The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1925, Page 2

THE DAILY* WORK ER NNISTS’ UNION MILITANTS TEST 'B. & 0." JOHNSTON'S LECTION STEAL, PLAN BATTLE ther With a large number of militants from local unions ternational Association of Machinists, the International 2e for Amalgamation in the metal industry held a meet- vhicago on June 22, to protest against the election steal perpetrated by the Johnston-Davison adminstration. ; i The moves by the Johnston forces to control the election were among the most unscrupulous in the many shady maneu- vers made in I. A. of M. elections. Aided by a lawyer, Johnston decided that the section of the constitution voted upon favorably by a large majority in the recent referendum of the machinists’ union, which created machinery for tabulating the ballots cast for the different candidates, should not supersede the old section which provides that the General Secretary-Treasurer (himself a candidate for re-election) shall count, tally and supervise the +> _—_—_—— elections. _— Sin apite of the plat tects co | [NEW YORK COMMUNIST CHILDREN WILL ENJOY CAMP LIFE THIS YEAR the contrary, Johnston decided that the new section did not do away with the old one. Thus he hullified the decisions of the last con- vention. which were supported by a Majority vote of the membership in NEW YORK, June 28—The Youn eee secant Saapiaeeny realli 1-4 Workers League has succeeded in By episod upon the right to count him: | 14, negotiations with the authorities self into office, together with the rest of Camp Nitgedayget for the esta- pF iis clique, which he did. blishment of a Junior camp at Camp The International Amalgamation Nitgedayget—a camp for the hun- eee protests vehemently) yous of workingolass children or- against this illegal and undemocratic ganized in the Junior Section of the action. It condemns the methods used] y w 1. This Junior camp is to be in the last referendum for the elee-} under the full direction of the Young tion of the grand lodge officers and} workers League of N. ¥. which protests most emphatically against| jj provide comrades to supervise the interpretation of Sections 14 and] 4, camp and which has drawn up 46 of the constitution in reference to} , comprehensive plan for its func- the counting of the election ballots. tioning. The great value of this ne Plain Violation of Constitution. camp both for the proletarian chil- : The decision of the convention | gren who will be there and for the Plainly means that the supervising,| junior organization is easily seen tallying and counting of the ballots! ang every comrade, every worker was to be taken out of the hands of| interested in the welfare of the chil- the general secretary-treasurer. It} dren's movement must support this was therefore, absolutely unconstitu-} project, tional for the secretary-treasurer to Registration for the Junior camp 1 Supervise the electiou and to count) wil! begin in a short while thru the the bailots. Ih the name of thou-} Junior Groups and thru the, city of- fice of the Junior Section directly. All inquiries, etc. should be address- ed; Junior Camp Committee, Young Workers League, 10, East 14th St., New York City. sands of militants,in the I, A. of M., tnternational ‘Amalgamation Com- emidiates such unconstitution- and proposes the following: For a Protest. call upon all local lodges )- against such violations of stitution, and especially ghnston’s ruling which nulli- decision of the convention he majority vote in the re- rendaum. a Convention in 1926. appeal to all local lodges somniediately deiaand the calling of é convention in 19226 (and every two ae thereafter) so: that this question “* ean be passed upon\ by the member- ship The grand lotige officers are \ elected every two yeitrs and it is of " the utmost importante that a con- vention be held every two years pre- § ceding the election of officers, so that the rank and file may have an opportunity to decide on necessary | principles of the class struggle and changes in our laws and also to de-; who follow a militant fighting policy. a@néaccounting from our lead-| 6. We are unalterably opposed to er(yip for their policies. the proposed plan of contesting the For a National Conference. election in the capitalist courts. The “3. We propose that a she con-| courts are instruments of the capital- gramm (B. & O. plan, etc.) of John- ston & Co., for an extensive drive to bring about amalgamation of all the metal trades, for a national labor party based on the trade unions and other working class organization, for international trade union unity, and for the right of minority expression in the union. For Class Struggle Leadership. 5; ‘We demand a leadership for our union that is capable of coping with present conditions in industry. If the I. A. of M. is again to become a fac- tor in the metal industry in this country and to be able to protect the interests of its membership. it must be led by men who understand the ference of all militants an{ progres-| ist class and their interference in our | sive elements in the I. A.