The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1925, Page 2

al - : Fad * Mf i Ry i U. MW. FIGHTS INJUNCTION IN WEST VIRGINIA Lewis Lawyers Try to Beat It in Court (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) WHEELING, W. Va., April 28—Ac» companied by an Imposing array of counsel, district and sub-district offie cials of the United Mine Workers of America appeared in federal court here today to answer to charges of contempt of court growing out of the present strike in the coal mines of West Virginia ordered by the Interna- tlonal Union with the purpose of or ganizing the non-union coal flelds of the state. Rank and file miners scoff at the battery of lawyers, and contend that the fight on injunctions is won by mass violation, not by lawyers. The validity of the injunction, is- sued several years ago by the late Judge Alston G. Dayton and later perpetuated by Judge W. EH. Bakar, restraining union officials and mem- bers from attempting to organize the employes of the West Virginia-Pitts- burgh Coal company, was to be a sub- fect to direct attack, attorneys for the miners intimated before the hear- ing began. President John L. Lewis, Vice-Presi- dent Philip Murray, and other officials of the international organization were not in court, but it was announced that they would be bound by what- ever decision was reached. However, no miner expects John L. to get into jail long enough to let the lice bite him. Insull Gets Another Company. The Utilities and Light Corporation, 327 South LaSalle street, announce the purchase of the Clinton, Iowa, Gas and Electric company property. The consideration was said to be $3,750,- 000. The Clinton company operates eight plants in eastern Iowa, including one at Dubuque. (Continued from page 1.) has in any way considered the interest of the membership above the interest of the officialdom. Woe to him against whom this charge is proven. His fate is sealed. He must go back ¢o the shop and work hard at stool-piegeoning upon the militant left wing for a whole year. If in that time he has proven “loyal” and “obedient”. to Levin and company, he is given another change at the trough. An Instance The following is an instance: Be fore the last election for paid officials, a meeting was called by Manager Le- vin of all business agents. One busi- ness agent who has mistaken his duty to be in the interests of the member- ship, was made to stay outside of the meeting for about an hour, and then he was called in for cross-examination. “We want to know,” said Levin,.“If, we endorse you for business agent, will you work and vote for our slate?” “I will vote and work for those on the slate that I think are fit for the position,” replied the business agent. “No Answer” Says Samuel the Seeker “That is no answer,” said Levin, “We want to know definitely whom you will advise the people to vote for, for me or for Aronberg.” “I will advice the people to vote for the one I think is fit to manage the union in the interests of the mem- bers,” said the business agent. This settled the question. Anybody favoring a manager that considers the interests of the workers cannot be business agent in Chicago. So some- one more “Joyal” to Levin and com- pany, altho not having the required ability for the position, was elected in his place. +) Shop Chairman Somewhat similar methods are used in the election of shop chairman. The shop chairman is officially elected by the workers of the shop once a year, ‘or whenever the business agent finds it “necessary.” The business agent sees to it that “one of the boys” is elected to this office, and many are the methods used to get this over. For instance: In Alfred Decker and Cohen pants shop there was a shop meeting ordered to elect a shop chair- man, Two weeks before the shop meeting the business agent, M. Schaps, with the help of another One, Schpit- zen, started the campaign. Building the Members. They called in each section of the shop separately, and threatened that it they elected Brother M. Savanovsky for shop chairman, there would be “trouble” in the shop all the time, “because Savanovasky is a Bolshevik and he will be deported from the coun- try anyhow!” Since there are many Italian work- ers in the shop they brought down the Italian business agent Maglianoff, and _ he agitated the workers not to vote How A. C. W. Officials Keep Control Yfor a “Jew,” trying to incite nation- v AS WE SEEIT -: By T. J. O'Flaherty (Continued from page 1) workers voted for Stanley Baldwin in | Britain, for Coolidge in the United | States and millions of workers sup- ported Mussolini in Italy, The work- ers go from the frying pan into the fire. ses