The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 26, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER d,by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Blvd., Chicago, Ml, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): 88, 00 per year 0 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months a Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, iMindis —$ $$ — J, LOUIS BNGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. Editors .Business Manager PS RRR ect abet aba aii ee deo a a a a —— Entered ay second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Itl, under the act of March 3, 1879. | (animate seiner Mit Da WR DEAR sth) SC EP 290 Advertising rates on application. —— <== “ 799 B. & O. Bill” Is Answered Loeal 199 of the Internationa! Association of Machinists) gave a fitting reply to the ukase of scabby “B. and O. Bill” Johnston that all members of the union, who were also members of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, the Trade Union Edueational League or the Young Workers League should sever all connections with those or- ganizations or stand expelled from the Machinists’ Union after the} date of October 15 next. Loeal 199 voted unanimously to protest} against this ruling. Johnston will soon find out what the yellow socialist Sigman | of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is learning,| that he cannog drive the Communists out of the unions. The ranks} and file who are not blinded by the prejudice know that the Com-! munists are always on the side of the workers fighting the employers. They know that the Communists are not disrupters but that on the contrary, they are constantly instilling the idea of unity on the in- dustrial field into the minds of the workers. It is not the Commun- ists who will be driven out fo the Machinists’ Union, but “B. and O. Bill” and his traitorous lackeys who have bartered the interests of the membership and of the workers in the metal trades industry for personal gain and political prestige. Only a Trace The settlement of the coal strike by a subsidy to the coal oper- ators did not solve the class struggle in Britain or even postpone it. No sooner was the threat of a coal strike lifted than a shipping strike broke out. The reactionary officials of the seamen’s unions signed an agreement with the employers accepting a wage reduction of a pound sterling for the men. The men refused to accept this offer and a shipping tie-up now threatens England in addition to her other troubles. Stanley Baldwin declares that.all British workers must accept a cut in wages. The Morning Post, die-hard organ of toryism, calls on every loyal son and daughter of the empire to join in defense of the country. It openly appeals to force. The fig leaf of constitu- tionalism which has so, long and so successfully covered the naked- ness of British imperialism is torn, away. A. J. Cook, secretary of the miners, declares that the workers must not be lullel into the sleep of fancied security by their’ late vietory. John Wheatley, calls on 10,000,000 workers to organized defense corps. The Communist Party of Great Britain declares that there can- not be any peace until capitalism is overthrown, and the rule of labor established on the ruins of the robber system. Unless all signs fail, Britain is nearing a serious crisis. workers must be prepared for it. The Bankers Get Theirs Whether the United States, government ever receives any sub- stantial payments from Belgium out of the debt settlement is an open question. The ferms appear to be generous. The following reason for this leniency is given by the Washington correspondent of the Federated Press: Belgian payments to the American treasury, in settlement of the $480,000,000 of war and after-war loans and accrued interest, will be only from $2,840,000 to $6,650,000 a year for the first ten years—if the payments are actually made. That generous arrangement pleases the international bankers, who hope meanwhile to collect some of the debt the Belgians owe them for private loans. The Washington economists are skeptical of the carrying out of the rest of the program, which contemplates payments over a period of 62 years, amounting to $737,830,500 in principal and interest. They are impressed with the likelihood that further reductions in the interest rate are com- ing, and the possibility of cancellation of much of the principal. The imperialists of the United States are