The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1925, Page 1

ee The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 173. AS WE SE Subscription Rates: By T. J, O'FLA a fo? Sy - wots sre, AD Clarence DarroW, es, to90 and not William Jenni. Pe the fundamentally superstitiows< erat, been the victim of the grim er so shortly after the Dayton trial; every, pulpit pounder in the country would have attributed Darrow’s de- mise to godly vengeance. As it is, the passing of Bryan will be con- veniently attributed to the will of God. Darrow is still alive, snapping his suspenders, and storing up an- other supply of tears for his next mur- der trial. ee N the paper prepared by Bryan for delivery at the so-called ape trial, Bryan blamed atheism for the Leob- Leopold murder. The downright his- honestly of this claim is a fitting re- ply to the ocean of liquid dung that has inundated the press since the great mountebank passed away, Even one so ignorant as Bryan, knew. yery well that for one atheist convicted of a foul crime, at Teast one thousand evangelists are on the other side of the scales. O VE could spend his time to less ad vantage than listening occasional- ly to the religious ballyhoo artists who work the side streets off Madi- son. A sandy haired fellow was get- ting something like this off his chest a few evenings ago: “I have confidence in God. He is alright. He is on the leyel. He has been square with me. There are few people I would take their words but I would take God's word, I'll say I would. He cleaned me up. He'll cleanse you. Oh, oh, oh, h-o-w he can do a job.” see T this point one of his listeners, who apparently needed salvation, interrupted with “How the hell do you know?” The preacher did not pay any attention, but continued to make comparisons between god and sun- dry gentlemen such as_ politicians, real estate men and saloonkeepers. ‘The wordly men suffered by compari- son, Another man sitting on the curbstone, came tothe defense of the preacher, saying, “He’s alright. He's got the right dope.” * ee HIS was too much for a catholic member of the audience, He waded (Continued on page 3.) MANY SIGNS OF CHANGE IN |LW.W, SHOW PROGRESS M. T. W. Co-operates in Fight on Bosses By HARRISON GEORGE Tt is encouraging, and the first sign of making things better in the I. W. 'W., to recognize that something is | wrong. Because if sincere endeavor is made to rectify the situation, the old mistakes may be labelled for what they are, the past wrong polictes resu Iutely put out and a real new coursy followed which gets results. There fore, the writer gladly points to signs of change and of healthy internal cri- ticism in the I. W. W., which, while it doesn’t go far enough and ts timur- ous of being in violation of the many religious taboos, is the sort of stock taking that precedes change for the better. In the General Office Bulletin for June one sees an article entitled, “What is the Matter With Us?” by a pseudonym “Jean Marat.” The inter. rogation as given is certainly felt by all members of the I. W. W. and it is another sign of the times that the general headquarters officials have (Continued on page 3) wh, ae a ee Disorganized Workers Ask for Leadership MAYNARD,, Mass., July 30.—The American Woolen Co., has decided on a ten per cent wage cut to take place in their mills here on July 27, This wage slash will decrease standard of | living of the readyslow owl part time work. Want Haywood Back At the last meeting of the textile council of the locals of the United Textile Workers thé wage cut was discussed. meeting should be held to get in touch with the mass of the mill workers who are not organized. During the discussion as to who should be invited to speak at the mass meeting, a delegate of the’ loomfixers’ local said that “Bill Haywood should be sent over from Moscow to be the speaker” as he was more reliable in this situation than any of the U. T. W. leaders. But it was finally decided that the meeting should be addressed by one of the union organizers. Call for Special U. T. W. Convention The dissatisfaction of the workers with the wage cut was shown in a re- solution which called on President MeMahon of the U, T. W. to ci a special convention of the union for the purpose of discussing the question of a general strike to combat the wage cut. This resolution was carried unanimously. The textile workers know from bit- ter experience in the past that isolated strikes against wage cuts do not get the workers anywhere. The workers know that it is useless for a couple of thousand of workers in a mill town to strike against a wage cut while thousands of workers employed by the same corporation are at work. The defeat of the cotton workers last fall.and winter in their efforts to stop the wage cuts was caused by the isolated strikes. The organized tex- tile workers of Maynard want a real effective:general strike all over New England. LEN MILLS ill workers which is al- | ng to unemployment,and | It was