The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1925, Page 1

| + Daily Worker Annual Sub-: cription Drive Now on In Full Blast! GET IN ON Th Vol. II. No. 136. THE UP BIG ST. SUBSCRIPT = ‘HE Gen STAR ER 60x ise 5 a LOUIS OPEN SHOP IN FIGHT TO ORGANIZE UNION (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 18.—The strike of the clothing work- ers of the big open shop Curlee on June 1, as Clothing Company, which began previously reported in the DAILY WORKER, is continuing with vigor and complete paralysis” of production, despite the brutal interference of the St. Louis police. The strike is being directed by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Amer- ica in an effort to organize St. Louis, which as a large open shop center is producing under scab conditions clothing sells the New York and Chicago which under- manufacturers. The strikers, who are getting their first strike experience, in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, mGhicago, by-mail, $6.0C per year. are standing loyally by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, and according to those in charge of the strike about 80 per cem of the whole working force are out, only a few Italian —* women remaining, and it is ex- AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. $$$ $$ ARREN S. STONE, deceased ‘leader of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, is defended against the “compliment” of never having led a strike, by Alpert F. Coyle, editor of the Engineers’ Journal. La- bor leaders as a rule do not consider it a compliment not@to,/have led strikes, tho our present- “crop, pre- fer to have that part otis cord in the distant past, something to boast about, as an old man might fur- tively breg about incidents in his early life that are condonable in youth if not virtuous. se @ bad compliment—Coyle calls it a charge—was given to Stone by capitalist writers. Coyle says it is not true—at the time of Stone’s death, his organization was engaged in a strike against the Virginian railway, Mr, Coyle did not bring forth all the evidence in his possession to dyna- mite the charge against his boss. Why not tell of Stgne’s brilliant leadership of the strike against the United Mine Workers of America in the Coal River Colliers in West Vir- ginia? Stone was a real leader when it came to leading strikes tient and sympathetic. with the de- mands and suggestions of the em- Ployers tho he was quite dogged in his refusal to compromise with the union miners, insisting on running his Plant openshop. * e* R. COYLE, no doubt will be able to harmonize Stone’s scabbery with the eulogy he has written of him for the press. He may prove to his own satisfaction that the labor condi- tions in the scab-Coal River Colleries were better than in unionized mines; that the mines were run on co-operat- ive lines, (which is a myth) and that the miners had the privilege of pur- chasing stock in the company that op- erated the mines. But the employes of the United States Stee] and Stand- ard Oil corporations are urged to buy the stock of those trusts, yet they are a iong way off from owning them. Those who defend Stone, in face of his record, and pose as progressives, Possess a colossal impudence and show a mounmental contempt for the intelligence of the American working class, odliisaasel S the situation is developing in China, it appears that Japan is driven to the desperate necessity of placing her political eggs in Chang Tso-Lin’s basket and running the risk of hatching a brood of ugly ducklings. The latest reports indicate that’ the Tokio government has given its tool, Chang, the word to go ahead and establish his dictatorship over that part of China dominated by Peking, | This would make Japan the dominant influence in Manchuria and the Chili province, leaving Southern China in the hands of the Kuo Min Tang party ‘and Mongolia under the control of a Soviet government, in close relation- ship with the Soviet Union. se YW this ‘plan will work out is problematical, . If the reports on which the above summary is based are correct, it is likely that the major powers, England and the United States, have given Japan permission to assume the “white man’s burden” in China, on the theory that when a choice between two evils is the only (Continued on page 3) Pass Mine ety Bill SPRINGFIELD, Il, June 18.—Twy bills providing for the addition of few safety devices to coal mines wefe passed by the Illinois house and s to governor Small for his signatu today. strike pected that these will soon join when the meaning of the strike 1 Ameen RawaeRT 7 RANK AND FILE OF IL. 6. W. U. PROTECTS OFFICES OF LOGAL 22 (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 18.