The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1925, Page 1

INF me hee eM Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! Vol. II. No. 106.) nate RATES: Si JOP" 1S ISSUE IN NOVA SCOTIA STRIKE Canadian * Commumists for Mass Pickets TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, May 14.—The Communist Party of Canada has issued the following appeal to the striking Nova Scotia coal miners to AS WE SEI By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. — i is nét easy to predict whether the election of Leon Trotsky to the presidium of the federal congress of the Soviet republic will have an ad- verse effect on the sale of Max East- man’s book: Since Lenin Died, but it was rather inconsiderate of Comrade ‘Trotsky to leave Max minus a mar- tyr, at such an auspicious moment. Max should present a nice picture of @ man left holding the bag whenj Trotsky's telegram affirming his loyal- alty to the Communist Party of Rus- sia and pledging his support to its leadership was made public in Lon- In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside igo te nc by mail, $6.00 per year. don. se IMPLOYERS and representatives of labor met together recently in picket the mines more energetically and make the strike 100 per cent ef- | fective. The statement says:— “Tt is becoming a tragic thing for New York under the,auspices of the |the class conscious to watch the way National Civic Federation. ject of the conference was to discuss the question of waste. in industry. William Green was there and the Seattle Union Record gloats over the fact that Green sat “with cabinet of- ficials and representatives of great ‘employing interests.” The conferees agreed that lots of energy is wasted in industry as it is now run. So do we, But we assert that the workers have no interest in solving the prob- lem of industrial efficiency so long; as the capitalists get the benefit of any service that is made thereby. ee ae HAT the workers should worry about under capitalism is get- ting as much of the product, of their toil from the capitalists as is pos- sible and preparing the way for the taking over of industry and getting all the fruits of industry minus that | portion necessary to run the govern-| ment and reproduce machinery, or in| other words, minus the overhead that the capitalist now pays out of his share of the dollar produced by la-! bor. This share according to a United | States government report is approxi- mately 83 cents. = #e ILLIAM GREEN would be spend- ing the time for which the or- ganized workers of the United States are paying him for, if he devoted it to organizing the workers instead of confabbing with the employers as to the best method of getting more work out of the hide of the membership of}” the- American Federation of Labor. When"'the workers “get the boss to check. waste, produce more and increase the efficiency of a particular industry, what happens is that the boss finds he can get along with less help and the army of the unemployed gets new recruits. oes HE workers of Soviet Russia are interested in the elimination of} waste and properly so. Nationalized)| industry in Russia is owned by the) workers thru their government,| which they control and run. As pro- duction increases so does the com- pensation of the workers. A slacker in Russia today is an object of scorn, the same scorn that should besheaped on the worker in a capitalist country | who acts as pacemaker to the rest/ of is fellow workers in order to make | per capita production jump and make} tnore profits for the boss. The Rus- (Continued on page 6.) | Z FOREIGN TRADE OF U. S. FALLS OFF IN BOTH IMPORTS AND EXPORTS WASHINGTON, May 13.—Ameri- can imports and exports declined in April, the department of commerce announced today. Imports In April were $349,000,000 as against $385,490,733 in March. Exports in April were $400,000,000 zs compared with $453,434,288 in March, The ob-| matters are going in Nova Scotia. “It makes one’s heart bleed to real- |ize how conscious the capitalist ele- ments are of what they are doing to break the strike, how cunningly they are exploiting it for their own ends— and then to have to watch McLeod trailing around in the wake of these treacherous elements while they are laughing at him up their sleeves. Union Officials Allow Scabs “For nine weeks there is supposed |to have been a one hundred per cent strike in Nova Scotia. The convention of the miners had decided on a one hundred per cent strike. A hundred per cent strike means that every piece of labor is withdrawn, It means that the maintenance