The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1925, Page 1

BAS N Daily Worker Annual Sub- scription Drive Now on in Full Blast! | GET IN ON IT! Vol. Il; No. 71. ; cat ‘AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY teers nent enn meme T is not likely that the thousand and one agencies that have been en- gaged for several years in the profit- able business of multiplying the fatal- ities incident to the great Russian re volution, and pointing with feigned horror to the comparatively few as- sassins and would-be assassins now occupying prison cells in the Soviet republic, will make the welkin ring with the horrible atrocity committed by the Polish government in having its agents murder two working class Prisoners, on the way to Russia in ex- change for Polish prisoners being transferred to Poland. ose F course, the Polish government will disavow the crime just as the Japanese government disavowed the murder of hundreds of reyolutionaries who, were herded into a closed area and then charged by troops with fixed bayonets on orders from the war department. But the result of the Japanese massacre was as predicted by the radicals. The revolutionary movement has made such headway in Japan since then that the government, only a few days ago was obliged to pass one of the most drastic treason bills ever placed on any statute book, The bandit government of Poland will pay dearly for the premeditated murd- ers of its agents. eee ADY BATHURST, until recently owner of the most reactionary or- gan in England, the Morning Post, takes Canon Donaldson of Westmin- ister Abbey to task for that gentle- man’s strictures on the moral loose- ness of Britain’s aristOcracy, as re- vealed in recent court actions. The lady is surprised that the krimes of the working class are glossed over while the comparatively few sins of the aristocracy are broadcasted over the world. What the aristocrats may do ‘if this pinpricking policy 1s con- tinued, the lady does not specify, but the action will be drastic. Surely the dear things are not thinking of going to work! EVOTEES of Freud,” Jung and company, may be interested to know that anions ihe Sollowars, of eCornhack, son ot Harold McCormack of gland fame. and grandson of John D. Rockefeller. Fifi was never happy, she declares unfil Jung's mental factory in Zurich, enabled her to see herself as others couldn’t see her. Her mind was en- larged, and no doubt so was Jung’s pocketbook. More power to him. Sucker anglers will no doubt flourish as long as capitalism exists, and such being the case, the bigger the fish the better for all concerned. eee EOPLE are no longer seriously interested whether Fifi and Fred Beauvais, the Indian guide, were any more to each other than what their lawyers’ briefs claimed. Everybody concerned, in the legal scrimmage, from the lawyers on both sides to the Indian, are well fed and clothed. But the rich having nothing else to do, in- sist on making news. So with Fifi. ‘The whereabouts of young Fowler McCormack, might not be disclosed until his press agent felt the time was ripe to introduce him to the business world via the lowest-rung-in-the-ladder youte, but for the appearance of Fifi Stillman at a factory gate in Mil- waukee, where young Fowler was slaving away in his father’s plant. ee * A newshoutids immediately got busy, and the stories published of Fowler’s sufferings, juggling heavy castings for ten hours daily and liv- ing in a four-dollar a week room, should make a dissatisfied worker stiffle any feeling of envy to- wards the position of his masters. It is true that young Fowler can make a date with Fifi in one of Milwaukee's swellest hotels, while Wifi invites the newspapermen to “8! ” them both conversing over the tea table. Fifi re- ceives the reporters in her reception room “covered with a form-revealing mandarin wrap of Chinese reds and blues.” Under those conditions Fow- ler may bear up under his agony in \the shop until he knows the business ‘trom the ground up.” r oS 2 WLESS Arthur Brisbane is pro- vided with a respectable w pretty soon, the old man will charge. Calvin, Coolige with gross neglect of (Continued on page 3) S Sharer GEN P © Bex 150 RUSSU-JAPANESE war. THE DAIL Entered as second-cla: i TRADE BOOMS AS TREATY RESULT Soviet Trade Body to Be Formed (Special to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, April 2.