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—— Page Two BUSY SEASON T0 FORCE GARMENT BOSS TO KNEES Amalgamated Strikers to Get Victory Soon | | The Amalgamated Clothing Work- | ers’ strikers continued mass picket- ing at the plant of the International Tailoring and J. L. Taylor companies yesterday, the beginning of the| seventh week of their strike. With the | start of the busiest season of the year) only three weeks away, and the em- | ployers continuing their newspaper advertisements for strikebreakers, the garment workers feel confident of | victory. | Strike benefits were paid yesterday, | twelve dollars to those with depend-| ents and eight dollars to others. Rock Island Unions Help. The labor unions of Rock Island where the International has made a bluff of removing their plant, have come to the support of the Amalga mated, and have repudiated the or- ganized scabbery of the United Gar ment Workers, the American Federa- tion of Labor Union, which is attempt- ing to supply the International with scabs. If the International tries to begin production there this week the Amalgamated will immediately take steps to prevent strikebreaking activi- ties in Rock Island, it is announced. New York Strike in Good Shape. At the strike meeting yesterday, Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated, Morris Weinstein of New York and Minnie Santoro of Baltimore were among the speakers. The speakers brot out that the strike situation in New York is pro- gressing just as well as in Chicago. The company has pasted signs all over their New York building stat- ing, “One Thousand Dollars Reward for the Arrest of Anyone Intimidating Our Employes.” But these signs aid the strikers, as they show jobless workers that there is a strike on and give them their cue to stay away. Letter Gives Bosses Away. A letter sent by the International to its New York customers proves that the employers are hard pressed. The letter tells the customers that the International seleced the month of duly, the slack season, as the period to “go to the mat with the Amalgamated,” thinking that by the middle of August the union would be beaten and the “open shop” installed. Now however, the International faces its busiest season with no pro- duction whatever, and the workers as determined as when the strike started. Kluxers Threaten Indiana Negro. SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 10.—A mob visited the home of a Negro, 1008 Dewey Ave., and ordered him to move out. The Negro refused. A “flery cross,” ten feet high, was then burned opposite his home. Workers of Moscow in Holiday Greeting to Labor Visitors (Continued from page 1) between the social democratic leaders and the social democratic workers, “The Communists adoptetl the atti- tude of comrades to the social-demo- cratic workers, as workers who were THE PRISONERS. |[_a8 We see rr | 1 IN VENEZUELA; KILLED BY “JOY” on the wrong track. . It was possible Fascist Crushes Unions for the social-democratic workers to make mistakes, but they would never keep the truth which they had here seen about the Soviet republics from their brothers at home.” Workers Greet Visitors, Thereupon working menand women from various Moscow shops and fac- tories held speeches of greeting. In the name of the German workers’ delegation, Freiberger greeted the Moscow proletariat and declared amongst other things: “Before we commenced our journey, the story spread that the Communists would only show us those things which were favorable to them. I declare that that statement is a lie. Our Russian friends have shown us everything that we wanted to see and everything that was of interest. to the German working class. “We have seen some several things which we would have liked to have seen in better circumstances, but we must say emphatically, that we have been shown not only the positive suc- cesses but also the deficiencies and also the terrible inheritance from the ezarist economy and from the long years of the war. Russians in the Lead. “We have all been convinced that in very many respects the Russian working class is in the lead, and that here a socialist reconstruction is tak- ing place. Thé chairman of the Swedish dele- gation, Kilbum, spoke in the same spirit, and greeted the Moscow work- ing class on behalf of their comrades in Sweden. He declared that the whole Swedish delegation was prepar- ed to fight with all means for the cause of the international unity of the proletariat. The demonstrators defiled before the mausoleum and exchanged greet- ings with the delegations until late in the evening. Also Visit Catholic Church, Today the German workers’ delega- tion visited several factories and shops, the Moscow Soviet and various municipal undertakings. The dele- gates were particularly interested in the arrangements for feeding the workers, A group of catholic workers visited a catholic church where they had dis- cussions with the priests upon the situation of the catholic church in Russia. This was done in connection with the reports in the bouregois press upon the “persecution” of the church in Soviet Russia. Women Witness Hanging. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo., Aug. 10, —tThe lynching of the Negro, Walter Mitchell, by a mob here, was wit- nessed by a large crowd which in- cluded many women and children. Mitchell was hanged to a tree along the Wabash river. But Honors Pershing (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Aug. 10,—General Vicente Gomez, dictator of Vene- zuela, who has ruled that country for the past 18 years and has per sistently denied that the liberties of the citizens have been curtailed, has issued a decree of amnesty for most of his political prisoners. More than two hundred of his victims, broken in body ahd spirit, have come forth from the Venezuelan Bastille—Cas- tel San Carlos, on Lake Maracaibo. An account of this liberation of pris- oners which has reached Washington sets forth that some of the men whose chains were chiseled off have died of “high emotion” when brought out of their cells into the daylight. It was Gomez who recently enter- tained General Pershing, and present- ed to him the sword which was for- merly owned by one of the national “heroes” of Venezuela. “Dies of Joy.” The amnesty decree covered not only the prisoners who had not died or gone mad in capitivity, but it also announced that political exiles might now return from Colombia and other countries to their homes. Among the prisoners reported as having “died of joy” upon release was General Au- gustin Fossi. He was one of a large number who had spent more than seven years in the fortress because he was suspected of wanting to restore “constitutional government.” Gomez felt safe in releasing these men, according to the report received in Washington, because he recently forced the national congress to amend the constitution so as to empower him to appoint the governors of all the states, He then named his own adher- ents to the governorships, thereby securing universal military control of the country. Stamps Out Union, One of the cardinal points of Gomez’ policy is refusal to permit the formation of labor organizations of. any kind. Men suspected of seeking to form labor unions are promptly jailed or otherwise disposed of. Yet in his address to his hand-picked gov- ernors the dictator advised them to keep alfways in mind the “protection of the workers.” In view of the fact that Gomez has established what is in fact a monarchy of the absolute type, this suggestion was construed as a bit of royal humor, Two Killed at Crossing, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., August 10.— Two men were killed.and one serious: ly injured when their automobile was struck by a Union Traction interbur- ban car on the outskirts of Indian- apolis today. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER. 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Much scorn used to be heaped on the Jesuits tor their phil- osophy of the “end justifies the means.” Hvery ‘capitalist will admit he does not like war for war's sake, yet he will testify that it was neces- sary to slaughter 12,000,000 men to defeat Germany in the late war. es 4 8 O revolutionist likes the shedding of blood, yet he will readily agree that the working class must be freed from slavery even at the cost of thou- sands and even hundreds of thousands of lives, preferably the lives of capt- talists, but unavoidably also lives of workers, This ig regrettable but what are you going to do about it? ee Dade is no law against speaking on the streets‘in Chicago, yet Communists are arrested, thrown into jail, held on bondg and invariably re- leased by. the courts, because they have not violated any law. Yet the arrests continue «and freedom of speech is, made a laughing stock of. Business. men instruct the police to arrest the speakers, They: have no right to do this,-but they do it, They are the ruling class, If an employe: got up on the street corner and ad vocated the open shop, the police would not arrest him, but if the work ers interfered with him, every police man in the city would stand ready tc protect him in his, rights. * + * f heicmes will be no freedom of speech as long as class rule exists. The workers fight for the right of free speech, not because they believe they will get that right until they are strong enough to take it, but because it makes good propaganda. It shows the producing classes that free speech or any other constitutional provision