The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1925, Page 6

— Page Six —_—_— _ THE DAILY WORKER SOCIALIST PLOT. Are Published by the DAILY WORKPR PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, -Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 hi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $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 Bivd., Chicago, IIlinoils J, LOUIS ENGDAHL { ‘ WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... sessnneersees GItOTS .. Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- | cago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. tip 290 Advertising rates on application. = be ee Sharpening the Struggle The British coal capitalists are saying that the seven-hour day THE DAILY WORKER TO JAIL CONN. WORKERS FAILS [Too Rotten for Even Capitalist Judge (Continued from page 1) Lyceum Thursday evening, June 18,/| TO ERECT STATUE OF AMUNDSEN, WHO TRIED TO FLY TO NORTH POLE (Special to The Daily Worker) COPENHAGEN, July 2.—A mem- orial will mark the port from which Capt, Roald Amundsen hopped off in his effort to reach the North | Pole thru the air, if the plans of | NATIVE TROOPS DESERT FRENCH, M. Knutsen, a coal owner of Spitz- bergen, meet with success, | He has taken the initiative in a | plan to erect a monument to the | explorer at King’s Bay. | Wheat Is Harvested Despite Burnings PARIS, France, July 2.—The Moroc-| <==: | cans continue their advance against | talking of current matters inthe labor What has been done locally in the| the French invaders north of Quezzan, and revolutionary movement, Hurwitz case of the Labor Lyceum, where the| and have broken thru the French lines entered, an ignorant individual with Communists hold secret meetings on| further eastward. a filthy tongue. He butted in, and \was told to keep out of the discus- the average of once a week.” Socialist Challenge to Communists. Hurwitz is quoted as saying that ith i ; ue if TI ek : ‘ sion. He singled Weismann out, cal- must go and with it a reduction of wages. he coal miners’ union j:.¢ him thief and swindler, spittingt the fight started over’'the following announces that it will resist all efforts to reduce further. the living at him, and raised a chair to strike Temark made by him to the writer, as standard of its members. The British railwaymen are aiso confronted with an attack on their wages and their union.’ The British textile workers are in the same boat. Unemployment is on the increase and the tory govern- ment does nothing except recommend the exportation of workers to the colonies. The Moroccan war has France by the ears. ‘he big votes for the Herriot policy in the chamber of deputies need fool no one who, does not want to be fooled. France has a long, costly and dangerous military adventure on her hands and it is not popular among the masses who are about to experience all of the hardships coincident with an attempt to stabilize the franc. : The Moroccan war puts Great Britain in a delicate position also. She has millions of Mohammedans under her rule who are for Abd- el-Krim first, last and“all the time and who wait only a favorable opportunity to say so with any weapon that is handy. Again, altho by one of those diplomatic agreements mothered by expediency, Great Britain has agreed to let France make war in More€co at present, no one above the mental level of a ten-year-old child or a William Jennings Bryan can believe that Great Britain will allow France to entrench herself permanently across the straits from Gibraltar and threaten British control of the western entrance to the Mediterranean. There are all the ingredients for a first class war in the con- flicting interests of these two nations alone to say nothing of the ambitions of Italy in northern Africa. In China there seems to be no let-up in the intensity of the drive of the national liberation movement. Here again Great Britain seems to be getting the worst of it. The Japanese are cordially hated by the Chinese, it is true, but with an enerring accuracy that does petty bourgeoise, who comprise the | Klux klan was denied today the right credit to them, the Chinese masses have picked out Great Britain him. L. Abelson and the writer jump- ed up to separate them. District Organizer of the Workers Party: “Just try to practice what you) Abd-el-Krim’s attack has enabled | the Riffians to harvest their wheat, while the fighting was being pushed further south. The Riffians have Practically completed their harvest and are now in no danger of famine. Large numbers of Moroccans who had been terrorized by the French RIFFS DRIVE ON FORD BIDS FOR 200 GOVERNMENT SHIPS TO BE JUNKED BY GAL DETROIT, July 2.