The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1925, Page 4

} Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill!nols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB........... Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Itl., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. SE <e 290 : = Blaming It On Britain The council of embassies of the European powers at Peking has condemned the action of the British police in firing on the Shanghai strikers and have also. held the American manager of the foreign settlement responsible for the. murder of~ students and strikers. The demand made recently by American businessmen in China for protection and sent to the state department is thus seen to be documentary whitewashing of the murder bands of British and American imperialism. It was the Chinese that needed protection. More important, however, than this evidence of the hypocrisy. of the American capitalists and their hangers-on who have picked China as a field for easy robbery, is the intention evident in the find- ings of the legation council to let Great Britain fight her own battles in China. The mass movement for national liberation has assumed impressive proportions and the smaller powers are going to think twice before pulling chestnuts out of the fire. Great Britain is in a difficult position. She stands fast for a continuation of the extra-territoriality agreements, but the United States, her greatest rival, following the traditional open door policy, proposes a conference to revise these agreements. British prestige in| China rests largely upon her extra-territoriality holdings and her control of Chinese customs revenues. But her privileged position in this latter respect is a cause of jealousy among the other powers. The wolves are fighting among themselves. Surely the situation has changed greatly since 1900 when all the great and Ititle powers united to fasten upon China the Boxer indemnity and forcing revenue control. Today Great Britain in spite of her frenzied efforts to do so has not yet succeeded in securing joint action from any of the other powers, nor is there among the other powers much evidence of a common policy. Their greed is as great and their need for the rich raw materials of China greater than ever before but the old unity of action is absent. The rise of Soviet Russia as an European and Asiatic power has mich to do with this. So has the greatly intensified conflict for the redivision of the exploitable areas of the earth. The militant working class movements in the imperialist countries and their sup- port of the colonial movements is another reason why the present period carries so much danger for world imperialism. For precisely these reasons the situation is the most hopeful for the masses of all the years since the Russian revolution. Centralized Communist parties exist now in most of the great nations and huge sections of the working class have a leadership which can maneuver successfully by reason of the experiences and training of the last eight years. Anthracite Miners Strike First Blow The anthracite coal miners, since their tri-district. convention, have followed out the progressive policy adopted there. Demands for a ten per cent increase in wages, the closed shop and improved working conditions have been made upon the coal owners who profess amazement at their hardihood. The coal cap-} italists make a poor mouth and say that wage rednctions are in order | but the miners have got in the first blow. | To the left wing in the anthracite fields must go the credit for| the militant stand of the miners. Under Cappelini the principal anthracite dsitriet had become demolarized. ‘The rank and file could get no action for the adjustment of grievances, much dissension developed and there was even the serious threat of a split. The left wing issued a program when the confusion was at its worst and succeeded in bringing needed discipline and urderstand- ing into the situation. At the convention which followed a large part of the left wing program was adopted. The demands upon the operators are the first gun in what will unquestionably be a hard struggle, not only in the anthracite but in the whole coal mining industry in the United States. The spirit of the rank and file is splendid., If the United Mine Workers of America and headed by men who knew the class struggle and fought on that basis there would be no danger of the outcome. As it is, ruled by officials who have spent most of the last thilee years in. hounding the best fighters, Communist and left wingers, in the organization, there is more than ever need for constant vigilance on the part of the militants and for the most highly organized and dis‘ ciplined functioning in every local of this great union. 