The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1925, Page 1

Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! Vol. II. No. 132. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: -ALL-CHINA STRIKE TODAY - Al. MORE TROOPS on ude op ore» Sy Hen ——-——- THE DAILY s | WORKER. Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Poult Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. ne eter nee ter tnnetentetteanatemenmeam in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1925 STRIKE OF NOVA SLOTIA COAL MINERS WHO FIGHT WAGE CUT SPEECH RIGHTS (Special to The Daily Worker) HALIFAX, N. S., June 14.—Striking miners at Cape Breton are digging in fora protracted warfare with the troops that have been dispatched to quell the strike, according to dispatches from) the trouble zone. More troops will be sent to Cape Breton, and a mounted corps is being held in Quebec province in readiness to proceed if ordered. Tried to Cut Wages. The strike which developed from a lockout by the British Empire Steel Corporation (Besco), and the shutting off of credit at the company stores in order to force the miners to accept a ten per cent wage cut, turned into open warfare last Wednesday night after the killing ‘of a striker by company gunmen. William Davis was the striker shot.dead when the mounted gunmen opened fire against pickets of the United Mine Workers. po Boe ACO TRAN tes a oa HE BEL AS WE SEE IT By T. J. OYFLAHERTY. IHINGS are humming in China, The 400,000,000 exploited Chinese are beginning to make themselves heard | and felt. Perhaps one of Woodrow Wilson’s famous fourteen points made a stronger impression on them than} was expected. That is, the right of na-| tions to determine their own destiny. It’s a good idea provided that those who have the wish also have the way.) The Chinese are beginning to prove they have both. see RTHUR BRISBANE drops a little paragraph of consolation ts “tel embattled missionaries who are .car- rying the heavenly sword in the great| Oriental republic. It seems that the Chinese masses have a special grudge against tha missionaries, and now that their blood is up the mission- aries are Hable to get an interview with their Lord. quicker than they expected or desired. 8% bc paanailad is mot in the least frightened. He says: “However the missionaries will stand their ground and meet the consequences with courage, They know that the power which they represent can at any moment save them and over- whelm the enemy by the slightest miracle.” But I doubt if the mission-| artes will feel so confident. They will | probably sing the version of “Nearer My God to Thee,” which has as a second line: “Worse Luck for Me,” when they see the Chinese coming) with everything else on their lips | but prayers, and anything in their! hands but bibles. se VEN the capitalist press find it difficult to drum up an excuse for making war on China. But an excuse will be found. Warships of all cap- italist powers are~ shelling Chinese cities. The Chinese, in self-defense, will undoubtedly retaliate. Some American missionary or gunman will lose his life and then the hysteria will be worked up. The movie houses will throw pictures of diabolical-looking Chinamen on the screen and the Nordics will see yellow, But China is a long way off and we remember that it was not so easy to induce the patriotic Nordics to fight “the beast of Berlin” until they were taken by \\the nape of the neck and stuck into uniforms. bb ' —* will be mighty hard to convince be American workers and farmers Gilbert Watson, also a striker, was shot thru the stomach. His condition is serious. Driving off pickets, the ‘company forces tried to start up the power house supplying various mines. Mobilize For Battle. The pickets retired to the baseball | park where they were joined by hun- |dreds of miners from nearby col- | men in the station had fortified their position with barbed wire entangle- | ments. By noon 2,000 miners had gathered. | They marched from the park to the (Continued on page 6) ~, MANY LEADERS | United Front for Class War Prisoners. pa elt bl William F. Dunne, editor of the Cht- cago DAILY WORKER, said today re- jqnening the conference for Labor De | fense to be held in Chicago June 28, “As editor of a workers’ newspaper, it is very frequently that | receive letters from political and industrial prisoners and their families. These numerous letters make it plain to me that it constitutes a first duty of the labor movement to look after the comfort and well being of its hostages to the master class and their almost invariably destitute fa- milies. If the proposed conference nothing else but assure material