The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1925, Page 2

Page THE DAILY WORKER ; U.S. THREATENS DEPORTATION OF MISS WAC SWINEY Trish Leader Hounded by British Agents (Special to The Dally Worker.) WASHINGTON, April 30.—Federal authorities are conducting an investi- gation into the status in this country of Miss Mary MacSwiney, Irish re- publican advocate, but denied today that their action is preliminary to deporting Miss MacSwiney if it is found she is Illegally In the United States, Burden of proof of their passport qualifications rests with aliens and if Miss Mary MacSwiney, leader of the Irish republic movement and sister of Terrence MacSwiney, martyred hun- ger striker of Dublin, has no pass- ‘port, as she is quoted as stating, she fis Hable to imprisonment and depor- ‘tation, according to Howard Hbey, chief of the Chicago bureau of the department of immigration. “I do not know as a matter of fact whether or not Miss MacSwiney has @ passport or whether she ever had one,” said Hbey today. “I know that !my office did not act until ordered to do so by W. W. Husband, chief of the bureau of immigration. I sent an in- spector to see Miss MacSwiney and though she insisted she was in this country legally, she refused to show her passport or to tell the date or port of her entry into this country. “I reported this to Washington. I had not been instructed to hold her or to take other action than to inter- view her.” eee The DAILY WORKER has inform- ation from a reliable source that the hounding of Miss MacSwiney by the immigration authorities was started as a result of the representations of the Irish Free State representative in Washington, Professor Timothy Smid- dy. It is also reported that Smiddy received his orders from the British embassy. Deporting Radicals The deportation of alien radicals with or w'thout passports is a common occurence in America. But it is sel- dom that our ruling class resorts to threatening with imprisonment and deportation, visitors who do not ad- vocate any revolutionary change in the economic system prevailing in five sixths of the world today. Miss Mac- Swiney favors the present capitalist system of society, but she is bitterly opposed to British rule in Ireland and because her propaganda is inimical to British imperialism thruout the world, the Washington administration is taking steps to make her either shup up or get out. We believe she will not do the former and if the govern- ment takes steps to deport her, we are of the opinion that it is in for a real scrap. During the black and tan war in Ireland, Donal O'Callaghan, mayor of Cork, arrived here as a sailor on board a vessel. He landed and went on a speaking tour. Steps were taken to deport him and they were ultimately carried out. The power of British imperialism is great in the United States. It is strong enough to compel Washington to do its bidding, even tho the deluded Irish workers in America seem to think it is the land of freedom. Most of them want an Irish republic after the fashion of the ‘American model. The action of the government against Mary MacSwiney may help to bring them to a realiza- tion of what freedom means under capitalism whether it be In a republic of a monarchy, The Nattonal Question So-called revolutionists who do not understand the insistence of the Com- munist International on the import- ance of the colonial and national ques- tions, should take a lesson from the MacSwiney case. The big powers are mortally afraid of losing their colon- jes. Britain holds Ireland and India for the same reason that the United States holds, Cuba, the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands, The American working class should Tally to the support of Miss Mary MacSwiney and prevent her deporta- tion by the American imperialists act- ing as the policemen of British imper- ialism. TWENTY-FIVE CZARIST “OFFICERS” JOIN NATIONAL GUARD HERE TO SERVE WALL STREET IMPERIALISM SEATTLE, Wash., April 30.—Twenty-five former officers In the czarist army of Russia have enlisted here in the United States national guard. The ezarist officers fought against the Soviet revolution, and when faced with the appalling prospect of going ty work for thelr bread after the Soviets were victorious, fled to the protection of the hospitable Wall Street-Coolidge gov- ernment. The czarists, five coloneds, seven lieutenant colonels, four naval Heute- nants, and one lieutenant general, declared it made no difference to them what capitalistic power they served, and as long as Russian Imperialism has been destroyed, they were willing to serve American imperialism. Strikers Resist Long Workday (Continued from page: 1.) feel inclined