The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1925, Page 2

a —————_—_—____} IN BN A BBE BALDWIN BOWS TO LABOR STORM WITH CONCESSION Kirkwood, Ousted Mem.- ber, Stirs Scotch Workers (Special to the Daily Worker) \ LONDON, March 8.—The section of the labor party which resumed its seats in the house of commons with- out David Kirkwood, who was expell- ed from the house Thursday for heck ling Austen Chamberlain, foreign secretary, applauded Prime Minister Baldwin’s adroit speech against the trade union political fund bill. Baldwin, who thus opposed a bill of- fered by his own kind, feared that ii it passed, a storm of labor oposition would ¢ once, which would be @ misfortune for his regime, now going thru a ticklish situation. By his speech, it is presumed, the bill was de- feated, disgruntling some of Baldwin's party memb: party membe: The bill would have practically for- bidden the trade unions from making contributions to political parties. It would have immediately affected the labor party. Kirkwood, meanwhile, enjoyed his vacation outside of parliament, by call- ing the prince of Wales a “nincom- poop” and attacking the house of com. mons in a speech to his constituents in Scotland. “Thursday's incident was an effort to crush a workingman,” Kirkwood told a large audience of his constitu- but pleasing the labor ents. “Chamberlain is incapable, fit- ted neither mentally nor physically for his job.” He promised his constituents never to apologize to the commons because, he said, that body wanted to crush him for his attacks on that “nincom- Poop prince.” ‘ Harriman to Buy Output of Soviet Manganese Mines LONDON, March 8.—interesting , lights on the dealings of the Soviets with the rest of the world came to light as a result of the Harriman pro- position to contract for the output of the Georgian manganese mines, It is expécted that a contract will be signed Monday between Mr. Harriman and the Soviets under which the Har. riman group will invest $4,000,000 in new railways to the plant. The Soviet government is to be paid a minimum annual royalty of $3,200, 000, of which $1,000,000 is to be paid in advance. The former owners of the Properties are to be compensated. Al- together the Harriman deal means $64,000,000 royalty in twenty years. The deal, if consummated, means that one of the world’s richest man- ganese fields goes to one American interest. An unusual feature is the indemnification of the former owners, 90 per cent, of whom are Russians. Even David Lloyd George in his dealings with the Soviets only prov- ided for compensation to foreign and not Russian owners of various prop- erties. The German and British press ap- parently are hostile to the Harriman deal, following the failure of their own nationals to get similar concessions. “Jim Crow’ Beaches at Washington Are Again Abandoned WASHINGTON, D. C., March 8.— The Negroes have temporarily won their fight against segregated bathing beaches in Washington, owing to the refusal of senate and house confer- ees to include the sum of $9,000,000 in the District of Columbia appropria- tion bill to maintain separate beaches. The action was taken, it is thought as a result of the protest of the Negro citizens of Washington. Colonel Sher- rill, officer in charge of public build- ings and grounds in Washington and advocate of “Jim Crow” beaches fought bitterly for the appropriation, but was defeated, Spain Asks Recruits In Morocco. MADRID, Spain, March 8.—Spanish consulates in New, York, Havana, San- tiago, Santo Domingo, Galveston, Hon- duras, Guatemala and Manila have been instructed to prepare to recruit volunteers for setvice in Morocco, The Spaniards have suffered heavy defeats at the hands of the Riffian tribes in their North African colony, and are preparing to attempt to crush the movement for independence from Spanish impertalism. Calls God “A Scoundrel” BERNE, March 8-—M. Canova, member of the national council, was convicted here as a blasphemer be cause he said that God was 4 scoun. drel. Canova’s defense was that “there is no God, and can therefore be no offense.” Bread Up In France PARIS, France, March 8.—The price of bread will again be increased a sou on March 16, as the bread commission has already advanced the price in flour. Bread will cost one franc, sixty six centimes per kilogram after that date. RE, Th Speen ne OI amr RAN OMNI HEP! eEN ORE 1 a emma ne uae: etkands pataen ing the last two days, their case has them. dirty work, was compiled and tele grams sent to them. Some 50 gather- ed at the law office of one, Scallon, attorney for the plaintiffs, and the business of turning out lying affidavits was begun. A Witches’ Cauldron stunt Using a mixture of about a grain of truth to a bushel of half truths and lies, they concocted an affidavit .cover- ing each local union, seeking to estab- lish that the members of said local unions were strong for expulsions without trial, and that injunctions were eats, drink, and pretty good clothes for a wood-butcher. The aggregation from each local union then signed the affidavit cover. ing what purported to be the action of their local union. Some who were reluctant to so perjure themselves were bludgeoned into the act with threats of expulsion of the local union to which they belonged if they did not sign. Little Things Like Perjury