The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1925, Page 6

op Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, 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 Bivd., Chicago, Illinois WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. 290 Advertising rates on application. ee : a In the Anthracite Fields The convention of anthracite miners, members of the United Mine Workers of America, held in Scranton, has been valuable in| that it brot the left-wing program before the representatives of 150,000 coal diggers and showed as well that, these miners have not! lost the fighting spirit that made, the anthracite district the cradle} of the modern American labor movement. The endorsement of a labor party based upon the trade unions} and including working class political parties is especially encourag-| ing in view of the capitalist politics to which the officialdom has been | committing the organization. The demand for the repeal of all criminal syndicalism laws is a fine precedent for the whole labor movement. Substantial increases in the present wage scale and improve- ments in the working conditions were demanded by the convention which was remarkably free from the attacks on the left wing and the Communists that, under the leadership of the Lewis machine, have featured similar gatherings. The activity of the left wing in the grievance strikes, against the traitorous activities of Cappellini, their fighting program and the pressure from the operators, have made many changes since 1922 when Lewis was able with the aid of his “wrecking crew” to have mil- itants thrown out of the Scranton convention. The miners are facing a great struggle. Within the next year will come either a gradual decrease of the strength of the union, if it allows the operators to cut it to pieces with a shutdown policy, or a great influx of miners now unorganized if it adopts a fighting policy. The anthracite miners are assured of steadier employment than their fellow-workers inthe bituminous industry and it is probably the thot of officialdom that they will continue to work and finance the strike in the bituminous fields if one is called. This is a mistaken policy. The left wing must set its face like flint against this plan, amounting as it does to division of the miners’ forces. The United Mine Workers must, when they strike to save their union, be prepared to deal all the misery possible to the bosses and their supporters without. any sentimental regard for the anthracite-using “public” which does nothing for them or any other working group. The anthracite miners must fight any attempt on the part of of- ficials to separate them from the soft coal workers. Only disaster for both sections of the union can come from such a policy. This, as we see it, is the big issue for the anthracite district and | the program of the left wing in this regard is clear and plain—all together for a powerful union, all together for the organization of the nonunion fields, all tegether against the coal capitalists. Japan and France Japan has proposed, according to Paris dispatches, an alliance with France. The proposals do not mention Great Britain, it is un-| derstood, nevertheless one of the terms: proposed by Japan is the ight to establish a naval base at: Saigon opposite Britain’s new Singapore base and drydock. A glance at the map of this part of the world will show Singa-| pore far to the south with Saigon so loeated as to threaten effectively | the British route to Hongkong thru the China sea. Hongkong is a British port on the southern China coast—the only Chinese port of any importance that Japan does not dominate either by actual hold} on contiguous territory or by possession of islands a little way off the coast. The possession of Saigon would close the Japanese line of naval | and military bases along the coast of China from Sakhalien island to the China sea and give her full control of the trade routes. The alliance proposal is doubly interesting as confirming the con- clusions drawn by us from recent events in China—where Japan has not only allowed Chinese sentiment to be directed against Great Britain but has actually encouraged such sentiment against the Eu- ropean nation which-was her ally in 1914-18 when Japan seized the German leaseholds and military base in Shangtung. In return for the Saigon naval base and other concessions Japan is understood to have proposed to give France a monopoly of her heavy industry market and assistance in case Germany makes war on France with Russian aid. The latter stipulation evidently is for diplomatic bargaining only as Japan has no desire under present circumstances to directly antagonize Russia; in addition, by the time that Germany is able to think of er'tering another major war the map of the world will have'undergone such striking changes that such an agreement would be either meaningless or unnecessary. That France looks favorably upon an alliance with Japan can searcely be doubted. -Under present conditions her Indo-Chinese pos- sessions are at the merey of Great Britain in event of war and the aid of a powerful naval power would be welcome. But France