ISILLUSIONED by the soctalists, who lined their pockets with cap- {talistic gold when they got into of- fice, the German workers fell for the promise of better times made by the campaign managers of Calvin Cool- idge. Nedless to say, Silent Cal did not give them more work. Neither will Hindenburg put more pigs’ knuckles and sauerkraut on the tables of the German workers. They will send the “hero of the Masurian Lakes” where that butcher sent thousands of German and Russian workers and where the Russian workers and peas- ants sent their grand dukes and their imbecile czar. eee ENERALS DAWES and Pershing had a jolly old time in staid old Boston rehearsing Paul Revere’s fam- ous ride that awakened the “embat- tled farmers” from Cambridge to Con- cord and resulted in several shots being fired from rusty muskets that “were heard round the world.” This was in 1775, a rather safe distance from which to glorify a revolution. The Milwaukee Leader thinks this a big joke of Dawes, Pershing and the entire American ruling class. Berg- er’s sheet thinks that if our masters had a sense of humor they would die laughing. We believe the joke is on the Leader, tho we think old John Work who wrote the editorial abor- tion is such a huge joke that he could not see one if it knocked him down. eee Sa matter of fact Dawes and Pershing were doing splendid work for the ruling class when they got the workers of Boston exuding patriotic emotion over the scrimmage between the rising bourgeoisie of the United States and the feudal-capital- ists of the “mother country.” The workers forgot that Dawes is a big banker and that Pershing is ready at a moment’s notice to shoot their brains out at the bidding of the em- ployers. This may be funny to the alist hatred in the shop. A Majority of Two. All these methods did not help them and the major in the shop, inchid- ing the Italians, were in favor of Sav- anovsky for shop chairman, because they knew from experience that he defends their interests against the boss, Well, the business agents and their lackeys in the shop have broken up several shop meetings, until they were able, thru means of miscounting votes, to declare their own shop chair- man elected by a majority of two votes! But it did not take six months and the shop chairman that the business agents boasted of being the best man fit for that position in the shop, collected several hundred dollars of dui ind ments from the peo- ple in the shop and did not show up again with the money! But if it happens that, after all, a shop chairman is elected that is not 100 per cent “loyal” to the machine, there are many ways to get rid of him. How to Queer an Honest Chiarman First, he gets no co-operation from the busines agent, the complaints of the workers in the shop are deliber- ately neglected and the workers are made to suffer and then the campaign against their shop chairman is started under the slogan; “Since the present shop chairman was elected the boss does whatever he pleases and the shop chairman doesn’t care.” Or they say, “All he is interested in is to play politics; let’s call a shop meeting and elect another chairman.” Naturally, the business agents grant a shop meeting at once, With these and ohtre methods they are able to control almost all of the shop chair- men, Down the Line | The shop chairman, of the other hand, is given the task of controling the workers in his shop in the inter- est of the bureaucracy. He has to keep eye on each individual in the shop and see to it that nobody spreads any militant propaganda in the shop. At election time his “duty” is to go with the workers of his shop to the polls and see that each one votes accord- ing to the “slat t every local meet- ing where there are important ques- tions to be taken up, he is to bring down the workers with instruction to watch how he votes and vote accord- ingly. ** & Another article on the methods used by the officials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers to keep control in the interests of the bosses, will be published in Fridy's paper. Subseribe for the DAILY WORKER! Milwaukee Leader, but we can find no consolation in it, eee Leader hates vielence as the devil is supposed to hate “holy water,” water sprinkled with salt and mumbled over by a priest: Yet it safely agrees that, but for the violence used in 1775 and the succeeding years, there might never have been a United States of America. Still, prattles Work, “a little cool-headedness might have avoided the revolution.” History 1s most inconsiderate of the feelings of a yellow socialist. Revolutions should come as painlessly as dividend checks from the Standard Oil