The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1925, Page 1

\ | The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and: Farm- ers’ Government Vol. | 2° S5,-78, bd & a cen Si wt f ven 74 ane 50 8m Ay $7 'tma5" By T. J. O'FLAHEn. - 'N the state of Virginia, which sup- plies its quota to that part of the American population which gloats over its “Americanism” ten per cent of the people are in receipt of public charity, The state takes care of 200,000 of them, but it should be stated that it spends only about $30 on each pauper. Major LeRoy Hodges managing director of the state cham- ber of commerce felt quite keenly over this condition and suggested that those unfortunates, instead of being a drain on the taxpayers should he- come an asset thru the development of prison and reformatory industries. “ee ERE is another splendid example of the inhumanity of the capi- talist system. Not content with wrecking the bodies of the working class it pursues them into the hell holes where they are confined when they are no longer able to take care of themselves, and pounces upon what is left of them, in order to coin the last bit of marrow in their bones and the last drop of blood in’ their veins into profit. And yet some work: ers do not understand why Commun- ists are so bitter against this damn- able system! and so intent on putting an end to it, ‘ee “ ORE capitalist brutality! Private Crouch of the American army, stationed in Honoluly, Hawaii, a country grabbed by violence by Wall Street, was given the terrible sen- tence of 40 years with hard labor for writing a letter to a local paper cor- recting. the anti-Soviet diatribe of a mentally defective editor, whose ig- norance of Russia was so great that he confused the Kremfin with one of Leon Trotsky’s political opponents. For daring to exercise his right as an American citizen, Private Crouch is sentenced to hell for forty years, or until death charitably puts an end to his misery. ee HIS is appaling. And yet how many of those who exuded waves of sympathy over the sufferings of Collins who was caught in a sand cave, will ignore the savage sentence imposed on a splendid type of worker who had the, courage to brave the rath of the military machine of Wa! treet? Private Crouch was not the only -oné to" reel thé fron fist of Am- erican militarism. Private Walter Trumbull got twenty-six ‘8 and several others are due for similar sentences. This is the land of the free “indeed! ee 8 HE bourgeois wolves who have howled to heaven over the defens- ive measures adopted by the Russian workers and peasants to protect their revolution against the angry capital- ist coyotes that surrounded them on all sides, will justify the sentence im- posed on the private soldiers in Hon: olulu.§ Yes, Communism is danger- ous anywhere but supremely so in the army, The army is the first line of defense of the predatory ruling class that own and control this coun- try. The personnel of that army must be segregated from revolution ary associations, and when one is dis- (Continued on page 2) a RATE SINCLAIR SORE AT SOVIET; GETS NO AID OFF CAL State Department Deaf to Complaint By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 10.— Harry Sinclair, having lost his oll conces- sions in Russian Saghalien thru a de- cision of the Moscow court that he has failed to fulfill his contract, is raising a storm in the big business press. He claims that the Japanese, who drove him out of Saghalien so. that he could not keep his agreement to develop that field, have secured a ‘monopoly concession under the terms of protocol B of the Russo-Japanese treaty which was signed at Pekin on Jan. 20. This Japanese monopoly of Sagha- lien oil, according to the argument, of Sinclair’s friends, is a violation of the pledge made to’ the American state department during the Washington conference in the spring of 1922, when Baron Shidehara, on behalf of Japan, assured Secretary Hughes that Japan would not use her military occupa- tion of the Russian far east to secure any exclusive economic or commercial privileges. Sinclair Out of Luok. This protest against the Russian concession of oil in Saghalien to the Japanese calls attention to the fact that since the United States does not recognize the Soviet Union, it has no means of discussing the oil concession with Moscow. Discussion with Japan will not help, because the Japanese can say that this was a free gift from the