The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1925, Page 1

a ws eo, Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! —_——! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: IN'1922 WHEN HE SOUGHT SPLIT (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 24.—Facts which prove the trickery and treach\xy against all who stand in the way of personal ad- vantage of ne individuals who head the Sigman-Perlstein-Fein- berg-Forwartd’s gang which is trying to rule the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union against the interests of the membership, are coming to light. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.0¢ per year. | CHAMBERLAIN SEEKS T0 LAY THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHINA UPON RUSSIA LONDON, Eng,, June 24.—Austen Chamberlain, British foreign mini- ster speaking in the house of Com- mons today concerning the general subject of the so-called “security pact,” stated as follows: “Il have evidence that the dis- turbances in China have been fo- stered by the agents of another gov- ernment.” While the minister refrained from mentioning names, it is understood The membership is not only cheated from representation on the joint board, their wage demands betrayed in secret deals with AS WE SEE IT. By T. J. O'FLAHERTY ESPITE the wiles of a queen noted for her pulchritude and a willing- mess to place beauty at the disposal jor business, things are wot running jemoothly in Rumania. At a recent meeting of the chamber of deputies blows were exchanged and when the government refused a leader of the opposition the privilege of the floor, the said leader, Dr. Lupu, by name, leaped to the platform and got the fol- lowing off his chest: “You are canaille and dishonorable scoundrels, for you have broken your word. Upon my word of honor I declare that the pres- ‘ident promised me that he would al- low all our speakers to talk. This is ‘the way the rascal keeps his word.” + 8 EN the vote on the question was called pandemonium broke loose. Dr. Lupu got hold of the presiding of- ficer’s bell and rang it violently. A few supporters of the’ government tried to reach Dr. Lupu’ who was on the platform, but the opposition call- ed the manly art of self-defense into: play and Dr. Lupu remained in charge of the bell. The masses outside the building were with the opposition but the gendarmes kept them moving. * ® N May 17, the opposition tried to hold a mass meeting to bring the sins of the government home to the people. A great throng gathered, but husky soldiers were there, armed with trumpets and when the speakers tried to make themselves heard, the soldiers blew so loudly that the words of the orators were not audible a few feet from the platform. A change in gov- ernment is expected in Rumania shortly. ee HE seventy Communists on trial in Bucharest were refused attorneys of their own choice. No Rumanian lawyer dared to appear for the accus- ed men, and tho the government al- lowed three lawyers from abroa to come to defend the Communists, when they arrived the high court informed them that they could take no part in the trial. A Vienna lawyer, one of the three, was trown into prison, and re- mained there until protests from Vienna forced his release. It is re- ported that nine Communist prisoners «were courtmartialed and executed in Kishineff. cit" Find a HE, white terror rages in Rumania, Bulgaria, Jugo-Slavia, Esthonia and in practieally every capiatlist country (Continued on page 2) FREE STATER IN UNITED STATES. IGNORES FAMINE Ld Senator Moran Boosts \ Ireland’s Scenery The following story from Dublin, Treland, refutes the Free State govern- ment propaganda, concerning the dis- tress, which pervails thruout the west coast of Ireland. The Irish Workers and Peasants Famine Relief Committee is conduct- ing a campaign to raise funds for the needy workers and peasants. All con- tributions received at 19 S. Lincoln Bt., Chicago, mL, will be forwarded at once to the famine region. eres DUBLIN—(By MAIL) A very ex- tensive campaign is being waged in America and elsewhere by the Free State propagandists .to induce tourists to visit this country in the Summer, Ireland is boosted in every way and the scenery and hotel accommodation, according to the propagandists, is see+ ond to none in any country in the (Continued on page 6.) . *the enemy class, $500,000 of funds left unaccounted for and the treasuries and offices of the largest locals seized, but these things are done by a clique in which asa leading figure is Meyer Perlstéin, pretending to be loyal to the union, yet exposed by his own hand as one who would wreck the I. L. G. W. U. to satisfy his lust for personal position. A Letter Peristein Wrote. In this issue of the DAILY WORK- ER is a photographic reproduction of a letter written by Meyer Perlstein to George Wishnak, who was manag- er of the Jewish daily paper, “Frei- heit” in 1922. The letter was written while the infant Perlstein was manager of the Cleveland, Ohio, joint board of the I. L. G. W. At that time Schlessinger was preventing Perlstein from attain- ing any position of power in the un- ion. Perlstein was at outs with the New York joint béard, and could not collect on his ambition to climb over the heads of others into leadership of the international. Not Then Was Meyer a Patriot. Being “his majesty’s opposition,” he did nétat that time show up as a patriot concerned over the welfare of his. country. He made no lectures and wrote no articles against the Communists. Quite on the contrary, he was ready to go hand in hand with them, as his letter shows, but secret- ly, and in an intriguity manner. He really wanted to use the left wing to advance his own personal interests, not the interests of the workers. Together with the letter printed herewith, Perlstein also sent an ar- ticle to the “Freiheit” as mentioned in the letter, suggesting that it be published but not under his name. The article, which will be published later, will show that this same Perl- stein who now heads the pogromists against the left wing, at that time de- (Continued on page 3) ANIERICAN BANKS GRAB FOR PROFIT IN PHILIPPINES Expose Imperialism in Sat.’s Daily Worker NEW YORK, June 24.