com- pany, but they don’t. see ENERAL DAWHS js rather proud of his revolutionary ancestors. They should be worth a million votes to him, four years from now, if he decides to run for the presidency. The fact that they used their trusty rifles on the British make them all the more dear to the would-be fascist leader. Dawes is true to his class. He knows that they hold power by force and he has no compunction about the use of force when it suits the purpose. And he knows that the workers will be obliged to use force when the time comes. That is why we have an army, and generals. eee UNNY how our yellow socialists ‘ hate the very idea of the working class using force in their own behalf. But there is no criticism of the social- ists of Europe, employing force in the interests of the capitalist class. Eng- land and Germany are horrible ex- amples. There was no outcry from the yellow socialist press when the Noskes, Eberts and Scheidemanns shot down the flower of the German proletariat, when Karl Liegknecht and Rosa Luxemburg raised the slogan of a “Soviet Republic” in 1918, But because of the “pacifism” of the Ger- man socialists the workers of that country must wade thru a sea of blood before they plant the victorious ban- ner of Communism over the citadel of German capitalism. But for the treachery of the socialists that vic- tory could have been achieved in 1918 with a minimum of bloodshed. This is the inevitable result of socialist “pacifism.” Farrington Burned in Effigy By Miners (Continued from page 1) comards refuse to come into a mass meeting of miners. And, judging the temper of the miners here today, it may bd well for their peace of mind that they do stay away. The unemployed condition of the miners as gone into in detail as was the irregularities of the last district and sub-district election, by Brothers Freeman Thompson and John J. Watt from Springfield, and other speakers from other parts of the state. They informed the miners, sup- ported by documentary evidence, that the very life of our union is at stake. Farrington and Fishwick, likened to Mussolini and to King Charles be- fore his head was cut off, were hissed and boo-ed every time their names were mentioned. Documentary Evidence. It was shown that Farrington, Fishwick, “Debit,” and the board of stool pigeons are lined up against the miners by their class collaboration with the coal companies. The decis- ions handed down against the men are worthy of the fakers, and a dis- grace to the Miners’ Union. The ex- pense account of the president of the district, Frank Farrington, is the dis- gust of the state, and shows he is getting the treasury before he is kicked out. A smaple of the daylight robbery he is carrying on is shown by his train fare for 3 months, $900. If he had been riding in trains every day and spent $10 per day for fare, he would have totaled the amount. But every- body knows it to be a steal. The board knows it, and so does the treas- urer, But they are too cowardly to protest. Looting the Treasury. Or rather, t hfeact is that they are in the same boat. Sixty per cent of the mines are shut down in Ilinois, making 60 per cent less work for the board members and sub-district offici- als, yet their expenses are as high as ever and even assistants on the pay roll are helpink drain the last drop of human blood out of the unemployed miners. Farirngton also charged $900 for ho- tel bills, and $1,200 for telegrams. Certainly a good préparation for com- fortable retirement back from the pry- ing eyes of outraged betrayed miners, among beautiful orange groves in the balmy southern clime. It is rumored that little “Arry” is going back to England soon—as he feels that he has got all the miners can be squeezed out of—to retire and rest, “safe from the Illinois miners, Want All Cash For Themselves. The delegation at this meeting bit- terly expressed itself against the fak- erdom and demanded that a special district convention be held to take up the relief of unemployment and the Naas HE DAILY WORKER BRITAIN WILL RETURN TO THE GOLD STANDARD Churchill Praises “Sir” Philip Snowden (Spectal to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Apfil 28— In a session marked with cheering and jeering, ‘Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, indicated in the house of commons today that the government would return to, the gold standard, and, further that the Bank of Bng- land would be permitted to export gold bullion, The occasion of the chancellor's declaration was his address to com- mons on the swbject of the budget. It was believed by some members that he was delaying important phases of his speech until the market