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2 Roem mtanecoen means CROUCH SENDS | FINAL MESSAGE TOU. S. WORKERS Entered Alcatraz Calif. Yesterday By PAUL CROUCH, GUARD HOUSE, Fort Shafter, Hon- olulu, Hawaii, —(By Mail)—We are leaving for our future prison home, Alcatraz, California, August 8th. We will be sent back on the. transport Cambria. Our fight in the courts for freedom of thot and speech for Communists will be continued and, if necessary, taken to the United “States supreme court. Federal Judge Wm. T. Raw- lins of Honolulu said he did not have jurisdiction ‘over, our cases, The higher courts will not have that ex- cuse. Before leaving for Alcatraz, we wish to express our appreciation for the efforts made in our behalf by the DAILY WORKER, Young Worker and other Communist Publications and by the working class in general. It was because of these efforts that our sen- tences were reduced. The great re- duction in our prison sntences was a vietory for the Workers (Communist) Party and other class conscious work- ers’ organizations. The defenses of capitalism are not impregnable. They could be crushed like an eggshell by the united forces of labor. We enter Alcatraz military prison on August 14. We may not be permitted to com- ™municate freely with the outside while in Alcatraz. Our final message to our comrades, before entering our island prison, is: Carry on! Work unceasingly for the revolu- tion! / | Your Union Meeting Third Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1925. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Bricklayers, 912 W. Monroe St. 68 Garpenters, Diversey and Sheffield. Carpenters, 1023 EB. 75th St. 272 bay te » Moose’ Hall, Chicago cig 1786 Carpen: + Springfield and 26th. 42 Engineer: 190 we Washington St. 535 Firemen and Enginemen, 6438 S, Halsted St. 542 ent Employes, Great Northern et jotel. Glove Workers’ Joint Council, 1710 N. Winchester Ave., 5:30 p.m. Hod Cari hagas a 15th st, Chi- » 814 W. Harrison St. ment Workers, * Van Buren St. kA Marine Fire and Oilers, 387 N. N.. Clark * 5 rk. Painters, 20 Ww. boomy ‘ry 74 St. Painters, N. E. cor. California and 147 Madison. Painters, 6414 S. Halsted St. Painters, |. We 55th. 191 cor, State and 220 W. Oak St. teiy psvnand and Ogden Ave. and Perio Sts. Stampers, 19 W. Adams St. ey Carmen, 75th and Drexel re. ve. Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. big Hd Clerks, 509 W. Washing- ‘on. Teamsters, 159 N. State St. Waiters, 234 W. Randolph St. Upholsterers Union, 180, W. Wash- ington St. Clothing Workers, Giething Work: lothin orker: 7094 N. Robey Stns”? ‘i (Note: Unless otherwise stated, all meetings are at 8 p. m.) ind O; ct ARNE aR I celta aca saad wo mae FRANCE REFUSES TO-ENTER ANY ANTLSOVIET WAR WITH BRITAIN AND BREAKS ANGLO-FRENCH BLOC (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, August 17.—France has determined that she has more to gain out of friendship with the hated Soviets, for all the Soviet government stands as a challenge to all capitalist nations, than in joining with Britain, her imperialist rival and making war on the Soviet Union. : This is the meaning of a highly confidential letter to Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister, from Aristide Briand, Frerich foreign ‘minister, politely declinig the British proposal to make an ‘anti-Soviet bloc’ t— whose only purpose would be to}ing in advance not to discuss the war on Russia: highly controversial issues at stake Undoubtedly Suspicious Circum- in the differing views toward Ger: stances, many and the “security pact.” Briand Briand puts his announcement in| Wet back to Paris th conditions the form of an expression of fear that} "improved and it is worth note to the formation of a Baltic anti-Soviet | P8erve that he wrote the letter con- bloc would immediately provoke a cerning French opposition to war on conflict which would involve Poland|S°Viet Russia shortly after he re- and Roumania; France's’ proteges in furned ‘to Paris. LINE ISOLATES from the recent visit of M. Putsa, Esthonian foreign minister, and M. Meyerowitz, the Lithuarian forefgn minister, to London. ,’These puppet nations are controlled by, Britain, and Briand naively suggests that their visit means something. Probably, and the fact that both French and British military experts have said that nothing could prevent the red army from occupying Bess- arabia and the whole flock of Baltic States if were provoked by an armed tie ‘from this quarter, is truly eBough to make France think twice jout prodding the red bear, And,then re is the financial