—Henry Ford's bid on the United States shipping board’s discarded vessels which were offered for sale recently is due to arrive today in Washington by special courier. The absence of Ford's bid when those of others were opened yesterday was a sur- prise to officials of the board, who had refused a former bid of Fords unless others were permitted to compete, SANTA BARBARA DAMAGE WORSE THAN EXPECTED wa i coal STEALING AN ELECTION BY NEW METHODS Mine Union Officers Conspire with Boss By IRWIN (Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 2.—Out of a total of 273 mines in District 5, western Pennsylvania, about 50 are at present “operating and ‘only one working full time. The terrible plight of the coal miners with unemploy- ment and sufferings stalking thru the camps, knowing that the operators ? ” are deliberately and unscrupulously utilizing this situation as a means of pressure to compel them to accept © ‘ Weismann was led away from the teach in the streets of New Haven, | hall, to prevent further trouble. Other @d see how far you will get with it. workers, attracted by the noise, left This was after we cited,with approval the meeting of the Jewish society for the action of the,Chinese working colonization in Russia. (Icor), came Class in combatting imperialism. down, among them Abe and Louis Hurwitz thus admitted that he |Abelson, and Resnikoff. would stand with the capitalist police Hurwitz, by that time, had fallen to and courts in opposing working class the floor, and started yelling. When action, that when the decisive mo-| he was asked to get up, he replied: |ment came, he would follow Noske “ll show all of you. I'll stay here and Ebert into the counter revolution- till a policeman comes.” Hurwitz had ary camp. His testimony at the trial himself examined by a doctor, who dears this out. He would aid the cap- saw two scratches on his head, the italists in deporting revolutionists. doctor admitting in court, that the He acted like all the other yellow scratches might have come from fal- curs, enemies of the working class, ling. This rat and the rest of the yellows Hurwitz had a cut lip, made by the in New Haven must be read out of edge of a door, slammed by a woman the ranks of the working class. to prevent him from getting bottles he was after. The whole thing sjm- mers down, therefore, to a drunken ignoramus, Hurwitz, who started a fight with Weissman, because the lat- ter is not as strong as some of the others there. Not Mass Picketing, but Mass Arrests | * Yellows shun mass picketing, or | CHARTER BOARD any form of militant working class eee action. But they believe in mass ar-/|Cannot Do Business in| rests. Nothing is too dirtywfor the KLAN OUTLAWED | had been used by the French as a have now openly joined the Riffians cause as the result of the offensive. The important group of Branes, which Wrecked Buildings Are on All Sides buffer to bear the brunt of the Rif-| SANTA BARBARA, July 2.—As the fian attack, near Taza, have joined| 8¥2 wheeled-into the heavens today the Riffians, taking with them a !t became apparent that the city was large supply of arms and materials; ™ore damaged from the earthquake secured from the French, here than first believec. Many build- “Tribes” Join Riffians. ings that yesterday stood upright, The Moroccans’ attack has under-| Seemingly undamaged except for im- mined the French behind the lines,| ense eracks up their facades, were | as they have demonstrated their weak-| Piles of bricks, mortar and wrenched | ness to Moroccan groups which they steel; the work of demolishing con. had kept “friendly” by rule of force. demned structures proceeded with gi- The Moroccans that have come over 8@Mtic strides under the impetus of to Krim since the start of the fighting | the efforts of four thousand workmen. more than make up for the Riffian| The death toll remained at 13. casualties during that period. Search for four or five others believed French Kill Prisoners, dead was continued. The French have taken no prison- Two minor shocks were felt during ers, killing all who surrender. prisoners are mentioned in the official | first was felt at 10 o'clock and the communiques for that reason. second came shortly afterward. Both The French, wherever possible, have| Were extremely mild and passed al- been practicing the policy of setting Most unnoticed. fire to the Moroccans wheat fields in} Several injured persons were re- order to bring on a famine among the | leased from hospitals during the day. Riffians, but the recent offensive has| None of the seriously injured, physi- checked \this strategy. cians said, will die. Riffians Take Outposts Students reported for the first day’s No| the night. No damage