The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1925, Page 1

the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY HE fossil remains of a Neanther- thal man was discovered in Galilee lest June. The scientific world is quite excited about it. The Neanther- thaler was ape-like in bis apparance, say the scientists, but his brain was about as large as it is today, Let us hope, “not as empty. Well, this is go- ing too far. We confess that modern man is away ahead ofvhis) long dis- tance ancestors in many ways. There ére exceptions of course. Perhaps it is not fair to judge all the Neanther- thalers by the skull that was dug up in Galilee. ee Ni rideaniese thousand years from now, fossil remains of William Jennings Bryan-may be dug up. It would not be just to the present generation, if the scientists of the future should as- sume that the brain pan of the “Com- moner” was typical of all the) other mental storehouses in the United States. Thoughts like these some- times. prevent us from accepting all the conelusions of the scientists. a) “ZOU ain't goin’ to pray no mo’” is the slogan of the coal operators f Oklahoma who have sent the sher- if to the mine pits to prevent the wives of the striking miners from in- ng godly aid to convert the strike- akers to the ways of decency. Stwange to say the prayers had ef- fect. At least so we are told. There is a suspicion in my mind that the wives of the miners hurled something cise besides prayers at the strike- breakers. When the workers don’t pray, they are enemies of religion. When they do pray, they are blas- pheming. If the miners take our tip they will stop praying and begin act- ing. se @ TYYHERE is a likelfhood that.a strike will take place in the anthracite region on September 1. It is also possible that the bituminous miners may down tools simultaneously. Such a threat has been made by John L. Lewis, head of the international union. Lewis cannot be trusted. to take any action that would benefit the miners unless he feels that his own prestige and position are at stake. ‘the operators have played ducks and ake with the Jacksonyille pact. A national strike im. the coal industry |* fuarter of 8. sito Sobers. end 9: (Continued on page*sy CHINEO PRINTING Er} Berry Is now building a chapel for’ PL 7 j services to dead soldiers buried in’ e France. He called the fund “Popular PRODUCE GOODS Company Losing Money Thru Lockout The Sears-Roebuck Company is get- ting nervous over the inability of the Cuneo Printing Company to turn out | its catalogues scheduled for. delivery by Sept. 1st. pressmen are not able to do much of ‘ hing, but what they succeed im tarning out is very inferior work. The exposes published in the DAILY WORKER are getting under the hide of Seymour “Stuss” Singer, the scab superintendent and former pal of the New York gangsters who killed the gambler Rosenthal. Press- men and feeders are being brot in from all parts of the country, but most of them leave as soon as they learn that there is a lockout on. Berry Agreed to Pact. It 1s mow admitted by representa- tives of ‘“Majah” Berry that while the feeders were’in arbitration proceed- ings the international officer held a conference with Cuneo. The printing boss was asked if he would agree to the decision of the arbitrators. Cu- neo’s answer to this was that he would if the international would make the pressmen abide by the agreement with reference to the reduction of pressmen on the machines. Berry promised Cunso that he would see to this, even tho the pressmen three times refused to ratify the, tentative pact made between the execntive board and Cunea. Vabe It is as a result of’ this decision ot Berry's that the pressmen and feed- ers,at Cuneo’s are now locked out, with Berry trying to supply their places with “union” scabs. The prospects for a successful end- ing to the dispute are brig.+. It is rumored that Premier taxi rivers are refusing to haul strikebreakers to the Cuneo plant. GITY CENTRAL, LOCAL CHICAGO, W, P. OF A., MEETS TONIGHT, 8 P. M. The next meeting of the City Cen- tral Committee will be held tonight, Aug. 19, at 722 Blue Island avenue. The meeting will open promptly 8 p. m., and all del quested to be there promptly at that hour a POLITIGAL PRISunene | DEMAND BETTER FARE; ARMY FIRES AT THEM LUTSK, Alg 18—One hundred and fifty political prisoners in a compound in Volinia rebelled against the unbearable conditions they are forced to live under, A ‘battalion of the army was called out and without warning fired into the crowd of prisoners. One was killed and many wounded, BERRY IS NOW RAISING MONEY Scab foremen and scab | FOR NEW CHURCH 1, $8.00 per sear. by mail, $6.00 per year. | A SHAKY FOUNDATION Chicago Tribune Prints Liberty in Scab Shop This is the fifth of a series of ar- ticles exposing the crooked career of George L. Berry, president of the In- ternational Printing Presemen’s and Assistants’ Union. The members of the international union are now de- ryism. oe It is worthy of notice that Berry in. his boost for the governorship of Tennessee never mentioned the fact that he was president of the Inter- national Printing Pressmens’ and As- sistants Union. Evidently he did not want the ruling classes of Tenneasee to know that he had any connection with labor. The pressmen were only good for furnishing him with the money with which to initiate his in- dustral enterprise: Still At His Tricks. When the pressmen of Chicago fin- ished their investigation they