The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1925, Page 1

‘ # The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government }. GEN Su. %tw Yo: Vol. II. No. 183. AS WE SEE IT By T, J. O'FLAHERTY HE New York Times finds solace in the “jeering comments” on the class struggle written in the Milwau- kee Leader by Oscar Ameringer, the leading clown of the socialist party; Oscar, who is on many payrolls, was in the comedy game before Will Rog- ers, but he has not succeeded in estab- lishing a style. He apes Rogers. un- successfully, which means that he suc- ceeds in being a bigger ‘ape than Will. Rogers started out well, but he suffered a relapse when he started to boost the stocks of Pershing, Coolidge, Ford, William Jennings Bryan and oth- ers, for the same reasons, no doubt, that Ameringer sings the praises of Frank Farrington, se * MERINGER confuses the class +4 struggle exemplified in the per- petual war between the miners and the mine owners, with the farce that is being staged in Atlantic City, where labor leaders and operators are having a good time viewing the bath- ing beauties and other natural scen- ery, The Times says: “The Milwau- kee Leader indulges in some jeering romments that, coming from a social- ist organ, may or may not have a strange sound, accdrding to the point of view. Anyhow it is amusing.” oe 8 ES, it is amusing for the New York} Times and the unprincipled jes- ter who is guilty of making the trials | and tribulations of the poor int the butt of a buffoon’s joke, but it does not sound so funny to the ears of the poor miners who’go down into the bowls of the earth daily at the risk of their lives. The Times may think such sentiments strange in the Mil- waukee Leader. They are not. The socialists have long ago bid farewell to the class struggle and all that it implies. Their only struggle is now to live down the bad reputation that socialism, in the days of its virility, had earned for itself. pura : * . HE yellow faker, Green, warns the black workers of the United States to beware of the “red menace.” He charges the reds with propagating race hatred. This comes with poor grace from the president of an organization, which allows some of its affiliated bodies to breed race hat- red by refusing admission to black workers. And even many organiza- tions that don’t discriminate formally, do it practically on the job. The Com- munists are not trying to incite the Negroes to hate the white workers. They are teaching them that their enemies are the capitalists, black and white andthe labor fakers of one color: which is yellow, in a political sense. 4 se NLY last week a Negro was taken out of the hands of the sheriff in a town in Missouri, carried by a howl+— ing mob to a tree and strung up. He was charged with attatking a white girl. There is no more proof that the lynched Negro attacked that girl, than there is that she was assaulted by the imperial wizard of the k. k, k. Scores of times Negroes have been murdered for a similar crime, only to have it afterwards proved that some- body else was guilty or.that the indig- nant. lady was protesting too much and without any reason except worse than neglect. eee TP\HE lynching. of Negroes in the United States is a national scan- THE ' s ude t #80 x S09 e, by RK ; Seppe EMBERS of Local Unions, Nos, cago, by mail, $6.00 per year. mail, $8.00 per sear, 3 and 4, of the International Printing Pressmen’s and Assistants’ Union have tied up one of the largest printing plants in the United States, the Cuneo Printing company of Chicago. They tied it up because the big printing moguls, swollen with profits Entered as Second-ciass matter Septemiber 21," Illinois, under the Act of March 38, 1879. eS” BOSTON |. L. 6. W. VOTE TO DENOUNCE NEW YORK JOINT BOARD POLICIES NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 11.— | Word Is reeceived at the headquar- j ters of the Joint Committee of Ac 2s | tlon, that Locals 39 and 56 of Bos- 2 |-ton had passed an almost unani- No WorkBeing Done at. mous vote denouncing the action of | the New York Joint Board and the Cweo Plant | Inetrnational in expelling the Exe- cutive Boards of Locals 2, 9 and 22. Vice-president Seidman of the In- Definite step were taken yesterday at . ternational attended both Local by repressge of Local Union No. | meetings held on Monday and Tues- SRREX. Published Daily except Sunday by THE D*iLY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W, Wachington Bld... Chicago, DL NEW YORK ~™ EDITION Price 3 Cents RECOMMENDS