The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 20, 1925, Page 2

a Page Two FAKE ‘LABOR’ SHEET BACKED BY OPEN SHOP Pretends Friendship to Progressives By TOM RAY. (Secretary Progressive Miners’ Com-| mittee, District 5, U. M. W. of A.) | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Spt. 18— All| available scab herding agencies are being utilized by the bankers, the | steel kings and the coal barons who have now completely concentrated thelr united forces in the long plan- | ned effort to annihilate the United Mine Workers in the Pittsburgh dis- trict and drive union men from the territory. One of the foulest reeking scab pa- pers of the country calling itself the “National Labor Tribune,” published at Pittsburgh, Pa. and owned and econtrolied by the chamber of com- merée, in its issue of Sept. 10, quotes parts of the program advanced by the Progressive Miners’ Committee of ¢ the district. Seab Sheet Under False Colors. It quotes these parts as the devil quotes the scripture leaving out the central and most important point, namely, our call to prepare for an ac- tive fight against the attempts of the operators to enforce the 1917 scale and to destroy the union. This scab sheet makes its own interpreta- tions and proposes in almost every one of its articles that the miners leave their union and go back to work at reduced wages. The National Labor Tribune is be- ing sponsored by the Pittsburgh chamber of commerce with has made great efforts to split District No. 5 from the United Mine Work- ers’ organization. The paper is be- ing paid for by the coal operators and sent to as many rank and ‘file coal miners as can be reached. It makes @ pretense of roasting the union offi- clals while in reality making a dead- ly attack against the union. Chamber of Commerce Friendship. No thinking coal miner has the least bit of dovbt about the inten- tions of the Pijttsburgh chamber of commerce or for that matter, the chamber of commerce of any other city. It is the avowed enemy of the mine workers anf the working class Pretends |SEAMEN WINNING STRIKE AS BIG SHIPPING COMPANY GRANTS THE FULL DEMANDS OF I. W. W. UNION (Continued from page 1) biggest afloat. The I. W. W. strike committee's bulletin says: “The Majestic left her dock at 2 p.m. Saturday. We know she was anchor- ed off Sandy Hook until some time Sunday night and was therefore, de- layed about 36 hours. This delay alone cost the White Star line some $24,000. When it was reported she had left Sunday evening, we made it our business to scan the wireless re- ports daily. But up to date (Sept. 17) we find no word from the Ma- jestic in any: wireless report. It seems peculiar that a ship of the Ma- jestic’s size and importance is not mentioned in any report. We are, therefore, led to believe that the Ma- jestic must still be in port, or if she is at sea, where is she?” It should be said that such great liners as the Majestic usually report their bearings every two hours by radio. Is the Majestic tied up yet off Sandy Hook, or is lack of reports due to fear that British sailors are watching for her at Southampton? Whatever the Majestic is doing, the surrender of the French and Danish company to the demands of the strik- ers shows the power of the strike and cheers the seamen for further struggle. The following is the scale signed by the company; and the usual old scale on the average ship before the strike: Class of Work NewSeale Old Avg. Boatswain .... 90.00 $75.00 Able seamen .........77.50 55.00— 62.50 Ordinary seamen 62.50 40.00-— 50.00 Oilers ... 72.50— 75.00 Water tenders 87.50 72.50— 75.00 Firemen (coal) .. 80.00 62.50 Wipers .. A 45.00 Stewards . 130 Chief cook 120 Second cook . 105 Galley man .. 65.00 40.00 Mess boys .. 60.00 35.00— 40.00 In the case of the above company the new scale, however, represents a $15 wage raise all down the line. Captain Walks Out. The captain and the chief engineer of the Major Wheeler quit Thursday. They refused to sail with a scab crew and stated their disgust in plain lan- guage. ] The entire crew of the Walter Jennings, one of the Standard Oil's tankers, walked out when she docked Wednesday. Most of the crew which was unorganized joined the M. T, W. at once, The crew of the Sucherico waited until pay day, then they walk- ed out and picketed their own ship. The Clyde, a British tanker, arrived Wednesday and half the crew which had been shanghaied in England, walked off as quickly as the gang plank was down. The Rolf still has a captain all by his lonesome. Long List of Struck Ships, The M. T. 