discoy- tered that “Majah” Berry, the war patriot, who helped the capitalists to keep the workers quiet duriitg the | slaughter, had dug into the old Age | Pension Fund to the extent of about almost equal unt from the War Emergency Berry had not Playing tricks: with “the membership since “Judge CocHrane decision declared that the ent, . Subscription” but it did not prove: very “popular” so he had to have his puppets at the convention make’ it a “compulsory” popular subscrip- tion. Each member was soaked one dollar for this fake scheme. Accord: ing to Berry’s own figures there ‘is over $40,000 in this fund at the pres- ent time. It was during one of his appearanc- es during the litigation over his ¢m- bezzling ventures that a federal judge ran him out of the court for appea ing in his uniform with the obvious intention to impress the judge with his patriotism. Berry had to change’ his vestments and come back dressed like a normal person. How The Bosses Buy Berry. An excellent example of how the printers purchase Berry and thus secure relief from union obligation is furnished. by an editérial in the July issue of the American Pressman, edited by Berry. In this editorial the Chicago Tribune is praised highly for (Continuea on Page 2.) ANTHRACITE DEADLOGK STILL_UNBROKEN, . THO MINERS FEAR SELL OUT PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 18—Con- tinuation of the conference between miners’ leaders was expected here today as union chiefs from both an- thracite and bituminous fields flocked the headquarters of the United Mine Workers.” While union officials sald nothing ‘but “ordinary union business” had, been discussed, it was learned that plans for the threatened anthracite miners’ strike on Sept 1 were gone over, ‘ The next move in the deadlock be- twene the miners and the operators is seen in a possible “get-together” call for arbitration, which has tricked the miners before but which Lewis may accept after some bluster in spite of the pressure being put upon him from the Prog ive Miners who oppose any and all. ar- bitration schemes. Pattern Men Fight “Open Shop” The patternniakers expect a tavor- able break in the next few days in their fight to unionize a dozen open shops in Chicago. The large number of members at work in union shops enables the Patternmakers’ Assocta- tion to pay ith’ 50 as full union waxes termined to get rid of Berry and Ber-| | MEETING TONIGHT City Organization to «Aid N.Y. Straggle An answer to the raids and arrests conducted by the city police, carry- ing out the orders of the International [Talloring company, will be given by the Amalgamated Clothing » Workers bor Lyceum, Ogden at a meeting of all union. The meeting was called to discuss the union’s strike against the International. The Chicago joint board of the Amalgamated has met and. pledged aid to the New York Amalgamated strikers who are carrying on an ex- tensive. organization drive as well as a ike against the International plant in New York. 3 The New York strikers will be sup- plied with as much funds as they need, it was said by Chicago Amalg- amated officials. The Chicago organ- ization is in a better position as the fight here is concentrated in- one plant, and there is no vicious injune- tion to fight as in the case in New York city. A member of the Amalgamated, Sophie Klovestke, who is hot a striker, but who was walking the picket line with friends, was arrested on a charge of ‘disorderly conduct” yesterday, altho she was doing noth- ing but picketing. She will appear in the Des Plaines street police station this morning for a hearing. the J. L. Taylor-International Tail- oring company’s project in Rock Is- land has failed, it is reported, the Tri-cities workers. refusing to act as strikebreakers.. The local manufac: turers who induced the International to go to Rock Island in order to in- troduce “open shop” conditions there, have been reproved by the, Interna- tional bosses for “misinterpreting” conditions,” It has been disclosed that the same group of Rock Island “open shoppers” who. invited the garment bosses to their city had the government arsen- al there closed in order to throw the workers out of jobs and reduce wages. If you want. to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Send for:a-catalogue of all Com- munist literature. shop chairmen and officers of the, Ww Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at ithe Post Ofice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1925 JS Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Warhingtop Bivd., Chicago, Ul NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents | | Thank Daily Worker as Their Only Aid } } The upholsterers of the Aetna Fur- | niture company of 469 West 24th St., | last week when| who struck early |the firm tried’ to force a second wage cut on them in addition to a ten per cent cution piece rates which | they had agreed»to, have won their | strike completely and went back |to work yesterday with all their demands accepted by the manage- | ment. Monday morning, the superin- ‘tendent summoned in the committee | which had been elected by the strik- lers, from off the picket line, and | agreed to rescind the second cut and |to recognize the | which the strikers had set up as the authorized spokesmen in the shop to adjust grievances in the future. Also, those _ workers whom the firm had not to be discriminated against, but are to be taken back without preju- dice with the rest. Thank