The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1925, Page 4

THE DAILY. WORKER ARMY'S TYRANNY \WILL NOT STOP FIGHT TO RID i WORKERS’ MEET ‘IN PARIS FLAYS WAR ON RIFFS Hundreds of Socialist Delegates Attend PARIS, July 9 (By Mail).—Over the 7 week-end of July 4-5 a great workers’ congress was held here. This congress, called by the “com- Mittee of action,” represents the high- est point yet reached in the struggle of the French workers for unity against the imperialist war in Moroc- co and against the whole bourgeois policy of the Painleve government. Riffs Break French Front. With 250 credentials still to be veri- fled, it was announced, last Monday, that there were no less than 2,470 delegates present at the Paris work- @fs’ congress. These delegates repre- sented 1,210,000 workers. IT IS A PARTICULARLY STRIK- ING FACT THAT OF THESE DELE- GATES 155 WERE MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH SOCIALIST PARTY, the infamous action of whose leaders in supporting the Moroccan war is well known. THERE WERE ALSO 195 TRADE UNIONISTS FROM C. G. T. UNIONS—i. e., the General Con- federation of Labor, affiliated to Am- sterdam, whose leader, M. Jouhaux, is one of the most unscrupulous and bit- ter opponents of international trade union unity. Some 343 delegates were non-party or “independent.” To have succeeded in calling a con- gress of this character—for Paris and district alone, let is be remembered —is a great tribute to the work of the French Communist Party and the left wing trade union federation (the C. G T. U.), who were instrumental in or- ganizing the committee of action. I. L. G. W. OF WHOLE SIGMANITE GANG, SAY bEFT WING # (Continued from page 1) mains in the saddle as;before. And even the discredited leatlers remain as vice-presidents and, in a round- about way, can use theif power ove: the union. . The joint board is not yet ready to correct the crime committed against the membership of the union —support and endorsement of the po- grom on the three greatest locals of the joint board. The policy of ruling with delegates from paper locals and with strong arms, remains as before. Unite with Bosses Against Membersship Instead of fighting against the bos- ses for conditions which should make it possible for the workers to make a living, they unite with them, and give the bosses the right to do with the workers whatever they wish, only re quiring that the bosses help the ma- chine to suppress the dissatisfaction and protest of the members. With the present maneuver Sig- man aims at securing the support of the personal opponents of the two re signed leaders, in suppressing the re. volt of the members. He thinks that he will sucteed in fooling at least a part of the membership and mak them believe that from now on such crimes in the union will not be com- mitted, that everything will be ali right. But we are sure that all cloak and dressmakers understand excellentty this trick and the low object of the Sigman machine. The cloak und dress makers will not give up their strug- gle against this czarist regime until they will eliminate the whole clique from the union, and until me Joint board will be reorganized on such a ment of the three locals, and that in |the Joint Board delegates from those LOCALS Say altogether the demands of tay workers into the hands of the Goyefnor’s Com- mission» and such-Iikerjphitanthrop- ists, ; This same gang which has permit- ted itself to suspend the biggest locals of the union and make a pogrom on the membership simply because those locals Wemanded a struggle for bet- ter conditions, those persons cannot overnight become fighters in the in- terests of the workers, The cloak and dressmakers demand that the rule of terror should be abol- ished. They demand the ‘Yeinstate- small paper locals who} represent no- body should not decide the,fate of 12,000 operators, 8,000 finishers, and over 12,000 dressmakers. Membership Must Control The cloak and dressmakers demand that in the union every member shall have the right to freely express his opinion, and that no one should be robbed of his right as member and be thrown down from the shops as is IS EXPOSED IN CROUCH APPEAL Act, Judge Told | (Continueé from page 1) know the reasons, refuses to disclose. Courtmartial Unfit. court, but objection case ordered to pleadings. Patterson then proceeded with his arguments, presenting the case clearly and fore- ibly, with citations of authority. In answer to the request of the court to show wherein the _ federal » district court had jurisdiction Patterson re ferred to many precedent cases and pointed out that the court stood as a bulwark between the constitutional tights of citizens and the: abuse of military power, He challenged the competence of now the practice of the Sigman clique. They do not desire anybody to pro-! vide them with rulers over thei union. They were not asked if the want Feinberg and Perlstein as mar agers to boss over them, and they ar not asked now if they want or the: recognize those who were appointec in place of the resigned