The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1925, Page 2

TID CL ® ae ee soa vatangprse de Page Two EEE eee STRIKING WHITE WINGS ARE SENT BACK TO WORK Get Small Raise As A ae. Snow Brings Crisis Michael Carrozzo, head of the Street Cleaners’ Union, agreed with Commissioner of Public Works A. A Sprague to send the 2,500 stri street repair men, street cleaners garbage collectors back to work this. morning after reaching a compromise agreement. The pay of some of the, toremen, including the dump foremey, has not yet been determined, but tp street cleaners, and laborers are, to receive an increase in wages of fif cen cents a day. They originally as'ed a raise of 50 cents a day. The street cleaners who we'ar uni- forms are to be paid $5.25 a day under the new agreement, instead of $5.10 a@ day. Street cleaners not wearing uniforms will be paid $5.15, also a raise of 15 cents. The foremen bene- fit most by the new.agreement. Re- pair foremen will be. paid $7.85, an increase of 60 cents per day. Section foremen will get $6.40 per day, or a 15 cent raise. ‘The strikers will be called together at a general meeting to act on the agreement, It is thought they will agree to go back to work under the compromise, The snow which covered the city added to the paralysis of the street cleaning forces, and had the men re- mained out on strike for several days more, they would have been able to make better terms with the city some of them said. The city employes went on strike Feb. 17, and had been in strike for two weeks. Commissioner Sprague promised to “recommend to the fin- ance committee that the raises be paid,” but it is understood, according to Carrozzo, that the finance commit- tee will agree to Spragte’s recom- mendation, as Sprague was in confer- ence with the committee before mak- ing a settlement. COOLIDGE SIGNS AMENDED POSTAL PAY RAISE BILL \ WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1— “President Coolidge signed the postal bill granting an increase in pay to the government postal employes. The salary increase is retroactive until Jan. 1, 1925, instead of until July 1, 1925, as was provided in the original bill. The postal workers were de- prived of this back pay at the insist- ence of Coolidge. The postal bill signed by Coolidge forces the workers td pay the salary raise, postal rates have been increas- ed so that postal cards will cost two cents apiece. mail rates have also been imcreased. Capmakers in Los Angeles Endorse the Labor Defense LOS ANGELES, Calif, March 1— The Millinery Workers’ Union, No. 48, and the Capmakers Union No. 26 have passed the labor defense resolution. Talk it up—your shopmate will subscribe! DAILY WORKER BUILDERS WIN __FIRST PRIZE! The DAILY WORKER builders are always on the job.. They even went to the Red Revel Saturday and started “boring from within” among the merry-makers. . And the result was. that they Succeeded In running away with the first prize of '$50.00; offered for the best group in masquerade. The amount was given to the DAILY WORKER to help drive home the “last spike” in the 1925 insurance campaign. ‘The buliders pageant had been arranged by the North Side English branch of the Workers Party. it centered around a revolutionary figure, a beautiful girl in red carry- ing a flaming torch, symbolical of the DAILY WORKER. Following her came the militant workers, min- ers, machinists, carpenters, textile workers,—each with the too! of his tra “The International” was played by the orchestra for the grand march, with all the marchers sing- ing. The DAILY WORKER build- ers army was in advande, led by Josephine Herd representing the re- volution, The second prize of $25.00 was awarded the Greek dancing trio, Emma Bleckschmidt, Eisie Newman and Hilda Reid, who presented two classical dances, exquisitely done. Natalie Gomez as a Spanish dancer won the third prize of $10. Both of the latter prizes’ were .don- _eated to the Workers Party. Book prizee were awarded several others. Parcel post and other | 5y [T, J. O'FLAHERTY. > re — (Coratinued from page 1.) |The militarists no longer take the trouble / to cloak their intentions. | What the pacifists, those of them who | are sivicere, overlook. is the fact that | peace /is impossible under capitalism. The @onflicting interests of the capi- talist} states produce war just as sure as ite:h accompanies small pox. eee FAESIDENT. COOLIDGE is in a quandary over what he should do w'ith the bill for an increase in con- sressional salaries to $10,000 a year, which awaits his signature. The con- gressmen generously passed this bil! tho they opposed one granting a pal- try increase to the postal clerks. “Silent