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Page Two THE DAILY WORKER BRITISH LABOR PARTY LEADERS TO VISIT U. 8. and Wheatley Coming (Continued from page 1) fraternal address, and of his having secured permission to reply, upon his remarks were “apparently approved” by the delegates. Trade unionists who have recently visited England believe that the Brit- ish labor leaders look upon the be- yinn of a new administration in the A. F, of L. as the most appropri- uta time for.the offering of better understanding between the two labor organizations, accomplish more than the removal of misconceptions as to why labor in Eu- rope, and especially in Britain, is driving toward the conquest of po- litical power along with industrial power. where- They do not expect to} AS WE SEE IT By T. J. OU}FLAHERTY. | (Continued from page 1) jing to prove that there was an alli- ance between the Communists and the | monarchists against the republicans. | This was a deliberate lie. In fact, the ; Communists expressed their willing- ness to withdraw their candidate in the final runoff, provided the social- | ists put their standard bearer in the field. The socialists, however, united behind the reactionary catholic, Marx, so there was nothing left for the Communists to do but to raise the working class banner with Thaelmann, +e 6 INDENBURG was elected, tho the capitalist class would be equally well pleased with Marx. Hindenburg however, fills the bill nicely. Now what happens? Hindenburg was ex- coriated by the socialist press as a monarchist and kaiserite. But a few days ago the premiers of the various states in the German confederation met to pay their respects to Von Hin- denburg, and who was the spokesman? None other than the socialist Otto Braun, premier of Prussia! And Braun delivered a pretty speech pledging the loyalty of all Germany to the no- torious military butcher. 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Chicago, Ill. 1) EXPEL KAPLAN, COMMUNIST, IN GLU, AT LOS" Reactionary War on the Militants Is Renewed (Continued from page 1) primary elections, which took place Tuesday, May 12th. I would like to express one particular phase of this election campaign, and that phase concerns a man who was defeated as candidate for the school board. “It is sometimes possible that a de- feat may be actually a victory, if one consider the facts in the case, just as it is possible for an apparent vic- tory, to be in reality a defeat. Such a defeated victory was in my opinion, the defeat of Emanuel Levine, Com- munist candidate for school board. Despite the limited means at the com- mand of his committee, and his black- listing by the ‘official’ labor move- ment, Mr, Levine received over 26,- 000 votes; the votes of workers. “Mr. Levine made a fight both against nationalism and against reli- gion, he opposed the teaching of these in the public schools. His program was one of Communism: the indus- tries for the workers. His immediate demands were: The school for edu- cation and not for profit, to be run by the teachers and not by those behind the school board. Tells of Levine's Expulsion “This same Emanuel Levine was some months ago expelled from the Office Employes’ Union, at the behest of the officers of this council, because of his Communist affiliations. It has been clearly demonstrated in this election, that the workers are for Le- vine, that they are radical where this council is ultra-conservative. I am personally elated and happy at the success—for a success it is—of Ema- nuel Levine, The Workers (Commun- ist) Party seems to be making won- derful progress, even tho this labor body balks it at every step.” Directly Kaplan had finished the fight started. Anna Peterson, one of |Horn’s cogs in the machine, rose and piped forth: “Mr. Chairman, are we here to |listen to Communism? or are we here |to talk on trade unionism? I protest against this delegate speaking con- tinually on Communism.” President Buzzel, another henchman of Horn, immediately suggested that the chair is open to receive a motion dealing with the delegate. The great Brother Horn himself then addressed the life and death question to Kaplan: “Are you a member of the Com- munist or Worker’s Party?” Proud of His Communism Kaplan, without hesitation replied, “Yes I am a member of the Workers | (Communist) Party, and very proud of it too. It is the only party I would ever be a member of.” From then on everything ran to or- der. There was no skidding whatever. Brother Horn himself then addressed diately supported that Brother Kap- lan’s credentials be sent back to his union, and altho the debate lasted for over an hour, it was apparent from the first what the vote would be. Brother Kaplan was practically given no opportunity to defend himself, as the chairman regarded the question a closed one, insofar as the sitting of Communists in the council was con- cerned. One delegate, a building trades worker, stated that he had been a member of the union for 83 years, was not a Communist, but was op- posed to expelling Kaplan because ot his affiliation. The arguments for expulsion, led by Brother Horn, were all the old gags used against Communism, cou- pled with an attack on Kaplan’s at- titude towards the Peoples Bank. It was made to appear as tho Kaplan wanted to destroy the bank, and as practically all the delegates of the council own stock in the bank, they were intimidated to vote