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Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! Vol. Il. No. 109. Vol. Il No. 109. SUBSOP_//5 cae AS WE SEE IT - “IRR By T. J, O'FLAHERTY. f Pa ROMAN SCRE SE uit are 10,000 political prisoners in Hungarian jails under the rule of Horthy, the pet of the American capitalist class. Our rulers like Horthy 80 well that the innocuous Karolyi, who is no more radical than Morris Hillquit, was gagged while on a visit to this country recently, An American citizen with the Gaelic cognomen of. Jerry Smith, is running Hungary’s financial affairs. Our American paci- fists have not organized a committee for the release of political prisoners in Hungary tho the fate of a few stoolpigeons and counter revolution- aries in Soviet Russia is causing them a great deal of uneasiness. s *# & HERE are approximately 8,000 poli- tical prisoners in Germany's jails. They are all workers and mostly Com- munists or Communist sympathizers, No_so long ago the papers were giving considerable space to the “Barmat scandal.” The Barmat brothers with the aid of the socialist officials made ® lot of money illegally during the war and after. They robbed the state banks\in co-operation with the social- ists. “Everybody was doing it,” was the only defense the socialists made. ‘The leader of the Barmats was ar- rested and jailed but he was released a few days ago. None of the socialist burglars are in confinement. * a8 HE unforgivable crime in the eyes of the capitalists is a desire to abolish the present slave system, it this desire is actively demonstrated. ‘The capitalists rob each other. The fellow who gets the worst of it is in no pleasant mood and if he has any influ- ence in the governméit He gets the robber arrested. But those incidents are only family affairs and blow over. But it is a different matter to attempt the overthrow of the system on which those robbers thrive. This is the crime of the Communists. Because they have refused to compromise with sin, the heavy hand of the capitalist govern- ment comes down on them. They fill the jails while the socialist leaders are taken into the bourgeois parlor. se learn that one of the franfers of French foreign policy is Paul Boncour, leading member of the so- cialist party. It is only necessary-to look at the news made by France to realize what kind of policy Boncour is framing. French troops are slaughter- ing the people of Morocco, so that French capital can exploit their coun- try without let or hindrance. Boncour, the socialist and jhis co-workers are behind the generals who are dire¢ting the fight on the Riffian tribesmen. Niée brand of socialism! oe ® i bed value of clergymen to the capi- talist class is stated quite plainly by Roger Babson, capitalist statisti- clan, in a letter dated January 27, 1920. It is worth reprinting. Here goes: “The value of our investments de- pends upon the strength of our) churches. The underpaid preachers of the nation are the men upon whom we really are depending rather than | the well-paid bankers, lawyers, and | brokers. The religion of the commun- ity is really the bulwark of our in- vestments. eee i Seo when we censider that only | 15 per cent of the people hold securities of any kind and less than (Continued on page 6.) AUSTRALIAN COAL MINERS STRIKE WHEN COMRADES ARE JAILED (Special to The Daily Worker.) SYDNEY, Australia, May 18— Twenty wheelers were fined at the Wollongong police court for absent- ing ther-selves from work. Thirteen of ‘the number paid the fines. but en qthers—lads whose ages nged from 15 to 21 years—refus- d to pay. They were arrested and sent to jail for a month, Immediately after they were ar- rested the miners employed at the South Bulli Colliery (where the two wheelers had been employed) ceas- ed work, and announced that they would mot resume until the two wheelers were released from jail. A THE DAILY. Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post ~f ies Ad 44 oreINA MINE EXPLOSION Luther Cancels Trip as Miners Protest (Special to The Daily Worker) DORTMUND, Germany, May 18.— With forty-four known dead, twenty- seven seriously injured, and several more coal miners missing, as a fe- sult of the explosion in the Dorst- feld mine here Saturday, the’ entire district has broken out against the government. Protest mass meetings called by the coal miners thruout the Rhenish dis- trict to protest against the lack of safety measures and the part the gov- ernment ,is playing in allowing the coal operators to ruthlessly exploit the miners, were forbidden by the po- lice. Communists were among the speakers scheduled to address the mass meetings. Luther Afraid of Miners’ Wrath. Widespread unrest thruout the dis- trict continues. Chancellor Luther, who announced he would visit Dort- mund “as a gesture of official condol- ence,” has cancelled his trip in fear of the wrath of the es against the government. Two tons of dynamite exploded Sat- urday, entombing 250 men. An explo- sion of coal dustin a room 3,000 feet from the ‘dynamite blast and a fire which resulted, burned and asphyxiat- ed more miners than did the actual explosion. The miners point to the large num- ber of accidents which have occurred in the Ruhr due to negligence of the mine owners to install safety devic- es. The mine operators have been paid huge sums by the government to “compensate” them for the shut down during the allied occupation, but the miners have received nothing. The miners resent the fact that the government is bowing and scraping before the allies, promising to up- hold the Dawes plan, which adds to their wretched condition an intoler- ae ~ on Stand in Trial for Pardon Sales TOPEKA, Kans., May 18.