The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1925, Page 1

) } { ( Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! Vol. Il. N/ +433. Se s Wort» ee py FROM Blu: DUSTRY CENTERS (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, China, June 15.—With the leaders of the Kuo SUBSCRIPTION RATES: gga DAA “ss, “2°HINA STRIKE NS te MOY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, “ac\<* omnrner retiree Get, ¥ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1925 ~<—>*° In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.0¢ per year. RIFFS CAPTURE BIBANE HEIGHTS ON ROAD 10 FEZ Socialists Give U p Cap- "TAY REPORTS Min Tang demanding that Chinese troops be sent to occupy Shanghai, oust foreign imperialists and enforce abrogation of humiliating treaties, the 24-hour strike that today is going on all over China is reported a success in most of the great cities heard from at noon. And rising to a roar is the demand for war upon Great Britain, to drive the British out. This city is already on strike. Peking has wired that the greatest demonstration in its history is being held. Strikes and memorial meetings for the dead are being held in Peking, Nan- king, Mukden, Kirin, Kalgan, Tsing Tsao, Chung King, Kiuki- AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. HERE was a time when children were supposed to open their ears} j shut their mouths and ask no ques- | tions. As a matter of fact those days } are not gone entirely. There was an | old saying in Ireland to the effect that it was better “to be a devil than a child.” Which carried the hint that a devil was treated better. Working class children are at the reveiving end of everything unpleasant, whether it be the pickled willow or the odor- iferous hocus pocus that is designed to make little morons, babbits, rotar- jians and pa(y)triots out of them, se 8 AYING in front of me on the desk is a red book entitled: “Fairy Tales For Workers Children:” I am not partial to fairy tales and tho I ~ knew the book was gotten out by the DAILY WORKER Publishing com- Pazy, a mémory of children’s stories that I read when a child prejudiced me against it. Before opening the book I happened to pick up a copy of the Federated Press news eet and spied the following paragrap by Carl Haessler: +e © oo iptotad is no propaganda book so suitable for the children ~ of class conscious labor men and radi- cals as the Fairy ‘Tales for Workers’ Children, published by the DAILY WORKER Publishing Co., of Chicago Large clear black type, beautifu drawings in colors and a simple e! +ang and many other cities. Money is being raised for-Shan- ghai strikers and for relief of the dead and wounded. ee Demands War on Britain. SHANGHAI, June 15. — Open de- mands that China declare war on Great Britain were being made by Chinese radicals here today. The demands came as a climax to a wave of anti-British feeling that has been sweeping China as the result ofthe killing of eight Chinese by British marines in Hankow last | week. | Parts of the Chinese press were publishing warlike editorials urging (Continued on page 6) ital Levy Demand PARIS, France, June 15.—The Mor- occan troops have retaken the import- ant fortress of Bibane, guarding the road to Fez, and have wiped out the entire garrison of the French invaders, The fortress was burned by the Rif- fians after they had captured It. Pre- mier Painleve, meanwhile, was flying back to France where he will report to his cabinet Tuesday morning, and to the chamber of deputies Tuesday afternoon. Col, Freydenberg’s and Gen. Colum- bat’s troops made desperate but suc- cessful efforts to relieve the heights of Bibane. The garrison consisted of of- ficers and seventy five private sol- diers. Socialists Again Betray Workers The French capitalists who insti- gated the invasion of northern Africa, have little to fear fyom the socialists during the-coming @iscussion of the Moroccan war befog§ the chamber of deputies. The socialists, just as they previously supported the imperialists in indorsing the Moroccan campaign (Continued on page 2) defendants. that they were ready for trial. place but the judge refused. The AGAINST TRIAL OF MERRICK AND COMRADES POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER BY JUDGE | By C. E. RUTHENBERG. | (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Penn., June 15.