The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1925, Page 2

sain aber beds is | Page Two SYRIAN REVOLT FORCES TROOPS Rae. THE DAILY’ worRKER MeN ees SIGMANITES IN {SCAB GARMENT = DRIVE AGAINST FIRM REJECTED. «of Worker Worries That™ Women Enter Industry Negro Leader Scores Green’s Attack (Conitfaned trom page 1) : labor Movement, however, and we are receiving a splendid response from all locomotive service of all Negroes. and-thig applies to some very large \ FROM MOROCCO French Bankers Ground Between Two Uprisings (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, August 11—The French government has been forced to withdraw troops from the Morocco front and rush them to Syria, due to the serious revolt against French im- perialism in the Druse country. Two battalions of the Foreign Le roads In/the southeast.” (Applause. ) “Speech of D. B. Robertson, presi dent of Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, at its thir- tieth convention at Detroit, Mich, June 1, 1925, Mr. Green speaks of our alleged ten- dency to arouse “race hatred” among Negro workers against white workers,, | but not a word does he speak agains: | the real race hatred which the capi | talists and their servants are arous- ing against us and which is one side | of the terrible burden we have to bear. There is no race hatred in Negroes against whites. There is no race preju- dice in American Negroes against whites, but only a resentment of race The coming American Ne- labor movement is expelling Commun- ists as rapidly as they are found out” —such statements will tend only to arouse sympathy among Negroes for know only too well what it means to xcluded from the unions, 8 to Mr. Green’s warning that the Communists favor “overturning the government of the United States,” we ean only say that the American’Negro laborer has already been the cause of one civil war in the United States with the overthrow of one government (of the southern states), with results which cannot be regretted. The Amet- ican Negro Labor Congress has not advocated revolution or the Soviet of the progressive elements in it, If| | Mr, Green boasts that “the organized ehin Ur FF!) the expelled workers, for we Negroes | Stall Election and Ter- | rorize Locals The Chicago end of the Sigman ™* | chine has again begun a disorgi!24-| tion campaign. This was shown ot the Joint Board meeting of the 1. | G. W. last Friaay, wndto-eaé machine forced action to get ~ decision that all those who will sell br buy the de- fense stamps for tlié{ Joint Action Committee of Locals @/9 and 22, will be fined. 7 Sigman’s Kind of When delegates t ee Speech. the fioor to in the Soviet Union By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Toa a Philadelphia worker writes in to.ask why it is that women work in the factories of the Soviet Republics. He is especially concerned about the mothers with children to take care of. First of all, the letter received) from this worker indi- cates that he gauges conditions in’ the industries of the Soviet Union from the viewpoint of the worker in capitalist industry. To this he adds the belief, tersely expressed in the usual formula that “woman's place is in the home.” Here is ‘his BY ROCK ISLAND International Move Is Failure; Arrests Here ROCK ISLAND, Ill., Aug. 11—The unions of the Tri-Cities, Moline, Rock Island and Davenport, are backing the Amalgamated -Clothing Workers In their strike against the J. L. Taylor and International ‘ Tailoring com- panies, and have exposed the fact that these firms have come to Rock Island } ig to attempt to break the New York a ki rece , ice. oppose it, they wer immediately gion have already left Moro prejud r e s : ki " y rhe bei ; tiene: Beirut and a number of tank: -| gro Labor Congress is especially di- acy . ee nur te ae Sige) threatened that charg} will be pre-| question in his own words: Me Aenean haa Gpacediatinea ton, infantry ana machine gun units | Tected to finding means of removing | Over: the a wider hin ad "t 4 in ferred against those wh would speak “Haven't they enough men over there to do the work in room 204, Industeial: Home Rudding have been dispatched from Marseilles. |Tace hatred from the ranks of the this country (1861-1865). the tke In| or vote ‘against the mtion. so that women can stay at home where they belong.” a Mine sap inieetithe gabeuans 4 The entire French empire seems to | working people, where it is utilized by erated to the disadvantage pe Nosro Local meetings are frrorized and . ee eng DOBLon eid inne Teh ae ecu aieb eee a entre, ee eneat of tin Inbet Ghiene: Want ne [MbOe, nor haa “any ‘revelnelin’rags, |ReruEUee th dindedbr, #Aite the mem: In all capitalist countries toil is a continuous torture, sO | enough non-union labor here to begin ready s¢ Na eee aac avec ta