The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1925, Page 5

RED AID ASKS PROTEST UPON BULGAR TERROR Suffering Thousands in Need of World Sapport MOSCOW, May 12—An appeal of the International Red Ald reads as follows: “The Bulgarian workers and peas- ants are undergoing frightful suffer- Ings. In the land of the Zankov terror and of endless political murder, blood-reeking terror Is raging again with renewed force, The workers are undergoing the most frightful tor tures and horrors at the hands of the Zankov gang. Prisons Filled, “The prisons are filled with work- ers, peasants and intellectuals, in- eluding many women and children. Hundreds and thousands of innocent people who have had nothing to do with the Sofia outrage are exposed to the most frightful torture. Bar- tholomew nights are instituted against helpless and unarmed people. “The lives of the best sons of the Bulgarian people are. in danger. Thousands of families are deprived of their supporters, thousands of chil- dren have become orphans and are abandoned to their fate. Thousands of Women and Children Bereft. “The number of thousands of wid- ows and orphans left after the Sep- tember and June blood baths has now enormously increased. “It is the first duty of the workers, peasants and of ‘all people with a spark of humanity in them, to raise their voice of protest, and to compel the assassins and hangmen in Bul- garia to cease the bloodshed, to save the lives of those arrested and to ef- fect their release. The lives of thousands of innocent people are in- volved here. “The International Red Aid calls upon all to protest against the mur- ders and the white terror in Bulgaria, and for the protection of the masses. “Down with the assassins of Sofia. “Down with Bulgarian fascism. “Hands off the Bulgarian peasants and workers. “Long live international solidarity.” Claims Deepest Mine for America. WASHINGTON, May 12—America’s claim to superlatives was extended to- day in a government publication to still another field. The deepest mine in the world is not in Brazil, as-errone- ously stated in many text books, the bureau of labor statistics asserted, but in the copper seam of Michigan. The American man-made hole in the ground is 8,700 feet deep, or at least a third of a mile deeper than the pre- mier Brazilla shaft, in the state of Minas Geraes. | Dr. A. Moskalik DENTIST 8. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA, a A SIMPLE STYLISH FROCK FOR THE GROWING GIRL 6059. Wool bengaline or repp, jersey cloth, gingham or flannel may be used for this model. The Pattern {s cut in 4 Sizes: 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 14 year size requires 2% yards of 36 inch mater- ial with % yard of contrasting ma- terial for collar seo women 20 Page Nie DAIL Worx ine pattern department are fure oatved, and they are mailed by purer, woken to the customer, The go be ta not oon % stock terns oral ity til taka at oat $0 ot become in saclont if ver. Duttern ty " elim) ry delayed ESS Series ies a IES BORE a Be Pune SS La eR Eg EEE les ER 0S 2 UR EE ASR eh cP Lae. Sc cin Erte Ref AR is OUR DAILY PATTERNS (Salad 8 i eS ES a Bah ac BERR CEO oR ES Fi IE yr as ec ream temas Conditions of the Farmers. To the) DAILY WORKER:— It might be interesting for the workers in the industrial centers, to get an idea of the condition of the farmers and how they. live. This isa wheat. raising country, that is, the principle crop {1s wheat, but we also raise flax, oorn, oats, and all other small grain in abundance. If you workers could see the piles of grain raised here, the strings of trucks and trams all loaded with wheat, coming to town in the fall af- ter threshing is done, if you could see the trainloads of it, going east, on its way to the terminal market, you would think the farmers were capital- ists, but such is-not the case. They are exploited just as much as the industrial workers, by the same interests, but perhaps in a different. way, the farmers’ have the mortgago system to contend with. Not only. mortgages on the farm, but on horses, machinery, cattle, and every other thing on the farm of any value. Mort- gages are even taken on crops before the seed is put into the ground. This is done by the small country bankers, the willing tools of Wall Street. The interest rates are 8 to 10 per cent, yes, it used to be 12 per cent and a 19 per cent bonus, that means if you made a bargain for a $100.00 loan, you. received $90.00, and gave the banker a note on which you prom- ised to pay him back $100.00 with 12 per cent interest added. This is business, legitimate business, Is. it any wonder the farmers are bank- rupt? Then we have grain gambling at the terminal markets. The local grain buyer who buys our grain at the