The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1925, Page 2

THE DAILY..wORKER mau ROUSE HAS ROUGH Page Two oo seman are . - a aes oe ener, ruzmoreroncenamemamminme rinse aaa neahnsbemey emia meee Nan SHOE BOSSES IN FEDERATED TRADES COUNCIL OF COOLIDGE TRIES Coolidge in Minnesota ty the international officials are in ; MASSACHUSETTS MILW AUKEE BOOSTS AMERICAN START WAGE CUT Wi nt Workers to Accept Slash | (Continued from page 1.) to the manufacturers in return for the privilege of collecting union dues} from the workers. Any worker who refused to pay dues is fired by the boss on the demand of the union dues collector. No union conditions are de- manded by the union officials im re- turn for the label—the union keeps the workers in control for the bosses. Workers Have No Voice. The local unions of the Boot and Shoe are all under “local 0.” This means ihat a commission appointed charge of the locals. The members are only allowed to attend meetings, but cannot decide any question. “Lo- cal O.” is used by the reactionary officials to stifle any rank and file revolt against their mismanagement of the union, and their collaboration with the bosses which had made out of the union the finest company union in the country. But the conditions of the shoe workers are growing worse. The re- sults of the recent Boot and Shoe convention held in Montreal have stirred the workers up. The conven- tion raised the dues from 25 cents to 35 cents. The assessment limit of $5 a year was abolished and the sky was made the limit. The salaries of the officials were raised $2,500 a year. Every decision of the convention strengthened the control of the offi- ejaldom. Rallying to T. U. E. L. Program. The program.of the Trade Union Educational League for the boot and shoe industry has the only solution for the problems of the Brockton shoe workers. This program is being tak- en to the workers by the T. U. E. L. adherents, and there is growing in Brockton a movement of progressive shoe workers which will eventually assume leadership of the thousands of shoe workers here. The wage cuts, and unemployment are constant- ly facing the workers, and this shows them the necessity of making a deter- Mined struggle to make of the Boot and Shoe a real union and a weapon for the struggle against their terrible conditions. GREAT DANISH STRIKE } ENDS IN VICTORY FOR THE WORKERS’ DEMANDS COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 7—The strike which lasted for eleven weeks and became general with the inclusion of the transport workers, paralyzing the industrial and commercial life of the whole nation, has been settled with a vic- tory for the strikers according to announcement made late yesterday. A proposal of government arbi- trators, supposed to be a compro- mise, but insuring the union’s con- cessions was accepted by both sides. The employers had insited up what amounted to an open shop. Up to the last minute the matter looked insoluble and the king who had gone to a summer resort had returned to the capital by special train to be present to endeavor to use his influence against the stike. |have, NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 7.—At ite last meeting the Federated Trades Council of Milwaukee endorsed the resolution introduced by the Molders’ Union to give an active support to the American Negro Labor Congress and Instructed the executive secretary to help in bringing It to the attention of the unions, ‘There appears to be an awakening consciousness among the workers and the understanding that the Negro worker must be admitted Into the unions on the equal scales with the white worker as otherwise the bosses will use colored workers against them. In the unions where the colored. workers are admitted, they prove to be very good and loyal unlon men, FALLON, NEVADA, GREETS MOTHER BLOOR ON TRIP WITH SPLENDID MEETING FALLON, Nevada, June 7, — “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor, who Is hiking from Los Angeles to New York, speaking at Workers (Com- munist) Party meetings and secur- ing subscriptions for the DAILY WORKER, had an enthusiastic meet- ing here. Eight new subscriptions and one yearly renewal to the DAILY WORKER were taken at “Mother” Bloor’s meeting. The meeting was held in a large tent donated by Dr. Harrison. Old time German com- trades arranged the meeting. “Mother” Bloor’s next meeting will be held at Salt Lake City. She wires: “Am riding constantly ‘thru the desert now.” Street Carmen Agree to Continue at Old Wage of 75 Cents The Chicago street car men’s union and the Chicago Surface Lines thru representatives, agreed upon continuing the present wage scale. The union had at first asked an increase from 75 to 80 cents an hour. The company