The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1925, Page 1

SS oeteeemnenennmnenemiaemmmeneeeee eet Daily Worker Annual Sub- scription Drive Starts on March 15! GET IN ON IT! Vol. H. No. 57. SUBSG ™4.RATES: SuSt'itec'y st sis’ cf THURSDAY, MA 19, 1925 mail, $6.00 per year. STRIKERS WELCOME COMMUNIST Fo Pee end WORKER. |= ; EDITION 8 | Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, =" Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WO.AKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Price 3 Cents | AS WE SEE IT~% { By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HE Dawes’ family may not be an asset to the Coolidge family in Washington, but they certainly have contributed something to senate eti- quette, something that was badly needed. Charles, the husband, put Morpheus on an equal footing with Bacchus, by sleeping while the senate is talking, writing poetry about the vice-president or thumbing 60 per cent of its nasal equipment at the presi- dent. Mrs. Dawes, just to prove that all the originality is not monopolized by the other prominent members of the Dawes’ family, ushered In the In- novation .of eating sandwiches. ewe IERHAPS, the lady exhibited more Political sagacity than could be seen by the unobservant, at the first glance. Friends of the family and those who expect non-perspiring ‘ap- pointments in return for the inter- est in the vice-presidential celebrity, may not think it good manners to open wide their mouths in loud guf- faws as some senator hurls a poetical effusion at the head of the somnolent chairman of the august senate. A big cheese sandwich, with a generous slice of onion will enable tne Dawes’ guest to stop up the main avenue into the stomach with the piece of cheese and if tears of laughter come, who van say that the onion is not to blame? This may not be a scientific explanation, but it’s quite plausible. j “e * HE coal barons’ conference which wag scheduled to take place yes- terday in Cleveland, has been called off. The invitation was issued by the Ohio coal opersiors. The western Pennsylvania group accepted. Indiana. agreed to send delegates, but with so many reservations that the Ohio boys became disgusted and called off the whole thing. The Illinois operators refused to send representatives. Evi- dently the operators have no stomach tor a straight fight with the United Mine Workers of America. They pre- ‘er the nibbling tactics that have en- abled them to smash the union in West Virginia and other places. * « HE head of the Indiana association is Phil H. Penna, considered the best strategist among the coal mag- nates. Evidently he feels that. the non-union mines of Kentucky and other parts of the country than by risking millions of dollars in a battle with the best aggregation of fighting men on the American continent. The American miners have given their masters a taste of their steel. That the bosses would even dream of cross- ing them, is a reflection on their re- actionary and crooked leadership and iot. on the rank and file. 2 8 ? UT if the rank and file of the min- ers’ union think the bosses have called off their dogs they will be mak- ing a big mistake. Things are devel- oping nicely for thé operators. Why should they resort to open conflict with the union as a whole when they can bite it off one chunk at a time? Frank Farrington is sending commis- sions around to study super power while thousands of Illinois miners are anemployede , John L. Lewis has in- vited 150,000 miners to get out of the industry and look for jobs somewhere else. , Lewis will undoubtedly claim that his leadership has frightened off the coal barons. But the coal barons are already Violating the Jacksonville agreement in the pits. The miners must wake up. “* * ¥ MUSING editorials appear in the capitalist press over the success- ful faflure of Abramovich at the Gar- tick Theater last Sunday. One would imagine by. reading those editorials that free speech was inyiolate in the United States; that such things only ‘appen in Russia, and that the “tussians are Asiatics, hence their . . (Continue on Page 2) W Fi Pya hy es “OT hj io On. Ve R. ABRAMOVICH Even in Milwaukee Brains Slip In (Special to The Daily Worker.) MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 17.