The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1925, Page 1

Daily Worker Annual Sub- scription Drive Now on in-Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! Vol, Il. No. 61. PENI. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HERE is no prospect of peace be- tween France and England. There ean bg no peace between those na- tions. Not because of temperamental differences, but because of clashing in- terests. When war breaks out between France and England—unless the war between the United States and Eng- land comes first, or the one between the U, S. and Japan—our, ears will be assaulted with British propaganda about the decadence of France and by French propaganda about the greed and avarice: of John Bull, “28 N the event of a war between Eng- 4 land and France it is quite possible} that Wall Street may wink at the French debt, as Britain is America’s most formidable foe among the cap- italist nations, and France is passing out of the picture as an_ imperialist power. It doés not matter if we have organizations in existence designed to cement the friendly relations between the two “English-speaking nations.” Oil is more powerful than blood now- adays. Oil was a favorite antidote for troubled waters in other days, but to- day it vd our greatest troublemaker. ee tbe al the pacifists no longer hope to avert war. “Hope deferred maketh the heart stick,” said the bible or one of the prophets. There is a mouthful of wisdom in the old saying. The late war took all the wind out of the sails of pacifism. They are now flapping against the masts. But Rear Admiral Fiske, “views with alarm” the extent of the pacifist menace in the United States, and his speech is not caleulated to strew the already thorny path of Calvin Coolidge with yoses, $e oa ‘pueeh are more harmless div sions than tickling the thyroid of a sleeping dog with a red hot poker, But a retired admiral, full of Dutch cour- age-is liable to step in where a dope fiend would not. The old salt in de- nouncing the pacifists stepped on the ashes of their patron saint, Woodrow Wilson, On topOf Charles G.. Dawes | and other troubles Calvin will have) the wild-eyed followers of the “paci-| fist” Wilson hopping on to him. Fiske expressed the opinion that those who were opposed to mass murder are physical cowards, Among those mil- lions, Woodrow_Wilson could be num- vered, he sajd. In fact Teddy Roose- velt was his authority for the state- ment. ’ se * | F-another cyclone hits the United States, it can be attributed without farther investigation to the fury gen- erated in the breasts of Wilson’s paci- fist followers over the admfral’s re- marks. A scorned woman is mild in her wrath compared to an insulted pacifist. When there are millions of them, the trouble is multiplied. We can sit by and. watch the result, be- ing very neutral like the Irish patriot who watthed an Englishman and an Orangeman trying to dispose of each other. We hope both sides will win. But don’t forget that the next war is much¢nearer than even the most pes- simistic bargained for and that any «ind of peace under capitalism is no onger even a remote possibility. see HE Polish government has decided to postpone its attack on the gar- rison holding the Danzig corridor, One reason for this decision may be found in a recent visit of Soviet representa- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: vena THE In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicagc, by mail, $6.00 per year. ‘ ee, es. a Gee,” TUESDAY, MARCH Battle Reaction 1 in Amalgamated Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WO. PUBLISHING CO., S FIGHT WAGE CUT. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., NEW YORK EDITION KER Chicago, Il, Price 3 Cents SEATTLE LABOR UNIONS PROTEST. EXPULSIONS AS COMMUNISTS IN STATEMENT CHALLENGE ACCUSERS (Special to The Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Wash., March 22.—Deep protest developed at. the meeting of the Central Labor Council here at its last meeting, when the strike and grievance committee, which constitutes the trial board of the council, ren- dered their report, which recommended that Delegates Joe Havel, Price and Jones be expelled, and that Delegates Mohr, Hansen and Carlson be exoner- ated. Profound admiration of the stand taken by the group of six, all members of the Workers (Communist) Party, was shown when Joe Havel read to the council the statement of the six Communists. In the debate on committee report, James A. Duncan, of the machinists’ union and ex-secretary of the council, together with “Tex” Phillips of Paint- ers’ Local No, 300; took streneous ex- Digging i in the Ruins ception to the expulsions. See Blow to Organized Labor. Phillips declared that such action would seriously weaken the organized labor movement, and Duncan protest- ed that if those in authority proceed to expel all Communists fram the American labor movement, such ac- tion would ultimately wreck the unions. Duncan