The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1925, Page 1

' The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. Rok a “4° o a Rates: Entered as Second-class matter! September 21, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1925 «<> Outside In Chic y mail, $8.00 per wahineae by mall, 36: ear. per year. THE DAILY WORKER. 1923, at the Past OMfce at Chicago, Ilinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 11143 W, Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill PUBLISHING CO., [- NEWYORK | YORK a TION Price 3 Cents WAn °N COMMUNISTS AID TO BOSSES £ U. E. L. THIRD NATIONAL CONFERENCE WILL MEET IN CHICAGO NOVEMBER 14-15 William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Educational League, announced today that the league’s third national conference will be held in Chicago on November 14 and 15. “Since our latest conference, in 1923,” said Foster, “the T. U. B, L, has gone, thru a most terrific struggle against the combined opposition of the reactionary officials of the trada unions and the capitalists, including the . AS WE SEE IT “By 7. J. O'FLAHERTY | RMER Gov. McCray of Indiana, once a big cog in the G. O. P. machine is down in Atlanta, Georgia, federal penitentiary doing penance for a piece of financing which did not happen to square with the bankers idea of how things should be done. What riled the the bankers was Mc- them. “How come?” they muttered | angrily, “when did the taity get it into | their heads that they could horn in on our game. If there is any robbing to be done—and there is—we are going to do it.” So they sent McCray to the can after he collected a couple of mil- Nons trom the bankers. oes E governor is) doing well in Atlanta, which shows that you cannot keep a.good man down. Brains wil tell even in prison. McCray gave himself the job of teaching the other prisoners how to go straight. “He ought to know” say the other prison guests, “any man who could steal a couple of millions of dollars from the bankers, must have a lot of brains.” The reporter who sent out the story about McCray’s pedagogical activities does not say whether the governor has started a bank to take care 0! the prisoners’ money. a Ge HERE is an election campaign on in New York and a right sloppy one it is. The main prize is’ the mayoralty. Hylan and Hearst versus Walker and Smith. That. is the line | up in the democratic camp. All the candidates agree that they are all crooks, and the general, public has no evidence to the contrary. The repub- licans have a few puppets competing for the nomination in the primaries. The socialist party is running an ex- preacher by the name of Thomas. The socialists condemn the non-partisan policy of the local labor movement which is divided between Hylan and Walker, the anti-Tammany and Tam- many democrats. eee ABOR leaders who are on Hylan’s payroll are naturally for Hylan. Those who are not, favor his oppon- ent, in the hope that Santa Claus might visit them in case their candi- date is successful at the polls. This is the basis for the support of labor leaders. They can see a pie card far- ther than a cormorant can see a her- ring. This is the main reason why the fakers fight the radicals. They know the radicals are death on payroll bandits. But, to get back to the so- ciglists and their babble about non- * partisan political action. ae Communists are also opposed to non-partisan political action. They not only oppose it in words but with deeds. In the last national elec- tion, the socialists supported the petty bourgeoisie candidate LaFollette, who was as non-partisan as anybody could wish, tho he succeeded in fooling a good many wor. *s into the belief that he was a labor candidate. When the socialists emerged from the ordeal with nothing left to cover their polit- ical nakeness, they retired into the charitable obscurity of their socialist “(Continued on page 2) h statement of the International Labor Defense on the Zeigler frame- up is as follows: IFTEEN union coal miners of Zeigler, lil. face prison. These workers are victims of a vicious frame-up that is made all the more Insidious by reason of their own unton officials playing the treacher- -ous role of proseoutor. They are being proceeded against with the object of railroading them to prison because they have been loyal fight- ors for their class, because they have stood as staunch opponents to ‘corruption and olass-collaboration in the United Mine Workers of Amer- joa and have maintained an uncom- promising stand in the struggles capitalist courts, ,| have established themselves It must be admitted that the broad sweep of our move- ment at the end of 1923, when we had 2,000,000 union men supporting our slogans of Amalgamation and a Labor Party, has been narrowed down by the bitter struggle. But what we have lost in breath, we have more than off- set by the deep roots which the T. U. E. L. has struck in the daily struggles of the workers, in the tightly-knit bands of real fighters who have been tempered in the struggle and who armly as the leaders of the struggle for working class interests. One needs only to |mention the great vete of the left- Cray’s strange mistake of robbing | ving ticket in the ,niner’s union, the mass struggles in the needle trades, the developing left wing in the Mach- inist and Carpenters unions, to rec- ognize the coming Third National Conference of the T. .U E. L. will be the most important and history mak- ing gathering of its kind so far seen in America.” The official call for the conference will be published in a few days. SOCIALISTS IN PARLEY AGAINST SOVIET RUSSIA Small Nations Barred from Conference (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA; Sept. 10.