for expul- sion. Ex-president Hassal was almost comical when he delivered himself of the following: “Go back to Russia, to your Moscow Soviets, we don’t want you here, and leave our country to us. We are satisfied with our constitution and with our government, and we never want to change it.” It is apparent, judging by previous cases, that Brother Kaplan will be expelled at the forthcoming ‘meeting of the Office Employes’ Union from his local, and trade unionism in Los Angeles, will against be saved from the Moscow Reds. ‘The vote for expulsion was 53 to 6. Many delegates who were actually against expulsion were afraid to vote in favor of Kaplan, and remained seated, The council ts infested and controlled by officials of all the unions, and with jobs being very scarce now, delegates were afraid to take side with the Communist, against the reactionart Martial Law Continues In Lisbon. LISBON, Portugal, May 17.— Maj. Ferreira Amaral, commander of the “safety state police,” was seve! 1 wounded in a street fight here, Mar- tial law still prevails, Get a sub—make another Com. munist! THE LORD'S OPEN SHOP DRIVE LASTED JUST AN HOUR; THIS 1S UNITY! (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, May 17.—For an hour Friday afternoon work at Carmelite House, where Lord Rothermere's newspapers, the Dally Mail, the Eve- ning News and the Weekly Dispatch, are published, was held up by a strike of 1,500 workers, all the cler- jeal, mechanical and publishing staffs of the organization. The dispute arose over the threat- ened dismissal of a news clerk and the employment of two non-union clerks. The management acceded to the employes’ demands. SLIMY EDITOR BLUFFS FAKERS INTO, SILENCE Threatens. Exposure of Shady 'Deals By STEPHEN, Worker Correspondent PITTSBURGH, Pa.—aAt several in- stances during the last few weeks the honest trade unionists of Pittsburgh thought they were going to be treat- ed to an exposure of the activities of some of their corrupt officials. But no sooner had the. fire started when some of those involved turned on the water hose with the result that the flames were subdued. Defended Beattie the Spy On several occasions Arthur Ire- land, editor of the Labor Free Press, a fake labor sheet, came in for sev- ere lacing by the delegates of the Pittsburgh Central Labor Union. The criticism was directed first at certain articles that he printed during the Beattie trial, not one of which ex- Posed Beattie as a spy. But the climax was reached when Treland attacked. the Building Trades Council for the manner in which they were gathering wertising for their year book. He was called before the Central Labor ye to explain and at the time it looked as if the body would withdraw its endorsement from the Labor Free Press. Arthur Irelan; appeared before the council like a trutting cock defying the whole He declared arro- gantly that if hi ;Would be asked to retract any statements he would pub- lish all that was said, which would do more damage than the stories so far, appearing. Fakers Have, a. Change of Heart. Then the cry went up that such ex- posure was not good for the labor movement. The movement they refer- red to, is its offftialdom, because no rank and filer Was even mentioned. Finally a motion''was made to take the endorsement ‘away from the Free Press, but by a clever parliamentitary move the motion’ was declared out of order. ‘ Altho he admitted that his paper was indebted to Lew McGrew, labor buzzard and pubHsher of the notori- ous Labor World) and that the Free Press is being printed in Lew Mc- Grew’s plant, all Arthur has to do now in order to keep the endorsement of the C. L. U. is to-see the executive board before he writes up any of the fakers. Talk it up—your shopmate will subscribe! Cal Takes Part in League of Nations But Not Formally GENEVA, May 17.— Theodore E. Burton, American representative to the league of nations conference on the control of traffic, is endeav- oring to maintafp the position that altho the Coolidge government {s anxi- ous to sign the convention, entrance to the league of ‘nations will not be tolerated. i Burton is trying to have the con- vention amended so that Coolidge’s “friendly collaboration” with the league will not be formally accepted as his formal ‘participation in the league. ( As it stands, the agreement pro- vides that the Teague council shall enact the arms parley convention, The league of nations;is controlled by the world powers, who use it as an in- strument to keep: the weaker nations in subjection. “* Red-baiting Sleuth Burns, to Protect Bankers’ Property A contract has been signed between the American Bankers’ Association and the Burns national detective agency, renewing for three years the services which Burns gave the bank- ers in “protecting” them against forg- ery. William J, Burns, who was involved in the Teapot Dome, and other gov- ernment scandals, was forced out of his office as head of the department of justice, when disclosures were made of graft in the attorney general's office under the; regime of Harry Daugherty. Burns took an active part in raids on radical organizations during the war hysteria, Soviet Transport and Railway Workers Give || GERMANY INTO Aid to the Red Airfleet By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, the air fleets of the Union of Soviet Republics are re-enforced by the addition of the “Djerjinsky Escadrille” of 31 airplanes, bought