The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1925, Page 4

~ Page Four. ices THE DAILY WORKER ———————— ————————— Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington’ Blvd, Chicago, Ml. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.60 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 Bivd., Chloago, Iilinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB. .-nemenmsnnneerees Business Manager paceman ann RINSE ES Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. Advertising rates on application. fem aa setenetemnemermenn Editors <= 200 Sigman on the Toboggan When Sigman, the self-made Czar of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, decided to expel the elected officials of Locals 2, 9 and 22, in New York, for celebrating May Day, the inter- national holiday of labor and other “crimes” of a similar nature, it is quite possible that he did not expect that he was signing his own) death warrant as head of a once powerful labor organization. Yet that is fust what Sigman did. There is an old saying that “those whom the gods wish to destory they first make mad.” This does not apply to Sigman, tho his action in normal times would be considered that of a first rate lunatic. How- ever, he was in a position where he had no choice, except between two evils. Naturally he chose the lesser one. Sigman, by a series of treacherous acts had lost the confidence of the membership. For years he has cloaked his treachery more or less successfully by raising the ery of “Communism,” as so many other fakers have done. But like the boy in Aesop’s fable who raised the cry of “Wolf,” until it outlived its usefulness, Sigman depended too much on his “red fire.” After all, crooks are discovered sooner or later. It is fortunate for the members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, that they saw thru Sigman in time, before he had succeeded in ruining an organization that he could not rule.) The Sigman machine has rung the changes on dictatorship in| Russia, a dictatorship of the many over the few, of the producers} over the non-producers. Yet Sigman disfranchised 60 per cent of the membership in New York, knowing that if he allowed majority) rule, he would not hold his office five minutes. He is now in the, same position as old Tom Rickert of the scabby United Garment Workers, and there is nothing the filthy scab Rickert has not done) that Sigman will not do. | The members of the I. L. G. U. are determined to put an end to) Sigmanism. They have stood a good deal from the traitors who have) dragged the union along at the tail of the. employers’ chariot for) years. The members are now learning that the Communists whom | Sigman has been expelling from the unions are not the disrupters. | They have learned who the disrupters are and they are going to get} the gate. Other labor fakers who think they can get rid of the Commun- ists in Sigman fashion should take a warning before it is too.late. Officer 4011 Who owns the Chicago police force? If you had been on the picketline near the manufacturing establishment of the International Tailoring Company last Thursday evening you would have very little difficulty in finding an answer to that question. As our readers must be aware there is a strike on against that clothing company because of its refusal to sign a contract with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the union refusing to accept a re- duction in wages. The striking employes are on the picket line morn- ing and evening endeavoring to prevent scabs and prospective scabs | from taking the bread and butter out of the mouths of the former | employes of the clothing company who insisted on a decent standard | of living. This is what happened last Thursday evening: A scab was) floundering around the street and screaming with terror as hundreds! of strikers gathered. The excitement brought a flivver load of of-) ficers to the scene. One of them, officer 4011, pulled his gun and! seized one of the strikers, sticking his weapon into the pit of his stomach. The striker was quiet and made no effort to resist the officer. The latter however, not satisfied to make the arrest, which! was the limit of his obligation in the situation. Without.the slight- est provocation he struck the worker in his custody forcibly with the gun on the left side of the face near the temple. The blow might | have killed the man. The striker was stunned and turned pale, but did not murmur.) His conduct was in striking contrast to the babbling of the scab who ran for protection to the uniformed thugs. | A plain clothes thug came along, and he also jumped on the) striker hiting him with clenched fist square on the jaw. | Both brutes took the worker along and held him in the Interna-| tional Tailoring Company building. While they were taking him} away the plain clothes officer was heard to mutter: “You will get) all that is coming to you.” | And it looked as if he did. When he was taken out from the} building to the patrol wagon, he was deathly pale and unable to| speak. Who owns the police force? will not take long to answer. The strikers on the picket line ‘ The American sailors, mostly