The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1925, Page 2

SSS ae Page Two GOAL OPERATORS BOAST END OF UNION IN SIGHT (Continued from Page 1) ners in a plan to undermine their own organization, and is so potent that these same leaders still work loyally to make the plan successful, ought not to go unrecognized,” comments Coal Age on the effects of the Jack- sonville agreement, which the editors say increased nonunion mines against union ones. Coal Age draws attention to the fact that operators who still uphold thé union agreement and. seek aid from Washington to settle the indus- try are really blind to their own best interests which would dictate their following the policy of other former union operators who have closed their union mines and opened nonunion ones or disregarded the agreement in other cases. Three Paths Open. Three courses are open to the union, according to Wooten’s analysis of the West Virginia and central Pennsyl. vania situation: (1) the union “might fight for the scale, but if it does,” says Wooten, “it is foredoomed to de- feat, which means the loss of its hold on these highly important outly- ing fields. To this end the Bittner policy ‘is leading.” (2) The union “might permit these outlying districts to make separate ne- gotations looking to the reduction of the scale.” If this is done it can hold under nominal allegiance a consider- able block of tonnage in northern West Virginia and some in central Pennsylvania. The result of such au- tonomy would be an urgent demand from the central competitive field for @ gorresponding reduction.” What the Operators. Want. The third course open to the union, Wooten sees, “would be to recognize that the jig is up and consent to the negotiation of a lower scale. The loss of Fairmont and central Penn- sylvania creates a dangerous salient in the Pittsburgh sector of the union line,” Wooten continues. “In fact, the Pittsburgh district itself becomes a salient, which in time probably will be pinched off by the pressure from each side.” Drift Toward Disaster. The probabilities pointed out by Wooten and supported by other care- ful observers of the situation indicate that the union will continue, thru its officials, a drifting policy leading to ultimate disaster. The union cannot afford to lose any more territory to nonunion operators and must make its fight in West Virginia a real test of its strength and endurance or it may cease to figure as a power in the coal industry. TIKHON URGED FOLLOWERS 10 BACK SOVIETS Admitted Their Hold on Russian People MOSCOW, (Rosta)— The papers publish a lengthy manifesto of the late Patriarch Tikhon, which bears his fascimile, and which the deceased, a day before his death, handed to his first assistant, Archbishop Krutitzky Peter, for publication. In this manifesto, Tikhon calls up- on all the believers that, while they should rigidly observe their religious belief, they should maintain a sin- cere attitude vis-a-vis the Soviet pow- er which, being a true people’s power, has strong and deep roots in the peo- ple and is unmistakable. In an important manifesto, appear- ing over the signatures of the Len- ingrad Archbishop Benjamin, presi- dent of the synod, (head organ of the reformed orthodox church), other archbichops and bishops and, also, learned theologists, the synod explains to all the clergy and believers, in ref- erence to ex-Patriarch Tikhon’s death, that the movement that arose against Tikhon and culminated in his deposi- tion, in 1923, was aimed not against his personality, but the tendency he represented and his church policy, which was detrimental to the church. Now, the death of the patriarch, whose name was the emblem of in- ternal strife within the church—-the authors of the manifesto declare—lays a moral obligation on all the orthodox believers to work for the re-unification of the orthodox church, which is ac- tually spl in two hostile camps. In conclusion, the synod calls upon all the clergy, withont distinction of political tendencies, to work jointly to prepare the church convention, which is to be held in a noar future and whose aim is to put an end to the internal strife of the orthodox church. The Election in Moscow, MOSCOW. Tho latest results of the election to the Moscow Soviet show that 2,554 Communist and 1,308 non-partisan candidates have been re- turned. Out of the newly elected mem- bers, 933 are women. This time, as seen from the above figures, the percentage of non-parti- san members is 34, while in the last it wae 12.3, (Continued from page 1) absurdity of such an asseveration, lest the reader may be inclined to attach more importance to it than it really deserves. “The American paper ought, how- ever, to understand that such stuff cannot in any measure affect the Turkish-Soviet relations. “Indeed, the Turkish people fully realizes that, in the given case, the Chicago Tribune is but vainly trying to sow discord between two great nations. People venturing in this way upon a discussion of relations be- tween Turkey andthe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics seems to forget that the wishes and sentiments of diplomats are not the only factors that bring these two nations closer to each other and determine their polit- ical interrelations. Indeed, the poli- cies of the two great neighbor states