—Thou- sands of grament workers are to- day protecting the office of Local Twenty-two of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union against seizure by reactionary of- ficlals. Rank and file committees have been organized for day and night guard service. They are de- termined there shall be no repetl- tion of the seizure of the offices of Locals Two and Nine, which were taken by force in the middle. of the night. The attack upon Local Twen- ty-two offices yesterday afternoon failed. Nine needle workers, six girls, arrested on orders of Vice President Feinberg, charged with disturbing the peace, have been re- leased on bail. A joint committee of the three unions is issuing an ap- peal to all locals and members of “the international” to condemn the outrageous assault and support the is understood by them. Began with Cutters The Curlee shop is the largest clothing establishment in St. Louis. The strike’ began with a one hundred per cent walkout of the cutters. The next day a group of tailors joined the strike, Then nearly every day new groups have been joining in, until at present the shop is completely tied up. 4 Reports received y the strikers with plenty of proof to show their truth, show that the Curlee shop is unable to turn out a single finished garment. Seventeen Arrests on Second Day. On June 2,.as reported’at the time! by the DAILY WORKER, there was the first interference of the police. Nine women and eight men on the picket line were arrested on the strange charge that they “made so much noise” that the workers in other factories were “disturbed” in their labor of producing profits for their class, the following: The arrested included, among the women and girls who have shown (Continued on page 2) Thousand Strikers Who A Few of the PUTRID CORPSE OFS. P. PAST SAVING BY DEBS Minneapolis Aldermen Betrayed | Workers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 18.— | Eugene V. Debs, who is now tour- |ing the principal cities of the coun- try, trying to revive the corpse of the socialist party, now wormy and putrid, will hold one of his glorified revivals in our city, Debé comes here sponsored by Al- |bert Rastis, Gisslan and Lynn Thomp- |son, Who are practically the leads of |the so-called socialist labor. group, |politically. The disgraceful defeat of five of the six “labor” alderman was due to the fact that they fought running away from the ¢harge of be- ing “labor.” Socialists Have Bad Record. It 1s extremely doubtful, whether Debs would throw his revolutionary cloak, which he wore in the past so nobly, and which is now sullfed by bad stains of opportunism, over the yellow and treasonable record of the {Continued on page 5.) | } UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES GO UP 43,894 IN ONE WEEK IN ENGLAND LONDON, June 17.—There we: 43,894 more workers unemployed last week, according to the official figures, than the preceding week, The num ber of unemployed officially tabulated, which does pot include many thou- sands of jobless workers, is now 1,291. 1200, the Largest Shop in St. Louis. rights of the three locals, AMUNDSEN, POLE "FLIER, 1S SAFE AT KING'S BAY LONDON, June 18.—Captain Roald Amundsen, and his party of Polar ex- plorers, 4ncluding Lieut. Lincoln Ells worth, ah Ohio aviator, are safe at King’s Bay, according to a central news dispatch received here this afternoon, The explorer and his party thus re- turned to their hopping off place just 28 days after they poked the noses of their planes. toward the North Pole. King’s Bay, the point mentioned in the news dispatch, is north of Spitz- bergen, the northernmost group of islands from which departure for the Pole could be made. ie Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Titinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. SHANGHAI ENDS 4 Peace Negotiations in Sudden Ending (Special to The Baily Worker) SHANGHAI, June 18—Negotiations for a peaceful ending of the general strike here which has tied up all of the city’s activities fér two weeks and [resulted in-serious disturbances broke down tonight and events—pos- sibly imperialist in ition may re- sult. $5 Owing to the unyielding attitude of the Chinese negotiators, who insisted on the granting of ir demands, for- eign diplomats’ boltef the conference and announced that/further negotia- tions were futile. Diplomats Go ke Peking. The diplomats, ft was announced, will return immediately to Peking. It is thought they ordered to re- fuse all concessions and ~ threaten China with invasion by order of their home governments ~ The Chinese n that their dem including the lift: punishment of poli dent demons' ‘ general strike, tiators insisted granted in full of martial law, ho