The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1925, Page 2

TOCONTROL THE TANGER ZONE Riffians Continue _, Pash Back French LONDON, England, July 7—Great, Britain will refuse the request of the Spanish government that England abd the blockade of Morocco established by France and Spain, on the ground that “British interests have not as yet been endangered,” it js sald in official circles here. To Rush Troops to Tangier, However, the Baldwin government is already preparing to rush troops to Tangier, not to crush Abd-el-Krim’s followers, but to prevent the re to from taking military control of the international zone. The Moroccans have made the in- ternational zone, ruled under agree- ment by Spain, France and England, their base for securing food supplies and arms. The natives are favor able to the Riffians, and have already held huge demonstrations against the government, England is determined to prevent the Spanish government from estab- lishing a stronghold on the straits of Gibralter to menace England’s for tress there. Austen Chamberlain, when asked fn the house of commons to permit debate on the Moroccan situation, re- fused to guarantee that troops would not be sent to Tangier. a Refuse to Command Army. PARIS, France, July 7—After sev- eral generals had refused to accept the difficult task of battling the Rif fians, an almost unknown general, Stanislas Naulin, accepted the com- mand of the invading army. The Riffians have captured Taza and cut the main railway across Mor- occo and Algeria, a dispatch to the Communist newspaper L'Humanite, which was later confirmed, states. The French, British and Italian DELEGATIO STATEMENT MOSCOW, June 18.—(By Union Women which is already six w N OF BRITISH UNION WOMEN IN RUSSIA MAKE Mail.) —The TRADE. FAVORING SOVIETS delegation of British Trade eeks in the Seviet Union, has so far visited Leningrad, Moscow and Kharkov, the coal district of the Donetz, the Workers’ Sanatoriums in the Crimea, and Rostovon-Don, the North Caucasus, the naphtha fields in Grozny and Baku. The delegation is at present in Tiflis, from where it will return thru Moscow to London. The Women’s Delegation made a careful study of the condition of the workers, especially that of the women workers, and has collected rich material. Everywhere thusiasm by the workers. the delegation was greeted with en- Today the delegation was present at the enlarged plenum of the Georgian Trade Union council, where a member of the delegation, Bridge, declared among other things: “If there were any doubts in our minds on our way to the Soviet Re- publics, our exhaustive study of the true position of the workers, the trade union movement and of the economic situation, has given us the deepest and firmest conviction that the pro- letariat in this country has made enor- mous acquisitions. “We have not yet returned to Eng- land, and yet we are already being attacked at home, But we will be courageous enough to tell the whole truth unreservedly about the situa- tion in the Soviet Union, and to de- stroy the base calumnies. We are not at all embarrassed when we are call- ed Bolsheviks. The British prole- tariat will stand shoulder to shoulder with the Russian working class.” The other members of the delega- tion spoke in the same spirit. Mary Quail, head of the delegation, said the following in connection with the recent ‘statement made by the British minister of the interior, Mr. Hicks, to the effect that the British Trade Union movement was being financed by Russia: “I am not a member of the British Put Anti + Trade Union Minority movement, and I do not know whether the leaders of the minority are sending reports to Moscow. But’ even if it were so, it is none of Hicks’ business. The evolu- tion of the British Trade Unions is natural and can be prevented by noth- ing. Knowing the British trade union movement well; I declare Mr. Hicks’ statement in regard to the financing of this movement by Moscow, to be a base lie. The British Trade Unions are a thousand times more justified in accusing the British government of financing military expeditions against Soviet Russia. “The British government has spent many times more for these expedi- tlons than the Soviet Trade Unions would be able to offer to the British trade union movement, even if that were the case. Statements of the kind made by Hicks can only strengthen the British labor movement.” The British Women’s Delegation is planning, upon its return to issue a big report on the Soviet Union, par- ticularly on the position of the women in Russia, volutionists in Jury Box (Continued from page 1) John T. Gore at Cookeville in refusing to halt the trial by injunction, Decision Blow to Defense. | The decision actually was a blow! to Scopes’ defense. His attorneys were caugt with their principal wit-| nesses unsummoned and