30,000 Enlist For Struggle . Thirty thousand members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, meeting in the Yankee stadium in New York City, gave one of the greatest demonstrations of devotion to class struggle priheiples as the basis of labor union that this country has ever wit- nessed. ‘ * No such mass rebuke has ever been given to labor fakerdom as at this gathering where left wingers, expelled by the reactionary Sig- man machine, were greeted by thunders of applause which shook the huge steel and concrete structure that housed the crowd. The fight against class collaboration, denial of political expres- sion to the rank and file, crookedness and graft, arbitrary revoca- tion of charters, the expulsion of militants, in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union has been carried on with signal success. The meeting in the stadium is the proof that the entire membership is with the left wingers and against the bureaucrats. But the enthusiasm of the stadium meeting must be given an organizational character in the work for the next conyention. As in the Furriers’ Unions, the left wing in the I. L. G. W. U. has passed thru a long period of struggle and has still greater struggles ahead of it. Every effort must be made to have an overwhelming majority of | delegates at the next convention and there place the organization securely in the hands of the best leadership which the long struggle! has developed, This can be done and the spirit displayed at the monster stadium) meeting is a good guarantee that it will be done. | | ISCOPES TRIAL UNDER WAY WITH NEW INDICTMENT Precedent is. Broken By Judge in Latest Move (Continued from page 1) The prosecution feared that the de- fense attorneys would make use of the faulty indictment to appeal a convic- tion to the higher courts. The court adjourned while the new indictment was being: made out. New Indictment Goes to Trial After Judge Rauiston had ordered the old indictment quashed and the new indictment was returned, he call- ed for trial the new case against Scopes. The cheer that was given William J. Bryan when he entered the court- room showed how the inhabitants of this backward countryside view the at- tempt of the conservative religious ele- ments and the business interests to suppress the teaching of science in the public schools. Bryan Wants Bible to Rule Bryan has said that the Bible should be “a part of the federal constjfution,” and frankly calls for the prohibition of the teaching of*scientific facts be- cause they contradict the Biblé. While the defense, headed by Clar- ence Darrow, who sat in his shirt sleeves, strongly condemns the anti- evolution law as unconstitutional be- cause it violates the free speech clause catered to ‘the ministers. The de- fense has taken the untenable. position that the Bible and scientific facts can be reconciled—a class collaboration position on the scientific: field. Catholics against Evolution A telegram was received from. the American academy of ambulant proc- tology by John R, Neal, chief of the defense counsel, which said, “Ask Bryan how he explains the fact that the creator forgot to put valves in the hemorrhoidal veins.” Bryan was hard pressed to defend his “all. wise god,” who Bryan claims, créated the-world in six days, and made a perfect job of man. Benedict Elder, secretary of the Catholic Press Association of Louis- ville, Kentucky, said here that if Scopes taught evolution in the catholic parochial schools, he would have been “thrown out.” Dayton is over-run with evangelists, traveling preachers afd bible and hymn boek sellers who are here to make some money out of the crowds attracted by the trial. Bryan Against Free Speech Bryan in a press statement, again declared that “teachers should obey those who employ them.”-They should not teach what has been their experi- ence or beliefs, he said, but must con- duct classes “so as not to offend the students or their employers.” “It would be better,” ‘he said, “for Tennessee to give up school books than abandon the Bible.” P The catholic organizations repre-| sented here are aiding-Bryan in his at- | tempt to suppress the teaching of sci- ence, | Judge Out of Case _ Judge John L. Godsey, a.member of | the Dayton bar, announced this after- | noon that he had. withdrawn from | counsel for the defense. Godsey was said to have disagreed with other | counsel over the mamner ‘of conduct- | ing the case. The judge felt the case | should be fought solely .on constitu- | tional grounds and, was overruled by | the other counsel, who intended to in- voke testimony tegding to show that “Evolution does not conflict. with Christianity.” | Examine Prospective Jurors The afternoon session opened with the calling of veniremen for the selec- tion of a jury. Clarence Darrow, shirt sleeved and showing his galluses, con- ducted the questioning of the tales- ined them for the state. Forty-three yeniremen had been gathered off the cess. . W. F. Robinson, a middle aged farm- er, was the first. venireman called and the first juror accepted. He told the court he had formed an opinion “based on rumors” about the case but said he could give the defendant justice. He fore finally accepting him. Meeting of Press Picnic Committee of the constitution, they have.so far | On Monday Night earthquake was THE DAREYS W TAKE 600000: ae THE PERSONAEITIES IN ANTI-EVOLUION TRIAL pa DAYTON, Teri, EJuly 10.