The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 26, 1925, Page 1

Vol. Il. No. 194. | AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY ‘USSOLINI'S publicity agents were a little bit injudicious in boasting | | of the alleged surplus in the budget. It may not help them any in the nego- tiations with the United States goy- ernment over the war debts. The ob- ject of the boast was to show the world that fascism was stable and that the opposition has not been able to seriously injure the Mussolini dic- tatorship. eee ‘T was proven recently in articles written by bourgeois journalists that Mussolini has juggled the treas- ury figures to such an extent that a financial wizard could not make head mor tail out of them. He is playing a game of delay hoping that some mir- acle will happen to save him from the » inevitable disaster. a AYOR HYLAN of New York is a candidate for the mayoralty to succeed himself. The fight is now in the primary stage and Tammany is out for Hylan’s scalp. Hylan and his ~Tammany opponent are birds of a feather. They only disgree over the division of the spoils of office. - While Hylan claims to be a progressive, he is really a clever reactionary. His main platform is a five cent fare and abuse of the “traction interests.” | ‘YLAN is supported by William | Randolph Hearst, who has a pri- vate feud on with Al. Smith, governor of the state. Between the Tammany candidate Walker and Hylan his op- ponent, the workers have nothing to | chose. Tho only candidate for mayor who will place the interests of the workers as his first and only consid- i pration, is the standard bearer of the ‘Workers (Communist) Party. os 2 8 A NEWSPAPER correspondent by | the name of Walter “Dui es a yery interesting . dispatch ge Duranty returned to 1e Soviet capital after a year’s ab- oe. He finds conditions have changed considerably for the better during the year. Large buildings are} of auto busses and taxi cabs. many street car extensions. are more shops than ever and the people have a generally cheerful. ap- pearance. . ** * HD air of optimism which prevails, “he attributes to the expected: bumper crop. This is estimated at 200,000,000 bushels. This will permit the export of a quarter of a million bushels, while leaving the govern- ment a reserve of about half a mil- lion bushels. The reporter found the children plump and healthy and the number of beggars, which were a pest during the days of czardom, consfder- ably decreased, 2 URANTY says that there are now 1,309,000 members in the Young Communist girls’ organization and that applications for another million were tunrned down owing to the dif- culty of securing teachers and train- prs. Young Russia is growing up and the members of the youth organiza- tions of today will be the revolution- bry leaders of tomorrow. Duranty’s story should bring great joy to the hearts of all workers who see.in So- viet Russia the fatherland of the op- bap of the world and the nucleus a Soviet Union of the world. 7. * ay (AsosEmR dispatch states that So- viet Russia states that Soyiet Russia had a total foreign trade busi- hess last year of one billion dollars as compared with half a billion last year. | ‘The trade balance favored the Soviet 1 Aer by $50,000,000. This : a 100 per cent increase over “\ the figures of the previous year and , While -they only come within one-half [ bt pre-war figures, they nevertheless are significant and cannot fail to have vonsiderable political effect abroad. eee “AUSTRIAN Communists are plan- ning to stage a counter demon- stration to those made by the fascist! against the delegates to the Zionist congress in Vienna. Like the Ameri- bers ee Klux klan, the Austrian fascisti The Socialists po- — ia ‘of Vienna, it seems, have dealt ightly with the blackshirts, tho they ave announced their intention »not be 80 benevolently disposed towards sad Communists. This is quite likely’ ue. The fascists and the yellow so- tialists do not find it hard to agree bn the basis of a united front against the. Communists. The DAILY WORKER Raises | the Standard for a Workers’ | fn and Farmers’ Government eae ny Rare! "SEES { ORKERS BIG DEFENSE RALLY BRANDS .gations from: miners’ unions in Buck- ‘District 12, U. W. of A, was being constructed also severa} lines\jelected chairman of thé~ and (Henry Corbishly, president of Local Ling given. After several hours they lty. The corference decided to hold an- fother defense rally in Zeigler next 'Sunday. Duncan McDonald, Freeman | NEWYORK | EDITION « | Entered ‘as Second-class mattér September 21, at the Post O@ice at Chica: Iiltnois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. In Chi 1» by all, $8.00 ,. i _ we Published Dally t Sul by THE DAILY WORKER 2. e phate: Dincde Entscco te atl Se eeciouaey WEDNE, A ie PUBLISHING CQ, 1118, W. Warhington Bivd., Chicago, lil Price 3 Cents oe %, UNION HEAD THREATENED SPLIT INWORKERS — BRIVISH MINE UNION BETRAYERS IN ZEIGLER; (MEETS AT HOTEL) PARTYAVERTEDASBOTH SIDES LEADER HURLS MINERS ARE BEHIND LOCAL 992'AS BOSS CALLS) . STRESS NEED FOR UNITY REVOLT THREAT Strike Only ( One Week Away, Officials Busy (Special to fe oe Daily Worker) (Special to The Daily aaitha Gullesworiah ZEIGLER, Ill., August 24.