The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1925, Page 2

be PAN-AMERICAN ANTI-IMPERIALIST N LEAGUE STARTS AMNESTY DRIVE COWARDLY UNIG® ' TO FREE COMMUNISTS IN ARMY| OFFICIALS GALL THE DAILY WORKER EXTRA STEEL DIVIDEND || SHOWS PROFITS BIGGER THAN IN LAST QUARTER \ ; ’ ». nce eae SOE A ST NEGROES OUST WHITE HEAD OF “Hindenburg Safe!” Says Andy Mellon, Head of the x Determination of the ruling powers} Domingo, Haiti, thruout Latin Amer- America to consolidate the U. S. military forces abroad into an army of hard boiled, reactionary colonial shock troops, is what dictated the barbarous prison sentences meted out to Privates Crouch and Trumbull, ac- ica—everywhere where the yoke of American imperialism is tightening. “The protest against the treatment of Crouch and Trumbull is just. be- ginning to rise. Qur league will en- deavor to mobilize every element of OFF BIC PARADE Miners Forbidden to Commemorate Dead NEW YORK, April 29—Directors of the United States Steel corpora- tion declared an extra dividend of 50 cents a share on the common stock yesterday In addition to the regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent. United States Treasury By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. FISK COLLEGE Served the Interests ot Big Business of South A cording to the Pan-American Anti-Im-]|resistence to American imperialism, 2 Nek euvninaaitor the fret quarter eases Fe Callies i ia Leag The organization |in this country and abroad, to bring] WHEELING, W. Va., April 29.—A 9 ¢ : " i sp ata fwldceneaal| can: (Aout inate relate. Meetings will be {Parade of coal miners of West Vir-| of 1925 were $39,882,095 and surplus epays American big business gladly and cheerfully ad NEW YORK, April 29.—Following » 4 paign to bring about amnesty for the |held. Leaflets will be issued. ‘The |Sinia, Ohio and western Pennsylvania,| available for Hynde hpi justs itself to the election results in Germany knowing [meeting of the board of oe two Commur ldiers by means of | Pan-American Anti-Imperialist League | 8Cheduled for next Sunday, was called| a8 compared with $14,262, that, ‘Hindenburg is safe!” in the words of “Andy” Mellon, versity here, ade an official of will muster all its forces on behalf of these two brave soldiers, whose only off today by officers of the United Mine Workers after City Manager J. S. Butts and City Solicitor Carl miners, who met death in the Ben- last quarter of 1924. Earnings In the first quarter of the year were equivalent to about British {Labor ‘is secretary of the U. S, treasury, one of the richest men in the land. “There will be no word of dissent uttered in Washington, in case known that Dr. Fayette McKenzie, white president of the Negro univers- ity, has resigned. McKenzie had lost turned to their homes. ish expeditionary forces in India and | pression. The question is not one of wood mine disaster a year ago. The Germany slides back into imperial government with von Hindenburg The reason given for the resignation the notorious. black and tans in Ire- ;Communism. It is not Communism MeMnehl: MEdane OUlbark Math RES Joini Hands with as president, as France did with Napoleon III.” of McKenzie was that “his usefulness land. | that is at issue but imperialism.” : a : ay ng ty . as an educator among the Negro race Si di : 2 would be confined to speaking in the . U: ee a » “There is great discontent in Ha-| Funds are needed for the amnesty | oye. ACaitorium, with a eoatiie the, Russian nions y ‘ has ended.” McKensie refused to allow waii today. Tho Hawaiian people|campaign on behalf of Crouch and] gers The United States, as the head of world reaction, re- have indicated time and again that they want to be free. The gre i ‘ chieftains in Hawaii and the Amer! |can sugar kings who sent them there’ gknow that the Communist Internation- al is the friend of all oppressed peo- ing for national liberation. quently every appeal to Com- nism s the American soldiers must be in nily smothered. “Crouch i Trumbull are heroes today in Hawaii. And not only in Ha- waii, but in the Philippines, in Santo | Trumbull. The Pan-American Anti- Imperialist League will co-operate in the collections ng taken up by the International Workers’ Aid in North, South and ‘Central America. The monthly organ of the league in the || Libertador,” |° American | Spanish language, “El will carry a special appeal. workers are being appealed to thru the DAILY WORKER and other la- |; bor papers. Send all contributions to the International Workers’ Aid, 19 S. Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill. SARGENT PLANS TO EXPLOIT THE PRISON VICTIMS WASHINGTON, April 29— A de finite move toward complete indus- trialization of federal prisons was tak- en today when Attorney-General 'Sar- gent directed installation of printing shop equipment at Atlanta and Leav- AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) fights. In fact, capitalist governments are always fighting: with each other by some means or other. Just like two drug stores on opposite corners, tho in a larger way. Two drug stores com- pete for customers. One of them may be driven to dabbling in moonshine in order to keep going. The other competitor has to follow suit or go under. If the competition is keen enough one of the druggists may either bomb his neighbor or tell the capacity of 4,000. Briand Attacks | Soviet Embassy Staff in Paris (Continued from page 1) officials that the propaganda against e Soviet embas: is preparatory to request from Briand that the entire personnel of the embassy be changed) The Soviet embassy is the only staff Lof foreign diplomats to be subjected to} Briand’s hysterical wrath. In his protest to Krassin, Briand’s |assistant made wild charges that the, Imeeting of the Paris workers to mourn ithe death of the great leader of the, Chinese workers, Sun Yat Sen, was “nothing but a general conference of, colonial delegates to the Communist International.” i 4} Russian unity committee ‘| every day a wider support among the LONDON, April 29.—The Anglo- receives masses of British unionists, who make up the strongest section of the Am-| sterdam International. Regardless of the resistance of German and French reformists, the British are determined that their labor movement shall. hot be wrecked by failing to keep step with the. in jing necessity of the organized labor movement of the western world to join with the Rus- sian revolutionary unions upon a basis of a united struggle against capital. Unity with the trade union move- ments in other countries has become a necessity for British labor. Every move to preserve standards or to se- cure more tolerable conditions comes up against competition with sweated labor abroad. The war has given in- ternational capital a chance to play The French fear the influence of ong national working class against pthe Soviet government on French | another, lowering the standards of all. Asiatic colonials and the workers of] 4 million ang@ a quarter British work- Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco, Women’s Eight-Hour Bill Drastically Amended in House ers are permanently unemployed with the number subsisting entirely en meager unemployment doles estimat- ed at 2,757,190. Britain’s Best Days of Capitalism Are Past. cognizes gladly its counterpart in other lands. It has . watched, with growing satisfaction, the strength of th feudal reaction in the Balkans, until recently the American Minister Wilson, in Bulgaria, was unmasked as the guiding influence that persuaded the Bulgarian figs to place the blame for the cathedral blast on the Communists, and not pon the Jugo-Slav government, as originally intended. It has hailed fascism, in its most bloody aspects, under Mussolini, in Italy, and under Primo de Rivera, in Spain, not to men- tion the Baltic provinces of the Versailles peace. It has watched like a nursing mother the growth of the Hinden- burg-Ludendorff-Hitler reaction in Germany. Its present secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover, as food adminis- trator in Europe, following the war, is credited with the , overthrow of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, and the usher- ing in of the murderous Horthy rule, * * * ° _There is the closest kinship between Hindenburg’s “Deutschland Ueber Alles!” and Morgan’s “America First!” They both stand for the domination of the capitalist class over the working class. They both demand the supremacy of property rights. Every precaution must be taken to safe- guard profits. And in order that profits may grow and multi- ply, capitalism takes the same steps in both Germany and in the United States, increasing the length of the workday from eight to tend and twelve hours; cutting wages; out lawing the Communists who fight against these attacks; crushing militant trade unionism, and making war upon the. workers generally. Wali Street, during the campaign, picked Marx as the Negroes to speak to the students of the Nashville, Tenn., University, altho freely giving the platform to white manufacturers. The fight on McKenzie began sev eral years ago, when he was criticized by