The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1925, Page 2

Page Two GREAT POWERS WEAKEN AS CHINESE REMAIN FIRM IN FIGHT FOR THEIR DEMANDS (Cont: a@ from page 1.) by foreign interests), and show them that national liberation is both advisable and possible. 2. To line up the leading mili- tary commanders by mass senti- ment in favor of the program, mak- ing possible, If needed, the use of the 1,500,000 troops thruout the country against any intervention by foreign powers. By mass demonstrations and * forcing of the politictans and = to take a favorable stand, to wompel the Peking government to repudiate the outrageous extra- territorial treaties Imposed upon the nation by the Imperialist pow- ers, or to oust thls government and install another which will fight Im- perialism. 4. By rallying the masses for complete sovereignity to make the erganization of a genulnely unified government possible and thus to re- create the nation as an independent and powerful unit. Nationwide Aspirations Aroused. This program is not only not vi- sionary but arouses great sympathy and popular nation-wide aspirations. It is an error to think that local Chinese material interests outweigh the deéper naifonalist feeling among the average Chinese commercial class. A representative type of that class declared to the writer: “While deploring the loss of lives anf the damage to property because of the disorders, I feel that it may be the only means to create a nation- alistic consciousness if China can be revitalized only by such methods, then it is worth any loss of life and temporary depreciation of property.” British Consul Gets Busy. ‘W. W. MacKenzie, a draughtsman on the electricity department of the Shanghai municipal council was shot and killed by snipers from the road- side as he motored along the Great Western Road in Chinese territory late last night. There has long been antagonism among the Chinese over the deliber- ate extension by trespass of the for- eign settlement roads into Chinese territory. These roads are not alto- gether divorced from trategic plans for military movements. And they violate the treaty, bad as that is. The British consul is, as usual, mak- ing much of the death of this one Englishman who had little business in trespassing on Chinese territory, and is making sharp demands for punishment of the offenders and in- demnity. The case of the Chinese of a similar claim against the British Sikh police is quite another matter, in the view of Great Britain, But not of the Chinese. Swe Japs Getting In Deeply. TOKIO, June 16.— The Japanese government today ordered four more destroyers to proceed from Sasebo na- val base to Shanghai making ten Japanese warships in Chinese waters. | The additional ships are expected to reach Shanghai Wednesday. One will probably proceed to Hankow and another to Kiukiang. The de- stroyers are not carrying marine. 0: De Strike at Nanking. NANKING, June 16.— The foreign community is affected here today by a partial walkout and threat of a gen- eral strike cutting off all food and water supplies. All Chinese employes of the British consulate walked out. The consul’s family has taken refuge in the American consulate. No dis- orders have occurred thus far, but the temper of the Chinese is menacing. ene dune 26 Is Strike Date. PEKING, China, June 16— The starting of a general strike in Peking has been postponed until June 25. Troubles that were anticipated yester- day did not materialize. Students and workers engaged in a parade but there were no disorders. The lega- tion guards took extra precautions. Entrances to the legation quarter were barricaded. Chinese police and soldiers maintained excellent order. The demonstration was almost en- tirely anti-British. As they marched past the legation quarter the paraders chanted, “Strike down the British rob- bers.” They distributed pamphlets demanding the spread of the boycott | against the British and exhibited pla- cards setting forth lurid representa- tions of British misrule in India. To gather relief funds for the Shanghai strike the emperor’s guard has opened the “forbidden city” two days to the public, but a sign has been put up reading, “Dogs, British and Japanese will not be admitted.” Chang Tso-lin Troops in Peking. A contingent of the troops of Chan Tso-lin have arrived in Peking from Tientsin and established headquarters north of the city. a ee British in Insulting Reply. PEKING, China, June 16.