—Possibil- ity that former Governor Jonathan M. Davis might be prepared to spring a surprise when he resumed the stand on direct examination was seen as court opened this morning. The for- mer governor, on trial for selling con- victs pardons, spent several hours yesterday searching his former office jin the state house after long confer- ences with his attorneys Saturday. With the defense virtually closed when this direct-examination of Davis is over—probably before the noon re- cess—the high light of the trial was looked for this afternoon when the de- fendant’s cross examination begins. It is expected that the case will reach the jury by tomorrow night or Wednesday morning. Judge McClure intimated his charge will be brief and attorneys and the court have virtually agreed to limit arguments to three hours. Cal Promotes Poison Gas. WASHINGTON, May 18.— Poison gas should not be sold, and the White House wants to have it barred from international trade. On the other hand, chemicals that are used to make poison gas are used for other things, and commerce in them must not be interfered with in any way. This clear view of the problem permits the ad- ministration to promote war prepara- tion and protest at the same time, and to prove that any limitation is a difficult matter. Would Sell All Ships. WASHINGTON, May 18++President Coolidge permits it to be ktiown that he favors operating the go’ ment’s merchant ships only “until they can be sold.” This is his answer to a question as to whether he propos to hand them all over at any price he can get. CAPITALIST PRESS IS BILLBOARD — FOR ADVERTISERS TO TANTALIZE CONSUMER INTO SPENDING MONEY By LELAND OLDS (Federatéd Press Industrial Editor) Advertising is the whip of the mo dern taskmaster keeping workers en- slaved to the power machine, The associated advértising clubs of the world ‘at their convention in Houston, Tex., did not hear Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, mention wage slavery b ut he enlarged on the two functions of advertising, creation of the torment of desires and subsidizing of the press, which help produce it. “Modern advertising,” say Hoover, “is the handmaiden of mass pro- The general knowledge and rapid distribution of an article which on page 6.) duction. (Continued In Chicdgo, by mati, $8.00 per year. ‘ ®utside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. ty NEGOTIATIONS WITH RUSSIA PROCEEDING SMOOTHLY, SAY FRENCH (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, May 18.—Negotiatio: tween France and Soviet Ru proceeding satisfactorily according to an official statement issued by the French foreign office. It is re- ported that the British and Ameri- can governments are placing every possible obstacle in the way of‘the success of the negotiations. The British, in particular are circulating rumors of wWiolent disagreements and of alleged Soviet trickery, The ‘French are not particular whether or not Russia recognizes certain debts. All they are con- cerned with is saving something out of the wreckage. The French ex- press themselves as confident that the matters at issue between them- selyes and Russia will be amicably adjusted. HINDENBURG NOW FAWNS BEFORE FOREIGN BANKS German Minurchists to Obey Dawes Plan Steal (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, May 18.— That the monarchist government of Presi- dent von Hindenberg will bow before the international bankers, headed by J. P. Morgan, was shown in a speech made by foreign minister Stresemann before the reichstag today. Strese- mann declared that the government will have as its “guiding line” the carrying out of the Dawes plan, which makes Germany a virtual colony ruled by the foreign bankers, and which burdens the workers of Germany with the. “reparations” payments. Stresemann pledged “to continue to fulfill, under all circumstances, “Tare Ss proniaat by rkeré Shoulder Burden. “We shall fulfill the Dawes plan in the future as we have in the past,” Stresémann said. “Parliamentary ma- jorities, reichstags and the composi- tion of the government may change, but I can imagine no constellation which would deviate from this guid- | ing line of our policy.” That the workers would be forced by the new government to shoulder | the entire burden of the Dawes plan | was shown in the recent report of the minister of finance to the reichstag which advocated “lifting the burden from the industrialists and placing a high tax upon the workers.” Relations with Soviet Russia, The Dawes plan imposes heavy pay- ments upon Germany, and provides that if the payments are not made, the international banking syndicate shall directly take over the industries, It is already predicted that it will be impossible for the impoverished work- ers to give enough money to supply these heavy payments. Foreign Minister Stresemann in his speech today, also emphasized the necessity of maintaining friendly re- lations with the Soviet Union. He urged that the French evacuate the (Continued on page 2) Moonshine Smugglers Agitate Strike on Coast Guard Boats (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 18.