The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1925, Page 2

OPEN SHOP AND [MASS MEETINGS PROTEST POLISH WAGE CUT WHIP ALBERTA MINERS Officials Do Nothing to Stop Tragedy HILLCREST, Alta., Canada, April 6 (By Mail)—The situation here has got- ten worse. Blairmore and Bellevue have decided to accept the new wage scale, giving till today, a chance for Hificrest and Coleman to come with them, As the latter two camps have no other choice now but to go, they have, at least my own cimp, elected com- mittees to meet the operators to nego- tate. Dissolution. We will meet them as U. M. W. A. men, when it is over chances are we'll be nothing. It will be put to a vote, and even if the vote of Hillcrest and Coleman defeats it, the other two camps will take it anyway. The sirike call that the sub-district asked for, for the whole district, was turned down by our @istrict officials. They liave been useleas to us in the present crisis. Fighti@g Leaders Needed. What we lack is good leaders. If we had them /’m sure the present sit uation wouldn’: have come to us. The drive appears to be to smash the union, and I'm afraid it will succeed around here. The rank and file have convinced themselves of the coming cut and there was no one to say anything to the contrary. If the union does go, the chances are the active members will be blacklisted; if so, the condi- tions of these camps will be worse than before. Workers’ Monthly Strikes Bull’s-eye. I have just received today the Workers’ Monthly, and the double page cartoon, “The Company Union Holds a Meeting,” sure shows what is Mable to happen here in a few days. I have posted this up in the miners’ club. 4 Will let you know the outcome of the negotiations with the operators. The rate will be about 20c or 30c high- er than what Hillcrest Colleries of- tered. Tonight, Saturday, April 11, is the Bunco Party and dance given by the Y. W. L. Area Branch No. 5, at 1902 W. Division St. Admission Is only WHITE TERROR; DETROIT AND CLEVELAND TO HEAR RADWANSKI Prompt response attends the action of the American section of the Inter- national Red Aid and the Conference to Ald Political Prisoners in Poland in arranging the tour of Comrade T. Radwanski to rally the American workers in protest against government terrorism in Poland. Detroit and Cleveland—Take Note! The Detroit committee has organized the first meeting for Sunday after- noon, at 1 o’clock at 8014 Yemans St.,'Hamtramck., The Cleveland committee has organized meetings for Monday evening at Pulaski Hall, 6628 Chambers Ave., and Tuesday evening at Korneys Hall, 2885 W. 11th St. Speakers in English, Polish and Ukrainian. Wed- nesday evening, April 15, 7:30 p. m. Comrade Radwanski will speak in Erie, Pa. at Nagorski’s Hall, corner 10th and Parade Sts. and Thursday. April 16, 7:30 p, m. in Niagara Falls at the Polish National Hall, B. Falls and 27 St. Meetings are being ar- ranged in twenty to twenty-five cities and industrial centers. The executive committee of the International Red Aid has called upon all workers’ organizations and meet- ings to send resolutions and letters of protests to the Polish embassy, also to send greetings to Deputy Lanzut- sky, Prjemisk (prison) Poland. Copies of such resolutions, ete, should be sent to George Maurer, 19 8. Lincoln St. or B. K. Gebert, 1118 W. Wash- ington St., Chicago, Ill.—In sending funds for Red Ald for Poland to the .bove secretaries, indicate that it is or the aid of political prisoners and ieir families in Poland. Slogans of the Campaign Some of the slogans issued by the xecutive committee, of the I, R. A, are: Down with the terror of the bour- geolsie and social traltors! Release Comrade Lanzutsky! Long Live the revolutionary strug- gle of the Polish workers and peas- ants! Stop the oppression of the national minorities in Poland! Long Live tho International Red Aid! Mussolini Nabs War Ministry, Defying today took over the ministry of war, made vacant by the resignation of Minister Di Giorgio when the senate disapproved his army reform bill, In a message to the, he said: “I intend to dedicate my constant nergy to making the army @ more ecisive instrument of Italian power.” 