ones. What Members Want ’ They demand, as members in good sleves should elect their leaders, and night break into their offices to throw out their legally-elected officials. They demand that taxes and the raising of dues should not, by forcible means, be tanding in the union, that they them-|"ender void the proceedings of the that no one should in the middle of the | Of law” clause in the constitution. the alleged courtmartial and the qualifications of its members on the howing of procedure in the tran- cript and the conduct of the “trial,” nd declared that the single fact that hey had pronounced a sentence of 40 ears at hard labor on a mere boy vho was not even charged with any rime or violation of any law of the ‘United States was’ sufficient proof of their prejudice to disqualify them and courtmartial under the “due process No Criminal Act Charged. He analyzed the charges and speci- fications and showed that. nowhere was amy specific act chargec that was | ‘Urge U. (Continued from; » y statement has been isstie a chill to the militant workers in these in- dustries: ‘ Never before in the history of mod- Court Martial: Unfit to] er capitalism has an industrial situa- tion developed like the ‘present state of crisis, In Great Britain the miners faced, and still face the greatest pol- itical and industrial struggle in their which Patterson | history. British miners are driven to des- peration thru starvation as a result of unemployment and low wages, Emphatic objection and protest Was! which are, in turn, a direct sequel to made by Patterson to the refusal of] the Dawes plan, that is slowly but the authorities to produce Crouch in surely throttling the workers in Eur- overruled and)ope. In reply to the threat to still cut deeper into the meager, wages of the workers we find them fighting with their backs to the -wall, determined to resist at any cost any further en- croachments of thé capitalists. The miners were supported) by the railroaders, machinists, and marine transport workers. An agreement had been concluded betwegn the big four in Britain, guaranteeing’ that no coal would be produced or transported dur- ing the strike. The railroaders of Britain also threatened with a wage cut, and the agreement between the big four at this time is considered in the labor circles to be the most appropriate and important development that could arise, and an event that has’ caused the surrender of the capitalist class before its tremendous power. At a meeting held. in Paris, July 28th, by the members of the Internat- tional Mining Congress, it was unan- imously decided to attempt to stop production of any coal in excess of the necessary amount for home consump- tion, thereby guaranteeing no avail- able coal for international scabbery. Today 74,000 Saar Basin miners have struck against wage cuts, with ‘hind Exropean Labor Unit ni Murray, officials of ,the United Mine Workers, deny promising any aid. True to the capitalist class, the cow- ards feared to pledge their support ‘al- tho the) Progressive Miners’: Commit- tee had already done so. — In this struggle we saw the interna- tional solidarity of the capitalist class. We see the same attempt in all lands to cut the wages and living conditions of ‘the workers. We realize the fight is an international one and must be met and fought by the workers, or- ganized solidly and internationally. As the militant left wing (minority movement) in Britain have forced the formation of the great alliance of the four largest unions in’ Britain at this time, so must the militant, left wing movement in, America bring. about. an. alliance for mutual aid in America between railroaders, miners, and ma- rine transport workers, and algo to be allied with the militant (workers of Europe for mutual aid internationally, The progressive miners, railroaders and marine transport workers must, demand of their general officers. tha’ a general conference of. the interna: tional officers of all unions in these industries be called at an early date to the end that such an alliance may be formed and that the following pro- gram of action be the fasis of the alliance: 1. A real fighting alliance must be created between the men who dig the coal and those who haul it. This must not be a weak affiliation such as.exists at present, which merely exchanges a few friendly telegrams when either group of workers are on: strike,» but the miners ‘and railroad men must join. together for united action and fight side, by sige or times of strike. No coal must be m6ved by railroaders when the miners are on strike, and no coal will be mined to:make steam for scab railroaders. 2. As the British alliance at ‘this time has shown the’ world the SCAB HERDING JOB SHARK HAS | ~ WORKER FIRED Calif. Law Backed by A. F. of L. Worthless , By L. P, RINDAL i (Worker Correspondent) . LOS ANGBLES, Cal, Aug. 5.