The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1925, Page 4

Page Four HTT THE DAILY WORKER | 2 PTHREE THE DAILY WORKER|||GHI OF DAY |: owner Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington’ Blvd., Chicago, I. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Illinole J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB.. —<$<$— $$ — Entered aw second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. |e Advertising rates on application. = SS <a 290 Here and in Britain While William Green and the principal labor lieutenants of capitalism on the A. F. of L. payroll were reading the Communists out of the American trade union movement the leading officials of the British labor movement were presenting a petition to the British Trade Union Congress in session at Scarborough protesting against the exclusion of the Communists from the British labor party. This document calls attention to the need for the closest solidar- ity in the ranks of labor against the common enemy of the workers. That enemy is capitalism. Those who do not recognize capitalism as their enemy are in deadly opposition to Communist participation in the labor movement, because the Communists insist. that the only way the workers can free themselves from the evils which sur- round them at present is to fight and overthrow the capitalist sys- tem, the cause of their misery. The right wing elements in the labor party, led by the yellow socialists had a resolution passed which made Communists ‘ineligible to membership in the labor party. Owing to the strong opposition that developed in the ranks of the labor party and in the trade unions, the yellow socialist exclusion against the Communists was little better than a dead letter. Each succeeding year saw the strength of the Communists increasing. The number of those who supported the rescinding of the resolution became greater and greater as the class struggle grew in intensity and the more class conscious workers learned from experience that the program of the Communists was constructive and not. destructive, in fact that it was the only piperate that showed them a way out of the present im- passe. Thus it has come to pass that attached to the appeal demanding the rescinding of the Communist exclusign resolution from the labor party, were the names of the best known and most-militant non-Communist fighters in the British trade union ‘movement. Their records shine in comparison with those of the eapitalist lick- spittles who do the dirty work of the bosses in the American Fed- eration of Labor. The names of A. B. Swales, A. Purcell, A. J. Cook, Jeaders of millions of workers, are known thruout the world as friends of Soviet Russia and enemies of capitalism. The @ommun- ists are as happy in-the support of such men as they are-in-the-undy- ing enmity of Green, Woll, Berry, Lynch and the thousands of other union strikebreakers that infest the American labor movement. International Labor Defense On next Sunday, September 13, conferences and mass meetings will be held in several cities thruout the United States for the pur- pose of setting up local organizations of the International Labor Defense. Many workers may be lulled into a feeling of fancied security by the fact that persecution on a national scale such as existed-during the war and in the years immediately following, does not. confront the radical wing of the American working class movement today. This is a dangerous feeling. One has only to read the papers to be convinced that theve i is no let up in the campaign of the capitalists against the workers even tho the conditions under which it is waged are nof so spectacular as those employed by the government in the days:of Mitchqll ‘Palmer and up until the date of the Bridgeman raid. I Since the Bridgeman raid which was planned bythe jational government, using the state of Michigan as its instfiument, the policy of the Washington administration has been’ to Yet local cap- italist governments, county and state, use their powers,to crush the militant workers. In some. cases extra-legal organizations, such as the American Legion, the ku klux klan and the labor fakérs:are used for the purpose. This was the case in Zeigler, Ill., where the reac- tionary officials of the Illinois Miners’ Union and the ku klux klan took the initiative in an attempt to destroy the progressive element in the local miners’ union, not even stopping at murder to accom- plish their purpose. It is not necessary to go into detail to prove that an organization like the International Labor Defense is sorely needed. This organ- ization is pledged to aid in the defense of all working class victims of capitalist persecution without regard to political views or af- filiatfén. And as its name implies, the International Labor Defense links up the defense of American workers against their oppressors with the struggle between the workers andthe capitalists: in all lands. Every class conscious worker should support the International Labor Defense and help to put it on its feet thruout the country so that it can accomplish the purpose its founders had im.view, Wall Street in China We are casually infermed by a Shanghai news item that the construction corps of the United States navy is.on its way to Shanghai to start the construction of six gunboats for use by the navy upper Yangtze patrol by an appropriation of $6,000,000 author- ized by the last congress. It is taken for granted that the United States has as much right to patrol the inland waters of China as it has to install a prohibition agent in front of a sacramental wine store in dry America. How many American workers compare the aets of the United States government in South America and Asia with that goevern- ment’s professions of loyalty to the principle of self-determination? Have the Chinese no right to run their own country? American, British, Japanese and French capitalist governments are riding rough shod over the rights of the Chinese. They are doing this because there is profit to be made out of the exploitation of the Chinese and because the Chinese are not yet sufficiently wéll organ- ized to kick out the imperialist robbers. The American workers should take an interest in what is hap- pening in China, They should see to it that no, warships jare built that will enable the' House of Morgan to hold its greedy talons on the throats of the Chinese workers and peasants. The struggle of the workers and peasants of China for their emanéipation from the yoke of foreign imperialism should have the whole hearted support of the workers and farmers of all countries. ON SUPPRESSED COAL FINDINGS Anthracite e Report to Emerge from Obscurity By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON —(FP)— W. Jett Lauck’s summary analysia of the an- thracite monopoly, prepared for the U. S. Coal Commission and submitted to that body with two large typewrit- ten volumes of text on March 23, 1923, is at last to be accepted by the com- mission and made a part of its five volume report, which will be publish- ed in October. Only the summary analysis, how- ever, will appear; ‘the two volumes showing how the anthracite monopoly was formed and of what it is com- posed, how it works and who gets the benefit of its exactions, ‘will not be permitted to reach the public. In the commission’s own words, | printed at the head of the summary: “The commission considered the docu- ments prepared by Lauck as prelimin- ary studies for its personal guidance in advance of the completion of its own original investigations rather than as staff reports prepared for pub- lication. The commission did not adopt these documents as part of its own findings, but transmitted them along with its own reports for the in- formation of congress. The committee on printing decided not to print them in full because of the large cost in- volved... The complete ‘text of the report with supporting appendices may be examined in the files of the commission on application to the director of the geological survey.” The fact is that the commission made no “original investigations” of its own as to the anthracite monopoly, and the Lauck report was unwelcome in that meaningless document. In his summary, Lauck says that the “monopoly and other conditions which have been condemned and ordered dissolved by the supreme court” (but which have not really been changed to any extent) include the concentra- tion in ownership and control of coal- mining operations and of coal land reserves by the railroads traversing the different anthracite fields; deve- lopment of a community of interest between the seven coal-carrying rail- road systems in the anthracite region; imposition of large issues of watered stock and other unwarranted capita] charges upon the industry; conceal. ment of excessive monopoly profits, thru multiple corporations; fiscal con- trol of anthracite by the Morgan bank- ing interests and their allies, who have apportioned the anthracite traf- fic among the seven railroads; exten- sion of the combination to retail trade, thru a corporation created to direct retail distribution in Boston, New York and Chicago. He then analyzes the failure of 50 years of attempts to legally dissolve the anthracite combine, and declares that under existing laws the’ trust is secure. SOVIET RUSSIA GIVES FARMERS OF U. S. LAND Homesteads Opened in Volga and Caucasus NEW YORK, Sept. 11. —(FP)— Homestead tracts in the fertile Volga region and in the Caucausus; are of- fered to American farmers by the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia which is acting for the Soviet government. The offer, advertised several months ago, is now going into effect, and the Technical Aid Society is ugdertaking a campaign to acquaint Amefican agriculturalists with the project. Land will be rent free, subject to tax only and leases are renewable in 12 years if the homesteader proves competant. None but expert farmers are desired, for the purpose of the government in giving up this land is to get trained western farmers whose crops and methods will serve in the national program of building up the agricultural industry. Tracts p er will range from 15 to 50 de or up to more than 130 acres, and each immigrant will be expected to furnish an average of $30 capital in equipment per dessiatin of land. Fur- ther information may be secured at the society's office, 799 Broadway, New York City. Nicaraguan Troops Slay Workers Who Seized Property ae MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Sept.. 11.— Three workers were killed and two wounded in a clash, with’ government forces at El Gallo, on the Rio Grande, district headquarters of the Cuyamel Fruit company. . The: workers had seized the property and held it two weeks, preventing the exportation of |: bananes Se —————————VvOxOOoOoOO OO OCS eS = eee eee _O“O_nN Ot QUARTERS:NORMAL YIELD THREE BILEION BUSHELS WASHINGTON,? Sept. 11.