The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1925, Page 1

NEAT AONE EE Se! LE wee Stee SP a — rr erm o] The DAILY WORKER Raises} the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 191. AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY pen hidden away in a. remote corner of last Wednesday's Chica-,| go Tribune was a little news item that had the kick of a Missouri mule init. According to the story, the Trench ‘government handed over to the Spviet government the Russian ships that were held in a French port, pending certain negotiations that were taking place between Paris and Mos- cow. Evidently the nggotiations ended in agreement. * vex TNHE fleet includes dreadnaughts, battle cruisers, destroyers and sub- * marines, a valuable acquisition to the Red navy in the Black Sea. Roumania will see red and Britain will find her prospects blacker than ever. It ap- pears that Russia and France have come to terms over the delicate ques- tion of indebtedness, and from what we read of, the terms are very favorable to the Russian workefs and peasants under the circumstances. Russia agrees to pay the small French bond holders vhat they lent Russia under the old regime, ‘but the payments will be made in paper francs and not in gold. ‘ihose who know the present condition ci the franc will get the point. ee NDER the terms of the agreement, granting that the reports are cor- rect, France agrees to extend large credits to the Soviet government in return for @ contract to help in the roconstruction of Russian industries. Pritain is looking at this phenomen- on with a jaundiced eye. Franco- Russian companies will be formed to exploit mines, forests, factories, and oil fields in Russia. The agreement explains recent tight rope walking stunts on the part of Briand, French premier. HEN Britain began organizing an anti-Soviet bloc, France appeared to be receptive. Briand replied to Chamberlain’s invitation to come in and share in the fuh, with an accept- “anee in principle, practically compli- menting the British on their altruis- tie work in behalf of civilization, but hinting that France had not yet ar- rived at the state of human perfec- tion which would permit her to par- ticipate in such hazardous sport. It seems that Chamberlain went ahead as if France were willing, like Barkis in Dickens’ novel, 2 'N the meantime, France had a com- mission in Moscow which was ne- gotiating over the old debts and oth- er matters. Only last week Briand fiew over to Britain and climbed up the backstairs at Downing street to have a very, very secret conversation with the British foreign secretary. So serious was the situation that the wily Frenchman insisted that nothing must be @iscussed except matters on which there is mutual agreement. During the discussion, if discussion, it may be called, Briand flashed the tenta- tive agreement between France and Russia on Chamberlain, and politely inquired how was the security pact getting along? ee RIAND was awfully glad to see England trying to protect civiliza- tion from Bolshevism. Really, France is doing the same thing in Morocco, only in. Morocco civilization is being saved from the inferior culture of Abd-el-Krim. Briand. asked Cham- berlain for a match and snickered as much as to say, “You know what I mean and I know what you mean. We are a pair of damn liars and none of us believes the othef.” The news- Papers said that Chamberlain and Briand were in perfeet harmony. They were, simply because they discussed nothing. *. ¢ @ Reece was once the most bitter enemy of Soviet Russia ‘in Eu- (Continued on page 2) THREATS AND LIES FAIL TO FREE GERMAN FASCIST TERRORISTS WHO CONFESSED ANTI-SOVIET DESIGNS Vey Subscrs, 45.4 . So ’ | ¢.¢ Posie | Vig Vay ° Wa % 8 >> 0, « sy @, Acage, by mall, $8.00 per sear. fae Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. oY _ STOP VOTE UPON A BIG WALKOUT Garment Workers to Answer Sigman Gang (Special to The Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 20. —Paul Crouch and Walter Trum- bull, victims of U. 8. army court martial from the Schofield Barracks in the Hawailan Islands, have ar- rived here by army transport on August 14. Their case Is being le- gally cared for by the International Labor Defense, which has engaged Attorney Austin Lewis to work for their rel 5 The two soldiers, who have de- clared their adhesion to the Com- munist movement, for which dec- laration they were made the vic- tims of military persecution and il- legal’ verdicts of a military court are now imprisoned In the infamous military prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay—a prison noted for Its harah and brutal treat- ment of ail soldiers who fall Into This issue of the DAILY WORKER went to press too early to obtain news of the stoppage demonstration of the cloak and dressmakers of New York City, called by the Joint Action Com- mittee of Locals 2, 9 and 22 for late Thursday afternoon as spoken of in the following dispatch on the eve of the demonstration: see NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 20.