The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1925, Page 1

Daily Worker Annual Sub- scription Drive Starts on March 15! GET IN ON IT! ol. I. No. 50. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY leaders have he- RITISH labor come members of the king’s privy council. American labor leaders have joined with the’ biggest of the big fellows in the National Civic Federa- lion in order to co-operate with the rpling class in keeping this putrid capitalist system stenching the social atmosphere. The ingenuity of the capitalists combined -with the treach- ery of the labor fakers has produced many surprises, but it is doubtful if even the most cynical would expect to zee a member of a chamber of com- merce sitting as delegate from a local anion- in a central labor body. Yet this is exactly what has happened in Seattle. . #8 ; UR readers should be well ac- quainted with the struggle that is now going on in Seattle, with the re- actionaries waging a hopeless war on the Communists. The word “hopeless” is used advisedly because the fakers have mo more chance of winning a permanent victory than au Eskimo pie has of retaining its frigidity in a fre room. The future belongs to the revolutionary working class and it happens that the Communist Party is today the actual leader of the mili- tant workers in the never-ending bat- ‘le against the capitalist system. The sight of several Communists in the Seattle Labor Council did not look good to the eyes of the fakers, among them this chamber of commerce busi- ness man. + # FTER a big fight, the fakers suc- ceeded in having a motion passed calling for the expulsion of any dele- gate who was a member of the Work- 2rs| (Communist) Party. But the worst was yet to come. The local un- ions are now doing a lot of talking and before the smoke of this battle clears ‘away, it is not at all unlikely. that there will be at least one va- cant chair in the central body on which now sits the chunk of animat- ed protoplasm, who represents the open shop chamber of commerce, in the Seattle Central Labor Council. The local unions are now waking up to. the fact that a house cleaning is needed and their eyes are not. fixed) on the Communists. They know that of the class struggle, which is writ- ten into the constitutions of many of the now conservative unions. But they do, not see any reason why business men and representatives, of the scab- by chamber of commerce should sit in council with the representatives of the workers who know no enemy ex- cept one; the capitalist. se @ EMBERS of the Pressmen’s Union don’t know how well off they are! It’s mighty hard to satisfy the workers nowadays. They insist on demanding ‘increases in wages and shorter hours thus eating into the profits of the poor employers who may be sick from gout or trying to recover from delerium tremens. Every ouce in a while honors are shower- ed upon them and still they are not satisfied. The very honorable and very fat “Bill” Taft went and joined an. international union, the bricklay- ers; I believe. Instead of appreciating this fact, the greedy bricklayers kept on asking for more wages as if they did not have a president and a su- preme court judge on their roster. The funny thing is, that their “Broth- er” William, the Fat, always has a pen ready to sign his name to an injunc- tion against his “fellow workers” in case the employers ask.for such an instrument. .. © HEN the bricklayers threaten to park their trowels unless their wages are increased, and some eco- mist gives them a yarn about the fab- (Continued on page 6) . Klan Makes Drive on Herrin Miners . RTT in Illinois House SPRINGFIBLD, Ill, March 9—The ku -klux klan is massing its forces in “the Illinois legislature for a concerted drive to gain complete control of Wil- liamson county, prepardtory to break- ing up the miners’ union there. Mrs. S. Glenn Young, wife of the slain klan gunman and scab herder, has been brought to Springfield by the klan, which is using influence to have Mrs. Young appear before the legislature, Representative Wallace A, Bandy, klansman from Marion, is bringing a vill before the house judiciary com- mittee which would give the county supervisors of Williamson county power to discharge Sheriff Galligan from office. 