The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1925, Page 1

Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now On in Full Blast! 7 > e GET IN ON A os, meramrennenrreco~~ Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, Ls 4, ee Ps : : 38.00 j a4 Vol. Il. No. 135. “up 4, ° of ATES: Guise Ghicngo, by nal 960 per yar. FRIDAY, me AS WE SEE IT By T. J.-O’FLAHERTY. EVERAL Chinese workers were killed by British soldiers and yet the gallant Britons were surprised be- cause the whole of China went indig- nant over the murder and expressed that indignation in a very un-Chinese like manner. Strikes, demonstrations and the cracking of rifles followed the murder of the Chinese strikers. ‘The _ Britons could not understand how a population of 400,000,000 Chin- ‘ese could get so excited over the loss of a dozen Chinamen. But when one Englishman got killed, the British government got very angry and de- mands retribution. Let us hope-she ‘will get all the retribution that’s com- ing to her. re {\VERYTHING is running along smoothly in Ireland under the ree State regime, writes a+ Dublin Xcorrespondent for the Chicago Daily ews. This gentleman did not in- form us, however, that there are about f,000 unemployed in Ireland and at on the western coast thousands ‘of peasants are in want. That should ‘mot matter much. The workers and ‘peasants have always been hungry, tbo as Kipling sang once upon a time, "They have fed you all for a thou- ‘sand years.” wes HE Dublin correspondent of the Daily News does not tell us of Irish labor. One would never think from reading this fellow’s articles that there was such a thing as a la- bor movement in Ireland. Yet there it is tho it must be admitted it is in a delicate condition just now, But the movement that James Connolly founded will make progress and the Irish workers will ‘take their place ‘with the workers of other lands in the onward march towards economic freedom. se * EORGE BERNARD SHAW is drawing near the end of a happy ‘ife during which he made consider- able money tickling the chins of the bourgeoisie with his clever, satirical pen. Shaw takes a Keen delight in being contradictory, and tho he has said nasty things about the British ruling class at times, he was amus- ingly tolerated by them, muchas a monarch of old would tolerate his eourt jester,.unless the monarch hap pened to be suffering from indiges- tion. In which case the jester got a kick in the trousers, oe HAW served the ruling class well, for them, and wisely for himself. ‘When real radicals protested the per- secutions of the British capitalists the latter could point to Shaw and say: “Loo There is a man who scandalizes us and holds us up to obloquy, yet we do not lay a wet finger on him. Away with you and your talk of persecution.” And it worked. The British went along murdering Hindoos, Egyptians and im- | prisoning Irish rebels, while Eng-{ lJand’s foremost literary clown did his | stuff under the big canvas. | se H Fae famous satirist got away with | the claim to common honesty un- til the world war broke out. Then he proved that under Shaw’s socialist sheep skin, there was hidden the hide of the bourgeois wolf. The Fabian came to the defense of the empire and submitted learned articles prov- ing that German militarism must be overthrown. For this Shaw got good - (Continued on Page 5) | Mobilize the Red Army for Red Week. Distribute a bundle every day during Red Week of June 15 to 21. 4 ier “> of NEW YORK WORKERS IN LAbOR PARTY, TO FIGHT BOSSES. IS DEMANDED BY COMMUNISTS NEW YORK, June 17,—The Workers (Communist) Party of New York, District 2, has issued a statement calling on the work- ers to unite on a labor party ticket in the fall mayoralty election campaign. Unity of the workers in a labor party to give the workers better housing conditions, lower fares, the Management and representation in the public school system, and abolition of the injunction and police interference in labor disputes, is demanded by the Workers Party statement. The Workers Party demands a united front of the working class in a labor party, against the Tammany Hall politicians and Mayor Hylan who act as serv-+ ants of the trusts in fighting the workers. The statement, which calls for the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment, declares: FOR A UNITED LABOR TICKET IN THE COMING ELECTION Statement of the Workers Party, District 2, New York OMRADES AND FELLOW WORK- ERS OF NEW YORK: Eight years of the regime of Mr. Hylan and Tammany Hall draw to a close this Fall. years the conditions of the workers have become more and more unbear- able. Vital issues confront the work- ers of this city in the coming election campaign. RENTS are enormously high—at least 90 per cent higher than before the war, The workers cannot afford to pay for decent living quarters and (Continued on page 3) WORKERS FLOCK TO CONGRESS OF By ALFRED KNUTSON, (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, UV. S. S. R. (By Mail).