The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1925, Page 2

Page Twos LABOR PROTESTS AGAINST RULE) ..... OF IMPERIALISM Workers Demand End to Reign of Bayonet " The Workers (Communist) Party of America during anti-imperialist week, June 27 to July 4, has called upon all working class organizations to join In a united front to demand freedom of the oppressed peoples from American capitalism. The demands of the Workers Party include: the unconditional independ- ence for the Philippines, Hawaii and Porto Rico; withdrawal of American troops and warships from China; withdrawal of U. 8. forces from Latin- America; Hands off Mexico; the abo- lition of the Dawes plan; Wall Street's scheme for enslaving American and European workers alike; equal rights for Negroes and whites; and the de- mand for a labor party. Meetings Arranged Special articles will be carried in the Saturday, anti-imperialist issue of the DAILY WORKER, exposing the manner in which Wall Street, and its! tool, the Coolidge government, ex~ ploits the oppressed foreign peoples. A special anti-imperialist number of the Workers Monthly will be issued, carrying articles from the pen of Proria renowed working class writers, against American ftmperialism. Meetings and demonstrations have been arranged by the Workers Party in various sections of the country, in which trade unions, the socialist par- ty, the I. W. W., the proletarian party, and all farmer-labor parties have been invited to take part. All members of. the Chinese Kuo Min Tang party and Filippinos and Latin-Americans resid ing in the United States have also been asked to join the united front against American capitalism. Bosses Force Workers To March The bosses, who are speeding up mobilization of the American workers to act as cannonfodder for them dur ing the coming capitalist war, are forcing the workers to take part in the July 4, “mobilization” military de- monstration or losé their jobs. In Illinois, as in the other states, scores of the large business concerns have ordered their employes to march in a Chicago parade to be held July 4. The bosses are getting some free advertisement out of the parade by forcing their slaves to march, and at “The same time are attempting to pre- pare them to enter a new world way to protect their property and extend their markets. Trade Unions Protest Gov. Len Small, who is now before the state supreme court on charges of stealing millipns of dollars from the state treasury, has issued an ap- peal on behalf of the exploiters, call- ing on the workers to support Coolid- ge in his “national defense test.” Many trade unions have already Passed resolutions condemning the militaristic move of the Coolidge.gov- ernment, and calling upon the work- ers to fight the war propaganda of the American imperialists. Labor organizations thruout the country “Gwe ordered bundles of the DAILY WORKER for distribution during anti-imperialist week. {he workers of Pullman will pro- test against American exploitation of foreign workers, at a ple te be held on Juty 5, at which 3, Buthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, will speak. WORKERS! Sottero Fi Se bE DAILY j WORKERS PARTY ROUTS SOCIALISTS WHO HIDE AFTER WORCESTER DEBATE (Special to The Daily Worker) STER, Mass., June 25.—Before leaving Foresters Hall Friday night, the chairman, Tom Conroy, secretary of the Worcester Central Labor Union, took a vote of the ‘large audience that filled the hall at the debate between Comrade Max Lerner, for the Workers Party, and Alfred B. Lewis for the socialist party, on the subject: “Is the policy and program of the so- cialist party better adopted to secure the end of capitalism than that of the Workers Party?” When Conroy asked, “All those in favor of the S. P. raise your hands,” a few socialists exclaimed in unison: here is a Communist!” really believe this after the more than five minutes of thunderous applause that greeted the last words of Com- rade Lerner’s rebuttal. All For Communists, Only a baker’s dozen raised their hands for the S. P. But when the question was put, “Those in favor of the Workers Party,” a forest of hands went up; so many, that no efforts were made to count what could be in- terpreted as an army of proletarians raising the multitude of fists against the betrayers of the working class. Not one statement, taken from the mouths and the press of the socialists did their spokesman attempt to re- fute. Volley after volley of hand clapping and cries of “Step on him, Max!”, “Go to