The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1925, Page 1

Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN_ON IT! Vol. Il. No. 117. SV. by"? U.S. ATTEMP,”...<°"CT WAR DEBTS FROM BAR.” “JROPE TURNING OUT COMPLEvE FAILURE By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) TION RATES: MM WASHINGTON, May 27.—Secretary of State Kellogg’s at- tempt to collect from Europe some of the war debts and after- war loans made by the treasury of the United States to the hungry governments of the allied group has come close to com- plete failure. Nobody will seriously discuss. paying until they see what France is going to do. France—as pointed out in a bitter editorial by George Harvey—has scattered Legion of Honor titles-among American journalists and bankers and college presidents, and has sidestepped payment. Now pistes aca ai oti A a FI AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY. JT is perfectly alright for a Japanese to endanger life and limb by en listing in the United States army, but if he should imagine that such action entitles him to citizenship, he is due for a rude awakening. A Japanese who served as a coast guzrd from 1913 until 1923 was naturalized in 1921. Some snooper discovered the crime and the Massachusetts federal court decided that he had no right to citi- zenship papers. “e HE case was carried to the United States supreme -court and the de- cision was sustained, despite the fact that congress passed a law in 1919 providing that “any person of foreign birth who served in the ‘military or naval forces of the United States dur- ing the present war” might acquire naturalization papers. But war be- tween the United States and Japan had not then reached the stage of open naval maneuvers in the Pacific. ‘What does the law mean to the capi- talists when it no longer suits their interests? Nothing. se * fe National Civic Federation isi worried very much over the prom- ised visits of British labor leatérs” Easley, secretary of the federation, called a hurried meeting of that body to discuss the latest menace to Am- erican civilization. This invasion has two wings: the right and the left. But for the DAILY WORKER, it is pos- sible that the enemy would slip. in without Easley’s knowledge. It was in our daily, the watchdog of Wall Street secured the information. A bit too open to suggest a “plot.” ee IASLEY immediately got in touch, with Peter Brady, who by the way is reported to be a Pole, despite his Hibernian cognomen. The Poles have a right to an apology if the re- port is not well founded. Brady, is president of a “labor bank” in New York. He is also supervisor of the New York City Record and occupies a nice suite of offices in the city hall, unless he lost them since 1921. He is a prominent labor faker and admits that he runs the New York Central Trades and Labor Council. Brady did not like the idea of men like Purcell and Wheatley coming to the United States tho the Right Honorable fak- ers, James Ramsay MacDonald and J. H. Thomas would be very welcome. ” .* © RADY and Hugh Frayne were call- ed on by Easley to explain the significance of the new invasion to the terrified subsidizers of the Civic Federation. No doubt those gentry will be able to satisfy the plutes that the officials of the American Federa- tion of Labor are sufficiently strong in eir loyalty to capitalism to escape tamination from Purcell, who it Id be noted was in the Soviet on a short time ago and is now ly engaged in the task of bring- ing about a united front of labor in- ternattonally, in conjunction with the Soviet trade union leaders, ee OINTING out incidents of treaeh- ery to the working class on the part of the American labor leaders is a monotonous task. But it is neces- sary. Every intelligent worker knows that what is good for Rockefeller and Morgan, politically and economically, ‘Continued on page 2) % December session, a measure to tring Wate. bankers the Fight to make she has developed a big colonial ——* war in Africa, and will call on the world to witness that she needs new loans from Wall Street. Senator Borah, who stirred up Kellogg to demand that France pay her debt, is getting a lot of indignant letters from France. Some of these all him stupid, others find him a angerous agent of Moscow for ruin- ing western civilization, and some brand him as a narrow-minded pro- vincial. None inclose any checks. Bankers Claim First Mortgage. At the White House there persists » deadly calm. No