The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1925, Page 1

The First Anti-Imperialist Week Is Now Over But Every ‘Day Should See New Blows Against Imperialism. THE — Vol. Il. No>15) “eg? 9 TION RATES: HYMAN Blac! "MAN MACHINE IN The 4. W.U. DISPROVES FAKE CHARGES ' The DAILY WORKER presents herewith extensive extracts from the speech of Louis Hyman, manager of Local Union No. 9, in closing the defense of the suspended officers of Local Union No. 2, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, on trial before the Trial Committee of the New York City Joint Board at Hotel Cadillac on Wednesday, July 1. The speech, which speaks for itself, is a masterful thing, devasting in its logic against the reactionary expulsion policy of the Sigman-Peristeig-Feinberg- Forwards machine. The charge for which the executives of Local 2 was on trial was that they held a First of May mass meeting at Outside Chicago, by in Chicago, by mail, which Communists, particularly Moissaye J. re 4 AS WE SEE IT. By T. J. O}FLAHERTY LATED with their victory in the recent elections, the reactionaries of Minneapolis are getting ready to make another drive on the central labor body, with the object of clean- ing out those former progressives who escaped the tomahawk of the A. F, of {L. disorganizer Paul V. Smith, Ac- cording to the Minneapolis Morning ‘Tribune, the conservatives expect to carry their ticket this time as a suf- ficient number of radical delegates hwere ousted to take the punch out of the opposition. re * (JT is also significant that in the i same issue of the Tribune there is # report that an attempt will be made to remove Lyn -.«vmpson as chair- man of the roads and bridges commit. tee of the Hennepin county board. ‘Thompson is a former socialsit and in fact appeared as one of the mourners at the recent funeral of the socialist ,party in Minnesota, when Eugene V. Debs appeared to officiate aswunder- Maker. The spinelessness of the so- ‘called progressives is responsible for the victory of the reactionaries, They thought it was great fun seeing the Comunists getting ousted from the Jabor assembly and the farmer-labor party. Now their own chickens are coming home to roost. ‘ (Continued on page 2) ‘NO MORE STRIKE’ POLICY SLIPS ON BOSSES’ BANANA A. C. W: Forced Into Class Warfare NEW YORK, July 6—Pickets patrol- ing past armed guards and~police in front of New York plants of the twin International Tailoring Co. and the J.L. Tailor Co. are fighting to retain their union organization and at the game time giving support to their fel- tow workers in the Chicago plants of the same &rms. Solidarity With Chicago. This effort of the Amalagamated Clothing Workers Union is, however, but the hottest part of the warline in the-New York market. Strikes against smaller open shop firms are expected in the next few days unless agreements are signed. - The Ama-amatd, tho « controlling shops where the greaterpart of the men’s clothing. workers are employed in New. York, feels it necessary to had off the open shop tendency by ironing out what nonunionism at pres- ent exists before it is added to, Injunction at Philadelphia. While these fights are going on:in New York and Chicago the situation is beconiing steadily more acute in St. Louis where the arrests in the curlee’ firm strike now total more than 200 and where police are in ad- dition” using clubbing and threats, Atithe same time a warm strike is being “conducted in Philadelphia against*the big ©. H. Rosenberg firm whith ‘moved to Philadelphia several years’ ago’ to get away from. union control’ in New York. The firm has, ‘ah fiifunction against the union but peaceful picketing is not restrained and the fight goes on. Another strike is being conducted in Trenton, New Jersey, on the Milton & Simpson firm. This is an organization strike. ** igin, spoke. Hyman’s defense was in part as follows: MR. HYMAN: Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: The specific charge against these members of the Executive Board. of Local 2 and its man- $8.00 per year. mail, $6.0C per year. JACOB REICHERT, CLASS WAR PRISONER, FREED FROM PRISON TO DIE (Special to The Duily Worker) NEW YORK, . July &—(FP)— Word has been received at the headquarters of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union that Jacob Reichert, former business agent of the union in Cincinnati, and till a few days ago a class war prisoner in the state penitentiary at Colum- bus, is dead. Reichert was jailed during the 1922 strike and convicted—on con- viets’ testimony—of inciting attacks on strikebreakers. Appeals were «lost and he was finally committed to the penitentiary, being released by Governor Donahey when he Seemed at the point of death. Death occured in the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati. ALIEN LAWS OF ager, is that they have violated Section 5 and