The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1925, Page 5

, LABOR GROUPS ' TO CONFER IN N.Y. ON DEFENSE Meeting in Evening at Webster Hall (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—the Inter. national Labor Defense, New York section, is arranging a conference on Sunday, September 13, at the Labor Temple, 243 E. 34th stréet, to b- lish a broad organization jn this city, More than 2,000 organizations have been invited to send delegates to the eenference, whidh promises to be an Important step In the building up of an all-inclusive Labor. Defense in this city. In the evening, a mass meeting will be held at Webster Hall, 119 EB. 11th street, at which the speakers will be Ben Gitlow, James P. Cannon, Rich- ard Brazier, Robert W. Dunne and Joseph R. Brodsky. This meeting will voice the needs of the workers of this country to provide themselves with a defense organization which will pro- tect them against the coming reaction in this country and to protest against the white terror which is raging in Bulgaria, Poland, Greece, China and other capitalist countries of Europe and Asia. © Evéry working class organization is invited to send delegates to the vonference. Class conscious workers interested in and recognizing the need of this second trench line of defense in the struggle against exploitation and suppression should attend the meeting and support the new organ- ization, the International Labor De- fense. Admission is free. Further in- formation may be obtained from the secretary, Rose Baron, 799 Broadway, Room 422. BRITISH STRIKE TAKES HEAVY TOLL OF EMPIRE SHIPPING COMPANIES LONDON, Sept. 10.—The “outlaw” strike of British seamen is continu- ing with the reactionary leaders of the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union trying hard to break the strike which is called jointly by the left wing minority movement and the re- volutionary seamen’s union—the Amalgamated Marine Workers’ Union, The Amalgamated Union is isau- ing strike benefits of 15 shillings a week, and leaders of the strike are visiting the Trade Union Congress at Scarborough to try to enlist sup- port by that body. The strike has taken heavy toll of British shipping not only in the British Isles, but thruout the empire, particularly In Australla and South Africa. A conference is to be held at Cape Town between the South African minister of labor and the strike leaders. Strikers at Southampton were visibly pleased at the news from America of the ploketing of the White Star liner Majestic by united forces of the I. W. W. seamen and the Workers (Communist) Party. CHINESE STRIKERS GREET SOVIET FRADE UNION DELEGATION WH. PROMISES SUPPORT TO WORKERS SHANGHAI—(Tass)—The following statement appears in the Ming Kuo Chi Pao: “The Russian trades of Shanghai Unions and was met by the presidium of the council. “In the course of his address, chairman of the Soviet delegation, Lepse, stated that the delegation of the U. 8, S. R. trades unions represented mil- lions of Russian workmen, who express their full readiness to render sup- port to the Chinese ‘people, particularly to the Chinese workers, carrying on a national liberative against foreign imperialism, “The international fraternal solidar- ity of Russian and Chinese workers is strengthened by their belonging to the Red International of Labor Unions, which thé Chinese trades unions have now joined”—the | speaker de- clared. Need Strong Organization. “While passing via Pekin,” Lepse goes on to say, “the delgation had the opportunity to get briéfly acquainted with’ the ‘situation. ‘Tha Chinese pro- letariat is still weak organizatinoally, but the delegation feels crtain that the workmen of Canton and Shanghai have resolutely raised the banner of anti- imperialistic struggle and that, bap- tized in the recent battles against im- perialism, they will lay down the foundation of further organization of the Chinese proletariat and success- fully achieve the heroic struggle open- ing a new page in the history of China, “At the present moment, there is a noticeable increase in the whole world struggle: of the national libérative movement. |, We, Russian workmen, were heavily oppressed and exploited before the revolution, but after several years’ fight we liberated ourselves from bonds of slavery, as