The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1925, Page 2

Page Two CHICAGO LABOR DEFENSE CALLS FOR BAIL FUND To Rally Ex - Service Men for Crouch Two important decisfons of the Chicago conference for labor defense at its recent meeting took In the local situation as regards ball money and the need for energetic action on be- half o fthe imprisoned “Red” soldiers, Crouch and Trumbull. The local secretary reported that the labor defense council bail fund had been exhausted. When the first arrest, that of D. EH. Harley, took place, only $25, the customary bail, was demanded. But when, a week later, Thurber Lewis, Karl Reeve, and Paul Hacker were taken in, $100 each was Set. This money was raised, but it wiped out the fund already deplet- ed by the need for surety for Comrade Zinieh, editor of the South Slavic pa- per, Radnik, and for those arrested for leaflet distribution. Last week the weather made it impossible to continue the fight, but if it is to be carried forward additional bail funds must be raised. Plan Mass Meetings. Money given or loaned for this pur- “pose is never spent, it is kept in a separate bail fund to free arrested comrades pending their trials. When thé trial ends the bail is returned and can be used for the next case. Party branches and other organizations with good-sized treasuries are appealed to for loans to this fund. These loans will be returned within a reasonable time and in special cases, on demand. Individual comrades should also make such loans whenever possible. Get in touch with Labor Defense Council at 19 8. Lincoln St., Seeley 3562. In anticipation of an energetic na- tion-wide campaign on behalf of the imprisoned soldiers Crouch and Trum- bull, the committee decided to enlist the aid of every ex-service man in the movement or friendly toward it. Names and addresses, name and Lum- ber of unit served in and rank held, of every friendly soldier, sailor or marine of any of the entente armies in. the world war, must be collected by every branch secretary, or by spe- cial committees elected for this pur- pose. A mass meeting is planned, in col- laboration with an “Ex-servicemen’s committee for release of Crouch and Trumbull”—as well as outdoor atiga- tions, petitions, resolutions by organ- izations, ‘etc. Funds Needed. ‘The need of winding up current finaticial drives to clear the way for the’ next campaign, was pointed out. All funds for Irish Relief and Miners’ Relief must be sent in at once. Delegate Marek reported on the ex- cellent success of the committee for Telief of the political prisoners of Poland. Several trade unions as well as fraternal societies are represented, and an attack by white guard social- ists was turned about into a glowing triumph for the committee. Repre- sentatives went right into the white meeting and debated the issue, utterly discomfitting their adversaries. The next meeting will be on call, probably, Friday, June 5, at 722 Blue Island Ave. Fights Schools for Sending Children Home for Religious Training WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., May 29.—A fight is on here started by Lawrence B. Stein, a tax payer of Mount Vernon against permitting children to get off from school 45 minutes earlier each week to receive religious instruction, Stein has petitioned the supreme court to issue a permanent injunction ~ to refrain the board of education and the superintendent from releasing children in the fifth and sixth grades proving that it is a violation of the federal and state constitution. Stein is being opposed by the board of education members, all business men in Mount Vernon, and by the superintendent who demand that the case go.before the commissioner of ‘education. Rainstorm Stops Flight. PEKING, May 29.—The two Japan- ese airplanes in the Tokio-Peking flight were. forced down in a heavy rainstorm at Shanhaikwan, a gate city along the great wall of China, some 260 miles north of Peking, it was reported here today. Planes and aviators were unharmed. |FIFTY BILLIONS PRODUCTION IN 1925, IS HOOVER’S ESTIMATE WASHINGTON, May 29.—Secretary of Commerce Hoover estimates that the Industrial output of the United States thls year will be $50,000,000,000. Ald from the government in Increasing production or In improving the hand- ling of the product has been sought by business Interests representing three- fifths of this total, Hoover's department has become a clearing house of information for big business, and employes of many of the most important Industrial corpora- tlons have been given desk room in the department's own office bullding. ENGLAND, FRANCE FRAME GERMAN NOTE ON ARMS Prepare Excuse for Fur- ther Extortion PARIS, May 29—The French gov- ernment today approved the final draft of the note to Germany regard- ing her alleged failure to earry out certain disarmament clauses of the treaty of Versailles. The council of ambassadors will formally adopt it tomorrow. The German government claims it has lived up to the disarma- ment clauses. Foreign minister Briand announced at the session of the French cabinet that great Britain fully agreed to the terms of the note. The allies are keeping troops in Cologne at German expense in viola- tion of previous agreements and are endeavoring to shift the blame .to Germany. Negotiations for the Anglo-French security pact were progressing satis- factory, he said, all “fundamental dif- ferences” having disappeared. The German government is seeking an extension of her frontiers at Po- land’s expense. A joint delegation of allied ambas- sadors will formally bring the note to Berlin early next week. The reparation commission, follow- ing a request from the council of am- bassadors, affirmed that Germany thus far had fulfilled all her obligations under the Dawes plan, eee French Military Rule Severe. BERLIN, May 29.