The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 20, 1925, Page 3

DEMAND BITUMINOUS STRIKE AND BEWARE OF LEWIS BETRAYAL IS CALL OF PROGRESSIVE MINERS By ALEX REID (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee.) Brother miners of the anthracite, we are on strike for a few pennies increase in wages and a few minor changes in working conditions that will help us té live a little more like human beings, and which will save us the awful fate that has overtaken our, brothers in the bituminous field. Our brothers in the soft coal field are unemployed and starving. They have been in a state of semi-starvation for the last three years and most of them are starving since the signing of the Jacksonville agreement that was saddled on our necks in Florida, by Lewis. “While our brothers starve, the ¢————____________ coal operators in conjunction ‘with the other capitalists, have moved the coal trade from the union fields to the non-union fields, in their effort to destroy our union in the central competitive field. To be more able to slash our wages and de- stroy our working conditions. During this process of destruction our presi- dent John L. Lewis, has quietly stood by and permitted our brother miners, with their wives and families to starve in the bituminous field without Taising the slightest protest to save us or our union from destruction. Terrible Decline in Union, Less than two years ago 70 per cent of the soft coal was produced in the unton field and only 30 per cent pro- duced in the nonunion field. Now 70 per cent is produced in the non-union field and 30 per cent produced. in the union field. At the tri-disrtict conven- tion last June, Lewis stated that a general strike may, be called to en- force the Jacksonville agreement, and the anthracite miners at the conven- tion showed by their behavior that that must be done. Since that time Lewis has refused to even mention it or do anything about it, but on the contrary, Phillip Murray, the vice-president of our union hag stated that there is no in- tention to call a general strike, there- by assuring the operators that they have nothing to fear from our fake leadership, and once again notifies the American miners they can starve and die for all he is concerned: Use this Opportunity. Anthracite miners, the most favor- able opportunity is here not only to win the anthracite strike but also to enforce the Jacksonville agreement, save our starving brothers in the soft coal and save our union. We demand phat Lewis call a national strike of the miners to enforce our demands. The mainers must be on their guard against the treachery of Lewis and the gang of traitors at the head of our union. We. must remember the surrender to Judge Anderson by Lewis, at a time when we had a victory within our hands. The combined capitalist forces in the United States could not lick us in that strike, The railroads were. crippled, shops were closed down, while a famine existed thruout the country for coal. Our victory was conceded by every one, it was recognized we were vic- torious on every hand, that nothing short of a miracle could offset that victory, when John L, Lewis stepped to the front and surrendered to the injunction of Anderson thereby doing in one day what the combined forces of capital could not do in six months— defeat the miners, Fight For Nationalization. Brothers, our only hope for relief from our trouble in the coal mining industry is nationalization of/ the mines with workers’ control, Every conyention of the United Mine Work- ers has indorsed the policy of na- tionalization and we now demand that our leaders fight for nationaliza- tion or resign the positions they have prostituted. In this struggle we must solicit the active support of the workers on the railroads. An alliance must be formed between the miners and the railroad- ers. No coal must be moved in the anthracite that will interfere with the striking miners, or help to defeat them in this battle. All workers in America are urged to rally to! the support of the coal diggers who are bearing the brunt of the attack of or- ganized capital. The progressive miners in the an- thracite are organized to fight for the following program: Increase of wages, The checkoff and complete recog- nition of the union, . Improvement in working condi- tions. Six-hour day, five-day week. Nationalization of mines with workers’ control. A labor party of the workers and farmers. Workers rally to the moral, finan- cial, and active support of the an- thracite miners. Their fight is the fight of all the workers, —_—_———_- Cal Going to Chicago. WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — Presi- dent Coolidge expects to attend the bd annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Chicago; December 7-9, he today told O, B. (Continued from page 1) aristocrats. Kellogg being just an animated chunk of protoplasm with only enough knowledge