The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 25, 1925, Page 2

ae “—s % Page Two BOSTON STORE AND COPS FAIL TO DEPORT REDS Released After Two Days in Jail The three members of the Young Workers’ League arrested Satur day evening for distributing leaflets in front of the Boston Store, were finally released at 1:30 p. m. yesterday on bonds of $100.00 apiece after the Bos- ton store, with the active co-operation of the police officials of the central district, had unsuccessfully attempted to hold the Communists for deporta- tion. Valerie Meltz, Joseph Plotkin and Benjamin Fogel, all members of the Young Workers’ League, were booked on charges of “disorderly conduct,” after Edward Quinn, in charge of the police who made the arrests, refused for two days to book them, declaring they were “held for the government.” The comrades were ordered to ap- pear in night court last night. Altho the lieutenant at the LaSalle St. police station had told the DAILY WORKER reporter on Sunday, that the three Communists would be re- leased on bonds at nine o’clock yes- terday morning Quinn did not put in an appearance until ten o’clock. Seeks Deportation. Quinn refused to book the Reds on any charge until he had talked to the department of justice agents at the federal building. Accompanied by the DAILY WORKER reporter and George Maurer, secretary of the La- bor Defense Council, Quinn took the “evidence” against the three Commun- ists, consisting of the bulletins which exposed the long hours, small pay, speed up system and fines inflicted on the employes of the Boston store, , and a few personal letters taken from them, to the bureau of investigation of the department of justice in Room 578 of the federal building. The federal detectives, however, could find nothing in the letters or leaflets which advocated “violent everthrow of the government,” and refused to hold the comrades on a federal charge. Still Quinn was reluctant to sign the complaint against the Commun- ists. “I don’t want to be holding the bag,” he told the DAILY WORK- ER reporter. “I'll make the Boston store sign the complaint. They’re the ones who insisted on the arrests.” Boston Store Behind Arrests. Quinn then made his way to the Boston Store, Madison and State St., and while the DAILY WORKER re- porter waited, urged the managers of the Bostone store to sign the com- Plaint. This they refused to do, in- sisting, however, that the comrades be booked. “They don’t want to sign the complaint,” Quinn said, “because they don’t want to get mixed up in lawsuits. They’re pretty sore about those leaflets.” Quinn then returned to the LaSalle St. station, 180 N. LaSalle St. and agreed to book the Communists. They were charged however, not with dis- tributing leaflets, but “disorderly con- duct.” The Young Workers’ League mem- bers were ordered to appear in night court last night, room 1128, city hall. ‘The desk lieutenant of the central dis- trict said they would no doubt be dis- missed. “We have to ask bail and book them in order to keep our record clear,” he admitted. “You know we kept them such a long time they have to be booked.” Put Six in Cell. Comrades Plotkin and Fogel were at first put in a cell with a man who had delirium tremens. Sunday night they were six in a cell, and had nc room to lie down thru the night. Th bread, Comrade Plotkin said, wa sour flour mixed with water and hard ened. The food consisted of a smell; bologny sandwich. During a part of Sunday night th two Young Workers’ League members had as their cell mate, Julius Weis berg, who had killed the bootlegger Morris Goldman, in front of the Pal ace Theater. Weisberg admitted th: killing, but declared he shot in self defense. Valerie Meltz was taken to the po- lice station at Harrison and Clark Sts. Wall Strret Sends Pershing to Subdue The South Americans WASHINGTON, D. C., March 23.— Gen. Pershing, who with General Leonard Wood is the chief military tool of American imperialism, has been asked by President Coolidge to head the Tacna-Arica plebiscite com. taission, Pershing is expected to enforce a military dictatorship upon the work- ers of Chile and Peru just as Wood is subjecting the Filipinos to the dic- tatorship of U. 8S. capitalists. Coolidge recently ruled that such a commission should be formed. While Peru and Chile are quarreling over Tacna-Arica, Pershing is to step in and secure the property for Wa'l St. Join the Workers Party! SOVIET OFFICIALS REPORTED KILLED IN AIRPLANE CRASH PARIS, March 23.