The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1925, Page 2

Page Two -MAJAH’ BERRY AS LOOTER OF UNION FUNDS Chicago Press Get on His C rooked Trail (Continued trom page 1) so sick that he could not ever crawl out from the sheets to get installed. Callins had to “annoit" him in bed, Collins and Geary put several lead- ing questions to Berry and Orr con- cerning the.financial condition of the home properties. Berry said that they could go to the home and investigate if they wished, an impossible pro: ceeding, or else they could return rto Chicago and propound questions for submission to him, embodying what |the pressmen wanted to know about the affairs of the international union. Framed the Questiong, The trustes returned to Chicago and after consulting with the officers David Simons in New| smen’s union in) Chicago were crucified by this capital- ist stoolpigeon and fake patriot, Another Grafting Scheme, | About this time, Berry sent out his | call for the “war emergency fund” Assessment. Many of the local unions | feeling that Berry would loot it as} he had looted the pension fund, voted | against it. The “majah” made use of all the patriotic bunk that the cap- italists were using to make the work ers believe they were fighting for something noble instead fo the filthy ts of the House of Morgan, Berry waved the American flag before the eyes of the membership. But the members of Pressmen’s Union No. 3 were not fooled. | In August, 1919, Willam J, Geary | and John J. Collins, school and home| trustees, appeared before the exe-| cutive committee of the Chicago} Printing Pressmen’s Union No, 3 of which they were members and stated that they were not satisfied with the financial reports sent ont by Secretary- Treasurer Orr. Geary and Collins in-| formed the executive board of No. 3} that no meetings of the international executive board were held for one year and that they warted an investi- gation into the financial affairs of the internatoinal union. The members then gave Collins and Geary and the| executive board of No. 8 power to} take up the matter of a complete in- vestigation of the financfa] affairs of the international union. When this information reached the “majah” he got the political shivers. Diplomatic illness is a most con- venient malady when a person wants to evade some unpleasant duty. So when Trustee Collins was jo install the home trustees and the officers of the international union for the ensu- ing two years Berry got conveniently stricken with illness. Secretary-Treas- urer Orr was in Cincinnati at the time. President Berry was in Chica- go two days before the installation ,| the pension fund. of Local No, 3, fourteen relating to the financial affairs of the International union were addressed to Berry. The letter containing the | questions was signed by Wm. L. Haas, resident and John J. Knapp, secre- tary-treasurer, Despite this investigation by Press- men's Local No, 3, Berry claimed that “not one written line of protest or claim of irregularity or dishonesty have ever been submitted to the offic- ers of the International Union,” And in addition to the investigation, Berry had received a letter from the officers of Pressmen's Union No. 3, demanding an explanation of th n- accounted for balance of $20,285.41” in Berry left for France to work for the House of Mor- gan shortly after the investigation into his money transactions were in- itiated. Called First Conference. In February, 1919, the Philadelphia Pressmen’s Union sent out a call for a conference to talk over matters concerning the affairs of the union. Locals from Chicago, New York and St. Louis attended. There were no plans formulated at that conference but in April of the same year a con- ference was held in Chicago at which 23 unions were represented, coming from all parts of the country. At this conference the delegates learned how Berry juggled the refer- endum on the war emergency assess- ment. The Chicago pressmen ex- plained that they had taken! legal ac- tion to prevent Berry from forcing them to pay the assessment. It developed that the Clinchfield Mercantile company, the Clinchfield Hydro-Electric company and_ the Clinchfield Land and Lumber com- pany were the personal properties of “Majah” George L. Berry and were incorporated under their names in the state of Tennessee. see The next article of this series will of the officers, altho this fact -was un- known at the time to either trustees and the board of directors, Berry jumped to Cincinnati. Berry was in- vited to Chicago but he claimed the expense was too much. This from a man who burned up more than $150,- 000 in breaking the pressmen’s strike in New York in 1919. All the officers and trustees with the exception of Berry and Orr were installed in Chicago. The “majah” instructed Trustee Collins to come to Cincinnati to install Berry and Orr, Berry was not concerned with the ex- pense. What he was worried about, was a joint meeting of the trustees} and the board of directors, On the advice of the executive board of Pressmen’s Union No. 3, Trustees} Geary and Collins went to Cincinnati; for the donble purpose of installing the two fakers and also to put cer- tain questions to them. When they arrived In Cincinnati the “majah” was sick in bed. He-was continue the expose of Berry's jug- gling of the funds of ‘the Interna- tional Union. Steck Holds His Lead. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—With the recount complete in 61 counties, Dan- iel F. Steck, democrat, has a lead of 11,025 votes over Senator Smith W. Brookhart in the contested Iowa sena- torial election, the senate elections committee announced today. The total uncontested vote was: Steck, 246,174; Brookhart, 235,149. A total of 5,641 individual ballots was challenged; of which 4,296 were cast for Brookhart and 1,345 for Steck. Quake Busy In Japan. TOKIO, Ang, 20.—Aicha and Gifu prefectures were shaken by an earth- quake early today. Clocks were stopped in Nagoya and other cities, but mo serious damage has been re- ported, The temblor frightened the populace badly. i (Short Term] Written by Leon 8-Month Sub to the DAILY MY FLIGHT FROM/SIBERI 1113 W. Washington Blyd. 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The officers of the Hebrew Butchers Local Union 596 of the Amalgamated Meat: Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America are engaged in ne- gotiating an agrement to replace the old agreement which expires on Sept. 1. The demands of the Hebrew butch- ers are a raise of $5 per week for apprentices, from $35 to $40, and for first hand butchers from $46 to $50 per week. The men now work seven days a Week, and they demand that they be allowed Sunday off, as they are inhumanly driven at present with a working week of 70 hours. No understanding has been reached at present, but the men are: deter- mined that these demands shall be granted even if they have to strike for them, should the bosses continue their refusal, The negotiating committee for the union consists of the president, busi- hess agent, secretary and other local union officials. AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) rope. But a great change has. taken place. Soviet Russia is getting strong while France is getting weak. Bri- tain has now taken France's place as the leading foe of the workers’ repub- lic. But Britain will be sorry she as- sumed the responsibility. Japan in Asia and Fran¢e in Europe have now come to terms; with the Soviet pow- er. This will be taken by the social- ists to mean that the Soviet govern- ment has surrendered to the capital- ists. It is the other way around. see OTH powers, Japan and France fought '’ Russia until they both learned they Were biting granite. Sov- jet Russia i8° gradually building up her industriés. Even without foreign credits this ¢dn be done slowly. With foreign credits it can be done more rapidly. The workers and peasants retain political: power and the masses . THE DAILY WORKER AMERICAN DELEGATES SAIL TO ATTEND SOVIET AGADEMY \QEREBRATION NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—James P. Goodrich, efor viet Ru of In- diana, sailed for Soviet Russia to- day. Goodrich was accompanied by Dr. F, A, Golder, of Leland Stanford University, Both are delegates to the 200th anniversary of the organ- ization of the academy of sciences in Leningrad. REPORT PROVES BOAT DISASTER DUE TO-NEGLECT Profit Greed: Imperiled Lives of 700 NEWPORT, R. L., Aug. 20.—Forty dead, others still hoygring in agony between life and death and many of the 60 injured dodmed to be blinded and disfigured for.jifer-this is the terrible toll recorded ,thus far in the excursion steamer Mackinac boiler ex- plosion disaster, ¢ The cause of thg disaster is laid entirely to capitalist greed. The state investigators’ report.states they found the boiler old, deteriorated by wear and thinned down in many places and not in a condition to be used. Many repairs in the boiler prove that it was completely worn out. The steamer, built in Wisconsin in 1909, is reported to have suffered from boiler trouble all summer and even | (his trip was delayed -because a patch had 40 be welded on the boiler. In this condition the boat was used and the lives of 700 excursionists were imperiled with the resulting disaster. As young people jwere, dancing to the strains of a jazg orchestra, there was a concussion followed by a cloud of steam. Stifled by tha steam and with their flesh cooked, men, women and children rushed ,plindly about the decks, some of them, Jeaping over- board, a f The bursting of a, pipe in the bot- tom of the boat caused the disaster. Berry’s Gang: Is Suspected of This are being constantly educated along Communist lines. In the capitalist countries the, revolutinary movement countries the revolutionary movement of Soviet Russia are being built with the aid of foreign credits those very powers who aré granting the credits see the workers in their own coun- tries every day increasing their pow- er and preparing to become the rul- ing class, It is an interesting study. Hold U. $.-Canadian Confab, WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—A confer ence to agree upon regulations for the enforcement of the anti-smuggling treaty between the United States and Canada started at the treasury depart- ment, « / Fire Routs Parisites. OCEAN GROVE, N. J., Aug. 20,— Fire early today swept the North End hotel, a seaside resort here, driving 400 guests from their rooms and de- stroying the hotel, Build the DAILY WORKER. | [Long Term] oseke esareasesseovonscssvveh GN eaD $5.00 New. Terror Reign (Continued tréin’ page 1) local President Crambert of Franklin Union No 4 | os ‘ This morning about 7:15 o'clock, when Miss Mabel Clapk, who lives on the second floor of the. same address, was going to work, she, found two one- pound sticks of dynamite, heavily cov- ered with friction tape, in the hall en- trance door. A long piece of fuse was lighted. With remarkable presence of mind she stamped out the fuse and threw the dynamite into the adjoining lot. When Brandt was}hotified he went to pick up the dynafhitd and by that time several children between the ages of four and ten were playing with the bomb. Brandt took the dynamite into the house. vi it In the meantime Officer McCarthy from the Irving Park station called at the house and took the dynamite to the station. The apartment is filled with women and children, and but for the presence of mind of Miss Clark it is more than likely that several lives would be lost. The bombing is attributed to the ac- tivity of Jimmy Brandt in fighting against Berry and his cohorts and also the scab printing companies in Chicago that fear a new leadership ‘in the union, During the last election in the union Brandt carried on a vigorous campaign against Berry and President Crambert of Franklin Union No. 4. A slugging committee was organized to beat up the progressives, including Brandt, but the sluggers got the worst of it. Further developments in the shoot- ing up of the homevef James King, 2622 North Austin awenue, are: A woman who livemin a neighboring house witnessed thershooting which took place about 11:80 Tuesday night. This woman saw a re(sfaced individual who was sitting beside the chauffeur in an automobile geteup on the porch of King’s home and Jook thru the win- dow. He then camedown on the side- walk and fired three shots thru the window, "4 The police from Craigin avenue sta- tion are now invest: ating the sh Mrs. King is in a very nervous © over the ineident, as she is afraid the gunmen may return at any time. There is a good-sized hole in the dining room door of King's home, where the bullet went thru. Tho leekout at the Cuneo printing Plant is still on, with the men who walked out confident that they can defeat Berry and the printing bosses, The Keogh Printing Company, which locked out the pressmen, teed- ers and compositors three weeks ago, settled with the unions, —L Max Mason, professor of mathemat- ical physics of the University of Wis- consin, will be thermext president of the University of Ghicago, beginning with the fall term, Oct, 1st, Thé Unt versity of Chicago has been without a president since the death of President Lawson Fought Chicase Workers with His Daily News for Fifty Years By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, 's ODAY, “Vic"’ Lawson, anti-labor publisher of the Chicago . Daily News, lies dead in his stone castle on the North Shore “Gold Coast” while thousands of jobless trooped as ever to the “slave market,” in Wells and Madison streets, to buy his sheet and study the want ads. “Vio” Lawson passes, much like Eastman, of the Daily Journal, who died recently, both hailed as “personal editors,” but the papers they owned and controlled never missed an edition, continuing publication as if nothing had happened to their proprietors, * * “Vic” Lawson hardly ever appeared openly in his paper fighting labor, like General Otis, the notorious “open shop” editor and owner of the Los Angeles Times, who personally conducted the labor-crushing campaigns inaugurated -b paper. But the Daily News was and will Y his continue one of the most bitter anti-labor sheets in the land. Lawson was not an editor. manager. Every conceivable circulation, which means the He was more a business means was exploited to win much sought after “State Street" advertising, with its, millions of dollars in annual income. . . Lawson got his Daily News started nearly half a century ago, during the hard fought railroad strike of 1877, when his sheet poured out a flood of special editions upholding the railroad barons as they conducted their ruthless warfare against railroad labor; 10 massacred at the 16th Street tracks in Chicago, 20 murdered in Pittsburgh, with the state militia under arms thruout the entire east and the middle west. Since that bloody summer of 1877, down thru the nearly half century that has passed, “Vic’ Lawson's Daily News has been in the vanguard of the capitalist attack against the workers, It has always held close to John M. Glenn's Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, that led in the fight to. smash the Illinois Mine Workers’ Union during the troubles grow- ing out of the mine owners’ efforts to establish “open shop" conditions at Herrin, in Williamson county. The Daily News has been the Chicago mouthpiece of the attack against the Gomifunists. The last drive consisted of the billboarding over the entire city and vicinity of huge advertisements annduncing, the “Spolansky Anti-Red Articles,” that were later prominently featured. Sine iat aa In spite of its deliberate and carefully planned anti-labor policy, the Daily News for a time boasted of the greatest afternoon circulation of any capitalist daily. The workers bought it and imbibed its poison, After more than a quarter century of struggle, how- ever, Hearst’s American has finally overtaken it. Hearst came to Chicago as “a friend of labor.” Then he became respectably anti-labor and was richly 're- warded with paying advertising patron ers still duped continue to buy and read this Hearst organ. ’ * * * . None will now sing the praises of “Vic” Lawson louder than this same Hearst sheet. competitor. Lawson, it will draw: battles, if it would ° Chicago labore WORKER. Chicago) side of the exploiters. Chi to its own paper, the DAILY up into the hundreds.of thousands, and make to fight successfully against the robber class. c But that does not concern workers interested in the rise to power of their class, If labor correctly studies the life and deeds of “Vic” e lesson that labor must fight its own as its own daily paper, the DAILY abor turned its son’s Daily News to Hearst’s American, onl betrayed, because both are capitalist dailies, f, ‘© labor must turn again, turn He got circulation. But the work- It will be joy over a crippled patronage from Law- to find itself ighting on the ORKER, build its circulation it a power able Workers Party Opens Fourth Convention in Chicago Today (Continued from page 1) third was held at Chicago in the last days of December, 1923, and the early days of January, 1924. The delegates by districts are as follows: Chicago—-7 delegates for the C. EC. i New York—7 for the C, E, C., 4 for opposition, Buffalo—2 delegates for the ©, E.C. ~ Detroit—2 for the C, E, C., 1 for the opposition. Cleveland—3 for the C, E, C., 1 for the opposition. Minnesota—5 for the C, E, C. Callfornia—8 for the ©. E, C. Ore and Washington District —2 de! is for the C, E. O. Connecticut—1 for the C, E. C, Philadelphia--2 for the C. E, C, 1 for the opposition, Boston—2 for the ©. E, C,, 3 for the’ opposition, Pittsburgh—3 for opposition, Ernest De Witt Burton last May, a SSEL A Keen Debate 1S CONTAINED IN THIS BOOK ON THE SUBJECT: RESOLVED: That the Soviet Form of Gov- ernment Is Applicable to West- ern Civilization, Board bound this attractive volume will make a welcome addition to your library. t BRITISH LION'S TAIL TWISTED BY CANTONESE LONDON, Aug. 20.—The order of the South China government exclud- ing British and Japanese vessels from Chinese ports continued today to per- Plex the foreign office, The situation was serious enuf to call back Foreign Minister Chamber- Jain from his summer holiday. He turned to Downing street today, While the foreign office openly at- tributes the Canton government's dis- criminatory shipping regulations to Bolshevistic influence, the situation has perplexing aspects due to the fact that Great Britain has not recognized the Canton regime. The foreign office can therefore deal officially only with the Peking government, and the latter is powerless to assert any effective authority over the Cantonese politi- clans, SILLINSKY IS CANDIDATE FOR ALF.OFL. MEET Gives J. T. U. of A. Left . Wing Program CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 20. — Max J. Sillineky, left wing candidate for delegate to the coming American Federation of Labor convention from the Journeymen Tailors’ Union of ‘| America, has issued a statement to the membership, gram. Sillinsky declares that the govern- ment is controlled by the employers, and that labor must not only fight the “open shop” but must act politie- ally as a class in {ts own party, in- dependent of the capitalist class. Sillingky ran against the reactionary machine candidate Thomas Sweeney for secretary-treasurer of the union in the last union elections, and received a large yote, Sillinsky’s letter to the union mem- bers follows: Cleveland, O., Aug. 6, 1925. Brothers:— I have accepted the nomination for delegate to the coming American Fed- eration of Labor convention with a thoro understanding of the duties of a delegate to that. body. Always fight- ing for principles, in committee and on the convention floor, I have con- sistently defended the interests of our organization in all jurisdictional dis- putes and in all matters of general principles. f The recent decision of the Ohio state supreme court against the Street Carmen's Union of Cleveland, and in- junctions issued against. unions in times of strikes, are reminders of what the workers are now coming to ac- cept without. argument—that the gov- ernment is in control of the employ- ing class, and that it is using its po- litical power to increase profits and keep down the workers, History offers abundant. proof that what little has been gained by labor from a capitalist government has come from the exercise af labor's po- litical power.. There has developed in the United States the world’s most powerful financial oligarchy, whose purpose it’ is to destroy the unions. The “American plan” is the: policy of this oligarchy whith is dominatihg our government: from city councils to Washington.. To oppose the “Amer: ican plan” and the open shop cam--. paign is to fight: not only the control of industry by the financitl interests, but, their: palitical power as well.. Labor must adopt at once the policy of voting as @ class for its own can- didates. Labor should abandon for- ever its non-partisan policy of’ support- ing the old party politician who be- fore election shouts the loudest in favor of labor. Parties which repres- ent business interests, not only those of Wall Street, but also of the smaller fry, who are no less anxious than the big interests to grind aut of lebor every possible penny—such parties must be repudiated by labor, In the struggle against capitaliam, final victory is certain if. the workers will close up their ranks and march forward with determined spirit and fighting policies under amalgamation with other needle trades unions and the banner of the class struggle to the free society of the future, Such are my views onthe matters referred to above, and I trust the membership will support me with their votes and honor me as one of their delegates to the convention of the American Federation of Labor.. Fraternally yours, MAX J. SILLINSKY, French Debt Board ’ Sails for America About September 15 WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—Seare- tary of Treasury Mellon, chairman of the American war debt commissfon, was ofMcially advised by the French government that its debt negotia- tors would sail for the United Statés about September 15 to begin nego- tiations for funding the approxi mately $4,000,000,000 debt of France to this country. The membership of the French’ commission was not given, RUSSELL-NEARING DEBATE THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, outlining his pro- ]