The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1925, Page 2

} eS sit Me SEER IE ae “ Pais Two ine HELPERS JOIN WALKOUT OF CUNEO PRESSMEN, BERRY HERE HERDING SCABS, HOLD MEETING TONIGHT The walkout of the 500 members of the Printing Presamen’s| and Assistants’ Union from the plants of the Cuneo Printing Corporation spread when the helpers walked out yesterday, and Strikebreaker “Major” George L. Berry is in Chicago with the entire international executive board of the union, endeavoring to round up men to replace those who quit work. The international board members will appear before the pressmen at a meeting of the union, Local No. Van Buren *—— People’s Institute, and Leavitt streets. The samen quit work after the Cuneo company, which has plants Arthington and Spaulding Sts., and 22nd and Cottage Grove, tried to re duce the crew of the presses from two pressmen and two helpers to only one Pressman and two helpers. Strikebreaker Berry had ordered the pressmen to accept the short erews and when the men quit he de elared he would endeavor to secure pressimen from the International Union to replace those who walked ext. Previously the executive board of Yocal number 8 had agreed to try out the new arrangement if the men were willing, but the union members voted to decline the Cuneo company’s pro. position. Berry then ordered the executive board of local number 3 to keep the men at work, but they quit work. ‘The Cuneo corporation had declin- ed to accept the increase in‘ wages which the pressmen won from all union plants, and the trouble with the company dated from that time. Montreal Fur Strike Strong. NEW YORK—The International Fur Workers Union reports the general strike in the Montreal fur market in good condition, with big mass meet- ings ahd aggressive picketing. Six- teen pickets were arrested in one day and daily interference by police is re- ported. The strike is entering its third month. 3, tonight, at the WILL ASK PARLIAMENT TO SUBSIDIZE OWNERS OF MINES $50,000,000 (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Aug. 5—The Baldwin government has decided to ask par- liament to authorize the expenditure of $50,000,000 as subsidy to the coal operators to permit the carrying out of the present wage agreement with the coal miners until next April. Formal announcement of this de- cision was made today. The de- bate on the whole subject in the house of commons tomorrow is ex- pected to develop spirited opposi- tion, even within the ranks of Pre- mier Baldwin's own party. Strike Victim Gets Retrial. NEW HAVEN, Conn., August 5.— (FP)—Sentence of not less than three and a half years or more than five years’ imprisonment in the state peni- tentiary vanished for Ernest Schleif- er, organizer in the International As- sociation of Machinists, when the su- preme court ordered) sentence vacat- ed. Schleifer was charged with incit- ing the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad strikers to violence during the shop crafts upions’ strike in Nov. 1922, A new trial is ordered for the union man. OVERFLOW MEETINGS OF I. L. G. W. LEFT WING SHOP CHAIRMEN ONCE aa (Continued rrom page 1) coal? Of course they ‘Are.’ Are the unionized stationery firemen going to shovel this coal on their fires? Of course they are. And they are going to do it, not because they, @t@'not will- ing to do otherwise but because of a pernicious misconception of unionism which is born of craft division. That kind of unionism must go. or else the miners ‘ae liable to be crushed when faced with the mighty power of the local industry. se 8 TT.HE miners’ union is faced with a serious crisis. Of this there can be no doubt. No matter how hard Lewis and company have tried to cater to the wishes of the barons, the latter prefer no union to even one ruled by Lewis. They don't want any interference with their right to run the industry any way they please. The divine right conception is not dead among them. The workers must con- vince them that a new day is com- ing for labor. And they can only con- vince them by power. An alliance be- tween the miners and the transport workers is an imperative necessity. We believe that even if the heads of the rail brotherhoods turn down such @ proposal from the miners, the rank and file of the unions would not. a JN order to stave off an industrial struggle that might develop into civil war, Stanley Baldwin agreed to subsidize the coal industry to the ‘ex- tent of the difference between what the miners wanted and what, the oper- ators were Willing to grant. This sub- sidy will cost in the vicinity of $150,- 000,000 for the nine months during | which it is scheduled to be in opera- tion. Immediately other capitalists howled. They were not going to be mulcted for the benefit of the coal operators. Baldwin was in a quandary, se 