The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1925, Page 3

gees SOCIALISTS IN ESTHONIA AID WHITE HANGMEN Military “Court” Gives Death to Workers (Qpecial to The Dally Worker) _ REVAL, May 21—In White Estho- nia the military court Is working with-' out, Interruption, Nearly every day Ig Reval, Dorpat or Narva workers are tried, The number of the accused ly every trial Is 3 to 5 persons. On or two of them are always sentenosd to death, Why does the Esthonfan bourgeo! not attempt to arrange another trial of “149”? Beoause the officials cannot organize such a big trial within a week and the judges are Impatient, and futher because the trial pf the “149” has proved a great fallun, Furthermore the coalition govern- ment in, which Social Democrats part- ietpate, tries to hide in smaller trials the terror of the bourgeois rule. By ghoting the workers and peasants in smaller groups tho bourgeoisie be- Néves it can be done unnoticed. This “legal” and systematic murder of the workers and peasants is the greatest terror in present Hsthonia. Military “Triale’’ About one of these trials in which Comrades Welt, and Uelgekutt, repre entatives of the peasantry, were fim gre to death, the bourgeois ‘Wtites laconically: ‘ trial is opened at 10:20 p, m. presidency of the perma- of the court martial, to the defense on 4 decision : Court,” Ys “democratic” Hsthonia colonels nara always playing the it role, The accusation ty the following: 4 “Long before the December revolt Jahn Welt was known to the secret police as ons of the most active mem- of the labor movement. In 1924 Joined the fraction ‘The United ni Eqs August $rd and during all this enérgetically prepared ‘revolt’ carrying on agitation and collect- t . accusation was raised 6 Other accused, the small abe Comratle Welt did not declare by two electoral districts as a candi- é tinued energetically their revolution- ber 1924. transported to Reval as a “participant the revolt.” Comrade Ulgekutt to Comrade Welt was a can- BRITISH AND RUSSIAN UNIONS ISSUE STATEMENT: ON UNITY (Continued from page 1) T. U, O. and the delegates of the All- Russian Central Council of Trade Unions. The conference, it will be remem- bered, disoussed questions affecting the possible affiliation of the Russian trade union movement to the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions. The statementa by each side, the sub- stance of which is here given, will shortly come up for discussion by the LF. T. U. at Amsterdam. The British Statement. The British statement, after pre- liminary remarks, is as follows: (1) It is suggested that the Russian yvement should consider a reply to the Amsterdam resolution to the ef- fect that in the interest of interna- tional unity they are desirous of par ticipating in an International Pedera- tion of Trade Unions which would in- clude among its objects those enumer- ated in the rules of the Amsterdam International and a constitution, in general outlines, not essentially dis- similar from that of the Amsterdam International. As the present rules of the Interna- tional Federation were drafted to meet the requirements of the coun- tries, at present affiliated, and, with- out supplementary revision, may fail to meet legitimate requirements ‘of the Russian trade union movement, Preliminary conversations and confer- ences are absolutely necessary. The object of such conversations would be to ascertain how best to de- velop the existing International Fed- eration so as to facilitate the inclu- sion of the Russian and all other trade union organizations. Conference Proposal. (2) The British section will under- take to submit to the Amsterdam In- ternational that this, in principle, complies with their condition for a conference as far as can be reason- ably required, and will urge that full consideration must be given to those special difficulties confronting the Russian trade union movement, as Tepresenting a country with a great variety of very distinct nationalities. The British section will declare that an international federation of an all- inclusive character cannot be fully developed except by making full pro- vision for variations in tradition, his- toric association, and political differ. ences in the various countries. The British section will also again affirm that the differences between the Russian Trade Union Council and the International Federation of Trade Unions can be most successfully dealt with by an informal conference, (8) Bubject to joint agreement on the above clauses, the British section the Isle of Oesel, Ulge-| will submit to the International Fed- eration of Trade Unions the following proposals:— (a) The Bureau of the International Federation of Trade Unions to call an immediate conference, with the repre sentatives of the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions for the purpose of considering the position arising from the decision of the General Council meeting at Amsterdam on the 5th to the 7th February, 1925, and also the conclusions of the joint discussion of this conference. If such a conference be convened, the British section will endeavor to seoure the fullest