The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1925, Page 1

\ | Phang liberation movement showed up today in the vote of the A! ¢] \ Ramsay MacDonfld. _ Lang ¥ (Continued on’ page 3) THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD ie FOR A WORKI > SY FARMERS’ GOV: ..° 84, e FERN cei 80 ol. Il. No. 88RY yo, *d8o “hk: CHINESE DEMAND THaY THEIR GOVERNMENT WAR ON BRITAIN THE in Chicago, by mail, Outside Chicago, by Bintered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. s SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1925 $8.00 per year. mail, $6.0C per year. RETAIL FOOD COSTS SHOW NEW INCREASE FOR MAY IN 35 CITIES WASHINGTON, June 19.—The retail cost of food continues to advance, rising one-half of one per cent in May as compared With April, whilé for the year period ending May 15, the increase in all arti¢les of food combined was 7.5 per cent, the department of labor announced today: For the 12-year period the increase amounted to 57 per cent, AS GREAT STRIKE APPROACHES (Special to The SHANGHAI, China, June 19.—The general strike which was bi take place Monday last but was postponed until the 25th of une is being endorsed by workers’ and students’ organizations All activities on that day, governmental, commer- Pverywhere. Dally Worker) The average family expenditure for food increased in 35 cities during May as follows: Salt Lake City, 8 per cent; Baltimore, Cleveland Denver, Phila- delphia, and Portland, Ore., 2 per cent; Boston, Butte, Cincinnati, De- troit, Fall River, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Louisville, Manchester, Min- | New Belgian Cabinet. BRUSSELS, June 19.—After being without a cabinet for ten weeks, Bel- gium at last hag a duly constituted ministry, headed by Viscount Poullet. The general gouncil of the socialist | party has voted approval of this cab- inet. cial, industrial and education will be stopped from 6 a. m. until hoon; amusements of all kinds suspended, flags flown from half- mast and demonstrations to take place in every Chinese city. The signs-of bourgeois divergence from the aims of the anghai Chinese Chamber of Commerce to re-open the shops nd banks in the foreign settlement. on Saturday or Monday. eT Distribute a bundle everyday during Week? neapolis, Newark, Omaha, Pittsburgh, St. Paul, San\ Francisca, Seattle, and Washington, 1 per cent, The chief labor union, representing 200,000 workers, an- ‘nounced at once that the gen- ph AS WE SEE IT. By T. J. O"FLAHERTY i heap second international is having as hard a job to hold its secretar- oa as the socialist party of America is having to revive. Tom Shaw, sec- retary of the socialist international as resigned, as did Frederich Adler, ently, Shaw took up his old posi- ion as secretary of the international le workers. This is a better pay- Ing proposition undoubtedly. Since the British trade union movement de- ded to join the Russian unions, in & move for world labor unity, feeling bor the second international has grown |- fecidedly cold in Britain. This phanged attitude was undoubtedly re- Mected in a financial way, a fact which ontributed to Shaw’s decision to re- rm to his former labors, ee TOOLPIGHON SPOLANSKY is at it again peddling lies to the news- 4n yeturn for cash. His latest entire in the. field of prevarication ‘an alleged exposure of the espion- system of the Workers Party. The , Mr. Spolansky got his informa- in the following manner, which hows that “Jake” is not nearly as ‘ool as the wealthy newspaper Breve who is paying god money what he could gather at the, ex- ‘of & yeatly subscription”to thé International Press Correspondence. see International Press Correspond- ence publishes news of the activi- yties of Communist Parties in th vari- us countries, articles by prominent mmunists and information concern- the doings of the Communist In- tional. At the Enlarged Execu- of the C. I. held recently in Mos- among the reports made, was one the director of the information de- mnt. This report was published the I. N. P., a copy of which came jto Spolansky, probably by means of a subscription. Out of this report the 'ex-federal fink wroté an “exposure” of ‘Communist espionage and sold it to the Chicago Daily News. see ‘B next turned his attention~ to China and shows that the Com- ‘\ munists are responsible for every- thing that has happened there, in- cluding, we presume, the sixteen-hour day that the slaves of the Japanese textile mills were supposed to work. Perhaps Victor Lawson who pays for Spolansky’s bunk is not such a fool &fter all. He knows his readers and evidently they find the mental food served up to them, palatable and di- gestible. A country that can produce ® William Jennings Bryan and a Cal- vin Coolidge can stomach most any- eas fs RS are very much the same all the world over. There is a spect- men in New South Wales, Australia, ‘by the name of Lang, who appears to _ be a decided improvement of James is the ARMENIAN BRANCH ~ PIGNIC POSTPONED UNTIL JULY 19TH The Armenian Branch picnic which ‘was to be held this Sunday has been postponed. It will be held July 19th at Reese Park, 6400 W. Grand Ave. eral strike would-continue re- gardless of the action of the shopkeepers. _* * Demand War On Britain. PEKING, June 19.