—Fred Merrick together with Attorney Meredith Marshall, S. E, Ferguson and eight.other defendants appeared in court this morning to answer the charge of sedition only to have the case postponed by the judge until October 8. it appears that the setting of the trial was a bluff to intimidate the The bluff was called by the defense statement in the the court defense demanded that the trial take | ARROGANT TEXTILE BARONS FIRE WHO DARED STRIKE _ WAGE CUT AND SPEEDUP By WILLIAM SIMONS. SHELTON, Conn., June 15.—The Sidney Blumenthal Co, of Shelton, a ee? fective propaganda text on the broad- est class lines make it an ideal in- strument for its purpose.” *e * HIS was encouraging. The stories are translated from the German of Herminia Zur Muhlen, by Ida Dailes. The language is simple ‘and graceful. It is the kind children and grownup people will like. And the pictures!’ There are some by a Ger- man artist and very pretty onés by Lydia Gibson—pretty and instructive. The first story is about a Rosebush. Of course the Rosebush belongs to the bourgeoisie and when a proleta- rian sympathizer in the form of a gust of wind blows some blossoms from the Rosebush out thru the gate to some poor children who tonged for them the bourgeois lady was mad and decided to pluck the blossoms before “the rabble” would get them all. s 2 « Went happened to the lady is in- teresting: “And as ue woman bent down to pick the flowers, the Rosebush hit her in the face with a twig, stretching out all her thorns like a cat stretching out its claws Conn., fired the 400 striking weavers and loom fixers when they appeared for their pay yesterday, after being out since Monday, June 6. of the dispute. When the committee \demands, this |““Nothing doing.” The company got that way, because it is in open shop Connecticut, be- | cause the strike in 1913 was lost, and |because there has been no union in |the plant. Trouble began in January. | when the company announced a cut of. 10 per cent, in reality from 13 per cent. |to 45 per cent on different kinds of | work. | Unorganized, the weavers left the looms. The company agreed to 63c an hour on good or bad material, but |upon their return, it violated its prom- lise. A Weavers Club sprang into ex- |s#ences which still functions. | The Two Loom System. The second shot in the company | autocrat replied: |with the imposition of the two loom offensive was fired several weeks ago | This was in line with-the autocratie conduct of the firm in the handling representing the weavers spoke to the manager on Monday, presenting their +— SENTENCE COLO, KLAN LEADER IN CONTEMPT CASE Dodged Income Tax Payment Is Charge “(Special to The Daily Worker) DENVER, Colo., June 15—Dr. John Galen Locke, grand dragon of the ku klux klan in Colorado, who was im- prisoned last Saturday for an indefi- |nite term for contemtp of court today |received a definite sentence of ten system. It was tried out for a few | | |days in jail and a fine of $1,500. Fed- | weeks, and the men found that it was Jeral Judge J. Foster Symes who im- |Impossible to make a day's pay. They | oseq the sentence said Locke would and scratched up the woman's face. i She screamed aloud. The woman did not want to cease from ner task, but the Rosebush was as wilful as she; wherever the hand of the woman reached, a large thorn sprang out and \ scratched her till she bled. At lagt, pret and. decided to: send: &cominlttie |be kept in jail until the fine was paid. to the manager, a report to be given that night, but the resentment was so keen that when the commitee came back to the factory, all he weavers left their looms. The strike was on. Tuesday morn- ing, the loomfixers went to the man- Locke's sentence is an outgrowth of | his failure to produce records of his nancial transactions for investiga- tors who are trying to determine whether he violated the law in not making an income tax return. — cratched, dirty hands, had to turn ack home.” \e woman, with torn elothes, with. 8 HIS is only an eyeful of what the book contains. It was written espécially for children but the grown- ups will get a kick out of it. It would not surprise us to see it made the basis for sixteen long articles some stoolpigeon like Spolansky to show what havoc the reds are making among the youth. It is the best anti- dote to the poison now spread among (Continued on page 4) BULGARIAN TERROR MURDERS ONE MORE WORKER IN SOFIA (Speciat to The Daily Worker) LONDON, June 15.—Pantscho Mi- challoff, leader of the Macedonian autonomists, was killed by an assas- sin today, according to central news dispatches from Sofia, The assassin .|ment, but were told to work or go by |? ager, trying to bring about a settle- To Raise Beef Price { home. The loomfixers met and voted KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 15.