The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1925, Page 1

) Daily Worker Annual Sub- scription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON TT! Vol. II. No. 88. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. ULGARIA is very much in the news today. It is today, the chief bourgeois. slaughterhouse, where the workers are being annihilated merely for being workers. There is no pro- test against this reign of terror in the capitalist press. The governments that used to keep the wires hot in de- nunciation of the defensive measures of the Soviet government, approve of the actions of the’ murderous white |, assassins of Bulgaria. ses HE Bulgarian government, known among the workers and peasants of*Europe as the “Government of As- sassins” is the creature of Britain and the favorite political puppet of Austen Chamberlain. It seized’ power with the’ connivance of the British govern- ment and has held office since then by the support of the same government. Zankov, the present premier, had Stambulisky murdered; 15,000 peas- ants lost their’ lives in the insurrec- tion he provoked in September, 1923. ‘ eee HIS assassin gang suppressed the Workers’ Union, with a member- ship of 40,000, and the Workers’ and Peasants’ Co-operative Society with e membership of 70,000 was declared il legal and all its property confiscated When this flend Zankov thought he had the country pacified in 1924, he ordered an electiop, but tho the social- ists had bargained with him as to the number of deputies both should have, the Communists and peasants polled over 200,000 votes and elected 25 de: uties. Zankov then made up hi mind to eliminate his enemies Means of assassination. * INCE then Zankoy has assassinat- ed, at a conservative estimate, at Jeast 500 Communists and. peasants, not to speak of the thousands he has executed in mass. Bulgarian rev- olutionary leaders who managed to escape from the country have been tracked down and assassinated in for- eign cities. The following letter, writ- ten by Zankov’s right hand man, Stancheff, to the Bulgarian minister in Rome, openly boasting of one mur- by der and planning other is {luminat- ing. Itvreads: arco maceniuiieRnaibasaeeee WAS overjoyed at the news of the death of the traitor Tchauleff. [ am sure that Dmitroff (leader of the outlawed unions) will suffer the same fate. He is now in Rome and I shall Rot sleep.in peace until he shall have peristed. We shall get rid of Dr. Maximoff, as well as Kosturkof (leader of the bourgeois opposition to Zankov's regime). Yesterday at La- zaroft’s (commandant of Sofia garri- son) I heard about Vlahoff. We are going to send our men down there to settle their accpunt, as well as Kolar- off's. ,Lambieff has left a fortnight ago for London to put away Rakov- eky (Soviet envoy in London). Don't worry about money. All will be paid. 1 am.sending you to carry on your werk 8,000 lire. Thousand greetings. Stancheff.” CER N the month of January alone 150 political asszssinations were com- mited by Zankov fiends. One of the most prominent of those was a young school teacher. He was taken to a Police station by detectives and was found later strangled with wire on “the streets of the capital. se 8 HIS information does not come from a Communist source. It is the summary of a letter sent to Brit- ish working class organizations and was published in George Lansbury’s ‘Weekly. Note that the socialists had a united front with the fascisti. Some of our readers might not believe this, attributing the charge to Communist malice. But George Lansbury is not « Communist. He is a member of the independent labor party, and a mem- ber of the British parliament. = ee HIS. government of murderers is now trying to use the latest act of retaliation as an excuse for a fresh \orgy ef executions. And it is not sur- ‘Continued ou page 8) wn NEW SUBSCRir nde "Hi 8 be ae te Gury? 4 Yorx ne <a" SOVIET ORGAN SCORES PRESS ON BULGARIA | Big Revolt Reported Is Against Fascisti e (Special to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, April 22—The Izvestia today denounced the capitalist press for its lying campaign in blaming the Sofia bomb explosion on the Com- munist International. The paper de- clared that the reported order from the Communist International ordering a revolution in Bulgaria on April 15 was 4 clumsy forgery, cee The King a Prisoner. VIENNA, April 22.—The king of Bulgaria is reported a prisoner in his own palace, as firing squads are kept busy executing Communist and peas- ant leaders thruout the part of the country where the Zankov government. rules. All the news coming over the wires out of Sofia is censored, but enough ‘s learned to indicate that the fascist egime is tottering. The wholesale xecutions carried out by the Zankov egime have inflamed the peasantry wainst the government and a general iprising is _reported to have taken lace, Blamed the Communists. The fascist government issued an official statement today blaming the sathedral explosion on the Commun- sts. The Roumanian royal family jave made arrangements to receive Sing Boris in the event of his posi- ‘ion becoming untenable in Bulgaria. It would not surprise anybody here 9 learn that the Zankov ministry has ‘allen, It is believed if it goes down t the members of the present gov- ment will never come up again. INDIANA KLUXER FILES PETITION 'So y Accused. of. Murderous ‘Attack on Girl INDIANAPOLIS, April 22.