The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1925, Page 1

eis eta Worker Annual Sub- scription: Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! Vol. II. No. 68. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HE Prince of Wales is off om a 25,000 mile jaunt to boost the wares of the British empire. He touches at South Africa first and then leaves for South America to undo the dirty work started by General Persh- ing, thé Wall Street tout who has just returned from a trip in behalf of American capitalism. The king and queen recently left for a healtn criuse in the Meditearranean Sea, They are lucky, to-have a place to go to. Pr es EFORE the prince boarded the royal train, he had to listen to Stanely Baldwin for fifteen minutes, giving, him instructions. Not about the latest dance craze, it is safe to say. It is more likely that the prem- ier advised the royal heir on how to comport himself in South Africa where the ‘collar of empire is worn with ir- ritation,»and how to speak in South America where the British pound is engaged in a losing -fight with the dollars of Wall Street. The prince must do what he is told or his head will come off. Not in a physical sense, but economically. The royal family is very useful to the BritisH ruling class. it makes good cement. ee : S the London correspondent of the DAILY WORKER cabled a few days ago, the public appearance of Mussolini was 99 per cent bluff. The latest reports confirm the skepticism that prevailed in England regarding the dictator’s health. The enemies of fascism are mobilizing and Mussolini is in no physical condition to stand the gaff. As the Communists so often predicted, on the first indication of a weakening of fascisti leadership the storm will break. The clouds have al- ready gathered. eee T is reported that even big business is about to drop the black shirts. The capitalist press now openly ad- mits that it was heavy industry that originally paid the fascist bills. The recent strike in Milan convinced the big plutes that the class-collaboration schemes of the fascisti, backed by the dagger, are no longer adte to hold the workers in leash. So big busitess be- gins to look around for new servants. Its eyes rest on the liberals. They will be the next agents of caj SUBSCRIPTION RATES: THE Hptered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the’ Fee PS PARTY wee ate 159 8 UNT Thun New York C Conference Sunday, April 12 (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW, YORK, March 29—The New | York district of the Workers (Com- munist) Party has sent out a call to all ‘union and fraternal jabor} organ- izations, calling for a united front May Day conference. All members of the Workers Party and sympathizers are calléd upon to make arrangements for the confer- ence, and to get favorable action on the May Day unitéd front in their or- ganizations. } The call for the May Day confer- ence, issued by Charles Krumbein on behalf of the New York, district 2, of the Workers Partyideclares: + Call for United Front. To all labor unions and workers’ fraternal organizations: Fellow work- ers: May Day, the greatest holiday of the workers is fast approaching. On this day the workers of the entire world will review their experiences and demonstrate their solidarity. On ‘this day they will show their deter- mination to fight for a better world for warkers. The last year has seen the growth (Continued on page 4.) BRITISH COAL MINERS ENTOMBED IN PIT BY BIG INRUSH OF WATER (Special to The Daily Worker) NEWCASTLE ON TYNE, England, March 30.—Ten men were entombed | of Portsmouth, in the Montagu colliery today by an inrush of water. MINE STRIKE SET in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. DAIL SOWETS BU ARD RIGHTS\OF THE CHINES Rasso-Ja New Returns Six Postal Workers to Jobs at Reduced Pay WASHINGTON, March 30, — Six postal officials in various parts of the country suspended several weeks ago on charges of “pernicious” activity in behalf of the postal pay bill today were restored to duty, effective April 1, but at reduced salaries, Postmaster General New announced today. The men involved are Peter Me- Gerty, New York; James M. Greig, Boston; Peter Wiggle, Detroit; Har- vey M. Tittle, Springfield, Ohio; J. J. Fields, Louisville, Kentucky and Wil- Copestal Va, wy j liam Sansom, Chicago. PEKIN, China, | Postmaster