-Despite threats of the ku klux klan, a great mass meeting protesting against the attempt to railroad 18 Zeigler miners arrested on a charge of conspiracy to murder was held in the City Park here Sunday. Every coal digger in town turned out to hear speakers ell the real story of the battle in the union hall on August 11 that PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Aug. 24— resulted in the death of Mike Sarovich. trusted union man and \Jehn L. Lewls, president; Phillp Mur- that later called forth the warrants for the arrest of 18 of Zeig-|"ay, sarc es Kennedy, Following the adoption of the message to the Communist \Seamen’ Ss Sisthe Has International, as given in yesterday's DAILY WORKER, the con- d vention began the discussion upon seating the contested del- Government Scare egates. Minor and Foster spoke 15 minutes each on the ques-| tion of seating two minority delegates from District 8. | (Special to The Daily Worker) The contest upon seating Comrade Fisher as fraternal del-| LONDON, Aug. 24—Charges ot egate began by Comrade Novak speaking 15 minutes in German, A. J. Cook, labor leader who js cred- with Amter following as tran-* De ited with forcing the miners’ strike slator, and Comrade Fisher in| «nd the Parity Commission had de-| settlement on the government, that defense of his being seated. clared thé greatest danger to our party. | he had been threatened with assassin- Comrade Bedacht took the floor for} in the opinion of the C. E. C. major-| ation by British fascists and that the 15-minutes opposing the motion of the] Ity this task could be best carried out | “government allowed it” were Ig- majority report of the Credential Com- | successfully by Comrade Askel{ being | nored by the tory government, mittee to seat Comrade Askeli as fra-| ven full chance to defend before the| Cook issued another warning io the ternal delegate from the Tyomies Fin-} party, particularly before the workers | government in the speech at Mans nish daily paper. After an appeal from | of the Finnish section, his wrong po-| field Sunday in which he revealed the ler’s most active union men sworn to ) by t the president, Lon Fox, | secret ¥ Ellis Searles and Cobb, of Sub-District No. 9. Fox Workers union have been in confer- oLoTH STRIKERS arrived at the game hotel. Altho he | Comrade Cannon the floor to defend questions of the party, in order that In reference to the government in and Cobb were in the fight on ence in a locahhote!l since Saturday. the 11th and received injuries James A. Gorman who acted as sec- said that h merely stopping en the motion. the convention may more effectively | activity towards the fascists Cook lersey resort his visit Cannon Attacks Opportunism. combat them, and therefore that Com- | #aid: wee. J00ket ae, gage at One of the main duties, if not the That he may have brot word from | oniee duty, of this convention, declared retary of -the operators’ and miners’ whereupon they charged that negotiating cominittee which met in the leaders of Local 992 at Zeig- rade Askeli should be seated as a “But we shall capture the army and fraternal delegate as had been the| avy by having them controlled by a the operators to Lewis and the other | (rade Cannon, was to wa: : was . ge a deter. UBIO Pngete considered likely. | ined and united struggle of all Com- . Atlantic City and failed to settle the ler had conspired to murder The speakers showed that Fox and representatives of other language|labor government. I warn the goy The mildest of the theories about his Cobb were desperate over their great unpopularity amd the imminence of their downfall and were trying to rail- road the men who are leading the and the vice-president, D. B. other officials of the United Mine miners’ and operators’ differences also the chair, a vote of 37 to 23 gave} sition upon the political tasks and | assassination charge. hem. papers of the party. ernment not to tempt the army and Speakers Expose Treachery. Following this, Comrade Askeli,|0@Vy too far.” Police Take Pickets to fight against them. 3 munist elements against right , wing | upon motion of Lovestone, was grant y ae It was pointed out that Fox and J il L ti F. d peur rah shes # e, ie vie deviations such as those represented | .4 the floor for 16 minutes, but being Faker Flees for Life. aul, ater free come to discuss Mestion of having |, comrade Askell, hich he C, 1. : ' 4 Cobb have invariably sided with the maintenance memptay at’work in the |?Y Comrade Askeli, which the xbeent, this speech was deferred. Meanwhile