The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1925, Page 2

es ——————E : { ‘ a5 Page Two COMMUNIST CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR IN TOLEDO TELLS THE DEAR LADIES TRUTH ABOUT “VICE”, CHILD LABOR By A. W. HARVITT (Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO, Ohio, August 18— William Patterson, who is the Workers Party candidate for mayor of this city, spoke before the league of women Voters in their hall Tuesday evening. Comrade Patterson was invited along with the other candidates who will run in the primary election for the nomination of candid for the office of mayor of Toledo, The invited guests who spoke ¢ business men’s candidate; Alvin Jones, Devine, candidate of the Devine-So-: cialists who promised the ladies to vote for anything the dear ladies asked for. Immediately upon hall each speaker was handed a questionnaire with the questions they were to answer in their speechs. Communist Answers Questions. arriving at the These questions were pertaining to | the injunction abatement law in re- gard to prostitution, and houses of Prostitution. This law states that all such places of illfame can be closed and pad locked and the occupants stopped from doing business. The law s also that the owners of the building can be enjoined from renting a building for swch a pur-| pose, and the building shall be closed and padlocked as a nuisance. The other question each candidate was to answer was in regard to street trades, such as selling papers on the streets by children less than twelve years of age. The other candidates, including the Socialist Divine Tommy, all ed to abolish these evils and g else that these dear ladies ‘amted done in the future. Comrade Patterson gave the dear ladies a shock by telling them the truth The Communist candidate is a member of the Longshoremen’s Union, and perhaps he seemed a little] brusque to the ladies, as he speaks in| the proletarian language. He used unvarnished English in telling the ladies about prostitution and its cause, Speaker Tells About Injunction. The speaker informed the ladies he knew some of them were intelligent enuf to know that a mayor did not have any power to issue an injunction to start with, but that injunctions were issued by capitalist judges against labor unions that were fight- ing the bosses for the bare necessities of life. He told the audience WHY this injunction law was never used against the owners of houses of pros- titution, because wealthy real estate men who controlled the capitalist courts owned much of the property that was rented for these purposes. The speaker said: “If I promised to do this—which I am not going to do, —I would be powerless to carry out that promise, because the courts are the place where injunctions are is- sued, but the courts do not issue in- junctions against wealthy property owners, but against labor.” The speaker then told them that the | ring the evening were: Fred Mery, | dry candidate and reformer; Tommy SSR a anton Workers (Communist) Party is| inst pr itution, but it would not be by injunction they would stop it, bys by abolishing the capitalist tem so that one class could not live by exploiting another, | Soviet Russia Abolished Prostitution. | ‘The speaker told them that’ there | was no prostitution in Soviet Russia | where the dictatorship of the prole- tariat prevails, He told them that the courts be- longed to the workers there, and were used in their interests-and not as here, to enjoin them from striking for more | pay and better conditions, | Ridicules Reform. | Comrade Pattreson ridiculed reform and said that Toledo was the most re- formed city in the United States, but that it did not seem to help it any. | He told them that if working girls| received enuf in wages to live on, there would be less prostitution. Communist Party Not Reformist. Then he said: “Ladies, the Com- munist Party is not a party of reform, but when the Communists get con- trol, they will abolish the capitalist dictatorship and establish the prole- tarian dictatorship.” Communists Would Abolish Child Labor, In speaking with reference to the street trades participated in by chil- dren under 12 years, Comrade Pat- terson told the audience that Com- munists have always stood for the complete abolition of all child labor in any form; not only of babies, but of any child below high school age. He said:—“The only way to abolish the grinding of our children into gold for the plute class is to abolish the exploitation system of wage slavery, and thereby~ destroy the capitalist his audience that this would not re- form the vice