8 THE latest reports indicate that the money for the subsidy will be taken out of the beer industry. A tax of one penny will be placed on every pint: of porter. This is called the “poor man’s drink.” It is the best he can afford. A pint of porter now costs nine pence, It cost only two before the ,war. The price will now be j jacked up another penny, because the liqugy men will not stand the gaff. The’, government exects the workers to growl over their recent “victory.” * MORE PROVES SIGMAN BANKRUPT | "Pets =» voves tua me working NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 5—The gatherings of the chairrmen of the mously: “We, the chairmen and shop com- class cannot hope for any guaran- teed improvement in their conditions 86 long as capitalism exists. The gov- ernmeént of Britain, like all govern- cloak and dress shops were held in| mittees, gathered on Monday, Aug.|ments except sthat of Soviet Russia, Cooper Union and Manhattan Lyceum. They were called only for the Cooper | pnion, but since the struggle ‘began the cloak and dress makers « have shown more than once that when the Joint Action Committee calls, they come in such great crowds that the halls are too small for them. The same thing happened Monday. Regardless of the heat, the Cooper Union was soon packed in every cor- ner and it was necessary to open an- other hall. So the Manhattan Lyceum was also hired, which was also soon crowded. The workers came with en- thusiasm to hear the Joint Action Committee speak of the new develop- ments in the fight. No peace until the demands of the membership against the bosses and the machine are won! No peace with the pogrom-leaders! Sigman must go from the Union! The'cloak and dress makers will stay in the struggle until the end! These were the slogans that marked the meeting. Sigman Attempts to Disturb the Meetings. A gang of Sigman agents came to disturb the gathering. Sigman, upon taking over management of the Joint Board, had organized his agents to come to the Cooper Unicon meeting to disrupt it and break up the meeting. But information was received in ad- vance by those in charge of the meet- ing; the sluggers were well taken care of, and a number of the black gang had to remain outside in a condi- tion of unemployment. The meetings were carried thru in the best of or- der. Speakers Greeted Affectfonatety by Workers. Speakers at these meetings were Sasha Zimmerman, M. Rubin, A. Katz, J. Borichovitz, A. Zerlin, Rose Wolko- witz, J. Portnoy, A. Goldberg, Miller and L. Hyman. Every one of the speakers had something important to report or to propose. They were greeted affectionately by the gather- ing. A great speech which arovsed the highest enthusiasm was delivered by Hyman. He excelled even his usual eloquence. His speech was full of biting humor and fire. He drew a bal- ance of the Siman maneuvers with the governors’ commission, and showed the intolerable conditions into which 3, in Cooper Union endorse the acts of the Joint Action Committee, and Fifty of the chairmen. chine. They feel that the days of their rule are counted. Such a panic forced, in desperation, «to beause of their treacherous leader- ship. “We declare that this maneuver will not be successful, because the cloak and dressmakers are conscious of the purpose of their struggle. They struggle for: “(1) The reinstatement of the three executives which were elected by the membership. “(2) For proportional representa- tion in the Joint Board so that it will be impossible for a minority to exclude a majority. “(3) For the right of the mem- bership themselves to decide on dues, isments, strikes, and ettlements, and also for the right to decide on the policies of the union in relation to the employers. And also that Sigman, the one who has caused the present situation, should resign. “We express our a bhorrénce of Sigman, who appointed himself as manager of the Joint Board at‘a time when the cloak and dressmakeérs are even more against him than against the two who resigned. ‘ “Taking into consideration that the Joint Board is bankrupt and has not a cent in its treasury, and has.even misused some of the security de posited by the bosses, and that they are now borrowing money with a promise to impose a tax of $20 in order to pay these debts they are now making, we declare: “That we are not now and will never be responsible for their debts, and will never pay any taxes In or der to maek good their present debts. “That we call upon the Joint Action Committee to stand solidly in the the cloakmakers had thereby been|struggle until all our demands shall brot. “The cloakmakers are in cramps be won. “We pledge ourselves and call upon from hunger and there in the commis-jall members of the cloak and dress- sion are bankers studying our pains,” |makers’ union to carry