—M. Niasnikoff, president of ‘the Soviet war council, and four other persons were killed today when their airplane fell in flames near Soukoum, according to a dispatch from Moscow today. ‘The other victims were M. Nogilewski, president of the Transcaucasian commission, M. Atarthkoff, representative of the Transcaucasian union and two pllots of the plane. TEXTILE WORKERS STILL UNDER CAPITALISM HEAR HOW WORKERS LIVE IN SOVIET RUSSIAN MILLS The textile workers of America, hundreds of thousands of them, are being driven deeper and deeper into misery, low wages, and extreme ex- ploitation by their capitalist masters in combination with the powers of the capitalist government. In this moment, when their eyes and hearts are filled with tears of both suffering and anger, a letter comes to them, which the DAILY WORKER publishes below, telling them how the textile workers of the cotton mills of Soviet Russia live, and how they control their owns, lives thru their own workers’ Soviet governmént which they won by revoltuion. The letter “Dear Foreign Comrades: As I NO “eT. PETERSBURG” IN UNION OF SOVIET know that your bourgeois press is not only ‘giving you a wrong idea of the life of Russian workers, but is even distorting facts, I who am myself a worker will endeayor to describe in this letter our factory life to help to give you a right idea of it. i. “Our factory is in the center of the textile industry, in the Ivanovo-Voz- nesensk district. It is a cotton mill which employs eleven and a half thousand men and women. After the October revolution our workers took the factory into their own hands and kept it going. The workers chose from amongst themselves capable people from the bench, and these elected persons became the head of the management. Our workers were not long in realizing that they them- selves were the true masters of this gigantic enterprise. “Once workers have assumed pow- er, they begin to improve the condi- tions under which they have to work and live, and they improve production at the same time. They formed a protection of labor department which looks after the needs of the workers: provides them with suitable clothes and footwear, fats (if necessary for the kind of work they perform), etc. We have special rest homes where those whose health has suffered can spend from a fortnight to one month with full pay. Workers who are tu- bercular are sent to sanitoria, and health resorts for longer periods, and they also receive their full pay. In 1924, over 600 of our workers spent some time in rest homes, sanitoria, and health resorts. “Working women—the mothers— are also well looked after, and per- haps their privileges are greater than those of the men. For instance, dur- ung pregnancy they are given two months’ leave of absence and two months after the birth of the child. During these four months they receive full pay and their ‘places are kept open for them. During the nine months when she is nursing the child, a working woman works only six hours instead of eight while receiving full pay. During this period she re- ceives a special monthly grant. “We have children’s homes and creches where mothers can leave their children and can be certain that they are better looked after there than at home. All this is provided free of charge. Our working women have been given equal rights with men and are drawn everywhere into social work. In our factory there is not a single organiation without its quota of women. They are on the factory committee, in the club, in the co-operative, etc. There are women who occupy responsible posts such as chairman of factory committees, fac- tory managers, etc. In our factory engineers are only employed as ex- verts. Relations between them and the workers have undergone a com- vlete change. “Our workers have no longer to :bmit to rough treatment by the en- ineers, as the latter are aware that ney will be dismissed for such be- avior. And the time is not far dis- »nt when we shall have our own en- ineers, technicians, chemists, mech- nics, ete., who have sprung from the vorking class. “For young workers there is in our ‘actory an apprenticeship school vhere they get a thoro training and ‘rom where they can enter higher educational establishments. Their labor is also protected. “The factory has a club where the workers can increase thelr knowledge. [t has a well-stocked library and a reading room, and all sorts of circles and sections are organied by the workers themselves. The former masters would not have given all this to the workers, and neither will yours, “For the adult men and women there is a higher grade school. The attendance there is not very numer- ous—about 300 people a day. On leaving this school they will go to higher educational establishments, as the doors of universities and techni- cal colleges are opened wide to our workers. “The adult and young workers of our factory publish wall newspapers. Thru this press many shortcomings are remedied, production is improved and old customs and habits are com- batted—the achievements of these wall newspapers are very great in- deed. Production is growing from month to month, “Our workers are anxious in all their doings to carry out the injunc- ra SOCIALIST REPUBLICS BERLIN, March 23.