The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1925, Page 2

Page Two CHINESE SHOT FOR STRIKING, FUNDS NEEDED Strikers Face Prison and Foreign Bayonets The American branch of the Work- ers International Relief located at 1853 W. Madison St, received a copy of the following telegram transmitted thru the Berlin headquarters: Pekin, August 21, 1925 Workers International Relief: Twenty thousand workers in Tient- ein and Tsingtan have been striking for three weeks. Japanese imperial- ists use new tactic# against the Mber- ation movement by pushing forward instead of foreign fropgs those of chang Tso Lin, the imperialist instru. ment. “In Taingtan twp were shot, among them the editor of the workersympa- thitzing paper, Kungyenpac. In Tsient- How to Save the Daily Worker By Moritz J. Loeb. W'tk the DAILY WORKER engaged in a bitter struggle for its very existence, the question which must be asked and answered by everyone who has the welfare of the working class at heart, is: “How can | help save the DAILY WORKER?” This is no small or simple question. Ever since the day the DAILY WORKER was established it has had to wage a determined fight for its continuance. Now after twenty months of day after day combat the crisis is at hand. If the DAILY WORKER is to survive the efforts of every mili- tant worker must be exerted without a moment's delay. Can the DAILY WORKER Be Saved? THERE are those who may ask, “Can the DAILY WORKER really survive? Or is it a mere matter of postponing the inevitable end?” To such questions there can only be one answer and it must be made with thunderous emphasis. The DAILY WORKER will survive and will moreover grow in strength and power and influence so that it will no longer be a mat- ter of saving the DAILY WORKER but one making Its ef- fectiveness increase. For the of our organ has been laid. sin five hundred workers, bound in Topes, were taken away. Thousands are besieged in workshops and the export of viotuals is blocked. The necessity is pressing. Transmit ur- gent relief, ten thousamd dollars— Chinese Committee, Knomengyu.” The capitalist press ts silemt about these facts. The public is led to be- lieve that all is well, whpre in reality all is hell. Bullets and are the answer given to a defenseless People who cry for bread and demand to be free from foreign Invasion. Their blood flows from emaciated bodies. Bound hand and foot they are thrown into dungeons because they dare re sist thelr oppressors. Those who love Mberty above all else nrust hasten to ald these Chinese workers. The International Workers’ Aid, 1553. W. Madison st. Chicago, I, will be glad to recetve all contri- dutions for their relief and support. | AS WE SEE IT | (Continued from page 1) rich and perhaps better because they have less responsibility. But—on Tuesday morning, the day after Labor Day, an appeal reached our desk from the Chicago Kiwanis Club, with the following legend: “Wouldn’t you like to go with us in doing some- thing Right now in Chi ‘cago, there are thousands of weak wndernourished babies whose witow- 4 méthers are too poor te buy the Racessaty food—milkk* ss 8 good the former husbands of those widows are now pushing up the lilies on “Flanders Field.” where they died to make this world a better pinoe to live in—lIike hell Perhaps they were killed directly or indirectly { some factory, mins or railroad. But not only wiftows have a hard .time buying food for their children. The wives of the working class in general don’t find the task easy. eee HERE is mo need to sermonize or curse ovar this condition. The bleating of the capitalists and the labor filkers thas the right of way for the moment in this country. The labor fakers are buflifing cathedrals where supplies of religions opium will be mannfactured for injection into the brains of the working class. They are orgamizing banks and insurance com- pagles. But they can no more pre-, ‘vent the social revolution or inate the class struggle than King ‘Canute could holfback the tide with a broom. Other Labor Days will come when the old militancy of labor will reap- pear guided by a new thought, a new program<and new leaders, be If you want to see the Com- Iovement grow—get a sub for the DAILY WORKER. - ARTICLES BY Alexander Bittelman D. Wolfe PHOTOGRAPHS 25 Cents a Copy / basis for the life and growth Methods Which Will Turn the Trick. "THERE are many ways in which help can be given to the DAILY WORKER. Some of these methods have been used by practically all of our readers during the past year and a half and this accounts for the rapid development of our press, Now the DAILY WORKER is in a desperate crists. To meet this emergency