—With anti-Brit- ish feeling apparently reaching ‘new heights,- responsible organizations were today going so far as to urge the Chinese government to sever rela- tions with Great Britain and prepare to fight. - Driving Imperialist Out. CHUNG KING,. China, June 19.—~ The situation here has reached a point of grave danger for foreign rest- dents. All foreigners are preparing to take refuge on foreign war craft. The British consulate has been evacuated. Foreigners have been ston- ed by mobs and anti-imperialist feel- ing is at its height. KUO MIN TANG OPENS PUBLICITY OFFICES IN BERLIN, GERMANY BERLIN, June 19.—The Kuomin- tang, or Chinese people’s party, has established a publicity bureau hi for the announced purpose of coun- teracting American and English ¢ is in China, which the bureau's representatives assert — ~misiead the German-people: ~~ At the first press conference yes- terday it was said at the bureau © that the purpose of the present up- risings in China was to take “the first decisive step on the road to- ward the liberation of China from the bonds of English, Japanese and American domination.” Berlin’s sole Chinese restaurant has been drawn into the Far East- ern controversy. Chi here, who constitute the rant’s principal customers, insisted that Japanese be barred. The pro- prietor yielded, Trainmen, and Also Conductors, to Ask Wage Raise in Nov. CLEVELAND, O., June 19. — Chair- men’s associations of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors will hold point divisional meetings’ in November to consider the proposition of seeking a wage increase from approximately two hundred railroads, W. G. Lee, president of the trainmen, announced yesterday. The amount of the increase to be asked was not announced but Lee said the wage reduction to railroad men in 1921 amounted to about 12 per cent, approximately 64 cents a day, that an increase last year amounted to approx- imately 5 per cent and that the re- quest for an increase would probably at least be enough to make up the 1921 reduction. 4 Scopes’ Trial Opens July 10th. ATLANTA, Ga., June 19—William Jennings Bryan went into conference here today with the men who will as- sist him next month in the prosecu- tion of John Thomas Scopes, Dayton, Tenn., high school teacher chi with violation of the Tennes evolution law. “The penalty for violation of the Tennessee anti-evolution law is a fine of from $100 to $500, and we will de- and the full penalty,” Bryan de- clared, The scopes trial opens on July 10. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FAKE AND REAL PROGRESSIVES IN LOCAL 39, EXPOSED BY A.C. W. MEMBER ‘TO THE DAILY WORKER: Reading in the DAILY WORKER of June 18 the Trade Union Educa- League statement dealing with the Schneid group in Local 39 of the |, W., has moved me to write this article, \ I agree with everything that the short statement says, but for the sake of ¢larity, it requires some explanation in addition to that contained in the statement. Many honest progressive members of Local 39, and other locals, look Upen Schneid as a leader of the left wing..And when they listen to Schneid (Continued ‘on Page 4) Published PUBLISH] “MAKE NO AGREEMENTS WITH PRESENT JOINT BOARD” EMPLOYERS TOLD NEW YORK, June 19.—Louis Hy- man, suspended manager of Local Union No. 9 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, today served notice on the employ- ers and upon the governor’s commis- sion that “Any agreements signed with the joint board as it is at pres- ent constituted will be nothing but a scrap of paper.” = GARY, Ind, June 19.—One was dead and three seriously injured today ag a result of an automobile accident here late yesterday. Rank and File Committees Guarding the Office of Local 22, at 16 West 21st Street, New York, to prevent seizure of office by the Sigman gang. These committees are on guard night and day and have already repulsed two attacks PAINLEVE USES IES 10 HOUND COMMUNISTS To Be Punished for Defending Workers PARIS, France, June 19.—Premler Painleve has held a conference with M. Chiapp, director of ti French secret service, and ordered him to use the entire governmental spy system against the Communists. The order came directly after Painieve had told the cabinet that “the Communists are ding moral aid to Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Riffians”, and secured the cabinet’s approval of the drive against the Communists. The Communist deputies in parlia- ment vigorously denounced their ex- clusion from the joint meetings of the military, naval, foreign affairs, and financial committees of the chamber. at which Painleve gave details of his Moroccan trip. The Communists had refused to keep secret the truth of the situation in Morocco, and Painleve, fearing the effect on the French workers if the truth were known, had the Commun- ists forcibly excluded from the com- mittee. The Communists declare that French workers are being sent off to be slaughtered in @ foreign land, in an invasion of the Riffians native soil. They demand that the extent of the heavy casualties and the severe French defeat be made public, that the invasion cease, and that the Moroc- cans be left in peace to rule their own country, The Communists charge that the Maroccan invasion is an attempt of the French imperialists to exploit the natural resources and the labor power of the Moroccans, and to build up a reservoir of colonial troom to fight in the French army. The Franco-Spanish have agreed ona limited ‘al .co- operation, Painleve told the chamber, ‘The French warships are allowed to patrol the Moroccan coast in Spanish Capitalist « of the gangsters. CANTON QUIET BUT UNPLEASANT FOR ALL FOREIGN IMPERIALISM CANTON, China, June 19.