The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government Vol. II. No. 113. 7 By T. J. OFLAHERTY. “4 is HAT has happened to the grand i; plan of William Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- \ men, which provided for the calling of @ conference between rail workers and their employers for the purpose of eliminating strikes in the transpor- tation industry and breaking down the wall of misunderstanding that separates the employes from their masters? This is the way Lee chants the dirge. The rail workers and their employers are of the same family, says this human toad, and their scraps are only family quarrels. se 6 ‘OT that Lee is much worse than the rest of the labor skates who are engaged in the business of sell- ing the railroad workers. He is a little bit more offensively frank, perhaps. *"ASCRIPTION RATES: AS WE eeepc 38, A.C. W. ~Op 4 =,“ TLE FOR th. COUNTING Officials Disregard the Vote of Membership The rule of sluggers In the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers’ Union has created such a revolt that in some locals, at least, the yellow socialist bureaucracy has had to change me- thods and rule by bluff, deception and trickery. This was shown Wednesday night In the Polish Local 38, of the Amalgamated, when a packed hall of members fought the officials for an hour and a half to force them to re- In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. store Brother H. Bramorski, taken off the Job by Levin and “suspended inde- finitely,” to his rights and his job, Two meetings back, the report of the officers of the local suspending The DAILY WORKER quoted from an article in the Switchmen’s Magazine, in which Cashen, chief of the switch- men, said some very harsh things about Lee. In fact, he charged him with being a strikebreaker and with | Bramorski, was rejected by a majority employing stoolpigeons to spy on vote of the local; but in spite of that, members of, his own organization, with | ‘te chairman declared the motion car- ® view getting them fired by their|"ed. And then he hurried to ad- employers. journment. At the following meet- ing, the membership stormed at the officials in such a militant manner that the chairman was forced to ad- mit that he “had made a mistake” in declaring the suspension. of Bram- orski carried, and begged that the min- utes of the previous meeting be ac- cepted in order that the agreement could be considered. Stalling Off the Members. The membership would not accept that part of the minutes, however, and finally, the chairman stalled the mem- bers off by agreeing that the matter of considering the old minutes would be taken up at the meeting follow- ing—the one which met Wednesday night, May 20. But when the meeting Wednesday gathered a hall full of members, the c mn and his Leyin-yellow social- ist clique which had caucused and ee ABOR fakers are the same all the world over, The American section of fakerdom is better paid than the capitalist lackeys in other country. The American capitalists oan afford to pay their flunkies generously. But even in poverty stricken countries the skates are getting along nicely. Some of those birds of prey mouth revolu- tionary phrases while engaged in the business of betraying the workers. In Mexico Calles is using the Wall Street club on those that placed him in power, Tho he pretends to be a so- cialist, Calles is highly thot off by the house of Morgan, which uses the president of the American Federation of Labor as a liason officer with the Mexican labor leaders. ese roe MOORE is the leading labor * skate fh Canada. ~The capitalist governments no longer has any quarel | membership, refused to open the meet- i | with those fellows, who it sométitnes'/ing, “giving as “a°feason that Bram- {| happens that a leading faker may |orski was present. This, “they pre- | criticise some particular administra-|tended, kept them from calling the tion, But that is by way of exercis- | meeting to order. ing his rights as a citizen and because | Battle to Make Chairman Obey the i some other capitalist political group Rules. So | can offer something better. The members insisted. “The chair- | ene} man continued to refuse, The mem- |] NN England the leading capitalist | be?’ then demanded that the vice- i labor Heutenants are J. H. Thomas prec rert aa the ep He, also | and Ramsay MacDonald. To his credit ae ag oe se) to pd i be it said, J. H. Thomas does not pre- | 1° aah raze at Poth : tend to be a socialist but MacDonald the officials, who insisted on ruling j does. There is not the slightest differ- against the plain will of the mem. ; ence in the attitude of both flunkeys bets, Even the do igbime ‘a6 t towards the master class, Even Ire- angry at the officials that he tried to ‘g land has a finished specimen of this get the gavel himself, but the chair- | type in the person of Thomas John- man pnt it in his pockét—and the son. It is merely an accident of birth members, so far at least, have not He that he happens to be an Englishmen, |}... provoked into giving their anger { hailing either from Manchester or physical expression. After an hour and a half, some of the members, including many of the (Continued cn page 2) WORKERS’ HEALTH BUREAU DEMANDS LEAD GAS PROBE A Menace to Life, Tells Govt. Conference NEW YORK, May 22.