The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1925, Page 1

| lh le cmt The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government THE Vol. II. No. 182. In Ckicage, by mail, $8.00 per sear. Subscription Rates: ouiside Siseaso, SOV? SIGMAN GANG USE oe, SED oe & "So INSURANCE AGAINST Mi. of RSHIP- “HYMAN FILES VIGOROUS PROTEST NEW YORK CITY, August 10.—In reply to complaints from ee ~ SS f —S 9 AE Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at. the. by mail, $6.00 per year. American Federation of Labor. is scheduled to be held in Chicagé, Oct. —— soma ote Office at Chicago, WEDNESDAY, nUGUST 12, 1925 = CAPITAL RECEIVES VISITORS Green, A. F. of L. Head, in Attack on Negro Workers » (Special to The Daily Worker) the Joint Committee of Action that members of the Internationa] Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union who are entitled to unemploy- ment insurance are forced to go to the offices of the-Joint Board for insurance blanks, when they no longer recognize the authori- ty of the Joint Board, and that they are also forced by the Joint Board officers to pay their dues to date before their insurance claims will be considered, Chairman Arthur D. Wolff of the un- umployment insurance fund of the cloak, suit and skirt industry of New York, has announced that “he has instructed that these complaint blanks be freely and readily issued without discrimi- nation to all applying for them at all offices of the union locals.” Green was dead, dumb and blind while scoyes of Negroes country by lynching mobs, but the PRESSMEN TIE UP CUNEO CO.; tpersecutors and) to secure bet- ter wages and working condi- tions was too much for this hypocritical Negro hater. yeorition Se belonging to a church that is Mie od susceptible to ki iso pointed out napolis con- Léuis Hyman, chairman of the Joint Committee of Action, stated today that the committee is not satisfied that this will om ‘correct the evils which have AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY ‘AVY DAY will be celebrated on October 27, which happens to be the anniversary of the birth of Theo- dore Roosevelt. On that day thou- sands of orators will explain the pur- pose of the navy. We rise to ask if there is anybody in America, outside the K. K. K. who is so ignorant of things in general as not to know what the navy is in existence for. Acting secretary of the navy, Robinson, is good enough to tell us that the navy is for the purpose of preventing war. Good for you, Robinson, the Annanias club will have a warm welcome for you, es . L. MENCHEN, self-styled wise man and highly paid literary tickler has some fun at the expense of free speech in America. Menchen comés to the conelusion that there is ve"siich “animal nowadays and that there is only oné person in the United States who is seriously in favor of free speech; and that person lis Roger Baldwin, of the Civil Liberties Union. A person not half as clever as Men- chen, would know that neither free epeech nor any other kind of freedom that may jeopardize the power of the ruling class is possible, so long as one class dominates another. Theoretical- ly free speech is constitutional, but those in power have the right to in- terpret what kind of speech is entitled to this freedom. a (OMMUNISTS have proved time and again that there is ao frae speech in the United States, de*ite the con- stitutional provision to that effect. ‘There is no freedom of speech for the workers, because what they have to say, is liable to cause the capitalists trouble, now or in the future. There is no record of a capitalist being per- secuted for violent speech in a capi- talist country, but it is quite likely, that he would be subjected to incon- venience if he expressed himself after the fashion of Vauclain or Gary, in the Red Square at Moscow. see HIE ‘bad feature of capitalism is the fact that it robs the workers of the product of their labor, and in or- der to maintain itself as a minority living on plunder, it may have armies and navies, courts, police and all kinds of devices to hold power. So jong as the workers are meek and humble and don’t kick, they can talk all they want, about Santa Claus, Wil- liam Jennings and the newest murder case, But let them ‘talk about the ad- viability of putting an end to capital ism, and watch the capitalist get ex- cited. Ho will say that he believes in free speech’ bnt not in lincense. oe 2 OGER BALDWIN thinks it posi- tively terrible that Russia should disappoint her liberal friends—who by the way never did a damn thing for the revolntion—by doing much the same as the capitalists are doing to théir political enemies, but for an en- rely different purpose. But it is the (Continued on page 2) been reported to him by the workers. Hyman Wants No Gangster Control. “With the best intentions in the world,” said Mr. Hyman, “Mr. Wolff