decided that a mass | vene | In Chicage, by mail, $3.00 per year. Outside cae by mail, $6.00 per year. ES es GENERAL | | | 1 | | Workers Want Unity and Struggle © The resolution of the textile coun- cil here shows the attitude of the tex- tile workers toward the wage cut. They want action on the part of their union officials. But McMahon leader- ship does not believe in fighting the bosses effectively with a wide spread strike, and will attempt to turn the desire of the workers to fight the bosses into futile local strikes which will be broken because the bosses can get the work done in other towns, | country, | thousand from the capital and nearby ICME CC Ly Entered as Second-Glass matter September 21, “Great Klan Show” at Washington, D. C., Begins to Dwindle WASHINGTON, July 30.—The_ na- | tional capital’s “Great Klan Show,” on Aug. 8, in which it haa been planned | to have 50,000 hooded knights march | down Pennsylvania avenue, dwindled today to the dimensions of a lodge parade. Instead of 50,000 klansmen in the line of march, from all parts of the there will be only a few chapters in Virginia and Maryland They will march unmasked. Factional quarrels in the organiza- tion are said to have led to abandon- ment of the plan for a show on a na- tional scale. ‘MacMillan Ship on Ice ship Bowdoin of the MacMillan arctic expedition, is wedged in the Melville Bay ice pack, according to a radio dispatch from Commander MacMillan to the National Geographic Society today. Getting a DAILY WORKER? China, disrupted | sub or two will make a better Communist of you. China on the way to dump the uninvited guests into the Pac | | termined thatthe, right to use the WASHINGTON, July 30—The flag-| tion should no nied the Workers | munists, and net being satisfied with | Party to protest against the machin- 1923, at the PARTY WINS AGAINST COPS Second Union Square Meeting Unmolested (Special ‘to The) Daily Worker) | NEW YORK CITY, July 30—The police of New York faced a solid pha- lanx of 1,000 Communists and sympa- thizers the other might, who were de- streets of New York for a demonstra- (Communist) Pa the police, who titled to censor | ‘The week before, feel that they are en- speeches of Com- the speeches that were delivered at the meeting organized by the Workers ations of American imperialism in je meeting. The district exegutive committee of WORKER. PMco/at Chicago, illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. UST 1, 1925 ready on strike. The reactionary government of Premier Baldwin is swearing in civilians as deputized strike- breakers and mobilizing the navy and army units to crush the strike. British fascisti are volunteering government as police fully authorized to use force against the workers. Baldwin presented a statement to the miners which they were consid- (Continued fon page 5.) | Imperialists See Their Finish ‘ers are concerned, we are finished. | | | |They sill refuse to withdraw jthis assault on the agreement, jattack on the already poor |standard of the miners. ering with a committee of the Trades Union Congress this afternoon. A. J. Cook, Communist secretary of the Miners’ Union said, tion is still the same. W. A. Lee, secretary of the operators’ organiza- tion declared that “‘so far as the ow! Mine Owners Started Fight. The fight comes from the owners trying to cancel an existing agree- meént and demanding wage cuts of 20 per cent ani longer hours of labor. from this If this continues until tomorrow night, nothing can stop the walkout of 1,200,000 British miners, with other unions of rail and transport pledging not to move coal, which in turn may bring them on Strike and involving 5,000,000 men. No One Can Forsee End. Such a general strike is a strong probability and would amount to a state of civil war between labor and capital, a war whose end no one can foresee.” “Complete industrial paralysis” of 4Great. Britain thru sympathetic ac- tion of affiliated trade -unionists with the 1,200,000 coal minéfs scheduled to go on strike at midnight Friday was a possibility predicted today by J. H. Thomas, spokesman for the workers. Thomas’ assertion was made on the.evé of the meeting of the general | council of the Trades Union Congress to draw up plans for a-complete em- bargo on coal as well as joint action | (Continued on page 2) Published Daily except Sunday by PUBLISHING CO., 1113 for service and being accepted by the} “Our posi-! living | NEW YORK EDITION 'W. Washington Bivd., THD DAILY WORKER Chicago, Il. Price 3 Cents (Special to The Daily Worker) LAST HOPE OF STAVING OFF STRIKE FADES; ALL FORCES READY T0 AGT LONDON, July 30—At the close of a day of futile conferences to pre- vent the coal strike, scheduled to go into effect tomorrow night, Prime Minister Baldwin summoned the cabinet into a special meeting in the House of Commons tonight to dis- cuss the situation. | Virtually all hope of staving off the strike has been abandoned. Various agencies of the government already are working to organize the various civil and military forces neéessary to fight against what may develop into a general strike and possible civil warfare. PAPAL COFFERS REPLENISHED BY UNITED STATES American Catholics Are Doubly Plundered (Speciat to The Daily Worker) ROME, July 30.