The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1925, Page 4

> PRED = JOINT SUN YAT MEETING HELD IN PHILADELPHIA, PA. Workers Party, Kuomin- tang Speakers PHILADELPE April 15.—Four hundred Communists, sympathizers and members of the Kuomintang packed the Grand Fraternity Hall to honor the memory of the great Chi- nese revolutionary leader, Sun Yat Sen. The meeting was held under the auspices of Philadelphia Local Work- ers (Communist) Party. Comrade R. Baker, secretary of the Workers Party of Philadelphia, acted as chair- man and pointed out that the meet ing was one of the many held thruout the country by the Workers Party as a demonstration of prolet n soli- darity with the great Chinese revo- lutionary movement nst world imperialism led by the Kuomintang. Comrade S. Sklaroff in the name of the executive committee of the Work- ers Party expressed sympathy for the great loss to the Chinese proletariat in the death of Sun Yat Sen and called upon them to close ranks in their battle against world imperlia- ism. Chinese Speaker. J. M. Lau, member of the Kuomin- tang, spoke in Chinese on the life of Sun Yat Sen and the aims of the Kuomintang party. His speech was translated by J. A. Paau and was re- | ceived with tremendous applause by | the audience. Comrade I. Amter spoke at length on the Soviet policy in the Far East and outlined the various economic and political factors determining the move- ment of the Chinese masses as em- braced in the Kuomintang and the great movements of the masses in the Far East who are beginning to upon the Communist International as the real leader of their struggle. Amter dealt at length with Ameri- can imperialism and especially stressed the savage sentences passed upon the two young Communist sol- diers who were sentenced to long prison terms for forming a Commu- nist League in Hawaii. After the speeches the following resolution was introduced from the floor and passed with a unanimous rising vote: We send our greetings to Com- rades Paul Crouch and Walter Trumbull and the six other indict- ed comrades. Your fight, comrades, will be an inspiration to the work- ers of Hawaii to continue the fight. The Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers League will do everything in their power to rally the workers and poor farmers of this country to your cause and will not rest till under the leadership of , the Communist International the workers and poor peasants of all countries have put an end to capi- talist rule and have established the power of the workers and poor peas- ants the world over in the form of Soviet governments. We, revolutionary workers of Philadelphia, assembled at Grand Fraternity Hall on Sunday, April 12, emphatically protest against the Savage term of imprisonment in- flicted upon our two comrades and categorically demand that they be reelased. Workers Communist Party. Young Workers League. se 8 Kuomintang Holds Memorial. . Philadelphia local of the Kuomin- tang held elaborate memorial serv- ices in the afternoon in the Dumont’s theater. The meeting was attended by about 600 people, mostly Chinese workers, and among them many mem- bers and sympathizers of the Work- ers Party. The theater was beautiful- ly decorated in accordance with the Chinese custom. The stage was ar- ranged with several large pictures of Sun Yat Sen surrounded by a large array of flowers and bouquets from various organizations, among them a bouquet of red roses from the Work- ers, Party. Luther Lee, chairman of the, local Kuomintang, opened the meeting and introduced a number of speakers in Chinese and English. The splendid spirit of co-operation Shown in these two memorial meet- ings by the local Kuomintang and the Workers Party will lead to the establishment of friendly relation- ship of the two organizations. The Workers Party of Philadelphia is folding its next meeting Sunday, April 19, at the Grand Fraternity Hall, 1628 Arch St. Simon Felshin of New York will speak on “Proletarian Art and Culture.” This meeting will be held in the evening and will be fol- lowed by questions and a discussion. _ Admission is tree. Y. W. L. at Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday, April 19 | The Young Workers League of Cle- “Yeland will hold a general member. meeting April 19 at the party quarters, Comrade Max Salzman, ber, of the National Executive amittee, will report on shop nuclei the immediate tasks of the Cle- i League. This meeting will be -of the most important meetings by the Cleveland League. A per cent attendance is expected. addition to Comrade Salzman, a , of the working area branch ll be rendered by Comrade