The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 18, 1925, Page 3

\, tries, COAST WORKER CONDEMNUSE OF GUNS IN CHINA Strikebreakers Must Get Out, Is Demand (Special to The Dally Worker) PORTLAND, Ore., June 16.—A re- solution was passed at a huge mass meeting here, protesting against the use of American troops as_ strike- breakers against the students and workers of China, and demanding their’ Immediate withdrawal. The mass meeting was held at the Work- ers Party headquarters. Street meetings were held for a week previous to the mass meeting, and Norman Tallentire explained to the large crowds the significance of the events in China. Resolution Against Strikebreakers. The “resolution, which was unani- mously. passed, states: Whereas, the workers and students in China are striking in protest against the fron heel of imperialist capitalism which holds. the Chinese people in subjection and poverty; reas, American civilians assisted by American naval forces aiding the foreign exploiters of native labor in their attempt to break the strike of Chinese students and workers by using armed force to break up demonstrations of workers and students, killing several, and wounding many native workers and stu- dents and; Demand Foreigners Get Out. Whereas, the Chinese government has strongly protested to the American Le- gation (as well as to other foreign lega- tions) against these outrages by foreign troops and foreign residents against the subjects of the Chinese Republic within the territory of the said Republic, and; Whereas, such action is contrary to international law and tends to breed national hatreds and to cause war, Therefore, be it resolved, by this mass meeting of workers and citizens assem- bled in Portland, Oregon, at 227% Yam- hill St., on Sunday, June 7, 1925, that, we hereby unanimously protest against the use of American troops as strikebreakers against the striking Chinese workers, and that we demand that the American troops be withdrawn from China and that the American natfonals in China, cease forth- with, their high-handed and unwarranted interference with the legitimate aspira- tions of the struggling masses in China, and Greet England's Militants. Be it further resolved, that we hail with joy the militant workers of Great Britain, who have already through their author- ized officers protested to the government of Great Britain against similar abuses committed by British troops and British nationals in the strike area, and that we send our fraternal greetings to the Kuo Min Tang party of China which is lead- ing. the fight against these outrages and buses committed against the citizens of hina by foreigners on Chinese soil and pledge our full assistance to prevent any such further outrages. Be it further resolved; that copies of this resolution be sent to the secretary of state, to the Chinese legation, to the Kuo Min Tang Party and to the labor press of England and the United States. ed—R. J. Jackson, E. Levitt and N. H. Tallentire. Compulsory Arbitration Lets Boss Stall Along MELBOURNE, Australia—(FP)— Although compulsory arbitration is accepted by almost every union in Australia, there is much dissatisfac- tion owing to the delays in the federal arbitration court. There are three judges on the bench, but as many of the claims by the unions and counter- claims by employers are lengthy, even if no more claims were filed, it would take a couple of years to deal with them. By the time many claims are reach- ed, they are out of date and the awards are of little use to the mem- bers of the union. The unions are not allowed to amend the claims once filed unless they are withdrawn alto- gether when they have to be filed anew at the end of the waiting list. Employers dont worry as it allows them to continue the out-of-date awards, under an increasing cost of living. U.S. Trade with the Soviets Grows Large and Aids Relations NEW YORK—(FP)—Because of the unprecedented trade turnover of nearly $100,000,000 between America and Russia last year, Isalah J, Hoor- gin, chairman of Amtorg Trading Cor- poration, agent for Russia ‘n Ameri- ca, believes closer business relations are developing between the two coun- : Hoorgin finds that Russia is \Jooking most to the United States r the pattern of its agricultural and industrial rehabilitation, FLY FROM MOSCOW TO PEKING The above map shows the route } Union will soon establish to link Moscow with Peking, China, The dotted | line shows the cld oaravan route thru the Gobi desert, and the solid line COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FIGHT FOR WORKER VICTIMS OF THE DAILY WORKER WORLD IMPERIALISM IN CHINA By BEN GITLOW. (Special to The versity, who are Communists and radi intellectuals is doing verything in its the Communist movement, were playing in the strikes and mass demonstrations that were taking place, They decided that it was necessary to get in touch with the Chinese stu- dents in this country in order to get them to engage in joint action with American students in support of the Chinese workers and against the bloody invading imperialist powers. They immediately established the most friendly relations with a Chin- ese students body in Columbia uni- versity. As a basis for their future activity in this matter they adopted the following resolution: Resolution of Columbia university students. 