tha Meer eae bWhfte ever been: to the’ Slesdeantace | tere Ate Copeived ott virhtito pro] Con gtuaced by workers, who everlastingly strive to escape | production in the bankrupt plant of US aaa ae Mindell Peeler epieiceerigcs lento ie a, ff 4 agate ne ane ten: 2") from it, as from a prison. This is bedause of the long wark- ‘the Boone Woolen Mills company. fending the independence of Morocco, | is not “race hatred,” but a prejudice ‘' didates on the ba’ who are ob- 7 are now faged with the Syrian revolt. England Fears Revolt. The Syrians now have control of | the state of Drug, and they are con- stanlty being re-enforced by large nmuwnbers of natives, General Sarrail, the military dicta- tor of Syria, reports that there are less than five thousand having been Sent to fight the Moroccans. The citadel of Suedia is besieged by the Druse, and the garrison cannot hold out much longer. The French have already been severely defeated in several battles. That England fears the oppressed peoples of her colonial empire wili take action similar is shown by Pain- leve’s statement that the attitude of the British is adjacent territory to- ward the French has been “not only perfectly correct but particular friend- ly” Mrs. Scott Plans to Resume Her Tales of “Capital Night Life” ALPENA, Mich, Aug. 11—Mrs. Frank D. Scott was ready today to resume her tales of “Capital Night Life,” a narrative which was pre- faced seven months ago before hear- ing in the divorce suit of her hus- band, Representative Scott, was inter- rupted. oth sides stood on clear decks, prepared for a fight to the finish in the circuit court of Judge Frank Emerick. Scott time to gather depositions to support her cherges and also to re- fute those of Scott “Lect ite "we aniner depotoas Prohibition Sweeps Mexico. MEXTCO CITY, Ang. 11.—Economic conditions are forcing Mexiep to pro- hibition. One by one the celebrated old cantinas are closing their doors, never to be opened again. One may travel for hundreds of miles thru the smaller Indian villages without being able to get anything stronger than the native drink, pulque. This has about the same alcoholic content as besr. IN A COMBINATION against the organized labor movement, which prejudice is the sad result of the brutal cynicism and enmity which we find among such trade union offi- vials as Mr. Green shows himself to be. It is a cynical joke for Mr. Green to taunt the organizers of the Negro Labor Congress as “men who are not members of trade unions.” In the first place, this is not true, as a large proportion of us are members of trade unions. In the second place, exactly the center of our grievances is the fact that the Negro workers are re- fused the right of admittance to many trade unions, and our biggest imme- diate fight is to win admission to trade unions on an equal basis with white workers and to bring the masses of Negro workers into the unions. The fact that the president of the American Federation of Labor in de- nouncing our plan does not (so far as the quoted denunciation shows) offer one word of encouragement for us to enter the unions, altho he knows that hundreds of thousands of Negroes are employed in the large industries with- out organization, and that the fate of the American labor movement as well as the fate of the Negro workers de- pends uy n our being organized, doe: not give promise of the sincere fulfil- ment of the recently announced plan of Mr. Green’s office to grant a better deal to Negro workers. As for the statement of Mr. Green that the Communists are backing the American Negro Labor Congress— while he, Mr, Green, refuses to back it—such a statement only Mr M Green in @ very unfavorable Tight ti comparison to the Communists. In Jaunching an effort which means life and death to the masses of colored toilers, we appeal to all of the labor movement to help us, regardless of what section or what political views they may hold. If the Communists come forward and say, “Yes, we are ready to support this effort of the downtrodden Negro worker,” as we are glad to say they have done, then we heartily thank the Communists; and we can only wish that the entire labor movement would do the same. Our appeal ts to every portion of the Altho the Negro Labor Congress has not taken any position on such ques- ,tions, nevertheless Mr. Green prob- ably forgets that he is speaking to a class which is in an unendurable posi- tion and which is seeking a way out. When the most persecuted and ex- ploited of all working people shall at last win their freedom, we can only call such a change “radical.” The thinking Negro cangot be repelled by the word “radic. And when Mi n expresses his solicitude for “existing institutions,” he probably forgets that some of the most fixed of “existing institutions” are