undue help has been given Kellogg in his bill-collecting ef- fort.. Mellon and Morgan & Co. are not anxious that France and Belgium and Roumania and the rest shall be forced to levy haavy taxes on their people in order to bein »aying what they owe the United States treasury. Our international bankers have ex- ported so much capital to Hurope that they feel themselves to have a sort of first mortgage on the whole place. They agree with the Houghton de- mands—that Europe shall stop using borrowed money for war preparations. But they want to take a profit from loaning a great deal more of American money to European governments. Now the element in congress, led by Borah, that is insisting that France and Belgium and Italy begin to pay, recognizes that no payment will be made until congress shall have taken a hand in the game. It is preparing, fe loans’ to koveruments our government. This can be done by an amendment to the law govern- ing the federal reserve system to which these big bankers belong. It will draw a financial blockade around our debtors. Fear Economic Cotlapse. As, soon as the Mellon-Morgan banks realize that congress is going to insist on debt collection, the skele- ton will be dragged forth from the economic closet—the fact that the war baakrupt western Europe and the Bal- kans, and that Germany cannot be made to pay the debts of France and Belgium and Italy. The bankers will ask congress to forgive Europe these debts in order that economic collapse may not undermine American as well as foreign trade and industry. Borah says that France and Bel- gium can pay, regardless of the tar- iff wall around the United States and regardless of German reparations. He concedes that Britain would find it more difficult tho she seems able to charge off her whole payments to America by raising the price of the rubber which America buys from her, and by steadily increasing her hold on the. oil supplies of the world. LOS ANGELES COSSACK WOULD FINGERPRINT UNEMPLOYED WORKERS SANT ANA, May 27,—George K. Home, chief of detectives of Los An- geles, speaking before the Californ- ia division of the international as- sociation for identification, urged that the fingerprints .of unemployed. workers be taken by the police. «| “We handled hordes of unemploy- e#_in Los Angeles,” the official pro- tector’ of Lom Angeles property sald, “And we found many profes. sional criminals among them.” Home intimated’ that he consi¢ ered it a crime to be unemployed. | “Were the registration system in vogue it would be possible for po- lice to identify criminals and pick them out,” Home adde JAPAN SENDS WARSHIP TO HELP JAP MILL OWNERS MAKE WAR ON CHINESE WORKERS AT TSINTAO TOKIO, May 27.—Une. which hi against Japanese mill owners, colony at Tsintao fears violence. The consul general has referred the details to the foreign office and have advised them that conditions are growing worse. commerce today asked the Japanese anda warship to protect Japanese citizens, i iness was felt here today over an ugly situation arisen at Tsintao as a result of a strike of Chinese employes Information received today indicates the dispute is rapidly becoming an anti-Japanese boycott and the Japanese The Tsintao chamber of government to send additional police In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, > sa NEW YORK EDITION WORKER. Office at Chicago, lilinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. AHE DAILY WORKER ington Blvd., Chicage, Ill, | EXILE TRUST DELIBERATELY CLOSING MILLS. 10 TERRORIZE WORKERS AND FORCE WAGE CUT (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, May 27.—Unemployment in the cotton mills of the North and South—already bad—is being deliberately fostered by manufacturers’ associations. Authority for this statement are the official declarations of Morgan Butler, president of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, and A. M. Fairley, president of the Southern Yarn Spinners’ Association, Butler, who is the son of the United States senator from 90 Published daily .except Sunday b; PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Wa: AIRPLANES 10 BE USED AGAINST CUBAN LABOR TO AID SUGAR TRUST (Special to The Daily Worker) HAVANA, May 27.—The Cuban government, whiéh is an appendix to Wall street’s National City Bank, has bought ten new airplanes, each equipped with a machine gun and carrying forty pound bombs. The position of, Cuba makes it Impossible for these planes to be used for any other purpose than the suppression of the Cubanework- ers whose recent strikes in the sugar cane plantations have given apprehension to the powerful Ame- Price 3 Cents FRIDAY, MAY WOOD'S GOSSACKS IN PHILIPPINES MURDER t MANILA, May 27.