workers, had to.go to Melbourne, ; Australia, to Jearn that there are class war prisoners in the United) States. Here’s hoping that this knowledge will help guide them in the future. | Start now reading the British trade union delegation’s report on| “Russia Today.” It will appear in daily installments until completed. | Read it yourself and get other workers to read it. | It is reported that Calvin Coolidge wants Dawes to shut up about the senate and also about the republican party nomination for | 1928. There is a rift in the loot somewhere. It looks as if Sidney Hillman never had the experience of stick- ing his nose into a buzz saw. Remember what happened to Tom Rickert, Sidney! We predict that before “B, and O. Bill” Johnston gets thru, ex- pelling the Communists from the union, that he will be a much older if not wiser faker than he is now. AE TE The newspapers say that.the Bolsheviks have slaughtered seven- teen more monarchists, Good! But where the devil are they get- ting them all? They say that Sigman, self-made czar of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, is on pins and needles those days. . +The ‘cause of the British coal miners ix the concern of world Jabor. ” ‘ sme vite: THE DAILY WORKER INTERNATIONAL TAILORS INDULGE IN ORGY OF VIOLENCE, DE NOVI SLUGGED, GIRL PICKET IS INJURED Made desperate by the solidarity of their.sttiking employes, the International Tailoring Company indulged inan orgy of Vio- lence against the picketing members of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers, While William A. Cunnea was fighting off the ap- plication of the garment bosses in Judge Pam's court for an in- junction to prevent picketing, the police arrested and slugged Mike De Novi, business agent for the Amalgamated, clubbed another worker, Joseph Cerurj, with the butt, of a revolver, and Spenza that she required medic- al treatment. The International company. pasted a take “telegram” on the Peoria street |honor to be taken away in th side of their building, near Jackson boulevard, which purported to convey the information that the New York strike of the Amalgamated was brok- en. The Amalgamated officials im- mediately exposed this hoax and branded it a lie. Seven pickets were arrested in all, including two girls. Frances De Spen- za’s hand was badly cut by the po- lice who handled her roughly when they. arrested her. The doctor gave her a certificate showing that he had given her medical treatment, and ac- tion will be taken against- the police violence. Another picket Was arrest- ed yesterday morning. Others arrest- ed were Pasquale Camera, Mary De Spenza, and Peter Korach. The fake “telegram” posted by the bosses, with the printed letters pasted on. a telegraph blank, said: “J. L. Reiss, Internationar Tailoring company, “847 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, “Everything satisfactory, cutters working regular time. Can handle fifty orders or more daily. Each house needs orders. “R. H. Reiss.” Below the telegram, in red pencil, is written, “Somebody Lies, who is} it?” The Amalgamated offictals quickly showed who lies. Isadore Rothbart, business agent for the pants makers, said: “We have just received woed | that in spite of the injunction taken | out by the International in New York, | the strike there is one hundred per cent effective. “Such bluffs of the bosses cannot break the solidarity of the strikers. They know that this is just another desperate effort of the International to break our ranks. They cannot do it. The telegram lies.” A police sergeant confided to one of the strikers that_they had four pa-! trols waiting in readiness, and if the injunction were granted, wholesale arrests would be made. Thus do the Police obey the bosses. Officer 4011 Slugs Stiker. One of the strikers was severly beaten over the head with’a heavy re- volver by Officer 4011, on Green street shortly after five o'clock. A scab was rushing madly about the street and howling. for protection, as hundreds of garment workers and other people in sympathy with the strikers gathered. ‘The scab appeared to have bumped into something hard as the lower part of his face was discolored. When Officer 4011 came along he grabbed one of the strikers. and stuck his gun in his stomach. The striker made no effort to get’ away or resist the officer. But the latter was not satisfied with making an arrest. Evi- dently he wanted ito show his hatred | of the strikers. He lifted his revolver hightover his head and struck the de- fenceless striker over the temple with the heavy weapon, ” Police and Scabs. The striker put his hand to his face but was so stunned by the blow that he was unable to speak. He would have fallen to the-ground but for the Policeman holding him ‘up, HEAR DF JAILED WORKERS IN U, S, Australian Labor in “Warm Reception” MELBOURNE, Australia, July 24—| Fifteen spectators watching the parade of sailors from the U. S. fleet from the veranda of a movie house, were injured when the balcony under them fell into the street. This is attributed to the labor union boycott on participation in any dem- onstration of greeting to the fleet as protest against America’s continued imprisonment of