men are with- drawn and the corporation property can go where the corporation consigns the men in a strike—to hell! “No wonder when the labor be- trayor Lewis appeared on the scene he asked McLeod what this one hun- dred per cent strike was, anyway. The union maintenance men have been withdrawn but the McLeod executive has peacefully allowed the corpora- tion to maintain its own staffs and the maintenance men of the union (Continued on page 5.) CARPENTERS NOT UNIONIZED ON MARKET PROJECT CHICAGO, May 14—(FP)—Victory is announced by the Chicago building trades council in its fight to unionize the “big McLennan Construction Co. Job on the new-commission market at 14th and Racine Ave. The victory is complete so far as unions affiliated with the council are concerned, but the carpenters, who still remain out- the American Federation of Labor, do not come within the view of the local council. Cement mixers and building labor- ers, hitherto gon-union, will now affi- liate with the hod carriers and build- ing laborers’ district council if they want to keep their jobs. Union fron- workers, bricklayers, plasterers, tile setters, electrical workers and plum- ers, about 2,000 in all, walked out two weeks ago at the call of the building trades council. “The strike has been settled with the unionizing of the men that come under our jurisdiction,” says Secre- tary J. J. Conroy. * *¢ Gary Plumbers Tie Up Building. GARY, Ind., May 14—A general tie- up in all building activities here, athounting to millions of dollars, is threatened, beginning Monday, May 18, as a result of the strike of the plumbers here. The plumbers de- mand a one dollar per day increase over their old wage scale of $12.00 per day. CLEVELAND WORKERS DEFY POLICE INTERFERENCE AT. MAY.17 MEETING; side the building trades department of | ‘trustees. The matter was referred to SIDETRACKS MINERS’ FIGHT ON INJUNCTION TO HEAR LIQUOR CASES (Special to The Daily Worker) WHEELING, W. Va., May 14.— After hearing opening statements of counsel for officers and members of the United Mine Workers of Amer- lea today, contending service was illegal on defendants in application of the West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal company for a new strike In- junction of a drastic nature, Judge Baker continued proceedings until afternoon. The continuation »was the result of desire of the court to proceed with pending liquor con- spiracy cases. The miners’ attack on service in the application for the new injunc- tion is that it was illegal, because they were in court answering to bond upon another contempt pro- ceedings, still pending. VIENNA, bers of the garian and ay exile here in Sofia that i—(1. R. A.) —Mem- in} it the court martial inced eight to death of a bomb in Sveti ‘Ing funeral services Srgeff that resulted in ,is simply a continu- ft of the Zankov re- ice before the werid for General G the death of ation of the effi gime to save HDS Ds SRE —a face, they s that has been spat- |. tered with I ‘since the beginning ZANKOV MURDER of the pres Military dictatorship. The exiles of the opinion that the complete can be laid to less’ terrorism § garia since th “Kubret,” a tion that est e for the disaster door of the merci- at has reigned Bul- itary coup of the military organiza- ed the Zankov gov- rand that today ac- untry. is Not Weep for rs. s in their expres- mmunist Party of aise and could have causing the explo- othing strange they of that kind, and d on page 2) JUNTA PREPARES PUBLIC HANGING Building Scaffold in the Public Square (Special to The Daily Worker) VIENNA, May 14.— The Zankov hangmen are literally living up to the title bestowed on them by the out- raged workers and peasants of Bul- garia and by the class conscious work- ers of the world. A public scaffold is being erected in the streets of Sofia so that the populace can be impress- ed by the spectacle of seeing three men dapgle from a rope for alleged complicity in the bomb explosion. No effort was made by the court or the prosecution to prove the con- demned men guilty’ Victims were wanted and those three served the purpose. One of the three sentenced to death is a priest, but the bourgeois press which went into hysterics over the execution of the Polish spy Butch- avitch, by the Soviet government, has no word of condemnation for the ju- dicial murder of Peter Zadgorsky, the Bulgarian priest whose opposition to ‘the hangman,’ Zarikov brought Him to the gallows. New School Board Trustees Approved by City Council The .