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

Daily Worker Annual ‘Sub: scription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN IT! Vol. Il. No~94. SUBSCR LABOR AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O}FLAHERTY. HOY 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 repért 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 tatest ass to use it is the braying biped Thomas L, Blanton who misrep- resents Texas in the house of repre- sentatives. se LANTON gets excited over 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., * * * NE look at the pictorial page of a well known Chicago daily, will convince anybody that the United States is x “patagt dangerous.-place to oie in, oa the, picture of a ak, sie “i Seine’ 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, e 8 8 \ 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 isan 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? “2 8 ICTURE of dead wife 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 fe- sist the temptation to be nice to the bootleggers for a consideration, are featured. Ghandi, sans clothes, look- ‘ng rather plump, talking to a judge. A scientist showing fossils to a well dressed young lady who reveals a considerable expanse of limb to the camera and a rather foolish grin. The fossil came from Argentina so it (Continued on page 2) “Com- | “Se THE DAIL Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, lilinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1925 ) 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 impertal- 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 ak down their solidarity. The poisonous propaganda of Coolidge for “réstrictive immigration,” aimed to pit the native-born workers against the foreign-bdrn 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 thesentire 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 by 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 Daily Worker) PORTLAND, Oregon, April 30.—“Come to the golden west; come to ee / mail, $8.00 per year. go, by mail, $6.00 per year. Oregon, land of sunshine and flowers, 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, GANNON 6, E, RUTHENBERG MAX SHACHTMAN . s (Just Back from Russia) E.L.DOTY ALEXANDER BITTELMAN MARTIN ABERN THE VOIGE OF LENIN TO BE HEARD IN CHICAGO SUNDAY, MAY24 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 Nicolai Lenin as the chief speaker. This is no joke, as the talk by Com- rade Lenin will be heard from a phonograph record, as well as speeches by Comrades Lunacharsky, Trotsky and others. Comrade Alexander Charmov, na- tionel organizer of the Russian Sec- tion W. P., who is tour'ng the Unit- ed States, will bring the records to Chicago. He will also strak 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 CONMUNISH sults in Off - ed | corder’s court sitting as a one-man ‘Startling _ By EDGAR OWENS. | (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mieh., April 30—When the Workers Patty in Michigan made | its attempt to @et 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 the state and the Foster-Gitlow sidential electors were ruled off: — | The party at) that time issued an | election statement to the tune of 150,000 leaflets ox (Continug ling on the workers on page 5.) Ss" * ETE DETROIT OFFICIALS CHARGED WITH GRAFT AND THEFT DETROIT—The lid has been taken off Detroit's municipal: Tea- pot Dome with the recommendation that warrants be issued chargnig 19 city officlals and individuals doing business for the city with crimes including embezzlement, larceny, malfeasance and conspiracy. Judge Frank Murphy in the re- 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, TO SUSTAIN THE BODY OF CAPITALISM MeKEES 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 Steel Car company’s plant at ‘MeKees Rocks, more men have joined at every shift un- til Wednesday ‘noon the strike was complete, approximately 6,000 men refusing accept the proposed longer workday.. Many of these strikers are Negro workers, but no colon lines are drawn; they all stick 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 mo more)Saturday afternoon off. Previously the nine- hour day had obtained at the terrific plece work speed:so typical for the industries connected with 1. As already reported in these col- umns, during the last few months 1,8 ELD AND the piece work rates have been sys- tematically cut until today the aver- age day wage within the reach of speedy piece workers amounts to 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) P. M. VAN BUREN sina Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., NEW YORK EDITION Chicago, i. = Price 3 Cents of autocracy. ukase of suspension. 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- SESS Sesser ssrsrssssss sss sees May Day Celebration siccco us F riday, May dianapolis if all the fire he belches at the rank and file is real consti- tutional fire or only Hutchesonian smoke is clearly lese majesty. Fot this, Local 1191 stands suspended. Local 2140’s crime is that it has suc- 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. Briand, Painieve 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! Local Unions 19 and 1191, their intention to do businéss as usual in spite of Hutcheson’s The order to repudiate was laid over by Local 19 last week pending further negotiations, with the consent HUTCHESON SUSPENDS DETROIT CARPENTERS’ LOCAL UNIONS IN CZARLIKE EFFORT TO CONTROL (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., April 30.—The latest developments In 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 which met last night, signified FORD WAGES’ IS MYTH AND FORD ONLY HYPOCRITE Factory Like Jail with Brutal Guards By OWEN. STIRLING. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) ae fis’ see, there is no charity in wages. There -is something sacred about. wages. They repre- Sent homes and families and do- mestic 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. Profite— 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, Sinolair for the North American Newspaper Alliance, ye (By The Federated Press) DETROIT, April 30.—John F. Sin- clair is the LaFollette-Progressive banker. The North American News- paper Alliance is a new loosely knit organization of giant newspapers for syndicating exclusive articles of gen- eral interest. Sinclair was recentiy hired by the alliance to get interviews: with thirteen of the “biggest business (Continued on page 5.) BULGARIAN FASCISTS UNABLE TO GET RECRUITS TO MURDER REDS; SOON TO FORCIBLY DRAFT ARMY, SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 30-—The fascist government of Bulgaria has been unable to recruit 10,000 volunteers recently authorized by the council of am- b dors at Paris. The Bulgarian fascists are using the volunteers to mure der and imprison agrarian workers and Communists. The failure of the fascists to secure volunteer troops was revealed wher it became known that one of the army classes may be forcibly drafted socom, Shoot Former Deputy. Former Deputy Grantcharov was farmhouse near Sofia, ° ° shot to death by fascist troops at a Fascists Murderers, British Report. LONDON, Engiand, April 30.—The British members of parliament who were in Bulgaria’immediately after the bombing of the cathedral in Sofia, In their report on conditions there charge that “the existing Bulgarian govern- 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 lorriea’ left the prison, taking batches of prisoners out Into the country to be shot? i The report was signed by Josiah Wedgewood, W. Mackinder, and Lieut, Col. Cecil L. Malone. Bi We b. Orchestra Freiheit Singing Society Admission 25c