The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1925, Page 1

HE DAILY WORKE Entered as Second-class matter September’ 21, 1928, be Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1925 =a” GAKin NT STRIKE SOLIDARITY GROWS IMPERIALIST POWERS SPLITON |Fisher Auto Workers in — CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR SHANGHAI REPORT BY DIPLOMATIC Detroit F ight Wage Cuts SCORES UNITED GARMENT SCABS; CORPS; BRITISH WISHED SECRECY) crnor. sen, jay™MsGemeeee” Sc ex our cas aoing ec| SUPPORTS AMALGAMATED STRIKE. sheer nerve and Pe dah of the welfare of | the workers has been started by the Fisher Body corporation at their Plant 18. Recently, a Series of Wage cuts were announced, so drastic as} — - to cause an entire department to go out on. stri ke 100 per cent and has created a feeling of most} Lodge No. 113, Tool and Makers, of the International | Association of Machinists, has joined Lodges Nos. 199 and 390 in condemning the scabbing of the United Garment “union” on bitter resentment thruout the shop. the Amalgamated Clothing Workers at the International Tailor- The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government NEW YORK EDITION = by mail, $8.00 per year. shee BE DAILY WORKER hicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. Published Dally except Sunday by TH Vol. Il. No. es PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ll. In Chicas, “eae Botion Rates: susie Price 3 Cents (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, China, July 12.—The rivalry of various impe- rialist nations is splitting the unity of their front toward China and a veritable hornet’s nest of bitter antagonism is caused by the publication of the secret report of the diplomatic corps on The oil sanders who got the most drastic cut and who were the ones to go on strike re-| ceived the following wage cuts: On Dodge seda ns they were cut from $2.50 per car to $1.00 On | the massacre of Chinese students and workers at Shanghai. The report places the whole blame for the. killings upon the British and demands the dismissal and punishment of many British members of the municipal council and its American chair- man, Fessenden. British interests are charging that the report was prepared by French and Italian envoys in the diplomatic corps, with the a ena SOCIALIST IN malicious object of destroying British standing in Shanghai and China generally, to aid their own nationals in getting the trade and concessions. BRYAN SEEKS T0 BAR SCIENTISTS IN SCOPES CASE ——* the Buick sedans they were cut¢——-—-——_ from $2.50 a piece to $2.00 and on the big four door sedans ie fay a work on the new 1 tham-on the old, they tos cut from $3.50 to $2.50 ; piece. *. a Lie The annownéements of these wage cuts Miers 4 evening so angered a large de} ent of over 100 men, that they refused to go back to work Thursday mormihg and they have been TALKS PEACE BUT MOVES TO ANOTHER WAR ing company's struck shops, and instructed the delegates to the Chicago Federation of Labor to demand action against this anti- union crime. That the members of the Trade Union Education League, and the left Pith generally have been stirring the protest against the United Garment scabbery, was seen in the fact that the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Chicago Federation of Labor finally passed a resolution condemning the scabbery and asking Green of the A. F. of L. to investigate + the use of the American Fed- eration of Labor’s name for pur- poses of scabbing. The resolu- The report not only recommends the on’ strike ‘ever Sincs. The su H ‘ Hon Sas TOR Swe; ks perin- * PLOT WITH GEN a rie aig Pvt Gets C 0 l d Feet And tendent, fs: Barefoot, told them Coolidge Maneuvers To Resolution = and a reprimand for the American when they* out that they would H WHEREAS, there is a strike on at H agian 3 7 ae ane! Would Suppress Trath be paid off and none of them would Corner Rivals the intsrnatiinal Tailoring company ut authorizes the consular body at be re-emp! yy the firm. None of F &C ¢ ‘ T0 A ACK RIFF Shanghai to demand resignations of (Special to The Daily Worker) of the men fooled by this bluff (Special te The Daily Worker) rae See birdaed aaa i i the whole municipal council if the in:-7 DAYTON, Tenn., July 12—Clarence | and Friday morning this same super.| SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. July 12—| ferent MetpecationK Hee ease Ash structions are not carreid out. Darrow, leading defense lawyer in the | intendent was out again begging the | Covered by fine words about desiring . " Letter Reveals Plan To Extend Boundary Things Begin to Happen When the report was received in Shanghai, with the mantle of secrecy trial of John Scopes here for violating the state law against the teaching of evolution in the public schools, will fight in court tomorrow: for the ad- nien to retum to work and try to see if they c Make out on the new wage schedule, Needless to say none peace, the Coolidge administration is taking the steps that may precipitate war. managed by the same persons), involv- ing about eight hundred members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers; and |Mail Held Up; Can \ still over it, the British became vio of the men went back. Seeing that the American imperial- 5 3 ( eae lently angry and accusative toward the | Mission of testimony of scientists and} phe com ‘ had hired a new gang| ist intersts may now with advantage | W HEREAS, Be qererestit ie Speak to No ne «Special to The Daily Worker) French and Italians. In addition, Brit-| theelogians on evolution “and the | o¢ men Thi , to take the place of | Champion the enforcement of the long |°"/R& company, along with all of the PARIS, France, July 12.—The letter written by Vatin-Perignon, chief of the civil cabinet of Marshal Lyautey, military dictator of Morocco, to the resident general's nephew, Pierre Lyau- tey, which was read to the chamber of deputies by the Communist Deputy Jacques Doriot, reveals that the so- cialist Jeaders, Paul Boncour and Leon Blum. conspired with Herriot, then premier, to support Lyautey’s _attack on the Riffia ish Consul Barton cabled London de- manding permanent suppressron of the report. ° Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister, assented by cable, but the imperialist enemies of British imperi- alism had meantime got copy released thru unexplained channels and the To- kio and Paris press ran it in full. U. S. Mixing In “Tt was this delicate: situation which bible. William Jennings Bryan and coun- sel for the prosecution, in spite of their announced intention of champ- ioning the story of creation told in the bible and “showing up” evolution, have made a sudden switch and are now demanding that the trial shall proceed on purely technical lines, Today a motion of attorney general Thomas Stewart to bar testimony of scientists and confine the case to eyi- dence as to whether or- not Sieves ; the old men but as no one except in- experienced men would take a job at these prices they are not making much headway. are paying these new men 60 cents an hour for the first three days and the men on strike con- fidently expect that by Monday when (Continued on Page 2.) forgotten nine-power pact made at Washington in 1921, Coolidge and Kel- logg have decided that more efforts will be made to force Britain and Japan into a conference or to hold them up as violators of the pact and the principle of international concord if they do not respond. Three Artful Proposals One proposal is that a meeting of the nine powers to consider the “eventual” ea ae of etxra-territori- large garment manufacturing con- cerns, has had union shop agreements | with the Amalgamated Clothing Work- | ers for the past six years, which} Honolulu, Hawaii, July 12.— Paul agreements just expired; and | Crouch and Walter Trumbull, Commu- WHEREAS, all the other concerns | nist soldiers who have been sentenced renewed their agreements for another | to three years and one year in federal period of three years, except the In-| prison for their Communist views, ternational Tailoring company and J.| are being punished because their law- L. Taylor & Co. They insisted upon a} yers instituted habeas corpus proceed- reduction in wages and certain chang-| ings in the civil courts here. es in working conditions that. ald aE 2 further reduce wages, thereby Gteating | Trumbull and Crouch are held in- (Special to The Daily Worker) FORT SHAFTER GUARD HOUSE, sine lett fi er showy | that Mar-} caused the American minis| J. ani communicado. They are,not, allowed i ae See Der: | Ao Maen Lo Fuh” afgneht. alityrizhtsin. de hel oth: } a. situation -Matle_it. impossible | , the Prone wade s Peking “y ‘on as be MEET Kc _— or provides that the imverialiete con: fon the Auucledhiated Cth, Work, baal sae rtp acini arama degte vente MOP 26 argued. ns attorneys. Shanghai on July 