bankruptcy star- France in the face with Syria and e Riff piling up monetary and polit- al retributions. ; * With the Soviets offering provision- 1 recognition of about,one-sixth of pre-war Russian debts which are held by small French bondholders, mostly peasants, economic contessions which offer a pulmotor to Frétich trade, France’s reluctance to: an’ anti-Soviet war bloc becomes open} opposition. With this maneuver,:,Soyiet, Russia may break her most powerful enemy, British imperialism, and discourage any armed assault upon S0viet terri- tory. sibisind That France is more ‘ad more hostile to Hggland is shown by this incident and it is signifiant’'that it follows close upon thé'!'heels of Briand’s own visit to London}’ where nothing was settled between) Paris HAUGHTY BRITON Cuts Off Food, Water and Everything PEKING, China, Aug. 17—The strik- ing students and workers have placed a successful picket line around the British legation and his British majes- ty is hard put to it to get anything to eat. Everything possible is being done to prevent anyone taking food into the legation, Almost the whole staff of 200 serv- ants are on strike. The few scabs left have to be heavily guarded by British marines when they go out to buy supplies, and even then the shop- keepers will not: take the risk of sell- ing to them. The only rift in the lute is the strikebreaking tactics of other legations, whose imperialist attaches buy food and smuggle it in to the British legation. Needless to say, Soviet Ambassador Karakhan’s staff is not guilty of such scabby treatment of the Chinese liber- ation strikers. The British minister, highly indignant at being made to do his own flunkeying, has registered bit- ter protest with the Chinese govern- and. .London, in. spite .of-all..polite} Ment. but Js not assured that jt can do anything, sienna gee The British legation is cut off from British-French Alliance CélVapsing. | electric light, telephone and water There on last Monday, ‘Bilfand held | service, and the great joy of the strik- a secret conference with’ Austen | ers is to see at a distance the haughty Chamberlain, so secret ‘thathe en-| British minister groping his way with tered the British foreign éifice by the | candle in hand thru dirty and disor- back door and climbed a riékety, dark|derly rooms, aiding his family: in stairway. é M9Ttq rustling something to eat and drink, However, it is clear that the con-| While cursing lustily at the strikers. ference was in vain so far as"harmon- The strikers demand that the Shang- izing the French and British views,| hai case be satisfactorily settled in not only on Soviet Russia, hut on the | accordance with the thirteen demands matter of the so-called “security pact” and the admission of Germany, to the league of nations. in Unofficial information.,shows that the only way the two foreign min- isters could “agree’—was by agree- | OUR DAILY COOL AND DAINTY Sig 5119. 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If you want. to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. inca THE DAILY WORKER BELGIAN DEBT RATE, U.S. KEY Uncle Sam Closing in on John Bull WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—There is every indication that a compromise will be feached in the Belgo-American debt negoflations next week that will permit Belgium to discharge her in- debtedness to the United States on slightly bétter terms than were pre- scribed ‘ag “standard” in the British i A considerably larger stake than a mere 1 per cent interest rate on $480,- 000,000 is in the center of the table in the Belgian negotiations, and it is for pea WW that Secretary of the Treasury, Mellon and Senator Reed Smoot a ‘ route today to Plymouth, Vt. to lay the case before President Coolidgess™ One perotent on the Belgian debt would amount to less than $5,000,000 a year, a figure which, while substan- tial, is hardly large enuf for which to risk the success of the negotiations. Bigger Stake in the Game. The larger, stake may. be said to be 1 per cent on nearly. $7,000,000,000, or $70,000,000 a year, and that is a sum not to be sneezed at even in these days of $3,000,000,000 congresses. The $7,000,000,000 represents what the rest of the world, outside of Great Britain and Belgium, now owe the United States. More than $6,000, 000,000 of it is owed by France and Italy alone. The French and Italians are due at the paymasters’ window next month. Members of the American debt fund- ing conimfission are ‘fully cognizant that the®French and Italian govern- ments a¥e)(watching every move in the Belgian settlement closely, and they knoy, furthermore, that both gov- ernments are going to insist upon the liquidation of their debts on absolute- ly the Best terms the United States has aceérded to any debtor. Hencethé somewhat embarrassing positiongof ‘the American negotiators. If theretwas the Belgian debt alone to considenit ds altogether probable that the 2 peryeent interest rate tentatively | ive Plasterers chy the Belgians would be | unions.” An aggressive campaign, the jout undue quibbling. 