—“Our rich- st possession” is the title of an ad sserted in New York newspapers by he Harriman National Bank and re- ers to the Philippine Islands. Notice 3 taken of Congressman R. L. Bacon’s proposed visit to the American terri- torial p sion “to confer with Gen, Wood and get a viewpoint as to annex- ation and development of that rich country.” The ad also notes Henry Ford’s int in exploiting Latin- America for rubber and autos, “The Philippines are a promising market for automobiles and other pro- ducts from the United States,” the bank ad continues. “There is a popu- lation. of over 10,000,000 whose stand- s that he was endeavoring to unload the responsibility for the Chinese upheaval, which is clearly provoked by British “agents” shooting down Chinese, upon the broad backs of the convenient Bolsheviki. GERMAN COAL AND FRENCH Agreement May Scrap Versailles Treaty (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, June 24—French iron and German coal have contracted what is referred to here as a “business mar- riage” in the negotiation of an agree- ment which practically nullifies the Versailles treaty and presents Brit- ain’s basic industriat magnates with a competitor that endangers Britan’s power more seriously than any for eign enemy that threatened her shores since the Spanish Armada was of Queen Elizabeth. Negotiations for a business agree- ment between the leading industrial- ists of;Germany and France, which have been conducted for a long time are mow-in the formal stage. In fact a tentative draft of the new economic union has been signed. It provides that the’ Ruhr magnates, Krupps, Thyssen, Stinnes, and Haniel, shall be permitted to import into Germany 1,700,000 tons of manufactured iron from Asisace-Lorraine, the Sahr val- ley and Luxemburg. Keep Own Markets. The contract further provides that Germany and France shall be permit- ter to keep their own markets, and protect them by tariffs, but a sales syndicate will be formed to provide for the needs of other European markets. This syndicate would dis- tribute orders in a certain proportion which would remain secret. The third principal provision of the pact assures long term contracts for the exchange of French ore against German coal, this aspect of the agree- ment to be handled by a production syndicate specially to be formed for this purpose. It is generally recognized that the proposed agreement is of the utmost importance to the European political and economic situation and when def- nitely in force will change the con- stellation of European powers over night. No Coincidence. It is regarded as of the utmost significance that the French com munique, foreshadowing the Ruhr evacuation should have been issued simultaneously with the signing of the preliminary pact and that Frencn action is taken here as the first fruit of the new reapproachment. The proposed union between Ger- man coal and French iron, if ratified by the two governments marks a dis- astrous defeat for British diplomacy on the continent of Europe. En: land’s historic policy in Europe has been the organization of a patance ard of living could be raised by their ;of power, with Ehgland‘able to exert increasing exports of raw materials which, giving them larger purchasing power, means larger imports by them.” . ‘The Harriman Bank does not men- tion how many of the 10,000,000 in- habitants of the Philippines have pro- perty or exploitable holdings capable of giving export products. The bank clajns that it has “tried so hard and long to interest congress in the belief uch a place as the Phi- making one wonder what its own interests and holdings in the islands may be, The DAILY WORKER on Saturday will run special articles exposing the exploitation of the Philippines and sions, June 27 perlalist week, a determining influence diplomatic- ally against that power which was (Continued on page 2) 7 IRON UNITE wrecked’ on -her coasts In the days )- Reactionary Officials Gather in Gloom By EA .R. BROWDER. (Special toythe Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 24.