The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1925, Page 5

| , TRAINING CAMPS | ARE CONDEMNED BY MACHINISTS Local 337 Hits Stand of El Paso Convention Freiheit Ledge No. 337, Internation- al Association of Machinists, at its last regular meeting passed a resolu- tion condemning the attempt of the El Paso convention of the American Federation of Labor to aid the war plans of the bosses by helping the re- cruiting of workers ge the Citizens’ Military Training Can The resolution, Wh! Ae exposes the camps as a plan’6f the open shop bosses to furnish cinnon fodder for the next impéfialist’ war, states: Whereas, ‘The Citizens’. Military Training Camps até an institution run jointly by ‘the bosses thru the Military Training Camps Association and the war-department for the pur- Dose of bringing: military training to those young, workers in shops, mills and mines who, will, be expected to make up 90 per.cent,of the army in * the next war; and Whereas, The Military Training Camps Association is composed of big “open shop” employers, including such infamous labor haters on its ad- visory board as'Richatd T. Crane, Cy- rus H. McCormick, Frank O. Lowden and thru the Pullman corporation is eonnected up with «the war-loying house of Morgan; and Whereas, The Military Training Camps Association dominates the pol- {ey of these camps and does its best to see that the camps turn out scabs and strike-breakers as fast as they turn out cannon-fodder; and Whereas, With the other bosses co-operating in large donations and by giving young workers a month's extended “free vacation” with full pay as a bribe to induce them to at- tend the camps, the camps are re- cruiting greater, and greater numbers of young workers each.year who are given the most intensive military training possible in a month so that they will be ready for, the fast ap- proaching war; therefore, be it Resolved, That we condemn the at- tempt of the El Paso convention to offer the machinéry of the A. F. of L. to the bosses for use in their war Schemes and that we at all times condemn any attempt on’the part of the bosses to organically connect the , American Federation of Labor with the war department to further aid the bloody plans of the imperialists or to any way help in the recruiting. of young, workers expected to serve as cannon-fodder to another slaughter, (Signed) Matt. Wirthmer, Recording Secretary. BUILDING STRIKE IF USE OF GRANITE FROM SCAB TOWNS CONTINUES The Granite Cutters International Union Association of America has warned Chicago architects and builders that if they continue to use granite from Cold Springs and St. Cloud Minnesota, a strike on construction work will follow. The granite quarries located in these two towns, which supply most of the granite used in this city, are unfair to organized labor. The let- ter sent out by the union is signed by David D. Gibb, president. Prove Guilt of Three Cerna Fascists (Contitimed from page 1) the aaa of the court, Kinder- mann and ® jcht denied their guilt and corrol essentially the ac- tual statem: Which they had made in the preliminary examination. The alleged scientific purpose of the expedition was exposed by the court as untenable and ridiculous. Any German group of students, not to speak of Communists, with scientific aims could come into the Soviet Union without fear, without masking themselves with party credentials. It is a fact that the members of the ex- pedition® code telegrams be- fore thél and made arrange- ments in’ rest, 3 the expedition rep- res to be Commun- orroborated to the Second auesiion:; How is it to be explained that’ Wolscht and Kinder- mann dénied' theif guilt and provided their own explanation for the points in question?- With regard,to, Kindermann, he has himself explained this, by admitting that in the preliminary examination he simulated in part. He told his fellow- prisoners that he had inserted a few unbelievable things into his state- ment in order later to have the possi- bility of rejecting the statements. He reckoned upon freedom and reward as thanks for his statements. When, however, he grasped that the G. P. U. did not need him, he decided to re- turn to his masters once again. Be- fore the court he supported himself in an obvious manner upon govern- mental and right wing circles in Ger- many by imparting the information that he had celebrated the birthday of the kaiser in prison and that the Ehrhardt hymn was his favorite song, etc, ¥ Kindermann attempted to mislead the examining, judge by declaring for instance, that Wolscht was identical with Boldt, or that Wolscht’s father was dead. In this way Kindermann also misled the German press .which immediately jumped at the conclusion that the G.