The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1925, Page 6

ee Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL { WILLIAM F, DUD MORITZ J, LOEE red as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Business Manager ‘Advertising rates on application, A Horrible Example E if you. combed the columns of a capitalist paper for twelve months in search of convincing proof that the newspapers of the em- ploying class twist the news to suit the interests of that class, you could not find a better piece of evidence than the following item taken from yesterday's issue of the Chicago Tribune, concerning the strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers against the Interna- tional Tailoring company. Here it is: i Two pickets on duty at a clothing workers’ strike at the plant of the Intrenational Tailoring compnay, 847 West Jackson boulevard, were arrested yesterday on charges of inciting a riot. They were isadore Lipman, 1058 South Avers avenue, and Rudolph Pocascichal, 2849 South Richmond street. About 800 workers in Chicago and 300 in New York are affected by the strike, said to have originated with a refusal of members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers faction among the employes to act with the United Garment Workers, the older tailor orgamiza- tion, with which the employers have an agreement. Now for the facts: The contract between the International ‘ailoring company and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Amer- ica expired on May 1. The clothing company refused to renew the contract unless the union agreed to a reduction in wages. This the union would not stand for. Other clothing firms signed up, but the International Tailoring company stood firm. In a letter to its employes, which is printed on another page, the International Tailoring company stated that it had decided to sever all connections with the Amalgamated and would henceforth work “under agreement with the United Garment Workers of Amer- ica in affiliation with the American Federation of Labor.” . Of course, the employes of the International Tailoring company spurned this “yellow dog” proposal. They struck to preserve the wages and working conditions which they had won thru the power of their collective solidarity. They did not strike against the United Garment Workers. They struck against the International Tailoring company. But the of- ficials of the United Garment Workers—a scabby outfit—came in to recruit strikebreakers for the clothing firm after agreeing to accept the bosses’ terms in return for a contract. The United Garment Workers’ Union has not a single local in this city. It is doubtful if it has even a single member, with the ex- ception of the few scabs who are working in the shops of the Inter- national Tailoring company under police protection. It is not true that the “Amalgamated Clothing Workers faction” refused to work with the United Garment Workers, as the lying Tribune states. There was no such problem because there were no members of the United Garment Workers in the struck shops. They were 100 per cent Amalgamated. The officials of the United Garment Workers are scabbing on the regular, bonafide fink agencies. The DAILY WORKER again ealls the atention of the trade unionists of Chicago to the presence of this pestilent crew of strikebreakers in the city. No member of the American Federation of Labor should have an easy conscience unless he or she gives the scabby Rickert crew to understand that there is no place in Chicago for strikebreakers, masquerading as trade unionists. We also wish to point out to the workers of Chicago that the capita press outdoes itself in lying when there is a strike on and it always lies in favor of the employers and the scabs. . Japan Is Worried Count Michimasa Soyeshima, member of the Japanese house of peers, who is here to deliver a few lectures, declares that Japan will go to war with the Soviet Union within ten years. Perhaps and perhaps not, most likely not, unless Japan is sure of help. Japan has other worries besides Soviet Russia. The same page that carried the above prediction by the count, featured a Tokio news dispatch, telling of the sensation created in Japanese government circles over the landing of British troops in Canton, China. High government officials did not hesitate to brand the British move as “sinister,” tho they yentured to state that Britain would not “dare to risk occupation of the city with all that this would imply.” Yes, Japan has other worries besides Soviet Russia. There are Britain and the United States. It is true, they are burglars of the sume stripe, but Chicagoans need not be taught that burglars some- times shoot each other. Our professional gunmen are good teachers. Japan