using the debt question as a club over the heads of their bankrupt European debtors. De- spite the professions of common kinship expressed towards England by the ruling class publicists in this country, England is given more severe terms than Belgium and France is only delicately prodded by a golden feather Ramsay MacDonald declared that the British labor party was the first party to take any real interest in the empire. MacDonald is a socialist and hates Soviet Russia. Two good reasons why he should love the empire. . The United States ranks with China, Japan and India in the hours which its textile slaves must toil each working day.» The Chinese are taking steps to get out of the list. When will the Amer- iean textile workers wake up? The total number of tractors sent to Russia from the United States since August Ist, is 9,000. The American business men may not like the Bolsheviks but they have no objection to accepting their gold rubles. Now that Belgium received favored terms on her debt to the United States, listen to the British lion roar. Those who imagine that the capitalists of the United States and those of Britian have an undying love for each other should watch the diplomatic divorce courts. Two robbers who tried to rob a policeman were held in. bonds OF LANTSUTSKY, DOCUMENTS GONE OOSTPONE TRIAL Spies and Police Flood Court, Search Audience} WARSAW, Poland.—(By Mail.)— The second trial of the. Communist member of the Polish parliament,| | Stanisiav Lantsutsky, was opened be- | fore the Warsaw district court on| August 5, but the persecution claimed | that some of the documents were miss-| ing, so court was suspended. Lantsutsky was brought before the | court from the famous czaristic prison, Mokotowo, under heavy police | escort. The court building was sur-| rounded by armed police and many | | detectives placed among the audience. Everyone who entered the hall was searched, . New Trial Awaits Him, | The prosecutor refused. to permit | Lantsutsky to see his wife, nor weet the Communist permitted toyhave the attorney who defended him in the first trial at Przemysl appear in court. In this “trial” Polish class justice’ is preparing to imprison one of the most devoted and faithful fighters for the working class of Poland and the world, Lantsutsky, together with Kroli- kowsky, an old revolutionary fighter, were leaders of the Communist frac- tion in the Sejnr (parliament), Kroli- kowski’s seat is already empty and the election of a substitute is being sabotaged by the Sejm. Lantsutsky is kept» away from the Sejm by the charges placed against him by the white terrorists. After the “trial” in Warsaw, another is waiting -for him in Lodz, Polish Manchester. Lifelong Service to Workers. Lantsutsky ,is at present 43 years old and has been working in the la- bor movement since he was a boy of 14. -He placed all -his strength and energy at the service of the socialist organization “Shila.” At 16 he be came: a member of the Polish socialist party and participated in all its work. On account of his political and trade unionrwork he was continuously per- secuted by his master as an apprentice in thesrailway workshop in Cracow. ‘When 17 years old he made his first public sspeech at the occasion of a protest: against the murder of four workers by Austrian police. Inthe railwaymen’s movement he was carrying on extensive activity. He was delegate in 1904 to the rail- waymen’s congress, in 1905 he had al- ready,a leading position in the meet- ings:and in the strike committee. On account of his revolutionary activity he had to leave Galicia in the same year and had to go to Maerisch Ostrau where he was soon elected in- to the central committee of the Rail- waymen’s Union. ' During the war he remained true to his revolutionary convictions. In 1919 he returned to Galicia where he worked in various newspapers against the war, work which was connected with great dangers on account of the severe legislation. After having led in 1919 an engineers’ strike, he had to live illegally to avoid arrest. Arrested For Revolutionary Work. After the November revolution in 1918 and the establishment of the Polish republic, he became a member of the municipal council in Jaroslav and in 1921 he was elected a member of parliament. As M. P. he left the treacherous socialist party and joined the Communist Party of Poland. In parliament he carried on an extensive revolutionary activity and’ worked particularly among the railway