4th. I sult and graciously give China the/ers to accept; and to advance north of the Ouergha River and estblish a chain of forts, although no limits had been set to the Riff- French boundary line. The letter, which exposes the plots of Lyautey and the socialists to attack the Riffians, follows. It was printed British gave as the excuse fot sup- pressing the report, the argument that the Shanghai municipal council gets \g 8 authority from a British treaty with China, and that therefore no other nations have a right to butt in and Darrow, in a statement of Bryan’s change of front, strongly hinted that Bryan is afraid of a fair trial, and said: “The constitution of Tennessee con- tains one of the strongest guarantees of religious liberty among all the con- FRENCH NRIFF \| Tight to raise her customs tax from five to tem per cent. The way that |the imperialists have so far kept China from having a strong central govern- ment, is their denial of any income to itfrom customs. Thus, because the government is weak, they insist that | Their mail has been withheld from them. Books and papers sent to them have not been delivered. Petitions Are Filed Strike Justified WHEREAS, in crder to resist this reduction of wages, and in order to protect the standards of wages and working conditions enjoyed by the |thousands of members employed by Crouch and Trumbull were to have been removed from Hawaii to the mili- in L’Humanite, the French Commun-| order the municipal council, even tho] stitutions of the Union, and no law ‘ 4 | the concerns who renewed their agree-| tary prison at Alcatraz, California, on ist paper, on June 10: composed of various nations, how to| that would undertake to establish re- Morrocans H Have Taza sary aaibeinas oe anes |ments, the Amalgamated Clothing | July 26, but the last heard from them Residence General of France in Mo-|run the local affairs. The other na-| ligion or measure conduct would have ee ° . they were being held there pending roeco, Chief of the Civil Cabinet. - May 265, 1925. My Dear Friend—I have just re- ceived your interesting letters of the tions are allowed share of control only by Britain’s favor, is the British view. Ruins Imperialist United Front eration. any validity in this state or any other state without first getting rid of the constitution. “Mr. Bryans’ statement about the Entirely Surrounded (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Frnace, July 12.—The Brit- administration is putting out as propa- ganda against Britain in the Chinese | affair, is the proposal for a revision of the land leasing regulations. the outcome of the ceed (Continued on. page 2) habeas corpus pro- The attorney for the Commun diers, Fred Patterson, served t sol- on ANTI-FASCIST 19th and 22nd. You well understand | ‘Whatever the formality Of the re-| rights of Tennessee to protect its -re-| ish government has __The American government has gone attorney Charles Parsons ‘two peti that before the Parisian “front” I port or the objections to it, its publi-} ligion is ambiguous if he means that | French and Spanish not right aliead, and named Silas Strawn tions for writs of habeas corpus, which (Continued on page 3) cation has effectively ruind: the unity | any state has the right to pass a Jaw | cooperation of English imperialiem in| °! Chicago and Minister MacMurray, were filed with the clerk of the federal of the imperialists in holding out| which prohibits the teaching of a|the war on Morocco, definitely re-| ** delegates to the customs revision court. The petitions stated, “Your pe- ENGLISH MINERS ADOPT against the rising tide of Chinese lib-| theory that is contrary to any reli-| fusing to enter a combined attack on| °O™Sultations. PHILLY COPS titioners are not imprisoned, restrain- RESOLUTION OPPOSING INVASION OF MOROCCO LONDON, England, July 9.