The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1925, Page 1

ee re ul cceenerommiperonin sae The DAILY WORKER] Rai the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- | ers’ Government i { Vol. IL. No. 84. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. HIS story is given here for what it is worth. “When Dr. Jarres, nation- alist candidate for the German presi- dency, finished his electoral speech | at Munich yesterday, Fraulein Scheck, | daughter of the popular party’s leader, | appeared in Bavarian costume and presented the doctor with a jug con- taining over a litre and a half of beer. The candidate drank this without tak- ing a breath much to the delight of the onlookers, who laughed loudly and cheered.”—Paris dispatch, “es ET us hope that the following, dis- patch dated Washington will soon greet our eye: “When Calvin Cool- idge, president of the United States had finished addressing a delegation from the Ancient and Honorable Daughters of the Soft Cider Growers’ Association of Vermont, Deborrab Eziek, grandmother of the president of the Chamber of. Commerce of Cider- bottom, presented the president with a gallon can of cider, which he succeed- od in megotiating without letting a drop trickle on his necktie. The old dames feebly applauded the act, and predicted a bull season on apple juice.” This would show the Germans how to mix business with pleasure. oe 8 RANK HODGES has written a book entitled: My Adventures as a La- bor Leader. It winds up with: “At heart I am still a miner.” A very polite and worthless review in the Lon don Daily Herald informs us that the book gives a good account of the min- ers’ strike of 1921 and the events lead- ing up to Black Friday tho it does not “quite tell the whole story.” Consid- ering English sensibilities, tnis is a wicked wallop ani may result in a libel suit. see } ‘ODGES considers Philip Snowden, known to fame as the husband of Ethel Snowden, and also as first labor party chancellor of the exchequer. “the greatest man in our political la- bor movement.” Among the photo- graphs in the book is one of Frank Hodges playing golf with the duke of York. Hodges is a “socialist” and it is possible he wore a red necktie while swinging the Clubs, with the duke, in order to indicate his, political beliefs. It-is not surprising that Hodges should consider Snowden the greatest man in the British labor” movement, ~Both dearly love’ their king, and the capi- talists. 2 OSEPH CAILLAUX is coming back “to power in France. He is offered thé “finance ministry in the proposed Painléve cabinet. It Is quite likely that Caillaux will be premier of Fratice before many moons. Only a few years ago, this man was hounded out of the country, because of alleged commerce with the German govern. mént. In fact he narrowly escaped thée'firing squad, Poincare has no rea- son to feel happy over Caillaux’s “come-back.” It is not likely that the British government ‘will relish his re- turn to power either. * *¢+ 6 } IRANCE is between the two horns of a dilemma and no matter which side she turns, the grinning face of the Wall Street ogre confronts her. France has two major enemies in Europe, England and Germany. The United States is waiting in the offing with a money bag, ready to relieve France of her, financial worries in re- turn for good and valuable considera- tions. In other words Wall Street is wiling to become France’s wet nurse provided France will cuddle up toa Dawes plan, * eos FORE the war Caillaux fayored a rapproachment with ~Germany. Whether he is still in that frame of mind will be shown in the near future. 4Continued on page 3) THIRTY-ONE PRISONERS OF HUNGARIAN WHITE. TERROR ENTER RUSSIA VIENNA, April 17—-Under the in- fluence of the International Red Aid a new exchange of political prison- ers has taken place between Hun- gary and Soviet Russia. Thirty-one political prisoners have been taken he Hungarian frontier by the The transport went over Stettin and by ship to Leningrad. They are prisoners who have been sentenced to long terms of hard labor and who suffered already several years in the dungeons of Hungary. SUBS Oa f, ey hy N oh ty? oO ld i) ve* sooo c SmrY y HOPED TO MAKE MILLION IN OIL | Mysterious Witness Is to Be Called (Special to The Daily Worker.) GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 17.