The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 15, 1925, Page 1

Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1! the Post Office at Chicago, Tirole, under the Act of March 3, 1879. In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. ht a bag tee pier, age WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1925 >" ST 4 “ i VES TO MEET CRISIS IN ORIENT ANTI-EVOLUTION LAW BRANDED 2 : U $. AND ANGLO-JAP | WAR NE ARS f : ~ UNCONSTITUTIONAL IN FIGHT dies Seeed to War | AS GIANT RIVALS FOR ROBBERY FOR FREEDOM OF EDUCATION) {ist sat OF CHINA JOCKEY FOR POSITION i The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ NEW YORK EDITION and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 158. Subscription Rates: Published Dail¥. except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Price 3 Cents Ne er ‘OKIO, July 13.—Altho no definite agree- ment has as yet been reached, it was semi-officially stated here today that the United States, Japan and Great Britain are approaching a compromise basis for a solu- tion of the Chinese problem. a toward China, it was stated officially at the foreign office today. It was said that discussions regatding the (Special to The Daily Worker) DAYTON, Tenn., July 13.—Charging that the educ ~al|| possibility and scope of a tariff conference M. Caimusho, a foreign office attache we ; A liberties of the American people are at stake, counsel f al} were going on but that no decision had been pointed out that there were no differences in ‘ane baby eg Cunt digteriesis orton pe a wane Thomas Scopes today started a fight to destroy the Tc 2|| reached. ; ; fundamental policy, the divergent views thus | 4ouse ineeondeeinp It is a crisis which has within it the pos- anti-evolution law as a violation of the state and federal couisti- In the British view,, the tariff conférence far expressed, involving only the method of sibility of a phages vb war, tutions. . must precede the conference on extra-terri- toriality, since there would be no advantage in discussing the abandonment of extra-ter- ritorial privileges by the nations interested until China has sufficient funds with which handling an admittedly difficult situation. It is believed that recent conferences here between Foreign Minister Shidehara, John V.._ A. MacMurray, American minister to China, Edgar A. Bancroft, American ambas- In the Chinese situation, the executive has before him a problem of the first magnitude created almost overnight by the receipt of information that Great Britain is planning to play a lone hand in the Orient to the exclusion of the eight other powers that are signatories to the Chinese treaty negotiated at the Wash- The weapon of the defense was a motion to quash the indict- ment against Scopes on constitutional grounds. It was made by John R. Neal, chief of defense counsel. A clash between state and defense attorneys immediately followed when Circuit Attorney General A. Thomas Stewart AS WE SEE IT. By T. J. O}FLAHERTY of 77,Communists, who were alleged +the jury out. moved that the jury be excluded. Bitterness cropped into the ex- change of arguments, but Judge John T. Raulston finally sent The defense based its fight chiefly Fight For Four Pointe, to operate the country. These funds, in the British view, would be provided by a tariff | revision. : ii a | sador here, and Sir Charles Eliot, British ambassador, brought a reconciliation of di- vergent viewpoints appreciably nearer. ington arms conference. Secretary of State Kellogg, under instructions to open in- formal discussions with the handling his first big issue on foreign policy, is back in Washington after a week end confer- ence with the president here, + 5) WRIT OF HABEAS on four’ constitutional points. These 4 British government at once to IDDEN away in a,rémote corner| were that the anti-evolution law determine just _ what Britain of one of our big capitalist dailies | Violated these state constitutional 1 plans to do with respect to Was a news item telling that the trial | Suarantees: 2 China. to have participated in last Decem- ber’s revolt against the white guard Esthonian government, was opened in Dorput. The radicals are being tried by a court martial. No doubt, the Es- thonian hangmen will prepare another murder feast for themselves as did their Bulgarian cousins. It should not be forgotten that Esthonia is one of Britain’s tools and most of that lit- tle country’s campaigns against the Communists and against Soviet Rus- sia are financed by Britain. see 1—“It shall be the duty of the gen- eral assembly of ‘the state to cherish literature and science.” -—“That all men have natural and indefeasible right to worship almighty god according to the dictates of their own conscience.” 