Soviets to their Japanese friends, and has nothing to do with the fact that Japanese troops were in Russian Saghalien and the Russian Far Kast. As to the charge that a monopoly privilege has been secured, they point out that the concession covers only the alternate squares in a checker- board survey of the known oil fields. There may be as much oil in fields yet undiscovered, as in the ones now State ‘department officials, who-are anxious recognitjon of Russia is — harm to American business, agree that Japan has not violated “her com- pact with them, and that Sinclair is simply in hard luck. Plutes Sore at Japati. Chairman Borah of the senate for- eign relations committee; -however, smiles grimly at this alibi», He says it is clear that Japan has brokén her promise to Hughes, and that the rea- son she has broken it, and the rea- son why Japan thereby has grabbed a rich oil field in Russian Saghalien, is that the Harding-Coolidge admin- istration has refused to recognize the Soviet Union. Former Secretary of State Lansing, who seems to represent all the royal- ist and reactionary Russian elements, as well as other foes of the ‘Soviets, joins in the outcry against the Jap- anese. He agrees with Hughes that the Soviets should not be recognized, UNITED FRONT COMMITTE CALLS TEXTILE WORKERS OF LAWRENCE TO UNITE AGAINST WAGE CUTS j (Special to The Dally Worker) in Chicago, by mall, $3.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. } No | LAWRENCE, Mass., April 10.—The following letters were sent out by the United Front Committee of Textile Workers of Lawrence. The first letter was sent to all labor organizations of Lawrence and is to be backed by per- sonal visits of the members of the committee. The second letter asking for delegates to join the United Front Committee was sent to all the textile unions in Lawrence, To All Labor In Lawrence “The United Front Committee of Textile Workers of Lawrence has be- gun an intensive tampaign among the textile workers to stiffen their resist- atice against the dastardly wage cuts and inhuman speeding up and doub- / ling up of work that the textile bosses ave forced, The workers must fight , fake shop and mill committees of the mill owners, “In order to carry out this camp- aign \the textile workers must organ- ize anyl amalgamate all of their forces for thd fight, We must not allow the three Hpnarsa and fifty thousand tex- tile workers in this district to be with- (Continued on page 4.) BANKRUPTCIES SHOW HIGHEST FIGURES SINCE 1922 AND 1915 NEW. YORK, April ee failures in che United States in the first quarter of 1925 aggregated 5,969, an increage of 8.4 per cent over the same period last year, R. G. Dun and company reported today. With the exception of 1922 and 1915, when 7,517 and 7,216 defaults respectively, were shown, the year’s first quarterly total is the largest in the history of the country, Total of the first quarter's liabilities is $128,481,780, an Increase of 14.2 per cent over the last quarter of 1924, Returns for the month of Maroh show 1,869 defaults for $34,004,781, — Jardine to Decide Soon on Legality of Packing Trust (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, April 10.—The Ar- mour-Morris packing combine case, which has been bitterly contested for more than two years will be in the hands of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine Saturday. Due to an unexpected press of business, Jardine cancelled part of a scheduled all-day hearing and allotted additional time tomorrow and Satur- day for argument. THE DAILY Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at SUNDAY, APRIL FRENCH GOVERNMENT IN PLOT WITH TURKS FOR QUSTING OF BRITISH CONSTANTINOPLE, April “10— The French government, thru its agent, Henri Franklin-Bouillon, is endeavoring to secure a treaty with the Turkish government) whereby Turkey and France unite their in- terests in the near east against the aims of British imperialism. Turkey, according to the proposed treaty, would guarantee, Syria to France, in return for which Turkey would be given fuller contro! of the Bagdad railway. MANY SPEAKERS BILLED FOR BIG IRISH MEETING Capitalist Parties Ignore Famine NEW YORK, April 10—The situa- tion in Ireland is getting worse. .The Free State government is doing noth- ing to relieve the famine. Provision for work for 750,000—with an assign- ment of $5,000,000—is ridiculous when men, women and children are starv- ing. Help is needed