The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1925, Page 1

AMI PUPHLE ‘THE DAILY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government In Chicage, by m Outside Chicago, Vol. II. No. 163. “hscription Rates: &g . i! Se Se wy ” tg. Se FINK'S SHOT a 10 GET WRIT AGAINST A.C.W. STRIKERS; START FOURTH WEEK WITH BENEFITS The striking members of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers’ Union, employes of the International Tailoring Company, found when they arrived on the picket line yesterday, that a revolver shot had been fired thru a plate glass window of the company’s building, thus fulfilling the prediction of the DAILY WORKER that provocative methods would be used as a last desperate effort to hurry thru ah injunction against the pickets. The Amalgamated members began the fourth week of their strike with mass picketing, and only a handful of professional scabs, amply protected by police, slipped imside the plant. The union paid strike benefits yesterday, $12 to the married strikers —* and $8 to single workers. Despite the fact that the plate glass window on the Peoria St. side of the AS WE SEE IT. By T. J. O}FLAHERTY ‘HE Union Labor Journal of Bakers- field, California, devotes a long editorial in a recent issue to an at- tack on the radicals in the ranks of the oil workers. The fake sheet pur- ports to be a representative organ of the oil workers. Like most of its type which peddles class collaboration in return for the crumbs which fall from the employers’ table.: In order to in- sure the steady dropping of those crumbs, the fake labor sheets carry on a continuous campaign of slander against the radicals, thus earning the contempt of honest workers as well as the shekels of the capitalists. * 8 8 INETY times out of a hundred, these self-styled nuggets of 100 per cent Americansm are” stoolpige- ons, employed by the capitalists ot prevent the militants from organizing the workers. In several cities thruout this country, it has been proven time and time again that these rats work themselves into positions of influence in order to sap the foundations from underneath the movement and rob it of its, backbone—the radical element. Akron, Ohio and Pittsburgh, Pa. are two examples, but many more could be given. oe E slimy creature who edits the Union Labor Journal makes it quite clear that he is not out to or- ganize the oil workers. He upbraids the capitalists of California for not ar- resting 3,000 I. W._W.’s in the oil dis- trict of Taft under the criminal syndi- calism laws who were carrying on propaganda there for industrial union- ism. He says: “It is a lamentable fact that following the strike, the wobblies not only entered the west side fields in great strength but open- ly held their meetings in a rented hall in Taft. They circulated their literature in Taft and with rubber stamps advertised their place and hour of meetings.” * * . F the brutal capitalists of California do not throw a few more thousand radicals into their already crowded jails, it will not-be the fault of the editor of the Union Labor News. Those leeches, who suck the blood out of the workers, in return for serving as a ball and chain on their limbs, know that the radicals will ultimately drive them out of the labor movement, which they now pollute with their presence. In order to hold on to the flesh pots as long as pos- sible they make an alliance with the capitalists and act as felon setters against honest and militant workers. Linke SO O news items in which the ku Klux klan figures have been for- warded by somebody who is on the (Continued on page 4.) To Cut Mussolini’s Liver. \ LONDON, England, July 20.—Prem- Yer Mussolini is about to be operated on at Rome for an affection of the liver, it is learned here,~~ SPEAKER: WM. Z. FOSTER, Chairman ist Panty MAX SHACHTMAN, Editor Congress CIRILO MANAT, Filipino Independence League H. V. PHILIPS, Organizer American serch Labor . T. CHI, Chinese Student ‘Alliance. AND OTHERS. company’s building was damaged by the revolver shot—which significantly enough was fired from the inside—the injunction procedings were again post- poned, this time until this morning, when a new judge, Hugo Pam, will hear the injunction bill. Foell Runs Away. Judge Foell, faced with the in- .sistent demand of the employers for an injunction to restrain the clothing workers from picketing, and the fact that the issuance of such an injune- tion is illegal, slipped out of the dilem- ma by announcing he is going on his vacation. Judge Foell passed the buck to iJudge Pam, who is a Zionist and is expected to favor the clothing bosses, who are also Zionists. Foell learned the vacation trick from Judge Sul- livan, who last year sentenced scores of striking members