\pf M. be | affairs can only result to the detri- held to consider the queStion of how | ment of the union. An aroused mem- izafion ftom be-| bership which understands its rights nm and An aux-|and is willing to fight for them is the Association. To | only cure for such election steals as militant and/that just perpetrated by the John- rs of the I A. of|ston-Davison machine, and it is the d in the various in-|sole safeguard against reactionary ‘8, to consider ways |trade union bureaucracies in general. insuring honest elec-| The progressive elements in the I. A. union and to organize |of M. must act together nationally to against the steal just per-|free the union from the present lead- ‘against us by the Johnston-jership and to put at its head men administration, who will carry out a real fighting pol- inst Class Collaboration. icy. We call for a national struggle} International Committee for Amal- tthe class collaboration pro-|gamation in the Metal Industry. this end progressive me’ M. should be dustrial ove ploture shows French colonial troops on a front line near Ain ofthe Imperialist Invadore - government In the attempt to wrest the Riff republic from the natives. The Morocca the Frenoh from taking their territory, and have inflicted severe defeats on both the Spanish and KRASSIN’S SECRETARY COMING TO U.S, FOR THE SOVIET UNION M. Patmagian, private secretary to Leonid Krassin, ambassador to France for the Soviet Union, is re- ported to be coming to the United States on a mission for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. DEPORTEE’S WIFE AND 5 CHILDREN GET $9 WEEKLY Sent to Poland in 1924 Frame-up (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, June 28—Mrs. Nicolai Mansevich, wife of the Russian worker deported after a notorious federal frameup 13 months - ago, 18 entering her second year of existence on a stipend $9 a week given by the Detroit department of public welfare. The department is also continuing payments on the Mansevich home. But the $9 a week mu support not only this woman practically widowed by the government but the four little Man ich girls, all born in Detroit. from Poland, where he was sent, say Mansévich has been sick there since winter. Altho he had worked nearly 10 years at the Ford Motor Co. he was convicted of being a dangerous radical because anarchist literature was de- livered to, his home one day. Testi- mony at the hearings indicated the delivery was a “plant”, Many Industries in California Flout Eight Hour Laws WASHINGTON, June 28—~An in- crease of 31.8 percent in the number of complaints filed with the California Bureau of Labor Statistics against violations of the women’s eight-hour law is reported for the past two fiscal years as compared with the total for the years 1921 and 1922. The total rose from 870 to 1147, according to data furnished the women’s bureau of the U. S. department of labor. Most frequent violations were com- plained of in these industries, in order: restaurants, hotels, apartment houses and boarding houses, retail stores, hospitals and sanitariums, factories and shops, candy and con- fectionery establishments. Write the story about your shop— Order a bundle to distribute there, FRENCH USE COLONIALS IN RIFF INVASION Riche Ot has Aicha, which are being used by the, have so CAL'S CLUB OF MILLIONAIRES 1S PROFIT BULWARK Power Has Been Taken from the Senate By LAWRENCE) TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON,—(FP)—Six out of ten of Calvin Coolidge’s cabinet are millionaires, and an admirer of the administration has pointed out that the days when the senate was the Millionaires’ Club have passed; that title now is held by the group that meets In the White House twice a week, ® Even with the anticipated resign- ation of Secretary of War Weeks, who got his million many years ago as a bond broker and banker, the wealth of this handful of rulers is so coloss- al as to leave no doubt of the instinct sharply the privileges of capital as against labor. Mellon Leads the Procession | Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, whose fortune is. estimated at any- where from $300,000,000 to $600,000, 000, has dominated the Harding and Coolidge administrations in their economic policy. Probably the only men in the United States richer than he are the Rockefellers and Henry Ford. The du Pont fortune is greater than the Mellon fortune, but it is divided amoung many heirs who quarrel bit- terly and hence is merely a corpora- tion. Mellon, dominant and scheming by nature, could have become a sen- ator, but he saw that the drift of fed- eral government power jis all into the hands of the president. Since he wanted to run the country, he became boss of the cabinet. Hoover Scorns Little Business Herbert Hoover,’ se¢retary of com- merce, is thought td’ have gathered between $8,000,000 ard$10,000,000 in