The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1925, Page 2

Page t+} PICNIC SAT. IS DEMONSTRATION OF THE WORKERS Speakers to Tell of War on Oppressors When the Workers’ Party holds a picnic, it is something more than a mere matter of eating “wienies” and drinking soda pop. You come to such a picnic, yes, to enjoy yourselves. But the gathering together of sev- eral thousand people ts too good an opportunity to let slip when so many things are happening that ought to be known about. At the picnic next Saturday in Beyer's grove there will be races, games, dancing, refresh- ments and what not. But that isn’t all. Turn Picnic Into Demonstration The picnic in Beyer’s grove will also be a demonstration. It will be a gathering of workers who will take advantage of their coming together for fun, to perform a few duties that workers should perform when they come together. Those duties are in part, to discuss the problems of their cli ight with this exploiters, to do a Jittle solid thinking for themselves afi@.to protest against the oppression of their com- rades and fellow workers wherever they happen to be oppressed. Just now, the millions of workers of China are beginning to discover that they can very well get along without the brutal sort of “advance- ment” that our own brand of imperial- ist and those of other nations are in- flicting on them. They have recently expressed their resentment of foreign exploitation in unequivocal terms. They are in open rebellion against the imported slave-drivers of the west. They are trying to drive them out as they should certainly be driven out. Its the business of the American workers to help them do it. Hear Message of China There will be with us at the picnic on Saturday a young man who knows something about his country. He is a Chinaman and his name is C. T. Chi. Here is a rare chance to get the Chinese puzzle straightened out in your mind. Jim Cannon will be there to give you an example of what a Communist interpretation of situation such as exists in China is like. “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor just finished a hike across the country that will long be the envy of old people who think they are still young. Mother Bloor is a youngster of some sixty-odd years that makes the far-famed Chauncey Depew look like Methuselah. She will tell you a thing or two about the class- struggle that you didn’t know before. The international touch will be com- pleted by the appearance of a repres- entative of an oppressed race that, while it is familiar to us in every-day life, constitutes a closed book to most of us when viewed frum a social angle. H. V. Phillips will tell us what the American Negro Labor Congress is doing to wake up our ten million Am- erican negroes. How To Get There Those who take a California car to the north end of the line and walk to Beyers’ grove next Saturday will have attended a picnic they will remember at a time they won't be able to recall where the other picnics they ever attended were held. Mass Meetings to _ Rally Negro Workers Against Imperialism Three consecutive nights of open air rallies, culminating in a huge mass meeting at the South Side Commun- ity House, Thursday, July 9, is the plan adopted by the South Side bran- ches of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League, for their anti- imperialist work. Eight thousand leaflets have been printed and will be widely distributed, at the open air meetings and in the Negro district. In part the leflets reads: Negro Workers! Smash Imperialism Abroad! Africa for the Africans. China for the Chinese. Haiti for the Haitians. The world for the Workers. Fight oppression at home! Down with Jim Crowism. Down with Negro economic and so- cial discrimination. For a united struggle of all workers against the bosses. A special appeal to the Negro youth to join the Y. W. L, in its struggle against war and all forms of youth discrimination is also contained in the leaflet. Comrades Minor and Whiteman will speak for the Workers Party. Com- rade Cline and a young Negro worker will speak for the Young Workers League. Admission is free. N. E. A. Wants Cabinet Member, INDINAPOLIS, Ind, July 2~The National Education Association in convention here went on record today as favoring the creation of a federal ent of education with a sec- in the president's cabinet and ‘by the gov- |YET CAPITALISTS STILL SEEM SURPRISED AT “BOLSHEVISM” AMONG THE CHINESE WORKERS LONDON, July 2—The British government yesterday presented to par- lament statistics on labor conditions in the municipal area of Shanghai under the contro! of foreign powers, Statistics of the Child Labor Commisisoner show that 14 per cent of the labor employed Is under the age of 12 years. Nearly 80 per cent of It is | girl labor, Half the total laborers employed, says the report, are females over the age of 12 years. Often children are employed at the age of five years, Hours of labor are usually fourteen a day, no Sundays off, and the pay of the best paid workers average 50 cents a day. Overseers, especially in the Japanese mills, beat workers with whips for minor Infractions of rules. | : (Continued from page 1) back . without any union, even the scab United Garment one. But they are standing out 100 per cent for the Amalgamated. And the firms will find out that scabs don’t make