The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 25, 1925, Page 1

,@ | 4 Daily Worker. Annual. Sub- scription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN dt ark s Vol. I. No. 62. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY ENTLE hints appear in the news dispatches from China on the ad- visability of capitalist intervention to save that country from the warring generals whose armies number in the aggregate approximately 2,000,000. What the scribes of the bourgeoisie mean is, that the tremendous unex- ploited wealth of China must be saved for the plunderbund whose itching fingers have hitherto been unable to close on the juciest plums because of the opposition of Sun Yat Sen, now lead. oe 8 NFORTUNATELY for. the capital- ist powers, the history of their re- lations with China in the past is nov conducive to breeding confi@ence in their future dealings. The death of Sun Yat Sen is a heavy ross to the Chinese masses but the Koumingtang party still remains and the power of the workers and peasants of Russia is behind the exploited masses who stood with Sun thru the many years of his conflict with the greedy capi- talists. eae HB catholic church which is such a bulwark of “law and order” is proving in France and in Mexico that when its interests are threatened, it throws its pacifist pretentions to the winds and fights vigorously for its privileges even against the existing governments. In Alsace, school chil- dren were called on strike against thc secularization of the schools and the bishops issued a statemerpP denouncing the government teachers for pervert- ing the wills of the children with ra- tionalist ideas. The extreme con- servatives are lined“up with the bish- ops against Herriot. The cardinals declare that polities must be subordin- ate to religion, which means that the government must be subordinate to the church, oe 8 N Mexico the slumbering hostility to the church which has existed since the Carranza revglt, broke out afresh last week in Mexico City resulting in loss of life. A section of the clergy and the least supersititious of the ¢atholic population have decided to sever relations with Rome. . It appears that the Calles government turned over one of the richest. catholic” «- Ghurches, to. the- .Phe_or- thodox bishops do not relish the dea of losing their property, so they fight or get others’ oh fight for them. eo. ENERAL” DAWES intends to carry his fight against the senate tules to the country during the sum- ‘mer in a series of speeches, We are also informed that he has presented cefractory senato% with specimens of his famous underslung pipe. Pehaps it is the pipe of peace, or it may be possible that the wily goddess nicotine / is capable of sending the enemies of the vice-president into deep slumber hru the ministrations of the pipe. ‘Beware of Greeks bearing gifts” should be the slogan of the senators whom Dawes wishes to placate with iis briars, * HE British tory government is go- ing ahead with its project to build the Singapore naval base. This is looked upon as a threat against Japan. Ramsay MacDonald in the house of commons warned the government that Soviet Russia was gaining increasing influence in the Far East and that the building of this base would tend to throw the people of the Orient still closer to the Communist government. This he suggested rather than said, was one of the greatest dangers liable to spring from the tory decision to re- build the Singapore base. MacDonald is a socialist of the Victor Berger- Morris Hillquit type. ba dil HE German campaign for the presi- dency of the republic has opened. The Communist candidate is Thael- mann. Dr. arres, the candidate of ‘the right bloc, insists that he is loyal to the republic but insists also that he must have the right to express his admiration for the old imperial colors and his contempt for the November revolution which sent the kaiser into exile. There is no doubt but in the byent of the victory of the right bloc at\the polls, that steps will be taken (Continued-on page 6) a. wemmonependaaecsari ce: fsa sues) “oe RATES: — Sb eS ERY US ANNA GOVERNOR SMITH Relief C ommittee Leads St. Patrick’s Parade (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, March 23.—The fam- ine in the west of Ireland was drama- tically brought to the attention of Gov- ernor Al Smith and Mayor Hylan, yes- terday, by members of the Workers Party and representatives of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee when, banners describing peasants were carried in front of the automobile in which the mayor and governor were seated, as they led the annual St, Patrick’s Day parade up Fifth Avenue. Several Irish comrades broke thru the masses on the sidewalks and step- ped in front of the governor's auto- mobile. Smith called the adjutant to remove them, but the demonstrators were not daunted by the military dis- (Continued on page 6.) in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. the distress of 750,000 workers and | surcerne crams THE DAIL Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the WEDNESDAY, MINERS, HOUSED IN TENTS, FACE JOBLESS PERIOD Factories. and_ Tipples Lost in Storm MURPHYSBORO, Ill., March 23.