The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1925, Page 3

i ‘ LEFT WING COAL MINERS FORCE MASS PICKETING Drag Scabs bs from Nova Scotia Collieries TORONTO, Ont., Canada, June 11— The miners’ union officials of District 26 ofthe U. M. W, of A. have been forced by the militant strikers to In- stitute real mags ploketing, after a three months effort to enact their clags collaboration polloy. All maintenance work In District 26 is now at a standstill. At Waterford the’ men invaded the power plant en masse, carried out the scabby, white collared officials and placed them In thelr car. ~ Premier Armstrong and Attorney- General O’Hearn have suddenly be come “active” and threaten “mounted police” intervention, “Middle Olass” Sobs, Executive members McLeod, Mc- Kay and Nearing are touring the miners’ local advocating 100 per cent picketing, After three months of slow starva- tion the miners’ executive have made their final confession of faflure of class collaboration by reversing their policy in favor of mass picketing and & one handred per cent strike. This is what the progressive coal miners have been calling for these last three months. This is what they called for at the very outset of the strike. Wo claimed that the miners had nothing but treachery to expect from the Armstrongs, the Murdocks and the middle class “relief” crew. “Public opinion” did a little sob- bing over the miners’ hovels while the sensation was new. When the middle class saw that this was an in- dustrial class struggle and that it would be dangerous to go too far in “sympathy” for the workers, “public opinion” shut up like a clam. It is more interested in the horse races. The miners can be bloodily smashed but “public opinion” won't let out a peep protest. Position Reversed. Then in response to the growing de- mand of the men for action, and under pressure of the left-wingers on the board, McLeod and McKay finally emitted a feeble notice sanctioning picketing. This “sanction” is the weakest statement we have ever seen! It urged the men to treat Besco’s prop- erty, reverently and it took the whole Autsout of the picketing. At the convention a couple of weeks ago to discuss future policy, McLeod still argued against mass-picketing. He claimed there was a 100 per cent strike even if scab officials were do- ing the maintenance work. And now McLeod’s whole position is reversed—after three months. McLeod admits that it was not a 100 per cent strike while Besco kept its officials doing scab work. The situation three months ago was the same as today. Three months have been wasted. Besco has been allowed to get more arrogant, to lay “open-shop” plans, Militancy has been justified. The workers have nothing but their chains to lose. On with the struggle for bread and against the 10 per cent reduction. Out with the white-collar scabs! Everything to win! Oil Trust Ambassador Back. WASHINGTON, June 11—James Sheffield, United States ambassador to Mexico, arrived here today for a series of conferences with President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kel- logg on Mexican-American relations. Sheffield is aiding the Standard Otl company and the Calles government ULGARIAN WORKERS MURDERED BY FASCIST ZANKOV GOVERNMENT 'HIS ploture just received shows the ghastly drama of cathedral bombing In capital of Bulgaria, in one of its phases. Here we see three mén with thelr hands tied behind their backs awaiting execution while a bishop of the orthodox Catholic church Is seeing pumping his spritual liquid fire into them. The three condemned men in upper picture are: Koev, Zadgorski and: Fried- man. The three scaffolds on which they were executed was erected in an’ open field and a multitude was invited by the Zankov government to watch the murder. In the lower left picture are the three gypsies who were forced to pull the chairs from beneath the condemned men. Below right is one of the doomed men ready for death. . The horrible brutality of the Bulgarian arch-fiends now running ‘the government has shocked the workers of the world. The capitalists have nothing but words of praise for the murderers. CHILDREN UNDER TEN YEARS OF AGE WORKING TEN HOURS A DAY IN HERDS OF FARMING SLAVES NEW YORK, June 11—chilaren of ten 3 of ten working ten hours a day are the farm laborers of South New Jersey truck farms, the startling report of Russell J. Eldridge, Jersey state director of employment, to state labor commissioner, Andrew F. McBride, shows. The situation is complicated by the fact that the majority of the child workers are sent in by Philadelphia agencies and cannot be controlled directly by Jersey laws. “Rest periods are unknown, except at the discretion of parents,” Eldridge says. “I observé none’ in effect.” He found “no child working possessed an age or schooling certificate.” Chil- dren under 10 form 10 per cent of the total number of child workers on the truck farms and cranberry bogs. The total number working could only be determined by a weekly survey of the entire farming district, particularly