to enable him to amass wealth, had to become a rub- ber mat for the British aristocracy to wipe their feet on. “ee 'T was no difficult task for the Brit- ish ruling class to get this flunkey to cancel Saklatvala’s visa. And silent Cal was a willing partner in the deal. Cal.is afraid of anything that has not already appeared in the columns of the Ladies’ Home Journal. But cancelling Saklatvala’s passport does not mean that he will have no audience for his views no India, Al- ready more intelligent capitalist .po- liticians, like Senator Borah, realize that the dumbbell Kellogg has com- mitted another blunder. His Mexican note was one. The Hungarian Karolyi was heard to better advantage be- cause Hughes gagged him while he was in this country than if he were given freedom of expression. The truth about India will be heard here despite the slickness of the British government and the subserviency of the state department. Communists may be barred from this country, but Communism cannot. “ee 'T looks as if Lloyd George sees in the crisis thru which Britain is passing, a brilliant opportunity to work his way back to power. The thing is by no means impossible. Lloyd George is by all means the most versatile capitalist political trickster in England. It is rumored that several members of Baldwin's tory cabinet have formed a caucus with the object of forming a coalition government with Lloyd George at the head. The names of Churchill, Birken- head, Horne and a few others are mentioned. Those men are pure careerists and are not politically stable. Their presence in Baldwin's cabinet does not bode well for its longevity, see IHE next big fight in the British labor movement will take place when the labor party conference meets at Liverpool. The Communists will not be directly represented in the conference, but as they are firmly rooted in the trade unions many of their best speakers will be at the conference representing their labor organizations. Several labor party locals have sent resolutions to the conference demanding the withdrawal of the clause in the constitution which excludes the Communists from partici- pation in the labor party. There is 4 strong possibility that the resolution will carry, tho it is also possible that the leaders of the labor party may il- legally deny the rank and file of the labor party a voice in determining the point. ef _A-CCORDING to a statement made at the national conference of cath- olic men held in Washington, yester- Bradfute, president of the organiza-| day, the Roman catholic church will tion, Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. FOR International Press Day Monday September 21 ORKER ‘ ao ye ee CORRESPONDENCE NUMBE FR Get This Issue! take a determined effort thruout the world to conquer Bolshevism by bringing the Russian orthodox church back under the Roman standard. after 1,000 years of separation. It was stated that the pope is bitterly op- posed to “the Soviet religious monop- oly” (whatever that is), and is anxious that the Russian church be brought back into the fold. We never doubted the organ grinder’s intentions and are not the least bit distressed by the sad news. Build the DAILY WORKER PyRadium for Pyorrhea Genuine RADIUM content Formula, doing wonders in treatment of PYOR- RHEA, and other Oral Infections. Its RADIUM kills germs, heals and hardens gums, tightens and saves teeth! Action is rapid! PYRADIUM is sold under a “money-back” guarantee. Price $2.50. Ask your druggist! Or order direet from Laboratories, sending druggist’s name, RADIUM REMEDIES COMPANY, Min- neapolis, Minnesota. 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PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept, 18.—A large delegation of workers mostly from permanent branches of Interna- tional Labor Defense, attended Phila- delphia’s defeni conference and launched a promising local Sunday afternoon. _ An executive committee of 15, representative of all sections of the workers’ movement here was elected to direct, the work of the new unit. Eight unions and seven Work- men’s Circle branches sent delegates to the conference. In the evening, William Weinstone spoke to an audience whose enthus- iasm showed that workers’ interest in {Labor Defense and class war prison- ers is reviving under the influence of International Labor Defense’s propa- A most interesting debate between two well known men on the subject: “IS THE SOVIET IDEA APPLI- CABLE TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION?” ganda and activity. This mass meet- ing, following the wholly successful conference gave International Labor Defense a send-off that will make the Philadelphia labor movement and the workers here generally participate ac- tively in thé necessary task of amnes- ty and labor defense. eee Engdahl In Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 18.