The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1925, Page 3

SHOE WORKERS. RESTORE THEIR PICKET LINES injustice Denied By Court NEW YORK CITY, tio 29—-The United Shoe Workers’ tective Un- ion has defeated an application for a permanent injunctfon — restraining *~ them from picketing in any form the *“ ‘five stores of the United Shoe Rebuild- > {ng ‘company. A strike: was’ called against this company ‘when A. Fried- man, the president, fired four-workers ©YS° for belonging to the union. The strike soon broadened into a fight for a raise in wages and union recognition. The workers walked out solidly and thru effective mass picketing hindered the strikebreakers. The company then resorted to the courts and P. Pascal Cosgrove and a number of pickets were arrested. The case came for a hearing before, Mag- istrate Burnett on Sunday, April 12. The workers were discharged ‘while the judge gave some friendly advice to Friedman; namely, to apply to a higher court for an injunction. This was done. The company applied to Judgo Delahenty of the supreme court for a permanent injunction calling upon the union to show cause why picketing in any form should not be restrained by the court. Ordered Picketing Stopped. In the meantime the judge ordered all picketing to be stopped before the union even received a notice to ar- gue the case. The case finally came. up for argument on April 22. Joseph R. Brodsky, representing the union pointed out that all the papers and affidavits on which the stay was grant- ed were absolutely fal He proved that all the.men on the | picket line were members of the un- fon and that some of them had worked as long as six years in the trade under the “satisfactory” conditions of ten hours per day and six days per week, i: at a wage of $28 to $30 per week. This fact, entirely disproved’ the contention of the company that the men were perfectly satisfied with conditions and the pickets were nonunion outside meddlers and agitators, One of the scabs who. signed an af- fidavit for Friedman stating that he ‘was a member of the union was brand- ed as a fraud. A copy of application eard and his dues payment record to the union were produced. Why Not Rush Before? ‘The motion for a permanent injunc- j tion was denied and the workers im- +e eamadigtaly,grushed. bagk to. the picket line with & determination to win. Vic- tory seems assured. This first successful struggle against the application of injunction in the fight against the shoe workers was led’ by Local No, @¢ of the United Shoe Workers’ Protective Union, which is a militant organization and the first to successfully organize the workers in the shoe industry, This is a record of achievement of which the shoe workers of. New York are / proud. The victory against the injunction, will be celebrated by, Local..No. 64 with a big mass meeting, on May Day at Premier Palace, 505 Sutter avenue, Brooklyn. All shoe workers are in- vited to participate with Local No. 64 in its splendid victory. A number of prominent speakers in English, Italian and Jewish will address the meeting. two, will make 4 better Communist ' » of you, Ms May Day Greetings to the Daily Worker from Monessen, Pa. Mr, and Mrs, Leo K: Mr. and Mrs. Matt Sa Laura, Jennie and Lee Savo Katri and P, J. Savo 1 Aino and, Matt Pulkkinen nna Kauppila uomela Ge Eino Tusa and Family Einar Anderson A Friend Jesse Wendilyn William Kuosman, Jr. Ike Saxberg s Jack Wuorela and Family Walkkila B: si Mr. and Mrs. John Maki and Son W. Filander Edward Karanen and Family _ Andy Gump Viola, Alli and Elis Ranta Oscar Lammi and Family Karen Wendelin Rudolph Olsavicki F. W. Nahi and Family J. Lb. Maki and Family A. Efriamson and Family A, Soderholm and Family J. Nyyssanen V. Antila H. Savikuja Oscar Okkonen Lea, Mandi and John Leino Milja and Ed Heikkila Katri and Erkki Lahti Leo, Hilja and Alex Kallio V, Luuri and Family Eino Hill George Abraham Antti Aho. » Ivar Pekonen and Family William Kuosman and Family. |, Sulo Anderson _ ye THE DAILY WORKER HOW LEVIN KEEPS PUPPY-DOG ARMY ELECTRIC TRUST ENTERS INTO WORLDWIDE TRADE COMBINE TO MONOPOLIZE RADIO STATIONS By LAURENCE TODD GERMAN ‘CHEKA’ TRIAL CLOSES Eighty Years’ Sentences in Frame-up. Getting a DAILY. WORKER sub or |: (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, April 29.