is between the devil and the red sea. The devil is repres- ented by the powerful empires of Britain andthe United States. The red sea is Communism. The ruling classes of Japan may make peace with the devil in return for an existence asthe devil’s disciples in the Orient. But the red sea will engulf them sooner or later. The Japanese ruling classes know that their natural enemy is Com- munism, and that the Soviet Union is the fatherland of Communism. But they don’t want to die just yet. They want to postpone the in- eyitable. Therefore they will avoid war with the Soviet Union. They know that the Russia the Mikado licked in 1905 is not the Russia of today, The Vew Leader is a little bit disappointed because the French socialists voted to support Painleve in his war against the Riffians. But then, the inconsiderate way in which the Communists attacked the goverument, said Mr. Oneal, rendered, it difficult for self-respect- ing socialisis to do otherwise.. How could they have voted with the evolutionists? That would be terrible. The American capitalists are now showing considerable interest in the welfare of the Chinese people. Here is a good object lesson for those workers who believe their best interests will be served by not making any trouble for the boss. The more you kick the more you get, provided you don’t kick your own shins. The International Labor Defense conference was not given wide publicity by the capitalist press. Here was a united front meeting | that produced real unity. Thaf is one reason why the boss press ignored it. But they cannot kill it by silence. One of the buildings wrecked in thé Santa Barbara earthquake | was a mission, which was devoted to the use of the Lord, as the christian deity is sometimes called. The Lord is not Johnny-on-the- avot these days. AY ieee should. ¢ ‘ oe of he another janitor, ve 3 3 + pli ria | SOVIET UNION HAS DEFICITLESS BUDGET AND STABLE CURRENCY IN SPITE OF FINANCIAL BLOCKADE MOSCOW. "(By Mail)—In submitting to the Third Congress of Soviets,,| for approval, the budget of the U. S. S. R. for the financial year 1924-1925, amounting to 2,558 million rubles, People’s Commissafy¥ of Finance Sokolni- koff presented a detailed report on the financial situation of the Union, em- phasizing that, contrary to predictions made at Genoa‘and Hagues as to a would-be inevitable financial break-down of the Soviet ‘Republics, the latter succeeded, under difficult conditions of permanent financial blockade in set- ting up.a sound financial order, a deficitless budget and a stable currency, The speaker in his talk pointed out + that while at the time of the final currency reform, in 1924, the bulk of monetary circulation in the union did pot exceed 319 million gold rubles, it now amounted to 780 millions. As for the state budget, it had been doubled during the last three years. As com- pared with the pre-war budget, admin- istrative expenses diminished, while those for cultural objects were in- creased, the military expenses attain- ed 417 million in this year’s esti- mates as against 850 million in the budget of 1913. Development of Trade. The tax revenue was larger, the people’s commissary stressed, not in consequence of an increase of the taxation burden, but owing to the de- velopment of trade. The agricultural tax was lowered about a hundred million rubles, while the taxation of private trade was also being revised with a view to facilitating its further development. Favorable tax returns from the transport and the light in- dustries enabled the government to readjust industrial credits to an amount of 150 million rubles, of which 41 million have been allotted for the national electrification scheme. om. Deposits Doubled. The financial blockade — further stated the reporter—had compelled the government to seek internal re- sources to finance industry whose in- debtedness to the Soviet banks ac- tually reached one milliard rubles; however, the system of credits was in- creased not on account of bank note issues, but thru the growth of bank deposits, which at the present time exceeded the milliard mark, which was. the double of October, 1924, figures. Foreign Credits Not Essential. ‘The Soviet government, Sokolnikoft declared, fully realized the import- ance of foreign credits and were will- ing to make necessary concessions in- asmuch as the latter did not impair the interests of national economy. At the same time, while the government was alive to the fact that foreign cre- dits would greatly expedite the eco- nomic recovery of the country, this fundamental probleti of the revival of national economy could also be solved by means of the union’s own internal forces. The congress greeted with loud cheers Sokolnikoff’s statement con. cerning the