The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1925, Page 2

Page Two BOSTON RALLIES IN WAR AGAINST Pledge Support to the| New York Locals By TOM BELL. (Special to The Daily Worker) { BOSTON, Mass. (By Mail.) — The cloakmakers and dressmakers of Boston rallied to the support of the Locals 2, 9 and 22 of New York in their struggle against the gunman rule of Sigman and Co. at the nsass meet- ing. held in Ford Hall here, Seven or eight hundred members of ; the International Ladies’ Garment 1 i ; that the strike would be effective, Workers Union roared theft, approval | * : tution—yet no outcry was raised 4 i ‘ sig inbornay, : ; . | Chicago Daily News and the Tribune| ‘ sa, *|whereas the city officials claim that} celebrity from one of the loop musical shows. ie of a resolution denouncing the attack | 507 ‘Cn'tig neck and they stayed there| This is another proof of the hypocrisy | Wme"en tne ciy omaals, olalm That O etk s 3—LaFollettism With- of the Sigman gang on the fhree New | y k locals and calling’ for the re-| ‘| not his favorite indoor sport. He re- men are out of Work in Baltimore and ith it the signifi hi hi: did. It iT st. By MANUEL GOMEZ moval of all those responsible for the * ONGRATULATIONS on the ku ¢ with it the significance that this one did. was clear test- y < from positions in the tinfon, and (sed to run for Frerpegs pon af aire klux Klan, They have score |‘Ms Would give them « large reserve} jmony that the masses lured away frott independent class ihe Lavollste ‘ovanien isan | hat se anelal rt|* B a s ; : army of. scabs. iti tant rs S leafer, the nature of it, it’ pleds aie sae _ ag sa |stopfed drawing their pay from the éain and in the usual way. No, Not! Ghastes H. Osbomne, head of the city political action into support of the LaFollette-Wheeler ticket future, and the battle for working ee rape ere ee perich | the reaction. |°ltY: Other fellows equally. deserving pay’ te a case of 09 98 Third bie 34 building commission, one of those not class political party, these timely he battle agains , Teaction-| took their places. There was weeping| ™ethods were not necessary. e 4 4 and important factors are analyzed i clique has been/ won 4 Rev. R. Carl Zeigler, methodist minis. |VerY Tare Swindlers, stated:. | They Threats of Expmision. | mass meeting was ajsuccess in AS WE SEEIT -:- (Continued from Page 1) the war is not over, that it is only a truce and that there can be no solu- tion of the conflict short of the aboli- tion of capitalism, than it used to be. Thompson, Stuart * HAT is @ fish fan? Perhaps it is aj the scrap—in the open. A few goats iy ; school in which political fish stor-| Will run the gauntlet of courts, bonds SOK WEDS l-The Ladies’ Gar- ies are hatched, but the Fish Fan’s| 44 baliffs. But those who favor lib By J; LOUIS ENGDAHL. nt Workers Club of Chicago did not become famous thru retailing yarns but thru retailing booze, unless truth and pro- hibition agents are strangers. We | would not say a word about the matter but for the fact that the case has po- litical significance and may be ‘of in- terest to our readers who live in parts of the United States where capitalist law is held in respect. There being no such place, so much the better for the story. ees ILLIAM HALE THOMPSON, while mayor of Chicago was known as a good fellow. In fact he was as good as capitalist mayors could be. The until he decided that being mayor was and gnashing of teeth in many places and the fact that the Volsteadian lid jhad driven the goddess of spiritual By T. J. O'Flaherty were broken into and rifled, with the result that Belmont Harbor, where the good ship Fish Fan was berthed is much more 100 per cent American erty and the sanctity of the locker are up in arms. They believe that every- body’s locker should be as saéred as his home “ee HIS is a mighty good idea, but if instead, of gin, wine and Scotch} whiskey, the law officers found copies | of the Communist Manifesto in the! lockers of the Fish Fanners how many | “public spitited” citizens would raise | their voices in behalf of the inviol- ability of private clubs? Street meet- ings conducted by the Workers Party have been broken up here in Chicago recently and the speakers thrown in jail—a Clear Violation of the ¢onsti- of our petty bourgeois politicians, 8 8 THE DWILY WORKER BALTIMORE CITY BUILDING TRADES 3,000 Workers Affected by Walkout By IRVING SOLLINS. (Worker Correspondent.) BALTIMORE, Mds Aug. 2—The Central Building ‘Trades Coungil of Baltimore, with the approval of the Baltimore Federation of Labor, has or dered a strike of all building trade workers employed on city contracts. It will .affect .approximately ..3,000 workers. Labor leaders today were certain ate proud of the fact that so many ter of Newark, N. J., violated the white slave law and a girl of twenty- (the thion workers) are licked before they