—Formation of a world-wide radio trust, bring- ing into one syndicate the Radio Corporation of America, the Marconi com- panies in Britain and Italy, the French companies, the German Telefunken interests and the Mitsui companies in Japan and China, is on the way. So says one of the foremost American authorities on telegraph and radio eee now just returned from a European trip. “Competition” A Blind Point is given this warning by the arrival in China of Gen. Harbord, president of the Radio corporation of America, to arrange for immediate construction of a main sending station and four secondary sending stations in that country, in partnership with the Pekin government. This enter- prise is in ostensible competion with the Japanese (Mitsui) corporation whose stations are already in use. The Chinese contracts with the American trusts were made in 1921 with the Federal Telegraph Co., of California, latter transferred to the Federal Tel- egraph Co, of Delaware, a subsidiary of the Radio corporation. Back of the Radio corporation is the General Electric Power trust, which has be- come international rather than simply American, It is said in Wall Street that Mitsui & Co., are heavy stock- holders in General Blectric. So compe- tition in China is really a fraud. The Chinese contracts provide that Chinese government gold bonds to the amount of $6,500,000, bearing 8 per cent’ interest, shall be handed over to the Americans in return for cash in- vestment in the plant, and that the Americans shall be half-owners in the ‘enterprise for the first ten years after its completion. If the profits on China's half of the business are not sufficient to pay off the bonds, inter- est and premiums, then China is to pay the balance from other sources of revenue. The whole property, and the faxing power of the Chinese gov- ernment, are’ mortgaged. So, if the business is not highly profitable, the American Radio trust, which is the property of the power trust, which is fnternational, may become owner of China’s radio system. » General Electric Tightens Grip As the radio development marches forward in North and South America, Asia, Burope and Africa, many other lines of electrical development follow closely. The General Wlectric and Westinghouse concerns produce the power machinery and the equipment needed for the use of power in indus- try and in dwellings and public build- ings, General Electric is quietly ac- quiring power sites, waiting for the time when they can profitably be de- veloped, to-control not.merely radio but evéry other form of use of electric current. The radio companies are en- couraged to make a show of competi- tion,.in order that the relative share of each in the worldwide private mon- opoly of radio may soon be determ- ined, and that a united front may then be established by the private trust, backed by the sc er ag power trust. The electric trust is Apa oe to settle the conflicting political inter- ests of the world powers by means of international economic ‘combination. This of course is impossible, as the world powers cannot exploit identical colonies and subject nations and races, jointly or at the same time. Militant Trade Union Members Dance May 2; Will Crown Red Queen » NEW YORK .CITY—All the trade union militants are preparing for the May carnival‘and dance arranged by the Eastern District and Needle Trades section T. U. BE. L, arranged for Saturday evening, May 2 at Har- lem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave, Present indications point to one of the most successful affairs in the annals of the trade union rebels. The arrangements committee has taken great pains to see to it that a good time will be had by all. An or- chestra well known for its ability to just make you dance Mas been secured. As one of the special features for this affair there will be a crowning of the Red queen. Good looking rebels of the fair sex take notice. This is your chance to shine. This will be the last T. U. BE. L. ball of the season and we want to make it a real memorable event. All the proceeds of the affair go towards the propaganda work. The summer months are lean months as far as in- come is concerned but we cannot al- low thé work to suffer. You can therefore kill two birds at once, Help the work and have a good time while you are doing 80, Daily Worker Agency "DAN W. STEVENS, Agt. 617 4th Ave. South Will take care of all your orders for Preeanais ns, bundle orders my news 8 THE DAILY WORKER WORKERS MONTHLY and All Communist Publications “atest issues of all publications always at hand, SOVIETS APPOINT ABLE COMMUNIST COMMERCIAL DELEGATE TO JAPAN (Special to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, April 29.