Articles 9 and 10 of the Constitution of the Inter- | national. Section 9 and 10 which they are supposed to have vio- lated, reads: “That the regular revenue of the local union con- sisting of initiation fees, dues, assessments and fines, shall be | considered a trust fund of the Local Union for the members of the I. L. G. W. U. belonging to the Local Union, shall be ad- ministered by the Local Union in accordance with the provi- sions of this constitution.” There is nothing in that) section which applies to this particular case. There is Section 10, which says; “That the regular revenue of the Lo- cal Union shall be used only for the payment. of the per capita tax and other legitimate expenses of the Lo- cal Union.” The question then arises whether the First of May meeting was, or whether the money spent for this meeting was, or could be considered Teatteote@D. as a of the Local. It must bé known this Committee that “the First of* “celebrations | have been held ‘by this local and by all the locals of the Internationat:for years and ‘years, and that eyom this year the Local of which the hair- mon, Brother Borenstein, is |, bmiém- ber, also had. a celebration ana ‘that there speeches were made} of«the same nature as were made|at the First of May meeting at the Metre- politan Opera Ficuse. pred? I want to call the attention of ‘the Committee to the fact that the °Flist of May was accepted as a holiday at one of our conventions. } I will read to you the regolution that was introduced and the resolu- tion that was accepted at that con- vention with reference to tHe First | of May. Resolution No. 75 introduced by delegates of Locals No, 7, 24, 49 and 56 of Boston, which reads ag fcl- lows: (See convention minutes of 1920, page 108). “Whereas, the First of y as a holiday recognized and celebrated by the ciass conscious workers of Bu- rope and America; and _“Whereas, the labor unions in the men’s clothing and other needle in- dustries already make its practice of ceasing work on the First of May and taking stock of their accomplish- ments during the past by making it an inspiration for activities in the future; and | “Whereas, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union has not yet mate the First of May a holiday, thus compelling our members to work on |I L. G. W. U. to be held by the} that day; and “Whereas, the idea of working on the First of May without @ ‘chance of celebrating it repugnant to the ‘ideals of thousands of our members, be it therefore “Resolved, That the 15th bi-enn’ convention assembled in Chicago go -on record as jleclaring thé First of | May a holiday to be observéd-by our members by the cessation’ of work and by general celebration” “ On the same page of* the’ conven- tion proceedings, is a resolution rec- ommended by the resolutions commit- tee as a substitute for resolutions 75 and 83, which read as follows: “Whereas, our. International at its previous convention recognized the First of May as an ifternational holi- (Continued on page 4.) - AUSTRALIAN LABOR BOYCOTT’S AMERICAN FLEET IN PACIFIC ne MELBOURNE, Australiayrr(By Mall.)—At a meeting of the Melbourne | Trades Hall Council, it was decided to-confirm a previous resolution asking “all trade unionists not to participate;in any function arranged for the enter “tainment of the American fleet...) This action was taken in an.effort to obtain the release of American “workers imprisoned for their opposition to the war and for ardical ‘adtivities, It was also pointed out that, the,.counil’s action was consistent with its) made during the parliamentary vaca- * advocacy of labor's peace poligy, { alpaney 34 eine Hua U. 8. SEPARATE * MANY FAMILIES Cal’s Policy Hits -For- eign Workers By ESTHER LOWELL (FP) NEW YORK July 6.—How many im- migrants to the United Sta’ are be- ing temporarily and some even perma- nently separated from their families by action of federal courts is disclosed by Isaac Shorr, attorney in many workers’ deportation and naturaliza- tion cases. * According to instructions from the federal department of labor judges are denying citizenship to alien men whos families are not in the United States. On the other hand these immigrant heads of families cannot bring in their families, exempt from quota, until they are citizens. Separated From Families. The evil is that when the families reside in countries with greatly limit- ed quotas there is very little chance of the family ever being able to re- join the father who emigrated to the United States. Shorr cites Russia, with its allowed quota of only 5000 im- migrants a year, as one of the coun- tries hardest hit. There is no law compelling judges to deny citizenship to aliens whose families are not in the United States, and some judges do use their own dis- cretion in ruling. But too often, the lawyer declares, the clerks who pre- Dare the records of