-The Polish # Czecho-Slovakian governments will not be allowed to send representatives to the conference of foreign ministers to discuss the proposed “security” pact, which In reality is an attempt to form a united bloc against Soviet Russia. . Those who will. atend are Strese- mann of Germany, Chamberlain of England, Briand and. Painleve of France, and probably. Premier Mus- solini of Italy. The socialist foreign minister of Belgium, Vandervelde, is also to take part inthe anti-Soviet parley. - The United States. government is being constantly informed as to the progress of negotiations, it is learned, the allied governments realizing that continued credits from Amefica de- pend on that government’s approval of groupings and re-groupings of the European powers. The “security” pact, which aims to force Germany to break the Rapollo treaty with the Soviet Union, and to gain a tighter hold on the smaller Balkan countries, was inspired by the English and United States government officials. Ce Abandon “Peace” Protocol GENEVA, Sept. 10.-The League of Nations has abandoned its “security arbitration and disarmament proto- col,” broached last year, because of the refusal of Great. Britain to accept it. The meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the “securit tempt to force the entrance of Ger- many into the League of Nations, as a means of controlling that country’s foreign policy. with the coal operators. These fifteen miners are on trial before the capitalist. courts, But in fact, it is their prosecutors who are on trial. It is their own sub-district officials and the District 12 machine © of the U, M. W. of A. who are in the docket before the labor move- ment of this country. D, B. Cobb is the vice-president of sub-district 9, District 12 of the Workers of America. it of the owners of the Zeigler mine, Cobb removed the of- ficials of Local Union 992, Zeigler. only excuse was that Local 992 was on strike against the Bell and Zoller Coal Co. He completely ig- nored the fact that the coal com pany was not properly weighing the miners’ coal. The strike was called by the officials of Local The men voluntarily Walked out when they found that thelr oom! wae ” pact will at-|. Commun: .0d Mike Sarovio T Forward! | Anthracite Miners HE struggle of 150,000 miners now striking in the anthracite coal fields is lent added signifi- | cance by the issuance. today of the following call to the strikers, and to all other workers, by the Progressive Miners’ Committee: FORWARD! ANTHRACITE MINERS. By Progressive Miners’ Committee of the UN Mine Workers of America. The anthracite miners in Pennsylvania, 150,000 strong, have declared. a strike against the hard coal barons to defend themselves against an at tempted cut in wages and worsening of working conditions, against an effort to rob them of conces- sions won thru many years of bitter struggle and sacrifice. ~As against the employers’ attack upot their living standards, the hard coal miners are tions, hind. SECRETARY OF COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA ARRESTED BY GOVERNMENT By JULIO ANTONIO MELLA (Secretary Agitrop Department, C. P. of Cuba) not being weighed. And yet Henry Corbishliey the president and his associate officers were arbitrarily. removed from office by Cobb. At a union meeting Cobb demanded that the men elect new offleers and re- turn to work, The men flatly re- fused. Cobb made wild threats and did his level best.to incite the mem- beré of the union. A free for all fight developed after ¢ meeting. This fight was directly Precipitated by supporters of the sub-district-machine who are at the same time members of the ku klux Klan, One of them, Alec Hargis, a known klansmen and a former offi- eer of the union who w tration of an el a supporter of Henry. Corbishiey and the -pragres- sives of Local 992. In. the melee Cobb wae Injured ae were «many “this betrayal of the mi: HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 10.