The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1925, Page 2

Dama Ate Page Two UNORGANIZED STEEL WORKERS WIN HOT STRIKE Give Militant Lesson to Sleepy Union (Special to The Dally Worker.) McKEESPORT, Pa., April 13— A twenty-four-hour strike, a splendid de- monstration of solidarity and 1,500 un- organized steel workers at McKees- port, Pennsylvania, made the bosses come to terms and won a complete victory last Wednesday, An attempt made to increase the present speed- up system failed utterly. On Tuesday afternoon while the second shift was at work in the Mc- Keesport Tin Plate Co., at Port View, a suburb of McKeesport, the boss notified one young husky roller that from now on the iron bars would have to be given an extra passing thru the rolls, increasing the passings from four to five with no extra pay. The roller and the catcher just re- fused, dropped their tools and walked out. Complete Spontaneous Strike. Immediately they were followed by the crews from the 44 different sets of rolls, popularly called mills, with 11 men to a crew. The third shift that day and the early shift next morning remained out and struck with them, a total of 1,500 men. Not one single individual could be discovered at work in the mill on that morning. On Wednesday, just before the time when the second shift usually starts working, notices were posted all over the mill, signed by the management, stating that it had receded from its demand of five passings and were will- ing to continue on the old basis. The management saw the necessity of complete surrender before such de- monstration of solidarity and the workers returned as united as they had come out. The demonstration made is so much more significant when one recalls that not only has this steel mill never been organized, but in addition the most ruthless campaign of opposition to la- bor organization of any kind has been carried on for years in McKeesport, Pa. The present mayor of the city, Lysle, openly boasts of his record of prohibiting labor organization in the steel mills and working class meet- ings for any purpose whatever within the city. He claims he has been re- elected on this record. Unorganized More Militant Than “Progressives.” The workers, however, have now become quite convinced that when- ever they unitedly take matters into their own hands, the opposition of all the king’s horses and all the king's men cannot stop them. The militant workers in this mill are now endeay- oring to take full advantage of this experience and are proposing the or- ganization of shop committees. The victory won by the decisive ac- tion of these unorganized workers will perhaps convince the timid progres- sives who belong to the union but are fearful of fighting for militant pol- icies that after all these steel work- ers are not so backward. Victim of K. K. K’s Ex-Grand Dragon May Yet Recover INDIANAPOLIS, April 13.—Indi- ana’s best medical minds were baffled today by the condition of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, 28, victim of a criminal attack with which D. C, Stephenson, politician and former ku klux klan organizer, has been charged. Unconscious for the greater part of the fifteen days that have elapsed since she swallowed a slow poison after the attack, Miss Oberholtzer has taken but little nourishment. Her temperature has hovered around and above 100. Yet her physicians admit- ted today for the first time that she might recover. “The case is one of the oddities of medical annals,” Dr. J. K. Kingbury, who first attended the girl, declared. “Apparent relief from an infection of the right kidney has caused us to postpone the contemplated operation, We will await developments. “In most cases a victim of poison as strong as that Miss Oberholtzer swallowed, would have died within a week or ten days.” Stephenson's case comes up again next Saturday when Judge James A, Collins in criminal court is to rule on his motion to quash all charges against him. Should Judge Collins overrule Stephenson's latest motion to quash the indictments, he cannot be brought to. trial before June, County Prosecu- tor Remy indicated. Bight murder trials and a number of lesser impor- tant cases docketed ahead of the politician's case, are expected to hold the court’s attention until May 25, Two Die in Traction Wreck. RICHMOND, Ind., April 13.