The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1925, Page 2

a ; al Page Two T FRENCH BAR COMMUNIST ORGAN, UHUMANITE,’ FROM MOROCCO AS TROOPS CONDENN RIFF CAMPAIGN RABAT, French Morocco, May 25.—The Communist news- paper L’Humanite of Paris was barred from sale or distribution in the French Moroccan zone by official order. The order stated that “certain articles in the newspaper have tended to provoke French soldiers to disobedience during the present operations, and are of a nature to threaten the discipline and safety of the troops, The Communist Party organ has been widely read by the French soldiers in Morocco and much sympathy with the native Riffians who have been at-+ tacked at the behest of French imperialists has been expressed thruout the army. French Retreat. French troops under Colonel Frey- denburg are fighting the Riffians along the Ouergha river, especially in and around the town of Gara des Mezziat. I this report on the military situa- tion Marshal Lyautey admits that the Bifian offensive has not been checked. Tt is now admitted that the Bibane am@ Tanouat heights have been cap- tuted twice in one week, only to be lost again. ‘The outposts have also been left to themselves, after being revictualed are again surrounded by the Riff- Gen. de Chambrun has been sidpeeded in command by Gen. Dau- gan. The French have retreated to the Ouergha river, “for strategical a says the French commu- ee Chamber Postpones Discussion. PARIS, France, May 25.—By a vote pf $12 to 178 the chamber of deputies ‘tofiay postponed until Wednesday the | disenssion of voting credits for the French military campaign in Morocco. Premier Herrioot has declared that he approves the government’s inva- sion of northern Africa, and will throw the support of the radical so- clalist deputies to a continuation of the imperialistic invasion. Ben Ghabrit, the Mohammedan lead- er, who was made minister plenipoten- tiary of France, has been commission- ed by the Painleve cabinet to conduct negotiations with the Riffian leader Abd-el-Krim, in the name of the “sul- tan of Morocco.” The sultan has giv- en France the mandate to rule Moroc- co, and France considers Krim “tech- nically in revolt against the sultan.” The chamber of deputies opened to- day. The Communist deputies will oppose granting credits for the Riflan campaign, and will condemn the en- tire project as a move of the French capitalists to subjugate the native Africans in order to exploit their labor and natural resources. Premier Painleve has drafted a bill for added appropriations for the Mo- roccan war, and it is this bill which will be discussed Wednesday. FOSTER SPEAKS WEDNESDAY EVE, ATT, U. EL. MEET The British Left Wing Subject of Lecture All workers interested in the labor ™~pyement are invited to be present to- momtow evening, Wednesday, May 27, @ the Iscture of William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Bduca- tional League, at the league’s monthly meeting in Norttnoest Hall, corner of Worth and Western avenues. There is no admissoin charged. Faster will speak upon the Minority Movement of the Trade Unions of England, and as he attended the last conference of the English left wing amd recently returned from Europe, Foster is able to give intimate pic- tures of the great sweep of radical- ism now rising thru the English work- ing class. Besites this, the T. U. EH. L. regular business at the meeting will include an interesting report from the T. U. HE. L. needle trades section upon the situation in that industry. Similar meetings are held every month, on the last Wednesday of the month. Milftants should miss none of theso valuable assemblies. Mussolini Visits D’Annunzio, ROME, May 25—The question of the whereabouts of Premier Musso- lini was ended today when it was learned he was visiting Gabriele D’- Annunzio, poet aviator. It was thought the visit was In connection with the celebration of Italy’s entrance into the world war. | NAME Fe yoar 6S. hana 4200 9 montis rT meted meeps ay pate Send this PROPAGANDA SUB to a worker to “Make Another Communist” Bankruptcy of Labor Officialdom Exposed in Penn. (Continued from page 1) were wasted with speakers on every- thing but the problems the workers are confronted with. A representa- tive of the Workers Health Bureau who was one of the few that spoke on the daily problems was given time near the adjournment hour when a convention is restless and most of the delegates gone. Resolutions Hastily Handled. Only a few hours were devoted to resolutions. One was introduced by the militant miners who realize the need of unity with the railroad work- ers calling on the federation to use its influence with the ralroad unions to stop hauling of scab coal and scabs. This resolution was adopted. But the resolution introduced by the left wing that had for its purpose to put the federaion on a fighting basis by inaugurating a free speech cam- paign in front of the mill gates at McKeesport was referred to the A. F. of L. thereby passing the buck on the grounds of no jurisdiction. Nothing Practical Done to Beat Gag Law. A state wide campaign for the re- peal of the Flynn anti-sedition law