The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 24, 1925, Page 1

4j ¥ ex r Dally Worker 3 2. S Box Pp BAF cription D vey {39 ( in Fy WA a=) Py GET hag a » RR ae Vol. Il. No. 139. SiBSu RATES: MANCHURIAN WAR LORD, ALLY OF JAPAN, THREATENS ATTACK ON MILITANT LABOR IN SHANGHAI (Special to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, China, June 22.—Indications of the reactionary character of the movement of troops by General Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian war lord, into Shanghai, were made plain today when manifestoes were posted thruout the Chinese city announc- ing that the Manchurian troops would execute strike leaders and all who agitated for the expulsion of foreign imperialism and the liberation of China from foreign domination. This brazen betrayal by the Manchurian militarists of the interests of the Chinese people seems, however, to be completely ignored, student agitators continuing their mass meetings, de- monstrations and striking workmen paying no _ heed. Feeling Po y In Chicago, by mall, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.0C per year. | AS WE SEE IT. { By T. J. O)FLAHERTY ESPITE the subserviency of the reactionary labor leaders to the employing class, the capitalist judges continue to hand out injunctions with remarkable celerity. The latest use of this judicial weapon against the workers in Chicago, is in the case of the cigarmakers employed by a local firm which formerly recognized the right of its employes to organize into a labor union. The old heads of the firm having quit, their successors did not want to be bothered with a union so they declared the business would be run open shop in the future. ** » HE employes struck and got circu- lars printed to acquaint their fel- low workers with the facts. They picketed the factory and then’ the no- torious injunction judge, Dennis EB. Sullivan got busy. He issued another of his infamous decrees and the cigar makers may now picket at the risk, nay, the certainty, of going to jail. There is one very effective way to deal with the injunction menace and that is to mass-picket against it. The labor leaders will spend the rest of their natural lives bellycrawling to po- litical “friends of labor” in order to win a modification of the injunction evil, but the bosses will always, find legal means to prevent the workers trom; picketing asp long as. they own ‘and control the government. ee) 2 HE Workers Party has on many Occasions urged the labor leaders to go on the picket line and defy the injunction. They have not done this and they will not do it. In the cur- rent issue of the United Mine Work- ers’ journal, there is an editorial-on injunctions but most of it is taken up with a condemnation of violence and lawbreaking evidently hitting .at those militant miners who mass-pick- eted in defiance of the injunction, If the labor leaders gave a real lead to _the workers and went out on the pick-’ et line, injunction or no injunction, Dennis E. Sullivan and his kind could use their injunctions for scratch pa- per for all the good they would do the bosses. ee ® HE socialists profess to be great | admirers of peace and the use of “civilized” methods in bringing about social change. But the story of the so-Called labor party convention held in New York, told in yesterday's DAILY WORKER, does not indicate that the socialists practice what they preach. Like the labor fakers the so- cialists are in deadly fear ofthe rank img file. Therefore, when representa- tives from local unions not controlled by the yellow socialists appeared at this sham convention, they’ were thrown out on their ears and some of them beaten by thugs. This is all to the good. It took a long time for the Communists to convince the work- crs that the socialists were no differ- ent from other parties of capitalism. ‘he socialists are proving that we were correct. Ce as is no accident that a prominent speaker at the socialist party con- ‘Yenuon, a former S. L. P. man, took ‘the position that the supreme court jeen. ~ against the murderers of the Chinese students on May 30 is as hot as ever. Will Face Mass Protest. However, there is no doubt but that if General Chang’s troops begin to do the dirty work of the foreign impe- rialists, a storm of mass protest which may lead to civil war will burst upon China like a cyclone. Proof of the nature of the expected clash which is likley soon to lead to civil war is seen, is the report from Tientsin that about 1,000 Feng Tien troops commanded by General Chang have, mutinied at Chenghsien and wrecked the Peking-Mukden railway station there in an hour’s pitched bat- tle with their officers, and then fled toward Mukden. In Shanghai, in spite of the Man- churian troops, the strike keeps the foreign employers guessing. The strik- ers in many foreign enterprises work and strike intermittently, earning enough to keep going and kepeing aut unpracticed scabs. “* * State of “Emergency” in Hong Kong. HONG KONG, June 22.