The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 15, 1925, Page 6

open ‘THE DAILY WORKER 4Communism, snorts our contemporary, to het With Page Six Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.60 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, Illinols hada loadin J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUN? ea MORITZ J. LOEB... Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- the act of March 3, 1879. wo keditors Business Manager cago, Il, und <i 290 Advertising rates on application. =< <= od The British Coal Crisis According to indications, a general tie-up of the nation’s coal industry will take place in Great Britain shortly. The operators claim that their properties are.no longer paying: big profits, so they wanted to restore prosperity for themselves, by asking the miners to accept a reduction in. wages and longer hours. This the miners refused and one of the greatest industrial struggles in the history of Great Britain is in the offing. The Trade Union Congress has voted to support the miners, and a fighting alliance of workers in the other basic industries is being leading figures in the British trade union movement. The British miners have not forgotten the tragedy of Black Friday in 1921, when the Triple Alliance went to pieces thru the treachery of J. H. Thomas and Frank Hodges, résulting in a defeat for the miners. Fortunately for the British miners the Thomas-Hodges leader- ship is now almost entirely discredited. Those fakers can still in- jure the workers by placing obstacles in the way of trade union unity and by counselling co-operation with the employers as a substitute for struggle. It is hoped that the lesson of Black Friday has not been lost on the British workers, and that they will see the need for a united front against the bosses. The fight of the British miners for a united front against the bosses. The fight of the British miners not only is the fight of every worker in Great Britain, but it should be considered the fight of the workers everywhere. The miners of the United States should be particularly interested in the struggle of their brothers across the ocean. They should see to it that no American scab coal is shipped across the ocean‘to break the strike and send the miners back to the pits to slave at the mercy of their masters. The industrial crisis in Britain comes at time when the ruling class of that country see-on eyery side of them signs of approaching disaster. They are involved in China; their relations with France are delicate and the American capitalists are eyerywhere encroaching on their preserves. They are unofficially at.war with Soviet Russia, and their slaves in the opprsesed coloniesof..India and Egypt are seething with rebellion. Things look dark for the empire. Things look bad for the British working class. But the future belongs to the workers. The British mine strike, if it takes place may have far-reaching consequences. There is no hope for the British workers under capitalism. That system is no longer able even to fill their stomachs. The road to their salvation lies over the dead body of capitalism and the British Commnnist Party is pointing out the road, and organizing them for the task of running the country in the interests of the producers. : Keep Up the Fight The action of the executive committee, of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor and several locals of the International Association of Machinists in condemning the scabbery of the United Garment Work- ers in the present Amalgamated strike against the International | Tailoring company and another subsidiary concern, should be fol- | lowed by similar action on the part of every local union in this city | and vicinity affiliated’with the American Federation of Labor. The DAILY WORKER took the lead in urging the trade union- ists of this city to rebuke the scabby officials of the United Garment Workers for their brazen and treacherous conduct in openly acting as a scab recruiting agency for the clothing manufacturers. We are very glad to note that the labor movement has responded, but the matter is of too great importance to be permitted to remain in the resolutions stage. Not only must the members of the American Fed- eration of Labor condemn scabbery of one union on another, but they must give practical aid to the clothing workers who are fighting to retain a standard of living and working conditions that were won after many hard struggles. The fact that the striking tailors are members of a union not affiliated ot the American Federatoin of Labor does not alter the situation. If they lose, every employer in Chicago will see in that defeat a signal for a reduction in wages and more profits at the ex- pense of his employes. If they are victorious it will be a warning to the employers that the workers are prepared to defend their gains, and that they are learning the needed lesson of solidarity. Moral