The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1925, Page 4

| sf on # my, : ; ‘ Page Four. THE DAILY WORKER. [ee eiabatsanticanin tees tae Sad tiie aaa ates 4 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: 98.50... 5 months ; aimed months By mall (in Chicago only $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.60....8 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. 4. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE woe MAILORS MORITS J. LOEB. seveeromeeee Business Manager $6.60 per year ~ Chicago, Iinele —— eee €ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, ND <p> 250 Advertising rates os app”cation eee nected ee nent ert Slipping It to a Sob Sister The sob sister#of the capitalist press, the female Dr. Cranes who advises women on the thousand and one ills that the fair sex is heir to under cap- italism, are devoting much attention to Soviet Russia of late. Indicative of their neurotic tem- perament, their themes are woven mostly around the subjects of love and religion. It is hardly necessary to say that their articles yn religion and marriage in Soviet Russia are just as venomous as those.of their male colleagues. One Edna K. Wooley, who writes for the Cleveland News, and whose dissertations on Soviet Russia display unbelieveable ignorance of the subject, and is therefore entirely qualified to write about Rus- sia, recently ran into a snag in the shape of a letter from a steel worker in Steubenville, Ohio. This steel worker took Edna to task in a manner which brings three loud cheers from us and which succeeded in getting under the hide of the sob sister. The steel worker enthusiastically endorses the separation of church and state in Soviet Russia and then announces cheerfully that he himself no longer believes in god. Then he asks the following pertinent question: “Where is the god or christ to help the starving coal miners, steel workers and railroad workers in good old U. S. A.?” When Edna tries to answer this simple question she drops the mask of humanitarianism and snarls like a she-wolf and descends to the mental plane where she belongs. “God,” says Edna, “is in- spiriting men to plan better in all lines of busi- ness’so there may be steadier employment for every worker.” It is the ingratitude of the workingman which makes all these inspired plans come to naught. Says this sob sister: The truth is that here everybody has become ao- customed to so good a scale of living that to do with- out certain comforts or necessities that once were considered luxuries, raises a growl of “starvation.” indeed, matters have so come about in the good old U. S. A. that practically no man wants to take a small or temporary job that Isn't bringing the pay he thinks he should have. He'd rather loaf and live on his relatives or on charity, or “skip” and let charity take care of his family. He prefers to hang around in a city rather than go out in the country and do real work on. a farm. He demands beefsteak and fresh white bread for his daily meals. And in nine cases out of ten he came to this country from a land where he was lucky if he got 30 cents for a long day’s work, and hard, black bread was the chief part of his daily diet. It is not hard to understand the hatred gener- ated for the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia and for the revolutionary and labor move- ment everywhere by this type of mind. It feels instinctively that something very unpleasant is going to happen to its physical envelope when the workers take power. There is a blood relationship between the Ednas of America and the ecounter-revolutionary ligentsia of Russia. They are united in their hatred of the working class. Both blame the foreigner, one for the revolution, the other for the pre-revolu- tionary discontent that exists in the United States. The hangers-on of the Russian ruling class hated the Jews, the same type here hates “the Dago, the Dutchman, the Swede and the Coon, the Chink and the Jap, and the man in the moon.” Why do we devote so much space to the Ednas? Because working class women read their effusions and in the United States much of their stuff is looked upon as a dispassionate effort to reach the truth. Chinese Textile Strikers Win The Chinese textile workers won their strike in Shanghai. Most of the strikes of the American textile work- ers have been lost. There are two reasons why the Chinese workers won, The first is that they struck as a unit, tied up the whole textile industry and recognized that a strike is war, those who desert their fellow workers traitors. The second reason is that the Red International of Labor Unions ‘sent,a huge ‘eontributiolsto