The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1925, Page 3

iT ss COMMUNISTS AND I. W. W. SEAMEN PICKET SCAB LINER; HILLQUIT MEETS A STORMY UNITED FRONT (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK.—(By Mail.)—Five hundred workers represent- ing the Workers Party of America, District 2, and the Marine Transport Workers’ Union No. 510 of the |. W. W., staged a fine demonstration upon the arrival of the steamer Majestic carrying Morris Hillquit and a scab crew, on Tuesday morning. Morris Hillquit, returning from the congress. of the Second International at Marseilles, the congress of the yellow socialists, Cahan, Adler, Panken, Vandervelde, Henderson et al, chose to sail on the liner manned by a scab crew of 140 oilers and wipers. No more open act of contempt for the workers could be possible than this most flagrant violation of the principles of labor soli- darity, by a representative of an organization supposed to repre- sent the working class. All Rebels Unite in Action, The Communists, several hundred strong, marched side by side with the members of the Marine Transport Workers No. 510 I. W. W., carrying the following banners: “Down with scabs,” “Down with yellow socialists,” “Long live international trade union unity,” “Scabs bring Hillquit home.” “Don’t scab on your fellow seamen,” “Down with the socialist scab inter- national,” “Long live the Third Com- munist International,” “Long live So- viet Russia,” and many others. The wobblies carried the following slogans: “We condemn the scabs on the steamship Majestic,” “Down with scabbery,” “An injury to one is an in- jury to all,” “Passengers don’t ride on scab manned ships. It is unsafe,” “Help make the British seamen’s strike victorious.” Attracts Attention—and Police Before the ship docked the parade started on West street in single file around the docks of the White Star line, It attracted widespread atten- tion among the workers on the water- front until it. grew to such propor- tions that it was disrupted by the police. Meanwhile detectives had warned Hillquit of the reception which he ‘was about to receive from American workers as soon as he landed. He therefore slipped warily out thru a side entrance to escape the aroused workers who were waiting for him outside of the dock. The demonstration staged on Tues- day morning is but the first step in the campaign of the Workers Party and the I. W. W. seamen for working class unity. From now on until she leaves port the Marine Transport Workers will picket the Majestic in an effort to get the crew of the ves- sel to cooperate with their striking brothers in Hngland. Asks Ald to Feed Pickets. The |. W. W. Marine Transport Workers are determined to carry this fight forward with vigor. They ask for volunteers to help picket the ship and also that those who wish to contribute financial aid to them in their fight against the shipping barons send contributions to the secretary of the Marine Transport Workers, No. 510 |. W. W., 105 Broad street, N. Y. C. The Workers Party will give its full co- operation in this campaign. From the Fourth to the Fifth Congress of the Communist International. In this invaluable booklet you will find the report of the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- national to the last con- gress. It is a bird’s eye- view of the world Com- munist movement up to that time. 35 Cents. The Dally Worker Publishing Co., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., & Chicago, III, WHAT DO REACTIONARY LEADERS OF SEAMEN UNITE M. T. W. Eiaciel to Be American Opposition A united front of reactionary lead- ers of the conservative Seamen's Unions of America and Great Britain is seen in the action of the executive board of the International Seamen's Union meeting at Chicago, in appoint- ing one of the leading labor fakers of Illinois, Victor A. Olander, to confé¥ with J. Havelock Wilson, head of the conservative National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union of Great Britain to “expose the Communists.” Havelock Wilson, hated by all revo- lutionary and progressive seamen as one of the worst of Britain’s mislead- ers of labor, landed recently in Can- ada and is expected to visit American cities. Hig first words when inter: viewed after landing, was a diatribe against the Communists, to whom he lays the present “outlaw” strike of British seamen. “The Old Man of the Sea.” The same executive meeting of the I. 8. U. instructed the “Old Man of the Sea,” Andy Furuseth, who has rid- den on the backs of American seamen for decades, to no advantage or bene- fit of the seamen, to confer with rep- resentatives of the conservative Ger- man Seamen’s Union. These Ger- mans are expected to arrive in Amer- ica in the near future, The effort of the American reaction- ary marine union officials is taken in an effort to offset the Sweep of revolt among the” world’s ‘beatarers “against policies of narrow isolation and col- laboration with the shipping com- panies and government agencies, such as the U. S. shipping board. 