and Political Bankraptcy The disgraceful and treacherous attitude of the socialist parties thruout the world is typified by the conduct, of the socialist party of Belgium under the leadership of Emil Vandervelde. The fortunes of an election campaign divided the results, so evenly between the socialist and other parties that no one party could hold office on its own strength. The socialists, greedy for the spoils of office, agreed to a coalition with the’ right wing catholics, fused to enter the government with theysocialists. According to Lansbury’s Labor Weekly, the Belgian socialists placed themselves at the disposition of the king, prepared to do any- thing he suggests. Tn an editorial headed {The Belgian Shame,” the Labor Weekly says: ‘**May we remind Vandervelde and his col- leagues that once, wpop a time they were counted as socialists and’ as men.” That was some time ago. The Belgian socialists are true to type. Like their prototypes in other countries they have sold the working class. Let us hope the workers will soon be in a position to reward them for their treachery. Oscar Ameringer, court jester and footstool to Frank Farring- ton, president of the Illinois Miners’ Union, is afraid that if the Communists win out in America he will be compelled to read the PAILY WORKER. He would prefer a. daily diet of rusty fish hooks and carbolie acid, he tells us. We are surprised, Actually, Oscar has been feeding on dung so long that we thought he would look on a diet of fishhooks and carbolic acid as a delicacy. teany bee ao Tae The DAILY WORKER has excited the wrath of the editor of a southern newspaper, because of our criticism of the christian deity for his negligence in allowing the Santa Barbara earthquake to topple down a building devoted to religions activities. If this be ob words to teh effect. We still believe god was sleeping’ ai But More Than Enough But the catholics re- BIG CALIFORNIA CANNING SEASON LURING WORKERS ‘Are There Already By FRAPIESA. (Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, July 13.—The can- ning season is at its height.in Cali- fornia. Between 200,000 and 300,000 persons are employed in the can- neries. This is not an ‘hdvertisement for help. On the contrary, it is a warning for workers to keep away from Cali- fornia. The great army of cannery opera- tives is active only seasonally. When the fruit ‘is harvested it is disbanded. In a state where there is steady em- ployment a canning industry such as California has could not exist. Re- quirements of labor could not be filled. Labor Supply and Low Wages There are more than 600 canneries in California. A few of them employ less than ~100 persons and a few over 1,000. Most fo them require 100 to 1,000, When a cannery is ready to operate for the season announcement is made and in one, two or three days all the workers \needed are on hand and many are turned away. That shows how plentiful labor is. The wages are uncertain. Under the minimum wage law $16.50 might be considered the lowest for women. But the law is evaded. Vacation time enables the employers to exploit children. Piece work is also used to cheapen labor. At the end of the season the opera-| tives can show more experience than hard cash. Bunco Advertisements. One of the tricks of cannery m&g-| nates is to circulate thru the press) stories that certain girls or women; operatives earn $20 to $25 a day on piece work. That is on a par with) tales of rapid rises of moving picture “actors.” | Sometimes an operative, at a kill-| ing pace, may make a high wage for! piece work, as a rule, the workers| make little at that class of work. Piece work js a task maker and pace- setter to the advantage of the em- ployers. Workers Unorganized. | There is no unign among these hun-| dreds of thousands of cannery work-| ers. Class ‘consciousness is not mani- fest. Yet allethe wealth of the can- ning industfy in this state is pro- duced by-them and the machines in- dependently of the magnates. Great capitalist roganizations reap the pro- fits. A Workers Party has certainly an open sesame here. Our Readers’ Views | Starvation is Mine Bo: y Whip. | To the DAILY WORKER: My sub-| scription expites on July 10th but I) am unable to renew on account of unemployment. Since last Septem-| ber I had so little work I could hardly | make my living but, from April 1st | all mines except one have shut down. | It is impossible to get work and we miners here struggle with misery and starvation, In this town fifty to sixty families made an application to the county| court for aid to feed their children but they were told if they would ac- cept a wage cut the mines will open and that they will get more. work than before but the miners replied that this is bunk. If there is to be any gain the operators and not the miners would get it. Comrades, please, if you can, send me the paper and when I get employ-| ment I will renew my subscription. Please put this