The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1925, Page 1

i H i ee —— =< meme The DAILY WORKFR Raises the Standard), a Workers’ and Fi * Vol. II. No. 101. ’ (Spécial to The Dally Worker) WHEELING, W. Va., May 8.—Peaceful persuasion may. be used by union miners, in an. attempt to unionize non-union coal mines, Judge W. E. Baker held in federal district court here to- day, in ruling on cases of: alleged’ contempt brought against twenty officers and members of the United Mine Workers of America, cited for an alleged violation of an injunction originally granted in 1913 and made permanent in 1914. The decision was construed as a victory for the union. In passing on the injunction the court, however, did not take into consideration the question of whether there had been contempt under the injunction. postponed until Monday when counsel and operators will submit a@ statement of fact to the court. The court of appeals in its ful persuasion” in efforts of the mine organization to unionize non-union workers. The original injunction did not permit this. yee That phase of the’question was modifications permitted ‘“‘peace- By REGINA MYROSKI. (Special to The Daily Worker) MOUNDSVILLE. W. Va.—(By Mail.)—The miners of this city and vicin- ity are making a last desperate effort to win the fight against the capitalists nd save themselves, their wives, and their children from future starvation. Whether they will succeed or not cannot Be determined at present writ- ing but everything points to their defeat. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. | JUDGE GARY declares that there is plenty of prosperity knocking around. While things could be better, they also could be worse—for Judge Gary and his kind. The judge will not go hungry even if all his mills shut down for two years. He has Plenty of money salted away, money Squeezed out of the bodies of his thou- sands of wage slaves, When his mills run into a slack spell the judge does not worry, Perhaps he, takes a trip tothe Orient. Just hires’a steamer and invites some friends to accompany him. He visits Mussolini or any other cutthroat who happens to excite his admiration. eee HE workers who produce the wealth that enables the judge to see the world and its important per: sonages do not take vacations when the mills shut down. They are afraid to wear out their shoes walking around the block in which they live lest un- employment should continue so long that money for new shoes would not be available. And the longer they are out of work, the more liable they will, be to offer their labor power to Gary for a low price. Everything is on Gary’s side. Even religion, which tells the workers that the poorer they are in this world, the happier they will be in the next. see EON TROTSKY is back in Moscow and the capitalist journalists are working their typewriters overtime, turning out yarns about the ex-war minister’s return. Trotsky will be Riven a big job in the Soviet govern- ment, according to reports. Zinoviev has left Moscow, the story runs, Fun- ny ‘they did not have him arrested. It is more than likely that within the next few weeks strange things will happen in Soviet Russia—in the cap- The press, the law, public opinion (bourgeois) is antagonistic to the miners’ interests. With such mighty forces as these against them, what can the workers expect? Their united strength might be able to win the struggle but in many instances it has failed in the past and it might in this case. “April Strike Surprises Operators Strike was declared in this region around the. second week in April, much to the surprise of the local bourgeoisie as in the past few years they had found the coal miners in this section rather meek and docile wage slaves, owing to the fact that they were not organized and so could not do anything. All ofthe mines in this vicinity, the Ben Franklin.Coal min Glendale | Céal mine, the Richland Marshall Coal mine, and the Parrs Run mine had cut. the wage scale within the last few months and now were going to repeat the performance, Miners Fight Second Wage Cut Because this is a scab region—the coal barons a few years ago having completely succeeded in disorganizing the unions—the first act was success- ful: although some of the miners did strike, and of course the capitalists took it for granted that the same per- (Continued on page 2) BAD WEATHER HALTS AMUNDSEN DRIVE FOR THE NORTH POLE (Special to The Dally Worker.) COPENHAGEN, May 8.—Cloudy, snowy weather today made the start of the Polar flight unlikely. Captain Raold Amundsen, artic and antartic explorer and Lincoin Ennsworth, Ohio flyer, who will ac- company him, were waiting at Spitz- bergen with their amphibious air- planes for favorable weather. The Fram and the Hobby, two ships which will serve as sea bases for the airpla have started for the rim of t ice with provi- italist press. When Lenin was alive,|,sions for the flyers. The storm Trotsky and himself whiled away the (Continued on page 2) started just after the Fram and Hobby got under way. BRITISH AND AMERICAN INTERESTS E TO SIGN CONTRACT WITH SOVIET ee (Special to The Daily Worker) J LONDON, May 8.