was’ done. The! a wage reduction and to ultimately give up the union, can easily be con- ceived, Yet the most base attempts to take advantage of the situation to compel the rank and file members of the Miners’ Union ito give up their mili- tant traditions, to exclude the fight- ers from amongst their ranks in order to get the masses of workers to sub- mit to the demands of the bosses have unquestionably come from the union istrict officials working hand in hand with the coal operators. Stealing Elections, New Mode. Here is how they have invented new tricks to avoid, if possible, the stealing of elections in the ordinary manner and still build up their ma- chine control. The Vesta No. 4 mine is the big- gest mine in Pennsylvania and one of the biggest in the world. It is a slope mine and has forged its way about eight miles into the hill with about that many more miles to go before the coal vein is exhausted. It used to employ 600 loaders with 300 | day men producing an average of | 6,000 tons of coal per day. | Some Slick Trick, yellows of New Haven. Hurwitz is one of a small group mostly insurance agents, cheese merchants, and other | dead Jewish branch of the socialist as the target for most of their activity with the realization that P@tty:. Since the yellows lost control she dominates the policy of the European imperialist bloc. The other powers, the United States and Japan, while taking part to some extent in the shooting of strikers and students, have not of the:Labor Lyceuma year and a! half.ago, they have sabotaged every undertaking of the organization. State, Is Ruling TOPEKA, Kans., July 2—The ku to do business in Kansas when the state charter board refused to hooded order a charter. The action followed the decision of the state supreme court last January | They have ‘advised others not to | 10 that the klan was doing business in | help the Labor Lyceum association of | Kansas illegally and would have to as yet shown any real enthusiasm for pulling British chestnut out ri 8 proespaalgtt 3 ins * Pp A 2 fs + which some are member. z of the fire. Backed by Soviet Russia, the Chinese nation is taking | ows don't belong to the. association, | advantage of the conflicts in the imperialist camp, pressing its de-| ang throw mud at it from the side- obtain a charter. The court helf that in the sale of paraphernalia and lodge equipment | The Riffians are now attacking on a 120: mile front, with 30,000 troops pushing back twice that number of French troops. The attack bas broken thru the French lines south west of El Kebir in the direction of M’Sila, and west of Bab Moroudj. The fight- ing is now taking place on the heights north of this point. Further eastward the Riffians have gained important successes in the re- gion of Dabar. The Riffian attack ha pushed the French a number of mifles' south of the river Leben. The Riffiatis | have taken several outposts from th’ work in the regular summer session! Now the company has put on 1,000 atthe state teacher's college. | loaders with only 200 day men, altho } (CPS ROR peat ATABS | the productive capacity could?be in- The Printer’s Devil |ereased to only a little less than * | 8,000 tons. The men were informed Is the Guilty Party by the pit boss that dead work would pas Fes not be paid for any more, and altho The DAILY WORKER issue of|the mine works only three days a Thursday, July 2. in reporting the! week a double shift system was estab- election vote of Zeigler, Ill., Local U. | M. W. of A., made a misprint. | lished. Local No. 2399 covers the Vesta {The vote for president should have| No, 4 mine. its charter is held at read—Henry Corbishley 724 and his | Daisytown, Pa., but it meets alternate- _K, K. K. opponent 162. |ly also at California and Richville, As published it read only 74 for! Pa., as many of the members are Ss mands for a revision of treaties and abolition of extra-territoriality rights. Along the northern frontier of India, in the province of Bengal, there is an anti-British movement of which the press carries little news but which, because of its location, is of great importance. Here in the United States even such a notorious reactionary as John L. Lewis threatens a strike'in the coal mining industry at the convention of the anthracite miners in Scranton, as an answer to the shutdown and starvation policy of the coal capitalists. Do the great anti-imperialist movements and the sharpenings |lines... Hurwitz deliberately provoked | the klan did not come under the head t ization. This a fight in order to give a black eye to, 0f @ benevolent organ! PR Ty cpsdtatin and to the left | view was upheld by the charter board. | | wingers in control. That is why Abe | | Abelson, .president of the Labor Ly- | History of Hoover’s ceum association was dragged in. | The Dirty Counter-Revolutionary. | War Treachery Now At the trial, Hurwitz claimed that | Stowed at Palo Alto ‘the fight started when he challenged | | WASHINGTON, July.2. — (FP) —} commending in China. He told the | serbert Hoover, secretary of com-| of the class conflict here noted agree with the statement that world por Lyceum, “THEY WERE TALK- capitalism has stabilized itself? ING REVOLUTION, and I told them Hardly. On the contrary, the desperate race for markets and if I was a big man, I would send them new fields of capitalist enterprise, the over-production of industry CY of the country.” He said, that which is one of the methods by which the so-called stabilization has been achieved, the export of gold to vassal nations and the revival of industry at the expense of workers’ living standards, have added al- most unbearable burdens to the heavy load already on the backs of the working class in the capitalist nations and the workers and peasants of colonial and semi-colonial countries. We stand at the beginning of a new series of class conflicts and nationalist liberation movements. At our anti-imperialist demonstration on July 4, it will be the « tasks of our party to point out the tremendous importance of this period and show the clear line of the class struggle that must be followed by the American working class. | “Union” Scabbery The strikebreaking role played by the United Garment Workers’ | Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ strike in Chicago is clearly shown by a circular letter issued by the International Tailoring company the Reds,” in which it was charged in which the United is referred to as “the only organization worth joining.” This boosting by the bosses ought to be enough to convince any j association was the local Communist wavering workers that the United is a union in name only. What attitude will the officials of the Chicago Federation of Labor, for years on the most friendly terms with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, take in this situation? John Fitzpatrick and his associates know that the Amalgamated this was the remark that caused us| all to jump on him. His main wit-| ness admitted not seeing who struck | Hurwitz. The case was a/frame up on the face of it, for seven men would not:leave one with just two super- ficial scratches. Competent witnesses testified to the story given above. Poor innocent Hurwitz testified that he giidn’t spit at Weismann, nor strike him, nor raise a chair. The socialists left the court room, deserted, even a capitalist judge being unable to come to their aid, after a socialist inspired newspaper attack on the Communists for a week. Concerted Attack on Lyceum. Last Saturday, the 20th, the Labor Lyceum had a tag day. The right |wingers boycotted and sabotaged. Sunday, the ultra conservative “Re- gister” printed an editorial “Helping ‘that the Communist Party of New) Haven had collected funds for prop- aganda, and that the Labor Lyceum (organization connected with the Com- munist International. This was 3 days ‘after the fight in the Labor Lyceum. | |'This set the Jewish workers of New | Haven thinking. They remembered | jthe statement in the Times Leader | Clothing Workers organized the men’s clothing industry and that/last July charging that the Workers it is the only genuine union in that industry. The question that Patty was a branch of the Russian confronts the Chicago Federation is one of scabbery versus struggle, jeeamniat Party, sent 18 by Morrie co-operation with the bosses and the police as against a clean cut fight for better conditions. The proper action for the Chicago Federation of Labor to take would be to denounce officially the strikebreaking of the United and issue a leaflet to this effect to be distributed in the struck shops. If the Federation does not take this or similar action repudiat- ing such betrayal of the labor movement, it will mean that the ‘deadening effect of capitalist polities and class collaboration has extended to what not so long ago was the most militant central body in the United States; that the virus of class collaboration which is poisoning the American labor movement has flooded the veins of |ana the Workers Party one and charg- Chicago labor officialdom in such quantities as to. make them con: |ing that the moneys collected at the done the unpardonable sin—seabbery.: At the next meeting of the Federation this question should be raised on the floor in such a form that the issue cannot be evaded and the loeal labor leaders put on record for or against this partic: ularly disgusting form of labor