The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1925, Page 2

AF. OF L. FAKER IS DRIVEN OUT OF GREAT FALLS Workers Give the Gate! to Disrupter Paul Smith official A. F. of L. dis- organizer, disrupter of labor unions, essociate of the notorius Citizens Alliance of Minneapolis and the Tri- bune and black magic gang in Great Falls and all round discredited labor faker, has shaken the dust of Great Falls from his feet for all time. slipped silently out of town a week ego, a badly beaten, out-generaled and outmaneuvered man, with his tail feathers trailing in the mud. Smith arrived in Great Falls over six weeks ago and at once made con- nections with three disgruntled labor skates known as the black magic gang and the Tribune. The associated in- dustries and undercover interests had decided to make war on the Federated Labor Union. It seemed Smith’s ar- rival was more than a mere coinci- denoe. From the beginning he had the sup- port of the Tribune, a notorius pros- titute of the big interests. In a series of grossly distorted “news stories” the Tribune pictured Smith as a man who had arrived to reform the labor movement. It soon became apparent that Smith was doing the dirty work of the associated industries. Every- ‘where he went he met with the stern opposition of the workers and was told in no uncertain language that his measure was taken and that he could fool nobody in this city. His advent ‘was an imitation of antics of a roaring lion while his exit resembled the trot of a whipped cur with his tail between his legs. Picking The Goats It is stated that Smith has a number of alibis ready to offer William Green for his lack of success in Great Falls. He is said to put the blame for his failure on Steve Ely and Ed. Manson and their two labor stoolpigeons in Great Falls. Ely and Manson are stated to be utterly discredited in la- bor circles in the state. They are re- garded as pure and simple pie card artists who neglect the organization of such centers as Billings and Helena while engaged in using their slimy tools to stir up trouble in Great Falls. Manson and Ely do not dare to face any considerable body of union men in Montana, but put in their time staying at expensive hotels where they plan reprisals against progress- ives in the labor movement with such discredited labor skates as Piecard Herb andBordsen. Ely with oriental cunning, plans the coups, the last named clayheads try to execute. Their Planning for the past six weeks in Great Falls has resulted in the open- ing of the eyes of the workers to the kind of men who like leeches, are living off their backs, The Parting Hymn. They have succeeded in getting Smith in a position where he will have to do some very tall explaining when he gets in front of the executive board of the A. F. of L. It is possible that he may involve Ely who is paid about $18.00 a day as organizer of the coal miners in Dakota and spends the time at other pursuits. The call- ing of Smith to render an accounting for his failure in Great Falls is bound to send its repercussions thruout the ranks of the well fed per capita grab- bers in the west. Paul Smith was heard to mutter as he stepped on the train for the east. “Goodbye Great Falls, Goodbye, with ® Sweet farewell from me. Sometime I may wander into h——l, but never back to thee.” Cleveland Juniors in Picnic Sunday OLEVELAND, 0., May 8.—Sunday. May 10, will find Wade Park the scene of the first Junior section picnic of the season. The picnic has been ar- ranged by the junior conference as a starter for the summer activity of the Cleveland Junior section. The Juniors and all of their fellow school- mates, whether members or not, wil! meet at the Workers Party headquar- ters, 5927 Euclid Ave., at 10:30 a, m and will proceed to Wade Park by auto. Games and amusements of a diversi- fled nature, as well as races with prizes for the winners, have been ar- ranged for the occasion. At 1:30 p. m. a lunch provided by the Young Workers League will be served. The entire local executive commit- tee of the league will be on the Grounds in personal charge, This en- terprise of the junior conference has the possibilities of giving to the Jun- for work in Cleveland added vigor and impetus and all party members a@fe urged to send the younger mem- bers of their respective families in or- der that these possibilities may be ex- Ploited to their fullest extent. Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, May 8.—Great Britain Pound sterling, demand 4.85; Cable 486%. France, franc, demand 5.21; cable 6.21%. Belgium, franc, demand 6.04%; cable 5.06%. Italy, lira, de- mand 4.10%; cable 4.10%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.78; cable 26.76. Nor ‘way, krone, demand 16.78; cable 16.80 krone, demand 18.84; cab! 18.86. Shanghai, tael, demand 75.00, _ @able 76.50, Biren ‘ He} — THE DAILY WORKER (Continued from page 1) formance could be repeated a second time with like success. However, the workers refused to acaept a second wage cut and strike was declared. Every man walked out certain of victory and with his mind set on sticking it out to the end. The miners of the four above mentioned mines organized into a union and join- ed the U. M. W. of A, District No. 6 of the above organization, The first few days of the strike the coal companies refused to admit that a strike was in progres and gave vari- ous reasons for the cesation of oper ations at the mines, stating that a good percentage of the miners were working (when scarcely one worker was in the mine) thus hoping to in- veigle the strikers into going back to work at cut prices. But their efforts met with fatlure. The Clash At Glendale On April 19, 1925 a number of strikers, their wives, and children sur- rounded the home of a strike breaker, Robert Crow, who was employed at the Glendale Coal Mine, Glendale, W. Va., a town about two miles from Moundsville. Perhaps they were hop- ing to remonstrate with the man and persuade him to quit working, or per- haps to frighten him into doing it. Some of the crowd began to hur! small stones at the company house in which the scab lived, whereupon th latter seized his gun and began firine at the people. He succeeded in im planting a bullet in the head of one of the strikers, Samichow by name, and the man is yet in critical condi- tion. Twenty Strike Plokets Jailed Of course, police arrived upon the scene and succeeded in arresting 20 strikers, 19 men and cne woman, and immediately lodged them in the coun- ty jail. They were put undei a thous- and dollar bond each. The authorities are always ready to take sides against the workers in any outbreak but never against the scabs who are aiding in lowering the already too-low wages, thus by this act re- ducing the standards or riving of the workers, which results, as we alt know, in the children growing up with- out proper food and clothing and edu- cation, some of them turning into criminals. The officers of the “law” in reality promote future law breaking. No Charge Against Scab The men and woman arrested are held under the Redman Act, on the charge of intending to willfully des- troy property and intent.to do bodily harm, On May 4, 1925 they were in- dicted by the grand jury, at the coun- ty court house, in this city. Robert Crow, the scab who shot Samichow, is reported held in the county jail but no charge as yet has been entered against him. The result of all this was that state police are stationed here. Anybody who has observed conditions when military rule is in force knows what chances the miners have of winning ber of strike breakers employed at the Glendale Mine, in fact about 40 or 50 according to latest reports, and the strikers are powerless to do anything as picketting -s forbidden. Scabs are AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1.) time by arresting and assassinating each other, Lenin would flee to Spain and Trotsky would flee to Bulgaria, both taking sundry wives, not theirs, along with them. ‘ee INOVIEV'S “troops” may be fight- ing with Trotsky’s “troops” with- in the next few days. The “fact” that Zinovievy has left Moscow will not hinder the reporters from having the president of the Comintern locked up in the Kremlin. Socialist papers will comment on these rumors and cast doubt upon their authenticity, and conclude by saying: “Socialists have always pointed out that the Commun- sts were only a set of adventurers vnd would inevitably wind up by cut- ing each others’ throats.” Thus con- tributions are made to the gayety of nations. i. 2 OVIET Russia is poor, her enemies say. But facts say otherwise even tho conditions are not as rosy as we would like, or as they are certain to be after a few more years of the present rate of progress. The Italian fascisti are complaining because Rus- sia sells more commodities to Italy than the latter sells to Russia. The blackshirts therefore demand that Mussolini break off relations with the Soviet Republic. He would like to do that very thing, but business is busi- ness and Mussolini {i ‘ong for “biz.” 4 lage capitalist powers would like nothing better than a campaign to wipe the Soviet pqwer off the face of the earth, But the greatest obstacle in the way of the realization of this desire is the presence in every coun- try of a strong working class move- ment that would give the last drop of its blood in defense of the Soviet Republic, Millions of workers in every land look on the workers’ and peas- ants’ government of Russia as their own, No matter how the minds of large masses of workers may be poisoned ,against the leaders of the Russian masses, by the capitalists and heir yellow socialist allies, they have on instinctive love for the first work- rs' republic in history which the cap- alist do well not to underestimate. n| \HB open shop decision of the Ohio Miners’ Strike Battles Hunger the strike. Now there are quite a num- lowed to do as they please. “Law Observance” Pleases Bossi Of course this pleases the capital- ists very much and flattering reports appear in the local newspapers on the observance of “law and order” by the strikers and their willingness to let those work that care to. Two members of the state police are exceedingly patriotic (?) as they are world war veterans and were on duty in Mingo county when the workers there were struggling for their very existence. So, without doubt, the local authorities are congratulating them- selves upon securing the services of two such reliable law enforcers, who by the way are not regarded with as much respect by the strikers and who are making themselves very obnox- fous. The above alone did not satisty the coal companies. They want to break the workers’ spirit altogether, so se- veral mine officials of the U. M. W. of A. were arrested on contempt of court charges, they having violated an in- + | Junction. The Wheeling Injunction. ~ Scores of mine/workers and officials are appearing in the United States district court at Wheeling facing