The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 20, 1925, Page 1

‘ i) Daily Worker: Annual Sub- Scription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON ITE |= r Vol. II. No. 58. nee Wire STATE POLICE ay oe rege Le PRN reaumacrasrR THE Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the | : FRIDAY, o $0x 1So ‘eh. BY CAPITALISTS TO CRUSH STRIKES: NEWSPAPER CAMPAIGN EXPOSED By MANUE L GOMEZ. (Article 1.) » “Protection for all; justice for all.’ That, we are told by extremely well Protected recipients of more than thelr share of justice, is the idea that suggests to them why Illinois should have a state police force, It was expressed with all due so! \Minois Chamber of Commerce and the of Major Lynn Adams, superintendent lemnity at a luncheon given by the Illinois Bankers’ association in honor of the state police of Pennsylvania, popularly known as “American cossacks.”” But alas, nobody will believe it. Since when, workers want to know, have the chamber of commerce and the bankers’ association been interested ‘AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HE. Irish-American politicians, cap- italists and clergymen celebrated St. Patrick’s day in the usual way. They made speeches, partook of dainty food and prised Ireland and the Irish, that is the Irish that bend the knee to capitalism and conform to capital- ism’s standard of political morals. The Irish that take their place in the international army of labor are not so good. There are many of those who have indictments hanging over their heads oi who are spending the best years of their lives in prison. No bourgeois praise for them. | ee. HE ruling class of the United States | eater to the vanity of the Irish | section of the population at least onc a year. The mayors of the large cit: ies wear little sprigs of shamrock ped- | dled by Jewish or Armenian business. | men, to show their sympathies. Kver today they twist the lion’s tail a lit- tie. But tae Lon is gat‘ing old and he only responds with a prolonged yawn, while he rubs his sleepy eye | lids. There is no more fun init. Am- erican oil is having an ill eftect on hig ‘nuatds. . ee aes \ Fi ruling classes wisely cater to country. It pays. The capitalists have. good prepagandists.. ‘There-is aj} | large Irish vote in this country. Therefore the politicians cater to them. Because they read the news- papers the publishers cater to them with a border of green around the front page on St., Patrick’s day and 2 few columns devoted to greetings from some Irish politicians playing the game in Ireland. The majority of the Irish workers in America, don't Know why this is done. They don't want to kill its good effect on their vanity of all this by asking them- selves why this ‘nice treatment. ce * | HE Chicago Daily News as per cus- tom gives a whole page to letters | from prominent Irish capitalist poli- ticians. President “Cosgrave of the Irish Free State talks of Irish pros- perity. Eamonn DeValera, his. rival, talks on the Gaelic language, forget- ting about the hungry Irish peasants on the west coast, the only Gaelic- speaking district in Ireland. DeVal era, tho he wrote the letter to the Daily News in Gaelic, cannot speak two sentences of the language and will never waste his valuable time trying to learn. He is,too busy, But the sentence and a half which he does know comes in very handy when he wants to win the sympathy of some half-baked Gael who believes a hungry Gaelic-speaking Ireland is preferable to a well-fed English speak- ing Ireland. see ‘OST of the enthusiasm for the re- vival of the Gaelic language comes from those who were fortunate or unfortunate ennf to be born in Glasgow, Manchestér or Liverpool of Irish ancestors. They cling to the few words they learned at their moth- er’s knee as a devotee of Bacchus will gaze at the’ last drop of liquor in his glass, when the replenishing bot- tle lis absent; “What do the Irish (Continued on page 5.) Cal Would Aid Railroads WASHINGTON, March 18,—Failure of congress to pass a bill reducing the rate of interest from six to 4% per cent on between $40,000,000 and $50,- 900,000 which the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad owes the gov- ernment, “prevents the administration aiding the road.” in justice and protection for all?—let alone Major Adams, whose _ official protection of workers has been en- tirely confined to scabs. Always Are Strike Breakers. Labor sees the proposed Illinois state police force as 4 heavy club in the hands of the bosses to be used in breaking strikes. That is what simi- lar police armies have proved to be in every state where they have been created. The Dunlap bill providing for a state-wide anti-labor constabulary of | 195 to 455 armed troopers is being pushed hard for passage in the state legislature. The wealthy capitalists are pouring out ‘their dollars in sup- port of it. Propaganda is on full blast. Suddenly, in every capitalist news- (Continued on page 3) ““Jcago, by mail, $8.00. per year. le Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. TEXTILE WORKERS ROBBED WHILE ~ MILL OWNERS PILE UP: MILLIONS HIDDEN BY STOCK MANIPULATION By WILLIAM SIMONS, (Special to The WILLIMANTIC, Conn., March 18.