JOHNSTON'S RECALL PRAISING COMMUNIST MEMBERS The fighting spirit of the members of the International Association of Machinists against the present. Johnston adminis- tration manifested itself at the meeting last night of the Machin- ists’ District Council of District No. 8, when almost unanimously a motion was adopted to recommend to the locals that they en- dorse the recall of all the officers who stole themselves into office and thirsty for more, thought they were strong enough to introduce the open shop under the fig leaf of the kind of trade unionism that is sanc- tioned by the notorious strikeberaker, “Major” George L. Berry, interna- tional president of the union. No doubt the Cuneo company had an un- derstanding with Berry before they decided to introduce their profit. saving scheme ot the expense of the workers. * *# @ @ HAT the Cuneo plant wanted to do was to reduce the crews on the pret from four to three men each. The men refused. The local unions backed them up. “Strikebreaker” Berry ordered the men to take the open shop terms of the bosses and be good slaves. They refused. He ordered the local unions, numbers 3 and 4, to force their members to accept the Cuneo conditinos. He was unsuccessful, The men walked out. Then Berry, the scab herder, went around recruiting strikebreakers —wnion gstrikebre 's. He got a few international men to go into the Cuneo plant, to take the jobs of the militant trade unionists who would not bend the knee to the printing magnates or to their scabby labor agent Berry. The strike against the Cuneo plant is a success, The plant is tied up as tight as Calvin Coolidge’s lips during the Teapot Dome scandal. UT Locals 3 and 4 are not contend with fighting this strike in the old- fashioned way, each union for itself and the “devil take the hind- most.” Always among the leaders in progressive trade unionism, they are taking advantage of this crisis to strengthen themselves in this fight and in others yet to come. LOCALS 3 AND 4, THE. PRESSMEN’S LOCAL AND THE FRANKLIN LOCAL, ARE PLANNING TO AMAL- GAMATE. e This is a fitting and effective reply to Berryism and to the printing plute: The printers have seen the united front of labor foree the proud government of imperial Britain to its knees, when five million organized workers pooled their strength in behalf of the miners. What labor ac- complished in England, it can accomplish in America. This is the way to fight Berryism. The “major” is only one of the many strikebreakers who, like old men of the sea, weigh down heavily on the’shoulders of the workers they pretend to serve, Perhaps he is the not of princpile. Berry is among the favored ones in the high circles of the American Federation of abor. His scabbery is sanctioned by the exe- cuttve council of the A. F. of L. It is sanctioned by Green and the cap- Italist.tools who are busy denouncing progressives, radicals and Com- munists instead of striving to get more wages for the members of or- ganized labor, ee * * * ERRY holds his power In the pressmen’s union by force and fraud. No printer has to be told this. He knows it. This is known in Chi- cago best of all. It is known by the men whose treasuries have been plundered by the faker who now owns several industrial enterprises in the state of Tennessee. In taking steps to join their forces for the common struggle against the employing cl Locals 3 and 4 of the International Printing Press- men’s and Assistant’s Union, have acted wisely. It is a splendid way to Prepare for the everyday fight for a better living. It is a good way to pre- pare for the greater struggles that lay in the lap of the future. It is a good way to get rid of Berryism and it cannot fail to spur forward the movement for amalgamation and greater solidarity and power among all classes of organized labor in the United States. ee eee ® NDER THE SIGN OF “AMALGAMATION” THE PRESSMEN WILL WIN, BECAUSE AMALGAMATION COMBINED WITH MILITANCY MEANS POWER. AND POWER BRINGS VICTORY, ~ GLASS WAR WIPES OUT | /#hor Defense Puts RAGE LINE WITH BLOOD |) ° “Passiifos Women OF TIENTSIN WORKERS (Special to The Daily Worker) (Special to The Daily Worker) DULUTH, Minn., August 11.