The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1925, Page 2

Page Two DAVISON, A. VOTE JUGGLER IN PITTSBURG “Expel Communists” Cries Election Thief By a UNION MEMBER. (Worker Correspondent.) PITTSBURGH, July 30—Secretary- Treasurer Davison of the Interna: tional Lodge, Machinists’ Associa tion showed his fighting spirit last week when visiting Local 491 in Pitts: burgh, one of the B. & O. railroad lodges blessed with the B. & O. co- operative plan but Brother Davison seemed to have no intention of fight- Ing the capitalists and exploiters on the railroads or in the contract shops. Far from that. His venom was di- rected against the militant members of the union, the Communists. He said, “The Communists have continu- ally been fighting us (meaning the of- ficials). Now we will give them all the fight they want, at the last ses- sion of our executive board it was decided to expel all Communists from the union.” Reads Circular Letter. Mr, Davison quoted at length from a circular letter alleged to be issued by the United Industries of Rock- field, Ill, saying that this letter was sent to keymen among organized la- bor, (evidertly that is why he gotj one). The letter dealt with the last election in the Machinists’ Union showing that the Communists had! supported the Anderson slate and also showing the demands made by the Communists. Mr. Davison made his own interpretation of this letter claiming that it showed that the Communists are working with the manufacturers and getting well paid for it. A good many of the union members showed doubt on their faces at this assertion but Davison gathered all his courage and challenged denials from the audience. At this challenge Ed Horacek, member of Local 52, gut up and said: “Its a lie and you can’t prove it.” Davison’s only reply was to ask the local secretary to take Horacek’s name, Local number, and address, evidently so that he may be sure to get him on the slate for expulsion. To further clinch his arguments on why the Communists should be ex- pelled, Davison read a set of minutes which he claimed to be from a secret conference held in Pittsburgh on Feb- ruary 21 at which Communists, men- tioned by name, were present and at which among other matters the Ma- chinists’ Union was alleged to have been discussed. These minutes bore all the earmarks of a fake document. Boosts Boss Plan. Mr. Davison in speaking of the great future ahead of the union (meaning again the official family) stated that the B. & O. co-ogerative plan was now marching “victori- ously” from coast to coast, that other railroads were becoming interested and that soon it would be established on the Pennsylvania railroad and the union would come back strong on that road. He indicated clearly the future program the present machine, which holds control thru vote stealing, as being oae of class collaboration to the greatest possible extent. How- ever, he failed to mention that the fact that the Pennsylvania railroad manageincnt is getting into es*24 in the so-called co-operative plan is natural because it sees a splendid epportunty for the establi:hment of a company union on the roads with the consent of the union officialdom. No live wire will today deny that this class collaboration plan leads to nothing else but company unions. TRACTION TOOLS RAISE GAR FARE IN TWIN-CITIES By G. SOLTIS MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, July 30.—Be- ginning Saturday of this week, a new rate goes into effect covering street car fares. i By order of the state railroad and warehouse commission, the Twin City Rapid Transit Co., is authorized to raise the cash fare from 6 to 8 cents, Tokens will be sold 10 for 60 cents. This new fare is temporary. The car company has gone into the United States district court, asking for a permanent 8 cent cash fare, wirich is being fought by the Twin Cities. AMALGAMATION STATEMENT ON I. A. OF M. CRISIS To the Membership of the International Association of Mathinists— COMMITT Dear Brothers:—The Johnston-Davison administration that’ came into power once more thru fraudulent methods at the election, by stealing votes, etc., has started a war of extermination against the militant and’ progressive elements in the union. took power was the suspension of J, The next move is to be a general expulsion policy international president, One of the first moves of the fake G. B,’B. when it F, Anderson, opposing candidate for against Communists ‘and other militants organized around the Trade Union Educational League. election are incorrect, the G, EB. B. condemns itself by arbitrarily expell- ing its opponents. The International Committee for Amalgamation of the Metal Trades warns the members of the I. A, of M. not to allow Johnston aid Davison to sidetrack the