The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1925, Page 2

DAMNED’, SAID ‘MAJAH’ BERRY George Scabbed in St. Louis in 1902 (Continued from Page *) ship in Detr oit yory record in the International ‘union ig well kne ) Berry can be seen from the following letter which was | sent to Be in the year 1912 by John J. Crimmins, secretary-treasurer of No, 23. On Jafhuary 4, 1918, Berry forwarded a copy of the letter to Ju- Jius Rosenheim of Chicago, with the suggestion that, the information con-j tained therein should not be given out } ubsolutely necessary to ost of the conserva- The letter follows: Fleck’s Record. unless it w do tion of the union, (Copy) New York, April 10, 1912. Mr. George L. Berry, Pres. PP. & AT, gersville, Tenn. ] Dear Sir and Brother: That Fleck's unsa- | BERLIN FACTORY NO PLACE FOR ASSASSIN OF ROSA LUXEMBURG BERLIN, Aug. 21.—Workmen in the Siemens Dynamo works recent- ly noticed among them a new face which somehow seemed familiar. The man called himself August Ra- dolf. But one day an enterprising Communist worker looked up some old newspaper photographs and identified Radolf as Oscar Runge, one Of the assassins of Rosa Luxem- burg. Ina flash the pseudo worker | was surrounded by a crowd of an- gry workmen shouting, “Murderer! Murderer!” and Runge saved him- self only by flight.. Since that time | he has not appeared at the factory, ———————————————— made against Mr. Fleck for his con- duct in that office. This firm has always been a fair one and always granted the conditions we asked for. Mr. Fleck disappeared and the next we heard from him was when Secre- tary Paterson, of Detroit, No. 40, wrote a letter asking for his standing with No, 23, His lettter was read at a reg- ular meeting of No, 23 and I was in- structed to inform Detroit, Union No. 40 that No. 23 refused to release Mr. Fleck. ‘ The next we heard from this gentle- |man he presented a traveling card, issued by Rahway Assistants Union, CHINESE ORDER BARRING SHIPS ANGERS BALDWIN “Serious” Says London Foreign Office |} LONDON, England, Aug. 21.—The foreign office is greatly perturbed over the order given by the .Chinese authorities at Canton that British and Japanese vessels may not enter Chinese ports. “A very serious situa- tion has arisen,” a spokesman for the foreign office sctated. The government “will not take ac- tion,” it was said, until “a full inves- tigation has revealed whether the rules in question were laid down by responsible Chinese authorities or by a semi-European provincial govern- ment.” treat Britain has formally com- municated with the United States, Japan, and other powers asking their views regarding shipping regulations, it was announced at the foreign of- fice. Build the DAILY WORKER Your letter dated April 4th relative} where he had never worked. He with subs. to Chas. Fleck was received on the | morning of the 8th, | You ask-for the details of his case. I will give you his record as we have it in our files. When No. 23 withdrew its members from the firm of Isaac Blanchard for the 8-hour day, the com- mittee in charge placed Mr. Fleck on the s e list, and he received strike benefits from October 14th to Novem- ber 29th, 1907, a period of nine weeks at $8 per week, while he had no card and never made any effort to get one. When the funds of No. 23 were de- pleted, the Union ordered all men on strike list, not members of the Union, to be dropped from the list, Mr. Fleck with numerous others were notified it would be impossible to pay them any. more strike benefits. The next we d from Mr. Fleck was on Decemb« three days later, when I wa d with law papers where he has started suit for wages, that his lawyer calls the strike benefits. Our lawyers, Steckler Brothers, de- fended this action for us, and we were successful in having the case dis- missed. We next found Mr. Fleck working at Starkey Press, where our men were out for the 8-hour day. Again he re- fused to assist until he was placed on the strike list, which request the com- mittee in charge of strike again was compelled to comply with. He again drew strike benefits from Jan. 11, 1908, to June 27, 1908—26 weeks. He finally became a member of No. 23 on July érd, 1908, and he failed to pay his dues, becoming a suspended member until March 15th, 1909, when he paid his dues, but not the one day pay, which he still owes. He went to work for the American Bible Society, New York City, a firm that we never had any trouble with until he started to work there. He spoiled some work and the firm made complaints to the Union against him. Former President John E. Donnelly was ordered to investigate the com- plaint of this firm, and he reported to our Union that charges should be claimed to have been initiated in the | Lansing, Mich. Assistants Union, he received a withdrawal card from that Union in order to avoid Section 5, Article II (Certificate of Membership). The Rahway issues him a traveling card, which