clothes.” Tillie Kazak, the white haired but spirited woman striker who spoke yes- terday again to the strikers, was given a great ovation. She told of the 1910 strike when, after the strike was over the foremen told the scabs: “Now you can get out of here. We ‘want someone to go to work, Beat it.” Of the pickets, twelve were arrest- ed Wednesday night and three on Thursday morning, the latter being Esther Lami, Josie Florida and Julia Carmignani. The police act often with the slightest reason, evidently just as wanton intimidation, seizing upon a group which may be doing nothing at all and loading up the wagon with them. The shop chairmen of all Chicago shops were mee!'ng as this issue of the DAILY WORKER goes to press. Their duty is to devise means of put- ting a watch on all shops to see that the struck firms do not smuggle their work thru other manufacturers. But the biggest sensation of the hour is yesterday’s circular letters sent out to the strikers by the firm. One is the “memorandum agreement’ made between the scab United Gar- ment Union and the International Tailoring company, the other a let- ter to the strikers sent individually from the J. L. Taylor shops on South Peoria street. The “memorandum agreement” signed by the scab union and the firm reads as follows: Memorandum Agreement. “This first day of July, 1925, an agreement has been entered into between the United Garment Work- ers of America and the Internation- al Tailoring company, Chicago, Illi- nois, to the effect that employes of the International Tailoring com- pany shall, from this day on, be members of the United Garment Workers of America affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. “The International Tailoring com- pany shall use the bona fide label of the United Garment Workres of America recognized by the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. “Only members, or those willing to become members of the United Garment Workers of America, shall be employed in the tailoring shops and cutting rooms of the Interna- tional Tailoring company. “There will be no reduction in wages of any kind.” UNITED GARMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA. Geo. C. Slater, General Organizer. INTERNATIONAL TAILORING CO., —. N. KARMEYER, Secretary. The agrfeement was brot about by @ conference between Bob Lorine, formerly an A. F. of L. official: in Chicago, and today a secretary of the Overall Manufacturers’ Association. Lorine and George C. Slater, “flying scab agent” of the United, and Gor- don, also a United official, cooked up the “agreement” given above. The letter sent by the J. L. Taylor com: pany to the workers on strike is one tissue of lies combined with astrong boost for the scabby United Garment Union, a circumstance that should cause any worker to steer clear of the United. It reads: To Our Former Employes: ~: “Some statements have been made that are untrue . . “Just what do you know about the dispute between the Amaiga- mated and ourselves? Here are so of the facts: ‘We did NOT refuse to sign an agreement with the Amalgamated absolutely mot! We requested Elizabeth, N. Don't Forget! SATURDAY, to picnic grounds, ; NOTICE! Trucks will leave 1:30 p.m, and Labor Lyceum, 61 Use Machine Gun Squad in Strike ed out solidly, that they could come | Come One, Come All to Second Annual Picnic Workers Party of America,'Local of Elizabeth, N. J. to be held at WILLICK’S FARM, Linden, N. J. Commencing 12 A, M. Music by Original Blue Goose Orchestra DIRECTIONS—From Broad St. take Yellow Rahway Bus, get off at Oxman Body Co., turn to your right and follow our signs direct | certain adjustments, and stated we would very gladly sign, when those adjustments were taken care of. | “The officials of your organiza: | tion refused even to look over these | few adjustments we wanted, and | stated they would not consider them | under any circumstances or condl- tions, not until the agreement was signed. “First of all—We did not ask for MINERS FORCE LEWIS THREAT OF BIG STRIKE Progressives Compel. Faker to Speak (Special to The Daily Worker) SCRANTON, Pa,, July 2,—The hard coal miners meeting in the tri-district convention were yesterday informed that a nation-wide tie-up of the bitu- minous coal industry “may” take place if the coal operators continued to violate the Jacksonvillé agreement. Forced by the swelling demand from the mass of miners, John L. Lewis has finally been compelled at least to threaten the operators with the most powerful weapon ‘of the most powerful section of the American la- bor movement, the general strike, al- though he knows better than any one else that for a long time the operators have continually violated the agree- ment since it was signed and have no any cut in wages in the cutting | room or the coat shops, | | “Second—We do not intend to | Pun open shop. “Third—We only asked for some minor adjustments, in the trousers | shop, due to the fact that we con- | template changing our method of making, “Some minor adjustments were also asked in the vest shope. “Remember—Bushelmen, cutters, and coat shop help would and still will receive exactly the same wages as always! “Furthermore—our shops thruout will operate entirely with Union help, as we are now co-operating with the United Garment Workers of America—affiliated with