3—“Every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.” -—“No man shall be disseized of his freeholds, liberties or properties by the judgement of his peers and the law of the land.” LABOR DEEFNSE. A.C. W. STRIKERS LAUGH ATL. DAY CALLED FOR SEPTEMBER 13 Hold Mass Meetings aK; SCABBY ~ OFFICIALS HAVE BOY GUARDS Mor jay morning is the time when strikes are lost. Such UNITED GARMENT America to Challenge Britain. Every possible step will be taken to forestall the English move, which, if carried to fulfillment, would nullity the Washington treaty. The Ameri- can move to offset any such effort will involve insistance that the Washing- ton agreement be followed to the let- ter. Kellogg, before leaving the summer white house here, announced definite- ly that this conference would be call- ed, and it is understood the United States will seek to enlarge it into a} 2 RED SOLDIERS International Labor Defense Sends Funds (Special to The Dally Worker) HONOLULU, T. H., writ of habeas corpus filed by Attor- ney Fred Patterson for Paul Crouch HERE are rumors that the defunct} The defense all contended the law 3 is th rience of strike organizers, who confront in some véregnbct -gaaty a oe eet ans Ponhel cooteea’ ; ovat ae i Angio-Japanese alliance may be| itself was so vague and indistinct that and Conferences strikes Where morale is poor, an inclination to rush back to the|" 1. resigent and his diplomati ae it othiog ai sation: Pawrgrs revived. It appears that the United] the defendant did not know the “na- job. » a is no lack of high and intelligent morale in the| sao are frankly concerned over the| Bolt, of the’ United. States district States is not playing ball with Eng-|ture of his alleged violation.” The} jnternational Labor Defense, the| ranks of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers striking against the | priticn attitude, court’ against Major General EB. M. gland and Japan in the present Chin- ese crisis. The Chinese masses’ see in England and Japan their worst ene- mies... The wily..Yanb=e trade= what the Chinese can do with the boy- cott and™he prefers that the Chinese people should take out their hate on John Bull, if there is any hating to be motion closed with allgeations that the law, violatedthree guarantees of the aint, of, t property rights and to court proce- dure. Law Makes Schools Churches, “It is not necessary,” said Neal, in opening his argument, “to argue upon Day.” non-partisan . workers’ . organization] Inter! founded at the National inference aqeevetitiigctrae as ligne 28, will Be officially launched on Sunday, September 13, which date Will be set aside as “Labor Defense val T early Monday to make sure that “Local conferences of delegates from ing Company and the J. L. Taylor fant strane and the boss 100 per fers The:whole body of strikers turned out on the picket line morning,seab,” to any one resembling a human being that the *United Garment scab’ agency jompany. they get a chance to say “Good British to Defy Rival Robbers. ed from London thad the foreign there is preparing to step in and see that British interests if China~—by far the largest of any of the major powers—-are protected without regard = ism Lewis who must show cause why they are being detained in the guard house. Satchmo s it the ull to military prison at Alcatraz Is- Jand, San Francisco, which had been previously assigned as their place of confinement for! three and one year done. And’ there is. i izati {Il be held can dig up. for existing agreements. sentences respectively for Crouch and our honor that it is your power and/ Workers’ organizations will be . ee saiat duty to pass upon the consti-|in all the large cities of the country Two Scabs Will Have. A Date ies me Einehionis ree Trumbull. APANESE diplomats are now hint-| tutionality of a statute of Tennessee?