The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1925, Page 4

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Se The Railroads and the Mines The London correspondent of “Labor,” organ of the railroad wnions, in a cabled story of the eleventh hour settlement of the threatened coal strike, lays great stress on the important’ role played by the British rail unions in the controversy, and in forcing the government to knuckle down to the miners. << 290 Up until the last moment Baldwin had informed the owners that they would receive no subsidy. He also told the miners that they must accept a reduction in wages. dew: he suddenly changed his ‘mind. And Labor’s correspondent declares that the order oe the rail- road union officials to the membership, instructing them not to handle any coal for either factories or homes was an important fac- tor in Baldwin’s final decision. This looked like business. It remains to be seen whether the American rail unions will take similar action in the event of a miners’ strike after September 1st.. With nonunion mines hoisting soft coal in addition to the large supplies on the sidings, and with trainmen to haul it to the theaters of consumption, the coal operators could laugh in the faces of the striking mine workers. On the other hand should the railroad workers refuse to move any coal on land and the marine and transport workers refuse to touch any coal coming over water, not only would the miners be able to win the strike but they would also be able to unionize every scab pit in the United States, provided they get the right kind of leader- ship. Unfortunately they are handicapped in this respect. Lewis has played with the operators until he has almost wrecked the once powerful union. He has spent the money of the organization, sup- plementing the stoolpigeons of the department of justice in hound- ing the radicals and progressives, the backbone of the union. He has expelled some of the best and most loyal men in the organization because of their loyalty to the workers. He is more concerned with teaching the operators how to make profits so that they may be able to make enuf money to satisfy Lewis’s conception of a proper wage for a miner than with strengthening the union and forcing the coal barons to disgorge some of their swollen profits. Lewis, instead of being concerned about organizing the non-union miners wants to drive a few hundred thousand miners out of the industry. The operators don’t want this of course. The more nonunion miners there are floating around the better for them. Lewis’ policy of collaboration with the operators has proven a failure. He is now compelled to make a show of fighting after repudiating a strike policy. But will he make a fight? That is the ‘burning question. If he means to fight in earnest, he will invite the railroad unions into a conference as A. J. Cook, secretary of the British Miners’ Fed- eration did. Now that Warren S. Stone has passed away, it is pos- sible that the present chief.of-the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin- eers, might be more amenable to an alliance. The rank and file of the railroad workers are certain to take to the idea. The victory won by the British miners thru the united front policy ie a lesson to the workers of all countries. With labor united it can win. What are the American miners and railroad workers going to do about it? Two Years of Coolidge The” Boston police strike of 1919 made Calvin Coolidge’ viee- president and Warren Harding’s addiction to heavy meal$ sent “Silent Cal” to the White House. The strikebreaking president ran into some squalls shortly after his inauguration to fill out Harding’s unexpired term. But tho badly drenched he weathered the Teapot Dome scandal and found time to send his clothes to the cleaner before the K. K. K. broke the democratic donkey’s ba¢k:and smoothed the path of the canny Vermont politician, who has proven a very useful man to big business. . It is now two years since Coolidge took thé oath of office from his father in a farmhouse in Plymouth, Vermont. accomplished since then? His main accomplishment, and. his main boast has been the reduction of taxes on the rich, Not once by word or act has he given any’ indication that he considers any other class, but the capitalist class, worthy of consideration: The ten per cent. wage reduction in the textile industry does not interfere with the calm of the strikebreaking president, Does not his