spent the forenoon sending frantic telegrams to a dozen prominent scientists, urging cabinets are conferring on the diffi. them to appear here Friday. In addi- cult situation. Portugal Not to Pay Britain. LONDON, July 6—The government| witnesses must be of Portugal in a note today informed | «yojunteers,” tion, their failure to carry the case} winto a federal court robbed them of the use of subpoenas and all their obtained thru As each scientist to} the British foreign office that it Can-|tave the stand must face a scathing | not at present undertake a discus- cross examination at. the hands of sion of a settlement of Portugal's in-)wittiam Jennings Bryan and. other debtedness to Britian. ; dokachapietanarhapain> Eight Die at Picnic. ST, THOMAS, Ontario, July 7—| wuch Prosecuting attorneys, it was said, but few have accepted the defense’s invitation. speculation was rife here as Bodies of five small children and n/t, the future attitude of Clarence Dar- adult had been taken from the waters | row and Bainbridge Colby toward the of Lake Pinafore, near here, today, The defense announced that as evidence of a picnic tragedy which beth. attorneys would appear on the took the lives of eight persons, seven gcene within 48 hours, but rumors per- of them children, yesterday when a0) sisted that both might be missing amusement boat capsized in mid-lake, when the case is called for trial. Make Up Jury. Write the story about your shop} ‘The countryside meanwhile an- —Order a bundle to there. | ', Manifesto Marx-Engeis Cloth, 60 Cents \ Paper, 10 Cents The A. B. C. of \ Communism , Bucharin-Preobrazhensky X Paper, 50 Cents 4 q | Jullan Burchardt - 4 , Paper, 75 Cents | \ 4 \ The State and , Revolution distribute | nounced itself satisfied with the hand- ty picked jury panel, personally chosen JN 1848, Kar] Marx and Frederick Engels wrote in the * opening statement to the Communist Manifesto: “A spectre is haunting Ewrope—the spectre of Oom- muniem. All the powers into a holy alliance to eworcise this spectre .. .” Topay, this spectre has grown into a reality of gigantic proportions—a living element that has forced the pow- by Rhea county's sixteen justices of the peace under the existing archaic legdl system. With both the state and defense Mmited to three peremptory chal- lenges apiece, it was generally be- lieved the Scopes jury would be chosen from the first panel. There was also a feeling that the panel favored the prosecution because a great majority of the talesmen are stout church members. In fact, one, J. M. Hinds, of Grandview, is a baptist preacher, while another, E. C. Byron, of Dayton, is a ‘Sunday school superintendent. The ‘pane? includes twelve methodists, nine’ baptists, three presbyterians, one christ’ church member, one seventh day ‘adventist, all of whon: have been regular attendants of their respective churches, and three talisinen, whose church affiliations were not known. Jury Favors Prosecution. ‘Tam’ perfectly content to rest my case fn their hands,” said Walter White,’ county superintendent of schools who is Scopes’ prosecutor. Businessmen in the Cumberland Hill towns; and veteran farmers dominated the panel. There were 14 farmers and three. fruit growers, including B. W. Hall, secretary of the Rhea Coun- ty Farmers’ Union, in the 29 chosen. There were seven merchants. "A Spectre is Haunting Europe” } L of Purope have entered ‘| Vad. Ulianov (Lenin) ‘},’ Durofiex Cover, 25 Cents 1113-W. Washington Blvd. (etait be THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. ~ “Tho Source of All Communist Literature” ers of Europe—and America—‘into a holy alliance” to keep the working class from assuming power. THs spectre of 1848—the great reality of today, ever growing larger and under whose guiding principles one sixth of the globe is already entering into a new stage of society COMMUNISM Is clearly, simply and concisely explained in these books which can be secured from PI YAH ERO ip ty" aaabts el ano sree MOREY SHOP WET FLOORS EXPOSES MEN TO DISEASE Daily Worker Exposure Gets Big Welcome NOTE:—With this article came the | following: “Fifty copies of the DAILY WORKER containing the first article, were sold to the, shop fellows and most of the boys said ‘that’s the stuff’ and ‘we'll keep right on until we succeed in our efforts’.” @ FA By Worker Correspondent. ASTORIA, L. I, July 7-—1n my sec- ond article on working conditions in the Morey Company Machine Shop, I will take up the question of what we workers can gain in the way of better conditions in that shop thru organiza- tion. Sweat Shop Conditions. Let us consider our shop problems, fellow workers. Does our boss treat us like men living in the twentieth century? In the few minutes we have for eating our Junch, we cannot even find a bench to sit on, there is so much dirt and grease and parts of machinery