The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1925, Page 2

Page Two - DELEGATES IN RUSSIA TAKE PART IN RITE Workers’ Delegations Impressed by Soviets (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Aug. 25.—To- day the German workers’ delegation visited sanatoria and workers’ rest homes in the neighborhood of Baku The delegation then visited the peo- ples’ commissariat of Aserbaidjan and had a discussion upon the general situation. After a session of the Trade Union Council of Aserbaidjan in which the question of the trade union move- ment was discussed, the German dele gation laid a wreath upon the grave of the 26 murdered Baku commissars. Declare Solidarity. The delegation addressed a declara- tion to the work of Aserbaidjan, in which they stressed particularly the successes which have been achieved “The German workers strive to reach the situation in. which the Russian workers are today. The soviet gov- ernment is the only possible govern- ment in the Soviet Union. You acted correctly when you drove out your own and the foreign capitalists.” ax Brose presented the greetings of the workers of Berlin-Brandenburg and declared that the workers of Ger- many would follow the example of the workers in the Soviet Union. Chinese Impressed. The delegation of the Kuomintang party which is in Moscow under the nship of Tzionau, has visited , shops, workers’ clubs, kin- dergartens and rest homes. The dele- gation was interested chiefly in pro- duction, the intensity of labor and the situation of the workers. The leader of the delegation, Tzionau, declared: “We are convincing ourselves that in the Soviet Union the whole people take a part in the government. “We attempt in China to mobilize the whole people around the Kuo- mintang party in the struggle against the national oppression and against the foreign imperialists. We hope that the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union will render us assist- ance.” FIVE COLORED SOLDIERS KILLED AT CAMP GRANT Negroes Suffered Agony with Fortitude Six men were killed and twenty seriously injured in the explosion of a Howitzer gun today at Camp Grant during the practice of the Howitzer company of the eighth regiment, col- ored. Captain Q. A. Browning, former commander of a machine gun com- pany overseas during the world war was one of those killed, All of the injured were taken to the camp hospital for treatment, and then transferred to the Swedish-American hospital in Rockford. The colored troopers, despite their terrible wounds, several of them hay- ing shoulders and legs torn, acted like stoics. Leia Chieago Printers Win. WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Chicago eliminated St. Louis today in the Union Printers’ International League baseball championship. The score was 9 to3. Hucher, of Chicago, was the star, getting four hits out of five times up. Urie pitched well for the winners. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND WORKERS | Itallst countries and their colonies Is the following: Germany . 7,000 Poland 6,000 Italy ... i Bulgaria .. Jugoslavia . Roumania | Baltic States 3,000 Spain .... 800 Greece . . 300 Occupied countries 7,000 India ... 15,000 | Java . 2,000 Corea wie 43,800 | { Total number of political prisoners... BERLIN, Germany.—The number of the political prisoners In the cap: O worker—AND SURELY NO COMMUN- IST—can truthfujy say he has a thoro grasp of Communist principles and practice —unless he has studied and learned them as put down in these classics written by our great teacher and leader— V. I. Ulianov (Lenin) State and Revolutlon......csssroamssserssserseess- 200 PUMPING AIR INTO CRUMPLED PARTY'S BLADDER Socialists Get No Dough; No Members (By L. P. R. Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Dr. Harry W. Laidler of New York City, secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy and the author of several books and pamphlets on industrial matters, is also said to be “one of the best in- formed men in the country on affairs dealing with the world of labor.” This “well-known author and _ lecturer” spoke (under the auspices of the S. P.) on “the meaning of modern social- ism” at Symphony Hall, this city, a few days ago. This “great attarac- tion” for those who earn their bread (without butter) by the sweat of their brow caused 90 people to come, see and—conquer, no—listen. Debs Not the Drawing Card. “A socialist sentiment,” not Debs, was the drawing card at the Holly- wood Bowl meeting on July 26th, said the chairman. And, in order to prove it, he wanted to know how many mem- bers of the S. P. were present; .17 hands went up. Two appeals were made