The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAIUY WORKE THE DAILY WORKER . Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Mt. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mall (outelde 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, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Hlinole J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB..... Wattors .Business Manager at the post-office at Chi- 3, 1879, ng rates on br Entered ax second-class mail September 21, 1923, cago, Iil., under the act of March <i 290 eae Sigman a Changed Man. Outwardly at least, Morris Sigman, acting as czar of the Inter- = the Shameen massacre, sent the Briti: port of the shooting, showing that the The document, signed by Fu Ping Sheungl follows: Foreigners Began Firing. “Gayernnfent Despatch to the Brit- ish Consul General and French Con- sul: “I bring to your notice that I have received from the secretary for for- eign affairs and the Civil Governor of national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, is a changed man. No longer do the pages of his official organ resound with the banging of the mailed fist and the rattle of the official sabre. Peace is in the air. The cooing of the dove has given place to the roar of the lion, yet a little investigation ‘will show that what takes the places of the old Sigman of mass expulsion days, is neither the lion nor the dove but a combination of the jackass and the grinning hyena. Sigman tried to expel ‘the Communists and their sympathizers from the union, because of their political convictions and because they took their union seriously enuf to fight against the betrayal of Sigman and company, to the employers and to the capitalist politic- But Sigman found a mass revolt of the membership on his He tried the rough stuff but he was only heaping fuel on} Finally he began ians. hands. the fires of union discontent with his leadership. to talk peace, But Sigman’s peace proposal is the slimiest concoction that ever dropped from a faker’s pen. One of the burning issues in the union is the question of proportional representation. But Sigman in his organ, Justice, puts this question outside the pale of discussion be- fore a meeting of shop chairmen in New York City, where the ma- jority of the members of the I. L. G. U. work. f It is not surprising that Sigman should balk at this question. As long as 60 per cent of the union membership can elect only 20 per cent of the joint board delegation, just so long will Sigman be able to retain legal control over the union. The rank and file who now follow the leadership of the Joint Council of Action, will pay no heed to the sophistries of Sigman and his gangsters. They will give him a little more of the kind of argument that always works with an autocrat. That is an effective demonstration of power. Sigman is now cooing like a dove. Before the Joint Council of Action gets thru with him he will be whining like a pup. The Pallman Porter An effort is now being made to unionize the slaves of the Pull- man Sleeping Oar company, who make the bunks, and in other ways attend to the discomfort of those who are obliged to perform acro- batic feats in their involuntary contributions to the estate of George Pullman, the chief beneficiary of which is former governor Lowden of Ilinois. No other set of slaves are more in need of organization than the Pullman porters. The company has a “benevolent” organization on the “B and 0” plan but it, even violates the agreements entered into by its own tools. And this is not strange. Only when the workers have power will the bosses listen to them or abide by their agreements. Before a Pullman porter is consid- ered entitled to his meager monthly salary of something like $65.00, he must have covered 11,000 miles in that month. He is not paid for work done in preparing sleepers before starting time. There are many other grievances. which an organized body could force the company to redress. Singly the porters are helpless and entirely at the mercy of the employers. ; There is one pitfall the porters must avoid. It is depending on the “public” for salvation. A letter sent out by Philip Randolph, general organizer of the Brotherhood of Pullman Porters, expresses the hope that when the “public” is advised of the inhuman conditions under which