The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1925, Page 2

Y 4 Page Two SSS —— RELIGIOUS WAR RACING AMONG GZECHO-SLOVAKS. City of Prague Taxes Catholic Parents PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, April 14 —There is a religious war going on in Czecho-Slovakia, scarcely less vio- lent than the one which was recently liquidated in France by the complete surrender of the socialists to the vati- can. Under the old Austrian empire the catholic priests were state employes. Owing to the numerical strength of STEEL TRUST “QUIET, IMMOV ABLE, SATISFIED AND STEADY,” ON PRICES (Special to. The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 14.—Chalrman E. H. Gary of the U. S, Steel corpora- tlon denied this afternoon that the directors of the corporation were serlous- ly considering further reductions of prices of steel products. “We are sitting perfectly quiet, steady, and Immovable, and we are satis- fied,” Judge Gary said. and make peace. Parry, in showing Coal Miners Score Farrington Thompson Makes Great Speech. (Continued from page 1) ie the interests of the rank and file, the fallacy of this argument, showed how the miners are now paying the price with unemployment, etc. Watt Talks of Machine Rule. John Watt, the second speaker, pointed out that the condition of the miners as well as the miners’ union the catholics, the republic felt itself | was sinking lower and lower and un- obliged to part. continue this The government of Edouard foreign minister, is based on on between the socialists, na- tional socialis national democrats, farmers’ party and catholics. Benes is now trying to get rid of the latter from his government bloc so that he can accomplish the separation of church and state, without losing his official head. The workers of Prague, impatient a coal: policy in| less the rank and file made a deter- mined stand, sooner or later the union would be totally destroyed by the methods of the machine. It is the policy of those in power in the miners’ union not only in District No. 12, but the national or- ganization as well to get rid of all the best fighters in the U. M. W. of A., Watt pointed out. He showed how the machine ousted Howat, Meyers- cough, McLachlan and others for no over the dilatoriness of Benes took yother reason than that they fought the bull by the horns a few weeks ago and passed a law imposing spe- cial religious taxes on catholic par- ents. Commission on Miracles. One of the recent contributions to the gayety of nations was the estab- lishment of a commission to deter- mine whether the preservation of the tongue of St. John of Nepemuth was genuine or not. The catholic church has made considerable money out of John’s tongue. confessor of Wenel II, who was a jeal- ous o]d dog. The king pressed the saint to divulge the secrets told by his wife in the confessional, regard- ing her love affairs. When the priest refused, the monarch cast him over a bridge. When the saint was dug out of his grave 300 years afterwards, a tongue was found among the remains. The story does not say whether the tongue was wagging or not. However, John was canonized. How the commission can deter- mine whether the miracle is genuine or not is a problem. SUPREME COURT RULES FOR ‘OPEN SHOP" BUILDERS WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14.— The United States supreme court made another one of its many rulings in favor of the employers when it re- fused to intervene in the suit charging San Francisco builders with violating the Sherman anti-trust law. The build- ers, it was claimed, combined to force the building contractors to operate on a non-union “open shop” basis, and withheld supplies from union con- cerns. “The government is powerless to in- tervene unless material restraint of interstate commerce is shown,” was the court’s ruling. The supreme court denied a rehear- ing to the Pennsylvania Mining com- pany in a suit claiming treble damages from the United Mine Workers’ Union for “property damage” in the Arkan- sas strike. Different Dose of Democracy for Private Soldier and Capitalist (Continued from page 1) Jnion, which has the benefit of highly trained counsel, points out in protest- ing to Washington that the sentences were grossly excessive and that Amer- ican soldiers have the legal right to belong to the Workers (Communist) Party and to believe in the Soviet form of government. “These men are being improperly tried for their po- litical views,” the Union states. Looking beyond the fate of the radical enlisted men, the interesting thing in