manager, Senator William Butler, own many textile mills? ‘The only matter of concern to President Coolidge is how he ean bést serve his masters, the exploiters who own him with his consent and who control the lives of the workers without their consent. When the latter realize their power, the exploiters.and the Coolidges will go. See Berry on the Job—Again George L. Berry, international president of the Printing Press- men’s and Assistants’ Union, is in Chicago. He is here in his role of strikebreaker. Five hundred members of the union walked out of the Cuneo plant when the company deeided to reduce the crew of ‘the pressés} " by one-half. Berry ordered ‘the pressmen to agcept the company’s decision. They refused. Therefore there was nothing else for “Major” Berry to do, but come in town and prove onc more that he is one of the country’s most efficient strikebreakers.:, » Berry likes to wear the title of “Major.” But he. was nearer the firing line than “General” Dawe’, for services at the rear instead of at the front. The only military title Berry is entitled to is that of “Major Strikebreaker.” Chicago now has the unenvious distinction of harboring the of- ficialdom of two unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, playing the role of sttikebreakers. |The others unipk a: the | United Garment Workers, & Berry maintains his *hold on the union .by prentitig! sky’ tw it Representaion at: national tonvelitions . Only when. the pressmen sma their forces on a national seale will they be ablesto get rid of 5 and the perversion of token unionism that he stands for. What has he}. pee BRITISH HOLD UP . CHINESE CABLES# HERE THEY At Kuomintang Graieful to Daily Worker (Continued from page 1) ality, cruelty, and bloodthirstiness of the Shanghai British police to murder openly, with revolvers and rifles, the Chingse students, and laborers,’ who dj@not carry even a single stick when lecturing in Nanking Road, in the last few days. We-are fully sympathetic with the dead, and still more sympathetic with the defenseless fellow citizens, and at the same time, can not help to con- sider that the personal liberty of the Chinese is infringed and our own lives are\endangered in sucha lawless, un- just, and bloodstained period. So, we, the Chinese Seamen, are compelled to adopt a nonresistant measure’ by striking until the British and Japanese are convinced ,that-they have, wronged us, and surrender them¥elves to law and justice and ac- cept the demands made by the Gen- eral Union of Labor, Commerce, and Education. THE BEOODTHIRSTY CAREER OF SEAMEN, Shanghai, June 8, 1925. It is not surprising that the British would look coldly on this: THE BLOODSTAINED CAREER OF CHINA THE MOST SAVAGE AND CRUEL SLAUGHTER EVER RECORDED IN THE HIS- TORY OF MANKIND. Under direction of the foreign im- perialistic capitalists, the Shanghai British police cowardly fired upon un- armed Chinese lecturing students, la- borers, and onlookers on May 30, 1925. Indiscriminate, and bloodthirsty shooting continued for several days, resulting in 41 killed and over 120 wounded; but none of the police was even injured, Another but similar case occurred at Hankow on-June 11th where 15 died and over 60.were wounded. Whole nation is indignant, yet no aggressive. resistance was. adopted only a peaceful nation-wide strike has been instituted. But such a passive measure failed to wake up the im- perialistic- capitalists out of their dreams And again another murderous shoot- | ing is reported from Shameen, Can-; ton, on June 23rd, fire being opeped | with rifles, and followed with machine} guns and 3-inch callibre guns by the| British and other foreign soldiers and gunboats. Over 80 died instantly, among which there were 14 girl students and 6 chil- dren, and over 400 were wounded. We are now compelled to take the| only course left to us to pay them back in their own coins. We are) against neither the British people as a nation nor any European or-Japan-| ese as such,.but we are against the imperialists wlfo exercised a high- handed and Brutal i ada de over our race. . They are not’only the enemy of us, working Class, but also of any decent class and in any nation. They are the scourge of mankind! ‘We are prepar- ing for the “last sacrifice for the emancipation. of mankind, Arise! “Arise! Fellow-crusaders of all nations! We must struggle for the salvation of mankind, and suppress the imperialism. {Your co-operation to achieve this end is earnestly re- quested. THE