The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1925, Page 2

» Page Two ~ is HINDENBURG AND|°""" MARX KISS U.S BANKERS” BOOTS Communists Have Only Program for Workers BERLIN, Germany, April 23.—The monarchist candidate, Field Marshal von Hindenburg, and the candidate of the republican-catholic-socialist bloc, have made the dominant issue of the campaign for election as president of Germany next Sunday, whether Amer- ican financiers will boycott Germany if Hindenburg is elected president. Forgetting the vital issues which Rave enslave the masses of the Ger- man workers, unemployment, low wages, long hours, and high prices, the two candidates of the bourgeois blocs are frankly attempting to win support of the international bankers, led by Wall Street. Curry Favor With Foreign Banks Both Hindenburg and Marx uphold the Dawes plan which has put the German workers at the mercy of the American bankers. Both candidates, openly admit that the German in- dustrialist cannot keep down the re- volt of the workers and the establish- ment of a workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernment without ald from foreign im- perialists. Without protest these can- didates have seen Germany sink to the level of a colonial possession, and now declare themselves satisfied. The newspapers are printing long dispatches from New York and Wash- ington which declare that.no loans will be advanced to Germany if Hin- denburg wins. The American bankers are against the establishment of a monarchist dictatorship, of the Ger- man bourgeoisie, some say, preferring the weak socialist coalition which | they can more easily manipulate. On} the other hand, Hindenburg has stated | that foreign influence in Germany will | not be diminished if he is elected. Pope Does Not Object To Socialists The nationalist press, supporting Hindenburg, charges that the pope ob- | jects to the coalition of the catholic party with the socialists. Cardinal Gasparri, however, in a widely pub- lished interview, states that the pope | has no objection whatever to the socialists and catholics. | The socialist newspapers predict that Marx will be elected with 14,- 260,000 votes as against 12,450,000 cast for Hindenburg. Communist To|Get Big Vote Thaelmann is the only worker run- ning for president: The. Communists are the only party in the campaign which have presented a program sole- ly in the interests of the millions of the German workers and peasants. Berlin and other large cities are placarded with thousands of large red posters, bearing the slogan, “Workers of Germany—Vote Red, Vote for the Worker Thaelmann. Communist Par- ty of Germany, section of the Com- munist International.” Many workers predict that the Com- munists will poll over two million votes. Fascisti Use Clubs. ROME, Itlay, April 23.—The fascisti marching in the parade to celebrate the founding of Rome carried short clubs. Anyone failing to salute their banners was hit on the head with these clubs. JOBLESS AND HUNGRY DISHWASHER SMASHES WINDOW FOR FOOD NEW YORK, April 22—James Nealey, 36 years old, who lived in a lodging house at Third Ave. and 123rd street, had searched all day in vain for work as a dishwasher and last night he stood in front of the State Cafeteria at 205 West 125th street, because it was the kind of place he had once worked in and because there was food in the win- dow. In the center of the display of things to eat,was a big strawberry shortcake covered with whipped cream and studded with red berries, Nealey gazed at it for a long time and then walked to the curb, picked up a brick and hurled it thru the glass. Patrolman Vincent Tracy caught him immediately. “| haven’t had a thing to eat all day,” said Nealey, and he was to the West 123rd street police tion and locked up. STRETCH OF THE DAILY WORKER RUSSIA NAMES LARGE’ LAND AFTER LENIN MOSCOW, Soviet Russia, April 23.—Viadimir Lenin Land is the new name to be given to the large stretch of land discovered by the Russian Arctic explorer Velketzky in 1913, and originally named “Nicholas I!” land. The land lies along the eightieth parallel at 100 east longitude. The Soviet government plans to send an expedition to the islands soon under Professor A. Panegin to holst the red flag of the Soviet Union and make geological and geographical surveys of the entire region, (Continued from page 1) of making themselves look ridiculous by bringing in a constitutional provi- ion that “no class or institution which carries on propaganda shall be eligible for membership.” This brought forth a considerable amount of dis- cussion and made of the Sunday morn- ing session the only one during the entire conference which wasn’t as dead as a prayer meeting. Some of the delegates pointed out that the term “propaganda” may be used to cover almost anything, that in fact, the trdae union movement and its members mist be propagandists} for that idea and hence a grave dan- ger would ensue from the adoption of such a provision which today, was used for