The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1925, Page 2

Page Two --———--—-- CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN SCOPES TRIAL BEGIN TODAY; DARROW AND BRYAN CLASH OVER EVOLUTION (Special to The Daily Worker) DAYTON, Tenn., July 19.—Closing arguments in the Scopes evolution trial will be begun Monday morning, and the jury is expected to end the first chapter in the fight to allow the teach- ing of Darwinism in the public schools by bringing in a verdict of guilty within two days. William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow are indulging in constant bitter clashes’ over the issues of the trial. “The evolutionists have not been honest with the public,” Bryan stated. “The ministers should tell their congregations that evolution leads logically to ag-*+ nosticism.” Darrow again declared the Scopes’ defense had “no desire to have the christian world give up its belief in god or its bible. “Religion and science are entirely separate,” said Darrow. Can't Read Testimony in Court The testimony of the scientists and professors brot here by the defense to say that ience and evolution do not conflict,” will be handed to Judge John Raulston Monday morning in the form of briefs, and Raulston is ex- pected to rule that the testimony must not be read before the court. The professors were “desecrating” the sabbath today putting the finish- ing touches on their statements. To Invade Other States Bryan, who, it is announced, will endeavor to induce the legislatures of seven more states to prohibit the teaching of evolution, declared that the “tennessee evolution case has un- covered a conspiracy against eyolu- tion.” Walter White, superintendent of schools of Rhea county, in a state- ment describing the citizens of his county and upholding the anti-evolu- tion law said, “No citizen of Rhea county has become so highly educated that he feels it his duty to substitute the red flag for the American flag, or dispose of his bible.” Those who are attempting to bar science from the schools are trying to make Darrow out a radical, but Darrow has assumed his most pious look and his scientists are mouthing christianity in order to show the powers that be that they are worthy of their jobs in the capitalist owned unive! es. Mathews Defends Christianity Dope Shailer Mathews, one of the de- fense witnesses, has stated that christianity also undergoes evolution, that “the christian theologian can find new understanding of Jesus as a re- yealer of an immanent but self ex- pressing personality. Only those who are ignorant can find antagonism be- tween christianity and science.” What Mathews failed to point out was that the ruling class changes the interpretation of christianity when it best sults the capitalists purpose of keeping the masses from being dis- contented. Mothers Confound Bryan From their mougtain homes deep in the Cumberland Hills, two mothers arose today to confound William Jen- nings Bryan. These two mountain women—mo- thers of pupils in the biology class of John Thomas Scopes—flatly repudia- ted the Commoner in what has been the heart of his defense of Tennes- see’s anti-evolution law. They said their sons, Howard Morgan and Har- ry Shelton, were not harmed by their lessons in evolution. It was Bryan who said, “Mr. Darrow asked Howard Morgan, ‘did the teach- ing of evolution do you any harm?’ Why didn’t he ask the boy’s mother?” “Go to the father and mother,” the Commoner thundered, “and they'll tell you how their children’s minds are being poisoned.” But the mother proved Bryan a poor prophet. First, there was Mrs. Luther Mor- gan, mother of Howard. “The teaching of evolution hasn't hurt me or my boy,” said Mrs. Mor- gan. Evolution Not Poison And then, she added: “T don’t think any of us here in the mountains have studied evolution enough. I wish I knew more about it.” Mrs. William R. Shelton, mother of the 16-year old Harry whose testi- mony corroborated young Morgan's felt the same way. And: these were the only boys to testify against Scopes, She calls her son “Bud,” “As far as I am concerned, they can teach my boy evolution every day of the year. I can see no harm in it whatever,” said Mrs. Shelton. “Why, when they called Bud to testify against Mr. Scopes, he had for- gotten most of his lessons. He had to get the book out and study it up. JURY TRIAL GIVEN WEB PRESSMEN’S LEADER IN BATTLE AGAINST BERRY NEW YORK CITY, July 19.