in the DAILY WORKER so that the workers can) acquaint themselves with conditions in this town. Fraternally Mystic, Towa. yours, Tony Stanfi, | tary movement. THE OAILY AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) gin growling. John Bull isin a nasty predicament. ys rhe. he IORTUNATHLY for the subject peoples of the world, the big rob- bers cannot agree on @ division of the loot. The great powers would like to get together and-clean up on China. They would like to clean up on Rus- sia, The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Hardly a week passes that we do not hear of some new plan to organize a coalition against Russia. But the plans never materialize. The conflicting interests of the capitalist powers make peace between them im- possible, On the other‘Hand, the iden- tity of interests ‘between the exploit- ed masses in all lands make working class unity possible. If, the capitalist powers unite; it will on! rbe in the face of a crisis that thr ens to en- gulf world capitalism. « ae nay N° doubt, that time: will come and in desperation the robbers will make common causes _ against their greatest foe, the worker. But the workers will also have learned some- thing and will unite to get rid of the’ robbers. In the meantime, a study of the developments in China will prove interesting and instructive. During the quarrel between. Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso-Lin, England.and the Unit- ed States supported -Wu, while Japan and France supported Chang. A& the DAILY WORKER often pointed out, the policies of the “capitalist powers do not “stay put” very long nowa- days. Today there is a different line up in China, see IRANCE appears to be willing to support. Britain and Japan, tho there is a suspicion that the French are double crossing their rival across the channel. The United States is playing for the Chinese market and | is endeavoring to regain the friend- ship of the Chinese people, at the ex- pense of the other capitalist powers. The United States wants),that friend- | ship in the coming war with Japan. The plot thickens. Cit HILE this drama is being enacted in China, we find England sup- plying the Riffians in Morocco with munitions to fight the Frepch, Previ- ously the French supplied them with ammunition to defeat the Spanish. Now the French and the Spanish are trying to patch up An alliance so they may be able to beat the Riffs. Should the latter be successful they may next wage war on Britain, This is how the capitalist powers play the game with each other... And there are peo- ple who expect,guch @ gang of crooks to establish peace. Thg,.capitalists can no more stop from gursuing this policy than a Bed. bug can overcome | the temptation, to bite an.unoffending slumberer. b +e 8 fps Tennessee fundamentalists are just about as crazy as a meadow full of ten-year old foxes. The Day- ton merchants are lopsided from car- trying the proceeds of their sales to the banks. Thousands of people are crowding into the city to watch the circus. The Daytonians,, don’t care whether they are atheists.or not. They will sell them anything they call for, from bibles to moonshine. A funda- mentalist preacher asked a permit to carry two small cannon... He wanted to lay them on his pulpit while preaching. It is not known whether he feared the devil or Darwin. The sheriff refused him the artillery per- mit. Daytonians will stand up under a lot of ridicule provided the visiting agnostics, atheists and modernists spend their money freely. Ecuador Government Overthrown. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, July 13— Troops of the Guayaquil garrison have captured the government in a mili- At the same time the troops set up a military chief at Quito, the capital of Ecuador. ee Federal Reserve Bank Total. WASHINGTON, July13. — Loans Give this copy to your shop-| mate, | _ Taza Surrounded; Riffians Menace Fez and investments of the federal re- serve banks total moresthan $29,250,- 000,000, the federal reserve board an- ™ NORTHWEST SIDE BRANCH OF WORKERS PARTY HOLDS BUSINESS MEET TONIGHT The Northwest Side branch of the Workers Party will hold a regular business meeting tonight In the rear of the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 West Hirsch Blvd. All members of the branch are requested to attend. Y. W. L. Activities | YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE LO- CAL CHICAGO ACTIVITIES Tuesday, July 14—Area Branch No, 3—Activity meeting, 3201 South Wabash avenue. Special Feature— Anti-Militarist Activity. Thursday, July 16—Activity meet- ing—Area Branch No. 4, 3118 W. Roosevelt Road. Special feature, Anti-Militarist Activity. Frisco Party Notes James H. Dolsen and Charles Pil- grim have opened up street meetings in San Francisco, under Workers Party auspices. The schedule is four days a week, as follows: Third and Minna, Tuesdays; 18th and Mission, Saturdays; Vallejo and Grant, Wed- nesdays; Eddy