barring the Communists and lefts might at some future date be used to bar anyone or any group that did not completely fall in line with the conceptions of the ruling body. Lefkowitz-Wall Combination. Lefkowitz, of the teachers’ union, put the case clearly. He said that he opposed the proposed constitutional amendment, but on the other hand thought they should come out clearly and definitely in their statement to bar Communists. On this, he, a so- cialist, was in complete agreement and would do all he could to aid them in putting over such a proposal and in seeing to it that it was put into effect, Lillian on the Fente (It Was a Strong Fence) Lillian Herstein of Chicago wanted the “truth” pure and unadultered to be taught to the workers, not from any class viewpoint! Ray Ragazon of the Brooklyn Co- operative School was the lone fighter for opposition to the “propaganda” proposal on class lines. She said that she was against the resolution be- Woll Tries to Banish Class Struggle cause she was in favor of propaganda, working class propaganda; that she recognized the class division of so- ciety and viewed workers’ education as education that taught the workers their interests and prepared them for a struggle against capitalism. To speak of workers’ education being im- partial is nonsense, Workers Party Statement an Irritant. The Workers’ School delegation, which had been denied the rights of voice or vote at the convention, pre- pared a lengthy statement of their non-admittance and on the Workers Party point of view on education. These were mimeographed and dis- tributed to all delegates and visitors at the convention, They caused quite a flurry in the ranks of the reaction- aries and also aroused bitterness among the wishy-washy socialists and liberals by its severe criticism of their complete bankruptcy and sur- render before the A. F, of L. machine. The term “working class” was taboo at the convention, even the socialists falling in line with the more respectable “people.” Capitalism was never mentioned by name. No word of the class struggle or of preparation for conducting it fell from the lips of any.of these delegates and “leaders” of America’s labor movement. Did Nothing Useful. The conference failed to accomplish a single useful task. True, it made of the W. E. B. a section of the A. F. L., with control completely in the hands of the central A. F. of L. ma- chine and the international unions. It showed the socialists creeping and crawling before the reactionaries, giv- ing up without the slightest pretense of a fight even that meager lip service which they had formerly given to the class struggle. .The struggle for a live and militant policy of workers’ education must be made, but spine- less “radicals” and liberal professors will never be the leaders of this move- ment. That task, among so many others, must fall upon the shoulders of the American Communists. FORD IS TARGET FOR LIBEL SUIT BY WEALTAY JEW Flivver King, Notorious Hebrew Hater (Special to The Daily Worker.) DETROIT, April 23.—A suppressed suit for $1,000,000 charging libel, has been filed in federal court against the Dearborn Independent and Henry Ford, by attorneys representing Aaron Shapiro, of Chicago, it became known today. William Henry Gallagher, attorney for the Chicago man, stated that the suit is the result of libelous articles printed in the Dearborn Independent, Ford’s newspaper. The articles stat- ed, Gallagher says, that Shapiro was the head of a Jewish combine bent on getting control of American agri- culture. Announcement was made sometime ago from Chicago that such a suit would be filed. Court records show that it went on file here yesterday. A summons has been issued, but no service has been made on Ford. Bishop Brown Speaks. NEW YORK, April 23.—Bishop Wil- liam Montgomery Brown, who has twice been condemned by episcopal church courts as a “herétic,” spoke before the Community church here, and read his “confession of faith,” which refuses to accept the bible li- terally. Warming Up In Chicago. ‘With the thermometer registering 80 degrees at 10 a. m. here today and still climbing indications were that a new high point of all time for this season of the year would be reached before night. The. high point for April, Chicago weather bureau records show, was 84.6 reached on April 19, 1915. the biggest ‘thousand before the factory gates. propaganda ous factories. of Gratiot, not later than 12 Volunteers will De at the district o WANTED IN DETROIT NE HUNDRED Detroit Communists to participate in ay 1st DAILY WORKERS are to be distributed Twenty automobiles must be at the disposal of the committee to take the papers and distributers to the vari- Men, women and automobiles shall present them- selves at the House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin, corner lease notify comrades Goetz or Owens beforehand so that all arrangements can be completed in time for this biggest event of the year. Communists! On to the factory gates on May event of the year. Twenty o'clock noon, Friday, May 1. ay! ‘FREE HAWAIIAN RED SOLDIERS’, LABOR DEMANDS Cleveland to Hold Big Demonstration (Special to The Daily Worker.