2 suBscar™ § RATFS: SHAFE GEN p ER EIGR ty, BOX 4 AYE NEW YORK Bmjpogs ¥ } COAL Diiuens IN CONVENTION Reactionaries Rai s, Smoke Screens iso . BELLAIRE, Ohio, March 9,—Sub- District 5, of District 6, Ohio, re presenting some 18,000 miners, went into convention yesterday morning. This is one of, if not the largest, sub- district in the U. M. W. of A. 'The Lewis administration is making des- perate efforts to insure control of the convention. This sub-district portrays one of the many incongrouous situa: tions within the miners’ union, with a progressive militant rank and file the reactionaries are still in a positfon © command the official positions of the union. This sub-district cast a heavy vote for Geo. Voyzey, Arley Staples, and Jos. Nearing, the candidates on the progressive slate against the Lewis administration. In their own sub- district election Frank Ledvinka, so- cialist. and supporter of the Lewis machine, received 3,108 votes for sub- district president, while J, J. Hoge, (Continued on page 6.) SRS DSSS in Chicago, by. mail, $8.00 y Outside Chicage, by mail, $6.00 per year. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1925 OPPRESSION BY JAP CAPITALISTS DEVELOPS SOLIDARITY OF WORKERS IN UNITED STATES AND THE ORIENT On the receipt of news of the sedition law by means of which the Jap- anese government is trying to outlaw the labor and reyolutionary movement, the Central Executive Committee of the Workers’ (Communist) Party of America has forwarded a statement to the Japanese workers’ organizations. The statement is of historical importance. Japanese and American revolutionary movement into @ it is the first Communist expression Mae two nations whose rulers strug- gle for control of the Pacific. The statement is as follows: To the Communists of Japan, the labor unions and all workers and Peasants: The imperialist government of Jap- an is proving its right to take its place side by side with the United States, Great Britain, France and other capitalist governments in their war on the working class. Before the imperial diet is a law whose passage’ will take from the Japanese workers and peasants the rights to meet, to organize or to even discuss the tyrannies of Japanese cap. italism or to give publicity to the at- tacks of Japanese capitalists and their government upon the working class. The law is patterned after the in- famous espionage act passed by the United States congress during the world war and the “criminal syndical- ism” laws now in force in many states of the’ union. The activities of the Japanese work (Continued on Page 6) TEAR IT DOWN Yj J WONDER wHat THEY ARE GOING TO DO wit! BARTHOLDA was A FOREIGNER AND VY “ll It Was Foreign Born. WEST VIRGINIA MINERS BETRAYED BY LEWIS AND URGED BY BITTNER TO “CO-OPERATE WITH SHERIFFS” By JOHN J, MORRIS. _'Unless the rank and file members of District 17, U. M. W, A., wake up and realize their duty to the coal miners’ organization and the whole Ameri- can labor movement, they will find themselves in’ the very same predica- nient they were in before the miners’ organization got a hold on the W. Va. coal operators and checsed, to a great extent, the on them by coal company g' A History of Struggle. The history of the West Virginia coal miners is a history of struggle with the greedy coal, operators, some of the struggles very violent, in which large numbers of men gave their life’s blood in the cause of the coal miners and their organization. At Cabin Creek and Paint Creek in Kanawha county, before the great strike of 1912-13, the conditions of the coal miners were almost unbear- able, long hours. and starvation wag- es, “freedom” and “democracy” were, dished out at the point of a 45 Colts GREEK RAILROAD WORKERS GO ON _ GENERAL STRIKE FOR HIGHER PAY a ATHENS, Greece, March 9.—Greece again is in the throes of a general railway strike. The rallway men today refused to wait longer for the govern- ment’s reply to their demands for higher pay, , ' 4 . . brutal treatment forced with a Baldwin-Felts gunman at the business end. During the strike of 1912-13 the coal éompany gunmen learned that they had competition in the gunning game. They learned that the coal miners could peep along the barrel of a Springfield or Mauser rifle with as much accuracy as they could wield a pick or coal shovel. The Only Reason the Union Wor When it Did That is the reason, and the only reason, that the gunmen disappeared from Cabin and Paint Creeks and the coal operators recognized the U. M. W. of A. paid the union scale and reduced the work day to eight hours, What would those brave fighters | who gave