—Military rule, which slackened under premier Her- riot, has now been restored to the full severity of the rule of M. Poin- care, in the Rhineland area occupied by French troops. A. F. of L. Executive Doubts That ‘‘Serious Minded” Would Listen WASHINGTON, May 29—Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor announces that no action toward establishing a broadcasting station at Washington headquarters will be taken at this time. A special committee appointed by the executive council has found that the cost of maintenance, which would be $45,000 a year, is prohibitive. Doubt was also felt as to whether cheaper methods of radio transmis- sion might not soon be developed, and as to Whether the radio audience would include enough serious-minded adults to make the expeenditure a wise one. Russian Church to Show Revolutionary Workers’ Aid Film The All-Saints Orthodox Russian church of Wolf Run, Ohio, will give a showing on June 10th of the first . W. A. film, “Russia Through the Shadows.” This film, which has not been run very often during recent months, shows the Russian Revolu- tion, the fight against intervention and blockade, the famine as the result of unprecedented drought, the activity of the American “Friends of Soviet Russia” first to fight the famine and then to extend technical aid to their Russian comrades in the form of tractors and farm machinery. Conditions are bad in this little mining town of about 60 families, The mines have been closed down for thir- teen months, and there is no prospect of improvement in the near future. Find Evidence of Ancient Gity. EAST ELY, Nev., May, 29,— - Bvi- dences of a complete city which may have been of Chinese origin, are to- day being traced by the national cos- mographic society, 25 miles west of Pioche, near White Horse Springs. Two and a half miles of obsidian cliffs are Mterally covered with ideographs and Chinese characters of the pre ming dynasty, according to the scien- tists, ‘ FPAMT LE S mnie Za @ year O3.50~0 months S200 9 montis 0-#&oo ayear F450 6 monty f 2 evn hg THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER NAME STRECT. Che rn | AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) on credits for Moroccan campaign takes place. They may change their minds again. se ‘OHN BULL is looking at Morocco with an anxious eye. France is Wickering with Spain. Should France succeed in making an alliance with the decrepid Spanish government and becure a road to Gibraltar along with a@ position on the north coast of Africa, the road to India would not be so safe for Britain. Fireworks be- tween England and France may be confidently looked forward to over Morocco, see 'N the meantime Britain is working might and main to get a new of- fensive against Soviet Russia started. The papers tell us that no foreign delegates to the Communist Party congress will be allowed into the “tight little isle.” Copies of the Lon- don Daily Herald, advise us that the tory government has sent emissaries to every foreign offi¢e in Europe and even to Washington for the purpose of arranging for the sending of a joint note to Soviet Russia, warn- ing the workers’ republic that the Communist International must be sup- pressed, else diplomatic relations will be broken off. see T the same time this news leaked out, the general council of the Trade Union Congress was publish- ing a report of the invesigation made into the incident of the famous “Zinoviev leter” by its delegation to Russia. It unhesitatingly branded the letter as a forgery and demands a pub- lic inquiry into the matter, The re- port will be found in another section of the DAILY WORKER. see HE British trade union movement is today torn between two ten- dencies; one that stands upon the basis of the class struggle; the other for class collaboration. This is an in- ternatoinal phenomenon. ‘The con- crete question which reveals the true inwardness of the division is Soviet Russia. For or against the workers’ republic? The trade union leaders like Cook, Tillet, Bromley, Swales and Purcell, not to mention thousands of others, are going to bat gallantly for the Soviet Union, while fakers like J. H. Thomas, MacDonald, Hodges and Snowden spend their time finding fault with Russia, LaFollette Group May Combine with Johnston’s C. P. P. A. (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, May 29.