stated that the Work- ers (Communist) Party is destined completely to supplant the moribund socialist party, and he affirmed that the radicals were the life of the lakor movement. Adjournment came at the sedtary time, 11 p. m., with an extension of time being demanded by Levine, the prosecutor against the- Communists. It was denied, however, and the mat- ter will.come up at the next meeting on Wednesday. o-statement,of the Communists, read» by -Joe= ‘tee which is the talk of.the unions of Seattle and marks a new stage in the (Continued on page 3) ELEVEN UNION MINERS FRAMED UP FOR MURDER W. Va. Coal Barons Use State Police GRANT TOWN, W. Va., March 22— The W. Va. county and local officials, many of whom are directly employed by the. coal operators of this section, miners when they arrested eleven of- ficer#® and members of the United (Continued on page 3) STRIKES TO BE CRUSHED BY PERMANENT MARTIAL LAW, 1S MEANING OF STATE POLIGE (Article III) By MANUEL GOMEZ It means what amounts to d_ their persecution. of union i) CLASS VICTIMS OF THE TORNADO’ Knowing that the working class is always the greatest sufferer in any | calamity, and asserting that those whose daily business it is to rob and ex- ploit the workers fre scarcely to be expected to give the working class vic- {ims of the tornado ‘in southern IMinois more than superficial attention, and will not do i to strengthen the miners’ union whose members have suffered he ist _Migaster, the International Workers’ Aid has issued an appeal for: aid to be given to aid the bereaved and suf- fering workers wh0 aré victims of the storm. The appeal follows: , . * * * * Help the working clas#storm victims! Thousands of workers and their families are left homeless and destitute by the ravages of the most devastat- SOVIET RUSSIA” Hundreds are k{lled and thousands | | injured! Whole mining towns have | State police means perpetual martial law. military intervention in every strike. It means government by irresponsible and heavily-armed troopers, free to invade any community in the state with or without the permission of local authorities, and to interrupt meetings, make arbitrary arrests and tyrannize over the workers and pgor farmers. As | pointed out in former articles, the wealthy backers of the Dunlap police bill in Illinois and similar bills in other states are far more interested in the workers than in the farmers—at any rate when it comes to this have formed a solid phalanx against attackers of workers’ rights. Now they are in @istress. Let the work- ers of America come to their aid! Many relief agencies are at work. Thousands of dollars are being ap- propriated by the several states and by business interests to relieve the suffering survivors and réhabjlitate been razed to the ground; other towns and villages have been partial- Mass ea in| New York City | ly demolished. As in all great tragedies, it is the NEW YORK, ‘Mares 22.—Acting un- der the cloak of relief for political wotkers who are suffering the great- est hardships. The miners in South- ern Illinois, ‘the most affected storm prisoners, a new committee has been formed in New York for the purpose of carrying on a campaign against LIPTZIN, OF N.Y. LOCAL NO.5, 10. SPEAK ( TONGHT Protest | Outrages of Manager Levin Sam Liptzin, of the famous Local 5, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, suspended by President Sid- ney Hillman from the joint board, will | Speak at the great mass protest meet- | ing of Amaigamated members tonight at 8 o'clock, at Temple Hall, corner of Van Buren street and Marshfield Ave. The meeting is to protest against | the outrageous action of Sam Levin, | manager of the Chicago joint board, in taking members of the union off their jobs and thus depriving them of a chance to eagn a livelihood, merely for distributing a leaflet issued by Local 5 of the A. C. W. of New York City. Predict Huge Demonstration, Judging by the sentiment prevailing | | jin the shops, this meeting is expect- | ed to be a huge demonstration against the Hillman-Levin machine for trying | to drive members out of the trade, re- | duce them to starvation or compel them to obey the autocratic orders | and follow the class collaborationist policy, of the machine, The inference can be drawn that the Hillman-Levin machine is picking this particular time to throw the best militant workers out-of-the shops, be- cause thereby the machine will be better able:ta put over the new agree- ment with wage reductions, produc- tion standardg» and against the ‘intérests of the workers | and for the intérests of the manufac- turers. The fnachine openly says the bosses should, be, helped. Tell of/ Many Assaults. Meanwhile, /st0¥iés of the outrage- ous assaults on the rights and the | persons of thé inembers by the offi-| cials continue “to pour into the DAILY WORKER. 