The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Hl. No. 185» CHICAGO PARTY The city convention of th Subscription: Rates: ‘THE Outside Chicago, In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at ‘tne Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, IJK » by mail, $6.00 per year. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1925 T TO SMASH AMALGAMATED ) Gun fENTION IN “OVERWHELMING ENDORSEMENT OF °” CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE e Workers (Communist) Party held Wednesday night registered an emphatic endorsement. of the political line followed by the Central Executive Committee during its’entire term of office since its election in January last year. Amid enthusiastic applause and after long hours of dis- cussion, in which the representatives of the C. E. C., whose main speaker was Comrade James P. Cannon, dwelt upon the necssity of Bolshevization of the Party and the unity of the majority and Attorney General Is Looking for Nice Nook to Take a Snooze in SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., Aug. 13— A cabinet shift tha twould place at- torney general, John Garibaldi Sarg- ent in the war department is possible in the event of the resignation of John W. Weeks as secretary of war, it was learned here today. That Weeks, because of illness, will not return to Washington is consid- ered likely here, and President Coo- lidge will be confronted with a diffi- cult task in filling his place. New York interests are . backing | Charles D. Hilles, republican national | committeeman for New York, for the | war post-folio. a” FURRIERS TO HOLD LOCAL . ELECTION Shachtman, from New York, to Speak In no union RMS American labor movement has such terrorism been practiced. against the militant rank Fourteen Hundred Teachers Are Jobless in State of Indiana INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 13— There are 1,400 jobless teachers in Indiana, according tq figures available at the office of the state schol super- intendent H. N, Sherwood, thsi after nono. “This is by far the largest number unemployed teachers on record of sistant to Sherwood, said. The increase in the number of teachers seeking jobs this year was) attributed largely to the return to the teaching profession of many former tecahers, oo Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ©, 1113 W. Warhington Bivd., Chicago, UL RKER. _NEWYORK EDITION Price 3 Cents [HOLD AMALGAMATED STRIKER FOR $100,000 BAIL: RAID A PLOT T0 BREAK PICKET LINE, 16 HELD Sixty-three striking members of the Amalgamated Clothing with us in years “R. C. Blackwell, as-| Workers of America stood for a preliminary hearing in the court- | room of Judge John H. Lyle yesterday, after spending the night in jail, on trial for daring to demand decent working conditions and wages. Patsey De Rosa, one of the union members picked up in the raid conducted by Mike Grady, chief of the detective | bureau squad on the Amalgamated headquarters, 409 S. Halsted St., was held on a charge of “assault with a deadly weapon,” and “conspiracy,” for $100,000 bail, and sixteen members of the union were held on “conspiracy” charges with bail placed at jand file as In the Furriers’ union, ‘especially in New York City. That it has signally failed and the progres- sives in the New York shops won con- minority groups against the right wing tendencies of Loreism,) the vote was apnounced as 69 for the resolution of the C. FE. C. a * Majority to 40 for the resolu/ AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY HERE is a possibility that a gen- ‘by Nat" eral strike will take place in. the coal industry. As we pointed out be- tion of the Minority. Unanimity. Following the vote, the election of delegates to the district convention of District.8,on-the-basis-of.34 majerity ity, second. ed by Bob Minor of the minority, tha fhe list of delegates submitted bi fore, this is about the only way that ‘accepted, was carried by unanimo the injury caused by the Jacksonville Pact could be overcome. It is now admitted by John L. Lewis that the government was responsible for that agreement. This was suspected at the time, but it is well that Lewis| now admits it. If the miners’ union had militanf leadership one would feel more confident that the operators were facing a fight. But with Lewis at the helm, there cannot be any con- fidence among the workers. HAT can be thought of a man who admitted in an interview to a capitalist reporter, that the United Mine Workers of America, co-operated with the department of justice in get- ting evidence against the radicals in the union. This means that Lewis and has understrappers became stool- pigeons against the most militant in the organization: * Lurepeans, this would seem impo: tice. "€redked tho the worst of tlie da- hor leaders of Britain may be, they never stooped this low. . . EV. Arthur W. Brooks, a New York preacher predicted that: the “threatened coal strike will be of short auratior Brooks has a loong list.of