The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1925, Page 1

in Full Blast GET IN Vol. II. No. 59. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: STATE POs. ss” "SED TO BREAK $88 » "RE NEVER ON RURAL PATROL AS CLAIMED (Article IL) By MANUEL GOMEZ. Some woman is writing a series of romantic fairy tales for ithe Chicago Daily News glorifying the “American It is part of the propaganda referred to in these columns yesterday. cossacks.” Big Business admits openly that the state police force which it is trying to set up in Illinois thru the medium of the Dunlap bill is patterned after the mounted constabulary of Pennsylvania (known to all workers as “American cossacks”), and it therefore becomes necessary for the prostitute publicity agents of capitalism to spread the word that the Pennsylvania troopers are AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O’FLAHERTY of hed British working class have no reason to be proud of the accom- plishments of the labor party while it functioned as His Majesty’s govern- ment. But it is an ill wind that does not blow some good, and one of the blessings that the elevation of Mac- Donald and company to the govern- ment brought to the workers, was the elimination of Frank Hodges from the official leadership of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain. 8m UTSIDE of the Metal Workers’ Union of Germany, the M. F, of G. B. is the strongest industrial un- ion in the world, at least numerically, At the height of its power it, num- bered over one million members. But Frank Hodges, its secretary, until he became ciVil lord of the admiralty, almost wrecked the mighty union, when he betrayed it on “Black Fri- day” in conjunction with J. H. ‘Thomés, his iocty: & “* IN Hodges decided to become the nominal head of His Ma- jesty’s navy, the miners requested him to relinquish hig post as secre- tary of the union. Tho he must have known that his tenure of office in Downing street would be short, he preferred even a brief fling at. the pew position to wasting his brilliancy ‘on the coal miners. But he- to regret his decision. A’ militant is now in Hodge’s place and it looks as if the ex-civil lord of the king’s navy is destined to remain for a long time to-come on the outside looking in, ed ‘HE. London Daily, Herald carries be a interesting news on the strug- gle between the old reactionary offi- cialdom and the left wingers. A. J. Cook, is now in Hodge’s place as sec- retary of the miners. He is a fighter and a staunch supporter of the Brit- ish minority movement, which is or- ganized along the ‘same lines as the Trade Union Educational League here, Infact the T. U. EB, L. is the model for the left wing in the trade union movement of Europe. In this respect at, least the American revolu- tionists have been able to make & contribution to the arsenal of the army of labor in other countries. ae) NE of the biggest industrial bat- tles in the history of Great Britain is expected to take place before the end of the year. The miners will be the first to step into the breach, Cook is leading the offensive. Like a good gener@l he is seeking allies, among the transport workers and railway- men, This igs the Communist program, the program that the Communists have been advocating for the past few years, That the British work- ing masses are. ready to accept it testifies |to their growing class con- sciousness, to the influence of the Communists, and parficularly to the desperate situation in which British capitalism finds itself. er ae NEW. Triple Alliance is the im- mediate aim of the militants who want to face the enemy with a united front, . Therefore, a battle royal is being waged. inside the ranks of the British trade. unions. Frank Hodges ye (lined up.with the coal operators, ot js fighting Cook and his support- ors. Nodges wants a five-years’ truce. Like John L. Lewls of the U. M. W. of A., he does not mention the miners or sow any concern for their needs, He talks of the “country” and the “industry ag a whole.” Cook says in effect, “To hell with the operators and (Continued on page 2) the epitome of honor, integrity, kind- ness, courage and gallantry. But the workers do not call them “cossacks” for. nothing. Constabulary Don’t Protect Farms. The DAILY WORKER has proof— accumulated by labor organizations over a long period—that the Penn- sylvania state constabulary is a ma- chine for strike breaking and terror- ization of labor. As a rural police “protecting farms and firesides” it does not function at all. Because the wealthy Illinois “law and order gang” declare that they have gone to Penn- sylvania for their model in drawing up the Dunlap state police bill, and because Pennsylvania is in fact the classic example in the United States of the workings of a state constabu- lary, it is worth while for workers to look a little into the record of the “American cossacks.” Here it is: The Pennsylvania