The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1925, Page 2

mM ci o> METAL WORKERS’ STRIKE SPREADS THRUOUT ITALY Fascist Workers Defy Leaders and Aid Reds ROME, Italy, March 15.—One hun- dred thousand metal workers are now on strike in northern Italy. The so- cialist confederation of labor has join- ed forces with the members of the fascisti labor unions, and the Com- munists are everywhere taking a lead- ,'ng part in the strike. In the same zone where the Com- munists fought the fascisti for pos- session of the automobile, radiator, typewriter and other Milan and Tu- vin factories, two years ago, the fas- cisti union workers and Communists are fighting side by side against the metal manufacturers. Ultimatum to Bos: The unions have given the employ- ers’ association notice that a settle- ment must be effected within twenty- four hours. The leaders of the fas- cist party, who came into power by forming an alliance with the employ- ers, have been forced by the rank and file fascist union workers to break the alliance, at least in appearances. De- puty Farinacci, secretary general of the fascist party has been forced to issue a statement indorsing the strike. Minister of the Interior Federzoni is making frantic efforts to save the em- Ployers and end the strixe. He has called a meeting of the employers, to ask what concession the manufactur- ers are willing to make to send the men back to work. The employers are exerting pressure on the fascist leaders, pointing out that they have made the fascist regimé possible by their support. The strikers themselves are in no compromising mood, however. The fascist workers, the Communists, and all the trade unions are co-operating in the first great strike since fascist rule began. The strikers demand an increase in wages, to keep pace with the increased cost of living. Several of the independent manufacturers have given in to the demands of the strikers, but the manufacturers’ as- sociation has made no move to settle with the hundred thousand employes still out. 5 Whether the fascist leaders like it or not, thousands of the rank and file are working under the leadership of the Communists in the strike, and are already talking of taking control of the industries. The strike was started ten days ago in Brescia by the labor unions, Junior Group Leaders Meet Tuesday Night A very important meeting of all the group leaders of the Juniors will be held Tuesday, March 17th at 8 P. M. at Comrade Borgeson’s home, 321 North Avers Ave. This is a special meeting of the Junior Leaders where the work of the Juniors will be thoroughly discussed. The matter of the complete reorgan- ization of the Junior Groups into school nuclei, the Parants’ Councils, the educational activities, the summer camp and the securing of more lead- ers for the groups will be discussed at this meeting. There will also be present comrades from the city executive and from ihe national committe in order to ef- fect a closer co-operation between the committees so that the work can go forward at an even greater speed among our Communist Children’s groups, A DAILY WORKER sub means another Communist. BRITISH RAIL UNION HEAD LAUDS PROGRESS ‘OF RUSSIAN TRANSPORT MOSCOW, Feb. 15.—(By Mail)— Fred Bromley, the secretary of the British trade union delegation which recently visited the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, has sent | a lengthy letter to the people's commissariat of ways and communi- cation, in which, In the name of the delegation, he favorably comments on ail the progress in railway trans- port In the Union witnessed by the English delegates. Red Pageant Press Agent in N. Y.C. Foils the “Dicks” (Continued from Page 1) oily charm, As you may remember, these instructions were, that the revo- lutionists should organize in groups of ten. This did not look so good to Gegan, but he pulled a copy of “Hot Dog” out of his pocket and discovered that farther down Zinovievy had in- structed the ten to elect a sub-com- mittee of three to do’ the dirty work, which perhaps consisted of such soul- tickling diversion as boiling the ene- my in oil, disemboweling him or if he is a member of the ku klux klan making him take a drink of liquor from a catholic bartender. Saved the Country. “T’'ve got it,” shouted Gegan, to the raiding army. “I have saved the country again. Get out of the way un- til I get pictures taken, surrounded by the conquered foe, his artillery and carving instruments. I hate like the devil to get my picture in the pa- pers, but I’ve got to hold my job and do my duty.” Every embattled dick seized a gun as the photographers began to click their cameras and the news hounds began to grind out the horrible details of the planned overthrow. Finally it occurred to a reporter to ask one of the grinning culprits when the bloody event was going to start. When he learned that it was on the seventeenth of March, he said, “Aren’t you sure your name is not Roderick Kennedy of the