issue. If the Johnston administration were really elected as they claim they could very easily dis- credit their opponents in the eyes of the rank and file, but they do not dare to submit to a recount or a new elec- tian. The International Committee for Amalgamation of the Metal Trades calls upon all locals in the I, A. of M. to immediately protest against the suspension of Anderson and the gen- eral war upon the militant and pro- gressive members. This expulsion policy, if carried out to its logical conclusion, will only lead to a ‘complete demoralization if not destruction of the union, The present G, BE. B. was never elected by the rank and file, it was only able to maintain itself temporari- ly in possession of the union’s ma- chinery by a lot of fake ballots as has been verified by the affidavits from, Local 441 and by violation of the laws of the union. We call upon all locals in the I. A. of M. to demand a recall of the G. B. B. and the calling of a special con- vention to change the laws so as to make it possible to secure honest elections in the future, and to tran form the union into a rea. organ of the class struggle for the benefit of Instead of proving that the charges of stealing the + dit the rank and file both economically and politically, A strong fighting alliance must be up between the left wing and the nderson group under the slogan of a | “Recall of the G, E. B, and a special election.” A national conference of all militant and progressive elements should im- | mediately be called to consider a min- imum program of action, The removal of the present G, EB. B. should not be regarded as an end in itself, A campaign to organize the unor- ganized machinists must be started as well as an intensified campaign for Amalgamation. The International Committee for amalgamation calls upon all militant and progressive members of the I. A, of M. to unite in the struggle against the reactionary Johnston administra- tion on the basis of the following platform. 1. Abolition of the expulsion policy and reinstatement of all expelled. 2. Recall of the G. B, B. 3. A special convention of the I, A. of M. 4. New election of G, B. B. 5. A national left block progres- sive conference, 6. Abolition of the B. and O. plan, 7. Intensified campaign for Amal- gamation of all unions in the metal industry. 8. Organize the unorganized, 9. Lifting the bar against the Ne- gro worker. 10. For a labor party. (Signed) ‘International Committee for Amalgamation of the Metal Trades RESIST THE EXPULSION POLICY OF WILLIAM H. JOHNSTON; FIGHT FOR UNITY OF THE MACHINISTS’ UNION (Continued from Page 1) union to transform it Into a power- ful weapon of the working class. HE suspension of Anderson and the threats to expel all members of the Workers Party and the Trade Union Educational League are blows at the membership—blows at the union itself. It means that any member who asserts his right to criticize the Johnston policies is in danger of losing his union card. The machinists will never support such a policy. It violates a funda- mental principle of labor unionism, namely, that all workers in a given industry or trade, regardless of their political opinion, shall be or- ganized in one union. It would re- duce the |. A. of M, to a sect and eventually wreck it. The Workers Party members and all honest trade unionists will fight such a destruc- tive policy to the death. They will appeal their case to the rank and file on the real issue involved. And their apeal will be successful. These masses will rally to the program of the left wing and they will sweep the reactionary Johnston machine from power, The time is ripe for a _ united front of all revolutionary and pro- gressive forces in the International Association. of Macihnists. The be- trayal of Johnston and his clique has gone far enuf. These misiead- ers should be recalled and a group of fighters put at the head of the organization, men who consider the union not a means to gain for themselves a fat and easy liveli- hood, but an instrument of the workers in the class struggle. A special convention should be called and definite steps taken to amalgamate the metal trades and organ! he three million metal worke! into one great industrial union. , HE MACHINISTS’ UNION must become the militant fighting or- ganization to win better wages and working conditions for the metal workers from the employers. The Machinists’ Union should take the Jead in establishing shop commit- tees organized by the workers to fight for workets’ contro! of the in- dustry. The Machinists’ Union” should abolish all discrimination against Negro workers and take the lead in bringing them into the labor move- ment on an equal basis with white workers. The Machinists’ Union should wage a militant