The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1925, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Poet OfMce at Chicago, The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government NEW YORK EDITION PUBLIS Price 3 Cents NEE SRE 2) OBST ha ee ARR RC PO A ECR TA cae Is a ee ec > Of” s : , ¢ go ting : 7 : # 6, 10,9: a ° : SN Ag Pe e ee, ‘ : iy War to Left Wing, Peace [bne. ADE UNION CONGRESS OPENS WITH PROMISE OF BATTLE to Bosses, to be Policy TING CO.,1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Mlinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879, eet 5 Vol. II. No. 205. Subscription Rates: Susie a e%, $2.00 ver year. THURSDAY, SEPT EMBER 10, 1925 qe” ESUEDSG Ray oreypt Sunday by me party worker ANGLO-GERMAN TRADE AGREEMENT RATIFIED, LONDON ANNOUNCES LONDON: Sept. 8—The foreign office announced today that the Anglo-German trade agreement had AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY ‘HH working class lamb lay down with the capitalist lion on Labor Day to the great joy of the labor fakers who had the honor of tickling —— | J ~swcoming “capitalists “that aPthis talkabout the-class strug- the lion’s stomach with a union card after the beast had swallowed the loyal wage slave. The interests of capital and labor were identical last Monday tho strange to say half a dozen strikes stuck up their heads on Tuesday, here there and everywhere, as if to confound the prophets. *e © EARNED capitalist editors, after receiving orders from their pub- lishers dwelt profoundly on the great change that has come over the work- ing class movement in the United States since the days when it paraded on May Day and even on the cooler, first Monday in December. In those days the workers were mobilized as a protest against the capitalist system even tho many of the workers did not realize it. In the front of the line of march were the workers who, hap- pened to be on strike. Speeches were made, in which the employers were condemned and labor was urged to close its ranks and fight its enemy. ee | HANK the good lord. say-the cap- italist editors, and the labor takers, those days are no more. To- day, as Brisbane would say, the work ers take out their limousines and lug their wives, children, housemaids. poddle dogs and parrots to some pret~ ty country scene and enjoy the beauty of nature far away from the smoke and sdéot of the city. I have not read so far of a horny handed son of toil unhitching his airplane and flying to Alaska for a few days recreation. He could be back at his hammer, trowel or paint brush in time to draw down « thirty of forty dollars for a day’s work on Tuesday, a HIS is the kind of a life that seen Cain with the class struggle; we* are. informed. The workers are be- gle is nonsense. Bill Green chimes in with an “aye, aye, sir.” Ditto for the other several thousahd parasites who dumped their offal on the ether last Monday. Green says we must repri- mand the “autocratic employers” but fight the Communigts. The Commun- ists tell the workers to fight all. em- ployers. There are no’good ‘ones any more than there are good bed bugs. « ee ABOR won a great victory in New York when it succeeded in get- ting Al Smith and John F. Hylan on the same platform without either gentleman hurling a stink bomb at the other. New York labor counts it- self by millions but a bare three thousand gathered at Fort Hamilton jo hear the capitalist comedians drool their inanities. Perhaps the rest of the working class population of New York was in Bermuda for the holi- days. se N Chicago, there was not a squawk I out of the “bona fide labor move- ment.” “Weeping” John H. Walker delivered a speech in Springfield in which he thanked Governor Small for the favors he conferred on the work- ers. There was nothing said about the favors the workers conferred on Small. The unemployed miners of come across with some of those bles- | sings, that the tearful John talked about. The thousands of other work- ers who work long hours for short pay are also curious. They are will- ing to be enlightened. eee ‘AMES J. DAVIS, secretary of labor BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT WING (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Sept. 8—The British Trades Union Congress opened at Scarborough yesterday with a speech by President A. B. Swales, who took care to steer a middle course between the sharpening files of the right and left wings of British labor. But even Swales asserted that—“A militant and progressive policy, steadily pursued, is the only policy that will unify, consolidate and inspire our rank and file.” Swales warned capital that “a limit has been reached in the concessions