—Letters ad- dressed to “St. Petersburg, Russia” were returned to the German postal authorities in Berlin with the nota- tion “Country and city unknown.” Soviet postal authorities have sent’ the following instructions to Bertin: “St. Petersburg” is now Leningrad. All letters addressed to Russia must be addressed to the “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.” neem tions of the leader of the world pro- letariat, Comrade Lenin. “Dear foreign comrades, should this letter be reprinted in your press, I will write you regularly every month in more detail and will describe the life of our peasantry. “My comrades and I await your re- ply, and shall be particularly glad to receive a letter from the textile work- ers in your country. “With Comradely Greetings, “Malyshev, Workers’ Correspondent of the Wall Newspaper, Rodnikovsky Rabotchy.” Defies Virgin Island Council’s Demand for Police Force Change NEW YORK; March 23.—Governor Philip Williams of the Virgin Islands, a U. S. naval appointee, is playing the part of a most hard boiled colonial governor. Replying to the Colonial Council’s three resolutions calling for investi- gation of the police force, for a new form of government to replace the naval administration, and for a new franchise law extending the popular vote, Governor Williams says coldly: “After mature consideration of the matter contained in these resolutions, I cannot help feeling that the interest of the people of these islands would be better served in some other way... I cannot help but feel that any step of the colonial council which might lead to political agitation at the pres- ent time would be unwise.” The governor also failed to give the council satisfaction for a statement recently made by his police chief No- lan that “these niggars down here don’t want law and order.” Metal Manufacturers Grow. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—Leningrad reports show that the Northwestern engineering works trust has produced over six million rubles’ worth of vari- ous metal manufactured articles dur- ing the first quarter of the current working year (October-December, 1925), as compared with only four million rubles’ worth produced during the same period of the year 1923-24, Hold Up Drill Mast Pay. “WASHINGTON, March 23.—Presi- dent Coolidge has directed the war department not to spend the $1,332,000 appropriated by congress for pay of members of the national guard in a number of states for armory drills, pending further consideration of the advisability of spending the money, it was announced today. Traction Crash Killed Seven SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 23,—With the death Sunday night of Mrs. J. W. Clear, wife of Girard, Il, garage proprietor, the death toll in the in- terurban crash south of Carlinville on March 20, today stood at seven, Mrs, Clear died in St. John’s Hospital here, from a broken back and internal in- juries. Prepare New Blows at Workers, WASHINGTON, March 23.—The United State supreme court recessed today until April 13. Many decisions will be prepared during the recess, Spanish Air Pilot Killed, MELILLA, Morocco, March 23— Lieut. Lopez Hildalgo died here to- day of injuries, suffered in an airplane crash, Zaghulul Pasha ‘Chosen Speaker. CAIRO, March 23,—Zaghlul Pasha was elected speaker of the Egyptian chamber of deputies today. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! 16,000 NEW SUBS BY JUNE 16! THE DAILY WORKER ITALIAN STRIKERS’ VICTORY INSPIRES OTHER WORKERS Fascist Uillok Strike Up- sets the Bosses (Special to The Dally Worker) ROME, March 23.—The labor situ- ation is almost normal again today, work haying been resumed almost everywhere, It is stated that the strike will cease today in the few places where the men are still out. Resumption of work is complete in Turin, except at the plant of the Fiat Motor company,-which declared it would end its lockout on Monday. At Trieste and Monfalcone an agreement has been reached between the masters and the men whith will become effec- tive next week, /. Tho the strike resulted in only a brief interruption of work, there is no doubt that the sti stirred up a dangerous hornets’ nest by calling the strike in Lombardy. The spell which the fascisti have cast over the work- ers in the last two years was broken and there igs difficulty in restraining the workers from making demands for increasing their wages a hundredfold. Other categories of workers, espe- cially the textile workers, are now in agitation declaring that the soaring living costs refider their present wag- es insufficient. Restiveness of the laboring masses is everywhere appar- ent. Besides, by stirring up rivalry be- tween the fascist and the socialist trade unions for favor, the masses are inclined in each organization to make excessive demands upon the indus- trialists, lest one group be forestalled by another. In addition, the recent labor agita- tion fostered by the fascisti has alien- ated the support of many induétrial- ists, who have hitherto backed fas- eism, even contributing party funds, considering the gift a kind of insur- ance policy against the possibility of strikes. Plan New Outlet for Non-Union Kentucky Coal WASHINGTON, ‘March 23.