are definitely outlined by the history of the recent revolutionary struggle. “In fact, the statesmen of both coun- tries could not possibly altar their present policy while the feeling and sentiments of the people remain what NS oe Refute Lies of U. S, Kept Press Against Rassid ANDY FURUSETH they are. “New Turkey pursues no aims other than to live and exist in the limits of her national frontiers and develop her national economic and cultural re- sources, “As for revolutionary Russia, she knows our national aims better than any other state, since for the last years she has herself been fighting for the independence and liberty of nations. Neither the Chicago Tribune nor, for that matter, any other such like organ, need worry about it; never shall we forget the sympathies shown and the support lent us by our great neighbor not only in these days, when the Turkish republic has grown stronger, but also previously—when we were fighting for our national in- dependence. See Triumph Over Reaction, “The Soviet statesmen firmly be- lieve that young Turkey will triumph over and crush all the forces of re- action, And,” concludes the mouth- piece of the Angora government, “we deeply appreciate such an attitude on the part of the Soviet.” SOVIETS ARREST |CAL WORRIED BY OFFICIALS FOR | FRANCE’S DEBT MISUSING FUNDS) OF 280 BILLION Teapot Dome Methods Wall Street Wants Ger- (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, May 12.—The Transcau- man Payments (Special to The Dally Worker.) PARIS, May 12.—"I think that re- casian federal government has Or-} paration receipts from Germany by dered the arrest of a number of high and other officials of the Nakhitche- vansk Autonomous Republic, among them being the people’s commissaries of interior, of agriculture and of finance. This measure has been undertaken as a result of a special revision ef- their nature should be applied to spe- cial purposes,” Finance Minister Cail- laux told the members of the finance commission of the chamber of depu- ties this afternoon. “They should serve in their entire- ly to complete the reconstruction of the liberated regions devastated by fected by a committee of auditors in-|'the war and to amortize allied debts stituted by the Transcaucasian gov- ernment at the initiative of Rykoff, president of the council of people's commissaries of the U. 8. S. R., who, under such arrangements as will be made. “The government will float a loan covered by expected payments from during his recent tour of Transcaw-} Germany, These loans will be used casia pointed out the unsatisfactory economic conditions and the defective organization of power in the Nakhitch- evansk Republic. This committee of auditors discov- ered numerous misdeeds and abuse of power on the part of those new ar- ests, most of whom are wealthy Beks and former czarist officials, with a very bad reputation among the peas- ants, The people’s commissary of interior had embezzled fifteen thousand rubles of public funds, while several of the others had at the time lent ac- tive support to the Turck anti-Soviet faction. In their report, the auditors recom- mended to the federal government to increase the credits to the Nakhitche- vansk peasants, whose economy has greatly suffered from civil war and intervention. When Bast Meets West. HARBIN.—The first cargo of Ger- man goods has been received at Har- bin sent from Germany via the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The goods are sent to the address of the local branch of the “Dobroflot” (Vol- unteer Fleet). Part of them are for the local Harbin market, another part of them will be immediately sent on to Shanghai. The local papers remark, in this reference, that the direct overland goods service between the Far Hast and Europe seems now to have be- come an accomplished fact. | Spoll Tokio-Paris Flight. TOKIO, May 12.—Moscow’s refusal to permit the plane to fly over Russ- lan territory beyond Moscow has temporarily disrupted the proposed Tokio-Paris flight sponsored by the Tokio newspaper Asahi Shimbun, it was learned here today. The Soviet government would permit a flight to Moscow, it was said, but would not al- low the plane to leave the Russian capital for Burope. The flight, how- ever, was expected to be continued over China and India, starting within a few days, MOSCOW.—Ever fresh offers are continually being received from Japan- ese firms asking for the grant of con- cessions for the exploitation of gold mines in Siberia. Japs Deny Loan Report. TOKIO, May 12.— The Japanese finance ministry here today denied New York reports that Japan was ne- gotiating a $25,000,000 loan for the reconstruction of Tokio. MEETING OF WORKERS CORRESPONDENTS IN NEW YORK SATURDA NEW YORK CITY, May 12—A ing to organize a Workers’ Cor- respondents Club will be held at 7:30 Saturday evening, May 16 at the party headquarters, 108 East 14th street. Any worker Intorested In @ course In Communist journal. lem ie invited to come to restore the devastated regions and for improving the state railways.” The, Coolidge government, thru Ambassador Herricks, is constantly dunning the French government for the war debt to America, and Caillaux is anxious to keep German payments in France. “France's domestic debt amounts to 280,000,000,000 francs,” he said. “The nation must bear an in- crease burden amounting to $3,500,- 000,000. This sum is indispensible.” *_e @ France’s Note To Germany PARIS, May 12—The Painleve vabinet meeting with President Dou- mergue, unanimously adopted the text of Foreign Minister Briand’s two notes on Germany at noon today. The first, dealing with alleged Ger- man infractions of disarmament pro- visions, will be handed to the council of ambassadors Friday. The second, the reply to the German security patt proposals, will be sent to the allies immediately. The second note de mands Germany’s entrance to the league of nations, which is used by the world powers to plunder the weaker nations. Railway Heads Go to Moscow. HARBIN.