—The Bri- tish reply to China’s protest at the Hankow and Shanghai murder of Chinese by British troops, is both in- sulting and threatening. The British legation attempts lay the blame for all shooting upon the Chinese and to threaten “international disaster” un- less the Chinese government prevents further demonstrations against the British armed forces on Chinese soil. PARTY REVIVES FOR ACTIVITY IN SHOE CITY Lynn, Mass., to Have Its Own City Central LYNN, Mass., June 16—A meeting of all members of the Workers Party was held here last Friday evening at the Russian Workers’ Club. Members of the Russian, Jewish and Armenian branches were present. The meeting was called by Tom Bell, acting dis- trict organizer, to take up the question of the attitude to be adopted by the party in view of the present situation affecting the shoe workers here, and it is a vital question since many of our members are shoe workers. The report of the acting district organizer on the situation in the shoe industry, and the work carried on the basis of the T. U. E. L. program for the shoe industry was accepted. The organization of our members in the shoe unions, as the basis for the esta- blishment of a left wing movement was taken up, and the necessity of this was appreciated by all present. The members raised the question of the organization of and English branch and the organization of a city central committee for Lynn. They pointed out that at present they were attached to the Boston C. ©. ©. which meant that they had to spend several hours traveling to the meetings. They also showed that the Boston ©. C. C. did not discuss the situation in Lynn, and as a consequence they had no direction in the carrying on of their work in accordance with the con- ditions in Lynn which are quite dif- ferent from those prevailing in Bo- ston. It was decided that efforts would be made to organize an English branch 4s soon as possible, and also a C. C. C, The Lynn Armenian branch is hold- ing a picnic next Sunday which all members are urged to attend. DAYTON, Tenn., June 16,—John T. Boopes, who will go on trial here next month charged with violating the state anti-evolution law by teaching evolution to his biology class in the Rhea county high school, returned hare from New York, Scopes declared that his chief attorney, Clarence Darrow, will arrive in Dayton on June AFRICAN PRINCE TREATS WALES TO RASPBERRY Solomon Gives Edward the Icy Optic (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, June 16.— The king of the Zulu nation gave the prince of Wales to understand that his alcoholic royal highness was only a small ban- ana in his eyes, when the dusky noble refused to give. Edward P, a royal salute. It appears that Solomon, the Zulu king, was not given a position in the court representation that accorded with his dignity. He thereupon ex- pressed his ideas about the prince in language that was emphatic and gra- phic. Solomon is a high spirited king and a scrapper. The British empire cannot afford to have its young boob insulted by one of his own subjects, so the matter of Solomon's attitude is being investigated by the govern- ment, It is hinted that if they find Solomon guilty of lese majeste, he may be severely punished. But the government may note what Abd-el- Krim is doing‘to the French in the northern part of the continent and overlook the insult to the drunken prince, Rotarians Hear Denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 16—What ‘was construed as a direct reference to the K. K. K. was contained in the presidential address of Everett E. Hill, of Oklahoma City, Okla,, opening the business sessions of the sixteenth annual convention of rotary iaterna- tional here today. “The spirit of intolerance,” Hill said, “Has recently gripped the na- tions and successfully defled the ex- ercise of all true charity, It has come forth to vex the souls of men. For four years, one half of the world’s population was urged to hate, to maim to kill. We find in the ¢ wash of that tragic era thi ReadMe hii, LABORITES HECKLE || BRITISH CABINET ON SHANGHAI STRIKE LONDON, June 16—The deter- mined agitation on the part of the extreme left center of the labor party to oppose any international action in China on the ground that the troubles in that country were the outcome of “sweated” labor conditions in British and pan- ese cotton mills was extended to parliament when the government was severely heckled by George Lansury and other laborites, who oppose employment of British arms for suppression of what they con- tend is a justiflable labor revolt. 