The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1925, Page 1

“] the Standard for a Workers’ ‘culties, ». Marshal. Petain,; gy I sacar a the DAILY WORKER Raises and Farmers’ Government Vol. IL. No. 1 AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY fhe Paris correspondent of the Chi- cago Tribune declares that “Eng- land would sell her soul to get Ger- many’s aid against Russia in the ap- This is the French view, he says. There is no doubt of the truth of this opinion. Britain is ina unenviable position, with danger threatening her from home and abroad. The truce in the struggle between the miners and the operators only postpones the inevitable. British cap- italism is being carried toward the proaching war.” rocks on a revolutionary current, fast- | er than most people think. eo? , HE two sections of the left wing of the Hindoo nationalists have united. Disunity among the oppressed is always welcome to the classes, Sometimes factionalism is in- eyitable and beneficial, when policies must be clarified and a right line adopted. But thru all factional strug- | gles, the goal of unity on the basis of agreement oon principle must be striven for. Those who persist in chronic factionalism have no place in the ranks of the revolutionary move- ment, They are only aiding the enemy. see is weli that the Hindoo revolu- tionists have united. This is bad pews to the British government. It is safe to say that when India breaks away from the empire the power of Great Britain is shattered. And Bri- tain is now waging unofficial war on the Soviet Union, because she knows that the Soviet government is looked upon as @) friend by all the oppressed people of the east. oe. EE Mu. can campaign <is liable to get France into serious. diffi- from the front with the news. -th Prance needs 500,000 men in order to whip Abd-el-Krim, Can France muster half a million men for a cam- paign against a people struggling for their freedom? It will be much hard- er to excite the national prejudice of the French workers against the Rif: fians than it was against the Kaiser. There is now in France also a Com- munist Party which has already shed lustre on the banner of the Commun- ist International by its gallant fight against the French government over the Riffian war, aoe e HSIDES having trouble in the Riff, France has a big fight on in Syria. The fact that Britain is aiding Wrance’s enemies does not add to the equanimity qf the French ruling class. An undersecretary of the French for- eign office had his pockets picked in the British foreign office. Some di- plomatic documents were missing. Perhaps. the wily French diplomat left the documents where they coulf be seen by John Bull, John is afraid there is something on between Paris end Moscow that is not to his advan- tage. ae aed ped can be said, that outside of the United State every other capitalist government in the world is skating on thin ice, The only two really stable governments in the world are (Contmued on page 2) Florida: Central Body for “Hands Off China” (Special to The Daily, Worker.) PALMETTO, Fla.—In_ accordance with the “Hands off China” policy, the Trades and Labor Couneil of Sara- fota, Fla. at its last meeting held Friday, July 24th passed a resolution callling upon the A. i’, of L, to oppose United States intérvention in China. The resolution was introduced by, delegate from thé Plumbers’ loqal union, who outlined the aspirations and policies of all intervening pow and the inevitable perpetuation of existing lot of the working cla: yoke of misery and degradation, courageous stand of the Chinese wo er’s and students’ movements was al commented on. Sarasota is the millionaires’ wept coast of Florida most popular wint®r resort. Twenty-seven millionaii have seen fit to follow in the fopt steps of John Ringling “of cure! fame” who has a palatial home these parts, and whose name is nymous to Sarasota, 661) EFORE our depai worker, Offenhage MG lg Rates: Susiae ruling | by UNION DRIVERS MAY REFUSE 10 CARRY SCABS Thousands of Dollars The Cuneo Printing company is los Ing thousands of dollars every day, with |the pressmen and feeders Who refus- jed to work under open shop conditions more certain than ever of final vic- tory. Never was there such enthusi- asm and determination to win exhib- | ited by any set of workers. \ It is reported that the Cuneo bosses |are not at all satisfied with the serv- ices rendered to theni by Berry and his gangsters. Not that the “Majah” is not doing the best he can, but he is defeated in his dirty work by the de- termination and the activity of the strikers. Premier cabs have been seen haul- should haul strikebreakers to.help the bosses take the bread and. butter out of the mouths of other union men? It is believed that when the matter is brot to the attention of the Premier drivers that they will refuse to trans- port the rats. One of the scabby finks now em- who scabbed at W. F. Hall’s in 1922. This is the scah joint where: . the Chicago Tribune magazine, . is printed with the approval of George L. Berry. This fellow Lindy op ‘Lind- erman hés and unsavory reodi After scabbing at Hall’s ine the company rewarded him icking him out for drunkenness. Linderman (Continued on page~3)— SOVIET RUSSIA AND JAPAN HAVE NO WAR ALLIANCE Tokio Envoy Weéldoined by Russians ployed by Seymour “Stuss” Singer, is | ¢ | Max-dndermam..alias Mike Lindy, (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug, 17.