The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1925, Page 2

pak qs Page Two ies SS ers ST, LOUIS COPS ARREST PICKETS AT CURLEE SHOP, But One Comes Back Stronger Than Ever BULLETIN. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 19.—Eigh- ty four persons, most of them young girls, were arrested today when po- lice swooped down on striking em- ployes of the Curlee Clothing Manu- facturing Co. which has been In the grip of a walkout for more than a month, Union officlals denied rumors that a carload of strikebreakers was en- route here from Chicago. Charges of disturbing the peace were lodged against the arrested strikers. owe ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 19.—The slo- gan of the Curlee Clothirg So. strik- ers is “We are out to win.” If there was any doubt about the sincerity of the above slogan in the minds of the Curlee bosses and the few scabs in the plant, that doubt was removed Wednesday evening. When the few remaining scabs in the Curlee plant started to leave for home they faced a solid line of pickets at the entrances of the two Curlee shops. Dicks to the Rescue. Some of them became so frightened that they ran back into the plant. Fin- ally several auto loads of St. Louis dicks arrived to escort the scabs home. The pickets are not even permitted to talk to the scabs. Two women strikers who attempted to talk to some of tho scabs were immediately arrested and brutally handled by the police. Charges of “disturbing the Peace” were placed against both of the women, Mrs. Lena Bono and Mrs, Marte Penzing. Marie A: Fine Scrapper. In spite of the arrest Mrs. Marie Penzing returned to the picket line next morning and was again arrested. After being released on bail she ad- dressed the regular morning meeting of the strikers which is held every day at the Fraternal Building, Elev- enth and Franklin streets. * She told of her experience with the Police and urged the strikers to get out on the picket line. That is the on- ly way to win this strike, she declar- ed. She was received with tremen- dous applause by the other strikers. ee AID THE NOVA SCOTIA MINERS! é PROGRESSIVE COMMITTEE ISSUES CALL TO AMERICA’S WORKERS By ALEX REID (Secretary, Progressive Miners International Committee of the United Mine Workers of America.) The weapons of the capitalist state, the army and the courts, ever true to their class character, are again being turned on the coal miners, From Nova Scotia to West Virginia, from Pennsylvania to Oklahoma, the forces of cap- ital are law-book and bayonet, machine guns and mummeries of capitalist courts, attempting to crush the aspirations and further reduce the wages and working conditions of the slaves of the pick. The miners of Nova Scotia, driven to desperation in their struggle for mere existence by the British Empire Steel Corporation, have now to face the military arm of the state, while the day’s news tells us that 175 of these miners are arrested on the charge that they violated the capitalist law when they took food to feed their starving wives and chil- dren. Capitalist -Law In Actlon. Troops have been rushed into the coal towns to subdue these miners. Altho self-preservation is the first law of nature, the capitalist courts have issued warrants to imprison these miners who refuse to stand meek and passive while their wives and chil- dren starve and white-collared scabs are working to enforce upon them still greater privation. Peaceful picketing, found to be a failure, gave way to more effective methods, strengthened the battle line, but arousing the fury of the Beast of Besco and the Canadian capitalist class as a whole. The forces of the capitalist state are unleashed to de- stroy the miners’ union of Nova Scotia. Capitalism Enforces “Order.” The starving of women and chil- dren must go on. So argues the capi- talists with the voice of thousands of prostituted newspapers. To the capitalists there is no “violence,” no “disorder,” no “crime” in driving 12,- 000 miners into the pits at the end of bayonets. To the capitalists it is Jlaw and order” to compel 12,000 miners and their families who ask only their portion of the world’s wealth for their hard and perilous la- bor in the pits, to starve and go in rags. To capitalists it is no crime for gunmen to have shot down Will- fam Davies and wound to death Gil- bert Watson. What are our “labor leaders” doing in this crisis? Nothing of any conse- quence for these workers. Absolute- ly nothing. The orgy of. .violence, murder, martial law, starvation, lock- out and wage cuts are crimes of capi- talism. And these are Christ-like compared to the treason of the labor bureaucracy of the Lewis machine. LYNN SHOE WORKERS’ UNIONS, LACKING FIGHTING LEADERS, SURRENDERING TO FAKE UNION By TOM BELL . + (Special to The Daily Worker) LYNN, Mass., June 19.