to accept tipe longer work day. Quit When Nine Hours \WWere Up As the notices were posted they were as promptly ignored by the workers on Monday and after hav- ing worked the usual niine hours they ali quit and went home. Tues- day morning additional ipotice was given that all those who were not willing *o accept the loriger work day need not start. Sonte workers walked out immediately while the balance again quit after the usual nine hours. By Wednesdi:xy noon not aman was left inside the plant. Piece workers and day laborers, colored and white standiing ‘solid. The workers of one department, on Monday got up a few lists stating their refusal to accept the increase of working hours, which lists were signed by all in the department and handed over to the management. Knowing that those who “start things” in steel plants cpenerally are the first to become viwtimized, the workers used a method of their own in signing the lists, not starting as usual at the top filling In names to- ward the bottom but tay drawing a elrcle each name starting from the conter and forming a radius untill the circle was completed. One fore- man returning to tne department with one of these lists asked who was the first man to sign, but, of course, nobody knew. At Wednesday noon the first strike meeting was field, addressed by speakers of the ‘Workers Party and from the Machinist’s District POLIGE ARREST RED NEWSPAPE!! EDITOR IN FLOFENCE, ITALY (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, April 30.—Several Communists were arrested by fas cist police in Florence today. Among those arrested was Advocate Digiani, whose only offence was editing a Communist newspaper, The fascist police are endeavoring to terrorize the workers thruout Italy, fearing the effects of nation- wide May Day demonstrations, ‘Cal’ Mum on Victory . of Hindenburg Until Morgan Collects Toll WASHINGTON, April 30.—-Presi- dent Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg will not say a word about the election of Hindenburg as president of Germany. This reticence is under- stood to be due to a belief that Hin- denburg should first show his hand. They want to know whether he will reassure the excited and fearful French capitalists and whether he will continue to pay toll to the Mor- gan bankers thru the medium of the Dawes plan. The Coolidge administration will drift along as silently as possible, leaving to American bankers and steel and ofl company executives the deci- sion of American po.icy in the Franco- German crisis. Report Raleuti Dead Again. LONDON, April 30.—The death of Raisull, the world-famous Moroccan bandit, was confirmed by natives ar- riving in Tangiers, according to to- day’s Daily Telegraph. Spanish Politician for Hindenburg. MADRID, April 30.—Hindenburg’s election to the presidency of Ger- many will not mean a change in Germany's policies, said ex-Premier Romanoff today. TERROR REIGNS AMONG WORLD’S WHITE GUARDISTS AS WORKERS OBSERVE INTERNATIONAL MAY DAY I to The Dally Work: ry LONDON, April 30-—The approach of May Day again brought hysteria to conservative quarters today. The Bulgarian fascists recent outbreak against the Communists, the round-up of radicals in Rome and the fake plot ported against Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary, furnished anti- Boishevist newspapers with the pretext to spread the usual May Day alarms. Altho no intelligent persons were roped in, executives of Sootiand Yard’s seoret service were taking the made-to-order plot against Secretary Cham- berlain seriously, it was learned today. Guards protecting all members of the cabinet were doubled, as further manufactured details were fed them by the Austrian government in Vienna. A diepatoh from Riga, center of anti-Communist propaganda, in a red scare story all ite own, sald a bomb had been discovered under a railroad in what was believed an attempt to wreck the traln carrying the Esthonian presidential party. Sofia reported new skirmishes with the Communists in which artillery forces had beon used to shell the workers In the outskiets, of the Bulgarian capital, Wareaw reported Potleh authorities had Inorensed their perssoution ef the clase conccious workers. 4 A r Council. 