The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1925, Page 2

en Page ‘Two THE DAILY WORKER WAR VET DYING AFTER ATTACK BY KLAN POLICE Civil Liberties Sends Protest to W. Va. NEW YORK, April 15.—“Immediate investigation and prosecution of the leaders of the mob which attacked Lawson McMillion, world war veter- an, at Marlington on Friday,” is de- manded of Governor Howard M. Gore of West Virginia, in a telegram by the American Civil Liberties’ Union. MeMillion was ambushed by a mob led by Lincoln Cochran, town ser- geant of Cass, West’ Virginia, and beaten up so severely that he had to be removed to a hospital where he is in a critical condition. Klan Did It “The brutal attack on MeMillion,” says the telegram, “presumably re- “sulted from the dismissal on April 8, of charges against McMillion growing out of the ku klux klan attack on him at Cass last October.” Sergeant Cochran was also responsible for the October attack, the union charges. ‘The original assault took place when MeMillion, with Cochran’s permission, started to speak in public in answer to a warning by the ku klux klan that he must “get work or leave town.” Assaulted by Law Officers. When he started to speak he was | ANGLO-RUSSIAN JOINT ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR UNITY ESTABLISHED LONDON, April 15.—The official report of the Anglo-Russian trade union unity conference which was held here rétently, recommends the establishment of a joint advisroy council to provide co-operation between Russian and British trade union movments and also for joint efforts to induce the Amsterdam international to agree to a free, unconditional and immediate con- ference with the representatives of the Russian trade union movement. With the backing of the powerful British and Russian trade unions the movement for a unified international is now expected to proceed rapidly to a successful fulfillment. The reactionaries on the continent who are blocking the road to unity will not be able to hold back their own rank and file. The British unions are the principal support of the Amsterdam International. Plans Before Plutes General John J. Pershing, tool of big business in its efforts to militarize the country, in speeches here told of his work in preparing for a conscript- ed army of American workers at the outbreak of the next war. Pershing advocated a military nucleus of offi- cers in each community, to hold the SABOTAGES IT IS GOOD BUSINESS (Special to The Daily Worker.) TACOMA, Wash, April 15.—When the workers in the lumber industry whip over the next forcibly drafted army. “The reserve officers mast aim for perfection to meet any emergency for which they may be called,” Per- shing said. Pershing went to the cireus, and spoke before the members of the chamber of commerce at a luncheon in the Hotel La Salle. Vice-president Charles Dawes had Pershing in tow during his Chicago visit, and endorsed his militaristic schemes, assaulted by Cochran, Justice of the Peace J. B. Sutton, Constable James Belcher, then arrested, charged with breach of the peace and finally the case dismissed April 8. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- lber for your branch. T.U.E. L. CALLS UNITED FRONT CONFERENCE OF TEXTILE MILL WORKERS AT LAWRENCE, APRIL 26 To All Textile Unions, All Shop Committees, All Textile Mills and Groups, To All Militant Textile Workers! Greetings:—Never in the history of the textile industry was UNITY more necessary for the workers than now. Not only have wages been cut from ten to twenty per cent, but the introduction of speeding-up systems has compelled the textile operator in every department to do twice as much work for less wages. Fight the Speed-Up. The introduction of the magazine loom and speeding-up in the textile mills has thrown thousands of textile workers on the streets, while the tex- tile millionaires are using the unemployment, thus created, to still further reduce wages and to increase the exploitation of the textile workers, The mill owners are organized in their associations. They have cut wages in one mill at a time, in one locality at a time, until, today, in the cotton mills over 70,000 textile workers are getting 10 and 20'per cent less wages while doing twice as much work. The worsted mlils will be next, un- less we ORGANIZE to RESIST. ‘Workers Practically Unorganized. The textile workers are for the most part unorganized. Helplessly we watched the mill barons cut wages in city after city, in mill after mill. Some weavers struck—stayed out for a few weeks—then returned, DEFEATED. While the great mass of textile workers are unorganized, the few weak and small unions are competing with each other. These textile unions have been unable to rally the masses around them or to mobilize the textile work- ers for the struggle. Therefore, a UNITED FRONT CONFERENCE of TEXTILE WORKERS has been called to meet in LAWRENCE, MASS., at IDEAL HALL, 180 ESSEX ST., SUNDAY, APRIL 28, at 10 A. M. All Unions Invited. All textile unions are invited. YOUR union is invited. We will not create another and dual union. Our aim is to UNITE all existing textile unions and