the Tribunes exhibition is its capacity to hurrah for freedom in one line and to combat it savagely in the Freeman Thompson covered the sit- uation in detail, giving documentary evidence of the corruption and mis- leadership of the Farrington machine. Thompson spoke for over one hour, but interest was sustained thru out. It was the hottest day of the year and all those present had to stand thru- out the speaking. Nevertheless, hard- ly a man left before the meeting had ended. Thompson finished his talk with a ringing call to action. His, appeal was met with extended cheers from the audience, It was the battle cry of thousands of outraged miners in this sub-district and it will be heard not only in the state of Illi- nois, but its echo will carry to every nook and hamlet thruout the United States where there are any rank and file miners. POLISH WHITE GUARDS FAIL T0 STOP RADWANSKI die oh et’? |“Orders from Higher Up,” Says Cop (Special to The Daily Worker.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 14.—Des- pite unheard of efforts of the white guard Polish agents in Cleveland, act- ing in combination with the police de- partment to break up Comrade Rad- wanski’s protest meeting against the atrocious white terror against the working class of Poland, the meeting was very successful. In fact the white guard opposition only aroused the spirit of the audience. From “Higher Up” Say Cop A police captain and a corps of plainclothes dicks were present, and the captain announcé@!) that upon “orders from higher up” he would not allow a collection to be taken to de- fray the hall rent, YH i All day previous to! the'imecting he owner of’ the hall was telephoned © by a Polish reactionary lawyer and other anonymous skunks trying to intimidate him into closing the hall and preventing the meeting. A White Guard Rebuked This failed, however. And*at the meeting itself only one rea¢ttionary had the gall to take the floor—and he did not end the attempt happily. At once he opened his mouth and began to attack Rakwanski the Polish work- ers in the audiance rose up on all sides to denounce him as a fake labor leader and an enemy of the workers. They shook their fists under his nose so menacingly that he changed his mind about making any extended ora- tion and subsided. Radwanski made an_ excellent speech and kept the audience with him from first to last. Alleged Victim of K. K. K. Ex-Dragon Dies from Poison U t (Special to The Daily Worker.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 14.— After clinging tenaciously to life since March 15 when she swallowed poison, following an alleged criminal attack, Miss Madge Oberholtzer, 28, died at her home here today. Miss Oberholtzer, before she be- came unconscious fifteen days ago accused D. C, Stephenson, Indiana po litician and former K. K. K. organizer. of kidnaping her and criminally at- tacking her in a sleeping car enroute to Hammond, Ind. Immediately upon learning that the girl had died, Charles E. Cox, attorney retained by Miss Oberholtzer’s parents to assist the state in prosecuting next, This open contradiction is the |Stephenson, said an attempt would result of its pretense of independence,;be made to have the county grand altho sold to the hilt to the financial interests. A pacifist from Hungary gives this type of paper a chance to cater to liberal readers. But freedom among capitalism's hired fighters is different. Every Boost a Knock—And Vice Versa. The game is a losing one. One big reason for the defeat of the Chicago traction ordinance Apr. 7, as for the de- feat of many measures and many men before it, was that it had the enthusi-|holtzer’s parents. They allege astic support of both the Tribune and|with intent to commit a criminal at- its evening counterpart, The Chicago|tack, malicious mayhem, kidnaping and conspiracy to kidnap, Daily News. jury indict the former klan leader on a murder charge. While the poison which caused Miss Oberholtzer’s death was self-admi- nistered, Attorney Cox contends that a murder indictment is returnable be- cause of Stephenson’s alleged refusal of medical aid when he learned of the girl’s condition. Stephenson is under indictment on five charges returned on information given the grand jury by Mi ROCK ISLAND, IIl., April 14.