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! » his pet poisons always cured. Some- Se ene ee, y Daily Worker Annual Suy cription Drive Now on’ (. in Full Blast!, / : GET IN ON ll wes AS WE SEE Se “, By T. J, O'FLAHERTY, eect ad RTHUR BRISBANE, literary ad- vertising manager for the Hearst papers, has been congratulated by Major General Amos A. Fries, chief of the chemical warfare service, U. S. A., for the prophecy that the price of real estate in Los Angeles was only beginning to rise and also that chemi- cal warfare carried on from airplanes would be a vital factor in the next war. Arthur is a big real estate oper- ator in Los Angeles and it looks as if he owned stock in some airplane fac- tories. sexe ENERAL FRIES deprecates the kind of propaganda that would draw a lurid and horrible picture of chemical warfare. In fact, the gen- eral tells us that there is no form of murder half as pleasant as putting the tin hat on an animated piece of protoplasm thru the medium of chemi- cals To quote the mild and kindly general: “Chemical warfare is cheapest, most effective, most hu- mane; it is ignorance and pacifist propaganda which has cast discredit upon it. But while the effect of chemical warfare may be made swift and devastating, paralyzing an enemy with incredible completeness, it is hu- mane and in the end less deadly than shrapnel and machine gun fire.” ‘ ‘+ # Brees we take leave of the gen- eral and heartily apoligize to him for our suspicions of the aims and objects of his humane murder depart- ment, let him dissipate a few other popular fantasies that have found lodgement in the brains of the mass- es thru the wicked propaganda sent out by “Bolshevists and pacifists” in order to make chemical warfare un-| popular with its intended. victims. Listen to Major Fries again: “It is only a popular delusion that a gassed man becomes easy prey to pulmonary diseases. Before a congressional in- vestigating committee recently lead- ing scientists testified, that a soldier gassed is less liable to become a vic- tim of tuberculosis, and if he does because of being gassed, he recovers more quickly.” » _* * Pyrs of you who were-in» ae about the selection of the let Weapon most,. conductive _to.| sending you off on the long journey from which there is no return, should be properly grateful to General Fries and to Arthur Brisbane for giving the general something to talk about. It is not unlikely that, new schools of healing will seize on Major -Fries’ statement and use it to convince their clients that doses of tear, mustard and laughing gas will nicely supple- ment spinal manipulations and rectal electricity charges. Before long we *may have a chemical warfare depart- ment in every hospital, cf pis of the war laboratory are so con- ducive to good health why not let us have wars often and conveniently lo- ha gs RATES: ov +b va BOSSES IN n. SACHUSETTS START WAGE CUT Want Workers to Ac- cept Slash By TOM BELL, (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, June 7.—The shoe boss- es, following the lead of the textile barons, are preparing a campaign of wage slashing in this section, In Brockton, the situation is acute. The bosses are spreading the idea that only the “high” wages of the workers prevent the factories run- ning steadily and the following letter is typical of the preparatory methods used: To Our Employes. We find ourselves up against competition which compels us to appeal to you seriously as to your future steady employment. We are being offered very large orders for good shoes only, to re- tail at $5.00-$6.00; this type of shoe with the material demanded is im- possible to produce at the present labor bill. That these shoes will be Produced somewhere goes without saying. If we could get a labor price that compares with the concerns who will surely get this business, if we cannot take jt, we could run our factory up to 100 dozen pairs per day, 50 weeks yearly. A price for labor low “enough to obtain these large orders means that you would actually earn more a year “than you do now, to say nothing of the future. Shoe business in the future in Brockton at present prices, holds out little hope for steady employ- ment, We, therefore, appeal to you to co-operate with us in trying to put this business in our factory. We are ready to place before your repre— sentatives a price list for various operations which will enable us to ‘takexthis | Ss. Are you seriously _ in this slightly lower labor bill, 80 we mene | be able shortly to take on this’ very large business? If so, please write on the back of this slip without signing your name. (We are willing to consider your offer.) your offer.) Remember, this means steady work and more earnings to you in the future. STONE-TARLOW COMPANY, INC., { PUT THIS IN COUPON BOX liquid fire and the other products | NOT LATER THAN NEXT TUES- DAY, MAY 26. Of the shoe factories here, all but three have the label of the fake Boot cated so that even the poorest work-| and Shoe Union. ers can afford to pay his fare to the scene of carnage. sible