—Progres- sives who supported the LaFollette- Wheeler ticket last year are stirred by a report—as yet unconfirmed— that Sen. LaFollette has brought about a peace parley between Rep. John M. Nelson of Wisconsin, who was chairman of the LaFollette cam- paign organization in Chicago, and William (B. & O. Bill) H. Johnston, national chairman of the conference for progressive political action. Bach has maintained a “progressive head- quarters” since last November. Johnston was authorized, in Feb- Tuary, to name a temporary national executive committee of five persons who should arrange for a national con- vention and state conventions leading up to the creation of the new party. Thus far he has not named the com- mittee. Sen. LaFollette has remained in se- clusion in Washington since his rest- cure in Florida following a long ill- ness due to pneumonia. He is re- ported to be nursing his physical strength for the senate next winter. Steel Workers Spend $2,000 on Broadway Chorines by Proxy NEW YORK, May 29,—(FP).— Harry Kendall Thaw, who murdered Stamford White, great New York architect, spent $2,000 in cabarets on the first night of a return to Broad- way. The initial Thaw fortune comes from the steel industry. Brakeman Killed by Train. NEW CASTLE, Ind, May 29,— Claude Kline, 22, Hartford City, Brakeman on the Nickel Plate R. R., was fatally injured when he fell from the top of a moving box car of a lon, train here, : His body was cut virtually in two by the wheels before the train camp to a halt and he died a short time later in a local hospital. Cuba Dismi 1,000 HAVANA, Cuba, May 29.—The new Machado administration has dismissed nearly 1,000 employes of the depart- ment of public works since taking of- fice, THE DAILY W KER IN OWN qT BOURGEOIS FEAR OF | VIOLENT P Wants to Co Revolutiona ceal Its Past (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. x May 29.— July 4th is going to bp mobilization day and war demonstratJon day. There is an advantage of getting the work- ers to think of the day on which the declaration of independence was sign- ed as a day of flag-saluting and sweaty marching under shouting and booted and suprred officers, It serves to make ‘em forget that the decldration of in- dependence states flatly, that when- ever a government failst to serve a people satisfactorily, they have a nat- ural right to overthrow it and try a new one. The Constitution Only In congress, last February, the ad- ministration forces made it clear that they wanted only the federal consti- tution taught in the public schools. They voted down overwhelmingly an amendment that called for teaching the declaration of independence. Even the phrases of their own bourgeois re- volution in the days of its infancy smacked too strongly of treason to present day imperialist government. So the 4th of July will be a day to inculcate obedience to authority rather than even a bourgeois suspi- cion of it. Unpublished “War Measures” Last year the editorial staff of a big eastern paper which began a camp- aign of ridicule against mobilization day was suppressed by the business manager just before it was to publish @ program of “war measures” which logically should accompany the day. In this program were included: 1. Names of war profiteers for the new war—what the various big corpo- rations could be expected to get out of it in inflated prices and in normal profits on supplies of various kinds. 2. Names of radical labor leaders to be jailed or mobbed for holding anti-war views. Names of prominent patriots who would denounce them, and epithets to be used to fit the new war. 3. Names of crooks whose records were cleared by their volunteering to hold high executive offices in the war machine. 4. Establishing of breadless days, meatless days, shoeless days, shirt less days, saltles days, etc. which would run’concurrently during the de- monstration. Gasless day would be essential to the test. 5. Lists of army ‘officers killed, maimed, gassed and weanded. ‘ This program never got into print. Fireman Killed, Four Badly Hurt in Gary Boston Store Blaze (Special to The Dally Worker.) GARY, Ind., May 29.—James Pap- pas, oldest member of Engine Co. 5, Gary fire department, was killed and four men seriously injured early to- day, when a wall of the Broadway Department Store, toppled during a fire that razed the building with a $350,000 loss. The four injured men, some of whom are said to be mortally hurt, are Captain James Shirk, of the Gary Central Fire Station; Bert Stone- brook, Harry Kolz and Rex Brink- man. They were crushed and inter- nally injured when parts of the wall fell on them. é Fireman Killed and Engineer Injured in Maine Express Wreck WORCESTER, Mass., May 29.—The Maine Express, New York to Bar Harbor, Me., was ditched here early today. S. A. Williams, a fireman, was kill- ed. John R. Harley, engineer, was in- jured, as was Lewis B. Zambino, a passenger. Scores of passengers were thrown from their berths as the locomotive and two mail cars left the rails and overturned. Wabash Train Deralled, FORREST, Ill., May 29.