—The Russian government shortly will sign a conce sion which will include British and American capital, Christian Rakovsky, Russian trade envoy to Great Britain, announced today. The announcement was construed in diplomatic circles to refer to the Harriman interests. oe An_ exclusive dispatch from the oe DAILY WORKER correspondent in ‘Berlin, two months ago was the first information to reach the public regard- ing negotiations for manganese concessions in the Caucasus. The American capital was said at that time to be represented by A. W. Harriman, the New York financier, THE TIME: SUNDAY, MAY 1 IN DETROIT! : _gnicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. ide Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. MINERS’ STRIKE CONTINUES IN | FIGHT WITH HUNGER AS COURT PERMITS ‘PEACEFUL PICKETING START READING LASSEN’S NEW NOVEL “MASTERS AND SLAVES”, STARTING TODAY Today the DAILY WORKER, in its magazine section, begins the publication of Masters and Slaves, a working class novel by John Las- sen, editor of Elore, the Hungar- ian Communist daily pubilshed in New York City. This is the first piece of extended fiction to. appear in the English language from this brilliant working class writer. He has beein a frequent contributor to the DAILY WORKER, but this Js the first time that we have had the good fortune to be able to present to our readers a long story of Am- erican working class life from this author. The second installment will ap- pear in next Saturday’s magazine section. Send in for a bundle of to- day’s issues for distribution among your fellow workers and neighbors. Write the DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Bivd., Chloago, Ml, SCHEDEL CASE FELONY CHARGE NOLLE PROSSED But Deportation Is Still Possible s The Labor Defense Council has re- ceived the information from Wash- ington, D. C., that the government has nolle prossed the case against John Schedel, charging him with the crimi- nal offense of having returned to this country after once being deported. John Schedel was deported to Ger- many in 1920 as a “red”, but, because. his family of a wife and several children were forced to remain behind, and, moreover, they were all American born, Schedel, unable to~accumulate enough in starving Germany to trans- port his loved ones to that country, returned, it is understood, without legal permission, last autumn. He was at once arrested and not only held for deportation, but charged with the felony, so provided by the immigration law, of having returned after once being deported. It is this charge which is now dismissed by the deportment of justice. The department of labor, however, still has the case of deportation pen- ding. The immigration commissioner at Chicago has notified the Labor De- fense Council that it has been advised of the dismissal of the criminal charge, and that a further hearing on the deportation charge will be held soon. Small Sides with \ the Klan in Barring Sheriff from Herrin SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 8.—George Galligan, “exiled” sheriff of William: son county, wants to go back to Mar- ion and exercise his constitutional right to act as sheriff. But Attorney General Oscar Carlstrom disfavors the plan and probably will exercise every power to prevent it. This was the report current today in circles close to Governor Len Small following conferences between the chief executive and Galligan. The proposition that Galligan could stand on the authority of his office and go back any time he chose met only a negative shake of the head and the remark that “Caristrom is very powerful—moral suasion—and probably has other means of prevent- ing his return.” Hundred Drown in Wreck. LONDON, May 8—A hundred per- sons were believed drowned in the wreck of the Japanese steamer Toyo Maru in a storm near Saschokyushu, according to a News Agency dispatch from Tokyoo today. Talk it up—your shopmate wil} subscribe! Speaker: E DALY We Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Ppst Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1925 BUILDING TRADE UNIONS TIE UP OPEN SHOP 108 Work on N ew Market to ed the striking electriclans,. pl bricklayers, plasterers, tile tters, and iron workers who are striking against the Landis ‘project 14th St. and Ra- cine Ave. The work had obviously — slowed down yesterday, and strikers declare the plant, will be completely tied up Monday morning. To Fore@ Union Shop. The building tfades unions called the strike to fores the organization of several hundred Landis award, non- union carpenters, cement finishers and laborers. QOyer two hundred of these unorganized workers have al- ready walked outrand joined the un- ion strikers, and McLennan Con- struction co! » Which is con- structing the new market for the Central Cold Storage company to re- place the old Water St. market, has been able to make a show of keep- ing the job going only by hiring new workers who are not told about the strike conditions, Read DAILY, WORKER. Many of the workers learned about pages of the DAILY WORKER, sever- al hundred copies carrying the strike story having been sold each day at the entrances to the plant. City de- tectives are guarding the scab McLen, nah company’s property, chasing DAILY WORKER salesmen who sold to the workers While they were eat- ing their lunéh, off the property and across the stréet pn to the sidewalk. Altho the bosses were attempting to create th at “there is no ce tlie was explod- ed, that “the strike has been settled.” J. J. Conroy, secretary of the build- ing trades council told the DAILY WORKER that the strike has not been