The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1925, Page 2

Page Two WOMEN WORKER THRUOUT WORLD HEAR RED PLEA Plan Women’s Confer- ence in Cleveland, Ohio On the eve of International Wo men’s Day comes the announcement that Clara Zetkin, Communist mem- tber of the German reichstag, is likely to be the Communist Party’s candi- date for president of Germany. The Communist International has set aside March 8 as World Women’s Day, when the working women thru- out the world will be mobilized in the struggle against world capitalism. The. working women of Germany, Russia, and all Europe, Asia and America, on that day will be urged to enlist under the banner of Com- munism, as the only means of achiev- ing emancipation from the oppression of the capitalist system, which ex- ploits working women in the same manner as workingmen, but to a greater degree. The special demands of the work- ing women for a higher standard of living, for a shorter working day, for abolition of child labor and capital- ist wars, for equal pay with men for the same work, for special maternity conditions, can be realized only with the rule of the workers in industry under the Communist leadership. Demonstrations will be held in many cities of America to celebrate International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day will be observed by the Local Cleveland, Workers (Communist) Party, by a conference in the local headquarters, 5927 Buclid Ave., at 2 p, m., on Sun- day, March 8, of all the women and girls who belong to the party and the Young Workers’ League. Comrade Yetta Land will make a report on the subject “Working Class Women and the Communist Move- ment,” and the local Women’s Com- mittee, of which Comrade Esther Schweitzer is chairman, will present @ program for immediate work by the women in local Cleveland to carry out the special work of the women in the Communist movement. All women and girls who belong to the party or the Young Workers’ League are required to attend this meeting, and all wives or daughters of party members are invited, as well as the men who may wish to be in- formed on the very important ques- tions to be discussed. — The New York Women’s Day cele- bration will be held at the Labor Temple, 243 Hast 84th street, near 3rd Ave., tonight at 8 p. m. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, M. J. Olgin, Rose Pas- tor Stokes, Fanny Warshfsky and An- na Thompson are to speak. Len Small’s Gang Padded Payrolls (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Il, March 5.— Democrats charged in the TIilinois house today that during the last Illi- nois election campaign the republi- can state officers padded the payrolls to aid them in their campaign work. Representative John Devine of Dixon, charged that at least 2,000 persons were on the state payroll temporarily during the last campaign, and that the state auditor has been “back- ward” in giving information on pay- rolls. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY {Continued from page 1) parliament fh one of the many coun- tries now joined together under the banner of the mighty workers’ and peasants’ government that covers one sixth of the earth’s ‘surface, wee BH account of the demonstration is not taken from the Communist press. The news is taken from the New York Times which cannot be accused of partiality to Soviet Russia, Fully 200,000 workers dropped their tools and lined the streets for the welcome, A military parade of 30,000 red troops was reviewed by President Kalinin. Russian and Georgian units comprised the force. Premier Rykoff informed the newspaper reporters that the government had under consider- ation a general amnesty to all those who participated in the late Georgian uprising. He made it clear that not vengeance but self-preservation was the motto of the disciplinary eforces of the Soviet government, see FTER the session at Tiflis is over, the federal government officials will visit some of the neighbouring Soviet republics. What gets under the skins of some former socialists and crazy anarchists is that the im- possible has happened. Russia has violated their choicest dreams. The workers and peasants hold power des- pite the fact that the new society did not pop out of the old shell as they predicted, when the capitalist indus- trial machine could no longer function under the weges system. They for- get a few things, or perhaps they never learned them. see Y overlooked the fact that cap- italism in a world sense is ready for the undertaker tho in particular sections, that system never even made its debut. It so happened that the proletariat under the leadership of the Communists gave capitalism a blow where it was weakest, and are holding the fort and strengthening themselves while the working class in the rest of the world is eatching up with the procession. The anarch- ists are angry because they find their pet anti-government-of-any-kind theory smashed. So they gnash their teeth in rage and in order to revenge themselves on the idol-smashing Bol- sheviks, they join their choice’ be- tween two evils; they prefer the cap- italist government to the workers’ government and make war on the workers. p eee ACIFISTS are mad because there is a Red army in Russia and because there are yet prisons in that country. There. will be a Red army in Russia and prisons until capitalism is abolished in the rest of the world. abolished in the rest of the world. All governments are organs of sup- pression, the Soviet government as well as the capitalist governments. The difference is this, that the Soviet |. government is the organ of the pro- ducing classes, the great majority of the people while the capitalist gov- ernment are organs of a small minor- ity of parasites or non-producers. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 6.— Prices of hogs neared the war time level on the local market today when an advance of 50 cents for all grades put the top price at $14.25. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. Remington Portable Take any user’s advice Anyone who uses a Remington Portable will tell you how indispensable it is. It makes writing swifter—likewise easier. And— without any reflection on your penmanship—it makes reading easier. _ Compact—fits in a case only four inches high, Easy to pick up and carry around, or tuck away ina Convenient—can be used you wish. Comp kk drawer. anywhere—on your lap, if Vete—with four-row keyboard, like the big ma- chines, and other “big machine” conveniences, Order Easy payment terms if desired from T'SE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. \ KLUXERS FIGHT COAL MINERS IN KANSAS FIELDS Senate Clashes With Supreme Court (Special to The Dally Worker) TOPEKA, Kans., March 5.—By a vote of 23 to 14 the Kansas senate passed a bill which permits the klan to operate in Kansas without applying for a charter. Secretary of State Ryan and Attorney General Griffith are against the klan. The senate’s ac- tion is im contradiction with the re- cent action of the Kansas ‘ supreme court which ruled that the klan must secure a charter before operating in Kansas. The klan claims 339,224 members in the state altho newspapers in op Position ¢o the klan declare this num- ber is a tremendous exaggeration. The klan in Kansas is operating on the same lines as in Williamson county, Ilfinois, calling for law en- forcement and at the same time com- mitting lawless acts. The kian is paying particular atten- tion to the Kansas miners, attempting to enter the miners’ union, get the miners fighting among themselves on the issue of the klan and thus weaken the union. The Mulberry Independent, which declares, “The Independent is for the klan and for the methodist church,” is working among the miners of Craw- ford county, a mining section. The paper prints column after column of klan propaganda, interspersed with ex- tracts from the pen of Oscar Amerin- ger, taken from the Illinois Miner, of which the former socialist is editor. Pay 15c and Have a Rousing Good Time Cleveland Red Revel CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 5.—The West Side English branch of Cleve- land as has been announced previous- ly is arranging a Red Revel ball and entertainment to be held at the Hun- garian Workers’ Home, 4309 Lorain Ave., on Saturday night, March 7, at 8:00 p. m. There will be a program consist- ing of an expose of the “Michigan Spinach Law,” the “Klucking Kluck- ers,” “The Red Court” where com- rades will be punished for not having carried out party work and a host of other events to occupy the evening with a dance sandwiched in here and there, Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! Illinois Workers in Protest at Jugoslav White Guard Terror CHRISTOPHER, Ill, March 5.—A large protest meeting was held here against the white terror of the present Jugoslavia government, A delegation of 200 was present, representing about 3,000 Jugoslav workers in Franklin, Jackson and Perry counties of south- ern Illinois. A protest resolution was adopted and sent to the Jugoslav legation at Washington, and to the present gov- ernment at Belgrade, Jugoslavia. | ' Join the War Steel Trust Rule in Pennsyl¥ania Bars Co t Meeting (Continued-from page 1) and determination jof the Commun. ists cannot be averted by a mere or der of the chief of police, A com- rade soon volunteered the use of his rooms for @ meeting and after a long |\ tramp thru the muddy streets of Scranton, the membership meeting came to order, New Determination. This incident, which is one of the many the miners in the anthracite ‘elds must face/each day, and espe- cially the Communists, only added new determination and greater spirit to the efforts of these comrades who are struggling against the most ad- verse conditions of any section of the workers of America, Comrades Manley and Baker spoke at the meeting and laid plans for an intensive organization campaign that has been started by the party in the anthracite region. After a short talk by Comrade Sharfenberg, the sub-dis- trict industrial organizer on the im- portance of participating tn the indus- trial struggles of the miners, each branch elected