—A meeting of Stitchers’ Local of the Amal- Bamated Shoe Workers’ Union (independent) was held here at the Audi- torium Theater. About 900 members of the local attended. The meeting was held to hear the report of the committee which went to the officialdom of the Boot and Shoe Union at Boston to find out the terms of admission to the Boot and Shoe. The report was made by Mrs. Morgan, business agent of the local. She Tread the list of questions presented to. the Boot and Shoe officialdom and their answers. out that the Boot and Shoe made only one offer to the stitchers—uncondi- tonal surrender. Must Fight As Worker The officials of the stitchers urged the members not to surrender to the Boot and Shoe and recalled the strug- gles of the past against the Boot and Shoe which the bosses wished to force upon them. The appeals of the offi- cers were emotional, and at times hysterical. No plan of action was pres- ented to the membership to fight the Boot and Shoe and the bosses. The officials (all women) blamed the men in the other locals for desert- ing the struggle, which is trne but do¢s not leave room for a male and female struggle as the whole question fs on of fighting the Boot and Shoe and the bosses as workers. Militants Who jod in Time of Need The two most militant members of the committee (Harry Ross and Mary McGee) had a splendid opportunity to Present a definite program of action to the members, but did not take ad- vantage of it. Instead they adopted a hopeless attitude, and told the mem- bers present that they were unable to fight, and that the Boot and Shoe was the proper medicine for them. Naturally, when ‘the militants thus abdicated all semblance of leadership in the struggle there was nothing else to do but take the question of joining the Boot and Shoe to a referendum vote. Fighting Leadership Not There The hysterical opposition of the stitchers’ officials to the Boot and Shoe, and the absence of any program or leadership on the part of the milit- ants in the local will not prevent the members voting for the Boot and Shoe. The workers have been deluged for months with Boot and Shoe pro- Paganda in the local yellow press. _All the ills afflictiig the worke: have beon blamed on the Am mated. They were promised steady work if they joined the Boot and Shoe, id the so-called militants kept on re- eating: “What's the use? The Boot and Shoe is coming in anyway so wo may as well accept it and be forced into it.” . Wage Cuts On fhe Way Therefore it will be surprising if the atitchers do not yote for the Boot and Shoe. With the collapse of the stitch- These clearly pointed #+———— ers the Boot and Shoe will have a complete victory, and the bosses will be able to put the wage reductions into effect knowing that the workers are tied hand and foot by Baine and his gang of labor fakers. The Boot and Shoe is a weapon in the hands of the shoe manufacturers of Lynn to force wage cuts on the workers. The trimph of the Boot and Shoe in Lynn will be a victory for the bosses. The chamber of commerce and the newspapers have won their campaign tor the Boot and Shoe. The militants among the shoe workers gave up the struggle, and actually advocated the entry of the workers into the Boot and Shoe. Abandoning T. U. E. L. Ie Leaving The Fight They abandoned the practical pro- gram of the Trade Union Educational League calling for the amalgamation of the independent shoe unions as the first step toward amalgamation with the Boot and Shoe on condition that the Boot and Shoe become a real la- ‘bor unjon fighting the battles of the workers, instead of a company union used by the bosses to enforce wage cuts. a (Continued from page 1) board representatives is expected mo- mentarily. Fakers Hire Private Dicks Thruout the day members of Locals 2 and 9 stood outside their respective headquarters hotly discussing the charges of “Communism” brought against their officers by Feinber. They were admitted to the offices of No. 9, at Lexington Ave. and 25th St., but about 6 o'clock, when the in- creasing crowd of members made the official scared, their hired private de- tectives, assisted by patrolmen, clear- ed the rooms. Several persons were knocked down but no arrests were made. Officials Call For Police Reserves The intense feeling among members of the suspended locals reached its height last night, when officials of the joint board committee descended upon the headqtarters of Local No, 2 in ri: capitalist + Accusers Are Also the Judges : Lexington Ave,, DEATH LIST IN WRECK ON LACKAWANNA MOUNTS AS 45TH VICTIM DIES HACKETTSTOWN, N. J., June 19. —The death list-in the Lackawanna rallroad wreck at Rockport near here Tuesday, grew to forty-five to- day with the death In Dover. hospi- tal of John Krincekitz, 69, of 