settled. “Conferences all day Friday between the McLennan company and (Continued on page 2) FRENCH DRIVE AGAINST RIFFS ROILS MASSES Communists Urge Sol- diers Not to Fight (Special to The Daily Worker.) PARIS, May 8—The French masses are aroused over the new campaign initiated by the government to push the French flag deeper into Moroccan territory. Humanite, the Communist organ is calling on the French troops to refuse to fight against the forces of Abd-el-Krim, who are trying to free the exploited: natives from the oppression of French capitalism. The Communist fraction in the chamber of deputies is warning the workers of the fresh attacks of the ruling class against the peasants of Morocco. Riffians Have Big Guns. In the meantimevthe Moroccans are not idle. The Riffan tribesmen who were once easy “pie” for the French troops are now »well equipped with machine guns, airplanes and heavy artillery’ with which they are raising havoc among the French invaders. Elated with their victory over the Spaniards whom they drove into the sea, the Riffians are hurling a deadly hail upon the French from their big guns, hidden in the mountains. The French report many killed and wounded. Riflan propagandists are going thru the country arousing the people against the enemy. The French as ustal, blame the Communists. This is the Place to Go Sunday DAILY WORKER MASS MEETING > °° SOVIET RULE HONORS REAL DISCOVERER OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY (Special to The Daily Worker) LENINGRAD, U. S. S. R., May 8. —Ceremonies were held thruout Russia yesterday in honor of the memory of Prof. Alexander Popov of the Electro-Technical institute, who was the real discoverer of wire- less telegraphy. In 1895, two years before Gug- lielmo Marconi demonstrated his ap- paratus, the Rusians say, Prof, Po- pov received radio signals thru a thick concrete wall and later estab- lished successful wireless contact between St. Petersburg (the present Leningrad) and a station in the gulf of Finland. His first practical test, according to local records, was carried out in 1899, when during a heavy storm at sea he received a distress cali from a steamer, as a result of which many lives were saved. His. subsequent labors, according to the Soviet historians, received but scant recognition from the im- perial government and he died in poverty in 1905. TRIES TO FRAME UP SOVIET ENVOY AT COPENHAGEN the strike for the first time in the/Conspiracy Against Russia Revealed (Special to The Daily Worker.) COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 8.— | There is apparently an international conspiracy to attack the Communist movement under the lying fairy tale of “Moscow” plots to assassinate pub- lic officials and cause “riots.” No better example could be given Published daily PUBLISHING than the present incident revealed by | the minister from Soviet Russia to the Danish capital. The minister, M. Kobetzky, reported to Count von Moltke, Danish minister of foreign affairs, that the Soviet legation had been visited by two men who offered to murder the leading social demo- crats, including the Danish premier, T. Stauning, to set fire to important buildings in Copenhagen and to “ar- range riots.” The Soyiet minister naturally, re- fused all their offers, explaining that such individual acts of violence do not harmonize with the Communist principle of mass action by the whole exploited population, and, as stated, notified the Danish officials, who plac- ed the men under arrest. In spite of this, the capitalist press has come out brazenly with lying stories charging that the men, a Swede and a Frenchman, are “in league with Communists.” The ob- vious absurdity of the Soviet minis- ter reporting the matter contradict- ing any Communist “plots” manufac- tured in “Moscow,” has not restrain- ed the capitalist press from the at- tempt to alarm the country and the world with new manufactured “plots” by Communists. Communists look upon this new | mendacity of the reactionaries as fur- ther proof of the recent conspiracy of the great imperialist powers to in- tensify and to spread the white ter- ror thruout Europe. Get Injunction Against Hatters. NEWARK, N. J.—An injunction to compel striking hat finishers to return to work at the C, B. Rutan Co. fac- tory has been denied the manufactur- ers by Vice-Chancellor Backes in chancery court. The United Hatters are striking because body makers were locked out by the closing of that branch of the work in the Rutan shops and finishers went out in sympathy. Miners Keep Away from Montana BILLINGS, Mont.—Stay away from Montana, is the advice to miners of Secy, Treas. Wm, Riddell of the Mon- tana Mine Workers’ Union. “There are a large number of mines shut down,” he says, “and ¢ sarge number f men out of work.” WILLIAM F. DUNNE xcept Sunday by THE DAILY .» 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. Price 5 Cents d WORKER ATTACK ON STREET CARMEN IN CLEVELAND PART OF CAREFULLY PLANNED WAR OF OPEN SHOPPERS By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT, (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 8.