fired on stu- cipitating the for the slain lis seething with Strike lead- decided to con- 8 to tie. up all Three thou- i 20,000. wharf all wharves be- gse of the Dol- ; Not only all ocean traffic ers have apparentl centrate ‘their atte shipping and wh sand lightermen workers have strucl ing affected except Jar Line (Ameri coast and river, b as well may be t The students of Shanghai.and all other cities have decided to rally the nation for a gene! 26, which is the “I yal” when all Have Tied Up Clothing Production in PARTY ATHLETIC athletic meet truly international in character. The Communist Interna- tional has recognized that thru sports wide masses of workers may be reached, and their ranks further solidified—hence the organization of the Red’ Sports International with its sections in the various countries. |On Sunday, June 21, militants of New York will have an opportunity to wit- ness a very interesting exhibition of sports in which our Finnish, Czecho- Slovak, .JugoSlav, Scandinavian, Jewish, Lithuanian and English com- rades will participate. The Athletic events are scheduled as follows: Sign Up for Contest. Comrades who have not yet enter- ed their names for these events still have time to do so, and should im- mediately communicate with the district office at 108 HE, 14th street. Prizes will be given the winners, As an added attraction, Comrade Krumbein, district organizer, an- nounces that he isearranging a news- paper popularity contest which will give every worker present a chance to boost his favorite Communist newspaper, Music and dancing also in the general program of ity. ‘ Militants in New York are urged, to set their tickets now. sha 4 ' You'll Like the Park, F day to enforce the boycott against British and Japaneses The parade went thru the streets breaking every | window that contained ‘British or Jap- | The procession ‘was broken up, by Chinese (Manchurian) troops com- (Contiiued om, page 2) Smash Mohammedan, Tradition. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, June 18.—Another ancient ‘Mohammedan custom. was overthrown when Mus- tapha Kemal Pasha, president of the Turkish republic, allowed the Aus- trian sculptor Krippel'to make a bust of him, Mohammedan tradition for- bids sculping. The statue, when com- pleted, will be placed in @ public park in Constantinople. GET A SUB AND GIV= ONEI |NEW YORK PREPARES FOR WORKERS MEET AND PICNIC; SUNDAY, JUNE 21st IS THE DATE NEW YORK, June 18.—Preparations now being made for the internation- al athletic carnival and picnic to be held Sunday, June 21, at: Pleasant Bay Park, promise that this event will be historic in the annals of’ Workers Party affairs in New York. All the language sections are joining in. International Sports. The chief features of the day will be a series of athletic events arranged with the co-operation of the Workers’ Sport Alliance.All the language branches are joining in to make the+ Pleasant Bay Park im the Bronx 4s the most beautiful picnic grove in the city, with fine woodland overlooking Long Island Sound. There is plenty of space to roam in. “Spend the first day of summer with your friends and comrades at the first party picnic or the season. Tickets are 35 centssand can be ob- tained at the Workers » Party head- guarters, Freiheit, 30!Union Square, Jimmie Higgins Book Btore, 127 Uni- versity place and fromimll party mem- bers. Gates open at 10 a.am.” Take Bronx Park subway or “L” to 177th street then take Union port car to end of the line. There free buses will be waiting to take you to the park. Party Members New York. Comrades are urged to be at the park on Sunday, June 21 at 9 a. m, to help in the work atithe picnic at Pleasant Bay Park, Bronx, District Organizer, CHAS. KRUM- BEIN. - MacDona! Win Wales SYDNEY, Australia, June 18.—J. T, Lang, labor party leaddr, took office as premier of New South Wales, fol- lowing the resignation,of Sir George Fuller and his new conservative, na- Monalist party government. The labor party won in the recent elections, eg 290 9..When they approached thet headquarters of Local 22, things) were different. About 206 young militant girl members of Local 22 had mobil- ized against just such raids and stood ready to give battle to all comers. They had been waiting for twenty-four hours, sleeping in relays, and they sallied forth | with war spirit shining in their | bonnie eyes and soon the gang-! sters had ignominously fled. | Locals 2, 9 and 22 of the I. L. G.