—Constabuary today razed the stronghold of Sultan Rayas, killed seven Moros and dis- persed the peasants. A field gun and mortar attack aided by navy air- planes preceded the infantry at- tack. The attack was ordered by Gen, Leonard Wood. The peasants complained of mistreatment by Fill- pino officials. LEFT WING WINS District Attorney Shy on Chief Witness he Dally Worker.) ‘Ohio, May 27.—On rict attorney, the “Severino, to cancel Papers on the that have failed to pay their debts to || county. @ Communist, was| “2” owned corporations organized | Massachusetts and Coolidge’s campaign manager, told a meet- postponed to Detober or November| '" the Sugar Trust. ing of the regional association of his national organization for term of the I district court. the Fall River district that mill owners are following the recom- The case p for hearing before mendations of the national body *— ay —— _ Judge Paul Jones of the federal dis- to curtail production. He refer-| Unionists are convinced, however, trict court this. orning. In anticipa- 1] red to circulars that his office | that there is on—that a oe tion of the ution of the case, sent to all employer members in | production is b cally cut federal authorities had subpoenaed the North and South. down for the ng the ae bis ssay “auger Will Deliberately Starve Workers, | Unemployed arm ghtening the * 2 ° ein and Jay stone, both of whom Fairley's statement, sent from his | Workers still on t with the fear Three Militants Within had testified the defense in the a | home Heh pea hadley N. G., says the | of dismissal, so that 18 in piece 0 osition Elected Michigan trial @f C. EB. Ruthenberg. mills in his community are already| Work rates and speeding up devices Pp Krumbein amd @Lovestone came to on a 3-day a week basis but that dras-|Such as adding more looms to the Cleveland det fined not to become tic curtailment must b’ speedily made | Weaver and spindles to the spinner (Special to The Daily Worker) witnesses for Prosecution in this ro by all members of the association. may be put thru without resistence. NEW YORK, May 27.—The leftycase and rath accept prison sent- “one * The meaning of all this for cotton ee * wing slate scored a signal victory inj|ences for contel of court than give Ask Negotiations with mill workers is that they will find it More Mills Shut Down. the New York joint board of the Fur-jany testimony | the witness stand. still harder to exist during the com- RIVER, Ma: May ‘The riers’ Uunion. With the exceptio one candidate, B. Wexler, the left wing candidates secured the highest votes. Wexler was a progressive bloc candidate and the machine of Morris Kaufmann, present conservative man- ager of the joint board, was over- whelmingly defeated. The left wing candidates winning were: B. Gold, Local One, who se- cured 1,032 votes; A. Gros, Local Five, 989 votes, and Fanny Warshafsky, Local Fifteen, 1,108 votes. B. Gold is expected to be chosen the next manager of the board. The New York joint board is the most important in the International. Others elected to the joint board, belonging to the progressive opposi- tion bloc, are: A. Winnick, Local Qne, 935 votes; M. Goldfield, Local Five, 855 votes; B. Wexler, Local Ten, 1,040 votes; George Strauss, Local Fifteen, 932 votes. Many Take Part. More membres are said to hav oves for Delay ime up for hearing, y moved that it be pext court calendar, néss on whom the Pits entire case and il the threads,” had ¥y the government and unable to proceed. ently was to Frank rnment stolo-pigeon therefore it The referencs Morrow, the gi ; uthenberg in the trials at St. Rumor has he was not Ww ment for his w that he has so for as DI cases is. com it Morrow feels that ited by the govern- s stool-pigeon and n from the scene dacy in the*€l tions in 1923, te fo breviou he pro blot opposed to the reactionary ma- chine won every seat, and the three left Wingers within the progressive biog gained the highest votes of any except ‘Wexler who ran second highest. SURE THING! YOU CAN NEVER TELL WHAT’LL HAPPEN UNDER CAPITALISM (Special to The Daily Worker) MONESSEN, Pa., May 27.