—Demands for new investigation of, tetra ethyl lead been made bythe workers’ bureau at the conference on i Liverpool. But the revolutionary Irish } workers do not scorn Johnsn because i he was born in England. They detest : him because he is one of the slimiest | traitors that ever rose to prominence at the expense of his class, oe | Sahat od was the only labor leader i in Ireland who supported the Bri- tsh Empire during the war, He was opposed to the Easter Week revolu- tion which was initiated and led by James Connolly. He has been a wet blanket on the Irish working class since and the most distressing fea- ture of the situation is, that old com- ) rades of Connelly who occupy leading \ positions in the labor union and labor Party which he built, support Johnson, pe \ tho he was forced to confess in a re- ‘\cent libel case that he was opposed health to all that James Connolly stood for. tetra ethyl lead which ( ‘he Irish workers will learn to rid the Washington, according to jabor movement of Johnson and also by the bureau. The conference was f those who prefer to stand ‘with | called by the U. 8. public health ser- Johnson, despite his repudiation of the] vice following protests from trade principles to which Connelly devoted | unions and scientific experts against his life and for which he died. the U. 8. bureau.of mines report «Continued on psge 3) which declared that there was no : danger to the public from breathing Whew! It Is Hot i gases containing tetra ethyl Wheather! But Picnic h Time Is Soon Here gates from the American Federation The conference is attended by dele- of Labor, the workers’ health bureau, scientists from Harvard, Yale, and Co- WHEW! But {t was hot yesterday. | jumbia universiti chemical war- That's the way it is lable to be on (Continued on page 3.) next Saturday, May 30, when the T. U. B. L. holds its picnic at Aiten-| July 25 Is Date Set heim Grove. And a picnic is the Place to go on a hot day to get away for New Elections by i from the brick blocks and hot streets, Portuguese Premier Maké a note of how to get to next parva Saturday’s picnic: Take the Forest| LISBON, Portugal, May 22.—Parlia- Park “L” on the Metropolitan branch | mentary elections have been fixed for to the end of the line, or transfer} July 25, It is stated in political circles from the end of the Madison car line| that if in the meantime legislative to a suburban car. The T, U. E. L.| work is hindered, the premier will ask picnic will be waiting at Altenhiem| for the immediate dissolution of par-| strike was caused by operators’ at- Grove. Don't forget. Mament, SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1925 CALLES BREAKS STRIKE AGAINST WALL STREET CAPITAL IN MEXICO AFTER TALK WITH AMBASSADOR {Special to The Dally Worker) MBXICO CITY, May 22.—The craven servility of President Calles to American imperialism is proven only equalled by his brutal suppression of Mexican workers and peasants whose interests conflict with the greed for super-profits of these imperialist bosses of Callés. © — Today the policy of Calles carried him to breaking the strike of the oil union workers in the Huesteca oil field and forcing thé strikers back to work (Continued on page 2) 3 THE DAILY WORKER. Bntered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chieago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. >” Soviets Export 100 Carloads of anganese a Day MOSCOW, —(By Mail).— Fifteen million poods (about 250,000 tons) of Manganese ore are to be exported abroad thru the port of Nikolayev (Black Sea) in the current working year. One hundred carloads are ar- riving there daily, and the ore is being loaded on board foreign ships. DICTATOR» USSOLINI | WHITES PROVOKE NEAR RACE RIOT BY INSULT GARY STRIKERS RESIST STEEL TRUST LOCKOUT 3,000 Builders Fight Against “Open Shop” GARY, Indiana, May 22—A bitter struggle between the striking bullding trades workers and the “open shop” contractors, who have locked out over 3,000 members of the Building Trades Unions for insisting on a closed shop, is on here. The bankers, and the real estate board, chamber of commerce and the Commercial Club have united behind the contractors in the attempt to smash the Gary unions. These orga- nizations have ordered the contrac- tors to continue the lockout or. imme- * ° diately have their credit cut off, bulld- Union to Railroads ing material withheld, and financial backing removed. MINNEAPOLIS, May 22—The revo- The United States Steel corporation | lutionizing of the railroad business in own the largest part of Gary, and|the United States through the inclus- practically all the construction in the |!on of motor buss service on every PINEBLUFF, Ark., May 22.