— The yellow socialists always said that when THEY got elected, things would’ be different. At Raphael Abramo- vich’s meeting last night, this state- ment proved correct. While an or- dinary capitalist administration woul send a few police, the socialist admi- nistration sent lots of them to see that counterrevolution had its say against all hecklers of the working class. But the meeting was broken up by the indignant workers. The Pesky Workers Will Get In. Heavy police guard and large forces of detectives were the shock troops for the socialist gangsters. All visi- tors. were admitted only after passing a civil service examination and mem- bers of the Workers (Communist) Party and sympathizers were rigidly kept out. Therefore, if things hap- pened, they were the natural reaction of other workers to Abramovich’s lies. And things happened. Untermann, the chairman, as usual with pacifists, threatened force and violence. It was not long in coming. Most of the au- dience walked out, when hecklers were beaten up. Three workers were arrested and one badly beaten. It is understood that the workers arrested will be charged with lese majeste upon the dignity of His Ex- cellency Aleck Kerensky, defying the constitutional debility of the Second International and telling Professor Abramovich-that-if he don’t like Ame- rica, why don’t he go back to Russia. Thought It ‘The “Purity Congress.” The defendants enter a plea in abatement, that understanding that the yellow socialist Second Interna. its headquarters for some and had, in the Bbert trial, - 5 admitted treachery, to the wworkérs, they thought that the professoricwds | inviting them to the, “Purity) Con- gress” suggested by his comrades in treachery, and were merely trying: to purify the fetid atmosphere+ of Ra- phael’s presence. ane Hines Fires 300 Employes. WASHINGTON, D. C., Maréh ‘17, Director Hines has told President Coolidge that 200 employes havé been dropped from the personnel of the U. S. Veterans Bureau. 4 The war veterans are being de clared “re-habilitated” and released from training schools in large, num- bers. Many of them are unable to make a living and face starvation. Sick Workers to Stay at Home. LONDON, March 17.—King George was sufficiently recovered from bron- chitis today to hold privy council. With Queen Mary, the king is ex- pected to depart before Sunday for the south of France where he will em- bark on a Mediterranean cruise to complete his convalescence. Seek Jury in Mail Robbery. WAUKEGAN, Ill, March 17.—Work of selecting a jury to hear the charges against the four men accused of the murder of Russell Sage Dickey, ex- press-messenger, during the attempted holdup of the Chicago and North- western railroad’s viking express at Kenilworth last New Years’s eve, con- tinued in criminal court here today. TO SAVE LIFE OF COAL ASK BLOOD nINE ’ DAUGHTER AT SPRINGFIELD SPRINGFIELD, Il, March 17.—A child's life was at stake here today. SPEAKER, WHILE FINDI. CAPITALISM HATES THE STRIKE By WILLIAM SIMONS, (Special to The Daily Worker) WILLIMANTIC, Conn., March 17.—The Willimantic ican Thread Co. are learning thru bitter experience — They are organizing tag days as a part of thi ties. Thus far, they have secured over $500, practically struggle. and individuals of this city. A worker was sent to nearby towns to solicit a pe the strikers. request to the selectman in charge. monster could give. and women had to strike against the 10 per cent wage cut, he was ordered out of the room. And in Norwich, Conn., a ‘permit was refused because a city ordinance was against it, and advice was given them to try to get permission to stand inside of factory gates and make col- lections there. Thanks for the sug- gestion, honorable gentlemen! The Morning March. About a thousand men and women marched before the mill gates at 7 o'clock this morning. Then to the Gem\ Theater for a meéfing. leader Kelleher, organizer for the United Textile Worker cautioned the workers against being too optimistic. She showed how companies used their power to fool and defeat the workers. Announcements were made by Amy Hooker, of the local textile council as to meetings of various locals and the textile council. Workers Party Speaker. The Workers Party speaker and dis- trict organizer of the, Workers. Party was called upon, due-to the interest in his figures about profits made and how it concealed its real earnings, he was asked to continue, his talk last- ing for 40 minutes. The workers simply ate up the fig- ures, showing that the average divi- dends on common stock were 20 per cent, amounting to over a million and a quarter each year. The figures on the profits of the American Thread Co. and thé English Setving Cotton Co., Ltd., are given in another article in the DAILY WORKER. The lack of educational opportunity for the textile town boys and girls was revealed,’ as well as the toil of FIAN REBELS RESISTANCE RU - RIVERA RAGGED PARIS, France, March 17.