The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1925, Page 1

LUE The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 175. Subscription Rates: “ANTI INJUNCTION PAM DE”, sa - bag IMBICUOUS'" a An ambiguous In Chicage, Outside ch veg BUT ISSUES mn. AGAINST UNION injunction restraining certain forms of picketing was issued by Judge Hugo Pam in the superior court of Cook County which leaves it to the discretion of the court as to whether the strike of the members of Amalgamated Clothing Workers, employed by the International Tailoring Company shall be outlawed. Judge Pam earlier AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY OR the time being the ruling class of Great Britain breathe easier. ' ‘The threatened coal strike has been} postponed thru the enforced surrender of the mine owners to the pressure’ of | the government. Stanley Baldwin, the agent of the collective capitalists of Britain succeeded in forcing the proud coal barons to withdraw the notices of reduted wages and longer hours they had posted at the pit heads. er UT this compromise does not settle the question at issue. At least A. J. Cook, the miners’ secretary does not think so. One thing is certain. Had not the miners strenghtened themselves by an alliance with the workers in the other basic industries the operators would laugh at them and the government, instead of using honeyed words would rattle the scab- bard. This is a lesson in the value of the united front. a) F course there is nothing settled yet. But this knuckling down of the mine owners before the majesty of the united might of the workers cannot help but raise the morale of ,the labor movement. It will also in- crease the prestige of the new leader- ship of the British labor movement. It should not be forgotten that it was when J. H. Thomas, Frank Hodges and ‘Clynes, held sway that “Black Friday” took place. Those gentlemen and the school they represent, took a back seat in the present. struggle, What the capitalists in general, the}4, decide, mine owners in particular_and_ their government ‘will be able to do during the period of respite remains to be seen. 7 e © HE mine owners accepted the ad- vice of Stanley Baldwin, This was a surrender, no doubt, but it does not necessarily mean a victory for the workers. It was a recognition of the power of labor, but a period of lull like this is more dangerous to the workers even than a fight. The right wing in the movement will get busy. All kinds of schemes for saving the empire will be put forward. The pro- ponents of class peace and class col- jaboration, will work overtime. The mine workers must never forget that (@ontinued on Page 2) in the day made a decision that the so-called Illinois anti-in- junction law is constitutional. Judge Pam's decision was typical of his attitude thruout the case. Pam seemed reluctant to offend the gar- ment bosses and at the same time afraid to make a clear-cut decision against such a mild act as the Cuth- bertson law, Pam four times postpon- ed action on the bill for injunction. Pam's decision decides nothing. J. J. Neiger, attorney for the Inter- national Tailroing Company, declared the bill for an injunction will be taken to the higher courts. If the company moves to Rock Island and Moline and ‘the Amalgamated begins picketing there, an application for an} injunction against the Amalgamated will be made there, Neiger said. Pickets Are Restrained. The injunction restrains the cloth- ing workers from “congregating or maintaining any picket or pickets at or near the premises of the complain- ant (the International Tailoring com- | their | pany) in going to and from homes, in a manner or im such num- bers as interferes with the orderly course of business;” from “obstruct- ing the public streets or highways at or near the premises of the complain- ant, or from obstructing any of the employes or persons who may seek to become employes of the complainant any vile or abusive names, including ‘scabs,’ or ‘finks’.” 3 What number of pickets constitutes interference with the “orderly course of business,” and what kind of pick- eting would be such as to “interfere with the orderly course of business,” and what constitutes obstruction of by mall, $8.00 per sear. hicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. ~ “the public streets or highways at or near” the Beet! of the International Tailor: , it is left to courts ee: the bosses, under cover of- this. injunction, choose to} haul the clothing workers ake the judges during the course” the strike, hour It is not surprising that A Hier J. Neiger, speaking for the bosseb, de- clared himself perfectly satis} with the form of the injunction as dt stands. It will not be difficult for tl ealthy bosses, having at their command a large number of lawyers skilled.in the pleading of cases against .,Jahor, to convince the judges of the capitalist courts that even a small. numbet of pickets can interfere “with, the, order- ly course of business,” or that.a group of ten or a dozen picketshag, been “obstructing the public: streets.” It (Continued on page 2) ~ amet emie TRIAL OF FIVE HUNDRED PEASANTS OF BESSARABIA B CANNOT PREVENT SOVIET STATE VIENNA, —(By Mail)—Five hund are now being tried by the Rumanian Bojars, 500 peasants who are accused of having participated in September of Y WHITE TERROR red peasants of occupied Bessarabia last year in the revolt in Tartarbunar. At