The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1925, Page 5

a x * oe Five *-GOPS BEHAVE AT % et MEETING | TO AWD CHINESE Workers “Paster Ready to Make Fight NEW YORK, July 29—(FP)—The Workers Party and the Young Work- ers League held a successful Hands Off China meeting on Union Square, scene of a police invasion the previous week that broke up a similar meeting. Officials of the party had served, nu tice that they would ‘continue to meet and Wottld’test the law on this issue and the «American Civil Liberties ~ Union had ‘announced that its legal Such a’ test. Speakers included Charles Krum. " bein, district organizer for the party; *’ Professor ‘Jegerson H. Lamb of ‘tne “southern Chinese University at Shan- ..-- Shai; Rebecca Grecht and I. Amter, " A résolution unanimously adopted declared that “This meeting of work- ers declates its solidarity with the Struggling Chinese people and ‘calls upon the Workers of the United States and especially the organized workers, to life up with the Chinese people against the bankers of Wall Street.” The resolution ends with a Hands »,. Off China -addressed to the United States government. N. Y, State Federation of Labor to Meet in Manhattan August 25 ALBANY, N. ¥., July 29—The cam- paign against prison labor and the fight for a more adequate workmen's compensation law will feature the 62nd annual convention of the New York State Federation of Labor, open- ing in the Hotel Onandago, August 25. Group insurance for labor unions, staf was available for the party in.) a factory inspection and the campaign for the union label are other subjects slated for discussion. Preceding the federation conven- tion will be separate conventions of the state painters, electrical workers, plumbers, carpenters, stationary en- gineers, metal tradesmen, cigarmak- ers and barbers, —_— FROM SIBERIA by . LEON TROTSKY $1.00 A story of escape from exile. OUR DAILY A DAINTY SUMMER FROCK « 5161” Figured silk and crepe ~‘ultine are combined in this) pretty |. ‘model, *It- is also good for printed | mo: *erepe;: for batiste or handkerchief linen. : / The *attern is cut in 3 sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years. An 18 years size re- quires 14% yards of figured material for the dress portions, if made as il- lustrated in the large view. Without the cascade 1% yard of plain material is required. The wien at the foot is 2% yards. “NOTICE TO time yc tal BUYER: yee - thru ee ER ig | A ee rer ae fi eet baths @ week would be allowed. "| years of age. ees ae " SOLDIER PRISONERS THRUST. BLACK: HOLES, DEPRIVE “COMFORTS, WORKED, By M. J. pecial to The Daily Worker) ALL SLAVES SUSTER , ‘ S) HONOLULU, Howad (By Mail).—On the 27th day of October, 1924, I was confined in the guatd house at Fort de Russey, Honolulu; T, H. under the 98rd Article of War. Placed in a cell which held eight men. two suits of fatigue clothing, two suits of underwear and one blanket, My toilet articles were kept in the guard | office until it was time for me After being confined for +- to wash, two days I was given my necessary toilet articles to keep in the cell with me, Confined in Black Holes. No reading of any.sort-is allowed at any time in that guard house and smoking is also prohibited. If a man Wayts to.smoke or read-he has to steal sneak it into the cell with him, thereby learning to be a sneak thief. After, being there for nineteen days I was transferred to the guard house at Fort. Armstrong, Honolulu, ee which was a shell store room in a gun emplacement parapet. It was eight feet wide and twenty feet in lengti. Bleven men slept in ‘this small cell, It could only be compared.with the black hole’ of Calcutta. Two of the eleven men had to crawl over other beds to enable them to get out of the cell. The ventilation was very poor, and the air was foul. When I arrived there, I was again stripped and the same regulations as at Fort de Russey were enforced at Fort Armstrong, only our clothes and toilet articles were put in a room out- side in the guardroom and kept locked except for fifteen minutes in the morn- ing, noon and night. Ask Recreation—Given Prayer Book. At these times the prisoners were allowed to wash. When I was first confined there, no reading. material of any sort was allowed. Only one bath a week was permitted to be taken by the prisoners. One cigaret after each meal was permitted the prisoners, under super- vision of the officer of the day, or non-commissioned officer of the guard, After being confined for two weeks, the prisoners made a protest to the chaplain requesting some sort of rec- reation,, which he took up with the com: ding officer (Lieutenant Colo- nel Hurry T. Matthews) and was al- lowe ‘to give each of the prisoners and army prayer book. Worked Like Slaves, The. prisoners again protested against the treatment, upon which an order was