WHOLE BODY OF CHINESE SEAMEN: with 500,000 Striking Gen- eral Laborers, Here is another proclamation: Thru the press of all countries of the world to the Séamen associations of all countries, labor organizations, labor movement promoters, and all who are, interested. After three times. of bloodshed on unarmed Chinese students, laborers, and parading girls and boys in Shang- hai, Hankow, and Shameen, Canton; and four raids of college; and dozens of times of assaulting, beating, and se- vere physical injuries applied to Chin- es@ @itizens, the Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Seamen’s Union now rapks.among the list of victims of the foreigm haughty, greedy, and barbar- Imperialists at Shanghai, ‘ie ‘said office was raided, without any reason, nor any official notice at 5i40 p. m., July 3rd, 1925, by fully armed police and detectives. Officers and iembers of the union were driv- n gut without time to take any per- sonal ‘effects, and the office was im- tiedjately locked and sealed up. What right has the foreign munici- ot seduncil to do this? The Chinese ion have rendered, good service to ®ountries of.the world—that, is to EN ind, And now we, together with Pa are suffering from such a xatious and inhuman torture! Can ~tyowsbear to hold aloft, without siving rydur finmediate and needed help to never /Appress imperialism, and to efface In fact he got the title} the shame of mankind? ‘ Our enemy is your enemy! Our de- feat is your defeat!" i Give us your helping hand jwithout delay for the sake of ¢ivilization! and }the future mankind! Else, you and ‘all of us will ever fail THE WHOLE BODY OF CHINESE SEAMEN, WHARF AND TUG WORK. ERS, Shanghai, June 4, 1925, “The Kuomintang Party is very stateful to the DAILY WORKER for ts generous publicity off the Chinese » 4 Sstruggle for freedom, owe TAME DAILY ¥ JAPAN ADMITS SEVENTY SOVIET COMMISSIONERS 10 PROMOTE 2 RADING TOKYO, ee Aug. {—The Jap- anese government has notified the Soviet Union that seventy commer cial commissioners will be ‘admitted to Japan from the Union, in com- pliance with a request of the Soviet government, AA UPHOLSTERERS STRIKE TO AID FIRED. WORKER Unfair Discharge of One Brings Labor Together ’ By JOHN GABRIEL SOLTIS, (Worker Correspondent.) MINNEAPOLIS, ;Minn.,. Aug. 7. — Forty upholstererswalked out of the Brooks Parlor Firniture Company, 1115 East Hennipigin protest against the discharge of their f@llow worker Bok. He was fired because the boss maintained that hé was/not an effi- cient slave, although the workers in the shop regarded Bok ag a first-class mechanic. The strike is remarkable in that there is no organization among the men. The workers in this shop are suf- fering from several greviances. In the first place they are rebelling against the intense speed-up system, known as time work. Under this sys- tem their wages are being constantly reduced, and production continuously increased, so that the more they pro- duce, the lower their schedule be- comes, When, recently, the Brooks Parlor Furniture Company entered the Chi- cago market with several suites of furniture, their prices Were so low that Karpen Bros! of Chicago re- marked that the goods must have been stolen to be sold so cheaply. The conditions of the :wofkers in the Brooks shop, explain ‘the prices. The strikers are making the follow- ing demands: (a) Reinstatement of Bok. (b) Abo- lition of speed-up system. (c) A fixed rate of wages. A shop committee has been organ- ized to negotiate with the boss on the basis of these demands. Mass pick- | eting of the shop is in force. Meet- ings of the strikers will be held daily. —— 4 SWEDEN: Unemployment. — Thru- out May, _1925, unemployment in Sweden was steadily declining, with the metal and machine industry ac- counting for the majority of unem- ployed. JARDINE’S BEDTIME STORIESTO ___ FARMERS:IS DIAGNOSED BY FARMER IN PLEA FOR CLASS ORGANIZATION By FRANCES M, DICKEY. (Farmer Correspondent.) LANGLADE COUNTY, Wis, Aug. 7.—Surely some magic wand has touched the farmers. of lowa if we are to accept the words of W. M.