—The coffers of the vatican have been enriched by several | millions thru the gifts brought by American cardinals here during the past year. A fund which is now said to have reached ten millions is being raised for the consolidation éf the catholic educational institutions” in Rome. Most. of..this money .comes from America, where the working class members of the catholic church are solicited for all kinds of religous schemes, | The Methodist church is planning | to build a large educational institution in Rome. It is reported that the | American masons are behind the plan | and the fabalous sums raised by the | Knights of Columbus are in the na ture of counter-offens Naturally, the vatican has no objection to this kind of competition. Resist the Expulsion Policy. of William H. Johnston! Fight for Unity in the International Machinists’ Union! S Sigman in the Intérnational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, so Johnston in the Interna- tional Associaiton of Machinists! Such labor traitors, when con- fronted “by a _ militant left wing movement in their unions, demand- ing a policy of class struggle and backed by mass support, always recur to the desperate jure of expulsion, of splitting the union, hoping thus to get rid of the grow-. ing opposition to their reactionary policies. It is no surprise, therefore, when William H, Johnston of th of M., faced by a mass uphi his union, as a result of his own DISTRICT GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING IN NEW YORK ON SUNDAY NEW YORK, July 30.—A district general membership meeting for the discussion of party problems will beheld Sunday, August 2, starting at one oclock, Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th str it, New York City. The speakers will be C, H. Ruthenberg and Wm, Z» Foster. Auspices District Executive Com- mittee, District Two. Charles Krumbein, Organizer. constant betrayals and business ad- ventures, announces that he pro- poses to expel whole: the. pro- gressives and members of the Workers Party and the Trade Union Educational League, and be- gins with the arbitrary suspension of his election opponent, Anderson, Johnston and Sigman are worthy followers of the treacherous Am- sterdam International, and proper lickspittles of Green, the reaction- ary now at the head of the A. F. of L., who is giving them his active support in their attacks upon the constructive forces in their unions. IKE the needle trades labor trai- tors, Johnston was once a social- ist. He was boosted into power 15 years ago™by the left wing in his union, His whole policy ever since has been one of betrayal. He has ignored and violated every plank of the platform he was elected. on. Tho the membership of the union had demanded amalgamation repeat- edly, he has blocked every effort to consolidate the metal trades. He was one of those who helped wreck the great shopmen’s strike of 1922 by the notorious Baltimore and Ohio SPEAKERS: AND OTHERS WILLIAM Z. FOST a R ourth Annual agreement, and he was the outstand- ing leader in foisting upon railroad workers ‘the notorious “B. & O. Plan” which grew out of the strike settlement. He betrayed the labor party movement into the swamps of LaFolletteism. Under his misiead- ership, the membership of the Ma- chinists’ Union has dropped from 375,000 in 1920 to 75,000 at the pres- ent time. The result of such treason was in- evitable—a growing revolt in the ranks. | The membership demand protection in the shops, and this can come only from a militant policy of organization and struggle, which the Johnston machine refuses to adopt. Three years ago the rising tide of revolt foretold the> present flood. The left wing ticket in the union lections polled a full third of the votes. In the elections just past the only way the Johnston machine could prevent itself from being sub- ‘OW, Johnston proceeds to fur- ther desperate measures. He tries to demoralize and break up the opposition by expelling its lead- ing figures from the union. He ks to create a “red” scare in or- der to cover up his election frauds and to turn the workers’ attention away from the pressing needs, which he constantly betrays. Un- der cover of a red baiting campaign in the best Strikebreaker Daugherty style, it is significant that the first | act of Johnston is the suspension of Anderson—a non-Communist who de! ed him with rank and file sup- port in the last election, But, his is a vain hope and a fu- tile policy. Sigman tried a similar program and with disastrous results to his clique. Beginning two years ago, he expelled a large number of militants all over the country, but he was compelled to readmit them. And present attempt to remove merged and swept away was by the wholesale use of trickery, arbitrary power, and elections frauds. Could a correct count of the votes be had it would show the opposition ticket ected by ibstantial majority. 