—Three pas- sengers were slightly hurt today when the fast St. Louis-Chicago train of the Wabash railroad was derailed a short distance outside this city. A broken rail caused the derailment, railroad officials said. The train con- tinued to Chicago, however, arriving several hours late. The injured re- ceived first aid treatment on the train. Fire In Boston Hotel BOSTON, May 29-— Four aged guests were rescued, others were for- ced to flee to the street, four firemen were overcome by smoke, 12 others were cut by falling glass and all ap- paratus in the down-town district was called out today during a fire in the Quincy House, famoug Boston Hotel. —er British Kill 60 Indians PESHAWAR, British India, May 29. —Bixty natives who were accused of taking part in the recent anti-imperial- ist movement in the Kohat district of Afghanistan have bees shot by order S, tele ane Another Case of Let the pAsEs||Big Thieves Escape But Chase the Little Thieves By J. LOUIS ENQDAHL, Boa the Chicago police department frantically broad- casts warnings to the property-owning populace of the nation’s second city. Chicago leads the cities of the world with its homicides, but that doesn’t bother the police depart- ment; it takes a day off to spread the warning, “Beware of pickpockets!” The big thieves must be pretty busy if the police are tak- ing the trouble to raise the cry of catch the little thief. The warning of the police says: “The sneak thief known as the pickpocket or dip Is always walt- Ing for an opportunity to relieve the citizen of the valuables he may carry on his person. Invariably they operate as a mob—two, three or four together, and In appearance are no different than the average citizen.” ‘ e e e e Which should remind the police, but it won't, that Sec- retary of Agriculture Jardine is in town. It is rumored that he is to “investigate” the big thieves on the local board of trade, who have been stealing millions thru manipulating the price of wheat and other grain. These millions come out of somebody's pockets. The trend of wheat prices at this time of year is downward so the victim of this pocket-picking is the working farmer with his crops to sell. These multi- millionaire dips also operate in groups, as brokerage firms and grain dealers, being supported in their manipulations by the best banks, in which they are usually directors. Receiv- ing stolen goods is a crime charged only against the little fellows. It has never yet touched a bank or other financial institution. Jardine did not call the police to pinch the food gam- blers at the board of trade, jam them into foul police station cells and then hawl them before a judge at the South Clark Street station. Not at all! Jardine just had a heart to heart talk with the directors of the Chicago board of trade, in which he of- fered the opinion that when there is a spread of 15 cents a bushel in the price of grain in one day it is “gambling”; which is polite for pocket-picking. Then Coolidge’s secretary of agriculture gave a talk over thé radio assuring farmers that agricultural conditions were better this spring than they have been since 1920. But the farmer is worried more about “price conditions” fixed by the gamblers, than he Is about “crop conditions” determined by the weather, which usually gives him an even break. The food profiteer never does. Says the Chicago “P. D.” warning: “Do not display a large sum of money in public when it is not necessary.” The warning is perhaps unnecessary. Workers do not have large sums of money. If they did, it would be ridiculous to bring such charges as the one launched against a veteran ostal employe in Kansas City, Max Rope, aged 40, 21 years in the service, who, it is claimed, stole 25 cents worth of rhubarb from a package at a postoffice station. The govern- . ment has spent $10, in prosecuting Rope, trying to put upon him a penalty of five years’ imprisonment or a fine of 000 or both. * The hypocritical district attorney says, “It is not the value of the property but the principle involved.” Secretary of.Agriculture Jardine leaves Chicago headed for Kansas City, but this same prosecuting attorney will for- get all about this “sacred principle” as it applies to the food speculators that reap a rich harvest of plunder from the grain growers and stock raisers of the southwest. This prosecutor, C. C. Madison by name, will make no kick to Jardine. The big thieves are respectable. Only the little thieves must be sent to prison. ae e ° e Another Chicago “P. D.” warning: “When In a crowd or getting on a street car always be alert for anyone attempting to jostle yor Which can be made to apply very concretely to the big profiteers, the industrial kaisers, who jostle and push the millions of underpaid workers into the shops, mills, mines and factories, robbing the pay enve' 1 thru low wages, depriving workers of their health and happiness thru the long workday and bad conditions of labor, and finally being thrown on the industrial scrap heap, like an empty pocket book emptied of its contents. on the The extreme care with which the Chicago police depart- ment advises against petty pickpockets, forgetting the great criminals, betrays the class nature of this arm of the capital- ist state. Since the big bucaneers of business dominate this capitalist state, oe will always escape the police attack, which they direct. It is only a crime to be a little thief; and then the only crime is in getting caught. Communism would abolish all thieves, both big and little, by placing in the hands of the producing many the results of their labor, for their own enjoyment. This can only be achieved thru the abolition of thieving capitalism and its op- pressive class rule. That is the next step in. human progress. Foster’s Speech Angers “Bill” Lee (Continued from page 1.) within the