a temporary idustria! organizer and arrangements were made for further work that will per- manently establish our party as a vi- tal factor in the everyday struggles of the miners, Without Interference. At the next meeting of the city central committee, the question of starting a campaign for the freedom of assembly will be taken up to es- tablish once and for all the right to meet without police interference. Special DAILY WORKDR subsertp- tion campaign hag been started at the meeting and no speeches were re- quired to convince the comrades of the vital need of establishing a large circulation of the DAILY WORKER as one of the most effective means of building the party and preventing the recurrence of the demonstration of the coal trust democracy experienced earlier in the evening. Five new sub- scriptions were secured at the meet- ing and each comrade armed himself with a strip of special subscription cards that will undoubtedly be filled within a few days, * @ The cold drizzling rain had no ef- fect on the Workers Party members in Wilkes Barre and the surrounding mining towns last Sunday. A well-at- tended and enthusiastic membership meeting was held’ with Comrades R. Baker and Joseph Manley Present to outline a plan of action for the fu- ture industrial work of the party. Branch industrial’ organizers were elected and regular meetings arrang- ed by the subdistrict industrial organ- izer, Comrade Sharfenberg. The com- rades in the anthracite region fully understand the role our party should play in the many struggles waged by the miners and are prepared to parti- cipate in them to the fullest extent. Arrangements were made for a spe- clal subscription drive for the DAILY WORKER in connection with an {m- portant campaign undertaken by the Party industrial department. The city central secretary pointed out that a large circulation of the DAILY WORKER ts of fundamental tmport- ance to the growth and influence of the party and is indispensable for the, success of any campaign under- taken by the party, Six subscriptions were sold at the meeting and most of the comrades have pledged to se- cure new subscriptions. on Injunctions essen (Continued from Page 1) states plainly that it has no faith in the passage of any laws by capitalist legislatures, whether anti-injunction bills, eight-hour day for women in in- dustry, etc. Yet it demands the pass- age of this bill if it can in any way serve the interests of the workers, and if it, at the same time, serves to point out to the workers that cap- italism will uphold no law which in any way interferes with the profit- sucking process of the capitalists, The Illinois Manufacturers Associa- tion, the Associated Employers of Illinois and similar capitalist organ- izations are laughing at the present puny efforts of labor to put over this anti-injunction bill, They fear nothing so long as the organized labor move- ment and the unorganized workers do not protest strongly, or indicate an ability to use stronger measures to enforce thelr will and to pass this law. That is another reason why the capitalist interest in Inois are again trying to put over the state consta- bulary bill and are fighting the eight- hour day for women in industry, Workers Must Fight The working class and its organiza- tions must fight for everything they get. This, you, fellow workers, rec- ognize in the very fact that you organ- ize labor unions to maintain your standard of living and to better your conditions, Yo uknow that you must ‘struggle at all times with the boss. When the bosses’ attempts against you fail, he calls upon his government. You must not yleld—either to the boss or to his capitalist government. Whether or not anti-injunction laws are passed by the legislature, are in- corporated on the capitalist law books, you must enforce: NO INJUNCTIONS AGAINST "THE WORKERS! - That means, that you must give due warn- ing to the ruling class in Illinois that you a no action infringfig as ble i the organizations, the unions of the working class. That means, law or no law, mass violation of any Injunction Issued by the capitalist courts. d Labor’s power is tremendous when asserted. The demonstration against the Landis scab agreement in Chica- go some years ago when hundreds of thousands of workers paraded on the streets of Chicago against this in- famous scab award, is a sign of the ability of labor te act * politically against the ruling class. An Elemental Struggle The Workers (Communist) Party of Mlinois declares, that the struggle against the use, of the injunction against labor is an elemental struggle of every working class organization, labor union co-operative or political party, for the very rights of exist- ence, Below is @ copy of a resolution which has been sent to, every labor union and every working class organ- imation in the state of Illinois, It calls upon the labor movement to unite its forces to pass the antl-injunction bill, Take this resolution up in your union. Have it passed. Send it in to the state legislature and demand that the anti-injunetion bill be passed. Unite