The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 4, 1925, Page 2

*) Page Two “TO HELL WITH EUROPE” IS NEW BRITISH POLICY Chamberlain Says Eng- land Comes First (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Eng., March 2.—Foreign Minister ‘Austen Chamberlain has out- lined the policy to be pursued by the British government toward Europe, in a secret memorandum distributed to government officials, Chamberiain’s document puts the interests of the English property owners before all lee. Tt says, in effect, that Europe is in an unstable condition, and if neces- sary, the British government must let the workers of Hurope starve rath- er than interfere to the detriment of the English interests. The policy of isolation is out of date, however, Chamberlain states, mot because England can benefit the masses of Europe, but because alr- planes make the English subject to attack from France or Belgium and an alliance with Europe is necessary to prevent such an attack. “PROGRESSIVES” PLEAD TO STAY IN CAL'S CAMP WASHINGTON, D. C., Mareh 2.— Republican senators who masquerated under the title of “progressive” dur- ing the last election campaign, have made official requests that they be permitted to crawl back into the good graces of the party of Coolidge and Wall Street. Replying to a query from the com- mittee on committees as to what po- litical party they wished to register under as candidates for committee appointments, Senators Ladd and Frazier of North Dakota and Senator Brookhart of Iowa replied boasting of their long years of service in the party owned by big business. “It is my desire that I be assigned to committee as a republican,” wrote Brookhart, who assailed President Coolidge during the campaign, and supported La¥Follette, rump republi- can.) Senator Ladd pleaded to be allowed to remain with the Coolidge party, citing his long record as a politician loyal to the republican party. Prazier wrote a similar letter to the commit- tee. Senator LaFollette was asked as to his politics, but ignored the letter from Watson. Royalty Attends at Church Rites for Deceased Socialist STOCKHOLM, March 2.—Hjalmar Branting, socialist premier of Sweden under the monarchy, was buried yes- terday in great pomp and ceremony. Branting died suddenly last week. A great funeral procession moved from M. Branting’s house in the suburbs thru Stockholm toward the six centuries old church, Stor Kyrkan, where funeral services were con- ducted. Inside the church were King Gus- tave and the entire royal family, the members of the diplomatic corps and Ira Nelson Morris, former United States minister to Sweden. War Play Full of Mishaps. MIAMI, Fla, March 2.—The army planes that set out Saturday from Sel- fridge Field, Michisan, upon what was intended to be a non-stop flight to Miami, but what became a series of mishaps, soared over the city at 12:35 p. m., today. They hopped off this morning from Macon, Ga. Eleven of the twelve planes that set out were in the group that reached Mami. Rivera Goes to Tetuan MADRID, March 2.—Gen. Primo De Rivera, head of the military director- ate and high commissioner in Moroc- co, will spend several days in Tetuan before proceeding to Morocco, No. 7 Is Here! The latest issue of “The Communist International” has arrived. The official organ of the Executive Committee of the C. I. is 25 CENTS A COPY. SUBSCRIPTION: $2.50 A Year — $1.25 Six Months Sole Agent The Daily Worker 1113. W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. THE DAILY WORKER | COOLIDGE RECOGNIZES CHANGE | WASHINGTON, March 2.—Prosident Coolidge is reported by hie official spokesman to be impressed with the and the problem of American recog! months. He deplores public discuss fact that conditions relating to Russia nition have changed in the past few ion of the matter just now, and die courages questions from visitors dealing with thie subject. PLEASED WITH NEW CONTRACT Only 500 Were Back at Work Yesterday Five hundred of the 2,500 ‘striking street laborers employed by the city of Chicago were back at work yester- day, following the settlement of the strike by Michael Carrozzo, business agent of the union, The wage scale agreed to by Com- missioner of Public Works Sprague and Carrozzo, as given to the DAILY WORKER by the officials of the union, gives the street cleaners and garbage collectors a raise of only fif- teen cents per day, but raises the re- pair foreman’s wages 60 cents per day. The wages of the dump foremen and teamsters have not yet been agreed upon, When asked if the laborers were satisfied with such a small increase, Carrozzo smiled and said, “They've gone back to work, they must be satis- fied otherwise they would have con- tinued striking.” However, it is known that the strikers at the meeting on Sunday in Musician’s Hall, gave some trouble before Carrozzgo induced them to re- turn to work. The fact that only 500 of the strikers went back to work out of the 2,500 who were out, shows that the strikers are dissatisfied with the settlement, some Say. The wage scale according to the terms of the settlement gives the street laborers $5.20 per day, the street repair foreman $7.85 per day, and the section foremen $6.40 per day. Coal Barons in” Preliminaries at Clevelarid, Ohio (Continued from’ page 1.) tion will be taken at the Cleveland conference to reduce the wage scales, despite the agreement’ that has yet two years to run, Tho the agree- ment fixed the scale for a three-year period, the operators’ até’ Justified in breaking the agreement when to keep it would mean a suspension of their business.” * The Special Assésement. INDIANAPOLIS, | h 2— It is now believed that) tig.two months’ special assessmeti' levied on the membership of the, United Mine Workers of America‘by the interna- tional executive was for the purpose of meeting an emergency such as the attack of the coal operators promises in the near future. While this was not admitted at union headquarters, Ellis Searles, “éditor of the Mine Workers’ Journal and sometimes mouthpiece for John L. Lewis admit- ted “that there is a chance for a la- bor disturbance developing.” Working With Stoolpigeons. Searles who has been working in conjunction with the department of justice, in fighting the radicals, is one of the slimiest capitalist lickspit- tles in the trade union movement. His chief usefulness is in his sub- serviency to the autocrat, John L. Lewis, and his willingness te do any dirty work for money. When the Jacksonville pact was signed, Searles used up gallons of ink praising it. Now, he has to admit that it will not succeed in eliminating strife in the coal industry. As a mat- ter of fact, it accomplished just what the operators wanted. It strangled the union ‘until the coal barons were ready to take the offensive. Lewis and his stool pigeon, Searles, had the good will of the operators while they were warring on Howat, McLach- lan, MacDonald and the other mili- tants in the coal miners’ union. Lewis and Green were dining with the capitalists and assuring them that they were perfectly safe and sgne. Now, the time is ripe for the dirty work. But it is not Lewis and his fellow traitors that will suffer but the rank and file of the miners. Will Lewis call a special conven- tion to decide what steps should be taken to meet the emergency? Sticking Close to God PLYMOUTH, Vt., March 2.—With the old Coolidge family bible tucked in a corner of his suitcase, Col. John C, Coolidge, father of the president, today started for the inauguration at Washington, It is on this family bible that the oath of office is to be sworn by President Coolid, Hobbs Pleads “Not Guilty.” LONDON, March 2.—William Coop- er Hobbs, Elderly Lawyet’s clerk, pleaded “not guilty” in a loud voice when arraigned in old Bailey today, charged with defrauding Sir Harri Singh, wealthy young prince of India of $750,000, Talk is up—your shopmate will wubscribel STRIKERS NOT UNIONS PROTEST BAN ON REDS IN LABOR PARTY OF AUSTRALIA BRISBANE, Australia, (By Mall) —The protests against the expul- sion of the Communists from the Australian labor party continue to roll in. The list now is composed of South Brisbane Branch, A. R. U., Southern Division, A. M. |. E. U., Furnishing Trades Union, Shop As- sistants’ Union, Oxley A. L. P. and many other unions thruout the state, SIKHS TO DIE FOR FIGHT WITH INDIAN PRIESTS Objected to State Ruling Religion LAHORE, British India, March 2. —Fifty-four defendants were found guilty of conspiracy in the Baban Akali conspiracy case. The defend- ants belonged to the “reformist” Sikh faction, which was organized to wrest the Sikh shrines from control of a manager appointed by the govern- ment. The Sikhs in this faction, althe basing their organization on opposi- tion to interference of the govern- ment in their religious affairs, are said to be friendly toward Soviet Rus- sia, Four of the defendants were sen- tenced to death, nine to life impris- onment, and the others to long terms. In 1881 the government incited the trouble by placing a manager in charge of the Sikh shrines, altho the majority of the Sikhs were opposed to his rule. Fighting has frequently broken out between the Sikhs and the priests in charge of religious af- fairs. Mussolini Seriously Ill, Is Rumor in Rome LONDON, Eng., March 2.— Word has come from Rome, via Paris, that Premier Mussolini is seriously ill here with ulcer of the stcmach, but that owing to the censorship, the peo- ple of Italy believe Mussolini is only slightly indisposed with a cold. The reconvening of the senate and the chamber of deputies has been postponed indefinitely, altho much tm- portant legislation is impending. Phy- sicians attending Mussolini d¢eclared they are unable to tell how long Mus- solini will be confined to his bed. It is declared by some fascisti that Mus- solini suffered a severe hemorhage or a stroke of paralysis. > ese Mussolini Goes to Sielly ROME, March 2,—Premter Musso- lini, who has been ill with influenza, will spend ten days recuperating at Taormina, Sicily, as soon as he is able to go out. Congress Approves Probe of English WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.— A congressional investigation of Fed- eral Judge George English of Hagt St. Louis, was assured today whet the senate adopted a house resolution authorizing the inquiry. This is the first step in impeachment proceedings which have been started against Judge English. U. S. Vessel Burns PARIS, March 2.