and Fillmore, Sundays. Meetings 7:30 p. m. An audience of 400 attended the first meeting. The above schedule is subject to change as experience determines. It is in- tended to start meetings in Oakland also. Miss C. J. Reed will be the speaker at the Sunday night propaganda meet- ing July 19. Subject: June Days in France. Party headquarters, 225 Va- lencia, San Francisco. be bin be. The South Slav local of the Work- ers/Party will give a dance at 226 Valencia, San Francisco, night, July 18. These dances, held every Saturday night by the various party branches, are well attended and very much enjoyed. The “admisstor’ of union music. Come out, people and old people, and give your- selves a good time. see One of the comrades while hustling DAILY WORKER subs, called at the residence of a postman. He found Uncle Sam’s employe sore because ‘of the number of DAILY WORKER sub scribers appearing on his route. We hope to swell the list until a few more postman will be needed in San Fran- cisco. Do not get sore, Brother Let ; ter Carriers, but take a pride in the number of DAILY WORKER subscrib- ers you have to deliver. a tah Here's one on the Workers’ Aid. Comrade Tom Lewis} was accosted as he left the party! headquarters one day by a-man who! said he had often seen that aid sign on the door, and wished to know what it was like, that he was international himself and badly in need of aid. He wondered if he could get a little help. But Comrade Lewis had to inform him, of course, that the aid was all income here. That the outgo was to our brothers across the sea where we send so many of our bullets, good whisky and poison gas. International ‘MOTHER’ BLOOR SPEAKS ON JULY 15TH IN TOLEDO Reaches Columbus, O., on Hitch-hiking Tour COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 13—Mother Bloor, going east on her cross coun- try hitch-hiking tour for the DAILY WORKER, arrived in this city today on her way to Toledo, where she will speak on July 15, 16 and 17, at meetings arranged. Arriving in Columbus from a suc- cessful visit to Dayton, Ohio, Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor, sixty-year old -| Communist fighter advises: “I arrived here last night without any trouble. I have not yet paid a single penny for railroad fare since leaving San Francisco over a month ago and I don’t intend to begin now. “The field for the DAILY WORKER and Communist organization is most promising apd 1 mean to get Ohio subs to make more Communists even more easily than I got those of fifteen other states.” From Toledo Mother Bloor goes to the Moroccans’ attack. The natives of this region arg fast deserting the French and joining the Riffian army. No. 2, shows how the Fiffians have surrounded Taza, key to the capital of French Morocco, Fez. The Riffiang have smashed the French lines in this territory and, Taza has been evacuated of cjwilians. . } No, 3, shows the territory south of Taza and just cast®of Fez, where the revolt of natives, inst the inva ‘8 has surrounded Taza, afd brought the Moroce ti a few miles from the corte Cleveland, for meetings to be held’ previous to a campaign she will stage in the Ohio and eastern Pennsylvania steel and mining districts. Riot at Bull Fight. MEXICO CITY, July 13.— Several persons were under treatment for seri- ous injuries today, sot 0 badly hurt they may die, as the result of a clash between police and spectators at the bull ring Sunday, . The patrons of the thi Saturday|’ will be only 265 cents—with. the best} young |) eet eee erermeate entre Shee nae “Stand by Soviet Russia!” Demand “Hands Off China!” ~ Mass meetings and demonstrations have already been arranged as follows: KANSAS CITY, MO.—July 15th, 8 p. m., 12th & Forest. Filipino, Chinese, Japanese and English speakers. : BUFFALO, N. Y.—July 15, Labor Lyceum, 376 William St. Speaker William F. Dunne. ITHACA, N, Y.—Cosmopolitan Club, July 16. Speaker William F. Dunne. ZEIGLER, ILL.—July 16, 7 p. m., Pavilion Park, open airsmeeting. Speaker, J. W. Johnstone. »eST. LOUIS, MO.—Mass meeting, Friday, July 17, Labor Lyceum, 1243 N. Garrison. Speaker, J. Louis Engdahl. «WASHINGTON, D. C.—July 17, 1814 N. Sty N. W. “Speaker, Rebecca Grecht. « ROCHESTER, N. Y.—dJuly 17 at 8 p. m. Labor Lyceum, 580 St. Paul St. Speaker Wm. F. Dunne. sf NEW YORK, N. Y.—July 17 at 6 p. m. Union Park, 17th and Broadway, open air demonstration. Speaker, Wm. Z.-Foster. 4 LOS ANGELES, CAL.—July 17. United Front Meeting. Auspices: Kuo Min Tang, Civil Liberties Union, Japanese Workers Asso¢iation, Workers Party, at Music Arts Hall. W. FRANKFORT, ILL.—July 18, 7:30 p. m., at Band Stand. Speaker to be announced. SEATTLE, WASH.—July 18. Speaker, N. H. Tallentire. DULUTH, MINN.—Sunday, July 19, 2 p. m., Fairmont Park, 7ist Ave. W. Speaker, C. A. Hathaway. MILWAUKEE, WIS.—Sunday, July 19, 8 p. m., Labor Temple, 808 Walnut St. Speaker to be announced. BOSTON, MASS.—Sunday July 19, Hall to be announ- ced. Speaker, Earl R. Browder. PITTSBURGH, PA.