—While the miners are being laid off at the mines, and are not busy putting up posts in the mines, the ground Is caving in-and taking with it whatever is on top the earth, Several days ago near Old Madison a house sank into a mine cave damaging the house. Not very long ago near Belle Vernon a house sank into a mine causing damage of several thousand dollars. Some day these miners, that are told to keep out of the mines, till they agree to accept the 1917 scale, will Wake up some morning and find them- selves in a mine, and liable to be held by the coal company for trespassing. You can never tell what happens in this capitalist world, KLUXERS CAUSE DISTURBANCE IN CLINTON, MASS, Two Clashes Follow K. K. K. Meeting CLINTON, Mass., May 27.-Sound- ing of six false alarms of fire in var- ious parts of the city early today fol- lowing a ku klux klan meeting in Ber- lin and the mobilizing of the Clinton police, created great excitement in the town, Two clashes between klansmen and anti-klansmen were reported, but no injuries were reported, The disturb- ance was the latest of a series of klan and .anti-klan troubles in Worcester the grounds that he was indicted in the Michigan case. When this failed because Severino was not under comviction and there- (Continued on page 2) As the klan meeting in Brewer field, conducted with the burning of a cross, broke up, police were informed that thevklansmen were going to parade thru Clinton. Residents of Clinton were aroused by the repeated ringing of the fire alarms, but the klan parade failed to appear altho two or three klan automobiles came into town, Wild reports were circulated about the disturbances, One report to the police had it that a klan parade was attacked and scores injured, but later investigation showed this report to be untrue. i — Coal Industry Slumps GLASGOW, Scotland, May 27.—The | depression reported in the coal in- dustry during the last quarter has continued into the present month and is still more marked, with a falling off of demands both at home an Py “|hope to gain by negotiations what _|Step asa stark necessity. SLIPPING PR Sai) THe Guy UP on fam) LOenir esr Ar Safe. uP MERE AS 14960 90. phe ash ap Abd-el-Krim, Is Report (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, May 27.—The Span- ish and French governments have made advances to Abd-el-Krim to recognize the independence of the Riffians under Krim, and thus end the Morocco war by a joint agree- ment, it is admitted here in official circles. The French imperialists ing season than in the past. Week by week more mills are shutting down in New England, particularly. The big Massachusetts Mills of Lowell, Mass. have closed their doors and, the other mills of this cotton center are on a part time basis. The Starvation Line, The reason given to the press for this curtailment advice, is that the market is bad and needs stiffening up: less goods, higher prices. sett Mills shut down 350 ad ditional looms. The Union Manufac- turing Co. closed its three mills for an indefinite period. eee An Overt Act of the Conspiracy. PA IC, N. J., May 27.—The Bo- argest wool and sted mills in the Passaic Textile district, has closed down temporarily, throwing 900 weavers and many other workers on the jobless list. they have not gained by the bayonet, a free hand in the plundering of French Morocco. The French and Spanish govern- ments have held off from suggesting because of the added prestige which such a course would give Krim, and the confidence it would instill in his followers, but they have made the _ Fear Cabinet Crisis, The only other course open to the scale, which at any time might bring : pty the Bhd on-a cabinet crisis. The debate on the invasion of Mo- recco comes ‘before the French, cham- ber-of deputies on Wednesday, and the Communists will offer opposition to the imperialistic campaign in Northern Africa. The government has been Concern- ing itself with attempts to balance the budget and map out a program on the. payment of the war debt to America. The Paimeve government offered the chamber a program of raising the taxes on salaries and re- ducing the taxes on unearned in- comes, thus shifting the burden of the debt payments from the rich to the workers. Gen. Taufflieb of Alsace, speaking before the senate, disclosed that Coo- lidge is “insisting on debt payments in order to force France into a con- (Continued on page 2) either incapable of solving the prob- lems of the miners or is determined that these fine ‘fighters of that state shall not be organized. A Defeatist Campaign. The feminine, apologetic method