}in the afternoon of Sépt.3 at which Elsewhere is to. demand Labor Movement Aroused, ing that the United States left Eng- land holding the bag when she’ suc- ceeded in inducing the Downing street statesmen to drop the Japanese al- liance in return for a condition of na- val party between Britain and Ameri- ca. This is partly true. Britain and the United States are today the two fiercest competitors for the spoils that | capitalist thieves fight over. This’ is true despite the oceans of ink ‘that are being shed by piffle peddlers, who pretend to see in the close relation- ships between the parasites of New York and London, a guarantee of ever- lasting peace between the two powers. see RITAIN would never have given up the Japanese alliance but for pressure from Australia and New Zea- land. And ever since, the United States has missed no opportunity to convince those two antipodean col- onies that the big white uncle in Washington is at least as good a pro- tector as the little white father in London. If Britain finds it necessary to make a deal with Japan over’the Chinese crisis, and should it turn out that this deal conflicts with the in- terests of the United States, it is: not unlikely that the colonies will be- (Continued oh page 6.) In order to pass upon the law ft is necessary to know what the law is “It is our contention,” Neal con- tinued, “that in this act there is made mandatory the teaching of a particular religion in a particular book. We con- tend it is unconstitutional because it transforms the public schools of. thé State into a church establishment that’ is in violation of every guarantee or religious liberty in the state and féd- eral constitutions.” " Arthur Garfield Hayes of. defense counsel followed Neal. He also at- tacked the law, charging it denied religious liberty and freedom of thought to-the religious minorities of Tennessee. The court instructed the attorneys to prepare briefs of their arguments. “This is too profound a subject for hasty consideration,” sald Judge Raulston. “I hope you'll prepare briefs.” Fight Constitutionality of Law. A wave of public passion, created a tense situation today as the Scopes ‘anti-evolution trial was resumed. Armed sheriff's guards and import- ed uniformed police were scattered thru the courtroom as crowds. as+ sembled for the second session, This element of passion spread to (Continued on page 2) KUOMINTANG PAPER TELLS ISSUE UPON WHICH PARTY FOUGHT AND _ , WON THE RECENT CANTON The DAILY WORKER has re BATTLE ed: from China a copy of the Canton’ Gazette apparently an.organ of. the. Kuomintang government. This issue, dated June 1, appeared on the eve of the reactionary rebellion of thé Yunan- prisoners who are willing to accept it. ese troops financed by British and. French imperialists. { It is of great historical interest, therefore, to observe the leading article | wit! other defense organizations d1- in the Canton Gazette, which gives the gauge of battle between the Kuomin-|re tly handling certain cases, it was tang forces of the civli government at Canton, and the reactionary Yunnan-|4°lded to send funds thru these spe- Yocal organizations of International bor Defense ‘will be set up. They will be followed. by monster mass Meetings staged in the evening. * These conferences and meetings ‘will occur simultaneously in no less than one hundred cities on “Labor Defense Day” and every available Speaker in the labor movement will be asked to give his services. RIFF CRACKING, FEZ ENCIRCLED Troops Sent from the) Ruhr to Repair Loss (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, July 13.—The situ- ation of the French invaders of Mor- occo is still critical, with the Riffian natives attacking Kelaa des Sless, the French outpost nearest the capital of French Morocco, Fez. Freedom for Labor's Prisoners. This action was decided on at the first monthly meeting of the Nation- al Execuive Committee of the new or- ganizaion for the purpose of reviving labor defense issues in the labor Movement generally on a large scale and to establish a broad united front movement with its roots in the labor unions. James P. Cannon, secretary of the organization said, “We will Abd-el-Krim’s strategy has compell- ed the French to string out their fore- es on a line much longer than they can effectively hold, and his attacks on the weakest spots im the line have kept the French columns scurrying back and forth over much territory. Send Troops From Ruhr. The French have begum their first’ large scale movemient of troops from the Ruhr. Thé twenty-ninth infantry has left Bochum, one of the great Ruhr steel amt coal centers. The make the labor movement ring witn the