— LA. H. Furr, Washington lawyer sum- moned by the government to testify against Senator Burton K, Wheeler of Montana, on trial here charged with accepting a fee to represent a client in the interior department denied that he is the surprise witness talked of by John Slattery, United States at- torney. Slattery declared before Judge Dietrich’s court that a Washington lawyer would take the stand and testi- fy that Wheeler proposed an agree- ment to the un-named lawyer whereby both could “make millions” out of Montana oil lands obtained thru in- terior department permits. Wheeler is charged | with using his office as senator to aid his oil promoter clients. Attorney For Oil Man. The plan by which millions could be made, according to Slattery, was thru an agreement by which the law- yer was to handle oil permits for Gordon Campbell, Montana oil man, before the interior department. After permits had been obtained, Slattery said, Wheeler proposed that he and the lawyer should go halves in returns from the oil lands.” Wheeler explained, according to the prosecutor, that be- ing a senator, he could. not appear be- fore the department because of pro- hibitory statute, Wheeler in Conference. According to testimony before the Borah committee that investigated the present indictment, Furr attended a conference between Booth, Wheeler, Nyce, and Campbell, in the depart- ment, Booth said Nyce was consulted to see whether he could get anybody to back Campbell financially in devel- oping oil holdings in Montana, Nyce, a well-known Washington lawyer, has been summoned by the government, Wheeler admits the main facts. charged against him, but his defense owill-be-that he “was merely acting in am (Continued on- Page. 4). gcse Talk of Ford Fleet, Says It Will Be... Run as “Open Shop” NEW YORK, April 17.—Reports ‘in shipping circles are to the effect that Henry Ford will start his own ship- ping company to carry his motot pro- ducts over the seven seas. The re- port says that. Ford would pay’ his seamen 50 per cent over the present average marine wage. But the Ford ship work would be on an open shop basis. Color to these reports-is given by the purchase by Ford at. Chester, Pa., of the 50-acre site and property of the Merchants’ Shipbuilding cor- poration. Here the base for Ford’s shipping and export work is expected to be located. The Ford company al- ready owns five vessels, two on the Great Lakes, two on the inter-coastal trade and one overseas boat, the East India. RED SOLDIERS NEW YORK, April 17.—How one military court martial at Honolulu for “On February 18 we wrote a letter had chosen for our club,”“said the: letter. “This letter was written in the presence of four of us, including a new member who had asked to join us and who later turned ont to be a government spy planted to get us. “On the 19th of February the whole league was placed under confinement for investigation because this spy had informed the authorities of our letter to Russia, The authorities had the letter stopped at the post. office until they could obtain permission to with- draw it.” The lack of secrecy of the soldiers in what they argue was a legitimate activity is shown by the -fact that they had the letterheads for their Communist League stationery printed in the government printing office. The Liberties Union is fighting the case, contending that Crouch and Trumbull had the right to join the political movement of their choice. ITALIAN STOCK GAMBLERS RIOT AT ' TURIN AND FLORENCE EXCHANGES ROME. April 17.—Disorderly sce exchanges were reported today, following Public apprehe: stock exchange yesterday. nes at the Turin and Florence stock rious disorders at the Trieste ion over falling prices caused by governmental restriction In — was given as the cause of the dis- orders. corn ~~hy_mail, $8.00 per year. > by mail, $6.00 per year. tak HE DAILY WORKEI Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post ‘Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUNDAY, APRIL 1 1925 MORGAN TO GET SHOALS: CURRENT BEFORE NEXT SESSION OF CONGRESS (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17.