The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1925, Page 2

Pays Twa “LLINOIS MINERS CALL MEETING ~ TO FIGHT UNEMPLOYMENT AND EXPOSE FARRINGTON TRICKERY (Special to The Dally Worker) CHRISTOPHER, Il. April 17.—The coal miners of southern Ulinois are seething with indignation at the tyrannical behavior of Frank Farrington, whom they allege not only has stolen the election by crooked and corrupt means, but has proceeded to remove illegally the officers of Sub-District 4, who were elected by the rank and file in spite of the Farrington machine, in order to continue his deals with the operators unhindered. : The present revolt of the miners against the Farrington machine began with the attempt to oust Freeman Thompson, president, and John Watt, secretary of Sub-District 4, known meen the nation aa honest, fearless and progressive. Mass meetings have been or are be- ing held in many mining towns, par- ticularly in Sub-District No. 4, while in Christopher, Illinois, the miners— feeling that the illegal removals are but an approach to further betrayals into unemployment, wage cuts and the open shop, have passed the reso- lution given below thru the last meeting of Local 2376. The resolution reads as follows: The Resolution of Local 2376. “Whereas, unemployment is still on the Increase in the coal mining industry, and the miners and their familles are in desper ate circumstances, and the labor fakers at the head of our organ- ization are not doing anything to relieve the situation, and “Whereas, the district and sub- district elections have been the greatest fake and steal in the his- tory of our union, resulting in the placing of every cog of the ma- chine In power by Illegal means, and where unable to steal enuf votes to place their tools in office they have deliberately ruled out of office their opponents In direct violation of their own rulings on the constition, “Whereas, continuous attempts to have this stituation remedied (Continued from Page 1) its purpose should also be clear from what it is said will take place there. The article states as follows: “There is a definite hope of a modi- fication of the wage scale before the summer is over. Union leaders are ‘believed ready to present the issue to ‘oithe membership. It is expected to come at the annual district conven- tion to be held at Peoria. May 12.” Further disclosures of wnat the Far. rington machine is up to is revealed— for the first time by this operators’ journal, as follows: “‘The district convention date was postponed by the district executive board February 27. It had been planned to hold the meet March 4, but circumstances necessi- tated the postponement,’ Frank Far- Tington, president said.” District 12 miners will here read for the first time of this decision of their executive board, but they will know exactly what “circumstances necessi- tated the postponement,” as well as understanding, now that the machine, or so it thinks, gotten rid of those “circumstances” by the illegal remov- al of Thompson and Watt, how it hap- pens that Farrington wants a district convention. In fact, Farrington is quoted direct- ly as saying that some mythical refer- endum on the adoption of the inter- state agreement had to be awaited to determine action on the wage scale in the district. The Journal of Com- merce says: Now Farrington Can “Proceed.” “*This is necessary in érder to en- able us to know how to proceed with district wage scale matters, Presi- dent Farrington continued.” The miners of District 12 will be informed thus that Frank Farrington is due to bring up the wage scale in the next convention, whenever he, Farrington, thinks he can call one that he can control—and that he in- tends to force the miners to take a wage cut. The Journal of Commerce contin- beS.“ZIMMERMAN: 2252.4. CALIFORWLAGAE igh ARMITAGE > 2466 MY NEW LOCATION cial X-Ray rices ~ to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED EARS. My Examination is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY Dr. A. Moskalik DENTIST S. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA, Conspire to Force Wage Cut from the district office have re- suited in failure, therefore be it “Resolved, that this Local Un- lon 2376, U. M. W. of A. at Chris- topher, Illinols, do hereby Issue a call for a mass meeting of all the miners, or their representatives in District 12, the same to be held In the old Opera House in Chris topher, Ill,, Sunday, April 26, com- mencing at 10 a. m. and continu- Ing all day, for the purpose of tak- Ing up the unemployment question and arranging for action in ac- cordance therewith, and further to expose the great danger to our membership and union by the of- ficers’ flagrant vielations of our constitution, and be it further “Resolved, that an invitation to address this mass meeting be given to J. L. Lewis, Frank Far rington, Alex Howat, Duncan Me- Donald, John Hindmarsh, Freeman Thompson, John Watt and Frank Johnson; dnd be It further “Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to the DAILY WORKER and copies be distribut- ed thruout the district. “Committee on Resolution, Alex Reid, Arly Staples. Signed: Ed. Johnson, recording secretary; Leon Gremling, president.” ues: “He (Farrington) can be expect- ed to carry out his plans despite the irritation from the stormy petrels and whatever following they develop, op- erators here said.” . The “Obstacle”. to Wage Cuts, What these plans of Farrington are is told as follows, in a paragraph. at- tacking Freeman Thompson and John |€ Watt: “These two cling as an obstacle in the harmonious ways of the organiza tion and threaten to interfere and dis- rupt plans for a consideration of the wage problem in the near future so that thousands of idle miners can’ be given employment.” The starvation cure having been fig- ured to have done its work by break- ing the will of the miners’ rank and file, all that was necessary was to re- move the “obstacle”? of the progres- sive left wing which advocated a six- hour day and five-day week with in- creased and not decreased wages—to open the way for wage cut revision of the three-year agreement. The croco- dile tears of the operators over the poor unemployed miners can be dis- counted by the fact that they have de- liberately administered this unemploy- ment to the miners by willful closure of their mines. dJackey Walker, Chancellor of the Laundry Exechequor, Another but more ridiculous trick of Farrington is his effort to make every. body believe that the John A. (Jack- ey) Walker whom he illegally appoint- ed to take the place of Freeman Thompson as president of Sub-District 4, is the same person as John H. Walker, the more dignified labor fak- er who once was president of the State Federation of Labor. Miners who are acquainted with Jackey Walker label him as a “help- less moron” who was never the presi- dent of anything but who has been “treasurer” for some time of the “per capita tax” collected py his wife at the wash tub. Needless to add that the comparison of this poor fish with the slimy but well-known faker, John H. Walker, leaves him still among the lower forms of life, in the estimation of all honest workers. Progressives to. Fight Wage Cut. But that these elements are com- bined with the operators upon a cam- paign to cut wages of the miners of District 12 is a fact no longer in doubt. The progressives are expect- ed to rally the rank and file against this unholy alliance’s attack upon the food and clothing of themselves and their wives and children. Find a Way to Mine Coal Without Profit to the Private Boss SYDNEY, Australia—The first coal- mine owned and oporated by the stato of New South Wales will eventually become the largest coal mino in tho state. About 600 men are employed and the daily output is 1,100 tons, The coal 1s delivered to the state- owned railways at the cost of produc- tion, $2.50 per ton, The coal barons say they cannot produce coal at less than $5.25 per ton. FIFTY POLICE WITH GAS BOMBS EVICT NEGRO FOR LANDLORD Gas bombs were used by the cour- ageous Chicago police, when over fifty polleemen tried to arrest El- mer Woodson, Negto worker, living at 3720 Elmwood Ave. The police were alding the worker’s landlord, Willlam Herd, in evicting the Negro worker who had quarrelled with the landlord. Captain John Stege, of the detec tive bureau was in command of the half dozen police squads who used the tear gas bombs against the Ne- gro worker. He was locked up, after being rouhly handled, HOME OF KLUXER BURNED AFTER VICTIM'S DEATH Stephenson Pleads Not Guilty INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 17—A few hours after the funeral of Misr Madge Oberholtzer, who died of self administered poison following the al leged attack on her of D. C. Stephen son, former grand dragon of the ku klux klan, Stephenson’s home was damaged by a fire of unknown origin. Stephenson had not inhabited the house for several months, but the neighbor told of seeing lights flash on and off last night several hours be- fore the explosion which preceded the