co-operation of all parties concerned. * (b) In the event of the Bureau of the International Federation of Trade Unions deciding that they are unable to convene a conference as proposed above, the British Trades Union Con- gress General Council will undertake to convene a conference and endea- vor to promote international unity by using its mediatory influence as between the Russian trade union movement and the Amsterdam Bu- reau. In this capacity the British Trades Union Congress General Council will be-inspired by a full appreciation of existing difficulties and a desire to create a united industrial internation- al organization capable of efficiently keep up your energy which you need in the continuous struggle against the capitalist exploiters, I will tell you something about our life, the life of the working class in the U. 8. 5. R. and I can vouch for the ver- acity of my statement. Comrades, 1 am a raflwayman and the assistant of the station master in “Savintsy” on the Donetz Railway. We work in four shifts, the number of hours per month is 192 and no more. The monthly wage is 35 roub- les which is gradually increased in accordance with the increase of the productivity of labor. It is true that spring up as the result of every build- ing Social insurance is on a basis: on the birth of a child the local insurance fund gives and 60 cop- 9 roubles) and 3 roubles month for the child. Un- apicyee | members of trade unions gr. Letter From a Russian Railway Worker representing the international inter- ests of the workers, The Ruselan Statement. The Russian delegation states that {t will recommend the British state- ment to the All-Russian Trade Union Council. This has since been done, and the statement approved. , The deelgation reaffirms that the trade unions of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics always conceived of the unity of the international move- ment as the concentration of all work- ing-class forces in a single Interna- tional, on the basis of national unity and of united national and interna- tional trade union organizations. The delegation welcomes the good- will expressed in point two of the de- claration of the British section, and intended to eliminate the difficulties standing in the way of realization of international unity. For its part the delegation recog- nizes as equally acceptable both a formal and an informal conference. The delegation similarly concurs with the intention of the British dele gation expressed in paragraph three of the statement of the British sec- tion. Amsterdam Replles. For its part, the Russian delegation states that the trade unions of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics cannot conceal the circumstance that all their correspondence with the Am- sterdam International concluding with the last resolution of February 5 to 7, 1925, has created on them the impres- sion that the majority of the Amster- dam International, which rejected the correct and just resolution proposed by the British trade union represen- tatives, are unwilling to meet the sin- cere desire of the unions of the union. Such a conference, says the delega- tion, may represent a considerable step forward. It will be the first busi- ness-like approach towards the settle- ment of the vast and very complli- cated question of the realization of actual unity of the international labor movement, and of the gathering to- gether of the forces of all working- class organizations, based on the prin- ciple of the class struggle between labor and capital. The delegation, therefore, concurs with point B of paragraph 3, and for its part expresses its fullest readiness to take part in the conference which may take place, by the force of neces- sity, on the initiative and by the medi- ation of the British trade unions. It particularly welcomes the desire and intention, clearly expressed in this point, of the representattves of the British General Council, to devote every effort to bringing about the in- ternational unity of the labor move ment, by creating a united industrial labor organization, capable of becom- ing an efficient organ for representing and defending the international inter- ests of the workers. Workers’ Desire. It notes with special satisfaction that the Russian trade union move- ment entirely shares the idea of the establishment of the most complete unity of ‘the international trade union movement by the setting up of a sin- gle efficient international of trade un- ions, independent of any influence of the capitalist class, for the purpose of uniting the trade union organizations of the whole world, both in their daily economic struggle and in their strug- gle for the final emancipation of the working class. The delegation is convinced that this completely coincides with the fervent desire of the broadest mass of the workers in every country, who see in this the sole real barrier against capitalist reaction, economic and poli- tical, and equally against the peril of new fratricidal wars. Fi Nevertheless, it is essential to re- cognize that all this can be brought about only if all labor organizations display the