The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1925, Page 2

THE DAILY, IRISH RF WORK ENDORSED BY ELLEN HAYES NEW ANTI-SOVIET ATTACK FIZZLES AN NEW YORK ciTY Two German Bankers on| Visit to Morgan’s Wall St.; Eight Years Ago Today ARCH 12, 1917— The army regiments and the Imperial guard in Petro- grad (now Leningrad) Russia, Join the revolutionary workers. The czar’s ministers are arrested. The committee of the duma is formed. A new orlsis The Good Things . eae develops. The bourgeols parties of the duma, the Russian nearpariiament, W k M P. h Liberals, Socialists and decided to stem the revolutionary tide by making common cause with the Urges Workers of the or ers ay rop esy In the ° Anarchists Tiresome workers on a sort of fifty-fifty baeis. The czarist power was to be curtailed. World to Help ~ The M h I The workers were to accept the middie class leadership. The workers had By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL arc Sssue NEW YORK, March 12.—A meeting | not as yet reallzed the full significance of the creation of the Workers’ re-| Dr. Ellen Hayes, of Wellesley, Mass. ot the: in a letter to the secretary of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee at 19 South Lincoln street, Chicago, has endorsed the work of the committee to bring relief volution, the Soviet; they submitted to the leadership of the moderate lib- erals who opened operations under the form of the provisional government, based on the parties In the old totally unrepresentative duma. Czar Nikolai {1 was forced to abdicate, but the moderates proposed to retain the czar’s brother as the titular head of the state. The workers objected. The mod- arranged by the new International Committee for Political Prisoners ended in the singing of the Interna- tionale by a large number of Com- munists at Town Hall. ToPAy: acouple of German bankers wander thru New York's canyon of gold, called Wall Street, where eight years ago the great American jingo tumult as the United States entered the war crystallized into three words, “Kill WORKERS B, Charney Viadeck, the yellow so- clalist, who had been speaking on the same platform as his counter revolutionary-in-arms, Raphael Abram- ovitch, was not allowed to speak, even tho he puffed and stormed and drank cold water to cool his spleen and anger. Meeting Drawis Along The meeting was one of the most tiresome affairs that even liberals could arrange. Norman Hapgood, who was in the chair, acted like all liber- als: this was a matter that “interest” the liberals and social-democrats, but not a matter that goes to the heart. ot His was the role of a jovial man bent upon fairness, withbut consideration of the fact that the imprisonment, torture and death of revolutionary workers and peasants are a diabolical crime against the whole working class. The meeting drawled along, with one speaker after the other telling of the terrors of prison life in their own country and appealing sentimentally to the crowd to “awaken public opin- ion. in the United States” to cause a change—in Spain, Hungary, Esthonia, Germany, Jugo-Slavia. An elderly rev- erend told about the laws that are being pressed upon the people of India without their consent. He had to be stopped by the chairman, be- cause the audience was falling asleep. A young Irish doctor produced the first spark of enthusiasm when he de- clared that the “Irish people showed how men could fight and die for their rights.” Baldwin Reads Paper Roger Baldwin, head of the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Bureau, read from a type-written statement “so that he might not be misquoted.” He enumer- ated the enterprises that he support- ed in Soviet Russia and his restraint from participating in any political discussion on Soviet Russia. But now he demands that liberty of press, speech and thought be restored in Soviet Russia. Cries of “Three Cheers for Soviet Russia” filled the hall. “Long Live the Soviet government” interrupted him. Then Viadeck, the smirking, oily agent of the capitalist class was given the floor. He immediately was booed. Between the hisses and boos, he man- aged to say “Friends and Comrades” —and that was the end of his speech. Each time he opened his mouth, the hall was filled with cries of contempt, and cheers for Soviet Russia. This continued for ten or fifteen minutes, while Vladeck walked up and down the platform and drank cold water— swallowing his chagrin and anger at the same time. The Communista do- minated the meeting. The liberals, anarchists and socialists left the hall, while cries of “Join the Workers (Communist) Party,” and cheers for the Soviet government sounded in