The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1925, Page 1

ed <= Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. {ie eraet must be slipping dan’ gerously, when a member of the toothless liberal party sums up suf- ficient courage to stick his index fin- Ber under the blackshirt chief's nasal organ and get away with it, The most distressing feature of the situation, from the Mussolini point of view is that the capitalist papers in other countries which extolled the assassin leader while he was riding on the crest of the wave, now praise him with faint compliments to his courage, tho confessing that his future pros- pects do not look brgiht. ~~ * it criticizing Mussolini, the liberal leader pointed out that the policy of repression was breeding rebellion, not only against the fascist regime, but against the social order. Cap- italism, no matter how represented governmentally, will breed rebellion, but it is obvious that the open dic- tatorship of Mussolini feeds the fires of revolt more generously, that does the spurious democracy which pre- vails in this and other countries. It is because the capitalists have learned that a continuation of the fascist regime may result in a political and social Vesuvius, that™Mussolini is politely patted on th® back and told to take a sleep for himself. we bination journalist and stoolpigeon by the name of Paul Scott Mowrer is syndicating a series of fairy tales on Soviet Russia, from Paris. But what- ever else Mowrer says, he does not predict the speedy collapse of the So- viet power or the Communist leader- ship of that country. It is there to stay for a long, long, long time, he wails. It looks that way. There are dictatorships and dictatorships, the kind that try to swim against the current of evolution and the kind that travels with it. _* © HE All-Russian Soviet Congress opens and Leon Trotsky is back in Moscow. Big problems confront the Soviet governemnt. Running ofe- sixth of. the. earth’s. surface is no * ehild’s task, particularly when the rest’ ot the world is in the hands of profes- sional burglars who cannot keep their fingers out of their neighbor’s. pockets. Two dispatches appear in the same column of a Chicago capitalist paper which tell a story. One recites the opening of the Soviet congress. The other announces that the British gov- ernment is prepared to make war on Bolshevik propaganda within the em- pire. * ee E last British aristocrat to get funny with the Soviet government, is now reposing underneath a pile of good marble. His name was Curzon. He threatened to make war on Rus~ sia unless the Communi: stopped spreading Bolshevist propaganda in India. British rule in India is the best propagandist for revolution. The Hin- dus will never be satisfied until the British forces are driven out of their country, Curzon did not make war on Russia, His successors may, but at their peril. The tories will have to reckon with the British working class. se @ LLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN walk- ed into the White House a few days ago and advised the president that this economy program was mak- ing a big hit with the “country.” The perennial political marathon runner got a free lunch in return for the favorable \diagnosis. “Bill” is reported to be worth now $2,000,000, made on Florida real estate. Like that other hypocrite, Arthur Brisbane, Bryan spends most of his waking moments singing the beauti of the Florida climates The business elements like “the president’s economy program al- (Continued on page 2) HILE this sad tale of a detlining dictatorship is. being told in one corner of the capitalist press, a com- ME DAILY Vol. Il. No. 102. SUBSbm Piette y 189 CARMEN LOSE TO OPEN SHOP IN CLEVELAND Fakers Stopped Men Striking Too Often (Special to The Daily Worker.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 10.— Street car conductors and motormen voted against a strike here Saturday. The company had declared an open shop and refused to compromise. This is the net result of the betrayal by international union officers a year ago. Votes were cast at the barns after a deadlock between the company and union officials. A two-thirds major- ity was needed to empower the offi- cials to call a strike. The vote was 1,115 for and 1,352 against strike. Open Shop Wins by Fakers’ Betrayal The position of the men now is that they must work under open shop con- ditions at 65 cents an hour as the highest, altho they had formerly been awarded 72 cents by an arbitration board. When the company ignored the board's decision, the union offi- cers, instead of allowing the men to strike, as they wanted to do, took the case to the capitalist courts. The courts threw out the arbitra- tion board’s decision. The Ohio su- preme court refused to review the case and handed down a decision prac- tically outlawing contracts with unions in public utilittes. Capitalist Court Against Union. John J. Stanley, company president, then paid the men 65 cents an hour, a five-cent raise, beginning May1. The union offered a compromise by which the men would accept tle open shop in exchange for a ten cent raise, or 70 cents an hour. ‘ Stanley declared such a contract would be illegal. Of course, he would not do anything illegal, and the su- preme court decision would be vio- lated. The men then voted on the following question distributed on bal- lots 2 at the barns: contract with Division 268, Amalgam ated Association of Street and Elec. tric Railway Employes of America; Are you willing to cease work if nee. essary to support your organization?” The power to call strike was re- fused. The men-fear a strike would fail today. observing” has guards and scabs in readiness and armored cars were be-’ ing prepared. Didn’t Want fo Inconvenience the G. O. P. This is an outgrowth of the treach- ery shown by the union officers in June, 1924, during the republican party convention. The men then were prepared for and demanded a strike. But the officials counseled “discre- (Continued on page 2) RAILWAY CLERK’S FIND FITZGERALD CROOKED IN ‘LABOR’ BANK BUSINESS KANSAS CITY, May 10.