The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1925, Page 2

Page COAL BARON'S LETTER SEEN AS PEACE MOVE Coolidge Fears Strike May Hart G. 0. P. ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 7—Probab- ility of a resumption of relations be- tween the anthracite operators and the representatives of the Miners’ Union was seen in the phraseology of a letter received yesterday py John L. Lewis from Samuel D. Warriner, lead- ing figure among fle hard coal barons. Warriner made the significant state- ment that “in spite of the terms of your letter and the breaking off of ne- gotiations, I am hopeful that means will be found to compose the differ- ences between us and avoid a suspen- sion of production.” The coal barons also denied that there was any truth in the report that the “operators’ negotiating committee is under fnstructions to refuse any concessions, regardless of the logic or merit of any of the mine workers’ wage demands.” Changed Their Plans. After the contents of the letter were made public, federal officers who were watching the negotiations for the department of justice changed their plans already made for leaving town over the week end. Despite this indication that a re- sumption of negotiations will take Place, Coolidge is keeping a close watch on developments and his lieu- tenants are authorized to get the gov- ernmental machinery ready for inter- vention on the side of the operators, under the camouflage of “protecting the interests of the public.” Attorney General Sargent was ex- pected to arrive at White Court today and Secretary of Commerce Hoover is expected tomorrow. Calvin Fears Injunction. President Coolidge is by no means as anxious for cutting a figure in this strike as he was to claim credit for breaking the policemen’s strike in Boston in 1919. A strike might un- make him as a strike has made, to parody the language of the poet. Considerable speculation is indulged in as to what part the department of justice will play if there is a stoppage. Coolidge is giving careful considera- tion to the suggestion, made by a prominent republican, that an injunc- tion be gotten out prohibiting the union from declaring a strike. While Coolidge favors this plan in princible he is enough of a politician to forsee its political consequences. He is said to be of the opinion that it was Daugherty’s use of the injunction An the railroad strike that led to that worthy’s political downfall rather than to the flurry -over the Teapot Dome steal. q Coolidge’s position is that the coal operators will be expected to make a Teagonable sacrifice to the political necessities of the republican party, and it is also believed that it is on this straw that Lewis relies for suc- cess rather than on a strike. Hoover’s Clever Ruse. It is quite possible that Secretary @f Commerce Hoover may be the ad- ministration’s “good man Friday”,in ease of a strike. Hoover has already taken steps to place himself in a ‘fa- vorable position for intervention by hie clever ruse in proposing a reorgan- ization of the bureau of mines, on which he has placed Philip Murray, vice-president of the United Miners ‘and a coal operator by the name of Bradley. Thus the bureau of mines would be a convenient cloak for carry- ihg on unofficial negotiations between the miners and the operators. . Several politicians who have an eye on the White House are preparing themselves for the spotlight. Among the number are Hoover and Pinchot of Pennsylvania. .The miners for their part have giv- en their officers full power to proceed with preparations for a strike. It is helieved that the success of of the British miners in forcing the govern- ment to surrender will favorably af- fect the situation for the American coal diggers. GARVEY IN COWARDLY APPEAL TO CAL FOR PARDON PRAISES KLAN ATLANTA, Ga., August 7.—Marcus ey has sent a 50-page letter to the president appealing for an execu- tive pardon. Garvey states that if pardoned, he will leave the country as soon as he can get his business straigit. He also said in his letter that he thought the ku klux klan was ‘a body of upright christian gentlemen, He claims that because he agrees with the ku klux Klan, the judge and jury that tried his case were prejudiced against him. He also stated that had the judge and jury not been mostly Jews and Catholics, they would have cleared him. Garvey claims to represent the Ne- Meve ike ku klux klan in ' premacy, lynching, Jim Cro’ 4 gregation, or other forms of hatred? Garvey claims to be su from bronchial asthma. We think tt AMALGAMATED STRIKER BRUTALLY SLUGGED BY COPS, BOSSES USE A. F. OF