The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1925, Page 6

~ Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicagy only): Bymail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months —— y Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iilinols | _———. J. LOUIS DAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE {7 MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager eonieeettcnee cwdere | Entered as socond-class mail September 21, 1928, at the post-office at Chi-| cago, fu, under the act of March 3, 1879. . oop 290 Advertising rates on application. ——— a <= | The Deportation Menace Tony Stafford, former international board member of the United} Mine Workers of America, was framed up by the coal operators and} sent to prison for five years for his participation in a coal miners’ strike in West Virginia in 1917. The employers charged him with having dynamited the property of the coal company. The legal ap- paratus of the state being owned and controlled by the operators carried out the wishes of the coal barons. Immediately after Stafford was released from jail, steps were] taken by the department of labor to have him deported to Italy, his} native land. He is now on his way unless he can be saved from | the further persecution of Mussolini’s murderers by last minute | efforts. 9 The deportation weapon is one of the many clubs held by the ruling class over the heads of foreign-born workers who refuse to} bow the knee in submission to the bosses. Threat of its enforcement | helps the capitalists to intimidate the workers who are not yet under the influence of revolutionary ideology. As the bas.)industries of | this country, particularly the unskilled classification in those in-/ dustries are composed mainly of foreign-born workers it is quite evident that the deportation club is a very real danger, not only to the foreign-born but also to the native born. Why? Because a foreign-born worker can be deported for partic- ipating in a strike against a reduction in wages, for the closed shop or for any other effort to improve the standard of living of the work- ers or ithprove their working conditions. Every worker knows that only thru collective action cap labor’s status be improved. It there- fore follows, if the capitalists succeed in intimidating the foreign- born workers from joining a union, or participating in the activities of the union, even to striking, which is the only effective weapon of the union to enforce its demands, that the effectiveness of the union is seriously impaired. Tony Stafford is one of the many workers whose loyalty to his class brought down upon his head the heavy hand of capitalist “justice.” Every effort must be made to prevent his deportation to the fascist hell of Italy. He leaves a wife and little children in Pitts- burgh, Pa. The International Defense is fighting for him and for his dependents. It is up to every class conscious worker in America to step4n and help in this fight. We must battle the deportation menace every inch of the way. What Are the Causes of War? Barney Baruch, millionaire stock gambler and chairman of the war industries board during the world war, has contributed $250,000 to the international relations division of the John Hopkins University for the purpose of making an investigation of the causes of war. If Baruch instead of spending a quarter of a million dollars on purchasable professors and professional investigators, bought five cents worth of Communist literature he would learn the causes of all wars under the present order of society. The answer can be condensed into one word and that is: capitalism. The Herald-Examiner, the slimy Hearst sheet that fouls the morning air in Chicago, ventures to predict that the investigation will prove that while wars make some rich men richer it makes others poor and that rich men gladly make financial sacrifices for their country in times of war. No doubt the investigation will prove that very fact, but in proving that it proves nothing. Who should make financial sacrificse for the country except those who own it? An editorial writer in the Boston Globe, a bourgeois sheet, said GREEN UPHOLDS UNION $C ABS AGAINST A.C. ‘Fitzpatrick Supports Class Solidairty (Continued from Page 1) organizations or seceeding groups.” “In the Ruhr, thanks to the Dawes plan and with the aid of American | finance capital, the miners are work- jing 12 hours a day. The 8-hour day has been abolished. And the Interna- tional Workers’ Relief aided these un- employed and striking workers of the Ruhr. “The Irish famine left thousands starving. Jim Larkin, member of the executive committee of the Interna- tional Workers’ Relief, told me in Ire- land not long ago that that organ- ization was the only one which rallied to the aid of the starving Irish. That is the kind of an organization which you are condemning, an organization which is not composed