The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1925, Page 1

} | { Daily Worker Annual Sub- criptian Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. ILLIAM LEE of the trainmen’s union has announced his inten- tion to calla conference of represent- atives of “capital and labor” engaged in the railroading industry with the object in view of settling all differenc- es arising between the wage slaves and their masters, without resorting to the use of the strike weapon. In practice, the strike, or any form of struggle against the employing class has beeh repudiated long ago by the official leadership of the trade union movement. Even men like Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers declaring that the strike is out of date. oe 8 ‘HAT’ Lee has done does not dif- fer in principle from the policy followed by other brotherhood labor leaders during recent years. Stone, who is Lee’s rival, has blossomed out as a banker, investment broker and scab coal operator. Every one of the other railroad union chiefs is equally willing to join with the capitalists in running industry, the benefits going to the capitalists and to the labor lead- ers. Company unionism, in its origin- al form, has not been a decided suc- cess. But the trage unions are rapid- ly becoming company unions, in real- ity with the consent and assistance of the labor leaders. ; + & 'O doubt “Bill” Lee had a hunch that Warren S. Stone was plan- ning to call a united front conference of rail workers and employers in the near future and beat him to it. By doing this, Lee gets the jump on Stone, but it is very doubtffl if a conference will be held. Lee knows what he is about and so does Stone. They are both equally obnoxious to honest trade unionists, but Lee does not even try to maintain the camou- flage of being a trade unionist. oe * AT the president of a large labor organization should be able to plan such a scabby conference and get away with it shows what a mountain of obstacles the militants in the unions have to overcome. With la- bor leaders drawing salaries of from $10,000 to $25,000 a year and h investors in industry, it is obvious that they cannot be expected to. for the interests of the poor slaves who work eight, nine and ten hours a day for a wage of four or five dollars, ee 8 OHN BULL is looking at the French operations in Morocco with an anxious eye. France already con- trols a tremendous stretch of terri- tory in northern Africa. With the Spanish forces practically eliminated if France succeeds in defeating the Riffans there is nothing to stop her pushing into the interior as far as she pleases. Britain does not like this in the least. It would not be sur- prising to see a group of British paci- fists organize a publicity campaign in the near future against French atroci- ties in Morocco, a hea hypocrisy of the ‘professional pacifists is shown to good advan- tage in colonial wars of independence. Not a yelp is raised by them when the British are ravaging Egypt, In- dia and other countries with fire and sword or when France, or Spain are committing their barbarities on the natives of Morocco. The pacifists do not like to see the big capitalist pow- ers slaughter each other. Neither do the international bankers. Cutting the throats of natives seems to be good sport. | Destroying the wealth of the capitalist powers is another and entirely different matter, a oe OCIALIST writers ‘and other sap- headed scribblers tried to poison the minds of the American workers yainst the Communists during the re- nt election in Germany by attempt- (Continued on page. 2) MISSING IN ND RUHR DISASTER Morgan Steal Blamed for Mine Blast (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Germany, May 17.— Two. hundred and twenty-five coal miners are missing, with elght known dead, in the second terrific mine disaster which has occurred in the Ruhr in the last four months. The explosion imprisoned 235 miners in a shaft at Dortsfeld, near Dortmund. Following a dynamite ex- plosion in a dummy shaft on the lower level, numerous cave-ins occurred in the poorly repaired workings, trap- ping the men. Poisonous gases quick- ly spread thru the workings. The Ruhr miners have felt the brunt of the Dawes plan for enslaving the German workers. The allies, under the leadership of the Morgan-Wall Street banking. syndicate, have de- manded plunder from the German goy- ernment aand the government, con- trolled by the industrialists, and with the co-operation of the socialists, has transferred this overwhelming bur- den to the German workers. Miners Pay The Price. The Ruhr miners were severely tax- ed by the occupation of the Ruhr by the allies. In the boycott which fol- lowed the occupation, the miners were unemployed for many weeks. The government later compensated the mine owners, by donating to them the profits which they declared they would have made by keeping the mines run- ning, but the miners never received compensation. The industrialists made this.occupa- tion, and the Dawes plan the excuse for increasing the hours and reducing the pay of the Ruhr miners. /They were forced to work an extra hour a day, with no pay, and were told this was in the interest of “patriotism.” On February 12, an explosion in the Stein mine, killed 138 miners. The Ruhr miners knew that this explosion was the eriminal negligence of the mine Owners, who