will some day do the Chinese proletariat.” Replying, Liu Shao-chi, secretary of the Shanghai Council of Unions, ex- pressed thanks to the Soviet delega- tion for their intention to acquaint themselves with the conditions of life and labor of the workers in China and for the support rendered by the Rus- sian workmen to the national strug- gle of the Chinese people. The orator further states that the present anti-imperialistic movement in this country was characteristic of a broad national movement, in which there participated the most various circles of the Chinese people—artis- ans, handicraftsmen, students, and merchants—thru the main force and the main factor of. the movement was the Chinese working class. There ac- tually are altogether 400,000 men on strike in China, of which number over 200,000 are-in Shanghai alone, stated Mr, Liu Shao-chi. Number of: Strikers. Shanghai being the stronghold of foreign imperialism in China, the ora- tor further declares, the ‘struggle of the Chinesé “workers for their Tibera- tion is a very hard one. The impe! ialists are cleverly using reactionary militaristic groups of the Chinese’ own community in order to suppress the movement and disorganize the forces of the Chinese people struggling for their own national liberation. This, however, emphasizes the speaker, only “causes us to unite and increase our energy in the anti-imperialistic strug- gle.” Producing certain figures, the sec- retary of the Shanghai Trades Union Council remarked that, at the present moment, there were about 160,000 workers on strike in English and Jap- anese mills and some 60,000 in Chin-|, ese mills, where the supply of elec- OUR DAILY PATTERNS Tite 5184. This is a good style for gingham, drill, unbleched muslin or sateen. The cap may be of the same material, or in contrast, The pattern is cut in one size: Medium. The apron requires 1% yard of 36-inch material and the cap é material. yard is required. Pattern any address © receipt of 120 in silver or si ~ wom ON, HOOK x Send 10 1 ypetordate, Pall an and” Winter, to cur here Combined. The model is also at- “/etighath. The “heart shaped” romper, % yard. For feings of contrasting PLAY SUIT. » 4580. 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The offensive, stuff in the year book, is a full page ot the Stone-Ordian- Wells Co., who esglers. This firm ig potariously unfair to organized labor, ast year it built a coffee plant entirely with scab labor. It paid 35¢. per hour for building la- borers and from 45c to .70c an hour for building mechanics. The carpenters scale here is not less than 90¢ per ‘hour. The local 'Tredé} & Labor Assembly Dut this outfit 6nits unfair list. The Minnesota Fedération of Labor, at its Fairbault convention last year, also put the ban on.,) Both BH. G. Hall and Geo. T. Jacobson, president and sec- retary of the federation respectively this army of workers, at least one million dollars a month were neces- sary. As for the Shanghai Council of Unions. it united 127 labor organiza- tions, with a total membership of about 316,000 working men and women, Concluding his speech, Mr. Liu Shao-chi declared that owing to mar- tlal law having been introduced by the Mukden authorities at Shanghai he could not tell the Russian trades un- ion delegates beforehand when the next delegate meeting of the Shanghai Council of Unions would take place but promised to immediately inform the Russian delegation as soon as that question would be fixed, so as to enable them to attend the meeting, As regards the desire of the delega- tion to obtain full information as to the organization and labors of the Souncir OF Seton Of BRANgDa, _ Be were fully aware of that action. Never- well as the recent events, all the theless, they dmserted that ope respective data would likewise be i y at acaba in the year books; together with a host of others. The year book of the federation has all the earmarks%of being issued by the Minneapolis chamber of com- merce, instead of a labor organization. When the labor organizations of Duluth protested against this outrage to their sense. of unionism, Mr. Geo. T. Lawson declared that he accepted full responsibilitx for the insertion of the scab ad, Really Blackmail Scheme This official year book, under Hall and Lawson, is nothing