1. S. U. Loses as 1. W. W. Gains The I. S. U., because of its narrow and reactionary policies and insist- ence upon a patriotic plan of working at low wages “to keep the American flag on the high seas,” has lost mem- bership wholesale and now stands where it did about 30 years ago. A report made by Furuseth in the re- cent past said that the I. S. U. has only about 1,800 members. While the I. S. U. has been declin- ing, the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union of the I W. W. has been growing steadily, particularly since it began to make common cause with other marine unions in such issues as strikes, and now is reckon- ed as the strongest seamen's organ- ization in the American field, not only } because it. has three or four times the | members of the I. S. U. but in addi- tion it has a fighting policy to attract the discontented workers who have suffered terribly from post war de- pression, and the open shop camp- aigns. It is expected that the I. W. W. seamen will find it not only natural but very much to their interest to join hands with the rebellious British and German seamen and “outlaw” strikers to combat the reactionary leaders of both European and Amer- ican marine unions, and to build up a fighting front which, if not joined in the sane unions, will he able to act in close co-operation in the struggle for better conditions. Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. _ YOU SAY? NE of the features of the special issue of the DAILY. WORKER for International Press Day, jept, 21, will be the publication of replies to a questionnaire addressed to all the readers of our Com- munist daily. This day has been especially set apart in the drive tor the Bolshevization of the Communist press. Every DAILY WORKER reader must join in this effort. Here are the questions: 1, Why do you read our Communist newspaper, the DAILY WORKER? 2,. What shortcomings do you find in the DAILY WORKER, politically or otherwise? 3. What criticioms have you as to make-up, contents, display, ete, eto.? 4. Can you act as a worker correspondent for the DAILY WORKER? 5. What experiences do you meet with in getting others to sub- scribe for and read the DAILY WORKER? Sit down today and write your reply to one, two of all of these questions and then mail them In to the Editor, the DAILY WORKER, 1118 West Washington Bivd., Chicago, III, GOVERNOR PINCHOT 10 MAKE A NOISE LIKE A STRIKE NEGOTIATOR (Special to The Dally Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Sept. 9. —Gov. Gifford Pinchot, Pennsyl- » mediator in previous contro- between miners and operat- ors, today took his first official ac tion in connection with the strike of 158,000 miners in the anthracite coal flelds. He ordered an investigation of employment conditions in the hard coal districts, according to Richard H. Landsberg, state secretary of labor. This investigation will deal with industries other than mining, but which are affected by the strike, The governor is prepared to of- fer a plan of settlement of the strike after he obtains this data, it was said in circles believed to be well-informed. K. M, Colbaugh, superintendent of the Pennsylvania employment office department, been ordered to make the investi- gation. NOTE OF POWERS = 2 TO CHINA MAKES NO PROMISES Nine Nations Still Would Enslave Orient (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—Text of the identical note sent to China’s tem- porary government at Pekin by the nine powers that took part in the Washington conference of 1922, shows that nothing is promised China except a discussion of her demands made on June 24. Hach power is “willing, either at that (forthcoming, in Octo- ber) conference or at ‘a subsequent time, to consider and discuss any rea- sonable proposal that may be made by the Chinese government for a revision of the treaties on the subject of the tariff.” Also, the conference to discuss the possibility of some time recognizing the right of Chitiese courts to deal with foreign offéiders in China may be held at the’ sathe time as the tariff conference, |: The whole tone! of the note is one of reluctant -retreat from a bullying position, and, a) moralistic warning to China that she ig not honest enuf to govern herself. Coolidge Pie-Cards Get Fat Jobs from the Big} Employers (Special to. The Ds Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—L. V. Nicholas, president