The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1925, Page 1

i The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government THE DAILY Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at (the Poe Vol. Il. No. 181. AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY OMEBOY got at least $150 from the government of Checho-Slovakia. This is the minimum price on anti Soviet Russia forgeries deliverd on the hoof in any European capital. Ow- ing to the desire of the forgery trust to break into the American market it is reported that a twenty per cent discount will be given to United States purchasers provided the money is passed between now and January ist, 1926. eee NE of the principal industries in Berlin, is the manufacture of forged documents. This industry is booming since the British government ; began seriously to plot for armed in- tarvention against Soviet Russia. Ger- many is now' the tool of British diplo- macy and is taking its cue from the hated foe of four years ago. Irish re- publicans who hailed the election of Hindenburg with joy on the assump- tion that he was anti-British have caused to ponder over the new turn of events. OSTLY every respectable Buro- i pean capital has by now unearthed a “Soviet plot” to assassinate some- body. Bulgaria made a “plot” of this kind the excuse for the wholesale slaughter of prominent leaders of the working class and the peasantry. Now the ‘Checho-Slovakian government has its turn. Fake instructions from Mos- cow to kill President Masaryk came to light and immediately prominent members of the Communist Party were arrested. It has been proven that every one of the alleged Moscow “plots” so far discovered were fakes, ineluding the famous Zihoviev letter that helped the tories get into office. ene © REAT Britain has leased trom Es- thonia the two Baltic islands of Dago and Oesel which are commonly ealled the “keys to the Gulf of Fin- land.” This transaction has been un- der consideration for a long-time. tt. is further proof that Britain is plan- ~ning<war with the Soviet ‘Union. “But that is a game two can play at and the situation in China, in India and, in other colonial possessions of John Bull, are none too comfortable to the Tulers of hitherto “tight little isle.” “* i Nase Turkish government has placed the former Sultan on trial for mur- der. The Sultan is at a safe distance so he will be tried in abstentia. This is a signifioant sign of Turkish prog- ress. Even tho the regrettable ab- sence of the Sultan may rob him of the pleasure of having his neck os- teopathized by a hempen rope, the fact that the republican government dares fly in the face of Allah by prose- cuting his alleged lieutenant shows that, Mohammedanism is meeting with the same rebuffs that seems to be the lot of all forms of religion nowadays. A good way to test the power of any particular deity is to take liberties with one of his ordained and see what he is going to do about it. “ sp dete) HE Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, is a hot bed of “pernicious” Communist propaganda, according to a letter addressed to the Mexican sec- retary of the interior by a lawyer who is secretary of the league of property owners. The letter reminds the sec- retary of the interior ‘that he stated that he would not allow any Commun- (Continued on page 2) geet tion Rates NEMI Outsid YOUNG WORKER EXPELLED FROM SOLDIER CAMP Officers Fight Negro, Unions and Soviet (Special to The Daily Worker) CAMP CUSTER, Mich., Aug. 9.—Jo- seph Plotkin, charged with being a member of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League, was expelled from Camp Custer by the officers in charge for being “against capitalism,” after a “trial” presided. over by Major An- drews and a colonel, with Lieutenants Evans and Krutheur acting as prose- cutors. Plotkin was discharged from the camp “for the convenience of the gov- ernment.” The suspicions of the offi- cers that Plotkin ‘would not make a good soldier’ were aroused when he spoke in favor of evolution, declared ae professed no religion, and replied to some attacks on Soviet Russia. Officers Defend Profit System. The two tentmates of Plotkin were called as witnesses against the League member, and Walter B. Kaczynski, one of them,’ declared that he thot “Plot- kin is a pacifist and does not believe in capitalism, and wants to overthrow the United States army.” Plotkin, of course, explained that he was not a pacifist, but believed in a workers’ government. “We think you are a Bolshevik,” said Lieutenant Krutheur to Plotkin. “fam sorry you don’t believe in capi- talism.” Krutheur then told him what a splendid country the United States is and said: “You have a chance to become a millionaire. Aren’t - you afraid the Bolsheviks would take your money away from you?” Plotkin re- plied that theré is slim chance for a worker Béone « millotary un Told to Get “Young “Worker.” Lieutenant Evans told the