The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1925, Page 1

Vol. II. No. 213. U.S. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HICAGO judges are now competing with each other for the compli- ments of the newspapers by treating prisomers rough. Judge Lyle cannot even stay with the trout for a few days to onjoy a brief vacation. He hurries back to make an example of a few gunmen andperhaps prepare his record for a race for the office of state’s attorney. Law and order does not enthuse capitalist politicians un- less there is something in it for them. ees cathe ap judge by the name of MoGoorty, hurried back from Eng- land ready to do his share. He got his picture on the front page of the Ohicago Herald-Examiner. McGoorty, whose ancestors were not so enthu- siastio about “English justice” thinks it is a fine product of civilization. Burgilars and confidence men receive short shrift in British court but wealthy theives are treated just about the same as they are treated here. The impartiality of British courts. is monstrous myth. They are just about as impartial as American courts—just about, P ** * Mot Hylan bit the dust in New York’s primary race for the mayoralty nomination. The Tammany maohine did the trick. It is a po- werful machine, rough and ready. The capitalists are not crazy about it but it serves their purpose better than @ machine under the direction of William Randolph Hearst. Tammany is disciplined. Hearst is not. Tam- many stands for itself first and for the capitalists afterwards, but with- eut the capitalists it would be no- where, It coins the sufferings of the magses into gold, but it does the trick | cleverly. Thus it manages to survive. How long it can survive, depends on many factors the chief of which is the pealth of the capitalist system. ‘RJPBAKING of the situation in China, “'& representative of the Los Angel- es chamber of commerce was violent fa his condemnation of the slogan “Aula for the Asiatics.” This is per- niatous, he said and carries a message evil for the “white man.” The British were past masters in the art Be of the impression among |), 49; i ‘ party, opposed the resolution of, vig od cae tag + faite Overgaard’s, saying that they had eit hina ip Shicd tage Pex “worked hard for a labor party”.-but. white men chased” back and forth over hill and dale by other white men and sometimes by black and yellow men, They were no longer invincible in their eyes, se .T made the Chinese sit up and take notice, says this gentleman was the invasion of China by a horde of-hungry Russians driven out of that country by the workers after they had toppled the Czar from the throne. Those Russians accepted any menial ocoupation that offered two or three meals a day and a bed. The Chinese came to the conclusion that a white man acts like a yellow man under a given set of circumstances, and that therefore his supremacy to date can- not ‘be attributed to the color of his skin, 2 * is a bit of truth in this. Tiape enon Peoples are being edu- to see thru the mythof white just as the workers are be- ink @ducate to see thru the myth of capitalist infallibility. ,On the one hand the imperialists crush the colon- fal peoples under thé yoke of ex- i while on the other hand fequirements of industry force ta make a certain amount of available to their slaves, (Continued on page 5): a Nee Gen p"AE&R w Yo. R 8m17 5, ||SEAMEN’S STRIKE SPREADING TO | which were 1 Chicage, by mall, $8.00 per year, yatside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, aQx so 5 N “26 The DAILY WORKER Raises 4 | the Standard for a Workers’ i and Farmers’ Government ; x ; 1 Entered’ us Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post OMce at Chicago, Illnois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1925 «<q ~~ GULF PORTS: SCAB CREW WRECKS FREIGHTER; |. S.U. MEN JOINING. (Special to The Oaily Worker) | NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 17.—Here at New York, the initial | point of the big international strike of the seamen in this coun- try, the spirit is fine. The picket line grows rapidly in numbers and determination. The White Star Liner Olympic docked here at 10 P. M. Sept. 15. She arrived in port about fifty men short in her crew. She was delayed at Cowes, England, for about six hours, when = *150 members of her crew went on strike. Great efforts will be LEFT W N . made to delay this ship here. Standard Oil Feels Strike. The ship’s delegate of S. S. Wal- ten Jenning, one of the Standard Oil of New Jersey's oil tankers reports that the entire crew quit when she arrived in port yesterday morning. A large per cent of the crew joined the M. T. W. No. 