The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1925, Page 2

Page Two GCOOLIDGE WOULD VETO PAY BAISE FOR POSTAL MEN But the Cabinet Boost Embarrasses Him WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—President Coolidge has told visitors that he is consulting Postmaster General New on the postal wage and revenue bill which is about to reach him, and that he is impressed by the fact that the treasury will have to carry $22,000,- 000—the amount of the wage increase for the 800,000 employes from. Jan. 1 until April 15, when the higher charges for postal service to the public come into force, The intima- tion is given that he may veto the bill. He can do this by simply fail- ing to sign it, and congress will not be here to pass it over his veto when his ten days period of deliberation has expired. This pocket veto has been used in past administrations against postoffice workers’ wage re- Net One circumstance favoring the chances of his signing the bill in the fact that at the same time he must consider the bill increasing by $3,000 the pay of cabinet officers and by $2,500 the pay of congressmen and senators. He cannot easily veto the living wage for postal workers and grant the entertainment bonus for the higher-ups. Polish Soldiers Invade Soviet Russia, But Hastily Retire MOSCOW, Jan. 13—(By Mail)— Kharkov reports that on the night of January 5, a detachment of the Pol- ish regular army some forty men strong, suddenly and without any ap- parent reason crossed the frontier of the U. S. 8. R. and opened fire on So- viet sentries in the vicinity of the small frontier village of Yampel. Having entered into Soviet terri- tory, assailants came to the local commandmant’s office which they bombed with hard grenades and op- ened rifle fire upon. The Soviet guards replied to this shooting, one of the’ assailants being killed in the ensuing fusillade; after this the at- tacking body was forced to retreat into Polish territory. Immediately upon the receipt of this information the government de- tailed a special commission to investi- gate the whole affair on the spot. Claim Death of Sun Yat Sen Is Nearer PEKIN, Feb. 26.—Sun Yat Sen, dy- ing, South China leader of the na- tional revolutionary movement, was rapidly approaching the end today, ac- cording to his attending physicians. He is gradually growing weaker. Reject “Cal's” Farm Scheme. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.— By a vote of 203 to 175 the house today re- jected the fake co-operative market- ing legislation sponsored by the presi- dent’s agricultural commission, and substituted the pending bill fathered by Representative Dickinson of Iowa. LaFOLLETTE REVOLUTION MAY SUE FOR AN INJUNCTION TO KEEP “EMOLUMENTS OF OFFICE” WASHINGTON, \. ..(Spectal to The Daily Worker) b. 26.—The federal courts may be called upon to de termine the legality of the ouster order drafted by the republican leadership of the senate against the LaFollette insurgent bloc, it was learned today. The LaFallette group is contemplating an appeal to the courts for a writ of injunction as a “defense” move against the ouster proceedings. The insurgents involved are Senator LaFollette, Wisconsin, and his followers, Senators Brookhart, Iowa; North Dakota, and Frazier, North Da- kota, all republicans, Proceeds With the Spanking. In the face of this threat, the re- publican committee on committees is going ahead with plans to bar the in- surgents from all further senatorial services as republicans by depriving them of majority committee assign- ments. Communications have been sent to each of the insurgents asking them whether they desire to be assigned as independents. The communications were signed by Senator Watson, of Indiana, chair- man of the republican committee. None of the insurgents has as yet replied. Bables Cry For Emoiuments. The insurgents meanwhile consider- ed filing a suit in the district of Col- umbia supreme court, asking a re- straining order against the republi- can majority. If such a suit is filed, the insurgents will charge the repub- lican majority is depriving them of their rightful emoluments of office without due process of law or with- out authority by law. The emoluments lost by the insur- gents if permanently ousted, would be political prestige and the right to suc- ceed to chairmanships of important committees. “Fighting Bob” Shows no Fight Yet. Filing of the suit it was said, will de- pend on the attitude taken by Senator LaFollette. To date, he has shown complete indifference to the republi- can ouster order altho he will be de- prived in the next congress of his right to succeed to the chairmanship of the powerful interstate commerce committee. It was said too that La- Follette had advised his followers against any overt opposition to the majority’s will but rather to delay their battle until the republican, ma- jority sought to confirm the ouster order by a vote of the senate. Expect Coolidge to Decide. Dispute As Hughes Leaves Cabinet WASHINGTON, Feb: 26.