The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1925, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 92. _ SUBSCHIPTION RATES: BRITISH LABOR JOINS HANDS WITH RUSSIAN UNIONS; UNITY IS QUESTION OF LIFE OR DEATH (By The he Federated Press) LONDON, April 28,--Propositions for an immediate conference between the Amsterdam International and the Russian unions and for co-operation between the British and Russian labor movements are contained in a joint statement of the Anglo-Russian trade union conference. Ratification of the agreement is now up to the trade unions of the two countries. National and international unity, says the statement, is the first essential to, enable the trade-union movement to defend the position of the workers and to achieve the social and political aims of labor. The political situa- tion in nearly every country is dominated by reaction. In the industrial and economic field the capitalists of all countries aré forming an interna- Outside Chicago, by In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. (Continued on page 2) AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. AY Day is almost here and the usual crop of police station revo- lutions clutter the pages of the cap-| italist press, The most recent effect | of the rule of the bloody Zankov gov- | ernment gave the labor-hating gov- ernments of Europe an excellent ex- cuse to make another drive against the working class. Reports reach us| that the police of Europe have reached an agreement to make raids on Com- | munists on May Day. It is reported | that Bi ‘tain intends to pass new laws in order to be in a better position legally to make war on the Commun- ists. ‘28 HE British ruling class are more worried over the entente between people think. As a matter of fact it is a greater menace to the “boys of the} who have planted | bull-dog breed” their iron’ heels on the faces of hun- dreds of millions who made Europe tremble with the blows of their feet | in. the summer of 1914. The. British ruling class could make peace with a,svictorious capitalist. Germany. They will never make peace with the Brit- ish working class or with Soviet Rus- sia, which is today becoming more and more the beacon light, guiding the were ‘of the Workd-on the road-to ese Absor, in one of his cute little fables, tells of the shepherd who was always shouting “Wolf! Wolf!” This shepherd enjoyed a hearty laugh when the, villagers turfied out to help | him liquidate the sheep killer. The} villagers were sore after the practical joke was pulled three or four times. Finally a real wolf showed up and | when. the shepherd called for help, the villagers thumbed their nasal ap- pendages and the shepherd cried in- stead of laughing. Those who laugh last laugh best: The police will have their little joke and predict revolu- | tions on every May Day with mono- tonous regularity. But the revolution will come and the workers, not the police, will pick the day. All the stoolpigeons and police in the world cannot hold it back. of e INDENBURG wins!” shrieks the capitalist press. The’ kaiser tickles his proud mustache in Doorn and shines up the spike on his helmet, ready for a stroll down Unter den Linden, or wherever he used to stroll | in the good old days before 1918. The cycle is almost complete. Hindenburg, the kaiser’s loyal servant, will keep the presidential chair of the royal Ger- man republic warm until the kaiser’s posterior is politically prepared to re- sume his. old seat. Milljons of work- ers voted for Hindenburg. Millions of HINDENBURG 10 STICK BY DAWES: MORGAN PLAN Stinnes Group Likes the Capitalist Republic (Special to The Daily Worker.) BERLIN, Germany, April 28—The victory of the monarchist, Field Mar- shal von Hindenburg, in the German presidential elections, marks the end, | at least temporarily, of the use of the socialists by the German capitalists | and international bankers, as a tool Russian and British labor than most | to. surpress the movement of the workers for power. Hindenburg, it is declared here, will not dare to openly advocate the return of the former kaiser to the throne. Stinnes Group Powerful. The Stinnes group, the most power- ful industrial group in Germany, are opposed to such a move. The Deut- sche Allegemeine Zeitung, owned by Stinnes, declares, “No one thinks of taking a step against the republic or for a return to a monarchy.” Hindenburg’s_. victory, however, ade possible by’ thé vankruptey—ot thé socialists, who betrayed the work- ers into the hands of the internation- al bankers, is a swing toward the dic- tatorship. Alongside of the white guard Horthy government of Hungary, the fascist government of Mussolini in Italy, the military directorate of de Rivera in Spain, the ruthless dictator- ships in Poland, Bulgaria, Roumania, Czecho-Slovakia and other European states, the Hindenburg victory ,takes its place