The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1925, Page 2

Page we > — oy REPORT CHANG TSO-LIN, AGENT OF JAPANESE IMPERIALISM, IS $ i (Special to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, China, June 17.—Reports from Peking state that General Chang Tso-lin, acting as agent of Japanese imperial- ism, has moved troops to seize Peking in the interests of foreign powers. This is supposed to have been done under, the guise of “checking Bolshevism.” Reports state that the Japanese minister at Peking openly invited Chang Tso-lin to seize Peking, telegraphing to, Chang at Tientsin, saying that General Feng Yu-hsiang’s tropps, ‘were about to join the radical students, storm the government offices, establish a soviet government ; and invade the foreign lega- tions.” Chang Tso-lin, whose troops at Tientsin on Monday were brought into the British concession to “pro- the British from 25,000 students who were demonstrating against both the British and Japanese, has moved some 15,000 troops and seized the north and east gates of Peking. Powers Hand Note to Pekin, At the same time the Pekin govern- ment was handed a peremptory note by the combined foreign powers—ex- cept Soviet Russia—in which America, joining with the other imperialists, practically order the Chinese govern- ment to stop the Chinese masses from demonstrating, striking and protest- ing ainst the rapacity of foreign in- ter Including the United States, all powers join in threatening China be- cause of the “state of unrest which is reigning and already has imperiled the lives of foreigners.” The note, far from conceding that the Chinese have some rights in China while the foreigners have none, warns the Chinese government that it ‘ bas a “heavy responsibility with re- gard to the maintenance of order” and demands that it “meet the situation.” Must Have Been Sulcide. Instead of admitting that the for- eigners were responsible for the murders of Chinese in Shanghai, Han- kow and Kiukiang,; the foreign note places all responsibility upon the Chinese government for not doing the tec’ shooting itself instead of leaving it | to the British, After reciting the incidents in which foreign troops have shot down Chinese students and strikers, the note closes by saying: “The above in- cidents were the most serious, but from all sides we are informed there is developing an anti-foreign senti- tment and under the surface ten- dencies are causing us the greatest apprehension.” After 24 hours of comparative quiet an during which the foreign elements hoped that the strike would soon end, trouublble broke out again tonight. Police Fires in} Vain. In attempting to disperse students who were speaking to a crowd of strikers, a foreign rlice sergeant drew his revolver and fired, but his hand was knocked upward, his revol- ver snatched from him and he was dragged up an alley and beaten se- verely. This is the type of) so-called “out- rages” which foreigh governments protest, as though the Chinese have no right to address ithe meetings of their own countrymem in the heart of China. “Out with Imperialiste.” Following a mass meeting in the native city, 26,000 Chinese stormed thra the streets shouting enthusiastic- ally, “China for Chinese!” “Out with the imperialists!” “War on murder- ous Britain!” Posters over the city demand that for every! Chinese murd- ered by foreigners, the law of “a life for a life” should be emforced. Reports from Chungking, Kiukiang and Nanking up the Yangtsze river describe the situation as increasingly grave. Mercenaries Vainly Try Come Back CANTON, June 17.—The last stand of the Yunnanese mercenaries who surrendered Canton Saturday after a week of fighting with Cantonese troops was made yesterday. About 3,000 Yunnanese returned to Canton and occupied Koryum hill. There an- | other battle was fought. The Kuo Min Tang army finally! defeated them. | | | Opium Eaters Fired In Persia. THHERAN, Persia, June 17.—The | Persian premier has ordered the im- mediate dismissal of all government | officials who eat or smoke opium, The edict threatens to paralyze the war office and other departments, as the number of oplum users is very large. Getting a DAILY. WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communist INTERNATIONAL OFFICIALS OF THE I. L. G. W. U. EXPEL HEADS * (Continued from page 1) tion, this “job” was no more success- ful than the alleged “successful” agreements with the bosses. The membership of the large locals realized where the officials disrup- tion was leading, and by a very large majority again elected to the execu- tive boards of the locals, those very 3 members thrown out and persecuted 4 by the officialdom of the International. Again Locals Prevent Betrayal. For a time it seemed that the Sig- man-Perlstein machine had learned a lesson it would not forget. But when the time again came to negotiate with the bosses to renew the agreements, the machine saw that the three pro- &ressive locals, Locals 2, 9, and 22, would not let the officials again be- tray and mislead the membership. The machine had drawn the cloak- makers into the net of the governor’s commission. The machine had misled the dressmakers to accept a “golden agreement”—but the dressmakers say that all the gold falls into the podk- ets of the bosses. The executive of the three locals caught the machine in the act. Their delegates on the joint board exposed Hillquit’s “interpretations” at the governor's commission— which de stroy