the hall and balcony. Cops There in Plenty Cops were there in plenty. But the cops did not know what to do. Town hall is in a section of the city in which the police are not yet accustom- ed to meet with such demonstrations. They quieted the comrades who were attacked by socialists who can only use their mouths half-heartedly when speakers attempt to put proletarian prisoners in Hungary, Spain and Ger- many on a par with active counter- revolutionaries in the prisons of So- viet Russia, who are incarcerated for attempting and organizing to over- throw the first workers’ state. In this meeting, with its lethargy and sleepiness, is a manifestation of what the liberals, anarchists and so- cialist traitors can do to enlighten the “people” of this country on the brutal- ities and atrocities of the capitalist governments against the revolution- ary movement and on the torture in- flicted upon the Communists; and if this meeting is a specimen of their dastardly attempt to assail Soviet Russia and line up with the counter. revolutionary movement of the world —then Soviet Russia need not worry. The Communists will be present at all the meetings of these full and half-baked counter-revolutionaries and will demonstrate that the workers of the United States are with Soviet Russia. Plan Meeting March 19 “The Workers Party, the Interna- tional Workers’ Aid and the Labor Defense Council will hold a meeting in Central Opera House on Thursday, March 19, and will tell the workers of the city the truth about prison- ers and prisons in Soviet Russia. The workers will demonstrate that the Viadeck, Abramovitches, Gordins, Ca hans and Norman Thomases, and the anarchists and Liberals, of one type—no matter how much “sympa- thy” with the Soviet government they pretend to entertain, friend subscribe to Y WORKER? Ask him! Does he D. erates further thought and talked of continuing the war for the old imperial- istic alms. The Workers’ Soviets, by this time existing in all important cities, objected. The soldiers stood with the workers. They were tired of war. The Soviets were now Councils of Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants. The Pro- visional Government and the Soviets were silently but’ clearly contending fer a decisive contest. The Provisional Government, now headed by Alexander Kerensky, a vacillating, politician, feared the Soviets. The Soviets had no confidence in the Provisional Government, but weren’t ready to challenge it. GREEK RAILWAY WORKERS’ STRIKE VERY EFFECTIVE Government Broke Its Promises (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) ATHENS, March 12.—The railway strike which has cut off Greece by rail from the rest of Europe now is jeopar- dizing American relief operations. Charles Howland of New York, chair man of. the refugee settlement com- mission, and other members who left Athens for Macedonia, were strand- ed at Larissa when the train crew Joined the strike. The government hag dispatched a special train, guarded by troops, to rescue Mr. Howland. The strike also paralyzed a relief train operated by the American Near East Relief. Shipments of building materials and agricultural implements consigned to the refugee settlements have been held up. The government threatens to em- ploy refugee labor to break the strike. The railway workers have many de- mands, among the leading ones a de- mand for the payment of the increase in pay granted by a government com- mittee some time ago, but never. put into effect. A strike was in prospect long ago, but was delayed owing to the promise .of the government to abide by the award and pay the in- crease retroactively. But the govern- ment did nothing but promise. Rank and file control by Communists has forced the strike against the will of the reformist head officials of the union. Reynolds, Militant, is Not Guilty, Says Detroit, Mich., Judge (Continued from page 1.) Reynolds was summoned before Judge Hunt for contempt of court in disobeying the injunction forbidding him attending his own local or the district council, from whence he had been barred by an order of expulsion issued by Wm. L. Hutcheson, pres- ident of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, ‘ The Judge A Poor Sport At ever session of the court, car- penters filled the courtroom and drap- ed themselves around the windows. The hearing played to a standing Big Paris Commune Pageat in New York City This Sunday (Continued from Page 1) Square Garden will be thrown open to the public at one o'clock. Give Historical Pageant The historical pageant, commemor ating the 54th anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871, includes in its cast Carl Brodsky, Walter Speck, Lena Chernenko, Abe Foreman and many others, The program opens with the singing of the first and last verses of the In- ternational, followed by a speech on the “World Revolution,” by the chair- man, Juliet Stuart Poyntz. Benjamin Gitlow will speak on the “The White Terror”, and M. J. Olgin will talk on “Communist Press.” The gymnastic exhibition by work- ers sport organizations, folk dances, and orchestral numbers will enliven the program. The DAILY WORKER is expected to secure several thousand new sub. scriptions as a result of the pageant. The complete program follows:- PROGRAM. 