L. NAME, SEEK NEW WRIT (Continued from page 1) employes have been on sttike for over six weeks, and to advertise “union shops.” No intimation is given in the ad that a strike is on, The reason given for needing men is “Special Order.” Apply For Writ Monday. The J. L. Taylor company is ex- pected to apply for an injunction Mon- day morning, altho ithas not yet been announced what judge will hear the Rew application. To Close Offices. It is reported to the DAILY WORK- ER from authoritative sources that the J. L. Taylor company will next week lay off its office force and close down its shops. The company has been unable to secure scabs, even when given permission to use the A. F. of L. name, and the doors will be locked in the near future. An attempt will be made to keeg the International Tailoring company’s doors open. Rock !sland Move Exploded. That the securing of a six-months’ lease on the bankrupt plant of the Boone woolen mills at Rock Island was an empty gesture aimed to. bluff the Amalgamated is shown by the ad- vertisement inserted in the newspa- pers. If the company seriously plan- ned to move to Rock Island, there would be no need to call on the United Garment Workers to supply scabs. Second Picket Jailed. Shortly after Korak was arrested and badly slugged yesterday, John Wheeler, another striker, was jailed while walking the picket line. Schlossberg Speaks. At the strike meeting Joseph Schlossberg, secretary of the Amal- gamated, again spoke. He declared that the Amalgamated will follow the International to Rock Island or any other city if necessary. Schlossberg told the DAILY WORK- ER he has just come from the strike of the Curlee employes in St. Louis, where an injunction limiting the num- ber of pickets to one at each en- trance has bene in effect for some weeks. He declared that the strike is in splendid shape there. The general executive board meet- ing scheduled to take place in Chi- tago Monday is not a special meet- ing,» Schlossberg told the DAILY WORKER, but is a regular board meeting which will discuss “routine matters,” However, the C. E. B. has not been able to hold its meetings every three months as in the past due to the strike situation, and the numerous strikes will be the chief matter dis- cussed. Strike In Rochester, Another strike has been declared by the Amalgamated in Rochester against the S. S. Bloom and company concern, The concern had not previ- ously been organized. AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) aware and Hudson were in competi- tion. se 8 RTY-THREE per cent of the Reading stock was in the hands of the B. and O. and the New York Central. The competing roads were trying to corral a majority of the stock. The N. Y. C. and the B. and O. got busy and grabbed a majority. Now the big fellows in Wall Street are go- ing to scrap over the spoils. The bankers will make the final decision and the smaller systems are going to be parcelled out among the big giants as the bankers see fit. This is the way railroads are juggled under the capitalist system. They change hands over night, but the manipulations are carried out unknown to the slaves who make the profits for the jugglers. se 8 VOU may often notice when a prom- inent capitalist passes away, that he is an officer in a great number of corporations. He may be a president, vice-president or director. Those fel- lows pay themselves whatever salary they see fit. They may be drawing salaries from twenty different corpor- ations and dividends from their in- vestments in those companies. The salaries of those officers, not to speak of dividends they draw, constitute a tremendous train on industry. Yet those are the very men who make much of the wages that workers in the building trades are able to force out of the employers when they are able to secure employment. 0 URING the reorganization of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail- road, two firms of Wall Street bank- ers put in a claim amounting to $2,- 364,249.79 for compensation for serv- ices rendered in shuffling the stock and putting the business in shape again. The lawyers demanded $750,- 000. The interstate commerce com- mission was quite generous. It allow- .ed $600,000 to the lawyers and $900,- 000 to the bankers. The wage slaves on the “Katy” will sweat many gal- lons before that much is sucked out of their bodies in profits. ** 6 NE of the commissioners made the following comment on the exor- bitant demand of the lawyers: “It was testified in this case that the serv- ices of one of the lawyers were worth $500 per day. Men receiving such compensation usually entertain a