—“The interna. tional policy of the Union of Soviet Republic is based on the principles of full equality of rights of all na- tions and taking stock correctly of mutual economic interests, . “It, is on these principles that the commercial treaty between the Union and Japan is based,” Mr, Ganetzky, member of the collegium of the peo- ple’s commissariat of foreign trade, said in an interview with a Japanese journalist in Moscow. Trade With Japan Jumps. “There was not much trade done between the two countries before the war,” Mr. Ganetsky obsérved, “but in ‘the recent years the export to Jap- an, first of timber and then of fish- ery products has been steadily grow- ing, and these products have lately been closely followed by agricultural produce, such as oats, flax, seed, ete. At the present time, it is proposed to develop the exports into Japan from not only the Itussian far east, but all the Union. Among the goods to be exported are oil and oil prod- ucts, salt, iron, etc, Naturally, Jap- (Continued on Page 8) WORKERS”, ¢ in Chicago, by mail, $3.00 per yea: % Outside Chicage, by mail, $6.00 per year. FOR WORLD TRADE UNION UNITY SATURDAY, A We publish herewith the first installment of extracts fro: Special Supplement to the Monthly Circular of the Labor Artoiesn Department of the British Trade Union Congress ete to further- ing world trade union unity. The Special Supplement begins with a preface x A., Purcell, president of the International Federation of Trade Unions (Amster- dam) and is composed largely of original docuneny correspondence between the Red International of Labor Unions nd ithe Amsterdam right wing officialdom, reports of conferences, ete. The publication of this Special Supplement, the Very frank and militant announcement of its purposes by the pri -of the Amster- dam International, the complete exposure of the treacherous and dis- ruptive tactics of the right wing which it contains, of the tremendous hold that the slogan of World has gained upon the British trade union movement section of the Amsterdam Internatio! [PROTEST MEET see PREFACE. By A. A. Purcell, President, Inter- national Federation of Trade Unions, HE question of unity of the work- ing class organizations against the powerful attacks of European and American capitalism has become oF pressing importance. It is more than important: it is fateful for the fu- ture of our movement and the move- ment of the organized workers of the world. In the last few months the pros- pect of securing that unity has de- finitely come nearer. But unity will not be achieved unless the represent- (Continued on page 6.) GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! WORKERS PARTY ORGANIZER, PINCHED FOR “DISTURBING DISTURBS THE COPS By WILLIAM SIMONS. (Special to ‘Fhe Daily Worker) WILLIMANTIC, Conn., the . Palmer-Daugherty-Coolidge route. got dt in the neck. March 30.—(By Mail.)—This morning, McLean, lieutenant of the Willimantic police force, tried to achieve fame by TO BOYCOTT THE SMALL'S STATE AMERICAN FLEET| POLICE BILL IS Frank But instead of being promoted, he As I was nearing the post office, a man stepped up, and asked me to accémpany him up there {pointing eiocs to the police station). IN AUSTRALIA) BEFORE SENATE Unions: Protest Class War Imprisonments NEW YORK, April 2—When the American: naval fleet drops into Aus- tralian harbors next summer’ there is a possibility that it may be declared “black” by Australian labor as a pro- test. against the imprisonment of American labor men by federal and state governments. At least such forebodings are voiced in sensational feature articles in the Melbourne Sun. just receivere here by a for- mer Australian seaman, now in charge of the New York office of the Kuzbas colony. When a ship or fleet is declared “black” the men are refused service in restaurants, saloons, and street cars Union men are canvassing the tradesmen involved, says the news- paper, urging them to line up behind the boyeott. In particular the liquor trades workers are requested to stand solidly in refusing to wet the whistles of the Yankee navy men. ~ “This,” remarks the Sun in a jibe at American prohibition, “would be the cruelest blow.” Prime Minister Bruce has taken offi- cial notice of the cloud in the offing and begs folks to take no notice of it but the Sun says that the Australi- an commissioner in the United States is expected ‘to be asked to reassure the American government. Kidding the Prince. FUNCHAL, Maderia Island.—Wire- less greetings were dispatehed from the British colony here to the Prince of Wales, as H. M. 8. Repulse pass- ed here enroute to West Africa. The prince replied to the message. WASHINGTON, April 2.—President Coolidge is asked by a. visitor whether he is going to begin negotiations with Russia. He replies that he does not know that there is anything new to be said on that subject at present. The biggest newspaper In the capital, the Star, runs 200 words on its front page, an hour later, under the headline—“Coolidge Adamant in| + Stand on Russia. Sees No Change There Which Would Warrant Recognition by This Country.” Even More Vicious Than the Dunlap Bill SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 2.