The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1925, Page 1

, } | Daily Worker ‘Annual, Sub- scription Drive Now, on in Full Blast! GET: INC Itt NaF ER cay Vol. Il. No. BLT fe 20K 95. TFS: AS WE SEE IT By T.. J. O'FLAHERTY. NE of the methods used by. the capitalist political parties in Brit- ain to replenish their treasuries and perhaps line the individual pockets of their leading members is the ex- change of titles to the worthy,. who can afford the honor, for pounds sterl- ing. You may recollect the sensation caused by the affair of Ramsay ‘Mac- Donald, socialist, and Sir Alexander Grant, tory. The honor given, may be: the Order of the Garter or of the Bath. se 6 HIS does not,mean that' the gentle- men so honored have their socks hanging over the heels of their boots for want of something to hold them in-line, or. that noxious odors are emitted by their bodies for want of a more intimate acquaintanceship with soap and water.and the bath tub. Whatever may have been the origin of the titles nowadays they mean nothing except food for the vanity of the rich and an easy way out of financial embarrassment for the ways and means committees of the tory and liberal parties and loyal but poor British politicians. —* 6 IS holiness; the pope, is doing a land office business in titles now- adays. There was.a time when only the high and mighty of Burope’s aris- tocracy were eligibles to papal honor. But the catholic aristocracy of Eu- rope is today so poor that there are none too mean to do them honor. ‘They are lucky to find themselves in hot dogs and coffee. So his holiness oes not waste good decorations on them. He comes to where the aristo- crats repair in search of meal tickets via wives in any. physical condition, provided the bank account can stand the critical eye of a penniless baron, duke oF count of no account. see HE papal coffers are sadly deplet- ed and the*prospects for their re- plenishment from the savings of the ‘working class-catholics of Europe are fot bright to the dazzling point. There ‘was @ time when a pope hard up for cash’ would take to the highways and peddle ‘indulgences, even’ accepting billy goats in lieu of | cash. A modern be A. loa would eat his « “haar ‘ans Big ee any an for heroic measures? . se @ HERE is enough money among the + newly rich in America to puréhase all Saint Anne’s shin bones, the fangs of the snakes St. Patrick drove out of Ireland, the million cubic feet of lumber from the sacred cross on which’ the lowly Nazarene was cruci- ee fact, the widowed female re- let? of a deceased gouty American ‘yeast “magnate could purchase the en- tire “dutput ot the vatican’s miracle factories for’ seven centuries and still have enough left to pay for an old tedloaed monkey diriner. se 8 UT to/get to the point. Cardinal Mundelein went to Rome recently and returned with a couple of titles for munificent givers to the church. No titles for ordinary workers. They haven't got the cash. Of course, later on, when this last bulwork of capital- ism begins to stagger, we may expect labor fakers to receive papal titles, out not yet. es ee ‘ONDAY'S news told us that a Mrs. Howard Spaulding, age 29, pul- chritude passable, financial standing more so, received the title of Matron of the Military Order: of the Holy * Sepulchre, from Pius. His holiness Was quite frank about it. The title was conferred on her because of her benefactions to the church and char- ity, the two being synonymous terms. Mrs. Spaulding is heiress to the mil- lioris of her father, the late John H. Barker, of the Haskell and Barker Car company. This means more bene- factions and perhaps more titles. The nearest thing to the holy sepulchre ‘his lady ever saw was her father’s wine cellar. et Prd = 2 HERE is an element of sardonic humor. in the granting of the Mili- tary Order of the Holy Sepulchre to “Edward J. Fogarty, warden of the In- diana’ state’ penitentiary. Fogarty never hunted any infidels from the en- virons of the, spot where the. last re- mains of the rebel Jesus are sup- posed to be. His contribution to, the cause of human progress is being a successful herder of unfortunate hu- man beings, mostly workers, in the living sepulchre, which is the In- diana state ban naryeel . . Ao papal title will make his job easier for Fogarty. Papal titles useful to the American capi- lass in keeping their ‘ ‘slaves in The bourgeoisie are play- ing a wise game are missing no opportunity to gain or retain the con- fidence of the working class, ‘who are not alone slaves to the robber sys- tem of capitalism, but tovone thousand superstitious inherited from the black past and sedulously,, oulttvated and (Continued on page 6.) are ve talist cl THE DAILY Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Joes FAMINE HAS THE RICH FARMERS SCARED Relief Secretary Scores Lying Politicians By ROBERT STEWART (Sec’'y. W. I. R. Irish Section) DUBLIN, April 14.