The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1925, Page 1

-= é vi t Daily. Worker Annual. .Sub- scription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET. IN ON IT! Vol. Il. No., 83. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. ‘OW we do not want in any way to encourage , militarism or be- come ‘Hearsterical’” writes Victor Berger in the Milwaukee Leader, by: the way of preparing his readers for a definite flop into the ranks of the jingoes. Whatever else might be said against Bergér’s perversion of socialisin, in the past, the pacifists could still hug his portly figure to their bosoms as a beefy mountain of solid’ anti-militarism, except when Mexico wa mentioned. But nature has finally broken out thru the eyes of this fascist cat. ¥ se @ P the April 16 issue of the Milwau- kee Leader, Berger throws off the white robes of pacifism and appears in his’ war paint. It is a good begin- ning. No doubt, Arthur Brisbane’s propaganda has done its dirty work, tho it must be admitted that Berger’s pacifism was never more than skin deep. When hard pressed during the period of war hysteria, he boasted of haying urged one of his male rela- tives to join the army. This proxy fighting has at least two advantages. First, and foremost, it is perfectly safe and secondly, it is a useful de- fense in court. a oe peas has been carrying on a jingoistic campaign for a flock of war planes in his column for over two years. It seems that Berger has de- cided to follow suit. From now on Victor will not be obliged to dig. up old pacifist speeches of Eugene V. Debs when his brain is too busy pon- dering over real estate problems to fill his column with the usual kind of rubbish. All he has to do is to quote Brisbane. ees Ege declaring his-oppositilon to a@ “large”. standing army, throw- ing a few boquets at the navy, Berg- er writes; “The case of the air forces is somewhat different. Airships and airplanes ¢ould not for obvious rea- sons be very readily used against our own. people in cases of strikes.” Is that the only use to which airplanes could be put? What about bombing Hawaiian, Mexican, Japanese, or Fili- pino villages? ‘And come to think of it, wete not airplanes Lay the West Vi county and milodie it? ** © ~ ERGER is not a ‘militarist, but . » “neither do we want our (emphasis ours) country to be at the merey of Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, or of Russia.” This is the same old gag that senile rear ,ad- mirals inflict on old women’s confer- encés or on rotarian conventions. And this monumental faker sees no dif- ference between the ed army of Sov- iet Russia and th, White armies of the capitalist powers. No, because Berger is as much of a capitalist at heart as Judge Gary and would fight, or get others to fight, just as willingly against the Red army of Russia as the most loud-mouthed union hater in the American legion or the ku klux klan. BHeRce oes on to draw a terrible Picture of what happened to Ger- many since that 'country was disarm- (Continued on Page 6) BOSSES BOOST FREIGHT AIR FLEET AS START OF HUGE WAR PLANE FORCE Commercial aviation is being boomed by the Chicago association of commerce, New York business men, and nationally known finan- ciers, including Henry Ford, in the plant to prepare a large air fleet for the next war. | Col, Harold Hartney, representing the General Airways System, Inc., vice president and r, said his company will soon have five airplanes run- Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul, with freight and passengers. Militarists agree that commercial lanes can be readily converted | inte war machines, | ee ‘between Boston, New York, i the children is retarded by the time The investigation covered 998 families with 5,121 persons in six counties It was found that the white child lost one-fourth of the school session, with 62 per cent of this loss due to work in the cotton fi of Texas. children lost one-half the school time, cotton work. Children of from 6 to 16 years ‘Work in the fields from nine to ‘e event hours during the cotton seasons. In and chopping and in the cotton picking the children are conscripted to the task by their poverty-stricken parents. Those are the hard facts: they are |’ offered | SUaGO: "RATES: Part a abn RR Nie dite CEM BOTH BLACK AND WHITE CHILDREN WORKING IN COTTON FIELDS OF TEXAS CHEATED OF SCHOOL HOURS NEW YORK, April 16—A study of the cotton fleld child workers of Texas, made by the national child labor committee and reported by the New York committee of that organization, tells how the educational progress of in Chicago, by mail Sty AFF ER fg Box neghty ave S~ Hag" ¥ CANNOT BULD TER UNSTABLE FRANC French Currency Is In- flated Some More (Special to The Daily Worker.) PARIS, France, April »16.