The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1925, Page 1

| Gl / fF 4% GOS / The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government THE D , Entered as Second-clags matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, Vol. I. N>166. T By T. J. O'FLAHERTY id OW, that the “monkey” trial is over, at least the first installment of it, national attention is invited to the antics of Chief Collins of the Chi- cago police department. One of the chief’s favorite ‘pastimes is defending the law, sometimes against the so- called criminal elements, anon against the police. Whenever the bootleg- gers, gunmen and kindred elements of the citizenry, take a brief holiday Chief Collins hops on to the police, shuffles them up, forces a few of them to resign or otherwise compels them to become his press agents. ee 8 HERE is nothing a politician hates like silence regarding his exist- ence. Collins has no’reason to kick. Outside of the “Yellow Kid,” alias Mr. Weil, the noted confidence man, and perhaps State’s Attorney Crowe, Collins is the best advertised man in town. Several hundred citizens have been “liquidated” in Chicago since the beginning of the year, according to the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune re- grets that at’ least twice as many more were not hanged in retaliation. Chief Collins throws a fit every time a citizen goes down before a gang- ster’s gun, swears that he will make Chicago a hot place for gunmen, then goes to a police convention, while his police busy themselves protecting scabs and arresting Communists for speaking on the streets. o @ 8 HE latest stunt pulled off by Col- lins is to “shake” down his depart- ment and threaten to force the su- perannuated into retirement. It’s good front page stuff. Some officers are credited with looking the other way when Mr, Volstead’s pet law is get- ting trodden on. Politicians on the inside of things in city hall claim that captains, lieutenants and ser- (Continued on page 2) FASCIST LEADE UPHOLDS ATTACK OF MURDERERS porn Badly Hurt by Frenzied Mob (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, July 22.—Deputy Giovanni Amendola, leader of the aventine op- position to the fascist party, “got what he deserved” in the attack by a fascisti crowd while fleeing from Mon- tecatini, general secretary Farinacci of the fascisti said in a speech at Naples today. Farinacci has made open threats that Amendola will be murdered, “The opposition must learn hint’ no provocation will be further tolerated,” Farinacci said in upholding the attack on Atendola's life. “The reaction against the principal responsible per- sons already has begun and this re- action the ae party can not de- “Any dy. att will be ‘treated as a Amendola probably will be in a hospital for three weeks from the injuries suffered at the hands of the fagcist mob. Fifteen Detroit Homes in Flames DETROIT, Mich., July 22.—Fifteen houses and four apartment buildings were in flames as the result of an ex- plosion here today. Subscription Rates: AS WE SEE IT. | In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per bine 5 | The Coal Conference JUDAS FARRINGTON GETS THIRTY PIECES OF PEABODY’S SILVER FOR BLACK TREACHERY TO UNION By ALEX REID. (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee.) ARTICLE II. Another example of Farrington’s union bleeding is seen in the follow- ing expense bill before he became the district president of the Illinois miners. It shows that Frank has always had an affinity for the miners’ fund, in fact all thru Franks’ career runs a mounmental expense account. He charged up the International Union $4,018.00, for one year’s expenses, while he was supposed to be working for the International Union, but these figures would indicate that Frank was working for himself. That same year the expenses of John P. White and Frank J. Hayes combined were less than Farington’s. Farirngton’s expense for the year was more than four times, the average earnings of the coal miners, and on top of this he had a few thousand dol- lars for salary. His expenses would have taken a large family around the world comfortably in a first class liner, and this at a time when many of the miners were in semi-starvation, Still More Blood Money. Since that time Farrington bought a beautiful piece of property in Ala- bama, paying $2,600.00 for it, close to his friends, the coal operators, who had also bought themselves an or- chard as far away as possible Van Sweringen Rail Deal Is Scheme of Stock Jobbing, Charge WASHINGTON, July 22.—The “bil- lion dollar” Nickel Plate railroad mer- ger, involving five big railroad syst- ems, as proposed by the Van Swerin- gen brothers, is not a transportation deal, but is simply a stock-jobbing scheme, Henry W. Anderson, counsel for a group of minority stockholders of the Chesapeake and Onlo who are opposing the merger, charged before the interstate commerce commission today. J. P. Morgan is behind the Van Sweringen. FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1925 tr. ILE WAR SPANS ATLA NATIONAL WAR IS DECLARED ON KNOWLEDGE Scene of Battle Is Now Shifted:to Columbia WASHINGTON, July 22.