1. The radical and Communist stu- dents of Columbia university sympa- thize with the Chinese ‘people in their heroic struggle to save China from the greed and exploitation of the imperialist powers, Japan, Eng- land and the United States. 2. They sympathize with the Chin- ese workers in their struggle against the brutal exploitation of Japanese mill owners. 3. And with the students and workers who have risen in arms for the defense of the Chinese strikers in Tsingtao and Shanghia. 4. And they admire and encourage the action of the Chinese students of Greater New York in their support of their exploited countrymen, and in their protest against the partition of China and the massacre of workers and students. Therefore, This group puts the serv- ices of its members at the disposal of the Chinese students of Greater New York and volunteers to co-oper- ate in whatever capacity the situa- tion requires. And as an immediate pledge of good will and support we donate five, dollars towards the relief of the op- pressed and exploited Chinese workers. RED-BAITING SHEET Daily Worker) NEW YORK.—A few weeks ago a group of students in Columbia Uni- cals, organized. This group of young power among the students to further the interests of the proletarians and to win the support of the students for At the meeting on June 12 the revolt against imperialism now spreading over China was discussed. Those present particularly interested themselves with the role the Chinese students +— HANDS OFF CHINA’ MASS MEETING IN "FRISCO SUNDAY Japanese and Chinese Among Speakers SAN FRANCISCO.—What promises to be one of the biggest mass meet- ings ever held by the Communists of this city will take place Sunday night, June 21, at the party headquarters, 225 Valencia street. The affair will be a demonstration against the inter- ference of American soldiers, sailors, and diplomats, in the affairs of the Chinese republic. Speakers will be as follows: James H. Dolsen, in English; Shiji Matsui, of Berkeley, in Japan- ese; Miss Sum Way Gum, President of the Chinese Unionist Guild, and Chan Sut Yeu, secretary of the Guild and editor of Kung Sing (a Chinese labor paper), in Chinese. Marshall Jeng, vice-president of the Guild and an officer in the Chinese Students As- sociation of America, will address the meeting in English. Benjamin Ellis- berg will act as chairman. The Kuo Min Tang branch here, which is one of the strongest in Am- erica, is cooperating. The meeting will be extensively advertised in both the Chinese and Japanese press, This is the first affair of this kind in which both Oriental groups have been re- presented, along with the American workers, and augurs well for further cooperation in the future. eee Esthonian Entertainment Saturday SAN FRANCISCO—The Esthonian branch will give a dance and enter- tainment at 225 Valencia Street Sat- utday night, June 20, FORCED TO ADMIT SOVIET INDUSTRY IS IN GOOD SHAPE, BUT BURIES NEWS workers’ government of the U. S. S. R, ‘The following item appeared in the Daily News on Saturday, June 13. ‘We can appreciate that it must have “been humiliating even to the shame- faced capitalist sheet to have to report that progress is being made by the No wonder it was found buried away on the furthermost bottom corner of the 22nd page where the eagle eye’of one of our readers who signs him- self S. K., pried it out and sent it+ to us, eee RUSSIAN INDUSTRY ON MEND. Oil, Coal, Chemicals and Paper Re- flect Improvement. Some interesting facts with regard to the industria} situation in Russia have just been received from a Bri- tish source in Moscow, says the Lon- don Daily News. They go to show that the recovery in certain branches of industry—oil, coal, chemicals and paper—is particularly striking, and that the government is successfully dealing with the vital problem of transport. It has been announced that Russia today is self-supporting in every de- partment of airplane manufacture. The help of planes on a large scale for the extermination of insect pests is now being offered to the peasants. In Moscow the building season has operied with considerable activity. Twenty-nine huge blocks of flats have been completed, which is a notable achievement having regard to the Russian climate. As to the financial situation the So- viet government is floating a lottery loan and is offering special induce- ments to the peasantry to invest in it, Those who do so benfit by a substan- tial reduction in taxation. A good service of English motor busses is running in the streets of Moscow. It is understood that the firm which built them has received an order for another hundred, of the airplane line which the Soviet BIG SHOE FIRM GOES BACK ON FULL TIME AFTER SLACK PERIOD BROCKTON, Mass., June 16.