special means are necessary. First of all, ALL OF US, every Communist, every mill- tant worker, every militant organization will have to ACT —TOGETHER annd AT ONCE. The need is for money, at least $5,000 within a week and an additional $5,000 before the next week is up. There are several ways to get this money. The quick- est Is to send in donations. “As much as you can and as quick as you can.” Another way is to renew your subscriptions, Whether your sub is soon to expire or not you can send in your ré- newal now and add another term to your sub. That’s a good way to make sure that the DAILY WORKER will con- tinue and that you will continue to receive it. Another way is to sell subscriptions to other workers. This method is a little slow to meet the present emergency but in the long run it’s the greatest assurance to the life and growth of the DAILY WORKER. All of us acting together— All of as exerting every effort— WE CAN— WE MUST— WE WILL Save THE DAILY WORKER! GERMAN, FRENCH |NATIONALIZATION TEACHERS SEE | PLAN IS DENIED SOVIET SCHOOLS} BY JOHN LEWIS Astonished at High Cul- tural Level MOSCOW—(By Mail)—-The Franco- Belgian-German teachers’ delegation yisited the district comittee of the trade union of the educational work- ers’ schools, youth homes, museums PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, Sept. 8. — John L. Lewis seems deeply grieved that the administration and its head, President Coolidge, may ask the next congress. to enact recommendations of the John Hays Hammond coal com- mission's report. Lewis says that this would mean that the republican party would “abandon its policy of non-in- and the Moscow Trade Union Coun-|terference in business for semi-regul- cil After the inspection the dele-jation of the anthracite industry.” gate Specht declared on behalf of the delegation: culture in the Soviet Union is still in the 17th century. The anthracite miners, and the bitu- “Abroad it is said that/minous miners as well are unable to see how Lewis gets that way, since the republican party has always ap- “We have seen however, that in| proved of interference in every strike comparison with the other states it isjthey have had, and police, cossacks, in the 2ist century. When we com-| Jails, injunctions and troops have been pare the technically backward Russia the only medicine for strikes the re- with the rich bourgeois countries, we cannot but express our astonishment at the cultural achievements of the publican party endorsed. He Opposed Labor Party Lewis’ own experience with Judge Soviet Union. Western Europe is @} Anderson's injunction ought to get dead museum, Soviet Russia is a liv-}him over being surprised at “inter- ing source of culture,” Ovsnnn anvaneenneTUaeveasenveTTongeaeneenseeeeeevv eave HAs eenGUHANE ANE Tue Workers Monthly | FOR SEPTEMBER POEMS BY Henry George Weiss Michael Gold Buelah May Jim Waters Harriet S. Wardell Covington Ami J. 8. Wallace DRAWINGS AND CARTOONS BY Lydia Gibson Juanita Preval Fred Ellis BOOK REVIEWS INTERNATIONAL NOTES $2 a Year, $1.25 Six Months THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, a r ee PTET ference.” They remember that Lewis supported Coolidge in the election and opposed a labor party. The strike is going peaceably on, with some small dispute over main- tenance men. Railroads are rushing shipments to tidewater. It is expect- ed that 10,000 railroad men will be laid off in a day or two, Lewis Opposes Nationalization Lewis, far from wishing to endorse any plan of nationalization, specific- ally disclaims it, and asserts that Hammond, by bringing up his com- mission’s recommendations, is ad- vancing nationalization, because the plan of Hammond ‘mixes up” the bit- um{nous with the anthracite fields. Lewis would like to keep the two fields separate, apparently, although if miners in both fields went out on strike at the same time, their chances of victory would be immensely strengthened. THE DAILY WORKER |MAJAH’ BERRY BROKE STRIKE IN NEW YORK upported Publisher. Against Union Men NEW YORK, Sept. 8—As a member of Local Union No, 23 Newspaper Pressmen since 1915, I wish to show other union men the method by which “Majah” Berry, the’ | International President, makes union ‘men, On the morning ‘of’ Jan. 18, 1926, contrary to the contract we were working got the thanagement of the New York Evening Journal attempted to cut down the number of appren- tices, namely flyboys and carriers, on the different presses in the plant. The apprentices refused*to work under these conditions and the plant was held up for about seven, hours for the men refused to do, the boys’ work. The management then agreed to Bive them the regular number