proposed by the left wing delegates was accepted. It is not the first time however, that the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor has accepted such resolution and the method of lobbying with capitalist legislators utilized for all it was worth to put it into. effect, No less than three hundred labor rep- resentatives at one time went to Har- risburg to plead. It availed nought. The law still remains in force, the past exeprience showing that the time is rotten ripe for a much more aggres- sive form of campaign based on the mass power of the workers if results are to be obtained. Another proposal to put the federa- tion on the map as a fighting organ- ization was defeated. This was the holding of the next convention in the city of Mcseesport, one of the hell holes in Pennsylvania. After the business agent and paid official dele- gates heard of the good beer in Erie, the beautiful lake, the beach and that Canada was only 26 miles away they almost put the convention into a tur- moil. Left Wing Grew. It is such conventions as this where highly paid delegates come to look for pleasure instead of taking up the problems of the workers that is building the left wing. As the con- vention proceeded the left wing grew in numbers and became more and more a factor. Altho it was small it asserted itself and challenged the pleasure hunters. This left wing may prevent many a nice party next year. Worker. Killed While Pulling the World’s Fastest R. R. Train SYRACUSE, N. Y., May 25—The Twentieth Century Limited, fastest train in the world, hurtled through Amboy today at a mile a minute clip, headed for Syracuse, As the locomotive roared through the village, Edward H. Peck, 55, of Buffalo, engineer of the crack train, leaned out the window of the cab, watching the escape valve as he push- ed the injector to force water into the doflers. He was struck by a water plug and fell back into the cab unconscious and dying, —eesceneeenincse Street Meetings. Tuef#day—Wilton and Belmont. D. B. Harley, Ida Dailes and others, Wednesday—Madison and Lincoln. Karl Reeve and Harrison George, Thursday—22nd street and Troy. Thurber Lewis and William F. Kruse, —____. Patronize our advertisers, (25 9 wonthe AS WE SEE\IT By T. J. O)FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) Chinese masses: “See, what even the liberals think of the Soviet regime!” eee HE liberals are very useful to the capitalists. At critical moments, with very few exceptions, they flop over to the side to which they really belong. ‘Take the tribe who profess to be so much concerned about civil liberties! Naturahy, in a capitalist state the workers are always the suf- ferers, and most of the efforts of the civil libertarians are directed towards making the master class live up to their own laws. But everybody who understands anything about sociology knows that there is a constant strug- gle going on between the possessing class and the dispossessed class. In this struggle it is impossible to be neutral, One must take either one side or the other. * ee HE capitalists have the govern- ment on their side. They make the laws and obey them or violate them, according to taste and requirement. The Communists say there cannot be any real universal freedom as long as class rule exists. Governments are organs of repression, even the Soviet government. It exists to pro- tect the workers and peasants rule as the governments of England and the United States exist to protect capi- talist rule. That’s all there 1s to it. The liberals want to lift the workers into the cloud lands of fancy, where they picture an imaginary world, They want to convince them that what is wrong with our present state of so- ciety is not capitalism, but certain capitalists who have not learned to do their robbing painlessly, ** 8 Side RUSSIA is engaged in the difficult task of laying the basis for a socialist economy. The rest of the capitalist world is in opposition. The bourgeoisie of all nations, no matter how they quarrel among themselves are united against the workers’ and peasants’ government. They know that the Red Republic is a standing challenge to them and a beacon light to the rest of the proletarian world. Therefore, they are burning up money in fimancing plots to overthrow the Soviet power, and placing every ob- stacle in the way of Soviet progress. They have their conspirators inside Russia as well as outside. What is the Soviet government going to do about it? Throw away its defensive weapons and allow the czarists who have trodden over the workers and peasants of Russia for centuries to re- turn to power? * ft @ i the Russian revolutionists had done this, snow white lilies would now be sprouting over the graves of every bolshevik leader whose name is today anathema to the capitalist class, and the liberals would admit that the bolsheviks were nice fellows but were not “practical.” Fortunately for the working class the Russian revolution kept their guns and used them on the enemy. The result is that today they, are governing one sixth of the earth’s surface. They have proven them- selves to be “practical” but they are not “nice,” 7-8 © HE “Anglo-Saxon” New