— (FP)—Full time operations for em- ployes of the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co., is to begin with the opening of the cutting room, general manager Daniel W. Packard announces. The Douglas plant is one of the largest shoe factories In thé world and has been operating on part-time for months. Brockton has lost 3,000 residents during the last year be- cal of slackness in industry. LABOR BOYCOTTS U. EVEN CHRISTIAN iCHINESE ADMITS: ARE JUSTIFIED Describes Hell of Cot- ton Mills NEW YORK, June 16,—(FP)—“I think it would better become foreign- ers to treat the Chinese with less superiority,” says Dr. Charles K. Ed- munds, for 17 years president of Can- ton christian college and now in the college’s New York office. “There is justification for the anti- foreign feeling in Shanghai,” says Dr. Edmunds. “The native mill workers had a right to protest against the con- ditions under which they worked. The cotton mills owned by Japanese and British, employ women and children, at small pay, to work 13 honrs a day.” “It is not uncommon to see a mo- ‘ther take her ‘baby to the mill and permit it to lle on the floor with the cotton flying about it, while she per- forms her work at the looms. Chil- dren as young as eight years old work 13 hours a day. The pay is not more than sufficient to keep them alive.” Can’t Apply “Western Methods” “When the workers struck the stu- dent classes sympathized with them and organized demonstrations in the international settlement. The demon- strators were unarmed. The Sikh Police, controlled by the British, open- ed fire on the crowds tn thé street. To meet a strike of unarmed persons with gunfire is not helpful. You can’t apply Western methods to the labor situation in China. The labor move- ment is in its infancy there.” “It is incumbent on foreigners to use discretion in dealing with Chi- nese. Unfortunately, foreigners have taken advantage of their extra-territo- rial rights and have ruthlessly em- ployed western methods in dealing with labor.... Dr. Jacob Gould Schur- man, who recehtly retired as Minister to China, suggested that the present uprisings are indicative of a new na- tionalism in China. I am Inclined to agree with him,” Edmunds states. N. Y. Workers’ Sport Alliance Invites You to North Beach, July 26 NEW YORK,—If you are looking for a nice cool place, where to go on Sunday July 26, by all means come to the pienic of the Workers Sport Alliance, which will be ‘held on that date, at the Belyedere Park, North Beach, L, I. 38 ., The committee-in charge of arran- gements assures you a splendid time full of enjoyment and fun. Besides the contests in running, jumping and throwing arranged for the members of the W. 8. A. thére will also be other games arranged for the non- members. A good buffet: will be arranged at! the picnic by an expert committee in that line, so that everyone will be able to satisfy his or her appetite after dancing in step with the music tobe furnished by a good orchestra, Come to the nicest place m Long Island on Sunday, July 26, at 10 a, m. and while enjoying yourself at the picnic, you will be helping the build- ing up of the Workers Sport Alliance, section of the Red Sportintern, the only revolutionary working class rt organization of the world. Streetcar Men Ald Tornado Victims ST. LOUIS, June 16.—(FP)—Ac cording to Secretary Graesser’s re- port, the St. Louis streetcar men’s union contributed $2,365 for the relief ——————- Page Thres IMPERIALIST DIPLOMACY AT WORK HAT MAKERS FIGHT TRADE DISABILITIES Strain and Steam Cause Illness By ESTHER LOWELL, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, June 16.—The strike of men’s felt hat workers in New York is directed chiefly toward im- proving conditions and eliminating health hazards in the industry, Presi- dent Richard M. Humphrey of Local 8, United Hatters of America, the union on strike, says. The workers are asking for satisfactory working conditions and 15 per cent wage in- creases. Occupational Disease. The union charges that many em- ployers are buying inferior materials and “felts too small to make the re- quired head sizes. The workers as @ consequence have to strain over the mold with steam and all the strength of their bodies to stretch the felts to the size demanded. Hernia is one of the serious results. Colds and susceptibility to tubercu- losis come from the prolonged work- ing over steaming molds in not too well ventilated shops. Irritation of the lungs leading to serious disease comes from the aniline dye dust used. High Wages For Only Short Time. The workers make both soft felt and hard derby hats. Their work is seasonal, the busy period being be- tween June and November. During that time the best workers may make as much as $9 a day, which the em- ployers have tried to claim as the average wage, but most of the work- ers average around $6 while work- ing. Men do the difficult and heavy work of shaping. Women and girls do the trimming of the hats. All the of the tornado sufferers of Missouri,| Workers, about 2000, in greater New Indiana, Kentucky and IMinois. S. FLEET IN AUSTRALIA, DEMANDING RELEASE OF AMERICAN LABOR PRISONERS} vous s:s:iins, aenana 485%: cov By W. FRANCIS AHERN. MELBOURNE, Australia—(FP)—— Speaking on behalf of a fnillion organ- ized workers, the Melbourne Tredes Hall Council calls upon the Australian workers to refrain from any social functions in connection with the visit of the American fleet as a protest against the action of the U. 8. govern- ment in piling radicals in jail. The manifesto points out that “a large number of the members of the American working class are still ly- ing in United States jails serving long and brutal terms of imprisonment for alleged offenses. Their only crime is that they dared to oppose war and conscription and dared to advocate industrial unionism and socialism.” After pointing out that protests have been made to the American con- sul and the Australian parliament for presentation to Pres. Coolidge, the manifesto say: “The Australian Labor movement considers the action of the American authorities in attacking members of the American working class organiza- tions to be an attack upon the cardin- al principles of the labor movement, namely: freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right of combin- York’s shops are striking for the new wage scale and better working condi- tions. The industry centers in New York and Connecticut. Foreign Exchange 16.