— With more than 175 of her dead laid to rest in the St. Andrews and Tower Grove cemeteries, Murphysboro turned toward its relief work and rehabilit- ation today. jured were taken by special train to St. Louis hospitals. Funeral services were held from dawn to dusk Sunday with religious services over each body, | Tents have been received for all the |homeless and those who have been |forced to sleep in store rooms, rail- equipped only temporarily with living quarters, food and clothing. Industries here must be reconstruct- ed. A force of workmen is employed rebuildnig the Brown factory, the Mobile and Ohio railroad shops, and roundhouse. The M. & O. R. R. shops, division offices and railway station were de- molished. It is quite likely that MacDonald's cuit factories. MacDONALD, BRITISH SOCIALIST LEADER, AYS TRIBUTE TO LATE LORD CURZON LONDON, March 23.—Fulsome eulogies of the late Lord Curzon were delivered in the house of commons today by Premier Stanley Baldwin and former Premiers MacDonald and Lloyd George. journed today in Pespect to the memory of the notorious reactionary re- presentative of the British ruling class, The house of lords ad- tribute to one of labor’s greatest foes will result in more trouble for the beneficiary of Sir Alexander Grant’s bis- RETAIL CLERKS WINNING STRIKE IN BROOKLYN, N.Y, Militants Lead cag ht By Gilward pS ial (Special to The Daily Worker.) BROOKLYN, N. Y., March 23.—The retail grocery and dafry'clerks of Brooklyn are out on a géneral strike. On last Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock 500 clerks discarded their badges of servility—the” white coat and apron, and donned ‘the union badge of struggle, consisting of*strike picket signs on their chests amd backs. Police Fail to Cow Them, These signs declared that they would work no more for 12 to 15 hours a day, but only nine hours, and that $15 to $25 a week will not be accepted as a wage, but their demand for a $35 minimum to enable them to eke out an existence must be granted by the proprietors. The interference of police and gang- sters did not affect their militant spirit in the slightest. They declare they will tie up Brooklyn in their fight to unionize around, these demands every store in Brooklyn. Many Settlements Made. The first day of the strike brought 100 settlements with individual and small chain store proprietors. The organizer of the union, David Vacker, says he cannot satisfy the demand for settlements fast enough. The strikers’ meet daily at the of- fice of the union, 204 East Broadway, New York City, and are being ad- dressed by the leading members and officers of the union, the largest per- centage of whom are members of the Workers, (Communist) ‘Party or the Trade Union Educational League, The Ukraine Goes to Lyons. MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R.—The Ukraini- an economic organizations are active- ly preparing for participation in the Lyons fair. It is expected that not less than three million rubles’ worth, of various Ukrainian goods will be disposed of at the fair, The main items are bristle, horse hair, feathers, ‘tobacco and medicinal herbs SOLIDARITY WITH FILIPINOS UNDER MURDEROUS MILITARIST RULE OF U. S. EXPRESSED BY COMMUNISTS On the receipt of the news of the massacre of Filipino rice field work- ers, who where making demands upon the landlords of Nueva Hjica, by Philippine constabulary and government troops ordered to the scene by Governor-General Leonard Wood, the central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America has sent the following statement to the workers’ and peasants’ organization of the Philippines: TO THE PHILIPPINE WORKERS AND PEASANTS: The murder of Macabula, leader of the poor peasants of the Nueva Betja rice flelds, proves once again that American imperialism is your deadly sano A qhemy, determined to crush all resistance and to bend you to its money-mad | tro S wcciinecian NARIMANOV, ONE OF SOVIETS LEADERS | IS DEAD IN MOSCOW (Special to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, March 23.—Nariman Narimanov, representative of the three Transcaucasian Soviet re- on the central. executive mittee of the Soviet Union, ‘has died here of heart disease. Comrade Narimanoffff was one of the leading Communists of Asiatic Russia. .He formerly served pre- mier of Azerbaijan, and was the Soviet representative to the Genoa conference in 1921. JOHNSTON TALKS TO JOHNSTON IN ENGINEERS’ HALL By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT (Special to The Daily Worker.) CLEVELAND, March 23.