the strikers’ relief fund and aided materially in reliev- sing their distress. The bosses were forced to meet the terms of the strikers altho in behalf of those properties owned by Japanese capitalists the Japanese government sent a number of threatening messages to the Chinese authorities. \ The Chinese , may be slow in getting in- to motion, butaio | can deny that once they start they leave an workers far behind in militancy and rity. If the American working class does not get busy soon the Chinese workers will one day be referring to our “coolie standard of li ¢ aeons nm UNA D's i agg Ar intel-! The Passing of the Klan The ku klux klan is passing. ‘With the sanctity of the home and the protection of American womanhood as two of its main slogans it has succeeded in gathering to its bosom the most perfect colleetion of degenerates ever placed on exhibition in America. The quarrels over the cash proceeds of organ- izing campaigns has brought the klan into court times without number. It appears that the laws of the invisible empire are not of a nature that makes division of the loot a proceeding ‘that can be settled outside the ordinary processes of law to which the horde of Jews, Negroes, Slavs and Irish outside the nightgowned ranks have to submit to for the present. The lustre of the imperial diadem has been dim- med somewhat by these sordid sorties made upon the treasury. To make matters worse, a number of grand dragons, kleagles and wizards have become in- volved in sexual adventures that have brought bit- ter disillusionment to many of the embattled morons whose tastes run to collective sadistic orgies rather than to individual expeditions in perversion. The chief*protector of the purity of American womanhood: in Indianapolis is the latest victim of the pitfalls that make the path of a grand dragon a hard and thorny one. It will be alittle hard to explain to the faithful how the kidnaping, rape and subsequent poisoning of a young Indianapolis girl by the grand dragon, aided by a couple of local wizards, fits in with the crusade against the invasion of the 100 per cent American home by the alien cohorts. Once upon a time klansmen, when apprehended in some particularly obscene anti-social act could plead that they were victims of an enemy plot, but this defense has lost its punch. Any literate person knows now that the klan is an organization of sub- normal perverts with a sprinkling of clever poli- ticians and professional elements that see in the klan the nucleus of an American fascist organiza- tion. Even in the medieval south the klan is decaying. Its days as a political force are numbered. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. World Solidarity The international protest of the working class aroused by the threat of the Polish government to hang Stanislav Lanzutsky, Communist “worker member of the diet, has assumed huge dimensions. It is without doubt the greatest exhibition of work- ing class solidarity in defense of a class war prisoner that has yet been seen. The British labor movement, more effectively than any other section of the working class outside of Soviet Russia, aided in staying the hands of the capitalist hangmen. Those who are always lamenting the dissensions and divisions in the labor and revolutionary move- ment and who always see the weaknesses rather than the strength of labor should explain how it is that the British labor party and the general council of the Trades Union Congress both pro- tested tothe’ Polish government and offered to provide legal defense for the victim of the white guards, Comrade, Lanzutsky is held on another charge after his acquittal under the pressure of the masses in Poland and other nations, but his life has been saved for a timé at least and the protests and demonstrations thruout the globe have been wonderful testimony to the strength of the Com- munist International whose call brought millions of workers to the defense of their Polish comrade. A few years ago such unanimity of action would have been impossible. Today the spread of the capitalist terror into all nations together with the constant agitation and organization work of the sections of the Communist International is welding the world labor movement into a single massive weapon for the working class. Fakers Fail to Fool Negro Miners The labor fakers are not above appealing to the Negro members of the unions for support when it is a question of war on the militants. The official- dom of the United Mine Workers of western Penn- sylvania, went to the trouble of importing a Negro organizer to lead the fight on one of the militants in a union with a large sont