and moral ald for these victims of the struggle, it, will have accomplished a very ne ry and commendable service to the work- ers’ cause.” The proposed conference, the pur- pose of which is to unify all the forces in the labor movement for the defense of class-war prisoners and for material aid to confined workers and their fa- miiles, regardless of opinion or affil- ation, is meeting with approval from all qiarters of the country. Alice Stone Blackwell of Boston and Ellen Hayes of Wellesley, Mass. have given their hearty endorsement to the con- ference. Covington Ami Hall of Commou- wealth College, Arkansas, who has that it is their duty to send their}distinguished himself in behalf of I. sons to China to defend the interests of Standard Oil and those of the Bri- tish empire, Great Britain, which re- cently had a lot of fun forging “Zino- viev” letters, may now be able to realize that the red bear is just as dangerous an opponent as the one Kipling wrote about. And much more so, Britain is mainly responsible for (Continued on Page 6) Alaska fishing, by closing 27 bi Indians live. Only the trust rivers, while the Indinas go hungry. down for lack of fish. Hoover is saying, In public ‘speeches, that he has “paved the Alaska fishing Industry.” HOOVER STARVES ALASKA INDIANS WASHINGTON, June 14.—Herbert Hoover, secretary of pet ree, has favored the Armour and other big canning interests in their monopoly of along the coast to the fishing whereby the jeet has equipment for deep ‘Traps set by the fleet now take the fish that come from W. W. prisoners, writes, “To my way of thinking, this conference should have been called long ago. A recent experience, where another man and 1 were working on the same case un- known to each other, only serves to confirm me in the belief that the work of the different defense organizations should be coordinated as soon as it is possible to do so.” fishing. bays and Small canneries on shorew@re closing It Is reported that one of the trust traps, left unguarded last autumn, caught 160,000 fish, which died there—enough to operate the largest inde- pendent cannery served by the Indians for an entire season, Meries. Meanwhile the police and gun- | ‘ Shorty the wagon returned. “DEFENSE MEET: ARREST 17 IN PARTY FIGHT FOR Workers Aroused Over ‘Small Biz’ Complaints The fourth round of the free speech fight being conducted by the Work- | ers (Communist) Party of Chicago for | the privitege of speaking on the cor-| ner of W. North Ave. and Orchard St., | resulted in the arrest of seventeen | comrades Saturday night. While Thurber Lewis was talking the first cop hove into view and put | him under arrest. Manuel Gomez | jumped on the box and was summarily | pulled down by the same officer who took both “prisoners” away to call the ‘wagon. All Schapp spoke until the wagon | came, when one by one speakers arose | to get pulled down in the following | order: William F. Kruse, Max Schacht- | man, Nat Kaplan, Harrison George, ; Davis Bernard and Kar! Kritchell. After these were loaded into the wagon, there was still room for six girls who were singing “The Inter- national.” These were Natalie Gomez, Gertrude Welsh, Catherine Polishuk, Elsa Bloch and Ida Eckels who were crowded into the wagon with the rest.) As the wagon milled about to get turn- | ed around for the station, the crowd | cheered and sang. The workers pre-| sent showed their indignation by lusty boos as the wagon pulled out. What’s more, the crowd refused to furmine home. There was a shortage of ve ge After dispersing the crowd, the cops were ped off by a stool pigeon that “Bill” | Dunne had the bail money. He was | nabbed. Thurber Lewis, who with) Manny Gomez had lost the cop who) first arrested them, was also pointed out and taken along, with two others who had the misfortune to be near him. Dunne had raised over a thou- sand dollars in the crowd for bail. The seventeen. were held until twelve o'clock and released on a thousand dollars bail to appear in Chi- cago Ave. Police Court this morning. Three other meetings on the same cor- ner have witnessed arrests in the last few weeks. Saturday night’s affair has arroused the workers in the neigh- | borhood against the arrests. The| street was blocked to four curbs by al It has deve- | great cheering crowd. loped that the North Side Business Men's association is instigating the arrests. WALL ST. TURNS LASH ON CALLES RULE IN MEXICO Kellogg Demands More Complete Submission (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, June 14—The note of Secretary of State Kellogg warn- ing the Calles government that recog- nition will be withdrawn, “unless American property and