The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1925, Page 2

ii Taaiceabie “ Joint Action Committee Page Two LLG.W. LOCALS | STAND BY OLD PEACE DEMANDS: Nails Lies (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 15.—Nego- tiations for peace in the ranks of the | International Ladies’ Garment Work- ere’ Union are dependent upon the union officials’ willingness to rein-| state ali workers discharged as a} result of the August 20 stoppage and for sympathy with the Joint Commit- tee of Action, according to the state-| ment of Louis Hyman, the commit- tee’s chairman. The committee of five shop chair- men’s meeting, and authorized to mediate between the two factions of the union, were told yesterday by the | Joint Committee of Action that there could be absolutely no discussion of | peace until all workers were allowed | to go back to their jobs, Stand by All Demands. The committee announced that its peace demands were just the same as they had been for the past three months: reinstatement of the expelled officers; resignation of President Sig- man; reorganization of the joint board on the basis of proportional represen- tation, In answer to a rumor that there ‘was a difference of opinion in the ranks of the Joint Committee of Ac- tion as to these peace trems, the com- mittee today issued the following statement “To AN Oloak and Dress- makers”: Deny Lying Rumors. “You who together with us have carried on the present’ struggle and | whose courage and bravery have been looked upon with awe and admiration by all interested in this struggle, will surely stand by us in order to bring ft to a successful conclusion, with our justified demands fully realized. “Now, more than ever before, it is! important that you do not take for granted the various rumors which are being circulated by our enemies in order to bring confusion and demoral- isation in our ranks. The fact that a committees of hop chairmen has been elected to bring both sides to- gether does not by any means signify that peace has already been made. All the stories that are now being circu- lated to the effect that the Commun- ists in the Joint Committee of Action afte preventing a peace, come directly from the camp of the enemy, All members of the Joint Committee of Action are in complete agreement on for which we have fought are fully won. “Do not take seriously any state- ment that does not come officially | from the Joint Committee of Action. Our committee will keep you fully informed upon every important event. Nothing will be done without your approval. Stand by us as bravely and loyally as you have until now, and we can be sure that our struggle has not been in vain.” Workers in Factory of Fleischman’s Bakery Have Been Locked Out NEW YORK, Sept. 15—A lockout is on in the factory of Fleishman’s Vi- enna Model Bakery at 151 Hast 28rd St, Since the workers were locked out they have been on the picket line every day. In spite of the company’s supreme effort to keep the shop go* ing with scabs, surrounding the shop with detectives and police to intimi- date the workers and hauling the seabs to and from the shop in auto mobiles they only managed in keep- ing the scabs in the plant one day. The following day not one.of them showed up. The locked out workers are ~agaepettn: the shop every day. That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- |tal trades, |continue to operate at about 50 per and threshing in adjoining states re- | In Chicago the cases of pickets :ar- all questions of policy, and we will rested in front of the International make n» retreat until the principles | plant, 847 W. Jackson Blvd., continue COOLIDGE GOVERNMENT FORCED:TO' ADMIT WIDESPREAD UNEMPLOYMENT WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—(FP)—Part-time operation of textile and other plants in New England and the nort central states is confessed in the August report of the U. 8, employment service. The actual reports from many cities show that lack of jobs is serious in many places. For instance, Bath, Me., reports: ‘Part time continues in effect in the iron mills and windlass factory, affecting in both 1,000 men. There is not [all ‘tha Rapes Stalls aigion: "000 SCHOOL CHILDREN ON STRIKE DEFY POLICE; PARADE THRU STREETS erating on an average four days a (Special to The Daily Worker) week, Building trades dull, No de- mand for farm labor here.” Springfield, Mags., and district: “A surplus of skilled men in the me- together with clerical workers, janitors and watchmen, con- tributes to the general unemploy- MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 15.