—The U. 8. ship- ping board vessel West. Castle was destroyed by fire while anchored in the harbor at Antwerp, according to a dispatch received here today. Crew of 14 Drowns MADRID, March 2.—Fourteen mem- bers of the crew of the Spanish steam- er Christina Rueda were drowned when the vessel was wrecked, accord- ing to a dispatch from Bilbao today. The captain, boatswain, steward and two stokers were saved. CONCERT AND DANCE BY UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN BRANCHES An interesting concert and dance is arranged by the Russian and Ukrainian branches of the Workers Party for Sunday, March 8, at 4 P. M. at Schoenoffen hall, cor. Milwau- kee and Ashland Aves. Nina Obras zova, soprano of the Russian Opera Co,, and many other well known actors and artists will participate. The proceeds goes for Communist press. Tickets are for sale at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St. and by members of the branches. © Get a sub in your shop} ] TOILER§ WICTIMS OF HORROR AT RIO DE- JANEIRO Many Homes Razed by Murderous Blast (Continued from Page 1) in time what men failed to return to their homes,” Senor Salvador said. oe a ( Like No Man’s Land. RIO DE JANIERO, March 2.—A no- man’s land from which all buildings had disappeared, where holes twenty- five feet deep had been driven by terrific blasts, was found on Caju Is- land today. : Government. Withholds Reports Private official reports to which we had access gave the information that there were 600 workmen on Caju Is- land at the moment of the first blast. None escaped,’the reports stated. The total population of the island was not definitely known, News of the explosion was not pub- lished in Rio de Janiero as the gov- ernment did not wish to alarm the country further, Your correspondent visited the scene of Friday’s catastrophe. He was taken over in the police boat, the only correspotident granted official permission to visit the island where hundreds of lives were wiped out in the dynamite and oil explosions. Partly Raze Workers’ Quarters, A crane weighing three tons was blown a half mile to the island of Conceisco. Im addition the tons of dynamite and thousands of litres of gasoline which exploded, 1,400 casks of pitch exploded in the flames. Buildings of five stortes on surround- ing islands were knocked down by the force of the blasts. Workmen's quarters at Ponta Roja and in Xich- theroy City, a town of 36,000 popula- tion, were partly razed. During the second night 29 police wagons were busy all night transport- ing the wounded from neighboring islands to the hospitals. The govern- ment transformed {ts barracks into hospitals as an emergency measure. ee @ Find More.Corpses in — with’ 274 Bodies ms ready in Morgues pS one BUENOS AIRHS; March 2—More bodies were being: taken from the black ruins of Cafu Island, where tons of dymamite and:power were touched off Friday by @ gasoline from two lighters, said advices today from Rio de Janerio, |, » The gasoline still was blazing 24 hours after the fiyst blast, converting the bay into a steaming cauldron and sending clouds of;vapor over Rio de Janerio, adding to the stifling heat of an already sweltering tropical city. Later advices from Rio said that 274 bodies had been brought from Caju Island and placed in morgues in the city. 1 Chicago Juniors’ Convention Maps Out Future Work The Chicago; Young Workers’ League Juniors’ city convention held Sunday, March 1, was an inspiring occasion for the visitors who filled the hall as well as for the ardent little delegates from the 19 Chicago Junior Growps. The convention opened with the singing of the International and sucn singing and such fine spirit must be witnessed—it cannot be described. Then the little “Leninists” plungea right into work and kept it until a complete program of action for future activities was drawn up. The organizers’ report laid the basis for discussion .with the question: ‘What are the tasks for the future? And then plans were made for the following program: To get more and more comrades into our ranks.;:-To work in the schools thru the school nuclei. To increase the sale of the Young Com- rade. » Under the headwof educational work outdoor meetingsdncluding games and discussions for the summer with a view to drawing» the neighborhood children into thei.games and - discus- sions were decided upon. For the group meetings educational discussion of theiarticles in the Young Comrade on American History (the history told the: way it really hap pened). These stories will also be taken up in a number of debating teams to be formed which many jun- lors are eagerly awaiting. The new sports director was in. structed to arrange for a well trained baseball team and for many hikes and picnics during the summer and for a complete sports registration of the Chicago Juniors, The following,: members comprise the new Junior @ B, C. Organizer: Philip Boyer, Secretary, Deana Wche- lis, Educational Director: Albert Glat- sky, Social Director: Babe Cohen, Sports Directors Jack Cohen, Liter- ature Agent: George Jura, Publicity: Margaret Sungaih Editorial Commit- te: Margaret Sungail, Rose Plotkin and Minnie Epstein. oa he Talk oe ‘if your union—the members will subscribe} Short, Simple Lesson of Greater Monopolization in the Bread Industry ' By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL 'ODAY, the “open