at once—not in the form of work alone but in the form of food and clothing. The capi- talists and the capitalist press are do- ing nothing—quite obviously for the Trish workers and peasants. The workers are the only ones who may be looked to to help their Irish com- rades. The International Workers’-Aid, the international working class organiza- tion, is rushing aid to the assistance of the Irish famine-stricken. The Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee has been organized in this country to carry on the work of relief. On Wednesday, April 15, at 8 p. m., at Central Opera House, Jack Me- Carthy who is returning from the Irish famine district, will tell the story of the suffering of. the Irish workers and peasants. He will nar- rate the misery and par mente, of these - Gurley Flynn, Joseph. Manley, Ben Gitlow, and P. Cosgrove will also speak. Workers of New York, come to this meeting and do your part. Tell the’ workers in the shops and unions. So- licit contributions in‘the fraternal or- ganizations. Send your funds to the New York Section, 108 E. 14th St. Davis for Employers. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 10—Secre- tary of Labor James J. Davis, in a speech here before the convention of the Amalgamated Steel, Iron and Tin Workers’ Union, urged the workers not to go on strike. He compared the relations between the employers and the workers to the relations be- tween the members of the board of directors of a business firm, and urged no fighting. “Ease up on your strict rules,” he told the unions. Holland and U. S. Arbitrate. THE HAGUE, Holland, April 10.— The United States and Holland have agreed to arbitrate their claims to the Islands of Palms, in the Philip- pines it was announced today. Earthquake Shock in Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE.— A panicky population left their homes for safe- ty in the oben spaces today when a powerful earthquake shock was felf at Konia in Tarkestan. Argue Tax Publicity Next Week. WASHINGTON, April right of newspapers under the 1924 revenue tax law to publish individual income tax returns will be argued be- ‘ore the United States supreme court next week, If you can’t convince your shop- mates of your principles—give a sub and let the DAILY WORKER do it! 10. — Thej 2, 1925 [UNION GONGRESS DEMANDS SOVIET BRITISH TRADE Full Rec Daily Worker.) 9—A meeting of of the Trades Un- considering the the relations be- “Kingdom and Rus: flowing resolution: ‘Trade. the abnormal and prolonged une: ent now existent in the United isdom, and the im- possibility of restoring its pre-war foreign trade so g as Russia is not admitted to the comity of nations, this general bil calls upon the British govern to reopen immedi- ately negotiation’ with the govern ment of the U! of Socialist Soviet (Special to” LONDON, the general ion Congress present position tween the Uni sia, carried the : febtl “That in view” Republics, with=#the following ob- jects: “(1) Complete diplomatic .recogni tion of the Soviet government of Rus- sia; “(2) The @! agement and sup- Hons with Russia by # the trade facilities seas trade acts to port of trade r the application acts and the Russian trade, ~ Full “The council gnition. desires to empha- of including Rus- _ of nations as a means of re ¥ establishing the possibility of © in Eastern coun- tries, and declarés that thru Russia, as part of the @onfederation of na- tions, a powerful influence in this di- rection ured.” A vote of sy. sat was passed with the Russian ment and the Rus- sian trade 7 movement in the deaths of prominent leaders of Russian Ta! WNaraimanoff. Miasni- jhoff, Mogilevski, and Alarbekoff, the met their deaths ent. last three of 4 in an airplane ta Runs Low. April 10.—Only six countries, at report ha San ce departm much as 1,000 o! ipvation..quota un- filled. These are Germany with 12,- 772, Britain with” 7,590, Irish Free State with 7,586, Italy with 2,037, Po- land with 1,731 and France with 1,- 212, Sweden has 901 and Norway 883 places left. SPRINGFIELD MINERS HOLD DEMONSTRATION IN FIGHT ON REACTION (Special to The Daily Worker.) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 10.