The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises | the Standard for a Workers’ | and Farmers’ Government 1 2°5. Subscription Rates: - Sox Sa Wop tsehe WORKERS PARTY CABLE EXPOSES [TW Cnet one. EXCLUSION OF SAKLATVALA AS NEW MOVE OF WORLD EXPLOITERS (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, England, Sépt. 20.—Shapurji Saklatvala, Com- munist member of the British parliament, received a cable from the Workers (Communist) Party of America, signed by C. E. Ruthenber®, general secretary, exposing Saklatvala’s exclusion In Chicage, by mall, $8.00 per " Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. | | from the United States by Secretary of State Kellogg as an at- tempt to stifle the protest of the workers of the world against im- perialist exploitation. Saklatvala was a delegate to the interparliamentary union congress in Washington, but the British delegation sailed without him on the liner Caronia, manned by a scab crew. Saklatvala has demanded an investigation of the exclusion by the Coolidge administration, and characterized the action as “President Coolidge’s and Secretary Kellogg’s forcible and cow- ardly exclusion, without a hearing or defense.” Saklatvala said that quotations from his speeches, on which AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAMERTY ANY of the capitalist papers are following Senator Borah’s lead in throwing the hooks into Secretary of State Kellogg, fon’ that gentleman’s action in cancelling the visa of Com- rade Saklatvala at the suggestion of the British government. All the capi- talist papers recognize that Kellogs’s intentions are of the best, but that is the material that paves the way to hell. “Nervous Nell” has put his foot in it again. No doubt, Silent Cal who is as guilty of the “boner” as Kellogg will wriggle out of the mess. ek. ‘HE worst feature of the case from the American capitalist point of view is, that Saklatvala’s news value has been increased, thus ~enabling him to break into the press, with an} ease that would not be possible for him, had not Kellogg acted so crudely, Another angle is, that the American government gets an added reputation for illiberality in the matter of free speech. This is understood in Eu- rope an indication of weakness. Let us have more of those biunders. ee ICHARD FORD, has been paroled after spending 12 years in jail in California for deaths arising out ofa labor disturbance. The district at- torney of Marysville, Cal., threatens to have Ford re-arrested on another murder charge. Some California work- ers see a connection between Ford’s parole and the labor demonstration on Sept. 7, Labor Day. If American labor had any Vision of its mission or the right kind of spirit and leader- ship, it would demonstrate until every class war prisoner in the United States was turned loose. ‘ see METHER the California authori- ties will carry out their intention to have Ford tried on another murder charge is hard to predict. The chanc- es are that they will. The business interests that own the legal machin- ery in California are the blackest in the country. Sure, Tom, Mooney, Bill- ings and many other workers are still occupying cells in California’s bas- ‘tiles. When will organized labor get busy and release them instead of al- lowing its leaders, to indulge in idiotic love feasts with the capitalists and in equally idiotic attacks on the radi- cal movement? aR eae LAKE and Terry Drug- an are still making the front pag- 9s of Chicago's capitalist rags attrac- tive and striking. The two lads simply cannot keep in their cells. Their (Continued on page 4.) *Kellogg claimed the exclusion was based, were either “untrue or cleverly twisted.” The cable from the American Communist Party states: Workers Party Cable, Shapurji Saklatvala, c.o, Communist Party of Great Britain, 16 King St., London, Your exclusion from the United States exposes the Wall Street gov- ernment as the agency of the im- perialist exploiters seeking to stifle all protest against the oppression of the people of India, China, Africa and Latin America. While our Wall Street dictatorship can to- day prevent the American workers from hearing your message of the fight of the British and Indian work- ers..for freedom from “oapitalist and imperiatiat exploitation this ac- tion will help to arouse the! take up the struggle against the Wall Street dictatorship and to carry It. forward until a, workers’ Soviet government can welcome you tou America. Cc. E, Ruthenberg, General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party “ of America. o ede No Legal Redress. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—The Amer- ican ,Civil Liberties Union announces that after an investigation, it is found that S, Saklatvala has no legal redress for his arbitrary exclusion from the Uniter States by the Coolidge govern- ment. If Saklatvala came to the United States he would be turned back at Ellis Island, owing to the ezaristic immigration laws which give the state department full power to ex- clude visitors. The union will now attempt to fight the case by “stirring public opinion.” A denunciation of Kellogg's act by the lawyer Samuel Untermyer will be is- sued by the union. 