shop” war against the workers’ unions and the trustification of the bosses’ dollars stand out as the two big manifestations of the nation’s growing baking industry. Sixty per cent of all baking in this country has been taken out of the home and put into factories, just as the spinning of wool has disappeared from the early New Eng- land fireside and gone into the great mills fo the woolen trusts, also one of the most bitter of the labor-baiting mono- polies. ae There is the Purity Bakeries Corporation, for instance, that is taking much space these days on the financial pages of the big dailies, in its new financing ventures, In fact, this “Bread Trust” having only been incorporated on Dec. 1, 1924, has been most active in getting its grip on the smaller corporations already in existence, until it now has 24 plants in 22 cities in ten states, from New Jersey to Missouri, and from Minnesota to Texas. The bread monopolists, in order to get the public to in- vest its dollars in bread trust shares, advances the familiar arguments of the capitalists. They show the saving under trustification, resulting in benefits that accrue exclusively to stockholders. No mention is made anywhere that the work- ers in this industry, among the most cruelly exploited any- where, are entitled to any benefits, Let labor get this straight. All the benefits of monopoly production under capitalism are seized by the capitalists. Any benefits the worker gets he must fight for with his own organized strength. The Purity Bakeries Corporation, for instance, and the same applies to all the trusts, claims that the “benefits of combined operation” are the following: “The bringing together of the several subsidiary companies under a single management will permit a standardization of general policy and manufacturing processes, a co-ordination of advertising effort and a@ more economical purchasing system and will naturally result in operating and merchandising economies, WHICH SHOULD BE RE- FLECTED IN INCREASED PROFITS. vi een: “In addition THE PROFITS are expected to reflect the steady in- crease in production resulting from the constant growth in population in the twenty-two large cities, and the many surrounding smaller ones, which the several companies serve, as well as from the new busin which is constantly developing as the American housewife recognizing the purity and nutritive value of the products, of the great sanitary automatic bakeries of today, turns from the home-made to the bakery- made product. The opportunities for expansion in this direction will be better appreciated when it is realized that approximately 40 per cent of all the baked goods consumed in the United States is still baked in the home by the housewife.” ee There is something in that statement for every bakery worker to ponder over. Increasing monopolization will make it easier to introduce more expensive. and greater labor-sav- ing machinery, throwing more workers. on the industrial scrap heap; forcing those who remain to toil under inhuman conditions as mere appendices of the continually developing machine monster. The bakery worker needs his union to fight for wages, hours and conditions. But he needs the kin of union that enters the class struggle in the war against this profit sys- tem. He needs an organized vanguard to lead in that struggle. That organization is the Workers, (Communist) Party in the United States, American section of the Com- munist International, that directs the fight.for the abolition of capitalism, when all the benefits of the machine age will accrue to the workers; not to the profiteers. That is the short, simple lesson growing out of the greater monopoliza- tion of the bread industry. By T..J. O’FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1.) published. As already pointed out, it was a hearty tribute to the splendid work being accomplished by the Com- munist government. The paid liars of the capitalist press, sought to twist certain paragraphs into an attack. There is nothing farther from the truth. oe 8 FORMER Russian nobleman named Andre Avinoff, entomolo- gist in the Carnegie museum, discov- ered a feminine Utopia in the wilds of the Himalayan mountains, in West Thibet. Each woman can have as many husbands as she ‘pleases. The minimum is set at three, by general agreement. A woman unable to sup- port at least three husbands is con- sidered of very low calibre. Of course, the husbands help to pay ex- penses. They tend the looms and find recreation in knitting contests. This discovery was made before cross- word puzzling became the fashion. atta See, ‘HE men for whom there is no ac- tive demand are sent into monas- taries until the glut in the market is relieved. A movement to demand equal rights for men was crushed with great cruelty by the female tyrants, and the leader of the crusade behead- ed. This drastic action, however, caused a revulsion of feeling and threats of connubial sabotage drove the female bureaucracy to resort to more subtle methods, Signs were hung up in the homes suggesting that the husbands smile, much after the fashion of an American United States cigar store. It was pointed out that as men were the weaker sex, their place was in the home, and equal rights would constitute a serious men- ace to the marriage system and would break up the home. It’s a good yarn provided the Russian nobleman was not lying. Talk is up—your shopmate will AS WE SEE IT |\HARD DRINKING TO MARK CAL’S INAUGURATION Bankers Are Flocking to ‘Washington WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2.