1 the eter of British ‘will rise ernment. Britain, economically depressesd, heavily taxed, and with a serious un- employment problem, is paying 3 and TO ENGLAND THE DAILY WORKER AND THE STRUGGLE LEADING TWO BATTLES. That the DAILY WORKER is the organ of struggle is well seen in Chicago today. Two strikes are in progress and two picket lines are being held. These are two battle fronts on which labor is staging a glorious fight and as usual—against the bosses and necessarily and at the same time against the reactionary officialdom. In both the battles of the needle trades workers (in NewYork as well as in Chicago) and in the strike of the printing trades, where Berry is again attempting to sell out the workers in a dastartly betrayal, it is the DAILY WORKER that is leading these fights, that gives direction in policy, that solidifies the ranks and gives heart to the fighting workers. And as ussual—it is ONLY the DAILY WORKER. No other paper does or would dare to. No other paper is owned by workers and written by workers and no other paper is ONLY for the workers. Time after time—often in many fights in one day—the DAILY WORKER has done this since its beginning nearly two years ago. That is why thousands of workers have given their unstinted support to this paper—that’s why those thousands of workers are increasing in num- bers daily, p The DAILY WORKER does battle every day for the best interests of the workers ONLY—for your interests. Give your sub—get a sub (often!)—become a Builder of the paper that is a Builder of the labor movement. union, under which our members have felt it impossible to continue at work.” It describes the “invasion of the ter- ritory and rights of this organization by the Operative Plasterers” as hav- ing been planed by the latter in ‘1923, and as having been started in’ Flor- ida, with the formation by the Operat- of “dual or’ rival Bricklayers declare, was inaugurated Belgium is. granted a 2 per|and still continues, “for thei purpose then France and Italy will|of disrupting the Bricklayers.,.and ame rate, or a/| forcing its plasterer members, regard- Fen en arose Jeas of their wishes in the, matter; to und on that figure, take membership in Jocal unions. or- settlement | ganized and chartered by the Operat- ¢onfront the American gov- | ive Plasterers.” é Lots of Red Tape—No Industrial Unionism. area In the present circular no reference 3% Der opnt on more than $5,000,000,- is made to the action of the Bricklay- 000. Brit well satis: way, government officials can picture the howls that would go up in England for a revision of the Baldwin settle- ment should France, Italy, and Bel- gium obtain more generous treatment than was,accorded Great Britain. Ad- ministration, officials are keenly anx- ious to ayoid any such embarrassing situation. taxpayers being none too SPEAKER AT TOPEKA INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL SAYS UNSKILLED WORKER MUST BE ORGANIZED AND AIDED By JESSE KEEBLE (Worker Correspondent) TOPEKA, Kan., August 17.—At the industrial council meeting last night at Labor Hall the Labor Day committee reported that Mr. Combs, a lawyer of Kansas City, Mo., would be the principal speaker. The report from the forum cpmmittee stated the *n fomum would start after Labor Day. Nothing definite was done in regi to workers’ study classes but the principal conversation among delegates seemed to be in regard to the need of education for + workers, There were not enuf officers of the different unions present to do any- thing definite in regard to the building of a new labor temple at Topeka. A motion was passed stating that it was the desire of the delegates present that a building be built or purchased to be known as the Topeka Central Labor Temple and to be used as a meeting place for the Indugtrial Coun- cil and the different labor unions, Mr. Newlun, a railroad worker who went out in the big railroad strike, was a visitor and gave a short talk emphasizing the necessity of organiz- This style is also | ing the common laborers and of giv- ing them due consideration