more nor less than a diplomatic form of industrial blackmail. A careful examination of the book in question, during the last twelve years, reyeals some astounding facts as to its alms and objects. given in a near future. PAINTERS FIGHT EXPULSION PLOT OF OFFICIALDOM Want Union Law Used to Aid Locals (Special to The Daily Worker) MONTREAL, (By Mail)—The inter- national convention of the Painter's Union is just beginning its sessions here, with the prospect ahead of a sharp fight between the reactionary officialdom and the progressive bloc which is condemning the discrimina- tion practiced..by the officialdom in not upholding the right of local unions to elect wnomsoever they please to city central bodies, Delegates elected by local unions, particularly in Seattle and Minnea- polis, have been denied seats in the Central Labor Assemblies of these cities on the ground that they were Communists or at least had differ- ent political. opinions than the con- trolling group.in the central body. This denial of delegate rights is in violation of the, union laws, but the international officials of the Painters’ Union have ignored the complaints of the local unions. The matter may reach considerable importance. since the international officials have been travelling about the country, not only upholding their refusal to obey the union rules, but announcing a determination to expel the left wing members and all those affiliated with the Workers Party or the progressive group centered around the Trade Union Educational League. This expulsion policy, and many progressive resolutions, gives pro- mise of a struggle in the convention now beginning. fairly lettered with big steel trust ads, which sing the songs of praise ‘for the steel trust policy toward its’ wage slaves, with regard to its shate distribution among the workers; fts old age pension schemes that no worker ever gets. It is estimated that Hall and Lawson have collected trom the steel trust, for these “ads,” during the past twelve years, about aixty thousand dollars. In return for those “ads,” Hall and Lawson have done about as much organization. work among the steel trust workers, aga couple of snails. They have fastened the wet blanket securely over that.sort of work, To Fight Fakers The Duluth labor movement is up in arms against béth Hall and Lawson, and are going to take the proper steps at the coming ‘Austin convention, to rid the labor movement of an anti- labor program on “the part of its paid officials. & ae Economy and Charity WASHINGTON,” —(FP)—Economy on the part of*¢ongress in dealing with the police ahd fire fighters em- ployed by the District of Columbia has forbidden the création of a pension system for the Widows of men dying in the service, or funds for protect- ing their orphans. Fight for Women in Japan HE main industry of Japan is the textile industry. Nearly 73 per cent of the total value of Japanese exports in 1922 was occupied by tex- tile goods, mainly raw silk and cotton threads, the money value of which was. 1,164,453,000 yen. As a matter of fact, the production of these goods depends largely upon the female labor power. In 1921 the number of female workers engaged in textile factories was 1,101,- 778 (cotton spinning 148,153; silk fil- aturing 15,592; weaving 841,090). These female workers have to be yearly hunted out from villages, for on account of brutal exploitation un- der extreme sweating system exer- cised upon them, the average length of service of one female worker in Japan is one year. About 20 per cent of women in factories simply “disap- pear” every year, to borrow a term of official statisticians; that is, they escape from the prison-like factorie: to be drifted into the ranks of pros- titutes. A large percentage of the remainder dies out yearly from con- sumption or other diseases contracted in factories. Only a few return to their native~ villages with a little pocket money to marry. Thus, the female labor in Japan is fast exhausted, in spite of a large per- centage of increase of population, and the factory owners are more and more facing difficulties in replacing their cheap labor power. They are com- rn| Delled to send out, all the time, their “hitokai” (men buyers) into the proy- inces far and wide. The following de- scription of the activities