the Negroes for instituting a spy system among the teaching force, and the establishment of “prison rules.” An editorial by Dr. Du Bois in the current issue of his magazine, The Crisis, declares, “Men and women of black America: Let no decent Negro send his child to Fisk until Fayette MoKensie goes.” The action of McKensgie in ordering the arrest of five students who took part in the demonstration against him aroused a storm of protest among Negroes thruout the country. McKen- zie was supported by the southern lumber and other big business inter- ests who wanted to continue to use the southern Negro as a source of cheap labor. ‘ McKenzie resignation, takes affect on June 30, it is announced. Conference Table as Substitute for Strike Not Quite a Success fia oan thud srhembavadbe: ‘ C- | nearest police captain of the illegal These figures are trom a memerici] safer candidate of the two. But it is highly satisfied with Page car pining vod gle dg aglled SS athscads amioect canes oe not an | wane Inapictte, SPRINGFIELD, Mll., April 29—The| prepared for the Empire Develop-) Hindenburg. Coolidge’s fake disarmament conference plans | ‘Pe, 7° rege Mong sh the Obioags, Ban. the aera — rc to Leet se 8 woman’s eight-hour bill was advanced | ment Union by W. A. S. Hewins. He may have to go by the board, French capitalism fears Hin- ihaten Ai Catees> bake had tals ie cas jot grt ecened teiiaee {JO doubt the officer is already |to third reading in the house today,|says: “There is no hope whatever of denburg rule as the means of bringing into existence a petition’ denied by ‘that qerest beds they aro qualified. Over haif of the | IN acquainted with the situation and|but not until drastic amendments | translating into fact the delusion that ; : federal prigoners are idle, but within @ year, under the intensive industrial- ization it ig intended they will all be doing eight fours daily. 5 Wright Joins Cook As Oil Speculator in Faraway Texas WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29— Chester M. Wright until recently more likely than not is the druggist’s best customer. But “duty is duty” and he nlay be obligedta raid: his triente premises. However, this is getting into a very interesting question which is liable to lead us into trouble, so let get back to the dollar and the pound. Just as the two druggists quarrel over business so do the big powers. And just as the two rival druggists may bomb each others’ pres- cription departments so do the rival capitalist powers bomb each other's were attached to the bill. Two amendments, which Mrs. Lot- Hoimen-O'Neiil of Downer’s ‘Grover sponsor of the bill, was unable to head off, were attached to the meas- ure. One amendment exempts apprentice nurses and hospitals, both private and public. The other exempts mercantile es- tablishments, hotels and restaurants where less than ten women are em- Great Britain can once more become supreme industrial country.” “British is-teveloping indus- try in parts of the world where labor is cheap and the owner is still dicta- tor‘of hours and conditions. These overseas investments are taking away the jobs of British workers. Here is a mess out of which British labor can- not pull alone. So it is working for co-operation with the labor forces in other countries. new and greater militarism in Germany. The reply of French capitalism will be increased armaments; which will mean the threat/of.new,war, resulting inevitably in another European blood bath that will spread to even greater word proportions than the last international slaughter. To be sure, President Coolidge, under Wall Street's orders, will continue to press for a disarmament conference. Nations building huge armaments make poor debt payers. That fact is very disquieting to Morgan and other inter- national bankers. But the rivalries of German and French capitalisms would develop just as surely under the presi- dency of a Marx, head of the republican bloc, as they did of salary robbers. ey, apy res rg coe a HOLYOKKX, Mass.—The tile Workers’ Union = conducting an organization drive in this city. Three organizers spoke at a preliminasy meeting of the employes of the Amer ican Thread Co., asking their solidar- ity with 2,500 American Thread em- ' press agent and stoolpigeon-in-chiet | © ‘ Peace ean, ae: Hteae OY, ane even under the “socialist,"" Ebert. workers:in this city. Many of those { to Sam Gompers, has fallen into a| {tories provided they can near} them ten hours, Iron Workers Get an of ge Ls : outside of the thread mifils are m an den of altruists. Former friends of MNS? to them. | Increase from Iron Let the workers watch the Morgan government at |‘ndependent union but the thread Wright have recetved letters trom|_. Rta ® Aes Sect Mt yr Washington and study its support of the Hindenburg regime. |Workers are nearly all unaffiliated him offering them a chance to make|[", ‘N° Dast they have confined! WASHINGTON, April 29.