when they were having trouble on a job when they are already organized. He showed that there was too much of a tend- ency for the skilled workers to not take up the fight for the common is¥orer on construction jobs but go ahead and work and ignore the fight of their weaker brothers. He claimed the railroad strike was lost becaus: the unskilled workers were unorgan- ized, uneducated to union conditions and uncared for by the skilled work- ers. There was nothing else for them to do to better their conditions but to go in and take the better positions when the strike gave the opportunity, He appeajed tothe union men to use all their influence to organize and bet- ter the condition of the common la- borer. Mr. Rock, president of the Hod laborers, was x Present and made a talk along the same line. He stated that what the speaker said was true in regard to the shops here—that the strikers’ places were filled wj'by the common laborers who had bewi! neglected and ignored by the unions::* MOVIE FANS TO SEE THEMSELVES IN CHICAGO MOVIE ees) Do you want,to be a movie star? No chance for yoy,at Hollywood, but you can get into the movies in Chicago if you will attend the picnic of the Federation of the Russian Children’s School of Chicago and Vicinity on Sunday, Aug. 23, at National Grove, Riverside, Ill. Moving picturés of the separate schools and the crowd in general will be taken and later shown in Chicago ang other cities of the United States, and will also be sent to Soviet Russia, Organizations who will attend in a body are Urged to prepare signs, with theirnames. , Tickets in advance are only 86 cents and are for sale-by all members of the schools, at the Russian Co-op restau. rants and a , rkers’ House, 1902 W, i a gl gu Teil your friends’ yourself and get into the moles} ers in abrogating a clause in their1911 with the settlement any- | ®8Te¢ment with the Operative /Plas- terers in order to bring before the na- tional board of jurisdictional awards the question of jurisdiction over cer- two unions. The Operative Plaster- ers refused to permit this procedure, and declared the entire 1911 agree- ment nulified by the action of the Bricklayers. The Bricklayers now appeal for res- toraiton of the 1911 agreement, point- ing out that it was entered into as a final settlement of all questions in dispute between the two organiza- tions. It provided that plasterers from any community might work wherever they could find employment, without having to belong to both unions, and that whenever the plas- terer members of the Bricklayers’ union in any locality should, by a two- thirds vote, in regular meeting, de- clare their desire to affiliate with the Operative Plasterers, they could do so. Amalgamation Defensive. Resolutions adopted by the Brick- layers’ general convention last Sep- tember, declaring it to be their pur- Pose to spare no expense to bring about an amalgamation of the two or- ganizations, are described in this cir- cular as a defensive measure in ans- wer to the Operative Plasterers’ dec- laration of war made in 1923, “The Bricklayers, Masons and Plas- terers’ intrenational union wants peace and has pointed the way to it and come) tered... Very. reasonable. peace,” it says. “It wants a restora- tion of the amicable relations that General Contracting at Moderate Prices. Work Guaranteed, JOHN L. DELIN General Contractor 1709 N. ROCKWELL STREET Specializing in New Concrete Foundations on Old Frame Hou Garages Cement Floors and All Other Particular Work, CALL ARMITAGE 3802 FOR AN ESTIMATE, 99B22204024600044424440444, FOR RENT Furnished Room with all modern conveniences, . Party. member pre Address: Dally. Worker, Box LOX BRICKLAYERS OFFICIAL GIVES HIS SIDE OF JURISDICTIONAL WAR: PROGRESSIVES CHIP IN WASHINGTON, August 17—Secretary Gleason of the executive board of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers’ international union has issued to the membership Circular No. 12, defending the refusal of the Bricklayers | to work for contractors or builders who refuse to recognize the jurisdictional | arrangements set forth in the agreement made in 1911 between the Brick- layers and the Operative Plasterers and Cement Finishers’ international |lesser amounts of such things as “The stoppage of work which has taken “place,” says the circular, “is much more in the nature of a ‘lockout than @ strike, for the reason that the employers have created conditions @——————_—______________eg formerly existed, together with the contentment and satisfaction that ex- isted thruout the plastering member- ship of both