The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1925, Page 1

we ee Rn THE DA WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illiniols, under the Act of March 3,~1879. SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925 <=” The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government NEW YORK EDITION Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W., Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill. —~ Vol. Il. No. 161. Subscription Rates: Suche Giese ty B08 PE eee eae, Price 3 Cents STATE MOVES 70 BAR SCIENCE, SCOPES’ * «2° 2°. AFRAID T0 & PAL) c BI, EXPOSE D> %> “SE DOPE es S$ b ° Neer ie ee am (Special to The Daily oe DAYTON, Tenn., July 16.—The. Scopes triwl reached its great crisis today when the state’s attorneys offered a motion to ex- clude all scientific testimony touching on “the relation of evolu- tion to the divine origin of man.” 4 Just before the session started, a mail carrier-brought in a sack of mail for Clarence Darrow. He emptied the sack on the counsel table, most of the defense attorneys helping Darrow examme the letters. Praver a State Argument. Rev. James A, Alle? , pastor of a Dayton baptist church, made the opening prayer. He was a fundamentalist, praying “God’s blessings upon the deliberations of the court to the end that Thy word may be vindicated and the truth revealed.” | AS WE SEE IT. | By T. J. O’FLAHERTY REAT BRITAIN may smash into the big headlines very shortly and have William Jennings Bryan skulk- ing among the second hand furniture advertisements if the threatened mine strike in England comes to pass. The miners have turned down the govern- ment proposal for a court of inquiry having for its object the ascertain- ment whether the miners’ wages could be reduced or their hours extended. The miners thot such an inquiry would be superfluous as they were de- termined there would be no reduction in wages or extension of “hours.. A strike appears to be inevitable. ie Se HE British coal industry has seen its best days. The capitalists want to maintain the old rate of profit at he expense of the workers. The latter are determined that they will not re- treat. The British miners are fortun- ate in having as their most prominent leader a fighting militant in the per- son of A. J. Cook, who was elected to his position as secretary of the miners federation on the left wing ticket. To his credit be it said, that he has re- mained true to his principles since his election. * * ; HEN asked if he believed that the sun once stood still at the-request, of Joshua, William Jennings Bryan, got nasty and insinuated that his questioneer was a donkey. The fact is Bryan has made an_ass of himself, premeditatedly and with profit afore- thought. No doubt this champion mountebank is sincere m his beliefs, tho he manages to make his sincerity the handmaiden of his money making business. Bryan may be courageous in his ignorance but he will find more people to resent the idea that they are anything in a monkey’s life than will tilt a lance at the heliocentric theory. 'MHE Dayton trial is interesting and instructive. Its effect on the church will be demoralizing. Millions of workers who have gone their way oblivious of the conflict waged be- tween religion and science, are now pricking their ears and repairing to the book stores to read up on Darwin, Huxley and the other men of science who made the church twist and turn in an attempt to save its bacon from the advance of knowledge. The work- ers have everything to gain and noth- ing to lose by the dissipation of su- perstition. "Ae T is interesting to note that the catholic church, the most powerful spiritual air navy of big business is maintaining a discreet silence on the question of evolution, while the more hysterical religious outfits are defend- ing their fortress of ignorance with wailing and gnashing of teeth. The catholic’ church knows that it must maintain a certain dignity and im- press its flock with an outward ap- pearance of poise. When the theory of evolution becomes universally ac- cepted, the catholic church will prove to its own satisfaction, at least, that it always favored it. The can-rattling religions have neither common sense nor dignity. Spas capitalist anti-war organiza- tions in ¢he United States are re- ported to have united on a plan that promises to bring everlasting peace. The main plank in the plan is a clause (Continued on page 4.) “G0 RECKON OUR DEAD BY THE FORGES RED" — TWO MORE TOILERS DIE ROXBURY, Mass., July 16.—Cyril Lightburn, a young Negro worker, is dead as result of his accident at work. He fell across a band-saw in the shop. ee © BOSTON, July 15.