—Span- ish troops have been attacking the Riffian rebels since last Friday with no success, 's a dispatch from Tangier. Abd-El-Krim is preparing a coun- ter attack in eastern Morocco to- ward Tafersit. The Riffian troops occupy the immediate frontiers on each side of the road, making an ad- vance by the Spaniards impossible. Rivera has ordered airplanes and artillery to the front to attack the Riffians. | AMERICAN ‘LIBERTY’ IN ACTION Strike’ the ‘central duled to be h yesterday to o duce miners’ wages and break the Jacksonville, Fl United Mine Wo! been postponed. The failure of nois and Indiana wage-slashing The Ilinois sition, it, was Jacksonville. a little over a yea Illinois mines ; down now, wil ning working to attend. The Indiana and Illinois operators plan to institute their wage cutting campaign later, miners have beem Out of work almost continuously for The confere! ed to discuss said. Roumania Extends Moratorium. BUCHAREST, Roumania, March 17. moratorium on commercial debts in Roumania, ts to be extended for another three: months, following the passage of a:law to that effect by —The parliament. Kurds Are Defeated. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 17. — Kurdistan rebels have been ousted from all villages within five The miles of Diabekir in Armenia, it was announced today. ikers of the Amer Strike fund activi- from local unions Ay. rmit for a tag day for He went to Danielson, Conn., a few miles away, and made the The answer was as damnable as ever a It was “If you're too lazy to work, And when the unionist tried to explain to this troy if mine owners in inous fields sche- ‘in Cleveland, Ohio. he operators of IIli- participate at this time caused the ment has only a run, and since the ost of those run- ly two or three days a week, the Illinois operators declined “The Illinois ovsrators feel that the wage scale is tooohigh, president of the Hlinois coal operators COOLIDGE APPOINTS PERSONAL CRONY AS 10,000 JOIN IN PARIS COMMUNE DEMONSTRATION New York Gathering Is Great Success (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, March 16.—(By Mail) —A tremendous demonstration com- memorating the Paris Commune was held in Madison Square Garden. The meeting and pageant were duly ad- vertised by the police arresting three comrades of the Workers, (Commun- ist) Party and Young Workers League last Friday night on the ridiculous charge of “possessing fire arms.” These fire arms were of the vintage of 1776 and were old and rusty. But the “Bomb Squad,” acting under or- ders of the federal government, was determined, if possible, to prevent the performance of the pageant—and vboye all to prevent another demons tration of Communist and working class solidarity such as took place on Feb. 1, at the Lenin Memorial meet- ing. OUT WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17. —President Cootidge-appointed an- other personal friend to a place in the cabinet.when he nominated John’G. Sargent, ex-attorney gener- al of Vermont, to be attorney gen- eral of the United States. Coolidge has sent Sargent’s name in the sen- ate, after conversing with his crony by long distance telephone, Senate leaders have intimated that they will not oppose the nomination. Sar- gent is 65 years old. Sargent’s nomination was report- ed favorably to the senate this af- ternoon by the judiciary committee after a short executive session. The committee was unanimous in favor of Sargent.. It was admitted that none of the senators except the New England group, know Sargent. The senate late this afternoon- confirmed Sargent as attorney gen- eral by a unanimous vote. COOLIDGE GIVES UP BATTLE FOR AGENT OF TRUST Will Pick Equally Con- servative Man WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17.— President Coolidge finally admitted himself licked today after two severe defeats at the hands of the senate and allowed Charles Warren to with- draw as a candidate for the attorney generalship. The surrender to the senate, which twice rejected Warren, came after Coolidge gave up the idea of giving Warren a recess appoint- ment. The senate objected to such an ap- pointment, on the ground that it would be a violation of the “constitu- tional rights” of the senate to Dass on the president's nominations for cabinet positions. A new appointment is expected to be announced at the White House to- oy A, that Coolidge will ‘Who is“ loyal to the large |corporations. The senate ju- diciary committee today approved the nomination of Herman J. Galloway, of Indiana, as assistant attorney gen- eral; Those who were rumored slat- ed for the attorney