the unions can be forced to make,” and declared that if the British government had any regard for relieving the in- creasing unemployment, it should cultivate trade relations with \ (Continued on page 6) REVOLUTIONARY MINE WORKERS IN GREETING TO ANTHRACITE STRIKERS 8 ge DAILY WORKER has received the following cable- gram: Moscow, Soviet Russia: September 8, 1925. To the Coal Miners of the United States: We send fraternal greetings and our warmest desire for the success of the striking miners in the anthracite region. ; Stand firm! i Follow the lead of the Progressive Miners’ Committee! Organize the utmost support to the strikers among all miners, all workers! Demand that the bituminous miners strike in solidarity with-their brothers in the anthracite! Call upon the railroad workers to ship no coal to be used to break the strike! Then victory will be yours. The sympathy of the miners of the whole world is with you in this struggle against the greedy operators, REVOLUTIONARY MINE WORKERS’ INTERNATIONAL PROPAGANDA COMMITTEE. UNION MINERS ~ ZEIGLER, ILL. Priming iva Hing Remains Indecisive ZEIGLER, Ill, Sept. 8— The pre- liminary hearing in the cases which are the scandal of the Illindis Min- ers’ Union, wherein D. B. Cobb, vice- president of Sub-District 9, of Dis- se cUEEEEeeeneeere MANY MASS MEETINGS ARE ARRANGED FOR The mass meetings already ar- ranged for “Labor Defense Day” Sunday, Sept. 13th, with speakers, are as follows: NEW YORK. Webster Hah, Dick Brazier, James P. Cannon, Robert W. Dunn, Benjamin Gitlow, and John R. Brodsky. CHICAGO, Temple Hall. William “Z. Foster, C. E. Ruthenberg, Duncan McDonald. and Henry Corbishley. BOSTON, Franklin Union Hall. Ella Reeve Bloor. MINNEAPOLIS, J. Louis*Engdah! SAN FRANCISCO, Tom Lewis. trict 12, is prosecuting more than a score of the rank and file members of Local 992, in the capitalist courts, opened here this morning with.an In- decisive battle between . contending forces. . There are two charges made by Cobb against the union miners, one of assault with intent to murder and one of conspiracy to murder. Hearing on the assault charge will be heard first. CINCINNATI, Bishop Wm. Ment- gomery Brown. PHILADELPHIA, Weinstone, NEW HAVEN, William Simons. . DULUTH, C. A. Hathaway. BUFFALO, T. R. Sullivan and Max Saltzman, STAMFORD, George Siskind, CLEVELAND, Earl R. Browder. PITTSBURGH, Andrew T. McNa- mara. William W. (Continued on page 6) \ GARY SHOP NUCLEUS IN PROMPT RESPONSE TO APPEAL FOR CASH GARY, Ind., Sept. 8—It didn’t need long to get the Gary shop nucleus Ulinots would like to see the governor | intg action for the DAILY WORKER drive. the appeal for funds to aid our fighting labor daily, the nucleus of the party in the Illinois Stee! mills gathered up $30 and rushed It in to lead the list of the Workers Pary units which are responding to the DAILY WORKER appeal . At its first meeting following The city organizer of the Workers Party says, moreover, that this is just a beginning, and that Gary may double this first contribution from the street nucleus. This is a mark of what nucleus work can do when ft really in strikebreaker Coolidge’s cabinet comes out boldly for the trusts and favors laws.that would prevent over development of industry. He said that some of the mines should be shut: down and only enoygh to take care of the needs of indugtry be allowed to oper- ‘y ate. Too many mines interfere with ‘profits. How about the miners: who ‘would be thrown out of work by Davis’s efficiency plan? What of them? They are only workers.. sets about doing things. been ratified.” Earthquake in Turkey. LONDON, Sept. 8—Three Turkish villages were an earthquake, injured. ported déstroyed by but no persons even tant workers in the American Federation of Labor, lantic City convention of the A. F. of L. opinion, particularly the Communists, William Green, in a employers with a silken glove merely as Covertly twisting facts to suit his feight Conductor Killed KEALLVILLE, Ind., Sept. 8+ B, Einsley, 55, of Montpelier, Ind, freigiconductor on the Wabash rail way is killed instantly at Walcott- ville, miles north of here. when he was Nl over by a west boumd: pas- sengitrain number 5 today. Epy’s body was severed in two, his ht arm cut. off at the shoulder ands left leg-severed. _——— Andsen Gets Italian Dirigible HE, Sept. 8—The Italian diri- gibN-1. has been sold by the Bov- ernit to Cant, Roald Amundsen whdll utilize:it in his polar explo- Tati according to an offictal an- nowment here tou MODEST DEMANDS ea DAL INDUST WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN MAKES BIG HEADWAY IN ANTHRACITE STRIKE The campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party In the