The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1925, Page 1

Insure the DAILY WORKER To the Last. Spike! Before March 5 Vol. II. No. 41. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY T, is encouraging to note the re- sponse of the: readers: of The DAILY WORKER*to the appeal ‘for relief for the workers. and peasants of Ireland who are suffering from the tortures of famine. Many have writ- ten asking for instructions as to how to proceed with the task of raising funds. The committee is busy get- ting the necessary material ready for delivery. In the meantime any con- tributions sent to the Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Rélief Committee, 19 South Lincoln street, will be appre- ciated. One reader who sent in a check wanted assurance that it would not pass thru the sticky fingers of the Knights of Columbus. No’ dan- ger. o*# ‘HE money collected by the Work- ers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee will be disbursed under the ‘supervision of the British section of the International’ Workers’ Aid. That organization has established SUBSCRIPTION RATES: é ROBT S GEN RTH AVE weWw YORKUN YY headquarters in Dublin. None but workers and radicals will have a hand in its distribution. - Like vul- tures the capitalists and their hench- men seize on every tragic circum- stance like a famine, to increase their popularity by doling out charity. This despite the fact that most of this suffering is due entirely to the ex- ploiting bourgeoisie. Our appeal for assistance to the workers and pea- vénts in Ireland is a frank class ap- peal. _* * N connection with the Irish famine it might be pointed out that this famine-stricken section is the most catholic part of Ireland. This ‘need not be taken as proof that:the famine is due to that fact. It is mot. But it shows that it has not prevented fam- ine. When. the Russian famine raged the. catholic priests in. elsewhere, with few exceptions, blam- ed the misery of the Russian pea- sants and workers on the atheistic Communist government. The famine was a visitation from God! It would be well for the catholic workers and peasarfts of Ireland if they had an atheistic Communist government in- stead of the collection of Christian hangmen who now run the Free State. ee * NE good feature of the work of the International Workers’ Aid with which the Irish Workers’ and and Peasants’ Famine Relief Commit- tee is affiliated is that it brings those priest-dominated workers and pea- sants into touch with the radical movement in a very practical way. The American government recognized ‘his when it sent its relief organiza- tion to Russia and used its food and aioney to, destroy the Soviet govern- ment. The capitalists have been drug- ging the minds of the Irish people for generations with prayer and demoral- izing them with charity. Side by side with relief we will carry on a cam- paign of education designed to show those exploited people that only when they strike to get rid of capitalism and follow the example of their Rus- sian comrades will they be able to set rid of chronic want and periodical ‘amines. ss. * © JALMAR BRANTING, one of the II leaders of the Second Interna- tional and leading foe of Communism was eulogized by conservatives and) liberals and even by some so-called radicals after his death. One of the eulogists is none other than Hoeg- lund, recently expelled from the Com-, (Continued on Page 5.) ~ of the Commuist International, revolutionary worker. Give us your order NOW! THE DAILY WORKER, Enclosed $. . for... Name ... Street City... 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ISSUE OF MARCH 6, to be sent to Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the SATURDAY, FE! in Chicago. by mail, SHAFER © BOX 150 SOVIET RUSSIA PEASANTS HELP STARVING IRISH Famine Horror Grow- ing, SaysLondonHerald The Union of Russian Land Work- ers is taking steps to assist the work- ers and peasants in the west of Ire- ind who are now stricken by famine, according to a story in the London Daily Herald of February 15. .The headlines in the Herald read: “Send Help to Ireland!” “Starvation Hor- rors in Famine Are Growing”; “Liv- ing like Rats” and “Mrs, Crawford Appeals to Labor M..P.’s.”” The Workers’ International Aid with which the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee in the United States is affiliated is actively engaged bringing food and clothing to the starving people in the famine area. The following . heart- rending story was told py Mrs. Helen Crawford, secretary of the I. W. A. to a Daily Herald reporter: “Surely it was the good God that sent ye here this morning!” Such was the cry of the mother of a starving family in famine-stricken Donegal, when handed food. by Mrs. Helen Crawford, who, as British sec- retary of the Workers’ International Relief, has been touring the desolate wastes of Ireland. The incident occurred at Teelin, a village visited by Mrs. Crawford in the, course of a 300-mile motor tour. “The car came to a halt outside a little shack,” Mrs. Crawford told the Daily Herald yesterday. “A bare- footed, ragged tittle boy looked out ing on his face drew us to him. “On investigation, we found his mother had-four other children, all practically “ half-famished; and shivering in rags. There had not been a crust of bread im the house for days. 4 : “We-handed over some food. . The look in» the eyes of the hungry: chil- dren as they devoured it was some- thing one will not soon forget... Ruined Fishermen. “The name of the family is Dona- ghey. The father was away, gather- ing sticks, which he ‘would have to drag many miles. He is one of the fishermen of the district who have been ruined by the operations’ of big trawling syndicates.” (Continued on page 5) SEEK POSTER DESIGNS 8 Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. fbassador at Peking. that |clared that the treaty ended the un- TO AID RUSSO-CHINESE EXHIBITION AT HARBIN HARBIN, Feb. 26.