cotirt he believed in the constitution, but that “free speech is going too) fat.” Major Andrews was anxious to:find out if there were any more with similar ideas in Camp Custer:and was told that there were probably many more. He told Plotkin he woukd,“‘not tell on you if you give us the. names of the leaders of your organization.” Andrews was told if he were curious about the league he should subscribe to the Young Worker. A report of the “trial” was then made to Brigadier General Stacey, commander of the 6th corps area, and Plotkin was discharged from the camp. Search Baggage, Take Letter. Before the trial Plotkin’s baggage was searched and one of his letters confiscated. At the trial the officers confined themselves to telling how’ good capitalist society is and how wonderfully off the workers are. Lieutenant Evans is in charge of the course in “citizenship.” Some of the things he tried to teach Plotkin and the other students were: “The Negroes are no good. If the legisla- tures do not pass laws to get .them out of the country, there will be riots and they will be shipped out or killed off. This may not be constitutional, but I am in favor of it.” (Evans is a (Continued on page 2) In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 ir year. Chica ia GERMAN FASCISTS TELL OF PLOT TO CONDUCT “ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE”. AND MURDER IN SOVIET REPUBLIC MOSCW, U. 8. S. R.—The examination of the German’ fascist Kinder- _ Mann, who with Dittmar and Wolscht, came to Soviet Russia to engage in terroristic acts, gave proof to the Soviet court trying him that Kindermann was guilty beyond a doubt. Kindermann was caught to’numerous lies. He admitted that his repudia- ,tion of his confession was untrue, and that the Soviet authorities did not ‘iopeny bi to confess. is Kindermann mpervel uedl ove tin, | Worker Killed When Construction Train Crashes Into River The letter written by Kindermann to Djerjinsky, asking for mercy, was read to the court. In this letter, Kindermann openly confessed his crimes against the workers’ republic,| « ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 9.—One man was killed and another was seriously hurt here when a construction train crashed thru a temporary span on a bridge under construction, the train and said he came to Soviet Russia to atetmpt to kill Stalin and Trotsky, and fell sixty feet into the Mississippi river. carry on “economic espionage,” in or- der to injure the relations between Germany and the Soviet Union, Admits There Was No Pressure. The prosecutor read the letter of Kindermann to the Comintern and asked the latter if he were aware. that the letter represented a fraud, The accused answered evasively, declared the same time that the letter was dated one day back. He remembered this because on that day he had ar- Farmer Killed by Pitchfork COLUMBUS, Ind., Aug. 9—Johnson Trembly, 60, was fatally.injured today while working on his, farm when a) ranged a celebration of the. kaiser's| pitchfork punctured “htd’ ‘cheat ‘and | (Continued on page 3)” Jsevered a blood Vesneh at Ns by mail, $6, LEWIS DROPS MASK, GETS FRIENDLY WITH HARD COAL BARONS ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug, 9— John L. Lewis, international presi- dent of the United Mine Workers, declared he is giving “very careful consideration” to his reply to the letter of Samuel D. Warriner, chair- man of the anthracite coal opera- tors’ committee. Lewis strongly in- timated that he expected his repty to result in a renewal of the confer- ences between the operatars’ and miners’ committees, “| noted the friendly attitude of Mr. Warriner’s letter,” Lewis stated, “and | am giving my reply very care- ful consideration. That is the rea- son for my delay in replying to it.” MINERS WIN | WELSH HARD COAL STRIKE Desperate Miners War with All Weapons CARDIFF, Wales, August 9.—At-a meeting yesterday of representatives of the anthracite mine owners and the miners’ union, the owners granted the demands of the union which were that the companies cease violation of the agreement in cutting wages and discharging active uniom.men) Re- sumption of work is expected Monday. This strike is independent of the dispute between the Miners’. Federa- tion and the British mine owners which found a temporary truce in the granting of a government subsidy to the mine rh ea on July 31, <The itt hs “in Wales anthracite mines, and has been going on for several weeks with extreme bitterness, arising from the fact that the miners are miserably paid, getting only from $10 to $15 a week for the hardest and most dangerous labor, living in shacks among incredible hardships, while the Duke of North- umberland, who owns most of the an- hracite region, is one of England's ‘ichest nobles. Driven to desperation, the miners have fought with all weapons, not hesitating to force the withdrawal of maintenance men from the mines. Thursday 106 miners and 12 police- men were injured in rioting at Am- manford and the war office. appealed to for troops to protect the Northum- berland properties. Nearly a thousand strikers attempt- ed to drive out the scab maintenance men in the power house, which was Protected by barricades of wires charged.with high voltage of electric- ity, A hand-to-hand struggle with po- lice who tried to disperse them re- sulted in-a pitched battle, with the strikers using stones and sticks, sing- ing and shouting as they cnarged. The colliery offices were completely destroyed. HAWAII STIRRED BY I. L. D, FIGHT TO FREE CROUCH (Special to The Daily Worker) HONOLULU, T. H., Aug. 9.