1 KLAN ATTACKER OF GIRL SEEKS BAIL RELEASE State Has Evidence of Stephenson Rape NOBLESVILLE, Ind., June 16—An- ; Other chapter in the alleged murder {of Miss Madge Oberholzer, 28, by D. ©. Stephenson, former ku klux klan leader in Indiana, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry, was written into the legal records here today. It dealt primarily with the supreme effort of the accused men to free themselves on bond from jail bars | behind which they have been con- | fined—first in Indianapolis and then | here—since they were arrested on April 20 last. , Rivaling this effort in importance was the strategy injected into the hearing by defense attorneys in an attempt to force the state to turn over to them twd pieces of evidence considered invaluable by the prose- cution—a purported deathbed state- |ment of Miss Oberholzer and a page \from a Hammond, (Indiana), hotel register supposedly containing the names of the girl and the defendants. The historic little courtroom, scene of many notable trials in the last 40 years, was jammed with a motley crowd of spectators when Judge Fred Hines of the Hamilton circuit court banged the gavel that commanded or- der and started the hearing which promised to develop into a miniature trial. That the defending attorneys were making a determined effort to get the alleged slayers out of jail on bond became apparent, with the pres- ence in court of eight important state witnesses, all summoned by the ac- cused men’s attorneys who exercised tion witnesses. The eight witnesses included: Mr. and Mrs, George Oberholtzer, the dead girl’s parents; Marshall Oberholtzer, her brother; Dr. John K. Kingsbury, her physician; Mrs. Eunice Shultz, who lives at the Oberholtzer home; Asa Smith and Griffith Dean, attorneys for the Oberholtzer family and H. A. Permiss, manager of the Hammond hotel at which Miss Ober- holtzer and the alleged slayers were said to have stopped. A formidable array of legal talent occupied opposite sides of the table when the hearing got under way. The statoment, several thousand words in length and bearing the girl’s signature, was said to have been given by Miss Oberholzer to her parents shortly before she died. It caid she was kidnaped on “he night of March 15, compelled to oc- cupy a stateroom on a train with Stephenson and that he attacked her. The next morning, according to the statement, they left the train at Ham- mond and registered at a hotol where she obtained poison by a ruse and took it. Then she was rushed back to In- dianapolis in an automobile and kept prisoner until the following day dur- ing which time she was refused med- ical aid and prevented from seeking it herself, the statement continued. She died on April 14, All Comrades Attention This Sunday on the twenty-first of June Branch No. 4 of the Young Workers League will hold a hike in order to relieve themselves from @ city atmosphere. The comrades are going to recuperate at this hike. You need not worry about food as the ex- cellent cooks in our branch will make lunches which will be sold at the hike, You are assured of an excellent time if you come and don’t forget to bring your friends. All comrades be prea- ent at Milwaukee woods this Sunday. The general meeting place will be at the end of the Milwaukee avenue line at ten o'clock, Don't forget to be at the Milwaukee woods this Sunday. Legion Officer Resigns INDINAPOLIS, Ind,, June 16,—The resignation of Russell Crevistone, na- tional adjutant of the American I gion, was announced by James A. Brain, national commander, shortly after the summer session of the na- tional executive committee convened here today. their prerogative of calling prosecu-|_ WAY TO GERMANY Many More Die in N. J. Train Crash HACKETTSTOWN, N. J., June 16,— While conservative estimates placed the number of dead in the wreck of a Lackawanna railroad train at Rock- port, N. J., today at twelve, Coroner E. J. Wildrick annonnced that his figures put the number of killed at about 30. z The coroner said he had telephoned various hospitals and that this was his checkup: Seven dead in Hackettstown Hos- pital; three dead atthe. Morristown Hospital; three dead.at Dover; nine dead at the Haston, Pa. Hospital. The train was a special immigrant train, enroute from Chicago to Hobo- ken, N. J. It ran thru an open switch early today. Reports from the scene of the wreck were that scores were injured. The engine and five cars of the train left the track. The engineer and fire- man and five immigrants from Chi- cago and other western cities were killed, The wreck occurred three miles west of Hackettstown during a terrific rain and lightning storm, at 2:30 a. m. At eight