The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1925, Page 2

‘CHINESE REACTIONARY GENERALS MURDER 16 COMMUNISTS IN AN EFFORT TO STOP LABOR UNIONS (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, September 1.—According to a report from Pekin, Chang Tso Lin sent gendarmerie to jentsin who arrested all suspected persons and closed all trade union and public organ- izations attached to the national revolutionary movement. In consequence of these events there is the greatest indignation in radical circles in Pekin. Representatives of various organizations protested to the President Tuan Chi Jui and demanded the removal and punish- ment of those responsible for the bloodshed. The students’ league has sent a deputation to Tientsin and has commenced collections in aid of the victims. A mass meeting was called. In order to hold down the movement the Pekin police have pub- penisaetal eam DARL BA (Sr ech Lota lished an order according to which street agitation is a pun- ishable offense. Bloody Suppression of Communist Workers, In Tschendun, General Tchantzun- tchen, a supporter of Chang Tso Lin, uted 16 workers on account r membership of the Commun- ist Party. Many others are under arrest. Three newspapers have been prohibited and an order has been is- sued that all papers must deposit a bail of $1,000. This means the end of the workers’ press. After examining the proposals put forward by the employers for the conclusion of the strike, the Shang- hai trade union council has decided to call off the strike on the following terms: 1, Recognition of the exist- ing trade unions without waiting for the promulgation of the necessary law for this purpose. 2. Immediate payment of $100,000 as payment for the strike days. 3. Immediate pay- ment of $10,000 as compensation to the relatives of the murdered and to the wounded. At the same time the trade union council demands from the government that it pass a law em- bodying the demands of the workers. Union Terms. The trade union council has issued an appeal according to which a cer- tain alteration of tactics is necessary, and district agreements may be made for the ending of the strike under the following conditions: 1. Imme- diate handing over of the rights of the mixed courts to the Chinese au- thorities. 2. In the foreign settle- ments in Chinese towns, Chinese must be granted complete freedom of Press and organziation. 3. Equal rights for Chinese dwellers in the for- eign settlements with the foreigners. 4. Recognition of the trade unions. 5. ‘No dismissals on acdount of the strike. 6. Half pay for the strike days. 7. 15 per cent increase of wages. 8. Better treatment for the workers. 9. Compensation for the families of the killed and wounded workers. 1. W. R. Active. The Chinese section of International Workers Relief addressed an appeal to the Amsterdam Trade Union International in which after describ- ing in detail the consequences of the unequal agreements, the exploitation of the Chinese workers by foreign capital and the oppression of China by the foreign imperialists, it calls upon the Amsterdam International to give the fighting Chinese workers moral and material support in their Struggle and it further expresses the hope that the working class of the west will form a united front for the support of the Chinese people. AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) lished at 1806 South Racine avenue, Chicago, Ill. QHN L, LEWIS, president of the United Mine Workers of America has written a book, entitled, “The Miners’ Fight for American Stand- ards.” One little quotation from the book is interesting in view of the increasing demoralization of the bi- tuminous unions since the Jackson- ville pact was signed. Lewis writes: “With a three-yeay agreement in the union fields, which forestolls strikes and leaves no hope for profiteering at the expense of union fields during suspensions, the non-union interests + « + are gradually bankrupting themselves in a vain effort to over- come geography by selling enslaved man-power in competition with coal.” The miners will say this is the bunk and it is, CAL, WITH INCOME TAK OF $14,000, OPPOSES PAY RAISE FOR CLERKS SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., Sept, 1.— President Coolidge does not look with favor upon the proposal that the minimum wage for government employes be increased to $1,500, he said here, He sees no justification for in- creasing wages of those now receiv- ing the minimum of $720 annually by more than 100 per cent, he said. Coolidge paid an Income tax of over $14,000.00, He should worry. oe: CAL WANTS TO KEEP IT DARK. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., Sept. 1.— That section of the revenue act which permits newspaper publica- tlon of income tax returns still meets with the opposition of Presi- dent Cooldige, it was stated in his behalf here today, He will renew his recommendation to congress that the section be repealed. ‘MOTHER’ BLOOR BLAZES TRAIL THRU NEW YORK “I had a strenuous time making connections, but so far, all goes well,” writes Comrade Blla Reeve Bloor from Utica, N. Y., Tuesday. Leaving Chicago last Thursday, “Mother” Bloor resumed her continental hike, begun from San Francisco a month ago and interrupted in Chicago for a week’s attendance at the Workers Party convention. As this Communist pioneer crosses the continent, she leaves behind her newly established camps of class-con- | scious workers, New branches of the | Workers Party, new Junior groups, hundreds of new subscribers to the DAILY WORKER: all as the result lof “Mother” Bloor’s mass meetings to point out the need for organized act- ivity among the workers and farmers in order that their best interests may be furthered. This week, Comrade Bloor is blaz- ing a trail thru the caste-hardened east. Already, she has had big de- monstrations in Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, New York. Today she is in Utica and will go on from there to carry out her schedule, which is as follows: Albany, N. Y., Sept. 4; Troy, N. Y., Sept. 5; Schenectady, N. Y., Sept. 6 and 7; New York, N. Y., Sept. 9 and 10; Newark, N. J. Sept. 11; New York, N. ¥., Sept. 12; Boston, Mass., Sept. 13 and 14; Providence, R I., Sept. 15; Hartford, Conn., Sept. 16; New Hea- ven, Conn., Sept. 17; Bridgeport, Conn. Sept. 18; New York; Sept. 20; Phila- delphia, Pa., Sept. 22,23 and 24; Wil- mington and Arden, Delaware, 27 and 27; Baltimore, Md. 29; and Washing- ton, D. C., Sept. 30. Gasoline Cut One Cent A reduction of one cent a gallon in the retail price of gasoline was made effective today by the Standard Oil ‘company of Indiana in the 11 states in which it operates. The cut, the second within a week, brings the price to 18 cents a gallon. Both reductions, according to an an- nouncement from the company, brought about by “competitive condi- tions.” The Standard Oil is playing its usual game of freezing out inde- pendents and later raising prices, TELEGRAMS OF APPRECIATION OF “LITTLE BILLY” AND SYMPATHY FOR PARENTS RECEIVED FROM JUNIORS Messages of condolence to Comrade William F, Dunne, expressing sym- pathy In his sad loss and pledges of greater devotion to the Communist cause of which “Little Billy” wag a Pioneer and active worker, are pouring into the office from Juniors and comrades thruout the country. We print two of these telegrams: William F, Dunn Dear Comrade:—We express our profound grief at untimely death of Junior Comrade Dunne. Deep sympathy for parents, Solidarity to junior section of Chicago. Let loss be a spur to further activity in organizing and mobilizing the masses of working class children.—City Executive Committee, Junior Section, New York Leninist Youth Camp. FROM ST. LOUIS C..C, C. ‘ William F, Dunne: Dear Comrade, Just received news relative to death of your son. We are deeply grieved at your loss, We sure you that a score of other Juniors will replace him to carry the banner which he has dropped. Executive Committee, St. Louls Central Committee, Stella Saunders, Secy, FO teeter ' rc EVEN U.S, GOLD FAILS TO AID POLISH ARMY DEFEAT SOVIET RUSSIA (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 1,—Po- land paid inidemnities to the Soviet Union's army for losses incurred in a recent border fight between the two countries with U. S. gold. This fact is disclosed in a recent article that appeared in a Polish paper. The article states that six New York banks, the Irving Bank, the Columbia Trust Company, Morgan, Schroder, the American and the Na- tional Park Bank advanced the Po- lish government $6,000,000 on July 9, at 7 per cent. This money was used, says the article, for the mob- ilization of the Polish army for the recent demonstration against the Soviet Union. Another Polish paper tells how the reserves of 1899 and 1900 had been called out for four weeks! training to defeat the Soviet army and failed. MINERS PREPARE FOR LONG FIGHT; 828 PITS GLOSE Country Flooded with Refuse by Bosses | (Continued from page 1.) statement from the operators within a day or two. Commenting upon the reported boy- cott of anthracite coal by consumers thruout the New England and middle atlantic states, proposed