of these hit- okai will show how the source of the labor power of the textile industry of Japan is already beginning to dry up and is compelling the industry either to reform its system of exploitation or to die out, In one of the northern’ provinces, Toyama (population 785,000) alone, this year up to February 23, already more than 1,900 canvassers represent- ing about 200 factory owners all over the country applied for certificates to engage in collecting female workers in the province. The total number of female workers needed was 24,000, A big competition among these numer- ous hitokai is expected owing to the scarcity of eligible females. The yearly emigration of female workers from ‘Toyama province is about ten tho There are no adequate proteétive measures for these women and they are subjected to all sorts of ‘upulous methods of exploitation. ‘The yearly number of cases of infringement of regulations for collecting he rs is about 1,000 in the province Such a condi- tion should not befolerated. The pro- vincial authorities, are now advocating vl organization” female, workers both to protect selves from un- scrupulous canv: vor and to improve their technical s Incidentally, theabove description appearing in one gt Tokio bouregois papers (the Tokio Asahi, February 26), discloses a significant fact that ministration is now tically active in assisting in their efforts themselves from the thre nomic ruip, which is particularly evi- dent since the great earthquake of 1923. The bourgeois government never advocates any kind of work- ers’ organization for the benefit of workers. The provincial governor of Toyama wishes forethe women under his. jurisdiction tq. organize unions, simply because thq terrible waste of human life hitherto conducted by cap- italists has begun-to. weaken the very foundation of capitalist exploitation itself, and thereby it has become an Absolute necessity yfor capitalists to conserve someway or another their source of cheap labor.—TANL, ee te to atsietrertmeee Hew. | WORLD’ *wPOLISH SOCIALISTS FOR AIDING wii WHITE TERROR KILL COMMUNISTS | MOSCOW, taaaey Ths aiming appeal Bas been issued in con- nection with the execution of Gibner Rutkovsky and Knievsky, signed by the following comrades: miany),’Kuuisinen (Finland), Dimitrov Brown (England), Thalmann (Ger- Boshkeviteh Jacobs (France), and Kolarov {Bulgarfa), (Jugo-Slavia), Shefflo (Norway) and Katayama (Japan). Against the Three Death Sentences, Workers of all countries, protest against a shameful crime, The process against Comrades Gib- ner, Knievsky and Rutkovsky before the Warsaw field court ended with the death sentence, All: three -com- rades were shot, For one dead Judas, a provocateur, the working class of Poland hasspaid with the lives of four, proletarian fighters. Botwin, Gibner, . Knievsky and Rutkevsky have been executed, The Polish government -is attempt- ing to intimidate the Polish working class by mericiless death sentences. It is attempting to defend its system of, poisoning the working masses by. provocation. Even the bloody czarist regime despised the provateurs and did not dare to demand for the life of a traitor the life of a worker, The methods ofs the Polish government go beyond the foulest crimes of czar- ism. The base role which the leaders of the Polish socialist party play in the affair beggars all Whilst the working class of Poland and the working class of all other countries defends the proletarian fighters, the press:of the’ Polish social- ist party denounces our comrades as “bandits,” who have shot down “pro- letarians in uniform,” By this they mean policemen. The traiterous lead- ers of the P. S. P, have gone so far that in the process the prosecutor when demanding the death sentences, supported himself upon articles and appeals taken from their papers. The leaders of the Polish socialist party share the guilt for the murder of four workers who fought against provocation. Workers of all countries! Show the Polish bourgeoisie that the Polish proletariat does not stand isolated in its ‘struggle against the white terror! Protest in meetings and demonstra- tions against the ‘bloody criminality | meetings are at of the Polish countéfrevolution! Ex- pose the’base role of the Polish so- cial tfaftors who #éésfst in the shoot- ing of proletarians!’