conditions that now pre- yails in Toledo, but would abolish all vice and other crimes of society now existing because of capitalism. Arrest Mine Leaders, NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—(FP)—When Gomer Jones, vice president, District 21, United Mine Workers of America, and 8. A. Robertson, another unton official, were arrested in Arkansas un- der a revived 1917 injunction on a charge of planning to parade thru the streets of Greenwood, Ark., the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union volunteered its aid from New York to fight the case thru to the highest courts. Where Labor Makes Its Own Laws OoAy " The book—bound in attractive duroflex covers—e / makes a permanent record of this historical Official Report of the British Trade Union Delegation to / Soviet Russia. RUSSIA TOMORROW— And everyday—all the news and direct correspond- ence from the fields and the factories—and articles . from the pens of Russia’s leaders—all can be found | _ Tu Dany Worker . No better opportunity has ever been presented to allow every worker to have both past and current records of the very first these special offers: “RUSSIA TODAY” ‘The Daily Worker f (6 mos. in Chicago) . workers’ government in system completely.” The speaker told| We ALIN NEED OF IMMEDIATE FUNDS FOR MANY GASES Workers Facing Trial, Others in Prison In am effort to ralse Tunds to meet the exigencies of a large number of defense ¢: s it is being called upon to handle, International Labor De= fense is circularizing thousands of names of persons in or sympathetic to the labor movement. In the letter, I. L. D. is asking supporters of labof .| defense to give 10 cents and to get nineteen of their friends to give a similar amount for legal defense for working class defendants and for re- lief and aid to class war prisoners and their families. There are more than a half hundred workers facing trial in various parts of the country for their activity in the labor movement and more than 100 more serving sen- tences on charges growing out of strikes, frameups and labor persecu- tion. From Every Part of the Country. Enclosed with a letter appealing for contributions is a pamphlet, “Labor Defense,” which contains the consti- tution, manifesto and program of the From Bulgaria reports of internal Betanovici railway station. (Continued from page 1) contributing a four color rotogravure machine valued at $25,000 to the Technical Trade School at Pressmen’s Home, Yet the magazine Liberty, which is owned by the Chicago Tribune and edited in the same offices as the Tribune, is printed in the scab plant of W. F. Hall. Was the rotogravure machine Berry’s compensation for let- ting’the Tribune get away with a scab magazine? Yet*knowing that the Chicago Trib- une company, has its magazine pub- lished in a scab plant, Berry writes as follows: “The Chicago Tribune has done a very great and encouraging thing. ‘his newspaper has done more toward ,-helping the International Printing Pressmen and Assistant's Union ‘of North America in its edu- cational project than all the rest of the talkthat has emanated from var- po i va of the country. The Trib “commendation has a ring of reality to it. It is substantial; it is a genuine contribution: toa cause that-is deserving not only of tlie full- est confidence and co-operation of our membership, but of every newspaper Dublisher and employing printer in America.” This is gentle hint to the other publishers to come across if they want Berry to do his best for them. How little Berry takes his profes- sions of trade unionism to heart is shown by the fact that he accepts the advertisements of non-union con- cerns in his magazine, The American Pressman. One of those firms is the “Save-M” Fire Extinguisher Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. If more proof is required that Berry is only a fake trade unionist, here it is: The Clinchfield Mercantile Com- pany, of Rogersville, Tenn., owned by Berry and Joseph C. Orr, sécretary- treasurer of the international union, purchased clothing from the Schaeffer & Weedon Company, and supplied the same non-union clothes to convales- cent members of the International Printing Pressmen’s Union quartered at their home in Tennessee. It is a generally accepted practice on the part of trade unionists to in- sist that their purchases be manufac- tured by union labor, While the re- actionaries in the labor movement are trying to substitute propaganda for the trade union label for organizing activities, nobody will deny that the practice of insisting on purchases car- rying the union label is