Ancient Order of Hi- bernians, who is one of the principal cavalry men in the parade up Fifth avenue, which will be led by Al Smith?” He turned to the detectives and said, “Gegan, if you have made a mistake, it will cost you your job.” It was authoritatively learned, how- ever, that the prehistoric swords and antique rifles were being‘used in pre- paration for a pageant depicting the Paris Commune which will take place today in Madison Square Garden. Dicks Got Publicity. The newspaper reporters thot it was @ publicity stunt, but the detectives did not care. They would come in for their share of it anyliow. Be it as it may, threeomembers of the Workers Party were taken to po- lice headquarters, They are Henry Winogradoff, Sol Zalon, and Aaron Dimen. They were arrested at 17 Hast Third street but the heavy part of the ar- tillery was found at Workers Party. headquarters, 108 Hast 14th street. The Civil Liberties Union, tho it does not believe in the use of arms on general principals, decided that it would not hold strictly to the letter of the law in this case, seeing that the guns were old and more or less useless for shooting purposes. In fact had the Communists intended to use them on an enemy it is quite likely that the guns would have kicked like any pacifist. Plutes Indorse Dawes. In a formal resolution the Mlinois Manufacturers’ Association, of which the vice-president is a member, in- dorsed Charles Dawes’ stand in favor of limiting senate debate. Dawes’ posi- tion is in line with Coolidge’s policy of increasing the power o! the ex ecutive office, NS Left Wing Uses Militant Tactics Against Bosses (Continued from page 1.) working because organized cloak- makers are not involved in the piece- work problem. Otherwise the tie-up is complete and union heads assert that it will remain so until the jobbers put the uniform wage schedules into effect. To Standardize Pay In the new agreement the jobbers finally accepted responsibility for maintaining uniform minimum wage rates regardless of piece work rates in all contractors’ shops. The job- bers are the wholesalers, design the garments, often cut them and send them in cut bundles to the contract- ors, who are actually only foremen for the jobbers and hire the workers. Heretofore there has been tremend- ous competition between contractors and between workers in their shops If @ contractor set up shop with $2,000 because of the jobbers’ manipulations. he was given a season before he went bankrupt competing with other con- tractors. The workers suffered by having to work for lower wages. By the new agreement jobbers are supposed to pay to the union for tween set prices on garments and members affected the difference be- prices paid workers by contractors in shops where under-schedule prices are “A Left Wing Fighting Plan Whe lett wing of the local won con- z trol of the offices in the last election and has maintained the position thru- out negotiations that whatever agree- ment was signed it should be en- forced. The new agreement turned out to be favorable to the workers, with average 15 per cent wage in- creases which the jobbers then tried to evade, The local 1s also introducing a new method of organizing non-union shops is insisting that all unorganized shops be brought into the union. A rank and file committee of 800 workers volunteered to get after non-union shops. Workers from these open shops who strike to get the union agree- ment signed are being paid by the union to go into other non-union shops to organize. So far the new policy has been justifying its introduction, This or- ganization work is being carried on with increased vigor during the stop- page and is aiding the effectiveness of the stoppage a great deal, B Balyctant reluctant to grant union demands and are calling for modification of schedules. They have tentatively agreed again to accept the principle of uniform wage schedules but are not yet ready to put into ef- fect those provided in the February 2 agreement, The jobbers are tempor- arily benefitting from the stoppage in the Increased buying up of their limited stocks by retailers who fear their Easter trade may be lost, Get @ sub—make another Com- ‘CAL PUSHES WA ON WORKERS OF FOREIGN LANDS Government Patrols Border States WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15, — The Coolidge administration, follow- ing eight months of enfor¢ement of the law barring foreign-born workers from entering the United States unless specially selected, is further clamping down on immigration. The govern- ment is establishing a force of in- spectors in Canadian and Mexican sea- ports. A police force of 250 border police to “guard the country” has re- cently been established. Deportations have sharply increased. In the last six months deportations were 4,448, or an increase of 30 per cent over any similar period in the history of the country. Chicago Rejects Abramovich And Cheers for Soviets (Continued from Page 1) will be given