—Charges of misconduct in office against E. H. Fitzgerald, president of the Broth- erhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers and Ex- press and Station Employes, were sustained here late Friday, by the brotherhood’s annual convention, The charges grew out of an at- tempt of President Fitzgerald to or- ganize an investment company in connection with the brotherhood bank in Cincinnati. The convention voted 819 to 682 to sustain action of the grand execu- tive board last July in finding Presi- dent Fitzgerald guilty. CROUCH AND TRUMBULL DISCLOSE LIES OF KEPT PRESS ABOUT TRIAL— 78 LIES IN “STENOGRAPHIC RECORD” (Special to The Daily Worker) SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 10.—The Associated Press is America’s greatest misinforme In an A. P. “news” item pub- lished in the New York Times with the date line of Honolulu, April 4, 19265, is a collection of false statements. In part it reads: “Private Paul Crouch, 21st Infantry, has been sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment and dishonor- able discharge from the army, and two other soldiers, Walter Trumbull and Walter Ardeau have been dishonorably discharged. Crouch was accused with being the ringleader of the ‘Hawaiian Communist plot’ as head of the Hawaiian Communist League, In that ‘office’ he issued propaganda un- der the pretext of being a teacher of Esperanto at army schools,” DAILY. WORKER Tells Truth, As a’mnatter of fact, in addition to our sentences, three soldiers, Fred Creque,. Corp.. Roy F, Bbert and Stephen Domagalski, were discharged from the service. Walter Ardeau must be @ creation of the Associated Pre’ we never heard of him, The story of Trumbull’s discharge was ~ (Continued on Page 4) oe eee To Probe River Drownings. WASHINGTON, May 10,—An inves- tigation of the circumstances sur- rounding the capsizing and sinking of the steamer Norman in the Missis- sippi river, south of Memphis, in which 23 persons were drowned, will be made immedately by the war de- partment, it was & Snnqanned today. x a y mail, $8.00 per year. 7280, by mail, $6.00 per year. Stanley, who is so “law: eee neem e note gost fore TE BULGAR BLAST Communists Opposed to Individual Terror (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 23—(By Mail)— The executive of the Communist In- ternational has issued the following statements: “Forgeries and liens are becoming more and more the tool of the enemies of the Comintern. Month for month, and more recently even week for week, ever more clumsy forgeries of alleged letters, instruc- tions, decisions, and other “docu- ments” ascribed to the executive of the Comintern. In this respect, the Tzankoff government has beaten all records. On the occasion of the explosion that has taken place in the cathedral of Sofia; this fascist government has published some hastily manufactured “documents,” which are supposed to furnish proof of the Comintern’s im- Plication in this terroristi: act. It is superfluous to point out that in view of the fact that the Comintern is op- posed in principle to individual ter- ror, neither the Comintern nor any of its sections have had, or could have had anything whatever to do with the Sofia explosion. The execu- tive of the Comintern declares cate- gorically that all the documents (Continued on page 4) Court Grants an - Injunction Against Indiana Mine Union (Special to The Daily Worker.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 10.— Judge Robert’ C, Baltzell in federal court here overruled a petition of the defendants to dismiss the charges contained in an injunction action brought by W. H. Howe of Chicago, against officials of the United Mine Workers and others, seeking to re- strain them from “interfering with the operation of coal mines in Knox coun- ty on a co-operative basis.” The court granted a temporary in- junction to the complainant and set hearing on permanent injunction for ten o’clock next Wednesday morning. Defendants filed the motion for dis- missal of the action on the ground that Howe was not a proper plaintiff in the case because he was a third party and not connected with the con- tract effected between the miners’ union and’ union mine operators in the Terre Haute district, An anti-white terror demonstra- tion will be held on Sunday, May 17, at 2:30 p. m. at the Hod Carriers Hall, 814 W. Harrison street. It is arranged under the auspices of the Workers Party, Local Chi- cago with thé main support coming from the Balkan federation branch- es of the Workers Party. The speakers for this demonstra- tions secured thus far, are Earl R. Browder, in English; K. Mikalachki, in South Slav; C. Koteff, in Bulgar- ian; K. Kostis, in Greek, and other speakers. Admission is free. GREEN HECKLED AT CONVENTION OF R. R. CLERKS (Special to The Daily Worker.) KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 10.