The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1925, Page 1

LSE ETRE RTO EEE SEE aRapaaacane! ONIN RRR NTT Sean cao seamen eed oC 7S “ in ee veh 4; Daily Worker Annual Suby _ “p einen "Ey 8&0 cription Drive Now on “ in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! Vol. Il. No. 118. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: FRENCH COMMUNISTS DEMAND EVACUATION OF MOROCCO: SING ‘INTERNATIONAL’ IN CHAMBER (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, France, May 28. —The twenty-nine Communist deputies demanded in the French chamber that the Painleve gov- ernment immediately make peace with Abd-el-Krim, the Riffian leader, evacuate Morocco, and end the imperialistic invasion of North Africa. Deputy Doriot, the Communist leader, in his speech to the chamber, exposed the purpose of the war as an imperialistic move of the Spanish-French North African company, which forced the war in order to control the Moroccan mines, and exploit the ——~“natives of that country. Deputy Doriot’s speech was follow- ed by the singing of “The Interna- tional,” which so enraged. ex-Premier Herriot, president of the chamber, that he abruptly adjourned the ses- AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. In Chitago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. BRITISH AND FRENCH PATCH UP DIFFERENCES ON NOTE TO GERMANY (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, May 28,.—The French for- elgn office announced today that the British and French government had-reached full agreement on the reply to be made by the ambassa- dor’s council t® Germany on the sub- ject of disarmament defaults by Germany. Allied troops will march out of the Cologne district of Germany “well before September” if Germany satisfied “all demands within a rea- sonable period,” the British foreign office onnounced. Great Britain and France, the foreign office said, “have reached an agreement on the text of the dis- armament note to Germany.” The amb: dors’ council, meeting Fri- day and Saturday In Paris will 0. K. the draft, which will be sent to Berlin immediately. SATURDAY, MA’ 30, 1925 sion. Debate on the Moroccan inva- sion will be continued. Socialists Refuse to Oppose the War. The socialist (reformist) bloc, con- fined its remarks to criticism of the conduct of the war, and refused to oppose the Morrocan invasion. “The socialists do not demantl the evacuation of Morocco,” admitted the socialist leader, Pierre Renaudel. He merely declared that the war should be conducted along “defentive lines” and the number of casualties should be published. He said that troops should be kept in France for a pos- sible war with Germany. Deputy Doriot read a letter from a French soldier in Morocco, which showed that many French soldiers there are bitterly opposed to the at- tack on the natives. The soldier told how the army officers prohibited the singing of “The International,” in the camps, and otherwise restricted and censored the soldiers, (Continued on page 2) TO TRY POLICE KILLER OF RED of HUAN down a coal pit with the king on am- Clubbed Y shed Y. W.. ; other occasion. Instead of seeing inky black walls and ‘plenty of dust, ? see everything was spick and span. Tho (Special to The Dally Worker) walls were beautifully whitewashed.| BENTON, Ill, May 28.—According’ to reports given in a local newspaper, the trial for the brutal murder of our comrade, Boris Popoysky, at West. ‘The king, no doubt, wondered why Frankfort, Ill., last July is coming up coal miners should make so much trouble about wages and working con- some time in June in the circuit court of that city. The deceased comrade ditions, while enjoying the privilege was arrested on a fake charge of of working amid sych pleasant sur- roundings. speeding, brought to court, and there murdered in the presence of a pre- siding judge on July 10, 1924, by a policeman who is still on the police force. He clubbed Popovsky to death with the butt of his revolver. Realizing that this murder was not done as skillfully as were previous murders of hundreds of active work- ers in this country and fearing that this, if discussed openly, will cause @ great unrest among all intellectual workers, they have been silencing the case for almost a year. It will be easy for anyone to detect at this trial the corruptness used in all capitalistic courts of “justice.” Bribery and threats of all sorts will be inevitable. ( NE of the favorite arguments used by the socialists in an effort to discredit the effect of the report made by British trade union leaders on pres- ent conditions in Russia, is that the Soviet officials had arranged the tour beforehand, even going to the extreme of building nice, clean model villages to fool the easily duped Britons. This yarn had a historical basis. It ap- pears that such tours were arranged for the Empress Catherine of Russia, when she took a notion to go forth and