The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER | Published by the DAILY WORKDR PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): | By mail. (outside of Chicago): $800 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3,50 six months $2.50 three months | $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blivd., Chicago, lilinols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB...... pe ie EE NAD Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application, A “Good” Labor Leader The Chicago Daily News, owned by.the millionaire tory, Victor, Lawson, has words of praise for William D. Mahon, president-of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes, for his action in forcing the employes of Samuel Insull’s elevated road to accept the company’s offer which refused a paltry increase in wages of five cents an hour demanded by the men. Under the caption: “Mr. Mahon’s Wise Counsel,” the Daily News says: “Largely because of the advice of William D. Mahog, the cap- able and experienced president of the international organization of street and electric railway workers, the 2,500 transportation em- »- Editors =e 290 aa ployes of the Chicago elevated railways have abandoned their pe mand for a considerable increase in wages and have voted to ac- cept virtually the same wage agreement as that of last year.” This is praise indeed. Mahon isa good leader in the eyes of the capitalists, tho he was hooted off the platform by the members of his own organization who experienced his treachery before. Mahon agreed with the employers when they claimed that “present in- dustrial and commercial conditions are not favorable to wage in- creases.” Not only did Mahon betray the interests of: the members of his own organization, but he struck a blow at the workers in other industries, in their fight for higher wages. This statement of Mahon will be quoted extensively thruout the country by-the chambers of commerce and other capitalist organizations. Here we have another example of a boss’ leader. He’s the kind they like. While the boss press slanders and villifies militant labor leaders like Foster, Howat, MacDonald, MacLachlan and others of that type they have words of praise for the Mahons; Greens, Wolls, Lynches and the numerous specimens of the labor faker type who use the trade unions in order to feather their own nests at the ex- pense of the workers. This shouldbe convincing proof, to the work- ers that the reactionaries are not fighting for them, but against them. Benito on the Banana If news dispatches from Italy are authentic Benito Mussolini, representing fascism, has one foot on an over-ripe banana skin. The other foot is covered with bunions. We are speaking politically, so to speak. , Mussolini has recently put his murder machine thru a delousing process. By a wave of the white-wash brush he exonerated his merry men of the murder of Matteotti, going to the extent of conferring honors on them as a recompense for whatever discomfort they suffered while they were legally held on the murder charge. He has postponed the next national elections indefinitely and got rid of those members of his government who had not separated themselves from every vestige of decency. But Mussolini’s troubles increase with each new punitive measure against his enemies. The Matteotti murder did not down with the exoneration of his murderes by the fascisti-controlled court. It is now reported that a great movement is on foot with international ramifications to bring about his downfall. As a means to this end, members of the opposi- tion have gotten into the fascist organization with the object. of creat- ing discord within its ranks. Weight is added to this report by the action of the fascist news- paper Epocha in publishing a dociiménf*éontaining the story of a terrorist organization formed inside the fascist party by Mussolini and his clique for the purpose of gettirig:rid of his political oppon- ents. The same paper also charges:the high court that tried one of the murderers of Matteotti with having ignored evidence during the trial. That this paper has dared to face Mussolini’s wrath is proof that the black dictatorship is steadily weakening and that the mil- lions recently loaned by Wall Street to bolster up.the fascist regime have not stayed the inevitable process of disintegration of a govern- ment that exists, not thru the support of the masses, but thru the economic power of big industry and the bayonets of the fascist army. . Blocking the Bloc Great Britain’s efforts to build an unsanitary cordon. around Russia, thru a bloe of Balkan nations is left hanging between earth and heaven, like Mohammed’s coffin, because of the refusal of Lithuania to become a party to the conspiracy. We are not quite satisfied that Lithuania’s motives were ani- mated by any devotion to ethical scruples, but the fact remains that this particular neighbor of Russia threw a good sized monkey wrench into the delicate machine of British: diplomacy. England had sueceededin lining up Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, Poland and Rumania. The messenger boy employed by the British in perfecting the conspiraey was the Latvian foreign minister M. Meirovitz.. This gentleman, a socialist, visited the capitals of the small nations like