—The personalities of: the focal men prin- “cipally identified with this famous “evolution cat are as follows: The defendant—John Thomas Scopes, 24, slight, blond, soft spoken, boylsh, diffident. He looks like anything but a teacher, surely like anything but the pivotal figure of the greatest academic battle In the world’s histtry. ~ The prosecutor—Walter White, superintendent of schools, author of the Tennes: women’s suffrage amendment, leader in state prohibi- tion, candidate of 13 counties for governor; he Ie-dressed In mail- order clothes crowned with a four- bits straw fedora, The judge—John ..R, Raulston, circuit Judge of the 18th judicial circuit, Of counsel for, the.,prosecution— Ben G. McKenzie. He has been a practicing lawyer for 32 years and has a son on the bench; he is-the dean of the local bar, former circuit attorney general; former circuit court judge. d Of counsel for~the, prosecution— Judge J. Gordon/McKenzie, his son, with a record asa pfasecutor, crim- inal lawyer. Be te Of counsel for the prosecution— Herbert E. Hicks, young attorney, looks like a city slicker, Of counsel for the prosecution— Sue E. Hicks, his brother. Of counsel for the prosecution— Wallace C. Haggard, son of the richest man around here, a bank president; he is a.kid lawyer. Of counsel for the defense—John R. Neal, president of a law school in Knoxville which bears his name, former head of the Jaw college at the University of Tennessee, a na- tional authority on™ ¢gonstitutional law. a 88. Of counsel for the defense—Judge John J. Godsey, 66; he Is the fam- ous commercial |i expert in this region. ae | Of course, with _Willlam dennings Bryan and his 4 and Clarence Darrow, ‘Dudley ik Malone and Arthur Garfield Hiayés. on the other side, the case Byistigs with per- sonalities which* fiePhaps over: shadow the “locals,”.... . < This is an -protestant tcom- munity—not a catholic, evangelical, unitarian, christian science or Jew- ish church in the county. BANKERS DECIDE 70 1E BROKERS’ FIRM Grain Marketing Co.,; In New Maneuvers Rehabilitation of Sthe brokerage firm of Dean, Onatiyia & Co.~was made possible when~ the bankers’ committee granted the,creditors who are raising $2,500, to re-establish the credit of the rm Until today to get the funds together, The creitors met the bankers an@ Teported “sub- stantial progress” altho the fund is not yet complete. | — ~ Meanwhile the ain marketing Company, which disintegrated coinci- dentally with the brokerage. firm, be- gan to quietly canvass plans-for reor- ganization on another basis. Officers have notified all clients they “may continue to market their grain on a co-operative basis if they desire to do so,” but what machinery 'they have for marketing,’ particularly elevator facilities, are unknown: Jersey Barbers Win Strike UNION CITY, N. J.—(FP)—The un- ion barbers in Local ‘816, Journeymen Barbers, won a $28 weekly minimum men for the defense, while Judge J. 1 ‘i Gordon McKenzie, noted criminal law- ee ee ee yer in this section of the South, exam- | wee, days and 9 p, wi. Saturdays and $40 and closi: ours of 8 p. m. days preceding holidays. and soon Sun- days.- THe 110 batWers out in shops streets by the sheriff during the re-| that had not previdasly signed up are returning to work fm Hudson, county shops under the ne¥ ‘reement. e Strike om at ‘Rochester ROCHESTER, Ne Y.—(FP)—Over 100 workers are s! against thé was accepted by the state but Darrow | "tM of Aaron Sily rstein & Co., New questioned him about his opinion, be- | YOrk men’s clothing“manufacturers, as result of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union drive to enforce union conditions in all iter shops. Quake Shakes Butte BUTTE, Mont., July 10.—A slight t here shortly be- fore 8 o'clock this torning.. No dam- There will be a special meeting of | age was reported in.the city but advic- delegates to the Workers Party Press| ¢s to local wire companies said the Picnic Committee on Monday, July| shake was more severe at Three 13, aa 8 p. m, at 19, South Lincoin| Forks and arene yd where the St. Al branches and shop nuclei| quake of June 27 did héavy damage. must send at least one representa- tive, $ We Mourn Loss of Our Comrade. The Press Picnic will be held this} NEW YORK, July L10—Comrade Char- year on August 2, Sunday, at River-|les Newman, member of the Young view Park, Workers League, ‘was drowned to The proceeds of the Press Picnic go death while out. athing at a beach to the various language party papers with a number of comrades. Every- and also to the English press. The thing was done to” save him when he Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription | for the DAILY WORKER - DAILY WORKER, Young’’Worker. was taken out of: iter but it was Every branch and nueleus.a dele-|too late. It is” died of gate Monday, July 13, at 19 South/fright as he wa from the \Lincon St, ' | water too soon | ve drowned. | POSTPONE TRIAL