entirely of Communists, but of millions of work- ers all over the world.” Speaking of the fact that the United Garment Workers are scabbing on the striking members of the Amalgamat- ed, Overgaard said: “This is an exam- ple of organized scabbery, of one or- ganization scabbing on another.” Overgaard showed how amalgama- tion in the trade unions is necessary to prevent such scabbery. He also urged the delegates to support the American Negro Labor Congress as a means of getting the Negroes and whites organized together. Delegate Shusster showed how the attacks of the federation officials had gone so far that they considered that good comes only from themselves, He declared that month after month the federation meetings are taken up with trivial matters and discussion of vital subjects is waved aside. Both left wing delegates received hearty ap- plause. Fitz Defends A. C. W. As Dual Union. “Green makes two errors in his let- ter,” said Fitzpatrick, “The Amal- gamated clothing workers is not a dual or seceeding organization.” Fitz- patrick then went into the history of the struggle to organize the clothing industry and declared that the United Garment workers “Hasn't taken part in the activities of this organization for the past fifteen years and has done nothing but prevent and hinder union organization.” He told how the United Garment Workers’ officials, headed by Tom Rickert, president of the United Gar- ment Workers and member of the ex- ecutive council of the A. F. of L., had driven the real workers out of the A. F, of L. and forced them to preserve their organization ws ene Amalga- mated. Green’s Second “Error.” “The second error of Green,” said Fitzpatrick, “is in advising us to keep out of wage disputes. We never tried to enter this wage dispute, but re- ferred it to Green for action. Green was wasting his time and wasting his paper in telling us thav.~ Andrew Overgaard, left wing dele- gate from the machinists’ union, made Workers’ Relief. Under the report of a stirring defense of the Ifternational that all modern wars “are gigantic industrial enterprises.” He made) in. executive board, it was brot out this observation after the armistice was signed. Others who said] that a letter had been sent to all the same thing during the war found themselves in jail with sentences | affiliated bodies, telling them that the ranging-from ten to twenty years hanging around their necks. All modern wars are caused by the conflicts between capitalist powers over the spoils of the earth. We do not expect the hired men of Barney Baruch’s dollars to bring out this fact, Like the so- cialist writer they the war in Chin They may discover that the late world war resulted from the poisons Irish Famine Relief “did not repre- sent the labor movement.” Overgaard Speaks f-> International Workers’ Relief. “This is an attack on an interna- may blame the fecundity of Chinese women for] tional organization that has aided the They may blame the Riffian war on lack of bibles.| Workers all over the world,” said Overgaard. “I passed thru Germany recently, and in the Ruhr, i found of syphilus in the Kaiser's system, which in turn poisoned his mind} g¢rixing miners being aided by the In- against his British relatives. but the truth. The Hearst rag believes that war is inevitable and that the first duty of the American people should be preparation for war. It They will most likely tell everything | ternational Workers’ Relief.” Ed Nockels made the remarkable statement that he didn’t blame Rick- ert for taking the stand against the Amalgamated. “If I had been in quotes General Pershing approvingly when that “blackshirt” said :] Rickert’s place. I would have done ex- “1 sincerely believe that complete preparation of this sort (for war) {actly the same thing,” Nockels said. would be the greatest possible safeguard against jingoism at home|“A8 soon as the Amalgamated is al- and aggression from abroad.” lowed to come in those fellows will lose their jobs and I would have done We also believe that war is inevitable under capitalism and|¢ne same thing. Self preservation is much tho we detest war, we believe that only a war of the producing} the first law of nature.” classes, the workers and farmers, against the parasites, will bring everlasting peace to the human race. So long asa small group is Wise Lines up With Rickert. Delegate Wise, the Gompersite Com- munist baiter, sided with Rickert and permitted to exploit and rob the many there will be wars at home] the United Garment ‘Workers’ ‘scab and abroad. There will bea constant war at home between the work-}naters, and bandied words with Nock- ers and their exploiters over the ' division of the product of the] els, who told him, “You're a wise guy, workers’ toil and the various capitalist powers will quarrel over ter- ritories to exploit and “ports to export prunes,” The victory of the workers of the world over their masters and the