him, Max, he’s a trai- tor!” punctuated every point that Comrade Lerner drove home with sledge hammer blows. The few socialists went home quar- reling amongst themselves, while the united wrath of the yellows was heap- The Struggle in One would+ “Aw, what's the use, almost everyone ed upon the head of their organizer, Lewis, for accepting a debate with a Communist. Fail to Show Up. This debate was the result of the Communist challenge to the socialists after being vilified by the latter on the local common where both, the so- cialists and Communists hold regular Sunday afternoon meetings. As a re- sult of the defeat suffered at the de- bate the socialist party failed to show up at the usual meeting place on the common last Sunday. Seeing that the time alloted the Workers Party was up and no social- ist speaker in sight, Comrade Bloom- field continued with his talk last Sun- day, and made good use of the time usually taken by the socialists. The many copies of the DAILY WORKER sold, the interesting ques- tion period and good collection was ample evidence that the Workers Party has won the hearts and hands of the workers of Worcester. the Shoe Unions (Continued from page 1) basis for the merging of the organiza- tions discussed. T. U. E. L. In Struggle for Unity The results of these conferences were referred back to the local unions of the Protective and to the joint council of the American Protective Shoe Workers’ Union, Inc. All those who follow the lead of the T. U. E. L. in the organizations fought consistent- ly to continue the negotiations and to place them upon as broad a basis as possible. On June 13 and 14, a conference was held at the McAlpin Hotel com- posed of the officials and delegates of the Protective and American union. In addition the independent local of cugters. was represented and a, dele- gate from the Amalgamated Shoe Workers of Lynn, Mass., who announ- ced that he was present as an Ob- server on account of the fact that most of the members of his organiza- tion in Lynn had decided to joint the Boot and Shoe Workers Union. This conference was the most im- portant yet held, it was the largest both because it was official, and he- cause a number of rank and file dele- gates were present from both prin- cipal organizations. Few Difficulties The discussion on Saturday took Place upon a document submitted by the Protective Shoe Workers Union. Much of it had already been accept- ed in the previous negotiations. The points in the proposed agreement which furnished the main obstacles to merging the organizations were: the autonomy of the New York district; the question of per capita tax; the manner in which the locals should be merged; the jurisdiction over new members; and the question of a con- vention. The conference opened with a friendly feeling between the delegates but a distinct aspect of restraint and little enthusiasm. At the outset of the discussion, it was plain that most of it was merely fencing. However, as time wore on the points of disagree- ment as enumerated were discussed and finally referred to a sub-commit- tee which was to report back the next morning. After the “observer” dele- gate from the Amalgamated at Lynn, reported on the situation in Lynn, the RALLY AGAINST REACTION! Unite portation of f labor leaders on against criminal syndicalism laws, against de- born workers, prison sentences for imped up “sedition” charges, frame- ups of strike leaders, and all other phases of the Amer- ican capitalist terror. Come in masses to the great Protest Demonstration TEMPLE HALL, Van Buren St. and Marshfield Ave. SUNDAY NIGHT, JUNE 28, 8 P. M. Prominent representatives to the National Labor Defense Conference, and former political prisoners, will speak, This.includes, thus far: Bishop William Montgomery Brown Alexander Howat ._ C, E, Ruthenberg William Z. Foster and a member of the I. W. W. conference adjourned to meét again on the following morning. Too Much Artificial “Agreement” Lack of Desire The session opened on the next morning with a surface appearence of agreement on the points in question. The sub-committee had an agreement upon the matter of per capita tax which apportioned two-fifths from the New York district to the internation- al—in this case the Protective Shoe Workers Union. To an onlooker there appeared to be too much of an artificial attempt at “agreement” without any real body to it based upon a mutual desire to really amalgamate. Events are prov- ing that this impression was well founded. When