by the con- ference of New England governors, President Lewis, leaderof the miners said: “Bunk, pure bunk. Anthracite is the great domestic fuel wherever it is obtainable, as bituminous is the great industrial.” “ee Send Out Bad Coal ARCHIBALD, Pa., Sept. 1—Culm coal is again on its way to the New England, New York and other eastern markets to be sold to the consumer as high grad¢ anthracite. That happened also on the eve of the 1923 hard coal strike when the operators began to reduce their banks of refuse along- side the colliers by mixing ‘ashes and cobblestones,” as the miners call it, with the cleaned coal. At the Gravity Slope colliery at Archibald the culm mixing is going on at a great rate. The culm is flushed with’ a hose and is then shot down from ‘the bank thruogh a chute to be emptied into the cars. John Boylan of the. ist inspection district of Dist. 1, United Mine Workers, charges that 200 cars of the culm were taken from the banks in a short time last week. The, government knows about it but the miners think it will sit tight. Tom Davis of the federal department of labor recently took pictures of the culm-mixing and sent them on to Washington where they will probably gather dust until the strike is over, » ae its 2 Government Aids Operators WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 1.— The United States government at- tempted to force the miners’ union to accept the operators terms when at a crucial period in the negotiations, the interstate commerce commission declared a ten per cent freight reduc- tion on West Virginia coal shipped to north Atlantic states. “The effect is to play non-union an- thracite against union coal,” it was announced at the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor. , 9 Seven Hundred Strike Philadelphia, Pa., August 30.—The seven hundred miners employed by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation com- pany at Lansford went on strike in order to force a miner to put himself in good standing in the union. The miners are not waiting for Tuesday to leave the mines. Hundred have already left, taking their tools and effccts with them. Scranton re- ported that contract miners have al- ready quit work, | Railroads Lay Off Men The wages paid to the anthracite miners total $1,150,000 daily. The operators make a profit of $70,000,000 a year in the hard coal fields, The ten thousand maintenance men who will work during the strike to keep the mines in repair will con- tribute $5.00 from each semi-monthly pay envelope to the strike fund, The railroadg are already laying off men, and 10,000 will be unemployed in the strike area within a week. Over the 500 square miles in north- eastern Pennsylvania which contain the anthracite mines, not a colliery whistle was blowing and not a car can be seen on the breakers, Many of the strikers will spend their time at home reparing their houses. All mules in the mines are being hauled to the surface. The operators declare their over- head during the strike will be at least $200,000 a day. Aalto Cal Wants Power to Break Strike SWAMPSCOTT, Sept. 1.—John H. Hammond, former chairman of the U. 8, coal commission, has urged Presid- ent Coolidge to sequre congressional approval of the commissions recom- mendations whieh, would give the president power to, break coal strikes and force the miners back to work. +, THE DAILY( WORKE CAL'S INCOME TAXIS T'TIMES WORKERS” PAY Gives $14,091.86; Many Employers Dodge BOSTON, Sept. 1.—President’ Cool- idge paid an income tax of $14,091.86, seven times as much as the average yearly wages of the American work- ers, figures on tax returns made pub- lic af the local bureau of internal revenue disclosed. ba Wrigley Dodges Tax William Wrigley, Jy, chewing-gum king, paid an income, tax of only $2,664, returns for 1925 made public here showed, i ‘ ‘ 565 and Last year, Wrigley paid this year’s low figure * to have been due to tha in tax clause which permits deduct ns for losses dating back as far as mul Gov. Len Small’s t listed as $9,018.30, wee Vice-President Charles, |G. Dawes paid $24,834. R. R. McCormick, co-editor, the Chicago Tribune, paid $134,105; Ro- bert E. Crowe, state’s attorney, $73; Mayor William B, Dever, $223; Jacob M. Loeb, father of “Dickie” Loeb, con- victed of the murder of little Robert Franks, $4,592; George Cardinal Mun- delein, $102. be Many others of the heavy'taxpayers’ returns showed a general downward revision this year. eee Fords Pay $20,000,000 DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 1.