The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1925, Page 1

i The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government THE Vol. Il. No, 209. Subscription Rates: Butsias Eticeso, ZEIGLER MINERS MAND SUB- DISTRICT COn FIGHT ON KLAN, IN STAUEMENT A committee of Zeigler miners, headed by Henry Corbishley, president of the Zeigler Local No. 992, of the United Mine Work- ers of America, deposed by the Farrington machine, have issued a statement giving the history of their fight against the ku klux klan, the mine union officials and the Bell and Zoller Coal com- pany. The miners.demand a special sub-district convention to settle the matter. - ‘ The statement, which represents the voice of the overwhelm- ing majority of the miners of the local, shows how the reaction- ary officials of the Illinois district of the union arbitrarily gave In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. \ all socialist parties. AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY HE various socialist delegates to the recent congress of the Socialist and Labor International, held in Mar- seilles, France, were chiefly concern- ed with the interests of their respec- tive governments and not with the in- terests of the working class. One of the amusing incidents of the congress was the squelching of Victor Berger, who attempted to introduce a resolu- tion condemning the Treaty of Ver- sailes, This resolution smacked of revolution to the capitalist ministers and ex-ministers who led the congress and Berger was declared out of order. Whereupon Victor walked out, shout- ing, “Go to Hell.” * @ T must not be assumed that Berger introduced the resolution because of left wing tendencies. Nothing of the kind. It was his undiluted Ger- man patriotism that prompted him to to do this, and also his consideration for the feelings of the German-Ameri- can voters in Milwaukee, who like the Irish living in America, love to strike heavy blows for the Fatherland at a safe distance. eee EVERAL delegates claimed credit —* the offices of the union to the for the Dawes’ plan, declaring that the American bankers would ne- ver have been able to put it into op- eration without the help of the Eu- ropean socialists. Morris Hillquit re- gretted that the United States’ had | not entered the league of nations. He cratized and should include Germany and Russia. Otherwise it was al- right. ‘4 N the question of the Security Pact, the German and French delegates put up,a united front. They were opposed by the British who had to consider the interests of their em- pire. French, German and British del- egates labored long, behind closed doors, trying to reach a compromise. One or two delegates pointed out that the Security Pact was aimed against Soviet Russia. How those delegates got into such a counter-revolutionary conference still remains a mystery. “ee HE Russian mensheviki threw cat- fits when the resolution on Soviet Russia was introduced. It is signi- ficant that the commission appointed to frame resolutions on the Soviet and Eastern question met in a room in the Town Hall and conducted their deliberations underneath a large oil painting of a visit of the former czar’s fleet to Marseilles in 1892. The visit was coincident with the granting of the first French loan to the czar. The painting was. the personal ‘gift of the czar to the city of Marseilles. see » TCHERNOFYF, a Russian social revolutionist, was infuriated by the comparatively moderate speeches on Soyiet Russia made by Bauer of Austria and Dan, the Russian men- shevik. Bauer talked a lot of non- sense about the gradual increase of liberty in Russia, the only country in the world where the workers and peasants have any liberty. Tchernoff raved about the Communist propagan- ‘dain Asia and denounced the Soviet government for encouraging national iberation movement. Jean Lonquet, grandson of Kari Marx, took the same Mine on this question. He charged the Bolsheviks with being in favor of granting freedom to “African sava- ges,” eo HE representative of the Polish In- dependent Socialist Party warned the delegates that they were ignor- ing the imperialist aims of the Po- lish and Roumanian governments. This delegate was quickly jumped on by a representative of the Polish So- cialist Party who made a patriotic speech, disavowing all imperialist alms for the Polish capitalists. A Roumanian delegate also took a mild- ly pro-Soviet position. ere) EON BLUM, the French socialist pleaded for a common policy for Much tho they detested the Communist Internation- J, he said, {t had the merit of a single icy in all countries and. the social- y international must have some dis- 6. This statement did not get (Continued on page 4) ‘ 4 joying a brief holiday. tar, the delégates holding that | MacDonald was not a klansmen, and how they ruled for the coal company in the controversy over illegal weigh- ing. The officials ordered the miners back to work, and at a meeting of the local declared that Corbjishley, who had been re-elected president, would have to vacate his office. The men refused, and the kluxers, backed by the officials, started a fight, a klansman killing one of the militant miners. Later, D. B. Cobb and Lon Fox swore out warrants,against eighteen of the miners, charging them with “conspiracy to murder.” The statement follows: The undersigned committee, repre- senting a general census of opinion