—Marion county jail will be the temporary nome of David C? Stephenson, deposed ku klux klan organizer, at least until next Monday, when he will be brought into criminal court for a hearing on his petition to be allowed bail. This became certain today with the announcement of Eph Inmnan, chief counsel for “Stephenson, who is charged with’ first degree murder in connection with the death of Madge Oberholtzer, 28, Attorney Inman said no further‘attempts to obtain freedom for Stephenson would be made until after the hearing. At the hearing Monday the prosec- utor must unravel in court the mass of evidence he claims to have war- ranting Stephenson’s retention witi- out bail pending trial. The hearing on the bail petition was exepected to develop into a virtual trial itself with a score of witnesses to be heard. Among those who will be called to testify against Stephenson will be Mrs. George E. Oberholtzer, mother of the girl Stephenson is alleged to have attacked in a sleeping car, causing her to “swallow poison tablets out of shame and pain.” Mrs.- Oberholtzer was seriously ill at her home today and it was said she might be unable to testify Mon- day.“In this event, at the request of the defense, the hearing wees be post- poned: i a Fire Sweeps Mexican City. BISBEE, Ariz., April 22—Two dead, forty injured, and a property loss of $250,000 was the toll in the fire whick swept Cananae, Sonora, Mexico, 65 miles from here, according to word received today, SOUTH AFRICANS MOVE TO BOYCOTT WALES AS PRINCE DANCES GAILY (Special to The Daily Worker) | CAPETOWN, South Africa, April South African natives, as a result of 22.—The increasing restlessness of fe the approaching visit of the prince of Wales, is seen in a move here to boycott the prince's visit when he arrives. The. outbreak at Bloemfontein, where Britis! veral other Africans during a demon: wounded Police killed four and ation, is but one sign of the resentment of the South Africans at the ppl issive rule of British im- perialism. “shows” which have been put on by the African natives, to enter- tain the prince, have been. staged wholly by native troops, commanded and officered by British soldi 4 ke . * PRINCE GAY AND UNCONCERNED LAGOS, Nigeria, April 22.—Reports that the natives Pleasure at the “royal visit” have not perturbed the prince of Wales. “ball here, staying up until well into the m danced every number no-one. b he aay to showing dis He recuperate, mail, $8.00 per year. go, by mail, $6.00 per year, Lt FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 4925 WORKERS PARTY ASKS FOR UNITY OF LABOR ON REAL PROLETARIAN E DAILY WORKER. | Entered as-second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post OMce at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, a” EDUCATION FOR CLASS STRUGGLE CHAMBER ONLY The complete surrender of the Work: the Workers’ Education “Bureau, which took place at its fourth national convention at Philadelphia, to the theories and practice of class collaboration, and the capture-of the con- vention by the reactionary bureaucracy of the A. ‘F. of L. has . elicited from the educational department of the Workers Party; the following statement upon workers’ education and the role of: workers’ schools: A Statement of the Educational Department of the Workers Party. tt The Workers Party on the occasion of the fourth annual convention of the Workers’ Education Bureau, meeting in Philadelphia, (feels it important AFTER BIG ROW C ommusist. Lealler Be- gins‘ Amnesty Drive PARIS, April 22.—Former Premier to point out the vital task of labor education in the United States and the|equard Herriot today was elected issues affecting groups and representatives of workers gathered to promote president of the chamber of deputies. ‘workers’ education. What is Workers’ Education? The activities of the W. E. B. dur- ing the period of its existence raises the entire question of workers’ edu: cation. What is workers’ education? It is. self-evident that workers are compelled to organize for their own education because the educational forces of the present system are be- ing perverted and prostituted to mis- represent the facts of our social life; to instil in workers a consciousness of the permanency and superiority of the present capitalist system; to pre: vent the workers as a class from unit- ing in opposition to their position as wage laborers. No proof is necessary for the Tr tion that our schools, universities and other educational agencies are the (Continued on page 3) WHEELER’S AID HELPED OIL MEN AT LAND OFFICE Secretary of Senator Did Dirty Work GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 22.