The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1925, Page 1

Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON. * ee Pu AE 2 by 11, $8.00 i Vol. Il. No. 1 120 | & °', 10H RATES: Outside Chicago, by BH $656 ber year: Voy. oO e vere ' Ry 200 W0 “ir” AOMEN THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. HELD IN COAL AL BARU BASTILLES IN WEST VIRGINIA MINE WAR More than 200 men and women in northern West Virginia are in jail for defying the courts that restrain the organizing ef- 40 PER CENT OF MEAT NOT INSPECTED, SAYS MEDICAL AUTHORITY ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 31— Uncle Sam needs such another jacking up as he got when Upton Sinclair’s “Jungle” appeared, it de- veloped at the convention of the American Medical Association when Dr. W. H. Lipman of Chicago said that 40 per cent of the meat offered TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1925 BRITISH UNION QUIZ SAYS ‘RED’ NOTE WAS FAKE General Council Asks or co 290 ITALIAN COMMUNIST | DEPUTY OPPOSES GIFT TO ROYAL PARASITE (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, May 31.—The cham- ber of deputies voted 2,000,000 lire ($80,000) as the annual honorarium for crown prince Humbert, against the determined opposition of the Communist deputy Bendini. Com- rade Bendini declared such an out- Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. NEW YORK EDITION i Washington Blvd., Chicage, Ill. Price 3 Cents MACHINISTS’ UNION BALLOTS ALL COUNTED*BUT JOHNSTON MACHINE FEARS TO ANNOUNCE THE RESULT bas (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 31.—The election results In the forts of the United Mine Workers of America, for sale is not inspected. It is predicted in the region that further injunctions will place the entire coal section under. control of the.courts which are lined-up with the operators in the class war. Northern West Virginia was picked by the union as the strategic position for breaking the open shop offensive which has AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. recetaeeehttnhtineeeatagemcanaiancammanaainetiaad HE Roumanian government must dig up $9,000,000 to pay the Bald- win Locomotive Works for services rendered. Roumania hasn’t got the dough and doesn’t know where to get it. But the queen of Roumania, a very resourceful lady might place her talents at the disposal of her govern- ment provided she is as patriotic as some of the allied ladies who threw away their virtue during the war in order to secure valuah’> ‘~" ~mation from amorous German officers, es THE queen has just consented to 4 write several spicy articles for the British and American press; articles that should prove as exciting as any- thine Elinor Glyn got off her chest be- fere she squeézed the last dollar out of her abtlity to tease the erotic. The queen of Roumania is getting well paid for those articles. They tell of her affairs with men, and her majesty drops the gentle hint that she is not yet thru; that even tho she is ad- vanced in years, the dangers that she liked to fiirt with in her youth are still enticing. ees URELY, such a situation cannot be allowed to pass the notice of our American capitalists, on pleasure and publicity bent. There is a typical rep- resentative of the second generation in Harry K. Thaw. Harry, when not taking care of pet rabbits is a most enjoyable companion, they say, and might, bring joy to the-queen of Rou- mania and consolation to the govern- ment’s treasury, The Baldwin Lo- comotive Works might be able to bring pressure to bear on Washington, which in turn might induce Harry to place himself at the services of hu- manity. This is his specialty, and as virtue is not required in these given circumstances, We cannot think of a more appropriate way to get Rouman- ja out of a very tight hole. By all means let her majesty and Harry get together. see HIS is the way a female parasite of the bourgeoisie breaks into print. A queen is driven to the ex- tremity of—figuratively speaking— flashing her ankle in the public press in order to make a living. Before long she may have to go washing dishes. While the royal parasite is thus en- gaged and the morons are licking their chops in anticipation of the erot- ic journalistic feast, thet DAILY WORKER carries a story of a veteran woman of the working class, who, in her sixtieth year has planned a coast to coast tour to carry the message of Communism to those who toil and also the push the DAILY WORKER. “ee LLA REEVE BLOOR never wore a erown and her path thru lifé has not been thru banks of roses or rows of monocles. She has been more as- sociated with the grimy hands of workers than with the perfumed “fins” of the male parasites who have helped to keep the queen of Roumania from dying of ennui. Comrade Bloor keeps young by leading a useful life, bring- ing the message of social and econ- omic emancipation to the masses and helping to abolish the system which parasites like the queen of Roumania and the male drones who cater to their whims. Long may she reign, a0 3 EACTION is in the saddle all over the world outside of Soviet Rus- (Continued on page 2) —+been slowly pressing it back since 1922. The strike is suc- cessful enough to persuade the operators that they cannot win without the