of the National Petroleum Marketers’ Assn., calls at- tention to the fact that Standard Oil of Indiana has employed Geo, V. Mar- tinek, former special agent of the anti-trust division of the department of justice, as’ head of its (Standard’s) Statistical department. Martinek, when on the federal pob, spent some time investigating the independent oil companies. That information he can now summon from his memory and his private notes, for the benefit of Stand- ard, Tax lawyers are a veritable army in Washington this year. Their fees are won by securing reductions in the federal income taxes of corpprations and individuals. Most of these law- yers formerly worked in the internal revenue bureau or in some other branch of the treasury. From the job of private secretary to the secretary of the interior, Joseph Cotter stepped to a $10,000 job with Doheny’s oil companies, and last year paid an income tax of $4,000. He has many imitators in that department, tho perhaps none has prospered so conspicuously. Retired members of the interstate commerce commission, turning lawyer ‘before the tribunal of their lateassociates, become railroad spokesmen. Mark Potter is the lat- est of these. If You Want to Vote in Pittsburgh You Have to Follow Directions PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. ‘9. — The last registration day in the city of Pittsburgh ‘is Saturday, Sept. 12. All party members and sympathizers who have not registered before should be sure and register on that day. The it day to pay taxes is also Sept, 12. Make sure your taxes are paid at the County Treasurers’ Office, 531 Smith- efild St., Pittsburgh, Pa., from 9 a, m. to 4 p.m. All party members should / THE DAILY WORKER » ISOLATE. CROUCH IN ALDATRAZ ARMY PRISON Daily Worker Barred from Penitentiary HAYS, North Carolina, Sept, 10—I. M. Crouch, father of Paul Crouch, has received a letter:from his Communist soldier son, confine in the Alcatraz military prison, Alcatraz, California, which shows that stringent means are being taken byydthe government to keep Crouch and; his fellow prisoner, Walter Trumbully isolated from the outside world, vs Crouch, who is: serving a term of three years for declaring himself a Communist whilé stationed at Scho- field barracks, Hawaii, writes his father, “I can usé but one sheet of paper for each fetter. Please send newspaper clippitigs dealing with my case as I am not dilowed to receive the DAILY WORKER or any ‘radical’ newspaper, “I can write dnl} «about personal matters and bijsiness and cannot speak of happenings in this ‘institu- tion.’ Only conservative newspapers and magazines and books of fiction can be sent us. “Tf any one wishes to visit us they should write us for visiting cards, Be- cause of the regulations I can take care of but a small part of my corre- spondence. I can write only two ‘let- ters’ per week. “My health is rather poor now. Weight is only 140 pounds. My eyes are being treated.” CONFERENCE AND MASS MEETINGS FORI.L. D, SUNDAY MINNEAPOLIS,,Minn., Sept. 10— The provisional committee of the In- ternational Labor Defense has chosen J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER as the principal speaker at their conference atid mass meeting on GERMAN DELEGATION TO SOVIET RUSSIA PLEDGES FIGHT ON THE WHITE TERROR; (Special to The MOSCOW.—(Inprecorr.)—Moscow other things: of the workers and peasants and the n they are attempting to do with bullets “The graves of the workers and peasants. The Rouman- jan hangmen are preparing the execu- tion of 500 Bessarabian peasants. You must raise your voices against the white terror in Poland, Bulgaria, and Roumania.” The answering letter of the delega- tion says: “We are aware of the executions in Poland, Bulgaria, and Roumania, and we will convey the facts to the Gerfhan proletariat in or- der to exercise some pressure and to hinder the bloody powers in their terrible work. Your alertness, your exemplary Red Aid organization will spur us on in our task of building up the German Red Aid.” The Red Aid has sent $35,000 to the Shanghai Trade Union Council for the support of the families of the | killed and veonneee workers, Anbeal: to All Seamen and Longshoremen to Aid British Strikers NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 10—The following appeal to all marine work- ers was issued yesterday by the Inter- national Marine Transport Workers’ Amalgamation Committee, by J. Stone, secretary: “The British seamen are out on| strike against wage cuts and oppres- sive conditions, The British ship own- ers with the help of the British gov- ernment are using all brutal means to break the spirit of thé seamen and to} crush the strike. The