The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1925, Page 1

' 4 ¥ : 4 | | THE DAILY WORKER. RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 93. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ARREST ITALIAN COMMUNISTS I FUTILE WAR ON BIG MAY DAY | DEMONSTRATIONS THRUGUT ITALY (Special to The Dally Worker) ROME, Italy, April 29——One hundred and twelve workers, : including many Communists, were arrested in Naples today by fascist police, who dre making futilé efforts to prevent prepara- tions for large May Day demonstrations. of the workers thruout |/ Bircinagints were arrested in Rome, the only charge Italy. Two placed against them being that their possession. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. HE only European government that seems to be worried over the elec- tions of von Hindenburg is France. Britain is satisfied. So are the fascist governments of Italy and Poland. “At least for the present, One can never tell when those cutthroats © will draw their daggers. The French pol- itical gituation is liable to swing sharply to the right, tho the pseudo- left that took office after the fall of Poincare was the most cowardly out- fit that ever held power in any coun- try. fe © doom Communist International has jued a statement on the result of the German elections which does not attempt to allay fears of the workers of the world by personal tributes to the docility and peaceful intentions of the German militarists. The statement declares that Hindenburg’s électiom} increases the danger of war. It does. The monarchist elements are hearten- ed and behind them stand’ the fascists and jingoes, the heavy industrialists and the large population of..morons who are infatuated with the alleged glories of pre-war Germany. More trouble is brewing. es 8 ‘AND what of the German socialists in this critical hour for the work- ers of Germany and of Burope? What ateps are they taking to avert another and a grdater calamity than has fallen unfortunate victims of the Ger- SP ng tae hase High fateh i i | | \ | don paper. autumn of 1914? They ate doing noth- ing, but twiddling their political. thumbs and making threats that if Hindenburg does not conduct himself, they, thesocialists, may not. This is the kind of a toothless challenge that the seasoned labor faker Sam Gom- pers used to hurl at this :sham foe; Judge Gary. The socialists are re- sponsible for the debacle which has overtaken the German working class movement, once the pride of the world proletariat. eee UT the German working class are not leaderless in face of the new menace of kaiserism revived. The Communist Party remains. Its leaders are not sitting down, twiddling their thumbs. Hardly had the votes been counted when a manifesto was coming off the red presses calling on the entire German working class, regard- less of political affiliations for a united front against monarchism, the Hohen- zollerns, the Dawes plan and all the other evils that’ afflict’ the workers, The socialist leaders will turn this proposal down, but not all their fol- lowers will. There are darker days than ever ahead for the German workers, but they will emerge victor- ious from their trials as their com- rades in Soviet Russia did. Ly 7 = 9 “fTVHE pound looks the dollar in the face” reads a. headline in a Lon- That sounds like a chal- lenge and that is just what it is. | Those who believe that the lion and the eagle will slumber peacefully to- gether and devour the other lesser capitalist animals in perfect harmony, are laboring under a delusion: No doubt this makes a pretty picture, and could form the basis for any number of super-novels, worthy of a H. G. | Wells.” The dollar and the pound are . making faces at each other. The ‘pound is older and perhaps wiser. Hut the dollar has the pep of youth and its audacity. 9 ie aid RITAIN went back to the gold standard. That is why the pound gets so cocky all of a sudden, It may seem strange to some that money (Continued on page 2) SPEAKERS: JAMES P, CANNON 6, E. they had Communist leaflets in DOWN TOOLS IS GRY OF WORKERS THIS MAY DAY Rathenberg, Shachtman Speak at Chicago Meet Many millons of workers in all parts of the world will forget their bosses tomorrow and will take part in the greatest May Day demonstra- tion ever held. Under the banner of the Communist parties of the world, these myriads of militant workers will throw down their toofs and devote May 1, 1925, to celebrating the in- Spbiring, historic day on which the working class demonstrates its power. ) The dark-races of India, Africa, the! )Near and Far, East, will make the British: imperialists tremble. The “Trench, German, Japanese and Eng-) lish employers will rin for cover be; hind their .police lackeys at thi gag a of,the international work: ng class revolt on this May Day. Nor ‘will the murder of workers in the Balkans, or the Big Stick of the in- ternational bankets stem the work- ‘ers in their mighty demonstration. National Holiday in Russia, In the workers’ and peasants’ gov- ernment of Soviet Russia, of course, ‘ay Day Wilt be” a” state ~holttay. Thousands upon thousands of work- ers will gather in