successful predictions to his credit, it is said, including his prophesy that Coolidge would be elected. This faker declares that the “stars in their courses” are against t in so far as the sky pilots can manipu- iate them. However, the day of the sky pilot is coming to an end and before long Brooks and his tribe will have to go to work for a living or starve. { . AD William Jennings Bryan lived a little longer he would be worth several millions of dollars, at the rate his Florida real estate is jumping in value. Within two months before his death the value of his property in- creased by over three and a half mil- lion dollars. Is it surprising that Bryan should become more and more enthusiastic about the lord as his-end approached? God was good to Bryan. If all the other fundamentalists got away with it like Bill, the Darwinian theory would have hard sledding. eee NOTHER big industrial merger has taken place in the east, involving securities valued at $145,000,000. This time gas and .électricity enterprises have pooled their resources. A New York corporation gobbled up all the properties’ hitherto in comtrol of the. Penn Public system. Amalgamation ig taking place on all sides in the in- dustrial world. It is about time the workers took a hint and aithalgamated the craft unions into industriai unions. “ " te e. Ameriean Legion, taking the denounced the American Negro Labor Congress. This is another reason why the workers should support it, Only (Continued. on page 2) _ ‘Tor Ff. miners. Yes, | te, |" There were 110 delegates seated | the credential committee by unanh- | mous report, unanimously approved | by the body. This harmonious signal was the first of many signifying the desire to unify the party on the basis of the decision of the Comintern, and the resolutions and decisions of the Parity Commis- sion. Unity and Bolshevization the Keynote. Comrade Cannon, in opening the discussion for the C. E. C., stressed the future rather than the past, point- ing out that the Comintern had laid aside the theses of both groups, had declared that both had made mistakes and given the party a program ac- ceptable to both, especially in regard to the question of the labor party, which he declared to be the key to the labor movement. of the party during the past 18 months, however, Comrade Cannon, limited by the time of 30 minutes al- lotted to opening speakers of both sides, covered the many activities of the party, the child labor campaign, the presidential election campaign, where the party had for the first time come before the workers of the coun- try with a Communist program in the general élections in a situation ren- dered extremely difficult both by ob- | jective conditions as recoghizde by | the C. 1, and the mistakes of the par- |ty inherited from the previous Cen- | tral Committee. |} Constructive Work Under Difficulties. ‘The party had made a beginning on {the great task of raising the theoret- | ical level of the party member and | leadership in educational work. It | had sustained the great instrument | for Communism, the DAILY WORK- ER, thru many trials and despite the fact that the party was divided and often seriously crippled by the op- position of the hostile internal group, it had defeated the counter-revolu- tionary attempt of Abramovich to set the American workers against Soviet Russia, had made brave and effective campaigns in the trade unions, such as the coal miners, the carpenters, the’ needle trades and others. Citing the needle trades as one fleld where the right wing tendencies of Loreism had been effectively com- batted on the basis of concrete issues, ;©omrade Cannon set forth the deve- lopment of Loreism and the C. BE. C.'s method of struggle against it, to clari- fy’and Bolshevize the party, 80 that ultimately not a single honest worker ‘would be left to support the non-Com- muhist leaders of the Loreist ten- “dency, recently raising a danger be- fore the party in the resolution of the letter of Comrade Askeli, All to Unite Against Right Wing, This right wing tendency was the (Continued on page 2) SOVIET COURT HEARS CONFESSIONS — OF GERMAN FASCISTS, WHO ACTED AS SPIES, SCABS AND MURDERERS and 17 minority took place. A motion i GEORGE L. BERRY / BECOMES MAJOR trol of the Joint Board and have be- gun a fight for cleaning out the un- speakable Kaufman gang from the In- ternational istelf, should interest all workers, particularily the furriers outside of New York. INU. 5. ARMY Draws Two Salaries While in Europe ARTICLE It. George L. Berry, who now boasts} that he is the only labor leader in America who has no conflicts with em- ployers, rode into office on the slogan: i “To Hell with the Contracts.” | Berry went from the Atlantic to the | Pacific coasts, and smashed contracts | right and left. : ! | He claimed to be out to establish | the 48 hour week but it looks as if he | | was trying to smash the union instead. | | He succeeds in losing several large | | shops in Chicago. It is significant that | he never made any effort to win them back, The president of the International Printing Pressmen and Assitant’s Union was a plain ordinary citizen in e ays. »He was e-ebfilfan: Phere was no handle to his name, not even that.of, a “strikebreaker” which he earned afterwards. This proves what a man with ambition can do if given time. It. is said that Berry’s only claim to being .considered a warrior was his “gallant” act in punching old Peter Dobbs, a man of 70 years who inquired for some information at the Berry’s Old Men’s Home in Tennessee. Berry blackened the old man’s eye. It was not for this that he got the title of “Major”, which enables him to cut a big figure in the strikebreaking American Legion. # Woodrow Wilson made a “Major” out of Strikebreaker Berry, for gal-; lant service at the front. The fol- lowing facts will show where Berry faced the foe. The Noble Warrior As most of you remember the armi- istice was declared on November 11, 1918. But on November 15, Berry dictated the followng letter to his stenographer. It is addressed to Trustee William J. Geary. It reads: “I have received a leave of absence from the Bo.-d of Directors which (Continuea on page 2) FOX THREATENS TO BLACKLIST ZEIGLER MINERS Will Use Courts Against Members WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Aug. 13.— Still confined to his bed, Lon Fox, President of the West Frankfort Sub- Teties from William Green has| nish branch in Superior and. the} District No. 9, United Mine Workers of America, wounded in the Zeigler mine fight Tuesday night, this after- noon outlined his plan of retaliation. “The union will conduct a thoro in- vestigation and every man who took part in the disturbance will be charged with inoiting riot in civil courts, and on top of that they will be dealt with by the union itself” Fox said angrily. Wholesale “blacklisting” of dozens}~"There has been no opportunity of Zeigler miners will be employed by MOSCOW.—The ‘testimony of the three German fascists Dittmar, Kin: | the union officials as a means of fight- dermann and Wolscht, and other witnesses, who were found guilty by a Soviet court of plotting terrorist acts, revealed that the German fascists acted as strikebreakers, and that they had intimate connections with the German foreign office and the German embassy at Moscow, If they succeed in their anti-soviet designs, they planned to go to India (Continued E promise Ww on page 3) ge to expose the campaign of lies which have try of the workers.” —German social-democratic wor! premapsaes ing militants. Unionists who have participated in the strike which was unauthorized by the sub-district officialdom and who have been suspended from the organi- sation will not be reinstated, Fox de- clared. i Shachtman Speaks Tonight. Tonight the Chicago Local of the Furriers is to hold a meeting and the progressive group has sent out to the memberhip the following letter, set- ting for the program upon which they ask the members to support them locally and nationally. The meeting tonight is to be addressed by D. Shachtman; secretary-treasurer of the New York Joint Board, who is| well known to Chicago furriers as their business agent for three years. Shachtman will bring to the Chi- cago memberhip the message of the progressive group and explain in de- tail the confliet between the rank and | file and the Joint Board in New York | and the sliigger regime of Kaufman. | The letter to the Chicago members is | as follows: Letter to" Chicago Furriers. “Dear Sis! ‘and Brothers: On Friday, August 4th, our Local Union No. 45 will its election for busi- é situation ‘among the in. ‘very poor. cent of the Dnt So Aw a little over 50 per atry is orgdnized;—in- stead of 700 f@triers being in our un- fon, ther are @, scant 400. Yet noth- ing is being [done to organize the others. Even Hart, Schaffner & Marx, heralded thruout the contry as a union firm, is nonunion to the fur- riers. “There are firms who have an agree- ment with our union and send work to nonunion shops to be done; and, our local makes no protest, let alone try to stop it. What we need is a live, militant organization. This can only be brot about by the election of progressive leaders to office, and by pulling the entire membership into the active work of the union. Against Terrorism in Union. “This will be exceedingly difficult if the present method of terrorism that exists in our union is allowed to con- tinue. It is well known that the best and most active members are dis- criminated against in the shops by the manufacturers and our present busi- ness agent, Milstein, does nothing to stop it and there is no protest against this discrimination from the union. Not only that, but active members {have been threatened and some of them beaten up, when they made complaints, by those who should take up these complaints. i» “You remember about a year ago when Brothér Menilla, Brother S. H. Goldberg, and Brother Adler who J8| impetusto-the MASS MEETINGS EXTEND LABOR DEFENSE SEP. 13 Thousands of Workers Have Joined Branches Extensive arrangements for Sunday, September 13th are being made in cities thruout the country. That date has been set aside as Labor Defense Day by International Labor Defenge. In the afternoon, local conferences will be held at which will be repre- sented trades unions, worker's fra- ternal and benefit organizations and membership branches of International Labor Defense. Those conferences will set up per- manent local organizations of the I. L.