accepted the Dawes plan conditions, and made the |” miners pay the price. Fear Many Dead. A wave of resentment has swept over the Ruhr following this second disaster. The miners declare they have been betrayed by the social- democrats and the monarchists alike, both of whom have raised their taxes, increased living costs, and approved the move of the industrialists lower- ing their living standard and increas- ing their hours of pay. The miners. declare they have become the colonial slaves of the international bankers, and their. goyernment has become merely an appendage to the rule of foreign bankers. More than 500 miners were in the shaft at the time of the explosion. At last reports, less than 300 had been brought to the surface, eight bodies were found, and it is feared 225 more have perished. The French troops are still in the Cologne territory, maintained at Ger- man expense, which also is paid for by the German workers. Military Dictatorship in Spain Engenders a - Guerilla War Reprisal LONDON, May 17.—Col. Ferreira Amaril, chief ofthe military ship state police at Lisbon, was wounded by four bullets fired by members of a supposed “red legion,” according to Central News dispatch- es from Lisbon y: A squad of police rescuers we! bushed by the same group and one wounded. The assailants escaped. SSIAN WORKERS STAGE MONSZER DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST DEATH SENTENCES GIVEN BULGARIAN REDS (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Russia, May 17.—The workers’ and peasants’ thruout Soviet Russia have staged great public demonstrations in which hundreds of thous- ands took part, against the carrying out of the death sentences against Bulgarian Communists who have been framed-up by the fascist Zankov government. King Boris has commuted the death sentence of 24 Communists who were arrested by the fascists after the bombing of the Sveti Kral cathedral, to life imprisonment. But there are 69 other Communists and militant workers who have been sentenced to be executed. The Zankov government made the cathedral bombing the. pretext for murdering hundreds of anti-fascist workers, Many Communists have been shot down in the streets. For Bulgarian Communists, a pris- on term is equivalent to @ death sen- tence, as Communists are tortured (Continued on page 2) by mall, $8.00 per year. icago, by mail, $6.00 per year. | | EXPEL KAPLAN, COMMUNIST, IN CL. UL AT ‘LOS’ Reittionsy Vi War on the Militants Is Renewed (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Calif., (By Mail)— The Central Labor Council of Los Angeles at its hast meeting again de- monstrated ifs reactionary colors. It renewed the war against Communists by expelling Fred W. Kaplan, delegate from the Offiée Employes’ Union No. 15,251. Kaplan had for;some months, along with other members of the coun¢il been condueting»a campaign in his union and in the Central Labor Coun- cil, for the.unionization of the so- called “labor bank” employees. The bank, which had been opened on Apr. 26, 1924, has thru its vice-president and manager, threatened to discharge the employees if they joined the Of- fice Employes’ Union. Various efforts of the union to have the officials of the Central Labor Council, who act- ually control the bank, to assist the union in getting these employees in, have been unsuccessful. The excuse has always been given by these offi- cials that circumstances and the time were not opportune. The last fight on this question occurred about six weeks ago, and occupied the entire evening. The officials of the council were compelled to force it into exe- cutive session, lest facts detrimental to the drawing of their dividends might be divulged in the Council. Ag these officials control almost one hun- dred per cent. the delegates of the council, the administration had no difficulty, at the end of the discus- sion, to secure a sufficient vote for the postponement of action on this question for another 120 days. Talk on Recent Election Kaplan had also been active on the floor of the council in.urging the dele- gates to stop the time-worn practice of indorsing politicians for political office, and to work for the election of labor men only, thru @ labor or work- ers’ party. At the last meeting, Kap- lan rose during the “Good and Wel- fare” order of business, and delivered the following remarks: “Brother Chairman, Sisters, and Brothers:—We have spoken. tonight somewhat on the question of the civic \ (Continued on page 2) WIN STRIKE AT BRIDGEPORT OF 700 A. C. W. AGAINST OPEN SHOP (Special to The Dally Worker) BRIDGEPORT, Conn. May 17.—Strikebreakers are discharged and the union shop is recognized in the settlement of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union strike against Wolf & Abrams at Bridgeport, Conn. Seven hundred workers were involved. . TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1925 WANTED: A Plan to Enforce the Dawes Plan =>” rn 44 SEATTLE U DEFE (Special to The » May 17—That r jonary elem ‘shown. by. be attempt In the first uniommeeting where m every member present signed except two and in the second union only five (Continued on page 3) IONISTS RALLY TO SE OF MEMBERS ILLEGALLY UN SEATED FROM LABOR COUNCIL Daily Worker) organized labor in Seattle will resist ents in the Central Labor Council to the fact that scores of petitions pro* P53 against these expulsions, circulated by union members, are being rapidly filled with signatures of thousands of bona fide union nien. embers Were asked to sign the petition NEW YORK COOKS AND WAITERS OPEN WAR ON THE EVIL8 OF TIPPING NEW YORK, May:17.