on an ener- said Hyman. “We ourselves are the only ones who can understand our sufferings, and not these class ene- mies and strangers. There is only one way to liberate ourselves from our sufferings. That 1s, when the sea Bon comes, to say that we will mot sew until we get the possibility to make a living.” Resolutions Adopted Unanimously. In both gatherings the following Fesolutions were adopted unani- bin id a ae getic campaign for the Defense Fund functions in the interests of the cap- italists. Therefore it is . constantly also the report of the Committee of | iooking around for ways and tears to help those who own it. This device, “We find that our struggles for the | however, will not be successful, It rights of the membership which eX-}will:only infuriate the workers who| about and subjected to the wishes of presses itself in that we do not recog-| will:feel that a very contemptible} other nations that she has to get nize the Joint Board or its officers,|trick»has been played upon them by/eight other nations to agree on a mo- has thrown a deadly fear into the ma- {the Baldwin government. KANSAS CITY, August 5.—The In- rules in their ranks that they are} ternational Brotherhood of Boilermak- sacrifice } ers;Iron Ship Builders and Helpers |two cogs of their’ machine, Feinberg | of America convention opens in Kan- and Perlstein, who more than anyone | sas City September 14. else weer hated by the membership COLLAPSE OF KANSAS CITY BUILDING KILLS FOUR, TWO MISSING KANSAS CITY, Mo., August 5— With two persons still missing, four dead and seven injured, one possibly fatally, workmen continued today the search of the ruins of a build- ing in the downtown tion which collapsed late yesterday when a cross beam, which had been used as a support by movers, broke. The two upper floors of the three story structure were used as a rooming house. J. M. Holliday, 79 and his Invalid wife, 75 years old, were killed as the aged man was ministering to the bed ridden wo- man, The other dead were William Banks, negro workman, and a lather named Peterson. THE DAILY WoRKER - ras we eT] RATIACATION UPON CH Ancient Pacts Signed to Check Liberation WASHINGTON, D. G., August 5.— Another step in the compromises by which the imperialist powers hope to “pacify” China and defeat the rising llberation movement, as well as a new step in the establishment of America as an imperialist competitor with the other great bandit nations, Occurred today when formal exchange of ratification by the powers to two treaties. . The crafty “open door” policy ini- tiated by Secretary of State, Hay, be- came a formal tréaty policy acknow- ledged and accepted with fingers cros- sed.’ by the other imperialist powers. ,So, also, did the plan for revising to a slight degree upward, China’s cus- toms revenue. Keep China’s Government Weak For decades, the foreign powers have starved Ohina’s government by decreeing that it could collector rather that Great Britain would ¢col- lect, since English officers supervise Chinese custom housés—only five per cent customs dtities. Where other na- tions have charged 40 to 200 per cent duties, and despite the traditionally devotion to “protective tariff” of the Tuling parties in Amefica, China has been permitted to get only five per cent, and, the indemnities and “loans” forced wpon her are collected from this means by foreign powers. Naturally, the imperialist powers who depended on exporting goods to China, wished to have no hindrance placed on marketing them there, 80 China had to agree to being starved govermmentally by a reduction of gov- ernmental income to an absurd mini- mum. She had to agree bedduse sho was powerless to face the ‘guts of imperialist aggression. Not a Free Nation Even now one should not think China is going to be “freed.” The Tatifications concerning customs re- vision today merely allows for China within three months to set a later date for a customs ‘Conference and outline the means of giving China, in- stead of one’ crumb—a crumb and a half or even 'two crumbs. That is to say, the imperialists are going to allow an increase-from sr cent, to between seven ana a Wait and ten per cent, on customs revenue. - The nation which is so hedged dification of such a sovereign right, is scarcely a sovereign nation in fact. A New Yarn on Tap | Secretary Kellogg again States that the diplomatic body in ‘Peking is drafting a note to China setting forth the attitude of the imperialist powers on “an early conference to settle the question of extra-territortality. If this is true, which it may not be, judging from the rapidity with which Kellogg has made such ‘announce- ments before and immediately denied them, American imperialist is in a way to get another forced concession from Great Britain's interests, as abolition of