-P. U. had ‘inadvertently arrested inndvents, The investigation of the court proved, without any possibility of ob- jection ‘that Kindermann had lied. Wolscht’s tactic consisted in denying everything,,or,as far as this was not possible, to.,admit the facts but to supply them with a harmless signifi- cance. In his closing speech Wolscht finally admitted himself to be guilty, he reckoned, however, on the support of German public opinion and threat- ened that other people in other places would ‘reply to the court. “Did Not Consider It Necessary.” Third question: Has the court at- tached any;;sifinificance to the state- ments of Roge,and Fink and the sworn declarations, from Germany? Answer: ie report attached the greatest significance to the state- ments of Rose and Fink and these partly corrobbrated the statements of Dittmar: Naturally, neither Rose nor Fink could admit that they were con- sul. membérs; , The explanation of Fink, why he, did not carry out the re- quest made by. Wolscht’s father in a letter, that. he should discover whether Wolscht app: Ehrhardt “organizations, is typical: OUR DAILY PATTERNS A PRACTICAL UNDER GARMENT 4714. ‘Thib' style may be finished with shaped shoulders or a camisole top, aud straight or knicker leg por- tions. Muslin, cambric, crepe, sateen flanneletts or crepe de chine may be used for this model. The pattern is cut in seven sizes: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 years. A 12- year size requires 24% yards of 36-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. NOTICE TO te ge BUYERS--~The petierns,be being thru the DAILY ER pattern sodpuiactiaet are fur- Woe New York firm of pattern manufacturers, Orders are forwarded by DAILY W te of mall order, ee ct lmpatien x re pattern is emma on hand. Delivei t= nf Will take at Toast {0 il Grétonne and unbleached 4993, muslin are combined in this pretty model. One could use sateen or linen in place of the muslin, It is also at- tractive in percale with pipings in a contrasting color. The pattern is cut in four sizes: Small, 34-36; medium, 38-40; large, 42-44; oe large, 46-48 inches bust measure. A medium size requires 2% yards of saat materia! and 1% yard of plain m: aaaterial 36 inches wide, FABHY ON poo. NOTICE! for out 0 coe in ane be itp Hy al irticle on “ares ogame” bot points of the needie the vacious simple valuable hints to the home us! cones eS ‘ T Vink explains that it did not occur to him that this was necessary, With regard to the sworn declarations of the German«professiors which almost all arrived after the close of the pro- ceedings, it was not possible for the court to consider them ag decisive for the reason alone that in the best case these professors made statements re: ferring to matters of which they could not be aware, for instance, wether the secret organization consul maintained certain connections with any even the most legal organization or with any of its members, as for instance the stu- dent organization or Student Aid service. Confession Confirmed. Fourth queston: What produced the confession of Dittmar? Did the court find no elements which lessened the worth of this confession and the de- cisions of the court? Answer: The confession of Dittmar is the result of a psychological and po- litical turn which took place under the influence’ of a basic revision of his previous life. The court had no rea- son to doubt the honesty of his con- fession. “The statements of Dittmar were what is more, strengthened by those of Kindermann and Wolscht and Baumann. Plan to Undermine Soviet. Fifth question: Is there a reason to regard the accused as a troup of the international reaction? Is not the youth of the accused and their ob- vious adventurous temperaments in contradiction to the extensive plans. for the undermining of the Soviet power? Answer: As far as the member-| ship of the accused to the organiza- tion consul was proved before the | court, their youth ceases to play an important role. Just this youth and the cireumstance that the accused | presented themselves as students was | a cover for the criminal intent with which they came to Russia. As far as the adventurous character is con- cerned, this is least of all proved of Wolscht and Dittmar. From the fact that the whole ended with an adventure, it by no means fol- lows that it must, necessarily have done so. If the ‘arrests had not taken Place, the most tragic results might have'.ollowed. The ill success of the so-called expedition is due to the fact that the participants in it considered us to be more naive than we are, and believed themselves able to deceive us. Germany Must Know Facts, Sixth question: Will not the sen- tence have a strong effect upon pub- lic opinion in Germany, as this can be already recognized from the prev- ious press opinions? This question is dificult to answer. As far as the bourgeois press is con- cerned, it has in any case always prev- | iously used the slightest thing in or-| me der to