—An automobile load of deputy sheriffs stopped a race riot ten miles south of here early today, stated, it was sald, when a Negro was refused ad- mission to a clrous and insulted. Deputies. sald both whites and Negroes had armed themselves and a free for all fight was under way when the officers arrived. No one wae killed or Injured. OLD GANG STAYS IN 0. f, C, OFFICE AS RAILWAY AIDS Sheppard ‘illedses the ‘town is being done by the steel trust, |8ystem affected by the competition either thru contractors who are doing |Of bus transportation companies was their work or directly thru the steel |the promise that grew out of the trust’s own construction company. _| Closing session here today of the tri- ‘The steel corporation is attempting |¢"2!al convention of the Order of to break the backbone of unionism in |Rallway Conductors of America. Gary, as the effect on the steel work- len't This Nice of Budd? ers is feared. Ralph Budd, ;president of the Great The strikers are holding firm in| Northern R. R., addressed the conven- their demand for the closed shop and |tion this morning bringing to the thus far no scabs have been imported. | meeting formal: announcement that The contractors, however, spurred the Great Northern has entered the on by the steel corporation, are | hus business with the organization of making ® move toward importing |two $1,000,000 corporations headed by strikebreakers from Chicago. executives of that road, “Collaboration? Sure” Says Sheppard L. E. Sheppard, grand president of the Order of Railwny Conductors, re- sponded with an ennouncement that conductors and practically every other group of workers on the rail- road field are preparing to band to- gether to lend assitance and encour- agement to tho railroads in ‘ying out @ nation-wide railroad bus line de- velopment project. Sheppard was re-elected grand president of thie Order of Railway Conductors last night. He has served six years as grand president and 17 years as vice-president. §S. N. Berry, (Continued on page 3) Tha Reds Haunt Depew. NBW YORK, May 22,— Chauncey Depew, 91 year old capitalist and ex- senator, told the international police chiefs’ convention delegates at the Bankers’ Club that they should hunt reds more efficiently, Merchants Squawk In Coal Strike. NEW YORK, May 22.—Retail mer chants of northern West Virginia are quoted in Women’s Wear, New York, as saying that the coal strike is mak- ing their business very bad. The THE FACE OF CAPITALISM CABINET CRISIS To nesaoes aT cincus| | QVER RIFF WAR IS DUE MONDAY Communists in Chamber to Demand Accounting PARIS, France, May 22.—The open- Ing of the chamber of deputies on Monday will mark the beginning of the end of the Palnleve cabinet, it Is generally felt here. The govern- ment can no longer deny that the Moroccans have Inflloted heavy losses on the French army which invaded north Afrioa on the order of the Painleve government. The Communist campaign against the imperialistic slaughter, in which France's: young workers are being sent to their death in order to sub due the Rif_lans on-their native ter- ritory hag stirred the workers thru- out the country. “Left” Bloo Splitting. The socialists will be forced to take a stand either for or against the im- perlalistie invasion. For years they have opposed the Moroccan cam- paigns, and altho they will not embar- ress Painleve by active oppossition, by indorsing the Morrocan invasion (Continued on page 2) Borah Leads Fight to Abolish Federal Trade Commission WASHINGTON, May 22.—The con- sressional “independent bloc” has started a move to abolish the federal! trade commission on the ground that its membership {s defying congress, it was learned today. Aroused by the commission’s action in eliminating all publicity on anti- trust complaints and by the fact it is dominated by conservatives, the senate independents favor repeal of the statute which created the govern- ment board. A bill to abolish the com- mission probably will be sponsored at the next session of congress, Leaders of the movement are Sen- ator Borah, republican of Idaho; Sen- ator Norris, republican of Nebraska, and Senator King, demoorat, of Utah A te elie aes nena al Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicage, UL CEN Ts Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. Price 5 Cents ‘BILL’ LEE OF TRAINMEN HAUNTED BY LEFT WING AT CONVENTION; FOSTER TO EXPOSE LEE SUNDAY By A. WAGENKNECHT. (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, May 22.—"Bill” Lee, president of the Brother« hood of Railway Trainmen, needs a breathing spell. This charm- ing leader of the grand march at a ball recently held jointly with his ladies’ auxiliary, has been given several hard chases down the reactionary pike. To get back his wind he has hypnotized a large wing of the one thousand delegates upon the question of constitutional amendments, and at Gray’s Armory, where the convention is being held, one hears constitutional buncombe mouthed in sickening volume. This red herring is to hold the attention of the delegates for eight or nine days, it is reported. But William Z. Foster, the leader of the left wing in the American labor movement, is due to speak + here Sunday and the railroad- ers are invited to attend as he will deal with “Bill” Lee and his tricks. ‘New” Delegates Give Bill Lee Ague. The convention is attended by a bloc of delegates that has made Lee look cross-eyed and feel uneasy. More than half of the delegates are known to the reactionary machine as “new,” by which is meant that they can not be definitely placed. A progressive caucus is meeting at some unknown place and the spectre of amalgamation is looming up so large and formidable, that Lee and his ring are really pale of face. The T. U. B. L, is making an active cam- Daign for its program. Amalgamation Haunts the Fakers. A resolution for amalgamation was handed in and referred