The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1925, Page 2

stray com T HITS BOTTOM OF REACTION _ AT CHAMPAIGN Overgaard Makes Hot » But Fatile Fight By WORKER CORRESPONDENT CHAMPAIGN, ILL, Cept. 20.—The convention of the lilinois State Feder- ation of Labor conoluded its session after having voted down the resolution for récognition of So- viet Russia on Friday afternoon, and defeating only and all resolutions mertioning struggle against capital- ism. All the reactionaries, who were in full control of the convention from start to finish, demonstrated their lo- yalty to the capitalist state and all its institutions and pledged their support to carry out all the policies of the late Sammy Gompers, in whose honor all of them arose and stood with bowed heads for two minutes, and became very indignant when a handfull of progressives kept their seats, refusing to stand up for this great betrayer of labor. Walker Raves Against Soviet Russia The fight for recognition of Soviet Russia was led by delegate Androne from Bakers’ Union No. 2 and Andrew Overgaard, Machinist No, 390, An- drone stated that by establishing in- dustrial relations ‘with Soviet Russia we would be able to assist the uhem- ployed workers in this country, due to the fact that there is a great demand for our manufactured products by Russia and that the conditions of the workers there are improving every day and are as good as they are ia spite of the lies spread to the con- trary by the capitalist interests. Delegates Overgaard stated; “It is about time that the labor movement of this country cease to take its in- formation from the Chicago Tribune and, other capitalist sheets. You do not even need to take it from the Communists, whom you seem to des- pise so much for no reason at all. You can take it from the leaders of the British labor movement, who not only stand for recognition but are working with the Russian trade unions to bring about unity of all trade union forces in the world against capitalism. “You are allowing the United States government to recognize the bloody Zankov regime in Bulgaria, that is guilty of murdering thousands of workers and farmers and has comple- tely destroyed the labor movement. “You are for recognition of the bloody regime in Poland, where work- ers are being shot for belonging to a trade union, and I say, that it is a shame to come to a labor convention and find it being afraid of recogniz- ing Soviet Russia. “We can not afford to turn down this resolution, for in spite of all the lies spread about it, Soviet Russia is the only workers’ government in the world.” At this time, weeping John Walker had stepped out of his chair for the second time against Overgaard and this time he broke his own record of previous attacks. He charged the Soviet government with conspiracy to destroy the labor movement in this country through its agents, the Com- munists, and used the usual insinua tions against the revolutionary ele- ment in the labor movement, that they received finances from all sources and especially Russia, to destroy trade unions etc., ds usual not proving anything, but that he was a demago- gue who at times does not know what he is talking about. He concluded by stating that as long as the Soviet government keeps up associations with such elements and insists in destroying our labor movement and especially our dear and beloved democratic form of gov- ernment, the labor movement will cease to recognize it. And so the re- port of the committee was adopted, These same hypocrites would shed crocodile tears when they were told that in this great democracy children rday with the singing of | SEAMEN CHASE HAVELOCK WILSON }. OFF OLYMPIC; SHIPPING STRIKE PARALYZING ATLANTIC SEABOARD (Continued from page 1) him in the --°'" m tod nse wer of a dozen or more seamen, Wil- son, betrayer of British seamen saw that astorm was coming and beat a hasty and inglorius retreat off the ship under escort of burly New York police. He is reported as intending to try his guff on the crew of the Arabic next. More Ships Lose Crews. The I. W. W. pickets are hitting some blows at shipping, tying up four new boats on Friday. The crews of the British steamer Dunrobin, the Norwegian Utsire, and the American, Commercial Spirit (good name for an American ship!) walked off 100 per cent, as did the crew of the Thomas P. Beal. The crew of the steamer Matinicock quit the other day and the crimps managed to ship a crew of men who were in ignorance of the strike. But when the I. W. W. pickets got one man aboard