—Pressure from all the South American eountries has not brought from President.,Cool- idge, thus far,’a decision of the Tacna- Arica boundary dispute. which .Chile and Peru asked from, him,as arbiter, but the White House hew binté that a decision may be made just as Sec- retary Hughes is leaving the), cabinet on March 4, Hughes has | the responsibility of preparing the case, and Coolidge is expected to make Hughes’ findings his own. This boundary dispute has’ Ted to numerous near-wars between the two republics on the Pacific slope of South America, and, whatever the award coming from this arbitration, a loud protest from one or both coun- tries is anticipated when Hughes’ re- port is made known, Ladd, #+——- NEW YORK, ATTENTION! Paris Commune Pageant CONCERT AND BALL Sunday, March 15, amuse Paris Commune Spectacle ‘ (entire audience participating) ALEXANDER ARKATOV, just arrived from Russia where he produced “The Dawn” with 60,000 workers participat- ing, will direct this monster production. Many Other Attractive Features! Admission tickets, with one months’ subscription to the DAILY WORKER, 75 cents; for sale at all party head- quarters, party papers, and Workers Party office, 108 East 14th Street. For Benefit of Party Press. Auspices, Workers Party and Young Workers League, 108 East 14th Street, New York City. UMMM BRONX, N. Y., ATTENTION! VETCHERINKA, CONCERT & DANCE SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28 at WORKERS’ HALL, 1347 Boston Road, Bronx Ausph..«, Bronx Section, Workers Party. Proceeds for a library fund, Come and bring your friends along. TTT IMLMLLM Mm Tn INDIANS REVOLT AGAINST PANAMA COLON, Panama, Feb. 26—The San Blas Indians have arisen in revolt against the Panama government, fol- lowing the killing of an old Indian named Peter, by the Panama police. The police had arrested the Indian and shot him down outside the gov- ernment house at Porvenir. The word of the killing quickly spread and the Indians are massing against the police on the Island of Naragana. The Indians are well- armed. An American destroyer has been sent to the scene and will use its guns to attempt to supress the Indian up- rising. A few days ago the Indians attacked the capital at Porvenir and in a battle with the police killed six and wounded a score. The Panama government has aided in dispossess- ing the Indians of their land and in- stituting the more modern industrial system, forcing the Indians to work as day laborers or factory workers. Ward Finds Churches Have Freedom of Religion in Russia NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Professor Harry Ward of Union Theological Seminary, also connected with the American Civil Liberties Union, finds considerable religious freedom in the Russian workers’ republic, in spite of false propaganda to the contrary, the federal council of churches reports in its weekly information service, Ward after a lenghty visit in Rus- sia reports that most of the govern- ment leaders “have a deep and even passionate conviction that’ religion is a menace to social progress, while at the same time they believe that individuals should have freedom to choose and practice their religion or anti-religion except when it menaces the existence of the state.” Two roots for the anti-religious convictions of leaders of revolution- ary Russia Ward finds in the react- ionary nature of the old Russian church and in the fact that the new leaders “were nurtured intellectually in the time of the alleged conflict between science and religion.” Of the old Greek church, he cites “its ignorance, its apathy to the suf- ferings of the workers and peasants, its position as one of the repressive instruments of the czar’s regime.” Tibet Fights British Influence in Move to Unite with China PEKING, Feb. 26.