of Negro mem- bers. But the attempt to line up a Negro miners be- hind the fakers failed..Our correspondent at the scene of the struggle reports that not a single Negro voted with the machine. There are lots of similar incidents in the labor movement proving that many of the Negro workers understand the need for combatting the misleaders and traitors in the unions who are.only too willing to follow the example set by the capitalists in playing one race against the other, The reason that more of these are not reported is that our worker correspondents are not yet numerous enough to coveF’ the figld thoroly,and that to many workers théPb lis -pothing unusual in such exhibitions of solidarity. When we refer to the “murder governments” of central, eastern and southeastern io iga, we mean exactly what we say. If any of our readers doubt the accuracy of this term, they should read carefully our news story of the death plots of the Bulgarian government whicit we published yesterday, The revelations contained therein are unbelieveable—if we forget that human life since 1914 is the cheapest thing in the world. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party, ~ THE DAIL¥ WORKER. . a beets CAL WANTS DEBT BEFORE CRASH Plutes Tear Hair as War Payment Fades WASHINGTON, April 10—Intro- duction of the capital levy scheme in the French parliament by the Herriot government has alarmed | Secretary Mellon and the Coglidge following in Washington, since it proves the ex- tremity to which (French financial mismanagement has driven the poli- ticians in Paris, Chance of early collection of any part of the intere’t—much less the principal—due the United States on the war debt is now considered:-re- mote, Bankruptcy was the alternative to a capital levy, unless’ France were again to try inflation or Weré to surrender her military positio ‘Sa admit her- self a second-rate power, But Mellon and Coolidge had hoped that no step so disturbing to the whole: financial structure of the world as a capital levy in a country of the importance of France would be attempted. They look upon a@ forced loan as a confession of breakdown of power and as being likely to weaken the antf-radical lineup fm central Europe and the Balkans, Forelgn Exchange. NEW YORK, April 10.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.78; cable 4.78%. France, franc, demand 5.1344; cable 5.14. Belgium, franc, demand 5.03%; cable 5.04. Italy, lira, demand 19.32; cable 19.33. Sweden, krone, demand 4.10%; cable 4.10%. Norway, krone, demand 26.96; cable 26.99. Denmark, krone, demand 15.99; cable 16.01. Germany, mark, unquot- ed. Shanghai, tael, demand 74.00; cable 74.50. Kluxers Active In Indiana. NEW ORLEANS, April 10—Despite the fact that the ku klux klan is sup- posed to be outlawed in Louisiana regular meetings are held by “visi- tors,” weekly, an imperial represen- tative installed in a downtown office, and a regular campaign waged by the appointment of ward captains and precinct leaders in each of the seven- teen wards of the ¢ity against the so- called “enemies” of the hooded band. A “Deserving” Republican WASHINGTON, April 10.—President Coolidge today appointed Frederick C. Hicks, ex-member Congress from Port Washington, Island, as Alien Property Custodian, sueceeding Colonel Thomas W. Miller, resigned. Hicks’ appointment was recommended by Charles D. Hilles, New York, re- publican national committeeman. Better Than a Circus. WASHINGTON, April 10.—So great was the crowd of Easter tourists at the white house today that a Mc- Keesport, Pa., high school boy col- lapsed in the jam. More than 4,000 persons were crowded into the lobby of the executive office, waiting to shake hands with President Coolidge. Search For Exploring Steamer. NEW YORK, April 10.—Radio search for the steamer Arcturus continued today in an effort to end the twelve- day silence obtaining since the vessel and its scientific exploration party reported from 200 miles south of Pana- ma March 29. Bomb Injures Three. NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., April 10. —Three men were injured, one per- haps fatally by the explosion today of a time bomb in their automobile. The explosion shattered the automo- bile and hurled its occupants in the air. Sa Oc A A Nl Ne ED ATE 5S ni ct i ee ne SEES SA a SY Monkey With the Tariff. WASHINGTON, ‘April 10.