—The con- flict between religion and science, ex- emplified in the Seopes anti-evolution trial in Tennessee, today came square- ly before the federai courts of the District of Columbia. Declaring that children in the na- tional capital were being taught “dis- respect of the holy bible,” Leren H. Wittner of Washington asked the dis- trict supreme ¢ourt to enjoin the city’s fiscal agemts from paying sala- ries to instructors Wko teach the evo- lutionary theory of the origin of man n conflict with divine creation. Teaching of evolution, Wittner said, .was expressly forbidden by congress in the last distriet appropriation bill, which provided: “That no part of this sum shall be available for the payment of the salary of any superintendent who per- mits the teaching of, or of any teach- er who teaches, disrespect of the holy bible.” In his bill of complaints, Wittner cited 13 specific instances of “disre- pect to the bible” thru teaching from the approved textbooks on natural science. The injunction was filed ad- mittedly as a “test” case, in much the same spirit as the Dayton trial was started, to determine by law whe- ther evolution cam be taught by teach- ers paid from public funds. Wittner described himself as a “federal tax- payer,” but said also he was “some- what of a liberalist and wanted this thing settled.” Washington children are being taught disrespect to the bible, Witt- ner said, text books: 1. Doubé ana the fant ings of the bible. 2. Teach that» man and apes-and monkeys belong to the same family, and also that: plants-and animals come from the: same common ance- [ete while the: bible says man was made in the ph¥sical image of god out of‘the dust ofthe ground, and that ribs of man. 3. Teach that after death disinte- (Continued on page 4) Minnesota’ Bank Fails. REDWOOD FALLS, Minn., July 22 —The First National Bank of Red- wood Falls has failed and is under in- vestigation by a state bank exam- iner. CONVICT WOMAN WHO RAN BABY FARM, IS SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS NEW YORK, July 22—Screaming hysterically and fighting with court attendants, Mrs. Augusta Geisen- Volk, who operated a “baby farm” here and pleaded guilty to baby substitution, was sentenced to Au- burn prison today for three and one-half to seven years. Sentence was pronounced by Justice Mcintyre in general ses- sions, who branded her as “a fiend inéarnate,” and declared there was not a single extenuating clr- cumstance in her favor, the prying eyes of the hungry coal minced whose money paid the bill. (Continued on Page 5) Teachers Strike for Back Pay. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, July 22—The teachers of all the schools here are on strike demanding their five losses from the Riffs in Morocco and The arrival of Marshal Petain hi months’ back pay due them and which they have been demanding without results. All schools are closed. several villages of the Beni Ide tribes LONDON, July 22.—French and Spanish fore RIFFIANS CONTINUE TO ROUT FRENCH AND SPANISH INVADERS have suffered additional the general situation remains serious. failed to have the desired effect on tions of Ain Aicha and Ain Matouff, the French left 200 dead on the field. in retaliation for their defeat. Publis —e-* CLEVELAND PUBLIC SQUARE TO HEAR THE COMMUNIST APPEAL (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 22+ Cleveland workers will hold mass meeting ‘and demonstration under the slogans “Hands Off China” “Stand by Soviet Russia,” on Satur- day, at seven o’clock in the evening on the Public Square. The speakers will be William F. Dunne, Alfred Wagenknecht, district organlzer, J. A. Hamilton, local organizer, and Weisberg of the Young Workers League. There will also be a Chi- nese speaker. Picnic on Sunday, July 26, at Willoughbeach Park, will also be in the nature of a demon- woman was made from one of the) mian, and the judge in the case, War- stration by the workers of Northern Ohio. The picnic is held by Workers Party. CAPITALIST COURT SEEKS MISSING LINK Even Soviet Sympathy Is Verboten Revolution, not evolution, was on trial yesterday before Judge Orr of the municipal court in Chicago's city Workers Party and the Young Work- hall, when nineteen members of the ers’ League appeared to answer. the grave charge of speaking without a police permit on the corner of North avenue and Orchard street last month. Those appearing were William F. Dunne, William F. Kruse, Thurber Lewis, Al. Schaap, Nat Kaplan, Har- rtsor George, Barney Mass, : Kar? Reeve, Max Schachtman, Bernard Davis, Karl Kritchell, Natalie Gomez. Gertrude Welsh, Elsa Block, Ida Eck els, Catherine Polishuck and Max Miroff. City Attorney the Missing Link. Defender of the agnostics in this case was Attorney Bentall, the city attorney represented the absent ren H. Orr, of Carthage, I is county judge of Hance , who county, gration of organic bodies takes place | acting as associate judge of the muni- making impossible for any human to|cipal court, pl yed the role of up- holder of fundamentalism. * As illuminating the event, it may be said that a similar case against J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, has been judged adversely to the scoffers of Ordinance 3703, and the whole question of the constitution- ality of the act is to be decided on appeal to higher courts as a test case, Hence yesterday’s circus was only a bit of by-play to be staged for the edification of those who have a sense of humor. Others can stop (Continued on page 6.) ing workers. New York Workers! Protest Police Attack on ‘Soviet Russia! Hands Off China’ Demonstration! ‘Come in Masses! Friday, July 24, 6 p.m, 1th Stand Broadway PUBLISHING CO., [LY WORKER. hed Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Ch NEW YORK [Eee WORKER hicago, Ill. Price 3 Cents THG || WOOLEN WAGE CUT AFFECTS BOTH. BRITISH AND AMERICAN WORKERS; ENGLISH UNION SURE TO STRIKE (Special to The large concerns with a five per ce in the textile industry. The New England wage red two days after the cuts in the British mills. Strike In England Expected. A general strike of the. woolen workers in the mills across the water is expected by textile journals on this side. Such a strike would be called by the National Association of Unions in the Textile Trades of Great Britain which has ordered its mem- bers to cease work in affected mills the date the cut becomes operative. Announcement of the reduction in the New England mills were given without previous. warning and made in blunt paragraph notices pasted in the mills. Promise to Workers Broken. Much indignation is felt by the American Woolen Co.’s work cause of the declaration of president, William M. Wood, at the time reductions were being | made in the cotton industry, that his corporation had no intention of fol- lowing suit. Those better acquainted with Wood discounted his promises because of his bad labor record and the fact that he was director and heavy investor with some of the largest cotton co: porations profiting by thg cuts. Since then Wood has retired from office with American Woolen. Lawrence the Center, Lawrence, Mass. leading “U. S. woolen city, has most of the reduced. Workers. Cuts are’decreed there for the Wood, Ayer, Prospect, »Shaw- sheen, Riverina, Washington and Ply- mouth mills of the American. Woolen Co. and the Arlington, George E. Kun- hardt and Uswoco Mills. -The Arling- ton Co. sets no limit on the reduction, merely informing its employes that a cut will take place on date. Cuts have also been posted, for the American Woolen plants at Lowell, Mass., and Nofwich, Conn. In other Lawrence mills reductions are in the air while managers sound out em ployes’ sentiment. No action has yet | + the date scheduled by Daily Worker) BOSTON, July 22.—The timing of the 10 per cent cut for 30,000 employes of the American Woolen Co. and several other nt cut for the woolen and wor- |sted workers in the Bradford district of England is seen as evi- dence of the international understanding that is gaining ground uctions are posted for July 27, sritish industrialists for MEXICAN RAIL UNIONS MUST STRIKE OR DIE Calles Would Smash Their Organization (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, July 22.—The “bull. | fighters” tactics of the government of Mexico on its attack on the wages and working conditions of the rail- waymen employed on the national lines, continue to give successes to the government in its efforts to de- moralize the railway unions. The term, “bull-fighters tactics” first used in a manifesto of the Mexican Com- munist Party of the railway situation continues to gain currency as the rail- waymen begin to comprehend that it accurately and picturesqucly des- cribes the situation. The government must return the railway to private hands. That is provided | for by. the . Lamont-De-la- Huerta treaty. It must also “read- just” the salaries and working condi- tions and destroy the railway unions, before returning the lines to private (Continued on page 4.) Aviator Gets Off Easy LOS ANGEL! Calif... July 22.- Captain Lowell Smith, head of Ame? ica’s round the world fly pleaded been taken by the Rhode Island or| guilty to charges of the omobile New Jersey woolen manufacturers. speeding here today and was fined Unorganized Strike May Develop 5. Later the sentence was suspend. Lawrence has been the scene ofjeq when Smith told the court he was (Continued on page 2 2) ? ‘unaware of qicteuas. any law.” 250,000 BRITISH TEX TILE WORKE! RS ARE ORDERED ou T IN GIANT STRIKE LONDON, July 22.—A sneeee” mil lion workers in the Rochdale (York shire) textile mills will be called out on strike tomorrow night, union leaders said today. The threat followed an att Mass Picketing in Amalgamated Strike sP Israel Amter Earl Browder empt to reduce wages. the French forces in the Fez sector. In the Riffian attask on the key posi-/ Striking members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, picketing before the plant of the International Tailoring company, Jackson Blvd. and Peoria St., which refused to.renew an agreemeft with the union. The,Spanish have suffered heavy losses at Vondak. The Sapnish burned] reds of pickets encircle the building constantly, and no strikebreakers can escape the vigilant watch of the cloth- The strike is now in its fourth week. Hund- —_—_—_— EAKERS: Joseph Manley William Weinstone Jack Stachel “Charles Krumbein te a os