The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1925, Page 1

\ The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government Vol. II. No. 48. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. OW it can be told! Not that we care a thraneen (Gaelic for a very thin blade of a certain grass) whether the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria was shot, or hanged, drawn and quartered, but as his death was the spark that exploded the powder magazine of Europe in 1914, news of the plot that led to his death is of in- terest. Until now it was believed that some nationalist student, actifig un- der the orders of a nationalist organ- ization, was solely responsible for the assassination, but according to an ar- ticle written by Arthur Ponsonby, un- dersecretary for foreign affairs in the MacDonald cabinet, the. Serbian gov- ernment planned the murder. se 8 ‘HE assassination was hatched by the head of the intelligence sec- tion of the Serbian general staff, with the knowledge and connivance of the Serbian government. The president of the Serbian parliament has made this confession in writing. It is quite likely that the Serbian government was act- ing in 1914 under the orders of the British government as it is today. eee, AY old man with bushy whiskers died a few days ago. He was worth about 200 million dollars. He was one of the wealthiest men in the world. His income was so enormous that he never took the trouble to get the low down on it. One mine alone enriched him to the tune of $12,000,000 a year. He was one of the principal owners of the state of Montana and was director in several companies. His passing does not stop one wheel from moving. The strike of 4 few thousand garbage collectors in Chicago was of greater moment to millions of people than the death of a man who had the economic lives of hundreds of workers in the hollow of his hand. “es ‘HE tory government of England is in a delicate situation. During the election campaign one of the promises made by the extreme reac- tionaries was that a bill would be passed thru the parliament prohibit- ing trade unions from using their gen- eral funds for political purposes. Of course, the funds of the trade unions went to the labor party. The die hards in. the-tory ~party ~insist’ bale i Vhis promise, despite the reluctaite the cabinet to go on a trouble hunting expedition. The fact is that British labor is now considerably more mili- tant than when the labor party gov- ernment was in office. The ascendancy of the pro-Soviet element and the comparative fall from grace of Mac- Donald, Clynes, Hodges and company has keyed the spirits of the British workers to a high pitch and it looks as they were ready for a scrap. 0) ene 'HE Baldwin cabinet does not care to rouse the lion. Even such a fire eater as Churchill is opposed to pressing the bill. Qhe die hards, how- ever, insist on a vote and it is likely that the bill will be defeated as the tories are split on it and the liberals will vote with the labor party. The victory of the tories in the recent elec- tions was not so overwhelming that it can stand severe punishment. The workers had a chance to scratch their heads since then, and the recent visit of their trade union delegates to Rus- sia would make it difficult for another “Zinoviev” fake letter to be put over on them. re ek | ‘HE report of the voting in the recent miners’ election is very interesting. John L. Lewis polled only (Continued on page 3) AN ANALYSIS OF 100 PER GENT PRODUCT OF AMERICAN EDUCATION NEW YORK, March 5.—Nicholas Murray, the Butler, head of Colum- bia University, may well be proud of his handiwork, Of. course, passing an amendment to the constitution guarding chil- \dren from being turned into dollars and morons in factories is contrary to\ the spirit of America, Further- more, it tends to break up the Am- eri home. Therefore, sclons of American families who are educat- ed in his diploma factory called Col- umbia University, are imbued with a spirit to thoroly uphold American traditions, Here is a smaple of thetr Ideals as shown by answers to a question- aire just circularized among the class about to graduate and to as- sume intellectual leadership among the American bourgeoisie: Liquor is the favorite drink of the majority of the class. They expect to marry for money and not for the bunk—love. Within five years from date of graduation they expect to earn $6.000 per ye: Sixty out of the hundred ana sixty do not read a daily newspaper. How it that for equipment for in- ftellectual giants? , SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DELEGATE FROM FAMINE REGION rf nee lew? o 8 ( : NEw Yonte 450 K 25 ¥ Thckeands Fide aba from Starvation John Patrick McCarthy, representa- tive of the International Workers’ Aid in the famine regions of the west of Ireland, is coming to the United States shortly to solicit aid for the starving workers and peasants according to a statement issued today from the head- quarters of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee at 19 South Lincoln street. McCarthy has covered the sections of the west coast, most severely hit by the famine. The following cable from Killorglin, county Kerry, was re ceived from McCarthy yesterday by T J. O'Flaherty, secretary of the Iris! Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Reliet committee: “Will leave for » United States a once. Thousands in danger of deat! from hunger. Urge aid be sent at once to relieve distress. Workers and peasants rely on United States com- rades.—McCarthy.” McCarthy will speak at a series of meetings in the eastern part of the country after his arrival. Demonstra- tiotis for relief are already arranged forsin some of the larger cities. Endorse Relief Committee. The entire machinery of the Inter- national Workers’ Aid is now turned over to famine relief according to George Maurer, secretary of the I. W. A. Requests for contribution lists are pouring into the national Office daily. Among the first to endorse the work of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee is Angela Murphy, secretary of’ the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic in West Virginia. Miss Murphy has been intensely active in the movement for Irish freedom and was mainly responsible for the show- ing made by West Virginia in rais- ing of funds during the Black and Tan fight in Ireland. She is an ardent republican, and an active work- in the United States. All who desire to help in Irish fam- ime relief work should immediately communicate with Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee, 19 South Lincoln street, Chicago, Ill. 28 LEGISLATURES ON RECORD FOR CHILD SLAVERY Only Three States. in F avor of Law WASHINGTON, D. C., March 6.— Rejection of the proposed child labor amendment to the federal constitu- tion by the Missouri house of repre- sentatives on March 4, brings the total number of disapprovals, by one or. both branches of state legislatures up to twenty-eight. The ratifications remains three, namely, Arizona, California and Wis- consin; partial ratification has been recorded in New Mexico, and a vote rescinding previous approval has been passed in Arkansas. Ten legislatures now in session— Colorado, Florida, Mlinois, Iowa, New Hampshire, Maine, New Jersey,. New York, Rhode Island and West Virgi- nia—are expected to act and indica- tions favor rejection of the amend- ment in all of them, It is also presumable that there is little adoption sentiment in the five states—Alabama, Kentucky, Mississip- pi, Maryland and Virginia—whose legislatures have no session this year. MINERS TRY T0 END WAR WITH WARREN §, STONE CHARLESTON, West Va., March 6. ~—A committee of four representing the Coal River Colleries company, which is owned by members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the United Mine Workers of Am- erica is in session here in an effort to reach an agreement in the dispute between the union andthe coal com- pany over the non-union policy of Warren §, Stone, chatrman of the board of directors of the coal com- pany. . Stone is a well known reactionary labor leader, and is director in sev- eral coroprations and banking syndi- cate, He is a republican In politics, as is his’ rival, John L. Lewis, in Chicago. by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at SUNDAY, MARCH8, 1925 DETROIT CARPENTERS IN COURT ANSWER INJUNCTION “F FOR” BY HUTCHESON’ (Special to The Daily Worker) AYED ‘DETROIT, Mich.,’March 3.—(By Mail.)—Hutcheson’s tools in Detroit spent today in court trying to establish that William Reynolds should be jailed for life or some shorter period for violating am imjunction issued in answer to a “prayer” by them alleging that Reynolds was just about to wreck the whole organization by his mere presence at the meetings. potency of Communists in the opinion The major argument of the defense turned upon the of assembly guaranteed by the constitution cannot be al Such is the of these skates, it that the right idged by any law or court order. Many prior points of law which, in the opinion of the defense, might be sufficient to disqualify the injunction were ri and argued. Spoiled Perfectly Good Paper. The judge, Ormond Hunt, suggested from the bench ‘that the argument of the defense was that the paper bearing the restraining order was a per- feetly good piece of paper until the of the court was inscribed thereon, but the order being paper worthless. In other words, it spoiled a good piece of paper. Attorn- ey for the defense, Maurice Sugar, admitted that that was the contention. Minutes of local unions were then introduced to establish the fact that tha members of these locals unions were against the expulsion and the in- junction action. Hutcheson’s weasels have been fer- reting out all of his dubious sup- porters in this city, (about 20 in all) wnd have secured their signatures to till. more dubious affidavits, some of them, as in the case of two members of L. U. 2140 averaging as many as four deliberate and obvious lies to the affidavit. In the case of Local 2140, Reynolds’ own local, an affidavit was filed by two yellow-backed curs alleging: Two Poor Liars First—that the action taken in re- pudiating the expulsion was not the unanimous opinion of the body; Secondly,—that only 25 were pres- ent; Third,—that it was an oral vote; Fourth,—that it did not represent the opinion of these deponents, The facts are that there were about 40 