| W. U. on Tuesday night held three big mass meetings with two extra overflow meetings which had to be provided for the members of Local 22. | All these meeting were packed and | jammed on a hot sultry night with | wildly indignant needle trades work- | ers worked up to the highest pitch of | excitement by the outrageous and high handed“ suspension of the offi-| cers of the above three locals by the| joint board “clique” headed by Morris | Sigman and a small army of gang-| sters, | These mass meetings repudiated | They were addressed by speakers who showed how the deposed left wing and file issues versus the class colla- boration of the Sigman gang. Why They Were Deposed The executives of these locals had fought. against the increase in dues; against the governors commission; against the reckless expulsion of the left wing and the consequent expend- iture by the Sigman administration tremendous,sums-of money, All the "T speakers. were wildly applauded and to all those present it Was apparent that this time the membership of these three locals which approximates thirty thousand will not allow Sigman anese goods. j4@nd- his gang to break up the organ- ization. Resolutions’ were adopted at all these meetings which gave the exe- cutives full power to act, to set up a Joint council of action and to fight relentlessly against the “suspension order of the Sigman gang: All New York Fired By Struggle The New York labor movement is afire with this struggle jts-results will have a far reaching effeet upon the entire labor movement. The militant to win this fight and preserve the unity of their organization against Sigman and his disgusting tactics. Statement Of Suspended Local Officers The following statement has been issued by the suspended officials of locals 2, 9 and 22 of the I. L. G. W. U. as answer to the ridiculous charges of the Sigman machine: “In answer to the statement of the joint board we can state that up to date, we have not received a copy of any charges and we have seen it to- day for the first time in the news- papers. “The charges made against us, we believe, are for the purpose of illegal- ly seizing our treasury and prevent- ing the members of our union from conducting the affairs of the union. Meetings Like All Others “The meetings held on the first of May were like other meetings held on (Continued on page 2) MACMILLAN SHIP OFF SATURDAY Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicage, Ill. SIRIKE|N. Y. Garment Workers CONFERENCE AT! Vote Confidence in Their Suspended Local Officers (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents NEW YORK CITY, June 18.—The Sigman-Perlstein-Feinberg-Forward gangsters early Tues- day morning raided with armed sluggers the headquarters of Locals 2 and 9 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and attempted to raide the headquarters of Local 22, all sus- pended by the official autocracy ruling the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. f Under the guise of “taking over the locals” by temporary officers appointed by the machine, a large crowd of gangsters swooped down and captured by sheer force the offices of Local 2 and NATIONAL LEFT WING CONFERENCE | Girl Militants Give Battle. ~OFNEEDLE TRADES IS CALLED FOR NEW YORK ITY ON AUGUST 8-9 The problems pressing upon the workers in the needle trades, espe- cially those bearing upon the attitude of the various unions toward the rapidly worsening condition, are becoming crucial. It is therefore sig- nificant that the National Committee of the Trade Union Educational League and the National Committee of the Needle Trades Section of the T. U. E. L, have issued the following call for a national left wing con- ference: TO ALL NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS:— A critical situation exists jn the needle industry. The employers are carrying on war against wages, against union control and union con- ditions and to destroy the union. The contracting evil is growing and the union administrations are doing nothing effective to cope with it. The agreements that are made with the employers are being flagrantly violated by them. Unemployment is crushing great numbers of workers. The union officials, instead of fighting to improve these conditions, are entering into collaboration with the bo: ,» and surrendering the de- mands of the workers under cover of so-called impartial tribunals, the the action of Sigman and his gang. | executives had fought for the rank | Governor's Commission, ete. | | test against the collaboration of the the Trade Union Educational Leagu Left Wing. officials of locals .2,.9 and Against these crying evils the membership is in revolt. Mass pro- union officials with the employers, against surrender, is swiftly crystallizing around the Left Wing, led by ie. In many of the most important local unions of all trades the membership has elected Left Wing adminis- trations, and in many others the Left Wing has gained almost