The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1925, Page 1

==="| THE DAILY WORKER. (== vn =i apie q EDITION tal sdcond-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879, of "Ohicago, by mail, $8,00 ' KER . Vol. II. No. 80 SUBS” . tat 90 *eago, by' mail, $6.00 per year, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1925 PUBLISHING CO. i113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, u —- Price 3 Cents ” x 180 Yor pa ; [Phos STF UNO ASE Og REDS SPEAK AS. |THE |PLAN AB HOUR M.TW STRIKE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers now in 9,000 CHINESE ee FRENCH CABINET AS WE SEE IT By T, J, O'FLAHERTY. BE did no/go into the war to sotee Rapltag se we Bhar lc We ileg convention at Pittsburgh, Pa., has before it the wonderful opportunity of Copeaie) t9.The Dally werker,) Just to save the poor Belgians from giving to the hundreds of thousands of workers in the steel industry, genuine INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 13.— i unionism, industrial in structure and militant in spirit. Whether or not this John J. McNamara, secretary and 4 getting their national dignity trodden on by the beastly Germans! But einianiek opportunity will be taken advantage of or lost, depends solely upon whether $ business cvoaiiee the local Struo- ee Iron Workers’ Union, was ar- ee what can poor J. Bull do if-he finds or not the progressive element unites around definite polic¥, organizes itself * a tural , ‘ himself in possession of. territory Open Shop and | W W. definitely to carry their program into practice and fights against all opposi- Communists Prominent ralgned before Judge Fred C. Gause Move on to Legalize that doesn’t belong to him, but which is hankered after by some predatory | power, that has not the interests, of | civilization at heart as well John? | The’only thing the honest. plug cando j of course is to hold on, and grunt | alongunder an added “white man’s \ | burden,” Organization Clash bg thd a ee ir aphid hopeless and helpless labor fakers. in New York Parade in criminal court gucay on four in- Over-Inflation dictments, charging blackmail. League in the following statement By R. BAKER. Proposes such a program and such WILLY POPULAR (Special to The Daily Worker.) action: PHILADELPHIA, April 13— One ee Ni Charles €E. Cox, defense attorney, thousand two hundred M,. T. W. Long- NEW YORK, N. Y., April 13.—Over} filed motions to quash the indict- BULLETIN, : five thousand Chinese workérs, mem-| ments and April 25 was the date PARIS, April 13—France still wae shoremen tied up the Delaware water The. T. U.E. L. Stagement. front when the Jarka Stevedore cor-}| The most basic industry of this poration refused to recognize or per- (Country, the steel industry, is con- mit the members of the Marine Trans- trolled by the most ruthless, reaction- id bers and sympathizers of the Kuomin-| set for hearing. without a premier tonight and the port Workers’ Union of the I. W. W.|4t¥ combination of employers. The ry to wear their buttons on the job. The | Workers in this industry are practic- | j Jarka Stevedore corporation is a not-|#lly unorganized, and left at the } tang Party, jammed to overflowing The indictments charge McNa- prospect was that It would be an- one of the largest theaters on the| mara with attempting to force local | Other day before the office was orious anti-union firm with headquar- | ™Mercy of the bosses. The organization ters in New York and is one of the | Which should embrace all steel work- i ; Helped Hindenburg Out of Deep Puddle S thé headline in one of the morn- 1 ing papers tells us, Britain's grip 7 tightens from the Red Sea to India. Those of you who read the bible will remember that Moses, when fleeing from the Egyptians found in the Red Sea a good ally. With the enemy in Briand, seven times premier of long parade. The Workers (Communist) Party Rewer: appeared coat took a prominent part in both the yee {Special to The Dally Worker) mieatig: anc the parades PARIS, April 13— A forty-eight Japanese Reds Carry Banner. i hour cabinet with Anatole de Monzie The procession in honor of the as premier In order to keep the Bank memory of the first president of the of France from carrying out its threat Bowery in their memorial meeting to| construction companies to employ | “!led- ‘ : Sun Yat Sen, dead leader of the Chin-| union men by threats of violence The selection of either Senator ese workers and friend of Soviet Rus-| and acts of vandalism. Anatole de Monzie, finance minister sia. The meeting was preceded by a under Premier Herriot, or Aristide outstanding opponents of the M. T. W.