for struggle against capital- ism! Down with injunctions! Strenght- en your unions! Hail to the solidarity of the workers! Workers (Communist) Party Illinois Dist. No, & MARTIN ABERN, organizér, 7 © Tho Resolution, WHEREAS, théte is now before the [linois state legislature a bill which would provide: (1) that no injunction shall be issued ‘to interfero with the right of wor! to organize in trade or labor or associations (2) that no ‘tion shall be issued to Umit the eonatitutional provisions “Cautious Cal” Sneaks Across Pay Raise for Morgan’s Office Boys: By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ‘ODAY, senators, members of the house of representatives, cabinet officers and other hangers-on of the capitalist state at Washington, D- C., look forward to a congressional holiday until next Dec, 4, AT INCREASED PAY. Evidently afraid to sneak the pay grab for high government officials across in open daylight, “Cautious Cal" signed the appropria- tion bill under cover of the excitement incidental to the in- augural festivities. Then-he went to the capitol, at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, and made his inaugural speech urging more “economy.” e+ & & . It would be interesting to learn what the millhands in the textile industry of New England, victims of repeated wage cuts; the coal miners of the nation, facing another “open shop” offensive; in fact workers in every industry, counting a decreased wage on thelr pay days, and at all times facing a place ready for them in the growing army of unemployed, think of this salary steal put over by the “economy” hypocrite in the White House, oe 8 8 Ten per cent wage cuts, and more, in the textile mills, where rules Butler, the multi-millionaire backer of Coolidge, are answered on the capitalist side with a thrirty-three and one-third per cent increase in salary, from $7,500 to $10,000 for senators and representatives, A neat bribe of $2,500 to “be good” during the new congressional term. The first 7 won was the decision to have no meeting of congréss until, December. Capitalist parliamentarism goes on a_nine- months’ holiday, during which the big employers will run things to suit themselves. Great business will not even be bothered by having its affairs discussed by the debating club in Washington. oe ¢ @ The “open shop” war and the fight to wipe out the Jacksonville agreement, meager tho the wages are that it provides for the nation’s coal miners, find an echo in the 25 red cent boost in —s handed to the members of Cool- idge’s cabinet, and to the vice-president, “Fascist” Dawes, and speaker of the house, “Nickie” Longworth. These salary increases mean more than a million dollars added annually to the tax bill, But that doesn’t bother the capitalist law- makers: Only when labor, as in the case of the postal work- ers, asks a few pennies more, does panic seize upon the con- gressional office boys of Wall Street, It was not expected that Coolidge would mention the plight of the workers in the textile mills of the New England states from whence he comes. , He thinks of them as but necessary additions to the looms and spindles in Butler's mills. “Hell an’ Maria” Dawes, in his address to the senate, did not say a word about the new attack that the mine own- ers are planning to launch against the miners’ union. He may, some time in the future, and if he does, what he says will be all on the side of the mine owners. Altho Dawes comes from a state where 100,000 coal miners are organized, he would completely wreck all organizations of labor, if he could. For the time being, Dawes makes a hullabaloo about some dust-covered senate rules, and the kept press raises a shout on ‘its first pages, as if some vital issue is at stake. «eo e@ ¢ A new administration has been enthroned for four more years in Washington. A bunch of bankers and manufacturers met in Washington on inauguration day, enjoyed themselves to the full, and pledged to meet again, around the same table, four years from now. If the workers and poor farmers of the United States will rally in continually growing masses, during the next four years, under the standards and the leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party, then their mertas in 1929 will not be as enjoyable as it was this week. e Coolidge- Dawes regime speaks for capitalism. Let the workers and oud farmers learn to speak and urry the day of Communism, fight for themselves, and for free speech and free press; (3) that in all cases involving labor dis- putes, when an injunction is applie¢ for, the particular property about to be irreparably damaged must be de- scribed in detail, no mere general statement being amissable; (4) that in disputes over working condition: no injunction shall be issued to pre- vent working people from persuading others to join them; °* WHEREAS, for 35 years or more the injunction has been an undisguis- ed weapon in the hands of the em- ploying class to break down the or- ganized resistance of the workers, and labor militants who refused to obey the arbitrary dictates of the injunc tion