extra-territoriality or even a hint of it, will cripple British standing while forwarding American interests. Open Door—for Burglars The ratification of the “open door” policy today is one gain for Américan imperialism. Now it seeks to push further. None of these maneuvers, of course, is done for China, though a deal of talk about the “helping hand” and so on {8 given. Ohina is to be tricked into a passive attitude and left to hold the sack if she expects any aidein real national liberation from America. Even Atherican Workers to Fracture the heoriés of Professors PICKETS LAUGH By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, sloth the French imperialist republic, thru its ambassador at Moscow, tells the world that France is not seeking out relations betweef! the Union of Soviet Republics and. the Communist International as the basis for determining the economic relations of France with the Russian workers and peasants. France has learted'that it cannot dodge vital issues with this subterfuge. The Communist International stands as the creation of the ‘revolutionary aspirations of international labor, spurred to life by the world war, the same revolution- ary struggle that gave to the Russian masses their Soviet Republic. Evidently French capitalist statesmen have ac- cepted this as an incontrovertible fact. But the American diplomats who make their headquarters at Washington, altho they get their cues from Wall Street, think differently, William R. Castle, Jr., chief of the division of West Euro- pean Affairs, in Kellogg's department of state, told the Insti- tute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass., that: “The assertion of those who attempted to differentiate between the activities of the Soviet Government and the Communist International had been proved wrong. It is now clearly understood that the Soviet Government and the Communist International ate only the right and left hand of the same organism.” The New York Times proudly proclaims that Rear Admiral Harry M. P. Huse, United States Navy; Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge, Harvard, and Professor George H. Blakeslee, Clark University, all joined in characterizing Mr. Castle's statement as “an important and authoritative pronounce- ment” of the policy of the American Fovernment. * * * That should bring smiles to the faces of the Red Soldiers on the watch along the Soviet frontier. The rear admiral and the two professors cannot help but solemnly hold up the twiching face of American imperialism, gnashing its teeth that the soldiers of the social revolution in all lands should be able to shield the seat of power of their Communist Inter- national ind the Soviet bayonets of the First Workers’ Republi - Ho workers in the Soviet workshops must chuckle as they hear the pelions emahating from this solemn nest of the intelligentsia in New England, that has given refuge to fascists and terrorists from practically every country of Western Europe that is receiving a lift from the American dollar. ‘ ; ra ° - . e This Mr. Castle declared that if American bankers ap- proached the state department at Washington with a request for a loan to the Soviet Union, the answer would be “No!” To be sure, the Soviet Union wouldn’t object to additional credits in the United States. It would help its representatives purchase more of the things needed by the Russian workers and peasants. It would take many American workers out of the army of the unemployed and give ‘them a job. But Soviet trade with the United States is doing pretty well, even in the face of great obstacles. All trade records were broken during the first six months of 1925, according ad the reports of the Russian Information Bureau at Wash- ington. Just a glance at the figures, and may they come to the at- tention of the rear admiral and the professors. The turnover for the half-year ending June 30 was $68,779,736, of which $52,610,645 represented purchase of American goods for ship- ment to the Soviet Union, and $6,169,091 sales of Soviet im- ports into the sacred precincts of the United States of Amer- ica. How the state department at Washington must stand aghast at this Bolshevik penetration of this sacred capitalist jand. Cotton led the list of purchases with 75,498 bales valued at $26,479,500 as compared with $19,684,460 worth of cotton purchased during the same period last year. These figures do not include imports of manganese or of the Russian agri- cultural co-operatives; neither do they include unfilled orders for future delivery. So the raving of the state department and its propaganda agents, like Mr. Castle, does not seem to matter much. The Soviet Union would like to help. It would result in a more rapid reconstruction. But if the help, in the shape of loans and credits is not forthcoming, it