The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1925, Page 2

FISHER BODY SSTRIKE TIES UP THE WORKS: Workers in Detroit Are| Solid Against Cuts (Continued from page 1) now been elected for every de-| partment and are effectively functioning together. The com- iittees are receiving the enthu- siastic and united support of the strikers. Superintendent Barefoot told the men that he would never go after them again. “From now on you got to come to us” he told them. About 8:30 the next morning he was out again look- ing for the committee. “The Fisher boys are coming down to speak to you fellows,” he told the committee, “and you want to have good boys on the committee to see him or else you'll get nothing. Don't put any radicals or smart guys on the committee and don’t try and get smart or sassy becatiwe you can’t get away with it, with the Fisher boys.” Barefoot Hotfoots it in Reverse. Barefoot repeated that over and over again. His anfiety lest the strik- ers injure their cause by any indis- creet statement to the “Fisher boys” left the men cold. It must be that these “Fisher boys” are not used to talking to workingmen who have the gumption to talk back and who have their own opinions on matters per- taining to their conditions and wages. Barefoot proceeded to advise the committee how to organize them- selves. He told them to get three trimmers, three sanders, three spray- ers and three metal panelers. “How about the spot polishers?” the com- mittee demanded. “Aw, to hell with the spot polishers,” said Barefoot. “We can break in all the spot polish- ers we want in a couple of hours.” If this was an attempt to break the solidarity of the strikers it fell flat. A committee was promptly formed to go and wait upon the “Fisher boys” and they had a long wait. After be- ing kept waiting for more than two hours they were finally admitted to the august presence of the “Fisher boys” and a few of the other com- pany officials. Try Soft Soaping Leaders. The members of the committee and especially the leaders were patted on the back bythe bosses and told what @ fine level-headed lot they were, but when this failed of its obvious pur- pose the management cut the non- sense and got down to business. They confronted the committee first with a lot of figures about average pay. According to the management the average pay of all men in the plant was 93 cents per hour and they even had the gall to tell the commit- tee that the average for the higher priced men was $1.07. However, these figures were so obviously false and ridiculous that the committee had no difficulty in refuting them. It was clearly a case of figures don’t lie, but liars will figure. “Nothing Doing.” The committee then proceeded to lay the demands of the men before the officials and after a lot of silly arguments, as well as continuous in- terruptions from the company officials whenever the committee tried to argue their case, they were finally told “that the men could come back and try it all over again at the reduced wage rates.” In short, there was noth- ing doing. While the committee was in con- ference, the men were out on a sand- Jot being addressed by a number of speakers from the Auto Workers’ Union, among whom was William { Logan, genéral president of the union. | When the speakers got thru the com- | mittee returned and reported that } there was nothing doing except at the conditions stated above and recom- mended that the strike be continued until the demands were granted and the wage cuts removed. The strikers voted unanimously for this recom- mendation with great enthusiasm. War to the Knife. 4 The strike is now assuming broader proportions. It is no longer a depart- / ‘mental strike and the men who are determined that all the rest including the cushion makers and mill hands come out also and make the strike 100 per cent at plant 18. The com- mittee is on the job and will see to | it that the men at the other Fisher j plants will refuse to do any work from i plant 18, Painters of Frisco Like Communist Talk By NORMAN BURSLEV. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 20. — Tom Lewis, district organizer of the Workers Party, spoke recently before Painters’ Union, Local No, 19, on “Or- ganization.” Comrade Lewis pointed out the need for a more cohesive or- are directing their attack against the city. Imperialist France Trying to Stave Of Disaster in Africa HIS week Imperialist France faces he empire located In North Africa, where the Riff tribesmen are besleging the ancient city of Fez. This is evidenced by the rushing of the master killer, Marshal Petain (left), who was.on the French side of the slaughter at Verdun, to Morocco by plane. ‘The regiments most loyal to French capitalism, some of them being withdrawn from the Ruhr, abe being rushed to the battle zone. The map indicates th location of Fez. ~ greatest crisis in that part of the The arrow shows how the natives Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Riffs, Is seen at right. (Continued from page 1) saster to the nation and human pro- gress to a standstill. One denounced teachers who omitted it as committing criminal malpractice. Another charged the biblical literatists were “insult- ing god.” All were agreed that a dozen educational courses taught without it. Life Changes Thru Time Back in the dim dark ages of the past, long before the first dawn of ci- vilization they said, a pre-historic being dwelled, whose offspring evolved thru millions of years into men, ani- mals, birds and fish. They knew not the secret of life; they only knew how life had changed thru time. Man, mon- key, whale and reptile, they asserted, had a common ancestor. Give Lie To Bible In their defense of evolution, the men of science laughed at the claim of the bible literalists that the world be- gan on Oct. 23, 4004 B, C.