| 78, has not succeeded in bringing the rear, closing up on his people, he]in Philadelphia. within its folds one-fourth of one per was-at' loss what to'do. But inspira-] The strike affects the following |°ent of these workers. This is due to tion came along and he struck the}steamship lines: the Munson Line, | the face that the organization pursues sea with a rod, whereupon the waters |American-Hawaiian Line, United|the wrong methods. It has become (Special to The Daily Worker.) Chinese republic passed thru the to close temporarily was predicted to- divided, allowing his army to walk|American Line, German Lloyd, Ger-|84ssed and bound and held in the icy) geR.in, April 13.—William Ran-| heart of Chinatown, from Pell street, day. across without wetting their tootsies.|nan American and the Dollar Line, |8Tasp of the dead hand of a hopeless- dolph Hearst is today the. most pop-| Where the Kuomintang has its head- De Monzie was minister of finance But lo, as the bible would say, when] Five of the above lines are ready to|ly reactionary officialdom which re-|yiar american among the ranks of| Warters, to the meeting hall on the under Premier Herriot, fiaving suc- the enemy tried to make the grade,| recognize the union and have their | fuses to move one step forward. Pres-line extreme nationalists who are| Bowery. ceeded M. Clementel. Moses wickedly turned his rod loose on the river and the waters ‘rolled over the enemy, drowning them. see URING the war, while England was sending troops, sparingly, to the Western front to hold the Ger- mans back, she was sending troops in goodly: numbers into the Near Hast, to protect. that. country, from nothing more dangerous than the hot sun. But when the war was. over, France began to get suspicious and this sus- picion increased until today there is as much enmity existing between the capitalists of France and England as existed between the pirates of Ger- many and England prior to 1914. Now both nations are quarreling over the } Spoils of the Near East. But Britain has possessions that means a good |] deal. Five thousand workers took part The purpose of the forty-eight hour in the parade, The Japanese section Sought Socialist Aid cabinet would be to legalize the over- of the Workers Party had a large * 3 inflation of the Bank of France. delegation in the parade, headed by a Against Communists No Immediate Solition. wide banner. i " “It is impossible to arriv at a solu- At the meeting Oliver Carlson tion before Tuesday night, said one Count Michael Karolyi, who recent- ‘ * spoke for the Workers (Communist) ly departed from the United States | °f Briand’s confidential lieutunants as | Comrade Nokada spoke on be- for Canada, “to tell his story,” in the he came out of a conference with Bri- supporting the once military idol of Germany, Field Marshal von Hinden. burg. The action Hearst thru the monarchist Sylvester Vierick, of New York, in cabling the Kaiser for confirm. ation of the story that Hindenburg allowed his name to go forward for the presidency only on the urgent request of the Kaiser, got the national- out of a bad hole. “Fhe Kaiser's Reply. The Kaiser replied that he had not interfered in German political affairs and would not, so long as he remained at Doorn. The name of Hearst is now blessed among the feudal-capitalist- monarchists who want the Kaiser back on the trone. Dr. Wilhelm Max is the choice of the international bankers who put the Dawes plan across,’ He is also sup ships loaded, but the American-Ha- (Continued on page 4.) watian line refuses to budge. —_O The M. T. W. is determined not to meer ec back aati! all ik Money in Mail Order Business. a man back until all lines are . ready to settle. About 200 scabs have ee ete ware © managed to slip thru the picket lines, | Company, Inc., today declared an ex- among them a number wearing the I. tra dividend of $5.25 on account of ac- L.A. buttons, cumulated dividends