—The bye elec- tions being past the press is lifting the ban on the truth about the hor- rile distress and suffering on the coast. Economic necessity truth even when a government wants none of it. When my report might be questioned or even those of the re- public: there steps in. the respect- able representative of the farmers’ con- gress who drops a bombshell that the Irish newspapers must give heed to. Speaking of Clare, Colonel O’Callag- han Westropp says: “Cattle are dying wholesale, in one district during the past two months 436 cattle roughly valued at ten pounds each had died, all the sheep were dead.” He challeng- ed investigation by the department of agriculture (whose chief Hogan T. D. said that there was no famine, in fact that conditions were better than normal. Colonel Westroop went on to say that in certain areas the people had lost 80 per cent of their live stock, that these people had had no fires for (Continued on page 5) Illinois Senate to Pass State Cossack Bill Before Break-up SPRINGFIELD, I, April 14. — That the Illinois state legislature will pass a state police bill in some form before adjournment, was shown in to- day’s debate on a substitute for the Barr state highway bill offered by Senator Dunlap. Many senators spoke on the various police bills offered, but none spoke against a state police. The debate was Strikes, will take. Dunlap’s substitute sieht for a state police force of 450 men, The Barr bill, providing foran unlimited force, is backed by Len \Small, Women’s Eight Hour Bill Progressés in Illinois Assembly SPRINGFIELD; fi, April’ 14.—With legislation in -behalf of employed wo- men tetering precariously; Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill, of Downers’ Grove, saw her efforts to overcome the apathy of the house committee on in- dustrial affairs which reported in with the woman’s 8-hour bill minus recom- mendations, bear fruit today when the house voted“103 to 30 to place the bill on the calendar. It now will take its place with other bills in*the long procession thru legislative mills, MacMillan to Fly to Pole Captain MacMillan artic exploter, will stop in Julianehaab, south Green- land, on his way to fly to the north pole with amphibian airplanes. Mac- Millan declared his expedition will show that the Norse homes in Green- land, 1,500 years old, were the base of the Norsemen who came to America 300 years before Columbus. in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. GENERAL COUNCIL OF BRITI. TRADE UNION CONGRESS reveals THURSDAY, AP JOINS GROWING PROTEST FOR LANZUTSKY (Special to The moscow, March 31.—(By Mail.)—The executive © Red Aid has received a telegram from that the case of the Polish Comrade general council of the British Trade unions will appoint a delegation which will visit the # protest against the further imprisonment of Comrade Li The executive of the International Red Aid sent ¢ to the labor party: “In connection with the inquiry of your represent socialist party as to what measures are to be taken in rade Lunzutsky with united efforts, we wish to say the “The Polish socialist party sabotages the campal Comrade Lunzutsky; it hinders the meetings called by. of Poland and by the members of the sejm. the meeting organized by the Deputy Skrypa from taki “When two workers were killed in Dombrova by the: ous gas, the socialist party of Poland justified the police murdered workers as bandits, “We appeal to you to send a special commission to right on the spot the base role played by the Polish The executive of the International Red Aid has just | from London. stating that the Polish embassy has agr representative of the Workers’ Weekly, Tom Mann, to, tive of the International Red Aid. NEW U. $. DEBT ENVOY TRAILS $7,000,000,000 Burton Feels Situation Is “Very Unfavorable”. (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, April 14.—Another “unofficial” American debt envoy is going to Europe to survey political and financial conditions and report back to the administration on the chances of collecting some of the $7,000,000,000 in war debts that re- main unfunded on the treasury’s books. ‘ Representative Theodore Burton, of Ohio, member of the debt funding commission, is sailing for Europe to- : BE: Fo.spend mogtios, tha annua Be Job Mapped Oyt for Him. He will go first to Geneva where he will represent the United States at the conference for control of traf- fic in arms, after which he will go to London and Paris to consult bankers and government officials. Before departing, representative Burton said the debt situation is “very unfavorable.” Workers Party in Election Campaign in New Jersey Town NEW YORK, April 14—The Work- ers Party local Union Hill, New Jer- sey, will hold a mass meeting Wed- nesday night, April 15, at which Fran- cis Steiner, Communist candidate for mayor of Union Hill, and George Pearlman, candidate for councilman at large, will be the principal speak- ers. The republican party candidate for mayor is a superintendent of the larg- est silk mill in the county. The demo. cratic candidate for mayor is a busi- hess man, and the republican candi- date for councilman at large is a lawyer for the public service corpora- tion, which owns the bus lines and traction system of the town. Armenians Come Back Under Soviets WASHINGTON, April 14.