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a THE DAILY WORKER oe ablated bythe by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 2118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mall (outelde 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 Bivd., Chicago, IIlinols J, LOUIS BNGDAHL on WILLIAM F, DUNNE [eet nn ed MORITZ J. LOEB. -Business Manager —— oe Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi | cago, lil., under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. ee Black Lies for White Guards The Chicago Tribune is considerably worried over ‘the revolu- tionary speeches now being made by A. J. Cook, secretary of the British Miners’ Union, an organization of 1,300,000 members, the largest single industrial trade union unit in the world today. Cook warns the workers in Great Britain that they be ready for the next test of strength with the capitalists and with their gov- ernment. He talks revolution and says that only the overthrow of capitalism is a solution of the serious situation that confronts the working class of England. The Tribune is amazed that the English workers would pay any attention to Cook’s speeches. It points out Russia as_a horrible example of what Communism can do to a decent country and further- more declares that Italy and Hungary had their fling at Commun- ism and gave it up as a bad proposition. Italy and Hungary did not give Comunism atest.’ So much for that. Now as to Russia. The Tribune says: “Russia has been exi§ting under Communism for seven years and is worse off. than when the experiment began.” The Tribune is a vicious enemy of the working class and of, the first working class state in the world in particular. But the Tribune is not always stupid. On this occasion it lies very clumsily. Yesterday’s DAILY WORKER contained a. summary of an ar- ticle by Frederick Haskin, that appeared in a conservative capitalist paper, which showed that Russia’s industrial production is now within two per cent of the pre-war standard and that. the electrical industry had pased that standard and bid fair to almost. double it within the next year. What is true of her industrial production is also true of her agricultural production. It is the general opinion of fair-minded people who visited Rus- sia that the Soviet Union will lead the world in industrial progress within fifteen years. What concerns us most is that with every ‘in- crease in the productive capacity of Soviet Russia the livnig standard of the workers rises. It is not true that “Russia has been existingunder Communism fro seven years.” The Russian workers and peasants have only begun the task of laying the basis for a Communist social order. What exists in Russia is a proletarian government led by the Communist Party. The backwardness ‘of Russia industrially and technically made the astablishment of Communism impossible. With the gradual removal of those handicaps, Communism will be gradually intro- duced and this process will go hand in hand with the development of Communist strength in the capitalist countries and the disintegration of capitalism. The Tribune picked the wrong time to get off one of its editorial lies about the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The Industrial Spy System In the city of Detroit the fact was brought out at an arbitration proceeding that the municipal street railway system employs a corps of spies to keep track of the movement of the employes.’ Another army of inspectors is employed to watch the movement of the spies. This‘goodly array of parasites is paid by the users of the street car system. “It-should not be forgotten that the city of Detroit owns its street railway. But the city is controlled by capitalist politicians. The mayor of Detroit, tho endorsed by organized labor, is a capitalist pol an. It is true that he caters to the labor officialdom, just as President Calles of Mexico caters to the reactionary labor leaders of that country, but the interests of the working masses and the in- terests of the labor fakers as far apart as the poles. Nationalization of industry or the municipalization of public utilities, no matter how bitterly fought by the owning classes can only be used in the interests of the workers when they become the governing classes. Communists favor those demands for the reason, ‘among others, because they are sure to arouse the opposition of the eapitalists who.always fight every move to curtail their power. So long as the capitalists hold the reigns of government there will be spies in industry whether these industries be nationalized or aminicipalized. The Detroit workers are learning this fact even tho they have a “friend. ofslabor” in