—The court of appeals in the case of Simons of the Web Pressmen’s Un- ion, ousted by Major Berry for sticking to the interests of the workers in the great “outlaw” strike which was broken by scabby legionnaire Berry, has ruled for Simons in granting him the right to a jury trial on the points of dis- pute with Berry, thus reversing the judgement of the appellate division In fact, as far as he acted around the house, I didn’t even know he had studied evolution until this ‘mon- key business’ came up. I suppose I might have watched his studies more because Scopes was arrested, I had to get Bud’s book to find out what evolution was. “I think it’s all foolishness arrest- ing Mr. Scopes. I can’t see that he did any harm by his teachiig and it’s silly to punish him.” Thus the mothers of the hills an- swered Bryan. RELEASE CICERO COMMUNISTS IN SPEECH FIGHT The charges against Irving Search and J. K. Dante, arrested in the Ci- cero free speech fight, were dismissed in the Cicero police court. The two Communists were arrested two weeks ago at a street meeting on the corner of 49th Court and 14th St. A gang of sluggers, led by a priest, attacked the meeting and tried to break it up. Instead of arresting the rowdies, the police arrested the speakers. The prosecutor, Christiansen, told the defendants that he believed in going to church every Sunday and protecting religion. He also rang in the Scopes case, and said he would protect Cicero from “heresy.” The policeman who made the arrest of Search, however, said the Commun- ists were arrested not for attacking the church, but for “distributing and selling a pamphlet about unemploy- ment.” The judge then dismissed the case. David Bentall, Communists, demanded that the police interference with Workers Party meetings cease. He announced that meetings are held on the street corner every Thursday night, and would continue, Christiansen,swho spoke loudly of “protecting the church,” has also done good work in protecting the vice and crime ring, and the Western Hlectric company, noted as tax dodgers. He would not guarantee however, that the Workers Party would be protect- ed from the attacks of Cicero police- men, Last Thursday night, altho no ar- rests were made, a police Ford drove up, dragged Comrade Androlius, who was speaking in Lithuanian, from the platform, warned the speakers not to continue and sped away. All party members are urged to be at the corner next Thursday night to help conduct the meeting and see that rowdies or priests do not break it up. Treatiés Awalt Signature, ROMB; Italy, July 19—Thirty-two new treaties between Italy and Jugo-[ slavia concluded at a recent confer- ence at Vienna are awaiting signa- ture by the Jugoslav minister. The minister has postponed signature un- til he receives authorization from his government, which has not been forth- coming, IT’S A CHANCE— That comes but seldom. Beginning Saturday, July 25, the DAILY WORKER begins the serial publication— In a Uniform Half-Page Installment (So that you can bind it). ~”> attorney for the tendneda Are Killed in Korea After Han River Floods Banks SHANGHAI, July 19—Thousands are dead in Korea as the result of floods caused by overflow of the Han River, according to advices received here today from Keijo. The entire city of Ryuzan was sub- merged and it is supposed loss of life was very great, but crippled com- munication made it impossible to ob- tain exact information, Three hundred persons are believed to have been killed when a govern- ment school at Maho collapsed.. Its foundations were undermined by the flood. Nine thousand villagers in the Tokusoin area are cut off in a flooded area and loss of life which may have occurred there cannot yet be ascer- tained. COMRADE LASSEN HUNGARIAN RED Was Editor of Elore, Author and Idealist By ISRAEL AMTER (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, July 19—Comrade John Lassen, former editor of the Hungarian Communist dally news- paper Elore, who has been ill for six weeks, died in the St. Josephs hos- pital Friday night. Comrade Lassen was a militant re- volutionist since his youth. He was active in 1914 in spreading anti-war propaganda in Hungary, whare he helped to found the left wing of the social democratic party, and the Com- munist Party of Hungary. Comrade Lassen made an attempt on the life of Count Tisza, for which he was sentenced to prison. He was released by the Soviet revolution and led the youth revolution in Budapest, after which he attended congresses of the Young Communist Internatio- nal before coming to America in 1921. In December, 1924, Comrade Lassen was indicted by the United States government and threatened with de- portation for writing a revolutionary poem, and articles in the Elore. Comrade Lassen contributed many articles and stories to the DAILY WORKER, including his novel, “Ma- sters and Slaves.” For eleven years Comrade Lassen was ill with tuberculosis which reach- ed an acute stage last week. The funeral will be held at the Hungarian home on Sunday. He will be cremated. Comrade Lassen’s life was an ex- ample for all revolutionists, he was an idealist, an excellent Communist fight- er, a thinker, author and man of action. HOLD COMMUNIST SPEAKERS OVER NIGHT IN JAIL Arrested at Open Air Street Meeting Police arrested two members of the Workers (Communist) Party, Fred Biedenkapp and Marek, at an open air meeting on the corner of Milwau- kee Ave, and Division