The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1925, Page 1

san i The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a oa and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 187. Subscription ’ > tes IGINT whiny! ei CALLS (Special to The NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 16.— dustry of this city hasbeen called upo fee ak and dress in- Fg Voint Committee of Action of Locals 2, 9 and 22 of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, to stop work next Thursday, August 20, at 3 o’clock. The workers will gather in 10. of the largest halls thruout the city and there discuss a general stoppage thruout the industry. Thursday’s meeting is calle d not only to reiterate the de- mands of these locals for re-instatement of their officers, for the resignation of President Sigman, Joint Board, but it is.a particular CN | | AS WE SEE IT one so-called Americanization com- mittee of the American legion is “ll het up over a Communist school we have demonstrated that 60 per | hich gave a course in economics dur- itig the months of June and. July in| goods on the Communisi school, And they did. They learned that the pu-| MIs were taught that capitalism was | had and shonld be done away with. | This pernicious doctrine, it appears, was kept a dark secret by the Com-| munists according to the finks of the tegion, and {ft was only by strenuous end clever work on the pait of the/ detectives that the conspiracy was ex-/ humed, . Ts legion, in order to deserve the} Dupont powder trust’s subsidy is planing to make war on Communist propagenda. It seems we heard that threa: somewhere before. This is not novel and it is not funny. The funny. thing is the comment made by the Milwaukee Leader,.a socialist paper, on the determination of the legion to wipe out Communism: It says that the legion used the wrong methods to crush Communism: To, quote: . “The American legion should not bother | and for re-organization of the protest against the interference ————*of the manufacturers’ in this internal union quarrel. Going to Call Sigman Bluff. In behalf of the Joint Committee of | Action, Louis Hyman, the chairman, issued the following statement this | afternoon: “From the beginning of our ; fight with the machine of the Joint Board, | cent of the members have renounced | their affiliation with the Joint Board, | the state of Wisconsin, Stoolpigeons| that they are with us, and refuse to| were employed by the legion to get the Tecognize that the Joint Board any | longer has a moral or legal right to talk for the workers and act as their representatives. “The discredited officials have used | all means in their power to force the | workers to recognize them and to | take orders from them; but it has all been in vain. The workers would not under-any circumstances have any- thing to do with them. They never elected them and they are not going to be forced to ‘recognize leaders who | | have captured the offices with bapa aid of strong-arm men, ~ Manufacturers Lined Up with Joint Board, “Their main supporters are the manufacturers who~are doing every- thing in their power to force the work- ers to recognize these self-appointed officers. The Dress Manufacturing as- sociation sent out letters to their members asking them not to engage any workers who have not working ards signed by the appointed man- itself. so much about that Communist aaa of th® Joint Board, and not to school somewhere in Wisconaim Hers It the American legion -and. oth: would help the socialists .to. eonditions in this country, there would not be any Communists to deal with.” oe “we HERE you are, A socialist paper invites the scabby legion to unite with it in blocking Communism. American workers who have not fol- lowed the history of the socialist par ties of Burope may express surprise at this attitude on the part of the only socialist daily in the United States. | But Ramsay MacDonald politely wel comed Mussolini's regime. The Ger- man socialists supported the Dawes plan. The French socialists are sup- porting the war in Morocco and the} Bulgarian socialists helped ‘Zankov spring the traps that broke the necks of the Communist and agrarian lead- ers of the working class. The Ameri can socialists are only living true to type. HE governor of Ohio, recently par- doned or paroled 22 state prison- ers. Those prisoners were convicted of most everything from shooting craps. to manslaughter. The gov- ernor did not pardon Dominic Ventu- rato, a miner who is in jail as a re sult of participation in a strike. The greatest crime in the eyes of capitalist officials is loyalty of a worker to his class, ECENT railway accidents .in France are attributed to Bolshe- yik propaganda. The effect» of the propaganda is so amazing that the'en- gifteers become indifferent ahd let their ‘trains fly over curves and ‘jump difches at will, This is‘ dimost © as ridiculous as the order given by the Greek police to people attempting sui- cide. Unless they warn the: police of their intentions, they may be punished severely. But what if tow re ic ro ae | HE Baroness Mildred» de" Vryes Van Doseburg secured divorce from, her husband, whose. ‘namé" is eqally Jong, on the ground that he was too. noble. “To beg he was ashanied and.to work he was not able.” | His wife did not see any pec in slugging a string of empty words around, par- ticularly as she was getting weak with hunger. It is a bad era for indigent nobles. if 6, VERY navy in the world is behind the navy of some other country. ‘The British sea lords say that their navy is behind the United States navy. The American rear admirals, who won the title from their constant use of a E declare emphatically that we have, witnessed peech at nas wae kal ‘Ukraine July 27, is spt ne mail to the chairman ex- ie en iN the Absoc!