—In a recent article, the dividends per share of the American Thread Co, stock were shown, (It is interesting to note that the capital stock increased from $10,290,475 in 1918, to $13,890,475 in 1920 and to $15,690,475 in 1924, It would have been too raw to hand out huge dividends, the skinning pro- So millions are put into special reserve funds, and then quietly transferred to the capital. for owners to invest their profits in whatever corporation they desire. they choose to leave them in their own business, that's “their business.” It’s all a part of the game. And workers who abidé by the rules of the cess would be too eyident. capitalist game, who believe in only “a can hardly kick, game they are supportimg. Another means of showing how “poor” the company is, is to check off amounts for various items. Thus, in the years 1918 to 41923, amounts. were checked off as profit and loss, varying from two to five million dol- lars! Actual Dividends. The dividends given on preferred stock are $244,524 anually from 1918 to 1923 inclusive. The amount earned per share of preferred stock is given by Moody as $4.33 in 1918; $2.41 in 1919; $3.95 in 1920; $1.25 in} 01 in 1922; and $2.16 in 1923. 1921; This was on par value of $5. Textile Workers Robbed. Dividends on common were $1,242,- 000 in, 1918; $1,200,000 in 1919; $1,350,000 in 1920; $1,320,000 in 1921; $1,080,000 in 1922; $1,296,000 in 1923, Earned per share of common stock 1918, $3.69, and 1919, $1.76 on par of (Continued on page 6) SENATOR KING URGES PLACE FOR SOVIET RUSSIA AT ARMS PARLEY WASHINGTON, March 18.—Senator King of Utah, whose proposal that a naval limitation conference of the nations be called by the presi- dent was put thru congress as a rider on an appropriation ‘bill, now suggests that Soviet Ru: “This invitation,’ It is a part of the+ be invited to come in. ays King, “can be given without interfering | with our attitude toward diplomatic recognition per se. We can notify Russia that her representatives will be received to take part in this conference and for no other purpose. Russia should be Invited because she holds the key to eastern Europe, and more especially to western Asia.” French opposition to the holding of a conference on limitation of auxiliary naval craft is not relaxed, according to, unofficial. advices in the different racial groups in this | Washington, and the scheme may fall thru. : Sane the Life of against the Polish bourgeoisie and tanislav Leniatlyt Stanislav Lanzutsky is ‘a Polish ‘workingman. He Is a militant fighter nobility. He is an uncompromising enemy of capitalism and imperialism. Stanislav Lanzutsky is a Com- munist. For this crime against capitalism the ruling class of Poland wants to murder Stanislav Lanzutsky. Stanislav Lanzutsky has been elected to the Polish parliament by the workers and poor peasants. of the toiling masses ment. He wai actively working in the inter member of the Communist fraction in parila- For this crime the Polish bourgeoisie, the flunky of French im- perialism, wants to murder Stanislav Lanzutsky. Stanislav Lanzutsky is now on trial before a capitalist court in Poland for a speech delivered in parliament as a member of its Communist frac- tion. The speech was an exposure of the bloody misdeeds of the brutal and corrupt Polish bourgeoisie and nobility. It was a challenge to the murderous rule of the servants of French imperialism and a call to the toiling masses to fight for their rights. . Death is the penalty that the ruling class of Poland is preparing to impose upon Stanislav Lanzutsky. The Polish capitalists want to murder him. The life of Stanislav Lanzutsky, workingman and brave fighter in the cause of labor all over the world, is in grave danger. Workingmen and workingwomen of America! SAVE THE LIFE OF STANISLAV LANQ@UTSKY! Don’t permit the muderous gang of Polish imperialists to rob you and the workers of Poland of one of the best, most loyat-and courageous fighters in the cause * of the oppressed masses. Protest! Demonstrate! Demand be 5) that the life of Stanislav Lanzutsky ‘ed. Send your demands to the Polish ambassador in the United States, to the Polish consuls and to the government of Poland. Polish capitalism shall not murder Stanislav Lanzutsky! SAVE THE LIFE OF STANISLAV LANZUTSKY! . “ George Maurer, Secretary, International Red Aid, American Section. Earl R. Browder, Acting Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party of America. COAL MINER GIVES BLOOD TO SAVE LIFE OF HIS COMRADE’S DAUGHTER SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 18.—Motherless Lillian Erie, 10, smiled up fromi her hospital cot here today, thankful that she was going to live, ‘And Mike Valero, 38, whose blood met the test for transfusion, grinned broadly because physicians said he had saved the life of his little neighbor, we Vera Gruz Teachers Organize. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, March 18—A union \of;the teachers of Vera Cruz has been formed to compel the au- thorities to pay their salaries, The salaries of the teachers, the’ union declares, have not been paid for more than four months. Settle for Pageant Subscriptions! Every member that has not yet paid for his subscription tickets is instructed to do so immediately. Branch agents must turn in all cash collected to the district office this week, and return unsold cards. If impossible to make accounting in full, then do not wait, but account at once for what you have, Members of branches that do not meet this week should pay direct to the district. office, 108 East 14th St., New York City. house agrioulturat ‘a coal miner’s daughter. | Slowly dying frém loss of blood be- cause of severe nose bleeding, Lillian welcomed ‘a blood transfusion, While scores of ‘offers’ were being made, Mike and 18 fellow miners, friends of the child's father at Kincaid, set out for the hospital. A little girh no~older than Lillian, came along to offer her blood and a man, 75 years old, asked by telephone whether he could be used in the oper- ation. Bill to Test Cows, * SPRINGFIELD, ll., March 18,—The Tice bill, requiring that all cattle be given a tuberculosis test in counties where 75 pér cent of the herd has been tested voluntarily, was to be reported to the legtslitite ‘late today by the ral Affairs committee. MARCH —$_— ved Daily Worker) It is legitimate under capitalism It fair day’s wage dal fair day’s work” ANOTHER STATE ON RECORD FOR CHILD SLAVERY RKER. oe” TWO THOUSAND CHEER SOVIETS AT SPY'S MEET CrowdinDemonstration Against Abramovich The latest. attempt of Raphael Abramovich to «make an anti-Soviet speech at the Workmen's Circle Ly- ceum, was turned into another huge demonstration for Soviet Russia. While the counter revolutionary so- cialist was making futile efforts to make himself heard above the shouts for Soviet Russia inside the hall, two thousand workers were . cheering speakers who told of the first work- ers’ and peasants’ government. One hundred plain clothes detec- tives with sawed off riot guns, uni- formed police, and socialist sluggers, failed to affect the enthusiasm of the cheering crowds. Chicago Y. W. L. Plans} Big Mass Meeting The latest to the amendment is New Hampshife, where the house rejected the child which has been by the vote of of representati voted against rati- fication. The ill not be referred to the New Hi hire senate, Child Increasing. As a result of” temporary defeat of the ame! » child labor in America is in jing-at a more tapid speed than ever before. After the liberals .and middle-class reformers failed in their attempt to “regulate” child ‘labor, the bosses have been hir- ing more young children then ever be- ince the recent im- ns the bosses have the children for p labor previously been drawing’ that source of Three Arrests Made. Joe Search, Ethel Birn and Marie Polishuk were arrested by Lieutenant Byrne and-his riot squad, who car- ried riot. guns. Lawndale Ave. and 27th St., where George Maurer of the Labor Defense Council succeeded in getting them out on bail at midnight. The three Communists were told to appear in night court last night at eight o’clock, at the city hall. MeanwhiJe they are at liberty on $50.00 bail each. Few Workers Admitted. It was evident that the socialists were determined to allow no one in- side the hall except the Forward crowd, and those socialists who were personally known to them. Many Jewish people who belonged to no party, but who wanted to find out about conditions in Soviet Russia yere turned back to the street, and joined the other workers who were -Supplied from rsinging “The International” and Y. We ke arty Busy. cheering for Soviet Russia. / In view of # ing increase in} “I couldn’t get in because they did 6 Young Workers N leading ie bie ist) Party is hanaabie its child la- bor campaign. Not only is the Young Workers Leagues calling upon the workers to put up:a united front fight for the complete:abolition of child la- bor, under the seadership of the league and the Workerss(Communist) Par- ty, but the Young Workers League is putting forward every effort to or- ganize the child slaves into its junior section and the «young workers be- tween 14 and 18 into the Young Work- ers League. Weekly Paper Leads Fight. The Young Worker, the official or- gan of the Young: Workers League, (Continued on Page 6) WALL STREET TO TAKE OVER C., M, & ST, P, RAILROAD Receivers Appointed for Re-organization Wall Street bankers prepared to take over complete control of the Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- road following the: appointment of réceivers for the road on a petition stating that the company will be un- able to retire its'bonds. Over $47,- 000,000 in bonds mature