General New said he} viet Russian ai had given careful consideration to each of the cases and “in view of their me era a previous records in the postal service Chinese "mint decided to restore them-to duty, al-|4uang, Fu, though each will have to take a re-;people that the duction in salary.” protects their Audience Gives Lie the workers et to Mathew Woll’s Workers’ | Karakhan’s Attack on Russia} test of the mitita ter, who claimed BOSTON Mass.,:March 30—Cheers| anese treaty was” for Soviet Russia from the audience Portsmouth , treat Bigned by the czar of an open forum here, greeted the} and the Chinese + ernment in 1905. statement of Mathew Woll, vice presi-! <arakhan, in his reply, shows that dent of the American Federation of] ‘hereas the c: in all his, treaties Labor, that the A. F. of L. “defied’ ith’ China, ‘bet the Chinese peo. the Soviet government. le, the SovTets at all times pro- ecting their intérests, and have re- to the violation of the “The American Federation of Labor ig.ppposed to recognition of the Rus | judiated the atic treaty which sian Communist regime,” Woll, said,| :xtracted plunder from foreign work- and cries of “Liar” rang thru the hall } ers. 4 Woll was “crown prince” in the fe-| The reply of deration of labor council during the} have the honor rule of “kaiser” Samuel Gompers, and] receipt of his speech demonstrated that the A.| against the r FP, of L, leadership has not changed |the Soviet-Ji its reactionary, anti-workingclass po-|20, of the ¥: licy since the death of Gompers. Portsmouth sovereign st China. “Now, I feat boi to state that the said note dealing with that stipulation of the convention signed between the Union’ of Soviet Socialist Repablics and Japan which rs’ to the treaty me great sur- prise, and I ani/ constrained to lay down that your (protest against the recognition of validity of the treaty of Portsmouth is so much in contradiction with the true signifi- cance of this at it could at the ' best be explained by ar BORA 5: khan states: “I acknowledgé the note protesting ition, according to agreement of Jan. of the treaty of , a8 violating the and interests of REDS ARRESTED which will try to.tunetion of @emocraty. But this democracy,| will be as much of a fake as the spuri- ous~ brand we have in the United States, *# © HE long night of terror thru which the Italian workers have passed is got. yet over. To use a commor phrase: “The worst is yet to come.’ There will be neither democracy nor peace in Italy until the workers over- hrow the capitalist sy&Stem: which ises fascisti or liberals, according to ts needs. The worker will establish ‘heir own democracy, thru the rule of he majority, even tho it is called a lictatorship. There are stormy days ahead for Italy, hut out of this storm vill come the calm of peace, when cap- italist rule gives way to the rule of abor, Lewis Uses the “Help Wanted” Columns CHARLESTON, W. Va., March 30. ~—Page ativertisements in West Vir- ginia newspapers are the substitute used bythe officials of the United Mine Workers of America in place of strike orders‘issued thru local unions, | to call out'on April 1 all the coal min- ers ‘of tem counties of northern West Virginia. To this pitiable subterfuge the Lew- is machine’ is reduced by its own un- ion wrecking betrayals of the West Virginia miners into the hands of the coal companies and their munderous armies. The machinery of the dis+ trict union organization and the local unions, the natural channel of strike orders, have been destroyed by Lewis in combine with the operators and their gunmen. “Help Wanted” for the U. M. W. of A. The once mighty U. M. W. of A, which marshalled its forces in thou- sands of armed men determined to re- sist the operators in battle if need be, and which whipped the Baldwin-Feltz gunmiah army in open armed strug- gle’ in 1921, is now reduced to the ridiculous necessity of using the “Help Wanted” columns of capitalist papers to advertise for a strike, on ree ar F the bible does not conform to the ~prohibition amendment to the con- stitution of the United States, so much the worse for the bible, says the anti- saloon league biblical experts who nave decided to make the alleged word of god to conform to the very eal word of Andrew Volstead. Loy- ers of the “flowing bowl” have taken sheir liquor with the consoling thought that, while a jag might come under the heading of “disorderly, conduct,” in Chicago or Atlanta, Georgia, in reaven it would be considered only is“ proof that the wine bibbler was walking, no matter how unsteadily in the ways of the lord. For did not Moslems iid J Arabs Pro- test English Rule (Special to The Daily Worker.) JERUSALEM, March 30.