look at where her subjects lived. se F course, the Soviet officials did nothing of the kind. The British delegates went where they wanted to go and traveling accommodation was provided for them on short notices. ‘But it happens that in England, when the king and queen take a look around their country, things are arranged so that offensive sights do not obtrude, on the royal optics. For example. An electrical power station was opened near London a few days ago. The job was done by a private concern. The king and queen opened the station. i Ms 'N order to have things look tidy for the royal pair, one hundred work- era were laid off so that no new work ‘B. &0. BILL CALLS LAWYER TO AID HIM Election Steal in the I. A. of M. Brewing (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28.— That “B, & 0.” bill Johnston is hard pressed to steal the election in the In- ternational Association of Machinists from J. F. Anderson, ‘his centrist op- ponent who was conditionally but ef- fectively supported by the left wing, jis seen in the call to Washington headquarters of Frank Mulhalland of Toledo, general counsel of the I. A. M. Mulholland has come to Washing- ton by invitation of the election board to give them legal advice as to which provisions of the union constitution and by-laws shall be rigidly enforced and which shall not be enforced in “tt appears that Johnston is in {such a desperate situation for votes ‘}that he is compelled to call in a law- yer to claim the most ridiculous tech- nicalities as excuse for throwing out votes for Anderson. Among these provisions items of sections 12 and 13 of article 2, I. A. M. constitution, the first providing that ballots must be marked in ink or indelible pencil and the second that the ballots, after being tabulated on tally sheets by local lodges, shall ‘be sent within 72 hours by registered mail to the general secretary-treasur- er and registered mail receipt slips held by the local for at least sixty days. a ee IE editor of the Daily Herald has as much confidence in the good in- tentions of the king as Dr. Norman Thomas has in Sir Stanley Baldwin. The Daily Herald editor believes, if the king knew how his subjects are living, he would not allow things to remain as they are. To quote from the Herald’s defense of royalty: “They do not understand, they are hood winked, as royalty always has been hood winked, by those whose interest it is to keep things as they are.” The king might start a revolu- tion if he only had the facts. So would Balfour, Churchill and Baldwin. So would Rockefeller, Morgan and Coolidge. In Desperate Straits. It is evident that Johnston is be- ing forced to use methods he never had to use before to hold on to his job. To avail himself of such tech- nicalities in order to throw out op position votes is not at all above him, even tho he disfrancise half the mem- bership thru no fault of theirs, and in some cases, thru deliberate action of his local gang who purposely-held up the ballots or otherwise mishandled them, in order to throw them out be- cause they were cast against John- ston. Left wing members point out the injustice of such disfranchisement and the ridiculous position of a labor leader who depends counting out his opponent on whether a letter 1s regis- tered or not or has the stamp in the right hand or left hand corner, As the crucial nature of the election shows that Johnston is really defeat- ad, the left wing will insist that no slection stealing will be permitted. eo 4@).6 'E Chicago Tribune is grateful to the Japhnese statesman Viscount (Continued on page 3) Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! 800 WILLIMANTIC PICKETS STOP THREAD TRUST STRIKE BREAKING WILLIMANTIC, Conn., May 28.—Elight hundred unionists picketed In the rain as the American Thread Co. made Its second serious attempt to resume production. Twenty-two hundred textile workers are on strike, AN twenty-five thousand Workers Party mem- bers organize themselves so that In a week's day with a Communist interpretation of news events and with the story of the class struggle. There is FAILED TO JAIL Jury Brings Verdict of Aeguittl The Hillimat Amalgamated alliance with office, yesterday time in its prison, David Fé Workers (Com trumped-up char deadly weapon The jury, a workers, acqu! ing to the tes! shop chairman mated shops, gers and det the stand ag: quest of the Al Prominent in| the trial were agents and slu stein and Sok Assault The trial tion of a leafli illegal expulsion” from the joint company some 4 others was out lets as the A were going to’ he was set Evin machine of the hing Workers in attorney Crowe's failed for the second pt to railroad to jer, member of the nist) Party on a of “assault with a Intent to kill.” rity of whom were Foster after listen- yy of Harry. Novak, ‘one of the Amalga- her well-known slug- Freckel, who took Foster at the re- jamated officials. court room