con. tempt charges which are the out- growth of allegations that they have violated injunctions which prohibit interference with the operation of the open shop mines. They are charged with violating the injunction protect- ing the Richard Coal Co, and Pitts- burgh-West Virginia Coal Co. John L. Lewis, Philip Murray, and other high officials are among those against whom charges have been entered. The non-union coal operators are seeking a complete withdrawal of the United Mine Workers from the north- ern panhandle district of West Vir- ginia thru a blanket injunction asked in United States district court at Wheeling. This petition has been filed and will be brot up for hearing during the term of court, which will open May 25 at Parkersburg. All of the Marshall county coal mines will be affected by this injunc- tion, which includes all the mines in this district. If the injunction is granted the end of the strike is ex- pected, of course at the miners’ loss. The Fight with Starvation. So, it looks dark indeed for the miners and very little hope of their winning the strike. It seems as if all the sacrifices they have undergone so far are for naught. Without doubt many of them will soon be in dire straits and perhaps many are already, as work for the past year or so has been slow indeed. Some of them have already been refused credit at the stores. With their means of exist- ence gone what can one expect under the circumstances? Some of the storekeepers have been so dastardly as to hint that the men return to work at the mines under the reduced wage scale, forgetting to re- member that perhaps they will be as unable to pay their bills under the reduced wage scale as they are at the present time. The outlook is dark indeed for the workers. By T. J. O'Flaherty whole organized labor movement of veh United States. Had we a real mili- tant leadership at the head of the A. F. of L., it is more than likley that such a decision would never have been handed down. As it is, the fakers know quite well that they haye noth- ing to fear from the bureaucrats who have spent union funds and their own limited intelligence in finding ways and means to drive the radicals out of the unions, particularly from lead- ing positions in the unions. This ac- complished the business of selling out the workers could be, accomplished with a minimum of opposition, HE story of the Cleveland street carmen is tragic. They submitted their disagreement over wages to an arbitration committee which handed down a decision acceptable to the em- Ployes. The bosses were not satisfied and refused to accept the decision. In- stead, they announced their intention of establishing the open shop. This was about the time the republican party convention was held. It was a good time to strike. But the labor fakers went to court instead, and ap- plied for a temporary injunction re- straining the company from establish- ing the open shop. The temporary injunction was granted. But the court of appeals ruled that the union shop was illegal and the supreme court of Ohio upheld this decision, HE street railway magnates have now established the open shop and the rail union officials, instead. of fighting, are crawfishing. While the company officials are importing strike- breakers from Buffalo and other cities, hiring armed thugs and putting an armor of heavy fence wire on their cars, the union officials are babbling about a new contract by agreement with the Cleveland Street Railways company. ig the union fights now, with the co-operation of all the other unions in Cleveland it will win hands down. The court decision will be knocked into a cocked hat, as Alexander How- at knocked the industrial court law of Kansas. If the unions mark time, as the bosses want them to, they are lost. And this will be the signal for a revival of the open shop campaign on a larger scale than ever thruout courte is @ direct challenge to the'the entire country. RAILWAY: SHOP PICKETS FREED AT JURY TRIAL Strikers Ware Sentenced by Judge in 1922 (Special te The Daily Worker) SUPERIOR, Wis., May 8.—Charges against Samuel Michaelson and nine associates sentenced in 1922 for al- leged violation of a federal court in- Junction issued during the railroad shopmen’s strike to prevent picketing, were dismissed in federal court here today. The action ended a case that at- tracted nation-wide attention and that was heralded as *labor’s most im- portant victory in history. Michaelson and his associates were sentenced without jury trial, but the United States supreme court, to which the case was appealed, ruled that such action was unconstitutional under the Clayton act and ordered the defend- ants tried by jury. The defendants, all residents of Hudson, Wis., were specifically ac- cused of having congregated about the shops of the,,Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad at Hudson and “violating the federal court injunction by hooting the non- union workers,” BRITISH FAKER COMING TO PROBE LIQUOR PROBLEM LONDON, May 8— 8—Several British labor politicians are planning visits to the United States and Canada next autumn. Among the fntended visitors are Arthur Henderson, former secret- ary for home affairs in the MacDonald cabinet, who is going to the United States to study the liquor question. Ramsay MacDonald is going to Canada on the invitation of the Cana- dian government. He will also visit the United States. John Wheatly, former minister of health in the Mac- Donald cabinet, will