736 Edison street, Chicago. SIREN RECIENTE A Quick and Certain Remedy. If the labor fakers had one atom of manhood or loyalty to the interests of the miners and the working class as & whole, they would call a strike {n this country from coast to coast that would once and for all put an end to the arrogant persecution of labor and the reign of terror against the miners of North America, We have a right to expect some- things besides treason from our labor leaders. We have paid them well. No labor leaders in the world are etter paid than those of America. Yet no labor leaders have betrayed the interests of the workers more than they. They completely desert the class struggle for class collabora- tion. As generals of labor’s mighty army, they surrender without a strug- gle. They even attack the courage- ous progressiveness among the rank and file troops of labor's army for urging fight without their permission and for pointing out their treachery. An Appeal to the Working Class, ‘ The Progressive Miners’ Interna- ‘tional Committee, leader of the rank and file struggle among the coal min- ers, calls upon all workers to rally ‘to the call for aid trom our starving and persecuted brothers and their families of District 26, the Nova Scotia miners. Between 12,000 min- ers of District 26, with their hungry and ragged wives and children about them, and the victory which will bring food and clothing, stands the lines of bayonets of the capitalist state. Capi- talist law reaches out and seizes their leaders, 175 of them, dragging them away from wife and children to the living death of prison. Workers! Arise to their need! Give until it hurts. Give to the min- ers of District 26, the fighting miners of Nova Scotia! Give that they may be able to fight on and triumph over our enemies! Send all donations direct to the District 26 office. Address all funds to Alex A. McKay, Secretary-Treasur- er, District 26, United Mine Workers of America, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada. Mrs. Morgan Gets Fresh Blood. GLEN COVE, N. Y., June 19—A second blood transfusion has been performed on Mrs. J. Pierpont Mo» gan, wife of the financier, it was learned today. CHINESE IN BELGIUM ASSERT SOLIDARITY WITH CHINA STRIKE (Speclal to The Dally Worker) CHARLEROI, Belgium, June 19.— An association representing Chin- ese students here Issued a mani- festo today assuring the Belgian Public that the present uprisings in China were in no wise almed against all foreigners, The movement, Is was stated, was only nst “the Anglo-Saxons and the Japanese, because they im- pose iInacceptable and inhuman working conditions on the Chinese workmen.” between 26th and 26th streets, to confiscate books and other property, Some 300 members of the union were loitering on the street in front of their head quarters and they resented the approach of the officials. The latter were attacked as they emerged from the local headquarters with the books, and reserves from the East 22nd St. station were called out. The arrival of the officers and of de- tectives McFarlane, Cronin, Jorn, Smith and Barry called forth another of the milling 300, and they challenged outburst of resentment on the part the police to arrest them, Have Eight Members Pinched Hight arrests were made, all mem- bers of the outlawed Local No, 2, and when they were arraigned in Yorkville court this morning they were released on $500 bail each for examination next week on the charge of disorderly con- duct. THE DAILY WORKER | DUNLAP POLICE BILL FINALLY ~ DIES IN HOUSE Deny Firemen’s Widows Higher Pensions SPRINGFINLD, Ill, June 19.—By a vote of 80 to 48 the Illinois house has killed the Dunlap state police bill, which would have provided a force of cossacks available to break strikes. The Barr bill, a similar bill spon- sored by Governor Small, has not been finally disposed of, A bill to increase the monthly pen- sion payments to firemen’s widows from $45 to $50 was defeated by the senate by a vote of 21 to 14. Governor Small’s Thon bill, which takes the power over circuit and superior court judges of Cook coun- ty from the Cook county democrats and the Barrett-Crowe republican or- ganization by providing for nomina- tion of these judges by direct popular vote, was passed by the senate. It had already been passed in the house. Gov. Small himself; rounded up the votes to push thru his measure, * #'e@ Small’c Choice Defeated. The senate refused to confirm Gov. Small’s appointment of William H. Malone of Cook County, as a mem- ber of the tax commissioin. The vote was 24 to 12. LA FOLLETTE 10 BE BURIED AT MADISON MONDAY MADISON, Wis., June 19.