The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1925, Page 2

Page Two TH E DAI SIGMAN AGENTS CAUSE ARREST OF TWENTY-THREE GARMENT PICKETS; POLICE AID FIGHT ON MILITANTS (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, August 28.—The wholesale arrest of workers picketing the cloak and dress shops on strike as a result of last week's stoppage in the garment industry was the latest develop- ment in the fight between the Joint Committee of Action of Locals 2, 9 and 22 and the officials of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. There were 23 arrests in all, among them 2 girls who were passing the shops on strike and had no connection with the picketing or the strike. In front of the Siesser Dress Co. ‘at 13-15 East 22nd Street, Rose Chester of 64 East 103rd Street was on her way to work when detectives arrested Frances Alazer, Helen Horn and Jennie Locker, strik-+— ing members of the shop who had just arrived at the building prepared to picket. Arrest Women Pickets. Rose Chester was arrested with the others, charged with disorderly con- duct and brought to the fourth dis- trict court on Bast 57th street where she was paroled until next Wednes- day and the other three girls were re- leased on bail. At 500 7th avenue, where the Zweig Dress Co. is on strike, Max Mosco- witz, a business agent from the joint board, was present and according to C. §. Zimmerman and other witnesses he was pointing out to detectives the workers to be arrested. Jennie Libster, a union member who noticed the crowd and crossed the street to see what was happening, was immediately noted by Moscowitz and pointed out for arrest. Miss Libster had no con- nection with the striking shop, but a few days ago she had refused to work as a scab at the Roth Costume Co., another oné of the shops on strike and evidently the joint board agents consider her a friend of the expelled locals. Four Are Held, There were 8 arrestse in front of Artman & Saltzman, 111 Weest 27th street; 3 at the Roth Costumes, Inc., 550 7th avenue; 8 at Zweig Dress Co., 500 7th avenue; 4 at Siesser Dress Co., 15 Hast 22nd street. In Jefferson market court, eight of these were fined $10 a piece including Jennie Libster who had not been a picket or a striker; four were released on bail and 11 cases were dismissed. Forest Fires Wipe Out Village. SAULTH STE. MARIE, Mich., Aug. 28—The village of Kinress, with its depot and general stores, was destroy- ed. by forest fires early today, the state conservation board was inform- ed. With unfavorable winds and ab- gence of rain handicapping the fire fighters, many other villages and farms in Houghton, Baraga and On- #onagon counties are in danger, chief forest fire Warden Charles Peterson seid today. Steck Continues In Lead. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The Iowa senatorial election recount today con- tinued to show Daniel F. Steck, the democratic contestant in the lead. The figures were: Senator Smith W. Brookhart, republican, 291,712; Steck, 301,827. Seventy-four counties are represented in the total figure to date with only the ballots of three. more counties to be counted. Party In Philly Saturday Night. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 28.— Don’t miss the installation entertain- ment given by the Y. W. L. of Phila- delphia for the three new English branches on Aug. 29, at 521 York ave- nue at 8 p.m. Gathered around tables set with good eats, you will enjoy the best evening of the season with the Revolutionary Youth of Philadelphia. Admission, 25 cents. Sparks Spread Fire. WOONSOCKET, R, L, Aug. 28. — Sparks from a fire which destroyed a mill plant housing two textile ‘manu- facturing companies ignited ten roofs in a nearby residential district today, causing much excitement among the residents. Two houses near the mill plant were badly damaged but firemen saved the other homes. Hstimates of the total fire damage ranged from $100,- 000 to $200,000. Applications Due Aug. 31. MOSCOW, Aug. 28.—(Tass).—It is officially announced that applications from foreigners wishing to enter high- er schools in the U. S. S. R. may be filed till August 31, inclusively. Such applications may be made thru the Soviet plenipotentiary representatives in the various countries. Regarding the quota of prospective Chinese students, it is estimated it ‘will amount to some fifteen or twenty. CLEVELAND (OHIO) NOTICE! Lost at Hammer and Sickle Picnic, Avondale Gardens, Sunday, August 23rd: A ladies’ wrist watch. Finder please notify local office, Workers Party. SPECIAL | Little Bill Dunne - | Little Bill Dunne Was a fighter Iike his dad— Tho he never had a chance To meet the bosses At the barricades} Those whe knew him used to say, “He’s a chip off the old block.’ Little Bill Always had an answer, When a liar of a colonel Spoke one night of “dirty” Bolsheviks, Little Bill asked Big BUI, “Shall | knock him over With my chair?” He had the right idea,— Only he was in too much of a hurry: It was the hurry of youth, Untamed By the machine- And It caught Little BI! Dunne. Thursday night he was hurrying To get home— He had not learned That it is only when one Is old enough To go to work, That he should hurry, According to the law. were made for hurry, Of little boys. A ruthless auto tossed him Thru the alry Another caught and crushed him: A third picked him up. Only the machines Hurried now,— To the undertak Little Bill Dunne Was still; For tive first time, He didn’t have a “‘come-back.’ HYLAN’S FRIENDS BLOCK MOVE 10 CENSURE MAYOR Pays City Employes Non-Union Scale SYRACUSE, N. Y., Aug, 28—Tur- moll broke loose at the convention of the New York State Federation of Labor today when a resultion elgned by two hundred trade unionists asked that the convention go on record against the re-election of Mayor John F. Hylan, of New York City. The resolution charged Hylan with refusing to pay the prevailing rate of wages to union members employed by the city and he was also charged with having insulted trade union lead- ers who interviewed him in regard to the matter, branding them as gun- men, Former Progresalve, One of the sponsors of the resolu- tion was Hdward I. Hannah, formerly president of the now defunct Central Federated Union, which was abolished by Gompers for the same reason that the Minneapolis Central Labor Coun- cil was reorganized. Under Hannah's regime the New York central body was mildly progressive. The Hylanttes in: the convention came to the defense of their payroll saint. Tho the ruddy occupant of the mayoral chair is averse to paying the union scale to the great. majority ofshis employes he pays a few labor fakers Mberal salaries. Hence their affection for him. One speaker declared that the con- vention was composed of socialists, republicans and democrats and only the democrats had a right to discuss Hylan’s fitness or unfitness for office. German Delegation Goes to Vienna. VIENNA, Austria, Aug. 27.—A dele- gation of thirty members of the Ger- man reichstag headed by President Loebe is expected to arrive in Vienna Saturday to take part in a meeting to promote the union of Austria and Ger- many. Mr. Loebe is the sponsor and advocate of the “anschluss” (union) idea. Indiana Federation Meets, TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 28.— ‘With more than 400 delegates in at- tendance, the forty-first annual con- vention of the Indiana Federation of Labor got under way here today to continue for three days. All delegates to the T. U. E. L. picnic committee will meet at 3 p. m. Saturday—TODAY. Every branch. and federation should be represented. NOTICE (Continued from page 1) of the one problem. Whosoever wants to follow the policy of the C. I. must bring forth deeds. The right wing which runs to one group and then to the other, will use a tactic of demanding a suppression policy against one group or another, according to its temporary allies. The C. B. C. which had differed with Comrade Poyntz on many things had most sharply fought the demand she once made in the New York district for the crushing of the minority comrades. Comrade Cannon warned that the policy in either group of ex- termination is a right wing policy. With reorganization. and Bolsheviza- tion must come basic unity of the two groups in a fight on the right wing. Bedacht Speaks. Comrade Bedacht, following, dwelt at length on the need for Bolshevik theoretical understanding and Bolshe- vik leadership. We should have theory enuf if not to prevent mistakes, at least to criticize ourselves and find! why we made mistakes. The major- ity did not yet have such theory. They did not yet know why they had made the mistake of dropping the slogan for a-labor party. We should have periodical analyses of political conditions. It was ignor- ance to contend that Comrade Pep- per’s articles on the LaFollette revo- lution were ridiculous. Mere formal changes in the party structure were not enuf. Bolshevization meant polit- ical understanding and action. The majority lacked Bolshevik theory. When the minority controlled the party it had given correct political analysis to oustanding events, At present the leadership had not done so. The Workers Monthly was devoid of any such articles. The party must have leadership which did not fail in this respect. Resolutions on Askeli. Comrades Swabeck, Wolfe, Fisher, Miller, Krumbein, Novak, Abern and many others spoke from the floor. Two