campaign to make the Industries in which the machin- ists work responsible for the work- ers thru insisting that the industry take care of the unemployed work- ers. The Machinists’ Union should SSS SSS EST ee Out Now! The August Issue of Out Now! THE WORKERS MONTHLY 25 Cents a Copy UNCONFIRMED REPORT SAYS SOVIET PLANNED FOR.AT CANTON, CHINA The International News Service in a dispatch dated at Hong Kong, China, Thursday morning at 8 a. m., states, the following: “Plans. are complete for procla- mation of a Soviet government in Canton, August 1, according to ad- vices reaching here today.” The DAILY WORKER has re- ceived no confirmation of this news from other sources at the hour of going to press. Canton, China, is known as the center of the Chinese liberation movement. Its govern- ment has for a long time been in- dependent of the Peking govern- ment and under the control of the Kuomintang Party at whose head stood the great leader, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, = = take the lead in the struggle for the organization of a labor party thru which the workers can fight their political battles against the bosses. It'is because the Johnston machine fears the coming of such a militant fighting union which will win better conditions for the workers in the metal industry that it is attacking the members of the Workers Party and the T. U, E. L. and all progres- sives in the union. AWAY WITH THE THEACHER- OUS AND REACTIONARY JOHN- STON MACHINE! AGAINST CLASS COLLABORA- TION AND FOR CLASS STRUG- GLE! AGAINST EXPULSIONS AND SPLITS AND FOR A_ UNITED UNION! Central Executive Committee, WORKERS PARTY OF AMER- ICA. WILLIAM Z, FOSTER, Chairman. C, E, RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary. Probe Wabash Wreck. DANVILLE, I, July 80—An in- vebtigation was ordered today into the wreck of a Wabash local train two miles East of Tolono, Ill, late Wednesday, The train running trom LaFayette to.Decatur left the track and turned over, resulting in injur- ies to a woman passenger who died later in a hospital at Decatur. Cabinet Crisis in Japan TOKIO, July 30.—Japan today was in the throes of @ cabinet crisis with the entire cabinet momentarily expect- ed to resign, The cabinet, which is a coalition one composed of members of both the Seiyukai and Kensetkaf political par- ties, has reached the parting of the ways over the tax program proposed by Premier Takaaki Kato, influential To Operate On Mussolini. ROMB, Italy, July..30,—~ Premier Mussolini will soon, be operated on for cancer of the duedenum, in the emall intestines, TO AID BRITIS Significance of Big Strike Told by Reid BI ALEX REID. Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee, The eyes of organized labor thruout the world are fastened on the British mining situation. Today the under- ground slaves of the English Isle are Standing with their backs to the wall, their defiance flung in the teeth of their oppressors, the coal barons of England. The threat of the coal barons to cut wages and lengthen hours when the miners are already in a state of semi- starvation finds the railroaders, engi- neers, machinists and shipbuilders, lined up solidly behind the miners in what portends to be one of the great- est industrial conflicts in modern capi- talist Europe. The British railroaders are also threatened with a cut in wages. ‘ All Eyes On Britian. The scurrying of the military and naval lords back and forth to Down- ing street recalls to our minds the ac- tions of the capitalists armed forces prior to Black Friday. Tomorrow the world will know the decision of the mining slayes and the probable re- sults. The tying up of every coal mine in Britain, the tying up of every coal car on the railroad siding, the refusal of the German and French workers to ship a pound of coal to be used against the miners of Britain during the strike. The. Saar Basin miners threw down their tools yester- day, 74,000 strong and the French and German miners are pledged to support the British miners in every way pos- sible. Premier Baldwin, the steel magnate and Tory leader, may intervene to stop the strike. The British govern- ment attempted to stop the last strike and miserably failed as they will this time. The miners failed the last time they struck to get’’their demands. Their failure was due to the black treachery of Hodges and Thomas on what has come td be known as “Black Friday”. No Treachety This Time. There will be no Judas, Thomas or Hodges this time’ to/betray the min- ers, the miners haye taken that power out of their hands. The miners are determined men le ot their hour of prospective gigantié struggle. A bond of common inte has cemented the workers together, which has caused the capitalists of Britain to tremble with fear for