evtablishment of the rule of labor in all lands will end war and * outlaw poverty. The millions of Barney Baruch, John D. Rocke- feller and other philanthropic rogues will only breed an army of sychophantic parasites who will praise the system that fills their yellow bellies. Another “American” has been “shot” in Mexico. This will no doubt be made the ovcasion of more Coolidge-Kellogg notes against “the workers and farmers of the republic aeross the Rio Grande. The Prince of Wales is being urged in South Africa to join a movement to “save the eléphants.” No move is made to get him to fight for the protection of British workers, either at home or in the colonies. That would bev Bolshevism, feared thruout the whole of the British empire as well as the rest of the world. : ; Get a mombersfor the Workers Party and a new subscriptio Ra a DAILY WORKER bs oui bi % ~ Whe label selii but you don’t know it all yet.” “If you want to be hand maiden for an organization that never puts in an appearance here to defend itself, go ahead,” Fitzpatrick told Wise. “What the United Garment Work- ers is doing is scabbery and traiter- ism and not unionism,” Fitzpatrick said in his speech, and no honest un- ion man can stand up for them.” Nockles Gives Remarkable Views. “You haven’t done a thing Tom Rickert that I wouldn’t have done myself. You built up your organ- ing and E wouldn’t let anyone take rganizati away from me,” els seemed to be shielding Rickert and at the same time de- uncing the scabbery of his organ- tion. He admitted that they have > organization except in the shirt and overall trade.” jing, disrup- tactics of t Garment workers was fully” 5 . "It I pelonged atiathe,, Communinty mate causes to gritictze.” | r Me : i AS WE, SEE IT (Continuedxfrom, page 1) over departed rulers but because those methods always prove to be boomerangs. we HE workers should look with a sus- | picious eye on all articles about Russia or the working class move-! ment, appearing in the capitalist press. Even when the owners of those publications are willing to publish the truth, which is very rarely, their writ- ers are subject to temptations to color | the news.. In the Moroccan war for} instance, the French government pays | good money to the foreign correspond- ents covering the Riffian hositities. Correspondents working or capitalist) newspapers usually write what they) are paid to write, * Ho” many people ;notice that the} United States government is try-| ing to regain thevprestige in China which it lost to the Soviet govern- ment? There wasia time when the United States was looked upon as the “big brother” of the Chinese people. But that day is gone by. Soviet Rus- sia is the real and only friend of China today and the, Chinese people recognize that fact. While all the capitalist governments were devising 'new tricks to rob China the Soviet government turned around and treat- ed that country like an equal. The result is that the workers and peas- ants of that potentially mighty repub- lic of the Beast have faith in the Soviet government while they look with a jaundiced eye at all the move- ments and professions of friendship emanating from the capitalist powers. te 8 F the bible is the divine word of the christian god, it must all stay as it is written, If it cannot be ac- cepted in its entirity, it carries no more weight than a fairy tale. Some of the defenders of evolution claim that the bible and science can be reconciled. Yes, by leaving the super- natural out of it and placing it in the same category as the mythical tales of other countries. The chirstian will excuse his god for am atrocity imputed {to him by the bibl ¥ He will admit that fio Chicago gangster would escape the gallows for such crimes if committed today. But Jehovah had a reason. ‘ * Pe cic. AUTO BOSSES IN DETROIT HIDING THEIR PLUNDER Conceal Big Profits in Wage Cut Drive (GoutiAied tram page 1) definite demands to line up all workers in the Fisher Body Plants to the end that the de- mands of the workers shall be achieved. * Shock Troops. Owens told of the progress of the organization drive and pointed out that the first meeting was held be- fore plant 18 during the month of March, Since then the campaign has been broadened till now it includes practically all body plants in Detroit. “You are the shock troops in this struggle to retain your present liv- ing standards,” said Owens. “The man- ner in which you conduct the fight must have a decisive bearing on the wage slashing campaign the bosses are determined to put across. If General Motors can put it over against the workers in plant 18 it is merely a question of time until the same vicious cuts will be instituted in the other plant# they control. Organization offers the only effective means of re- sistance.” 