—Britain, 4.86%. France, franc demand 4.78; cable 4.78%. Belgium, franc demand ation, all of which are embodied in | 472; cable 4.72%. Italy, lira demand the American constitution. We there- 3.86%; cable 3.86%. Sweden, krone fore join with the workers of all lands | demand 26.74; cable 26.77. Norway in calling upon the people of Ameri- | krone demand 16.88; cable 16.90. Den- ca to demand from their government | ™Tk, krone demand 18.94; cable 18.- the release of all such prisoners. “In making this appeal to the work- ers of America, we cordially invite the cooperation of the workingclass of the American fleet. Our fight against op- Pression affects the welfare of the rank and file of the army and navy, either at home or abroad, just as the rest of the members of the commun- ity. We join with them in urging the American people, they believe in the rights and of the Ameri- can constitution, to open the jails and set our comrades free.~ Lightning Hits Fnanctal District NEW YORK, June 16.—Lightning struck a glancing blow at the giant equitable building, in the financial dis- trict, during the height of a severe electrical storm early today. Pieces of stone as large as baseballs were Knocked from the coping and fell with a resounding clatter at Nassau and Cedar streets. iby in 96. Germany, mark unquoted. Shan- ghali, tael demand 77.25; cable 78.25. | THE ROMANCE OF NEW RUSSIA By Magdeleine Marx A vivid and colorful picture of the life of Russia under the world’s first workers’ government, Price, $2.00 The Dally Worker Publishing Co. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chieago, Ill, COPENHAGEN, Denmark. ship at about 90,000 and is the largest union within the federation of labor, De Samvirkende Fagforeninger. 5. Christiansen is the chairman and editor. They have no secretary. The youth is organized. The organization of the children is called Den Unge Pioner and its paper Pioneren. Three Types of Farmers. As for the other parties: The bour- geoisie belong to the conservative, the large farmers to the moderate left, the small farmers and the city in- telligentsia to the radical left, and the large majority of the workingmen and some of the landowners. and smallest farmers belong to the social- democratic party. This is now the ruling party, but not having a majori- ty over all the other parties it de- pends upon the support of the radical left. There are three kinds of farmers: The large farmers, the smaller ones that own their land and make a living smallest ones, the “husmaend,” who by the aid of state loan own their land, but in order to make a living have to hire out and so work for others. Then the ‘landworkers, Socialists a Dead Party The social-democratic party counts 123,000 members that pay 10 cents quarterly and otherwise have no obli- gations, the dues even being collected by messenger. It meets twice a year, but there is no obligation for the members to attend. The attendance is small and only about 10 per cent cast their vote at party elections, It is not a live party, simply an election machine. Outside of an evening school, financed by the labor organization, its efforts confine themselves to excursions and Christ- mas festivals. There is no opposition group within the party. It does nothing for the out of it by their own work, only oc-| casionally hiring a little help, and the} the victim of unfair wages and now | WORKERS OF DENMARK STRIKE FOR BETTER WAGES. AGAINST BOSSES ASSOCIATION—COMMUNSTS ACTIVE (By Matl.)—The Communist Party of Den- mark is not a big party, but is in good condition and shows a healthy growth in all the different parts of the country. bladet, with about 15,000 circulation and considerable influence among or- ganized labor, especially the transport workers, who belong to the Working- men’s Union, that counts its member-+—— - It has one weekly paper, Arbeider- working class, and the Communist Party points out that altho in power it will do nothing for the workers. There is a considerable movement to the left among workingmen, but it is not yet revolutionary. The dis: armament proposition was not ser ously meant, only election propaganda, and will not be carried out. Workers Locked Out, De samvirkende (the federation of labor), count 235,000 members and are now in a severe battle with the employers’ organization, that has locked out about a hundred thousand of its members. The locked-out workers receive liberal assistance not only from their own organizations, but also from the international, and the 90,000 members ot the Workingmen’s Union have de- clared a strike in sympathy with the | transportation workers, This is about a 100 per cent strike and will un- doubtedly prove effective. The Workingmen’s Union has been want this corrected, Thirteen New Strikes Every Week to Worry American Government WASHINGTON, June 16—On June 6, 1925, there were 87 strikes before the department of labor for settle ment, and in addition 81 controversies which had not reached the strike stage. Total number of cases pend- ing, 68, thirteen of which are new. The 13 new cases may be compared with 13 and 13 of the first and second weeks preceding. 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