The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1925, Page 1

‘came to time. Celebrate Anti-lmperialist Week by Distributing a Bundle of Daily Workers in Your Shop or Neighbor- hogh Vol. W. No cen a SHAFER ° 80 ORK WN Hola widur.ne \ TH Bntered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1925 * 150 Y ns un ATES: In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. s Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.0C per year. Squad in Reserve in Police War on Amalgamated Strikers To the “war correspondent” of the DAILY WORKER the strike of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers against the shops of the International Tailoring Company and J. L. Taylor & Co., two firms who have been chosen to begin the “open shop” drive in the clothing industry in Chica- 0, appeared as a battlefield. And the shame of the Chicago labor movement is that on that attlefield, a scab agency, called a union, the United Garment Workers, fight with the bosses AS WE SEE IT. By T. J. O'FLAHERTY ee man Feng is an interesting character. General Feng, the so- called Christian, who delivered the coupe-de-grace to Wu Pei Fu, who cut a big figure in China, not so long ago. Feng worked with Wu, and the capi- talist press had nice things to say about him. But suddenly he left Wu holding the bag and betook himself to Peking, which he captured, or occu- pied, as you may like to have it, and established himself as one of the big | guns in China. . * HANG-TSO-LIN, the Manchurian war lord and Japanese tool, grad- ually began to lose his commanding position. Chang has been moving his troops around like a chess player since the Shanghai outrages brought the Chinese discontent against the foreign imperialists to a head. But he is in a delicate position. If he openly takes the side of Japan, his troops will desert him and if he goes against Japan, he will jerk himself from the payroll. Like the presby- terian, he’s damned if he does and he’s damned if he doesn’t. * | PREVENTS DEBT FRENCH CRISIS PAYMENT 10 U.S. Painleve “Makes Idle Gesture Like Italy’s | (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, July 2, — Emile| Daeschner, the French ambassador, | has been instructed to tell Secretary | of State Kellogg that the French gov- ernment is giving serious considera-| tion to the adjustment of its $4,000,- 000,000 debt to the United States, | Pending the ambassador's visit to. the state department, details of his, instructions were not available, but it appeared doubtful whether he had been authorized to go further into the debt problem at present than to ad- vise this government that France in- tended to pay her debt and would send experts to Washington later in “ee WNERAL FENG has joined the Kuo Min Tang party, and is now the dominating character in the move- ment for the liberation and unifica- tion of China. His speeches are frank and thoroly christian. He hag all the zeal of the early martyrs. Bloodshed hag no terrors for him, uncontrollable desire to weapons on the British, possesses him. And the strangest ure of Feng’s conduct is, that he is quite friendly towards Soviet Russia. . oe capitalist press agents will not adduce this fact as evidence that christianity is more closely related to Communism than to capitalism, tho like the “flowers that bloom in’ the spring tra la la, it has nothing to do with the case.” They will show. that Feng is no more of a christian than Abd-el-Krim, but that he is a murder- ous scoundrel, who gloats over human suffering. Watch out for pen pictures of the once christian general, now not so christian, but much more worthy, his lethal ee hé BS eo L, LEWIS is waking up to the fact that the operators have al- ready repudiated the Jacksonville pact, in fact, if not officially. At the tri-district anthracite convention, in Scranton, the noted faker threatened to call a nation-wide strike in the bi- tuminous fields unless the operators But Lewis is only bluffing the miners. He is not fooling the operators. Under his leadership the operators have pulled the guts out of the union in the soft coal fields. They have done this while Lewis was spending union funds and the energy of his paid organizers driving the mili- the summer to discuss terms. Italy Made No Progress. This move by the French govern- ment will put its debt on the same status as that of Italy, according to the view in diplomatic circles, the Italian conference here haying only advanced to the point of a promise to pay before an adjournment was taken, ‘westure'made by Italy, however, ved to et influenced the “governnient to take @ similar step. No commitments will be made by the ambassador, but he will assure, the American debt funding commis- sion of France's desire to liquidate her external debts “as soon as the finan- cial reform planned by Finance Min- ister Caillaux is realized.” z Financial Crisis Growa, 1 is With the Moroccan war costing the | French millions of dollars, and the franc continually falling, with the workers protesting against the con- stant rise in prices and increasing burden of taxation, it appears that France will have difficulty in squirm- ing out of its financial crisis. Swindlers Got $3,000,000. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 2—Tak- ing the stand in his own defense, Morton S. Hawkins, on trial in fed- eral court here on charges of using the mails to defraud in an alleged gi- gantic swindling scheme today, de- clared that the Hawkins Mortgage Company in its existence sold $3,000,- 000 worth of stock, Britain Nervous in India, DELHI, British India, July 2—Arm- ored cars and police are patrolling the streets and cavalry and infantry are being held in the fort here, in ex- pectation of fighting during the Mos- (Continued on Page 5) J. P. MORGAN AUTO TRUST SWALLOWS SCAB YELLOW CAB CO.; POWDER KING TAKES PART IN THE DEAL Chicago learned today that the merger of the General Motors corporation and the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. had been c'! President Hertz of the cab concern. Yellow manufacturing stock reflected the report by selling up to 4754, lem festival, which begins today. losed in New York by tpeteting with determination and « but closed at 47, a net gain for the day of three points. Hertz is expected back In Chicago today at which time a formal announcement is expected. The General Motors corporation, the auto trust, is controlléd by J. P. against the workers on strike. Wednesday evening over fifty police, the armed force of the capitalist class, were lined up from Halsted to Green street and from Jackson Blvd. to Van Buren St. Thugs abounded. Flivver | squads ran at top speed around the block, continually. And parked in a strategic posttion was the machine gun riot detail—with Captain Schu- macher in charge of the auto, while around these armed forces swarmed the strikers. The streets were black with them, It was class war, Tuesday, the open shop bosses had taken their dwindling crew of scabs home in scabby Yellow cabs. Just | why they did not do so Wednesday night was explained by Amalgamated officials at a strike meeting. But, anyway, they were robbed of riding home in scab taxis, treated like pris- oners and let out a few at a time, trying like frightful rabbits to lose themselves in the crowd, Easy to Spot Strikebreaker. But there is something about a scab, even a “anion label” scab, that honest work- ers can spot a mile away, and many were recognized. Natuarlly, there were several arguments, the scabs not for shelter by lines of angry workers hemming them in on every side and telling them in none too-gentle tones that they were traitors totthe work- ing class and robbers of workers’ | stomachs, Officials were on the picket line, a circumstance that did much to heart- en the rank and file. Veritable clouds of strikers covered the streets for blocks, turning out at 6:30 in the rning and’ sticking to the job of thusiasm. So persistent are the Amalgamated members that this fight shall be won that they can hardly be induced to leave the picket line even to go to a strike meeting. “We can do more work on the picket line. That is where we win the strike,” they de- \clare. At the meeting in Hod Carriers’ |Hall, enthusiastic crowds greeted }many speakers. Mike De Novi, busi- ness agent of Local 270, who was busi- ness agent for the A. C. W. in the two struck shops, and Louis Chiostrio, spoke of how “remarkably well” the Italian workers are doing on the pick- et line. They warned the workers that the firm was trying to use racial pre- judices to divide, the workers. The assistant manager of the Chicago Amalgamated and a member of the G. E. B., gave a survey of the strike situation: Scab Heads Cheap; Taxi Windows Dear. “We do little talking, but much work. The Yellow scab taxi are hesitating to carry the scabs. The heads of scabs are cheaper to the bosses than the windows of cabs. So they didn’t use Yellow cabs last night. “The United Garment Workers al- leged ‘union’ is not interested in union membership. All it cares for is to sell labels to the manufacturers. It has a printing plant if New York City to turn them out and the bosses pay the dues to the union. It is noth- ing but a scab agency, having no in- terest in the membership. That is why the membership left it in 1910. “The Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of America does not belong to the American Federation of Labor, yet in the 1919 steel strike, when workers of the A. F. of L. fought against the capitalist steel barons, we were the first of all to send them $100, 000. Solidarity is needed in the labor movement, in the fight between capi- tal and labor. . “In New York City,” concluded Rissman, “the International Tailoring Morgan and company. The DuPonts own seven million shares, or one-third of the General Motors stock. SPEAKERS: James P. Cannon Member C. E. C., Workers (Com- munist) Party. _ C. T. Chi Chinese Students’ Alliance, H. V. Phillips American Negro Labor Congress. ir 4 Ella Reeve Bloor On 3,000 mile coast-to-coast hike for the DAILY WORKER. company told the workers who walk- (Continued on page 2) United Garmen Workers’ | wishing to be detained in their flight | € CHINESE KILLED: STRIKE SPREADS OVER SHANGHAT ‘Chinese Divide Upon U. S. Proposal SHANGHAI, July 2.