a tea peddler, soliciting the co-operation of the respective governments in the anti-Soviet: plot dnd giving the cash terms England was willing to pay for their assistance. The Lithuanian government was on the mailing list of the Brit- ish foreign office and being somewhat exasperated over the Polish grabbing of Vilna in 1920, thru a “putsch’” sanctioned by the then British government, the Lithuanian foreign office allowed the Soviet government to havé a look at the tell-tale correspondence. At least so the story goes. It is signficant that Meirovitz visited the Lithuanion capital on his way to Paris and that shortly afterwards, the official organ} of the Soviet government issued a statement revealing the object of Meirovitz’s mission. Esthonia is to hand over two of her islands to Britain for use as naval bases against Leningrad. England also proposed to shift some territory between Poland and Lithuania, and Germany and Poland, in order.to satisfy all concerned. But the small nations, like the largevones, don’t trust. each other, which is all to the good of Soviet Russia; p . The-Balkan bandit nations will, gain nothing by entering the British conspiracy against the Soviet Union: Lithuania is well ad- vised to depend for its prosperity moré%on trade and commercial ~ relations with Russia, than on the cash boxes of the British govern- _mnent, It is also possible that the sithouette/of the Red Army which sis thrown across the borders is an tive'reminder to Lithuania that discretion is the better part .f Ce, Another one of Britain's viet bloes seems to be blocked. aisha dics England Plots Against Soviet Union HE map shows where England is plotting to form a Baltic league against the Soviet Union, England is endeavoring to enlist Germany against Soviet Russia by giving back the Danzig corridor shown fh the lower left BALDWIN CRISi LOOMS IN SPLIT OVER ARMAMENT Political Questions In- volved in Dispute SAN FRANCISCO, ‘July* 21+-The of the earth. the cabinet crisis which loomed as a| pedal their vicious misrepresentations result of the opposition of Winston | f the world’s only working class gov- Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, | @fment. For ingenuity of twisting to the naval building program advo- facts and creating unwarranted infer- cated by W. C. Bridgeman, first | ences, take the following quotation of the admiralty. Churchill wants to | 70m this article, reprinted in every increase the size of the navy, but not | #bor paper of California: to the extent that Bridgeman does, — Same Fairy Tale. hand corner, to Hindenburg as a bribe. — Lithuania has blocked this anti-Soviet combination. “Lithuania protests the seizure’ of the region around Vilna by Poland, shown “by the dotted area. England proposes to give Vilna back to Lithuania, but. take from her the corridor along the Niemen River, and give this, to Poland ,in compensation’ for the loss of Danzig. ms te So far, however, England has been unable to carry thru. this anthpoviat plot. # IMPOSING STREET DEMONSTRATION IN NEW YORKS EAST SIDE AS WORKERS PAY LAST TRIBUTE TO JOHN LASSEN By WILLIAM WEINSTONE. : NEW YORK, July 21.—Comrade John Lassen (Lakai) who died of tuberculosis at St. Lukes Hospital was cremated Sunday afternoon after an imposing street demonstration in which the red draped bier carried by a guard of honor was followed in closed ranks by hundreds of workers who came to pay tribute to his memory. } The demonstration stretched a whole length of'a city block and attracted the wonder, attention and interest 6f the proletari- an families as it passed along First and Second ayenues and 79th and 8ist and back to the Hun-+ para amie, garian Workers’ Home on 350 BE. 81st street. A Life of Service to Revolution The funeral ceremonies began at 1:30 p. m. Much earlier than the hour announced the. members of the Work- ers Party, Young Workers League and the workers organizations with which Lassen was agsoeiated assembled to pay their last,,respect to their de- ceased comrade. _They stood closely packed in the auditorium while com- rades Basky, for,the Elore, Lustig for the Hungarian. Young Communists, kJein of the: Workers Dramatic Socie- ty, Comrade .Amter of the Workers Party and Comrade Eber, a member of the Hungarian branch, paid iribute to the services John Lassen had ren- dered to. the inovement and to the in- spiratiop that his brief life had fur- nished them. » % Red not, black was the prevailing color in whi¢gh hall, bier and cortege were adorned and not tears but a so- lemn determination to carry the task to which Lassen had devoted his life were the duminatit note in the speech- es of tribute! It was with the vigorous singing of the International that the ceremonies) at the home were closed. The, street demonstration then followed and later in the day, several hundreds of workers assembled in the Fresh Pond Crematorium in Queens for the final addresses. Comrades Gar- des of the Elore, Raskolsky and other members of the Workers Party and Comrade Jack Statchel of the Young Workers League of New York spoke. Comrade Statchel paid a special tri- bute to the memory of Lassen for his activities in the youth movement of America and other countries. oe * Lassen’s Life and Work By William Weinstone LTHO taken from us when scar- cely in his prime, Lassen