—Injunetions which failed to produce cloth- . ing in the open shop of the Daniel Boone Woolen Mills at Rock Island seem ‘ to have aided in permanently closing the plant, the receivership. The Ama’ It has not tried to run since mated Clothing Workers’ union was active in organizing the workers last summer, Gunmen, judges and the company were "active in opposition. DELEGATES ARE RE-ELECTED BY SEATTLE LOGALS Hold Central Council Acted Illegally SEATTLE, Wash. April 14—(By Mail)—Three out of the six delegates arbitrarily declared unseated from the Central Labor Council by Jepsen’s il- jlegal ruling, have been given new cre. |dentials and returned by their local \unions as delegates to the council. They were declared unseated because they were Communists. Joe Havel, of the Stenographers Bookkeepers and Office Employes Lo- cal 16,304, was given a vote of confi- dence by his local and along with new \credentials the local is addressing a letter to the council demanding that members of organized labor should be guaranteed the right of political be lief and stating that Havel is entitled to his seat in the council as having been as good a union man as anyone The others returned already are Paul K. Mohr of the Bakers’ Union and H. G. Price of the Machinists Lodge 79. M. Hansen and W. H. Jones of the Painters Local 300 have not yet been returned, their local be- ing still engaged in discussion on the matter and no vote has yet been taken. A series of mass meetings, both in- doors and on the streets, are being carried on by the Communist mem- bers of Seattle unions to explain to the whole city the disruption of the unions by the reactionaries, Illinois to Pay the Cost of Stock Yards Sewage Waste System Members of the city council com- mittee on committees, whose princi- pal task will be to select a new chair- man of the transportation committee, have left for Miami, Fla., where they will completé the committee organ- ization for the next council. A small group of aldermen insist that no alderman who supported Dever’s traction steal be appointed to the transportation committee, The new sanitary district sewage disposal construction program, which will cost a total of $265,000,000, in the next 20 years provides for expend- tures of $2,000,000 to take care of stock yards waste, it has been re- vealed. Japan Forbids Study of Social Science in the Tokio University KOBE, Japan —(FP) —Repressive measures are being taken by the Japanese minister for education, to hait the radical tendencies in Tokio university. Not only has he sup- ported intvoducing military officers to conduct drill, but he is stopping stu- dents from discussing social problems, and has forbidden plays having a rad. ical color. A social science discussion club at the Keyoto high school has been dis- banded by official order. ~ Students must confine themselves to the exact -|sclences, leaving human affairs to the Pepper Wants More Power WASHINGTON, D. ©., April 14.— The suit of Frank Myers, former post- master of Portland, Oregon, who was appointed by President Wilson and removed from office by President Harding before his full term had ex- pired for his full salary is now in the hands of the supreme court of the United States, Senator Pepper ap- peared on behalf of the senate and argued that the president's right to discharge government omployes is limited by congress, THE DAILY Ab allel Socialist Witwell to Traitor Abramovich Is AT KILLING OF LAW HOWAT HIT ‘Open Shop’ Does Work; A. F. of L. Praises Self WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14.— The officials of the American Federa- tion of Labor who hounded Alexander Howat out of the Kansas Miner's Union, after he had broken the power of the Kansas industrial court. law, are now hypocritically claiming the credit for the supreme court decision formally nullifying the strikebreaking law. Howat was denied a fair trial by the international board of the United Mine Workers of America, of which William Green, then secretary of the organ- ization, was a member. Now Green, as president of the A. F. of L. says, “The supreme court has re-established the charter rights of labor as laid down by the American constitution.” Howat Struck Mines It was Alexander Howat, then pres- ident of the Kansas Miner’s Union, who insisted on the right to strike and despite the court law, struck the Kansas coal mines, Howat smashed GREEN JUBILANT the power of the law and defeated Allen, the sponsor of the law, when he endeavored to be re-elected as gov- ernor on the issue of the industrial court. Howat served nearly two years in jail for his work in combatting the strikebreaking law. The Kansas law “forced both labor and capital to submit to arbitration and comply with the decision of the arbitration tribunal.” Green a Hypocrit Although Green declares, “The deci- sion leaves labor