—Chinese strik- the Chinese superintendent of the in- ternational settlement waterworks was assassinated while enroute to work. It is believed this may result |in a walkout of all Chinese employes | at the waterworkers. Commenting on the report that the United States is calling a conference | to discuss the abolition of extra-terri- toriality in China, some of the lead- |ing Chinese today lauded the move, which they interpret as “American al- truism.” Other comment however, is more critical, saying that American impe- rialism has seized an opportunity to win a diplOmatic move in China against Great Britain and Japan with- | out really doing anything for China other than promising an investigation, | Moreover, some Chinese opinion is that the United States is trying to | pacify China and then trick her again, | as the provisions of the Washington conference have not been lived up to in the slightest particular. | | | } | KLUXERS PARADE Flood of Protests to Be Ignored lt eee Coolidge has flooded with letter and petitions from all parts of the country demanding that he prohibit the parade of the ku klux klan, scheduled to take place in Washington early in August, it has been learned that Coolidge contem- plates no action against the klan. Coolidge has been invited by offi- cials of the klan to speak at their convention and to review their par- ade. He will decline, it is learned here, not on the ground that he is op- posed to the klan parade, but that “it will be impossible for him to be in Washington at the time.” KLUXERS MUST STAND TRIAL IN BODY, I$ RULING Deny Alleged Killers Separate Trials NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 2—D. c. Stephenson, Earl Gentry must go on trial together| Monday morning for the alleged mur-| der of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, 23 last April. | This decision was handed down| |this afternoon by Judge Fred Hines in |Hamilton cireuit court following su | |seeking to have Klinck go on trial | first and by ‘the state to have Steph- enson go on trial first. * | Dems. Refuse to See Kluxer. | Post Office at Chicago, Ulinols under the Act of March 3, 1879, ers opened a campaign today to force |press, both of which have been busy here during the conve employes remaining at work for Bri-|preting the aims and desires of tish and Japenese firms to quit when the progressive miners, the pro- rT, Mass. July 2-—Al- endorsed, was one against child la- been ‘bor: {have been made for a period of three lor four years. Klinck and Earl program als ocalled for the checkoff *| convention. p- Teported sometime this evening or to mission of arguments by defense Morrow, and is supposed WASHINGTON, D. C., July 2—For portant the first time in Ohio political history; were passed before adjournment. ORZER. eS” Tri-District Mine Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKUR PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents Union Convention Adopts Many Progressive Resolutions (Special to The Daily Worker) SCRANTON, Pa., July 2.—A splendid victory stands out to the credit of the progressive min- jers in the tri-district convention in session here. In spite of the red baiters thruout the miners’ union, and the opposition of the capitalist + | gram of the progressives, up to| the present time, has met the approval of the coaldiggers at the convention. ¥ Standing out amongst the many] achievements of the progressives is! the following: Ba COMMUNISTS MAKE AMSTERDAM, July 2.—Prelimin. adway. ntion minconstruing and m isinter- GAINS IN DUTCH ELECTIONS; FASCISTS FARE BADLY ary returns from the Dutch partia- mentary elections showed Communists have gained. The fascists made no MINER DYING AFTER GUN DUEL IN WHICH MAYOR TOOK PART MOUNT VERNON, Ill, July 2— Mike Stoniski, miner, is dying with two bullets in his lungs and Harry Houchens, city marshal of Nasan, is nursing a wounded right arm, fol- lowing a four cornered gun duel at Nasan early today, in-which Mayor A. W. St. Clair participated. Houchens and Mayor St. Clair had ordered Joe Reagen, a motorist, to proceed to jail to face speeding charges. Reagen was said to have opened fire and Stoniski, standing nearby, joined him. SOCIALIST PLOT TO JAIL CONN. WORKERS FAILS Too Rotten..for Enon Capitalist Judge By WILLIAM SIMONS. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW HAVEN, July 2.— Of’ the For a Labor Party. | The resolutiow for a labor party was endorsed. This resolution show-| ed that the history of the workers has | been a continual fight for a living| wage and better working conditions,| and in fighting for the above, not| only have the workers got to fight | the employers, but have to fight alt! government agencies as well, anq| every attempt made to secure aid} from the old political parties has| failed. | A part of the resolution containee | the following: “This Tri-District convention favors a labor party based on trade unions, and including as affiliated sections, political organizations of a working class nature.” The resolution endorsed. Oppose Labor Persecution. Likewise, a resolution condemning anti-syndicalism laws was unanimous- ly endorsed. The convention repudiated all laws that deny the worker freedom of speech, press and assembly, and called upon the American Federation | of Labor and all affiliated bodies to} develop an agitation against such! laws in every state where found. | Will Fight Child Labor. Another. resolution, unanimously was unanimously The “éoilvention called upon the workers thruout the country, with all working class organizations, and sym- pathetie organizations to, rally for a battle against child labor, Much satisfaction is felt here with/| the progressives’ program, and in) view of the organized opposition that) ..)