510 upon hearing that there was a strike. The captain and the chief engineer of the S. S. Major Wheeler quit yes- terd@ay afternoon. They were thoroly disgusted with the incompetence of the men aboard. They refused to sail with a scab crew, was their state- ment at leaving. Scabs Not Popular, Especially I. S. U. A similar disposition on the part of the engineering department was ex- (Continued on Page 2) INTERNATIONAL ADMITS FAILURE - JOGET SCABS Blind Ads Seek Help for Rock Island The International Tailoring Co. fail- ing to secure scabs to replace striking members of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ Union, has tried a new Stunt of inserting large, mysterious, blind ads in the newspapers. These ads, high sounding in tone, neglect to State that the company’s operations have been suspended for twelve weeks the 800 employes going on strike when the International failed to renew its agreement and endeavored to esta- blish the “open shop.” A large advertisement, covering sev- eral inches of space in the want ad columns of the Tribune and other newspapers yesterday, says, “One of the most prominent special order houses in the country, at present loca- ted in Chicago, is planning to make within the next six months a radical change in its manufacturing program. Applicants must be willing tg move out of the city, and be able to train help for our kind of work.” This is an admission that the In- ternational has been unable to sedure help in Rock Island, where they at- tempted to open up the bankrupt Boone Woolen Mills. The workers of Rock Island and Moline refused to act as strikebreakers, and now the company is endeavoring to recruit help to ship to that plant. The fact that the International has been unable to secure strikebreakers is brought out in the ad. All sorts of help is asked for, even foremen. The ad asks for “Foreman, assistant fore- at Champaign, Ill. (Special to The Daily Worker) CHAMPAIGN, Ill, Sept. 17—The left wing delegates made a fight to- day on the floor of the Illinois State Federation of Labor’s annual conven- tion for some of their resolutions introduced. by them in this, the most reactionary convention in years. Andrew Overgaard, delegate from Machinists’ Union 390 of Chicago, fought valiantly for the resolution for the formation by the unions of a labor party;and assailed the LaFollette movem."* as “a middle class affair incapable of serving’ the worekts ‘dnd poor farmers whom it betrayed.” < + Reformed Radicals at Mourn- ers’ Bench. , C. F. Lowrie, C. F. Wills and Thomas McCabe, spokesmen for the reactionaries in the question of. .a found it couldn’t be realized. ..Se along with Weeping Johnny, Walker, president of the federation, they now went back to where they started from, or a little farther, and declared that “at this time” the only thing possible was to “work” thru the old capitalist parties. Political horse trading seems to be the order of the day in labor politics. Two Fakers Talk for Record, Ed Nockels of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor seemed to think it necessary to prove his regularity to again spout a lot of nonsense about how bad the Communists are. He said he had supported the movement for recognition of Soviet Russia but added that he doesn’t like the “ele- ments” now championing that cause. Just what that has to do with whether Soviet Russia should be recognized or not, he did not say and it still remains dark as to why he quit advocation of recognition—unless, perish the thot— he went back to Gompersian policies. The delegates today weer bored with long speeches by a lot of pro- fessors and high muckamucks of the University of Illinois who took ser- fously the charges of “vice among the students” made by Ed. Wright, a hard- boiled oud sinner from the ranks of Chicago’s choicest labor fakers who wanted to cause a little commotion ZEIGLER MINE, WHERE GORBISHLY FOUGHT, ST. LOUIS, Mo. Sept. 17.—’A merger involving more than thirty- five million dollars, which would consolidate all coal mines within a radius of sevénty-five miles of St. Louis, is now ‘under way, with the | backing of Chicago capital, it was | announced today. | Herbert E. Bell, of the Bell and Zoller Coal campany, of Chicago, will head the new concern. One of | the mines controlled by this com- pany is the Bell and Zoller mine Zeigler, No. 1, where the mine union officials. ~=have combined against the militant miners, and de- Soldiers Refuse to Fight for Bankers fo The Daily Worker) in, Sept. 17.