The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1925, Page 1

—_ ——_— THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 94. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WO! a ee ee eee eee ieee ieee et cere ee Caaeerty DO SBee Oe Ant ot March 3, 1088. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1925 SE 290 Published daily except Sunday PUBLISHING CO., by 1113 W. Washington Blvd., THE DAILY WORKER Daily Worker Annual Sub- scription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! Price 3 Cents Chicago, Til. LABOR RALLIES FOR MAY DAY Communists Show Strength In. Michigan HUTCHESON SUSPENDS DETROIT CARPENTERS’ LOCAL UNIONS IN CZARLIKE EFFORT 10 CONTROL AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. OW fast a lie can travel before it can be overtaken by the truth, is fully proved by the history of the yarn concocted by a lying Chicago. Tribune correspondent in Turkey, who sent out the ‘report that William D. Haywood was beating a lonely path thru the mountains of Armenia on his way/to crave admittance to the hospitable pen in Leavenworth, Kansas. The Weekly People swallowed the yarn as a gudgeon would swallow a bait, and drew a moral therefrom. The latest ass to use it is the braying biped Thomas L. Blanton who misrep- resénts Texas in the house of repre- sentatives” eee LANTON gets excited over “Com-} munism in the army” and scores those..who believe that privates Crouch and Trumbull were given too harsh sentence. Like a typical igno- ramus, he blows his head off about “red propaganda from Russia” in blissful ignorance of the fact that revolutionary propaganda was spread here long before hicks like Blanton were aware that Texas was part of the world, He raves on further: “I heartily favor the passage by congress of a law deporting all Communists and let them take the Bill Haywood and Anna (?) Goldman treatment that they too may decide they would pre- fer a penitentiary in America to serf- dom in Russia.” A typical specimen of Americana morana, see NE look at the pictorial page of a well known Chicago daily, will copyince anybody that the United Steees is a rather dangerous place to live in. There is the picturé of a bank, with an armed employe standing in front of the ‘cashier’s cage. The cashier is looking into the mouth of a revolver. Mounted on the cage are three nozzled containers full.of tear gas. This is lawful America. - se 6 E will pass the French ambassa- dor and his family ‘and intro- duce you to three persons and a dog. The dog is a bloodhound on’ the trail of a murderer. In the next square is the picture of a police captain look- ing™ wise, or trying to, examining a pair of eyeglasses. Evidence. Under- neath is another picture, a man and a child, held on suspicion of having murdered his wife. He is an ex-sol- dier and is reported to have said prior to the murder that he would use his experience as a butcher in France to carve his wife in such a manner as to defy detection. Isn’t war ennobling? “* JCTURE of dead we next. Then 600 cases of Old Granddad whisky which is being pourned into a sewer by prohibition agents. Near by two prohibition agents. who could not re- sist the temptation to be nice to the hootleggers for a consideration, are featured. Ghandi, sans clothes, look- ing rather plump, talking to a judge. A scientist showing fossils to a well dressed young lady whd reveals a considerable expanse of limb to the camera and a rather foolish grin. The fvasil came from Argentina so it (Continued on page 2) TODAY WORKERS GREET SOVIET STAR OF HOPE Millions Celebrate May -Day Thruout World On this May Day, International May Day, militant workers meet thruout the world to strengthen their forces for the overthrow of world impertlal- ism. May 1, 1925, is more than a day on which those who produce the wealth, | of the world discard their aprons and | their overalls, throw down their tools and march out into the sunlight. Today members of. the militant working class of all countries, under the banner of the Communist Interna- tional, deliberate over the advances they have won against international capitalism during the past year, and gain new inspiration for the struggle that lies just ahead. Struggle for Labor Solidarity. On this May Day, the American workers, at the demonstration meet- ings and parades conducted by the Workers (Communist) Party, will pledge themselves to resist the at- tempts of Wall Street’s agents to break down their solidarity. The poisonous propaganda of Coolidge for “réstrictive immigration,” aimed to pit the native-born workers against the foreign-born toilers; the ku klux lynchings of the Negro workers of the south; the attempt to increase the size of, the army and navy and com- pletely militarize ‘the entire country thru military camps; the teaching of religious dope in the public schools; the canned propaganda of the movies and the brass check press turning out lies against Soviet Russia—all these do.not blind the workers to the chains with which these capitalist agents bind their progress. The workers of Chicago who meet tonight in Temple Hall, Van Buren and Marshfield Sts., to ‘hear C. E. Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers Party, and’ Max Shacht- man, editor of the Young Worker, will gain new strength from contem- plation of the Star of Hope of Soviet Russia. * Fight for Liberation. ' The militant workers of America on this May Day are imbued with the de- termination that during the coming year the class war prisoners rotting in the prisons of this country must have full equality with the white workers; that child labor must be abolished, that lower hours and higher pay shall prevail, and that dis- crimination against women workers must cease, The workers of America, led ‘“e the Workers Party, will voice their decis- ion that the open shop and wage cut drives of the Coolidge-Wall Street government shall. be fought with strikes during the coming year, and that Walter Trumbull and Paul Crouch, American soldiers, sentenced (Continued on page 2) WOMEN TOIL IN BIG SAWMILLS IN PORTLAND, THE “ROSE CITY”; FILLED WITH STARVING JOBLESS ; By FRANCES M. DICKEY. (Special to The papriiep/ ‘Oregon, April 30.—“ Oregon, land of/sunshine and flowe Daily Worker) ‘Come to the golden west; come to , Where there is work for workers, land for farmers and lots of conventions for merchants.” So bally-hoos the Port- and Chamber of Commerce, and so echoes all the daily swindle sheets of the timber barons, But—picture yourself, if you can, as one of 8,000 or 9,000 hungry and Jobless slaves who daily visit the employment bureaus in search of work. ‘Think of what a chance you would have to land a job in Portland, where the (Continued on page 5.) SPEAKERS: JAMES P. CANNON C, E, EL. DOTY MAX SHACHTMAN (Just Back from Russia) ALEXANDER BITTELMAN MARTIN ABERN AUTHENBERG THE VOICE OF LENIN TO BE HEARD IN CHICAGO SUNDAY, MAY 24 Something new and different Is being arranged by the Russian branch of the Workers Party for Sunday, May 24, at the Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division St. It will be a Lenin Evening, with Comrade Nicolal Lenin as the chief speaker. This is no joke, as the talk by Com- rade Lenin will be heard from # Phonograph record, as well as speeches by Comrades Lunacharsky, Troisky and others. Comrade Alexander Charmov, na- tional organizer of the Russian Sec- tion W. P., who is touring the Unit- ed States, will bring the records to Chicago. He will also sreak on Lenin as a leader of the masses. A good musical program is also being | prepared. Tell your friends about it. Let them listen to the voice of Lenin Remember the date, Sunday, May 24, at 1902 W. Division St. (MICHIGAN GIVES 7,037 RED VOTES FOR COMMUNISH Startling Results in Of - Year Election By EDGAR OWENS. {Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich., April 30—When the Workers Party In Michigan made its attempt to get on the ballot In the presidential elections of last No- vember, a hand-picked Judge and two attorneys-general did violence to the election laws of the state and the Foster-Gitlow presidential electors were ruled off. The party at that time issued an election statement to the tune of 150,000 leaflets calling on the workers (Continued on page 5.) | TO SUSTAIN THE BODY OF CAPITALISM We fo 7 NINETEEN DETROIT OFFICIALS CHARGED WITH GRAFT AND THEFT DETROIT—The lid hae been taken off Detrolt’s municipal Tea- pot Dome with the recommendation that warrants be Issued chargnig 19 city officials and Individuals doing business for the city with crimes Including embezzlement, larceny, malfeasance and conspiracy. Judge Frank Murphy In the re- corder’s court sitting as a one-man grand jury made the recommenda- tions to Mayor John W. Smith, The men named Include four pav- Ing contractors, two superintendents of divisions of the department of public works, a division superin- tendent.of the department of motor transportation, a superintendent of line constuction of the department of street railways, a vice president of a large trust company, a chief ac- countant of the board of county au- ditors, a chief clerk of the depart- ment of public works and several district foremen, McKEES ROCKS STRIKERS, NEGRO AND WHITE, LED BY WORKERS PARTY, RESIST LONG HOURS By Irwin, Worker Correspondent. McKEES ROCKS, Pa., April 30.— Since the walkout started Monday at the Pressed Stee! Car company’s plant at McKees Rocks, Pa., more men have joined at every shift un- til Wednesday noon the strike was complete, approximately 6,000 men /refusing to accept the proposed longer workday. Many of these strikers are Negro workers, but no color lines are drawn; they all stick F riday, TEMPLE HA together and fight together as work- ¢ers—as members of one class. Last week the notices announcing that, beginning Monday April 27, the nine and a half hour workday would be in effect with no more Saturday afternoon off. Previously the nine hour day had obtained at the terrific piece work speed so typical for the industries connected with steel. As already reported in these col- umns, during the last few months Ma MARS. the plece work rates have been sys- tematically cut until today the age day wage within the rei Bpeedy piece worl from $6.00 to $6.50; a straight cut of $3.00 per day from the highest piece work rate reached in that plant. Day laborers have been cut down to $3.60 per day. Under such conditions the workers did not at all (Continued on page 2) May Day Celebration .. 