resolutions were then intro- duced on right wing tendencies in the |Finnish federation. One by one -the majority endorsed the statements of the C. EB. C. and the Finnish bureau on the Superior resolution, opposed the article by Askeli as opportunist, endorsed reorganization and Bolshe- vization as a means of combatting opportunist tendencies and instructed the new C. BE. C. to unite all Com- munist elements in the Finnish sec- tion for struggle against right wing jand for reorganization. . The minority resolutions advocated a close watch and control over party. papers and advised editorial changes when necessary. It asserted Askeli an exponent of Loreist tendencies on the Tyomies’ editorial staff, even af- ter the efforts of the C. B. C. to cor- rect such tendencies in the statements of the Superior branch Askeli had continued to defend that position. The resolution said the convention “considers the further employment of Comrade Askeli as an editor of Tyom- ies incompatible with the interests of the party and its Bolshevization, in- structed the Finnish comrades of Su- perior to remove at once Comrade Askeli from the staff of Tyomies and replace him with a comrade who un- derstands, accepts and fights for the Communist line of our party and the Communist International.” Askell Speaks. Comrade Askeli was granted th floor to explain his position. Canno} he said had stated Askeli was agains' the C. I. He demanded proof of any: thing said-or done anything ag: the C. I. Ever since the C. I. was or. ganized he had supported it, had never written or spoken a word against it. Now here are comrades who want to expel me because they say I am against the C. I. ad In his article he said he was in favor of shop nuclei, but he had never seen nuclei in operation and he had merely said so—that’s all. It is a theoretic question—lIike all things. He had written articles and spoken in branches every Sunday for reor- ganization. He believed it would unite his people more firmly to the American workers. As to federation patriotism, he denied it. He thot only that the Finnish federation has ac- complished something to be proud— for the party can be proud of. He was willing to liquidate federations when the time was ripe. Language difference was a difficulty. He, him- self, was an instance. If he could speak in Finnish the convention hong discard these foolish resolu ons. That “One Thing.” He had written an article—and that one thing had made him a Loreite. He had been in the movement for 19 years and had been always called a leftist. It may have been a mistake. But if you have made mistakes your- self, vote down these resolutions. He had not underscored it. It was fool- ish to say he was wanting to organize another faction. He was sick and tired of factions and wanted only a united Communist Party, that was all, No Repudiation, Comrade Boich queried: “Are you willing to repudiate everything in that article?” Askeli said he was not. If some one pointed out points of error, then he would admit it, but not when, [Someone simply sald | "It 1a a Lore ar ENTION ticle” and attempts, to terrorize him to admit wholesale mistakes. Let him who had not made mistakes cast the first stone, he ended. Cannon Speaks on Askell. Comrade Cannon spoke, saying that Askeli’s speech was enuf to prow the charges against him, Right when the party was changing its form and quality, Comrade Askeli had come out in an article against it. Toward shop nuclei his attitude’ was negative. We could perhaps permit this in a rank and filer, but not in a leader with in- fluence and position. Comrade Askeli, Cannon declared, had been sufficiently shown as oppos- ing party control of the federation in Cannon’s presentation. It was a fine maneuver of Askeli to try to make it appear that criticism of Askeli was an attack on all thé Finnish workers, to deg attempt to identify himself with the pvhole Finnish federation. Askeli appeals. to the democrati sentiment of the backward mass an to turn it against the Central Com- mittee. All this can be understood; a rank and filer, but not in a leader, A New Faction. Askeli says he does not wish to or- ganize a new faction. Yet at a time of crisis in the party, when uhity was most necessary, exactly then Askeli comes out with an-attack on the par- ity commission resolutions and at- tempts to discredit this convention in advance. What else is this but laying ground for a faction. And if we do ‘not get unity against it, the faction ‘of Askeli will be too big and we must fight against Askeli with the weapon of unity. Askeli had said he wanted a ©. EB. C, that could settle matters without ‘appealing to “higher bodies.” When Cannon said this was