The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1925, Page 2

i "Page Two COMMUNIST PARTY RALLIES THE FRENCH WORKERS AGAINST DRIVE OF INPERIALISTS IN MOROCCO (Special to The Dalry Worker) PARIS, France, May 15.—The Communist Party of France has appealed to the workers to refuse to fight the Riffian workers of Morocco. The statement of the Communist Party demands that the campaign of the French imperialists in North Africa shall cease immediately, that the French young workers who have been sent Se into Morocco to slaughter and be slaughtered by the Riffians in order to make secure the French mining interests in Mo- rocco be brought home. The socialists, as usual, have to date made no active protest against the foreign invasion of the French army. They have been content to “with- hold support” in parliament when ap- propriations were voted for the bloody Morocco campaign. But they are participating in the Painleve govern- ment, which is sending 100,000 French workers to suppress the colonial work- ers, Meanwhile the Riffians are concen- ting large forces in the Chechouan district. The neutral tribes in that district have joined Abd-el-Krim in| the fight to save their native soil from the foreign foe. Painleve Works for Capitalists. Premier Painleve has sent all available troops to Morocco. Three hundred airplanes are now dropping bombs on the Riffan natives. The French attackers are under the com- mand of Marshal Lyautey, military @ictator of French Morocco. In the past week, colonial troops stationed in France have ben sent across the Mediterranean into Africa, and the metropolitan regiments have now been instructed to follow. Painleve is attempting to justify the attack by stating that the slightest set back at the hands of the Moroc- cans migh mean a general revolt against the French occupation of the north African territories. The Moroccans have been oppress- ed by the French military dictator- ship because of the valuable natural Tesources in Morocco, which are be- ing exploited by French capitalists, The workers are being slaughtered to protect the property of these im- | Perialists, which was stolen from the mative Africans, the Communists point out. STRIKE OF 1200 NEGRO STUDENTS ENDS WHEN DRILL RULE IS LIFTED WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15.— The strike of the 1,200 Negro stu- dents of the government-supported Howard University was settled fol- lowing a five-day suspension of all classes, when the faculty agreed to Suspend the rule agianst which the students rebelled. The rule decreed that all students who missed twenty of the compul- sory military drill classes would be expelled. The faculty agreed to suspend the rule pending the consideration of its abrogation. The faculty also agreed to consider the other demand of the striking Negro students— that contro! of all social activities be placed in the hands of the stu- dent council. (Continued from page 1) running fight against each for several years and only recently Lee circulat- ed thousands of copies of the United Mine Workers’ report on the scab Coal Rivers collieries of the locomo- tive engineers of which Stone is gen- eral manager. It is not likely that Stone, clever political faker that he is, will allow Lee to take his place in the sun and snatch the leadership of the railway organizations away from him. Calls Lee Stool. In the current issue of the Switch- men’s Magazine, T. Cashen, head of the switchmen, charges nee with be- ing a stoolpigeon, with hiring stool- pigeons to spy on members of the trainmen’s union and with strike- breaking. Cashen cites documentary proof of the truth of his charges. In view of the fact that Lee is held in such bad odor by the other brother- Propose to Turn Rail Unions Into Compan “No Strikes!” Scabby Bill’s Motto SOVIET OIL INDUSTRY EXPANDS; EXPORTS OVER PRE-WAR, SAYS REPORT (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15.— Oil exports from Soviet Russia have doubles since last year, and are now greater than In 1913, says the Russian Information Bureau. Newly Installed apparatus includes $1,000.- 000 worth of machinery purchased In the United States. A new pipe- line from the Caspian to the Black Sea is under construction, to con- | nect Baku with Batum. Demand Children Work Overtime. DETROIT, Mich., May 15—Two 16- year old boys employed at the Briggs Manufacturing company, Hamtramck plant in this city, on their first day at work were ordered by Mr. Frank, the foreman, to work overtime. They worked eleven hours that day, the regular hours of work in that plant. The boys said they couldn’t work overtime as they had a long distance to travel home and they had to get to bed early to get back to the job on time the next day. Besides they were too young to work overtime, They were promptly told to get out and never to come back again. Another Ship Scandal Brewing WASHINGTON, May 15.—The pro- posal of Chairman T. V. O’Connor of the United States Shipping Board to sell four hundred of the government war time ships to Henry Ford brought on another row today among mem- bers of the board. Various shades of opinion were ex- pressed, one of the most outspoken members being Commissioner F. I, Thompson, who asserted that the governmentshould not sell the ships to Ford or anyone else. Jersey Bakers Settle Strike ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 15.