The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1925, Page 4

feces by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL i (Phone: Monroe 4712) |) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $8.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mali (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50....8 months aeereos all mail and wake out checks to THE DAILY WORKER m0 W. Washington Bivd. nr cr 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL ~ WILLIAM F. DUNNE {ener EAItOT MORITZ J. LOEB...... ss Manager ft (090 ver year 48.00 per year Chicago, Iinels —— Bautered as second-class mat! Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. ee 250 Advertising rates op app“cation Polish Pogroms and Their Supporters In no country in the world is the much-per secuted Jewish race and other oppressed races as well, freer from all racial discrimination and safer from murderous bigots than in the first republic of workers and peasants—Soviet Russia. But in no country is the Jew today more per- secuted, more liable to the continual peril of in- dividuals or mass murder by religious and racial and—more particularly, capitalist class—enemies, enemies, than in catholic, white guard Poland, These facts are or ought to be so well-known that even the most uniformed Jewish worker in the most remote section of the world, ought to com- prehend them. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America is an organization largely composed of Jewish workers so predominant in the needle trades. It is largely officered by Jews whose understanding of events leaves no excuse for the pogromist speech|. of Sam Levin, manager of the Chicago joint board, before the Polish Local 38 on Wednesday night. It is the natural duty of a labor union official having the necessity of uniting workers of all races who work in the industry, to consciously combat racial prejudice and as constantly to inculcate the idea of solidarity between all workers regardless of race. This is a necessity because the capitalist elass deliberately incites racial hatred and nation- alist animosities in order to divide the working] y elass and weaken their forces. The speech of Sam Levin denounced to the whole membership of a Polish local union, H. Bramorski, as one who had “insulted” the unspeakable goy- ernment of Poland by taking part in a Communist demonstration against the murder by Polish police of two workers and the persecution of Lanzutsk the railroad worker member of parliament. This inciting of pogroms is a direct betrayal of all work- ‘ing class solidarity and a direct aid to the capital- ist class. Bramorski was denounced as an “agent of Moscow” and as opposed to the Polish govern- ment. The astounding connection revealed between the capitalist pogromists of Poland and the Hillman- Cahan-Levin machine is a matter of interest to the Jewish workers in the A. C. W. But the racial phase of the case is far less important than the fact that a labor union official has deliberately in- cited nationalist hatred and prejudice among mem- bers of the union and thereby aided the capitalist class. The A, C. W. members should make them- selves heard on this issue. Tear Gas for Tenants Fifty policemen and tear gas bombs are used to evict a Negro tenant in Chicago. He was behind in his rent. In Poland the other day the government troops killed two workers with poison gas when they refused to surrender on a trumped-up charge. Tear gas and poison gas, when first used in the world war, brought cries of condemnation from the nations who had not yet devised such weapons. The war is over, theoretically, but all of the im- proved murder methods discovered while it lasted are now used against the individual workers and against the workers as a class. Landlords and capitalists have only to raise the slogan of the sacredness of private property and the whole force of the government, city, county and national, is at their disposal. The hired murderers of the capitalists welcome such opportunities as small strikes, and evictions which are resisted to try out their new equipment. It becomes a sort of scientific ceremony and the results obtained are made the subject of long re- ports, filed away carefully so that a literature of the mechanics of violent suppression is readily accessible. What is the answer to the growing disregard of workers’ living standards and workers’ lives? The answer is the united front of all the workers and exploited farmers against the capitalists, On every issue, no matter how unimportant it may seem, to those who have their eyes fixed only on a classless society, events on which it is possible to arouse the masses to protest and action, there must be unity of all sections of the workers, In the fight for partial demands we get our training for the final struggle. This is the position of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. It calls upon the masses to al- low no individual worker to be forced to wage the fight that should be fought by his whole class, for solidarity in the ranks of the workers in the daily struggle against the capitalists and all their agents. Tear gas used on a Negro tenant is a challenge to the working class, black and white, because it means that the same method is being tested for use against the workers en masse. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. The Bulgarian Situation The inevitable has happened in Bulgaria. The bloody oppressions of the Zankoy govern- ment, following the overthrow of the Stamboulisky peasant regime, have made the workers and peas- ants desperate, and the political situation in Bul- garia is a counterpart of that under the czar fol- lowing the revolution of 1905. The officials of the Zankov government, gener- als and cabinet members, make up the most of the casualties, No one will mourn them except the allied imperialists who recently allowed these murderers to add three thousand more degenerates from the remnants of Wrangel’s army to the band of assassins, called the national army. The bomb explosion in Sofia comes shortly after the exposure of .an international plot, financed directly by the Zankoy government, having for its purpose the murder of all the leaders of the Bul- garian workers and peasants and many prominent officials of the Soviet government. Emissaries were sent to Italy, London and Moscow to murder Rus- sidn_ ambassadors and Communist leaders. ~The story of the plot was published by us a few days ago, The Zahkov government not only sent punitive expeditions into the villages and tortured and murdered peasants and workers wholesale, but had under way a scheme by which opposition members of parliament were murdered in the streets and in their homes. Life in Bulgaria for the masses is a Rightmare of bloody horror. Tt is quite obvious now that. the Zankov goy- ernment is not going to last for any great length of time.’ The Bulgarian masses have had a long training in fighting tyranny and the explosion in Sofia is proof that the mass terror has not stamped out the will to fight back. The czar could not kill the will to revolt by filling the prisons and slaughtering thousands. Neither can the Zankov government, even tho it is supported by the social-democrats of Bulgaria and the allied imperialists, succeed in saving itself from a mightier vengeance than that of the recent explosion. Miners’ Enemies Expose Them- selves Farrington; president of District 12, United Mine Workers of America, makes a trip to Chicago. The next day the’Journal of Commerce publishes an exclusive story in which it is stated that negotia- tions for a‘reyision of the existing agreement be- tween the.union and the operators are in progress and that a district convention of the miners will be called to consider the proposals. This is the first that anyone has heard of the matters mentioned. Has Farrington been plotting a reduction of wages, dealing with the coal oper ators’ association without the knowledge of the union? Again, the Journal of Commorce story contains an attack on Watt and Thompson, officials of Sub- District 4, whom Farrington is trying to unseat and expel. The mouthpiece of the coal operators states openly that Watt and Thompson are the chief obstacles in the way of “readjustment” of wages—the-euphemistic term for a wage cut. Here is evidence of something more than sym- pathetic understanding between union officials and the coal capitalists. It is evidence of a hard and fast allianeé by ,which the coal operators and their press engage to fight Farrington’s battles in return for his betrayal of the miners. The Journat of Commerce story refers to Watt and Thompson as “disrupters,” but since when has an organ of the capitalists been hostile to real dis- rupters? The capitalists always welcome anything and anyone that weakens a union and it is obvious from the tone of the attack on these two militants that they are disrupting the plans of Farrington and the coal capitalists, not the union. This is the reasén=why the Journal of Com- merce, the coal barons and Farrington join hands in the offensive against them and the fighting pro- gram which they lay before the coal miners. The Barr Cossack Bill Tho raging with disgust because it could not secure the passage of its pet state police bill, the Chicago Tribune wisely urged its big business sup- porters to back the Barr bill which is not so good, but is a step in the right direction. The