state police is an outgrowth of the notorious “coal and iron police,” an industrial, private police organization maintained by the corporations to suppress and intimi- date the workers in the steel mills and the coal mines. The activities of this force against the workers brought it into such evil repute. that the industrial barons began advocat- ing the establishment of a. regular state constabulary which would have a brighter gloss of respectability and decency, while being maintained and used in the selfsame manner as the old “coal and iron police.” A Private Army Legalized. Thus, shortly after the great min- ers’ strike in the anthracite coal bill teed the sale liquor dealer who was va pattived first superintendent of the state po- lice, testified several years/later that he got his plan of organization from the royal Irish constabulary—going to Ireland and spending three weeks in barracks to study methods; organ- ization and rules and regulations. The royal Irish constabulary was, as everyone knows, a force used by England to ke@p the Irish-in subjec- (Continued on page. 2.) In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. GENERAL LOCKOUT IN DENMARK AND SWEDEN AGAINST UNION LABOR (Special to The Daily Worker.) COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 18.—A general lockout thruout Den- mark goes into effect tonight follow- ing the failure of this morning’s ne- gotiations between the employers and workers. ‘ There were already 50,000 out of work today, and it is expected that this number will be doubled by the end of the week. A lockout in Sweden covering a large number of industries also went into effect today. Repeal of Search and Seizure Act Reported to House SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 19.—Re- peal of the Illinois search and seizure act of 1919 and the prohibition en- forcement act of 1921, by a referen- dum of the people, was advanced in the state legislature today when the house committee on license and mis- cellany reported favorably on thc bills. No further action was expected for a week or two, Postpone Radio Probe, NEW YORK, March 19.—The fed- eral trade commission’s hearing of charges against eight companies ac- cused of attempting to establish a monopoly in the radio industry was postponed today until May 18. SATURDAY, MILLIONS SPENT HERE BY POLAND FOR AMMUNITION Most of U. SiLoan Goes to Gunmakers a NEW YORK, Match 19.—The gov- ernment of Poland has contracted with the Colt Firearms company to, buy $3,000,000 worth of machine guns and small arms ae or’ Frank C. Nichols, vice-pi nt of the com- pany, announced | on his return from Europe. ; The American Dieccrvent has re- cently loaned Poland $30,000,000 much of which is being Spent in the pur- chase of war suppliés from American concerns. Over twenty inition dollars has been spent from th® American loan on army supplies, and the army bud- get is now $160,000,000. The Polish government has been conducting a stfeiuous campaign of expulsion, deporting from the country many thousands of peasants born in Ukrainia, Germany, Russia, and oth- er nations. Only those who are known to be white guardists are ad- mitted. The American loan is looked upon as an attempt of the American capi- talists to compete with French im- perialism for the domination of Po- land. WORKERS (COMMUNIST ) PARTY URGES NEED OF CO-OPERATION BETWEEN AMERICAN AND CHINESE MASSES The Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has issued a statement on the need for co-operation of the Chinese and American masses and the problems facing the Chinese People since the death of their great leader, as follows: ee 8 UN. Yat Sen, leader of the mass party of the Chinese people, Kuo- mingtang is dead. His life was devoted to the cause of Chinese independence and no one in- can fill the place left vacant oath of Sun Yat-Sen in ranks of the party of Chinese inde- pendence. Sun Yat Sen was the foe of the rob. ber capitalist nations. He fought steadily and bravely against all the schemes of imperialism for the ‘en- slavement of the Chinese masses. He and the Kuomingtang party was the staunchest bulwark of the Peking government against the plots of the imperialist banditti, altho his (Continued on page 6.) JAP RULERS HIDE DEATH TOTAL IN DEVASTATING-FIRE THAT MADE 10,000 TOKIO WORKERS HOMELESS TOKIO, March 19.—The Japanese government has not and probably will never make public the figures on the number of workers killed in the fire which swept Nippori, working class suburb of Tokio yesterday. workers were rendered homeless and hundreds injured in the fire. More then 10,000 Sun Yat Sen’s Burial PEKIN, China, March 19.