designed to proteet the weak from the strong, means nothing as long as capi- talism exists. The workers being in the majority and: being the only use- ful class in society, must take over the running of society and abolish exploitation before free speech or any other freedom in the real sense can exist, “ TUSTICE was done,” declared Ray Cummins, Clay county prosecut- or in the state of Missouri, when a Negro charged with assaulting a white girl was taken out of the hands of the county sheriff and lynched. “I would have preferred that the Negro he hanged legally,” continues Cummins, No doubt the @yatistic gentleman would have: preférred a legal hang: ing. It would have given him more prestige for‘one: ‘The only -op- jection Cummins to the lynching was that “the lod was crude.” This is another example of American freedom to which the attention of Herr Menchen is directed. TPHE spiritual department of the British empire has fallen on evil days. The Chinese are now boycot- ting the imperial pulpit pounders. The Communists are the cause of all this, the British say. One hundred seventy- nine servants left/the British legation in Peking. This is h’awful., Here is great danger of a fertile field for the army of the lord, being rendered un- fit for cultivation by the diabolical Communists. Is it any wonder J. Bull should have such a hearty dislike for the Soviet government? GOOLIDGE BACKS MORGAN PLAN TO CONTROL ITALY Brings Pressure to Bear Thru War Debt ROME, Aug. 10,—Barone Giacomo de Martino, Italian ambassador to the United States, is returning to Rome to report to the foreign office on the progress of the debt negotiations in Washington, Official announcement of this was made today. The foreign office officials hinted they have advanee information that the ambassador was’ bringing word that Secretary of State Kellogg, Sec- retary of the Treasury Mellon and Secretary of Commerce Hoover were favorable to a project tor increasing the participation of American capital in Italian enterprises.” J. P, Morgan & Co. have already made large invest- ments in Italy, and it is reported will use the debts to secure a tighter hold on Italy's commerce. Simultaneously with announcement that the ambassador to the United States was returning, Sig. Volpi, the, new finance minister, called a meeting of the inter-ministerial committee on finance for this afternoon, This committee will begin at once the preparation of data to be used when negotiations over the funding of the debt to the United States are re- sumed in Washington Sept. 15, FOREIGN EXCHANGE. NEW YORK, Aug, 10.—Great Brit- ain, pound, 4.86%, cable, 4.85%; France, frane, 4.66%, cable, 4.67; Bel- glum, franc, 4.61, cable, 4.51%; Italy, lira, 3.68%, cable, 8.59; Sweden, krona, 26.85, cable, 26,88; Norway, krone, 18.33, cable 18.85; Denmark, krone, 22.76, cable, 22.78; Germany, mark, no quote; Shanghai, tael, 78.12%, cable, no quote, yan ‘et TODAY bad news is put on the cables reaching to the inter- national headquarters of fascism under the Muss thumb at Rome, Italy. The ini Grand Lodge of the Sons of Italy of New York State, by vote of 266 to 1, decided to sever all relations with the Supreme oh, Bo the national organiza- 01 tion, charging that the Supreme dge has attempted to make the organization a subsidiary of fascism. The one lone vote was cast by a spy lanted in the convention, held in New York City, by a insignificant bolt- ing group that was meetin fessed himself an avowed in Schenectady. ascist. The spy con- The Schenectady group also confesses its allegiance to fascism, sending a telegram to the New York City gathering demanding that it accept the fascist program. This it refused to do by unanimous vote. ° * * e This development is a body blow at fascism in the United States, It should be a reat incentive for all work- ers to renew their scleee against fascism in all its forms. The Sons of Italy is not a working class organization. It is a fraternal order, consisting of large bourgeois elements. The fact that lar; trade unions hol numbers of Italian-speaking officials of membership in it, does not improve its working class character. But this organization in New York State has taken a determined stand against fascist penetra- tion. It has even split with the national organization on this issue, calling on other state bodies to go with it. That should indicate to all workers, especially to Italian workers, the dangers and the possibifities of the struggle with fascism on this side of the Atlantic. This split within the Sons of Italy is one of the reasons that is causing the international high priest of fascism, the Italian deputy, Bastianini, to hasten to the United States in an effort to halt the growing desertions. Bastianini will not give up