5 How About That $45,000,000 Profit? Brother Collins, chairman of the strike committee, gave a report of the conference with the Fisher broth- ers. He told how the management continually sought to evade the real issue of the wage cuts by pleading peverty and that unless the cuts were allowed to stand the company would have to go out of business. The man- agement was conveniently silent about the $45,000,000 mellon that General Motors had cut for their stockholders last year. They propose to increase dividends at the expense of the work- ers’ living standards. “They cannot get away with it,” said Collins, “if we put up an organized resitance.” Brother Logan told of the history of past struggles with the auto manu- WHEN he told his ‘favorite children of Israel, fighting, the Caenanites to kill all the male prisoners and the old women and to keep the virgins as compensation for the risks they ran in serving him, Jehoyah’s aim was to add to the low popula’ fon of the world, {the true christian will say in defense of such indelicate conduct. Even the kaiser would not dare issue such or- ders to his troops in “poor little Bel- gium,” tho all the gods in the uni- verse, with the exception of a few anti-British gods, wefe against him. Religion and scien @ have always been at war. They Cannot be recon- ciled. z e: se pT Sead is carryiig on dredging operations off the Esthonian coast according to news dispatches from Moscow. It is reported that Esthonia has granted a lease of two islands to the British, Those islands will be used as a naval base ft r British opera- tions against Leningrad. Of course, “there is many a slip between the cup and the lip” and the pea laid plans of the imperialist robk “aft gang [aatee” nowadays. p * etme UPREME KNIGHT FLAHERTY of the Knights of Columbus was sig- nally honorered by the pope recently. The honor did not cost his holiness much, it is true, but it means a good deal to Flaherty. The pope gave the supreme knight a medal, given only to bishops, be¢ause Flaherty was the bishop of the K. of C. The reason is that Flaherty is at the head of a powerful religious organization, which rivals the Masonic order is the United States. As the chief executive of this order he wields great_power and the Vatican coffers will’ benefit by any honor which may add to the material and moral prestige, of the supreme knight. It is a neat’ stroke of busi- ness, x rs Poland Means Prison. EL PASO, Texas-—International La- bor Defense has retained Attorney Ed- “ward Tittmann to defend John Za- gorski, Russian citizen who has been ordered deported ‘to Poland. Tittmann will ask for a writ) of habeas corpus before a federal judge at San Antonio to give counsel time to establish Za- gorski’s original citizenship and set forth the facts of his probable im- prisonment if turned over to the pre- sent reactionary Pglish government, ee Nonstop Flight #6 Frisco Today Six P. W. No. 8 army pursuit planes are scheduled to leave Selfridge field, Michigan, this morning at 6 a. m. to arrive in Chicago where a nonstop flight over air mail route between Chicago and San Francisco will be made today. i Another new | Sub—Makes an- other Communist, Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER. group I would do-fome tall speaking today,” said delegate Flory. “I would have a legitimate right to do so, I|ning-like clearness, the Monroe’ would want to all day. We are|trine, the Doctrine, and the just giving the | unists mater-| Dawes pl “three stages of the jal, we are feeding them with legiti- | imperialist lopment of America,” yand also stances which, on facturers in Detroit, and the need of drawing on the experience of past vic- tories and defeats for the proper con- duct of, the present controversy. He offered a number of concrete sugges- tions which the strike committee will utilize. Build Local 127. The meeting adjourned with the men in splendid spirit and they left; the hall with ‘the determination of building up Local 127 so that it will be an effective weapon in the arsenal of the auto workers of Detroit. This is the leading center of the auto industry thruout the world. Millions of dollars are invested in buildings and equipment. Upwards to 300,000 auto workers are employed here, all of which places the auto workers in an extremely strategic Position. Properly organized they can compel almost any demand they see fit to present. The spirit of Friday’s meeting in- dicates that Local No. 127 will soon occupy its proper place in the world of labor and will become the most powerful union in Detroit. Garment Workers Pack New York Park to Show World Left Wing Power (Continued from page 1) the Sigma referendum the swindle it is, protested the expulsion from of- fice of the officials of the three great locals and certified that the garment workers of New York look upon the Joint Committee of Action of Locals 2, 9 and 22 as the only body repre- senting them in the New York mar- ket. . Monin Doe | H ML UO 2 UL “WHY AMERICA WANTS TO CONQUER EUROPE.” By EUGENE PAUL, (Jay Lovestone: “Why America Wants to Conquer