The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1925, Page 1

hy The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government ote ig YOn? Se Vol. II. No. 79 * <2 *) GEn Be. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY 'O sets of alientists who examined Russell T. Scott, condemned slayer, now fighting to dodge the gallows, have reached different. conclusions as to his sanity. . What must be proved is whether or not he became insane since his trial and conviction for the murder of a drug clerk, during a souse party in a drug store. Those who are paid by the state declare he is sane, while the alienists employed by the defense, find him crazy. ee HIS same Scott, by the way, was once the director of a thirtye mil- lion dollar corporation. Those were the days when the boobery, as H. L. Hencken calls easily gulled” people, who think the way to wealth is open to the “common people”, had saved some money fronr the hectic war pe- riod when the House of Morgan need- ed munitions so hastily that cost plus was tha rule and not the exception. the wage slaves were able to up a little coin” It was then that fellows like Russell came along and decided to relieve the thrifty workers of their war booty. se * OST of those wild catters have hit the tobaggon by now, That is, the companies are gone and so is the money that was seduced from the small fry. The big fellows have their own legitimate channels for swind- ling. Scott evolved many schemes to show the “people” how to get rich. Morgan was standing between them and wealth he said: — Scott would build a bridge between them and prosperity. This he labelled the “Scott idea”, Finally the bubble burst and Scott took to holding up people with a gat. Much the same kind of a sport but more risky. .* * HE idea of “getting rick quick” has a great fascination for Americans, even for the working class who have not yet realized that only one out-of every hundred thousand who tries the game of legalized-graft gets anywhere but within speaking distance of the flop house. Successful speculators play a big role in American sociéty. Those who do not succeed dre lucky if they don’t land in jail. Barney Baruch, a successful gambler, was made chairman of the War Industries Board, by Woodrow Wilson. Barney's only means of making a living is play- ing with the ticker. He knows the game well and has made millions. He | is now financing investigations into ‘war profiteering. Barney made mil- lions on one little leak that occurred during the war. B be? an effort to impress the jury witn Russeli Scott's high degrees of re- spectability in the past, his lawyers, who are clever men, tried to intro- duce testimony to show that the con- vieted slayer was once the head of a $80,000,000 corporation and planned to build a bridge between the United States and Canada. How could a (Continuea on page 4) WINCHESTER, Tenn., ‘Aug. t— Judge John T. Raulston who pre- sided over the Scopes’ evolution case at Dayton, plans to leave here Fri- day or Saturday for Chicago, where he will address “a fundamentalist meeting at the North Shore church. MIKADO ENVOY RECEIVED BY TCHICHERIN Dea From left to yor are: Tohicherin, Soni ar of fore ~ription Rates: le a i In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per sear, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. PRESS WALKOUT Cuneo Plant Picketed by Local Pressmen The pressmen who walked out when the Cuneo printing company tried to reduce the crews on the presses from four to three men, congregated in front of the plant at 22nd and Grove Sts., braving several flivver squads of police, and warned those looking for work to stay away. Meanwhile “Major” George L. Berry sent in members of the Internatoinal Printing Pressmen'’s and Assistants’ Union. to scab on members of Local No. 3, Strikebreaker Berry, president. of the International Union, ordered the local. pressmen to accept the Cuneo company’s terms, thus playing his usual role of aiding the open shop campaign of the printers. The pressmen, however, walked out from this plant and from the Cuneo: build- | ings at Arthington and Spaulding | Sts., and refused to take orders from | the scabby Berry. Cuneo Presses Crippled. ° Berry is in Chicago now, and was! to address a meeting of, the press- | men last night at the People’s Insti- tute Hall, Van Buren. and Levitt Sts. | The presses at both the Cuneo} plants were crippled yesterday, altho several men sent in by Berry at- tempted to scab on the pressmen. Young Workers League Bulletin. The Young Workers League Nucleus of workers in the Cuneo plant issued @ strike bulletin which was popular with thé*pressmeén who had quit work. The bulletin js given belows..