had closed. “The government is convinced,” said Churchill, “that our financial po- sition justifies @ return to the gold standard. “It is necessary, too, that the pol- icy of debt repayments be continued. I propose that we raise the sinking fund to its statutory limits.” To Gold Standard. Churchill’s budget calls for expen- ditures of 709,400,000 pounds, which is 9,400,000 above the last year’s budget. “The present time is favorable to return to the gold standard,” he con- tinued. “The American exchange rate is favorable. Britain hasn’t any heavy commitments to the United States. The political and economic security of both countries ts the most favorable.” There was a surplus for last year of 3,659,000 pounds, said Churchill. He said this sum had been devoted to debt redemption and that the total had been reduced 34,000,000 pounds and the external debt 4,000,000 pounds. Referring again to the gold stand- ard, Churchill said the gold standard operates today, but that did not mean a return of gold currnecy. Get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER. irregularities of the last election. Ac- tion will be taken on this at another meeting to be called within two weeks. ‘One miner pointed out the fact that the bureaucracy are opposed to any relief to the miners because they in- tend emptying the treasury before they are kicked out, so therefore, it would not be well to call a convention to have the money used for relief of the starving miners who put the money in the treasury. Farrington Burned In Effigy. Later in the evening, Farrington and Fishwick were burned in effigy amidst the cheers of the miners—‘traitor” being written all over* the supposed rotten carcass of each. The following motion was offered at the meeting and unanimously car- ried. Support Sub District 4. “We the members of various mines thruout the state of Illinois, in mass meeting assembled, do hereby con- demn Frank Farrington, Harry Fish- wick, and the District Executive Board for their unconstitutional ac- tions in removing President Thomp- son and Secretary-Treasurer Watt of Sub District 4, as flagrant violation of the constitution, and condemn the rul- ings of the executive board, and do hereby state that we stand with Thompson and Watt, and extend to them our confidence and pledge them our support in every way possible; that a copy of this be sent to the fak- ers and one to the press.” The meeting commenced at 10 a. m., recessed for dinner at noon, recon- vened at 1:30, and at 6 p. m. adjourn- ed with cheers for Thompson and Watt. BRITISH LABOR IS JOINING HANDS WITH RUSSIAN UNION (Continued from page 1) tional front for the exploitation of workers all over the world. Internationalism a Question of Life and Death. Thru the economic paralysis of Eu- rope caused by the war millions of workers are unemployed. The stand- ard of living in many countries is be- low the prewar level. After the great- est sacrifices the workers are faced with little prospect of a Better life. The working class if united nationally and internationally would constitute an insuperable barrier to capitalist oppression and a bond of peace on economic security, the statement as- serts, Earthquake Kills 5,000 Chinese. SHANGHAI, China, April 28,—Five thousand are dead at Talifu, Yunnan province, on the border of Burma, where a severe earthquake occurred, reports from that oity state. Heads of the Printers’ Union Join Bosses In Fake “Economy” Drive By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, James M. Lynch and J. W. Hays, president and '* secretary, of the International Typographical Union, join the most rabid “economy” shouters among the “open shop- ers” in demanding that workers slow up in their spending. ven the printers, who get fairly good wages compared wit! other workers, will be startled to learn that the highest offi- cials of their organization are out with a declaration, broad- casted in the yellow press, warning against so-called “‘ill- considered extravagance.” * The Lynch-Hays drive for a is not unlike the burlesque, under this same name, put on ry the White House strikebreaker, “Economy Cal” Coolidge. “Spend less,” is the appealing wail of both campaigns. This is good for the bosses. The less a worker spends, the smaller wages he will be content with. Workers con- tent with a “sauerkraut and sausage” diet, and not even a nickel to squander on the “movies,” are considered “ideal, 100 per cent Americans,” no matter where they were born, by the amployers. But here is a new phase of class-collaboration when the officials of labor’s own organizations take up the same cry. Instead of demanding higher wages, in order that