cannot supervise the distribution of these insurance blanks if they are given out by the various offices of the Joint Board. We want some central unemployment insurance office, not at- tached to any office of the union, where workers can apply for blanks whenever they are entitled to them. “Our workers are refusing to go to the Joint Board offices, and it is not fair that they should be forced to go there to'get unemployment blanks. We know that, no matter what Mr. Wolff’s intention is, the Joint Board, if it is allowed to handle these blanks, will continue to discriminate against our members as it has been doing for some time. If the trustees of the unemploy- ment insurance fund want to avoid all possibility of such discrimination, it can be assured only by giving us blanks to issue to our members, or by opening an office of, their owRe cmt Use Insurance to Fight Membership. “It this is not done, we cannot be satisfied that the insurance fund will not be used to help the Joint Board officials in their fight against the mem- bership—to compel the workers to rec- ognize their authority and pay them dues. This practice cannot be allowed to continue, and unless it is remedied, we shall be compelled to instruct our members to refuse to make any more payments’ to the unemployment insur- ance fund.” KLUXERS DODGE RESPONSIBILITY FOR LYNCHING County Proveciter May Stage Fake Inquiry (Special to The Dally Worker) EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo., Aug. 10.—With city and county officials issuing statements, each throwing on the other the burden of action for pros- ecution of the leaders of the mob which last Friday hanged Walter Mitchell, Negro, this city was awaiting today the possible arrival of an assist- ant attorney general from Jefferson City, No arrests had been made, County Prosecutor Raymond Cum- mins, who, after stating Saturday! morning that citizens felt justice had been done and it would be impossible to get prosecuting witnesses, suddenly announced later that he would ufge the calling of a grand jury. He said today he was working with Chief of Police John F. Craven. This the chief denied, declaring the entire action is in the hands of the county authorities. Judge Ralph Hughes wired from his vacation resort in Minnesota late yes- terday that he assumed the prosecutor was making the necessary investiga- tion. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER. JULY SAW NEW INCREASE IN COST OF LIVING IN 22 CITIES WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—The cost of Iviing is on the rise again. The retail coat of food in 22 representative cities rose from 1 to 7 per cent during duly, the department of labor announced today In its regular survey, The increases ranged from 1 per cent in Louisville, Ky., to 7 per cent in Boston. Other cities reporting increases in the retail included: Milwaukee, 6 per cent; Indianapolis, 4 per cent; Chicago, 3 per cent. For the year period ended July 15, increases were reported ae follows: Louleville, 15 per cent; Chicago, Milwaukee, " per cent; Indianapolis, 10 per cent. Amalgamation The 500 striking members of the In- ternational Printing Pressmen’s and Assistannts’ Union, Locals Nos. 3 and 4, who walked out of the Cuneo Print- ing Company to force the concern to accept a union agreement, were on the | picket line yesterday, and the business of the plant was at a standstill. The mailers were laid off yesterday be- cause of the tieup, and the entire force of over 2,000 had nothing to do. Local No. 3 and Local No. 4 of the union, comprising the pressmen and the assistants, each formed commit- tees to work to bring about amalgama- tion of the two unions, Pay Strike Benefits, The executive boards of the unions have held joint meetings, and it was decided that strike benefits of Strikebreaker George L. Berry, pres- ident of the International, has refused o remove the few pressmen he could secure to enter the plant for strike- weaking duty, Berry ordered the oressmen to accept the “open shop” terms of the Cuneo company, the larg- est printing establishment in the coun- try, when the company tried to reduce the crews from four to three men per press. Fund of Hiindred Thousand. Loeal No. 3 has a $100,000 fund and is willing to use every cent of the money to win union conditions for the pressmen and helpers. Berry's policy proves in this case, as in the past, to be to help the em- ployer to establish the “open shop,” while he lives in luxury off the per capita tax collected by the Interna- tional. Instead of advocating a shorter work day and more pay, Berry collabo- rates with the bosses and imposes non- union conditions by attempting to eliminate as many men as possible from the press crews, and calling his seabbery “readjustments. Shoe Workers Hold Mass Meetings on Unsatisfactory Pact HAVERHILL, Mass., Aug. 10. — Mass meetings of members of the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union are being held to discuss the pact between “Maverhill shoe manufacturers and the union, preliminary to deciding whether or not the working agreement shall be continued. Considerable dissatisfac- tion has been noted among the work- ers on the operation of this peace ent which established a shoe of employers and workers and employed an “fmpartial” chairman whose decisions were binding on both sides, © “Unless 90 days’ notice is given by either party the pact continues auto- matically for three years after Janu- ary 1, 1926, SCRANTON LABOR UNIONS SUPPORT COAL MINERS, AID SILK STRIKERS SCRANTON, Pa., Aug 10.