mayor’s chair. Yellow Socialists and Blue Blood ; it the British socialists and reactionary labor leaders: “haye not tod, up well in the struggle against the capitalists the same can- shot. be said about their attendance at public functions as ‘guests of the Aristoc racy. ,The following news item from a Bri, ish. paper ($80 much louder than our words that it is given without any ‘comment other than the use of italie on the names of the socialists mentioned. “At a brilliant party given by the duke-and duchess of York on ‘Friday evening at St, James Palace, the following were among the distinguished company: .. “Mr. Austen Chamberlain, the Duke of Connaught, the Maha- ‘rajah of Jodhptit, the Yuvaraja of Mysore, Sir William Joynson- Hicks, Mr. Winston Churchill, countless knights; baronets and mili- tary people, Mr. and Mrs, Philip Snowden and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Thomas.” French and Spanish guns pulverize a Riffian city and there is hardly a squawk from our pacifists. The socialists may have con- vineed them that civilization demands the crushing of “backward” people before universal peace can be attained. Salat intiaphagestatigeeoas The British in Shanghai magnanimously voted ‘to surrender to the Chinese after the latter had cleaned up on them. Who said the Chinese were pacifists? While Spanish soldiers. shoot dhe Moors and get shot in return the Spanish king is having a good time playing the role of a beauty conniseur at a French watering place. Soviet Russia has ay bumperyerop thisvyear,.. This is another ce pa 1917, bump for the prophets of evil who have been predicting the fall of the Soviet governmest this mornf Iw cde 203 bbe HYMAN EXPOSES FAKE ‘PEACE OF SIGMAN Shows Up Attempt to Fool Workers (Continued from page 1.) did Mr. Sigman permit the Commun- ists to run and be elected to office? “For the past 12 weeks a vicious campaign of terrorism has been car- ried on against the suspended officers and now Mr. Sigman grants the right of appeal tonon-Communists. But if there are any non-Communists, as he now admits, why were all these mem- bers suspended? “Mr, Sigman is gracious enuf to permit those to whom he may grant an appeal, the right to run for any other office even as high as general manager of the Joint Board; but he may not run for the office from which he was suspended. Imagine Mr. En- right suspending a policeman, and after he is exonerated from the charges, permitting him to occupy the position of sergeant, captain or even police commissioner, but forbid- ding him to serve as a policeman again. Representation—Not Now! “On the question of proportional representation, Mr. Sigman states that this cannot be carried thru now. Instead, in a very unconstitutional manner, he deprives three small lo- cals of any representation whatso- ever. We believe it to be unfair for a small local to be deprived of all representation just as we deem our present system unfair and demand proportional representation because a small local of 200 members has the same representation as one of 12,000 members. This reform of his is so vague that it can always be misused to his own advantage. “Mr. Sigman, in his statement, promised further reforms at the con- vention; but he offers no method whereby the membership shall be more fairly represented than hereto- fore when all conventions were packed by.delegates representing artifjcial lo- cals. Surely the proposal for an im- partial committee to supervise these elections is meaningless. This com- mittee, no matter how sincere it may be, eannot guarantee an honest elec- tion thruout the country. Such an impartial committee can only be of value when working in conjunction with°acommittee representing both factions: omen Condemns Ban on Communists. “Me. Sigman’s ban against the Com- munists, while they are legally placed on the ballots for political office thru- out, the country, is unjustifiable and will receive the condemfhation of every member of our union, We fur- ther brand Mr. Sigman’s _ statement that the constitution prohibits Com- munists from’ holding office, as false. This is proven by the fact that Mr. Sigman permitted Communists to run and be elected to office. “The entire so-called peace proposal is nothing but a brazen fraud, and will be taken as such by the entire membership. It demonstrated the in- sincerity of Mr. Sigman and his ma- chine. Mr. Sigman may continue his reign of terrorism, but the cloak and dressmakers have been once more convinced that no real peace can exist until Sigman and his clique have been entirely eliminated.. The Joint Committee of Action, which thru the consent of the membership has been conducting this struggle against