—The joint com- mittee for the organization of the pending Russo-Chinese exhibition, has started the printing of numer- ous posters whose main idea is the propagation of the rapproachment between China and the Union of So- viet Socialist Republics. A contest for the best designs of such post- ers has been declared, and several _ prizes will be awarded for the best models presented. The area under the exhibition is to be at least 80,000 sq. yards, in the New Town (Moscow Square). - The numerous pavilions, surround- ing gardens, turf, etc, are to be artistically arranged. rie . copies of the SPECIAL ‘THE DAILY, $8.00 per year. COOLIDGE SPEEDS UP DRIVE AGAINST THE FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS » INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 26.— The Coolidge administration has speeded up its drive to extend the immigration laws, by sending Sec- retary of Labor James J. DaVis to numerous meetings to advocate se- verer immigration laws. In his speech here before the joint ses- sion of the Indiana house and sen- ate, Davis recommended that the quota law be extended to all coun- tries from which we permit immi- gration. Davis supported the admittance of farmers, skilled and unskilled la- borers only when that kind of labor cannot be found in the United States. JAPS CELEBRATE SOVIET TREATY; HIT OLD PALS Marks End of Anglo- American Power (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, Feb. 26.—At the recent great celebration in honor of the Soviet-Japanese treaty, speakers of leading positions in public life called the treaty the beginning of Japan’s breaking loose from Anglo-American influence. The celebration wasattend- ed by thousands of Japanese most prominent in politics, journalism and industry. Congratulatory telegrams were read Speakers de- friendliness caused by the ill-advised Japanese military intervention made at the request of the American and British governments. It was also stated that the Wilson- ian doctrine of self-determination of nations had been but the hypocritical covering applied by the Versailles treaty solely_at the expense of Ger- many, and that only by the superior power of the Red Army had Soviet Russia been prevented from becom- ing a similar victim. Subscribe for the Daily Worker! from the Soviet Foreign Commissar The striking ash and gi for the city of © turn to work at, Michael - Ca: Street Clearn yesterday, The | et repair men and ollectors working leago ‘will not re- Hae old wage scale, ZO, president of the f Union, declared men would be not return to ) Private lectors who. ; the union, made yharged if they did E by next Tuesday, pand rubbish col- organized into »move toward re- ‘downtown hotels is, and it was said hat the non-union them in a sym- pathetic. strike, Disease . ir Increased The ‘danger disease epidemic was in i garbage and rub- streets and “all dwellings and bus otect the strike- by the city next breakers to be week, Acting Zimmer decl: ment will aid ment in the strike. A meeting of street repair f @ police depart- lic works depart- to break the mp, ‘section and was held late tempted’ to ‘the strike by mak- ing an_offer of Higher wages. to the foremem if theyscreturned to work, but refusing the sdemands of the street laborers. This offer was spurn- ed, it is declared. 5 The ultimatuni' of Sprague, ordering the men to return to. work or forfeit their jobs, was semt to the strikers individually, ovet the heads of the union officials. A meeting Nasdbeen arranged be- tween Carrozzo and the garbage and rubbish collectors; employed by priv- ate firms, at ‘whith’ the question of a sympathetic ‘strike) will be formally considered. SEVERINO, MICHIGAN DEFENDANT, ANSWERS LIES OF “D. OF J.” IN A - STATEMENT GIVEN TO THE PRESS (Labor Defense Council Press Service.) In the effort to cancel the citizenship of Angelo V. Severino, one of the defendants in the Michigan cases, the United States district attorney of Cleveland in an amended petition makes his main basis of attack on Seve- rino’s citizenship by stating that Severino, when he took out a-citizenship paper “did not believe in organized government.” This is based presumably on the fact that A. V. Severino is now a Communist. Severino, on being interviewed, has emphatically stated that in the first place, while he is a Communist today papers in 1915 thing as a Communist Party or move- ment existing and that therefore to make his membership in the Com- munist, Party retroactive to 1915 is ridiculous; and in the second place the Communist movement to which he belongs today believes in organ- ized government. Further along in his statement he points out that he has always been a believer in organized government and i§ a believer in organized govern- ment today as a member of the Com- munist movement. ‘ However, his conception of who shall rule this country differs radical- ly from that of those who are at- tempting to utilize all sorts of un- truths to deport him, his conception being that the workers and farmers shall be the organized government of the United States. i To accuse him therefore of being against