—Cooks and waiters who are employed in the leading restaurants, hotels and ca- barets are opposed to the tipping evil and have started a campaign against it. At a general meeting held at Bryant Hall, they went on record as being in favor of abolish- ing that system. Jules Chastonay, secretary of the Hotel and Re: rant Workers’ Union, said, “We have opened the campaign to take in all cooks and waiters who want to Join a move- ment to abolish the tipping system. The tipping systemris the greatest evil of the culinary industry and can be abolished when 100 per cent union conditions prevail.” Exodus of Carpenters from Canada. WASHINGTON, May 17—According to the secretary's ofli@e of the depart- ment of labor, carpenters from the Sydney district of (Noya Scotia are leaving in great numbers for the Unit- ed States with resultant embarrass- ment to iocal construction. Urge Japanese Women-to Travel. JAPAN, May 17.— It is reported from Tokio that annassociation has been founded in Japan with the ob- ject of encouraging emigration of Jap- afiese women to Brazil. Does your friend subscribe to LABOR HATING SOUTH ON TRIAL IN SCOPES CASE | Contest Lewatiis of Anti- Evolution Law KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 17.—The labor hating traditions of the reac- | tionary south, with its child labor, lynchings, beggars’ wages, and anti- union history, will be on trial during the first week in August, when John Thomas Scope faces the court in Day- ton, Tenn., for teaching evolution in the public schools. Scopes was arrested charged with violating the recently passed state law prohibiting the teaching of scien- tific truths which contradict the stories stories told in the bible. Well known lawyers, ever hungry for pub- licity, have volunteered to enter the case. For the prosecution, William Jenn- ings Bryan, who was recently employ- ed for the purpose at a good salary by the World Christian Fundamental- ist Association, backed by ‘the manu- facturers, will fight to convict) Scope of telling the truth. Clarence Darrow, who gained much notoriety last year for saving the necks of the two young millionaire perverts, Nathan Leopold, Jr., ‘and Richard Loeb, has volunteered to aid the defense, which is contesting the constitutionality of the law. Dudley Field Malone has also agreed to act the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! on the defense. “BOYCOTT DANISH SHIPS!” CRY MARINE TRANSPORT WORKERS OF ALL EUROPE IN UNITED FRONT (Special to The Daily Worker) COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 1 7—A general strike of transport workers looms In all west European ports against all Danish shipping as the Norwegian transport workers yesterday began a strike boycott of all Danish shipping to prevent It from being diverted to Norwegian ports, thus making a united front with the Danish transport workers, ‘The Danish transport workers ha Swedish, Finnish, German and Dutch transport workers againet the Danish shipping combine, ve been promised the support of the in their battle and the strike boycott laid down on Danish shipping may spread to all these countri¢s and perhaps to other ports thruout the world, "| Atlantie City. committee, unions to the next convention }of the American Federation of Labor. The right wing of the British unions | in an endeavor to offset any construc- tive work that Purcell may do for international unity while in America |in winning the American unions to world unity, is naming a group also to visit America at the time of Pur- 's visit and prevent unity on the{ s of revolutionary struggle if pos- sible. Ramsay to Talk Against Revolution. This conservative group is compos- ed of Arthur Henderson and J. Ram- say MacDonald, ex-premier of the la- bor party regime; also, as a sop to the left wing in the British labor party, the group includes John Wheat- ley, the Scotchman from the Clyde, | who is known as a more radical lead- er than MacDonald, but who was min- ister of health in MacDonald's cabinet. Henderson, exponent of the labor party, will deliver a series of speech- es in Canada and in-the northern cities of the United States. MacDon- ald’s plans are not disclosed, nor Wheatley’s trip outlined. May Visit A. F. of L. Convention. How significant is this visit of the foremost spokesmen of the British labor party cannot yet be estimated. Much will depend upon William Green, president of the American Fed erafion of Labor. Green will face his first convention, at Atlantic City, 1 October, He will open its sessions at about thé’ time the British leaders sail for America. He may possibly induce the execu- If so, he will be atoning in part for the slight put upon A. B. Union Conference, at El Paso last | November, when Swales’ one of the publicity staff of the feder- ation. Labor Fakers Insult British Delegation. Lack of tolerance by the executive of the A. F. of L, in past years for | the economic and political views ex- pressed by British fraternal dele- have been sent to this country to speak for British labor. Robert Smil- lie, in his book My Life f6r Labor, the platform, (Continued on page 2) GAL RAISES CHINESE LEGATION T0 EMBASSY IN FEAR OF SOVIETS WASHINGTON, May 17.