The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1925, Page 1

| | | The DAILY WORKER Ralses the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government THE Vol. Il. No. 192. Cee Ney ENGLai ZEIGLER MINERS HOLD BACK SCABS; PREPARING TO FIGHT CONSPIRACY TO RAILROAD MEN (Special to The Dally Worker) ZEIGLER, Ill, August 21,—Provocateurs attempted to start trouble at the Bell and Zoller Mine No. 1 here this ee =) when a picket line of hundreds of union miners who have refuse: to work formed to send back local weaklings and what ever other miners might be brought In to take their places. Scores of women turned out with the strikers and some of them threw rotten eggs at those oe to enter the pit for work. A rock was thrown and a small riot developed in which ickhandles and coal figured much to the disaster of those try- ng ‘to enter the mine. The miners have been careful not to allow any of their num- Subscriptio: nicago, fe, by mail, 98.00 per year, { DAIL by mail, $6.00 per year. | WORKER. | Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the! Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 4, 1879. SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1925. 2” NAKED SCABBERY ber to c: guns on the picket deputies line. A contingent of police and o have been stationed at the mine for the last ten mornings since the beginning of the strike are in open sympathy with the men who refuse to work. A number of the officers have pics capac ens bce ae AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY HE worst feature of the surrender of the British government to the ‘threat of a general strike, said James Ramsay MacDonald, socialist, is the prestige it gave to the Communists. Better that the miners lose than that the Communists’ program should be Justified. Lest an injustice may be done to Mac, here is exactly what he said: “The government has simply handed over the appearance, at any rate of victory, to the very forces, that sane, well-considered thoroly wellexamined socialism feels ‘to be probably its greatest enemy. see ag the government had fought their policy out, one would have respect- ed it} It just suddenly doubled up. The consequence has been to increase "he power and the prestige of tttose | who do not believe in political action.” What a shame that the British trade union movement preferred to aceépt the industrial program of the Com- munists rather than suffer shipwreck ?. eee ; N times of crisis the workers .are not finicky. They are more inclin- ed to grasp at whatever promises, to bring them succor than in nogmal times, when they are easily influenc- ed by propaganda that appeals to their prejudices. Wherever the work- ers are engaged in battle with the employers the Communists are,”al- ways there on the side of the’ work-, ers, regardless of how they may dis: | agree with them on political issues. ‘ee Qraniny BALDWIN bought :peace in the recent industrial crisis by subsidizing the coal operators. He may now have to subsidize the rail- road owners. The rail workers have rejected a proposal for a reduction int wages. ‘The owners claim they have no money. If the rail workers decide to strike they will have five or six million workers behind them as the miners had. What is Baldwin to do? er9 Hf H. THOMAS, labor party leader *does not like the idea of subsidiz- ing either the workers or the capi- talists. He is grievously offended be- cause the government was. forced by the threat of a strike to purchase peace. He also régrets that the own- ers were forced to withdraw their. no- tices of a reduction in wages. How patient the workers of Britain must be when they tolerate fakers like Thomas: and MacDonald? But we have ‘our Green, Berry, ete. ole ACTOR LAWSON, the editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily (Continued on page 2) ARMENT WORKERS OF NEW YORK . STOP WORK BY pet “GIGANTIC PROTEST AT SIGMAN (Special to The Daily Worker) ' NEW YORK CITY, August 21.—Never in the history of New York labor has such a tremendous demonstration been held of such a determined mass of workers as the throng of thirty thousand estimated workers of the Inter- Union which poured out of the garment rday at three o'clock to back up in p veritable army of labor their chosen leaders of the left wing locals, Altho forbidden by the hostile police to make use of the bands which national Ladies’ Garment Worker shops of Manhattan island ye were to accompany the workers from and to lead the march to the meeting halls, it was an inspiring sight to see the workers pour down from the great buildings’ at) an’ hour in which they usually continue their slavery, Pour’Down From Shops. At‘three o'clock the elevators from the upper floors of the garment mar warned the men against the use of firearms but said they had no objection to pickhandles if