opposition to guidance of the C. I, Askeli had re- plied that he meant the membership when he spoke of “higher bodies.” Either way Askeli was wrong. Askell represents. Loreism, there is no difference between Askeli’s ideas and Lore’s. The underscoring of Askeli’s article was a mere chance leditorial accident which changed noth- ing but the emphasis, but this is the kind of thing Comrade Askeli likes to raise as an argument to defend his basically non-Communist position. Lovestone Speaks on Askeli. Comrade Lovestone took the floor, saying that Askeli’s ‘speech was the best argument for the minority’s reso- lution. One could trace every prin- ‘ciple of opportunism, the characteris- tics of opportunism. Just as scient- ists can pick up a small” ne and tell from that what the Whol imal was, so Askeli had dropt: a@“wone from which could be reconstructed the whole opportunist animal. Askeli had said that’ Communism was only a theory.’ Shop nuclei is a problem, our party mitist fight for shop nuclei. But Askeli ‘@ays they are a theory. Askeli had sai@ he was in the movement 19 years. Smeral of Czecho-Slovakia had been in the Movement twice as | and per- haps was twice _as dangerous as Askeli. {3 The convention woyld not do its duty if it did not remove Askeli from his place of influence. Because Askeli had dropt a bone from which the whole skeleton of his social-demo- cratic opposition to Bolshevization had been clearly revealed. — Both Resolutions Carry. Following the above discussion on the resolutions, both 6 majority and the minority ions = wer carried unanimousl¥. The parity co: mission resolutions fon reorganizatio: and Bolshevization of the party was then passed, also unanimously, The whole evening session de- voted to the industrial report. The speeches of Comrade Foster and Com- rade Gitlow will be given entire in the DAILY WORKER as this import- ant subject will interest all readers and is to be given in detail. PSE 8) SS Three Drown in Missouri River. 8ST, LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 28.—The Mis- souri river, 18 miles west of here, was bieng dynamited today for the bodies of three persons, a man and two women who drowned while on an out- ing late yesterday. Hlmer Hunter, 30, lost his life in an effort to save Miss Bessie Johnson, 25.and her sister, Mrs. Helen Cook, all of St. Louis, who were caught in the swift cur- rent. 1 ———$-— Steel Menger Rumored. CLEVELAND, Aug. 28.—Consolida- tion of the Otis Steel, Midland Steel and Trumbull Steel companies into @ $100,000,000 corporation is antici- pated in the very near future altho, according to H. . Kulas, president of the Otis Steel and Midland compan- jes, ‘no deal had been closed as yet.” YOUNGEST COMMUNIST = | ARRIVES, 1S NAMED LENIN PELLIGRIMI The youngest Communist in the American movement arrived in Chi- at 11:60 Thursday night. A baby boy was born to Comrade Bes- ele Pelligrini, and was promptly named Lenin Pelfigrini. Young Lenin Weighs seven and one-half pounds,/the father, Com- British and American Imperialists May Well Worry About Mongolia By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, some of the truth simmers thru about American “scientific” investigations in Mongolia, as revealed by the brief cabled report of the statement issued by the Mongolian Mission in Moscow. This statement directly charges that the Third Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, under the leadership of Roy Chapman An- drews, has been ordered expelled from Mongolian territory by the Urga government on the ground that the expedition violated agreements made by its leader with the Mongolian authorities, * * It is charged that this “scientific” expedition entered Mongolia in May “fully armed in military fashion,” and that it included lieutenants in the British army, an English con- sular secretary, “and other persons whose names Mr. An- drews did not register with the Mongolian authorities.” The Mongolians, who have established their People’s with the Union of Soviet Re- Republic, in thoro pets gg 4 publics, had every right to e keenly suspicious of this ag- gregation of fake professors, claiming to study pre-historic remains in a land seeking to establis its proletarian dic- tatorship. The wonder is that they took any chances at all in admitting this “expedition” after the experiences of the and other countries with the counter-revolutionary activities of one American, Herbert Hoover. The dead past, shrouded by centuries gone, can wait a little longer keeping its secrets in darkness, while the liv- ing settle their differences thru the victory of the workers and peasants over this far-flung Asiatic territory. . .