1, International (first and last verses) —Ukrainjan Chorus (75 voices), combined with Fréiheit and Hungarian Workers’ Symphony Orchestra; Lazar Weingr, con- ductor. 2. The World Revolution—Juliet Stuart Poyntz, chairman. 3. Lettish Male Chorus (40 voices)— Otto Sauerman, director. 4. The White Terror and the Interna- tionl Red. Aid—Ben Gitlow: 5. Folk Dances (in native costumes). (a) Greek. (b) Hungarian, accompanied by Hun- garian Workers’ Orchestra, (c) Ukrainian, ccompanied by Uk- rainian Chorus directed by M. D, Hayvorowsky. nae The Communist Press—Mossaye J. in. _i. *"The Weavers,” Dramatization from Heinrich Heine—The Juniors, directed by Miriam Silverfrab. 8. Gymnastic Exhibition: (ay “Wesa” Finnish Athletic Club. (b) Czecho-Slovk Federated Gym- nastie Union. (ce) Jugo-Slav Workers’ Athletic Club. 9, “Carmagnole’—Freiheit and Hun- gariah Workers’ Symphony Orchestra. 10. “The Paris Commune,” 1871—His- torical pageant, by Beatrice Carlin, staged and directed by Alexander Arkatov, as- sisted by Sadie Amter; cast of five hun- dred characters, Workers’ Drama League, Hungarian Dramatic League, Finnish Dramatic League. (Entire audience par- ticipating.) ll. Freiheit Singing Soctety (40 voices) — Weiner, director. 12.—International—Chorus, orchestra and audience. The Paris Commune, 1871. Historical pageant, by Beatrice Carlin; staged and directed by Alexander Arka- tov; assistant director, Sadie Amter; stage arrangements by Edwin O'Hanlon; lighting effects by Herbert Rolands; sound and shooting effects by Harry Tarr. Cast Characters Prologue speaker... Ranvier, chairman, se M....W. Speak Leaders in the crow Lena Chernenko Abe Foreman Members of the Commune (Speaking Parts) Chairman room only audience Reynolds lawyer,| Dy Maurice Sugar, offered the court to leave the decision to a vote of the carpenters present, with a handicap requiring a vote of nine to one for Reynolds, but the judge was not sport enough to accept. To the plea of the plaintiffs that the union needed “protection” from the “invasion” of Reynolds, the de- fense introduced the petition to the court passed by a mass meeting of Detroit carpenters, saying, “We assert that we can keep any person from our meetings whose presence we do not desire. We have demonstratd this to the plaintiffs in this case, and have satisfied the police whom they called in, that the only undesired and dis- orderly elements attending the vari- ous meetings, have been the plain- tiffs.” The legal point of the defense turn- ed largerly upon the right to assem- ble, which could not, according to the claim, be abridged by any law or court order. Michigan Debates Execution. LANSING, Mich., Mar. 12.—Crowd- ed gallaries are expected tomorrow to hear the house debate on the capi- tal purtishment bill. The bill is simi- lar in phraseology to two bills which failed of pi by close votes at previous legislative sessions. Tf the bill becomes law, Michigan will execute slayers except in cases where conviction is obtained on cir cumstantial evidence. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 12.—The first two bills to become law were signed today by Governor Len Small. One appropridted $60,000 to the of- fice of attorney general in addition to those already made for expense to July 1, 1926, Abe Foreman Lieutenant, counter-revolutionary firing squad. Syn is (a)—Prologue: th ternational work- ers of the world, 1925, celebrate the an- niversary of the Paris Commune, 1871. A speaker addressing them and the aud- fence, describes the conditions which Produced the Commune, and gives its short history. (b)—The proclamation of the Commune. (c)—The Commune at work. (d)—The modern international group now hears of the gradual di ization of the Commune, due to inexperience, untrained leaders, and the lack of an or- ganized Communist Party, (e¢)—-Two months later. The Commune in disagredjnent; the suspicious, quarrels and accusations; the invasion of Paris by pe poermeots ie. army; the -de- ‘ense of ris by her proletarian citi- m her defeat. be (f—wExecution of