righteous conviction that it corre- sponds with intrinsic worth, altho, at the same time, they may be incensed that painters or carpenters should as- sume to demand and be able to exact, $15 per day for their services.” Not only must the workers support the parasites who have their money in- vested in industry, but also hordes of others from lawyers to stoolpigeons. a ay NVHE Washington correspondent of the Federated Press, commenting on the recent declaration of the ex- ecutive council of the A. F. of L. with reference to the traditional non-par- tisan political policy trade-marked by Gompers, naively says: “Old party leaders will be prepared, therefore, to begin bidding in October for A. F. of L. support for their senatorial and congressional candidates for next year. President Coolidge will remem- ber that organized labor exists, and so will his rivals in both parties.” Suffering catfish! This only means that the labor leaders are polishing up their signs which read “For Sale As Usual.” Brick Strike Spreads, NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—Another hundred men joined the walkout of the United Brick and Clay Workers that is spreading thru Connecticut. The New Britain strike shuts down plants Reynolds brick companies. L of the Murray, Towers and Stiles & | Recogni- } B of the union is the chief demand, | Cummings and special deputies. —.... - OPENING LECTURE AT WORKERS? SCHOOL ON STRUGGLES IN CHINA NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—A repres- entative of the Kuomintang Party will be the principal speaker at the opening lecture given by the Work- ers School at its headquarters, 108 E. 14th St., Friday evening August 7th, The subject will be “Imperial- ist Struggles in China.” In addition to the presentation of the case for the Kuomintang, comrade Carlson, director of the Workers’ School will state the position of the Workers Party on the conflict that is taking place in China. This lecture, first of a series of six, will give to all who come a clearer and better insight into the forces at work in the Orient now. Other lectures on American imper- lalism in Mexico and Latin-America, of imperialism in India, Egypt, Mo- recco, etc., will, be given by capable speakers, Course tickets sell for $1.00. Single admission is 25e, Lectures begin promptly at 8.15 p..m. BRITISH TORIES _ ANGRY OVER THE MINERS? VICTORY |Baldwin’ Saves His Face by Defying Labor LONDON, Aug. 7—In order to pla- cate the die-hard wimg of the tory party, which fumed over the govern- ment’s surrender to the trade union threat of a general strike over the miner’s demands, Stanley Baldwin yesterday warned labor that the gov- ernment would not be stampeded by threats of force. The speech was de- livered during the discussion on the bill for a $50,000,000 subsidy to the coal industry which enabled Baldwin to ward off a strike. Baldwin declared the new alliance was a grave menace to the country, meaning thereby the capitalist class. This alliance could inflict irreparable damage he declared. It is universally believed that but for the ability of the labor forces to cause irreparable damage to the structure of capitalism, thé government would have called out the troops instead of surrendering as they did. , Ramsay MacDonald defended the trade union forces very feebly to the great dissatisfaction of the trade union leaders who felt that strong speech would be a fitting reply to Baldwin. Baltimore’s Newly Organized English Branch Meets Sunday BALTIMORE, Md., Aug, 7.—On Sunday, August 9, at 6 p. m., a meet- ing of the newly organized Young Workers League English branch will be held at the headquarters of the Finnish branch of the party, at 615 S. 16th street, Highlandtown, Every young worker is invited to become a charter member of this branch. ~ STEEL STR Ke ORGANIZER IS AT EAST FREE Theodore Vind Framed Up by C. of C. Theodore J. Vind, former president of the South Chicago Trades and La- bor Council, and five other men as- sociated with him were freed from the prospect of prison today by com- mutation of sentence, Vind was con- victed in 1922 and sentenced to Joliet for receiving a bribe to settle a strike, but was not yet imprisoned. “The charges upon. which Vind and his associates were convicted grew out of labor conditions in, Chicago and Cook county during the latter part of the year 1921 and the early part of 1922,” said a statement from the gov- ernor’s office at Springfield and con- tinued: « ‘ Governor Says Chamber of Commerce Framed Vind. “It is now conclusively shown that the money was accepted by the per- sons convicted upop the