—The condition of the cory crop in the United States on September 1 was 75.5 per, cent of normal, Indicating a total production of 2,885,000,000 bushels as compared with 2,437,000,- 000 bushels harvested last ye he crop reporting board of the depart- ment of agriculture announced this afternoon, The acreage planted to corn Is 106,621,000 acres and a yield per acre of 27.1 bushels is estimated. Spring wheat:., Condition 75.0 per cent of normal; production 284,000,- 000 bushels, gompared with 283,- 000,000 bu is last year. Acreage 21,181,000; yleld ‘per acre 13.4 bush- els, Winter wheat: Production 416, 000,000 bushels, as compared with 590,000,000 bushels last yea' age 32,813,000; yield per acre, 12.7 bushels, All whea' Production 7000,000,- 000 ‘bushels, ompared with 873,- 000,0000 bushels it year; acreage 63,994,000; yield ‘per atre 13.0 bush- els, Oats: Condition 82,1; total pro- duction 1,462,000: bus! ; acreage 44,467,000; yleid per acre 32.9 bush- els, Rye: Production 52,000,000 bush- els; acreage 4,184,000; yield per acre 12.4 bushels, Hay: Production 93,600,000 tons; acreage 74,796,000; yield per acre 1.25 tons, Beans: Condition 77.6 production 17,600,000 bushels; acreage 1,584,- 000; yield per acre 11.1 bushels. White potatoes: Condition 63.0; production 75,600,000 bushels; acre- age 1,014,000; yield per acre 74.5 bushels, Tobacco: Condition 75.2; produc- tion 1,247,000,000 pounds; acreage 1,693,000; yield per acre 737 pounds, The general crop situation shows little improvement since-last month, the crop reporting board of the de- partment of agriculture. announced today. The yields of spring grains are running slightly over earlier ex- pectations, but potatoes, and most of the other crops show further de- cline, on the whole, the board said, crop yields will be below the aver- age of recent years, L, W. W. BOYCOTT BRITISH SHIPS ; SCAB CREW SHORT American Communists Aid British Strike NEW YORK CITY; Sept. 11—“How interesting,” was the’ comment of Morris Hilquit, socialist millionaire coal dealer and lawyer and returning delegate of the American socialist party to the Second: International! congress recently held in France when informed that his returning home’ on a scab steamer struck by British sea- Communists and I. W. W. seamen picketing the White Star Line’s pier when the Majestic docked in New York City. The scab ship was nearly on sched- ule tho short of crew, the boat being steered by scab quartermasters hast- ily recruited from the patriotic upper strata of the British naval and ex- naval clique. The Boy Scouts, too, showed their scabby training by doing the polishing on the way over, The chief engineer, Joseph’ Wolf, declaimed on the superiority of oil over coal as fuel, saying that if the ship had burned coal, the stokers’ strike would have left the boat still at the docks in Southampton, but the oil ‘eeders could ‘be run by a child and the seabs needed ofily a little train- ing. Avoiding the pickets of the Marine Transport Workers of the I. W. W., who have laid down a boycott on British shipping and are giving spe- cial attention to’ ithe Majestic, the ship sneaked thirty) scab longshore- men aboard at quarantine in lower harbor to bring up ‘baggage and mails from the hold. The Workers Party and the I. W. W-. are cooperating to give the ship’s scab crew a proper re- ception if they go ashore, SOCIALIST PREMIER OF BELGIUM DEPORTS TWENTY COMMUNISTS BRUSSELS, pat gh Sept. 114- The government, headed by the so- cialist premier, Vandervelde, has or- dered the deportation of a score of Communists accused of “disorderly agitation.” ealled by the Boo of the agreemen’ men was resented by s¢veral hundred: [in the state of Vera Cruz. 20th Strike in Three Weeks LYNN, Massq Sept. 11.—-Two hundred employes of the Washington | Co, walking out made the 20th shoe strike in thre’ weeks. The strike and Shoe. Workers’ Union to enfor MOTHER BLOOR ARRIVES AT END OF TRIP Reaches N. Y. in Time for Street Battle ‘ NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 11.—Ella Reeve Bloor, the storm-petrel, arrived in New York from her cross-continent trip for the DAILY WORKER just In time to participate in the demon- stration before the White Star Docks protesting against ‘the scab seamen that brot In the Majestic, and calling attention to the fact that Hillquit of the socialist party used this particu: lar ship on his homeward journey from the meeting of the yellow soclal- ist Second International. An Inspiration. It was an inspiration to see this sixty-year-old grandmother join in with the several hundred picketers from the I. W. W. and the Workers Party in this expression of solidarity with the British seamen who are on strike. And it was very fitting and proper indeed for Morris Hillquit, the socialist party leader, to side with the capitalist class and their strikebreak- ers against the workers by using this scab ship. Equally true to form was the New York police, who broke up the demon- stration, beat up several of the work- ers, and chased them, including Moth- er Bloor, from corner to corner in or- der to save Hillquit the annoyance of hearing what some of his old time acquaintances think of his present ac- tions. Mother Bloor’s historic trip was made as a nation-wide but lone-hand- ed campaign to boost the DAILY WORKER. Considerable numbers of subscriptions were obtained and doz- ens of meetings held by her as she hitch-hiked across the North Ameri- can continent. CONN, STRIKERS GET HELP OF 11 ORGANIZATIONS Conference Formed to Aid Thread Workers By J. ROSENBLATT (Worker Correspondent) HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 11.