—Hono- lulu newspapers continue to feature arguments being made before the Fed- eral District Court here for the release of Crouch and Trumbull, Communist soldiers convicted by courts-martial of “revolutionary activity in the army.’ “It’s not the fault of the Schoffield Barracks d¢ourt-martial that Crouch didn't go to jail for forty years,” thun- dered Fred Patterson, attorney for the soldiers in Judge Rawlins court room, referring to the original sentence which has since been cut to three years, ‘Any man‘s mind that was so warped that he*was willing to sen- tence Crouch to jail for forty years was not fit to sit in any court where the life and liberty of another indi- vidual was in jeopardy,” Patterson said. Analyzing the charges and spe- elfications against the prisoners, Pat- terson showed that in not a single instance did they show violation of any law. The local papers ure commenting editorially on the fact that a main- land organization, International Labor Defense, with quarters in Chicago, is financing the court fight for Crouch and Trumbull. (Special te: NEW YORK siastic support Y, Aug. 9.—Enthu- he Joint Committee of Action was at a meeting of Local 35, the p in Webster hall Thursday night.’ Outside, the police and a delegation the joint board’s strongarm squ: guarded the hall, and inside the uni ine’s steam roll- er was operat the sentiment in favor of Locals and 22 could not be crushed. Several mem of the local, in- cluding George ‘itz and M. Kreit- zen, spoke in fay@r of the Joint Action Committee and were heartly ap- plauded. Morris Sigman came to ‘members about the critical in the Interna- tional, and Tose to speak he “boos and i. talk plea # @%e of [andthe Interna- Breslau said: “All lease rise—the and there was yote, and no ‘Evidently be- tional officials, © those in favor chance for cause they alsg held the joint” out. the siete of > meeting and ‘most of them had left‘by the end of Baroff’s speech and had come to the headquar- ters of the Joint Committee of Action to tell what had‘ Nappened. Joint Board Somewhat Punctured. Shop chairmenomeetings from vari- ous sections are’ being held every day at the headquarters of the joint com- mittee. Plans are discussed and form- ulated for carrying on the campaign against the jointiboard, and for col- lecting the defense fund necesary to continue th work. On of the hop meetings of shops on 17th street was called Thursday and the joint board. hearing of it called a meeting of the same shops. About 175 workers came to the Joint Committee of Action and about 40 went to the joint board meeting: This latter meet- ing finally broke up in a quarrel and the members came around to the meet- ing at joint committee headquarters, “organization Committee of 1,000. The Joint Committee of Action is now forming an organization commit- tee of 1,000 active workers who want to help carry on the organization work. Members can register for this committee at headquarters. On Wednesdayevening over 200 members of Locals 48 and 89, the Italian locals, held a meeting and pledged their support to the work of the Joint Action Committe ‘Committee. GARMENT BOSSES ASK COURT FOR NEW WRIT TODAY The J. L, Taylor company was to apply for an injunetion in the super- jor court of Chicago today, to prevent the striking employes of the firm from picketing. Jadge Hugo Pam has already ruled that: the striking em- ployes of the International Tailoring company, owned;by the same inter- ests, may picket “peacefully.” The general executive board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, whose members are conduct- ing the. strike, begins its regular meeting in Chicago today. The strike will be discussed, Today, beginning» the seventh week of the walkout oficthe 800 garment workers, strike benefits of $12.00 and $8.00 were to be paid to married and single strikers rewpectively, Killed in Esévator Shaft. H. D. Critchfield)’ 68, was instantly killed today whenmhe fell seventeen floors down an elevator shaft of the Stevens building i the loop, UGUST 11, 1925 SACRED IN POLAND ‘TROOPS ATTACK DEMONSTRATIONS IN LEMBERG AND WARSAW, MURDER 12, WOUND 18, ARREST COMMUNIST (By Jewish Press Agency.) =” MANUFACTURERS ANGRY AT PARDON OF VIND, WHO TAKES VACATION While the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association