organized government he pointé out is simply another untruth added to the many lies the powers that be utilized to misrepresent the RATIFICATIONS OF | at the time he took ut his citizenship there.'Was 20 Se character of the’ Communist move- ment. Severino has been a candidate for city councilman and congressman in Cleveland on various occasions on the ticket of the Workers Party and on the platform of the Workers Party. Severino is especially well-known in Cleveland for his activity as e trade unionist andhbas one vitally in terested in the progress of the co-op- perative movement: in Ohio. He has held various offices in the Bricklay- ers’ Union and large co-operatives in the state of Ohio,having been vice- president of the Cooperative Dairy of Cleveland, and a@member of the ar- bitration board of his union, as well as a delegate to dhe various of their conventions. In view of the activities of Severino to accuse him of not being a believer in organized government is exposing the ignorance of the authorities again. Get a sub in your shop! RUSSO-JARANESE TREATY EXCHANGED AT PEKING, CHINA . PEKING, Feb. 26.—Ratifications of the Russo-Japanese treaty, by which dapan formally recognizes the Soviet governmnt of Moscow in exchange for important concessions on the Russian half of thesisland of Saghalien ‘ald’ other preferred nation treatment, were exchanged ‘here between Japan- ‘€86/ Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa and Leo M. Karakhaf, Soviet ambassador to Peking this afternoon, ‘ \ x ' ORKER. | Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. ARY 28, 1925 > 290 ee EEE Coal Bar —————— _ NEW YORK _ EDITION ri bi Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL Price 3 Cents ons Open War At Cleveland, March 6, On Jacksonville Agreement (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Feb. 26.—Operators of western Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana the so-called central competitive field, will meet at Cleveland on March 6, in an effort to break the Jacksonville wage scale agreement for miners which is scheduled to run until April 1, 1927, it was learned from reliable sources here today. Operators of western Pennsylvania have vice president of the Pittsburgh Coal company told the press. been invited to t he meeting, John A. Donaldson, Officials of the Pittsburgh Coal Producers Association will meet next Tuesday to decide whether or not they will attend the meeting, Donaldson who is chairman of the scale committee and a member of the executive committee of the Pittsburgh association, said. The operators are said to be seeking a re-adjustment of wages because, they claim, non-union mines have. cut their wage scales one-third since the Jacksonville agreement went into effect, and thus they say, they are able to undersell union oper- ators. They fail to state, however, that they have mines in both the union and non-union fields. COAL MINERS’ UNION LOST MANY MEMBERS UNDER JACKSONVILLE PACT The Jacksonville pact, which was signed Feb. 19, 1924, at Jacksonville, Florida, between the coal operators of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, known as the central comipetitive field, one the one hand and officials of the United Mine Workers of America on the other, reads as fol- lows: “th, wage scale contracts now existing be- tween the United Mine Workers of America and the coal operators whose interests are represented in this con- ference, and hereby extends the same for a period of three years, from April 1, 1924, to: March 31, 1927, in all of their terme: provisions and conditions. it ig understood the execution of this terstate agreement extends without further negotiations the district and sub-district agreements now in effect in the district affected. “2, That an interstate joint confer- ence of the central competitive field shall assemble the second Monday in February, 1927, at Miami, Florida, and the president of the United Mine Workers of America, and the cltair- man of this joint interstate confer- ence are authorized and instructed to send out notices’ gt the proper time as to the assembling of the confer- ence.” This was the agreement accepted by Lewis in lieu of the proposition for a shorter work day and week and nationalization of the mines made by the progressive miners. Thjs surren- der paved the way for the present grand assault on the United Mine Workers of America. The only re- sult of the Jacksonville pact was to tie the hands of the miners. It was more honored in the breach than in the observance by the operators. Pact Violated by Operators. Before the ink with which the sig- natures were written, was dry, the coal barons began to post notices of wage reductions. Union mines were closed down and non-union pits open- ed. This preparation for the inevit- able assault on the entire union was ignored by Lewis who continued his attacks on the militants within the union. In future articles The DAILY WORKER will show the rapid loss in membership of the United Mine Workers of America thru the trattor- ous class collaboration and union- splitting , policy of Lewis*and com- pany and will point out the neces- ity for new leadership of the miners’ inion, Negro Lynched as Slayer SHREVEPORT, La., Feb. -26.—Joe Airy, Negro, alleged slayer of N. A. Yarbrough, state highway officer, was lynched today near Benton, La., by a mob after being wounded by a deputy sheriff. FEDERAL JUDGE TAKES TITLE AS AFRICANS SPURN LACKEYISM WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.