start; the city can get plenty of men. Aftet two or three weeks the The Line of the Class : Struggle Becomes Ever TORAY: the workers and poor farmers have another op- portunity to study the bubble character of the so-called LaFollette third party movement in the results of the me- morial demonstration long planned and just held in Chi- cago. The date was set and this start made for the booming of the “Progressive (Third) Party” in Illinois long before LaFollette died. When the Wisconsin senator passed away, the outing at Riverview Park was converted into a “memor- ial,” that was to “carry on,” nevertheless, just as energetic- ally for “the revolt against the old parties.” But a mere handful of men, women. and children, hardly more than a hundred, appeared, mostly children attracted by the amuse- ments. The “memorial” was featured by dancing by a Perhaps no gathering of 100 people has’ ever carried vertised up to the very last minute, especially thru thé capitalist press, as One of the sure speakers at the ‘“‘memor- ial,” did not appear. The vice presidential candidate of last In the August Issue of the Awaken By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER A struggle in the needle trades as a prelude to a new era in the in- dustry. An article of the greatest interest to every worker. 2-The Makers and Masters of Steel By ARNE SWABECK An unusual account of steel—and all that goes into the making 4 it and the workers that make ft. A great article with two pages of striking photographs from the steél district. out LaFollette by the author. 4—The Consolidation | ‘ . vO. vict 1 A . ' ; of the treats of expuision made hehe Hae sesitteat sisforteae Auesteantans victory for 100 percent) inion workets will be glad to come year remained in Montana, not sulking in his tent to be of the Revolution- he local fakers against and work-| +) Saat ap trider ins stow. = mecha sihetae back.” sure, but safe and comfortable in the ary Government tending the meeting,, and the ; hie sigh ally * Fears for Clvic Pride. Tammany Hall, John “Wallstreet” Davis and the late Wil- Chi of thugs that the local Sigman| -soMPsoN bein Truce Is Temporary Marth: Sabushath'n tataineds 40. of China ss a SOD ig hearty as well as ‘ ze vy is state: 8: e is ing brot to the meeting with them hale conceived the idea of orzante- in Big Coal War |sued today ciaims that the union of-| did not take him out of the third party movement any more : By TANG SHIN SEE The speeches on the New York sit- re The Chinese situation most inter: ing a club where his friends could Eset ficials and workers lack “civic pride,” mourn the past befittingly. He char- that they are deliberately tying up tered a goodly ship, and loaned a har- work on public schools “which,” quot- bor from his friends on the Lincoin| the trade union resistance to longer|ing the honorable fakef's statement, completely than has the desertion of Senator Wheeler. Neither was Robert LaFollette, Jr., there. He took a prominent part in his father’s campaign last year and Madison, Wisc., his home, is not many hours away. La- uation were given by Louis Hyman, Rose Wortis and C. Burgkovich all mémbers of the Joint Committee of Action set up by the three New York estingly explained by one who has (Continued from page 1) been a part of it, 5—Twenty Years lo¢als to conduct the fightjagainst the Sigman machine. The rebital of the incidents of the New York struggle enthused the meéting and.even the lo- cal officialdom and their thugs were kept quiet ‘by the enthusiastic ap plause from the audience. The resolution which was carried by the meeting is as follows: “We, the Boston members of the In- Park commission, where the vessel could be parked. Many men of re- nown joined the crew. The official captain was an old salt by the name of Stuart who served before the mast as political editor of Hearst's Chicago Evening American. Being an editor Stuart was qualified to keep the ‘ship's log. i ses i 'VERYTHING went along »swim- hours and lower wages is “preventing reconstruction.” Those opposed to the gold standard and the recent funding of the debt to the United States say that the im ctease made by these maneuvers in coal prices has cut England out of ability to sell coal abroad in compe- tition with German, United States, and French coal, particularly the “reparations” coal from Germany. “which are being built to educate theit own children.” Such lack of Babbit-like civic pride is inconcetv- able to honorable (7) mayor. Yes, of course, the strikers should be proud of the opportunity to send their chil- dren to the schools’ they ‘themselves built, to the schools that“teach their children to fight for'the capitalist even against their own class. Wednesday night, at thé Federation Follette, Jr., talked long and loudly last year of the break with Wall Street, much after the fashion of his father, but the crown prince of Wisconsin capitalist politics is now busily engaged in riding the hearse of the funeral procession now almost forgotten, for a try at the paternal seat made vacant in the nited States sénate, Neither were the hosts of Chicago labor officials present who climbed aboard what looked like a LaFollette triu: bandwagon last year. They were. all far away, a After By HARRISON GEORGE The I. W. W. for twenty years and its future. A colorful and keen article on this once great organ- ization. 