The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1925, Page 2

Me 3 SAR Ge Page Twé “">7- 2 aS AE SR, SA NNN EN y FRENCH FIND. BIG ROCK IN TEUTON SOCK: German Note Does Not Look So Good Now PARIS, July 22.—Gloom today suc- ceeded the optimism expressed yester- day in the Parisian press on the Ger- man security reply. The changed attitude was taken to express a Foreign Minister who fi couraging Aristide Briand, | looked on the note as “en-| Le Matin today warned that France was not willing to permit the destruc- tion of the treaty of Versailles. Perti- nax in Echo de Paris advised France to abandon the pact idea if there was still time. “The German reply could not be more unsatisfactory,” he said. Note Is Unsatisfactory | LONDON, July 22—aAt the foreign | office it was said the German note cannot be considered satisfactory in itself because it makes a number of references to the allies’ attitude, par- ticularly regarding the Rhineland which are unacceptable. But the German request for acce- lerated discussion of the whole pro- blem is satisfactory and tt 1s hoped that this discussion will lead to the early conference, whicn Foreign Mi- mister Chamberlain, has favored all along. Woolen Wage Cut Affects Both American and British Workers (Continueé from page 1) great battles in the past and may be/| again tho there is comparatively lit- tle organization there now. The Unit- ed Textile Workers’ Union has a local there and so does the American Fed- eration of Textile Operatives, tho it is confined to the cotton mills, The more recently formed united front movement is endeavoring to get re- sults as a co-ordinating agency. Those who are talking of strike pas- sibilities point out that former strikes began with little preliminary organ- ation and they emphasize that the cut is producing an unbearable con- dition. With wages clustering around the 20 dollar mark, for full time oper- atives, a 10 per cent cut is a serious matter for a family whose expenses are already budgeted to the last cent. change in the viewpoint of | AS WE SEE IT _ -:- (Continued from page 1) nts are not removed from “ incts because they fail to enforce law, but because the competition nong the captains is too keen, There is nothing a captain dreads so much |as to be sent to a “dry” district. Of | course, it should be understood that | the terms “wet” and “dry” are only relative. Chicago is about as dry as the Pacific Ocean. so 8 ESIGNATIONS. from the British cabinet over the question of na- val construction are expected. A cer- tain faction favors a heavy appro- priation for the immediate building of ships to keep pace with the United States’ program. Others, including Winston Churchill, consider the tax- payers and their own political for- tunes. The fact is that the British ruling class are no longer able to compete with their greatest commer- | cial rival in the game of naval con- | struction, If the big naval program | is adopted, Churchill’s budget will be | knocked sky high and if it is defeated there will be resignations from the cabinet with a situation bordering on a split in the tory party. $28 | P th HIS cabinet crisis might loom By T. J. O’Flaherty take the side of the British empire during the war. The news of his re- tirement is taken from the London Daily Herald, which quotes Johnson as saying that his relinquishment of the leadership has no significance, that he was merely relieving himself of some of his responsibilities. ee IG navy advocates threaten to split the British cabinet. In Japan the Jingoes are active. Here in America, rear and front admirals are delivering exhortations on the neces- city for more battleships, airships and other instruments of war. Sena- tor Hale visited Coolidge a few days ago and told the president that Do- heny’s tanks in Pearl Harbro, Hono- lulu, were rusting for want of oil and that the “Golden West” was in dan- ger from Japan unless the United States had more battleships and har- bors to accomodate them in. Calvin is said to have lent a willing ear to Hale’s tale, and unless our guess is awry, Morgan will get more ships. se © OMMUNISTS say, “the more peace conferences, the more the likeli- hood of war.” Peace conferences are always devices to iron out serious differences that make for war be- large, but for other troubles fac- ing the empire. The danger of a coal strike is becoming more and more a probability. Confronted with a like- ly stoppage of work, Cook and his comrades are working hastily to throw up the nucleus of a powerful alliance of trade unions for offensive and defensive purposes. Practically every important section of the Bri- tish trade union movement has now joined this combination. The reac- tionaries like J. H. Thomas and Frank Hodges have been delegated to the rear. British labor is facing a real crisis and to predict the outcome of the present situation would be a risky procedure indeed—for a prophet. 