warehouse cheats us on the weight and grade. If the grain is mortgaged the check is made out to the banker. and farmer together, and the bank- er as a rule, takes it all. At any rate you are lucky if you get enough out of it to pay your expenses in town. These are some of the problems the farmers are up against. The struggle between the produc- ing and non-producing class is the same, whether you are a working farmer or an industrial worker. Therefore, ,we must unite-our forces, for a united front of action against the capitalist system, and establish a farmers’ and workers’ system all over the world—Andrew Ombholt, Williston, N. D. May Day in San Quentin. To the DAILY WORKHR:—On May Day the sun shone down on San Quentin Prison, the home that the lumber barons have prepared for those who try to organize their fellow slaves. Grey prison walls stood like giant guards over the destinies of three thousand enslaved victims of a capitalist system. Amid this mass of human wreckage eighty men are serv- ing time for'no other crime than being members of the I. W. W. Grey uniforms of the inmates, heavy with filth fit into the picture of hard stone yards and dirty walls. It is a picture of injustice and shows up our rotten system. Force of the exploiters is symbolized in the many guns in the hands of the guards. Silent death, lurks over the whole atmosphere. Amid this scene a smile is seldom seen. Civilization is not represented in California—regardless of the color- A STYLISH DRESS FOR MOTHER'S GIRL. 5120. Printed and plain voile are combined in this pretty model. One could use gingham in any of the now checks or tub silk, piped with a con- trasting solid Colro. ‘vhe pattern.{s cut in 4 sizes: 4, 6, 8 nad 10 years. An 8 year size re- quires 2% yards of 82 inch material, if made of one material. To make as illustrated requires 1% yards of fig ured material and 1% ards of plain material. With long sleeves 1% yards of figured material is required. Pattern mailed to any address op receipt of 12¢ in silver or stamps. vf ys cee phtyer e' sive Brticte en faklemy points for the fees ia utrating he imple ‘tohes), yaluabia hints the pome borer ene oy R 4 ‘reuse: The DAILY. WORKE: we Giiehingten Wives Sbleage ue’ ed advertisements that greet one from the pages of the capitalist press. May Day in San Quentin prison was a colorful affair. Not only did the eighty wobblies sport red flowers—but about four hundred and twenty other inmates did likewise. It was truly a sight for sore eyes to see that about five hundred out of the three thous- and realize their true position in s0- ciety. One conld tell that the offictals sensed that the flowers had a deeper significance than that of being a de- coration.—A Wobbly in San Quentin. Farmers’ Colony In U. 8. 8. R. (The following is a reply to an edi- torial published in the Oakland Trib- une attacking the American farmers’ colony to be started in Soviet Russia. —Ed. note.) Berkeley, Cal., May 5, 1925. Editor Oakland Tribune. Dear Sir: Your issue of May 2 contains an editorial, and within three inches’ of it the small but significant clipping from the Buffalo Evening News, which is quoted herewith, to- gether with some comments from one of the 60 million “morons' Editorlal, Oakland Tribune, May 2nd. Soviet Invites Farmers. The Soviet government in Moscow announces that 405,000 acres in the north Caucasus and Volga regions are to be thrown open to American farm- ers who have about $1,500 in money, or equipment, and can demonstrate competence in tilling the soil. In all 23,500 Americans can be accommo- dated in this project, it is said, the inducements extended being renew- able leases, cheap railway fares and cheap lumber and credits. The Mos- cow authorities are either singularly ignorant of the reputation they have won for themselves in this country or else they grade the intelligence of the American farmer extremely low. Where, in all America, can they find even ten farmers, not fo say 23,500, willing to abandon the stars and stripes for the red flag? Article from Buffalo Evening News. Morons and Others. According to “expert” authority quoted by the Illinois Medical Jour- nal, half of the people of the United States are morons, and 30,000,000 more are equipped with intelligence only approximating that of a 12-year-old child. This leaves only about 30,000,000 of us to indulge in intelligent discussions to just, what class we shall assign the “experts.” Local Papers Ignore Workers. To the DAILY WORKER:—tittle is known of what is going on in this town from the local papers. Espe- ‘cially news of what is going on in the mills.. Some poor fellow in the mill is rushed to the nearest hospital with a mashed leg from a falling ob- ject, or he may have been caught in