Tribune deserves credit for exercising sound political judgment in this fight for the state cos- sacks, which has been waged by the Illinois cham- ber of commerce representing the employing class of Illinois, for several years. The main obstacle in the way of the state police was the opposition of the organized workers. The labor leaders had to be plaeated. Governor Small, their Santa Claus, was ‘the only one that could do this. The Tribune rea- sons correctly, from the big business point of view, that, once the opposition of the organized labor movement is liquidated thru the surrender of its offivial leaders, it will be an easy matter in some future legislature to amend the Barr bill or intro- duee another bill that will suit the employers down to the ground. The labor misleaders, no doubt, will brag that they won a victory in defeating the Dunlap bill, which was the favorite of the big biisiness interests represented by the chambers of commerce. But how can they explain the fact that the Chicago Tribune, their bete noir, supported the Barr bill as a step in the right direction? The fact is that the state cossacks have been’ put over very cleverly on the workers of this’ -state, with the connivance of the labor fakers who are not so stupid that they could not see what was be- ing done, but whose treachery knows no limit. The genes of the labor leaders in supporting this bill is only additional proof. that they have gone over bag and baggage into the ary | of the capitalists. df THE DATE Y-WORKER (PLUTES PLUNDER POST OPFIGE WITH UNCLE SAM'S. A Workers’ $-Hour Day Goes By the Board Without flashing a “gat,” without uttering a threat of violence, the ad- vertisement dopesters have for the past week been robbing Uncle Sam’s post office on a ale. compared with which the Roundbut and Leonard St. mail robberies were dae pickings: To escape pay! higher rates on circulars thatpecome effective on April 15, these~ capitalist dope dis- pensers have for the past weeks flood. ed the post office with millions ypon millions of circulars that. ordinarily they would have sent at. other times, until the service, the employes, is straining under this unprecedented rush, Of course, this metHod of doing the post office out of revenue is perfectly legitimate. Patriotic? Hardly. But, then, business is business, and busi- ness knows no patriotism. In this process the plutes are aided and abetted by the postal department, which not only seeks,no way of stop- ping this leak, buf drains its appro- priations and human resources work- ing its distributing clerks 2 and 3 hours per shift overtime to dispose of this flood of dope. As the men get no extra rate of pay for overtime, the basic eight-hour day is thus practic- ally abolished for the time being. Even the night tours (shifts) that ac- cording to an unwritten law must not be worked overtime on unimportant circular mail is now occasionally be- ing worked 10 hours instead of the regular eight. And all this is legiti- mate business on the face of it. Gerald Chapman, he is a piker. He should have become a “business man.” He'd be a respectable “citizen” now. Calvin Cooldge Won’t Shake Your ‘Hand But Sam Hammersmark Will Snappy head, snappy story, snap- pier dance! This is a good lead tothe announcement that the Irving Park branch of the Workers Party is giving a social and dance tonight in Workers Police Break Up (Continued from page 1) touring the country in the interest of the International Red Aid on behalf of the Polish victims of the white terror, and who from his intimate knowledge of the Polish situation, being the editor of Tribuna Robotni- czy, the Polish Communist weekly of Chicago, was able to give a strong and well-received address; a resolution was adopted protesting against the white terror in Poland, and demand- ing that the rights of the Polish work- ers and peasants be respected by the Polish government, J, A. Hamilton, local organizer of the Workers Party, who acted as chairman, then told the audience of the police ruling as to the collection, stating that this not only deprived the International Red Aid of possible funds for its work of assisting the 8,000 political prisoners in Poland, and their families, as well as the tens of thousands in other countries; but even prevented the local committee’ from raising the money to cover the neces- sary expenses of the meeting, and was an unheard of ruling. Discrimination Pointed Out The chairman pointed out that Berry’s objection to a collection on the ground that the meeting had to do with a foreign country, was abusurd; inasmuch as large sums of money are raised in the United States and loaned to the Polish and other foreign governments and used to