— State of emergeng was declared by the Hong Kong government today in view of the spread of the anti-foreign strike to the south China cities of Hong Kong and Canton. Export of flour from this city is forbidden. The strike continues with banks and shops closed and with public util- ities paralyzed. An unconfirmed rumor was current here “that. Japa had declared war on Canton government to produce the murderers of the Japanese slain in yesterday's Canton disorders. Canton reports at the time indicat- ed.the slaying was not political, but was due to robbers. The Japanese may use the killing as an excuse, however, for trying to destroy the radical Kuo Min Tang Canton gov- ernment, o*°2 <3 General Strike in Canton. * CANTON, June 22. — A general strike, which was decided upon last Friday by a great meeting of stu- dents, workers and other Chinese citi- zens at Kwangtung yniversity, was declared effective here yesterday. All servants and clerks and work- ers left thé foreign quarter, Sham- Boycott is declared against Bri- tish, Japanese and American goods. ** * Powers Trying New Tricks. | powers suggested to the Chinese gov- ernment Friday the undertaking si- multaneously of negotiations to set- tle the questions arising from recent disturbances in Shanghai and also to discuss the broad aspect of conditions in China generally. 4 The Italian minister, representing the ministries of all the foreign pow- ers interested in the Chinese situa- tion, made this suggestion personally |to the Chinese foreign office. ~ It was understood the diplomatic corps will propose that a delegation representing the United States, Italy and France discuss questions of the administration of their foreign con- \cessions in Shanghai with a view of ‘meeting the Chinese desires. Find Original Manuscript. | LONDON, June 22. The Russian (national museum is preparing to ex- \hibit the original manuscript of the PEKING, June 22. — The foreign) DAIL Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, “wemnennig” A AE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1925 SOCIALISTS AID [New York I. L.G.W. Locals, . justly Suspended, in Appeal to All Members CHINESE STRIKERS AT CANTON HAVE YANKEES RUNNING TO SHELTER WASHINGTON, June 22—Fearing riotous outbreaks, two-thirds of the American women and children in Canton have fled to Hong Kong and other safe places, Consul General Jenkins cabled the state ‘depart- ment today. Prisoners Escape in Indiana. PENDLETON, Ind., June 22,— Au- thorities today were searching for three prisoners who escaped from the Indiana state reformatory here yesterday. The trio included Bradley Sheron, Columbus; Robert \ Stanley, Richmond; Jesse Myers, Frankfort. EIGHT DEATHS DISCLOSED IN DU PONT PLANT Three Hundred Badly Ill from Poison NEW YORK, June 22—Eight em- ployes of the E. I. Du Pont de Ne- mours plant at Deep Water, N. J., have been killed of lead poisoning while making tetraethyl lead gaso- line, it has just been disclosed here, following the exposure of the death of five employes of the United States Radium corporation at Orange, N. J. There were numerous cases of ill- ness and insznity disclosed in both plants. Within the last year 300 employes working with the lead compound have been made seriously ill. The plant is now temporarily closed, pending an investigation by the gov- ernment into the deaths. The inves- tigation has been lost sight of, no announcement having been made by the surgeon general as ti its results. The investigation however, is not concerned with the Du Pont plant, where lead compound is made, but only with the Standard il _ plant The. deaths in the radium plant oc- curred) among employes who painted watch dials with radium paint. DENVER’S DAILY ‘WORKER PICNIC HUGE SUCCESS Vulte in 45 Subs, Car Is Raffled Out By ELLA REEVE BLOOR DENVER, Colo, June 22.—The DAILY WORKER picnic today netted 45 subscriptions and approximately $50 in donations. All present agreed it was one of the best picnics ever held in Denver. At the Labor Centennial Saturday, Comrade Helen Lowy Dietrich won a twelve hundred dollars Cleveland Six in a raffle distribution of DAILY WORKER which continued at the DAILY WORKER booth there every evening until the close tonight. I am leaving Tuesday for Kansas City. Will arrive in Chicago on July 3rd. Truck Topples; Many Hurt. DRESDEN, Germany, June 22.— Twenty-three persons were seriously injured and fifty-two were hurt today when a motor truck carrying excur- sionists, toppled over a grade. PAINLEVE DRIVE ON COMMUNISTS Over 200 Workers Are Arrested in France Paris, June workers, jnelué are now in lowing their. 22.