—As a ment,” protest against being transferred to Fall. River: “Cotton textile mills | a new buliding, one thousand public school children went on strike here today, parading the streets In de- fiance of police. .The youngsters, ranging in age from 12 to 19 years, walked out of the school In a body. They stormed newspaper offices, marched thru the business sections with banners flying, disrupted down- town traffic and gave the city a thrill. Police were powerless to stop the parade. cent of normal, and there is not enut work in other lines to absorb those released.” New York City: “Employment showed a slight decline during Aug.” Indianapolis: ‘Unemployment is not confined to any separate indus- try, and most all lines are gradually absorbing the unemployed workers.” Ohio: “There is still a surplus of common laborers in this state.” Missouri: “Completion of harvest If you want to see the Com- munist movement grow—get a sub {for the DAILY WORKER. MOSCOW CONCERT IN HONOR OF ACADEMY’S 200TH ANNIVERSARY MOSCOW, U.S&.S.R., Sept. 15— A musical program was given in the state Grand Academic theater, formerly the Imperial Opera house, in horior of the guests of the cele- bration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Russian Acad- emy of Sciences, An orchestra of 100 pieces, a mixed chorus of equal numbers, a ballet of forty and a score of stars formed the group. The immense theater was crowded to capacity. All foreign diplomats and many others were Invjted. A large bulk of the audience was composed of workers direct from the factories. RADIO MONOPOLY PLANNED BY CAL, TO CENSOR AIR WASHINGTON, D, C., Sept. 15.— Radio broadcasting from now on will be more strictly supervised by the Coolidge government, and even free- dom of the air will be abolished. Secretary of Commerce Hoover said today that radio broadcasting sta- tions will be barred from the air “un- less they offer, a real public service.” If the employers are not pleased with the broadcasting they can re- voke the station’s license or refuse to issue one, thus censoring radio as sulted in a surplus of labor in the larger cities.” CLOTH WORKERS WINNING NATION- WIDE STRUGGLE Amalgamated Gains on Coast and in N. Y. NEW YORK, Set, 15.—Clothing fac- tories of Oakland, California, have conceded the 44hour work week to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, announces the organization's general headquarters. The shorter work week was won without a strike after the previously “open shop” em- ployers saw that enough workers had enrolled in the union to enforce de- mands. Similar working hours were already in effect In San Francisco, Several small strikes have been won in New York in the last week, another strike in Cleveland and a strike is on against a big “open shop” firm in Montreal, In St. Louis the stiff fight against the Curlee firm, affeoting 800 workers, continues, se Court Cases Here, to come before the municipal courts. This morning Mike De Novi, business agent of the Italian local union of the Amalgamated, will appear at room 1106, city hall, to answer charges ,of “assault.” De Novi was in court yes- terday but his case was continued un- Engla nd Refuses to Negotiate Further til today. De Novi was arrested while walking the picket line. A report was made at the strike meeting yesterday on the situation in New York. Regular picketing of the J. L. Taylor Co, plant in the same cuilding and owned by the same peo- ple as the International, is now go- ing on, and the International, which secured the injunction against the union, is not being benefited by the picketing it was reported. IMPORTANT MEETING LITERATURE AGENTS THURSDAY, SEPT. 17 A very important meeting of all DAILY WORKER, literature and book store agents and delegates will be held on Thursday, Sept. 17th at 8 p. m. at 19 So. Lincoln Street. At this meeting plans for increasing the circulation of the DAILY WORKER and the sale of party literature will be fully gone into for reporting back to branches and put- night. Hand: him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. for International Press Da: reader must join in this effort. WORKER? politically or otherwise? etc, etc.? 4 Can you WORKER? What Do You Say? NE of the features of the special issue of the DAILY WORKER Sept. 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 for the Bolshevization of the Communist press. Here are the questions: 1. Why do you read our Communist newspaper, 2, What shortcomings do you find in the DAILY WORKER, 3. What criticisms have you as to make-up, contents, display, ° act as a worker correspondent for the DAILY 5. What experiences do you meet with In getting others to sub- germ’ rot and read the DAILY WORKER? Sit down today and write your reply to one, two. or all of these questions and then mail them in to the Editor, the DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. , ting into immediate execution. Dele- gates and agents must attend with- out fall, Every DAILY WORKER the DAILY Pac mn well as the press and the platform, Calls Cal’s Air Investigation a Fake and Failure WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 15— President Coolidge’s aircraft investt-. gation was denounced today as a “political gesture” by Senator King, (D), of Utah. Politician Gets His Reward. NEW YORK, Sept. 15—Nathan L. Miller, former governor of New York state and Myron C. Taylor were elected directors and members of the finance committee of the Unjted States Steel corporation today. Miller was also appointed general counsel of the Steel corporation, suc- ceeding Richard V. Lindsbury, de- ceased. English Doctor to Aid Krim LONDON, England, Sept, 15.