o’clock injured still were being removed from the wreckage to hospitals at Easton, Pa., Morristown, Phillipsburg and Dover, N. J. Railroad officials would not estimate the num- ber of injured. The immigrants were to have board- ed a steamer at Hoboken to go direct to Germany. ° Information from Rockford, scene of the wreck, was to the effect that the switch was clogged with sand and | other debris as the result of the storm and that this may have caused the| accident. Many injured were scalded. Most of the victims were in the first coach which overturned. a Reports began coming ‘ito Hackett- stown that the death list was much heavier than seven. .. es s's Republic Salis Minus 57. HOBOKEN, N. J., Jute 16—The U. 8. liner Republic sailed two hours late and minus 57 passengers be- lieved to have been:killed or injured in the wreck of a Gackawanna rail- road train near Hackettstown. Many of those who had booked passage were on the wrecked train coming from Chicago, Vga. <9 act . oR Nova Scotia Miners * Still War on Besco A eas . in British Columbia ee (Continued from page 1) inclusive of the time spent awaiting the arrival of Mr, Wolvin, president of the corporation. In the interest of the public and the industry, the pre- mier suggested the plan of an imme- diate resumption of work at the mines on the 1924 wages basis, with direct negotiations or an agreed investiga- tion to follow. The répresentatives of the mine workers accepted the pre- mier’s suggestion. Mr. Wolvin and his associates refused todo so, claiming theat their pound of fresh must be given them, viz—a reduction in the wage structure equivalent to ten per cent. The mine workers cannot agree to resume work at such a price, which would mean nothing less than econo- mic degradation.” . But Lewis himself has done little or nothing to aid the miners in the fight and he has not been heard from in support of their struggle now that it has grown into bitter war. Reports from New Aberdeen say that the Bankhead screen of the un- used Hub colliery of Besco’s was de- stroyed by fire. The;company’s claim that the miners. set fire to it is ridi- culed, as barbed wire entanglements had been thrown .about it, search lights were playing over the environs and scores of troopers were on guard all night. we Towns Are Armed Camps Retail stores at Bra d’Or and Flor- ence were raided by crowds of des- perate miners and their starved fami- lies. All the mining towns are armed camps, with battle imminent at any minute. ‘ More troops areon the way from Ottawa and Toronto, James Murdock, minister of labor for'Canada is arrived at Sydney to act as mediator. . 19,000 War Cripples : in One State Taste s, oe 'e “Fruits of Victory” ST. LOUIS, June 16.-—-According to former Gov, Gardner of Missouri more chan 19,000 disabled veterans of the world war in Missouri alone have re- selved no compensation from tho gov- ernment. “There were ans,” Gardner says, “and only 6,096 were allowed. Many of these without compensation are in need.” Seventy-Five Per Cent of Milk Sold.in New York Is Adulterated (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) seventy-five per cent of the milk sold in this city is adulterated, according | Pl (So stetement issued here by Harold G. Arons, chairman of the republican publicity committee, 25,350 dis- ability claims filed-by Missouri veter- The “Open Door” and the |“Tenth Power” Problems for Imperialism in China By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. BR the world imperialist robbers are trying to forget a lot of things they have charged. against the Chinese people. PThe western capitalist nations have often chided China with being a nation of pacifists. Yet,'in the a crisis, no Ghandi rises, as in India, to paralyze the militancy of the masses. Instead the workers, soldiérs and farmers call for war against their arch-oppressor, imperialist Britain; some- thing the London diplomats would never have dreamed of a few short weeks ago. * * *. 