—A group of bootleggers, using bribery and strike propaganda to further their efforts, are endeavoring to break down the morale of, the enlisted men on the coast guard boats blockading rum row, it was stated today by Captain | W. E. V. Jacobs, commandant of the | New York area, Captain Jacobs, in admitting 16 coast guardsmen were under arrest for, liquor smuggling, extortion and de- sertion, said: “When a man getting $125 or less a month from the government is offer- ed $250 a week by rum runners, the temptation is very great.” STORM DEATH TOLL IS INCREASED WHEN WEST FRANKFORT MAN EXPIRES (Special to The Daily Worker) Another death was credited to the tornado of March 18, when David WEST FRANKFQRT, Ill,, May 18 Tes were not burt.’ [ a2 fh at Chicago, 20, 1925 bor Council ts Crouch ily Worker) HONOLULU, fall, May 18.— G. W. Wright, president of the Honolulu Central Labor Co il, made.a per- sonal visit to the Infantry Guard House at Schoffii barracks and had a long talk with P Walter Trumbull who were given tary court m: janizing the “Hi League.” 4 Wright says of Pa a clean-cut, blues idealist of a pur There is nothing about him. He talks. His voice and he speaks fect assurance, t ward story. Th of self pity or r bitterness against military authori regard everything from an impartial and impersonal point of view.” Maximum Penalty 3 Months. Brother Wright taken a genuine interest in the ¢ He took the case up person views with John former attorney g tory and for a nber of years a judge in the courts. This was after he had géné into every detail of the case withCrouch. Crouch had particularly p out that the spe- cific statute he sed of violating carries a maximbin penalty of three months impriso nt. Matthewman fj man of indepen- dent thought fearless advocate of free speech. forced out of 0 cause of his that control th To | Defend lian Communist ul Crouch, “He is ed, level-headed intellectual type. tive or sinister es a little as he was not a word and not even any accusers or the bert Matthewman, meral of the terri- inst the policy ‘the big interests authorities by a proper analysis and presentation of the case. Matthew- man declared his intention of under- taking the defense of Crouch and Trumbull. The recent reductions in the sen- tences of Crouch and Trumbull from forty and twenty-six years to three and one, in no way alters the status of the case. There is no question but what it is only the great indignation in the army itself and the storm of international protest raised in the la- bor movement thruout the world that caused the authorities to think twice about the extreme severity of the sentence fmposed originally. While the central labor council will probably not officially undertake the cause of the two soldiers, G. W. Wright expressed the sentiment that he. personally will do all he can and that he is ‘assured of support by practically all the local labor leaders. CHINESE FAMINE UNSEEN BY WALL STREET'S ENVOY Lets Millions Starve, Of- fers No Relief WASHINGTON, May 18.—Famines kill the poor first.’ Ten million Chi- nese farmers and wage workers and their dependents are reported suf- fering from tamine in a dozen pro- vinces, because Chinese rivers became flooded last year and swept away crops, orchards, houses and even the soil on which new crops could be grown. Minister Schurman, returning to Washington from Peking, replies to questions about this famine by saying that the wisdom of American aid for the sufferers is doubtful. China is prosperous, as a whole, If many are dying of hunger in one district, there, is prosperity in other regions, You have no certainty that Chinese offi- cials will honestly handle relief funds. And he distinctly leaves the impres- sion that he has never worried if a few millions of Chinese poor were dying; his business as the American diplomatic spokesman at Peking was to see that American financial inter- Schurman now goes to Berlin as ambassador, He may be counted Sanders, 60, died in the hospital here Sunday, from the result of in-- juries sustained when his home near this city wasslaid in ruins by the tornado, His wife was killed. Ai upon to observe no more in Germany than in China—orsthan Ambassador Francis observedtfrom his tea-table while the Russianerevolution flamed about the streets of Petrograd Ww low and pleasant. He appeared to} in several inter’ Was quite recently | by the senate be-|° Iinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. GE 290 POWDER BUSINESS GOOD SO BIG TRUST BOOSTS ITS CAPITAL (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 18.—Directors of the E. |. Dupont Denemours, at their meeting today, approved an increase in the capital stock of the company from $100,000,000 to $150,- 000,000. A _ special stockholders’ meeting has been called for June 15, to vote on the increase, which is made necessary by the proposed ex- pansion of the activities of the com- pany. Directors declared the regular dividend of $2.50 a share on the common stock and $1.50 a share on the debentures, payable to. stock- holders of record June 5, and July 10, respectively. CAL SQUEEZES NATIONS TO GET Help Wall Street (Special to the Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.