below Trenton, from May 15 to Oct. 15. “In many cases the houses provided lington Y. W. Liu, president Chinese “THE DAILY WORKER LOW WAGES AND LONG HOURS FOR MOVIE EXTRAS Work Under Lock and Key for 23 Hours By L. P. RINDAL, (Speolal to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 11—Hol- lywood Is geyenth heaven for brase- check press-agented movie stare with beauty prizes and other “affaire” to thelr “oredit,” but exploitation — be- low the starvation point—for plain ex- tras. Work Stretch of 23 Hours. About 175 men and 75 women went to work for the Globe Picture corpora- tion at 7 o'clock in the morning, May 15, and they were locked up on the job until 6 a. m. the next day, or 23 hours’ labor without sleep or rest, At 3 o’clock in the morning, May 16, the men demanded pay for 8 days if they wanted them to stay any longer. This was promised by the di- rector but, later, refused by the com- pany. The fair sex, some of whom receiv- ed a higher rate than the male ele- ment for the same kind of’ work, were paid for two days andia half (3 hours short). The men, however, were offered only two days pay (7 hours short.) For a whole week, these 250 extras, men and women, stormed the offices of deputy labor commisisoner, Block and Baker. Finally, the men were paid off with a check for two days and a half, or the same as the women. Once more: Blessed be equality! But best of all—solidarity! The women made a~kick for being forced to work over 8 hours—under lock and key-and their cases are sent to the state labor commisisoner in San Francisco, Work But No Eats, For 23 hours work—day and night— and one week loss of time in order to collect the men received the “huge” sum of $6.70. After the room rent is paid (to a gréedy landlord) out of a wage like that, there is nothing left to live on—except sunshine and hot air; and, when it rains—like it does during this Shriners’ week—we are entirely out of luck. “It hasn't rain- \ed for 40 years, but it rained like ‘hell’ | today,” sing thé nobles; so the break- fast, from now on, must be made out of something @lse besides climate. Even the sour oranges, produced in this locality, di hanging too high— not only for moVie extras, but more so for every member of the the army of over 65,000 unemployed workers, from the ranks of which the different pic- ture studios hire their over-worked (if worked at all) and under-paid slaves. CHINESE STUDENTS IN AMERICA VOICE ANGER AT IMPERIALISM’S ACTS, HOPING FOR ITS REFORM By ESTHER LOWELL (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, June 11.—(F.P.)—“The time has passed when China can be treated as an outlying colony of any one nation or group of nations,” Wel- Students Alliance in America, writes to secretary of state Kellog in reference to the Shanghai situation. Liu states that “the question which originally as a purely industrial dis- were inferior to even tenement stand- ards, with regard to ventilation, fire safeguarding, water, toilet and cook- R. | ing tacilities, sanitation and hygiene,” Eldridge reports. Most of the local schools had not tried to reach the working children and some show a disinclination to accommodate out-ot- town children. The padrone system of labor is still used. Inspection and rigid application of inthe drive against the trade unions|the Jersey child welfare act at Cam- and peasants. Mobilize the Red Army for Red Week. den, where most of the Philadelphia immigration comes in, is urged by the investigator. Watch on Jersey em- ployment agents is also suggested, SSS ESS) ATTENTION, DETROITERS! ‘ SUNDAY, JUNE 14th, 1925 THE WORKERS PARTY OF DETROIT WILL HOLD ITS INTERNATIONAL PICNIC at 16 MILE ROAD GROVE Refreshments Dancing SPECIAL ATTRACTION: BASEBALL GAME DAILY WORKER versus NOVY MIR. DIRECTIONS—Take Woodward Ave, car to Fair Grounds, buses will operate between Fair Grounds and grove, Two Or take Flint, Rochester, Oxford and Imlay City local cars to Lyons Stop. AUTOS—Drive out Woodward Ave. to South Main street, Along » South Main street and follow signs. Admission 25 Cents. agreement between Japanese employers and Chinese workers has now as- sumed a political aspect and the powers are fast rusing forces to Chinese ports, ostensibly to protect foreign+ residents and premises.” Thinks Imperialist Nations “Magnani- mous, “A change of heart is called for in those foreign agents in China who may be misrepresenting the magnani- mity and fairplay of their home gov- ernments,” he continues. “We believe the situation is not so grave as to call for foreign armed intervention. The issue was originally industrial and economic, and not political. If labor strikes in England, France and the United States can be settled thru legal means and by industrial arbitration, logic compels us to believe that the Sino-Japanese cotton mill dispute can be equally well adjusted without un- necessary shedding of blood. “But, unfortunately, reckless firing on the part of irresponsible foreign agents in Shanghai has precipitated a crisis which leads to the movement of