cor- ruption in our union, is determined to carry on the. fight for a union repre- sentative of the membership.” Designers Condemn Joint Board. | On Saturday afternoon, a member- |ship meeting of Local 45, the Design- \ers, was held at Hotel Pennsylvania and by unanimous vote a resolution was passed demanding that the Joint Board reinstate the expelled officers of Locals 2, 9 and 22 and that the Joint Board be reorganized on a ba- sis of proportional representation. The meeting also passed a resolu- tion denouncing the Joint Board offic- ers for their neglect of the interests of the Designers and pledging each member to give $5 toward a new and energetic campaign of orgdnization. The Designers pledged that, should the Joint Board refuse the demands of the Designers with reference to Lo- cals 2, 9 and 22, they would support unanimously ‘the fight of the Joint Committee of Action against the cor- rupt machine of the International. Shop Chairmen Meet. A meeting of shop chairmen, called by an impartial committee in Man- hattan Lyceum on Saturday after- noon, voiced in one speech after an- other, approval of the Joint Commit- tee of Action and.also passed a reso- lution for reinstatement of the ex- pelled officers and reorganization of the Joint Board. Over 600 registered shop chairmen were present. - Injunction Postponed, Hearing on the injunétion granted to the Roth itumes Inc, against Louis Hyman and the eleven girls of the Roth shop, “Was postponed trom ptember 10 in the preme court, THE DAILY WORKER EATON, BACKED BY EMPLOYERS AND KEPT. PRESS, RE-ELECTED HEAD OF W. VA. STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR By A. G. MURPHY. WHEBLING, W? Va.) September 1.—It does not take a prophet or the son of a prophet to foretell on whose side, John B, Haton, re-elected president of the West Virginia’ State Federation of Labor, will be found, when it comes to a question of conflicting interests of labor unionism and the industrial corporations which have converted the workers of West Virginia into feudal slaves, their condition only comparalle to the workers of Russia under the TWO KLLED T BLAST OF GAS FILLED MINE, OTHERS ARE INJURED CENTRAL CITY, Ky, Sept. 1.— Two men were kilide and another was burned, perhaps fatally, here to- day when a gas accumulation in the mine in which they were working exploded. Several other miners suffered darkest czarism. The trend of our capitalist press is the key to this secret. When during the spectacular and stormy sessions of the convention of the State Federation of Labor held during the middle ofj August, Easton was re-elected to sueeeed-himself, by a narrow vote of 175 out of a total of 269 delegates registered, the kept press sent up paens,of thanksgiving that Haston would. sueceed himself and that the progressives. in the con- vention had been steam rolled. Two Factions Fight It was to be expectéd that the same wave of reactionarism which was, for the moment, sweeping “the trades union movement in thé country, would show its head here and when C. Frank Keeney former president of district 17 United Mine Workers, was placed in nomination for state president, it was soon made evident that';short shift would be made of-his boom, by the oligarchy. William Blizzard, floor lead- er of the: miners delegation from the southern district, attaéked Easton re- cord and showed him up as a traitor :|to union principles °and accused him of failing to support the child labor amendment in this state but to no effect. Finally Blizzard and the miners from the s@itthern district, 87 in num- ber, bolted the convention and retired to a hotel to await developments. During the morning session of August 12th the day after the miners bolted, Keeney appeared at the session and said the miners refused to take any further part in the proceedings, “un- less they were dished out a square deal” by the other faction. But the other faction was, evidently, not dish- ing out square deals and Keeney with- drew his name leaving Haston unop- posed for the office. my That Easton fulfillsythe heartfelt wants of the business interests of the| i, popular among ; the rank and file. state can readily be seen in the com- minor burns and injuries. Strikebreaker Berry Lifts Charter of Pressmens’ Union Frisco Mobilizes for Great Celebration on Communist Youth Day (Continued from page 1.) best thing for the unions to do right now is to amalgamate. There are 3,800 members in the two locals and recently Berry has been able to use the feeders against the pressmen. A Berry Tool, Recently both unions agreed on a common program of action and Berry warned Franklin No. 4 not to meet any more in joint conference with the pressmen. It is