—At a conference of eleven organizations there was organized here the Amalga- mated 4id Conference for the Willi- mantic “strikers” to help the strikers of the American Thread Co. of Willi- mantic. Present at the conference were dele- gates from branches of Workmen’s Cirele, from the Jewish Literary So- ciety, Jewish Union Painters Benefit Society, Workers Party, Young Work- ers League, Poale-Zionists etc. The miserable conditions of ‘the Willimantic strikers were discussed apd plans were laid for further work to help them. It was decided to have a. howse to house collection on Sun~ day; Sept. 13. : An executive committee consisting of chairman M. Hurwich of the Jewish Union Painters Benefit Society, vice- chairman J. Rosénblatt of the Young Workers League; recording secretary, Hershanov of the Jewish Literary So- ciety, financial-secretary, M. Bobrove of Branch 326, Workmens’ Circle, treasurer, L. Rosenblatt of Branch. 5, Workmens’ Circle. Tho Mayor Stevers and the chit of police of Hartford will not give a permit for a tag day for strikers, the malgamated, Aid Conference for the Willimantic ‘strikers is confident of collecting several. hundred dollars with which to buy bread and other necessities for the strikers. et Soviets Perfect New Radium Method. MOSCOW—(By Tass)—The Lenin- grad Radium Institute reports that under the direction of Prof, Kholpin, a new method has been worked out for extracting pure salts of raditim out of Russian radium ore. The Leningrad Institute disposes now of a considerable amount of radium ob- tained by aplication of this new method. Thrills in Far North, WASHINGTON, Sept 11.—After riding out a terrific gale and rescuing a crew of Danish naval sailors just before their boat went down, the flag- ship Bowdoin of the MacMillan arctic expedition has joined the airplane carrier Peary at Godthaab, Greenland, said a dispatch to the National Geo- graphic Society today. Calles * Troops Kill Six. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 11. ‘Federal troops killed six agrarians whd ats tempted to take over Tuzamapa ranch, a a aS ‘jand in the co! viinatninpssalemnb i fettinerentmeneaninemar FOLSOM PRISON FREES WORKER AFTER 4 YEARS; ‘LOUIS ALLEN RELEASED SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11—To- morrow there will come out of the California prison hell at Folsom penitentiary, Louls Allen, one of those. victims,-of capitalist govern- ment terror. who have been buried alive by the scores merely for car- rying a card in the 1. W. W. Thia worker, whose letters from prison have been commented on as exemplifying the high order of | telligence prevailing ‘among cl war prisoners, was first arrested at Los Angeles in April 1921, Along with eight other members of the I. W. W. Allen was convicted in the case known as'*'‘Abe Shocker, et al.” Allen served a short time at San Quentin; and was then trans- ferred to the more savage prison at Folsom, from which place he will be released at expiration of his sen- tence on Sept. 11, Shocker, whose name was used to Identify the case in the courts, died in San Quentin prison while serving - hissterm on August 9, 1923, a victim - of the capitalist dictatorship whose martyrdom to the cause of the work- ers will be remembered In Ameri- can labor history. © COMMUNIST FLED TERROR, REACHES SOVIET RUSSIA Peasants’ International Questions Socialists MOSCOW— (Enprecorr)— A mem- ber of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Rumania who es- caped from the Rumanian prison dur- ing the process has arrived in Russia. The Red Aid is ‘informed that of the sixteéh ‘prisoners’ who escaped none have been reatrested. Acting upon demands of its local or- ganizations thé Peasant International has addressed the following telegram to the: Marseilles: ‘Congress of the Sec- ond International, © The telegram says: “The Hamburg Congress adopted a resolution upon the support of the movement for na- tional emancipation in the colonies. Since then giant mass movements have developed in Asia and Africa. In China, Morocco, Syria, Egypt and Sudan, India and Corea the imperial- ists are attempting to drown the movement in blood.” “America suppresses the Negroes and England is preparing an interven- tion against Canton; and intends to occupy Mosul for a long period. The plenum of your executive in this situ- ation warned the peasants of the Hast against Asidtié “hationalism but found no word of demnation for the im- perialist, “This attitude-convinces the peas- ant masses otha the Second Interna- tional is only ;aGveapon in the hands of imperialism. “In order to make your . policy. erfectly clear we’ ask you: - “you prepared, to sup- port the movement of the peasantry for emancipation in general and the movement. of fhe pedsants in the East Hes in particular? “(2) -Are you: prepared to demand the end-of the Wars in China and in Morocco, the - -withdrawal of English and other fight forces in China. The abandonmetit of one-sided agree- ments and the handing over of the oc- cupied territory to China? “(3) Are you prepared not only with, wotds but also with deeds to sup- port the peasantry of the East and of ‘the colonies in its struggle for inde- pendencer’ © Three. Killed-in Autos. BLAIRSVILLU;. Pa, Sept. 11.