their OWnership of the mines and other industries. The unity of the workers in this strike probably: méans the complete overthrow of the private ownership of the mines in Britain. Many capi- talists themselves ‘in Britain have stated that should the strike mature it will mean the nationalization of the mines. The Royal commission, with Chief Justice Sankey, inygstigating the coal mining industry fe years ago, rec- ommended the nationalization of the mines, stating that nationalization is the only remedy for-the mining situa- tion. The miners Have continuously fought for that ever since, and are very strenuously insisting on it now. Fear Nationalization. Fear of nationalization is seen in the hurried meetings between the cap- italists, the first Lord of the Admiral- ty, Baldwin’s Tories, navalists, mili- tarists, and the threat of intervention by the government. These moves at this time are evidence of the fear of the powers of England and the rising power of the revolutionary miners of Britain. The fear of the British capitalists is intensified by the knowledge that militant leadership has supplanted their treacherous lackeys. The left wing of the labor movement in Britain since the Hull conference in Febru- ary of the present year has made such rapid inroads on the British labor movement as a whole that today it is practically dictating its policies, Every real labor leader in the world today is pledging his support to his British brothers, Very noticeable at this time is the support cabled to Hodges by John L, Lewis, promising to support in any way the miners’ in- ternational desired. The fact that Lewis is taking this step is further proof of the rising power of the mili- tant miners in America, exemplified in the Progressive Miners’ Committee of the U. M. Wyof A. Progressive of U, S, Pledge Support. ‘The Progressive Miners’ Committee salutes the miners of Britain. We rec- ognize their struggle is our struggle. We pledge you our support in every way possible. We stand unalterably for national- ization of the mines, with workers control. We greet the workers of the world. We acknowledge the greeting of our comrades and brothers in Rus- sia. Long live the international solidar- ity of the workers! Long live the unit- ed front of all workers against all capitalist exploitation! Forel ign Exchange NEW YORK, July 90.—Great Bri- tain pound sterling 4.85%; cable 4.85%. Frange, franc, 4.75%; cable 4.75%. Belgium, franc, 4.62%; cable 4.63. Italy |jra, 3.67%; cable 3,6: Sweden, kroge 26.85; cable 26.88. Norway, krong, 18.45%; cable 18.48%. Denmark, krone, 22,90; cable 22.92. Germany, mark, not quoted, Shanghai tael, 78; cable not quoted. ODAY, British imperialism prepares to spend more than a quarter billion dollars more “preparing” for the next war—"The War in the Pacific.” stamp of approval on the Baldwin government's building program,” injecting ment race, that will call for tional exertion by the United other nations. ee arliament has put its “cruiser another spurt into the arma- an equal if not greater addi- States and Japan: and perhaps It is natural that the two pacifists, J. Ramsay Mac- Donald and David Lloyd Geor; ment on its fears in the Pacific. labor and liberal parties are hostility to imperialist wars themselves. best of jingoes, and labor wil * * The discussion in the Bri , should heckle the govern- These spokesmen of the anxious to coin working class into political advantages for But when actual war comes, they prove the | not be fooled this time. °* @ itish parliament shows that the Baldwin government must even consider the United States as an opponent; a fear voiced by the Conservative member, Maj. Sir Bertram Falle: when ain ranks third in naval members of the House of he complained that Great Brit- ower in the Pacific, asking the commons if they could be sure of Americs’s friendship. He felt that the United States might be coveting Jamaica or the Bermudas, the Bahamas, the Falkland Islands or even Canada. j American imperialism is making its answer immediately by its plans to establish a base at San Diego, Calif.; jotting tl auxiliary air bases,” in the words ps sin Hearst ing new dirigibles three time: and with a touring range of igantic lighter-than-air aircraft gig e Pacific coast with ress; build- s the size of the Shenandoah, 7,150 miles, while at the same time retaining the lighter-than-air aircraft base at Lake- hurst, N. J» “to render the East safe from European invasion by air.” All this while Coolidge is seeking to propagandize the world with his fraudulent * * It is not impossible that American imperiali disarmament proposals. « * m, in its efforts to gain complete ascendancy in the Pacific, should jockey British imperialism into a hostile position, even forc- ing