visit America to study industrial conditions. He will also solicit business among the cath- olic organizations in America for his book publishing business. Wheatly is a Roman catholic. © ues erin oO Shaken by Cale MANILA, May 8— The southern portions of the Philippine Islands continued to be rocked today and last night by earthquakes. Consider- able damage has been done, partially wrecked buildings and homes having been reported from manay localities. The quakes were reported as originat- ing in the Pacific Ocean. In Negros province, residents have fled to the trees, fearing a repetition of Tuesday’s severe shocks, which opened cracks in the streets in the town of Bais. At two spots black sul- phur-like mud was thrown four feet in the air, striking terror in the hearts of the residents. The church at Tanajay was crumbl- ed and many cement buildings as well as homes, have been damaged. Exploit the Dead Sea. JERUSALEM, May 8—A billion tons of mineral deposits in the Dead Sea will be offered for bids Oct. 31 by Brit- ish crown agents, it was announced today. Standard Ofl company has been among the groups which have inves- tigated the deposits estimated to be worth $40,000,000. Potassium chlor- ide mapufacturers also were reported interested in the bromide concessions, worth $5,000,000. Famine Hits China. LONDON, May 8—Cannibalism is reported and ten million persons are living on grass and trees in the province of Kwei Chou, China, ac- cording to a dispatch to the Express today. Last year’s harvest has been exhausted in sixty districts and no food will be available until the rice crop matures in five months, the dis- patch recited, Britain Fears for Food Supply. LONDON, May 8—The royal com- mission on food prices recommended today the establishment of a national food council which. would act to as- sure Britain’s food. supply. Govern- mental control of British meat im- porters was recommended, Prince Plans to Visit Chile. LONDON, May 8—The Princa of ‘Wales has accepted an invitation to visit Chile, the foreign office an- nounced today, He is expectad to zo to Chile after visiting Argentine snd Uruguay early this eummer. Argentinian Sticks on the Job. TOKIO, May 8— Major Pedro Zan- ni, the Argentine aylator who started a flight around the world in July, 1924 but whose plane was wrecked in Japan last October, is planning to continue his flight) west tomorrow. coercing Get A Sub And Give Onel Glorify Capitalist War; Mrs. Cal Coolidge Helps By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, on the eve of “Mother's Day,” the jingoes are energetically transmuting this occasion to their militarist purposes. It is to be another occasion for casting an ap- proving halo about the last world-war. In no other country that participated in the war could this ghastly mockery be put over. In other lands there were too many dead. The corpses, the maimed, the mad were too numerous. It would be dangerous to thus taunt European motherhood. But in the United States even the wife of the president is to join in putting a golden wreath, Sunday, on the tomb of the unknown soldier in the Arlington amp itheater. This effort thus puts capitalism's official seal of approval on what it deems to be motherhood’s highest duty,—to breed. for the armies of the money changers. eeee Motherhood fs exalted as the breeder of fodder for can- non on the day that is supposed to be especially set apart for her glorification. This is done on the day when the White House fra tically sends out its disarmament propaganda piffle, while some Wall Street-owned statesmen even glibly talk of peace, while women’s organizations in session adopt anti-war reso- lutions; while, at the same time, however, Morgan's mighty armada patrols the Pacific in threatening war maneuvers. Mother's Day, 1925, drips with the blood, not only of the millions of victims of past wars, but is dedicated to the murder of more millions, many yet unborn, who will give up their lives in the wars to come, the wars of capitalism. Mother’s Day, 1925, becomes the peculiar property of the warmakers. It is a capitalist holiday. Those mothers who read the celebration aright, know what is expected of them. They know that they must give birth to sons, whose blood and bones will be but fertilizer for foreign battlefields; or whose flesh will become food for fishes in the giant naval battles ahead. But the charge Is also made that Communists believe In war. There is the great Red Army of the Workers’ Repub- lics, and the haughty Red Fleet of the Soviet Union. This is proof, they say, that Communists are not pacifists. All of which is true. But the Red Army and the Red. Fleet of the growing Union of Soviet Republics are the powerful instruments of a rising, oppressed class, to abolish oppression forever. The Red Army and the Red Fleet, the, fighting arm of the working class in the social revolution, engage in the war to end all wars. They carry aloft and de- fend the standards of the new social order-—Communism. Every working class mother can uphold such a struggle. Its victory not only means the emancipation of womanhood, but of the whole human race, from the bondage of the profit system. . Millions of slain in the coming U. S.