The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1925, Page 6

ho. bbl Six 4E DAILY WORKER THE THE DAILY WORKER Exe panienea by by the » DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 co-s acini shinee dealeaeaae SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00, per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months —- Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNN® MORITZ J. LOEB... Entered ab second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ul,, under the act of March 3, 1879. » 90 ng rates on application. Fakers, Here and aR In the United States George L. Berry and his tools made an agreement with a printing company which lowers the working conditions of the employes and enables. the bosses to install a speed- ing-up system, that will mean more profits. When the members of Berry’s union refuse to work under those scab conditions, the union chief hires strikebreakers to take the place of the men who walked out. Naturally the pressmen and feeders believe that Berry is the biggest crook in the international labor movement. There are others of the Be: type in the United States and they can be counted by thousands. But the same type exists in other countries. In Great Britain Havelock Wilson, head of the seamens’ union signed an agreement with the ship own without the consent of the men, in which he accepted a one pound sterling decrease per week in wages, for the members of the union. The men refused to accept the cut and struck the ships. Wilson denounced the seamen and is now busily engaged thru his tools in hiring scabs to man the ships. As usual when there are strikes the Communists are blamed for fomenting them. The Communists were blamed for the struggle of the Chinese against the foreign imperialists. They are blamed for every effort on the part of oppressed peoples and exploited work- ers to liberate themselves. Why is this? In the first place the Communists under the leadership of the Communist International aim to organize the workers and oppressed peoples for the overthrow of imperialism. The capitalists know this. They also know that a majority of the workers outside of Russia are still prejudiced against the Communists and have not yet come under their ideological leadership. The capitalists never miss an oc- casion to instill distrust of the Communists into the minds of. the workers. But they will not succeed. Just as sure as it is impossible for the capitalists to prevent strikes and eliminate the class war, the Communists will always be found on the side of the workers in their struggles for immediate gains and complete emancipation from wage slavery. This fact will eventually break down all the fears, hatreds and prejudices that the plunderbund has succeeded in instilling into the minds of the masses against the Communists. In their nefarious task of robbing the workers and persecuting the militant leaders of the workers the capitalists have no more useful allies than the labor fakers. The Berrys in the United States and the Wilsons in England are what an American reyolutionist once aptly describes as “labor lieutenants of snail They must go. The I. T. U. Convention James Lynch, capitalist ward-heeling politician was in complete control of the recent convention of the International Typographical Tnion of which he is president. Lynch is a rock ribbed reactionary, the kind that the capitalists admire. There is a progressive wing in the I. T. U. It is organized. But it does not seem to possess much of that element known in the American language as “pep.” It is not well organized and even tho the progressive elements are the overwhelming majority of the union, the reactionaries under the leadership of Lynch get away with the bacon. In the last I. T. U. election some members of the progressive wing who claim to be ultra-radicals lined up with the faker Lynch giving as an excuse for their treachery, that the progressive candi- date had not lived up to his promises, therefore he should be pun- ished by electing Lynch. This alibi was asinine. The wily Lynch used the vaporings of those fake radicals to win favor in the eyes of Iukewarm progressives. Thanks to the treachery of those alleged revolutionists and the lack of organiza- tion among the opposition Lynch was elected. He has wasted no time since his election in strengthening his reactionary machine and the recent convention was as perfect a demonstration of class collab- oration as any capitalist. could. wish. The fight against Lynch must be carried out in an organized, disciplined way and the charlatans and bogus radicals of easy vir- tue must be kept where they belong, that is where they can do no harm to the cause or bring discredit on the movement to which they belong but shouldn’t. ss Morgan and Mussolini J. P. Morgan has again come to the rescue of Benito Mussolini and the aggregation of