—£xcited crowds are walking the streets of this city, the Arabs and Moslems taking objection to the visi: of Lord Balfour as a representative of British impe- rialism. Balfour, who is scheduled to open the Hebrew university on April 1, has received hundreds of telegrams protesting against his visit. British police have arrested every Jewish Communist here they could lay their hands on. The Arab schools in Jaffa, Tul Ke- ram, Gaza, and Hebron are completely closed dofn following the strike of teachers and pupils as a — protest against Balfour's visit. Zionists Betray Workers. The leaders of the zionist movement which ig: being used by the British capitalists as a tool to enslave the workers of Palestine, offered prayers {mn the synagogues for Balfour, King George and Sir Herbert Samuel, high commissioner of Palestine. In a manifesto signed by Omar Bit- tar, president of the Moslem-Christian committee, Sir Samuel’s administra- tion in Palestine is condemned. “We renew our protests against the Brit- therd om h ais sentuated by fully‘ignoring these acts which the Chinese. government has tself concluded with Japan. “1. Being mindful, to a degree which is well known to the Chinese people, of the sovereign rights and interests of China; the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub lics, in its negotiations with Japan, did nét agree to recognize the valid- ity of the treaty of Portsmouth until, after a thorough and most careful study of the eventual consequences of such recognitioh, it was satisfied beyond any possible doubt that the recognition in 1925 formally of the validity of the treaty of Portsmouth, (Continued ‘on Page 6) REDS POLL BIG VOTE IN GERMANY DESPITE CLUBS Shows 30 Pct. Gain (Special to The Daily ‘Worker) BERLIN, Germany, March 30.—The early returns in the presidential elec- tions gave the ‘Communist Party, which ran Comrade Ernst Thaelmann Halle, Murder Scene, | Jesus, at the marriage feast at Cana ef Galilee turn water into wine? see HERE “flagons of wine” appears April ‘1, ‘Weakened by the repeated betrayals of Lewis, and held down by the most ruthless array of armed force, the ish government,” says the statement, |as candidate, 1,869,553 votes. The “and raise our voices to the British | Communists polled:more votes than public and world opinion against the | the democratic party candidate, Pre- great calamity that has befallen our in the old bible, “raistn cake” is substituted in the new edition. This is censuring Jesus with a vengeance. Here is a chance for some ambitious theologian to found a new religion and make a lot of money in the bar- gain, by laying the foundations of his shurch on the spiritualfoundation of fermented grape juice. A modern yootlegger with Jesus’ recipes for get- (Continued on page 4) fniners who long for the rebirth ‘of the union in West Virginia cynically call the method of asking them to strike an “April fool joke.” In every coal camp of West Vir- ginia'the company gunman is the ab- solute despot. No “stranger” can set foot in any camp of any of the coun- ties in the coal fields, or even ride the trains, unless he is met by a couple (Continued on Page 4.) STATE POLICE IN FACT ARE FAR FROM ROMANTIC FICTION OF “PROTECTORS” OF PEOPLE (Article VI.) By MANUEL GOMEZ. There is steady pilgrimage of fat bellies to Springfleld these days. Bevoral thousand bankers and manufacturers have made their »way to the capitol thus fir, for the exclusive purpose of jamming the Dunlap bill thru the state legislature and setting up a state constabulary inf the face of the workers and poor farmers. Five hundred capitalists from all sections of Illinois descended upen | bea Springfield in a single day, the Chicago delegation of 150 being led by no- Jess | poys “& personage than W. R. Dawes, president of the Chicago Association of Com- merce and a members of the famous Hell an’ Maria family. Among th (Continued on Page —— \ Y dane ett) country.” Weeks to Award Juicy Contract to Electric Trust WASHINGTON, D. C., March 30.