the wire blocks or been burned by hot metal, When the evening papers come out there are screaming headlines about some big stiff being banquetted for having been in the service of the steel trust for many years, was faith- ful and. rose to a high position—and that sort of bunk. But not one line about the poor worker who had lost his life or limbs while on his job. Several years ago when the union miners from surrounding towns invad- ed Monessen to unionize the steel workers; thousands of miners came, more than the town has ever seen at one time. The local daily came out that evening with about one inch space in one corner of the paper say- ing “that several hundred miners came here to parade.” This paper became a laughing stock among the workers, because these workers saw with their own eyes thousands of miners parading. This shows those who are interest- ed who the local paper works for. A. Worker, Monessen, Pa. THE DAILY WORKER rr rr ee ee ©) Letters From Our Readers|POLISH MEETING ie FIGHT Socialists Refuse to Aid Jailed ‘Workers The conference called by the na- tional committee of the Conference to Aid Political Prisoners in Poland, May 10, at Schoenhofen Hall, with the object of forming a Chicago section of the committee, was a great success, and showed that, when Polish’ work- ers in this country.are brought face to face with the facts of the life and death struggle t their comrades in Poland are carryiig on against the white terror, very, real interest and feelings of solidarity are aroused. 19 Delegates Present. Nineteen delegetes representing the following organizations wera present: Polish Machinists’ Local No 830; Polish Carpenter#"Local No. 841; two branches of the Posh Workingmen’s Sick Benefit Society; White Russian People’s Association; the “Sila” Hdu- cational Society, ‘and three branches of the Polish section of the Workers Party. 8 Comrade Marek, Ws’ temporary sec- retary of the oy roid committee, opened the meet Comrade Jed- naki was elected thtirman. Comrade B. K. Gebert gave@xeport on the gen- eral aims and progress of the Confer- ence to Aid Politital Prisoners in Poland, and Comrade George Maurer greeted the delegates in the name of the Labor Defense Council. Discover the Socialists Support White Terror. A committee of three, composed of Janicki of the Machinists’ Union, Marek and Puhacz, was elected to visit the district: convention of the Polish Socialist Alliance, which was holding {ts meeting"at the same time, in order to ask for co-operation in the work of the Confé¥ence to Aid Poli- tical Prisoners in’ Poland. The members ofthe committee were given the floor bythe socialists, but the motion not té“participate in the conference got niné Votes as against three for the miotién ‘to participate. One of the unién* members of the committee remarked that while he had always believed tht the socialists represented progrés¥he now saw that they represented cétiservatism. A resolution presé@fited by Comrade Gebert was passed H} the conference, condemning the prégent Polish gov- ernment for the fact"that it was hold- ing 8,000 workers “did peasants as political prisoners, greeting ‘the prison- ers, and pledging “them niotal’ and material support. It was moved “that the resolution be sent to the chairman of the sejm, the reMtilutionary work- ers’ and peasants” resentatives in the sejm, and the executive commit- tee of the Trade Upton Alliance of Poland. It was also resolved Chicago section ot Aid Political Prisoy co-operate with the of the Red Aid. The, ization committee Brzowski, of the J Puhacz, of the Polj Workingmen’s Sick Benefit Assogjation; Podkulsky, of the I. L. G. W...; Morowska, of the “Sila” Educational Society, and Marek, of the Polis& branch of the Workers Party. Thefnext meeting of the conference will be on June 14. The tour of Comrade Radwanski, who has been successful in preparing the ground for the organization of lo- cal sections of the conference to Aid Political Prisoners im Poland is com- ing to an end, The final dates of the tour are as follows: Neffs, Ohio, May 13; Fairpoint, Ohio, May 14; York- ville, Ohio, May 15;° Warren, Ohio, May 17 (afternoon); Cleveland, Ohio, May 17 (evening); Erie, Pa, May 18, and Rochester, N. veer 19. to organize a ie Conference to if in Poland, to erican ‘section ‘ollowing organ- was elected: hinists’ Union; “Communist Books ; For Women * ‘3 COMMUNISM AND THE FAMILY... eee By ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI, one * the most 4 brillant 45 Cents owrlters of the women in the Communist International. MARRIAGE LAWS OF SOVIET RUSSIA........:....8 WORK AMONG WOMEN... Report of women’s activities many attractive photographs. WOMEN AND SOCIALISM... 