as soon as ascertained. The meeting of Abramovich ad- journed in total disorder after two hours of continual but fruitless efforts to convince an audience of workers that Soviet Russia should be over- thrown by the counter-revolutionary mensheviks. At the beginning the array of force was formidable, fifty police and a crowd of “socialist” white guards blocked the entrance, turning away hundreds, who looked intelligent. But despite the censors, the crowd which packed the gallery and most of the pit, were demonstratively opposed to Abramovich. Inside, and outside as well, thous- ands of leaflets, exposing the Second (Socialist) International and Abramo- vich as enemies of the workers, liter- ally covered the great crowd, raining down from the gallery on to the out- raged petty-bourgeois business men in the boxes. The devil of Bolshevism had laid a course upon the socialists, and even before Abramovich took the floor, the first item on the program, a violin solo, was a failure. Professor Mendel, like his friend, Professor Raphael was pursued by bad luck. Dressed in a cut-away coat, white tie, fancy waist- coat with pearl buttons and displaying spats, the violinist broke his bow, and had to wait for another. Like Sheep to Slaughter. When Abramovich came on, he came like a sheep to the slaughter. He tried to tell the audience that the “revolutionary” parties had control of Russia under Kerensky, and that ev- erything was going along lovely un- til the interference of the awful Bol- sheviks. Similarly, everything was lovely un- til he attacked the Bolsheviks, then pandemonium broke loose, and con- tinued despite the black jacks of the socialists and the clubs of the police, Once in a while, Abramovich Managed to get over a few words, then another and another fifteen or twenty minutes of riot. Women screamed as they were struck down by the soctalists. Yells of these cowards mingled with the cries of the men, rushing to the pro- tection of the frail women victims. | Steadily, by ones and twos, the vic- tims were beaten and ejected, joining the gathering throngs on the street. Get a sub—make another Com- munist! Defense an Offense in Land of Fruits and Famous Frameups SACRAMENTO, Cal.— Tom Con- nor, innocent victim of a Jury tamper- ing frameup, who obtained a retrial after commitment to San Quentin prison, is in Sacramento county jail again, over a week after the legal limit for the transfer expired. The California authorities are using every pretext to hold him confined beyond the time allowed by law. They are now holding him under the 60-day provision that may elapse before trial, when they might release him on bail. His offense was distributing de- fense leaflets by mail from San Fran- cisco, one of which happened to fall into the hands of a man who was on the jury list for a criminal syndical- ism case, but who dia not serve Yet Connor was convicted of jury tam- pering. se @ SAN QUENTIN, Cal.—Tho rvgular Saturday visit to prisoners in San Quentin is restored. Friends of the 70 or more po iticals there are urged to seo them, San Carlo Opera Coming i Lovers of opera are assured of a short season before Easter when For- tune Gallo's San Carlo Opera com- pany—the two San Carlo organiza- tions merged for this occasion arrives at the Auditorium Theater, Chicago, on March 30 to give nine perform- ‘ances, © Soviet Wars On Wolves RIGA, March 15.—The agricultura’ commissariat has decided to organis: an extensive campaign against wolves which have devoured thousands ot horses and cattle, . THE DANLY WORKER | : Fort-Whiteman Replies to the Lies of Mackenzie (Continued from page 1.) before the revolution were fattening on the toil of the millions who now rule this same country. It must be annoying for the students, sons and daughters of ‘formerly wealthy parents, who are being taken from the universities of Rus- sia to make room for the sons and daughters of bricRlayers, printers, day laborers. It is certainly madden- ing for the swarms of petty bour- geois “intellectuals,” who cannot or will not accept the new order, who find no market for their trash, and who cannot work,’ It is certain that many of the former nobility and shop keepers are in sad’ straits. Why not, when they have only choice of rooms, restaurants, food—when the workers have “first whack” at everything. He Saw Liberated Labor. I, too, was in Russia for many months, I returned only a few short weeks ago. I, too, had the advantage of extensive travel, of intimate con- tact with proletarians and peasants, with government heads and with fac- tory workers. I saw, I think, more than Mr. Mackenzié, or perhaps, I tell more than Mr. Mackenzie, paid agent of the capitalists, could tell with) safety to his job. I saw the workers of the country, 20 longer oppressed by the curse of a working day of ten, eleven and twelve hours, enjoying for the first time in their lives leisure to think, to study, to live and to help in the cre- ation of the new order. I