—William Lawhorn, 24, and Frank Bussen, 17, were dead today and Harry Horter, 22, and William Katte, 20, were in a hospital suffering from serious injuries as the result of Horter’s car being struck by an interurban car on tho Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Hastern (Continued from page 1) |have brought the charge against ‘me jin my trial for treason. “But not a word wag heard of it. The truth is, as every one in Hun- | gary knows, Bela Kun, the leader of |the Bolsheviks, was arrested on my order and imprisoned when he began his crusading agitation, While he | was in prison the swift rush of events broke the prison doors, released Bela Kun, and brought on the rule of the Bolsheviks. This came as a stroke of fate, and nothing could have stop- ped it. Blames Allies for Bolshevism, “On March 20, 1919, the final blow was given to us by the ultimatum of the allies, tendered to me by the al- lied commission headed by Col. Vix. This ultimatum demanded that we should give up, again, a large portion of territory to the Roumanians. The demarcational line thus drawn was not any more a strategical but a po- litical line, “It was the foreshadowing of the Versailles treaty, and it was in all respects diametrically opposed to the spirit and to the letter of the armis- tice. I refused. But in doing so, I warned for the last time the allied commission that they were driving the country into the arms of the Bolsheviks, and that the inevitable consequence of this measure would be war and civil war, war against neighboring states, and civil war within the country. “We were dropped by the western countries. We were not helped, not understood, but even opposed by the so-called pacifist allies with whom we signed the armistice. To adjust ourselves to all the wishes of the allies concerning pacifism we had disarmed our troops. The small army we had was chiefly composed of in- dustrial workers. The reason for this was that the peasantry, who had spent four and a half years in the trenches, did not want to go into military service. It was practically impossible to recruit soldiers from this strata of the population. The way in which we were treated economical- ly and politically by the allies helped to make the spirit of the army very belligrent. “The enormous masses of unem- ployed workers, the masses of those who were driven out from Roumania and Czecho-Slovakia by the occupa- tion of the old Hungarian territories, overheated the whole atmosphere, “Budapest, which had a population of 900,000 during the war, increased | several hundred thousand. Just at the time when the capacity for taking care of the population was at its HERRIN BOMBERS DYNAMITE KLAN FOE’S RESIDENCE Kluxers Seek Election Victory by Violence (Special to The Daily Worker.) HERRIN, Il, April 13.—The bomb- ing squad, actively engaged in the present city election in behalf of the Klan candidates went into action again today and the front part of the home of John Pison was reduced to wreck- age. Continued activities of the Herrin bombing squad active for the klan ac- tion today forced the deputizing of scores of Herrin citizens for patrol duty. Authorities ordered a continual patrol of both residence and business districts until after the April 21 elec- tions. Interest in the campaign has been stimulated to fever pitch, indi- cated in the record vote of Saturday when the klan emerged victorious in the school board elections. Attack On Anti-Klan Police declared that all business houses and homes thus far bombed, including the most recent victim, John Pizoni, were owned or occupied by members of the anti-klan faction. Pizoni, a bachelor, was sleeping in a rear room of his home when a dynamite bomb demolished the front part. Trailing an Erthquake MANILA, April 13,—Saturday’s Pa- cifie earthquake recorded on Seismo- graphs generally thruout the United States was declared by University of Philippines to have occurred 2,000 miles east of here, Seek Train Victim Here. CHESTERTON, Ind., April 13.—The Porter County coroner attempted to communicate with relatives of J. J. Martin, of Chicago, today in an effort to establish the identity of the man who was killed with Martin beneath the wheels of a New York Central locomotive near here yesterday. Miner Kills Wife and Self, TAYLORVILLE, Ill, April 13,—Ine censed at finding his wife making pre. parations to leave him, Jules Durand, 35, Stonington coal miner, returned home suddenly today from Taylorville, fired three pistol bullets into her body, killing her instantly, and then went into an upstairs room and fired two bullets into his own brain, Karolyi Jailed Communists in Hangary iene THE DAILY WORKER /fminimum, the population was at its maximum, “We not only had not coal sufficient to light up the town, but we had not sufficient trains to feed this increased population, and hadn’t enough lodging possibilities, Thousands of people had to be lodged in railroad coaches. Ex-service men and ex-officers were out of jobs. There was no possibility for giving them any. Under these conditions it was impossible to keep up a coalition cabinet. Proposes Socialist Party to Save Bourgeois. “I proposed to form a party, a so- cialistic one. Again the whole cabi- net agreed. Even the nationalists who were consulted. were of the opinion that nothing else could be done, “While this