The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1925, Page 6

a . THE DAILY WORKER | Publishisd by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING OO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By. mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50...6 months $2.50...8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and wake out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. ~ #3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. —— see EGOS mee Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, L Hillman Machine Wars on Members The Hillman michine of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of America is now openly making war | on a large section of the membership. Local Five of New York, following its arbitrary suspension from the ‘joint board, issued a leaflet telling the facts of the case and @iting many basic grievances. of the membership. This leaflet has been distributed in Chicago; coming from a local of the union its distribution is legal so far as the laws of the union are concerned, Yet, members found handing out the leaflet have’ been taken off their jobs in the shops by the. Hillman-Levin machine. Nothing further is needed to show that the Hill- man machine has accepted and is enforcing the rule or ruin policy that has brought the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers to the point of helplessness. The charges against Local Five were of the most flimsy character, one of them being that members of the executive board of the union had picketed a certain shop in an effort to reinstate a discharged worker, infringed on the powers of the national executive board, ete. It is quite ap- parent that the real crime of Local Five was doing something while the Hillman officials talked and thought up schemes for co-operation with the bosses. ; This latest action of the Hillman maehine brings out the fact that all the campaign of denuncia- tion and expulsion of Communists and supporters of the Trade Union Educatiorfal League is a result of the fighting program of these workers and or- ganizations, their placing of the interests of the membership above those of the officialdom. The Hillman machine does not want to fight the bosses. It prefers to wage war on the most mili- tant and loyal members of the union. To make this fact clear to the membership is a pleasurable duty of the left wing. It is now generally agreed that the league of na- tions is as dead as the C. P. P. A. Both died from natural causes. The European Crisis The metal workers’ strike in northern Italy con- tinues to gain. The only-deserters are a few thou- sand fascists while thousands of members of real unions join the strike daily. The attempt of the fascist leaders to fool the workers by support of the strike at its beginning have failed. The metal workers in particular seem to have broken all the bonds of fascist control and regained much of the militancy displayed in 1919-20. The vacillating policy of the fascist leaders in this emergency is a result of the political crisis that grips Italy and shakes the fascist government. More exposures of the direct connection of Mus- solini and prominent henchmen of his with coward- ly murders of opponents are being made. The whole country is in a state of turmoil with the Commun- ist Party alone to give conscious leadership to the masses, The Italian crisis corresponds with the new wave of strikés and revolts against European cap- italism. It corresponds also with the revival of the imperialist rivalries among the allied nations symbolized by the junking of the Geneva protocol and the dispute over the question of security guarantees for France and her military allies— Poland, Roumania, etc. European capitalism, and consequently world capitalism, is now in the midst of another of those periodical situations in which its instability be- comes evident to millions of workers and farmers. Every one of these crises brings in sharper relief the warring factions that, in spite of all effort to- wards a common policy, result in a weakening of the capitalist system. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. World Allies At was to be expected that the capitalist press would take up the endgels for Abramovich. With complete unanimity of its various sections and sub- divisions, the press of the ruling class applauds the action of the police upon whom Abramovich depends for an opportunity to lie about the work: ers’ and peasants’ government of Russia. In the news stories the bias of the capitalist press is not $0 apparent, but the editorial comment is illuminat- ing showing as it does the unity of thought and action between the socialist party officialdom, the Kecond International and the capitalist class of America and the world, If any work is in doubt as tothe alliance be- tween world capitalism and the Second Interna- tional let him read carefully the editorial comment of the metropolitan journals on the Abramovich - meetings. Chicago, Hlinele | .. under the act of March 3, 1879. | Advertising rates op application | The Rockefeller Plan . The bible-pounding: JohwD-Rockefeller, Jr., was fond of boasting of the cOmpany union plan. It would prevent strikes. ~Perhaps William H. Johnston of the late C. P. P. A. and still of the I. A. M. got his inspiration for his B. and O. plan \from the pious multi-millionaire. The following news item frim the Colorado Labor | Advocate is as good an editorial on “the success” lof the plan in the mines of the Colorado Fuel:and | fron company as could be written on the question: | The wages of the coal miners of the Walsen dis- | trict have been cut 20 per cent by the Colorado Fuel | and Iron company. } The company announces that the mien asked for the cut, Here are the facts: Four years ago the C, F. & |, asked the miners to accept a vountary cut in wages. They passed “peti- tions” thru the mine camps. Some miners “asked” a cut in wages of one-third; others refused to “ ans have their living cut. The mines where the men refused to “ask” a wage | cut WERE CLOSED DOWN. The men in the Walsen | district remember that time. | But at that time so many miners left the state in individual refusals to accept the cut that. the com- pany was forced to go before the industrial board, which always orders what the C. F. & |. wants—and ask to have the wages put back up! This spring, labor leaders have known for weeks the C. F. & I. was planning for wage cuts. The old tricks have been used. The mines have been closed. in some cases the rails have been taken out and the mines apparently abandoned. It is the old, honey- coatd threat: Work at our rate or starve. It is the “representation plan.” It is “industrial democracy.” It is “company unionism.” And the miners are helpless! They are not helpless but between giant corpora- tions and the labor fakers they are confronted with serious obstacles. They will break thru, however. The N. Y. Commane Pageant The New York Commune celebration was a huge success. Even the capitalist press admits this. For the second time this year the Communists and their sympathizers packed Madison Square Garden, the largest indoor arena in the United States. The Communist press and the political prisoners in the Jails of capitalism the world over divide the receipts of the meeting. Just before the event the “bomb squad” of the New York City pdlice got busy, raided one of the rehearsals and the Communist headquarters. The police succeeded in making themselves ridiculous and giving much publicity to the pageant, the Workers (Communist) Party and the occasion for the celebration. Three comrades are held in $10,000 bail each for violation of one of the innumerable statutes Amer- ican capitalist government uses for suppression and there is nothing ridiculous about this. It is a very serious situation for the comrades involved and for the party, necessitating the raising of an enormous sum for defense and proving that Com- munists, so far as the capitalist state is concerned, constitute a distinct category of persons who are not allowed even the usual privileges of assembling for the most peaceful purposes. Like the Abramovich meetings the New ‘York Commune pageant has shown to thousands of work- ers the class character of the Communist Party and the capitalist state. Aid for Willimantic Strikers * We are carrying first-hand information of ‘the strike of 2,500 textile workers in Willimantic, Connecticut—a strike that seems to be of the most determined and best organized character occuring in the textile industry this year. Our own cor- |respondent is furnishing the news and the DAILY WORKER is being read with interest by large numbers of the strikers. ° The DAILY WORKER appears in this strike, not as a mere recorder of events, but as a_positive force. It urges the program of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League, a united front of all the unions and work- ers against the textile barons, amalgamation of the unions into one huge industrial union, a workers’ and farmers’ government. $ Neither does the DAILY WORKER and the reyo- lutionary party for which it speaks neglect the daily needs of the workers. There is much want and suffering among the striking textile workers, they must have money for the relief of the families of the strikers and to carry on their fight. Those workers and