parades and meet- (Continued on page 4.) CAPITALIST LAW PERMITS CHILD SLAVES IN HOME Ruins Health and Life of Thousands , ARTICLE THREE. | By LILLIAN’R. BORGESON, Minois is guilty of harboring with- in its state Dorders the vilest form of child labor—‘home work.” In spite of the fact that the city fathers and In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicage, by mail, $6.00 per year. TH |Dead, He Still Li AY, APRIL 30, 1925 “God Bless Our American Institutions. May They Grow Better Day By Day:’ “Say to'the organized workers of America that as I have kept the faith I expect that they will keep the faith. They must carry on. Say to them that a union man carrying a card is not a LJ. BLARY & SONS ‘Seareah Maretante—teerance of alt ds J.R. DILLON Georgtiows, Genuine Ford Parte, LINCOLN—FoRD—FORDSON OPEN SHOP MUST GO, SAY REDS IN ELECTION FIGHT LosAngelesCommunists Hold Many Meetings (Special to The Daily Worker.) LOS ANGELES, April 26—“The oped shop must go,” is the slogan of the Workers (Communist) Party in the election campaign of the Commun- ist candidate, Edward Harris, run- ning in the fifteenth district for the city council. The program aemands confiscation of all public utlities, which are to be run\ by committees of the workers engaged in the various branches of the service. Work or compensation for all unemployed workers, is the responsibility of the city government, says the Communist program signed by Harris. Demand Abolition of Injunction. crafty -politicians, together, as usual, with the liberals and the meek social workers,.have been busy broadcasting the “fact” that Illinois. has stdte laws which prohibit the labor of little children, the worst child labor flour- ishes undisturbed. Even the radica’ have come to believe that Illinois is far above the other states in its re- gulation of child labor. But such is not the case. The want-ads of the capitalist news- papers daily carry enticing ads for “home work’—varying from the popu- lar beading and. sewing to millinery trimming and embroidering. The state has a law which is supposed to regulate home industry but it has the customary joker which makes the in- tent of thé law worthless. No Home Work “Except In the Home” This law states that the making of various articles in the home for sale or manufacture is. prohibited except if performed by members of the fam- ily living within the home. “Members of the family” naturally ‘means, in addition to the father and mother, all adult and minor children. (Continued on page 5) Abolition of the use of police and injunctions to break strikes, abolition of child labor, with government sup- port of school children, are demand- ed in the program. bd The fifteenth district is the San Pedro Harbor district, scene of the great strike of marine and transport workers. The program demands for San Pedro Harbor that “All employes of companies, steamship agencies, can- neries, etc, using public docks, (Continued on page 5.) x iF YOU DIDNT GET YOUR DAILY WORKER, UNCLE SAM HAS 1 Owing to a slight technical vio- _lation of the postal laws, Wednes- day’s issue of the DAILY WORKER was held up by the postal authori- ties and failed to reach some of our readers. This explanation is made to those who failed to receive their copy of the DAILY WORKER. Uncle Sam has it. GAMUEL GOMPERS served the ruling class well le he lived. He is still very useful to them as the above advertisement shows. This was taken from the Vermillion County Star, a so-called labor weekly published in Danville, Illinois, It # edited by Frank Leven, former leader in the farmer-labor party, now deceased. Leven played with both the Fitzpatrick and Ernest factions of the farmer-labor party. He is now playing with the bankers who pay better than either of the above celebrities. When Gompers died and before he was laid away be- tween the carcasses of the millionaire labor ex- ploiters William Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, y ican resources, the happiness of American Homes—a | servatiye leadership of the tremendous. 9 workers what a Five Railroads Try to Raise Rates for Newspapérs WASHINGTON, April 29.—The in- terstate commerce commision today ordered jaf ipvestigation of the pro- posal of five eastern railroads to in- crease their rates carrie iota pee tral Freight Association and Trunk Line territories. The railroads imyolved are the Pennsylvania lines, (East and West,) the Baltimore & Ohio, the Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic, the Reading and the Western Maryland, The pro- posed increases, amounting to an ap- proximate advance of 66 per cent over newspapers | existing rates, would affect all news- papers in the territory served by these roads. IOWA MINERS STRONG FOR W. P, PROGRAM Opportunism and Sec- tarianism Give Way — ‘The last words of the Leader who has gone, Trrlife his first thought for his S through the veil into eternity, it was the same—his country. agi Pp An ineese He was the personal friend of four great Presidents, Roosevelt, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge. President Coolidge was among the first to.send a letter of condolence to his