— Jewish bakery employes in Atlantic City settled their week’s strike with a six-day week and $60 minimum wage ATTAGK ON HARD COAL MINERS BY BOSSES BEGINS Wage Agreement Ends on August 30 (Special to The Dally Worker) ATLANTIC CITY, N..J., May 15.— The attack of the coal operators on the coal miuers’ union was continued at the convention.of the National Coal Merchants’ Asscciation, when Walter Gordon Merritt, counsel for the an- thracite coal operators’ association, declared that increases in wages would be denied the anthracite min- ers and a reduction in wages would be attempted. The agreement be- tween the coal operators and the miners’ uion, covering the anthracite fields, expires on August 30. “The anthracite coal operators in the coming negotiations must be plaintiffs and not defendants,” Mer- ritt, who is about to succeed 8S. D. Warriner as chairman of the anthra- cite coal operators’ committee, de- clared. Merritt attacked “outlaw strikes in violation of existing agreements.” The strikes in the anthracite fields have been brought ebout by violations of the existing contract by the operators. The operators highly praised Presi- dent Coolidge and admitted that he has been their best friend in their moves against crganized labor. “It is particularly gratifying to note that President Coolidge has taken cogniz- ance of the widespread dissatisfaction with the policies and practices of the federal trade commission.” said Rod- erick Stephens, in his report present- ed on behalf of the governmental re- lations committee. Stephens urged that governmental “interference” be stopped, except when the government decisions are against the union. “It is also gratifying to note that by a recent appointment President Coo- lidge has given a majority of the votes to the republican members, thru whose action there has been announc- ed a change of procedure,” Stephens said. MALE REAL ESTATE SHARKS IN CHICAGO BAR FEMALE SHARKS ‘Women cannot be “realtors” in Chi- cago. The Chicago real estate board which has a copyright on the term so ruled today, after a woman had .ap- plied for admission to the board. And immediately there came a storm of protest which finally sizzled down to “We wouldn’t join their old board anyway,” from a score or more which was formerly paid for a the women real estate dealers in days work, the city. ARREST 138 PICKETS IN WEST VA. (Continued from page 1) your children and wives. obey the law!’ Just Marching Not Effective. “I myself went out several morn- ings to Killarm mine, but the block- heads, you can’t tell them anything. If we march every day in the year on the picket line it is not going to do any good—not marching alone and with hands empty. “State police are standing on the hoods; that he has refused to parti- cipate in wage agreements with the engineers, firemen and conductors, or in the deceased conference for pro- gressive political action, it is very un- likely that his proposed conference will come to anything except a place on the front page of the newspapers for the scabbiest labor faker in Amer- ica, William G. Lee. Lee has been the most brazen ad- vocate of class collaboration in the railroad unions. But he has seen al- leged radicals like William Johnston and Warren S, Stone, burst into the limelight and into the inner sanctums of the employers with practical plans for collaboration between the workers and their masters. This would nev- er do for Bill, who felt that it was only a question of time when his hat- ed rival Stone would call a conference such as Lee has now proposed. He tried to beat them to it. (Continued from page 1) disruptors of railroad labor solidarity (and the list Is a long Lee’s name leads all the * * Lee prevented, as lon; the four brotherhoods. one) rest. ° ° as he could, the joint action of hen it was once achieved for a short time, Lee broke up the alliance at the first Opportunity. A most bitter opponent of unity of the running trades or- nizations, he has been especially vicious in fighting against @ yard and shop men’s unions. For years he has tried, by all means including the use of railroad detectives, to break up the Switchmen's Union. He was largely instru- mental in breaking the shopmen's strike of 1922. He has even betrayed his own membership, as in 1920, when ho “outlawed” and destroyed by organized scabbery the great trainmen's strike. His latest treachery is this proposal of a port of glorified “B. & O. plan.” But, boys, |ter the mine safely. Picket line to see that the scabs en- If a union man calls the scabs—‘Hello scab!’ he is right there handcuffed. And the rest of the union miners see what is go- ing on but dare not open their mouths, even, while their brother is being arrested. “And where is this from? It is from the fakers who tell the miners who want to fight, who must fight— ‘Boys-keep order and peace. Don’t violate the law!’” Cossacks Arrest Pickets En Masse. State police and deputy sheriffs to- day arrested 127 men and eleven women near the New England Fuel and Transportation company mine at Grant Town, on charges of intimidat- ing miners employed by the com- pany. Police said they were union miners and sympathizers and were Picketing the mine, which has been operating on a nonunion basis, They were brought