The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1925, Page 1

Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! RAILWAY CONDUCTORS VOTE 70 QUIT LaFOLLETTE; WILL PEDDLE VOTES TO THE TWO OLD PARTIES {Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 21.—The Order of Railway Anlidetire of America voted at its triennial. convention here today to withdraw from the third party political movement and enceforth to remain a non-partisan political unit endorsing for office candidates friendly to labor, irrespective of AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. HE German monarchists are not letting the grass grow under their feet in their desire to wipe away the stain that was plated on the imperial standard when the Weimar Constitu- tion was substituted for the ukase of god’s anointed, the kaiser. Not that the German working class found much improvement in their lot, by the sub- stitution. Formerly the capitalist club made contact with his cranium via the flunkeys of the kaiser. Since then his skull was cracked in the name of the republic, in behalf of the same capitalist class. eee NLY a few days ago all the pre- miers of the German states met to felicitate Hindenburg on his elec- tion. Their spokesman was Otto Braun, socialist premier of Prussia. Braun told Hindenburg that every- body in Germahy, from the leader of the fascisti to the head of the social democrats was as pleased as a cat basking in the sun, with the field mar- shal’s election, Old Hindenburg is such a patriot, the socialist said, that he could not think of being the serv- ant of any one class. But a few days ago, the socialists in the reichstag moved a vote of no confidence in the government and they were defeated. : os LATED with their victory, the monarchists decided to take the ball on the hop and moved that a com- mittee be appointed to fumigate the Weimar constitution and take the re- publican poison out of it. The social dempcratic workers will have plenty of time to reason with themselves whether the dictatorship of Hinden- burg and the capitalist-monarchist- fascist group is preferable to the dic- tatorship of the workers and peasants: them, but even tho she has proven Thé goddess democracy has deceived herself to be a shameless slut, the socialist leaders have uses for her. They are the political simps of the German working class. : ee HE Wall Street bankers are not alone in coming to the conclusion that Hindenburg will do all right as their show window figure head in Germany. The New Leader, of New York, and the Milwaukee .Leader of Milwaukee, one unofficially and the other officially, have declared for the kaiser’s favorite butcher. Berger shows his hand by quoting a long article from a British socialist paper, which eulogises Hindenburg and sets him up as a kindly soul who would not hurt a fly even tho he has no compunction about slaughtering mil- lions of human beings. rine IHE United States government was forced to reduce the savage and un- precedented. sentences imposed on Privates Crouch and Trumbull in Honolulu. The Milwaukee Leader is relieved, not because it has any feel- ing of sympathy for those rebel soldiers, but because “the great Unit- ed States government has fortunately (Continued on page 2) Wooden Cars Menace Life. NEW YORK, May 21.—One hundred and forty-seven wooden and semi- wooden cars are still operated on the elevated lines of the Brooklyn-Man- hattan Transit Co. and are a serious menace to life, Corporation Counsel Nicholson reports, following a wreck ni which eight persons were injured, The company ignores the order of the Transit commission requiring 100 new steel cars, despite large profits, political affiliation. The organization also went on re- cord rescinding a former’ resolution demanding government control and regulation of the railroads and ap- proved construction of a new home for aged and disabled conductors to be erected immediately, at a cost of $200,000, probably either in Florida, Georgia or California. The question of motor bus regula- tion was before the convention when adjournment was taken. Election of officers was on the schedule. L. E. Sheppard, a candidate for re-election as grand president, apparently is un- opposed. “In withdfawing from the third po- litical party the order of railway con- ductors is back on the same political basis on which it rested previous to the 1924 presidential campaign,” Shep- pard said. “The defeat of LaFollette came as a disappointment to labor, particulraly because labor was not re- sponsible for the failure of the third party to win the election. The belief has grown that we can accomplish more by endorsing and supporting candidates friendly to labor, no mat- ter what party they belong to, instead of lining up solidly behind any one party.” BRITISH PLUTES FEAR REBELLION AMONG COLONIES Wales Makes Matters Worse in South Africa LONDON, England, May 21.