government’s allowance: forthe restoration of the former Urk. hardt works, in particular the Ridder andthe Karabash works, also having belonged to the Urkhardt company, the operating of the latter works be- ing scheduled to start within the next two or three days. The speaker fur- ther pointed out to the great import- ance for the national economy of the union of concessions like the Lena gold fields. Balanced the Budget. Referring again to the deficitless character of this year’s budget, the people’s commissary of finance em- phasized that the government had suc- ceeded to balance the budget and ab- stain from paper currency issues in spite of a poor harvest and a series of metereological disasters; as for the passive trade balance, that was only a means of right adaptation of gold reserves, a means which, in future, would also serve as a fundamental insurance in case of bad crops, at- tempts to recommence ‘financial block- ade, etc. Increase Gold ,Output. The bank note circulation was bas- ed on a permanent guarantee amount- ing to 239 millions, including the gold reserves of ,the state bank and the tfeasury. At the same time, all pos- sible measures were taken to increase the gold output, which after attaining 3,296 poods in 1913, had dropped to 1,885 poods in 1917 to fall down to 8% poods only in 1921, but rose again to 1,810 poods at the present time. Mentioning that during the war, 600, million gold rubles were exported to Britain as a guarantee for the czarist debts, while about one hundred mil-. lion rubles were taken by Kolchak and distributed among American, Eng- lish and French banks, Sokolnikoff pointed out that attention should be drawn to this circumstance during the negotiations for the settlement of mutual claims. Withdraw London Deposits. In the past year, the speaker fur- ther remarked, 150 million rubles out of the union state bank's gold re- serve were deposited in Britain; but now the larger part of this sum has been transferred to other countries with which economic relations are be- ing most favorably developed. The Soviet government did not want to hamper relations with the London market, but they could not do other- wise than to re-distribute their hold- ings of gold abroad in view of the unfavorable turn in Anglo-Soviet re- lations the non-ratification of last year’s London treaty had brot about. In conclusion, the -people’s commis- sary of finance pointed out that it Wags impossible to settle \the inter-allied debts without the participation of the Union of Soviet Soojaiist Republics. AK DIG QUAKE CITY FROM RUINS; 11 DEAD, MANY HURT Member of the Lathers’ Union Among Killed SANTA BARBARA, Cal., June 30.— Quake stricken Santa Barbara’s death toll remainde at 11)today and the toll of missing was lowered. Seventy-five are injured, Miss Carter, maid, was reportec alive today. She was said to hav escaped from the hotel and is nov safe but seriously injured. Union Man Killed, Reports that another body had been sighted in the Arlington debris were denied by police: Among those killed was William Mathews, member of the Lathers’ Union, Workers turhed their attention to the San Marcos building in an effort to uncover the body of Chappo Mas- tero, chief engineer of the building. Threeyshocks which rocked the city this morning did mo damage of con- sequence. The first shock at 1:22 a. m, was the most severe of the three and shook the wrecked buildings and totetring walls violently. Conscript Workers, — Many men have been conscripted as laborers by the city. They are dig- ging in debris on State street and are removing piles of pricks from the streets and are picking up shoes, costly furs, dresses and hats heaved to the pavement’ and buried in broken glass, stucco and plaster. Seventy thousand gallons of gas- oline and 35,000" gallons of distillate have formed a great pool in the lum- ber yards. A spark would start a conflagration which -might destroy an already crippled city, Eastern Section Flooded. Houses were off their foundation, household effects carried away and East Santa Batbata covered with a two-foot crust of mud when fifteen million gallons of water swept out of the broken Sheffleld reservoir at the time of the first quake. The water riding.” This was the version of the Santa Barbara earthquake given today by the Countess Minotto of Chicago, whose son married the daughter of Louis F. Swift. selfs | Earth Movements In Hawaii. HONOLULU, June 30. — Large sulpher patches have developed in the firepit of Kileua, a volcano near here, following the earthquakes which shook Montana and California, accord- ing to a cable from Dr. Thomas Jag- gar, volcano expert. NIST CU sb A AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) and dispatched by courier to Berlin. The