The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1925, Page 1

| | The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Watered as Second-class matter September 21, 192%, at Vol. I. No. 197) sat Soeur Rates: Susias Bis by mall, $8.00 por sear. cago, by mail, $6.00 per year, WORKER. Post Office at Chicago, Mlinots, under the Act of March 3, 1879, ‘i . FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1925 Ze” Published Dally except Sunda: PUBLISHING COQ,, 1113 W. } \eXs | EDITION NEW YORK by THE DAILY ‘arhington Bivd., Chicago, IL WORKER Price 3 Cents Pressmen’s Head Is Exposed As Burglar AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY. IDGING by the action taken on “B and O Bill” Johnston's expuls- | fon order against the Communists, by District Hight of the International Association of Machinists, the ex-Sal- vation Army drummer will not have an easy task driving out of the union all those who oppose his class collab- oration policies. “B and O Bill"—so baptized because of his deal with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad—was promptly told by the district council that the Communists were good union- ists and a valuable asset to the trade union movement, and were entitled morally and legally to be members of the organiation, e*s T was not Communist propaganda alone that convinced the machin- ists of this fact. It was more than any other factor, the activity and the conduct of our comrades in the ma- chinigts’ union. The Communists, or at least those who take their party membership seriously, were on the job helping to build up the organization whersver they could and on the firing line in every struggle with the boss, Deeds speak louder than words. *e * HE reactionaries have promised | themselves to get rid of the Com- munists. Only recently the officials of the Chicago Federation of Labor attacked the DAILY WORKER be- cause it shows up their treachery to the workers. They excommunicated the daily with bell, book and candle light, but strange to say, our paper is today more popular than ever among the workers. Whenever the workers ara in a fight with the enemy, they find the DAILY WORKER is their champion and fe pice to * aa HEN the. ik WORKER made its first appearance-lese-than .two- years ago, a sympathizer took a copy to the president of Chicago Printing Pressmen No. 3 and asked him what he thot about it. The union. presi- dent said, that it was a lot of bunk. But today, the Communist daily is read by hundreds of pressmen in every city in the United States and in no local union is it more popular than in No, 3. Why? Simply because it was the only paper that defended the pressmen in their fight with the em- ployers and with that notorious labor seller, George L. Berry. * fe * N a recent issue, one of our readers counted seventeen stories, dealing with strikes and trade union prob- lems. On the basis of this analysis of the contents of the paper he secured three subscriptions. He was able to prove to those he solicited that the DAILY WORKER was concerned with the interests of the workers. He showed that the stories not only gave the news but gave it partially. It was biased in favor of the workers. We know this is not fair. But we are not iA the publishing business to prove that we are nice fellows. ene HEREVER the workers move in the direction of independent class political action, by organizing a labor party or trying to do so, the DAILY WORKER is on the job, urging them en, and pointing out tha tthis is only (Continued on page 6) aye Will Take Another Plunge. CAPE GRIS-NEZ, France, Aug. 26.— Tom Burgess, Miss Gertrude Ederle’s trainer, told the International News Service this afternoon that he had de- elded upon Aug. 31 at 7:30 a. m. as the time when the young American girl woulé make her next attempt to swim the English channel from here to Dover. REIGN OF Taam "| IN BESSARABIA. PRIOR OF PEASANTS TRIAL (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug. 26.—In connec tion with the prosecution of the 500 Bessarabian peasants which will take place on Sept. 3rd on account of the alleged participation of the accused in the South Bess: bian insurrection, the Siguranza (secret police) has redoubled Its terror. In Kischinev and Tatar-Bunar mass ar rests have taken place for the leged formation of Commuist nuctel. All oppositional ni newspapers have been prohibited and the Luealy ves the, peasant party, “Aurol Kive enty,” have been confiscat Ay BERRY FOUND GUILTY ROBBING UNION TREASURY Ordered: to to Pay Back Money to International This the twelfth of a series of articles exposing the criminal career of George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Preesmens’ and Assistants’ Union, se. ARTICLE XII. In the previous article we gave a summary of the relations of George L. Berry with several business enter- prises which he organized with the use of the funds of the International Union. Not only dié he loot the treasury but