American sea- men, unorganized, oppressed and en- |slaved by the American ship owners with the backing of thée’American gov- ernment are on the verge of following the actiomof their British fellow work- ers, “In the ‘midst of the strike the Brit- ish trans-Atlantic steamer Majestic sailed to New York With a scab crew. One of the passengers on this scab boat was Morris Hillquit, returning from the Congress of the Second In- ternational, prominent leader of the socialist party of America. Sunday, Sept. 13. The conference will be held at Moose Hall, 43 S. 4th St., at 10 a. m. andthe mass meeting in the afternoon, sw Browder ifr Cleveland. CLEVELAND, .Q., Sept, 10—The Cleveland meeting, for International Labor Defense will,be held on Sunday, Sept. 13, at 7:30 .p, m., in the Insur- ance Center Bldg., Walnut and East 11th St., 6th floor, with Earl R. Brow- der of Chicago and other labor speak- ers. i Preceding the mass meeting there will be a conference of delegates from trade union and other organizations All sympathizers with the work of the I. L, D. who belong to other unions or other organizations should take the matter up of sending delegates and see that their organization is represented. The work of organizing the lan- guage branches of the I. L. D. is pro- ceeding and requests for information being received from workers who wish to join the new organization. PROBE CHARGES NAVY CAUSE OF AIRSHIP WRECK _— WASHINGTON; Sept. 10.—An inde- pendent investigation of the Shenan- doah disaster will#be made by the house naval affairé:committee, Rep. Thomas S. Butler of'Pennsylvania, the committee chairmam, announced to- day. e Among the questions to be inves- tigated, Butler sa@ii, would be the charges (1) of Mrsi'Lansdowne, wid- ow of the commander of the Shenan- doah, that he was ordered to take the ship out despite a protest to Secre- tary of the Navy Wilbur; (2) of Capt. Anton Heinen, former navy depart- ment dirigible expert, that the num- ber of gas outlets on the Shenandoah were reduced to such an extent that helium could not be discharged with sufficient rapidity, and (3) of Col. William Mitchell that officials of the navy department* were chiefly re- sponsible for the wrécking of the ship. The probe will not affect further air craft experiments, Butler admitted. Bricklayers Claim Victory. register Workers Party, What’s Caucasian “Sishlik”; Find Out at N. Y. Picnic Sunday ——— NEW YORK,.N, Y., Sept, 10—Cau- gasian picnic with Caucasian Shishiik and all kinds of refreshments, games, dances and specehes by prominent party speakers will be given, by the Armenian Branch of the Workers Party on Sunday, Sept, 18, at Pleasant Bay Park, Bronx, New York, Pi ; WASHINGTON, Sept, 10——-Members of the Bricklayers’ Union in Newark, N. J., who have returned to work on buildings tied up by their jurisdic- tional strike against the Operative Plasterers’ Union, did so after the con- tractors ‘had signed an agreement to employ plasterers belonging to the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers’ international, according to John J. Gleason, general secretary. These Newark contractors had attempted to ecatry out an agreement with the Op- erative Plasterers which, the Brick, of workers, in the Same hall at 2 p. m.} “This action of Morris Hillquit indi- cates the strikebreaking attitude of the socialist party, The Marine Trans- port Workers’ Amalgamation Commit- tee protests against such action and condemns the strikebreaking attitude of the socialist party and its leader. “The International Marine Transport Workers’ Amalgamation Committee calls upon you seamen of America to show your solidarity, with the striking | British seamen and to give them your cooperation. The American seamen shall not sign up on British vessels while the strike of the British seamen | is stilf on. “The American longshoremen shall | not discharge cargoes of British ves-| | sels manned by scab crews, as a vic-| tory for the British seamen is a vic- tory for us.” J STSUEs Seoretnry. have addressed a letter to the members of the German. workers’ delegation dealing with the white terror in capitalist countries. “The Polish hangmen have decided to suppress the movement hanged are dotted all over Bulgaria. ment of Zankov has carried out St. Bartholomew's massacres amongst the/ PRO-COMMUNIST | sheets, rearranged them and returned |Green is going to the bad place too, | derstand |Send for a catalogue of all Com- SUPPORTS RED AID Daily Worker) workers, members of the Red Aid, The letter says amongst ational minorities for freedom, This | and gallows. The govern- COD BEDEVILLED GREEN'S SPEECH Satan Appeared Robed| Like Small Cyclone By OWEN STIRLING (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich—(By