members\present, that these mem: bers by unanimous rising vote affirm: ed the motion, and that the two de ponents, John R. Vaughan and Alex Peat, stood and voted in favor of it whatever their craven opinions migh have been. These two are the ex treme belly-crawling liars of the ag gregation. A few of the deponents are well-intentioned but misled tools t Botterill and Sharrock. Judge Plays to Crowded House The court room has been crowded to about three times its intended cap- acity at each session that the case has been called. Most of these men are arpenters. They crowd every avail- able inch of standing space and are perched in the windows. Attorney for the paintiffs advised the court to not be impressed with the attendance of carpenters, as about half of them were for the plaintiffs. To this, the defense attorney, Maurice Sugar, replied that he would submit the case to a referendum of the carpenters in court requiring a 9 to 1 vote in favor of the defend- ant. The court ruled the referendum out. The Battle of Affidavits Yesterday, when a sheaf of affida- vits was being submitted by each side, the court inquired if this was going to be a battle of affidavits, the side having tHe largest number tc win. Attorney Sugar said that he was willing, as his client could get about three thousand additional, and the other side about three. The court declined to act as a tabulating com- mitte of one. The impression is inescapable that the plaintiffs are the defendants in this case, and that the damaging evi dence being presented by the defense is an indictment of the plaintiffs, (Continued on page 4.) N.Y, DRESS GOODS JOBBERS QUIBBLE OVER NEW PACT New Conferences Being Held with Bosses NEW YORK, March 6.—Claiming that the new agreement entered into between the manufacturers and the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union was not ratified by the jobbers’ association, the matter of price adjustment is forced upon the union for the second time. The new agreement went into ef- fect Feb. 24, and the organization ex- pected no further argument on the matter. \Now the jobbers are found to be cafrying on negotiations as if the matter had not been settted. Officialls of the joint board are again holding conferences with the bosses and trying to patch up the differences. Local 22, of the dress goods work- ers, will hold meetings in five of its sections to take up the question with ‘he members bring decisions to the joint conference of all the parties to the controversy restraining order with the signature nullity made the WOOD SENDS TROOPS (Special to The Daily Worker) MANILA, P, 1,:March 6—The re- bellion in the: Philippines agatnst the autocratic dictatorship of the Upited States Is Spreading. At San Jose Nevaeciga, only 100 miles east of Manila, uprisings have already occurred, aes Further moves,for independence are expected north of Luzon. The impoverished més have had trouble near in lately. They have been terrorized by contabu- lary, under the direction of Colonel Duckworth Ford, sent out by Gen- eral Leonard Wood. Harlem Spring Dance Very Popular; Tickets ake Hot Cakes! NEW YORK, ch 6. — Anyone who wants to be at the Spring Festi- val and Dance to be given by the Harlem English Branch, Workers Party, Local York, on Saturday svening, Mareh 21, at the Harlem Cas- no, 116th street and Lenox avenue, should get his” et now. The big event is approaehing, and tickets are selling fast, 2 “ ‘y are only fifty cents, i i r of tickets have" ) don’t get you tickets: now : yén might have to pay three times asmucn to specula- tors later. Great care rs neing taken not to allow the tickets to get into the hands of speculators who are anx- ious to buy up as many of the tickets as possible, because the Spring Festi- val and Dance of Harlem is very pop- ular and many people are anxious to be there. The tickets can be bougyt at the Harlem headquarters, 64 East 104th street, any evening. see Bronx Classes Monday, elementary English, 523 E. 173rd St. 8. P. M. Tuesday, A. B. C. of Communism, 1347 Boston Road, 8 P. M. Saturday, advanced English, 523 E. 178rd 8t., 24 P. M. Death for Kurds CONSTANTINOPOLE, Turkey, Mar. 6.—Ismet Pasha, who has been chosen the new Turkish premier, in an ad- dress proposed a “people’s party trib- unal,” with powers to instantly shoot all rebellious Kurds’ caught. This tribunal will be sent to Kurdistan, where the Kurds have captured much territory from the Turks, Trial of Raditch Opens SOFIA, March 6.—The trial of Ste fan Raditch, leader of the Croatian peasants’ party, has opened, with Dr. Trumbitch; who was elected deputy in Zagrab, and three other lawyers de- fending Raditch. TOPEKA, Kansas, March 6.—A bill has been introduced into the Kansas assembly for the abolition of the Kan- sas court of industrial relations, which the business interests of Kansas have not been able to enforce since Alexan- der Howat defied its constitutionality. Howat spent two years in jail for his defiance of Governor Allen's anti- labor law, but Allen was defeated in the next election and Howat freed. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! CRANEMAN KILLED IN STANDARD ‘OIL PLANT AT WHITING, INDIANA HAMMOND, Ind., March 6,—Jesse Lewman, employe of the Standard Oil plant in Whiting, was instantly killed here when a locomotive crane hit him and snapped his spinal col- umn, Lewman was a locomotive crane fireman, The Standard Off company prac- tically owns the entire town of Whiting. Conditisins in Whiting are extremely badtfor the workers. “WORKER. Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WO.KER PUBLiSHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section, On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. Price 5 Cents J Rail Workers in Germany orcas’) Threaten General Strike Because of Dawes Pian SOCIALISTS ARE UNABLE TO JAIL SIX COMMUNISTS Pittsburgh V ictims of Treachery Are Freed PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 6.—The strenuous efforts made by the yellow Forward gang, ably assisted by the Pittsburgh capitalist papers and the city police, to create a disturbance at the meeting at which the internation- al working class traitor, Abramovich, slandered and villified the Soviet re- public,.and. then -had Communist workers indicted for “Inciting to riot,” failed miserably. The charges could not be made to stick. It was too apparant to any- body who cared to know the actual situation that whatever real disturb- ance took place was caused by the Forward gang. The six comrades who were arrest- ed are Margarette Yeager, John Tru har, Peter Skirtic, Eli Kapic, Bleddyn Thomas and J. H. Bay. The six’ who were arrested and held for federal investigation are now free. The federal authorities imme- diately admitted that there was no evidence warranting an investigation and refused to give the matter any further consideration. The sx com- rades, however, were drdered to again appear before the magistrate, and, al- tho “his honor” had formerly ordered them held for federal investigation and thus dismissed the original charge, in order to maintain his al- legianee to the socialist politicians, he fined each the sum of $25.00. Expect Hot Meeting. Some of these poilticians are at- tempting to keep up the aggressive- ness shown last Suneay and have threatened to come in full foree to voice their protest at the meeting Sunday, March 8, at the Labor Ly- eum, when Bob Minor and M. J. Olgin, will expose the traitorous yarns of Abramovich. Members of the Workers Party have invited them: to come stating that everybody, is wel- come and that even « yellow socialist may learn from hearing the truth. At any rate say the Workers Party mem- bers, “No’ matter how militantly you voice your protest, we will not ask the police to be present.” COOLIDGE FEARS DISCLOSURE OF WARREN'S RECORD Republican Senators Shut Out Public WASHINGTON, D. C., March 6.— The Coolidge republicans showed their fear of shedding light on the past record of Charles B, Warren when they voted down a senate pra- posal for public consideration of the nomination of Warren by Coolidge for attorney general. The republican sen- ators rejected the proposed at the re- quest of administration leaders. Hohenzollern Prince Sends Flowers for Traitor to Workers (Special to The DAILY WORKER) HEIDELBURG, Germany, March 6, —Completing the tributes of the ene- mies of the workers who have loaded the bier of the social democrat trait- tor Fritz Ebert with enconiums and flowers, Crown Prince Friedrich Wil- helm Hohenzollern today sent a wreath for Ebert's grave. Thus a prince born to the throne of monarchy, bows before the socialist who rendered such inestimable serv- ice both to the kaiser's regime during the war and to capitalism after the war. RAILROAD WORKERS OF GERMANY, ENSLAVED BY DAWES, BEGIN STRIKE (Special to The DA DAILY WORKER) BERLIN.—The, German railway strike was reported today to be spreading to Saxony and other points westward. Local strikes have occurred in the Rubr, The walkout, the first time & 1ce the German railroads were taken over under the Dawes’ plan, affects only freight laborers, it was stated. The. strikers. are seeking wage increases. The danger of a general railway strike in Germany loomed ominous- ly tonight when the railway work- ers in various parts of the country threatened to go out In sympathy with local strikers at Leipzig, Dres- den and Goerlitz, and because the Dawes and the quasi private reichs- bahn management are procrastinat- ing in negotiations with the commit- tees for wage increases. LOCAL CHICAGO STARTS DRIVE FOR THE DAILY Branch Agents to Meet on March 10 Chicago is getting an early start in the national subscription drive for the DAILY, WORKER. Every branch of the Workers Party must be repre- sented by its DAILY WORKER agent at the first campaign.meeting to. be heid Tuesday, March 10, at 8 p. m. in room 307, 166 W. Washington St. The last general membership meet- ing of local Chicago unanimously en- dorsed the drive and ‘pledged tne sup- port of the Chicago ‘membership. This support can be recruited and mobiliz- ed only thru the medium of the agents pin the branches, Local Chicago has over fifteen hun- dred members. Here is. an organiza- tion that, if properly maneuvered, can make Chicago echo with the name of DAILY WORKER. Every one of these comrades wants to see the DAILY WORKER grow, they want to do something. A central organization of DAILY WORKER branch agents can