The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1925, Page 1

} THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ QOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. EPRESENTATIVDS of labor are allowed a certainfreedom of speech in Great Britain, declared Sir : Joynson Hicks, secretary for home rs, in answer to questions raised in, the house of commons relative to the announced intention of the gov- ernment to bar foreign Communists from entering’ England. This means that as much freedom of speech as is compatible with the security of the capitalist state is allowed, an admis- sion which explodes the fable so se- dulously cultivated by Anglomaniacs that Britain is the cradle of free speech and individual liberty. see x aa was true so long as the speech- es were harmless or economic con- ditions were such that there was no danger of the speeches being followed by action. But those golden days are gone forever. There are 2,000,000 of British workers unemployed and with every likelihood that this condition is not a passing one, This standing workless army is a constant menace to the wage scales of those who are employed. After all the question of filling the stomachs of the people is the rock on which governments crack. . 2 8 HE British government would not permit foreign working clags agi- tators to come and make speeches against capitalism, said Sir Hicks, but he did not say that the same rule would be employed in the case of fore- ign capitalist representatives spouting against the Soviet government. We note that the tory police department was not able to keep out delegates to the Communist convention held in Glasgow. Buchanan, labor member from that city told the tory home secretary that he would welcome the Communist convention officially, as it would take place in his constituency and that he thot no Communist in the convention would make a more ex- treme speech than himself. ee 8 'HILE the left members of the British labor party are talking thusly, the right honorable J..H. Tho- mas is writing pamphlets boosting the empire, which he says is a trust that must be developed for the benefit of “all the people.” With Thomas are.) associated Ramsay MacDonald, Phillip Snowden, Sidney Webb, J. R. Cynes and other socialists. This shows that the label of socialism means little more in England than it does “in France or the United States, eee HE social democrats in Austria are kicking up a shindy because the bourgeois foreign minister delivered on anti-Soviet speech recently. Not that the social-democratic leaders of Austria have any more love for the Soviet Union than their prototypes in Germany or England, but the Soviet government placed several large or- ders in Austria giving employment to thousands of social democratic work- BS) As a result of the anti-Soviet at- tack the workers republic cancelled the orders. Hence the howl from the social-democratic leaders. see UR pacifist American socialists who. beat the air about a dictar- torship and a Red Army in Soviet Russia do not feature the presence in Austria of a social democratic mili- tary force of 100,000 workers, ‘The social-democrats of Germany also have their military organizations. The main difference between the attitude to- wards the use of force expressed by ihe Communists and socialists 1s that the former use force against capital- ism while the latter use it to defend the robber system against revolution. see R. NORMAN THOMAS is not a die-hard. defender of majority rule when «a question ai 1s that strikes him in the most sensitive part (Continued on page 5.) 1H RATES: Outside ™ ing like a tidal wave thruout the Here 100,000 workers are on strike with the general strike call grownig hourly and assuming the proportion and forms of war. WEST VIRGINIA MINE PICKET GETS 10:YEARS Frank Corish First of - Court Victims By REGINA MYROWSKI. (Special to The Dally Worker.) MOUNDSVILLE, W, Va. June 3— On May 28, Frank Corlsh, one of the victims of the strike situation In the northern section of West Virginia, was sentenced, at the Marshall County Court House, to ten years at the state penitentiary ae a result of the outbreak which had taken place at Glendale, W. Va., on April 19, 1925. On the above date an outbreak had accurted in that town as a result of the scabbing that was being done in that region. The house of a scab was picketed by a number of striking min- ers, but altho no damage was. done, Police arrived upon the scene immedi- ately, dispersed the crowd, arrested 19 men and one woman as having part in the outbreak. ° _Rank and Retten Injustice. On May, 1925 they were in by the grand jury atid” held pending trial for violation of the Red- man act, which carries a prison sem |. tence of from two to ten years, The week of May 26, 1926 the trials for the strikers were commenced, |. each one being tried individually. Frank Corish was the first one to be tried and was charged with