was going on, I got the news that 30,000 industrial workers had gone over to the Bolshevik party. “Bela Kun was the leader of the Bolshevik movement in Hungary, and was at that time in prison. “The actual reason that I decided to nominate a purely socialist govern- ment was, as I said, to stop the Bol- sheviks. “Secondly, as nobody wanted to ac- cept Col. Vix’s ultimatum, we had to prepare ourselves for forcible re- sistance. A coalition with the lead- ing spirit of pacifism was already shipwrecked. “That very night the Hungarian Soviet was proclaimed. “The government troops had prac- tically all gone over to the Bolshe- viks. So, thru the force of conditions that could not be controlled, I ceased to be president of the Hungarian re- public. “T hadn’t known, I hadn’t even seen Bela Kun before the Bolsheviks seized power. His name had only been known for two months when he came back from Russia, after having been war prisoner there for several years. He was a good agitator and was a convincing man, “IT am absolutely sure that Bolshe- vism in Hungary was not made with the help of Russian money. But you cannot, in any country, under any circumstances, make much headway with propaganda if that propaganda doesn’t appeal to the masses in gen- eral. “For six months we tried hard, and didn’t succeeded in persuading the al- lies that it was impossible to carry on the policy they did. Contradictory as it seems, it was a nationalist move- ment more than anything else that characterized this second revolution. | “Officers of the old regime joined jthe Red army in masses, and it was with their help and skill, and with the enthusiasm of the working classes that the war was fought against the Czechs under the red flag.” LANDLORDS WANT TO TIGHTEN HOLD ON THEIR VICTIMS Urge Legalization of Tennessee Peonage (Special to The Daily Worker.) MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 13.—If a bill introduced in the state legislature becomes a law, peonage will be legal- ized in Tennessee. The proposal was introduced by Representative Ruffin. It declares that it is a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment for any employe or farmer working on shares, to violate his contract. The bill makes no refreence to violation of any contract by the em- ployer. Section 1 of this vicious proposal reads: “That any employe, laborer, servant, renter or share-crpoper who willfully breaches a written contract between employer and employe, laborer, ser- vant, renter or share-cropper, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” The penalty is a fine of not less than $20 and not more than $50, together with imprisonment in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than three months. Organized labor is opposing this at- tempt to enslave the unorganized agricultural workers and small farm- ers who operate on the share basis. “Brave” Mob Confesses Crime. RALEIGH, N. C., April 13—All but five of the 29 men arrested as mem- bers of a Martin county mob which took Joseph Needleman, Kinston, N. C., salesman, from jail and mutilated himyhave confessed and are at liberty on bonds ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 each, attorneys in the case an- nounced here today. “Victor” and “Vanquished” Sign. PARIS, April 13.—France and Ger- many signed the Franco-German boundary agreement today. The agreement formally registers the frontier existing prior’to the Fran- co-German war of 1870 with the ex- changes of territory made for practi- cal reasons. Give Tariff Another ‘WASHINGTON, April 13--Presi- dent Coolidge, by proclamation today increased the tariff duty on potassium chlorate fifty per cent, from one and one-half cents per pound to 2% cents. AOWAT, GREETED AT KANSAS CITY IN BIG MEETING Speech on Prisoners Brings Applause KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 18.—The militant workers in this so-called “Heart of Capitalism” turned out Has- ter Sunday with a fine class conscious spirit to hear Caroline Lowe and Alex- ander Howat speak on “Labor's Pris- oners.” Criminal Syndicalism Law Imported, Caroline Lowe, in an_ effective speech showed that the “100 per cent Americans” had imported the crimin- al syndicalism law from Burope. Now it was being» actively used to jail workers of the United States, in Mich- igan and California particularly. When Howat was introduced he was given a rousing welcome, and ul thru his speech each point made brought tremendous applause. “The Kansas poldiers gave up their lives in the world war for democracy,” said Howat, “but they got the indus- trial court law. that put the working class back fifty years.” Officials Succeeded Where Govern, ment Failed. “AN the power in the state of Kan- sas could not enforce the industrial court law against the militant miners. And Governor Allen pulled in his horns when the