widow. ‘These sien, the chosen leaders of the nation, knew that Sam Gompers was truly an American, good citiaen unless he upholds. || | Samuel Gompers wae ~ rhe | fae institutions Sf oa country i chetked the insidious prog mmmunist, the I. 7 the Political Disturber 4 poor citizen of our country t would make for and, most dangerous of all, the One Big Union Mare } it he upholds the institutions |} } plot who would have if anarchy to America, ee im of our country and forgets the Those. who loved Sam Gompers, those who kevere his memory, can best pay tribyte to that great Servant of Humanity by Carrying on in the spirit that dominated his life MaeopRe apIFTCAE Conservatism. No greater calamity could come to America than to select sor one less conservative, one less controlled by love of country, than Sam rs. Indust Hi the orderly development of Amer- large measure upon a sane and con- er of the American Federation of EORGETOWN BUILDIN' AND LOAN ASSOCIATI Established 1891 the Workers Party issuéd @ statement telling the | contemptible crook this man Gom- pers-was, The labor fakers who were trained by him got sore. Perhaps some of the workers who did ‘not examine Gompers’ acts closely, felt irritated at our sharp criticism. But can any better proof of Gompers’ treachery to labor be offered than the above advertisement which was accompanied by a picture of the dead labor faker? And what can one say of a labor editor who prostitutes himself for the few dollars he managed to blackjack out of the bankers in return for publishing Gompers’ anti-labor fulminations? REDS CALL FOR UNITY AGAINST thine Cen=} VON HINDENBURG sandists:’ It is declared in these® dis- Monarchists Cabinet Supports Dawes Plan (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, April 29.—The Communist Party of Germany has is- sued an appeal, indorsed by the more militant trade unions, calling upon the rank and file among the socialists to unite with all the workers in an open fight on the monarchist element led by the president elect, Hindenburg. The appeal declares that the only way to save the workers of Germany from the menace of monarchy is to unite in a fight for a workers’ and farmers’ government and the crush- ing of the power of the exploiting class. Communists’ Immediate Demands. The Communist declaration in- cludes in its immediate demands the dissolution of all the nationalist, fas- cist organizations, strikes against the MELCHER, Iowa, April 29.—Attend-| monarchist menace, the confiscation ance at our meetings at Madrid, Mo-|of the property of all princes, the ran, Des Moines, and Melcher, proves | expulsion of the Hohenzotlerns from that the mine workers in this district Germany, the discharge of all mon- are becoming deeply interested in the | archist elements, among the employes Communist movement and its pro-/of the state, the dissolution of the gram. Earlier in the month we addressed crowds of miners at Centerville and Mystic’ At both of these centers the same interest in and sympathy with the Workers Party was evident. In several of the camps "Wwe witness- ed the demise of the proletarian party. Although some of the poison scattered against the Workers Party by the “proletarians” is yet notice- able, the former members of that sec- tarian group are now joining the Com- munist ranks. Leipsic courts, the release of all class (Continued on page 2) Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL e rie Daily Worker Annual Sub- scription Drive Now on ; in Full Blast! Entered as Second-class mattur September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, [linols under the Act of March 8, 1879. GET IN ON IT! Price 3 Cents ves-For the Bankers | SIX THOUSAND PRESSED STEEL CAR WORKERS STRIKE AGAINST LONGER HOURS AT MeWEES ROCKS By ARNE SWABECK, (Spectal to The Daily Worker) McKEES ROCKS, Pa., April 29.—Six thousand pressed steel car workers are out on strike here against the Pressed Steel Car company attempt to force them ’ After repeated BRIAND ATTACKS SOVIET EMBASSY STAFF IN PARIS Grows Hysterical Over Sut Yat Sen Meeting (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, April 29. — Altho members of the diplomatic corps here have continually made open propa- ganda speeches without French cen corship, for the business Interests con- trolling their governments, the French ‘oreign office has protested because . Voline, first secretary of the Soviet ‘ussian embassy, spoke here at aj eeting in commemoration of Su ‘at Sen. Ambassador Berthellot, Aristide ssador to France, for an “explana; ion” of this horrible crime. The new Painleve government is demonstrating its uneasiness at the growing prestige of the Communists, Russian embassy staff, and attempting to put its members in an evil light before the workers. The foreign office has given to the newspapers a full list of the embassy staff, the papers describing the Soviet Tepresentatives as “dangerous propa- patches that M. Schliapnikov, the counselor of the embassy, was two yéars ago a worker in a factory near Paris, and “was expelled from Norway and Sweden in 1921-1922, for Com- munist agitation.” It is declared that Voline “whose real name_is Schwerling, is on the records of the Paris police. Two years ago he was business manager of the Communist newspaper Humanite.” It was hinted by the foreign office (Continued on page 2) ANTI-INJUNCTION BILL DEFEATED IN ILLINOIS HOUSE BY 74 T0 62 VOTE (Special te The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Apr. 29.