a major- ity of the membership i.nd will soon receive overwhelming support, In order to carry out the reactionary policy of surrendering to the bosses, the bureaucrats in control of the needle trades union national offices are again trying to launch a war,of expulsions, suspensions, reor- ganizations, and extermination of the Left Wing. The suspension of the 22, in the I, L. G, W, U—-the.expul-., sion of local 5 in ‘the A, ©. W. of A., and the expulsion of members of local 5, and expulsions in Chicago-all ‘these are part of the campaign (Continued on pige 3) (Special to The gone froward with great strides during | The widespread propaganda in fav fh hedioe cere ed oS KELLOGG INSULT. TO MEXICO FROM MORGAN'S MOUTH |Sheffield Tool of Amer- | ican Bankers | Specifically charging that Secretary of State ‘Kellogg's latest studied in- | Sult to Mexico was dictated by Thom- as W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Co., thru the mouth of Ambassador | Sheffield the All-American An i-Impe- | | rialist League has issued a statement | warning the people of Mexico as well | | as the working class of the United| | States that a new crisis is being pre-| \cipitated by Wall Street in the in- terests of its imperialist designs—a | lerisis which can have the most dis- | | peoples of both countries, -astrous consequence for the exploited | | FOR GREENLAND | Threat to Overthrow Mexican Gov-| BOSTON Mass, June 18.—The Peary was off Wiscas Hyt, Me., today and her ¢ommander, Donald B, MacMillan, was on shore having proceeded over- land from Boston, sailing point of the Peary. After taking on more equipment, both the Peary and her companion ship, the Bowdoin, will shove off on Saturday for their first northern ob- jective, Etah, Greenjand. Manufacturer Chides Government DETROIT, June | 18.—Protests of | Charles T. Fisher, automobile body manufacturer, “Against the action of federal officers in firing upon his yacht on the Detroit river last week, may result in a government investiga. tion of the affair, { today, | ernment. | “Secretary Kellogg's action,” says | the statement of the All-American Anti- Imperialist League, “represents an im- | Mediate and serious menace, | “For the first time in the history of American imperialist policy toward | Mexico, the official head of the U. S. department of state has threatened the Mexican government point blank |that a revolution will be engineered against it unless it accedes to the) arrogant demands of the American | bankers.” | Secretary Kellogg told the Mexican | government! in so many words that | the United States cannot promise to| help against a possible internal re- | yolution in Mexico until the Mexican | | government shows unmistakable signs | (Continued on page 3) FAKE UNION ORGANIZED BY SHOE MANUFACTURERS SWALLOWING THE INDEPENDENTS AT LYNN, MASS. By TOM BELL Orily Worker) LYNN, Mass., June 18.—The swallowing up of the loce the Amal- gamated Shoe Workers’ Union by the Boot and Shoe Worke Union (the A. F. of L..“company union” which niasquerades as a real labor union) has the past week. yor of the Boot and Shoe by the shoe needle trades workers are determined | manufacturers, the chamber of commerce, and their newspapers, has had ————¢ the effect of swinging the workers to the Boot and Shoe. The absence of any militant leadership among the shoe workers has rendered them help- less before the campaign for bringing in the Boot and Shoe, and the destruc. tion of the locals of the independent union Last Thursday a committee repres- enting the cutters’, edgemakers’, heel- and packers’ locals of the Amal- gamated went to the orfices of the Boot and Shoe in Boston to enquire as to the terms of admission into that union. The Boot and Shoe wag re- presented by a fine selection of labor (Continued on Page 6) SOVIET MASSES DEMONSTRATE, SHOW LOYALTY By ALFRED KNUTSON, (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany. (By Mail),—t had the good fortune of witnessing a ist of May celebration in Russia. 1 Say good fortune for the reason that nowhere else in the world is it pos sible for the workers and farmers to let go off all restraints and give them- selves over to a full and complete ex- pression of working class feelings and aspirations. Here the workers and farmers rule and we find no capitalist policemen and capitalist politicians putting bar- riers in the way of bringing out clear- ly and boldly that freedom from op pression which has been surging in the breasts of the workers for centu- o March to Victory, For the first time in hundreds and thousands of years the workers and t was believed here jot good faith and, it is politely hinted, |farmes of one great country march (Continued on Page 6)