saw peas- ants free of the fetters that a few years ago bound them as near serfs to the wealthy land owners. I saw in Moscow a student body larger than the student body of any city in the world. I saw Mohammedan women throw off the veil, and I saw former christian and Jewish women throw off the old fetters of which the Mo- hammedan veil is only the oriental symbol. I saw races of men—Jews, Turks, Tartars, MUving in perfect equality and perfect freedom, where a few years ago they knew only per- secution, burning, lynching. Wants Only One Side. Mr. Mackenzie, no doubt, saw these things for himself, Or he may be afflicted with the same temperament as one of his chiefs, the news editor of the paper for which he writes. This editor, when approached some time ago by a woman who said that she could tell him a different story about the “Reds” in America than the one he was’ publishing in the Daily News, answered coolly that he “didn’t care o hear about suchiithings.” Perhaps Mr. Mackenzie doesn’t care to hear about “such things,” either. Mr. Mackenzie, od far and wide ir saw nothing of workers and A whom the revolution did the most. He heard how the czar had been mur- dered—and he dwelt long and lov- ingly on the details of that execution, hoping to stir the superficial emotion- alism of his hearers. He saw a cross of gold replaced b; red flag. He saw the forty tim ty Greek or- thodox churches of fie city of Mos- cow turned into f times forty clubs for the workers and recreation rooms for the child: and he shud- dered at the horrors the audience were McKenzie should take up the defense of the Russian chureh, Certainly there was no country wi masses were more priest-ridden, more borne down by the burden of clerical taxation, than were the masses of czarist Rus- sia. Mackenzie Has Poor Crowd. Mr. Mackenzie cited to his audience Meyerhold’s famous drama, “The De- struction of Europe,” in which a huge tunnel is being built from Moscow to’ New York, the workers all the while singing the International. He told them that this is no dream, that only this year C. E, Ruthenberg, secretary of the Workers Party, speaking at a mass meeting in M mn Square Gar- den, in New York City, in memory of Lenin and was ch and applaud- ed by 16,000 people. © (It might be mentioned right here that Mr. Mackenzie had no such aud- jence. In spite of sive advertis- ing, Orchestra Hall was practically empty. Many of these people broke into wild applause, but only at the mention of Lenin, Marx, ainoviev and the leaders of the Bolshevik republic. That the czar and his family suf- fered, that a few hundred of capital- Steel Cells for Labor, Cozy Hotel.,.Room for Shepherd, Millionaire By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ODAY, William D. Shepherd, heir of the MoClintock mil- lion, under the shadow of the death of young “Billy” McClintock last December, is being domiciled by the state’s attorney’s office in a “loop” hotel. State’s Attorney Crowe is very solicitous for his millionaire prisoner. Workers haven't much to interest them, on the surface, in this fight for a million dollars. Chief Justice Harry Olson, who claims his own brother died under mysterious circum- stances, it is inferred at Shepherd's hands, is trying to prove that Shepherd inoculated young McClintock with typhoid germs, causing his death. That crime is murder. Murder has often been committed to get money. But as long ago as last December, nearly three months ago, the charges against Shepherd had gone so far that young McClintock's body was taken from its grave for an autopsy. All this time Shepherd has been allowed his freedom to go and come as he chose. Workers are, therefore, very much interested in the fact that the prison cell that Shepherd gets, three months after serious charges are hurled at him, is a comfortable room in a fashionable “loop” hotel, for detention purposes only. eo, &. 2: @ - Let the workers remember Sacco and Vanzetti, thrown into prison on the flimsiest circumstantial evidence and held while a frame-up could be completed against them. They sill sit in prison in the shadow of the electric chair, altho their innocence has been established. Let the workers remember Mooney and Billings, serving life sentence in California’s state prison. They were put behind bars immediately they were picked as the chosen victims of big business. They are still in prison in spite of the fact that every.legal attack upon them has been square- ly met and shattered. Let the workers remember Ford and Suhr, also victims of the ruling class of California, toilers in the hop fields of that state, thrown into prison as one means of keeping their fellows in submission. Let the workers remember the raids on the Michigan Communist convention, in Michigan, when workers were crowded into.a filthy county jail, and there held for a long period before their release could be secured on the out- rageous bail demanded. Then the only crime, charged against them was