— Denials’ that Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Montana ever practiced as a paid attorney before the interior de- ‘were made by a number of ee ieee in the trial of Wheel- er for alleged. misuse of office, in. fed- eral court here today. The first was Richard A. Haste, Washington, secretary to Wheeler, who testified to the habitual practice of members of congress in interesting themselves before federal depart- ments in behalf of constituents. Secretary Before Interior Department “Wheeler had an unusually large number of. departmental cases, but I handled practically all of them for him,” said Haste, who added that he took Gordon Campbell, Montana pro- secutor, whom Wheeler is accused of representing, to the interior depart- Ment for the first time. “Campbell was having some land troubles, and I took him to the in- terior degartment and introduced him to officials there,” declare Haste. “Wheeler was in Europe at that time.” Previous to Campbell’s arrival in Washington, however, Haste. testified he accompanied Wheeler to the in- terior. “Were Campbell’s of) permits dis- cussed?” asked John L. Slattery, United States district attorney: “Not at all,” replied Haste. “So far as I know Wheeler never discussed or wrote about oil permits for anybody.” Banker Aids Wheeler It was learned today that Frank A. Vanderlip, financier and Samuel Untermyer, New York attorney are gathering defense witnesses in New York who will be sent here to testi- ty regarding George B. Hayes’ char- acter. Vanderlip organized the citi- zens’ research ‘committee to assist Wheeler in prosecuting the senator's investigation of the -department of justice. Wheeler scored an ‘important vic- tory when his lawyers forced the gov- ernment to give up letters favorable to Wheeler which had been seized in the offices of Edwin S. Booth, former solicitor of the land office at Wash- ington. The letters were a contradic- tion of the statement of Hayes that Wheeler protected Campbell's oil in- terests before the land office, Friends of Wheeler are busy raising (Continued from page 2) Poison Food Makes Five Hundred Ill in Indian School RIVERSIDE, Calif., April 22.—Five hundred students of Sherman Insti- aot ae hee Indian school, were recover- ere today from the effects of Hing Plone food Sunday. that a wholesale dose of stry- had been ‘ministered to the students caused th. yuthorities to put ‘emergency call for every avail. the cli, temiditiast Reveals Foe of the "Foreign Workers wasmnaton to. )D.C., April 22.— President Coolidge again revealed himself as a foe the foreign-born worker in a Fak there before the Daughters of thé American Revolution when he praised the “policy of restric- tion.” Coolidge expressed the wish to make the barring of aliens per- Manent. Two Die jn Plane, Wreck. BARCELONA, April 22.—Julio Sanz and Luis Fernandez were seriously burned in) the destruction of. a: mili- } tary airplane by fire here today. DAILY: ASSAILS Giese Union Record: of Russian Delegates LONDON, April 8—(By Mail)—To- day’s Daily Herald carried an inter- esting story on the Soviet trade un- ion teaders who it into conference with their rades this morn, ‘ing to . of. bringing about ‘the international unity of the working: class im the trade union movement, The following vwith the heading “Workers All” is therHerald’s story: The conference between the repre- sentatives of the British Trades Union Congress and the: Rutsian Trades Un- ion Congress opensthis morning at Eccleston square. The meeting is»thé/sequel to the ef- forts made by theBritish delegation at Amsterdam in-'February in the cause of unity. On instruction:«from the general council of the I. U. C., the British delegates urged that.an unconditional preliminary conferemee should be held between representatives of the Inter- national Federation of Trade Unions and -representativeszef the Russian unions, in order to discuss frankly the ation and the difficulties in the way of unity. : This proposal the other members of the I. F, T. U. council were not pre- pared to accept. They insisted that (Continued on page 5) Unemployment in Steel Mills Shown by Total Wages Paid YOUNGSTOWN) Ohio, April 22— The banks here bavé announced a wage distribution in’ Youngstown of $6,476,668 for March: This is about $400,000 less than othe "February pay- roll. This was declared to be an in- dication of irregularity in steel mill employment. The payroll for the first three months of this yearswas $20,074,822, but in 1924 for the-same ‘period it was $21,257,665. Griffin To Be Rebuilt. EVANSVILLE, Ind.)April 22.—Prao- teally all of Griffiin,sthe village that was demolished by tht recent tornado, will be rebuilt. Plams to rebuild 106 of the 159 buildings destroyed are complete. ANTI-KLAN CANDIDATE IS ELECTED MAYOR OF ~ HERRIN BY 199 VOTES * WERRIN, | April 22.