complete and apparent agree- ment appeared to be arrived at the conference adjourned with the under- standing that the entire matter would be referred to the local unions, espe- cially those of the American unjon. Concealed: Objections—Mostly Trivial Now it appears that many of the objections which should have been ‘freely made'in the conference ‘were not made there but were reserved for the local unions. It is being claimed by some in the American union that the document submitted by the Pro- tective Union was not in accord with the points agreed upon at the confer- ence, and with this and other inconse- quential arguments the actual merg- ing of both organizations may be de- layed for some time longer. To lay the blame for the failure to immediately merge upon one or the other organization would not be cor- rect nor could it be borne out by the facts. Real concessions must be made by both sides before complete amalga- mation will take place. For A Movement of Members The task of the T. U, E. L. in this situation, is to make of the movement one of mass dimensions so that the pressure from the rank and file be- comes 80 overwhelming that apparent difficulties can easily be overcome, Wage cuts are not at present threat- ened in the New York district, how- ever, the T. U. E. L. with its campaign against wage cuts in the Shoe indus- try of New England is linking up all phases of the left wing movement among the shoe workers generally. The rank and file of the shoe work- ers are coming to recognize that the T. U. EB, L. is the real leader of the movement for amalgamation and a militant struggle against the employ- ers, MacMillan Accepts Navy Radio; Will Proceed to North NORTH SYDNEY, N. S., June 25.— Donald MacMillan having acceded to the demand of secretary of the navy Wilbur for installation of regulation navy radio equipment on the ships of his arctic expedition, the work of placing the navy apparatus aboard the Tender Peary was started. The destroyer Putnam brought the equipment from Wiscasset, Me. Secretary Wilbur's preemptory or- der was flashed by radio to the Mac- Millan expedition after the schooner Bowdoin and the Peary had left Wis- casset. It was backed with a threat to withdraw navy men and airplanes from’ the expedition unless standard radio equipment was installed as well as the “short wave” sets which were presented to MacMillan. It was believed the installation would be completed tomorrow, permit- ting the ships to sail on schedule to Battle Harbor, Labrador, the next stop on the course into the frozen North Seas. Commander MacMillan said he was ready to comply in every way with the wishes of the navy department. Another new Sub makes another Communist i CAL’S SPEECH GOOD BUT! 700 WOIRKER Scratch : ff Veneer and LONG FORIROSS|| You Will See Hideous Face of Rockefellerism||chicsco Workers and Poor Fish Floats Around and Hears Things By THE POOR FISH (Special te The Daily Worker) SWAMPSCOTT, June 25.—Every- body around here is talking of the great speech delivered by the presi- dent yesterday in reply to the address of welcome presented .to him by the local babbitry. Here is:it; {1 am hap- py to be back in New Hngland. I am grateful to the welcome the people have given me.” apa Some say it is a better speech than what Pershing delivered, in France when he said “LaFayette we are here.” Only William M, Butler critic- ised it. He said it was too long. “Cal” hhe advised “dont get in, the habit of making long speeches. It ig a danger- ous pastime. You might -say some- thing you might be sorry for. The only people who can afford tv make long Speeches are those who haye nothing to say. If you were not president and supported by able adyisers like my- self you could wear out your vocal cords, for all we would care. But you might remember some of my instruc- tions and spill the beans.” Hints on Economy Cal felt a bit sore. “Why, I'd make a longer speech than that if I was asking for the change of a nickel to tip my caddy” he said. Sure you would, said Butler “but that would be good politics, as the principal plank in your Platform is eco- nomy, And you could;.make a long »speech to the caddy, after you »-gave, him the penny, tell- ing him, that it is by saving his money John D. Rockefeller,and others like him got rich. It’s a different pro- position however when, you get talk- ing about the ‘people.’ Charley Dawes might get sore and raise: hell with the senate when the next congress opens,” Prefers Grass: To Gym Cal nodded sagely, pulled out a stick of chewing gum, looked at it longingly, replaced it im his pocket and then plucked a blade of grass which he’ began toxchew, “Much cheeper than .gum,” \ apid, “and keeps the jaws busy.'/ ‘That's all right” said » “but. you must be careful that Bill Wrigley does not: get wind of it. Not that he carés whether you chew his stuff or not, but it would never do if it got into » papers that the president prefers grass to gum. Bill is one of our best fellows. Re- member what he did to Hiram John- son last year.” The faintest indication of a smile glimmered on the president's face, as he inwardly gloated on the way Wrigley gummed up the Johnson Political works. “When did you see JP.?” Cal sud- denly asked Butler. Butler started with ‘surprise and asked: “What? For chpist’s sake did you hear anything?” nm followed the most amazing c srsation, that I have ever heard since I first began to cover presidents. (To be continued in our next issue) Four Air Travelers Killed BOURGET, France, June 25.—Four aeroplane passengers including pilot Klunder were killed today when the royal dutch lines aeroplane, leaving Rotterdam for Paris crashed at Prexu Au Bois near Cattlau, officials were endeavoring to identify the passen- gers. Your neighbor would like to read this issue of the DAILY WORKER. Be neighborly—give it to him! Tonight! Tonightl, Tonight! NEW YORK,—You have an appoint- ment to go to the affair of the Bronx library committee. We will meet you at the door, hand you’a cap and a balloon, and bid you welcome to our fair city; after you have been ini- tiated, you will feel more than at home. The Bronx library committee is out to show you a'good time, and we will do it, by gum. Music, dancing games—everything free of charge; plenty of ice water and breezes to keep cool. Don’t think»we want any- thing from you; we dont. We are sim- ply doing this to celebrate the open ing of the Bronx Workers Library. Come and bring your friends along, and don’t forget your best beau or gal. 1847 Boston Road. TONIGHT, NEW YORK CITY WORKER CORRESPONDENTS WILL MEET TUESDAY NIGHTS NEW YORK, June’ 25.—The next meeting of the Worker Correspond- ents’ class in Communist Journal- ism has been chan, from Satur- day to Tuesday, J 30, at 108 East 14th street. & promptly at eight o'clock. 6B ac. cepted. at a By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. A Heel Rockefeller inspired wisdom tells the world that the general practitioner of medicine must turn more and more to preventive medicine. This would mean that disease should be prevented, rather than a cure sought after it had developed. That sounds good on the surface. But scrape aside the hypocritical veneer that smears over every Rockefeller philanthropic effort and one finds the hideous contradictions in the “hell holes” of industry wher- ever Standard Oil establishes itself. * * It is only necessary to mention the terrible suffering and agonizing deaths visited upon workers in the New Jersey plants of the Standard Oil Company thru tetra-ethy! lead poisoning. Great profits pour from gasoline receiving this special treatment so why should the church-going Rocke- fellers, father and son, worry about workers going to early graves, dead from the effects of the so-called “looney gas.” Rockefeller’s oil trust isn’t worried about its murder of these workers, no more than it troubles i enervating workday, the poor health con elf about the long, ions, the crowded housing conditions—all breeders of disease—that exist every- where thruout the oil fields it controls and in and about the refineries it operates. * » Instead the “Rockefeller * ° Foundation,” subsidized with profits taken out of the oil industry, goes abroad looking for the hookworm in the South, yellow fever in South America and the ailments of the peoples of the Orient. The “Rocke- feller Foundation” has funds for these charity purposes, but there is no Rockefeller money to lift the wages of its oil slaves to anything resembling even the average standard of living forced upon the American wage worker. At the same time Rockefeller gold and Rockefeller methods are great mainstays oppresses the unorganized workers of the So of American capitalism that , Cager sup- porters of U. S. imperialist rule thruout Mexico, Central and South America, while applaud the peoples of the Orient. ing the brutal exploitation of While U. S. marines, with the usual Rockefeller blessing, are pumping steel jacketed bullets into the Chinese workers at Shanghai, Canton and elsewhere, the “Rockefeller Foundation” boasts of its “college, three schools and 17 hospitals in China.” ° ° At the head of this Rockefeller “Foundation” sits Dr. George E. Vincent, typical goose-stepper of the American educational system, schooled in the oily University of Chi- cago, and for a time head of the University of Minnesota, known as the “Steel Trust” University. This is the Dr. Vin- cent who issues the “Foundation’s” statement about “the effects upon health of diet, exercise, mental attitudes, recrea- tion and family and social life.” ‘ But perhaps Dr. Vincent had the same persons in mind ‘that President Cal Coolidge was thinking about when he urged the reading of John Greenleaf Whitter's poem, “Snow- bound,” as an antidote for the heat. It was not intended as advice to the steel worker before the flaming furnaces, the workers in the open under the sun’s hot rays, the stokers who feed the fires under boilers that must generate steam the year around, in fact, to any of those who really labor. The interests of the working masses, their health and general well-being, will not be the subject of sincere attention until the profit system of the Rockefellers, the Coolidges and the Vincents has been swept away. Only the social system of the workers—Communism—will safeguard and promote the interests of the broad producing masses. NEW YORK WILL | HAVE TAG DAYS TO HELP IRISH Harvest Ruined; No Turf and Cattle Dying (Continued from page 1 a most baneful effect on turnip-sow- ing and turf-saving, two operations largely engaged upon in May. Without an early improvement in the weather, the outlook for the farm- ers certainly cannot be regarded as rosy. Mr. W. F. Simpson, an American now farming in a small way at Coola- ney, Co, Sligo, clearly illustrates in a letter to the press the exceptional difficulties the farmers have to face. limate Against Farmers When (he says) I get advice from high places, as I did récently from the minister for posts and telegraphs —“to till the soil”—I would like to take it, if possible. Given a New Zea- land, French, Canadian, Australian, or an American climate, althought I am not conceited, I believe I could hold my end up against any man, but the Irish climate is like none of these. I wonder if people occupying hand- some offices and receiving large salar- ies in the metropolis have any idea of the real condition of agriculture in Ireland at present? In my district the crops are mostly in a sort of way that the average man would have been ashamed of a few years ago; but it could not be helped on account of the excessive moisture, The fields have not dried out since last July... Hardly any turf ig cut so far, because the spread grounds are covered with last year’s crop or flooded with water. Father Wants Son to Come Home OSCAR SALKIND, come home at once, as there is nothing to fear. (Friends of Oscar Salkind will do him a favor by bringing this to his at- tention,)—Jacob Salkind, 888 Fox St., Bronx, N. Y. Write the story qbout your shop —Order a bundle to distribute there. Mn Sorlie May Enter Senate. WASHINGTON, June 25.—Examina- tion of the North Dakota statutes since the death of Sen. Ladd shows that the governor is authorized to appoint Ladd’s successor, to serve until March, 1927. Walter Maddock, a@ veteran non-partisan leaguer, is lieutenant governor. It is anticipated that Sorlie, likewise a leaguer, may resign and that Maddock will then appoint Sorlie to the senate vacancy. Sorlie would then announce himself a candidate for the republican sen- atorial nomination next year. His opponent will probably by L. B. Han- na, an ex-governor who managed the Coolidge fight in the state last year. CONFERENCE FOR DEFENSE 0, K’ED BY A. F, OF T. 0, (Continued from page 1 the infamous record of labor persecu- tion in New England contributed to the ready welcome which the move for united labor defense met in the convention. Minneapolis Painters Send Delegates, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 25. Painters’ Union No. 186 at their reg ular meeting Tuesday, June 28, en- dorsed the national conference of the Labor Defense Council and elected Dan W, Stevens, president, to repres- ent the local union at the national conference in Chicago, June 28, Write the story about your shop— Order @ bundle to distribute there. HANDS OFF CHINA! MEETING GETS A FINE RECEPTION — Chinese Join Hands _: (Continued from page 1) ence, and 8. P. Wong giving in da tail the account of the present upris ing and its beginning in the Shanm hai strike