The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1925, Page 4

_ COMMUNISTS GET "CHEERS AT PINK MEET INST. LOUIS ° * Daily Worker Sold at | . . . . Socialist Picnic ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 7.—In an ef- fort to revive the all but buried so- clallst party here, Eugene V. Debs ad- dressed a crowd at Triangle Park. In the early days of the socialist party St. Louls was one of Its strongholds, but only a few stragglers are now If Ite ranks, most of them being petty trade union officials and jobholders such as the editor of the reactionary organ of the socialist party (“Labor”). The capitalist ‘papers gave gener- ‘ous Bpace to advertising the revival picnic. Debs was met at the park by a group of children, some of them | dressed in red, white and blue. None | of them, of course, were dressed in red, | A Patriotic Affair. Marie. MacDonald, after a senti- mental speech, announced that “the children will sing the first stanza of “My Country 'Tis of Thee.” before Debs spoke. Debs made the same speech he has been making for the past 30 years. | Debs spoke for industrial unionism, | but did not say ho wthis could be brought about. He neglected to state that the Workers Party and the left wing are fighting for industrial union- ism thru amalgamation of the exist ing trade unions, and that the social- ists are not aiding this fight. | Communists Applauded. The names of Foster and Ruthen-| berg received the greatest applause of | the afternoon. when Debs mentioned | them in connection with his declara-| tion on behalf of class war prisoners. The members of the Workers Party and the Young Workers’ League were on the job selling the DAILY WORK- BR, and every available copy was{ sold out, with the workers clamoring for more. Good Time Awaiting Takoma, Washington, Workers on July 19th TAKOMA, Wash., July 7.—Every- thing is ready for the picnic to be held on Sunday, July 19, at Flatt Sta- tion pienie grounds, which is being given by the C. C..C. of the Workers Party of Takoma, If you don’t: want} to miss a good time and have regrets | after it is over, come and bring your) friends along. There will be plays, games, dancing to good music on a/ wonderful dance fioor. The refresh- ments and eats will be of the very best. And speeches in English, To get to the grounds take American Lake car on Broadway. + Minnesota Federation Convention. AUSTIN, Minn., July 7—The 43rd convention, Minnesota State Federa- tion of Labor, will open in Austin Sept. 21. | ists. | pressors, but against the oppressors | of the German people as well. Quick, | en THE DAILYYV WORKER “BUILD UNITED FRONT TO AID CHINESE LIBERATION” —APPEAL *& OF COMMUNISTS TO ALL WORKERS MOSCOW, June 18.—(By Mail.)—Brown, a central. committ¢e member of the British Communist Party, and Semard, a member of the French Com- munist Party, have issued the following appeal entitled, “The United Front against the Imperialists ”: “The telegraphic appeal of the Comintern and the R. I. L. U. to the Second International and the International Federation of Trade Unions, con- First, the organization of joint tains two concrete practical proposals: | meetings and money collections for the victims of imperialist violence in China, and second, the calling of a joint international conference to discuss further measures to be taken in support of the heroic struggle of the Chinese people. “The acceptance of these two proposals would make China's struggle ships and machine guns of the impe- + jot liberation the cause of the working class of the whole world. The battle- |rialist would be rendered powerless |in the face of such an organized unit- ed front of the working class. We must do everything in our power to effect a complete and rapid accept- ance of our proposals. “We consciously emphasize the word “rapid.” It were a cruel tragedy to delay the acceptance of gur,pro- posals on any formal grounds and thru chicanery. The imperialists are not waiting. They aim at the annihi- lation of their enemy. “Under these circumstances, each day, each hour assumes the greatest | importance. At the satie time we| must be prepared to see the execu- | tives of those organizations to which we appealed make the attempt either to use the proposals made by the Comintern and the Profintern for po- lemic purpose or to evade an answer altogether. “It being necessary to count with such a possibility, we must take all measures to form an effective united | front of the working class with the Chinese péople against the imperial- “Under the given circumstances, ef- fective action is the best means of agitation. In Hngland steps are al- ready being taken to form a prole- tarian united front on a national scale. A successful campaign in England will undoubtedly seriously influence the second and Amsterdam Interna- tionals. “The action of the British prole- tariat is for two reasons of prime significance: In the first place it is obvious that the British govern- ment ig at the head of the campaign directed against China, and, second, because the action of the British working class is evidence of a new attitude of the proletariat towards