—Marshall G. McCormack, anti-klan candidate known by his own words as “the re- formed klansman,” will be Herrin's new mayor, official tabulations showed today. McCormack, former coal miner who has desertediklan ranks be- cause of their tertogistic acts, was elected over the klan candidate, Tom Welty, by 19 ¥6tes. No vio- lence of any kind bwas reported, 4400 vote wane sale. , ‘ ———————— ee en a Waa sad His election followed dissension on the part of those opposed to the ministry of Premier Painleve. The op- position for a time held up the elec- tion. Joseph.Caillaux was the centre of royalist and right wing opposition in he chamber of. deputies when «he strode into his old seat on the mfnis- terial section which he otcupied in 1913, While Painleye was talking the chamber was howling. Marcel Cachin Communist leader, however succeeded in calming the deputies while he bit- terly arraigned the Painleve declara- tion, in‘an unusually long speech. Abandons Two Points “The government says it follows the lines of the preceding cabinet” said Cachin “but it abandons twe of its important points, that of the vatican and Alsace and Lorraine, and among the members of the cabinet is Chau- met, who contributed to Herriot’s de- feat. Francis Marsal who launched the attack on Herriot in the senate, is a barker utilizing his influence as a senator for the service of the bank- ing interests. Herriot told you that the government lost its independence to the bankers. “With Caillaux as minister we must have complete amnesty for all or there will be an intolerable scandal. What does the government think of women’s suffrage after parliament has voted on it twenty times?” GARY MAYOR TO FEDERAL PRISON “AS BOOTLEGGER Elected by the United States Steel Co. INDIANAPOLIS, ‘Ind., April 22. — Roswell O. Johnson, former Gary (Ind.) mayor, and the forty co-defen- dants in the Gary liquor conspiracy case, probably will be taken to Leavenworth, Kans., federal prison next Saturday to begin serving sen- tences passed by Judge A. B. Ander- son in March, 1923, it was announced at the United States marshal’s office today. Prison warrants will be turned over to the marshal tomorrow, the clerk said, and notices sent to all the de fendants who are out on bond, to ap- pear at the marshal’s office here. Several defendants in the Gary case have completed or are serving their sentences, Mayor Johnson was elected to of- fice with the backing of the United States Steel corporation officials. He protected their interests while in of- fice. When fatal accidents occurred in the mills, Johnson helped suppress the news of the extent of these ac- cidents, The names and number of those ened: ae eee withheld. SOUTHERN MOB MURDERS NEGRO ‘ON GIRL'S WORD Another san Is Being CARTHAGE, -N.-G., April 22,—Fol- lowing on the heels of the lynching of William Buckley, an 18 year old Negro, near McComb, Mississippi, comes the word that a mob is chasing Dock Roberts, another Negro, in the woods near here, Two Negro women found a girl who had beet returning from ‘school, in a@ wood,-with w strap drawn tightly around her throat. Roberts is accused of attacking her, altho there is no evidence against him. The 18 year old Negro boy was murdered in Mississippi, on the: state- ment of a six year old girl that she was attacked by him, Buckley, how- ever, had been released from jail by the sheriff on a small bail bond, a4 it was thot the girl might be using her imagination, After Buckley had returned home, Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ‘CO,, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, HL HERRIOT HEADS |[ COMMUNIST FOR MAYOR DAN STEVENS Communist Candidate for Mayor of Minneapolis, Minn. IDEPT. OF WAR ‘WITHHELD NEWS OF RED ARRESTS Hawaiian Papers Under Strict Censorship (Special to The Dally Worker.) HONOLULU, Hawaii, April 22— Proof that the war department sup- pressed for many days the news of the arrest of seven Communist sol- diers at Schofield Barracks, near here, has just been furnished. Altho the seven Communists were arrested on February 19, the news of the arrests was not printed in the Honolulu papers until April 3, Even -then, the news was incomplete. The Honolulu Star Bulletin, .ow April 3, in a story under the head- line, “Five Soldiers Implicated in Al- leged Plot,” declared: “Notwithstand- ing the fact that courts martial are public trials, the newsPapers were giv- en no notification of this, trial until it closed. The first news published was sent out from the intelligence office at Schofield late Friday afternoon, al- tho Private Crouch was, sentenced to forty years in prison. “This news failed to state that others had been implicated and that the trial of a second man was to be- gin’ Monday. Strong objection was raised today to the publication by the Star Bulletin of the latter.” When this dispatch was, published, the secret trial of Walter. Trumbull had already been going on two days, and all news of the trial was sup- pressed. The report goes on to state, “The charges-against Private Crouch were filed March 10. His trial started Monday or Tuesday of this week and ended Thursday, officials of the army intelligence office declaring that they ‘did not Pay much attention to it af- ter completing their part of the work.’” The above paragraph was in bold faced type. The newspapers did not then know that Crouch, Trumbull, Nadeau, Creque, Ebert, Schwartz and Domagalski were arrested on Febru- ary 19, and held incommunicado since that date. ‘The'Star Bulletin further complains, “The ‘arrest of the enlisted men al- leged to be implicated in the plot, the filing of the charges against them, and their trial was surrounded by se- erecy by officials of the army intel- ligence: corps at Schofield, who have assured: the newspapers at various times thatit was their purpose to as- sist them in gathering the news of the army here, for the people of Honolulu and Hawaii.” MINES GLOSING DOWN AND MONESSEN STEEL MILLS ON PART TIME (Special to The Dally Worker) MONESSEN, Pa., April 22.