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A real honest-to-goodness Builder with a union card, who hae “heaved” many bricks both of the well known species of “Irish confetti” and the other kind that are subs to build the DAILY WORKER, has for the second time secured subs that any Bullder anywhere, Read this letter and see how he does it: Dear Comrades: lvam: sending thru Comrade Shklar today two subscriptions to'the DAILY WORKER and Chicago to do the same for our paper. 1 like very much the job of being the builder of our paper, 1 am.a builder by trade and union, get buy in getting subs for the join the Union of DAILY WORKER Builders, Frater! HOW ABOUT IT, COMRADE LETCHINGER? been rumored that Comrade Anna Letchinger has a ruined It hi hand she is carrying carrying in a get subs with one finger and if we surely answer this challenge by getting subs with all five fingers in use. NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY NAME STREET. erry. For many years | have helped to put up buildings and also carried much mortar and carried many bricks for construo- tion work. So naturally it is nothing new for me to carry the bricks and surely | never enjoyed it as much as when these “bricks” are used for building up our Communist Daily. Altho Comrade Letchinger is not a builder by trade and she cannot join the Building Laborers’ Union, yet | hope she will railway, clerks.conyention at, Kansas City, Mo. Fitzgerald, the grand president, has called in the cards. of the executive board and the executive board has en- Joined and. fired Fitzgerald. Result.of “Labor Bank” It's all @ fight over the “bank.” This organization made bankers out of its officials and now it is paying the price, for ‘the: leaders are capitalists instead of:imbor leaders. Fitzgerald even went so far in a speech as to cite Stone of West Virginia mine fame as @ fine example of success, in the banking business. They are now associating with the capitalist bank- ors. There is one thing- that all these officials ara agreed upon and that is that they:must keep the “Reds” from getting control. They brought in the faker Farrington from the Illinois Miners’ Union to make a bandstand Play against the “Reds.” His speech fell flat, and when he said “Why they even call the honorable men you have elected to the office in the labor move- ment of the country, labor takers,” suppressed laughter went thru the audience and many were heard to re- mark, “They're telling the truth.” Green also camé along with his at- tack on the “Reds,” and this man who is too fat to fight, joins the cap- italists in teaching collaboration and has been chosen to lead the three million trade unionists of the A. F. of L. into the shambles, the union of lambs and lions. “How Come?” Says Green Green also made a discovery while here. He discovered that there are machinists, teamsters and other crafts in.the Railroad Clerks’ Union and told the delegates that he was going to seperate these folks from the organ- ization, There are fifteen hundred delegates attending the convention. The way the officials squander money it is (2); Clara Rubenstein; N. Fillmore, give him the privilege to challenge 1 challenge Anna Letchinger of a member of a building trades paper and in this way qualify to palnvensy timated that th tion will estimate a 6 convention wi! GREGORY PRODANICH. cost. around $220,000, Practically all e # that has gone on for the week just past in a fight between the officials to see. who will keep control—not 80 much.of the union—as of the banks. At least another week will be used up in the attempt of the officials to “fix it,” and keep their soft places. A long conference has just been held by the old guard as the rum- blings of the delegates are threaten- ing a storm. sling. But we have seen comrades know Comrade Letchinger, she will Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. WANTED A companion to accompany me on a hitch-hike to California and re- turn. SYLVAN A. POLLACK, 956 Kelly St., New York Clty Phone Intervale 6141-W WORKER Your Union Meeting | Second Wednesday, May 13, 1925. Name oH eo meg Place Meeti Biackemithe” * cheenet Council, 8. his 4 St. M Monre 0 Garn No. 0 1693 Serpent 1784 Serponters; 1688 N. H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., bes Irving 7697. 1922 2807 1 es ba Ave. ye ‘elevlore, 1362). Division st. 562 ison Si 4 104 126 824 375 a 910 W. 4 bees tway | men bie Councils 3446 ve. 697 atiway Sarmen, 8444 Wentworth 1840 alway rmen, 644! fopiand Aye. 219 Ra 7:30". mn rainmen, 63: ab] rey Ww, Ada etal, 7) W: miiatrigon St. fet Metal, 324 8. Halsted” st: Team: 175 W. Washin: ew a. Teamete (Meat), 220 8. (Bone), 6959 &. Halsted re, 810 W. Harrison St. d "Subway Workers, 914 PITTSBURGH, PA. 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