— When William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, spoke before the convention of the Brother- hood of Railwey. and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Sta- tion Employes’ Union at their conven- tion here in the armory, 3620 Main St., his remarks were challenged by a rank and file delegate from the floor of the convention, The delegate, amid shouts and con- fusion, asked ,Green several embar- rassing questions before he was si- lenced by the union officials. Opposition’ To Fitzgerald. The convention has developed into a struggle of the opposition, headed by George 8S. Levi, secretary treasur- er of the organization, and the fol- lowers of EB. H.) Fitzgerald, present president, who ‘has come to the end of his second three-year term and is seeking re-election, Employers Address Convention. The conventiom has been addressed by several reactionaries and employ- ers brought in by Fitzgerald. Among those who spoke are Mayor Beach, L. W. Baldwin, president of the Missouri- Pacific railroad; Frank Farrington, president of the IMinois miners’ un- jon, who has recent arbitrarily ex- pelled from office the elected ieft wing officials of the miners’ union in the Springfield subdistrict, and ©. B. Schaff, president of the Missourt, Kansas, Texas railroad, A sharp fightdbetween the opposi- tion and the Fitggerald group was ex- pected on the amendment to the brotherhood constitution, which, if passed, would empower the president to appoint the é@itor of the Railway Clerk, The editor is elected under the present constitution, Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Bo 290 BULGARIANS IN ZANKOV TERROR Tulsa Residents Brand Fascists As Murderers (Special to the Daily Worker) TULSA, Oklahoma, May 10—Bu!- garians living in this city have added their protest to the widespread de- nunciation by Bulgarian-Americans of the regime of white terror instituted by Premier Zankov against the Com- munists and other workers. “The Zankov government is shoot- ing down all workers who do not agree with it,” said Ivan Petroff Kovacheff, of West. Tulsa. “Conditions in Bul- garia are an outrage to humanity. Under the pretext of hunting down Communists, the Bulgarian fascists are making wholesale killings of po- litical enemies.” Tyranny of Despots. “Despotism and tyranny are the slo- gan of the present Bulgarian govern- ment. The situation is deplorable and the issue which the despotic govern- ment of Bulgaria has raised is a mo- mentus one. Every man and woman in the United States should register his or her protest against the inhu- man and barbarous government that has planned its campaign of terror among the workers like a despot crazed with stolen power.” Bulgarians interviewed at 110 E. First St., including P. G. Menkoff, An- (Continued on page 6.) Wheat Crop Below Normal, Farmers Too Poor to Buy Seed (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 10 — Amer- fea’s winter wheat crop will be ap- proximately 145,00,000 bushels, or nearly 25 per cent short v2 last year’s crop, the department of agriculture ostimated today. Sharply decreased acreage was primarily responsible, reflecting the adverse conditions that prevailed among wheat farmerrs at planting time, because of the low price wheat unable to buy seed. The yield also will contribute to the smaller crop, the forecast being more than a bushel to the acre off. The board reported that the crop may be larger or smaller than the forecast given,’is developments dur- ing the remaitider of the season prove more or less favorabble to the SSund than usual? #6 ° KER. PUBLISHING NEW YORK EDITION dai xcept Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER , 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. DAWES PLAN FALLING DGWN, SAYS UJ. §. REPARATION AGENT; FRANCE AND ENGLAND DISCOUNT PAYMENT +9 oh tee Price 3 Cents (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, May 10.—That the Dawes plan is a failure is | grudgingly and indirectly admitted by capitalist spokesmen fol- lowing the report of Seymour Parker Gilbert, the ‘boss’ of Ger- many and the American reparation agent under the famous /‘plan” which was heralded as a cure-all for the bankruptcy of | capitalist production of Europe and which boosted the pipe- smoking open shopper into political limelight as American vice~ president. | Mr. Gilbert, tho a warm frie and joined with him as a direct | banking interests, is forced to re | sion of the allied governments, t junable to pay the full | savage exploitation of the money, it will be unable transfer it abroad. By forcing such transfer, thru us- ing marks to buy gold in the allied countries, the basis of value will be swept from under the German mark to 1s “stabilized”\by the Dawes’ plan| reparations bank. Thus the Dawes’ | plan will defeat itself, If the allies, | on the other hand, should accept the | German paper marks as “payment,’ it simply means that they are giving | Germany a loan with the paper marks as “security” and are really paying | the reparations themselves. Inherent Contradictions. The only other alternative