1,600 men were present. These workers who are entirely un- organized were told in precise terms how to get their strike organized and how to give effective resistance to the attempt to make them submit to worse slave conditions. The company mad veral futile efforts to call the strikers inte meet ing to listen to their own expert Spelibinders, but not one man ap- peared at their meeting. Workers Party Leads Struggle The same day, the three Workers Party branches at McKees Rocks, met jointly to map out further plans to give definite and effective leader- ship to this struggle. The Pressed Steel Car company of McKees Rocks has been the scene of many bitter struggles of the past. During the strike in 1909 one state’ constable recklessly fired a shot right into the midst of a mass of assembled strikers. They made short shrift with him, kicking his guts out so he never saw day- light again. But the men gained a real experience in the class strug- gle and the ruthlessness of the cap- italist class in attempting to main- tain its class rule. Evicting Strikers’ Families The Communists are now actively helping these men to crystallize these experiences on the basis of active united struggle to maintain living conditions. Many of the strikers who live In company owned houses have been told to move out. The company not even bothering about giving formal eviction notices, AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O"FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) cannot be the remains of a dead la- bor faker, A FEMALE attorney who gets alot of publicity and her picture in the papers for showing her contempt for a judge. It only cost her $50.00. A jockey riding a $70,000 horse and a lady who will draw $300 a month in alimony from her ex-husband com- pletes the daily sketch of American life, Tee anti-injunction bill sponsored by the labor fakers lost out inthe Illinois state assembly. The labor fakers rallied behind Small in the last election, and promised the work- ers that with Small in the governor's chair and “friends of labor” in both houses the injunction would be killed. But all the tears of John H. Walker and the legal acumén of Victor Ol- ander did not succeed in robbing the employers of that useful weapon. The injunction stands. But Walker and his co-fakers have lots of pati- ence. They will keep at it until they have saved enuf money to organize oil companies after the fashion of Chester M. Wright. ew. i fat papers gleefully report that the “red” army of South China is beaten. The wish is father to the thot, Sun Yat Sen died as often as Lenin, before he actually passed away, All the enemies of capitalism are constantly running into hard luck. Perhaps the Canton forces suffered a set back, but it is more likely that they won a victory rather than suf- fered a defeat. There are 400,000,000 people in China who are gradually awakening. They are showing a strong tendency to“look on Soviet Russia as their only friend. This does not look good to the capitalists. It fs not surprising that their paid Journalists hacks should lie about the Chinese masses. Ou 6. e HE EARL OF BALFOUR was re- warded for his troubles in Arabia by being given the presidency of the council in succession to Lord Curzon who died recently. This is a pretty quiet place for the veteran diplomat of British ingperialism to spend his last days, “ee RESIDENT LYNCH of the Inter- national Typographical Union does not believe long hours and short pay is the principal evil afflicting the Am- erican working class. That does not bother fat Jim in the least. In a statement issued by this faker, the habit of falling into debt, is the great- est menace affecting the future wel- fare of the American workers. Run- ning into debt is the privilege of the aristocracy. Fascists Attack Mussol!ni’s Bill ROME, April 30.—Premier Musso- lint favored the bill providing for woman suffrage in the municipal elec: tions, Introduced today, but fascists geverally attacked it ~~ |CALLS TEACHERS OF LOS ANGELES TO CLASS DUTY Struggle Against Rule of .Big Business (Special to The Dally Worker) LOS ANGELES, April 80. — Two years ago the teachers of Los Angeles took a very active part in the municipal election, They endorsed candidates for the board of education and took an active part in the cam- paign. Their efforts were met with a very vicious attack on the part of the committee of 1,000 representing the chamber of commerce and other labor-hating organizations. One of thetr candidates was mercilessly at- tacked as a red, Bolshevist, Russian propagandist, eto, During the last two years consistent pressure was brought against the teachers in their efforts to use their teachers’ organizations and journals for the expression of their political views. One teacher was tried for hav- ing made a statement regarding the world war, which was interpreted as beieng unpatriotic. Persecution by Big Biz. The teachers’ organization made a fight in his behalf and prevented him being expelled from the school. Here- sy hunting was the order of the day. The chamber of commerce controls the schools. A special week was set aside as chamber of commerce week, Even