— The Dunlap state police bill, which would establish a police force of 450 offi- cers and men to be used to break strikes, was reported to the senate by the committee on military affairs without recommendation. This means that those who favor the bill must muster 26 votes, a majority of the senate, to have the bill placed on the calendar. But’ a second bill providing for an unlimited force of state police, under the direct control of the governor. who would appoint the commander, was reported favorably by the com- mittee on, roads. This bill is cloaked under the guise of a measure to protect roads, but has been so amended by Small’s commit- tee that a state police force of 1,000 men may be maintained. The members of the force, under the bill, have the full power to make arrests and act as regular state po- lice, The Small bill 1s worse than the Dunlap bill, for it gives the police the same power, and in addition, pro- vides for an unlimited force. It is reported that if the bill pass- es, Small will appoint his son-in-law, Col. A. E. Inglesh, to head the con- stabulary. No limit is placed on the salary of the officers, but the men are to receive $150 a month or less, ac- cording to the bill. Demands Prisoners Pay Raise. The wages of Bridewell prisoners have not been increased since before the war, an alderman told the city council, and submitted an ordinance increasing their pay from 50 cents to $1.00 per day. The ordinance went to the judiciary committee. British Death Penalty Remains. LONDON, England, April 3.—The death penalty In the army was main- tained ‘in the house of commons by a vote of 320 to 156. It was brought out thit 287 officers and men were exec Y during the war by the Bri- sh Sie officials. tie ; your friend subscribe to Y WORKER? Ask him! of last autumn was heard heré last are indicative Union Unity most powerful .—Ed. Note. POLISH TERROR FRIDAY; Party Instructs Mem- bers to A Attend The City Centeal Committee of Lo- cai Chicago of the Workers Party concurred in. recommendation of the city executive committee at its regular meting 722 Blue Island Avenue, last we lay evening, in- structing the members in this city to be pr at the mass pro- test meeting ist the reign of ter- ror and murder mow on in Poland against the ‘Revolutionary workers, which will held on next Friday evening in fen Hall, corner of Ashland lilwaukee Aves. The print glish speaker will be Earl R. r, acting executive secretary of | Workers (Com- munist) Party, Ther will also be speakers in Polish and other lan- guages. against the workers’ app taken on a fresti impetus. On the same day thatithe report of. Lanzut- sky's acquittalredched the United States, it was Jearned that two work- ers on their way:to be exchanged fo: an equal number of Polish counter revolutionaries,;imprisoned in Soviet Russia, were brutally murdered, by their guards when nearing the Rus. sian border. 1The workers of th United States must join with the workers of other countries in making their protests feti. Th recent demonstrations ~in the United States were very effective in showing the Polish government that their brutal murder campaign cannot be carried on with impunity. It is of particular importance that the hun- dreds of thousands of Polish workers in Chicago should be reached with the message of Communism and this exposure of the present terror in Poland affords a splendid opportun- ity to arouse their interest. The lo- cal office of the Workers Party urges all readers of the DAILY WORKER to tell every Polish worker they may meet about this meeting and urge them to attend. Judge Decides Free Speech and Strikes Don’t Go Together PATERSON, N.'J., April 2—An echo of the broad!silk workers’ strike Tuesday when Judge Delaney of the court of special’sessions gave a de- cision against free«speech involving seven arrests made’at a meeting on October 6, last. The judge declared the men guilty,and will sentence them today. An appeal will be taken | to the New Jersey supreme court against the present decision, English Testimony Ends, ST. LOUIS, Mo.) April 2.—The con- sressional sub-committee of seven has ended its nine days of examination of the conduct of Federal Judge George W. English. The tesimony has been completed, English was charged with corruption and tyranny and with conducting a bankruptey ring which cheated bankrupts out of thousands of dollars, Testimony revealed that English used his court to aid the railroads to break the shopmen’s strike, “Archduke” Fined for Speeding. VIENNA, Austria,s. April 2.—The former Archduke Leopold of Austria was fined twenty shillings here for speeding into a pedestrian with his motorcycle, The “arshdul escape the fine by)ileclaring himself an “unskilled laborer!” who was hur- rying to work, but heowWas flned novet- theless, ‘ " tried to PLUTES STEAL NATIVE RICHES IN PHILIPPINES Mae Bon Rob Native Tongue (Special to The Daily Worker.) MANILA, P. I, April 2—DUsing the phrases regarding “law enforcement” which have been applied to keep the American workers in subjection to the profit system, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood has enforced the iron rule of American imperialism on the Philip- pine natives. Leonard Wood rules here frankly in the interests of the American cap- italists. The Philippine Islands are a battle ground between the natives, fighting and dying for independence and the capitalists, supported by the guns and clubs of Wood's constab lary. Murder Natives. A concerted drive is now under way not only to suppress by murder the in- lependent movement, and the move- ment of the peasants to secure decent living conditions, but to “American- ize” the