the porters work, that it will rise in its wrath and smite the company. This is dangerous nonsense. The porters must depend on their own collective strength, in co-operation with all other categories of railroad workers and with the workers in general, Only in unity with their own class can they find strength. This “public” bunk must be spurned. ion of I A Confession of Impotence I’. J. Conlon, one of the oldest vice-presidents in the Interna- tional Asociation of Machinists, confessed bankruptcy for the bureau- eracy of his organization and for the craft system of unionism when Kwangtung, verbal instructions to the | following effect: | “We have duly received and noted the despatches from the British con- sult general and the French consul. “Soon after the Shaki massacre, I, the governor, had an investigation commission appointed in which judi- | cial and police officials, represent: | atives of the laborers, peasants, mer- chants and educators, and the Ameri- can, Russian and German consuls were invited to sit. “The officials in charge of the com- mission have now handed in their first report, which leaves no dbubt that the firing was first from Sham- een with the result that many were killed and wounded. This can be proved by the following facts: Two Students Shot Dead, “First, the procession was led by laborers, peasants, and merchantts. Next came boy and girl students of schools, colleges, and universities. The cadets were the last to make up the procession. With the exception of the cadets, every one was. unarmed. When passing in front of the English Bridge, the students of Canton Chris- tian College were fired upon from Shameen. Instantly a teacher, named | Au Lai Chowyrand a student, named Hui Yu Cheung, were shot dead on the spot. Three were seriously wound- ed while many others received slight injuries. “Students marching after the Can- ton Christian College boys, like stu- dents of Kwan Wei Girl School, Sa- cred Heart College, Normal College for Girls, City Normal College, Chap Sun School and the Second Higher Primary School, were also fired upon before the cadets. The distance be tween the Canton Christian College boys and the cadets was at least sev- eral hundred feet. ‘At the time when the Canton Christian College boys were shot | dead, the cadets had not yet reached the English Bridge. According to the coroner's reports later that. the corps- esvof Au Lai Chow, a teacher, and Hui:Yu Cheung, a student, of Canton Qhbristian College were found in a Place west of ‘the English Bridge while those of the cadets were found near the Shaki entrance—a place some distance away from the English Bridge, it is clear that unarmed stu- dents in front of the English Bridge were the first. to be slaughtered by the firing from Sham- CANTON GOVERNOR TELLS STORY OF SHAMEEN MASSACRE, DEMANDS THAT FOREIGN WARSHIPS BE WITHDRAWN PEKIN, (By Tass.)—The Canton government, aftér asthoro inquiry into sh and French governments a full re- foreign troops alone were responsible. The letter sent by the civil governor of Canton tells the story of the shooting in clearer detail than any report yet sent out, The governor demands full control of Shameen, that the foreign war- ships be sent away, and that those guilty be punished and the families of the victims be recompensed, + heard, the cadets who were at the Shaki entrance had not even dispers- ed so as to prepare for action. This clearly attests the fact that the cadets had no intention to create trouble be- forehand and it was only after they heard the news of the unforeseen dis- aster to the paraders. that they thus proceeded to the rescue. Cadets Drove) Off Foreigners. “Fourth, according, to reports of the students of the various schools, after the machine guns’ from Shameen had swept the dense © crowd, they saw some foreign soldiers; with arms in hand as tho to open gates of the bridge so as to make a charge against the demonstrators. “Fortunately the ¢adets arrived in time and the foreign soldiers then closed the gates.and drew back. But for the rescue ‘and Protection of the cadets, the casualties of the demon- strators would*not-be the present number only. How can any one ac- cuse the cadets to be the first to open fire? s “All the above mentioned facts are the reports collected from the boy and girl students who were eye-wit- nesses