necessary good-will in this direction and accord the necessary fraternal and attentive consideration to all the existing international, na- tional, and other independently ex- isting trade union organizations. ly every year a fortnights holiday and free railway and steamship tickets, wherever we like to go. The trade union movement—the surest way to socialism—is develop- ing rapidly. Trade unions derive their funds from fees calculated at the rate of 2 per cent of the wages of its members. There are great ach- fevements to record on this field. For instance three years ago trade union membership in the U. 8, S. R. was only few hundred thousand. Now there are millions jof trade union members. Our vanguard—the Rus- sian Communist Party (Bolshevik) is also growing in strength and numbers and is progressing slowly but surely. Every year brings hundreds of thou- sands of new forces into its ranks. Interlopers are ruthlessly cleared out by the party. In this manner all the healthy elements of our country are drawn gradually into constructive work, The country is steadily re- covering. Our main slogan now is: cogot, snd saan ty tor avery caye way i that {s healthy”, a With Communist \ Workers Correspondent No, 1125. | THE DAILY WORKE R NEW YORK FOOD WORKERS BUILD UP THEIR UNION . * Unorganized Voice a . ° Readiness to Fight By Arthur Smith NEW YORK CITY, May 20.—An impressive demonstration of the will- ingness of unorganized workers to fight for the betterment of their con- ditions was given at the Bryant Hall meeting last Thursday by the hun- dreds of unorganized workers of the the Hotel and Culinary Industry. They eagerly listened to the words of the speakers, most of them participants of our past struggles. The first call to battle by tha Hotel and Restaurant Workers Branch was responded to the non-union workers with an unex- pectedly good line-up. Old, Bryant Hall, mute witness to many a great struggle of the hotel and culinary workers, was filled al- most to capacity. Union and non- union workers cheered and boo-ed unitedly whenever the occasion called for it. Comrade Gitz after a brief opening address, introduced Comrade Obermeyer as the first speaker. Voices From the Kitchens Obermeyer is a waiter by trade and one of the old and loyal fighters | of our union. His description of the | miserable conditions prevailing in the industry made all feel the injust-| ice of it. | As the meeting progressed groups | of workers were still pouring in. The | smell of un-ventilated kitchens and | dining rooms was still lingering about | them giving taste of reality to the| words of Comrade Mobille, describing the merciless exploitation of the/ workers im the culinary industry. Their faces» yet perspiring from a long days hard labor, just fitted into his wordsjas living examples. Com- rade Mobille is a cook. He spoke in French. Rank and File Ready to Fight There were speeches in Italian, and some more in English. But what marked the climax of the meeting were the Simple words uttered by some workers of various open-shop hotels and restaurants. “Are we to endure for the rest of our lives every day, 12 long hours of labor, under most rigid supervision and unbear- able working conditions? Shall the bosses and their Heutenants forever continue to suck out every ounce of our strength and energy every day? Not Now is ‘our chance. If we only stick together we'll surely win.” that was the essence of the words of all of them, They pointed out that condi- tions have changed and today the men in the open-shops are willing to fight. This sentiment expressed by re- presentatives. of the unorganized masses carried significance in itself; It was a declaration of war against the open-shop bosses. Then Brother Glassman took the floor and soon was followed by Chair- man Gits who made a few explan- atory remarks on the question of abolishing the tipping system. The Demands of The Workers Are: The complete abolishment of the tipping system; Eight hours work, straight watch; our minimum weekly wage scale: $50 for cooks and waiters; $38 for commis; $30 for busboys and blue jackets. Entire F sidflies Work 14 Hours Daily Under Dawes Plan in Germany BERLIN, May 21.—German home workers in the toy, artificial flowers and clothing» industries arfd their compensation was the subject of a talk delivered by Professor Heyde, president of the Society of Social Re- forms at an exhibition of home work products. The exhibition comprised all those trades and industries which in the rural sections of Germany em- ploy entire villages and larger com- munities in the making of toys, labels, feathers, flowers and embroideries. Wages are 8o low that wooden box- makers are paid at 2% pfennigs an hour. Those engaged in the cutting of leaves, the gumming of petals and the assembling of entire flowers in the flower industry receive 12 pfen- nigs an hour. The homes of these workers were described as shacks that are little more than heaps of ill-assembled bricks comprising one room in which they work, sleep cook and live. Con- ditions in Thuringia are so bad that workers with their wives and chil- dren have to put-in 14 hours of hard work each day in order to avoid star- vation, Wage Slaves Amuse Clothing Bosses The convention of the Internation- al Association of Garment Manufac- turers, now meeting in the Hotel La Salle, made their employes put on a style show for the amusement of the bosses present and awarded “certi- flactes of merits” to the employes dis- jing with a big outing. playing the most bisarre clothing styles, The certificates, one manu- facturer explained, cost nothing. pe NR Getting a DAWY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communist of you, POLISH WHITE TERROR TORTURES SOLDIERS, JAILS WORKERS AND PERSECUTES WARSAW, Poland, May 21.