organizations that are far from the scene of the struggle in Willimantic can assist their fellow workers by donations of money. Sums collected for this purpose should be sent to William Simons, P. 0. Box 183, Willimantic, Conn. “The two outstanding achievements of President Ebert’s career were the crushing of the Liebknecht rebellion and the slow industrial and financial recuperation that finally permitted the rest of the world to help thru the agency of the Dawes plan” writes a capitalist editor in mourning the death of the renegade socialist. It could not have been said better by a Communist, but both achievements rendered Ebert a first class candidate for the rope. Germany paid the allies $144,977,705 in repara- tions during the first six months the Dawes plan was in operation. The German capitalists’ have not lowered their standard of living. a bit, but the German workers have. The workers always pay. It is a safe bet that no American socialist paper will publish the full report of the British trade union delegation to Russia on their impressions of that country today. t, Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER vod a member for the Workers Party. = in English, Regis ! THE DAILY) WORKER MUSSOLINI GAVE AIDES ORDER TO KILL MATTEOTTI Proof Produced Premier Caused Murder (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, Mareh 16.—The con- fession of Filipo Filipelli, now in jatfl, charged with complicity in the mur- der'of the socialist deputy, Maiteottt, gives further proof that Matteotti was murdered upon Mussolini’s orders, that Mussolini directéd' the crime, and that he and his lieuténants attempted to shield the actual murderers. The written confession of Filipelli, who until his arrest was editor of Premier Mussolini's ‘biggest newspa* per, Corriere Italiana, corroborates the Rossi-document.’ Printing of the confession is strictly’ forbidden by the fascisti, and it has been made known by the secret printing presses operating in Rome. * Murderer Telis Story. The confession shows how Dumini, who is charged with the actual mur- der of Matteotti, under orders from Mussolini, borrowed filipelli’s auto- mobile, and when hé ‘returned from the murder, Dumini*saifl, “I have act- ed under precise orders from Rossi and Marinelli, who were acting on for- mal authorization from’Premier Mus- solini.” Marinelli and Rossil were Musso- .| lini’s aides in the treasury depart- ment. Filipelli's confession adds that Rossi told Filipelli that Mussolini knew everything, that Rossi and Ma- rinelli were given orders to commit the murder at a conference with Mus- solini, Mussolini later received from his aides the proof of Matteotti’s death at their hands and arranged with Debono, then chief of police, to destroy Matteotti’s bloody garments and other evidence. Here’s Confession in. Full. The confession in full stated: “On Monday, June 9,.Sig.. Dumini— the alleged actual murderer of Sig. Matteotti—asked to loan my automo- bile for three days. On Tuesday mid- night Sig. Dumini came.to my room with a bundle and asked for a place to put the car. Sig. Dumini said: ‘I have acted under precise orders from Sigs. Rossi and Marinelli—who were act- ing on formal authorization from Pre- mier Mussolini. Keep. quiet. Every- thing will come out, well.’ “On Wednesday, alarmed, I sought Sig. Rossi, who told. me: “1, That Sig. Dumini used my ma. chine in good faith. , “2. That the situation was grave. “3. That Premier.Mussolini knew everything. ae “4, That he and Sig. Marinelli were given orders after a conference with Premier Mussolini, “5. That it was imperative to hush up everything, otherwise even Pre- mier Mussolini would be overthrown. Conferred With, Mussolini, “I reported to the police. I learned that Sig. Dumini’s victim was Sig. Matteotti, that the order to kill Sig. Matteotti came fromthe fascist cheka whose chief executioner was-Sig. Du- mini, and others well. known to Pre- mier Mussolini, that they had con- ferred with Premier Mussolini Wed- nesday, and that Premier Mussolini had received Sig. Matteotti’s passport and other papers as. proof of Sig. Matteotti’s death. \. “They asked me to suppress the facts, as the whole regime and Pre- mier Mussolini's head was at stake. I kept quiet. “On Tuesday I saw Sig. Debono who told me he had arranged to de- stroy all the evidence in the Matteotti crime. The evidence consisted of the blood drenched garments which Sig. Dumini had with him when arrested. (Signed) “Filippo Filippelli.” Lame Duck Senator Leans on Coolidge; May Get the Gate WASHINGTON, D. C,, March 17.