to Fairmont and committed to the city and county jails pending a hearing. A Taste of Capitalist Dictatorship. The arrests followed Judge L. 8. Schwenck’s charge to a grand jury yesterday, in which he said that while workingmen had the right to combine for their mutual advantage and pro- tection, their rights must not conflict with the rights of ohers. He defined Picketing, adding that he believed that more than three persons, congre- gated for such purpose, constituted a violation of a state law prohibiting intimidation of workmen. AGAINST this proposal of UNITY WITH which means disunity of the workers, the fi iz bers of the railroad unions must put forward the slo AMALGAMATION OF THE AGAINST THE BOSSES, THE DAILY WORKER SCHEDEL FIGHT ON DEPORTATION BEFORE COURT Immigration Inspector “Cites the Law” Inspector of Immigration C, H. Paul said yesterday afternoon at a hearing of the deportation case of John C. Schedel, “There is nothing else to be done as far as the law is concerned in preventing the deportation of Schedel.” In a private statement after the hearing Paul said that the new law passed by congress and in effect last July that puts the burden of proof in showing legal entry completely upon the alien is responsible for the ease with which aliens are now able to be deported by the authorities, Case Drags Long Time. Prior to that, when the burden of Proof rested on the government, he said, all the alien had to do was to keep his mouth shut and his chances were good. The Schedel case has been drag- ging on now for-months. Schedel is back in the.country after having ben deported to Germany five years ago, When he came back and at what port he refused to. reveal on advice of counsel “because criminal charges are still pending against him for illegal entry. © . The present hearing was called by Inspector Paul for the introduction of a@ government exhibit in the case which consists of the immigration bureau files on the Schedel case. These include letters to the govern- ment from Schedel while he was still in Germany. These were presented to show that Schedel was in Ger- many. That is all: the evidence the government needs. The inspector an- nounced that steps would now be shortly taken to deport Schedel. Not Much to Be Done. Isaac BE. Ferguson, appearing as counsel for Schedel studied the gov- ernment’s exhibit and announced he would submit a brief. “But he said after the hearing that there was very little to be done to save Schedel from deportation. j The best feature of the Sehedel case is that the department of justice will probably not press the charge of il- legal entry, a charge that carries a sentence in prison on conviction. Even if clemency were given Schedel by the department of labor and he were allowed to remain in the coun- try it would be still doubtful whether the department of justice would press The Labor -Gbunell, which is carrying on the legal fight for Schedel, announced after the hearing that despite the government’s action in practically declaring the matter closed and Schedel deported, it would carry on the fight both legally and by protest and petition in every effort to prevent the deportation of Schedel. Shades of Palmer. Geeorge Maurer, secretary of the council, said today at the Labor De- fense Council national headquarters at 19 So. Lincoln street: “We are of the opinion that this second. deportation of Schedel is simply a continuation of the persecution of aliens begun five years or so ago by the frenzied at- tacks of the then Attorney General Palmer of ‘red raid’ fame and made easier for the government officials by the passage of a new and more in- iquitious immigration law. We are de- termined to fight out the Schedel case to the end of the rope.” Marine Engineers to Ask Shipping Board for Contract Renewal WASHINGTON, May 15.—Negotia- tions for renewal of their annual wage contract with the U. 8. shipping board will be begun June 15, at Washington by the national board of the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial. Association. This contract covers 358 vessels now in service, Restoration of the 1920 wage scale —the highest in its history—has been secured by the union from the Cleve- land & Buffalo Transit Co., operating passenger steamers on Lake Erie, The Detroit & Cleveland and the Good- rich lines, with eight other com- panies and associations on the Great Lakes, have signed union agreements at the existing rates. ; Seven towing companies operating in Baltimore harbor and Chesapeake Bay have also signed since March. THE BOSSES, mem- gan: RAILROAD UNIONS By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, | ODAY, the path of one of Wall Street’s best diplomats, Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, crosses the threshold of the White House at Washington, D. C., on its way from Pekin, China, to Berlin, Germany. Schurman had a talk with Presi- dent Coolidge and the argument of Morgan's agent is that intervention by the United States in China under present circumstances would be bad for world imperialism, This is a confession that the United States government does not consider armed interference in the affairs of the Chinese people, concretely established in the fact that special” warships, for operation along the rivers of China, are being built for the American