'W. lists the names of 21 ships tied up with all crew on strike, and 12 ships affected 50 per cent or more. From Hoboken comes word that the colored steward department of the steamer Western World, one of the Pan-American liners, all quit on hearing that there was a strike. Sailors and firemen are coming out. Among other ships striking are the Roosevelt and the steamer Minneso- ta, the latter one of the largest freighters in the world. Baltimore strike headquarters indicate that men are coming off ,ship in that port with practically no resistance at all. Didn’t Expect Wobbly Strength. Undoubtedly the United States ship- owners have been taken completely by surprise by this typical I. W. W. seamen’s strike which has been in progress in New York for the past week with other ports coming in line one by one. The real significance of the I. W. W. seamen hurling themselves into the breach in the ports of this coun- try in behalf of international solidar- ity did not penetrate the usually alert brains of these American shipping interests until they read the startling dispatches from abroad and later learned that the French and Danish Steamship company had seen the light signed up and shipped a full ¢rew for their ship, the Bornholm, which has been tied up here in New York since the strike began. The owners realized that the French and Dafiish Steamship com- pany not only had been unable to ship crew but understood further that if it did ship, and shipped scabs it would be unable to unload. JAPAN IN DESPERATE EFFORT T0 BOLSTER YEN, EXPORTS GOLD as a whole organized for the purpose of facilfating the exploitation of the workers. For the members of District 5, U. M. W. is no other choice but to fight not only this splitting attempt of the Pittsburgh chamber of commerce Dat all its efforts to destroy our union. 3 Progressives Always For Union. The stand of the Progressive Min- ers’ Committee has alweys been clear. It has constantly worked for a more united and more powerful union, one that can meet the enemy on equal terms and that has been the endeavor of all militant miners. In this present situation where the operators try t open one mine after another to be manned by scabs and destroy union conditions, we demand that the union offisiels take the inl ative to make active preparations to resist the 1917 scale. We demand a militant fight against ail the encroach- ments upon our working conditions and to meet the attack with an of- TOKIO, Sept. 18.—Lifting of the embargo upon gold exportations is forecasted as the result of an an- nouncement that the government in- tends to ship four million yen in specle to the United States, to bolater up the exchange rate, there- by hoping to reduce the unfavorable trade balance. Further shipments of gold to the United States and other countries is expected, and it It understood that the government is prepared to export twenty million yen in gold, if necessary, RIGHT TO TEACH SCIENCE BEFORE SUPREME COURT fensive, a real campaign of organiza-|_ KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 18—The tion to make every mine a union mine. Many Constructive Demands. We have demanded and reiterate that measures must be taken for un- employment relief for the many job- less miners to be initiated by our Officials. The shorter work day with To reductions in pay and compensa- tion to those for whom work can- mot be fowtld to be paid out of the imdustry and the funds to be admin- istered by the union. We also de- mand that the unfon offidials cpase their disruptive policy of expulsion of militant members and reinstate those expelled. Any union officials who refuses to help. in obtaining or who opposes ethese measures which are needed by the rank and file miners, we brand as Teactionary and traitors to those ‘whose interests they as officials are Pledged to serve. But when the Pittsburgh chaniber of commerce tries to utilize our cri- ticism of the officials for its own pur- poses to destroy our union, we de- clare most emphatically that we have known the chamber of commerce ever since its inception to be the deadly enemy of the workers and we will fight until it with all other capitalist institutions serving to help exploit the workers has been abolished together with capitalism itself. Make your friend a friend of the DAILY WORKER. Send