6.35 Sister T. Reznick was in her shop | Friday and a girl told her that Scala, business agent and general executive board member, was in the shop and | raided the place’ fust like a gendarme of the old czarist’ Russia. He was ransacking drawers and boxes, and when asked what for, he answered: (Continued on page 3) readjustments | COKE MINERS IN REVOLT AGAINST BIG WAGE CUT Operators Slash P a y | $2.25 per Day By ARNE SWABECK. (Special to The Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 22.6 Coming out to a man five thousand miners of the unorganized territory, Fayette County, Pa., which was so shamefully betrayed by John L. Lewls and his gang in 1922, have struck work in protest of a wage cut sche- |duled to take effect immediately and to lop off one third of the present | scale of wages, making a cut of $2.25 a day. A goodly part of the strikers are | Negroes, and all stand solid refusing ‘to go back to the 1917 scale. The strike is spreading through the county. Against Steel Trust and Subsidiaries, The strike is complete ia the follow- ing camps: Tower Hill No. 1 and No, 2, Allison, Mount Braddock, Royal and Orient, the later place having just been bought by the Byers Iron and Steel Rod company. Thes’ camps jare located in the heart cf the Fayette jcounty coal and coke region. The mines are owned by the H, C. |Frick Coal and Coke company, the | Hillman Co., and the Reiney Co. So \far the strike is on only the mines of |the two latter companies, the H. C. |Frick Co. having not yet posted notices of wage cuts, evidently hold- ing off to see how Well this first re- bellion turns out. Immediate Eviction Notice Served. g&-wage cut took place in these mines. last year in June but the pres- (Continued on page 2) FIND 11 BODIES IN WRECKED W. VA. MINE. WHERE 34 WERE KILLED FAIRMONT, W. Va., March 22— Eleven bodies have. been removed from mine 41 of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, near here, where an explosion entombed 34 miners last week. All eleven bodies were found in the left heading, which has now been sealed. The right heading, where the other 23 bodies are ex- pected to be found, is now being ex- plored. R. M. Lambie, chief of the West Virginia mine inspectors, said there was practically no hope of finding any of the miners alive. THIS SAD STORY RECITES FALL tives to Danzig. The Danzig govern- ment officials greeted the Russian of- fielals most cordially and a banquet was given in their honor. The Poles may not take the commandment, “Thou shalt not steal” very seriously, , but they have a wholesome respect for the Red Army. ee 8 E yellow socialists who howl like eoyotes over ‘the few enemies of ul Soviet Republic who are. behind the bars, have not time to waste on the case-of Deputy Stanislav Lanzutsky of Poland, a Communist who is threat- ened with death for making a speech against the Polish capitalists from the tribune of the Polish diet. Raphael Abramovich will not collect any money for the victims of the capitalist class. He has po tears to shed over the graves of the dead who have fallen (Gontinued on page 2) BULGARIAN CHAMBER, LOYAL TO CAPITALIST ‘DEMOCRACY’, VOTES CLOSING RANKS FOR BIG FIGHT Miners’ Chieftain Is Tak- ing the Lead That Brifish labor is girding itself for a titanic struggle with the em- ployers is becoming more evident ev- ery day. A. J. Cook, chief of the miners’ union appears to be taking the Jead “in organizing the forces of labor nationally to meet the united front ofthe master class thru their Federation of British Industries. ‘The British Minority Movement of which Cook is a prominent member, is a counterpart to the American Trade Union-Eduéational League and is the brains and driving force of the united front campaign. As the DAILY WORKER previou: pointed out there is a big division in the ranks of British trade unionists and the battle is raging fiercely in the columns of the London Dally (Continued on page 4) . TO EXPEL SIX COMMUNISTS state constabulary would be a mobile police force which they could thrdw into industrial communities in addition to the police already there and: which “would not have the disadvantage of being held in check by local organs of government.” Permanent Martial Law That this is equivalent to perman- ent martial law must be obvious to anyone who stops to think about it for five minutes. Military and police rule—the rule of clubs and bayonets— is the latest’product of capitalist “de- mocracy” which the bankers and busi- nessmen of Illinois are trying to force upon the workers. 