malign us. It is. sufficient to mention the Liepzig Cheka Process which represented a direct frame-up to compromise the Soviet government and the Soviet embassy, or the story of the provocatuer Bozenhardt. Nat- urally, such facts and such an atti- tude harm above all the interests of the German people. If the Soviet press took up the same attitude towards the German, the rela- tions between the two countries could be adversely affected, In the last few years so many feraful sentences have been passed upon Communists, that the firm sentence upon the three fas- cists simply pales’ before them. Nat- urally, German public opinion must be provided with the exhaustive and documentary material upon the Mos- cow consul process, The lies and calumnies must be met with facts and documents. | Your Union Meeting | Fourth i shee July 27, 1925 me of Local and jace of Meeting. 123 N. Clark St., and Structural Iron Work- 10 W, Monroe St. Bost and Shoe, 1939 Milwaukee Ay cama Hebrew, 3420 W. Roose- vel Butchers, Bohemian, 1870 Blue Is- 2 ‘Cie Ave. rs, 180 W. Washington St on orOp 4003 Roosevelt Ra. 2705 W. W. Madison St, W,. North Ave. tn Commercial G Was7 ciyboure fo We, West St., Wau- nters, 2040 W. North Ave, Maki 's Executive Board, th si a St, Lathe ers, 725 S. Western Ave. Longshoremen, Tug, 355 lark M inists, “78th ‘St. and. Dobson M hinists, 1638 N. Halsted St. 0 mae of Way, 1543 W. 103d it Marstenance of Way, 202 W. 47th treet eB83Seahq 3 se Bis sxc 88 $88 $3 Keeae a State gee! *workers, wt: fie re Union of Great aes 355 » Washington St, s, 11826 Michigan Ave, i 220 S. Ashland BI Teal eamniaters, 220 K, Ashland Blvd. ne HE DAILY WORKER TRADE UNIONS IN RUSSIA DISCUSS CARE OF ORPHANS Homeless * Children Is Problem Facing Them By LAURA BRANNIN, MOSCOW, July 26.—The second conference of the "Friends of Chil- dren,” a delegated body of about 1,200 trade union men and women, mostly women, met here last week to fur- ther their plans’ for this work. Discuss World Affairs. The first fuimber on the program, however, wa a ‘40-minute discussion of world affairs’ The subject had no particular’ “connection with the purposes of the conference, but it is the habit in this country of new values to opem every meeting of any size with such @ talk. This speaker was alive, tdld the story graphically, yet -without: teehnical terminology. Written questions poured up to the chairman thruout the talk, but owing to pressure of. other business they were answered in the papers the fol- lowing day.-- ~ Then came ajdemonstration of the tremendous vitality expressed in the average 8s bd here. After reports from various districts, some impatient men attempted to cut off the discus- sion; one woman after another frank- ly told the men to go home, that they had called the’meeting for just that thing and were not to be balked. But while the women wanted to talk things over, they would not listen to speakers who ambled. One little wo- man was repeating herself and the crowd began to applaud, which in Russia means “Cut it short” and she | did. Quickly following this came a motion to limit each discussion to three minutes. Unanimously carried. 50,000 in Homes. At this time Moscow has about 50,- 000 children in homes cared for by the state. One district thru the society is takingocharge of a play ground re- served jug for the homeless young- sters; thjs,is an attempt to so in- terest th that they will find hap- piness in this particular environment and not wahder all over the city. They are given thtee meals a day and a bed at night.’ One delegate reported that a Red soldier club yhad adopted a group of boys. This had already been done by varioug;factory clubs. The society is organist shops where the older children cat be taught trades, this in connectioh With factories where they work a few hours a day and re- ceive academic training in addition. The society was first | bt at the time pf, the famine;'it has now been, di to this” k; has a aber! | Moscow ‘ot 304,000 and 4,000 chil is canes Greek, ‘Workers’ ! Fight; for Right A, ‘of Free Speech NEW YORK—The police of New York, acting under instruction, have stopped siféet meetings arranged by the Greek’ branch of the Workers Party on the west side. Only a short time ago, a speaker and the chairman of the meeting were arrested, the speaker being discharged and the chairman being fined $5 for “disorder- ly conduct!” ) This interference of the police was repeated at the demonstra- tion arranged by the Workers Party and the Young Workers League on Union Square last Friday night. The Greek comrades were not to be daunted by these acts of interference by the police. Either we have free speech—as supposedly guaranteed by the constitution—or the workers of this country should be told openly that there is free speech on the books but not in reality. The Greek branch