—When a piece of broken brake drum hurtled from the whirling machinery in the Re- vere Refinery at Charlestown, Man- uel Carraira, 24, was struck on the head and died soon after his re- moval to a hospitar For the first +time, defense attorneys received the prayer in silence. Their ob- jection, however, was automat- ically entered in the record. Refuses To Attack Bible Darrow first sought to have the scientists hear the court before mak- ing any decision. His purpose was to have the scientific testimony broad- cast to the world, even tho it never reaches the ears of the twelve men who must sit in judgement on Scopes, Darrow for the first time since the trial began, made the direct admission that.the defense will endeavor to re- concile evolution and the bible. Darrow took the viewpoint of the “modernist” preachers who endeavor to interpret the bible “symbolically,” and thus hold their jobs. Accepts Fairy Tales “Symbolically” “We want to put learned scientists and real students on the witness stand,” Darrow said, “To prove the theory of evolution is not in conflict with the divine origin of man. While there is not a soul on earth who be- lieves pe whole bible literally, we will not attack it, but merely prove that the bible and science can be recon- ciled.” Stewart renewed his objection to the testimony and moved that all further scientific evidence be excluded from the trial. He charged the’ scientific witnesses knew nothing about. the question of Scopes’ teaching in the ublic schools of Dayton and that any other testimony Was “irrevelant and incompetent.” fret, wenn Ss “It is up to the jury to dei ine whether the lessons taught by” Mr. Scopes were in. conflict with*°the bible,” Stewart added. “That is tte only issue before the jury.” , Young Bryan followed. He spoke th a low tone, barely heard at the press tables. ‘ “The danger of putting on the’ scien- tific witnesses,” said Bryan, nervous- ly, “is that the jury may substitute the opinions of these scientists for their own.” Wants Ignorance To Decide Bryan revealed the state’s hand, for it wants the case decided by a jury all of whose members haye admitted (Continued on page 2) A Foell from hearing the J. L. The workers of the world under national are dem( ding, “Hands Off Chine” 4 ‘ | FRATERNIZE! | ARE THREATENED BY DEPORTATION Pennsylvania and Texas War on Foreign-Born Urgent afipeals from five foreign born workers, one in Texas, the oth- ers in Pennsylvania and all threaten- ed with immediate deportation have come to the office of International La- bor Defense.” A wire from Amb~'" Pa,, tells of the arrest of three « workers by federal officials fu.bid- ding a meeting and distributing liter- ature in their own language. Tony Stafford, union coal miner of Italian birth, is now on Ellis Island awaiting a ship to Italy. He was tak- en from Moundsville prison, West A poster Communist League of France among distributed by the Young Va., where he has been confined for five years on a frame-up charge grow- ing out of a strike in the coal fields. He was lodged in the Pittsburgh, Pa. county jail by federal officers until Monday morning when he was ship- ped to Ellis Island. Deportation Means Prison. John Zagorski is confined in tank six, El Paso, Texas, county jail. He was intercepted coming from Mexico where he entered on a Polish pass- port. The authorities have told him he will be\deported to Poland. But Zagorski is not a citizen of Po- land. He has relatives in-New Jersey who are im possession of his birth certificate that shows he was born in the Ukraine; Russia, He is a Rus- | sian citizem, His deportation to Po- land will mean prison and’ perhaps death. 1, L. B, Retains Counsel. International) Labor Defense has wired its New York office to immedi- ately retain Tegal counsel to stay the deportation of Stafford. It has also motified Attorney Ed- ward D. Tittmann of El Paso, of the Zagorski case and he is preparing for a legal battle for Zagorski’s freedom. the soldiers leaving for the Riff front. COOLIDGE READY TO BREAK HARD COAL STRIKE Calls Davis to Help the Barons Smash Union SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 16. — All of the power of the federal gov- ernment is to be concentrated in an effort to prevent a strike in the an- thracite coal fields. President Coolidge took the first step in his campaign for the oper- ators when he summoned Secertary of Labor Davis to his summer home here for conference ovér the week- end. The mine union officials demand a wage increase of only 10 per cent, whereas the rank and file coal miners declare the increase should be 20 per cent. They point out that the oper-| ators will still make huge profits. Wife Tells Story. Mrs. Tony Stafford, wife of the de- portee and mother of four children \Secretary Davis is expected to. ar- ; f od Bee ve at White Court tomorrow, + ‘ behin rrimygg as on Coolidge has been following closely| V@» are disthe “pereenutio the operator-miner negotiations over Stafford. SA a new wage scale at Atlantic City and| _ She writes,“I'want you to fully un- he is said to be desirous of bringing “¢rstand that it-is because of a all possible federal pressure to bear) Sratge SeRlnshuneomoiaes that my to force the miners to accept the husband, who was one, is sie “an operators’ terms and prevent another secuted.” . Meg. Stafford and her chil- hard coal strike. dren are destitute and have appealed “ for aid in bringing their husband and father back to) them. Belgium Must Pay. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 16— The fact that Belgium was over-run by Germany during the war leaves President Coolidge cold, and the plea of that country’s debt commission that her war plight be taken into ac- Many More Involved. It is pointed’ out by the Interna- tional Labor Defense that these two new cases bear out its contention that a drive isi in progress against all foreign borm workers who are ac- FIRST FIGHT ON NEW INJUNCTION LAW IS WAGED BY AMALGAMATED CLOTHING UNION BEFORE FOELL in a rush of court business Taylor & Co., and the International Tailoring Company's plea for injunction against the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers’ striking defendants. y “This is the first bill for an injunction filed since the anti- injunction law was passed,” said William A. Cunnea, attorney for the strikers, “and we have a great many objections to the, tam 4 month, having been organized granting of this injunction which we Exasperated at the circumstances which caused the delay, the lawyers for the employers made wild charges of assaults and {Continued on page 6.) : cH ands Off China!” count wil be refused. President Cool- idge has let it be known that Belgium must pay her war debt in full. tive in the labor: movement. The I. L. D. has already in hand the defense of:six other foreign-born workers whojare being proceeded against by the labor department for deportation. They are S. Zinich, edi- tor of a South Slavic labor paper; John Lassen, editor of a Hungarian paper; John Schedel who has been ordered deported for the second time, Sanna Kannasto, Finnish working wo- man arrested a few months ago and A, Severino, naturalized citizen of Italian birth of the Cleveland Brick- layers’ Union; E. Vajtauer, Czecho- Slovak editor. 1. L. D. Appeals for Help. International Labor Defense is mak- ing every effortto break thiswide- spread driye on active foreign-born workers. The secretary, James P. Cannon said today that altho the I. L. D. has been in existence for less prevented Judge Charles E. at a national conference in Chicago on June 28, in that time the organ- ization has beemin receipt of a veri- table flood of. #equests from all over the country asdking for help in de- fending foreigmwborn and American workers alikery who are victims of frame-ups and persecutions for their activity in theslabor movement. The I. L. D. callssupon all workers and workers’ organizations to give imme- diate financial aid to carry on the fight against deportation and impris- onment of workers. The address is, International Iaabor Defense, 23 So. Lincoln St., Chiiago, Ill. will present to you.” is not due to the cost of mining, but is and miners, replging to the Operetors’ stand a wage inerease, dership of the Communist Inter- FIVE WORKERS| | FRANCE, IGNORED BY OTHER ROBBER POWERS, KIGKS AT CONFERENCE WASHINGTON, D. C., July 16.— Coolidge is having difficulty in put- ting, over his imperialist intrigue to stall off and crush the Chinese na- tional liberation movement and check the influence of Soviet Russia in the Far East. Suddenly discovering that the rumored secret agreement between England, Japan and America was leaving French interests out in the cold, France today notified Wash- ington that, after all, France con- sidered that the “time is not ripe yet” for a conference on extra-ter- ritoriality. FAKER STOOLS ON CHINESE SEAMEN IN U.S. Olander Asks Workers “Be Deported Charging the immigration officials stationed in Chicago with “laxity and neglect of duty,” Victor A. Olander, secretary of the Illinois State Federa- tion of Labor, in the official organ of the federation, declared yesterday that Orientals and praticularly Chi- nese, have been given easy access to the United States thru employment on a lake steamer. Mr. Olander asserted that for the first time in the history of shipping on the great lakes the South Ameri- can began her present season with Asiatics among her crew. Olander is an official of the mori- bund International, Seamen's Union, which has lost most of its members by dwelling overmuch on patriotism and ignoring wages and