-Jardine, Secretary of Agricultare. But the miracle turns into a fairy tale as soon as one surveys the economic standards of neighboring states. Having lived in. Lapglade County, Wis., some thirty years, I can say. with authority and prove that things have @——_ FI *. gone from better to Worse. For example: My neighbor, Mr. W. 30 years ago bought 70 acres of land, improved it, paid for it and kept a family of ten. They all worked hard to make a little place for themselves. In 1918 when the war broke out he was comfortably fixed. Today finds him and his wife (who were thrifty and hard working), workworn and struggling under the burden of taxes and mortgages which they.can never hope to meet while they live, A Farmers’ Wish. Talking to a farmer the other day brought this: He me his hope was that some dayshe would by dint of hard labor reacl ithe stage where he and his family dpuld afford to per- mit themselves thejluxury of consum- ing all the milk amdcream they neéd and fresh eggs oncéin a while. These products the fi r produces but, does not consume yas he is forced to sell them to meet taxes, interest loans, and mortgages, => Everyone familiaf with farming knows what an 80 gere apple orchard should produce ins year. Yet, Mr. S., who with his family improved an 80 acre tract, which is now producing splendid crops yearly, and which was unemcumbered prior to 1918 today struggles under the weight of a $9,000 debt. One might continue to point out similar cases indefinitely as the cases cited are no exceptions to the rule. All Farms. Mortgaged. In the states of Washington and Oregan and thruout the entire west, the, farmers are mortgaged for every dollar their land is worth. The farmer works long hours and he works hard. His whole family works with him... He takes no holi- days and even works on Sundays. Yet, it is no exaggeration that a man who began farmi 30 years ago on 60 or 80 acres sell today and the value represe: in his property which he actu receives would amount to less thin twenty-five cents a day in wages-tor 30 years, All of these golden bi ‘ ings the farmer en- Amon BETTER PAY IS SLOGAN OF N. Y, SCHOOL TEACHERS Elementary Grades Get Lowest Salaries * NEW YORK, Aug. 7~Teachers of kindergarten up to 6B grade in New York public schools are conducting a campaign for a single salary sched- ule for elementary grades teachers which would bring this group into the better paid ranks. Minimum of $1,800 and maximum of $3,600 is the range of their proposed schedule. These teachers now make about $28 a week,! less than many stenographers, and, that after six years’ preparation. After 11 years’ work they may now. get $55 a week. Their time is much, moré taken up by personal details re- quired by parents of the: smaller chil- dren and they are not able to supple: ment their earnings as teachers by outside work as many New York taechers are now doing because of ‘low wages. The elementary grade teach- ers deal with all of the children in the public schools while upper grade teachers have only those who continue their schooling longer. Because of their greater numbers the elementary school teachers are usually given the smallest wage in- creases, when any are given. Mary R. Noonan, president of their group, has filed a brief for the single salary schedule with the board of education. ‘SECURITY’ PACT AGAINST RUSSIA PROMPTED BY U.S, Houghton “Suggested” Plan to Stresemann Fano gees oT ares Rae canara re WILLIAMSTQWN, Mass., Aug. 7.— America, through Alanson B,. Hougli- ton, recently ambessador, at Berlin, and now at London was the “spiritual author,” of the proposed “security” pact by which England and America hope to attack Soviet Russia in a’- liance with Germany, it was stated here by Prof. B. E. Schmitt of the University of Chicago. Schmitt told the institute of politics meeting here, that he wes well in- formed while in Europe tiiat Hough ton “suggested” the idea to foreign minister Stresemann at Berlin. “If one asks in well informed cir- cles,” said Schmitt, “one is told that the present ambassador in London is spiritual author of the negotiations now proceeding between Great Brit- ain, France, and Germany.” joys for the sole privilege of kidding himself about owning property.