beneficial. That the clothing firm from which Berry purchased clothes for the in- mates of the Pressmen’s Home was a scab concern is shown by the follow- ing lettter from the general organizer of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers in Cincinnati to Franklin Union No. 23 of New York City: “Dear Sir and Brother: We have your inquiry, regarding the Schaefer & Weedon Co, who supplies clothing for your Pressmen’s Home and Hos THE 1113 W. Washington Bivd. For the enclosed $s. and the DAILY WORKER for DAILY WORKE Chicago, Iilinois www Send RUSSIA TODAY. months to: svtesieosessetonnvennsateet, pital. “This is an anti-union concern, who have been fighting us for the past two years bitterly. “Fraternally yours, “Jack Kroll, General Organizer,” During the great steel strike led by William Z. Foster, now secretary of the Trade Union Educational League and national chairman of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, Berry made a bitter attack on the steel workers and the strike leaders. But Berry did not get away with this. During the Montreal convention of the American Federation of Labor, Berry was standing in» the lobby of the Windsor hetel.one evening when | loot the treasury, (© _.. : " ‘ eee er eens onan THE DAILY: WORKER national conference) Reld in Chicago on June 28th last.‘ Noithis conference came delegates fri at Ww ‘kers’ organi- zations in all parts’ of thé country who gathered to bay 2 My eg Labor Defense, a non-pai orkers’ body for the defense of all class war prison- ers, t One contributor: writes: “Sending more than the petition calls for. Pn- closed find. five dollars for defense. Times are tough in Frisco and we all have hard sledding getting funds, but our prisoners have to be looked to, so we will have to do it, even if it should mean pulling up the belts a hole.” Another accompanies a contri- bution with these words: “I want you to know how much my heart is in this work. Nor is it commisseration. It is approval of their (class-war prison- ers) ideals and aims and admiration for their heroism,” Workers Party Helps. In addition, branches of the Work- ers Party are being sent the contri- bution lists, by courtesy of their. na- tional office. It isnexpected that this work will receive energetic attention from the members of, the party in view of the fact that a.portion of the cases that International Labor De- fense is handling inyolye members of the Workers Party, ,, Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your whion meeting. GREEK ATTACK BULGARIAN OUTPOST AS DISORDER CONTINUES IN SOFIA LONDON, Aug. 18.—Hostilities have broken out on the Bulgarian frontier where it was reported from Constantinople that a band of Greeks have at- tacked the Bulgarian outpost at Caratepe. Several hours of fighting occurred. disorders continue to be received. A Sofia dispatch said the Macedonian leader Taskalow was murdered at the Berry Now Raising Money for New Charch a delegate of the,,boilermakers ap- proached him and .aaid:, “So you are the man who insulted the representa- tive of our union in the general strike committee of the steel. workers?” “Don't you like it?” was Berry’s brazen reply. “Take that!” shouted the boiler- maker, as he landed a haymaker on Berry's map. Zowie! The sparks could be seen flying. Practically every face in the lobby cracked with laugh- ter. Even those Who were drinking with Berry took ' malicious joy in seeing the faker gét’a wallop. “A crack like this' Was never heard on this continent sine the date of the San Francisco earthquake,” said one delegate. wh Sea cated That, was. the third time Berry got beaten up at conventions. The previ- ous year the members, of the I. P. P. and P. U. thrashed,the strikebreaker at the Atlantic City, convention. In 1919 Berry rented, the Half Way House at Edgemere, J. I., and housed his scab members. furnished by his Hale Spring Employment Agencies in New York. Employers consider Berry the best trained strikebreaker in the country. His closest aids are: Wil- liam McHugh, John M. Brophy, 8. B. Marks and Joseph C. Orr. “The Rats Must Go.” The following refraimiwas very pop- ular among New York, Ppressmen in 1920: bi “The rats must go,{ we all should know, The rats must go, I say; So join this throng, with word and song, And drive (vote) the rats away.” The Chicago pressmen and feeders are now determined to get rid of the rats and of the rat-in-chief, George L. Berry. They are going about that work methodically. The pressmen claim that Berry is an alien in the union, that he does not even belong in the labor movement as a member of the rank and file, not