—Seven column streamers upon the front pages of Cleveland capitalist sheets broadcast the words —"No Strike Now—Men Ask Terms!” Editori lic that stre s in these same sheets are telling the Cleveland pub- t carmen are good people, will obey the courts, will not inconvenience the car riders, will not disturb the industries. The street carmen, against whom the courts have rendered a decision declaring for the open shop and denying them the 12 cent raise in wages awarded them by an arbitration committee, ee met in mass meeting last night. The street car men did not vote not to strike. Neither did they vote to strike. They are to meet again to- night of them, to hear what pro- has been made during the day. hey can yote to strike athany time at such a mass meeting. Plan to Wreck Union. John J. Stanley, the president of the Cleveland Railway company, against which the Streetcar Men’s Union is at war, is following a very definate union wrecking policy, which is very apparent to any militant, even that it may be probable that many Cleveland union leaders cannot see it. A year ago, when the Streetcar Men’s Union demanded a closed shop and a 12 cent wage rise, he offered them a closed shop and a 5c wage rise. When/the courts decided that a closed shop for a public utility enjoying a mo- nopoly was illegal, Stanley changed his offer to read — 5 cent wage ad- vance and the open shop. Today he is hiding his real purpose to wreck the Street Car Men’s Union behind the promise not to interfere with seniority rights of the men, nor with their union, nor will he refuse to deal with the union, He wants to keep the men from striking and still gain his ends. And the end he has in view he cutely states in a.letter to the union, which among many ‘promises contains these words: “You may con- tinue as a union member if you wish. We will treat you the same whether you are a member or not a member. Wages and working conditions will remain as above stated whether you act individually or collectively.” Exposes Plot of Traction Trust. Plain enough, surely. All that now need follow is for him to organize, among the weaker mortals and strike- breakers he may hire, a group that re- fuses to have anything to do with the union. Then the first sledge-hammer {blow upon the wedge that will even- (Continued on page 3) CHARGE BABIES WERE STARVED 10 DEATH AT NEW YORK ‘BABY FARM’ NEW YORK, May 8—Another death of a baby was added today to the list of infants who, it is alleged, have died at the “baby farm” con- ducted by Mrs. Helen Augusta Gein- senvolk in East Eighty-six street here. The baby, an unidentified ten-day old boy, had been hurriedly removed from the infantorium after charges had been made that babies were being starved there. The baby died this morning in Metropolitan Hospi- tal while Assistant District Attorney Charles White was investigating a report that a dozen deaths from starvation occurred in Mrs. Geinsen- volk’s infantorium In one month. WORKERS BLOCK EXPULSIONS BY HEADS OF A.C. W. Levin Gang Loses Its Nerve After Protest The membership of Polish Local 38 of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers at the meeting Wednesday night, gave a mass demonstration of their unlimited disgust at the autocratic be- haviour of the local and joint board officials in declaring Brother H. Bramorski “suspended” in the face of a vote against such action by the membership. Officials Work Steam Roller, The previous meeting, which was attended by Levin and his gang, voted against the proposal of the official- m that Bramorski’s suspension be continued. But the chairman at the behest of Levin declared. in true steam roller style, that the proposal to take Bramorski off the job and keep him off was carried. This time, the workers of Local 38 were up in arms and in no uncertain tones demanded that the officers quit preventing members from earning a living on account of political opin- ions at variance with the yellow so- cialist crew represented by Levin, Members Protest. Over 300 members packed the hall, when the local officials opened the meeting. With the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting, the storm broke. The members rose up to their feet en masse demanding that the part of the minutes be re- jected which had falsely recorded the motion carried to suspend Bramorski. Brother Bramorski, whom the chair- man, L. Kochanski, had threatened to “throw downstairs” if he entered the union hall again, came up just as the fight was getting fast and furious. Chairman Kochanski was at that mo- ment apologetically stating that he had “made a mistake” when at the previous meeting he had declared the motion to suspend carried. He did not seem to remember his promise about throwing the left winger down- stairs. In fact he forgot the matter completely. The members, who insisted that the hated part of the minutes be ruled out and rejected, were shouting at the officials: “So you think you can get away with taking a worker’s bread and butter from his mouth because you don’t like his polities! We- know that Bramorski fought for our inter- (Continued on page 3) ‘VANDERVELDE, KING’S SOCIALIST, _ WILL MAKE ANOTHER TRY AT FORMING CABINET IN BELGIUM PARIS, May 8—Emile Vandervelde, Belgian socialist deputy and leader of the Belgian socialist party, today accepted for the second time King Editor of THE DAILY WORKER—the only English Language Communist Daily, and other well known Speakers, Albert's invitation to form a cabinet, according to a Brusi La Liberte, Belgium has been without a prime minister and cabinet since the cleo tions of April 5. IN DETROIT! 2646 ST. AUBIN, HOUSE OF THE THE PLACE: MASSES Detroit, Mich.