was drafting a protest to Governor Small of the pardon of the five men and one woman con- vieted of conspiracy and extortion, Theodore J. Vind, the leader of the sextet, was en route to a summer re- sort “to recuperate from the trials of the last four years.” “It has been terrible, this sus- pense and worry,” said Vind, who is president of the South Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly. “For years the burden of this thing has been upon me, and only yesterday it ended.” LAWRENCE iLL WORKERS STRIKE AFTER PAY CUTS General Reduction in Textile Field Soon By ESTHER LOWELL, (Federated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 9—Over half a million dollars profit for the first six months of 1925 is shown by the big Pacific Mills of Lawrence, Mass., at this time when wage cuts are to be enforced in the woolen and worsted departments. Already workers in the print works, color mixers and helpers in the bleach room, are striking against the 10 per cent cut. More workers in this and other New Eng- land woolen and worsted mills where similar cuts are scheduled may follow, urea. es the cotton departments it Pacific Mills last fall in the general reduction thruout New England and work of all departments speeded up. Weavers now attend 72 looms instead of half or a third that number as formerly in the cotton de- partments. Dissatisfaction in the fall among the workers did not crystallize into a strike, Hold Mass Meeting. Lawrence Dyers’’ and Finishers’ Union is sending a representative to William Green, president American Federation of Labor, to lay before him the serious situation of wage cuts in the woolen and worsted industry. Dan- iel J. Kelleher is the union’s delegate to Green. Nothing can be expected from Green, however. The united front committee, consist- ing of representatives of various un- ions, is holding a mass meeting to consider the problem raised by the wholesale reduction of wages follow- ing the announcement of such action by the American Woolen Co. The Massachusetts state federation of la- bor, convening in Lowell, may take ac- tion in reference to the textile situa- tion, A General Reduction. Not all New England woolen mills are reducing wages yet but most of them are expected to. The 10 mills in Berkshire county, Mass., employing about 4,000 workers have cut wages 10 per cenf. The number of workers affected by cuts thruout Massachu- setts, Rhode Island and Maine is be- PUBLISHING CO,, 11 WORKER. | Office at Chicago, Ulinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK EDITION Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 18. W. Warhington Blvd., Chicago, LL PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, ship.)—On August 1, government. In another part of Lemberg on the same day.a crowd of unemployed gath- ered at a protest meeting in the street |to voice the demand that the Polish government relieve their hunger and | misery, were fired upon the Polish | Police and 12 unemployed workers fell ;dead from repeated volleys, many more receiving bullet wounds. Communist Deputy Arrested. At Warsaw, the capital city of Po- land, troops and police combined in an atack upon a demonstration of un- employed workers, breaking it up and arresting a Communist deputy in the Polish parliament, Prystupa, who was brutally beaten up by the police after | the arrest. Further details are lack- | ing because of the Polish consership. | Prystupa ‘was leading the demonstra- tion. in Lemberg, Galicia, Poland, between unemployed workers and the Polish police troops, 12 workers were killed-and 18 seriously wounded. The unemployed gathered in a great demonstration in the center of the city, to exhibit by their numbers the widespread suffering among the workers in Poland under the white guard Mounted police armed with sabers charged the Here and there were 18 unemployed workers, among them some women, slashed with police *——————— sabers, some of whom are critic- ally and perhaps mortally wounded. GERMAN WORKERS FIND DAWES PLAN MEANS NO WORK AND WAGE CUS ‘Sneciat to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Aug. 9—Germany “wader the bre plan is no heaven for the ing) class, as: may be seen by the estimate of the labor ministry that by October 1, there will be 700,000:s registered unemployed in Germany. ‘The number is growing every Week, At present there are 600,000 un- employed, while still another 600,- 000 aré Working two days a week, which is ‘nearly the same result as far as income is concerned. Notices issued today to 40,000 tex- tile workers at Munchen-Gladbach that they must accept heavy wage cuts beginning on Aug. 25, or be discharged entirely. Because of the policy of the reformist union lead- ers in expelling the Communists and left wing workers from the union, the mills are organized week- ly and the union Is in poor condi- tion to fight the wage reduction. Employers claim that banking in- terests charge such exorbitant in- terest ‘for financing production that profits are made impossible. So they seek to pass it all on to work- ers. Price 3 Cents August 2.