being the instigator of the outbreak. He was found guilty and given the maxt- mum sentence, 10 years! This caused great consternation among not only the strikers themselves but also among the sympathizers, and is view- ed as being one of the most savage sentences ever pronounced for the crime committed. Frank Corish has appealed his trial to the supreme court. Prison for Strikers—Freedom for Scab What the fate of the others con- nected with the outbreak will be can- not be determined but without doubt the majority of them will be con- victed, with a pretense of a trial, and also given severe sentences, as an ex- ample‘for the rest of the strikers. While these people are being tried for attacking Robert Crowe, the strikebreaker, no charge has been en- tered against the latter as yet, altho he shot Samichow, one of the strik- ers in the head. Samichow is report- ed as having nearly recovered, with the bullet still remaining tn his head. Heavy prison sentences, injunctions, etc. have not as yet succeeded in breaking the working class spirit. Altho they may have a depressing in- (Continued on page 2) In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. cago, by mail, $6.00 per year. AE CHINESE WORKERS FOREIGN IMPERIALISM |. 1S NEW NAME SWEEPING WHOLE NATION (Bpeolal to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, China, June 3.—With Shanghai as its present center, the revolt against foreign imperialist exploiters is sweep- “stung by the repeated massacres of unarmed demonstrators by the white guard “volunteer” foreign businessmen and foreign police troops, arms are appearing in the hands of students and pth Ati. eat Al Acta ins PINON whole of China. workers posted to defend their meetings from attack, Foreign troops have been ordered to shoot to kill on all occasions. The general strike is paralyzing the international settlement. All the workers in the foreign cotton mills, along the wharves, the telephone ex- changes, power plants and water works are out. Great Demonstrations Belng Held. In the Chinese city, great demon- strations are being held, with the thousands of students leading parades, bearing the coffins of their dead com- rades shot down by British Sikh po- lice troops Saturday and the other victims which have been murdered since. é Of the five goreign language papers published here, all are hit by tho strike, four being completely tied up by the strike of the laotype operators while the fifth {is issuing a small sheet only by throwing a heavy guard around the plant to protect the for- eign scabs from being stopped at thefr work by Chinese strikers and sympa thizers. Two thousand Chinese members of the municipal police force are threat- ening to strike, and flatly refusing to act against the other industrial work- ers on strike. Cable employes are meeting this af- ternoon to consider joining the strike. Water is being furnished the interna- tional settlement only by use of vol- 1 Here THE DAILY W Batered as Secondclass matter September 21, 1933, at the Post Office at Chicago, Iltmeis under the Act of March 3, 1879, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1925 FORD SPIRIT FOR SERFDOM Studied Petty Tyranny for Workers x (By A Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich., June 3,—Ford Is known the world over, outside of h' factories, as a great and considerate employer. But to the tens of thous ands of production slaves out of whose very hides are tanned the hun- dreds of millléns of Ford’ profits, he ls looked upon as a mean, heartless miser and a hypocrite par excellenoe. | A great spirit permeates the Ford or ganization (from the foremen up) known as the “Ford spirit.” This same spirit is handed down from above in any other open shop concern but it fs not as lucrative to the stockholders as this particular brand. Straw-Boss Tranny are @ few instances of masters and slavery prompted by this great spirit. No straw-boss or petty foremen has the power to fire a worker directly, tho he can easily have it done, but where he lacks this privilege he makes ft up by arrogant orders and threats of lay-offs and giving night- shiffs outside of one’s turn, ‘The company for years has supplied paper cuspidors and saw-dust free to those who ‘chéw tobacco or want them, but about a year ago, in line with the Ford spirit of profits, the men were charged one cent per cuspi- dor. Ford Favors on Prince A few m ago when his royal parasiteness, the prince of Wales visited the it, Ford issued strict orders ag: Spitting that day and so cuspidors and sawdust were not sold, and all pticles for holding turning and ips were covered with white canvas, over the motor as- unteer scabs guarded by American marines. At the American Club, the ANOTHER MANUFACTURED ‘RED PLOT’ IS PEDDLED BY BERLIN NEWSPAPERS -BERLIN, Germany, June 3.