the Communists. ninee Chae im vee Lpeent of the Com- june of! i how the Russian Commun- ists profited by it in 1917-26; the world aye ma ‘costumes, by Stanley Costume Studios; wigs and make-up, by Zauder Bros., Inc. Every meber selling subscription tickets is once more ‘cautioned tp settle for them before the pageant if he wants them to count for himself and his organization in the contest. Propose Election Change SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 12,—~ Radical changes in the Illinois elec- tion laws are provided in a@ bill in- troduced in the house today. The bill, proposed by Representative David I. Swanson, of Chicago, provides for rotation on the ballots of all names of candidates certified by the county or city clerks, Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be to the famine victims of the west of Ireland. Her letter follows: Dear Comrade: Replying to yours of March 6, just received, you are very welcome to use my name in your committee’s effort to reach the masses with appeals for help. Those west Ireland people are in sore straits and the workers of the world must bring help, Yours, fraternally, Ellen Hayes. The work of raising funds for relief in the United States is now in full swing, according. to a statement is sued from the office of the Irish Work. ers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relle }Committee. Irish relief committees are springing up all over the country The committee points out that there will be no improvement in the condi- tion of the workers and peasants in the famine region before next har- vest, except thru outside help. As seed potatoes must be purchased foi planting, money is needed at once, else the present suffering will be dwarfed by the horrors of next win- ter. British Unions Help. A letter from Mrs. Helen Craw- ford, secretary of the British section of the International Workers’ Aid, says that the British trade unions and co-operative societies are respond- ing to the appeal to help their broth- ers and sisters in Ireland. This co- operation is helping to break down the national antagonisms that have helped to make the task of British imperialism in Ireland easier. All those who want to help in re- liet work should communicate with the office of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee, at 19 South Lincoln street, either per- sonally, by mail'or by telephoning Seeley 3563, FATAL EPIDEMIC HITS CITY ON STRIKE'S HEELS Twenty-three deaths from respira- tion disease in Chicago in the last 24 hours. today brought an official an- nouncement from the health depart- ment that “The influenza situation here is rapidly approaching the pro- portions of a serious outbreak.” Health bulletins have been broad- cast advising the public of symptoms of the new disease which differs slightly from the wartime influenza and warning them to take immediate precautions in the event of being stricken. The disease, the health de- partment says, is characterized by aching thruout the body, burning sen- sations in the eyes, high tempera- tures, pronounced prostration and fre- quent nosebleeding, The epidemic followed on the heels of the garbage collectors’ and street cleaners’ strike. Commissioner Sprague allowed the dirt and rubbish to accumulate thruout the city. The epidemic was predicted in the DAILY WORKER at that time and Sprague refused to accede to the strikers’ de- mands, and the epidemic followed. =| UDGE AIDS OIL MEN IN TEAPOT BRIBERY TRIAL (Special to The Dally Worker) CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 12— Indge Kennedy, hearing the trial o! the Tepot Domers, in the govern- ment’s suit to secure the annulment of ofl leases on the ground of fraud, is aiding the Sinclair oil interests by his rulings. Kennedy ruled out damag ing government .exhibitions on the ground that they had been executed after the Teapot Dome leases. He is also expected to rule out much of the circumstantial evidence. Everything is being done by the government officials and the court, to allow the oll leases to stand, and to quiet down the bribery of Ex-Secre tary of the Interior Fall and other government officials by the oil inter ests. Roosevelt Squirms. A laugh occurred in the court wher Theodore Roosevelt, ex-assistant sec- retary of the navy, testified by deposi- tion that he did not know of the oil leases because he was worn out from preparations for a:fishing trip. Roose- velt made light of the fact that he took the order transferring tho leases from the navy department to the in- terior departmonti'to President Hard- Ing, who signed the order. This wae the first move in givimg the oil sure to see him the