on the class A The strike is the outcome of an |stock, payable May 1, to stock of rec- intense organization campaign con-{ord April 20. This is addition to the ducted during the last six weeks that {regular quarterly dividend of $1.75 on has increased the membership of the | the stock. COMMUNIST SEAMEN’S CLUB SENDS GREETINGS TO THE DAILY WORKER) The International Seamen’s Club, with headquarters at Nicolaieff, Soviet Russia, has sent its greetings to the DAILY WORKER in the following letter: “Dear Comrades: We were very glad to receive your letter. In receiving your letter we Russian workers feel a great satisfaction be- Pat gr cause we are able to see once more that we are not left to ourselves in Balfour was in bbdhieoas a this world, and that we are not the only section of the world’s workers few days ‘ago the Arabs stoned which'tries to develop revolutionary action. We shall be able to build a ani workers’ and peasants’ government. ] “A : ‘ 4 by their god or gods ‘ sure that only by the world’s revolution of the workers will we be able four was a religious duty. ~ to get rid 6f the world’s capitalists and their chains, Forward, comrades, Balfour's god was of an entirely dif-| to the final battle! ferent opinion. ~The latter uses pois- “Long live the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics! son es and fighting airplanes, while “Long live the staff of the world’s Communist Party as the vanguard the Arab diety is still in’ the stone| o¢ the world’s proletarian revolution! age,’ However, stones were in the “Cement stronger the ranks of the world Communist Party! majority for the moment and Balfour “with, Communist greetings, we are, yours fraternally, lit thi bout at Recnahaeeay tage seh coals is “SEAMEN’S CLUB OF NICOLAIEFF, U. S. S. R. a “A, F. SATSKIN, Secretary.” AS WORKERS AND FASCISTI FIGHT Beat of. the Japanese ‘section of. the latest installment of his confessions, | 974- Workers Party, and Comrade Zam “Even if it -were practicable to i openly admits two things of import- spoke for the Young Workers League. aheet reach a conclusion to form a tempo- Demonstration Nationwide. First—Instead of aiding the Hun-|"@t¥ cabinet, we must walt for rea- In Chicago three thousand Chinese, | garian Communists, he proudly boasts | 5°* of courtesy until the socialists’ united in a meeting in honor of Sun|that he put Bela Kun, leader of the | °*ecutive Spares Pg all Yat Sen. The services were under {|Communists, in prison, and that he the direction of the Chinese nation-| pleaded with the allies to aid him Herriot Foes Angry at Cal. ‘alist league, which held demonstra-|stop the rise of Soviet rule. PARIS; France, April 13.—The con- tions for Sun Yat Sen in all parts of} Second.—That he pledged himself servative French press, which hither- the United States where Chinese live.|to admit “socialists” to his “liberal” |*° bas been cordial to President Cool- Following a parade the Chinese | government, in fact, establish a “so- |!46¢ has issued a tirade against the workers met in the Harbin Square|cialistic’ rule, if the “socialists” American president for what the playground. Ng Gon Nge read the|would agree to unite with him Liberte, the conservative nationalist against the Communists. paper, charecterizes as a “pompous This helps. shed little ‘n light |@Ulosy of the Herriot government.” na oe x 7 uo tea. |The nationalists take violent excep- tion“to Coolidge’s praise of Herriot, who remained as premier only thru biography of Sun Yat Sen. Sun Yat Sen Demonstration. At the Chicago demonstration, as |°" the role of the “socialists” in Hun- well as in other cities, all factions |S®"Y, that reached a climax in the and groups of the Chinese united in treaty” between the Hungarian s0- socialist support. cago |Clalist_party andthe Horthy. fascist |" the ‘memoria! services: ‘The Chicago | “alist party. and the Horthy: fascist | tiperte andthe other” conservative: - for a working alliance between these two forces, with thousands of Com- munists in prison. Karolyi makes his demonstration was divided into three parts. Following the parade, Chinese crowded into the hall facing Harbin Square. The memorial paens, following the Papers declare that Coolidge would not praise an American Herriot. Cool- idge would