-D. The conferences will be fol- lowed in the evening by mass meet- | ings demanding the release of Amer- ica's class-war prisoners and to give Labor Defense begun by the organiza: tion of the I. L. D. at a national con- ference held on June 28th last. Promi- nent labor speakers will appear at these demonstrations. Thousands of workers are joining the branches of the International La- bor Defense as individual members. New York reports 26 membership branches of I. L. D. alréady estab- lished The Chicago provisional com- mittee has sent invitations to 1,600 workers’ organizations to attend its conference. Bishop William Montgomery Brown has agreed to speak at the mass meet- ing following the local conference in Cincinnati. Reports from the country at large indicate that the conference and mass meetings in all the impor- tant centers of the country will be successful. PRESSMEN REPLY TO BERRYISM BY AMALGAMATION A meeting of all the members of Locals Nos, 3 and 4 of the Pressmen and Asistants’ Union, which are con- ducting a strike ai the Cuneo printing plants, has been called for Saturday at 2:30 p. m. to ratify a program for were beaten up. Just a short time ago in our office, our business agent, Brother Milstein, struck Brother Lip- ton, Again Brother Lipton was as- saulted by Brother Fierstein merely because he nominated Brother Israel- son for business agent. Brother Lip- ton complained to the executive board; |and the executive board, after listen- ing to his complaint, told him to leave the meeting. Must Leave. “Many other active members of the union have been threatened. Even Brother Skolnik, one of the oldest members of the union was also threat- ened, This kind of work must cease, and we ask your co-operation in elim- inating this terrorism within our or- ganization, given to the members to state their grievances either in, the union meet- ings or in our press. When Israelson, the opponent of Milstein in the pres- ent election,. wrote a short article explaining the situation int our union closer affiliation of the two local} unions. Committees appointed by eacn local met and drafted an amalgamaticn pro- gram which will be presented to the members Saturday. The prosram de- clares that any attack on one of the locals will be answered by Lotb, and that any contrart entered ‘nto by one loral union must be ratified by the other. The unions have decided to stick together against Berrryism and the “open shop.” The strike is as effective as ever, production being stopped: The scahg sent in by Berry to run the presses have wrecked several machines thru their bungling, and others have been injured. The presses near the window are kept running, the others are closed. Cotton Workers to Strike. NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—(FP)—A strike of thousands of Indian cotton mill workers is expected when wage and criticizing the way the organiza- tion {s being run today, presenting (Continued from page 2) cuts of 111% per cent become effective as posted for Sept. 11, the assistant trade commissioner at Bombay has cabled. [ota a $5,000 and $3,400 each. All will come up for hearing on August 21. The rest of the sixty-three strikers were discharged. But the preliminary hearing revealed a very different and real conspiracy—a conspiracy of the detective bureau, the police, and the International Tailoring Company, with the name of the United Garment Workers, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor hovering in the background, to do what the employers have so far failed to do—break* up the picket line before the In- ternational shops and send the strikers back to work without a inion agreement. International Back of Rald. Grady, in a speech revealing his squad as the watchdogs and servants of the employers, admitted that he had conducted the raid at-the instigation of Ray Reeder, secretary and part owner of the International Tailoring Company, after a visit to the struck plant at 847 West Jackson boulevard. It was Reeder who made the com- plaint, and then turned the matter over to the willing Grady, Grady exposed the real purpose of the securing of the search warrant and the arrest of sixty-two of the | strikers when he said: “I learned from the owners of the International Tailor- ing Company that they suspected the Amalgamated of the acid throwing,in tailor shops. There is a strikeyOn at the International.” cure an injunction eagarmst. peaceful picketing, failing with the help of the A. F. of L. union, the United