Trib says that since its regular correspondents are not allowed into Russia, it resorted to the trick of hiring a trained newspaperman who is traveling incognitu thru the Soviet Union. It would show the wily Com- munists that a great American news- paper could not be thwarted, And what does this trained newspaperman tell us? Nothing except that Zinoviev, Kameneff and Stalin are the “big three” in the Soviet Union. Terrible news! What consternation would be caused in the Soviet Union, for in- stance, if a Bolshevik reporter dis- guised as a social democrat, were to send a dispatch to his home paper, to the effect that the United States was run by Mellon, Butler and J, P. Morgan and that the government,.took its orders from the Masonic order? eR Bee cE is no secret that the Communist Party of Russia is the political party which directs the social and in- lustrial life of the Soviet Union. We wre not aware that any Soviet leader sver went to the trouvle of denying his. Nobody questions the right of he British Tory party to run the Bri- ish empire, except the British work- rs who feel that they alone are en- itled to that right. And nobody only he class conscious workers of Amer- ica question the fight of the repullic- an party to run this country. Cay te HE Tribune’s disguised correspond- ent is not in Russia for the purpose of sending out the truth. That was done by the British Trade Union dele- gation. And it is not at all unlikely that the new offensive in the newspapers, is another concerted campaign, de- signed to offset the effect of the Bri- tish report on the working masses in Europe and the United States. 4 T is significant that the propaganda of “exposures” flooding the Amer- ican press, designed to show the close connection between the Communist International and the Soviet govern- ment, should come at a time when the movement for the unification of the world’s workers into one interna- tional trade union is making: rapid headway. This unity drive has~ no more bitter opponents than the re- actionary trade union leaders of Amer- ica and the yellow socialists. This is not the first time the socialists and the capitalists joined in a United front against the workers. : ‘ee * HE fact that one of the leaders of the world trade union unity movement, A. A. Purcell, is coming to the United States as a fraternal dele- gate to the next cumvention of the American Federation of Labor, is an added reason why our capitalist pa- pers are so anxious to poison the minds of the American workers against Soviet Russia. This is'‘to be expected. That the capitalist press should lie is just as natural as that a duck should swim. Lying is part of their equipment. with which to keep the workers in slavery. Some day they will stop lymg, but not vol- untarily. In the meantime, if you are a worker and want the kind of news that is useful to the masses, read the DAILY WORKER, which is very partial—to the workers. Farmer-Labor Summer School Opens IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo., June 30.— The third annual Farmer-Labor Sum- mer School of the Colorado labor movement opened in Idaho Springs ‘une 28 for a Week’s session. cOLUAN x In capitalist ‘countries children without parents'are kept in insti- tions. In Soviet Russia, where the best they have “is given to the children, a whole town has been set aside for them and this town is called “Children’s Town.” The other day you read a letter in our column from a little girl who lives in Children’s Town to her foster- parent. Today~'yeu will get ac- quainted with two more children who live in Here is a letter to her uncle: “Dear Uncle:' Come to see us in Russia. It iff very nice in our little Children’s Town. Our beau- tiful garden is in blossom now and it smells wonderfully nice of flowers. “Unele, you asked me to write you what lessons we are learning. We have lessons in the Russian language and we study the vega- tative and anirial world, Then geography, social science, mathe- maties and cultire.” This one is ffém a little boy to his aunt; “Dear Auntie; I live in the Rus- No. 2 and 11 bloom now. to us and ‘hildren’s Town. te a little girl sian Children’s yur park: is’ in, Kazanka is yi oe A ES EE A ES 9 cr A EE ie EE En ee missed the main part of the city. se She Should Worry. SANTA BARBARA, June 30. — “It was fearful, terrible, fiendish; but it is all past now. For myself, I am happy again and am going horseback Activities In “Children’s Town” : we go swimming right thru the park. “We study too, and we oe- cupy ourselves with pioneer work : We write slogans, papers, estab- lish Lenin corners, do gymnastics and act plays. We are going to act a play for fun in Trotsky Woods. The play will be about|- the red and white