it into alliance with the mikado's government at Tokio. Canada and Australia, the two great commonwealths of the British empire, come closer to the Pacific policies of Washington than they do those decided in London. This is especially true of the American effort to make the Pacific “a white man’s ocean.” It is Great Britain that is bearing with Japan the brunt of the hostility of the Chinese workers, growing out of the murders of strikers in the streets of Shanghai and other Chinese industrial centers. The Japanese were strong in their criticism of the United States both at the Pacific insti- tute held at Honolulu, Hawaii, recently, and now at the palaverts conductediby spokesmen of many countries at Williamstown, Mass. The way of British empire in the Paci- fic does not lie in an alliance with the imperialism that sails — Wall Street's flag, but rather in co-operation with japanese imperialism against American dollar expansion. It is significant that Great Britain plans for new cruisers as it faces its greatest industrial crisis with the approaching miners’ strike. If British workers know how to unite their forces as they are evidently di trial demands, then they can next imperialist war in spite tinually dangled before their own so-called leaders. British labor is today setting an inspiring the workers of both Japan and the United State: profit by that example as the joing in support of their indus- also unite to war against the of the pacifist illusions con- eyes, even by some of their mple for Let them imperialist race of armaments goes on. Then the day of the ry possible world peace un- der Soviet Rule will approach a I BRITISH GENERAL S 5,000,000 MEN MAY (Continued from Page 1) of other organized workers if the coal strike goes into effect, First Clashe First skirmishes of the strike kept police busy in London and in Wales as Premier Baldwin and his cabinet redoubled their efforts to head off the industrial crisis. Fascists and Communists engaged in a free-for-all fight in Hyde Park, while miners already striking in the anthracite district of Wales attacked the colleries and threw out a few scabs, Nearly 4,000 miners armed with cudgels invaded the mine properties at Ammanford, Wales, where the an- thracite workers are striking, and at- tacked the men who remained at work, dragging the safety men from their positions at the pumps. Police intervened but were outnumbered. An official of the Saron colliery was struck with a charge of buck- shot fired by a miner. Missles were hurled at the mine buildings there, | smashing windows. Telephone wires were cut down by the strikers. Communists Battle Fascists. Four fascists were beaten by Com- munists when members of the black- shirted order attacked a Communist meeting in Hyde Park. The fascists retreated to their London headuar- ters and maintained an all-night guard there, arming themselves with drawn swords. The fascists claimed that further serious disturbances were threatened. Premier Baldwin, after ineffective meetings with the leaders of both sides far into the night, was in con- ference again early today. The state subsidy for operators, to maintain the old wage scale until peace nego- tiations could be completed, was still under consideration, but the pre- miét was withholding that. plan for an ¢léventh hour resort. Trade ‘Union Congress In Session. This far, the miners have stead- “astly Tefused to accept the: wage cut ttle closer. TRIKE INVOLVING BEGIN AT MIDNIGHT o and longer hours proposed by the operators, apparently determined to quit work at midnight Friday unless the operators withdraw their offens- ive 20 per cent cut and longer hours demand. The Trades Union Congress, meet- ing today, will determine the mini- mum scale the miners will accept, and will offer also a proposal that any profits gained by the owners during Augist be applied to make up wages of men who have taken a re- duction. The miners have been reluctant to accept any proposal which affects ad- versely the present agreement with all trade unionists to assist the min- ers in their fight. They are further reassured by the agreement of the International Miners’ Conference at Paris to assist in preventing importa- tion of coal in England in the event of a strike, 4 Government Strikebreakers Busy. . The postmaster general, . Will ‘iam Mitchell. Tho: n, presiding over an emergency organ- ized to help the railroads combat'the difficulties which they would face in consequence of a strike said the railroads have stocks of coal suffici- ent only for a month ‘of curtailed services, The committee is trying to work out a system for adequate transpor. tation of food, in the event the rail- roads are paralyzed, It is making extensive use of plans devised by the Lloyd George