The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1925, Page 1

[iP A a Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! Vol. Il. No, oato, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Sy e By T. J. OFL. #5 4 Cy RY 'VEN tho the United States\._ ment does not recognize the &_ iet Union, the U. S. post office depart® ment does. There is no longer such a country as Russia. If you intend your letter to arrive at its destination in- side the land of the victorious work- ers-and peasants, address it “Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.” This is according to an instruction sent out by the post office officials. If you mark the letter Russia, it will be re- turned with the legend “nobody home” or “no such country on the ante-revolutionary map.” see ANY people make the mistake of thinking that ‘there is only one Soviet Republic. In fact, there is a little world full of them, Russia prop- er is the nucleus around which all the other Soviet planets revolve. Every Once in a while a couple of re- lics apply for affiliation. It is get- ting so now that the central commit- tee fails to get excited unless half a dozen beg to come into the union at the same time. Just mow two eastern countries are clamoring for admission No doubt, they will be admitted, pro- yided their credentials are in good | order, oe 8 ryHE young school teacher who is on trial] down in Tennessee for teach- ing that man may- have at least a grinning acquaintance with the ape, is lucky that he did not break into the. front page a few hundred years ego. Instead of being on trial in a nice coo! court, house with scores of| the balancing of the budget, “if France telegraph wires clicking out every word he utters, with several legal lu- minaries volunteering to defend him without pay, (greatest of miracles) his ears would be treated to the sound of tinkling bells, while monks got ready to feed him to the faggots. see OUNG Mr. Scopes may ruminate on the experience of Messers. Bruno, Copernicus, and Galileo, who | had a warm time owing to their indis- cretion in making public their belief that the earth was not flat, neither did it stay in the one place, but spun around in a circle, like a lot of other planets, while the sun oceupied a po- sition in the center of the ciréles, koeping the planets at a.safe distance, for their own good. The church in- formed the gentlemen above referred i5 that this teaching was contrary to, what the christian god told the He- jand largest city of Morocco, as Wo. “OENCH RETREAT " > © “WARD FEZ IN FACE OF RIFFS Forced to Abandon 30 Outposts (Special to. The Dally Worker) PARIS, France, May 26, — The French troops have heen forced to evacuate thirty beleaguered outposts .in the Ouergha sector, French Moroc- co, the foreign office has admitted. The Riffian natives have advanced to the Ouergha river. The French in- vaders are now concentrating their efforts on a defense of Fez, the capital Bobane and Tounat have been fortified, ac- cording to the communique, These two posts, control the road to Fez, Interpellations on the Morocco in- vasion directed by the Painleve gov- ernment will be taken up in the cham- ber of deputies Wednesday, according to the present schedule. The Com- munists will condemn the entire Moroccan campaign as a war of ag- zression on behalf of the French im- oerialists, M. Caillaux, minister of finance, has presented his financial program to the chamber of deputies. Its main feature is a heavier tax on the workers, while the employers and financiers are allowed to escape the biggest share of ‘he tax burden. Caillaux declared that even after succeeds in freeing herself from the burden of reconstruction, France will still face a crushing international debt of more than 14 billion dollars.” War Against Riffs Comes High. Finance Minister Caillaux will ask parliament for an appropriation of 30,000,000 francs for the cost of the Riff war. The request will be referred to the finance committee for examina- tion before coming before the chamber of deputies. The debate on Morocco will be immediately started when the Communist Deputy Doriot will de- mand an interpellation on the Riffian invasion. DENIES HE WILL In Chicago, by matl, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. (Special to The Daily Worker) — LONDON, May 12—(By Mail.)