Cal” is looking for a compro- mise which will satisfy the solons and also soothe the feelings of the thrifty rural voters. It is quite possible “Cal” may refuse to sign the bill on the ground that such action would be a gross waste of lead pencil. ey APITALISM and morondom breathe easier. King George, Mus- solini of Italy, and Gloria Swan- son, of the screen, are recovering. But on the other hand there is a re- volt in Kurdistan, financed by the British, and the Turks who are at the receiving end of this unpleasantness are asking France to rattle its saber at the lion. Anything is liable to hap pen at any time in any place where ofl squirts. . A. PURCELL, president of the International Federation of Trade Unions and also head of the British Council of Trade Unions is touring England lecturing on what he saw in Russia. Among the ideas Pur- cell is driving home is loyalty on the part of the workers to their own class. The workers should have no other patroitism except class patriotism says Purcell. This is not sweet music to the ears of Ramsay MacDonald: and his fellow socialist traitors; Rather strange that socialists should be the strongest bulwarks of capitalism in Europe and all countries. Yet such is the case. The European socialists are the most valiant defenders of the Dawes plan. Mine Owners Open Big Offensive on Union Coal Miners (Continued from page 1) of America. In fact most of the mili- tant miners are convinced that Lewis and the coal operators are working hand in hand?’ Whether there is an agreement between them or not, it is certain that the Lewis policies have Played into their hands and as a re- sult of those policies the very life of the miners’ union is imperilled. To Seek Conference. The first move of the operators will be to seek an audience with the offi- cials of the miners’ union looking to- wards a modification of the Jackson- ville pact. They know that only a special convention of the union has power to consider such a proposal and they also know that Lewis fears to call a convention. At the last con- vention, Lewis rode the storm of op- position against his autocratic and re- actionary rule by representing himself as the best manger the miners ever had and pointed to the good relations existing between the operators and the officials who were not tainted with,.Communism. ‘That gag no long- er works. Boases Preparing. While Lewis was expelling radicals from the union, and thus robbing the organization of its brain and back- bone, the enemy was carefully pre- paring the ground for the grand of- fensive. The zero hour has struck and the first guns in the most titanic open shop struggle ever waged in this country will be fired in Cleveland next Friday. The news of this offensive is being carefully suppressed by the capital- ist press. Tho the information was carried by every news service in the Jnited States and came into the edi- torlal rooms of the capitalist dailics over the wires, not.a word was pub- Nshed outside of the coal journals which are read only by the “trade.” This is the most important 'piece of news that broke in this country for many years. It is one more proof that when it comes to big issues of vital importance to a powerful sec- tion of the capitalist class, the boss press ts silent. ST. LOUIS.—The Peoples’ Motor- bus Co., dominated by Chicago Yel- low Cab interests, has formed a com- pany union of its chauffeurs and con- ductors to block a real union. TAIRCRAFT PROBE INDICATES THAT SOMEBODY LIED (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1.— The little storm in a teacup going on between Secretary of War Weeks and General Mitchell of the aviation sery- ice as to the alleged sabotaging of the air service as charged by Mitchell against the high officials of the army and navy, brought out some state ments contradicting Mitchell, at Weeks’ testimony yesterday before the committee of investigation. But Weeks also admitted by contradict- ing himself that Mitchell was “muz- zled.” “I don’t want you to think that the military airplane situation is as de- Plorable as it has been said to be before this committee,” said Weeks, adding that the air service has 1,592 planes. Who's A Liar? “How many are first class planes?” asked Committeeman Prall. “Two hundred and five bombard- ment, pursuit and attacking planes,” declared Weeks. Mitchell had prev- lously told the committee that the air service had only 19 fighting planes. Weeks declared that no army officer is “muzzled.” He said, “After the first bambing tests, Mitchell .made a good many statements which the navy de- partment resented. The secretary of the navy repeatedly called on me and said many of Mitchell’s