fire. Stephenson, accompanied as usual ‘by Eph Inman, his attorney, inspected tis damaged house. He said he was uader such “high nervous tension that Jdo not care to make a statement.” The house was virtually empty of qirnishings. A spacious garage including living quarters adjoins the residence. De- toctives reported finding the garage yell equipped and its furnishings ar- ganged orderly, but with indications hat some one had occupied the bed nly recently. It was in this garage, according to one of the five indictments hanging ver the former klan leader, that Miss Dberholtzer was held prisoner for a {Biort time a month ago upon her re |tirn from Hammond, Ind., after the \@ leged attack. Prior to this the gir’ (erank the poison which caused her 2ath, } Besides being a former power in the kan, Stephenson, until the Oberholtz- e affair, was admittedly one of the |B rongest politicians in Indiana. He tas pleaded not guilty to all charges growing out of the alleged attack on Piss Oberholtzer. Six Red Hawaiian Soldiers May Not Be Given Sentences WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17.-- In an attempt to save the face of the military authorities at Schofield bax racks who sentenced Paul Crouch to 40 years and Walter Trumbull to 26 years at hard labor for being Com- munists, the war department is spreading the rumor that the soldiers “enlisted for the purpose of fomenting revolt.” The red soldiers were also “dishonorably” discharged from the army. “In the face of widespread condemn- ation of the severe sentences thruout the country, the war department, thru Maj. Gen. Lewis, commanding officer at Hawaii, has been forced to an- nounce that the sentences are exces- sive and will be cut down. It is now hinted by the war depart- ment here that the six soldiers who have not yet come before the court martial “judging” their Communist principles, will be “dishonorably dis- charged” and sent home without sen- tence. Illinois Commission Permits Railroads to Combine Lines Permission was granted by thé Illi- nois commerce commission today for the New York, Chicago and St. Louis (Nickel Plate) Railway Co., to ac- quire control of and operate the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co., the Erie RR. Co., the Pere Marquette Ry. Co., and the Hocking Valley RR. Co., in the state of Illinois. Similar permission has been obtain- ed, or is being sought, in other states where the lines are operated, Two Bricklayers Killed NEW YORK, April 17.—Two brick- layers were killed and four others in- jured when a scaffold on which they were working at the sixth floor of an apartment house in Kew Gardens gave way and threw them sixty feet to the ground. Kiln Company Worker Killed. Michael Dooley, 36, of 2852 Wallace Ave., was killed while laboring at the Wilce Dry Kiln and Mill company, 2100 S, Throop St. Dooley was found baked to death in the company’s oven, The concern could not offer an ex- planation as to the cause of the fat- ality. LANKOV. LIES LIKE GENT AS BOMBS BURST Bulgar F, asclat Expects To Go Out Like Match (Speolal to The Datty Worker.) LONDON, April 17.—The Zankov government has made an extraordin- ary appropriation for propaganda in foreign countries in view of the lat- est disaster which befell the fascist dictatorship. The ease with which the government opposition was able to demonstrate its virility despite the iron fist of the Zankov regime, speaks badly for the stability of the present government. While it is obvious that the plot was the work of the Macedonian organiza: tion, as revealed in early dispatches the paid propagandists of the Bulgari- an dictatorship have now attributed it to the Communists under instruc- tions from Moscow. The manner in which the tale is told, does not differ materially from the well known styl of the American stoolpigeon, Willian J. Burns, and his school of perverts. One of the most artistic lars in So- fla, on the Zankov payroll is Walter Collins, whose dispatches are publish- ed in the Chicago Daily News and oth- er American publications. SMALL AIDS CAR MAGNATES AFTER DEVER’S FIASCO Senate Bill Gives Per- petual Franchise Mayor Dever, who failed in the recent traction ordinance election to deliver Chicago's traction lines into the hands of the bankers, professed anger today that the bankers have gone to his political opponent, Gov- ernor Small, for aid. The traction franchise now held by the bankers controlling the lines ex- pires in 1927, and they are making frantic efforts to secure a perpetual franchise before that