miners gave determin- ed battle. “Neither the governor of Kansas nor the industrial court could demo- ralize the miners’ union, but the Lewis machine, the officials of the union, could and did demoralize it. “The dearly beloved ‘public’, ac- cording to the idea of the capitalist politicians are the 15 per cent of the people who have been riding on the backs of the 85 per cent, the work- ers. The Communists are put in jail under the criminal syndicalism law because they support the workers against the parasites. “Anyone who stands for, the work- ers’ rights is @ radical. A conserva- tive is one who will get along with any salary and is always ready to compromise with the boss and thinks it proper for workers to get starvation wages, The Only Way. “The only time the workers will get justice is when the workers run their own government. This is really what the capitalists fear most, and hat is why Michigan threatens to im- prison Foster and, Ruthenberg for 10 years under a ‘eriminal syndicalism’ charge. & ibe “As long as th@ workers are satis- fied with half a loaf, they will be fed half a loaf—if they are lucky. But there is no power in the world that will be able to resist the forcé of the working class when once it is united. To unite them has been and is the duty of the ‘Reds.’ “There are very few men who will go to jail for their opinions and those few are the ‘reds’—the Communists,” “Willy” Hearst Is Popular Idol of the Kaiser’s Gang (Continued from page 1) ported by the socialists, the most loyal friends of the Dawes plan. Marx is a catholic, which also presupposes him in the favor of the bankers, the church having an excellent psychological ma- chinery to fit In with the plans of the world pirates. Communist to Run. The only working class candidate in the fleld is the Communist Ernst Thael- mann, who is expected to receive the votes of many social democratic work- ers who voted for Bauer in the last elections. The result of the German elections may have a determining effect on the character of the next French govern- ment, If Hindenburg wins, it is quite likely that the Poincarist faction will again come into power. On the other ‘hand should Marx come out on top, a government not differing widely in character from the Herriot cabinet will be likely. a NSS Bar Film in West Va. NEW YORK, April 13.—The old an- ti-Negro film, The Birth of a Nation that is still touring the country can- not be shown in Charlestown, West Va., because the local branch of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People has won its case against the Rialto Theater in the state supreme court. Mayor Wertz of Charlestown said after seeing the Picture that he could not understand “why any law abiding citizen should bring such a picture to Charlestown,” A Right to Hire and Fire. WASHINGTON, April 13.—The an- cient conflict between the legislative and executive branches of the govern- ment over thelr respective powers came again to the United States su- preme court today when Solicitor Gen- eral James M. Beck filed a brief chal- lenging the right of the senate to pre- serlbe the conditions r which a federal office holder may be dis- charged, e JUNIOR LEADERS’ MEETING Tuesday, April 14, & $21 NuiAvers A EVERY LEADER BE PRESENT augseneeerauan: Against Infected Press of Sick Capitalism the Virile Communist Press By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. 'ODAY, the latest issue of The Seattle “Union Record arrives and, in red ink, type four inches high, announces to its readersthe latest news: “SHEPHERD DENIED BAIL.” The yellowest capitalist dailies in Chicago couldn't have done more. This is sigfinificant in view of the fact that the Union Record was the last of the so-called “labor dailies” to adopt this style of subsidized journalism as the road to financial security. 5 It, too, shot the germs of a sick social system into its pages in an effort to continue 2 doped existence. . Day after day the succeeding issues of the Communist dailies published in Soviet Russia arrive in this country and they carry, on their first pages, articles voicing the aspira- tions of the freed workers and peasants. Always there is something about the world struggle of the oppressed in cap- italist nations. The Russian Communist Pp s breathes the virility of the masses, whose voice it is. It heralds the new day. It is healthy, robust, forward-looking, even as the Soviet Power, which it champions. It bears no compromis- ing blemish. It is on labor's side of the class war. * * * * What a contrasting picture in these United States! Here one of the surest indications of the fatal sickness that grips capitalism is to be found in the contents of its so-called “dope sheets”. Only recently it was the Loeb-Leopold murder trial. Today it is the Shepherd case,—an alleged poison mystery, in which a young heir