—Recognition of Soviet Russia by Japan means that the two countries hope to develop pro- fitable commercial connections, but the foreign observers who pretend to see in the step confirmation of the accept- ance of a secret military treaty be- tween the two obviously have ulterior motives in spreading a falsehood, de- clared the new Japanese ambassador to Soviet Russia, Tanaka Tokitsi, in an interview today. Ambassador Tanaka explained that the declaration of forty Japanese busi- nessmen who came with him from Tokio are concerned solely with the coal and ofl concessions of Sakhalin, and for the time being will not at- tempt to extend their inteftests in Siberia. “Just now the Japanese business interests in Sakhalin will have their hands full and will probably’ use all their Capital developing the island. We hope, however, in the future, to expand our connections with Soviet ‘Russia still more.” hicago, by mall, $6.00 per year. Cuneo Plant Is Losing| ing scabs to the Cuneo Printing plant. ; The pressmen and feeders want to | jknow why members of one) union| mail, $8.00 per sear. | _.. WORKER, | Post Ofice at Chicago, Lltnots, unde the Act of March 8, 1879. Published Datly except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Warhington Bivd., Chicago, Tl. tae Delegations of trade unionists from. every. country in Europe are now v and giving the facts about the conditions of labor in the workers’ and peasants’ republio, ing Soviet dul NO PRODUCTION IN STRUCK SHOP OF TAILOR BOSS iN BAWDY HOUSE De Ro sa Refases to Come Out on Bail The eighth week of the strike of the employes of the J. L. Tavishinaone tlonal Tailoring Company began yes- terday, and following a picnic in the Forest Preserve, District No. 4, they demonstrated by their mass picketing end their enthusiastic spirit at the strike meeting that the raids conduct- ed on the headquarters or the Amaiga- mated Clothing Workers last week by Mike Grady, slugging cop, did not phase their solidarity. The Interna- tional has failed in its attempt to star production in a rented plant at Rock Island. All union members arrested in the raids, which were ordered by tle In- ternational in a new desperate effort to break the strike, are now out \on (Continued on page 2) ORGANIZE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA AND GREET WORKERS PARTY (Special to The Dally Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, August 17.—The first Communist Congress today has resolved to organize the Communist Party of Cuba. We send to the Party of America, and to all t' orkers (Communist) he sections of the Communist International, revolutionary greetings as comrades in arms of the proletarian revolution. (Signed) MELLA. we were told that anpihden we would see in ees at Kharkov, Soviet Ukraine, j) of Minneapolis and Shuford Marks, BERRY HATCHES PLOT ON UNION Notorious Dive Scene of Conspiracy This is the fifth of series of art- ictes exposing the treachery of the | notorious labor faker George L. Berry, aresident of the International Print- ng Pressmens’ and Assistants Union. | Berry became+a great industrial mag- : note In Tennessee with the money he took out of the treasury of the inter- national union, eee ~ George L. Berry’s conspiracy to wreck the Chicago pressmens’ union, for daring to call a halt on. his loot- ing of the treasury funds, was hatched in the notorious booze and gambling joint, knowm as the Vestibule Cafe, located on the’ North East corner of State and 22nd Street on the South Side of Chicago. Present atithe framing of the plot in “Polack Bén's” emporium were: Seymour Singer, now scab-superin- tendent in the:Cuneo Printing plant; “Majah” George L. Berry; Sam Fox, former stoolpigeon for the police chief | now Berry's leading scabherder in Chicago. ‘The plan was laid on the night of the very day that local No. 3 of the Pressmen had agreed to pay up their dues and assessments on condi- tion that Berry would cut out his scabbery and turn over a new leat, The strategy mapped out by Berry and his pals, was to goad the press- (Continued om page 2) CARPENTERS’ OWN BUSINESS AGENT IS BOSSES’ TOOL Los Angeles ps Local Is In-; flicted with Pest . | By HELM VOLL. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 17.— A certain business agent of the car penters is seemingly determined to leave no stone unturned to the end that the Carpenters’ Union of this city may become a full-fledged com- pany union. Company Union Defined. “A company union is one whose officres look after the interest of the employer first, last and all the time, While only pretending to be concern- ed about the welfare of the mem- bers,” said a carpenter the other day. | It may be so, but it looks like the offi- | celal referred to is not even “pre- tending.” He Hates the Alien. This agent wants us to ask our fel- low workers the question: “Are you a citizen?” If they are not, it becomes our duty to see they are removed from the job. It makes no difference that they are members of the “Brother- {Continuea on Pago 2.) + NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents T MINER MIKE SAROVICH, RANK AND FILE LEADER OF ZEIGLER, ILL, LOCAL, ES FROM KLAN BULLET WOUND (Special to The Daily Worker) August 17.