generalsnip tnclud- ing John Sargent, ex-attorney general of Vermont, a personal friend of Cool- idge, or Thomas Swan, the conserva- tive dean of the Yale law school. In\spite of the storm of criticism levelled at Warren for his activities as an agent of the sugar trust, Cool- idge wrote Warren a letter express- ing his confidence in him. Vice-president Dawes was again ab- sent-from the senate today, having attended the drawings for the Davis cup tennis matches. there is a class en starve!” ‘te that, the men 10,000 in Demonstration About 10,000 workers and Commun- ist sympathizers attended the meet- ing, which was enthusiastic from be- ginning to end. The chairman of the meeting, Comrade Juliet Stuart Po- yntz, ridiculed the “antics of the po- lice bomb squad,” her statement being greeted with boos for Captain Gegan of the squad. “We have an international army of workers, armed with a program, or- ganized, disciplined and working to- ward the world revolution and the foundation of Conimunist society,” she said. Comrade Moissaye Olgin gave an historical sketch of the struggles for the establishment of the Commune, when the workers took power from the capitalist class and became the dominant class. The army fraternized with the workers and turned their guns against the bourgeoisie and their leaders, General Thomas and others. _ “The Red Flag was hoisted in Paris -| —the first government of the workers js tlte*world over,” he said)-‘‘They-abol- 5 ished nationalism,—aliens being made citizens. The bourgeoisie retired to Versailles, known to the workers of the whole world for that infamous treaty of that name. Then came 1905. int Russia, when the country was shaken to its foundations. After a decade of revolutionary struggle, came the overthrow of the czar, fol- lowed by Nov. 7, 1917, the greatest day in the history of mankind.” Then, depicting the struggles of the Russian workers and peasants, Com- rade Olgin said that, “if a conflict be- tween the bourgeoisie of the world and Soviet Russia arises, the proletar- iat of all countries will say to their bourgeoisie ‘hands off Soviet Russia.’” Benjamin Gitlow spoke about the White Terror and the International (Continued on page 2) ize a drive to re. reement with the of America, has . that the 60 per cent shut time when thc Rice Miller Anti-Klansmen Acquitted PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 17.—Se- ven men were acqul-'rd «! charges of rioting iu connection with the ku ‘tax klan disorders during which se {ver peopl: were killed in Carnegie in August, 1923. Thoions Abbott, 2 klansman, was killud at Carnegie, in August 1925. Abhott attacked som- ate SR and they returned the re. Professors Cane Education Minister. TIENTSIN, China, March 17.—More than a hundred professors attacked and severely caned the minister of education today because of his policy towards government education. While the bourgeois Free State that cheers and inebriates, clay BATTLE RAGES IN arronwey cenenal|| AMAL GAMATED OVER EXPULSION Local 5, New York, Is Leading the Fight That the reactionary officiaidom of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers |of America now realizes that it has the |fights of its life on its hands, was | demonstrated last Monday afternoon |when Samuel Levin, manager of the | Chicago joint Board of the Amal- |gamated Clothing Workers, had seven members of the union pulled off their |Jobs for the distribution of a leaflet ued by Local 5 of the Amalgamated, |New York, calling the attention of the | membership of the organization to the expulsion of Local 5 from the New York joint board, on the flimsy charge of issuing a leaflet. The action of Levin will only have the effect of solidifying the growing opposition to the autocratic rule oi the Hillman machine, on a nation wide scale. If the object of this hys: terical attack on the economic lives of the members was for the purpose of preventing the news to get to the membership, it will fail disastrously. The leaflet issued by Local 5 is a dignified document, setting forth the facts of the expulsion in moderate language. It states that the reason given by Hillman for the expulsion was because Local 5 issued a leaflet. | But did not Hillman issue leaflets when he was fighting Harry Cohen and the Forward gang? After recounting the evidence of the demoralization which is creeping over the Amalgamated, the leafiet calls attention to the following facts: ‘ Thrown Out of Work, “1. About the suffering and need among the unemployed and how work- ers are being thrown out of work for no rason or rhyme. “2. How the officials at