statements were untrue, To avoid disturbance, I directed Mitchell to submit to the de- partment all his articles. He did this for two years, Last iall, however, he wrote two articles for magazines, These reflected upon the navy.” Mr. Weeks Gives A Definition “Mitchell went to the president and asked if he could print the articles, The president said he would have no objection if he submitted them to his superior officers for approval. Mitchell then went ahead and printed the art- icles without submitting them, not only yiolating my instructions but those of the president as well.” “Did you say there was no muzzling ‘ifthe army?” asked Congressman O'Sullivan. “Yes,” replied Weks. “Didti't your orders constitute muz- zling.” “pressed the committeeman. “Not ibe all,” replied Weeks. Crisis Follows the A Death of Fritz Ebert in the German Reich (Continued from page 1) never been hitherto connected with appendicitis by medical experts. Connected With Barmat Scandal. Part of these worries have come thru Ebert’s connection with the no- torious Barmat scandal, somewhat ri- valling the famous Teapot Dome case with which the name of Harding was joined just after his death. Barmat had intimate relations with Ebert, was a visitor to Bbert’s home and had made magnificent gifts to the wife of the social democratic president of the nation. This was admitted by Ebert himself. Much has been done by the capital- ist press of foreign lands to conceal this scandal against the integrity of the leaders of the German republic, as it was feared that the odium might also attach itself to the Dawes’ plan of reparations, with which Ebert and the social democracy are so closely involved, Perhaps the most astonishing thing of Ebert’s recent past from the view- point of the working class, is his libel suit against a nationalist newspaper for having accused Ebert of treason by aiding strikes of workmen during the war. ‘The most prominent figures of Ger- man political life were put on the witness stand by Ebert, who, more- over, appeared in person to prove be- yond all question that Ebert loyally supported the kaiser during the war and opposed every strike. The only question raised by the newspaper in defense, which was that Ebert and other leaders of the socialists had ac- tually participated in committees of striking workmen during the war was completely shattered by Ebert and his witnesses. One after another they proved by document and deed, that the social democratic party of Germany had en- tered such strike committees during the war solely for the purpose of be- traying the strikers, breaking up the strike movement, limiting its demands and duration and working for the benefit of the “fatherland” and not for the benefit of the strikers, FRAZIER ALSO CRAWLS ON HIS BELLY BEFORE WALL ST. RULE WASHINGTON, March 1.—“I've always been and am now a republican,” Senator Frazier, one of the LaFollette insurgents, declared in the senate today, when. he was attacked for betraying hig party. Senator Norbeo! South Dakota, raised the question during a discussion on farm relief legis- lation. 1 bles “That's cheering news,” Norbeck retorted, “1 remember that when the senator was governor of North Dakota he cam@ down into my etate and campaigned for the farmer-labor ticket.” a Frazier countered by declaring that his father and three brothers were THE DAILY WORKER “They Must Not Die!” Cry Is Heard in Many Lands At Big Meetings (Continued from Page 1) that Sacco and Vanzetti are only a couple of ‘wop murderers.’ But we know that Sacco and Vanzett! are vic- When I tims of the class war. M Muzzle Not a “There will be hundreds of such ) luzzle? victims in the jails of the country unless we make it our business to serve and protect these two working class fighters who are about to be- come martyrs to the cause of the working class,” Louis Antolini spoke in Italian. Re- solutions were adopted as follows: Demand Release of Prisoner's WHEREAS; the refusal of Judge Webster Thayer to grant a new trial to Nicola Sacco and Bartolo- meo Vanzettl is equivalent to a death sentence to these two work- ers and oe 7 WHEREAS, the case of Sacco and Vanzetti has.attracted universal at- tention and sympathy on the part of the organized labor movement which has recognized it as one of the. most dastardly frame-ups against workers in this country, all evidence pointing to their innocence of the murder falsely charged against them, and which puts them in the same category as the infam- ous frame-ups against Tom Moon- ey and Warren Billings, now In- oarcerated in Folsom prison and other victims of capitalist govern: ment, and WHEREAS, unless the working class compels