— All doubts of where the Dressmakers and Cloakmakers of New York City stand, were dispelled by meetings held last night In Mai an Lyceum and in Beethoven H. The first, at Manhattan Lyceum was a meeting of ip chairmen called by the joint ac committee of the three suspen locals, Nos. 2, 9 and 22, of the Int ational Ladies’ Gar- ment Union, while at the second, at “was a gathering call- on behalf of the re- esting was packed by len and active mem- jan a thousand shops meeting was com- three dozen, mostly Was marked by in- lasm, while the oth- and confusion. in the principal ieeting of shop chair- ‘the meeting, rousing ion of wild enthusi- the shameless au- jue of congressmen States should ex- dacity as if from several pel the cons no I, Zimmerman, in opening the meet- ing declared, ‘We will go on trial, but it must be open to the press and the membership.; The workers shall judge us, not these discredited bureau- crats. Shop chairmen, do not allow yourselves to be provoked in shops. Do not allow any worker to be taken off the job.” Portner, secrétary of Local 22, de- clared that cloak and dress makers will not rest “until victory is won. “Leaders of the machine have suc- ceeded only in this—that we now have real amalgamation of our three locals and have completely unified our forces.” Borochovitch, Rubin and many oth ers spoke, including chairmen from shops. Hold Overflow Meeting. A great overflow meeting in another hall was addressed by Stenzer, chair- man of Local 2; Pauline Norgenstein, Weissberg and others. The meetings unanimously adopted the instructions of the joint commit- tee of action for regulating shop af- fairs and also a resolution which se- verely condemns the provocative ac- tions of the machine, declares that if they had the least confidence of the membership, they—the machine— would not be afraid to cal) meetings, declares publicly that the only offi- cials “in whom we have confidence” (Continued on page 2) MUTINIES 1M ARMY OF \GHANG TSO-LIN AGAINST IMPERIALIST CONTROL LONDON, ° ‘En d, June 24— The Daily Telegraph today de- charge mutiniesshave occurred on a fairly large scale among the trops of Chang Tsotlin, the Manchurian dictator, who mow is absent from Mukden, the capital. The sudden) departure of Chang Hsueh-liang, sen of Chang Tso-lin, from Shanghai was due to the situ- ation in Manchuria, the paper says. His father sent him an urgent message to return immediately to deal with the trouble. CHINA DEMANDS AN IMMEDIATE ~ REVISION OF TREATY RELATIONS (Sper PEKING, June 24-—The Chinese powers late today The note to the diplomatic corps by the Chine at that port'by British troops of large ed immediate revision of China's treaty relation i to The Dally Worker) government in @ note to the foreign presented the thirteen demands raised ‘commissioners to the Shanghai conference over the shootings numbers of Chinese student paraders. | WORKER. Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. diers, who were the Bund. | Shameen island, in the Pearl) river, is separated from the} Canton waterfront along which | runs the Bund, a wide and com- | pletely unprotected street. Sha-| meen island is a fortified posi-| tion, and since the Chinese libe- ration movement took head last month, it has been heavily guarded by foreign marines and | various war vessels of the im-| verialist powers. | After the massacre, fighting is re- ported to have broken out at several places in Canton. Foreigners who did not quickly run to shelter from the anger of the Ci:aese resulting from the brutal shooting down of hundreds | of unarmed paraders, were set upon in the Canton streets and badly hand-| led. It is reported that a British | customs official, Arthur Edwards, and | a French merchant, G. O. Pasquier, | were killed and three foreigner | wounded. The British troops being taken from | Hong Kong to Canton are Indian | Sikh troops, infamous for their cruel- ty—and they are being transported on an American warship, the U. S. 8S. Heiepal a ¥ is 2 6 Amoy Gets Too Hot AMOY, China, June*24:—American, British and Japanese consuls at this important port today requested their governments to send warships to pro- tect their nationals, endangered by the spread of the general strike af. fecting now the other large cities of South China. Foreign women and children Were preparing to evacuate the city. One American gunboat, however, in spite of the need here, left for Canton, where violent clashes between armed oreign troops with students and workers are reported. DORIOT DEMANDS END OF NORTH AFRICAN WAR Only One Socialist Op- poses Imperialists (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, June 24. — Altho Premier Painleve attempted to deny before the chamber of deputies that published reports that Abd-le-Krim is willing to negotiate a peace with France, Painieve admitted that “France is willing to discuss only the surrender of Abd-el-Krim,” the Moroc- can leader, The Communist Deputy Doriot, ad- dressing the chamber from the speak- ers’ platform, declared: “Capitalist civilization periodically leads to wars. There is only one solution—class war- fare which will put an end to capital- ist wars.” Doroit denounced the in- vasion of Morocco by the French im- pertalists, and demanded that French troops be withdrawn and the Moors be left to rule themselves. He urged the French workers to fight the im- perialistic Moroccan war. Another “Moscow Pilot.” Doroit was not allowed to finish his speech, being attacked by several de- puties belonging to the nationalist re- actionary bloc. The session then ended in disorder, In his speech before the chamber, former Premier Herriot manufactured (Continued on page 2) Forest Fire in Oregon DALLAS, Ore, June 24.