one time engaged in a bitter struggle against the corrupt officials of the union and soon as these very same corrupt officials promised Hillman that they would-help him earry thru the fifty cent dues proposition, Hillman made ‘peace with them, “3. How our officials reduced to naught the gains made in the last strike in which the members of the Amalgamated made such by sacrifices. “4. How, when the firm of J. Freed- man and other firms threw workers out of their jobs and when thé remain- ing workers refused to work until they were put back to work, the union of- fictals actually compelled other union men to take the place of these men who went out on strike.” Because the columns of the official organ of the Amalgamated has been closed to the members of the union Local 5 was obliged to appeal directly to the membership. This was the crime in the eyes of Hillman, tho it was no crime for the manufacturers to get their information about union affairs from the general officers. The Hillmanites ordered the members to stay away from a mass meeting called to demand that he put a stop to the firing of workers from the shops. The business agents were ordered to threaten those who attended with loss of their jobs. But the members were not frightened. Hence the ex pulsion. Raising Smoke Screen. Sam Levin is now trying to make ¢ Trade Union Educational League issue out of the distribution of the Local Five leaflet in Chicago. It is true (Continued on page 2) er ikceenthoer cee cecal ao EO WORKING CLASS GIRLS CARRY BANNER FOR IRISH FAMINE VICTIMS WHI LE FREE STATERS GORGE THEMSELVES Irish nationalists were gorging them- selves yesterday with foor and drowning their cares in libations from the cup in honor of St. Patrick, a group of young working Lillian Bro, 10, motherless daughter of a Kincaid; Tll., coal miner, was slowly bleeding to death, physicians said. ‘They issued an appeal to the public press or volunteers to submitito a blood transfusion. For a number of years the little girl has suffered severe nose bleeding girls, of various nationalities paraded up and down in fron e it of the deserted city hall advertising the fact that a famine existed in Treland aud that 760,000 workers and peasants: were destitute, - 7 MINE EXPLOSION IN INDIANA TAKES TWO MORE WORKERS’ LIVES TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 17. —Two shot firers are believed to have been killed last night by an explosion in the Shirkeville No. 1 mine six miles northeast of here. The cause of the explosion has not been determined but it was re- ported to have been caused by a “windy shot.” eS ak & Sub And Give Onel pells. Doctors believed one trans fusion would save her. The father, brothers, sisters and other relatives have submitted to tests, but the child’s blood will not mix with t of the relatives, the physicians said. “It is a pitiful case. She is a very bright little girl who realizes her con- dition, Her face lights up when a relative takes a blood test and again is overspread with sadness when she hears the blood will not mix with her own,” safa Dr. Henry Aschauer, “Wher one of these bleeding spells ‘comes on we have to administer a ‘serutit used on horses. A very small 1% enough to make a wan scream in’ pain, but Lillian never’ whimpers. She wants to live.” as ant The Free State supporters in the United States are nourishing the fic- tion that there is-no famine in Ire- land. Their~ stomachs are full, so they have no cause for worry. Yes- terday, they were presenting the cap- italist side of Ireland's face to the world, The signs carried by the members Cite we of the Workers Party told\a different Sly story. They pointed to the fact that wee MGM the Irish Free State government was a? , more concerned with putting a “trea- son bill” thru parliament than with feeding the hungry Irish peasants; that the American capitalist press was silent about the famine while the DAILY WORKER devoted col- umns of space to stories from the famine stricken region. Workers School Students. The signs were carried by girls now attending the Workers Party school at Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard. Their names are: Ruth Fern, Eva Bittelman, Valeria Meltz, Marguerite Lewis, Marguerite Dunne, and Catherine Polishuk. Crowds gathered as the girls march- ed up and down Weside the building which was closed in honor of Mayor Dever's patron saint. The inscription on the s were read by passersby and a general air of sympathy was noticeable. The demonstration was under the direction of the Chicago local of the Irish Workers’ end Peasants’ Famino Relief Committee,