cutthroats that pose as a civilized govern- ment in Italy. The sum of $200,000,000 has been placed at Mussolini’s disposal by the House of Morgan to bolster up the lira which is going down like a diving duck, ~, Once before Morgan granted a loan of $50,000,000 to the fascist government. That was about the time, the Matteotti murder expos- ure threatened to bring the black dictatorship tumbling about Mus- solini’s ears, Morgan knows what he is doing when he supports Mussolini. Lloyd George declared recently that if capitalist democracy falls, there is no alternative to a proletarian dictatorship but a fascist dictatorship. The workers are pot called upon to choose between democracy and dictatorship. What they will be called upon to decide is which dictatorship they shall have, one of their own, a workers’ dictatorship or the rule of the capitalists expressed thru a fascist dictatorship with the Mussolini regime as a model, It is not to be assumed that Morgan gave Mussolini $200,000,000 even for the purpose of propping up the blackshirt government. Bankers don’t do things that way. In return for the loan the House of Morgan will mortgage some of Italy’s industries. It is one more step in the process of turning Europe into a colony of Wall Street. Big business executives refused to answer the call of prohibition director General Andrews to serve their country mopping up the liqnor flood. They should worry, They don’t have to join the prihibition staff to get a drink. The French and Spanish troops are preparing a trap for Abd- ®l-Krim. It would be just like the French and Svaniards to fall into it. ie WOLTER MA? marized in two words: “refined cruelty.” pointed out that in English law there ical offenses,” and consequently, no eting, every revolutionary imprisoned tor a “seditious” speech, every Irish seep for the indepence of his coun is a criminal, and the prison feaunent he has served out to him ly the same as that given to thieves or to violators of children. Must Not Talk. English prisons are divided into two classes. Prisons and enal settle- ments. The former fdr those sen- tenced to two years or less, and the latter for those sentenced to over two years. Now let us take a look at the in- side of one of the prisons. We find that the first evidence the prisoner gets of the scientific torture to which he must submit is: He must spend his first two weeks without pillow or mattress. His bed is just a bare oard. Next, he finds his clothes are s»placed by an ugly, pocketless, pris- » uniform; uncomfortable, unsightly, ind degrading. His individuality is completely sunk n the general degradation of the orison, Then he discovers that there is a “rule of silence.’ Never once luring his imprisonment is he allow- 2d to speak to anyone in prison, ex- cept to answer a warder’s questions. Not only must he loose his. voice, but for the first month he is locked in his cell in solifary confinement and not allowed to work in the sight of his fellow prisoners. No Books on Economics. Particularly for class war prison- ers, with their usually active life in the working class movement, this soli- tary confinement and rule of silence is a worse torture than any physical torture ever invented by “Holy Church” in the middle ages. No book but the bible for the first month. After, that he has a book a week, care- fully selected, always of the most insipid petit bourgeois romance type, serious books are difficult to find in any English prison and political or economic works are never to be found, After the second month he is al- lowed to receive, and to send out one letter a month. He is also al- prisons, is the cultured expression of the open, repulsive finds in the prisons of other capitaist countries, Before we proceed to describe the prison regime im {Cean, it must be arrested for trade union strike pick- + | ENGLISH’PRISONS ARE TORTURE CHAMBERS FOR WORKERS, BUT RICH GET SERVANTS, BOOKS; CLOTHES X LONDON, England, August 25.—The English prison system can be sum- The scientific tor oars of the English tality which one is absolutely no recognition of “polit- “political prisoners,” Every worker owed one visit a month, lasting for wenty minutes, but even here he is ortured for, all he can see of his wife or friend is thru a heavily wired zrill, about one foot square, in a k room! On thé ‘slightest provo- cation he is hauléd*before the ‘prison governor, (almost * always a retired army officer), and given a few days in a “punishment tél.” He must not attempt to lesser’ his weariness by pacing his cell, whistling or singing to himself. In faet,°he becomes just an animal in a/teage without any human rights, an@#with a warden’s eye constantly pegring thru a hole in the door to add sto his mental tor- ments. re « Not Enough Food. Perhaps one cola better describe the prisoners. as an animal on an op- eration table, for ‘nglish prisons are