77 members Of the Executive Boards of Locals 2, 9, and 22, have resulted in at least of the whole Inter- national Ladi Garment Workers’ Union revolting against him. The masses have risen to condemn him CHICAGO WORKERS! Rally to the Support of Your Press at the Workers’ Sunday, August 2nd and for and his policies and to support the fighting program of the left wing. Johnston is going straight to a sim- ilar experience if he tries to enforce the expulsion program, which has been hailed so eagerly by all the enemies of the working class. Johnston’s expulsion» policy has for its purpose the elimination from the union of all those who want to make the union a fighting organ of the metal workers instead of an ad- junct to the banking and real estate schemes of the Johnston gang. The Communists and all’ militant and progressive workers who fight with them in the uhion, will not fall into this trap. They will stay in the union to expose the treacherous pol- icies of Johnston. They will stay in the union to organize the: workers for rank and file control, They’will stay in the union to overthrow the bankers and real estate dealers who now run the union in the interests of the bo: They will stay inthe union to put militant workers at its head who will lead it in a_ fight against the open shop schemes of the bosses. They wil! stay in the (Continued on page 2) GAMES Press Picnic Given for the Benefit of the Communist Newspapers | THE ENTERTAINMENT OF MILITANT WORKERS | REFRESHMENTS British General Strike Involving 5,000,000 May Begin at Midnight LONDON, July 30.—The most bitter industrial civil war ever known to England threatens to begin tomorrow night thru the united fighting front of all British unions in support of 1:200,- 000 coal miners who are due to down tools midnight Friday. action are commencing in battles between Communists and + aeviats. and mass_ mass picketing in the Welsh anthracite region al-¢ Already clashes of labor and re- PAM'S DECISION ‘ON ANTI-STRIKE WRIT POSTPONED Police Again Use Vio- lent Tactics Another postponement of the deci- sion on the bill of the International Tailoring company to secure an In- junction against their striking em- ployes was made yesterday when Judge Hugo Pam, declared he would not render a decision until today or Saturday, Judge Pam had told William A, Cun- nea, attorney for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, conducting | the strike, to telephone him at twelve o'clock, yesterday but Pam postponed his decision. Arguments were com- pleted Wednesday and Pam announ- ced at that time that a decision would be given yesterday. Police Furnish the Violence Judge Pam's decision covers only the constitutionality of the Mlinois anti-injunction law, which the garm- ent bosses declare is unconstitutional. The International Tailoring company is demanding an injunction to restrain the strikers from any form of picket- ing. If the law is declared constitution- al and: peaceful picketing is upheld, Cunnea will then answer the charges of the tailoring company that violence had. been used. by the, strikers. The only violence that has been on evi- dence.on the picket line, the Amalga- mated points out, is the violence of the police and hired company slug- gers who have beaten several pickets. The police violence broke out again yesterday when Rose Cicala, a strik- er, was arrested after being shoved around by the police. Will Picket Despite Odds Speaking of Miss Cicala’s arrest, Isadore Rothbart, business agent of the pantsmakers, said, “The police have given us a rest for several days. Now, however, they seem to have started their arrests again, and per- haps they have more rough stuff in store for “No matter what the odds, however, no matter what faces us, we will stay on the picket line until the Interna tional Tailoring company meets our terms and agrees to sign an agree- ment.” MINERS? INTERNATIONAL STATES JOHN L. LEWIS HAS PLEDGED SUPPORT (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, July 30—M. Vignez, sec retary of the Miners’ International, ‘announced today that in reply to an appeal cabled to the United Mine Workers of America by Frank Hodges, an official of the Interna- tional and of the British Miners’ Federation, the officials of the U. M. W. of A. had cabled a promise to carry out any action desired by the International Federation and to stand by the British miners in case they strike. “All the International Federa- tion asks of the American miners is that they reduce their produc- tion to such a point that there will be no surplus for export,” stated Vignez. MUSIC CONTESTS DANCING PRIZES MERRIMENT RIVERVIEW PICNIC‘GROVE. Belmont and Western Avenues ! Admission 50 Cents Tickets on sale at THE DAILY WORKER office and at all other working class newspapers and centers. * ee Workers Party } ° ae RRRIIGS