* ~ The farmer thinks he owns a farm. Does he? He owns a farm in the same sense that @ wage worker owns his job. If he cannot find a market for his products he losses his sacred private property ig, defense of which he sends his sons to capitalist wars starves his family and hates the la- borer. The time has come when the farmer will have to use his head for some- thing besides a hat rack. By leaps and bounds the farmer is being forced into the renters’ harness—then it is only one step to wage labor. With lighting speed capital is centralizing and piling up millions of farmers and workers in an army of unemployed, They Belong with Working Class, We farsiers will have to fight or starve. And we cannot combat the exploiting class who is our enemy sin- gle handed. We must organize! we belong with the party composed of wage workers and farmers whose in- terests are identical to ours. Wermust train ourselves to think with otir-tlass, To this end there is no greater’ hel: mate than the DAILY WORKE When we learn to think as a class we will realize that the Workers «Com: munist) Party*is the only party thru which we gan ever Dope to free our. selves. a . Write the story about your shop: —Order a bundle to aatibute Inthe AUGUST ISSUE 25 Cents a Copy re oF a SOVIET UNION SIGNS CONTRACT WITH TWO JAPANESE SHIP FIRMS “MOSCOW (By Mail.)—Owing to the scarcity of Soviet commercial vessels in the Pacific a contract hai been concluded with two Japanese shipping aes concerning their activity h “Dobroflot” (the. Vol- unteer Fleet) and the Ussury Rail- way in maintaining coastwise trade with Kamchatka and with foreign onuntries as well. YW. L. STUDY CLASS OPENS IN CHICAGO MONDAY Elemestady Ec Economics Is First Subject Taught Local Chicago, Young Workers’ League, is earnestly undertaking the task of Communist education within its. ranks, At the last meeting of the City Cen- ‘tral Committee, the recommendation ‘of the City Educational Director that a two-session class for new members of the league be started, was accepted. Attendance in this class is compul- sory to all applicants for admission into the Y. W. L. before they may be considered bona. fide menWers of the league. The class will open Monday, rem 10th, at 8 p, m. at 2613 Hirsch Blvd., and will close with its final session on Aug. 17th. The class will be renewed as often as new members appear im the league. The first session will deal with elementary Marxian eeon- omics and will be conducted by Rebec- ca Sacharow, City Educational Direc- tor. The second session will deal with the character of the Young Workers League and will be conducted by John Harvey, City Industrial Organizer. Then the students will be required to write a short article on the nature of the Young Workers League. The best article received will be published in the Young Worker. Students to Conduct Discussion. The method to be used in this class will be the question method. A list of questions on’ the two subjects dealt with will be prepared and used in the class. Each question will them be put to the comrades and wherever possible they will supply the answers, the in- structor supplementing them and an- swering those questions which the comrades are unable to answer. For instance, at the first session such questions as: “What are wages?” and “How is profit made?” will be put to the students. This question method was used in the League here some time ago and the comrades liked it very much. It is often difficult for a newcomer into the revolutionary movement to learn much from one long lecture, but if a limited number of concrete questions are asked and answered in a two hour session, much will be gained. All comrades who have joined the League since January, 1925 to the present date, will attend the two ses- sions opening August 10th. The sub- sequent classes, however, will be coni- prised only of members who join at the time. The secretary of each branch will therefore notify those of its mem- bers’ who joined the League since January, 1925, to be present at the class Monday. Each,secretary should see to it that there is a one hundred percent attendance at this class from his or her branch. Another Class In Fall. This class in itself is of course not sufficient to give our members a comprehensive understanding of May ‘sm. Plans are being made to open an extensive class ‘for beginners. in che early fall. This two-session. class for applicants will: simply serve as an introduction to this beginners class. A class for advanced comrades will also be organized this winter. In this way we will raise the theoretical level of our membership to a point where it will serve each one of us as an effective weapon in our fight to emancipate the working class from the yoke of capitalist exploitation. Foreign Exchange, NEW York, Aug. 7—Great Britain, |pound, 4.85%, 4,855. France, franc, 4.6944, 4.69%. Belgium, franc, 4.5314, 4.54. Italy, lira, 3.65%, 3.6544. pSwed- en, krone, 26.86, 26.89. Norway, krone 1840, 18.42.. Denmark, krore, 22.78. 