—(FP)— Soranton’s Central Labor Union Is already on record with its pledge of moral and financial support to the United Mine Workers of America in case a strike in anthracite fields is undertaken. Scranton is in the heart of the anthracite region. The cen- tral body is sending $50 to the strik- ing thread workers of Willimantic thru Cecilia St. John, who presented the strikers’ case. SS eee ee ee ara went - 4 4 “PICKET PLANT ss Local Unions Work: for, United Mine ‘ica, Green did klan resolu- ere. nevolent support, without endanger- ing his office. , own klansmen , spoke glibly of the opinion that | prominent citizen pire” some day. eld in Indianapo- vention a repre- dragon, Stephen- Indiana, now on trial for rape smurder, declared that the United Mine Workers would soon join the klan. Congress’ Success Stirs Green. The success ding the organiz- ing efforts of § American Negro Labor Congress @® reach the Negro workers in the J unions and the b r the yellow hide jt a klan mi liss during the ¢ sentative of It was pointed out: here by leading Negroes that the American Federation of Labor ‘never took any steps to organize the Negroes, and that the present blast. from Green’s office is merely a futile effort to block the work in that direction that is being accomplished by radical Negroes. “A number of unions composed of colored men have been deceived into sending delegates,” said Green. “They have been led to believe they will attend a convention of union Negroes.” Will Not Be Deceived. This is the usual rant of the labor faker. All those who try to improve the condition of the workers, be they black or white, are trying to “deceive” them. But the colored workers will not be deceived by the Green attack. They have found very little aid or comfort from the Gomperses, the Greens, or the Fitzpatricks when their race was being gibbetted, burned at the stake and outraged in every con- ceivable way in this so-called land of the free. The Negroes are learning that the Communists are their friends and Green nor his stoolpigeons will not be able to make them believe otherwise. see Where Green Got His Idea. It is believed. that the tirade de- livered against the radical Negroes by John Fitzpatrick and his detective bu- reau expert, Edward N. Nockels, gave Green the idea of breaking into print with another anti-Commanist outburst and justify his reported expense ac- count with the United States chamber of commerce, Fitzpatrick and Nock- ela were against the Gompers machine until that wily politician withdrew some of the pork chops. Then Fitz and Nockels took the next train to Washington and from then on their speed toward the right was dazzling. “Skinnay” Madden's ex-pal seems to be the most vicious red ‘baiter of the two. Fitapatrick sometimes takes a stand in favor of progressive princt- Dles, as when he flayed the United Gar- ment Workers. Nockels, with the men- tality of ® thug, draws no distinctions, a8 when he justified the scabbery of Tom Rickert, saying that he would do the same thing himself, if he were in Rickerts position. Nockels also was willing to be used as a tool by “B. & O. Bill” Johnston in seeking evidence to enable Johnston to expel McMahon and other prominent from the ma- chinists’ union. The Unholy Alliance, The Daily News, owned by the mil- lionaire Victor Lawson, was quick to interview the local Heutenants of Green and the two playboys managed to get their names in the paper again. They were not so popular with the Datly News and the Tribune, when (Continued on page 2) Uunois, under the Act of March 8, 1879, > 290 WASHINGTON, August 10.—The baptist deacon and mental kluxer, William Green, presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor, placed the American Negro Labor Congress which 15, on i index expurgatoris of the bureaucracy of the have been hanged thruout the cle OF seeing the Negro workers organizing them- ———~ selves for defense against theirt LW. W. MEMBERS ARRESTED IN NORTH DAKOTA ‘Taken Off Freight by -| Armed Capitalist Tools ‘jances that Green would give it be- FARGO, N. D., Aug. 10.