—A total tax of more than $20,000,00. approx- imately one-quarter of tne entire in- come tax levy in the Eastern Michigan district, was paid by the Fords and their company, income tax returns for 1924, made public showed. Henry Ford’s personal tax was $2,608,808.65, Edsel Ford paid $2,168,055.99. Their company paid 16,493,160.91. Demby Claims Exemption The General Motors corpUration a J. P. Morgan concern ranked next with a tax estimated to be more than $5,600,000, The Fisher Brothers, Char- les T., Fred J., and Lawrence, paid a total tax of more than $1,000,000, Sebastian S. Kresge, millionaire chain ten-cent store operator, paid $188,608.16. oe . Edwin Demby, former, georetary of the navy claimed exempion, proving to the satisfaction of the gdvernment that his’ holdings were" ndii-taxable. Senator James Couzens, 'fifiti-million- aire, paid a little’moré than $1,200. His holdings are said mostly to be non-taxable. «" © ° Mrs. Anna Tliompsdn_ of Horace E. Dodge, is list, she paid $993,028.48. | + #8 te Rockefeller’s Six Millions NEW YORK, Sept. 1+—John D., Rockefeller, Jr., paid $6,277,669 in- come taxes for 1924 ands John D. Rockefeller Sr., $128,420, beoks of the tax collectors revealed. . » Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors of the United States Steel company, paid $322,680. tek Kodak King Multi-Milljonaire BUFFALO, N. Y,, Sept.,4.—Accord- ing to the internal revenue figures here, George Eastman, Kodak king, and Rochester Philanthrppist paid $79,605.45 as his 1924 income tax. * widow on the * Cal’s Friends Wealthy BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 1—Frank W. Stearns, personal friend and adviser to President Coolidge, paid a tax of $43,156.08, Cardinal O'Connell paid $17,854.48, A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University paid $36,567.11, Other returns were: Bishop William Lawrence $959.33; U. S. Senator Frederick H. Gillett $921.60 U, 8S. Senator William M. Butler, $12,790.69; Governor Alvan T. Fuller $50,358.90; J. Lawtence Higgin- son Jr., bani $107,787.86, ee 8; Democratic Leader Is! Millionaire NEW YORK, September 1—John W. Davis, former demoeratic candi- date for the presidency, paid $49,533. Charles Evans Hughes, former séc- retary of state, paid $1,554. Louis Marshall, New York attorney, paid $65,039, u The tax of Dillon Read and com: pany was $661,559 andthe National Bank of Commerce $162,15999, o e-=& Mellon Pays Big Tax PITTSBURGH, Sept. 1.—United States Senator DavidwA. Reed paid $19,546. James. R. Mellon, a relative of the secretary of the treasury, paid $6,914, and William L, Mellon $174,577, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis paid $3,180.18, - « 4 oy Tea Pot Dome Lawyers Cash In CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 1.—Chas- W. Burdick, lawyer, of, Cheyenne paid the largest federal income tax in Wyoming for 1924—$48,527.18, John W. Lacey, counsel for the Harry F, Sinclair interests and gener- al counsel in Wyoming for several railroads and corporations, was second on the, list with a fontribution of $19,118.84, ri ie Harding's Friend Pays $281,125 BALTIMORE, Sept.’ 1.—The biggest individual taxpayer the city of Washington was Beale Mc- Lean, publisher of the Washington Post, who paid $282j125.82 He was involved in the Teapot Dome South Bend, Indiana, Is Urging Recognition of the Union of Soviet Republics By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TORBAY, South Bend, Indiana, farm implement and auto- : mobile. manufacturing center, thru its ‘“‘News-Times,” urges recognition of the Union of Soviet Republics. This bee-hive of American industry uses no subterfuge in stating its arguments for recognition. It doesn’t believe, with the august state department at Washington, that the Soviet Union is an “economic vacuum.” It has ceased to worry about the form of government that the Russian work- ers and peasants have set up in theireountry. It is highly elated because former Governor James Putnam Goodrich, of Indiana, banker, railroader and public utility magnate, has been sent as one member of an American, commission to investigate conditions in the Soviet Republics, It feels “busi- ness” is coming its way. ‘ * . ° It may be taken for granted that the South Bend view- point is beginning to permeate the United States more and more. Various sections of the nation, like the cotton growing states of the south, have learned that the Soviet Union is an increasing purchaser in the market of American products. This, on top of the fact that the stability of the Workers’ and Farmers’ Government remains unquestioned, is produc- tive of some sane thinking on