—Repub- League Contractors] jf they do they will get a tittle better insight into the real | With organizations. a fortune in the ofl business of Fort themselves to bombing each other's |lican opposition to the proposal of y A f itali li its . Worth, Texas. soldiers. It was rather pleasant for | Vice-President Dawes that senate nature of American capitalism, revealing as never before The letter which tries to inviegle the dollars from the pockets of the labor leaders takes about fifteen hun- dred words to say that Chester ‘is now in the same business that land- ed the Arctic explorer, Dr. Cook in the leaders of the fighting powers. They had all the excitement and thrill of @ war without any risk whatsoever. Of course the kings and statesmen of modern times manage to keep their hides safe but wars are no longer ad- Tules be so amended to enforce clo- ture, was voiced today by Senator Fess, repyblican of Ohio, one of the outstanding parliamentarians of con- gress. Fess, following a white hosse con- EB. M. Craig, secretary of the Chi- cago Building Construction Employ- ers’ Association, was notified yester- day that a new wage contract has been agreed upon between the Iron League, an organization of large ugly anti-labor face. They will then understand much bet- ter many of the things the Communists have been pointin out to them. They will realize why they must enlist an fight under Communist standards. 3 M building contractors, and the Iron 4 of the nine officials charged with Leavenworth and that he, ke Cook, | ‘ouures to be entered into lightly [ference with President Coolidge, de-| Workers’ Union, ‘This union was the (Communists Call FOURTEENTH GONGRESS | |tevine stein tne rich young merchant is willing to take the money of ali]; uione wfers from an attack of lelared his opposition to “gag rule.” | onty one of the building trade organ-| for Unity Against the with whom she took refuge and who and sundry and invest it in oil wells Bee cr Ren cne'e irre ization that had failed to negotiate Hi R . OF RUSSIAN COMMUNIST mutilated her with knives. Seat aes uns: ta take 0 dostine, runs away with the bootblack. Society Sinclair Delays Appeal. a new wage scale. indenburg egime “I wanted to leave the maharajah, In the letter Wright says that the 35 at et eee of late| MOSCOW, (By Rosta)—It islearned| ‘The contract gives the iron work- PARTY OPENS SESSIONS because of the déath of my child,” government had indicted all the | ™% WtS take a long time to prepare. | that the lawyers of the Sinclair Bx- (Continued from page 1.) crooks in Forth Worth before he came around, leaving only good friends of Wright’s and sound altruists. Ches- ter denies that he wants to make a fortune for himself in order to buy pork chops. He wants to make mon- ey in order to boost some cause for the betterment of mankind that he holds near and dear to his business- like heart. Recently William Green fired ‘Wright from his job as head of the publicity department of the A. F. of L. and Wright wandered to Texas from where he is offering all old friends and anyone with a little jack the chance to make a fortune. Plan New Soviet Republic COPENHAGEN, April 29.—The cen- tral Soviet government in Moscow will shortly proclaim a4 new Soviet republic comprising the white Rus- sian territories in Latvia, Poland and Lithuania, according to dispatches quoting the Moscow newspaper "Izve- stia. PARIS POLICE RAID HOMES OF SIXTEEN RED SECRETARIES PARIS, France, April 29-—~Police today searched the homes of sixteen Communists, who are secretaries of sections of the Communist Party of France. Membership lists were seized, literature destroyed, and in some cases the interior of the hous- es wrecked. The police used as a pretext for the raids the combat last week in whieh three were killed and forty- three wounded. | Not that there is any'time lost. While the generals are getting the poigon gas ready and the preachers are concoct- ing spirited war prayers, the diplo- mats are lying and framing up on ¢ach other. There is no time wasted. Ce 8 hs dollar and the pound are look- ing each other square in the eye. They will be blowing each other's brains out as sure as you are alive. That is, American workers and British workers will be blowing each other brains out, unless, their brains work better than in the past. The ruling class offboth countries will sit pretty while t@ carnage is on and after it is over, they will come to terms as they did after the late holocaust. Will the workers get rid of their masters and of the robber system that breeds wars before another disaster greater than the last will break out upon the world? New York State Wage Payments Run Below Those of Last Year ALBANY, April 29.