Mail)—If there is a god he is a just god and a} Communist god, The gentle south wind proved it. William Green, the president of the American Federation of Labor, by grace of the executive council, -was reading his Labor Day address on Belle Isle, Detroit's island playground. Thousands of workers were at the American League ball game. Thous- ands were at the opening of the Mich- igan state fair. Thousands were along the bridge railing and river shore watching the speed boat racs on the Detroit river. Thousands more | were sprawling on the grass with their) kids having a good lazy time. About two thousaid were sitting in front, of the open air piitform listening to the speech, Organized labor in Detroit has a certain discipline of its own. It turns out on certain occasions, This was notone of them. ™ . Devil Yet Busy.%, Green came to the most monientous part of his speech. It was the part in which he belabored us Communists most unmercifully. In fact we might almost say he be-Federation-of-labored us. But right in the middle of the second sentence--whiff! The gentle south wind took his words right out of his hand. The. sudden eddy of air snatched the sheets of paper on which | the speech was written and laid them in the utmost disorder on another part of the platform floor. Green was left standing with his mouth open. Altogether it was a sign. But if there is a god Frank X, Mar- tel, president of the Detroit Federa- tion of Labor, is going to the bad |place. He was sitting near where the speech fluttered. So he picked up the them to Brother Green. And Brother because speech, The audience didn’t appear super- sititious tho. Everybody laughed, he finished reading the If you want to thoroughly un- Communism—study it. _munist literature. SHOP CHAIRMEN GIVE SIGMAN UNHAPPY HOUR ‘eet —— | His Pus Plan Gets Howled Down Lia (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 10—Morrle Sigman, president of the Internatlon- al Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union has lost control of the union. This fact was evident to anyone who at- tended a meeting of shop chairmen he called at Cooper Union Wednesday evening to listen to his great | plan.” The meeting broke up in disorder! | after Sigman had been booed con- tinuously and the chairman, David Dubinsky, had been unable to gavel down the shop chairmen who were calling for the floor. he Sigman Says He Won’t Run Again. Sigman, when he heard the hostile { boos from various parts of the hall,/ pleaded for confidence, said he had{ always been a friend of the union} and promised he would “never be fits) president again.” He said he would! not resign, however, until the regular | convention next May, nor would he promise he would resign even then. | He declared an “epidemic of rebel} lion” had the union in its grip. * From various parts of the hall came shouts of “Let us speak,” and “We will hold another mass meeting,” \ but David Dubinsky, chairmen of the meeting, overruled all requests to} talk from the rostrum and rapped for | order whenever Sigman was interrupt- ed. As he ended his speech, a shop chairman rushed up ¢lose to Sigman and shouted at hims: To His Teeth, re ‘ “You are breaking up our union. You have come out with what you call a peace plan, but what have you done? You have not given us a chance to be heard—you have not listened to one of us. Ask us whet we want and we will tell you.” Sigman tried to pacify the excited shop chairman, but the meeting was not’. restored to order and excited groups hovered around long after Sig- man had piniaue war Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. by SP URES TScemaes Wig: x. Demand Scabbing Cease SCRANTON, Pa., —(FP)—A delega- tion from the Central Labor Union ap- peared before the Scranton city coun- cil demanding passage of an ordinance forbidding city employes from doing, the outside work other workers de- pended on for a livelihood. The del gation had building tmspector’s offic records showing that permits we: issued to two policemen and a fireme! to carry on contracting work—th work being done in the off hours off these city employes who are paid ou§ of public funds. The labor delegatio: included representatives of the car, penters’, steamfitters', and plumbers’, painters’ and structural iron workers* unions whose jobs are effected by the scabbing in off time of non-union city, ee { oe: layers claimed, violated. their own agreement with the Bricklayers, ODAY Official Report coor ane British Trade Union Delegation Visiting SOVIET RUSSIA and the Caucasus RUSSIA | anaadibiebsh $1.25 Duroflex Covers——$1.75 Cloth Bound iy’, THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHIN NG-CO.