OF COMMUNISTS FOR SPEAKING To Come Before Chief Justice Olson July 22 By agreement with Judge Albert George of the municipal court the cas- es of the nineteen members of the Workers (Communist) Party charged with “speaking on the street without a permit,” were transferred to anoth- er judge, and will come before Chief Justice Olson’s court, room 915, City Hall, on July 22. The change was made because Judge George had already given a de- cision against J. Louis Engdahl, edi- tor of the DAILY WORKER, in a sim- ilar case. Engdahl was fined $25 and costs under an ordinance which has been declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court, JARDINE ADMITS INABILITY TO AID THE FARMERS Can Do Nothing For Penniless Tillers AMES, Iowa, July 10.While the agri- cultural situation has improved much remains to place th efarming industry on a satisfactory basis, Secretary of Agriculture W. M. Jardine dectared in an address here ‘today. ‘While re- cognized the plight of the farmers to- day, Jardine said he knew of no prac- tical short cut remedy for these troubles. “I cannot offer you a single ‘cure- all’ for the difficulties of the farmer,” he said. “The solution must be found in a number of directions.” = Anti-Imperialist Week Demonstrations Held Only now, as the reports comd trickling in from far-off countries, are we able to see how widespread was the participation of the oppressed peo- ples of Latin America in the exercises of Anti-Imperialist week, June 29 to July 4. Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All- America Anti-Imeprialist League, an- nounces that the Anti-Imperialist week manifesto was printed and distributed in nine countries of Latin-America as well as in Canada, the United States and the Philippines. Demonstrations of all sorts were held. Special anti-im- perialist editions were published by El Machete of Mexico City, Lucha de Clases of Havana, Cuba, etc. stituting the most valuable ee crown jewels of the deposed “House of Romanoff,” con- collection of gems in the world, are still in Red Moscow, . They were not sold in foreign countries, as stated hundreds of times in thrilling news dispatches sent over the world by Anti-Soviet propagandists. Just to put such canards to rest, the foreign diplomatic corps in Moscow was invited to a private showing of the $25,000,000.00 worth of gems, seen in the above picture. Envoys.of foreign capitalist governments are looking-on, wondering when the workers and farmers of their countries will take over the “crown jewels,” put them in cold, news by alf the capitalist mews agenc' ores and establish Soviet Rule. IMPERIALISTS ADMIT MASSACRE AT SHANGHAI WAS THEIR FAULT LONDON, July 10—In’ spite of the suppression and depreciation of the ies, It is learned that the entire diplo- matic corps at Peking, CHina, after thoroly investigating the killing of demon- strating students and strikers by the that a British officer of-the Sikh pol foreign imperialist police, hae decided ice troops, the British chief of pelice and the American who is chairman of the municipal council, were to blame In Far-Off Countries| for the massacre which began May 30, and kept up for more than a week. ee CHICAGO FEDERATION DENOUNCES UNITED GARMENT SCAB UNION IN AMALGAMATED I. T. C. STRIKE | (Continued from page 1) jwing, and prodded daily by the | DAILY WORKER, the Federation ‘finally has passed 4 resolution con- ‘demning the action of the United Garment crew, disclaiming any con- ‘nection with the outfit and calling lupon the American Federation of La- bor to investigate the way the name of the A. Fof L: ts being used by the employers to shelter, the strike- agreement with the Amalgamated— or to get out of business, and no seab- |by United: Garment “union” is going to stop them. Organizer Grandinatti, who came from St. Louis with a delegation of the A. C. W. strikers from the struck openshop Curlee company there, told jof the fight in St. Louis as did also |two -of the Curlee strikers, Brother. | Haines, a cutter, and Brother Nathan In Mexico, Anti-Imperialist week |preaking against ‘the ~ Amalgamated | Reef. was turned into a mobilization of forc- es for the defense of Mexico against the sinister threat expressed in Sec- | retary of State Kellogg’s recent state- ment to the American press. The week's demonstration wound up on Ju- ly 4 with a big mass meeting in the Vicente Guerrero theater, at which Carlos Leon, Enrique Flores Magon and Alfaro Siqueiros spoke. Manifes- tos were distributed at the meeting putting forward the following slo- gans: “Latin-Americans: Rally.to the Sup- port of Mexico! “Unite Your Forces ‘Against the Power of Yankee Gold! “Let Our Answer Ring in the Ears Not Only of Kellogg But of All Wall} Street! “Down with American Imperialism.” R. R.’s Owe United States Millions. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 10.