—Soviet crop area last year as before the world wa Armenia had 90 per cent as great a and it has quadrupled its cotton production in two years, says a report from Erivan to the Russian informa- tion bureau in Washington. The Armenians are carrying out a series of large irrigation projects, which absorbed one-third of the national budget in 1924, Shools maintained by the state number 2,344, as compared with 250 in the country before the war. There were 13 agricultural co-operatives in January, 1924. Now there are 10,000. jaily Worker) © /the. International io communicates ‘taken up by the he British trade Ih embassy and sky. lowing telegram Bramley (London), Lanzutsky, has Union Congress. at the Polish to liberate Com- wing: or the defense of } Communist Party tance, prevented lace, lice. with poison- denonuncing the It has, for | ind to investigate oe i= BRUSSELS, 1 14.—Emil Van- dervelde, socia’ St leader in the Second International and one of the most notorious the world war, vitation of King cabinet. & : American irs may think it peculiar that lists could be trusted by a “with the reigns of his governm but this kingly fear which wae | longer exists. The proven themsel: servants of ro; Sweden; produced by | accepted the in- bert to form a e's past is an loyalty to the NEW YORK, “April 14—Members of the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union are today picketing the seven shops fo the United Shoe Rebuilding com- pany, whose workers are on strike one hundred per cent to win recogni- tion for their union. When all the other shoe repair shops signed up with the union for a ten dollar in- crease in wages last week, this con-| cern refused to sign any contract with the union and offered the men in- dividually the same increase in wages if they would sign personal contracts. This the men naturally refused, since they know that their only safety lies in organization, and they are now fighting for their right to organize and bargain collectively. At first a few individuals were intimidated by the company into agreeing to the per- sonal contracts, but when the strike was called they went out to a man, and now not one of them is working for this concern. Seeing the unanimity of the men, the owner of the United Shoe Rebuild- ing company called the police and had Pascal Cosgrove, organizer of the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union, and Mike Tesky, one of the pickets, ar- rested for interfering with his “busi- ness.” They were both released un- der $500 bail each, and their cases will come up in the Jefferson court. Meanwhile the strikers’ lines are standing firm, the “United” shops are picketed, and if the boss wants to resume repairing shoes he will have to deal with the Shoe Workers’ Pro- tective Union. Fascist Shows His Colors. ROME.— Secretary General Farri- nacci, speaking before his own consti- tuency, today renewed the demand that the fascists re-establish the death penalty and the banishment of ac- tive members of opposition parties. GET A SUB AND GIV= ONE! MINE OWNERS IN OWA JOIN DRIVE FOR WAGE CUTS Demand Miners Return to the 1917 Scale By J. E. SNYDER. (Special to The Daily Worker.) CENTERVILLE, IOWA, April 14.— The mine owners of lowa are making claims that West Virginia, Kentucky and other non-union coal being ship- ped into this state is causing them to shut down their mines and that they will have to stay shut down unless the miners are willing to come down to the 1917 scale of $5.00 per day. The miners are wondering about this claint® Many of them think it only a part of the nation-wide open shop drive and the statement is made at this time to educate the public to help finish the job of driving the miners back to work at the reduced scale when they-have been locked out long enough. 5,000 Miners Jobless. Just a few I met think that the big non-union mines are really putting these small mine owners out of busi- ness and killing two birds with one chunk of West Virginia scab coal. Anyhow there are five thousand miners out of employment, and more mines shutting down every day, mer- chants are in dispair and traveling men are leaving town without orders, Even the politicians are concerned and thought we should soft peddle our speeches so as not to interfere with a “settlement.” The farmers are being educated as usual to blame the slump in grain prices on the high wages of the miners who force the mine owners to shut down their mines. This same bunch of easy marks believed the story of the merchants’ and manu- facturers’ associations when that bunch of high binders peddled the propaganda that the “child labor amendment would take their child- ren from them and turn them oyer to the state and forbid the farmer allow- ing’ his childrén to do the’ chores at’ home before and after school or even helping the old man during the sum- mer vacation,” Thousand Miners Leave District. A thousand miners are reported to have left the district in the vicinity of Centerville, Iowa, going largely to the big cities, such as Chicago and Detroit. Two of these are reported to have returned after a two thousand mile trip in search of a job and report that conditions are as bad or even worse elswhere than here, if that were possible. They report that the jobs are all taken and thousands every where hunting for work. Plutes Inspect Boys The Chicago Boy’s Week Federa- tion, run by business men, will in- spect Chicago boys from 14 to 18 years old, and will select the boy, who, from the business men’s point of view, will be “America’s most va- luable citizen in 1950.” The children of workers are expected to get scant consideration in this “inspection.” Just Another Spring Rumor. WASHINGTON, April 14.