— Final preparations were being made here today for the mass demonstra- tion Sunday afternoon, at Reservoir Park, of coal miners protesting against the effort of the Lewis-Far- rington machine to depose Freeman Thompson, re-elected as president of sub-district four. All the high officials of the Illi- nois Miners’ District Union, includ- ing Pres. Frank Farrington, Vice- president Harry Fishwick and Sec- retary-treasurer Walter Nesbit have been invited to attend the mass meeting and present their case to an open meeting of the miners. It is not likely that they will take ad- vantage of the invitation. The Lewis-Farrington machine is trying to put John A. Walker in Thompson's place. Walker, who previously had been parading as a “progressive” and denouncing the Farrington machine, came out two years ago as a supporter of the reactionaries in the miners’ union, and was put up aé stalkfhg horse to defeat Joe Tumulty, a militant, and elect John J. Young, a Farring- ton man, as district board member. Since then Walker has been a loyal servant of the reaction in the coal miners’ union. Immigration - WASHING’ TWO DIE UNDER GUN FIRE OF GENDARMES WHO WOUND 20 TO MAKE SAFE EXIT FOR LORD BALFOUR (Special to The Daily Worker) DAMASCUS, Syria, April 10—Quiet returned to Damascus today follow- ing the departure of Lord Balfour, Bi ritish exponent of Jewish colonization in Palestine, for Beirut, after demonstrations which gave fear for his safety. Two persons were killed and 20 were wounded when a crowd of 10,000 gathered before his hotel in the third demonstration. Gendarmes, consisting of Syrian police and Algerian troops, were called on ahd fired on the demon- stration before it was dispersed. After prayers in connection with the Ramadian festival, a crowd of 6,000 marched toward the Victoria Hotel, whe: Syrian police atempted to check Fierce fighting ensued, and Algerian che police. Lord Balfour was staying. the demonstratora: but were stoned. troops were summoned to the aid of There were disturbances also in the Jewish quarter, This was the most serious disorder marking the walt of the Earl of Balfour to the Holy Land. WORKER. it Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, 290 Published SS Morgan War Debts Crush ‘Reform Rule As French PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Il, CENTS including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. d daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WOuW.KER Price 5 Cents Herriot Cabinet Tumbles (Special to The Dally Worker) jai PARIS, April 10.—Government of the republic of France by the radical sociallst (reform: signed. LOOKING ON THE WINE WHEN IT IS RED. ~—Will Donaid, in “Australian. Worker,” Sydney, Australia. OUSTED COMMUNIST DELEGATE IS RE-ELECTED BY HIS.LOCAL UNION SEATTLE, April 10.—Paul K. Mohr, delegate from the Bakers’ Union to the Central Labor Council, was re-elected to that body by his organization after being unseated by the reactionaries. council are expected to refuse his credentials. ROOFING WORKERS RISK LIVES FOR MEAGER WAGES Work in Hot Tar for 40 Cents an Hour ~ The workers in Chicago's roofing factories, working in cement dust, in constant danger of slipping on the slimy floors, and falling to certain death in the hot tar, receive only 40 cents an hour for their work. . Conditions are bad in the Barrett, Bird, Beaver and Richards roofing factories, but at the Lehon company, {4th and Oakley Ave, the slave driv- ng system is’seen its worst. No Organization “Why don’t the unions do some or- ganizing in the factory where I work”? writes one Lehon company employe to the DAILY WORKER. “We work ten hours a day, six days a week, with no higher rates for over- time, Sunday or holiday work. If we refuse to work overtime we are im- mediately fired.’ “We work in cement dust, with hot tar, and many men get hurt. The boss has pushed the speed so high that one man does as much now as three men used to,” Forty Cents an Hour “We get 40 cents an hour for dirty, hard work and the boss has four autos and buys a new one every two months, “Why don't union roofers stop using scab roofing?. Then we would get a little help in organizing.” America Enters League Confab. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10.