slogan ‘Join the fight for the free- dom of labor's prisoners.’” International Labor Defense will be built on the basis of individual ane collective membership and the report of the secretary showing preliminary organization work well under way. 30,000 pamphlets containing the mami- festo, resolutions and constitution of the June 28th conference are ready for distribution, Dues stamps ‘ana books «re prepared for prospective In- dividue! membership and a compre- hensive plan has been drawn up for collective affiliations, , Funds for Prisoners and Families. On the motion of committee mem- ber ‘red Mann, the National Execu- tive Committee decided to send at Jeast five dollars monthly to all of America’s more than 128 class war promptness of the evacuation of the Ruhr is due to the need for more troops in Morocco to carry out the de- signs of the French bankers. The wheat crop of Morocco will be 19,584,000 boshels; this year, it is forecast. Theoaggregate wheat pro duction forecast for the three North African countttes of Morocco, Algeria and Tunis amounts to 61,030,000 bu- shels as compared to 47,706,000 har, vested last year, ics Aa | No Troops to Tangier, LONDON, England, July 13.—For- eign Secretary Austin Chamberlain ‘In order to avoid confifct or friction The girl strikers were particularly anxious.to interview tw6 girl scabs who had been pretending to be office help and had sneaked past the pickets | on that excuse. Monday morning they | were stopped and after the interview it was agreed by the pickets that they probably would not show up to- morrow. The third week of the strike opens with the strikers in good spirits and determined to fight it out. On the other hand the firms are in no condi- tion to be cheerful. The I. T. C. has only one cutter and a few tailors. No work can be done, for if even the scab tailor could cut, it would mean only nine or ten garments a day, whereas the shop’s normal capacity is 350 a day. Welcome Aid From Unions of A. F. of L, All efforts of the concern to get scabs have failed completely. Neither the splashing big ads in the capitalist papers nor the cowardly assistance of | the United Garment scab agency has | helped things. And now the United | Garment is under fire from ‘the rest | of the Chicago unions who don't like | to see an A. F. of L. union and the A. F. of L. name to cover up scabbing wainst any strikers. The Amalgamated members are from China complete reassurance that British financial interests there be protected absolutely regardiess of what the newly created customs com- mission shall decree, and further plans to protect such interests, even up to a display of military force. The treaties brought forward out of the Washington arms conference stand as one of the outstanding ac- complishments of the republican post- war administration in aiding Ameri- can imperialsm in China at the ex- pense of rival powers, chiefly England and Japan, and both President Coo- lidge and Secretary Kellogg are de- termined that they be carried out implicitly. Switch to Coal. NEW ORLEANS, July 13—Seven Tundred tons of coal more will be burned in New Orleans every day be- cause of the switch from oil to be made by the American Sugar. Refin- fig Co. plant Aug. 1 after 6 years of cil consumption. The Light & Water Co. of Mobile changed to coal from oil reéently but ts consumption is less than 1,000 tons month. | Took 11 Years to Get Postcard. cheered to learn that the Executive 2ommittee of the Chicago Federation | of Labor took a stand for solidarity | and even moré glad to know that the | A. F. of L. union membership is learn- | ing of the justice of their case against | the United Garment crew from ‘the | DAILY WORKER and the members of the Trade Union Educational | League and left wing militants. A New Trick Yesterday the bosses tried a brand new trick. A high official of the I, T. (Continued on Page 2.) WASHINGTON, July 13-A | post- card has just turned up and. been de- livered to the addressee that has taken 11 years to travel from. Man- chester, N. H., to Oaklapd,\ Gal, ana Nation-wide attention has centered around the court martial of these two soldiers for «Communist activities. The original sentences were forty and twenty-six years but were later re- duced by the war department. HINDUS UNITE TO AID CHINA Detroit Stadents in Joint Action Meet By H. S. LIANG (Chairman, Detroit Students’ Council Emergency