—The tempest ¢! reviewers and editors over the book by Max Eastman ences existing since last year between Leon Trotsky, war in the Soviet government and the Russian mul out to be a tempest in a teapot and to have left the By etn AC cam encmaumm SWABECK FREED FROM CHARGE OF ‘SEDITION’ BY LABOR DEFENSE AID (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 26—Arne Swabeck, district organizer of the Workers Party, who was arrested at South Brownsville yesterday on RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY IN COMMENT ON BOURG. MS CRITICS 2 "by capitalist book- ieerning the differ- mer commissar of Party has turned berical “defenders” nh objejct for their All thru a cable- he signature of ay Worker thru Ppondent at Mos volunteer solictty gram sent 0 ‘s Trotsky to the Stir the pide. rs cow. ‘ | of Trotsky from herq health has ap- parently been fe@iperated and his abounding en Y restored at the Sukhum sanitor otsky issued the following stat : “Eastman’s b is unknown t 'to which you refer The bourgeois a charge of “sedition,” has beenre- | Newspapers joted it have not leased “for lack of evidence.” The | Teached me. Labor Defense Council furnished “Of course, @fute in advance defense. 3 POLE EXPLORER No Word from Amund- tiong for sociafist construction, sen, Lost Since Thursday] “our party polley of enlisting the " active participation of the broad | (Special to The Dally Worker) baueenth ta . isan workers and OSLO, May 26—“No word from| state is by no FG anovoech 1. Amundsen.” the bourgeois ’ amentary system. That was the only answer the gov- ernment could give on this the fifth ally any com- ‘against the Rus- sian Communi ty. “The ass ms Of the press, which you cite, that I ‘favorably inclined STILL MISSING towards bourgei jocracy and free trade, are crude’ ‘tions. “1, at one | the whole Com- ON FIFTH DAY munist Party, Gonsider that the Soviet system the dictatorship of ne the proletari Se d monopoly of foreign trade are inalienable condi- It is being eff ted within the bounds of the Soviet ime, which is directed day since Captain Raold Amundsen‘ py the Comn ist 1 y. and Lieutenant Lincoln Ellsworth a hg hopped off Spitzbergen in two aero- ‘The party's jpolicy of carefully planes last Thursday for what was| Considering ie interests of the supposed to have been a sixteen hour | Peasant as # small producer, can by continuous flight to the pole. Conflicting reports are reaching Oslo as to what the weather has been at the Pole. It is generally conceded, however, that snow has been falling and that the great stretch of sea and frozen land has been shrouded in fog. If there has been a recent fall of snow, it was pointed out that this would make it difficult for the Amund- LONDON, May 26.—Grettir Algars- | son, young explorer who hoped to race in his collapsible dirigible against sen-Elisworth party to return either jpby air or foot. * (Continued on page 3) mah B Se =a” BLAST KILLS 5 PENNSYLVANIA Lack of Ventilation by Management By PAT H. TOOHEY. (Special to The Daily Worker) EDWARDSVILLE, Pa—(By Mail) A terrific gas explosion in the Red Ash vein of the Woodward Colliery, Glen Alden Coal Co., at Edwardsville late Friday afternoon, cost the lives of five miners and seriously Injured many others. Laxity on the part of officials at the mine, by not insuring sufficent ventilation, is the probable reason. Following on the heels of the near fatal explosion at Kingston, an adjoin- ing mine, last Saturday, which imperil- ed the lives of 800 miners and injured 40, the families of many workers here today suffer the results of the care- lessness of the lackeys of the coal operators of the Edwardsville mine. Gas Explosion Probable. The accident occurred last Friday afternoon as the men were about to | quit work for the day. Suddenly there was a deafening report and a blinding | flash and the lives of three workers were snuffed out ina moment. There were eight men working together and only one was able to make his way out to the section entrance to call for rescuers. The opinion prevaily that a spark from an electric motor ignited a deep pocket of gas. One of the miners who was saved, when interviewed at the hospital, de- seribed the tragedy as the most grue- some and appalling experience that he had ever known. Making his way out of the gaseous chamber he stum- (Continued on page 8) ie New President of Germany Published dé except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicage, Ill. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents BRITISH AMBASSADOR WARNS OF COAL MINERS IN| IMPERIALIST COLLAPSE IN TALK TO IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, May 26.