* e workers of Russia, Hungar' American and British imperialists are very much wor- ried about Mongolia. It is the only country so far that has been able to establish an independent republic among the Asiatic nations. The Chinese republic, shaken by a contin- uous revolution, is still under the yoke of foreign imperial- ism,.whereas, in the words of Sen Katayama, the ba Communist, who recently visited the country, “Mongolia is a real revolutionary independent by < ning governe Mongolian Revolutionary People’s by the arty.” it was Sun Yat Sen, the Chinese revolutionary leader, , Who first planned a railway from Peking to Urga, the Mon- golian capital, while Soviet Siberia hopes to establish con- nections with its railway branching o from Irkutsk, thus developing valuable links between these tremendously im- portant revolutionary centers in the orient. . * . * When the Soviet Red Army triumphed over the Kol- chakists in Siberia, the Russian white guards tried to estab- lish a base of operatigns in ory em but they were in turn crushed by the Mongolian Pe lian Red sepublic is therefore part of the victory WORKER mE : BOLSHEVIZATION OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY BIG SUBJECT BEFORE THE FOURTH CONV ZEIGLER TRIAL PUT OFF; FEAR RAILROADING Lawyers Retained to Defend Miners (Continued from ‘page 1.) duct a national campaign to fight the case, . Judge White Retained. E. H. Morgan of Christopher and Judge White of Marion, the latter one of the attorneys in the famous “Her- rin trial,” have been retained jointly by the miners’ defense committee and International Labor Defense to repre- sent the miners. The members of Local Union 992 who are under arrest are: Henry, Corbishly, Charles Corbishly, Bert Farthing, Oscar Farthing, Steve Meamovich, John Lisk, Joe Milkovich, Eddie Malinski, Louis Bukich, John Jasoff, Steve Feston, Tony Eiffalo, Frank Sabinski, John Lake, William Hartash, R, B, Shivinski, Ignatz Sim- misk, Fear Railroading. The president of District 12 of the ick, Frank Goresk and Martin Sim- U. M. W. of A,, Frank Farrffigton, has rmy. The triumph of the of Soviet P’ cayama ae out that the Mongolians are “slo -urely building up a Soviet Republic of Mongolie he erefore, incentive enough for world imperial- ism to sitter best to undermine the Mongolian Re- public - pa. of its effort to keep the struggling Chinese Republic in chains, and maintain its strangle hold on the Far East. American workers and poor farmers should be made thoroly acquainted with these developments, in order that they may be better able to reply to the capitalist propaganda that has already tried to minimize this dastardly crime by charging that ussian Soviet Rule is suspicious of “non- partisan” scientific investigations. The experience of labor prove that it has great need to be thoroly suspicious of every- thing capitalistic. The Russians have had their experiences. The Mongolians have profitted by them. Let the workers of America do likewise, Workers Party With Big Strike of Coal EVOLUTION WAS Miners 100 Per Cent) SCOPES TRIAL (Continued from page f the none too loyal leadership of the iners’ union. “The Communists and progressives the anthracite fields will agitate ‘for a combination of forces with other workers’ movements, especially the bituminous miners in their own union and the transport workers’ unions to overcome the attacks of the organized masters and the state machinery at their beck and call. The bituminous miners must not mine coal and the railroad and marine workers must not haul it while the anthracite strike is in progress. Miners in other lands must be asked not to engage in the digging of coal and foreign transport workers must be appealed to not to move coal bound for the United States during this strike. ' For a Labor Party. “The progressives and Communists must show the mine workers the ne- cessity for unity on thé industrial fleld of battle at the same time they agi- tate among them for the independent political action of the workers against capitalism thru the medium of a pow- erful labor party based on their indus- trial organizations.” A special sub-committee of the Workers Party met yesterday to form- ulate the policies of the party in the anthracite strike. The results of its deliberations will be published soon, FOREIGN EXCHANGE. NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.85%, cable 4.85%4. France, franc, demand 4,69, cable 4.69%. Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.52, cable 4.52%. Italy, lira, demand 3.75%, cable 3.76%. Sweden, krona, demand 26.82, cable 26.85, Nor- way, krone, demand 19,63, cable Denmark, krone, demand 24,58, cable 24.55. Germany, mark, no quote, Shanghal, tael, 79%. If you want to see the Com- munist movement a ISSUE’, DARROW KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 28. — Questioning the “ethics of a judge in another state giving his opinion, especially when he knows nothing about the case.” Clarence Darrow, censured by Justice Marshall of the Ohio supreme court for his actions in the Scopes case, replied today to the Ohio jurist. Mr. Darrow stopped in Kansas City on his way home from Girard, Kans, Replying to Judge Marshall's charge, evolution ‘was not an issue in the Scopes and purely a publicity move by Darrow, the Chicagoan said: “Judge Marshall should have read the Tennessee statute, the caption was entitled, “An Act to Prevent the. Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools,’ The caption is part of the’ statute. | “The admission of evidence as to| the theory ‘of evolution we believe ‘was competent and the lawyers for the defense agreed. It should be sumed that the lawyers who 5 much time on the subject were justt- fled in raising the questions, I should presume Judge Marshall knows this. “There was no browbeating of the court,” announced that he will back up Cobb and Fox, the officials of Sub-District 9, in their prosecution of the leaders of Local. 992, The miners in Zeigler point out that their local is the center of the struggle against the reaction- ary district machine led by Farring- ton and is at the present time en- gaged in contesting the last general elections during which they say the most flagrant frauds and steals were perpetrated by the Farrington ma- chine. The miners say that viewed from the point of view of the evidence against the men charged with con- spiracy the case is not serious be- cause there is no actual ground for it. But they make no secret of their belief that with many elements in Zeigler willing to swear to anything on the witness stand, with the sub- district officials at the point of despe- ration, and with the large amount of funds and the legal apparatus at the disposal of their own district organiza- tion lined up against them, there is reason to fear the railroading of those arrested. 7 \ International Labor Defense is pre- paring to send outside attorneys ¢ national prominence to fight for the men in case the frame-up assumes the serious proportions it is not at all un- ‘likely they will consider the anxiety of the Farrington machine to rid it- self of the progressive leaders of Franklin county, MacMillan Expedition En Route South. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The flag: ship Bowdoin and the airplane carrier Peary of the MacMillan arctic expedi- tion are en route from Melville bay to either Umanak or Disko, Greenland, said a dispatch to the navy depart- ment today. Commander MacMillan expects to reach the southern object- ive in two or three days, Traffic in Liquor in Louisiana, NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 28.—Fed- eral prohibition officials announced to- day that the indictment of forty-two men, including Walter L, Cohen, comp- troller of customs and a leader in the republican party in Louisiana, togeth- er with Dr. L. A. Meraux, sheriff of St. Bernard parish, was only the first of a series to entangle in court action a gigantic organized traffic in contra- band Hquor. Jap Gives Up Channel Swim. DOVER, England, Aug. 28.—The tur bid waters, of the English channel again thwarted a swimmer today, Setau Nishimura, Japanese swimmer, gave up his attempt to swim the chan- nel at 3:10 this afternoon, after hav- ing been in the water for ninety min- bse and having covered only two miles, Women’s Trade Union Conference, NEW YORK. — Women’s trade unions of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington and Worcester, “Mai 8 well as branches of the Wom Trade Union League are be- Ing asked to send delegates to the annual conference of the league Brookwood, Katonah, N. Y., Oct. 3 4. Three delegates trom each uni are allowed. The topics to be dis- ‘cussed include the 48-hour law for New York, the Rockefeller employes? representation plan and others of in- terest to women, CHICAGO DAILY NEWS CORRESPONDENT IMPRESSED WITH RAPID PROGRESS IN RADIO MADE IN WORKERS’ REPUBLIC A special correspondent sends a dispatch to the Chicago Dally News ‘telling of the strikingly rapid development of the tadio in Russia. The cor- respondent adds that the musical program sent out every night at about 6 p. m. is highly commendable, : 4 The account etates that there are at’ present ten broadcasting stations in operation of which four are in or near Moscow. The others are In Lenin- grad, Karkov, Nijni-Novgorod, Rostov and far-off Tiflis in Caucasia and Tash kent ni Central Asia. é ‘ i SERN ee ee Wate ia aed Sie