are strewn all around the place. The slimy wet floor that we stand on all day exposes us all to rheumatism. For the privilege to work for a miserably low wage we are ex- posed daily to disease. For being loyal suckers, our boss, Mr. Himoff, pays to a few wages a little higher than to the rest of us, but these few must realize that the more they scheme to bury us the deeper they sink too. By keeping us down they set the same pace for themselves. They will gain more by standing by us. Remember, fellow workers, that a man who is a traitor to his class is at the same time a traitor to himself. Iam addressing myself to those poor fellows who have fallen into the trap of hoping to help themselves by standing on the backs of their fel- low workers. I still believe they will join with us when they understand the folly of their doings. But if they continue we will not spare them. Organization's First Task. Some workers, good, honest, sin- cere men use the ment that since this place is not 4*steady place, and with so many suckers around, it is impossible. organize. I say that is wrong., ever mmen work for a living, they should be/organized for that is their only protection against the greed ofthe boss.¢)° ”.. } Our wages are so poor we barely make a living. Yet I can safely say! without exaggeration that our boss makes 70. per cent profit on every machine that is turned out. In the face of such facts, why do we hesi- tate to demand better conditions and higher wages? Mr. Himoff drives us so success- fully that we have not even taken a moment to stop to figure out what this rushing is getting for us. If we stand together we have nothing to lose in our fight for better conditions. Jobs like this one we can always find. Our task as workers is to unite to better our conditions in the shop where we work no matter where it is. Time to Act. Up to the present we have shown that we are together in sympathy, but words will not get us anything—we must combine this sympathetic under- standing with action and we will suc- ceed, A meeting of our shop will be called in the near future and we must all attend. We will get together to lay our plans for organization. Every worker in the shop will be invited. A notice of this meeting will be print- ed in the DAILY WORKER. Each and every man of the Morey Company shop should be a reader of the DAILY WORKER, the only news- paper in the English language in the United States that fights for the li- beration of the working class. You will begin to understand the role of a worker in society when you read this paper. You spend your good |money for which you have worked #0 hard on newspapers that help the bosses exploit workers, You should use that money for the paper that voices your struggles. Every word in tat paper is devoted to your in- terests. Watch for the call of the meeting in our paper, the DAILY WORKHR. JEWISH BRANCH HO, 7, PHILADELPHIA, ADOPTS GITLOW RESOLUTION (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 7— At a full meeting of the Northwest Jewish Branch No, 7, Local Phila- delphia, a resolution was unanim- ously adopted condemning the su- preme court decision in the case of our Comrade Benjamin Gitiow, We se of the tolling masses and Pp our united efforts in seour- ing his freedom so that he may continue his activities in the bulld- ing of the Workers (Communist) Part; q ed) K.Yampélsky, B. Mich- ton, Resolution Committe of the N. THE DAILY, WORKER ChinalStarts Move to Scrap (All Her Treaties With World Imperialism By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, the Chinese masses make their greatest bid for liberation. They have launched a nation-wide campaign urging immediate cancellation of all foreign treaties. This effort has every possibility of winning the support of all the Chinese people. : This move will no doubt be heralded by the imperialist allies, the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan a: being also Moscow inspired. - * * * * Soviet spokesmen, however, like L, M. Karakhan, the ambassador of the Soviet Union, at Peking, have never con- cealed their belief that China must scrap all treaties with foreign capitalist powers and make a new start., It has been pointed out that the mere attempt to revise treaties imposed upon the Chinese people will get nowhere, It was an outspoken Karakhan who addressed the stu- dents of the Tsinghua College in May when he said: “The appearance of the Union of Soviet Republics on the world historical stage meant more than a victory of the oppressed class of workers and peasants; it also means the victory of the nationally op- pressed peoples of the former Russian empire AND THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHT OF THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF THE WORLD FOR THEIR NATIONAL LIBERATION.” Karakhan spoke in the name of Leninism, which forms the basis of the international policy of the Soviet Republics, which points out the inevitable struggle of subject peoples and oppressed nationalities against bandit imperialism. Imperialism is a phenomenon of the developing world eco- nomic order. It is the highest stage of capitalism. Cal Cool- idge, in his Fourth of July speech, may prate about the “peace aims” of American imperialism, and some workers may be blinded into an acceptance of this misleading propa- ganda of Wall Street's political agent. But the Chinese workers and peasants, thru bitter ex- periences extending over the past century, have learned to recognize the brutal face of the imperialist slavemaster, even when it is concealed behind its “pacifist” mask. That is why it is possible to say today that the Chinese masses are on the eve of tearing up the treaties that the foreign offices of Washington, London, Paris and Tokio have imposed upon them, eo @« @ @ The Chinese giant, the more than 400,000,000 people of China, are held helpless in an intricate network of treaties and obligations among the first of which was the “Treaty of 1842” that ended Britain’s “Opium War" against China with the forepaws of the British lion firmly planted in the Orient. Hong Kong became a British port. Annam and Tongking went to France as a result of the war of 1883, thru an agreement reached in another treaty, while the Chinese went down to abject surrender in the treaty forced upon her by Japan following the war of 1894, that resulted in Korea going under the wing of Tokio, while the indemnity of $200,000,000 threw the Chinese people into, the welcoming clutches of the European money lenders, mouths watering in anticipation of the luscious feast. The Germany under the kaiserdom in 1897 got Kiachow and Tsingtao, and it was only three years later that the ill- fated Boxer Rebellion resulted in the yoke of the protocol be- ing forced on China by the nine imperialist powers. * * * * These give only an inkling of the many ties that have been created to bind the Chinese nation to the imperialist profit machine. China made another bid for liberation eleven years later in the national revolutionary movement organized and led by Sun Yat Sen. After 14 years of ceaseless heart- breaking struggle, the Chinese now demand that all treaties with the foreign oppressors be torn to shreds. All militant workers and poor farmers, the world over, will wish them every success in their latest endeavor. But they must do more. Labor everywhere must join the Chinese in the com- mon war of extermination against the capitalist oppressor. LOS ANGELES, CALIF., TRADE UNIONS PASS RESOLUTIONS DEMANDING THE RELEASE OF CROUCH AND TRUMBULL FIGHT AGAINST POISON MENACE Occupational Ills Are Cause of Many Deaths By ART SHIELDS (Federated Press) NEW. YORK, July 7—Mlillions of felt hats, soft velours and derbies adorn as many heads in this country but few of the wearers know what price-in human lives is paid In the manufacture. But of 100 union felt hatters recently examined, 43 per cent were found to be suffering from that form of mercury poisoning known as “hatters shakes”. A study of 699 union death records showed that the death rate from pneumonia is 173 per cent above that of the average population and from tuberculosis, 46 per cent higher. Other diseases abound. And yet, experience in the hat plants of more civilized na- tions shows, all these hatters’ death hazards are unnecessary, Will Make Health Demands, Facts such as these have roused the union hatters of Danbury, Conn., to demand decent health conditions, A scientific survey of the shops, leading to the remedies they will demand from their employers, is being made with the technical assistance of the Work- ers Health Bureau, 799 Broadway, New York, to which the Danbury hat- ters’ union is affiliated, Dr. Alice Hamilton of Harvard Medical School, leading authority in the United States on hatters’ hazards; Dr. Yandell Henderson, professor of physiology at Yale and Dr. C. B, A. Winslow, professor of public health at Yale and authority on the control of dusts and ventilation—all consulting experts for the Workers Health Bu- reau—have offered their services to the union. Stand In Water, American hat factory conditions are shockingly inferior to those of other countries. No mercury poisoning is found in the British and Italian plants. In England ‘hat factories are dust- less, practical exhaust systems carry- ing off the dust and steam. In Italy men work with rubber gloves and aprons; exhausts carry off steam and employes have special dining and dressing rooms and men are changed from one department to another so that they do not work long in the mercury. But in America nothing has been done in most factories to eliminate the deadly dust and steam. They are dirty. Laboratories