—“Guess we will have to go out and hire an audience.” These were the first words I heard when I entered engineers’ auditorium. I looked towards the speaker and found “B. & O.” Johnston, president of the International Associa- tion of Machinists the person address- ed, A Funeral “B. & 0.” Johnston had been brought to Cleveland by the progress- ive party of Cuyahoga county to stir it into life. All the meeting needed was the sweet scent of roses to make it a funeral. LaFollette got a major- ity of 8,000 votes in Cleveland in the presidential election, Eighty political butterflies ‘ decor- ated eighty of the twelve hundred seats in engineers’ auditorium to learn what happened in Chicago, In Chi- cago a few short weeks ago Mr. John- ston was turned down cold by the railroad brotherhoods. This frost was no less apparent at his meeting in the (Continued on page 6) BRITONS DOUBT APPEARANCE OF BEN. MUSSOLINI (Special to The Daily Worker.) LONDON, March 23.—The report, of Benito Mussolini's appearance at the celebration of the sixth year of the fascisti organization is received with considerable skepticism in Englapd. & is pointed out that strict censorship prevails in Italy and that owing to the recent strike of metal workers the fascist regime is in greater danger of being toppled over than at any time since the, black shirts marched on Rome. Fascist, dis} say that the dic- hay spoke. only, for a few minutes of the foreign office, and a that people cheered him. Fifty one of the more seriously in-|" |road ¢tations and public buildings are) TED IN FRAUD . | Switched, Charge E the Carpenters’ the: proposed | to the inside’ or United Broth- - This agreement ince of the old while the rank higher wage scale inters and other ling trades. of the ‘district ‘Vote of | | . Delega Local No, 7 Union, voted 2 agreement ‘subm millmen locals erhood in Chica called for the a scale of $1.15 an and file wanted ti secured by the the |sections of the: bi When, the, off council announced. votes at last EF the delegates amazed to, hear their local had had voted for’ fl mended by: H of the district ¢ Voted g The ' délega' Jensen that’ thei against the low night's meeting, Local 1786 were the secretary of De ed that the local p$1.15 scale recom- Jensen, president il, Low Scale. pmptly informed local had voted } scale as they de- manded an 4 it giving the mill- men a8 highta ( ather sec- tion of the. th, Jensen gruffly told the he had the re- port of the and would not accept the staten as authoritative. of Local 1786 a quite easy t him in order its of the delegates Tho the secretary town, and it was get in touch with fet matters right, ] ci Jensen refused to consider any at- tempt at verifies of the alleged re- port of the lary, but declared the low wage was carried. They , ispicious, The members ®f Local 1786 are wondering wi ‘kind of a private agreement Hi nsen has with the contractors. ~ _ cannot imagine that he would be so insistent on re- commending a age scale and aid- ing in a conspil to switch votes in order to put Over that agreement unles: ga ‘was: omething in it for him. course, that Jen- is good for the: bosses is good for the workers and.that the less the car- penters get for their Iabor, the more the employers will"have to spend on their luxuries for ‘themselves and their numerous -parasites. Perhaps— but not one carpenter in a thousand believes that Jensen’s insistence on a lower s¢ale forthe carpenters than the painters are getting is done from any other motive’ than one of self in- terest. In other words they believe he is making his hay at their ex- pense. Militarist Gets the Job. WASHINGTON, March 23.—General John J. Pershing,-commander in chief of the American forces in the world war, today was named by President Coolidge as president of the plebiacit- ary commission which will supervise the holding of a plebiscite to decide the sovereignty of the disputed pro- vinces of Tacna and Arica, between Chile and Peru. ———— Pay for a PROPAGANDA SUB out of your own pocket to convince your shop-mate, CAPITALIST COURTS SHOW DETERMINATION ‘TO GET’ COMMUNISTS NEW YORK; March 23.—More Communists arecon trial, The cap- italist court issdetermined to get the three yourtg Communists who were arrested on Friday, March 13, for rehearsing fot the Paris Com- mune Pageant which was such a tremendous success at Madison Square Garden.’ The “Communists must be shown their places.” The Michigan.cases are still be- fore the capitalist!courts—and more of the comrades will be brought to trial in a short time. The cases of Lassen and Vijtaver, Communist edi- tors, are still pending. These three new cases must be defended with all energy. These young comrades face deportation.