will get along just as well. Only the job will take a little longer. Russian labor, however, is as persistent as it is patient, an inspiration to American labor to battle untiringly for its Soviet Republic. Then it would be possible to hold a gathering of the Com- munist International in Washington, D. C., entirely upsetting the calculations of the professors, for then they would have to charge that the American instead of the Russian Soviet Republic, and the Communist International “are only the right and left hand of the same organism.” GARMENT BOSSES POST JOKE WRIT, Police Renew Their Vi- olence, 4 Jailed Greater spirit than ever was manl+ fested by the members of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers picketing the struck plant of the International Tailoring company at 847 West Jack- son Blivd., as a result of the posting of the injunction issued by Judge Hugo Pam, which prohibits the strikers from doing that which is “unlawful.” The International company’s hired thugs were passing out big bundles of copies of the injunction, and twen- ty-one copies were pasted on the building. The strikers, and even the policemen had great fun with the in- junction, which is treated as a huge Joke, for it plainly states that the strikers may picket, Police Begin Violence, | Four strikers were arrested yester- day, the police evidently having been given orders by the International to recommence . their violent tactics. Those arrested were Marty De Spenaa, Joe Dumbrowski, Peter Korech and John Lotus. Mary De Spenza was walking the picket line in a peaceful manner when she was seized by several police and hustled to the station house. At first the police threatened to hold her for “contempt of court” on $1,000 bond, but later she was booked on @ disor- flerly conduct charge and released un- der four hundred dollars bail. Imposing Phraseolog: The injunction which the finks of the garment bosses were peddling be- gins with imposing legal phraseology: “To the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of Ametica: Whereas, it hath been presented to the Honofable Hugo Pam, one of the judges of the superior court of Cook county, in the state aforesaid, on the part of the International Tai- loring company, a corporation, com- plainant in its certain second amended and supplemental bill of complaint exhibited before said judge, and filed in said court against you, among other things that you afte combifiing and confederating with others’ to injure the complainant, and that your acts and doings in the prémises are con- trary to equity and gdod conscience. Allowed to Picket. “We therefore do strictly command you, the above named defendants and all associations and firms and persons assisting you or having knowledge hereof, that you absolutely desist and refrain...” Then follows the “command” to de- sist from “unlawful picketing,” which the Amalgamated never indulged in: “From following or calling upon the employes of the complainant, and from congregating and from picketing near the premises of the complainant, in a manner that is intimidating or un- lawful, but this does not, however, restrain in any way or prevent the defendants from maintaining pickets or persuading employes of the eom- plainant, or from following or calling upon employes ,of said complainant, or from congregating in a peaceful or lawful manner, as provided in the act of the state of Illinois, entitled, ‘An act relating to disputes concern: ing terms or conditions of employ- ment.” The employes are then ordered not to picket in such a way as to obstruct the sidewalks, not to call strikebreak- ers “scbas” or “finks,” not to main- tain a boycott, and not to interfere with the free use of the streets or with the scabs, nor to injure the com- pahy’s property. The injunction is not considered even legal, as it orders the defendants not to commit acts which are already declarde by law to be illegal. Coal Miners Are Urged. to Prepare for the Fight tion to aid the European miners in (Continued from Page 1) “The policy of Lewis is shown to be bankrupt. His previous betrayals of the union, such as the Jacksonville three-year agreement, has, as the Pro- gressive Miners’ Committee proph- esied, weakened the union fearfully. So much so, in fact, that the oper- ators now pay no attention to Lewis and think they can whip the miners in a strike. “This is quite possible, too, if the miners’ union membership, remeber- ing the treachery of Lewis'in the other general strike when he sur- rendered to the Anderson injunction on the #founds of patriotism, do not apply ‘the most vigorous pressure to prevent his betraying the present fight, Actually, only a new and militant leadership from the pits to replace the their battles, Only last. week, Mur- ray and Kennedy denied they had even promised to aid the»great Brit- ish mine strike. 