issued, that if the*prisoners worked hard and had good behavior reports:¢or the week, they would be allowed smoking and reading on Sun- days and holidays. Also that two On one ecasion je using a mat- tock to, clear a baseball diamond of sod; .a;prisoner put his hand on his back and straightened up as if in pain. Lieutenant Colonel Harry T, Mai prisoner he was the cause of all of them losing their privileges on the next Sunday. ews seeing the action, told the Getting a DATLY WORKER sub or two will make a better Communist of you. PATTERNS A PRACTICAL GARMENT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN 4568, Here is @ style that will ap peal to the busy mother of little chil- -| dren,-especially those of the “creeper” age. This design provides a conveni- ent closing at the inner seam, which is very practical for children below 2 The garment may also be made with this seam closed, for ‘the back is in drop style. ‘The’ Pattern is cut in 3, sizes: 6 Mmonths( 1 and 2 years. A 6 months size requires 1% yard of 86 inch material. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send 120 i silver or stamps for a Up-to- ig Book of mibagd rwkhndo. sine work hard for their money; Veit hac ah sent on SDENTHBOS Oa 645 Smithfield Stre pirraeuhane ag When I arrived there I was stripped of my clothing and About ten minutes later, I was given AS WE SEE IT | (Continued from page 1) robbing them, praise Bryan because they know that it pays to cater to popular prejudice. They all know that Bryan was one of the greatest windbags in American history. x **¢ * NITED STATES bankers have grabbed off a big chunk of the Stinnes coal properties. They divided the spoils with British bankers. The international bankers are floating around like buzzards ready to gobble up everything that can be turned into profits. The money they used to buy the Stinnes property belongs to the American and British workers, but the profits that will be sweated out of the German coal miners will be lavished on the parasite daughters of the rich while the producers are lucky to get a bare existence. soe HE Riffians are now on the offens- | ive, so the capitalist papers con- sign the news to the more secluded quarters of the newspapers. When the French were advancing the story got the headlines, and the press dwelt with glee on the ‘slaughter of women and children by bombs dropped from the air. Even should the French im- perialists succeed in winning a tempo- rary victory, they cannot quell the aroused spirit of the natives who want to free their land from foreign rule. see ASTIANI NINI, fascist leader for foreign organizations is due for a visit to the United States. This is in- teresting::'Nini is coming on an in- vitation; from fascist societies in America, and will take with him greet~ ings from Benito Mussolini himself. What an'‘nproar would be created in the United States if Gregory Zinoviev signified his intention of paying a visit to tis country on the request of the Workers (Communist) Party? Indeed, Coolidge would call out the army and the nayy would be relieved from booze di long enough to guard the coas' st the entrance of the sec- yotary of the Communist Futernationst, NR ee ae eS J bourgeoisie have no objection to the coming of the fascist envoy, tho the, ftalian workers in America have. The, ‘former know that fascism stands for capitalism in all its horri- ble nakedness, The workers, on the contrary ‘have reason to hate it. In Italy the Pascisti smashed the trade unions and’ the political organizations of the workers. That is the very rea- son why the capitalists favor it, when the necessity for it arises. E 6 e HE Soviet government has’ estab- lished health resorts for peasants straight from the soil. This year, the government has assigned two million roubles for assisting the peasants to get cpred at health resorts. The change in the livipg conditions of the peasant who eme! frofa his crowd- ed hut and enters the comfortably in- stalled sanatorium is said to be im- pressive. NY Ref setae eal THE DAbex WORKER FOLK BEING WON TOREVOLUTION Face Difficult Problem of Organization By DR. KARL F. SANDBERG. (Special to The Vaily Worker) OSLO, Norway (By Mail).