— Action raising the status of the American legation at Pekin to an embassy and the promotion of John V. A. Mac- Murray, to ambassador will be ask- ed of the next congress, it was learned today. This move will be made as a re- sult of the conferences which Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, the retir- ing minister to Chin is held with President Coolidge, Secretary of State Kellogg and other officials. Raising the legation to an em- bassy directly results from Soviet R nding ambassador in- id of a minister to China, his as- sumption of the rank of doyen of the diplomatic body in Pekin, and the fact that Japan will also raise its legation to an embassy within a short time. Mike Tighe, president of the union, gates has been noted in the writings | of some of the most able men who| tells of having been rebuked from | immediately after his | Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER D,: PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicage, Ill. «rice BRITISH LABOR LEADERS WILL VISIT AMERICA; CONSERVATIVES COME TO SABOTAGE UNITY MOVE (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 17.—The contest in the European labor movement between the left wing which, in the Amsterdam International stands for world trade union unity and is fighting for it thru the medium of the Anglo-Russian unity committee, and the right wing which is trying to sabotage and prevent unity with the 6,500,000 revolutionary Russian unionists, is to be car- ried to America by the visit of representatives of both wings of the British unions to the United States. A. A. Purcell of the British Trade Union Congress, president of the Amsterdam International and one of the leading advocates of international trade union unity is to be the official fraternal delegate of the Swales, chairman of the British Trade | | speech as fraternal delegate was denounced by | { | detective of the NEW YORK EDITION 3 Cents in the Anglo-Russian unity British SWITCHMEN’S CHIEF FLAYS BILL’ LEE Used Finks to Disrupt Yardmen’s Union CLEVELAND, May 17.—Scabby” Bill Lee, president of the Trainmen’s Union, is sitting back today watching the effect on the other rall labor or- ganizations of his scheme to bring the 2,000,000 organized workers in the in- dustry, thru their representatives, in- to conference with the employers for the purpose of preventing disagree- ments of a serious character in the future. Among the organizations invited is the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers, of which Warren S. Stone, hated enemy of Lee, is president, Stone has made no public announce- ment yet on his attitude towards the proposed conference, but it-is the general opinion here that he will ig- ore it. The chiefs of the other rail organizations are expected to adopt a-similar attitude towards Lee's plan. Trade Union Pole Cat. The bad odor in which Lee finds tive council to invite frank discus-| himself in, among other divisions of sion of. world trade union unity at| rail labor is emphasized in the April sue of the Journal of the Switch- en’s Union of North America, of which T. C. Cashen, international president of that organization, is editor. Among the charges made against Lee by Cashen is that he employed a 'Frisco railroad, by Smith, to disrupt the Union. Hiring Scabs. Cashen also accuses Lee of hiring strikebreakers to scab on members of name Roy C. Switchmen’ the Switchmen’s Union, during a strike. In a book written by one of Lee’s hirelings, the following para- graph appears: “The charge against Bill Lee that he is too close to the rail- ways, too friendly with the labor board, and too mindful of American public opinion, is not denied, either specifically or generally, but is ad- mitted both wholly and in part and the writer closes this book with this more important statement: Is this condition an asset to Bill Lee and his organization, or is it a liability?” Cashen makes the following com- (Continued on page 2) Bankruptcy of $700,000,000 R. R. Emits Foul Smell WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17.—The interstate commerce commission has been forced to announce a complete investigation of the facts surrounding the voluntary receivership of the-Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, because of criticism of the receiver- ship as unnecessary. - The receivership was declared by the directors who claimed they were wnable to refinance or refund a $40,- 000,000 bond issue which comes due in June. The valuation of the road is placed at close to $790,000,000 and it is declared strange that one of the largest roads in the country could not be financed. TRY TO HOLD MEN IN STEEL MILLS DURING HOT SUMMER DAYS AHEAD YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 17.—Sheet and tin workers’ wages will re- main unchanged in the May-June period as the result.of the bi-monthly wage settlement held today between Secretary J. H, Nutt of the Manufacturers’ Association who has always attended national conventions of the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers as an “honor” guest, and The puddiers who have received several large reductions during the past year were given a 10 per cent increa ather is coming on and the small incr a short time ago. The hot is intended to discourage jesertions from the puddie furnaces while the hot weather is here,