—The Sov- iet Russian ambassador to China, Kar- akhan, and other Soviet representa- tives, were the only diplomats in the funeral procession for Dr. Sun Yat Sen, dead leader of the Chinese re- publicans in their fight against the intervention of foreign imperialism. The leaders of the Kuomingtang party, which Dr. Sun headed, were said to be reluctant, to conduct chris- tian services for Dr. Sun Yat Sen, but deferred to the wishes of Dr. Sun’s wife. High officials were noticably absent from the funeral services, but an enor- mous crowd of worfters ‘attended. The official ceremonies will begin in four days, AMERICAN FEDERATIONIST MAKES ‘BRITISH LABOR’ OUT OF TURNER BUT IGNORES WHOLE DELEGATION In the March number of the American Federationist (appropriately printed with a yellow cover), the official organ of the executive council of the A. F. of L,, republishes an article dug up by,the ever busy reactionaries, from ‘that weceptacle of filthy Hes against Soviet Russia, the Jewish Daily Forward. ‘The article is entitled “What British Labor, Saw in Soviet Russia.” But instead of telling what “British labor” saw, it tells what the Jewish Daily (Continued on Page 4) SOVIET RUSSIA _ |REDS ARRESTED REPRESENTED AT | AT ABRAMOVICH - SUN'S FUNERAL) MEET DISMISSED Many Workers Attend |Search Tals, How the Police Beat Him Three members of the Workers (Communist) Party who were arrested | at the demonstration for Soviet Rus- | sia when Raphael Abramovich tried, to make an anti-Soviet speech at the Douglas Park Auditorium, were dis- missed in Judge Harris’ court in the city hall. Judge Harris heard the testimony |: of Ethel Birn, Marie Polishuk and Joe, Search, who had been taken to the | Lawndale police station and released on $50.00 bond, and then heard the testtmony of Lieutenant Byrne and his riot squad who made the arrests, “Case dismissed,” was all he said, Joe Search told Judge Harris how he was standing peaceably in front of the auditorium when a plain clothes man seized him and started to beat him. The detective pushed Search to the sidewalk and slammed him against the back of an automobile parked at the curb. Search, not knowing that the man was a police officer, pro-| Ti. tested. Seeing the detective beating the boy, Ethel Birn and,Marie Polishuk remon- strated with him, they told Judge Har- ris, and were; immediately arrested and driven in the patrol wagon to the Lawndale police: station, where they were confined, until midnight, when George Maurer, secretary of the La- bor Defense .Gouncil, put up $60.00 (Contined on page 6.) 4 Estimate “1,000 Dead; Workers Aré Destitute (Special te The Daily Worker.) WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Marck 19.—The ‘lackened: figures of con! miners, clad just as they were when called from the mine pits, were today probing the ruins of their homes, try ing to find the bodies of their lovec ones, or searching for food and bilan kets. The storm left a trail of one. thou sand known dead workers and mem- bers of their families in its wake Fire, still burning today, added to the most terrible catastrophe the south- ern Hlinois coal miners have ever known. New Disaster Appalis. Miners who are used to sudden death, visited without warning in the murky coal pits, miners who for years have known the hardship of unem- ployment, strikes and lockouts, were appalled today at the wreckage ané death left by the cyclone. Word reaches here that 100 em- ployes of the Heinz: pickle factury at Princeton, Illinois, ‘were killed or fa- tally injured. The factory was com pletely demolished while the men were at work, The C. and E. I. 'rairoad shops at West Frankfort and the M. and O railroad shops at. Murphysboro hay been entirely wiped out, with hun jdreds of employes Killed or injured. The towns of West Frankfort, with 18,000 population and Murphrysbor« with 16,000 population, in the heart 0: the Southern Illinois: coal mining dis |triet were almost. completely wiper out, the fire which followed adding t: the terrible scenes» of horror an¢é death. Here dead bodies were stil! twisted in the wrecked houses, and dead strewed the streets. Many Mine Towns Hit, \ Many were killed: and injured in the coal, mining and farming towns ot Gorin, Gorham, De Soto, Bush, Hurst West Frankfort, Benton, Logan, Par- rish, Thompsonville, McLeansboro Carmi, Crossville, Ilinois, and other towns in Indiana, Tennessee, Missou Early reports said that the storm hit Dowell, Mlinois, fui: force, but no details were received from that town Duquoine, - Illinois, the coal mining center near Christapher, was said to be in the path of the storm, The disaster came at a time when the southern Illinois oal miners were spenniless and: deeply in “debt owing to the long wontinued unem (Continued: on page 2) tH 21, 1925 | TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE _CALLS FOR SUPPORT OF FIGHTING NOVA SCOTIA ‘COAL MINE STRIKERS \ pit A es iy Outlining the titanic struggle that confronts the Nova Scotia coal miners in the struggles with the British Empire Steel corporation, the national committee of the Trade Union Eduactional League has called on all workers to come to their