— to go out by more than @ two thirds Warning that the price of beef is vote. going up was sounded today at the The Demands. opening session of a two days conven- The demands are: 1, the abolition of | tion of the national live stock and (Continued on Page 8) meat board here. DOVER, N. J., ROLLING MILL WORKERS LAID OFF BECAUSE THEY “DON’T PRODUCE ENOUGH IN THE SUMMER” By COPOULOS (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, June 15.—Six hundred workers were laid off in the Dover, N. J» rolling mills, The boss said: “I am sorry to tell you workers that | have to close my shop on account of the hot weather, | know very well that you wouldn’t produce as much as you ought to, so you may as well go home and try to find another job for the summer season. “You have my sympathy but | can’t help it, In fall | will open again and you will be welcome to your job. Sorry.” ' The funniest thing is that many of the workers think that this is quite, proper, They say: “Since we can tend only to 3 ovens in the hot season, | Instead of to 5 ovens, as all the year round, we can’t blame the boss, He must | look out for himself.” gut ¥ TRUSTEES FIRE HOWARD FACULTY MEMBERS WHO SIDED, WITH STUDENTS (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15— Faculty members who were sympa- thetic with the Negro students dur Ing their recent strike against com- pulsory military training and abuses enacted by the white president, Durkee, have been discharged by the Howard University trustees, Even the land is now being mili- tarized. STRIKE LEADER FRAMED UP BY SUGAR BARONS Arrest: Many Filipino Strikers in Hawaii (Special to The Daily Worker) HONOLULJ, T. H., June 15—Pablo Manlapit, leader of the striking Fili- pino sugar plantation workers in Oahu, who was recenti convicted on a frame- up charge of conspiracy in the first circuit court of the territory, is ap- Bealing his case to the supreme court. In a statement after the trial, Man- lapit said, “I proved an alibi from the records of the detectives, George Bruns and Alfred Afat, who were em Ployed by Mr. Arthur McDuffie to shadow me the day in question. I dis- credited the testimony of the wit- nesses against me by the evidence of Sheriff David R. Trask and the police records, @ prejudiced jury. I’dsked for a new trial on the strength of new evidence, filing affidavits showing that the case against me had been framed-up by agents of the sugar planters and the witnesses against me bribed to swear falsehoods.” His plea fora new trial was denied and he is appealing to the supreme court of the territory of Hawaii. The | strike of the sugar workers continues | with many arrests being made of the Filipino participants. Glass Dealers Get Windfall-Storm Also Ruins Crops COUNCIL, BLUFFS, Iowa June 15.— Dealers in Blass estimated today that sixty thousand window panes were smashed by the record breaking hail storm that swept over this city and Omaha Sunday afternoon. There was not enough glass in stock in either city today to supply the de- mand and deaders have wired for glass by the carloads. It was estimated that eight to ten | carloads of glass would be needed. Reports from surrounding farm dis- tricts stated that hail virtually wiped out crops. War Debt Payments Trickle Into United States Money Chests’ WASHINGTON, June 15—Great Britain today paid the United States the small sum ‘of $68,310,000 on her $4,600,000,000 wardebt, according toa treasury announcement, Payment was made thru the federal reserve bank of New York. Other debt payments received by the United States»today were: Finland, $133,650. Hungary, $14,905. Lithuania, $75,000, | Poland, $500,000, During the present year, payments from European debtors who have already made funding agreements with the United States will total $162,153,000, in addition to a payment of $20,500,000 by France as interest on her debt for relief supplies. U. S. Renounces His Bulgar Citizenship WASHINGTON, June 15—As a cll- max to more than 66 years of intermit- a Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicage, IIL Mexico Openly Challenges Wall Street Imperialism ‘NO FOREIGN INTERFERENCE’ IS MEXICO'S REPLY T0 KELLOGG’S DRIVE AGAINST MILITANT LABOR NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents BU. 1,200 MINERS STRIKE IN ANTHRACITE FIELD ASHLEY, Pa. June 15.