—Panshen Lama head of the Buddhist church with headquarters in Lhassa, forbidden capital city of Tibet, and spiritual leader of that vast province, who ar- rived in Peking yesterday, conferred with President Tuan Chi Jui today on the possibility of Tibet again re- cognizing the sovereignty of China after years of virtually independent existence, The Pekin press is vigorous in its demand that the central government do everything possible thru the visit. ing living Buddha to overthrow the so-called pro-British party in Tibet and restore the province to Pekin. It was revealed today that Dalai Lama, high dignitary of these sacred Buddhist temples in Thassa, is the leader of a party that is being sup- ported by British influence which is trying to win Tibet away from China, The split between Panshen Lama and Dalai Lama, amounting to a vir- tual schism in the Buddhist church, became so acute and the political situ- ation so serious that Panshen rushed to Pekin in an effort to save Tibet for China, Labor Defense Council, Philadelphia, Preparing for Bazaar, April 3-4 Philadelphia Labor Defense Coun- cil is preparing for a huge Bazaar that will be held Friday and Satur- day April 3, and 4 at the New Tray- more Hall. Friends and sympathizers are re- quested to leave this date open and help collect articles. Allready a radio set, a portable typewriter, several oil paintings, a diamond pin and @ num- ber of other valuable article have been donated. The Labor Defense Council meets every Thursday at 8 P. M. at 621 York Ave. and is already showing signs of real activity. A number of interesting and attractive features will be at the bazaar among them a Costume Ball that will be heff' Saturday, April 4. For further annbuncements watch the DAILY WORKER, THE DAILY WORKER CHILDREN 4D WOMEN SLAVE IN CHINESE MILLS In Shanghai 18,000 Girls Under 12 Work SHANGHAI, China, Feb. 25.— A commission appointed by the adminis- tration here investigate conditions of ehfld labor reported that there are 4,500 boys and 18/000 girls under 12 years of age in the 275 factories in- vestigated here im’ Shanghai. Of the remainder, 44,000 are men and boys above 12 years of age, and 106,000 are women and girls above 12 years of age. . The children are accepted in the factories when they are six years of age. In 38 of thé largest cotton in- dustries 7,500 childrén under 12 and 61,000 women are’ employed. In the silk industry nearly’ 50 per cent of the children employed are under 12 years of age. The conditions of work are very severe. The factory hands, including women and children, work over twelve hours a day. Women and chil- dren do night work as well as the men. Flag Wavers Sore at Success cf New York Lenin Meeting NEW YORK, Feb. 26.— The red baiting “United States Flag Associa- tion,” in which leading republicans are interested, at a meeting in Car- negie Hall, attacked the Communists, and read a message from President Coolidge wishing them well in their drive to “secure a million patriots to defend the flag in the next war.” Coolidge said in his message that there must be “an eternal readiness to spring to the defense of our insti- tutions.” Mrs. Grace Vanamee, who made one of the speeches nominating Cool- idge at the republican convention, spoke against “red propaganda.” The flag wavers put up a thirteen year old son of a school teacher to speak against the’ Communists. This youngster felt particularly perturbed that the Communists had such a suc- cessful Lenin Memorial meeting in Madison Square Garden, where fifteen thousand packed the Garden and oth- er thousands could not find room to enter. He charged that Comrade Morris Spector, »/fourteen year old member of the’ “Workers, who spoke at the Lenin meeting-was a “traitor.” Z Cleveland Youth Attend (Classes in Communism CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 26.—The first session of the class in the “A. B. C. of Communism” will be held on Sunday, March 1, 4t 10:30 a. m., at 5927 Euclid Ave. All comrades who joined the Young’ “Workers League after Jan. 1, 1924, must join the class by order of the local C. B. C. Non- members are welcome to join. Officers of al! branches, and C. C. C. and C. E. ©, members of the Young Workers League miust join the func- tionary class which wil meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at 5927 Euclid avenue. This is also a decision of the C, BE. C. The first session will be held Tuesday, Feb, 24. Young Workers League members are exempt from all other work dur- ing the hours of these two classes and must attend. Comrade C. Weiss- berg, local educational director, will instruct these classes, Jury. Has Senate Strike. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 26. — Marion County Prosecutor Nemy, at the request of republican members of the state senate, today ordered the county grand jury ‘to remain in con- tinuous session until witnesses could be subpoened to testify before the grand jury regarding the “strike” of the entire senate démocratic minority. __i. Subscribe for’ the DAILY WORKER! t PROPAGANDA PAMPHLETS 25 CENTS EACH CENTS Branting and McCormick, Two Birds of a Feather to World’s Capitalists By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ‘ODAY, capitalism bestows its eulogies upon two of its dead; Hjalmar Branting, former “socialist” premier of reg and Medill McCormick, United States senator from inois, Let the workers for the moment study the manner in which all sham differences under capitalism are laid away at these graves; resulting in anti-labor spokesmen of. ail breeds pouring out their fulsome praise of the services of the Swedish “socialist” and the Illinois republican on behalf of the profit system. .