4Y “Miners everywhere must at once demand that Lewis refuseany arbitra- tion proposal, which is always an ef- fort to defeat the workers. Lewis must be made to understand that he must not compromise on Ris, and that the bituminous field ber .called out, an alliance with rail unions set up, and amilitant fight made and no ar: bitration ted—only direct settle- ment with the operators on the basis of victory for every demand of the miners.” * Oe Strike May Come September 1. ATLANTIC CITY, N, J., August 5.— The conference between anthracite in order to that the Joint Action Committee shall have full possibility to carry on the struggle. We ex- press our confidence in the Joint Ac- tion Committee. ‘Wer jure them that we. will stay) in this struggle until the corrupt machine in our union, shall be broken, and, our strug- gle for @ union controlled by the membership will be @rowned with success,” present Lewis machine, will -be able to lead a real struggle, No International Aid, “Tn all this fight, it must be recalled Lewis has never asked) t jee or assistance of the Am: Interna- tional, If he did, the American miners would not get it, however, considering the fact that Amater en only naKism, and operators and miners’ union repres- entatives collapsed at six o'clock last night, and the possibility-of a strike of 158,000 hard coal mingg in a pros- pect for September 1. ) John L, Lewis, py of the United Mine Workers of America, shortly before noon, ri what would be the next '“My letter to Mr, have to say just no lip service to inter that Lewis himself has taken no for itself,” he said. He would not say ber 1. strike, charg for refusing to send responsible nego- tiators to the conference, Warriner nd other big men in the operators’ association refusing even to see Lewis and delegating underlings to do the negotiating. Likewise, Lewis’ letter scouted the efficiency of the key pro- posal of the operators—arbit) which was read into the record as was Warriner's note refusing to at- tend, follows in part: Mr. Samuel D, Warriner, chairman, Anthracite Operators’ Conference, Philadelphia, Pa. strike was to be called on Septem- representatives, He refused to comment on is far from the truth. Statements Contradict. Operators Snub Lewis. In this letter to Warriner, Lewis the operators with bad faith The letter of Lewis to Warriner,| the wage conference, mark; Want Wage Cut. tate the personnel of the operators’ Such an assumption Despite your gentle asseverations to the contrary, that condition does not now exist. On July 30, in a New York newspaper, Mr. W, W. Inglis, speaking for the anthracite operators’ conferees in Atlantic City, gave an ‘authorized statement that no conces- sions of any character, involving an increased cost of mining would be made by the anthracite operators in On July 9 in your formal address delivered to the joint meeting at the Traymore Hotel, Atlantic City, you made the following significant re- reduce wages in order to Increase your profit margins and because of that desire you place positive stric- tures upon your conference represen- tatives, prohibiting them from negoti- ating in any manner e@cept to revise the scale downward. | Refuse to Examine Costs, Our representaties, therefore, pro- posed that the anthracite operators join with them in a mutual examina- tion of the mine costs of the anthra- cite operators with an accurate ascer- tainment of the amount of money paid in salarfes to corporation offic- ers and executives, retinues of high- priced attorneys, multifarious publie ity representatives, statistical and research organizations, and secret agents of various character. of your letter of August 3. It is a ‘pleasure to exchange views with you, but how much ‘e would ha’ the conference and debated with us face to face. Our people do not care to disarm themselves and stand helpless in the face of such a powerful adversary as the organized financial and operating interests which you represent. Our position on this question is definite and ¢arries with it the overwhelming indorsement of the mine workers of the, anthracite region. My Dear Mr, Warriner: “The anthracite operators: feel, T enjoyed the delightful sophistry therefore, that the real issue before this conference is not the question as to whether or not we Va with ‘onient it ome into you in an investigat the facts and the application facts or the necessary reason! logic, and out of that produce @ decision which will reduce the labor cost of mining.” been had As usual, you a froma false to premise. You pretend to-assume that} The above statement is,the key to] (Signed) JOHN L. LEWIS, the mine workers are. gai to dic-| the operators’ poate You desire to}. Pe " ay President, { 3 ; re tts) CHAT BAILS hes oe \