recommenda- tion and insistence. of the local cham- ber of commerce.;pf South Chicago, to whom the whole matter was pres- ented before any payment was made.” see William Z, Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Educational: League and leader of the great steel strike of 1919, when interviewed yesterday said, “Theodore Vind was an active organ- izer in the strike of the steel work- ers, and because of that he was later framed up on false charges of bribery by the capitalist clasé and sentenced to prison.” Foster Glad to Hear Vind Freed “We are glad to see him released, as his only ‘crime’ was his loyalty to organized labor. Capitalism is making a prison sentence a badge of honor in the labor movement; and ‘it is to the credit of the Chicago unions that they supported the fight for Vind’s release with a big campaign, in which lead- ing left wingers in the Chicago Fede- ration actively participated.” Fought Ku Klux Klan in Washington, D. C.; Is Arrested’ Quickly (Continued from page 1) day afternoon, when. the parade will take place, is a half-holiday. Circulate Attack on Klan. Last night, printed handbills made their appearance all over the city, inveighing against the klan parade, “Washingtonians! ’ /Arise and’ stop this farce in a legal war!” was one of the admonitions contained in th: circular. The klansmen will march without masks and without the usual fiery crosses, but in their robes and conical headpieces. 4y A detachment of marines will guard the treasury and do police duty in the parks thruout the show, which will continue over Sunday, with the burn- ing of crosses across. the Potomac in nearby Virginia. This, it was casually explained by city officials, is “usual in the case of big conventions.” Many parades have been staged down Penn- sylvania avenue, however, with no marines near than those who do cler- ical duty in the navydepartment. “This event must? be regarded as any other convention,” explained one district officer, ‘ “Still,” he add@d, meditatively, “the situation has its possibilities.” Orlando Quits Politics in Italy as Anti-Fascist Protest (Continued from page 1) more determined efforts to oust them. No Other Course Open. There was an unfortunate reaction here last week when Orlando was at- tacked while campaigning in the Pal- ermo election. It wags his Palermo ex- Perience, as his letter to the speaker emphasized, which finally convinced Orlando that there was no course open to him except to resign his seat as a protest. Wool Mills Gut Wages. PROVIDENCE, R.: I.—Twenty thou- sand woolen ‘and worsted workers of Rhode Island are tut 10 per cent, making a total of 60,000 workers in this branch of the» textile industry similarly reduced since the American Woolen Co, set the pace at Lawrence, The Rhode Island workers are in mills in Providence, and Pawtucket, Woon- socket and other towns in the Black. stone Valley. i At the same time 4,000 thread work- ers are cut 10 per cent by the J. & P. Coats, Rhode Islnad, Inc., firm, with mills in Pawtucket. The cu* parallels the reduction the American Thread Co, is seeking to enforce in Willi- mantic, Conn., where 2,500 workers are on strike. FRENZIED MOB LYNCHES NEGRO IN EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, STORMING JAIL AFTER CHARGE A CHILD EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo., August 7—A mob estimated at 500 stormed the county jail here and lynched Miller Mitchell, Negro laborer, charged by an 18-year-old girl of attacking her. Earller reports sald that the mob had been cowed by “riot” guns in the hands of county prosecutor Raymond Wall Streets''Bankers Are Decorated by the Polish Hangmen’s Rule By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, two international bankers of Wall Street boast of ‘decorations they have just received from the white terror government of Poland. The bestowal of these decorations, in conjunction with a speech at India House, in the heart of the New York financial district, constituted the farewell to the money lords of this country by Count Alexander Skrzyn- ski, the Polish minister of foreign affairs. In his farewell speech the Polish minister made no men- tion of American labor. He’ knows it is hostile to him and to the bloody reign of terror for which he speaks. He knew as he spoke that the demonstration against his coming to Chicago, for instance, was broken up by the police. Skrzyn- ski had only words for the money kings, at whose feet he and his government grovels.in the hope of raising new loans out of the wealth in the hands of the American capitalists, stolen from American labor. * * e e i The