of cotton mill worker against the Japanese imperialists. These mill workers are driven af top speed for 14 hours or more a day for a pay of about 50 cents a day The strike movement, so brutally at tacked by the British police troopmy grew out of this, and the speaker a} pealed to the American worker: sense of class justice that the strike movement was fully justified) The wanton murders of the student de monstrators which followed, were ex plained in detail and the battle af Canton given a different view than that which is given in the capitalist press of America. Soviet Russia—A Friend. The only foreign government which treated China as an equal and as @ friend, was Soviet Russia, declared S. P. Wong, and to the Americay workers he wished to give the ap peal of the Chinese people, not to pers mit American collaboration with the hated British and Japanese in th present attacks on the Chinese li tion movement and possible intervens tion to prevent this great movement of all the people of China to rule their own land. William F. Dunne, editor ef the DAILY WORKER, gave a comprehem sive history of imperialist oppressioy of China. Britain had forced thé opium trade upon China, and doped and disarmed, the Chinese nation had become the prey of foreign rob! plundering its resources and enslaving its population, Comrade Dunne dwelt at length um on the national liberation movement headed by the Kuo Min Tang a recently deceased founder, Dr. 8 Yat Sen. The liberation movement, fi profoundly important to the tarian movement of class liberat The cutting off of western Tialism from its feeding grounds by the success of a movement for natiory al liberation, would alone rock world capitalism to its foundation. Identity of Interest. Asserting the identity of interest between the eppressed of the Orient and the exploited prot letariat of the western nations, Come rade Dunne declared his belief that the masses of China and the far east generally, would, shoulder to. with the revolutionary ‘Une der the banner of the Communist Im ternational, march together toward a new society, the first outpost of: which is the Union of Socialist Soviet: Re- publics. The third Chinese speaker, C. T, Chi, speaking for the Chinese stw dent club of the University of Chi cago, brot the greetings and. apprecia- tion of his fellows to those American workers who are striving to awaken their class to the bond which should unite them with the bitterly oppress» ed people of China. Only upon the workers, and upon such friendly pow= ers as Soviet Russia, the greac nation ruled by workers and peasants, could China depend in its fight for Mbera tion, for self-determination. Spirited Conclusion. Brief addresses were made by Bar ney Mass, secretary of the Young Workers’ League and Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Im- perialist League. The meeting closed with a spirited singing of the Inter- nationale, after adopting a resolution by unanimous vote demanding that the United States government with- draw all armed forces from China, abolish the hated extra-territorial laws indemnify the families of the murder- ed students and workers already slain by foreign troops, punishment of those guilty of their murder, abolish the robber treaties of violence and recognize the complete independence of China as a sovereign nation. HOLD RUSSIAN PICNIC JUNE 28 AT RIMAGK'S GROVE, LYONS, ILLINOIS A picnic will be given by the Workers House and the Russian Children’s schools of Chicago and vicinity on Sunday, June 28, at Rimack’s Grove, Lyons, Illinois, There will be games, prizes, and Russian and American dancing. Ad: mission with special free tickets will cost 35 cents, and at the Grove, 50 cents. ¢ Free tickets may be obtained at the Workers’ House, 1902 W, Divis- NEW HAMPSHIRE TEXTILE MILLS : CLOSE DOWN; THOUSANDS JOBLESS MANCHESTER, N. H., June 25.—The Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., n ning big textile mills, is closing down its gingham manufacturing pore 5 ment, throwing many cotton goods workers out of employment. The greater part of Amoskeag’s production is ginghams so that several thousand workers are affected by the shutdown. The three weeks, Amoskeag department will be closed The York Manufacturing Co, of Saco, Me., is closing its mills for two weeks. Since April, when most of the New England milis were operating near capacity, re has been a steady decline of work and output. Massa: chusetts mills ran at 67 per cent during May on a 47-hour full week basis, nd ‘ i