clean and well Tegulated. So well calculated is the whole regime thdt even the caloric value of the foot is estimated to a fihe degree, and the prisoner given just sufficient to keep healthy but hungry. The above is thegregime ‘tor the working class prisonér. But for those few of the bourgedisie whose crimes cannot be hidden, there is what is known as a “first division” sentence. “First division” prisoners can have letters and visits daily, buy newspa- pers, have their own food, clothes, furniture, and even a servant to clean the cell. Such is class justice. A bourgeois rascal who some time ago embezzled £20,000 of public money got a few months in the “first division” as a reward, whereas, at the same time, a half starved, unemployed worker, who stole twenty-four cents worth of fruit from a shop, got six months of the torture described above. Everywhere the prisons are merely instruments for the°erushing of work- ers who dare to, infringe on the “sacred rights of property”; an instru- ment of the class war at present at the hands of thé bourgeoisie. Ven- geance is no’ part’of the revolutionary program, but . MINERS’ UNION OFFICIAL STOLE “FROM STRIKER Feeney of Coke Region Built Big Mansion By A COALDIGGER. (Worker Correspondent.) RROWNSVILLE, Pa., Aug. 25, —jthere should be | Workers’. Movies Makes “Big Hit at Mass Meeting An innovation in Communist agita- tional methods . presented in a small mining ‘town jp Ilinois recently where not a singlé) worker thus far holds party membership. An active labor militant, seeing the effect of long continued unemployment on his fel- low workers, conceived the idea that meeting in St. After the greates strike in the history |David, Ill. The best~available place of the coal mining industry of the|was the rough Jooking corrugated- country, in the year 1922, the Illinois |iron movie none ‘where once a week coal miners pledged to assess them- selves to support the eamilies of the rank and file miners of the coke region of Pennsylvania. William Feeney, as international or ganizer of the United Mine Workers of America, for over a year was receiving this large sum. The money was to buy bread for the poor families of the striking miners until they obtained a decent standard of living. The strike was called off in the month of February, 1923, Half of the miners went back to producing coal, and the rest stayed on strike, -William Feeney, as, “wildcat” organizer, ran thru the coke region telling the miners if they didn’t go back to work he would denounce them as Bolsheviks and put them all in the penitentiary. As a matter of fact, while the rank and file miners of Illinois and other states were being assessed, theywere supporting William Feeney. Feeney built a magnificent brick house in| Brownsville, Pa., instead of support- ing the families of the striking minefs of the coke region. The whole working class must unite against-the imperialists and their sup- porters, th@fakers in the “unions, Charge New Tong War. After a truce of several weeks, guns flared in Chicago's Chinatown again early today and one Chinese fell dead. the first victim, police believe, in a new outbreak of the war between the on Leong and the Hig Sing tongs. Lee Hoe, 30, address unknown, was shot and killed at the foot of a stair- way leading to the Mong Sang Share Association headquarters, a Chinese employment and social club. Blast Home in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25.—An explo- sion of dynamite early today shat- tered the home of William E, Downs, brother of Charles BE, Downs, deposed city council man, brought under fire a week ago on charges of bribery. One corner of the Downs home was torn to bits and the rest of the house badly damaged by the blast. Tf you wank. to thoroughly un- derstand munism—study it. Send for a citalogue of all Com- munist literature. | shop-nucleus of t) such workers and their children as could raise the price would come to “let the rest of the world go by”. A few words with the owner, an old Irish-American who himself bears the scars of years of work in the labor movement, and it was fixed up free of charge. Advertising was simple, two hundred mimeographed notices in En- glish and Croatian, and their distri- bution and tacking up around the district. But this was no ordinary meeting. A three reel motion picture showed the labor struggle in various countries and epochs, and when the struggle |was shown right in Chicago and in the not very distant mine town of Herrin, the workers understood per- fectly what the fight was all about. William F. Kruse spoke in English on unemployment and’ imperialism, and on the need for organization. Matt Go- | Teta delivered my the same mes- | sage in South Slavic and it is bxpect- ed that an incergation branch or ie Workers Party will soon be formed. Expenses were covered by a collection of $21,26, On account of hard time