6—Factory Committee Chairman Com: other fields of class betrayal, with the lone exception of ig] Coal, however, stands only in the fore] or Labor m Ba mingly in the good old FishFan's| on °° what can be wald to be » no hncnnty phat Rat A piensa Charles J. MacGowan, state chairman of the “progressive” life and death struggle of British for- | Workers’ Union, was Velément in his| P@'ty. But Napoleon in the days ofthis exile could not have eign trade for mere survival, denunciation of the 'tifY officials, He| been more isolated at St. Helena than' MacGowan who found Capitalist, Management Failure. | charged that Mayét!’ Ja¢kson and himself thoroly alone at Riverview’ Parki Communists are twitting British Building Inspectof™ ‘Olborne were s 8 @ eos capitalists about their previous slurs sWindling the city tlxpayers. He at the ‘efforts of Soviet Russia to re-| aims that Altho thie “taxpayers ue construct its destroyed industries, charged for union labor on all cit how that leading British capitalists a8-| contegetg, the inlet Wéale ts not iia. sert that British trade is “near death,” atid tat the city. Sificlal i Hore with no such physical ruin as Russia] it ecaee bet op Respaattvers faced and conquered. a feb édntracts ges { Smounte ‘paid Revolution Viewed “From Below” pose to “emeauion wa, da Directl connected with this view “be paid work. trom the other side of the class strug-} ‘Union Leaders Not Straight. rade Shishkin By MOISSAYE OLGIN “A picture drawn from life,” in the world’s first workers’ government, A story from the shop in Russia, written by an author whose Rus- sian stories have attracted nation- wide attention. 7~The Organic Com- position of Capital By KARL MARX A letter to Engels for the first given in this country. “It ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, assembled in mass meeting in| Salley, until, 80 the story goes; a ré- Ford Hall, Boston, on July 30, 1925,} porter for the Chicago Daily'News, having heard the reports of the at-| Was baffled in his effort to‘ get a tack on Locads 2, 9 and 22 by the] Derth on the prohibition staff of’ the Sigman machine condemn the actions | 10cal sacramental wine wholesalet,; of Sigman and Co. in suspending the | The reporter blamed his ill luck on the executives and managers of Locals 2,| C@Ptain of the Fish Fans and itmeldi. 9, and 22, the biggest locals in the} tely proceeded to turn the light “of International. publicity on the vessel. The enraged. captain sued the reporter for $100,000, Changed Union Is Weakened. this being the approximate worth of “We declate that this was an un-| that part of his reputation which Was:| -.+.. warranted attack on these locals tol damaged by the teporter’s revelations, suit the reactionary purposes of Sig- * ¢ * 1 man and Co. and weaken our union It is well to remember that this third party, progressive movement, that has lost all contact with any numbers, is the one headed nationally by William H. Johnston, president of the International Association, of,,Machinists, who has — an expulsion drive against the militants of this union. oe It was Johnston, LaFollette, Wheeler, Gompers, with the Magnus Johnsons and the Hendrick Shipsteds, with WORKERS MONTHLY NCLUDED among the Fish Fansaredsi is the comment of the Welsh ‘That the city of others of their kind, but of lesser importance, who led in recognized by all students of Marx- Y: ’ ks is iti ‘ ian economics as a profoundly im- in face of the attacks of the manufac-|1 many, many judges, prominent law-} inj, . Ass lhe be Soe the attack last year on working’class political action, de- se " turers. The tactics of the Sigman ma-| yers, real estate men, a secretary ot thiners. Down in Wales, where 1,000, |not at all, novel Baltimorians. ' portant document” advises, the in- houncihg it as the usual “Communist plot” engineered from Moscow. They offered the LaFollette “progressive move- ment,” that was not even a third party, as against the class 000 slaves of the pits live wretchedly | Neither is ff novel to learn that the when working at wages often no more|union officials, the so-called labor than $10 a week, the crisis of the |leaders, are crooked. The union lead- troduction to this valuable feature. last fall had finally realized how badly they had been duped. Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Montana, widely ad- liam Jennings Bryan, that he never left. LaFollette’s death chine in breaking into the offices of | state, a lieutenant governor, aldermen, these locals at midnight with the aid | congressmen, state representatseaas 8—Lewis Performs for of thugs and gunmen, taking posses-|and sundry other goodly citizens. In In Wales the miners are profoundly | ficiently, or rather, as sdon as the city sorry that the strike did not develop, | officials are gentlemén Snufto divide and some are bitter against the union |the spoils with them,’ ” spokesmen in London, for suspending} The following are fh fates paid by the strike order even when their de-|the city and the @etiands of the mand for a withdrawal of the wage|ynions: nilebs cut notices was granted. Angry at Postponement of Revolution. “We would rather starve while strik- | Plumbers ing and making a fight than nearly | Garpenters starve while digging coal with nO/mieetrictans ....... promise of better days ahead,” is theit Plevator Construct verdict. In the view of the Welsh |Diasterers ... , miners, the revolution was avolded sists Rooters . By ALEX REID The secretary of the Left Wing miners again so ably shows up the reaction and treachery of the lead- ership of the miners, and offers the remedy. 9_Opportunism With- in the Trade Union Left Wing By EARL R. BROWDER A serious and keen analysis of the constitution of the International but | locked. The ‘local foes of t! is a violation of the principles of |rum, were aghast and well they might, trade unionism. for to raid the Fish Fans el “We demand that those responsible | equal to making war on the for thees attacks on these locals be | Illinois, and as the part is not greater remoyed from responsible positions in | than the whole, neither were the local our union as they have demonstrated | prohibition forces stronger thaw the their unfitness for holding office by | law enforcing bodies which were at their actions. The suspended officers | the disposal of the Fans. And-Who of Locals 2, 9, and 22 must be rein-|can tell but in a few years the Fish stated, the reign of thugs and gunmen | Fans Club may be the unofficial city abolished, and the rights of locals and | hall? And Grand Fish Fan Thompson individual members respected. may again be mayor of this city. : . : strike is looked upon as a forunnetjers are looking out their own| party of the workers and farmers, They did considerable ij acted chats totes ak hens pegietiew peanietig a sai Nantedjof the social revolution which all ac-/ benefit, and will be to call off} damage by misleading labor, in the cities and on the land, Mi age " 0 become pr lon age! a fut inty. 8 . trial, is not only a violation of the|ed that this public saan pedt as. future certainty the strike as soon as they are paid sut-/| for a time. But the workers ate getting back on their feet iners mo} and thinking straight again, putting the traitors where they belong, either forcing them into complete isolation or driv. ing them back into the Wall Street parties with their masks completely torn away. Experience is showing daily that the Johnstons and Sigmans have just as small a following in the unions, among the rank and file, for their expulsion policies, part of the class-collaboration effort to betray the workers into the hands of the employing class. * . . ‘80 In Chicago, the lawyér, Joseph G. Grossburg, told th little Riverview gathering that ‘Laollette watrtrying to “We pledge ourselves to support the : Hye: only by a hair's breadth by the sut| Betckiayers .. save the nation tom “cruel feudal industrialism” on the pent Sk wn “io wacker oul Joint Committee of Action of Locals | GUNALLY the government was call-| render of the government to the/sheet Metal go| one hand, and “Communistic Riategands on the other. miss this most valuable article. 2, 9, and 22 and to help them morally ed in and the Fish Fans got on] operators’ demand for a subsidy. The|stoamntters rs But the workers are learnin Such trimmers, in the > * and financially in their struggle until|the front page. One hundred and| miners of Wales, black with coal, aro] paint ''** “qo{ trade unions and in the parliamentary arena, are the best || 10—American Mineral our fight for a strong union controlled | fifty judicial, aldermanic, legal, con-| equally black with surely anger at 40 4 Toners :o| allies of the great exploiters. The line of the class struggle, that leads to complete victory over the plunderers of man- kind, becomes ever clearer to new masses of workers and poor farmers. Concessions in the Soviet Union ernment in Russia. — AND — Another Generous Installment of The History of the by the workers had triumphed.” gressional and babbittarian lockers|the delay of the revolution. nion Demands. Mechanics Helpers Plumbers ......... 25 $ .80 Carpenters . *. 