25 cents. Are you coming? Don’t The premier also holds the port- forget, at 8 p. m. folio of foreign minister. nrc: Amalgamated Ss EMB An Industrial Organization For All Workers in the Food Industry GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 81 East 10th Street, New York, N. Y. THIS IS OUR Food Workers HPSUOOOSOTTDGRES SERA UEREANT TYNE Senate on Army Law ROME, April 10—Premier Mussolini LEM UNRUH ANENUTUU ASAE EAERUNETA DUO ge ev eUAA EGET AeA eee OU EENAEE UE LEG HAUASULEEEEDULGGEUANELENAE Get your tobacco direct from the farm and SAVE MONEY You workers and we farmers can join hands and beat the capitalistic tobacco trust at their own game. Do you know WHY you have had to pay so much for your tobacco? We used to hve to sell to the trust or they'd let our tobacco rot on our hands. They paid us next to nothing for our finest frodes, sometimes mixed them with a t of alfalfa and dope and sweepings, dolled them up in fancy bags or had starving sweat shop labor in stinking dungeons make unfit cigars—and charged you fancy prices—and made millions— that fat trust! But those days are gone forever. The 8. Government now lets us farmers sell direct to you without paying the heavy revenue tax on tobacco which the trust has to pay. Save Your Money and Help Us BUST the TRUST! By, ordering your tobacco direct from is association of nervy, trust-busting, hard-working farmers. ‘e farmers who raise the best leaf tobacco in the world will send you the choice extra selected ~ leat tobacco—the kind we smoke and chew ourselves. Don't send any money. We'll trust ey with THREE pounds for only $2. That's enough for 125 cigars, or a whole wash boiler almost full ‘the finest pipe tobacco you ever smoked. you have to do is to roll it into a » crumble it into your pipe or twist ito shape for chewing. Free Tobacco Book tly how and as you've got mse you can do it as it’s easy ' "Satoly tucked in the heart of pac! we'll ship FREB a hottie our famous Kentucky Flavoring Mix- to. ay 3 weer tobacco, oO, We vi i for erage purposes and MEpa gacloty lewal tor averine tote Don’t let the Tobacco Trust bunco you SEND NO MONE WE FARMERS. WILL TRUST YOU. Send no Just send the coupon. We will send you THREE = money, POUNDS of this ful, first quality, d natural leaf 0 and we will in- clude, free, that bottle of famous Kentucky Flav- orlng Mixture, a “MOD. EL” Cigar Wrapper, and our Free Tobacco Book. When the package ar- This te a rives you simply pay the hand of real ontman $2. That's all. tobacco end no money. Just send the coupon. You take ne risk. BURNS W. BEALL Agent for Iron Springs Tobacee Growers’ Sales Association HORSE CAVE, KENTUCKY Your Take No Risk. You Are Protected By the Guarantee of This Association Farmers, of SEND NO MONEY Just Send This Coupon BURNS W. BEALL, R.7, Horse Cave, Ky. Agent for tron Springs Tobacco Growers’ Sales Association Send me at once three pounds of your selected Leaf Tobacco and include FREE a bottle of your famous Kentucky Flavoring Mixture, a free “MODEL” cigar wrapper, and your Free Tobacco Book. When package arrives I will pay postman §2, Name -jentire human race from the bondage AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) covered who has broken thru the cor- don, woe unto him. But also, woe unto the American capitalist class. Their day is coming and there will be thousands upon thousands of working class Crouches and Trumbulls ready to take the place of those doomed to the foul prisons of the master class! ee 8 ECRETARY OF LABOR, James J. Davis, speaking at the convention of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, prophesied that the time would come in industry when strikes would be considered silly. Yes, that time will come when the workers own the industries. Perhaps, the time is a little bit in the distance, and perhaps not. One should not in- dulge in prophesy with a time limit nowadays, But let us hope that the day is not far distant when it will be considered silly, yes and treasonable for a tool of the capitalist class, like James J. Davis to be invited to speak at a working class convention. *e © PL DENevRe is running for presi- dent on the nationalist ticket in Germany. His most serious opponent will be Marx, on the catholic ticket. Hindenburg will have the support of all the monarchist elements. Marx will be backed by the socialists and the so-called democrats. The only working class candidate in the field is Thaelmann, the Communist. Fine situation in Germany, six years after the revolution. Monarchists so pow- erful that they can run one of the kaiser’s closest friends for the high- est office in the “republic.” What a splendid commentary on the treach ery of the socialists! No chance of such a phenomenon taking place across the frontier in Soviet. Russia At least the czar is not in a Position to be anybody's political adviser. ee 6 heme traction scheme supported by Mayor Dever, the Chicago Trib- une, The Daily News, the bankers and divers labor fakers was buried here on April 7. It was defeated by the Thompson and Hearst political ma- chine for purely political reasons Not that it shouldn’t be beaten. It should. The point is however, that