— J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, spoke to an enthusiastic Labor Defense Day demonstration at the Finnish Hall here. Several hun- dred persons cheered assent to Eng- dahl's demand for the release of the more than one hundred class war prisoners in American jails. The mass meeting was preceded by a confer- ence of workers’ delegates who as- sembled im” Moose Hall to form a Minneapolis unit*of International La- bor Defense’ More than twenty per- manent bramehes of I. L. D. that had been previously’ formed, sent dele- gates as well as unions and other workers’ organizations. Jack Bradon was elected secretary of the Minneapolis local of Interna- tional LaborDefense and an executive committee was set up to direct the work of bringing. home to the labor movement in Minneapolis its obliga- tion to the prisoners of labor and to defend all pepsecuted workers. ee * vf Defense in Capitol. WASHINGTON, D. C,,:Sept. 18.— An International Labor Defense con- ference conyened here last Sunday afternoon and. set up a defense unit of workers in;the nation’s capitol. A number of International..Labor De- fense branches had already been formed and thee were consolidated into a city unit. The conference laid plans for ammesty..campaigns in Washington and, for the raising of funds for the Zeigler miners and other urgent cases_¢alling for the help of the workers. .,An executive commit- tee was elected to supervise this work and instructed {o immediately prepare for defense ¢ampaigns. ++ Under Gary's Nose. BETHLEHEM, Pa., Sept. 18— In the heart of Gary’s domain in the Lehigh Valley, workers’ delegates from organizations in Allentown, Eas- ton, Phillipsburg and Bethlehem as- sembled to statt' Labor Defense ac- tivity in this section—where it is so badly needed. The conference con- stituted itself as a permanent sec- tion of International Labor Defense, organized for intensive work and ad- journed to a mass meeting in the evening at which H. M. Wicks spoke. The mass meeting was enthusiastic and listened with great attention to Wick’s description of the need for the workers’ defense. Turkey “Modernizes” Laws CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, Sept. 18—A commission thas completed a “modern legal. code," which would abolish polygamy and gives greater freedom of the press, a a Fascists Bar Handshaking ROME, Italy, Sept. 18.—The fascisti have substituted the fascist salute in place of handshaking. In some of the fascist offices signs are exhibited “no handshaking permitted.” 'N. Y, DAILY. WORKER BUILDERS’ CLUB MEETS MONDAY, SEPT. 21ST oo (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY it. 17.—The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club of New York will hold its first meeting this Monday, Sept. 21st, Manhat- tan Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street, to elect a board of directors and decide on plans for the future. Every DAILY WORKER Builder who qua- lified for membership in the club is expected to be present. L. E. Katter- feld will report.on th ork, of the past year and J. O. Bentall will speak, ‘t Bertrand Russell Scott Nearing Debate FOSTER WILL REPRESENT WORKERS PARTY AT. Y. ANTI-FASCIST MEETING NEW YORK, Sept, 18.—Every or. ganization opposed to the bloody regime .of the black dictator Mus- solini will be represented at the monster international demonstration against “Ii Fasclo” to be held on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 20th at 2 Pp. m. at the Central Opera House, 205: East 67th street under the au- spices of the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America. The meeting will be addressed by William Z. Foster for the Workers Party, Richard Brazier for the 1. W. W., Norman Thomas for the Social- ist Party, Carlo Tresea, Hon. Vin- cenzo .Vacirca, Arturo Giovannitti and Elizabeth Curley Flynn of the American Civil Liberties’ Union will preside, Workers of New York City attend this protest meeting! Show your solidarity with the workers of Italy! Chinese Villages Deluged. PEKIN, China, Sept. 18.—Nine hun- dred villages are surrounded by water as a result of the break in the south dike of the Yellow river at at Yun- chenghsien. The break caused the river to change its course, London Workers Against Paciflism. LONDON, Eng., Sept. 18.