“Such people ought to be shipped out of the country,” said the judge. THEY SHALL NOT BE DEPORT- ED—and they will not be deported, if the class-conscious workers comé to their defense. Funds are requir- ed thousands of doll will be needed, Send your contributions to the Labor Defense Council, New York division, 08 East 14th St, Collect in the shops, trade unions and fraternal organizations, Let the workers know how the capitalist government treat the workers of this country. Agitate—mobilize the workers to the defense of the revo- RCH 25, 1925 ie tabulation of | =" _WORKER. fice at Chicago, Ilinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, [NEW YORK YORK EDITION Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WOAKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIL Price 3 Cents He Must Not Die! | «STANISLAV Polish Communist deputy now facing death at the hands of the white terror. LANZUTSKY ‘LABOR DEFENSE ASKS FUNDS FOR STRICKEN LABOR Miners of the Storm Area Need Aid The condition of the thousands of coal miners and other workers in the storm devastated district of southern Illinois, was taken up at the last reg- ular meeting or the Chicago Council for Labor Defense and Relief, and the several score of delegates from local unions and working class fraternal and political organizations responded with enthusiasm. The local secretary, Wm, F. Kruse, pointed out that such catastrophes were exploited by capitalist relief agencies for anti-labor purposes, citing the raid-on-tho Jepanese.. cover of the earthquake, and ‘similar instances. This storm-swept, area em- braced also some of the most militant of the miners’ union locals, and the International Workers’ Aid was duty bound to see to it that these militants were not made to suffer by capitalist discrimination. Working class relief for working class needs has been practiced extensively in Europe, and recently the Dortmund mine disaster was made an inspiring demonstration of international solidarity, Aid For Miners. The storm that has just visited in- expressible suffering on a large sec- tion of the union coal_miners and other workers in southern Illinois and beat down the workers’ resistance and destroy their union organization, This danger is particularly present in a district such as this, which has been at the forefront of militant struggle against both the bosses and the labor bureaucrats. The Chicago Council for Labor De- fense and Relief therefore calls on the organized workers thruout the state and nation to be on guard against attempts to use the capitalist char- itable agencies to discriminate against the more militant workers, and calls for a working class relief fund from the labor movement thru the Interna- tonal Workers’ Aid Start Collections Immediately. Plans were outlined immediately to take collections at dances given by the Workers Party branches in Cicero and on the south side, as well as on Sunday gatherings of Russian, Jewish and Italian workers, Coal mfhers from the stricken area will report on the needs of their dis- tricts and will canvass local unions and other organizations to raise this fund. All contributions should go to the I. W, A., 19'S. Lincoln St., Chicago, Talk it up—your shopmate will subscribe! TO PROBE MINE BLAST AS ALL 34 BODIES ARE TAKEN FROM W, VA. PIT (Special to The Daily Worker.) BARRACKSVILLE, W. Va., March 23.—Up to 1 o'clock this afternoon thirty bodies had been removed from mine 41 here, wrecked by an explosion last Tuesday night. The other three bodies have been found and will be removed to the surface late this afternoon, rescue i rs said, following Which an “offi- clal investigation” willbe started by Governor Gore and other officials to determine the cause of the disaster. unions-under-}. |the adjecent fields, is likely to be) seized by the capitalist class to further | COKE REGION STRIKERS, 45,000 STRONG, SCORN LEWIS MACHINE AND CHEER COMMUNIST LEADERS (Special to The Daily Worker) UNIONTOWN, Pa., March 23.—The situation of the coke miners’ walkout remains unchanged. All the operators have cut wages from 35 to 50 per cent. The miners have not accepted this infamous wage cut, and have aban- doned work about 95 per cent being out on an unorganized strike. There are approximately 45,000 miners in the coke region, : T. U. E. L. Committee Leads Strike, Meetings are being held everywhere by the aid and initiative of the Progressive Miners’ Committee, members who were formerly expelled from the United Mine Workers of America by John L. Lewis and his machine. They are welcomed enthusiastically + by the strikers and cheered at every speech. Yesterday Chiccolini talked to 500 miners at Allison. He explained the nevegsity of unity with all other rank and file miners if they want victory. Chiccolini is well-known about the coke region and the mipers know him from the 1922 strike when he fought the Lewis machine. A Victim of Lewis. At the last international convention at Indianapolis, Lewis denied Chicco- lini a seat, altho he had a regular cre- dential from the local of which he is president. The miners do not trust the Lewis machine any more, and rely only in the leadership of the Progressive Min- ers’ Committee who they know will not betray them as Lewis did in 192 Resolved to Fight Under Progressives Once, at least, the workers are opening their eyes and beginning to realize that only under the leadership of the Progressive Miners’ Committee of the Trade Union Educational League and with the guidance of the Workers (Communist) Party, can they have victory. Forty-five thousand miners are re- solved not to allow the bosses to im- pose this dastardly wage cut! PEASANT LEADERS OF PHILIPPINES HELD BY WOOD'S COSSAGKS MANILA,. P.. I, March. 