the seamen’s strike is companies in™ adjusting disputes and that their most flagrant betrayal was the deposal of the officers of Local 992 when the miners, of their own ac- cord, walked out of the Bell and Zoller mine because the company would not make it possible for the check weigh- man to record proper weights on the scales. It was after a meeting at which the men demanded the re-in- statement of their officers that’ the fight took place. Defense Body Set Up. Sunday evening a conference was held at which were represented dele- A motion passed by agreement, al-| causing the government grave con- lowing seven delegates to speak for| cern. The faker Havelock Wilson left five minutes each on both sides. Com-| the country after he betrayed the sea- rade Johnstone of District 8 spoke,| men. He is on his way to the United followed by Kruse. Bell and Ballam | States with the pieces of silver in his GRIST TO HIS ‘rom Boston stated their cases in Dis-} pocket. trict 1. Grecht and Lifschitz spoke It 1s reported here that Wilson fled Uses Union on Funds for event of a strikes Efforts of the International Tailor- ‘The mines in ti@thard coal district ing Company to “frame up” members| aro extraordinarily) active with the of the Amalgamated Clothing Work-| threatened strike one week away. ers "Union on charges of using vio- Mine basi a filling cio 3 the | bins to capacity aration for the fence will continue. That was ct: wall at: | "hI dans beey- opinion expressed yesterday to the gle is in prospect-tners declare. Un- DAILY WORKER by the five strikers} jogs their official: down at the who were arrested while picketing | last minute and jt the operators’ the International and J. &. Taylor | terms, thus ance betraying the shops and held at the Des Plaines rank and file, street police station for more than six hours while police tried to connect them with alleged acid throwing. from District 2 of New York. Com-|in fear of his life as J. H. Thomas rade Karath and Comrade White | did after he sold out the miners in spoke from District 6. Comrades} 1921. Wilson hopes that the present Dunne and Gitlow spoke upon con-| crisis will blow over. tests Comrades Manley and Wicks| Last Sunday Cook, miners’ leader, spoke, mostly upon District 3 Com-| delivered one of the most vigorous radeg Abern and Lovestone endéd this| denunciations of the British ruling section of the debate blass that ever flowed from the lips bes | the closing of the perigg#Of} of a labor leader in Great Britain. He ner, Vallfer, Christopher, Frankfort,| ‘The five men, Abe Bloomberg, Berl- ( Continu ge 5) Johnson City, Orient-end- Zeigler. .The | jiard~ Rayling, Sam Zimmer, John, Tt h . : ~ a cee ae of conference set. up a county défense | Wheeler ‘at Max Schumacher, were | Te r ayy , the workers et their friends. This* committee to fight the frame-up trial|'yajking on the picket line whem police} i, Pa c Pia oa ¢ ih could not Say for royalty. ot the 18: 2elsler milsieen. ‘grabbed. them, They. were hustled} ‘a notorious strikebreaker “Majah”« ‘ier Ha) ‘Tho arnty and navy Sersonnel, said} — Tom Jones, torier:board pote af of tatovg patrol wagon and taken to the L. Berry, president of the Internation- Cook, came from the ranks of labor! ‘| pelige station. There they were held al Printing Pressmen's and Aasit- atid Would ultimately fight on the side | without any reason for the arrest be- ante’ Union. of the workers. This was looked upon ARTICLE X. by “the government as an open bid “ee ’ for power thru physical force. resolutio “In May, 1926,” declared the head on ten testhe cance " 4 of the British miners’ union, number- ie a ing 1,300,000 members, “we will face a which stated that the unions affiliated great struggle between capital and 2-and ofe of those under arrest} were lined up and viewed by certain Was chosén secretary Sey auh ¥ Getaicn | | persons who apparently tried to iden-| fF ‘xploited Baggage Men of Zeigler, treasurer. *tifyethem. After being held from noon Another Rally Sunday. | ti after 6 p. m. they were released. of N.Y. Walk Out Tens of thousands of leaflets giving a Frameup Fails. / the facts of the situation in Zeigler will be broadcast thruout the coun: with it would not turn over to thé. In- ternational union the funds held un- der the laws of the organization until the following conditions were com- —_ labor. We must prepare the union ‘ok ° hi: id th fi iat. I Finance Wizard of N. P.\ ris raise « tana to stock the homes 4 4 ith food i - L. and $135,000 Missing \°r.%.."neaen, “With other miners I have been (Special to The Daily Worker) dragged in chains by the police. The MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 24.