—Presi- dent Coolidge was requested today tc leave unchanged the present tariff duty on beet sugar but to increase the rates on chlorate potassium. OIL TRUST PLANS TO GRAB WATERWAYS TO INCREASE PROFITS Plans to divert ‘the nation’s oil shipments from the:railroads to In- land water ways as a means of cut- ting down expenses and increasing profits were discussed here today by leaders of the oil industry attend- ing the annual conference of the tia- s said, already have taken steps in this direction by acquiring stor- age space along various canals and rivers and the prediction was made that the completion of an inland waterways system would see. virtually all oll and ite products freighted by water. As this forecast was being made, however, Charles Markham, presi- dent of the IlinolssCentral railr was telling the pi asing agents’ lation of Chi: igo that the pro- posed gulf waterway from Chicago to New Orleans was “impractical and doomed to fajure.” a PRI acca nti ite np SS SE NE St ah tc Sa ee RRO «SS SER as Bi A A Yt OF THE FRENCH! WITH THE Y CONDUCTED = BY Thi UNG WORKE! CHICAGO Y. W. L. CITY CENTRAL DEVOTES LAST SESSION TO TASKS OF MEMBERS IN SHOP NUCLEI WO At the last meeting of the city central committee of the Young Workers League held Wednesday, April 8, the main topic of discussion was the shop nuclei. The other business of the league such as the distribution of the 1,000 copies of the \Negro edition of the Young Worker to, be distributed and sold, the clothing workers meeting to be held Saturday and the hike which will take place on Sunday, April 19, to the Harlem Forest Preserve, were speedily and efficfently disposed of. In discussion many experiences in our nuclei work were cited and lessons drawn therefrom. It was pointed out in the discussion uthat comrades in the various nuclei should become more active in their shops and should not rely upon the working area branch to do the work of a nucleus. The branch of course, should organize and per- form all the outside activity, but that should be only. secondary and supple- mentary to the work. of the nuclei members inside. The intensication of the activity within the shop and the getting of new members thru the efforts of the aucleus there rather than thru out- sidé activity would avoid to a very great measure getting stool pigeons into our organization. Definite Organizational Measures It was stressed also that as soon as a nucleus is organized it should set @ definite date and place of its meet- ing, elect its officers, even though it may be only two officers at the start and work out a plan of work and follow it religiously. The nucleus must meet every week and have one business meeting, two educational and one social meeting. Of course any immediate business may be transacted at any nucleus meetinb or special nucleus meeting called whenever the situation in the shop demands it. The nucleus should participate more also in the general league activity, it was reported and not confine itself solély to the discus- sion of shop problems. All the ‘communications sent out by the league and the city central minutes of the league should be read and discussed and all instructions con- tained therein followed out by the nucleus. The nuclei members, too, should be drawn more into all the big affairs of the league. They should be present at all the league membership meetings, at joint league and party affairs, at our hikes and at our social affairs, They should co-operate in arranging the open pro- paganda meetings of the branch and attend these meetings in a body. _ Bulletins Should Be More Political The bulletins of the various nuclei should become more political in na- ture, they should endeavor to ac- quaint the young workers in the shops with the Young Workers League, its program, its various activities and its goal, and should not merely week after week make exposes of the con- ditions in the shops. That of course must be contained in every bulletin accompanied by a few paragraphs on the general activities of the league and some educational material. It was also remarked that the nu- cleus should consistently and system- atically with the assistance of a fac- tory campaign and outside activity build itself in size and inuence and only when it is sufficiently established should it set itself the big tasks such as the calling for organization of a shop committee. In its program, it should of course, carry the temand for the organization of a shop committee and in its activi- ty it should work towards that end. It should guard however, against taking premature steps in that direc- ion as these premature steps weaken ind demoralize a nucleus rather than strengthen it. The nuclei members also should at all times carry on thelr work as a unit, No individual actions should be permitted. No walkouts or calling of shop committee meetings, etc,, with- out thorough discussion and prepara- tion of the whole nucleus with its area branch representatives. The de- lay in