—Anoth- er fake “red plot,” manufactured by czarists, has found a ready market here. The Deutsche Zeitung said to- day that it possessed a “document” according to which M, Lewitsky, coun- ‘selor of the Soviet legation at Vienna, is to “take advantage of his diplomat- fe immunity and direct Communist activity thruout the Balkans.” Lewitzky peints out that it is not even revealed who sent the note, and characerizes it as a crude forgery. —— following refusal of their demands by An Open S$! The Curlee company is the biggest factory in St. Louis, a town which ts among the largest and scabbiest of clothing centers: of the country, Curlee firm employs a total of 1,000 men and women and until now the union | Forger of Fake “Zinoviev “Plots” Caught in Berlin | { (Special to The Daily Worker) t BERLIN, Germany June 3.— The forger of the fake Zinoviev letters, and manufacturer of numerous bogus “rod plots,” the czarist Russian forg- er Drusheloveky, has been arrested ahere, This document fakir found a ready market for his wares... The capitalist governments of the world, including the Ramsay MacDonald “labor” gov- ernment, in Great Britain, found it expedient to believe that these crude woncoctions were genuine, Exposed by Red Press. Only in the DAILY WORKEs., and the Communist and left wing press were the fake plots exposed. Now the Communist exposures of/ the “plots” have been verified, and the capitalist governments and their agents have been given the He. * In the capture of the archtakir Drushelovsky, the German police de- clare they have run down the forger who for months has been weaving a net of plots all over Europe, making a livelihood by fostering race hatreds and animosities, and who has been successful, they believe, in the over- throw of a cabinet by his machina- tions. The mysterious trail of the “Zin- oviev” letter, published during the campaign which saw the defeat of the Ramsay MacDonald cabinet in England, may be cleared up by in- vestigation of Drushelovsky's opera- tions, This letter purported to be a communication from the Soviet for- eign minister to MacDonald, then Bri- tish premier, suggesting.MacDonald could aid in spreading Communist propaganda in Great Britain, Official Moscow branded the letter a forg- AIRPLANES TO LEAVE OSLO SUNDAY TO SEEK NORTH POLE EXPLORERS OSLO, Norway, June 3.—The two Norwegian aeroplanes which the gov- ernment is to send into the Polar re- gion to search for the missing Amund- sen-Elisworth north pole flyers, will center for wealthy Americans, | STRIKE IN BIG ST. LOUIS SHOP ' TO ORGANIZE CLOTHING WORKERS OF SCAB TOWN IN AMALGAMATED (Special to The Dally Worker) v ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 8.—The force of cutters in the big tafloring shop of the Curlee Clothing company, 85 men and women in all, are om strike by order of the Local Cutters’ Union of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers constricted with ts to” tect his The British and American. capitalist flags were flying over the administra- tion building that day. More “Ford Spirit” But to returm again to the Ford spirit, no more sawdust was given out and only what cuspidors that were in stock were sold and again more orders against spitting. The whole shop is plastered with sickly slogans-about safety—the latest is “Have you sent in your safety sug- gestion?” Here is a good suggestion— “Gentlemen, would cite that in the tool- . where men cannot be rush- ed, accidents are very rare the hazards are quite as great; would suggest that the nerve racking speed-up system in Production be cut out—giving men (Continued on page 2) the firm. hop Center. The | International convention of the United EB 290 COAL MINERS MEET PUT OFF BY LEWIS GANG Terrorized by Fear of | Progressives (Special to The Daily Worker.) INDIANAPOLIS, June 3.—The next Mine Workers of America, scheduled to convene In January, 1926, has been postponed until 1927, by a decision of the International Executive Board, subject to approved by referendum vote of the membership of the union. It is freely admitted that this action was prompted by fear on the part of John L. Lewis that the next conven- tion if held on the scheduled date would run away with him. In the last elections for officers of the Interna- tional Union, George Voyzey, progres- ORKER. Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicage, IL Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! Price 3 Cents Miners Fight Attempt of Officials to Gag Union by Postponing Convention United Mine Workers has postponed @ reason that because the contract expires in 1927, it is impossible to formulate a wage scale before that time and that therefore a convention is unnecessary. The progressive miners see the real reason for the postponement in the fear of the Lewis machine to face the outraged and betrayed miners, starv- ing with their wives and children all over the country because of Lewis’ collaboration with the operators and the Jacksonville agreement, which is throttling the miners’ union. Lewis Fears Removal. sive candidate for president, polled half as many votes as» Lewis, accord- ing to the official count, which was made by Lewis. The general opinion among the rank and file of the union is that Voyzey was really elected. In fact Lewis has refused to publish a tabulated Ust of the voting. Lewis held his ground at the last convention by pulling off several red scares and illegally terminating the convention when a majority of the del- egates voted to give Alexander Howat, of Kansas, a new deal. Since then sev- eral districts have gone on record for a special international convention to take up the Howat matter and other ertevances of the_rank and file against the international officials. : Busted see wnetine. ~ Several districts are decidedly op- posed to Lewis and even his position in the anthracite fields is badly shaken, tho he made Tom Kennedy secretary-treasurer of the thterna- tional as a sop to the hard coal’ min- ers. The actions of the stool pigeon and renegade Cappellini have ‘busted the Lewis machine in District; dre and districts 17, 14, 12, 26, 18 are off the reactionary autocrat for good. (Continued on pege 8) ° WILL FIGHT ALL PROGRESS, SAYS LEE OF B, RT. Reaction Still Rules in Brotherhood (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 3—Bill Lee, ultra-reactionary labor faker heading the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, was re-elected president by its triennial convention here by 531 votes as against 408 votes cast for A. F. Whitney, his opponent for the last four elections—beginning in 1913. . After his election Lee, who was terrifically disturbed recently when William Z, Foster of the Trade Union has made but litle headway. If the A. C.W. can makera win of the present strike, which may spread from the cut- ters to the rest:of the 1,000 workers, the town of St.Louis will be well on he way to unionization in this indus- try. “The clothing bosses’ of Chicago and other unton centers, so it is reported, have lately been sending their work to St, Louis to:make more profit from the low scab wages prevailing. The long delay of the A.C.W. in doing ef- fective organization work has caused unemployment.ip these union centers and intense explcitation in St Louis shops, Milltants Actively Support Campaign. It now appears that the AC.W, lo- |. cally is going about organization in a determined manner, and in the cam- paign the militant members of the Trade Union Educational League and not get under way before Sunday, 4t was believed by aviators here today, ery. MacDonald made it the subject of a sharp note to Russia. More Fake “Soviet” Orders. Not a world power but what has been touched by the, machinations of the super faker, the asserted. The spurious documents brought to (Continued on page 2) the Young Wor«urs League are taking an active part. All the clothing work- St. Leuts a Tho demands»of the cutters of the Curlee shop are:ss follows: The right to organize, reinstatement of eight workers fired for belonging to ths unt- on, canitary conditiens, time and a halt for overtima, a 44-hour week and an increase of the basic wage trom $20.50 to $47 avwoek. Educational League spoke at an en- thusiastic meeting of railway work- ers in Cleveland against the proposal of Lee to turn all the rafl unions in- to company unions and abandon the class struggle entirely, spoke to the delegates and said that he, Lee, would continue his collaboration with the railway companies and his opposition to amalgamation and all other pro- gressive movements. BH. King, general secretary-treasur- er; Thomas R. Dodge, Leo's assistant, and D. L, Cease, editor, were also re-elected. PERMANENT INJUNCTION GIVEN 20 COAL MINING COMPANIES IN W. VA, WHEELING, W. Va. June 3.— Injunction proceedings, growing out of organization activities of the United Mine Workers in the Pan- handle district of West Virginia, to- day held the attention of Federal Judge Willlam E. Baker, who ha ed down two orders, one Inul a temporary Injunction granted the West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal com- pany ahd’ the other granting a re- straining order to nineteen coal compani¢e which petitioned for an | ards employment has fallen from 1.4 per cent in New Dngland to 6.4 per cemt F >) (Continued ‘on page 5.) ‘ Injunetion, . Lewis knows that his machine is crumbling. Ha knows that Voyzey rightly claims to be the International President. He knows that the rank and file miners are demanding his removal for violation of the consti- tution in refusing to issue a tabulat- ed record of the vote in the last in- ternational election. The rank and file have prepared charges against Lewis. They demand his impeachment for this flagrant violation of the constitution, and he realizes that the miners at the con- vention will attempt to rid the union forever of his traitorous leadership. Install Voyzey as President. ‘Voyzey demands that the conven- tion shall take up the