even the little that had been won from it Demanded—Bosses Live Up to Agree- ment. The delegates of Local 22, demand- ed that the dress manufacturers should be compelled to abide by the agreement and establish a system This terrified the machine. It saw that the progressive membership watched every step being taken, and again it determined on a war of ex- termination against the militant and capable members of the union. With the ridiculous excuse of an apparent frame-up, the machine at the recent meeting of the joint board put over the suspensions of the dele- gates and the executives of Locals 2, treasuries, that is the main thing eyed over by the machine. The Awful Crimes! The excuse for this action upon which the 77 members go to trial is @ perfect example of the idiotic be- havior of the machine. The locals had arranged great de- monstrations on May First, and the third local made a loan to the best co-operative of control over the sub-manufacturers. | 9 and 22, and the treasuries—ah! the| by the machine—were ordered taken | OF LOCALS TO GRAB FUNDS known to New York workers— the Camp Nit Gedeiget. Therefore, Is- rael Feinberg, one of the mcahine’s triumvirate, made charges before the joint board upon which the execu- tives of the three locals are being given the farce of a “trial.” Dark Plot to Hold Mass Meetings. The charges recite the awful “plot” of actually inviting Communists to speak at the May Day meeting—noth- ing else. Except that the terrible Communist did really speak and ac- tuually said something; to-wit: “Ad- vocated methods of violence and dic- tatorship.” This is anathema to the yellow socialist gang in control, so it at once uses “violence and dictatorship” to oust the local executives it can: not bluff or control. Crooked Fingers After Money. The chief reasons behind the move to expel these 77 members are that they stand in the way of betrayal of the union members to the. bosses, and secondly— the International is buried in debt thru the squandering of funds by the machine, and to get jmoney they’ wish to lay hands on the treasuries of Locals 2, 9 and 22, The only way they can get at the treasurits is by getting the executives out of the way, The militant members of the three locals are determined to give the machine the whipping of its life. They j will not give up the fight for a bet- | ter, cleaner and more militant union, |nor turn the treasuries over to the Brindels of the I. L. G. W. U. ma- chine, nor take over and destroy the fine organization.built up. The left wing declares that as @ reply to the machine it stands on the following three demands: 1. Compel the dress manufao- turers to live up to the agree- ment. 2. Lay the demands directly before the cloak manufacturers. 3. Prepare for a strike if the bosses will not grant the de- mands. The militant members of the Lo- jcals 2, 9 and 22, ask all I. L. G. W. | U. members to stand by for struggle against the bosses and the traitors in the union. As leaders of the strug- gle they will not rest with defense but will carry the war to an ag; truggle to smash the Sigman-Perl- oin-Feinberg-Forward yellow ma chine THIEVES AGREE THAT THERE SHALL BE HONOR AMONG THIEVES—MAY BE LONDON, June 17.—If civil war breaks out In China Great Britain will remain “neutral,” so says the British foreign office. It Is also announced that “no power will act Independently of the others, and none will undertake anything con- trary to the Interests of the others. Great Britaln has sixteen war ves- sels now in Ch ye waters, sup- posed sufficient to “protect her In- terests.” RED DEPUTIES EJECTED FROM RIFF COMMITTEE Painleve Fears to Tell Workers Truth PARIS, June 17.—Three Communist deputies—Couturier, Marty and Doriot —refused to agree to keep secret Premier Painleve's report on the Mo- rocco situation today and were forcl- bly expelled from the conference room where the French chamber’s Morocco commission was in session. Painleve, who is also minister of war, has just returned from a trip of inspection to Morocco where France and Spain sre making little headway in their fighting against the Riffs. Before beginning his report, Pain- leve demanded secrecy. The Commun- ist members of the commission re- fused declaring that the workers should know the truth about the Mo- roccan invasion. Painleve refused to speak until the republican guards forcibly ejected the three Communist deputies. Painleve declared he would not talk on the Moroccan invasion, “until I find it expedient to do so.” The chief of the French naval for- ces in Moroccan waters is at Ceuta conferring with the Spanish author- ities on a combined Franco-Spanish attack on the North Africans. The Riffians, having taken the heights of Bibane from the French, are now attacking Taounat, the chief obstacle to Fez, the Moroccan capital. “The real reason for the war,” Abd- el-Krim said in an interview with an Italian paper, Il Popolo d'Italia, “Is that we Moors, believe we are capable of governing ourselves. “Krim said that the reason the French were drawn into the war wey Spanish government to give up her interests in Morocco, and because the English delayed negotiations between Krim and Spain.” BOSSES BRING STATE POLICE BILL TO LIFE SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 17—De- clared “dead” more times than any other single piece of legisl n in the 54th general assembly, the Dun- lap state police bill backed by the manufacturers prepared today for an- other of