—Funeral services for Senator Robert M. La Follette, of Wisconsin, who died in Washington of heart disease, will he held here Mond: Chicago Schools to Be Made Model Sweat Shop This afternoon superintendent of schools William McAndrew and John B. Byrnes, business‘manager, togeth- er with other school bosses held a conference to dis@uss” recommenda- tion by the schopl bows accountants for revising the governing teach- ers absences, *f Maybe They) WII! Set Time Clacks. The new rules include the keeping of a chee! up systejn in the schools which ‘will give the superintendent's office a record of individual daily at- tendance. Rules will also be formu- lated governing the absence of teach- ers which will take effect with the beginning of the fall term, Sept 8. Charge Aldermen With Bribery. Charges have been made in the city council that some of the members of the council buildings committee, which has just recommended that the ban on hollow tile for building be maintained, have been retained by the tile and brick interests to represent them. Bus Drivers Strike In Paris. “PARIS, France, June 19—The Paris bus drivers are striking for better wages and better working conditions by running their busses at the rate of three miles an hour. Traffic is frightfully congested. Don’t you be a campaign shirker— get subscriptions for the DAILY WORKER! [ Mellon Interests Lead in Open Shop War on the Coal Miners’ Union ide By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. * EN To new facts bring to light the information that “Andy” Mellon, the multi-millionaire banker of Pitts- burgh, secretary of the treasury in Cal Coolidge’s cabinet, is at the head of the drive to wipe out the Jacksonville wage agreement between the mine workers and the mine owners. This again shows that the “open shop” interests are established in the very heart of the government at Wash- ington. Cooldige had his way of breaking the strike of the policemen in Boston. Mellon has his way of beating down the miners’ wage scale. The Mellon interests dominate the Pittsburgh Coal Com- pany, capitalized at $78,000,000, and the dominatin in the soft coal fields of western Pennsylvania, power This coal corporation, like others in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and other unionized states insist that they cannot make satisfactory profits under the Jacksonville agreement. It has opened war on the miners’ union by closing down its 54 mines in the Pittsburgh territory, from which its workers brought forth 8,300,000 tons of coal last year. * * Now these mines are closed. Sixteen have been stripped of equipment and the mines allowed to fill. These abandoned ees are in Cannonsburg, Fayette City, Bridgeville, Mononga- ela City, Finleyville, Webster, Bishop, Westland, Imperial, Shaner, Belle Vernon, West Elizabeth and Buena Vista. In their war on the miner’s union, the coal barons proceed to lay waste this territory, forcing the workers to seek jobs in distant steel mills and in building smooth roads for the rich to travel with their high-priced automobiles. That the whole community is dependent on the work- ers is shown by the fact that even Chambers of Commerce, the organization of little business in the coal camps, protest to the great coal barons. But the profit hunt of great cap- ital doesn’t take into consideration even the agonies of the little capitalist. Merchants go into bankruptcy, banks close their doors, and the general business stagnation forces new middle class elements into the ranks of the proletariat. In fact, these petty bourgeois are much worse off than the workers, since they cannot easily adjust themselves to the new conditions, and find a work place in industry. * . ° . The propaganda of the coal barons all harps continual- ly on the fact that the mine owners are losing cg 6 Yet these Mellon interests, dominating the Pittsburgh Coal C om- pany, admit earning $500,000 on a railroad subsidiary, tell of profits taken out of the non-union fields in Kentucky, and of huge winnings on 3,000,000 tons of coal bought from non- union mines in West Virginia and sold in the Great Lakes territory. It is in this West Virginia field that the whole force of the capitalist dictatorship, from hired gunmen to bought judges, is being used to crush every effort of the miners to build their union. e * In closing the mines, theirs under the capitalist system of private ownership, the coal barons use one of the declara- tions made by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers’ Union, published in the April 1st issue of the Mine Workers’ Journal, declaring that, “coal operators should sell their coal at a profit or they should not sell it at all.” Lewis believes in capitalism—the profit system. He is helping the mine owners maintain it. The mine owners, of course, go where they can make the most profits, using the non-union fields, where Lewis has failed to establish the min- ers’ union, against the organized fields. . *. capitalist system. They are may think that West miners again, on a battle fiel And they will lose, CANADIAN GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO IMPRISON 175 STRIKING MINERS SYDNEY, Nova Scotla, June 19.