the question of Russian re- cognition. The South Bend (Ind.) News-Times puts it this way: y nussta needs practically everything that this country produces. She needs, first and foremost, agricultural implements, “Reopening of more friendly relations with Russia might be one means of stimulating growth in South Bend, for her purchases of such Implements woyld undoubtedly come In no small part from this city.” * * ° * The News-Times then utters the profound prayer that, “Let it be hoped that Governor Goodrich finds the way to re-opening pleasant business relations with Russia, even if it goes to the extent of recognizing Russia as a decent and orderly government.” . ° ° South Bend is an open shop town. Its great industries are unorganized. Working conditions are dictated by the great employers, the Studebaker Bros. Manufacturing Co., the largest, of its kind in the world; the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, the Singer Sewing Machine Co., to mention just a few, making it the fourth manufacturing city in the state. *. * * It is not inconceivable that the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, as they get around to it, will examine more closely into the conditions under which the goods are manu- factured that they purchase. The Soviet Union is anxious to purchase only those pro- ducts that are turned out under union conditions. But it has already become apparent that some industries, the products of which are needed by the Soviet Union, have been abso- lutely untouched by American organized labor, due to its backward stage of development. Just how the Russian workers will make their demand for “union products only” felt in this country has not yet been revealed. But it will come in time. There can be no doubt that it will be received with enthusiasm by America’s workers, unorganized as well as organized. It will be inter- esting, however, to watch the reaction of the Chambers of Commerce and other organizations of “open shoppers,” in South Bend., Ind., and elsewhere, as they feel this power of the Russian workers and peasants creep up to their very doors. : COMMUNIST CONVENTION HAILS LEFT WING NEEDLE WORKERS OF LOCALS 2,9 AND 22 OF THE I. L. G. U. The following is the resolution on the struggle of the left wing of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union of New York, introduced by M. J. Olgin, and adopted by the Fourth Convention of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, Sunday, August 30: The convention sends its brotherly greetings to the thirty thousand members of Locals No. 2, 9 and 22, of the I. L. G. W. U. who are at present engaged in a sharp struggle against the bureaucratic machine of their union, and who are striving to make their union an instrument of revolutionary class struggle, The convention sees in this struggle a manifestation of the deep dis- satisfaction and restlessness which 4—————_—_______________ are spreading among the masses of the workers as a result of increased pressure of capitalism and the capi- talist state on the one hand and of the betrayal of the union leaders who be- come tools and agents of capitalism among the organized workers on the other. The struggle of the New York gar- ment workers forecast of the future when the majority of the workers will rally to the class struggle under the slogans of the Communist Party and the Communist International, Against Capitalism, The convention calls to the atten- tion of the workers that their struggle is not only against the machine of Sigman-Perlstein Co, but against all the forces of the capitalist govern- ment which are aiding their employ- ers and the union leaders, We call to the attention of the work- ers that the present terrorism of the bosses in the interest of Sigman and Co., proves that the union bureaucrats are friends and servants of the boss- es and that the struggle of the gar- ment workers is part of the general class struggle of the proletariat against its exploiters. Success in this fight requires that it be militantly arried against the employers for the demands of the wor! Amalgamation and Struggle for Power The convention declares that this struggle must lead not only toward reorganizing the Intrenational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Unjon as an instru- ment of class struggle, but must lead also to the amalgamation of all needle workers into one great union and to their uniting with the entire proleta- riat in the struggle for ‘political pow- er. Greater unity, greater militancy, Greater determination, “& cléarer un- derstanding