prospective citi- zens make it appear in their recom- mendations that the alien has not suf- ficient command of the English lan- guage or in some other way is un- desirable at the time for citizenship. Judges rarely examine the recommen- dations and records so that discrimi- nation is the result. “Cannot Be Naturalized.” Former assistant secretary of labor Henning (now federal judge in Calif- ornia) wrote a circular letter to all examiners and clerks in the naturali- zation bureau stating: “I want to re- Beat what I have said frequently to you, that an alien whose family is in Europe has never lived in the United States, no matter how many years he may have been here. He cannot be naturalized, because he has not com- plied with that requirement of the statute that he must have resided here five years. It is the common law of the United States and the common law of the world and decent philoso- phy and sound doctrine that a man resides where he has his family and maintains his family.” (Feb. 19, 1925). CAILLAUX WILL VISIT U.S. TO BORROW BILLION Will Negotiate for Huge Loan, Talk Debts PARIS, July 6—M, Caillaux, min- ister of finance, will ask the cabinet which will meet at six o'clock tonight, to name the members of the commis- sion to be sent to Washington to ne- gotiate a settlement of the french war debt to the United States. The finance ministry officially an- nounced that Caillaux probably would go both to London and Washington to negotiate the final details of french debt funding and at the same time determine conditions for a new loan of a billion dollars. The official announcement today said that the visit probably would be tion in Augy~* i | LT. C. STRIKE OPENS SECOND FIGHTING WEEK Strikers Confident of Victory; Few Scabs The second week in the strike of Amalgamated | Clothing Workers | at | \the International Tailoring Company |shows adde@ determination on the |part of the ‘strikers that they shall win their fight against the open shop which the f. T..C, is trying to estab-| lish under the guise of a fake union | agreement with the U. G. & W. to fur- | nish scabs. | In spite of the treachery of the United Garment Workers sending| scabs In place of the strikers, very few scabs succeedd in getting in yes- | terday. | Long before any | strikebreakers reached the place, numerous strikers |had already, been pacing outside-the shop for over two hours. The success of mass picketing was so decidedly. demonstrated last week, that the strikers barely take time to eat their lunch at some nearby res- taurant. ‘Indeed, one striker declared, “I shall not take time to go to the union strike meeting. It is more im- |portant to stay here and stand guara against scabs. The picket line—that} is where we win our victory.” Bosses Dissatisfied. The owners of the International | Tailoring Company are dissatisfied | with the way the strike is tending. | |With the aid of the large number of} |police the Ioeal authorities have so \obligingly supplied them with to- gether with the co-operation of the! scabby United Garment Workers,| they figured they would not lack} |workers in place of the strikers. | But the strikers fooled them. In spite of the glaring hot sun, all of| them to a man, from 7 a.m. to 6 p. m., march back and ferth, alertly |watching for the treacherous scabs. One man it to enter was ap- proached by’a group of pickets who took him up: to union headquarters jwhere the situation was explained to him, He had come: im answer to the ad- vertisement in the capitalist “kept” (Continued on page 2) KLAN KIDNAPED TENN, MEN, LEFT THEM TO STARVE Were at Death’s Door When Found in Chains (Special to The Daily Worker) | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 6—An investigation was started today by the | sheriff's office into the kidnapping of | Dr. W. D. Mason, a veternarian and | Lawrence Bowman, who were found Sunday chained to a tree on signal mountain after being missing for ten days. They told their liberators that they had been taken into the woods by a hooded band and left to die after it had been alleged that they had as- sisted federal agents in running down dry law violators; Both men were near death when they were found: as they had been without food or water for the entire period of their. imprisonment. Blow ‘to Defense Judge Fred Hines today decided that the state’s attorney had the right to make the choice as to which de- fendant was to-be tried first. The ruling was a blow to the de- fense and attorneys asked for a few hours to prepare motions and objec- tions. The prosecution undoubtedly will name Stephenson; former Indiana K. K. K. Dragon, cas the first to be Placed on trial. Last week the de- fonse had obtained a ruling that Gen- try was to be tried first. The defense may ask a postpone- ment of the trialiuntil the next term of court, which will be in October. | ULTIMATUM TO CHINA BY IMPERIALISTS, 1S REPORT AT SHANGHAI SHANGHAI, July 6.