The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1925, Page 3

DICTATORSHIP COVERS EUROPE, GERMANY SHOWS Fascists and Secielists BothLackeys of Bankers (Continued from page 1) Dawes enslavement plan. The inter- national bankers can fall back on the boycott of German products and the withdrawal of necessary foreign loans in order to force the monarch- ists hands. Thousands of Germans voted for Hindenburg as a protest against the betrayal of the socialist bloc, which made no resistance against the shame- ful Dawes plan or the occupation of the Ruhr by the allies. Fascists and Socialists Againet Workers The German workers are discover- ing that both the socialists, with their hypocritical “democratic’ phrases, and the fascists, are servants of the cap- italists. Every means has been tried to starve off the growing unemploy- ment, the reduction of wages, smash- ing of unions under the present sys- tem of exploitation. The 2,000,000 German workers who voted for the Communist Party real- ized that no relief will come to the workers of Germany until they sieze power from the socialist and fascist lackeys of the employers, and esta- blish a workers’ Soviet government which shall represent their own in- terests. © ae eS Regret Anti-Prussian Passion. WASHINGTON— (FP)—Only eight years have passed since the govern- ment of the United States declared itself at war with German militarism, kaiserism and feudalism, and started out to make the world safe for democ- racy as practiced in America, Britain, France and their colonies. Yet in this month of April, 1925, there has been rising in the composite mind of America’s ruling class, as ex- emplified -by the Mellon-Coolidge regime in Washington, a doubt of the wisdom of that fiercely anti-Prussian rage of 1917-18. Among leisured and pampered dow- agers and their sons in training for appointment to one of the three branches of our professional aristoc- racy—the army, the navy and the dip- lomatic service—the name of Hinden- burg has been spoken with a-differ- ent inflection than when Wilson was president. This year they have been asking whether it isn’t better, all around, that the old field marshal of German feudalism has been made president of the German republic. Monied Classes at Peace. Peace has been restored, in. some de- gree, between the German and the American monied classes. Their problems are once again similar— how to gain a steadily increasing in- come from the labor of a working pop- ulation which is not so steadily in- creasing, and how to keep these workers from breaking loose with eco- nomic demands which will interfere with the incomes of the upper stratum of ‘society. True, the Marx candidacy for the German presidency has looked con- servative enuf to the bulk of the Am- erican people. Marx represented what Woodrow Wilson prescribed, and what the British and French now think safest for themselves. But on this side of the Atlantic the danger of a German monarchial restoration does not seem so serious to our big business interests. Politicians Are Observant. Bankers who have made heavy loans in Europe on a basis of the con- tinuance of a republic in Germany are still afraid of Hindenburg, but own- ers of railroad and motor and steel stocks are not. They think of ther quick suppression of this nonsense of the eight-hour day in industry, which a Hindenburg regime in Berlin would mean. And then there would once more be marriages with German no- bility, if the kaiser were to be brot back! Politicians in Washington have been cynically observing this rising tide of reacitonary sympathy, Hinden- burg pattern, and trying to decide ANDERSON “PROGRESSIVE” SLIPS ON A PIE-CARD AND “TRUSTS WE WILL UNDERSTAND”; AND WE DO! The DAILY WORKER has received the following letter from M. J. McMahon, executive board member of the International Association of Ma- chinists and candidate on the so-called “progressive” Anderson slate against the Johnston machine. The DAILY WORKER prints this, but not at all as an apology to the wounded feelings of Brother McMahon, who is evidently willing to circulate charges under cover against “B, and¢————————_______________ 0.” Johnston that he has not the guts to say openly. It is to be noted that Mack care- fully evades saying whether or not he really wrote the letter published by the DAILY WORKER on Apri: 13. It is also to be considered that if he did write the first letter, this last one is an example of how a false “progressive” belly-crawls to the big fakers. That is Mack’s “proposition” and we sure “understand” it. Their “Progressive” Cowardice. So the reason the DAILY WORK- ER publishes the letter is to show what a cowardly lot the Anderson slate of so-called “progressives” is, who, even before they are elected, by the aid of the left