Papcun, . Nation-Wide May Day Demonstrations _—<—<————_$_—_$_$_$ NQUIRIES and information coming into the national office of the Work- ers Party regarding this year’s May Day celebration indicate a nation- wide demonstration that will surpass any previous May Day in the party's history. Every town in which there is a party branch should arrange such a meeting and notify the national office. The smaller towns should obtain May Day speakers thru their dis- trict offices, is requested to send in full As soon as a meeting is arranged, each party organization information regarding name of speaker, address of hall and time of meeting. We will give these meetings pub- licity thru the DAILY WORKER, Don’t fail to notify the national office. Meetings arranged up to the! present time are: New York, N. ¥.—Speakers, William Z, Foster and Moissaye Olgin. Philadelphia, Pa-—Speakers, Ben Gitlow and Oliver Carlson. Boston, Mass.—Convention Hall, Garrison St. (Near Mechanic’s Bldg.) 7:30 p.m. Speaker, Wm, F. Dunne, Cleveland, Ohio.—Slovenian National Home, 6409 St. Clair Ave., 7 p.m. Speaker, J. Louis Engdahl. Warren. Ohio.—May 2. Speaker, J, Louis Engdahl. Akron, Ohio.—May 3, at 2 p. m. Canton, Ohio.—May 3, at 8 p. m. Toledo. Ohio.—May 4, at 8 p. m. Chicago, Speaker, J. Louis Engdahl, Speaker, J. Louis Engdahl. Speaker, J, Louis Engdahl. 1l.—Temple Hall, Van Buren & Marshfield, at 8 p. m. Speakers, James P. Cannon, C, E. Ruthenberg, Martin Abern and Max Schachtman. Decatur, IIl.—Speaker, M. Chilofsky. Pulman, Ill.—Speaker, Barney Mass. Madison, IIl.—Croatian and Bulgarian speakers. Christopher, II!|.—Corbishley and others. Milwaukee, Wis,—-Speakers, Max Bedacht and Tom Bell. Gary, Ind.—Speaker, Harrison George. Kansas City, Mo.—Speaker, M. Gomez. St. Louis, Mo.—Speaker, M. Gomez. Grand Rapids, Mich—Sunday, May 3, at 2:30 p.m. Sons and Daugh- ters Hall. 1057 Hamilton Ave. N. W. Speaker, T. J. O'Flaherty. Minneapolis, Minn.—Speaker, Robert Minor. Buffalo, N. Y.—Speaker, Earl R. Browder. Rochester, N. Y.—-May 2 Speaker, Earl R. Browder, , Erie, Pa—May 3. Speaker, Earl R. Browder. SCHOOL SALARY [POLISH WHITE © RECOMMENDATION} TERROR EXPOSED TOCOTO BOARD) BY COMMUNISTS McAndrew Takes No Comrade Radwanski On Risks with New Trustees Rumors have it that Superintendent William McAndrew’s new salary schedule is slated to come before the board of education meeting April 22, which means that it will be approved. For no McAndrew recommendation is permitted to be acted upon at a board meeting unless the trustees ‘ate sold on it. The reason for the rush was ex- plained to be due to the short time left before the reorganization of the board on May 1. McAndrew has these trustees securely stuffed in his pockets —figuratively speaking. He is ‘not sure of the seven new trustees. It is also rumored that McAndrew has lost no time in letting his scheme grow cold. It is said that he called 25 principals to his office and. gave them a few pointers how to,talk up the measure. He told them not to be bashful, but to go and visit the mem- bers on the board individually and show them that they are for the in- crease. He told them this was neces- sary to convince the wavering mem- bers on the board that the “teachers” were for it. It looks like the money for the im- mediate increase which the principals are to get right away will come from increasing the tax rate for educational purposes. The board can by refer- endum ask for an increase of $1.00, or any part of a dollar, over the present levy which $1.92. As has been pointed out on several occasions the deficit in the school treasury climbs this year $4,000,000 and totals $20,000,000. To meet the new scale $1,300,000 will be required he first year. Unless this amount can be saved the budget deficit would jump to more than $5,000,000 for the year. Perpetuation of the increase means $3,000,000 the second year, in- creasing to $8,000,000 by the eighth year, No reply has been made to the Teachers’ Federation's letter which urges the board’s co-operation in their fight to get the money due-the school treasury in taxes that is now thru favoritism to wealthy property holders escaping taxation, They also ask McAndrew the following questions: 1.. If the proposed schedule is adopted by the board of education, what maximum salary is to be paid for the years 1925, 1926, 1927 to each of the following groups of teachers, and how many persons in each group are eligible to and will be paid the maximum? (a) Elementary teachers? (b) Jun- for high school teachers? (c) High school teachers? (d) Head assistants? (e) Elementary principals? (f) Junior high school principals? (g) High school principals? They