have them AMALGAMATE into ONE POWERFUL, INDUSTRIAL UNION OF TEXTILE WORKERS. ALL textile committees are invited. ALL mills are asked to send dele- gates. Get a group together in the mill where you work and have them send a delegate. Take up a small collection to pay the railroad fare, Agenda of Conference. The agenda of the conference will include: (1) Organization of shop committees in every mill. (2) Amalgamation of existing unions. (3) United front action to resist wage-cutting and speeding-up systems. (4) Action on unemployment. (5) Child labor. (6) Relief for striking textile workers. (7) Defense of free speech and assemblage and of the right to organize. (8) Local united front committees of textile workers. Attached to this call you will find a CREDENTIAL, SEND A DELEGATE! COME TO LAWRENCE on SUNDAY, APRIL 26. ORGANIZE—ORGANIZE AND FIGHT! Trade Union Educational League of the Textile Industry, Joseph Manley, Organizer, Eastern District. CREDENTIAL TEXTILE WORKERS’ UNITED FRONT CONFERENCE, Ideal Hall, 180 Essex St., Lawrence, Mass., Sunday, April 26, 1925, at 10:30 A. M. To the Secretary of the Conference— Greeting:—The following delegates will represent our organization (or mill) at the Textile Workers’ United Front Conference in Lawrence: Name...... AGATOSB..c.secocsorssersesessrsssorvete Name. Name of Union... Mills represented (SEAL) (Organization or Group)... (Address and City)....+0. sssseees ween Note:—Any militant textile worker may represent his mill or group. Cut out and mail to: John J, Ballam, P. 0. Box 3167, Boston, Mass. The following delegates have been elected to the United Front Con- ference of Textile Workers at Lawrenc, Mass,, Sunday, April 26: AdAPOBB. .ssssesnneseeses Black Jack and Hell, [WHEN THE BOSS unite, that is a “trime, called criminal syndicalism. When they slow down on production, that is a crime, called eabotage. When the owners of the lumber in- dustry unite it shows what good busi- nes men they are. When they slow down on production it is because of an economic necessity. One law for the workers, another for the exploiters. Over a year ago the government talked about proceding against the Douglas Fir Lumber and Exploitation association as a combination in re- straint of trade. done, But nothing was Sabotaging. Production, When prices gre not high enough, the lumber magnates agree to close down for a time in order to force prices up. They are now running most mills on a four-day-week basis for this reason. Now a plan is under way, coming apparently from the Coos Bay district, to consolidate some 75elumber com- panies under one ownership. This is prébably the forerunner of a series of consolidations which will place the entire lumber industry of the north- west under one corporate ownership. Hoover Picks Some Characters. Herbert Hoover has just placed a number of Pacific coast lumbermen on a lumber export committee which is to act as an advisory board to aid he department of commerce in pro- moting the sale of lumber abroad. Among them are Hammond of San Francisco, a name well known to the San Pedro I. W. W., and Osgood of Tacoma, who celebrated the new year by discharging every man who dared to take a holiday that day, and in whose plant many men have been seriously injured lately because of lack of proper safeguards about ma- chines and sawdust burners. Major Griggs of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber company, head of the Douglas Fir Exploitation body, has just bought a new home for $75,000. Most of his employees get $3.40 a day for a four-day week. It would take one of these employees at this rate over 106 years to earn this much money. Wobbly Union Feeble. ‘At present the workers in the lum- ber industry are almost unorganized. The A. F, of L. organization is dead. The I. W. W. is feeble and has lost the little it once won The L. L. L. L. is a seab union, controlled by the bosses, always willing to accept a wage cut There has been some attempt at Everett to organize lumber mill work- ers under the A. F. of L. and so far Bill Short’s State Federation of Labor has not had time to smash it, being too busy aiding Seattle fakers to expel Communists. American Fleet to in Terrorizing In Pacific Today (Special to The Dally Worker) SEE CAL’S HAND IN-RAIL' MERGER OF SWERINGENS His Appointee Decides Billion Dollar Deal WASHINGTON, April 15,-The greatest railroad merger in modern transportation history hung in the balance here today as the Interstate Commerce Commission began consid- eration of the Van Sweringen plans for consolidating five big roads into a single unified system. It is a “billion dollar” proposition, Billion Dollars Involved. The properties involved contain more than 16,000 miles of tracks and sidings, and embrace the Erie, the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Nickel Plate, the Hocking Valley and the Pere Marquette, operating in ten states, The total estimate of invest- ment in these properties is $1,081,- 000,000. The commissien was confronted at the outset with a demand from minor- ity stockholders:in the C. & O. that the proceedings be continued until the chancery