for S. P. recruits—but nobody had enuf “socialist sentiment” to re- spond to the call for members. Closed Pocket-Books, The expenses of the meeting were $40,00, and the collection $10.80. How much sentiment there was in the col lection box, besides those nickels and dimes, the writer is unable to say. But if the applause—or, rather, the lack of it—can be ysed as a yard- stick for measure! in this cqnnec- tion, tl small gift, ms to mean so much;-or, rather, little—cold cash— without any real socialist understand- ing, or revolutionary “sentiment,” at- tached to it. Russian Literature. The only workers’ government in the world, Soviet Russia, was handled with silk gloves by the speaker. Answergng a question of an anarchist, Mr. Laidler thot, however, that it was “too much. coercion” over there. These words caused some applause, of course, but about the only clapping of hands in evidence during this “reor- ganization” of a party—which every- body refused to join. As to the sale of literature, the DAILY WORKER held up its end— and then some, Fire Hits Mahomet’s Tomb. JERUSALEM, Aug. 25.—-The famous mosque of Medina, containing Maho- met’s tomb, has been damaged by fire of Wahabi tribesmen who are besieg- Ing the holy city. Several other mosques were reported destroyed or damaged by the bombardment of the tribesmen. The guerrilla warfare of the rebel tribe is becoming dangerous to foreign concessionaires. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Ogmmunism—study it. Send for a catalogue of all Com- munist literature. HVS. iveeinaacrvecretenvensnaacoen novus THE BOOKS OF A MASTER ca bagi sbbrce inal Stage of Capitallsim.....ssssssesses-150 The Proletarian Revolution, or Kautsky, the Renegade......ressmssers 250 Infantile Sickness, Or “Leftism” in ComMUNISM....s0000.150 Should Communists Participate in ‘ Reactionary Trade Unions........sssssee 5o THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. “The Source of All Communist Literature” /Ntilad ines eam, ena Samat staid “tmcananet Mma Hard Floor Workers Strike; Amalgamation Proposed in Angel City L. P, RINDAL, Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 25.—It is not easy to get information, but some men of Hardwood Floorworkers’ Union, Local No, 2094, are on strike. Demands, $10 a day and car fare; no piece work to be allowed in any shop. The strike assessment is 50 cents a day for those who work. The follow- ing are on the unfair list: Hammond, American, John Johnson, Acme, A. B. Rice, National, Bemis & Cowen, Woodhead, and Patten & Davies. Amalgamation. News came that the two Building Trades Councils of Sacramento, Cal., have agreed to amalgamate. This will take effect on September 10. Organ- izer Dale is now in this city, and the same step may be taken here. Any- how, “Brother” Dale is “not a press agent,” he says, “I am an organizer.” The general belief is that he has re- ceived orders from headquarters in Washington to make certain investi- gations in Los Angeles. Raise Initiation Fee. The District Council of Carpenters has raised its initiation fee from $10 to $25. Local 158 has acted favorably on it already. - Local 563, Glendale, seems to have an awful job making its mem- bership attend meetings and keeping them from scabbing. But organized scabbery goes on just the same all over in this paradise of the open shop. NO HURRY IN DEPORTATION OF JOHN C. SCHEDEL But Eternal Vigilance Is Liberty’s Price WASHINGTON.— Assistant Secre- tary of Labor Husband, in charge of deportation cases, informed the Fed- erated Press on Aug. 21 that “there will be no hurry” in deciding whether John C. Schedel, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., shall be again deported. Husband had not received from his board of review its recommendation, following the hearing of an Appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union, the previous day. Schedel, a finisher in a piano fac- tory, was secretary of the Ft, Wayne local of the socialist party when that local voted, in the fall of 1919, to join the new Communist party. He was born in Germany, but he had an American-born wife and the children, the youngest a baby. He was taken with thousands of others in the no- torious Palmer “red raids” of Janu- ary, 1920, and ignorantly waived the right of legal counsel. He was de- ported to Germany. Wife Went Insane. His wife went insane as a direct re- sult of his being torn from the fam- fly. The baby died. Their four re- maining children were distributed to charitable institutions and are now in school in custody of these institu tions. Schedel tried repeatedly tore turn, in spite of the danger of tmpris- onment and