¢ity council approved Mayor Dever’s.six appointments on the} comforting to France. Neither is the school board which now makes the| hint that the Polish frontier would be board of education complete. modified in the interest of Germany The new members are Edward B.| conducive to equanimity in Warsaw. Ellicot.electrical engineer and former At first the British capitalist press city electrician, to fill the vacancy of! tried to cast doubt on the authenticity the president of the board; John A.! of the document. But it is now ac- English, organizer of the Typograph-| cepted by all papers as genuine. No- ical Union and indorsed by the Chi-| pody would be surprised to see Austen cago Federation of Labor; Theophilus Schmid, a druggist living at 10856 Wabash Ave.; Charles T, Byrne, re-| tired capitalist and former automobile manufacturer; Dr. Victor R. Schiller, a dentist living at 1725 So. Ashland Ave., and James Mullenbach, a cad ent member of the board. Following their confirmation shat: were rushed to the board rooms where the old board was meeting and of- tually rules th Zankov They are un sions that tl Bulgaria did n gained nothing? sion. There say, in incid biggest sensations im years. The document: was written some time ago and was never intended for publication. Mueh speculation is in- dulged in as to where the leakage occurred. The: suggestion that the British government favors a future his official caused by the disclosure of the private views of the tory government. LONDON, May 14.—A call for a dis- armament conference cannot be ex- pected from Great Britain, said Pre- mier Stanley Baldwin in the house of commons today. | man were | revision of the Versailles treaty is not | Chamberlain, foreign secretary, lose | head over the scandal) Britain Against Arms Meet. | a” —$____—, INJUNCTION: AGAINST MINERS CONTINUED BY INDIANA JUDGE (Special to The Daily Worker.) ‘The temporary Injunction recently granted on complaint of William H. Howe, Chicago coal agent, restrain- ing international and local officers of the United Mine Workers of America and the East Side Coal company of Bicknell, Ind., from “in- terfering with the co-operative min- Ing projects” in Knox County, con- tinued in effect today. Following a hearing yesterday on the operations of the Tecumseh mine near Bicknell in connection with Howe’s petition for a perman- ent injunction, Judge Robert Cc. Baltzell in federal court ordered the temporary injunction continued in effect until next Tuesday morning. FAULTY SWITCH CAUSED WRECK THAT KILLED 3 (Special to The Daily Worker) TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May,.14— Three men were killed and five in- jured, when the fast east bound Penn- sylvania passenger train No. 6, a double header, was derailed at Du- pont, Illinois, 35 miles west of here today. \ The dead are Engineer George Munch, Engineer Daniel Walsh, Fire- man Edward Zimmerman, Three mail clerks, an express mes- senger and E. W. Harper, second fire- injured. were reported injured. Both engines left the rails and tarned over, followed by three mail and baggage cars. Cause of the de- railment had not been officially de- termined, executives of the Pennsyl- vania lines, announced. Members of the train crew express- ed belief that a broken rail had caus- ed the accident. All the dead lived in Terre Haute. Harper, the most seri- ously injured of the five members of the crew to escape death, was remov- ed to a hospital in Effingham, UL, bones ar was Fragries to Usual Whitewash Ordered. PITTSBURGH, Pa,)May 14— A faulty switch caused the wreck of the Pennsylvania passenger; train No. 6, in eastern Illinois today, according to advices at the offices of the Penn- sylvania railroad here. An investigation of the wreck has been ordered, it was stated. Kansas Ex-Governor Fights to Keep Out Pardon Sale Facts TOPEKA, Kans., May 14,—The trial of former Governor Jonathan M. Davis, charged with conspiracy and soliciting a bribe, entered its fourth session today with indications that it will continue far into next week. The former governor is on trial for the alleged solicitation of a bribe from A. L, Oswald, of Hutchinson, Kansas. Son Caught With Goods. The state’s attorneys so far have confined their efforts to trying to pre- ficially took their seats. After elect- ing Julius F. Smietanka vice-presi- dent for an unexpired term, the new board adjourned until Friday. Council jurisdiction of the school board was recommended by Alderman Jacob N. Arbey, who believes the city council should have power over school Answering a labor member's ques- tion, he said: “The question of disarmaments is now under consideration