-on the con- trary they said, the world was formed 1,000,000,000 years ago at least, with life upon the earth’s surface from 50,- 000,000 to 500,000,000 years old. The earth once was molten, they added, and before that probably gaseous. The sun above us, they continued, once had an earlier system of planets, destroyed millions of years ago by an upheaval amid the stars, but later to develop the existing planetary system. To prove the earth’s age, tne scien- tists pointed to potash deposits in Eu- rope as 20,000,000 years old; to the upheaval of the Rocky Mountains as 20,000,000 years ago; sto Green Sand formation in New Jersey as 10,000,000 years old and to phosphate deposits in Tennessee at 50,000,000 years old. It took a million years, they said, for water to corrodo the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and the same time for the mouth of the Mississippi river to move south from Cwrro, dll, to. New Orleans. Earth Millions of Years Why, they added, it took four thous- and years merely for the great conti- nental glacier to melt after it once covered new England from Hartford, Conn., to St. Johnsburg, Vermont. The present human race, said scien- ce, instead of being born in 4004 B. G., has lived on the earth for 25,000 years. Before that, extinct tribes of men haye been tracked back 100,000 years by fossils. and before that the ancestor of man, ape, whale and python. Man Descended From Animals The man of today, they said, is a walking museum of antiquities, which prove his prehistoric relationships, He has 180 vetigial (obsolete) structures in his body, all organisms now used by animals, birds or fish. Man now has an atrophied tail while the human embryo has a free taft wefore birth. Blood tests show that man’s blood today is closely akin to that of the ape, they added, while some whales have atrophied vestigial limb bones in the pelvin region, which indicate this mammoth fish once walked. And even the snake, the Python; has’ small but clearly defined hind iimbs, hidden beneath its skin, So te kinship*shows could not be ganization and the necessity for a| today. Political party to represent their in- “He didn’t speak long enough, got to have that fellow again.” DI ce cicecnaince mmm ity Once the scientists said man was terests. The men were enthused by| the head of the genological tree but his talk, After ho finished, they sald: | now they give this distinction to the my Present the Case-for Evolution | We've! whale as showing the greatest organic |and in many special details, man and development while mumans roots half} the anthropoid apes are similar. common sense alike inquire regard- ing, the, nature and sources of the special ereation, as found in Genesis. Science faces the matter squarely, desiring only the right to investigate and draw unprejudiced conctusions. Th hee of such investigations are not ‘in doubt. It appeary that the Taéés’ About the Eastern Mediterrane- an, ike other primitive peoples, had theff ptraditions of the origin of the world: oThe tory in Genesis apparently des- cen@ed jto the early Hebrews and to their neighbors in Mesopotamia from a source far antedating the appear- ance of the Jews as a people and their sacred writings. Archeology and ethnology most reasonably indi- cate that in its origin this Hebrew- Babylonian tradition may be compar- ed with the stories of many other primitive peoples. “We take the story in Genesis seri- ously as an account of pre-historical facts. It has been woven into the thot of Western culture for almost two thousand years and has intrinsic literary qualities. “But the past history of events, whether of human or animal origins, is subject matter for scientific inquiry and the answer of science is evolu- tion. It is not that men came from monkeys, but that, men, monkeys and apes all came from a common mam- malian ancestry millions of years in the past.” As for man’s similarity to the ani- mal kingdom, Curtis said: flipper of a whale, the wing of a bird, the forefoot of a horse and the arm of a man, all show the same plan of structure. The biological explanation of this anatomical resemblance is that the present vertebrates (fishes, reptiles, birds and mammals) have all descended from ‘a primite race. All vertebrates are now alike because they have never lost the underlying plan of structure inherited from their common ancestor.” Delving into the antiquity of the world and man, and the latter’s rela- tion to the apes, Professor Newman, one of the nation’s greatest zoologists, said: “The earliest fossil evidence of the existence of our own species date back to about 25,000 years ago. At that time there lived a remarkable race, known to us as cromagnon: race said to be the most perfect phys- ically of which we have any knowt- edge. Five essentially complete skeletons form the basis of the type