—It is reported in the local press that the Chinese members fo the board of directors of the Chinese Eastern railway have re- ceived an invitation to come to Mos- cow to get acgainted with the work- ing of the railways in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The idea seems to have been will- ingly accepted and the directors are saaid to be contemplating to start soon for their visit, which, however, can be but of a short duration in view of their many duties on the line, Like Soviet Pavilion at Leipzig. MOSCOW.—The Tribune, a leading paper of Rome, writes about the Leip- zig fair that “an excellent order reigns in the Soviet pavilion, and the Soviet halls at the fair are wonder- fully well arranged. “The show made at the Leipzig fair by the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics further evidences that the Union is an important factor of the economic life of Europe and that it is in fitting order to set out for the winning over of international mar- kets.” Youth’s Execution Postponed, INDIANAPOLIS, May 12—Stays of execution until Friday, Dec, 18, 1925, were granted by Governor Ed Jackson today to Edward Barber, 19, and Joseph Parker, 22 who were to have been electrocuted in the state prison at Michigan City on May 29. Kameneff Heads Moscow Soviet. MOSCOW, May 12.—At the first ses- sion of the newly-elected Moscow Sov- jet, held today, Mr. L. B, Kameneff (assistant president of the council of people's commissaries) was elected president of the Soviet without a dis- senting vote, Every subsoription for The Dally Worker means a brick In bullding the revolutionary press in this coun- Lis \ SAYS SEAMEN REJECT ‘IPS’ Subsidy Disguised as Bonus; Draft Rumored (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 12.—American seamen will have none of the “wage bonus” scheme which T. V. O’Connor, once head of the Longshoremen and now chairman of the shipping board, has proposed a8 a, camouflaged ship- subsidy grant from yongress to the shipowners. They. ,have protested, thru Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seamen's Union of America, against haying a “tip” sys- tem forced upon, them. As “free” men they earn thelr stipulated wages; they ask industrial justice thru fair enforcement of the seamen’s act; they refuse “the crowning disgrace of being known and considered as ‘tip- sters’.” a Andy Writes to Cal. This protest has been embodied in a letter from Furuseth to President Coolidge, who was Feported as being interested in O'Connor's plan of sub- sidy. In his letter, ; Soamen’s executive points out that is a revival of part of the Gallinger subsidy bill of many years ago., That bill, support- ed by a republican administration, was beaten in congress. It was strongly opposed by the organized seamen. It is ‘the seamen’s contention that this O’Connor scheme would be made constitutional only by enlisting the merchant seamen 4s naval reserves. That is the French system, and “would destroy our merchant marine as sure- ly as it destroyed that of France.” BRIBERY, BOOZE CHARGES HURLED IN KLAN FIGHT Springfield Judge and Police Chief War SPRINGFIELD, Il, May 12, — Springfield's police department and judiciary plunged deeper today into a bitter warfare. © Justice of the Peace C. C. Bierman carried to Mayor,S. A. Bullard his fight against Police Magistrate Frank B. Early. Bierman’ conferred with the mayor on means’ of removing Early from office. ' “I accuse Harly of unfitness for of- fice and of holding court while in- toxicated. His conduct in office has caused everyone''who knows of it to lose respect andiregard for him and his position,” Bierman said. The developments followed a bitter arraignment of the magistrate in his office by Bierman who hurled in- vectives bristling with personalities and charges that Early had been in- dicted in Sangamon county for mal- feasance in office, accepting a bribe, and criminal contempt of court, and had been sued by the city of Spring- field for being an inmate of a gam- bling house. Meanwhile, further complications arose when Austin Jones, a free agent responsible: only to Chief Morris, a klansman, said he would investigate rumored liquor scandals and bribery inside the police department “in- volving high officials.” The klan is said to be in control of the police de- partment and attacking anti-klan judges. PIGNIG MAY 30 TO DRAW CROWD OF MILITANTS T. U. E. 14 Group Gets Altenheim Grove The first workers’ picnic of the year, given by the Trade Union Edu- cational League of Chicago, will be held on May 30, ‘Decoration Day, in Altenheim Grove, to be reached by direct route on the Forest Park elevated line, and by