wing which wants to break the Johnston machine, rush into Johnston’s office at intervals to lick his boots, If Brother McMahon is “opposed to discussing internal affairs” of the I. A. M, in the public press, he should have long ago protested to Bill John- ston using the capitalist press to put over the damnable B. and O. col- laboration scheme. however, his let- ter follows: “Editor Chicago DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, tm. “Dear Sir:—President Johnston of the International Association of Ma- chinists has just called to my atten- tion an article appearing in your issue of April 13, 1925. This article in- They Expose cludes a letter attributed to me, in which the officers of our association are severely criticized. This article is headed as follows: “High Official of Machinists Exposes Graft. “Board Member Lists Johnston's Crimes. “I desire to say to you that I do not approve of the publication of this article for the reason that I do not believe that Pres. Johnston or any of our officers have been guilty of graft or dishonesty. I have known Pres, Johnston for many years, and believe he is sincere in his desire to improve the industrial conditions of the working people. “Pres, Johnston is opposing me in this campaign for election, and I be- lieve his friends and appointees are doing all they can to defeat me, and I am opposing him just as vigorously as I believe we need a change in the personnel of our organization, but I do not desire during this campaign to injure the character of any man, and T am opposed to discussing the inter- nal affairs of our organization in the public press. “In all friendliness I trust you will understand my position, and earnestly hope that you will give this letter the same general publicity immediately that was given to the previous ar- ticle. “Thanking you in advance, I am with best wishes, M. J. McMahon, member of general executive board, I, A. of M.” “Black Jack” Wants to Be President (Continued from page 1) son than the one he held at grand headquarters in France in 1917-1918. Before offering himself as a sacri- fice on the altar of Latin American harmony, Pershing has seen fit to give a radio lecture on the need for Amer- ican commercial development in South America. He says the Latin Americans are as proud of their race as we are of our own; that they take as much pleasure in spending their incomes as we do in accumulating for- tunes; that self-government can only be perfected under “devoted, unselfish and patriotic leaders”; that “nowhere else are more promising opportunities for safe investment to be found, and nowhere else would our aid and as- sistance be more highly appreciated.” Getting down to brass tacks, the general proposes that American banks establish branches thruout Latin America, and that congress provide a ship subsidy, to encourage an Amer- ican merchant marine which will help American manufacturers to hold the jLatin American market against Euro- pean competition. He offers the old familiar pleas for a ship subsidy—the encouragement of the shipbuilding industry, the safe and reliable handling of American goods in foreign trade, the need for a naval reserve in time of war. He has learned nothing from the overwhelming defeat of the Harding ship subsidy proposal. He has not a word for government owned ships, operated on a basis of fair treatment of the government. The Pershing mind sees nothing except the desire of the shipbuilding inter- ests and the shipping combine to draw millions from the treasury as a pri- vate subsidy. It is possible that Pershing will be put forward as a candidate for the senate next year in Missouri, against Spencer. Chances, however, seem to favor his reaching for the presidential prize, and his bidding, as General Wood bid in 1920, for the support of Wall Street. NEW YORK TEACHERS UNITED FOR FIRST TIME AROUND FIGHT FOR SALARY RAISE VETOED BY SMITH NEW YORK, April 28.—The fight for higher teachers’ salaries has been lost for the time being thru Governor Smith’s veto of the Ricca bill, but Dr. Henry Linville, president of the Teachers’ Union, feels that the teachers have gained much thru the fight. In talking with the Federated Press he em- phasized the fact that the joint salaries committee that conducted the cam- paign for the bill had brought together the 55 organizations of the 27,000 teachers of the city for the first time¢#———_______________ in history. These 55 organizations include not only the Teachers’ Union but the numerous high school and grade school associations, supervisory bod- ies and miscellaneous groups of New York’s educators. And the signific- ant feature of their unity thru the joint salarfes committee is that this unity was for an ecomonic goal. In other words the committee functioned much