* Honor those who have fallen for ttie'éiuse of the work- ing class! Down with the white ter- ror of Polish capitalism. Down with its helpers in the Second Internation- al. Long live the revolutionary strug- gle of the Polish" prolétariat! saeS HGS. Time Clock.Rule Greets Teachers as Public hools Open A clumsy ruling. aping the factory time clock has beén' enforced in the Chicago Public Seheels by: boss Sup- erintendent William McAndrew on the ery first day of the new term. The ruling requires « Pte to sign a register showing time of arrival and departure each morning and after- noon. The register sheets are then sent to headquarters..thus giving a complete record of the comings and goings of each individual teacher. The teachers resent this new rul- ing not only because it says to each teacher “you cannot be trusted” but also because of the messiness of the whole business. Teachers for classes beginning at 8 in the morning (the morning shift) arrive at 7:45 in the morning. Now they must stand in line waiting their term to jot down their attendance. The same procedure must be gone thru when leaving for lunch, when re- turning from lunch which of course cuts down the lunch hour and then once again at the end of the day. a a Discussion on Councils Held Up. Evidently the board trustees does not intend to consider the reinstate- ment of teachers councils and expect a fight from the teachers for commit- tees of the board of education voted to postpone discussion on this matter and also the salary, schedule until October 14th. However the teachers do intend to |i give immediate consideration to these matters. ..The Chicago Teachers Fed- eration has called a special meeting on Friday, Sept. 11th at 4:15)4o dis- cuss the salary question, The meet- ing will be cheld at the Studebaker Theatre at 418 S. Michigan ave. and all teachers should ‘atténd to get the facts on Superintendent McAndrew's fake salary ‘boost. To those who work hard for their: t will gaye 50 per cent. on. ali their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIS* 645 Smithfield Street. PITTSBURGH, PA. Sees MASS MEETING Labor Defense Day Lithuanian. Hall, 271 Clinton St, SUNDAY, Serr. 13, 1925 Tpam. © Speaker: REBECCA GRECHT. Ausploes, international: L Labor Defense Binghampton, N. Y. atta ll ae + description. | Your Union Meeting Second Friday, Sept. 11, 1925 Bakers and Confectioners, 3420 W. Roosevelt Road. Blacksmiths, 64th and 8, Ashland Ave. ve Boiler:Malkers, 105th and Ave. M, Boiler Makers, 55th and, Halsted. Boiler’ Makers, 62¢ and Halated,” 180 237 122 Building Trades Council, Washington St. Carpenters” District W, Washington St. Carpenters, 4339 §. Halsted. St. Commercial Portrait Artists, 19 W. Adams St. 9 jectricians, 2901 W..Maproe St. 182 tricians, 19 W. Adams 8t. 683 néerk ‘(Loc.); Madison ‘and sramento. 845 ineers, 140 W. Washington St Firemen Countil, 2200 14286 674 and” Enginemen, ’ 5428 Wentworth Ave. 45 Fur Workers, 17117 Gardeners ‘and Florists, Village Hall, Morton Grove. 21 Garment Propearn 115 W. Wash- ington 'St., 6 84 Glens Workers, Promily and’ Marsh- fle Hod ‘Cartier }ovanston. 1850 Sherman St, 7 Janitors, 166 W. Washington St. Ladles’ Garment Workers, Joint Board, 328 W. Vi 4. Lithographers, 630 B Ashiand Diva, Machinists, 113 shland Bivd. 8. and. Western. Machinists, 534 PI. and Halsted. 6 Metal Polishers, 119 8. Throop St. Painters, School and Sheffield Ave. 73 Pattern Makers, 119 8. Throop St. 5 Photo Engravers, 814 W. Harrison St., 6:30 p. m. Plasterers, 180 W. Washington St. 663 Plumbers, 5212 S. Halst.d St. Plumbers, 9251 8, Chicago Ave. 297 Railway Carmen, 59th and Halsted 1268 Railway Carmen, Blue Island, Ul, 307 Railway Carmen, 62d and Robey. 863 Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. 6857 Rope Splicers, 5608 Milwaukee Ave. te chars < (Men), 315 Plymouth Ct, celestaphers, 0. R. T. Cort Club, Atlantic Hotel. au Upholsterers, 169 N. State St. 301 ‘atchmen (Stock Fardey, 3749 3, a a wr ag a. Local 269, A. C. W.