ia his subscription. famed SScopes evolution case, involv- ing the right of a state to prohibit the teaching of any science conflict- ing with the biblical story of the Di- vine origin of man was formally ,be- fore the Tennessee state supreme court today for adjudication, ‘The case reached Tennessee's high- est tribunal on a defense appéal from the virdict rendered by a jury of farmers, at Dayton, Tennessee, last july, holding John Thomas Scopes, youthful high school professor, guilty of violating the . anti-evolution law. (The appeal was based on allegations that Scopes was convicted in viola- tion of his rights under the constitu- tion of Tennessee and the United States. The Dill of exceptions also argued that Scopes’ rights were violated by Presiding Judge John T. Raulston in the jurist. rulings excluding the testi- mony of scientists from the trial and in permitting the opening of court with religious prayers. The prncipal contention of the defense, however, was that the conyiction violated Scopes’ consttutonal rghts of freedom of speech and religious liberty, - The papers were probably the most voluminous ever filed before the state supreme court. DETROIT, Sept. 18— Three men were electrocuted and a fourth is near death today when workmen on the new St. Thomas Catholic church and school dragged an elevator guy wire across a high tension street light wire. We have your New Fall Hats Ready PHILIP FIDLER Manufacturers of Caps and Hats RETAIL 843 Belmont Ave., STORE: Near Clark Street ALL OUR CAPS—ONE PRICE $1.85 SM i ois Ys Ea, REI En Pr et SA ane renee eee na a RY Bin nS a ne AR RR A tn Be ONE Foci iN elena enti Bears FRENCH CAN DO NOTHING MORE AGAINST RIF Mast Dig in Now for the Severe Winter (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, Sept. 18.—In spite of the optimistic reports of the French War office, it is generally admitted here that the French troops in Mor- occo will be forced to spend the sev- ere winter in North Africa in the po- sitions they now occupy. The rainy season will soon set in, and the troops sent to invade Mor- oceo in’ the interests of the French bankers are looking forward to a winter of hardships. Riffians Attack Spanish The Rifflaffs have again attacked the Spanish garrison landed at Ceba- dilla Beach, Morro Neuvo paninsula, inflicting heavy losses on the Span- iards under cover of darwness, Due to the Riffian fire and the rough sea, the Spanish-French fleet in Alhu- cemas Bay was unable to come to the support of the landing force. . The Rifflans also launched a sur- prise attack on Qued Hamine, Heavy Losses of French The French have dropped circulars from their airplanes, offering $25,000 for the capture or murder of Abd-el- Krim or his brother, . Reports continue to circulate about the heavy losses sustained by the French in their ttack on the heights of El Bibane. President’s Air Inquiry Board Is Meeting in Secret WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Sitting behind closed doors, the prosiden air board today plunged into a prell- minary investigation of naval aero- nautics, 4 The alr grand jury summoned Sec- retary of Navy Wilbur, who present- ed @ vast array of documents relating to the present flying ypoiicies of the navy, School Strikers Play Game with Authorities Who Threatened Arrest BOONTON, N. J., Sept, 18—The 326 boys and girls on etrike at the Boon- ton high school have returned to school for one day. They propose to balic the authorities in their attempt to arrest them on the charge of tru- ancy by staying out for short. per- fods at @ time, they announce, until Albert F. Davis, their principal, has been reinstated. ! RICHARD FORD, JUST PAROLED, the Lead in Fighting the FACES | ARREST Bosses in the Pacific Victim of Famous ‘Ford and Suhr’ Trial jal to The Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 18— Richard Ford, interpid leader of the Wheatland, Cal., jhop-pickers’ strike of 1913, just paroled after serving 12 years In San Quentin penitentiary on a framed-up murder charge, f an- other indictment in Yuba County. Ray Manwell, the district attorney in Yuba County, is the son’ of E. T. Man- ville, former diatfict ‘attorney, who was killed during a strike riot pro- voked by armed thugs and deputy sheriffs at Wheatland during the strike. He has given a statement to the press in which he says he will bring Ford back to Marysville, the county where the original frame- up ocourred, to face a