—-Over two hundred jing many Communists, ils thruout France, fol- wrest by the Painleve government, ° ich is supported by the sociali arty in silencing op- ponents of ithe Moroccan war. Pain- leve is in ‘communication with the British . gove: ent, it is admitted here, arranging for a combined drive against Communists and workers who oppose the. rialist wars of the } =e” PUBLIS: Un boards of Locals 2, 9 and 22: AN APPEAL TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE I. L. G. W. U. neh Rhee and brothers: The joint board together with the official- Europeans. in Morocco. Those dare charged with “inciting soldiérs to revolt, carrying on propag: in Morocco against the French invasion,” and numerous other charges of ition.” juties Papers who won his seat in ile under sentence for aid the French fleet at Odessa in 1919, officer of the fleet, is expected to ested after Tuesday, when Painleye will ask that parlia- mentary im ty for the Commun- ist deputies be revoked. Marty is charged. by inleve with “writing an article in ’Humanité urging soldiers to disobed! “ Deputy M: the chamber refusing to against Russie when he was Deputy private papers, which were, m from him by the Painleve ent, which conduct. ed a raid of h to the war me, have been sent Deputy has addressed huge meetings of kers at Bordeaux and other cities gut France, called to protest ag: ie war against the Riffians on f native soil, which has slau; soldiers. Mi the attempt capitalists to al resources bankers and French oit the Riffian natur- ternational havesbeen prohibited. Krim Begins Offensive Meanwhile, word comes from Rabat that Abd-el-Krimr has begun a strong offensive movement against the French troops morth of Quezzan. Sev- eral advance posts of the French have been captured,sand the French have been pushed back. Tribes Against French The importamt Bena Mesguilda group of Moroceans, northest of Fez, hitherto held inscheck by the French troops, are going over to the Riffians, it was admitted !by the war office. The Beni Fichtala, their neighbors on the south side of the Ouergha ri- ver, are prevented from enlisting with the Riffians only by the treat of the French - bayonets. MacMillan Leaves For Pole, WOSCASSET, Me., June 22.—Donald B. MacMillan sailed from here for Etah, Greenland, on the first leg of his expedition to search for land in the regioh surrounding the north pole. BRITISH MINERS WILL 60 TO BAT FOR THEIR NATIONALIZATION PLAN LONDON, June 22.—Nationaliza- tion of mines-again has come to the front in the platform of the Miners’ Federation and a committee has been appointed to draft a bill which would form the official policy. CONGRESS OF WORLD’S BUSINESS MEN HAS POWER TO FORCE\CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT’S PLUNDER PLANS \ | lebrating the First of May and Judge decided correctly in the Gitlow case. |“Thousand and one nights” following t a free speech question, he its discovery in the archives of the hae RGocbiiiied 4 Pane 5) | Leningrad public library, according to BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 22.—The session of the international cham- ber of commerce, which has opened here, is packed with American delegates, there being 250 American representatives out of a total of 700 delegates. dispatches here. The manuscript is _ AUERICAN BANKERS FORGE EUROPE 10 AGREE TO SETTLE WASHINGTON, June 22.—Recent diplomatic exchanges between the United States and France leads ficials here to the belief that nego- tiations for the funding of the $4,000,000,000 French debt soon will get under way,-it was learned offi- cially here. «» The settlement was forced when the bankers threat _eredits to Europe. ed to withhold Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or _. two will make a better Communist of you, fs in Persian and was recognized as the origigal by Professor Marr. EXCELLENT PICTURE OF CAPITAL IN IMPERIALIST-MONOPOLY AGE GIVEN BY SHOE MAKING INDUSTRY By H. SYDNEY BLOOMFIELD, WORCESTER, Mass., June 22.-Every shoe manufacturer in Massachu- setts and elsewhere in the country has been sent a questionaire asking him to report in “confidence” a long list of questions, among which he is asked what was his average daily output during 1924; the average daily output for the first quarter of this year; average daily output if factory is operating at maximum capacity; whether daily average of 1925 is regarded as normal or what is so regarded; whether factory expansion is contemplated for 1926, and if so, what will be the additional capacity provided, ete, »Thig survey is conducted by the U. S. department of commerce under the direction of Arthur B. Butman, chief of the shoe and leather manufactures wet) i (Continued on page 2) .»). Ler eles nepssmanenernat are has ~ The gathering of capitalists from all the world’s: dominating