workingmen for membership or action in the labor movement, as is the street car strike and the strike of the marine firemen Fake Letter of Boss CONFERENCE CONFLICT IS STILL WARM But China Is to Be Plun- dered, Anyway (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C.,..July 24— State department officials give out a story that America has received ad- vices from practically all the nine leading ‘powers favoring the Chinese conference proposal of Secretary Kel- logg’s. Japan is said to have assured Washington thru Ambassador Mat- sudaira, that Japan favors convening the customs conference as well as the extra-territoriality commission. Great Britain, however, leads the opposition, now formally and flatly stating its opposition, then intimating that if its imperial interests are not to be challenged by the U. S., it will not object to the American proposal. The fixing of responsibility for the Shanghai massacre upon the British police troop commander by the Pek- ing diplomatic corps, added to the ob- jection of England, but the boycott on British and Japanese goods ordered to begin on August 1 by the Chinese chamber of commerce, has also had its effect. Back of the ‘conflicting reports of the policies of the imperialist powers toward the American proposal, was, of course, a unanimity of opinion that under whatever conditions the whose refusal tO mag the official re- ception boat prevented the Austral- ian reception committee from going out into the hatbo® to greet Admiral Robert E. Coontz’s, flagship. Posters are pastéd=all over the city and leaflets given out to the Ameri- can sailors by the Austraiian Com- munist Party, the J. W. W. and the radical union elements, telling the U. S. sailors of the imprisonment of Tom Mooney, the I. W. W. of Centralia, Washington, and California, Sacco and Vanzetti, Rangel and Cline and the anti-labor laws of American stafes, Admiral Coontz in his address to the reception committee, expressed his delight at the “warm reception” given the fleet, \ BRITISH TEXTILE UNION GALLS OUT 133,000 IN BATTLE-ON WAGE CUTS LONDON, Engfilahd, July 24—The first strike in the! les which theat- ens to tie up all justrial England this summer began today when 135,000 textile werkers walked out at Letds, Bra |, Halifax and Hudderseld in a it against a five per cent wage c! The strikers. teflised arbitratjon left the mills, s@rigusly disorganiz- ing the geat textile industry in the north of England. Early reports today are that mounted police dispersed a crowd of 500 strikers gathered outside a mill in Leeds. There weer no cas- | ualties. to prohibit their before Judge Hu) anti-injunction ld@jv,..The bill for an Another policeman or company Gangster in plain clothes came along. This brave man took another wallop at the striker who was held tightly in the grip of the uniformed officers. The onlookers weer angry but made no move. Workers weer heard to say that the police and the scabs were working hand in hand. It 1s the gen- eral impression that at least some of the police are on the Payroll of the International Tailoring Company, Strikers Cheer Victims, As the wagon took several strikers away from the building there were loud cheers trom the strikers. This is certainly a militant Broup of work. ee oe old ladies, members of e union, walked up an street. As the oon coe wagon was carryin, the girls away one of them, she i 5 years old if she is a day, went over to the policeman and shouted: “It is an e ts wagon for a cause like this,” a Her comrade nodded assen: t. Thies,] is the spirit that ig noticeable on the picket line. ‘It is a winning spirit, Sh Give this. in this copy to your shop: ne a a Another new Sub makes ceuminist, os Aanother @ fo wal s}of Ilinois an picketing cease, tional. i calls the Cuthb prevented the offered by the ministry of labor and | conference was called, they would not be such as would really release China from her imperialist oppressors. USE POLICE THREAT ON STRIKING MEMBERS OF TRUCKDRIVERS’ UNION Police were brot in by contractors to intimidate the striking members of the Independent Team Owners Association, which is made up of men who drive their own trucks. The drivers went on strike Thurs- day morning. British Labor Party Publishes Appeal of Canton Government LONDON, July 24—The Labor |Party publishes the text of a 1,500-! |Word manifesto cabled by the Canton |Nationalist government to the British |Labor Party protesting against and | denouncing “the exploitation of China | by. imperialist powers,” which, it de- clares, prevents China from develop- ing herself on independent nationalist lines. Hunt Slayers of Spinsters, | HUDSON, N. H., July 24— Two | autoists in a battered car were sought | today as the slayers of two aged spin- | sters, Miss Helen E. Gillts, eighty, and her sister, Miss Georgia Gillis, seven- | ty-seven, who were clubbed to death in their little white farm house here. Police believe robbery was the mo- | tive. GARMENT BOSSES ASK JUDGE PAM TO OUTLAW A. C. W. STRIKE, FLAUNT STATE LAW, INVOKE A. F. OF L. NAME The application of the International Tailoring Company for an injunction iking employes from picketing, which is now being argued Pam, room 