7% How do the workers of Pennsylvan- ia look upon the state constabulary, the original and model force? Are they overjoyed, at the thought of a visit from the “cossacks"? Do they feel that this half-disguised system of permanent/martial law is for their protection?, i Condemned by Pennsylvania ) Labor Unions Well if they do, they have’a queer way of expressing: it, There is not a bona fide labor organization in Penn- sylvania which does not denounce the state police as an agency for oppress- ing the working class in the interests of organized, plutocracy, Up to a few weeks ago Pennsylva- nia newspapers were full of news of the new barracks which were to. be established forthe state pélice in (Continued on page 5,) A new recordinradio reception has been accomplishedsby a French ama- teur in Tonkimo@hina. He reported reception of the Eiffel Tower station, using area, have ‘won for themselves, thru many years of struggle, one hundred per cent organization. .They made the mine Owners afraid of them. They Soviet Russia. Altho there are some liberals in this committee whose “sympathy” with Soviet Russia must be unqdestioned, the mainspring ot the committee are the counter revolu: tionary socialists and anarchists. The “revolutionary and class con- 'sclous workers of this country have shown that arch-counter revolutionary of the Second International, Mr. Abramovich, that he can find no sup- port here. The United States govern- ment is considering the recognition of Soviet Russia—and, the counter revo- lutionary Vladecks, Cahans, and Hill- quits, start a campaign against the first workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment in the world. The Workers Party, Young Work- ers’ League, and the International Workers’ Aid have arranged a mass demonstration, which will take place on Wednesday, March 25y/at 8p. m., at Central Opera House, 205 BH, 67th St. This demonstration will show that the workers of! New~ York are | also able to mobilize their forces un- der the slogan of “Hands Off Sov- jet Russia!” The International Work- ers’ Aid is the only working class organization aiding proletarian pris- oners in the capitalist dungeons. The appearance of the new committee will only divide the efforts of the workers to assist their revolutionary comrades in prison. Warkers of New York. Appear in your thousands. Show ‘the »enemies of the Soviet government that there is no room in Americafor them. Show your solidarity with teworking class prisoners tortured’ im) thé. capitalist the devastated ‘area. But that isn’t enough. It is never enough. The histories of similar catastro- phes have shown that the workers and their families are always the last consideration, that profiteering and grafting are rampant and inflict add- ed and needless suffering upon the working class victims which is cos- cealed by the capitalist press and covered up with ‘hypocritical lies. Capitalism, when’ it pretends to be most Christ-like, ais still capitalism (Continued: on page 2.) RAPHAEL SPEAKS IN JEWISH TO IRISH POLICE Kansas City. Audience Had Two Workers (Special to ThetDaily Worker.) KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 22.— The “crowd” which listened to Pro- fessor Raphael Abramovich, counter- revolutionary emissary of the Second (socialist) International, here recent- ly was limited to sixty, about evenly divided between rich Jewish mer- chants and beefy Irish policemen. All workers were! barred. However, two workers who, were dressed. well enough to be mistaken for bourgeois, we admitted. These challenged Ab- OF WILLIAM MAHONEY OF ST. PAUL (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, March 22.—The days when the olfactory organs of tha Prodigal son were greeted on the threshold of his parent's home by the delicious odor of calf-soup, are no more. The fatted calf is no longer killed to make a holiday and a feast for the returned wanderer. But the prodiga! son is slaughtered to make a Roman holiday for the golden calf. In proot of this contention we will place the late (politically speaking) Willianmt Mahoney of St. Paul in the dock, Squirting Ideas Into a Vacuum. Mahoney once cuddled the idea to the second button in his vest that ha was ordained to be the leader of the farmer-labor party of Minnesota and destined to supply the brains of Magnus Johnson with ideas and his lungs (Gontinued on Page 3) RED INTERNATIONAL AND MINERS’ UNION OF SOVIET RUSSIA SEND AID TO NOVA SCOTIA STRIKERS (Special to The Daily Worker) TORONTO, Ont., March 22.—The-miners of District 26 of the United Mine Workers of America, in desperate strike battle against the British Empire Steel corporation, which locked out thousands in order to force wage reductions, appealed to organized labor to aid them materially. Thousands are in want and hundreds actually starving. In answer to their plea the, following cablegram has been received by James McLachlan, fighting leader of the Nova Scotia miners: “MOSCOW, Soviet Russia, March 20.—The Red international of Labor Unions and the All-Russian Miners’ Union are in full sympathy with the striking Nova Scotia miners. | To ist you we are eending five thousand dollars. ' - jails, Be at the mebting and bring the workers of your #liops. ‘SLi ramovich in the «midst of his’ lies, which were mors brazenly reactionary GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! “On with the atru against exploitation and oppression! “Long live the international solidarity of the working class! (Signed) “Lozoveky, for the Ral, L. U. .