—| tools of capitalism will pay for their The northwest Is being combed for| persecutions of the working class. Jack Hastings, for alleged embezzle-| Those wrongs will be revenged. We an audit made by a certified public , Ment of $135,000, together with four | will obtain control of the army and accountant who has not been previ- associates, in connection with a bank | navy.” ously employed on the books of the |#t New Rockford, N. D. Jack Hast- Red Scares Impotent. union. Ings Is well known ‘as the financial) ne British shipowners are blaming 4. Resumption of the publication of | Wizard of the Nonpartisan league | 146 Communists for the seamen’s the secretary-treasurer’s reports quar- | “Wrecking crew” which organized and | strixe, put since the successful strug- terly in the American Pressman. wrecked a long string of economic gle of the miners who accepted the 5. Relief.of the death’ benefit fund enterprises in North Dakota and some Communist program of a joint strug- from excessive overhead. charges. in Minnesota, costing the unsuspect- |... with the entire labor movement ; ; NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Eight hun- was only then that they were * Re that they had. been viewed by|9ed baggage transfer men of New| ‘he follow! Je who claim to have seem men | York have “Weterwmined to tet the plied with: i Ada acid in a clothing shop. trunks take care of themselves until 1. Restoration of the popular voting their bosses back down in. thelr at-| 9Ystem. 2. Restoration to the old-age pen- sion fund of moneys illegally diverted from it. 3. A complete report of the finances of the international union based on wi Th ople who came to the station oy the strikers said they were |te™pt to impose a-wage cut and until they are granted an eight-hour day. Thompson and John Watt of Spring-|: field have been asked to address the meeting. Defense bodies are set up in practically every mine colony in the county and the issue is being raised in all local unions. A rumor hag it that nine men in- cluding Corbishly and Frank Johnson, the check weighman who challenged the company’s scales have been ex- pelled from the mine union by thé sub-district officers against whom the revolt is spreading to all locals. Active Miners Fired. ‘not among those who are supposed to ‘have thrown the acid. The strike is directed against the New York Transfer Company and the We: Yesterday morning the ninth week of the strike bezan. The picket line | ott Exprese Company, who together was as well manned as ever and the | Tonopolize the terminal baggage busi- sttike-.meeting was attended by an| "ess of the metropolis. unusually large number of strikers. Strike Complete. Speakers told the strike meeting of The strike is led by Martin Lacey, the hearing before Judge Lyle in| president of the Teamsters, Chauffeurs police court when the 16 ..rikers| and Helpers Union, an organization charged with using violence. were| not connected with the A. F. of L. granted a change of. judges. “The| The men in both companies are organ- bomb that the bosses had prepared to| ized 100 per cent and will prevent} 6, Just adjudication of all legal|'"@ farmers millions of dollars. as the key to victory, the red scares mi ahaa paswclarrad owe ee Na blow the Amalgamated out of the city | scabbing by effective picketing. claims against the international union Long Swindle Record. etn i a Hay ot workin the mine that has beéa iat of Chicago turned out to be a boom-| ‘Transfer work is the hardest kind | now held by local unions. Hastings was also the promoter of| British shipping is being tied up not erang,” one Amalgamated official told | of labor. Trunks have to be wrestled | The following questions were also-to | “The Listman Service” and “Federat- | only in: British ports but thruout the the audience. “Instead of hurting the | about like candy baxes at high speed. | be referred to the membership on a|ed. Finance Company” of Seattle,|empire. This has become so effestive strike and the strikeré’ union it came | Rupture is a common ailment among | referendum vote: Wash. This swindle blew up at Seat-| in Australia that the cvtonial govern: ‘right back and hit them in the eyes. the baggage men. The work day in| (a) Shall we continue to maintain | tle, causing many workers to lose | ment has’ ordered the deportation of * | the transfer trade has been ten hours. | the home? their all. the leaders responsible for staring the The men are insisting in their present (b) Shalf we continue to maintain Jack Hastings was the confidential | strike. “They were forced to tell the real] qemands for an eight-hour da: No : purpose of the persecution and frame- y. the sanatorium? secretary to A. C. Townley when the class of baggagemen or chauffeurs re- (c) Shall we continue to maintain | Nonpartisan league was first started. W s ui a me en y mage ceives more than $34 per week. The] the technical school? He discovered George T. Webb, who = eir injunction mt t © | companies involved ‘ask a wage reduc- if eect dees oi aug neied, fe toy |e ee ge (ad) Shall the technical school be | is now vice president of the Brother. removed to a centrally located city? hood Investment company of Cleve- Ree bias dodge. R Sin bon of Danger of Scabs. (e) Shall the administrative head-| land, Ohio. Hastings also brot out of ‘your fellow workers is just an/ ‘The traditionally scab Yellow Scab | quarters of the union be removed to | Henry A, Pallock, who is now general attempt to use the police to break | Company will endanger the strike by |. centrally located city? counsel of the Brotherhood Invest- this strike. But it hasn't. But that | its cheap cab haulimg rates on trunks.