941 county building, openly flaunts the state injunction demands that all forms of ertson anti-injunction law unconstitu- Quotations vileed tr bill, which complains that the Amalgamated strikers ment Workers, tion of Labor American Federa- y union, follow: “19—Your oratgr further represents that the defend: in committing the acts, injuries j@nd grievances, as above set forth) @nd charged against them, are relying upon a certain al- leged act of the gefieral assembly of the state of Il for their justifica- tion, to wit an.a@et entitled, ‘An act relating to dis; rning terms ent’ which is as follows.” > P The Cuthbertson anti-injunction law is then quoted. “20—Your orator further represents that said supposed act of the legis-! lature is unconstitutional and void that the said defendants against your orator have not been and cannot be made lawful by ,the said supposed act of the legislaturg aforesaid; that the same controv id is in direct con- flict with the mn of the state ith the constitution , of the United The bill thetffHasks the judge to restrain the sti union members— “From pie or = maintatning any picket or premises of at or near the orator or along the from carrying out an agreement with the United Gar- routes followed by the employes of your orator in going to and from their homes, and to and from the place of business of your orator. . “From patrolling, or congregating in front of or near’ the premises or the homes of the employes, “From watching or spying upon places of business of your orator or upon the employes. “From soliciting or inducing, or at- tempting to induce or influence per- sons not to enter or continue em- ployment with your orator. A. F. of L. Scabbery Exposed, “Your orator further charges that on June 29, 1925, your orator entered into an agreement with the United Garment Workers of America, a ‘voluntary organization, regarding the terms and conditions of employment of its employes. ; “The defendants and other persons confederating with the defendants, and whose names are to your orator unknown, further unlawfully com- bined to force and compel your orator to abrogate said last mentiohed dgree- ment by the unlawful méijis” herein- above set forth,” ry RIFF LEADER OFFERS PEACE TERMS TO FOES Demands. Freedom for the Riffian State PARIS, July 24.— According to a story published tn; the Quotidien, Abd- el-Krim Is willing.to grant peace terms to France and Spain, the main features of which are the following: The Riff state shall be granted in- dependence and that Krim shall have the title of Emir. Sultan Moulay Youseff, the imperialist tool shall have spiritual rutership over Morocco, The Riff territory shall extend to the Quergha river and should include the towns of Lareha, Arzila and Teu- an. The Riffian nation shall have the right to matintiin its.own armed forces. a Paper ’Victories. In view of, the tremendous opposi- tion to the Morocco campaign, pre- vailing. in France, it is expected that Painleve and: his.socialist supporters will have difficulty, in refusing to treat with the Rifflam-leader: Since Petain went to Morocco the wor ministry press agéfits have been predicting French victories as soon as the field marshal got into action, According to plan the victories are coming in—over the wires. These paper victories are not taken very seriously by a public that was fed on lies during the four years of the world war, * see Seek New Anti-Riff Frontier. MADRID.—French delegates to the FrancoSpanish conference wish to establish a new frontier between the French and Spanish zones in Moroc- co, according to the newspaper de- bate today. The French also demand- ed that they be allowed to pursue the. Moroccan rebels in both French and Spanish zones, a right which Spanish troops would have recipro- cated. BRITISH TRADE _ UNION SOVIET REPORT BEGINS Historic Document to Run in Daily | The first instalment of the official report made by the British Trade Union Delegation that visited Russia in November and December of last year, begins today in the magazine supplemént‘of the daily, It is no dxag- Seration ‘to’say that this is uae of the | most imporiant documents published in recent histury. This report is signcd hy men whose names are household words ia Great Britain, ‘én’ the continent ct Europe end thrudut the world. None of them are Conmmunists, and for this reason their report on a country govern- ment by a Communist Party is all the more valuable, Members: of Delegation. The members of the delegation are | Herbert Smith, president Miners’ Fed- | eration of Great Britain; Ben Tillett, general secretary of Trade Unions since 1889; John Turner, associated with socialist movement since 1884; John Bromley, M. P. ‘general secre- tary of the: Locomotive Enginees and Firemén’s Union; Allan A. H, Find- lay, president Engineering and Build- ing Trades Federation; A. A. Purcell, chairman of delegation, president of the International Federation of Trade Unions; Fred Bramley, secretary of delegation, general secrétary Trade Union Congress, =» - In an advisory capacity were Har- old Grenfell, formerly ranking naval officer, now, member of ‘the Indepen- dent Labor Party; A’R. McDonel, for- merly employed by the foreign office and in the consulate service; George Young, formerly "in the diplomatic service, Author of many works on foreign affairs, ~ H ‘The report created a sensation in Great Britain and was assailed by the capitalist. press and the yellow so- | cialists, No worker should miss the opportunity to read for himself the story told by this representative dele- gation. Bank Bandits Caught. - | VENICE, Ul, July 24.