proposed as a counter-demand, a reduction to 70 cents an hour. The scale had been agreed after the 1922 strike, with a maximum wage of 73 cents to be increased to 75 cents the third year. The union has other demands as to working over hours. The contro- versy has been adjusted, according to President Quinlan of Division 241, by the company promising to operate its night cars so that all will be in the barns before 7 in the morning. The present negotiations will be Placed before the membership of Di- vision 241 at the next meeting. McAndrew Tries to Put One Over on New Board Superintendent McAndrew is doing some hard pushing to sell his teach- ers’ salary schedule to the new board of education. The other day he sent a letter to the board of education in which he set out to prove that there was no deficit in the school treasury. There has been a new auditing of the books and McAndrew’s claim in this letter was that there is not only no deficit in the school treasury but that there is a surplus of $17,000,000. Investigation of the report, however, shows that the $17,000,000 surplus be- longs to the building fund and can- not be used to take care of deficits in the educational fund. Also that the true conditions of the fund is that it is overdrawn by $19,000,000. U. S. CONSUL AT SHANGHAI, THRU LIPS OF CAPITALIST INTERESTS, TELLS HOW SHANGHAI STRIKE GROWS WASHINGTON, June 7.—Details of the growth of the strike against for- eign mill owners and foreign intimidation in Shanghai, as conducted by Chinese students, are given by the state department in a summary of cabled reports from Consul General Cunningham dated June 3. On June 2, following the landing of American and Italian forces to “protect” public utilities, the students held numerous meetings which adopted “violent” resolutions such as: 1. That police officers (who had ordered the fatal volleys fired into the strikers’ ranks) must be “humiliated and intimidated.” 2. Groups of men should be sent to “create disturbances.” 3. Traffic should be interrupted. 4. Deilvery of mail and telegrams should be prevented. 5. Infliction of damage upon pro- perty of “persons opposed to the stu- dents.” 6. Measures be taken to cut off supplies of provisions and materials used for industrial and business pur- poses. 7, Creation of various residences, 8, Boycott of foreign bankers to be rigidly enforced. 9. That all schools in Shanghai be requested to join the general strike, Between the lines of this report can be seen a dominant class view of the revolt of the Chinese against foreign mastery, and a fear that the revolt will sweep over China’s 400,000,000 people to a degree that may change the status of foreigners in all China henceforth, “Handbills,” says Cunningham, “ere circulated denouncing foreign- for murdering Ohinese and ad- ding extension of the si to disturbances at ee who are indispensable to foreigners.” This latter group included all chauf- feurs, cooks, clerks, policemen and detectives, “Some Chinese,” he adds, “includ- ing officials, make proposterous de- mands for the release of all Chinese arrested, punishment of policemen and indemnity to families” (of the strikers and students shot down in the streets), , The Washington Post warns the Coolidge administration to be very. circumspect in the face of the Chinese uprising, and to limit its use of armed force to the guarding of American life and property, Chinese Open Civil War on Anglo-French Mercenary Troops (Continued from page 1) its previous arrogant attitude, by say- ing that it “withholds judgement” of the Shanghai uprising until a commis- sion of foreign legation secretaries re- port on the situation. The commission is to leave Peking for Shanghai Mon- day. E. G. Greene will represent the United States. The present note was in response to the second protest of the Chinese foreign office. Chinese students in-‘many cities are joining in sympathetic demonstrations in behalf of the Shanghai strikers. The Shanghai Teachers’ Union has addressed a protest to tne diplomatic corps at Peking, sending it thru Sov- iet Ambassador Leo Karakhan, against the murders of Chinese stu- dents by the foreign troops. The Sov- iet ambassador is formally the head of the diplomatic corps, but the oth- er foreign representatives ignore him, take separate action and are not ex- pected to reply to him in the matter of the protest. However, his strength with the Chinese teachers is indicated by their action. ny se 6 Shanghai Still an Armed Camp SHANGHAI, China, June 7.