the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. “Why be afraid to join the only organization of its kind worth Join- ing? “Sincerely, COMPANY.” The outstanding falsehood in the above letter is the claim that in the negotiations with the Amalgamated, the company “did not ask for any cut in wages in the cutting room or coat | shops.” | The fact is, that the ‘firm demanded |that the cutters and trimmers in- jerease the work done by from 15 to 20 per cent, a way of cutting wages |that no dapitalist ever want to admit \is doing that, but which is a cut in \the workers’ wage relative to his pro- |duction none the less. The strikers were loud in their |scorn of the last line of their bosses’ letter—“Why be afraid to join the only organization of its kind worth join- jing.” This boosting of the scab Unit ed Garment union by the bosses is enuf to sicken a dog, or even a Yel- }low taxi. The clothing workers of |Chicago want no company union even tho it bears the honored connection jwith the A. F. of L. and they are de- |manding in even louder tone why the Chicago labor movement permits ‘such a scandal and disgrace to be |flaunted in the face of honest work- jers on strike. STRIKE CLOSER AS “L” WORKERS DEMAND RAISE J. L. TAYLOR & | jintention whatever to abide by its Possibility of a strike of the Chi- cago Elevated lines employes drew closer when the guards and motormen for a second time voted to reject the company proposal that they accept a renewal of the contract which has just expired. The “L” employes, voted by 1,856 to 1,581, to insist on their demand for a five cents an hour increase in wages. The elevated motormen are paid 77 cents.an hour and the guards get only 71 cents an hour, whereas the street car employes receive 75 cents an hour. ° * Altho the surface line workers have voted to renew their old contract, they have refused to sign until the de- mands of the “L” men are settled. The company, in an effort to pre- vent a strike, is talking “arbitration.” Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will make a better Communist of , you, J., Attention! JULY 4, 1925 Admision 25¢ headquarters, 69 So, Park St. at 5 Court St, at 2 p.m. terms. In Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and West- ern Pennsylvania, in spite of the agreement, working condition are being reduced and destroyed which many hundreds of miners have given their lives to attain, reductions which have made the miners object slaves, Conspiracy to Wreck Union Hundreds of mines in the central competitive field are closed down, thru conspiracy of the railroads and | coal magnates, and the coal contracts | moved to the non union fields, in the | attempt to destroy the miners’ union. | Whole district contracts have been | violated, and the miners’ union des- | troyed. The company union has dis- Placed every local belonging to the| U. M. W. of A, in District 18, and the officials have accepted a reduction of wages in spite of the miners’ position | that “no backward step” be allowed. District 18 Deceived and Crushed The Mine Workers in, District 18 were informed that if an adjustment of wages was made, the mines would be able to open up; and prosperity would return. The miners refused to accept the proposition but their officials in Dis- trict 18 signed a contract, the equival- ent to a reduction in wages. Yet the mines have failed to open up since. All over the country the reports are the same, violations of contract and no relief from the U, M. W. of A. of- ficials when the miners‘try to resist. A General Strike to Save the Union! While the miners welcome the threat of a general strike as voiced by Lewis, they cannot trust Lewis to lead them thru such a struggle. They know that only by their overwhelm- | ing demand has he even hinted at militant action to save ‘the miners’ union from destruction. And they are convinced that so long as he heads} the union he will cripple-every effort | to really make a general strike and will betray it in its most crucial hour | rather than do anything to “disturb | domestic tranquility.” The miners want the general strike. And they remember the betrayal of the Connellsville men and the meek surrender to the Andersom injunction, and they ask, “Will Lewis, who be- trayed us before, betray us again, when he has to fight eithers’ against the government’ or against the miners’ interests?” Meanwhile, they are taking up the cry—‘“A general strike to save the union.” see Cheer Up, Cal, John Don’t Mean It SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 2—One of the problems strikebreaker Cool- idge is troubled with on the serene horizon of his summer palace is the wordy gesture of John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers that'if the oper- ators don’t quit violating the Jackson- ville agreement, John L. is going to up and call a general strike in the coal fields, If such a strike should come, Presi- dent Coolidge would face a mean si- tuation, but perhaps with the same policy: as when he broke the police- men’s strike in Boston,’ the source of his fame, However, Coolidge and Lewis were bosom friends in the elec- tions, and if there is need for anyone to yield, it will be Lewis, COPS HELD FOR TAKING DOPE SELLERS’ BRIBE Three Chicago policemen, one a de- tective sergeant, and the brother of the sergeant were taken before a United States commisioner