—Inter- LONDON, Aug. 11—The Central national Labor Defense will soon ef- News dispatch reports that troops fect the release of Mrs. Matilda Wiede- man and her two children from the of Chang Tso-lin on police duty at Tientsin, fired into a crowd of strik- ing cotton mill workers wounding eight. +The strike started over a wage dispute between the workers and the mill management, the adminis- tration of which is American, while the mill is owned by Chin dal... This violence is committed by ecowadly mobs who would not dare in- ‘dulge in their avatistic tendencies but for, the unorganized, state of the col-) ored people. Green has nothing to fay about the lynching of Negroes. It would not be surprising if he secretly favored it. That sanctimonius church deacon type to which Green belongs is Reporte have been received here capable of any atrocity. We venture that Fatshan, a large manufactur fo predict that Green will have as i ines, much trouble weaning the Negroes ie Be cphared cy Knomainia away from the Communists as he has} ,—— in driving the Communists out of the Sener. Heavy fighting je one unions, a cn HE Negroes are learning one les- son and learning it fast. It is this: No subject people or subject class (Continued on Page 5) AMERICAN BANKERS TRYING TO — Krim Fights Near Taza. EL ARAISH, Spanish Morocco, Aug. 11,—It is reported that Abd-el-Krim’s forces are engaged in a battle north of Taza, ~ ie BOLSTER UP MUSSOLINI’S REGIME ROME, August. 11.—Negotiations the lira are being conducted | -between Finance Minister Volpi and Morgan, Blair & Company and the National City Bank, New York, according to a report carried by the semi-official agency Roma today. 5 “') The negotiations are understood to include plans for a large participation _ by American capital in the development of the eleotrical industry in Italy as well as public works. county jail at Noyos, Minn., on $1,000 bond. Mrs, Wiedeman, tho born in Latvia, has resided in the United States and Canada for many years, Selma, her ten-year-old daughter, was born in Philadelphia. Mrs, Wiedeman owns her own home in Manitoba, Can., and was arrested while on her way to Chicago to visit relatives. She is being held by the immigration authorities on a charge of illegal entry. Mrs. Wiedeman has been active in the radical movement in both the United States and Canada. A fight will be made to prevent her deportation to Latvia. " Probe Crossing Smash. GREENFIELD, Ill, Aug. 11.—Inves- tigation was started of the crossing accident Sunday which cost the life of Mrs. Roy Wahl, 27, ‘and her 3year- old son, George. wards of Carrollton was in ch, on time. bows Coroner Ross Ra | Chicago City Convention Tonight HE Chicago City Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party will be held tonight (Wednesday) the Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St-, Let all delegates be there 3 and LocaliUlon No. 4 of the Print- ing. Pressmeniiand Assistants’ Union of North Améea to amalgamate the | two unions, of which are engaged in the strike! aginst the Cuneo Print- | ing Company. | Committees fom Local No. 3 and Local No. 4, thiFranklin Union of the press feeders} met and discussed means of closerfiiliation between the two unions. || Unions WI Stick Together. “The two units will stick together,” said one of th@presemen, voicing the sentiment of the strikers. The pressmen walké out a week ago when the Cuneo com#ny tried to reduce thé crew of two Bipers and two prgbs- mea by takingpff one pressman. Strike! ident of the strikers back company’s ters them that troul | tion, and he ha fully exposed his true | colors this and class colla No Wa mailers have been laid off and work in the bindery rooms lias’been stopped. The pregsmen and feeders are pick- eting the plant, and have explained the situation to the’ out-of-town printers sent in by Berry. The orders sent by Berry to Local No. 3 prove beyond a doubt that while Berry draws a fat salary from the per capita tax of the union members he is aiding the Cuneo companv. Some months ago the executive board of Local No, 3 made a tentative agree- ment with the Cuneo company, subject to the ratification of the union, calling _ for certain concessions as a trial prop- osition. This tentative agreement was rejected by the uniom at a special meeting held on July 6 and the rejec- tion reaffirmed at the regular meeting July 11. Bosses Appeal to Berry. When the Cuneo company was noti- fied of the action they, significantly enuf, appealed to President Berry, who, following his usual policy of siding with the employers against the |pressmen, declared the tentative agreement legal and ordered the men day nights, and spoke to the mem- bers for over and hour about the question of these locals. After his speech Local 39, the Finishers 4 passed a unanimous wote against the International; and Local 56,the Operators, gave