—(FP)— About 1,200 miners employed in | Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. | colliery number 20 at Ashley are | striking in protest of the company’s | | Ti spite: OB fale’ P'was convicted by WASHINGTON, D. C., June last week. country affairs.” state, Kellogg, upon their re- turn here today from a week- end cruise down the Potomac on the presidential yacht, May- flower. Discuss Mexican Situation Coolidge was accompanied on his week-end trip, during which the Mexi- can situation was thoroly discussed, by Géneral “Black Jack” Pershing, leader of the last military invasion of Mexico; Maj. Gen. John J. LeJeune, supposed to be a capitalist “expert” on Mexican and Latin-American af- Communists Pro munist Senator Monzon will Bar Association Charges Sco Case “Co (Special to The Daily Worker) CATTANOOGA, Tenn., June 15.— The Tennessee bar association will (Special to The Daily Worker) dictated by Wall Street, was faced here today with the open| defiance by Mexico of Coolidge’s arbitrary ultimatum delivered! } Mexico’s militant note against U. S. imperialism was struck | CASUA! TIES IN in that part of Mexico’s reply to Washington’s arbitrary dictum, | ie which declares that, “Mexico does not accord to any foreign the right to intervene in any form in her domestic | This bold declaration of the Mexican tepublic engaged the immediate attention of President Coolidge and his secretary of MOUNTING LIP PME a A Nae A ce De a TO, 7 | | fairs; and by Arthur Brisbane, spokes- | MEXICO CITY, June 15.—The Communist Party of Mexico has called a meeting of protest here against the imperialistic and capitalistic policy of the United States in Mexico, which Ambassador Sheffield represents. The Com- "RE-ELECTED 10 failure to provide sufficient help for drivers and helpers. This is the 15.—American dollar diplomacy,! first strike in many years at this mine. BOOZE WAR ARE | man for the publisher, William Ran- dolph Hearst, who has vast estates, | estimated at 1,000,000 acres, in Mexico. | The Mexican reply was handed | direct to the newspapera on Sunday. | It declared that it was theduty of the Mexican government to “rectify Mr. Kellogg’s sattement as required by | truth and justice.” President Calles | declares his government will not coun- | | tenance foreign interference in her (Continued on page 2) GangstersMakeMistake of Shooting Cops (Special to The Daily Worker) Last Saturday's shooting affray be- tween gunmen from the detective bu- reau and members of an alleged boot- legging gang, in which two policemen | and one gangster bit the dust, has cre- | ated another one of those fake drives | on crime which has been such a mon- ;tonous feature of Chicago life ever since Police Chief Morgan Collins as- | sumed his present job. | Before the advent of prohibition there was no money in the liquor bu- siness except what could be made openly. In those days the gangsters were employed by rival politicians in the democratic and republican parties and by their agents in the labor move- pment. Gunmen were a necessary ad- junct to the equipment of a crooked test Imperialism. be the principal speaker. COMMUNIST IS ;of the members of his union to the | employers for money. Those rival |grafters Often shot it out with each SEATTLE COUNCIL other. Owing to their usefulness to j the politicians they led a charmed life labor faker who. traded the confidence. ask Frank Thompson, states’ attorney ee generau, to refuse to prosecute the| No Opposition to Jones, Scopes case should it reach the su-| as far as jails were concerned and the prospect of a dangling noose in front |at Baltimore. Dudding said he wanted | jat death so that the money could be jused at onc preme court, on the ground that John Scopes, who will be tried next month for violating the state .anti-evolution law; was indicted by collusion, it was announced here. Scopes, on his way from New York to his home in Dayton, Tenn., when asked in Washington why he chose Clarance Darrow as his attorney, re- plied he was “chiefly impressed by the breadth of Darrow’s vision as shown in his appeal to the jury in the Big ‘Bill’ Haywood trial in Idaho.” Norway Ready to Start Search for LONDON, June 15.