— President Coolidge appointed five del- egates to attend the league of mations conference at Gené¥a to discuss regu- lations of trafflc in arms, ist) party ended tonight when Premier Edouard Herriot, the social-pacifist, and his cabinet re The direct cause of the resignation was the financial chaos into which the nation was plunged by its repeated borrowings, begun by former Premier Poincare, after the world war and the inability of the Herriot government to extricate the country from its fiscal predicament. FRENCH SENATE VOTES AGAINST HERRIOT RULE New Cabinet Crisis by Vote of 132 to 156 (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, April 10—A cabinet orisis was precipitated this evening when the French senate, by a vote of 132 to 156, refused a vote of confidence to Premier Herriot. It was expected that Herriot would resign immediately. Herriot went immediately to Quai d@’ Orsay and it was announced a few minutes later that the cabinet was drafting its letter of resigna- lion. The failure of the senate to give Herriot and his government a vote of confidence followed the appearance of Herriot and Poincare, former pre- mier, before the senate to explain the causes leading up to the financial chaos in which France has found itself, Faithful to His Friends. Closing his remarks, Herriot said: “I have been faithful to my poli tical friends, but at the same time 1 retain my own political independence. sf ime for sleeping is past. 1 ask the senate at least to recognize that Itried: to-do my full duty.” His supporters gave him an ovation when he finished. “It is amjust,” Poincare said, “for any Frenchman to attribute to an- other Frenchman responsibility for a financial condition which is exclusive- ly Germany’s fault. Says Victors Pay War Costs. “France’s enormous public debt is due to the Versailles treaty leaving the victors to pay all the war costs. Germany's defaults obliged us to call on the victors to pay the war costs, Germany’s defaults obliged us to call on the French people to sacrifice their savings.” Poincare asserted tnat “only per- sistent efforts of my government made it possible to balance the 1925 budget.” Herriot Puts the Vote, Herriot himself put the vote of eon- fidence to the senate, determined, as he had told his supporters, that he should know as soon as possible whether it would be feasible to put thru the chamber of deputies and the senate the proposal submitted by the new minister of finance, de Monzie. The proposal contemplated a volun- tary levy of ten per cent on all wealth in France, but the de Monzie bill provided if the contribution was not The fakers in control of the SMALL’S COSSACK BILL MAY PASS SENATE TUESDAY Would Create Anti- Strike Police (Special to The Dally Worker.) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 10.—The |senate of the Illinois legislature is now debating on which state police bill shall be passed, the Dunlap bill, which would establish a state police force similar to that which prevails in other states of the Barr bill, backed by Len Small. The Barr bill and the Dunlap Dill, it was admitted in the sénate debate, are practically identi- cal. Both measures provide an ample force to be used by the Illinois man- ufacturers to do strikebreaking duty. The Barr bill would create an un- limited force of state police, with full power of arrest under the direct or- ders of Governor Small, The discussion on the two cossack bills will be resumed next Tuesday. It is likely that Small’s bill will pass as he has so far been able to contro) a majority of the members of the leg- islature, made voluntarily then it would be enforced. While the vote was being taken, Herriot’s parliamentarian said: May Dissolve the Chamber. “The senate’s repudiation of Herriof means the probable dissolution of the chamber of deputies. “Normally, President Doumergue should request either Francois-Marsal or Poincare to form a cabinét, in the event Herriot resigns, but it is like- ly there would be sufficient opposition in the chamber of deputies to block this.” BUFFALO, N, Y., April 10.—Ex- plosion of dynamite im a quarry killed three men at Hagersville, Ontario, ac- cording to word received here today. Two men were blown to atoms, the third died of injuries. The men were Frank Gritelli and Giovanni Donati, of Hagersville and Charles Ackerter, of Fenelon Falls, Ontario. FEDERAL LAND BANKS PLASTER MORTGAGES ON 60,000,000 ACRES; FARMERS SHOW THEY’RE BROKE WASHINGTON, April 10.—Agricultural loans by federal land banks have totaled more than $1,000,000,000, secured by mortgages on about 60,000,000 acres of real estate, the federal reserve board snasanred today, in a state- ment on the farm situation, Outstanding loans for tobacco culture headed the list on March 15 with $22,875,000, a million dollar Increase over February 16." Cotton loans were $6,884,000 March 16 and wheat $1,518,000, > ea eT