fréason. Get a member for the Workers Pagty and a new subse jon for the ys WORKER. \ |¥tory says: “The prim: Rice, socialist chairman of the Dis- trict Committee of the Workmen's Circle, who has since then been called |“informer.” This time, the workers drew the obvious conclusion, | The conclusion was strengthened, |when the Journal Courier of Thurs- day, June 25th, carried a column and a half story about the arrests. It ear- ried Hurwitz’s version of the fight, and presented a typical right wing ex- Planation of the struggle in the Labor |Lyceum, calling the Labor Lyceum ‘Tag Day by the Lyceum were for com- munist propaganda. The, story shows plainly that the sogjalists furnished the capitalist sheet with: material for their red baiting. As a climax, the purpose of e Communists in this country, the cialists claim, is to ostlish a dicta- rship, and this, according to mem- rs of the deposed) e is exactly us to. do in New Haven what we were | court that when he came into the La-| merce, has gone to Palo Alto to in-, | spect the Hoover War Library, a col-| | lection of 125,000 documents relating | | fo the known and secret history of the | world ,war and its progeny of little | wars in Europe and Asia. This library is connected with Leland Stanford university, and has been in prepara- tion for six years past. © Among the documents which Hoo- ver sent to this permanent collection were the records of his relief organ- izations in Belgium during the war) and thruout Europe after the armis- tice. When the DAILY WORKER was looking into Hoover’s connection with | the sending of “relief” stores to the | white leader, Yudenitch, at Reval, for his invasion of Soviet Russia,from Es- thonia in 1919, it ascertained that the official records of his Paris office, dealing with these shipments, had been stored in New York City in charge of George Barr Baker. This man was in charge of press propaganda for the republican nation- al committee last summer. Inquiry at Baker's office disclosed that the documents in question had been ship- ped to Palo Alto. 4 Here’s an Important Announcement for Party in New York NEW YORK.—Meéting of shop nu- clei organizers from all shop nuclei and Workers Party branches on Mon- day, July 6 at 8 p. m. at the Workers Party headquarters, 108 East 14th St. Railroad Certificate Issue Asked. WASHINGTON, July 2—The Chi- cago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad applied to the’ interstate commerce commission today for authority to issue $5,400,000 of 4% per cent equip- ment trust certificates, French in the upper Leben. ' Vi\Corbishley. : HIBBING LABOR FAKERS, SELL OUT COUNCIL TO STEEL TRUST, LET CONTRACT TO NON-UNION FIRMS HIBBING, Minn., July 2—Hibbing, the “World’s Richest Village” which four years ago had a strong labor movement and a Central Labor union led by a group of militant trade unionists who surprised the reactionary officials | of the movement in the state by holding a successful celebration no May | Day has today but a handful of unionists left as the result of the betrayal of| —+ so-called Farmer-Labor politicians, The militants were gradually driven | | located in these two places. | A local election was held beginning | June 15. The progressive forces | nominated their own candidate for | president, Simon Virta, long known | as a militant member of the local, the | machine placed a candidate in~ op- (Position to him, but it was generally admitted that Virta would carry the election. Operator and Officials Unite Against Progressive. He was a member of the pit com- mittee until he became nominated for president when the mine superintend- |ent, Edwards, informed him that he would have to go to work on the ENGLAND DUNS FRANCE FOR WAR DEBT PAYMENT Morgan-Cal Combine to Be Appeased First (Special to The Daily Worker.) PARIS, July 2-The foreign office today announced receipt of the ex- pected note from Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the British exchequer, inviting the French government to be- gin negotiations for a settlement of the French war debt to England. The foreign office announced that negotiations will first be undertaken for the settlement of the French debt to the United States before the gov-| ernment will be in a position to dis- cuss the debt question with Britain, County Employes’ Pension, SPRINGFIELD, Il, July 2. — The Marks bill, providing for the “crea- tion, maintenance and administration” of an annuity and benefit fund for county employes in counties of 500,000 or more, became a law today without the governer’s signature at the ex- piration of the time limit for the chief executive's action on it. Paris, Ill., Fights Rabies. PARIS, Ill, July 2.