of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. to large fines and jail sen- tences. Sullivan, im the face of hostile evfieism.of the,ent?re labor move- ment, passed the cases on to Judge Roel. and-went out of town to recuper- ate. Rules Bill¢improper, Before leaving, Judge Foell. -was’ forced to make a téchnical ruling for the strikers. William A. Cunnea, theif lawyer, had objected to the bill for an injunction, on the ground that it was made by two separate corpora- tions. Cunnea pointed out that it is against the law for two companies to apply for an injunction in the ‘sanié bill. Foell upheld Cunnea, and the gangsters of the company immediately went on a hunt for new “violence” evidence to put in the new bills: The J. L. Taylor company, * the second corporation whose employes are on strike, is owned by the same! (Continued .on page 6) POLICE BREAK UP ‘HANDS OFF CHINA’ MEETING Shanghai or New York All the Same (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, July’ 20 — The meeting called by the Workers (Gom- munist) Party Friday evening at Union Square to protest against the violence and suppression of China was attended early by thousands of ‘work- ers coming directly from the ‘shops and factories from different parts of the city. The meeting was opened by Comrade Charles Krumbein who briefly introduced the subject of the gathering and then gave the platform to the first speaker of the méeting, Joseph Manley. The speaker touched upon the in- ternational significance of the events in China, the exploitation of the Chin- ese people and its meaning for the (Continued on page 4) S: Workers (Commun- Soviet Russia! Young Worker SE = rae Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at oe Post Office at Chicago, Ulinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, ail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. Fisher Body Plant 18 WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1925 E> 290 Strike Ties Up Works By AL GOETZ. (Special to The Dally Worker) so far have not been affected by the wai (Continued on page 2) ALEX REID TO PAN FARRINGTON IN SHORT SERIES OF ARTICLES The attacks of Frank Farrington upon the progressive miners of the Ilinois district, is stirring up a counter action Im @ revolt of the rank and file miners against faker Frank’s autocratic rule. His latest charges against Joe Tumulty of Springfield, with side swipes at Freeman Thompson, John Watt and Tom Parry, has drawn the fire of Alex Reid, secretary of the Pro- gressive Miners’ Committee, who will begin.in tomorrow's DAILY WORKER, ‘| terics of the leaders of the Better and the traitor all know him to be. for Reid's first article. a short series of articles exposing Farrington for the treasury bleeder he is Watch tomorrow's DAILY WORKER PANIC SEIZES RED BATTERS’ SACRED OFFICE ‘Better Americans’ Are Getting Worse By FRAPIESA. (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, July 20. — The week end for the Better America Fed- eration was an exclamation point. From its Los Angeles headquarters the organization (employers’ union) fet out a-shriek of despair, the most piercing sent forth in this year of slump. Literature issued by the ku klux kKlan’s holy office might lead some reds to come forth and take charge of the United States. The literary wails sound like unconditional surrender of the country to Communism. Shrill Lament is Hollow. But let none be decived. The hys- America Federation aré purely theat- rical. They are resorted to for the purpose of getting funds. All that should interest reds in this is the fact that the B. A. F. needs money. That is good news for them. Los Angeles during the past year had a building slump, followed by a business slump and now it has an earthquake, business and building slump combined. That hurts the B. | A. F. What is worse, the chief of police refuses to frame-up I. W. W.’s. So, the wrought-up grief over the! country going to the Reds. B. A. F, Runners Scared, Offices of the rich men’s K. K. K. are at 724 South Spring street. They (Continued on Page 5) SAN FRANCISCO COOKS AND WAITERS RESPOND - TO CHINESE STRIKERS (Special to The Dally Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 20.