—Dr. Earnest H. Griffin a London physician, will sail from here on Friday for Mor- occo, to attempt to get thru the Span- ish-French linés and administer me- dical aid to wounded Riffians. Later Griffin plans to smuggle a whole me- dical unit into the Riff. Wages in Germany, WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 15— The department of labor reports that an examination of the schedule of wages paid German skilled workmen in trade’ and industry shows that while the actual sum in marks per day is practically as high as before the war, the purchasing value of a day’s wages is about 60 per cent of the pre-war value. Build the DAILY WORKER. Van Buren and Marshfield Ave. DEC, 10-13 (inclusive)—Defense bazaar at Northwest, Hall, | North and Western Aves. Friendly organizations. ‘are asked to support the ais as above, and not to arrange other affairs for those dates. RALLY TO THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DE! ENE! Labor Defense Dates for Chicago FRIENDLY ORGANIZATIONS, PLEASE RESERVE, OCT, 24—Saturday, 8 p. m., Labor Defense dance, Temple Hall, (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 15— The Turkish government has refused to promise to abide by the impending decision of the league. of. nations’ council on the ownership of the Mo- sul territory. The Turkish forces are massing on the Mosul frontiers, and war is threatened between the Brit- Ish and Turkish governments for pos- session of the rich oll flelds of the region. The league of nations will decide in favor of Great Britain, it is under- stood, as the league is under that country’s domination in this matter. England Fears Revolt, The conflicts already going on in Syria and Morocco against French im- perialism have elarmed the British empire; and the situation is regarded as critical: It is reported that: christians -have been expelled from the Mosul terri- tory now occupied by’ the Turkish government and claimed by Britain on the strength of these christian in- habitants. Eight thousand chirstjans are sajd to have been expelled. Turks Ask Pact. The Turkish government pas sug- gested a “security pact” between the two countries, with a division of the territory along the lines of the league's Iraq commission, ig the event that the league council attampts to partition the district. This would give the district of Mosul to Turkey and the irrigation sourte bos the Diala to Iraq. The league's decision wat be made within a week. The British govern- ment refuses to negotiaté further with the Turkish government. Pressmen to Fight for Seats in the Chicago Federation (Continued from page 1) does ‘he consider this. work that he maneuvered the committee into pur- chasing an $1,800.00 automobile for him. And this is not all. Harry got himself made high-cockalorum of a trade union store, which also adds to his financial security. The main reason wi Heck is all those things is primarily because he was an antiBerry man some years ago. No. 3 sent him as a delegate to the federation and ‘by ‘making him- self conspicuous he gradually rose to a position of influenee.’* Now, after rising on a ladder made from the backs of members of No,'3, and hav- ing gotten an independent footing he kicked the ladder away: and went over, Clown cigarettes. and all, to strikebreaker Berry. i Scheck, the Missionary, Some of the pressmen»facetiously Say that one reason why Harry shift- ed his position is, in; @rder to be able to make better unien men out of “Marble top” Marks and Sam Fox. “Marble top” smokes Camel cigaret- tes and even travels in Yellow taxi cabs, It is even said that Scheck was so willing to convert the Berry crowd to the ways of pure trade un- ionism, that he once rode in a yellow so that he could keep in touch with his quarry. “All the members of No. 3 smoke Clowh cigarettes.” said one starwart pressman to the DAILY WORKER. “Perhaps Harry, like a good missionary wants to spread the gospel among the heathens.” There is no doubt in the minds of the few progressives that the DAILY WORKER interviewed that the press- men will receive “heavy support from the rank and file of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor if the question of the Cuneo strike comes up on the floor. They believe the members will take the same position they took on the United Garment Workers’ Union, and condemn strikebreaker Berry. : Cy een Mexican Politician . Is Assassinated, * : Causing Sensation (Special to The Dajly Worker) MEXICO CITY, Sept. 15.