the Daily Worker. At a meeting ef the strikers yes- |terday morning, they discussed their lexperience andthe agreemnt, and in |the name of all'the strikers the meet- ing thanked the! DAILY WORKER for the assistance that had been given _them and expressed the hope that in jthe future the -DAILY WORKER | would grow andfprosper as the real | workers’ press and lead in the whole labor movement. The strikers «came to the conclus- ion that their ‘only hope lies in the left wing labor ‘movement being able ultimately to take the leadership of the American ldbor movement, as they could expeet no aid from the present yellow leadership of the Up- holsterers’ Union, which had sold them out before and now refuses to organize them at all. They are not opposed to the union and hope to be able to join when the union leader- ship ceases its opposition to admit- ting workers to membership, Daily Worker Only Ald, The strikers declared that the only aid they had in winning their strike was from the DAILY WORKER, the organ of the Workers Communist Party, and all promised not to for- get that they were obligated by their own interest as ‘workers, to partici- pate in the labor movement under the (Continued on page 2) ta could not come back at>all, are IN SHORT STRIKE shop committee | OF LIMA WINS THE PRIMARIES Expect to Elect the City Commission in Nov. LIMA, Ohio, August 18—Three la-| | bor candidates, including two social-| ists and a member of the Brotherhood | of Raliway Trainmen, will run.on a la-| bor party ticket in the November elec- tions for city commissioners as a result of the non-partisan primary eleotion just held. About one-fifth of the 20,000 voters of Lima turned out to the primary election in which party tickets were ruled off by reason of the non-parti- san law, altho the definite labor par- ty candidates, Corbin N. Shook, the former socialist mayor and Edwin Blank polled the highest. votes on a platform of the labor party, while Lawrence Long, of the B. of R. T. who had come out as an independent before the labor party ticket was pro- ‘posed, ran sixth, which will permit | Property of the loc him to run in the final election which will choose three of the six highest primary candidates, Expect Larger Final Vote. Indications are that the November election will see the three labor party candidates, Shook, Blank and Long, pitted against the three old commis- sioners with the prophecy of local Communists that the labor party ticket will win “with a more startling vote than that of the primary.” The primary brought out about 25 per cent of the total voting strength in comparison to the 92 per cent shown in the presidential election last year. Labor Party Platform, The labor party platform was the center of attraction and the cam- paign from now on will make it the entire issue, the Lima trade unions supporting Shook having made the election the talk of the local: unions, where even the republican chairman of the Machinists’ local congratulated the success of the labor party at the local meeting. Shook led the primary race with 1,783 votes, Blank came next with 1,489 votes, while Long. who ran sixth as above noted, had 925 votes. Ac- cording to local Communists, the labor party candidates expect to have con- trol of this city'of 50,000 inhabitants after the November slections HYMAN CHALLENGES SIGMAN TO SHOW ANY MASS SUPPORT IN LLG. W,; STOPPAGE THURSDAY (Special to The NEW YORK CITY, August Daily Worker) 18.—Plans for Thursday's stop- page in the ladies’ garment industry in this city are proceeding with every prospect that a great majority of the workers will respond to the call issued by the Joint Committee of Action of Locals 2, 9 and 22. Altho President Sigman has prophesied that there will be no actual stoppage, he has supplemented this prophesy with a letter to he workers threatening them with loss of their jobs if they stop work. According to Louis Hyman, chairman of the Joint Committee of Action, this is an example of the sort of terrorism that has been going on contin- uously since the raids on Locals 2 and 9 headquarters on June 15. Sig Ie Getting Funny. “Yet President Sigman quotes the constitution at us,” says Mr. Hyman, “denounces us for un-union-like tac- tics, and says we ought to ‘accomplish organization changes in a constitu tional manner.’ Evidently President Sigman.is becoming a humorist. It was @ committee appointed by him who drew up this constitution, and it was his Objection and Election Committee which barred from the bal- lot for delegates to the convention anyone who opposed his reactionary constitution. When by chance some delegates were chosen who were hos- tile to Sigman and his machine, they were unseated. “Last Juné, the day after he had captured by force the headquarters of Losals 2 and 9 with all the records and property in these buildings, Presi- dent Sigman sent us a letter notify- ing us of our suspension and demand- ing that'we turn over the books and ‘in accordance with the constitntion.’ How does he dare to speak of the constitution after such acts of terror? Blue Sky Locals. “And how can he talk of our gain- ing any system of proportional repre- sentation in our union when every convention is packed with delegates from out-of-town locals, which like mushrooms spring up on the g¥e of conventions just to serve the ends of the machine: It {a -with these locals that Sigman voted in our present con- stitution; it is with these locals that he can carry thru afiything that is to his liking. “He repreaches us with trying to form a dictatorship and forcing it on the members; yet it is we who were legally elected and have the confi- dence of the members. He came into office only thru the ald of these fake locals at a packed convention, not by direct vote of the membership, If he is so confident that he represents the will of the members, why does he not follow our suggestion for a referen- dum vote on our demands for his res- ignation, for our reinstatement and for a reorganization of the Joint Board? (Of course we mean a refer- endum counted by some impartial committee, and not such a one as was taken on the governor’s commission report, where a vote of about 3,000 was stretched to 14,000.) Asks Show of Power. “And if President Sigman is so op posed to dictatorship, why does he use gangsters to force the members to pay dues, and seek the co-operation of the employers to force the workers to recognize the Joint Board, when they no longer consider it a legal body of the union? “The Joint Committee of Action has called upon the cloak and dressmak- ers to stop work on Thursday to dem- onstrate their protest against the Joint Board and all its actions, and to prove that they cannot be terror- ized, nor any longer enslaved by the corrupt machine of the union.” VIENNA FASCIST BANDS IN ANTI- JEWISH RIOTS One Hundred Arrested, Many Are Injured VIENNA, ‘August 18.—One hundred and six fascists were being held by police here for taking part in the anti- semitic riot, staged at the opening of | The fascists, | several thousand of whom came here | upon) the Zionist Congress. from out of town, were bent breaking up the Zionist meeting. The head of the Vienna police had forbidden hostile demonstrations, but before order was restored the entire police force of 6,000 was forced to charge the rioters with drawn sabres, A score were injured. The bridges over the Danube lead- ing to the Jewish quarters are heavily guarded by police MASSACRE AT CANTON TOLD BY WITNESS |Over Hundred Dead and Wounded ° SEATTLE, Waeh., Aug. 18—The fel- lowing Is the text of a suppressed dec- laration and appeal of the Chinese staff, students and workmen of the Canton Christian college, concerning the massacre of Chinese at Canton, sent via this olty by mail. eee On the 23rd of June as a patriotic demonstration protesting against the killing of our fellow-countrymen by the British and the Japanese in Shang- hai and eleswhere, a body of citizens which was composed largely of farm- ers, laborers, and students who were unarmed and defenceless paraded on the street of Canton, When we were marching peacefully and orderly on Shaki road in Chinese territory opposite the Anglo-French concession of Shameen, the British troops there which were fully equip- ped with arms and protected by sand- bags fired upon the crowd first by rifles and then by machine guns ‘naval guns: ad ‘The firing resulted in over a hun ‘dred ‘dead and wounded inoluding “many of our students and staff. As’ we Were on the spot where the British fired at, we were showered With) bullets and shells and we escap ed death only by a narrow margin. We w troops first started firing at us and how they kept firing without Appeals to Britith Lion. In view of this horrible atroc- ity committed by the British troops at Shameen, we, the entire Chinese staf? and student body, and workmen of Canton Christian college, wish to ap- Peal to the citizens and governments of the foreign countries for symathy and support. We appeal especially to the British for an objective inquiry into the matter, and for a just and am- icable settlement. As eye-witnesses on the scene of the tragedy we wish to point out that the responsibility for the crime rested with those foreign consuls and au- thorities who directed the firing, In this connection we wish to state that the outrages which took place in Shanghai, Hankow, and Canton were symptomatic of the unequal and un- just relationship existing between China and the foreign states, Bound by unequal treaties, enchaneed by for- eign control, and paralyzed by foreign exploitation, Ching is an international cripple, Tn order that peace and amity may be established between China and the foreign states, the treaties that are of the nature of ‘iniquum foedus’ should be abrogated at once, and new treaties on the basis of equality and reciprocity should be made, It is important to remember that the present unrest in China in regard to foreign relations is due chiefly to the rising tide of nationalism in oppo- sition to the rights and interests that the foreigners exacted from China by virtue of treaties and agreements that were {mposed upon China by circum- stances of war. Since the unequal and imposed treaties are the fundamental causes of the present unrest, we must abolish them. To this end consular jurisdiction must be given up; foreign | Settlements, concessions, and leased | territories must be restored; restric- |tions on tariff autonomy must be rée- moved; spheres of influence must be renounced; control of customs must be surrendered; the stationing of for- eign troops and warships must be evacuated; and the maintenance of wireless stations and other warlike establishments must be done away with, | Moved by the deep sorrow of our countrymen, prompted by a profound sense of justice, and guided by a pure and unselfish motive, we appeal to the whole world for sympathy, sup- port, and justice, June 25, 1925 ad s / i