—Wages paid out to factory workers in New York state totaled $36,300,000 for the week of March 15, according: to an estimate based on reports covering 40 per cent of the employes of the state, This is $1,800,000 less than in March, 1924, the month before the last phase of the re- cession in industry, Day Off for Cannon Fodder JERUSALEM, Palestine, April 29.— Where Samson battled against the Philistines, Field Marshal Allenby and other high officials today attend- ed the consecration of the Gazo war cemeteries where 5,000 soldiers are buried, ploration company, against whom the Moscow district court has just passed a decision in the suit filed by the So- viet government for the dissolution of the Saghalien oil concessions con- tract, have decided not to appeal for the time being, pending the decision the company will take in the United States after hearing the full report that one of the company’s representa- tives, who left Moscow today, is tak- ing with him to New York. Sterling Climbs Higher NEW YORK, April 29.—Sterling ex- change was quoted at 4.855 in heavy trading in the foreign exchange mar- kets goday. This is an advance of 1% as since Tuesday's close and is only one cent to the pound Below the official par quotation for the British currency. French francs gained 3% points at today’s quotation of 5.25 cents per franc; Italian lira and Belgian francs were also fractionally higher. Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, April 29.—Great. Bri- tain, pound sterling, demand 483%, cable 484. France, franc, demand 5.23; cable 6.23%. Belgium, franc, demand 5.08; cable 5.08%. Italy lira, Demand 4.09; cable 4.09%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.77; cable 26.80. Nor- way, krone, demand 16.33%; cable 16.35%. Denmark, khone, demand 18.3514; cable 18.55%. Germany, mark, unquoted. Shanghai, tael, demand 74.60; cable 75.00, Four Dies in Firetrap PORTLAND. Ore, April 29.—Four persons were killed and two injured dn a fire which swept the Hendricks apartments here today. The building, 4 frame structure, was an entire mass of flames when fre apparatus arrived, ers an increase of 12% cents an hour. Ku Klux Klan Bombs Fail to Fool Junior Group in Monessen MONESSEN, Pa., April 29.— The ku klux klan opened its annual spring bombing here by shooting off four bombs. These disturbers of the peace are allowed to keep up this racket all thru the summer, without the in- terference of the law. They start shooting these bombs just about the time the little tots have to go to bed. Many of these tots just quiver with fright almost all night. The older persons, especially the class conscious ones pay little heed to their bombing. y MURDERED SOFIA RED KILLED SEVEN POLICE BEFORE BEING SLAIN SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 29. — A Communist worker, who was at- tacked by the police at his home, defended himself so successfully that he killed eight policemen before he was finally slain. Two policemen sent by the fas- cist government to murder the Com-, munist in his own home were re- pulsed, one of the fascisti being killed by the worker, ‘ The Communist then took up a position on the canal in the suburbs of Sofia. The police again attacked, using bombe, and three mine throw ers. The Communist, using two rifles, killed seven policemen in five hours of fighting, before himecif being alain by the fasclets, war prisoners, an eight-hour day, and a reduction of taxes. ‘ Cuther For Dawes Plan. Speaking to the association of com- merce and industry here, Chancellor Luther, fresh from. his conference with Hindenburg promised outright that under the Hindenburg regime Germany would “abide by the Dawes plan.” He further declared the new president would’ aecept the abomin- able treaty of Versailles. To appease the extreme monarchists, Luther de- manded the evacuation of the Ruhr and the Rhine. However, Luther made it clear that the monarchists, altho they are anxi- ous to re-establish’ the power of the German capitalists, will bow to the power of the international