— The opening of the Congress of the Soviet Union always create a good deal of interest among the workers and farmers in all the territories of the workers’ republic. This Congress convened in the middle of May. A c |few words in connection therewith will interest DAILY WORKER readers, The convention took place in Mos- cow's biggest theatre, a large and beautiful building, with seating cap- acity for about 5000 persons. I sat as a spectator on the first balcony close up to the stage, from which | place I had an excellent view of the entire audience, delegates to the Con- gress and official Soviet representa- tives, The stage in the theatre is wide and |deep, giving accomod:tion to several | hundred people and there are six U | shaped balconies. Every seat was oc- | cupied. Clara Zetkin On Platform. | In the rear of the stage was placed | bust of Lenin and behind it on the | wall hung a big red flag. About 450 | (Continued on pege 5.) Progressive Miners «bie world-wide depression in the \~ local. mining industry has pro- dyced in America a crisis of major pr rtions, in which the operators are using widespread unemployment to crush out completely—if possible —the magnificent organization built up for many decades by the United Mine Workers of America. The role of the reactionary union of- ficials who have adopted a policy of class collaboration, directly aids the employers in their anti-union aims, and only by a left wing move- nt upon a program of class struggle can the U. M. W. of A, be saved from dissolution. In the following program, the Progressive Miners’ rank and file organization TH ~ § SUNDAY! offers its plans for the Tri-District convention to be held at Scranton, Pa., on June 29: ee @ A GREAT crisis confronts the entire mining industry in the United States. As a result of the overdevel- opment of the industry and the speed- up. system, hundreds of thousands of miners are constantly walking the streets unemployed. Taking advant- age of this situation, the coal opera- tors are seizing upon every opportun- ity to weaken and to demoralize the United Mine Workers of America. They are looking forward with glee to the complete destruction of our or- ganization and the reduction of the miners in the anthracite as well as the bituminous fields to a condition of practical serfdom, SECOND ANNUAL | : During these long | [DEMAND RELEASE OF CROUCH IN FEDERAL COURT Habeas Corpus Writ to Be Secured (Special to The Daily Worker) HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 17,—It Is expected that action will be taken on the Crouch-Trumbull case in a few days in the federal court on a writ of habeas corpus. The only question that can be raised is that of jurisdic- tion, as the merits of the case or the question of facts cannot be inquired into by the higher court. of the courtmartial will be challenged on the ground that the acts charged in the specifications do not constitute offenses either against any law of the United States or any military rule or regulation, that the accused were wholly within their constitutional to have said or done, gourt, civil or military, and that no ur} tion to punish for acts that are not offens . Even if the release of the prisoners is denied by the local federal court and they are remanded into the cus- tody of the army authorities, ‘the foundation wilt have been laid for ap- peal, to the higher courts and to the supreme court and the president. Locally the defense is hampered by lack of funds, as only about $150.00 has been received to date. About $200.00 more will be required to carry the fight thru locally. The Labor Defense Council, how- ever, has given assurance that the necessary funds will be raised, It is probable that the jurisdiction+ rights in every thing they are alleged’ THE DAIL operation of public utilities by the workers of the industry, labor | #0ratlans 19, 1925 Move on Idle . Estates ‘The Daily Worker) ITY, June 17. — The aye moved on to the large »Mexico, most of which r up by foreigners in- cluding Al Ban capitalists, and al- lowed to in idle, The agrarians were thus denied the right to make a living, and have taken to the Idle farms rather than starve. dent Calles was forced Agrari (Special MEXICO_ estates thi have been | Altho Py to sponsor 4 jan-‘reform” laws, he has, since the presidency, kept up a war om the militant agrarians. Good Servant. Surprise expressed in official circles here over the sharpness of the Kellogg statement. Calles’ officials point out Calles has fought the militant is. Calles has ordered 6 governments to dis- , but many of the led to do tpis, and omy unde¥ the fed- m.of Mexico, Calles American imperialist masters to a, it extent. Agrarians have seized a number of small farms. Federal troops have been dispatched les to drive out the agrarians, ve been fighting for their existe’ William 1 owns imm could not lolph Hearst, who ‘tracts of land in Mexi- co, was tly forced to give the agrarians In sections of his! lands in prevent them from seizing e estates outright. ere representing the od a servant of Wall m as cohld be ex- ng the growing mili- Communi: port Agrarians. The Communist Party of Mexico demands that the agrarians be al- ‘lowed to work the lands and earn (Continued on page 2) Coolidge Official Dies. WASHINGTON, June 17.