time. Governor Small, the republican, has come gallantly to the aid of the trac- tion stockholders following the failure of Mayor Dever, democrat. Small’s senator, Barr, who has succeeded in putting thru the, Small state police bill, has introduced a bill into the sen- ate which would give the state utility commission absolute control over is- suing franchises. Under the bill “terminable fran- chises” may be granted the bankers, which do not terminate at all. The Dill allows the traction magnates to go to the utility commission at any time, and get a franchise which per- mits the companies to locate on any street or route sanctioned by the com. mission, without the consent of the city counsel, “Open Shop” Post’s Widow Hes $500,000 to Give Away Now BATTLE CREEK, Mich., April 17— Mrs. Leila Post Montgomery, widow of C. W. Post, the “open shopper,” an- nounced today a gift of $500,000 for the erection of a hospital here. She will build it herself and then deed it \to the sisters of mercy, a religious society with headquarters in Dubu- que, Iowa. Steamships Collide PORTLAND, Ore., April 17.—The steamer Charles F. McCormick of the McCormick Steamship Co., and the Japanese steamer Yoshida Maru, col- lided early today in the lower bay near Astoria, Oregon. Can't Use “Illegitimate.” ALBANY, N. Y., April 17—Gov. mith signed the Antin bill changing |the legal terminology “illegitimate jehild” to “child born out of wedlock” and prohibiting the use of other terms jof synonymous meaning in statutes jand court records of the state. Alfonso Receives Ex-Crown Prince MADRID,—Preparations were made for the reception today of the son of the former German crown prince, due this afternoon. He will accompany King Alfonso on his trip to Seville. Record Two-Hour Quake FAENZA, Italy—An earthquake of two hours duration, was recorded on the seismographic instruments here today. It’s distance was estimated at 6,000 miles, Polish Village In Ashes , WARSAW.—The village of Ryki lay in ashes today after a fire which destroyed 267 houses. The fire left 649 families homeless, Daylig it Saving Loses. . NEW ORLEANS, April 17.— Day- light saving was defeated in New Or- leans, partly thru the opposition of or- ganized labor)which feared longer hours of work. \ Problem of the Jobless Tantalizes Capitalist Nations the World Over By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY: another squeal comes out of strangling capitalist Austria. Chancellor Ramek, who was to institute a regime of “reconstruction” under the guidance of the league of nations, but who has only succeeded in “reconstructing the budget,” sends a rush appeal to Geneva, begging “the league” for a conference of experts to investigate Austrian financial, industrial and commercial conditions. The chancellor's immediate fear is an army of 200,000 unemployed. He wants to know what to do with them. The bankrupt treasury cannot feed them. There is -no work. Austria is ringed about by hostile states that have sky-high tariffs. In order to keep her factories going Austria must export. But her éxports cannot leap the enemy tariff walls. That is the situation that the Austrian chancellor seeks to cure thru another “investigation.” * * e e With the growing jobless army demanding work or bread, the Austrian “socialists” come forward with their solution—union of Austria with Germany. Union with the Germany that the “socialists” placed under the Morgan- Dawes plan. Union with the Germany that the German “socialists” have enslaved to Wall Street. With these dark clouds floating about, the agents of “the league” have ceased to paint beautiful pictures about their Austrian accomplishments. Instead the eyes of Amer- ican investors are turned to Hungary, of the fascist Horthy, of which Jeremiah Smith, American commissioner for “the league” ‘says, “It is in excellent shape.” Hungary will no doubt need another $50,000,000 loan shortly, to once more “balance her budget.” : e ° e e “Socialists” hail President Calles, of Maxico, as theirs. Mexico is rich in resources. It is an economic unit, self- sufficient, like the United States. But in Mexico the “social- ist” wing of Mexican capitalism, that is bitterly anti-Com- munist, also faces an unemployment crisis. In so-called “socialist” Mexico, an official of the Association of Unem- ployed makes this statement: “Unemployment is the greatest problem of Mexico at the present moment. We exist by thousands in Mexico City alone. Starving Is at our doors. Something must be done for Mexico's unemployed soon.” The Mexican