—Inclement wea- ther delayed the start from Spitzber- gen of the Norwegian government's re- | lief expedition in its search for Raoul Amundsen, plorer. Advices from Spitzergen said that missing North Pole ex- flights in Advent Bay were waiting for clearer weather, No word has as yet been received from the Atmundsen party, which left Spitzbergen May 21 for the Polar re- gions. Would Sell His Body. WASHINGTON, June 15—‘Would you be interested in the purchase of | the body of a man not yet dead?” This question was asked today by | E. E. Dudding, president of the Pris- oners Relief Society, in a letter to the | presidént of John Hopkins University | to make a contract to sell his body | Get A Sub And Give One! Burlington and Quincy railroad mine, tent abéence from his native land, Stephen Panaretoff; who only resigned this month as Rilgarian minister to It never entered their mind that they must also look out for’ themselves, oa tw come an American:citizen, mine, would suspend work indefinitely. Lost Artic Flyer | in Painters’ Union | SEATTLE, June 15—William H. Jones, business agent of Painters | Local No. 300, the Glass Workers’ Union, Local No. 188, and Siga Writ- ers’ Local No. 435 one of the six Com- munists under expulsion from the | Seattle Central Labor Council won lan overwhelming victory over the conservative forces by being re-elect- jed at the time of nomination. In his own local, Painters’ Union No. 300, one of the progressive local unions, Jones was nominated by a yete of more than two tv one. Out jof an attendance of 210 members present at the meeting Jones received 160, while his opponent A. E. Bock, | former business agent and conserva- tive in spite of strenuous efforts re- ceived 77 of the votes cast. At the meeting of the Glass Work- ers’ Local 188, E. Tarman was nomi- | nated as one of the opponents. of |of their necks never gave them any |uneasiness. But let a striker utter a word of warning to a scab and the police authorities would act and no influence was exerted to save him from the heavy hand of the law With the advent of prohibition the gangsters went into the bootlegging business to their profit aud also to the joy of Ahe undertakers. Hoodlums who hitherto were satisfied with a | bone now wanted the juicy steak. | Naturally there were quarrels. And \behind the gangsters were those who |were supposed to enforce the law. | Prosecuting attorneys, police, prohibi- |tion agents and judges were mixed up in the game. There was profit in it jand in any capitalist country those }who get away with it are honored jand even those who are caught get away provided they take enough |while they are at it. Only the pikers get punished. | Town Was Wide Open. Under the William Hale Thompson two seaplanes after successful trial | Jones, however, in view of the fact |regime everything in Chicago was that he had not the slightest chance, /running wide open. The red light dis- withdrew from the race, In_ the /trict did not have to pull down the Sign Writers’ Local 435 Jones was | blinds and the women of easy virtue |nominated without any opposition. | who now play the suburbs were work- Therefore at the meeting of the Dis-|ing unmolested within a stone's trict Council of Painters consisting of |throw of the Loop. But while this the above three local unions Jones (Continued on page 2) was declared elected without opposi- tion for the ensuing term of six months. The council will thereby UNION MINERS save more than $100 in costs, the ex- pense necessary for elections when | there are opponents. Paul K. Mohr, another of the six Communists under expulsion and promient in the local labor move- ment was nominated by his local Bak+ ers’ Union No, 9, without opposition as assistant business agent and dele- gate to the Central Labor Council, The same victory is being predicted for all Communist delegates expulsion. THIRTEEN HUNDRED MORE MINERS LAID OFF AT VALIER, ILL., AFTER 14 MONTHS OF PART TIME WORK By JOHN MATOSICH (Worker Correpondent) VALIER, lil, June 15.—Today we were officially notified that the Peoria, known as the Valier Coal company’ Thirteen hundred men were laid off, The rumors were spread by the mine officials that some repairs had to Work will be suspended for at | but the miners know better, for they have been working only two the United States has decided to be- | of three days a week for the last 14 months. s it five weeks, the bosses announced, ely under | “ON TRIAL FOR STRIKE DUTY |West Va. Courts Aid Coal Barons | (Special to The Dally Worker) CHARLESTOWN, W. Va. June 15.— Because they asked non-union mine workers to quit work and join the United Mine Workers, 136 unionists are being tried in Marion county by cirenit court of Judge Merdith on contempt charges, The facts developed by the trial show that the accused were arrested at the instigation of the New England Fuel & Transportation company. The general manager of those mines and every coal company witness has sworn that no violence, no intimidation and’ no threats were made by the union- ists The charge, according to the coal company, is that they ed the non union miners to join them,