— President Coolidge has called upon Great Britain, France, Italy, and six other nations to take immediate steps toward settlement of their debts to the United States because he Is anxi- ous “to increase business and com- merce as a result of such settlement,” it was announced at the White House. Nineteen foreign nations are indebt- ed to the United States government to the extent of over twelve billion dollars, and this club is now to be used by the Wall Street bankers and big business to secure juicy contracts abroad. Coolidge admitted that the move to collect the debts is an attempt to increase foreign trade for America’s capitalists. The United States is the banker of the world, and the Ameri- pee Bens “follow. the ee: are France is omen the ace obli- gations to the United States govern- ment and to the Morgan banking syndicate. France has paid $221,386,- 302.82 on interest alone, but still owes of dollars directly borrowed from J. P. Morgan. Great Britain’s total indebtedness to the United States is 300 million | dollars more than that of France, | when the unpaid interest is included. Nations Indebted to U. S. called on to settle their debts with the United States are France, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Roumania, Czecho- Slovakia, Yugo-Slavia, Esthonia, and Latvia. The settlements are to be arranged with the world war foreign debt commission, altho the French | government has been asked to send a debt commission to Washington to deal directly with Coolidge. Great Britain, Hungary, Finland, Lithuania and Poland have already made gestures toward settlement. Other countries owing large debts to the United States government in- clude Austria, Cuba, Latvia, Liberia, and Nicaragua. Already on Job for the Next War, These “Advisory” Experts LAKEHURST, N. J., May 18.—Mil- lionaires of finance, transportation, industry and a group of educators and army officers were scheduled to en- joy a free joyride in the naval diri- gible Los Angeles. The wealthy passengers include bh. T. Stotesbury, Morgan partner; W. | W. Atterbury, vice-president Penn- sylvania R. R.; Samuel Vauclain, president Bai:dwit Locomotive Works; Irenee du Pont, president B. I, du Pont de Nemours Co.; and Eu- gene G. Grace, president Bethlehem Steel. All are Eastern ordnance advisory board and are assisting the U. S. in preparing plans for immediate indus- trial mobilization upoms the outbreak of the next war, Ten Scabs Scared by Supposed “Bomb” (Special to The Daily Worker) MOUNDSVILLE, W, Va., May 18.— A nitroglycerine bomb wrecked a bunkhouse inhabited by miners em- ployed by the Ben Franklin Coal com- pany near here, today. Ten~ miners narrowly escaped death, The miners, who had refused to join the West Virginia Coal strike, were thrown from thetr: bunks, but none wore injured, © mele’. FOREIGN TRADE Debt Settlement Talk to the United States $4,210,556,938.27, in| addition to the hundreds of millions | Published daily except Sunday’ by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. TOM PARRY EXPELLED WITHOUT TRIAL BY FARRINGTON MACHINE Washington Blvd. AND KLUXER | (Special to The SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 18. | |Farrington-Ku Klux Klan tool, | mansky as sub-district secretar, previous “‘white hope,” known a: authority, the regularly elected T hompson, “Jackey” Walker, a Farr’ ington | henchman, in his place. Walker, a poor louse who had ne- glected to pay dues for a year or so, wis promptly declared by his local union to be wholly ineligible as he Was not even a member of the U. M. W, of A. under its rules. Farrington blustered at first, but | finally was crafty enuf to observe the | formal rules of the union and ordered | | Walker to get out. But he by no} | means intended the miners to get con- trol of their own union. The Frame-Up Proceeds, When ‘tom Pafry, the regularly elected vice-president of the sub-dis- trict, took over the presidency with} the vacancy left by Walker, and—as president—ousted Shymansky from} the sub-district secretary-treasurer’s office, Farrington proceeded with the} rest of the frame-up to make the Min-/ ers’ Union an auxiliary to the op-| erators’ association. 4 | Farrington's tools persuaded some ku kluxer members of Divernon Local 146 to prefer charges against Tom! Parry under section 3, article 20 of| the international consititution because Parry had, in his local meeting called Farrington a “crook.” Parry Proves Assertion. There isn’t any doubt but that Far- rington is a crook, and Parry had proceeded to prove it*by citing ins stances where Farrington had padded ts pense account.’ But’ if-there could ‘be any doubt as to Farrington’s crookedness, his frame-up against Parry would remove it. Instead of giving Tom Parry a trial, | which of course would have afforded him’a chance to prove again his statement about Farrington, a farce | was pulled off whereby he was shut out from making any defense, A Rank Frame-Up, Parry was out at one of the mines fighting a “discharge case” on the| Acannaees on page 2) Park City | Distsiet Metal Mining Firms in Big Trust Move SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 18, —One of the largest mergers in the history of western mining involving 4,306 acres of mineral lands in the heart of the famous Park City district, the producer of over $ 000,000 in gold, silver and lead, was announced here today. The corporations concerned are the Park, Utah Mining company, the Park City Mining & Smelting company, the Ontario Silver Mining company and the Daly Mining company. Crops Hit by Frost. Temperatures ranging from freez- ing and below in the more northerly states. to the low forties and upper thirties in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and parts of Missouri prevailed yesterday, withering early crops and leaving a thick frost in their wake. This was followed by the re-instatement of and appointed +——*+———_ morning of May 11, when at 9:30 al | telegram was delivered to his house | The nine nations which have been | in Divernon, telling him that he must | NEW YORK EDITION Chicage, Ill. Price 3 Cents LLEGALLY PUT IN Daily Worker) —The latest turn in Frank Far- rington’s illegal attack on membership rule of the Illinois Miners’ | Union is the removal by expulsion of Tom Parry from the presi- dency of Sub-District 4 of District 12 and the installation of a Charlton Peacock, as president. Anthony Shy- 'y-treasurer, whom Farrington’s s “Jackey” Walker, had illegally installed in place of the progressive John Watt. The Rise and Fall of ‘““Jackey” Walker. | These are the present developments of the dis begun by Farrington when he removed, uptive action constitutional de: ant, Freeman without sub-district pr ‘ASK UNITY FOR OPEN SHOP IN CLEVELAND, OHIO To Attack the Building Unions First (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 18,—Fol- | lowing the victorious attack upon the Cleveland street car men’s union and the decision for the open shop rend- ered in that case by the capitalist supreme court of the state of Ohio, Cleveland capitalists are following up with a drive against the building trades unions as a preliminary to at- tacking and if possible, breaking up every union vf all trades in the city of Cleveland. Building Trades First Attacked. The scab “American plan associa- tion has issuedSa statement to its members urging the setting up of a city-wide committee to open war on the building trades unions somewhat like the fight that has been carried on in Detroit. ein Detroit the unification of all capi- talist interests included the Employ- merce, Real Estate Board, Associated Building Employers, Engineering So- ciety, Retail Merchants, and the Ro- tary, the Exchange, Kiwanis, Lions and Mercator clubs, and this unifica- tion of bosses took place in coneur- | rence with an attempt by reactionary labor leaders to expelt left wingers from the carpenters’ union A United Front Against Unions. In the statement of the “American | Plan Asso , ays: “A great deal of interest was arous- ed when it was realized that the deci- | sion of the supreme court in the street railway case was sufficiently broad to justify the belief that it would be applied to other closed shop labor monopolies, such as that exist- ing in the building industry of this city. “Complete Co-operation” Demanded. “No one organization will be able to establish open shop conditions in our building industry. It freedom of employment is to be secured jn the building trades, there nfust be com ple co-operation between all the civic organizations. Unless all the elements in the community are unit- ed back of whatever plan may be finally adopted that monopoly will re- sist every attack. juccess will not crown our ef- forts in that direction unless the com- munity backs us up morally and financially.” Woman's Claim is Challenged. LONDON, Ma 18. Prof. Julian Huxley, Oxford scientist, has written to Mrs. Monteith, it was learned to- day, challenging the contention im her book that a woman can decide the sex of her shila, NEW YORK, May 18.—Laws are law it would papear from the accus: | Louisville, Ky., has leveled against hi the international police conference at Chief Enright of New York City, | president of the conference, didn't | like this talk at all and neglected | to follow the usual custom at the in- ternational police sessions and ask the delegates what they thought of the speech, The police from all over the world assembled declared their faith in the fingerprint system of identification (recently shaken by the Wehde dis- covery that fingerprints can be easily forged) and a resolution urged by Secretary of Labor Davis favoring the registration and fingerprinting of all aliens was passed, ‘BOOZY POLICE CHIEFS AT NEW YORK CONFAB ACT AGAINST FOREIGN-BORN made for the police not police for the ations which Police Chief Braden of s colleagues attending the sessions of the Waldorf-Astoria. Braden’s verbal bomb at the conference was that delegates were boozing in defiance of the prohibition law and he feared their c profession of law enforcement. > ‘onduct would cast asperisions on the T.U.EL SECTION T0 APPEAR TOMORROW Owing to the space used in to- day's issue for publication of Spe- cial Workers Party material, the DAILY WORKER has arranged with the Trade Union Education- al League for postponing publi- cation of its regular section until tomorrow. The T. U, E. L. news will therefore, appear in Wednes- day's paper.—Editors. ers’ Association, the Rokr of--Com-—.

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