—A. Yanson, member of the collegium of the peo- ple’s commissariat of foreign trade, and formerly delegate of the Far Eastern republic to the Russo-Jap- anese conference at Changchun in September, 1922, and member of the delegation which signed the Sovietsitalian treaty In February, 1924, has been appointed commer- cial representative of the U, S. S, R. In Japan. GARY OFFICIALS IN PRISON FOR SELLING BOOZE Were Elected With Steel Trust Backing INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 29.— Roswell O. Johnson, former Gary, (Ind.) mayor, and four other promi- nent Gary politicians surrendered shortly before noon today to United States Marshal Meredith to be taken to Atlanta federal prison to serve sen- tences for conviction as the “higher ups” in the famous Gary liquor con- Bpiracy case. A “farewell” booze party was called off because the Gary officials, who were elected with the backing of the steel trust, were called upon to surrender. At 3:30 o’clock this afternoon the prisoners were to be placed aboard a Big Four train for Atlanta in custody of United States Deputy Marshals A. C, Elliott and Oscar Johnson. The party will go by way of Cincinnati. Their train is due to arrive in At lanta at 7:25 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing. Among those in the party were er Mayor’ R. ©: Johnson; Clyde Hunter and M. Kinder, former county prosecutors; Attorney C. A. Lucas and L. F. Barnes, former president of the board of public works, who resign- ed yesterday morning. Sixteen others, the last of the forty- two sentenced in the case, were granted a week’s delay and will not leave for prison until next Monday, Kluxer Charged With Murderous Attack on Girl Pours Out Gold INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 29.— The drive of twenty civic clubs for money to aid in prosecuting David C. Stephenson, ex-dragon of the ku klux klan charged with the murder of Miss Madge Oberheltzer was renewed to- day with the announcement by Judge James A. Collins, that Stephenson's plea to be admitted to bail would be heard Friday. While the clubs declined to make public the amount already raised they intimated that it was sufficient to off- set the large sums Stephenson is ex- pected to spend in fighting for free- dom. Counsel for both sides spent the day whipping their arguments into shape for the hearing on the bail motion which was expected to develop into a miniature trial, School Board Votes Teachers’ Pay Raise to Start Sept. 1 At the special meeting of the board of education, the board votéd 8 to 0 for accepting the McAndrew salary schedule. The new salary rate will begin Sept. 1, at the opening of the fall school term. The next move in order will be to secure additional funds to meet the increased expenditures. And this the board plans to do first thru crowding the class rooms and next to urge an increase in the present tax rate from $1.92 to $2.92. Without the increase in taxes the new salary rate can not continue for more than 12 months. The vote was taken after many weeks of wrangling over the proposi- tion. Some of the board members re- fused to take action until they knew where the money was coming from as at present the board is practically on the verge of bankruptcy, The Chicago Teachers’ Federation has gone on record against the sched- ule because of the unfair division of salaries, which gives the bulk of the increases to the principals in the elementary schools and leaves the teachers in the lower grades worse off than they were before, giving them an actual cut in the second, third and fourth years, cp erp esta eoptreerncemane eneigeaeenees esa eens ans fceessicnn vnmnainsrsopns ase jo irssepenape ich ms reine ee i ee apse ne ee ieerer en eT ¢ UNDER HIS THUMB Hierarchy of Terror Thru Underlings (Continued from page 1), ment, and it is left for the business agent to sub-divide this total among the different sections, For instance, the firm agrees to pay $4.00 for the making of a coat. The business agent divides $3.85 among the various sections and 15 cents he saves for what is called a “shop treasury.” If a certain section does very good work for the machine, such as slugging militants, terroriz- ing the other workers in the shop, etc., the business agent gives them a “present,” an increase of their price fixed for the section of, let us say, two cents. In some cases this means an increase in wages of about $8.00 or $10.00 a week. In this way the business agent is able to develop in some shops a group that on a minute’s notice be ready to do any dirty work he wants. An instance is rather illumin- ating. Calling Out the Hired Troops. At a meeting called by the suspend- ed