- All Workers Must Support Recher In Strike! Must Organize Helpers! The pressmen in the two Cuneo plants are on strike. The bossés went to remove one pressman from each machine instead of hiring two, press- men and two helpers’as in the past. Those young workers at Cuneo's who are organized into the Cunea nu- cleus ofthe Young Workers ‘League call upon all of the Workers at Cuneo’s (organized and unorganized) to sup- port the pressmen at the present time. The fight which they are carfying on effects the interests of everyoné of us whether we are organized or unorgan- ized, helper or apprentice, whether we work in the bindery or in the press- rooms, Threat of “Open Shop” The bosses always want to. reduce the number of organized workers and to increase the number of unorgan- ized young workers since this brings them closer to the open shop: condi- tions which mean bigger profits for them and lower wages for all of us. The Company could never get away with this kind of stuff if the helpers and other assistants were organized. The Young gVorkers League continu- ally fights for the organization of the unorganized young workers and calls upon the young workers at Cuneo’s (Continued on page 2) ' (Special to’ The Daily Worker) LONDON, Augus 6—The authori- ties at Ammanford, Wales, where matters have been going from bad to worse in the anthracite’ district ever since the differences between the operators and the miners be- came acute, today appealed to the government to send troops to the district to prevent further disturb- ances. There are 40,000 anthracite miners striking at Ammanford against discharge of active union men. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at SATURDAY, ; AN WORKE BERRY AND COPS|Welsh Mine FAIL TOSTOPAsS Baldwin ORKE®.. it Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. UGUST 8, 1925 5 GO TO MC Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY PUBLISHING CO,, 1113. W. =” sks By a strange coincidence the re- ceipt of this al. for soldiers to put down, tl “growing disorders among the ing miners in the Welsh coal fights was received just before Prime Minister Baldwin rose in the house of Commons to defend his course tagt week jin offering a subsidy. to the coal operators as the ‘price of an armistice in the wage struggle between operators and miners. Probably not since he, assumed NOT SO GOOD FOR BALDWIN RULE Anthracite Strike Looms _ As Conference Breaks Up ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., August 6.—“We're done now. There is nothing on the boards we said a member of the scale committee of the anthracite Tri-District body of negoti- repared to leave the scene of the conference with the operators after the collapse of negotiations Tuesday evening. The.scale committee is, however, leaving the preparations for further ac- “--———----— can see, ators as the committee of 40 affairs; President Kalinin and the +i janese ambassador, Tanaka. Several Japanese repent are now engaged in a flying feat from io to Moscow. house Subsidy office the second time has Baldwin faced a house so hostile to one of his proposals. This was apparent as his lengthy review of the coal situa- tion proceeded. There was no manifestation of enthusiasm among members as the premier told them that it was bet- Warhington Blvd:, Chicago, Il. IS NEW YORK EDITION Rone oe ae eee 2] WORKER Price 3 Cents wy Face Troops BIG LABOR DELEGATION NOW IN RUSSIA FOUND SOCIALIST ORGAN SPORE NOT ONE WORD OF TRUTH (By International Press Correspondence) MOSCOW, July 20—(By Mail)—Upon Leaving Leningrad the German workers delegation to the Soviet Union issued two de- ter to spend money for the subsidy | clarations. ‘ First, a letter to the Leningrad working class: peso et a vid rabid ory “We have spent five days in your town. We are convinced that Tee ame Sens: Would entails tse ch iah you have achieved must cause a feeling of the deepest He did not mention the political peril to capitalism of a national gen- eral strike. jrespect in each honest worker. ment and a firm will for the con- tinuation of successful recon- struction. Industry Is, Developing. “In Leningrad industry is. develop- ing successfully in socialist forms. The material situation of the workers is continuously improving. ‘After we had seen your institu- tions as for instance, the workers san- atorium, we understood why the whole capitalist world hates you and, wishes to surround you with a ring of iron. “We consider it to be our duty to struggle with all means against any attempt to bring the Russian people e more. under the yoke of cap- m. “We promise to point out to our omrades’ the necessity for prepared- of I 8 alist against Soviet Russi: action The md statement is dedicated to the situation in the Putilov Works and reads: Hit German Socialist Organ. “The letter which was published in the Vorwaerts last Jan. 3, does not contain one true word. We declare emphatically; The workers of Rus- sia have never possessed such reaching political rights and such wide possibilities of making their political influence ‘felt, as: at present, “No single menshevik, if such per- dhs TeXist “Ut “WM; hus (addtessad’ him: | a majority of social-democrats, Spread the Truth, “Some of us have spoken with a one- the own initiative to break up the menshe- vik, organization. All this shows how necessary ‘the jolirney of the delega tion to the Soviet Union was in order your country.” Refugees Return to Armenia. MOSCOW.