8 It has been charged that China was a divided nation. Yet unity is developing from one end of thé nation to the other under the murderous attack of British guns in the industrial districts of Shanghai, aided by the warships of a half dozen nations, with those of the United States in the forefront. When the French inspired Yunnanese troops tried to take Canton, they found a united opposition in the revolu- tionary troops, flying red emblems from their rifles, an op- position that is even now striving to unite all the armies of all China, numbering 1,500,000 soldiers, under a centralized leadership. e * e°@ This makes the so-called “open door policy” in the Orient take on a new meaning. Chine is adopting an “open door” policy of her own, inviting the imperialists of all nations to get out, just as the big capitalist nations originally urged the “open door” to get in and jointly loot the Chinese nation. An authoritative spokesman of Wall Street, like the New York Times, now sadly laments that France failed to sign the Nine-Power Treaty drawn up at the Washington Conference in the spring of 1922, which reaffirmed the imperialist prin- ciple of the “open door” as a policy to get into China and stay there. It is claimed that France was merely getting back in revenge at the failure of the United States to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. But the French provoked raid on Canton, while the British were shooting down strikers in Shanghai, would indicate that the imperialist rivalries are deeper than the signing of paper treaties at Washington con- Terences, * * . ° The Chinese are clever enough to take advantage of these divisions among their oppressors. China may not be strong enough to oust all her toss at once. So she adopts the next best tactic of seeking to oust them singly, which accounts for the present campaign against the British, which at times also includes the Japanese. Insoluble complications are bound to arise out of any effort to get a complete united front of imperialist powers for concerted action against the Chinese, 2 * * @ ‘ American diplomacy, still urging the ‘“Nine-Power Pact,” is using the fear of the “Tenth Power,” the Union of Soviet Republics, to do the bidding of its Wall Street master. 4 * * ° On another p there is published today a 0 3 of the i proposed air route rom Moscow to Peking and Vladivostok. The route is now being charted by a fleet of airplanes that was given a great send-off as it left Moscow. That is the Soviet Union, the “Tenth Power,” to the Chinese Republic, struggling to work out its own destiny against its oppressors, Zinoviev has referred to the outbreaks in China, Morocco, and Washington's latest attack on Mexico, as the sheet lightning of the social revolution. Those airplanes coming out of Moscow, the messengers of the Soviet Union, may well appear to the allied imperialists as the harbingers of the growing storm not only in the Orient, but thruout the world. Fhe international bandits may well look for their own “open door” to find a hasti exit. Where they will go, faced in other colonies and subject na- tions, by similar uprisings, and at home by a discontented and rebelling working class, they doubtless do not know. edging just a little closer These are days when capitalist imperiali i te rome poitien tng ip ism can only whistle loom. But that will not save it from its Buffalo, N. Y., Takes Lead in Campaign FINNISH BRANCH REAL PROPAGANDIST BUILDERS One day after announcing that San Francisco took the lead from Philadelphia in the Second Annual Sub Campaign ending July 1, Local Buffalo, N. Y., took the lead ng ine Francisco. e Finnish branch of Buffalo, co-operating to buil the DAILY WORKER in this city, held Ge cotabiitninens: the proceeds of which enabled them to give 39 3-month propaganda subs to workers who have never subscribed before. This opens a new field for Communist organiza- tion thru the medium of the DAILY WORKER in Buffalo. This local, by means of the splendid efforts of the local comrades and particularly the Finnish branch and city agent, Comrade Dirba, have already filled 69 per cent of on, mare sf one hundred subs. | © battle is now on between Buffalo, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Milwaukee in particular, for final honors in the campaign ending July 1— two more weeks to go. ia BM sine 3 Just watch these locals on this job Communist movement! oe bane he samples taken there were 276 viola- tions of the sanitary laws. Samples taken in various parts of the city dis- closed more water than solids; that in Manhattan six out of fifteen bot- tles of milk were impure; that in Brooklyn milk was found to contain excess water and a deficit in solids. Mayor Hylan boasts he is the “Peo- mayor—the milk facts prove that his claims are as reliable as the milk sold under his administration. NEW YORK, N. Y,, June 16.