gold mining and other ventures in Au- stralia, South Africa, “Russia, China and various other’ patts of the world —generally as a diréctor and engin- eer and small partner in big British enterprises. & His contempt of “lithe business’ re- sistance to the growth of big business was well illustrated by his defense of the Big Five Chitago meat packers private against the federal trade commis- sion’s inquiry during 'the war. Kellog; Ri \ Lawyer , Secretary Kel ‘ is the richest man who has ever ,headed the state department, just ase was the richest lawyer—except poagibly Knox—to sit in the senate. He jas accumulated $5,000,000, his friends say, while act- ing as counsel for. failroad, steel, in- surance, banking and other corpora- tions. “ He was unexpectedly brought into the cabinet, but has,found the place so influential that he intends to stay. His legal advice in the “scrapping” of such branches of the government as the tariff commission, and the federal trade commission, and in crippling the legislative power of: the rebellious senate, is very valuable to Coolidge. Davis Is Mellon Tool James J. Davis, head of the Moose order, is reputed to,havye made more than a million out of, that scheme, and to have added possibly another million by means of his bank in Pitts- burg. He is one of the Mellon satel- lites. Inasmuch as Mellon is anti-union and is a super-employer, Davis at the head of the labor department of the government can contribute a great deal to the inactivity of the govern- ment in handling the wrongs inflicted upon unorganized as well as organ- ized labor. Appropriations for the work of Davis’ department have been steadily cut downy\in places where the work disturbed Mellon's interests. Finally there is Hubert Work, who was first employed*to undo the pro- union record made by Will Hays as postmaster general, and who later was made head of the interior depart- ment. His millions ‘were made as a doctor, investor, Proprietor of an asy- lum or sanitarium; and general at- tache of the mining and smelting in- of the cabinet as a whole to guard; | Mahoney Sars There Is No Place in Minnesota For the Socialkt Party \ By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL\ TODAY: Minnesota labor is passing judemenon the efforts of Eugene V. Debs to revive the “socialist\jarty organ- ization in that state. The masses of worker: Min the city and on the land, gave their verdict when they*giled com- pletely to attend, not only the mass membership \onference so-called, but also the picnic gathering address by the “socialist” leader who was accustomed to appes before large multitudes in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis \nd St. Paul. : * * 8 * William Mahoney, editor of the Minnesota. Union ‘ad- vocate, official organ of the Minnesota Federatiot, of Labor and the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly, speiking for the officialdom of labor, declares that: “Outside the ambition and the delusion of a few of the leMers, we can see no plage in Minnesota for the socialist party, even a8 aMeduca- tional factor.” Mahoney ought to know. He has been a “socialist” hin. self. But those days dre long gone by. He has slipped aj the way back into the old parties, altho he still tries to retain one foot in the Farmer-Labor Party, no doubt to betray it again at the next opportunity. ar * * Mahoney quotes Abe Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, in support of his argument, crediting to the anti- Communist head of this “socialist” organ the statement that the socialists had been cherishing a delusion and that there was no place now for a party like the one they had been nurturing. In effect, Cahan is said to have admitted, that either the Communist group or a farmer-labor progressive - group met the situation. ‘ Mahoney does not seem to be aware of the fact that it is his friend and fellow anti-Communist editor, Cahan, who is reputed to have turned over $15,000 to Debs and his “so- cialist” party for its present “re-organization” campaign. Not that Cahan has any illusions about rebuilding the “so- cialist’ party. Only Debs harbors these. But Cahan uses the “socialist” party as a weapon, now more blunted than ever, in his losing war against the militants in the needle trades unions, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers, the Furriers and the Capmakers. None of these unions have any great member- ship in Minnesota, so the workers of that state do not see the real face of the actual head of the “socialist” party. This is permitted the workers only in the large clothing cen- ters» like New York City and Chicago, while it becomes visible to the nation only in such Cahan-inspired propaganda tours as that carried on by the counter-revolutionary, Abramovitch, specially imported for the occasion. There- fore, the “socialist” party has a mission, as a weapon in the! hands of the most reactionary labor bureaucracy to be used against militant labor. 