of the tragedy, and judging from these evidences there is no doubt that firing was started first in Shameen. Moreover Shameen fired heavily with machine guns using bul- lets of an unusual type so that large openings were made in the wounds of the victims. This is a grosser crime against humanity. Foreign Lives Protected, “Altho such a heavy blow has been received, yet the government assures full protection to the foreigners. With reference to the fotriier letters of the British and French consuls asking for the protection of ‘foreign lives and property, I, the secretary for foreign affairs, have alféady made a reply. After the massaere, I, the’ civil gov- ernor on the very same night, in reply to the letters,of the German and American consuls and others, declar- ed that foreign’ lives and property would be duly protected. “I have Hkewise. proclaimed to the people to strive.for the abolition of the unequal treaties by peaceful and appropriate method. and not by a nar- row-minded policy of revenge. “If the foreign military forces are increasing, the minimum effect will be to excite the «people, making it hard for the. government to pacity them, while the maximum effect will be to induce this, government to hold that the French,and British desire to continue, the. attack against Can: ton as in the previous case. There- fore, we request you, the British and French consuls, te-declare, first, that atrociously Nhe forces will not,be increased, that is not to despatch more troops and een, and that in response to what had been done at the English Bridge, Shooting also began near the French Bridge so that many persons in the procession fell victims with their bodies lying on top of another. Many passers by were also victims. This fact is quite evident to all. Good Order Maintained. “Second, besides those taking part in the procession, there were many Policemen standing along the Bund up to Shaki with white flags in their hands to maintain good order. There was also a great number of by-stand- ers along the Bund. Again, those in the procession had not taken the slightest precaution against any mis- hap. The procession composed of such a dense crowd was, then, pass- ing gently along a narrow and long he admitted that only the skilled men in the tool-making section of the automobile industry in Detroit were organized into trade unions, Detroit is the center of the automobile industry. Conlon declared that the craft unions would never be able to organize the automobile industry; it was a job for the radicals. There are over 200,000 persons employed in the manufacture of automobile and auto accessories in and around Detroit. Yet barely one per vent of those workers are organized. Here we have a gigantic arniy of labor, left without any protection against the greed of the employing class, while the leaders of the American Federation of Labor go up and down the country denouncing the Communists and telling the workers to beware of them. Fe It is not surprising that the capitalists should shower com- pliments on the labor fakers and picture them as the defenders of American democracy. They are the most valiant supporters of Amer- ican capitalism, and if they do not receive fat checks from the em- ployers for their success in keeping the workers unorganized and working for low wages, ‘the employers are penny wise and dollar foolish. ; Conlon is right. ‘The craft union leaders will not organize the unskilled workers in the highly developed automobile industry, or in any other industry, Skil is no longer required by the great major- ity of the slaves who make the automobiles. They don’t belong in eraft unions, They belong in industrial unions; one union for each industry. To organize those workers is the task of the radicals, They must be ready for that task. It is reported that warring tongs in New York have signed a peace treaty. We note that the hammers are omitted, This reminds us forcibly of the Washington disarmament conference, where the old battleships were scrapped and the up-to-date battle cruisers sanctioned. The league of nations has been successful in little things, writes a league well wisher, but it failed in its main object. It can’t stop war but it can at least call conferences, In this respect it bears a striking resemblance to the ©. Pi P. Ad; it Couldn't or would not organize a labor party but it.