—Twenty- two members of the |. W. W., organ- izers and job delegates of agricultural union 110, were arrested by the city Officials of Fargo aided by the county pfosecutor, a notorious labor hater The |. W. W.’s were riding a freight going towards the harvest fields to the number of seven hundred. They were ordered off the train but they refused, whereupon a posse of fifty was or- ganized by the city officials and 22 of the wobblies arrested. Held On Boss Laws. one which forbids riding on freight trains and another law against tres- passing on private property. The Chamber of Commerce suggest- ed the raid. The county commission- ars who represent the progressive ele- men! jong the small farmers are ‘to the ‘prosecution Which" 18 being pushed by the Chamber of Com- merce tool the county attorney's office. Protested Raids. In 1922 the commissioners protested against raids on the I. W. W. A de- fense committee is organized with headquarters at 110 Front Street, Fargo. The arrested workers plan no legal defense and will use no lawyers. Instead they propose to institute a boycott of Fargo. Thousands of agri- cultural workers are streaming into the Dakotos for the September har- vest and this case may bring a labor shortage unless the Chamber of Com- merce gang release the prisoners. MODERNISTS OUT TO GIVE JEHOVAH A GOOD SHAVE Tho feveii te Tend He Is Still a Nuisance (Special to The Daily Worker) DAYTON, Tenn., Aug. 10.—To coun- | teract the efforts of fundamentalists who are raising money to establish a Bryan memorial university and other schools where fundamentalists’ views will be propounded, a movement is now on foot among the leading mod- ernists of the country for the estab- lishment of eleven schools of modern- ism in various parts of the United States. | ‘This was revealed by Dr. George W. Rappleyea, originator of the Scopes) evolution trial, when it was learned today that he is negotiating for the purchase of the Grandview Normal In- stitute property at Grandview, Tenn., twenty miles north of Dayton. Dr. Rappleyea would not disclose the organization that he was representing nor the details of the plan, but he said that it was planned to convert Grand- view Normal into the first of eleven modernist schools to be established thruout the country. said the or- ganization had “plenty of financial backing.” AMERICAN LEGION WITH CAL AND GREEN AGAINST FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 10.— The “National American Commie- sion” of the American Legion today adopted a resolution urging enact- ment of legislation for deportation of ail aliens convicted of a felony. Calvin Coolidge and William Green are also attacking the foreign-born workers. \ ‘ They are held under two state laws, | . WORKER. PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORK EDITION Published Daily except Sunday by THE NAILY WORKER 1113: W. Warhington Blvd., Chicago, UL Price 3 Cents WORKERS OF MOSCOW IN HOLIDAY GREETING TO LABOR DELEGATIONS OF GERMAN AND SWEDISH TOILERS (By International Press Correspondence.) MOSCOW, July 22, (By Mail).—Today the whole working class, officials and students demonstrated in honor of the Ger- man and Swedish workers delegation. Thousands of workers assembled on the Red Square bearing banners and flags inscribed with slogans in German, Swedish and Russian. A common session of the German and Swedish workers’ dele- gations took place in the open air before the Lenin Mausoleum. The enthusiastic greetings of the masses when the delegates ap- peared seemed to have no end. After a time, however, the chairman of the Moscow trade union council, Michellov, succeeded in opening the session. | (Great applause.) Rykov, who was received with+—— enthusiasm by the masses, made a speech to the delegation in which amongst other things he said: “I welcome you to Moscow, not in my capacity as chairman of the coun- cil of the peoples’ commissars, but as a participant in the revolutionary struggle of the working cless, and as a member of the Communist Party. We know how to value the fact that both delegations are of workers from the shops. We want the workers’ | delegations.to grasp the fact that we | have created the first workers’ and | peasants’ republic in the world. Shows Labor Creative Strength. “May our first success be to show to our foreign comrades the creative strength of the working class. We do not wish to conceal from the foreign workers that still all sorts of deficien- | cies exist in our country, that very many things have not yet been com- pleted, that mistakes were committed | in the past, etc. “But we declare with al energy, that after the October revolution, a country has grown up in which the Working class ig the only. creator of. Soelal, political tind e¢onomic life. Let the representatives of the European | proletariat, | justice demands its victim. working class think of the inhuman difficulties which stood and still stand