—The police of the districts near the frontier continues to undertake mass arrests among the local population. According to the latest news 20 persons have been arrested in Grodno and ten workers | in the tobacco factory, The hall of the tobacco workers has been closed by | the police. According to news from Bialostok, in Bolsk and Bolowosh the authorities | have arrested 20 persons for membership in a militant organization, purpose of this arrest is the organiza-+— _ vi tion on a new anti-Bolshevik trial. For the same purpose in Pinsk and Kobinya 80 persons have been ar- rested. Children are not allowed to receive instruction in their mothers language. The population of the village Prud of the district Slonim established their own White Russian school. This did not please the local authorities. The police called the teacher Rapontchik to their office and demanded from her a written promise that she would give the children no instruction in the White Russian language. For refusal of this demand the teacher was ar- rested. Sentences Against Labor Editors. The district court in Warsaw sen- tenced the editor of the Na Perelome, Marian Kozentzky, to two years of prison for publication of an “anti- state” article with a criticism of the comments of the Polish bourgeois press at the occasion of the protest movement of the state officials of Po- land against white terror. At the same time news reached us that the district court in Sosnovetz sentenced the former editor of the radical organ Molot, Sawadsky, to four years hard labor. In order to make the sentence more “convincing” the editor was furthermore accused of distribution of Communist leaflets in the coal mines “Paris” in Bendsin and of membership to the local relief committee for the support of the starv- ing Russian population in 1922. In the trial a number of police agents and spies, appeared as witnesses. Soldiers Brutally Maltreated. Under this impressive title we read in the paper Nash Psheglend: “In the battalion of Colonel Schuster the sol- diers are brutally maltreated. For the least offense they are sentenced to barbarian corporal punishment, are beaten in their faces, etc. In the let- ters of the soldiers to their families facts are mentioned which are un- heard of. Some soldiers have been driven to such despair that they have committed suicide.” Subscribe for the WORKER! DAILY Los Angeles Juniors Force Public Schools to Recognize May Day By WM, SCHNEIDERMAN. LOS ANGELES, Calif, May 21.— The Juniors of Los Angeles are jubil- ant over their first school victory when they forced the school authori- ties to recognize May Day as a legi- timate holiday for working class children. Nearly one hundred and fifty Juniors had observed May Day by staying out of school and celebrat- Two schools especially, where the Juniors are well organized, attempted to severely pun- ish the children and refused to recog- nize their parents’ request that they observe May Day. In the Hollenbeck High School, 29 children were given severe punish- ments which included two weeks after school detention, demerits, etc. Im- mediately the Young Workers’ League got busy and organized a parents’ pro- test meeting, and a parents’ commit- tee went to the principal of the school and presented a resolution demanding the withdrawal of the punishment, and threatening to make an issue of it in the coming election campaign. The principal informed them that the matter was in the hands of the board of education, thereby admitting that he was merely acting as a tool of the capitalist politicians who control the education of workers’ children. He admitted to the committee that these twenty-ning Juniors who were being punished for their courageous sup- port of the working class were the brightest students in the school. Evidently the principal was im- pressed by his first contact with real working class solidarity, for the next day, the punishments were completely withdrawn, The parents and the Young Workers’ League were inform- ed of their victory just as they were preparing to present protest resolu- tions to every local union in the city which recognized May Day. In the Malabar School, over 45 chil- dren had stayed away on May Day, and they had also been punished with demerits and threats. The principal of this school had gone into a rage, thr d the Juniors with dire pen- alties, stormed and fumed, and told the children that they all ought to be shipped to Russia, But the Juniors stood their ground, and when another parents’ committee visited the princi- pal with thesame protest resolution and the same/demands, he had to sing a different tune, After a conference SCHOOL CHILDREN The SCOPES HELD FOR THE GRAND JURY ON CHARGE OF TEACHING SCIENCE DAYTON, Tenn., May 21.