—The executive of the International Already, England is circulating ru- mors, amounting to a threat, that an (Continued on page 3) Shipping Board Members Fight For gion, and he is flying in the face of every state constitution. The fact that any theory or any scientific view may be contrary to any religious idea furnished no right for a state to pro- hibit it. If this were true, then most of astronomy and geology would fall under the ban.” the Rifflans, it has leaked out here. The British capitalist have many in- terests in Africa, and they decline to aid the French and Spanish im- perialists to make secure their African colonies. The French war minister has de- cided to transfer three colonial regi- French Allied to U. S. France is, apparently, working with the United States in the Chinese ques- tion. And altho the Coolidge adminis- tration knows perfectly well that pro- posals are flatly contrary to the inter- ests and wishes of Britain and Japan, the bland announcement is made that ed or deprived of their liberties under any process, judgment or decree of any competent court or tribunal of civ- il or criminal jurisdiction.” Dut Auines. Sided With Speakers (Special to The Dally Worker) Detention Unconstitutional “Said judgments are matters over which the general courts martial have Miners’ Federation has adopted a Darrow’s Position W: pe a j ie’ mo De eak ments now on the Rhine to the Moroc-| “The United States is sure that other; PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 12.—Al-| no jurisdiction. The trials of said caus- resolution is Al dl vil Their iflasters Bids Darrow and the defense attorneys |can front, bringing French forces in| nations will co-operate and the Ameri-| most a thousand workers packed the| es were not carried out in aecordance war of the French and Spanis have so far taken the weak position | Africa above 100,000. The new com-|can government will, of course, act | Public Hall to pay honor to thie mem-| with the rules and regulations pre- perialists and calling on organ- ized labor the world over to de- nounce the invasion. Another Minister Forced Out of The Fascisti Cabinet ROME, Italy, July 9.—The appoint- WASHINGTON, July 9.—War broke out afresh today between the shipping board’ and the Emergency Fi cor- poration. The recommendations of Admiral Leigh Palmer, president of the fleet corporation, that the bid of the Boston Iron and Metal company of Baltimore for 200 surplus ships be accepted, was rejected by chairman O'Connor of the shipping board. The Baltimore com- (Continued on page 2) MacMillan Takes On Eskimo Interpreter At Windy Pickle WASHINGTON, July 12—The Mac- Millan Arctic expedition left Hopedale, mander of the invaders, Gen. Stanis- laus Naulin, who is expected to reach Morocco on July 18, has. been ordered to immediately begin am. offensive against the Rif_lan matives. Riffians “Attack Outposts. The Riffian troops have completely surrounded Taza, and more native groups are deserting the French. In (Continued on page 4) with other powers.” The similar stand is taken by Brit- ain and Japan, particularly Japan, | which in an interview quoted from | Tokio, said that “Japan backs Britain | jin China, and is sure that the United States will also approve and support.” Sinister Moves Have Innocent Front By asking only that the nine powers | which ratified the Washington con- | ory of Giacomo Matteotti, and voice a scribed for general courts martial by the military authorities of the United States. On the said trials, the said courts acted without due regard te the The police made several attempts to | rights of your petitioners. The deten- treak up the meeting but only succeed | tion of your petitioners is illegal and \ed in arousing the wrath and enthusi-| without authority or- justification “3 asm of the audience. the law and is in violation of the The great response of the workers | stitution of the United States.” to this united front demonstration is | partly due to a leaflet issued by the | vigorous protest and denunciation of his murderers personified in the Mus- solini fascisti government. ment of Count Volpi as minister of Labradcr, heading northward to ference plans in 1921, the United fmance in the fascist cabinet, to re-| pany bid $1,355,000. Disko, Greenland, said ayradio dis- States artfully tises the seemingly in-|local fascisti group denouncing the | | NEGRO CHAMPION, NEW place de .Stefani who has resigned,| July 10 has been set as the new patch to the National Geographic So- REBELLION’ BREAKS nocent argument that these nations | meeting and the organizations and | ‘was announced today. date for receiving bids, PEASANTS OF SOVIET UNION HAVE eiety from Commonder Donald D. MacMillan. MacMillan said that conditions out- side of Cape Harnigan were excellent, mefely live up to their agreements. Actually, however, it is a grave men- (Continued on Page 4) OUT IN ALBANIA REFUGEES DECLARE LABOR PAPER 1S WELL REGEIVED-MANY SUBS speakers participating in it. The meet- ing was arranged under joint auspices | of the Workers