arranged a meet- ing at 39th St. and 8th Ave. and the meeting was in progress, when a policeman. appeared. an ‘ordered the chairman to, stop meeting. The chairman produced his notice to the police about his meeting; the cop was not satisfied’ and ¢éalled up the sta- tion who instructed''Him to stop the meeting. TWO moré speakers mount- ed the platform as the chairman was arrested, A; fourth ‘speaker mounted the platform,;.but the cop went off with his three victims. The meeting continued with an English speaker. Meantime the three comrades, Anis, Dritsas and Jamos, went to the night court, where the judge inquired what their “crime” was. They were hold- ing a meeting. The judge inquired of the cop why he stopped the meeting. “IL received instruction from the sta- tion.” That is no reason, He asked for the name of the party, took the name and number of the cop and de- clared that free speech will be main- tained. SE NE te tS a i Ne Sith nce ae A AA tae PITTSBURGH, PA, To those who work hard for their money, | will Gave 60 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIS* 645 Smithfield Street, GARY, INO., ATTENTION! “ The DAILY WORKER, Work- ers Monthly,’ Rabotnicza Tri- buna and y Mir aré’for sale at the Workers’ Co-operative Restaurang toot Broadway. a a ae eee aetna Aenea Rentals Page Five LS BUILDERS AT WORK Small and Big Communists Do the Work. Youth Must Have Its Fling in Chicago, Among Builders there need be no age restrictions, Old and young can build the DAILY WORKER—and in Chicago youth is having its day. The Chicago Local of the Young Workers League is in a campaign for subs to the YOUNG WORKER, But is is being conducted in a novel way. Securing the lists of all subscribers to the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Monthly they are making personal visits to, all of them for a sub to the YOUNG WORKER and the YOUNG COMRADE. And they're getting whole stacks of new subs to their papers. But that is not all. While they are visiting the Big Reds for subs for the Little Reds, they are also getting subs for the DAILY WORKER on the way. And never was there a better job done. Area Branch No. 5 alone, in one week has secured 32 new subs to the YOUNG WORKER, one bundle order, one new sub to the DAILY WORKER, one new sub to the YOUNG COMRADE, and several dona- tions, This is the record of only one branch that in one week's time has secured two-thirds of its quota set by challenges between branches. here is another feature of the campaign. And In no single instance where the Flaming (Red) Youth went out to get sub, has a single member failed to come back with less than one sub. Youth is surely setting the pace for Communist activity and the older Builders will have to step lively to keep up—if they can. NUTTY SCISSOR BILL FAILS TO HOLD AUDIENCE Following arrests in Cicero a week ago when two comrades were arrested for speaking on the streets and sub- sequently discharged, another meet- ing was held on the corner of 49 Ct. and 14 St. Thursday night. There was a big crowd. spoke and was followed by Comrade F. G. Biedenkapp who had continued a half hour or so when he discovered he had competition. Across the streets an aspiring young soap-boxer arose. He said he was a god-fearing man who was em- ployed by the American Express company. He said he loved his coun- try and his work. “Those people across the street are Bolsheviks!’ he shouted, “And do you know what? 95 per cent of all Bolsheviks are noth- ing but loafers:and the other 5 per cent are millionaires.” The scissor-bill had a loud voice ‘For a while ‘he attracted the crowd. But when the audience discovered he was a nut, and that didn’t take long, it decided to come back to hear Bie- denkapp talk sense, The freak was put up on the corner to attempt to break up the regular Communist meeting by the bosses and churchmen .of Cicero who could not get the police to stick to their job. The trick didn’t work. Comrade Andolius | Start Communist School Sept. 13 at Los Angeles, Calif. LOS ANGELES, Cal—A Commun- ist School will be started by the party local of Los Angeles beginning Sept. 18, for the purpose of training lead- ers for the movement. The Party School, for Workers Party and League members, will be conducted on the only days that Communists have to themselves, that is, Sundays. There will be. four-one-hour courses given for a period) of six Sundays in succes- sion, from 2 to 6 p. m. The courses to be given are as fol- lows: History of the Labor Move- ment, by Levin; Public Speaking, by Schneiderman; Marxian Economics, by Baker; History of the Socialist Movement, by Kaplan. It is expected that the school will give valuable training to League and Party members who can be useful for our activities, and is attracting a good many who are anxious to enroll. There will be a small entrance fee, and every