—Cuba has its newly formed)Communist Party ie government and the capitalists are so afraid that’ they have started attacks on the Communists, and all other workers. in a tropical fascism. Machado is a miniature Mussolini. Our secretary, Jose Miguel Perez, was arrested only because he is a And the police claimed they found in his poekets “papers and International Labor Defense Fi We are now others, The only weapons used in the fight were the gun that killed Sarovich and a black-jack that Cobb pulled from his pocket. In the face of these circumstances Cobb supported by the sub-district president Lon Fox, had the temerity to prefer charges of “conspiracy to murder” him against Henry Corbish- ley and twenty-five other members of Local 992. This action called forth the almost unanimous derision and protest of the miners of Sub- District 9. Locat union after local union passed jolutions of protest and at the present time there is an overwhelming demand for a sub- district convention to put an end to Yet, notwithstanding this and the facts surrounding the ¢: Frank Far- rington has put himself and his dis- trict machine behind the traitorous procedure of Cobb and has sald that . demanding an increase of 10 per cent in contract wages, $1,00 per day for day labor, full recognition of the union, and a betterment in working condi- During the past 10 years the cost of living has almost doubled, and wages have trailed far’ be In view of the heavy unemployment, it is impossible for miners to live upon the scanty Wages we receive. eratively necessary. The miners must fight until | t is won, and the attacks of the operators are re- | yelled. In the name of the 500 men killed and the bs )00 injured each year in the anthracite region, | ye, the Progressive Miners’ Committee of the U.| (Continued on page 6) The increase demanded is im- | | Plans and other things that prove he was going to blow up the National Bank and the cable office at the cor- ner of Obispo and Cuba streets.” They have framed him up. We are a young patty but we work hard. The government threatens to arrest many others, and to: deport all alien Communists. ‘Well, We'll ‘see if they can. ? Viva el proletariado dela America y del univers. dy ghts Against the Zeigler Frame-up he will aid in the prosecution.” Last Wednesday at the pretimin- ary hearing In Benton, the county seat of Franklin eounty, Cobb’ ap- peared with some twenty witnesses and aspecial prosecutor to press the The testimony was of the it character, so much so that the prosecution was forced to change the charge of one of assault with intent to kill, With but few exceptions, all of the witn placed on the stand were identiefid as members of the ku klux klan and enemies of the union. The majority of the accused miners, 15 were bound over to the grand jury. The International Labor Defensé” brands this procedure a’ a conspir-” acy striking at the very Heart of the” labor movement. Every one of the miners ‘on ‘trial are old members the United Mine Workers of Amer-~ loa, Who)’ Without exception, have , RAIN BRINGS RELIEF TO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS COAL MINING TOWNS (Special to The Dally Worker) WEST FRANKFORT, Ill., Sept. 10.—West Frankfort, in the heart of the southern Iflinois coal fields, has water today for the first time since last Saturday, when the city reservoir was completely exhausted. With last night’s abundant down- pour a situation which was hourly becoming more serious was relieved and the longest drought in the memory of residents of this section was broken. The possibility of suspending schools and a serious fire menace had threatened West Frankfort for weeks. For severa| days before water-exhausted citizens had been denied its use for any purpose other than fire protection. Generai rain brought relief to all southern IIli- nois. League May Ease Up in Austrla. GENEVA, Sept. 10—Gradual sup- pression of the league of nations’ fi- |mancial control over Austria is recom- mended to the Austrian committee of the league council by the permanent financial committee. NEGRO'S HOME MOBBED, 1 DEAD; JAIL VICTIMS Detroit Police Side with Attackers DETROJT, Mich, Sept... 10—One tan was killed another was seriously wounded when a crowd of whités at- tacked the home of Ossian H. Sweet, a Negro physician. The Negro occu- pants of the house defended them- selves against’the white mob, and the casualties followed. The police took the side of the mob, arresting 20 Ne- groes, most of them occupants of the house. Assitant Prosecutor Edward H. Kennedy was préparing to lodge murder charges against the Negroes. The dead man is Leon Breiner. Eric Hogberg Was seriously wounded. The mob was'¥ttampting to force the doctor to move from the neighbor- hood. He had refused, and his house was stoned. The mob which gathered again stoned the house and menaced the occupants’ before the Negroes fired. MEXICAN RAILROAD MEN WON STRIKE IN HOUR; NEWS WAS SUPPRESSED WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 10— How well the capitalist news agenc- jes can smother news of working class victories is seen by the fact that the following item, telling of a striking incident of the Mexican la- bor movement first appears in a re- port of the U. §S. department of labor. It says: “Because of unpaid wages, rail- road employes of the National Rail- way Lines of