free to bargain col- lectively with employers, and Amer- ican labor can new enter an era of new progress,” it is noticeable that it was not the efforts of the A. F, of L. officialdom which brought the supre- me court decision. The suit which brought the indus- trial court law before the supreme court was entered by the Charles Wolff Packing company of Topeka, an open shop concern which objected to even “arbitration” with unions. It was the decision on this case that jealt the formal blow to the Kansas court law, Sullivan, Town of Recent Mine Blast, Hit by Near Tornado SULLIVAN, Ind., Apr. 14—Residents of the northwestern part of Sullivan were busy today repairing partly wrecked houses and wiring damaged by a tornado which passed high above this city last night, coming near enough to earth in: places to unroof houses and beat down telephone poles. No casualities were reported and the twister confined its destruction to a dozen buildings which were unroof- ed, electric wires and trees, Sullivan recently witnessed a min- ing disaster in which many miners were killed. At Komono the storm lifted the roofs from several houses, damaged three garages and carried Curtis] Dukes about fifty feet, without in- juring him. Fort Wayne and Plymouth also re- ported small property losses from the storm, Inventor of First * American Auto Dies KOKOMO, Ind., April 14—Elwood Haynes, inventor of the first Ameri- can automobile, is dead here. Auto- mobile manufacturers are now coin- ing millions of dollars from Haynes’ invention, but Haynes, like many in- ventors, did not participate in the profits of Henry Ford and the other big capitalists who founded their en- terprises on his invention. It was on July 4, 1894, that Haynes drove his “horseless carriage” thru the streets of Kokomo at about eight miles an hour. Haynes was born at Portland, Indi- ana, on Oct. 14, bids | Find Traces of Polsoning. GARY, Ind., April 14.—Definite trac- es of arsenic have been found in the vital organs of Walter Cunningham, youngest son of Mrs, Anna Cunning: ham, 47, Indiana’s mother,” Dr, W. D. McNally, coroner's chemist of Cook county, Illinois, re- — a A “Three Min Cyclone SPRINGFIELD, Il, April 14.—Bight persons were nursing minor injuries here today as the result of Spring- field’s “three minute” cyclone, Rain and hail roared thru the city on a 60- mile gale, beating in plate glass win- dows and ripping the tops from aute- mobiles. The mad spasm of the ele- as quickly as it came. leged “poisoning ported to Indiana afternoon, ments pai “For the Mikado!” TOKYO, April 14—Two Japanese naval aviators were killed today when their plane fell 3,0 while flyti over Kasumigaura rome, Tokyo, i For the member of your union and your shop mates, send ine sub. Funeral of Dead Hopes By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, the “socialist leadership” in this country plans biding farewell to Raphael Abramovich, traitor of the Russian revolution. It will be pretty much in the form of a funeral over dead hopes, At the same time great masses of American workers will shout ‘Farewell! more!” e J nd good riddance! Bother us no The coming of Abramovich, anti-Soviet agent of the Second (socialist) International to this country, has had several results, all of them beneficial to the growth of Com- munism in ‘this country. It has revealed clearer than ever the alliance of ‘the isolated “socialist leadership” in the United States with the Russian counter-revolution; its sympathy with the emigre anti-Soviet plotters of Berlin and Paris. It exposed to America’s workers the only remaining task of the Second (socialist) International; in the war against the Union of Soci an ally of capitalism ist Soviet Republics. It thus made clearer to America’s workers, who sadly lack an international viewpoint, the big issue at stake in the stru between the Communist International and the “socialist” international. It brought nearer home and made concrete this war of capitalist rule against Soviet rule, when policemen’s clubs, at all of Abramovich’s meetings, descended on the heads of workers who dis: “socialist” international. reed with the traitor-spokesman of the It showed how the American cap- italist state rallies to the aid of the “socialists in the attack on the Communist idea This has become crystal clear even to workers barely on the brink of * * Communist sympathy. * ° It was surely not the intention of Abramovich, Hillquit, Cahan and Berger, that these should be the results of the lengthy tour of the United States so carefully planned. Not at all. It