— Secretary of State “Kellogg is not standing up well under the strain-of his new job. His 68 'years and indif- ferent health are telling upon him, He is surprising his associates in the department by the di of his lean- ing upon Coolidge for decisions of every kind. This development brings forward once more the suggestion that the president will have to select a young- er, stronger and suré-footed chief of the department before the year is out. Charles Warren, sugar trust agent, would have been that man, had he been accepted by thé senate for the attorney generalship, Now he can- not be confirmed for any high office. Herbert. Hoover is still smarting from the discourtesy whtth he thinks the White House has shown him in cabi- net reorganization. Mellon is said to be as much opposed to making Hoover secretary of state as is Coolidge. There are hints that Sen. Pepper of Pennsylvania may be the next man to be offered the job, if Kellogg can’t stand the pace, Harlem Section, N. Y., Activities. jaturday evenin; 21—Spring festival and dance, at Harlem Casino, 116th street and Lenox avenue. Sunday evenin, arch 22—Work- ing Class Baucatiog discussion led by Oliver Calrson, ¥ Harlem Educ Center—Classes in Fundamentals mmunism and Vive La Commune! By CATHALL. BORU.” IFTY-FOUR years ago the prole tariat of Paris rose, arms in hand in defense of their civic rights, their right to bear the arms that they themselves had forged, and in defense of the republican idex against the re- actionary mob of Bonapartists and royalists who sought to disarm them and re-impose the corrupt rule of autocracy. It is an oft told tale, but one that is sadly in danger of being forgotten in this country with our traditional dislike of revolutionary change; our repudiation of the class war; our bourgeois ideas and theories; and our belief in the good intentions of the master class. 'T was a glorious event, however, which should ever be borne in mind and celebrated by the prole- tariat of all countries. The people of France organized and armed their na- tional guard for the defense of their city against the Prussian invader, When their rulers capitulated they sought to' deprive the national guard of their arms, The latter resisted and won over the troops sent to disarm them. It was an insurrection, a revo- lution. The Commune was proclaim- ed. For the first time in history the capital city of a great country had a real working class administration. pe public services were re-organ- ized; jobbery and corruption were rooted out; abuses suppressed, and relief measures carried out to relieve existing distress. Never in the his- tory of Paris was the administration so good, the public services so effi- cient, the public order so admirable as during the two months of the rule of the Commune, since so execrated and maligned by the reactionaries and the reactionary press of the whole world. : All the time that the work of civil reorganization was going on there was the military defense claiming ur- gent attention. The Versailles royal- ist and Bonapartist butchers were gathering together® their legions for the slaughter. Around three sides of Paris the German eagles hemmed in the devoted revolutionists while ‘en the other side there gathered the masses of rurals and released prison- ers of war. IHEN came. the civil war, the fight- ing all along the road from Ver- sailles to Paris. The taking one by one of the forts. The bombardment of Paris by the Versaillese. The fighting at the barricades. The fiend- ish massacre of 35,000 men, women and children in the cemetery of Pere La Chaise, and the overthrow of ‘the Commune in a deluge of fire and blood. All that, however, was for af- terwards, as were also the tndeserib- the brutal treatment of the prisoners, the deportations to New Caledonia and all the other infamies in which the Versailles, indeed brought “Woe to the Vanquished.” e« But the defeat was in May. On the 18th of March, we celebrated, not a defeat, but a victory, the triumph— transient it is true, but none the less glorious for all that—of the prole- tarian revolution; when for once, for just a little while, the people had con- quered and were masters of the situ- ation. IHEREFORE, should the 18th of March be kept, not as a‘day of mourning, but as a festival. The Com- mune was defeated, it is true; but in celebrating the inauguration we do not celebrate its defeat, its failure, but its triumph.. Even its defeat, its mistakes and failures have many les- sons for us. Above all things, they teach us to be none the less ready to seize our opportunity when it pre- sents itself, than were the men and the women of the Commune; while at the same time we show the same de- votion as they did. E must profit from their errors by avoiding them, and learn from the