—Jack Foley, 420 Standford Ave., bought a job (gardener, wage $60.00 a» month and room, no board; shark fee, $5.00) at the Swedish-American employment agency, Ist and Broadway Sts. After a talk with the, employer, Mrs. Robin- son, 701 N. Belmont Ave., Foley wag offered $80.00 and room a month if he wanted to stay. The lady notified said agency about this understanding at 8 p. m. the same day. And then the agent demanded $2.00 more in addition to the $5.00 already paid, or fee of $7.00 altogether. When the man refused to pay this additional blood money, the agency telephoned Mrs. Robinson to the effect that a man—just as good, if not bet- ter—could be found for $60.00 per month. Jack Foley lost. the job which was said to be “very easy.” But the easiest of all seems to be the way the almighty dollars are rolling into the coffers of scab-herding employ- ment agencies in this city—notorious for its all-around low labor standard, In Bad With Parasites and Country. The: initials of the International Brotherhood Welfare Association are I. B. W. A. These letters are also said to stand for “In Bad With America.” Whether this is true or not, it will (with Wm. S. Murphy as organizer) surely be in bad around the slave market after this. The hogisch employment sharks are the meanest kind of parasites in a mean society, basis as to give the membership a| imposed upon them. f a prospect of the German and French im-} pp, “ i ” ty n itself criminnal, undawful or | @ Prospe e ort ey must be thrown off the bended A Paris Soviet shies to have their say on the most oat becom tac ur Oiere Bs wrong, He showed that the laws of | miners following them immediately to [7 *alliahee sae -atat igor at tee backs of the exploited workers. Then Vith justic: 6 speak important questions, and decide | 8'¥' 0 e! iB rh With justice one of the speakers to decide eee with their hard-earned money,|the territory: of Hawaii regarding offset similar attacks, applied by cap-| nent with the Marine’. ‘Transport and first then, will “Brother” E. B. christened the congress “the first So- viet of Paris.” For most of the thou- Sands of workers present had been delegated from their workshop, fac- tory, depot, or office. One after an- other, during the two days of the con- gress, simple socialist and trade union workers got up to say, in plain, blunt language, that what they wanted was UNITY to smash the Moroccan im- perialist adventure and to defend the their own fate: It is an old trick of tyrants and cor. rupt rulers, when the peopte ger to know of their crimes anu treacnery, to throw the guilt upon a few indi- viduals in order to save the rule of the whole clique. But. the croax ana dressmakers will not permit themsel- ves to be fooled. They were fooled ‘and betrayed tou much the bluff of resignation of tne their name and without their know- ledge agreements should them hand and foot, and make it im- possible to make a living. Will Fight Until Victory The cloak and dressmakers And mainly they do not want that in}|Secret organizations cannot be held be made] which with the bosses, nor certain “sup-|federal jurisdiction alone; and even plementary” agreements, which bind|if the law had applied, it only re- o apply to a military reservation, is extra-territorial and under lated to a misdemeanor that was pun- ishable by three months’ tmprtsou- ment. He showed by precedent'and au- when an ‘indictment or charge fails to state facts ’Sufficient italism depreciating the money wages they are paid. The anthracite miners in Pennsyl- vania are facing a strike for a living wage, while the bituminous miners throughout the organized fields of the United States and canada are unem- ployed and starving. Throughout America miners are striking and starving. Their living conditions are terrible. The non-union fields are Workers that no coal will be: trans- ported across the seas for scab pur- poses. 3. An'alliance to be negotiated be- tween the American and European alliances for international solidarity of the. militant workers. Our slogan must be: NOT A/ POUND OF COAL WiLL BE MINED OR TRANSPORTED FOR Lampton (of the carpenters) be able to say—truthfully—that “nobody has to pay for & job.” The slaves have to pay, and pay dearly at that, as pointed out in this case. A. F. of L. Law Scrap of Paper, The victim of this outrageous sys- tem of the plunderbund got no job and received nothing for lost time— except a few smiles; ap a woman who did not i } workers’ standard of living against }two leaders of the machine should | liberate themselves from this corrupt]. ‘ , working 66 per cent steady time, yet | 'NTERNTIONAL SCABBING! a “ } the government proposals for infia-| Satisfy them and cause them to per-|cliqtie; and destroy the whole rotten] °° beareyie si Ra bee: ue rete they are in as terrible a condition as Alex Reid, or On aoher Aiea Nie “i anu. mitt themselves to be led again by the} base” upon which this machine is|72Ve BO jurisdiction over the person | |e oe ood they ar ‘ 8 eld ie Aer | ton. of the accused, and when unlawfully | * y are verging. on ecretary of the Progressive, And as far as the s tree em- 4 ) ' Speeches were made by outstanding , Same machine which has ruined them leaders-like Marcel Cachin and Henri|@nd brought about a condition that Barbusse; but it was the continual stream of rank and file delegates, ex- pressing the real feelffig of the mass- \ fee, ay in halting and uncertain { es, some of them still with the _ Yemains of a patriotic faith in their _ reactionary socialist and trade union _ leaders, that gave the congress its | Magnificiently impressive character. 