of boys. But on the morning of March 2, the workers found the -plant patroled by police and the men wore instructed to go to work by the) chairman of the shop. This chairman was appointed by the boss and not elected by the men. He was sanctioned by the un- ion but the fact is*the union is but an employment agency for the pub- lishers’ association and the appointee is never contested by the union. Eight of the boys who quit on Jan. 18 were singled out and mocked off for non-payment of dues. This was really @ subterfuge as fully a majority of the men in the local ate backward in tion of the Communist: press the United States must also this effort. Bolshevize Our Press, Is the Aim of International Press Day on Sept. 21st. By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TOPAY. workers in every land are interesting themselves in International Press Day. Sept. 21, set apart by the Communist International and dedicated to the Bolsheviza- everywhere. The workers of become deeply interested in It is not enough that the editorial staff of the DAILY WORKER pledges itself to issue a model Communist daily ahead. . ° the subjects, mobilized, in every section of of the correspondents. It is a task splendidly, that it will set an many months to come. nent and growing organization Thus instead of dues and some of these boys who were singled out realty had their dues paid up to date. Berry Handed Out Cards. At the same time the hoss hag as- sembled on the fifth ficor of his plant a body of strikebrealers numbering about 200 who were yaiting to take the jobs of those men who, they knew would quit in sympath} with the boys who were fired. These/strikebreakers were handed unfon cads by Berry's agent altho they had yever made any application for these ards and never wanted them. They wre paid double the wage that was pvailing in the shop. To keep withinthe law of the organization the remdning boys did not quit until the rats sppeared in the Pressroom prepared toltake the place of the boys who were knocked off. Then all except one @ the hundred service. e e are some of the questions: and four boys employet in this plant immediately quit’ and fer his “loyalty” the one: who stayed was rewarded with a journeyman's rand by Berry. Union M . * pxvap'Or us then went up to the chairman and asked him if he was going to stand for such a raw deal and he said “What can we do they all have union Cards and are union men” and he ordered us back to work, At this 63 of ug quit rather than work with nonunioh men. When the night crew came in all of the boys quit in sympathy, Thus about 250 men and boys qvitvand are now being reinstated one % gradually, They have been indefinitely sus- pended. Only about 60 Rave received their cards back and it depends on how much political’ influence they have. That is how “Majqi” Berry MAKES union men. FAMOUS RUSSIAN POET IN CHICAGO FRIDAY, OCT. 2ND Mayakovski to Speak on Russian Poetry Wladimir Wladimtrovich Mayakov- ski, one of the most outstanding poets of the Russian revolution is coming to Chicago on Friday, Oct. 2. He will speak here at Temple Hall, cor. Van Buren and Marshfield. on the new Russian literature and poetry. Those who were deploring the “destruction of civilization” by thé Bolsheviks will have a chance to take a look at the new civilization, the’ mew culture that is being built by the revolution. A Powerful poet andiia@ powerful per- sonality, Comrade ,Mayakovski will Tead some of his own poems and will talk in the name of'the New Russia, the Russia of the Soyiets. A tremend- ous welcome is being arranged for him by the local Russians and the literary world. It fs expected that the Temple Hall will be crowded to capacity, Details Will be announced later in the pi o Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. 60-YEAR-OLD WORKER, COTTON MILL TOILER SINCE NINE, SHOOTS THE FOREMAN WHO IRES HI AUGUST, Me., Sept. &— Morria Devine, 60, had worked off and on for the Edwards Manufacturing Co., year-old wife worked In the s a cotton conce cotton mill, a ‘ she was 8, But Morris Devine got too old for the speéd the manded and his overseer, Oscar Johnson, fired him, In » sincevhe was 9 His 62- ad worked there sl jeeper: fired two bullets Into his foreman’s body and then blew his own braing out. i The foreman may live. 5 Ou ‘ 4 or otherwise? What criticisms have you ae to an International Press Da: takes on the importance of a Worker Correspondents’ Mobil- ization Day and must be so recognized by workers in the mills, mines and shops who must speak their gri give voice to their struggles thru the DAILY WORKER. * newspaper on this day. The workers themselves must help make this issue, setting a standard to be followed in the days It is not enough that special articles are prepared and published on the Bolshevization of the press, on the role of ress in the class struggle, the character of the Com- munist press as the workers’ press, and a multitude of other For this day an army of worker correspondents must be the nation, the first national mobilization of worker.correspondents in this country. It is the duty of these correspondents to help make of this issue AILY WORKER an interestin of the American working class, pulsating thru and thru with the American class struggle. T reflection of the life is is the task of the worker that they must carry out so example to be emulated for It is thru this mobilization that the DAILY WORKER hopes to establish the basis of a perma- of its worker opereaponiere is effort levances and The whole membership of the Workers (Communist) Party and all of our readers must be mobilized at once so that International Press Day will be devoted fittingly to the ropagandizing of the whole working class to an Intense nterest in our press, and forsthe solicitation of subscriptions in the shops and in house-to-house canvasses. chinery must also be set up with a view to future and greater This ma- One of the suggestions received from the Communist International for developing interest in International Press Day consists of a questionnaire to be answered by both party and non-party readers of the Communist press. Here Why do you read our Communist newspaper, the DAILY WORKER? What shertcomings do you find In the DAILY WORKGR, politically make-up, contents, eto.? Can you act as a worker correspondent for our paper? What experiences do you meet with in getting others to aubsoribe Ter and Tau we SAME WroMreernT Another feature of International Press Da: meetings devoted entirely to the interests of press. sae will be mass e Communist Thus the Bolshevization of our press will proceed rapidly. The closest contact with and subordination of the press to the party or; nization will be achieved. Our press will be de- veloped into a real mass press. Our worker correspondents’ movement will be strengthened. The Communist press will stand out more than ever as the workers’ press. Our Com- munist press, the DAILY WORKER, -will stand forth as the any organ that supports the workers in their daily a needs, This is the meaning of International Press Day, Sept. 21. Every worker must do his best to make it the suc- cess it ought to be, MELLON’S PERSONAL INCOME TAX TAX OF $1,882,609 SHOWS POVERTY PLEA MADE TO MINERS UNFOUNDED NEW YORK, Sept. 4—Tho Andrew Mellon’s personal income tax was listed as $1,882,609 for the last year the miners in his Pittsburgh Coal Co. are expected to believe that their boss is not making any money, A copy of the personal contract that miners must sign before getting jobs at the Mellon pits, furnished the Federated Press office by Pennsylvania labor men, gives the company hard luck story as follows: “I, being an employe of the Pitts- burgh Coal Co, mine, realizing that it is no longer possible to oper- ate the mine under the Jacksonville scale, request that the company afford me employment at the November 1917 scale. “It is my nope that the coal com- pany will at once make every effort to procure sufficient business that will make possible my request, which I agree to abide by. It being under- stood that when a sufficient number of men at the mine have signed similar petitions so that work may be resumed, an opportunity will be af-, forded the representatives of the local union which we may form, to meet with the officials of the company for the purpose of negotiating wage and working conditions,” The local union referred to in this screed is the company union which the company has made a weak start in forming and it is in opposition to the United Mine Workers’ Union. Mellon interests are taking the lead in the war to break the U. M. W. of A. which is gathering head in the long union- ized Western Pennsylvania district and the offer of work at the starva- tion 1917 scale as an alternative to unemployement is the weapon used. So far the company union {s practic: ally a paper affair. STERLING, Il, Sept. 8~The Shab- bona passenger, on the Burlington route ran into an open switch coming into this city and crashed into string of box vats. ‘Several were in- dJured. HOGA Mexico Going to Get Paper Money for the First Time Since 1920 MEXICO CITY, Sept. 8.—Beginning this month, Mexico is to have a cen- tral bank for the issuance of paper money with the backing of the fed- eral government, Both Mexican and foreign circles here look for improv- bes business conditions under the new plan. It will be known as the Banco de Mexico 8, H., or the Bank of Mexico, Inc. It will begin on a capitalization of 100,000,000 pesos, or nominally $49,- 800,000. The government retains 51 per cent of the stock, offering the re- mainder for general subscription. Perhaps a fortnight will elapse be- fore new paper money is actively placed, in circulation, Bills are held in readiness for issue up to 10,000,000 pesos, in quantities yet to be decid- ed, but the first issues probably will be small. % Mexico has had no paper money in general circulation since 1920 and lit- tle since 1916, Only gold and silver coins have been used. should be present on time. Y. W. L MEMBERS, ATTENTION! Young Workers League City Central Committee meets TONIGHT, 7:30 p. m., at 2613 Hirsch Blvd. All delegates MASS MEETING DOOMS SIGMAN’S PEACE PROGRAM Brand Plan Fake to: Fool Membership (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—The doom ef President Sigman’s plan for peace In the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was sealed at Wed- nesday night’s meeting in Cooper Union, In the opinion of the Joint Committee of Action of Locals 2, 9 and 22, At this meeting of shop representa tives and followers of the Joint Board, President Sigman was constantly in- terrupted and booed in his presenta- *| tion of his plan, and the meeting final- ly adjourned in disorder because the chatrman refused to allow any speech- es from the floor, Peace Plan a Fake. “Evidently these members, as wel! as those who have been supporting the Joint Committee of Action fn its fight against the union officials, real- ize that Sigman’s plan offers no real reform of the conditions in our union, but would only tend to sharpen the internal conflict,” said Louls Hyman, in an interview today. “Bven at this meeting attended only by members of the union who had been given the O. K. of the Joint Board’s business agents, there was strong opposition to Sigman hfmself as well as to his plan. “If the officials of the union really want to know what the shop chafr- man think of this peace proposal, why not issue a call to all shop chairman to attend a meeting, let an impartial committee see that only bona fide shop chairmen are admitted; let this committee conduct the mesting and have a chairman elected from the floor. Want Proportional Plan “President Sigman will learn then, if he ts still in doubt, exactly what the shop chairmen, as well as the majority of the workers think of a plan which, in place of reorganization of the Joint Board proposes to depetve 8 small locals of their votes, ex- ‘cept on.special occasions; which in Place of proportional representstion in the union immediately, offers a submission, of the question to the con- vention which for 15 pip ei 4 % every corrupt device, yote down this reform; and which denies the reinstatement of the ex- pelled officers altho this demand: has been voiced by workers in all parts of the country as well as by the ma- jority in New York. “There can be no further -question now,. that the mass of our member- ship is. with the Joint Committee of Action in its fight for the driving out of our corrupt unfon machine, and for the establishment of a real union which represents the interests .of the workers.” Seven Arrested. The picketing of the 28 shops which have been called on strike by the Joint Committee of Action result- ed this morning in the arrest of 7 people in front of the Liberty Cloak Co., 158 West 29th street; and one girl in front of P.. Zimmerman Co., at 31 West 26th street. All 8 picketers were arraigned in Jefferson Market Court on a charge of disorderly conduct and each work- er was fined $5 Those arrested at the Liberty Cloak Co. were Isadore Wasserman, Adolph Hirsh, Sam Stanton, Yetta Sanly, Fay Novick, Rose Kirsch, Pearl EHissen- schot; and at P. Zimmerman Co., the girl arrested was Sonia Chaikin. Soviet Union Ships Coal. MOSCOW, (Tass.)— The Russian Black Sea and Azov ports repart they are actually despatching large ship- ments of coal to the Near Hast, Italy and France. Mariupol pen shipped over 3.5 million poods (about 58,000 tons) of Donetz coal in the month of July. AFFAIRS BY RUSS AND UKRAINIANS - SEPT. 19 AND OCT. 11. The Russian and Ukrainian branches of the Workers Party have arranged jointly a perform- ance and dance for Saturday, Oct, 11, at Emmett Memorial Hall, cor- mer Ogden and Taylor. . f All friendly organizations are re- quested to keep this date open and not to arrange other affairs. eee The Workers’ House will give a Russian performance Sat. Sept. 19, at 1902 W. Division St. Friendly organizations are requested to take notice. |