4 Debs has willingly lent himself to that campaign. If if his trip to yk sins had ny ee it was to seronaaen, ele- .. ‘ments that are trying to drive the Communists out of the _ trade unions. But . & this result \ Ak smi acs ot ies noticeable. Mahoney also lends himself to the same reactionary crowd, that would rather destroy the organized labor move- ment than see it develop a really class conscious character. * * ) ° But labor in Minnesota, as elsewhere, moves forward in spite of the desperate efforts of Debs and Mahoney, with others like them, to put the brakes on the wheels of progress. The Workers (Communist) Party is stronger than ever in Minnesota today, in spite of the attacks of Debs, Mahoney and the subversive campaigns financed by Cahan. * * * * The class struggle develops, the class conscious spirit of labor grows and strengthens, relegating Debs’ nonde- script aggregation of “socialists” to the scrap heap, but also exposing such renegades as Mahoney, and unmasking them as agents of the plutocracy inside labor’s ramparts. While the Minnesota “socialists” openly flaunt their alliances with the republicans and the democrats, Mahoney still flirts energetically with the farmer-labor party. But the movement for independent political action by the workers in Minnesota will in time, dump Mahoney into fitting sur- roundings. Mahoney may claim truly that there is no “place in Minnesota for the socialist party,” but with equal truth, it may be said that there is no place inside the trenches on labor’s side of the class struggle for Editor Mahoney. He is trying to keep his feet in the camps of both the workers and the bosses. But enlightened labor will see that he fails in this; that he is pushed into the ranks of labor's enemy, where he really belongs. KLUXER MOB WRECKS NEGRO’S DETROIT HOME WHILE POLICE FAIL TO GIVE HIM PROTECTION DETROIT, June 28—-A Negro physician’s home has been stoned here in a ku klux klan demonstration in which hundreds of men and boys several hours on two nights filled Spokane avenue, a residential street in the North- west section, Forty patrolmen, 15 mounted men and 10 motorcycle men terests in Colorado. He, too, might have gone to the senate, but realized that power rests With the White House, where the dicts of Congress may be nullified by hostile interpre- tation. ‘ Wilbur, New, Jardine and Sargent are said to be still below the million- dollar mark, Howeyer, their loyalty is beyond question,” Polish-German Treaty Unlikely, BERLIN, Germany, June 28—In a last attempt to avoid a customs war, an arbitration committee containing Polish and German delegates has been appointed, If the Polish import pro- hibitino laws go into effect on July 4 as scheduled, a breach in the negotia- tions for a commerelal treaty will be unavoidable, n + Eight Diein Philippine Typhoon, MANILA, June 28!~A typhoon took & toll of at least eight lives in Bulacin and Camarines provinces, according to reports reaching here today. Five deaths were reported in Bula- cin province and thé Daet municipal: ity in Camarines was practi- cally destroyed, with three deaths, failed to prevent disorder, Furniture was smashed by stones and bricks hurled thru windows. The physician's head was cut by a brick thrown into his lmousine as he was being escorted to his office in another part of the city. A police officer also was struck, One young man taken to a. police station after being found with a stone in his hand was immediately released, A. $40,000 House, The physician is Dr. Alex L, Turner, graauate of the University of Michi- gan and Howard University and cap- tain of his class basket ball team at the former school, He paid about $40,000 for the house and moved in the day prior to the first demonstra- tion, refusing to heed a threatening placard. Detroit Negroes have kept their heads in the crisis, which is being given considerable publicity, and only two other Negroes, both physic- jans, were in the house with Dr, Turner the second night. Prominent Physician. He has been a practicing physician in Detroit 15 years. Many of his pa- tients are white, he said. He has never had trouble before tho often in the past, he sald, he has been the only Negro in a class or an entire town. Late the second night he was pre- vafled upon by a committee of two to sell the house but the following day changed his mind on the advice of his attorney. It is believed, however, he has given up the idea of living there. Tell other workers what happens in bundle to distribute there. ing on school time in New York City _ No Religion on School Time WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 28-—Fifth and sixth grade. children cannot take 45 minutes a week from school time for religious instruction, supreme court justice Albert Seeger rules in granting an injunction against the Mount Vernon school board. The injunction results from action taken by the Free- thinkers Society, which is opposing the attempts to introduce religious teach- CHINESE PROTEST MEET INSPIRES SAN FRANCISCO Chinese and Japanese in , Class Unity (Special to The Daily Worker.) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 28. For the first time in the history of this city, Chinese, Japanese and Amay- ican speakers voiced a common de mand from the same platform for working class solidarity towards a revolutionary object. The success of the meeting is doubly significant in that San Francisco has been for years the hotbed of anti-Oriental propa- ganda. Labor skates of the caliber of Paul Scharrenberg, President of the State Federation of Labor and John O'Connell, secretary of the local labor council, have made this their stock in trade for the past decade, in conjunc- tion with some of the most notorious politicians of California. 3 Chinese Students and Workers. The Unionist Guild, the only Chinese labor organization in this country, co- operated in advertising the meeting and supplying speakers. Miss Sum Way Gum, president of the guild; Cham Sut Yeu, its secretary and the editor of the Chinese labor paper Kung Sing, and Marshall Jeng, vice- president and an officer of the Chinese Students’ Association of America, were the speakers in Chinese. Wm. M. Moke, of the guild, translated the speeches. The sincerity and develop- ing class consciousness of the speak- ers favorably impressed the audience which was one of the largest recorded at the party hal\, James H. Holsen, as the main speaker of the evening, showed how the struggle in China was the result of thé development of the imperialist phase of capitalism and explained why it was that the Communists sup- ported the Kuo Min Tang war for in- dependence, Japanese Pledges Clase Solidarity. Shiu Matsui, in an address in Jap- anese to his countrymen who attended the meeting, denounced the Japanese government for its interference in Chinese affairs and aroused great enthusiasm when he closed his speech with a plea for the workers of every nation to rally behind the Com- munist International. ,qy,,™ response to an appeal from the if district organizer of the Workers Party, Tom Lewis, over $80 was raised to be forwarded to the Chinese strik- “Jers at Shanghai, thus giving a tangible evidence of the support of the Amer- _jican workers for their Chinese com rades and fellow workers, - The following resolution was passed unanimously by standing vote of the audience: AER UTION ON THE SHOOTING OWN OF STRIKERS IN CHINA BY THE ARMED FORCES OF THE FOR- EIGN POWERS, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES. Whereas, the woi ‘s of China carrying on a struggle for bet ing conditions and higher ing the abolishment of thi bosses in the factories to workers and the restriction of ti or of children under the age of twe' and » the police of the foreign con- that country have been used to break down these strikes by the most brutal methods, Lita | the shooting do} id blood of Chinese strikers, id tortures of their leaders cases to their conviction by | for long terms; and he American government has landed troops and sent warships to “protect” these famous ouplalioes, of the Chinese wi of “protecting” Ai American soldiers and sailors are doi police duty in China now to break strikes called by the oppressed Chin: workers i pa owned mills; and » the Briti: ed to their trade unions have ment sean its affairs in behalf Chinese of the Puy that struggle le carried om ao heres by most strongly protest against inter- vention by the American govern: the affairs of China and call Ire organizations in America take action at once. We demand that American soldiers and sailors be with- "awn from China at once. Be it resolved that copies of these resolutions be sent to the President of the United States, to the senators and congressmen from this district and to local press. O'Connell Buries Resolution. The guild is mailing out to all the unions in the state a copy of a similar resolution, calling on organized labor to demand the withdrawal of all American armed forces from China, together with an appeal, reciting the circumstances under which the strike movement arose. A resolution for such a purpose has already been in- troduced into the local Labor Council. On the objection of the ultra-reac- tionary secretary, John O'Connell, it was referred for burial to the law and legislative committee, as John wasn't sure but that the capitalist press might have made a mistake in reporting that American marines were shooting down Chinese strikers and doing po- lice duty in Shanghai for Japanese mill owners, The local Chinese are holding open air meetings in their section of the city every night. Dolsen spoke at one your shop. Write a story and sendit|of these meetings by request a few to the DAILY WORKER. Order a] nights ago, response, receiving a splendid js. The freethinkers charge that allowing children time off from school for religious teaching links chureh and atate again contrary to the United States constitution. i \ 4