The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 164. Subscription Rates: wo oe 9 Garm ..°,Workers Pack :,© Park to Show New 3” World NEW YORK CITY, July 19 noon by over thirty thousand cloakmakers in a public demonstration against the Sigman gang of International, officials and their fake referendum on the “award” of the governor's commis- In a dense mass they covered several blocks and gave the lie so that all who have eyes could see that Sigman and company’s days are numbered! “about the opposition to him be-* sion. AS WE SEE IT. By T. J. O’FLAHERTY N view of the approaching visit of A, A, Purcell, president of the Inter- national Federation of Trade Unions, to the United States, the publication of the British Trade Union Delega- tion’s report on conditions in Soviet Russia about to appear serially in the DAILY WORKER should be of un- usual interest. It is no exaggeration to state that no other document that saw light since the end of the war caused a greater sensation on the con- tinent of Europe than did this re- markably cool and impartial story of the progress made by the workers and peasants in Russia since they over- threw the czar and established the rule of labor on the ruins of feudal- capitalism. Eee fee | HE men who wrote this report are far from being Communists. But right thru their report, like a streak of light, runs the backbone of the case for the Soviet Republic. “This is a workers’ government,” the docu- ment says in substance, and whatever is done here is done in the interests of the workers and peasants, by the workers and peasants for the purpose of bringing more joy and comfort to those who toil. Every reader of the DAILY WORKER should bring this document to the attention of their friends. No other English paper in the United States will carry this re- port in full. * * * A. MACKENZIP foreign corre- spondent for the Chitago Daily News is now in Sweden. Mackenzie was formerly in Soviet Russia, and for some time sent out rather fair re- ports of conditions there. But his masters did not want the truth so Mackenzie got his orders to send out what he was getting paid for. It is not safe to lie in Soviet Russia, so the Daily News correspondent waits to write the rough stuff until he got out of the Soviet Union. Then he turned loose and gave the perverts of the Chicago Tribune a run for their money. Mackenzie admitted that he played the role of stoolpigeon in Rus- sia for a purpose. . . * ‘OW he sends out a fantastic yarn from Sweden about a minute plan for world revolution sent out by the Communist International. That this alleged plan came from no more au- thentic scource that a bourgeois pa- per published in Stockholm did not make any difference to the Daily News correspondent. No better proof of the unreliability of this document could be shown than the paragraph calling for the assassination of the heads*ef gov ernment. Everybody who knows »any- thing about Communist organization and tactics knows that they are decid- edly opposed to individual terror, not because they would shed any tears (Continued on page 6.) Strike Against Wage Cut at Fisher Body Plant 18 DETROIT, Mich., July 19.—The campaign of wage cutting at Plant 18 of the Fisher Body Co. last week, is going merrily {craven hearts ofthe fakers if they DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Lllinois, under the Act ot March 3, 1879. U i In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. Left Wing Power (Special to THe Daily Worker) : .—The great Madison Square Park was packed yesterday after- All could see that Sigman’s lies PURCELL, ADVOCATE OF WORLD TRADE UNION UNITY, WINS ELECTION «Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, England, July 19.—A. A. Purcell, president of the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions, and one of the chief supporters of ing limited to “about 1,500 Communists and agitators” are only grotesque falsehoods! All New York could see and did see that the capitalist news- papers which favor the Sigman gang are fighting the great mass of New York garment workers in this case as they have done in every other cdse! Shows Left Wing’s Power. Here on Manhattan Island gather- ‘BRITISH GAIN world trade union unity, has been returned to parliament in the For- est of Dean, Gloucester, by-election. The seat was formerly held by the Labor Party, but its former member, James Wignall, belonged to the conservative wing. Purcell, a friend of the Soviet Union, in creased the majority from 1,309 to 3,022. A large number of miners reside in the district. Purcell head the British trade union, delegation to the Soviet Un- ion, which made a report recom- mending