—Sir Esme Howard, British am- bassador, has answered the chorus of optimistic predictions as to American commercial and industrial prosperity voiced in Wash- ington during the convention of the U. S. chamber of commerce by predicting the most terrible economic crisis that the modern world has yet encountered. He has told the American nation bluntly, in a speech to the Iron and Steel Institute, that unless American tariff walls are promptly torn down, so that British and other European manu- factured good may freely compete in our market, European busi- ness will go to smash. When that occurs, Britain as well as the rest of Europe will cease to pay interest on their war debts to » Sees America. They will have no in- come with which to make pay ments. And their distress will drag down American industries relentlessly. All this has come as a shock to the tariff-drugged optimists in the capital. Just after Julius Barnes and Henry Robinson and the other leaders of the chamber of commerce crowd that will zo to Brussels in June to run the in- renational commerce chamber meet- ing had declared that America must have no competition from Germany, Britain serves notice that America cannot live within her tariff bar- ricade; she must permit competition or she must expect Europe to repu- diate. Danger Ahead! | “If Great Britain cannot sell her products abroad,” said Sir Esme, com- menting bitterly on the unfavorable balance of British trade with the United States, “she cannot, of course, continue to buy raw materials and manufactured goods in the United States in the same heavy quantities as had been her custom. “It is, I am sure, fully realized that Great Britain could scarcely carry on an unfavorable trade balance with the United States forever and yet -pay the thirty-two odd millfon pounds per annum required to meet her indebt- edness to the United States govern- ment. ,.. “I am not speaking now only. for the United Kingdom, nor for the Brit- ish.Empire;-bnut for the world-at-large “in declaring that as I see things un- less we can shortly restore a firnt basis of confidence and credit thru- “} out Europe and a return to the na- CAL ORDERS WAR DAY FOR JULY 4, 10 KEEP WORKERS FROM HOLIDAY (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26.— President Coolidge, in a letter to the war department, has indorsed an annual “defense day,” similar to the war demonstration held on last armistice day, for the purpose of disseminating propaganda for a larger army and navy. Coolidge declared the date should be changed to July fourth. He made this recommendation at the request of business men who ob- Jected to giving their employes an- other holiday. Italy and Czecho-Slovakia, highly in- dustrialized, must manufacture goods cheaply enough to undersell their competitors, so that they can deliver a surplus in the world market and pay the United States. Competition is to be brought home to American labor, thru depressing the standards of foreign labor. Yet a republican administration dare not reduce the tariff without peril to its own political existence. So the Cool- idge administration is going to both eat its cake and have it—and let the smash come! GARY LOCKOUT }rew Moses on the mountain and that ‘Aitural flow. of trade—unless we can unless they recanted, their tongues would be plucked out of.their heads as a slight indication of the heavenly father’s merciful indignation. et RUNO, being a conscientious ob- jector against recanting, took his Seat on a bundle of sticks and was turned into ashes, while a multitude of ku Klux klan and Bryanic morons ap- plauded the sight. Galileo did not fare so badly. He loved science well, but also wisely, Perhaps he came to the conclusion that this earth of ours would revolve around the sun any- how, no matter what the cowled mur- (Continued on page 2) 40,000 GARMENT WORKERS GETTING 20 CENTS A DAY Porto Ricans Slave for U. S. Bosses (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 26—The Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is interested in a bill forbidding home work introduced into the Porto 1 senate by Senator Santiago competition of the non-union eatshop dress industry of the which 40,000 women and toil at an average wage of 20 cents! daily, affects standards in the American industry. Employers of the Porto Rican work- ers live in America and have their central offices in New York, say let- ters from Iglesias. His bill would penalize factory managers with fines and imprisonment for giving out home work. AID W. VA, MINERS Canard Circulated by U. M. W. Officials HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 26+ Denial was made today by Charles Evans Hughes, former secretary of state, that he has enlisted his services in the legal fight of the United Mine Workers against the injunctions is- sued by Judge William E. Baker, re- straining the miners from attempting to organize the West Virginia non- union coal fields. It was announced in Wheeling last Friday that Hughes had volunteered his services to aid the miners. When this announcement was called to Hughes’ attention, it was stated on his behalf that the report was not correct and that Hughes had no in- formation regarding the matter. The former secretary of state is still vacationing at Pomander Gate, WOOD'S TROOPS ATTACK MORO PEASANTS WHO CHARGE MISTREATMENT MANILA, May 26.