with the popular subscriptions of the railway and transport workers of the workers’ republics. Nowhere alse in the world do workers present the govern- ment under which they live with airplanes. This could only take place in the Soviet Union, where the workers have a prime interest in the defense of their victory over czarism. ee # 6 Felix E. Djerjinsky, after whom this new air squadron is named, is now the head of the supreme economic council of the workers’ republics, one of Russia's oldest revolution- aries, veteran of many struggles of Russia's working class, — before and since the czardom fell. More recently he has been among those leading the mighty drive for the reconstruction of industry thruout the Soviet Union, and the fact that the workers in the trans- portation industry have betowed this high honor upon him, shows in what high esteem he is held by the Russian masses. * * * * The “Djerjinsky Escadrille” will be heard from again; just as the Russian railway and transport workers are being heard from regularly as they build and run what in time will become the most effective and efficient transportation sys- tem in the world. Altho the Soviet Union lost a considerable stretch of railway line, by the separation of the border states, nevertheless, today’s railway mileage is greater than it was in the czarist days before the war. The ships of the Soviet Union now carry the red flag of the workers’ republics into every port of the world. It is the workers who are making this development possible, that realize they must defend the progress they are making against world capitalism. Therefore they provide for the red army, the red fleet and the red airfleets. * * * * The workers of Russia are not pacifists. They expect nothing from capitalism except war to the hilt. They fought for and won their victory over their own industrial overlords, high financiers and great landlords. They have established a strong rear guard for the world social revolution. They expect the workers of other lands to join them in the struggle for world victory. One of the striking evidences of the world outlook of those railway and transport workers, who made the “Djer- jinsky Escadrille” possible, is the fact that two of those 31 red airplanes were named “Baginski” and “Wierzorkie- wicz,” in memory of the two Communists murdered by the emissaries of the Polish white guard government, on the day they were to be exchanged for a Polish priest held prisoner in Soviet Russia... Thus this crime committed against work- ers’ rule will rise to torment western European capitalism, as the Russian workers intend it should. * * * * It is only when the workers have won and consolidated their world victory that they will be able to say that the war to end all wars has ended; that all nations may now live in peace. American jingoes cry for great air fleets to support American imperialism plant its dollar standards over the world; to bring the world under its profiteers’ oppression. Russian workers provide an airfleet for their proletarian dictatorship to help liberate world labor from this capitalist oppression, Let America’s workers get that difference. OPEN SHOP DRIVE LOCKS OUT 2,000 UNION PAINTERS Boston Bosses to Try Open War on Union (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, May 17.—Acting on a de- cision reached at a meeting yester- day, the Painting and Decorating Em- ployers’ Association of this city Fri- day formally withdrew all the offers made to the painters’ district council and started work on an open shop basis. Twenty-two firms announced that they were preparing to man their jobs with new help, giving union and non- union men the same treatment. A maximum wage of $1.10 an hour was offered for experienced painters. Negotiations between the union and the association were in progress for six weeks, the men demanding a wage of $1.25 an hour. About 2,200 painters declared a strike some time ago to en- force their demands. Bittner Wins in the Capitalist Court But Union Loses a Local WHEELING, W. Va., May 17.—Unit- ed Mine Workers, in the federal dis- trict court here, won their second fight today, in thelr court fight to unionize the coal fields of the Pan- handle district. Judge W. B. Baker handed down an opinion th the case brot by the West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal company, in which a score of offictals and mem- bers of the miners’ organization were cited for contempt, finding for the min- ers. However, the spiritless leadership of Van Bittner in depending upon co- operation with the state police and relying upon court decisions to build the union, is seen by many miners as @ source of weakness and not of strength—and is cited as a cnuse for ‘the break in the union at Shinnston. | the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! ’ OPEN SHOPPER PASSES ALONG BUT THE UNION IS STILL ON THE JOB (Special to The Dally Worker.) NEW ORLEANS, May 17.