- ation threatened to expel ftom the organization their own members who were unwilling to discharge their ce} See vpottea to as wage workers for refusing to go to the Joint Board and pay dues, In our opinion such tactics are not only un- fair but criminal, A Warning. “As a protest against this interfer- ence of the manufacturers in our in- ternal union affairs, and their efforts to dictate to our workers what offici- als they shall recognize and Where they shall pay dues, we have decided to ask the workers to stop, work on Thursday, August 20th, at 8 o'clock, as a warning to the manufacturers to keep hands off. “The workers will gather in ten of the largest halls in the city and there discuss the necessity of calling, a gen- eral stoppage thruout the whole cloak and dress industry to prevént the manufacturers from taking advantage of the present situation to take away the vights and reduce the standards of the workers, “Thursday's, stoppage will also dem- onstrate, once more, that the vast membership of the union stands with us in this fight, and both eniployers and union officials will be forced to recognize the fact and act se¢cord- ingly.” regres swivel chair, declare loudly’ that un- less this country wakes up, and. puts up the dough, our navy—that'is, J. P. Morgan’s nayy—will .be behind the Japanese navy. This kind of thing will go on until a. war breaks out, when suddenly all those navies be- come. superior to each other. Then, if somebody with an incurable mania for saying what he remembers, tells the world that the navy of the coun- try in which he is incarcerated, is in- ferior to some other navy, into the can he goes, P at woe wus JENNINGS BRYAN left part of the fortune he @massed during his lifetime of war against the “vested interests’ of Wall Street” for the erection of a monument to his memory. The following ts suggested for his epitaph: Here les the body of William J, Bryan, For a nickel he'd fight He would kill for a dime Of brains he had none His head was a stew The fact is this monument Should be in the. 200, In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per ‘yoat. 3 Outside Chicago, by peng ms Der year, Pressmen and Assistants Unions | in Chicago Unite for Joint Action STARTED RIOT; KLUXER IN JAIL FOR MORTALLY WOUNDING MINER AGREE ON PACT FOR STRUGGLE AGAINST FOES. Berry’s Tools Try to Block Alliance With a thundering roar of ayes against the weak squawk of two of “Majah” George L. Berry's tools, a joint meeting of locals 3 of the Press- men and 4 of the feeders, voted last Saturday afternoon to join forces in a working alliance for common action against the employers and in defense ++ 1879. all JACQUES SADOUL IS FREED BY VERDICT OF FRENCH COURT (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Aug. 16—Jacques Sadoul has been fri by the French court. ' This third mpt at his life by the ‘French government has also failed. | The death penalty has been dropped and he red not guilty, ) The i irge like the second and the first was treason to the French government because Sadoul showed sympathetic understanding of the Soviet Government of Rus- sia. The acquittal came when the prosecuting judge tried to ascer- tain whether France was at war _with Russia at that time. The ans- “wer had to ei no, and sincé the two | countries not involved in war at that time, the conviction was de- of militant trades unionism agains’ the traitorous id of the intern clared void and Sadoul definitely ‘declared not guilty. “BERRYISM” 'BERRY'S FUNNY RACE FOR ThE Strikebreaker “Cal” cles exposing the record of George L. Berry, president of the International Union, as a betrayer of labor and tool of the publishers. * When “Majah” George L. Berry hung out his sign and offered himself as a candidate for the presidency of George “Strikebreaker” Berry is hiring “union” finks to force open shop conditions on the press- men. and feeders at the Cuneo plant. tional union, George L, Berry and his Subservient board of directors. The hall in which the meeting was held, the People’s Institute, was packed to “the doors, with a determin- ed. body of pressmen and feeders when the president of the pressmen | took the gavel and declared the meet- ing open, With the treachery of Berry and his finks in the Cuneo strike fresh in their minds, the men were anxious to get down to business, Also on the platform was President Crambert of the Feeders’ Union. Crambert is a Berry tool and tried to betray the Cuneo strikers into going back to work under scab conditidns. Crambert and another official of the Feeders’ Union, were the only two that voiced opposition to the alliance between the two. unions. Pian for Joint Action, ‘the meeting, was called especially fot the ‘purpose..of presenting a pro- posed plan for joint action by the two unions, in wage disputes and