of the miners of Zeigler concerning the recent events, presents the facts of the case exactly as they have hap- pened. There has been much misun- derstanding thruout the community concerning the trouble in Zeigler. The arrest of eighteen members of Local No. 992 and the avowed intention of those who swore the warrants to pro! ecute the case to the limit, presents a situation that constitutes a grave dan- ger to both the community and the miners’ union. We therefore, present for the inspection of all interested parties the actual record of the hap- penings that have led up to the pres- ent crisis, Klan Attempts Digruption. The story must begin with the an- nual election held June 18, 1924, in Lo- cal Union 992, U. M. W. of A,, in Zeig- ler. This election resulted in Henry Corbishley and his associates being electéd*by “an® Overwhelming vote to| , fill the offices of the unio ottioe had “oan apapeied Ths” position, that found its chief support among members of the ku klix klan discovered it had, elected no one and broke up the meeting by starting a fight. Many people in the county know that Corbishley had the sher; and deputies over several times in the past year to keep,.down trouble pro- voked by the klan element. (Continued on page 4) BRITISH TRADE UNION CONGRESS SCORES EMPIRE Left Wing Wins Over Yellow Socialists LONDON, Sept. 13—The British Trades Union Congress at its ing session yesterday delivered the pirate empire a blow in the solar plexus when it passed a resolution almost unanimously pledging opposition to British imperialism and favoring the right of self determination for all peoples within the empire even to the extent of choosing complete separa- tion from the pire. The resolution was passed after a bitter struggle during which the right socialist wing of the congress went to bat for “king and country.” The measure was sponsored by A. A. Purcell, fratermfal delegate to the At- jlantic City conyention of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor ‘and chair- man of the British trade union dele- gation to Soviet Russia. Purcell re- cently was elected to parliament from the Forest of Dean, on the left wing platform. , The vote on the’résolution was by card and stood; for 3,082,000 against 79,000, : Congress in Uproar. The congress was thrown into an uproar when Herry Pollitt, one of the Communist Party leaders, declared that: “The British empire stands for tyranny and the slavery of the work- ers. We are speaking of an empire d of territory stained with blood of soldiers and slaves.” This statement was cheered by horny handed delegates fresh from the shops, but it was bitterly resented by James Ramsay MacDonald, yel- low socialist, who had just left the king at Balmoral Castle In Scotland, where the former premier was en- (Continued e op] only to smash the new party, but to break up all the trade unions of Cuba, especially the Sindicato de la Industria Fabril. all party members, but we are out- side Havana, organizing a big pro- test in the whole republic! the workers arrested are anarchists, The government supposes that an archists and Communists same thing. As soon as we finish with the protest demonstrations, we comrades, Cuban minister. vs by. mail, $6.00 per. year, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, NTI-SOVIET THE A This new drive will be shattered by the of the world who PACT {f WORKER. Untered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at, the Post Office at Chicago, Ilinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879, Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 19325 <S” PUBLI eke Toe it of the Red Army and the solidarity of the workers ize Soviet Russia as their fatherland. TS. JAILS OTHERS, BIG PROTESTS ARE BEING ORGANTZED By JULIO ANTONIO MELLA. HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 13.—Jose Miguel Perez, secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, organizedssome weeks ago, has been deported to Spain, and surely will bessent to Marruecos. At first the government charged the Communists were plan- ning to blow up the center of the commercial district of Cuba and many workers were arrested, most of them being deported. Now they say we are planning the immediate establishment of the Soviet government of Cuba.> The government is trying not LEFT WING OF LLG. W. ASKS AID FROM YOU! Help Wanted in Fight Against Terrorism (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept, 13.—The Joint Comittee of Action formed by the left wing suspended locals of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers, Locals 2, 9 and 22 have issued the following, statement: To All Labor and Labor Sympa- thizing Organizations, Fellow Workers and Friends: On the 11th of June, 1925, the re- actionary forces of the American Jew- ish labor ment decided to insti- tute a campaign of persecution against ali those who-dare to question their policies and leadership, It was on'the 11th of June that the joint board-~of the Cloak and Dress- makers’ Union planned and executed the pension of the executive boards An order has been issued to arrest Three of are the will fight for the freedom of our Eighty workers have so far been deported to Europe, four are in jail in Cuba, and warrants have been issued for the arrest-of 50 more students and workers. We need your help... We ask the American workers to protest to the MANY MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS IN PARTY'S REORGANIZATION DRIVE The dates of Workers (Commun- Ist) Party membership meetings ar- fanged in the party’s reorganization ¢ampaign are as follows: District Date 1, Boston—Sept. 17. 