nations, will discuss the Dawes plan of war payments from Germany to the allies. It was the last congress of the busine: men which advocated a “reparations” plunder plan. The present conven- tion has the power to force the goy- ernments to make any changes the kings of business see fit in the work- ings of the plan, Many are in favor of making the payment term more drastic, The power of the businessmen’s conference is ‘seen im the fact that Seymour Parker Gilbert, general agent for reparations under the Dawes plan, is to preside over the transfer committee of the congress. Gilbert released ‘his report covering the first eight months of operations of the Dawes plan, just before the congress, in order to oblige the dele- gates, dom of the International have started a vicious pogrom against the majority of the membership of the joint board. | “An unheard of campaign of ter-| rorism, which has never been equaled in any labor organization 1s now going on in the International. Without any warning or even a pretense of a trial, three executives boards ane managers representing’ 30,000 members have} been suspended from the joint board. | “Like bandits they broxe mto the offices of Locals 2 and 9 during the dead of the night and forctvely took Possession of them. A vigorous attack was also made on the office of Local 22, but there 200 men and women had barricaded themsetves against these hirelings of the joint board. This iron wall of resistance prevented the forceful seizure of Local 22. “What has really happeaed? What terrible crimes have the suspended executive boards and managers com- mitted? The official charges are so ridiculous that even a casual observer can readilly see that they were merely intended to gain favor with the police and the bosses. The First of May Questton “We have celebrated the First of May and invited Communist speak- ers. This is what we are charged with. For many years past, the lo- cals of the international had been ce- “Even this flimsy charge made by the joint board does not hold good against Local 22. Local 22 invited Morris Sigman, Scott Nearing (who (Continued on page °6.) DEATH LIST IN TRAIN SMASH-UP STILL GROWING Railroad to Blame Investigation Shows DOVER, N. J., June 22—The death list in the German excursion wreck at the Lackawanna railroad rose to 49 when Miss Catherine Wilgermein, 2956 North Race Avenue, Chicago, died in the hospital. Three others are in a critical con- dition, Mrs. Louise Kaufman, 1511 Laurel avenue, Chicago; Mrs. Cath- erine Weise, 1719 Laurel avenue, Chicago, and John Nieman, 1555 Tourney avenue, Evanston. Investigation into the wreck, being conducted by the state board of utilities commissioners and the inter- state commerce commission, had pro- ceeded where it was said the railroad probably will be required to drain the long hill adjacent to the right of way. Sand washing down this hill on the tracks is blamed for the wreck, Blame It on “God.” No further investigation will be made by either state or federal au- |thorities into the wreck on the Lack- awanna railroad at Rockport, N. J., June 17, which claimed 49 lives, After hearing several witnesses, the conclusion was reached that the accident was an “act of providence.” Sign Greco-Turkish Pact. ATHENS, Greece, June 22—The representatives of the Greek govern- ment have signed at Constantinople an agreement with the Turkish gov- ernment for the carrying out of the terms of the Lausanne treaty, the Greek government is informed here. BIG FRENCH LINER IS STRUCK BY TWO CREWS AT HAVRE AND TIED UP HAVRE, June 22—The French liner La Savoie, which was to have left for New York at 9 o'clock Sat- ’ Published Daily except.Sunday NEW YORK CITY, June 22. f tl three largest locals of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union by the yellow socialist gang which follows the Cahan-Forwards-Hillquit leadership headed by Sigman, Perlstein and Feinberg, is rising not only in the three big suspended locals, but also in the other locals of the |. L. G. W. in New York City and other centers. , The following is the text of a circular sent out to all locals in the country by the executive | scrap of paper. NEW YORK EDITION Daas THE DAILY WORKIR HING CO., 111% er, dani Blyd,, Chicago, IL Price 3 Cents (Special to The Daily Worker) —The storm of protest against the autocratic suspension of the HYMAN, SPEAKING FOR 1.L.6.W. MEMBERSHIP, WARNS BOSSES NOT TO SIGN UP WITH JOINT BOARD By EARL R, BROWDER. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 22,—“Any agreement signed with the Joint Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers | in New York as at present constituted will be nothing but a The people who are negotiaiing at present do not represent the akers and they have no power to bind the workers,” These words from Louis Hyman, manager of Local 9, and spokesman for the Joint Committee of Action of Locals 2, 9, and 22, the body which is directing the fight against the Megal suspensions of the officials of the three unions, threw a bemb inteths camp.of the employers and their agents in the gdminis-| Perlstein-Feinberg machine and solid- tration of the union. arity with the executive boards of the Consternation reigns in the camp of| locals which had been ordered sus- pexded. So when Hyman issues an the union smashers and red baiters, ultimatum to the employers everybody because everyone knows well that} listens and the employers’ press when Hyman speaks he voices the! shivers and whines. sentiments and forecasts the actions | The Issues Behind the Struggle. df 60 per cent of the membership of| In the foreground of the struggle the International in New York City.| now going on are many issues which, This fact was dramatically expressed | important as some of them are, would on Tuesday night when, at the call of} not explain the depth, breadth, and the joint committee of action, mem-) intensity of the fight\if taken alone. bers of the three locals met in the| Some of the issues, such as that raised number of 10,000 at Cooper Union,| by the reactionaries in their charges Webster Hall, and Manhattan Lyceumt,|.against the local executives (upon packing-the three large halls and s which the suspension order is based) TacOF Toon 9 sachiter see Sigman- ot the left wing. of the workers accept the leadership demonstrations against the {Continued on Page 6) COMMITTEE OF ACTION IN NEW YORK GARMENT WORKERS’ LOCALS ISSUES. SHOP ORDERS TO I. L. G. W. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 22.—The following is the text of the special bulletin to the cloak and dressmakers of New York issued by the Joint Com- mittee of Action of the suspended Locals No. 2, 9 and 22 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers. This is evidently issued in the interest of preserv- ing the solidarity of the union membership in their daily struggle with the boss, not permitting the autocratic Sigman-Perlstein-Forwards machine to divide the workers and wreck the union’s fighting power: OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION TO ALL CLOAK AND DRESS MAKERS OF NEW YORK Issued by the Joint Action Committee of Locals 2, 9 and 22 FELLOW WORKERS:—You are urged not to be mislead by the many unfounded rumors and misrepresentations by the Joint Board and International machine. Be on your guard and carry out the instructions that you will get thru our Special Bulletins and thru the columns of the workers’ press. Carry on your work in the shops as union workers should, and take no orders from the machine and its many agents of the Joint Board whose object it is to pit worker against worker and thus throw some of you out of your jobs. Refuse to carry out such orders. Chairmen, together with committees of all branches of the shop of all cloak and dress houses, are requested to settle all disputes until further notice thru our Special Bulletins. . The Joint Action Committee is working on a plan to protect the workers in the shops from attacks by the agents of the machine, This plan willbe announced in a few days. Do not pay any dues in the offices of the Joint Board or in any of the seized offices of our locals, because this money will be used to carry on this fight against you. Refuse to give up your union books to the agents of the machine because the books belong to you. Ignore their threats. All members of other locals, such as Pressers, Cutters, Sample Makers, etc., who are against this outrage by the machine, are urged to help us carry on the fight. Do not sign any papers of the machine agents that are designed to trick you into a trap under the guise of loyalty. Do not permit them to twist the facts and have you believe that this is a fight of Communists only. This is a struggle for rank and file control in our union, Carry out these instructions and the fight of many years for a real workers’ organization will be won, JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE, of Locals 2, 9 and 22. BRITISH MINE OWNERS ATTEMPT TO CUT WAGES 14 PER CENT AND ADD 4 HOURS TO WORKING WEEK LONDON, June 22.—A possible general strike in the coal mining industry in Great Britain is being considered. - urday night, was prevented from sailing by the desertion of about 200 members of the crew. A composite crew sent aboard later also deserted. enact ese ome Unless some compromise is reached in the next few weeks, a ke or a lockout is almost certain, with resultant peril to the trade of the country, The Miners’ Federation will hold a final conference of delegates from all Britain in London on July 3 to consider action, The owners will submit (Continued on page 2 yn a vane ty