—Armenian refugees returning in ever increasing numbe' to their fatherland. 600 refugees being directed from Persia to Le akan via Djulfa. 5,500 arrive at I re (Special to The Daily Worker) tion in the hands of a sub-com- mittee of » which is fully authorized to issue a strike call to 158,000 anthracite miners if the operators! fail to sign an agreement by August 31. In the language of thé scale commit- tee, it Shall “meet any emer- gency in aceord with their judgment.” This sub-committee is also em- powered to arrange with the perators for some union men to remain on the job as maintenance men to keep the mines in good order, prevent cave-ins (Continued on page 2) POLICE INVESTIGATE RICH MAN'S ADOPTION OF PRETTY ‘DAUGHTER’ NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—While Ed- ward W. Browning millionaire real- tor continued to play fairy godfather to his newly adopted daughter, Mary Louise this afternoon, the machin- ery of the law wae set in motion to determine whether there, was any- thing illegal about what welfare Commissioner Bird S. Coler un- equivocally branded as “the most unmoral transactién |. have | ever heard of.” akan from Batum. All refuge granted’ a 75 per cent rediiction on railway fare. STRIKE GROWS AT SHANGHAI; BOYCOTT ON Workers Fight Capital- ist Treason (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, China, August 6.— The Students’ Union has issued, printed warnings to Chinese merch- ants not to handle British or Japa- nese goods... The merchants’ stocks of such goods will be confiscated if they violate the boycott notice. If the workers in the European and American countries think that the Chinese liberation movement is just a little flurry soon to pass over, the fact that the entire student body is refusing to)accept any discipline of P foreigh faculties (which are openly or. secretly opposing the liberation | di movement) and millions of students ction among other industrial (Continued on page 2) from the workers too. own choice and everywhere we have found a selt to the German delegation, despite the fact that the delegation consists in| time menshevik who told us that in| 1925 a meeting of the mensheviks of Putilov Works decided on their} finally to spread the real truth about} We have visited factories of our matic e develop- pa RE TEUT FASCISTS REVEAL PLOT ON SOVIET LEADERS Police, Embassy, and Professors in Plot (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—During the trial of the three members of the Ger- man fascist body, Organization Con- sul Dittmar, Wolscht and Kinder- mann, these spies admitted that the “scientific” expedition on which they embarked into Soviet Russia, was in reality a plot to kill Soviet leaders. The fascists admitted that the Ger man police knew of their anti-Soy viet plot, and had asked them to ob- tain information as to the German Communists who might be taking ref- ge in the Soviet Union. | Well known German: monarchists } and. iatelicct were brought - inte the plans, which included thé mapping of the« Kremlin, findjng connections between the Communist Internationa} }and the German Communist. Party, and spying on the Soviet leaders. The ctivities of student fase in Ger- y against the workers were also | exposed Dittmar .made detailed statements upon the students’ organization; which is nothing less tham a secret nucleus }of the movement. The stu- ntinued on page 3.) 1 5C Debt Commission Meets. WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Al save {two of the nations that dipped into the United States treasury for loans during the war have instituted “some ions aimed at settling , it Was disclosed to the first meeting the Ameri. | can Debt Funding Commission has held in more than eight months. British Labor Leaders MIER BALDWIN'S settlement of the strike thru subsidizing. the coal industry by money to be provided by tax has caused considerable magnates. The |. it dodge, is to get the money by taxing every pint of beer consumed by the workers, one penny, will refuse to attend school when Si io that Baldwin has listened to the plutes. But he will probably hear