— The Muscle Shoals power plants will be leased to private interests connected with the electrical trust as soon as developed, the war de- partment announces. The war department sent a letter to the commission appointed by President Coolidge to make recom- mendations to congress on the dis- posal of Muscle Shoals, The war department, following out the inten- tion of Secretary of War Weeks to. turn the $150,000,000 property over to the Morgan electric trust, declar- ed, “It would be much better for all the power to be sold to one com- pany.” Congress failed to pass a bill dis- posing of the hydro-electric current generated at Muscle Schoals, and Coolidge is anxious to turn it over to the electric trust before congress is again called into session to ask embarrassing questions. MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED IN BULGARIA Heavy Death Toll in Cathedral Blast (Special to The Daily Worker.) SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 17— One hundred and forty persons including six generals, was the death toll com- piled today for the bomb explosion which wrecked the Syeti Kral cathe- dral yesterday during the funeral of the fascist general, Kosla Cheorgieff. The director of prisons was killed in the streets this afternoon and there were other disorders. Martial law has been proclaimed country-wide and cur- few invoked. The dead in the cathedral bombing Includes thirty army officers. Fearing a revolution the fascist vernment has declared. a state. of siege and martial law thruout Bul- garia, Troops have been given orders to shoot on the slightest provocation or suspicion. Anybody caught outside at 7:30 p. m. is liable tobe shot at sight. Premier Zankoff and War Minister Kalkoff were wounded. The cathedral was almost totally ruined by the force of the explosion. The council of ambassadors recent- ly allowed the Bulgarian government to increase the army by three thou- sand in addition to the 20,000 allowed by the treaty of Neuilly. The troops of Baron Wrangel are also at the dis- posal of the Zankoff government. Ke. S BELGRADE, Serbia, April 17.—The death list will total 200 when all bodies are taken from the cathedral Sveti Kral, at Sofia, which was bomb- ed yesterday, said a Central News de- spatch from Sofia today. The despatch listed the aide de camp of King Boris among the killed. ARMY HEADS PLANTED SPY TO GET AT HAWAIIAN POST government spy operated is shown in a letter received by the American Civil Liberties Union from Privates Paul Crouch and Walter Trumbull who received sentences of 40 and 26 years by radical political sympathies. to the Communist International asking for recognition of the Hawaiian Communist League which was the name we Pickets in New York Shoe Repair Workers’ ' Strike Are Freed (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, April 17.—A manager of the United Shoe Rebuilding Co. who tried to have Organizer Pascal Cosgrove of the Shoe Workers’ Pro- tective Union and Michael Pesky, picket, imprisoned for keeping the strike going in front of his plant at 30th street and Broadway used the wrong tactics. Judge Barrett at Jet- ferson Market court, discharging the union men, told the boss that if he wanted to stop picketing he would have to go fo the supreme court for an injunction, Until then picketing was legal. Two Thousand Filipinos Homeless. MANILA, P. I, April 17.—Two thou- sand native workers were made home- less when fire razed 400 homes in Gadiz, Revolt in Honduras, MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 17.— Nicaraguan authorities, who are un. der the influence of American capi- talists, are aiding Honduras authori- ties to put down a revolution there, CAILLAUX IN NEW CABINET BIG SENSATION Poincare Opens War on His Old Enemy (Special to The Daily Worker.) PARIS, April 17.—The inclusion of Joseph Caillaux, as finance minister in the cabinet organized by Paul Pain-| [ea Is the sensation of the hour in| France. Even the notorious Bank 6f France scandal is temporarily forgot- |ten. This, by the way, is the issuance | of several billion paper francs with- out parliamentary authorization, liter- ally one of the most audacious pieces of swindling in history. The other outstanding figure in the cabinet is Aristide Briand, seven times premier and former member of the socialist party. While the so- cialists refused portfOliou in the Pain- leve ministery on the ground that they would not accept office with a renegade socialist, they are neverthe- less supporting the new government in the chamber. Against Capital Levy. Caillaux is not in sympathy with the capital levy plan of former Pre- mier Herriot and is not at all in agree- ment with the socialists’ formula for the solution of the present financial crisis. Poincare has opened a vigorous at- tack on’ Caillaux but it is not likely that he will succeed in view of the inflated reputation of the latter as a financial wizard. The desperate cris- is thru which France is passing just now is grist to Caillaux’s political mill and he will not be slow to take ad- vantage of it. Kaiser Sent Cruiser. Caillaux leaped into international prominence in 1911 when Germany sent the cruiser Panther to Agadir as a gesture against the Anglo-French en. tente against