school, law, government and industry, under the direct rule of Wood's bayonets. An Amerigan “educational survey committee,” sent here by Columbia university, is carrying on the work of “Americanization,” in the schools. Speaking of the work of installing the “goose step” in the public schools, Dr. (Continued on page 2.) COMMUNISTS THE WORKERS GROUP IN GERMAN POLL s- * . Socialists Dicker with Right Parties _ BERLIN, Germany, April 2—The issue will be clear cut in the final German election, April 26, between ‘he working class, represented by the Communist Party candidate Ernst Thaelmann, and the fascist-monarchist right coalition, probably to be rep- resented by D. Jarres, and the social- st center bloc, which wants to per- petuate the rule of the exploiters with bourgeois democratic republic and vill probably have as its candidate Wilhelm Marx. The socialists have, in their pre- slection maneuvers, again and again lemonstrated their complete adher- once to the rule of the employers. The social democratic leaders made a deal with the catholic party that they would support the candidacy of Marx if the centrists aided them in electing the socialist Otto Braun as minister president of Prussia. This was carried thru, but at the same time that the centrist minister Hoepke-Achoff gave way to the social- ist, the catholics were dealing with the people’s party and the nationalists for a solid right bloc against the so- cialists. Attorney General Aided Booze Makers Is Probe Testimony WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2.— The Couzens’ senatorial committeg in- vestigating a clash between the de- partment of justice and the treasury department brought out that the at- torney. general’s office objected to the siezure of breweries on the ground that “heavy expense was incurred in guarding them, and the law continued to be violated thru the bribery of guards.” A letter was read from former At- torney General Stone to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, objecting to the siezure of liquor and suggesting that “the injunction proceeding is by far the most effective in the long run.” State Spends More Millions. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 2.—Gover- nor Small today signed three special appropriation bills totalling $6,012,600, N.Y. INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID MEET T0 LAUNCH NEW CAMPAIGN NEW YORK, April 2—A confer. ence of delegates to the Internation: al Workers’ Ald will take place Monday, April 6, at 8 p. m. at 1 East 14th St., Room 32. Branch should be represented at the con- ference, for a new campaign sh be launghed. Published daily except § PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, UL NEW YORK EDITION nday by THE DAILY A.C, W. EXPULSION. IN ORDER TO LIE ABOUT IT j (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, April 2.—The yellow daily Forward has made the discovery that all is and has not been well in the Amaigamated Clo- thing Workers’ Union. It never could discover previously that Local No. 5 had been expelled or that Locals 63 and 24 had with- drawn in protest at the expulsion and were acting in concert with Lo- cal No. 5 against the autocracy of the Hillman machine. But then the Forward is a capitalist newspaper, and as such does not give news fa- vorable to the working class. But at last the Forward speaks. And as usual when it speaks, it lies. It has found out that Locals 63 and 24 have “deserted” Local 5 and gone back to the joint board. The fact of the matter is that Locals 63 and 24 went back to the joint board by the decision of the joint executive of ‘the coatmakers, which Includes Local 5 and the other coatmakers. The Forward was blind until it saw a chance to lie. Thus we hear of the’ “desertion” of Local 5 by the other two locals. STANDARD Ol HEGEMONY OVER LATIN AMERICA Huge Sisclair-Morgan- Wall Street Combine (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, April 2—The merger ‘FORWARD’ DISCOVERS | of the Pan-American Petroleum and | Transport company, one of the world’s largest oi! producing company’s of which Edward L. Doheney is chair- man with the Standard Oil company | of Indiana, marks the domination of the Standard oil trust in the exploita- ti f. Ny South A tis sox cf ag Manned. Poe Aree Standard Oil JsSupreme. The oil compamiés acquired by the Standard Oil trust) ihelude the Pan- American Petroleum company, Pe- troleum Carriers” Ltd,,,6f England the Pan-American ‘Southern Petroleum company, the Mexican Petroleum company, Ltd., the Galoric company, the British-Mexican® Petroleum com- Pany, and others. *' The Wall Street bankers, who are part of the Standard Oil company which bought the Doheney interests, | include the Chase National bank and the Chase Securities company, and the Blair and company ‘bankers, and British interests, headed by Lord Inverforth, which: own a huge slice of the Standard Oil interes The new Standard. Oil-British com- bine announces that intensive exploit- ation of the Mexican and Latin Amer- ican oil fields-will begin immediately. The trust will