when the Chicago press- men_got his trail he began a series of persecutions against them, using: more of the union funds to crucify those who wanted to see the business of the | organization conducted honestly and in the interests of the rank and’ file. It is not often that capitalist courts render decisions that are favorable to the rank and file of the workers. But sometimes when a dirty job is pulled ‘off too crudely the courts are obliged to save their faces by a gesture of fair play. This was the case in the “decision handed down by federal Judge A. M. J. Cochrane, on July 19, 1921, in the case of Chicago Printing Pressmen’s Union No. 3 against George L.. Berry and his associates on the board of di- *}rectors-of the International Union. i al Union: of $165,000 and this char was fully sustained in court. Here is the most important part of meray decision: “That the individual defenfants, George L. Berry, Joseph C. Orr, John M. Brophy, S. B.. Marks, and Wil- liam McHugh, be and they are hereby. ordered and directed to pay to the said International Printing and Assistants’ Union of North: Amer- ica, the sum of One Hyndréd ‘Bixty- five Thousand Dollars ($165,000), ani the said International Printing. Press- men and Assitants’ Union dovyhave and recover from the said George--L.’ rete Joseph C. Orr, John M. Brophy, . B. Marks, and William ‘H. McHugh, otnty and seevrally, the said gum of One Hundred Sixty-five Thousand ‘Dol- lars ($165,000), together with all taxed costs of this case, and that execution issue therefor that all charges for at- (Continued on page 3) FARGO DEPORTS WOBS; ARREST MANY MEMBERS Frightened B1 Business Drives Out Harvesters (Special to The Dally Worker) FARGO. N. D., Aug. 26.—Because the Fargo Chamber of Commerce is becoming very much, concerned about the concentration of hundreds of mem- bers of the I. W. W. in this city follow: ing arrests of many of their members, a “citizens committee” was organized to assist the authorities in deporting them, 118 members were rounded up by the sheriff of Cass county, aided by businessmen armed with clubs. Di- yided into two groups they were con- ducted over two bridges leading ‘across the Red River into Moorhead, Minn. There they were turned loo; and the so-called prisoners took a vantage of their liberty to aim sever damaging rocks at their erstwhil captors. » Now that the authorities have got- ten the wobblies out of Fargo the problem for them to solve is how to keep them out. There isn’t a freight train that pulls into town which hasn't its contingent of recruits, The present influx fo rebels is due to the arrest a couple of weeks ago oR and_ his, burglars .with.. looted the treasury of the Internati ‘The Chicago Pressmen charged| Amal gamation—the Answer to Berryism UNANHOUSL BY WORKER WORKER PARTY CONVENTION Following the main reporters upon anti-imperialist work at Tuesday's afternoon session of the Fourth Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, as outlined in yester- day’s DAILY WORKER, the convention gave the floor to various delegates for debate... .Com- rades Johnstone, Statchel, Schachtman, Weinstone, Wagenknecht, Wicks, Minor and Browder all speaking five minutes. After this, Comrade Gomez summed up the discussion. Motion was. made by Comrade Bittelman as to the proposals of Comrade Wolfe, that one be referred to the incoming C. E. C. and the others tabled as having already been provided for WIFE OF EX-RUSSIAN ENVOY LEAVES HANDSOME FORTUNE, WASHINGTON, August 26.—Madamé Mary E. Bakhmeteff, wife of the former Kerensky ambassador to the United States, left a fortune valued at a by the resolution of the Parity + Commission. This done, the Parity. Commission resolution was carried without a dissent- ing vote. Marx-Engels Institute. By consent, Comrade Trachtenberg was given the floor. Institute, referring to the priceless old manuscripts of Marx and Engels and | other early revolutionary leaders still | buried in American libraries. The con- | nection of the First International with | the early revolutionary movement of America had occasioned great num- bers of the most interesting letters, articles and documents to be held here. The duty of the party should be to aid in every way to uncover these treasures. The. speaker had discov- ered in the New York library and pho- tographed for the Marx-Engels Insti- tite original writings, which proved that the letters of Marx fad been ex- purgated by the social-democratic re- formists. It had been proven that even the sole English translation of “fas Capi- tal,” the Kerr edition, contains great numbers of serious errors and omis- sions which becloud the clear line of Marxism. The speaker appealed. to the party to aid in the work of the Marx-Engels Institute, and by unani- mous consent a motion was arta to tht-effect. Report on Soviet Russia. The next subject on the convention agenda was the Parity Commission solution upon Soviet Russia, upon which Comrade