court at Richmond pass- es on the legality of the merger. Thomas B, Gay, their attorney, pre- sented his argument today and was followed by W. A. Colston, attorney for the Van Sweringen brothers. Cal’s Commissioner R. R. Director. Sitting with the commission for the first time was Thomas F. Woodlock, whose nomination the senate twice re- fused to confirm, He is a former di- rector in the Pere Marquette. At the time of his nomination the, commis- sion was understood to be split five to five on the proposed merger. It is well known in Washington that Coo- lidge insisted on appointing Woodlock because of his interest in merging the railroads. The Nickel Plate; the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Hocking Valley are the nucleus for the proposed trust, which provides arteries in the coun- try’s main sweep)otf traffic from west- ern gateways, besides an outlet to the port of New York and routes giv- ing direct access from Norfolk and Newport News to the tip of the lower Michigan peninsula. WASHINGTON; April 15.—Minority stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad lost the first round today in their fight tov block the gigantic Van Sweringen railroad merger, when the interstate commerce commission refused to grant°a’ postponement of hearings on the proposed consolida- tion. PLAN CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST KLAN EX-DRAGON INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 15.— With the report of pathologists indi- cating death was)due to mercurial poisoning, an official inquest was to be conducted today by Coroner Paul ®. Robinson into the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, 28, victim of an alleged criminal attack charged in five indictments to D. C, Stephenson, for- mer Indiana ku klux klan leader. The outcome of the coroner’s in- quest will determine whether or not the grand jury will be asked to indict Stephenson on more serious charges, according to County Prosecutor Remy. While the poison said to have caused Miss Oberholtzer’s death was self-ad- ministered, the prosecutor was consid- ering filing charges of murder, acces- sory before the fact and accessory after the fact. Should a murder charge be filed it will be based on Stephenson's alleged refusal of medica) aid to the girl, the prosecution announced. Stephenson was silent on Miss Ober. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 15— Doltzer’s death, Both the defendant The most powerful war fleet ever as- sembled, including 145 ships manned by 45,000 men, left San Francisco to- day to practice war maneuvers in the Pacific, While sixteen admirals loll leisurely on the deck of the steamship Seattle, which left yesterday, the fleet will show the other world powers the dom- .|imance held by the American navy over Pacific waters. The maneuvers will center around Hawaii. The Se- attle carries the high navy officials who will take no part in the war man- evers but will act as “umpires,” Penniless “Prince” Won't Work. NEW YORK, April 15.—Prince” Felix Youssoupoff, one time a wealthy landowner in Russia, is here endeay- oring to secure two portraits by Rem- brandt which Joseph Widener of Phil- adelphia secured from him. The “prince” claims he loaned out the por- traits on a chattel mortgage, whereas Widener claims he bought them out. right. Youssoupoff gave the pictures in return for a loan, as he was desti- tute, he declared, The “prince” has refused to return to Soviet Russia to work for his liv- ing. He still has faint hopes of get- ting his estates back, he sald, and is working for the downfall of the Soviet government. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communist ot you, and his counsel refused to comment when officially informed by the county Prosecutor's office that she had died. Eph Inman, di appear in court ruling of Judge A. Collins on the defense’s n to quash all charges, he said. |) If the court rules against Stephen- son, the defendant, must enter a plea to all charges. ~ Called as the first witness in the coroner's official inquiry into the death of Miss Oberholtger, Dr. John K, Kingsbury recited under oath today details given him by the girl of the alleged attack on her by D, C. Ste- phenson, former Indiana ku klux klan leader. As Steplienson lay asleep in a Ham: mond, Ind., hotel Miss Qberholtzer slipped his revolver from its holster and planned to shoot her alleged as- sailant, Dr. Kingsbury, in his sworn statement, said the girl told him. Abandoning this plan, Miss Ober- holtzer pointed the revolver at her own temple, but decided on poison as @ surer means of ending her life, phy- sician told the coroner, Execute 20 Kurds. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 15 — Sheik Said, leader of the Kurdistan ‘ebels, is reported to have been cap- Twenty more in the British | WORKER! the Turks |, cores ; Capitalism|Can Show no Symptomof Improvement By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. PP ORAY, as Germany staggers under the heavy burdens in- flicted by the Morgan-Dawes plan, and the French franc hovers on the brink of chaos, little attention is given to con- ditions.in Great Britain. This land, at least, is held by cap- italist apologists to be an impregnable citadel of capitalism. Great Britain certainly will continue to be a capitalist stronghold if the leaders of the British labor party can have their say. These include especially J. H. Thomas, who was secretary for the colonies in the recent “labor” government, and J. Ramsay MacDonald, the late premier himself, with others like Frank Hodges and Philip Snowden. Thomas re- peats the stand of this “socialist” wing of British imperial- ism when he declares that if he had the power to put social- ism into operation by his one vote, he would refuse to do it, “because the majority of the people do not believe in it.” The Thomas-MacDonald brand of socialism, under <“la+ bor rule,” consisted of an open alliance with British imperial- ism; in fact, in the case of oppressed Egypt, these two worthies even outdid the tories. They uphold the British capitalist dictatorship as against the dictatorship of the British workers thru a Soviet republic. * * * * “*United We Stand, Divided We Fall,’ is the motto alike,” declares John L. Balderston in the New York World, “of Stanley Baldwin for the property-ownihg classes, and J. H. Thomas and Frank Hodges for the workers.” Balderson, of course, knows he is committing a false- hood when he says that Thomas, Hodges, Snowden or Mac- Donald speak for the British workers. The report of the British trade union delegation to Russia is conclusive proof of this. This writer lies as much in this instance, as he does when he verbosly proclaims that, “It is certain that in this new post-war world the old shibboleths of capitalists and workers alike are as out of date as the mid-nineteenth cen- tury dogmas of Karl Marx, which are worshipped as gospel texts by the Communists of Moscow.” This writer, like capitalism itself, would like to hide his head ostrich-like in oblivion and dodge the truths of Marx- ism and Leninism that are conquering the world for the working class. SSIs ine Ik ARES ac eR a SN So ee SSE NES SET Se OR In this England of Baldwin and MacDonald, according to Lloyd George's recent tearful confession in the house of commons, there is nowhere to be found any real sympton of improvement; 25 per cent of British pre-war foreign trade and 15 to 20 per cent of pre-war national income has disap- eared. : While the British press frantically points to Soviet rule, charging that the recovery of industry and agriculture there is not as rapid as it should be, it is admitted that production in England, untouched by the ravages of external and civil war and intervention, is today below what.it was in 1913. There are today 1,259,000 registered unemployed work- ers in Great. Britain, who have received more than a billion and a half dollars in doles since the war. Efforts to ship these jobless workers to Canada and Australia offer no so- lution since both of those colonies have unemployed pro- blems of their own. To refuse this amelioration of the suf- ferings of the workless would produce a worse crisis than the present drain upon the treasury. * * * * The temporary safety of British capitalism rests in the ability of the Baldwins, Asquiths and Lloyd Georges to unite with Thomas, Hodges, MacDonald and Snowden, in a tory- liberal-labor-socialist bloc against the interests of the work- ers. That is what the World’s correspondent means when he says, “United We Stand; Divided We Fall!” But even the British working class will develop sufficient strength to throw off the yoke of the “united opposition” of capitalism. . That is what helps develop a serious crisis in England, as well as in Germany and France. The struggle for bread is as keen in the British Isles as it is on the continent. Capitalism has its IRON WORKERS SOVIET ENVOY DISCOVER OPEN |PROTESTS WHITES SHOP TRICKERY|IN CHANG'S ARMY But 2,500 Men May Strike May 31 Structural iron jobs involving $50,- 000,000 worth of contracts in Chicago, among them the addition to the Mor- rison hotel, the new Palmer House and the Bismarck block, may be tied up on May 31 by a strike of the 2,500 members of the Iron Workers’ union for a raise in pay of 25 cents an hour. The open shop Iron League has been stalling negotations along from month to month, and altho the union has been seeking a new wage scale for a year or so, the Iron League hung back. ‘Now it is trying to evade any increase by saying that the agreement which will expire May 31, provides that the present scale would remain effective according to their argument, for another year.—if a new one 1s not ne- gotiated by Feb. 28. However, the agreement merely pro- vides that the present scale shall be effective if no new one is set before Feb, 28, but only until a new one is set -—and the union contends that there is no automatic renewal of the old scale for any fixed term, but a mere permis- sion for continued work at the old scale until a new one is agreed upon. The iron workers are said to have received a lesson upon why the open shop Iron League contractors dilly-dal- led over a new contract until after Feb. 28, | Subscribe for the DAILY —— Sino-Russian Treat y Claimed Violated PEKIN, China, April 15.