members to protest against the outrageous action of Manager Levin in removing workers from their jobs for merely distributing Local 5's leaf- let, the officials brought down, not only hired gangsters, but also order- ed “reliable” groups from the shops to do their dirty work. I noticed among these groups a cut- ter who knows very little about union- ism. The following day he asked me, “What was it all about?” I explained to him about the removals from the job, Then he exclaimed: What He Would Do if Business Was Not Business, “If Levin would take me off the job for such reasons I would not con- sider the consequences but would kill him on the spot. Nobody can dilly dally with the bread and butter of my wife and children.” When asked why he participated with the gangsters if that was the way he thought, he answered, “Busi- ness is busine These are the ele- ments that are suspending members from the union because of “dis- loyalty.” When any member of the A. C. W. ‘rom a different city comes to work in Chicago, the first few weeks they let him run\to the employment office for a job without: any results. Then when the’ imembér gives up hope of ever getting a job, they call him into the employment office and tell him— Breaking the Newcomer's Spirit. “Altho you are not next in line for ajob.. ‘We can see that you are a good union man, a sensible fellow,” etc. “So we are going out of our way to help you out . . . Go- ing to send you to work and hope that you will be all right. In this way they give him the first lesson that if he expects to get along, and if he knows what is good for him, he will be a “good boy.” If, in time, he proves to be possessed of some ability, they make him promis- es. “In time you will become an ex- ecutive board member, or a joint board member and even it is possible you may be a paid official.” Slander Campaign Against Militants. If, after all this, the member dares to express an opinion contrary to the interests of the machine, then, of course, there is a different story. Even tho the member has given away his life to the organization, he is handled as & man who knows noth- ing, that never did anything for the union—as a foreigner. “What does he know about the Chi- cago organization?” is a popular re- mark. They will even put up irre- sponsible people to spread the rumor that he is a former scab, etc, In this way they try to kill the reputation of each rebel that comes from a different part of the country, Revolt Brewing in the Shops. With all these methods, the bu- reaucracy was able to keep an iron grip on the organization. But lately the workers in the shops are awak- ening to the fact that the union has become only a means whereby the officialdom can collect dues. This began since the “readjust- which followed Hillman’s at the last May Day meeting that there would be no wage reduc- tions in Chicago. Wages were cut, nevertheless, under the guise of re- adjustments, in many instances it amounted to a 25 per cent cut. Es- pecially has the removal of workers from jobs stirred the membership of Chicago A, C, W. For the first time in years you can hear the workers in the shops discussing seriously how to organize and wrest the control of the union from the hands of the corrupt bu- reaucracy and make the Amalgamated a real fighting union again, They want a union which will fight the bosses and not fight the workers. In this fight the rebellious and con- scious workers find the Trade Union Educational League a ready instru: ment in their fight against the bu- reaucracy in Chicago. All members of the Amalgamated who want a clean and militant union, rally to the ‘T. 5 HE notorious “Cheka” trial, the preliminary stage in the cam- paign of the German government for the complete destruction of the Com- munist movement in Germany, has just come to a close after dragging on for ten weeks. Of the sixteen ac- cused, three have been condemned to death, ‘and thirteen to prison terms amounting altogether to about 80 years. All the sentences are based upon the evidence of police-spies, for the most part on that of Felix Neu- mann, an insane epileptic who was carefully coached,for a year preced- ing the trial by Vogt, the examining judge. The Cheka trial is only the preface to a still graver attack upon the Com- munist Party of Germany. Next month practically all the leaders of the party, including Ruth Fischer and Comrade Thalmann, Communist can- didate in the presidential elections, are to be brought to trial, in a desper- ate attempt to deal a death blow to the one force in Germany