as evidence that the exploit- ers of labor will for a time desert the socialists and use as tools the right fascist parties in order to keep power. The election of Hindenburg, is a symptom: of the temporary reaction from the pacifist-democratic bourgeois coalitions of the socialists, as was the fall of the MacDonald government in England and of Herriot in France. German Stocks Sag Stocks have sagged here since Hindenburg’s election, but it remains to be seen whether the slump will be permanent. The foreign governments, mouthing the wishes of the bankers, are uneasy for fear they will be un- able to collect money from Germany as readily as they did under the so- cialist coalition. The French bankers predict an extended occupation of Cologne by French troops, and a pos- sible future re-entrance into the Ruhr. Hindenburg will listen to the voice of the Stinnes group and other power- ful German exploiters of labor, but he will also: be forced to accept the (Continued on page 2) (Continued on psge 3) “BLACK JACK” PERSHING BEGINS TO TALK POLITICS FOR 1928 AS OPENING FOR PRESIDENTIAL FIGHT By LAURENCE TODD WASHINGTON, April 28.—General Pershing, who may or may not be a candidate for the republican presidential nomination in 1928, has begun to talk politics, Standpat, politics. Wall Street politics. He wants the American public to know that he is as good a dollar-imperialist as anybody, If that be treason to the third-term aspirations of Calvin Coolidge, who has just ap- mail, $6.00 per year. The Communist X-Ray on the Dollar THE DAILY WORKER. ==" eee IE: Cee Titadto water the’ at of Mared 8; 1070, - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1925 > 290 ———— THE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL | LEAGUE CALLS FOR MAY DAY AS SYMBOL OF UNITY AND STRUGGLE PRIMED FOR BIG By NATIONAL CoM! COMMITTEE, — Trade Union Educational League. ‘Qn May 1, 1886, the American workerseelebratea. a Bie “against unbearable working conditions, m' Gay byte humanly long hours. Workers to the numbér of 350,000 struck work with a demand for the eight-hour day. 200,000 won the demand, and 200,000 more had long hours shortened. This strike could not be drowned in blood, altho it culminated in the hanging of Parsons, Spies, Engel, Fischer, the “suicide” of Linng, and the imprisonment of Fielding and Schwab, and has made of May 1 the Workers’ (Continued on page 4.) THOUSANDS TO PARADE IN JAPAN ON MAY DAY, x POLICE CALLED OUT TOKYO, Japan, April 28.—Twenty thousand persons are expected’ to parade in Tokyo on May Day, with similiar parades of many thousands of other workers scheduled in indus- trial centers thruout Japan. The tenant farmers and agricult- ural laborers are organizing May Day demonstrations in the rural distri Three thousand police and gen- darmes and two thousand plain clothes men have been ordered into the streets of Tokyo for May Day. Alfege Plot to Kill Kato, TOKIO, April 28—Ryohei Uchida, leader of the “Black Dragon Society,” was arrested here today charged with complicity in a plot to assassinate Premier Kato. Police said they had warrants for two other alleged partici- pators. Tokio newspapers declared this morning several members of the Japanese diet had ben implicated in the plot, Los Angeles Takes Its Time LAKEHURST, N. J., April 28.—The U.S. dirigible Los Angeles, which was to have soared.to Porto Rico’ today will not leave until tomorrow, it was indicated this morning. Weather con- ditions were unsatisfactory. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communist pointed Pershing as director of the jug-handled plebiscite in Tacna-Arica— let Coolidge make the most of it. Pershing went down to Peru some months ago as special envoy, to help lebrate the centenary of the battle yhich won liberation of the west coast of South America trom Spain. No sooner had he returned than the president. announced his decision of the dispute \between Peru and Chile as to ownership of the rich nitrate territory of Tacna-Arica, Chile has filled the region with Chileans, and will carry the plebiscite. Peruvian public opinion is outraged, Now Per- shing is sent down there to receive the brickbats or bullets or bombs that Peruvian patriots may want to direct at Coolidge. This job is going to be ot you. SHOP NUCLEUS FINDS HEARTY : WELCOME AND FERTILE FIELD WITH WESTINGHOUSE WORKERS By ARNE SWABECK, 4 PITTSBURGH, Pa,, April, 28.