anthra- cite coal strike is making big headway. The Central Executive Com- mittee has decided to have Special Lithuanian and Italian organizers in the strike field. The DAILY WORKER, the Lithuanian organ, Laisve, the Hungarian organ, Elore, and the italian weekly, Il Lavoratore, are preparing special anthracite strike issues to be published shortly. The Lithuanian Section Bureau has already responded to the call of the Central Executive Committee for active Communist Participa- tion in the anthracite Strike by sending two special field organizers into the strike zone. These comrades are experienced organizers and have a special knowledge of the anthracite district. The special Issue of the La will contain among many other ‘features, striking miners, telling about the iling among the striking miners. articles by experiences of, and conditions pre- The Economic Backgpu By EARL R. BROWDER [AT are the economic facts sur- runding the present strike of So | 150,000 anthracite miners? Knowledge thinks Davis and so thinks John L.|of these facts, in their main outline, Lewis, president of the miners union. | is essential for the worker who would Those who interfere with the making | judge the importance of the struggle of profit should step aside. A war) and the degree of correctness of the would be a nice way to get rid of! policies being put into effect, In their them, but unfortunately wa: cost-| details, these facts are evailable in ly financially and sometimes politic-| many large printed volumes, beyond ally. If the Czar were alive he would | the access of most worker: testify to the truth of this Even the Kaiser would nod, affirmatively. But it is rtion. | possible to secure, in brief outline, a is head | picture of the economic position of anthracite, and the relation of forces in the struggle, which will be of value LL in all, Labor Day proved that] to the thinking worker. the workers of the United States The coal-mining industry in Amer- are rolling in luxury. that there is no| ica clearly divides itself into two sec- class struggle, here, that everybody | tions, anthracite and bituminous. The has enough to eat and drink and that} bituminous branch, employing some the poor are just as well off as the | three-quar' (Continued on page 2) ‘s of a million workers whe produce close to 600 million tons quite steadily, »° annually, is widely scattered geogra- Phically, is still undeveloped tech- nically, presents the widest variety of capitalist development, concentration of capital, etc,, and is sharing to the full the world-crisis in the coal in- dustry. Anthracite, on the other hand, on account of its peculiar favored posi- tion, has not participated to the full in the world's coal crisis. Employing approximately 150,000 miners who pro- due 80 to 90 million tons annually, it is concentrated geographically in a small section of eastern Pennsylvania, and is practically a monopoly in the hands of a small, ‘highly-integrated group of capitalists. Thus anthracite presents conditions quite dissimilar to bituminous, While’ the: >ituminous miners, for example} ‘have been suffer- ing unprecedented ihémployment, the anthracite miners Have been nota seert working Pa against Commonwealth,” _ Oncentration of Capital in | Anthracite + Sa is ‘im the hands of a smBonopolist:group. a combination of &s, railroad’ int This ps ination, dating badxty. years and a basic unit in th@ndation of American capital- isr)@ classic example of that pro- cetscribed by Lenin, in his epoch- mg book “Imperialism,” when he sa & on the one hand we have an ewore complete fusion, or as N. I. Bein aptly puts it, growing into a ad ot bank capital and indus- tra on the other, the development of banks into institutions really ng an ‘universal character’,”* hysical basis for the monopol- \dparedter ofithe anthracite in- es, and coal Demarest! Lioyd. 1894, ern Pennsylvania, mines, under 174 producing organiza- tions, of whom eight control more than 70 per cent of the entire output. anthracite are organically connected with a combination of great railroads and banks. For example, the Lehigh Valley Coal assets, is owned by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., the Lehigh and Wilkes- Barre Coal Co., with $53,000,000 asses is owned by the Central Railroad of N J., the Reading and affiliated com- panies; point out these ratlroads, and the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, ote, which have great bituminous holdings also,.are in.organic combina- tion with the great financial institu- | edition, Detroit. tions of Wal) Street, J hea yf of the Anthracite Strike dustry, can be seen in the report of the Geological Survey (1920) which shows that the anthracite field, east- consists of 374 The great monopoly has long been the. object. of: attack by the petty- bourgeois reformists. in and out of congress, and its. nature very accur- ately described. As long ago as 1894, we find one of the great leaders of the middle-class declaring: “Within the last 30 years, 95 per cent of the anthracite coal of Amer- ica—practically the entire supply, it Was reported by congress in 1893— has passedfrom the ownership of private citizens into the possession of the railroads. “These railroads have been under going a similar process of consolida- tion. and are now the property of eight great corporations.”