unite other companies | operating on the Pacific coast and in the Latin countries. The Lago Pe- troleum company will be taken over to further extend the Latin-American exploitation, it was announced. The Lago Petroleum corporation operates on the eastern shore of Lake Mara- caibo, in Venezuela and elsewhere. To Exploit Latin America The Caloric company has interests in Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Para, San- tos, and Pernambuco, Brazil, and other South American points. The British Mexican Petroleum company, one half the stock of which is subscribed by British interests, dis- tributes thru stations at Manchester, Liverpool, Plymouth, Kull, Newcastle, Glasgow and other British cities, The California Petroleum company, the Doheney concern which aided in the bribery of Albert Fall to secure naval oil leases in California from the United States government, has also been taken into the deal, The General Petroleum company has also been | merged with the oil gombine. Harry F. Sinclair, who is in the Standard Oil trust, will share in the control of the new combine. Sinclair is connected with the Standard Oil company of Indiana, The Standard Oi! acqilires thru the deal a fleet of 31 tanker ships. France to Issue New Money. PARIS, France, April. 2.—A financial communique issued last night declar- ed that the Herriot government will soon ask parliament to issue new money in an effort to relieve the financial crisis. RED FLAG FLIES IN NORTH SAKHALIN, MOSCOW, April 2.—The official agency Rosta announces that the flag was solemnly hoisted today at Alexandrovsk, the chief town in th "ern section of Sakhalin island, which is returned to Rus: concluded treaty with Japan Wo..KER Price 3 Cents 33 BRITISH MINERS’ LIVES LOST IN FLOOD Three Weeks at Least to Reach Them (Special to The Dally Worker) NEWCASTLE, “England, April 2— Late yesterday it seemed as tho noth ing short of a miracle would serve tc Save the thirty-eight men and boys who were caught on Monday by a sud- den rush of water into the Montague Colliery at Scobwood. Rescuers, however, were. still Ja boring with great energy om the in stallation of giant pumping apparatus in an endeavor to free the mine of water. ‘But the company’s consulting engineer ruefully admitted that there was no further hope to be entertained for the entrapped workers, as even with the hardest kind of pumping it would take three weeks to reach the victims. It would be impossible, he | declared, to send down divers into the rushing torrent, and moreover poison ous gases filled the places where res. cuers would have a possible chance to operate. Twenty-six Families Bereaved. Men who attempted to enter the pit mouth this morning said the waters were rising rapidly, and that the dead. ly black damp was already present, greatly lassening the- chances that any of the imprisoned men would escape alive. Of the thirty-eight entrapped men, mine officials announced twenty-six are married and have a total of seven- ty dependents. ‘SOVIET RUSSIA DEMANDS POLAND EXPLAIN MURDER Peiecncre 4 Shot by ‘* Police Guard RIGA, April 2.—The shooting of Ba- ginski and Wieczorkiewicz has arous- ed a great storm in Moscow, and the Soviet has sent a strong protest to Warsaw demanding strict investiga- tion of the circumstances and punish- ment of Murasuko, the commanding officer of the Polish police escort guard who shot the officers, who were his prisoners. Moscow believes that the men were not shot on Murasuko’s personal ini tiative, but that the shooting was in spired in official quarters. ; The position of the Poles in Rus |sia intended for exchange is very un enviable. One of them is a Roman catholic priest named Usak. He had reached the Polish consulate at Minsk, around which a great crowd of workers had gathered, demanding his surrender. The Polish consul re. fused to give him up pending in Eee from Warsaw. A Frame-up to Stir Patriots, Baginski and Wieczorkiewiez were lieutenants in the Polish army and were framed up by the Polish gov ernment which tried to prove that they were involved in bomb explo- sions in order to inflame the rabid Polish patriots into believing that Soviet Russia’s spies were in the Po- lish army to betray Poland as a nation to Russia as a nation and obscure the real fraternity existing between the Russian workers and the Polish workers as a class. Their trial was farcical, and it was proved only that the two lieutenants were sympathizers of Soviet Russia and had spoken of the necessary bond of class interests which exists be- tween the workers of Russia and those of Poland. Complicity in any ~ bomb explosions were positively not proven. Polish Doctors Finish the Job. It is learned that Wieczorkiewicz who was not killed outright by the assassin, died on Monday morning after an operation by Polish doctors had proved unsuccessful in saving his life. Turks Conquer the Kurds, CONSTANTINOPLE. — Turkish troops have made their way to the center‘of the Kurdestan rebel area and expect to have the uprising un- der complete control soon, it was an: nounced today. under the