he presents to the Execu- tive Board of No. 23 who refused to accept it and notifies him that he must be reinstated by No. 23, which he agrees to do by filling out rein- statement blanks and paying part of his application fee. Permit me to state that I was not at the meeting of the Executive Board which acted on his case. We respectfully submit that this man has taken advantage of conditions surrounding the Lansing Assistants Union to force himself in that Union and thereby avoid payment of legiti- mate debts to Franklin Union No. 23. Awaiting your decision in this case, with kindest regards, I am, Yours fraternally, (Signed) John J, Crimmins, Secretary-Treasurer. The next article of this series will appear in Monday's issue of the DAILY WORKER. Grain Gamblers in New Move to Raise the Price of Wheat WINNIPEG, Man., Aug. 21.—A move !to delay a large portion of the 1925 wheat crop of western Canada from being put on the market and thus raise the price is being made by grain gamblers here, according to a local paper. Bootlegging In Navy. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Formal disapproval of the verdict of a naval court martial in acquitting two navy nurses, Ruth M. Anderson and Cathe- rine Clancy, of bringing liquor into the country on a naval transport was announced today by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. [Short Term] —a most interesting My Flight from Siberia Written by Leon Trotsky ad- venture story of escape Another Advantage! British Imperialism in War Move Against China at Canton (Continued from page 1) solidify the hetrogenous elements, weld the armed forces of the inde- pendent provinces into @ strong na- tional army and teach Chinese to fight in an effective way against the alien tyrants. So a threat of war by Britain, aside from the fact that she may get no help, but obstruction from other rival powers, is not effec- tive in sending the Chinese of today cringing into the dust, submissive and begging for mercy. The British empire is felt to be in an: historical crisis, and an adven- ture into lonely intervention in China, A great land with teeming and hostile population to harass the army of occupation at every opportunity, is seen as only increasing the disinte- gration of British power. Moreover, British labor is turning to the left. FOREIGN EXCHANGE, NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.85%, cable 4.855; France, franc, demand 4.68%, cable 4.691%4; Belgium, franc, demand 4.5314, cable 4.54; Italy, lira, demand 3.61, ‘cable 3.61%; Sweden, krona, demand) 26.86, cable 26.89; Nor- way, krone, demand 18.62, cable 18.64; Denmark, krone, demand 23.01, cable 23.03; Germany, mark, no quote; Shanghai, tael, 78.75. Trans-Atlantic Record Broken, NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—Great Brit- President Roosevelt, of the United States Lines, broke all records for a trans-Atlantic crossing for steamers of the twinscrew type when she landed in New York today. The ship made the trip from Cherbourg in six days, one. hour and twenty minutes, The President Roosevelt broke her own record by averaging 20.04 miles an hour. from exile in Siberia— bound in board covers— is being given with every 3-month subscription to the DAILY WORKER. 3-Month Sub to the DAILY WORKER $2.00 MY FLIGHT FROM SIBERIA........ $1.00 For $2.50 $3.00 in Chicago THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, M, Enclosed Foecrseseseeeee LOF RUSSIA TODAY srrsssene MY FLIGHT FROM SIBHRIA and the DAILY “WORKER OF .....000- months t Name: . Street: ..rroreosorsereneseer CLI: seormeraninansnsnveoorscenes RUSSIA TODAY For $5 [Long Term] Russia Today The official report of the British trade union dele- gation to Soviet Russia— in book form—bound in attractive duroflex covers —a permanent record of the accomplishments of the world’s first workers’ government—together with an 8-month sub to the DAILY WORKER. 8-Month Sub to the DAILY WORKER (6 mos. in Chicago)..$4.50 tnstaseonai esssnnenenseei ee PTD woat THE DA bh Ye WORKE Zeigler, Ill.,, Cpal Miners Prepare to Fight Conspiracy (Continued ‘from page 1) half an hour all were leased on bail of $2,000 each. r Local unions of, miners in the county, when they heard of Cobb's action, passed resolutions of protest and sent wires to Frank Farrington, president of District 12 of the U. M. W. of A. asking Farrington if he was going to permit Cobb to proceed with the prosecution of the men. Farington wired that he was going to back Cobb up and push the prosecu- tion of the Zeigler,,miners. Election Steals. Farrington’s answer has caused much consternation among the min- ers round about Ziegler, who know that this action of Cobb’s is the last desperate effort of a completely dis- credited labor bureaucrat to save his office. The prelude to the whole affair is found in the general elections of Dec. 9 this year when Cobb stole the votes of the sub-district to keep himself in office. It is significant that it is none other but Local 992 of Zeigler that has charges pending against him before the disttcir board., President Corbishley of 993 receiv- ed a letter today asking him to come to Springfield next Tuesday to pre- sent his case to the board. The min- ers have proof that Cobb had five thousand bogus ballots printed and in one instance tore the déor of a union hall from its hinges to put fake bal- lots in the box, Frame-up Feared. The miners here look on the prosecution of the twenty-six for whom Cobb has sworn warrants as a very serious matter. It is known that Cobb has supporters in Zeigler who are willing to swear to any- thing before a jury. Cobb is notor- ious for his dirty trickery and the miners feel sure that he is desperate enuf to plan a frame-up to send all the Zeigler men to the- penitentiary. Progressives Ready to Fight, Local defense committees are be- ing formed in all the locals of the county and funds are being raised to fight against the frame-yp of the pro- gressive miners, Attorneys have been retained to handle the prelimin- rol hearing which sits next Wednes- ay. If the case becomes real serious the miners will ask for outside support thruout the whole labor movement in fighting against this dastardly be- trayal on the part of their officials. Holding Out. In the meantime they are keeping the mine shut down until they are given back their old, officials who have beén illegally removed and uff til arrangements are made with the company to make it possible or the check-weighman to tfecord proper weights. If events develope for the next several weeks as they have the last two, it is safe to say that the eyes of the whole nation will be turned on the fight in Zeigler. FRENCH BREAK NEGOTIATIONS WITH RIFFIANS PARIS, France, Aug. 21.—Announce- ment by the French and Spanish emis- saries sent to Morocco more than a month ago with Franco-Spanish “peace terms” for Abd-el-Krim were coming home, indicated abandonment of all hope for peace by negotiation with the Riff leader. The FrancoSpanish offer, however, was known to be unacceptable to Krim from the start, as he insisted on independence for the Riff republic, while the French and Spanish repre- Sentatives declared Krim must accept a Spanish protectorate. A French column under Colonel Nau- gues, the war office reports, has en- tered the Riff territory in the hills east of Bab Taza. The Riffians are firing on Naugues’ 4,000 troops from all sides, Marshal Petain isen route to Rabat to take over the direction of the French forces in North Africa, CHICAGO MOVIE TO BE, TAKEN THIS SUNDAY Do you want to be a movie star? No chance for you at Hollywood, but you can get into the movies in Chicago if you will attend the picnic of the Federation of the Russian Children’s School of Chicago and Vicinity on Sunday, Aug, 23, at National Grove, Riverside, Ill, Moving picturés of the separate schools and the crowd in general will be taken and later shown in Chicago and other cities of the United States, and will also be sent to Soviet Russia, Organizations who will attend in a body are urged to prepare signs with their names, Tickets in advance are only 36 cents and are for sale by all members of the schools, at the Co-op restau: rants and at the Workers’ House, 1902 W, Divist Tell your fri yourself and about It and come ipto the movies! . Militant Struggles of Workers Unmask the Capitalist Dictatorship By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, TL ODay the New York Times speculates as to the drift of the industrial war in Great Britain, declaring that if mili- tant labor forces the Issue, “the government will not be found wholly impotent.” In harmony with its usual con- fident threat it adds, “And that holds for the United States also.” This organ of the robber class thus offers the armed force of the capitalist dictatorship as the mediator in indus- trial struggles; declaring the continued suppression and op- pression of the working class its solution of present day problams. ° * e e The Times, like the whole capitalist class in all coun- tries, is very much perturbed over the situation in Great Britain. If the coal miners can force the government to sub- sidize the coal industry, the railroad workers are beginning to wonder why the same cannot be done in the transportation industry. It is this Increasing effectiveness of the general strike that the ruling class fears, forcing it to look about for remedies to save itself. ° * Much hope is placed in “the moderation of the leaders of the Labor Party,” meanin late premier, among others. J. Ramsay MacDonald, the it was when the Baldwin gov- ernment capitulated in. part to the coal miners, that Mac- Donald exclaimed that, “it had ylelded to the wildest Bolshe- viks.” This political careerist, who has gone over completely to the enemy class, does not like to see the workers using their industrial power for political purposes. MacDonald joins hands with Baldwin in this respeot. MacDonald also joins hands with those “older and steadier members of the abor unions,” to use the words of the Times, who surrender to destructive class-collaboration rather than join in carry- ing on the constructive fight of the class struggle that leads to the victory of the proletarian dictatorship. ° ° e * The Times has little faith in the ability of the bourgeoisie to. organize forces of volunteers as strike breakers to keep the public services moving in case of a strike. “The League of Citizens” may have been successful in the 1911 Liverpool police strike, the volunteer strikebreakers, incipient fascisti, played a part in the Swedish general strike of 1909, but it is confessed that the industrial structure of England, especially its transportation by land and sea, is too intricate to be car- ried on by any but the skilled and technical workers thoroly acquainted with their tasks. The best hope that the Times gives the British bourgeoisie is for “only partial relief of a beleaguered community.” ° e Clear confession from the capitalist class itself that it is helpless to carry on industry without workers. Its problem then is to keep labor enslaved, in order that it may continue plundering it, piling up profits for its parasite class, But this social structure of the robber bandits is shaking in England under the blows of a rising working class. It is in this crisis that the shams of “democracy” are sloughed off and the naked fist of the Fascist dictatorship makes its ap The Times makes this threat of the use of capitalism's armed power, the police, the army, the navy, not only in Great Britain, but also in the Un feels that as British capitalism falls, so falls capitalism in the United States of America. . s In this ‘stru is full grown, labor will est exterminate these bourgeois vermin, who try to convince the world that they are destined to rule always. The Times is trying to sound a call to arms to the forces of anti-labor in the hour of the decay of capitalism. But that call grows increasingly feeble everywhere. | New York Garment Workers Quit (Continued from page 1) sion for the most part, raising ban- ners above the ranks declaring their demands for the resignation of Sig- man and his gang from the union, the proportional representation of locals on the joint board, refusal to accept the traitorous sellout of the Sigman gang's arbitration award of the gov- ernor’s commission, a union freed from corrupt and gangster rule, and their adhesion to the Joint Action Committee which had called the stoppage. More Halls N d. Fifteen halls, five more than con- templated at the time the order for stoppage was issued by the Joint Ac- tion Committee of Locals 2, 9 and 22, were fillde, And in Union Square the thousands of cloak and dressmakers which filled the great space to over- flowing attracted such public attention that it cannot be seen how even the yellow liars of the Jewish Daily Pér- ward could ignore the fact that Sig- man is dead and that the Joint Action Committee is supported by the mem- bership of the I. L. G. W. U, Bryant Hall at 725-6th avenue, was the meeting place for which the workers on 37, 38 39 and 40th streets and intersecting avenues headed, The Stuyyesant Casino, 142-2nd avenue, was the meeting place of all workers in the district from 35th to 36th streets. From 30th to 34th, the work- ers marched to Cooper Union. From 27th, 28th and 29th streets they went to Webster Hall. From 25th to 26th streets they marched to Manhat- tan Lyceum, From 28rd to 24th to Arlington Hall; from 21st to 22nd street to Hennington Hall; from 18th, 19th and 20th to Lenox Assembly; from 165th, and 17th streets to Mansion Hall; and from 14th street downtown to Clinton Hall, And when thse overflowed, more halls had to be hastily arranged to contain the spirit- ed and ‘fastic demonstrators, ‘Try to Dodge, among the biggest Some bosses, le, however, there Is onl the workers and farmers need discover. can get along without the bour, d States, It evidently one thing that hat is, that they oisie. Once that realization lish its own dictatorship to SMASHING VICTORY OF LEFT WING. L. 6, W. OVER SIGMAN-BOSS COMBINE NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—By agree- ment with the I. L. G W. joint board, employers in forty shops dis- charged chairmen or Individual workers this morning, Whole shops in most cases struck with discharged workers, Already 15 shops settled and joint committee expects to adjust most of others by Monday. Any shop refusing to re- instate workers will be declared on strike, “Little difficulty Is anticipated after Thursday’s wonderful stop- page of forty thousand,” says the Joint Committee of Action of Locals 2, 9 and 22, SSS ones, fearful of being punished by the manufacturers’ association if they did not discharge, in accordance with the agreement with the traitor Sigman’'s Joint Board, all workers who obeyed other alternative of a strike if they should do so, by declaring a holiday. But these workers were bound to obey labor discipline, and altho they laid off all day—nevertheless, they returned to the shop en masse at 3 o'clock to leave as directed from that point. ‘ Sigman and his united front with the bosses have been answered. Lynching Mob in North Carolina. WILSON, N. C., Aug. 21,—Evading a mob ‘of angry citizens, a sheriff's posse today spirited Frank Frill, al- leged Negro murderer, out of the town Jail and rushed him to Raleigh, N. C., to avert @ lynching, Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. of the Chicago Joint Board of the Amalgamated, one of the union mem- bers appearing before Julg Lyle yes- terday, told the details of his arrest granted by Judge Pam, which permits “peaceful picketing,” and.are anxious to have all picketing outlawed here. the order for stoppage—dodged the staged, at the hospital in Newport i PR = cna KLAN DECLARES WAR ON SCIENCE AND FOREIGNERS Added Proof Bryan Was a Leading Kluxer (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., August 21.— New evidence that William Jennings Bryan was a member of the ku klux klan, and proof that Bryan carried on the fight against evolution with the organized backing ef the klan came to light here today. The ku klux klan is holding a na- tional gathering at Buckeye Lake, Ohio, next week, and one of the main purposes is announced as, “Seizing the torch of fundamentalism from the failing hand of Bryan and carry it aloft in national conflict.” The conference. will instruct klans- men in state legislatures and in con- gress to introduce anti-evolution laws which would bar the teaching of un- censored science from the public schools. The klan conference, will also spon- sor legislation erecting an absolute barrier to immigration. “Foreigners must be kept out of the country”, said one klansman, thus reflecting the present two per cent law is in- effective.” Police Keep Up Their Reign of Terror in the Garment Strike The police kept up their terroriza- tion of strikers yesterday. Carthy, one of the pickets, was walk- ing down Madison street toward the loop when police from the Des Plaines street station pounced on him and threw him in jail. McCarthy was peace- ably walking along the street when arrested. He was charged with “dis orderly conduct.” Another striker, Jack Pavlak, was arrested while walking the picket line. Rissman Tells of Arrest, Sidney Rissman, assistant manager by Waukegan authorities. Rissman was taken from his home and was not told where he was being taken or why he was under arrest. Rissman was not permitted to tele- phone the union headquarters or in- form anyone that he was under arrest. Lickily, however, he met acquaint- ances at the railroad station, and his release on bond was secured. New York Injunction Posted. The International Tailoring Com- pany, with the busy season only two weeks away, showed to what lengths they are prepared to go when they childishly posted the New York in- junction, granted by Supreme Court Justice Churchill against the strikers in the New York plant, on the Chicago building. The plant at 847 West Jack- son boulevard was smeared with copies of both the New York and the Chicago injunctions yesterday. The posting of the New York in- junction, which forbids all forms of picketing, on the factory here, shows that the International bosses are far from satisfied with the Chicago writ Churchill's injunction prohibits the New York strikers from “congregating in the streets within ten blocks of the plant, from interfering in any manner with those entering or leaving the em- ployers’ place of business or seeking to induce any employe from leaving his employment.” Mackinac Boiler’s Patches Kept Dark to Safeguard Profits PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Aug. 21,—Who pronounced the former great lakes freighter seaworthy and why the patching of the Mackinac’s boiler a short time before the sailing from Pawtucket wan kept a secret were mong the questions asked by the fed- eral investigation committee sitting here, Just as if sacrificing human lives for profits were not an every day procedure under capitalism. And while the federal probe us yf many victims are still hovering be- tween life and death. The death toll in the disaster at this writing is forty- two, The state investigation is scheduled m on Monday and over 300 wit- have been summoned, to Eastern Illinois Crops Suffer, DANVILLE, IL, Aug. 21.-A survey of the growing crops today after the brief but terrific rain storm of Wedmes day afternoon, followed during the night by heavy falls of rain, shows that the corn has suffered immeagur- ably and will be a h eavy loss thruout eastern Illinois, Most of it was beaten flat to the ground and is now too heavy with ears to raise itself, A eee deal of late fruit was also dam- ag: John Mc- * !