probable that Berry will take action against the feeders similar to what he took against the pressmen. The president of the feeders’ union, Hugh Cram- bert is a Berry tool, but most of the members are against him. “Majah” Berry appeared before the convention of the New York Sttae Federation of Labor a few days ago and made a speech on conciliation and arbitration, There should be no more strikes. and lockouts, he said. The following day, an advertisement appeared in the New York World, ap- pealing for scabs to man rotary press- es on an out-of-town job. The ad read: “Pressmen wanted. Out-of- town positions on rotary presses. Good make ready men. Phone, Penn- sylvania 0543.” This is the phone number of the George Detective Agency. It is ru- mored that Berry has part interest in this fink concern. The scabs were wantéd to work in the Cuneo plant under the notorious New York gang- ster, Seymour “Stuss” Singer, who is accused of slugging Johnny Grant, a New York pressman, to death. The local pressmen intend to fight Berry to the bitter end and the plan of making the fight a nation-wide one SAN FRANCISCO, Califi; Sept. 1— On Sunday, Sept. 6,"the Young Work- ers League will celébraté Youth Day, with an entertainment’ and speakers. One of the spéakers will represent the Workers Party, and’ the other will be of the Young Woryers League, They have had 2,000 fliers printed to advertise the affait, and there is no doubt a great crowd will turn out. All arrangements have been’ made for a big time. ‘ This is a call to all readers in and near San Francisco, to take advan- tage and help the youth to celebrate and to bring théir children along so they can get acquainted with the Young Workers: League. The Oakland bunch have decided to join us, so come along everybody and don’t forget the date, Sunday, Sept. 6, 8 p. m., at 225 Valencia St., San Fran- cisco, Calif. INDOOR LABOR PICNIC IN LIVERPOOL, OHIO, SUNDAY, SEPT. 6TH EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, Sept. 1. —A masa indoor labor picnic will be held at. East Liverpool, Ohio, on September 6 at the Trades and La- bor Hall at 5th and hington sts. Lovett Fort-Whiteman will Speak. There will be other speak- ers and many attractions. Come and bring along every worker you know. ments on his electiomsby the kept “OUTLAW” SEAMEN’S STRIKE press and concerning “his record of helping to defeat thewChild Labor amendment the Parkersburg News, the organ which laid the egg and hat- ched the Guy Goff. boom;rand landed that Teapot Domer and@<son of the late Senator Nathan ;@off, into the} ang en, United States senate, has this to say in an editorial: «, . # 1uf “The States dFederation,of Labor elected as president John BR. Easton, of Williamstown, to. suceeed himself. “Among one of the ‘unpardonable sins’ charged by Blizzard:against Hast- on is that the latter didomot support the child labor amendment. Few thinking persons in thecstate backed this move to further hamper the state with federal control; few thinking persons want a government at Wash- ington so centralized and so omnipo- tent that it can say whem and where and how children s| play and work, When Mr. Blizzardubrings such a charge against Mr. aston he is not hurting the Wood county man but rather is paying him: asribute for common sense thinking.’ beam * FOREIGN EXCHANGE NEW YORK, Sept. 1.— Great Bri- tain, pound sterling, demand 4.85, cable 4.85%. France, franc, demand 4.68%, cable 4.6914; Belgium, franc, demand 4.4944, cable 4.50; Italy, lira, demand 3.78%, cable 3.79; Sweden, krone, demand 26.82, cable 26.83; Nor- way, krone, demand 24.71, cable 24.73; Germany, mark, no quote; Shanghai, tael, 80%. Legion Defeats Debt Resolution. QUINCY,’ flls., Sept!"%—The dele- gates to the annual-convention of the Illinois department, American Legion, today voted’‘down @.oresolution to President Coolidge “asking that the French war debt measures be so ar- ranged that they ‘would not be “too hard on the French people.” — ee Steamer BurnedjxOne Dead. ERIE, Pa., Sept. 1— fhe lake steam- er Colonial, of the ern Reserve Navigation, company, was burned to the water's edge off Westfield, N. Y. The boat was enronté /to Dunkirk, N. Y., to carry an exéuPsion of Erie and Dunkirk people tg (rystal Beach, Ont. is known thet one is dead and several missing. .The passengers and crew were taken from the boat by life saving crews,from Erie, Buf- falo, and Dunkirk, |, DAWES PLAN PLUNDER TOTALS 238 MILLION U. §. GETS A SLICE PARtS, France, Sept. 1—The to tal payment of reparations made by Germany under Dawes plan to the allies totalled one billion gold marks ($238, during the first year, 8. P, rt, Jr, agent general for reparations payments reports, The last payment, 60,000,000 gold marks, has just made by the German Railway pany. The United si received $18,- 000,000 of this onl a = TIES UP WHIT. E STAR LINER (Special to The Daily pete SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sept. 1.