The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1925, Page 2

ee ae Page Two BUILDING TRADES FORM UNITED FRONT TO FIGHT LANDIS AWARD AND RESIST OPEN SHOP DRIVE The building trades unions of Chicago are moving into posi- | tion to make a combined resistance to the open shop “Landis| Award” which for the past few years has caused much demoral- | ization and been the battering ram of the Employers’ Association and all other open shop groups Chicago labor movement. ‘i It is learned that at the last meeting of the executive of the Building Trades Council, the president of the council was author- ized to call a strike on any? building project where non- union men are employed, To Act as Unit. This follows the agreement between all the building trades union made about a month ago, in which all un- fons agreed to take common action to force the unionization of all building projects in Chicago. Altho the bricklayers, plasterers, and some | others are working under the Landis award, and affiliated with the Building Trades Council, yet all agreed te act as a unit in protection of the common in- terest. The authorization gtven the presi- dent of the Building Trades Council was given in order to unify the dif- ferent crafts in the expected strike action, as some of the nnions have failed to keep im tonch with the coun- cil by reason of their delegates not attehding the meetings of the coun- cil’s executive. Painters Give Strong Support. The Painters’ District Council, tho not formally entering into the agree- ment of the various crafts made last month, nevertheless are ready to sup- port the other unions in common ac- tion and Thursday night announced that the referendum on the question of levying a special assessment of $1 to afd the Building Trades Council fight the Landis award, had been car- ried in the affirmative by a vote of about 4,000 to 85. The Painters’ District Oouncil also instructed all delegates to bring up in their locals the resolution proposed against the use of the paint spraying machines, the use of which is said to be injurious to the health of the painters. “Billy’s” Million Slip from Shepherd, Court Smashes Will The will of William Nelson McClin- tock, bequeathing the bulk of his for- tune to William D, Shepherd, recent- ly acquitted of a charge of killing young McClintock, was not permitied to be probated by Judge Henry Horn- er of the probate court. The effect of the decision is. to throw the estate into administration thro the regular channels for persons who die without leaving wills, subject of course, to appeal by Shepherd. War Veteran Killed. DENVER, July 17.—Lieut. Col. w. Mapes, a veteran of the Spanish-Ame- rican and world wars, was killed early today, and two nurses riding with him sustained severe bruises and in- Juries when an automobile crash: head-on -into-a street car, BSR REE The most important work in literary and so- cial criticism in many THE NEWER SPIRT By V. F. CALVERTON Michael Gold wrote the author: “Tt delights me to see that we have at least a real phil- osopher in our revolutionary ranks. Your work is on a plane with the best writings of the Russian critics—the first clas men among them. It seems incredible that a man of your insight, scholarship and temperament xhvuld be so red and fundamental” Price $2.80 A beautiful edition by Boni & Liveright, Publishers Order from THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 11138 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Il. GoopD. »+ BOOKS BEL the carpenters are not | €d | be trusted with money. They will get in the campaign to destroy, the | JOINT BOARD " ‘REMOVES’ 71 FROM OFFICE But the Membership | Repudiates Act (Continued from page 1) | | the returns to suit themselves and | announce some good big figure that | sounds as tho they had a great mass jot the workers supporting them. Then they can go forth, as we hear they are trying to do, and negotiate a loan of a half million dollars on the promise that they will tax all these members to repay it, “But they will never collect that tax; not from us, nor from the other locals either. We are all sick and tired of shouldering the debts of the Joint Board, for we know the way they squander our money. Fancy Figures, “For instance in July, 1924, after an agreement was all complete between the employers and the union, these officers called an absolutely unneces- sary stoppage of work. Drawing on a special fund, altho this was not a strike, they spent over $500,000 in one month, When they were forced to make some explanation, they pre- sented a report which had such single items ag ‘Hall Committee $43,671.27’ —and this did not include rent but was paid to those who kept order in| the meeting halls. “It had an item of $100,119.00 for a “Picket Committee,’ yet there were no pickets necessary because this was not a strike. There was $31,109.81 for a ‘Law Committee’— a committee of one—yet there were no arrests, no court cases, and this did not include counsel fees. “There was $58,938.58 spent by an ‘Out-of-Town Committee,’ altho this was a New York City matter. The majority of the workers were out