— The forced-resignation of Viscount Allenby as high commissioner. for Egypt, is but one of a number of indications that the». growing spirit of revolt among the subject races dominated by Great Britain is causing increasing worry to the Baldwin government. Allenby’s resignation came follow- ing the dissolution of the Egyptian parliament by the puppet premier, after it was found that Zagloul’s anti- imperialistic party had gained control. Wales Plays the Monkey. Allenby’s withdrawal is said to be due to his failure to suppress the move of the Egyptians for indepen- dence from foreign domination, which was exemplified in the killing of Sir Lee Stack, governor general of the Sudan. The prince of Wales, now in South Africa, is kept busy hopping from one British colony to another, watching hula hula dancers, playing polo, danc- ing, and shaking hands, in order to impress § solonial people with Eng- land’s “gi a.” However, ative South Africans cannot be impt. 4 with that elusive commodity, when, %y are being ex- ploited at starvation wages by British capitalists under the protection of the British government. Serious Revolts. The prince of Wales’ visits haye al- ready caused one serious revolt among the Orangemen, and several other disturbances and demonstra- tions against British imperialism, The revolt of the Moroccans against Spanish and French imperialism has caused the British capitalists to be- come great concern as to their hold on the colonies éxploited by Eng- land. ‘ ‘ GET A SUB AND GiIV= ONE} ONE MAN DYING, SIX WOUNDED WHEN DALLAS MOB STORMS JAIL TO LYNCH TWO NEGROES WHO AWAITED TRIAL DALLAS, Texas, May 21.—One man is dying and six others were wounded early today when a mob of about 5,000 stormed the Dallas county jail in an effort to ize two Negroes, Frank and Lorenzo Noel, brothers, be- ing held for the alleged murders of two white men and an assault on their woman companions. The wounded ai Dwight Stewart, C. J. Tullennen, K. T. Swain, N, E. Panta J. J. Young and Tim Jollu, all said to live in Da’ Stewart's Injuri 8 were believed to be of a fatal ater, About 100 of the would be lynchers wi arrested. The attacking party, armed with pistols and rifles, shot a volley against the jail building, where the two Negroes occupied cells, The volley was returned by police inside the jail. “ One Dying, Six Wounded. Fiye hundred men, heavily atmed, will guard the Dallas county jail to- night to protect Frank and Lorenzo from mob yiolence, Sheriff Schuler Marshall said, Any group that attempts to ap- —————_—_—_—_—_ of the Negroes will be shot down, he warned, “We are not going to remove the two Negroes,” the Sheriff said. “We are going to stand pat and do our moped the jail to take samme |r i : Anat ote ¥ ial, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. DAILY WORKER. ®ntered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at. Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1925 WORKERS MUST PUT AN END 10 ZANKOV TERROR Fascists Caused Soha Bombings, Reds Show {Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May 21— The foreign delegation of the Bulgar- lan Communist Party issued the fol- lowing declaration on recent happen- ings in Bulgaria, signed by Comrades Kolarv and Dimitrev: “The Communist Party of Bulgaria had planned NO armed Insurrection elther for the 15th of April of for any other date. The statements of the government in Sofia are nothing but conscious lies based on forged doc ments. The Central Committee hi had nothing whatever to do with the attempt on King Boris’ life, nor with the explosion in the Sofian cathedral. The government's calumnious cam- paign was only to serve the purpose of justifying the masa executions In view of the internal and exter- nal situation, the Bulgarian party had not considered the creation of a So- viet government in Bulgaria as its immediate aim. The Communist Party and the working class could carry on their struggle illegally only, because they were outlawed; but the party continually demanded the legal- ization of the workers’ organizations, and repeatedly declared its readiness to return to legal methods as soon as the rights and liberties of the work- ing masses were restored. Zankoff Cause Bombing. The Communist Party was always opposed to indiivdual terror, always supporting only one form of struggle; The mass struggle of the workers and peasants. Only two months ago the Central Committee had criticized the neglect of the campaign against the high cost of living, and had declared itself against the formation of parti- san troops. The Communist Party was always opposed to the partisan invasions from Yugoslavia. But the party repeatedly declared that the reign of terror of the militarist clique dnevitably driving the masses to a new insurrection, and that this time too the party would fight on the side ofthe people. “°“"Phié Sofian explosions and the other terroristic acts, are the inevitable re- salt of the unparallelled governmental ‘terror. The prisons are overcrowded with thousands charged with belong-' ing ‘to illegal organizations. The out- ldwed workers and peasants who have been shot or otherwise murdered, pos- Sé8sed no other means of defence than ‘those dictated by the instict of self- preservation. “The Communist Party repeats em- phatically that the country cannot be (Continued on page 2) FACTS ON SPEED- UP TO BE GIVEN BY MILL UNIONS Textile Union Conven- tion June 24-27 NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 21— (FP)—Assembling of facts on the multiple loom system and the efforts of industrial engineers to introduce speed-up efficiency methods is to be done by the emergency committee of the executive council, American Fed- eration of Textile Operatives. The union executive council decided that the propaganda of machinery manufacthurers and over-zealous en- gineers must be combatted by telling the facts from the point of view of the worekrs involved. Reports of new unions organized at. Brattleboro, Vt., Biddeford, Me., and Nashua, N. H., were brot to the meeting. The strike of voile weav- ers at Lincoln Manufacturing mill. Fall River, is settled after four months’ fight against a wage cut. The convention of the American Federation of Textile Operatives is scheduled for June 24-27 at Biddeford, Me., and all affiliated locals are being asked to send delegates. ‘ FINNISH WHITE GUARD GOVERNMENT ATTACKS LABOR ORGANIZATIONS HELSINGFORS, May 21.