leaves behind him a career of valuable serv- ice to the revolutionary labor move- ment and to the Communist Interna- tional. Of proletarian family, Lassen became interested in the movement when 16 years of age in Budapest as student. During the war period, and as a student in a Budapest university he joined the radical student organi- zation known as the Galileo Society. He had hardly reached his 18th birth- day, when in 1917 he became the center of political life in Hungary by his attempt on the life of Count Tiszo, the Hungarian premier -and central figure in the war, Comrade Lassen was tried and sentenced to death for this attempt which had been miscar- ried, but was liberated by the revolu- tion, Active in Youth Movement Lassen then became a member of the Young Communist League and threw himself actively into its work. Up to the time of the fall of the Com- mune, he did editorial work for the revolutionary organs and carried on various organizational tasks. With the fall of the Commune, he emigrated to Russia and became a member of the executive of the Young Communist International and in close cooperation carried on work in Ger- many, Austria and France. He wrote for the Jugend international, the Ger- man organ of tee outh International, Lassen arri In America in 1921, i, THOUSANDS DEAD IN KOREAN FLOOD, GREAT NUMBERS ARE HOMELESS Be TOKIO, July 21--The Korean flood disaster ;is the worst one in the history of.that.gation, according to meager .reports, neaching Tokio today. «»« , 6 é Thousands are ‘Betieved dead. Forty thousand are reported home- less. Property damage is enormous. blished international,connections for the paper obtaining contributions re- | gularly from the best of the Commun- ists writers in Russia, Hungary,’Ger- many and Austria. He remained one of the editors of the. paper until his death. ; and became editor) pf the Hungarian Communist daily, The Elore. He esta- blished international connections for the paper obtaining contributions re- gualrly from the best of the Commun- ist writers in Russia, Hungary, Ger- many and Austria. “He remained one of the editors of the paper until his death. Altho: frail in health as the result of the pernicious disease which was consuming him, he threw himself into the work of the youth of America and helped to build up the splendid Young Workers League which obtains in the Hungarian section. Fre eevoted him- self to the work of organizing and systematizing the revolutionary plays and stimulated the Workers Dramatic Society as, well the Workmen’s Or- chestra, Author of Revolutionary Plays Lassen was the author of several re- volutionary plays. “1914-1919” was written while hemwas in Germany. “Herrin,” a one act play based upon the events in Herrin, IL, during 1923, “Masters and Slaves” which was run- ning serially in the DAILY WORKER was his play. He’ also wrote a novel “Reds and Whites'*’a story based on the events in Hungary. In his many articles on life“in America, which were -published inthe DAILY WORK- ER, Volkzeitung,amd Blore, are depict- ed the bitter struggle of the workers and especially of the most keenly ex- Ploited workers of the Hast Side of the American cities. In all his writ- ings and editoriad work Lassen show- ed a keen appreciation and applica- tion of Marxism and Leninism of which he was a devoted student. Was Undgr Indictment The American‘ capitalist class saw in Comrade, Lassen a powerful enemy of exploitation, He was indicted at the end of 1924 for writing a poem against Coolidge and for an article at- tacking the Hungarian counter-revo- lutionary organ Nepsava, and wag un- der $2,000 bail. The American Communist fhove- ment and its Hungarian section as well as the ‘proletarian movement everywhere will deeply feel the loss sustained in the early death of our comrade, while,higs life will afford a splendid example of earnest and un- tiring service the cause of Com- munism. Write the stary about your shop r-Order a bundle to distribute there. : be bay AW “Take the situation in China to- LONDON, England, July 21.— Premier Baldwin was working | ©xcepting America, the leaders of the +— energetically today to stave off| A. F. of L. have been obliged to soft- success, to reconcile the “big” and “little” navy men in his official, family. The cabinet having failedto reach an accord today was being given over to private and informal. discussions in the hope that the. elu- Baldwin has been striving, .wittiout } day’ and strip it down to bare facts. Oil is the underlying cause. RUSSIA (capitals ours) is back of the press ‘ure that is being brot there at this time, “Russia must have an outlet and the pressure from the interior is be- ~enemeeartenee tee nnn en LYING “LABOR” PRESS PRINTS PROPAGANDA FOR STANDARD OIL BY ATTACKING SOVIET RUSSIA By: JAMES H. DOLSEN, official labor press of this state is featuring an-article by :the International Labor News Service, dealing with the imminent danger of @ new world war over the control of the oil resources The treacherous character of this alleged “news service” and the ‘in- sidioug ways thru which the labor fakers try to control the minds of their rank and file are well illustrated in this feature story. Compelled by the fact that the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics has withstood every assault and compelled the recognition of the great powers, FRANCE STOPS ‘DODGER’ GAME AT EXHIBITION Negro Labor Congress to Hit “Uncle Tom’s” “French soldiers, realizing that Africans do more than dodge, as’ seen sive compromise might be found. by. ing manifested at three important] by the Riffian situation, and being un- ‘i f the time: the cabinet again .assemiige points. The Soviet republic needs [able to see any pleasure in trying to in Downing street tomorrow. 