“liked ee about it” ow ~ Pina: ew = thorofare. “If, as was stated by the British consul general and the French con- sul, the cadets were the first to open fire, and if, as was stated by Captain Maxwell Scott, British naval officer, firing was only returned from Sham- een after hundreds of shots were fired from our side, the cadets no doubt would have asked the bystanders to disperse before they started the fir- ing so as not to involve all in the calamity and, again, they would have waited until those preceding them had already passed Shaki before they would consent to open fire. “Furthermore, firing of a hundred shots on the part of the cadets would certainly have caused all those in the procession and the bystanders to make their escape so that when the fire was returned by Shameen, the casualties would all be sustained by cadets. French, British Statements False. “How is it that so many students and passers-by were shot dead and wounded? In view of the above fact the accusation of the British consul general and the French consul that the fire was first started by the ca- dets was absolutely false. “Third, on that day, there were al- ready many sand bags put up. in Shameen besides many other war pre- parations while the cadets on the oth- er hand did not take the least pre- caution in mind, They were marching four abreast behind the laborers, peas- ants, merchants and the students, If the cadets had purposely intended to create trouble, they would not certain- ly have during the parade been so close to one another and voluntarily suffered such heavy losses in case of trouble. When (the Canton Christian College stude reached the English Bridge, ard | ay brisk firing was AL OM | cree men-of-war so as.to facilitate the ne- gotiation of this case. This outrage- ous massacre of our Chinese citizens is absolutely against humanity and universal principle, Demand Control of Shameen. “We hereby prégent the following demands: —~ “1, All the ‘nations concerned should appoint high Officials to tender apology to the Kwangtung govern- ment. “2. To punish the authorities con- cerned. \ “3. All the men-of-war of the na- tions concerned to be withdrawn, ex- cept ‘two boats designed for convey- ance of messages, 4. Rendition of Shameen to Kwangtung governmgnt’s control. 5. Compensate the Chinese who were killed and wounded. “The British and French consuls should be requested to transmit these five demands to “their ministers in Pekin and to their foreign affairs de- partments for consideration and reply and also request ‘them to advise us how they proposé to deal with this despatch when they. “lected it.” ee RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN PERFORMANGE & DANCE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 a and Ukrainian _, Workers r Saturday, Oct, morial Hall, cor. ance and dance 11, at Emmett WV ner Ogden and All friendly o quested to keep not to arrange other affairs. ONE MILLION GOLD MARKS GIVEN BY WORKERS OF WORLD TO AID CHINESE STRIKERS, THRU I. W. R. MOSCOW (By Tass),—According International Workers’ Relief, contributions subscribed thru this organiza- tion by workers of call countries for the relief of strikers in China exceeded, by the end of July, one million gold marks (German), @ The U.S. 8, R, trade unions were leading the list with 400,000 roubles to their credit; then come Czecho-Slovakia with about 110,000 Czech crowns, , i Germany with 47,000 marks, France with 85,000 frangd etc, A spectal Chinese strike wi ra’ relief com- mittee was organized in Switzerland } ie R WE DARE NOT STOP TO REST IN OUR FIGHT TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER F there are those who think that because of the prompt and splendid response which some comrades have made to THE DAILY WORKER appeal for help that the emergency situation is over. and that THE DAILY WORKER is out of danger, these comrades are making a very serious mistake, It was not merely to meet current expenses that THE DAILY WORKER asked for support. During the summer large debts were in- curred. It is these bills for paper and supplies and the loans that were made that must be paid amounting to many thousands of dollars that con- stitute one of the most serious threats to our paper. While old obliga- tions are being met new ones are constantly