as would a union, it was dealt with by the bodies from whom the pay raise was sought and to that ex- tent had the equivalent of union recognition. Now that the teachers have suc- ceeded in getting together the continu- how far it represents a mass feeling) ing of the fight for a standard of living in the United States. izers be held r were to appear at the next drive for sale of literature properly distribute suitable its fullest extent. THE PITTSBURGH DISTRICT GOES ON RECORD FOR ACTION! T the last District Executive Committee meeting upon ’ report made by the DAILY WORKER agent in the dis- trict the following motion was made and carried: “Motion was made and carried that lai esponsible for election of DAILY WORKER vagent in their language branches and that all such agents for distribution of the DAILY WORKER and collection of subs during the week of May 3 to 10. To also make a meetings and other literature We will attempt to have this motion carried out to equal to that they once enjoyed is a organ- meeting to organize a drive ing parsioulay attention to re to be sold at union ir other occasions, matter of course. The working out of the details of the tactics to be pur- sued is being carried on. An early step will probably be agi- tation before the board of estimates and apportionment of New York City, Governor Smith, in vetoing the Ricca bill, passed the buck back to the city, contending that the board of estimate had power to grant such increases as it desired and it was in line with the principle of home rule to let it do so. Kind of Sympathy But No Cash. This excuse of Governor Smith did not get over with the Teachers’ Union, The governor's apparent sympathy with the teachers which he showed by the signing of a pension bill does not mean much for what was needed was more money for the working teachers, while they were working. It is all right to talk of home rule, the unionists say, but they have simply been unable to get relief thru the estimate board and what they had to have was relief from the rising cost of living. The Ricca bill, increasing wages an average of 20 per cent would paid some of their extra rent and the higher prices of milk, butter and eggs. Graphic and line charts of the dif. ference between wage increases and the cost of living since 1914 gotten out by the joint salaries committee of fifteen shows that even with the in- creases granted by the Ricca bill the standard of living of the teachers would be slightly below that of 1914. Living costs have gone up 76.5 per cent in that period and the Ricca in- crease would have brot the rate of pay to 60 or 75 per cent above that of 1914. ARNE SWABECK, District Organizer. PADUA MoM BIN) becribe to 3 THE DAILY WORKE PROFITS STILL HIGH AS COAL MINING DROPS Facts Hit Arguments for Wage Cuts By LELAND OLDs. (Federated Press Industrial Editor) A drop of 18 per cent below the same month a year ago in the coal used by the country’s industrial plants shows how union miners are the vic- tims of an industrial depression which big business is trying to cover up. It substantiates the contention of the miners’ union that a lowering of union wages would not materially increase the demand for coal. Industry, according to the National Association of Purchasing Agents,. consumed 33,065,000 tons in March, 1925, 35,227,000 tons in February, 42,- 145,000 in January, 40,500,000 in De- cember, 40,130,000 in November and 35,679,000 in October. The artificial Coolidge boom is reflected in these figures. By January 7734 per cent of the concerns were reporting a decline in consumption, In March 54 per cent reported a further drop. Even Nonunion Fields Hit. Production even in nonunion fields is at low ebb, according to U. S. geo- logical survey figures. These show the per cent of full-time operation in the last week of March as: Illinois, 31.5 per cent; Indiana, 35.7; Pittsburgh rail lines, 25,2; central Pennsylvania, 49; West Virginia panhandle, 66; Fair- mont, 40.5; New River, 36.9; Pocahon- tas, 46.2; Kanawha, 43.6; West Ken- tucky, 26.6; Hazard, 30.1; Harlan, 34.9, and northeast Kenttcky, 46.1. With a single exception all are under half- time. Consolidation Coal company, the third largest producer in the country, is closing many of its union mines in Pennsylvania and West Virginia on the ground that it cannot sell in com- petition with nonumion coal. Its 1924 report shows 10,000,000 tons mined at a loss of 21 cents a ton altho divi- dends were paid in full out of the enormous surplus remaining from ex- cess profits of previous years. No Interruption in Profits. Consolidation has paid dividends without interruption for 41 years, Dur- ing the last ten. years it averaged $9.90 profit per $100 share. In 1914 it made $8.04 a share with a profit of 18 cents a ton, which