to the reso- lutions committee. As a preliminary to the amalgamation of the sixteen railroad unions, this resolution calls for the immediate amalgamation of a department of the service by bringing into closer touch with each other the order of railway conductors, the switchmen’s union and the railway trainmen. The resolution calls for a committee of fifteen, ten to be elected by the convention, five appointed by the offi- cers, to undertake negotiations. It, was introduced by the Minneapolis delegates. Reject Officers’ Report at First. But what winded Lee as much as anything, was the rejection of the officers’ report. In this report, what is known as the “five and a half per cent” Chicago wage increase was the sugar with which the bureaucraoy ex- pected to induce the delegates to swal- low the report. The delegates gulped here and there, but a majority refus- ed to swallow. Instead, some tall talking was in- dulged in, which proved that Lee and his ring had compromised hard gained working conditions far in excess in value tq the five and a. half wages increase. After the officers’ report wes defeated, Lee sweated for three hours trying to secure a reconsidera- tion, and this he finally put ove: “Anybody—Anybody But Lee. The slogan of a very large portion (Continued on page 2) ALL PICKETING FORBIDDEN BY COURT ORDER Federal Judge Makes New Air-Tight Rule (Special to The Dally Worker) WHEELING, W. Va., May 22, — There is no particular rejoicing among the striking miners that the infamous ‘eactionary, former Secretary of State Charley Hughes, has “volun- eered” to defend the officials of the U. M .W. of A. against an injunction issued by Federal Judge William B. Baker here this week. The West Virginia miners are sufficiently well aware that strikes are won on the picket line and not in capitalist courts, hence they are in no flurry over the Hughes offer, tho their pacti- fist district and international officials are. Union Won't Fight, But Capitalist State Will, The present injunction against the union must be clearly understood as forbidding “peaceful persuasion” picketing, in fact it forbids all picket- ng. As Van Bittner, international or- sanizer in charge of the strike for the union, had not only discouraged, but forbid all militant picketing, in order t ey the law” by “peaceful picket- the injunction takes another wallop at the miners by forbidding even peaceful picketing as unlawful. The same court had previously ruled that an ancient injunction of ... Continued on page 2) ‘| the pamphlets were useless, omnes) in| FARM SLAVERY CLAIMS ORPHANS FROM NEW YORK Thousands of Children Slave in Texas Fields By ESTHER LOWELL (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) NEW YORK, May 22.—The child slavery In Texas farms to which thou- sands of children are sent each year from New York and other eastern foundling Institutions is indicated in charges that thousands of children of six and over are sent in wholesale batches during the year to Northwest fruit and vegetable growers as well as to Texas cotton growers, which were made at the Child Welfare Conference New York by Mrs. Bennet Smith of Temple, Texas, and by Mrs, B. F. Wetmore of Spokans, Wash, * Children “are tagged with the names of their new parents to give the semblance of legality and are adopted as a matter of form by farm- (Continued on ‘page 3) BOSTON UNIONS PICK DELEGATES FOR FAMINE MEET Joseph Manley Will ‘Ad- dress Meeting By George Kraska. (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, May 22—A generous response from all labor unions is looked for in Boston next Wednesday May 27 for the formation of the Boston branch of the Irish Workers and Peasants Relief Committee. Joseph Manley member of the National Cimmittee will address the conference. A lively meeting is ex- pected, and definite plans to raise funds for the Irish Workers and Peasants, will he worked out, and so at last Boston will be pur on the map, securing the much needed re lief for the Irish sufferers. More than 150 labor, fraternal and | political organizations have been in- vited to this conference, which wilt! be held at 8 p. m. in Paine Hall, 9 Appleton St. Boston. House To House: Collection, The labor unions in Boston are ab most all in the control of Irish-Ame- ricans, and Boston being a special center of the Irish population, gives great promise for ‘successful work, that this committee will undertake, The entire section called South Bow ton is inhabited by Irish workers and should prove fertile ground for the | work of raising funds for the Irish famine sufferrers, | Plans for a house to house collect inos will be made at this conference |to be concentrated in South Boston, Also a mass meeting with John P, McCarthy who recently returned from the famine district in Ireland as speaker, will be planed in the near future. Favorable sentiment from some union members who have already act- ed on the call and elected delegates |to this conference has already been Jannounced in labor circl State Pamphlets Useless. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 22.—A re solution was introduced in the sen- ate by Rodney Swift, demanding an investigation of the printing of pub- Ne documents and pamphiets at state expense, Swift charged that many ef (Ane Ml cl me ba icc