— Henry L. Thayer, chief of the supply divi- sion of the veterans’ bureau, Mrs. Lois Macias, his daughter, and Joseph A. Macias, his son-in-law, were dead | today following an accident last night when an automobile driven by Thayer plunged over:a bridge and dropped seventy-five feet, CONTRACTORS CAUSE UNEMPLOYMENT, WEAKEN UNIONS IN ASPHALT-CEMENT WAR—CITY OFFICIALS TAKE SIDES *"® °° '=° ° ‘=e 2 By CHARLES ERICKSON (Workers’ Correspondent) A fight between asphalt paving construction concerns and cement paving contractors is raging in Chicago. sidewalks. Nad the face of this situation, the leaders of the union are showing themselves unwilling and incapable of protecting the interests of the work- ing miners. They refuse to lead the miners in a militant struggle against and working conditions in the min- ing industry. They refuse to carry on the necessary work of organization to bring the hundreds of thousands of unorganized miners into the union, These unorganized miners are be- ing used by the employers to break down the conditions which we have won thru so many years of strug; The present weak campaign of organ- ization in West Virginia is only a drop in the bucket compared to the enorm- ous work that must be don leadership, tied to the inter the two old capitalist parties, fights | the operators to establish real wages | T: The contractors in the opposing camps are endeavoring to get the contracts for paving the streets of Chicago with their particular material, and the workers are the sufferers in the battle. Heretofore, the paving has been laid with cement with asphalt topping, and the cement companies are trying to secure contracts for solid concrete This fight has come to a climax in the offices of the board of local im- provements of the city, of which John J. Sloan is the president. (Continued on Page 6) Propose Pro lish @ political party of their own and to make a real fight to defend their Political interests: T’ is in such a difficult situation that the anthracite miners meet in the ‘District Convention in. Scranton, Pa., June 29. We are confronted with @ multitude of problems. The fate of out organizationvand of our standards of living depends upon how we meet and solve thesesproblems. The Pro- gressive Miners*sCommittee, speaking in the name of all the progressive elements in the Miners’ Union, pro- poses the following program for the consideration of the delegates at the convention. It represents the action that must be taken if the unfon is to live and grow and we are to win higher standard of living for oursely: and our ilies. Galles, declaring he| | DEATH TOLL IN TRAIN I? K WORKER.. 2 Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. Published PUBLISH. EB 290 NEW YORK CITY, June 1 Makers’ Unions of New York. tional, have long been a thorn i have prevented the bureaucrats from committing some of their cherished crimes on the mem- bership of the whole Interna- tional. An Obstacle to Treachery. These three locals were on guard when the official ma- chine tried to fool the tens of thousands of members with so- called “golden agreements” and empty “victories.” Locals 2, 9 and makers the trickeries of arbitra- tion and concilliation schemes and governor's commissions. The official machine bitterly resented this and about two years ago attempted illegally to chop off the heads of the most militant, honest and class con- scious members of the union. The regularly elected execiftiye | boards were dissolved by ukase of the machine. Entire locals were brok- en up thruout the country. Dozens of members were fined.. Hundreds rob- bed of their bread and butter. Thought it Could Rule With Terror. The machine thought that it had “finished,” that it had “cleaned out the rebels” and that its future domin- jation was secure. But as it is not {possible to lead tens of thousands j of workers with terror and persecu- | (Continued on page 2) MAC MILLAN OFF TO SEEK LOST ARCTIC EXPLORER (Special to The Daily, Worker) BOSTON, June 17—Bound on the dual quest of finding a new continent narth of Alaska and attempting to find Capt. Roald Amundsen, the miss- | mander Donald B. MacMillan’s artic expedition started on the first leg of its northward dash this afternoon. Amid hoarse whistles from harbor craft, roar of airplanes above and cheers of thousands of spectators |ashore, the interpid MacMillian and |the naval contingent of the explora- | tion party set sail at 12:15 p. m. aboard |the steamer Peary for MacMillian’s WRECK MOUNTS TOWARD 50; USUAL GOAT SOUGHT | (Special to The Daily Worker) HACKETTSTOWN, N. J., June 17. —The death toll in the Lackawan- na train wreck mounted slowly up- ward as three of the usual “investi- gations” got under way to fix re- sponsibility for the catastrophe. 1. WAGES, HOURS AND WORKING CONDITIONS a) Wage Demands. To meet the increased cost of living and in order to properly feed, clothe, and educate our children, we demand: 1, That all coal mined shall be paid for on a tonnage basis, said basis to guarantee each person working at the coal $10 per day for a six-hour day. 2. A flat increase of $2.00 per day for all inside and outside day labor. 8. Boys to receive the same pay as men for doing the same work, 4, Company men to be supplied to 2 exposed to the cloak-| ing norwegian polar explorer, com- | NEW YORK EDITION daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ING CO., 1113 W, Washington Blyd., Chicage, IIL Price 3 Cents I, L. G. W. U. Expel Heads of Locals to Grab F unds (Special to The Daily Worker) 7.