2s One man was cut with scissors underf his arm and badly injured. All in the committee were brutally beaten by the bosses aided by scabs. Medill McCormick, Parasite, Summoned to the Graveyard WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. .25.— Medill McCormick, republican United States senator from Illinois, was found dead in his apartment at the Hamilton Hotel here this morning. The door to the apartment had to be broken down. in Chicago, by mail, tions of the most bitterly reactionary But death, it is claimed, was not the section of the American capitalist | result of suicide as rumors gave it, class, who are now unlimbering their | put of gastric hemorrhage. McCormick ink brigade for a last-desperate at-] was a multi-millionaire stockholder of tempt to block Soviet recognition by|the International Harvester company, {Continued on page oy. r2 1 Chicago Tribune and other concerns, GERMAN COMMUNISTS USE RADIO _ TOLISTEN IN ON WORLD, SO AMERICA GETS THE IDEA, TOO News has just odohit ‘this country of the great progress in propaganda methods made by the German’ Communist ‘Party. The party used not only the time worn machinery of*the past such as leaflets, speakers, the press, etc, but is right up to the minute ih its use of the most modern scientific methods of spreading its propaganda: A great many of the patty headquarters are alreddy equipped with powerful radio outfits for receiving néws of a national and international nature. By this means the comrades listen in fo peeches. broadcasted from the important gatherings. in yarious parts of the world. -_-- Sn addition to this use of the radio, s 2 th Thieves ve No e Communist. headquarters are used A } yen for educational purposes for the work. Finger Prints in . | rs of the various, districts. Concerts are broadcasted and upon festive oc- casions the radio is used for dances, entertainments etc. Not to be far behind the German party, the American party is offering the workers of New York City two modern $100.00 radio sets of the finest and most, improved pattern to the branch selling the greatest number of subscription tickets to the Paris Com- mune Pageant Concert and Ball at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Mareh 15. The possibilities of winning the radio sets has aroused such great en- thusiasm thruout the city that branches have selected various cap- tains and teams to go out and sell the tickets. The concert promises to be a very ext fought battle between :| various brancHes ’that are out to win | the Salary Grab Vote WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Duplicat- ing the performance of the senators who slipped their salary-boost bill thru at a night session and without a roll call, the house membership passed that measure without a record vote. It is a rider on one of the big cor- poration bills, and will probably es- cape the veto which has searched out salary ral for ordinary government employes. House and senate mem- bers will get $10,000 a year instead of the present $7,500, and cabinet mem-, bers, the speaker and the vice-presi- dent, will bet $15,000 instead of $12, 000, The house vote was taken count of members standing, and sulted 387 fo 93. at all costs, $8.00 per year. mail, $6.00 per year. BUFFALO—Friday, Feb. 27—Labor Lyceum, 376 v Joseph Ettor, James Battestoni, Eustace Reynolds NEW YORK—Sunday, March 1—Central Opera He ers: Frank Bellanca, Professor Felice Guadagni, Eliz Olgin, Juliet Stuart Poyntz and others. Sts., at 2:30 p. m. Speakers: Jack BOSTON, MASS.—Sunday, March later. CHICAGO—Sunday, March 1—Emmet Memorial | Mareh ‘Labor: Lyerum, 35 Miller St. Chaplin. PITTSBURGH, PA.—Sunday, P| speakers: Arturo Giovannitti and others. DETROIT. MICH.—Speaker, Joseph Ettor, Hall FEBRUA St. re. 2p.m. Speak- G. Flynn, M. J. Speakers: lor and Ogden Johnstone, Antor “Presi and Ralph 1—Fanuel: Halls | bpeakers announced FARMERS GOT DEFLATED 70 PER GENT ADMITS GOVERNMENT BUREAU WASHINGTON, D. G,, Fen. 25.— The February Monthly Labor Re- — view of the bureau of labor statis- tics includes among its special fea- tures the quarterly report on chang- es in the cost of living in the Unit- ed States, covering 32 of the princl- pal cities of the country and a study of the purchasing power of farmers’ incomes. An article on the purchasing pow- er of farmers’ incomes in the state of New York shows that the average labor income was $453 in 1914 and $205 in 1924. By labor income Is meant the amount the. farmer re- ceives for his year’s work above all farm expen inciuding interest on the capital invested, and in addi- tion to the use of his house and farm products. The difference between the earn- ings in 1914 and 1923 amounted to a reduction of 55 per cent in actual money and of approximately 70 per cent in the purchasing power of the income. A period of high earnings had pre- vailed from 1916 to 1919, which co- incided with the period of price-fix- ing by the government, while the later low-income period coincides wth the so-called “period of defia- TTGHNST BOSSES World Women’s Day , Comes on March 8 NNEW YORK, Feb. 25.