1.10 80 Blectricians 132 63| Judge Pam Declares Blevator Construct é 1.00 Plasterers ..... F Slate Roofers . Bricklayers .. Sheet Metal . ee WHILE THE | gRITISH REPORT clared, “We have gone a long way from the labor law of two centuries ago, when England made it a oriminal of- fense for a laborer to quit his work in an effort t secure higher wages. the Anti-Injunction Law Constitutional (Continued from Page 1) “Both labor and capital must be Steamfitters . will be a comparatively easy matter|given a wide field of action without R ussian Communist B é Pp b . h Painters . for the judge to construe the injunc-|t00 much interference from the Party ; tion in such a way as to outlaw the | court. ” Is eng u lis ed oe ri entire strike by ruling that the pick-| “Tho right of workers to strike and By GREGORY ZINOVIEV lewis. ranch to eting has taken on illegal forms. to quit their work, and induce others * This is the time to subscribe. The publication of the historical document RUSSIA TODAY Elect Delegat The injunction as originally drawn)to do likewise, even. tho the employ: CA RT. oO ONS. is sufficient reason for every worker to become a subscriber to the DAILY WORKER— jm5OS | ap DY Abe inwyera for. the Inleense| SFY DFODORy FAMAINAAI4 ahd délerier=|| Gy Fred Rill Mon ise, aay is sufficient reason for every 0 beco a to City Corivention tional Tailoring company, which was) ates, was upheld by the California su-|] . © Plecoli and Billie Bu 4 without even the further inducements in the many additional daily features to be found later changed at the insistence of W.|preme court in 1902, POEMS... By Sara Bard Field, Henry cow in “A ay ” A. Cunnea, the Am: mated’s lawyer, in “America’s Only English Daily Communist Newspaper. nullidied the ontidniunetion (ect ‘Aot! by permitting a construction unfavor- “This case is an extremely import- ant one, The only conflict arises where peaceful picketing is concern- The Northwest Jewish Branch of the Workers (Communist) Party, city of Chicago, 1s holding a meeting to- Weiss, Herschell Bek To enable every worker to read this great report of British labor on Soviet Russia—the night, Monday, Aug) 8, at 2032 West|®b!e to the workers, but by means) eq. I would have no hesitancy in is- E. Merrill Root special offer of a TWO MONTH SUBSCRIPTION FOR ONE DOLLAR has been made, || Division street, sedond floor of the| Of, % ‘lause which was ager suing @n injunction against picketing arta oa Take advantage of this offer. Then tell your shop-mate and member of your union “phomeh theater ‘building, to elect! tne striking workers may not 40, ne0e feimake hieaue ae 7 Book Reviews - : about it. They will also wish to subscribe, states to the ett convention. | on to tell what they may do—the Dlckl plant aud. the. exhibition of tiga Photopraghs : ets may peacefully walk the streets,|hoards and is undoubted); as 1 Tenioht Northala ‘Sesion, nay delet agpronsh employes 06 taal teens placards ”|| International Review Side English branch Workers Party | C°™Pany, ete, provided—and this pro-| Judge Pam declared that boycotting ; will take place tonight at 8 p.m. at} Vision would have had the effect of| wag tiegal, and that strikers had no 25 Cents a Copy — Imperial Hall, 2409 N, Halsted st. [Prohibiting picketing altogether with-|right to attempt to keep the publicll g999 4 Year 61.26 Bix Months out even the formality of a test case— The election of delegates to mr provided “thas nothitie ‘eoatnthed” a pee ye yey Fant whose said above-mentioned proviso shall per ° y Foreign Exchange of the things therein mentioned at} NEW YORK, Aug. mrErY Britain, Still O ‘ lum. any one time or plac pound sterling deman GENEVA, ped snl ROO Picketing by the clothing workers |4,86%. Prance, franc, demand 4.74%; LA eee on nai in front of the struck shops will go|cable 4.75, Belgium, franc demand, ete Monthly nounced that the United States had}On as usual this week, in spite of |4.61%, cable 4.62, Italy, lira demand appointed Somerville Pinckney Tuck,|the injunction handed down by Pam. |3.66%, oi 8) » krone, de- American representative to the sey-| Pam declared the law constitutional Norway, enth session of league's opium|on the ground that similar laws are .18, cable 18.20, Den- committee beginning August 25, Tugk|in effect in other states, mark, krone demand 22.38, cable 22.40. will, succeed Representative Porter of| In issuing his decision upholding the |Germany, mark unquoted. Shanghal, Pennsylvania, | 4;,, antiinjunction law, Judge Pam de-|tael 78%, no quote, ny “ The publication of a great re- port on the world’s first work- ers’ government by another of the world's leading bodies of labor— THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd, Chicago, Illinois Enclosed $1.00 for two month subseription, Send to: THE WORKERS MONTHLY 4118 ih Nr: ep Bivd., NAME a In the DAILY WORKER—at an especially low rate—is good reason to Subscribe! STREET crsssssscssescsosss CITY ui y *