of the class struggle, a clearer distinction between enemies that must be fought and friends that must be followed, will bring about a victory of the heroic needle workers in their present struggle. Forest Fire Menaces Cheboygan CHEBOYGAN, Mich., Sept. 1— Flames besiege this town as: forest fires, which have been raging thruout Cheboygan county for several days, are closing in. The towns folk are in panic, CITY RULERS OF MINNEAPOLIS TO REDUCE WAGES Unions S plit by the Labor Fakers By JOHN G. SOLTIS, MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 1—The city fathers have practically authorized the finance committee of the city counell to proceed at once with the reduction of the wages of the city workers. While no definite announcement has been made with reference to the cut in wages, it is believed that the slash will be around 20 per cent, a Conservatives Make Good Threats, This action of the city council fol- lows closely the defeat of the socialist laborite majority last June, The con- servatives are making good their pledge of ceonomy, by reducing the wages of the city workers. This is the only kind of economy they under- stand; in the interest of the capital- ists. The city workers are organized into the “City and County Employes’ Un- ion.” It was a strong organization once, based upon the principle of in- dustrial unionism. However, Paul J. Smith disliked this kind of solidarity, so he split it up into several frag- ments this spring. This; he regarded, as a blow against the reds, In reality it was a crime against the workers of the city. Reds Fight Splitters. The reds fought the splitting up of the industrial union, standing squarely for the principle of solidarity, as al- ways. It now remains to be seen just what kind of assistance the city workers are going to get, from Paul J, Smith and his satellites, in the coming clash over wages with the city fathers. Workers Flock to Get Low Paid Jobs from Government NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1.—At a re- cent civil service examination held here last week for position of postal clerks and letter carriers, one thous- and, one hundred and forty four Persons were participants. Salaries to the successful ones ranged from $140, to $175 a month. Government officials.! say these applicants represented the Jargest body of persons ever seeking civil service appointments in New Orleans. —_—————$—$—$ | A Correction | In the issue of the DAILY WORKER of August 31, I am reported as having said in the convention in my speech on Loreism: “As long as the main business of the party was limited to theory there was no special necessity to fight against a wrong theory be- cause there was no resultant action.” This sentence is theoretical non- sense and practical opportunism. I never said such a thing. At this mo- ment I do not have the stenographic report on hand. But I can reproduce the basic thought I did express. I said that bolshevization means mainly activization. As long as the party was inactive and the opportun- ists differed from the party as a whole and the Party’s concept only in theory they, (the opportunists,) could very well submit to the party and could refrain from fighting the party's policy. But when the party becomes a party of action then the opportunists are also driven into action. But not into action for and with the party, (because they are fundamentally op- posed to the party engaging in action) but into action against the party and the Party’s policy. Thus the progress- ing bolshevization of the party beings the conflict of the party with oppor- tunism, Loreism, to a crisis, This is the gist of what I said. Fraternally yours, Max Bedacht Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. FOURTH CONVENTION OF WORKERS PARTY GREETED BY KUOMINTANG The Fourth August 30, rece intion of the Workers (Communist) Party, Sunday, following telegraphic greeting: Hartford, Conn. August 30.—To Workers Party Convention, Chicago: Congratulate your successful convention. You, the followers of Leni we, the followers of Sun Yat Sen, stand firmly together in an energetic struggle against capitalist imperialism, Signi dent Fong Foo Yen social affairs, Kuomintang Hartford Branch, Siao Fang, Walter Lee, presi Wate ett International Youth Junior speaker, ADMISSION oung Workers Auspices, Y SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 8 P. M, at the NORTH-WEST HALL, Corner North and Western Aves. SPEAKERS: ; MAX SHACHTMAN of the Young Workers League. JAMES P. CANNON of the Workers Party. Day Demonstration 25 CENTS. League, Local Chicago,