to have miniature wars during the noon hour where the tired work- ers and even the tired business men might get either rejuvenation or death. The general did not say that limes there are accidents and there is a fatality. But people who live in Chicago should not worry over the mortality table of a war. The nice general has taken considerable of the sting out of death, eee Ni Chinese are still fighting and knocking their pacifist reputa- tions into a row of discarded pigtails, American newspaper correspondents are lying like gentlemen and finding Soviet generals on every corner, and ‘Continued on. page 2) 1925 RUSSIAN CROP te as the standard scale, the crops in the 600,000,000 BUSHELS THAN THE BIGGEST EVER RAISED IN U. S. (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, June 7.—Great satisfaction is being expressed in Soviet and Communist quarters with the reports from various parts of the country as to the condition of the crops, By the five-mark system, which is accepted here In Brockton this means that the It might be pos-; Workers are forced to belong to this company union which parades as a real labor union. The international officials of the union sell the label (Continued on page 2) In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. CONVICTS BEATEN T0 PULP IN HELL-HOLE N. C. PRISON CAMPS GASTONIA, N. C., June 7 — Con- victs in County camp number two have been beaten with sticks until the blood streamed from their bod- jes, the grand jury declared in a re- port today. The convicts were whipped with sticks eight feet long, during the hours the convicts were at work. The report revealed that a guard whipped the men while he was drunk, and recommended his dismis- sal. RED DEPUTIES FIGHT MOTION PRAISING KING Opposition C rawls to Fascist Camp (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, June 7.—The Com- munist deputies in the Italian cham- ber voted against a fascist motion of devotion to the king, presented on the 25th anniversary of the ascension of Victor Emanuel to the-throne. The Communists were alone in their op- position to the monarchistic motion, the opposition parties taking part in the session voting with ‘the fascisti The Aventine opposition group. which withdrew from parliament, or June 12, 1924, two days after thc murder of the socialist deputy Mat teoti by the fascist leaders, is alsc endeavoring to collaborate with the fascists. Beg Favors of Black Shirts, The Aventine group has asked pre mier Mussolini to withdraw two bills from parliament, and if that is done promises to return to the sessions The bills empower the fascists to dic charge non-fascist government. em- Ployes, and give the government the - |power_of royal decree, thus practical-|- ly abolishing parliament. The Aventine opposition includes the, democratic, republican, Maxima- list, constitutionalsocialist and catho- lic, parties. Club Socialist Deputy. The socialist deputy Cassinello was clibbed in a fascist demonstration at Orvieto, it is learned here. Finance minister de Stefani has an- nounced in the Italian senate that Italy cannot at: this time consider pay- ment of its two billion dollar war debt to the United States. “The budget cannot support any further burden,” he said. Fear Birth Control Ideas. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 7.—Cam- bridge city council wants no social service worker and especially none with birth control ideas to work with the city hospital. A measure provid- it ; a social worker was turned down for fear birth Control ideas might be spread thru her. CONNECTICUT GOVERNOR THINKS DEFENSE DAY, JULY 4th, WILL BE BIG DEMONSTRATION OF WEAKNESS NEW YORK—(FP)—Mobilization Day, termed Defense Test Day this year in the attempt of the administration to dodge fire drawn last year for the militaristic gesture, should be “undertaken at a time when it would not oebe at the expense of the working man’s holiday,” Governor Trumbull of Connecticut writes the war department. But the governor approves of the defense test, objecting only to the choice of July 4 as its occasion, not only for the workers but because ex- LARGER BY chief producing districts—the middle Volga, the Ukraine, the lower Volga and the northern Caucasus—have been valued anew at three and a half marks, year’s harvest will be satisfactory and in any case won't be below the average, World's Largest Harvest, By the official rough estimate the harvest is expected to yield 3,200,000,- 000 poods. Since out of the 1923 har- vest, which was 2,800,000,000 poods, Russia was able to export 200,000,000. poods, the harvest authorities calcu- late to export from this year's har- vest not less than 300,000,000 poods, Estimating the amount of grain needed for the victualization of the town populations and the Red Army at 600,000,000 poods, for the state fund at 100,000,000 poods and for ex- (Continued on para 2) a ‘This raises the hopes that this EVICT WORKERS FROM TENEMENTS IN ursionists leaving cities and towns over the fourth will make the demon- | stration one of weakness rather than