—A battle between workers and fascists, precipi- tated by a fascist parade, took place on the streets of London. Thousands of workers demonstrated against the CHANG CANNOT SELL CHINESE TO THE BRITISH Treason Will Fail Says Soviet Organ (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, (By Tass)—Commenting | editorially on the last shooting at} Tientsin- the Izvestia interprets it as/ an endeavor of Chang Tso-lin to prove his ability to establish order in China and create a government that would be acceptable and desirable to the great powers. The Moscow leading organ consid- ers, however, that Marshal Chang’s plans are unrealizable. The major-| ity of the Chinese bourgeoisie is still in favor of persevering in the anti- imperialist struggle. A bloc is quite possible between the Chinese work- ing and peasant masses and petty bourgeoisie against Chang Tso-lin, in whom on the other hand, America has no faith, as she looks upon him as a pro-Japanese agent. The present movement against for- eign capitalism in China, the Izvestia concludes, is at the same time a struggle for creating a truly nation- al all-Chinese government capable al- so of freeing the country from native fascists. Fight Barring (Continued from page 1) all workers fighting capitalist and im- perialist oppression.” “Our government in this action allied itself with the British oppres- sors of India, Ireland, Egypt, China and Morocco. The action is a clear and public demonstration that our government in Washington is an in- strument of the House of Morgan which is establishing the rule of im- perialism over the oppressed peoples of Europe and Asia, as well as over the workers of the Philippines, Porto Rico, Hawaii and Mexico.” Czarist Allowed to Enter “Grand Duke Cyril who wishes to thrust the workers back into’ the thralls of Czardom found no trouble in entering the United States, but Sak- latvala who fights for the overthrow of black reaction and who symbglical- ly sums up in his own person the union of the workers and oppressed peoples thruout the world, is exclud- ed -by our so-called-democratic gov- ernment.” “The white-guardist Haller, butcher of Polish labor and the enemy, of ‘So- viet Russia is welcomed by our gov- ernment, but Saklatvala, the champ- ton of Britisti and international labor cannot enter the United States. Abra- movitch could come to America in order to conduct a campaign against Soviet Russia, in behalf of interna- tional imperialism, but Saklatvala, the triend of the Russian workers’, re- public is barred from coming to, Amer- fea.” Excluded Because Workers’ Champion “Saklatvala, a Hindu by birth, has always been the champion of the ex- ploited Indian peoples within the Brit- ish parliament and within the ranks of the British working class. That is why he cannot enter America. A Communist and internationalist, he has battled valiantly for the freedom of Ireland, of Egypt and of the op- pressed nationalities of the British empire and of the world. That is why he is excluded by our state depart- ment.” “A member of the British left wing, his repeated election on the ticket of British labor for the district of Bat- tersea: is a symbol of the growth of the left wing within the labor party, and its recent victory at the Trade Union Congress where the British la- bor movement took such gigantic steps. forward in condemnation of British imperialism, Dawes plan, in advocacy of trade union unity, in de- fense of Soviet Russia and in their de- clarations of working class rule in Britain, That.is why the agents of Wall Street making up our govern- ment in Washington are opposed to his coming. It is because the Amer- ican government, expressing the inter- ests of Wall Street fears that the American workers will learn what is going on in England and raise their voices together with all forward look- ing workers to demand the unity of labor, to condemn the persecution of foreign-born labor in the United States and the oppressed peoples in other countries to expose the rule of American and foreign capital in China, India, the Philippines, Mexico and other colonies, that the American government has barred Saklatvala.” Communist Demands “The Workers (Communist) Party of America representing the interests of all exploited workers of America, protests the decision of Kellogg, form- er ambassador to Great Britain and now secretary of state of the United States. It demands the admission of Saklatvala and calls upon all work: warlords and, generally, militarism. of Communist ers to demand the free entrance of Saklatvala into the United States. It points out that in this action against Saklatvala are involved the liberties of free speech for all workers in this country and it calls upon them to par- ticipate in the demonstration of pro- test to be held on Monday evening at 5 p. ms in Union Square to demand: (1) “The admission of’ Saklatvala into the United States. (2) “To demand international trade union unity, to demand the free- dom of India, China, Philippines, Haiti Porto Rico, Morocco and Syria and all oppressed peoples from the imperial- ist yoke, (3) “For a labor party United States, (4) “Against the strictions. (5) “Against the new campaign of foreign-born workers. (6) “For international class solidarity. “Greetings to Saklatvala, champion of exploited workers and peasants thruout the world! “Long Live the British Communist Party! “Long Live the Communist Inter- national!” in. the immigration re- working Wood in Sanitarium. TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 18.—Osborne C. 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