—France will emerge from the present financial and political crisis a second rate power, dominated by the international bankers, headed by the Morgan Wall Street syndicate, it was predicted here today. Premier Paul Painleve told prest- dent Doumergue this afternoon that he is having difficulty in completing a cabinet and asked for more time. Socialists Serve With Financiers. Former premier Aristide Briand, the conservative, has been asked to take the post of foreign minister, and Louis Loucheur, France’s rtchest man, has been offered the portfolio of minister of commerce. If these two men ac- cept, the socialists will find them- selves serving on the same cabinet and in the same government which in- cludes the representatives of* the in- du8trialists and financiers. Joseph Caillaux, upon his arrival in Paris, assumed what promises to be a dominant position in the new ca- binet. Caillaux has accepted-the post of minister of finance, and refused to withdraw despite the objection of the socialists. Later the socialist party, having 139 seats in the chamber of deputies, voted to support Caillaux. Bank Further Intated. The Bank of France balance sheet was published today and showed a de- crease in circulation of 45,000,000 francs over last week. The bank's loans to the government last week in- creased 350,000,000 frances. This makes the total loan to the government twen ty-two billion, three hundred ‘and ‘fifty million francs, The legal limit here- tofore has been twenty two billion francs. However, the chamber and senate passed a bill authorizing the Bank of So "| 45,000,000,000 franes and’ “iegalizing” prea to the government of twen- ty-six billion francs, MARX COALITION ENDORSES DAWES SLAVERY PLAN German anebineeidbiie Echoes Servile Views (Special to The Daily Worker.) BERLIN, Germany, April 16.—Dr. William Marx, candidate of the social- ist-republican coalition, for the Ger- man presidency in the April 26 elec- tion, again indorsed the Dawes plan in a speech in Koenigsburg. “The president of the German re- public must give the outside world the assurance that we are determined to carry out our policy of international rapproachment in politics and eco- nomics,” Marx said, “Our national eonvalescence can only be attained thru constant and faithful prosecution of a policy of reconciliation.” **# “Here’s Our Neck-Step,” Says Am- bassador. ‘NEW YORK, April 16.—Baron Ago von Matizan, German ambassador to the United States, declared that no matter. what the outcome of the Ger- man presidential elections, the Dawes plan will be carried thru. “The -far sighted president of the United States and of his government,” said the baron; “has transfered the reparations problem from the realm of politics to the hands of economic experts.” He made a plea for “continued econo- mic co-operation.” lost in the fields. » Negro with 85 per cent of this loss due to the the spring planting, in the cultivating vila® Outside Chicage, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAIL Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post ‘Office at ‘Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, A I, $8.00 per year. 18, 1925 THIRD CONGRESS OF COM. PARTY OF MEXICO IN SESSION; _ GREETS THE WOR PARTY (Special to ‘fo The Dally | Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, April 16.—The Third Congress of | of Mexico today telegraphed the following greetings the United States: “To the WORKERS ARTY OF AME of the Comaraet ye ‘Bf Mexico Sreats Communist Party brother party in the members of the Workers Party as comrades inthe»Communist International, leader of the world revolutionary proletariat, and con gratulates you for your able fight against capitalist imperiafism. “Signed: R. G. LORENZO, Presidente det Congresso.” The national congress was opened on April 7, with ten regular delegates besides the national committee and fraternal delegates ftom Guatemala and the United States. The Workers (Communist) Party of America is--represented at the Mexicar congress by Manuel Gomez, of Chicago, secretary of the Pan-Ameri- cna Anti-Imperialist League, the activities of which formean important point on the agenda. There are representatives from the following cities present: Mexico City, Tampico, Vera Cruz, Crizaba, Guanajuato and Morelia. ‘Many practical sub- jects, such as the street-car strike and other larger issues are being taken up. CANADIAN FARMERS AND WORKERS DESTITUTE IN CLUTCH OF BIG BANKS (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, April 16—(FP)— Canada is in desperate straits be- cause of the collapse of her agri- cultural prosperity, the shrinkage of her western production and popula- tion with the failure of farm prices @nd crops, and the steadily mount- ing burden of her annual interest charge on the public debt, accord- ing to. Messrs Spencer of Battle River and Coote of McLeod, prov- ince of Alberta, who have been in Washington, looking into taxation policies of the United Spencer and Coote are members of the dominion house of commons at Ottawa, They both belong to the banking committee which is search- ing vainly for a way out of the mo- rass of debt into which the war and over-expansion of facilities in the west has plunged the country. Spencer reports that Canadian banking is now virtually operated by four big banks; that all banks have withdrawn eredit from farmers in the west; that western farm lands are almost valueless in the market; that inability to migrate to the United States has damned up a great volume of unemployment in the do- minion, and that economic standpat- ism is accordingly threatened by hard human facts. Another Herriot in Trouble. FLORENCE, Italy.