—Con- sul General Jenkins yesterday re- ported to Washington that “order” is restored but not the kind of order he exactly approves of. He adds: “The situation at Canton seems to be dominated by the Whampoa mi- litary school cadets, to whom the complete destruction of the Yuanan army is due. “It appears that Ng Bong Ping and other conservatively inclined Cantonese leaders will have a share in the new government.” Consul General Jenkins is contin- uing his policy of urging Americans, especially women and children, to leave for Hong Kong and other safe places, waters, and the Spanish ships are al lowed to enter French waters. That is the sole result of the extended nego- tlations thus far. ** Communists Oppose Slaughter PARIS, France, June 19.—Another vote of confidence was accorded the Painleve cabinet on the implied ques- tion of the Moroccan invasion. The vote was 525 to 32. The Communists and three other deputies opposed the imperialistic policy of the French gov- ernment. The socialists again supported the invasion incited by the French cap- italists. School Board Moves Closer to Its Boss LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 19.—Al- tho it was always known that the Board of Education was controled by reactionary politicians and business- men and tho they have always indig- nantly denied that they were the tools of the ruling ¢lass, they now let the cat out of the tag by moving into the headquarters of Business, the building of the Chambar of Commerce. The Board of Education can now easily be reached by their employers, In this we have another example of American eMotency, UNEMPLOYMENT IN ENGLAND IS Over One Million Are Now Without Jobs LONDON, June 19.—The unemploy- ment figures for Britain are mount- ing, while high society is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on the race tracks and flaunting its wealth in the faces of the ever in- creasing hungry multitudes of work- ers who cannot find a job in the land which Lloyd George boasted was a “country fit for heroes to live in.” But in this land of heroes there are now over 1,290,000 jobless men and the number is on the increase. A few weeks ago George Lansbury wrote! that medals awarded to those heroes for gallantry on the battlefteld in de- fense of the empire’s business can now be secured in pawnshops for the unheroic sum of twelye cents. The heroes haven't got the price of a doughnut. There are 263,000 more unemployed June 1924. The workers who voted the tories into office with the hope that big business could find jobs for them and bring them prosperity are now nursing hungry stomachs and scratching foolish heads. There are 43,000 more unemployed (Continued on page 2) RAILROAD WORKERS’ STRIKE TIES UP EAST CUBAN TRAINS HAVANA, Cuba, June 19—Alt railtraffic to the eastern provinces has been tied up by the strike of the employes of the Consolidated Railway company. The railroad workers: have been struggling for better conditions for L the past four months, s CENTS including Saturday "Magazine Section. On all other days, Thregs Cente per Copy. Price 5 Cents Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKUR NG CO.,.1118 W. Washington’ Blvd., Chicago, IL | LG. W. MEMBERS BATTLE THE SLUGGERS AND POLICE CALLED NEW YORK CITY, June 1 officers, Kraviz and Reisner of BY OFFICIALS; TRIAL POSTPONED (Special to The Daily Worker) 9.—Trial of the seventy-seven local executives of the three suspended locals of the I. L. G. W. are postponed until Tuesday, following the appearance of two Local 2, together with legal re- presentatives of the local before the so-called “trial committee.” The Joint Committee of Action of the three locals issued an appeal today to all the locals in the International asking for sup- port and stating the issues involved. The May 1st meetings were like all others, and Sigman was invited as well as Scott Nearing. The charge that Local 22 endorsed a loan made by the Amal- gamated bank to a workers’ co-operative enterprise is ridiculed NEARING CRISIS at the present time than at the end of| as an excuse. The appeal states the reasons behind these faked charges. The committee of action gives, among other issues, the professionat “organization committees.” The ab- sence of $500,000 which the joint board does not account for, but chiefly the cheating out of representation ot the 30,000 members of tne three large locals who have only firteen delegates on the joint board. These three local» embrace 60 per cent of the member- ship, but the other 40 per cent or small locals have 55 delegates on the joint board. This is arranged only to insure the Sigman machine the con- Accusers Are Also the Judges ra trol. The committee of action de- mands an end of this discrimination. The membership of Locals 2 and 9, are refusing to recognize agents of joint board sent to shops. These agents are being thrown out of the shops by angry workers and griev- ance handled thru shop chairmen an@ shop committees. The yellow socialist “Daily For- | ward” today carries a front page ar- | ticle hysterically denouncing the Com- munist and, none the less, asserting that “everything is normal and every- | body happy since the left wing is l expelled.” (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 19.