to speak of being an international officer. One of those who,.was on Berry's pay roll in Chicago was the notorious Moss Enright, the professional mur- derer. Enright met hig Waterloo early in 1920, The following dispatch was sent from Chicago to New York in 1920, with titles and. headlines: “Exposure of Berry, murder game in Chicago—New York.,money for Chi- cago gunmen.” iT “Berry sends many thousands for criminal use—Special from Chicago, Story at. printing pressmen’s meeting, June 8, 1920.” i “President Hass sprung a big sur- prise—the astonishing affidavits were read with letters from Berry and Orr to Rosenheim, a full confession from Rosenheim and others. The reading took up to 12.45 p. mi Moss Enright, who, wag recently tiurdered, was in the employ of I, P/(P, and A. U. by George L. Berry. Bogus No, 3 and No 4 cards were printed at the home of the I P. P. and A. U. to pack No. 3 and 4 meetings at $500 a man to be paid to Enright. Berry still owes $1,700 on this bill. Forgeries commit- ted. Three men were to be bodily harmed, Hass, Kapps, Sangwin were named. Bogus’ stamps and bogus working cards by the hundreds and real I. P. P, and A. U, due stamps of No. 3. We are all amazed with this news We thank our,pfficials and give them full authority to go to the limit as they see fit.” This is the way ‘Berry used the money of the interdational. Hiring murderers to make War on the pro- sressives who blocked his efforts to Mirad{es of Catholics and Protestants Cannot. Save the Polish Terror By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, PaPAYs the Boston Herald carries the headline, “Poles Celebrate Rout of Bolsheviki.” \ Then follows the story of a celebration held in the church of “Our Lady of Ostro- brama” on what was called the fifth anniversary of the “Miracle, of the Vistula,” as a result of which it.is claimed that not only Poland, but all capitalist Western Europe, ‘and its so-called “civilization,” was saved from Soviet Rule. The working class of Boston is catholic when it turns to religion, paralyzed by this Roman creed. While enslaved to the catholic church, it is doubly oppressed thru the fact that in industry it is also held in chains by protestant exploiters, who constitute the local bourgeoisie, Thus the Boston Herald, protestant, owned by the shoe machinery trust, builds its alliance with the catholic church in an effort to tell the Polish workers, found in large numbers in all industries thruout New England, that “A Miracle” saved Poland from the Bolsheviks in 1921. alee sae cea Increasing masses of workers and poor peasants, who have seen the best among their numbers thrown into prison or put to death these past five years, with an even greater persecution continuing today, have grown to realize that their only hope lies thru a Polish Soviet Republic, that the victory of the Polish Communist Party thru a proletarian dictatorship in 1921, would have placed Poland within the Soviet Union in the struggle for the new day for all labor. Instead they live today in the grekeet misery, condemned to unemployment and all the suffering incident to it, and when they protest in the streets, they are shot down by the mer- cenaries of the terror rule imposed upon them. ° * * * Polish workers in the United States are becoming ac- quainted with these facts. They know that in 1921, the allies of the Versailles peace tried to launch an offensive against Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine, using Poland as its catspaw. It was to be another effort to overthrow the Soviet Republic. The offensive was carefully launched. But the Red Army was ready. It struck back with one of the most terrific blows that Workers’ Rule has so far dealt its capitalist foe. The imperialists at Paris, London and Wash- ington were compelled to witness their Polish hirelings hurled back off Soviet soil in crushing defeat. The workers of the entire world were startled and enthused by the heroic exploits of Budenny's red cavalry that thundered up to the very gates of Warsaw. This remarkable drive of the Soviet horsemen, that took them 700 miles from their base of opera- tions, stands as an unsurpassed achievement in all military history. But it was not a miracle that saved Warsaw and Poland. Instead of sending its air fleets over Warsaw, dropping bombs upon the population, the Soviet airfleets dropped tons of leaflets from the skies, calling on the workers to rise and achieve their own victory. The Soviet army was not an army of conquest. It stands as\the power that protects the Soviet Union. The Polish workers must win their own victory. In 