— Secretary of War Weeks shortly will ask for bids for the disposal of ap- in proximately 100,000 horse power to be fieveloped at Muscle Shoals, it was learned at the war department today. It is rumored Weeks will award the contract to a power company in New York, connected’ with the power trust, in which Weeks is personally interest- ed. When the Wilson dam is completed about July 1, that amount of power will become available and the secre- tary has authority to make temporary contracts for its disposal. Burned to Death in Play. mier Hellpach of! Baden; Dr. Held, Bavarian people’¢ party candidate and Jen. Ludendorff, the fascist candidate, who received a measly 284,471 votes. In Halle, where the capitalist police murdered several Communists at an election mass meeting, the Commun- ists gained 30 per cent over last De- cember’s vote. Hold Another Election. No candidate received a majority the elections, amd another election must be held on April 26, when the candidate receiving tae nighest num- ber of votes will be declared elected. The total vote was only 69 per cent of the qualified electorate, as it was generally felt no one could secure a majority in this election, Karl Jarres, candidate of the com- bined nationalists and conservative parties, polled the highest vote, re- ceiving 10,387,323 votes. The heavy vote for Jarres, who took many fas- cist votes from Ludendorff, demon- strates that the reactionaries are making ready to concentrate their | CENTRALIA, IIL, March 30.~Trap-|forces in a reactionary bourgeois by a roaring grass fire started by| coalition to take power in Germany. boys playing “forest fire,” three year Id Sophia Wyrostek was burned to Otto Braun, socialist candidate, re- solved 7,735,678 wates. Many Com- pe Soles Glen eee four miles south} munist votes werellost thru terrorist- ic methods at the! pells. Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WOuKER ‘SHING CO), 1 tL PUBLi NEW YORK EDITION 113 W. Washington Blvd., Price 3 Cents MUCH DEPORTED ‘EMIR’ REFUSED BY ALL LANDS LIVES ON HIGH SEAS WASHINGTON, D. C., March 30, —The self-styled Emir of Kurdistan, who traveled around the country under a number of aliases, including that of J. Albert Bronson, and Said Ben-Abdullah, and who was recently deported to England, will be shunt- ed back and forth between the Unit- ed Sta’ and England until steam- ship companies tire of maintaining him. The “Emir” was deported because he was in the country on fraudulent passports. Arriving in England, the British authorities “refused to re- ceive him and he was sent back to this country on the same ship on which he left. “Under no circumstances will this man be permitted to land from the ship on which he is now enroute to this country,” the department of !a- bor announced today. IMPERIALISM IN PLOT FOR LOOT TO CALL CONFAB Subject ‘Peoples Are Near Revolt Bhicc WASHINGTON, D. C., March 30.— Coolidge’s diplomats and state offi- clals, representing Wall Street im- perialism, were today digging up the forgotten records of the first “dis- armament” conference, preparatory to another meeting of world powers. Both the English and the United States governments have guardedly approved such a conference, and are studying to see how much they can get out of the smaller nations and the colonies to divide between them. British capitalists, thru their repre- sentative, Minister of Foreign Affairs Austen Chamberlain, are pushing the mrappaed Anglo-German alliance it the While Chamber: ‘lain assures y that he is tor the immediate evacuation of Cologne and the Ruhr by the French and the “readjustment” of Germany’s eastern border, the Polish foreign minister, Skrzynsky, announces that Chamber- lain has promised him that England will not consider such a readjustment. Poland is endeavoring to secure com- plete control of Danzig, which the Germans also claim. The Polish white (Continued on page 5) ‘OUR INDUSTRIAL MIGHT THE ONLY HOPE’, SAYS COOK British Miners Face New Battle LONDON, March 30.