transfer from the Madison streétcar to a suburban car. Branches of the Workers Party are taking part in this picnic of the Chicago militant unionists, and contests between the branches are being arranged. Two laffguage federation groups are slated for to put.on a “tug-of-war,” and some of the labor athletes are volunteering to stage exhibitions, Every party branch is supposed to set in touch with local headquarters and to furnish some feature of en- tertainment, game or contest. Angora FireyUnder Control, LONDON, May 12,—A Central News dispatch from Qonstantinople today reported under control the fire which destroyed 600 shops in Yezgad near Angora Monday. The damage was $5,000,000, ' MacDonald, the Traitor, Announces That He Does Not Like “The Red Flag” By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, James Ramsay MacDonald, “socialist” and fate labor premier of Great Britain, joins the capitalists in hostility to “The Red Flag," the workers’ revolutionary song, second in popularity only to “The International” itself. . MacDonald says he wants something “more tuneful and soul stirring,” and he has no doubt found it in the British royal anthem, “God Save the King,” as played by the British monarch's picked sin pset | band. For it was MacDonald's job while premier, and he fs still at it, trying to save the king from the red flag. MacDonald Kes his king and Gustav Noske, the Ger- man “socialist,” has the makings of a new kaiser In Paul von Hindenburg, in whose honor Noske made a farewell speech at Hanover, on Monday, as the German militarist left for Berlin. It was Noske who led the war against the Ger- man, Communists, and whose hands rg with the blood of Liebknecht and Luxemburg. Noske will join MacDonald in hostility to the stirring strains of “The Red eis that heartens revolutionists in their struggles the world over, and cheers them on to new battles, s * ° * It needs nothing more than a reprinting of “The Red Flag” to discovér why MacDonald doesn’t like it. MacDonald proved the best agent of British imperialism, to keep the workers in submissive obedience to “The Empire,” in all the colonies as well as at home. “The Red ing 8 sounds a note of solidarity for workers everywhere and is an inspiration to revolt against “The Empire,” whether British, American, French or German. Here it is: The people's flag is deepest red It shrouded oft our martyr’d dead. And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold, Their heart’s blood dyed its every fold. CHORUS: Then raise the scarlet standard high! Within its shade we'll live and die! Tho cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the Red Flag flying here. Look round: the Frenchman loves its blaze; The sturdy German chants its praise In Moscow’s vaults its hymns are sung; Chicago swells the surging throng. CHORUS: It waved above our infant might, When all ahead seemed dark as night, It witnessed many a deed and vow, We must not change its color now, CHORUS: It well recalls the triumphs past, It gives the hope of peace at last, The banner bright, the symbol plain Of human right and human gain. CHORUS: It suits today the weak and base, Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place, To cringe before the rich man's frown, And haul the sacred emblem down, CHORUS: With head uncovered swear we all To bear it onward till we fall; Come dungeon dark or gallows grim This song shall be our parting hymn. CHORUS: British workers will not stop singing “The Red Flag”; not even if MacDonald wishes it. Rather they will sing it all the louder, since they are recognizing more and more that MacDonald belongs to the capitalist class, not to the working class. MacDonald's attack on this revolutionary song of the workers will only serve to make it more popular with those who are enslaved by the social system that MacDonald so valiantly defends. The lerey of another “socialist,” the late Fritz Ebert, president of Germany, whom Hindenburg succeeds, to “the reich,” is also to be rewarded. The “Baroness” Katherina von Oheimb—they still have the tities of the German kaiser- dom in the republic—has opened a campaign to an an- nual pension of $7,500 for Ebert's widow. The “baroness” heaps glowing eulogies upon the memory of the late “social- ist” president, who sent thousands of Communists to prison. It is from these prisons that the strains of “The Red Flag” a in unceasing refrain. So it is all over the capital world, Labor will treasure its song, “The Red Flag,” more than ever since the traitor, MacDonald, like all of his kind, has now openly turned against it. RUSSIA’S RED ARMY CHIEF KEEPS WATCH ON BALTIC WAR MANEUVERS MOSCOW, May 12.