Republic claims that the Russians never ex- perienced freedom of speech and of the press “as they exist (except in wartime) in Anglo-Saxon countries.” This is ku klux klan, Nordic hokum. Ask the Irish, Egyptian, Hindoo and other oppressed peoples of the British empire what civil liberty means under the Union Jack? Ask the Hawaiians, Filipinos or Cubans, what civil liberty means under the American flag? Even in England today, Harry Politt, Com- munist, is kidnapped by a fascist gang and the court laughs it off as @ good joke. In the same “Anglo-Saxon” country, Communists get six months in jail for making a speech against capitalism. The liberals will not fool the revolutionary working class with their protests against the absence of civil liberty for the bourgeoisie in Russia. This is but a smoke screen to hide an attack on Soviet Russia. Freight Crash Blocks Traffic. HARRISBURG, Pa., May 25.—With thru passenger trains running hours behind schedule, and freight traffic at a standstill over the middle division, wrecking crews today were working frantically to clear away the debris of last night’s midnight crash that killed one and injured two other train- men, piled an engine and 21 freight cars in kindling wood, and tore out great sections of rails 6n all four tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad at Bailey station, 20 miles west of here. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! C’mon Over! a day, an hour, ora minute c'mon over. There is so much work piled up on the small force in our office that we need your help badly, to Insert letters, addr HE DAILY .WORKER |*AID THE:NOVA SCOTIA MINERS!’ APPEAL ISSUED Call Goes to.Labor in All Lands (Donttnual ota page 1) action by the Canadian Trades Con- gress, have made the fight keener and harder in every respect. All Ald to Nova Scotia! The miners must be supported by the Canadian workers of all trades, to- gether with the workers of the U. 8. Their fight is our fight and if. they are defeated it willbe our turn next. A militant struggle properly con- @ucted must be continued, and to con- tinue it must be dimanced. All work- ers are requested to send financial aid to the address given at the foot of this article. |: Masses and Militancy Will Win. Mass meetings must be arranged thruout the district, the progressive miners must desires the issues, and call upon the officials to properly and militantly lead"the’» miners in the struggle. Mass* demonstrations, “pa- rades,” must take place thruout the district, and a militant, mass organiza- tion of pickets°thfown around the miners in each ‘locality. The white collared scabs tending the pumps, representing the company, must be stopped from working. And it is common knowledge that no pick- ets can stop scabs from working by merely smiling at them going past. Workers’ Lives Come First. The company’s property is not the first consideration of the pickets, their first consideration must be to win the strike. The wages, conditions, and the lives of the workers themselves depend upon a successful outcome, and human life is the first considera- tion: No aid can be expected from the U. M. W. of A. officials. We have at hand a copy of the Miners’ Journal. Nowhere in its yellow pages does it even refer to the Nova Scotia situa- tion. The miners can go to hell, as far as John L. Lewis is concerned. * Lewis Paralyzed. While in Carladd} John L. Lewis kowtowed to the government officials, complimented them ‘in every way, but failed to do anything or say anything effectively for the miners. The morale of the strikers is good, but the tremendous’ pressure brought to bear must eventually have its ef- fect. The miners, with theiz wives and families are ‘starving, the com- pany stores are flosed against them and the smaller gtores have likewise closed and no reff from that source is obtainable. Mass demonstration, “parades” and militant speaking°at meetings will help to keép up ‘the morale ‘of the miners. OM: re Soviet Unions Token of Solidarity. The present disgraceful attack on the Nova Scotia miners has brought the sympathy of the world to their aid from far off ‘Soviet Russia, the unions have donated and forwarded $5,000.00 to help feed the starving children. This isa glowing tribute to international understanding and class unity, and brings the Russian workers out prominently as the world’s leaders in)the cause of the working class. ‘ The present strike in Nova Scotia against the 10 per ¢ent reduction in wages is one of many attacks by the beast of Besco during many years, and has resulted in the past, in de- gradation, disease, starvation, malnu- trition and death. Die Fighting! The conditions of the miners prior to this strike was deplorable in the extreme. Their living conditions were down to zero, and as one militant progressive miner said, “It is better to starve to death fighting for justice than to starve to death working and yet be unable to make a living.” Thru all the years of bitter strug- gle in the Nova Sedtia field, the many bitter betrayals of’the miners by the bureaucracy, the "treacherous expul- sions of our old fighters, Jim McLach- lan and his colleagues