—Spanish soldiers en Poute to the Morocco im- perialist slaughter have again mu- tinied, contingents at Malga and Al- geciras, S ports, preventing em- berkation. e Spanish government has ordered that all troops must here- after be sent away at night, to “avoid ORKER. HUTS GATES TO CO Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents MMUNIST Saklatvala Barred by Cal NHiGe NE MEE! At Great Britain’s Request (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 17.—The refusal of Secretary of State Kellogg to admit Shapur+ |ji Saklatvale, Communist member of the British house of commons, after a conference with President Coolidge, was prompted by the Baldwin government, well informed persons here de- clared. form the workers of America of the true conditions of the work- ‘ing class in England, burdened with increased unemployment and the wage cutting campaign. Free Speech a Crime to Cal The reason Kellogg gave for barring | Saklatvala was, “I do not believe we should admit foreigners to this coun- try to preach anarchy or a revolution- ary overthrow of the government.” Kellogg said these speeches had been made “in public and in parliament.” Senator Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee, disappro- ved strongly of Coolidge’s ban on free speech. He said, “We have laws in this country to protect ourselves, If Saklatvala violates them he can be arrested. If he incites Americans to commit crimes put him in jail. But to deny him a visitors’ admittance is ridiculous.” Borah pointed out that Saklatvala‘s speeches had been made in public, and that the United States should be as They say that altho no official request was made, “an informal hint was dropped,” that |Home Secretary Joynson Hicks wished to prevent Saklatvala from attending the congress of |the Interparliamentary Union here next month as a British delegate. : “If | had the power | would soon stop Saklatvala going to America. But | haven't, because ihe is a British citizen,” Hicks said recently. afraid that Saklatvala would in-+ : Both the British and American governments were EXCLUSION OF SAKLATVALA BARES DICTATORSHIP OF EMPLOYERS UNDER FRAUDULENT CLOAK OF “DEMOCRACY” The, Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has issued a statement exposing the exclusion of Shapurji Saklatvala, Com- munist member of parliament of Great Britain, as an attempt of the Amer- ican capitalist government to hide the truth about its fraudulent “democracy,” Saklatvala was a British delegate to the Interparliamentary Union at Washington early in October. He was barred from the country by Secretary of State Kellogg, just after the latter had conferred with President Coolidge on the matter. The barring of Saklatvala shows that the Coolidge govern- ment is afraid of the truth, Saklatvala said, after recéiving word of the action. The statement of the C. E. C. follows: * > * ° The exclusion of Shapurji Saklatvala, the Communist member of the British parliament from the United States by edict of the state de- partment exposes the true character of the government under our “Amer- ican democracy” as an agency of the capitalists to protect their system of profit making. Saklatvala was coming to the United States to attend the sessions of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Since he is a Communist, a member liberal in the matter of free speech as the British parliament. He declar- ed the barring of Saklatvala a short sighted policy, and a “gagging” meas- ure, se demonstrations.” Frenefy Losses Heavy. The ‘ot tes of 8 re- peapture..of typgiet Ht, Bibane from the Rifflans on the aN tront, but admit that in ‘the fighting there French losses were usually heavy. All operations in the Spanish Mo- roceo zone have been suspended, the Rivera government admits, attribut- ing this to the “violent storms raging at sea and along the coast.” However, the mutinies of the Spanish soldiers ahve greatly alarmed the Rivera gov- ernment. Food Is: Giving Out. America Afraid of Truth LONDON, England, Sept. 17.—“Is America afraid of the truth?” Saklat- vala- asked hig interviewers just.after receiving official notification that his passport visa, already granted, had begn revoked. “So that is free Amer- ica is it? You can tell your people that I won’t attempt to enter their country. “I wont try to go with the delega- tion to the Washington conference when it leaves Saturday, altho I ‘un- derstand sonfe of the delegates are fearful that I might go with them to Canada and then try secretly to cross The Spanish landing forces on the} the border into the United States. 