was appar- ently entirely adequate. But when the war afforded an opportunity to exploit the nation Consolidation proceeded to jump its profit per ton to 34 cents in 1916, 82 cents in 1917 and 56 cents in 1918. This gave stockholders in 1916 $16.28 a share, in 1917 $24.23 a share, and in 1918 $12.46 a share. The 1924 reyort shows that the 10,000,000 tons were sold for more than the cost of production including royalties. But it also shows that $7,000,000 a year is required to make good all the demands of capital, in- cluding royalties, depreciation, deple- tion, interest and dividends. Thus capital would absorb more than one- third of all receipts and nearly 60 per cent of the wages paid for the work of mining the coal. Profits of the American Coal com- pany in 1924 amounted to $4.91 on each $25 share of common stock. That's a return of 19% per cent. Last year it was 74 per cent and in 1922 52 per cent, altogether giving stock- holders a three-year return equal to about 1% times the par value of their investment. WHOOPEE! THE FIRST PICNIC IS IN SIGHT The regular annual picnic of the Trade Union Educational League of Chicago is to be held on Decoration Day, May 30th, at Altenheim grove, and all T. U, EB, L. groups and Work- ers Party organizations are requested to observe the date and to act at once in throwing all possible assistance to this picnic in order that it be a big success. , Altenheim grove is one of the nicest groves in Chicago suburbs, reached without transfer on the For- est Park “L” or by Madison street car. ‘ (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 28.— Pan-American Federation of Labor of- ficials are amused by the resource shown by Venezuelan working-class exiles in San Juan, Porto Rico, in employing the radio to send a mes- sage of deflanbe and threat of over. throw to Gomez, the dictator of Vene- zuela, d The bandmaster in the city park in San Juan had composed R EDUCATION GIVEN IN PUBLIC SCHOOL STRAINED THRU SIEVE OF CAPITALIST DICTATORSHIP NEW YORK, April 28.—More restrictive legislation against the teacher and the school have been passed in the last six months than ever before in the history of America, the American Civil Liberties Union finds after a comprehensive survey. A large part of these laws are in the name of the bible and in the opinion of the Liberties Union violate the constitutional | provisions requiring separation of church and state. These laws prohibit | the teaching of evolution, require com-4——----—— Page Three AID IS PLEDGED IN MINERS’ WAR ON INJUNCTION Green Says A. F. of L. pulsory reading of the bible and for- bid the hiring of radical or pacifist teachers, U. S. Government “Education.” Congress itself appears to have been guilty of violating the first count in the bill of rights specifically forbid- ding congress from passing any law interfering with the freedom of re- ligion. There are many kinds of religion and some may involve dis- respect towards the bible just as the christian religion involves disrespect towards the koran and other sacred books: The congressional law now in ques- tion was in the form of a rider to the 1925 appropriation bill for the District of Columbia and is now in force. It provides “that no part of this shall be available for the payment of the salary” of any educational director “who permits the teaching of partisan politics, disrespect of the holy bible, or that ours is an inferior form of government.” Thus the law becomes the protector of one religion and allows others to be swatted as the educational director may please. The Liberties Union will oppose attempts at similar riders in 1926, Forced Bible Reading. Compulsory reading of the bible in public schools is required under Penn- sylvania, Ohio, Delaware, West Vir- ginia, and Kentucky laws and teach- ers who do not conform are to be fired. Similar bills are before legis latures of Virginia, Texas, New Jersey and Washington. In South Dakota, last March Judge McHenny ruled that a school board may expel high school students who leave the class room during bible reading. Thirteen students were so expelled. The Liberties Union will join in appealing this decision. Science Verboten in Tennessee. Tennessee last March passed its famous law against teaching evolution in public schools and colleges and resolutions for similar bans on science are before North Carolina and Florida legislatures. * Missouri in an appropriation Dill rider forbids hiring a person “who teaches, or advocates in public or private that the citizens of this state should not protect the government of the United States from aggression by other nations.” MANY PROBLEMS FACE THE T.ULELL, GENERAL MEET The regular meeting of the Chic Trade Union Educational League gen eral group will be held Wednesday April 29, at 