during notorious business rs, Charley Wein- er. By Novak from the distribu- sting against the Local 5 New York , by Hillman and ago. Foster with ibuting the leaf- jamated members . While doing this Novak and other But instead of the states attor- iter on a charge ity of one year in mm a fine of 1,000. sagreed and it was fed that the prose- eution wan @rop the case for lack of evidi mit the Amalgamated officialdom ar@ reported to have told Crowe's 0} : “they wanted to make an exam Of Foster and send him away for .” That they have on page 2) prosecuting ney’s office Ie that provides prison and The first jury then reliably re JUSTICE FRAMES UNION LEADERS Fitzgerald: and Collins Jailed ni Detroit By EDGAR OWENS. (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., May 28—Wliliam (8. Fitzgerald, vice-president Street | Rallway Union and W. P. Collins of Yonkers, New York, eral organizer of the American Federation of Labor now In charge of the organization drive of the Detroit Federation of La- bor, were arraigned in the federal court In -Detroit this morning on a charge of conspiracy to dynamite the high speed train on the International Railroad near Buffalo, August 17, 1922. The specific charge is violating the anti-trust law. The indictments were handed down by federal grand jury in Rochester, New York, early this month. Department of justice officials were repared to make arrests last night at an organization meeting in the De- troit federation headquarters, but ar- ranged for theirrvoluntary surrender this morning. They are held under five thousand dollars bail. The hear- ing on extradition to Rochester will be held next Thursday. [A RED WEEK OF PARTY BUILDING our party membership and a narrow circle of sym- pathizers. We must have, not only 15,000 p> 290 30 Hurt in Wreck at High Spot on New York Elevated NEW YORK, May 28.—More than thirty persons were reported injured today in a rear collision between two north bound trains on the elevated structure of the interborough line at 177th street. The scene of the crash is one of the highest points along the Fourteen injured were removed to hospitals, but there were no fatali- ties,.so far as could be ascertained, altho some of the injured were in seri- ous condition and their injuries may prove fatal. It was necessary for the firemen to erect sealing ladders against the sides of the “L” to bring down some of the passengers trapped in two tele- scoped cars. CALL MERRICK FOR ‘SEDITION TRIAL IN PENNA. First of Ten W. orkers to Face Danger (Special to The Dally Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 28— The first of ten defendants in the Pitts- burgh “sedition” cases, Fred Merrick, has been called to appear for trial on June 15. This marks the re-open- ing of a case that has been hanging fire for two years and that had its beginning in one of those famous “red rald this particular raid occurring several days prior to May Day, 1923. The whole eastern labor movement was revolted by the farcical yet brut- al manner in which this “raid” was conducted. The public mind had been prepared by lurid tales of coming bomb explosions and insurrectioris. Two days before May 1, 1923, the sleuths of Attorney General Daugh- erty made a dramatic descent upon the Workers Party headquarters and on the homes of members. Over twenty arrests were made in the dead of night in honey parts of the And not a@ warrant, - The terrible May Day plot had been thwarted. All the prisoners were held from eight to twelve days in de- fault of exorbitant bail. Finally all but ten were released and these were charged With violating Pennsylvania’s famous “sedition act.” Convict for Doctrine. Under the application of this act scores of. workers. have been arrested and imprisoned; one for having Marx- ian“literature in his possession, an- other for being caught with a copy of a legally published program of ‘a Communist Party, others for stilf more absurd and unsubstantial charges. In no instance is’ an overt act of any kind charged against the defend- ant. He is always convicted of ad- vocating or reading something that advocated, or belonging to a political party that advocated some “doctrine” —nothing more. Altho these particular cases are two years old and the district attorney in Pittsburgh seems to have shown a disposition to drop them, the usual pressure” has been brought to bear and the persecution is on again. Pittsburgh is famous for this sort of thing. Western Pennsylvania is the private property of the steel and coal combines. It has been a tradi- tional battle ground between the high- ly exploited workers of mine and ‘smelter and the United States Steel Corporation, the greatest scab indus- try in the world. One has only to re- member Homestead, the great steel strike of 1919 and the mine strike of 1922, Merrick and the other defendants in this case have distinguished them- (Continued on page 2) readers Published day PUBLISHING © set up in each branch to direct the work of securing NEW YORK EDITION Keept Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ‘0., 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicage, Ill. LOSE HOPE FOR 61 COAL MINERS AS EIGHT MANGLED BODIES ARE FOUND IN WRECKED N. . SHAFT rice 3 Cents (Special to The Daily Worker) SANFORD, N. C., May 28.