imperialism. “Less than half a year ago our Bri- tish comrades were not in a position | to get the labor organizations to sup- port China. In Germany, too, the situation may*be considered favorable to the tactic of the united front. The German social-democrats will find it very difficult to counter the proletar- ian spirit of solidarity with the Chin- ese people. “Not only the German workers, but other large sections of the German people feel and understand that China has risen not only against its own op- energetic action will assure the cre-| ation of joint committees of support for the Chinese people. “In France the situation is some- what more difficult. The French so- BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! | CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries m. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc. Restaurant ade to your home. (Workers organized as consumers) ! | Meat Market 4301 8th Avenue Brooklyn, N. Y. ee aaaaeaaaaaaad SSS SSS SS eee ee ee BOOKS FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES In Special July Offers NUMBER 1 10 PAMPHLETS FOR 25 CENTS 100 for $2.00 1,000 for $15.00 cfal-patriots are fulfilling their impe- rialist task against the Riffans. But they can hardly succeed in overcom- ing the résistence of the honest French proletarians to the acts of violence perpetrated against the great but enslaved oriental people. “In France the success of this cam- paign will depend on its extent and intensity. “The attitude adopted by the Unit- ed States, who are aiming at certain British positions in China, will serve to sharpen the Anglo-American con- flict, and offers a favorable oppor- tunity for the Workers Party to win over the American proletariat for a joint movement in favor of China’s liberation. “It is self-evident that in spite of the success attained by our United Front slogan among the proletarian masses of all countries, the execu- tives of the Second and Amsterdam Internationals may attempt.to evade our proposals. However, such an at- titude would unmask them not only before the Chinese people and the other awakening oriental peoples, but also before those working masses who still confide in them. “In the struggle for the realization of our proposals, we must take into consideration the fact that our posi- tion” is more favorable in regard to Amsterdam than it is in regard to the Second International. Within the Am- sterdam Internatipnal there is a solid | minority which is openly and sindere- | ly striving for the unity of the labor movement. There can be no doubt that this minority will take up a sym- pathetic attitude towards our attempt to organize a far-reaching and effec- tive campaign in favor of the Chin- ese~ people. “Thé support of this minority by the masses Will naturally strengthen the minority’ position in ,its struggle against the German-Dutch bloc which at present.dominates the whcle Am- sterda@in.machine. It is therefore na- tural bat in the course of our cam- paign .we.give especial attention t& the trade unions. “This is" the more necessary and possible because the Trade Unions are playing a most important role in the struggle of the Chinese peo- ple. But on the whole, our work will be successful only if we permeated by the conviction that the happenings in China are of the greatest significance for the whole of humanity. We re- peat and emphasize: Every instant is precious!” . WORLD WAR VETERANS OPPOSE MOBILIZATION DAY OF CAPITALISTS MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 7.— Defense day program, the militarist experiment which was indifferently observed thruout the nation on the 4th of July, is condemned by the world war veterans. “It should be called by its right name as the “ex- ploitation program of American financial interests,” declares Emil E. Holmes, president of the veter- ans’ organization. HEARST PRAISES SELF, PRINTERS FIND HIM SCAB Bought Out Union Head, Has Open Shop Ghastly silence in labor quarters greeted the 25th anniversary July 4 of Hearst’s Chicago American, Wil- liam Randolph Hearst, for a score of years the idol of the organized print- ing trades, is now a black sheep. On the day that his evening daily in Chicago screamed out its own praises after a quarter of century of publication, three printing trades unions were stubbornly continuing a year’s battle against the scab Hearst morning daily in Seattle, the Post- Intelligencer. The Typographical union, the Stere- otypers and the Mailers are in the 14th month of their struggle to make Hearst pay at least as, high wages and meet at least as good conditions as the other publishers in Seattle. Meanwhile Hearst is using strike- breakers to get that paper out. ‘Twentyfive years ago a trade union delegation headed by Jacob Betten, then president Allied Printing Trades Council of Chicago, greeted the ap- pearance of the Hearst Chicago daily. “Labor can depend that from the first issue it will have a champion”, Betten cried. Today the unions are silent and Bet- ten alone speaks but he is on the Hearst payroll. The unions are watch- ing the Hearst openshop experiment in Seattle and are working to stamp out that cancer before it spreads from the coast. The “labor cham- pion” has become an advance runner | for the open shop. \ GET INJUNCTION “AGAINST CURLEE. A.W, STRIKE Federal Judge. Issues Usual Scab Aid ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 7—The Curlee Clothing Co, has come down to the inevitable last. (sometimes the first) resort in its effort to beat.the solidari- ty of the strikes. A temporary re- straining order forbidding so-called “gnlawful” picketing and-intenference with. the company’s, business. was granted by Federal Judge Davis. Hearing Thursday. The hearing to determine whether or not a permanent injunction shall be issued was set for next Thursday. Despite the brutalities of the poiice and some 200 and more arrests, the | strike ‘lately has been looking more | and more favorable to thé strikers. | The company now shows its weak- ness by resorting to the weapon that every defeated open shop corporation uses as a last resort, the anti-labor injunction and once again demonstrat- ing how the capitalist government is used to help enslave the working class. Disobey Injunction If Need Be. The strikers say the strike will go on, “injunction or no_ injunction.” Lately there have been many arrests and much brutality on the part of the police, The injunction asked for is supposde to permit peaceful picketing and peaceful persuation of scabs. If this would be lived up to (which it won't) the situation would really be more favorable to the strikers, Union. “Vl give you another version of strike in Shanghai textile mills for very moderate demands, the ten hour day, overtime for night work, a whole hour for lunch, etc., was, turned into a revolt against foreign capitalists. Slain in Cold Blood. He showed how tle course of events was hurried~by the way in which a foreign government on Chinese soil, the municipality of the white settle- ment at Shanghai, exercised its politi- cal power in an unsuccessful attempt to crush the strike. A climax came, Kuo pointed out, when a parade of unarmed young men. and women, students, were protesting against the use of the foreign police to break the strike, and were fired on and many of them killed by these po- lice, Kuo read from the report of a police officer on duty in Shanghai the statement that the police ordered the parade to disperse, and then when it did not, they fired, as the (white) law in Shanghai permits. But this same police report admit- ted also that the order to these Ghi- nese to disperse was given in English, and the first volley was fired ten sec- onds after the order. Machine guns and rifles shattered the parade, and many were killed while fleeing from the hail of bullets. All China flamed with rage. SOVIET UNION ONLY FRIEND OF CHINA, NANKING UNIVERSITY HEAD TELLS STUDENTS AT CHICAGO U. (By Student Correspondent, “An audience of University of Chicago students, with a sprinkling of the general public, on Thursday, heard P. W. Kuo, president of Southeastern University, Nanking, China, defend the right to strike, support the anti-im- perialistic movement now sweeping China, and present one reason at least why the workers of China think they have found a friend in the Soviet the trouble in China today, from that you heard from the English editor who talked here yesterday,” said Kuo, and launched into the story of how a+— WORKERS PARTY OPEN AIR DRIVE s. IN NEW YORK GITY Harlem, Fridays, 110th Street and 5th gave. Bronx, Fridays, 163rd St. and Pro- spect Ave and at Wilkins and Inter. ale Aves. Thursdays, Washington and Clar- mont, Downtown, Fridays, 10th St. and 2nd Ave. Saturday: » 14th St. and Irving Pl. Brownsville, Fridays, Stone and Pitkin Aves. Besides our other speakers Comrade A. Trachtenberg is giving a series of lectures every Friday night on this corner. Willlameburg, Fridays, Grand St. Extension. All meetings start at 8 p.m. little elementary human fairness, China will be lost to their influence forever. The thing that seemed to gall him most was that China should have been swindled by fair promises of the allies Capitalists Ensiave China. In Kuo's opinion only the abroga- tion of the unfair treaties, which give foreign employers such military and political rights in China as they now possess gwill ever satisfy the Chinese people. The good will of the Chinese to- wards the Soviet Union, according to Kuo, is largely the result of the atti- tude of the Workers’ Republic towards China. He gave a long account of for- eign aggression and invasion of China, invasion which still continues, with England trying to annex Tibet to In- dia, and France and Japan picking out their prospective slices, to add to the Chinese territory they already rule over, all of them meanwhile continu- ing the economic spoilation of the country. as Soviets Kept Promises. In the days of the czar, no country was as greedy as Russia, or a8 _mych hated in China. But the speaker was | torced to admit that a sudden change took place when the Bolsheviki came into power. Russia then voluntarily retreated from the czarist adventure in Man- churia, revised her treaty with the Chinese (who were at first