in the drawing up, of, wage scales. A committee of six.from each union, con- UNION WATCH MAKERS LIBEL HUMBLE SKUNK United Garment Scabs Not in! Dictionary By CELIA MERSON. Worker-Correspondent. At a general meeting of the Watch and Closk Makers’ Uniort held last Thursday night, a resolution con- demning the scitbery of the United Garment Workers’ Union in the Amal- gamated Cloth! Workers strike was unanimously ad The attitudestaken by the officials of the AmericanoFederation of Labor in relation to the strikebreaking activ- sisting of three. officials and three lay- men from gach drew up the plan, It was rumored that “Majah” Berry was hiding somewhere in the vicinity hoping for a chance to butt in and pull the wool over the eyes of the members. But he ‘evidently thot dis- cretion was the better part of valor. (Continued on page 2) ity of the U. G. W. was denounced. in terms unmistakeable during the dis- cussion, Said one of the speakers: “Skunk is too polite a name for an individual who consciously seabs on a job, but when a whole organization does it, it is an outrage that an up-to-date dic- tionary runs short of describing.” the United States on the democratic or jackass ticket, he made of*himself the laughing stock of the country. The capitalists of the United States are not yet in the condition that would compel them to select anybody associated with the labor movement that a representatives of theirs was running the country, as the British ruling class did when they allowed the faker, Ramsay MacDonald, to take over the reins of government. Berry had broken so many strikes that he thot he was another Calvin Coolidge. “Cal” reached the White House, owing to the publicity he got for helping to break the policemen's strike in Boston in 1919. Really, he took too much credit. The responsi- bility for the fiaico rested with Sam Gompers, who’ first gave the police- men a charter and then got cold feet alarm. Gompers betrayed the strikers | and they lost. The result was that several huhdred# ‘of men lost their jobs and Coolidgé saw to it that they never got them’ ’biick. This is what the manly thing and line up with the workers instead of doing as they is what the Chicago police are doing just now in the Amalgamated strike— taking orders from the International (Continued on page 2) Jn | Ul. §. PRESIDENCY Thot He’d Get in Like This is the fourth of a series of arti- Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ to fool the workers into the belief | when the employers raised the cry of WORKER. Ontered as asa clasa matter September 21, 1923, at bisaag Post Ofice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1925 Published Dally except Sunday by THE NAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Wachington Bivd., Chicago, UL NEW YORK EDITION KK. K. AND FARRINGTON AGENTS } (By Worker Correspondence.) | ZEIGLER, Ill., Aug. 16.—The ku klux klan is revealed as the | co-conspirator with the Farrington gang in starting trouble once arose, |Sub-District Vice-President D. the local by the request of the c mine refused to work. the work regardless of conditions, Klan and Fakers Combine. ler toward West Frankfort. ing with them Sub-District President Fox, and Vice-president Cobb, board member, Hindman, who is also head | of the West Frankfort Trades and La- bor Assembly, and another board | member named Babbington. Fox, at the meeting, stuttered around about the contract and the “100 per cent support, the men always | get from the sub-district officials,” but he could not get a single response | from the men, They knew him from bitter experience. They gave him a | hearing, that was all. He proposed | that new officers be elected to take the place of those deposed. | Then Cobb tried to say something., But he made a miserable mess out of it. The men knew that what he said was a lie from start to finish. Then board member Babbington tried to convince the men that the officers were working their heads off for the miners. He also failed to convince | anyone, “f Alliance With Company Exposed. Corbishley, the deposed local presi- dent then took the floor and for 20 minutes told the miners of Zeigler how things had been done, and pro- duced a hand full of letters and de- cisions from which he proved his points. He showed that the metiibers of this local union have been/handled just“ad the coal company wanted them to be handled, witd: the full knowledge | and support of the officials of the sub- district and the district. After Fox had again failed to get the men to elect new officers in place | of those whom he had deposed, he got to the point of saying that he would appoint officers of the local if the men would not elect them. Adjourn Meeting. Then Stanley Pauray, assistant pit- committeeman, gave about 20 minutes more real exposure of the officials, and told the men they must stnad by those who had fought for them at every op- portunity, that such a thing as elect- | ing new officers was out of the ques- | tion and that the men should remain out until the coal company recognized the regularly elected union officials. The miners seemed to be to a man against electing officers, so the meet- ing was adjourned, Official Fakers Blacklisted Union Members, But while the men were leaving the hall, an ex-checkweighman named Wilson