next day to} leases to private interests, in return get Bis aperigtion. for liberal bribes, © the Huns.” , No greater proof is needed that Morgan’s Wall Street won the war, insofar as any capitalist nation was victorious, than the confession of these two bankers that, “the un- crowned king of Germany. today is S, Parker Gilbert, the American who is carrying out the Dawes plan.” This was of course intended as a tribute to the genius of American financiers, But it tells the story better than whole books. The Germans had come to acknowledge their victors and to do homage to them. * * * * But the German bankers found many friends in Wall Street. Morgan entered the United States in the war to save his loans to the allies. Now he must keep the Dawes plan working in Germany to get the very last mark in repa- rations possible, to make the payment of those loans pos- sible. The cagerness with which American bankers receive their German brothers is the best measure of the unity of the German-American bankers’ alliance to exploit the work- ers of Germany. It might be well to remember the names of these two bankers: Herbert M. Gutman, director of the Dresdner Bank, of Berlin, and presented as “a director in 40 of Germany's largest industrial corporations,” and F. Neuerburg, director of the Kommerz- and -Privatbank A.-G. of Hamburg, also intimately associated with large German corporations. They say they come merely to exchange greetings with American bankers who rceently visited Berlin; but at the same time they mention that long-term credits are much more preferable to short-term credits, which is sews to be a hint dropped in the ne place. The-hint finds a quick “Amen!” among the right American financiers. The U. S— German bankers‘ alliance against the German workers is complete. To be sure these German bankers said nothing about the widespread railroad strike that is even now sweeping Germany as a direct protest against the Dawes plan. That might darken their financial outlook. Perhaps that is taken up behind the scenes, It does not get into the Wall Street ress, ‘ J No mention is made of the recent mine disaster at Dort- mund, where 141 coal miners went to death under the Dawes plan; that these German miners had, written with chalk on the black coal face where they died: “WE ARE LOST. FIGHT FOR BETTER CONDITIONS. AVENGE US ON THE CAPITALISTS, OUR MURDERERS.” * * ° American bankers do not like to be called “murderers.” They have a whole list of state anti-syndicalist laws to pro- tect themselves in this country against class crimes much lesser than this, Yet those German coal miners certainly hurled their indictment as much against American as Ger- man bankers and industrialists. That conditions in the United States are not much dif- ferent in some respects than they are in Germany is seen in the item appearing on the first page of the New York World, published a few steps away from Wall Street. It was in the issue of March 11 and reads: “’M FINISHED,” LAST WORDS, Dropping a polishing rag with which he was working yester- day in the National Republican Club, No. 54 West 40th Street, Patrick Norton, sixty-four years old, of No. 2538 Elght avenue, gasped, “Some one else will have to do my work now, | gue: I'm finished.” He died before the arrival of Dr. Dwinnelle. Those German miners, Communists, in the Ruhr, went to their deaths with a plea for a new day, for the near vic- tory of a German Soviet Republic upon their lips. Perhaps there was also a plea in the dying words of the aged worker who died as he polished the brass in Wall Street's political headquarters. At least some workers, even now, may make the prophecy that “Cautious Cal” may get the brass polish- ing job, with the workers in control in West 40th St., having changed the National Republican Club into a meeting place for workers, as they should do in the not far dictent leurs, just as the two German bankers, under a Soviet regime, ma get a job digging coal and ing acquainted with the da places. So the German bankers had better make themselves at home in Wall Street and sun themselves at the National Republican Club while they may. Progressive Coal Digger at Meet Scores the Fakers (Continued from page 1) with their feet under the same table as the bosses. Hoge said that the only chance for the union to grow and become more powerful was to organize cne unor- ganized. He denounced the officials for their splitting tactics, for creat- ing dissension and thus weakening the union. It is true they opposed the officials because of the official policy is leading the union to disaster, The reactionaries are now on trial before the membership