— Three persons were killed and several badly . hurt. when a train on the Greensburg-New Alexandria branch of the ‘Pennsylvania, railroad crashed in- to two @utog at, a:crossing in Frog- town, ‘near New. Alexandria, West- moreland county,, early today, it was i vena advites reaching here. PAINTERS’ LEFT WING DISTURBS MACHINE RULE Steven 5? Strength at Montreal | Dazes Gang MONTREAL, Quebec, Sept. 11-~ The reactionary machine of the Broth- erhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers got a shock, yesterday at the convention in session here, when one of the leading labor fakers, John M. Finan, discovered that the left wing had more strength than the old gang had reckoned on. The left wing ran Dan W. Stevens of Minneapolis, quite frankly and openly as a Communist, egainst Finan in the contest for the first vice-presi- dency of the union. The machine de- manded a} standing vote, and were rather sorry they did so. For altho the big majority wént to Finan, the left wing showed a _ surprising strength and the machine was rather dazed as to what to do. next. Finan was the only official not elected unanimously, and the machine is given a warning not to advance any further on its attack on the left wing, as Finan was particularly noisy in go- ing about the country and threaten- ing expulsions of the progressives in the local lodges. It is evident that fie left wing has enough strength to make the machine pause before rush- ing into trouble. Citi ” Committee Reports Show Huge Gains for Railroads Seven railroads, the Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago and Northwestern; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Baltimore and Ohio, Chi- cago, Rock Island and Pacific-and Rock Island and N. Y. C, jointly own- ers of land between Polk and 16th streets near the river, pleaded that they could not go ahead with termin- al developments until the straighten- ing of the river and that they could not afford the cost of that job. A report by a citizens’ committee appointed to look into the matter was sent to the railroads and Mayor Dever yesterday, which shows that huge land gains will be made by the rail- roads. The cost of river straighteh- ing is estimated at $8,400,000 while the gain would enable the railroadé to afford the expenditure of $4,550,000. Preacher-Leader of German Klan Jailed; Monarchists in It BERLIN, Sept. 11.—Pastor Gothard Strohschein and his son, allegedly the American organizers of the “Knights of the Fiery Cross,” the German branch of the ku klux klan, backed by German monarchists have been ar- rested in Breslau, the police an- nounce. The Strohscheins are being bret to Berlin where it is understood they will be charged with conspiracy. They are reported by the police to have been attempting to escape from Ger- many, when captured. The ceremonies of the German K. K. K. are conducted with the mon- archist flag as well as the American flag. The police now refute their previ- ous charges that the organizers of | the German K. K. K. were American “swindlers’ and state that they have evidence that the leaders of the move- ment have extensive funds contribut- ed by American members of the ku klux klan, © A complete list of the German mem- bers of the organization has been confiscated, bearing about 1,000 names, most-of whom have been iden- fified as ultra-nationalists, between the ages of thirty and forty. One of their stated objects is to “drive undesirables from the coun- try.” GERMAN DELEGATION FINDS THAT PRISONERS IN SOVIET UNION ARE TREATED WELL, FAVORS EXCHANGE MOSCOW-—(Imprécor.)—THe German workers’ delegation has addressed -|delegation is nevertheless of the opin- a declaration to the Soviet government and to the Second International in which it says that it has visited a number of prisons and that its chief at tention has: been paid to the situation of the political prisoners. The delega- tion declares | tthe treatment of the prisoners is completely human, . The delegation recognizes that political crime within the Soviet Union muat be estimated differently from that in capitalist countries, for the partici- pants: consciously. or © unconsciously +——————__—________. support the capitalists. The German | proposal made by the Red Aid to the Second International which up to the moment ig still unanswered, and upon oe conditions laid down by the Red Aid, These ‘conditions are as follows: The Red Aid undertakes to work for jon, that despite.everything something should ‘be done in this question, In Ger! the: campaign for the re- lease’ of the political prisoners which, has been carried on for months, must be:bontinged. the exchange of political prisoners The del spate ‘decides unanimous- government, the Sec- ly ‘to diréct itself to the unions and and the govern to thé parties in order to obtain from: its members partici- the government .the political ‘ prisoners. of the Both. secti The. delegation pate. ions mutually under- take to inform themselves upon the the wage standards | ities 4he° Soviet government it it Is] situation @ political prisoners with the state board of arbitration and conciliation. 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