—A Joint con- ‘abulary and navy s was launched today under the com- mand of Major Orville Johnson against the Moro peasants in the Lake Lanao region of Mindanao Is- land, according to advices reaching Manila. The Moros recently removed their children from the public schools and withdrew to their jungle fastness declaring they were being mistreat- ed by Filipino officials. Governor General Leonard Wood sent them an ultimatum last week to return to their villages. Refusal alii Captain Roald Amundsen’s airplanes for the honor of first reaching the | Pole thru the air, may assume the role of rescuer, it appeared today. Airship difficulties have delayed his | departure from Liverpool, but he may | send his ship on ahead to Spitzbergen | and follow in his blimp. | The young explorer, whose plan it } first was to push his vessel as far | north as the ice would permit, then in | flate his collapsible dirigible and fly | to the pole, would start his polar! rescue flight from Spitzbergen, ac- cording to dispatches from Liverpool. Charge Shepherd Witness Offered to Change Evidence A charge that Robert White, miss- ing prosecution witness, demanded $5,000 from defense attorneys for re- pudiation of his statement that he had seen William D. Shepherd at Charles C. Faiman’s national university of science, was hurled into the Shep- herd-McClintock maze as the trial of Shepherd on a charge of murder swung into the closing session of its eight almost futile days this after, noon, John J. Kelly, an insurance man made the charge. Meanwhile, 15 of the 20 attorneys involved in the litigation over the will of young McClintock which left the bulk of his fortune to Shepherd, agreed to a postponement of the hear- ing until June 15, Irish Republican Chief Returning to Work at His Former Profession DUBLIN, May 26.— It is rumored that Eamonn de Valera, leader of the of the Moros to comply led to to- | republican party of Ireland, is return, day's attacks. REPORT DANISH GENERAL STRIKE WON WITH PAY RAISE FOR UNION ing to active practice at his profes- sion of instructor in mathematics, He will go to work in two catholic col- leges in the vicinity of Dublin. Valera, is very religious and.has large family, , LONDON, May 26.—According to reports from Denmark, tho not yet Four Killed and the confirmed by labor union sou Pees, the Danish general transport workers’ Wt Rg et et <a s LAY, The Ex-Kaisers Shadow Looms Behind Him. Trial of Kluxer, Alleged Killer, is Delayed Until Aug. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 26.—D. C. Stephenson, former K. K. K. lead- er in Indiana, who» with Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry: face trial for murder as a result of the death of Madge Oberholtzer following an attack on her may not go 'to’trial before August lst. The present term of the Hamilton county circuit, to’which the trial of Stephenson andi his alleged accom- plices was venwed from here last week, ends on Angust 1, When the transfer was made it was stated the trial would probably not be held until October since the Hamilton court docket is crowded for the remainder of the current term. Judge Hines was said to have point- De ed out that important criminal cases ® | take precedence over all others and the would probably be able to fix & —- Sefore August 1, for trial of Step. —-Klinck and Gentry if such a request. - made, KARAKHAN;, SOVIET TELLS CHINESE work on the principle of goods across the sea—we are heading for a worse cataclysm than that produced by the actual state of war.” The Dilemma of Imperialism. Discounting the possible bluff and political motive in this statement, économists in the federal government still admit that it is essentially sound. If Europe is to pay its debts to Amer- ica, it must pay in goods, and those goods must get thru our tariff wall. But when that wall is broken, either American labor must be left to tragic- ally widespread disemployment or it must accept a lower standard of liv- ing. A lower standard of living means less consumption of goods, which im- Plies further industrial depression. What Will Labor Do? As tho to reply at once to this warning, the state department an- nounced that it had sent word to European governments jowing the United States for loans,made after the armistice, that America wants them to pay up in accordance with contract. That is to say, Belgium and AMBASSADOR, STUDENTS THE MEANING OF WORLD SOVIET RULE (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKIN, China, May 26.