decorations went to Clarence Dillon and Robert O. Hayward, heads of the banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co., that recently reaped a great harvest of millions by securing financial control of the Dodge Motor Co., in Detroit, while the barest betterment of their lives is denied to the exploited automobile workers. . Dillon, Read & Co., ranks with the House of Morgan in making loans to foreign governments tottering under the attacks of the awakening working masses. Like J. Pierpont Morgan, Clarence Dillon also takes an extensive trip each year to Europe, both ambassadors of Wall Street, to see where new debts can be profitably placed upon the backs of European workers still staggering under capitalism, and how best to collect the interest on those debts, under the Dawes Plan, and other schemes. * * J e The Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, as it is called, may rest easily upon the inflated chests of the international bankers, Dillon and Hayward, but it is a heavy cross laid upon the backs, of the workers of both Poland and the United States. It is with the wealth wrung from agoniz- ing American labor, in the cities and on the land, that the Wall Street bandits go forth to spread the might of the im- perialist dollar in other lands. It is this robber's rule that the American workers and poor farmers acquiesced in when they supported the world war; when they later permitted the Wall Street oligarchy to send American soldiers into Europe- an Russia and into Siberia in Asia in an effort to overthrow the Workers’ Republics. * * e e If it had not been for the aid given the Polish hangmen of workers and peasants, by the imperialist allies of the Ver- sailles peace, supported by the United States, the Soviet flag of a proletarian dictatorship would today be waving over a liberated Poland, In spite of the fact that thousands of work- ers and peasants have been martyred, other tens ‘of thous- ands sent to prison and into exile, the struggle toward that goal still continues, and will go on until victory is achieved. ne “ * * In the first flush of success following the triumph of the American revolutionary war more than a century ago, it was even written into the law of the land that Americans must not accept decorations from foreign governments. But this has now become a dead letter, in fact and in spirit. It is not difficult for bankers, industrialists and their prostituted editors and college professors to travel to Europe these days and bring home a ‘trunkful of baubles, that may glitter beautifully today, but which will es tarnish just as soon as American labor rallies by the millions for the class strug- le that leads to victory.. The Grand Cross of the Order of olonia Restituta is a military decoration; possible only be- cause there are still enslaved workers willing to fight their master’s battles. But labor, in Poland as in the United States, will build its own military power, its Red Army, and will conq' CHICAGO WORKERS PROTEST AGAINST NEW ATTEMPT OF POLISH TERROR TO RAILROAD LANZUTSKY TO PRISON A new “trial” against Stanislas Lantzutsky, Communist deputy in the Polish Sejm (parliament), and a leader of the working class of Poland, began in Warsaw on August 4. The bloody Polish government this time has framed up the “trial”, before a single judge, bound only by the dictates of the Polish white terror. They are sure that this time they will send the leader of the Polish workers to prison for many years. During the first trial of Lantautsky in Presemysl, when the prosecutor demanded death for Lantzutsky on be-¢—— half of the PPolish terror, the workers of Chicago held a demonstration be- LANZUTSKY AGAIN fore the Polish consulate demanding FRAMED UP his release. International action of the workers at that time saved Comrade Lantzutsky. Workers of Chicago once more must stand in defense of Lant- autsky. % The International Labor , and its Polish section, the Conference to Aid Political Prisoners in Poland, is calling upon all the workers, to come to the Lantzutsky demonstration which will be held Sunday, August.9, | at Polonia Grove. There will be a picnic and demon- stration, The committee has arranged for good music and entertainment, This demonstration will be ».ad- dressed by James P. Cannon, secre- tary of the International Labor De- fense and B. K. Gebert, who will speak in Polish. How to get there—Take any car go- ing north to Lawrence Ave., then take the Lawrence Avenue car west to the end of the line, then walk north two blocks. Son Shoots Parents, PARKERSBURG, Iowa, Aug. 7—| gtanisiaus Lantzutsky, Communist Warren Vandervoort, 18, was in. cus- member of the Polish parliament, who aenate ott Pin epsiei pes bia faces prison at the hands of the white other last night. The father, = smznzster, Ab beeline dusts Mea tecnsiesi AE yo saved from the gallows by the world died instantly, and no hope was given wide protest of the warkens. oe Se ea ‘ VICTIM RELEASED; SERVED 4 YEARS McLaughlin, I. W. W., to Come Out Sunday, (By California Branch, General Defense Committee, 1. W. W.) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7—On Aug. 9, fellow worker, James McLaughlin, now known as number 12007, will be released from Folsom prison, at Re- presa, with his sentence served. He will be the first victim of the criminal syndicalism law to have his sentence served in that institution of repres< sion. Twelve other innocent fellow work- ers will still be incarcerated there when he leaves. Ten of thees are also victims of the C. 8. law, and the other. two, Ford and Suhr, are serving. lite imprisonmént over the notorious frame-up arising from the riots at Wheatland, California, of August, 1914, Six in Same Case. McLaughlin was arrested with six other fellow workers in a police raid on a mass meeting in Oakland, June 26,1921. They were first charged wit vagrancy, but this was dismissed and six of the seven men arrested were charged and indicted with violation of the state criminal syndicalism law. -* ‘The indictment was known as “Wel- ton et al.” and named Pat Casey, M. J. Dunn, John Hannon, James Mc- Lauglin, George Ryan, and Howard Welton as defendants, Been Serving Since December, 1921. The trial of the these ‘six fellow workers began in Oakland before Judge George Samuels, October 7, 1921, and ended October 27th. They were charged and indicted on five counts, and they were found guilty by the jury after a deliberation of twenty- two hours of violation of the fifth and. last count of the indictment, which was that of circulating literature. They were all Sentenced to the usual one to fourteen years in prison and began serving their sentences in San Quentin on December 9, 1921. Mc- Laughlin was transferred to Folsom about a month later; probably due to the overcrowded condition at San Quentin. Welton received a three- year sentence from the prison board and the others all received five years. Others Lost “Good Time.” We welcome fellow worker Mc- Laughlin back. into the divided ranks of the labor movement of this coun- try and know full well that he will again do; his utmost to create solidar- ‘ty and build up organization, by, for, ind of the workers. Due to the numerous strikes staged by the organization in San Quentin, which they have participated in, as a protest against the intolerable condi- tions there, the othér fellow workers in this case have lost nearlyl all their “credits” and will not be released un- til Jan. 9, 1926, KEEP TERMS OF BRYAN’S WILL A DEEP SECRET Probate Held Up, He Forgot Executors (Special to The Daily Worker) MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 7—Filing of the last will and testament of the late William Jennings Bryan for probate is being held up by a curious over-~ sight of the politician tm fafling to name the executors. This became known when members. of the Bryan family today prepared to ask the probate court to remedy the oversight. As a result of Bryan’s oversight, funds regularly maintained and sup- ported by him and institutions to which he habitually contributed must await the legal measures being taken for the administration of the estate. No member of the Bryan family can issue checks against ene commoner’s bank account until the ommission has been rectified, “Tt is thot likely that the probate court may name Mrs, Bryan adminis- tratrix of the will. Meanwhile, the terms of the testament are a closely yuarded Becret. Pressmen Demand Ousting of Scabs from Cuneo Shop (Continued from page 1) Roebuck mail order catalogues, and — work on these is now efflectively tied up by the walkout, The workers who had walked out stayed around the plant yesterday, and they are determined to actively pro- tect their jobs, now that the local has decided to fight to the end. “The entire plant was closed down today, two thousand workers being laid off because the presses were not running and there was no stock with which to work, The night force was laid off Friday night, and the company announced that there would be no_ work for the day shift on Saturday, “It the Cuneo plant does not make a — settloment before Monday it is ex- pected the lockout will be in effect until a union agreement is signed with the preamen.