trainmen’s convention to Lee’s autocratic rule over the brother- hood, “I made the convention come to me here in Cleveland this year, al- tho they had voted to go west,” he told the Hi-Noon boss lunchers. Strat- egy figures on shoving Lee to one side gently as “honorary president” with pomp but no power, rather than making a direct fight on him. Younger men in the vice presiuen- cles aspire to the leadership of the brotherhood, desiring to place it in hearty co-operation with the other rail labor organizations, Strong senti- ment is running thru the convention that Lee has made the organization look foolish by his obsequious atti- tude toward railway magnates. They compare their conditions with other crafts and cannot see how the sacri- fice has been balanced by any gain in wages or rules, Lee In Bad With Cleveland “Labor, In addttion Lee has brought upon himself the flery denunciation of local labor men and women. Because union waitresses believe in the closed shop, their business agent was refused the floor of the convention to make an appeal for patronage of union res- taurants, Lee used insulting language in denying her request, Kitty Donnelly told the Cleveland Federation of La- bor. Other federation delegates de- nounced Lee for deliberately encour- aging the open shop crowd in their campaign against union Jabor and union label goods. SOVIET RUSSIA KEPT CONFERENCE ON UNEASY SEAT New Frameup Against Workers’ Republic (Special to The lily Worker) GENEVA, May 29.—While the vari- ous capitalist nations were jockeying for position in the next war at the so- called arms parley here, the Soviet Union was attending to her knitting. Russia was invited to send repres- entation to the conference, but the Soviet authorities decided that the company of a gang of confidence men was no place for an honest prole- tarian. Not that the Bolshevik government refuses to sit down with the enemy as a matter of principle, but in this particular case it felt that nothing could be gained by participation, Business First. aris Peace was the ostensible object of the parley. One war weapon after an- other was proposed for the verboten list, and one after another withdrawn. Nations that don’t build battleships proposed that naval vessels should not be sold by one country, to an- other. Britain would not stand for that. She sells her old junk to small nations, thus making an honest penny and putting the purchasing nation un- der obligations to her. A motion providing for the publica- tion of statistics relative to arms manufacture was proposed. This did not suit Poland which claimed that it could not stand for such a proposi- tion until such time as Russia agreed to abide by the decisions of the con- ference, Special Consideration. The conference agreed to show spe- celal consideration to nations border- ing on Soviet Russia, This means that the big capitalist powers intend to use them as bases against the workers’ republic. Britain proposed that the signature of Soviet Russia to the decisions of the traffic-in-arms conference should not be considered essential. This was seconded by Representative Burton on the head of the American delegm tion, who scored Russia for not at» tending. On Burton’s suggestion a committee was appointed to consider the results of Russia’s non-participa- tion in the conference. This was un- derstood to be e cloak under which to hide a new offensive against the Soviet power. Chamber of Commerce of U. S. Likes the Esch- Cummins Law for R. R. WASHINGTON— (FP) — May 29.— Tn its final session at Washington the U. S. chamber of commerce conven- tion adopted this declaration on ratl- road policy: “The transporation act of 1920 ex- pressly provides for the preservation of our transportation systems in full vigor. Proposed amendatory legisla- tion creates uncertainty in the public mind, tends to retard business, and thus interferes with the growth and development of our transporation sys- tem. . . . The record of the inter- state commerce commission is such as to commend that body as the proper agency thru which all laws governing the common carriers should be admin- istered.” Soviet Union Sends Protest to China on Railway Management MOSCOW, U. 8.8. R., May 29.—The Soviet Union has thru Soviet ambas- sador to China M. Karakhan, handed the Chinese government a formal note of protest against the actions of the Chinese chairman of the board of management of the Chinese Eastern railway. The chairman recently re- pealed an order of the Russian chair- man, dismissing 200 counter revolu- tionary employes of the railway. Karakhan’s note states that the act- ion of the Chinese chairman violates the agreement governing the manage- ment of the road. 4 Ask Bankers to Appear. WASHINGTON, May 29.—At the re- sumption of hearings today before the interstate commerce commission on the Van Sweringen merger plan, Menry W. Anderson, on behalf of a group of dissenting stockholders of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, ask- ed the commission to issue sub- poenaes to a number of prominent railroad executives, bankers and brokers, to appear June 8, and under- go cross examination regarding the proposed merger. kw Send this PROPAGANDA SUB to a worker to “Make Another Communist” | NAME L-) a CL SSNS