not recognize Soviet Rus- 2 2 sia, they point out, in denouncing his revealing confession in these words: eulogy. of, Herriot; and should noteid chinese funeral custom, were then de- Orders Arrest of Bela Kun. the: schemes - of: international bankers livered, followed by about twenty} “I have been charged with being a|to inflate French currency. “It is in- speeches delivered in the Chinescq 3olshevik, and with being responsible | finitely regrettable that the conserva- language. for turning the government of Hun-|tive President Coolidge. continues to The parade passed along 22nd St./gary over to the Bolsheviks. associate himself with these bank- to Wentworth Ave, and thence to| “Surely, if that were true, my arch jers,” says Liberte. Archer Ave., proceeding along Archer |enemy Horthy, the dictator, would 7 -) © back to 22nd St. (Continued on page ’2) Statement “Only Personal.” WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.— RED HAWAIIAN SOLDIERS, BACKED Premler “Herriot was hie. “persosal BY STORM OF PROTEST FORCING {tre ynite Yiouse, ani "war nots CAL TO REDUCE SAVAGE SENTENCES\°™" ““2"\" Xt OF WAR VETERAN Charge Laliceddeter Was Instigator of Outrage MINNEAPOLIS, April 13.—Lawson W. MeMillion, state president, World War Veterans of West Virginia, was waylaid at Marlington, W. Virginia, and brutally assaulted by a hooded mob alleged to have been led by Lincoln Cochrane, notorious strike breaker and labor hater, according to a telegram to Emil E. Holmes, nation- al president of the: organization, from % M. T. W.:to,almost 5,000 members. George Speed, Ben Fletcher and Bob Chestnut are in charge of the organiz- ation campaigh‘and the present strike. Several conferences have been held between the ‘strike committee and Superintendent..Nolan of the Jarka corporation... The strikers are stand- oe ‘O doubt he was keeping his weath- er eye open for an opportunity to strike a blow at French influence in. Syria, when the Arabs began to 1 hurl the Irish ammunition at him. = And it is by no means outside the howing the old Ww. L 1 ‘i y eae rovince of practical politics that|!& firm and are s . L. MeCollam, organizer with head. Seprreeisencaell ench an Ponsa had ‘acited the Arabs to rain| Wobbly spirit of determination that is quarters at Marlington. By LAURENCE TODD French aid British 5s stones on Balfour who was after a posi to win the strike within a few —— MeMillion’s Condition Serious. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) Imperialists Clash ays. . * ‘ - . ee be T Fayhion the guest of the French. But Little trouble was experienced with Farinacci Would Exile As a result of injuries sustained in Manet onan, Apercle win. Si Prenminey Teport of. the. savage Over urk Treaty when Balfour was compelled to flee for his life French police came along and jabbed the Arabs with sabres and took Balfour away on a French steamer. The Arabs have no love for the French exploiter but of the two | evils they certainly don’t prefer the British. Now the British fear their prestige in the East will be impaired because of Balfour's hasty flight. punishment of 40 and 26 years imprisonment, respectively, meted out by a sa Honolulu court martial to two soldiers for engaging in Communist propa-} CONSTANTINOPLE, April 13. — ganda, Major General Edwin M. Lewis, commanding the department of |British imperialism has entered inte Hawaii, informs the war department that the sentences will probably be |tegotiations with Turkey for the set- “very materially reduced.” Whether the six or eight remaining prisoners, |t’¢ment of possession of the Irak oil arrested as members of the Hawaiian Communist League, organized by Paul |"¢!d8, in an effort to undermine the Crouch and Walter M. Trumbull, the men already convicted and sentenced, Frayco-mpitien ‘Bagotiations, will be tried before the department has reviewed the first cases, has not been ib deh le en elon cree 0 Rilo dam ap 2 7 Birkenhead have started discussion pens eT a EEE ep eee Tee determined. It is evident, however of the disposition of the Irak oil fields, the murderous assault, McMillion lies in a critical condition at the Marling- ton hospital. In communications re- ceived from the state headquarters at Richwood, W. Va., little hope is held out for the recovery of MeMillion. National President Holmes tonight wired the governor of West Virginia demanding an immediate and thoro investigation. Mr. Holmes has also the Philadelphia stevedore companies when the organization campaign start- ed, with the result that 3,500 long- shoremen wearing .the red M. T. W. buttons are loading the ships for the following stevedore companies: Mur- phy Cook Co., Furness Withy Co., Union Stevedore Co., MacCarthy Stevedore Co., Independent Pier Co. Communists (Special to The Daily Worker.) ROME, Italy, April 13.