by the league ef nations. I do! not think it advan- tageous for Britain to take the initia- tive of summoning a disarmament conference now." CAPITALISM'S NORMALCY IS THING OF THE PAST, AMBASSADOR HOUGHTON! LONDON, May 14—Ambassador the schools committee. ‘Teachers’ Meeting Saturday. The Chicago Teachers’ Federation will*hold its regular meeting on Sat- urday, May 16, at 10:30 a. m. There will be reports on the salary situa- tion and on the meetiag of the schools committee of city council for consi- TO DENOUNCE CAPITALIST TERROR (Special to The Dally Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 14,—Jas, P. Cannon, of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party, who has just returned from Soviet Russia, will be the chief speaker at an international labor defense mass meeting here on Sunday, May 17, at 7:30 p. m., in the Labor Temple, 2536 Buclid Ave, ‘Tadeusz Radwanski, whose two meetings here April 17 and 18, in the of the victims of the Polish white terror, were interfered with by (Continued on Page 4) } THE PLACE: CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th St. and Third Ave., NEW YORK CITY Moissaye J, Olgin of the Workers Party of America deration of the board of education ap- pomtecs, The meeting wi.l be held in Corinthian Hall, 17th flcor. Capitol Building. Cal Passes Buck To Governors WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.— President Coolidge will urge the gov- ernor’s of the states to go om record for the military “defense day” pro- gram, it isearned here, AUSPICES: WORKE! Huoghton, newly appointed to the court of St. James, expressed the opinion that aynew era of prosper- ity was due when normal condi- tions are resumed. The trouble with this prediction is, say some plain- speaking politicians, who will not Speak for publication, that normal conditions for capitalism nowa would be considered very abnormal in pre-war days. DEBATE sent testimony bearing on Davis’ ac- tions in the Fred Pollman case, in which it is charged that Russelll Davis, his son, was caught delivering a pardon to Pollman in exchange for $1,250. Fred Pollman, former banker of Lacygne, who was sent to the peniten- tiary for forgery and later granted an absolute pardon by Governor Davis, was recalled to the stand when court opened. Exposed Pardon Sale. In reply to questions, Poliman said he went to a Kansas City newspaper with the plan to expose Davis “be- cause there was so much grafting among public officials.” He testified he did not receive mon- ey from the paper for working up the expose. Two Mexican Strikers Killed MEXICO CITY, May 14.—Two strikers employed by the Huasteca Petroleum company works at Tampico were killed in a clash with officials, it was reported. ’ SCHOOL AND) TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., May 14.—} No passengers | Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicage, Ill. | | | Prof. William Guthrie of the City College of New York SUBJECT : “Resolved, That the Russian Soviet System Is Superior to Parliamentary Democracy.” NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents BRITISH ADMIRAL HINTS FUTURE WAR WITH AMERICA AS ENGLISH BUSINESS LOSES IN TRADE WAR (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, May 14.—That the increasing commercial rivalry between England and the United States, despite certain joint in- terests against Japan and France, is bringing the danger of war between the two great imperialist nations, is seen in the recent developments of trade and diplomacy. The threat to Britain of America’s grand fleet maneuvers in the Pacific has cropped up jlars” before he asked for them. |the British empire has its own inter- |tice that Britain in the house of commons. Rear Admiral Beamish asked “the particulars” of the American war fleet and w ar-* interests in the Pacific” rangements would be made for} a similar cruise of the British | grand fleet. | Got Instructions. | Unquestionably, this question was not a spontaneous observation by | Beamish. Rear admirals do not ask/| questions of such diplomatic signi- ficance without purpose, provocation, | or eyen instruction. There is little! doubt that Rear Admiral Beamish was | closely informed of all “the particu- The First Lord of the Admiralty Bridgeman responded by saying that the American fleet was, of course, | pasip! “engaged in practice maneuv- | * and that since a special British | athe had made a cruise in Pa-| cific waters last September no new} movements of British warships are | now proposed. This incident’ is a polite notice served on American