—Fully 250,000 Chinese workers are still on strike and the situation as regards food in the foreign settlement is get- ing worse. Little is obtainable there except flour and canned goods, fresh meats and vegetables having been entirely shut off by the strikers. The town hall.has been turned into a food supply station and is under heavy guard. The foreign population is taking caré Of its own needs from the remaining food, leaving the 750,000 Chinese living in the foreign settle- ment to shift for themselves or go out- side, to the Chinése controlled terri- tory for supplies. The Kuomintang party has called for a general strike and boycott against British goods. The American marines, with fixed bayonets still are occupying the Kuomintang party’s school, known asthe people’s college, under the excuse that they are ousting “red influences.” The Soviet Consul General, E. Osar- nin, denies that the Soviet government is responsible for the riots. In a writ- ten statement he declares statements by other foreign interests as “nothing else but prevarication aiming to dis- credit the Soviet government. The consulate,” he says, “has no connec- tion with the strike, nor does it give instruction to anybody regarding the same.” Soviet Consul Issues Denial of Lies Meanwhile boycotts and strikes against foreign interests are spread- ing up the Yangtsze valley. At Chin- kiang, above Shanghai on the river, rioters stormed the British municipal building and burned the furniture. Chinese Raid British Concession The American gunboats Penguin and Paul Jones are being ordered to Chinkiang by Rear Admiral McVey. The British warship Woodlark is due to arrive there Monday. The rioters tore down the British flag over the building in the concession. In Nanking, capital of Kiangsu pro- vince, the shops are closed, the mark- ets refuse to sell anything to foreign- ers and the Chinese workers employ- ed by American and other foreign firms are on strike. An additional 400 American marines are being landed today at SHanghai. 1925 Russian Crop Larger, Than Biggest Ever Raised in U. S. (Continued from page 1.) port 300,000,000 poods, the govern- ment economic organs are confronted with the greatest difficulty in trying to figure out the state’s distribution of 1,000,000,000 poods of grain. Figuring a pood at one-half bushel (it is actually six pounds in excess of a bushel) the Russian harvest of 3,200,000,000 poods is 1,600,000,000 bushels or more than 600,000,000 bushels over the largest wheat crop ever raised in the United States, ENGDAHL ARRESTED IN PARTY DRIVE FOR COMMUNIST OPEN AIR MEETINGS J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, was arrested Saturday night In the renewal of the drive of the Workers (Communist) Party to hold the corner at W. North Ave. and Orchard St., for party open alr meetings, Engdahl was locked up at the Hudson Ave, police station but ri furnished by Thurber Lewis, representing the Labor Defense Councll. ased on bail The case will come up this morning in the Chicago Ave. police station. A jury trial will be demanded, This and other 8, Involving the arrests of other comrades, will come up for final disposal on June 10, with the Communists’ fighting to declare the city ordinance demanding permits for open air meet- ings unconstitutional. Open air meeti day night were not interf Ith. rh CHRP ES ings in other sections of Chicago Satur Se RACE IN BIGGEST ~ PRINTERS? UNION 3000 Votes for the Left Wing Program By JOSEPH MANLEY. (Special to The Dally Worker.) The dictatorship of Leon the First is crumbling. This is the outstand- ing afd significant fact resulting from the recent election of Typographical Union N. 6, of New York. Leon Rouse, the president of Big Six, had, for the past ten years, ruled without serious rivalry the affairs of this big and important organization. It is particularly significant that an opponent who with only a few short weeks of preparatory campaign rolled up almost 3,000 votes as against the approximate 5,000 votes of Rouse. Darcy Milliken, the candidate for president against Rouse represents the anti-thesis of the policies that Rouse, for the past ten years, has been fastening upon Big Six. Rouse with his high-handed and dictatorial methods has almost completely abol- ished every last vestige of democrat- ic form in Local Union No. 6. Rouse himself has appointed all committees of the union, including the executive committee. Consequently, this ma- chine built by Rouse is fighting sav- agely to prevent its destruction. Rouse Sacrifices Rank and File. Rouse’s attitude towards the em- ployers has been one of collaboration and the avoidance, at the expense of the rank and file, of all militant con- flicts between the workers and the employers. This high-salaried execu- tive fights only for his own personal aggrandisement. He never fights for the demands of the rank and file. “Doc” Milliken on the contrary rep- resents the rank and file revolt against