—Presi- dent Coolidge knows of no foundation for reports that Senator William M. Butler of Massachusetts is shortly to resign as chairman of the republican national committee, it was stated to- day. s Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, DL MICHIGAN FLOOD PUTS 25,000 ACRES OF CORN UNDER WATER DETROIT, April 14.— Twenty- five thousand acres of corn extend- ing from Flat Rock to Ypsilanti are under water today as a result of a torrent which swept down the Hu- ron river thru a break in an artifi- cial clay embankment at the Detroit Edison dam at French Landing. Scores of persons are temporaril§ homeless and Flat Rock and South Rockwood and Belleville are inun- dated while several bridges and houses were destroyed by the flood. The flood was receding today. Fif- teen men, women and children were rescued from houses which were partly submerged. BRIAND UNABLE TO ACCEPT THE PREMIERSHIP Soctaliste Weal Not Enter His Cabinet (Special to The Daily Worker.) PARIS, April 14.— Aristide Briand, seven times premier of France, has refused to accept the premiership be- cause of the action of the socialist congress in refusing to enter the cabi- net he was forming, it was said this afternoon. On leaving the chamber at 6:20 o'clock this evening, Briand said: Briand advised Doumergue to sum- mon Painleve as the man best quali- fied to actLin the crisis. The senate tomorrow will legalize the Bank of France's over inflation and will authorize the additional emis. sion of four billion francs, the news- paper Liberte declared. “TI am now going to the Elysee Pal- ace to inform President Doumergue that I cannot form a new cabinet.” The condition of the Bank of France js causing considerable .worry | in government and financial circles. The bank has issued paper beyond the legal limit and has threatened to discontinue business unless a new government is’ established by Wed- nesday that. will legalize its illegali- ties. “The hopé fhat an interim cabinet could be. formed. that would tide France ovér thé present acute crisis proved:utopian.*\In fact, it is not ex- pected that any. stability can be se- cured on this side of the German elections. Worshippers of the Past. ROME.— Premier Held of Bavaria, today presented Pope Pius with a replica of the precious code aureas ninth century bible, which now is a treasure of the Munich state library. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents SUB-DISTRICT OF MINERS SCORES FARRINGTON Springfield Meeting Be- gins Battle (Special to The Dally. Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 14.—The fight of the rank and file vs. the Far- rington . machine in District No. 12, U. M. W. of A. is on. This un- doubtedly means a fight to the finish for the calling of a district conven- tion to take up the many grievances lo the rank and file against the ma- chine that have béen accumulating for months. At-least this was the sentiment of the several thousand miners who gathered in. Reservoir Park Sunday to hear Tom Parry, John J. Watt and Freeman Thompson tel! about the latest outrage, the illegal at- tempt to remove Sub-District. Presi- dent Freeman Thompson and Sub-Dis- trict Secretary-Treasurer John Watt from office. Not only this grievance was mentioned, but the entire ma- chine was shown up in all the cor- rupt practices that it has engaged in since the war. Parry Scores 3-Year Agreement. The meeting was called to take place for two o'clock, but long before this time the miners began to gather. Tom Parry, who’ opened the meeting as chairman, said the present deplor. able circumstances of the miners cap only be understood by investigating cause and effect. We-all: know the eects because we have felt them, but in order to understand the cause we must go back to the strike of 1919. He then proceeded to show how this and all other attempts of the rank and file to better -their. conditions and strengthen their position was blocked by the machine. Finally the three-year agreement, which mainly is respon- sible for the present condition of the miners, was saddled on their backs. At the time of the signing of the agreement the argument was advanc- efThat it is now time to stop fighting (Continued on eters ee pene 2) -|Less Workers-be ‘Less“Pay But More Work; This Is the Bosses’. Aim MONTREAL (FP)—Canadian _ rail ways in 1924 employed 8,500 fewer persons on the average in 1923. Op- erating expenses were cut by $28,- 000,000 and the pay roll by $15,000,- 000, compared with 1923. Total oper- ating revenues in 1924 were $441,249,- 000 against $471,236,000 in 1923, The loss was mainly due to the smaller grain crop. Compared with 1919, the railways in 1924 employed 26,000 few- er persons, and the pay roll was,,$59,- 000,000 less. The average number of employes was over 7,000 less than.in 1913, though the mileage operated was about 60 per cent greater. DEMOCRACY FOR CAPITALIST ONE THING, FOR PRIVATE SOLDIERS SOMETHING QUITE DIFFEREN? By CARL HAESSLER, Editor Federated Press, Blowing hot and cold has long been known as a characteristic of the established daily press, but it takes the Chicago Daily Tribune, the most arrogant reactionary paper of the middle west, to do it in the same breath and that on the subject of freedom of In its leading editorial of April speech and opinion. 