on June 1, and a million dollars in interest is due on April 1, Receivers appointed include H. BE. Bryan, president of the railroad; Mark W. Potter and Edward J. Brundage. The petition was filed by the Brickley Coal company. Three committees, representing bondholders, preferred stockholders and common stockholders will take part in the transferring the manage- ment of the road to the Wall Street bankers. The bondholders’ committee is headed by Frederick Ecker, vice- President of the Life Insurance com- pany, and the common stockholders’ committee includes: Donald Geddes, one of the Foad’s present directors, and Percy Rockefeller,who is director of numerous railroads, Mortimer N, Buckner, president of the New York Trust company; and also a director of the railroad, will rep- resent, the preferred stockholders, Teapot Defense Starts, CHEYENNE, Wyo, March 18, — Harry F. Sinclair's défense of his leas- ing of Teapot Domesfrom A, B, Fall, former secretary of the interior, got under way here iniFederal Judge T. Blake Kennedy's court today. A DAILY WORKER subscription or two—will make as better Commun- ist of you, not know me,” a Jewish rabbi told the DAILY WORKER. In spite of this, howeyer, fully one- Bee eaves of the audience, which num- bered' only 300 people, were real) workers who refused to countenahce the lies of Abramovich. As soon as Abramovich began to slander the Russian workers cries-of protest filled the hall. Socialists came running with police and sluggers and beat up several girls and workers. “There is free speech in America,” Abramovich said. “That's a lie,” shouted one workers, and the battle was on. Nat Kaplan, member of the nation- al executive committee of the Young Workers’ League was the first to come bouncing out of the hall, after giving royal battle to a dozen slug- gers. Anna Bloch came next, and then Bill Kuperman was thrown out by the police and socialists, who wielded clubs freely inside the hall. When Comrade Kuperman ap- Plauded at the name of Soviet Rus sia, a burley detective pinned his arms, and two socialists slugged him in the face. A newspaper camera- man wag about to take a picture of the slugging but Morris Siskind, of the Forward, refused to permit it, be- ing afraid to let the workers know of the atrocities. . L. Yefsky, member of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, a’ clothing cutter, was beaten and clubbed by the socialist gunmen, and his wife was taken into a separate room by the socialists and slugged. Yefsky was thrown into the streets, and could not find his wife for half an hour. Yefsky declared that it was the socialist Rosenstein, who beat his wife. L. Bellman and his wife had a similar experience. As in the other Abramovich meetings, the socialists confined their slugging efforts to the women, calling the police when they wanted to slug the men. Minnie Gibbs, of the Young~Work- (Continued on page 6) GERMAN WORKERS SHOT DOWN BY POLICE 10 TERRORIZE ELECTION (Special to The Daily Worker.) BERLIN, March 18— One Com- munist worker was shot dead and three wounded by a volley fired without warning into a crowd of workers around a street meeting where protests were being voiced against the murder of seven work- ers, two of them women, by the po- lice at Halle last Friday. The German police under the orders of the socialist-capitalist al- liance, are terrorizing workers everywhere in an effort to crush the Communist Party’ vote, as low as possible in the ction, on March They were taken to| the police station at the corner of | Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, | | constitutional government, Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, lL BETHLEHEM STEEL'S GREED FOR PROFITS KILLED '34 MINERS Thirty-four miners have been sac- rificed to the greed for profits of the Bethlehem Stee! corporation, which owns the mine near Falr- mont, W. Va., where an explosion has just entombed the miners, These are some of the men who are responsible for the death of the 34 miners: Charles M; Schwab, multi-million- aire, and president of the Bethle- hem Steel corporation, director in the Chase National bank of New York, director of the Chicago Pneu- matic Tool company, the United Zinc Smelting company, the Vana- dium corporation, the Empire Trust company, and other corporations. Percy A. Rockefeller, director of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, the Atlantic Fruit company, the Midvale Steel company, the National City Bank of New York, the Rem- ington Arms company, the Western Union Telegraph conipany and numerous other corporations. Alvin Untermyer; director of the Bethlehem Steel corporation and the Stutz Motor company. Harold Stanley, M. P. Murphy, H. S. Snyder, Archibald Johnston, E. G. Grace, C. Apstin Buck, H. E. Lewis, John W Griggs, H G. Dalton, all directors of the Bethlehem Steel corporation and interested in numer- ous other large corporations. DEATH OF SUN YAT MESSAGE OF Central Committee, Koumingtang Party, Pekin, China. proletarians and poor farmers co-operation in continuance his g: people from yéke of imperialisin. WASHINGTON, March 18.