its almost bi-weekly “oome- backs.” The Dunlap bill would create a state police force available to break strikes for the factory owners, The house committee on industrial affairs reported the bill in at the morning session with the recommen- dation that it “do pass.” As a re- sult, a bitter fight for the closing hours of the session was predicted. The measure has been declared dead $o many ,times even its friends were startled to find it st* a live issue. ‘They made immediate preparation to rally every possible vote, If passed by the legislature and signed by the governor, the bill can- not become a law until accepted by the general electroate in a state wide election. Charge Officials with Graft. Charges that Dr. F. A. Laird, state veterinarian, had committed irregu- larities in making compensation to ite persons for glandered slaughtered during the war, were sustained today in a report laid before the senate by Senator 4. 8. Cuthbertson, chairman of the special investigation’ committee. Further ac- tion was left to Governor Len Small. Dever Bill Dead. The bill of Senator Hffingson, of Streator, giving Chicago politicians control of matters concerning public utilities, was considered dead today. There was strong objection raised against it when called on the order of UNTIL JUNE 21. because France ‘could not induce the | SHOE BOSSE CUT WAGES BY FAKE UNION Boot and Shoe Only a Company Union By TOM BELL (Special to The Dally ‘Worker) LYNN, Mass. June 17.—The shoe manufacturers here -have won the first round In the wage cutting cam- paign by succeeding in bringing the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union into Lynn and the consequent swallowing of the looals of the Amalgamated Shoe Workers’ Unlon (an Independ- ent union.) rs A. M, Creighton, of the Creighton Shoe Co., told his employes at the ex- piration of the agreement with the Amalgamated in May that he refused to recognize the Amalgamated and that it was either an open shop or the Boot and Shoe—and he preferred the Boot and Shoe. A Wage Cut Campaign The shoe manufacturers, the cham- ber uf commerce, and the newspapers, have been carrying on a propaganda campaign for the Boot and Shoe for months. It is stated that $100,000 has been spent in this campaign. The workers have been told that if they sign applications for the Boot and Shoe that they would get steady work. The newspapers have lauded the Boot and Shoe as a fine example of the policies of the A, F. of L. of co-opera- tion between capital and labor to the advantage of both. The whole campaign of the bosses in favor of the Boot and Shoe is a part of the campaign for a general re- duction of wages. A Fine System—For Bosses When the agreement with the Amal- gamated expired in the Creighton fac- tory, work continued for a few days until the orders on hand were finish- ed, and then the factery was closed. Creighton informed the workers that if they would sign applications for the Boot and Shoe they could return to work. An agreement ‘was signed be- tween the Creighton management and the Boot gnd Shoe which places the “union stamp” in the factory and calls for a “readjustment” of wages and Baine, secretary-treasurer of the Boot and Shoe, has already taken the case to the state board of arbitration which will decide for 4 cut in wages, as in the past. am Following this it with the Boot and Shoe, Creighton sent for the workers and demanded that they sign applications for the Boot and Shoe, and he collected the dollar application from 22 workers. After this he in- formed them that he would notity them when they could go to work. This incident at the Creighton fac- tory {s an open declaration of the intention of the shoe bosses to hog- ‘tie the workers in the Boot and Shoe and then proceed to cut wages. In another article | will show the swallowing up of the Amalgamated locals by the Boot and Shoe, In other words the organization of a real “company union” among the shoe workers of Lynn, KAISERITES ARE MARKING TIME ON WIL’S RETURN BERLIN, June 17—The Monarchists having secured the adoption of fliree important motions in the budget com- mittee are resting on their oars, while their press is cleverly disabusing the public mind of the idea that the elec- tion of Von Hindenburg was but the prelude to the restoration of the Ho- henzollerns to the throne, The comparative silence of the Mon- archists has been taken by some eas- ily convinced newspaper correspond- ents that Von Hindenburg has brot Pressure to bear on the ‘kaiser’s sup- Porters for the purpose of quieting their anti-Republican activities. This is mere poppy cock. ‘The situation is not exactly favorable for the restora- tion of the monarchy just now and the monarchist leaders feel that time is on their side, t Germany is passing thru a deep go- ing industrial crisis at the present time and capitalism has all it can es without taking on added bur jens, 4 Wheat Gambling Disclosed. WASHINGTON, D. ©., June 17.