700 STEEL WORKERS IN MONESSEN MILL HANDED THIRD BIG WAGE SLASH (By Worker Correspondent) MONESSEN, Pa., Sept, 20.—The workers of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co., here received a 8 per” cent cut in wag yi This makes the third cut this year that they have received. This cut will effect over 700 men and only. apply to the tonnage men in the hot mills, Tr to Ftoonist, Fred Ellis. 1S is the International Press Day issue of the DAILY WORKER. Most of its contents have been written by our worker correspondents, in the shops, the mills, the mines and the fac- s of the nation. The above sketch is the Worker Correspondent as rc 1 Let hundreds and thousands of workers draw inspiration from this issue and join the growing army of the worker correspondents of the DAILY WORKER. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered us Second-class matter September 21, 1923; at the Post Office at. Chicago, Mlinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, v~_/ ON RAILROADS FACES CRISIS 1925 Hg CVs bmw pictured by our worker CALL FOR THIRD CONFERENCE OF THE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE On November 14 and 15 the Trade’ Union Educational League will hold its third general conference in Chicago. Representation to the conference is based upon rate of two delegates from each functioning local industrial group in the United States and Canada. These delegates shall be elected by the local general group where such exist. Each) local general group is entitled to a minimum of six delegates, including those of the local industrial4—— groups. Ph nnhonamigy for the conference is as| FASCISTS JAIL 2,000 1. sssatuas and Political Situa- WORKERS CHARGED WITH ‘BEING COMMUNISTS’ tion. ROME, italy, Sept. 20—New atroc- 2. Report ot Secretary. 3. Reports of National Industrial Committees. ities against the Italian workers ' > Organization of the Unorgan-| have been carried out by the fasci.t ized. regime. Two thousand wonkers, charged with belonging to the Com munist Party have been arrested. No reason for the arrests, other than a nationwide raid on Commun- ists, was givem by the Mussolini government. Over two hundred workers were arrested in Rome alone, and large numbers were’ thrown into prison in Florence, Parma and Messina. 5, Amalgamation. 6. The Labor Party. 7. The Class Collaboration Move- ment. 8. Company Unions. 9. Shop Committees. 10. The Struggle Against Imperial- ism. 11, Unemployment. (Continued on page 2) THE DRIVE AGAINST CLASS-COLLABORATION *|SPeeches in the English parliament CHICAGO LABOR WILL PROTEST RED'S EXCLUSION Many Organizations In- vited to Attend A protest meeting against the bar- ring of Shapurji Saklatvala, Com- munist member of the English parlia- ment, from America by the action of Secretary of State Kellogg, will be held in Chicago on Monday, Sept. 28, 8 p. m. at Northwest Hall, North and Western Aves. The Workers (Com- munist) Party in Chicago has ex- tended invitations to labor and fra- ternal organizations to co-operate in this protest meeting. Among the Speakers thus far engaged are Wil- liam F, Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER; Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League; Hindu and Chine speakers. Saklatvala was expected to attend the conference of the interparlia- mentary union in Washington, D. C., early next month. Evidently, how- ever, American and British imperial ism feared the expose Comrade Saklit- vala would make of the situation in India, particularly, and the relations of American and British capitalism. Saklatvala has been an outspoken and fearless leader of the exploited work- ers of England, India, ete., and his have often caused consternation in the ranks of the British hide bound tories, All over America, in fact thruout Published Daily PUBLISHING ‘CO NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents cept Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER + 1118 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill, RAILWAY UNION CONVENTIONS AN ORGY OF REACTION; PROGRESSIVES BATTLE BRAVELY AGAINST ODDS (By a Worker Correspondent) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 20.—Progress vs. Reaction is the issue at the conventions of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, and the Brotherhood of Boilermakers, meeting in this city. The convention has been in. session a week. After days of oratory leveled against everything progressive, the meetings are just now getting down to business. While in 1920, at the last convention of the Railway Carmen, the union membership was nearly 200,000 with over 1,200 dele- gates present, this convention is composed of 512 delegates and the report of the general secretary-treasurer shows a membership at this time of approximately +— om 48,000. The Boilermakers Union has like- wise lost tremendously in member- ship, from $5,000 in 1920 to 21,000 at the present time. The organization had 215 delegates in attendance at this convention. Machines in Action From the moment the conventions opened it was evident that a big fight was brewing between the reactionary machines in each convention and the progressive elements supporting the railroad amalgamation movement. The biggest reactionary guns in the American labor movement were brought into action the moment the conventions were formally opened Every trick known to the crafty labor fakers was utilized. Beginning (Continued on page 5) ‘MOSCOW SOVIET BANQUET ENDS SCIENCE MEET Japanese Proposes World Unity MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Sept. 20.