—One red and ninety deckhands gine room workers of the White Star liner Majestic have given formal notice that they will not sail with the ship tomorrow. Officials of the White Star Line stated today that they hope to be’ atsle ‘to mustre sufficient crew to enable the Majestic to sait on time tomorrow. The action of the members of the Majestic crew is the biggest aucces@ yet made by the leaders of the unofficial seamen’s: strike, 1|BIG PROFITS. TOANTHRACITE COAL BARONS (Continued from page 1.) way. Many of the miners are caught in this manner and crushed to death. Operators’ Vultures Swindle Families The figures portraying the number of accidents tell an awful tale, but no mention is made of the wives and chil- dren who suffer most as a result of those accidents. ‘When a fatal injury occurs in or around the mine, the body of the vic- tinmis not yet cold until the mine operators have their lawyers, doctors, priests or preachers busy advising the grief striken widows to accept a small amount of money in full settlement of their claim, against the coal company. I have seen widows nearly. crazed with grief after accidents in the mine, pounced upon by these. human vul- tures, and in this condition have seen them sign away their claim against the coal company for’a paltry two hundred and fifty dollars. ‘The settle- ment made with many ofthe widows of the miners after the Cherry mine disaster,—a disaster that killed 262 miners was an example of the length to which the coal barons will go in their nefarious work, Prey On Grief Crazed Widows Many widows whose charred hus- band’s body was still laying down the burning sealed mine in Cherry, were approached by the coal company’s lawyers and preachers and encour- aged to settle their claim for two or three hundred dollars, Many of those widows in the height of their grief, not knowing what they were doing— signed the papers for a few hundred dollars and found afterwards to their sorrow, there was no recourse at law. The terrible condition of those wo- men and children, husbandless and fatherless, betrayed by priests and preachers and left to cold charity is well understood by the widows of the murdered anthracite miners. A Demand More Justiefid In view of the working conditions of the anthracite miners, in view of their living conditions as I have explained in the DAILY WORKER, and in view of the coal commission’s report part of which was also published a few days ago in the DAILY WORKER, showing the awful social conditions of the miners, the workers throughout the country will understand what a defeat of their demand for a miserable ten per cent increase in wages will mean to the hard coal miners at th: time. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Send for a catalogue of all Com- munist literature. ‘ British Intrigues in Arabia ™ wever was not the end of By J. a: Clans (Jerusalem). the aff: iy order to consolidate FTER the conquest of Mecca by| their gic position Hast of the the Wahabiti in October of last| Suez Canal, ‘ine English had always planned to extend their mandatory ter- ritory. In view of the promises made to the ‘Arabs, as well as to avoid acute confi ts, they had however re- Peatedly postponed occupying Akaba, Now Hussein's “obstinacy” gave them a pretext for the military conquest of which was the lest remnant in his| the town, Regardless of the threat- possession and even then was threat-|©"ing attitude of the population, who ened by the Wahabiti—the latter com-! 8@Ve expression to their fanatical fortably installed themselves in the|}&tred of the English in the form of conquered kingdom and especially in processions and protests, Akaba and the holy places of Islam—the English| !*8 Surroundings were on July 1st an- confined themselves to observing| "xed to the British mandatory terri- strict “neutrality” i, e. inciting both| ‘ry. The arbitrariness of this an- opponents thru money and promises to| 2@xation, even from the point of view continue the war until the moment|°f bourgeois international law, is evi- which seemed favorable to England| ent from the fact that esteemed Eng- for her to get the greatest advantage out of the situation. By a MINER’S WIFE. year, there was for a time peace in Arabia. Whilst Ali who, as successor to his father Hussein, had been made king of the Hedjas, was desperately appealing with cries of help to the whole Mohammedan world in order to save Jeddah, the port of the Hedjas, First of all