strength! Gov. Fulled of Massachu- setts approves completely of admini- stration policy, however, and will call out workers and the military organ- izations in demonstration. A telegram from the War Resisters’ International, U. S. committee head- quarters at 132 W. 12th St., urging governor Al Smith of New York not to co-operate with the war depart- ment in its July 4 defense test plans has been sent out. “Let us preserve that day for the expression of ideals of independence and freedom,” the telegram reads, signed by Jessie Wai- lage Hughes, secretary. EFFORT TO BREAK THREAD STRIKE HARTFORD, Conn., —(FP)—Striking thread workers of the Willimantic plant of American Thread Co., are to be evicted from company tenements to make way for the importation of outsid labor, Don H. Curtis, agent of the mill, confirms, The company took seniority rights from strikers last week and is now using the eviction threat in a desperate’attempt to break the several months’ strike of workers against 10 per cent wage reductions. The omen owns 160 tenements rieeay: by mill workers, pape eer OHntered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1925 _ MINNEAPOLIS COMMUNISTS URGE UNITY Call for the Support of Labor Slate (Special te The Daily Worker.) | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, June 7.—| After one_of the most uninteresting | and quietest election campaigns in the history of Minneapolis, city of-| ficlals will be elected here tomorrow) (Monday). The chief interest centers in the aldermanic fight because of the su- preme efforts made by the daily pa- pers (including the Minneapolis Daily Star), to distredit the labor group in the council, The attack against these men centers around the fact that they introduced and carried a resolution calling upon congress to recognize the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Later they again aroused the wrath of the reactionaries by adopting a resolution extending an official city welcome to J. O. Bentall. upon his return to Minheapolis from the Leavenworth prison after serving a sentence for working class activity. The Minneapolis Daily Star, which was started a few years ago by the workers and farmers of Minnesota and since stolen by Thomas Van Lear, has run daily editorials for the past| week calling upon the workers to de-| feat the labor members of the council | for re-election. Forget Class Struggle. The spirit of class consciousness hat prompted this group in the coun- xil to adopt these resolutions in their »arly political career has unfortunate- y been absent in the election cam- paign. Instead of giving militant expression o the needs and desires of the work- rs in their campaign speeches, the socialist - labor aldermen are now hedging and trying to excuse ny radical acts that may have been | ommitted dyring periods of emotional stress. Co Issue Statement. ntral committee of the copies of ‘the following statement after the defeat of its own candidates in the primary: FOR WORKING CLASS UNITY! Statement of the City Central Commit- tee, Workers (Communist) Party on the Minneapolis City Election to be Held Monday, June 8. COMRADES AND FELLOW WORKERS:— The working class of Minneapolis must be on guard next Monday! The Citizens’ Alliance, the Civic and Commerce :Association, and all the public service corporations are united (Continued on page 6) BUILDING TRADES TO FIGHT LANDIS OPEN SHOP AWARD New Work Must Be All Union That the building trades unions of Chicago may return to their policy of struggle ugainst the open shop, dis- guised as the Landis award, is seen in the reported ultimatum by the Building Trades Council upon archi- tects and contractors that hereafter the building trades will permit no non-union men to work on building construction jobs in Chicago. Several hundred million dollars of work is in sight, and if the contrac- tors wish to try to fight for the open shop, they will have a merry time getting the work done with scabs. The notice was officially sent to the officers of the Chicago Building Construction Employers associa- tion, which is;much excited over it, and the report is that the executive committee of the association will discuss what they shall do about it Monday. The report is that work now un- der construction will proceed as be- fore, but that upon new projects, the unions will strike any job where the open shop Landis award committee sends nonunion men to work. Con- tractors who hold to the open shop are dismaped. “It is the beginning of a finish fight,” declared one. The principal function of the Lan- dis award committee is to furnish nonunion men to contractors, Some of the building) unions, in agreeing to the award, agreed to let their \union members work on jobs alongside non- union men furnished by the Landis openshop committee, the institutiom set up by Judge K. M. Landis, act: ing as arbitrator, Distribute a bundle i ma during Red Week of June 16 to ‘ ' .up Published daily except Sunday by THE DAI PUBLISHING © Chinese Open Civil War 1118 W. Washington Blvi NEW YORK EDITION 3 Cents Against Mercenaries of Anglo-French Capitalists (Special to The Daily Worker) CANTON, China, June 7.