say they want to safeguard y teacher against discrimination. McAndrew’s maneuvers, they say, the entire project looks like a scheme on the part of the superin- tendent to build his machine with the aim to break the backbone of the teachers’ organization by playing favoritism to the principals and some of the teachers. Cleveland Juniors’ Basket Party. The Liebkneckt branch, junior sec- tion of Cleveland, Ohio, will hold a basket party at the Fretheit office, 5311 Woodland Ave., Sunday, April 19. There will be a large program and, refreshments, The proceeds will go to the Young Comrade. Ed, Shatz, Chairman of the press committee, “14th St. Speaking Tour The campaign against the Polish white terror now conducted by the Polish Federation of the Workers Party and the I. W. A. is meeting with success according to reports coming from Comrade Radwanski, who is on a speaking tour thru the East. Five hundred workers attended a mass meeting in Hamtramck, Mich., last Sunday at which Comrade Rad- wanski spoke. His schedule is as follows: Niagara Fall, April 16, 7:30 p. m., in Polish Federation Hall, Falls and 27th Street. Buffalo, N. Y., April 17, 8 p. m.,, at Polish Educational Hall, 881 Broad- way. Rochester, April 18. Utica, N. Y., April 19, Sunday after- noon, 2 p. m., at “Czerkiesa” Hall, 315 Nichols Street. Fulton, N. Y., Sunday, April 19, 7:30 p. m., at “Oswiata” Hall. Speeches, Movies and Music Feature Milwaukee May Day MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 15—A gigantic May Day demonstration is being arranged by the United Front Conference in Milwaukee under the leadership of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League. A very interesting program has been arranged in the evening. The demonstration will be held in the Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut Streets, Friday, May 1, at 7:30 sharp. Max Bedacht, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party will speak in German, and Thomas Bell, industrial organizer for the Workers Party in the city of Chicago will speak in English. Other speakers will include- John Edwards, Francis’ Urban, and George Bubich. The musical program includes the German and Russian-Ukrainian choirs, Tamburica orchestra, the Freiheit Singing society, and the Buduchnost Singing Society. Two reels of motion pictures will be shown, depicting scenes from the French, German and Russian revolu- tions, and American strikes. Workers’ Sports Club Entertains in N. Y. C. NEW YORK, April 15.—At last we have it! The first affair of the Work- ers Sports Club since its organization, And you can bet it's a Jim Dandy, The most novel entertainment that ever a branch produced. Miss Lee Cohen, a singer of note (high note) will render several selec- tions. Comrade Davidson, an accomp- lished cellist will delight us with a few numbers. Irving Shoebe is the one who will show us how to play Rackmaninoff’s prelude on a saw. A Communist Breitbart will chew up nails and bend iron for our benefit. And not only do we have this fine program, but following it we will have dancing; with the jazziest music that can be obtained. . Don't forget. The place is 108 B. The date is Saturday eve- ning at 8 p.m, Be there early, com- radés/f6r the entertainment will start at eight sharp, Al Furman, organizer, THE DAILY WORKER SOCIALISTS AID WALL STREET TO Iowa Coal Miners Class Solidarity KID MAIN STREET Hees Spashione tives Standard Oil Patronizes Berger’s Sheet MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 15.—The old adage that business is business holds good particularly when it is applied to the renegade “socialists,” whether they still masquerade as so- cialist or run under the klan ticket. Two specific illustrations of that one could observe in an advertisement in the Milwaukee Leader, offictat or- gan of Victor Bergér and company. In the last few issues there appears a large fourteen-by-eight-inch adver- tisement of the Standard Oil com- pany. Kidding Main Street. Ph The subject of the advertisement is devoted toward proving that “Main Street and not Wall Street now owns the big industries,” “Why,” the advertisement states, “there are at present 49,277 owners of this company, of Whom not one owns as much as 6 per cent of the whole.” The advertisement further proves that much of the smooth func- tioning and its avoidance of labor trouble is due to the progressive meas- ures. The advertisement finally concludes with the splendid oration on co-opera- tion of all classes. Klan Is Also in Business. Another demonstration that busi. ness is business may be seen in the news articles that Kleist, a klansman and candidate