—Franci- sco Moreno, a leading politician of Vera Cruz, has been assassinated at the governmet palace.at Jatapa. The murder is believed to have been due to the opposition of Moreno to the policks of Governor Jara. The killing has created a profound sensation here because President Calles and his entire official family are going on Thursday to Jalapa to be the guests of the governor for four days. American Workers Must By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, the Union of Soviet Republics, thru its agencies in different capitalist lands, announces to the world that it is planning to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1905 revolution on December 20th. The news is spread in the United States thru the Russian Information Bureau at Washington, D. C., and it is expected that the department of justice will wake up at any moment and denounce it as a new form of Bolshevik propaganda. . . ° e But the celebration will not be confined to the Soviet Union alone. There will be held great gatherings in mem- of this important event in all lands still under capitalist ule, because the 1905 revolution in Russia under the czar- dom, which laid the basis for the successful Bolshevik revo- lution of 1917, belongs to the workers of the world, not alone to the Russian workers and peasants. Just'as the world war was the forerunner of the Bol- shevik triumph eight years ago, so the Russo-Japanese war, ending with a defeat for the czar, laid the basis for the strug- gle to seize power 20 years ago. General strikes were called and met with trémendous response, uprisings took place, in the then St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) and Moscow, Workers’ Councils sprang up, but czarist rule had not been weakened sufficiently, the workers and peasants were not strong enough to win power, Nevertheless, the 1905 revolu- tion presents to world labor an inspiring chapter in its his- tory of struggles, offering valuable lessons, that may well be thoroly studied and reviewed on this twentieth anniver- sary, Dec. 20th. * * ° Workers and peasants, having firmly established their triumph of 1917, will this year take the time required to fittingly commemorate the events of 1905. Special organ- izations have been set up to gather with care all data ob- tainable that relates to the revolutionary movement of 1905. This will be published in book form with the usual Bolshevik thoroness. A contest has.already’ been announced for the best poster. There will be a moving picture scenario and theatrical play dedicated to the historic events of 1905. It will be interesting to read part of the announcement as is- sued by the U. S. S. R., Society of Cultural Relations wel Foreign Countries in part as follows: Several Leningrad playwrights and producers are working ona play to be staged at the Academical Dramatic Theater of Leningrad. At the little Ballet Theater: (formerly Michailovsky) will be staged an operatic production entitled “Gapoh” (the orthodox priest who had led the workers of St. Petersburg to the massacre in front of the Winter Place on “Bloody Sunday,” January 5, 1905). A cinema “1908” is to be reproduced, for which pictures will be taken all over the territory of the Soviet Union. The picture is to include scenes of the battle of Tsusima, of the All-Russian General Strike, of the barricade battles in the Presnia quarter of Moscow, of the Jewish pogroms, of the work of the ezar’s punitive expeditions, etc,, etc. The program of festivities at Leningrad includes pageants and mass action, reproducing the historic scenes of 1905. * * * . So the oppressed of the remaining five-sixths of the land surface ~ § the earth will learn how the workers and peasants of Russia fought and suffered to win their eman- cipation. Such struggles are still ahead for those who still wear the capitalist yoke... It is not sufficient that the celebration of this 20th anni- versary be left in the United States, to Russian workers, with a few workers of other nationalities taking a sympa- thetic interest. In Chicago a good start has already been made in the calling of a conference of Russians who took part in this struggle. Workers of all nationalities, however, especially Ameri- can-born workers, must be drawn into the commemoration , of this historic event. There are three months ahead for the preparations. Let these listing large masses of those arrangements be thoro, en- who labor in memory of an event that showed how the workers of.a great nation turned a defeat in the short space of 12 years into the greatest triumph enslaved labor on this globe has yet achieved. MELLON FEARS TO MAKE DEBT PLOTS PUBLIC Parley with French Will Be Secret PARIS, France, Sept. tary. of the treasury Mellon has prom- ised the French debt envoys, headed by Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, who are coming here soon strict secrecy, “to prevent populer out- bursts,” it is announced here. The French government considers Mellon’s secrecy proposal “extremely favorable” it was made known. Prime Minister Baldwin, of Eng- Jand, at a conference with Cajllaux, has warned the Painleve government that if they should promise to pay America more than was promised Britain, he would re-open the British debt question. Senator in Drunken Orgy. BAKER, Oregon, Sept, 14.