in the way of social reconstruction. “In eight long years of heroic strug- gle, the working class has. won the fight of the unlimited triumph of la- bor. I want to see the; working mass- es of western Europe and of the So- viet republics come together to ad- vance the cause of the international unity of the proletariat and to insure the possibility of peaceful work. In- ternational, working* lass unity will ensure peace for the working class in the present and victory in the future. N. Bueharin, editor of Pravda, offi- cial organ of the Russian Communist Party, greeted the delegations in the name of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party and de- clared that the Russian working class thanked the European proletariat for support and assistance fh the years of the most difficult struggle, and that the Russian working class was certain that it could rely upon the fraternal help and support of its foreign broth- | ers also in the future. “The delegations counted many so- cialdemocratic members amongst them, the Communists, despite the fact that they had continually fought against the social-democrats, had al- POLISH HANGMEN SEEKS HEAD OF LABOR’S LEADER White Terror Again Threatens Lantsutsky (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 9.—Once again the undaunted son of the Polish Stanisl: It refused to be satisfied with the defeat at Prze- myel. Lantsuteky was aoquitted by \the jury. Now he is to appear before the district courts of Warsaw and Lodz, where only the creatures of the white terror will stand in judgment. This dought | tried on three charges at once. en ~~ will follow. In all the charges mention is made of the speeches which he held in Warsaw and Lods, Even proleta- rian members of parliament in Poland sometimes enjoy the liberty of ad- dressing the masses. Woe to them, however, if they utilize this liberty as fighters for the masses. They should not mention the gufferings of the people nor the revolutionary aims of the workers’ movement. Such mat- ters are dangerous to public order and security. It is quite another matter if nationalist agents openly call for Jew- ish pogroms. Socialist Traitor Repulsed. Lantsutsky in his speech spoke of the united front of the proletariat, of Communism, and of the solidarity of the Polish workers and peasants with Soviet Russia. Now Polish clase jus- tice defends the “honor” and security of its bourgeois state. Furthermore, it defends the social traitors in the ranks of the Polish socialist party. “The crowd assembled,” thus rans the indictment in the latest Lantsut- sky trial, “was so excited by Lantsat- ‘sky's speech that when the Meader of the Polish socialist party loeal group, the teacher Kuskowski, wished to ad- dress them in order to refute the at- tacks made on his party, theme was terrfble noise and hooting and cries of ‘Traitor! Down with him!’ se that ways understood how to differentiate he was unable to speak.” (Continued on page 2) TYPOS MEET IN CONVENTION A KALAMAZOO, MICH, Every State ‘te in Union Is Represented (Special to The Dally Worker) KALAMAZOO, Mich., Aug. 10.—Fit- teen hundred delegates and vistors to the seventieth annual convention of the International Typographical Union opened their formal session here this morning with nine addresses on the! program. The printers represented every state in the union and every province in Canada. The gavel was presented this morn- ing to President James M. Lyuch, of Syracuse, N. Y., by Russell Henning, president of the, Kalamazoo union. Announcement that it will oppose any change in the untfon’s present pen- sion laws was made by the New York delegation following its arrival. The delegation is opposed to a proposal which would require unemployed mem- bers to contribute toward the pension fund, This is a terrible crime in the eyes of the bourgeoisie. Just imagine a lackey of capital in socialist clothing wishes to address the workers. The workers, however, find that they do not want to listen to the soctal traftor after Lartsutsky. Attack on Workers’ Leader, Lantsutsky’s trial is no ordinary (Continned on page 2) HABEAS CORPUS SAVES ZAGORSKY FROM PRISON AT HANDS OF POLAND EL PASO, Texas, Aug 10.—A writ of habeas corpus saved John Zagor- sky from being deported to Poland with a party that left here on duly 26th, Zagorsky's attorney, Edw. L, Tittman, produced proofs of his be- ing a Russian citizen and showed that deportation to Poland would mean prison for the defendant. Tittman was retained by Interna i tional Labor Defense to defend him when It was learned that the author. ities intended to deport Zagorsky to Poland. The writ that stayed im mediate deportation was i id with the provision that Zagorsky’s keep in the county jaii will be paid, Ine ternational Labor Defense under took the obligation and is now at tempting to get him released on 4 .