today to which the working class can look for leaderships in their struggle against their intolerable enslavement under the Dawes’ plan. Attempt to Destroy C. P, When the efforts of General Seeckt, a year ago, to destroy Communism in Germany by open and brutal suppres- sion under martial law, proved a com- plete failure, and despite the prevail- ing white terror the Communist poll- ed over three and one-half million votes in the elections, German capt talism began to seek other methods for crushing the spirit of revolt stead- ily gaining force among the masses, and breaking down their glowing con- fidence in Communist leadership. They decided on the use of so-called “legal” means for the discrediting and suppression of the party, and to this end devoted a year of careful prepar- ation to arranging a trial for high treason in connection with the upris- ings of 1923, concocting a wild ex- travaganza in which ‘cholera germs, mysterious women “Cheko” agents, Russian Red Army generals, rabbits and Hugo Stinnes were all mixed up in a ridiculous hodge-podge in best dime-novel style. In fact, it is stated that the “Red plot” is the invention of a bright young police official who has since left for this country to write for the movies. Insane Spy’s Story. The story goes that during the reyo- lutionary crisis of 1923 there existed in Germany a secret “Cheka,” con- trolled and financed by Moscow, and od by Russian Red Army generals. A certain.“Lou” alleged to be a former employe of the Soviet embassy, in- troduced Neumann, the insane police spy, to a mysterious female known as “Comrade Eve,” who supplied him with cholera and typhoid germs, with which Skoblevsky, one of the Russian generals, instructed him to get rid of Hugo Stinnes, General von Seeckt, and other leading German industrial- ists and counter-revolutionaries. Phy- sicians who attended Stinnes at the time of his death failed to find any trace of such “germs,” and totally dis- credited the crazy yarn; moreover Seeckt and all the others whose doom the “Cheka” is said to have pro- nounced happen to be alive and well today—but little details of this sort did not hamper the prosecution in the slightest degree. Russia Dragged In. The greatest efforts were made by the prosecution to drag in not only the central executive committee of the German Communist Party, but al- so the Comintern and Soviet Russia. In order to prove that “Russia has something to do with the matter” the Police arrested in the streets of Ber- lin on March 24, 1924, a man with the name of Skoblewski, who only a month before arrived in Berlin from France, where he was sent in 1916 by the czarist government with a trans- port of troops, and where he has lived ever since. Skoblewski was on his way back to Russia, and, as France did not have any Russia embassy at that time, was staying in Berlin for the completion of his papers for his journey to Russia. Neumann was made to declare that the poor immi- grant worker was a Red Army géner- al, “Helmuth,” sent from Russig to head the German “Cheka.” Both the German central executive and the Comintern issued statements in this connection, definitely pointing out that individual acts of terrorism are completely opposed by Commun: ist theory and practice, and exposing the whole clumsy frame-up. The one act of violence actually proved in the course of the trial was the shooting of a fellow police spy, Rausch, by the insane Neumann him- self. Neumann tried to make the Communist Party responsible for this act, altho he had been in the service of the police for years before it oc- eurred, and all the severest sentences are based upon alleged connection with this shooting. This whole epi- sode appears to be one of those cases not unknown in the history of the German secret service—or that of other countries—in which a tool who gets to know too much, or in some other way is felt to be a danger to the sinister work of the organization, is put out of the way by another tool. Rausch was not fously wounded, and the physicians said that an op- eration would save his life, The op eration was mysteriously forbidden, under very suspicious circumstances. It seems pretty certain that the Berlin secret police know why he had to die. Savage Sentences. This is the stupid structure of lies on which the sentences of our com- rades are based. The death sentences do not mean much, for two of them were passed, for effect, on the police spies, Neumann and Poege, who were promised protection before the trial began, and will get it—unleas they also know too