new deportation. When finally he did reach Ft. Wayne, last October, he was immediately arrested on two charges—illegal entry after de- portation, and illegal presence in this country. The department of jus- tice, which issued the first warrant, has now quashed it, but the depart- ment of labor has relentlessly pur- sued its first course—to drive Schedel again from the family. Meanwhile his wife has recovered sufficiently to get employment as a laundress, and Schedel has been on bail, His old employer asks permission to keep him at work in the factory. When the facts were recited to the board of review by Miss Isabel Ken- dig, for the Civil Liberties Union, Chairman Smelser remarked beliger- ently that “All decent Americans want people like this man thrown out. The only trouble about such cases comes from agitators.” Assistant Secretary Husband has indicated that he will carefully review the evidence, including the penalty paid by the family for the accident that Schedel was deported, instead of being sent to prison and later par- doned. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it, Send for a catalogue of all Com. muscle, was less;than almo: aga literature, ‘ THE DAILY WORKER HELD IN CAPITALIST DUNGEONS ENGLISH LOSE MILLIONS AFTER Strikes Spread Despite Baldwin’s Threats (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, England, August 25. — England’s business ‘Interests are los- ing several hundred thousand pounds | sterling daily beqause of the boycott on Japanese and British ships de-) clared by the Catan governmnet of China, and Britain’s capitalists are clamoring for the, government to take decisive action. 4, 9) Austen Chamberlain has hurried back to London, eutting short his vacation, but he is, afraid to use force, as the inevitable.result would be a new wave of revolt thruout all China, he declares. No Polity Stated. The London Times editorially de- scribes conditions in Hong Kong as “only too distressing, adding that “the effrontery ofthe, Red government of Canton is hardly tg be born.” The Times states, howeyer, that the gov- ernment must “act warily.” Chamberlain “has not yet declared his government’s polciy with regard to the Chinese boycott. American ves- sels are not permitted to touch at Hong Kong, but must land merchan- dise intended for Canton at Shanghai, and transship it to Canton on Soviet Russian or Chinese boats. The Stand- ard Oil, which uses Hong Kong as a shipping base, isespecially hard hit. see Five Thousand Strike. SHANGHAI, China, August 25, — Five thousaid laborers employed at the Commercial Press, the largest publishing house in China, have gone on strike, demanding a hundred per cent increase in Wages. The Chino-Japanese conference here has resulted in the calling of a Pan- Asiatic conference in Shanghai in April to discuss ‘common ihterests. Kenbichi Inouye, ‘a Japanese, is one of the leaders inthe move for the conference. Thirty’ delegates, repres- enting China, Japan, the Philippines, Persia, Siam and other countries will attend, es * , Lone e Soviet Demands Hands Off. MOSCOW, August 25.—The Soviet press is - st the: hostile attitide of the E government to- ward China, and declares that the Baldwin regime is preparing to seize Canton, it is —— Icor Sends $15,000 5 : to Soviet Russia for : : * Jewish Colonization NEW YORK,—What is termed the first contribution from the Jewish working masses in America for the Jewish Colonization in Soviet Russia was made yesterday! when the Icor (Society to ‘Aid Jewish Colonization in Soviet Russia), withyheadquarters in New York City at 112 East 19th St., cabled 15 thousand;dollars to the Alt Russian Ozet in Moscow, a social or- ganization in whith are represented all elements of the Russian Jewery as well as the American Joint Distribu- tion Committee, Monéy From Workers. According to information from the headquarters of the Icor, the money national conference, on May 1, 1925. The money was raised through contri- ten, unions, Workmen's Circle’ branches and other organizations, as well as thru the sale of shares of the Icor Holding Corporation, which is in- corporated under the laws .of New York State. The Icor has an agree- ment with the Qget, according to which the latter is the representative of the Icor in its cloistion work in the Union of the jalist Soviet Re- public, and in conducting the credit operations with the colonists in ac- cordance with the instructions of hte leor, The Fall campaign of the Icor will start in September and will be carried thru by the local,,lcor committees, which are functioning in 65 cities all over the United States and Canada, — Human Muscle,,Gets Cheaper, WASHINGTON,’ Aug. 25.