who have stead- fastly stood in thé fight for justice to the miners, find''them today in the midst of their in@ustrial battle, de- termined to win, their slogan no “sur- render to the beast” no wage reduc- tion, has cemented them together in a comradely bond that brings forth the open admiration of the workers of the world, 1 Send all donattotis to Joseph Near. ing, Box 730, Glacé’ Bay, N. S., Can, Earthquake Shakes, Manila. MANILA, May fn sharp earth- quake was regis here at 11:40 a. m., today, ig to the seismo- logists, the center Of the earth disturb- ance was 200 miles from Manila, Wall Street Diplomats Fear Red Ambassador’s Speech to The Chinese By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TopAY: the American legation at Peking, China, appoints itself the censor of utterances made by the Soviet am- bassador, L. M. Karakhan. It especially objects to state- ments made in a speech to the students of Tsinghua College, at the invitation of the college president. This would indicate that Wall Street’s diplomats still think they rule unchallenged in the Orient. Or do they fear for their rule? That is more likely. The dollar diplomats in China should know, if they have not already found it out, that the Chinese revolution- ists do not like their speeches. The late American minister, Schurman, now departe@ for Berlin, where he has been pro- moted to the post of ambassador, was never known to say anything favorable to the interests of the Chinese people. He was not in China for that purpose. He was there, as his successor is there now, in the Interests of the Imperialism that seeks to crush the Chinese people. e e ee When the American legation protested to the Chinese ministry of foreign affairs against the Soviet ambassador’s speech, it was not because Karakhan had said anything Inl- mical to the Chinese, but rather because he had stepped on the toes of the American imperialists. Just one. paragraph from what Karakhan said. Here it is: “Here, in China, the word ‘imperialism’ Is used very often, and the Chinese people—the revolutionary part—are right when they mean by it every form of oppression, violence and degradation from which this country suffers at the hands of imperialism. To drive out this evil and free their country Is the alm of an ever-growing number of Chinese today, and their struggle will have the more chances of success the better and the clearer it will be understood what imperlalism is, and in what forms it reveals Itself for the most part.” ° e e e Karakhan was greeted with loud applause when he en- tered the college hall. He was given an even greater ovation when he left it; all of which was quickly reported by the U. S. secret service to the American legation, that promptly went into hysterics. There will no doubt be a regular tidal wave of editorial attack in the American dollar press against the impertinence of the Chinese students in listening so eagerly to a Soviet spokesman. The present “socialist” rule in Mexico, for instance, under President Calles, will be held up in contrast. It will be shown that Communists have been expeiled from the Mexican labor unions, that all efforts are being made by the Calles regime, under Wall Street guidance to stamp out Com- munist agitation. Says the Chicago Tribune: “Danger to our peace thru red infections from Mexico fs not serious, tho if President Calles sees fit to check It from his side of the border the service will be appreciated not merely for the Inconvenience it saves our authorities but also as a sign of good feeling on the part of the Mexican government toward us.” * Nothing could more clearly indicate the servility of the Calles “socialist” regime to American imperialism than this Tribune editorial; while nothing could better show the friendship of the Chinese for the workers and peasants of the Union of Soviet Republics, than the protest of the American legation at Peking, to the Chinese foreign minister. * . * « American workers must not be fooled. The U. S. diplo- matic attack on the Chinese indicates that the workers in the Orient are fighting more than ever for their own inter- ests. Praise of Calles’ rule shows that the Mexican workers, over their own protest, are being held in leash to the inter- national bankers and oil profiteers of this country. The clos- ing word “us” in the Tribune editorial means the bankers and profiteers of the United States. It cannot mean the work- ers and poor farmers of the United States who suffer in com- ron with their Mexican comrades. The events in the Far East, where the revolutionary situation is rapidly developing, would indicate that the regions of the earth where the autocratic rule of “Us” holds sway are rapidly diminishing in extent. * * ‘sci. The American legation in Peking protests while it can. This ‘only serves to reveal its real mission to the Chinese masses. The workers and peasants of Mexico will in time raise a government to power that will listen to them and not to the gold seekers of Wall Street. Even the workers and poor farmers of the United States will learn that the road to their emancipation lies in the same direction. ARNE SWABEGK, WORKERS PARTY ORGANIZER, IS UNDER ARREST IN PA. Army of Hunger Gets. 1,400 More Recruits (Special to The Daily Worker) LOWELL, Mass., May 25.