—Recruit- ment of Russian white guards into the armies of Chang-Tsao-Lin, Manchurian war lord, was the subject of a protest lodged today with the Chinese gov- ernment by L. Karakhan, Soviet am- bassador to China. In support of his protest, Karakhan cites a clause of the Sino-Russidn agreement of last year, providing for the liquidation of the czarist forces in the Chinese armies. He demands the immediate dismissal of the white detachments, asserting that failure to carry out the provisions of the treaty cannot be otherwise interpreted by Russia except as a case of bad faith, and a policy likely to render abortive a future conference. Capitalist interests in China are ac- tive in trying to create difficulties in the relations between Pekin and Moscow, by the allen property custodian, GET A SUB AND GIVE one vi ‘ Thruout the British Isles} YOUNG WORKERS PROTEST ARREST OF HAWAIIANS New York League Fights School Dope NEW YORK, April 15.—The Young Workers League of District No. 2 is calling a protest mass meeting for Friday, April 17, at Stuyvesant Casino to protest against the introduction of religious training in the public schools of this city and also against the at- tempt of the American imperialists to imprison for life eight young Hawaiti- an Communists for no other crime than being members of a Communist organization. The two issues that occasioned the call of this meeting are issues that involve the entire working class the country over and should be responded to by every militant worker in this city. First, the introduction of reli- gious training in the city public schools, is an attempt to further poi- son the minds of the children of the working class and make willing and submissive slaves of them. While the persecution of eight young Commu- nists in Hawaii is an attempt on the part of the American imperialists to crush the revolutionary movement of the ‘working class the world over. Workers Protest. The workers of this country must voice their protest against both reli. gious training in the schools and the attempt to put out of the way eight of the best fighters of the revolution- ary youth of Hawaii. It is the duty of every workingman and workingwoman, of every young worker, to come and demonstrate their protest and determination to fight these new onslaughts of the world bourgeoisie. Let us put a halt to the murderous hands of American imperialism and _ the attempt to poison the minds of the children of the workers with “opium of the people,” as Lenin expressed himself on religion. Prominent Communists Speak. The speakers will be Ludwig Lore, editor of the Volkszeitung; Jack Sta- chel, district organizer of the Young Workers League; Herbert Zam, Sam Don, in Yiddish, and Morris Spector, who spoke at the Lenin memorial at Madison Square Garden for the Junior section of the Young Workers League. Admision will be free, and workers are urged to bring their children of -| school age with them, ALLEGED SOVIET JAPAN TREATY SCARES LONDON LONDON, April 15.—The British foreign office still continues its anti- Soviet campaign with undiminished vigor. The latest attack on the Soviet Union is in the publication of an in- spired story alleging to be a summary of a secret protocol between Russia and Japan providing for certain.mu- tually favorable conditions in the event either country became em- broiled with another nation. According to the foreign office story, the Soviet government makes certain concessions to Japan in return for which the latter agrees not to recog- nize the cession of Bessarabia to Rou- mania and promises to back Soviet before the league of nations interests involved in previous decisions by that body. The chief importance of the story is, the fear of Soviet power, which hangs over the British ruling class, ** * Hungary Britain's Ward. LONDON, April 15.—The influence of Austen Chamberlain was able to cause the failure of ratification of the trade agreement signed between So- viet Russia and Hungary but never ratified by the Hungarian government, April 12 was set as a time limit on ratification. The Hungarian govern- ment asked for more time but Moscow a made stipulations which showed that - it did not consider a treaty with the Horthy government a matter of vital importance. Hungary recognized the Soviet regime when the labor party government of Britain was in office, Abolish na of ‘District; Now It'll Crime All Over DECATUR, IlL,, April, 16~-The De- catur Review today resumed its usual make-up after a week of segregating crime news to one place on the bot- tom of page 1. HOLDERS OF RUSSIAN CZAR’S BONDS WORRYING ABOUT MAZUMA —_——. (Special to The Daily Worker) | WASHINGTON, April 15.—Holders of more than $3,000,000 in im- perial Russian bonds, issued before the war, today sought the assistance of Attorney General Sargent in collecting trom Russian money now held __ The bonds were sold to American bankers with the acquiescence of the state department. Sargent promised to co-eperate with bondholders and said he would immodiately investigate the best methods of collection,