—The militant orkers of America are preparing to /¢@lebrate International Women’s Day, Friday, March 8, with mass meetings in the principal cities and industrial centers of the country. International Women’s Day, has been designed by the Communist International as the day on which the working class wo- men of the world celebrate as a sign of their common struggle for work- ing class freedom. The mass meeting in New York will be held on March 6, at 8 p. m., at the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th St., near 3rd Ave. The speakers will be Juliet Stuart Poyntz, M. J. Olgin, Rose Pastor Stokes, Fanny Warshafsky and Anna Thompson. On this day the working class wo- men of the world will be marching, demonstrating, holding huge meet- ings, and pledging themselves to car- ry on the fight of the whole work- ing class, which comprises both men and women, to free themselves from drudgery and degradation imposed by the employers, by aiding in the es- tablishment of the rule of the work- ers. Invitation to Dance. (Overheard on the Telephone) - “Let's all meet!” “Where?” “At the vetcherinka and dance of the Bronx section, U. P.” “Why, what's doin there?” “Oh, plenty of eats; plenty of drinks; good music; good danctug. “Invite all your friends to come along, and we'll have a jolly good time.” “Where is it going to be?” “Bronx Workers Hall, 1347 Boston Boad; Saturday, Feb. 28th. “Good-bye, see you there.” Latar0 Tee act; theres tn has TRY TO PATCH UP DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MINERS AND ENGINEERS ’ WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The Amer! dertook to mediate the differences between the UnitedbMine Wo America and the Brotherhood Locomotive Engineers imvelving th ment of non-union miners in the New River coal field being worked by the brotherhood in West Virginia... Thre 1 An organized. new trial for Sacco and Bar- prisoned for the working class, |. The Workers jacked by numer- ind by the Sacco- mimittee, is hold- Ing the conviction ers on framed up mony. Sacco and | condemned to die takes place on. (Communist) Part ous local unions ing meetings pr of the two I Vanzetti have” for their acti textile worke: ‘igamated Cloth- Many other New e fighting side by (Communist) ng Workers York local side with justice’ against the champions of the working ‘elass who want to do away with the exploiters of labor and put the power into the hands of the workers. Good Speakers in Chicago. The Chicago aneeting, in Emmet Memorial Hall, Ogden Ave. and Tay- lor St., will, be addressed by Ralph Chaplin, representing the Industrial Workers of the Wérld, Jack Johnstone, secretary of the [Trade Union Educa- tional League,.sand Antonio Presi, editor of the Italian Communist news- paper Il Lavoratere. Miners’ Union Gives $50. The Harpersville, Ohio, local union of the United Mine: Workers of Amer- ira has passed the following -resolu- tion demanding @ retrial for Sacco and Vanzetti, at the same meeting which donated $50.00 ‘for the Sacco- Vanzetti defense. The ‘resolution Stated: “We, the coal miners of Local Union No. 2059, United Mine Workers of America, with 286 members assembled in our regular business meeting, held in Harpersville, Ohio, Jan. 23, 1925, unanimously adopted the following resolution of protest: “Whereas, Nicola Sacco and Bar- tolomeo Vanzetti are doomed to the electric’ chair by ‘the feroctous cap- italism of the United States—‘the land of the free and theshome of the brave’ —and “Whereas, we elaim that Sacco and Vanzetti were unjustly convicted of the crime they never committed, and E> 290 CZAR HUTCHESON RULING BACKS HIS SATELLITES Confirms Expulsion of Chicago ) Carpenters William L. (aise) Hutcheson, gen- eral president of the Brotherhood of Carpenters has finally delivered his decision in the case of the five members of Local No. 181, who were iegally expelled by the officials of the local without a trial and without the sanction of the members of the local. The members were originally char- ged with having signed a resolution protesting against a scab Landis award agreement signed by Harry Jensen with five contractors in Chi- cago. The report of the trial commit- te was “doctored” which means falsi- fled, and despite a signed affidavit from three members of that commit- tee of five, to the effect that the se- cretary of the committee falsified the report, the president of the local de- clared the members expelled tho more than 95 per cent of the membership of the local are in a state of revolt against, this railroading process, Finally The Decision ¢ As was expected Hutcheson after a long wait, during which he was en- joying himself in Florida, decided that the officials of Local 181 were justi- fied in their action. The DAILY WORKER secured a copy of Hutcheson’s letter which is as follows in its most important part: The report of the trial committee does not show that the appellants were reported as admitting they were guilty as charged but does show that they admitted being guilty of viola- tion of Paragraph A. B. and C. of Section 54 of the General Constitu- tion by admitting that they signed the resolution, referred to in the charges and inasmuch as said resolu- .|/tion was: scurrilous and defamatory its statements and of a chaacter that would cause and work, against the pis Tate and int it of the Brotherhood they commii an act for which they should rightfully (Continued on page 6.) | A.C, W, LOCALS WITHDRAW FROM JOINT BOARD New York Membership Protests Expulsion (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 25.