numerous foreign cruisers and de- stroyers by foreign powers, thinking that their own interests are in jeop- ardy.” Sees End of Democracy. The letter, approved by & mass meeting of Chinese students in New York, declares that the Shanghai trouble is “not an anti-foreign upris- ing.” It says, “If a peaceful and sym- pathetic demonstration by a group of unarmed and defenceless young stu- dents to protest against the ill-treat- ment meted out by a mixed court to an fll-organized group of laborers on strike could be called ‘Red’ or ‘anti- foreign,’ we shudder to see the be- ginning of the end of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly which are the glory of all democratic traditions of the world.” : Aske No More Marines. The letter concludes: “We would feel proud if our traditional friend on this side of the Pacific stands firm on the ground that China’s sovereignity shall be respected at all costs, that no more marines shall be landed and those additional units of naval forces shall be withdrawn so soon as is com- patible with the safety of American residents in China.” \Angry at Mixed Court, The Chinese Students Alliance is divided into three groups in America: Eastern, mid-west and western, ac- cording to C. ¥. Cheng of the Chinese consulate-general office in New York. The alliance includes over 2,000 mem- bers. The feeling has run high about the Shanghai affair, Cheng explains, be- cause the students were merely on sympathetic strike demonstrating against the injustice to strikers con- victed in the mixed court (not Chinese court), When the foreign police fired into the ranks of the students, some- times when the students were not even in the foreign quarter, students in other parts of China and in Amer- ica became aroused to protest. NOW 244,385 MORE UNEMPLOYED IN GREAT BRITAIN THAN IN 1924 LONDON, Eng., June 11—The number of unem during the week ending June 6, by nounoed, , and the government expressed “ ‘There are now 1,247,800 unemployed workers This le the biggest Increase ‘workers increased officially an In many months, ly recorded, with the unemplo; and many thousands more not tabulated, an Increase In the cofMlolal pare stiee: of 244,088 over Jaa} youn RIFFIAN TALKING COLD TURKEY TO PROUD GENERAL OF BOURGEOIS SPAIN HE Spanish general who Is sitting in the chair, as the president of the Chicago Federation of Labor would say Is “in a most unhappy position.” The person with the garb resembling a bath robe Is a Riffian chief, and what- ever he Is saying to the Spanish general, the latter Is taking It all In. The two Moroccan soldiers and the Spanish soldier standing by, appear to be having a good time. This: picture was taken when Spain decided that dis- cretion was the better part of valor and proposed to let somebody else tackle the hardy Rifflans. France is now wrestling with the ane NEGRO ALUMNI ELECT ANTI- DURKEE HEAD, PROTEST DISMISSAL OF TWO STUDENTS FOR STRIKE ACTIVITIES WASHINGTON, D. C., June 11.—Meeting in Andrew Rankin Memorial chapel, the General Alumni association of Howard univer- sity elected as its. head, on an anti-administration platform, George Fraser Miller, of Brooklyn, N. Y., to succeed W. Justin Carter, of Harrisburg, Pa. annual session in | | SOVIET UNION EXPECTS GOOD WHEAT HARVEST Europe Recovers From». Crop Shortage By ALPRED KNUTSON. (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U, 8. & R., June 11-- Last year the crops In Europe did not turn out very well, but thie year the prospects for a good crop are fins. Both In Russia and In Germany the harvest was poor génerally last year and because of this fact, the economia development of these countries were for a time somewhat arrested, One big reagon for the good wheat prices in the United States last fall was the failure of a crop In Europe. This year the outlook so far for a good crop in Burope is good, The rye {s headed out in most places and the stand is fine. The wheat fs doing well, and tho the fields arg spotted here and there, an average yield ia expected, even should the rain fall from now until harvest be not very great. I traveled from Moscow to Kiev and from Kiev to Karkoff and then back to Moscow during the first days of May and over this whole territory the rye and wheat fields as well as other farm products appeared in good condition. During the last two weeks fine rains have fallen over the greater part of Ukraina, Russia, which is considered an important bread basket in Europe. So that in this section of the Soviet Union a fairly good crop is now practically assured. Qn May 18, I drove by automobile into the country around Tula, about 130 ntiles south of Moscow, and found crop conditions there somewhat ‘good, | tho the fields were suffering some from lack of moisture, but since I was there rain has fallen in this section, All over Germany this year a good crop is expected. Splendid flelds of rye are to be seen from Koenigsburg to Hamburg and all other farm prod ucts are in very good shape. Ernst Putz, Bavarian farmer and Commun ist member of