—John Van A. MacMurray, whocarrived in Shan hai last week had planned to re- | main here unti\Wednesday. A Ru- | mor was in circulation that the | powers intend to hand Peking an | ultimtum joon as MacMurray — reaches the capital. No confirmation of this rumor eould be obtained however. i any AONVAON Be TGR A Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Iilinois under the Act ef March 8, 1879, “~enqame™ te WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1925 |a call for the condition of all national Published =e” PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, UL | NEW YORK EDITION RRR oe ceo ER. Datly except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cente London Sees the Thunder Clouds of the New World Warl ooming in Pacific (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, July 6.—The thunder clouds of a new world war are seen gathering over the globe as imperialist diplomats, at their wits end to halt the uprisings of colonial and oppressed peoples, are threatening to turn on eac most implacable enemy of capit at what risk or cost. War clouds loom over the h other and upon Soviet Russia—which they conjure up as the alist imperialism, an enemy which must be destroyed no matter Pacific between Japan and the United States and over Europe, between Soviet Russia and Britain and her continental allies. whe Austen Chamberlain, speaking tonight in the House of Commons used the customary pacifist he felt great concern that rela-| tions with Soviet Russia yore) |“become critical.” Hypocrisy That Preludes War. He proceeded to bid for the labor party support.of the gov-| ernment and its policy of ag-/| gressive war upon the Soviet | Union by appealing to “both) conservatives and laborites” to| “refrain from anything that) would further inflame rela-| tions.” } Notwithstanding thisy pretense of peaceful desires, Chamberlain and his conservative cabinet colleagues under Premier Baldwin, are driving ‘the British empire straight into the jaws of another world war. It is learned that with Japan, Britain is putting every ounce of pressure on the Peking government to force China’s weak president, Tuan Chi-jui, ot break off relations with Soviet Russia and ex-! pel Soviet Ambassador Karakhan. Intimates Hostility to U. S. t In addition, Britain is covertly using | the Britsih conversative press to bring) out a war threat by indirection against the United States, in ordér to! force her to abandon fhe position of | an “altruistic” reform@ of the treaties | of violence forced on China. | In the London Daily Telegraph to- day, a newspaper published by the conservatives, the menacing vista of| war between Japan and America was brought into the picture of the Inter- national situation. ‘ a; U. S. “Throw Down Glove” | “By making the demand for a \con+} ference to consider the abolition\of extra-territorial rights in China, at | this hazardous moment, the United} States will assuredly by regarded ‘by } Japan as having at last thrown down’! the glove,” said the Telegraph. The Telegraph states that Japanese interests would suffer most if the) United. States insisted on immediate modication of extra-territorial rights , in China. The paper conveniently omitted mention that Great Britain also is seriously threatened. { For Immediate Action. { “These interests would be so patent-| ly menaced,” -safd the Telegraph, “that pacific as her present intentions are, Tokio would be persuaded by the mere instinct of self-preservation to take immediate action.” | This is regarded as a hint that! | Japan is justified in an immediate tion of local creditors, the District of Columbia supreme pointed the Chicago Title and Trust Company receivers for the bankrupt \brokerage firm. of Dean, Onativia and | Company. |mamed receiver in the original suit |Sled against the company last. week IN WRECKAGE OF |age firm owned property in Washing: \ton valued at $50,000. | declaration of war on the United States and is adding her persuasion to that of “self-preservation.” FIND 43 BODIES ~ PICKWICK CLUB BOSTON, July —With forty-three dead recovered from the ruins of the Pickwick Night Club building col- lapse, searches announced this after- noon that they did not believe more bodies would be found. Police Hold Six Workers Charged with Robbing God) ROME, July 6.—Altho six artisans employed in redecorating the treasury | of St. Peters, which was rifled of some of its most valuable aft and religious objects, last week, are still under ar- rest on suspicion that they know about the burglary, little progress seemed to have been made today in establishing the identity of the cul- prits responsible for the theft. Textile Workers on Strike Against Cut WEBSTER, Mass., July 6—Spin- ners of the Mannexit Spinning Co. are striking against a proposed wage reduction, Seeks Bank Records. WASHINGTON, July 6—The comp- troller of the currency today issued banks as of close of business on June 30, ) |phrases which always are a prelude to war. Assuring the house that he was “striving to main- tain peace” he pretended thatt, CHINESE TRADE UNION FEDERATION ADDRESSES WORKERS OF THE WORLD By INTERNATIONAL PRESS CORRESPONDENCE MOSCOW, June 16—(By Mail.)