—The coal mine disaster here, it is now felt has resulted in the fatal trapping of sixty-one miners, Eight bodies have been recovered. Two additional bodies, unidentified by the rescue party, have been seen about four hundred feet from the mine shaft. A care- ful check at the company’s office indicates that there are still 51 miners still entombed. Despair settled down on the families, hearts of the Tar Heel coal miners as the uncovering the slightest hope+———— that those traped far below the RED VICTIM OF relatives and sweet- day advanced without surface of the ground by three terrific explosions, would be rescued alive. Families In Despair Where yesterday hysterical scenes | were enacted about the shaft of the oldest eoal mine in North Carolina a shaft which has been worked inter-/ mittently since before the civil war, agony prevailed today. ZANKOV TERROR DIED BRAVELY Banked behind four strand rope barriers, wives, mothers, fathers, sobaechig: CMUAWE + and tremulous [DOULEL Organ Condemns sweethearts waited. Some, too weak to stand after the terrible all-night vigil in that tiny clearing in the low, rolling sand hill country, sat on the ground, or a box or a three stump. Tears Answered By Long Silence Patients. mostly elderly mothers and wives, filled the tiny hospital tent, prostrated with the awfulness of the disaster, which had struck without warning among a people not injured to mine tragedies as in the great min- ing communities of the country. Red cross and hospital nurses hurriedly sent here, presided calmly over the cots. Those who still retained strength enough to weep, wailed softly and aaa en page 2) Fascist Murderers (Special to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., May 28—The Communist Marko Friedmann, one of the three workers who was publicly hanged by the Bulgarian white terror, was perfectly right in acting as the ac- cuser of the. Zankov government, says the leading story in Pravda, official organ of the Soviet Union. Friedmann declared at the military “trial,” that the Zankov fascist government itself was responsible for the killing of 160 persons in the Sveti Kral cathedrdl bombing, as it had incited the work- ers to acts of individual terror against the wholesale murders instituted by the Zankov regime The Pravda exposes the part played by the Bulgarian socialists in the public hangings, the social-democratic LABOR REPORTER press having formed a united front with the hangmen of the workers and easants. Communist Died Bravely, Friedmann met his death ‘bravely,’ dispatches from Sofia state. Two mein- utes before ‘the noose was placed around his neck Friedmann smiled “IRISH FAMINE Describes Region as Land of Despair bravely,-denied guilt in the cathedral bombing, and declared, “I die as a Is there a famine in Ireland? The |Communis Friedmann was hanged publicity department of the Irish Free | while thousands of soldiers and work- State government says there is not,.jers packing the public square looked despite the fact that the Free State |on. When priests stepped forward to f government was compelled to appro-|talk to him Friedmann waved them priate a large gum of money for relief | aside. The others hanged were prior to the recent elections. This was a pure election dodge. As soon as the votes were counted the Free State government stopped its relief activi- ties and threatened with punishment newspaper editors who would give | the famine situation any publicity. But while the capitalist press in Ireland, England and America have ignored the sufferings of the workers Gheorglin Koev and Petor Zadgorsky. Forgeries of White Guards. Today's leader in the “Pravda” de- clares, “The hangmen of Sofia have instituted a regular Bartholomew's night; they have murdered 2,000 work- ers and peasants, and have done every- thing possible, in order to prove by their sentence that the expulsion in and peasants of the west coast of |the Soflan cathedral had ostensibly Ireland, the labor press in Great Bri- | been organized by Moscow, By this tain has sent special correspondents |™eans they hoped to justify the bru- into the famine region to bring the |t#! Tzankov regime, as well as their news direct to the working class of |@emand that the entente permit them Great Britain. to mobilize an extra 100,000 cut The following story is taken from |thoats. The attorney-general, how the London Daily Herald, official or-jever, did not dare in his bill of in- 1 Searaermaer diss on page 5) SOmerneee on page 3 JAPS SEND CRUISERS AGAINST ° THE CHINESE WORKERS HOLDING ye JAPANESE MILLS AT TSINGTAO ~ TOKIO, May 28.