—The Soderstrom bill prohibiting employ- ers from using the courts to obtain anti-picketing injunctions, was de- feated In the house by a vote of 74 to 62. The officials of the Illinois Federation of Labor have been lob- bying ‘for the bill. Ten amendments offered to the bill limiting the labor of Illinois women to eight hours were laid on the table on motlons by Mrs. Lottie O'Neill, who presented the bill to the house. SOVIET RUSSIA, ON GOLD BASIS SINCE. 1922, HAS BIG FINANCIAL SURPLUS IN GOVERNMENT BUDGE (Special to The ally Worker) to work longer hours. piece work wages and day’s eyts jn the wages, tlie c, poratiqh is tried to force thru another wage cut ~+ by. the method of making the men work longer hours, It demands that the present too long day of nine hours be lengthened to nine and a half hours and that the men give up their half day off on Saturday. The wage cuts have been frequent in the past, especially in the piece work shop, Cuts have been made un- til these workers who used to get about $9 a day now are doing far more work for only $6 a day. Labor- ers are now getting only $3.60 a day. The strike is now being organized and led by the Workers (Communist) Patty WHO"ate”alding the strikers to consolidate their forces and inspiring them to struggle in one solid front for victory against wage cuts and longer hours. HOW LEVIN KEEPS PUPPY-DOG ARMY UNDER HIS THUMB Briand’s new assistant, has asked} ~ ? beswe Krassin, Soviet Russian am: Hierarchy of TerrorThru a Underlings ARTICLE Two. Different shop chairmen of the Chi- jby making threats against the Soviet) cago Amalgamated Clothing Workers use various methods. I will quote Phil- lip Chalmer, chairman of the Chi- cago Joint Board. He explained’ it thus: “There are two kinds of shop chairmen, some use wise methods and some don’t. When told to bring the People to a local union meeting and Dit-thru an important miatter, some chairmen go up to each individual in the’ shop and tell them, ‘I want you to come to the meeting tonight and vote so and so; and if you don’t I will know what to do.’ “The people being afraid, do what they are told. But this is not the wisest method. I do it differently. I am shop chairman in Hart, Schaffner and Marx. When I know there is a meeting coming at which we want to put something over, I just go up to everybody in the shop, except a few I cannot depend on, and tell them they should come to the meeting because there is an important matter to be taken up. They Understand the Threat. “I do not have to threaten them. They understand already whet I mean without me telling it to them. They come to the meeting and watch my hand. The way I vote, they votet” If any worker does not do what he is expected to do, he may ag wall Jeave the shop. His complatmts are not attended to, the foreman can do with him whatever he pleases, At local union meetings the shop chafr- man usually groups the workers of his shop in one place, so-he can watch their votes. Always Attend Local Meetings. Naturally, the business egents do not leave it all to the shop chair men. They are on the job at the local meeting to see that the work- ers vote “properly.”. Hyven not to vote at all is considered as a crime against the machine. Lately they have introduced a sys- tem, especially in Business Agent Charlie Weinstein’s shops, by which BERLIN, April 29—It is admitted by capitalist bankers that Russian|they can reward their friends with public finances are showing marked improvement. The agricultural tax,| something material. Here is how it Although an occasional miner in-!| which is the largest direct impost in that country, yielded up to the first of | works: sists that Communist support would} April 334,000,000 rubles, which is more than the estimate. The Russian finance minister has declared that henceforth all budgets bers of the United Mine Workers in| will be “firm,” meaning that, contrary to past practice, the public depart this district see the correctness of the | ments will be warned in advance that expenditure must not exceed the sun stand taken by our party in the elec- provided in the estimates. The first bidget of the kind, covering the six months from April to September inclusive, reckons the surplus of 1,264,000,000 gold rubles without havé elected LaFollette the live mem- n. The liquidation of “LaFollettism” and “Proletarianism” is speedjng the growth of the Workers Party, any emissions of notes, May Day Celebration ... Friday, May 1, 8 P. M. TEMPLE HALL, MARSHFIELD AND VAN BUREN Y. W. L. Orchestra dinavian Singing Society Freiheit Singing Sottély Admission 25¢ An Army of Mercenaries, ‘When a price is made on a gar- ment, the business agent and the firm agree on a total price for the gar- (Continued on page 3) Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him!