—The Miners’ Minimum Wage Bill was defeated in the house of commons by a vote ot 208 to 143. Nearly all the tory members united against the measure, which would have given adult coal miners a mini- mum wage of from ten to twelve shilling a day, or about $15 a week. This bill had been declared by the miners’ executives necessary to pre- vent. a general coal strike. “It is now clear that our only hope as miners is in our industrial might,’ said A. J. Cook, militant secretary of the Miners’ Federation. Meanwhile, Frank Hodges and other traitors of the “Black Friday” split of the triple alliance, known as being more concerned with the interests of the mine owners than those of the miners, are opposing a strike because they say “the mine owners are losing money.” The miners, of course, have nothing to lose but their jobs, and their miserable existence which a pit- tance of wages affords. And despite their “losses,” the mine owners strangely live in luxury. Farrington Machine Predicts Defeat of Old Miners’ Pension SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 30.— A defeat of the Illinois miners’ old age pension act was seen here today by sources close to Frank Farrington, re- actionary president of the Illinois Miners’ Union, as preparation was made to notity locals of the returns’ from the recent referendum vote,| While no official statement was isi sued, the pension system was said by Farrington men to have been defeats ‘ed by at least 20,000 votes, “I ANZUTSKY IS FREED!” SAYS REPORT FROM VIENNA FIRST DAY AFTER WORLD DEMONSTRATIONS VIENNA, March 30.—Stanisiav Lanzutsky, Polish Communist deputy on trial in Przmys! on charges of attempting to overthrow the govern- ment of Poland was acquitted, according to dispatches that reached here today. 2 *° 6 @ Comrade Lanzutsky was indicted because of a speech delivered by him at a meeting of railroad workers in Przmysl on November 13, 1923, during a big railroad strike. : When the Polish bourgeoisie decided to try Tanzutsky, they also de- cided to impose the death penalty and refused the offer of the Soviet govern- ment to provide the defendant with counsel. Under the direction of the Commun- ist International, a world wide demon- stration was launched protesting against the proposed execution of Lanzutsky.. Protests began to pour in from all sides warning the Polish gov- efnment against the carrying out of its death sentence. Here in the Unit- ed States, the workers appeared be- fore the Polish consulates in the prin- cipal cities and in Washington a dem- onstration was held in front of the Polish legation, “RECOGNIZE RUSSIA” RESOLUTION PASSED AT COMMUNE MEET The following resolution was passed at the international unity demonstration held at the Ashland Auditorium: SUPPORTS JUGO- SLAVIAN TERROR Deports Commanist from City (Special to The Daily Worker.) JOLIET, Ill, March 30.—Police oi this town faithfully serve not only the interest of the steel trust of this coun- try, but also the bloody government of reactionary Jugloslavia. Workers of this town arranged a protest meeting against the white ter- ror government of Jugoslavia, which is using every means to subject the working and peasant masses to the most horrible social conditions. The South Slavic branch of the Workers Party of America, together with other. organizations, called a meeting for last Sunday afternoon. But before the meeting was opened the chief of police, with six or seven of his lackeys came to the hall and dragged four workers to the police station and dispersed the rest of the workers. sa E, workers in mass meeting as- sembled, take this occasion to voice our views on certain political events of the past few months: We register our unequivocal con- demnation of the activities of the counter-revolutionary menshevik agent, Raphael Abramovich. We brand him as a conscious and will- ing tool of the enemies*of the work- ers’ and peasants’ republic of Rus- s sia, And those elements, chief Police Chief. a Propagandist. famong which were the effete The arrested workers were held ai and bankrupt socialist party and the .