— The government's investigation of gambling on the stock exchange dis- closed speculation “to an alarming degree” on the Chicago board of trade, it was announced here, One of the chief wheat gamblers was Jesse Livermore, whose operations reached the figure of 50 million bushels of wheat. @ eT. Five thousand subs for Red Week. ! Bosses Consider Old Age Pension As Sop to the Working Class By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Dele the growing discontent of American labor finds an echo In the propaganda barrage laid down promising new palliatives to the workers. Special stress is now put on “old age pensions,” as one of the best baits to hold out to dissatisfied toilers, to keep them contentedly at their jobs thru all their useful years, and to be satisfied with a mere pittance to eke out a bare existence during/their declining years in lieu of going to the almshouse, « Big employers never grant concéssions to labor unless forced to do so. This is shown in every strike for better conditions, the shorter workday and Increased wages, when the profit takers put up the most stubborn resistance. Some times the employer tries to anticipate discontent, especially to stave off the demand of workers for organiza- tion, with slight concessions, One of the best examples of this was the so-called abolition, with a great flare of trumpets thru the whole cap- italist press, of the 12-hour workday in the steel mills. But this only came after the heroic struggle of the steel work- | ers, in 1919, and a rising protest against steel mill slavery under United States Steel Corporation tyranny that swept the whole American working class. * * * * An increasing army of child workers, specialization and speeding-up in industry, with the increased use of machinery, has gradually cut down the deadline of employment. Toda the worker is scrapped at 45 years of age, if not earlier, wit as little compunction as the dumping of old, worn-out ma- chinery. It was no accident that the “open shop” Chicago Tribune recently published a cartoon on its first page, urging em- ployers to consider the question of old age pensions before the workers, themselves in desperation, took things into their own hands. There is reasoning behind the pampering that is being bestowed by various capitalist interests on the National Conference of Social Workers now gathered in Denver, Colo. * * * e Some of the actual conditions unearthed are as fol- lows: superannuated wage earners are not relieved to any considerable extent by the pensions provided by railroads, industrial concerns, states and municipalities or fraternal organizations, or even trade unions; one out of every three persons reaching the age of 65 becomes dependent upon charity or relatives; 3,000 applicants for assistance under the Pennsylvania law showed that they had never earned more than an average of $15 weekly thruout their lives; 98 per cent of the applicants were native-born American citizens, and 88 per cent had been married and reared families, their children, however, being unable to support them because they, too, were in the clutches of poverty; that while Penn- sylvania has a per capita wealth of $1,931.80 the total posses- ions of the 3,000 applicants showed an, average wealth of $23.84 per person. : e »* These are conditions that unlimited propaganda about the blessings to the working class of the flivver, the radio and other boasted luxuries that every working class family is supposed to enjoy, cannot hide. They are making increas- ing numbers of working class families conscious of their lot. The hard-boiled plutocrats and their press will attack “old age pensions” as Bolshevism. This remedial legislation has already been declared “unconstitutional” in ennsyl- vania, just as the United States Supreme Court declared the anti-child labor amendment against the proud provisions of the fundamental law of this capitalist land. * * * * But “old age pensions” / and a lot of other sops will be \_ thrown to the working class in the days to come, in an ef- “fort to divert it from its real task, the seizure of power and || the inauguration of the Proletarian Dictatorship. Pensions cannot lift the workers out of wage slavery. Only the triumph of the Soviet Revolution can do that. ‘ i lh tee kt RO once Urge Fight in Shoe Industry (Continued from page 1) streets unemployed while their fami- making go into the pockets of the |lies hunger in misery, bosses. Amal te ish, For the workers, the bosses offer no nd dtd wage cuts, altho we are working almost twice as fast as we were in 1916, One palr of shoes, 1916—102 min- utes. One pair of shoes, 1925—84 min- utes. The boses feel that they are able to make us take wage cuts because Wwe are not organized as well as they are. They have powerful and rich companies and combinations. They control, along with their .class, the government, and all means of sway- ing the public mind. They are strong and militant. Too Many Unions—Not Enough Unionism, On the other hand, our unions are weak and demoralized. There are too many unions in the same industry, and only a small fraction of the work- ers are organized. We must amalga- mate these unions and we must put on big organization campaigns that will sweep the millions of workers into these unions, These things we must accomplish if we are to main- tain and advance our wages and to better our working conditions. There are 1542 boot and shoe fac- tories in the United States, but 14 per cent of these factories can produce | 65 per cent of all the boots and shoes needed. This shows how the bosses have centralized their power. It also explains why thousands of shoe work- ers, willing to work, have to walk the If we do not organize the unorgan- ized, amalgamate our unions into one at industrial union, and fight all wage cuts, the bosses will make us work for anything they see'fit to give. They will close half their factories and with cheap labor working at break-neck speed, the rest