much. The other de- fendant to receive the death sentence is the Russian worker, Skoblewsky, and however much the Germany gov- ernment may be trying to break off relations with Russia, it would not dare to raise the international storm that the murder of a Russian would involve. The terrible reality of the trial lies in the long prison sentences imposed on the other thirteen—workers and comrades all—who have already been subjected to revolting torture in the year of preliminary imprisonment prior to the opening of the trial. When sentences were pronounced, the crowds of workers that had managed to gain access to the court room showered the prisoners with red flow- ers, and a great protest demonstration was held outside despite police inter- ference. Great protest meetings and demon- strations are being held thruout the country against this latest outrage committed by the bourgeois and social democratic government (the whole trial being under Ebert’s direction) against the German working class, and their leader, the Communist Party. Red Ambassador in Tokio Sees Stability in the Far East (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW.—(By Rosta.)—In an in- (terview with the Moscow correspond- ent of Japanese papers, V. L. Kopp, Soviet ambassador to Tokio,/ stated, among other things, that the basic significance of the Soviet-Japanese agreement lay in the fact that ‘this past terminated a period of unrest and anxious instability in the Far East and laid a foundation for all-round co-operation of two great Far Kastern powers in all domains where their in- terests met. At the same time, the ambassador stressed thot the rapprochement be- tween the Union of Soviet Socialist ‘Republies dnd Japan was no menace for anyone’s interests and its develop- ment would not proceed at anyone’s expense, Drought Brings Crisis in Spain MALAGA, Spain, April 29. —The long continued drought has created an alarming labor crisis, 5D Managem Telephone: TYOYIAS APTOSIYER-ND Spowsy DyA TIO. POSE PR APTWPN AWS WS PA 03 1S PX AVON PAYS PIB 13 ND 9D 54 AYO PS TyoIM wy CAMP NITGEDEIGET IN BEACON, N. Y. a Place for Workers’ Vacation. UNITED WORKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, == | Information and Registration 1815 MADISON AVENUE, CORNER OF 118th STREET NEW YORK CITY 4 Page Three (COLLEGE PAPERS AT HARVARD ‘U’ BATTLE CENSOR Stunts with U. S.:Flas Are Under the Ban CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Apr. 29.—Posta authorities at Washington are expect ed to decide whether the Harvar Advocate comes under the ban of ob jectionable pictures and_ literature Local postoffice officials have hek up copies of the magazine pending « decision from Washington. A drawing, entitled “Neo-platoni Love,” which represents @ man an: woman in close embrace, is said to by the objectionable feature of the stv dent publication. At the same time the Harvard Lam poon, which also came under th eyes of Washington and local police censors reappeared on news-standr the American flag on the cover, de picting Washington crossing the Dela ware, was changed to black. Th nude caricature of Manet’s Olympi: was modified. Despite these changes the Lampooi editors said they were determined t fight the suppression edict. They ar backed by two Harvard law schoo professors, Hit at Purists. In the Lampoon part of the repre duction of Manet’s painting is blocke White and in this space is a caption “Puris omina pura,” (to the pure al things are pure). Part of this pic ture is omitted in this edition in def erence to the “tastes and prejudice of sundry nasty-minded Torgemada and Dogberries.” This is understood to refer t Tomas de Torquemada, organizer o the Spanish inquisition and Dogberry the abused constable in Shakespeare’ plays, State Constabulary in Massachusetts Aids Ku Klux Klar NORTHBRIDGE, Mass., April 29.— State constabulary from Fort Paxtor were rushed here early today wher 150 persons began stoning a gathering; of 1,000 members of the ku klux klar in white regalia in a field. Both fae tions dispersed at the approach of th constabulary. A dozen automobiles of the klans men were damaged by the stones. A; far as could be learned there no in) juries suffered by either side. ' Greek Church Head Quits Ti ATHENS, April 29.—The Ecumen ical Patriarch Constantine, head of th: Greek church in Turkey, whose ejec tion from Constantinople brought ser ious friction between Greece and Tur key, has agreed to abdicate his pos after the Greco-Turkish agreemen has been signed, it was announce: today, ¥D ent by the Harlem 6065