internation: vote, in order that he may be in- tionally provided. . The progressive miners also de mand the repudiation of Lewis for his imposition upon the union of the Jacksonville agreement, which ts de- stroying the union. They see the Al- berta miners crucified by the opera- tors, and deserted and betrayed by the union leaders; their union is gone and black despair stalks the district. Ruin In the Trall of Fakers. Nova Scotia, a semi-ruin, striking against wage cuts, against the beast of Besco which seeks to crush the union, {s also deserted by Lewis and his machine. Nova Scotia bravely fights alone. But the progressive miners know that this state of affairs must be brought to the convention for appropriate action—and Lewis knows that his position as International president may be made short work of. The Case of Local 699. In Local 699, in Pennsylvania, 1,700 miners of the Woodward Colliertes are expelled by Cappellini and the action is approved by Lewis in direct (Continued on page 3) COURT DELAYS SUIT AGAINST GOVERNOR SMALL SPRINGFIELD, Il, June 3.—The re- quest of Assistant Attorney General Charles W. Hadley for extention of time to June 22, for filing of briefs and arguments in the civil proceed- ings against Gov. Small, was granted by the state supreme court here to- day over the protest of counsel for the defense which branded the request unreasonable and for the purpose of causing delay, At the same time the court denied the petition of the Citizens Associa- tion of Chicago to appear as a friend of the court and in an advisory capact- ty file briefs and make oral argument. Small is accused of stealing state funds. ‘PROGRESSIVE MINERS DEMAND INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION IN JANUARY TO OUST LEWIS The news published in another column, that the Lewis machine in the the international convention until January, 1927, elicited the following statement today from Alex Reid, secre tary of the Progressive Miners’ International Committee: Demand a Convention In January, 1926, The international executive board of the U. M. W. of A., held a meeting at Indianapolis on May 12-16, and decided to postpone the regularly constti- tuted convention from January, 1926, proval of the membership, alleging as #———______ to January, 1927, subject to the ap- PEABODY COAL COMPANY CUTS MINERS’ WAGE Violates the Agreement with Union (Special to The Dally Worker) KINCAID, Ill., June 3. — The Pea body Coal company operating about 20 mines in Illinois, one of the largest mining concerns In America, has now become a factor in attempting to re- duce the living standards of the ming ers in Kincaid and destroy the coal diggers’ working standards, The contract between the miners and the coal operators specifically provides that no change will be made during the life of the contract that will add to the expense of coal produc- tion or reduce the miners’ wages. Peabody Violating Agreement. In face of this agreement the Pea- body Coal company at Kincaid No. 9, is attempting to chamge the room and ee (Continued on page 5.) Big Construction Job Again Tied Up Thru a comparatively unimportant strike—that of a dozen teamsters de livering building material for the new $20,000 produce market—work on ‘that structure has been held up for, nearly a week, it was learned yesters, day. The strike has been on ten days, but had little effect until the material on hand ran out. Then brick layers, iron workers and other workmen were laid off. It is the third strike there. ' Distribute a bundle every day} during Red Week of June 15 to 21, FIRE IN ‘TINTOWN? EXPOSES FAIRY TALE OF BOSSES’ PUBLICITY PHOENIX, Arix., June 8—JThe storles sent out by On ae chamber of commerce di ing that nonunion town sound Iike fairy tales when compared with the following dispatch printed In a lo- | cal paper under a Bisbee date linet “Approximately one-fourth of the village of Tintown, near here, was destroyed by fire rly this morn Ing, causing damage estimated at $12 or $15. Tintown Is Inhabited solely py Mexloans of the poorer class, who have built thelr homes from tin cans, parts of wrecked automobiles of a popular make and anything else that can be tacked o glued on to the rallroad tiee that. form the frame-work. Like the disastrous Chicago fire, conflagratron Tintown’s posed to ha rant cow wandered into the kitchen of a house and kicked over a lamp. There being no fire fighting equip- ment in the village, one entire block was razed before It was placed under control.” MORE WAGES OR SHORTER WORK DAY SHOWN POSSIBLE; FIGURES INDICATE STAGNATE INDUSTRY By LELAND OLDS ? (Fede: d Press industrial Editor) Low wage areas of the south are the only regions to show gains in ems Dloyment compared with April, 1924, according to the monthly employment report of the U. 8. bureau of labor statistics. In other parts of the country where labor has fought to maintain an approach to decent American stands Paem