7-28 OINCIDENT with the evident ap-. proach of stirring times in Great Britain comes increasing activity and violence from the fascisti. The black shirts are now breaking up meetings. in Hyde Park, while the police look on with unconcern. Hyde Park was once the sacred open forum for the expression of opinion. But the empire is no longer healthy and the nerves of her ruling class are getting jangled. The plutes are growing concerned over the future, hence the violence on the part of their tools. eee igang is encouraging news, even from Ireland, where the labor movement has not been distinguished by any notable accomplishments dur- ing the past few years. This encour- aging news is the retirement of Tom Johnson as parliamentary leader of the Irish Labor Party. Johnson is a hide-bound reactionary, and was the only one of the Irish labor leaders to Mass Protest Meeting of CHICAGO GARMENT WORKERS Oppose the arbitrary removal of 77 regularly elected officials of Locals 2, 9 and 22 of the |. L. G. W. U. of New Oppose the terror of the Periste the Cloak and Dress Makers of New York! York! in, Sigman, Fineberg machine against SATURDAY, JULY 25th, at 2 P. M. at : Ashland Auditorium, West Room Ashland and Van Buren Sts. —— Speakers —— LOUIS HYMAN, Mgr. of Local 9 JULIUS PORTNOY, Mgr. of Local 22 SASHA ZIMMERMAN, Executive Board Member of Local 22. Local: JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE, is 2, 9, 22, 1. L. G. W. U., New York (Come and hear about the struggle of the New York Ladies’ Garment Workers! Admission Free NOVY MIR GREATEST SUMMER FESTIVAL Sunday, July 26, from 10 a. m. till Midnight Danceland Garden SURF AVE., NEAR 21st ST., CONEY ISLAND, N. Y, PICNIC --- BATHING --- CONCERTS DANCING » Contest of bathing beauties by MISS FAWN GRAY. with parade and prizes, led Ocean Bathing, large swimming pool, steam rooms, an athletic field, calisthenic exercises, Swimming instructions without extra charge, tennis, handball, basketball. TWO BANDS OF MUSIC, Afternoon Russian String O: rchestra, 12 classic numbers. Evening Grand Concert under direction of Leo Fedoroff. Dance, music and song performances under direction of Fletches-Rivers, Dancing. director Metropolitan College of DANCES—DANCES—DANCES, TICKET—75c, WITH BATHING LOCKER, $1.25 AT THE DOORS—TICKET 85c, WITH BATHING LOCKER, $1.50 tween nations when they are not ready for war, and also to maneuver for position. When the United States called the Washington conference, the object was to smash the Anglo-Japan- ese alliance as a preliminary in the United States’ onward imperial march. That conference did the trick. But it did not make for peace, All the nations that participated in that conference are building ships and more ships. There cannot be any peace under capitalism. ak aah HE American fleet is now visiting Australia. The babbits of that ish colony are babbling of the friendship between the United States and Australia. It is significant they point out, that for the first time in history an Australian loan was plac- ed in Wall Street and not in London. That is significant and very much so. England is fast losing her grip on her colonies and the sight of the good- ly navy of J. P. Morgan, will be ocu- lar proof to the capitalists of Aus- tralia, -that if the “mother country” is forced to play with Japan as a mat- ter of self-preservation, Uncle Sam’s navy is at hand. And what is a navy for anyhow, unless to collect loans in case the debtor becomes refrac- tory? & ne @ ‘T*HE political clouds are gathering over the world for another big burst that will make the last war look like a deaf and dumb picnic. The foreign sections of the newspapers are devoted to little else except the diplomatic maneuvers of the rival powers,. And out of the murky dark- ness’ looms the bright light from Soviet Russia, which beckons the workers of the world onward to a new order of things, but the road to this goal is a hard and thorny one. Yet over this road the subject peoples and the exploited masses of the world must travel before the golden era of peace thru the emancipation of the last slave class in history will be realized! To Retire 161 Policemen. The first twenty-five of the 161 po- lice veterans slated for retirement on pensions have appeared before a medi- cal board appointed by the civil serv- ice commission for examination. They will be tested as to agility, blood pressure and the condition of their hearts. bs] Y it fHE DAILYY*"*WORKER