stern’ consequences that befell them not to make the mistake of be- ing too lenient with or of trusting too much to the word of honor or the tender mercies of the bourgeoisie. The men and women of the commune [have set us a splendid example of courage and devotion. They have shown us how to live and work as well as how to suffer and die—for a cause. The time was not ripe. But who would care to say that they toil- ed and suffered and died in vain? Ho just fifty-four years later, the International Communist move- ment, in its ever-spreading organiza- tion and strength is reaping the har- vest of the seed that was sown by the sacrifice and the devotion of these martyrs of 1871. We rejoice in their triumph. We lament their defeat; but inspired by their noblé example we re-echo with greater. certainty of ultimate victory, their-exultant cry muyiié* f “Vive La Com- De Valera Hits ; England in St. Patrick Message DUBLIN, Ireland, Mar. 17.—EKamon De Valera, the Irish republican, has issued a St. Patrick’s day manifesto. “Shall suicide be the end of an an- cient nation that no external power could directly kill?” De Valera asks. “Shall it be in the hands of men call- ing themselves Irish that the last conquest of our land by England shall be complete?” : 15,000 NEW SUBS BY JUNE 15! By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN, AST Saturday was the fiftieth birthday of Maurice Ravel, the eminent French composer. I don’t know whether Ravel over in Paris made any observance of the event, but the day was celebrated in Chicago by the berformance of an alborada of his by the Chicago Symphony orchestra on the twenty-first of the regular pro- grams, “Alborada” may be considered the antonym of “nocturne”; it means a piece of morning, and is generally used in connection with music in Spanish style. So wrth work of Ra- vel’s which, while over twenty years old, was given its first Chicago hear- ing, As.with most of the French- man’s work, it is light, rhythmic, skill- ful, the work of a hand that has con- sistently stood for the best in French music, The work of another Frenchman, an infinitely greater musician than Ra- vel, opened the program, the over- ture “The Roman Carnival,” which is the prelude to the second act of the opera “Benvenuto Cellini,” by Hector Berlioz. This was wildly revolution- ary music when it was first played, sixty years ago, Bur roday it sounds romantic, melancholy in the first sec- tion, the solo for English ‘horn, and the dance with whign :t ends, which was so.blood stirring to the composer and his contemporaries, is to us flat. The third composition was the Brahms concerto for violin and vio- lincello. A concerto by Brahms ts generally an.ordeal, and a double con- Panic Strikes the Chicago Grain Pit ‘As Wheat Declines Panic struck the grajn pits here today when for the second time with- in a week, the bottom dropped out of the market, leaving traders gasping as they fought to execute orders. . An hour after the opening May wheat had declined 11 cents to $1.54, Other grains also were sharply lower. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! able horrors of the camp at Satory,|’ BOARD SILENCES | TEACHERS AND . CROWDS PUPILS Want Pay Raise from Rich, Not Children The finance committee of the board of education met yesterday afternoon and considered ‘the recommendation from the superintendent of schools to increase the salaries of teachers in the public schools, The Chicago Teachers’ Federation denounces the attempt of Superin- tendent McAndrew to break up the teachers’ councils, and states that the money to raise the teachers’ salaries should come from the tazx-~ dodgers and not from the building fund of the board of education, Have Right to Complain. “The record of the teachers of Chi cago gives them the right to resent,” says the statement, “and ‘they do resent any attempt to pit them against the children by making the teachers appear willing to benefit themselves at the expense of the children. Our twenty-five years’ record of protest against proposals of the board of edu- cation that would injure the children warrants the confidence of the public and deserves its condemnation of any present atempt to break up the organ- izations thru which teachers speak and act.” It is declared that in the face of a $19,000,000 deficit in the educational fund and shockingly overcrowded schools, 36 billion dollars worth of Chicago property that is taxable has illegally escaped taxation. It is de clared that the board of education is planning to skimp on its school build- ings, crowding 1,152 children. into new buildings meant to seat only 816 by Platooning the schools. Increase Fire Hazards. “All