Party, Young Workers League The Artisan society, Local | 1050 of the Carpenters Union, Local | ADVANCED THRU CO-OPERATIVES AND |i: Sv) say mene | [FOUR METHODSTS MD | 3° SS i, te A q 2 § 8 O- | er i GOVERNMENT AID, DELEGATE GAYS) ss, cote nars | satus arena ets soe || SUCBAPTISTS TO TRY | [sca **8* Bev Merb mr ses ear Stata ae een ites to the Peasants’ International from expedition, reported tothe navy de olutionary troubles in Albania. The SCOPES; TEN FARMERS Many subscriptions and hundrec§ of TIFLIS, —(By Mail)— The delega' partmert that the deperture from} foreign ministry denied that Albania otherwise, were present at the meet-| bundle orders, some for as high as Italy, Comrades Miglioli and Massarenti, have returhed to Tiflis froma visit Hopedale was delayed by ice, which| was undergoing any difficulties. ing, directed by several’ captains, | 1,000 copies, were reecived at the to Kakhetia. They had taken their trip in the company cf Comrade Khome- was closing the mouth uf the harbor. oa aaa DAYTON, Tenn, July 12—Ten payee Sergeants, etc. It semed the | | office of this great Negro Labor pa- riki, a representative of the peasants’ mutual aid committees of Georgia. He gaid that stop probably would be British ‘Goniiawens farmers, a landowner and a ship- entire Settee ys sent | per, 19 South Lincoln St., Chicago, ‘The delegates visited Telay, the peasant, farms and cooperative organi-| made at Windy Pickle, Labrador, to ping clerk today held the fate of al on page 6) ( Wh zani the delegates inspected the local experimental station. Co-operatives Are Growing The delegates were particularly in- terested in the state of agricultural amd consumers’ cooperation and in the yine-growing and silk production % e Kakhetia. In conversation on his inpremeions ot Kakhetia, Comrade Miglioli said: “Considering the circumstances of Georgia, which only 4 years ago ob- tained the opportunity of free deve- t, it must be admitted that the successes’ of cooperation and scientific Kcuatinted, on. Dege 6.) zations of the villages of Shilda, Quareli, Zimandali nd Mukusani. At Muku- take on an Eskimo interpreter. PARIS SUBURB TO HAVE COMMUNIST CELEBRATION ON TUESDAY, INSTEAD OF THE USUAL NA holiday, will be omitted next Tuesday NATIONAL HOLIDAY PARIS, July 12—The ‘howil6 celebration of Bastile Day, the national in Malakoff, a Paris suburb, governed by a Communist mayor anda Communist council. Instead, Malakoff will celebrate significance attached to the French revolution ai ist member of the chamber of deputies will address the townispeop Already, in anticipation, of the draped with Red flags, and photographs of Lenin, the prriaee i deal fener leader, festooned and | the proletarian victory as the chief Marcel Cachin, Commun- prolétarian celebr; jan proletarian Rushes to Rescue Of Cinema Trust LONDON, July 12.—The British government may subsidize the British motion picture It is freely admitted that the British film indus- try is on the verge of collapse in the face of American competition. Loud appeals for subsidy have been voiced by many leaders in the film industry. Premier Baldwin had already given delicate intimations that he may heeg these appeals. Ay heavy tariff has been Loess on American filmé but to no hibitors rf "to: show Bi British m John T. Scopes in the anti-evolu- tion trial. The Scopes jury follows: W. J, Robinson, no church, a farm- ley, Methodist, farmer. Jim Riley, Baptist, farmer, Ww. P, Tay! Methodist, farmer RK. L. Gentry, Baptist, farmer. Col. J. R. Thompson, Methodist, wealthy landowner. W. D. Smith, Baptist, farmer, Jess Goodrich, Church of Disci- ples, shipping clerk. dH wman, Methodist, farmer and cabinet mal William G, Day, Baptist, tarmer. BRITISH UNIONS LED BY MINERS, MAY TIE UP WHOLE NATION IN A FIGHT AGAINST BOSSES’ ATTACK $bits LONDON, July 12.—A general tie-up of the British coal industry ap peared imminent today, perhaps beginning on July 31. The government's mediator, W. C. Bridgeman, has failed to bring about a resumption of negotiations between the miners and operators, and this was followed by the announcement that the Trade Union Congress will support the miners in their opposition to wage cut and longer hours, All hope has not yet been abandoned, but the outlook is dismal for critish capital. If the breakdown leads to a strike, there is grave danger S may become general with a resulting complete tie-up of Britain's com nerclal and industrial life, i