Committee) (Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich., July 13—A joint meeting was held here in Detroit Sa- turday evening by the Chinese stu- dents and Hindu students in the city upon the present Chinese situation. a two hundred people were pres- ent. The meeting was initiated by the Detroit Hindu, Students’ Club and fully'supported by the Detroit Chinese then Uncle Sam had the nerve to charge the extra half cent that did not go into effect until nearly 10 years efter the card was mailed, The card was mailed by Mrs. FP. A: Varney on June 19, 1914, and was delivered to Miss Emma Inberg at Oakland, May 14, 1925, ‘PEACE AND JUSTICE’ CLOAK Students’ Club. Hot speeches were delivered denouncing the inhuman and ‘brutal foreign imperialists and capitalists who have been for so long and are still crushing the workers and common masses of both India and China. - Resolutions were also adopted by the Hindu students to the effect that the Indian congress will immediately withdraw all the Hindu troops and Police forces from the Chinese soil, ‘ i’ committees for forwarding to and to the effect tha i HT ese led by the Chinese military tools of foreign imperialism. It shows |‘'" ect that a telegram will : prisoners. announced in the house of commons be sent by the Hindu residents here clearly the issue upon wheth ‘the Kuomintang fought bravely and won after |", ” campaign for the raising of a|today that the British government once losing, the city of Canton. The article is as follows: . THE REAL ISSUE. . . ——— of material aid to dependent familion special fund for this purpose is to be-|40e8 not propose to send troops to ‘dM at once and to include the giving | Tangier, Morocco. Spain had asked troops because of the restlessness of U.S. MOVE TO WORLD WAR in Detroit to all Hindu organizations in U. S. A. urging their immediate taking side with the Chinese all thru- out the states in their actions toward Government Determined to Get Rid of | Kuomintang, smacking their ips in of class war prisoners. the natives living in the Tangier In- the liberation movement in China The Unruly and Lawless Soldiery | anticipation of the happy. event. i ternational zone, ‘ By HARRISON GEORGE. A donation was also immediately And Make the Provine le The wish is father to the thot, The _._—‘Indians To Hold Memorial —_—__ SeiehitwaeatlMbnesat of Coolidge, Mapretary of Btate Kellouy hed retustieg raised right there and then to be sent For the People. ty port pre The tr mintang government, their patrons of the conflict in Kwang: tung, they gleefully proclaim the im- pending downfall of the detestable , the hirelings of imperialism, have once more begtin to sharpen and poison their shafts of malice and slander against the Kuo- Informing | perlali hireling press is possessed with but one desire and that is to see con: flicts in Kwangtung, and conflict tha! would bring an end to the Kuomi0 tang government, even tho the, pro” ince might thereby undergo. unto! suffering, It is this des! of ss that finds NEW YORK, July 13,—(FP)—To Postpone Cunningham Trial, GARY, Ind.,,Suly 13.—Trial of Mrs, Anna Cunningham in Crownpoint court has beenapostponed until Thurs- day morning beeause of death of Mrs. Martin Smii mother of Judge Smith, who is presiding over the trial, br, is on trial for the er of her youngest sox eel i express the sympathy ‘of Americans ‘and Indians in America:with Indian ‘nationalists on the untimely death of C. R. Das, leader of the, Swaraj party and mayor of Calout mass meet- ing 1s being held ie International house, New York; Jily #2in the even- ing iad od! + to his desk’at Washington determined iQ _{Contioued at hand%o checkmate the Anglo-Japanede effort to stop the American govern- ment’ froriusing the advantage of the nihe-power pact in the present Chinese uphedyal°to forward the interests of American imperialism in China at the expense, Of British and Japanese positions already existing t American diplomacy is—like, that of other nations--designed to effect the maximum of imperialist advantage, with propaganda skillful enough to fight with every diplomatic weapon on page 2) to China to help along the strikers. Bosses’ Protectors Meet. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind,, July 13.—The thirty-second annual convention of the international a¥sbtiation of chiets of police got under way here today to continue for four days with more July 13— A” —~! a