the work- ° ers may have funds to meet their obligations, the union offi- cials issue what they call a warning against the wiles of the “high pressure” type of salesmen, disposing of “almost anything under the sun with a small payment down.” Here is the gist of the Lynch-Hays appeal: i “Rapidly increasing production and lack of foreign markets has turned the full force of the nation’s highly organized selling force upon the domestic field. The result is the wage earner, as well as other classes, has been driven into debt. It is possible these days to ‘buy’ almost anything under the sun with a small down payment. “Business itself Is suffering as well as the consuming public from this state of affairs. It is being driven to an impasse. Buying power Is being sopped up in advance of its development; cost of business is increasing fearfully. The remedy is to check the insidiously growing tendency to ill-considered extravagance on the part of the worker. In- sinuating salesmen, trained in selling psychology and in ‘credit desire’ abetted by wives, jealous of their neighbors’ displays, are constantly waiting to take the breadwinner in a weak moment and unload some- thing on him. Our statistical department has found the case of a man who engaged himself to meet monthly payments actually in excese of his salary, living expenses having been left completely out of his calcu- lations. “America, the greatest creditor nation on earth, with ten and one-half billions owjng to her, is in a fair way to become the greatest nation of debtors on earth,” * 2° # @ That is most excellent propaganda for the employers seeking to content workers with their present wages or pre- pare them for wage cuts. The worker is not interested in spending less. He must strive to get higher wages to win more of the necessities of life. Workers enjoying the barest luxuries are too few to receive consideration. The mere fact that sities; furniture for their homes, clothes, place to live, all on the installment plan, is testimony showing that wages are insufficient to meet the most meager dally needs. If the standard of living of the American worker is lowered, then over-production will increase and factories, mills and mines must close, giving additional impetus to the already rapidly increasing army of unemployed. The : nch-Hays nostrum would only make things worse for or. ’ eee Workers must prepare for this inevitable industrial crisis, that is rushing down upon them, by fighting for wage increases as a reply to the bosses’ wage cuts; by demand- ing a shorter workday, to keep down the poten: Be of the army of a sn used as a strikebreaking army by t! “open shop” employer whenever he can do so. The officials of the printers’ union, like the officials of so many labor organizations have shown themselves allies of the ex- analy in this fight. That means that the fight is half-lost efore it is begun, unless this leadership is remov and aggressive militants selected to carry the standards of the struggles ahead. .. Thru experiences in these crucial struggles the workers will learn that they must accept the Communist program, that they must move ahead for the abolition of capitalism, for the complete victory of the workers under Soviet Rule. FRIDAY NIGHT THRONGS OF CHICAGO WORKERS WILL CELEBRATE MAY DAY AT WORKERS PARTY MASS MEETING Thousands of militant Chicago workers are expected to “Down Tools” on May Day, and with millions of class conscious workers the world over, follow the lead of the Communists in’ demonstrating the power of the International working class in a one day strike. Comrades who are distributing leaflets to workers in front of factories and in the house to house compaign predict that Temple Hall, West Van Buren St. and Marshfield Ave., where the Workers Party May Day cele- bration will be held on Friday eve- ning will see the finest gathering of workers ever held anywhere, orkers are compelled to buy neces- — algamation of the craft unions, for re- The speakers for the evening in- elude such well known leaders of the Workers Party as Comrades ©. B. Ruthenberg, James P. Cannon and Alexander Bittelman, E. L. Doty, one of our Negro comrades will speak on the Negro Labor Congress. There will also be Martin Abern, district or- ganizer of Chicago and Max Shacht- man, editor of the Young Worker, The entertainment will be one of spirit and enthusiasm with the entire audience partaking in the singing of revolutionary songs led off by the Scandinavian Singing Soclety, the Freiheit Mandolin and Singing Society and the Young Workers’ League Or- chestra, This year May Day will be made a great demonstration by the militant and