waiting for such a meeting is no excuse, inasmuch as the nucleus can meet in an emergency almost im- mediately. On Way to Full Reorganization. All in the report and in the discus- sion that followed the report and in the report of the activities of every nucleus it was brought out that the Chicago was well on the way to a complete reorganization on the shop nucleus basis. One evening was not sufficient to discuss the many problems and the athievements of the various niclei. We are gaining invaluable experience thru. our activity, we are learning” many valuable lessons thru our mis- \takes which will aid us in the future work, | It-is now when we have stepped from the propaganda stage into the midst of practical everyday activity in this line that our members and the league as a whole are driving benefits from the shop nucleus organization, this is evidenced by the twenty new members gotten in during the last month, most of them thru the nuclet and the lively and practical discussion held at our city central committee meeting. denarii ascent sg asfipeernsneesanetomrprannitioasiossisieil i ialapeoeeieicermensennssortinteinsnieceniatiah LADY CUSTOMERS MEAN BIGGER EXPENSES FOR JOURNEYMEN BARBERS The high prices paid for bobs and shingles is pocketed by the master barbers (bosses). The journeymen not only do not get any more money, but are working at a loss. The men have got to primp up—change their uniforms oftener, which means larg- er laundry bills, and they have to buy special heavy shears and curling irons. Thus, thé high cost of women cus- tomers to journeymen barbers was explained by W. S. Leidlig, president of the Journeymen Barbers’ Union of Chicago, to Charles Bendheim, Unit- ed States conciliator, sent by the de- partment of labor to settle the con- troversy in the barbers’ new wage contract, The hearing at which Herman Lin- neman represents the master barbers and Leidig, the journeymen barbers, is held at the Great Northern Hotel. The decision of the’conciliator will be made next week. Urges Jail for Opponents. ROME,—Newspaper editors, sena- tors and others who oppose fascism should be banished or imprisoned, Secretary Farinaci of the fascismo advocated today in his newspaper Cremona Nueva. "| FRENCH PLUTES WORKERS EXPORT CAPITAL INBIGCRISIS RK Herriot Blames Chaos on Poincare PARIS, April 10,—Premier Herrlot faced with the-certalnty of having to quit office In the near future, made @avage attacks on the leaders of the opposition yesterday, charging pre- ceding governments with shady book- keeping and with having deceived the country as to the financial condition of the treasury. The premier went before the senate this afternoon and denied that his government -had ever. exceeded the inflation limit of the Bank of France. Blowing Bubbles. The Bank. of France, however, re- corded an increase of 2,100,896,000 in circulation, which brings the total cir- culation up to 43,000,000,000-. francs, while the legal limit is 41,000,000,000. The chamber voted confidence in the government by 291 to 242. Dur. ing the discussion Marcel Cachin, Communist deputy created’ a sensa- tion when he asked if it was not trué that several billions of francs were exported out of the country to Italy recently to avoid the consequences of the financial crisis. Herriot admitted this was true, Francois-Marsal was sharp and cri: tical for the Herriot ministry. Term. Anating his interpellation of Herriot, he said: “Neither the capital tax nor a fore ed loan is capable of restoring confi dence in the present government.” Herriot rose from the minister's bench immediately and mounted the tribune to reply. Herriot again laid responsibility for the nation’s financial chaos on the nationalist government of Premier Poincare. He said: “Unsuccessful loans made under the nationalist government showed there was! no more confidence then under the nationalists than now un- der us. But the nationalists increas- ed the internal debt heavily and it now is 278 billion francs2? The opposition senators inteeeant? ed with loud shouts: “Make Ger- many pay it.” CALL TO THE TEXTILE WORKERS (Continued from page 1.) out any organization at all or to have a few small ynions eke out a miser- able existence fighting among them? selves. All of the small unions must come together. The United Textile Workers, the American Federation of Textile Operatives, the Amalgamated Textile.Council.and the other textile organizations must form a united front against.the bosses. There must be one unfon in the textile industry embracing skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled workers in one powerful or- ganization. Form Real. Mill Committees ~ “For the. Burpose of amalgamating all existing: unions in the textile indus- try and ofganizitig ‘the unorganized, the United: Front Committees of Tex- tile Workers have-been formed in Law- rence and elsewhere. Everywhere in Lawrence we are trying to form true rank and file mill committees that will become part and parcel of our United Front Committee. We have dis- tributed thousands of leaflets, we have held mill gate rallies and indoor mass meetings. “Already the. police have begun their notorious work for the textile bosses. Commissioner of public safe- ty, Marshall, although chosen by the workers of Lawrence, has kicked them repeatedly in the face, He has re- fused to grant permits to hold open- air rallies and Albert Weisbord of Boston, speaking for the United Front Committee, was arrested because Mr. Marshall would not give him a permit, and was fined by the district court. This case has been appealed and the decision must be fought out in the upper court, Shall Mr. Marshall be the dictator of Lawrence? Shall the textile barons: use the machinery of the government in Lawrence to pre- vent’ the exploited textile workers from organizing to establish and main- tain American standards of living? Must Unite'to Aid Strikes “Sparodic st have broken out in Fgll River, New Bedford in the Blackstone and Pawtuxet vallies and in Connecticut. Organized labor must come to the assistance of these strug- gling textile workers. “The United Front Committee of Textile Workers invites your organiza- tion to send one or more delegates to a conference to be held, April 16 at Ideal Hall, 180 Essex street for the purpose of forming a textile workers defense and relief committee. Such committee will give aid and defense to the textile workers without discri- mination, “MONEY IS NEEDED FOR DE- FENSE AND RELIEF. Your organiza- tion is rquested to send a substantial sum to the defense and relief fund, Make all checks payable to Fred B. Beal of 85 Jackson St., Lawrence. Praternally yours, F, B. BEAL, Sec'y. United Front Committee of . Bextile Workers of Lawrence. Se Se Rbk Shae ae Bae Bo ay eats EAN CIR Sse: Sit Tei at al i Ne AY Rye ithe ia ar eA! tee Ades SER TE PERO nae! Sse REE «Pe A, To All Textile Unions “The United Front Committee ot Textile Workers. of Lawrence has. be- gun an intensive campaign among the textile workers to stiffen their resist- ance against the dastardly wage cuts and inhuman speeding up and doub- ling up of work that the textile bosses have forced. The workers must fight the fake shop and mill committees of the mill owners and organize militant rank and file mill committees of their own, “In order to carry out. this camp aign the textile workers must organ- ize and amalgamate all of their forces for the fight. We must not allow the three hundred and fifty thousand tex- tile workers in this district to be with- out any organization at all or to have a few small unions eke out a miser- able existence: fighting among them- selves. “Al of the small unions must come together. The United Textile Work- ers’ of America, the American Feder- ation of Textile Operatives, the Amal- gamated Textile Councils and the other textile organizations must form a united front against the bosses. There must be one union in the tex- tile industry that will embrace skill- ed, semi-skilled and unskilled workers in one powerful organization! “For the. purpose of amalgamating all existing, unions and organizing the unorganized, United Front Committeep of Textile Workers have heen forced in Lawrence and elsewhere. We have already done some good work such as organizing some rank and file mill committees, distributing thousands of leaflets and holding indoor mass meet- ings and mill gate rallies, But to really succeed we must haye the co- operation of every textile workers’ organization.’ “We invite your organization, there- fore, to send one or more delegates to sit with us.on the United Front Committee, The struggle of the tex- tile workers mist not be abandoned and it,can be carried on Successfully , only by way of a united front of ali textile workers organizations, “Our committee sincerely hopes that your organization will join our united front. Address all, mail to secret. Bal 3 Jack- _ptreét,: a Mass," “Etaternally yours, United Front Committee of Textile Workers of Lawrence per FRED E. BEAL, Secretary, pro. tem. rhe above letter was sent to “the following textile organizations: Dyers and Fin{shers,/ United Tex- tile Workers; Wool Sorters, United Textile Workers} Mule Spinners, In- ternational - e Workers; Loom Fixers, Ameri¢in) Federation of Tex- tile Operatt: and the One Big Union gsr oer A 8UB "AND GIVE onzt ny