work- ers and the voters of his district, as the members of parliament were the only ones. who had the right of call- ing meetings. On account of this revolutionary ac- tivity he was accused, The first trial against him took place on account of a speech which he had made in No- vember 1923 in a railway workers’ meeting in Przemysl. immediately after the events in Cracow—the vic- torious revolt of the Cracow work- ers against police and troops which was afterwards suppressed thru the treason of the social democrats, In this meeting he spoke about the | ago, he smited bravely and s: THE DAILY WORKER TRIBUTE TO ONE OF OUR LOYAL-SOLDIERS IN THE CLASS WAR By ELLA: weave BLOOR. Comrade A. J. Stein passed out of this life at the Denyer Jewish Con- sumptive ‘Relief Hospital this month, a victim of that :terrible my of our class, the “white plague.” When 1 last visited him only six weeks “Mother, my fight of 12 years against this disease is almost over, but | am leaving you to wage a harder battle against the common enemy—capitalism.” | told him how we Would miss his work at the sana- tarium, and what an inspiration he had been to us all with. his tremen- dous courage, and cheerful persist- ence against all odds, selling the | party literature, getting more con- tributions to every urgent need of the party than all the outside healthy comrades, . Many a time during my residence in Denver | would snatch an hour out of busy days (to, sit by his bed. to discuss our problems, Always he would take Clippings from our Communist press fromm under his pil- low and talk over every great world event affecting us.'Guiding always the younger comrades flocking to the sanatarium frofm our large in- dustriat centers, many of them go- ing out again to take up the battle, Comrade Stein would see to it that every one of them should under- stand the class war; the cause of it, and the only ultimate positive remedy—the brifging in of the workers’ and framers’ government. His face was fairly illuminated with hope as | left him, assuring him that because of the Russia he loved we all felt sure of victory for our class. Even in America, and because of his faith and courage many of us would work harder than ever before. So we will, Comrade Stein. Friends, comrades and _ soldiers, bring our ranks closer together, not only in Denver but ali along the line. His “memorial” will not be of stone, but a Hving flame burn- ing in the hearts of every man and women who knew hin and the torch he carried, we shal? pass on. cere Defies His‘ Accusers. In his trial as well as at the oc- casion of the abblition of his im- munity Lantsutsky*' has proved a high degree of courage’ Altho he knew that he would certhinly fall into the hands of the spiés‘after the aboli- tion of his immunity, he appeared in parliament. He finished his speech in Which he protested ‘against abolition of immunity, with the following words: ae “Thetefore'I deciiite with the same power and determination: Commun- ism willMdeteat you (noise, the words cannot be understood). Long live Communism!” iF To his judges he ‘ ‘Shia: “I have never denied that I am a° Communist.” After his arrest! spies tried to slander him and dociared that he led an extravagant life, that he had a luxurious —flat—ci dtpets, gold and silver. When the’jury visited his flat they found ‘thfee very small rooms, a very sifiple equipment— bought 13 years ago for 100 Austrian kronen, in the sleeping room two old beds with sacks of Straw in them and neither carpets nor'fewels. The only “prectéus” “thing was a couch covered witl?peasant linen. The revolutionary Lantsutsky has remain- ed a devoted fighter. It must be the task of the workers of all countries to free this champion of the Polish work- ing class from the claws of class justice, * 8 8 By INPRECORR, MOSCOW, August 7—(By Mail)— On August 5 the process against the Communist Botwin commenced in Lemberg. Botwin ‘had shot dead the police spy Chechnd¥sky. ‘The accused conducted himself’ courageously be- fore the field courft!'He declared that he had killed Chedifévsky because the latter was a répif¥ive provocateur. The accused declatéd himself to be a convinced Commuiffst, On the 6th of Auugust after the an- nouncement of the*death sentence, Botwin was executtd by shooting, Red Aid Protests. According to a communication*trom the EB. C. of the International Red Aid, the Persidium,, of the Interna- tional legal bureau sent the following totalling $2,200,000. If they tried to steal the Teapot Dome he would probably have given them a vote of thahks. That is, provided they were respectable politicians. The Illinois Bankers’ Association is equipping 7,000 guards to supplement the law enforcing agencies in the state. It will cost the bankers $200,000. This is a Nice nucleus for a state police force! How about it Messers Walker and Olander? ‘ While a gang of burglars were going thru a jeweler’s safe and getting away with $200,000 worth of loot, states attorney Crowe's Rolice force were cnarding his brother-in-law’s scab. printing plant. experience of the struggle in Cracow telegram of protest, against the execu- and the spies tried to construct from} tion of Botwin to ite Lemberg field his words a crime of high treason,| court: an attempt which deplorably failed} “The handing of iF of Botwin to a before the court, At presént Com-| field court in time of peace for the rade Lantsuisky is accused of two killing of a police ie who cannot be speeches which he had made as mem-| considered as an Official of the state, her of parliament in mass meetings| is completely illegal. It means that in Warsaw and Pabianice and on ac-| the Polish government has raised count of an article in the election} provocation to a legal system in the paper of the legal alliance of the struggle against the movement of the workers in town and country, working class and the peasantry,” i, WEALTHY RANCHERS IN FLIGHT AS MEXICAN FARMERS ARE AROUSED BY MURDER OF SEVEN COMRADES ee MEXICO city, August 24,—Incensed at the slaying’ of seven of their membership, agrarians today were besieging the village of El Crucero where the agrarians wer jain by the Lagunes brothers, bai y ranchers, who have fled t th hil t A In retaliation ranch agrarians have seized all the gattieltrom the Lagunes Me TWO COMMUNIST | [_ SOLDIERS STUDY FOR THE CAUSE Prepare for Further Service to Workers By PAUL CROUCH and WALTER TRUMBULL, HONOLULU (By Mail).—We are leaving “for Alcatraz, Calif., on the U. S. A. T. Cambrai, sailing August 8th (Saturday). It is reported that we can write only one letter per week (tho that report may not be true), while in Alcatraz. In that case, we can write but few letters to our com- rades, We hope that they will understand our condition and will continue to write to us, as letters from Commun- ist comrades are .very encouraging. We can receive all letters. As to other literature, it is probable that we will be permitted to receive it, As for the New York Times, there will be no objection to our receiving it. Of course, we will have to read between the lines to understand the real facts. We regret that too much of our lives have been wasted and that we did not fight always ror the working class as we should have done. But we hope that in the future, we may be able to make up for the past. With that purpose in mind, we will study and prepare ourselves while in Al- catraz, for more efficient service to the proletarian cause. Who knows? Perhaps even oup friends may be surprised at our work for the cause resulting from our prep- arations and plans for future work against imperialism. Dear comrades, this may be the last letter we will be permitted to write to you for some time, and, until we are released we will be able to write |) nothing not approved by authorities. But as long as we live we will keep up the fight and we will always be true to the cause. Our bodies, only, can be imprisoned by the . brutal agents of capitalism. Our best wishes and hopes are with you in your ty) for Communism, We will be happy as long asl comrades keep up the fight, but. are sorry we are unable to take active part. Our devotion to cause of the workers cannot be by persecution. é, Please extend our thanks tothe comrades for their efforts in-our be- half and assure them that we will continue to ey ja firm for our phegiety cause. | 3 a ANTHRACITE HAS. 156,000 MINERS BUT FEW OWNERS Railroads Dwn Most of Companies : PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug, 24+—If John L, Lewis, president of the Unit- ed Mine Workers of America, calls for a suspension of mining in the hard coal fields of northeastern Pennsyl- vania when the present wage contract expires on Aug. 31, his order will ef- fect a host of men. State estimates for 1924 placed the number of em- ployes at 152,503, the largest since 1915. 