their lives on Cabin Greek Land Paint Creék during the strike of 1912-13 say, if it were possible for them to return and see the conditions (Continued on page 2) i : ha ME t MY DEAR FATHER J MYSELF was BORN ABROAD... y It. marks the entrance of the wer alliance and the workers of of solidarity betwe Unemployed Stage tion in te Capitol SALT LAKE a determined eff gressive element: ~—As a result of ton the part of pro- in the Salt Lake Federation of Labor, a demonstration recently was stageil of unemployed, rallying about 50 0 | jobless workers to march on the capitol building and de- mand relief in am appearance before the labor committ@e of the house of representatives. Previous to thé) demonstration, a mass meeting of%both unemployed and employed was;talled, pursuant to the action of the @entral labor body, This was the ch action resulting from a resolutiomf) proposed by the progressive elem Of , course, the: nothing” but exp sonally, altho it power to pass ating funds to r jolons could “do p their sorrow per. is clearly in their lslation appropria- e distress. Coolidge Lawyers Shield Higher-ups _ in Teapot Trial (Special to The Gaily Worker) CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March 9.— Former U. S. SenatoriAtlee Pomerene special oil counsel, and Coolidge republican, today opened the govern- ment’s case in its effarts to obtain an- nulment of the Tea Pot Dome naval oil leases. ‘ Senator Pomerenes sketched the >” FASCISM STARES AT GERMANY AS YELLOWS DECAY Communists to Have the Support of Labor BERLIN, Germany, March 9.—The German presidential elections are re- solving themselves into a clear-cut struggle between the monarchists, imperialists, and big industrialists on jthe one hand and the Communists on |the other, as sole representatives of the working class. Despite desperate political manuev- ers, the social-democrats appear at this time unable to prevent a success- ful right wing, fascist coalition. The socialists admit that they must either join with the extreme right wingers or see their petty bourgeois party disintegrate as the result, of the elec- tion. The presidential election may mean the rise of fascism to power in Germany. The socialists will present. Otto Braun as their candidate, under the slogan reminiscent of Woodrow Wil- son’s second presidential campaign “Save the republic.” The right wing fascists have invited the catholic party to enter their coalition to eli- minate the socialists, and have+pro- posed Herr Stegerwald, member of the center party, with a leaning to- ward the right, as the coalition can- didate. Such a coalition, the fascists hope, will bring them a majority of the votes in the election, and pre- vent a run-off election to be decided by a plurality. The so-called “left wing coalition” of socialists, and other petty bourge- jois elements, has been wrecked. The fascist coalition already controls 40 per cent of the votes, they claim. The Communists are expected to poll a tremendous working class vote, as many workers have turned away from the social democrats in disgust at the persecution of the Communists in the Beuthen “conspiracy” trial, the exposure of Ebert’s betrayal of the -| workers during the munitions strike in the war period, and the corruption of the social, democratic leaders brought to lighfvip the Barmat finan- cial scandal, well as the recent disgusting political ‘manuevers of the socialists. 6 \ Altho Ebert,has been buried his so- cial democraticcolleagues are as de- termined as ever to prove that Ebert was heart and soul. with the capital- ists of Germany during the world war. They have appealed the decision of Judge Bewersdorf that Ebert technic- ally committed treason in connection with the munitions. strike of 1918. They declare that the judge's decision is unjust, inasmuch as Ebert was a loyal strikebreaker on the side of the imperialist war lords, and was in- dorsed by von Hindenberg. ASK LYNCHING BE MADE CRIME AGAINST U.S. NEW YORK, March 9.