1921 they did not raise to'a realization of their mission. They were not strong enough to ‘break their own chains. They did not cast off the black*oppression that held them as in a straitjacket. The Polish capitalists and landlords maintained their slavery rule over them: a w e ° ‘ But the Soviet Union still stands at their eastern border as an inspiration to all oppressed Polish workers and peas- . ants. No miracle, in all the religions of the catholics and the protestants, can stop Soviet Rule from winning its triumph in Poland, not even the “miracles” recognized by the Polish catholic churches or Cal Coolidge’s own protestant New England. AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) hard and soft, would be the way to tackle the problem of relieving the miners from the evil effects of that contract. situation: “I realize now the power we have. Revolution will come. I want a revolution that will have a disciplined army behind it—a revolu- tion that will not only have discipline but will be organized with an objec- tive ahead of it, a revolution under- standing its goal.” ‘20 IAN anybody imagine John L. Lewis making a speech like that? Only recently Lewis boasted that his exe- cutive committee aided the depart- ment of justice in exposing the radi- cals in the union to the government. Lewis, like George L. Barry, of the pressmen, and thousands of other la- bor leaders, are agents of the capital- ists and nothing else. Their inter- ests and those of the master class are as identical as those of the Irish bailiffs who used to throw tenants out of thejr homes at the behest of the landlords. If the American min- ers go into battle under the leader- ship of Lewis, they are going into battle under a severe handicap. They must organize to get rid of Lewis at the same time that they fight the greedy coal barons. ZEIGLER MINE PIKETS DEMAND OLD OFFICIALS BE RETURNED TO LOCAL ZEIGLER, Ills., August 18.—The “wild cat” strike at Zeigler, which to date has taken a toil of one life, flamed anew this morning when a few scabs who yesterday started work at the mines, were halted at the mine’ shaft by pickets and told “there will be no work here today.” The pickets are unwilling that op- erations should be resumed at the mines until the old local officials, who were deposed by the sub-dis- trict officials be reinstated. see 'HEN the Jacksonville pact was signed, the left wing in the coal miners’ union represented by the Pro- gressive Miners’ Committee pointed out that this agreement would wreck the union. Lewis wanted a long term contract. Under the pressure of the government, the operators concided that. There was an election cam- paign coming and the G. O. P., of which Lewis and most of the big op- erators are members, did not want a coal strike on their hands. It might mean a democrat in the White House. a HE predictions of the progressive miners turned out to be only too true. The operators not only violated the Jacksonville pact whenever it suited their purposes, but they also rode rough shod over working condi- tions secured by the miners after many hard struggles. Lewis always favored the operators. Now, when 70 per cent of the soft coal produced in the United States corhes out of non- union pits, he begins to threaten a general strike, ‘hat preparation is he making for such a strike? None that can be seen, ease HEN the British miners felt that a strike was inevitable, they en- tered into negotiations with the gen- eral labor movement and when the bosses threw down their challenge, labor was so powerful and determin- ed that the government surrendered. This is what A. J. Cook, secretary of the British miners’ federation sald a few days ago in commenting on the 2 RNR CL et RR BE Da Bae eee et it ee OR te Et RN Et Beh IAS ne ON a RE a But tho Berry does not like radicals in the union he has a great hankering for royalty. Did he not initiate the prince of (Wails) Wales, heir to the throne of the British empire, in Local 25, New York? The prin¢e was in the United States doing his stuff for the ruling class of Great Britain. The prince now boasts of a card, No. 01, qualifying him ag ‘w-Journeyman and remnant elmer TAB LE tetas ‘ honorary member-at-large of the I. P. P. and A. U. David Boyle and Joseph C, Orr issued his highness the card. The men who are locked out by the Cuneo Printing Company may slap themselves on the k and get all the consolation: thi “out of fact that they have a member of the contemptible flunkey Beery Mi te STOP WORK TO ANSWER SIGMAN BOSS COMBINE NEW YORK CITY, August 18—The Joint Committee of Action of Locals 2,9 and’ 