the reichstag, told me yesterday that Germany would have a good crop, and upon my question whether a crop was assured even tho no more rain fell before harvest, he answered in the affirmative, tho he said the yield naturally would be somewhat reduced. Mrs. Agnes Davis Durrah, of Plain- + field, N. J., delivered the annual ad- dress on the “duty of the alumni.” Shy urged the association to “stand solid- ly behind President Durkee and the university trustees,” but to no avail.” The work of the past year was report- ed by the retiring president. Two Strikers Expelled Worker | day evening, June 13th. two students—James Reed and Harry | Bright—had been asked yesterday to} withdraw from the university at the the recent student strike, the assembly; of 400 alumni from various parts of the country were electrified from a speech by Neval H. Thomas placing in nomination Mr. Miller as “against autocracy, the wasting of university | funds and Dr. Durkee’s presidency of the Curry School of Expression of Boston, which bars Negroes.” Oppose Administration Obstructionist tactics, led by “Wil- liam H. Houston, to block a vote on the nomination continued for several hours without avail. At an early hour in the morning the nomination of Dr. Miller was put and carried by a heavy majority, It was understood @ program in opposition to the admi- nistration at Howard University will terest he has taken in this work, again acted as class leader and gave very helpful criticisms of the various manuscripts submitted. Three special assignments were given to members of the class for this week: The Brindell case, grafting of city officials among street peddlers, and the East Side versus Fifth Ave- nue during the heat wave. In addition every member of the class is expected to produce at least one news item for the DAILY WORKER during the week, and to bring a carbon copy of it to the class Saturday evening for NEW YORK WORKER CORRESPONDENTS MEET AGAIN, SATURDAY, JUNE 13th Correspondents of New York will hold their next session at | party headquarters, 108 East 14th Street, New York, at seven o'clock Satur Every worker who would like to take two months Already inflamed by the news that | training in Communist Journalism is invited to be present. This will be the fifth meeting of the class, but there is still time for be- |ginners to enroll at this meeting, since the systematic study based on Bill end of this week for participation in| Dunne’s pamphlet on Workers Correspondence will begin the next session, That the class means business was proven by the good attenance last Saturday evening in spite of the record breaking heat. Comrade Jack Carney, who deserves great credit for the {1-¢—————————————— study and criticism, The class will not be Hmited ta party members. Non members who, are workers will also be admitted ta, this course. Bnroll at the Workers School, 108 East 14th street. Natives Forced to Dance PIETERMARTZBURG, Matal, South Africa, June 11.—The Prince of Wales, | who is touring Natal today, witnessed | an aboriginal dance, The natives were) compelled by order of the suthorttieg] to dance before the prince, be put in operation at once. Novel of College Life Barred from Mails as “Indecent”’ JACKSONVILLE, Ill, June 10.— “The College Exodus,” by Russel M. Arundel, a novel of college life, cen- tering around the “upper intellec- tuals” and the problems of a student's career, has been barred from the mails, according to a statement re- ceived by the author today from J, J. Kiely, postmaster at New York. Kiely said the book, which publish- ers planned to market this fall, violat- ed section 470.of the postal regula- tions because chapters 17 and 20, dis- cussing sex philosophy and describ- ing wild revelry among students of the art and literary departments, were “suggestive.” Arundel is a former student of the universtiy of Illinois and much of his material was said to have been ob- tained there. “If postal authorities believe my book will incite moral degeneracy rather than drive {t out of the col- leges, I shall gladly withdraw it from the publis! " Arundel said. “IT had hoped to place before the public the exact environment in col- lege that leads to destruction of a sense of moral justive and develops characters that menace the welfare of upright and ambitious students,” ain Getting a DAILY WORKER subd or two, will make a better Communtss park, 3rd Annual International | 4 Mass Meeting | and Picnic AVON PARK, GIRARD, OHIO Sunday Noon, June 14th The YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE will provide a program of sports and singing. Free prizes will be given away, In case of rain the speaking will take place indoors at the A GOOD TIME FOR ALL. REMEMBER THE DATE AND PLACE AND BRING ALONG YOUR FAMILY. Take a street car or bus out of Warren or Youngstown and get off at AVON PARK, Ausploest Sub-District Committes, Workers Party of Amerioa, RAIN OR SHINE WE CELEBRATE! SPEAKERS: C, E. RUTHENBERG of Chicago and short speeches in all languages. Speaking starts at 2:30 P. M. “'