Rouse. Milliken is a printer of many long years standing, fore- most in the progressive movement, and recognized widely as a leading left winger in the printing industry. He works daily at his trade and in his spare time edits the Industrialist —advocate of amalgamation in the printing trades industry, and Eastern organ of the left wing in the print- ing trades. The Trade Union Educa- tional League printing trades group has taken a leading part in the cam- paign. Milliken’s platform, which was dis- tributed thruout the‘entire New York printing industry, while not a full left wing platform embodies..many pro- gressive policies, which {f carried out by Big Six, would make \it- fighting trade union. i, The attempt to displace Rouse, was not merely the effort of one or two indivduals, but was the beginning of a real rank and file movement, led by the class conscious elements, to de- velop militant policies in the printing trade unions of New York: Milliken Carries Big Shops. An analysis of the votes cast for Rouse and Milliken is significant, Mil- liken carried almost solid the votes of the printers in the big book and job offices of New York. For instance, the printers in the Federal Printing Shop, the biggest book and periodical shop in the United Statés, voted for Milliken, as did those of McGraw-Hill and others. Milliken carried almost all the newspaper offices. He, for in- stance, carried the American by 96 votes, which two years ago was car- ried by Rouse. On the other hand, the shops, which gave Rouse the ma- jority were the small—one, two and three men shops. This election struggle has laid the foundation for a crystalized left wing movement in the printing trades of New York. The lesson of this strug- gle is that the rank and file are in open revolt against the class collabor- ation of Rouse. They are demanding and will not rest, short of a militant leadership, and a policy of struggle against the employers rather than Rouse’s policy of collaboration, The Blood in the Coal. HAZELTON, Pa., June 7.— More blood is on the coal mined in this country due to the burying of miner John Yanyack when a rush of tons of coal fell on him at Drifton operations of Lehigh Valley Coal Co, Yanyack was father of 18 children, 14 living. ———_ Labor Party In Again. SYDNEY, Australia, June 7.—The labor party has won in’ the new elec- tions and will hold office in New South ‘Wales, i Lunacy Warrant For Russell. HAMILTON, Ohio, , June 7. — A lunary warrant is on file here today against Lloyd Russell, 42, who yester- day shot and killed eight of his rela- tives and slightly wounded himself. CLASS IN LENINISM, Will be held Monday, June 8, at $118 Roosevelt Road, under auspices of Douglas Park English branch, Max Shachtman will conduct the class. ————engieealal HELP WANTED! WANTED—Fifty women and girl comrades to report at 19 S. Lincoln street, for work, selling The DAILY WORKER at special meetings every night this coming week, Give at least two nights this week to help push the sale of The DAILY WORKER. Phone Seeley 3562 and ask for Hammeremark, By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, “Silent Cal” Coolidge is in Minnesota trying to make a noise for the republican party. - “But why Minnesota?” the millions will ask. Why all this trouble crossing half the continent to present himself at the so-called Norse-American centennial celebration? Why this long journey in the heat of early June? e ° = ° The reason is not hard to find. It is the same reason that inspired the late Sam Gompers, during his final days as head of the American Federation of Labor, to send his “red png agent, Paul Smith, to Minneapolis, to make war on the Communists and force the expulsion of Commun- he delegates from the Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assem- Y: i It is the same reason that inspired Senator Robert M. LaFollette, with the presidential bait dangling alluringly be- fore him, to issue his declaration denouncing the June 17th National Farmer-Labor Conference, at St. Paul, last year. All united in the war of the capitalist reaction against the efforts of the Minnesota workers and poor farmers, in harmony with labor thruout the land, to build their own class power, . ° * ° Three years ago when Cal Coolidge, then vice-presi- dent, tried to peddle some of his New England “open shop” piffle at the Minnesota state fair, the occasion for an annual outpouring of Minnesota worker and farmer masses, he was hooted down. The gathering, tired of his bunk, refused to listen to him, and he had to leave the platform, sticking his typewritten speech in his pocket. That was in the days when the Farmer-Labor movement was on the upgrade, when the workers and farmers in increased numbers were breaking