the scabs started trouble. Only a Few Scabs. Of the thirteen hundred men in- volved there are no more than two dozen who have shown any desire to return to work until the miners’ de mands are granted. Most of these are miners who have been duped into joining the ku klux klan and constitute the only support in the miners’ local of the sub-district offici- als who are responsible for the walk out. Trouble Over Checkweighman. The trouble started almost two weeks ago when the union check-| weighman protested that the com- pany was running the coal over the scales so fast.in Mine No. 1 that he couldn't record correct weights. He reported to Henry Corbishley, president of Local 992 which controls Mine No. 1 and Corbishley notified the men that theircoat was not»benig weighed. The men walked out of the mine thirteen hundred strong. Officials Side with Company. The sub-district oficial were call- ed.in to settle the dispute.. Instead of forcing the company to correct the trouble at the scales, Vice-president |\D, B. Cobb of Sub-District 9.of the U. M. W. of A. notified the president and the pit comimittee that they were deposed. The sub-district officers then called a special meeting of the union. The men demanded that Cobb reopen the case and reinstate the deposed of- ficers. Cobb flatly refused. Refuse to Elect New Officers. Cobb and Len Fox, president of the sub-district, then called upon the mén} to elect new officers. This they fr fused to do. Cobb then arose and an.| nounced the appointment of a presi- dent and a pit committee known by the men to be klansmen. The meet- ing adjourned. Progressive Miner Murdefed. Before the miners left the hall, a man by the name of Wilson hit J. B. Farthing, a miner sixty years old. Farthing’s son fought his way thru the crowd to his father’s side and a fight started. A klansman named Hargis killed one of the leaders of the local union, Mike Saravich, as the latter walked from the hall. When the melee started Cobb, the vice-president, pulled a black jack from his pocket. This was grabbed away from him and he was hit a. number of times. Cobh Swears Warrants, H Two days later, Cobb swore out a warrant for twenty six active mem- bers of the union whose names were given to im by one of n'¢ spiés in the local. Eighteen of the men were arrested and charged with conspir- acy to murder Cobb. In less thai ‘ (Continued on page 2) _ THOUSANDS IN A the points of mobilization at the shops Drniciniens ket, district buildings began vomiting throngs of workers, who showed their remarkablé comprehension of labor discipline by dressing ranks in march- ing formation with speed and preci- ° (Continued on page 3) THOMPSON AND WATT ISSUE AN ANSWER TO FARRINGTON ATTACK ‘IN HIS SHEET “ILLINOIS MINER” By ALEX REID Freeman Thompson and John Watt, all Local Unions United Mine Work- ers of America, in District 12; “As to the Expenditures of Union Funds:” When we saw the ,above heading that appeared on an article written by Frank Farrington in his paper the Illinois Miner, so called, we thot that we were going to learn something about the expenditure of funds in Dis- trict No. 12, in an itemized form show- ing in detail all about the mining properties bought and the other hun- dreds of thousands of dollars that have been squandered by Frank Far- rington and his machinery. We thot that we were going to have explained to us about the split that President Lewis complained of that was transacted between former di- rector of Mines and Minerals Medill, and Fishwitk and Farrington, We thot we were going to be informed about the Hamilton and Lester dam- age claims, we thot we were going to learn all about the $1,518.00 tele- grams while traveling and also of the $900 train fare bills and the $700 ho- tel bills in three months time, Lots of Things. We also thot we would get an ex- planation of why Farrington and Fish- wick went on a Peabody bosse’s note for a certain amount of money. We thot an itemized statement of the legal department would be given which would account for individuals of the Red Maher type who do prac- tically nothing but loaf around the Windsor Hotel and put in expense bills for three months totaling around $1,200 or at the rate of $13.00 per day every day for the three months period of 90 days, besides their daily salary of $9.60 per day. ‘ We thot we would learn what was the “spectal fleld work” that “Bill Ho- (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee.) The following -is self explanatory ) president of the Illinois miners, in his true light, as the most contemptible faker in the history of the Illinois miners’ union. Illinois, long recognized to be the strongest in the miners’ union, is being sucked dry by the Farrington vampires and today is about bled to death. the illegally deposed progressives of | District 12, have issued a circular placing the facts of some of Frank's dirty work before the membership for their consideration. To the Officers and Members of +- and shows Frank (Farrington, the It runs as follows: FILIPINO FOSTERS FUTILE HOPES THAT CONGRESS WILL RELENT WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Pedro Guevara, one of the two resident commissioners in congress from the Philippines, formerly a trade union agitator, is back from a five-months visit in the islands. He says the Filipino workers’ are more than ever determined on winning their independence. He was instructed to do everything in his power to bring congress to fulfill its pledge, made in the Joites act in 1916, to relin- quish American occupation and con- trol. Deadlock between Gov. Gen. Wood and the island legislature is as com- plete today as when Wood went to Manila four years ago, gan” and others of his ilk do around! election time and we thot that some of the money that had been squan-| dered was going to be put back into the treasury and divided to the out of work coal miners in thig. state, But our dreams and thots received a rude awakening after we had read further than the camouflage head line The miners’ treasury in| | BROTHER AN-LAW OF CROWE RUNS SCAB PRINTERY States Attorney’s Police Used as Guards Police from State’s Attorney Crowe’s office searched pressmen and feeders in the vicinity of the Cuneo Printing Company plant and even threatened 'to shoot. Most of the police employed to pro- tect the Berry finks working at Cu- neo’s are from the state’s attorney's office. It was stated at union head- quarters yesterday that Cuneo is a brother-in-law of State's Attorney Crowe and that Crowe is using the funds to help his relative out of a tight fix. One of Berry's strikebreaking re- cruiting sergeants is Tom Polston, fom mer vice president of Pressmen’s Printing Union No, 3. While he was an anti-Berry man he relished telling | the story of Berry’s scabbing’ in St. Louis. The story is told in another column. Threaten to Shoot. About 10 o'clock Thursday night, as a group of the locked-out Cuneo em- ployes were standing near the plant conversing with each other, a big auto- mobile drew up. Two uniformed po- licemen and several plainclothes dicks jumped out and pulling their guns lined the workers up against the wall and searched them, One of the dicks carried a sawed-off shotgun and brandished it before the pressmen, who were threatened with that appeared in Frank’s paper, and (Continued on page 6.) Boy Suffocated In Fire. NEW YORK, Avg, 21,—Seven-year- old Martin Kriegerswas suffocated to death, four personsewere injured, and six families were: rescued in a fire today in an apa it house in Brook- lyn, The dead boyilitved on the fourth floor, “real strongarm tactics” if they did not keep away from the plant. Several loads of scabs were hauled to the plant in Premier cabs, which is a union concern, but it appears that the officials of the union do not take their unionism any more seriously thay does “Majah” Berry. Neither does the advertising matter put out by the Premier company bear the union label, Premier company carry the union label. Brn NEW YORK EDITION . ae Published Dat it. Bunday by THE DAILY WORKER 7 PUBLISHING Co. 113 W. Warhington Blvd, Chicago, DL Price 5 Cents BRITISH IMPERIALISM AUTHORIZES VICE ADMIRAL SINCLAIR TO TAKE ‘FREEDOM OF ACTION’ AT CANTON (Special te The Dally Worker) PEKING, China, August 21—The authorization by the Brit- ish government to Vice Admlrat Sinclair to take “freedom of action” in resisting the shipping regulations ordered by the South China Canton republic means, according to political interpreta~ tion, war upon the Canton government by Great Britain, and a possible dragging in of all China into a revolutionary War against imperialist nations who may ally themselves with Eng- land, That the shipping regulations ordered by the Canton gov- ernment will be, if successful, a death blow to British shipping and trade and completely paralyze the great British port of Hong Kong. These regulations are that steamers of any nationality ex- cept British and Japanese will be allowed the use of any Chinese port (controlled by Canton), steamers will not call at the steamers entering the port are subject to inspection by pickets of the Anti-Imperialist Union to prevent arms shipments to re- actionary counter-revolutionary elements. Hit British Trade, The Canton government proposes to American traders that all ship ments of American godds for Canton should be first landed at Shanghsi and trans-shipped by Soviet Russian or Chinese steamers to Canton, as strike ing workers are refusing to handle gods passing thru Hong Kong or transported in British ships. Great Britain is thus threatened with a vital loss of trade, and she has every ‘imperialist reason to be worried over the situation. But with the Shanghai settlement yesterday made between the Chinese and the Japanese, wheréby, the boy: of Japanese goods is ended by the granting of practically all the mands of the strikers by Japan, puts Britain into a position of isolation and she may not be able to gain any support from other imperialist rivals in a war upon China or even the Canton government's part of China. Real diplomacy will move slowly in these circumstances, and it is to |be remembered that China, while not a strong military centralized power, has 1,700,000 soldiers under arms in the various provinces under the al- most independent governors, and that a war of intervention would take at the least estimate on the part of im- perialist military experts, and army of 300,000. If the United States could, as the imperialist powers figure, be in- duced to join in a war of intervention, it would be asked to furnish 100,000 men and to keep them there for two or thre years. And this would cost some $2,000,000,000 or more. And in the end the situation would be the same—or worse—for the imperialists as when they started. intervention Fails to Seare Anybody. Some Chinese believe that inter vention would be a good thing, to (Continued on page 2) CAL'S ECONOMY BUNK EXPOSED, EXPENSES RISE Government Spends 37 Million More in 1925 WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Despite the heralded Coolidge drive for econ- omy, the cost of operating the Amert- can government during July—the first month of the new fiscal year—showed a sharp increase over the same period of 1924, the treasury department re- ported, The total cost of government last month, the treasury announced, was $245,592,753, an increase of $37,597,000 over federal expenditures in July, 1924, In the face of the president's orders for strict economy, a majority of the government departments showed high- er costs of operation in July than in the same month of 1924. The treasury itself used $5,500,000 more in July than a year ago in re- funding internal revenue receipts, while an increase of $5,700,000 was noted in civil service retirement pay- ments, The veterans’ bureau also showed an increase of $2,000,000 in monthly operating costs, while the jstate, treasury and agriculture depart- ments all showed $1,000,000 increases, provided, however, that ‘itish port of Hong Kong. Also, all ‘THE UNION BE DAMNED’, SAID ‘MAJAH’ BERRY George Scabbed in St. Louis in 1902 The story of the efforts of Chicago Printing Pressmen’s Union Ne. 8 to call a halt to Berry's looting of the treasury was started In yesterday's issue, but | must digress a little to give another instance of the “Majah’s” crooked and scabby career, and curt- ‘ously enuf this story first saw the light theu the imitiative of Tom Pot ston, now one of the wheel horses pulling the Berry band wagon. Berry's record as @ scab herder is well known. It ts not generally known however, that Berry scabbed in St. Louis in the year 1902. The following statement by Alfred Dale, signed by a notary public, is offered in evidence: “I was employed by the Donnelly Printing Company # & preseman on or about May, 1908. “Acting under the instructions of Presemen's Union No 6 I notified Mr. Donal! that it would By necessary for him to have # pressmen in charge of the pressroom and according to the nusaber of presses he had,.an addition- al pressman. “This Mr, Donnell refused to do and told him that I would see that would try and get him @ card as as possible if he would come out the pressmen and feeders. “He said to me, “Phe damned, they can go te . he was going to stay with I said, ‘Mr. Berry, don’t talk you are a young man; it you any good.’ He said, ‘fo you.’ I said, ‘All right,‘ ana I lest, “Alfred Dake.” The above statement was subseribed and sworn to before Florence Paillod Hearsum, a notary public, on the 12th of August, 1902, Some Fathert ‘This ts only one of the colorful tn: cidents in the career of George L. Berry, president of an international union and claiming the right to speak in the name of organized labor and consign. radicals, progressives and Communists to perdition. union fink had the colossal gall last convention of the union, vention it may be called, to have a motion passed ordering that hii ture be painted and that it be in the Pressmen’s Home in Tennessee with the inscription, of “George L, Berry—Father of the Home.” Berry has pursued every honest “it Bue iy member of the union who has dered to stand up against his rotten grafting rule with unparalleled malignity, One of those is John G, Warrington of St. Lonis. But the rank and file in St. Louis support Warrington against Berry. ~. Another Berry Tool. * A specimen of the type that Berry 8 to do his dirty work in the union is Charles Fleck, now in a steward- (Continued on page 2) = vis