is supposed to have been murdered for his million dollar fortune. hes thousand miles away, the former Seattle “labor” daily treats the latest wrinkle in this case as if there were some great benefit to the working class in the whole nauseating proceedings. The Minnesota Star, also ex-labor, and the Milwaukee Leader, “socialist,” have crawled into the same company. They are all on the cap- italist side of ‘the class war. This press feeds on murder sensations, divorce scandals, the latest bootlegging escapade or the newest freak amuse- ment of the idle rich. “Babe” Ruth gets a stomach ache, and is featured in the headlines, while scores of miners killed in the latest disaster, get passing notice. The good-for-no- thing son of Ohio's politician-governor takes a girl friend out for an auto ride and, forgetting to take her home again, gets more attention, for several days, than the French cabinet crisis that rocks Western European if not world capitalism. The pleasure-seeking son of a wealthy father suicides in Chicago and he gets the first page, with his diary pub- lished in full, while a huge demonstration in memory of Sun Yat Sen, echoing the revolutionary movement that is getting its grip on China, passes unnoticed. * * * 7 This noisome press, from Wall Street's New York Times to Berger's Milwaukee Leader, stews in its own filth. But like sick humans it tries to insist it is not all gone.’ Even the psa f failing invalid, at death's door, often makes claims to ealth. . % Thus the Des Moines, la., Register announces it will regate crime news on an inside page; just as American cities for a long time maintained segregated districts for the purposes of prostitution. Another sheet, the Decatur, IIl., Re- view, maintains its “segregated district” at the lower left hand corner of the first page, and labels each column with the small head “crime”. Over in West Virginia another newspaper announces an attempted cure thru leaving out crime news altogether. But there have been Keeley cures for individuals just as invalided capitalism is trying to take the Morgan-Dawas plan cure in Europe, when all of a sud- den the disease breaks out worse than ever in Paris, in:spite of Morgan's latest loan to France of $100,000,000. * * * This dope _ of a sick social system seeks to pass over lightly the financial troubles of France, the flight of Cord Balfour from Syria, the significance of Japanese recognition of Soviet Rule, the dire straits facing Mussolini, and similar symptoms, while urging the masses at the same time to give three cheers for the opening of the baseball season, the visit of the Prince of Wales to Africa and South Amercia, and the hunting expedition of the Roosevelt kids to “the top of the world” somewhere in Asia. The Caesars tried to satiate the discontented multitudes with the bloody spectacles of the Roman arena. The American kept press throws in a few ex- tra pages of Sunday comics. * 8 @ @ The Communist press alone breathes defiance to this decadent social system that seeks to sap the mental vitality of its victims, in order that they may be Seana of struggle against their misery. Sick capitalism likes a helpless, abject working class for pa ore THE DAILY WORKER turns its back on the long proces- sion of unending crimes committed under capitalism, except where they help enlighten the worker as to the real nature of the class strugel . To do otherwise would result in be- coming infected with the same disease. To split clean with capitalism is to be able to wage victorious class war. That is the strength of Communism. That is the weakness of the “socialists” and their press, of the class-collaborating labor aristocracy and its press, imbibing capitalist dope and de- fending capitalism. It is so comfortable. It is so hard to fight; or lead the masses into the struggle, especially when one is sick under a sick system. ' It is the healthy, vigorous, uncontaminated forces of Communism that issue the clarion call to labor to march to victory in the class struggle. Against the yellow, infected press of capitalism, the healthy, virile press of Communism. Increased numbers of workers go daily into battle with it. Ford’s Airplane Is Welcomed Here from Detroit by Plutes The “Maiden Dearborn,” owned by Henry Ford, which arrived in Chicago yesterday with 800 pounds of freight will be used not for general com- mercial business, but to carry the private freight of Ford to and from 4 ‘his Chicago and Detroit plants. Ford Brazilian Ambassador in Tok’ announced that the plane is the first TOKIO, April 13,—Delima *Silva,|of @ fleet of airplanes which he will new Brazilian ambassador presented |use to connect all of his plants in his credentials to the prince regent | various cities, after which together with Mme. Silva)’ A large number of businessmen he was received by the crowm were present at the landing of the here, Admiral Lavishly Entertained SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.