the new king of the Hedjas was to be compelled to accept the agreement with England which meant shameful abandonment of the most elementary demands of Arabian independence, and which Hussein had persistently refused to sign until the catastrophe with which his rule ended. Ali however refused to consent. A few weeks ago it was announced that the negotiations with regard to an Anglo- Arabain agreement had been broken off. In this way England gained a free hand for her further policy in Arabia. FTER his defeat by the Wahabiti and his abdication, King Hussein had fled to Akaba, a port which had, from time immemorial, belonged to the territory of the Hedjas. As this town is situated about in the middle between Mesopotamia, Transjordinia and the Hedjas, it was possible for Hussein from there to remain in close contact with these three countries, ruled by his three sons, and to stir them up to fight against England,, which had behaved towards him in such a treacherous and underhand manner, The representative of the British government therefore came to an understanding with the colonial ministry to drive Hussein out of Akaba. The old king opposed all the English demands. The Mohammedan organizations of various Arabian coun- tries protested against the British de- mand. The English however, were not deterred from using ,fored A British cruiser landed __ sailors, ‘took Hussien prisoner and conveyed him to the island of Cypr wpich is to be his residence in tutu, (Reprinted from the London Daily Herald.) > @ Sf FTER lying awake. since about four a. m., fearful lest I should sleep late, I creep out Of bed very quietly in case I wake the baby, dress and poke up the fire, which has been “banked” overnight, On goes kettle atid frying pan for bacon and egg. Call hubby. Fill “box” and “Jack”’and he is all ready. Clear up kitchen: “In ‘comes Bill off the night shift. Get‘ bathwater hot and prepare breakfast “for Bill and for the five kiddies going to school. Have my own breakfast, and take up “Gran’s,” who is ridden. Bathe baby. Wash tp. Make Bill's bed. Wash Gran, and sweep and brush up the room, Start washing flannels.” * Comes a knock on the door. “Please, will you lend my mother a loaf?” “Yes,” quite’ cheerfully. Trot the length of house, only to discover I am nearly out myself. Start flannels again. Hello, Gran's banging on the boards, Upstairs for about the eighth time. This morning I manage, to get a few things out on the line at last. Now there are the children coming home to dinner, and Jack \to go out on the afternoon shift. Same process as with hubby. Off go the kiddi back to school and baby for her nap. lish politicians, even members of the conservative party, protested against this deed of violence on the part of the British government. EVERTHELESS English policy in Arabia is far from seeing the end of its difficulties. On the contrary, the anti-English propaganda among the Arabs is becoming more and more popular, and the enthusiastic Fecep- tion of the Turkish diplomatic repre- sentative both in the British and French mandatory territories, is symp- tomatic of the attitude of mind of broad masses of the people, who thus express their sympathy for Turkey which has been freed from the imper- lalist yoke, The intrigues thru which England las achieved temporary. success, will in the end be the doom of British pol- ley in Arabia. DAY Now, at last, I can get a bite, Spread out “Daily Herald” for table- cloth. Get half way thru cocoa, very interested in “Gadfly,” wi hark, what is that? Run to front door. Heré comes the dreaded ambu- lance cart. Whsre will it stop? No. 5, No. 7, No. 9, yes, No. 9, Run down now to see if I can be of any help. Poor maimed bread winner, and such a house full of’ little mouths. On returning the copper fire has gone out, and lo and behold, what has happened to the clothes? The line has broken and the clothes are all dirted up in the garden path. Well, here comes hubby. Three o'clock, While he bathes cook dinner for all. In come the kiddies from school. All have dinner. Take up "8. Now 6 o'clock. Make other beds. up again. Mend line. Not a Communist Meeting. Ré-swill clothes and out they go once more. Wash and change and hurry to labor meeting. Yes, a labor man speaking. “We must have short- er hours for the men and more leisure time!” What about the men’s ris I would like to ask Mr. Speaker. Meeting over. Back home 8. Put kiddies to bed. Get hub! supper. Prepare for Bill going out a 10 on night shift and Jack coming in off afternoon shift. Put white cl to soak for to-morrow’s wash. qT Gran her cocoa. Bank in the fire | the morning. yrs simply drag up- stairs, down on my bed : wonder when mother slavery mt |