of the campaign, the excusing of them- selves for being in thé district at all by the organizers, the meek bows to capitalist authorities, the statements of class collaboration, the recognition of the usurped power of courts to grant injunctions, the repudiation of class struggle: at a time when con- sumption of.coal is down to a mini- mum—all-prove the incompetence or treason of the officials. If the bureaucracy desired to or- ganize the West Virginia miners, why doesn’t it declare a national general strike thruout the industry? Contract Practically Non-Existent. There would be no violation of “sa- cred contractual obligation” as there is no contract being enforced in the industry now. In every ned the op- erators have torn up tie contract— and John L, Lewis knows it. Yet, he has not only refused to enforce the contract provisions, but has tacitly agreed to its violation by refusing to carry on an aggressive struggle against the assault in every district. In view of this fact, the progressive miners demand an intensive campaign to enforce the contract, stop the open shop drive and fight the wage cuts, together with a real organization cam- paign in West Virginia and Kentucky. Mass demonstration are necessary in West Virginia and if arranged by the U. M. W. of A. they would receive such support as to be a success, For a Lewis-led March on Non-union Fields, A call to the miners of eastern Ohio and the territory surrounding West Virginia would rally, together with the union miners, the militant miners in that field waitipg to be organized. if led by Lewis, Green and all the officials of the International, Dis trict and sub-district of the whole country and marched into and thru (Continued on page 2) PROGRESSIVE MINERS DEMAND LEWIS LEAD MINERS’ MARCH ON W. VA. AND DEFY INJUNCTIONS The>Progressive Miners’ Committee, which is rallying the left wing in the U. M. W. of A. against the reactionary officialdom whose acts are bring- ing that magnificent union to point of dissolution, has issued the following “be @ -cost- Statemept concerning the present sityation in West Virginia, where the © = vernaiey a Piety, : Poli the U, M,.W. of A. officials-are seen at work: ow The so-called organization campaign now being conducted among the West Virginia miners proves conclusivély that the labor bureaucracy is ZANKOV TERROR CLAIMS LIVES OF 3 WORKERS Public Hanging Follows Court Death Sentence (Special to The Daily Worker) SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 27—The Zan- kov fascist government claimed the lives of three more workers today when Peter Zadgorsky, Marco Fried- man and Georgi Koevy were hanged in a public square just behind the Jewish cemetery. The three men who were condemn- ed to death by a military court, were charged with being involved in the Sveti Kral cathedral bombing. Koev was the first, to mount the scaffold while thousands of eyes watched. Zadgorsky was next to: die. Then came Friedman, custodian of the cathedral, who approached the hangmen with head held proudly erect. Troops were massed in the vicinity. Three more persons threatened to death, sheltering the “conspirators.” They are M. Perchomliev, M. Leger, and Mme. Nicolova. Mme. Leger was sen- tenced to life imprisonment. have been convicted of Jubilee of All-Russian Academy MOSCOW.—The All-Russian acade- my of sciences, Leningrad, has re- ceived a gift of a big consignment of French sciéntific publications. In Sep- tember, tHe academy will celebrate ite second centenary jubilee. Brazil Enters Soviet Trade MOSCOW.—The Brazilian shipping company “Lloyd Braziliere” has de- elded to start a bi-weekly service be- tween Santos and Odessa. committee visited thr district toda’ was over CALL POLICE RESERVES TO STOP UNION DRIVE; RESULT, A RIOT (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, May 27.—Merely because a rank and file organization non-union shops In the downtown cloak ‘and* sult the bosses called out the police reserves, and when the battle en men were injured and a score of women were backed off to hospitals for first aid to the hysteric and shell shocked scabs. The police responded to the call of the bosses with drawn revolvers and created such a commotion in the heart of the dr making district that Sh) ert wert’, great throngs gathered dnd blocked the streets, necessitating a calling out of further police r v iete who were dragged off to jail, ' 7 —_—s nec 5% — to cope with the crowds who chi ed the five union