St. Saturday night. The Communist meeting had pro- ceeded 45 minutes when the police arrived and ordered Comrade Bieden- kapp to disband the meeting. This he refused to do, and the police took him to the Chicago and Racine Aves. police station, Comrade Marek then attempted to speak and he too was arrested. A large crowd had gathered before the Spealeers were taken away in the patrol wagon, and the police sergeant threatened to run his auto into them. The case will come up this morn- ing «in the police court where the comrades are jailed. GARY, IND., ATTENTION! The DAILY WORKER, Work- ers Monthly, Rabotnicza Tri- buna and Novy Mir are for s at the Workers’ Co-operative Restaurant, 1733 Broadway. The Official Report of The official report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia, including trade union leaders and experts who travelled to every section and observed every phase of Soviet life. A most complete report, with graphic charts and maps covering Politics, Finance, Army, Religion, Education, Trade Unions, Wages—by a Non-Communist, impartial and official body, of British Labor.: ~& THE DAILY WORKER STRIKE AT AUTO PLANT Detroit Sees Strike at Fisher Body Plants (Continued from page 1) can only make about 60 cents an hour at the new rates. These men who had been accustom- ed for many yedrs*to $9.00 and $10.00 a day, can now make only from $5.00 to $6.00 and that only under except- jonally favorable conditions. Often when the work is slow or when there is a hold up anywhere these men are unable to earn more than $4.00 to $4.50 a day.y < Besides the Trimmers, the Duco- Sprayers, Slush Sprayers, Ground- Sprayers, Paper-Belters and a num- ber of other departments have come All these different operations out. FIGHTER DIES have received heavy cuts in wages ‘4 Fabsountine to an average of 35, per cent. Most of these men had been earning $7.00 and $8.00 per day and they will have the greatest difficulty from now on in,making as much as $5.00. These savage wage cuts are con- vincing the men that the management has absolutely no thought of the wel- fare of the workers. They are begin- ning to realize that they must fight their own battles’ and their present temper indicates that they are going to fight this out to a finish. The strikers are certainly giving the com- pany the surprise of its life. There have been many departmental strikes in the past but none of them have been fought so tenaciously and at no time did they assume the proportion that this one is beginning to assume. Unless the company makes, a right about face with wage cuts in the other’ departments, the whole plant will be out before this strike 1s set- tled. Beware ‘of Splits. Some of the departments among whom are the Cushion Makers, who were also on the Point of leaving the shop were kept in ‘by the bosses by a promise that they ‘were to get their old prices back @g#in. We do not know if this pro##ise has been kept but we ‘are quité tertain that this concession to co Bcopage Makers will last only tne others have been beaten and #@ back on the job working at the rates’ enforced by the company. sii A deplorable feattire of this strike is the lack of orgatiizatton among the strikers. Not many of them are as yet members of th® union, and altho the strike has so fdr been carried out with great courage and determination there will be no worth while results for the workers utiless they organize themselves in thé Auto Workers Union and by pérmanent’ organiza- tion maintain thaf which they are now trying to gail, Must Unionize. Auto Workers’ ‘Union, Local 127, has been making a strenuous cam- paign all summer among the Body Workers in Detroit, pointing out again and again the inevitability of just such wage cuts as this and urg- ing the workers to get organized so as to be able to give effective resis- tance to the onslaughts of the em+ ployers, y The Auto Workers’ Union stands for the following demands: A minnimum scale of $1.00 per hour. An Eight Hour Day and a 44 hour week. Time and one half for overtime and doubletime for Sundays and Holi- days. * No piece work without day rate for waiting time. The Auto Workers Union calls upon all Body Workers to join together and by united action defeat the em- Ployers in their wage cutting, speed- ing up campaign and establish tho above demands as the minnimum conditions under which any man will have to work. Local 127 meets every Friday at 55 Adelaide. Hindus Home Rule. LONDON, Ju! The British par- Mament has received a manifesto signed by 40 representative Hindus demanding the passage of a new com- monwealth of India bill. The mani- festo protests ‘against the British government's steps to “perpetuate the administration of Indian affairs by a foreign bureaucracy.” RUSSIA TODAY EA iSO csr it i et en Oe ty AOE eB NE So RE AE i ER rE Mi Diss Renae te RR iS The British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia U.S. Aviator-Mercenaries on Riff