—Of the different industries of Nor the filisheries occupy: a very prominent position. Fishing to supply the daily demand for food: amounts to some- thing almost. beyond compute, but when we speak of the fisheries we generally do not even consider this ‘but think of the large influx of fish occurring regylar times of the year at fairly regular-places. They are the herring fisheries of the west Sige | hae the cod fisheries of Lofoten Finmarken. All three take maas in winter or early spring, the weather is cold, storms frequent. Fishermen ;from points all along tne coast, even hundreds of miles away, flock to them, choking the harbors with their vessels and emptying the stores of the town. From these har- bors they set out many miles into the open sea and set their nets and lines, bringing their gatch back to the har- bor. Some-of them apply themselves to | fishing all the year round, some work between the fishing seasons in differ- ent industries, but most of them have | small farms on their home shore and cultivate these in the summer. As a class the fishermen are probably the most exploited of all labor. Of this they are well aware, and being, thru the nature of their work, men of quick decision and fearless action, they form an element of the very highest importance to the social revolution. Organization is Difficult Problem. On account of the seasonable and localized character of their work or- difficult problem. The Norwegian Federation of Labor-in 1915 succeeded in organizing the Northern Norway Fishermeh’s Union, the ‘declared spe- cial object*of which was “to unite the fishermen ‘in @ trade organization for the punpose of improving the condi- tion of the class thru co-operative buying and upited action in selling, with the aim im vjew of being able to jointly take Ae the production and distribution.” The union secured a large number, of members and formed locals all over northern Norway, but to get “further than teat oo the fshermen forms a fishing "I as much, however, as this could be done better thru the co-operative society sand «the union was unable to take: hold of the prep- aration and distrijution of the proid- ucts, the locals guadually died and thu union has shown no sign-of life during the last three or four years. As far ag known one local only, the one in Vardo, got started with prepar- ation of the fish; this still exists and now does a considerable volume of business. in the last couple of years two new mpts have however been made whi seem to promise well, Vesteraalefi Fishermen’s Sales League organized tnd now managed by Haak- on Rambef} and West Finmark Small Farmers’ dnd Fishermen’s Union. The fundamental idea of these is the preparation and distribution (mainly the drying ‘and exportation) of their fish, and they are preparing to fit out vessels to follow them to The Official Report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia Russia RUSSIA TODAY, is the official report of an im- partial official body of British Labor—who (with special experts) have travelled unhindered thru every section of Soviet Russia, and in their report give a complete picture of life in the world’s first workers’ government. sett No book in years has received so much ‘attention from the world trade union movement.” In Eng- land alone over fifty thousand copies 6f'the book were sold. All workers who wish for world trade union unity have given high praise to tis book. Capital and its henchmen have denouiited it bit- wie RUSSIA TODAY should be in the hands of every worker. $1.25 (Duroflex Cover) A book of the INTERNATIONAL PUBLIS: Ss Congas $1.75 (Cloth Bound) Publish: also of FLYING OSSIP (Stories of New Russia) $2.50 LITERATURE AND REv.- LUTION, ee Trotsky 7 gs * Co. Sometimes the WORKER is overlooked. overlooked in your branch. English branch of the W. P.” shot. WORKER. the DAILY WORKER.” BUILDERS AT WORK THE SIMPLEST WAY TO GET SUBS It Worked i in Boston subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER. Comrade Jim Lacey of Boston brings this little fact to our-attention. He wonders why nothing is said about subs received right at the meetings. “That's the way these three subs were secured which | enclose. Charge them off against Louis Gilbert of the Young Workers League of Roxbury—and they were obtained at the last ‘meeting of the Boston the So the simple matter is not the least effective by a long Get up on your feet at your meeting, clear your throat and throw your chest out and speak up for Make every member of the Workers (Com- munist) Party a subscriber to the DAILY WORKER to build a better Workers (Communist) visitor to your branch meetings will be glad to subscribe. Simple? Surely! But also another good way to “Build TWO BILLIONS IN PROFITS IN SIX MONTHS OF 1925 Big Gain Grar Years of 1923 and 1924 By LELAND OLDS, (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Dividend and interest payments to » owning class in the first half of Par rere 5 amounted to $2,044,455,000. This easiest way to get a sub to the DAILY xceeds by $112,594,000 the anieay) And without question it is often distributed in the first six months 0! 