—The Chinese Trade Union Feder- ation has issued an appeal to the working class organizations of all countries in which it declares: ““F"HE events in Shanghai throw into strong relief the real situation ” in China. The success of the Chinese movement for freedom, the successful struggle in Canton, the development of the students’ move- ment, the strikes in Shanghai, Tsingtau and Hankow, the growth of the trade unions, the formation of the Chinese Trade Union Federa- tion, all this begins to make the imperialists uneasy who have been used to ensiave, plunder and degrade our country thru decades un- punished. “The workers. in Tsingtau and Shanghai put forward moderate economic demands, they were, however, shot down in the most brutal way by the mercenaries of the Japanese factory owners. The Shanghai students arranged a peaceful demonstration of solidarity and their demonstration was drowned in blood by the English police. “The mass murder and armored cars of the marines will, how- was carried out by the imperialist police as tho it were a sport, The imperiaisit forces are daily strengthened by the arrival of new warships. y®: “The mass murder and armoured cars of the marnies will, how- ever, Not cow the Chinese workers, they wil! only band them more “firmly together. ‘The imperialist challenge was answered with the general strike which hae already lasted 16 days. “The Chine: eople are fighting for. their freedom and inde- pendence and for a decent existence. “We appeal to you, the organized workers of ali countries, to as- sist us, the organized workers of China, in this historical hour to give us your powerful support.” “We must advance against the common foe with closed ranks, that is the.condition of our freedom. “Down with bloody imperialism! “Long live the united front of the international proletariat! “Long live the national movemnet for the freedom of the Oriental peoples!” Capital Receiver Is Appointed for Bankrupt Brokers WASHINGTON, July 6—On peti- NEW YORK FURRIERS GALL ORGANIZATION STRIKE OF 1,000 MEN NEW YORK, July 6.—From the 200 to 300 fur lining-finishing shops of New York the 1000 workers have been called out for an organization strike by the joint board of the Furriers’ Union. The manufactur: ing fur shops do not as a rule do their own finishing, making the union’s problem of enforcing condl- tions thruout the trade much more court today ap- The same company was It was represented. that the broker- difficult. The union is expecting to offer manufacturers a plan of operation whereby lining-finishing work can be done under union con ditions in a limited number of regu lated outside shops. Heat Kills 3 in. New York NEW YORK, July 6.—Three dead and many prostrated was the toll eR HPS taken up to three o'clock this after- | Soviet Union. to Export: Grains. noon in New York's heat wave—the | MOSCOW, U.S. S, R., July 6.—The second of the season. At 2 p..m., the | soviet Union plans to export between temperature touched 86. Only seven | tour and five million tons.of grain degrees ‘below the record, 93 estab- | auring the coming fall and. winter, it lished in 1908. lis announced. A good harvest is ex- ANNOUNCEMENT The Trade Union Educational League announces that. the, will be another T. U. E. L. page in to- morrow’s DAILY WORKER, Wed- nesday’s paper. UNIONS FIND U. S. IMMIGRATION — LAW “TO KEEP OUT REDS” LETS IN “SCABS” TO BREAK STRIKES (Special to Tha Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, July 6.—Study of the immigration law by building trades officials interested in the announcement that Secretary of Labor Davis has been urged to permit plasterers to enter the United States to end juris- dictional strike of the Operative Plastérers against the bricklayers, shows that Davis has power to admit alien strikebreakers regardiess of the quota, Under the present law the secretary of labor may determine that shortage of labor in a skilled trade exists, and he may admit enough allen workeng in that clase to meet the shortage. While the law does not mention strikes as creating a shortage, it does not forbid the admission of allen workers to | break strikes, Amundsen to Try Again | OLSO, Norway, July 6.—Roald I U E L Amundsen, who was greeted here by | o Us Deeks thousands when he arrived in the | seaplanes which took him on his | recent polar flight, said he will make | a second attempt to fly to the North Pole. He said he would try to fly from Europe to Alaska, via the Arctic. POUR St