hit an old man named Farth- ing, knocking him down. A general rough and tumble fight ensued, Sub- District Vice-President Cobb using a black jack until it was taken away from him. This black jack is retained by the miners as evidence of Cobb's kind intentions toward the member~ ship of the U. M. W. of A. Cobb lost his ting his‘mail at the hospital for some time. Klahsman Fires Revolver. | beat it hot foot for the most part, get- Cobb to*battle by ‘themselves, tho the | fact that’ they tiad come there armed to support’ these ‘fakers is clear, which went completely thru a miner, named Mike “Sarovich and lodged in man, It must,be said that Hindman is reported to be a fairly decent man fer along with their own valued union When Farrington’s henchmen in the sub-district, Some of those who are willing to went to West Frankfort and got a let- ter from Sub-District President Lon Fox, instructing the local union secre- tary to call a meeting at 8:30 p. m. About 7 p, m, or 8 p. m, carloads of the ku klux klan drove out of Zeig- later they returned to the meeting, bring- black jack but he found @ good round beating as did ~ President Fox, and Cobb will be get- The brave and ‘valorous K. K.'K. ting safely away and leaving Fox and But one of the K. K. K. fired a shot; the Sub-Distriet,Board Member Hind- | and miners regret, that he should suf- brother, Saroyich. happens to policemen when they do usually do, act as strikebreakers. This Kluxer in Jail. The kluxer who fired the shot has been lodged in jail. Several miners witnessed that he was the one, told the officers and he was taken in cus- tody. This is the same character who refused to sign the local union elec- tion returns last December when the district executive’ Board of Farring- more in Zeigler Local Union 992 of the United Mine Workers, from which trouble the shooting and rioting of Tuesday evening led by B. Cobb, deposed the officers of oal company the miners of No. 1 of No. 1 + BRITISH BLACK SHIRTS PLAN WAR ON LABOR Mine Leader Accepts Class War Challenge LONDON, Aug. 16.—Tenseness of feeling over the coal situation oom tinues despite the tentative settlement and Scotland Yard today was called upon to investigate a threat to A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federa- tion, “We are ready for you and your dupes,” the warning read. “We long for the day to cleanse the country of such blackmailers, and we are now 500,000 strong. “This is the first of three warnings.” The threat was scrawled across a pamphlet put out by the British fas- cists. It referred to the recent sub- sidy granted by the Baldwin govern. ment to the miners upon their thre to tie up all British industry by a | nation-wide strike. The British fascisti are a force which seems to be steadily increasing in number and just before the coal strike was adjusted a fortnight ago came: into daily conflict with the or- ganized miners in Hyde Park and wherever the two opposing forces met. are now investigating, serves once more to, emphasize the continual | clashes between the radical labor lead- | ers and the forces of conservatism | represented by the Baldwin govern- | ment with its overwhelming tory ma- jority in the house of commons. Cook Storm Center, Cook has long been a storm center in British politics because of the radi- cal nature of his comments. He is now engaged in a verbal controversy with Sir William Joynson Hicks, home secretary, showing how far apart are the miners and owners, who appear to have the tacit support of the govern- ment. “The miners will not be satiefied, and there will be no peace ip industry until wages at least are equal to the cost of living,” declared Cook, A vain hope under capitalism. “In order to competé with the world either the conditions of laber, hours, or wages will have to be altered in this country,” declared Sir Wilitam. “Whatever the result of thts coal inquiry may be, there cannot be, and. there must not be, any further bolster. ing up of the miners at the expense of other industries. “Every trade in the country depends upon cheap coal, and unlegs we can get it we may subsidize untfl all is ‘blue, and yet the trade of Dagland will go down The miners must un- derstand.” ton removed the officials so the K. K. K,, could steal the elections, Miner May Die, Sarovich, the rank and file miner, isnot expected to live. He had to undergo an immediate operation and somé*30 inches of intestines were removed. Also his bladder was torn bythe !K. K, K. bullet. His recovery fs doubtful «Zeigler is otherwise quiet, but the men ‘ate not working When asked what they would do if Farrington took their local union charter, they reply that at present it doesn’t amount to much ‘anyway, and unless the ‘offici- als: give them some support the char- ter is not worth while keeping. The miners say that they will not go back to work until their local of- ficers are recognized, and they de- mand as well the removal of the gen- eral superintendent of the mine, Paul Weir. He is almost wholly responsi- ble for the violation of the contract, as he refused to comply with it and j the decisions reached under it. Se the,devntion of the masses of the Russian people to the Soviet Union.’ German’ ‘Social- -Democrat, Offenhagen, in Price 3 Cents ‘The warping, which the London police ,. actin RE EIR