of work only a few days in this stop- page, and only a few thousand were laid off their jobs for several weeks. Yet a Brooklyn Committee spent $38,889.10; a Brownsville Committee $7,895.04; Harlem Committee $14,509.45. “Hall rent was $27,612.30; legal fees $18,485.00 and this did not include the fee of the chief counsel. We could get no further details on these expen- ditures, even for a ‘Miscellaneous Ex- pense’ item of $4,716.60. Not to Be Trusted. “Such irresponsible leaders cannot No more of ours, and if they manage to obtain a loan from outside sources, they will be responsible for it them- selves. We of these three locals, and the rank and file of the other locals —who are behind us, but dare not openly express their sympathy—will never pay one cent of it. “We no longer recognize the Joint Board and neither do 90 per sent of the workers. It will be useless for ;them to agree with the employers that we will abide by the report of the governor’s commission for no agreement of theirs will be binding on us. We of the Joint Action Commit- tee are signing no agreements and neither can they. We will take care of the problems of our workers, de- fend them when they are discharged for being our sympathizers, insist on their right to work despite any difi- culties within the union. . Stand Firm. “We have more than 45,000 union members behind us. Some of them are members of other locals, such as Nos. 35 and 10, where if they express sympathy for us they are dealt with by strong arm methods. They, as well as our own, local members, are looking to us to continue the fight, and we shall stand firm.” “Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will make a better Communist of you. William Z. Foster, chairman of FOSTER AND LEADERS OF OPPRESSED PEOPLES TO SPEAK AT MASS MEET AGAINST IMPERIALISM NEXT TUESDAY The Growing Coal War Wl i Y U. S. Miners Confab With Mine Owners Tied Up in Deadlock . (Continued from page 1 power of the commission, however,” Inglis said. The joint committee will adjourn at one o'clock today until next Tues- day morning, Cal and His Strikebreakers. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 17— “The Government is doing all that can be done to prevent a hard coal strike,” said secretary of labor, James J. Davis, today following a three and one-half hour conference with President Coolidge at White Court, the summer White House, Secretary Davis said that the situa- tion was gone over thoroly but de- clined to comment further, He stated that he «was sailing tomorrow for England, to be away until August 25. Secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover, long a close student of the economcis of the coal situation, will be summoned to White Court next. To him, in all probability, will be in- trusted the actual task of breaking the strike, in the anthracite flelds should one take place. Hoover and Davis have kept them- selves fully informed as to develop- ments at Atlantic City where the op- erators and. miners are deadlocked over the identical differences that failed of mediation in 1923. At their disposal will be every pos- sible weapon of the federal machin- ery. The president is determined that if necessary he will do to the miners what he did to the policemen in Boston in 1919. ee * ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 17—In a heated discussion over wage in- creases, representatives of the miners participating in the conference be- tween anthracite coal operators and miners today called on the operators to submit figures showing “the sal- aries paid to coal company officials, directors and high-priced lawyers.” The operators rejected the proposi- tion, according to an official of the Mine Workers’ Union, “declaring the request to be frrelevant to ‘the pur- poses of the joint conference.” MAHON HOOTED FROM ELEVATED EMPLOYES MEET After forcing William D. Mahon, president of the international union to leave the hall, members of Local 308 of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Blectric Railway Em- ployes, finally decided to accept the terms of the Chicago Rapid Transit company in face of the opposition of the faker Mahon to the the paltry in- crease of five cents an hour which they demanded. Mahon told them that the company was justified in not granting the in- crease as the gross receipts did not justify a raise at this time. He also said that the acceptance of the terms by the Surface Lines men created a division in their ranks and made a victory impossible. ‘These statements brought forth an- gry protests. The men blamed the officials for this division. It was clear that they believed Mahon was in cahoots with the traction magnates. Mahon bitterly assailed the members for showing opposition to his treacher- ous conduct and he left the platform. He returned afterwards. The men are very dissatisfied with the way their leaders bungled the wage controversy. FRENCH POSITION IN RIFFIAN WAR GROWS SERIOUS; PARIS, July 17—So serious is the French position in Morocco that Mar- shall Petain one of the leading mili- tary figures in the world war, was hurried to the Riffian front. The