umity of the Russian and English trade unions, ed a mass of workers, an example of the living power and vit@fity of the proletariat! Here gathered the deep force which is causing a revolution in the American unions! Here was exressed the dynamic power of the left wing movement built up by the Trade Union Educational League! Here and there over the vast as- sembly speakers were talking, ges- turing, explaining and reiterating the story of the betrayals time and again by the Sigman, Perlstein, Feinberg gang- Cheers and applause arose, sweeping like a wave over the whole mass, Everywhere one tould hear nothing but condemnation for the union offici- als who had betrayed the interests of the workers; and nothing but Praise and repeated pledges of sup- port for the executives of Locals 2, 9 and 22 who have been suspendew and then ordeged removed from office after a farcical “trial.” Resolutions Get Thunderous Assent. Resolutions were offered and passed by roars of “ayes” with a unanimity that must have turned the To Live 6 Months on North Pole BERLIN, July 19.—Announcement vas made of a German North Pole 4eppelin expedition which will land a party of eight at the north pole in the autumn where they will spend six months in darkness ‘on the polar ice cap. They will be picked up again in spring. A radio sender will broad- cast nightly the scientific findings of the expedition. Storm Couses Oil Fire BAKERSFIELD, Cal, July 19,—A blaze caused by lighting -has caused @ fire in tank No.4 of the Pacific Oil company with damages estimated at $450,000. DETROIT AUTO WORKERS PREPARE TO FIGHT WAGE CUTS BY JOINING UNION; BOSSES CONCEAL PROFITS By EDGAR OWENS. @pecial to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., July 19.—The largest and most enthusi- astic open meeting held by Local Union No. 127, Auto Workers, since the inauguration of the organization drive was held in their hall, 55 Adelaide Street, Friday evening. The hall was packed were there to listen. Speeches’ in Yiddish, English: and Italian tranded (Continued on page 6.) TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1925 — THRU PERIL OF FRENCH IN RIFF Unite in Opposition to Nine-Power Conference LONDON, July 19—The peritous/ situation of France,/faced with utter | defeat in the Rifflan war and drawing! near the edge of a financial precipice | in the new “gold toan,” has aided the) British. government, in successfully | putting over her pet imperialistic schemes for a united front against Soviet Russia in the West and an- other against both China and Soviet Russia in the East, Apparently by gaining the defec- tion of France from America’s pro- posal to call the, pine powers into conference to “consider” extra-terri- toriality in China;'she has check- mated American imperialism’s own crafty move to lessen British infiu- ence in China and aid her own by posing as China’s friend. Fight. Coolidge’s Conference. It is now Britain and France lead- ing the opposition to any conference, against the United States und Japan, with Japan under the surface playing her own game and threatening to up- set all caleulations by a possible sud- den flop into a Pan-Asiatic bloc against her rival imperialists who all happen to be occidentals, but whose first and original $in is being rivals for control of ej However, for the time being, Japan stands between England and America as a friend of both apparently acting as mediator for thetr strongly con- flicting interest «and agreeing with them upon general policy of opposi- jtion to the Chinese liberation move- ment. Exploits i Prejudice. Britain is mal the most of race prejudice and by. gubning propaganda is seeking to turn; the imaginary “yel- low peril” of the Sund srt polar at “Soviet an, : significance is @lschéd here to the German answer tovthe French security note, which is expected to lay the ba- sis for Chamberldin’s cherished ambi- tion to bring Germany along with France and the group or puppet na- tions on the Soviet frontier, to an accord based uponca new war against Soviet Russia, whenever Britain says the word. France, thrown jinto danger by the Morocco @efeats sand nearly bank- Tupt, has evidently been won over to follow British 'lead in evacuating the Rhur—shee,ineeds the troops badly in Africa—and giving the Ger- man reactionaries at Berlin the op- portuity to come! into the “security pact”—really a united front against Soviet Rpssta—on the grounds that France is laying aside a policy of re- venge. France also has felt the need of a fight against Soviet Russia, as the with auto workers, most of whom are employed at Fisher Body Plant No. 18. There was also a ta representation from Plants 10, 