was intended, of course, that Abramovich was to deal a death blow to Communism in this country, thru his ‘‘ex- osure” of Bolshevik rule, and to prevent recognition by the hited States of the Soviet Union. In this he had the en- thusiastic support, not only of ‘the “socialists,” but also of the bureaucracy in control of the American Federation of Labor, not to mention the whole capitalist press. It was all to be accomplished under the mask of “democracy.” * * * * But the large numbers of Communist workers, especially Jewish Communist workers, attending Abramovich’s meet- ing, quickly tore this hypocritical mask off the “socialist” agent of world reaction. He was forced into the open; to to stand before America’s workers trying to argue that there was not one bright spot in the Bolshevik revolution. But, unfortunately, in that same hour America’s workers were getting acquainted with the glowing report made official- by the ritish trade union delegation to the Soviet Re- y publics; and the Japanese government was also according recognition to the Soviet Power. All this left Abramovich with no definite place to hide his nakedness. All that was left to him were his frantic denunciations against Soviet Russia, that were faithfully reported in the “socialist” press, either in the English- language ‘“‘Leader,” or the Jewish-language Daily Forward; all of which found a natural echo in the dwindling audiences that greeted Abramovich as westwards to the Pacific Coast. If the police, t he made his are es e thugs an stool pigeons of the “socialists” on the one hand, and the Communist workers on the other hand, had not attended his gatherings Abramovich would indeed have been lonesome. * * * It is rumored that the “socialists” are trying to bring a twin Abramovich, J. Ramsay MacDonald, former “social- ist” premier of Great Britai tour. Let him come. He wi ican Communist mill. , to this country for another prove more grist for the Amer- Ford Seeks to Buy Out Company Making His Freight Planes DETROIT, Mich., April 14.—Direc- tors of the Stout Metal Airplane Co., at a secret meeting this afternoon, will be asked to vote on an offer from the Ford Motor company to buy out their concern. This is the outstanding develop- ment following the inauguration Mon- day of Ford company’s private freight air line to Chicago, soon to embrace other cities. Henry Ford declared that the Ford company is determined to make a suc- cess of commercial aviation. “We don’t care what it costs,” Ford said. ‘ The Stout company built the “Maid- en Dearborn,” used yesterday in the first air freight experiment. Let the DAILY WORKER make your arguments every day. Send in a sub for your shop mates. Deportation Hearing for Communist Editor Is Set for April 18 Hearing on the deportation warrant issued against 8. Zinich, editor of Radnik, the Croatian-language radical paper, will commence here April 18, ‘The department of labor seeks to de- port him to the reactionary country of Jugo-Slavia, on technical grounds and because of “disbelief in organized government” and advocating over throw of the U. 8. government by force, Zinich is a Communist, He is the fourth foreign-language Com- munist editor to be the target of de- portation proceedings in recent months. Of the others George Halon- en, a Finn, fought successfully, while Eugene Vajtauer, a Crecho-Sloy vak, and John Lassen, a Hungar’ are still in danger. The Labor fense council, 8. Lincoln 8t., cago, is managing Zinich's defense. THOUSANDS OF PARENTS GO TO ALBANY TO FIGHT FOR N. Y, TEACHERS BILL (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, April 14—Resolu- tions adopted by labor unions, pe- titions with hundreds of si; by individuals and a del thousands of parents and members are working for the Ricca teachers’ salary bill here today In urging Governor Smith to the bill they will prove that Mayor Hylan’s recent statement against the bill was an attempt to head off the growing sentiment for the bill in order to protect the interests of certain realty associations which have opposed this bill and all other similar increased expenditures for educational purposes, World Financiers To Seek Trade Agreement At Brussels Meeting WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14— Further attempts to increase profits by means of international trade com binations, will be made when the in- ternational chamber of commerce meets in Brussels on June 21, the American section of the chamber an- nounced here, Big business from forty different na- tions will be represented at the six day session, comprising over 200 finan- clers and industrialists. A discussion of the Dawes plan will have an impor- tant place on the program. ROUMANIAN WORKERS ARE HUNGRY LEWIS IN NOVA SCOTIA BOOSTS COLLABORATION © : : Praises Capitalist * Premier (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, April 14.