courts. Judges Do Boss-bidding The injunction granted by Judge Kittle at the request of coal com- panies illustrates how far the courts will go in denying the fundamental rights of organization to workers who oppose oppression by employers. It enjoins the unionists from inter- fering in any unlawful way with thc coal companies; from making an) threats or suggestions of danger o1 creating the appearance of danger, and from any show of force in num- bers of assembly in the vicinity of the mines; from threatening or intimida- ting any persons going to work in the mines and from the use of insulting names or any insulting words and especially the word scab. | It enjoins the miners from gather- ing in groups, crowds, single file for- mation on or about the mines and properties of the operators or upon the public roads, rights of way, rail- rogds, railroad rights of way, fields, woods, public. places or other places of any kind for the purpose of per- suading any person to quit work, and from picketing any of the mines; also from influencing or persuading any person to quit, cease or refrain from working, from doing any acts what- soever in the furtherance of any com- bination or conspiracy or other unlaw- ful acts for the purpose of preventing the mine owners from operating their mines. This injunction makes it possible to arrest and jail any-miner doing any- thing fifurtherance of the strike or seeking :toorganize the district. “It belongs in a class with the Daugherty injuction against the railroad shop- men. 4 MEXICAN LABOR OFFICIALS FIGHT TEACHERS’ STRIKE Line Up with Governor Against Unions By BERTRAM D. WOLFE PUEBLA, Mexico, May 31.—When the governor ofthe state of Puebla in March of this year tried to put into effect in his state the national policy of economies at the expense of the workers and employes of the govern- ment which Calles has inaugurated with the federal employees, he struck an unexpected obstacle in the teach- ers of the state. They were suffering already from the non-payment of thirty decennial salaries that is to say, of 300 days of back pay owed since the state went bankrupt during the De la Huerta uprising, The governor proposed to fire many and reduce the pay of the rest and continue to forget the back pay. The teachers, indign- ant,’ formed a tnion and called for the aid of the labor federation of the state affiliated with the Confederacion Re- gional Obrera Mexicana (G;, R. O. M.) which is the principal labor organiza- tion of the nation. Knife Workers Behind Closed Doors The state jabor federation pro- mised aid to the teachers and appeal- ed to the national body. The nation- al federation, of which the real leader is the Secretary of Labor Morones, answered with a declaration to the effect that: (1) the teachers are not (Continued on page 2) HOOVER'S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE HEARS ABOUT THE BIG STRIKE OF THE TRANSPORT WORKERS IN DENMARK WASHINGTON—Cabled reports to the department of commerce from Copenhagen declare that ‘Conditions during the past month have been en- tirely influenced by the continuance ‘of the nation-wide industrial labor dis- putes which are exerting an advance effect on the economic situation.” “This situation,” the reports set forth, 8 been aggravated by the strike of harbor and transport work- ers. Shipments of farm products will be stopped until relief work by the co-operative societies “is organ- ized, Efforts are being made to ef- fect settlements but results so far have been negative. . . Economic losses to the country as a result of these conflicts are estimated at about 90,000,000 crowns to date, With do- mestic industries unable to deliver, orders are to a considerable extent be- ing deflected to foreign countries, principally Germany.” Another cable dispatch ‘that a new wage agreement, eiving 5 per cent raise in pay to the seamen, has been signed by the shipowners and the seamen’s union, to rum for two years, Tuberculosis and typhoid infec- tlons are thus unchecked at the source to that extent, he pointed out, The non-inspected meats are those sold in the states where they are produced, TAXI DRIVERS DEMAND UNION TO HIT YELLOW Low Wage, Long Hours! Exposes Sugary Dope The Yellow Cab company, which boasts that it never hires a driver who is known to belong to a union, has just conducted a series of ban- quets at the Furniture Mart, 666 Lake Shore Drive, to “inculcate a family spirit among Yellow Cab company employes,” according to John Hertz, president of the company. The drivers interviewed by the DAILY WORKER declare they are not interested in being given one good meal @ year by the Yellow Scab company as many of the drivers term their employers’ organization when they are out of earshot. What the drivers want, they bay, is decent working conditions, and an assured living wage. A union would give them just that, many of the drivers state. Wait For Cabs “The Yellow Cab drivers work in two shifts,” said one driver. “The day shift starts at 7:30 in the morning and ends no earlier than 4.30 in the noon. The day shift works at Teast ten hours a day on the average. Then there is the night shift.” “The night men have to be in the garages at 4.00 o’clock and wait until a day driver comes in so that they can have a cab. It it mighty unpleas- ant hanging around the garage for two or three hours waiting for a cab to come in so that vou can start to try to scrape up enough fares to get your bread and butter. We get paid (Continued on page 2) Delegate Demands Labor Conference Aid Starving India Public Inquiry (Special to The Daily Worker.) LONDON, May 18.