—Charles Dunet, a cousin of former Premier Herriot and traveling in Italy on his honey- moon, hundred lire today for striking a man whom he believed gazed over admir- ingly, on his bride. Kin of arrested and fined four Nad jan Premier Dies. ome—pr. Hans Held, brother of varian premier, died suddenly hile walking, POLISH WHITE TERROR MURDERS MANY WORKERS World Protest Grows Against Butchers The Polish white terror is by no means confined to ,the widely pro- tested and unsuccessful attempt to execute the Communist Deputy Lan- zutsky. This is but one of the out- standing instances of the violent path being pursued by the desperate and reactionary Grabski government to bolster up a bankrupt regime, and at the same time suppress the indigna- tions of a rebellious people. At present there are eight thousand workers and peasants in the prisons of Poland as political prisoners in a country of some thirty millions. Nine- ty-five were sentenced to a total of 386 years hard labor, One hundred fifty three others sentenced in Aug- ust and Septembervhave a total of 677 years of hard labor:to serve, Many Get Death Sentences In October, ten white Russian peas- ants, were sentenced to death for political activity on behalf of libera- tion, In the period from September 1924 to January 1925, 182 trials took place against 248 revolutionaries in which sentences of 618 years hard labor were passed. At Lodz 80 young workers were sentenced from four to twelve years for participating in the work of the Communist youth organ- izations. According to incomplete statistics, 109 death sentences: have been passed during the terror. Bestial Murder Only the most vehement protests from the workers im all countries of the world and energetic diplomatic action by the Soviet government (Continued om page 5.) e WIDE RIFT IN BRITISH LABOR PARTY’S RANKS Labor Weekly F lays the MacDonald Govt. (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, April 4.—(By Mail)— The wide cleavage that exists in the ranks of the British labor party is illustrated in the damning indictment of the right wing leadership of that party in the current issue of Lans- bury’s Labor Weekly, one of the left wing papers that have sprung up in | this country of late. The Communists have charged the MacDonald government with treach- ery to the working class during its terms of office but the following bitter arraignment of the labor government in an organ owned, controlled and edited by members of the labor party, is as complete a picture of labor party treachery as could come from the pen of any Communist: «ee The I. L. P. Ministers There is not much to be gained by crying over spilt milk. There is, how- ever, much to be gained by having clear ideas as to who is and who is not responsible for the milk spilling. The first labor government was very largely. composed of members or ex- members of the independent labor party. The ex-prime minister is the leading figure in that party, Philip Snowden, Charles Trevelyan, Noel Buxton, J. R. Clynes, John Wheatley, Fred Jowett, Josiah Wedgwood, Ar- thur Ponsonby, Professor Richards, Morgan Jones, Rhys Davies and many others are leading members of the party. Consequently they must accept (Continued on page 5) Ulster Parliament Opens. BELFAST—The Ulster parliament reopened today. It was reported Milne Barbour, who has large linen interests in the United States, was under consideration for minister of commerce, Heligoland ts Slipping. HELIGOLAND—A huge land slide, the second within a fortnight, moved approximately 3,000 cubic meters of land into the North Sea today. There were no casualties, Sheik Said to Persia. CONSTANTINOPLE— Sheik Said, leader of the Kurdestan rebels, has taken refuge in Persia, according to a report here today. Vandervelde to Head Cabinet.’ BRUSSELS.—M. Vandervelde,, clalist #0- leader, will form a socialist cabinet despite his party's lack ae absolute majority in parliament, declared iy Published daily..except Sunday by THE DAILY WO.KER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIL NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents LEVIN, CHICAGO HEAD OF A. C. W., UNMASKED AS ALLY OF POLISH TERROR IN EXPULSION DRIVE That the complete areaalinaot of the Hillman-Levin machine in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, as an agent ot reaction and white guardism, was soon to come, doubted. no one has But at the meeting of Polish Local Union No. 38, Wednesday night, it astounded even Levin, manager of the Chicago ofa member from the Amaigamated because this member, had taken part in+ Bramorski, the protest demonstrations against the ‘pogroms of the Polish white guard government. Thus is the betrayal of the workers | linked definitely in a united front between the murderous regime of Grabski, Pilsudski of the Polish gov- ernment and the Hillman-Levin-Abe | Cahan counter-revolutionary gang in| the United States. Urge Bramorski Be Reinstated. A majority of the local executive have passed a motion to reinstate H. Bramorski back on the job from orders of Sam Levin. The board of seven were divided, with four in favor of putting Bramor- ski back to work, two against and the chairman, also opposed, not hav- | ing a vote in the board. Levin, having heard of the local’s | executive’s action, called the reac- tionary members and his gang into consultation Wednesday afternoon at} his office, to determine on a plan to overrule the local executive and to jam thru the local meeting a repudia- tion of the action taken by the major- ity of the local executive. “Hail, Halll The Gang’s All Here.” So when Local No. 38 convened Wednesday night, Levin himself, Leo Krzycki, former “socialist” chief de- puty sheriff in Milwaukee county, Wis- sonsin, ‘now general organizer and member of the general executive board known as an arch-reactionary by all workers, and all the business agents of the local, appeared in a campaign to filibuster the meeting until thé Workers would go home and to jam thrusthéir program of expulsion. dis- guised is “suspension.” The ‘local’s chairman, being (Continued on page 2) WHEELER PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN OIL FRAUD CASE Forméee Teli Judge Their Troubles (Special to The Daily Worker.) GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 16.