The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1925, Page 1

* ther cough up.” and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. shit Maiti matte te Subscription Rates: ouGias Gage te 20° BEI AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY io Coorg A PATTEN, former wheat king, and well known personage im the home town of Charles G. Dawes, vice-president of the United States, has offered his assistance to contract- ors who are refusir« to pay the union scale to their em] .dyes. Patten has Placed the services of the Landis Committee at the disposal of the con- tractors. He cannot do a thing to the plasterers he admits, but this is what he says about the lathers: “The lath- ers’ trade is one of the fifteen open shop trades and the committee has had no difficulty in keeping an avail- able supply of lathers for the Landis Award building contractors. “What have the lathers to say to this? a se HE wives of leading Illinois manv- | facturers left their sheiks twid- | dling their thumbs in the fashionable private tea dansants for a few hours un an afternoon last week, to open ‘war on the workingclass women of the state who favor the 48 hour week for their sex, the child labor amend- moent-and other measures which they believe might lighten the burden of toll, This kind of activity the pam- pered parasites of the rich considered pernicious. ¢ eee women of the workingclass were contributing something of | value to society, those useless wasters Passed a resolution demanding that this business of seeking shorter hours and more pay must come to a ae This kind of social legislation would ruin the industries, they admitted. The only law they were in favor of ‘was the one demanding a state police. “We know from our personal know- jedge” ran the resolution” that em- ployers of today are more sincerely interested in the wellfare of their em- ployes than are the paid reformers and agitators.” No dowbt the capital- ists are generous to their. wives, and “friends.” But their generosity. only. makes itself felt to-the workers. w! the latter have the. power, to axe. o* @ pHe American capitalists who | grabbed over $300,000,000 worth property from the Germans during the warj*are now between two minds: whethér they should give it up or not. Preferably not. But there are politi- fai considerations. The German am- basaior has officially demanded the Peturn of this loot. Cal, figures out that: it is better to return the stuff , tather-than stand the danger of losing the German vote. Nothing very ideal about the way capitalist governments act! * oie “ETTERS coming into the office show that the report of the British delegation, now running in The -DAILY WORKER is being followed with -keen interest by the American workers. One of our solicitors tells of'a man who had only given him a month’s subscription but the next time he saw him, the subscriber was so delighted with the British reports and | the news about the Swedish and Ger- man delegations, that he subscribed for a year. . ROPAGANDA is now being carried on in Europe seeking to dis- courage delegations of workers from | visiting the Soviet Union, The work- ers who go there, regardless of their | . Political affiliations, feel greatly en- thused over the progress made by the capitalists and their paid liars. So they Proceed to dish out fantastic rs about “model factories” and “niodel Villages” after the fashion of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk- man, the anarchist renegades. But th's kind of a campaign is not work- ing. ‘The next move willbe to de- mand’ that the governments refuse permission to workers to visit Russia, Alright! But this also will cause trouble.” HE following news item is‘so in- triguing that to comment on it would be as superflous as painting the (ily or teaching a capitalist how to cob the workers; “Athens—Unless they inform authorities of their inten- sions, Greeks, attempting suicide will strati be severely’ punished according to a plan te (Continued on page 2) 4 ithe strike, But.the only effect this $8.00 per roar. by jisty & $6.00 per year. 2 ct AL RAID ON PICKETS GIVES STRIKE NEW PEP Amalgamated Prepares for Picnic Sunday That the raid conducted on the headquarters of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 409 South Halsted street, by the city detective bureau squad, led by Mike Grady upon orders from the international Tailoring Com- pany, led to achieve its purpose of breaking the strike against that firm, was shown by the spirit dieplayed by the pickets yesterday. At the strike meeting, the Interna- tional employes, realizing that the raid was another desperate attempt to smash their union and break up the strike, went ahead with plans for their picnic on Sunday. The 14 strike leaders who had been held in $5,000 and $3,400 bond each were all re- leased yesterday, and bail for Patsey De Rosa held on $100,400 bond, was expected to be obtained by nightfall. Jailed Strikers Cheered. The strike meeting