imperialism that ests in the Pacific which it will guard against trespass by America by diplomacy if possible and by war if necessary. It is a softly-worded no- is watching the United States and a warning of “Hands Off the Empire!” It is sufficiently annoying to Brit- ain’s interests that the American fleet has chosen to visit Australian waters, and to demonstrate to that dominion | (which is not altogether pleased with | the parent government in London) that the United States, too, has war- ships as powerful as those which have ruled the waves for Britain's farflw empire, 4 &Ht-te also to -bsetemembered that. Australia is a large and rich territory, and a prize for the contending imper- ialist groups of the world. British Trade Losing. Another source of irritation is the state of British trade, which shows a continuous dependency on American imports. The month of April state- ment of the British board of trade (Continued on page 2) French Negotiate Debt Tangle with the U. S. Government PARIS, May 14.—The sudden pop- ularity of Joseph Caillaux, French finance minister, in the American cap- italist press, is attributed to his de- cision to make immediate steps look- ing towards the solution of the debt tangle with the United States. Negotiations are scheduled to start within fifteen days. Briand and Cail- laux are of one mind on this question, Callaux's repudiation of the capital levy made a great hit with Wall Street, which is now satisfied that Caillaux is a constructive statesman and a wholesome patriot. Washington is known to be grati- fied with the new developments in the financial relations between the United States and France. British di- plomats are not so satisfied, looking on this move by Caillaux as part of his anti-British policy. of the cruise hether, “in view of our imperial UNEMPLOYMENT LEAPS UPWARD FIGURES SHOW 40,000 Lost Jobs in New York and Illinois (Special to The Daily Worker) Fourteen thousand, workers were added to the ranks of the unemployed workers in Iilinois alone during April, the report just issued by the Iilinois department of labor declares, and twenty-five thousand were thrown out of work in New York state. Industry took a decided slump, according to the report, reaching the lowest level since April 1922. The report declares: “The middle of spring finds business on the down-grade in Illinois. With- out sufficient orders to justify them in maintaining their working forces in- tact, Ilinois employers continued to lay off help during April so that by the middle of the month there were fewer people in gainful employment in the factories of the state than at any time during the current year. Ten Per Cent Below 1924. “1,186 manufacturers, who normal- ly employ 40 per cent of the factory workers of the Staté, had on the pay- roll of the middle of April, 280,278 }workers which was a drop of 1 per cent in the number the identical em- ployers had for the same week id March, “This decline, following one of like extent during March, depreciated em- ployment by 2.1 per cent from the level of February. About 14,000 work- ers have been added to the ranks of the unemployed as a result. The state of industry at this time, while slightly above that of April, 1922, is about 10 per cent-below that of a year ago, (Continued on page 2) COPPER TRUST DEVOURS ANOTHER WORKER WHEN HUGE ROGKPILE FALLS (Special to The Dally Workers BUTTE, Mont., May 14—Desper- ate efforts continued today by a crew of workers to rescue Gue Bolden, a widower with three small children, from the West Colusa mine of the Anaconda Copper com- pany where he has been entombed for more than sixty hours, : Bolden was caught by a fall of rock in the mine Moriday afternoon. Rescue workers had found no trace of him this morning and it was feared he may have been Instantly killed by the huge rockpile. FORCE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST GOVERNMENT APPROVED BY SILK STOCKING SEDITIONISTS’ MEET WASHINGTON, May 14.—At a moment when organized and heavily financed rum-runners are killing, maiming, kidnaping and bribing federal enforcement officers, and a modified type of naval warfare is being fought against them at heavy expense to the nation, Washington “high society” has held an anti-government meeting, in which clubmen, wives of military and naval men and parents of young diplomats were conspicuous, “Two hundred society men and women of Washington,” says Hearst's Herald, “voiced disapproval of the Volstead act at a meeting of the National (Continued on page 2) THE TIME: SUNDAY, MAY 17 2P.M. ADMISSION 50 CENTS. ! | ~ ee