are unsanitary, while proper ventilation is unknown. In most shops there is water on ‘the floor and the men have to stand in water all day. Mercury Poisoning. The cause of mercury poisoning, most insidious of hatters’ ills, has been traced to cheap production methods used in American plants. Soft felts, fluffy velours and stiff der- Dies start as bits of rabbit fur damp- ened and blown together'to form a felt. Because cheap piece fur is used, poor in quality, a strong solution of nitrate of mercury must be employed and this mercury solution steams into the hatters’ lungs from the hot sizing tubs. , What mercury remains in the felt is volatized by the hot irons of the pressers and passes into the atmos- phere for inhalation. In England the difficulty is avoided at the source by using whole skins. Other diseases afflicting hatters in- LOS ANGELES, July 7.—The Young Workers League campaign in be-| clude silicosis, incurred in breathing half of Crouch and Trumbull is progressing well. So far the Millinery Local Union No. 48, and the Cigarmakers’ Union No. 225 in Los Angeles, have adopted the resolution demanding the release of the imprisoned Ha- waiian soldiers, and the delegates of both these unions have been instructed to present the same resolution, presented by the Young Workers League, to the Central Labor Council and demand similar action. It is expected that within the next week the Painters and Carpenters locals will also endorse the campaign @——————____________. FALLS INTO VAT IN SCAB PLANT munist soldiers. The rosoluticn of the league roads Company Too Stingy to Buy Safety Guards as follows: “Whereas, two soldicrs of the U, S. army, privates Crouch and Trum- bull, have been originally sentenced to 40 omd 26 years respectively on the evidence of a spy for ‘the 1ailitarist officials; and “Whereas, their only crime was that they held certcin {political opinions, and as mombers of the Hawaiian Com- muniet League at.Honolulu, which is a legal organization, are, cupporters of organized labor and vadvocating the interests of the workingclass of Amer- fea; and “Whereas, due to the™ nation-wide protest of the American workers against the savage sentences and un- fair trial and court-mertial given these young solciers, the army officials were compelled to reduce the sen- tences to 3 and. 1 years respectively; therefore, be it: » “RESOLVED, that this local union demands the imtied{ate releese of privates Crouch and Trumbull; and be it further none RESOLVED, that this resolution be sent to the War Department, the Cen- Ww. Phil i w, Re yg Anton ‘Branch Ter tral Labor Council, our District Coun- cil, and the labor press,” Prawente teint ie. | By Worker Correspondent Charles Htherington, 413 S. Irving Ave., slipped and fell into a vat of boiling enamel at the plant of the Enameling Manufacturing Co., at 549 Fulton St., He is in a serious condi- tion at his home. Other employes report that there had been no safety guards for months in spite of the fact that the lives of workers were endangered constantly. Some members of the Young Work- ers League were discharged from this Plant some time ago on the ground that no “agitators” were wanted. Safe- ty appliances would cost a few dol- lars. But new workers can always be found to take the place of the vic- tims. Etherington is the father of elevén children, who have been deprived of his support by the accident, Give this copy to your shop- mate, power ‘ the particles of sand dust from sand- papering the surface of the finished hat; chronic bronchitis and lung in- flammation, of which 32 per cent of unionists examined are found to be suffering; abnormally high blood pressure, found among 39 per cent; loose teeth and inflamed gums, affect- ing 45 per cent and due to mercury and nitric acid fumes; tremors (trembling or twitching of the body), 55 per cent; excessive tiredness, $9 per cent. Straw Hatters’ Ills. Straw hatters suffer from rheuma- tism, excessive fatigue and other trou- bles from constant standing in an capreae atmosphere of steam and eat. It is hoped that the example set by the Danbury hatters in improving shop conditions will be followed at Orange, N. J., second largest hatters’ center in the east. The present issue is regarded as being as fundamental in its way as the fight waged years ago against the famous boycott cause. Armenian Picnic at i Reese Park Attracts Many Chicago Workers A large crowd of workers and their families attended the pienic of the Armenian Branch of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, held at Ree: rk, 6400 West Grand Ave, Bloor, who is enroute on a coast-to-coast hitch-hiking trip for the DAILY WORKER, Thurber Lewis, and Sam Hammers- mark were among the speakers, Your neighbor would like to read thie. inane | the DAILY RKE, ny ive it to him! silk heed vd a ba HATERS LAUNCH -