1 4 ¢ The controversy having got into the | Sor to tho wort snith wee ote Bt make “Africans dodge, have brought realm of politics, there 1s much more pregsure to bear on the French gov- at stake now than the mére question. hintd Peleg ck ee Peper As ernment to bar from the Paris Modern of the number of cruisers to be,laid{ great oil interests do not care about | Atts Exhibition the popular American down this year and the continuing | the risk they are taking in aiding the | Midway amusement,” says the Paris program. Soviets. After them, the deluge.” | Journal. Political issues of the utmost gra-| Aiding Rockefeller by Preténding to| This game consists of a few balls, vity have entered the quarrel, and Oppose Him. a large canvas with a small hole in might easily precipitate a ministerial] Rockefeller and his. Standard Oil|the center, and an “Uncle Tom” with crisis. gang, with the Dutch Shell Oil outfit,|20 brains who sticks his head thru Pitted against each other are the| moving heaven and earth to help Sov-|the hole. You throw the balls at powerful clique headed by Churchill | iet.Russia market its oil! Much of| “Uncle Tom’s” head and he ‘dodges and lord Birdenhead and the “big” | the article read as if that Judas, Wm. | from side to side. 8 navy group. The latter are rallying} English Walling: wrote it, but this is} The American ‘Negro Labor Con- around Bridgeman, first lord of the} too childish and crude for that pol-| gress hopes to strike. these brainless admiralty, who with earl Beatty, first ished traitor’s hands. Yet the article | heads with such force that they will sea lord, and the entire. admiralty |is unquestionably propaganda of the | be eliminted: from all American acti- board threaten to resign if their.re-| Standard Oil interests which are fight- | vities forever. commendations are discarded. ».+; ing the government oil industry of The admiralty group aeedpted, .a | Soviet Russia. yeths Workingclass Movies * Will Be Taken at N. Y. new compromise today as a basis of} The article goes on to state that settlement. They expressed, them-|the outlet. for Russia’s production : Labor Defense Outing NEW YORK, July 21.—The Inter- selves as satisfied with a building} from the Black Sea territory is. block- program calling for laying’ W6wn of|ed by England’s control of the Suez three cruisers this year, but insisted | Canal and of Gibraltar. ‘“Immediatt- the four must be the minfmum next | l¥ oue sees the ‘disaffection’ in Egypt year. Churchill and his group still are dissatisfied. They refuse to g6‘so far. and the Riffian uprising in Morrocco.” The article then goes on “In a simi- lar manner the Soviets are seeking As chancellor of the exchedtér'Chur-| t© set thru Persia, India and China. chill has a strong card. But there is a| / the latter country they have made strong group who insist por “proper | "S¢ Of every available pretext and safeguards for national’ defense.” coined every phrase to catch the ear ms of the Chinese: ‘China for the Chin- * j ese.’ Every method of arousing the Duluth, Minn., Workers populace and stinging them fet ace Will Stand by China| '!% ' being used by propagandists. " * Self-Contradictions, and Soviet Republics The article lamely winds up in the conclusion that if this country can DULUTH, Minn., Julyy2ij+-The fol-} bring in enough oil and locate and lowing resolution was’ unanimously | Teserve sufficiently vast fields, “there adopted at the “Hands off China” pic-| Will be no need for this country to nic held here at Fairmount Park: be involved in an oil. war and no “Resolved, that we workers here as-| #Mount of propaganda can. pull or sembled demand that the capitalist} Push her into it.” The conclusion government of America keep its hands | itself is opposed to the writer’s_preyi- off China and we also pledge our aid| US statements in the same article to to the workers’ government 6f Russia| ‘the effect that the country has no in its fight to protect the interests of | T@Serve and is unable to supply its the workers and oppressed peoples of }OW2 needs. The optimism.in the ] the world. wind-up sounds also suspiciously like i that which exuded from the. self-| eis eye same labor skates prior to our en- Military Revolt In trance into the world war. Just as the Union of Socialist Sov- iet Republics is a constant menace to Portugal Quelled; Have Martial Yaw the capitalist system and must. be 4 fought in every possible way by the LISBON, July 21.—Portugal’s,.most | ruling class, so also must the labor recent revolutionary attempt was al-| lieutenants of that class, themselves most! bloodless, it was determined to-| more ignorant than the representa- day. The uprising, quelled almost as| tives of the class which they serve, soon as it started, claimed two lives] continually prostitute themselves and in the whole country. A few persons} the truth to misrepresent what is were injured. Portugal was quiet today, altho the state of martial law has not been with- drawn. Mother Dies; Unborn Baby Lives MEXICO CITY, July 21.