10, devoted to the gag placed by the U. S. department of state on Count Karolyi, Hungarian pacifist and liberal, Nash Motors Threatens Union Machinist KENOSHA, Wis., April 14.—So efficient is the stool pigeon and blacklist system of Nash Motors Co. that a union tool and die maker was spotted and warned the second day on his job In his Kenosha plant. The worker at- tempted no union agitation and was on the payroll under an assumed name. It required just one day to check up on him. On the second day the fore- man told him to watch his step, that Nash is an open shop and intends to remain so. the newcomer and he quit. Then all the hardest and worst work in the shop was given to Nash pays the Kenosha union scale of 80 cents an hour but will not tolerate union ideas. Demand Release of Crouch and Trumbull! Statement of Workers Party of America APITALIST militarism is a beast fattening on the bodies of humans. Even in times of peace this moloch devours its prey. The only welcome for the recruit en- tering the ranks of the army or navy would be the inscription plac- ed by the imagination of Dante at s of hi “All Ye Who Enter Here Leave Hope Behind.” News reaches here from Hawaii that a number of soldiers stationed there are accused of the horrible crime of not believing what secretary of war in Washington pre- scribes as the official political ideq. A number ef these boys have been cited before a court martial. One of them, Paul Crouch was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. Another, Walter Trumbull, was sentenced to 26 years of imprisonment with hard labor. A number of others still await trial. And what was the crime for Were meted out? These men we ‘accused of having studied Esperan- _ to, of sympathizing with Soviet Rus- ja, and of having attempted to or- Sieg a Communist | in wall, All of these “ori “ts perfectly legal right of every jizen of the United States. But a court martial whose members have been crazed by a red flag de- clares that these deeds when com- mitted by a soldier in uniform are capital eri: and punishable by a living death in pri If the accused had been million- aire robbers like Doheny, or graft- ing politicians like Fall who have cheated the United States out of millions, a benevolent court would have found some error in the in- dictment in order'to save their pre- cious hides. But because tht accused are only simple soldiersiiin the ranks their sympathies withrthe working class and their belief that capitalism might not be the last word in so- cial development, becomes cause for them to be condemned to a life of hard labor in prison. If they had been rich and merely accused of murder, the law would have provid- ed for some loophole for them to creep out. But the soldier who be- lieves things that the government says he must not believe cannot ex- pect mercy. i Words fail to characterize thig atrocity of the moloch of American militarism. Millions in the United Sta must rine their a my protest against this S itiinad their voices so loud that the beast will drop its prey. Immediate release of those sen- tenced and accused; impeachment of the maniacs who indicted and judgment upon these sol- abolition of court martial; and a guarantee of civil trials be- fore a jury for every soldier charg- ed with an offen those are the hat must be tal up by of the workers thruout the country and must be fought for vigorously. Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party of America. the Tribune says: All our recent tendencies have been towards the setting up of a dictatorship of opinion and habit and when a shirtsleeved democ racy heads that way it can outdo a belted, spurred and helmeted au- tocracy. . . We are a long way from first principles when a. re- publican is out of order in the United States. mie In its adjoining column, the Tribune editorializes on the ferocious sen- tences of 40 and 26 years’ imprison- ment imposed by a U. S; court-martial on two’ soldfers in Hawaii for express- ing Comniunist opinions and organiz- ing » Communist league: The sentences may seem exces- sive but they will not when the offense is examined . . We know that most of the American reds are loony and this attempt to corrupt the loyalty of the army may have been loony, but it was made in the most important mili- tary post. in American control, Or. ganizing, sedition in the ‘army is different from preaching it from a soap -box,. Therefore the severe penalty...» Tothis second editorial,the ‘Trib- une’s:firstowould seem a sufficient ans. wer, jy host hig Civil, Liberties 3 ogy uc