without a fight. It is directly charged that Giovanni di Silvestro, Supreme Master of the Sons of Italy, has formed an alliance with the Italian fascist abelageon pledgin the support of the Sons of Italy to the loody dictator, enito Mussolini. the United States will do everything possible to make The fascist elements in ‘ood this pledge. Only the determined resistance of the working class can be depended on to combat successfully this effort to build the fascist power in the United States. * * There are great numbers of Italian workers in the big industries, in the steel mills, the coal mines, the textile and clothing industries and the building trades. It is among these workers that the big buttress against fascism must be ‘built. This terror tries to maintain itself in power, not only by destroying and outlawing the militant trade unions, but cby forming its own unions wherever it can. It will % this “same tactic in the United States. o. it is, therefore, doubly ‘necessary for the organized workers to be on their guard now. e e Workers will organize for the r fascist deputy, Bastianini. meetings of protest against his coming. prepare great mass hey will picket the places where he appears, everywhere proclaiming his errand to this country. They will make it very clear to all the world that they are ready to fight fascism in all its forms, and crush it completely. DOLSEN, DOBKIN, ROBERTS, COWDERY ON COMMUNIST TOUR FROM COAST (Special to The Dally Worker) SACRAMENTO, Cal., August 10.—Another unusual Communist tour was begun from this city today. Following the footsteps of “Mother” Bloor, who is now speaking in Ohio cities on her tour for the DAILY WORKER, begun in this city on June 1, James H. Dolson, former Communist district organizer for California, I. Dob- kin, Roberts and P. B, Cowdery, their way to Chicago in a novel tour for the DAILY WORKER, 7 Meetings will be held in all the im- portant cities by this versatile quar- tet. James H. Dolsen, who is a na- tionally known speaker, will talk at all cities on “The Crisis in China and American Labor.” Thruout California this lecture of his has attracted great attention, Roberts will also take the platform. I, Dobkin is a singer of note, and at all meetings on the road his songs wi!l de a feature. P. B. Cowdery, whose activities on the last a California district DAILY WORKER agent, are all “tin-canning” ¢#———-——_____. the coast have stamped him as one of the outstanding propagandists in this country, will direct the sales and dis- tribution of the DAILY WORKER and the Workers’ Monthly at all meetings and wherever a worker can be found. Readers of the DAILY WORKER can look for meetings to be held by this unusual Communist quartet on the following dates: Salt Lake City, August 12; Ogden, 13; Rock Springs, 14; Cheyenne, 15; Denver, 16; Colby, Kan., 17; Kansas City, Mo., 18; Pittsburg, Kan., 19; St. Louis, 20, Polish Hangmen Again Seek the Life of Stanislav Lantsutsky (Continued from page 1) Communist trial like the hundreds that are now going on in Poland, In this instance it is a question of de- capitating. the Communist faction in the Polish Sejm. This faction prior to the end of 1924 consisted of six members of parliament, of whom four are Ukrainian peasants, recently add- ed to the Communist ranks and with- out political experience, Two old revolutionaries, Lantsutsky and Krolikowski, were the leaders of the faction. Both of these have been removed from the Sejm. Krolikowski’s place is still empty because the Sejm sabotages the appointment of his sub- stitute from the Communist electoral Ist, Should Lantsutsky be condemned and thereby lose his mandate, then his place may remain empty for months and even years. The bourgeoisie wants tu silence the representation of the revolutionary proletariat. It wants w snated away from the workers and peasants their last legal possibility of aciion, Once the international working class was able to frustrate these criminal plans of the Polish bourgeoisie by means of powerful Ri cago It was the pressure brot to bear by the international masses that forced tho judge in Przemysl to withdraw the in- dictment against Lantsutaky; the in- h Saaiaaape proletariat saved Lantsut- shy. Workers Must Protest. ‘This time the danger in which Lant- sutsky {s placed is immensely greater. The whole strength of the workers of all countries will be necessary to snatch him from out of the hands of Polish hangman justice. The Polish proletariat again sends you, workers of the whole world, an appeat. !'nis is not merely a question of one comrade, for in Lantsutsky’s person the entire movement of the workers in Poland is threatened and the revolutionary van- guard of the peasants just as the struggle for the liberation of op pressed