lynching, jimcrowism, disfran- eee infuriated and chisement and exploitation of our la- aig er vote, appointin, boring people; and that it is exactly |°Bine tool as teller, to get rid of these “institutions” that |#lly reversed the all sincere Negroes are desirous, jected to by the mache. At Local 5 last weekthere came up the question of apprpmeg the decis- ion of the Joint Boarqthat the par- ents of children ‘who flistribute cir- culars against the Sigmn I. L. G. W. machine. A motion made to re- ject the recommendatjn, and altho the members were thpatened as us- ual, the vote showed fh overwhelm- ing. majority for the hotion to re- ject. But the manager ojthe local be- Med for an- Sigman ma- ing as he was told. [However, the Progressives counted he vote as 55 In publishing this open answer Mr. Green, we wish to say again that |" the motion and 3¥opposed. we solicit the support of all of organ- Sigmanites Break Meeting. day, the arduous conditions, the low, wages, that make of life a bitter struggle for existence} always with the know- ledge that a profiteering class is ever getting its toll of plun- der. The male worker too often thinks that by keeping “woman in the home” he is shielding her from this brutaliz- ing toil, What he is really doing is condemning her to domestic drudgery against which she revolts as best she can. * * * . In the Soviet Union the workers, men and women, have an entirely different viewpoint toward their tasks. Their revolution was victorious. They turned back the world cap- italist attack launched against them. They faced hunger and cold without flinching. They are now going thru a period of reconstruction. Already the standard of living is rapidly rising, surpassing the pre-war standard under czar- ism. Work in the Soviet Union is not a continuous torture with no escape as under capitalism. Labor in the Workers’ Republic, is a joy, born of the knowledge that every inch of progress made redounds immediately to the benefit: of the whole working class struggling to establish a better life in ized labor, and we believe that we will] TR@ members ther/began to de- ultimately get it. The sole object of Higtliniiers-giae wy elections are the coming congress is the solidarity |70* J ae ee hy few f the members of all of the workers, regardless of pg 7 4 ell the resons, why they race, color or nationality, for the free- 1 uld be put on th: ballot and an dom and welfare of all who toil. Our | °l@¢tion be held, but he machine fol- the Communist Society. ‘ * The new womanhood of Soviet Russia would be the first to resent the claim that her place is “in the home.” She in- sists on playing her role in the life of the new nation. With domestic drudgery lifted from her shoulders thru lowers began to rais¢so much noise principal immediate aim is to add or era Power, strength and numbers to the eating meeting wa’ Sdjourned in organized trade unions by bringing all | ©8°"¢e- of Negro labor into them. Saar Basin Miners Win Wage Struggle SAARBRUCKEN, Germany, Aug. 10.—Work in the Saar mines, where 70,000 workers struck last week over} Meetings of ‘mem! thi i {Oia ie oPagF 'séaibe Saniwayeae erhill shoe fected by the st¥tke have returned to their regular schedules. The miners’ demands were granted by the govern- ment of the League of Nations con- trol. Window Washers Seek New Members. “Window washers organized in Local 34, Building Service. Employes Inter- Rational Union, are after a new con- tract to begin Sept. 1 and after a larger union membership. Only 10 per cént of the 2,000 window washers in Chicago are in the union, says Busi- ness Agent Stephen Zaharchuk. © OFFER w flex cover, $1.25 To mg for the widest ment R RUSSIA TODAY | “EoR™ (The book) bound in Duro- (8 $5.00 RUSSIA TODAY THE DAILY WORKER month subscription) possible distribution of that great docu- SSIA TODAY—this report of the official body of British Labor on every phase of life in Soviet Russia today, is being offered in a combination offer with a subscription to the DAILY WORKER RUSSIA EVERYDAY can be seen in the pages of the DAILY WORKER—in reliable news and direct Russian correspondence from the factory and farm —and with the book—these records of past and current life in the world’s first workers’ republic should be worker. The combination offer ts newals. to get RUSSIA TODAY. Russia Today . . 