4 The union, itself, for convenience, uses an approxiate figure of 156,000 today and of these about 10,000 main- tenance men probably would be left in the mines by mutual agreement with the operators. This skeleton force of pumpmen, timbermen and engineers would patrol the underground work- ings to prevent flooding and cave-ins, Paralysis would descend upon 828 mines operated by 135 coal com- panies. Railroads Biggest Mine Owners. The brunt of the tie-up would be borne by three of the counties and less than a dozen companies. Lu- wurne, Lackawanna and Schkuylkill counties produced three-quarters of the entire anthracite output in 1924, figures show, and employed four-fifths of the men. The handful of corpora- tions, a group formerly owned in the main by railroads, produced the “com- pany coal,” comprising some 60 per cent of the entire tonnage. The re- mainder is mined by “independents” and some of these are fake indepen- dents. Tonnage Produced, In the fields as a whole the produc- tion last Sd Was given by the state as 77,926,249 gross tons—that is, fig- ured on the basis of at least 2,240, pounds to the ton. This figure was below that of all recent years except 1922, when the men were idle five months and eleven days, PITTSBURGH, PA, To those who work hard for thelr” money, | will save 50 per cent on _ all their dental work, . DR. RASNICK OENTIS '|demoralized, the wise men of the rem- stra PICTURES _|LYLE USES IN COURT eer ta age, has just recently placed r with a sheet metal placed Kicks Stenographer and Lawyer Out is a hima steel coffin large enuf jto enclose the bodies of himself and his wife, with whom’ le has been }living for 60 years, so he stated. ee. € A hotel proprietor and his wife lavish their affections on two scrubby lalley cats. Percisely at 2 o'clock, noon and 6 p. m, they call these cats |to their meals, and at 10:30 or 11:00 lp. m. they call them in to bed.| “Take that man to the back of the Everyone within a block is aroused | room and sit him down, Mr. Bailiff.” That was the order Judge John Lyle shouted at his bailiff Friday afternoon when he was hearing the cases against Ike and Isadore Sandler, both officers of an organization of shoe shop owners and both in court on charges of attempting to intimir a other shoe shop owners into Jot: | their organization. “That man” happened to be Joneph as they make the welkin ring and frequently they start out on asearch, Ricker, the attorney for the men who were being tried. with a flashlight, calling their names. So the two Sandlers stood before |I am told that the cats have their Judge Lyle and were subject to the |places at table for meals and that the family will not start eating until latest form of capitalist ,lynch law minus their right to be represented the cats are at their places. Also my informant tells me that they have each a little bed with a silk quilt and a silk pillow. Meanwhile little chil- dren in our cities subsist upon tid- bits from garbage cans and sleep in an old box on a pile of excelsior or rags. | | N OF by counsel. Justifies Act. Judge’ Lyle justified his refusal to EWELRY UNION permit Sandler and his son to have a lawyer on the ground that his ques- tions and ‘the testimony of the wit- nesses was merely a “preliminary hearing.” When he had finished the 15 or Bee preliminary hearing =i had signed : warrants which charged “conspiracy Fakers B 1 ety k . d It to boycott” he recalled Ricker and 2 Two Years told him that he “might” fepresent — the’ Sandlers. By CHARLES SCHWARTZ. But it was not three minutes be- (Secretary, Boston Jewelry Workers’ | fore Lyle gave another sample of his Protective Association, formerly lynch law. He ordered the stenogra- pher of the defendant to leave the Koga Ses 1. os court room. It was only thru the use The convention of the I. J. W U.Jof the stenographer who would take has been called to be held on Satur-|down the prejudiced remarks of the day, Sept 5, 1925, at 10 aem., at Jef-| judge that Sandler hoped to get his ferson hall, Fraternity building, Chi-|case before a higher court and try to eago. After two years of delay and get “justice” there. sabotage on the part of A. Greenstein, * 7 Violates Other Rights. neral secretary-treasurer 0: W. U., and his guccessor, J. Bisen-| , 5° the judge cut off that means of After berg of Chicago, the convention was Pa ot pee oeprg Ml ‘scheduled to be held in July, 1923, pher Out of the room and had insisted at Toronto, : Canede- on questioning the defendant in vio- ‘But Mr. A. Greenstein, fearing the lation. of another of his constitutional