jobless demand land. But the “socialist” regime of Calles is too busy raising money to pay interest on loans to Wall Street, to set aside funds to help the un- employed start farming. The struggle of the workless is just as bitter in Mexico City as in Vienna. * * J From Australia there comes an outcry against Italian immigration. Italy cannot allow-her jobless crisis to grow at home. Mussolini rule is weak enough as it is. So Italy must deport her workers to other lands, cheap labor for other great profiteers. This may slightly ease the unemployment situation in Italy temporarily, but it helps accentuate it in Australia. The reports for March, from Paris, show that both im- porte and exports fell during the month. The ability of rench capitalism, both to buy and sell, is weakening. It can't keep its industries gcing, because its markets fait and jobless workers do not make big purchasers of the imported products of other nations. * e - s All this is gleaned from the news development of one day. It is bad news for the upholders of capitalism; for no social system can endure that isnot able, in some fashion, to feed, house and clothe its workers. The ability of. cap- italism to do this is everywhere. ny whe on the downgrade. What was recently said of Great Britain, applies in all na- tions that capitalism rules, “there is no symptom of im- provement.” Only in the Union of Soviet Socialist. Republics, where the last remnants of capitalism are being crushed under the heels of a great nation of workers and peasants march- ing toward Communism, is the unemployment problem being successfully met. The Soviet Union is taking care of its = Only the World Soviet Republic can solve the pro- lems of the world’s working class and build for the Com- munist society. The Workers (Communist) Party calls to the workers of the United States that it leads that way. New Rates on Steel. WASHINGTON, April 17.—Holding that present freight rates on manufac. tured iron and steel in carloads from points in the Pittsburgh district to St. Louis and destinations in Illinois and Indiana were unreasonable and unduly prejudicial the interstate commerce commission today prescribed a new set of rates. These new rates range from six cents per 100 pounds on distances of five miles and under to 42 cents on distances of 640 miles and over. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, April 17.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.78%; cable 4.78%. France, franc, demand 5.27%; cable 5.28. Belguim, franc, demand 5.06; cable 5.06%. Italy, lira, demand 4.1144; cable 4.11%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.92; cable 26.95. Nor- way, krone, demand 16.23; cable 16,25. Denmark, krone, demand 7; cable 18.49. Germany, mark, unquoted. Shanghai, tael, demand 74.00; cable 74.50. Blimp Is Safe Anyway. ST. LOUIS, Mo. April 17.— The army’s big blimp, the TC-8, was tuck- ed away in its hanger at Scott Field today, its damage slight after its four hour clash with the elements late yes- terday. The big air cruiser was help- less when the rudder controls became tangled and failed to respond. Protest Packers’ Merger, WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17.— ‘The farmers’ national council has filed a petition with Attorney General Sar- gent asking him to institute injune- tion proceedings to restrain the Ar- mour-Morris packing merger, ‘Traffic Accidents Come High. WASHINGTON, April 17— Trafflo accidents last year cost the United States moro than $1,000,000,000, REDS PROMINENT IN NEW NEGRO THEATER, FORUM Lovett Fort Whiteman. the Com- munist Negro leader, will speak at the open forum of the Shadows Art Theater, 3427 Indiana Ave., tomorrow, Sunday evening on the subject of “Ra- cial Problems in Russia.” Comrade Whiteman recently returned from an eight months’ stay in Soviet Russia during which he visited many sections of the Soviet Union. The es Art Theater is a Negro culftral center under the direc- tion of FL, Holmes, a radical Negro artist who has been active for many years in the little theater movement. The theater is for the production of plays intended to develop Negro con- sciousness along the lines of the Ne- gro’s true relation to society. The spe- cial gifts of the African race will be developed, An open forum on political subjects is conducted every Sunday evening, and Communist speakers are expect- ed to be heard from often, On Wed- nesday evenings a purely literary forum is held. Lydia Gibson will talk on proletarian art at an early date, U. &, at Mussolini's Side ROME.