—Mike Sarovich, one of the most ZEIGLER, Ul, j active and trusted of the militant miners of the Zeigler local of the United Mine Workers of America, died hefe yesterday from | the results of a shot fired by Ellis Hargis, a member of the ku jak. |klux klan, at the local union meeting last Tuesday. Sarovich was mortally wounded through the abdomen, by Hargis, who with other klansmen had come armed to the meet- ing along with Lon Fox and Cobb, the ficials of the sub-district, Farrington machine of- to force the Zeigler miners back to work after they had spontaneously quit in protest against the removal union officers headed by Local President Henry Corbishley. Fox and Cobb had unsu sfully tried to compel the miners at the meeting to elect new loca! officers, and had adjourned the meeting after say- ing that if they falled to elect new officers they would appoint them. The K. K. K. then started a fight, oue kuocking down an old man of 60 by the nazae of Farthing, Hargis, K. K., according to witness, drow a gun and fired, supposedly at a younger brother of Farthing, it being understood that the K. K. K. were seeking vengeance upon the Farthing brothers for renouncing the klan, to which they had once belonged. Buried Monday. Whomever Hargis was aiming at, the fact as testified to by miners is that his shot struck Sarovich and, passing thru his body, seriously wounded Hezzie Hindman, an official of the West Frankfort central labor | body. Sarovich, a rank and file miner who has earned the respect and affection of his brothers in the union, ‘Ip.to be buried today. Meanwhile the“miners continue. their cessation of werk... \ W. P. ORGANIZER IS DROPPED Hold Simons in Jail for Eighteen Hours NEW HAVEN, Gone: Aug. 17.—The Derby, Conn., authorities were put in a shameful predicament when they | were compelled to back water and drop a charge of “breach of the peace | for exhibiting indecent literature” lodged against District Organizer Wil-| liam Simons of the Workers Party, Connecticut District. Sunday after- noon Simons sold the Workers Month- ly, August issue, at a picnic in Grassy Hill, Derby, run by the Weavers’ So- cial Club of the Shelton Looms (Sid- ney Blumenthal’s). A supernumerary officer ordered by the lieutenant to bring in anyone distributing or selling literature conducted Simons to the police station. At the station, Simons refused to tell the lieutenant his pedigree unless | he was ‘told if he was under arrest, and if so, on what charge. This brot immediate transfer to a cell, Simons being denied the right to call up his lawyer. Half an hour later a comrade came | to the station, who had also been at | |-the picnic, and was told that Simons | was arrested for a breach of the peace and held for $500 bail, Sunday after- noon ‘at 4 o'clock,’ and $500 to be raised. ‘Real estate from New Haven | was not accepted, a certificate of own- | ership signed by the town clerk of | New Hayen being demanded. Com-| rades Collected $360 in cash in four (Continued on page 2) of their trusted local}- SIGHAN STRIKES SNAG IN LOCAL 305 PRESSERS If You Go Home You Vote “Yes”, Is Rule (Special to The Dally Worker* NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Aug. 17.— Another stormy meeting of pressers took place Thursday night when the Dress Pressers, a section of Local 35, held a business meeting. The Joint Board tried to pack the meeting with cloak pressers, but this move was thwarted. President Sigman came to address the meeting, and he was booed and hissed and constantly interrupted during bis.speech... Many people left the hall wien he began to rémarks ‘as: “Who do you représent? “To what Joint Board do you expect the pressers to be loyal? There is no Joint Board.” “What have we to do with the clique that rules the union?” “Out with you.” Against the resolution favoring the Joint Board, Davidson was the princi- pal speaker, and he spoke also against President Sigman. At the end of the meeting the vote on the resolution was called in the special manner, that the Joint Board seems to have adopted for all its “Joyal” locals, The, chairman said, “All those in favor of the resolution please rise—meeting adjourned.” When everyone rose to go home ft | was counted as a yote and there was no call for “Noes.” FEDERATION OF LABOR DESERTS AC.W. STRIKE Agree to Obey Scab "Order of Green The Chicago Federation of Labor by a vote of 63 to 23, decided at its meeting, Sunday to abide by the order of President William Green, of the American Federation of Labor that they do not interfere with the scab- bery of the United Garment Work- ers, affiliated with the American Fed- eration of Labor. The federation had written a letter to Green urging the executive council of the A. F. of L. to stop, the organized scabbery of the United Garment Union, which has | been sending strikebreakers into the | shops of the International Tailoring company, where the employes, mem- NO PROGRESS TOWARDS ANTHRACITE PEACE AS STRIKE DEADLINE NEARS PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17.—No progress had been made today towards a resumption of the conferences between anthracite miners and operators. | John L. Lewis, head of the miners, announced that he plans no confer ences with any repr entatives of the operators. Major W. W. Inglis, who headed the operators’ sub-committee which met the miners’ representatives at Atlantic City, likewis resumption of the conferences, bers of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, are on strike. Green repiled to the request that the Amalgamated be accepted into the A. | F. of L. that it was unthinkable when | another A. F, of L. union is in the fleld (the scab United Garment Work- ers) to accept the dual organization. This was’ the letter which the Chi- %0 Federation agreed to obey. They also agreed to accept the order of the said he knew of no new move to bring about a executive, council of the A, F, of L, (Continued on page 2) ould be made up especially for us. Today we can laugh about it.” — German social-democratic July 27 1925.