yesterday was |crowded with enthusiastic pickets, | who applauded and cheered those who had been held in the raia. The picket line was even bigger and the strikers more determined than ever that they shall not return ;to work until the In- | ternational signs a union agreement. One picket, Abe Bloomberg, was ar- rested yesterday, and booked on a charge of “assault.” e desperate attempt to break the strike has failed as miserably as all the other attempts,” said Isadore Rothbart, one of the “conspirators” now out on bail. “The International and J, L. Taylor company thot that if they picked out 65 or 70 union men and arrested them they could break contemptible act had was toygive the tion. . “Contemptible Frame-Up, “This raid is nothing new. It is the usual way they treat people who go on strike. If you fight the em- ployer you are guilty in their eyes. Yesterday’s attempt was one of the most brazen frame-ups that could pos- sibly be conceived.” “The raid was an attempt to try to besmirch the fight of the workers with manufactured news of the cor- rupted press. You can jail strikers, bit you cannot force them to go back to work. The raid is but another in- dication that the end of the strike is coming very soon, that,the Interna- tional is desperate. We are going to stay out until we win.” “There is only one law in this coun- try, the law for those who have money. Workérs? They are thrown in the (Continued on page 2) Painters Local 275 Vote to Affiliate With State Conference The Painters’ Local Union 275 at their regular meeting held Tuesday, Aug. 11, passed a motion to affiliate with the Painters’ State Conference and elected F, Muer, John Heinrick- son and Charles Bossing as delegates to attend the conference to be held Sept. 10th at Champaign, Ml. The loca) also indorsed a resolu- tion sent out by Local Union 1848 at California, for international unity, and calling on the painters’ convention to extend greetings to Purcell, the Brit- ish fraternal delegate to the A. F. of L. BERLIN POLICE KILL COMMUNIST PARADER IN STREET BATTLE BERLIN, Aug. 14.—One Commun- ist was killed and several were wound- ed during a clash with the police to- night. The Communists were demon- against the new tariff law in the police took a hand to “restore order.” DISTRICT CONVENTION NOTICE The convention of District No. 8 of the Workers (Communist) Party of Smerica will be held next Sunday, August 16, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Bivd. ~The convention will open prompt: y at 10 a.m. Out of town delegates tre requested to report’directly at the convention hall. oe! ~—2 HE slogan which we shall take back to the German workers Spr at Kharkov, Soviet Ukraine, July 27, 1925. ILLINOIS MINER DIES IN PIT LEAVING HIS FAMILY DESTITUTE By G. ALLARD. CHRISTOPHER, Ill, Aug. 14.— Another viltim of the coal mines was claimed Tuesday at East Mines No. 12 of the Old Ben Coal Com- pany here. Edward Liggers, age 38, while at work timbering the top, was covered and orushed to death by a two-ton rock which required fifteen men to remove from his body. It was the first day that the mine had worked for five months, and previously a shutdown for elght months after working two months during the winter, had left his fam- ily, therefore, in destitution. CHICAGO. LG. W. OFFICIALS 10 START TERROR Members _ Face Third] Degreeing Condition within the Chicago union of the International Ladie’ Garment Workers are rapidly approaching a crisis. The disruption of Peristein carried disorganization in its train. Unemployment of members is wide- spread. Work is being made in non- union shops both in and out of town. In many cases with the knowledge of the officials, union shops send out work. Members are protesting the way the union is handled, and with rea- FRANKLIN UNION NO. 4 BETRAYED BY PRESIDENT Tries to Split Feeders from Pressmen * That President Hugh Crambert of Franklin Union No, 4 of the Press Feeders is trying to betray the mem- bers again to the Berry International machine was disclosed Thuraday, when he tried to break the strike and force the feeders back to work at the Cuneo plant, which does the printing work of Sears-Roebuck. The line of attack of the Berry International ma- chine Is now revealed as an attempt to split the pressmen and feeders be- fore they join forces. Crambert, whose reputation is well known as a lackey and lickspittle of Berry, has been on a vacation for a week and a half. But evidently hear- ing that the pressmen and feeders were going to unite their forces, prob- ably being tipped off by the Berry ma- chine, Crambert hurried back to town and tried to call a meeting of the feed- ers now on strike at Cuneo’s. Conspiracy to Block Amalgamation. Crambert’s bright idea was to coax, beg Or blackjack the feeders to go back to work. If the feeders went back, then the International's machine crooks in the Pressmen could point out that the feeders had broken the strike line, and thus by setting No. 3 and No. 4 against each