—(FP)— More and better machinery, and not the tariff wall, is What keeps Amert- can business profitable as compared with foreign industry, says an expert for the National Association of Manu- facturers. He has predicted that even in the, American Federation of Labor forces a cut in the textile tariff, the American industry will still hold its own, ite Samuel Vauclain, head of the Baldwin Locomotiyg Works, recently wrote this expert that the 11,000 men employed by his company perform— with the atd of machinery—as much work as would be done by sheer mus- cular exertion by 186,000 men. Figur- ing on $4 a day ag,the wage for his 11,000 men, Vauclaig showed that the labor cost of produgtion ip this coun- sy KGRIOAN fs By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Bola the eyes of world labor are drawn toward the Union of Soviet Republics more than ever. The power ful magnetic attraction will continue to grow as the days pass. Not entirely because of England's fear of Soviet in- fluence in China or Egypt, of the French dread of Bolshevik propaganda in Syria or Morocco, nor because the United States government strives to make Soviet Rule the target of its endless attacks. The new attraction in the Soviet Union, that must open wide the eyes of the world labor, is the dawning era of construction, the next era in the strug- gle toward Communism. i * * @ ° The international auto reliability test tour from Lenin- grad to Tiflis and return may be quickly forgotten in the busy days ahead. But its significance must be apparent to all as the cars drive across the red half of the European con- tinent, the news of their progress being cabled to all the world. In the words of the American, J. M. Nilis, driving a three-and-a-half ton auto truck, “We got more flowers en- route than if we had been a president's funeral.” The American auto truck driver spoke better than he knew. Those flowers might fittingly be considered as so many nails driven in the coffin that contains the last rem- nants of the capitalist social order in the Soviet Union, ac- companied by the last dwindling hopes of the disappearing bourgeoisie. They are nails driven in the coffin of world capitalism as well. : oe @ For this triumphal tour with two Soviet trucks that had started sixth and seventh from Leningrad, but arrived first and second in Moscow, opens up new vistas for the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. Parades, banquets, firework displays, torchlight pro- cessions and demonstrations, at which the whole population turned out as at Novgorod, all along the route, giving living testimony to the enthusiasm of Russian liberated labor that sees the day of rapid transportation and good roads just ahead, something of which it did not dare to dream under ezarism. - ota ? And out in the tens of thousands of Soviet villages the “llyitch Lamp” arrives to shed its glow over the hitherto dark lives of the peasants, the herald of the “electrification” of the rural districts. The peasants have named the electric light after Lenin’s middle name, the electric light symbol- izes the coming of labor-saving devices that will lift, the heavy burden of toil from the shoulders of the peasantry, calling the machine age to their relief. In the Soviet Union electric light, heat, power, up-to- date methods of transportation, all labor-saving devices are not new means for exploitnig the masses, as in the United States. They are not instruments in the hands of great monopolies to plunder the many and reap profits for the few. Labor-saving devices become the “‘open sesame” to days of leisure and an enjoyment of life, not the cause of a grow- ing army of unemployed, with multitudes of jobless fighting each other for jobs. * * J . It all depends on who owns. In the Soviet Union the workers and peasants own and control and therefore en- joy. In all capitalist lands the few bandits of big business own and control and are the masters of men, driving the masses into new wars, into periods of depression or exacting toil as the fortunes of capitalism dictates; masses always bending under the lash. Labor thruout the capitalist world is watching labor in the Soviet Union because it, too, wants to stand erect and face the sun of the new day. That is why world labor today, more than ever, turns its eyes toward the Soviet Union. SYRIANS, IN FIGHT FOR FREEDOM FROM FRENCH YOKE, BOMBARD CITY OF SUEIDA; INVADERS’ LOSSES 2,000 LONDON, August 26.