—In a forceful and effective manner the Workers Party shop tiucleus, recently organized in the Pittsburgh district Westinghouse plants, made its appearance to the workers of this modern institution of exploitation thru the publication of the first of its factory paper. It was very favorably received by the workers, because it gave expression ot their grievances and aspirations. One thousand copies of this first issue were distributed to the workers gathering in front of the East Pittsburgh plant during lunch hour, Wednes- day, April 22, (Continued on page 5.) NEWSBOYS WORK HARD THAT BIG PAPERS. PROFIT Chicago rf Labor Is (Article Two) By LILLIAN R, BORGESON The labor of the newsboys of Chi- cago, as in most industrial centers, is not considered child labor. The tech- nicality of Illinois’ flexible child labor law which forbids.employment of chil- dren ig got around very neatly, by the interested ‘dailies. Disguised Slavery Newsboys are “bw iness men in their own right,” and so are outside of the jurisdiction’of any child labor law which only prohibits “employ- ment.” The ca) it Newspapers claim; that they’ do not :hire the newsboys. The nf ys come to them as mérchants, bay their stock of papers, and them sell them to their own customers. So “what regulation can there be? + _ The néwsboy’s work may be of many kinds, He may be a “hustler” a “flipper’ or a “router,” Each division has its own peculiar ‘dangers and its own ecrnel method of exploitation. The The “hustler,” is the boy who works at astand. He is ‘ed by the man who owns the stand, He is given & commission in order that he may keep his identity as a “merchant” and not a child laborer, He usually starts at the stand at five in the morning, works until just before nine and is back at the stand again at four in the afternoon for an- other session of atleast three hours. The Flipper The “flippers” are what the name implies, They flip the street cars, jumping on and off while the car is in motion, worming their way thru the crowds in customers and working their way on the street to their accusto: These are the (Continued ¢ FOOD TRUST 1S Court Decree Is Big Aid to Meat Packers WASHINGTON, D. C., April 28— Suspension of the operation of the consent decree by which the Big Fite meat packing concerns agreed, in 1920, to get out of all lines of business ex- cept the preparation and sale of meat products, has been ordered by Justice | Bailey .of the federal district court of the District of Columbia. Farmers’ co-operative marketing or- ganizations in all parts of the United | States are Placed in peril by this vic- tory of the beef trust. Unless the higher courts shall reverse Bailey's decision, on appeal, the’ Armour-Mor- ris-Swift-Wilson-Cudahy combination will rapidly regain its monopoly con- trol of the food industry of the coun- try, and the co-operatives will be faced by almost overwhelming compe- tition. During the presidential campaign of 1924, the Coolidge administration took the attitude of being an eager friend of farm co-operative associations. Nothing was too good for them. The trusts should never be permitted to invade their rights. Now the forces of big business that directed the Cool- idge campaign are behind the pack- ers—reduced by mergers to a Big Two. The White House smiles upon the growth of the power of the big packers, and its formal defense of the court order which limited their field has not been effective. Now the Big Two will be free to monopolize the wholesale grocery busi- ness and scores of other lines of man- ufacture and distribution, just as they did when their far-flang tentacles were disclosed by the probe conducted by the federal trade commission. Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLiSHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL Daily Worker Annual Sub- scription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! Price 3 Cents FARRINGTON BURNED IN EFFIGY BY OUTRAGED MINERS WHO SAY HE IS LOOTING THE TREASURY By ALEX. REID , r (Special to The Daily Worker) CHRISTOPHER, Ill., April 28—A mass meeting of the miners of Illinois was held here Sunday. At 10:00 a. m., long before the time to com- mence the meeting, automobiles, covered with dust, began to arrive from all parts of the state loaded down with anxious miners determined that action be taken to alleviate the suffering of the unemployed and the ground prepared for the political burial of the traitors who are destroying the United Mine Workers of America, Farrington, Fishwick, Nesbit and the executive board. Farrington Invited But Not Present jof the fascist militia. A splendid representative delegation was in attendance, but needless to | say the Farrington machine was conspicuous by its absence. (Continued he yellow on page 2) BULAGRIANARMY REBELS AGAINST FASCIST TROOPS Report Mutin y Sofia Barracks (Special to The Dally Worker) VIENNA, Austria, April 28—A clash between the regular army troops, and | the fascist troops which have been hastily recruited to murder the Com- munists, ls reported. A section of the | regular troops mutinied, the report de- | clared, and refused to obey the orders | | The regular troops were imprisoned in their bar- facks, and some have been reported shot. Many of the Bulgarian fascisti are said to be members. of Wrangel’s anti-Soviet army, the remnants of which have been quartered in the Bal- kans, supporting the fascist govern- ments. The secretary to th ‘als, a suburb of was Killed-and ‘andther member of the mayor's party wounded when a worker repulsed an attack by the mayor, reports state. The government of Jugo-Slavia, while taking the opportunity of the Bulgarian fascist -hysteria to attack the JugoSlav Communists, eyes with suspicion the increase in the Bul- garian army, sanctioned by the world powers thru. the league of nations. This extra recruited force of brigands and fascists are shooting down peas- ants and workers by the hundred. mayor of Boy- Probing Ditching By Bus | ANDERSON, Ind., April 28.