national minorities are in dan- ger. Lantsutsky’s trial is a blow aimed at the revolutionary movement, the de feat of the Polish bourgeoisie in this process will signify a revolutionary victory, The workers of the world are in apes to help the Polish prole- tar Workers! Peasants! Protest against Polish blood justice! Demand the im- mediate liberation of Lantsutsky! Raise your voices on behalf of the struggle for the proletarian cause in Poland! er tne PORT AAR hme Lc rammed Wi) sts RSTECT 8 IH ESI Drive Grows Against the Effort of Fascism to Get United States Foothold By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. BOSSES’ GREED TOOK 30,000 OF WORKERS’ EYES Fifteen Thousand Are Blinded in Shops By ART SHIELDS, (Federated Press.) NEW YORK, Aug, 10—Everyone has seen a blind worker but few real- ize that 15,000 persons In the United States have lost their sight by the in« humanly wasteful methods of Amerl- can industry. The report on Eye Haar ards in Industrial Occupation, pub lished by the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness, gives the figures—a total of 15,000 blinded from industrial causes altogether, and an annual crop of 200,000 major or minor injuries to the eyes of workers. Eye hazards are the most serious of all non-fatal industrial accident haz- ards, declares the report, and it makes the point, again and again the course of its 232 pages, that most of the men blinded in the factories would still be seeing if specified precautions had been taken by the employers. Companies are to Blame. An example of the toll industry takes from the workers is afforded by the statistics of Pennsylvania Rail- road accidents, with 36 employes’ eyes lost in one year and 2,000 more or less serious eye accidents. In the state of Pennsylvania, in all industries, in the year 1920, 691 eyes were lost, with 244 of these in coal mining and 220 in metal and metal products, largely steel making. Flying particles from so-ealled “emery” wheels or grinding wheels, cause about one-third of all industrial eye accidents. Thre is no excause for this. Employers should provide pro tective shields and dust exhausts for the wheels and individual, well-fitting gogles for the men. Chipping cast iron remains the most dangerous in- dividual eye hazard—without protec- tion—but an endless variety of eye in- juries and diseases come from splash- ing molten metals, the growing use of poisonous chemicals in industry and bad lighting. Fifty-two chemicals are especially dangerous to the eyes, with lead pois- oning and its atrophy of the optic nerve affecting the workers in more than a hundred-occupations; wood al- cohol, ammonia, tar, turpentine and the acids being contenders for the dis- honor. Engineering reorganization, some- times rebuilding of a plant, is neces- sary, frequently, to lessen eye hazards. This is true in badly lit plants where window space is at a minimum and it is true in the case of dangerous, old pattern machines. Employers have to be prodded to make these reforms, The report cites the case of one com- pany whose safety engineer laid out a program that would save the eyes of the men but looked costly. So the management said nothing doing, till two more eyes were lost. Workmen’s compensation laws, fore- ing the boss to pay out good dollars, have done much in bringing safer con- ditions. In the nation at large the payments for eye injuries amount to $23,000,000 and in Pennsylvania, from 1916 to 1924, the sum of $6,201,763 was paid out, or more than the com- pensation costs for loss of arms, legs, feet and miscellaneous permanent in- juries, KLAN INVADES CAPITAL, FIERY CROSS BURNED Coolidge Permits K.K.K, to Stir Race Prejudice (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Ang. 10.—Glowing with satisfaction over the success of their: first “national konvention,” the ku klux klan now plan to make it an annual event, and tentatively have selected New York as the spot for the 1926 gathering of the hosts, it was re: ported here today. Most of the 100, 000 klan visitors left the capital over the week-end. Last night the Virginia hills across the Potomac were aglow with the light shed by a gigantic flery cross, which marked the end of the konklave, Green, A. F. of L. on Negro Labor ae (Continued from Page 1) they were associated with Foster, but now they are white haired’ boys in the editorial rooms of the two most anti- labor papers in Chicago, Local Negroes say they expected this scurrilous attack from Green. They say Fitzpatrick, Nockels, the’ Tribune, the Daily News, John M. Glenn and his manufacturers’ agsocia- tion or the whole unholy reactionary alliance cannot prevent the Negroes from organizing themselves, some! j the reactionary labor frauds did ‘not do” tor them, ” be a