only 5 votes in re- sponse to Seidmann’s pleas. This vote of the locals followed the Bostoh mass meeting of union members on July 30 where repre- sentatives of the Joint Committee of Action, Louis Hyman, Rose Wor- tis and Joseph Boruchowitz, told the story of the suspension, trial and expulsion of the local officials. NEGRO LEADER RES ATTACK OFA F.OFL HEAD Finds Communists Are Friends of Oppressed By LOVETT FORT WHITEMAN. Organizer, American Negro Labor Con- gress. The statement of Mr. William Green, on Negro Labor Congn'™;, is a startling and eloquent proof of one of the big- gest reasons why it is necessary to hold the American Negro Labor Con- gre This attitude on the part of trade union leaders who think it is not nec- essary for the Negro workers to op- pose the terrible persecution under which they suffer, shows exactly why it is necessary for Negro workers to come together to demand their full and equal rights in the trade unions. If it is to be in spite of the opposi- tion of the president of the A. F. of L. =—as it is perfectly clear it will be— then it is. necessary for the Negro workers to gird up their loins and fight all the harder—and to fight Mr. Green on his own ground in the trade unions. Only a person who has no interest in the Negro industrial workers can say that they do nét suffer. under spe- cial persecution and discrimination, in the industries where they work, and in the industries where they are not permitted to work, as well as in the trade unions where they belong on an to go to work under it. When the Cuneo company, acting on Berry’s instructions, tried to enforce the tentative agreement, the men walked out. The International board then attempted ‘to fill the plant with strike-breaking Berry pressmen. Those who were honest, brot from out of town, refused to scab, Vice President Marks received all his information from the Cuneo com- pany, and did)not ask one question of the pressmen’s union, RECORD OF GEORGE BERRY, STRIKEBREAKER, STARTS TOMORROW IN “THE DAILY’ The history of the “strikebreak- | er’ George L.. Berry, International president of th: Printing Pre: men's and Assistants’ Union will be told in the DAILY WORKER, be- gininng tomorrow. Space permits only the high spots of this scab- herder’s career to be published. In view of the strike now taking place at the Cuneo Printing Company's plant, the DAILY WORKER arti- cles should be of unusual interest to Chicago union pressmen and feeders. farting atcseven o’clock at equal basis with their white brothers but where they are either excluded or discriminated against in the majority of cases,fYet in all of his smug denun- ciationOf this supreme effort of the Negro workers to overcome their dif- ieulties, Mr. Green does not offer the slightest suggestion of any other rem- dy for our troubles, nor does he even make the. slightest admission of the fact that we have any “social, political and economic discrimination” to over- come. It is enlightening to quote another trade union official, high in another branch of organized labor, who is offi cially reported as follows: “Regarding conditions in the south, | am glad to be able to re- port that during the past two years remarkable strides have been made toward solving the Negro problem. » + Suffice it to say that we have succeeded in making great strides forward in bringing this question to a successful conclusion, On some railroads it has been agreed that there will be no more Negroes hired, which means uilti- mately the entire elimination from (Continued on page 2) THREE THOUSAND MORE TEXTILE SLAVES GET WAGE GUT OF 10 PERCENT HOLYOKE, Ma Aug. 11—The 3,200 employes of Farr Alpaca Co. have received notice that wages are cut 10 per cent and working days increased from three to four, in the last Grand Lodge election. Has No Time f “B. & O. Bill” Johnston, rep Anderson be tried according to “has no time” to go to St. Louis derson. Brother Anderson in a speech out that a member who scabs on expelled Before he has: had a> chance to appear before-a trial committee of the local to which he belongs. Treated Worse Than Scab. But in this case it was a question | of exposing the big election steal, the charge of which the Grand Lodge has not to date and cannot disprove— this was the reason for the suspen- sion of Anderson. Anderson stated that Davison, Johnston and their. general execu- tive board was afraid of the recall and a new election, to avoid which they engineered his suspension, to put him out of the way. Nickerson—Imbecile