has to consider her relations with the United States. The franc is at the mercy of the House of Morgan. Unless American imperialism is. Willing to overlook the immediate strengthening of Japan in return for the potential weakening of Great Britain, its other powerful rival in the Far Kast, France will have to pe the advantageous ar- rangement proposed by Japan. It is evident-that diplomatic yelations are in a state of flux at present and that the hard and fast alliances within the framework of the two great imperialisms—-Great Britain and America—have not yet been formed. The task would be easier for the capitalist nations if there was no Soviet Russia forcing consideration. Imperialist wars are fights between big. robbers to see who is) going to get the biggest share of the wealth the workers and farmers produce. Why should we fight for one gang of, these robbers simply be- cause they tall themselves Americans? 0 next to you what he has in common, with the ” ask him what he,is doing about it to Ask the worker boss. If he says “nothing, » tnake. the boss understand it. Every day get “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and @ member for the Workers Party | CROUCH DUE:AT ALCATRAZ ARMY PRISON TODAY \Commanist Soldiers to Be C onfined There ALCATRAZ, Cal., July 5. — Paul Crouch and Walter Trumbull, United States soldiers who were sentenced at Schofield Barracks, near Honolulu, Hawaii, for organizing a Communist | League, are due to arrive here. Crouch and ‘Trumbull, who were at first sen- | tenced-to forty and 26 years in prison {were scheduled to leave Hawali on | June +26, for the United States disci- | plinary barracks here, where they will beconfined. Following a universal Hirneset, the army authorities reduced | the*sentences to three years and one year: Paul’ Crouch tells the DAILY WORKER, “While in Alcatraz, we | will study and prepare ourselves in every possible way for more efficient service to the cause of the working class after our release.” ston—Salem N.C, Journal, entitled: Mercy For soni Crouch,” Comrade Crouch said just before he sailed, do not have a sufficient command of words to describe those who propose ‘mercy’ for one who desires no favors from the capitalist class.” “When the worker demands his rights, the ownership of the instru- ments of production and the wealth he has produced, he gets “‘mercy.’” Crouch and Trumbull martialed and sentenced evidence of an army spy, whose testi- mopy was proven false by the defense. The verdict was brot in after less than half an hours’ deliberation, and were court on the sole by the army authorities, May Hold Scopes Trial on Friday in Spite of Colby DAYTON, Tenn., July 5.— The Scopes trial will probably begin next Friday after all, as the defense law- yers are considering the plea of Day- ton residents that they have spent fifty thousand dollars getting ready for the trial. It was announced that an injunction would.be sought in the federal court to restrain the Rhea county authori- | ties from prosecuting Scopes on the ground. that the anti-evolution law un- der which he was arrested~is uncon- stitutional, John R. Neal, chief counsel for the defense, is using his influence against | Bainbridge Colby’s attempt to end the Dayton trial before it starts by get- | ting an onde bd \No Interest Shown | by Workers in U. S. Sekt Military Muster WASHINGTON, D. C., July 5.—Less than half the number of persons par- | ticipated in this year’s mobilization day than last year, the war depart- ment announced. Eight million took part this year, most of them being forced by their employers to listen to speeches, and many being regular | troops that were ordered to mobilize. Seventeen million took part last year. Many Women Over Age of 44 Years Employed Of the eight and a half million wo- men in the United States who work for a living, three-quarters of them are over 24 years of age and two- fifths of these, or nearly one-third of the total number are more than 44 years old. Of the two million mar- ried women at work, three-fifths are between 25 and 44 years of age, while another fifth are over 44 years, These ‘facts concerning working women can be*found in the latest pamphlet issued by*the Women’s Bureau of the U. S. } Department of Labor, Washington, D. Ge “dn regard to women’s wages for ‘any of the states investigated by the Women's Bureau the highest median ‘was the mere pittance of $16.85. The medians ranged from that sum down ‘tovas low as $8.80 a week. The in- vestigation showed that where the ‘wages were higher the hours of work were less and where wages were the lowest, hours of labor were longest. Builders at Wo MONG the many Comrad | Comrade Ger Szepsi, who is ri Comrade M. S. Schneider, who who will keep up the good work even Comrade Leon Litvin, who, altho the Jewish Branch Na. TO PLEDGE THEM! EACH, | Speaking of a8 artic le in the Win- | ‘charity.’ | When he asks for justice, he gets | the records of the trial were altered | Blazing the Trail eee STATE ALLOWS INSURANCE C0.’S Court Ruling Attorney eral Licenses to_several hundred foreign | | pired July 1, were |day pending a decis' by the Unit- led States supreme court as to wheth- jer the Illinois insuragee law is con- | stitutional as held Ny the state su- | preme court. The license renewals* were ordered issued following an opinion given by Attorney General Carlstrom which virtually overrides a recent decision of the Illinois supreme court. The ruling of the supreme court |came in a test case brought by the | Hanover Insurance Co., against Pat- |rick J. Carr, treasurer @f Cook coun- ty. The insurance company contest- ed against the law taxing them 2 per cent of their net receipts, which has been enforced for years. | The state court ruled that the law is constitutional, and that no licens- |fire insurande cre ting which ex- default. Perhaps ninety per cent of the fire insurance companies’ doing business in the state, with 30,000 agents, are in default. Plan Spitzbergen-Alaska Trip, OSLO, July 5.— Captain Roald Amundsen was reconnoitering of the possibility of a flight from Spitzber- gen to Alaska as well,as attempting to reach the North Pole, it was learned today. Publishers of the «Aftenpost said they had received a message from the Polar flyer stating that he had this in mind in his recent flight into the northern wastes. Overnight Airmail Cuts Time, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., July 5.— Overnight airmail service between New York and Chicago continued to operate smoothly today, with the ar- rival of 226% pounds of mail at Had- ley Field at 5:52 a. th, J. D, Hill, the pilot from Cleveland reported the trip had required about four hours of flying time, with steady west winds slightly *slowing up the flight. rk in New York in New York that did good work during the national subscription drive that has just closed the following are some | of those that deserve special mention: ifs ponsible for the ct Ded garian Yorkville Branch, which resulted in securing sixty: The Comrades were instrumental in getting one of the Hungarian Fraternal Societies to order 25 subscriptions for their directors. in the Hun- subscriptions. personally secured fourteen subs, and now that the “campaign” is ov not Dally Worker Agent in his Branch, 1, Bronx, nevertheless encouraged forty MEMBERS ELVES TO GET AT LEAST ONE SUB: TO DODGE TAXES ored by | ing renewed to- | es should be issued to companies in | | | (Continued from page 1) tion that because the party may not know all the technical details of the requirements of the industry there- fore ‘the union work should be sepa- policies. Bad Results Either Way. The results are generally the same. Party members fail to become the con- | necting link between the masses with- | in the unions and the party. They fail completely to put forward Communist policies and, instead of advancing a concrete, militant program, they be- opposition movement may exist to the rule of the reactionary clique in con- trol, or they become the tools of re- | action itself. On the other hand, where the Com- munist fractions are rigidly main- tained and Communist policies applied | in practice, healthy growing left wing | movementshave already obtained im-| portant victories and promise good for }, | the future. Communist Tactics Not Applied Previously. It was acknowledged that, due to | lack of application of Communist poli- |cies and definite organization of the Communist fraction in the past with- in the steel workers’ union, the strug- gle for the present progressive group, altho it had given battle to the re- actionary corrupt leadership of the Mike Tighe administration, had be- come confined to purely trade issues and had failed to bring forward in concrete terms the great needs of the union and of the workers. in the in- dustry, Altho being subject to vicious at- tacks by the Mike Tighe administra- tion and ready to fight back, the prog- ressive group has succeeded in rising no higher than to demand constitu- tional changes on dues payments and improvements of the existing wage scales, Must Live Up to Name. Important as these may be, the Amalgamated Association has no power to enfonce any scale because of the unorganized state of the in- dustry, And any group laying claim to the name “progressive” must not fail to bring forward a practical program of organization of the unorganized in the industry, of real industrial union- ism and of the organization of shop committees, It must not fail to take’ a stand on the political issues facing the workers in the industry, The Communist steel workers’ frac- tion, organized at the Youngstown meeting, will consider it a first duty to bring those issues to the fore, It will have its connections thruout the country with a specific form of organ- ization under the direction of a na- tional committee representative of the various steel districts but. subject to the regular party jurisdictions, Begin Work on Union Basis. Taking the union. a the starting point to reach the hundreds of thou- sands of unorganized workers, the fraction will endeavor to crystallize the progressive mOVement into a defi- nite left wing struggling mili- Build Party Strength in Steel Union rated from Party affairs and party |come simply an appendix to whatever.