other, to be- tray and defeat the pffort of the mem- bership of hoth unions to amalgamate at the meeting scheduled to take place at the Peoples Institute, Leavitt and son. But in order to conceal their negligence and hide their incapabal- ity, the I. L. G. W. officiais are again| q starting a oe Abd ooh iT yn HaaShe owl Sura ae Again. Many members are being charged with vague and flimsy offenses and hauled up before the grievance com- mittee or special committees. The Officials are also being incited by the Sigman gang fo disrupt the union completely rather than let the mem- bers take control of it. The result is that two weeks ago Friday the Joint Board in their infi- nite wisdom appointed an “investi- gation committee” otherwise known | among the cloakmakers as the “De- tective bureau,” the “Lusk committee,” or the “Snoopers,” to examine the heads of the members and discover it any were concéaling therein, any stray ideas tainted with “disloyalty” to the officials of the international. The crime of lese majesty is a seri- ous offense in the Sigman dynasty, which intends to die just as nasty as it lived. “We—The I. L. G. W.” On Thursday the official snoopers, gathered together with all the pomp- ous dignity of the famous “Tailors of Tooley street,” had an. “investiga- tion,” Yes, sir. They yielded to none in cross-examining the prisoners— beg pardon, the members of the union. District Attorney Crowe could take-lessons from them in handling burglars, murderers and other per- Sons guilty of like mild misdemean- ors compared with which opposition to Sigman is a grave offense subject to capital punishment by decapita- tion. The Ye has es committee” called in about teh members sus- pected of having ideas on unionism not consonant with themselves, Sig’ man, Perlstein, the manufacturers and the police. Knowing their own defici- encies they wer hasty in taking the offensive and made the prisoners feel that they were in the presence of the prosecuting attorney. Prisoners Before Their Accusers, The third degrees began. Those in custody were cross examined sep- aretly in the best “gold fish r style. The uestion being somewhat as follows: \ “Did you attend the.mass protest meeting held under the auspices of the Joint Action Committee of Local 9 and 22? Do you sympathize with them? What is your opinion about the present officers, local and gen- eral? Do you know the decision of the general executive board in regard to the actions of Local 2, 9 and 22?” Something Given for Nothing. The information was volunteered, (Continued on page 2) Van Biren streets, Saturday at 2:30 p.m The International gang is making pene on to break the feeders h of to, split them er and ruin the i pe of the members of both unions, before this meeting takes: place. Crambert’s Treason Strikes Snag. When Crambert tried to tell the feeders at Thursday's meeting that Cuneo’s shop »was full of scabs and that they had‘to go back to prevent complete loss of the union, he sound- ed the wrong key, for the feeders knew the conditions at the plant. They resented the ‘sprikebreaking threats and actions of Crambert and altho he tried to hold a meeting secretly of feders only, the progressive feeders knew what was coming. When the meeting opened, about 250 men, both feeders and pressmen also, were present, and when Crambert/ pulled his strikebreaking stuff a near | riot ensued, in. which Crambert es- | caped physical injury only by the skin of his teeth. Tricked Them Before With Lie. Crambert has a bad name among the feeders, not only as a general faker, but for his lying method of getting | them into the International three years ago by a promise that if they would go back in the International, the color houses would be won back in three months. It is now three years since Cram- bert made that promise and the men agreed to accept the proposition. But the color houses still remain where they were three years ago, The feed- ers are determined to defeat all ef- forts to split them away from the wessmen, who are kept thoroly in- formed of all moves of the Berry ma- chine and who are in turn co-operating fully with the feeders. GARTOON OF “BERRY” SCAB IN NEXT MONDAY'S ° ISSUE OF “DAILY” The next issue of the DAILY WORKER will carry a striking car- toon on “Strikebreaker” Geogge L. Berry. The artist is the noted labor cartoonist Fred Ellis. Confer on Kluxers’ Murder Case. NOBLESVILE, Ind., Aug. 14—Judge Will Sparks of Rushville arrived here and immediately went into confer- ence with Judge Fred Hines of-Ham- ilton circuit court in regard to the trial of D. C, Stephenson, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry on a murder charge growing out of the death of Madge Published Datly except Sunda: PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. =” RKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, undey the Act of March 3, 1879. SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1925 BERRY’S TOOL FAILS TO BREAK STRIKE by THE DAILY ‘arhington Bivd., Chicago, UL Seenunveneeeee EDITION | NEW YORK WORKER Price 5 Cents WILL CONFER WITH THE BITUMINOUS LEADERS, SAYS LEWIS AT PHILLY ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 14.