organizations . . But if the Bricklayers’ union must defend itself against unjustified aggression in order to preserve its integrity it can- not, in fairness, be expected to do less than make the best defense possible, Off Fuller Co. Jobs, In conclusion: Notice is,served that members of the union will not work for the Geo. A. Fuller Co., which “has ploy nonunion bricklayers to do their brick work in Florida.” Page Five SOVIET TRADE HERE DOUBLES OVER LAST YEAR 1925 Business 250 Per Cent of Pre-War WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Russtan ; trade with the United Stazes in the six months ending June 30 last was near- ly 250 per cent that for the first half | of the year 1913, and was about equal | to the total for the entire year 1924, according to a report by Chairman Hoorgin of the Amtorg (official) Trading Corporation to the Ru: nm Information Bureau in Washington. The turn-over in this half-year was $58,779,736, of which $52,610,645 rep- resented purchases of American goods for shipment to Soviet Russia, and the remaining $6,169,091 represented sales of Soviet products in theUnited States. ee This business was done chiefly on a credit basis, through’ banks or in- dividual American firms. It does not include imports of manganese, which is shipped direct to American firms, nor the operations of tne Russian co- operatives of farmers and dairymen, who maintain their own foreign trad- ing organization. Cotton Largest Item, Cotton was the largest item of Ras sian purchases here—Russian money purchased $26,479,500 worth of this crop and shipped it to Murransk. Machinery and supplies for the exten- sion of Russian industry and agricul- ture cost $9,000,000. Flour was bought in America, to the amount of $17,- 822,395. | In return, Americans bought §$3,- 831,012 worth of Russian furs, and sheep-casings, licorice root, flax and hemp fibre, and caviar. Machinery For New Factories. Hoorgin stated that while cotton made up 75 per cent of all Russian purchases in this country last year, in 1925 it represents only 50 per cent. | Where last year Russta bought only replacement machinery and parts this year it has been buying mostly basic machinery. This machinery is to be used in new factories—textile, electri- cal, metallurgical and others. While Russia’s good crops this year will make purchases of American flour necessary, she will be able to buy a great deal more of our machinery. Her own cotton crop is 38 per cent better seen fit-to advertise for and- to em-| this year than last, bot Wér consump- , tion of cotton is growing so fast that tain work then in dispute between the | she will not decrease her buying of that material. The Progressive Building Trades British Propaganda, Committee has repeatedly pointed out} Economists in Washington, studying the jurisdictional war between these | those figures, are beginning to give two unions as caused by a reluctance) serious heed to the suggestions com- on the part of the officials of both the|ing from continental Europe, that Bricklayers and the Operative Plas-} British business is behind the propa- terers to block the movement for] ganda against American recognition amalgamation really desired by the|of Moscow. The argument runs this membership of both unions. way: Britain must always be the The Progressives point out that the | Jealous rival of her next strongest present bitter strife merely plays into the hands of these reactionary offici- als and may be is deliberately con- members of the two unions and pre- vent the normal and fraternal prog- ress of both groups toward amalgama- tion. Amalgamation, the progressives as- sert, will only come about when the members of both unions, tired of the continual sabotage of their unions by self-seeking bureaucrats, take the bull by the horns and amalgamate their unions while pushing the squawking officials of both sides off the scaffold, Dies After Losing Legs. Nicholas Schmitz of 714 W. 64th St, fell from the top of a car from which he was shoveling coal in a yard at 8. Chicago Ave. where he was em- Ployed. The injuries he received ne- cessitated the amputation of his legs. He died after the operation. Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. Author of: Lenin—The Great Strate- gist 15 Cents Role of the Trade Union in Soviet Russia 50 Cents International Council of Trade and Industrial Unions 5 Cents cocted to stir up hatred between the | eeleereeereeeeeseseesee ease | THE WORLD TRADE UNI ey MOVEMENT By A. LOSOVSKY economic competitor in Europe. 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