— The Moscow Soviet gave a banquet to the foreign professors and diplo- mats to conclude the Russian Acad- emy of Science bicentenary celebra- tion. The Soviet minister of fine arts and education, Lunacharsky, as one feature on the program, made speech- es in five languages, Russian, French, German, Italian and Latin. The banquet was held in the enorm- ous white hall of the “Domsoyetsoff,” the former Nobles’ club, where in the early part of 1924 nearly a million workers and peasants filed past in their dead leader, Lenin.- One thous- and guests attended the dinner. At the reception given by the Mos- cow Soviet in the Opera House in the afternoon, the Japanese profes- sor, Fukuda, was greeted with thun- derous applause when he said,. “The proletariat of the world unite in their motto. So have the scientists of the world united. Now I propose a third! The proietariat and the scientists of the world, unite!” The Moscow symphony orchestra rendered selections at the opening of the banquet. LANTSUTSKY IS GIVEN 6 YEARS AT HARD LABOR Polish Terror Aided by the Socialists (Special to The Daily Worker) LODZ, Poland, Sept., 20—Stanis- law Lantsutsky, Communist deputy to the sejm (Polieh parliament), was sentenced to six years at hard tabor by the Bourgua court on charges of violating the czarletic laws which still govern Poland under the white terror. In the first trial against Lantsustky, endless columns to view the body of ' in Przemysl, the government was de- feated, as the trial was before a jury. The jury repudiated the government charges by.a vote of 10 to 2%... This time the trial was before an appointed judge, and the verdict in such cases is prepared in advance by the white terror regime which is riding rough shod over the workers. Sentenced for Speech. Workers’ deputies in Poland have a right to speak to their constituents, but woe to the person who dares to speak the truth, And this was the cause of the sentence. Lantsutsky spoke the |truth to the workers in the city of |Pabjanice, near Lodz. In his speech |he called on the workers to unite in |their struggle against the capitalist | exploiters. He spoke about Communism. He pointed out that the only way out of jthe misery inflicted on the Polish | workers is the course taken by the | Russian workers. He said that the | Polish workers must unite under the Soviet banner with the Russian work. ers to fight the imperialists. This | Speech was made 18 months ago Socialist Support White Terror. The prosecutor demanded severe punishment for Lant sky, on the ground that Lantsuts ntagonised the workers not only against the bour- geoisie, but against the socialists, so that when the socialist, Kuslowski, wanted to speak, the workers refused to hear him.” This was a terrible crime, the white terror prosecutor said. They cried, “Down with the traitor.” The prosecutor heatedly de- (Continued on page 5) SEAMEN CHASE HAVELOCK WILSON OFF OLYMPIC: SHIPPING STRIKE PARALYZING ATLANTIC SEABOARD (By Worker Correspondent) * NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 20.—The general strike called by the Marine Transport Workers’ Industrial Union of the |. W. W. continues to make excellent headway,as may be seen by the list of ships tied up, the conditions along the waterfront, and by the responsive attitude of all crews when reached by pickets. The temper of the seamen may be seen by the hostile treat- ment given the unspeakable faker of the British National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union, J. Havelock Wilson, when he tried to speak to the British seamen on the White Star liner Olympic as she lay the world, liberal and radical forces are demonstrating against this fear-| some attempt to bar Saklatvala from America, Senator Borah, the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Union are among those, decrying this further evidence of the destruction of civil liberties, freedom of speech and the other ac: tual hoaxes of capitalism, They Chicago meeting on Monday, September 28, at Northwest Hall, ts expected to draw a large audience, { at the New York docks. PR LEA, si |Chase Havelock Wilson Off Olympic./opening remarks, several seamen in a Making desperate effort to hold the |hostile mood :.sked why he was in crew of the Olympic, who are threat- ea saatiee * staying in lar Is ead © se "so ening to quit any moment at the urg-| 40.9 aides prt Silibe eat strike |ing of the I. W. W, pickets—half the} watever hig answer was, it was crew already having quit and joined jjost in 4 chorus of derisive outeries. the strike—at the close of me.s Fri-| 4 steward yelled out: “What will we day night, ship's officers announced | qo with him?” that Wilson would address the crew from the Olympic’s briige. Beiore Wilson could unlimber his “Throw him over tho side! Throw (Continued «2 page 3) “i. ———