its opponents have no plan to offer that means any more to the working class than the one drowned in the flood of popular disapproval last Tuesday. The trouble is that two gangs of grafters are fighting for the Spoils of the traction requirements of this city. eee ACT, interesting traction fight took place in Milwaukee, There is a socialist mayor’ in Milwaukee, In fact that city was once, and ts per- haps until today, the pride of the so- clalist party of America. The mayor, Dantel Hoan, conceived of a plan that found favor in the eyes of the traction barons of Milwaukee. It guaranteed them over 7 per cent profit, if the skies rained thistles. Naturally they would accept. But the voters, de- spite the frenzied exhortations of the Milwaukee Leader, defeated the Proposition. Now, Hoan and Berger profess to believe the “people” are a lot of dumbells, Socialists in Mil- waukee; democrats in Chicago. Both serve the capitalist class. es @ MS it perhaps the Communists would not do any better if they got into office” some inquisitive reader may ask, And we say: Communists do not claim that the machinery of capitalist government can be utilized to serve the working class. If the Communists get into office, the best they can promise is to use their posi- tions to build up the fighting power of the working class and to sound the toscin of class war to the end that the workers will seize the machinery of government and begin to recon- struct society on a socialist basis. This is what they are doing in Soviet Russia, They did away with the ma- chinery of capitalist government and replaced it with their own institu- tions, he ie ‘AT the socialists in Milwaukee are doing is helping the capt- talists to run the city for the benefit of the capitalists, primarily, This is what the British, German and Swe did. In Russia, the cap- dog's life, according to all reports while the worker is the king pin. No slave should lose any sleep over this change of positions. But the alm of the revolutionary movement is not to wreak vengeance on the robbers who have ground the workers under their heels, but to free the producers from the yoke of wage slavery, and incidentally to free the in which it is held by capitalism, | dianapolis. BOARD HEAD |S PLEASED ‘WITH OPEN SHOP RULE Calls Superintendent Asset to Schools Charles M. Moderwell, president of the board of education and owner of scab coal mines in West Virginia, in his veport to Mayor Dever upon re- tiring from office calls the appoint- ment of William, McAndrew as super- intendent one of the most important accomplishments of the board. The report is @ resume of the board’s achievements since Moderwell’s ap- pointment two years ago. McAndrew’s Counelis. The new council which was sanc tioned by the board at its last meet- ing will be made up of one repres- entative of every voluntary teachers’ organization in: the ‘city. They will meet with the superintendent and other bosses on the educational staff. Meetings will ber called by the super- intendent at such times as he sees fit. q It is of course’ entirely different in character from the old councils which were in fact school shop meetings where the teachers in individual schools met to discuss problems aris- ing in their particular school. What McAndrew’s council will do it attend a meeting called by McAndrew to take MeAndtew’s orders pack to the teachers, Miss Margaret Haley of the Teach- ers’ Federation who sat thru the meet- ing said that her organization will not be represented on those councils. A Bad Place to Look for Friends Trustee J. Lewis Coath one of the trustees who voted against the new councils and who has been playing the “friend” of the Teachers’ Federation was the one picked by the machine to get rid of the federation’s letter to the board which requests the board to ex- Plain where the money for the raise will come from. Coath under the head of new business arose to make his motion but like a school boy about to say his piece was seemingly very much embarrassed. He finally walk- xd up to the front of the platform where Moderwell sat and they shush- ed for a while. Then he returned to his place and said “I move that we refer the letter received from the Teachers’ Federation to the finance committee.” Cost of Food Takes PM Couas a 12 Years WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10— The latest report from the U. 8S. de- partment of labor completed for 20 cities out of the 51 included in the bureau’s report shows a marked in- crease in the cost, of food for the year period March 15, 1924 to March 15, 1925. Out of the 20 cities, 19 show the fol- lowing increases: Peorla, 9 per cent; Detroit, 