Mexico in the city of Chihuahua declared a strike at three o'clock, p. m., Aug. 7, 1925.. At four o'clock on the same afternoon their wages honath-& paid and the strike termi. distinguished themselves in the struggles of the miners against the operators. The treachery of the cor- rupt officialdom in attempting to re- move these healthy and necessary fighters from not only the ranks of the union, but completely from the ‘scene by confining them in a capital- Ist penitentiary, deserves the con- demnation of the whole working and lays these traitors open to” the charge of the worst kind of scab- bery against their own organization. International Labor Defense feels \ that these workers merit the sup- port of every honest element in the _ labor movement. It will go the limit in saving t men from prison. , Competent attorneys have already , been secured and are setting them- {selves for a ISng court fight against ie combined resources of the mine Operators and the discredited Far- pihgton chine, Ome |/STIR RED SCARE INBRITAINTO AID RIGHT WING \Reaction United from Scotland Yard Down (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Sept. 10—While the British Trades Union Congress con- tinues at Scarborough, a regular “American style” campaign of “red Scares” is being suddenly releaged by the government and the capitatiet press. Much of the propaganda is directed toward supposed Communist efforts to “capture the army and navy for Com- munism,” especially the 5000 troops assembled for summer practice man- euvers on Salisbury Plain, The Sunday Worker, organ of pro- gressive labor opinion, has the follow- ing to say about this campaign of in- citement against the Communists which is suspiciously timed to aid the MacDonald, Thomas end Clynes reactionary element at the Trades Union Congress: Where the Red Scare Came From. “The whole of this press scream is hung on the peg of a letter from the Communist Party executive to that of the labor party suggesting that it is the imperative duty of the labor movement, to take steps to prevent such a catastrophe befalling the work- ers as that the soldiers and sailors should in ignorance be used as unwit- ting tools for the destruction of their fathers, brothers and fellow workers.” The Sunday Worker continues in comment, saying, “If a mere sugges- tion that the rank and file of the armed forces should be enlightened as to the true nature of the social issue in dispute raises this amount of clamor—all these shr of sedition —what would any real organization to defend the workers from agsres- sion produce?” « British Fascists Active. Scotland Yard and the capitalist press are doing their best to incite reaction. Monday night British fas- cists clashed with workers at Isling- ton, a section of London, and the fas- cists are known to be recruiting open- ly for violence against the workers, even organizing a nursing staff for first aid to their shock troops wound- ed in street battles. English “dem- ocracy” seems slipping. In the meantime, at Scarborough the Trades Union Congress is a battle ground between the right and left wing. The greatest success of the left wing is the adoption by the con- gress of definite action to form shop committees thruout the nation, the right wing's chief victory being a vote to refer a proposal granting general strike power authority to the general council back to the general for fur ther report. Only a Temporary Set Back. The power of the left wing move ment defeated the effort to kill the proposal outright, and the forces were near enough to an equal division that the reactionaries could only win tem- porarily by getting the proposal re- ferred to the general council Thomas led the reactionaries and A. J. Cook, leader of the Miners’ Fed- eration, led the left wing in the fight on the floor. It was plain that the larger and more important unions in the basic industries were inclined to favor the measure. A. B, Swales, president of the con- gress, while being careful not to of- fend the right wing by criticism, ne- vertheless, indicated his left position by describing the days when the min- ers, combined with the railway and (Continued on page 2) International Labor Defense calls upon all workers and organizations of workers to rally to the support of the Zeigler miners, to put a stop to this treacherous betrayal and save these fighting and honest members of the working class from confi ment in prison. A national defense fund of large proportions will be re- quired to accomplish this purpoi and International Labor Defen feels confident that workers in all parts of the country will come for ward in defense of the Zeigler miners and answer the traitors who have performed one of the most cowardly and dastardly deeds in the annals of the working class move- ment in America in terms of active and material support to the men on trial. Contributions can be sent to International Labor Defense, 23 So, Lincoln St., Chicago, Il. INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE