The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1925, Page 2

Pags Two ~ THE DAILY WORKER TO SEND 50000 FRENCH TROOPS TO AFRICAN WAR Riffians Take Another of the workers, the use of private and state police, the blacklist system and Town in Attack PARIS, France, July &—The evacua- | ing their control over the workers. tion of Taza has now been completed, war communiques from Morocco state, only men being left In the town. The new commander of the French Worker Correspondent Irwin Wins $5 Prize in First Contest. The $5 literature prize for the best worker correspondent story In the first of our twice-a-month contests has been awarded, by unanimoug decision of the judges—Comrades Loeb, Engdah!l and Dunne—to Worker Correspond- ent Irwin for his story, published Monday, June 29, under the head “Pressed Steel Car Company Uses Shutdown Threat to Speed-Up, Cut Piece Rates.” This story is remarkable for the detailed knowledge of wages and work- ing conditions displayed. It also refers In a clear manner to the last struggles other methods of terrorising the workers, The story gives a picture of conditions in the industry with which it deals and shows that the state power is the Instrument of the bosses in maintain- It shows also the development of machinery replacing labor and the effect of this on the conditions of the workers. The weakness of this story, however, is that it does not suggest a remedy in the form of shop committees and union organization nor does it give any idea as to what the workers are saying and thinking about the methods invading troops, Gen. Naulin, will leave for Morocco In a week. Fifty thousand more French troops will be sent to Morocco immediately by the Painleve government, it is learned, in an effort to stop the suc- cessful attacks of the Riffian natives, Painleve has asked the chamber of deputies for a further eredit of 300,- 000,000 francs ($15,000,000) for mili- tary expenses, The Communist depu- ties are opposing the credit, and de- manding the withdrawal of French troops from Morocco. The socialists | are egain expected to support the im- perialist war. French forces have evacuated Zai- dour, north of Ouezzan, before the at- tack of the Moroccans. The French have sent motor cars with machine guns mounted on them into the regions north of Taza and Fez, in an attempt to force the rest- less natives to support the French troops. ‘The war office reports that the prob- ability of a general uprising thruout Morocco continues. CAL IN DRIVE TO REDUCE TAX ON BIG INCOMES Businessmen Expects to Save Millions used by the company. With such additions the, prize-win: advantage for agitational purposes in see at once that the correspondent kne sideration of the information contained the second contest now on? (Continued from page 1) Wolfe, stop the latter’s anti-imperialist and labor activities in Mexico and of- fer another concession to Kellogg to prove the “unbolshevik” nature -of Mexican laborism. Source of “inconvenience.” | This famous article 33 of the Mex-} ican constitution which gives to the president of Mexico the right to de- port any alien for “pernicious activi- ties” for “mixing in politics” or for being a source of “inconvenience” during his stay on national territory. was adopted by the framers of the lib- | eral constitution of 1917 as a meas- ure aimed at the exploiters of Mex-| ico, the British and American imper- | ialist oil and mining investors, and} by the peculiar reversals for which the so-called labor government of Mexico} is famous, was turned inside out and| applied to one of the most active ene- mies of American imperialism in Mex ico. Even in the details of the methods of applying the deportation measure, the class character of the Mexican} government is made clear. When | Leach, representative of big invest- ment interests in Tampico wag de-| ported by Obregon, he was #ivén ten days, to wind up his affairs and leave SWAMPSCOTT, Ma July 8—/the try without escort. President Coolidge, himself a stock- oil and mining deported for hoider in the United States Steel Cor- | “ in Mexican tics” in the ration has launched a propaganda of swhsidizing ations and ive ah behalfi of big business to re- oppositions (to(bribe the offi ice the surtax on high incomes. The |cig@l in power is not “mixing in. poli- sident announced that he will en-| tics” within the meaning of the con- avor to reduce the tax on midilon-|stitutional clause) hav» been given aites from the present rate of forty |the ten days notice. eee ee Ger cent, Didn't Get 10 Minutes Notice. Coolidge announced he wanted to) But now that the deportation article bring “greater prosperity to industry.” /nas been turned against a worker and He said he is launching the propagan-| on munist (not the first time that da drive early this year in order to the arbitrary presidential power has ere oe Aatent Kl ag vosch se been so used) not even ten minutes ee Melon man’ by notice was given but Wolfe was. grab- the last congress. Coolidge called his he Jeft his propaganda drive an “educational bed in the morning as he drive.” house, held incommunicado) until train ' time and deported the same night un- der guard without being permitted to take the necessary baggage or funds to care for himself after passing the frontier. The deportation threat had long been hanging over Wolfe. A member of the executive committee of the Communist Party and of the execu- tive of the All-American Anti-imper:| falist League, he had been a thorn in the side of the American embassy, the Calles administration and the government-owned leaders of the Mex- ican Federation of Labor. These lead- ers had themselves officially petition- ed the expulsion, but had never suc- ceeded in getting Wolfe expelled from his union altho it was affiliated with cent increase. The company will |the Federation and the leaders had then Insist on a general reduction. |themselves appeared before the union | The union is bound by an arbitra- |to prefer charges and conduct the trial | \ tion agreement. The union repeatedly repudiated the Give this copy to your ‘shop-mate, ARBITRATION TRICK 1S USED 10 DEFEAT ONION AND KEEP WAGES DOWN NEW ORLEANS, July 8—(FP)— Street car men organized in the Amalgamated Assn. of Street and Electric Railway employes will con- tinue to receive 45, 47 and 510 an hour until the expiration of their contract with the New Orleans Pub- lic Service, inc., June 30, 1926. The arbitration board refused a 10 per 12,000 Live Trade Unionists Bank Here! NOW Is the Time to Transfer » Just Bring in Your Pass Book. Deposits made before July 15th will draw interest from July 1st. A $5,000 ‘Accident Insurance Policy issued with each new account. Trust and Amalgamated "3ust2" Bank CHICAGO'S LABOR BANK S. W. Corner Clark and Jackson A Clearing House and State Bank. Open for your convenience until 8 p. m. Tuesdays and 5 p. m. Saturdays, The story is only a little less than a column in length and therefore somewhat too long for the average worker correspondent article but in con- Who will be the worker correspondent to improve upon Irwin's story In “Socialist Calles Deports Communist ning story could be used to the best the plant because the workers would w what he was talking about. in it, this was overlooked. expulsion requests. ‘The deportation threats had become chronic. Every time the Communist Party issued a new manifesto or started a new move, every time anew union indicated tendencies of a mili- tant nature—came another expulsion threat. Tension Tightened in June. But of a sudden, towards the end of June, tension tightened in Mexico. The government became panicky when it saw the autonomous unions urged on by the Communists, prepare the first steps toward the formation of a national federation independent of the government—which federation promises to control the basic oil in- dustry, railwaymen and others, leav- ing the government unions only in control of minor industries. Also the American state department became uneasy and “protesty.” And above all, there loomed on the horizon the sin- ister cloud of a general strike of the most powerful labor group in Mexico, the railway federation. The Communists had been predict- ing the strike and explaining its ne- cessity for a year and a half—ever | bership over since the signing of the Lamont-De la Huerta treaty. The Communist state- ment issued then to the effect that the denationalization (return to pri- vate hands) jof the government ed railways proyided ‘by the ae tained a sectet proviston to the effect that before handing over the roads the government was to lower wages break down conditions and destroy the powerful railway federation. The “guess” of the Communists as to a secret provision attracted little attention among railwaymen at first but bit by bit the actions of the gov- ernment made it clear that it had not been guesswork but correct analysis. Thereupon, the railwaymen began en- tering the Communist Party and pre- paring for a fight. By twos and threes they entered, and then by tens and twelves. May 1st found them so far advanced in their militant mood that they invited Wolfe to address their May Day meeting. By June first they had invited him to start a class in the ‘tactics of the class struggle in. their headquarters, A government representative “unofficial- ly” interviewed Wolfe and informed him that the class would not be per- mitted. After the first lecture of the course, he received a second visit and was informed that he would never give the second lesson, that deporta- |tion papers were ready and that if he knew what was good for him he would “drop it.” Railwaymen Join Party. The class continued and after every session some new railwaymen joined the darty. Alliance, organ of the Al- liance of Mexican Railwaymen, be- gan carrying articles favorable to Comunism. Its editor joined the party. The party named committees of action to aid the railway strike and the unions began putting them- CHICAGO NEEDLE TOILERS RALLY TON, Y. STRUGGLE Support I.L.G.W. Locals Hit by Machine (Continued from page 1) was in the joint board treasury when Perlstein came to Chicago. Approxi- mately the same sum was sent to Chicago from New York. This was quickly dissipated) and the results of it were: Most all progressive officials and delegates to the joint board and local union executive were removed. Rank and file progressives were slugged, re- moved from the job, fined, disfranchis- ed, eleven of the most prominent left wingers were expelled from the union. Most every candidate for office sus- pected of being progressive or who would not swear blind obedience to the machine were, and still are, be- ing removed from*the ballot. The membership: of the union is less, the morale lower, job control almost completely lost, This sums up in a few words Perlstein’s “achievements” and it cost the mem- $200,000 from their treasury alone, Shop Chairmen Support Locals 2, 9 and 22, The “crime” committed by Locals 2, 9 and 22, is tpat that they refuse to have shoved’ down their throats the proposed New York agreement, which is a pure sell-out, agreed to by the governor’s commission, the yellow socialist lawyer, Hillquit and the Perl- stein-Sigman -machine. In a meeting of 2,500 shop chair- men, a resolution was unanimously adopted demanding the removal of the three local executive boards and refusing to récognize. this unconstitu- tional and arbitrary act. The resolu- tion further points out that it is not merely a struggle of, Communists but a mass revolt of the membership against a group of parasites who as- sume the right to raise dues, levy assessments, sign agreements, call and settle strikes on their own terms without consulting the membership. Members on Guard. Like thieves in the night, Perlstein and Sigman turned loose on the of- fices of these locals the scum of the East Side. Hundreds of rank and filers of Local 22, day and night de- fend their headquarters against these hired gunmen, Brothers and si: , you must rally to the suppo cals 2, 9 and 22. They) are, jen ‘in the str fe. Sc reaction that, if allowed to rule, our union much longer, will smother and destroy our organization. Locals 2, 9 and 22 stand firmly against the governor's commission award. They are for class struggle as against class collaboration, They are fighting against *corrupt gangster rule, They stand:upon a fighting pro- gram of action. Members of the I. L. G. W. U, Fight! Brothers and sisters of Chicago, you must again militantly enter the strug- gle and in co-operation with Locals 2, 9 and 22, and other progressives thruout the country: Demand the reinstatement of the expelled executive boards. Demand that Perlstein and Sigman stop raiding the treasury, stop hiring gunmen and gangsters. Demand the reinstatement to full membership of all expelled and dis- franchised members, Demand the amalgamation of all needle trade unions into one organ- ization covering the entire industry. Demand that the I. L. G. W. U. take an active part in the organizing of a labor party. Chicago Needle Trades Section, Trade Union Educational League. Pn RP iiiacaeh Hee Rio Grande. = Couldn’t Break Up Class. Imagine then the consternation of. the Mexican government, imagine the swarm of dicks and stoolpigeons that attended when on the following Wed- nesday it was unced that the de- Dortee’s class ‘natin would be given as usual. it was! The Communist Party, received too selves on a strike footing. The last week in June they elected a Commun- ist general secretary of the Federa- tion. The government perceived that “orientation” and strike were synono- mous and rightly judged that this class in the tactics of the class strug- gle would complicate their problem of crushing the railway unions. In fact anything which tended at this junc- and the capacity for struggle of the railwaymen was a menace to the gov- ernment and to the imperialist La- mont-De la Huerta treaty, This class had become to Calles a nightmare, symbol of resistance to his policy ot surrender to American capitalism. And the presence of Wolfe had be- come “inconvenient.” On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 27, 28, and 29, there were con- ferences between the executive of the party and various prominent Com- munist railwaymen and sympathiz- ers. On June 80 there was to be a gen- eral railwaymen’s meeting and on July 1 the new Communist secretary of the Federation was to take office. On June 30 Wolfe disappeared and 36 hours later—the fastest time possible, us ty panei * he was on tho! can side of the long @ notice to be caught napping. Another instructor, the party secre- tary was pre and drilled. The notes for the n class weer in his Possesion and each week he received notes for the next class were in his can deport Communists but you can- not deport Communism.” This is one of the many agitational slogans that immediately were launched by previously prepared pro- ture to increase the will to struggle |test meetings all, over the country. a The July fourth antiimperialist me: ings and demonstrations arranged all over the country by the Anti-imperial- ist League supported by the railway unions and many other tmportant la- bor bodies, were largely: converted into protests at this new evidence of subserviency to American imperial- ism. The July 4 meeting of the Antitmperialist League in Mexico City adopted a resolution of protest and sent the following telegram to Wolfe care of the national office of the Workers Party: “Betram D, Wolfe, “Anti-imperialist meeting gr you, protesting ‘expulsion, praising your work. Greetings, “Bnrique Flores “Magon, “Chairman Meeting.” Protests G Urge “Labor Leaders Get Together and Stop the War in the Pacific ODAY, a host of intellectuals, very glib with their tongues, and rather apt at spinning theories, are meetin Institute on Pacific Relations, at Honolulu, in Hawaii. have gathered as peacemakers. maneuvers of the American Pacific fleet had passed. Wall Street’s warships are now off in Australian waters, so paci- fists may talk to their heart’s content, and not be charged By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. intro BOR ht we FAKE COOP TO WALL; FARMERS DID NOT BITE Rosenbaum Grain Men in Complicated Deals The firm of Dean Onativia and com- pany, which is dominated by the Rosenbaum brothers, has been sus- pended from the Chicago stock ex- change for insolvency. The firm has not yet been reorganized, and the in the They But they came after the war with transgressing the murder plans of the imperialists. * * * * One of the offerings that has come out of this “institute” is that there must be a meeting of the labor leaders of the Pacific nations to aid in preserving peace in this part of the world, dust who these “labor leaders” are who must come to- gether, we are not told. And no mention is made of how they will preserve peace. ° * * ° Labor leaders fall into two groupings when the cannon begin to thunder their messages of death and destruction. Those who are for the present imperialist system that breeds wars, and those who are against it; for its overthrow. The last war clearly showed that there is no chance, especially for labor leaders, to occupy neutral ground. Those who are for the abolition of capitalism, of which imperialism is the highest stage, either join the Communist movement or must be so closely sympathetic to it, as to be practically identified with it. There are such labor leaders, few today but more tomorrow, in the nations surrounding the Pacific. But the “institute” now meeting at Honolulu will certainly not call them into conference. That would not be “respectable.” It would carry with it the dreaded “Mos- cow”’ taint. e * . e Neither would the “institute” be able to reach labor leaders who are out-and-out imperialists, which would in- clude most of the present heads of the American trade uni- ons. They are willing to bask in Wall Street’s golden sun- light, . It would, however, be able to reach a few “pacifists” among labor officials who like to talk against capitalist wars, until war is declared, but who refuse to join in actions against war. Luckily for the pacifists the move against the next war can still be kept, so far as they are concerned, in the talking stage. But unluckily for them, the last war is still fresh in the minds of many workers. Their ‘“‘pay-triotic” _antics in that struggle are still too vividly remembered. * * * * The “institute” has thus labored hard, and the delegates have travelled far, for nothing, if this is all that they can produce. The nations that they represent, while they talk, are slaughtering workers and students in China, and waging war against oppressed peoples in other sections of the lobe. F The sterility of the “institute,” In its failure to produce anything but a smokescreen of talk, should be another warn- ‘Ing to the workers and poor farmers, that the “War' Against War” rests in their hands alone, that they alone can bring an end to imperialism that carries in its womb the wars that are to come. ° ° ° * Workers and poor farmers, everywhere thruout the land, cannot withhold for one moment their enthusiastic sup- port of the significant demonstrations urged by the Workers: (Communist) Party under the slogans, “Stand By Soviet Russia! Hands Off China!” The victory of the Workers’ Republics marked the frst great defeat of capitalist imperial- ism at the hands of the awakened Russian masses seeking their liberation. The daily growing struggle in China estab- lishes another milestone in the march toward the world libe- ration of labor. The “Institute on Pacific Relations” is but a fly speck on the wheels of proletarian progress. PRISON DOORS [SCRANTON SILK STAY CLOSED ON | STRIKERS WIN KLAN ATTACKERS) WAGE INCREASE Bosses Also Forced To Stephenson’s Lawyers Can’t Get Him Out Recognize Union INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. July 8— SCRANTON, Pa., July 8—(FP)— Striking silk workers of Scranton and midvalley mills are at work again with a 12% per cent wage increase. Some 1,200 workers, mostly miners’ daughters and wives, struck for a $3 weekly raise, which would have brot earnings up to $10 to $15 a week. The strikers organized a local of the United Textile Workers’ Union, which is to be recognized by employ- ers, and accepted raises of about $1.50. i Employers are supposed not to dis- criminate against strike leaders, Habeas corpus proceedings in the state supreme court may be brought to obtain the release from jail of Davis C. Stephenson, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry until they go on trial for the alleged murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, it was indicated by de- fense attorneys here today. Altho Eph Inman, chief defense counsel, maintained a tight-lipped re- ticence over the probable action he and his associates may take to ob- tain the freedom of Stephenson and his co-defendants, the report of ha- beas corpus measures gained in strength following the failure of the defense counsel to reach an agree- ment over the next. step to take in the case afer a six-hour conference yesterday. Further conferences behind barred joors were expected to be held by Inman and the other defense attor- neys. Meanwhile, Stephenson, Klinck and Gentry remain in the county jail at Noblesville following Judge Hine: sudden action Monday in adjourning court until October 5, as a result of constant bickering and jockeying by opposing attorneys over which of the three defendants should go on trial first. volum The preparations for the railway strike go on. The class and the contacts that Calles sought to stop are not stopped. The net effect of his action is to expose more clearly than ever the emptiness of his fine phrases in the Kellogg matter and the utter subserviengy}of his government to the mandates o' it has sharpene Quakes Cease at Santa Barbara. SANTA BARBARA, Cal.; July 8.— No tremors, even of the mildest kind, were recorded in Santa Barbara to- day. Disturbances which for a week rocked the mission city were believ- ed past and the city’s residents turn- ed to the problem of reconstruction. Fatal Fire Caused by Leak. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 8.—That the explosion and fire which caused the death of five persons in the Gillis theater here the night of June 25, was caused by gasoline or leaking gas was the verdict of a coroner’s jury which completed its deliberations today, Jugo-Slav Minister Quits, BELGRADE, Jugo-Slavia, July 8.— The Jugo-Slav minister of justice, M, Loukinitch, has resigned following the exposure of his release of sequestrat- ed property owned by the prince of Ei worth seventeen million dol- @ class conflicts in i ‘aera sare mr banker creditors are demanding im- mediate settlement of its $30,000,000 obligations, However, the firm may be reorganized by the bankers. The crash of the brokerage concern is closely related to the attempt of the Rosenbaum Grain corporation, the Armour Grain company and a few smaller firms to unload millions of dollars in inflated stocks on the farm- ers under the guise of the Grain Mar- keting company, a fake co-operative, while the grain gamblers kept direct- ing control of the firm. A banker when interviewed admit- ted that “The Grain marketing com- ' Wall Stret. And mea Another new Sub—Makes an.) fectory for abuse r © + it was an pany may keep its name alive, but will practically dissolve. There was considerable doubt as to whether the properties were worth $16,000,000. There isn’t much doubt that some of the elevator values were inflated.” This banker, to whom grain firms owe money, declared that litigation proceedings will be avoided in order to prevent publicity of the inner work- ings of the transactions. The Grain Marketing company had instituted a stock selling campaign among the farmers, but they refused to fall for the bogus co-op. COMMUNISTS TO COURT FRIDAY IN SPEECH FIGHT Nineteen Reds Must Be at City Hall Nineteen members of the Workers (Communist) Party will appear in the.municipal court, Room 1106, city hall, Friday morning, July 10, to an- swer charges of “speaking on the streets without a permit.” Seventeen of the Communists were arrested Sat» urday night, June 13, on the corner of W. North Ave. and Orchard St., and two others were arrested a week later. The Workers Party has been con- ducting a free speech fight on this corner all summer. The north side business men have caused the arrests, which were made on the basis of an sordinance which has been declared xeconstitutional by the state supreme const. Tt 13 aecessary that all nineteen Communis§s arrested appear punc- tually at Mae a. m. Friday morning, the Labor Befense announces, as bail will be forfeited otherwise. Those who must appear are: Will- iam F. Dunne, William F, Kruse, Thurber Lewis, Al. Schaap, Nat Kap- lan, Harrison George, Barney Mass, Karl Reeve, Max Shachtman, Bernard Davis, Karl Kritchell, Natalie Gomez, Gertrude Welsh, Elsa Bloch, Ida Eck. els, Catherine Polishuck, (German); Max Miroff. Miners Gather to Hear Reid Give the Left Wing Program YORKVILLE, Ohio, July 8.—Miners from all the surrounding towns at- tended the picnic here at which Alex Reid, secretary of the Progressive Miners’ International Committee, spoke. Reid's analysis of the unem- ployed situation in the mining industry and his championship of the left wing program for the miners’ union, was listened ‘to attentively. Alex Reid addressed another meet- ing of miners in Bellaire, Ohio, the following day. Launch Missing Off Alaska, SEATTLE, Wash., July 8. — The launch Norman, with five men aboard, is missing and is believed to be adrift in Alaskan waters, according to a message received by the naval radio station at Bremerton, from the naval station at Seldovia. The Norman left Snug Harbor June 29 for Alaskan waters, 7 etches League Studies Austria. VIENNA, Austria, July 8 — Two ‘eague of nations representatives are here studying “ways and means of augmenting Austria’s trade.” DICTATOR FIRES TEN PER CENT OF SPAIN'S JUDGES FOR GRAFT MADRID, July 8&— One-tenth of all the judges of Spain, a total of 595, have been suspended or de- finitely dismissed by the military die thelr functions, Aafia