armies of General Krim,.the Riff leader, are marching on Fez which is a stronghold of French power in Mor- occo, Not only is the Rifflan chief defeat- ing the crack batallions of France in battle but his propaganda among the tribes hitherto friendly to the in- vaders is growing in effectiveness. the Workers (Communist) Party of America will be the principal speaker at a mass protest meeting against American Imperialism on next Tuesday evening, July 21st at 8 P. M. in Northwest Hall, corner of North and Western avenues. The meeting will protest against the war plans of the American im- perialists, against the citizens military training campeo, for the release of Crouch and Trumbull, against the robbery of China, for the support of So- viet Rusel Besides Foster, the speakers’ list Independence League, Max Shachtman, Chinese Student Allianog ind the independence of all subject peoples. includes: Cirilo Manat, of the Filipino » editor of the Young Worker; H. V. } Philips, organizer American Negro Labor Congress and T. T. Chi of the “| the anti-injunction law, and it is thot THE DAI British Colt & Nearing iners Gird i: Battle (Continued fm yhge 1) owners, W. 0, Bridgeman, first lord of the admiralty, admitted that the naval personel were informed how much they would be paid for strike- breaking work, Instructions were is- sued to the army and navy on July 8, looking toward emergencies. From the point of view of leader- ship, the British miners were never in @ more advantageous position than today. Not only are the leading figures in the miners’ union, men who have been tried in struggles and not found wanting, but the official leadership of the trade union movement as a whole has a forward outlook, which was entirely lacking when the miners threw down the gauntlet to their foes in 1921. The then leaders, J, H. Thomas, Frank Hodges and J. R. Clynes are now discredited and new men have stepped into the breach. Struggle With Right Wing. This industrial crisis comes on the heels of a big struggle between the right and left wings of British labor. Several left papers have sprung up lately. It is now reported that J. H. Thomas is bidding for Reynold’s Weekly and that John-Wheatley, for- mer health minister is bidding against him. The capitalist papers are beginning to link up the industrial crisis with the alliance between the Russian and British trade unions. This stuff, hoy- ever, has no terrors for the workers. They will need all the assistance they can get and no doubt, the Russian coal miners will not forget their British brothers when the big strike starts. BOSSES UNABLE TORUSH BAR TO CLOTH PICKETS Affidavits of “Force” Too Indefinite Hearing on the bill for an injunce tion against the striking employes of the J. L. Taylor and Co., and the lnternational, Tailering company was lald over by dudge Charlies E, Foell, until this morning. lawyers for the clothing bosses. blocked In their effort to rush thru an Injune- tion when William A. Cunnea, attor- ney for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union members, was upheld in his charge that the affidavits brot in to support the bill, for an injunc- tlon were too Indefinite. The attorneys for the ¢lothing man- ufacturers are now scurrying around securing affidavits in which ‘the ab- surd charges of violence placed against the strikers are stated in a more specific form. Bill Is Illegal. "~ Cunnea insists that the bill filed for an injunction is invalid because, contrary to law two separate concerns are jointly asking an injunction against picketing in an {dentical bill. Judge Foell, much as he would like to rule against the workers, may be forced to decide that a new bill must be drawn, which would necessitate more delay. The lawyers for the employers de- clare that the injunction should be granted in spite of the recently pass- ed state anti-injunction law prohibit- ing the issuance of injunctions for peaceful picketing. Constitutionality Attacked. Their claim is that the law {is un- constitutional. They declare that Chiet Justice Taft of the United States supreme court ruled a similar bill passed in Arizona unconstitution- al on ‘the grounds that it violated the 14th amendment to the federal con- stitution. 4 This amendment states that “no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due pro- cess of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal pro- tection of the laws.” It would not be the first time that the constitution has been ‘twisted for use in the in- terests of the bosses if the anti-in- junction law is thus declared uncon- stitutional. Attorney Cunnea has reminded Judge Foell of the importance of a decision on the constitutionality of rs eee eS that briefs will be filed in arguments, instead of a cursory oral agreement before the court. PEKING REJECTS PLAN OF BRITISH TO DEAL WITH BRITAIN ALONE PEKING, July 17—The foreign relations committee of the Chinese government has rejected a pr to negotiate solely with Great Brit: ain for the settlement of the recent disturbances In Shanghai. The Peking government will negotl with all foreign powers Interested. ee to Workers “Workers of the World, Unite!” Chinese Appeal By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, of America TODAY: millions in.China respond to the ringing slogan first advanced b' world's oppressed, Karl Marx, greatest leader of the n their final struggle for liberation. Chinese labor has taken up in earnest, and joins the inter- national chorus, “Workers of the World Unite!" This in- spiring plea now goes booming ‘round the world in hundreds of languages and dialects, heard everywhere that labor is on the march in the last class war. Marx's slogan is reproduced here as it appears in the Chinese language. The Chinese interpretation is being pub- ‘WORKFRS OFTHE | in WORLD should have UNITE!’ AS IT IS IN CHINESE lished in man: Soviet Republics, to show to the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union that labor hina has joined the emancipation newspapers of the Union of the world's proletariat. It a big meaning for American ee The DAILY WORKER was the only pub- lication in the United States to publish the appeal of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions to the world’s working class. This appeal recounted the brave struggle of labor in China, closing with the inspiring words, “Lon, Live the United Front of the Proletariat of the Whole World!” stru class stru; continues to rearguard. BwIZESD est has brou American la world crisis developing in the Orient. It is urged that the American worker should only interest himself in his Chinese brother, Thru this appeal the organized prole- tariat of China takes front rank in labor's le for world power. It puts to shame organized labor in the United States. Where Chinese labor speaks in the terms of the le, of the revolutionary war against all exploiters, the American organ- ized labor movement, finding feeble voice thru its officialdom, further propagates its class-collaboration policies for “peace” with the bosses. Chinese labor has joined the vanguard of the march of the nations toward emancipation, while American labor help bring up the rear of the Only the despicable motive of self-inter- ent any response at all from or's official regime to the because the continuance of the low stan- dard of living of Oriental labor, or its fur- ther reduction, would strike a blow at his standard of living. But even this receives only casual mention, while William Green, Chinese Labor Joins Workers of preside the American Federation of Labor, says “Amen!" to the policies of the the World Over. —_strike-breaking Coolidge administration, ‘ in dealing wi he Chinese: situation. The position of the trade union officialdom is reflected in the “socialist” attitude toward China. Forgettirig the piffle of the “socialist” trol would solve C preys official press agent, that birth con- ina's problems, we find the party's spokes- men taking the attitude that China is still backward, that it must suffer longer under the imperialist regime in order to bring itself up-to-date, but that in the meantime the reat capitalists should be as tender as possible with the Chinese workers. That is the policy of “socialists” in other lands that has led to open collaboration with imperialism in making less war on colonial peoples, ists” are the allies of ruth- as in France where the “social- rench imperialism in its efforts to maintain “the empire” in Morocco against the rebellious Riffs, It was this same policy of the Second (socialist) Inter- national that tried to tell the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia not to establish their proletarian dictatorship because they were not yet ready for socialism. * * * ¢ But the workers and peasants of Russia paid no heed to these betrayers. Chinese labor also casts o' these Judases, extends its hand in comradeship not only to the liberated masses under Soviet Rule, but to all labor, proclaiming, “Let us close our ranks and act together against our com- mon foe!” The ra ge | millions of American labor, powerful only when stirre to conscious class action, must be made to hear that cry and respond to it. LONDON REJECTS REQUEST MADE BY WASHINGTON FOR NINE-POWER CONFERENCE (Continued from page 1) ers—the United States, Great Britain, Belgium, France—shall establish a commission (to which each of such governments shall appoint one mem- ber) to inquire into the present prac- tice of extra-territorial purisdiction in China and into the methods of judicial administration of China, with a view reporting to the governments of the several powers above named their findings of fact in regard to these matters and their recommendations as to such means as they may find suitable to improve the existing con- ditions of the administration of just- ice in China and to assist and further the efforts of the Chinese government to effect such legislation and judicial reforms as would warrant the several powers in relinquishing either pro- gressively or otherwise their respec- tive rights of extraterritoriality. “That the commission herein con- templated shall be constituted within three months after the adjournment of the Washington conference, in ac- cordance with