—That the Soviet government had paid close atten- tion to the recent joint conference at Riga of representatives of the general staffs of the Baltic states and Roumania and Poland, was stated by Frunze, reople’s commissar of war, in the course of a speech delivered at Rostov-on- Don while on his way to Tiflis to attend the congress of soviets of the Trans-|_ 1 nnenrteennseenneetenenaoeeninnentnainietat caucasian Federation of Soviet Social- ist Republics. i Having to go thru internal difficul- ties, some of the neighboring states, Frunze observed, were apt, under in- fluence from without, to be tempted by somewhat adventuresome combina- tions. ‘Tho the Soviet government was well aware, the people’s war commissary declared, of the irritation prevailing in the public opinion thruout the Union of Soviet Republics at such in- tolerable facts as raids by regular Polish army units on Soviet frontier posts or the murder of Baginsky and Weiczerkowicz, or, again, the sup- port openly extended by the Rouman- jaan government to Petlura’s bandit organizations, the government's main object being, now as heretofore, to work for peace on all the frontiers of the Union, t f HERRIN UNDER ANTI- KLAN MAYOR GALLS IN '— KLUXERS? TIN STARS HERRIN, lil, May 12—With seve eral hundred tin stars, made by the late Glenn Young out of . tomato cans, called in, new badges issued and new oaths taken, Herrin was under new city rule today by an administration distinctly anti-klan, Mayor Marshall D. McCormack, whose store was bombed just prior to de election by klan forces, as serted: : ‘We shall have a better and clean- er Herrin under the new regime.” . | ' Rockefeller Invests $625,000 in Colleges for U. S: Imperialism (Special to The Daily Worker) * NEW YORK CITY, May 13—The committee that is carrying on the drive to raise $2,500,000 for the sup- port and maintenance of the five Am- erican colleges in the Near Hast has announced thru its chairman, Cleve- land H. Dodge, that John D. Rocke- feller, Jr. has donated the sum of $625,000 to the fund. The colleges, which are maintained by churches and missionary socleties, are located at Constantinople, Sofla and Smyrna, The Standard Oil com- pany has a large plant located in Smyrna and the connection between a Rockefeller maintained college and a Standard Oil plants {s very clear. The near Hast countries, especially Turkey, have since the war entered upon a period of industrial develop- ment with the result that a strong working class has come into existence. ‘Trade unions have sprung up and have conducted campaigns for the improve- ment of conditions. The leadership over such young movements generally fall into the hands of the petty bourgeoisie and the intellectuals. And what better place is there for the education and development of such intellectuals than the American maintained col- leges, supported by the big American capitalists? The role and history of the mission. aries and churchmen in the colonial countries is well known: the forerun- ners of the capitalists seeking a place for investment and exploitation. Rockefellers’ missionaries are fulfil- ling their task very well. Cleveland H. Dodge, who is himself & well known banker made the follow- ing significant statement. “The col- leges have given fifty years of service in the Near East and are responsible for many of the changes that have taken place in that time,” Rap at Farrington in Warning Purchasers of Union’s Property SPRINGFIBLD, Ill., May 12—The membership of District 12, United Mine Workers, have their doubts as to the honesty of Frank Farrington, district president, and in resolutions being epread thruout the district, are giving “due warning” to all business interests, bonding companies, mort- gage firms and corporations, that any acquisition of property, moneys, li- berty bonds and other securities be- longing to the union, unless such are acquited by consent of the member- ship, will be at the risk of prosecu- tion. “This movement must be made at once to protect the property of the Illinois mine workers and also keep the books and bonds intact so that the membership will be able to investigate the same should they desire to do so to see what has become of the re- maining property and funds, and to see if transactions by Farrington have been legal or not,” reads an announce- ment of the miners. “To see what has become of the remaining property and funds,” ap- pears to indicate that the miners find something missing which Farrington, as president, was supposed to safe- guard. Strengthen “Co-ops” in U. S. S. R. MOSCOW.—The people’s commis- sariat of finance has been instructed by the government to draw up, in an urgent manner, a Dill providing for facilities in alterations of the taxa- tion of private capital. At the same time, the government is devising measures for consolidat- ing the basic capital of state commer- cial firms and the enlargement of the corporations of co-operative organiza- tions, ten million rubles having been apportioned for this latter item from the state budget funds. Foreign Exchange. - NEW YORK, May 12—Great Britain, pound sterling, demand 4.84 13-16; cable 4.85 -716. France, franc, demand 5.21%; cable 6.22. Belgium, franc, demand 5.05; cable 5.05%. Italy, lira, demand 4.10%; cable 4.11. Sweden, krone, demand 26.71; cable 26.74. Norway, krone, demand, 18.81; cable 18.88. Germany, mark, unquoted, Germany, mark, unquotedimfdkéd’hw eek tael, demand 75.00; cable, THE VOIGE OF LENIN TO BE HEARD IN CHICAGO SUNDAY, MAY 24 Something new and different ts 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 the chief speaker, This is no joke, as the talk by Com- rade Lenin will be heard from a phonograph record, 4 speeches by Comr sky, Trotsky and others, Comrade Alexander Chramovy, na- tional organizer of the Russian Sec- tion W. P., who is touring the Unit- ed States, will bring the records to Chicago, He will also speak 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 — Lenint ( My