1 shores of Alhucemas Bay have been unable to secure re-inforcements from the Spanish-French fleet. The troops which were disembarked have food enough for only a few days ‘more. The Riffians have again cut the Tangier-Tetuan toad, stopping all communication: between these two im- portant points. Continuous gunfire is audible around Tetuan, Rogers Park Parents Protest to the School Board Today in a Body The parents of the Eugene Field school children will attend a meeting of the building.and grounds commit- tee of the board of education today to and get his name in the papers. EWIS AND PINCHOT CONFERENCE EPARES ARBITRATION BETRAYAL OF ANTHRACITE MINERS’ STRIKE ty (Special to The Daily Worker) ~ a SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 17.—That John L. Lewis is again lotting to betray the anthracite miners’ strike which has called $58,000 miners from the pits and collieries of this on is seen ‘the suspicious secrecy maintained by him and Governor nchot, whose past record of intervention as an “arbitrator” has a issue that worked against any arbitration in the present It is bad when any labor leader goes into secret conference _ with a capitalist government authority or with the capitalists direct, And John L. Lewis has shown that he regards his promise of secrecy made to Pinchot higher than his allegiance to the t (Continued on page 5) men, section heads, with experience in managing, coat shops, pants shops, vests shops, cutting rooms, alteration rooms, and trimming rooms.” The International tried to secure strikebreakers by signing an agree- ment with the United Garment Work- ers Union, affiliated with the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, and adver- tised as a “union shop,” but this plan also failed, " TWO MINERS KILLED IN NON-UNION MINE IN WEST VIRGINIA WHEELING, W, Va. Sept. 17.— Two men were killed and two sev- erely burned at midnight when fifteen five-pound cans of powder on car exploded two miles inside’ the’ No, 2 mine of the Elm Grove Coal ‘démpany n Sixty-seven ‘other ‘men in t when the blast Wént off came from the workings uhiAjured, idtucncmns si “8 : \ Protest against the moving of the por- tables. A protest meeting held by them was attended by over 300 parents and theorganization of a per- manent group ‘known as the Roger Park Parents’ Association was start- ed. . The protest ‘which has developed into a strike was started by the re- moval of seven ‘portables to North Clark street and ‘North Shore avenue from Greenleif.and North Ashland Ave. This has increased the distance the children must travel in some cases over a mile: N. Y. PartyMembers Urged to ‘Attend the Foster Meeting Saturday NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 17—All| party members who are members of | the independent unions, including the Shoeworkers, Amalgamated Metal Workers, the United Labor Council, Public Service Workers, etc., are re- quested to attend a meeting at 108 East 14th street, at 4 p. m, Saturday, September 19, William Z. Foster will speak on par- ty policy. in the ‘independent uninos. Rob Piggly Wiggly Store, STREATOR, -Ill, Sept, 17.—Safe crackers gained entrance to the won't go, but I would like to know if ; America is afraid of the truth.” | American Burns Overjoyed | Home Secretary Hicks seemed over- joyed that the noted Communist was barred from America. “The United States had. a perfect right to ban Sak- latvala,” he said. Hicks intimated that he is planning to imprison Sak- latvala on charges of “preaching sedi- tion.” Hicks fears, however, an “unfavor- able reaction in India,” Saklatvala’s native land where the Communist leader has a large following. New Haven Teachers Get Raise NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 17.— (FP)—A $100 salary increase for all New Haven teachers receiving less than the maximunr for their grades is included in the city budget for next year. 15 Brickyards Shut Down MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Sept. 17.— (FP)—Fifteen brickyards are closed by the strike for union recognition in the neighborhood of Middletown and Berlin. Piggly Wiggly store here last night, blew a safe and lescaped with loot estimated today ati$400 In cash, WASHINGTON REPORT ADMITS BRITISH ASKED SAKLATVALA BE BARRED (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Secret- ary of State Kellogg’s action in barring Shapuri Saklatvala, Com- munist member of the British par- liament from entering the United St to attend the International Parliamentary Union, was taken at the direct instance of the British government, it was learned here this afternoon on unimpeachable authority, Unable itself to prevent Saklat- ittendance, and desirous of preventing his flaming attacks on the British empire before American audien the British home office informally communicated with the American embassy abroad, and the matter was thus