—Un- der the protection and with the cols laboration of the capitalist police force, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ joint board machine held its last meeting. The largest New York Local No. 63, notified the board of its withdrawal from all participation so long as Local 5 is excluded, and dele- gates from Locals 24 and 80 also with- drew as a protest against the officials calling in the police department. The storm caused by the action of the Amalgamated leaders is bécom- ing greater every day in the New York organization. Every day shows some new development of the strug- gle to prevent the officials from de- stroying the union. Four Locals Now Out. At the last meeting of the joint furthermore the evidence introduced against them didnot warrant the ver- (Continued ton page 6.) board, the delegates of three locals stated that their locals were with- (Continued on page 2) COMMUNIST ALDERMANIC CANDIDATES INCREASE PARTY VOTE CAST IN THE NOVEMBER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS The Communist candidates running in four wards in Chicago’s Tuesday's aldermanic election) made an excellent showing. A total of87 votes in the four wards show a decided improvement over a total of 967 votes in 50 wards counted for;Communists in the presidential campaign. Louis Cejka, candidate in the 22nd ward led the Communist field with 192 votes in his ward, almost three per cent of the total vote cast. Comrade Nicholas Dozenberg polled 167 in the 28th ward, two per cent of thb vote. Comrade Harry Brooker made almost two per cent of the votes in his ward in getting 126 and Comrade Hyman Epstein made the same percentage in ‘a vote of 106, All of which, considering every- thing, may be looked upon as a wid- ening of the sphere of Communist prestige and an indication that the Workers (Communist) Party is at- tracting ever greater Gireles of work- ers. Federatiom of Labor today un- ers of employ- Popular Inter Small. ‘The popular interest {n the munt- membi of the efederation headed ign was, thruout, half- by Secretary Frank A. Morrison, began a series of conferences with John|°!Pal campa ‘art [a Poe a i ident of the miners’ union and Warren S@ Stone, president of 7 aed wil fh Preteens eiigint organization, under resolutions adopted #b the. El Paso con-|S°@timent at large was not aroused vention ofetWe federation, (Continued on page, 6.) 4 WORKER. | ice at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879, Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. mae NEW YORK DRESSMAKERS’ STRIKE GETTING GOOD RESULTS; 1,500 ARE OUT NEW YORK, Feb, 24-—-A strike of 1,500 dressmakers is getting re- sults already © Five hundred work- ers are reported back in settled shops. This is the second garment strike union. terms, strike of 20,000 @hildrens’ dress, house dress, kimono and underwear workers. Non union ‘drewamakers get in some cases. only half the wages paid in union Shops, say union men| The union minimum week wages are: $50 for cutters; $44 for oper- ators; $50 for pressers; $31 for drapers; $26 for finishers. IRISH FAMINE SITUATION IS GROWING WORSE Free State Government Suppressing Facts The famine situation in the west of Ireland is growing in seriousness despite denials on the part of the Free State government, declares an official statement issued by the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee from its headquarters at 19 South Lincoln street, Chicago, II. This committee was organized on receipt of a cable from the secretary of the British section of the Interna- tional Workers’ Aid, who is now mak- -ng a tour of the famine regions. It is affiliated to the International Work- ers’ Aid and was organized on the initiative of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party of America. Condition Growing Worse. The statement of the Irish Work- ers’ and Peasants’ Famnite Relief Com- mittee a a “The condition ot: the stafving work- ers and peasants on the west of Ire- land grows more . desperate daily. Help from outside of Ireland has been scant owing to the efforts of the Free State government, to suppress news of the famine. “The Manchester: Guardian in its issue of January 80-says: ‘In the west, in those parts known as the con- gested districts, famine is raging ow- ing to the complete failure of the crops of oats and potatoes. The des- perate plight of the area is increased by the shortage of turf fuel and there is no available substitute in green timber and brushwood ..... 