—Premier Mussolini today extended a greeting to the internation- al parliamentary trade conference in the capitol palace. The conference was opened by King Victor Emmanuel. with thirty-five parliaments represent- ed. The United States was represent- ed by commercial attache Millan, INTERVENTION , PLOT RUMORED AGAINST CHINA Imperialists Secretly Plan Intervention (Spectal to The Dally Worker) TOKIO, April 17—A secret move- ment is on foot among the imperialist powers for armed intervention in Chi- na in order to crush the rising tide of national liberation from driving out the imperialists from their zones of influence and exploitation, The im- Perlalists are first trying to agree among themselves as to the division of the prospective plunder. This re quires secret diplomacy, but it is known that England and America are deeply involved in the plan, A Dawes Plan For China. From Pekin it is rumored that an American advisor to the Chinese gov- ernment is trying to put over a “Dawes plan” for China, of course to “put China on its feet.” Always the benevolent purpose, The Japanese foreign office in a statement made thru an entirely un- official channel, covertly throws a little light on this conspiracy of im- perialist intervention, since Japan feels that its own imperialist interests will suffer and she is inclined to let the cat out of the bag rather than joining the silent conspirators, The statement says: Nolseless, Strong Move for Invasion “Reports show that there is a move- ment, noiseless but strong, by the powers most interested in China, It is idle to suppose this movement can long remain mute in face of the ag- gravating condition of China, which foreign intervention seems to foster rather than abate. “As far as Japan is concerned, it continues to indorse Mr, Shidehara’s hands-off policy, but the question re- mains for serious reflection whether China can be trusted to live up to our expectation.” Example of Unofficial Diplomacy The above is a master-piece of di- plomatic statement, since it clears Japan of any complicity with the bad interventionists which may take away Japan’s own recently won standing in China, while it leaves a loop-hole to join in intervention if the other sel- fish imperialists threaten to crowd out Japan. All neatly but unofficial; done. ats The fly in the ointment is that the: people of, China, befriended by the powerful ally of Soviet Russia, may have something to say about who shall come in or stay in, China. NEW OIL PROBE OF STANDARD T0 OUTDO TEAPOT Walsh Says He Will In- vestigate in Fall GREAT FALLS, Montana, April 17. —The investigation contemplated by Senator Thomas Walsh, of Montana, of the monopoly secured by the Mid- west Refining company thru the friendliness of the interior department directly involves the Standard Oil company. The Standard Oil company has had complete control of the Mid- west Refining company since +1921. Senator Walsh, here defending Sen- ator Burton K. Wheeler, on charges of using his office for the benefit of his oil company clients, declared that the Midwest Refining company was able to establish an absolute domin- ance of the great Salt Creek oil fields. The inguiry, which Walsh announc- es he will press at the opening of the coming senate, thru the committee on public lands, will cover all the Salt Creek activities of the Standard Oil corporation. The facts attending the department of the interior’s part in the leasing and contractual agree- ments will be probed. The inquiry is expected to over- shadow the Teapot Dome oil scandal. The Salt Creek flelds of the Standard Ojl subsidiary are far more valuable than the Teapot Dome lands leased to Sinclair in return for a bribe. Warn Theatrical managers. NEW YORK, April 17.—The Actors’ Equity Association warns theatrical managers that the union’s deputies must receive more courtesy in future. Notice is served that certain manag- | ers who have been subjecting the un- ion’s representatives to petty annoy- ances will be disciplined by the or- ganization if trouble continues, Million Decrease in Hogs. A decrease of 1,000,000 in the num- ber of hogs passing thru the 11 prin- cipal markets in March of this year as compared with the same month a year ago, {s reported in the monthly survey of the market issued by the Sears-Roebuck agricultural foundation here today. @ Italian Army Restive. ROME, Italy, April 17.-> Premier Mussolini plans “reo ” of the army, due to the increase of sen- timent against the fascisti ranks of the regular troops. RK