away from the old political parties of the landlords, the bankers and the food speculators, ; Three years ago the republican party of Wall Street was slipping fast in Minnesota. Not even the reactionary elements from the middle class democratic party, that joined it, could help it very much. Magnus Johnson and Hendrik Shipsted went to the United States senate and the governor- ship was in reach. But instead of consolidating their class power the work- ers and farmers allowed their movement to be overrun with pan careerists and hungry job hunters. Political deals etween the so-called leaders of the farmer-labor movement and the old parties became the order of the day. Class action was fought as “Bolshevist.” Treason to the class interests of the workers and farmers was cloaked in the garb of “Americanism” and now Coolidge comes from Washington to Minneapolis to reap the harvest, and with him comes Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, the corporation lawyer, who was defeated by Johnson as the Farmer-Labor candi- date. For him it is a triumphant return. . | ae. 3 * * 4 This “united front” against labor finds its symbol in the dirigible “Los Angeles,” sent all the way from Lakehurst, N. J., to take part in the ceremonies at aay ans today. This giant weapon of American militarism for the oppression of labor at home, for the subjugation of Wall Street's colonial slaves, and for making war on rising Workers’ Rule, as in the Union of Soviet Republics, or the aspiring revolutionary movement in China, becomes a spectacular feature of the “Back to Wall Street” dri * On the Coolidge reception committee will be Mayor Leach, supported in his victorious race for re-election by the Van Lear-Harthill “socialists.” Leach was an ardent’ sup- porter of Coolidge’s campaign last year, that helped put a republican standpatter: in the governor's chair in the state- house. What a spectacle, therefore, today! From the grea est capitalists to the pinkest “socialists,” they all kneel today to do obeisance to the strikebreaker president. . * * ° Alone the Communists call to the workers and poor farmers to enlist on labor's side of the class struggle to break the power of the republican party—of capitalism itself—in the state of Minnesota. Against the republican party of Wall Street, — the democratic party of the well-to-do farmers, the little bankers and small businessmen, against the betrayers who parade as LaFolletteites and “socialists,” against all these the Communist inspired masses are called to struggle. Coolidge’s visit to Minnesota today must mark the drawing of the class lines more clearly, the beginning of greater struggles for the robbed and the oppressed, in the cities and on the land. ASWESEEIT -:- (Continued from Page 1) By T. J. O'Flaherty To Inaugurate New War On Workers and Farmers of course, the inevitable Soviet gold and “tons of Bolshevik propaganda.” When the thing blows over, those same lying correspondents will write books a la Sir Philip Gibbs, entitled, “Now it can be told.” Gibbs was knighted for lying for the allies dur- ing the war. He is now making money telling the truth about the same events. Had he told the truth dur- ing the war, he would be beheaded instead of knighted. 6:9 6 OSE who are reading General Bullard’s war memoirs could do worse with their time. The general is a typical militarist of the fascist type. Putting a bullet into one of his own soldiers does not bother him any more than treating the enemy to ‘a dose of lead. Several American sol- diers were executed during the war for infractions of discipline he tells us. But more British were shot, The notorious “Hardboiled” Smith de- serves the highest praise, declares Bullard, but when Smith was being made the scapegoat for his crimes of the high army authorities Bullard kept his mouth shut, ‘ ee NE thing you Will learn from Bul- lard’s story and that is the lack of herojam about a capitalist war, Desperate mon drugged with liquor were sent forward to fight mon they } never saw before for a cause that meant nothing to them, They went forward as condemned men walk to the gallows, some nervous; others ith resignation. There was little of the bunk we see in the moving plc- thures to be observed in the trenches. Bullard throws much needed light on the condition of the French armies in 1917 and 1918, . ee © TT is quite evident that the allies were beaten to a frazzle in 1917 and 1918 and came within an inch pf being decisively defeated even with the addition of the American forces, While the fake peace terms of the hypocrite Wilson were a factor in de- stroying the German morale the real cause of the German military debacle was the Russian revolution, It was the propaganda of Lenin