12, and 21. More than 80 Fisher Body employer signed up. The strike at Plant No. 18 was the principal topic of dis- cussion. This strike is assuming proportions that has the em- ployers worried. Edgar Owens, J. H. Collins, and Wm. Logan, general president of the Auto Workers’ Union, addressed the meeting and discussed in detail the technique of conducting the strike. The difficulty growing out of the lack of organization was emphasized and stress laid on the necessity of coming into the union as a disciplined body under wise generalship and with (Continued on page 6) By AL GOETZ. (Special to The Dally Worker) on. So is the walkout of the men, About six more departments have felt the wnat hands of the efficiency experts and these same departments are out 100 per ) cent on the street mysterious reason the employ- ment office has announced that no hiring would ‘be done until Monday. One of the biggest depart- ments out on strike are the trimmers. The trimmers are fighting to re-establish their old scale, The old scale of the trim- mers for hanging a rear back was $1.10, it was cut down to 85 cents, On-Front Backs they were cut from $1.50 to 70 cents a piece. All thw flat work and headlining which for- merly had paid a high rate was simil- trimers in the Automobile Industry (Continued on Page 2.) ¥ arly cut until the most highly skilled | llering for the rest of the workers to come out too. men are out who are showing splendid sticking qualities. that functioned so well that not a single man got thru to At least six hundred A picket line was established today the employment office and for some SARS aT AIRE RE RETR cg m+ pare eer eee ara en ANDERSON ATTACKS JOHNSTON IN STORY OF BIG STEAL OF VOTES IN LATE MACHINISTS’ ELECTION WASHINGTON, July 19.—(IP)--J. F. Anderson, vice president of the International Association of Machinists and candidate for president of that organisation at the last convention, has reopened the fight in a letter addressed to the membership the heading of which is; “The ‘Story of the Big Steal.” In it he makes an attack upon, William H. Johnston, the presi- dent of the association and B. ©. Davison, the secretary treasurer, Attached to the letter is a report from Herbert P. Leeman who was Anderson's watcher in the election ballot count, together with sundry affidavits, Johnston Won't Talk meet President Johnston and Mr. Davison rétuse to make any eamment o: it mow. In his letter Anderson declares that he is convinced) that after « (990,024 (Continued on page 5.) ° , influence of the Soviet power has touched her vital spots in Morocco and China and menaces her colonial interests in Indo-China. Links Yellow and Soviet Peril, The fight against wHat Austen Chamberlain calls the “yellow peril” includes according tw nis own state- ment, the fight against Soviet Rus- sia, which he says has “betrayed its white heritage.” © His reason, how- ever, is more truly expressed in the fact that Soviet Russia has renounced all unequal treaties with China and other oppressed nations formerly im- posed by the ezarpmnd has held that these oppressed snationalities and races have a right to full self deter- mination and repudiated the claim | that the “white” imperialist nations have any god-given right to oppress and exploit the “darker: and defense- less races. Chamberlain naively states that the Germans must join ‘his proposed front against the “yellow peril’ as Germans are better than Latins in having “a keener color sense,” to which remark some scoffing laborites have said that the Germans also «make better artil- lery and ammunition than the Latins. Roumania Won't Pay Harvester Co. BUCHAREST, Roumania, July 19.— The agreement between the Interna- tional Harvester company and its Roumanian debtors has collapsed, the Roumanian National bank categorical- ly refusing to furnish foreign ex- change to Americam debtors. The debts contracted ‘efore the war amounted to about $14000,000, Rn. VOLUNTEER HELP WANTED Volunteer help, wanted every afternoon and evening of this week at the International Labor Defense office, at 23 So. Lincoln Ave. Come and give as much time as you can spare, Very important, jsecret =” Chokes Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. et (Back Stairs Diplomacy NEW YORK EDITION Price”3 Cents Off China Facts and Plots Naval Threat (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, China, July 19.