—M is every 2nd Friday, 1564 No, Robey. (Note—Unless otherwise stated 8D. m.) Protest Arrest of Workingclass Poet (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW—(Inprecor) — The inter- national bureau for proletarian litgra- ture has issued ancappeal in connec- tion with the arrest of Johann Becher. The appeal which is signed by Lun- acharsky, Auerbach and Valaitis, | points out thet literature also is a class weapon and for this, reason the bourgeoisie suppresses. proletarian newspapers-and» publications and ar- rests revolutionary poets. “The bour- geoisie which grasps the bible and for- bids Darwinism in its struggle against Communism, and which approaches ever more the spirit ‘of the middle ages arrests. the_singers of humanity tomorrow! Flaming greetings to our comrade, Becher! The proletarian poets must fight for the release of Becher!” The Moscow and associated sections of proletartan poets join in the protest and also the German section. 310 CHICAGO WORKERS! Page Five I S MILITANT WORKERS FLAY REPORT STRIKE BREAKER VISIT TO HIS MASTER But Lewis Does It Wholesale We are in receipt of a report that a strike breaker appealed to John L. Lewis for a strikebreakers’ job in the anthracite. It is also reported that the strikebreaker thought the head- quarters of the miners’ chief was the headquarters of the coal barons. The scab offered credentials to show that he scabbed on the railroad shopmen in the big strike of the railroad shops. Lewis is reported to have advised the scab against seeking employment in the coal mines at the present time. John L. Lewis does. not break strikes in. that- manner. He don’t hire scabs to break strikes. He breaks them himself, as. we have good reason to know from experience. When Lewis breaks strikes he does it wholesale, Remember the 1922 strike and Lewis’ submission to, the authorities when the miners were at the point of vie tory. He betrayed 500,000 that time at.a single stroke. A Natura! Attraction. What is the affinity between scabs? Why did the scab approach Lewis? Lewis is living in a million dollar hotel at the present time in Philadel- phia, like an Duropean prince, fat and slickly groomed, the picture of wealth and affluence. John L. has been mis- taken many times in Philadelphia for a financial magnate. It is any won- der that the scab took him for a strikebreaking chief? Lewis has his office set up in Phil- adelphia amidst fie surroundings where John can agreeably rub should- ers with, and hob nob with the elite of society. One would think that an honorable labor leader would have his office in the heart of the coal re gion during a strike, near to the peo ple who pay him his salary, but not so with Lewis. He has not yet con- sidered making a coal mining town his headquarters. Coal miners’ treas- uries are all right to keep up labor fakers, but to associate with the un- derground workers is entirely out of the question. It would indeed be very disagreeable to Lewis to have to as- sociate with the coal miners and be removed from the gay swirl of Phila- delphia, “with its bright Mghts and fashionable girls. Was No Mistake. I wonder if the scab did really make a@ mistake. Perhaps he knew of the | Lewis expulsions, the Howats, Mc- Lachla Thompsons, McDonalds, Watts, etc. Perhaps the scab knew the actions in these cases were even worse than that of a strike breaker. We don’t know the conversation that Passed between them, but no doubt it was the usual kind that passes be- tween one scab and another. Porto Ricans Protest Again WASHINGTON, —(FP)— Porto Ri- can trade unionists have presented a protest against their starvation wage, to Gen. McIntyre, chief of the bureau of insular affairs at Washington, who has spent a week in the island, RALLY FOR LABOR DEFENSE September 13, 8 p. m. (Labor Defense Day) at PLASTERERS’ TEMPLE HALL, Van Buren & Marshfield Get Behind the Zeigler Miners’ Defense! SPEAKERS: HENRY CORBISHLEY, leader of the progressive miners of Zeigler and chief defendant under charge of conspiracy. WILLIAM Z, FOSTER Cc. E. RUTHENBERG DUNCAN MacDONALD, Chairman, former secretary-treas- urer of the Illinois Mine Workers’ Union and former presi- dent of the Illinois Stafe Federation of Labor. ADMISSION, 10c, INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE, “FOR. SEPTEMBER wii BY Al Bittelman’ _ Alex Reid ae pnp aa Zinoviev — 0: Preedin r William. Z. Foster Anise William F. Kruse Thurber Lewis James McGuire V. F. Calverton Arne Swabeck N. Krupskaya Bertram-D; Wolfe PHOTOGRAPHS 25 Conte P Copy 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 5