army.” { = By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. AVINIA PARK, the suburban open air opera house, opened its gates for the fourteenth time last Saturday night. “The Love of Three Kings” was the opera chosen for the opener. The names of the characters in Ben- elli’s libretto are Archibaldo, Man- fredo, Avito and Flora. These are the people who fret their while on the stage. The actual characters are the same sextet we meet in every opera plot—Love, War, Adultery, Murder, Disease and Poison, And in “The Love of Three Kings” the six are mixed up quite outlandishly enuf for an ideal operatic story, \ Italo Montemezzi set the book sortie twelve or thirteen years ago. He did a good job of it. The music is rich) and beautiful, at. times thrilling,’ always a ya There is pare tr ‘ LRP RRO ro i) i ey INSULL TRACTION TRUST GRABS MORE LINES; MOST GIGANTIC SYSTEM . IN WORLD, INCLUDES POWER PLANTS INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June 30.—Hearing was started by the Indiana Public Service Commission’today on the petition of the recently incorporated Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railway for the purchase of the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend. The purchasing company is an Insull organiza- tion, with $2,000,000 preferred and 200,000 shares of common stock, of no par value, incorporated for the purpose of taking over the selling company, which has been operating for some time under receivership. Acquisition of the property by the Insull interests it was stated here by observers close to the situation, would mean the addition of a link in a proposed Insull traction system from 4————_____—______ Buys Another Line. The Interstate Public Service Co., parent traction line of the Insulls, op- erating between Louisville and Indian- apolis, recently established limited serives to South Bend. The Chicago, Milwaukee section is said to be under Tnsull control. The next anticipated: move of the Insulls in Indiana, it is stated by the same sources, is acquisitién of the 380 mile union traction co., now op- erating under a receiver. The asser- tion is made that the Insulls have completed, or are nearing completion, a minute survey of the entire Union Traction system, including its three trunk lines leading: out, fan-shaped from Indianapolis, with terminals at Logansport, Peru, Wabash, Bluffton, Portland, Union City and Newcastle. Biggest ‘in World. Addition of the Chicago Lake Shore & South Bend and the Union Traction would give the Insulls the most gi- gantic interurban system in the world, almost 800 miles, in the heart of one of the most populous sections of the United States, including a large part of the northeast quarter of Indiana, regarded by many as the choicest ter- ritory in the midwest for electrical development. Articles of incorpation of the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend stipulate the operation of motor ve- hicles.on highways, the first instance wherein double service has been pro- posed by an incorporating traction system in Indiana. This, it is stated, is typical of the Insulls, who in addi- tion’ to having the Interstate between Indianapolis ‘and Louisville, also have exclusive bus service between the two cities. The Interstate was the first in- terurban system to parallel its ling with busses. Grabs Power Companies. In connection with proposed exten- sion of Insull traction business in In- diana, it is pointed out by experienc- ed railway men, invaluable rights of way for high power transmission lines are secured, as in the purchase of their second traction property acquir- ed by purchase of the Winona system earlier this year. In addition to be- ing a link in the Milwaukee-Louisville line, it serves the purpose of aiding in supply of current to communities using Insull companies’ electricity for light and power. Rights of way ac- quired by purchase of traction prop- erties, it is asserted, eventually, will prove of tremendous value in-the spread of the Insull electric empire in Indiana. SPIRITS OF ABRAMOVITCH, NOSKE, HOVER OVER FORWARD’S FEAST By JOSEPH R. BOOTH On the 28th of June the traitorous socialists of Chicago had a glorious time at the opening of the new home of the yellow Chicago Jewish Daily Forward, at Kedzie and 13th street, an institution of the blackest reaction ‘a meeting at the Ashland Auditorium. | vial where the pen prostitutes of the yellow socialist international continually manufacture absurd lies against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. ‘ This is the same shameless outfit that throws mud at the Comintern and all revolutionaries engaged in the class struggle. It is in this Forward nest of vipers that they conspire against ¢— all militants in the unions, workmen