— Thomas D. Perry, superintendent of the Item composing room, one of the men who helped to put New Orleans on the open shop map as far as the printing business is con- is dead. Perry was born in Iphia, learned his trade on the open shop papers in that city; later a staunch supporter of the Los Angeles Times, he voluntarily came to this city to break the strike of Typographical Union No, 17. He succeeded; today he lies In a tone- ly grave, while the union is still on earth, badly battered, but stjil alive. Switchmen’s Chief Flays “Bill” Lee, Class-Collaborator (Continued from page 1,) ment on the preceding quotation: “To ihe foregoing statement I make this observation: That the fact that ‘Bill’ Lee is too close to the railways is admitted specifically and generally, and both wholly and part, may be an asset to ‘Bill’ Lee. It Is, however, a peculiar statement to use In support of a leader representing labor, And as to it being an asset to the B, of R. T. organization, the members of that organization are best able to be the judge.” A Scab Herder, Evidently Lee thinks it is his heayen-sent duty to drag the rest of the railroad workers into tho road owners’ corral. He has competitors. The only difference between Lee and his foes is one of degree. The takers are quarrelling among each other for the spoils, None of them care a straw for the interests of the membership of their organizations. Lee's publicity agent is Robert HB. Ward of the Hearst syndicate. Ward was formerly employed by the Chica- go Journal of Commerce, i Does your friend subscribe to WAR LORD LEADS DISINTEGRATION Internal Dissension Over Dawes Plan (Speclat to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Germany, May 17—The monarchist leadership of Field Mar- shal von Hindenburg is already faced with vexing problema, both Internally and in relation to the foreign coun- tries, which might at any time bring about a crisis. . The monarchists, who claim the ex- clusive right to exploit the German working class, demand that the French troops evacuate the Cologne birdge- head. In his latest speech, made at Cologne, Chancellor Luther dectared the occupation by the French is a vio- lation of the Versailles treaty, and la- mented the fact that France has given no reasons for continuing the occupa- tion, "i Luther, who said he spoke for Hin- denburg, also expressed impatience at the delay of France and England in agreeing as to action on the proposal of a “security pact,” by means of which the monarchists hope to extend the eastern frontier of Germany at Poland’s expense. Dawes Plan Swallows R. R.’s, The German railway owners have already protested to Hindenburg against the Dawes plan, Dr. Stieler, and general director, Oeser, of the German railway system, have pointed out to Hindenburg that the Wall Street Dawes plan imposes well nigh impossible payments on the German railroads, the only alternative being control of the railways directly by the international bankers. Hindenburg replied he didn’t know what he could do about it. Hindenburg’s pay has been raised by the’ reichstag to $45,000 a year, a boost of $15,000. He gets his lodging free in the presidential mansion. Socialists Friendly to War Lord. Internally Hindenburg also has his vexations. He has had little trouble with the socialists, however. Otto Braun, candidate of the socialists in the first presidential election, now premier of Prussia, warmly congratu- lated Hindenburg on his election. Hindenburg was a great friend of the dead socialist president, Ebert, who on his part, greatly admired the war lord. The extreme monarchists have criticised Hindenburg, in their press, for his praise of the socialist, Ebert. They point out that even tho they know that his statements are hypo- critical, that his seeming acceptance of the republic may be misunderstood by some of his supporters. Communists Gain Support. Prominent German liberals, includ- ing parlimentarians, scholars, profes- sors and others, have issued a signed protest against the sentences passed recently on sixteen Communists sen- tenced in the German “cheka trial” frameup by the Leipsic supreme court. The protest declares that Ludendorff, Hitler and other “revolutionists” are still at large, and prejudiced judge- ment has been displayed against the Communists. The Communist Party femains the only group in Germany which consis- tently fights against the Dawes plan, for the raising of the standard of liv- ing of the German workers and the overthrow of the exploiting system by the workers. Russian Workers Demand Release of Bulgarian Reds (Continued from page 1) and starved in the Bulgarian prisons. Delegations of peasants’ and work- ers’ organizations called at the Brit- ish, French and Italian missions and urged that these countries protest against the proposed public murder of the Bulgarian workers. An editorial in the Pravda, accord- ing to news dispatches, states “Bour- geois Europe, with a smile on its face, indorses this horrible sight. While these executions are occurring, ask the workers and peasants to to what we have to tell them. We tell them in the class war there can ‘9 no mercy. The time will come when the white terrorists and the represent- atives of the bourgeois will be in the hands of the workers. Therefore, re- member today’s lesson from Sofla— no mercy. “We know that these Communists in Bulgaria will perish with the beliet that from their bones will rise a vic- torlous revolutionary army. We swear we shall avenge them. The workers will settle accounts with their hang- men, Conference for Child Welfare Advised to Go Deeper Into Problem NEW YORK, May 17,—Speeches on th6 need of a home for every child and the way to get conservation of jchild life in this country were made at the opening meeting of the na- tional welfare convention with more than 100 delegates representing every state present. Meth ' ; ; nthe