oppress the workers of those countries; also that the U. S. government itself had loan- ed $187,000,000 to Bakmetieff, the so- called “ambassador” from the ex-Ker- ensky government of Russia, even tho the government this gentlemen was supposed to “represent” existed only in the hopes of Kerensky and his fol- lowers. Also that Abramovitch is raising money in order to assist the counter- revolutionists now in prison in Russia for their plots against the govern- ment of the Russian workers and peasants. Defy Majesty of the Law He then stated that he insisted on | the right of the committee to give those present an opportunity to con- tribute whatever they desired to the expenses of the meeting, and together with Geo. Papeun, local organizer of the Young Workers League, started to pass the hat. The police rushed to the front, stopped the collection, and ordered the hall cleared. However, quité a number of comrades made Hall, 4021, N. Drake Avénue, near Irv- ing Park Boul (short for boulevard, not to be confused with ‘bull.’) “Go to Washington and shake hands with the president” is the slo- gan of the tour promoters since ‘Sil- ent Cal’ began to take wrist exercise shaking he fins of the Babbittry. Sam Hammersmark, the chief fac- totum of the Irving Park branch will be at the door to extend the glad wig- wag to all and sundry who come to shake an ankle and incidentally de- posit the infinitesimal.sum of 35 cents at the door in return for the pleasure of seeing all there is to be seen eat all there is to eat and meet the com- rades, and dancing with their hus- bands, wives, daughters; sweethearts, etc. See you tonight, Turks Increase shi As British Incite Mosul Border Raids ~ CONSTANTINOPLE, April 17.—The Turkish goverament “has called more classes to arms, following the an- nouncement that Great Britain has stirred the Nestorian tribes in the Mosul vilayet who have been raiding Turkish territory. The 22, 23 and 24 year old classes are already under arms, and the 21 and 20 year old classes will be called immediately. Sheik Said and his principal aid, Sheik Abdoulah, who were captured by the Turks, are to be beheaded at Diarbekr. Memorial n to Honor President of Caucasian Soviet A memorial meeting in memory of Comrade Alexander Minasnikian, pres- ident of the Soviet Federated Repub- lic of Caucasus, will be held on Sun- day, April 19, at»1s30 p. m, in the Armenian Liberty Hall, 125 W. Chest- nut street. The meeting will be held under the auspicés of the Workers Party of America, Chicago eager branch. The following speakers will address the meeting: Comrade Win. F, Dunne, S. E. Siménian, A. Chichian and L. Martirasian., Jail Bird Man Head Civie Club, NEW YORK, Apvil 17.—Roger N. Baldwin, who has been sentenced to serve six months by Justice Delaney of the court of special sessions, Pat- erson, N. J., has been unanimously nominated for president of the civic club of New York, an organization of a thousand men and women of liberal and radical tendencies. In a statement the nominating eommittee says that Baldwin's service led to his selection. Youngstown May Day Meeting. YOUNGSTOWN, sOhio, April 17.— ‘Wm. J. White will ‘be the principal speaker at the Mpy, Day meeting in Youngstown to be chéld at the Ukrain- ian Hall, West Réyen Ave, on May 1, at 8 p.m, i , > their contributions anyway, during the dispersal of the meeting, and later outside. The police seemed to be none too proud of the dirty work they were forced to do and representatives of the local press admitted that the Berry ruling was entirely unprecedented and unjustified by any law or ordinance so far as they knew. A General Danger. The committee in charge of the meeting calls attention to the great Workers Party—Local Chicago Activities Sunday, April 19. oe sh Branch, 2409 N, Halsted St., Millinery Workers Group T. U. E.L. 118 W. Roosevelt Road, 11 a. m, Bulgarian Branch, 842 W. Adams £t., 7p. m. Armenian, p. m. 955 W. Grand Ave. 2 Monday, April 20. Douglas Pork English, 3118 West Poosevelt Road. A. Bittelman speaks oa “Leninism.” North Side English, 2409 N, Halsted &t. Tuesday, April 21. Czecho-Slovak Town of Lake, 5ist and Whipple Sts. Czecho-Slovak Cicero Women’s, T. C. Masaryk School, 57th and 22nd PL, Cicero. Rumanian Branch, 2254 Clybourn Ave. Bittelman Speaks at Douglas Part English Branch Monday Evening Alexander Bittelman, political sec- retary of the Workers Party will lec- ture next Monday evening at 8 p. m., on “Leninism” at the Douglas Park branch of the Workers Party. The branch meets at 3118 Roosevelt Rd. Admission is free. First Youth Spring Ball. All comrades of the Y. W. L., W. P., and Freiheit Singing Society and Mandolin Orchestra as well as all our sympathizers are invited to