—More men wer thrown into the ranks of the unemployed, when the mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. at Price- dale, near here, other mines ni close down, according to rumors. Many mines in this district are be- ing dismantled and rails are being removed from the entries, This is a de to the steel barons when there are 80 many un- employed, it is their chance to slice down the wages of the steel workers, The mills here are not running very good, many men are being laid he was taken out by @ mob and oigff, and many work at part time. This je Goolldae’s “good times.” NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents COMMUNIST 1S UP FOR MAYOR IN MINNEAPOLIS Ste vens “to Open the Campaign May Day (Special to The Daily Worker.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. April 22— Dan W. Stevens, president of Paint- ers’ Local Union, No. 186, and local Communist leader, today filed as a candidate for mayor. Several weeks ago the local Com- munist organization sent out letters to all labor unions and other working class organizations calling for a unity conference to agree upon a slate of local candidates to run in opposition to the present capitalist candidates. It is generally understood that this conference failed to materialize be- cause of the opposition of the consery ative labor leaders who desired to sup- port the present republican mayor for re-election. Fought For Unity. In filing Dan W. Stevens, the Workers (Communist) Party issued a statement in which it said, “Our party first fought in the trade union move ment to unite all of the forces uf la- bor behind one working class candi- date. Our efforts in this -espect were defeated by reactionary lh. bor leaders who were more concerned in serving capitalism and its politica! henchmen than they were in fighting, for the in- terests of the working class. It there- fore, became our duty as a Commun- ist organization serving only the ia- terests of the workers to file a candt- date who will utilize the campaign as a means of rallying the workers im the immediate struggle agaiast the citizens’ alliance and the “op32 shop” bosses of Minneapolis and if elected will utilize the mayor’s office to serve only the interests of the workers, In filing Dan W. Stevens, we haye a can- didate, who, by his record int the la- bor movement of this citr, hag proven ‘fighting qualities os & labor leader.” : Well-Known to Workrrs. Stevens is well-known in the local labor movement. After returising from the Spanish American war 42 which he served in-the Philippines and re ceived his first taste of the agressive. ness of American imperialisn:, he join- ed the Painters’ Union and ‘has been an active member ever sinee, having held every office in the local organ- ization and now serving as president of Local No. 186. For 17 years he served as 8 cielegate to the Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly, fifteen of which he was an officer and from 1921 to 1924 ike serv- ed as an organizer of the apsembly. He was recently unseated asa dele gate by the reactionaries becatse of his membership in the Workers {Com- munist) Party and because of . his criticism of the failure of these re actionaries to adopt a militant pre gram of action against the attack oy the bosses in their effort te cut wageq and reduce the workers’ standard ot living. During his activities in the labor movement he, like most militants, came to understand that the present capitalist government was an insteu- ment in the hands of the capitalists to be used against the workers, In 1920 he was imprisoned for contempt of court after he had refused. to re- spect an injunction issued by Judge Bardwell, forbidding the moving pic- ture operators the,right to picket a local theater. Stevens, after the in- (Continued on page 6.) ‘ N.Y. WOMEN FIGHT LAWS ATTACKING FOREIGN-BORN Meeting Wednesday at. . Hennington Hall . NEW YORK, “April 22.—There will be a mass:meeting to protest against the new deportation bills now pending before congress, the purpose of which is to further shackle the foreign-born workers in this country, Wednesday, April 29, 8 p. m,, at the Hennington Hall, 214-216 Second street, New York City. The speakers will be: Margaret Undjus, a member of the Lithuanian Women's \Progréssive Alliance of America; Rose’ Barron, representing the Labor Defense Council; Fanny Warshetsky, a: member. of the Fur. riers’ Union, oA The United, Council. of Working: Class Women, which is arranging this» - mast meeting Ag all other h wate apy partlod pate