lives are pro- tected,” is looked upon here as no- tlee to Calles that he must be even more drastic In his attacks on the Commiunist Party of xico, and must stamp out all strikes and agrar- ian movements. Calles seemed amazed, as he has “done everything possible for protec- tion of foreign investments in Mex- ico,” his government officials pointed out. Sequel of Oll Strike, The note is a sequel to the de- of the Standard Oil company that Calles send troops to break the strike of the Tampico oil workers, which Calles readily agreed to do. Doheny, on his recent visit td Mex- ico, conferred with Calles and de- manded that more aggressive action BRITISH LABOR PARTY SPLIT ON QUESTION OF IMPERIAL PREFERENCE LONDON, June 14.—Signs of a di- vision of the labor party forces that may lead to a split, is seen by the vote in the house of commons Fri- day evening on the question of im- perial preference. A labor amendment to the general bill. proposing to postpone opera- tions of the clause dealing with to- bacco, wines and dried fruits, was voted down by 277 to 93, with 20 laborites voting with the conserv- atives, eS» 290 China. PUBLISHING CO., Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicage, Ill (Special to The Dally Worker) World Imperialism in China Get the hell out of the way! His honor, the Ambassador, is taking a stroll. COMMUNISTS HAVE BOOTH AT DENVER LABOR CENTENNIAL The Workers Party here will have a booth at the Labor Centennial which thousands of union men will visit during the week of June 14 to 21 at 5th and Broadway. Copies of the DAILY WORKER will be given away free and literature will be sold, In order to encourage others we ask you to visit our stand and patronize it. Get. your tickets for the Labor Centennial at 1407 Ara- pahoe St. This ticket admits you to the circus. bd On June 21 we shall havea picnic near Morrison at which Ella Reeves Bloor who Is «hiking across the country for the DAILY WORKER will be the main speaker. Tickets are only 10 cents, if you furnisn your own transportation. If not we shall furnish such for 40c differ- ence. If you wish transportation leave word at Book Store, 1407 Ara- pahoe St.—W. DIETRICH, Sec'y. Oil company, and that Mexico is a colony of the United Stetes. One of the demands of the Coolidge government is that the movement of the Mexican peasants, why are charg- ed with appropriating the large tates of the Americans, be’ de- stroyed, and the land be returned to the American capitalists, x Seek Indemnity for U. S, Citizens. The note demands that “the Mexi- be taken against the Communists. The note, which issues definite or- ders to the, Calles government, fur- mishes one more demonstration that Calles is the;servant of the Standard name tc wee. DONTE > ASTER 1) MON NEL TY Hs can government /restore property il legally taken, and indemnifty Ameri- can citizens.” “A great deal of property has been (Continued on page 2) RED SOLDIERS ‘TOENTER COURT FOR FREEDOM Crouch and Trumbull Assured of Support The Labor Defense Council is in receipt of a leter from Paut Crouch and Walter Trumbull, the two soldiers recently sentenced to military prison In Hawaii, for expressing radical views. They write that on May 27th they had a consultation with Geo. W. Wright, secretary of the Central La- bor Council. who brought with him Mr. Fred Patterson, an attorney of Honolulu, who Wright secured to care for the cases. Attorney Patterson is to start ac- tion in the federal courts immediately to make the two soldiers out of the Jurisdiction of the military author- ities on the ground they were illegal- ly sentenced. If necessary, the letter states further, the cases will be car- ried. to the United States Supreme Court. Support Assured The Communist soldiers write that several hundred dollars are needed at once to start the action. They en- quired as to the possibility of raising money on the mainland for the de- fense, Geo, Maurer, secretary of t Labor Defense Cotincil sent the follow. ing cable immediately on receipt of i the letter: “LETTER RECBHIVED, HOPE ACTION CAN’ AND WILL BE ont La a alt eS LY HERE'S BIRDSEYE VIEW OF BIG DEVELOPING EVENTS THRUOUT CHINA Twenty-four hour general strike thruout China Monday. Feng Yu-hsiang, army command- er, threatns war on Britain. Peking Chamber of Commerce urges action against Britain. Peking government singles out Britain in sharp note. Canton recaptured by Kuo Min Tang from mercenary Yunnanese. Chinese troops, 2,000 strong, ar rive at Shanghai. Kiukiang, railway center, scene of anti-British and Jap’ riot. Japanese trying to lay blame for upheaval on English, STARTED IN, FEDERAL COURT. WE CAN HELP IMMEDIATELY TO EXTENT’ OF