—Charged with being drunk and disroderly, U. S. Senator R. N. Stanfield was ar- id here by Officer Edens, when he. was accused of creating a disturb- ance in a restaurant. It is alleged that Stanfield was throwing things about promiscuously and when threatened with arrest, defled the officer on the ground that he was a United States senator, ae nee Tf you want. to. thoroughly ‘un derstand Cgmmunism—study it. | Send for a, catalogue of all Com- munist Litera. Negro Labor Congress to Be Discussed by the Russian Branch W. P. The Negro Labor Congress will be discussed at the next regular meet- ing of the Russian branch, Workers Party, to morrow, Thursday, Sept. 17, at 8 p. m,, at 1902 W. Division St. A speaker representing the Negro La- bor Congress will give a report. Dis- cussion will follow. The meeting is 15—Secre-|open to everybody. The report will be in the English language, body is welcome, Every- GIOGR Bova sessassssingens Name: Street: City: Blvd., Chicago, Ill, As Much as You Can ard as Soon as You Can But Whatever You Can You Must" To Save THE DAILY WORKER I am sending you my response to your appeal. I en- a ansneavesneanebeastesesnseeseoesessesssennnsesenens Address letters and make checks and money orders payable to THE DAILY opens. 1113 W. Nena FRENCH ACTION Join in Celebration of SEEN AS FRESH | Russia’s 1905 Revolution|| SOVIET THREAT Illinois Solon, Donkey Says U. S. Attache PARIS, Sept. 15—Reports that the debt negotiations between Paris and Moscow have been suddenly broken off by Franc created a political sensation here. Coming on the heels of the acceptance of the security pact, by the governments of Britain, France and Germany, the news roe the Soviet contention that th ity pact is nothing else but an abbese against the U. S. 8. R. hatched and brought to maturity by the Britieh government, Three main considerations re be- Meved to have prompted France to break off negotiations with Russia, if the reports are well founded. First there is the French fear of Germany, Secondly, the need for benevolent neutrality on the part of the British in the French campaigns in Morocco and Syria where French prestige has received demaging blows. Thirdly, on the eve of France's ef- fort to solve the American debt pro- blem, she wants to show the United States that her relations with Russia are not so cordial as to prevent her joining a world wide attack against the workers republic provided good and sufficient considerations were ad- vanced. There Is Skepticism Of course, seasoned political “ob- servers, well acquainted with the di- plomatic technique of the Quai d’ Orsay, are abiding their time before building any speculative edifice on the flimsy foundations laid down by these rumors. It is no secret that Caillaux is not very much in symp thy with the proposed Soviet debt terms, The French finance minister is in high standing with the interna- tional bankers and the bankers have not yet shown any inclination to make concessions to the Soviet govern- ment. A regular tornado of anti-Soviet propaganda was turned loose in every European capital just as soon as the news: of the acceptance of the secur- ity pact was made public. An Amer- ican congressman by the name of Britten, hitherto unknown in Europe was quoted liberally by the British press. Britten is reported to have said, that after talking to Tchitcherin and other Soviet officials, he conclud- ed they were a lot of murderers, An attache of the American embassy in Paris Jaughed loudly and raucously when shown Britten’s statement. “We do not agree with Tchitcherin’s ideas any more than Mr. Britten” he said, “but Iwill say quite unofficially that compared to the Soviet foreign mini- ster, in intelligence and manners, Mr. Britten is.a donkey.” Removal of Portables May Result in Strike The Chicage board of education is threatened with a parent and children strike at the Eugene Field school be- cause of the removal of portables from Albion Ave. and Greenview to a narrow lot on Clark St. and North Shore Ave, The parents claim street cars and automobile traffic make the new location dangerous for children and there is no playground. Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Breat Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.84%; cable 4.84%. France, franc, demand 4.71%; cable 4.72. Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.38%; cable 4.39, Italy, lira, demand 4.11%; cable 4.12. Sweden, krone, demand 26.79; cable 26.82. Nor- way, krone, demand. 21.28; cable 21.30 Denmark krone, demand 24.50; cable 2460. Germany, mark, not quoted, Shanghal, taels, 80.50 If you want to see the Com- munist movement grow—get a sub for the DAILY WORKER. eeeeeeeseanenebennen . State: f