charge allet- ing the murder of Deputy Sheriff Thomas Reardon who was killed in the same melee as the elder Manville along with two strikers. Ford was associated with Herman Suhr in the leadership of the strike. Both were sentenced to life impris- onment. Suhr is still in San Quen- tin, Both have made frequent appli- cations for parole and were method- ieally turned down until several days ago when the parole board released Ford. Son Seeks Revenge. District Attorney Ray Manwell had several times asked the parole board to inform him when either of the two prisoners were teelased.. The board, however, failed to inform him of the parole of Ford. Manwell learned about it in the press and immediately prepared to take Ford in. custody, It is obviously a purée case of revenge coupled with the dissatisfaction among employers’ circles generally and among the hop-ranch owners and lumber camp barons: particularly with the release of Ford) which they had vigilantly opposed for years. That Ford and Suhr were in no ‘way responsible for the riot that re- sulted in the deaths ‘at Wheatland is attested to by a petition signed by the twelve jurors’° who convicted them and which was presented to the parole board on belialf of Herman Suhr last December. The Petition, in brief stated: That Suhr (and there- fore Ford) did not commit the actual killing, that he did not countenance violence and that public feeling was much inflamed. 6: Framed-up Thal. The strike led by Ford and Suhr was called: against the Durst hop ranch in Yuba Couhty in August, 1913. The Durst family had gained a bad reputation and wére infamous for their illtreatment of the hop-pickers. On a Sunday in August’a mass meet- ing was called in Yuba. A sheriff’s Dosse charged the meeting and shots were exchanged by both sides. The charge was led by District Attorney Manwell and when the amoke cleared, he, Deputy Reardon and two strikers lay dead. The trial of Ford and Suhr followed and stands ag one of the most dastardly frame-ups in the an- nals of the workers’ struggles. 1. kL. D. Busy. Austin Lewis, famous western la- bor lawyer who was associated with the defense in the Ford and Suhr trial is in receipt of a wire from In- ternational Labor Defense in Chicago which asks the details of the new de- velopments and offers to assist in de- fending Ford against the vengeful trial and re-sentence that faces him. QUALIFIED WORKERS IN BUILDING TRADES ARE NEEDED IN U. .S, B, (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 18, — In 1922 a group of buliding trade work- ers went to Soviet Russia to bulld houses for the workers, This group Is asking for more people and ma- chinery in order to be better able to enlarge their activities In the bulld- ing Industry. A group of Detroit sympathizers of the Soviet Republics have or ganized themselves under the Co- operative Construct Co. of the United Socialist Soviet Republice and they ask any gomrade or sym- pathizer interested in the recon- struction of the U. 8. S. R. to Join the organization, Only qualified workers in the bullding trade will be accepted, such as, carpenters, bricklayers, ot member paying $5.00 In- Itlation fee and $1,000.00° member. ship fee for the purchase of ma- chinery for their traue. Information’ odn be obtained from the secretary of the organ ization, Aaron M, Katz, 1610 Col- Iingwood Ave. and at Carpenters Hall, Alger & Oakland on Thure- days at 7:80 p. m., where the exe- cutive committee of this organiza- tion meecta Co THE DAILY. WORKER exnkas ‘Let U. S. Labor Tale By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. 'ODAY, L. M. Karakhan, the Soviet ambassador to China, ets ready to leave Moscow for Pekin, the metropolis orth China, where he has ably and long represented the workers and peasants of the Union of Soviet Republics. That the imperialist powers are anxious that Karakhan of should not return to China is clearly seen In the views ex- pressed by their press. Reports have been assiduously spread that Karakhan would take Chicherin’s place as Soviet com- missar of foreign affairs, upon the latter's retirement. Others that Karakhan would be assigned to some European post. But none of these rumors, like practically all those originat- ing in the imperialist capitals, has had any basis in fact. ° ° e * Karakhan returns to China telling the international bandit powers that the Chinese customs conference, to meet in Pekin, Oct. 26, hangs like a two-edged