the first glance this seems improbable, but one only needs to remember that it happened in Rumanian Bessarabia and that the accused are Bessa- rabian peasants—then it appears very After the occupation of Bessarabia natural. by Rumania the history of the latter is full of such mass trials. The Rumanians have more than once shed the (Continued on The American Communist $ page 5.) The following resolution was unanimously adopted by the Parity Com- mission for submission to the National Convention of the: Workers (Com- munist) Party to be held August 21: — |1, The Basic Characteristics fas Imperialism and Its De- pment in the United \ States. ———————— "A.! The basic characteristics of im- perialism are: 1, The concentration and central- ization of industry and capital result jn monopolies so powerful that they play the decisive role in economic life. (a) Nowhere has monopoly devel- oped to the extent that it has in the United States, the classic Jand of ‘trusts and combines. 2, An immense accumulation of ‘money capital available for invest- ment and exportation, and a tremen- edo expansion of the credit system {nto a world credit system where groups ‘of financiers finance first whole “backward countries, their, in- dustries and governments, and later to finance even cameo advanced Ne aka countries, (a) The United Btates leads in the manifestation of this tendency also. More than half of the world’s gold supply is accumulated here. From a debtor, the United States has been converted not merely into @ creditor nation but into the investor and usur- er nation par excellence. In war debts alone the world owes the United States over 11 billion dollars, The greatest of these debtors is its near- est rival and competitor, the British Empire with four and one-half billion dollars in round numbers. (b) The world’s total debt to the United States today is more than twenty billions In the last year alone, the American capitglists in- creased their foreign investments by almost a billion and a quarter. The Dawes plan, the repeated French stab- ilization loans, the financing of coun- tries like Germany, Austria, Italy and France, etc., and even the British dominio: Canada and Australia (the recent loan of $75,000,000 to Aus- mene WAGE- SLAVES !- BEGINNING MONDAY You CONSUME LESS: BY ORDER By ORDER SYDNEY BOYCOTT OF U.S. FLEET) TS WIDESPREAD Street Clashes Occur in Australian City SYDNEY, N. 8. W., Aug. 2—Trade union members have appeared at so- cial functions given by Australian Politicians to the officers of the visit- ing United States fleet and denounced the imperialistic aspect of the visit of the battleships to pacific waters. The trade unions are boycotting the fleet during its visit, and many meet- ings have been held in protest. The boycott is also directed at calling at- tention to the numerous class war prisoners in the United States. Despite the honeyed words of the public officials, trade union mem- bers and sailors are frequently clash- ing on the streets here. French Troops Leave Essen ESEN, Germany, Aug. 2—Prench troops of the occupational forces haul- ed down the tri-color and marched out today to the sound of fife and drum. The population was quiet as the troops left. tralia) indicate clearly that it is no longer’ a question of financing back- ward countries but advanced indus- trial countries and colonies of rival imperialist powers as well. 8. The centralization of banking capital on an ever-increasing scale, and thru its financing, credit and in- vestment development, the fusion of banking capital with monopoly capi- tal and the creation of a financial oli- garchy on the basis of the thus ori- ginated “finance capital.” In the Unit- ed States this tendency has gone so far that the federal reserve system has coordinated all banking groups in- to a single domestic and world financ- ing organization under the control of the most powerful and most concen- trated oligarchy in the world—an oli- garchy which is personified by two individuals, Morgan and Rockefeller. 4. The basic determinant of world economic and political policy becomes the export of capital and not the ex- port of commodities, 5. There arise international mon- opolistic unions of capitalists which divide the world among themselves. 6, The territorial division of the world is already completed and each OR At praise for the initiative of the DAILY sent in thefr ‘imbscriptions but have placed standing bundle orders for the period of the publication. Workmen's «:Girele branches are among the other organizations re- sponding with:both subscriptions and bundle orders. Individual workers, in the organ- ized labor, socialist and Communist movements ‘have sent in new subs with congratulations to the DAILY WORKER and expressions of support for Soviet Russia with their pledges to work for world trade union unity. “I'll take the word of the British Trade Unions, for an honest picture of Soviet Russia,” writes one worker. “The generous way the DAILY WORKER printed the first install- ment in a full issue of the magazine section hit me just right : .. and I re it to it’s most interesting end. “Bvery day that-I get thru with it, my buddy at the machine next to me gets it. Hes a fighting fool evem if he did think that’-Sam Gompers was all there. You ought to hear the dis- shift in relativepower among the im- perialist nations is inarked by a vio- lent re-division of backward and even industrially advanced countries. 