2. New York—Sept. 25, and managers of three of the largest 3. Philadelphia—Sept. 26. locals in the International Ladies’ 4. Buffalo—Oct. 4. Garment Workers’ Union, representing ‘ He by 27. over 30,000 workers, ‘ pails daha a Issues of Struggle 8. Chicago—Oct. 3. We were suspended because we, had 9. Minneapolis—Sept. 27. dared to oppose the leaders’ present 15. Connect'cut—Oct. 4. policy of diliy-dallying. with the em- Ployers, and‘because we had severely criticized the wasteful methods of ad- ministering ‘the union funds, Being unable to face the Issues raised by the three locals concerning the pres- will arrange mass membership | ent chaotic situation in our industry, meetings to be addressed by a rep- | and not being able to account for the resentative of the Central Executive | thousands of dollarg in by the ; * \ ‘ An organization tour of the west. ern districts Is being planned by the C. E. C. Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other party centers of the west ‘fight for the interestes of the workers (a SE the itn ar Si ER SA ea Reh le A AR ei PS Serre it th SO HEAR REPORT ON UNION CONDITION Amalgamation Confer- ence Holds Second Meet When the second international con- ference of the railroad amalgamation movement opened Saturday at the Workers’ Lyceum, the report of Otto H. Wangerin, secretary-treasurer, gave th’ delegates one of the most graphic analysis of railroad unionism and its prospects that has ever been the fortune for a body of seasoned union- ists to listen to. “The present-day characteristics of a great number of the unions that make up the American trade union movemerX are apathy, indifference, acquiescence in the ‘open shop’ or ‘American’ plan, absence of a work- ing class outlook, and no sign of militancy or courage to grapple with the great problems confronting them,” said Wangerin in his opening words. Make Unions Into Aids to Capital. This has become an attitude and a policy, he stated, citing the whole system of class collaboration, the “la- bor” banks, insurance, business insti- tutions, “industrial peace” schemes and “B. and O. co-operation” plans. The function of trade unionism to {s lost sight of completely. The unions are being made over into auxilliary machines to aid the capitalist profit- taking system. This must be stopped or organized labor is headed for dis- aster. The causes are three: Lack of fight- ing leadership with real working class vision; second, lack of militant pro- gram and policy to guide the various unions; third, the split-up craft form of organization, jurisdictional quarrels and no co-ordination of effort, lack of mutual asssitance lending weakness to the unions and strength to the enemy. The “Golden Age” Past. These causes had operated in the railroad unions as in others and altho some trades were organized 100 per cent, when the test came they had to retreat before the united power of the companies. Almost all have suf- fered greatly in membership and loss of wages and conditions, The “golden age” of rail unions from 1917 to 1922 was gone. During this period of the national agreement when the government, as a war méas- (Continued on page 2). 4 NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents SHING CO,, 1113 Washington, Bivd., Chicago, Ill. COMPLETE PROGRAM TO MOBILIZE WORKERS PARTY MEMBERSHIP IN BIG REORGANIZATION CAMPAIGN The organization department of the Workers (Communist) Party will within a day or two, make public its complete program for mobilizing the party for its thoro-going reorganization on the basis of shop nuclei and international branches. ‘ The plan involves the holding of general membership meet- ings in the industrial centers thruout the country and the draw- ing into the reorganization campaign of the mo} active party workers on an intense scale. YAS a aR EN NE A. part of the preliminary ideological campaign and mobi- Ww. lization is supplied herewith. It is the plan of the Central Exe- cutive Committee to complete the party reorganization in the New York and Chicago districts first. The reorganization cam- paign will therefore, center itself at the outset in these two districts. Some of the details of the plan fol- low: Announce Details of Campaign. 1, There is to be printed a series of articles in all party papers on shop nuclei and party reconstruction. These articles are to be written by Central Executive Committee mem- bers, District Organizers, and lan- guage section leaders. a. The Central Executive Com- mittee members are to write primari- ly from a general party point of view and from the point of view of their special departments. For example, the heads of the Agitprop and other departments will stress the import- ance of party reorganization along the nes of shop nuclei and interna- tional branches as a means of facilit- ating the development of the party membership in their particular fields. b. The District Organizers are to write from the angle of the specific conditions in their districts and the party reorganization campaign. c. The leaders of the various lan- guage sections are to write articles for the party reconstruction campaign from the point of view of facilitating the role to be played by their com- rades in the unification and central- ization of the party's activities among the working masses of their respective languages. ‘ Pian Special Pamphlet. phiet is to be printed in the languages of the principle sections of our party. The pamphlet will contain the follow- ing: a. The new party cogstitution. Bb. The Comintern letter to our party on organization and special charts. on party organization. ec. A-special foreword on party re- construction by the organization de- partment of the party. The Organization Department will: publish a series of articles ex- plaining the party constitution and analyzing concretely its various sec- tionsy, These articles are to be syn- dicated and featuréd prominently in eyery language organ of the party. 