conditions. His well known standing as one of the leading labor fakers of Illinois, as well as his position in the I. S. U., is reported as probably having moved him to play the stool pigeon on Chi- nese workers for fear, that these . | Workers. would want. realwnion. ‘that: fights for working class !terests. _. But informing capitalist govern- ments against workers so that they may be persecuted is rather strong stuff, even for a labor faker, and Olander is not expected to gain great. popularity for such stool pigeon work among the honest members of or- ganized labor. DISTRICT NO. 18 This was the argument advanced today by miners’ repr the morning seesion of the wage conference between anthracite operators MINERS BESET ON ALL SIDES Splitters, -Fakers and Bosses all Enemies By ALEX REID (Secretary Progressive Miners’ Inter- national Committee) While John L. Lewis is sporting himself at the beach in Atlantic City the playground of the world—his faker friends in Alberta Canada, offi- cials of District 18, are betraying and selling out the coal miners of that re- actionary ruled district. Sherman, the district president, sup- potted by thugs, gunmen and the police are herding scabs into the min- ing towns to take the place of the miners at the mines, thereby aiding the coal operators to destroy the rem- nant of the union that is left. In fur- thering their unholy scheme of defeat- ing the miners, and reducing them to abject slavery murder is being com- mitted by a bunch of uniformed thugs assisted by the labor fakers in the valley. The fighting miners of Drumheller were sold out, and a reduction of wages negotiated by the officials of the union, without giving the miners of that district any say so whatever, they were not given a chance to dis- (Continued on page 5.) re ANTHRACITE PRICE NOT DUE TO WAGE COST BUT TO HIGH PROFIT, SHOWN BY UNION AT CONFERENCE (Special to The Dally Worker) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 16.—The present price of anthracite coal “hitched on” after it | the mines, mtatives at statemetn that the industry could not The miners declared it cost as'much to get coal from yards of dealers in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and other cities to the consumer as it does to mine “(the coal. Thesptace to economize, it was claimed, is “along the road ~ J wg GARMENT WORKERS REJECT FAKE ‘AWARD’, SCORE SIGMAN TREASON AND URGE UNITY AND STRUGGLE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, July 16.—The Joint Committee of Action representing the suspended left wing Locals 2, 9 and 22 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers and embracing sixty per cent of the cloak and dressmakers of the New York market, yesterday issued a ringing defiance to the outrageous “award” of the governor’s commission. Charging that the corrupt Union and the New York Joint the New York garment workers ruption; the Joint Committee of the traitorous Sigman machine, ernor’s commission as “impar- tial” arbitrators. Text of Statement Following is full text of statement of joint committee on governors com mission recommendation and the situa- tion in the industry: Thru Struggle Only Will We Retain Our Rights A call to all cloakmakers. “The leaders of the machine in our union who want to continue their con- trol over our organization by force have issued a call to the cloakmakers to vote. in favor of the report of the governor’s commission. “They want you cloakmakers to con- tinue to suffer in silence. “You must not participate in their referendum. “The whole referendum business is nothing but a fake, this fake you must meet with contempt. “We the cloak and dressmakers must decide for ourselves what at- titude to take toward the recommen- dations of the governor’s commis- sion. We must decide for ourselves what our attitude should be toward the present deplorable situation into which we have been forced by the present misleadership of the joint and the International, “The self appointed leaders of the Joint board and the international have dragged us into a swamp from which we alone can save ourselves. givthe & “What is the significance “The Lique i _our..ynion: ots governor's commission? cl ision to mean that the cloak@iakers are to work another year under their old conditions, “This interpretation is a fraud. “The decision of the commission gives our employers even greater con- cessions than they enjoyed until now. This decision gives them still greater possibilities for intensifying their op- pression in the shops. “In their diplomatic maneuvers with the governor's commission, this irres- ponsible Sigman clique did one thing: Gambling at our expense, they of their own accord offered several new con- cessions to the employers thru the Hillquit