—Two cruisers were dispatched today to Tsingtao to protect the Papanese colony there, claimed to be endangered by a strike of Chin workers in Japanese mills. According to the navy department, it is not expected to land a naval force, Chinese strikers are reported to be still holding the seized Japanese mills. ' By C. E. Ralllinheris Executive Secretary, Workers Party Comrades of the party, here is the opportunity for constructive work in building our party, strength- time they can secure five thousand new subscribers for the DAILY WORKER? ~ The answer of Communists to such a question should be, “Not only can they secure five thousand subscriber but ‘they gught to secure twenty-five thousand subscribers.” But can they? That is the question which the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party has put up to the members of the party in setting aside the week from June 15th to 21st as a “Red Week of Party| °'* Bullding,” during which the party members are asked to secure five thousand new readers for the DAILY WORKER at a@ special ir raphe rate of $1 for two months, pom CER Ran? A - * The DAILY WORKER—Party Builder, HE DAILY WORKER is one of our most power ful weapons in building the Workers Party. The readers of the DAILY WORKER are reached every WORKER. ’ struggles. no more effective medium to open the eyes of the exploited workers to the truth about the capitalist social system than to dally have the capitalist world pictured to them In the columns of Our party has not made effective use of this pow- erful weapon thus far. We have the daily at a great sacrifice and with great executive of energy. are producing our paper dally with interpretations of pling: society and the dally news of the work. vile Lee We have built this powerful weapon. We are main- talning this powerful weapon, but we are neglecting the most essential activity to secure the advantages which this wotpen gives us. We Must Increase Our Circulation, UR powerful weapon, the DAILY. wor KER Je not effective and is not used as it 0 long as the number of readers ie limited ,to part of as at present, but 50,000.and even later 100,000. That is one of the most important jobs before our party. We must take full advantage and make full use of the powerful weapon for building the Com- munist Party which we have in the DAILY WORK- ER, thru enabling the DAILY WORKER to reach the masses of workers and to Influence them thru Ite picture of the capitalist world and enlighten them until they become Communists. the DAILY We The First Mobilization. 'HE first mobilization of the party to reach the ‘goal of making the greatest use of the DAILY WORKER will be In the’“Red Week of Party Bulld- ing” from June 15th to Jume 21st. During this week, the work of securing subsoriptions for the DAILY WORKER must be taken up in earnest by every unit of the party and by-every member of the party. A speolal appeal and instructions has been sent to every party branch. A “re to be so subscriptions during this “Red Week of Party Building.” The goal of the week's work has been set at five thousand new subscribers. That is a very y goal indeed. Think of It! We have 26,000 members In the organization at the present time. All that is asked by the Central Executive Committee during this “Red Week of Party Building” is that at least 6,000 of these party members each secure on reader for the DAILY WORKER. If the party organization is really mobilized as a Communist Party organization should be able to mobilize itself, we should secure, during the “Red Week of Party Buliding” 25,000 to 50,000 readers for the DAILY WORKER in place of the 5,000 which has been set as the aim during this mobilization. Eaoh party branch has been instructed to assess iteelf the number of subscribers it will secure dur- Ing the “Red Week of Party Bullding.” The quota taken up’ by the various branches wil! be published in the DAILY WORKER as the branches report. PAA ely, . i ening it organizationally, and widening its influence among the ma in this country. F we add five thousand new subscribers during this “Red Week of Party Building,” and that should be easy, we can then set a greater goal for the next mobilization and build the DAILY WORKER into the mighty weapon it should be for the upbuliding of the Communist movement in the United States. No branch must be missing In the list of those as- sessing themselves to secure their share of sub- soribers during the “Red Week of Party Building.” No member must neglect his part in securing the quota of hie branch, Comrad let us show that our party can carry thru an organized, systematic campaign and mobil- ize its strength for the upbuilding of the DAILY WORKER. Let us make the “Red Week of Party Building” the beginning of a new stage in the work of our party to bulld a powerful Comunist Party in the United States,