—The Owensboro Rockport and Chicago Railway company filed a brief with the interstate commerce commission today asking authority to construct a line between Elnora, Ind., and Owens- boro, Ky., crossing tie Ohio river at & point midway between Rockport and Owensboro on a bridge to be built as part of the ae The company the proposed road will provide a connecting link between the transportation systems of the north and south, provide another crossing point on the Ohio river, give transportation to large coal fields in Southern Indiana, now without such facilities, give an outlet to the north- ern markets for Kentucky coal and Prove of advantage to farming in- terests of Southern Indiana and a portion of Kentucky. Miners Rush to Do Storm Relief Work Harrisburg, Ill, March 23. — The mines in Gallatin, Mercer and Hamil- ton counties, today found barely enough men at work to start opera- tions, The miners have rushed to the storm-stricken areas to do relief work. Hundreds more will leave tomorrow. Many miners have refused pointblank to work at their daily tasks and threat- ened to quit if such action was neces- sary to expedite their journey to the stricken districts. © : eo @7e Flood Follows Storm at Griffin. GRIFFIN, Ind., March 23.— Fiood waters closed in on what once was Griffin from three sides today, wash- ing away wreckage and driving relief workers to safety. But there was little left for the flood to destroy. one house was left standing that tornado passed, and all survivors of the storm have fled. Authorities in charge of the situa- tion have forbidden the sale of rail- Toad tickets to Griffin except to those having Red Cross permits. ° i Five Burn to Death In Firetrap Blaze ae 7 NEW YORK, March 28.—Five per- sons, including two women and two children, were burned to death in an East 47th St. firetrap here. Four per- sons were badly burned when the old 11-family tenement»was destroyed. Including those killea were Mrs, Katherine Walsh and her 17 months old baby son, Joseph; Mrs. Margaret Otto and her six year old daughter, Blanche, and Thomas Carey. Spanish Dictator Totters MADRID, Spain, March 23,—Primo de Rivera, military’dictator of Spain, has not put into force any reforms which he promised the workers of Spain. Rivera decréed reorganization of the municipal government a year ago but made no mye to put it into effect. The general rules Spain by virtue of the su of part of the armg. He hae so guttimant f Feast and Party for _Fascisti Show United Front of the Capitalists By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL N sonal it is easy to study the unity of the whole capitalist class thru two such events in New York a as William Randolph Hearst's “Gypsy Ball,” in honor of the American ambassador to Spain, Alexander P. Moore, and the luncheon given the new Italian ambassador to the United States, Gia- como de Martino. : Many bankers, industrialists and their intellectual hire- lings were present at both affairs, crawling on their bellies in homage to two of the bloodiest dictatorships in the world today— Spain and Italy. But the great capitalists are ex- ected to associate in such company. It is the fact that pe money, taken from millions who believe that his papers fight in their interests against the capitalists, paid for one of these affairs, that should interest the workers, while so-called “insurgent” politicians, like Royal S. Copeland, U. S. senator from New York, a Tammany Hall man, associ- ate of New York's labor officialdom, graced the occasion, along with a melange of “grand dukes” and “grand duches- ses” from Russia, of the vintage antedating Nov. 7, 1917. faith in the economic future of Italian fascist rule, Judge Elbert H. Gary, head of the U. S. Steel corpora- tion, an ardent admirer of Mussolini, must have choked a little as Thomas W. Lamont, of J. P. Morgan & Co., isp while the news was still fresh of the strike of 100,000 metal workers. The fascisti spell over masses of Italian workers is broken, and Gary knows what that means, It is significant that at this luncheon to Mussolini’s representative, in addition to Gary, Lamont and a host of others like them, there were pre- sent chancellors, presidents and professors from the New York University, Cornell