4. “The Organization Department shall,have a special press service for the entire press and a special section of the DAILY WORKER. This press service will deal mainly: a. The progress of party organiza- tion. e b. The organizational and political experiences of specific shop nuclei. ce. Letters and reports from nuclei members themselves as to their acti- vities. 5. In every district there shall be called general membership meetings addressed by the special representa- tives of the C. B. C. on the following subjects: a. Ishevization. b. Party organization. In an early forthcoming issue of the DAILY WORKER, the organiza- tional phase of the party reconstruc- tion campaign will be printed in de- tail. TEN BUSINESS AGENTS OF AMALGAMATED ARE JAILED ON “SUSPICION” The ten business agents of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, who e arrested in a raid on.the union's headuarters, 409 South Halsted street, have been re- leased on writs of habeaus corpus, union officials sta The union members were attend- ing their regular weekly meeting at the idqua urday when four detectives entered the hall and quizzed all present. Only business agents were arrested. No reason s given for the raid, which is the second one conducted during the eleven weeks course of the strike against the International Tailoring company. The union men were taken to the detective bureau and were subject- ed toa e grilling. They were ‘on suspicion” it was an- Included among those arrested were business agents Ska PRESSMEN EXPEL HARRY SCHECK FROM NO. 3 Other Stoolpigeons and Scabs Are Bounced Herry Scheck, Clown Cigarette ped: dier and reading clerk of the Chicago Federation of Labor was expelled from Chicago Printing Pressmen’s Union No. 3, and fined $500.00, toge- ther with eleven others, for conduct unbecoming a trade unionist. Those expelled in addition to Scheck are: “Stuss” Singer, ex-New York gangster and now superinterd- ent in the scab Cuneo Printing plant, Tom Polston, international Berry or- ganizer, Ben Salviti, Rudy Lindqutst, Tom Coghlan, Art- Rollins, the Davis brothers Sam Fox and Hickson, two international stoolpigeons for Berry, Al Kearns and Hughes. Of those who stayed in the struck plant all are foremen excepting three or four. Out of 200 pressmen only ten jor eleven betrayed the principles of trade unionism and scabbed. Sheck, went around making propaganda for Berry and deserted No. 3, to which he owes whatever prestige he has in the labor movement and most of worldly goods But for No. 3, Harry ‘would not today be the big gun in the Promotional league or chief salesman for Clown cigarettes. He is.a delegate to the Chicago Federation ‘of Labor from No..3, but if he continues to ba a delegate any longer it will not be from that union. East Side Gangster ‘The readers of the DAILY WORK- ER are already well acquainted with the records of “Stuss” Singer and Sam Fox, Singer has been a man of many schemes and was mixed up with the (Continued on page 4) Seek Castoff Dude for War Heroes. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 13.—An ap- peal from the American Legion home in New Orleans asks for donations of castoff garments for the use of ex-service men, women and children. Hundreds of veterans, disabled as well as able bodied are searching for employment. FORM DEFENSE REPRESENTING 18,000 WORKERS 90 Delegates Launch Local Unit of I. L. D. Ninety delegates, representing 18- 000 organized workers, met in the Ashland Auditorium yesterday and formed the Chicago local unit of the International Labor Defense, the champion of the working class vic- tims of the bosses’ persecution in thla country. Samuel T. Hammersmark was una- nimously elected chairman of the lo cal body, Felix Hanzel, of the Wood Carvers’ Union, vice-chairman, and George Maurer, secretary. A Te solution committee of five mem- bers was unanimously elected, con- sisting of Max Hankin, representing Local Union 199, International Asso- ciation of Machinists; George Maurer, assistant secretary of the national om ganization; M. Turner, of Local 337, Machinists’ Union; Rose Karsner, on the national committee of the L L. D,, and R. Youkelson, representing the Northwest Side branch of the I, L, D. Resolutions were presented to the convention and passed, following speeches and discussion, protesting against the white terror of the capi talist governments of Poland, Rou- mania and Bsthonia against the work- ers these governments. These re solutions were ordered sent to the embassies of the countries at Wash- ington, Resolutions calling for the immedi. (Continued on pege 2) we —— = ad ic A his ©