One member said that although the affidavit stated that he was present at a certain meeting and he told the fakers that he was not at that meet ing, they insisted that he sign it any- way, which he did. Secretary “Jelly” Fish, under cross examination, admitted that he had not worked at the trade for seven and half years and wanted to keep his job, if he could. He stated that he had been threatened with the loss of it thru the columns of the DAILY WORKER. Yellow Sharrock, president of the district council, and one of the plain- tiffs in the case, in a cheap effort to ingratiate himself with the court, stated that he kept his records and his naturalization papers in his priv- ate office at the district council. Fakers Fight to Hold Jobs When the judge remarked, on read- ing the district council constitution, that Sharrock got $60 a week for dis- charging the duties therein set forth (and getting an injunction on the side), Sharrock volunteered that it didn’t stipulate how much abuse he got, whereupon Maurice Sugar, attor- ney for the defense, remarked that neither did it state how much abuse he earned. During the taking of evidence :of Fish, old Sam Botterill sat and shoo! his head “yes” or “no” at each qties. tion to indicate the answer, until Ri nolds across the counsel table indi cated by pantomime what he was doing and that he should stop it, whereupon the spectators burst into laughter, in which Botterill himself joined. Honorable Court Reads Honorable F Worker Attorney Gilmore dramatically in- troduced the DAILY WORKER today in what he thought was a clever at- tempt to prejudice the court, (the old INJUNCTIONITES IN COU] PERJURED AFFIDAVIT. AT “EXHIBIT 10” TO HIS HONOR (Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich, March 8—The injunctionites, who are trying to carry out Hutcheson’s expulsion policy here by some Innovations in expulsion teohnique, are finding that their ambitions far outstrip their’capacity. USE AND RAIL Dur- become steadily worse, until tonight they would gladly accept some loophole of compromise if such were offered Monday night they called all their cohorts together by a novel method of notification, A list of about a hundred, who they thought would do their -—_——— POLICE GUARD AROUND JAP PARLIAMENT AS IT PASSES GAG LAW TOKYO, Japan, March 8.— The peace preservation act, also own as the anti-Bolshevist law, providing for imprisonment for nearly every form of Communist activity, was Passed by the house while a heavy police guard surrounded parliament. The law is designed to check Com- munist propaganda and Is. said by government officials to be a direct result of the» Japanese-Russian agreement. red herring trick), pointing especially to the article in the issue of February 5th entitled “A ‘Honorable’ Court En; joins a Carpenter,” referring only to the copy of the bill of complaint em. bodied therein. Attorney Sugar took a similar copy from his portfolio, an- nouncing that he is a subscriber to the DAILY WORKER, and told the court that the “Honorable” applied to this court. He then proceeded to read the in- troduction to the bill of complaint and the following comment, in which the court was referred to as a “capital- ist court” serving “capitalist labor takers,” and.to the injunction itself as a “scrap of paper.” Judge Hunt seemed highly amused during the reading of the article. The DAILY WORKER was included in the record as Exhibit No. 10. Faker Claims Jurisdiction Over “Daily Worker” Sharrock told the court that he had ‘stated that he would hold anyone who sold the DAILY WORKER responsible for what was published therein. This im spite of the fact that he and “Jelly” Fish are both subscribers and shyster Carson says he reads it every day. These fakers are trying to set up a censorship on what the rank and file may read. The carpenters of Detroit are get ting, some valuable information as to what may be expected from fakerdom and its local flunkeys. At a meeting tonight of delegates and visitors whc gathered for the regular district coun. cll meeting, which was not held be cause Sharrock and Fish failed to ap- pear, special consideration was given to the bunch of snakes who signed these lying affidavits Monday night. Painful Proceeding Promised Tt was intimated that at the first mieeting of each local union a copy of each affidavit would be read before the meeting and discussion and act- tion would follow. It is safe to as- sume that a painful half hour will be had by these traitors. Jurisdictional Row Handed to One Man For Arbitration After a confab Saturday in the office of the Building Construction Employ- ers’ Association, led by Patrick Sul- livan, of the Building Trades Council, and Edward M. Craig, of the employ- ing contractors, it was agreed to sub- mit the dispute to J. D’Esposito, who is made the arbiter. Business agents of the striking crafts will hold a meeting with D’Es- posito, who will be expected to order the men back to work pending a de- cision. The strike, which has lasted over a week, was called by the other crafts against the practice of the carpenters in setting metal trim, which was a de- flance of the jurisdictional award that gave the metal trim work to the Sheet Metal Workers’ Union. Killer of Negro Freed, The murder charges against Mor- ris Greenberg, indicted Jan. 6, in con- nection