students will be held rigidly and strictly to business for the few weeks the-courses will last. “The suc: cess of the school will be especially important to the party because of the lack of enuf active comrades who can give their services to the movement. We hope that the idea of week-end Party Schools such as this will be more extensively used by other branches and locals thruout this coun- try, wherever their forces are limited. Labor Defense Dates for Chicago FRIENDLY ORGANIZATIONS, PLEASE RESERVE. SEPT. 13—National Labor mass meeting at Temple Hall, Defense Day, Chicago conference, Ashland Auditorium, small hall, at 12 o'clock noon. Van Buren and Marshfield Ave. 8 p. m.: Defense OCT. 17—Saturday, 8 p. m., Labor Defense dance, Temple Hall, Van Buren and Marshfield Ave. DEC, 10-13 (inclusive)—Defense bazaar at Northwest Hall, North and Western Aves. Friendly organizations are asked to support the affairs as above, and not to arrange other affairs for those dates. RALLY TO THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE! rts] ereerelelelalen dereers rz Areeeseseeeeeee CHICAGO WORKERS! Rally to the Support of Your Press at the FOURTH ANNUAL WORKER'S PRESS PICNIC | Sunday, August 2nd | RIVERVIEW PICNIC GROVE Belmont and Western Aves. Given for the Benefit of the Communist Newspapers THE ENTERTAINMENT OF MILITANT WORKERS CONTESTS fe (eeereeeemicermererer =a sence mle GAMES MUSIC Admission 50 Cents ru ; Tickets on sale at THE DAILY WORKER office and at all other H “DANCING PRIZES SPEAKERS: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER and others. REFRESHMENTS _ MERRIMENT POSTAL WORKERS THREATENED WITH NEW WAGE CUTS | While Big Business Gets Low Rates WASHINGTON, D. C. | Under cover of a congre mittee and official department report. a New-Morgan conspiracy is being hatched against the postal workers. It is just a bare seven months since | these workers recei a raise, pro ed them for the seven years cant four months since post: s were increased to meet this | mis as Jand a | raise in wages Already Postmaster General New, |himself a publisher, is voicing the ery of the publishing and mailorder house magnates that “the post-office budget is a failure” and that “some thing must be done about it.” Hold Hearings In Capitol. A joint congressional committee un- der Senator Moses of Vermont is now holding hearings in the Capital on this matter. Called as its first witness hefore this committee, Mr. New gave testimony based on @ report that he himself cha- racterized as “a merest guess.” He stated that only from 28 to 30 million dollarg ‘will acrue from the increase in postal rates. The workers increase in wages costs the government an ad- ditional 68 million. A deficit of ap- proximately 40 million may therefore be expected. This deficit must be wiped out at the expense of the postal workers, insisted and urged the representative of the U, S. chamber of commerce, the executive committee of Wall Street at Washington, Wage Cutting Working Force. Thru its postal service committee, Lucius Teatir, Col. A. B, Barber, and F. J. Gross, it urged the committee to enforce greater efficiency in the postal service as to be able to cut# down a large portion of the working force, thus wiping out the deficit. They were strongly opposed to any further increase in postal rates to wipe out this deficit. They even in- sisted upon a further reduction in rates, claiming that this would result in a larger volume of business. All this is urged on top of the ‘speed-up” system already instituted by assistant post-master general Stew- art immediately after the wage raise went into effect. A system was then introduced of counting and weighing the clerks’ and carriers’ work—the junit system—and of increasing the carriers delivery routes and. cutting the time allowed for making such de- livery so that even now one man ac- tually does two men’s work. Only in this way is the post office taking care of its everincreasing volume -of business. by a frightfully underman- jned force, Low Rates To Blame. So. far no spokesman has appeared for the postal workers to point out jthat the deficit is due, not to an over- |manned force. or to high wages—$1700 |per year, is their basic wage—but to jthe riduculously low rates that the |publishers and mail order houses are paying for the services. the post office renders, —_—_——_—_ Robbers Break Man’s Neck. One man's neck was broken and three other employes were battered into unconsciousness with crowbars when they attempted early today to stop safeblowers in the act of robbing the safe of the Cascade Laundry com- pany. The dead man was Arthur Long, driver for the company, Telererererererereererere [aa J] aralaialalereren efeleieieleh =Tj rare a ‘ warking class newspapers and centers. Auspices, Workers Party —* eeesciwisvevece se seeemeeieeeieeeeraeey rs a a