FEW HUNDRED DOL- LARS. No question as to ample fin- ancial aid from mainland sources.” The original sentence of the court martial gave Crouch forty years and | Trumbull twenty-six years at hard labor, the main’ count against them being that they organized the “Hawai- ian, Communist League”. It was charged that this was an illegal or- ganization on the.ground it was not chartered by the Governor General of the territory. The fact is there was at no time more than seven members in the so-called league and there was no pretense made of secretiveness. The courtmartial was a fraud from beginning to end. The court deliber- ated less than half an hour and eee eR on page 2) cert a StL NEW YORK EDITION Price 5 Cents aaa Canton Is Taken by The Revolutionists’ PEKING, China, June 14.—That the upheaval of the Chinese nation is not a passing wave o* angry masses without hope of accomplishment, but is becoming a permanent historical event of the greatest world importance, is seen in the crystallization “of national feeling thruout all On Monday a nation-wide general strike to last one day, with parades and memorial | meetings for the dead will paralyze the nation. The continued bitter strikes and growing demon- strations spreading everywhere, the unity of commercial and military elements with the students xftand workers against imperial- ism—especially Great Britain— the new tone of mastery in | sharp notes sent by the govern- |ment to forsign powers, the moving of Chinese troops to areas of conflict and the vic- tory of the Kuomingtang armies at Canton over the mercenaries who were bribed to rebel with British and French money—all proves that China has set foot | on the path of revolution which | may or may not stop with bour- geois national independence, but is certain to tear away the | foundation of western imperial- ism. Feng Threatens War on England The new spirit of national revolu- tion was well voiced by the most powerful army leader of China, Gen- eral Feng Yu-hsiang, at Kalgan, where —addressing a great mass meeting— | he openly threatened war on England | unless apology and indemnity for the murder of the Shanghai strikers and | students at Shanghai and Hankow were given by Britain. General Feng frankly warned that the present army . grt China is to be reckoned with as far superior in equipment, training and | morale to the formless and weak | forces the imperialists ‘scattered be- fore them when they conquered China *} under the Ching dynasty. General Feng directly commands | approximately 120,000 troops, and the most powerful military influence in | the Peking government which is in | formal authority over the rest of the | Chinese armies. The Peking government yesterday handed another and stronger note to | the British legation describing the Shanghai and Hankow shootings of Chinese by English troops ds “inhu- man,” declaring that murder of eleven Chinese civilians and two Chinese | policemen at Hankow was directly the work of British from the gunboat | “Bee,” stating that China will make | demands for full redress when damage is detailed and demanding that the | British legation immediately order all British consulates in China to prevent further attacks on Chinese by British troops and civilians. Even Business Men Parade Streets The members of the Peking cham- ber of commerce went onto the streets yesterday in a demonstration, about | 1,400 of the commercial leaders af the capital city, parading on their way to the office of the minister sor foreign affairs, where they urged the govern- ment to press relentlessly for satis- factory settlements of the Shanghai and Hankow murders, This, in connection with the one-day (Continued on page 2) SUSPENDED IL. 6, LOCALS PLANNING MASS MEETINGS Sigman Has Trouble in Borrowing Money By EARL BROWDER. “a (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 14.—Mass meet ings of Locals’Nos., 2, 9, and 22 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union are called for Tuesday night at Cooper Union, Manhattan Lyceum and Webster Hall. Three local executives |have officially denounced the order for the suspension of the three locals from the Joint Board as illegal. The general office of the International is |in constant consultation with William | Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor who appeared with hem at Unity House celebration yes- terday. Tho International Bank refused & \further loan to Sigman yesterday. He |flnally secured a loan of $25,000 from the Fancy Leather Goods Workers Union, Tho bank accounts of the lov cals ordered suspended have been at+ tached, this being the first action of the general office following Reni CA