* * Imperialism, the Latest Stage in the Development of Capitalism, by V. I. Lenin, Marxian Bd. Society These eight monster monopolists of Co. with $45.000,000 etc. It is unnecessary to {Continued on page 6) RRR 8 AL CAPONE Ree eee CCHS Oe DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 8.—Herald of an intensified drive a: Trewern onoake gainst all progressives and mili- and prophetic of the policy the coming At- next month is going to adopt toward all dissenting Labor Day speech here, hit Detroit r a prelude to announcing a policy of extermination and war against the left wing under a guise of “fighting Communists.” argument, he resorted to the ridiculous charge that Com- + munists are “responsible for discontent” because, as he said, they attempt to do away “with so-called capitalism and capital- istic government.” Attacks Filled With Distortiens “The Communist Pa ” he said “thru certain subsidiary organiza- tions. is attempting to capture and control the organized labor movement of our land. The advocates of Com- munism preach a doctrine that is the | very antithesis of that advocated by | labor. Communism | cracy whereas labor is for democracy, “Communism preaches the over- throw of the existing order and the establishment of a dictatorship. Com. munism urges violence, direct action, uprisings—all having for their ulti- mate purpose the overthrow of so- called capitalism and capitalistic gov- ernment. “Organized labor believes in collect- ive bargaining and wage agreements, The Communists are opposed to this and call it ‘class collaboration’ The Philosophy of Communism and the Philosophy of organized labor cannot be harmonized. One is destructive, The other is constructive. Declares War On Communists “Organized labor, therefore, cannot and will not tolerate Communism or Communists. Members of organized labor are either trade unionists. or Communists.. They cannot be both. “In view. of the fact that the Com- munists have challenged and are challenging the “hosts of organized labor and by every means at their dis- posal are seeking to secure supreme control of the trade union movement of America, we, the loyal members and officers of the organized labor movement, will strike hack and strike hard, We will neither rest nor cease our efforts until Communism and -the Communistic philosophy and those who represent it are driven from the ranks of organized labor.” STRIKERS SHOW SOLIDARITY BY MASS PICKETING Garment Co. Increases Its Police Guard A demonstration of mass picketing was successfully conducted by mem: bers of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union yesterday before the struck plant of the International Tali. orlng compnay at 847 Jackson blvd. Over 60 striking employee wére on the picket IIne. The International had heard of the plans for the mass ploket- ing, and had called in several dezen extra city and private police and de+ tectives, Mike Grady’s detective bureart- squad ‘was present, as well as several flivver loads of uniformed police ant Cadillac squads of detectives, No aw rests were made, however, The situation in the New York Plant ‘of the same company, where 800 em-e ployes are also out on strike, {s pro- sresing favorably for the strikers, it was announced at the strike meet ing yesterday in the Hod Carriers’ Hall, 814 W. Harrison St. The strike breakers have only turned out 175 suits during the strike there, and these were so poorly made that the company was forced to unload thém for $3.50 a piece, it was learned. The mass picking yesterday was carried out in order to show the war- ment bosses that the beginning of the busy season, which started Labor Day, finds the Amalgamated members with their forces intact and deter mined to win unfon conditions, The pickets who appeared in room 1106, City hall, yesterday to answer to charges of “disorderly conduct” and assault,” following their arrest during the past few weeks Dicketing, were told to come back September 10, their cases having been continued, | , stands for auto-