navy, feasible at the present time. The United States government does not now intervene in China, for the same reason that it keeps its army north of the Rio Grande in its relations with Mexico;—It is not the proper time to unleash its war dogs on these nations. But that does not mean that such a policy may not be adopted at some time in the future. * *# @ @ To be sure Schurman sees the “red menace” in China. But his attitude toward it has been pretty much the same as his attitude toward L. M. Karakhan, the Soviet ambas- sador at Pekin, contained in the statement, “Of course, so far as | was concerned, he did not exist.” Thus Schurman declared that evidences of Communism were to be found only in “some of the interior sections of China,” all of which he charges to the “persistent propa- gahda from Soviet Russia.” That is “dollar diplomacy” at its best. eoeee This view will not be taken seriously by anyone informed as to revolutionary conditions in China. The vitality of the Chinese revolution, headed until his death by the late Sun Yat Sen, is best shown by the fact that it has endured for more than a decade against all the maneuvers, thru wars and diplomacy, of the world’s greatest imperialist nations. . * No doubt the big reason why Schurman tried to ignore Karakhan's presence grew out of his own admission that the ambassador of the Soviet Union, “appeared to get on amicably with the representatives in China of those countries that have recognized the Soviet power.” Every day sees a greater solidarity develop between the liberated workers and peasants of the Soviet republics and the revolutionary masses of the Chinese republic still suffering under the yoke of both native and foreign oppressors. Karakhan was a symbol of that unity, no doubt a symbol that gave Schurman many nightmares. He saw the 150,000,000 of workers and peasants under Soviet rule demanding “Hands off China!” That is no ordinary demand. It is the demand of workers and peasants who have power to carry it into action. ° * * ° But Schurman’s slumbers at his new post in Berlin will not be without their restless hours. In Germany, Schur- man becomes an official agen§ of the Morgan-Dawes plan, that already rises to trouble the Hindenburg regime. In the days to come Schurman will féel the full impact of many blows struck at the Morgan-Dawes plan by well organized proletarian masses under the standards of the German Com- munist Party. These blows will be struck in those great in- dustries upon which the international bankers depend for the carrying out of the Dawes plan. Schurman will learn that the strength of Communism in Germany grows out of the breakdown of German capitalism itself, that Communism in Germany builds upon its own German substructure and does not depend upon an imported foundation from the Soviet republics. If Schurman did not learn that in China, where the social revolution is still in its early stages, he will surely discover it in Germany, where he can behold the mighty demonstrations of Communist inspired German labor from the windows of his own domicile. Perhaps he ma even write a book against Communism in Germany; that will be widely circulated among America’s goose-step univer- sities, that Schurman left behind in order to enter the dollar diplomatic service. Surely the restless masses of labor every- ee keep the diplomatic lackeys of the great financiers continuously on their anxious seats. NEGRO TAXI DRIVERS BEATEN AND INSULTED IN NEW YORK, MUST FORM UNION,TO FIGHT DISCRIMINATION (Spectal to The Dally Worker) ‘Hands off China!” Cry From Soviet Union Halts||[0 BE TRIED ON U.S. Intervention’ Plot||MURDER CHARGE NEW YORK, May 15.—That in the taxicab industry in New York, the Negro is discriminated against there is no doubt. The largest taxi corpora- tion fn this city, the Yellow Taxi corporation, does not hire colored drivers. There are about eleven hundred Negro taxi drivers in this city and the only places where they can get any employment {s in the garages of the individual taxi owners, In many instances’ where a Negro driver had an- swered an advertisement for a driver, he is browbeaten, insulted and chased uN EEEEEeeee away from the garage, In a garage, in Brooklyn where one had gone to answer an advertisement for drivers, he was told to wait, He waited from 3 p. m. till 7 p. m, and then was told that there was no cab to be had and that they did not em- ploy “niggers,” This worker protested against such treatment and the result was that he was given a beating by the boss and was after told that if he talked too much about his being beaten the boss labor! would see that he would do no more hacking in New York. This‘is only one case and the only remedy is organization. ‘There are enuf colored taxicab drivers in this city to organize and then and only then can they go to the taxi bosses and demand a square deal. As indi- viduals they are lost and the bosses will continue to insult, abuse browbeat them. ¥, y Unions LFe proposes uniting the unions in a joint sla the oppression of railroad capital! We propose to unite the inst capitalism for the achievement of emancipation of ery under unions for a joint struggle KLAN EMPLOYER Motion to Quash Rape, Killing Charge, Lost INDIANAPOLIS, May 15.