support in a statement issued as follows: ‘nee the ‘Act of Maren cy s79, Ezy 290 1 cag years the British Empire Steel ment have, by united effort, tried of Nova Scotia. cards. Let them stay out two months or six months, it matters not. Event- ually they will come to us.” Here is capitalism stark maked. We hold your jobs, we have systematically starved you, your wives and children are hungry, you will come to us at our terms, says the beast BESCO. This is a challenge to the working | class of North America. The British (Continued on page 6) HUGE TOTALS OF DEAD AND INJURED IN CYCLONE AREA “BENTON, Ill, March 19— Esti- mates of the dead and injured gath- ered for the DAILY WORKER in yesterday’s cyclone provided the following death totals: Towns Dead Injured MMlinois, West Frankfort, 111.150 2,200 Murphysboro, Ill, ......125 1,800 De Soto, Hil... 800 Vergennes, Ill. 90 Gorham, lil. 70 Annapolis, Mo. 41 | Royalton, Ill. . 20 Carbondale, 111. 61 Biehle, Mo. .... 27 Cape Girardeau, Mo. 12 41 Carmi, Mi. ........ 1 Blumfield, Lil. oe" Caldwell, tt. . 16 Logan, III. 29 Thompsonville, tl. 32 Batimated Farms 100 a indian: Princeton, Ind. 172 Owensville, Ind. 112 McLeansville 27 Poseyville ..... 30 Griffin . 200 Elizabeth . 10 Missouri, Altenburg 1 10 Kentucky, Springfield 2 25 Lexington - 1 ? Buck Lodge 3 20 Keytown ... 2 18 Tennessee. Gallatin ...... 30 80 Angle ... 15 40 Withan 12 60 Oakgrove 10 26 Suphuria 8 20 Ucklodge 3 bs Peatown . 2 ‘B. & 0,’ JOHNSTON TO SPEAK BEFORE ‘PROGRESSIVES’ Tattered Remnants of C. P. P. A. Meet (Special to The Daily Worker.) CLEVELAND, 0O., March 19.—The hopeful remnants of the local C, P. P. A., facetiously termed the “Collect- ion of Peanut Politicians of America,” are going to stage a commemorative ceremony here on Friday, where the aspiring and expiring progressive party of Cuyahoga has inviting his tattered majesty “B. and 0.” John- stone, to speak. Because the sick man of Wisconsin carried this city, the petty bourgeois and labor bureaucracy of this section still think that they can wedge into power somehow if only they keep try- ing. Respectable—But Ancient Hash. The roster of the party's executive looks like a dish of very ancient hash. Albert Coyle is the chairman, while the rest are an assortment of yellow socialists and ex-socialists, labor “leaders” and hungry office seekers in whose breast hope springs eternal, Max Hayes, of course, is present, with Henry Raisse the publicity man for the Cleveland Federation of Labor and Marie Wing of the “progressive” councilmen, Johnston has fallen upon evil days of late, and since his February defeat at Chicago, and the ever-growing an- tagonism among the members of his union to his pet “B, and 0.” plan of class collaboration with the capital- ists, has not especially added to his popularity. As a politician he ‘has proven a (Continue on Page 2) f Statement by the National Committee, Trade Union Educational League. corporation and thé Canadian govern- to crush the militant fighting miners In 1923, with the aid of the reactionary John L. Lewis, they were able to break the Steel Workers’ Union,.and now all the powers of “BESCO” and the state are being mobilized to complete the job by reducing the miners to the same helpless position as the steel workers. “BESCO” is brutally frank in its purpos and confident of the result. Vice-president McLurg of the British Empire Steel corporation says: can’t stand the gaff. We hold the+ “They CHARGE LEVIN CONSPIRACY WITH BOSSES Put Militants Out to Aid Employers The bosses in the Chicago clothing shops are in close conspiracy with Sam Levin, manager of the joint board of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, to deprive left wing workers of their chance to make a living by work- ing at their trade. This is known to be the reason behind the score or so of workers taken off their jobs by or- ders of Levin, who proceeds under the excuse that these workers had no right to distribute leaflets issued by a local of the A. C. W. Despotism Causes Storm. Against ‘this monstrous’ despotism Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WOWKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIL Price 3 Cents 34 MINERS ARE STILL ENTOMBED IN W. VA. MINE Rescuers Believe They Will Be Found Dead BARRACKSVILLE, W. Va., March 19.