—Something like a reign of terror exists in Paris, the result of an epidemic of rabies which has developed in the city and country among dogs and cats, MURDER OF NEGRO PRISONER BY GUARDS TO BE “INVESTIGATED” RALEIGH, N. ©. July 2.—An investigation of North Carolina chain gang camps and prisons was ordered here by Governor McLean, following the flogging to death of a Negro prisoner at Rock Mount, and for which two gang guards are now awaiting trial for murder. made after a conf an expert of the further charges of wi However, the @ between the governor and other state offict department has been assigned anitary conditions existing in all North Caroling camps. of Negroes goes unpunished he states. The announcement was and to investigate into as out of the community by the steel | trust by various methods and the la- |bor fakers and politicians secured | control of the central body and used it for their own benefit. , Fakers in Control. | A farmer-labor party local was or- | ganized and it was also controlled by labor fakers, lawyers, etc., who suc- | ceeded in getting the endorsement of labor for local municipal offices. | would get anything they wanted if they were elected and one stated to |the Central Un‘on that he would keep “Labor's flag flying” at all times— and so they were elected to office. But instead of keeping their prom- | ise to the labor movement they plan- |ned on keeping control of the move- |ment by putting the officers of the | different unions on the village pay- roll and having them keep the mem- | bership in line. Let Contracts to Scabs. This worked for a while, but when the “labor” council started to let con- | tracts for municipal buildings to non- | union concerns this was more than some of the workers would stand and they protested at a meeting of the Central Labor Union and one of the councilmen, who was a delegate to the Central body yelled “Communist” at the delegate who had the courage to denounce his betrayal of the work- ers, ' The politicians then seeing. that their hold‘on the movement was slip- ping planned to have all who were protesting against their actions un- seated as delegates in the Central body “because of their Communistic beliefs,” Militants Gain Strength, He wrote for Paul Smith to come to the range to help them, but Smith was then in Great Falls, Montana, and could not be secured. They are now hurling the charge of “Communist” at every worker eh opposes them but the workers are get- ting wise to the fakers and no doubt the Central Union will soon again be back in the hands of the militants and the movement once again be made of some use to the workers instead of merely being @ tool of politicians, They told the workers that they} night shift. That would mean that he would be compelled to resign the pit | committee, which was obviously the intention of the superintendent who, j of course, does not like militants on | there. | He refused to take the night shift. | Board members Hines and Robertson | were called in and District President | Fagan gave them a hand, but they | claimed they could do nothing to re- | instate Virta on his job. The district officials refused to let | Virtg take part in the negotiations with the mine superintendent. They could fix the job “better alone,” and they did fix it right. Not only was Virta eliminated from the pit committee but the officials also succeeded in eliminating him as @ progressive candidate who was sure to win the election, Deceiving the Membership, The rank and file recognizes that | the district officials and the mine | Superintendent talk the same language and work hand in hand to defeat the Progressives and attain their common objects, Still many say: “Simon Virta has now lost his job, he will have to leave to seek work elsewhere, what is | the use then to vote for him for local president?” A Wrecking Plan. The returns are not yet in, but when the tally sheet finally shows the elec- tion of the machine candidate by a majority vote, the rank and file will remember that this was another trick Played upon them jointly by the mine management and the district officials and, serious as the outcome will be for the members of Local 2399, it will be but a small matter compared to the bigger job which is being pulled—the enforcement of the 1917 scale, When finally accomplished, the dis- trict officials will again say that they “could do nothing,” but the road has been prepared for the coriplete de- struction of the union, Laborite Calls Chamberlain “ LONDON, July 2, — The “Cad!” was flung at / Health Chamberlain by Neal laborite member of the house of com- mons, in a bitter scene at of another all-night session to- day, McLean later withdrew his re”