— The national capital is overrun with office seekers, bankers and manufac- turers, who supplied the money to elect Coolidge, society people who are making Coolidge’s ‘inauguration the occasion for indulging their liking for “high life,” and morbid curiosity seekers, Géneral Charles Gates (‘Hell an’! Maria”)Dawes, who has formally re- signed his banking interests, but who still retains his financial holdings, was met on his arrival by a delegation in “plig hats” and long tailed coats, At the same time revelations of' debauchery among the officials of the government and their families were made by Congressman Frank D.' .| Scott, republican, and his’ wife, Scott’s divorce suit. Fred V. Sikes, house detective at a hotel where Mrs. Scott stayed, told in his deposition of alleged parties in Mrs. Scott’s apartment which he said were featured by heavy drinking and general hilarity. : Mrs. Scott will take the stand at Alpena and will elaborate on her previous charges of “high flying” and hard drinking among the Washington congressional and official set. Fighting in Kurdistan Continues CONSTANTINOPLE, March 2.— Fighting between Turkish government troops and insurgents in Kurdistan was continuing today with Marshal Feizi Pash, chief of staff, personally directing the operations of the gov- ernment forces, Many rveolutionists were killed when a party of the in- surgents was attacked by the inhabit- ants of the village of Varda, The Turkish federal forces have reached Paloe, in the heart of the insurrect- STORM LOOMS IN GERMANY OVER NEXT PRESIDENT Ebert Is to Be Buried This Thursday . (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, March 2.—Storm clouds of political conflict hover over Ger- Thany as the remains of the social democratic president Ebert lie in state at the palace on Wilhelmstrasse, where the crowds who came to gaze could see only dimly at a distance thru the silk curtains the flickering candles lighting the reception hall and glancing from the. bayonets of the Reichswehr guard. American Imperialism Mourns. Across from the palace the Ameri- can flag fluttered at half mast over the United States embassy, the first of the foreign legations to lower its colors in signal of sympathy. Ameri- can imperialism, as the crowds knew, has cause for mourning. The official program includes a memorial ceremony at the presiden- tial palace on Wednesday afternoon, and a cortege down the Unter den Linden to the reichstag, where the de- puties will be expected to pay their farewell to Ebert. The interment will be at Heidelburg on Thursday morn- ing. A hot controversy is raging, mean- while, over Ebert’s successor, fre- quently mentioned candidate seems to be former Chancellor Marx, who can hold the votes of the middle par- ties, the centrists, social democrats, democrats and others. The nationalists of the extreme right, while regarding Ebert as a po- litical enemy, are quite restrained in their remarks as to Ebert's political life. No Crocodile Tears for Traitors. The Communist daily, The Rots Fahne, has no tears so shed over the passing of Ebert. There is no hypo- critical sentiment about the Commun- ist opposition, which regards Ebert as the incarnate symbol of treachery to the interests of the workers. “It is a cowardly maxim that one shall say only good of the dead,” it says. “That does not count for us, particularly at this. grave. Fritz Ebert was the personification oftrea- son and counter revolution.” Politicians Take Pleasure Trip As Workers Here Sweat Democratic aldermen and local poli- ticians have left for a vacation in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to “recuperate,” they said, from their activities in the aldermanic campaign. Included in the party going to Hot Springs while the workers of Chicago fight to hold their jobs and make enough money to eke out a mean ex- istence, are George Brennan, demo- cratic party boss; Arthur O’Brien,, private seeretary to Mayor Dever; Francis X. Busch, corporation coun- sel; Aldermen Dorsey Crowe, Joseph McDonough, Dennis Horan, Al Ho- ran, and Martin O’Brien, chairman of the democratic managing committee. The aldermen have been accused of leaving to dodge the fight on Mayor Dever’s traction ordinance, which will go to the voters in April. il pc ir ng te a ac ag tn a a a a A Ta es N. Y. Dowtown Branch Notice. NEW YORK, March 2.—A lecture on the international situation by Bert Miller will be given at the next meeting of the Downtown English branch, on Wednesday, March 4, at the new party headquarters, 108 East 14th street. Y. W.L publishes The Young Worker A weekly newspaper giving a national and world view of the militant youth movement, $1.50 A YEAR, and The Young Comrade A Communist children’s monthly paper to educate and delight our little rebels, 50 CENTS A YEAR. and the children of a Communist should have both FROM THE YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE OF AMERICA 1113 W. Washi in Bivd., Chicago, Ill. eee