22.80. Germany, mark, no quote. | Shanghai,. tael, 78.00, no quote. Orlando to Quit. ROME, Aug. 7—Deputy ‘Orlando, who has been an opponent of the fas- cist regime and who suffered a re- verse in the recent parliamentary election will resign his seat, and in- ‘tends to retire trom poutios; it was said. LaF.OLLETTISM Without LaFollette By MANUEL GOMEZ. _ The: _LaFollette movement without its nature of it—its future—and the battle ‘or. Sark political action are the facts analyzed in this keen, and most timely article s THARRIMAN TRUS BEGINS WORK ON ‘SOVIET LEASE Manganese 6 Coscession Already Occupied MOSCOW,—(By Mail)—The pret dent of the board of directors of hemo” (the Chiaturi Manganese Ex- porting Society) has informed a repre- sentat:ve of the press that in connec- tion; with the signing. of concession agreement with Harriman prepara- tions are going on for turning over to the concessionnaire of property be- longing to the government in Chiaturi and in Poti. All property will be turned over in the course of two months. It is pos- sible that the stock of ore will be sold or given to the concessionnaire of property belonging to the government in Chiaturi and in Pott, All property will be turned over in the course of two months. It is pos- sible that the stock of ore in store hWill be sold or given to the concession- naires ‘on sale or return. Organize Technical Staff. When the property is turned over and the “Chemo” liquidated, the con- rcessionnaire will organize his office and technical staff in Tiflis, Poti and Chiaturi, where the head office is to be opened. The arrival of Engineer Rascovich, Harriman’s representative, is shortly expected in Tiflis. Rascovich is one of the most prominent experts of the world’s manganese industry. He has been in Africa and other parts of the world, where large manganese mines are worked. He also visited Chia- turi last year at the beginning of the concession negotiations. it is sup- Posed that Rascovich will direct the whole enterprise. Together with Engineer Rascovich there arrives at Tiflis, Mr. Shellings, former director of the Ionic Bank in Constantinople, who will take charge of directing the financial part of the concession. Kameneff Makes Statement. Touching upon the big Chiatursk manganese concession, Kameneff, act- ing presidentofthe Council of People’s Commissaries and chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense concur- rently, remarked that if the govern- ment of the Union gave this conces- sion in the face of the fact that the Union having the monopoly of man- ganese output could practically con- trol the entire European production of steel, it only means that the Soviet government sincerely wishes to at- tract foreign capital, of course being at the same time mindful of really guaranteed advantages accruing to the country from any given deal. Foreign capital; which wishes in good faith to co-operate with the Union, can thus be assured that the Soviet: government is willing to enter upon any mutually advantageous busi- ness transactions, To Transform Railroad. f Economieally, the most important Point about the contract is the obli- gation undertaken by the concession- naires to: transform the local narrow guage railway Skatcherry-Chiatury- Poti into a normal guage line, to m chanize the production of manganese and loading appliances and to build a ferro-manganese mill. The runiiing of the concession’ is” bound to supply work to many a thousand Georgian workers, this work to be done. with strict observance of the Soviet labor laws, SCOPES DEFENSE SAYS BIBLE AND DARWIN CONFLICT File Bill ‘Against Anti: * Evolution Law CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug, 7.—A petition filed with a federal injunction by John’ R. Neal, senior counsel in the defense of John T. Scopes, declares that the theory of evolution is in di- rect conflict with the story of crea- tion as told in the bible, it was an- nounced here, The bill charges that the Tennessee anti-evolution law is in conflict with the constitution of the United States, as it deprives the plaintiff of liberty to teach the truth. Chelsea Mayor a Bootlegger. BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 7.—Seventy- seven liquor indictments were handed down by the grand jury this afternoon against officials and residents of Chelsea. Mayor Lawrence Quigley, widely known figure in Massachusetts police circles, 37 members of the Chel- sea police department and alleged liquor dealers and smugglers in Chel- ‘sea were among those indicted. of the WORKERS yhAios MONTHLY $2.00 a Year $1.25 Six Months } K t {i 3