so a red herring is drawn across the track in the form of an attack on the progresstves. Hoge declared that he belonged to no dual union and was steadfastry opposed to dual unionism. He was loudly ap- plauded when he finished. A first class stunt that would make a fitting climax to the red-baiting that has taken place since the convention opened was badly damaged by the publicity given in the DAILY WORK- ER to the fake telegram, alleged to have been sent by a member of the Young Workers’ League to a militant in the eastern Ohio district. It 18 re ported that the fakers intended to spring it on the delegates after the red barrage was carefully laid down and the long and short hands of the official clock indicated the zero hour at which the machine Woys' were to go over the top “an’ get the reds.” This telegram was sentifrom Cleve land to a small mining town in which the telegraph office and everything else is owned by the coal company. It urged the Communists to be at the sub-district convention and put their ideas across. The telegram was phon- ed to the addressee from the tele- Braph office. It caused considerable speculation in the little town. ‘The man whose name was signed to the telegram denied ever having sent it. The mystery was pretty thick by this time, and a Sherlock Holmes might be found necessary to run down the plot but for the fact that sub-dis- trict President Ledvinka was in Cleve- land on the very day the wire was sent to the little mining town. The cat was half way out of the bag. The bag was finally emptied when the fumor.got out that the sub- district officials had ‘something to spring on the convention after it got under way. The plot will remain unsprung. It was a perfectly good plot in its way, but not the first one that was mur- dered in cold blood by a little pub- licity. Are the fakers sore? I'll they are. They are as sore as boils in the process of being massaged by a chiropractor, So sore were they that they invaded the convention hall, wnere the DAILY WORKER reporter usually sits: and ordered three persons out. \Two of them were visitors and the third: was a member of the union. This was not so clever as the fakers found out to their cost when they were obliged to apologize to the delegate a® the vie* MONTHLY 1—The British Confer. ence on World Trade Union Unity By Wm. Z. Foster Some explanations of the great headway of the Minority Move- ment in England and a picture of this body by the author who attended this conference, (With photographs) 2—Class and Klan in Her- rin By Thurber Lewis Pertinent facts on some rea- sons for “Bloody Williamson.” 3—Kellogg in Paris--John. son in the Senate By A. Bittelman “The vat of America’s ‘en- taglements’ in the affairs of Burope was in the bag of Dawes plan all the time” says the author--and explains it, 4—Ten Years of the Amal- gamated By P. Yuditeh Reviewing past and present currents in a great union. 5—Negroes in American Industry By Wm. F. Dunne Facts and keen views on one- twelvth of our population with some especially fine writing— and striking photographs. 6—The Prison Story of the Wobblies By Harrison George About jail and Wobblies; some statistical reference to other jail inhabitants and a look into pe a leadership of . the (With’ draw! Bee! 7—The Communists Take the Lead in Minnesota By.C. A. Hathway is by Maurice r) The struggle against reaction... ten, expulsions bureau- and cratic method—a picture of a Left Wing battleground. 8—Industrial Depression or Prosperity By Ealr R. Browder Facts and counclusions in a keen analysis of the present economic situation. 9—Lenin and the Wave of Marxism By Manuel Gomez A study of what Lenin has contributed to Marxism. 10—The Carpenters Face Their Leaders By J. W. Johnstone The Left Wing struggle ag- ainst reactionary leadership— and expulsions, 11—The History of the Russian ommunist Party By Gregory Zinoviev Another installment of this Communist classic by the pre- sident of the C. I, 12—Canada and the British Empire By Tim Buck A great deal of light on British and American Imperialism, Poems Welt and dsepestinn Portotant An Administration Delegate Reports By Jim Waters and a Striking Three-Color Cover ~ By Glarolamo Piecoli Recent Fn 1 att pe of a thousand These and Other Features in THE MARCH ISSUE SINGLE COPY 25 CENTS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 a Year $1.25 Six Mos, nwoccocceocoooseoeone: THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Boul vard Chicago, Ill, For the enclosed $...800d me the WORKERS MONTHLY OF. ....000NOonths, NAME psccsesonssoroonoesssssoseesssonssnsosoens STREET 4 CITY sersssserersserscees STATED seesssseee | } ] i