-Japanese war for the control of the Pacific, if it results merely in the victory of the ruling class of either country, will not profit the work- ing class motherhood of the United States or of Japan. Such an imperialist war, creating the basis for new capitalist rival- . ries, will be but the furerunner of new wars. But when the workers of the United States and Japan turn against the capitalisms of both countries, seize power and inaugurate their own Soviet Rule, the basis for wars between the two nations will gw ngeyp Only then will American and Japanese labor be ab! brotherhood. ee to live in a fraternal Let the mothers of the capitalist class celebrate “‘Moth- er's Day.” It is their holiday. They are willing to send the sons of the working class to war to protect the profit inter- ests of their class. The anniversary of working women is “Woman's Day,” March 8, celebrate: Communist International. every year under the direction of the March 8th is a real “Mother's Day,” rallying the women of labor everywhere for the Com- munist victory of the workers. The working class has its own holidays; milestones on the highway leadin ists also have their 4 toward its emancipation. The capital- olidays; an effort to glorify the past, but all confessions of the failuge of the bankrupt civilization they have sought to build. Workers, men and women, be loyal to your own class holidays. Be loyal to your class. Fight for your victory. Building Trades Workers Tie Up Engdahl Speaker at Sacco-Vanzetti — “Open Shop” Job in Minneapolis, Minn (Continued from page 1) the building trades union officials brought no agreement, and the strike will still be going on Saturday morn- ing,” Conroy said. Work Is Stopped. The construction job covers four square blocks, running east from Ra- cine Ave., between 14th and 16th Sts. The cement work is completed on the building furthest south, and practical- ly no one is working on this build- ing, as the electricians, tile setters, plumbers and bricklayers, who were doing most of the work on the build- ing have walked out. The cement work on the building furthest north of the three immense market structures has completely stopped, as the iron workers who were setting the rods which brace the cement are on strike, No Work on Monday. The only work which the Landis award, non-union workers could pos- sibly do, providing the company is able to hire enough workers. who are unaware of the strike to keep the job going, is to lay a plank flooring on the building furthest north, and re- move the scaffolding on the middle building. The carpenters and a few laborers to haul boards and clean up were the only workers on the job yesterday, and their ranks were thinned by work- ers walking out when they learned of the strike, Does your friend subscribe to > Amnnsinsiiiihiiieciidciie ecm DAILY WOREEE? Ask him! MINNEAPOLIS, Ut Minn., May 8.—J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, will be one of the speak-' ers at the Sacco-Vanzetti protest meeting to be held Sunday night, May 10, at the Court House Auditorium. This is the contribution of the work- ers of Minneapolis to the nation-wide drive to demand the immediate libera- tion of these two working class vic- tims of exploiters’ rule in the New England states. Sacco and Vanzet- ti, who are under sentence of death, have now been in prison more than five years. Rogers Park Apartment House Owner Gets Taste of Workers’ Solidarity A union wibdoa an iceman and grocery clerk were brot before Judge Sullivan on charges of restraint of trade by the owner of the Farwell Beach apartments at 1409 Farwell Ave., Rogers Park, The charges brot against tnese union men by the owner was that they had not been making deliveries to his tenants since the early part of last July because he discharged his union janitor and took on a nonunion one. The tenants, he said, were breaking their leases and moving to the other side of the street and his apartments were nearly all empty. The men said they could not as union men enter the building while it was being picketed by union man on strike, Use “Mother’s” Day to || THE G00D THINGS in the MAY ISSUE THE WORKERS MONTHLY GUDOK by Wm. Z. Foster An article written In Russia about a great newspaper in the world’s first workers’ republic, (With _ Photographs) Revolution i in Trade Union Terms by Wm. F. Dunne A Communist analysis of the British Trade Union Delegation Report on Russia, (With Photographs) ‘Commanism on the Streets of America by Earl R. Browder From Communist theory to ac- tion in the stronghold of world capitalism. (With Photographs) May Day in America by Harrison George A great day of the working class traced thru the progress of Amerl- can organized labor. Coke Miners in Revolt by Arne Swabeck The uprising of the “men who dig In the bowels of the earth”— a picture of the class struggle to- day. The Fight for Unity in Minnesota by C. A. Hathaway A history of the struggle of the mid-west farmer and industrial worker on the political fleid—and @ proposal for the next step to be taken. The Pan-American Anti-Imperialist League by Manuel Gomez Further light on American Im- perialsim ane the rise of the work- ing class for unified action in Latin koa ad to combat the rule of Wall rect. The Death of Suan Yat Sen by G. Zinoviev The president of the Communist International writes of the Passing of a great national revolutionary figure, The Lenin School in Chicago by Thurber Lewis , “An interesting account of a new experiment in American working class education. The Slaughter of the Workers in Halle by Peter Maslovsky The murder of workers in a country where the working class is gathering forces to es to aseume power. 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