judges have been jailed for “con tempt of court,” without any pretense of trial by jury; WHEREAS, “anti-injunction” meag ures similar to the one summarized above have been introduced in Ill nois legislatures off and on during the past 20 years and have been regularly defeated, thru the activities of the Associated Employers of Ilinois, the Illinois Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, etc. indicating that altho the Judiciary committee of the state house of representatives has recommended the passage of the present bill, by a vote of 17 to 13, it will not be passed without the most energetic and deter- mined support on the part of the la bor movement; WHERDAS, altho the workers have. learned by bitter experience not to put their trust in laws or capitalist “justice,” the defeat of the present bill will be a victory for the reaction. aries and a decided blow at the labor movement. BH IT RESOLVED, that this body hereby goes on record. as favoring the immediate passage of the “anti-in- junction” bill and pledges itself to throw the full weight of its influence behind it. WHERDAS, mags violation by the union membership of, proved itself the only egtive method of fighting these tyrannical measures, BE IT ROSOLVED, that we serve notice on the employers and their courts that in the event of the de feat of the bill now before the legisla ture at Springfield, or if the provis- ions of the bill are ignored after its passage, we pledge ourselves to con- tinue the violation of injunctions and to organize the whole’labor movement for resistance to them. Plenty of Food Celebrate! WITH THE YOUNG! You Will Enjoy Yourself Splendid Music by the ¥. W. L. Orchestra FREE STATE IS SERIOUSLY ILL Recently Busy Pushing Thru Hanging Bill (Special to The Dally Worker) DUBLIN, March 5.—President Cos. grave of the Irish Free State seems destined to be the next victim of the grim reaper who has lately been taking toll of some of the leading po Utical figures in Europe. Shortly after his return from his visit to France where he was re- cuperating from nervous strain brot on by a reaction from the stress of supervising scores of executions dur ing the struggle with his republican opponents, Cosgrave had a relapse, He is not expected to. recover. ~ The ByeElections, In the meantime there is a lively by election campaign taking place in Ireland. The republicans are contest- ing vacancies created by the restg- ation of the so-called national group from the Dail. Father O’Flanagen, who recently returned to Ireland from an extended tour in the United States, was insulted in county Mayo by a parish priest who strode up to him and told O’Flanagan that he was a priest without a bishop. O'Flanagan has been sans bishop so long that he is almost as much relieved over get- ting rid of that carrion as your cor- respondent was when he first discard- ed hell from the list of his assets, Several fights occurred while the bis hopless priest was speaking. The Sedition Act. By a vote of 38 against 21 the Dail passed the second ‘reading of the treasonable and seditious offenses bill, Under the provisions of this bill any citizen who would refuse to spy on his neighbor or fail to give information in his possession reveal- ing activities of opponents of the gov- ernment is liable to its provisions. It is more drastic than any law passed during the darkest day. of British rule in Ireland, % President Cosgrave, explaining the bill declared that its real purpose was to prevent “any evildoer no matter how idealistic from overthrowing the government.” The bill is mainly dir- recovers from the chaos in which it is at present engulfed and begins to seriously challenge the political pow- er of the bourgeoisie. Soviet Recognition Up to Kellogg Now in Place of Hughes (Continued from page 1) lip C. Jessup of the solicttor’s office in the state department was appoint- ed lecturer in international Jaw. Socialists Squack at Coolidge. The Herriot “democratic” govern- ment of France is somewhat displeas- ed with Coolidge’s inaugural address, according to the Paris newspapers. “The striking thing,” said the Paris Midi, “Is tite repeated phrase that nothing can be done in the world without the consent of America. American peace is a philanthropic conquest of the world by dollars. The European democracies have a some what different conception of how peace ought to be organized. They dream of arrangements eliminating as far as possible economic pressure and opposing the force of right to the force of gold.” “Yet it was these same adherents of “European democracy” who help- ed plunge Europe into the world war in 1914. ‘ Does your friend subscribe to ected against the republican party, but will no doubt be used later on against the labor movement when it : DAILY WORKER? Ask him! at tife \, Banquet and | Dance Given for the Weekly Young Worker Good Speakers: T. J. O'FLAHERTY BARNEY MASS _ JOHN HARVEY ADMISSION 266 Dancing Till Midnight Sunday, March 8, 3 P.M. (Aft. & Eve.) 722 Blue Island Avenue * Come Along! Have a Good Time and Help the ; WEEKLY YOUNG WORKER! At