7.. The seizure: of the sources of raw materials afd-especially oils and metals and coaliis. another source of conflict for the re-distribution of the already divided -world. (a) The UniteddStates is especially favorably, situated on account of its great domestic ofl and mineral sup- ply. It controls 48 per. cent»of the world’s output of coal; 54 per cent of nearly 73 per cent of the petroleum; about 50 per cent of the copper, etc. In addition to the rich supplies of raw materials in the United States, the mifierals and oils of Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, ete, are increasingly getting under the undis- ited sway of the U. S.. Thus the . S$. enters intoothe confliet for Buropean, Asian and African raw ma- terial sources with!the preponderance already assured inoits favor. 8. Imperialism thus broadens to a world base and sharpens the collosal confilcts, deepengithe antagonism be- tween. rival national imperialist groups, suppressing: internal competi- of this great doeument, have not only + all SEND PRAISE ‘RUSSIA TODAY no*time in the existence: of the DAILY’ WORKER has the response been as generous as the present to the serial publication of “Russia Today,” | The Official Report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia. Trade unionists im hundreds of cities, unsolicited and with unstinted’) WORKER in securing the publication Notice! To allow for special meet- ings for election of delegats by branches and shop nuclei to the Chicago City Conven- tion, the City Central Com- mittee meeting of August Sth, Wednesday, is called off. Workers Party, Local Chicago, Martin Abern, Secretary. cussions at lunch hour in our shop on Rus e This letter is typical of hundreds of others coming in from all sections of the country. The great demand for back issues, coming with new sub- scriptions, has practically cleared the files of all back numbers.- The most gratifying results add another to the many achievements of the DAILY WORKER. tion only to intensify world competi- tion. 9. This conflict tends increasingly to a violent form; accompanied by domestic reaction, savage exploitation of subject peoples, an increasingly rapid armament race, and the piling up of ever more explosive materials in the world powder magazine. 10. It provokes increasing revolts of the subject peoples, presently evi- denced by the Moroccan and Chinese situations, the growth of anti-imperial- ist movement in Latin-America, the Turkish and Persian situations and colonial movements wenerally. 11, An historical alliance is being consummated in the alliance between the revolutionary proletariat and ex- ploited colonial and semi-colonial. peo- ples. This basic’ strategy of the world revolution, elaborated by Lenin, is now being confirmed by history; we are witnessing its conscious appli- cation, not locally, not within sec- tional limits, but on a world-wide scale, The astonished bourgedisie, which predicted confidently the im- ‘mutable binding power of nationality over the class interests of the work- ers in the home industries’ of imperi- Published Daily except Sunda: PUBLISHING CO.,, 1113 W, ‘ONLY A TEMPORARY TRUCE’, SAY BOTH SIDES CONCERNING DELAY OF BIG COAL STRIKE IN BRITAIN ORKER. | Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the: Past Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. TUESDAY, AUGUST 4,'1925 (Special to The Everywhere it is recognized weeks truce. Everybody but the strike which might have ended | in revolution. | It finally agreed at the last moment |to advance $50,000,000 in subsidies to | the mine owners which it had prev-}| iously refused. Capitalist Press Is Bitter. Capitalist paper are bitter at what they call the surrender of the govern- ment “to. the Communists,” it some-} |how being recognized that the Com-| munists are the decisive element in the stiffening and unision of the labor | front. The government was “blackmailed” | by the trade unions, is tne generat claim of capitalist papers. Capitalist Press Savage. The Daily Mail is particularly sav- age in a leader headed, “Victory for Violence.” It declared that Mr. Baldwin| changed his mind under open threats of a trial of strength between the government and the Communists with the ;Communists victorious. This view, more mildly stated, is reiterated by the Morning Post, which says “Peace was bought at the price not of money only but of principie and that sacrifice of the principle will pos- sibfy.be more ruinous than the crisis it averted.” It declares that the terms were dictated to the govern- men by the trade union congress. The Manchester Guardian, a sup- posedly “liberal” organ, is glad that by THE DAILY WORKER fashington Blvd., Chicago, Il. claims that the government backed down EDITION ie ee YORK » Price 3 Cents Daily Worker) LONDON, August 2.