attend the first youth spring ball on Saturday evening, April 18, at the Workers’ Ly- coum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. A good musical program, American and Russian dances, Music from 8 p.m. tol a, m. Auspices—Local Jewish Propaganda Committee, Young Workers League. J. Weiss, Secy.; J. Bornstein, Social Mgr. . Monday. The North Side English branch meets Monday, April 20, at 8 p. m., at the Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. Important matters will come um, Please come on tima. Activities of the Workers Party Workers’ Protest “| danger to the labor movement if the Police action in this instance can be made an established practice, as by a slight extension of application it could be used to prevent the raising of collections for anything which might not happen to suit the wishes of the police department or the reac- tionary interests controlling it. The local Irish Famine Relief Com- mittee is already wondering whether the McCartliy ‘meeting scheduled for Sunday, April 19, at 2:30 p. m., in the Laborers’ Hall, 1028 Walnut St., will be placed under the same ruling, thus preventing the audience from contributing to:the relief of the Irish workers and peasants, Berry, when’ questioned on Tues- day over the telephone, was unable to make a very. clear explanation of his ruling, admitting that there is no specific ordinance against the taking of such collections, but comparing the collection in this instance with the selling of fake patent medicine; or the selling of poppies on the street by the veterans’ organizations. Moonshine Detecting Department. He seemed~to feel that his action was necessary to protect the citizens from being relieved of their money under false pretenses, stating that he didn’t know whether the statements as to the situation in Poland are true or not; he also seemed to be under the impression that inasmuch as the meeting concerned a foreign country, there is something wrong in making a public appeal for funds. But reason or no reason, the collection couldn't be taken, Cleveland is under the city. man- ager form of government, by which the director of public safety is ap- pointed by the manager, and is not subject to direct removal or instruc- tion by the city council. Such a cen- tralized system to say the least does not handicap the police department in its interference with the rights of the workers. A New and Bright Idea. Abramovich had plenty of police “protection” at his Cleveland meeting; the Sacco-Vanzetti meeting on March 1 was attended by-a large squad of police, and now the department seems to have developed a new form of sup- pression, that of interfering with the raising’ of funds. The \workers of Cleveland will fight to the. limit such unwarranted ar- rogance On the part of the police de- partment, Petitions are out for the nomination of Communists as candi- dates for city council in the 1925 elec- tion and there will be no hesitancy in utilizing all the evidence which the present city administration wishes to provide, that municipal as well as higher units of government under the capitalist system are simply agencies to execute the wishes of the capitalist class against the workers. However, the party in Cleveland does not pro- pose to allow such actions as this to pass merely with the pointing of a moral. Los Angeles Notes LOS ANGELES, April 17.—The sec- ond anniversary celebration of the Junior: section, Y. W. L. of Los An- geles was 4 great success. There were over 806 people present of all ages and they enjoyed every bit of the big program’ arranged by the Juniors them selves, There was_a three act play entitled “Happy Prince,” an operetta “Labor Defence” in four scenes and the “Spirit of Communism” in ballet. The evening’s entertainment was an in- spiration to youth and adults alike. An appeal by Comrade E. Levin, city organizer, for funds to take care of the arrested workers at the Abramo- vich meeting whose trial takes place April 29 was met with hearty re- sponse, eee Join the Union. LOS ANGELES, April 17.