—(By Mall)—The trade union council delegation’s re- port on the Zinoviev forgery was ap- proved by the general council and was released for publication today. It con- talns the result of the investigations made in Moscow by Tillett, Grenfell and Young, who were permitted to inspect the archives of the Comintern In order to satisfy themselves regard- ing the authenticity or otherwise of the “Zinoviev” letter. Comenting 0n the report the Daily Herald ‘says: “It contains a critical analysis of the document itself and of the available evidence of its origin —an analysis which also leaves no doubt that the letter was a clumsy forgery.” General Council's Statement. The statement by the general coun- cil of the trade union congress, ‘on the report of the delegation to Rus- sia regarding the “Zinoviev letter” is as follows: The trade union congress general council having adopted unanimously the report of their delegation to Rus- (Continued on page 3) REVOLUTION A SUCCESS, SAYS FOSTER T.U.E.L. Picnic Speech Hails Soviet Victory The picnic | y of the Chtonge Trade- “Educational League -at- tracted a large crowd of working men and women who enjoyed themselves thoroly from the beginning until long after nightfall. ft was the first pic- nic of the season for radical workers, and the fine weather blended with the pleasure-seeking desire of the crowd to give the militant unionists of Chi- cago a memorable time. In the afternoon the chief item of interest was the speech of William Z. Foster, secretary of the T. U. E. L| and but lately returned from a trip to Soviet Russia, The subject, “Rus- sia in 1926” was developed around the fact that the success of the Russian revolution in attaining a better life, both materially and culturally, than GENEVA, May 31.—One-third of In-| they could have dreamed of under the dia is under the system of forced la- bor, the workers are destitute and verge on starvation, and both men and women work in the coal mines for old regime, is positively proven. Soviet Success Cannot Be Concealed. The inability of the propagandist forces of capitalism thruout the west- an insignificant wage, an Indian dele-|ern nations, longer to conceal the suc- gate told the international labor con-| cess of the workers’ revolution, is well ference. The Indian, Chamanlal, contradicted the statements of the delegate of the British government. “India is a land of slaves,” he told the league of na- tions government. Chamanlal demand- ed that the conference ,take some ac- tion to better the pitiable plight of illustrated, said Foster, by the conver- sion of the conservative British trade union leaders, who visited Soviet Rus- sia, to a complete approval of the Soviet government and the methods of the dictatorship of the proletariat. “The report of the British Trade Union delegation to Soviet Russia the Indian natives, but the confer-|should be earnestly studied by every ence did nothing. RED BAITING BRITISH CANNOT CATCH WHITE GUARD MURDER AGENT LONDON, May 31—It is reported that white guard Russians in Hol- land have recently dispatched an agent to England to assassinate Christian Rakovsky, charge d’affairs of the Soviet government in Great Britain, A Holland Communist overheard the assassins conversing of their plans ina cafe and notified the Soviet embassy in London. Considerable criticism has arisen in English labor circles over the fact that the British government has permitted the assassin to enter England, in spite of the alleged wall against aliens put up by the home secretary, Joyson-Hicks. The activities of the British gov- ernment in deporting “rede” and an- nounineg a bar ag it all Commun- ist visitors, while permitting white guard Russians to enter on a mis- sion of assassination, is not recelv- ed with favor by the British work- ers. In spite of Scotland Yard's announced diligence, the assassin is still uncaught. Communists are do- ing their own guarding at the Soviet embasy, not relying wholly on the official “protettion” of the British aovervitnaint, 10% member of every umion in America,” declared Foster, “as ft is destined to make a revolution within the organ- ized labor movement of the world. Especially, when the British unions, joined with the Russian unions in the Anglo-Russian committee for interna- tional trade union unity, carry the message of the success of the Bolshe- vik revolution into every uniog in the world.” Not Only Understanding—But Action. Foster urged 'that the members of organized labor who are connected with the Communist movement as members or sympathizers not only in- form themsleves of this great wave of revolution sweeping out over Europe, but that they, as left wingers in the unions, vigorously carry on the strug- gle against reaction and class collabor- ation, and bring the backward Amer- ican labor movement into the ranks of a workers’ and farmers’ govern: ment. Chang Tso-Lin Army Officer Killed , at Opium Conference SHANGHAI, ‘May 31—Gen. Li Kwel- Yuan, chief of staff of the first Fenfi- tein army, who was sent to Shanghai by Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, war lord of Manchuria, to investigate an opium scandal in thisecity, was killed, and two other high military officers were seriously wounded, in a fight here yes- terday that btoke out at the opium suppression conference. lay of. money to keep one man a year, while thousands of unemploy- ed workers were starving, was a dis- gra Fascists who packed the galleries, and the fascist deputies interrupted the Communist and cheered the king. FRENCH PREPARE RIFF OFFENSIVE AIDED BY SPAIN Moroccans Break Thru Lines of Invaders (Special to The Daily Worker) TANGIER, Morocco, May 31.