such liberal magazines as the Nation was barred from the libraries } of the public school. In the present municipal election the Workers Party of Los Angeles is calling on the teachers and the work- ers to unite on the political and economic field, The Workers Party realizes the difficulties that confront the teachers whenever they attempt to make even the most elementary de- mands. Suspension from schools means deprivation of the means of livelihood. The teachers cannot pos- sibly make any kind of an organized effort to better their conditions with- out the active and full support of the working class, of which they must always consider themselves an in- tegral part. Urge Labor Union Support. For these reasons the political com- mittee of the Workers Party is ap- pearing before the labor unipns of Los Angeles in particular to get be- hind the candidate, Emanuel Levin, and the platform which he is present- ing to the voters in this election, The labor unions are beginning to realize that the schools are not only built by seab labor, but that. workers’ children are being trained to be enemies of the worker, are being trained thru their military courses, to bears arms against the workers in their struggle for better conditions, The Machinists’ Local No. 311, the Capmakers’ Local Union, No. 26, and the Millinery Workers’ Union, all af- filiated with the American Federation of Labor, and the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ Union, have already en- dorsed Levin, the candidate of the Workers Party and its platform. Against the Open Shop. The teachers united with the work- ers in the shops and industries must wrest the control of the schools from the hands of the bitterest enemies of the working class, the 100 per cent open shoppers of Los Angeles. The program and platform in this cam- paign leads the way for this unity. The campaign marks only the be- ginning of an active campaign to create the necessary political and in- dustrial power of the workers to con- trol and manage the schools so that the children of the workers will be the staunch supporters of the work- ing class, whereas at this time they are trained to be the enemies of the working class, No Itlustons. The Workers Party in its platform reslizes that the wresting of the public schools from the control of the cap- italist class cannot be accomplished while the capital system exists and are not giving the teachers or workers any illusions of what would happen if their candidate should be elected or even if the entire board of education should be elected on its platform, The Workers Party and its candi- date realize that all the’ workers, whether they be in the industries or in the social and educational institu- tions of the present system, are be- ing used to help perpetuate the cap- italist system, and that it is their duty to enter into the evefyday struggle of the workers to better their condi- tion and to train themselves to ultimately take over the means of production and distribution, The platform and necessary polit- ical activities in this campaign will lay the ground work for the awaken- ing of the consciousness of the work- ers and teachers to their responsibil- ities to themselves and the working class as a whole, Snow Falle at Moline. MOLINE, UL, April 29.—Nearly an inch of snow fell in Moline last night and the temperature was below freez- ing. It 18 thought crops were not damaged. Saturday, May 2 Meeting of all social managers of the branches at 19 South Lincoln street at 3 p,m. Every branch must be represented so that all arrange- ments can be made for the May 9th dance at Workers Lyceum, Ford Shows There Are FASCISTS TAX More Nuts Than Those |/WORKERS TO PAY Found on His Flivvers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. 4 delat Henry Ford, upon whom some bestow the crown of “richest man in the world,” again offers himself as the saviour of mankind. Ford has a successor for his “Peace Ship” stunt, for world peace is surely to follow on the heels of this idea, he argues. He now claims that the trouble with the world is that it “doesn’t know how to eat, what to eat and when to eat.” eeee There are three necessities that every worker requires: food, clothing and shelter. Ford has not yet attempted to tell the workers how to solve the question of clothing and shelter. The housing problem is one of the most pressing in every American city. But he confesses he has tackled the food problem to his own satisfaction, For instance, he tells the women io “leave politics alone and study the food prob- lem.” Ford, of course, dodges the main issue; where to get sufficient income to provide the “ideal breakfast, lunch and