1924 and by $202,679,000 the first half For instance—do you at every branch* meeting ask for 3 i The 1925 payments for six months to the owners of stocks and bonds exceed those of any full year prior to 1916 when war profits carried the annual total over the two billion mark for the first time in history, Now the half year’s payments exceed two billion dollar mark for the first time in history. In 1918 the investing class received $1,7 000, in 1914 $1,787,376,000 nd in 1915 $1,865,112,000 in dividends and interest for the entire year. He writes: the DAILY Employment Slumps; Profit Gains. Dividends alone totaled $548,605,000 tor the first half of 14 campared with $523,341,000 in the same period of 1924 and $500,205,000 of 1923. In spite of the slump in employment fol- lowing 1923, the rich man’s cash re- turns from industry show a steady up- ward tendency. By months the div- idends and interest payments of 1923 Party—and surely every were: Dividends & 1925 Dividends Interest Jan. ....$158,580,000 $455,080,000 Feb. - 79,300,000 01,000,000 March . 87,950,000 ’ 50,000 April 94,450,000 404,700,000 May 59,725,000 328,225,000 June ... 68,600,000 322,100,000 The relative importance of interest payments to the total income of the investing class shows an extraordin- ary increase over prewar years. In 1913, 1914 and 1915 over 40 per cent of investment income came from stocks, the percentages being 47 per cent, 46 per cent and 42% per cent. But in 1923, 1924 and 1925 dividends have constituted only a little over one-quarter of such income with ap- proximately 73 per cent coming as the fisheries and take catch, over their Fishermen Mostly Unorganized. But outside off thése ‘the great fish- er population of, florthern Norway is ‘/unprganived “and meretore a detenso: less prey both onthe economical and political field. ,Politics does not ap- peal to them, anyiefforts at organiza- tion must therefore’ be based on their economical interests and necessarily take the form of eo-operative associa- tion. There is hardly any danger of this assuming the petit bourgeoisie and conservative character of the consum- ers co-operatives. The moment the hold of the preparation, distribution dnd export of fish they get in direct opposition not only to the local capi- talists, but also the capitalist state. The apparently most non-political de- | mands on their part automatically he- come measures of the great bolitical | bearing, and organizational attempts lo better their conditions neces ily lead to the most uncompromising class war. Get a bundle for every meet- ing of your trade union local. fishermen thru their organization take | | gond interest. Mortgage on Industry. As the income of’ investors has in- creased by more than 120 per cent, the bulk of that increase represents a-huge mortgage on the country’s economic life, perhaps the most im- portant result of the war from a de al mestic standpoint. Here is complete absentee ow! : ship—owners with no connection wath GRAIN *CO-OP" DIES; TRIED 10 GOUGE FARMERS : * management. It produces the eYor- Big Wheat Combine Had bitant fixed charges in industry which . | inflate costs to the point where there Operated Illegally | must be either low wages:or unem- ployment. The burden will continue to grow for it can be reduced only thru insolvency and insolvency means @ breakdown of the system. Dirigible in Fleet Maneuvers. LAKEHURST, N. J., July 29.—After The four big grain companies, the Armour Grain company, Rosenbaum Brothers, The Rosenbaum Grain cor- poration, and The Davis-Neland-Mer- | ill Co., of Kansas City, will shoulder | the possible loss of ‘the $4,000,000 ad- | vance to finance the first year’s opera- | eight hours’ flight from Norfolk, Va., tion of the grain marketing Co. This |thru squalls, thunderstorms and a $26,000,000 fake co-operative enter- | heavy fog, the naval dirigible Shenan- prise officially died with the expira- | doah returned to her hangar here early |tion of the options to buy the physical |today. The Shenandoah, operating un- |properties of the four companies for der sealed orders, participated in fleet $16,000,000. |aneuvers off Norfolk Dismissal of the action brot betore | Political Turnover in the rooms: the Illinois commerce commission be- BUENOS AIRES, July 29.—Prest- cause the big co-operating concern | dent De Alvear’s cabinet remained in was operating elevators in Illinois |office today after refusal of their re- without the necessary certificate of | signation offered in sympathy with the CHICAGO WORKERS! ! Rally to the Support of Your Press at the FOURTH ANNUAL WORKER'S PRESS PICNIC Sunday, August 2nd RIVERVIEW PICNIC GROVE Given for the Benefit of the Communist Newspapers THE ENTERTAINMENT OF MILITANT WORKERS convenience from the commission was minister of interior. The minister was one of the final acts of dissolution. | removed for “political reasons,” Belmont and Western Aves. and for op CONTESTS fefererererere aw gititiio GAMES MUSIC WILLIAM Z. FOSTER and others. Admission 50 Cents “UO Mckets on sale at THE DAILY WORKER office and at all other ‘working class newspapers and centers. REFRESHMENTS MERRIMENT “DANCING PRIZES SPEAKERS: a Workers Party Party i’ ———7E