Garment Workers, to herd scabs enur \ break the strike, failing to move their plant to Rock Island, played a new card and brot in Mike Grady, on the pay roll of the city of Chicago, to do their dirty work and break the strike for them. Move to Stop Picketing. “I went to the International Tailor- ing Company,” said this friend of the bosses, “and asked if they had any trouble. They made me acquainted with Reeder, who told me that his employes had been slugged and that the strikers were parading up and down the streets in front of the build- ing.” Then Grady laid the “evidence” se- cured in the raid on the Amalgamated, which will go down in Chicago labor history as one of the most outrageous attempts of the police to break a strike ever perpetrated. Grady laid two revolvers under the judge's nose, in plain view of the newspaper photog- raphers, and said he had taken them from the offices of the Amalgamated. But William A. Cunnea, attorney for the Amalgamated, showed that these two revolvers were unloaded, and that it is lawful for any concern to keep guns in their office or home. Cunnea also showed that the iron rods, some of them wrapped in newspapers, which Grady also displayed prominently for the benefit of the photographers, were not taken from the persons of the union men but were “found” by Grady, just ‘where Grady did not state. Captain Stege, whose. squad aided Grady in the raid on the union hall, further revealed the attempt of the International to break up the Amalga- mated picket line when he made gen- eralizations, about “acid throwing,” “slugging” and “terrorizing,” and said: “This is not’ conducive to peaceful picketing.” No Violent Picketing. Cunnea objected to this statement, declaring that the complainants. must refrain from “commenting on your im- pressions of peaceful picketing,” that this matter had already been decided in another court, that an injunction had been issued by Judge Pam against (Continued from page 2) POLICE ATTACK ROUSED STRIKERS FIGHTING SPIRIT Amalgamated Members Determined to Win The raid on the offices of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers did not break the spirit of the members of the union who are striking against the International Tailoring Company and the J. L. Taylor Company, it was ap- | parent at the picket line in front of | those two plants and at the strike } meeting at Hod Carriers’ hall. Instead of trowing fear into, the hearts of the members of the union the action of the police solidified the bramesot ‘the “strikers, Pickets Show Spirit. The solidification was a rank and file movement. The picket line was manned by more pickets than “have turned out since the strike began. The strike meeting was very largely attended. The hall was crowded to the doors. Morris Spitzer, business agent of Pants Makers’ Local No. 144, was in charge of the meeting. He told the strikers that this latest move on the part of the bosses could only be met by continued solidarity on the part of the strikers, Shows Reason for Raid. Spitzer pointed out to the strikers | that one of the officials and a part owner of the International had been with the police when they raided the union offices and had pointed out per- sons for the police to arrest. “Is there any more proof needed that the raid and the charges placed against the union officials are inspired by the bosses who we have run ragged?” he asked the strikers. In a statement given to the DAILY WORKER after the meeting Spitzer said: “This move of the police in- spired by the bosses will not affect the action of the union toward the strike. If they think that it will frighten the strikers they have learned differently by this time. Show Keen Determination. “The strikers realize that this at- empt to frame up on the union offices is an attack directly at the life of their organization. “We Are Still Fighting.” “The ranks of the strikers and the members of the union have been solid- ified by the raid and the charges Placed against the union members and officers... We are still fighting and we will win,” More Brotherhood Ba inks. HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 13.—(FP) —More Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers banks are to be opened in New England, according to William Paul, representative of the New Eng- land Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers Securities Corporation. Hart- ford, New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn., will get these new banks of the brotherhood. DISTRICT CONVENTION NOTICE The convention of District No. 8 of the Workers (Communist) Party of America will be held next Sunday, August 16, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. The convention will open promptly at 10 a. m. Out of town de are requested to report directly at the convention hall. pread about you, and tell the German’ workers untiringly, that the Soviet Union is the one and only coun- enhagen, in speech at Kharkov, Soviet Ukraine, July 27, 1925. i hema