sword over their heads, so that when it falls, it will cut no matter which side is held downwards. Since the foreign invaders must have more money out of China, the customs conference must necessarily raise the tariffs. This might appease some classes in China, if the Chinese government got the increase. But the additional loot will “ carefully put into the pockets of the same robber nations that sent their uniformed murderers into the streets of Shanghai several months ago to shoot down the workers and students protesting against the intolerable industrial conditions preyailing in the foreign-owned textile industry. Increased tariffs to pay interest on loans that have been forced upon them, as the result of past wars of aggression, will not help soothe the ruffled temperament of the Chinese people. It should and will have just the opposite effect. e . ° . The interests of American imperialism will be repre- sented at both the customs conference next month and the meeting of the commission to inquire into the question of extra-territorial rights of foreigners in China. In fact Secre- tary of State Kellogg has just suggested the plore. Pekin, and the time, December 18, for the holding ofthe latter gather- ing. ae ' This commission on extra-territorial rights should have been held three months after the adjournment of the Wash- ington disarmament conference in 1922, But the 13 powers, either signatory to or otherwise adherent to the Washington meeting called by Harding, haye made no move, and probably would not move now except that militants in China are de- manding that they get out altogether. They must find some excuse to oy and enjoy the territorial rights they have forced the Chinese to accept. . e American workers, therefore, may well consider this situation, that the United States is taking the lead in the present anti-Chinese campaign as.is revealed by the part that it is playing in both the customs conference and the commission on extra-territorial fights. Under cover of a fake friendship for the Chinese people, the United States will con- tinue its commercial and financial conquest, if it can, of this reat republic. It can do this more easily than other cap- italist governments, since it lays claim to no territorial rights in China. But this makes it all the more dangerous as an enemy of the growing Chinese liberation movement. * * . . The fall and winter months ahead will see the eyes of American labor more and more turned toward the orient, as the imperialist problems of the Pacific pass. in review, showing the workers of all countries bordering the earth's greatest ocean the increasing necessity of labor solidarity to combat the capitalist plunderers. The interests of America’s workers are the interests of the Chinese workers; against the capitalists of both countries, - POPE PLANNING (SUPPORTERS 0 WORLD DRIVEON | DEVALERA MOB SOVIET RUSSIA FRANCE TO LOSE. SYRIA BECAUSE OF MOSUL FIGHT Imperialism Trembles at Spread of Revol walt (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, France, Sept, 18-—-The Pain- leve government is alarmed at the delay in the settlement of the Turk: Ish-British controversey over posses sion of the Mosul oll fields, The FREE STATERS Roman Opium Joint to Train Dope Peddlers (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.— The pope is organizing a world-wide attack on Communism and on the Sov- iet government, according to a state- ment made here today by an official of the catholic men’s association, which is holding a convention in this city. Efforts are being made to bring the Russian orthodox church back into the papal fold. It broke with Rome 1,000 years ago. ‘ The vatican had a mission in Rus- sila carrying on propaganda against the Soviet government. When it came to the conclusion that it could not succeed, it withdrew and openly avow- ed its intention to™assist in the over- throw of the Soviet government. The papal spokesman at the confer- ence charged the Soviet government with having established a “caricature church, which inculcates atheism in the minds of the people,” Keeler safd. Training Stoolpigeons. “The holy father is particularly so- licitous for these people,” Keeler add- ed, “and feels that now is the time for the Roman church to take aggres- sive action. He has caused the erec- tion in Rome of a seminary for the education of priests who, when the time is opportune, will go into Rus- sia to preach