the kaiser’s government in Morocco, Caillaux who was then president of the council, began secret negotiations with Germany which failed: owing to a Teak in his communi- cations. Caillaux aimed at the isolation of England on the . tinent and.a Franco-German chee: Poincare suc- ceeded Caillaux. Britain made it known to the French that another Caillaux ministry would mean a rup- ture in Anglo-French relations. The British foreign office had at this time definitely decided on a war with Ger- many and was laying the foundations for the world conflagration that broke out in 1914. Caillaux’s conviction on charges of correspondence with the enemy, his banishment and subsequent rehabili- tation are matters of common knowl- edge. He is likely to play a promi- nent role in future French politics. BAKERY BOSSES KNIT RANKS AND LOOK FOR FIGHT Name Is Changed at New York Meeting NEW YORK, April 17.—The strong ‘ewish Bakers’ Union, American Fed- eration of Labor of New York and Jew- ish bakers’ locals of other cities are facing a battle with their employers when agreements run out May 1, if the -master bakers- carry out the threats made at the convention of the National Jewish Bakers’ Association, held at the Broadway Central Hotel. In preparation for possible contests with labor and for the purpose of quantity purchases of flour and other materials the boss bakers reorganiz- ed into a more closely knit organiza- tion, and changed their name to the Specialty Bakery Owners of America. They Complain: Bitterly. The bosses at the convention com- plained piteously at the union’s strict discipline: There is no escaping the union’s rule that all hiring must be done thru the union, it was shown. A lesser complaint is that the un- jon signs its contracts with individual employers, not with !the association. The union’s reply is that such a measure is necessary; otherwise in- dividual bosses would drop out of the association and then plead that they were no longer bound by its agreements. Thousands Affected. A strike will result if the bosses try to change the agreements radical- ly and such a strike the Jewish bakery workers would be practically certain to win. Their product is con- sumed by working pepple, mostly un- jon people, and it has been found by experience that scabcbread does not sell in Jewish districts. Thousands of bakers would be ‘nffected by the strike, EE 290 POINCARE USING POILU HE KILLED IN WAR TO FIGHT HIS HATED RIVAL (Special to The Daily Worker.) PARIS, April 17.—Police today ordered extra precautions be taken o prevent clashes tomorrow when war veterans will hold a mass meet- ing at six o'clock in the evening and march to the grave of the un- known soldier at the Are de Tri- umph as a protest against the ap- pointment of Joseph Callaux to the cabinet. LANZUTSKY WAS TRIED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Huge Demonstrations Outside Courthouse PRZEMYSL, Poland—(By Mail)— March 23—March 20 there began be- fore the Przemys! court the trial of Comrade Lanzutsky, member of the sejm. A few details of the trial have now been made public. Comrade Lanzutsky was brot into the court under escort. be The public prosecutor moved that the proceedings be held behind closed doors, ‘stating as his reason that the trial has aroused great interest in Po- land and abroad. If journalists were present they could make use of the trial and certain elements could create unrest. In spite of the protest of the de- fense, the court complied and de- clared that the proceedings should be held in secret. The court was cleared. There only remained, besides the official fun¢- tionaries three friends of Lanzutsky. Great Demonstration. A great crowd, numbering some thousands, had assembled before the court building. The police in Przemysl were rein forced. Great protest meetings took place Leaflets were distributed. Apart from this perfect order reigned. After the reading of the indictment Comrade Lanzutsky spoke for three hours. The Przymysl court heard behind closed doors the statements of seven witnesses, among them being five ag- ents of. the police. The police agent, Pavlovski, whose report had led the authorities to insti- tute the proceedings, admitted that he was not present at the meeting at which Lanzutsky delivered the incrim- inating speech, but had received re- ports from other police spies. Terror Prompted Statements. Another witness named Chanietchi withdrew the statements he had made at the preliminary examination, as he had only made these statements under the pressure of terror. ~ The public