—The stark tragedy ever looming in a miner’s everyday life stalked in this little town today, leaving dull despair in its wake. Thirty-four men are still entombed in the Bethlehem Mines corporation, where they were caught 300 feet be- low the surface by an explosion Tues- day night, and unless all signs found in the mine fail, the miners will be brought out dead, according to many of the rescue workers. Fire which broke out in the mine late yesterday was holding back resv cue work today. Fire has been discovered in one of the headings of the No. 41 mine of the Bethehem’ Mines corporation, R. M Lambie, chief of the West Virginia inspectors, declared tonight. He added the blaze had not extended over a large area and was expected to be brought under control in a short time. The fire was encountered in the right heading, Mr. Lambie said, where it is believed twenty-two of the thirty- four missing miners were working when entombed by an explosion last night. The other twelve men are thofight to have been working in the left heading. Battle Tangled Wreckage. Thruout the day rescue crews bat led with tangled wreckage and fallen timbers which must be surmounted be fore it can be determined whether the imprisoned men are dead or alive. Leaders in the rescue work have abandoned hope of reaching them to- night. They say ‘they did not expect of control over the very lives of the|to reach that section of the mine un- workers, and the treacherous collusion with the bosses to wipe out all resist- ance to the class collaboration schemes which threaten the workers’ standards, the members of the A. C. W. are storming by hundreds ‘at the office of Levin, pouring out execra- tions, demanding that such tyranny shall be stopped and the members, alt still inigood* standing, be restored to their jobs in the shops. - The Workers demand that nd mem- ber of thé union shall be robbed of his chance ‘to''make a living by any such sion withthe employers in this in- stance to drive the militant members of the union out of the union by tak- ing away théir jobs and forcing them to starve‘or ‘to leave their trade, is so (Continued on page 2) til some time tomorrow. The mine had been penetrated tc a depth of about 2,000 feet at that time, with an estimate made that res- cuers had twice that distance yet to . Hope of Workers Dwindles. As the rescue work progressed hope virtualy faded that any of the men would be found alive, no signal of any kind having been received from sections not yet explored. The only possibility that some of them ‘may r |have survived hinged upon the slender high-handed' ‘act-of Levin, whose colla- | hope that they might have been able to erect makeshift brattice work be- fore “black damp” that followed the blast penetrated thruout the workings. A heavy rain added to the discom- fort of hundreds of dry-eyed men (Continued on Page 2.) PHILADELPHIA POLICE BREAK UP COMMUNIST OPEN FORUM ON THE PRETEXT OF WRONG SIZED FLAG By B. HERMAN. (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 19.—The Workers Party Ope Forum con ducted every Sunday evening at the Grand Fraternity Hall was disrupted by the Philadelphia police Sunday, March 15, on the flimsy pretext that the American flag that must be ‘displayed at all public meetings was not the cor- rect size. The Pennsylvania law calls for a flag 66 by 52 inches, while the flag at the Workers Party Open Forum was about 10 inches under size. The city” detective who ordered the meeting dispersed was offered a compromise im the committee to pin two flags togeth-¢— ——_______ er and make for the shortage which he unconditionally refused. It was pointed out that hundreds of meetings have been held in the same hall with the same size flag and they were ne- ver molested, but this made little dif- ference to this righteous minion of the law. A large audience was present to hear Comrade M. J. Olgin speak on the “General Staff of the World Revolu- tion” when the disturbance was made by the police department, The chairman of the evening, Com- rade 8. Sklaroff, ‘éxplained the situa- tion to the audience after all efforts were exhausted to-borrow a proper sized flag, and asstired them that the open forum would continue next Sunday in spite of this unwarranted and outrageous action of the police. Philadelphia audiences are quite ac- ITALIAN METAL STRIKE ENDS WITH INCREASED WAGES FOR 120,000 (Special to The Daily Worker.) MILAN, Italy, March strike of 120,000 metal which for a week has paralyzed the metal industry, is declared off by the socialist union of metal work- ers which accepted the wage raise of two and one-fifth liras per day Previously accepted by the fascist union, which is much smaller. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be customed to such disturbances and |Sure to see him the next day to (Continue on Page 2) get his subscription. THREAD MILL OWNERS MAKING 40 PER CENT PROFIT PLEAD POVERTY TO FORCE WAGE CUT By WM. SIMONS. (Special to The Daily Worker) WILLIMANTIC, Conn., March 19.-—-Not all workers in Willimantic know that the American (!) Thread Co. is English-owned. Practically all of them are patriotic Americans, The entire life of Willimantic is such as to develop or compel patriotism, The road of the non-aonformist is a hard-one. It is true that William Z, Foster, candidate for president on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket, received 8 votes in the straw vote taken by the American Thread Athletic Association, but in the main the workers are (Continued on page 5.)