—The Riffian troops, hiding behind rocks, brought down several French air- planes near the Oeurgha river, with their rifle fire, it is learned here. The generals heading the invading French army, held a conference here at which the plans for a combined Spanish-French offensive against the retive Moroccans were discussed. Those taking part in the conference were Gen. Daugan, who recently ar- rived in Fez, Gen. de Chambrun, Gen. Billettet and members of the French general staff. The Riffians have broken the line on the Wessan front, where fierce fighting is taking place. Bands of Rifians are also penetrating the Bibane and Kiffane lines established by the French invaders. Abd-el-Krim has renewed his at- tacks on the Spaniards in Spanish Morocco. Over 1,000 Riffians have crossed the. road between Tetuan and Tangier, and several thousand are concentrated in the south, indicating that Krim is preparing at attack on Tetuan from two directions. Hard fighting is also taking place on the Bibane plateau, Frydenburg’s. columns were attacked. Spanish airplanes are bombarding the Yebala villages. MURDER STRIKERS. AND STUDENTS IN SHANGHAI STRIKE Police Fire on Crowd in Protest Parade (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, May 31—Because the so-called “international mixed court” of alien imperialists convicted seven- teen strikers against the Japanese textile mill owners of “conspiracy” a riot broke out when the united forces of the strikers and Chinese students attempted to march in a protest dem- onstration thru the international set- tlement. Police Kill Paraders. The police blocked the way and took the offensive by arresting the leaders of the parade, upon which the mass of workers and students became angry and tried to rescue their com- rades. The police then began to shoot into the crowd and eight were killed and four wounded. Thirty were ar- rested. But the whole working popu- lation and the student body of the city are in ferment against the tyran- nical action of the police in the inter- national settlement. Armored cars and tanks furnished by the imperialist exploiters are pa- trolling the streets to prevent a mass assault to rescue those arrested, the Chinese asserting that these workers and students will, also, be condemned by the international court without the slightest resemblance of justice. - 0.» @ Kill Three Strikers. TSING TAO, China, May 31—Three Chinese cotton mill strikers were killed and a score injured today when gendarmes attempted to clear strikers from panese mill, Several of the attackers were beaten by the strikers, Maimed Ex-Soldiers Display War Horrors in Memorial March Black shirted fascistt marched in the Chicago Memorial Day parade which was headed by Governor Len Small and Mayor Dever. International Association of Machinists are plainly so against > where Col,} the Johnston machine that “B. & O: Bill” is hard up for ways to | steal the election. The most amazing fact confronting the Machinists’ Union today is that, altho the ballots are all counted—no decision is be- ing announced. Davidson of the Johfiston ma chine, has failed to make any official statement of the result. Anderson Claims Victory. Anderson, the centrist, who won by the qualified support of the left wing, says, “My watcher has a record of all the votes cast, and even if those bal- lots are counted that are clearly il- legal, I shall still have a small ma- jority. If these illegal ballots are thrown out, I shall have a majority of 1,500 to 2,000.” H. L. Brunson, watcher for “Bill” Johnston claims that if all the chal- lenged ballots are thrown out Ander- son will lose by 6,000. But the fact remains that the Johnston machine gets its vote from “blue sky” locals, and the total number of ballots cast— first supposed to be only 35,000, is found out to be nearly 40,000. This indicates some fancy padding by “Bill” Johnston's machine of the mem- bership, according to reports. Since the DAILY WORKER re- leased the news that Johnston has sent for general counsel, Mulholland, in an effort to pick flaws in the And- erson vote enuf to clect “B. & O. Bill,” a revulsion of fecling in the member- ship against the union election being adjudicated by lawyers, has caused Johnston to deny that he sent for Mulholland to come to Washington from Toledo. However, the law shark is here, and the union funds are un- questionably being used to pay him for counting Anderson out and Johns- ton in, if humanly possibile. Secretary Must Make Announcement. The