will make enuf boots and shoes for the nation. The less wages we get the less we the more money we make for the boss. The faster we work the larger the bosses’ profit, Resist Wage Cuts! We must resist the threatened wage cuts. Wherever the bosses at- tempt to put them into effect, we must reply with strikes. Organize shop comittees to unite the scattered unions and the masses. The longer we fail to make a fight for our wager and working conditions the less we will have left to fight for. The longer we allow our ranks tobe divided, our unions to be weakened by differences of opinion and by ambitions of the officials, the sooner will the iron, hand of the boss and the boss’ go ment clamp around our necks, Fight all wage cuts! Instead ef wage wages! Instead of # lot of little unions one great Industrial union, Instead of affiliation to the old par tles—a labor party! Instead of dissenssion and divilson amalgamation! Instead of longer hours! Instead of isolated action—a united front of all boot and shoe workers! No wage cuts for the Boot and Shoe Industry! TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE, National Committee, cutse—higher hours—shorter Saeco PEEL Sia R35 age or ARMS TREATY IS SIGNED BY 18 GOVERNMENTS Has Clause Against Soviet-Persia WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17 Representatives of 18 governments have signed the international corivens tion for the contro! of trade In arms, ammunition and Implements of war, following the league of nations’ arma parley. Fourteen nations mivet ratify the agreement before it takes effect, The convention gives the states born dering on the Soviet Union a free relgn to arm against the Soviets without being affected by the conven- tion. Persia withdrew from the parley after it was decided that her ships in the Gulf of Persia could be searched for arms. The Soviet Union refused to take part on the grounds that the confers ence was a means whereby the world capitalist powers tighten their holé on the weaker nations. A protocol was also signed by 27 nations, which prohibits the use of poison gas in farfare, but does not prohibit its manufacture by the na» tions signing the agreement. The representatives of Germany, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Nicaragua, Holland, Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey and Urguay, who signed the poison gas protocol, did not sign the traffic in arms convention. Altho the convention has not beer published in full ag yet, it provides that those governments signing shall publish statistics of their foreign trade in arms as well as private con cerns within their countries. Bayoneting, bombing, laying mineg and other metliods of warfare are considered “legitimate” in the proto» col, it being considered “immoral” ta murder only when poison gas is used, Theodore Burton and Hugh Gibson signed both agreements for the Coo+ Hidge government. RED WEEK—June 14 to 21. <q Calles Sends His Troops Against the Poor Farmers (Continued from page one) perialism be driven out of Mexico, The Mexican government has red troops to “protect” George Camp, American manager of the randy at San Pedro Coxtocan, formerly owned by Mrs, Rosalie Evans, the English woman who, it is charged, was murdered by Mexicans last August. Owing to the sentiment of the peasants and workers, Calles has been forced to issue a report denying that the agrarian laws already enacted will be repeated because of Kellogg's note, 2.9 ‘ Callies’ New Statement. MEXICO CITY, June 17—President Calles, in a new statement on Mext- co’s agrarian problemss, attempts to secures the support of Mexico's work- ers and peasants by declaring that “The Mexican government once more ratifies its intention to concentrate all the elements at its command to complete the redemption of Mexico’e Doorer classes, who are in ignorance and misery to which they were con- signed by egoism, and injustice, and lack of social solidarity.” “One of the most efficient and indis- pensible factors in the realization of this purpose,” says the statement, “is the equitable and complete solution of the agrarian problem so as to af- ford such opportunities to the work- ing classes that they may always be within the law and by means author ized by law realize that cardinal as- piration of all human beings—namely, to live, develop and progress. “The solution of the agrarian prob- lem, in the opinion of this executive, / ; is of absolute necessity for the con- / solidation of the Mexican race and for, the prosperity and advan which it is* called to realize in cert with other free peoples, The means tothis end are cl defined in Mexican law and it not be Calles, whose pride is that rose from the popular classes and owes his investure to the support those classes, who will be a traiter to his people.” * teeat . Local Communists held a meeting at . which it was charged that “Yankee government thru direct orders to Am- bassador Sheffield.” The meting was called for the purpose of protesting against the Lamont-De la Huerta agreement, the return of the National railway to private ownership, the mur- der and disarmament of agrartans, and the criminality of mine owners who are responsible for the death of Mexican laborers. | 4 One of the speakers charged that the seat of Mexfean government is no longer fu Mexico City but in Washing. ton, Ové"100 mounted police were prog. ent, d nize our advertisers, i 4 <... a ee 4 their liying, and that American im _ s ;