arising, The money which has so far been received has enabled THE DAILY , WORKER to avoid some of these dangers. But to abandon the fight now Bore Norway, Mut" coun- would be to desert THE DAILY WORKER just at the moment when it is beginning to fight its way out of its difficulties. It was said at the start of the drive that $10,000 was the amount necessary during the first two weeks. This is the start of the campaign. This goal must be reached immediately and then THE DAILY WORKER and its supporters must set about to est ‘ish ‘the security of THE DAILY WORKER during the coming year, Not quite half of the first $10,000 has been raised, This is not due to lack of efforts on the part of many comrades. Hundreds have rushed forward with all and more than they could sparé: But there are thou- sands who have yet to respond. If you are among these, make up your mind that THE DAILY WORKER can spare ‘the support of none of its readers, of no single one of the militant fighters in the class struggle. ARE WE SLIPPING BEHIND? THESE SAID NO ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY What Do You Say Today? - PROPAGANDA IN THE ANTHRACITE TO FOOL MINERS But Big Pay Only Looks That Way By PAT TOOHEY. (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKES BARRE, Pa., Sept. 16— This week the anthracite miners re- ceive their last pay which is for. work performed the last half of August It is estimated the payroll for the entire region will exceed $15,800,000. This will be the largest pay ever re- ceived by the miners in any two week period. On this fact the anthra- cite operators’ conference are waging an intensive advertising campaign.) Printed on the back of the miners’ statement of wages is a beautiful mes- sage from the coal companies. The due bill is utilized by the op- erators to propagandize the miners by pointing out their side of the “controversy.” One statement reads “$1,200.00 in wages lost daily by the miners and whose fault?” Another reads “Impartial arbitration is the fairest way to settle disputes. We are always ready to arbitrate our dif- ferences, however, come what may, they will be arbitrated in the end,” ete. Some others claims the miners could make wonderfully large pays, as was done in the latter half of August, would they only work and keep quiet. A Big Pay Day. The large pay can easily be explain« ed. At the end of every two weeks miners have on an average three or four cars of coal on the road to the surface, which are paid for on the following ~pay, and during the latter half of August, this coal was paid for. Payment for this road coal increased the pay from $10.00 to $12.00 for the. two-week period. Second, the yardage and measure- ments of the contract miners are usually taken on the 25th and 26th of each month, but during the last ‘two-week period this was measured on the 30th of the month, which add- ed. to ;the measurements of the con- tract miners for this period, increas- ing their pay in this respect by at least $10.00 or $12.00. No Bulge For the Day Men, Harry co, Paris, Robert Zelm: J. Percovich, N. Hibbing, Minn. F. Bershing, Chicago, Ill... L. M. P. S. Branch 26, Rochester J. H, Seitz, Willoughby, 0. Lithuanian W. P., Cleveland 0. $3.00; Z. A. Boston, Mary Ostrow, Los Angeles, Cal. 25.00 Frank Lehti, Fort Myers, Fl. 1.50 James Rechnagel, New York. 1.00. Russian Br., W. P., Bronx, N. Y. 10, Edward Royce, New York, N.Y. 10,00 S$. R. Bedford, Cleveland, 5.00 S. Theodor Ind, .. Workers 5 Frank Peterson, Stratford, Conn. Lillfan Tannenbaum, Brooklyn.. 2. Chas. Brown, Otto Persching, Loulsville, K English Harlem York ... W. R. Dowler, Oakland, Ca Sisicnus Scandinavian No. 22, W. P., Chi- H. M. de Almeida, New York... 1.00 cago, Il, ary Workingmen’s Home 2 English W. jociety, New -York.. . 50.00 English W, P., San Jose, Ca’ Fl hed Ws Be ON Fotos) . . 1,00 Polish W P., Warren John Devine, Chicag . 8.00 V. Kroutsieder, New Baden, Ill. 5.00) john Grucyolowski, Cleveland... 1.00 English Br., W. P., Duluth, Minn. 10.00| Steve Holtz, Chicag - 1.00 (Carl Lund, Theo. Palm, Loule | Lachoff, Baltimore, Md., We P..... 5.00 Estness, Chas. McKinnon, Sam Shwetz, Baltimore, Md., W. P..... 2.00 Pobersky, Nels P. Nelson, M. Kran Baltimore, » W. P. 2.00 J. O'Rourke, R, E. Rooney) and Katherine Kratofil, Bulgarian Br., Portland, Ore.. 11.60 fi . 