—The admiral commanding the United States fleet, which will leave soon for war maneuvers in Pacific waters sur- rounding Hawali, Robert EB. Coontz, gave a reception to several hundred soctety people on board the SS, Penn- sylvania, The admiral and his of- ficers have been lavishly entertained here. Coontz chose the Pennsylvania for the reception because of its lux- urious furnishings, he said. OPTIMISM OF MIKE TIGHE COMES EARLY Manufacturer Says “No Wage Increases” PITTSBURGH, Pa. April 18~ Mike Tighe, faker president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers expressed an unjustified optimism in his inter views with capitalist journalists here, “Harmony, all is harmony” is Tighe's idea of the relations between the members of the union and the steel trust and its subsidiaries called “in- dependents.” “Peace and Good Will.” This “peace and good will’ stuff oozes out of Mike following conversa- tions with James H. Nutt, of Youngs- town, Ohio, secretary-treasurer of both the Western Bar Iron Associa. tion and the Western Sheet and Tin Plate Manufacturers’ Association. These supposedly are “independent” steel manufacturers, Tighe is going down for a nice va cation to Atlantic City next month, and while listening to what the wild waves are saying, the manufacturers are going to put over an agreement for the wage scale that will be effec- tive from July first onward for one year. What the scale will be is yet to be determined, but Nutt has loosened up with the opinion that no wage scale increases can be agreed to. And the Amalgamated has too much modesty to let its demands be known—or else Tighe is afraid to let the members know the proposed union scale, Class Collaboration Theory. The best that Tighe could offer as a@ policy of the union is a quotation from James J. Davis, secretary of the deportation department of Coolidge’s cabinet. Tighe says: “Secretary Davis is right when he said that em- ployers and employes are learning that fighting costs money. Our or. ganization is doing everything pos- sible to foster better relations be- tween workers and employers.” This attitude of class collaboration is the dominating force in the Am- algamated union, as no progressive element has yet appeared strong enuf to cause Tighe to make even a pre- tense of class struggle. The whole contrasts strongly with the spirit of the unorganized steel workers of Me- Keesport who last week went out solid and wona 24-hour strike against the speed up, Storm Forces U. S. Militarism to Think Over Sentences of Reds (Continued from page 1) Japanese treaty may be back of this handful of Communist enthusiasts and their letters to the Honolulu papers and to the Third International, Disrespect for Cal Charged. Crouch and Trumbull, in their let: ters which were used against them in the trial, and in their talks with Fisher, the spy who was planted by the department in their circle, did show sympathy with the workers in Hawaii. Strikes on plantations in Hawaii have been put down in blood, repeatedly, because the workers are ‘jof alien race and are non-voters. Nothing in Gen. Lewis’ report, how- ever, gives the slightest basis for the assumption that the court martial pro. ceedings dealt with anything beyond the agitation conducted by the young men in the barracks. They were con- victed of violation of a territorial law forbidding secret organizations of a revolutionary character, and for vio- lation of the 96th and 62d articles of war, dealing with conduct prejudicial to military discipline and dealing with disrespect for the president of the United States. “The Beauty and ’ the Bolshevik” will be shown in Chicago tomorrow, Wednesday, April 15, at Wicker Park Theater, 1539 Milwaukee Ave., from 6 to 11 p.m. The demonstration at the Polish consulate in Chicago will also be shown, Record Making Kills Two LOS AUGELES, Cal., April 13,—Th, odies of 8. H. Wray and Timothy Reed, automobile company employes were brought here from near Bakers- field. The men were killed when, their racing car jumped a bank and plunged down a canyon while they were at- tempting to make a new time record between Bakersfield and Los Angeles, ’ Investigating in Asia, PEKING, April 18—Roy Chapman Andrews’ third Asiatic expedition got under way from here today when an advance party of topographers started on the thousand mile trek across the Mongolian desert headed for the spot where the world famous dinosaur eggs were found last year. Plan Air Routes in Africa. _NAIROBI, British East Africa—The governments of Kenya, British Bast Africa, Uganda, in Central Africa and the Sudan, have agreed to assist in a survey preliminary to the establish- ment of air routes, between Victoria, Nyasa, Kisuri and Khartoum,