HYMAN, PORTNOY, ZIMMERMAN COME TO CHICAGO SAT. stein Here The garment workers of Chic: are going to hear in person the International Ladies Garment ers’ Union in New York, whe! cals 2, 9 and 22, comprising § cent of the New York City nie ship are suspended by the arbitrary action of the joint board controlled by the Sigman gangsters and the exe- cutives of these locals removed from office after a farcical trial upon char- ges of having held a May Day meeting at which Communist speakers actual- ly talked about a revolution. On Saturday, July 25th, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Louis Hyman, man- ager of Local 9, Julius Portnoy, man- ager of Local 22, and Sasha Zimmer- man, executive board member of Lo- cal 22, all representing the joint com- mittee of action of the suspended docals of New York City, will speak ‘to the Chicago garment workers at the Ashland auditorium, west room, at Ashland and Van Buren streets, All garment workers are invited to come to hear these able and honest unionists who have led the revolt against the yellow socialist terror of the Sigman machine, one of whose shining lights is Meyer Perlstein, who managed the I. L. G. W. of Chicago so well that he spent something like a fortune of six figures with the net re- sult of destroying the union by expel- ling its best members on similar char- ges of being Communists. Give this copy to your shop- mate. Urge Typographical Union to Join War on Public Printer WASHINGTON, D. C.,—(FP)— Co- lumbia Typographical Union No. 101 will urge the convention of the Inter- national Typographical Union to be held at Kalamazoo, Mich, August 10 to 15, to take up the protest of the local union against further retention of George H. Carter if the office of public printer. A resolution to this effect was una- nimously adopted by’Columbia union. The support of the American Federa- tion of Labor in this’ fight against Carter will also be requested. Hither- to the A..F. of L, hagsheld aloot fiom the controversy that has been waged by Coh uniom against’ the public printer, on the ground that he is “in- competent and intolerant and has made himself a public tyrant.” Movie “Plot” Hearing LOS ANGELES, July 22.—Mary Pickford and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, were summoned to appear to-day in suprerior court as witnesses against Charles Stevéns, Claude Hol- comb and Adrian Wood, charged with conspiracy to kidnap the actress and hold her for $200,000 ‘fansom. Miss Pickford was @Xpected to test- ify she knew nothing ‘of the alleged plot until after the trio was arrested. Rush that Sub—Campaign ends July 1! oo “Stand by Soviet Russia!” Demand “Hands Off China!” Mass meetings and demonstrations are being held in every city in the United States under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party under its slogans of “Stand by Soviet Russia!” and “Hands Off China!" Those to be held within the next few days are as follows: NEW YORK, N. Y.—July 24 at 6 p. m., 17th Street and Broadway. Speakers: Joseph apo. William Weinstone, Israel Amter, Earl Browder, Jack Stachel and Charles Krum- bein. YONKERS, N. Y.—Saturday, July 25, at 8 p..m., 23 Pali- sade Ave. { CLEVELAND, OHIO—Open air mass meeting, July 25, Public Square, at 3 p.m. Speakers: William) F. Dunne; Secretary Kuo Min Tang, Wong; John Brahtin, and others. CLEVELAND, OHIO—Mass picnic at Willough Beach “Park, July 26. Speakers: William F. Dunne,{ Ella Reeve Bloor, Alfred Wagenknecht, J. A. Hamilton fof the party. ‘Max Salzman and Carl Weissberg for the Young Workers League. Take Cleveland, Painsville and Eastern cars from the Public Square. + MILWAUKEE, WIS.—Monday, July 27, 8 p. m., Labor Temple, 808 Walnut St. Speaker, J. Louis Engdahl. C’mon Over! If you have a day, an hour, or a minute to spare—why, c'mon over. There is so much work piled up on the small force in our office that we need your help so very badly, to insert letters, address, seal and stamp envelopes and ever so many other little jobs that have ug swamped. - if you volunteer your services that’s a fine way to help the DAILY WORKER. We'll be glad to see you—so just for fun, c'mon over! 4 Tell of Sigman and Perl By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, the Union of Soviet Republics tells the world that it has been invited to participate in the Commercial- Industrial Exhibition to be held in New Orleans, La., U.S. A., this fall. There is no doubt that the Workers’ Government will accept. But what terror must strike the hearts.of the politicians in the Coolidge regime at Washington, D..C., who steadfastly contend, from “Silent Cal” and his secretary of state, Kel- logg, on down the line, that they have not changed their attitude toward Soviet Rule? Where is Kellog’s predecessor, “Charlie” Hughes, who joined “Sammie” Gompers in his declining years, in declar- ing Soviet Russia to be an “economic vacuum,” useless if not dangerous, to recognize and empty of any trade or com- mercial possibilities? * * * © If the Soviet Republics cannot break into Washington with a red ambassador, they can and have slipped around to the American side door, to the important port at the mouth of the Mississippi River where it flows into the Gulf of Mexico —NEW ORLEANS, the capital city of cotton. All the attacks that have been made on Soviet Rule by the American state department have not bothered with facts. They have wandered far and wide in the realms of anti-Com- munist propaganda. But here are a few facts: : FIRST—There are offices in New Orleans of the All-Russian Texxtle Syndicate, Inc., a New York corporation with capital stock of $1,000,000 fully paid up in cash. SECOND—The head of the syndicate Is Fritz F. Kilevitz, who is also president of the All-Union Textile Syndicate of Moscow, which is a combination of all textile mills in Soviet Russia. THIRD—The syndicate purchased 248,698 bales of the 1924-1925 American cotton crop, at a value of $36,340,000, Twenty-five steamers have been chartered to transport this cotton across the Atlantic. FOURTH—The purchases of America’s 1923-1924 cotton crop total- led 189,145 bales, valued at $31,457,000, and required 20 ships to trans- port to the Workers’ Republic. FIFTH—The first shipment was made on Feb. 8, 1924, and the shipments that now continue constantly are financed thru New York banks. Neither credits nor recognition has come from Washington, but “the syndicate has satisfactory credit arrangements with the Chase National Bank and the Equitable Trust Co., of New York,” says the Russian Review, published by the Russian Trade Delegation, at Wash- ington, o hee Soviet Rule is busy buying the things the workers and peasants need thruout “The Union.” Buying them right here in the United States of America! What is more, it is having these goods, great shiploads of cotton, for instance, shipped into the Soviet Union thru Murmansk, the Red Port on the Arctic Ocean. It was thru Murmansk and Archangel that the United States govern- ment, in common with its capitalist allies, poured troops and munitions, in an effort to crush the Bolshevik Revolution of November, 1917. The American flag may fly from the mast- head of some of the ships that sail into the harbor at Mur- mask, this month, and next month, and the months there- after, but they carry no cargoes of soldiers and arms. In- stead they are loaded to the gunwales with precious cotton cargoes that will feed the Soviet textile mills, making cloth to clothe the liberated masses of Russia, as part of their triple struggle to lift their standard of living, thru providing themselves with better homes, better clothing and better food than they have ever enjoyed during all the centuries of their enslavement. In time the plundered and landless cotton growers of “The South,” of Oklahoma and Texas especially, will learn where their cotton is going, who is buying it, and how it is being used in the land across the sea, where landlords have been evicted forever and profit rule has been abolished under the Soviet Star, They might, they will take it into their heads to proceed themselves in the same direction. Wash- —- the political seat of the American imperialist empire, ill number this among its fears as the Union of Soviet Re- publics accepts the invitation to participate in the Commer- cial-Industrial Exhibition at New Orleans this fall. et Republics Invited ‘Industrial Exhibition City of New Orleans POST INCOME TAX PAYMENTS SEPT. 1 WASHINGTON, July 22.—Income tax payments will open to public In- spection on and after Sept. 1, it was announced at the treasury department. today. The payments which will be made available for publication are those made in 1924 on 1923 incomes. The lists will be posted in the in- ternal revenue collection districts thruout the country, publication having been approved by the United States supreme court. The amounts shown on the lists open for public inspection are the amounts of tax declared to be due by the tax payers in their returns filed beginning January 1, 1925, And may be subject to adjustments and revi- sions by the subsequent audit of the returns or by the filing of amended returns by the taxpayers. Incomes represented are those for the calendar year, 1924, And for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1925. Statement by Bureau of Internal Revenue The following statement was issued by the bureau of inter=al revenue: “The lists will be opened for public inspection at all times during each working day for thirty days, begin- ning September 1. Thereafter, the hours they shall be open for inspec- tion may be regulated by each col- lector of internal revenue with a view to preventing undue interference with the official work of the office. “However,, following this thirty-day period the lists must be open for pub- lic inspection at least three days a week and during such days they shall be available,.to0, the public at least three hours.a-day; The days and hours will be selected by each 1 lector and due publicity to re- gulations will be given” the col- lectors. “Each collector will designate an employe to supervise the inspection of the lists by the public. It will be the duty of this employe to see that the lists are not torn or mutilated to prevent ahy person from removing them from the collector's office and to see that no one monopolizes the lists to the exclusion of others.” Write the story about your shop— Order a bundle to distribute there. Pe eT TTT convention contained in. of to the Third Na’ THESES 1113 W. Washington Blvd, — ToUnderstand The full progress of the Communist movement in this. country in the past year (wh h will be fully summed up 5 in the coming convention)—get the full reports of the last The Second Year Workers (Communist) Party of America Report of the Central Executive Committee PROGRAM 50 CENTS The Daily Worker Publishing Co. CHINESE WORKERS AT MASS MEETING PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 22—Great enthusiasm marked the mass meeting held at Pittsburgh, Pa. demanding that world imperialism keep hands off China and urging the Amertcan work- ers to stand by Soviet Russia, More Negro workers could be seen in this audience than ever attended a radi- cal meeting in Pittsburgh. Many ort- ental workers and a number of Chin- ese students also attended. Arne Swabeck, district organizer, in opening the meeting emphasized the fact that not only is the Soviet government the only government which has shown itself as a real friend and defender of the Chinese workers and the suppressed colonial peoples but also the Communist Party is the only party which has taken up the fight. He emphasized that in France while the socialists, the yellow trade union leaders, and all the so-called revolutionary parties were supporting French imperialism in their efforts to subjugate the Mor- rocan people only the Communist Party has stood up as the defender of these subjected races. Max Salzman spoke on behalf of the Young Workers League and told about the struggles of the class con- scious youth not only to support the movement for national liberation but for complete freedom of the working class. William Scarville, local organ- izer of the Negro Labor Congress, drew wholehearted approval from both colored and white workers when he stated that for a long time it has been his conviction that only by making common cause regardless of color of skin or race could the. work- ers ever free themselves from imper- ialism, Tells of Struggle. H. H. Tseng, member of the toca? Kuomintang party gave a brief analy- sis of the struggles of the Chinese workers stating that the Chinese are very tolerant, very peaceful, had re- mained tolerant for more than 85 years but now had come to a point where they recognized that to even maintain a human existence to free themselves from imperialist oppres- sion they must fight. He drew a strong applause when he said “we also recognize that we must fight together with the workers of the world.” Comrade Gitlow made a brilliant speech making an analysis and a comparison of the methods of imper- ialism abroad and the methods at home hidden behind phrases of de- mocracy. He stated that many of the atrocities by the imperialist pow- ers in China are very similar to acts performed in the United States against the workers in the name of democracy and he closed with along declaration pledging the active sup- port in a solid net alliance of the class conscious proletariat of the United States led by the Communist Party with the struggling colonial PICNIC NDAY, JULY 26 LYONS, ILL. rranged by the White Russian People’s Society and Douglas Park Russian Children’s School. Russian and American Dances. SPEAKERS. IN RUSSIAN, POLISH AND UKRAINIAN. Admission with special free tickets 35 cents, at the gate 50 cents. PART OF THE PROCEEDS GOBS FOR THE POLITICAL PRISONERS IN POLAND. DIRECTIONS—Take any car to 22nd St., go West to end of the line. Trane- fer to Berwyn-Lyons car to grove. AU UUUUUUEEOUCUOLOEETUAOEOUUAGEEO Ova nnEE TOE the tional Convention | RESOLUTIONS Chicago, um. MANY NEGRO AND. ims RYMACK GROVE, }