wrath .of the locals who. were ready | ipnte, he bound Sandler Sr. over to to rip the-sheepskin off the wolf hid-/+he-grand jury on $50,000 bafl and den beneath it, willed otherwise, and Sandler, Jr. over on $5,000 bail “T'll a was no convention! gegtid of this Sandler tribe, and: I Falsehood to Save Job. want,.you to understand it,” he told “There are no funds,” said Mr. Ricker. Greenstein. “But we'll show how to ‘Fearing that Ricker might gef fx raise funds,” said the membership. writ of habeas: cropus reducing | fe “No; it’s against the constitution,” bail of the Sandlers, Lyle invol |i whined Greenstein, The constitution ‘nis own brand of lynch law again and provides that a special part of the per | jwipounded the records of the cases capita be set aside for the convention | ssainst them. He was not content yet fund. so*he® offered a few insults to Ricker The patience of the bop ex atid ¢alled it a case. hausted, the slogan 2 “Starve |): the faker.” And starv: GHOST SEPT. 9 fi ‘ Press There. ‘His brave words and magnificent gestures were not wasted. Behind him, was arrayed many of the star re- Sei did, Local after local, following the lead of the district council No. 1 that embraced more than half of the membership, refused to pay per capita unless the convertion was called. : A Funeral—Unless .. . . Greenstein, accomplishing his pur- pose of rufhing what he, could not rule, fied and left his.crumbling throne to a loyal clown. Now, with most of the locals gone, with the most impor- tant jewelry center disorganized and taking down the words of wisdom that fell from his lips. Your Union Meeting Fourth Tuesday, August 25, 1925, > 144. Amalgamated Clothing Work nants of the International are getting ers, 1569 N. Robey St. together to arrange for the funeral—| 188 Boot : brea Workers, 1989 unless the advice of the militants is} 21 Bricklayers, 912 W. Menroe St. heeded. 378 Brick and Se erie Pavi Inspectors, ‘ashington. Will the I. J. W. U. respond to the Candmees Joint (Oeunell, ae Ww. ‘7th call of the jewelry workers for unity? 68° Carpenters, Diverse and Sheffield. The future will show. If not, a Jewel pe Carpenters, 1028 E. 75th St. pera, Moose Hall, Chicago ty Workers Union will grow up on the jeights. ruins of the defunct I. J. W. U. OC tet ee Gentlemen of the I. J. W. U., awake! | 1786 Sieh, Grocery, ne iay a and 26th. 5 8 conductors ( {Sleeping Car), Capitol Be BERR Hk ens an, SPOOF” WALL laeeeee vei w. 5 a Engioegre’ (ree. ates We Roose: (Loe. W. 36th St. NOT PAY TAXES \os sersricture a ’ jarine 10 Musicians, 175 W. Wi its of 33 cents per bushel. The aver- age yield per acre for the state will not go above 12 bushels, On a wheat crop of 100 acres, therefore, the net earnings are $396; on 200 acres $792 The average farmer in the state will scarcely earn net profits of $500 on his wheat. It should be observed that in North Dakota wheat is the principal crop, and many farmers depend. en- tirely on this crop for their income. According to the estimate made by the department of agriculture at| .Washington, D. C., the wheat crop in |" North Dakota for 1925 will yield 102,- 134,000 bushels, and at 33 cents per rnings to the farmers of the state will be $33,704,220. "This amount is. not sufficient to pay’ th back taxes and the back interest that the farmers owe, and from this fact ay get some idda’ of what the farmers here are up galtiat, 4 ‘ Build the DAILY WORKER, adison. Paiva bars 8, Haleted st, toe rae umbull an Steines 5324 ra 352 Ral 739 ray, hacer Moose Hall, oni iy “ech: Pe ois, ind Bivd rs (Auto), Couneil, a0 (t porters. of the Chicago.press eagerly | By ALFRED KNUTSON. ‘ist Firemen Vana Tesivemenr”’ Ogden FARGO, N. D., Aug. 24.—The state vs icultural college. here has deter-|° inten ‘& Sewer: 8 Veneer ‘mined by scientific investigation that | 5 Hod Carriers, 225 &. 15th St., Cht- it cost’ the North Dakota farmer this} 6 Hod "Garriors ee dere s year $1.12 to raise a bushel of wheat.| *” Med Ca ae From this it is interesting to figure | /15* wan’ Carriers, 814 v: Ha out what'the approximate earnings of | ®' “adi ee" Garment. Wi forkara, San We. ' the wheat farmer are. # ther Workers, yew: The» average primary market price| 84. Machialets, Homan for wheat:this fall is not Itkely to ex- | 95. Machinists, 4120 W. Lake ceed $1.45 per bushel, so that the | 546 Meat Gutters, 175 W. farmer in North Dakota will earn prof | g74 .t Mating “ire! and ‘Ollersy. Clerks, 849 W. Washington “4 a |