the release of these two innocent men, they will either die or will rot in jail for years, be it therefore RESOLVED, that this mass meet- ing assembled in Chicago demands a new trial for Sacco and Venzetti and condemns the efforts of the capitalists and their governmental lackeys to railroad these two work- ers to the electric chair, and be it further RESOLVED, that it calis upon the workers, organized and unorganiz- ed, thruout the world, to protest and demonstrate for the release of Sac co and Vanzetti and for all other class war prisoners, and to send a copy of this resolution to the pres- ident of the United States, Judge Thayer, the DAILY WORKER and other labor papers. Pamphlets written in English, Jew- ish and Italian dealing with the Sac- co-Vanzetti case were sold. cee cor Pay, May Face Strike WASHINGTON, March 1.—Employ- es of the Capital Traction Co. in the District of Columbia, to the number of about 1,000 haveiserved notice of a demand for an increase in wages of 12 cents an hour from March 30. The present wage is cents, reached at the end of the first year of service. For the first tl »months it is 52 cents and the mine months 56 cents an hour, {) ‘Under the e: agreement with the union, the mén or the company may at any year for a reopen: ing of the wage | notice before Mi ). If the dis- pute over a chi adjusted by conference com) it is sent to a board of arbitration. . The other street railway system in the capital is the Washington Rail- way & Electric Co., which fought a long and costly battle with the union ten years ago, and has had no agree- ment with the union since that time, It pays the same scale as does the organized’ road. , Inasmuch as a merger of the two systems is likely to be completed within the coming year, the present demand is resisted by the influence of both corporations and their spokes- men in the local/business community. Cal’s Commissioner Denounces Cal’s Bureau Chief’s Bill WASHINGTON, March 1. — The Dickinson co-operative marketing bill was denounced today before the sen- ate agricultural committee as a “camouflage” by) Robert D. Carey, chairman of the president’s agricul- ture commission, i Carey charged the bill, already pass- ed by the house would drown the farmers under a*flood of advice with- out giving them material help. He said it was written by Henry C. Tay- lor, chief of the bureau agriculture economics, and would make his bu- reau “dictator” to the farmers, “It provides for two junkets annual- ly to Washington for fifty members of an advisory council,” Carey added, ‘They would get $256 a day for this trip. Plan Paris Commune Celebration March 21 in Philadelphia, Pa. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Mar, 1.—The city central committee of the Work- ers Party is planning to hold a cele- bration of the Paris Commune and the establishment of the Hungarian re Soviet Republic for Saturday evening, March 21, at the Hagié’s Temple, cor- ner Broad and Spring Garden Sts. A musical program is being arranged and prominent are being se- cured to this meeting. — ODAY, the Literary Digest, able middle class, claims to be hight has made the startling discovery that “The Trusts Have Re- turned,” But it also expatiates at great length on “The Re- turn of the ‘Trust-Buster’,” assuring its readers, in essence, that all’s well with this capitalist world. * * reproduced from the Washin ie ago!” will be carefully and quickly * else for that matter. Rouge'Working Class Against the Threat of Era of Greater Trusts ‘By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL weekly organ of the comfort- excited because it * * * The gist of the impression that the Literary Digest seems to want to convey to its readers is contained in the cartoon ‘on, D. C., Daily News, show- a bunch of dinosaur-looking animals, labelled ‘““Monopo- and “Trust,” occupying the front yard of an hysterical individual with the initials “C. P.,” standing for “Common People” branded on the seat of his pants. “C. P." exclaims, “Good Night! We thought those things were killed off long In this one picture the Literary Digest seeks to convey to its millions of readers, including a couple of hundred thousand small bankers, that trust-busting was a highly successful endeavor in the past, that the watch dogs are on the job at Washington, and if anything is wrong now, that it attended to, insinuating that that has been the case in the past. . * There is, of course, nothing to show that trustification has been halted in any great basic industry, or anywhere No effort is made to prove that any trust-busting effort on the part of the government has suc- ceeded in its purpose, according to the hopes of LaFollette and his “Back to 1776” program. If the readers of the Literary Digest displayed any initia- tive of their own, in doing their thinking, which they never will, they would behold several startling revelations in the mass of material that is presented to them. FIRST.