—A spe- cial session of the Rhea county grand jury was called for Monday | to indict J. T. Scopes, teacher In the local high school, for violation of the state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. Following his plea of not gulity in a justice’s court here, Scopes was bound over for action by the grand jury. Women Workers Protest| Against Persecution of the Foreign-Born| NEW YORK, May 21.— A protest! mass meeting will be held on Friday, | May 29, at 8 p. m., at the Workmen's | Circle Building, 143 E. 103rd St., to} protest against the new deportation bills now before congress. If this| bill is passed, every foreign-born | worker will be exposed to deportation | upon the slightest pretext. This means | a decided threat against the foreign-| born workers and an attack on the) wages, living conditions of the for eign-born and native workers. If they protest against such conditions, | they will be considered undesirable | and be deported. It is in the interest of all men and} women workers to see to it that this| mass meeting is well attended. The speakers will address the meeting in| English and Yiddish. They will be William Weinstone, of the Interna- tional Workers’ Aid, Ben Lifschitz of the Freiheit and Workers Party of America, Rose Nevin, the well-known worker in the labor movement; Kate Gitlow, secretary of the United Coun-/} cil of Working Class Women; Sonia | Diamond, member of the executive | committee of the United Council of | Working Class Women; will preside. | This meeting is one of a series of} meetings arranged by the United Councii of Working Class Women. of over an hour with the committee, | he realized that he was bucking up against a real organized force that could make things unpleasant for him it they made an issue of the matter before working class parents. He finally decided to give in, and the children were immediate re-instated without any punishment. Ready FAINY TALES FoR Page Three f—________] WORKERS OF CHICAGO CONDEMN BALKAN WHITE TERROR IN RESOLUTION A mass meeting of several hun- dred workers met in . Hodcarriers’ Hall and listened to speakers in English, Croatian, Greek and Bul- garian tell the story of the terrible white terror that is sweeping over the Balkans. Most of the workers were representatives of the various Balkan nationalities. The follow- Ing resolution was passed unanli- mouslyt WHEREAS the countries com- prising the Balkan states are, with- out exception, suffered to endure | governments nothing short of dio tatorships of militarists, who are the tools of the Imperialist capital ism of the greater powers to the west. . WHEREAS, the militarist and fascist dictatorships of the Balkan countries serve the purpose of bufe fer states, against the Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic of Soviet Russia and constitute ever-present dangers as counter-revolutionary forces. WHEREAS, there Is no place in Europe where the working classes are more oppressed and economical ly depraved than In the Balkans where the cruelest exploitation Is joining hands with economle chaos in the enslavement of the Balkan people, and am WHEREAS, In every countiyTr the Balkans there reigns at this time white terrors of varying de grees of brutality and viclousness, The boyar oligarchy in Roumania thru the infamous “Siguranza” has crowded In the Jails of the whole country with workers and peas ants and has conductéd a bloody at tack on the workers, especially In Bessarabla, that It has forcefully occupied and held with malled fist for almost seven years. The milk tarist party In Greece rigorously suppresses working class organiza tions and fills up Its Jails with work- ers and peasants. The Pachitch Pry bitchewitch government of Jugo Slavia assures its re-election by con- stant terrorizing of all opposition In the form of heavy Jail sentences: and executions. And in Bulgaria more than 10,000 workers and ag- rarian revolutionaries have fallen under the dripping sword of the bloody Zankov regime, and WHEREAS, this unprecedent- ed terror in the Balkans promises to grow more intense and merciless as the menace of war hovers near- er over southeastern Europe, there- fore be it RESOLVED, that we here, work- ers of the city of Chicago In mase meeting assembled, pronounce our most emphatic condemnation of the Inhuman methods of the bourgeols terrorists not only In the Balkans but the world uver, declare our un- dying enmity for all fascist dictator ships and express our solidarity with our Balkan comrades In theli struggle to attain a united Ball i Soviet Republic of workers and peasants, and that thie resolution be sent to the Labor Press of all countries and to the Balkan am-— bassadors in America. —— Soon! WORKERS CHILDPEN BY HERMINIA ZuR MUMLEN TRANSLATED BY IDA DAILES edition. 75 CENTS with durable cover. $1.25 cloth bound. 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