— John L. Lewis, president of the Unit- ed Mine Workers, is in Nova Scotia supposedly to “aid” the strikers of District 26 against the British Empire Steel corporation (Besco) who struck following a practical lockout put on by the company to force wage reduc: tions. The best John L. is doing, however, is to compliment Premier Armstrong for calling a conference to talk about the conflict. The conference will doubtless recommend some scheme of class collaboration. It is to be held at Halifax, and Lewis, in taking the sycophantic attitude toward the pro- vincial government is following his habit of always bowing and scraping lackey-like before government author- ity even when it is sending troops against his union members, In the nation-wide strike of the miners in the United States Lewis gave up when Judge Anderson issued an injunction, saying “We cannot fight against the government.” This is the method he is following here instead of demanding that the government save the lives of the starving miners as a measure of public protection by seizing the mines and putting the min- ers to work under’ union management at the union scale. Teachers’ Salaries Discussed In Star Chamber Session TEACHERS SALARIES sheeseee oe The finance committee of the board of education went into secret session yesterday afternoon considering the new teachers’ salary schedule. All morning the finance committee talked about titles and increase of salaries of individuals in the superintendent's and business manager's offices. These matters were taken up in regular open sessions. : Superintendent McAndrew’s office put in a request for $1,500 to be used for sending a special lobbyist to Springfield to work with the board’s st for pushing educational 8. When this motion was being put thru Miss Margaret Haley of the Chicago Teachers’ Federation re- quested the floor and made the, sug- gestion that the motion include a clause that the board’s representative will receive his instructions from the board of education and not from the superintendent with reference to the measures he is to work for. She argued that since the superintendent has withdrawn from the teachers the right to take leave of absence to go to Springfield to work for teachers’ bills, the teachers would be compelled to depend on the board representa- tive for their lobbying. She was ruled out of order by the chairman, Trustee Julius Smetanka, Proposed “Improved” Conditions Reveal Shanghai Slavery SHANGHAI, China, April 14.—The whole caboodle of tax payers of the city are being called in by the muni- cipal council to see if they (the tax payers) will agree to an ordinance forbidding child labor in the textile mills. Things are so fixed that it will require a full quorum of the tax pay- ers present to make any action effec- tive. If these take a notion to boycott their annual meeting, or to vote against the measure, child slavery will continue. There are 22,000 children under ten years of age now working in the mills. These are the only ones covered by the proposal, altho tens of thousands more from ten upward are among the mill workers. After four years of the proposed measure, it provides that 12 years shall be the minimum age. The conditions of the Shanghai tex- tile workers are atrocious. Even the Proposed bill, put out as it is to pla- cate the workers and compromise vy effort to stop the spread of uni: ism, provides for a 12-hour day and seven days a week with only. one day off every two weeks. These are the “improved” conditions the Brit- ish territorial government is trying to set up as a “precedent for all China,” Probe Freight Rate Boost. WASHINGTON, April 14—The in- terstate commerce commission today ordered an investigation of the pro- posal of several railroads to increase commodity freight rates on grain and grain products in carloads from Chi- cago, Peoria, Cairo, Ill, St. Louis and related points to Alliance, Ravena and other points. VIENNA, Austria, April 14—The fascist Roumanian government will soon be compelled to resort to enforcing “breadiess days,” as the wheat scarcity here is becoming acute, altho Roumania ie an agricultural country. The bakers are selling adulterated bread, consisting partly of a wheat, rye and corn meal mixture,