—(Delayed by censor- in a clash crowds. SYRIAN REVOLT ACUTE; FRENCH TROOPS CRUSHED Republic Is Proclaimed : Forces ¢ ombined (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, Aug. 9.—The revolt of the Syrian natives against French imperialism has grown into an acute menace to the French, it is admitted in official circles here. The Bedouins and the Druses have joined forces and announced that they are fighting for the .independence of the whole of Syria. The combined forces have raised the banner of the Syrian union. ‘They hold the entire state of Drug. The French forces in £ » Weak ened by the withdrawal: v" Pho for she Moroccan frent, hav fe eral crushing defeats, an rail, their commander in chfef, has sent an urgent wire for reinforce- ments. r French Severely Defeated. Two French columns sent to the re- lief of the garrison in the citadel of Duedia have been severely defeated, asualties of at least 1,000. , who has only two infantry and several cavalry units at his com- mand; admits that his Syrian soldiers are “unreliable,” as they sympathize with the revolt. Syrians Win Battles, The French fear the menace of the Turks in the region of Aleppo, Antioch and Alexandretta, and have requested Painleve to send troops to this sec~ tion. The_French newspapers are calling the Syrian rebels “brigands” and have characterized Nassib Bey Atrash as “a brigand leader whose only. purpose is looting.” However, Abd-el-Krim was called such names, and now the French are asking him for peace ne- gotiations on an equal footing. The revolt was caused by the op- pressive measures taken against the (Continued on page 2) PROSECUTOR OF COMMUNISTS AT BRIDGEMAN RANTS TO EMPLOYERS OF “PLOT,” SHOWS TRIAL RECORD € Evsev- eral Sar- tween 20,000 and 30,000 or more. COOLIDGE APES MINE MOLINE; Iowa, August 9.—The manufacturers’ association here had as its guest of honor O, L. Smith, assistant attorney general of Michigan who prosecuted the| Communists at Bridgeman, Mich. Smith’s speech showed that the prosecution is directly obeying the will of the employers. OWNERS IN PUBLICITY AGAINST COAL MINERS SWAMPSCOTT, Ma Cal Coolidge uses the ments against a strike of anthracite miners scheduled for Sept. 1, if new negotiations are not successful, as the arguments of the mine owners. Coolidge and the operators agree on the story put out to the capital- ist press that “it doesn’t make any difference” if the anthracite miners do strike; “the public is getting used to oll, bituminous coal and other fuel substitutes.” This view is somewhat contradict- ed by the fact that there is a great deal of flurry and worry stirring the cabinet about the strike, tho Cool- id ms to have been informed that “the public can break the coal strike because of a surplus of an- thracite ample to carry the countrye for three or four months.” Secretary of Commerce Hoover takes the same position ‘and says that “it is the president's view that industry should settle its own labor relations.” Smith showed the manufacturers exhibits used in the Michigan trials of C, E. Ruthenberg and Wm. Z. Foster, and declared them proofs of numerous “Moscow plots” engineered by Amer-+ ican Communists. Smith Displays His Ignorance. “Prior to the prosecution of the Michigan ‘syndicalist trials,” said Smith, who spoke to the second an- nual outing of the Tri-City Manufac- turers’ Association at the Shot Hills country Club, “I’had always conceived of a Communist as being a long whiskered, lohg haired Russian peas-| ant type, “I was very much surprised to find that out.of 78 defendants who were apprehended at the raid in Bridgeman, representing sixteen different nation- alities, 22 of these were American- born, . More “Moscow Plots’ “Communists are pacifists,” said Smith, showing he knows nothing of Communism. “They oppose the Ameri- can Legion, calling them “The flotsam and jetsam of the war.’” A Mr, Duffy, Smith said, had en- gaged in one of ‘the Moscow plots to which he referred, trying to get Rus- sian school children to America to give entertainments, UNITED STATES HANGS POOR, RICH ESCAPE, NOT SO IN SOVIET UNION “With our murder and homicide record of 233 this year in this (Cook) county two men have been hanged, two Negroes, both poor and without friends. It is the experience of this county that a murderer with money will not be hanged.”—Chi- cago Tribune editorial, Aug. 8, 1925, “As to the impartiality of these (soviet people's) courts, there is a gene agreement that they ‘weight the balance’ in favor of the worker as against the well-to-do; and. this is defended on the ground that it corresponds to the weighting of the other scale elsewhere. As to their incorruptibility, information is on the whole remarkably satisfactory.” —British Trades Union Delegation report on Russia, 1924-5, page 9%