— The real stuff in the line of interna- tional ¢ solidarity is shown by the Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union, Local 30, of San Francisco, which has donated $25 to the relief and aid of the Chinese work: riking at Shanghai against imperialist ex- ploitation. DARROW APOLOGIZES OF JUDGE'S E OF CONTEMPT CLARENCE DARROW HYMAN CALLS FOR ACTION ON BETRAYAL Left Wing Establishes Its Leadership By JOSEPH MANLEY NEW YORK, N. Y., July 18—(By Mail)—At . Madison Square in the shadow of the Metropolitan Tower, the second great mass demonstration of 25,000 cloak makers took place today. All along the East side of the park a mighty number of cloak makers listened to speakers from three separ- ate platforms soattered at Intervals truout the greatocrowa. ~ This demonstration was arranged with but one short day’s notice, the handbills announcing it only being dis- tributed on Friday. Following on the heels of the great gathering at the Yankee Stadium last week, it is a fit- ting answer to Sigman and the hand- ful of dupes he has left. It finally (Continued on page 2) DETROIT, Mich., July 20.—The strike at the Fisher Body Plant 18 is now in full blast. The departments that have come out since the strike began, have struck to a man. every one with ‘the exception of some of the cushion makers and the men in the wood mill who} This morning CONTEMPT WRIT AGAINST DARROW IS WITHDRAWN Raulston Says He Acts “Even as Christ” (Special to The Daily Worker) DAYTON, Tenn., July 20.— Judge John Raulston, declaring he acted “even as Christ,” forgave Clarence Darrow for his “insulting” remarks, and withdrew the citation for con- tempt of court, which he had earlier placed against the Chicago lawyer, or- dering him to appear Tuesday morn- ing under $5,000.00 bond. Raulston Poses as Christ. Darrow told the court that he re- gretted his words from the moment that he read them in the stenographic record. The judge replied to Darrow by say- i ing he would ftotgive even ag Christ |, forgave his ‘critics. The great crowd, jamming every inch of space, burst in- to applause, first at Darrow’s re- marks and then at the judge’s, reply. The incident was ended when Dar- row and Raulston shook haatin in open court. Court House Cracks. Because of the great crowd, Judge Raulston then adjourned his court to the court house yard, where a speak- ing stand and benches were erected at the opening of the trial for a series of open air prayer meetings. Before taking this extraordinary action, the court announced that the tremendous crowds in the courtroom had cracked the first floor ceiling, causing the building to become unsafe. The contempt decision was based on a colloquoy held with the court by Darrow during Friday's session. In the exchange of remarks, Raulston said Darrow had ‘treated him with “con- tempt and insult.” The court held Darrow in $5,000 bond for appearance at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. After the judge read the citation, Darrow arose solemnly thumbing his (Continued on page 6.) DARROW CALLS BRYAN AS WITNESS IN APE TRIAL; BRYAN TO CALL DARROW (Special to The Daily Worker.) DAYTON, Tenn. July 20—The Scopes anti-evolution trial took a sensational turn this afternoon, when William Jennings Bryan, out- standing fundamentalist, was called as a witness for the defense of John Thomas Scopes. This maneuver was taken by Clarence Darrow to prove that the bible was not believed literally even by the best known fundamentalist American. Before he took the witness chair, Bryan obtained permission from the court to put Darrow and Dudley Field Malone on the stand, too. The Commoner took the stand with a declaration that he was ready to defend the bible against every attack of science. tn Down with the War Plans of American Militarism! Young Workers! Don’t Enter the Citizen’s Military Training Camps! Release Crouch and Trumbull! Hands Off China! Stand Independence for All Subject People! PROTEST MEETING TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1925 PUBLISHING CO., + 8 P.M, 1118 W. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ml. ON AUTO WAGE CUTS GROWS NEW YORK i Price 3 Cents PROOF OF EVOLUTION IS WRITTEN INTO SCOPES TRIAL RECORDS BY SCIENTISTS; CASE NEARING END {Special to The Daily Worker) DAYTON, Tenn., July 20.—In one of the most amazing legai ‘gutting campaign of the bosses, were outside the| documents of history, eight professors bared the heart of science shop and no work was being done, with the exception of the departments mentioned above. | here today in a tremendous effort to prove evolution, altho they The men who were hired early in the week to fill the places of the strikers have left the! tried to reconcile it with divine creation. shop, as they, too, found it impossible to earn enough at the reduced rate. The document was a Committees have} series of affidavits written into the record of the Scopes trial. | The men of science, all voluntary defenders of John Thomas | Scopes, produced one of the most comprehensive It carried a mass attack upon the | tion ever conceived. cases for evolu- funda- mentalists of religion and their literal interpretation of the bible | The apostles of learning desc: ribed the bible as a human, historical |document passed down the ages by tradition as a text book for — Placed In Records The scientific data totalling about 65,000 words and based on the experi- ments of hundreds of experts, was placed in the trials record by affida- vits because presiding Judge John T. Raulston refused to let the scientists testify in open court. As a result the defense will use the record of their revelations in appealing the antici- pated conviction of Scopes to higher courts. Every branch of science entered the arena for Scopes, There were Dr. Winterton C.. Curtis, zoologist of the University of Missouri; Prof. Horatic H. Newman, zoologist, of the Univer- sity of Chicago; Dr. Maynard M. Met- calf, research biologist of John Hop- kins University; Wilbur A. Nelson, state geologist of Tennessee; Dr. Fay Cooper Cole, anthropologist, Universi- ty of Chicago; Dr. Charles H. Judd educational director, University of Chicago; Dr. Jacob G. Lipman, dean of agriculture, New Jersey state Uni- versity and Dr. Kirtley F.»@@ather, rofessor of geology at Seer Uni- versity. “First Law of Life” The scientists defended evolution as the “first law of life.” to eliminate ii from the curriculums of schools, col leges and universities would bring chaos to education, they said, a di- (Continued on page 2) FLECT REDS TO NATIONAL MEET OF PAINTERS Mpls. Left Wingers Al- so Sent to S. F. of L. (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, July 19—At the regular meeting of Painters’ Local No, 186, two delegates were elected to the national convention of the Broth- erhood of Painters, Decorators and Pa- perhangers of America, which will be held at Montreal, Canada, beginning Sept. 7. The two elected are: Dan W. Stevens and W. S. McCullum, both left wingers; strong fighters for the working class. They were elected by decisive votes. ‘ Also five delegates were elected to attend the Minnesota State Federa- tion of Labor convention, to be held at Austin starting Sept. 21. Those elected. are as follows: H. EB. Sig- man, BE. F. Smalien, C, B. J. Erick- son and Harvey Standahl. All these delegates are also left wingers. of sentence, anarchy law, by — GITLOW GETS MORE TIME. NEW YORK.—Benjamin Gitlow was slated to go back to Sing on the sixteenth of this month, but his lawyers obtained a sta: He had been remanded to prison by a decision of the United States supreme court upholding the New York criminal NORTHWEST HALL North and Western Avenues Auspices, Workers (Communist) Party and Young Workers League, Local Chicago. Admission Free FEDERATION OF LABOR SCORES STRIKEBREAKING Nockels Condones Tom Rickert’s Scabbery Despite an attempt on the part of Mr. Joseph Wise, cub reporter for a publicity service gotten out by Wil- liam Green, to defend the scabtery of the United Garment Workers in the strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers against the International Tailoring company and the J. L. Tailor company, the delegates to last Sun- day's ‘meeting of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor went on record strongly protesting against the action of the U. GW, ‘This action Was taken jia- opposition to the command of WiMjam Green, president of the American Federation xt Labor, that the’ local body should teeps its hands off the situation. During the discussion some intérest- ing speeches were made but none ex- cited more inter than the effort of Edward Nockels, secretary of the Fe- deration. Nockels, made the astound. ing statement that he did not blame the United Garment Workers for their scabbery, that he did not blame Tom Rickert, president of the U. G. W. for what he had done, that he would do the same thing himself, that self preservation was the first law of nature and if he saw another organization coming in to capture something he built up, he would hold on to his or- ganization at all costs. Nockels talked rather incoherently, almost as stupidly as when he-was slamming the Communists. It was quite evident that Nockels considers the unions the personal property of the officials and not organizations of the rank and file. Why he signed a report protesting t the scab- bery of the U. M. G, was not clear, as he proved conclusively that he con- doned the scabbery. Perhaps as Grape Nuts would say “there is a reason.” Took Siam at Green On the other hand Fitzpatrick made quite a militant speech against the United Garment Workers and for the Amalgamated. Referring to that part of William Green’s letter which brand- ed the Amalg: ted Clothing Work- ers as a seceding organization, Fitz- patrick said: the president of the A. F. of L. was wasting his time. Altogether his speech on this particular question was good, and reminded one of the kind of speeches Fitzpatrick used to make before he vomited up his pro- (Continued on page 6.)