3 Bourgeoisie Not Hungry. “The Irish bourgeois supporters of the Free State in America who dread the loss of dignity thru poverty in the land of their ancestors, minimize the famine and say that the Irish can take care of themselves. The Irish bour- geoisie are not cold or hungry, but unless the workers of the rest of the world who can spare something from their savings send relief, thousands of workers and peasants will die from hunger or disease brought on thru malnutrition, “The Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Relief Committee appeals to the work- ers and farmers of this country to demonstrate their class solidarity by sending money to their stricken broth- ers and sisters in Ireland. Besides ac- complishing the immediate task of re- lieving distress it will also strengthen the bond, of solidarity, that is being forged between the workers of. all lands who are caught in the heartless vice of capitalist. exploitation. “The Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee is preparing subseription lists for the collection of tunds for relief. Those who wish to assist in the task of raising money for this work should communicate with Thomas .J. O'Flaherty, secretary of the above committee, at 16 South Lincoln street, Chicago, Illinois.” it {6 apart from the Farmer Suleide, Aged 85. HARRISBURG, ML, Feb. 25.—Will- iam Tuttle, 85, Pioneer farmer of Sa- line county, committed suicide today at his home twelve miles northwest of Harrisburg, by hanging himself to a rafter in the barn, Red Revel Masquerade Ball, 37 South Ashland Avenue Corner of Monroe and ‘Ashiand Bivd., February 28. ~NEW YORK | W YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents WAR BETWEEN BRITAIN AND U.S. INEVITABLE Admiral Phelps Turns the Cat it Loose q ie eclal_ to The Dally Worker) 'ASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 25.—~ War between England and the United States was the Prospect held out to the women who are attending the “National Defense as Peace Insur« ance” four-day convention in the cap- itol, by Rear Admiral W. W. Phelps, in a leotuire that created a sensation in political and diplomatic circies here. It is ‘more than likely that thé British ambassador will bring the Phelps speech to the attention of the state department and perhaps call for a disavowal. Coming at a time when it is generally beli¢ved that the United States and Great Britain are free from clashing interests that might result in war, the admiral’s speech is’ bound to focus opinion on the inevitability of armed conflict be- tween the two foremost capitalist powers in the world and the logical rival for commercial supremacy, The Oi! Supply The admiral stated that England was getting a stranglehold on the world’s oil supply and that the bulk of it was in England's control today, He said the object of the American open door policy was to help Amer- ican capitalists secure oil concessions. But England has combatted this prin- ciple everywhere, he went on, and successfully. The admiral continued: “One of the primary objectives of the league of nations, under the leadership of Eng- land, is to devise some policy to des- troy the American favorable balance of trade. “Serious differences are brewing with England over shipping policies. These differences can be prevented {g0m developing into a conflit only by a strong’ navy. That America determ- dnes.to build. up a great. merchant marine fleet has created against us the. bitter animosity of the English shippiig interests.” The Inevitable Scrap Here we have the seed of a war be- tween England and America. An ad- miral is not expected to be a diplomat. The state department may tell the British government, that the “old salt” is only blowing off a little steam, but just as sure as England fought Germany over commercial supremacy and the exploitation of the near East so will the two great im- perlalist giants America and British fight for world hegemony. The trouble between the United States and Japan and between England and France are mere skirmishes compared to this coming battle between the two might- fest military and naval powers that the world has ever known. America is out to dominate the world and te grind the workers of all lands under her iron heel, Hatters, Poisoned by Mercurial Steam, Are Permanently Injured: DANBURY, Conn. — “Hatters Shakes,” the disease arising from mer- curial poisoning in the hatters’ trade, has aroused the Hatters’ Union to the appointment of a committee to. con- fer with the manufacturers for the purpose of, eliminating this hazard, The compensation board has decided that this disease is an occupational, disease, coming within the scope of the. compensation law. The mercurial poisoning comes from the steam arising from the tubs over which the workers in one branch of the industry toil. In the carroting process, thru which the fur passes before reaching the hat factory, large quantities of mercury are used, with consequent poisoning in the factory. In European factories there is little such poisoning, because of the care used in ventilation and moving the employes from one department to an- other, Another Warship Likes the Land. LONDON, Feb. 25.—The U. 8. S. Huron, flagship of the Asiatic fleet, is aground off the Island of Palawan, of the Philippine archipelago, said an agency dispatch received here to- night. The dispatch indicated the vessel was in no immediate peril. JAPAN RATIFIES TREATY THAT GIVES RECOGNITION TO RUSSIA TOKIO, Feb, 25.—The privy council today ratified the agreement recently arrived at between the Soviet and Japanese ambassadors at Peking ing diplomatic relations between the ratifications will take itablish- of two governments. The excha ¢ at Peking tomorrow. The treaty was ratified several days ago by the Soviet government af Moscow,