for judge of the su- preme court in the spring elections, is demanding that the bail of his cli- ent accused of violation of the Vol- stead act, should be reduced $1,500 in order that he may collect his fee. It seems to be fully, consistent with the principles of the Snvisible empire to take up and defend the bootleg- gers’ cases. So business is business for Vic Ber- ger and his worthy disciple Kleist, who has now graduated,into the klan. The fascist movement is openly sell- ing itself to the capitalist class and all the parasites of the capitalist soci- ety. The Workers (Communist) Party is the only organization holding high the principles of revolutionary class struggle and the only , organization worthy of the support of the working masses. ~~ Wicks Speaks Friday on “The Next War” at Reading, Pentisylvania The Workers Party branch of Read- ing, Pa., has arranged a mass meeting for Friday, April 12, at.8 p. m., with H. M. Wicks as speaker on “The Next War.” ati A close student of imperialism and current history, Comrade Wicks is em- inently fitted to handle the subject from a revolutionary standpoint and to expose the reality beneath all the diplomatic intrigues of capitalist statesmen. The lecture is free to all workers and is of vital interest to them, as they are the ones who with their very lives furnish cannon fodder in the game of their itiperialist mas- ters. . Already capitalist “statesmen are talking in terms of another world war and the workers of Reading will have an opportunity of hearing the Com- munist view of this impending strug- gle, compared to which the last world blood bath of the workers will seem mild, and the Communist method of combating the schemes of the ruling class of the world. The meeting will be held at the R. V. V. F. hall, 612 Franklin street, at 8 p. m. sharp, . Big Meeting Expected At Speech on Assault Against Seattle Reds SEATTLE, Wash., April 15.—The whole labor movement of Seattle and surrounding cities is being stirred pro. foundly by the clash jn the Central Labor Council between, the reaction- jaries and the Communists. Interest is becoming so widespread that mass meetings indoors and outdoors are being arranged by the,Workers Com- munist Party to carry their message to the whole working .class. Among these meetings an outstand- ing event will be the speech of Nor- man H. Tallentire, district organizer of the Workers Party, to be delivered in the Painters hall, Union Record building, 1915 First avenue, at 8 p. m. on Friday, April 24, Tallentire’s lecture is announced to be on “The Assault on Communism in the Labor Movement” and is expected to draw a standing-room-only audi- ence, No admission is being charged. Are You Coming to the Dance Saturday? All Workers Party, Young Workers League members and all the. young and adult workers of Chicago are in- vited to the: first Youth Spring ball which will be held on, Saturday, April 18, at the Workers yyeyceum, 3733 Hirsch Blvd. Good, dance music. Dances till 1 a, m, aeiitings naceten dances. Door open §,p, m. Tickets? 86c, Auspices Local Jewish Propa- ganda Committes, ) SS ee et een a eee MYSTIC, Iowa, April 15.— Good- sized crowds of coal miners listened to J. E. Snyder and Tom Matthews at an open air meeting here in the even- ing and at Centerville in the after- noon, Snyder pointed out the determined efforts of the coal operators to crush the miners’ union, as shown in their shipment of scab coal from West Vir- ginia and Kentucky into Iowa in com- petition with the coal mined locally. This determined drive of the mine owners, Snyder pointed: out, would inevitably result in the annihilation of the United Mine Workers and the loss ‘of the wage scale and working conditions, unless the miners united around a militant movement such as the Workers Party and the ideas it advocates to the end that class solid- arity will replace class collaboration as the policy of the organized labor movement, The miners listened at- tentively and in large numbers at both Centerville and Mystic. Considerable quantities of liter- ature, including the DAILY WORKER and the report of the British Trade Union Congress on international trade union unity were distributed. BENJAMIN GITLOW TO SPEAK ON COMING OF EUROPEAN REVOLUTION NEW YORK, April 15.