—An anomalous situation, in which the foreign settlement of Shanghai, governed by a mixed municipal court of imperialist agents of which Sterling Fessen- divactat’ 40 ¥is Matty Worker) | den is chairman, is neither subject to the laws of China nor to the control of the Peking diplo- Oana 6 ; matic corps, has arisen to give the most reactionary imperialists great joy. It all came about by reason of Great Britain's refusal to agree to the report of the Peking diplomatic corps on the Shanghai shootings of students and workers and her throwing over the was made. Back of this is, of course, the British gain of France to op- pose the proposal of America for a series of conferences on China. As quickly as France re- versed her position of previous approval, and declared that the “time is not ripe,” Britain also broke the line up and felt that she could afford to defy Amer- ica. This was bound up with the report on the Shanghai shootings, blame for which was laid on the British police troops and the American chairman of the municipal council, Sterling Fes- senden. This caused a split in the di- plomatic corps, as America, England and Japan upheld the point of view that the imperialist troops had a right to shoot any Chinese at any time over anything or nothing, while the French, Italians ana Scandinavians were anxious to get themselves clear from the boycott, the Chinese were laying down against British and Jap- anese, and did not want to draw fire on themselves by clearing the Shang- hai foreign troops of their guilt. It all came to a crisis in the British foreign office in London, where secret meetings were held, so very secret that to escape notice, many of the high-hatted diplomats entered the for- eign office by a rear basement door used by menials. Shanghai An Independent Nation! Here the fight wert on and British won the point that Shanghat’§ ~unici- pal council owes allegiance to\—sbody om earth, being a sort of principality and power in itself, and that the di- plomatic corps must keep its hands off and its opinions to itself. Also discussed at the London secret confab, was the advisability of a na- val demonstration against China and war moves against Soviet Russia. It was agreed that if warships were sent in force to Chinese waters, they must carry sufficient landing troops to put down the Chinese by force in the treaty ports. ARMY OFFICIALS STEAL PAUL GROUCH’S MAIL, CONFISCATE HIS BOOKS By PAUL CROUCH (Special to The Daily Worker) Ft. SHAFTER, Guard-House, Ho- nolulu,§ Hawali —(By Mail)—The copies of “Communism and Fa- mily,” “Marriage Laws of Soviet Russia,” and “Leninism vs. Trotz- skism” ordered from the DAILY WORKER Pub. Co., came to the Ft. Shafter prison office. The pris- on officer, L. Krenter, opened the package without my permission and refused to allow me to have the books. My request for a receipt was ignored. It appears that laws intended to protect the stolen wealth of Morgan must not be used for the benefit of personal property of class conscious workers. understanding with? | America and Japan as soon as it A.C. FAGES INJUNCTION FROM -— WOE VIOLENTLY OPPOSED T0 ~——WOLENCE; DEMURRER IS FILED | | The lawyers for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, facing an injunction by the International Tailoring Company in the strike now going on, have filed a demurrer under the recent | Cuthbertson anti-injunction law, which demurrer states that the | picketing which is sought to be forbidden by the injunction “are | legal acts and not subject to injunction or restraining order, and are permitted under the statutes of the state of Illinois.” | However, they will have to convert Judge Foell to that point | of view, as he is very insistent that there shall be no unlawful picketing by “violence.” If there’s going to be any violence, Judge Foell insists that the scabs and police observe the old apy 2 PRE *+saying that it is “more blessed |to give than to receive.” Must Be Frame-Up—But Which? Just what frame-up the bosses’ private detectives are preparing to |spring Monday in order to make it | easy for the judge to grant an in- jjunction despite the anti-injunction law recently passed at Springfield: f AGAINST A C W this is the problem that confronts the eight hundred Amalgamated Ld « ® | Clothing Workers now starting the | fourth week of their strike against the International Tailoring Co. and . . Fitzpatrick Supports te 3... tev co. . . | After three postponements, the in- Class Solidarity. t petidtlon heaving will ‘Some: aint bat - m. before Judge Charles BE. Foell. A ietter from William Green, presi-| This well-known “injunction” judge dent of the American Federation of|i8 between the devil (namely, the Labor, upholding the United Garment! >°8Ses) and the deep sea of legal Workers’ Union, and characterizing | ‘technicalities. On the one hand, the the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ tailoring corporation demands an in- Union as