reunion. “It is quite probable that,in a few years, the vatican council will re- convene, and at that time that holy father hopes to receive the Russian request for reunion,” said Keeler. Keoler urged that cathol{cs in America fight vigorously to halt Com- munism. The DAILY WORKER sub- scription list is a Communist (Special to The Daily Worker) HOBOKEN, N. J., Sept. 18—With threats still rumbling in Irish repub- lican circles towtage another demon- stration against a party of visiting Free State exponents, three men and two women were arraigned in court today and convicted as alleged mem- bers of the crowd which yesterday at- tacked General Richard Mulcahy, former commander of the Irish Free State army. - Four of the prisoners, including two women, were released with suspended sentences for disorderly conduct. Patrick Keeman, was ordered held for the grand jury for atrocious assault and battery but released on his own recognizance, Members of the mob carried ban- ners with inscriptions derogatory to Mulcahy and the Free State, During the excitement one of the pier police turned in a riot call, ernment. Reconstruction in Russia By, PAXTON HIBBEN. 4 A pamphlet by a former officer of the Red Cross in Russia—giving an impartial view of the latest + developments in the world’s first workers’ gov- 15 CENTS THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING Co, 1113 W. Washington Boulevard 4» Chicago, IMlinols French government fears the spread of the movement against foreign im- perialism and the complete. | of the mandate over Syria, where the Druse revolt is still as strong as ever, The situation in Syria is such, it fs believed, that the French will not be able to crush the Druse revolt this year, and France will eventually have to evacuate Syria because of the ter- rifie expense of keeping the natives in subjection, Once Syria is freed from French domination, the inhabitants of Iraq are expected to rise against the Brit- ish as are the Arab and Jewish work- ers and peasants of Palestine. The league of nations council re- ports that it has not been able to make any decision on the dispute over the control of Mosul as yet, FIFTY STRIKING PARENTS DEMAND BETTER SCHOOLS An indignant exclamation of “Oh” came from over 50 parents who wait- ed on the building and grounds com- mittee of the board of education yes- terday afternoon when Ambrose B. Wight, assistant superintendent teld the trustees that the children only hed about six blocks to walk to the loca- tion where the portables have been removed. The parents were there to protest against the removal of the Bugene Fields school portables to a location a great distance away and in a traffic congested district, Mrs. Charles 2, Sev- ern, chairman and Frank Hauser spoke for the parents. When they were thru John C. Christenson, arehi- tect spread out a map and advanced some lame arguments about there not being enuf space to store building ma- terial. The map showed more than prog empty space around the former site. “They are determined to make you take it whether you like it or not,” was the way J. Lewis Coath, trustee, explained it when offe of the parents asked why the same method used for storing materials in the crowded loop districts was not employed there. After lengthy discussion Miss Hef- fren moved that the board begin look- ing around for suitable location east of North Clark street and not more than three portables be placed at each site. The parents did not ask the trustees what they have been doing all the time the children were on strike, Train Leaves Tracks DANVILLE, Ill, Sept. 18.—Passen- ger train 1, westbound on the Toledo Peoria and Western railway enroute from Effner on the Indiana state line to Peoria, jumped the tracks between Watseka and Crescent City last night, and altho the entire train left the rails and ran over 400 feet on the ti not turn over and outside of a severe shaking up, none of the passengers were injured, Traffic was delayed for many hours, FOREIGN EXCHANGE NEW YORK, Sept. 18—Great Bri- tain, pound sterling, demand 484%; cable 484%. France, franc, demand 4.72%; cable 4.73, Belgium, franc, demand 4.40%; cable 4.41. Italy, lire, demand 4.11%; cable 4.12. Swe- den, krone, demand 2681, mable 26,84, Norway, krone, demand 21.18; cable 21.20. Denmark, krone,.. demand 24.48; cable 24.50. Germany, marks, blank, Shanghai, taels-79. A good book on Commi biunim will make you a better Com- munist. J | x