* @ @ Branting fought Communism with all the bitterness of one of the chief leaders of the Second (socialist) Interna- tional, who was also a high priest of the league of nations —the black capitalist international; while Theodore Roose- velt, in 1918, urged McCormick's election to the United States senate pledged against “social and industrial Bol- shevism.” ; The New York Times laments that in Branting, “Europe has lost a sincere democrat and an ardent champion of international peace,” meaning, of course, the democracy that seeks to keep the world enslaved to capitalist imperial- ism, and the peace that is advanced with the same ambition. While the Times, democratic in politics, and one of the most loyal spokesmen of Wall Street, thus lauds Branting, the “socialist”; William Randolph Hearst, the democrat, lauds McCormick, the republican, as “a great and patriotic senator,” linking his name with those of Washington, Jef- ferson, Jackson, Lincoln and Cleveland, examples of all brands of American “tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee” capital- ist politics, : It is Hearst, with his chief echo, Arthur Brisbane, who heaps flowers upon McCormick's remains because he helped keep the United States out of “foreign entanglements,” while Vice President-elect Charles G. Dawes, the Chicago banker, author of the Dawes-Morgan plan for carrying out the peace of Versailles, that gave birth to the league of nations, also sheds tears over McCormick's “distinguished public services.” The differences between all of these capitalist lackeys, from Branting, the “socialist,” to McCormick, elected to the United States senate by Walf' Street's favorite, the re- publican party, is so small, the clash of principle is so in- finitesimal, that they can be put on the shelf at will, or wiped out over night. * * & @ The mourning hysteria of the money lords doesn’t have a difficult time of it in bridging the chasm between Brant- ing and McCormick. Branting wasa boon collaborator with Ebert, Bauer, Richter and other German “socialists” in- volved in the Barmat financial scandal that is shaking the German republic to its foundations. McCormick as one of the owners, and former editor of the Chicago Tribune, stood ace high with the financial interest of LaSalle and Wall Streets. He voted with the “millionaire bloc” in congress, being one of the “Newberry senators,” putting his “O. K.” on the seating of the Michigan multi-millionaire, Newberry, who bought his election to the U. S. senate, the “million- aires’ club” of the American Sapltalist state. * * So the workers and poor farmers may save their tears. Better unite their numbers and build the power that will not only combat those who take the places of Branting and Mc- Cormick, but that will declare victorious war against the social system of plunder and pillage for which they stand. The fact that both Branting and McCormick attacked Communism should be assurance enough for all workers and poor farmers that they ought to join hands in energetic support of it. Bankers Want Ancient Soviet Oil in Blg Demand. MOSCOW—(By Mail)—The decis- FOR POLICE TO BREAK STRIKES Exert Big Pressure for State Police Bill The Illinois manufacturers’ associa- tion and the Illinois chamber of com- merce renewed their drive to force a “state police bill,” in Illinois which would assure them a force of mount- ed cossacks to break strikes that may occur in their factories. The drive Whipping Post for Bandits, Not Bankers TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 26.