Burope,” published in German by Carl Hoym Nachf.) HIS pamphlet, made exceedingly comprehensive by its short para- graphs, deals with the most import- ant and most,/fundamental of all pres- ent international’ questions,—the ques- tion of peaceful conquest of Europe by the United States of America, - The author points out that the ag- gressive policies of the Yankee, since the end of the war, have reached their climax in the Dawes plan. This is not an improvization, but the cl expression of systematic man- euvers of the best heads of the ruling class of America; the results of the development of American imperialism itself, which proceeds on a very 4 tinct road, and toward very di c goal, i; Ft He pictures, in~a> general out the progress “from Pershing) to Dawes” and illuminated, with Fees RT arava enn ETL MEN Supe R em mm a et eR A. C. W. FACES INJUNCTION FROM JUDGE VIOLENTLY OPPOSED TO VIOLENCE; (Continued from. Page 1) are seen sticking out their tongues at DEMURRER IS FILED PMC Sk SEND ol SS DIE! hs ands of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, and not one of whom a scab, or holding their noses (their| "@8 deserted the picket line during own) or spitting on the sidewalk,— then they lay them$elves open to an injunction. A picket-line, according to the Springel bill, is to be sort of a Lov- ers’ Lane affair, with the strikers $8.00 weekly, strolling along, two by two, with each couple paying no attention to any one else but to each other refpectively, and with no gide-glances at strangers allowed. However, no benches’ are provided in’ this innocent strofling. A gray- haired picket, who has Been in every union fight since the Amalgamated was formed and who ‘prides herself that she is on the line every day alongside the younger workers, was poked in the ribs by a policeman’s club and Saturday and told to “move on” when she was caught resting on a box in a hidden corner. This Violence Never Unlawful. She is only one of a hundred of gray-haired, toil-worn women who doggedly pace round the. block, hour in and hour out, every day in the week, while the policemen lean against the building or set in their cars when they gét tired of jailing workers. What particular form of “force and violence” the strikers will be accused of, is, of course, known only to th; company gunmen; but it is expected that this legal trap will be set for the striking defendants. The com- pany sieuths have nothing to do but to manufacture false evidence and to escort the scabs home at night. As there are usually no more than two or three scabs, this means that most of their time is spent hatching deviltry. Besides their own dicks, the com- pany has at its disposal the regular services of two city detectives besides a police sergeant and as many cops as the sergeant wants to haul out, the number ranging from™~25 to 100, daily and nightly: It is rumoured that this is the sergeant’s last year of active duty before being retired on a $1,300 year- ly*pension. Fear lést he fail to please the powers that grant pensions keeps this fat politician on the jump order ing his men to make arrests. On Sa- turday, it is reported that six arrests were made of workers not on the picket line, but employed by a neigh- boring firm. They were unceremoni- ously pounced upon and hauled into the wagon because they happened to be in the crowd attracted by the ar. Test of three of the pickets Cops Oughta’s Strike, Too! The rank and file police, however. have no such, cause for making a showing as has the time brutalized sergéant for their possible pension is many years off; and they get no more pay for gaping at the picket line thar for gaping somewhere else. In fact most of them get considerably less as the entire three weeks of the strike. Strike Benefits Due Strike benefits will begin to be paid this Monday, according to the announ- cement of Manager Levin of the joint board. Single workers will receive while those married or widowed will get $12.00. Besides fighting the entire Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, the bosses are faced with a struggle with the A. F, of L., following the re- commendation of the executive board of the Chicago Federation of Labor to President Green that the United Gorment Workers be condemned for their part as a “scab” union and that their be an investigation of their measure of the A. F. of L.’s name in trying to break the strike. ‘Bhe Trade Union Educational Lea- gue in local unions is leading the fight in the central labor council against the scabbing “labor” organiza- tion, ‘WILLIMANTIC STRIKERS IN GOOD SPIRITS Scorn Evictions and Strikebreakers WILLIMANTIC, Conn., July 19 Two deputy sheriffs and six assist- ants are forcibly evicting those of the 35 thread mill strikérs’ families that have not yet abandoned the stuffy little company houses. Court judgement has been given against only 35 out of the 2,500 American Thread Mill strikers. The