—Fin- land’s supreme appeal court having declared the Finnish Communist Party's activities. illegal, the party has been ordered by the government to be dissolved. The) government has instructed the public prosecu- tor to obtain Pap ane for the dissolution jr other supposed com sfaaniaatione. } Wy FOR 5 NYESTMENT ABROAD LB 290 CREATING “OUR” NATIONAL WEALTH ® itl [NEW YorK | YORK EDITION THE GOVERNMENT ON WAGE CUT Entire Island May Be Tied Up (Special to The Daily Worker) DUBLIN, Ireland, May 21.—The railway workers of Ireland are menaced by an attempt to cut their already insufficient wages on the part of the Irish railway administration. This is tending to bring about a strike as a defensive measure and will not add to the dislike on the part of Irish workers for the Free State govern- ment. All Irish railway workers in both North and South are affected, as all |. are threatened with a cut ,of five shillings a week. The men are organ- ized in the Railway Transport Union which has its chief strength in Eng- land, and C. T. Cramp, the head -of this union is now in Ireland fighting the case of the men before an arbi- tration board. In the southern section particularly, the men are threatening to take strike action the-moment a wage cut is an- nounced. The so-called “wage board” is made up of representatives from the chambers of commerce of both Belfast and Dublin, two congressmen and six members each from the union and the companies, Bribery and Jury Fixing Charged in Shepherd Trial The Shepherd-MeClintock tangle took a forward step today with the announcement that James Callan, the ward politician alleged to have at- tempted to influence a prospective juror had been found and that Arthur E. Byrne, Shepherd ‘investigator, had changed his mind about testifying be fore the grand jury and was now awaiting only a call. The trial thus far has been marked by kidnapping and disappearance of witnesses and charges of bribery and jury fixing. $2,400 for a Life, YORK, Pa,, May 21,—Two thousand four hundred dollars, is the value placed on a human life by state Work- mén’s Compensatiom Board of Penn- sylvania, in the case of Harry L. Saylor, salesman for the Gehley Car- pet Co., drowned last-year in Grissing- er’s Park while in:the service of his company at an employes’ picnic, The company fought theecase, Unemployed Boys Ride Train in Search for Jobs;One Is Killed “ROCKFORD, IIL, May 21.—Georg Steffon, 19, of Cedar Rapids, lowa, was so badly crushed under the wheels of an Illinois Central train here today that he died on the way to the hos- pital. Steffon with Charles L. Vorak,, 17, .East Cedar Rapids, spent last night in Rockford on their way home from Chicago; where they had been look- ing for work. They attempted to hop the west bound train to resume their trip, when Steffon miscalculated and went under the wheels. i UNITY MOVEMENT MAKES PROGRESS ON CONTINENT Social « Blanioerets- Play Judas Role The current issue of Trade Union Unity, which is edited by A. A. Pur- cell, George Hicks and Ed. Fimmen, gives a list of organizations that have endorsed the international unity movement initiated by the British and Russian trade unions, The magazine calls attention to the failure of the socialist and official press on the con- tinent to publish expressions of the rank and file in behalf of unity. The following are some of the unions that have endorsed the action of the Bri- tish Trades Union Congress in enter- ing into an agreement with the Soviet unions to further the cause of unity: GREAT BRITAIN—Both the Shop Assistants’ Union and the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers have received at their re- cent annual conferences presidential address strongly urging trade union unity. Manchester Area Trades Council unanimously commends the British trade union delegaiton to Russia for its efforts on behalf of unity, and con- (Continued on page 5.) Arrest Many Reds in Murder Drive of Zankov Terrorists SOFIA, May 21~— Many Commun- ists were arrested by the police to- day in a-renewedvdrive of the Zankov terrorist government to destroy its opposition by means of murder, and arrests on framed-up charges, —_ — ™ Does your friend subscribe the DAILY, won ? Ask MORGAN FIRM IS READY 10 FLOOD U.S. WITH POISON Cal’s Aid Favors the| Ethyl Gas Company (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 21.