| The experience of the pressmen with |ment Company, and with whom he D won't stop the bosses from trying new | The transfer companies move trunks | their capitalistic international officers | was indicted several years ago for : dodges to cripple the morale of the | for a dollar, while'eabs will take them | should-be a warning signal for the | the looting of the Scandinavian-Amer- EP striker aboard for twentyocents. The union |membership of other unions whose | ican bank of Fargo, N. D. LONDON, Aug. 24.—Except for the Patsy De Rosa, who was released | taxi men are expected to unite with | officials use the funds of the drgani- Saved by Statute. expression of the Lemal Oipiomnese sae from jail on bonds following the issu-| the transfer men im their fight for a|zation to float business ventures.| ‘The statute of limitations stopped | ‘#™ism over the progress of convetsa- ance of a writ of habeas corpus early | living wage and a workable day. Unions cannot fight the capitalists and | the prosecution of Hastings and Pad-| “008 undertaken today between Win- Saturday morning,. was back on the Bosses Cry Poverty. be interested in profit making enter-|dock, the latter being attorney for | Sto Churchill, chancellor of the ex- Picket line yesterday. The companies are complaining of | prises at the same time, Labor banks | the defunct bank, It is thot that|Cheduer, and M, Caillaux, French mesced yeild hay But the fact | and investment companies are becom- | Hastings has left the country for Mex- cape yeas ag onnevaeetaee MINNEAPOLIS FAKERS INVITE A ot trains Hb Gels Gea ae Nic lane otha Mic peg ee of the question of the hd Great Britain. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEMBER TO |i", so.swt.,*."" 2 *°"| MUSSOLINI GETS BIG GIFT FROM cancer" epectaios Callus y not retut t tre SPEAK AT LABOR DAY CELEBRATION | ("s:,".°s.comsion, atematea PAPA MORGAN FOR FASCISM | 2" serine te asteraoon for a see strike for three weeks, But a strike ond conference with Churchill MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 24—The Minneapolis and St. Paul re-| meeting of the union decided unani- It was believed the French finance actionary trade union officials have invited W. E, McEwen, a member of the | Mously to stop work at midnight Sun- ROME, August 24—The house of M he | Minister was waiting for instructions” Dafuth: chamber°Ot eadiitibres, ‘te deliver ‘the Spiinolpal Shins on Lepor (aay? » Aug ie house of Morgan has placed $200,000,000 at the | 04, panig regarding some propost disposal of Mussolini's bankrupt government. This flood of gold for fascism |.) ted to him by Chi en ere ty under the auspices of the central labor bodies. NORTHBORO, - Mass, — (FP) — \s Morgan's contribution to insure the continued existence of a government Ly ai ng ee joEwen, being a member of the chamber of commerce, is the Northdale Woolen Mills ‘éinpio: after his own heart. It will also serve to stabilize the tira which has been 5 editor of a so-called tnd Paper, the Duluth Labor World, which boosts the | have struck for wage increases, abd having a severe attack of delirium tremens, Morgan's other reason for loan-| Euf a copy of the DATLY was me paper Polley of William Green, friend of Herbert Hoover and lors have been given 10 per cent in.|!N@ the money Is his somewhat selfish desire to recuperate many prior mil-| WORKER in your pocket when president meri¢an Federation of Labor aah creases and are hot out lions borrowed by Rome you go to your union meeting, down since the trouble over the scales two weeks ago. Active members who presented themselves at the mine were informed that they were dis-| charged. ff The miners insist that the facts bear out their contention that the’ com- pany and the sub-district officials are combining in a deliberate frame-up to’ get all active union men out of Zeigler. They are selecting in advance’ those they want to get. Situation Serious, The prelimi: hearing at which the 18 Zeigler miners will appear to answer the grave charge of conspiracy to murder Cobb will occur at Benton on Wednesday. The nfimers have no doubt that the desperation of the sub- district officials will force them to go thru with what is at best @ very filmsy frame-up, De Rosa on Picket Line. (Special to The Daily Worker)