—Civil war was declared here yesterday by the civil government, controlled by the Kuomintang (People’s) Party, as the mercenary Yunnanese troops, led by the General Yang Hsi Min, subsidized by the French and British governments with money and arms, began an armed attack on the Canton government in an attempt to overthrow it. Yang Hsi Min issued a manifesto declaring war in the Cantonese and ordered hostilities £ be opened on the Kuomintang people’s army under General Li | Fook Lum, a major pare fortified? whose forces have themselves on Honan island in the Si Kiang river. Expect Decisive Battle The Kuomintang forces are ready for action. They have thrown barri- cades up at all strategic points and are the superior force from the stand- point of artillery, ammunition and morale, altho the Yunnanese have established themselves in the eastern suburbs and control some of the pub- lic works and buildings. Battle is expected within a few hours. The Kuomintang has 10,000 thoroly equipped and _ disciplined troops, and in addition the loyal sup- port of the Canton unions and the exploited masses generally. The Kuomintang army includes the cadets from the Whampoa military school, one of the institutions esta- blished by the dead Chinese liberation- ist leader, Sun Yat Sen. Barricades have been erected the entire length of the Bund. The Yun- nanese are controlling the Canton side of the river after capturing the gov- ernor’s headquarters, the telephone and telegraph offices and the lighting plant. However, another army of the Kuomintang is approaching and will endeavor to recapture the Canton side of the river. American Consul General Jenkins has cabled Washington and the gun- boat Pampanga is expected to rein- force the American gunboat Asheville, already here, *ee Chinese Factions Join in Support of Shanghai PEKING, China, June 7.—Chinese newspapers here report that /General Feng Yu-Hsiang, controting the-army which has up to #iow been the main- stay of the Pekin# provisional govern- ment headedgby President Tuan Chi- Jui, has sent a Hote to that govern- ment furiously protesting at the mur- der of the Shanghai students by for- eign imperialist troops and demanding | that the Chinese government resolite- | ly support the students and strikers at Shanghai. What is more, the. papers report that General Chang .Tso-Lin, Fend’s adversary in a military way for /the control of Peking, and an agent hither- to of Japanese interests, has also tele- graphed President Tuan from Tein- Tsin approving of the attitude and action of the Shanghai students. The foriegn diplomatic corps today in addressing the Chinese foreign of- fice indicates a slight modification of (Continued on page 2) NEW MINISTER TO CHINA CONFERS WITH OLD ONE ON WAY TO PEKING JOB WASHINGTON, June 7. — The new American minister to China, John Van A. McMurray, will leave Washington for Peking today. He has been engaged in conferences with Jacob Gould Schurman, who recently returned from the Peking post, after receiving an appoint- ment mbassador to Germany. Recommendation for Military Training in Schools ‘Before Board What promises to be the beginning of establishing military training in the schools of Chicago was brought a recommendation to the admin- istration committee of the board of education. A request for funds was made for installing the headquarters for the Reserved Officers’ Training Camp in the Crane Technical High School. Trustee James P. Mullenbach spoke against the project saying he had seen military training in the schools of Germany and that that experience has made him decidedly opposed to the practice of militarizing school children, A delegation of parents of children attending the Cameron school at 1236 North Monticello avenue, came before the administration committee with a petition signed by 800 citizens of the school district protesting the change ofthe Cameron elementary school in- to a junior high. Mrs. Wegner, the spokesman, pointed out that the change would» necessitate sending small children to distant s¢hools. Ac- tion was .postponed until the next meeting, ot BRITISH TRADE UNIONS PROTEST AGAINST USE OF BRITISH ARMED FORCES IN SHANGHAI STRIKE (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, June 7.