Front Is Sign of French Imperialist Decay By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Bi hil, imperialist France puts her reliance on the profes- sional soldier in making war against the Riffian armies of Abd-el-Krim in North Africa. Loyal colonials as long as they last, regulars from the evacuated districts of Germany, now, most despicable of all, aviator-adventurers from the United States, who happened to be lolling away their time in Paris. . Hessians hired from German feudal lords were used by the British king against the American colonists when they were battling for freedom in the revolutionary war. One would think, therefore, that there would be at least the sem- blance of an American tradition against the professional murderer in the soldier's uniform. But instead, American literature teems with the mock- héroic deeds of the “soldier of fortune,” the mankiller who murders for the sport of it. Richard Harding Davis has lion- ized this character in fiction, especially the professional sol- dier who went with the vanguard of American imperialism to plunder in Mexico, Central and South America. * * * * The Hearst press has always lauded this type of mer- cenary. It is now the Hearst press, especially thru the writ- ings of Arthur Brisbane, that claims the Riffians are waging a hopeless struggle against the French because they cannot successfully face the airfleets of the imperialist enemy. The Riffians have done pretty well against the Spanish plunder- ers, and they are this week challenging the full strength of French militarism. This would indicate that the boasted strength of France in the air, claimed to be the greatest strength among all the nations, is not living up to the great claims made for it. * . * There must be some reason why France must appeal for a “foreign legion” of mercenary aviators made up of “swash-buckling” Americans. It may be that Frenchmen, like Sadoul and Marti who refused to fight for French im- erialism in the world war, are to be found even now in the French air forces in Africa, refusing to do the bidding of their militarist masters. There have been indications that the French soldiers is less loyal to the French franc than the sword-rattling American who fights for a price. It may be well, for future reference, to give the list of these Hessians who wear the stars and stripes, who may some time return to the United States and enlist on the side of the bosses in some great strike that looms ahead. Here are some of them: Col. Charles Sweeney, of Spokane, Wash. Is organizer of the mercenary crew. Col. Charles Kerwood, of Chicago. Grafton Grey, of Chicago. Chester Gillette Parker, of Helena, Mont. A. Granville Pollock, of New Orleans, La. William Rodgers, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Paul Rockwell, of Atlanta, Ga. Reginald P, Weller, of New York, Joseph M. Stehlen, of Brooklyn. Paul F. r, of New Jersey. Thomas H. Buffum, of Boston. . Not many “foreign” names there. No doubt all of them 100 per cent Americans; ready to do the bidding of the al- mighty dollar at a moment’s notice, whether in crushing the discontent of American labor at home, or making an alliance with the House of Morgan to bolster up the tottering French capitalist regime. It is said that there are Russian Soviet aviators in China. Perhaps there are. We do not know. But if there are, they are champions of the liberation of the Chinese people. They serve in the cause of labor’s international emancipation. As soldiers of the Red Star, they carry a new message over the world. * American capitalism may go into insane spasms of jingo wortnsy over the murderous deeds of its mercenaries in North Africa. But American labor must learn that a blow struck at the natives of North Africa, at the workers of China, or any other oppressed nationality, is a blow struck at them. * * * * More will be heard from the “Soldiers of the Red Star” and the “Soldiers of Fortune” in the days to come, as tumul- tuous waves of discontent rise and fall, and rise again, al- ways toward victory, over the face of the globe. Labor every- where will in time take the Red Star as its guide. It will join in the war against the “Soldiers of Fortune” and the capitalist social system they seek to preserve. NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES FIRST TO PLAN DEFENSE DEMONSTRATIONS International Labor Defense announces from its national office here that New York and Los Angeles are the first cities to bgein preparations for engaging in the great nation-wide defense cami in to be staged on Sun- day, September 13. This day has been set aside abor Defense Day” and will witness large mass meetings and local conferences in all parts of the country. The conferences, held in’ all cities on the afternoon of Sept 13, will launch permanent local organizations of the International Labor Defense, that was founded as a national workers’ defense body, at Chicago on June 28. The mass meeting, to be held in the evening, are to give impetus to the work of defending the 128 class war prisoners in the prisons of the country, James P. Cannon, national secretary said: “We are going to have these demonstrations in one hundred cities from coast to coast and we are mobilizing a hundred of the best speakers in the labor movement to speak at them,” ‘ OFFER NO. 1 A two months’ sub to the DAILY WORKER for $1.00, Just the thing to enable every work- er to begin reading this great histori- cal document of British Labor, es bs? 2aOR toute e ih aot CHEER FOR CHINA, 1.