—As a re- sult of the murder of the manager of their 38th St. branch, the National Bank of Tacoma will close all their branch banks. Holdups of small country banks, of branch banks, and elsewhere are getting more and more common, : As a result, the legislature consid- ers legalizing the whipping post; the clergy demands the bible be read in the schools; the press asasfls the moral depravity of the present day, Needless to say all these kept mouthers of capitalist propaganda never mention the economic forces, the unemployment, the low wages, which drive men into banditry. Ts offer of splendid pamphlets at a reduced price is to enable you to give them away to your shop-mate, your union brother and friends, ive success met with by Soviet oil products in the northern part of At- ghanistan was the gist of the state ment made to press correspondents at Cabul by a representative of the Rus- sian Oil Syndicate, recently arrived at the Afghan capital. An experiment, which has just been made, he said, in sale of Soviet oi! also in the south of Afghanistan, has proved quite successful. A consign- ment of oil products brot to Cabul at the time of the arrival in the capital of the Oil Syndicate's representative, has been rapidly sold out there owing to prices being cheap and lower than those of the British products.” An agreement has been concluded, too, for supplying oi] products to a num- ber of public institutions. re Join the Workers Party! your Tell them to “take it home and think it over.” Bach’ contains valuable buy more than one set. material—and if you haven’t got them all in your library, you should Each set includes: 1—RUSSIAN TRADE UNIONS. Enclosed 2—TWO SPEECHES BY KARL MARX IN 1850. 3—SHOULD CQMMUNISTS PARTICIPATE IN Y TRADE UNIONS? By Nico- 4—UNEMPLOYMENT, By Earl R. Browder. (A REACTIONA lai Lenin. timely pamphlet!) 5—WM. F, DUNNE’S SPEECH at the Portland . of L. Convention in 1923, A. F. 6—WHITE TERRORISTS SK FOR MERCY. . By Max Bedacht. (Just off the press!) NAME: STREET CITY is being concentrated on the Chicago and Cook county senators, most of whom voted against the cossack, pill at the last session of the Illinois legis- lature, “Bighteen downstate senators out of thirty-two voted for the police bill at the last session,” said Harvey. T. Hill, secretary of the Illinois cham- ber of commerce. “While only five Cook county senators out of nineteen supported the measure.” Bosses Want Returns. The Chicago representatives in the assembly have had enormous pressure placed on them with their campaign funds. The business interests have organized a club of those who have been robbed, the aim being to show that the city police force in Chicago is not adequate to check crime. The opponents of the bill point out that in the states which have mount- ed police forces, such as Pennsyl- vania and New York, crime is as prevelent as in Illinois, the police be- ing used mainly to terrorize strikers. They give as evidence of the real purpose of the state police the 1919 steel strike, when the cossacks were used to prevent strikers from pick- eting. Refused to Break Strike—Morgan is Hounding Owenby WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.— Colonel James Owenby, who testified before the judiciary committee of the senate against the appointment. of Harlan F. Stone to the supreme court of the United States, has left, Wash- ington, declaring that the Morgan.and Rockefeller interests are hounding him.out of the country, Owenby said that Stone was unfit to serve on the supreme court, be- cause of his previous connections with the J. P. Morgan interests, which he intimated Have not been ,severed. Owenby told how he previously. work- ed for Morgan, amassing a million dollars as part owner of the Woottee Land and Fuel company in Colorado. Morgan, he said, forced the firm into bankruptcy and then took over. the entire ownership of the company in- cluding Owenby’s shares. Stone handled. this ‘transaction, Owenby said. “My row with the Morgan .and Rockefeller people commenced when [ refused to join in the movement to hire mine guards to shoot down strik- ers in the Standard Oil mines of Colo- rado,” Owenby declared. Blacklist of Textile Barons Forces Slaves Back to Accept Cut UTICA, N. Y., Feb. 26.—The strikers of the Utica Steam and Mohawk Val- ley mills, 1,400 strong, have tied up those mills completely, only about 30 hardened scabs, including bosses and second hands showing up at the Mo- hawk Valley mill. Testimony of several girls shows that workers, who left one mill when the wage cut was put into effect, to go to work at another mill where the cut had not been announced yet, are being blacklisted and fired as quickly as identified. « This again proves that the cotton manufacturers’ association is playing one set of workers against another, "beating them one mill at a time, and that it has a blacklist system to prevent the slaves—that is all one can call them—from even changing masters, They are being forced to go to their “own” boss and take what ‘wages are offered. THE DAILY WORKER Literature Department 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. $.. . for se COMplete sets of “Six Propaganda Pamphlets”, ‘No, «1+... pamphlet only. OPN NeRneEeeeneeeneeesseessenenseseeseaenR Fieeeneneneeennpaboessenseesenes 7 ee eee eeeeeererereer etl