|- tantly for the bi gs of a real union capable of defending the interests of the workers against the repacious steel trust. The following points will be pro- posed to thé progressive elements as basis for a united front program: A Fighting Program. 1, Demanding the launehing of a national organization drive cov-) ering the whole industry to take into the union all workers em- ployed in or about the steel) mills, regardless of craft or skill, race or color. ization department with full power to conduct drive, estab- lishment of district committees in each important steel district, each to conduct the drive in the district, National organizers to be elected at the annual conventions, dis- trict organizers to be elected by the district membership. A uniform initiation fee of $1.00 to be established. Measures ..to provide necessary finance for the drive to be worked out by the executive board. A period of intensive propaganda to precede the actual organiza- tion and to cover the whole in- dustry. The propaganda to be based on the live slogans of the needs of the workers in the in- dustry. : Slogans for Drive, The following are some suggested slogans: The complete establishment of the eight-hour. day with abolition of double shifts. No further wage reductions, but increase of present wages. | Abolition of the speed-up sys- wterm. 4) Standard scale of wages for all ‘steel workers to expire at the me time, One day rest in seven, Abolition of company unions. Abolition of black list, physical mination and finger print sys- | The industry to support its un- “The establishment. of’ an indus- “trial form of organization in the full sense of the word as ited Bd the conventions of 1923 and 1924 to be properly departmen- _ talized according to the require- " ments of the industry. Shop Committees. 8. The establishment of shop com- mittees composed of both organ- ized and unorganized represent- ing all workers thruout the mills and furnaces, the shop commit- tees to be used as the basis of . the organization drive and of the union and to be combined with- in each district on the ‘same basis_as the local union 9. The international trade union unity and support of joint Rus- | sian-English trade union unity committee, 10. For a Labor Party based on trade unions, 11, Demand for recognition ‘ot and establishment of trade relations with Soviet Russia, The establishment of an organ-| the Riffians against Spain. \ | AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) no longer able to fool the people of the world about the Chinese situation. s+! ‘T is reported that Abd-el-Krim broke his leg falling off a mule. Perhaps he has but his brain has not suffered any’material injury. Krim may have broken his leg, but the French are liable to break their necks. By thé way, it is pretty well established now that’ Britain is financing the Riffians against France. And is also well es- tablished that France was financing Watching the capitalists cutting each others’ throats is a sweet occupation. luck to them. * AT a whole souled patriot Mr. Edward L. Doheny is. We sus- pected this right along, but here comes Edward himself and proves it. He would never dream of going to the trouble of bribing Albert Fall with $100,000, but for the fact that Japan was’ preparing for war with the Unit- ed States and in order to save fair | California and Arthur Brisbane's real estate from the yellow peril, Ed went ahead and risked his honor for his country. Unfortunately the exigen- cies of politics know no honor and Edward was pitched to the wolves. His millions rendered the wolves toothless however, and he lives to tell the tale. (A poor burglar got from ten years to life last week for getting caught in the act of stealing $20.) CS : EB is hard to say what will happen to Doheny, but we expect that if he is involuntarily confined on this side of his voyage across the dark ocean, it will be in a hospital, due to illness. To put a man like Doheny in jail would be to sap the foundations of this republic. I am willitg to bet that when the war with Japan comes along, Doheny will be one of our greatest heroes and those who have opposed his deals will run the risk of being boiled in oil as horrible examples, ot ee ‘OW it can be told! Not that it makes the slightest difference, but the information might be useful when the next war comes around. The current issue of Current History, con- tains a verbatim report of a speech delivered by Lloyd George to the Brit- ish war cabinet and a special mission from the United States, sent to Eng- land by the president for the purpose of co-ordinating the war efforts. of the two countries. George admitted that the Germans were on the point of winning the war when the United States butted in, But one could never guess at such a possibility from read- ing the glowing reports of allied vice tories in the newspapers. “Modernists” Wi SEATTLE, “Wash., July 5, — The modernists won two’ victories in. the fight with the fundamentalists at the Baptist church here. By a vote of 742 to 574 they defeated @ resolution of the fundamentalists, outlining a strict set of bellefs deemed essential to the Baptist orthodoxy, and also had seated the Fosdick delegates from New York,