6,00 M. Svaby, Chicago, Ill. . 8. Slavic No. 72, E, Youngstown, § otis . ~ §.00 “ Cicero, IIl., English W. - 11.00 .Horacek ‘and Brenneiser, Albert Nelson, Rochester, Minn. Eng., W. P., Pittsburgh, 15.50 L, Knouse, Rochester, Minn....... S Slav. Br. W P, Tridéiph 7.50 Russian Br., Grand Rapids, Mich. S. Slav, W. P.,. Cleveland, 5.00 Bernard Reinertsen, Chicago, III. Albert Stoll, Detroit, Mich. 5.00 David Kovacs, South Bend, Ind. R. P. Bodkin, Newport, Ky.. 1.00 English W. P.,. Omaha, “Neb., East St. Louis, Ill, W. P., (additional) 8.00} Central Committee . . 25.90 S. C. Burris, Li I 5.00| W, Lindgren, Minneapoli: 5.00 Samuel Levine, Chicago, Il. 2.00| Eric Gottoway, Racine, W 5.00 M. Tikotzky, Chicago, III. 2.00/ Aug. Asselberg, St. Louis, Mo 2.00 E. R. Ishler, Toledo, O. 2.00} Owen’ Greenman, Sulphur Czecho-Slovak W, P., Milwaukee 5.00| Springs, Fla, 2.00 Albert Gerling Madrid, la... 2.50| Joe Rhoden, Jacksonvill 10.00 J. Lantz, New Kensington, Pa :25| N. M. Nelson, Rochester, Min: 1.00 Joe Hajuk and J. Vernick, Har- Geo, F. Partridge, Roch marville, Pa. .. 2.00 1.00 M. J. Vernick, Harmarville, Pa, ° 1.00 Olof Brown, Chicago, III 1.00 - 6,00 M, Coyetkovich, Lilly, 3.00 83.50 So. Slavic, W. P., Milwaukee. 10,00 1.00 M. Sendich, Detroit, Mich.. 4.08 1.00 Wage Slave, New York. 2.00] John Le Pauvre, Zanesville, O. 5.00 English W. P., East Cleveland, -| Polish Br. W. Hamtramck, Ohio .... 17.60} Mich. . - 5.00 M. C. Winokur, Chicago, Ill. 10.00] C. A. Campbell, Chicago, II! 5.00 Lithuanian W. P., Brookly 5.00] Finnish Br., W-P., Marengo, Wis. 5.00 English W. United Workers Co-op Ai Cc 2,00' tion, Beacon, N. Y. 80 .00 00 00 00 00 , $2. Indiana Harbor, Bekienis, $2. itis, $1.00; # J, Miller, $1.00; A. $1.00; B. Kirstukas, novicie, $1.00; A. J. Gabruinar, $.50; S. Kazeliouls, $.50) Archie J, Young, Mt. Wa 1.00 5.00 Vernon, D, Ago! , Lithuanian W. P., Chicago Heights, Ill, L. Paulich, Klein, Mont. Banku Furniture Co., Denver, Colo, ... - Anton Medick, Powhatan Point, Ohi: Total Tuesday and Wednesday 811.85 Previously acknowledged . Total 20 Bate crressecoreceseeesosrerecoen John Surbek, Hancock, Steve M. Kurepa, Pittsburgh, Slav 52, W. Y. W. L, M .. S, S. Osasto, Mass, Mich. Frank Engli, Grand Rapids, Mich. .. Y. W. L. No. 1, Los Angi Los Angeles, Cal., Russian. Al Johnson, Trenton, N. V. J. Valaitis, New Britain, Conn. Julius Klarin, Atlanta, Ga Mrs. Fred Holmquist, Chi Ed Shantz, Chicago Mrs. Ingeborg Monson, Mont, Jack Lowy, Chicago. Chas, F. Faupel, Chicago. Abington, Mass., Finnish Bi Hungarian delphia .. Nicola Aimol: lelphia, Jos, Chuba, Johnstown, Pi by ged Gawra, John: P, Lenberg, Springwellis, J, Jensen, Bridgeport, Conn. . to weports published abroad by the while reports of relief drives for the " ieee same purpose were received also from Blvd., Chicago, 1. But by the Combined Eforts of All Will It Be Possible to Save THE DAILY WORKER Iam sending you my response to your appeal. I en- ‘and make chécks and money orders | payable to THE DAILY WoRIaR 1113 W. Washington _ And again, miners realizing that it was to be their last pay until the termination of the strike, did make an. effort to load as much coal as pos- sible, the company supplying extra. cars, something never done before, To continue to work at the fncreased, rate of ‘speed would be impossible, but knowing the strike would give them ample time to rest up, they ac tually, with the urging of the com- pany, worked their fool heads off, . ~ While the operators harp on the big wages made the last pay by the min- ers, it is striking to note the com- pany men made but their usual aver- age’ during this period, they wha work for a specific day rate, and the only ones to gain thereby was the contract miner. Class in Principles ‘of Communism Starts Sunday in New Haven NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 16 A class in the study of the principles of Communism is being started by the -English branch of the Young Workers’ League. All workers, young and old, are invited to join. The lecture-discussion method will be used, and debate will be encour- 00 | aged. The class will meet every Sunday morning, 10:30 a. m., promptly, at the Labor Lyceum—38 Howe St. Comrade Carl Weissberg, of the Y. 'W. L., will be the instructor, Come this Sunday, Sept. 20, and Join. ¥ at poe States iiccusndaguenie yi ~ athe era i: '