— The senate authorized Federal Judge Clayton of Alabama to accept ation given him by the government. Borah spoke against the resolution, declaring that “lackeyism has gone far enuf.” It has just been learned that the assembly at Cape Town, South Af- rica has told King George to: “re- frain from conferring any titles upon his subjects domiciled or tiv _Ing in South Africa and Southwes' Africa.” “wy This Joint Conference of Operators and Miners of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, as now constituted, hereby reaffirm the LABOR FAKERS AND PRIEST. TRICK. WORKERS Workers Party Is Feared by False Leaders (Special to The Daily Worker) UTICA, N. Y., Feb. 23. (By Mail.)— Thru a local paper a meeting was called of the New York mills textile workers on February 22. It was an- nounced that Joseph White, organizer of the United Textile Workers, would address the meeting at the union hall. When the first workers began to come, one said that he was at the Polish church and the priest an- nounced to the workers in the church that there would be no meeting at the union hall. Polish Priest Mixes In. As only a few workers came around, inquiry developed that the committee of Local 753 had held a meeting on the Friday previous and postponed the mass meeting until a week from Sun- day. Then the committee had went to the Polish priest and told him that there would be no meeting on the 22nd. It is clear that the “leaders” fear to let the workers have a meet- ing after they read the DAILY WORK- ER and the Workers Party leaflet on wage cuts, The textile workers of the New York mills are very- indignant and disap- pdinted with Organizer White and President T, F, McMahon. These worthies keep telling them: “Wait” and “Wait.” “Don’t go out on strike,” they keep saying, “there is still a chance for settlement.” This is dis- gusting the workers. Fake Leaders Fear Daily Worker. The strike of the Utica Steam and Mohawk Valley cotton mills held a meeeting this: morning at the Labor Temple. When White was asked if! (Continued on page 6.) Three Giant Radio Sending Stations . in Soviet Russia MOSCOW, Feb. 26.—Soviet Russia has three radio sending stations, at Moscow, Leningrad and Nishni-Noy- gorod. These are under the control of the commissariat of posts, tele- graphs and telephones. MINE DISASTER LAID AT DOOR OF COAL PLUTES Even the U &. Bureau Blames Operators (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C.,, Feb. 26— That The DAILY WORKER was jus- tified in blaming the mine disaster in Sullivan, Indiana, on the criminal negligence of the coal operators, be- cause of their refusal to instal safety devices, is more than borne out by a statement issued by Secretary of the Interior Work. When the coal oper ator’s own goverhment is cumpelled to make this admission it should be evident to all that the chaczes in the" Communist press against the greedy coal barons do not o¥erdraw the picture. my , Secretary ‘Work’s~ statement “for lows: “It {6 reported that this mine dis aster, the greatest in the history of Indiana, was caused by open lights, which ignited gases in the mine. If so, the Sullivan catastrophe empha- sizes the great hazard to the lives of American coal miners in the contin ued use of the open flame lamp in mines, “Several hundred thousand open lights are daily carried in the coal mines of the United States, each lamp being a hazard to life ani property thru fire or explosion. Open lights have been responsible for many coal mine disasters in the past. “Reccrds compiled by the bureat: of mines of this departmént covering a period of 17 years show that open flames have been the contributing cause of numerous fires and over one hundred explosions in mines, with a death roll of about 3,000 men and tremendous property damage, the mines being entirely wrecked in some instances, “Such explosions are preventable. The proper steps should be taken not only to guard against accumulations of gas and coal dust, but to eliminate open flames of every kind from mines. because neither gas nor coal dust will explode without a flame to ignite them. “The true path of safety for coal operators and miners is to follow the policy of keeping every kind of an open flame, whether from matches sparks, explosives, candles, oi] lamps. or carbide lamps out of coal mines.” Secretary Work further stated that the bureau of mines of the interior department had been issuing insistent and repeated warnings over a long period of years against the danger of open flames in coal mines. He said that future disregard of these warn ings would add to the heavy toll of life, the latest of which occurred in the mine disaster in Indiana, Prepare For Next War. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—President Coolidge today re-appointed Major General Amos A. Fries as chief of the chemical warfare service, Get a member for the Workers Party, STRIKE STEMS WAGE CUT TIDE IN WOONSOCKET, R. I., TEXTILE MILLS WOONSOCKET, R. I. Feb. 26.—A strike of four hundred cotton yarn workers at the Forestdale Manufacturing company plant at Forestdale have defeated wage cuts of five and ten per cent, it was announced, and the strike is being terminated after the reaching of an agreement between the United Textile Workers and the management. This is one of the few cases where textile workers have been success ful in steming the wage cut tide. Strikes are continuing at Pawtucket, in the plants of the Pawtucket Hosiery company and the Greenhalg Mille and funds are being solicited from workers in surrounding mill towns,