— D. C. Stephenson, former ku klux klan leader in Indiana, and Earl Gentry and Earl Klinck will go on trial here on June 2, for murder in connection with the death last month of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, 28. Judge Collins overruled the motion of defense coun- sel to quash the indictment charging the employer and politician with rap- ing and then murdering the girl. The decision came with unexpected suddenness just a few minutes after Judge Collins had rapped ‘for order and the crowd had settled back com, fortably anticipating a spirited legal battle, Eph Inman, chief counsel for Ste- phenson and his alleged accomplices, arose and stated he did not wish to offer any oral arguments in support of the motion, He had hardly resumed his seat when Judge Collins announced the motion was overruled. In setting a date for the trial, Judge Collins ended a series of strategic moves by defense attorneys that promised to develop into a long drawn out legal battle. After the indictment was returned, Inman first entered a plea of abate- ment. This was overruled. Then In- man filed a motion to strike out cer tain parts of the indictment which would have virtually wiped out the murder charge. This also was over- ruled. Inman then filed a motion to, quash the indictment in its entirety. He got an adverse decision on this today. The indictment grew out of the death of Miss Oberholtzer last April 28, from the effects of poison self-ad- ministered, after, it was charged, she had been attacked and mistreated by the defendants. After she swallowed the poison, the accused men, accord- ing to the indictment, refused to sum- mon medical aid and kept her im- prisoned in a garage so that she could not go out herself to get an antidote. Prisoners Arraigned. The three entered pleas of “not guilty” when arraigned in criminal court on the murder indictment and Judge Collins set June 2, as the date for trial after a brief wrangle between opposing counsel. Arraignment of the prisoners came after Judge Collins a few minui eatiler had overruled: motion of de? fense attorneys to quash the murder indictment against the trio. Immediately on hearing the court’s decision, William H. Remy, county Prosecutor, demanded that the prison- = be arraigned without further de- y: Judge Collins called the accused men manacled to each other before the bar and Judson Starke, assistant pro- secutor, read the lengthy indictment in full while Stephenson and Klinck smiled and talked with each other in monotones. Gentry wore a serious troubled expression on his face. The reading of the indictment com- pleted, Judge Collins put the question to the prisoners who, after a hurried whispered consultation among them- selves, entered pleas of not guilty. aay were then taken back to their cells, Pittsburgh Ido Group Banquet and Affair Comes Off May 16 PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 15, — On Saturday night, May 16, the Ido group will hold its first public affair and ban- quet in the Greek Hall, 521 Wylie Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. Speeches will be made in Ido, English, Croatian, Finnish, Greek, Italian and Russian. The International will be sung in Ido by the Ido chorus. The Pittsburgh comrades should not miss this oppor- tunity to hear Ido spoken and attend this affair. Buy your tickets in vance. They are for sale in party branch, For information about the local | Sroup address Comrade E. Careath-) ers, 104 Sylvania Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. TAX COLLECTOR QUITS JOB SOONER THAN TAKE LAST GENT FROM POOR SOUTHAMPTON, England, May 15—-The most talked-of man in Southampton is A. G. Parry, tax- collector of the South Stoneham Union, who resigned his Job because his conscience which, he sald, would not permit him further to collect the high taxes which he felt were causing distress among people of s United into one powerful combination of railroad labor, the railroad workers will, for the first time, take their right- ful place as the dominant power in the railroad industry. Only then, when they have the POWER of a united organiza- tion, will they be able to determine their own wages, hours, and working conditions. : The rank and file must demand: a Railroad labor leaders stop collaboration with the rall- road presidents, whose only aim is to destroy the unions. Railroad labor leaders must unite their own: orgafiza- tions against the railroad sorporationsl « AS AGAINST LEE’S PROPOSED CONFERENCE, WE DEMAND A CONFERENCE OF THE RAILROAD UNIONS TO BREAK DOWN THE OLD CRAFT DIVISIONS AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS, TO AMALGAMATE THEMSEL- VES INTO A MIGHTY INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION TO INCLUDE ALL RAILROAD WORKERS, TO LAUNCH A GREAT CAMPAIGN TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED, TO FIGHT FOR HIGHER WAGES AND SHORTER HOURS, AND THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE AND STRIKE. National Committee, Trade Union Educational League, ' my Job.” the district. Mr. Parry has a wife and three children and no work in sight. His position paid $1,600 a year, ‘ “I could not continue squeezing people for taxes,” he said recently, “aa | have realized for two years that when | took $5 from many per sons, It meant they would he short of food. | understand there have been several hundred applicants for