—Appeal to President Coolidge “ta urge upon the incoming congress the necessity for enactment of an adequate law making lynching a federal crime,” is made by the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People thru its secretary, James Weldon Johnson. The case of the Negro burned at stake in Georgia, at which even the Macon Telegraph admits the lynch- ers made no attempt to hidel their identity, is brought to the, president's attention and the letter of the assocta- tion and the letter of the association to Governor Cliff M. Walker of Georgia is cited. The association's letter to the gov- general outline of the famous case] ernor reminds him of the fact that which has brought ‘about cabinet the lynchers are known because of changes and resulted in. charges of| his offer of $500 reward for the appre fraud and bribery ‘on. the part of] hension of guilty persons. Harry F. Sinclair and former Secret- ary of Interior Fall. Pomerene said “The whole scheme was entered into as a result of a con- spiracy between Sinclair and Fall.’ It is apparent that the lawyer is shielding his other fellow republican office holders from connection with the case. He charged fraud and undue se. crecy. ‘EB, C> Finney, first assistant secretary of the interior department, was immediately called to the witness stand, Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER#-but be sure to see him the next day to {get his subscription. Coolidge’s statement in his first message to congress that “the con- gress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching” is quoted to him by the association in its appeal. It is not on reagrd, how- ever, that this means any more than numberless other presidential sweet words which have unfformly turned out to be pure hypocrisy, Students Form Co-Operative SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 9.—The studenta co-Operative supply company, Garrett, Administration Building, of Northwestern University, Campus, Evanston, jncorporated here today for $2,000 to sell students and _ others, ‘books and school supplies, — / Published daily except PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. | | WORKER. un Washington Blvd: THREAD MILL TEXTILE WORKERS 10 STRIKE AGAINST-WAGE CUTS WILLIMANTIC, Conn.—Workers in the Willimantic mill of American Thread company are ready to strike against wage reductions posted by the company. The 2,500 workers voted almost unanimously to oppose the cut, averaging 10 per cent. Schurman the Man Morgan Will Send As German Agent WASHINGTON, March 9.—Presi- dent Coolidge has virtually decided upon Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, now American minister to China, as the new ambassador to Germany, it was learned authoritatively today. It is understood that inquiries have been made at Berlin as to Dr. Schurman’s acceptability. RUSSIA REDUCES TAX ON PEASANT FORTY PER CENT Chitcherin Predicts An| Early American Pact TIFLIS, Georgia, March 9.—The So- viet government announced to the Russian assembly meeting here a 4C per cent reduction in the 1926 agricul- tural. tax. The tax will be 300,000,000 rubles instead of the 470,009,000 rub- les fixed last year. The Soviet gov- ernment announces that a higher tax will not be needed in 1926. Foreign Minister Chitcherin, told the convention that the American‘ pol- icy of expanding in Asia is bound to bring America into relations with So- viet Russia sooner or later. Russia's influence in the east and in Asia is growing very strong, he said. Chitch- eri declared that Russian relations with Mexico are very ‘cordial, and “Mexico gives Russia a good base to develop further contact with Amer- ica’ He predicted, negotiations with the’ United States in the near future Premier Rykoff said that as the re- sult of the Soviet relief theasures last winter, the sowing area of the dis- tricts affected by the crop shortage will increase 15 per cent, and the number of farmers with insufficient cattle will be fewer. He declared that publie work organized by the govern- ment in certain areas brot great relie: to the peasantry, On the proposal of «resident Kalin- in, amnesty has been proclaimed for Transcaucasia." The amnesty covers the participants in last year’s rising against the Soviet government of Georgia,-which was engineered by for- eign imperialists. The Sinclair Oil company threatens suit against Soviet Russia, ‘because they lost the Sakhalin oil concession, following the signing of the Russo- Japanese treaty. Sinclair is said to have broken the terms of his conces- sion, which was then forfeited. William A, Harriman, New York fi- nancier, announces that he has secur- ed a promise from the Soviet govern- ment of concession of the rich manga- nese deposits in the Caucasus. The contract calls for an aunual produc- tion over a period of twenty years of half a million tons at $3.00 a ton the first three years and an