with the lynching of William Bell, the Negro, who was beaten to death with a baseball bat at Miller and 14th street, have been dismissed in Judge Charles Williams court. Greenberg pleaded guilty, but Assist- ant State’s Attorneys Romano and Miller claimed they could get no one to identify Greenberg. Otto Epstein, keeper of a wine shop, who was also charged with tak- ing part in the lynching, was freed some days ago. intermarriage Bill Killed COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 8,—The attempt of the ku klux Klan to push & bill thru the Ohio legislature pre venting the intermarriage of persons of different races was foiled when the bill was killed in committee. At a public hearing on the bill the main speaker defending it was Rev. George who admitted that he was a lecturer for the ku klux Klan, . A DAILY WORKER sub means another Communist. ‘nae aseenue nrampaan a mare, ey POLAND BURNS PRIEST ALIVE TO REVENGE HIS FRIENDSHIP T0 RUSSIA KIEV, Ukraine, March 8.—Father Andrae Fedoukovitch, a Polish cath- olic priest, has been burned alive in the town of Jitomir, in the Po- lish Ukraine. The murderers poured kerosene over the priest’s body and then ignited it, say, the advices from Jitomir. Fedoukovitch was the author of a widely known letter to the pope in which he protested to the vati- can against the participation of Po- lish clergymen In the anti-Soviet campaign. His friends declare he’ was killed by his enemies for divulging to the authorities the activities of Polish spies against the Soviets in the Ukraine. St. Paul to Have First Communist * Wedding March 14 (Special to The Dally Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., March 8.— On March 14, the Young Workers League of St. Paul will take charge of the wedding ceremony of Max Allen and Anna Quartermaster, both members of the league. The Y. W. L. of St. Paul will make a great celebration out of this real Communist wedding. The program will consist of Com- munist music and songs thruout. The hall will be decorated with Commun- ist slogans, especially with those dealing with religion, for in perform- ing a marriage, the league js showing the complete separation of the Com- munists from all religious superst: tion, All thembers of the league and of the party of the Twin Cities will be invited. © celine Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch, NE a TLR oo 2S tana ae eh-l P ‘ PAY NO RENT; USE PITCHFORKS Need Their Money to Purchase Food ENNIS, County Clare, Ireland, Mar. 8.—Captain James Charles Arthur, one of those who figured in the adventure of separating the mysterious “Mr. A.,” otherwise known as‘Sir Hari Sing, for three quarters of a million dollars, will not be able to live in luxury, pending another good piece of business if the tenants on his Irish ‘estate in County Clare can help it. On March’6, a ‘sheriff accompanied by police, attempted*to ‘seize property belonging to Captain’ Arthur, for non- payment of rent. Clave is in the cent- er of the famine region and the poor peasants did not have enough money to buy food for their children not to speak of paying rent to a profligate landlord living in Paris. In other days, under Dublin castle rule, the evils of landlordism were attributed to the Britism government. But the police that aided the Sheriff in attacking the poor peasants wore the uniform of the Pree State govern- ment. J This did not seem to bother the farmers in the slightest. They waded into the sheriff and his police, sending them flying from the scene. The sheriff returned with the military and a pitched battle took place. Again the farmers were victorious and the enemy was compelled to retreat. The natives felled trees across the bridges leading to the district to prevent the return of the sheriff and his forces. Teachers Wise to Chicago “Big” Business Plots Coming into the open with their planns the big businéss school board and its big business..superintendent propose to increase the tax rate 52 per gent for education and jamming almost 10 per cent more children into each crowded elementary class room. Instead of 44 children under a single teacher in the elementary school-room the speed-up kings are providing for 48. Not many years ago 20 children was thot a reasonable number for one teacher to handle at a time. About $2,000,000 is expected fo be saved by making 10 teachers do-what is now done by approximately” 11. At the same time ‘the, ers are asked to approve a ‘the school tax of over 52 per cent The organized. te are repeat- ing their refusal to -pyofiteer. at the expense of reduced edipation” forthe children and at the pense of in- creased taxes, for tle yordinary tax- payer. They repeat th proved as sertions that the taxés now dodged by big ‘business are sufficient under the present tax rate to pay all wage increases, build better schools and give bettter schooling to the children. A battle is promised along thege lines. French Am! Received in Russia with Enthusiasm MOSCOW, Jan. 30.. (By mail).