}he police station and all the books and petit-hourgeois Forward, that gave | various documents were taken from them, ‘While they were held there JOLIET POLICE. ea fre et is traitor, we charge with ving writen in bela letters another y into their shameful record of betrayal of the working class. «| | We demand the immediate and complete recognition by the United States government of the Union of Soviet Republics of Russia. Prac- tically every other, power, save the United States has granted recogni- tlon to the Union of Soviet Repub- lies. There is no good: reason for the United States to withhold recogni- tion and we demand that negotia- tions be immediately undertaken to- ward that end. FREE LANZUTSKY. We voice our most vehement pro- test against the intended execution by the Polish white guard govern- ment of the Communist Deputy Lan- zutsky. Comrade Lanzutsky is a Working-class leader, accepted by thousands of Polish workers. His against the bloody bour- geois Polish regime have rallied be- hind him and the Communist Party of Poland large sections of the work- ing masses. The menace of thTs growing power the Polish terrorists seek to ward off by murdering the leader, Lanzutsky. We call upon all workers to join with the Interna- tional Red Aid, in echoing the slogan of the Polish proletariat, “Lanzutsky must not, shall not die. We reaffirm our unalterable de- mand that all political and industrial prisoners still rotting in the cap- for over’an ‘hour, the chief of police tried to convince them that the old @espotic and czaristic government of Russia wag better than the present workers’ and peasants’ government. Of course, he convinced nobody, ex- cept himself. Among the arrested was C. Mikal achky, from Chicago, one of the edi- tors ‘of the Radnik. In his possession he had a few Inprekors, which the chief of police took*from him and re- fused to give back. The chief of po- lice will have an opportunity to read about the horrible white terror which is raging all over Jugoslavia, and to find out why the workers are protest- ing against the unbearable conditions. Like the U. S. Syndicalist Laws. For the last five years, since the bloody Jugoslavia came into existence, the terroristic government of Pash- itch rules with an iron fist. Under the infamous “Obznana,” which is equal to criminal syndicalist laws of this country, the Pashitch govern ment has been and is crushing the workers’ and peasants: movement. This law is today directed not only against the toiling masses but against the national minorities as well. The so-called holy trinity of Jugoslavia, that is Serbs-Croatian-Slovens is only a mask for the Serbian bourgeoisie, which is trying to strengthen its hegemony over the other nationalities. Bince the last election, held on Feb- ruary 8, 1926, the white terror is more fierce than before. italist jalls of the world be given unconditional amnesty, and ask the workers to rally behind the Labor Defense Council in its fight for the Deport a Communist. The chief of police ordered detec- tives to take Comrade Mikalachy and release of the Michigan defendants and other class-war prisoners. We appeal to all workers. to come to the support of the International Workers’ Relief in its campaign to Save thousands of workingmen, ‘women and children, who facing starvation in the west of Ireland, Long live the International Work+ ers’ Aid! Long live Lanzutsky! Amnesty for all class-war prison- ers! . Relieve the Irish proletariat! Down with Abramovich. Long live the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America! Long live the Union of Soviet Re- publics! Hail the Communist International! Indiana ink Fails. HOBART, Ind., March 30.— State bank examiners today closed the Ho- bart bank, whith was to have been consolidated with the American Trust and Savings bank within a few days. The Hobart bank, examiners » has $45,000 worth of bad paper. The bank formerly was called the Farmery’ jane and.as such was a branch of the > jank of Valparaiso, which failed six ears ago, ° chase him from the town, which was done. Mikalachky was taken to the city limits and told not to come back to Joliet, Il. This reactionary act of the Joliet police, in supporting the vassal state of the French bourgeoisie in the Bal- kans, fully reveals the international reactionary character of the armed forces of the ruling class, which is solely used against the labor move- ment, and against the working class as a whole. The American “democracy” of Cool- idge and Dawes is nothing else but the naked and crude dictatorship of the steel trust! France “Recommends” 8-Hour Day—“If Dawes Plan Quits Germany” PARIS, March 30.—The foreign at- fairs commission of the French cham: ber of deputies today voted to recom- mend ratification of the Washington eight-hour labor agreepient, subject only to Germany's ratification. Adop- tion of the agreement by Germany, Great Britain and Belgium heretofore has been a condition of French rath fication,