amicably arranged under the law that reposes in the state department authority to bar Communists from the United State tells iisli als of the Communist Party of Great Britain and of the Communist Interna- tional, he would have undoubtedly have expressed at the meetings of the Inter-Parliamentary Union the Communist view in regard to the true character of the existing parliamentary government. He would haye torn away the mask of “democracy” behind which the parliamentary governments of such countries as Great Britain, France and the United States hide the fact that the governments of these countries are really diefatorships of the capitalists, and that the main.reason for which these dictatorships exist is to compel the work- ers at homé to submit to the exploitation of the capitalists and to fight the imperialists’ battles of thé same capitalists in foreign lands. Coolidge Tears Off “Democracy” Mask. It was because Saklatvala would have brot this message to the United States and would have told the workers of this country how the British workers are organizing their power for the overthrow of the capitalist dictatorship in their country, that Secretary of State Kellogg in co-operation with President Coolidge, both acting for the American capitalists, denied Saklatvala the right to enter this country. Curiously enough, the denial of admission to Saklatvala to enter the United States achieves the very purpose for which Saklatvala was coming to the United States. In denying the representative of the British workers to enter the United States, while the representatives of the every autocracy and hangman government in Europe freely cross our borders, the American government of Morgan, Kellog and Coolidge drives home the very point that Saklatvala would have made—that the American “democracy” is a fraud and a sham hiding the rule of the capitalists of this country. Central Executive Committee, Workers Party of America, C. E. Ruthenberg, General Secretary COMMUNIST DEPUTY OF VERA CRUZ MURDERED BY AGENT OF CALLES GOVERNMENT IN JALAPA PALAC “eter MEXICO CITY, Sept. 17.—Francisco J. Moreno, Communist member of the chamber of deputies of the state of Veracruz, has been assassinated in the government palace in Jalapa, Moreno had distiguished himself recently by the exposure of a million peso bribe given by an oil company to General Jara, governor of the state, and his associates, in the securing of @ con- cession to valuable oil lands. Governor Jara has hitherto ‘posed as a revolutionary and at mass peasant gatherings in the state has responded to the cry: “Long ¢——_—___-—_—. Live the Bolshevik Governor!” Moreno has been a member of the Communist Party for about a year— that is, ever since his election to the chamber of deputies enabled him to understand the sham and corruption of Mexican “socialist” politics. Since joining the party he has loyally car- ried out its discipline (the assassina- tion attests that fact) and has carried on a brilliant campaign in the cham- ber on behalf of the workers and peasants. Receiving a large salary as deputy he turned over most of it to the Com- munist Party, the Peasants League of Veracruz and other worker and peas- ant organizations; one of the condi- tions of hig entrance into the party being that he take only the salary ap- propriate to’ one of his trade. He is a railwayman and has been an active leader in the railway unions. He Was originally elected deputy on the ticket of the railwaymen's party, a pseudo-labor party but a few months of experience in the chamber of de- the Communist Party of Mexico. itically and cause his entranee into Indignation among the workers and peasants of Vera Cruz and of. the entire country is running high. Once more the Calles government is reveal- ed as “an autocracy disguised by so- cjalist phrases and tempered by assas- sination and deportation.” It is a familiar proverb among the Mexican masses that the government uses the “33 for the foreigners and the 30-30 for the Mexicans” that dare to oppose it. (Article 33 is the depor- tation article under which Bertram Wolfe was deported and the 30-30 is the small bore rifle in common use in Mexico that symbolizes political assassinations such as that of Mo reno.) It is worthy of note that Calles was to visit Jalapa tomorrow. One is re- minded of the “preparations” for the visits of the ancient Russian czars to their provincial capitals, which pre- parations included the elimination of their political enemies. Moreno is the first Communist mar- tyr at the hands of the new “Inber” | puties was sufficient to ripen him pol-| governmeny aN Gree ON aay any OY re = mpaneenanonitiaensiesA