—Street bat- tles between fascisti and Communists continue to be reported thruout Italy. Three more fascisti have been re- j i | and Daugherty Stevedore Co. ported seriously injured in the towns that tha’ Wak dapartiatat 4a mmel ale ie Si hese companies well remember |of Biella and Revo. The fascisti at-| "quested the ald of the American} 10 | uh the teitstenpety shown by Coolidge Is Angel which are‘claimed by both the Turks HE British and the French robbers Civil Liberties, New ¥ork City, N. Y. and British. . the record of the Philadelphia M. T.| tacked crowds of workers and were the press against the army court in f Sch M . Pike quarrel over the loot in the Near|w. and were not anxious for a clash | repulsed. Sees Work of K. K. K. in ane ol eme to Make The’ league of nations commission East, and they use the peoples of the) when they saw the tide of industrial] At Bologna one Communist and one]. T%@ @8sault on MeMillion was char- Pinsa ‘Mokes Ranuses: Youth Slave Harder |"*5 ®'¥e" its “decision” on the dispute, acterized by Emil EB. Holmes, national ceding the oil fields to Britain, and Prompt to the rescue of militarism, — ivi r] he K n t ae ee, Serta {ihe Washington Star offers a theory) WASHINGTON, April 13—President = Os eSodsmatg = sf ight pai roe by enemies of the World War Veterans in excuse for the 40 year sentence of} Coolidge today was luncheon host to |ig paying any attention to the league in West Virginia, inva statement is-|YOUD& Crouch. It suggests that the| 36 prominent northeast manufacturers | gecision, sued today by Mr. Holmes. “It is sig- trial record, when received after a few} and business men who are preparing| ‘The “majority of the stock of the nificant that this attack on Comrade | ¥eks, will possibly show that “one or| to start a nation-wide expansion pro-| Bagdad railway, which is being bit- McMillion should come at a time |™ore foreign nations” were involved| ram for the junior achievement work jterly tought for by the British and when our organization is conducting |!m the affair. It admits that army | system. French as the key to the Irak oil a nation-wide campaign against the officers in Washington feel that the) The movement aims at restoring old |fields, is now being held by the rep- hooded knights of tle ku klux klan,|Sentences were “almost unbelievably | fashioned industrial and home work jarations. commission. France and McMillion has been @ consistent fight- | Severe,” and that the reason for this|to the daily programs of the younger |Great Britain are centering their ef- er against the menace of the night | must lie in facts not yet reported. generation and has the approval of |forts upon securing from Turkey the gown wearers and has waged a re-| It goes on to quote anonymous per-| the president. right, to,use, the railroad. lentless struggle for betterment of | 80ns to the effect that a large majority fiats,’ Mt ls may cnoiee saa howeet [to the “inited States: that a genera!| POLISH TERROR DENIED LANZUTSKY of asemen ond theadt was inspired | lands would, if jolned: by ‘Germans LAWYERS FROM SOVIET RUSSIA enemies of our order in that;and Portuguese, paralyze the terri- VIENNA, April 12,—-The very day that Communist Deputy Lanzutsky was tory’s industries and amount to “a| set free by the Przemysl court he was rearrested on charge of advising work- unionism rise among the longshore- men. The red M. T. W. button is permanently established on the Dela- ware waterfront and the present strike will add prestige and power to the union. The Red Button on the Water Front. One needs but to take a walk thru the waterfront to know that the I. W. W. is on the job and has come here to stay. The many longshore- men strolling thru the streets and