1,8 P.M. IELD AND VAN BUREN (Special te The con ais Worker) \ DETROIT, Mich., April 30.—The latest Acaladornonin mi Hutcheson’s disruptive rule or ruin policy in Detroit Is the sus- pension of four local unions, namely numbers 19, 1191, 420 and 2140, because they refused to repudiate their delegates to the district council, who rejected Hutcheson’s one-way vote method of autocracy. Local Unions 19 and 1191, which met last night, signified their intention to do business as usual in spite of Hutcheson’s ukase of suspension. The order to repudiate was laid over by Local 19 last week pending further negotiations, with the consent Oe of Potts, Hutcheson’s personal tool in Detroit. This week they got a letter from Potts stating they are suspended. be- cause of refusal to comply with it. The word of one of these fakers isn’t worth the breath with which it is ut- tered. Local 1,191 at its meeting last week merely asked what section of the constitution empowered the czar to exclude certain members as delegates to the district council merely because they displeased him. To ask the Grand Dragon at In- dianapolis if all’ the’ fire he bélches at the rank and file is real consti- tutional fire or only MHutchesonian smoke is clearly lese majesty. For this, Local 1191 stands suspended. Local 2140's crime is that it has suo- cessfully fought the unconstitutional expulsion of its president by Hutche son and the general executive board and voted to continue to protect his and their rights under the consti- tution. The local unions intend to take steps to protect their rights of mem- bership and working conditions. If Hutcheson intends to fight the car- penters of Detroit, he'd better get some better plug-uglies than the false alarms who now sputter his threats against the rank and file. Mere unscrupulousness and bluff has won many a victory for these en- trenched parasites. They don’t go in Detroit. P Briand, Painteve To See Baldwin PARIS, April 30.—The foreign of- fice admitted today the possibility of Premier Painleve and Foreign Secret- ary Briand going to London soon for debt and security pact conferences, but denied that May 7 had been fixed as the date for the visit. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! FORD WAGES’ I$ MYTH AND FORD ONLY HYPOCRITE Factory Like Jail with Brutal Guards By OWEN STIRLING, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) ‘OU see, there is no charity in wages. There is something sacred about wages. They repre- sent homes and families and do- mestio destinies. People ought to tread very carefully when approach- ing wages. While on the cost sheet ‘wages are mere figures, out in the world wages are bread boxes and coal bins, baby carriages, children’s education, family comfort and con- tentment. Keep the home happy by keeping the shop busy. Profitse— what are they if they are not used to make doubly secure the home, dependent on the shop, and to cre ate more jobs for other men?"— Henry Ford in a recent interview to John F. Sinclair for the North American Newspaper Alliance. cee (By The Federated Pree) DETROIT, April 30—Jehn F. 8mm clair Is the LaFollette-Progresstve | banker. The North American News. | paper Alliance Is a new loosely fernte | organization of glant newspapera wend syndicating exclusive articles of gen-{ eral interest. Sinclair was recently ;* hired by the alliance to get Interviows | with thirteen of the “biggest buelnesd | (Continued on page 5.) BULGARIAN FASCISTS UNABLE TO GET RECRUITS TO MURDER REDS; SOON TO FORCIB ORCIBLY DRAFT ARMY SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 30.—The fascist government of Bulgaria has Peat unable to recrult 10,000 volunteers recently authorized by the council! of am- bassadors at Paris. The Bulgarian fascists are using the volunteers to murs | der and imprison agrarian workers and Communists, The failure of the fascists to secure volunteer troops was revealed wert, It became known that one of the army classes maybe forcibly drafted soon. | Shoot Former Deputy. ' Former Deputy Grantcharov was farmhouse near Sofia, ee shot to death by fascist troops at @/ . Fascists Murderers, British Report. LONDON, England, April 30—The British members of parliament wha were in Bulgaria immediately after the bombing of the cathedral In Sofla, in their report on conditions there charge that “the existing Bulgarian governs ment has caused the deaths of many thousands of innocent persons and will surely ultimately arouse a volcanic upheaval. The country was under martial law, Gen. Lazarov, commander of all the troops In Sofia, was prac- tically dictator, We were informed that thruout the night cars and lorries left the prison, taking batches of prisoners out into the country to be shot.” The report was signed by Josiah Wedgewood, W., Mackinder, and Lieut. Col. Cecll L. Malone. Y. W. L. Orchestra ndinavian Singing Society Freiheit Singing Society Admission 25¢