— Jean Herbette, the new French am- bassador, arrived at Moscow and was met at the station by representatives of the people's commissariat of for- eign affairs, members of the diplomat- ie corps, journalists and big crowds of people. Herbette, in a short inter- view with representatives of the press, expressed his deep satisfaction of the very friendly reception accord- ed him and declared that he feels happy to be in the capital of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the capacity of the ‘first ambassador of France in order work hand in hand for the re-establishment of nor mal relations between''the two coun- tries and their closer rapproachment. Herbette hopes that, all outsanding questions will be successfully settled, because there is not one problem amongst them in his.opinion which could not be settled provided that both sides really want a settlement, In the evening, Herbette was recelved by Chicherin, people’s commissary of for- eign affairs, with whom he had a long conversation, Play About West RE Virginia War Out in Book Form NEW YORK, March 9.—‘Proces- sional” John Howard Lawson's jazz symphony of American life. which the New York Theater Guild is produc: ing, is now available in book form. This play treats on West Virginia's mine war to the tune of jazz. The mingled burlesque, melodrama, humor, tragedy, and almost irrationality of the piece created considerable differ ence of opinion on the play. The erican stage, 2 cmmantmmealingiabbeiaiy ‘arch §,—There are ap- proximately 200,000,,.persons entirely out of work here apd tens of thou- sands on part time basis, Unemploy saent has become @ real menace to the country, AUSTRIA, = {dent Moffitt who has agreed to arbi 1 souseerore wt Morgan Picks Agent to_ Chain German Labor : to His Dawes Scheme By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL COMPANY MAY LOSE SAKHALIN Japs Held Trumps of Force Majure (Special to The Daily Worker) RIGA, March 8.—The Soviet gov ernment has filed a suit in the Mos- cow provincial court for the formal cancellation of the concession grant- ed to the Sinclair Oil company to ex- ploit the oil resources of North, Sak- halin. The trial will begin on March 11, The Soviet’s case is based om the contention that the Sinclair company failed to start operations as the con- tract stipulated and.to make the nec- essary expenditure for technical equip- ment. According to the Soviet’s own version, Harry L. Sinclair duly paid ‘|the sum stipulated in the contract in September, 1923, and wanted to begin operations. The Problem of Force Majure, On March 6, 1924, Mr. Sinclair’s rep- resentative, M. Templeton, officially informed the Soviet government. that the Japanese troops of occupation had refused to admit the expedition equtp- ped by the Sinclair company to North Sakhalin and that Mr. Sinciatr there fore requested the Soviet to consider ‘the circumstances as governed by force majure and automatically to pro- long the contract until conditions changed. An Unhappy Situation for Sinclair, The Soviet government then gave the Sinclair company six months’ grace, but now the Soviet jurists re- fuse to consider the Japanese occu- pation as a force majure on the grounds that the Sinclair company was aware of the occupation when the contract was signed and that the Am- erican government did not attempt to ease the way for Mr. Sinclair's oper- ations as the latter had expected. These provincial courts are not com- posed of jurists, the chief qualification required for members being a fixed period of Communist service. Ths judges are elected by Communist com: mittees. Capitalists Get “Fair Trial.” In view of the court’s lack of jurt- dical red tape, it is safe to predict that the decision will be in favor of the Soviet where one party is the Soviet government itself and the other is a foreign bourgeois capitalist company. Don’t Want Boy Scouts in Wales NEATH, Wales, March 8.—On the ground that they savored too much of capitalism and “militarism” the Boy Scouts and the Girl Guide move- ments were strongly condemned by the Welsh division of the independent labor party at a conference here re- cently. 'ODAY, the Coolidge clique in Washington considers sending a “business man” as the next ambassador to Berlin. Just as if every American ambassador, or minister, abroad is not the direct spokesman of American big business. The German am- bassador, however, as the agent of the Morgan-Dawes plan must have special qualities, and so Charles Dewey Hilles who has had a post graduate training in both Washington and Wall Street; is being prominently mentioned for the job. " Hilles will have his hands full when he arrives in Berlin. The German workers will keep Hilles busy. This is seen in the unrest among the coal miners and the growing strike on the railroads. They will give him plenty of bad news to report to “J, Pierpont.” Hiles was an assistant secretary of state under President Taft, later becoming secretary to this same “Bill the Fat” dur- ing the closing days of his regime in the White House. His loyalty to the present chief justice of the supreme court, and to the rampant reaction in the republican party in the days before the opening of the world war, made Hilles chairman of the re- publican national committee. From these beginnings Milles has since become a director in the Liberty National Bank of New York. He also holds a directorship in the anti-union Otis Elevator company. Recently Hilles has been specializing in activities with firms having an international character, which makes him no doubt additionally acceptable for the most ticklish post that Wall Street has to offer at the