intelligent workers of Chicago against wage cuts, the open shop drives against child labor, for am- NORTHWEST HALL, NORTH AND WESTERN Woe ents lease of workers in prison, for no dis- crimination against the Negro race and all other forms of oppression of the workers, Pullman May Day Meeting. In Pullman, scene of historic strikes held by the workers of the Pullman ‘Palace Car company, the workers will stop work and celebrate the workers’ international holiday. In the evening, at Stancik’s Hall, the militant workers of the great Pullman, Burnside, Hege- wisch, Calumet, industrial valley, will hear the Communist speakers expose the open shop drive, and expound the Communist principles of interna- tional working class solidarity, The steel mills, railroad shops, Ford and other automobile factories dotting the largest industrial section 6f Chicago, will disgorge the workers, who for one day will throw down their tools and celebrate their own holiday, DAILY WORKERS DISTRIBUTED AT IRISH MEETING Mary MacSwiney Scored Free State Gang (Continued on page #) @ reactionary while the DAILY WORKER was a revolutionary organ, Busybody Gets Squelched. One officious member of the ar- rangements committee objected to the distribution of the famine relief leaf- lets advertising the mass meeting in North Side Turner Hall on May 6, ‘The chairman, Captain Dennis Malloy, was of a different mind and told the subordinate busybody that the leaf- lets were alright and so were those behind it. When Gertrude Welsh asked if it was permissible to distribute the DAILY WORKER, ushers objected, but the chairman again stepped into the breach when he saw the paper. “The DAILY WORKER is alright” he said. Miss MacSwiney talked to an audt- ence that filled every seat in the large auditorium. She told the story of Ire- land’s fight for freedom, the treachery of the Free State government and the necessity for raising funds to enable the Irish republican party to contest the elections. Praised Morgan's Country. She said nothing about labor, but Praised the United States, denounced England and said kind things about ous JONION “TO} E mention the terrible famine which raising havoc among the people on the west coast of Ireland, tho she admit- ted in an interview published in yes- terday’s issue of this paper that the situation was very serious. Miss MacSwiney’s speech was well delivered and well received by the au- dience. It must be confessed, how- ever, that it offered no solution of the old fight against the robber power of Britain or any way out for the op- pressed millions of workers who in all lands are suffering under the iron heel of capitalism, native and foreign. The speaker did not mention the reign of terror which rages today in “free Bulgaria” where the “free” Bul- garians are falling before the rifies of filring squads, or of the equally mur- derous conduct of the Polish, Esthon- ian, Rowmanian and other “free” na- tions, towards the workers and peas- ants of those nations. They are doing what the British did in Ireland, what the Free State is doing now and what the republicans would also do if they were in power. They stand for the capitalist system and cannot do other- wise. The Irish workers who want to overthrow capitalism must rally around the banner of a working class party that will mobilize the workers and peasants for a real republic—the republic of labor. DUNNE SPEAKS IN NEW YORK SATURDAY, MAY 2 AT 208 EAST 14TH ST. (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) NEW YORK CITY, April 28— Wm. F. Dunne’ editor of the DAILY WORKER will speak in this city on Saturday, May 2, at 108 East 14th street at 7:30 p. m. The subject of the lecture, is one which is new and interesting, the development of “Workers’ Corres- ;pondence” in Communist journal- ism. No worker who is interested in the Communist press and how It is built up from news right from the heart of the shops, can afford to miss this meeting. Especially does New York City stand in need of developing worker correspondents. Hanging of Youth for Killing “Cop” INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 28.— Gov. Jackson today received tele- grams from three prominent Mexi- cans in the United States him to commute to life imprisonment the death sentence of. Jose Castro, of Jary, Ind., awaiting execution on June 12, charged with killing an officer at Indiana Harbor. PORTLAND GOMMUNISTS ARRESTED FOR GIVING OUT MAY DAY LEAFLETS PORTLAND, Ore., April 28,—Two members of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party were arrested here for dis- tributing leaflets advertising a May Labor Defense Council case of the arrests AVENUES hae ipa