prosecutor and the police agents assert that Lanzutsky has a splendidly furnished house. The de- fense demanded that the house be in- spected. The court, the jury and the represenetatives of the accused in spected the house and found that Lan- zutsky along with his wife, child and his mother-in-law, occupies an ex tremely modest dwelling, the furnish ings of which he purchased eighteen years ago for one hundred Austrian crowns, ‘ The public prosecutor sought to im- press the jury by declaring that the Communists. seek to abolish private property and-religion, which “would convert mankind into beasts,” POLISH WORKERS CHEER _ FILMS OF PROTEST AT LANZUTSKY SENTENCE A large audience filled the Wicker Park Theater, Chicago, during the continuous show from 6 to 11 p. m., and every time the movies of the recent picketing demonstration in front of the Chicago Polish Consul- ate was shown, especially those ban- ners reading “Long Live the Com- munist International, and the Com- munist Party of Poland,” there was a roar of applause. The crowd was composed almost entirely of sympathetic non-party Russian and Polish elements, over eighty-five per cent of the tickets being sold at the box office. The program consisted of “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” “Russia in Overalls,” and the “Daily Work. er Film Extra No, 6” giving views of the Lanzutsky protest demonstr. ation, The feature had been shown to 5,000 people in Chicago only two months ago 80 the success of this repeated performance is a remark- able tribute to the interest of the filme, Published dafly except Sunday by THE DAILY WOnKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, lL CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On ail other days, Three Cents per Copy. a Price 5 Cents FARRINGTON AND MINE OWNERS CONSPIRE TO FORCE WAGE CUT ON MINERS OF DISTRICT 12 Behind the barrage of deliberately manufactured unemployment and Its consequent “starvation cure” for breaking down the resistance of the union miners, the coal mine owners and their agent in the president's office of District 12, United Mine Workers of America, by name Frank Farrington, are preparing an attack on the present wage scale. A campaign for wage cuts, put out as a means of relieving unemployment is just beginning. This can be seen by the fact that Faker Farrington arrived in Chigago last Friday, April 10, and shortly after, on April 15, the Chicago Journal of Commerce, mouthpiece of the local coal operators, published, under the name of one George Brolin, an article which was clearly dictated if not written by Farrington, attack- ing- Freeman Thompson and John Watt of Sub-District No. 4, and openly hinting that their illegal removal from office by Farrington, opens the way for wage cuts, with which Farrington is in sympathy. Operators “Defend” Union Against Progressives. The spectacle of the Chicago Jour- nal of Commerce expressing deep so- licitude for the miners’ union and de- fending it against the alleged purpose of Thompson and Watt to “organize a dual union”—as claimed in the ar- ticle cited, is enough to make any honest coal miner astonished. Such a phenomenon is accountable only by the fact that the operators depend upon the-Farrington machine, freed by his illegal removals and ex- pulsions of the progressive miners from influence in the union, to give them what they desire—wage cuts. It is quite apparent in the article that the operators understand Mr. Farring- ton and that Mr. Farrington under- stands the operators in this matter, and that they both see eye to eye in favoring a “readjustment .downward” of the wage scale. The Blessed Three-Year Agreement. The unlimited “blessing” of the Jacksonville three-year agreement is commencing to become a thing of questionable value, to put it mildly, and the progressive miners who fought against it have good reason to tell the disillusioned miners “We told you so.” One or two startling things in the article of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, should be burned into the minds of the rank and file of District 12. It discloses, does. this Farrington inspired article, that Farrington’s ma- chine in the district board, has in mind’a special convention of District 42,to he Controlled by the machine af- ter’the union has been “purged” of the , “disgruntled element”~-to force thru, an agreement to accept a wage cut. A District “Annual” Convention May Twelfth. The‘article states that “the annual districtconvention is to be held at Peoria, May 12.” This news of an “an- nual convention” will come as a sur- prise to the miners of District 12, but (Continued on page 2) POLICE BREAK UP PROTEST AGAINST POLISH MURDERS Cleveland Workers Very Resentful {Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, April 16.