that they had “assembled with” each other. It is well that the workers remember these facts, along with many others that show the workings of ‘class justice. It cannot be brought too often to their attention. They can- not be told too often that there is ore law in this country for the rich, another for the poor; one for the members of the working class, another for members of the capitalist class. i : Shepherd has the million. He can hire! godd’ lawyers. It is charged that he has a private detective service in his employ. He will be well taken care of. He has committed no crime against capitalism. Instead, to getiyeur pile is considered a laudable achievement under the present social system. Once having got it, it isn’t often et methods are questioned. Shepherd's case is a rare excéption. ° Shepherd is ih the custody, in a “hotel room,” of State's Attorney Crowe, the anti-labor prosecutor. How different when Crowe goes after the labor unions and their members. Then he has his police patrol wagons backed up to the build- ings that house union joffices; workers and their belongings are seized and carted off to one of the filthiest jails in the land, the “north side” prison. They are held without bail, usually incommunicado. third-degreed and a long time after, if at all, indicted and charged with some crime framed against them. ; Their big crime, of course, is the class crime of organ- izing the workers, of building labor's power. State's Attor- ney Crowe is ever ready to invoke capitalist justice against workers, just as his predecessor, Maclay Hoyne, conducted the raids against the Communists in 1920, because the cap- italist class feared labor's militant spokesmen. * The Shepherd-McClintock case should help the workers understand a little better the class justice that assails them. Capitalists are not worried o’ermuch if a few millions, more or less, fall into the wrong pockets. But they are worried if the capitalist system of private ownership falls into the hands of the working class, to be destroyed and succeeded by the Communist society that knows no capitalists, no classes, no class justice. it should help them to organize better to fight the cap- italist system that breeds favors for the rich, persecution for the poor. It should help them resolve, and fulfill the re- solve to destroy that social system. er eeerniseeeetenernaecianeenemmnieeaesiaesline ists and landowners are now (dispos: sessed, that the priesthood has fallen —all this we know.; We know also that under the old regime it was not the hundreds, but the thousands and the millions who suffered, and that these millions are not suffering to- day. It is their turn now. Predict Downfall of Jap Cabinet in New Political Cri: TOKIO, March 15.—The downfall of the Japanese cabinet was predicted here in some quarters today. A great political crisis is pending as a result of the sudden threat by the house of peers to reject the bud- ject as retaliation for the cabinet's ‘nsistence upon passage by the peers of the reform bill, * ot *. ’ . to strikes and ‘other. “unnatural” Coal Miner’ 8 Chief causes, The theory behind the three Shows His Agrees year contract, agreed to at Jackson- with Coal Barons (Continued from page 1) clares that the miners are over-man- ned to the tune of 150,000 men which is 50,000 less than the figure given by him at the last convention. He said hat numbers of miners must pick up their picks and look for jobs some- where else, He did not say where. vewis said the country could not af- ord to operate mines in such an un- sconomic manner. Let the miners stave! What of it? The law of sup- ply and demand cannot be tampered with. No Government Interference Lewis was asked if he favored gov- ernment ownership. He answered in the negative, tho admitting that the U. M, W. of A, is on record in favor of the nationalization of coal mining, but he sneered at this position inti- mating that it was a dead letter as he did not belleve in government in- terference with industry. The law of supply and demand would drive the 150,000 miners out of the industry and close down the poor mines, Asked why the law of supply and demand had not accomplished this ville was, according to Lewis that a long term pact would enable the big coal companies to drive the small fellows, out of business and also the 200,000 surplus miners who were earn- ing their living digging coal but were an eyesore to Lewis and the bosses: , An Inside Agent Lewis declared that in a few years power would be produced at the pit mouth, which «would eliminate the cost of haulage and no doubt a few more hundred thousand miners. It never occurred to him that the min- ers had any right to the earth, out of whose bowels they dug the fuel that keeps the wheels of industry moving. He did not say how many mines he owns, but no doubt when the rank and file of the U. M. W. of A. gives him his walking papers, he will blossom out as did his predeces- sors T, L, Lewis as the most savage union-bafter among the coal operat- ors; Better that than a coal baron's tool on the inside as he is now. Write us a letter—tell us how you’ work, what are your wages and shop conditions—and then lk i 0 te will| already, the brilliant bonehead de- [order a bundle for distribution in ie AR i ad clared it never had @ chance owing at shop, aon ST eee subseribe, — SENATE WANTS. VOICE IN RULE OF WALL STREET Contest Cal’s Bid for Dictatorial Powers (Special to The Dally Werker) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15.