—Over _~ Two Killed on Bridge. MANCHESTER, Iowa, June 16— Twe men were fatally injured today when the east parapet of the IIli- nols Central bridge near here gave way. They were: Charles Tipon and Austin Reedy, who, with a large gang of men, were working to strengthen the bridge. The records disclose that in the 163 RIVAL FAKERS QUARREL OVER © ADVERTISING Merchants Are Warned’ of Union Labor News The gayety of labor circles in the windy city is nourished considerably during this exciting week by a letter from Edward Nockels, secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor to the merchants of Chicago, warning them not to patronize a fake labor sheet known as the Union Labor News which is of doubtful legitimacy and of still more doubtful circulation. The Union Labor News once stood a good chance of snuggling closer to the A. F. of L. pap than the official organ of the Chicago Federation of Labor, then the New Majority, with an editor who carried some gray mat- ter in his garret, but now named the Federation News and edited by a per- son who is not intellectually qualified to write for a catalog to a fake oil company. In those days John Fitz- patrick and Edward Nockels were listed as radicals and they offended Pooh Bah Gompers, who commission- ed his lord high executioner Emmett, Flood to chop their heads off. But “Koko” Flood was wise in the ways of labor fakers, being one himself, so he seized on the trick of writing let- ters to the Union Labor News prais- ing that sheet for its fidelity to the principles of the American Federation, of Labor and taking a slam at other organs allegedly labor that were using up space supporting Soviet Russia, The paper slammed was the New Majority. This meant move advertis- ing revenue for the Union Labor News. The Union Labor News edited then as now by a couple of disreputable creatures held up Fitzpatrick, Nockele and Buck, to the light, as a trinity of red, dangerous Bolsheviks. It {s pros bable that this kind of thing brought in the shekels in those days. Dropped The Toads But when Fitzpatrick and Nockela decided to compete with the Union Labor News in the game of Bolshevilz baiting, dumped every progressive principle they ever stood for and of+ fered their necks as footstools for Pooh Bah Gompers, Emmett Flood dropped the Union Labor News as fil- thy specimens of its kind are usually dropped by those who use them, when all the political juice is squeezed out, The Federation News was now pul- ling the anti-Bolshevik stuff much bet+ ter and with greater effect than its rival. The Union Labor News gang were out of luck and also out of argu+ ments. The Uhion Labor News is a hold-up sheet. It tries to get the merchants to advertise and when they refuse, it threatens them with vengeance. Some of hem yield to this pressure. Bust- ness men who are not yet ready to fork out money for “fighting bolshe- vism” might come across rather than be boycotted. Of course the Union Labor News that is a bluff that could be called very easily. But individual businessmen are timid and also ig- norant. Don Quixote To The Rescue Now the secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor has come to the aid of the blackmailed employers and is soliciting information that will en- able it to bring the culprits Into courty and bring more advertising to the Federation News. ‘Tha Federation News and the Union Labor News have copied the Burns style in attacking the Communists, The Federation News rewrites lying yarns from the Chicago Tribune con- cocted by that organ’s Mars in Riga and Berlin, telling of fabalous sums of money received by the American Communists from Moscow. And Nockels is responsible for this stupid lying. When he denounces the Union Labor News for resorting to shady methods it is only a case of the pot smeering at the kettle for tts black ness. JUDGE CONTINUES CASES OF 17 COMRADES ARRESTED ON SATURDAY |’ f ne ey! it Saturday night . while conducting a street meeting ‘on the corner of North and Orchard appeared before Judge Walker of the Chicago Ave. court yesterday morning. Pecullarly enough, it was the city attorney who made a mo- tlon to continue the cases. The judge set the 23rd of June as the time for the next hearing, It isn’t at all unlikely that a legal bat- tle of some consequence will de- velop out of this case. J. 0. Ben- tall, attorney for the defendants is showing that the ordinance under which the arrests were made, speak- ing on the streets without permit, was declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court thirty years ago. Yh : J. Louis Engdahi, who was ar rested at a previous meeting, was fined $25 by Judge George at a down town court. This sentence is being appealed by Attorney Bentall on the ground of the ordinance be- ing unconstitutional, ' Mobilize the Red Army for Red Week, oe ee Jere tenes ee ees