description. Resemblance of Man and Ape. This tall, strong, obviously intelli- gent, and artistic race, was different in several important particutars from any modern race. A detailed descrip- tion of his characteristics would take us too far afield. Our chief interest in this race is that it serves to em- phasize the antiquity of our own spe- cies. “Anatomically, the genus homo bears a striking resemblance to the anthropoid apes. Bone for bone, muscle for muscle, nerve for nerve r4 way down. it.was Curtis, zoologist at Missouri University, who said, “Science and Yild THE DATLY WORK French Morale Low as Natives Gain Ground PARIS, France, July 20—The Rif- flan forces are driving a wedge be- tween the Spanish and’ French forces facing them In. Mordeco. Abd-el- Krim’s men have captured the French fortified posts of Rihana, Bab Hoferne and Oued Hamrive, hofth of Teroual. They are driving between the French and Spanish which Wave contact along the Loukos river, ’ The first of the Moréccan troops withdrawn from the Riineland have arrived at the French front. Marshal waning morale of the French invad- ers, whose strength hasbeen sapped by the terrific mid-summer African heat and the Rifflan successes. The cabinet is meéting here almost constantly on the Moroccan invasion. Premier Painleve announced that the French imperialists have given Abd- el-Krim the choice of either accepting the French “peace” ‘terms, which in- clude a Spanish protectorate for the Riff, or of a war to a finish. The Rif- flans have already stated they will not accept such a degrading peace. Americans and French imperialism. The sultan of Morocco accepted the offer of a dozen American soldiers of fortune to organize a new LaFayette escadrille to fight against the Riffian natives. Coy. Charles Sweeney said the vol- unteers will have the same rank they held in the American and French arm- ies during the world war. “Present plans are for seven of us to fly to Rabat, vig Toulouse, next Friday,” said Sweeney, “ at least six more will follow by BP are boat leaving Marseilles,” | (y MINNEAPOLIS CENTRAL BODY. ‘AGAIN STIRRED gitithy Roseland = by Red Baiters MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 20.— When Louis Roseland presented his ting, he led a seat on objections from Leslie Sinton of the cooks and origi- nal red baitersof the local labor move- ment. ‘ Sinton was assisted by Franklin Hynes of the Typos, who professed being a “socialist” for many years, and who was even arrested during the Palmer raids and spent one whole night in jail. Since that episode, however, he has joined the ranks of thé red baiters. Arthur Axsen of the Plumbers, made the third objection, which three objections, under the Paul J. Smith constitution, cause the Roseland dele- gatships to be referred to an “investi- gation committee.” It is to report back on Roseland next Wednesday. The objections to Roseland were based on the ground that he is a Communist. Had Roseland belonged to the ku klux klan, the republican party, or, in fact, any capitalist organization, the objectors would have gladly seated him. Nevertheless, it is*a highly signi- ficant fact, that the big proletarian unions of this city, contain a rank and file that wants to be represented by left wingers. not be denie This rank and file can- Explosion Laid to Carelessness by Report of Fire Commissioner An ordinance imposing stricter re- gulations upon eri hich tie up to the banks of the Chien River inside the city limits is nevessary to safe- guard the lives of ‘the people of Chi- cago and to prevent repetition of the explosion of 90,000 gallons of gas- oline aboard a bargé,; This was the recommendation made by Fire Com- missioner Joseph Connery, The peril in Sundays explosion he said was not merely from the specta- cular fire itself. The greater danger was from the huge stores of other ex- plosives on either shore—great tanks of naphtha for soap manufacture, tanks containing millions of cubic feet of illuminating gas and an under- ground reservoir of oil, Mother Jones Hil. WASHINGTON, D. ©, July 20,— “Mother” Mary Jon 92-year-old la- bor leader, is ill here of niflammatory rheumatism, ss Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER. s Petain is endeavoring to restore the |) KE |/Fear the Goverment and 3 BLOCKHOUSES Lose Or War Against the FROM INVADERS|Government and Win By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, 4 ete every avenue of capitalist propaganda is busily engaged in telling the American working class that, “Pre- sident Coolidge is determined to prevent a coal strike.” That is a challenge, not only to the coal miners, but to the whole American working class. Especially is it a threat to the organized workers. * * . e resident,” will not prevent ting that the very meager He Coolidge, “the strikebreaker the threatened coal strike, by ins demands of the coal diggers be granted. workers’ president. It is said that when the deadlock develops in the negotia- tions, then Coolidge will summon both sides to White Court, at Swampscott, Mass., and listen to the contending argu- ments. Coolidge is a good listener, but with one ear only. “Silent Cal” will listen well with the ear into which the mine is not thé owners pour their story. The ear turned to the ms a of the © mine workers’ representatives will be stone deaf. ‘Silent