dinner.” Ford is going to tell the workers what he eats. He will not tell the workers how to buy the things that he eats, out of their wages, or without any wages if they are un- employed. Ho proceeds on the supposition that “the dinner pail is full.” Ford's bunk will therefore be classed with the nonsense of the comic sheets, so far as the intelligent and militant workers of the land are concerned. They will accept it as just some more propaganda in the effort of the bosses to keep the workers contented. It is Ford’s May Day stuff. Here is what the auto manufacturer declares: “I believe we can bring about a change in the universal chronic unrest by feeding the world good food and teaching people what to eat and what to get.” Capitalism, which is Ford’s social system, will never feed the workers “good food.” Its main interest is in keep- ing down wages; which results in cutting off the workers’ food supply, just as surely as if the working class were completely surrounded by an enemy army, and its food stores isolated. Capitalism, Ford's system, sends millions of children hungry to school every morning. It is not a question with these children, how to eat, but what to eat. There is noth- ing for them at home, Free lunches at school is denounced as “Bolshevism.” The same is true of the fathers and mothers at work. Real milk is good food. But working. class families by the millions can’t afford it. The cheapest of substitutes must be provided, even for helpless babies in their cradles. Ford and his kind repeat for the workers, “An apple a day, will keep the doctor away.” But the Ford system says, “Let the apples rot in the orchards. That will keep the supply down and the prices up, resulting in good profits,” the profits that provide the driving motive behind the Ford capitalist sys- tem. The few apples that do drift into the congested work- ing class districts of the great cities are just as anemic as the children that grab for them. * ° . e Correct eating is good. But it is a mockery to preach it to workers continually hovering on the poverty line, un- able to buy even the cheapest foods, It is this mass, swelled in numbers during pro | industrial crisis, when unemploy- ment stalks across the land, or when capitalist wars come to ravage the nations, plunging new millions to death, dis- ease and starvation, that will shake the whole structure of capitalism into ruins. . Unemployment:—Ford has no cure for it. War:—In spite of his peace ship, Ford was one of the most energetic supporters of the last world war. Ford is today being depended on to help furnish great air fleets for the next war. Food, clothing and shelter:—Ford does not tell the workers how to provide these necessities for themselv and their families. All he does is to babble shallow epigrams about “dieting,” just as he aimlessly offers nostrums and cure-alls for other social diseases, providing some new fleet- ing sensation for the rape press. Only thru the teach- ings of Communism, that strike at the roots of the great problems confronting labor, will the working class make progress. They will do this over the prostrate form of Ford and his kind. MINERS OF NOV SCOTIA REJECT |Rich New Yorkers Swallow Fake Plot (Special to The Dally Worker) Bull, Guard Churches WAGE CUT PLAN ‘mpartial’ Arbitrator Aids Besco (Special to The Daily Worker) GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, April, 30. —After the long “investigations” pur- sued by the Premier Armstrong to see what was the matter in the dispute between the coal miners of District 26 and the British Empire Steel cor poration, the usual result of capitalist government mediation has occurred,’ Premier Armstrong proposes that the miners accept a 10 per cent wage cut. Commenting upon the premier’s pro- posal as a. basis for further negotia- tions, the district president of the miners’ union, J. W. MacLeod, stated that the position of the miners was one of “no compromise” and that the district executive absolutely refuses to consider any peace overtures based on @ wage cut from the 1924 scale, in whole or in part. “We are not considering the pre mier’s proposition at all, and have no jntention of taking it before the mem- bership, The individual members of executive are going to address the various local unions of the district but our object has no connection with this latest proposition,” The district is appealing for sup- port of the 12,000 miners and their starving families, to labor everywhere, ia order to fight the wage cut. ; NEW YORK, April 30.