—The stoppage today is the culmination of a fight between the three locals and the officials of the union which has been going on for over two months. It is called as a protest against the interference of the employers in this internal union quarrel, to warn them [ not to take advantage of the present | situation to lower the standards in the shops and also to reiterate the de- mands of the three locals for rein- statement of their expelled officers, for the resignation of President Sig- man, and for a reorganization of the New York Joint Board of the union. With banners and brass bands the workers are to march from their shops to ten meeting halls on lower Man- hattan, and there vote as to whether a general stoppage shall be called in the industry to enforce the demands of these locals which comprise 60 pey cent of the union members in New York City. To Call Sigman-Boss Combine’s Bluff. “This will be the greatest demon- ‘ stration held in this city for years,” says Louis Hyman, chairman of the Joint Committee of Action, “and we expect it to show, once and for all, | that the majority of the workers are behind our three locals in their fight for a reorganized, democratic union. The Joint Board has held out against us by asserting constantly that we are |" but a handful of troublemakers in the union. “But this stoppage will prove that the mass of the membership is in this battle and intends to force the officials of the union to listen to them. They are refusing to be terrorized by gang- sters. or by threats of employers. They intend to win this fight for a union cleared of its corrupt political ma- chine, and run by the workers them- selves.” ‘ No Legal Bar to Left Wing Picketing. An important decision was rendered in Jefferson Market court by Magis- trate Richard McKiniry in the case of two members of the three suspended locals who had been arrested for pick- eting. This was a case to test the right of these workers to picket peacefully and they were arrested in front of 164 West 25th street, on a technical charge of disorderly conduct. The of- ficer testified that the two picketers were creating no disturbance and that they were not blocking traffic. Magistrate McKiniry ruled that no matter what faction or what union a person belongs to, or whether he be- longs to no union at all, he may go on strike, and it is perfectly lawful for him to picket peacefully and he is not subject to arrest. This ruling will make it impossible for the Joint Board to continue its provocative tactics in front of shops where the Joint Com- mittee of Action has declared a strike. These strikes have been called in shops where workers were discharged by order of the Joint Board for their sympathy with Locals 2, 9 and 22, MOSCOW, U. S. S. Ri—The three German fascists, Kindermann, Dittmar and Wolscht, who were sentenced to death by a Soviet court, failed to gain their freedom by hysterically lieing just before the court passed sentence, Only Dittmar, who declared his visit had changed his opinions of the Soviet Union stood by his confessions to the last. : Kindermann, by trying to explain his confession “psychologically”, en meshed himself in numerous contra- dictions. Wolscht was defiant, and declared the German fascists would have revenge. The German legationsrat, Hilger, ap- peared in court. He came to the trial from the embassy, to attempt to save the fascists who admitted planning at- tempts on the life of Trotsky and Stalin, and other anti-Soviet terror- istic plots. Organization fe AE. vod Trip, ‘The defending counsel, Duchovski, made a declaration to the effect that he did not feel himself in a position to deliver the speech for the defense of Kindermann as the accused had maintained no contact with him thru- out the course of the whole proceed- ings and had given him no indication Boe (Continued on page 3! } Boishevization of the party. There are 54 di Central by the Central Executive Committee, IMPERIALISTS REFUSE AUTONOMY TO CHINA, EVEN ON ITS TARIFF (Special to The Daily Worker) . TOKIO, August 20.—it was learned officially here today that the im- perialist powers have decided to refuse China’s request that the question of customs autonomy be included in the agenda of the Peking customs con- ference scheduled to open October 26, It has been agreed by the eight powers signatory to the Washington traety, [t was learned, that the conference agenda shall embrace only the matters stipulated by the Washington treaty, : After the conclusion of the customs conference, the powers will hea China's requests for consideration of extraneous subjects and decide then what action is ta be taken on such requests, A note conveying this decision to China is being prepared, \ Ly wo Entered as Sccond-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post OMce at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1925 10 \Crouch and Trumbull Are Imprisoned at Alcatraz the clutches of courts martial. 1, L. D, Continues the Fight, The International Labor Défense, which has already contributed ma- terlally to the legal defense of the prisoners when efforte were made by the labor movement of Hawaii to save them from persecution, has taken up thejcase on the mainiand and is. vigorously pressing the case in the ninth U, 8, district court at San Francisco. The firat move in’the case made by the Intrenational Labor Defense is already taken, with the engage- | ment of the noted labor attorney, | Austin Lewis, to fight the legal battle for the release of Crouch and Trumbull from Alcatraz prison. Noted Lawyerfoe I, W. W. Engaged. Austin Lewis,|who was the at- torney for R Ford and Her- man Suhr, victims of the Wheat- >” land hop pickers’ strike 12 years ago, as well as the defender of a great many more recent cases of the 1. W. W. victims of California re- action, is proceeding with the ‘neces- sary documentation to enter the courts in San Francisco with a de- mand for release of Crouch and Trumbull as being illegally im- prisoned. Before their living burial behind the walls of their istand prison began, the two Communist soldiers sent final farewell greet- ings to the revolutionary workers of all the world, thanked the Inter- national Labor Defense and all other friends who had aided them and emphatically re-asserted their pledge that when their term is over they will emerge with their convictions only strengthened by prison, to work for the proletarian revolution. silent : DELIGHTFUL—BUT HOW ABOUT THE WORKERS YUM YUM !— J Cee ro. Unc to be seated, and the delegates supporting the Executive Committee are in overwhelming majority of the conven- tion, the minority faction having won only one district convention com- pletely, that of Pittsburgh, with all other districts except Boston being carried | many of them, aseChicago, not even +electing a singles delegate supporting the opposition to the C, E, Cc, The decision of the Communist In- ternational upon the points at dis- pute, however was given recently, in which the errors it stated had been found .on both sides have. been cor- rected and a new program given of Bolshevization, reorganization. and unity of the Communist elements in both groups to fight the right wing danger which menaces the unity of the party. dt Unity upon the*basis of the. resolu- tions, adopted umarimously by_ the Parity Commission, is expected to be the keynote of the present conven- tion. The first two conventions of the party were held in New York,. the (Continued on page 2) Bomb Placed at Home of Union Pressman WORKERS PARTY OPENS FOURTH — CONVENTION AT CHICAGO TODAY The fourth convention of the Workers (Communist). Party of America will open at\2 p. m. this afternoon, at Imperial Hall, 2409 North Halsted St. Delegates from the various districts were arriving Wednesday and Thursday in preparation for the convention which issto unite all Com-) munist elements in the party against the non-Communist right wing, which the Communist International has pointed out as the enemy of the unity and BERRY’S GANG SUSPECTED OF Girl Stamps Out Lighted Fuse; Saves Lives The night after the home of James King, locked out Cuneo pressmany was shot up by gangsters believed to be acting under the direction of Chicago agents of George L. Berry, president of the I. P. P and A. U., an attempt was made to blow up the home of Jimmy Brandt, 4220 North Whipple street. Brandg is an active leader in the fight against Berry and his tool, - (Continued on page 2) TERROR REIGN | Halt Wall St. Propaganda in Mongolia PEKING, August 20.—The decision of the Mongolian government not to | NEWYORK EDITION Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CCL, 1118 W. Warhington Blvd., Chicago, UL AMALGAMATED OFFICIAL TAKEN 10 WAUKEGAN, JAILED IN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FRAM Sidney Rissman, assistant |the Amalgamated Clothing Wo employes in Chicago. Rissman was taken from h | sheriff, and lodged in jail here on the “conspiracy” charge, after being arraigned before | justice of the peace H..C, Coul- json. His bond was placed at $10,000. Hearing on August 29. The Amalgamated’s Waukegan law- yers brot Rissman before circuit Jud- ge C, C. Edwards on a writ of habeas corpus, and attempted to obtain a re- duction in the bonds. Edwards set the bail at $8,000.00 and set the case for hearing August 29. That the chamber of commerce, working in alliance with the charmber of commerce in Chicago, which has aided the International company, is back of the arrest is evidenced by sta- tements made by Frank Fowler, sec- retary of the chamber of commerce at the Waukegan council meeting August 17. | Fowler pointed out that the cham- ber of commerce had offered a reward of a thousand dollars for anyone fast- ened with the acid throwing—and the chamber of commerce prefers to fra- me-up union men. Fowler, a former Chicago alderman, closely connected with the Chicago manufacturers, said in the council meeting that J. V. Balz, a city com- missioner and ex-officio chief of police, was “the greatest exponent of ineffi- clency I have ever known”, because he did mot bring in union men and charge them with the acid throwing. The warrant for Rissman’s arrest was signed by States Attorney” A. Smith, ‘Strikers fn Court Today. The sixteen members of thé Ainalga- mated Clothing Workers charged with “conspiracy” will appear before Judge John Lyle at the Maxwel! St. ‘police court this morning for heafing. Wil- | Mam A, Cunnea, lawyer for the Amal- samated, will ask for a change of ve- | nue, because gudge Lyle has already stated he believes some of the union men guilty of slugging. Most of the union members, who were arrested following a raid on the Amalgamated headquarters conducted by Mike Grady, slugging cop, on a search warrant signed by Ray Reeder, secretary of the International Tailor- ing Company, are striking employes of the firm. Not only the raids and arrests con- ducted by the Amalgamated, but the arrest yesterday of Rissman, are dec- lared by Amalgamated members to be attempts of the garment bosses to break the strike. Three pickets were arrested yester- day. They were Florence Nathan, Mary Shymeheck and Hymen Frank. All were released on bail. The three strikers were merely walking the pick- et line when arrested. Financial Aid Pledged. At the meeting, of shop chairmen of the Amalgamated held in the Labor Lyceum, Ogden and Kedzie avenues, all present pledged as much financial aid to the strikers as is necessary to bring the conflict to a succepstul con- clusion. Price 3 Cents E-UP, BAIL $8,000 OE | ad manager of the joint board of rkers, was arrested at his home | yesterday, and taken to Waukegan on a Warrant charging “con- | spiracy,” and later released on $8,000 bond. 4 Rissman’s arrest was instigated by the Waukegan chamber of commerce, which is attempting to frame-up the Amalgamated for a raid on a tailor shop here last week and thus aid the Inter- national Tailoring company break the strike of the company’s is Chicago home by a deputy ‘MAAN’ BERRY AS LOOTER OF UNION FUNDS Chicago Press Get on His Crooked Trail This ig the seventh of a series of articles exposing the crooked career of George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's and | Assistants’ Union. The members of the International union are now de | termined to get rid of Berry and Ber- | rylem. | *ee | For a long time there was a general feeling among the most acttve mem- bers of the International Printing Pressmen’s and Assistants’ Union fhat there wa something wrong with the financial management of the interna- tional union. The editorial in the Rogersville Review convinced the membership that Berry was playing for big stakes and that he was using the funds of the union to further his own political and business ambt- tions. After August 81, 1918, financial re- ports ceased to come from head- quarters altho the lews of the union demand that reports of the secretary- treasurer must be sent out every three months. The international union had an in- come of $400,000 per annum, had loaned large sums of money from the pension fund in “real. estate invest- ments” but had not taken up the mortgage held on the home by the Hawkins county bank for eight years, which amounted to only $20,000, a very small sum compared to what was loaned out on real estate invest- ments, According to Orr's reports all other funds were taken out of the pen- {sion fund. A Second Henry Ford. It should not be forgotten thet when Berry ran for the demoeratic nomination for vice-president of the United States, his publicity staff enumerated the number of tndustrial enterprises he launched. Ryery one of those enterprises was financed by money taken from the pension fund and war emergency fund. This money was subscribed by the members of the union, and here was the “majah” posing as a secnod edition of Henry Ford, and climbing up the ladder of his ambition built from the money wrung from the sweat and blood of the members of the intrenational union. Is it any wonder that the mem- bers of the international union re- volted? And it is because they pro- tested against this kind of conduct that men like Barney Nolan, Jim (Continued on page 2) ARMED ZEIGLER MINERS DEFEND HOMES AGAINST TERRORIZATION ZEIGLER, Ml., Angust 20.—With dark forces combined in the coal ope: spiracy are trying to crush the revolt local union officers: by the traitorous o of the Mlinois District 12 of the U. M | rorization to frighten the miners back to work in behalf of Farrington and the coal operators. All available firearms were pr into service and dozens of min were deputized by the anti-klan may- or, Murphy Smith. The long string of flats, the buildings. where scores of miners’ families.live, were veritable permit further researches in Mongolia by the American Museum of Natural History under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, because of alleged | interference in politics by members of the party was delivered to Andrews here today, rs | BY KLAN AND FARRINGTON GANG the whips of hunger, union blacklist of the Farrington machine, the menace of prison and even armed force, the rator Farrington-faker-ku-klux-klan con- of the Zeigler miners who struck more than ten days ago against the illegal removal of Henry Corbishley and other flicials, Fox and Cobb of\Sub-District 9, . W. of A, Last night, Zeigler flew to arms after keeping all night vigil yesterday, when word came that the hated K. K. K. were about to stage a raid of ter barracks, with miners standing as sen: tries all night. Nor is this all play and practice | for the miners’ vigilance had its re- | sult in the fact that the K. K. K. altho’ it sent scout auto cars into Zeigler, got cold feet when these Scouts reported that the Zeigler min- ers were prepared to defend their fam- ilies and thei? homes. Refuse to be Terrorized. The K. K. K. had gathered from four southern counties, keagles, kow: ards and all, to make a raid to terror- ize the Zeigler miners and frighten them back to work, But they got (Continued on page 6,) Se