—Congress proposes to the Federal Trade Com- mission that it investigate the General Electric Company (the super-power trust), and the American Tobacco Company. SECOND.—One of the subsidiaries of the General Elec- tric Company is the Electric Bond and Share Company, that “practically controls thé public utility business of the coun- try.” uted, to the largest number o But the stock of binge « reat trust is carefully distrib- individuals, so that any attack upon it, becomes an attack on large numbers of nervous, timid, coupon-clipping bondholders of the middle class. THIRD.—The trusts have a powerful spokesmen in Coolidge’s cabinet in the person of the multi-millionaire, An- drew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury, himself the largest stockholder in the Aluminum Company of America, the Aluminum trust, that sneaks into every American kitchen and takes its excessive toll of profits on every aluminum kitchen utensil! in use.; Harlan F. Stone, th toh e late attorney general, was supposed to have discovered some of the crimes of Mellon’s aluminum trust, but he has since been elevated to the United States supreme court, and the sugar trust lackey, Warren, of Michi- gan, is slated to take his place. eo \@ gs Thus the great trusts bulwark their fortress against any and all attacks. The middle Glass is held quiescent thru the fact that millions of its members hold a share or two of stock in these great corporations. That is part of the meanin, of the effort to sell stock even to the working class, an effort that has been successful to some extent due to the collabor- ation of the labor aristocracy with the capitalist class. And in the powerful seats of its own capitalist govern- ment it has its own carefully * * When the workers and poor farmers fully awaken to handpicked spokesmen, * this situation they will speed the development of their own class power as against the organized strength of the whole bourgeoisie. The trust problem will never be solved under capitalism. The growing threat of monopoly is increasingly aggravated until capitalism goes. Then the great trusts will fall into the hands of the new ruling class—the toilin; masses—that will retain the highly organized efficiency of the trusts, at the same time depriving them of their power to plunder mankind. . * * Soviet Russia today is ore. Seog for the sole. pur- pose of bringing this great bene! ants. it to the workers and peas- ‘The United States is being electrified in order to bring profits into the cash boxes of t! e General Electric Company. Labor's task is to end the profit nightmare of capitalism that produces the General Electric Company and inaugurate the jommunist society where one class will cease to prey sper another; where classes altogether disappear with the abolition of class rule and its accompanying oppression. Child Labor Bill Loses in House of Minnesota, 68 to 56 8ST. PAUL, Minn., March 1.—The Minnesota house of representatives has rejected the child labor amend- ment to the. federal constitution by a vote of 68 to 65. The amendment will come before the senate. There is a possibility that the house will reconsider the amendment which would give congress power to regulate or prohibit the labor of children in industry who are under 18 years of age. Investigate Fed: Judge to See If He Is “Fit” for Office WASHINGTON, March 1—An in- vestigation into the fitness and official acts of Federal Judge George W. Eng- lsh, sitting at Bast St. Louis, Ill, was authorized by the house today and a committee appointed to conduct tt, The investigation wag ordered at- ter Representativ: “pl lanton, —— Texas, withd: his ol mn, which had hitherto Held up the probe, Give your shopmate, this copy of the DAILY, ER—but be sure to see hima the next day to get his» ’ Would Slash Garment Wages. ST. LOUIS.—That clothing’ for the next fall season will be 10 per cent higher in price was forecast at the an- nual convention, Missourt retail clothiers’ association, meeting in St. Louis. One of the excuses advanced was the “high wages in the garment trades controlled by union scales.” One speechmaker thinks “there should be an adjustment in wages of clothing workers and other highly paid crafts, to conform to living costs.” Coal Trust Murders Miners. HAZELTON, Pa., March 1.