a “dual organization” was junction; on the other hand, is the sharply criticized by the delegates to | fact that this is the first case to be the Chicago Federation of Labor at, heard since the “anti-injunction” bill yesterday's meeting. |Dassed. Now what is an honest-to- John Fitzpatrick, president of the| 80d ifjunction judge to do? Chicago Federation of Labor, defended Finks to Rescue. the striking Amalgamated workers] The tailoring firms’ finks are going and condemned the scabbery of the)to help the poor man out. It is ex- United Garment Workers’ Union. | pected that they will provide framed- C. F. of L. Against Scabbing. up evidence to prove that the strik- ers are not subject to lenience under Green's letter was written in an-/the anti-injunction law because their swer to the demand of the Chicago picketing has not been “peaceful.” federation’s executive board that the/ phe jaw mer i . ‘ely applies to thi t- fact that the International Tailoring] ing of duction! Geass “peaceful” company and ‘se J. Lo FOVlOt COM! nicketing. if. any ‘chebe: 168 tack sat pany was using the name of the Amer-| poaceruiness on the part of the strik- ican Federation of Labor and of the}... can be proved,—that is if United Garment Workers to adver ; ye ae pana wale <5 gic “dual "seceeding oreanieavion” | | SCOPES” PROSEGUTOR IS CHAMPION OF BACKWARD COUNTY; ATTACKS REDS that the matter had been referred to the A. F. of L.’s executive council. DAYTON, Tennessee, July 19— In a statement showing the con- “The United Garment Workers is the only organization in the trade rec- ognized by the A F. of L.,” Green said, and advised the Chicago Federation of Labor “not to interfere with such servative character of the Rhea county officials, Walter White, sup- erintendent of the county schools, who signed the complaint a John Scopes for violating the state disputes.” “The American Federation of Labor anti-evolution law, said, “No citi- zen of this county has become so |MALEVOLENCE SWA OF CALIFORNIA; production in this section is to be August 1, Competition, it is claimed, preparations are being made on an the film war. The public should take the news Exaggerative advertisement is at the Just one company, the Universal, News Boys Shouting for Filmdom, each other in shouting for the movie producers, Bach goes the other one beter every time movie news is an- nounced, As boosters, Hearst and Chandler have their eyes on advertise- ments from the producers. They are news boys who shout because they must eat. Last December the Examiner an- nounced what the movie production would be for 1925. It put $75,000,000 for one company, $50,000,000 for an- other, $25,000,000 for another and not it than $10,000,000 for any, A KEPT ON THE RAGGED EDGE LOS ANGELES, July 19—Announcement is made that movie picture fighting each other frantically for business. , at University City, and that only, is preparing for enlargement of production. has found that clashes taking place between recognized organizations and seceeding organizations cannot be solved by granting recognition to dual highly educated that he feels it his duty to substitute the red flag for the American flag, or dispose of his bible.” (Continued on page 6.) “No citizen of Rnea county was YS MOVIES STUDIO WORKERS our god, Our country, our flag and our prayer,” The steel trust, which owns the Tennessee Coal and Iron company, and the large plantation owners, will no doubt use their influence to have White promoted, after such with two parts salt added for aafety. unch defense of the exploitation back of it system which has made a few mil- c} lionaires, but has pauperized the great mass of workers and farmers of the state, increased largely commencing with is growing keener, the big companies Statements are published that immense scale by the giant rivals in All the others are stationary. The Examiner and Times vie with¢ DEPORTATION OF FOUR L. W. W. IS CANCELLED; COMMUNISTS HELPED The department of labor deportation warrants issued against |. W. W. members William Moran, Herbert Mahler, Pietro Nigra and Joseph Oates have been officially cancelled, according to information received from defense Attorney Schorr in New York City. Much agitation in Europe and Australia over the glaring injustice of the American government’s action in pressing for deportation in defiance of its own laws was carried on by Communists in foreign labor unions thru the direction of the Red International Affiliation Committee of the I. W, W. |. and added considerable pressure upon the department of labor in Washington | for cancellation of the deportation order. As this was something of a test Vs Ws of the same group ma: