The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1925, Page 2

| | Louis eeders; tnt deck, New York Paper Handlers; Wil- Charles J. Harvey, Boston Web Press- Page Two UNIONS RALLIED. TO TIE GAN TO. 'MAJAH' BERRY (Continued from page 1) diverted and the purposes of the mem bership remain frustrated. The situa- tion has becume so serious that not- withstanding constantly increasing revenue, the funds appa ly available | for financ functioning | the econ of our in ational 0 ion are nearty always so in at a thought forward hen-| sion rather th To rem- edy this cor increasing | the revenue of the international union } seems just as impossible in the future | ag it has been in past. There can | be-no r y the faithful application of moneys paid in by the mbership for given purposes to purposes by the board or direct The past record affords the mem. nee that the board intention of keep bership no of directors ing the faith. t Impaired Union's Efficiency. t their unconstitu: sible acts, which 0 many breaches red the economic ary, indef mae ree JUDGE LYLE IN OPEN ALLIANCE WITH ANTI-UNION GARMENT BOSS IN WAR AGAINST AMALGAMATED A perfect example of employers’ justice was given in the Maxwell Street police court when the International Tailoring company threw off its mask, shoved the slugging cop Mike Grady into the background, and appeared directly as the prosecutors of the sixteen members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers nization and the titutions to such an onference, represent- ajority of the mem- | ternational union, | it does, ship of t deems it desirable and necessary at| this time, in protection of the inter-| ests of the membership of the inter- | national union, that steps be taken for ) investigation of the adminis- | on, affairs and properties of the | ernational union, “Therefore be it resolved, that this conference create a committee of five members for this purpose, and that | this.committee shall have full power | to determine and to carry into execu- tion a plan of action best calculated to protect the interests of the interna-} tional union, and to employ such legal assistance as may be neces 'y in the execution of snch plan Expenses of Work. “Resolved, that the unions repre- sented in this conference be and are hereby asked to contribute to a fund to defray the expenses of this work, a per capita of fifty cents per month, for a period of five months beginning as arrested in a raid on their head of breaking the strike in the tail The International Tailoring company was represented by two lawyers, Quillici and Jerkis, s of the International because they dared to go on strike employ: for a decent standard of living. Judge Lyle frankly took the side of the garment bosses stating he believed the union men guilty. Judge Lyle reluctantly granted a change of venue, and it was necessary to go before another judge—Har: Fisher—on a writ of habeas corpus, in wrder to get Patsy De Rosa, one of he strikers, out of jail on $10,000 pond. Lyle had refused to reduce the prohibitive bail of $100,500 which he had set a wee 0. Lyle Railroads Workers. “The Amalgamated represents mob rule and violence,” said Quillici to the court, “and the International Tailoring Company represents law and order. We are going to fight these people to a finish and we are going to wipe them out.” Judge Lyle shewed that he is out to help in the wild attempt to extermin- ate the union when he said of the striker De Rosa, in commenting on the freeing of De Rosa on bail: “It is un- fortunate for the people who were slugged by De Rosa, and whose prop- erty was destroyed by the acid thrown by De Rosa, but it is not my fault.” Judge Lyle runs his court on the principle that the framed-up workers are always guilty, and that the em- ployers are always on the side of law and order. Lyle is attempting to be- come the next state’s attorney as a worthy successor to the labor hating Crowe, and believes he will receive recognition if he railroads enuf work- ers.to the penitentiary. Only Crime Is Striking. Quillici admitted to the DAILY WORKER that the fight to convict + oOo on the Amalgamated Clothing Work- quarters conducted in the hope oring company’s plant. who howled for prison for the Thru the entire proceedings, ers. “It is connected with our fight for an injunction,” Quillici said, “These people are conducting a picket line. “They are slugging, murdering, and keeping our employes from work. We have an injunction, but we are trying to get a better one. We are daily menaced and threatened by organized lawlessness.” Lyle approved of this statement, as he is using his job to protect the prof- its of the bosses. Lyle Broke Constitution. In granting the reduction in bail-so that the striker might come out of jail, Judge Fisher said: “This case shows the danger of ignoring estab- lished principles of law just to respond to public clamor, or that which pur- ports to be public clamor. Under our constitution the right to give bail is one of our sacred institutions. Were the constitutional guarantee to bail ignored regularly, we would have fre- quently, as in this case, a striker who has been held in jail for ten days.” The bond reduction was granted after William A. Cunnea, attorney for the strikers, had shown that De Rosa was being persecuted by the Interna- tional Tailoring Company simply be- cause he went on strike, that he was the victim of a frameup, that he was only 21 years old, and that he had never been under arrest before. Included among the union members charged with “conspiracy” are Sidney Rissman, Isadore Rothbart, Mike De | Novi, Sam Gier, A. De Felicese, Sol | Kramer, Ruben Block, L. Anzolone, H. Miller and James Cooper, sixteen union members of “conspira- cy” and “malicious mischief” is a fight Their cases will now go to the chief justice, who will assign another judge. THE PIED PIPER MODERN ..PIED' PIPERS “Majah" George L. Berry and his arm y of strikebreakers. ‘This cartoon Is, the work of a member of the Inter. national Printing Pressmen’s and Assistants’ Union. May ist, 1919. Any unexpended sum “upon completion of the committee’s work to be returned to the contribu- ting unions, pro rata per member.” Two other paragraphs referred to unions not participating in the confer- ence. Those unions could join in the work outlined according to the terms of the resolution. _ The following names were signed to the above resolution, representing the Jarge cities thruout the country: Frank Pampusch, St. Paul Pressme: James J. Bagley, New York Feeders; George W. Schemann, Milwaukee Web Pressmen; John G. Warrington, St. Charles H. Galion, Iphia Pressmen; John J. Hud- Chicago Pressmen; liam L, Haas, ik J. Pyle, Pittsburgh Web Got Aid of Government. “This conference represented the bulk of the membership and it seems well organized opposition. Yet he did. And he did it with the afd of the em- ployers, the government and the in- dustrial crisis that followed the war. It is generally believed among press- men that the government aided Berry financially in those critical days. Berry is a useful tool of the employers and what else is the government of the United States but an executive com- mittee of the employers, just as re- sponsible to them as the executive committee of a local union is to the membership, and generally more so? The unions that became a part of the above conference pledged them- selves to a 50-cent per capita tax, which money was to be used for the purpose of cleaning up the affairs of the international union and putting the organization on a trade union basis, o' 2 & The next article in this series will continue the story of the Chicago impossible that Berry should hold on the face of such widespread ana | pressmen’s fight to clean up the inter- national union, AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) realizes that the workers must pro- tect themselves. ae '® “\{JHEN the annual income of the criminal element exceeds that of the national government by $40,- 000,000, it must be admitted that the situation is a serious one,” said a prominent banker in an address be- fore the Illinois Sheriffs’ Association. The banker was referring to the il- legitimate robbers, not to the re- spectable gentlemen who take the savings of the workers into their banks and run away with them, se * ‘T is said that one of the causes of William Jenning Bryan's death was overeating. Perhaps and _ perhaps not. There is a good deal to be said for judicious eating. Every intelligent person should regulate hig diet to suit 5 ' FOURTH W.P,. (THE DAILY WORKE CONVENTION ~ {1S IN SESSION (Continued from, page 1) the initial convention being held” in December, 1921. Altho the second session was due to open at 11 a. m, Saturday, it was de- layed unavoidably until 7 p. m., at which hour Chairman Foster again called the meeting to order, Protest Polish White Terror. Comrade Gebert, secretary of the Polish Federation was granted the floor and spoke upon the «persecution of Communist workers by the white guard government of Poland, propos- ing a resolution that! the’ convention telegraph its vigorous ‘yrotest at the sentence of a Polish court martial of three Communist workers of Poland, Comrades Gibner, ‘Rutkovski and Knievski, and demands freedom for these victims and a Cessation of the white terror against the’ whole Polish working class. The'‘resolution was carried unanimously,’ '' Chairman Foster them announced that the credential conimittee would bring in a majority and ‘minority re- port. Comrade Cannon’ midved that 30 minutes be allotted to the main re- porter for both the majority and min- ority reporter for the credential com- mittee, that foléWing this district speakers ffoi each sife to get 15 minutes and/speeches fyom the floor 5 minutes of general discussion. Motion was amended by Delegate Ballam to allow for one hour for main reporters, Comrade Cannon proposed an extension of time first proposed to 45 minutes, This was carried after discussion by a vote of 39 to 21, Comrade Bittelman, reporting for the majority of the credentila commit- tee, spoke in some detail of the various districts where there were contests. For the majority he made the follow- nig proposal; Majority Credential Committee Recommendations. 1. That all delegates be seated, ex- cept the two contested minority dele- gates from Chicago, Minor’and Kruse. 2, That the composition of the con- tested D. EB, C.’s be® as follows, in- cluding Y. W. L. representatives and district organizers: Boston: Majority 4, minority 9; New York: majority 9, minority 6; Phila- delphia: majority 7, minority 7; Cleve- land: majority 8, minority 6. 3. An active campaign shall be car- ried on for the speedy reorganization of the party, new elections in these districts shall be | in from four to six months of the reor- ganized party. | one Se | In addition, ade Askeli, who presented credentials from the Tyomies as @ fraternal delegate to the Workers Party convention, be seated as a fraternal delegate and that Com- rade Askeli be invited to defend be- fore the convention, during the debate on the resolution regarding the liqui- dation of Loreism, the, position he has taken in his article published in the DAILY WORKER. Comrade Ruthenberg, reporting for the minority of the credential com- mittee, spoke at length of the various contested districts and made the fol- lowing proposals: : Minority Credentiat Committee Recommendations. In Boston district to seat as dele- gates 3 minority and 2 majority, From District 2, 7 minority and 4 majority; District 3, 2 minority, 1 majority; District 4, 2 majority; District 5, 3 minority; District 6, 8 minority, 1 majority; District 7, 2.majority, 1 min- ority; District 8, 5 majority 2 minor- ity; District 9, 5 elected uncon- tested; District 12, 2 uncontested; District 13, 3 elected, with declaration that district convention chairman's statement was impermissible; District 15 one uncontested; to seat delegates from national. office and agricultural territory, and Young Workers League, uncontested, As regards fraterna} delegates, the minority proposed that all be seated,| except Comrade Fisher as a repsesent- ative of the minority group of the South Slavic Federation and Com- rade Askeli from the Tyomies Pub- his constitution and ‘his occupation or lack of it, But we are decidedly, of the opinion that more deaths ar caused thru malnutrition. i ©. Osha HE congress of the labor and so- cialist international is taking place in Marsailles, France) , Here is a list of some of the delegates: Hillquit and Berger from the nited States; Scheidemann and Paw! Levi from Ger- mnay and Karl Kautsky from Austria. What fine company Paul Levi finds himself in? Levi was expelled from the Communist International when he publicly denounced the Communists during the so-called “March putsch” of Germany in 1921. % *e i laa the Communist International criticised the March action for tac- tical reasons, it excoriated Levi for his treason to the Working class, in the midst of a struggle, That the In- ternational was corrbet in its decision on Levi is proven by the company in which Levi now finds himself. Those super-critics of the Communist Inter- national usually find themselves lined up with the worst) traitors to the working class movement in the end, ten o-magtet nin R Russian Soviet Rule Is Successfully Ending its Task of Reconstruction By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. B Fiscal Walter Duranty, European correspondent of the New York Times, is back in Moscow, and it seems that he is determined to continue the favorable reports that featured his first visit to the Union of Soviet Republics sev- eral years ago. The Times’ is bitterly anti-Soviet. year of 1921 it published the worst of the great flood of atrocipus fabrications that poured thru the columns capitalist press. During the famine of the But even the Times must be truthful about its stock market quotations and baseball scores. So it must finally concede the correctness of figures telling of the chgetage of Soviet industry and agriculture, altho it may make malicio war upon the political program and ambitions of Workers’ Rule. It must give great pain to the Times, therefore, to pub- lish the editorial estimate of ‘Economic Life,” a Soviet organ, of the program of the State Planning Commission (called the Gosplan) for the coming fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, which declares: “IT CAN NOW BE SAID WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY EMERGED FROM THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD.” This means that Soviet Rule has mended all the ravages of the three years’ devastation of the world war, and healed the terrible wounds inflicted by the years of civil war and intervention that followed, placing the country on a pre-war basis in agriculture, industry and trade, and ready to go for- ward to new and greater achievements on its own account in the next eriod, the period of construction. The figures reckoned in pre-war roubles, that is, at the pre-war index co-efficient, are as follows: INDUSTRY—Industrial production is 5,000,000,000 this year, 6,650,- 000,000 the coming year and 7,000,000,000 in 1913, 95 per cent of 1913, The coming year is AGRICULTURE—The total agricultural production, including tim- ber, cattle, fish, Is 9,150,000,000 this year, 11,436,000,000 next year and 12,826,000,000 in 1913, The coming year is 89 per cent of 1913. TRADE—Exports to Europe and the Near East only are 270,000,- 000 this year, 680,000,000 the coming year, 1,305,000,000 in 1913, or just over 50 per cent, Duranty writes of these figures that the “experiences of the past three years has shown the Gosplan estimates are strictly adhered to.” Which is some admission for the N. Y. Times. ° e § Duranty also gives some visible expressions of this suc- cessful ending of the period of reconstruction, pointing out that, in Moscow for instance, a number of large buildings are being constructed, the city presents an air of greatep, animation, the people have unquestionably a more cheerf appearance and the general average of dress has improved, while the children playing everywhere are plumb and healthy, showing that the days of hunger are but a memory of the bitter days of the blockade. * Duranty quotes the familiar saying of Lenin, “Give us four years to teach the children and our work will stand,” and then gi his own observations and conclusions: “It is striking to see the increase in the proportion of red-capped and red-ribboned girls—members of the Com- munist youth organization—among the juvenile population. The organization has 1,300,000 members and refused admit- tance to fully 1,000,000 more. ” has increased in similar proportion. Soviet * Young Pion Rule has had eight years and it looks as if children fast enough.” ° e The junior organization, had got the Which should be a warning to capitalist rule thruout the world and an inspiration to oppressed labor everywhere. lishing company, As regards the composition of the majority in District 1, Puro spoke fo ority, 4 majorrty; Disurict 2, 10 mino! ity, 5 majority; District 3, 10 minority, 5 majority; District 6, 10 minority, 5 majority. Lengthy Discussion by Distric! A motion was carried that c ing groups speak first; vote 40 to 23. Comrade Cannon spoke for contesting majority in District, Puro spoke for the minority. From New York, Wein- stone for the minority contesting, Krumbein for the majority; from Phi- ladelphia, Baker for the majority, Jakira for the minority; from Cleve- land, Benjamin for contesting minor- ity, Wagenknecht for the majority. All the above speaking fifteen min- utes each, By agreement the session adjourned at 11 p. m. until 11 a. m, Sunday, when further discussion on credentials be in order, ‘eetings to Convention. ‘When the convention again opened session at 1 a, m, Sunday, greetings were read from the following: Communist Party of Canada, the J ish Branch of Baltimore, Local Bi falo, the Los Angeles City Central Committee, the Armenian section of Philadelphia, the Seattle membership in meeting, the Northwest Jewish Branch of Philadelphia and the Cen- tral Bureau of the Russian section, all stressing the necessity of unity. by liquidation of factions and a struggle against the right wing Lore tendency, The Peasants’ International sent greetings and a hope that further vigorous work among the rural masses would be the re@ylt of the American party's efforts, certain protests and demands, from Comrade Brahdy of New York demands place on the District Execu- tive, M. Belaisvis protested non-pub- lication of an article. Comrade Georgian protests ruling of non- eligibility to party office. The Armen- jan section branches protest the un- remedied situation in the federation and asks correction, These were re- t * ( 4 to the appeal committee. Send Mésgage to Comintern, Comrade Bittelman proposed the following cablegram to the Commun- national, which was passed nimously; “The national convention of the Workers Party sends Communist greeting to the leader of the world’s proletariat, the Communist Interna- tional, We take pride in the fact that we are a part of the world’s Co} munist Party led by the tried a proven Leninist leadership of the munist Party of Russia. “The convention will make all the party for a determined strug against Loreism and for the Bolsh: ization of our party. “We reaffirm and pledge our loyali to the cause of the working class to the social revolution, to the dictator- ship of the prolet it and to the Leninist leadership pf the Communist International.” lidarity en parate Shoe Unions icates Unity Move BROOKLYN, N., Y., Aug, 23.—That solidarity is in the hearts of the shoe workers was verified when the work- ers of the Premier Shoe Co, members of the American Union took the fol- lowing collection in the various de- partments of their shop to help the B. W. 8S, strikers of the Shoe Work- ers Protective Union; Lasters, $37.00; Finishers, Cleaners and’ Packers, $16.00; Heelers, $15.00; Cutters, $5.00 and Fitters, $17.00, ‘These men and women who are now in the sixteenth week of the strike and who have never left the picket line for a day appreciate the comradeship shown and declare that this is one more link in welding the shoeworkers of Greater New York together as part of one national industrial organiza- tion, -~ Sn cil 9 eterareny see “INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE TO'AID MINERS (Continued from page 1.) Local 992, on August 11th. President of the sub-district, Lon Fox, Vice- President Cobb and district board member Darby Babbington came to the meeting. The Men Refused. Fox and Cobb demanded that the miners elect new officers and return to work. The men refused and in- sisted that the case be reopened. Cobb answered in the negative a ques- tion whether or not he would reopen the case if the company were willing. The meeting adjourned with the men determined not to return to work un- til their old officers were recognized. A miner by name Asa Wilson, known to be a ku klux klan supporter, struck an old miner, Bert Farthing, sixty-nine years old, presumably for a remark Farthing had made during the meeting. A general fight ensued be- tween the miners supporting the old officers and those associated with the klan and supporting the sub-district officials. During the fray, Cobb pulled a black-jack from his pocket. This was taken from him and is now in the custody of the law in Zeigler. Both Vobb and President Fox receiy- ed injuries during the melee. One of the miners Mike Sarovich, who is a strong supporter of the local officers, was about to leave the hall when he was shot down by Alex Har- gis, former secretary of the local and known to be a klansman. Sarovich died several days later and Hargis is held for the murder. $70,000 Bail Raised. The same night, warrants chargi) rioting were served on Bert Farthi and his son. The two were immedi- ately released on bail. The miners continued to stay away from the mine save to picket against those who might be brot in to work. On the 18th, warrants were served on 18 lead- ing members of Local 992, among whom were President Henry Corbish- ly and his two brothers. The warrants were signed by D. B. Cobb and Lon Fox and charged 26 Zeigler miners with entering into a conspiracy to murder D, B. Cobb the night of the meeting on the lith, More than $70,000 in bail was raised in a short time and all were released. Ziegler has been a solid phalanx against any encroachments of the op- erators and has been a rallying center against the ku klux klan, which is quite strong in this district. The min- ers in Ziegler point out that the only supporters the sub-district officials ku Klux ‘klan, In the present trial of the 18 arrested Ziegler miners, they say, it will be a case of a triple alli- ance between the sib-district officials, the operators and the ku klux klan against the miners, Important Trial. Preparations are being made, not only in Ziegler, but in every mining town in the county where sympathy is strong for the defendants, to or- ganize to thwart any attempt at frame- up. Two local attorneys have been retained to represent the men at a preliminary hearing next Wednesday and defense committees are being set up to raise funds to fight the case. It is believed that the sub-district offi- cials are desperate enuf to go the limit in pushing the prosecution and @ trial of national importance may easily develop. In the meantime the members of Local 992 are keeping the mine shut down and turning out every morning to see that no miners enter the pit. Several clashes have occurred at the mine, but have been confined to pick-handle fights, since the strik- ers are careful to see that none of their members carry guns. PFaines P. Cannon, secretary of In- ternational Labor Defense, said: “This is a plain case of persecution of work- ers who have been loyal in the strug- igle against the mine operators. Be- cause the persecutors are corrupt unjon officials makes the case all the more flagrant. The miners of Ziegler merit the support of every honest worker.” | AND WE THOUGHT THAT GLASS COLLABORATION WOULD GIVE US WORK! NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—The Baiti. more & Ohio railroad announces that 7,600 shopmen employed inthe | heavy repair shops of the B. & 0. system take a temporary lay off August 25 to 29 by an agreement between railroad officials and repre- sentatives of the shop-crafts unions. MOSCOW—(FP)—The state grain trust of the Soviet Union, now cele- brating its third anniversary, an- nounces that it is now handling 40 per cent of all grain in the Russian market. It buys grain direct from the peasants. Mass.—(FP)—Strik- ing workers of International Woolen Mills at Methuen are reported return- ing to work under the announced 10 per cent wage reduction. Build the DAILY WORKER with subs, LAWRENCE, have in Ziegler are followers of the ..-A. = \ ~