—A dan gerous forest fire broke out today at Powell's camp in the Cobbs-Mitchell Lumber company timber holdings in the Siletz Basin, according to word received here, Seems, Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKMR PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIL (Special to The Daily Worker) . NEW YORK _ EDITION Price 3 Cents U. S. Warship “Helene” Is Carrying British Troops to Aid Attack on Canton HONG KONG, China, June 24—British troops were ordered to Canton at four o'clock this afternoon, an hour after the steamer Honam, manned by American bluejackets from the U. S. S. | Ashville, arrived from Canton with 600 foreign réfugees who told of several hundred Chinese having been killed when British and French marines, together with foreign civilian white guards, opened fire from Shameen island, with machine guns upon Chinese students, workers and sol- parading alongt | WE MUST WORK WITH SOVIETS FOR THE LIBERATION OF CHINA, DECLARES KUO NIN TANG PARTY (By Rosta News Service) PEKING, China, June 1 (Delayed).—The declaration adopted by the plenum of the executive committee of the Kuo Min Tang (peopie’s revolutionary party, headed by the late Sun Yat Sen) at Canton, states that the Peking government is an instrument in the hands of the imperial- ist powers. “There is only one people,” says the declaration, “who deals with China as with an equal. This is the people of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. We must work together with the U. S. S. R. for the liberation of the Chi- nese people.” The plenum has decided to call the party conference at Canton on August 15. A new political bureau was elected consisting of Lee Chung Kai, Wan Ching Bey, Tai Chi Tao, and Shao Yung Chung. The Canton government,also published a declaration stating briefly the history of the struggle against the im- perialists and militarists and demanding the fulfilment, of the will of Sun Yat Sen. The declaration also proclaims the right to strike, freedom of speech, of union organization and the right of assembly. It outlines the problems of the government in regard to the betterment of finance and industry, partic- ularly the silk industry, the building of railroads and deepening of rivers, and in regard to developing the co- operative movement and the regulation of custom houses. POLICE LICENSE FOR N. Y. TAXI DRIVERS A MOVE TO AID YELLOW SCAB CONCERN; MEN NEED UNION By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, June 24—Power recently granted pdlice to license taxicab chauffeurs and thus control their jobs is seen by union men as another anti- union move by the dominating Yellow Taxicab Co. which has an unofficial but working partnership with the city adminis ion. There are 38,000 taxi drivers in New York City and the job of each one is under the thumb of the police department. Licenses are renewed ot voided at the will of the Commissioner + Enright and his subordinates ana} this power—say union men—is di-| rected aganst workers accused of agi-| tating unionism. " Union Breaking by Cops. At time police have not contented themselvéS8 with merely sniping indi-} vidual unionists thru the licensing sys-} tem but have indulged in wholesale} assaults on the unions, Chuaffeurs| are excitedly telling how uniformed} police broke up an organization meet-| ing of the International Brotherhood | of Teamsters and Chauffeurs. As the) The Brightest Page in workers left the hall their names were * > . noted by inspectors for the el the Union Ss History and other concerns, i The phenomenal growth of the taxi business has made it an important FURRIERS HOLD BIG, WONDERFUL (Special to The Daily. Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 24.—Sev- branch of city transportation and the development of a strong union in this field is one of the first needs of the labor movement. Three is scarcely any unionism at present. The Brother- hood of Taxi Chauffeurs, independent, that two years ago had most of the non-Yellow drivers as members, has faded from the scene and compara- tively few chauffeurs as yet have cards in the teamstres’ and chauffeurs’ international. Long Hours For Little Pay. Taxi drivers are bulldozed and over- worked as are few other toilers. It is not-uncommon for a Yellow driver en thousand furriers of New York ceased work at four o’clock yesterday and packed three big halls. These meetings answered the intrigues of the yellow Forwards and black Kauf- man gang. A resolution calling for a special convention and new election of delegates was adopted unani- mously. “Mr. Manufacturer, we want you to know that the union is strong as iron and ready to defend the mem- bership. You who are here repre- senting the Forwards and Kaufmann gang, we want you to know that the furriers are united, ready to meet all |attacks from every source.” to be on the job from 8 a. m. to two} Keynote of Whole Meeting. or three in the morning, sometfmes| ‘These words were the keynote of under orders and sometimes because|the meeting at Cooper Union last the first 10 or 12 hours ‘have not| night, opened by Shachtman, secre brought in a day's wages. The taxi driver is a piece worker. A Yellow man gets 331-3 per cent of his tak- ings. Independents pay up to 40 per cent, At the end of a week of long hour®, nagging by passengers, police and company inspectors, the driver is (Continued on page 2) | tary of the furriers’ joint board. | And the meeting, in a remarkable |demonstration, made these words a living power. Last night's demon- stration opened a new chapter in the history of the union. As one man, all furriers answered (Continued on page 6,)