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 23.—The Cleveland local of the Young Workers League is energetically preparing for a mass demonstration against Amer- ican militarism which will take place on the public square at 2:30 p. m., Saturday, April 25. The young workers of Cleveland will voice their protest against the imprisonment of Comrades Crouch and Trumbull who were sentenced to 40 and 26 years respectively as a result of their Communist activities by an American court martial in Hawaii. Soldiers Belong to Working Class. The meeting will demand the im- mediate and unconditional release of the two soldier-Communists and the recognition by the government of the right of soldiers to belong to working class political organizations, thru reso- lutions which will be presented at the demonstration. The audience will be addressed by Comrades Phillip. Shatz and Carl Weissberg, members of the local ex- ecutive committee of the Y. W. L. and J. A. Hamilton, local organizer of the Workers Party, The speakers will point out the true needs for military forces by capitalist governments and the necessity of a bitter and unceas- ing struggle against all capitalist mil- itarism. All Members Attend. The local executive committee of the Y. W. L, feels that it is the duty of every league member to be present and help swell the attendance at the meeting and to assist in the distribu- tion of literature in order that this meeting may have the maximum of success it deserves, Sand Hogs on Tunnel Job in New York on Strike Against Cut (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, April 23.—Two hun- dred tunnel workers employed by Booth & Flynn, contractors for the New York-New Jersey vehicular tun- nel, are on strike against a wage cut. They are members of the Compressed Air and Foundation, Workers’ Union, Local 63. They havé been cut to the wages of laborers from the union scale for skilled men working under air pressure, Subscribe for “the WORKER! DAILY “Ley CAPTAIN) MADE NO EFFORT TO SAVE SAILORS Japanese Crew Sank as'| Homeric Stood Near NEW YORK April 23.—The captain of the White Star liner Homeric al- lowed the Japanese sailors belonging to the crew of the Japanese freighter Raifuku Maru to drown without mak- ing a gesture to save them, passengers on the Homeric.charged as the liner made port here. The liner stood by while the freighter sank, and Captain John Roberts gave no orders to lower lifeboats to go to the struggling sail- ors’ aid. Failure to try to cast off the life rafts attached to’ the Homeric by Tropes, so that the waves would carry them to the Japanese sailors strug- gling in the mountainous seas, was the main contention of Captain Roberts’ critics. Amos R. E. Pinchot, brother of Gov- ernor Pinchot of: Pennsylvania, was one of the group of passengers who said they saw Japanese sailors strug- gling in the water after the Raifuku Maru had disappeared, “The captain’s statement,” he said, “was extremely inaccurate when he said there was no life in water after the freighter capsized. “I personally saw several men be- ing carried toward the Homeric.” Liston L. Lewis, a New York attor- ney, one of the passengers, said: “I was not impressed that the Homeric upheld the traditions of English sail- ors. I saw several men struggling in the water after the Japanese ship cap- sized.” Leaders of British Labor Score Bloody Zankov Regime (Continued from page 1). lend their moral aid to Bulgaria, great good will be done and the props which support Bolshevism will gradually fall.” The object of this appeal by the yellow socialist was to induce the gov- ernments of England, France and Ita- ly to accede to the request of the Zan- kov government for permission to in- crease the standing. army. The Bri- tish minister in Sofla succeeded in having the Jugo-Slay government drop its hostility to this proposition and Roumania ‘and Greege protested in vain. As a concession to the two latter countries, Bulgaria will not be allowed to increase her artillery sup- ply. It should not be forgotten that there are approximately 30,000 of Wrangel’s army still.im Bulgaria, who are at the disposal of:thé fascist lead- er Zankov. May Slit King’s’ Windpipe It is rumoured that King Boris wanted to call a halt'on the reign of terror and is imprisoned in his palace. Zankov is just as liable to cut the royal throat as not. The Berlin bureau of the New York World declares that Bulgaria is trembling on the verge of revolution. 5 The European capitalist powers are making a united front with the Zan- kov government. This alliance is led and dominated by the British who are the original supporters of Zankov. One report puts the killed in the fighting at 60,000, but this is probably an exagerration. While it is almost impossible to believe any news that comes officially out of Bulgaria, there is reason to believe that the peasants have risen in several sections and are holding their own against the Zankov troops. Wood, Philippine Dictator, to Raise Funds in America MANILA, P. I., April 23.—Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, dictator over the Phi- lippine Islands on behalf of American imperialism, will soon launch a drive in the United States to collect a mil, lion dollar fund. The fund is to be used, according to Wood, to purchase ¢haulmoogra oil, which is said to be a new cure for leprosy. Sentence Soldier to Hang MANILA, April 23.—Private Wil- liam Johnson, United States army, was sentenced to hang here today for the murder of Private William Willoughby. Johnson shot Willough- by after they quarreled as to the cor- rect procedure on the rifle range. Give Up Fight on Ship Monopoly WASHINGTON, D, C., April 23.— The Pacific Mail Steampship company today abandoned its suit against the United States shipping board to pre- vent sale of five “president” type liners to the Robert Dollar Line. A most on “Sacred” Government Again Applies the Lash To Its Postal Slaves By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, the U. S. Post Office Department, that very recent- ly opposed unsuccessfully a wage increase for the postal workers, shows that it possesses all the qualities of a blood- sucking capitalist taskmaster. Because the workers won a few more pennies in wages, the first increase in years, the post office autocracy, is weotrgiamrny § at least five per cent more of work. Such an order has been issued officially by John H. Bartlett, the first assistant postmaster general. The worst exploitation in the whole government exists in the postal service. The wonder is that there has not been an open rebellion, The postal workers have been content, however, with congressional investigations, that resulted in little but the recording of the terrible conditions under which the slaves of the government toil. i The most unbelievable and deplorable sanitary condi- tions have been exposed. The use of stop watches, speed- up methods and “time studies,” specifically forbidden in other governmental departments where the workers are bet- ter organized, have been revealed. One worker has been pitted against another, with the understanding that spying activities are the basis of promotions and wage allowances. be * * * * The workers in the postal department are kept at their tasks at break neck speed. In the railway mail service it has been shown that the work required has gradually in- creased during the last 11 years. This is vividly brought forth by the fact that while there has been a 200 per cent increase in the volume of mail handled, there are actually a fewer number of railway postal clerks in the service now than in 1914. * * * * These conditions, if continued, as they will be, must find their sequel in greater struggles on the part of the postal workers, forcing them to build militant unions in place of the loose and bootlicking organizations they have at the present time. They will be forced, on occasions, to resort to the strike to win their most meager demands, just like the coal min- ers, the railroad workers, and labor in other industries. Then the whole capitalist press will howl with horror, that the employes of the sacred government should cease to work; that the carrying of the mails should be rh ta This press will urge legislation, if such has not already been put on the statute books, forbidding these “public employes” to strike. Heated propaganda, as is the case in every rail- road strike, will be poured forth, arguing that the carrying of the mails must not be interfered with. The government has the power to force its postal slaves into the army, and under threat of martial law and trial for treason, force these workers to break their own strike. This oppression is one of the functions of the capitalist state, carrying out the wishes of the great capitalists. se ee The great masses of postal workers and other public employes do not understand this at the present time. But they will learn thru the misery forced upon them in their daily work, a misery that they must carry home to their families, into all the phases of their lives. The demand of the taskmasters at the head of the post office department for an increase of five per cent in work turned out, should meet with an immediate response. A lessening of effort on the part of the postal workers should be the reply. Labor must demand increased wages for the shorter workday; in the postal service as everywhere else. But labor will never realize its goal until this slave system, that calls for the last ounce of effort from its wage workers, is swept away; until Communism comes to supersede cap- italism. The postal workers will learn that, too. Three Days Left Before| | yrwcpapen QWNER IS Fae eae aie | FIRST AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA FOR JAPAN For two hours the board of educa- tion met behind closed doors in an effort to get the McAndrew new sal- NEGROES STRIKE AT BIRMINGHAM FREIGHT SHEDS Overload Reward for Efficiency By LAURENCE TODD Federated Press Service Chicago Comrades—A Job for You! NUMBER of’comrades are urgently needed to visit prospective subscribers to the DAILY WORKER that have.already been ciroularized with piree copies. This will take you only an hour at SATURDAY OR SUNDAY. | or phone Monroe 4712, ary schedule O. K.’d by a majority of the members before it went before the regular open board meeting. But it failed in its efforts. Trustees Hart Hanson, Mrs. David Gregg, J. Lewis Coath and James Mullenbach voted against it. When it came before the regular meeting for consideration, Mrs. W. 8. Hefferan once more rose to the super- intendent’s call and moved for a de- ferment until the special meeting Mon- day morning. The motion was passed, On Monday Trustee Julius F. Smie- tanka, chairman of the finance com- mittee, will have returned from out of town and his vote is expected to make the necessary majority. The new school budget for 1925 of $66,000,000 passed by the board contains appropriations for education- al purposes amounting to $41,202,000; for building purposes, $22,701,000; for text books, $851,000; f0or playgrounds, $636,000, and for teachers’ pension fund, $610,000. * This hectic rush to get action on the recommendation {s an effort to ward off its being held over for the new board which will be named by Mayor Dever'on Monday afternoon, The Los Angeles Returns HAMILTON, Bermuda, April 23.-+ The U. 8. dirigible airship Los Angel- es left its moorings here at 9:40 this morning, sailed over the islands an headed north at 10 a. m. on its way back to Lakehurst, N. J. (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, April 23.—Tokichi Tana- ka, former vice minister of foreign affairs has been selected as Japan's first ambassador to Soviet Russia. Tanaka is president of the Japan- ese Times and Mail, an old estab- lished English language daily pub lished by Japanese, M. Kepp has already been chosen ambassAdor to Japan by the Soviet government, * WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23.— Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern Railroad, who has for many years been known as a “good” em- ployer, who dealt gladly with the shop unions and who restored the old em- Ployes to their positions after the set- tlement of the shop strike of 1923, has become a hard boss. The word has gone forth that there will be no fur- ther increases in pay, for any group of employes of the Southern, until its common stock has reached par. Negro Freight Handlers Strike. One of the first revolts against Fair- fax Harrison’s new policy of squeez- ing further profits out of the employes has broken out in the city of Birming- ham. Colored men employed as freight handlers have struck. Their com- Plaint is that the company has placed sideboards on the freight trucks which they drag about the terminal, so that they are called upon to pull loads twice as heavy as before. Protests did no good. They decided that they had reached a status higher than mules. They quit. No appeal has been made to the railroad labor board. They will fight it out. Whether the strike will spread to other cities will depend upon whether Harrison directs that similar overloading.pbe attempted elsewhere. Negro labor on railroads in the South is not so docile as before the world war. Living in Washington, Strikers Know Tricks of U. S. “Arbitration” WASHINGTON, April 23—(FP)— Proposal by John B. Colpoys, federal mediator, tWat they meet the “fair wage” committee created by the speculative builders, real estate men, bankers and certain contractors to fight all wage increases in the build- ing industry, has been rejected by the striking painters. They refuse to deal with any other organization than the master painters. Newspaper advertisements’ for strikebreakers resulted in between 40 and 50 applications for this work, at the bosses’ headquarters. Union Plumbers and steamfitters continue to quit jobs where strikebreakers: at- tempt to do the painting, ay Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, April 23.—Great Bri- tain, pound sterling, demand 479 5-16; cable 479 8-16. France, iranc, de mand 5.18%; cable 6.19. Belgium, franc, demand 5.03%; cable 5.04%. Italy, lira, demand 4.09%; cable 4.10 Sweden, krone, demand 26.98; cable 26.96. Norway, krone, demand 16,27; cable 16.29. Denmark, krone, demand 18.44; cable 18.46. Germany, mark, unquoted. Shanghai, tael, demand 73.- 75; cable 74.25. ; $3,000,000 Blaze Smouiders. Smouldering masses of thousands of bushels of grain, twisted and charry masonry and steel was all that remained today of two big grain ele- vators on the south side as a result of a fire which burned thruout the night, started fifteen other small blazes, imperiled the entire and caused a loss of $3,000,000. All Hands Lost In Jap Steamer. 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