7 per cent; Buffalo, Cleveland and Norfolk, 6 per, cent; New York, Richmond, Scranton, and Washing: ton, D. C. 5 per cent; Indianapolis, per cent; Charleston, 8. C,, Columbus, Milwaukee and Portland, Me., 3 per cent; Boston, Bridgeport, Neward and New Haven, 3 per cent; and Provi- dence 1 per cent. In Fall River there was a decrease of less than five- tenths of 1 per cent, As compared with the average cost in the year 1913, the retail cost of feod on March 15, 1925 was 59 per cent higher in Richmond, 58 per cent in Detroit, 67 per’ cent in Washing. ton, D. C., 56 per cent in Buffalo, 55 per cent in New York and Scranton, 64 per cent in Charleston, S. C., 53 per cent in Milwaukee, 61 per cent in Cleveland, 49 per cent in Boston, 4% per cent in Providence, 47 per cent in New Haven, 45 per cent in Newark and 44 per cent in'Fall River and In- Prices were not obtained from Bridgeport, Columbus, Norfolk, Peoria, and Portland, Me., in 1913 hence no comparison for the 12-year period can be given for those cities. ¢ h Soviet Rule Hits Graft. MOSCOW. early half of the gov- ernment officials of Nakhitchevan, a republic of 20,000 in the Trans-Cau- casus, were undef arrest today on charges of graft and abuse of the power of arrest following the vis: of A. Rykoff, prestdent of the council of Soviet commissars. The officials were former nobles, for the most part. ‘ Million for Tornado Sufferers, Chicago's drive, for funds tor re- left work in the tornado stricken area of southern Illinois officially ended today when a $50,000 donation sent the total over the $1,000,000 mark. The first appeal in this drive w: broadcast by local radio stations the day after the disaster and the cam- paign has been virtually kept alive by this method. Court Denies Shepherd's Plea, SPRINGFIBLD, state supreme court today denied the petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by Attorn for William D. Shepherd, Chi held on an indi a areine him with the “typhoid murder” of his ward, William Nelson McClintock, - THE DAI“. Y WORKER na OSTA AS RSIS SI RRS ne le A SER ES Seem PENNE PR ea A aS a ce ha he RO ae ene A IE Sa i” PATE Thinking by Soldiers Is Great Threat to the Stability of Capitalism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, the workers of the United States are beginning to learn, if they didn’t know it before, that the army is an instrument of American imperialism, and that the “most important military post in American control,” in the words of the Chicago Tribune, is the Schofield Barracks, in Hawaii. Holding tightly to these facts, the capitalist press is beating the tom toms in favor of the outrageous sentences of 40 and 20 years’ imprisonment imposed on the two sol- diers Paul Crouch and Walter Trumbull, and the court- martialling of eight more. oeee ‘Soldiers in imperialist armies are not supposed to have ideas of their own. They must not question why they mur- der. All they are expected to do is blindly obey the order, “Forward to the slaughter!” They must not ask why they kill; only kill! It appears that Crouch and Trumbull never questioned the orders of the imperialist army In which they served. But it was discovered that they had ideas of thelr own. They were not soldier-automatons, They had developed into thinking robot-soldiers. They protested against misstatements regarding Soviet Russia appearing in a local newspaper, the Honolulu Adver- tiser. They sought to correct these misstatements. That is their crime. FE This Is not the first time that American soldiers have been punished for looking favorably toward Soviet Rule in Russia. U. S. imperialism found it impossible to maintain an army on the Viadivostok front in the war against the Soviets in 1920. The soldiers deserted. They refused to fight. They committed petty offenses in order to be sent to the guard house. Many were sent back to the United States to serve long terms of imprisonment in the military prison on “Hell's Rock” in San Francisco Bay, and élsewhere on the Pacific coast. They were subjected to the most brutal treatment for their Soviet sympathies, eS 8: eS One letter by a soldier to a capitalist newspaper now pinpricks the whole American capitalist state into hysterical action because Hawaii is its most important military out- post. It is not only a Heligoland looking toward the bnitip- pines, and eo! astride the road to the East Indies; it. is not only on the highway to China and a lookout towards Japan, but it also eyes Vladivostok, where flies the red flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Pacific. Western European capitalism may, build its cordon sanitaire thru the Baltic and the Balkan states against