2 Here was a real workers’ parlia- | ment, setting itself boldly, up over | against the shams and mockeries of \ the parliament of the bouregoisie. Women, Arise! A woman worker comrade, Klaweis, Who lost her son in the last “war to end war,” said plainly: “We must all of us take our stand, men and women alike, against the war. Task the women particularly—we will arise for the social revolution against _-militarism and the bouregoisie.” Liabaers, the secretary of the Bel- _ gian Garment Workers’ Union, a fra- ' ternal délegate, made a long and closely reasoned speech in favor of trade union unity. “It is a lie,” he said, “to say that Moscow is responsible for the division fm trade unionism. The attitude of the reformist and socialist leaders in 1914 was the underlying cause of the crisis in the international labor move- ment after the war.” Trade Union Unity. He concluded.on a note of appeal, which roused the congress to the high- Darren tener _ either pay dearly for the error of your makes {t impossible for them to mak a living. y Sigman Has Not Changed Sigman’s declaration that hé will now serioysly begin a struggle against the bosses cannot be taken seriously. Sigman’s machine was the one which up'to now laughed at all demands for a struggle against the bosses for bet- built. | As Yong as Sigman and his terrorist policy Will rule in the union and thc membership will not have the righ to freély express their opinions, s long’ Will there not be a sign of tru unity, and fraternity. Instead o struggling against the bosses, this machine is carrying on a_ struggle against the members of the union. And. if. the same-machine will remain in power it will do the same in the ter conditions. They have given over future. MOTHER BLOOR TO SPEAK AT MARTIN’S FERRY, OHIO, FRIDAY (Special to The Daily Worker) NEFFS, Ohio, August 5.—Mother Bloor arrived in this city to hold a meeting sure to attract a crowd of surrounding cities. The great interest displayed in thi; who without a cent of railroad fare i ing meetings on schedule, brought many requests to speak at neighboring cities, Since meetings have been arranged beforehand, Mother Bloor hag been able to. accept one request, which will bring her to Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, on Friday night, August 7. The meeting will held at the Hungarian Hall and preparations already made prom- ise to add another large meeting to the hundreds of others at which Mother Bloor has spoken since leav- ing San Francisco on June 1, hundrdes of workers from Neffs and is 62-year-old veteran Communist fighter s hitch-hiking across the country hold- — From this city Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor will arrive in Coshocton, 0., on Saturday; Columbus, O., Sunday, and Monday, August 9 and 10, and Mans- field, O., on Wednesday, August 12. Machinist Badly Hurt. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., August 5.— (FP)—Peter Leon, machinist, was seriously burned when two loading machines exploded in the Remington Arms, U. M. C, plant. { will stay’ in this struggle until they “EE Chat ‘estrained of his libérty under a de-j cree of any tribunal adjudged under uch circumstances the remedy liés 1 a writ of habeas corpust issued out f another court. Legitimate Expression of ‘Opinion. He showed that the acts charged were not acts of offense but merely expressions of opinion and Jegitimate acts the right of which is guaranteed under the constitution,.and that the acts charged as offenses were thus acts over which the courtmartial had no jurisdiction. He showed) that the slavery. The International Mining Congress cabled to John L. Lewis and the Amer- ican miners for support of the British and Saar Basin miners. They asked that no coal be produced for shipping Purposes abroad that could be used against the miners, but Kennedy and Miners’ Committee, Joseph Stone, Progressive Marine Transport Workers. ve Otto H. Wangerin, International’ Committee tor Amalgamation in the Rail- road Industry. eaneennernaveaniayigy Agen ertaneeesrersnne ereeeermeeere eee ENN eee beababaaaaeaaa prejudice and animus against the ac- cused was such as to create an atmos- phere surrounding the proceedings which rendered a fair and ‘mpartial|“ trial impossible and thus deprive him of his liberty without due process of law as guaranteed by the constitution of the United States. Intolerance and Bigotry of’ Ojjicers. He closed the main argument with a bitter arraignment of the intoler- ance and bigotry cf the army officials who had thus abused thetr power by the savage persecution of an innocent boy, whose only offense was that he held opinions different - from their oavn and had dared to express them openly. Col. Frederick