—Comrade Benjamin Gitlow will deliver a lec- ture on “Toward War and Revolu- tion in Europe,” at the Brownsville Forum, 1701 Pitkin Avenue, Brook. lyn, on Sunday evening, April 19. The forum is conducted under the auspices of the Brownsville section committee of the Workers (Com. munist) Party. al | [eyrevererererererere IF YOU MAKE THE SUB FOR AYEAR— Be sure to ask for the =| leather binder con- 4 ini ope ir for your l} ull descriptive i of all Communist } and literature. =} bl tg to Tees 4 | secured a year's $6.00 worth of subs) no commission is deduc' Ask = for leather binder—you'll like it! | | I fy I Jefelcefefelerelre eweecwvavueveveweeeeeeeee Workers Party—Local Chicago Activities Thursday, April 16, Russian No. 1, 1902 W. Division St. South Side English, 3201 S, Wabash Ave. South Slavic No, 1, 1806 S. Racine Ave. Scandinavian Hirsch Blvd. Friday, April 17. Polish North Side, 1902 W. Division St. Karl Marx, 2733 © YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE ACTIVITIES, LOCAL CHICAGO, Notice Following Dates The following dates have been taken by the Young Workers League, Local Chicago. Workers branches and other organizations please do not arrange conflicting af- fairs. Friday, April 17. Activity meetings of all the league branches this Friday. Activities of in- dividual members, shop nuclei, prospective nuclei, discussed. The meetings will be held as fol- lows: ee Branch No. 1, Room 5606, 166 W. Washington St. Branch No. 2, 1910 W. Roosevelt Road. Spring dance, Workers Lyceum, 2733, Hirsch Blvd., Saturday, April 18, Auspices of J. P. C. First hike, end of Grand Ave, car- line, Sunday; April 19, 10:30 a. m. Membership meeting, Tuesday, April 21, at 722 Blue Island Ave. Dance on Sunday, April 26, 8 p. m., Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard. Auspices of Area Branch No. 2 and Mid-City Branch of the party. Y. W. L. city dance, Saturday, May 9, 1925, Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Bivd. Saturday, May 16, is reserved for an affair by Area Branch No. 1, The Propaganda Sub With the DAILY WORKER reaching your shop-mate everyday—with the best expression of Communist principles and practice and a picture of Commun- ist activity the world over— ‘ Reaching him when he can read and THINK—(and no boss or stool-pigeon is nearby)—the DAILY WORKER will do what possibly you might have failed in—it will “make another Communist!” : Pay for “a propaganda’sub” to do this (out of your own pocket if you can)— iteis little enough to contribute for such a definite Communist purpose, This Is it Send this PROPAGANDA SUB to a worker to “Make Another Communist” | NAME | eT eT TY wea ‘ory ______ STATE Lie Party work of existing fac- tory campaigns, etc. of the branch are Send it to 1113 W. BOSTON WORKERS CONDEMN POLISH WHITE: TERROR Socialists Aid in Jailing Reds BOSTON, Mass., April 15.— At a rousing mass meeting held here in the Credit Union Hall, a resolution was unanimously passed by the large audience, condemning the white ter ror in’ Poland. The resolution calls on all workers to fight ‘the Polish terror and de- mands the release from jail of the Polish workers. The help given the Polish white guard in imprisoning workers, by the social-democrats, is clearly pointed out in the resolution, which. states: Foul Murders. “The Polish government, aided and abetted by the social-democrats, is conducting a white terror that knows ne bounds, The Polish government has brutally imprisoned thousands of Communists. It has just foully mur- dered two staunch ‘fighters of the working class, Wieczorkiewicz and Baginski. “It has reluctantly only just now, forced by pressure of the internation- al proletariat, organized under the banner of the Communist Internation- al, been made to release Stanislav Lanzutsky. “The workers of Boston protest against these brutalities of the Po- lish government, acting as it is, as the agent of the capitalists and im- perialists of the world. 7 End White Terror. “We call on all workers to demand the end of the white terror in Poland and to compel the release of working class fighters from Polish jails. (Signed) Resolutions Committee, “JOHN SOJA, » “ALBERT WEISBORD.” Anton Marringer, Sec. elefaesereleleseuereresererelesarelelelelerereteralaalalsiereraiaararantal Evenif You Talk Yourself Blue in the Face-- There is at least one worker you can’t convince. No matter how well you may have argued and no matter how long you might have talked— there is at least one! It may be the worker in your shop (perhaps that intelligent fellow at the machine next to yours)—or it may be the one in your union, But there is at least one whom every Communist knows —and can’t convince. He is the reason why in this campaign the DAILY WORK- ER wants you to get TWO subs. The first you will get—you CAN convince at least one work- er that he should subscribe to a great working class paper. That’s a simple task for a de- termined Communist. But for the worker you can’t convince— The Daily Wor . nehingten Biv Chicago, Il. 4