—The Massachusetts Cotton Mills, largest to spare—why, | seal and stamp envelopes textile firm in Lowell, has closed down completely, The plant has been running five days a week, with 1,400 workers, less than half the normal number. Misery among the 25/000 cotton workers of Lowell is great for unemployment and part time work are general, iia intial Business Violates Laws, NEW YORK, May 25.—"Business is living up to the Sherman and Claton (anti-trust) laws as well as the Vol- stead act is being obeyed,” said Fed- eral Trade Commissioner Huston ‘Thompson at a luncheon of the depart- ment of research and education of the federal council of churches, 80 very PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 25—Arne Swabeck, district organizer for the Workers Party, was arrested and imprisoned at South Brownsville to- day on a charge of sedition. The Labor Defense Council is looking after the o Japan “Registers” Soviet Pact. GENEVA, Switzerland, May 26.— The Japanese government has regis-, tered the Russo-Japanese treaty re- cently concluded in the Far East with the league of nations. According to the Russo-Japanese treaty the Japan- ese troops evacuated Sakhalin and made arrangements for concesisons and commercial agreements between the two countries, ue DAILY. SUBSCRIPTION and ever so many other little that have us swamped. vance If you volunteer your services:that’s a fine way to help STREET. the DAILY WORKER, We'll Be glad to see you—so Ju for fun, c'mon over! __ ory__.___ STATE __.__ JENSEN MACHINE | MAN SLAMMED IN LOCAL UNION Lee Green Riddled the Faker’s Tirade Local 62 of the Carpenters’ Unior- listened to a debate between Sands,. secretary-treasurer of the district council and brother Lee Green, a rank: and file member of the union, at its: regular meeting Iast week; Green, is one of the leaders of the progressive caucus, that is supporting brother Stahl against Harry Jensen for the presidency of the council. Sand, who is an ex-socialist, deliver ed the usual tirade against the Com- munists and particularly against those who are active in the unions, This is where they hit the fakers in the most. tender part.. He attacked the progres+ sive caucus and made an ass of hime self by declaring that “there is now @ new organization being formed un- der the direction of Moscow, and it ia called the caucus.” It happens thaw the caucus is an old institution among the carpenters, so Sand showed’ ment al as well as political bankruptcy in. pulling such a boner, Yet he is alleged. to be the brain. af the Harry Jensen. machine.. Exploded Faker’s Lies Brother Green. during « spsactr that: took him fully forty five minutes ta deliver, exploded the lies peddled. ont: by the faker Sand, particulalrily the one about the trade union movement in Russia. Green proved that tha unfons were legal in Russia under:the Soviet regime, whereas thay were outs lawed under the czar. He showed by figures that 97 per cent. of the industrial workers of Russia. ara organized in trade unions;; that’ off cials of the unions are important members of the government and that the Communists in all countries insist that. members of their party join. the trade unions and become active pam ticipants in their sativities.. ‘When brother Green got thru talk fing, the audience apfiauded, Senti ment for Stahl among the carpenters: fs so overwhelming that it is impos sible for Jensen to win. majority of the votes even with ths assistance of tha experient. counters: of “czar” Hutolien- LATVIA, TORN FROM RUSSIA, GOES ON ROCKS Economic Life of Baltic painters’ union, returned from months’ visit with relatives land he left 20 years ago. The once booming industries have gone to pot, he says. Little remaing of the great rubber and machinery Plants that once were outstanding fea- tures of Riga, and the lively harbor activities of former times have waned. Unemployment is rife, wages low, where work is to be had, and the cost of living high. Walters says the industrial popula- tion blames the depression generally on two main causes: (1) The policy of the nationalistic, agrarian government in discouraging industry so that a supply of cheap labor may be assured to thé agricultural landlords the gov- ernment represents; (2) The separa- tion of the little Baltic nation from the economic life of Russia with which it was formerly connected. Latvia and its great port of Riga are natural outlets for Russian com- merce and the policy of nationalistic isolation, which the present govern- ment, and its imperialistic backers— France and Poland—insist means starvation for the life of the nation. Walters had his own experiences with the Latvian government when police raided a labor union m he was attending and arrested him, with others present, holding him Jail for two days and blackening eye. Many labor unions are outla by the government, he said. upon, economic T. U. E, L. PICNIC, All street meetings are called off for next Saturday evening owing to the T. U. E. L. plenic which will be held in Altenhelm WORKER