—Trial will be gin today of 77 members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, comprising the executive boards of three large locals, 2, 9, and 22, before a committee, appointed by the Joint Board of the Cloak, Skirt, Suit, Dress and Reefer The membership and the executive commit tees of these three largest locals in the Interna- n the side of the fakers of the I. L. G. W. U. These three unions T.U. E. L. STATEMENT INDICTS THE SCHNEID GROUP IN LOCAL 39, OF A.C. W., ALLIES OF HILLMAN STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE T. U, E. L. ON THE SCHNEID GROUP IN LOCAL 33, A. C. W. A. Te National Committee of the Trade Union Educational League wishes to make clear to the membership of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and particularly to the membership of Local 39, that the so-called progressive group in Local 39, led by Hyman Schneid, is not connected with the Trade Union Educational League and is in fact working contrary to the principles of the left wing move- ment represented by the T U. E. L. We wish to point to the fact that the Schneid group, which has Its center in Local 39, is working hand in hand with the reactionary Hillman administration. it is significant that the Schneid Group failed to put up a real fight against the Hillman elass collaboration agreement and is therefore responsible for this agreement having been adopted by Local 39. This group, which Is led by Schneid, Don, Weiss, Witt and Zussman, is not a progressive group. It is working in the In- terests of Hillman and Levin and against the interests of the clothing workers and against the left wing in the A, C. W. The National Committee of the Trade Union Educational League calls upon the membership of the A. C. W. and particularly upon the really progressive elements In that organization, to Join hands with the T, U. E. L. for the upbuilding of a powerful progressive bloc in the A. C. W. capable of transfroming the A. C. W. into a militant pro- gressive union. The Schneid group is opposed to this aim. The Schneld group is working with Hillman and Levine against the progres- sives and the left wing We, therefore, appeal to the progressive membership of the A, C. W. to close their ranks and to continue the struggle for the prin- ciples and: platform of the T. U. E. L. National Committee of the TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE, TUET CALLS FOR FIGHT ON WAGE CUTS IN SHOE INDUSTRY Outside of the textile workers, no other industry is, perhaps, more cursed with a multiplicity of unions and less unity among the workers, than is the boot and shoe industry. | | | Profiting from this | division and disorganization, the manufacturers are launching a campaign of wage cuts—and the sickly thing about it is that such | fake unions as the “Boot and Shoe” are collaborating to further | oppress the shoe workers. The DAILY WORKER is publishing herewith the call of the National Committee of the Trade Union Educational League to fight wage cuts in the shoe industry, «** -— TIO ALL BOOT AND SHOE WORK-|that the boot and shoe workers, Hke ERS: The bosses are getting |all workers under capitalism, get too ready to cut wages. In Brockton, | tow wages, Mass., one of the largest boot and shoe centers in New England, the em- ployers are posting notices and 4is-| tributing leaflets asking the workers | to accept a reduction in wages. The| 1916 ft took one hour and 42 minutes reason given is that the wages of the |°f 0N@ man’s time to maké & pair of boot aad shoe workers ave too high. | sibes. The bosses get the @ifterence The bosses say that to consent to a|i@ the labor cost. The bigger profits |wage cut is a guarantee of steady |!" the shoe industry that come trom work. the speeding up in the boot and shoe (Continued on page 2) In addition to low wages, the workers have been speeded up un- til the average time taken to make a pair of shoes is only 54 minutes. In | Too Low Wages—Too Much | Speed Up. | This isa tie. —_—————_ Distribute a bundle everyday during The real trouble is' Week? gram for the Tri-District Convention every effort of the workers to estab- | {do all laboring work or day labor. 5. In cases of emergency, when men are brought from the face, they shall be paid at the prevailing rate of wages for class of..work performed, with 25 per cent extra per hour, for loss accruing from a change of work. 6, Overtime is prohibited unless in emergency, said overtime to be paid for at the rate of time and one-half with holidays and Sunday work, to be paid double time. b) Minimum Wage. We demand a minimum wage of $10 per day for men working at the face, and $7,50 for day labor. Many days we go to the mines and lay around all day waiting for cars, or are prevented from work on account of gas or thru lack of mate- rial, break down of machinery, etc., and consequently, earn little or noth- ing. Therefore, we demand the above minimum wage, ©) Six-Hour Day, Five-Day Week, We demand the six-hanr day and five- day week for anthracite miners. John L. Lewis and the operators are agreed that there are 200,000 too many min- ers in the coal industry. Their rem- edy is to starve the surplus miners out of the trade. The Progressive Miners repudiate this whole barbarous conception. We contend that the in- dustry must furnish a living wage to all coal miners. This can be done by the introduction of the six-hour day and the five-day week. d) General Grievance Committee, The General Grievance Committee must be retained and strengthened, as this committee has proved itself (Continued on page 6.) WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, THIS SUNDAY! ¥ CARNIVAL & PICNIC == DIRECTIONS—Take Bronx Park Subway or “L" to 177th St... then take Unionport Gar to end of line.” Gates open at 10 a. m. Pleasant Bay Park ATHLETIC in “The Bronx” C 4 Pleasant Bay Park in “The Bronx”