—“Anarchist, left wing socialist and Red Commun- ists” are bogies against whom Chief Police Inspector William J. Lahey mobilized his bomb squad in advance of May Day. A special police order was dispatch- ed to commanding officers to have churches, public buildings and resi- dents of the very rich private citizens closely guarded. Lahey is said to have been reading and believing the statements sent out by Premier Zankov of Bulgaria, It’s Too Wet Out. LAKEHURST, N, J., April 30.—The U. S. dirigible Ls Angeles will not get away for Porto Rico until Saturday, it was indicated today. Rain was fall- ing this morning and the dirigible was given a thoro soaking. It will have to be dried out before the hopoff is made, . Plenty of Rain in Italy. ROMB April 30. — Incessant rains were threatening northern Italy with serious floods today. The town of Latisana, near Udine, was in immi-| the nent danger of being swept by swollen streams, The inhabitants of ‘Tagliamento packed their belongings and were ready to move if the waters rose higher, be BANKERS’ TOLL New Tax Law Relieves Rich, Burdens Poor (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, April 30.—Fol- lowing. the warm praise given the Dawes plan by Chancellor Luther in his speech to German businessmen, Finance Minister von Schlieben has introduced the most drastic tax bill in Germany's history into the reichs- tag. Luther’s speech and the tax bill are both supported by the newly elected monarchist president, Field Marshal von Hindenburg, The tax bill, aimed to pay the heavy burden imposed by the Morgan bank- ers, thru the Dawes plan, lifts the taxation from the manufacturers and bankers, and places a heavy tax upon the workers. In his speech outlining the bill voa Schlieben declared, “The burden must be taken from the pro- ducers, and a just distribution made,” meaning that the wealthy exploiters are to escape the yoke of the Dawes plan, which their mouthpiece, Luther, so warmly praised, and that the masses of the German workers must pay tribute to the Wall Street bank- ers. Marx Supporte Fascistl, Withelm Marx, defeated candidate, who was supported by the soctalist- catholic coalition, revealed that he will not support the Communist Par- ty’s demand for an immediate fight for reduced taxes and against the mon- archist domination, when he publicly announced that he will support Hin- denburg. The allies have’ served notice that Cologne will not be evacuated by the French troops, altho the territory has been occupied in violation of the Ver- sailles treaty for several months. eee War Veterans Denounce Monarchists. ST. PAUL, Minnesota, April 30. — The World War Veterans, with the announcement that von Hindenburg was elected, issed the following state- ment: “Von Hindenburg, president of Germany, trying to talk peace under such circumstances is like fighting fire with gunpowder. The only people for peace in Germany now is that part of the population who join in a revolu- tion against autocracy. Shouting ‘Hail von Hindenburg’ and singing ‘Deutsch- land Ueber Alles’ certainly doesn’t sound like peace to us. “We ask all ex-service men to join with us in requesting President Cool- idge not to recognize the Hindenburg government. We ask of all American people to join with us to defeat every candidate for public office in the United States who stands for recogni- tion of the von Hindenburg govern- ment.” The statement was signed by Emil Holmes, president of the war veterans. TODAY WORKERS GREET SOVIET STAR OF HOPE Millions Celebrate May Day Thruout World (Continued from page 1) to 26 years and 40 years in prison for being Communists, shall be freed. Workers of the World! Unite! The militant American workers will not be alone in demonstrating against the Dawes plan, by means of which international imperialism, led by Wall Street, plans to throttle the smaller nations and the colonies, . The workers of all countries, de- spite police violence, and fascist mur- der, today will stage the greatest in- ternational protest in history against oppression of the working class at home and the subject people of the colonies, ¥ eee New York Pollce Mobilize, NEW YORK, April 30—Extra po- lice have been called out to intimi- date the workers in their May Day meetings here, Additional detectives have been added to the “bomb squad,” whose specialty is arresting and beating up innocent workers, ef Socialists Call Paris Troops, PARIS, France, April 30.—All the troops in the Paris district will be quartered in the city barracks today, prepared to beat down demonstra- tions of the workers on May Day. The troops were called out by the Painleve government, which has the active support and participation of socialists, eee General Strike of Taxi Drivers. The Taxicab Drivers’ Union has voted to observe May Day with a gen- eral strike thruout France, —