highly sus- picious) gave up all unfair political advantages, including extraterritorial- ity, restoréd Chinese railways, laws, sovereignty, and kept their promises to the letter. “And they didn’t have to do it,” said Kuo, “for there was no force to compel them. This. is something ab- solutely new in the foreign relations of China. Germany made a treaty nearly as favorable, but she was mili- tarily helpless, and had to make the best of things. The Russians were not.” Sweetness Turns to Gall. Kuo said he| was not a Communist. Of course, as head of a bourgeois uni- versity, he could hardly be expected to be but nevertheless, he also made it very clear that unless these other foreign countries begin to show some At any rate, the strikers are wise | enough by this time to know that in- ' junctions will not produce Clothing, of the consideration that the Com- munists have given China, and unless they began to demonstrate atleast a All Single Orders accepted at regular Catalogue prices only! NUMBER2 FOUR BOOKS FOR $1.00 _ 1, UNEMPLOYMENT ... ..by Earl Browder .05Ce 1. THE GREAT STEEL STRIKE 2, AMERICAN FOREIGN BORN WORKERS by Clarissa Ware .05 “ by Wm. Z. Foster (Paper) 50 Cents 3. WM. F. DUNNE’S SPEECH AT THE PORTLAND 2, LENINISM vs. TROTSKYISM r ' CONVENTION see 05 “ by G. Zinoviev, |. Stalin, L. Kamenev .20. “ 4. STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISM by Andre: ag 3 LENIN THE GREAT STRATEGIST 5. WHITE TERRORISTS ASK FOR MERCY..by Max Bedacht .05 “ t ty Laolerahey (Paper) 18 (ta ie pidedilieadehing tae ec tgs eather ell 4. 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The effect on him of the bitter, imperialistic haughtiness of Mr. Moodhead, editor of the China Year Book and of some English newspapers in China, (The speaker of the day before) was very apparent. Kuo’s first lecture had been all about the sweetness that should pervade the international re- lationships of man, and fairly sighed with hopes of peace and a return of good feeling between employer and employe, between mill owning for- eigner, and laboring Chinese, More Lectures Coming. But’*Kuo’s second speech was a de- fense of Chine’s right tv Tun nér Own affairs without forming part of the “white man’s burden” (of loot). Other lectures on China to fol- low. They are all given under the auspices of the Harris Foundation for the promotion of the concord of na- tions, at Leon Mandel Hall, Univers- ity of Chicago. Admission at Park 25¢ FARMERS COLD TO FAKE COOP, CRASH ENSUED By CARL HAESSLER (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) Scarcely had the rumor got around that the Grain Marketing Co., the so- called farmers’ own company, would probably be unable to meet itg first $4,000,000 payment Aug. 1, when a $29,000,000 crash engulfed the prin- cipal holders of the stock of one of the constituent corporations. Dean, Onativia & Co., stock brokers, were sent to the wall by the Chicago bankers who had got tired of lending the firm money on 45,000 shares of Rosenbaum Grain Co. grain stock, listed at $50 a share but scarcely worth $5 at present market. Publicity Failed ‘Whether the missing 90 per cent in the Rosenbaum stock value was to have been absorbed as water by the Grain Marketing Co. when it finally took over the Rosenbaum, Armour and other grain elevator companies is not revealed at present. What ap- Pears is that the Rosenbaum stock be- ¢ came shaky after farmers generally refused to bite on the Grain Market- ing Co. stock despite the efforts of salesmen to paint the cooperative features of the new organization and despite the American Farm Bureau federation publicity for the venture. Hoped to Unioad At any rate one of the promoters, Emanuel Rosenbaum, whose grain companies would have been taken in- to the cooperative, freely admitted last month that the companies had hoped to unload on the farmer a year ago when is seemed not unlikely that the federal government would go into the grain marketing business under the McNary-Haugen bill. The bill failed to pass and the prospect of let- ting the farmer instead of the grain gamblers buck the government lost reality. Y. W.-L. Activities Wednesday, July 8. City Central Committee meeting, © 2613 Hirsch Blvd., 8 p. m, sharp, All delegates and C. E. C. members please take good note. Thursday, July 9. Working Area Branch No, 4—3118 Roosevelt Road. Friday, July 10, Membership meeting, 722 Blue Island avenue, 8 p. m. Matter of the coming printing industry campaign and the sub and membership drive will be taken up. Every member to be present, admission by membership card, Sunday, July 12. Area Branch No, 1—Beach basket Picnic. All comrades meet at 9:30 a.m. at Wabash and Adams St. to go to Braeside, Ill, where the picnic will be held. BUFFALO WORKERS, ATTENTION! WORKERS PARTY BIG ANNUAL PICNIC SUNDAY, JULY 12th, 1925 At GARDENVILLE PARK (Seneca Car change for Gardenville) ° Good Music — Refreshments — Dancing — Games In Advance 15¢ ; CASH These offers are made only on strictly cash terms. No credit orders accepted. NUMBER 3 THREE BOOKS FOR $2.00 1. 2. by A. A. Heller 3. 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