today to face charges of conspiracy and violu- tion of the narcotic laws. They stand charged py tne federal special intelligence unit with having extorted $2,000 from a dope peddler and with attempting to force an addi- tional $5,000 as the price of return- ing to him a quantity of dope. Detective Sergeant’\‘Harry Miller, brother of David, Herchie and Maxie Miller, frequently involved in the feuds of the West Side; Patrolman DB. pion, Patrolman Martin Haley and David Miller aré those under ar- rest. ae i "Talie aie THE DAILY WORKER BA Doheny ‘Turns Patriot to Get Court’s Approval of Elk Hills Oil Steal By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, Edward L. Doheny, oil profiteer, fittingly drapes himself in the American flag, casts about himself a halo of patriotism, “the last refuge of a scoundrel,” and confesses that he plundered the naval oil reserves because he wanted to help American imperialism “prepare” for the next war— T “The War in the Pacific.” He saw “his country” in danger in 1921. A crisis was at hand with Japan threatening re- prisals for the immigration ban raised against her. He came to America's rescue, so he now tells the world in a 13-column statement published in the New York Times, and to a lesser extent in every capitalist sheet in the land. It is the prize Fourth of July stunt this year, 1925, by es * @ Doheny fails to mention the little loan of $100,000 it is ‘charged he made to Secretary of the Interior Fall, and he also conveniently ignores the letter signed by Mr. Fall, in which the former secretary of the interior wrote that the loan had been. obtained from Edward B. McLean, multi- millionaire publisher of the Washington Post. - But Doheny does bring out some important facts, emphasized by the DAILY WORKER aat the time of the con- gressional investigation, bags | the charge that the whole Harding cabinet, in 1921, including President Coolidge, at that time vice-president, considered the oil steals and put its “O. K." upon them. Denby, Fall and Daugherty were turned out of office, while Coolidge, one of the main crooks, referred to in letters and telegrams as “the principal,” was not only permitted to hold his job, but was triumphantly re-elected by these same robber interests last year. * * * ° Washington is trying, with a great show of hysterics, to contradict Doheny’s claims that the nation had been secretly carried in 1921 to the brink of “The Pacific War.” Upholders of Doheny's story, however, declare that it was only the earthquake that struck Japan in that year, that prevented the opening of hostilities, * * . * Doheny, of course, has only one thing in mind. He wants to win his appeal in the U. S. supreme court against the California court that invalidated his Elk Hills lease. The Wyoming courts put an “O. K.” on Sinclair's oil lease at Tea- pot Dome, holding that “there was no evidence of fraud and conspiracy.” What Sinclair got in Wyoming, Doheny will try to get from Taft's supreme court sitting in Washington. Doheny has timed well his confession of patriotism. The giant armada of the American navy is leaving Hawaii for its cruisé into the South Seas and on to Australia. The Chi- nese situation involves American imperialism deeply. What an opportunity for Doheny to tell America that it was he who established the “greatest naval fuel base in the world,” at Pearl! Harbor, in Hawaii, with a capacity of 4,200,000 barrels of oil. Doheny no doubt expects great paens of ap lause as his fellow profiteers, in their jingo press, try to w “ up en- thusiasm for their “Defense ay,” this Saturday, July 4th. o * J Labor is languid this year, more than ever, in support of the “defense” of Doheny’s class. Doheny's pedo «cat of patriotism fall on workers’ ears more caliaused than ever to this appeal of the profiteer class. American labor will not be lured into “The War in the Pacific” as easily as it was led to the shambles of the World War in Europe. ‘There is a grow- ing Workers (Communist) Party in the United States on July 4th this year. There was none in this country, there was no Communist International, in the July days of 1914, Taft's court will no doubt approve Doheny’s thefts in California. That is its job. But that will only help labor dis- cern more clearly than ever the class character of the courts, of the government itself. That will strengthen the revolu- tionary movement under the leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party. It will help hasten the end of Doheny’s capitalist system with its profits, war, hunger, unemployment and other evils that fall/always with their crushing weight upon the working masses, GREAT BRITAIN TRICKED BY U.S, IMPERIALISM America Moves to Win Power in Far East posal will cause no change in the American position, it was learned, The United States believes that the time is at hand to take definite action in China in order to prevent “trobule” in the future. By putting Great Britain in bad light before China, America thus may win Chinese trade and concessions away from England, wo ee Start Negotiations Saturday ~ PEKING, July 2.—Initial negotia-| ™iliar to the Tenne: ee eee FRANCE TO QUIT REICH IN NEW BANKERS’ PACT Briand Blames It on Herriot Treaty (Special te The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, July 2,—Foreign Minister Briand has admitted a com- plete change in policy toward Ger- many, with France ptanning an early evacuation of not only the Ruhr, but also the southern bank of the Rhine, commencing with the cities. of Co- blenz, Mayence and Cologne, Briand, while he blamed the change on a secret treaty signed by Herriot at London, declared that he would carry out the change in pottcy toward Ger- many. Caillaux thus increases his power, for it was the finance minister who from the first sough¢ an alliance be- |tween the French and German cap- italists. Caillaux Meets Defeat Caillaux was defeated in the cham- ber of deputies by a vote of 330 to 229, on a measure of his financial budget bill which provided that property abroad must be declared by oath. However, the vote was not made one of confidence. A clause in Caillaux’ financial law passed by parliament, has just come to light, which gives Caillaux and Premier Painleve joint powers, allow- ing them to effect any economies in the administration they see fit by is- suing decrees. Discharges Employes Under this provision, the first art- icle of Caillaux’ law, the finance minister has already suppressed 100 registration offices and notified 134 other offices they will soon be sup- pressed, He is discharging hundreds of employes. The withdrawal of French troops from Germany is expected to give the proposed “security pact” new mean- ing, as German capitalists will give big concessions to French bankers in return for the evacuation. FORCES GATHER AT DAYTON FOR ‘MONKEY’ TRIAL Anti - Evolution Move Spreads to West WINCHESTER, Tenn., July 2—The |Scopes trial will open in Dayton on July 10. This was the answer today of circuit judge, John T. Raulston,’ who will preside at the trial, to ru- mors that the case would be delayed and transferred to some other city. | Raulston said he would reach Day- ton on July 8 “prepared to open the trial on the 10th.” Attorney General Tom A. Stewart, who is directing the prosecution ot Scopes for alleged violatron of the | Tennessee anti-evolution law arrived |in Dayton today for a conference witn his associate counsel. Stewart met a number of local at- torneys who handled the indictment of Scopes, to map out a final plan of |procedure for the trial. He discount- jed all reports that the trial might be |moved away from Dayton and an- |nounced that the state would be ready to open its case on July 10. Bi Bye Seek to Bar Truth SEATTLE, Wash., July 2.—Organi- zations to pass anti-e Wig Peciteasinctlrinden (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, July 2, — China’s immediate future hung in the balance today as the imperialist powers of the world debated the Washington suggestion that conference be held at once on the extra-territorial rights problem. Informal advices, either accepting or rejecting the American proposal were expected to arrive at the state department within the next few days. The tenor of the communications will decide the next step in the negotia- tions. Expect Peking to Do Asking, Approval by Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, of the proposal, would be sufficient invitation, it was felt in official circles here, for the Peking government again formally to ask the powers to accept her previous- ly tendered invitation. ‘During past decades, foreign powers obtaining concessions in China have been permitted to administer and en- force their own laws. Chinese officials and police have had power to arrest foreigners, , but at that point their authority ended, individuals appearing before magis- trates of their own nationality. Very Appropriate—For the U. &, This condition among others recent- ly inspired the ‘anti-imperialist riots and American offi¢ials ate inclined to regard the present time as particular- ly appropriate for a. general with- drawal by all the world powers from their extraterritorial rights positions. The unfavoable attitude of Great Britain tow \ tions over the Shanghai shootings, | Which John Scopes is soon to be tried from which the serious strike trou-| ®t Dayton, have been formed in Cali- bles spread over South China, will|0"Bia, Minnesota and Oregon, the start Saturday when the foreign com-| 34Ptist convention here was informed. missioners will meet with the Chinese representatives. jars were expressed that the ne- gotiations will be fruitless unless the Chinese limit the scope of the ques- tions involved. Floods Hit Poland, VIENNA, Austria, July 2—Inces- sant rains have brot about a flood in Poland which has destroyed crops and villages, and is threatening large citi Relief is being sent. The Tennessee law prohibits teach- ers from discussing the theory of evo- lution or any scientific data which contradicts the bible. se Kentucky Prohibits Evolution PADUCAH, Ky., July 2.—Miss Lela Scopes, sister of John Scopes, who will be tried at Dayton on July 10, has been denied a job in the Paducah schools because she refused to repu- diate the theory of evolution, for teaching which her brother is being prosecuted. Grand Rapids and Muskegon, Attention! JOINT LABOR * PICNIC SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1925 at LAKE MICHIGAN PARK, Muskegon All day program, beginning at 10 a. m. Games and all kinds of fun. MOVIES! “Prisoners for Progress” and “Russia Today” Speakers: WILLIAM F. KRUSE, Chicago EUGENE BECHTOLD, Grand Rapids | ED. A. KOSTEN, Grand Rapids _