— That the Ethyl Gas Corporation has little fear that the conference which the surgeon general Cumming of the public health service called to con- vene here on May 19, will bar the sale of “looney,” tetra-ethyl gasoline, was seen in the announcement of the trust that special motors will be introduc- ed to use the lead gasoline. The Ethyl Gasoline Corporation is a combination of the Standard Oil company, and the General Motors Corporation, a J. P. Morgan concern. A. S. Maxwell, sales manager for the “looney” gas corporation, declared that preparations are now being made to introduce special motors which are aimed to triple the mileage of ordi- nary gasoline. The lead gasoline has already kill- ed 11 workmen employed by the Standard Oil company and the Dupont Chemical company in manufacturing it, and has wrecked the health of many more. Doctors and universities investigating the sale of the gasoline, declare it to bea public menace. Surgeon general Cumming showed that he is anxious to aid the Morgan- Rockefeller combination, when he an- nounced upon the opening of the con- ference that “I sincerely hope that if it should be found that tetra-ethyl gas is deleterious to the public health, some substitute possessing the same efficiency will be developed.” LONDON, May 21.—An earthavhake of moderate strength shook ‘Cairo, Egypt, today, but without fdamaging the city, according to a Central News Dispatch. Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicage, Ill. | Price 3 Cents FIERCE FIGHT RAGES ON RIFF- FRENCH FRONT \Paris Suppresses All Casualty Lists (Special to The Daily Worker) RABAT, French Morocco, May 21. —Fierce fighting is raging along the Bibane front, with the Riffian natives inflicting severe damage on the French invaders. The Moroccans have reinforced their western flank, a war communique issued by the French admits. Gen. Colombat had great difficulty in bringing up supplies to his troops. and succeeded only after heavy fight- ing, in which artillery and airplanes took part. Several hand to hand bat- tles in the Riff trenches took place No statement as to the French losses has been made since the beginning of the French invasion of Northern Africa. Communists Disclose Heavy Losses. PARIS, France, May 21.—Newspa- pers opposed to the French invasion of Morocco are printing the news of heavy French losses which the Pain- leve government is attempting to sup- press The Communist newspaper Hu- manite prints a dispatch from Moroc- co disclosing that one regiment of colonila infantry has had more than 400 men killed and wounded since operations began. The first battalion fo the foreign legion has lost forty- nine men, the Communist paper re- veals. The guarded official communiques conceal the fact that the French have been forced to retreat. Last week, according to war office | statements, the fighting was all north |of the Ouergha river, but the latest communique mentions occupation of places south of the river, shwoing that the French line has been pushed back. It is now a well known fact that the official statements of the French army and the news dispatches of.the cor- respondents are consoréd and changed. The newspaper Quitidien, ‘official organ of the left bloc, declares: “All we know With certainty is that one cannot trust entirely either the of- ficial news or the uuofficial news sent by correspondents, who are watched and instructed and even censored.” The Cri Maroca further reveals the heavy losses sustained by the French invading army. It tells of how the oung’ ‘soldiers newly arrived from ‘rance march past long lines of cas- sets and graves on their way to the ront. Abd-el-Krim’s forces were with- n 12 miles of Fez, this newspaper tates, and declares that the serious- 1@ss of the situation has not been al- owed to become public. General Cambay’s forces have had much bayonet fighting, it is now known, with severe losses which have not been reported in the official com- muniques, Win Wage Increase. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., May 21. — The 650 employes of the West Knit ing Mills of Ulymouth and Ashley suburbs of Wilkes-Barre, have re ceived wage increases of 10 per cent OPEN SHOPPER IN THE DEVER ADMINISTRATION CLASHES WITH UNIONS Police and fire alarms in Chicago may break down owing to lack of ri pair, if the obstinate open shop ef- forts of John T. Miller, city commis: , sioner of gas and electricity, to defy the union of truck drivers is ot ceased, Work on $400,000 worth ‘of city. lighting and the regular repair work topped when Millaee suspended the truck drivers hegause they obey- ed the union ules instead of his orders inthe matter of working Avertime, which they refuse to do without, pa The absence of the drivers leaves 300 linemen and electricians out of work and halts maintenance and re- pair. BRITISH ISSUE @/ATEMENTS ON PROGRESS OF INTERNATIONAL UNITY MOVE LONDON, May 8.—(By Mail)—Today the London Daily Herald, official organ of the British trade union movement, published the following story giving the latest developments in the efforts being made by the Russian and British unions for a United Trade Union International. The progress of the joint effort is marked by the most cordial relations between the officials of both labor movements. + The Trades Union Congress headquarters® yesterday issued statements dealing with the recent negotiations between the general council of the (Continued on page 3)