bankers, Socialists and Fascists Under Bankers’ Control. Political strife in Germany will con- tinue, it is predicted, as Otto Braun, the socialist, retains his position as premier of Prussia, and the socialists- catholic coalition continues to control their power in the reichstag. The two groups are both bent on selling out the workers, Both support the Dawes plan, and both take orders from the German capitalists as well as the Wall Street bankers. Fearing the strike which was de- manded by the Communists upon Hin- denburg's entry into Berlin, it is now thought’ Hindenburg will come here secretly and install himself in the presidential palace before his arrival is announced, (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 29—The four teenth congress of the Russian Communist Party has opened its sessions in the Kremlin, with more than five hundred delegates from all parts of the Soviet Union In at- tendance. Two Workers Hurt in Varnish Blast at Malden, Mass. (Special to The Dally Worker.) MALDEN, Mass., April 29.—An ex- plosion and fire in the varnish and cement building of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co,, today wrecked that build- ing, endangered the main plant, rock- ed the factory district of this city and, it was feared, took a toll of two lives. Two hours after the explosion and fire, company officials said they thought two workmen in the building were injured but escaped. The men could not be located however. A third man in the; building, a visitor, was injured. Plan Paria to N. Y. Flight PARIS, April 29—The ministry of aviation admitted today that it was considering attempting a non-stop flight from Paris to New York. It said, however, that the pilots and type of ship for the flight had not been chosen and the date had not been set. Portuguese Quit Globe Girdling MADRID—The Portuguese aviators have abandoned their ‘round-the-world flight due to illness of one of the pilots, pr EE amen! Charge Bandits Burn 100. LONDON, tacked the town of Suling Chung, China, captured 100 inhabitants, drove them into a cave and then heaped fire- wood in the cave and lighted it, burn- ing to death most of the prisoners and killing with stones those who tried to | escape, according to a Central News — dispatch today from Tientsin. Fire Destroys Timber. ESCANABA, Mich., April 29.—More than a million feet of logs and ap- proximately 800 cords of chemical wood, along the Mashek branch 5 of the and Lake Superior railway, have been destroyed by for- est fires which are raging over the, district. f Russia at Paris Expo. PARIS, April 29.—President Doum- tions of the world are represented, even Russia, except the United States and China, 6, Study Air Travel in South America. SEVILLE, Spain—Primo de Rivera, head of the directorate, is studying Talk it your mate will subscribe ‘wah rong , “that the | cri is that th d to organize convicted t titaorkety kg Gonmainin rn ah Ruteioua Geass Schmidt ea ee beg ra the ce ante 2 secu: ta David Lawrence, one of the capitalist syndicate writers rovliygisinsagabathe: Magali ara i 7 A ¥ ; “ritory | Patade would not be permitted, quir g d . A . ‘ A of occupatio in a colonial of occupation, in a oleae eee Pi spelt; eieatnine for a| the last quarter of 1924 the corpora- at Washington, who writes intelligently of what is going On | oarried out the wishes of the Negro aeresion. as sh ae eeriacadi fort to the forces |P9Tade, the city authorities drew at-| tion earned only $1.56 a share. In | in the nation's capital, puts it this way: hating southern business men, and Pa ue >pabee Maupin sabia es "| tention to the situation resulting from| the first ad — at 1924 rat arrarican: Wieereas: inisa erin) atialne de, ebeleanseensil an aabtaiine prong punishments, on the “ : + - a general strike and told union lead-} earnings re $5.03 a share on the : the rule ‘The case of Crouch and Trumbull ers. such a gathering might lead to| common. afer merking off a. (suff money out of Germany. We ight Germany to pay France so that The students finally went on strike the rul J embarked |should arouse every enemy of the Mpartoustrlatian.® clent aum® for ‘dividends on prefer- France can pay us. WE DON’T CARE WHETHER THERE IS A against McKenzie, and when he re- Must be, made tore and more like|Wall Stiect with the instrumentality | THe parade had been planned as a| red stock, depreciation, ete, td ramma erecta i as rare on (oy 5 ot is a nad 'e \c mor ee! v 8 5 ~ Sorimperiin ee h as the Brit- {of all the forces of governmental op- BATS Ot MeENOT ae VepRene neue aay ben ti nel a ye