—(By, Mail) —Police acting under instructions trom Director of Public Safety Berry broke up @ meeting held here Tues- day night to-protest against the white terror in Poland, this action being taken to prevent the taking up of a collection, Thousands of leaflets were distri- buted advertizing this meeting, and a similar one the night before, calling the attention of the workers to the atrocities in Poland, and the necessity of the American workers rallying to the support of their Polish comrades. Evidently the meetings got under the skin of the reactionary element for Berry stated that a responsible citizen had protested) against the meeting. There being no reason for stopping them Berry took the liberty to rule that the taking of a collection at the meeting was against the public wel- fare, and the squad of police at the Monday meeting ordered the collec- tion to be omitted, which was done. Decide to Ignore Order Hewever, on Tuesday, the commit- tee devided that such an outrageous ruling would be ignored. After speech- es by J. Magerowsky, in Ukrainian; and by Tadeusz Radwanski, who is (Continued on page 4) LONDON, England, April 17.—Christian Rakovsky, to London, recently conferred with Foreign Minister Chamberlain relative to the basis for a new Russo-Britain trade treaty, GREEN FIGHTS REVOLUTIONARY WORKINGMEN Says Also Fights Em- ployers; But Doesn't (Special to The Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 17.—Wiill- iam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor is opposed to re- volutionary workers, according to a statement made here today while Green was attending the annual con- vention of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. Altho Green was among those who refused the request of the Amalga- mated to the last convention of the A. F. of L. at El Paso, asking for other crafts to yield jurisdiction over all steel mills to the Amalgamated, he now patters about “complete union- ization” of the industry. Half a Truth—Half a Lie. In reference to the drive on the “reds” Green said: “We are fighting revolutionary workers and hostile employers.” This is perfectly clear to be true, so far as thé fight on the revolutionary work- ers is concerned. Green inspired the Paul Smith destruction of the Labor Assembly in Minneapolis and is back- ing Jepsen and other reactionaries. i; Seattle and stands behind Lewis an Farrington in all expulsions of. pro- gressive and left wing revolutionary. workers. But that the Green machine is “fighting ‘hostile employers,” is in, deed news. Green has followed in slavish fashion the footsteps of Gom- pers. He has preached class colla- boration and opposed class struggle. He has sat with the biggest capitalists in the country at the banquet tables of the National Civic Federation, com- prising the most hostile of employers, such as Judge Gary and John D. Rockefeller, and has agreed with them that the “interest of labor and capital is identical.” Has Not Fought or Helped Fi Employers. While Green has given lip service to the principle of no reduction m wages, he has allowed the textile workers of New England to be cut down below the starvation line and given no more than a few sweet words of support to their sporadic strikes, altho the A. F. of L. can summon mil- Mons of dollars if it would do so, in aid of such a cause. This record, even for Green’s short. term of office, is said by Pittsburgh workers to indicate that his advocacy of a “permanent cure” for the coal industry instead of “temporary reme- dies,” only means that whatever Green says about it, when the coal operators cut wages he will finally be found willing to advise the miners to accept it. German Communist Author Arrested for Soviet Play (Special to The Daily Worker.) BERLIN, Germany, April 17.~The Communist author, Ratchle, has been arrested in Stuttgart because he wrote a play that was performed by workingmen. The charge made against the Communist writer is that the “play sets forth in seven s the course of a revolt which favorably to the revolutionaries and ends with the creation of a German Soviet Republic.” The Association of German Authors has protested the arrest, declaring the presumption that a revolutionary play is legitimate if the revolution dederib- ed in it fails, but not otherwise, is ridiculous. joviet Russian envoy © ——~w, \