8 p. m., at North West Hall, corner North and Western Aves An interesting series of reports on the progress of the militants in the Chicago trade union movement will be given. All militant and progres- sive trade unionists are invited to at- tend this important meeting. Report on Negro Labor Congress A special feature of this meeting of the T. U. E. L. will be a report by E. L. Doty, organizer of the Negro plumbers in Chicago, on the coming Negro labor congress to be held in Chicago this summer. The question of the organization of the thousands of Negro workers in Chicago is of great importance to the entire trade union movement. The years of ex- perience working among the Negro workers of this and other industrial | centers qualifies E. L. Doty to make a thorough report on this question. Patronize our advertisers. Will Help W. Va. Fight (By The Federated Press) | WASHINGTON, D. C., April 28.— | Whatever aid can be given by the | American Federation of Labor to the four members of the United | Mine Workers of America arrested at Wheeling, charged with violation of an old and forgotten “permanent” in- | junction secured by the Richland Coal |company, will gladly be extended, according to an official statement just jissued by President Green. | He pointed out that the injunction | secured in 1909 by the Hitchman Coal | company, permanently forbidding the union to attempt.to organize the Hitch- man employes, was distinct from the one given by the late Judge Dayton to the Richland company. Both in- junctions have done serious injury to the U. M. W. A. “I believe that the men now arrest- ed will be subject to the provisions of the Clayton act, which gives them the privilege of a jury trial,” says |} President Green. “This is the only | injunction of which I am aware that {has been lying forgotten, until the mine owners saw fit to resurrect it |for use against the workers’ attempt |to safeguard their economic rights. There are, however, many other. in- |junctions in existence, issued long ago, which at any moment may be employed against the labor move- ment.” DEMAND AID FOR THE STARVING IRISH PEASANTS AND WORKING CLASS VICTIMS OF BLOODY FASCIST RULE IN BULGARIA NEW YORK, April 28.—'The Irish Committee has called a conference for May 3, Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief 3, 1925, at 2 p. m., at the Lexing. ton Assembly Rooms, 145 E. 58th St., and invites all trade unions, labor organizations and fraternal organizations to send delegates. This conference will be a very s 750,000 starving’ men, women and chi ignificant affair. The situation of the dren in the west of Ireland is slowly being aggravated, owing to the fact that the capitalist press refuses to pub- lish any news about it. The free state government, which is a tool of British imperialism, is trying hard to conceal the facts, but the International Work- spot who are getting the information + to the labor presy of the world, Every working class organization should send delegates to the confer- ence. International solidarity de- ‘mands that the workers of America YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE WARS ON RELIGIOUS DOPE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS NEW YORK, April 28.—The latest deed of the capitalist class in its at- tempts to pervert the minds of the children of the workiing class is the attempt to introduce religious training in the public shools. There are already over a thousand cities where some form of religious instruction is being given in the public schools. The attempt is now being made to put New York City in the same category. For the present religious training in the New York public 000 children. Thus more than one schools is an experiment, The exper-—————_______ iment as tried in several schools is stand by their starving brothers ani” sisters in Ireland. cee Massacring Bulgar Workers. A blood bath is again being given to the.workers and peasants in fas- cist Bulgaria. Zankov, the bloody murderer of thousands of Bulgarian workers and peasants, is again on the job, and is again assisted by the in- famous league of nations. Four thon- ; Sand revolutionary workers, mostly Communists, have been massacred in the streets of Sofia and other towns, and 16,000 have been imprisoned, Zankov does not bother about for- malities: not even a court martial— but plain shooting down in the streets. This murderous gang who heads the Bulgarian government and against whom the workers and peas- ants have been in rebellion for more than two years almost met its death at the hands of the outraged masses. The explosion in the cathedral in Sofla merely indicates the fury to which the masses of Bulgaria have been driven. Repression, persecution, starvation and murder are the weap- Dictator Gomez Fought by