—Warrdnts were issued yesterday for the arrest of 175 striking miners of District 26, United Mine Workers of America, on charges of “rioting and looting’ In connection with the recent clashes at Sydney, New Waterford and other mining towns between the private army of the British Empire Steel Corporation and the miners who were striking: against a wage cut and were denied credit at company stores. One arres ‘was made at once, others are being sought. . eo « Miners’ Journal Ignores Fight While one of the ‘greatest labor struggles ever staged in North Amer- ica is being fought to a bloody con- clusion in the mine flelds of Nova Scotia, under the jurisdiction of Dist. 26 of the United Mine Workers of America, the current issue of the United Mine Workers Journal, issued under the supervision of John L. Lewis, international president of the miners’ union, has not even one word on the strike of the miners of Nova Scotia against the brutal oppression of bloody Besco, On the front page of this yellow journal, which is edited by the stool- Pigeon Ellis Searles, a flunkey who bears a striking resemblance to the British duke sketched by George Mc- Manus in his comic strip: “Bringing up Father” there is a cartoon, depict- ing the non-union operator as a fox inviting the union coal miner in the guise of a rooster to*come down off @ board fence, while imthe rear of the fox and rushing towards his is a bull dog labelled public opinion, It is very clear that the officialdom of the miners’ union, have turned their backs o nthe strike weapon,and now place their reliance on “public opinion.” Lewle Is J While the guns of pire Bteel company British Hm- ee the miners in Glace Bay, Lewis's per- sonal organ, devotes much space to the swell-headed egotist’s speeches and to those of his flunkeys, Kennedy and Murray. Lewis is reported as say- ing to the Hockling Valley miners in Ohio, that he will not accept a wage reduction under any conditions, But the miners are accepting wage reduc- tions and the operators are breaking the Jacksonville pact at will and Lewis is not doing a thing about:it. The operators are opening scab mines in the south and they have prac- tieally succeeded in making the whole state of West Virginia open shop. Lewis may gloat over the notorius Don Chaflin of Logan county going to jail on a bootlegging charge but the operators don’t need Don Chaffin any more, The union is wrecked by the Lewis tactics and the miners are at the mercy of the bosses, Lewis tells the miners that if they want a reduction in wages they must call @ special convention and elect a new president. The faker knows that if a special convention was allowed the miners would elect a new presi: dent. That is why he has planned to postpone the next convention until 1927. The miners want to séttle with Lewis In their fight for an existence the coal miners will dually come to the conclusion that they must not always provide profits for their exploiters; that this will end with the vanced another notch in revolutionar: sciousness. Then they will be compelied to stand and fight. * gra- finding greater and greater unity among the rank and file in the struggle against both the mine owners and their henchmen within the miners’ union, the reactionary officialdom. Taking the profits out of coal is but gle for the overthrow of the whole capitalist system. Sec- retary of the Myrneng | Mellon, and his Pittsburgh Coal Co., irginia and Kentucky offer from the union fields of Western Pennsylvania. Mellon interests” will meet u part of the strug- an escape But “the with the Pennsylvania coal where the workers have ad- working class con- —_ No Encouragement For Strikers Lewis's personal organ has not one word of encouragement for the miners of Nova Scotia, but it carries an edi- torial denouncing those who violate the law and insinuating that those miners are responsible for injunctions secured by the operators against the miners, ‘i The Miners’ Journal devotes several columns to advising the operators how to run their mines, It boxes the sug- gestion in bold type: “Coal companies should sell their coal at a profit or they should not sell it at all.” It car- ries an attack on A. J. Cook of the British Miners’ Federation and fea- tures a long article by Frank Hodges, ex civil lord of the admiralty in the Ramsay MacDonald government. Operators Expect Trouble, Prominent members of the National Coal Association, meeting at the Edge- water Beach Hotel, expect a crisis in the coal industry next fall, when cer- tain contracts