Harrison George spoke as reporter for the C. E. C. He traced the general historical outline of the | Soviet Union, accenting that the pe- riod of extreme suffering and sacrifice on the part of the workers and peas- ants of the U. S. S. R. is ended and a marvelous progress begun. The time of desperate defensive He explained the | character and work of the Marx-Engels | million and a quarter when she died last June in Paris. It will be recalled that George Bakhmeteff continued to represent the Kerensky government at Washington long after the November revolution in Russia when his gov- ernment was overthrown by the Soviets. | He continued to occupy the embassy building and was favored by millions jot dollars in subsidies from the American government, the accounting for | which will constitute a life-long embarassment. His wife was an American | woman and it is wondered: if her fortune contained any of the unaccountable the All-Union Central Council “=T TRADE UNIONISTS IN CHINA ‘LEPSE, OF METAL WORKERS, IN SPECIAL INTERVIEW AT PEKING, VOICES LABOR SOLIDARITY PLEA (By Rosta News Agency) PEKING, China, August 26.—"Our delegation has come here at the invitation of the All-Chinese Federation of Trade Unions,” I. 1. Lepse, chairman of the delegation of Soviet Trade Unions, told your representative in a special interview here today. The delegation consist of Lepse (chairman), president of the central committee of the Metal Workers’ Union (the biggest Soviet trade union) and member of the presidium of of Trade Unions; Ps >kin, of Moscow, ot Habarovsk, president of the} Far-Hastern Bureau of Trade | Unions and member of the All- | Union Central Council of Trade | Unions; Smourgi of Moscow, also al member of the All-Union Central | Council of Trade Unions, | The delegation is accompanted by| V. Wacksoff, of Moscow, a member of | the Central Committee of the Metal) Workers’ Union, who is travelling also | in the capacity of special correspon- | dent of the Trud (Labor), a Moscow) daily paper, the organ of the Central) Council of Trade Unions of the Union | of Socialist Soviet Rpeublics, | Russiins Watch Struggte in China, | “The object of our visit,” Lepse| stated, “is to get more closely ac-| quainted with the position of the work- ing class in China and the labor or- ganizations in this country. “Over six and a half million organ- ized workers of the Union of Socialist | Soviet Republics are following with the utmost attention and anxiety the struggle waged by the Chinese peo- ple, Five years only have elapsed since the world imperialism made abortive attempts at making a colony of Russia, which lad just freed her- self of the yoke of czarism. This is why we take close to heart seb goed of the Chinese laborers and the ov one country to another, with a view to gaining better and closer ‘mutual acquaintance and. establishing reci- procal ties have of late been a fairly frequent occurrence. It may suffice to | Tecall last’ year’s visit to the Union | of Soviet Republics of the British Trade Union delegation, the ‘visit of British working women’s delegates, who recently came to the Soviet Jnion; then the Franco-Belgian, Ger man, Swedish, Canadian and a num ber of other labor delegations, which are actually either in the Soviet Union or on the point of arriving in our country. “Great is the interest of the work- {ers of the world towards the Union ot Soviet Republics; but no smaller is the interest which the workers of the Soviet Union and all other countries in regard to the situation of their comrades in China. The Chinese peo- ple as a whole, and the young Chinese proletariat are going thru a very donate eid responsible moment of their historical development, and this adds still more vigor to the keen interest and the great and deep-felt sympathies with the cause of the Chinese workers | which prompted the action of our or- ganizations in sending their delega- tion here, to China. For World Trade Union Unity. Me | Heads Soviet Delazetion | 1. 1, LEPSE. President of Russian Metal Workers’ Union. — —= Moscow Internetional of Labor Unions, “We also may express our firm be- lief,” the’ Soviet labor delegate con- cluded his interview, “that we shall be given. ample possibility to get .ac- quainted with the situation of the Chinese workers and their own or- ganizations. This will help still fur- ther to strengthen our mutual bonds and promote the union of the workers of the world in one united and power- ful International of Labor Unions.” 150 Miners on Picket * * * Line at Banning Mine (By Worker Correspondent.) MONBESSEN, Pa, Aug. 26.