—Major Revolution,” has again broken out. vism when this bit of information was dropped. Miss Hermine Schwede, field sec- retary for the national association for seconded the alarm over the youth movement, and urged the compulsory teaching of the constitution in American schools. The house, in its closing hours, adopted a Massachusetts resolution urging the teaching of the constitu- tion. It defeated an amendment by Huddleston of Alabama, proposing that the declaration of independence be first taught. CHINA MOURNS SUN YAT SEN AT FUNERAL SUNDAY ~NEW YORK W YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents MINE EXPLOSION CAMEIN WAKE Ignore Safety Laws As Union Is Ousted (Special to The Daily Worker.) FAIRMONT, W. Va., March 18, — The Bethlehem Mining company, whose mine No. 41 at Barrackville, near here, expoded, causing the en- tombment of 34 miners, had recently discharged union men and re-opened the mine on a non-union basis, it was revealed here, Miners here say that after the in- stallation of “open shop” conditions the Bethlehem company failed to ob: serve safety reguations insisted upon by the United Mine Workers of Amer. ica, and the catastrophe resulted, When the bodies of two miners. horribly burned, were reported found at the foot of the shaft of the mine hope was abandoned that the 34 en- tombed miners would be brought out alive. Rescue workers told the fam- ilies of the miners, who have waited anxiously at the mine entrance since the explosion wrecked the mine, that these two bodies were but the first ot thirty-four dead men who would be brought to the syrface—corpses. Later it was denied that the twa (Continued on page 2) SEN BRINGS SYMPATHY AND SUPPORT FROM WORKERS PARTY Following confirmation of the news of the death of Sun Yat Sen, leader of the Koumingtang party of the Chinese workers and peasantry, and staunch friend of Soviet Russia, the Workers (Communist) Party of America has sent the following cable to the Koumingtang party: ‘ Workers (Communist) Party of America in name of conscious sends condolences to. toiling masses of China on death of great leader Sun Yat Sen. We pledge reat work for freedom of Chinese CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. U.S. GENERAL BATTLES BOLSHEVIKS BEFORE LADIES’ PINK TEA PARTY General Helmick, inspector general of the army, who recently told a conference of anti-radical societies, in Wash- ington, that “A German, Karl Marx, was the real instigator of the French In a talk at a women’s city club tea, the general told the ladies that the youth movement in American schools and colleges is merely disguised so- cialism. He was unmasking Bolshe-+- CAL'S CHOICE FOR COMMERCE BODY REJECTED Woodlock Turned Down a Second Time WASHINGTON, March 18.—Presid ent Coolidge lost another round in the senate this afternoon, when admi- nistration leaders abandoned their efforts tp obtain confirmation of the appointment of Thomas L. Woodlock to the interstate commerce com- mission, Sufficient votes could not be must- ered to confirm the New Yorker. Woodlock’s appointment was. block- PEKING, China, March 18—The fu-!ed in the last session, and many se- neral services for Dr. Sun Yat Sen, to be held tomorrow, will be attended by the acting Chinese executive and the ministers of every department and bureau heads of all government departments. A ceremonial state funeral will follow as soon as the special memo- rial arch on Tiger Hill at Nanking has been completed. Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s body will lie in state in a central pavilion of Central | Park for two weeks. The Kuomingtang newspaper of Pe- king has closed down until the funeral is over. Kuomingtang party leaders will carry the casket of their dead | chief. Get a sub—make another Com- munist! nators had announced they would again vigorously fight confirmation. John G. Sargent, who was appointed attorney general by Coolidge because of a lifelong friendship, will have to deal mostly with anti-trust cases, in cluding the case of the meet packers’ trust. The trusts have, of course, |nothing to fear from Coolidge’s friend. The conspiracy case against Burton \K. Wheeler, “progressive” candidate for vice president in the last election, will be taken up. War fraud cases jare also before the department of justice. Sargent’s farm adjoins the Coolidge |farm in Vermont. Me took the oath |of office late this afternoon: Talk it up—your shopmate will subscribe! JAP WORKERS IN FLIGHT AS . FLAMES MAKE THEM HOMELESS TOKIO, March 18.—Troops were ordered to tear down houses in the path of the flames as fire swept thru the northern part of Tokio today, destroying 13,000 homes, a high wind sped the spread of the flames. Panicky workers, with what goods they could stricken district, carry, fled thru the streets from the OF ‘OPEN SHOP” ~