—One bandit | was shot and perhaps fatally wound- ed and three others captured after they had robbed the Venice State Bank here. this: morning and in mak- ing their escape, encountered a squad of detectives’ passing thru the city. an announced increase their houses a ay oH Lock Out Miners Who Protest Gouging HAZLETON, Pa, July 24—Two hundred miners wei f Dandy Run colliery of the M. S. Kemmerer Co., when they protested agali from $3.60 to $7.26 a ton: es Exposed AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) trying to play the role of an Ein stein, Rane a: HE dictatorship of the fascists in Italy would not last twenty-four hours, if it had to depend on Musso- lint alone or eyen on his cutthroat army, It survived until now because it had the support of the big indus- trialists.. They financed it. in its youth and they have nourished it ever since. But the damn thing can't work because the days of the dictatorship of capitalism are numbered, whether open or masked. It is the dictator- ship of the few over the many, that fs slipping in Italy. . eee Br entirely different situation exists in Russia, There we have a dictatorship of the millions of work- ers and peasants exercised thru the Communist Party, For what purpose? Not to set up a dictatorship as the model form of government for all time, but as a means whereby the rob- ber system of capitalism shall be sup- planted by production for use, and to insure that this transformation can take place with a minimum of disor- ganization. In fact, if we take democs raty to be the rule of the majority, this dictatorship in the Soviet Union, is the most democratic government iy. the world today. eee UT the Communists are not play, ing with words or interpretations, They say it is a dictatorship and that furthermore the workingclass move- ment in all ‘countries will inevitably pass thry this stage before a class- less society is attained where all will be producers and government as we know it now will disappear, because all governments are and have been organs of suppression, the suppres- sion of one or more classes by one or more other classes. Naturally, when all classes disappear, there will be no further need of suppression. The dictatorship in Russia is the servant of evolution." The caricature that ex- ists in Italy is trying to hold back the wheels of progress, | te wes Te? Italian dictatorship is doomed failure. Even its original sup- porters admit that things look any- thing but bright for it now. This does not mean that the capitalists in other countries will not adopt the same me- thod that Mussolini adopted rather than see the working class ride into power. They will. Drowning men grasp at straws and if anybody is foolish enough to believe that the cap- italists in all, countries will not re- sort to violence rather that surren- der their easy graft, that person does not even read the newspapers. at a (VEN England, long heralded to the four winds as the motherland of democracy has a rapidly growing fas- cist organization, financed by some of the leading tory politicians and land- owners. Prominent army officers are at its head ‘and it has now reached the stage where it marches armed through - the stteets and breaks up working class meetings. And it does so with impunity. While the opposition to Mussolini in Italy does not come entirely from the working- class, the time will arrive when many of those leaders who are) now fighting the black shirts will fight the dicta- torship of the workers just as vigor- ously. Mussolini was right when he told his petty bourgeois opponents that after fascism would come Com- munism, Yes, if not immediately, at least in the not far distant future, Over Democrat Steck ' in Ballot Recount WASHINGTON, July 24.—Daniel F, Steck, democrat, will. fail in his ef- fort to oust Smith W, Brookhart, in- surgent republican of Iowa, from his senate seat if he is not able to pick up votes faster than hé-has thus far in the recount here, it was indicated Brookhart so far has gained ten votes over Steck with about one-tenth of the ballots counted. Friends of Brookhart were jubilant over the progress of the recount and predicted that the insurgent senator would in- crease his “majority of 1,400 over Steck. Approximately 150 ballots have been challenged, two-thirds of them being Steck ballots with an arrow opposite his name, E FOREIGN EXCHANGE, NEW YORK, July 24.— Great Bri- tain pound, 4.85%, cable 4.85%; France, franc, 4.72, cable 4.7244; gium, franc 4.63%, cable 4.64; Italy, lira 3.65%; cable 3.66; Sweden, krone 26.84; cable 26.85; Norway, 18,22; cable, 18.24; Denmark, krone 22.13; cable, 22.15; Germany, mark, no quote; Shanghai, tael 78%, no quote. jf j i locked out at the for the co 4 4 a ? one