—There seems little chance for a “fair and impartial” trial of th bers of the executive boards of “Not a Chance,’ “They have found us guilty have not taken legal proceed- ings because we are resting our case with the rank and file of the workers. The vast majority of them disapprove of the pro- ceedings of Joint Board.” Evidently the members who were “invited in” were invited out again | when Feinberg-Sigman and company | were told by swarms of workers who crowded in to the agency just what |the union membership thinks of the yellow socialist crew. Sigman, when interviewed by cap- italist reporters, gushed patriotism jand anti-Communism like a geyser. | He had nothing to say, however, in | answer to the charge of union corrup- tion (known in New York as “Brindel- lism”) and autocracy made by the sus- pended local executives. “It would be,” spaketh the wise Sigman, “a waste of time and effort to answer such ‘char- ges.” Sigman Attacks T. U. E. L. Then he launched into long details, wasting much time and effort, inci- dentally, concerning the “Moscow agents” of the Neddle Trades Section of the Trade Union Educational League. This he declared was “wholly alien to the organization and in turn directed by the Communist Interna- tional in Moscow.” The joint board and the internation- al, he concluded, are “firmly rooted in American soil.” Thus he “wasted no time and effort” to explain what be- came of the $500,000 the joint board got its fingers on without an account- ing. Trials Postponed The trials, however, were postponed when only two members of the seven- ty-seven appeared, The trial was to be held at the Hotel Cadillac in. West. 53rd street. David Kratz and Bernard Raisner, of- ficlals of Local No. 2, appeared, bring- ing with them Attorneys Louis B. Bou- din and Leo J. Rosett, whom they an- nounced would serve as counsel. Man- ager Feinberg refused to permit the entrance of the lawyers, however, say- ing they were not members of the union in good standing. Kratz and Reisner objected, having their own stenographers note the ob- Jections when Feinberg refused to al- low the discussion to go into the re- cords of the trial. The accused men were then allowed five days in which to procure counsel who are members of the union, and the trial was post- poned until next Tuesday> In the meantime, the strong guard was continued both inside and outside the offices of Local No, 22 at No. 16 West 21st street, where a raid by joint ., (Continued on page 2) ~..., national Ladies’ Garment Workers. The’ c judges, and the yellow socialist administration of the Interna- tional and ‘the Joint Board, are determined to give the alleged “Communists” only the merest formality of a trial. e seventy-seven suspended mem- Locals 2, 9 and 22 of the Inter- Their accusers are also their * Says Goldstein. in advance of a set of ridiculous charges and I don’t know whether we want to go thru the for- mality of having a trial after the*verdict of guilty has been pro- nounced,” said Abe Goldstein, president of Local 9. . * “They forcibly broke in and seized our books and papers at 67 Lexington Avenue, and today they.set up an agency there for colleeting dues and tried to operate the ufion. members of the union to come-in, but after they had been there for a few hours they called in the police to turn them out. We They invited the + TEAPOT DOME | STEAL LEGAL, JUDGE RULES Sinclair, Fall and Co. Stainless (Special to The Dally Worker) CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 19—The government today lost jts euit to de clare invalid the Teapot Dome naval oll reserve lease granted to Harry F. Sinclair by former Secretary of the Interior A. D. Fall. This means a victory for the Cool- idge administration and a defeat for the progressives who were responsible for instituting the famous Teapot Dome investigation which shook the republican machine to its base. Judge Kennedy gave Fall and §in- clair a clean bill of health. It is fe nificant that Rear Admiral Robinson the naval officer who transferred the oil reserves from the navy department to the interior was only a few days ago elevated to the position of high commanding officer of the United State fleet. This would indicate that Secretary of the Navy Wilbur had knowledge that the decision of Judge Kennedy would be favorable to Sin- clair, Discussing the passage of $230,000 in Mberty bonds from Sinclair to Fall thru the Continental Trading company of Canada, the court said no connec: tion between Sinclair and Fall had been established in this regard. IRON WORKERS STRIKE DELAWARE BRIDGE JOB FOR WAGE INCREASE By R. BAKER (Special to The Dally Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 19.— Four hundred structural iron work- ers are on strike at the big con. struction Job of the Delaware River bridge, for a wage raise of from $1.10 to $1.25 an hour. This is a non-union job. Altogether there are 500 men working there, The carpenters, stone masons, la borers, and engineers are still work- ing, altho the strike of the iron workers practically tles up the J cha 4 ny ‘i