mischief of all legal advice and legalist rulings, is thetwhen the ma- chine wants it applied ‘to throw out Anderson votes, it boomerangs back and slices off more Johnston votes than Anderson ones. Secretary-Treasurer Davidson is sup- posedly compelled by the consitution, to make an announcement, but if he does he has also virtually to make rul- ings on the legality of ballots. The machine faces a revolt if Davidson dares to announce that Johnston is elected, as such announcement can be made only by the grossest discrimina- tion in allowing illegal Johnston votes to be counted and equally flagrant out- Jawing of Anderson votes. Like Lewis in Miners’ Union. Left wingers call the attention of the militant trade unionists of the country to the similarity of Johns- ton’s predicament to the situation of John L. Lewis in the United Mine Workers, where Lewis has not dared, altho the miners’ union constitution demands it, to issue a tabulated re- fa of the unfon election, but has azenly held on to his position merely (Continued on page 4) MINERS’ WIVES FIGURED AS NEW TEXTILE SLAVES Chamber ‘of Comimerce Makes Labor Survey WILKES BARRE, Pa., May 31.— The Wilkes Barre chamber of com- merce says it wants more ‘female workers in Wilkes Barre so that more silk mills and other concerns using women workers can be started. The chamber desires to attract wives and daughters of miners to the proposed new industrial concerns. It'is believed that such new workers would be partially dependent on their husbands and fathers in the coal mines and consequently would not make embarrassing wage demands. A survey of available labor is now being conducted by the chamber with the idea of attracting more capital and employers to the city. The ballots were all counted las May 27, but the secretary-treasurer’s office, + Wednesday, ided over by pre WHITE TERROR PACT MADE BY GREAT POWERS United Front Against Revolutionary Labor (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, May 31.—It is learned from Scotland Yard sources that the governments of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Ger- many have recently interchanged communications and agreed upon a united front against the Communist movement. Each government has pledged to give the fullest co-operation to the others in spying upon suspected Com- munists of the other nations, in de- porting without trial and in violation of law if need be, the fugitives from the white terror practiced against workers in fascist Italy, monarchist Germany or—let it be understood—all the white guard puppet nations de- pendent on the great imperialist powers, Explains Deportations This reveals, for example, the reas- on for the outrageous deportation, in plain’ violation of German law, of Bul- .{ garian refuges from the murderous Zankoy regime, living in Germany un- til recently, when the German govern- ment deported them into the bloody clutches of the Zankov assassins. The agreement is understood to have ‘been reached since the return from Soviet Russia of the British trade union delegation, whose report favoring the Soviet government and the methods of the Communist médve- ment, has sent the British ruling class into a frenzy of fear. It is expected that the full force of all these robber powers will be ex- erted to prevent the tremendous ef- fect that the report of the British Trade Union delegation and the new movement. for international trade union unity thru the Anglo-Russian unity committee, is bound to have upon the organized labor movement of the western countries. The fact that the conservative of trade union leaders in Great Bri- tain, comparable to the Gompers group in the United States, and with immense influence in the internation- al Union movement, has openly ap- proved of the Russian revolution and asserted that it has been successful as an emancipative step of the Rus- sian workers and peasants from ¢ap- italist exploitation, has caused con- sternation in the ruling class of all countries. This is Jooked upon as the reason for immediate application of: the united front against the Commun- ists. Will Involve All Labor Unions While the organized Communist movement is first to feel the blow of the capitalist offensive, the more “re- spectable” unionists who wish to carry on the struggle effectively for the advance of wages, the shortening of hours and other moderate demands of the organized labor movement, will be threatened also. In fact the ne- cessity of rigid suppression of the German workers if the Dawes plan is to come anywhere near success, will have direct effect in aid of the open shop movement in all western nations. Thus the drive supposedly aimed at the Communists will involye the whole of the labor movement as it proceeds. pe Distribute a bundle during Red Week. COOLIDGE BOOSTER RETURNS FROM HAPPY HOURS SPENT WITH POPE AND MUSSOLINI IN EUROPEAN TOUR BOSTON, Mass., May 31.—Frank W. Sterns, Boston millionaire mers chant, and bosom friend of Cal Coolidge, has returned from a European tour In which, according to his account, he had some happy hours with Mussolini and the pope. Sterns tells approvingly of France and Italy where “every man, woman and child in thoss two countries is working, working, working= as long as daylight laste ~ ae)