— Three fourths of the veniremen called for the trial of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana on charges of misuse of his office in favor of oil companies for whom he acted as at torney, asked to be excused from jury duty when the trial opened here today. Wheeler pleaded not guilty. The veniremen, farmers and miners. asked to be excused on the ground that their labor is necessary to keep their families provided with food. One miner said his family of eight would starve if his wages were stopped. Many of the farmers told of the dep- lorable conditions of their farm, and declared they must labor from dawn until dark to keep from bankruptcy. Judge Frank Dietrich, who 1s trying the case, said, in excusing 25 farmers from jury duty, “I do not want’ to in- terfere with the planting of crops.” Wheeler, who has a large battery of lawyers, headed by Senator Thomas J. Walsh, defending him, was in court and announced he will testify. Wheel- er is charged with accepting * $4,000 from Gordon Campbell, oil pronioter, to use his office as senator to secure oil leases for his client before the department of ‘interior. Owing to the dismissal of the farm: ers and miners, the jury will be com- posed largely of clerks and business men, it is predicted, in, the most faithful to hear Sam Joint Board, seek the expulsion H. WALL STREET'S ARMADA TO AWE PACIFIC SLAVES ‘Red Soldiers to Hear whence he was illegally taken by | Big Guns in Prison (Special to The Daily Worker.) | HONOLULU, Hawaii, April 16. The United States naval forces are | Mow steaming toward Hawali, to en- gage in battle maneuvers intended to | impress Japan with the power of | American imperialism in Pacific waters. | In the prison hospital in Schofield barracks, near here, Private Pau) pSrowcts who has just been given a | taste of Wall Street justice, will hear | the booming of the big guns in the war maneuvers. Crouch has been sentenced to forty years imprisonment for defending Soviet Russia in a let- ter.to the Honolulu Advertiser, and for declaring himself a Communist. To Hear Guns in Guardhouse. Walter Trumbull, now in the bar. racks guardhouse, has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for being a Communist, and six other privates in prison awaiting the pleasure of the court martial. ~ There are others in the territory of Hawaii who will hear the booming of big guns. “The attack on the islands Wilt be sich as Japan might deliver at a moment when the entire American navy is in tHe Atlantic,” says a news dispatch from the battleship West Virginia. Mass of Population Oriental. The overwhelming population of the territory of Hawaii is of the darker reaes. Three-quarters of the popula- tion are Japanese or Chinese workers. It is these workers that American im- berialism wishes to impress by the naval war and by the imprisonment of the Communist soldiers. There are 40,000 Filipino laborers in Hawaii who work for one dollar per twelve-hour day on the sugar planta- tions. Tt was these workers who struck terror into the heads of the American sugar trust when they went on strike for a living wage last September. The police were immediately rushed to at- tack the sugar strikers by the Amer- ican authorities, and,in one battle, on September 10, sixteen Filipino work- ers were shot dead by the police. The strikers killed four policemen in de- fending themselves. These’ sugar workers produced 700,000 tons df cane sugar in 1924 which was "sent to American sugar refineries. Hawaiian Hearst Babbles. “We shall give the United States naval fleet a great reception,” says Lorrin A. Thurston, editor and, owner of the Honolulu Advertiser, the man who informed the military ‘authorities that the “dangerous Communists” at Schofield barracks should be pynished. “Economically we need the Jay panese now here,” says this Hawaiian Hearst, “altho I believe in the soundness of restricting oriental immigration,” The United States soldiers stationed at Schofield’ barracks will ° ; Perhaps resent being used by the sugar trust as a cat's ‘paw to terrorize the oriental sugar plantation slavés. And these slaves will no doubt look with hostile eyes at the Wall Street armada as it steams ‘into ‘Hawatian waters to set the seal of force upon their slavery. HARVARD MEDICAL EXPERT SAYS ‘SOVIET RUSSIA AHEAD OF U.S. IN CARE FOR WORKERS’ HEALTH NEW YORK CITY, April 16.—"Great: th "Great: things” in the way of industrial hygiene may be expected of Russia, according to Dr. Alice: Hamiltem of the Harvard Medical School and consultant .for the Workers’ Health . Bureau, Dr. Hamilton. with Miss Rebecca HiJles,,formerly of the bureaw: of women in industry, New York state department of labor, recently made a study of workers’ health in Russia, at the jnvitation of the Soviet Health Depart- ment and the institute of occupational.diseases, ’ Preventive Treatment Developed “Soviet Russia is new a country of, workers and peasants, and oneswould expect to find the health of the industrial, worker. matter. of.eupreme + AContinued on page 6)