., arrested for breach of peace on has been carried out by the large coal companies, the Progréssive Min. * charge brought by a local member ers’ Committee have much to be of the Jewish branch of the socialist congratulated for. party, six were discharged, and the Lewis Hangs Around—Gets Eearful,|seventh, Solomon Weissman, of the Lewis, tho in the chair yesterday, Jewish Branch of the Workers party vacated it today to discuss the scale questions with the scale committee which reported later. The scale committee adopted and called for agreement. ® ment. L. Hurwitz, working class betrayer, had the seven arrested, Weissman, and the three Abelson brothers being taken from their beds Friday morn- : ing at 3 a. m.; and William Sands, Minor: victories. Morris Resnikoff, and the writer be- This is a partial victory for the tng arrested on warrants on Tuesday Progressive Miners’ Committee, who night. Weissman, Sands and the demanded a one-year agreement. It writer are members of the Workers is well known here that had the | (Communist) Party,, the others being Progressive Miners not been active sympathizers. All are members of in this respect an agreement would |the Labor Lyceum Association. “The Slaughter.” Sands,- Weissman, the writer and some others were seated in the Labor report was a two-year The Progréssive Miners’ Committee was released under suspended judge- | COMMUNISTS ARE RE-ELECTED 10 ~ COAST COUNCIL Unseated Delegates Ap- proved by Unions (Special to The Daily Worker.) SEATTLE, Wash., July 2.—Williar H, Jones and Morris Hansen, two of | the six Communists who were de- | clared unseated from the Seattle | Central Labor Council by John Jep- | sen’s arbitrary ruling in violation of the council's constitution, won an overwhelming victory in their local union, Painters’ Local No. 300, They were re-elected delegates to the council by the highest votes cast for any nominee. Jones received nine- ty-seven votes and Hansen ninety-one, while Charles Doyle, secretary of the council, and one of the machine, re- ceived the lowest vote of forty-two and was overwhelmingly defeated as candidate for delegate to the couneil. Re-elected to Building Council. Jones. was also re-elected to the Building Trades Council which had also unseated him and in which the resolution for their unseating from the Central Labor Council originated. Hansen was also re-elected delegate to the Painters’ District Council by a large vote about three weeks ago. Jones was re-elected business agent of the Painters’ Union and district council for the ensuing term. This is the semi-annual election in the local | labor movement. Are Active Unionists, Hansen and Jones are prominent and active trade unionists in the local labor movement. The painters’ local is one of the largest and most pro- gressive and for the third time since the arbitrary unseating it has re- elected both Jones and Hansen and it has determined to stand back of them until they have been reseated in the council Similarly the other locals of the rest of the unseated Communists have re- elected them and sent them back to the council and their credentilas will no doubt be presented shortly to the council with a demand that they be Seated. 2 hy ” ~ mote hedtinw pesangremggeting oe oh oa GERMAN INDUSTRIA Ask 10 Per Cent Raise. The specific wage demands will be to call for a ten per cent increase. John L. Gets $300,000. Kennedy spoke most of the morning session on Wednesday, and the after- noon session was short, but the im | resolutions outlined above In bassadors for restriction of Germany The council's note was termed “ instrument of the most brutal imperialism of the victorious allies.” LISTS HOT AT MOVE OF EUROPE’S IMPERIALISM TO SMASH COMMERCIAL AVIATION BERLIN, July 2.— Hot resentment at the demand of the council of am- "s commercial aviation just as it was getting on the wing was unanimous in the German Press today. ‘a document f unbrken war spirit, an It was the democratic party leaders of that | addition, the convention voted an as- state have refused to meet withana-|sessment of $2 per member to be tional democratic congresional chair.|turned over to the International of- man, on the grounds that he is a_|fice. klansman. The chairman, William A.| As there are 150,000 miners in the Oldfield, Arkansas representative, | Tri-District region, $300,000 additional was snubbed when he asked a con-| will soon be at the disposal of the of ference of democratic party leaders | ficials. SE SSS SESS SESS SSS TESTS TS SETS See EEE SS See eee eee eee ene eee Anti-Imperialist Demonstration Hands Off China! and Fourth Annual COMMUNIST PICNIC SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1925. . Auspices, Workers (Communist) Party, Local Chicago. _ at BEYER’S GROVE, California and (Take California Ave. car to end of line—walk to grove.) declared “unacceptable, unfulfillable and unlikely to foster 'the peaceful spirit. |in which Germany proposed the sectr-¢————___ ity pact.” Kreuz Zeitung accused England to throttle German commercial aircraft : competition, while the Deutsche Tage- | "ead this issue of the DAILY zeitung warned the allies they were | WORKER, Be neighborly—give mistaken, “if they thought the note | 5 would bully us into submission.” {it to him! fi Your neighbor would like to SPORTS GAMES DANCING - REFRESHMENTS ADMISSION 60 CENTS Irving Park Blvd.