—The Druses, In rebellion against the French ad- ministration in Syria, are bombarding Sueida, manned by a French garrison sent is the first result of its national |and guerilla warfare continues, according to a dispatch to the Daily Mal) campaign, which was started after the | from Damascus. The total French killed is estimated at 2,000, a figure many times in butions from various Landsmanshaf-|excess of the number admitted In French official circles, World, Labor Is Turning its Eyes, More and More, | CHINA SHIP BAN| Toward the Soviet Union| COLLEGE LABOR {ONG ISLAND RR. EXPLOITS YOUTH Work 7 Days a Week, ‘Pay $3.40 a Day By ESTER LOWELL (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, August 25. — Where does the Long Island railroad get all the extra help to handle the hordes of summer beach commuters and where do these men, most of them boys, go in winter? Hundreds of young men, some of them from schools who want only vacation jobs and many others hoping to get a chance at a permanent railroad job thru the summer exper- lence, are taken on by this railroad operated as a part of the Pennsyliva- nia railroad system. “They can’t get everyone to work for the road at $3.40 a day,” one of the ticket collectors with five years’ ex- perience on the road remarked. He is now getting about $50 a week when thé mileage rate is added to his daily rate. He works anywhere from 6 to 16 hours a day, long and short runs. For every mile over 146 put in he gets %c. and he claims that he aver- age $1 a day on mileage. Seven Days a Week Seven days a week is demanded by the job and a day off is given only by request. The worker starts as guard at $3.40 a day and most of the sum- mer extra boys never get beyond this status. The end of summer sees the end of their jobs on the Long Island. Those who stay work up to trainman and then to collector and may join the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Those who stay long enough may ultimately become conductors and join their brotherhood. The company gives a pension when the worker reaches 70 and has served his proper years, “but you ought to be dead then anyway,” the collector said. Boys working the summer trains ought to make $60 to $75, not weekly, but every two weeks; $30 to $37.50 a week! Some of ‘the workers raised from guards to trainmen during the summer are forced back to guard status after the rush is over. If any worker misses a single train he loses 5 to 10 day’s pay. There is no loung- ing room for the men, although they often have to wait hours . between runs. If they go upstairs tn the Penn- sylvania station to rest in the Y. M. C. A. rooms, they are likely to miss their trains. | . Owned by Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania railroad does not formally state that it owns the Long Island, but Samuel Rea is president of both companies and they have four other directors or officers in common. The Long Island R. R. is operated as part of the Pennsylvania system and its mileage in counted with that of the larger railroad. Among the men work- ing on the line there is less recogni- tion of unity, according to the collect- or. A Pennsylvania worker will not ride a Long Island worker on his pass and vice versa. The two companies are trying to arrange for the Long Island’s payment of a much increased rental for its accomodations in the Penn Station so that higher commuta- tion fares will be warranted. Although much of the Long Island road is electrified, the train operators and engineers are practically all or- ganized in the Brotherhood’ of Loco- motive Engineers. The company union system used by the Pennsylvania in some of its departments has not been foisted on Long Island workers yet. Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. FAIRY TALES UPTON SINCLAIR Well known novelist says: “Thoy are painful and moving stories which show us the state of spiritual anguish through which the German people are passing. They deserve to bo known to the American public, and I am very glad that the “Daily Worker” is bringing them out.” Devine: THE AUTHOR LYDIA GIBSON for WORKERS CHILDREN Herminia Zur Miihlen Translated by IDA DAILES Color Plates and Cover Designs by . 75 Cents y Duroflex Cover, / $1.25 Cloth Bound [ ie” | ayle ses ler, hoe on pte iph tho ore the ww id bs- it- he ed ty ad ot an ‘ te ' a writes from Germany: Very many thanks for sending me the fairy tales; I was pleased to get them and to seo how splen- did the book looks and how nicely it is translated and illustrated. “There is no propaganda book so suitable for the children of class con- scious labor men and radicals as the “Fairy Tales for Workers Children.” —Federated Press. The Daily Worker Publishing Co. 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. try, measured in wages for mere | weary oa 0 te atl mol CHICAGO, ILL.