— The scone of the anthracite wage controversy has shifted to Philadel- phia. John L. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Work- ers of America, was to establish headquarters there yesterday after- noon. “Officers of our union expect to confer with bituminous union lead- ers,” Lewis said. “There has been no change in the situation.” Samuel D. Warriner of Philadel- phia, chairman of the operators’ pol- icy committee, has not replied to Lewis’ note stating that no further correspondence was desired unless the operators changed their stand. BERRY BROKE TWO STRIKES IN NEW YORK CITY Hired Detective Agency to Supply Finks This is the third of a series of ar- ticles exposing the record of the) notorious strikebreaker “Majah" Geo. L. Berry, president of the Internation- al Printing Pressmen’s and Assist- ants’ Union. ARTICLE III. “Majah” Berry, like many other high officials of tl the American Feder- ation of Labor, has conveniently for- gotten the early history of the trade union movement in this country, when the unions and the men who | organized the unions believed in fight- ing against the employers for better conditions for the workers and not in ‘co-operating with the employers to fleece the membership, Today Berry claims to be a. prominent business }man and one of. those good labor |leaders who never have any quarrels | with the bosses. If Berry does not {quarrel with the bosses, he cannot say the same about his relations with the members of his own union. Broke Two Strikes. He has succeeded in breaking two strikes in New York and getting David Simons, former head of Web Pressmen’s Union, Local 26, black- listed by the newspaper publishers, after expelling him from the union. The “crime” committed by Simons was that he believed in making the publishers live up to their agreements. Even a capitalist newspaper, the Brooklyn Daily Times, admitted that the publishers broke the strike of the | New York web pressmen in Septem- ber 1923. In its issue of July 19, 1925, | the Times, commenting on a court de cision which gave Simons the right to a jury trial in his fight with Berry, said:- “Simons lost his position in the union following the pressmen’s “out- law” strike in September, 1923, that practiclaly tied up the printing of newspapers in the city for nearly a week and was finally crushed thru the efforts of Berry in bringing in pressmen from other cities.” Hired Detective Agency, The pressmen and feeders of Locals 3 and 4 in Chicago already know that Berry's strikebreaking activities here are not novel. During the pressmen’'s strike of 1919 in New York City, Berry was not able to break the strike with the aid of stool pigeons from the inter- (Continued from page 2) Mixed Court Deals in Unmixed Injustice to Chinese Newspapers By ROSTA SERVICE. SHANGHAI, Juty 12.—(By Mail.)— The editor of the newspaper Hot Blood was tried in the mixed court cn Saturday under the charge cf “dis- turbing order” in the settlement. The prosecution was based on the fact that the police had found in his possession a thousand copies of his own paper, as well as some books and writings of the noted Chinese Communist Chen Tah-chie, The court found that Mr. Chen's articles were directed against impe- rialism and too much in favor of Com- munism, and as the paper urged the population to unite in their struggle against imperialism, the editor was Oberholtzer of Indianapolis last April. fined $150. LEWIS OPENS OFFICES AT PHILA, HOTEL Operators’ Editor Saja) Strike Sure PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 14—~ |John L. Lewis, president of the | United Mine Woarkers of America, |has established his headquarters at |the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel here. | He refused to comment today on the hard coal situation. He listened with interest to the questions of re- porters but kept silent, except to say, “Here will be my headquarters for some time.” In the event of a strike of anthra- cite miners September 1, the coun- try east of Buffalo, N. Y., will be the principal sufferer. Chicago and the territory west of Buffalo will feel it in a much lesser degre. This was the statement made by Andrew T. Murphy, publisher of the Black Diamond, a national coal jour- | nal. In his opinion, Murphy said, a strike | was inevitable and he believed, there is little likelihood of the government intérferring. B.S, AND A. U,IS BULLDOZED BY A SOCIALIST GANG Meeting Monday May| Fight Back (Speciat to The Dally Worker) ~~ citing Over Pte tis Wg te the gloating labor movement, and perused. the bi- ography of Ernest Bohm and wonder- ed how he had become the tool of the reactionary wing of the movement, at this late day. About two weeks ago, Bohm flashed a very poorly typed sheet of paper before me, and said, “Sign this!” If