and not the propaganda of Wilson that demoral- ized the great Germany military ma- chine on the western front, OU; MINNESOTA ~INNEW SPEECH Howled Down by Work- 6 ers and Farmers in 1922 By LAURENCE TODD, WASHINGTON, — (FP) — Three years after he received, at the Minne- sota state fair grounds, the most hu- miliating rebuff ever given a vice: president of the United States by a great gathering of voters, Calvin Cool- idge has gone back to Minnea- polis to deliver a speech. He hopes to get a reception that will seem to be an ovation, and thereby put the stamp of approval—even in Minne- sota—on his achievements as a politic- al agent of super-finance and feder- ated big business. Incidentally, he hopes to kill off the insurgent move- ment. in the nortwest. How bitter must be his recollection of that disastrous day when he ruined the Old Guard’s chances of returning Kellogg to the senate is indicated by the fact that he has since made Kel- logg ambassador and secretary of state, tho the Minnesota Old Guard has never forgiven him for their dis- comfiture. Last year they sent a Lowden delegation to his renomina- tion convention at Cleveland. Gets An Awful Jolt Twenty thousand Minnesotas were packed into and in frortt of the grand- stand on that afternoon when Calvin Coolidge, the “simple farmer boy,” vice-president of the nation, was in- troduced to the Minnesota farmers. For 40 minutes they listened silently to his reading of a speech which in substanc was the same as the advice which drove the North Dakota farm- ers to organize the non-partisan lea- gue. He told them that they could solve all their problems of deflaction and bankruptcy by going home and going to work. Then some one of his har- sher phrases was met by a round of hand-clapping. Coolidge looked pleas- ed. The clapping continued, and spread out into the crowd. He looked more pleased. Then it spread farther, and slowly Coolidge realized that it was a steady, metholical, disapproving clap-clap-clap-clap a deadly counting out process, in which 20,000 men and women had joined as tho by common inspiration. It kept up, five minutes, ten, twenty, until Coolidge abandoned ‘his place, trembling with mortifica- tion, and left the grounds. Next m6rn- ing the Associated Press and the re- publican papers tried to psycho-ana- lyze the crowd, as a preliminary: to bréaking the news that the vice-pres- ident had been driven from the ro- strum, by a tremendous mass-rejection. Just Like British Prince The nearest approach to this treat- ment given Coolidge, found in modern fiction, is probably that description given, by D. H. Lawrence in “Kanga- roo,” of the terrible “counting-down” of the British prince by the infuriated Australian troops at the Palestine front during the war. Before the final,. ex-communicating “ten” had been reached by the shouting lines of vete- rans, the prince rushed forward, plead- ing pardon. Coolidge simply took the count and disappeared from Minne- sota. First principles of machine politics require that the Old Guard fill the president’s audience, this time, with thousands of trusty shouters who will toss hats in air and yell themselves hoarse after each paragraph, and then tiy to get near enough to shake the hand that signed the appointments of Kellogg and Humphrey and other anti- farmer stalwarts. And since Norwe- gian settlement of America is being celebrated, Coolidge will presumably pay tribute to the late Knute Nelson, faithful servitor of the steel trust. Steel Trust Snaps Unemployment Whip MONESSEN, Pa.—The steel trust is taking good advantage of the unem- ployment situation here. While thous- ands of miners are idle in this dis- trict the steel trust is getting very particular with the men, and is mak- ing them to do a great deal more than they had to do this time last year. The tin mill here, for instance, is getting men to do’a great deal of little things that they did not have do before. This week they sent a/man home for a week because he not do the “little things” they wanted him to do. There is something lacking with the workers in this town, or they would put up a fight ae did the work- ers in the McKeesport tin mill, which went on strike and abolished the “li*tle things’ they had to do. If it can be done at McKeesport, it can be done here, Distribute a bundle during Red Week, ‘ ( ert) | Gens amt inten Attention, San Francisco Comrades! A meeting i lied ofall DAILY WORKER readers, party mem- bers and branch agents for June 11, 8 p,m. at 225 Valencia. This is to mobilize all our forces for Red Week and for the permanent. activity of securing subscriptions for the DAILY WORKER, within San Francisco. Plans are ready for effective work. You must help, —P. B, Cowdery, DAILY WORKER Agent