present time. . * *¢ @ * The only other man mentioned for the job at Berlin is Jacob Gould Schurman, a long time ago president of Cornell Univer- sity, one of America’s most obedierit “goose-step” educational in- stitutions. Since it is Wall Street’s ambition to colonialize not only Germany, but all of Western Europe, not to mention the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, if such a thing were possible, Schurman also has good qualities for the job. As long ago as 1899, immediately after the Spanish-Ameriean war, Schurman helped place the shackles of the new American imperialism on the limbs of the Filipinos, just freed by an altruistic United States from Spanish oppression. Schurman was president of the first Philippine commission that performed its job so well that the Filipinos have remained enslayed to Wall Street rule ever since. Schurman was also promoted. He is now American minister to China, where his main job is keeping an “open door” for the almighty dollar’ to the whole orient. This includes stir- ring up internal trouble in China and supporting counter-revo- lutionary elements against those revolutionary Chinese who pro- test against the depredations of foreign imperialism. But com- pared to his success in the Philippines, Schurman’s usual report from China is, “not so good.” * * * 8 The workers and poor farmers of, this country must get better acquainted with the doings of these spokesmen of dollar diplomacy abroad. Hilles or Schurman, whichever one is chosen, will go to Berlin to tighten the Dawes plan on the whole German. nation, which means the German working class. Already the effects of German slave labor are being felt in other countries, especially in England and Belgium, where the army of unem- ployed in the coal mines, for instance, ‘grows as German labor is forced to bear its increased burden. In fact, the same results are already beginning to make their appearance in the United States. * * @ & When Hilles or Schurman go abroad as Morgan’s henchmen, they become the enemies, not only of the German or Chinese work- ers, but also of the whole American working class. It is. im- possible to degrade ‘the workers of Germany and China, with- out also increasing the ruthlessness of American capitalism at home. The German workers, more and more, are resisting the Mor- gan-Dawes plane. Let American workers and poor farmers echo their struggle by organizing against Morgan and Dawes rule at home. While German and Chinese labor are winning victories against dollar diplomacy in their countries, let labor in the United States plan and work to crush it here. Service Men Fight Mussolini ROME, Italy, March 8.—As a pro- test against the dismissal of leaders of the ex-servicemen’s federation by the fascisti government, the execut- ive committee of the servicemen’s or. ganization remained away from parlia- ment for one day. The ex-soldier deputies will call for a vote of censure against the government. No Jobs and No Homes in Spain. SEVILLE, Spain, March 8.—Unem- ployment is very great here with no jobs and no homes for migrant new- comers. Living costs are way up Wood Working Industry Drops. GERMANY, March 8.—Over forty Calles Forces State i per cent of the members of the Wood|@nd_over-crowding has brot about of Jalisco to Repeal Workers’ Union in the Frankfort-on-| Conditions for the poor of this city. Law on Landlor Main district were without jobs at the beginning of the year. Join the Workers Party! MEXICO CITY, March 8.—No more bank capital will be extended to Ja- lisco, the richest state in Mexico, by flat banks of the country because the state legislature has passed a law limiting the possession of land to homestead holdings. : Even the national bank,a govern- ment institution, notified Jalisco that no more capital would be forthcoming unless the new agrarian law was re- pealed, Senor Valenzuela, in commenting on the action, said today: “Agrarians must respect private property or the government will com- pel them to do so.” Another New Pamphlet! “Work Among Women” Giving a brief report on every phase of activity among the women of Soviet Russia. - wee Miners’ Officials Break Strike, TAYLOR COUNTY, W. Va., Mar. 9. —A strike of 550 miners at the Gal- loway mine of the Simpson Creek Col- leries company in Taylor county, W. Va., was called off the mext day by union officials. The strike was called because a near-by mine known as the Galloway mine, was working open shop but the union officials ordered the men back to work with the infor- mation that the open shop was con- ducted in accordance with the union agreement. In addition to the many photographs: of the women’s groups this attractive pam- hlet includes an appendix on “‘Sugge ‘ Pro am. for Working. Women's Circles” in that country. One of the most interesting and attractive of the recent publications from Russia, 25 CENTS EACH THE DAILY WORKER Literature Department 1113 W. Washington Blvd. — Chicago, Ill. Union Official Helps Bosses, ORANGE VALLEY, N. J.—A atrike of over 700 hatters of the Orange Val- ley, N. J. has been stopped by Presi- tration, The matter under dispute will be considered by the manufactur: ors and: the international .oMcers ot the hatters’ union which of course means that the hatters will be the overs. qe al pant roe Yad Patronize our advertisers,