—One hundred and fifty waion minerg are picketing the Bannftg mine No. 2 of the Pittsburgh Coal Co, back of Fay" ette City, near here. The mine has opened up to operate on the 1917 scale, being the first mine to try and operate in this district. The company has made a frantic ef- fort to get scabs to work in the mines, importing them from everywhere, However, not more than 30 scabs are working, and they are producing very little coal. Fascists Attack Zionist Congress, VIENNA, Aug. 26—Rioters who have kept Vienna on edge since the start of the Zionist congress here in- cluded fascists in their demonstrations last night, and as a result three men funds. life in the Soviet Union constitutes a | real offensive against world capitalist imperialism. | Two Kinds of Stabilization. While there*has been a spotted and | temporary stabilization of capitalism, | of a sort which—as in France and Eng- land—could lead only to more severe crises, there had been also, as re- marked upon, by Comrade Zinoviev, a stabilization of the Soviet power—and that this stabilization was historically progressive, while the so-called stabili- | zation of capitalist nations were mere- | ly interruptions in capitalist imperial- ism’s historical decline. Our party has taken, will continue to take advantage of | the position of the Workers’ and Peas- ants’ Republic in its relation to the | capitalist powers and also to the world | proletariat. In the period of famine | and suffering, the party had built a | | great united front movement, the | | Friends of Soviet Russia, which had | effectively offset the aims of the Amer. | | fean capitalist government to use the is taking and | ~~ revolution into the minds of ‘American workers, An Objective Argument. The position of the Soviet Union is increasingly useful in combating illu sions and theoretical misconceptions remaining in the minds of the workers from the pre-Leninist era of the social democracy. Directed by the Commun- ist Party of Russia, at whose head | stood our great leader, Comrade Len- in, the workers and peasants of Rus- sia have proven incontestably every basic theory of Leninism, every tactic ot the Communist International, every principle as taught by the Bolsheviks and proven them up to the hilt. In America this had aided our party | to contest for leadership of the revo- lutionary movement against the social- ist pe.cy and the Industrial Workers | of the World. The socialist party is | disintegrating and its character had} become a stench in the nostrils of the | workers, while the healthy and revolu- | tionary proletarian elements of the| I. W. W. have been won over to friend- | | countries who are in “Having reached the capital of] were under arrest today. China after a long journey, we wish our first word to be a message of the Tokio Also Accepts, warmest greetings which we have] TOKIO, Aug. 26.—The cabinet today brought to the Chinese workers and] accepted China’s invitation to attend all the Chinese people from the work-| the customs conference at Peking, be- ers of the Union of Soviet Republics} ginning Oct. 26, and expressed wil- and the organized workers of other| lingness to enlarge the discussions of one Trades| the conference to include eventual cug+ with us—the| toms autonomy for China, Union Internationale MINERS FORCED BACK TO WORK BY UNITED FRONT OF BOSSES AND FAKERS BUT FIGHT IS NOT OVER (Spectat to The Daily Worker) ZEIGLER, Ill., August 26.—Recruited from the klan elements of Franklin and Williamson county, hundreds of men, many of Hoover relief agencies as a means of | ship, contact with and even member- discrediting the Sovtet power in the | ship in the Communist movement and eyes of American workers. -the anarcho-syndicalist control over This was the duty of our party as a |the I. W. W. is falling to pieces and section of the Communist Internation- | upon the defensive. of 28 members of the I, W. W. who} measures has, In a way, Passed, and were on were on their way to the | the economic and political position of harvest. The men were charged with the Soviet Union is so far developed riding on trains without a permit and |for trespassing on rail road property. as a favorable path, that its very exist- ence under the present conditions of ey al, as of all its sections, and in the future it would be the duty of the | party to use the favorable position of the Soviet Union to instill a compre. hension of the significance and lesson to the world proletariat of the Russian The party has in the past year or more taken every advantage to work jfor the recognition, of Soviet Russia by the American éapitalist govern- ment. The policy ofthe united front them not having swung a pick for years, were found by the Bell and Zoller Mine Co. to enter the pit at their No. 1 mine in Zeigler. Under these circumstances, the members of Local 992 who have kept the mine shut down for two weeks without an iota of out- and the operators but also from their own sub-district officials, were forced back to work. This battle, which was recorded day by day in-the DAILY WORKER, against the heaviest of odds—a united front of the (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2) miss and the sub-district officialdom, both encouraged by , side support and bearing attacks not only from the ku kluxklan , | seams ee renames