—An in-| quést of death of George Skinner, Jr., | 13, who died from injuries when the Skinner automobile was crowded from the road’ by a bus, was opened today by Coroner Earl Sells. |“Keep ’em in the dark; OPEN SHOPPERS SPREAD LIES ON WESTERN COAST Flood Papers with Anti- Union Bunk (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 28— Scare ‘em |good; Feed 'em lots of bull;” con- | tinues to be the system of the anti- labor forces in Southern California, where the small dailies and weeklies | are flooded with insidious, ready-made propaganda. The larger dailies roll their own. Here are two specimens of the “scare em” propaganda sent out as “news” to small Pacific coast papers last week by the Manufacturer and In- dustrial News Bureau, Salem, Ore. The propaganda is, of course, wholly untrue. One piece of lying propaganda sent out of the “open shop” association is an attack on the union workers of adsia, “Wngland, Germany and the United States. Another specimen sent to the papers consists cf a string of lies about’ Soviet Russia which rival the “nationalization of women” lies sprung by the Chicago Tribune, and later, of course, wholly discredited. The American Banker’s Association, one propaganda distributor, ran afoul in 1923 when it attacked the Edison- Ford commodity currency scheme thru “boiler plate” propaganda dis- tributed free of charge to the country papers thru the Western Newspaper Union. Ford retaliated with an “ex- pose” of the propaganda tactics. But the game is an old one and will probably continue as long as many country editors have backbones of the jelly-fish variety and are controlled by the business men who advertise in their lieing columns. COMMUNISTS URGE 24-HOUR STRIKE AGAINST HINDENBURG—POINT OUT MENACE TO WORKERS OF FASCISM BERLIN, Germany, April 28—A twenty-four hour strike on the day of Field Marshal von Hindenburg’s inauguration to the presidency is urged by the Communist Party of Germany and the socialists, published in Rote Fahne, it is in an open letter to the trade uniens reported. The danger of a military dictatorship directed against the workers is pointed out. Hindenburg Keeps Old Cabinet. HANOVER, Germany, April 28.—It was learned here that president-elect Paul von Hindenburg in an _ hour's conference with Chancellor Luther to- day told Luther that he would ask the cabinet to remain in office. Death Penalty for Gun Robbery. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 28.—By a vote of 26 to 16, the senate today passed the Deck bill making burglary or robbery with a gun punishable by death. The bill now goes to the house. ‘ HOW CHICAGO OFFICIALS OF THE A. C. W. KEEP THE CONTROL OVER THE UNION MEMBERSHIP ARTICLE ONE . In Chicago the officialdom of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers has succeeded in organizing the most efficient machine to suppress the will of the membership, more efficient than than in any other city, It will there- fore be interesting to get acquainted with some of the methods used by this machine, Take Stock of Boot Lickers Before each election, ‘that is, the elections which name paid officials, 4 meeting ts held of business agents with manager Levin presiding. This \ shavers whom meeting is to “take stock” and find out if there is any ‘tWeakling” that (Continued on page 2) DAILY WORKERS DISTRIBUTED AT IRISH MEETING, One thousand copies of the DAILY WORKER were distributed at a mass meeting held Monday night in Orches- tra Hall, at which Miss Mary Mac- Swiney, Irish republican leader, was the principal speaker, While there were a few scowls most of those who were offered copies accepted them gladly and many insisted on paying for them, One worker asked if it was a union paper and on being assured that it was that, and more, he acted as a volunteer in getting copies into the hands of his friends. The few Com- munists who could be mobilized to distribute the paper had a good time and enjoyed the work. One stocky proletarian declared he stopped read- ing the daily since it came out against LaFollette. “L suppose LaFollette is too radical for you people” he said. He was advised to think it over and read @ little more carefully and he would learn that LaFollette was really (Continued from page 1), — ot rast terme 9 Reser