—All sides are taking stock of just what the armistice in the war between Capital and labor means for them, since the strike of 1,200,000 miners and 5,000,000 other trades workers was averted at the eleventh hour on Friday last. as only a truce, and but two Baldwin government, of course, and was forced to yield to the threat of a general + the strike was averted but deplored Mr. Baldwin’s “bungling” until the last moment. “The prime minister,” -says the Guardian, “has done the right thing but in the wrong way, fro motives and has done it. en msily, ymot to conviction put — to sheer brute foree, The Times declares that’*tre- most critical chapter in the history of this country is closed, but only by open- ing another chapter even more criti- cal.” ‘The Miners’ Federation officials all @laim it, is only a temporary delay, to'which they had to agree by reason of’ thé operators’ withdrawal of the notices that a wage cut of 20 per cent and longer hours would be enforced beginning August 1. The. operators, in turn, being insured by the govern- mient subsidy, promised at the last minute, that their profits would not suffer, So their surrender was passed | on to the Baldwin cabinet. British in- dustry as a whole must now subsidize thé mining industry—consequently the kick ‘from the newspapers represent- jing other capitalist interests. | Some Blame Rise of Sterling. | Some elements of. British capital the debtor class particularly, are blaming the coal crisis on the forced rise in the pound sterling. The federation of British industries, declares that the resumption of the gold standard will ultimately do good, but say that only by an ingenious “de- flation of labor’—known in America as “normalcy” can the stabilization of British industry be secured against temporary difficulties of returning to the gold standard. They regard that (Continued on Page 2) alism, are being treated to the spec- tacle of the French Communists open- ly aiding the heroic Riff tribesmen to throw back the armies of imperial- ist France, while the socialist party, which has, setup: its usual “union sacre” with imperialism, is more and more losing the support of the French masses, The opportunist leaders of the British labor party have again de- clared for imperialism by voting for “imperial preference,” but the Com- munist Party of Great Britain is cementing its fighting alliance with the. national liberation movements of India and Egypt. Enslaved China has turned against its imperialist oppres- sors; it is the beginning of the sure- fated liberation of Asia and the mighty Kuomintang party of China welcomes and receives the support of revolutionary toilers in England, Jap- an, France, America—in all the home countries of imperialism. Moreover, Soviet Russia, the expression of the international victory of the working ch is China’s staunch ally, PETAIN WANTS MORE SOLDIERS BEFORE ATTACK \Riffians Take a Fort, Bring Down Plane PARIS, Wass: ‘Rope 2—Altho there are two hundred thousand French troops now in Morrocco, Gen. Naulin has sent word here by Mar- shal Petain demanding two more French diviisons before beginning an offensive against the Riffian natives. “The offensive operations are impos- sible during August on account of the intense heat,” says a French com- munique, “And will be impossible after September on account of the torrential rains.” Petain in his report to Premier Painleve has asked more French troops from the Rhine, and insists that the troops be French soldiers in- stead of colonials. The colonials can- not be trusted against their black brothers, Petain intimated. It would be dangerous for Painleve to send more French soldiers to in- vade Morocco, as the workers are already raising vigorous protest against the invasion of, Africa, insti- tuted as it was by the French bank- ers. The sending of more troops might bring the falt of the Pathléve cabinet. The front is quiét.- The Riffians have wiped out the garrison of the blockhouse at Ain Bouaissa, and re- pulsed a counter attack néar Teraoul, bringing down a French airplane. Politicals On Hunger Strike VIENNA, August 2.—One hundred and twenty-five Polish political prison- ers in the Lithuanian’ bastille at Kovno are on a hunger strike because of the bad food. STATE LABOR PARTY, AMALGAMATION BEFORE N.Y. FEDERATION MEET NEW YorK, Aug. 2—Elections of delegates for the New York con- vention of the State Federation of Labor is proceeding thruout the state. This convention will be held beginning Monday, August 24 at Schenectady, N. Y. It is expected that important mat- ters will come up for discussion at this gathering, among them being the question of a State Labor Party, State Welfare Legislation, work- men’s compensation, o ization of the unorganized, amalgamation, ed- ucation and many other items of importance. gle Against Imperialism sessions of the Enlarged Executive Committee of the Communist .Inter- national, has brought ho real stabil- ization to capitalism. This ig the final stage of capitalism. Bourgeois society is hanging in the balance, It will be buried by the combined forces of the proletarian revolution and, the national liberation movements of the colonial and semi-colonial peoples. 2. America’s Independent Policies. 13. The days of “national isolation” in America have been left far behind, The tremendous strides of American imperialism constitute one of the most significant developments of world capitalism since the war. American imperialists have now subjected over three-quarters of a million square miles of territory—but these figures sive no real idea of the extent of the American empire, which brushes aside boundary lines and penetrates even 12, sides are an indication that the partial The imperialist struggles on all id temporary. stabilization of capi- talist industry, noted at the recent into the most highly developed indus- trial sections of Europe. In his great work on imperialism, Lenin pointed (Continued on page 3)