seen by Mr. Gilbert is the export of German | made goods being developed. How- ever, if Germany's exports are dey oped, it will be only at the expense of cutting down the export trade, and even infringing on the domestic trade, of the allied nations, England is ‘already suffering ex- treme unemployment and marked de- cline of exports as a result of the German competition in this field, and thus the “solution” of “making Ger- many pay” will lead to parag-zing in- dustrial depression in the allied na- tions. a England.Intimates Dawes’ Collapse. The collapse of the bombastic claims of General Dawes’ and.his fam- yus plan, is being decidely soft- pedalled. The allied governments are foreed to speak softly, and altho Win- ; ston Churchill, chancellor of the ex-| hequer in his budget estimate for running the British government for he coming year, quietly cut out 50 per cent of what is due to be paid by yermany to England in reparations, | | little is said about why this discount- | ing of reparations should be made if the American reactionary with the funny pipe made a good plan to Col- lect. France Plays Shrewd Trick. | In France, also, yesterday's an-| nouncement of Joseph Caillaux, after a ministerial conference presided over by President Doumergue, that all re- parations payment would not be) counted in the budget as available assets, and that France would be com- pelled to raise the budget only by in- creased and unprecedented taxes laid | upon the farmers and upon consum- | able commoditie increase the alr ing. The crafty statement of Caillaux (Continued on page 2) INDIANAPOLIS POLICE FORGE IN LEAGUE WITH BOOTLEGGERS, CHARGE INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May.10.—A wholesale weeding out of members of the Indianapolis police force for their alleged failure to enforce the prohibition laws was promised to- day by William H. Remy, prosecu- tor. Remy said he would canvass the entire force district by district and institute a “real clean up” made possible by the new “bone dry” law empowering any citizen to file charges of neglect of duty against ady high cost of liv- hat he Dawes instalments German workers, cumulate a surplus of its own* ‘BUILDING TRADE construction jot the | nected This will at once | |.“ Reports Dawes Plan Failure. snd of “Hell an’ Maria’ Dawes, representat of the Morgan port to the reparations aimis- believes Germany will be and even tho by Germany may ac- STRIKERS FIGHT LANDIS AWARD’ | Strike Against the Open Shop Still Unsettled Efforts of the non-union McLennan the strike of the building trades workers company to end on the new twenty million dollar mar- | ket project being built for the Central Cold Storage company at 11th St. and Racine Ave., failed, and the brick- layers, plasterers, plumbers, electric- is, tile setters, and iron workers are still on strike. Officials of the building trades coun- cil, including Patrick Sulliven, J. J. Conroy, secretary, and “Umbrella” Mike Boyle of the electrical workers and Edward Ryan of the iron workers, ‘were in conference Saturday, with the employers but no. agreemen: was reached. - The McLennan company hfred noti- union labofers and carpenters to re- place the “Landis award” men who had walked out and joined the non- union strikers. Some o7 these non- union workers were set to work on the union workers’ jobs, setting the iron forms for the cement work. The strike was called against the open shop, in order to get the unor- |ganizéed laborers and carpenters into the union. Bootlickers to the League of Natioris Gather at Geneva Ww ASHINGTON May 10—Leifur Magnusson, American representative nternational labor office con- with the league of nations lat Geueva, is sailing to attend tlie annual meeting of the I. L. O. Thi jis the seventh annual conference. » first was held in Washington in international . conference, in which all of the 58 member countries are to have delegates, will begin May 19 and will remain in session three or four weeks. No one with sense expects it to do anything but talk. The United States and Russia are the only considerable nations not members of the organization. Merge Millions in R. R. Deal, WASHINGTON, May 10.—The in- terstate commerce commission placed a tentative valuation of $182,687,175 on the property owned by the Chesa- peake and Ohio Railroad, and a valu- ation of $189,257,789 on the property used but not owned by the'road: The valuation was as of June, 30; 1916. This road is one of the railroads in the proposed merger plan of the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland, which the interstate commerce com: any officer in circuit court. mission is now considering. SO THIS IS WHY JUDGE GARY TELLS US THERE IS NO SLUMP? (Special to The report of the corporation issued today. Advance orders on April 30 aggre on March 31 and 5,284,771 on Feb, 28 | Horthy dictatorship, poration reported unfilled orders of 4,208,447 tons. Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 10.—Unfilled tonnage of the U. S. steel corporation declined 416,996 tons in the month ended April 30, accroding to the monthly gated 4,446,568 tons against 4,863,564 of this year. One year ago the cor.’ Three Workers to One Job in Hungary VIENNA, May 10.—Current employment records of Hungary. show that © there are 322 applicants for every hundred jobs. This is under the fascist