—Mass meeting, Sunday, July 19, 2:30 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Speaker, Ben Gitlow. PORTLAND, ORE.—July 19, at 8 p. m. Workers Party Hall, 227 Yambiell St. Speaker, Stanley J. Clark. CHRISTOPHER, ILL.—July 19, 9 a. m., 2 blocks north of high school. Speaker to be announced. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.—Monday, July 20, 7:30 p. m4 Building Trades Council Hall. Speaker to be announced. AKRON, OHIO.—July 20, 7:30 p. m., 601 So. Main St. aker to be announced. MINNEAPOLIS, WINN.—Mass meeting, Tuesday, July 21, 8 p. m., Finnish Hall, 1317 Western Ave. No. Speaker, William F. Dunne. ST. PAUL, MINN.—Mass meeting, Wednesday, July 22, 8 p. m., Deutsche House, 444 Rice St. Speaker, William F. Dunne. . YONKERSNN. Y.—Saturday, July 25, at 8 p. m., 23 Pali- sade Ave. 3 DOWN WITH THE ROUMANIAN WHITE TERROR! SAVE LIVES OF 500 BESSARABIAN PEASANTS! © y ies THE WORKERS AND POOR FARMERS OF AMERICA: The Roumanian capitalists and land aristocracy are running mad. «Having made Bessarabia into a hell of suffering and starvation for the workers and peasants of that province, the Roumanian government is ruthlessly murdering and exterminating every manifestation of protest against its bloody rule. In Kishinev, 500 Bessarabian peasants are now facing court martial. These 500 peasants are in danger of losing their lives because, driven to de: ation, they dared to. rise in protest against the brutal oppression of the Roumanian capitalists and land magnates. 2 The Roumanian government is holding Bessarabia by sheer force against the will of the overwhelming majority of the Roumanian popula- tion. The Roumanian government is dispossessing the Bessarablan peasants from their land. The Roumanian land aristocracy had insti- tuted in Bessarabia, as in the rest of Roumania, a system of economio and political oppression which is literally ruining the lives of the work+ ers and peasants of that unfortunate province. The so-called “Bessarabian System” has become a word of terror to every worker and peasants of Roumania. Driven to desperation by hunger, starvation, and by the merciless whip of the Roumanian forces of occupation, the peasants of Southern Bessarabia have resorted to the last means at their disposal in defense of their lives. In September of 1924 the peasants of Tatar Bunar rose in revolt to protect themselves against the exterminating rule of the Rou- manian land aristocracy. The rising was drowned in rivers of blood, and now 500 peasants are facing the Roumanian court martial in Kishinev, in danger of having their lives taken by decision of the court, for the crime of wanting to live and to enjoy peacefully the fruits of their labor, Workers and poor farmers of America! You cannot remain im different to the fate of these 500 Bessarabian peasants. You must not permit the bloodhounds of Roumanian reaction to sacrifice hundreds of lives of honest toilers of the Bessarabiam soil, who demand nothing more than the right to their homes and to their land. You must raise your voices in thunderous protest against the outrageous rule of the Roumani- an.forces of occupation in Bessarabia. You must make the Roumanian government feel that you will not permit the sacrifice of the lives of the 500 peasants now facing court martial in Kishinev, <a The government and the bankers of the United States are behind government of Roumania. Millions upon millions of doll squeezed “dutifrom the toil of American workers and farmers have been given by American bankers and by the American government to support the shaky foundation of the Roumanian government. The bloodthirsty hounds that rule:Roumania feel secure in their position because of the réady help wthat they receive from the American bankers and their government, The bankers and the government of the United States stand behind the, government of Roumania. Therefore, the workers and poor farmers of the United States must stand behind the workers and peasants of Roumania. . 4 ‘Down with the Roumanian White Terror! Down with the oppressive rule of the Roumanian capitalists in Bese arabial Hail the struggles of the Roumanian worke Save the lives of the 500 Bessarabian peasants! WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA WM. Z. FOSTER, Chairmi C, E, RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary, oe 48,000 Patents Awaited. Hail Destroys Vegetable Crop. WASHINGTON, July 13—More than 43,000 applications for patents for a wide variety of devices, were pend- ing at the United States office July 1, according to the annual report of Com- missioner Thomas BH. Robertson, sub- mitted to the department of com- Le GALESBURG,' IIL, July 13.— This vicinity was making a check today of the damage done Sunday by a freak hail storm which laid low the vege table crop in the entire northerm part of the city, put hundreds of telephones out of service, and beat in scores of window panos ""