8 month subscription to The Daily Worker . $1.25 in the‘hands of every made for both new subscriptions and re- If you are already a subscriber—extend your subscription THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington’ Bivd., Chicago, III. For the enclosed §... send RUS- SIA TODAY... DAILY WORKER. (6 mos. in Chicago) . $4.50 BOTH FOR $5.00 Shoe Workers Need a “Protective”? Union Against This: Policy HAVERHILL, Maés, Aug. 11—Mass of the Shoe Workers Protée: fibion age, being ‘matinfacturers and the union, preliminaryto deciding whether or not the working agteement shall be continued. ter Considerable dissatisfaction has been noted among the workers on the oper- ation of this peace arrangment which established a shoe board of employers and workers and employed an “im- partial” chairman whose decisions were binding on both, sides. Unless 90 days’ notice is given by either party the pact continues automatical- ly for three years after January 1, 1926, Neither side is completely satisfied but it is probable that.a new and simi- lar pact will be negotiated, including possibly the same protections of em- ployers against strikes and stoppages and workers against lockonts. Three Billion Bushel Corn Crop. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The Unit- ed States will nave a’ corn crop this year of 2,950,000,000 bushels, the crop reporting board of the department of agriculture predicted today, basing its estimate on a condition of 79.8 per cent of normal on Aug, 1. Last year's crop amounted to 2,437,000,000 bushels. The number of acres,planted to corn is 106,621,000, and a yigld of 27.7 bush- els an acre is estimated, “Law and Order’! in Detroit. DEROIT, Aug, 11.—A woman was beaten to death, a man mysteriously slain, an alleged . bandit seriously wounded, two men arrested as murder suspects and numerous holdup attempts recorded as a-ontinuation of Detroit's crime wave. + A coro An error in location has been made in a report on a Y. W, L, students’ farewell party. Thisfschool was lo- cated at Wain Hall, Brue, Wis., and not at Rock, Michigaiy, as published in our issue of August 3. —————_i_ LONDON, England; August 11. — London big businesg expresses un- easiness with regardsto the proposed merger of the Junker Airplane com- pany of Germany, with a British air- craft line, Build the DAILY WORKER. of justice today for @ de! at any time, PROMINENT POLITICIANS SEEK. PARDON-FOR INDIANA GOVERNOR SENTENCED TO JAIL FOR FORGERY WASHINGTON, August 11.—Arrangements were made at the department ‘tion of prominent Indiana citizens, headed by, Representative Will "Wood, to call on Attorney General Sargent tomorrow and urge a pardon for Ex-Governor MoCray, of Indiana, now serving ten years |in Atlanta prison for'forgery. t McCray has served 15 months and under the law will not be eligible for parole for two years.’ A pardon, however, may be granted by the pre rapidly developing communal methods of living, Russia’s womanhood strives for new aspirations, equal with those of Russian manhood. Nurseries are not the product of philan- thropy, as is the case in this capitalist land. Nurseries in the Workers’ Republics bacome institutions for the scientific care of growing children; just as the schools, instead of be- ing brain factories to develop by wholesale cogs for the cap- italist industrial machine, are real educational institutions for broadening the minds and developing human beings eager and able to think for thomspeive A * Canitali tem ay O and forces women and children into in istry, wi i grades and crushes them. Under Soviet Rule, “The Home,” freed of its capitalist burden upon an agonizing family, realizes its mission for the first time in history. The family relationship takes on a new meaning, that will gradually become apparent .to those like the worker in Philadelphia, who does not yet sense that a_new social order is building thruout the Soviet Republics. MOTHER BLOOR SPEAKS TO LARGE GATHERING AT COLUMBUS, OHIO (Special to The Daily Worker) COLUMBUS, 0., August 11,—Blla Reeve (“Mother”) Bloor held a rous- ing demonstration here last night speaking from the steps of the State House. Speaking on the American labor movement, the 62-year-old veteran Com- munist fighter, who is now on a cross-country hitch-hiking tour for the DAILY WORKER, denounced the reactionary officialdom of American labor and outlined the Communist policies ——} which alone can lead to success, Over five hundred people cheered the speaker repeatedly in her keen MEET PLANNED and vigorous speech. While she was in the midst of her talk, a group of NEW YORK, Aug. 11—The efforts the Salvation Army moved alongside with a full brass band and a preacher of labor organizations particularly the Red International of Labor Unions who seeing the nature of the crowd, made a competitive appeal that he was also “labor’s representative.” The meeting of the “bible-bangers” came to a sad end when a member of and the Communist International to|the Locomotive Engineers who had form a united front is being crowned | been listening to Mother Bloor, made with success, a determined request of the Salvation In England, Germany and Russia|Army preacher to “shut-up” or he mass conferences are being held to| would force