—The St INDIA, SOVIETISM AT DETROIT MEET Organize in All-America Anti-Imperialist League DETROIT, Mich., July 19.—‘Three cheers for China, India ané Commun- ism all over the world!” Several hun- dred Chinese and Hindu students responded to this prophetic slogan as one man last night; when the chair- man, H, S, Liang, called for the three cheers, the auditorium of the startled Detroit Central Y. M, C. A. rang with the thunder of the reply. This incident followed a speech by Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All- America Anti - Imperialist League, who had come from Chicago at the invitation of the Ford Chinese Stu- dents’ Club and the students’ Emer- gency Committee of Detroit to ad- dress a joint meeting of these bodies with the Hindustan Club of Detroit. Other speakers included W. L. Hsu, J. L, Huang and Mrs, Ma, Chinese, and Alup Singh, S. M, Ouarahi and Mr. Deb, Hindus. Press Growing Liberation Drive, Determination that the great na- tional liberation movement which has sprung up in China shall not die down but shall push on to eventual com- plete victory over foreign imperial- ism, showed itself thruout the meet- ing. Hindus as well as Chinese showed that they are willing to make real sacrifices for what they clearly recog- nize as their common cause. When a collection was taken up for funds to be sent to the students and work- ers of Shanghai, many of them dug down into their pockets and handed over every dollar they had with them. Loud and prolonged applause greeted a contribution of $25 by the English- speaking branch of the Workers (Communist) Party, local Detroit. Against English Impreialists. J. L. Huang, in charge of the col- lection, misunderstood the term “Eng- lish branch,” confusing it with the name “of the Communist Party of Great Britain—and he instantly shouted out: “We are against the English imperialists, but we are not against the English Communist Party.” In the name of the Chicago branches of the Workers Party $40 was pledged. Altogether, the collection amounted, to $1,060, given freely, amidst inde- scribable enthusiasm.' Shows Anti-Imperialist Unity. Gomez, in his address, dwelt upon the significance of the meeting as a sign of the anti-imperialist unity of Asia, and not only of Asia, but of the oppressed colonial and semi-colonial peoples everywhere. That this unity is no fiction was proved by the mere mention of the heroic struggle of the Riff tribesmen against imperialist France, which evoked stormy ap- plause. The speaker also declared that the meeting represented an even more transcendent -unity—the unity of the revolutionary working class move- ment in the home countries of impe- rialism with the struggle for libera- tion in the colonies. He laid special emphasis on the close friendship merging into alliance between China and the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics, symbol of the international victory of the working class, The terrible conditions prevailing in the foreign-owned textile mills of Shanghai were vividly portrayed by Mrs. Ma in a speech bristling with in- dignation and defiance. And the climax fo the meeting was reached when gray-haired Mr. Deb, president of the Hindustan Club of Detroit, his voice breaking wtih emotion, assured the Chinese that the Hindus were ready to stand by their cause not only with money, but with their life's blood if need be. Organize Provisional Committee. At the conclusion of the meeting an unofficial provisional committee of three was set up to consider plans for establishing a section of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League in Detroit. The committee, which is to meet to- day, consists of H. S. Liang, presi- dent of the Ford Chinese Students’ Club and chairman of the Chinese students’ emergency committee; Ah- med, of the Hindustan Club, and Edgar Owens, district organizer of the Workers Party of America in the Detroit district. ‘ Deposed Czar’s Trappings. LENINGRAD, July 19.—The Soviet commission in charge of the state museum has announced the public sale of the household furnishings of the old Russian royalty valued at se- veral million rubles, APuvecicte$ OFFER NO, 2 A three months’ sub and two books, and Revolution, by V. I, Ulianov (Lenin), 2.—The Theory and Practice of Lenin- ism, by |, Stalin, ALL FOR $2.00, ($2.60 in Chicago). enenee)