—Medical circles here were discussing with in- terest the saving of the life of an unborn baby boy whose mother was shot to death. The baby, altho, wound- ed by the same bullet, was.brought safely into the world by an .opera- tion. . Americans Plan London Subway. LONDON. — American italis have completed their prelimina: plans for a $25,000,000 electric sul for freight and vehicular traffic, solution for London's traffic chat was announced in the Graphic U, S, INDEMNITY RETURN SEEN AS MOVE TO WIM: CHINA INTO NEW TRAP WASHINGTON, July 21, — The United States has completed the steps leading up to the re-payment to China for educational purposes of all the money collected as indem- nity on account of the Boxer rebel- lion, It was announced at the state de- partment today that President Coo- lidge on July 1 signed an executive order directing t! eretary of the treasury to make payments to the China foundation for education and culture to be used in » Chinese ichools. The Boxer indemnity or- $24,440,000, This is known to be part perialism’s skillful win influence in maneuvers China in o ae Wilson di 4 | Maple, but some o betray the trust f the war. going on in the Soviet Republic Re- | public and to deceive their follows as to its policies. Go To It! A. principal task' before the T. U. E. L,, it seems to me, should be the exposure in the unions, at every pos- sible opportunity, of such vicious and lying: articles a® that ‘sent out by this “labor news service,” so-called. national Labor Defense, which was organized in Chicago on June 28, will hold its first affair at Pleasant Bay Park on August 23. This will be one of the finest outings held this season. In addition to athletic events, ‘the executive committee is arranging to have a moving picture taken of the affair. Every comrade will want to be seen in the movie, so no one should fail to attend. The executive commit- te has another surprise in store— pre- parations are now being made. The need of funds for the defense of the class war prisoners is growing daily. The International ‘Labor De- fense protects all victims of the class struggle, who are sent to the capital- ist prisons. The organization has a large number of cases on hand and the number is growing. Hence in addition to enjoying one of the finest outings that have ever been arranged—and there will be dancing and refreshments, every comrade will be doing a great service to\the revo- lutionary movement. Tickets are 35c. AMERICAN NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS FUND BEGINS TO CLIMB TOWARD GOAL Slowly but surely the $10,000 drive of the American Negro Labor Congress is progressing: The con- gress committee looks to every or ganization and individual that is in- terested in furthering the Negro’s interest on the political, economic, and social field to rally to this drive for $10,000 and over. Every Negro worker or farmer interested in his own well being Should do all he can to make this drive a success, lections which were much ap; all the students went to Oulu, atternoon’s program, because of the ditional entertainment provided, and Jn, the afternoon the audience was quite restless on account of, the in- Gannes the Teacher, Our instructor, Comrade Harry Gan- nes, on Economics, Theory and the left for Chicago last week. accompanied by his wife, Comrade Heline Gannes, who was here during the time he taught. In his place arrived Comrade Hathaway who will be instructor for the remaining term. His subjects will deal with trade unions and the organization of /the Workers Party history, We are conducting five different study circles. Each circle;has an in- structor and they meet after classes or after supper, Each si nt has to volunteer to Join one of ) circles, and when they meet they. bring up some subject they can't understand oat YOUNG WORKERS IN BRULE TAKE MANY COURSES, GRADUA TE JULY 26 By LAURA KANGAS, Worker Correspo' jpondent. _ BRULE, Wis., July 21—The students of thi a] 2rosram numbers in several recent entértainments, Mt |Maple, Wis. Five of the students went there and ie Y. W. L. B. C; have given A picnic was held at each gave interesting preciated by the audience. In’ n and there the same program was ents 4 other selections were. added, etc. Three speeches were made by the students qmore highly appreciated than the Such as solos, recitations, . This program was even and it is then discussed’ and explained by the instructor, We have been. working on outlines a Weenie courses, that is concern. 4 achers, transportation, currk culum, food, funds, ete. pa Commencement on July 26, As we have only one and one-half weeks of the school term left the’ stu- dents are all busy with preparations for commencement, which will be held July 26. The program will consist ox solos, dances, and monologues. Re- freshments will be served during the intermission, after which will be pres- ented the one-act. play, “Nick in Siberia,” in which five ofthe stu- were stag tea a Wa 8 play is a true happenin, took place after the pet yo Russia, This program is one of the most interesting entértali “of: fered during the time of teh. 6 — everybody is welcome, |