admission was free, a treat that the children and their mothers as well @s the miners were quick to appreciates The kids cheered the strikers and #¥erybody raised the roof for Alex HéWatt when he was shown on the #ereen. After the speeches two furtH@r reels were shown, one on the “Life! bf Lenin” and the other showing the‘ life and work of the Russian as! miners. Some of the younger ers remarked — “Gee, they have better halls than we have, and they seem to have adamn sight more to say about things.” Other meetings and pictures are to be shown. TRUNKS CAN WAIT UNTIL BAGGAGE BOSSES GIVE IN Employers Decided to Make Wage Slash (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 25—No trunks must be moved till the work- ers win is the motto of the 700 bag- gage transfer men of New York City who struck today against a wage cut and for the eight hour day. The strike is being conducted by the Team- sters, Chauffeurs’ and Helpers’ Union and is directed aganst the Westcott Express Co. and the New York Trans- fer Co., whch together monopolizes the business of moving passengers’ bag- gage from the railroad and ship term- inals, The strike follows the companies’ attempt to cut wages a dollar a day and continue the ten hour day system, Wages were only $34 for the chauf- feurs, $28 for the helpers, and $30 for clerks under the old agreement which expired Monday night, Aug. 24 and the transfermen say they cannot work for less money nor will they continue the inhuman ten hour day, The men are organized 100 per cent. Very Hard Labor, Transfer work is the hardest kind of labor, Heavy trunks have to be car- ried up several flights of stairs and the men have to be out in the worst kind of weather. Rupture is a com- mon ailment. Attempts to get strikebreakers will be opposed by picketing. If the Yel- low Taxi Corporation tries to break into more of the baggage business, the union men in the taxi industry will handle the situation. The Yellow Scab company already operate their own cabs from the Grand Central railroad station and the Penn- sylvania station and advertise the moving of “trunks for twenty cents whereas the transfer companies’ rate is a dollar. The strike of the transfer men brings out the need for solidarity | © and unity between all the transport workers of New York City. The Teamsters and Chauffeurs and Helpers Union is not an A. F. of:di union and has no connection with the International Brotherhood of Team- stears, Chauffeurs and Helpers Union. Martin Lacey is the president. To Fly Over Himalayas. PARIS, Aug, 25—An attempt to fly across the Himalayan mountain | range, with the course laid over ‘the peak of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, will be made in October by Jean Callizo, the French aviator, it was announced today. Callizo’ is pe of the world’s airplane altitude record. Roadhouses Raided. More than 125 persons were in custody of county police yesterday, the result of raids upon a score or more of roadhouses by county high- way police and men from the state’s attorney’s office under orders by Sheriff Hoffman. Would Salvage Lusitania. LONDON, Aug. 25.—An American, B. F, Leavitt, of Brooklyn, wants to salvage the Lusitania, the British liner sunk by a German submarine in the early days of the world war. In an advertisement in today’s is- sue of the Times Leavitt appealed for financial backing for his program, Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. St. Louis, Mo., Attention! Phone Forest 8749, Joe Kaizer Candy Co. HOME MADE CANDY ICE CRE/.M LIGHT LUNCHES PHILIP RACHEFF, Manager 4975 EASTON AVENUE St. Louis, Mo. FOR SAL 4piece parlor set. Large heater . Floor lamp .. Dining-room tabi S. MIRABELLA 3428 Belmont. Ave., Chicago, III, To those who work hard for thelr will gave 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIS\ 645 Smithfield Street. PITTSBURGH, PA. BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Meat Matket Restaurant INe THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER, Bakery deliveries made to your home. ~ FINNISH COOPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, (Workers organised as consumers) BERRY BOUGHT A FARM WITH” UNION FUNDS Worships “Gobbo”’ the God of Good Luck (Continued from page 1) with a telephone in proximity. The “Majah” Stepped In. When the board of directors de- cided to quit the printing business, the “Majah” did not like to see so much good. material going to waste, so he grabbed the equipment, which consisted in part ofa power cutter, a job préss,’two motors, several cases of type, Se¥eral type stands, a power punch and other miscellaneous arti- cléq of printing shop equipment and { furnitute. Berry and Orr did not start out im- mediately in the printing business un- der; their,own names. They used sev- eral names and finally the company went ftito the hands of a receiver in 1919, While Berry and Orr were