Grand Duke. Nickerson, one of the grand dukes of the Johnston machine spoke but said nothing that could disprove the stealing of the election. His speech proved, however, the complete bank- ruptey of the administration. The District Council and the Chi- |cago membership, which constitute the strongesht unit of the I. A. of M., are determined to carry on this semag- gle until the present self-appointed gay Sealy aay belie SA The famous “Red Raid” docuntent of the Chicago Federation of Labor was given into the maw of the waste basket by a motion to table, which carried unanimously. Praise Communists in Union Report. The grand duke of the Internation- al, Nickerson, ‘had to listen to a re- port of. the organization committee, wherein it was. pointed out that due to the royal service of the Commun- ists, the local is carrying on a great organization campaign and many new members have joined the organiza- tion since this campaign began. It seems that the nation-wide “Red Raids” announced to the wondering world thru the A. F. of L. news service, has not materialized accord- ing to expectations, and according to unofficial statement, the matter is re- ferred to he local unions. Members Turn Against Johnston. ‘or Fair Deal. lying to the request that J. F. the constitution, says that he to prefer charges against An- to the District Council, pointed his fellow workers can not be |HINDENBURG’S POLICE CLUB COMMUNISTS Throw 5 from Reichs- tag; S. D’s with Hindy (Special to The Daily Werker) BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 11.—Presi- dent Von Hindenburg has begun his expected policy of violence against the Communists, causing five of their dep- uties to be forcibly ejected from the reichstag chamber, and) throwing a@ strong police guard around the reichs- tag building. Police are now posted within the ‘iramber, and are -quarkiits die z Sonate ing and the approach thru the streets { used by Hindeaburg in his drives to / and from the building. Hindenburg held a celebration in the palace in Wilhelmstrasse, to observe the sixth anniversary of the Welmar constitution, which Hindenburg re- gards as a scrap of paper. The Communists were not invited to this royal banquet, but the social democratic: leaders were honored guests. BRIAND MEETS CHAMBERLAIN ON SECURITY PACT French Minister Calls on The rank and file of the I. A. of M. is awakening to the necessity of combatting all the policies of Johns- ton, including his policy-of extermin- ating Communists. Members are no longer fooled by Davison’s promise to emancipate them from wage slavery with a banking scheme. The members of the I. A. of M.are now aware that only by organizing the unorganized upon the basis of {Struggle against the bosses in the metal industry, can the organization be able to grow and become a great factor in the American labor move- ment, Suspended by J. F. Andreson, opponent of Wm. H, Johnston in the union election, sus- pended from the International Asso- ciation of Machinists for charging ous * British King LONDON, Aug. 11.—M. Briand, French foreign minister, here to lay before the British government the French reply to the latest German note on the security pact, as well as a tentaive draft embodying the French idea of what that pact ought to be, had his first conference with Foreign Minister Chamberlain today. Today will see the formalities in connection with M. Briand’s visit out of the way, leaving his future time free for the serious work which must be done to bring the English and French ideas relative to Germany into accord. Before his visit to Chamber- lain in Downing street M. Briand went to Buckingham palace, where he was received by King Georg U.S. Agents Shown as Aids of Dope Sellers in Chicago Col. Will Gray Beacif, chief of the narcotic division of the internal reve- nue department for the Chicago dis- trict, and three of his agents are un- der arrest today as the central figures in the most sensatfonal series of raids ever made by the United States gov- ernment against the dope sellers and addicts. Arrest of Beach and his associates, high federal officers say, brings to light facts which indicate that Beach, who .far years was regarded as one of the most efficient anti-narcotic bat- tlers in the nation, actually has par- ticipated in a gigantic distribution of habit-forming drugs, making it possibl® for a syndicate of Chicago men to gather millions of dollars by supplying the wants of the drug addicts of the that Johnston stole election, country, ' . See ay \.