23.—One hundred leaders of the Katipunan Ma ‘Macasilage, thepeasants’. “or ganization here which has been fight- ing for: contracts with the large land- owners which would assure a decent living, have beén arrested, charged with sedition. The arrests were made by constabulary sent out by General Leonard, Wood, who has been aiding the landowners, many of whom are American capitalists. The constabulary have been trying to crush the peasants’ resistance to conditions -which verge. on actual slavery. Macabula, leader of the rice growers, has been killed, and seven other leaders were slaughtered by Wood’s American constabulary. The peasants organization numbers more than 12,000 tenants. POLISH WORKER MUST NOT DIE, LABOR’S SLOGAN New York Meeting to Protest Hanging NEW YORK, March 23.—The work ers of this city will stage a mighty protest against the threatened execu- tion of the Communist deputy Lanzut- sky of Poland, in a monster mass meeting which will be held In the Central Opera House, Wednesday evening, March 25, under the auspices, of the Workers Party, Young Workers League and the International Work- ers’ Aid. In a statement issued by the ar- Tangements committee the Polish gov- ernment is warned that the workers of the world are watching its actions closely and the death of Comrade Lanzutsky will not be without serious consequences to the fascist govern- ment. of Poland. “Lanzutsky, Communist deputy in the Polish parliament is sentenced to death, by the white guard govern- ment because he exposed the brutal g@tion of the Polish bourgeoisie against the workers and peasants” reads the statement,-and-“figl ting for the workers is a crime in Poland and also in Spain where Maurin-leader of the Spanish workers is in jail await- ing execution.” Mossaiye Olgin, editor of Novy Mir, Israel Amter, Joseph Manely, Ludwig Lore, Jack Stachel and William Wein- stone will be the speakers. Delay Judge’s Hearing. EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, March 23.— With one witness mysteriously miss- ing and another dead—killed at Mur- physboro in the tornado there—the congression sub-committee probing the official conduct of Federal Judge George W. English, adjourned until tomorrow. POLISH POLICE KILL WORKERS WITH POISON GAS DURING FIGHT MOSCOW, March 23.—In February in the mining district Dombrova (Poland), the agent provocateur Kamienski, who had insinuated himself into the Communist Party, met his fate. the workers Valtshik and Piarski, Kamienski. The two men blocked up the entrance, offered resistance. The police made an attempt to arrest whom they suspected of the murder of The police opened fire, which lasted for several hours, but failed to get at the workmen. altho they had the assistance of a military detachment. Finally they em- ployed poison gas, by which means they succeeded in killing the two work: men, who had already been wounded. was used in the class war. This is the first time that poison gas REACTION IN UNION AND CHURCH RESTRAINS TEXTILE WORKERS FROM ‘DISTURBING THE BOSS’ By WILLIAM SIMONS. (Special to The Daily Worker) WILLIMANTIC, Conn,, March 23.—As soon as the writer appeared in Willimantic at the beginning of the strike, he immediately noted that there was no working machinery for giving out news. He suggested to several members of the strike committee that a duily bulletin be sent out from Willimantic to all labor papers. It_was soon apparent that all the capitalist papers of Hartford, New Haven and other cities were maintaining a con- spiracy of silence. The suggestion was repeated to Miss Amy Hooker, chairman of the griey- ance committee (not called a strike committee), and to Miss Kelleher, organ- izer for the United Textile Workers ¢———————_—_—______________ of America, from Scranton, Pa. The latter replied that itywould be taken up with President McMahon, when he arrived. Red Tape Excuse for Doing Nothing. This was not done, and the next day, Thursday, I had a meeting with the press committee, where I laid the plans for a press bulletin before them, offering my services to institute it. The press committee did not feel au- thorized to act, and referred it to the grievance committee that afternoon. The understanding in the morning was that I would be given an oppor- (Continued on Page 6) \ . $15,000.00 Blast Shakes Up Chicago Stockyards District The stock yards here were thrown into a panic today when a terrific ex- plosion lifted the roof from the build- ing housing the Live Stock Press, ine., shattered scores of windows in ad- Joining buildings and caused damage estimated at $15,000. Two employees in the press building escaped unin- jured. Gas which accumulated from a leaking pipe, is believed to have caus- ed the blast x