—In reply to an appeal from the Shanghai strikers to the British trade unions, the executive of the British Trade Union Congress soldiers in Shanghai, | has sent a formal protest to Premier Baldwin against the use of British The protest urges the immediate withdrawal of British armed forces for the reason that the Shanghai trouble is actually a violent conflict between workers and employers. Much blood has been shed and many workers shot down, the protest adds, and instead of British troops protect- ing the employers, the workers who are fighting for greater industrial free- dom and against unbearable condi- tions should be supported. Government ignore Protest, The British government has an- nounced that 2,000 British sailors have been landed at Shanghai and re- inforcements in addition will soon arrive. Great Britain also announces that it favors enlarging the scope of the forthcoming conference in regard to Chinese tariffs, so that it would in- clude a general consideration of Chi- na’s “welfare.” “China For Chinese” —Says Trotsky. Cables from Moscow quote the Is- vestia as emphatically denying that the uprisiings in China are manufac- tured by Communists. The Chinese people, says the Isvestia, are fighting for self determination, political free- dom, and that only after the Chinese hav¥@ driven out the foreign impertal- ists can..the, real reyolution occur. Trotsky is quoted as saying that “We offer as our program for the suggest- ed Chinese conference the following slogan—‘China for Chinese’.” COTTON PLANTER MOURNS LOSS OF NEGRO LABORERS Industrial North Takes Southern Negroes (Special to The ‘Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 7—The Ameri- can Cotton Association thru its secre- tary, Harvie Johnson, is very deeply worried over the grand migration of Negro farm laborers from the south- ern cotton growing country. Declaring that a million of the white planters’ precious “niggers” have deserted their “beloved south- land” of banjos, “massa’s,” “colonels” and the idyllic happiness of the stake and gallows, “Colonel” Johnson states that he is forced to admit that the southern Negroes are gone never to return, Of the million who, he says, have gone north in the past four years, a large portion have been snapped into the industries, adapting themselves to the factory labor. The “colonel” declares that the southern planters will have to get the United States government to permit the importation of European slaves for the southern cotton fields. Meet on State Park, INDIANAPOLIS, June 7—Governor Jackson was to hold an executive session at 2 o'clock this afternoon with a representative committee to discuss proposed state acquisition of the dune lands for development into a state park. PARIS WORKERS CHEER RIFFIANS AT EXPOSITION “International” Angers Painleve Officials {Specia! te The Daily Worker.) PARIS, France, June 7.—Crowds of workers who listened to speeches by minister of public instruction de Mon- zie and several French senators, at the inauguration of the Soviet Pavi- lion of the Decorative Arts, staged a demonstration against the Painleve government and against the Moroccan invasion immediately after the speeches. Yeries of “Long ‘hive the Soviets,” and “Long Live Morocco”, rang from the crowd. The workers assembled at the entrance of the pavillion and sang the Internationale. De Monzie and the senators, who were about to go thru the exposition, withdrew in- dignantly. Leonid Krassin, the Soviet ambas- sador, in his speech pointed out the significance of the art of the Soviet Union, as an expression of the trans- formation that has taken place among the Soviet peoples as a result of the Communist revolution. Finances On Rocks. The statement just issued by the Bank of France reveals that the gov- ernment treasury has borrowed 1, 350,000,000 francs. The sundry as- sets have decreased 468,000,000 francs the statement reveals, and liabilities have increased 678,000,000 francs. Meanwhile the Moroccans continue to batter the French invaders lines along the Ouergha river. The tremen- dous cost of the foreign war adds to ithe financial crisis. The protest of the workers of France against the imperialist policy of the Painleve government in invading foreign soil to exploit the natives of North Africa, is growing. Large post- ers condemning the Moroccan inva- sion have appeared along the streets of Nancy, and the police have been tearing them down. A dispatch from Tunis, North Afri- ca, states the several arrests have been made following demonstrations of workers against es | invasion. “-* Franc In Sharp Slump. NEW YORK, June 7.—After having gradually lost ground at gradually in- creasing speed, the French france de- clined sharply here, falling twenty points. It was quoted at 4.70% cents, the lowest it has been since March 15, 1924, Don’t you be a campaign shirker—~ get subscriptions for the DAILY WORKER! CHINESE STUDENTS IN AMERICA PROTEST LANDING OF AMERICAN MARINES TO CRUSH MILL STRIKE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 7.—A protest against the landing of American marines at Shanghai and Tsingtao was made yesterday by Lung-chi Lo, pres!- dent-elect of the Chin In a statement Mr, Lung-chi sald Students’ Alliance in America. that had the imperialist powers been true to the spirit and letter of the Washington conference, and had respected China's political and rt he rights, the trouble at Shanghai would not have occurred. ‘So-called ‘red’ influence is bound to incre: in China If Europe, America and Japan persist in their present efforts to silence all dissenting voices by force,” he sald. “We do not believe that soldiers and sailors. can solve inherently unjust and economically wasteful problem, namely, that of human working conditions in the cotton mills.”