circles and other organizations. Have Costly Program. Thus it is fitting that this un- scrupulous bunch should celebrate their achievements, including an en-| larged edition of the Forward, with a banquet at the Morrison Hotel and Conspicuous at this affair of the} enemies of militant labor was the degenerate Siskind, city labor editor; Schlesinger, manager, and his retinue, | smirking and feasting at the expense of unclass conscious workers whose ignorance is responsible for keeping them in power to fool and betray| them. Let it also be noted that among the guests of honor was the boss of the New York Forward, infamous bunk socialist, Aby Cahan and his faithful manager, the would-be imitator of Lassalle, B. Viadeck. Labor Fakers There. Hence it is perhaps unnecessary to say that all of the brilliant yellow so- cialists and labor bureaucratic speak- ers, including John Fitzpatrick, highly praised the Forward, an organ so well equipped to camouflage their admiring followers, with their usual keen ana- lysis which brazeningly sounds the glad prediction that Communism is dying; that Kautsky annuls the real Karl Marx and the only authoritative Marxian is such as set forth in Hiil- quit’s “From Marx to Lenin.” No one will doubt that on this re- markable occasion there was also felt the spiritual presence of such person, alities as Father Buchkewitz; butche) Noske, comrade Hindenburg; Autoist,. McDonald; renegade Abramowich and all the rrrebels of the remnants of the S. P. What a reflection on the rank and file of the workers that allow this new home of the Forward, with all of its equipment, to be constructed at their expense and then to have it remain in control of this rank gang of reactionaries. But it shall not al- ways be so. The time will come when all of their trickery to remain in power will be exposed, then they will be cleaned out by the revolutionaries and after a thoro fumigation the place in control of real fighters will be made to serve the workers’ cause. The workers are awakening, slowly but surely, to the disintegration of the S. P. The ever increasing number of militants in the labor unions proves that. These are the hopeful signs. MOTHER BLOOR REACHES CHICAGO TOMORROW ON HIKE FOR DAILY WORKER; SPEAKS AT JULY 4 PICNIC The first couple of thousand miles are the hardest, but on a hitch-hike for the DAILY WORKER they are most interesting and none can tell it better than Mother Bloor. The veteran fighter, who has just held successful meetings in Kansas City and St. Louis after hiking over two thousand miles on a trip begun on June 1 from Oakland California, will for Communism thruout the “wild and woolly west.” Thru her efforts new subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER have been secured in batches on every stop she has made, new Communist units have been organized -and thousands of workers have heard the ‘message of Communism from this veteran fighter. Mother Bloor on all of her trip has not paid a cent of railroad fare tell of her experiences in organi and has niade meetings on schedule as arranged before starting. Continu- ing her “hitch hiking” Communist cross country tour, Mother Bloor ar- rives in Chicago in time to tell_of her interesting experiences at the July fourth picnic to be held at Beyer’s Grove, California Ave, and Irving Park Blvd., by Local Chicago of the Workers (Communist) Party. ly an orchestral or vocal effect in it that is original, but the way in which the voices and instruments are hand- led makes it seem as if the novel twists in the score were legion, So far as performance went it was all between the bass, Virgilio Lazzari, the soprano, Lucrezia Bori, and the conductor, Gennaro Papi. Lazzari, as the old blind king, and Bori is his too amordus daughter-in-law . put on the most magnificent strangling scene IT have ever witnessed in an opera house, Lazzari has been often praised here ‘before. His art as actor and vocalist is beyond cavil. There was a thrill of horror in the second act where he picked up the body out of which he had just strangled the life and stag- gered out with it, a thrill ‘as not in the nprsic and oan be to no one but himself and Mme. Bors who played dead realistically, is hard to do. Lucrezia Bori is one of the e: tions to the operatic rule that says play a hundred pound part a. hundred and fifty pound woman is: quired. And she is an exception another rule that says operatic ers should not be great actresses, Returning to Ravinia after al two years I found it in nowise ¢ ed, except that the pop stand h replaced by a flower bed. The tr and shrubbery are lovely as ever ai an occasional moth still flies up act the stage, lending naturalness to t painted scene, and the long | the train whistles on nearby with the mi