—Two miners were killed in two different ming accidents here. John Hopeck was killed by a premature blast of dynamite in a mine owned by the Haddock Coal company. Anthony Swankola was killed by a fall of coal in the Treskow colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkes Barre coal company, ‘The latter accident was caused by improper safety precau- tions, miners said. Those Foreigners Are Dangerous, KIMBALLTON, Ia, March 1—Be- cause Marie Midtgaard, Danish born, was a foreigner and had a limited command of the English language, the school board members attempted ‘to oust her from the position of phy- sical training teacher in the public schools. After a long legal battle, PROFESSOR HAS HIGH REGARD FOR MOLDAVIA SOVIET Says the Young Republic Cannot Fail .. MOSCOW, — Professor Young, an vexpert adviser of the British trade union delegation to Soviet Russia, while in Odessa, told of his impres- sions of the newly-formed Soviet So- cialist Republic of Moldavia which he had just visited. “This young republic’—he sai@— “fs still under way of organtszation, but I was satisfied that those at the head of it are men of experience, They, and, more particularly, the pres- ident of the government, are popniar among the people there, and the gen- eral impression is one that the new republic has all the elements of vital- ity. “The creation of the Moldavian re- public and the impetus it is bound to giv to Moldavian culture and lang- uage carmot fail to strongly impress all the Moldavian nationals in Be: rabla, However,"—emphasized Mr. Young—‘“my personal close acquaint- ance with the local conditions has fully convinced me that the formation of the autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia is no political maneuver on the part of Moscow tm the Bessarabia issue, as is sometimes erroneously urged in Hurope, but that that this act was quite a natural con- sequence of the national policy of the U. 8. S. R. one of whose leading slogans is complete national freedom of all the people of the Union.” Prof. Young further dwelt on the big natural resources of Moldavia, which, he said, had a right future as an economic and political national entity. IRON WORKERS’ “LEADER SPEAKS TO LABOR BODY (Continued from Page 1) Labor announcing this action and re- questing che federation to urge all other locals to back up the fight of the fron workers. Steel Trusts’ Power. McNamara, who was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the state of California in connection with the expulsion in the Los Angeles Times building, was introduced by President Fitzpatrick with a few re- marks on the power of the steel trust. This industrial octopus, Fitz- patrick declared, is more powerful than the United States government, forgetting that the U. S. government is but the executive committee of all trusts and the financial power that owns and controls them. if Another incident that caused pro- longed discussion was the failure of the committee on transportation to make a report on the traction ordi- nance. The mumbers of the commit- tee of which Cscar Nelson is chatr- man, were severely castigated by the delegates, tho Fitzpatrick took occa- sion to speak in their behalf. It ap- pears that with one exception the members of the committee failed to attend their meetings with the result that no report was made to the fed- eration, The majority of the dele gates had points of order to make and question to ask. The final result was that a motion was carried urging the committee to have a report ready at the next meeting. The. motion was equal to a vote of censure. Another motion was passed in- structing the C. F. of L. to refer what- ever action the federation may take on the traction report of the transpor- tation committee, to the local unions affiliated with the central body, Isolated Textile Union Local Agrees to Trust Arbitration GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., Feb. 27.—The Monument Mills at Housa- tonic, which had been closed for on week following the announcement a 10 per cent wage cut, opened morning under conditions that an bitration board be formed which decide the question now before union, The union agreed to sul to the board’s decision. BUILDING TRADES WORKERS STRIKE ON HOTEL SHERMAN JOB Building trades mechanics and la borer were on strike this morning at the new annex to the Hotel Sherman being constructed in the loop adjoin- ing the hotel. . The strikérs charge that George Fuller, the contractor, permitted car- penters to instali hollow metal doors and trim tn the building. The carpen- vters have been outside the building trades department of the A. F. of L. following disputes over decisions of the national jurisdictional board. The board ordered the trim work ee _