— The Great Northern, the Northern Pa- cific, the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville, and other railroads have been ordered to pay the United States the millions of dollars which the gov- ernment loaned them at a very low interest. Write the story about your shop —Order a bundle to distribute there. LEWIS, DRIVEN BY THE RANK AND FILE, MAKES DEMANDS ON BOSSES ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 10. —Professing to see no hope for reaching an agreement on a new contract with the operators, repres- entatives of the anthracite miners thie afternoon issued a statement declaring that if the deadlock holds “there will be a walkout on Sep- tember 1.” The present contract expires August 31, The miners’ statement added that “usually, after such a walkout, there are some new developments or which result in an agree- Reiteration was made of the posi- tion taken by President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America in the open session yes- terday that the miners “positively will not arbitrate the making of a new contract.” This is quite true, “the miners’ won't, tho Lewis would if he were not driven on by them. members, who—after, all, ‘are workers ‘on strike, even if not connected with the A. FLof L.~ /& ey This action of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor executivé caused great enthusiasm among the, strikers, glad jto learn that ‘the federation had not \completely ignored the» superior rights jof working class solidarity. arganiza- \tional and, sectional interests. | Thé injunction petition “asked for tthe I, T. C. against the Amadgamated is delayed because Judge Sullivan wants to wise up on the new law. After he has done so, the strikers pre- dict that he will go as far as he’can to help the boss. “That is what the ‘capitalist government is for,” some of But the strikers are will- \them say. \than the judge and picket in spite of junctions. © Only One Fish Left to Cut. Another cheering item of news yes- iterday was the walk out of three jmore cutters, who refuged to scab any |more and who joined the strike, leay- ing only one, poor, lonely eutter in |the big shops. As the cutters-are key men in the industry, it can be seen ‘that there are no clothes being made and the strike is certainly effective. Perhaps this was the .reason that the police seemed to show a new and sudden interest in rough-housing ‘the pickets. . x . They shoved and pushed and yélle the strikers, urged to “move on’ all the time, decided that they wéuld just it turning. So a circular Lp e has been going on and _ the* pic! eke “keep moving” but are busy as ey move. 2 ti. Police Intensely Hostile.” ~ ' The poli¢e, probably directed ~ by some agent. of the bosses, yesterday, arrested John Willie, the shop chair- man of the bushelmen in the struck \shops, who was not doing any offens- ive things ‘at all at the time—except, of course, he was on strike. He was arrested a few deys before, and it is supposed the boss has a_ special grudge against him. On Thpraday, the joint board met, and pledged support to the strike, instructing the board of directors of At the strike: ileeting the: strike) again volced their’ determination to \ing, apparently, to go still farther) and drove the strikers around, until|’ put a ring around the block and keep}. the joint board to lay out plans’ for, 7 financial assitance to the strikers, || at St. Louis, it was announced Sign or Leave the Business! ~ .| The delegation’ got a hearty wel- jcome, and delivered the message of the Curlee strikers to those of the I. T. C. The St. Louis police,*too, it |developed, like in all places ruled by lcapitalist. governments, are siding with the boss and are very vicious and \brutal. Hundreds of arrests have |been made and the injunction issued which causes still more, because the workers know that the only place they can win is on the picket line, and that they must fight it out there in- junctions_or no injunctions, U. G. Just Like Open Shops. The United Garment scabs were no different, they found, than the plain unvarnished “American plan” , open shop scabs in St. Louis. One striker in St. Louis proved that nis class was the first consideration, by divorcing “his wife who insisted on staying and |scabbing. Af the developments of the Chicago’ \strike in its first two weeks count for janything, the struck firms are whip- \ped and the strike, if fought properly,, can be won. FEDERAL JUDGE “LOANED” LARGE. SUMS BY BANK ‘Charges of Graft Are Aired by Committee _ sped CENTRALIA, Ill, July 633 charged that Judge shown partiality by the Me ‘State Bank in the matter of loans return favors of being named in the official depository for bankruptcy cas» es which Judge English was called'up on to handle, at the investigation here. : Actual taking of testimony was de- layed today while the committee mem- bers were shown bank records which indicated that. Federal Judge G. W. English had been loaned in excess $16,000 by the institution. Until ree cently, Judge English was a dire of the bank. The investigation will be aby after the Centralia “evidence” ‘heard, Judge Hnglish is accused exercising the powers of his office ‘bring himself financial bettermemt, b £