Radio as follows: One day each week periods are set aside in the public school program during which all the children from grade one to grade eight go to the church of their faith. Several teach- ers lead the children to the churches. Since the superintendent of schools is responsible for this experiment, the religious instruction must be of a cer- tain standard. Attendance for the present is not compulsory. Ostracise Atheists. This is the official version, but what methods the teachers use to carry out this voluntary attendance, and what instructions are given to them, is well known to all who are at all acquaint- ed with our educational system, The teacher of course exerts her influence and the ostracism which naturally ac- companies such epithets as “atheist” which would be hurled at the children who failed to attend the religious in- struction, assures 100 per cent attend- ance in the churches and synagogu As soon as the experiment proves far as Gomez’ spies know, is his own. Just as the piece was about to be played, the axiled Venezuelans ap- peared and began to yell threats and derision and epithets into the receiv- er, so that the tyrant across the water got the full benefi of their Opinions, It is significant that the police in San Juan did not interfere. Gomez has imprisoned or shot or exiled all Venezuelans who have at- tempted to start trade unions in his country, Santiago Iglesias, head of successful, (from the capitalist point of view), the cloak of experiment will be discarded, and capitalism will use religion as another weapon against the workers and the workers’ move- ment. Dope In School Widespread The attempt to introduce religious training in the public schools has drawn the attention of the workers to the widespread existence of religious instruction for children, which many workers have up to the present con- sidered negligable. In New York City at the present time there are religious Sunday schools, and religious after- noon classes, with a total attendance of 60,000 children, There are also parochial schools, and private schools which include re- Ngion in ‘their curriculum. These schools have a total enrolment of 260,- fourth of all children of' school age in New York City are directly under the control of the churches. If in addi- tion, we consider the religious propa- ganda spread by the movies, news- papers, books, magazines and other agencies of capitalist propaganda, we see that the old Jesuit saying “Get them while they are young” is being realized more than ever before. Cloak For Propaganda The road for the workers is clear. They must conduct a vigorous strug: gle ainst the introduction of reli- gious training into the public schools; they must fight all religious training; they must ask their children not to attend religious instruction, explain ing that religion is only a cloak for capitalist propaganda. In this struggle, the Young Workers league and the Junior Section are playing a leading role. Leaflets are ons that the capitalists and big land- owners have employed in order to keep the masses in subjection. Macedonians Will Fight The Macedonian population has béen deprived of all rights, despite the notorious slogan of the war “gelf- determination of peoples.” The Mace- donians, however, are determined to fight on—together with the oppressed masses of workers and peasants, And no persecutions, no wholesale mur- ders will stop the revolutionary move ment in Bulgaria. The league of nations has granted the terrorist Zankov government 10,000 white guard troops. The fas- cisti reign in Bulgaria today, but the day of reckoning is coming. Must Reply to Attacks The workers of the United States must not let these acts of terrorigm on the part of the murderous Bul garian government—aided by the league of nations—to go unheeded, The workers of the United States must protest in their millions. This is the time to show solidarity and to get into action. The white guard Polish government has just murdered more of the revolutionary workers, In Italy, Spain, Rumania, Finland, Es- tonia, Greece, Germany, the persecu tions against the revolutionary work- ers and peasants continue. Workers of the United States, you must do your share in stopping these atrocities. Protest! Agitate in the shops and unions! Collect funds for the prisoners in the Bulgarian baw — tilles, Help their families. Hunger | and misery are the lot of the Bul sarian workers and peasants. Send _ your contributions to the Internations al Workers Aid, New York s 108 B. 14th St., New York City, Aet at once! a the Porto Rican labor movement and | being distributed in the schools, the socialist senator in the island legis-| children are being organized, and the lature, is one of his most. persistent | paremts acquainted to fight the