dis- cussing the situation wear their red buttons conspicuously and smile the old wobbly smile of victory and de- termination that cannot, be wiped out by the many mounted police that are jin evidence thruout the strike zone. The M. T. W. headquarters is buzz- ing with new life and activity as pick- fascist were killed in the street fight- ing. Deputy Farinacci, secretary of the fascist party, has issued a manifesto asking that all Communist leaders be exiled. The recent retirement of the fas- cist minister of war, Gen. di Giorgio, who was forced to resign because of opposition in the senate to Mussolini's army bill, will soon be followed by the resignation of Finance Minister de Stefani, it is reported. The finance minister at Mussolini's demand, issued regulations to govern the stock exchange. Because of these regulations, the transactions on the stock exchange - practically ceased. Mussolini was forced to step in and remove the measures. East as pawns in their game of pil- 4 lage and murder, but there is only one power making its influence felt in the Near East which is gaining the | confidence of the masses as it did in China, That is Soviet Russia and Britain is much more afraid of Com- munist propaganda in its possessions 4 (Continued of page 5) a a i Bet a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch, my ee | LOOKING OVER THE WAR - MACHINE TO MAKE THE ets bring in reports and old ex-mem- i WORLD SAFE FOR MORGAN bers come for their new red cards| A general shake up in Mussolini's PHN rebellion which might ultimately in-| ers not to pay taxes. He has aagin been thrown into prison, to be a victim of quite often bringing along other work- | cabinet is expected soon, in an effort Report Italian Steamer Afire. volve this country in serious difficult-| the terrorist regime in Poland, PHILADELPHIA, April 13.—Phila-|ies with Asiatic nations.” Then there delphia navy yard officials said this|is mysterious hinting that the Russo- morning that they had heard no more (Continued from page 2) word from the Italian freight steamer Valrossa that wirelessed the navy yard last night she was in distress with flames spreading in her hold. The During Lanzutsky’s trial, which has heard behind closed doors, five police spies testified. One of them, Chanietchi, withdrew statements he had made at the preliminary examinations, as ho nad only. made, these, statements under pressure of terror, The Polish,government had refused to allow its, attorgeys from - Soviet Woman Picket Arrested in Washington Valrossa message also said she was Russia, England or France to detend \ racing up the Delaware river in an WASHINGTON, April 13—For the firat time in many y: a woman) Lanzutsky in the.court.. This le in effort to meet ald as soon as possible. | picket in an industrial dispute in the. gity of Washington has been arrested. | contrast to.the-actipn of the Russian The ship gave her position off Bom- ¥ Soviet gov: in allo’ “ hig Book’ Bota mu Malia bin the She is Mrs. Dorothy Ferguson, ancshe Is charged with having informed government.in wing Vander. ers who have been convinced that the | to appease the growing opjosition to M. T. W. in back on the job to stay. | Mussolini's rule. “BIG TWO” PACKERS IN SIGHT WASHINGTON, April 13.—Instead of having a “big five” among the meat packing companies, the United State will doon have merely a “big two, the proposed Armour-Morris merger'is approved, says the Farmers National Council, in a plea to Secretary of AgricutturerJardine to oppose the merger. INDIANAPOLIS, April 13.—Major General Eli A. Helmick, inspector- general of the United States army, was in Indianapolis today to Inspect the troops stationed at Fort Benja- min Harrison. The third fleld artil- lery, the eleventh infantry and the fifth tank company will pase in re view before the general. General Helmick is enroute from Washington to China whére he will + ff / “ ” , velde, ,yellaw socialist, to defend a. ‘ evar dig troops statione This “big two” would hartile nearly, 48 pag cent of the interstate slaughter | river and two city fire boats were| stomers of a store that “Thié® sfire employs non-union clerks and is qount habvabow o@ ti dispatched to her aidb!. unfair to organized labor” She will be defended in polloe court. months