the Soviet realm in the west. But the sentences meted out to Crouch and Trumbull in the army is a confession that U. S. imperial- ism fears for its anti-Bolshevik blockade in the Pacific. It wasn't enough to withdraw the American army from Vladi- vostok. The Bolshevik germ already penetrates half way across the earth’s broadest ocean. As Oo B.S The military arm of American imperialism is no more impervious to Bolshevik infection than the armies of any other capitalist nation. A French court martial has just re- leased Captain Jacques Sadoul charged with desertion from the army of imperialist France to the. Soviet lines. It isn't so easy to drum up an army nowadays to murder without thinking, not even in “democratic” America. British imperialism had to use Syrian gendarmes and mercenaries from Algiers to do its killing to protect its spokesman, Lord Balfour, in Damascus, But the robot soldiers from Syria and Algeria, like the soldiers of other nations, will learn their 8h of interest with the soldiers and workers of all other lands. . eeee They will learn in time of the Red Army of Soviet Rus- sla, composed of soldiers who do their own thinking, and who know why they fight. The incident at the Schofield Barracks, in Hawaii, indi- cates that an idea, the Communist idea, even penetrates the armor of ignorance in which the American dollar govern- ment seeks to dress its fighting forces. There is nothing to prevent this armor from being pierced so effectively in the world stru; between capital and labor that it will be rendered absolutely useless, INTENSIVE TWO WEEK COURSE OFFERED NEGRO WORKERS ON SOUTH SIDE; BEGINS APRIL 13 By Lovet: Fort-Whiteman, On Monday evening, 8 o'clock, April 13 will begin the first classes of the Workers Party school to take place at Community Center, 3201 8, Wabash 1. Ave. The course has been outlined to embrace the following subjects: Theses of the 2nd and 8rd Congress of the Communist International, nine lectures by William F, Dunne, 2% Negro History, nine lectures by Lovett Fort-Whiteman, 3. Party Organization, by Martin Ahern. 4, Public Speak- + ing, by Thurber Lewis. The classes will be held from eight until 10 each night during a period of two successive weeks. Direct ap- peal to South Side party members, ap- plicants and friends to take advan- tage of this series of courses is mad It is the first time that the South Si Negro workers have had advantage of classes of this nature being brought to their immediate vicinity. The important place the Negro work- er holds today in the industrial life of America warrants a new knowledge of his relationship ‘to the economic de- velopment of America. The prime aim of these classes is to bring a tifle understanding of the underlying cal f present day racial conflicts in American life, It is the hope to develop competent Negro leadership for the Negro working class move- ment, which day by day clearly prom- to assume great importance in e near future, The classes are open to the general public free of charge. No Examination. Let the DAILY WORKER make your arguments every day. Send in a sub for your shop mates, . amon, PROTECT YOURSELF! PROTECT YOUR LOVED ONES! CHICAGO’S LABOR BANK offers you free A $5,000 Accident Policy Just Open a Savings Account. Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank Tj. Mane George E. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half block from Imperial Hall CHICAGO Eat at the GLOBE CAFETERIA Best Foods at Moderate Prices. 14th STREET, COR. IRVING PLACE (Opposite New. York Party Headquarters) Wanted. 20 COPIES OF THE DAILY WORKER OF NOV. 13, 1924. VOL. II. No. 202. Hammersmark, care of DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chica- go, Ill. Furnishings LADIES’ MEN'S INFANTS’ Trade Where Your Money Buys the Most Martin’s 651 West North Avenue East of Halsted St. Madison Pharmacy INC. BETTER DRUGS Light Luncheon Served 1154 Madison Street, Corner Ann OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Four Phones Chicago PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 60 per cont’on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. Dr. A. Moskalik DENTIST 8. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Dr S. ZIMMERMAN IDEN r1S71 | 2252. N. CALIFORNIA AVE ARMITAGE 7466 MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray rices —_ to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination Is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY Broadcast “Parsifal.” . BERLIN, April 10.— The Berlin opera company under the direction of Max von Schillings today broad- cast Wagner’s “Parsifal,” hoping to have the wide world as an audience. No Red Tape.