marshall them. The DAILY WORKER has develop- ed a number of excellent plans for lo- cal use in getting sums. they have got to be worked out in detail and supplied to local Chicago. That’s the job to be done by the DAILY WORK- ER agents committee on Maren 10. If you are interested in seemg the daily put over in Chicago, whether you are a branch agent or not, you are invited to the meeting. There will be plenty of work and then some for everyone who is willing to under- take it, RAILROAD MAGNATES FIGHT SAFETY DEVICES IN SPRINGFIELD LOBBY SPRINGFIELD, Ii. The railroad magnates are lobbying vigorously against several bills aim- ed to eliminate the danger of grade crossings, which kill thousands of people every year. Representatives of every railroad operating in Iili- nois have combined their efforts to fight a bill limiting the number of cars in a freight train to 50, and a bill providing for a minimum train crew. Representative James A. Reeves of Champaign, is sponsoring a bill re- quiring railroads to equip the tend- ers of all locomotives engaged in hauling freight with a cabin for the head brakeman, and another bill has been introduced requiring the railroad to provide a flagman at every point where a railroad crosses a street or road in public use. The railroads are fighting all of these bills, March 6.— TORY BILL AIMED AT LABOR DEFEATED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS LONDON, March 6—The house of commons this afternoon passed the amendment, killing the trades union levy bill. The bill sought to prohibit trade unions from levying on workers’ wages to support the labor party. The Pay |e small and-ascidents are fre- | tories originally planned to support the bill, but feared the strength of the quent. bitanecaM workers, illite le iatacnenremetsittteimaentsinss habe MILITANTS OF SEATTLE TAKE THE OFFENSIVE Want No Businessmen in Central Labor Council SEATTLE, Wash. March 6—To make tHe Central Labor Council a real representative body of trade unionists and rid it of a certain ele ment who at some bygone age have worked at the trades and crafts they represent but who for years have derived their income from sources other than that of working for a bosa (from rent, profit and holding politic al jobs), is the aim of an amendment to the by-laws of the council intro- duced last night and if adopted at its third reading would exclude from that body among others—David Levine, petty shopkeeper for more than fif- teen years, Robert Hesketh, a city councilman for about twelve years, Frank Cotterill, a member of the chamber of commerce and a number of others interested in various busi- ness enterprises. The proposed amendment reads as follows: “In order to qualify for. member- ship in this body the delegate shall be actively employed at his trade and must receive the major ,portion of his income from wages received for actual work at the trade represented or as an employe of a local union of that trade.” The amendment was introduced by ¥. H. Brown, delegate from the Build- ing Service Union, M. B. Johnson, delegate from shipwrights .local, R. Buchanan, delegate from building 1a- borers, Leo K. Ford, delegate metal polishers, and has the backing of a large number of other delegates who have voiced their sentiment that the council is a representative body of workers and its delegates should also be workers. Resolutions’ were received from Machinists Local 79 and Millmen’s Local. 338 condemning the action of the council and urging that it rescind its action in an attempt to unseat delegates because of their political opinion. Militants Present Appeal The six delegates accused of being Communists and who are being given a hearing before the strike and griev- ance committee of the council have issued a leaflet to the delegates and (Continued on page 3) UTICA MILLS TRY TO BREAK STRIKE, FIND NO SCABS Other Unions Donate Funds in Support (Special to The Daily Worker) UTICA, N. Y., Match 3 (By Mail.)— Thru the local papers, an’ announce+ ment was made that the Utica Steam and Mohawk Valley cotton mills will resume work Wednesday, March 4, and the statement was published that many of the workers would return. This is a straight out fight to break the strike, and to aid it, the second hands and the bosses visited some of the strikers to ask them to go back to work. This was reported at the meeting of the strikers in the Labor Temple this morning. Bosses Try to Get Scabs. The bosses told the strikers that the strike was over, but the strikers visited replied that if they get their old scale of wages without the ten per cent cut, they would go back, but not otherwise. At this médrning’s meeting the strikers determined that they would all go back together or not at all, as they were all in the union and would stick. Fine Support from Other Unions. The Utica Co.operative Society has donated 1,000 loaves of bread to the strikers, The Typographical Union has donated ‘one dollar per member for four weeks, or $600, The Carpen- ters’ Union, Local 62, donated $100, And the Painters’ local contributed $100 to the strikers. The strikers are determined to win the strike, and with continued support by other um fons stand a fine chance of coming owt victorious. |