— At two-thirty o’clock this afternoon -| the senate will decide whether or not Charles Beecher Warren, sugar trust lawyer, is to represent big business as Coolidge’s choice for attorney gen- eral. The senate is up in arms against Coolidge’s challenge of their “consti- tutional right” to pass upon the presi- dent’s selection of cabinet members, Senators Get Sore. “The president says to you, ‘The constitution gives you power to ad- vise and consent, but I will override that power. I will wait until you ad- journ and then I will put in office the” man you said was unfit,” said one senator, ; He was referring to President Cool- idge’s personal message to the senate, which declared, “The president is making every effort to secure the con- firmation of Mr. Warren. He has de- cided on no other appointment. He will offer him a recess appointment.” The republican senators are loathe to continue the fight for confirmation of the sugar trust ‘lawyer. Their speeches on his behalf have been half- hearted and apologetic. Coolidge’s decision to select agents of the large corporations for places on the oabl- net and supreme court is not so ob jectionable to the senators. Many of them are themselves multi-million. aires, as for instance, Senator Cou- zens, For White House Rule. However, following upon “General” Dawes’ ultimatum for a change in sen- ate rules that would curb the minor- ity’s power, the senators see in Cool- idge’s insistence on Warren a deter- mination to direct the rule of Wall Street solely from the executive man- sion. The senators do not object to the rule of Wall Street, but they want to help direct that rule. They want a hand in the graft. Even the speech of Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, in favor of Coolidge’s sugar trust agent was half-hearted. Pepper admitted that Warren has spent his life as a servant of big business. “Warren could turn around and pursue relent- lessly combinations which twenty years ago he would have considered innocent,” ‘Pepper said. “If you trans- lated him to the attorney generalship, would he be capable of performing the duties of his office in relation to com- binations outside the law?” On Side of Corporations. “The trouble is he won't conceive any corporations to be outside the law,” a democratic senator interject- ed. f The* senate will convene at 10:30 this morning, an hour and a half be- fore the usual time, and will yote for a second time on Warren at 4:30, af- ter four hours of debate, each sena- tor being limited to thirty minutes. Vice-president Dawes was absent from the senate during the exciting debate which was provoked by Cool- idge’s message of defiance. In spite of the exposure of War. ren’s unbroken record as a tool of the trusts and in spite of the fact that Warren attempted to make no defense of the attacks before the senate ju- diciary committee, Coolidge praised ‘Warren's “excellent qualities,” in his statement. Warren was réjected by the senate last week by a vote of 41 to 39, Poland Fights For Danzig. GENEVA, March 15,—The league of nations has decided to request a special session of the world court te decide a dispute between Poland and the German-controlled city of Danzig over the question of mail boxes. The Germans have never accepted the entente arrangement which makes Danzig a “free city” in order to give Poland a corridor to the sea. Jobless Worker Kills Self. BROOKLYN, N. Y., March 16. — Anthony Zernicks, 38 years old, com- mitted suicide in his home, 220 Stagg street, here by stabbing himself seven- teen times. Zernicks had been unable to find work, and his’ family was destitute. He became despondent be- cause of his continued unemploy ment. * ‘Jurisdictional Board Meets, =, WASHINGTON, March 15.—J dictional disputes within the build- ing trades were considered at a meet- ing of the national board of jurisdic- tional awards in the building industry, ‘March 10, at the office of the building trades department of the A, F, oF L, in Washington. Announcement of de- cisions or progress was deferred for ten days. Bronx, N. Y. Classes. A class in the Third International will start on Tuesday, March 17 at 1347 Boston Road, at 8:30 p. m., with Dr. I. Stamler as instructor. Dr. Stamler is well known to Bronx students and needs no introduction You are all in- vited to attend this course, Does your friend subseribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! ‘ tars ’ Cue Ww : by