22, of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is calling all cloak and dr makers to stop work on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock and fill ten of the larg- est New York City halls with their numbers in order to show the manu- facturers who are secretly aiding the Sigman gang in the Joint Board that the rank and file Jook to the Joint Action Committee and not to the Sig- man gang for leadership, and mean to permit no boss or bosses to trifle in union affairs. A general stoppage will be discussed if this continues. The ‘circular distributed thruout New York shops states as follows: Sisters. and Brothers:—It is nine weeks now. since we are conducting a bitter struggle against the machine of the Joint Board and the Interna- tional. In ‘their attempt to suppress the revolt of the membership (against their corrupt rule, the officialdom re- sorted to the most despicable meth- ods. No weapon was too degrading for them to employ in their conspir- acy against the membership, Alliance With Boss All thefr methods have been a total failure. The cloak and dressmakers have offered an iron wall of restat- ance against all the vicious attacks. The Joint Board has now made an open alliance with the bosses in or- der to break our ranks. This open betrayal of the workers has gone 80 far that the bosses have practically become the chairmen in the shops and force the workers to pay dues to the Joint Board and discharge them by the hundreds at the instigation of the Joint Board machine. This loyal service on the part of the bosses has been rewarded by giv- ing the bosses a free hand to disre- gard ali union rules and act as they please in their shops. Thru a secret understanding between the Joint Board and the employers, hundreds of workers have been thrown out of their jobs, under the guise of “reor- ganizations.” Even the Unemploy- ment Insyrance Fund, to which every one of us has contributed his or her share, is used as a weapon to force the workers to pay dues to the Joint Board. Must Say, “Hands Off.” Cloak and dressmakers! You have always shown a splendid spirit in our struggle. You have at every oppor- tunity demonstrated your readiness to defend what you believed to be right and permitted no one to trample upon your rights, The time has come when you must Say to your employers: “Hands Off!” The time has come when you must say to the Sigman clique: “Out With Yout” =; The time has come when you must declare before the entire world that you alone will decide who your rep- Tresentatives are to be and not the employers. In order to demonstrate your Power and make an end to the Present situation, we call on you to stop from work on Thursday afternoon, August 20, 3 o'clock sharp, to demonstrate your .deter- mination to carry this fight to a successful conclusion. Come to the halls that will be as signed for you. There you will act upon the question of calling a general stoppage against the employers in the event that they will continue to interfere in the internal affairs of our union, . It is your solemn duty to come and voice your opinion. It is your duty to come and decide the fate of the cloak and dressmakers, We call on all the cloak and dress- makers: Operators, sample workers, pressers, cutters, finishers, tailors, drapers, examiners and all other workers in the trade to come and de- cide the outcome of our struggle. JOINT COMMITTEE OF ACTION, : Locals 2, 9 and 22, Aetna Furniture Workers Victors in Short Strike (Continued from page 1) honest and courageous leadership of Communists, When, the boss called in the strilt- ers and agreed to grant their de mands, he said he did not know that they were “al Bolsheviks” and seem- ed surprised that they had taken their grievances to the DAILY .WORKER—“a Bolshevik paper.” Capitalist Press an Enemy. The workers replied that no capl- talist paper, like the Tribune and the others, would aid them at all, on the contrary, the capitalist papers were opposed to aiding them, and they had gone to the one and only genuine workers’ newspaper—the DAILY WORKER, A foreman who was mean and hos- tile to the workers, tho he had form- erly been a member of the union, is discharged so that any economy made is not to be taken out of the workers’ already scanty wages, ‘The firm was very ashamed to have published that it was the cheapest, payihg concern belonging to the man- ufacturer’s’ association. The workers are going back this morning in a solid body, fully determined to stick royal family in thefr°umion. What a'| together in the shop and not to per- mit further wage reductions Lene lad ™d ‘ w