I remember, it was addressed to Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor and contained, after a lot of explanation a request, to empower Organizer Frainie here in New York to expel and member from the Bookkeepers,’ Stenographers’ and Accountants’ Union, who did not suit the officers, were audacious enough to oppose them or had the courage to criticize their neglect in propagating for new members. Terrorizing Girls. Iam ashamed to admit that I signed tion and opinion, to this document, but I am a working girl glad to have a position, and Bohm, big and strong stood towering over me and well—I was afraid to refuse, The Bookkeepers’, Stenographers’ and Accountants’ Union for years was known as a progressive, if not a rad- ical union, and I have been a mem- ber for many years, but it has re- trogated shamefully. Bright-Bohm Mismanagement. It is managed, or better mismanaged by Bohm, secretary, now conserva- tive trades unionist, and one Bright, as president, a dyed-in-the-wool s0- called socialist. . Some of my friends worked in the now defunct “Call” office under Bright, and they used to tell me, that a more overbearing boss and dictator could hardly be found in a capitalist office, mung age my name, much against my convic-| SIX UNION MINERS ARRESTED UNDER COAL COMPANY INJUNCTION FORT SMITH, ARK., Aug 14.— Violations of the injunction restrain: ing miners of district 21 from In- terfering with operation of coal companies in Sebastian County are charged, in a motion -filéd by the Mammoth Vein Colliery Company for an attachment for six defend- ants. Judge J. V. Bourland directed the arrest of the defendants and ordered thelr appearance for trial Septem- ber 15. POLISH TERROR RUNNING AMUCK: MORE VICTIMS 3 Commanists Shot; Thousands Arrested (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW—Three Communists, Tu- rovitch, Knieweki and Rutkowsk! were attacked In a Wareaw street by agents of the Polish secret police. The police opened fire on the Communtats and the shots were returned. The three fell wounded. Seyeral of the police were also injured. The Com- munists were taken in eustody and are held for trial by courtmartial un der paragraphs 51 and 453 of the old, czar regime criminal code. Directly after the pffair, reide were {made in the worl ’ section of the city and 1,000 Copimunists and sym- pathizers were aprested. Among these were 4 brane the Young Com- y are ite The pad © eprsow of the tel- ish Communist, Party immediately is- sued a mints that says in part, “The fight against the provocatenrs and the bourgeois terror will not cease. In the place of the three heroes shot down today 1,000 new.ones will arise.” At the same time, the of- ficial organ of the socialist party, Robotnik, condoned these last acts of the Polish white terrorists and called for more energetic actions against the Communists. Delegation Protests. There has arrived Warsaw @ |statement issued from Moscow by |members of variows workers’ trade union delegations visiting there from Germany, Sweden, France, etc. This statement calls upon the workers of the world to protest against the re- cent excesses of the Polish terror among which are mentioned the mur- ders of Baginski, Wierczorkievitch, Haithek and Pilarchek in addition to the three- wounded Communists now on trial, The labor movement of the whole world is-asked to agitate for the release of these last victims. vee MARSAW—The bourgeois, semi-of- ficial Rsheteh Pospolita has the fol- lowing to say about the ten “gentle” manner in which the white terror is being conducted in Polema@, “Nowhere are the Communists treated @b hu- manely as in our country. When po- litical prisoners pass thru the work- ers’ quarters the workers sing the “International” and call out their revolutionary slogans. The police keep silence altho they are justified to use their arms in quelling such dip | turbances. In Bulgaria it is quite dif- ferent. When the Communist terror. | ists are led thru the streets beep | deadly silence reigns everywhere At the last meeting of this union, the administration with help of a/ (Continued on page 2) held here, with one hundred and fifty stone, comptroller. everybody knows that expressions al sympathy will be answered by the |revolver and the sword.” WORKERS PARTY ENTERS MAYORALTY CAMPAIGN, GITLOW FOR MAYOR, AND KRUMBEIN FOR R ALDERMANIC BOARD NEW YORK, August 14:—Benjanitn Gitl Gitlow was nominated as the Work- © ers (Communist) Party's candidate for mayor at a nominating convention delegates present. Charles Krumbein was nominated for president of the board of aldermen and William Wein- The Workers Party nominating convention also selected candidates for Boro officers in Manhattan, Bronx, Kings and Queens, Resolutions on political: prisoners, trade union unity, the struggle in the needle trades, the bs WORKER, imperialism and Soviet Russia were also passed. kw » will be—‘ ‘anigram TO THE SOVIET UNION!’ ””’—German Social-Democrat delegate, Offenhagen, in