Cal" will dance to the tune ordered by the ooal profiteers. * * * * . Thus the coal miners are again being given a lesson in the nature of the organized capitalist power they are com- pelled the fight. Coolidge heads the republican regime at Washington, servant of the American money power, that flew the Amer- ican flag from the mine tipples during the last coal strike, sounded the bugle of the army, and with the usual scowl upon its sig 3 face, expected the workers in great fear to crawl back to their jobs. But the coal diggers refused to crawl. They stood erect. They knew that bayonets could not dig the coal that they refused to bring to the surface under the wages, hours and conditions the mine owners demanded, and which they re- jected. * * * * But the officials of the coal miners crawled. President John L. Lewis openly declared he “could not fight the gov- ernment,” Wall Street’s government, just as he declared dur- ing the Nova Scotia, Canada, strike that he could not fight the government, the king’s government of the British cap- italists. It is well for the coal miners to remember that this is the Lewis who was heralded as a possible candidate for vice- president on the Coolidge ticket selected at last year’s re- publican convention, when the democrats in New York were dangling Berry, the president of the pressmen’s union who broke the strike of his own organization in New York City, before the eyes of labor for second place on their donkey ticket. But these sops were withdrawn. Later Lewis was mentioned for the place of secretary of labor, but neither has this materialized. 7 * * * This same Lewis is the man who will go to Swampscott to speak for the coal miners. But he will be thinking more of some official plum that Coolidge may hand him than he will be thinking of the interests of the coal miners. Lewis, the crawler, is part of the same capitalist regime that made Coolidge president, and may lift him to a place in Wall Street’s sun. 7 * @ & sf Anything that the coal miner's win will come to them because of their class power, and in spite of the betrayal of that power by such officials as Lewis, Berry and other agents of the profiteers within their ranks. The coal miners will win, not because they take the posi- tion that, “We cannot fight the government,” but because they rally to the fight against the government, the agent of the mine owners. Coolidge will try to win for the coal barons by making war upon the miners’ union with the full strength of the state militia, the regular army, the courts and other weapons of the capitalist dictatorship. The militancy of the miners’ assault against this dictatorship today determines the nature of their immediate victories, until they can develop sufficient class power to establish their Proletarian Dictatorship to end capitalist rule forever, (Continued from page 1) establishes the fact in an incontrovert- ible manner that the left wingers are the real leaders of the cloak makers; that they can at a moments notice call out the masses in the streets and they come, laughing and enthusiastic. Fight Governor’s Commission The keynote that struck home thru- out the vast crowd was: We will fight the decision of the governors commis- sion! Prepare for action! These slo- gang uttered by Louis Hyman and repeated by the other speakers evoked prolonged and wild applause. Listen- ing to the talk of the workers one could easily gather that they are in a fighting mood. They are not alone anxious to re- pudiate Sigman and his gang but, they also want to repudiate the decision of the governor’s commission ' which takes the bread out of the mouths of their children. The workers have been out of work and half starved for months, The past seasons have been bad, Now on the eve of a new season they are in an ugly mood, Sigman and his gang are fool politicians, if one is to judge by the conversation of the workers in the streets. Refuse to Recognize Sigman Activities The whole drift of the talk is: We refuse to any longer recognize the au- thority stolen by Sigman, Perlstein and Feinberg, Let them leave our union we will have nothing further to do with them. Wave after wave of applause from the sea of workers greeted the speech- es of the leaders of the joint commit- to of action. Some of the speakers are; Sasha Zimmerman, Louis Hyman, Joseph Boruchowitz, Rose Wortis, Mershe Rubin, ete, All the speakers flailed the Sigman crowd for its many crimes against the workers and denounced the decision of the governor's commission, Borucho- Hyman Calls for Action Against Betrayal witz, quoted from a sheaf of letters being sent out in envelopes contain- ing the return address of the joint board and obviously addressed on the machine at the international office. Machine Cooks Up Letters These letters are a bitter attack upon the Communists, the Yankee Stadium meeting and the leadership of the left wing generally. They are signed by an alleged group of ‘Local 2. Another “letter” he quoted was one of many sent to a number of cloak makers summoning them to a meeting at the Rand School, at which prepara- tions would be made for the Beetho- ven Hall meeting, called by the joint board to discuss and prepare for the acceptance of the decision of the gov- ernor’s commission. Hyman Point to New Betrayal by Sigman The speech of Louis Hyman detailed the betrayal of workers by the joint board and the Sigman gang. Hyman was loudly applauded when he pointed out the stupid inconsistency of the Sigman gang and the joint board, when they at first declared that they would send out in all languages the decision of the governr’s commission for referendum, without any recom- mendation, ; Whereas, now, they are telling the workers that the decision must be ac- cepted, The left wing leadership on the con- trary has fought consistently against even in the first place submitting the workers grievances to the governor's commission, Prepare for Action Hyman declared in closing: “We are preparing for action. You should know that this struggle that ts going on here is a fight to the life or death, You Cloakmakers must not allow a band of parasites to bind you to such deci- sions. We are going to take action 48 goon ag the season starts,” UNITY OF MINE WORKERS ASKED OF U.S. MINERS Must Not Scab Upon British Strikers By ALEX REID. (Secretary Progressive Miners’ Committee) At no stage in history of the labor movement thruout the world has in ternational trade union unity been more necessary than at the present time. From all over the world come reports that the labor unions are be- ing attacked, and in many places de- stroyed by intense desperate on- slaughts of national and international capitalists. British Miners Fight, The miners of England, Scotland and Wales are standing with their back to the wall in what appears to be the most desperate struggle in their history. The first skirmish has taken place in Wales between the po- ice and the strikers, with the strikers cing successful to the extent of pull- ng out every man on the job, that vas in the. care of the uniformed hugs. Trouble is reported also from the Jouglas colliery in Lanarkshire, Scot- and, with the Scotchmen standing “eady and determined to protect them- selves and their working conditions and fight for an increase in their wages, Introduce Scab Coal. ae impending general strike in Britain has caused consternation in the capitalist ranks and steps are be- ing taken to keep the industries in ®ngland running with power supplied by the introduction of American and German coal. The American union miners will again be asked to dig coal, to be shipped by the railroad union men and transport workers to defeat their starving brothers across the sea and.the American miners and railroad workers must realize that the impending fight in Britain is their fight, just as much as it is the fight of the toilers across the pond, and must notify the operators that the day has gone by that they can be used to scab against their brothers in Bri- tain or anywhere else. Triple Alliance. miners, with the transport workers and railroad men are meet- ing ot determine upon a concerted plan of action to govern their rela- 2 during the strike and prevent a similar betrayal to that which took The The place on memorable “Black Friday,” by Thomas of the railroaders’ union. This meeting is arranged by A. J. Cook, the militant secretary of the British miners, with the support of the left wing of the British workers, in spite of the opposition of the Eng lish labor bureaucracy. The fact that the left wing is successful in bring- ing about this meeting proves that the minority power in the British unions has reached a stage where it cannot any longer be ignored, and is practically the directing force in the labor movement in the isle across the sea, Expect No Trouble. The situation of our brothers in Germany, where they have been re duced to the verge of slavery under the Dawes plan, is being duplicated in England, as it is on the American continent, (West Virginia, Alberta and Nova Scotia), and other places in the mining regions of this country where , the workers are in starvation and despair. The capitalists feel the workers are so far reduced that they will be un- able to resist the offer to work (even it it is to produce coal to be used against the miners in Britain) and no trouble is expectde from the slaves in America by the capitalists, No Bourgeois Alliance, We must meet this intense interna- tional offensive of the capitalist class with an organization of the workers on a policy based on the class strug: gle, and freedom from all alliances with the bourgeoisie, International trade union unity is of the utmost importance and has arisen from the dire need of the work- ing class to protect themselves against the encroachment of interna- tional capitalism, and prepare them- selves to take over the industries of he world, Pledge Support. The progressive miners thruout America stand ready to aid in every way at their command their brother miners in Britain and pledge ourselves. to that end, Sympathetic strikes are contemplated in Germany, Belgium, France and in America and Canada. “Nationalization of’ the coal mines with workers’ control,” is the slogan of the miners thruout the world and the Britsih miners are leading the fight, eps Bankrupt Commits Suicide Emil W, Wagner, head of the B, W. Wagner and Co., grain, bond and stock commission firm which failed in 1921 with $10,000,000 involved, crashed to his death from a fifteenth floor win- dow of the Westminister building in the loop today, Death was instanta- neous. Evidence indicated Wagner, ae was about 61, had committed gui- )