detailed arrangements to be hereafter agreed upon by the governments of the powers above named and shall be instructed to sub- mit its report and recommendations within one year after the first meet- ing of the commission “That each of the powers above named shall be deemed free to accept or reject all or any portion of the re- commendations of the commission herein contemplated, but that in no case shall any of the said powers make its acceptance of all or any of such recommendations either directly or indirectly de: - ent on the granting by China of any special concession, favor, benefit or immunity, whether political or Bunch of Mere Pretenses, I can thus be seen from the “reso- lution” which has lain neglected for four years, that no imperialist nation stands any great danger of losing anything by its provisions, even if en- forced, and that the game of the Unit- ed States has been thoroly hypocriti- cal, with one face toward the Chinese pretending to be working hard for “abolition of extra-territoriality” and the other face toward Britain, Japan and France, saying that. it is only a pretense means altogether to “calm” unruly China, save her from the Bol- sheviks. 9 Getting 2 DAILY WORKER sub or two will make a better’ Communist of you, A MASS. GOVERNOR FIGHTS STREET CARMEN’S UNION Strike Voted, Fuller Would Imitate Cal BOSTON, July 17—Governor Alvin T. Fuller Is living up to the bad opin- lon the Massachusetts Federation of Labor voiced of him at its annual con- vention last summer. Thé convention, held during the state gubernatorial campaign, branded Fuller as a foe of union labor and cited his wartime tivity in fighting a strike of employes in the Packard Motor Car assembllng plant of Boston with which he was connected as executive and heavy stockholder. Today the employes of the Boston elevated system seek an increase in wages and Fuller issues a statement from the state house, censuring the workers for their membership in an “outside” organization, meaning the street carmen’s union of the Amerti- can Federation of Labor, and telling them that they had good johs at good wages. Their wages, actually, are just 72 cents an hour—the men asking an increase to 95 cents and the com- pany calling for a cut of seven cents to 65 cents an hour. Will Fight Union, In an earlier statement the govern- or threatened that if the recent over- whelming vote for a strike were car- ried out he would do all he could to prevent any striker from being re-em- ployed. At the same time the governor ad- mitted that the men had the techni- calities on their side in the immediate issue on which the strike was voted. The company had demanded a change in the arbitration machinery and the men said they would strike if such a change were attempted. The meth- od used for 14 years called for each side appointing its own representa- tive to an arbitration board of three, the first two arbitrators to select a third. Foe of Labor. The company’s proposed change called for less direct representation, each side to select the other side’s representative from a list of five per- sons nominated by that side, Under this plan the Boston elevated system would select the union representative from five union nominees, and, the men feared, the company would natur- ally pick the weakest of the five—the one least desirable from the union standpoint. The company at first said it would stand pat for the change }| but its latest word is that itywill re- consider its decision. A few days will teli the tale: Meanwhile the judgement of the’ Federation on Alvin T. Fuller stands. He is a foe of union labor because he opposes affiliation of the street car workers with the general labor move- ment. And he thinks that more than 72 cents an hour is too much for an elevated worker. WORKERS PARTY HOLDS OPEN AIR MEETS TONIGHT The Workers (Communist) Party will hold open air street meetings thruout the city tonight, to demand that the American imperialist govern- ment keep “Hands off China.” The meetings are part of the nation-wide campaign of the Communists against the exploitation and oppression of world imperialism. Meetings will be held on the fol- lowing corners: Division and Milwaukee—Speakers, Fred Biedenkamp and J., K., Gebert.. Division and Washtenaw—Speakers, Thurber Lewis and others.. Roosevelt and- St. Louis — Max Shachtman and others. 80th and State—D, H. Harley, Paul Cline and Victor Zoknitis.. 82nd and State—Karl Reeve, George Miller and Nat. Kaplan. Louis Engdabl. Sone ava tt ava cokes ott, , was on his way to Chicago to give If up on the murder charge that his brother Rus- sell was sentenced to be hanged for, was sent from Detroit early today soon after the sending of the first telegram which resulted in the eleventh hour reprieve saving Russell Scott from the gallows. ; Repaired MacMillan Ship to Rejoin the Peary in Five Days WASHINGTON, July 17.— If all goes well the Bowdoin will leave Hopedale, Labrador, today and should join the Peary, the second ap of the MacMillan Arctic expedition five days, according vo a radio age from Donald B. MacMillan. “'"the national geographic society, i