M. Brown appeared for the army and defended the action of {he courtmartial. He evaded the fact of the original 40-year sentence by showing that reviewing authorities had reduced it to three years, which ployment law of this earthquake state is concerned, for which the A. F. of L, officials claim credit, it is not worth the scrap of paper on which it is written. ‘ “Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER. The Little Red Library Convenient, pocket size booklets carrying important con- No. 1 Trade Unions in Ame ica : by Wm. Z. Fi r, Jas. P. Cannon, and Earl R. Browder A brief summary of the develop. . ment of the American Labor move- ment and the rise of the Left Wing within it, of Labor bureaucracy to divert the tributions to the literature of the revolutionary movement. New Writers Are sure to develop with the growth of the Com- munist movement in this the Little Red Library Hy j $ | est pitch of enthusiasm. he held was a proper sentence. His “ | : “chad ped pinned Pig Hire argument was confined chiefly to an No. 2 7 country. ne; tele elternatiye, : toom 1 effort to show that the courtmartial ‘A. iplendia sews To thase ‘which there is no escape. You will FOR A | ENINIST YOUTH CAMP had full ghd” conipiets sana. Class Struggle , Pp study of the methods new writers ‘divided forces, and will allow still | heavier chains of slavery to be rivit- , ed upon you. Or else, by wade union ») unity, you will be able to stop the “ eriminal war in Morocco, and then to © forge the weapon whichthe workers NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—We, the Junior Section of the City of New York, have at last after many efforts succeeded in getting a part of Camp Nidge- dayget for a Junior Camp. Comrades! You all know what a splendid thing this is—how powerfully and that the federal court nad no jurisdiction to step in between those who sought to enforce the law and a man who had deliberately violated it. Many of the contentions of the pe- titioner he admitted, but insisted that all formality had been complied with vs. Class Collaboration by Earl R. Browder No, 3 workers from militant: struggle thru Ks the B. & 0. plan, insurance schemes and workers’ education. presents an unusual op- portunity, | Original manuscripts on any subject, from a _ need for their final emafi¢ipation.” it can help us in organizing the workingelass children. in the trial and ‘that it Wl if and eviod working class viewpoint H » So ended a truly great congress—a The way is now open for a workingelass children’s camp! The way is |impartial one and spe the Principles. of ae Sripucal arate of t maroon will be given the closest _ Teal congress of the united front’from | open—the group of over twenty children have already passed their first two | judgment of the tribunal by law to Communism Manifesto, A-historibal. document | attention. . df below, the united front of the toiling | weeks at the camp with great success. But in order to carry our work thru | administer justice in the army. by Frederick Engels | -and a guide to Communist under- PEt a Teevective, of section: OF/tart- WE NEED ABOUT A| Col. Brown stressed ithe alleged] | Translation by Max Bedacht When you write, _ dencies. It was unanimously resolved to send ‘a strong deputation to the government _and a commission of inquiry to Moroc- CO, What a contrast between this meet- ‘ing of workers, full of determination ‘to end the Moroccan war, and the meeting of the bureau of the labor and socialist international in London, also over last week-end. That meeting received a report on the Moroccan question from M. Re- naudel, the extreme right wing French socialist, who “explained the different » Views held within the French party.” The L. I. S. “postponed” any de- cision until after a future conference of the British, French and Spanish labor and socialist parties. The attitude of the French social- ~ {sis, however, evoked protests even _ from Dan, the Russian social-revolu- as splendidly as we have begun we need money! THOUSAND DOLLARS! This is quite a bit but IT MUST BE ‘RAISED QUICKLY, if our Junior Camp is to continue. You know that we are work- ing class children and cannot afford to pay the amount that Camp Nidgeday- get charges us. why we are having a camp drive. Comrades! The warking class ch on with this camp if YOU help us! Send in your contributions! in to; JUNIOR CAMP COMMITTEE, City E Junior In the AUGUST ISSUE That is why we must have a Junior Camp Fund—that iv ildren appeal to you! We ean only go Sénd them 108 East 14th Street, New York City. xecutive Committee, Section, Young Workers League. LaFOLLETTISM Without LaFollette By MANUEL GOMEZ. The LaFollette movement without its leader—the nature of it—its future—and :the, battle for work- ANAMAAAS revolutionary character of the propa- ganda spread by Crouch and tried to show that his remark sabout the overthrow of the government was a deliberate advocacy of force and vio- lence, He concluded his, argument in the afternoon of July ith. 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