annual mini- mum output of 800,000 tons In succeea- ing years. Harriman is to guarantee the Soviet government a minimum re- turn of. $62,500,000 in royalties, over the twenty year period, he declared. A DAILY WORKER sub means another Communist. New York. This meeting is being CIRCUMSTANCES BE PRESENT, The shop nuclei organization shops and factories situated ther by THE DAILY WOAKER SHOP NUCLEI ORGANIZATION MEETING All Party Members Take Notice! Be Shown. HIS meeting takes place Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock sharp, March 21, at the new party headquarters, 108 East 14th street, additional shop nuclei to those which have already been organized. An interesting report of activity thus far will be given, ALL PARTY MEMBERS WHO WORK IN THE SECTION THAT LIES BETWEEN 14th AND 42nd STREETS MUST UNDER ALL _ portant campaigns of the party, The section that the party is tackling first In order to completely organize it, on a shop nuclel bai most favorable section because hundreds of comrades work in the Comrades, if you work in a factory in this section you must come to this meeting—as your present Communist duty. Remember—DATE, MARCH 21, SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT '2°P. Mj PLACE, PARTY HEADQUARTERS, 108 EAST 14th ST. NEW YORK i EDITION Price 3 Cents Chicago, Ill. CARPENTERS OF “CHICAGO SCORE “WL HUTCHESON Hear Reynolds Tell of Detroit Expulsion More than one hundred and fifty carpenters representing practically every local of the United Brotherhood jin the city of Chicago, met in Im- | perial Hall, last Sunday afternoon to | hear the story of the illegal expulsions | in Chicago and Detroit by William 4. | Hutcheson, president of the union and , | by his local satellites. | The principal speaker was: William (Bud) Reynolds, v ve-president of the | carpenters’ district of Detroit. Rey- nolds told the story of his expulsion without trial or hearing. The only | reason given for the autocratic action of Hutcheson was that Reynolds was |@ member of the Trade Union Educa- | tional League and that the league "was ja dual union. Reynolds showed that the T. U. E. L. wat an educational in- stitution that carried on propaganda inside the trade unions, in order ta strengthen them. The T. U. E. L. was the most bitter foe of dual unionism in the United States and none knew that better than the labor fakers. The entire membership of the Detroit dis- trict is solidly behind Reynolds. One carpenter pointed out that Hut- cheson, who is expelling loyal union men for membership in the Trade Un- ion Educational League, does not ea finger against the Building | Trades Department of t American Federation of Labor which is organ- izing carpenters’ locals dual to the United Brotherhood in several cities, It would appear that a conspiracy existed between Hutcheson and the Building Trades Department of the A. F. of L. to destroy tne carpenters’ union. The five members who were expell- ed from Local 181 were on the plat- form and each’ one of them spoke, DAILY WORKER readers are already acquainted with the story of this ex- Pulsion. They are stronger now with the rank and file, of every localin Chicago, than when the fight started and there is reason to belfeve that the bureaucrats who started the fight are now sorry they ever initiated it. The following resolution was unani- mously passed by the gathering and the carpenters promised to bring the matter up before their locals and fight for a square deal for the expelled members. Whereas, Five members of Local Union No. 181 of the U. B. of C. & J, of A., Chicago, have been declared ex- pelled without trial, in violation of Se¢tion No. 55 of the general constitu. tion; and Whereas, The supposed crime that these five members have committed was the signing of a resolution critt- cizing the Chicago agreement as be- (Continued on page 6.) Talk is up—your shopmate wilk subscribe! PITTSBURGH HAS GOOD EXPOSURE OF ABRAMOVICH PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 9.—The anti-Abramovich. meeting held here yesterday feard Robert Minor and Schacno Epstein, tell the crimes of the Second International against the working class and particularly the crimes of Raphael Abramovich, the stool pigeon propagandist now in this country for the purpose of maligning Soviet Russia. Membership Card.Must held for the purpose of organizing campaign is one of the most im- » is the BENJAMIN GITLOW, Shop Nuclei Organizer. :