the children in the school will be kept rotating back “and forth from classrooms to dumping places, thereby increasing the fire and panic hazards and danger from the spread of con- tagion and epidemic,” said the Chicago teachers’ statement. “Platoon schools, double schools, and double sessions, larger classes, larger schools and all other shifts and: makeshifts are shortsighted attempts to evade the real issue. Every child of school age is entitled to attend a-middle-of-the- day school, to occupy a seat ina quiet, uncrowded school, and to have indi- vidual attention from adequately train- ed teachers who are free from petty tyranny and the indignities of bureau- cratic domination.” If the tax burden were distributed over the entire value of the taxable property in Chicago, the present school revenue would be doubled, it is said, and the tax rate could be cut down to one-fifth of the present rate. “Disarm” Parley Discussed. LONDON, England, March 47. — Great Britain’s attitude toward the Proposed “disarmament conference” was demonstrated again today in a statement from the foreign office. “Great Britain believes the dis- armament conference should have the widest scope but realizes there is dif- ficulty regarding land armaments. England would be pleased if President ‘Coolidge could surmount this dif- ficutly, the statement reads. Meat Trust Makes Plea. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17,— Justice Bailey, of the district supreme court, is considering pleas of attorneys for the Swift and Armour packing trust to rescind the consent decree en- tered into February, 1920, which pro- vided for the separation of the meat trust firms. wotse, but this work fools ug if we reason thus. It'does not stir anybody, unless perhaps it does the soloists, but it does not produce that sense of phy- sical pain which many a work of this nature induces. It is really bearable and somewhat enjoyable music, and was played by that.most expert team of Jacques Gordon and Alfred Wallen- stein, respectively the concertmaster and the principal cellist of the orches- tra that played the accompaniment. Then the fourth symphony of 'Chay- kovski, the apotheosis of the grand Style, perhaps the most noble and most expressive of all the symphonies of the Russian master. I for one am glad that Mr. Stock put thts:symphony at the end of the program. I remem- ber one concert that opened with it, and I was completely incapacitated for listening to the subsequent. works, The scherzo is a stunt piece for the members of the orchestra, since they play it without Mr. Stock’s baton. But whether or not Stock gives entrance cues to the various instruments with his eyebrows is the secret of the Chi- cago Symphony orchestra, Guy and Pattison Piano Team Perform An appearance of that remarkable two piano team of Guy Maier and Lee Pattison always makes a lead for the reviewer, The first performance of a new work by Arthur Bliss also is worthy of a hearing, and the two came together at Orchestra Hall on the regular concert schedule of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The concerto 1s not a very import- ant work and melodically is some- what weak. Bliss knows his orches- ; n ee ME tra. In the concerto are some new and queerly colored effects, such as the presentation of a melody in the English horn solo under the sustained trill of three flutes and over harmon- ies in the clarinets and a bass in’the bassoons. The way in which the'solo and the orchestra are welded to- gether is another example of good workmanship. The program opened with the “Spring” symphony of Schumann, There are some fine tunes in this ‘work, dance tunes of the pianistic kind, such as Schumann could com- pose. Following this Maier and Pat- tison played a double concerto by... P. EB. Bach, Following the Bliss concerto wa wath Played and the symphonic poem “Don Juan,” its famous horn solo practiced and memorized by every horn player where the name’ of its composer, Richard Strauss, is known, Then the program wound up with the C major triple concerto of J. §. Bach. This concerto has what can be called peppy music in it. Its slow movement is not so attractive,.but the first and last movements are Breat. Arthur Shattuck joined forces with Maier and Pattison in this composi- tion. He is a eprenentattre of a div minishing, and,/let us pray, rapidly diminishing race, the long haired pi- anist, 4 tison ought to be world famous by now. Their'é is a new and delightfui revival of an old art. There is power and good humor. in their playing. There is also absolute accuracy and nicety of technique in it, The performances of Maier and Pat- * rae sce ea ESN NASBA ME A aU over |