government in 1920 when a general lockout and strike were threatened. In the house of commons, Austen Chamberlain made without comment, an announcement that Prime Minis- ‘ter Baldwin hoped to issue a state- ment on the strike ‘situation tonight. Get $20,000 In Rug Loot Burglars early today broke into the store of Albert Boygean on the west side and fled with $20,000 worth of valuable ruge British imperaliem Is |B Speeding Up Armament Race for the Next War By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. eS UP HOTEL AS ‘DICK’ SNOOZES “It’s a Hanging Case” Chortles Crowe Last Wednesday several bandits raided the fashionable Drake Hotel in this city and got away with approxim- ately $10,000, Two of the bandits were killed, two others were wounded and arrested one got away and one employe of the hotel was shot dead. States Attorney Crowe is happy. “It’s a hanging case” he chortled as he * boasted that he would have the arrest- ed bandits on their way to the gallows “within twenty four hours.” At least two of the bandits are veterans of the world war. We are awaiting for some one to give a bed time story over the radio boosting the military training camps and tell of the “enobling et- fects of war on America’s youth.” Holdup at Dick’s Door The Drake Hotel was full of para- sites when the holdup took place. The bandits pulled off the stickup almost on the doorstep of the house detect- ive’s office. That gentleman must have been engrossed in his latest les- son from the correspondence schoo) on “How to become a great detective,” for it required a telephone call to get him away from his easy chair. Like the movie house dick, this false alarm, saw nothing until the house was shot up. Then, he crawled to his office door, opened it and began shooting in all directions, He claims to haye killed somebody, whether it was a bandit or the unfortunate clerk may never be known. Full of Booze Evidently most of the bandits were amateurs at the game and also well filled with white mule, One of them said he was a high school graduate, but could not find a job. He was also a war veteran. This will not save him from the gallows if Crowe can help it, The local Hearst papers have open- ed a war on Mayor Dever and Chief Collins for allowing the bandits to get away with it. Hearst would have them shoot anybody resembling a bandit on the slighest provocation or suspicion. In that case, judges and plain clothes policemen had better look out, ‘Tic Toc’ was Asleep Holding up such a bourgeois rendez- vous as the Drake Hotel gives Chi- cago a’ bad name and may keep wealthy people from putting up there: The house detective’s heroic press work may be due to fear of losing a job. But if he is such a hero, he may be engaged to supplant the police force, which spends" most of its time, arresting workers for speaking on the streets and protecting scabs and open shop employers. There are enough cops guarding the plants of the Inter- national Tailoring company and the J. L. Tailoring company daily, to sup- ply a personal watch to every bandit in the city. Bandits should know that holding up those who have money at the point of a gun is hazardous and does not pay half as well as robbing the workers at the point of production. But ban- dits have always been a step ahead of the capitalist on the moral side. They usually rob the rich and take a chance on the jail or the rope. The capitalists rob and kill the poor and are honored for it. That's the difference. Twelve Tourists Dead in France PARIS, July 30.—Twelve persons were dead, an equal number seriously injured, with many suffering minor hurts, according to the latest word received today by M. I. D. I, from Tours, near where the Tours-Paris express was derailed at midnight last night. Mexican Governors to Meet MEXICO CITY, July 30.—The gov: ernors of all the states of Mexico have been called to a convention here to work out a plan for unification of Mexico's state and federal tax sys- tems. BEHIND LOCKED DOORS Ea ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, July 30, —The anthracite scale conference appears at last to be drawing to a climax as a result of developments. within the last twenty-four hours. Sentiment of both operators and miners seems to be that the miners’ hould be completed by th week and th: reply should be ma in resumption ile the conference after the week- | ond, This definite movement became apparent yesterday when the little information dropped by both side as to proceedings in the locked com- mittee room indicated the first day of real progress. The four demands left to be pre- sented are replete with technical ramificatios that could take ‘ to elucidate, but it is believed likely that the miners will surrender them without much objection, dan