connect- ed..with these printing houses they did printing for the international union at a profit to themselves. They. bought supplies for their private printery on the credit of the international union and even used the money of the inter- national union to pay the bills of their printing shop. Berry’s paper, the Rog- ersville: Review, was also printed in this shop, and it paid no bills either to the printing company or the inter- national union. Bucket. shop operators and professional confidence men should enyy the “majah” his financial acumen, Berry's Grist Mill. The “majah” also owns a grist mill near the Pressmen’s Home, and he installed therein a ten-horse-power electric generator. This was paid for out of the union funds and this money was never refunded. Is it any wonder that “Majah” Berry should be so certain that he is a fa- red child of good fortune that he ould have on his desk the image of Gobbo, the “smiling god of good for- We have Berry’s own word tune.” for it, * In the issue of the American Press- man for March, 1924, Berry devoted a page to an editorial tribute to Wood- tow Wilson, who had just died. Wil- son was one of the greatest political mountebanks that this country, prolific in mountebanks, ever produced. Wil- son was a hypocritical fraud who served the capitalist class well under CRAMER 6722 SHERIDAN PIC - MUSIC SINGING «Tans, 9 walk 2 blocks east. Author of: Lenin—The Great Strate- gist 15 Cents Role of the Trade Unions in the Russian Rev- olution © ~ 6 ee International Council ‘Trade and sind Unions - ‘" Tel. Sheldrake 0515 FUR GARMENTS MADE TO ORDER, REMODELED, REPAIRED, CLEANED, ~ STORED AND INSURED. PHILADELPHIA, ATTENTION! msec First Annual. given by Fruit and Grocery Clerks’ Union SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1925 GAMES ————+ ATHREE ACT DRAMA +———— DIRECTIONS—Take No. 50 car on 5th Street, get off at Church © THE ‘WORLD TRADE UNION -.. MOVEMENT By A. LOSOVSKY ies the camouflage of progressive phrases ‘He used purchasable people like Ber- ry, Gompers, and other labor fakers ‘as tools to fool the workers. It was under Wilson's reign that some of the most notorious persecutions against the American workers in the history of the working class were carried out. Wilson purchased Berry with a mili: tary title that he did nothing to earn, and a free trip to Hurope. The Image of Gobbo, After extolling Wilson to the skies’ Berry gets the following gem off his chest. “Upon my desk there sits the image of Gobbo, the smiling god of good fortune, the divinity of optimism, whose motto is ‘Be cheerful and you will be rich in everything,’ given to me by one whom I loved and with whom I was honored to be associated as labor adviser in Paris following the world’s greatest and most horrible war,” Pressmen wonder what did Wilson want Berry for unless he had a big strikebreaking job on his hands. Billy McHugh and S. (Marbletop) Marks wandered over Europe in 1923. Be- sides the fun they had, it is reported that Billy got a sore eye from looking’ too closey at a bottle of third grade moonshine. The bottle was in some ‘unfriendly hand when McHugh had his eye in it. Eyed Bottle Too Sharply. Of course the pressmen would not hold being, hit with a bottle against McHugh, or even his trip to Europe, provided he ran into the oncoming ‘hootch container while battling for the rights of the workers. The pressmen are opposed to Berry, McHugh and the rest of the brood because they are hampering the union instead of trying to help the membership in their daily struggles with the employers. The smiling god Gobbo is getting too much credit for Berry’s wealth and affluence. He should thank the press- men and feeders in the international for allowing him to get away with it. Berry can afford to be “cheerful” be- cause he is rich in worldly goods. Gobbo did not give the “majah” the money with which to start several industrial enterprises, buy a farm and grist mill. He took that money out of the coffers of the international union. ee Another installment of the series of articles on Berry will appear In tomor- row’s issue of the DAILY WORKER, Postpone Flight to Hawall, WASHINGTON, Aug, 25. — The navy’s airplane flight from the Pacific coast to Hawaii has been postponed until Aug. 31 at 2 p. m., the navy de- partment was advised today. No rea- son was given for the postponemeni. ay ROAD Special Summer Rates—Reductions on All Furs. NIC AT FLAXMAN’S FARM REFRESHMENTS 'HIS book offers invaluable |} information to the worker. | ’ The author sums up the forces in the world of labor—the differ. ences In programs—the outlook for the future, A. Losovsky is secretary of the great driving force of world organized labor—the Red Inter | national of Labor Unione—and his authoritative and most In-. teresting books should form the back-bone of every workers’ tibrary. The World Trade Union Movement 50 Cents ® |