him to do so. Thecrowd Tush immediate aid to the striking| joined in loud approval of the work- workers of Shanghai, Jer’s demand and Mother Bloor con- In Zurich, Switzerland, on July 5, at a conference attended by 1,000 trade unionists addressed by Edo Fimmen in behalf of the International Workers’ Aid, a resolution was adopt- tinued with no competition for an- other two hours, ed expressing sympathy for the strug- gling proletariat of China. On July 6 at Basil a similar resolution was adopted by 1,500 trade unionists, New York City will continue the campaign begun with the mass meet- ings in Union Square and will hold a united front conference on August 28 at Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Avenue, near 9th Street, New York City, at 8 p.m. All labor organizations and Work- ers Party branches are expected to elect two delegates each to the con- terence, ‘i onstration will be held in the same main speaker, thru Ohio, Mother Bloor will reach Ing the wi Wednesday, Aug. 12, Mansfiel Thursday, Aug. 18, Akron; Friday, Cleveland, with subs, 6722 SHERIDAN ident Tonight a “Hands Off China” dem- Place with Mother Bloor again as the From here, continuing her hike and speak at the following cities dur- Kk: Aug. 14, Warren; Saturday, Aug. 15, Build the DAILY WORKER CRAMER Tel. Sheldrake 0515 FUR GARMENTS MADE TO ORDER, REMODELED, REPAIRED, CLEANED, STORED AND INSURED. att 2 Special Summer R —Reductions on All Furs, which the Ineernational has leased for six months. No Clothing Produced. The employers of the Tri-Cities do not invite union concerns to come here. They are trying to get in scab firms, in order to reduce wages and establish the “open shop”. The Daniel Boone Woolen mills company came here to escape the or- ganized clothing markets but after a period of stock-jobbing, fake account- ing and questionable financial prac- tices, the firm crashed. i The International was invited in as a worthy successor to this firm. Help was advertised for in the papers, and not a word was mentioned about the New York and Chicago strikes. Now, however, the Amalgamated members have widely spread the news of the strikes, and the fugitive garment boss- es are unable to secure help. No clothing is being manufactured, and no cothing will be manufactured. Organizers Brought In. The workers here are determined that their town will not be given a national reputation as a harbor for runaway labor-hating corporations. The Amalgamated announces that staff of organizers will be brought in, and the tactics of the corporation given the fullest publicity. “They will find the Amalgamated as ready to de- fend itself on 13th street, in Rock Island as on Jackson Boulevard, in Chicago,” said one union organizer. “The Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers will carry the fight for union wages whereyer the clothing industry goes, and especially wherver a firm tries to hide from the organization,” said another union official. More Pickets Arrested, Three striking employes of the In- ternational Tailoring company, James Hovoko, Joe Diciolo and Charles In- trieri, were arrested while walking the picket line yesterday. Agents of the company approached one of the members of the Amalga- mated who is on strike, and attempted to bribe him to give information con- cerning the activities of the union. This union member was told if he would induce some of the strikers to come back to work he would be paid a large sum of money. The striker of course, spurned the offer, Selecting Judge to Sit in Joint Trial of Indiana Kluxers NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 11.—The task of selecting a judge to. sit in the joint trial of David CG, Stephenson, Ear] Klinck and Earl Gentry, alleged si y- ers of Madge Oberholtzer, was re newed here today. Judge Fred E. Hines of Hamilton circuit court was disqualified from pre- siding over the trial when defense counsel late yesterday led a motion for a change of judge. This motion followed on the heels of a previous motion granted by Judge Hines asking for a joint trial of the trio, Three Indiana jurists must be chosen for tentative duty. The state will eliminate one, the defense an- other, and the third automatically will become the judge to preside at the trial. Receivers Seek Freight Cars. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—Receivers ~f the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul allroad today applied to the interstate commerce commission for authority to issue and sell $9,270,000 of equipment trust certificates, which are to be used in the purchase of 6,500 freight cars of various types at an estimated cost of $12,376,715. It is proposed to sell the certificates to Kuhn, Loeb & Co, and the National City Bank of New York, at 97 per cent of par. ROAD a