memorandum, “They thought that for these pro- posed concessions they will be handed a few crumbs for cloakmakers. The commission, however, accepted the concessions and denied even the crumbs, The commission accepted Sigman’s concessions which obligate the union to become the agency for the bosses association. “In order to save ourselves from this deplorable situation there is but one course:—Not thru miracles shall our problems be solved. Not thru decisions of bankers or influential politicians will we free ourselves from our present misery, but thru our own efforts, our own strength, and our own struggle. “The cloakmakers presented the following demands to the employers: “Limitation of contractors. “A guarantee of forty weeks employ- ment. “A raise of wages. “A forty hour week, “The right to examine employers books, “The ‘right to impose penalties for (Continued on page 2) MONARCHISTS TO LET WILLIE IN POLITICAL GAME BERLIN, July 16.—Former Crown Prince Wilhelm will be allowed to enter politics, by the Prussian govern- ment. This official statement, overturning a belief that has been generally held, was made today by the Prussian mini- ster of the interior. Speaking of the protest against the appearance of Wilhelm at the agricul- tural meet at Breslau, the minister of the interior declared that Wilhelm, prior to his return from exile at Wie- ringen, neither gave a special pledge to keep out of politics, nor was asked for any such promise. Since his return to Germany, the former crown prifice has been living on his estate in Upper Silesid, near the Polish border, which the collaboration of these “recommendations” of the gov- +———— officialdom of the International Board had deliberately betrayed into a morass of defeat and dis- Action attacks with equal vigor the bosses and the trap into two have led the workers—the GENERAL FENG FLAYS FOES OF CHINA FREEDOM Cables Article to Com- munist Weekly The Workers’. Weekly, official or- gan of the Communist Party of Great Britain, published the following ar- ticle by General Feng-Yu-Hsiang, the Chinese national leader. The British press has been siandering Feng ever since he cast in his lot with the move- ment that has for its aim the unlfica- tion of China and its liberation from the yoke of foreign imperialism: June 28. amd tier is Chinese territory, but govérned under an administrative system in which the real ruler of the city is invariably the British consul general. This system was instituted under the unequal treaties. In a Japanese cotton mill in Shang- hai recently, a Japanese employer killed a Chinese worker, in circum- stances which. moved the Shanghai students to make a public protest on May 30. alec eliaes They were entirely unarmed, and their purpose was to call the world’s attention” to the existence of indus- trial conditions which ought not to be permitted to continue. These un- armed students were shot by order of the British authorities in Shang- hai. Some were killed on the spot and others seriously wounded. Shoot to Kill. At a public trial which followed, the British Police Inspector Everson stated that he did not try to disperse the leg to students by shooting at their because his orders were to shoot ill, in the last resort. Since then .students and workers have been killed in Shanghai, Han- kow, Canton, and elsewhere in China by British and other foreigners, and at Hankow and Canton they have been killed by machine guns manned by British naval forces. You have doubtless read in the press how these acts have aroused national feeling (Continued on page 5.) ‘L’ UNION HEAD TAKES VIEW OF BOSSES ON WAGE Altho the elevated railroad em- Ployes have voted: to reject the Chi- cago rapid transit company’s proposal for a renewal of last year’s agree- ment, and have demanded a five cent an hour increase in wages, their prest- dent, William D. Mahon, of the Amalg- amated association of street and elec- tric railway employes, was to take the part of the company. Mahon declared that at a meeting last night he would urge the union men to accept the company’s proposat and go to work under the terms of the expired agreement. “Industrial conditions are not such that demands for wage increases should be pressed at this time,” Ma- hon said, in siding with tne employ- ers, whose proposal he hinted was “justified.” MAG MILLAN NORTH POLE EXPEDITION CROSSES GIRGLE AT DISKO ISLE * WASHINGTON, July 16. — The flagship Bowdoin of the MacMillan Arctic expedition remained at Hope- dale, Labrador, today while repairs Were continued on the broken propellor, but the airplane carrier Peary has crossed the Arctic circle ‘and’ Is off the Greenland coast south of Disko island, according to radio dispatches to the National graphic Society here, Geo- oe