University, the College of the City of New York, and other “Goose-: *: Colleges,” headed by Dr. James R. Angell, president of Yale University. Their presence showed how much they are being depended on to help put the fascisti idea over in this Hig et They are to help cement the American alliance with Italian “white ter- ror” rule over labor. The Hearst affair at the alien Ritz-Carlton fell under the censor’s poverk en insofar as the Hearst press is concerned. It is not good for the common reader of the Hearst sheets to know the company that the multi-millionaire publisher keeps. Some of his bunk might not then rest so easily upon their stomachs. Moore is a Pittsburgh editor; co-worker with Hearst in chloroforming workers into believing that capitalism is good for them. Moore worked the Pittsburgh steel district, and the fact that Gary and the steel trust are still in power is testimony to his success. This man Moore, Hearst's guest, applauds the rule of King Alfonso in Spain, that not only sent the educator, Fran- cisco Ferrer, to death not so many years ago, but today im- prisons and murders workers wholesale to maintain capital- ism in power. 8.28: % , The Hearsts did. their best to entertain their! fascist ° crowd. The Crystal Room of the hotel was turned into a woodland glen thru the aid of 400 pines cut in Maine and shipped to the party. The jazz orchestras of Lopez andWhite- man were there. Mrs. Hearst was herself attired as a gypsy bride, in white satin heavily embroidered in gold, and wear- ing pearls. All night long the festivities continued until at dawn breakfast was served, and then Moore went on his way across the Atlantic to speak for American capitalism at the royal court in Madrid. * e@ @ @ From Morgan, Lamont and Gary to Tammany Hall, with its Senator Copeland and his official labor allies, isn't so great a stretch. It was J. Ramsay MacDonald, the labor-socialist premier of Great Britain, who heard the voices of Poincare and Mus- solini, instead of those of the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia, when he came into power. The united front against the interests of the working class extends far. That, is something that the workers must learn. The Hearst party to Moore should reveal to them the nature of some more of the feathers to be found in the left wing of American fascism. It might be well to remember the old adage that goes something like this,—“He who is not with us is against us.” —_— SERVICES FOR DR. SUN YAT SEN DRAW FIFTY THOUSAND WORKERS CANTON, March 23.—Fifty thou- sand workers here attended a mem- for Dr. Sun’ Yat Sen, dead der of the Chinese against foreign imperialism. Seventy labor guilds Were represented at the ser- vices. Governor Hu Han-min of Kwan- tung province, and Wu Chao-chu, secretary for foreign affairs of the provincial government, were among the speakers. jun’s testament- ary address was read to the workers in the Cantonese dialect, O'Flaherty Speaks Tonight at North West Branch W. P. | in Comrade Tom O'Flaherty will be the speaker at the educational meet- ing of the North West Branch, Work-- ers Party, tonight, at 8 p.m. The meeting will be held in Workers’ Ly- ceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. Comrade O’Flaherty’s subject will be: The Paris Commune. Branch members are urged to attend this lecture and bring their shopmates, * 1. T. U. Takes Hold in New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, March 23,—The strike situation in New Orleans as re- gards the newspapers, which have been out of the union fold for the past nine years, has been taken out of the hands of the local printers’ or- Coolidge’s Trade Commission Shields Electrical Trust WASHINGTON, March 23.— What was called a sinister consequence has followed the placing of William Hum- phrey of Seattle on the federal trade commission, thereby making the ma- jority of that body a reactionary one. The commission has announced a change in its rules. Henceforth it will investigate complaints of unfair methods of competition in business only if there exists, in its opinion, “public interest” in such inquiry. Moreover, the commission has noti- fied the senate that while it will in- vestigate the tobacco monopoly’s at- tempt to crush the associations of tobacco producers, it will not carry out the request of the senate—con- tained in the same resolution—to in- vestigate the electric power trust and @ propaganda for and against public ownership of power, : President Coolidge has thus su ceeded in killing the federal trade commission insofar as it has been a non-partisan body for investigation of the misuse of power by private mo- nopolies. Mrs, Gompers Withdraws Suit. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 28— Mrs, Samuel Gompers has withdrawn her suit contesting the will of her hus- band, when alive, president of the American Federation of Labor, it is announced here, Mrs, Gompers had contested the will because Gompers left her the minimum allowed by the District of Columbia law, one-third of ganization by Pres. Lynch of the In-| his estate. The rest was left to Gom- ternational Typographical Union, Teel LENIN SCHOOL A LANDMARK IN OUR PARTY Forty Students with Serious Purpose By MORRIS CHELOVSKY. The Communists are a part of the working class, its most resolute, most most sacrificing /and farseeing section, which due to its historical view of the march of history is able to lead all other sections of the proletariat. To make the above more conctete and to prove its truth, our party has made a beginning. The Lenin School in Chicago will be a historical. land- mark in the history of our party and the Communist movement in the United States. “XK short time ago we would have considered it a dream, but now it is an accomplished fact. More than forty students, every one taking this work seriously, have left the mine, the fac- tory or shop and set himself: to study, not study for the sake of study, but in order to better serve the interests ot’” our party and the proletariat. No matter what is being studied, whether the history of the party, the labor movement, or economics, they are all being studied with a purpose. Unlike the students, of the bour- geoisie who study to attain a higher and more dominating post in capital- ist society and perpetuate that society our proletarian students are studying how best to destroy this society, Our school is not separated from the struggle, but combines the two, theory and practice. The students in Chicago actively participated in the work of the party, branch meetings, city central and the distribution of leaflets as well at the Abramovich demonstra- tions. The Lenin School is a great step in the Bolshevization of our party. The result will be paid to the party a hun- dred fold when the members of the class disband, go back to their various localities with a better and clearer understanding of the class struggle, and like real Communists will set themselves the task of proving the value of the school by a more de- termined struggle against our op- pressors. Workers Join in Protest Against Child Slavery Many workers young and old inter- ested attended the child labor mass meeting held in Chicago by the Young Workers’ League. - + William F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, explained what the child labor menace meant to the work- ing class of America, telling of con- ditions of child workers in the textile mills and telling of some of. the ex- tremes to which the capitalist class went in order to defeat the child la- bor movement.. Barney Mass, acting secretary of the Young Workers’ League spoke, showing how child la- bor was increasing in America and telling of the work of the Young Workers’ League in its child labor’ campaign and in organizing the young workers against child labor. John Edwards, member of the national ex- ecutive committee of the Young Workers’ League also spoke. This meeting was arranged by the Chicago league in connection with the anti-child labor campaign of the Y. W. L., whichis trying to intensify the fight against child labor in view of the great increase of child slaves in America at the present time. Young Workers’ League is calling up- on the young workers to join in a unit- ed front fight to abolish child labor in America, under the leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers’ League. Coolidge to Give Tool of Railroads Recess Appointment WASHINGTON, March 23.——When President Coolidge re-nominated Thos. Woodlock, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, to be a member of the interstate commerce commission, on the day senate was to adjourn, the members who had defeated Warren for attorney general were angry enuf to reject him too. However, they de- sided on a simple refusal.to call to- gether the committee on interstate commerce to consider his name, Th knew that Coolidge would then give him a recess appointment but Vhey would deal with him again next De- cember, : y At the same hour came the news that the St, Paul railway had been thown into a receiver’s hands. Wood- lock is looked upon as a masterly in- flater and waterer of railroad corpo- ration values. It will be his task to induce the rest of the commission to grant higher freight rates instead of lower rates, thereby restoring public confidence in thé claim that the rail properties are worth between twenty and thirty billion dollars. The Earthquake Shakes Houses QUEBEC, rch 23, — An earth: quake occurred here which made buildings tremble and frighten the population, It lasted only a few sec- onds, Telephone E was disrupt- “od, but no one |