expire, Non-union mines are producing at full capacity im Ken- tucky and West Virginia, while the union mines in Western Pa. Illinois and Ohio shut down, A big merger of 19 coal companies in Kansas involving a capital of over $10,000,000 was announced. Operators claimed they would be better able to resist the union when the small fel- lows are eliminated and the business concentrated into fewer hands. Thirty Mexicans Executed, MEXICO CITY, June 19—Thirty for- lowers of Adolfo de la Huerta have been executed within the last fort- night in the state of Vera Cruz, a re- port to the war department from Gen. Juan Andrew Almazan, _ BED WHEK—June 15 to 21. TELL MILWAUKEE | Unite Against World Im- perialism, Red Says +, (Special to The Daily Worker) ~ MILWAUKEBD, Wis. June 19.—At the last meeting of the Milwaukee Central Labor Council delegate Gust- ave Sklar, member of the Workers (Communist) Party made a speech protesting against the use of Amer- ican troops against the workers of China, Comrade Sklar declared that: the students and workers of China! have awakened and are fighting world imperialism, He pointed ont the necessity of the American workers understanding the fight of the Chinese against foretgn imperialism, and the need of solidar. ity of the American workers with the Chinese workers. Comrade Sklar urged the organized workers of America to support the struggle of the Chinese masses to throw off the yoke of foreign capital- ism which has been endeavoring te exploit them. The executive board reported “pro- gress” in investigating the resolution for world trade union unity. They have come to no conclusion so far, it was reported. Some of the delegates declared that the socialists who do- minate the council will ask the na- tional officials of the American Feder- ation of Labor what stand to take on this vital question, ‘The rest of the meeting was devoted to routine matters. ai HOW ABOUT You? “You going?” “Going wheret” : { “Why, to the hike!” 7'' i “What hike?” “The hike that Branch No. 4 of the Young Workers’ League of Chicago is holding this Sunday in Milwaukee woods.” “When you going?” “Well, I don’t know. I might leave with the. bunch at nine o'clock from 8118 W. Roosevelt Road, or again, I might meet the whole gang at the end of the Milwaukee car line at ten o'clock sharp.” “Anything special?” “Why, I should say! Races, leapfrog, pie eating contest. Eats! And a million and one other things galore. And damn it, fellow, it won't cost a cent. Not a copper penny to go to one of the best.times ever held. What Say?” “You Bet!” 5 Unemployment in bee. Great Britain Is : * . Nearing Big Crisis (Continued from page 1.) this week than last. This increase is unprecedented and brings about a condition approaching crisis. The left wing of the labor party and the Communists are demanding that the labor party take advantage of this situation. But the right wingers led by MacDonald and Snowden are averse to fighting with the capitalists, They prefer to work with them to any extent compatible with the careers. Mrs, Ethel Snowden, socialist wife of Philip, is busily engaged advising housewives to patronize imperial- products and thus help to solidify the empire, Lots of it. Pa a ‘ } Squandering Riches, Even the capitalist press is forced to display stories of suffering. thru unemployment, but side by side with these stories appear accounts of fetes and festivities of the British ruling class, led by the royal family. The Daily Herald says: “While the offi- cial unemployment figures calmly published by the government reveal increasing and unparalleled suffering, society is playing by the thousands at ’ Ascot and flaunting its unearned wealth.” Perhaps the conservative editor of the Herald would feel bet- ter if society spent its wealth in secret, but it makes little difference to the workers whether the band! that rob them spend it in the cel! or on the house tops, LARGE PROPORTION OF PRISONERS PARDONED IN THE SOVIET UNION (Special to The Daily Worker) Moscow, (By Mail).—In 1924 the Presidium of the All-Russian Cen- tral Executive Committee investigat- ed 39,635 private petitions for re- prieve n connection with 28,373 criminal cases (all minor offences). 44.7 per cent of the petitions for re- prieve were acceded to. 15.8 per cent of the petitions were acceded to at the recommendation of public organizations and institutions, and of the private petitions 28,9 per cent were acceded to, } According to the social position of the pardoned people, reprieve was granted as follows: worxers— 59.1 per cent; peasants 46.6 per cent. Red Army men 52.6 percent; Red officers 32.9 per cent; employes. 56.6 per cent, private business peo ple 12.3 per cent; others 17.8 Por _ Sent of all petitions for reprieve, LABOR CHINA'S. BATTLE WORTHY - | - ere