—Additional extracts of the speech by L. M. Karakhan, Soviet ambassador to China, College, which aroused the American legation made to students of Tsinghua to protest to the Chinese foreign office, were made public here today. They show that Karakhan wen after the world imperialists \with bare fists, much to the delight of the Chinese studnets, who urged that he provide them with complete copies of his ad- + dress, which was made in Russian and then translated into Chinese by Prof. A. I. Ivanoff, Chinese secretary of the embassy of the Union of Soviet Republics. Karakhan addressed the students at the invitation of the college president, Tsao, and was given a tremendous ovation. Reviews Soviet Polic! It was hardly possible, Karakhan declared, to cover in so short a time ENDS, BUILDERS RETURN TO WORK GARY, Ind., May 26—The contract- ors’ association, which had locked out three thousand Gary building trades workers a week ago, were reported to have called off the lockout and agreed that the men should return to work tomorrow morning. Agreement was reached with build- ing trades officials this afternoon. The lockout followed a strike of plumb- ers, who walked out on May 65, de- manding an increase in pay of from $12 to $13 per day. A building pro- gram of approximately $6,000,000 had" been suspended because of the con- troversy. TOOTHLESS PICKETING BILL PASSES SENATE AND GOES TO HOUSE (Special to The Daily Worker.) SPRINGFIELD, Iil., May 26.—The senate today passed the Cuthbert son injunction bill, 28 to 15, and sent it to the house. The measure was brought forth following the house defeat of the Soderstrom anti-in- junction bill, regarded as labor's prime issue in the legisiature. It developed a mild form and speci- fles no injunction shall be Issued against strikers so long as they semble, picket or solicit peace- fully, INJUNCTION FORBIDDING MINERS FROM TALKING, COMPARED TO THE DRED SCOTT DECISION OF 1858 WHEELING, W. Va., May 26, — Local miners are forbidden to talk of joining the union, and when spoken to regarding a union they must remain dumb, under the terms of the eral Judge W. E. Baker to coal operators in northern West Virginia. called peaceful persuation methods of temporary injunction granted by Fed- So- picketing are strictily forbidden, T. C. Townsend, counsel for the United Mine Workers, declared that the Mayor Wounded During Class Clash in Mexico ea INDIANAPOLIS; May 26—Thirteen MEXICO CITY, Mexico, May 26.—|persons who plemded guilty recently Four persons were killed and séveral jin federal court to various charges others, including the mayor, were jand were given prison sentences were wounded in the city of Pachuca in a/taken to Leavenworth, Kansas, this clash between agrarian elements and |afternoon under guard of deputies La lok tee headed by Deputy, United States Mar ost in Mexico, ‘T.Mickman, all the subject of the very essence and the policy of the Union, and so the speaker was compelled to confine him- self to noting in the most general way such peculiar features and the main lines of policy,of the Union as differentiate it from the capitalistic countries and allot to:the U, 8. 8. R. (Contmued on page ?° strike is won by the wérkers, the shipping companies having signed an agreement wh. “Ss seamen and firemen granting an increase of five per cent in wages. The agreement is said to run for two years. * * * * ‘ Revolutionary marine workers were reported last week to have threat- ened a boycott on all Danish ships. Norwegian unions put it into effect, This may have contributed materially to the victory | repo: London. However, until the report Is configmed from labor sources, tha DAILY WORKER advises a continuance of the boycott—Editor. \ miners look upon the order as Being momentous as that handed down Im 1858 in the Dred Scott case, which declared a Negro to be a mere piece of property.” “This new injunction,” said Townéend, “prohibits an employe of the eompany from talking of joining a labor union, and makes him dumb to anyone who cares to discuss unionization with him. It is in effect a thou- sand times worse than the Dred Scott decision, because it establishes an enslavement of the human mind, while the Scott decision merely placed in bondage the human body.” ’ Thirteen Off for Prison. + ’ noure