—Every unorganized dressmaker, every tailor and all workers in the cloak and suit trade will be given an opportunity to join the union of their trade at a special meeting and concert on Tues- day, April 21 at 8 p. m. at 138% So. Spring street. _The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers, Local 52, They appeal to all workers to attend the “meeting and join up with the organized workers in the trade. Boe May Day-in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, April 17—May Day will be celebrated in Los Angeles by the Workers Party and Young Work- ers’ League by, a mass meeting and entertainment, at which Tom Lewis, new district organizer of the party, will be the chief speaker. The juniors will do the entertaining on May Day and promise a program which will equal any that they have yet given, The Young Workers’ League will be represented by a speaker who will talk on the significance of May Day. Due to the many attractive features on the program, including the first appearance of Comrade Lewis in Los Angeles, our friends and sympathizers are urged to turn out one hundred per cent to this- meeting, which will take place at the Co-operative Center, Brooklyn and Mott. Subscribe im the DAILY HOTEL, READS OF HIS ADVENTURES Hard to Keep Up* with American Liars MOSCOW—(FP)—Bill Haywood is beginning to find it a bore reading about his perilous and hair-breadth adventures among the blood-thirsty Bolsheviki, printed in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and other American capitalist papers. Clippings have been pouring in to him from all quarters of the capitalist world. The latest imaginative effort of the Times and the Tribune described Bill's ad- ventures beating his way through tur- bulent Georgia down into Soviet Ar- menia, arriving starved and in rags at the foreign mission in Armenia, begging for a chance to return to the comforts of Leavenworth. Ensconced in his armchair in a com: ortable room in the Lux Hotel in Moscow, Bill reads of the sad stéry of his scrap with Zinoviev, who want- ed him to return to the’ states in dis- guise (can you see Bill in disguise?) to foment 4 Negro rebellion. Bill, ac- cording to the Times, refused to do such a mean thing to the government of his beloved country, and was promptly kicked out of his soft job, his comfortable room, and even out of the country, Managing, by ‘the skin of his teeth to reach the mission in Armenia, Bill announced that he was through with the Bolsheviks and that he wanted to return to a white man’s country, even though it be Leaven- worth. Like the intelligent readers of th¢ American capitalist press, Bill grins, Charge U. S. Senate Wheeler Hoped to Make Million in Oil Deal (Continued from page 1) Washington as the representative of an important constituent who was anxious to bring wealth to Montana.” Wheleer admits he was employed by Campbell, and that he put Camp- bell’s troubles in the hands of Ed. Booth, the: Washington attorney, and-~-- represented Campbell in the local courts, “The great question for the jury,” Senator Thomas J. Walsh, chief coun- sel for Wheeler, told the court, “is whether Wheeler agreed to accept compensation for service rendered in Washington. He was entitled to take care of Montana litigation. It is no crime for a senator to represent a nstituent before the department of e interior. If that were so, I would be on trial here.” see Oil Permits Read. -| -GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 17.-—-- Frequent spirited clashes between government and defense counsel en- oe today 's trial of Senator Wheel. ant feeling ‘between opposing attor-. neys broke out heatedly when Sena- tor Walsh objected to presentation by Slattery of detailed formal documents relating to Montana oil and gas per- mits. Slattery called W. E. Bennett, regis trar of the Great Falls office to the stand to explain the records dealing with permits issued to Gordon Camp- bell and his associates by the interior department to prospect for oil. Some of the permits’ went as far back as 1921. Wheeler is accused of receiving a fee from Campbell to obtain interior department permits. Berbers Win Increase of $4 a Week After 5-Month Controversy After five months of consideration of the Journeymen Barbers’ demand for higher wages tney were granted a raise of $4 a week. The decision was handed down by Charles Bendheim, a commissioner for the United States department of labor. The new agreement raises the bar- bers’ wages from $26 to $30 a week. The union’s original demand called for a raise of $10 a week and shops to close at 7'p. m. At present they close at 8 o'clock. There will be a meeting of the bar- bers’ union April 20, to ratify the new wage agreement. JUNIORS, HELP WANTED! Are you willing and able to donate | an hour or two of your time some day after school or Saturday after- noon or morning to clip newspapers for the research department of the DAILY WORKER? We'll pay. the carfare, to. and from the office, at 1113 W. Washington Bivd, Charge Lawyers Are “Fences” LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 17, — With completion of the govern: case against Tom Poe and Davis, Little Rock attorneys, w on trial in United States court here on charges of having” at- tempted to dispose of part $3,000,000 loot obtained im th up of a train at Rondout, IL, le tense began introduction of when court opened today,