United Textile Workers Union has set up a colony of 18 large tents and a community kitchen for evicted ikers just beyond town limits on the grassy field above a stream. Children of the strikers, those over 14 relieved temporarily from mill work, enjoy swimming and paddling in the stream these warm summer days. Company tenements are mostly one and a half story colonial houses, five small rooms to a family, two families to a house. Each room has only one window. About 180 houses, some lar- . ger and more congested, are owned by the thread mill and rented to work- ers. When two families with five or more children each occupy almost every house, there is real crowding. Some striké breakers are housed in one of the houses at present and they are often forced to work as many | are taken to and from the huge mill as two and three hours over-time, with overtime pay. It 1s a common illusion among the strikers that the police are paid for by the boss. Many. think that the boss is forced to pay the city $10.00 daily, at least, for patrol service. Such is emphatically not the case, the cops report, saying that their duty, as Policemen, consists in “protecting private property” and that when any boss calls up over the phone and says that his property is in danger, then the squad must turn out and must stay on the job as long as there is the “danger.” “So the city provides the tailoring company with 50 or 100 police, it matters not how many, for as long as the strike lasts, and throws in a con- ple of detectives, to boot, to help out the company thugs when they are hard up for “frame-ups.” But the united front of boss, police and injunction judges looks pretty sick when compared Ao the united front of the eight hundred clothing workers, backed by hundreds of thous- poy Sener H the one hand, forced the American capitalists, and on the other hand, made it* possible for them to grad- ually make out of Burope and Ameri- ean colony. How the dollar has flood- ed Europe, aod has subjugated Eu- rope, is described in a.gripping man- ner. Lovestone then investigates the ef- fects of this peaceful war for con- ‘quest of American capital upon the position and development of the American working class, and proves that the Dawes plan, “this most mon- strous enslavement plan which has ever been conceived” means not only the lowering of wages, unemployment, and thus increased misery for the German people, and the other peoples of Burope but also for the American Proletariat. Politically the Dawes plan must result in driving together the social traitors of the labor aristoc- racy, and imperialism must thus forge the slave chains stronger and more formidably. But this triumphant, march of the]. American dollar must Also be fatal to world peace. “The capitalist invest- ments of the Yankee groups are the seed of a new war’—states Lovestone very correctly, Far from lessening or reconciling the imperialist antagon- , they are sharpened and thus the in a light truck, guarded by stato police. Company agent Don H. Curtis claims that 700 persons are, working. Actually there are not 70 strike break- ers in the whole mill and these are out of town girls and boys for the most part. ‘ Deportations Dropped. Deportation warrants issued against Industrial Workers of the World members, William Horan, Herber: Mahler, Pietro Nigra and Joseph Oates by the department of labor have finally been cancelled. The United States supreme court had ‘previously declared the deportations illegal but had given the department the privilege of holding the men to perfect a case against them. ‘rhe de- partment continued to press the case and a presidential pardon was se- cured. This too was ignored and the defendants called into court to sur- render, The judge In the case de- cided against the department of la- bor. f coming of the new war is inevitable. Besides this, the class struggles in the Dawesified states of Europe are becoming more sharp, and gradually even the insistence of the capitalists in these countries against the receiv ership and against the unlimited dic tatorship of America will develop, Finally, the author draws a ‘light- ning picture of the relationship of American capital in Burope to France, to Germany, to England, and to So- viet Russia, and consequently to the conclusion that only the united revo- lutionary struggle of the proletariat of all countries will succeed in avert- ing the dangers of American imper- jalism, advancing under the guise of the Dawes plan, Jay Lovestone succeeds extremely well in making up the essentials of such a far reaching theme as the one dealt with, and in making it clear without léng winded. explanations, — It is too bad that this little work has, comparatively speaking, many typographical errors. Such, as for in- stance, on page 54, where the tifle reads “America and Russia” instead of “America and England” should nog have been tolerated by any means, * * i