of her, the crew piled off 100 per cent. Slide Down Hawsers. Members of the crew of the Cedric are leaving the ship hourly. In an ef- fort to stop the exodus, the officers raised the gangplank, but the men keep coming over by going down the hawsers. The Panama-American liner Mongolia was scheduled to leave the pier at 1 p. m, but she was still there at 8 o'clock. . Several waterfront restaurants— “ptomaine foundries,” in the language of the wobbly seamen— are posting signs in their windows asking for scabs, adding considerably to the in- surance rates on plate glass. All kinds of hole and corner joints are being turned into scab-herding agencies, all indications that the strike is getting tighter on the shipping companies, To Expose Furuseth Scabbing. The I. W. W. strike committee in a statement issued Friday declare that for the benefit of the members of the International Seamen’s Union who still believe in the integrity of their officials, that the Marine Transport Workers headquarters have complete evidence of the strikebreaking du- Plicity of these officials and this will be published in the next issue of the Marine Worker soon to appear. Picket reports in New York harbor alone the following ships completely without crew: American registry; passenger liner Isabelle, passenger liner Creole, passenger liner Mongolia, freighter Trader, freighter Calabasas, freighter Eastern, freighter Sucaresco, oil tanker B. L. Dohney III, oil tanker Walter ennings, freighter Dicto, oil tanker Polarine, freighter Monticello, dredge Marcel, freighter Sucherico and freighter Minnesota. Long List of Paralyzed Ships. Ships of foreign registry completely without crew are as follows: Danish, ferighter Rolf and freighter Diana; British freighter London Mariner and freighter Japan Prince; Norwegian freighter Fryken and freighter Vind- eggend; and the Belgian freighter Mercier, More than 50 per cent struck are listed the following: From American lines—passenger El Caston, oil tanker Durango, freighter Hawaiian, passen- ger Santa Teresa, oil tanker Malabar, passenger Western World, oil tanker Oli, oil tanker Frederic Kellogg, freighter Ice Hall. From foreign reg- istry also 60 per cent struck are the great British White Star liner Olymp- |’ ic, the British liner Cedric and the British liner Arabic, also the British oil tanker Clyde, with the Italian freighter Vivirno. Newark and Baltimore. Solid Port Newark reports that all trans- marine ships are tied up, while Balti- more, Maryland reports show that even the capitalist papers admit that the tieup is one of the most complete ever seen in that port. Mass meetings are being held and effective picket work is engaged in despite police in- terference. A meeting of striking seamen held last Thursday at the water front was addressed by Rébecca Grecht, of the Workers (Communist) Party, This }was the first public meeting of the union addressed by a Communist. There were about 200 strikers in at- tendance, who received with enthusi- asm every mention of the necessity for an international united front lagainst the capitalist offensive. Rebecca Grecht Speaks to Strikers. The speaker showed how the attack by the ship owners against the sea- men is part of the world wide assault of capitalism against the standards of living of the workers, and emphasized the need for national and international unity of labor’s forces. She pointed out how the present international sea- men’s strike is an expression of the increasing militancy of the workers in defense of their interests, and of their growing solidarity. The seamen were urged to stand by their union in its struggle against the shipping trust, one of the most powerful capitalist combines, and receiving the official backing of the United States govern- ment. The Workers (Communist) Party of District No. 2 stands fully behind the strike, and is backing the strikers fi- nancially and otherwise. Regular mass meetings of strikers are held every evening at South street and Coenties’ | Slip. All revolutionary workers. are invited to attend. U. S. Government Leads Seab Scale. Altho the shipping board, according to statements of Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, héad of the Emergency Fleet corporation, has. cut operating ex- penses about $14,000,000 and is now running 299 ships as compared with 341 a year ago, its vessels are carry- ing practically the same tonnage and do a good business on all routes, says | Palmer, The I..W, W. strikers are asking why the shipping board still refuses to give the seamen better conditions and higher wages if this is the case. The usual plea that they have to com- pete with foreign bottoms with cheap- er labor don’t hold good any ‘longer. This is clear from the fact that the French and Danish steamship com- pany has granted all demands and now pays much higher wages and so on than does the shipping board—and if the company couldn’t make profit on that basis it would not have granted the I. W. W. demands. — five years of age and upwards were exploited in the cotton mills of the south and textile mills of New Eng- land. In “barbarian” Soviet Russia child labor is a thing of the past. All this inconsistency is nothing to labor fakers, of course. All the reso- lutions passed mean nothing to the labor movement and will not change the situation in the state of Illinois. The usual resolutions of the union label were passed and a number of others déaling with instruction to the legislative committees in regards to its work with the Small machine. ‘The convention was, in reality, no- thing but a love feast for the legisla- ture in Springfield and a preliminary campaign convention for the reelec- tion of Gov. Small and company. The progressive unionists must organ- ize their forces for the next conven- tion and work to bring the T[ilinois labor movement back on the basis of the class struggle. COMMUNISTS AID I. W. W. SEAMEN ON STRIKE AGAINST SHIPOWNERS NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 20,—The following contributions were made by Workers Party branches of New York City to aid the striking seamen of the Marine Transport Workers’ Union No, 610, I, W. W., which is conducting a strike of seamen in this port: Harlem Jewish, $31.50; Downtown English, $15; Bronx English, $16.10; Hungarian Yorkville, $8.50. Other contributions are coming in. All funds contributed should be sent to the Marine Workers’ Union No, 510, |. W. W., 105 Broad Street, New York City, as given below. HELP THE STRIKING SEAMEN! ADDRESS: ...... AMOUNT OF DONATION Send All Funds to MARINE TRANSPORT WORKERS’ UNION No. 510, 1. W. W, 105 Broad Street, New York City. H Name of Newspaper....... Corporation Lawyer Tokio Envoy. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—President Coolidge has tentatively selected Charles MacVeagh, New York cor- poration attorney, as the new am- bassador to Japan, and has submit- ted his name to Tokio for approval, it was reported here in authoritative quarters, MacVeagh is a relative of Franklin MacVeagh, who was secretary of the treasury in the cabinet of President Taft. Twenty-ninth Child at 69, VALLODLID, Sept. 20.— Senora Camila Lorenzo, 69 years old today gave birth to her twenty-ninth child. HE DAILY WORKER CAL ALLOWS U.S, FLIERS TO°GO ON KILLING IN RIFF Kellogg’s “Warning” Comes Very Late WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 20.— Altho Secretary of State Kellogg has “warned” the American aviators, millionaires or sons of politicians and church officials, that they are violat- ing the law by fighting with the French against the Riffians in Africa, Kellogg has not brenght’ the matter officially to the attention of the French government? If the Coolidge government were really anxious to prevent the Amer- ican aviators from murdering Moroc- can villagers, they @ould have put a stop to the formation of the aviation unit at the time ofits formation several weeks ago. ? The aviators arefighting for the French bankers against a law which prohibits fighting fon foreign army, and carries a fine ape imprisonment for violation. However, the rigans are still bombing native wenfe ad children, and dispatches from hee state they have raided the villpgé of Boukkos, “receiving honors’ in the latest French communique.” ~ ‘ Call Heusd fée Third Conference of T. U.E. L. (Continued ftom page 1) 12, The Negro Workers, 18.. Youth and Women Workers. 14, The Independent Unions. 15. Problems of the Canadian Movement. 16. World Trade Union Unity. 17. Organisation of the T. U. B. L. 18. Financing the T. U, EB. L. 19. The League Press. 20. Blection of National Commit- tee. The labor movement is in a deep going crisis, The reactionary trade union officialdom are showing them- selves completely incapable of meet- ing the difficult situation. Under their guidance the unions are either falling to pieces or rotting with B. and O, Plans and other schemes of class collaboration. Upon the left wing falls the full burden of giving a lead to the organized workers and of laying the basis of organization among the vast mi of unorganized. In fulfilling this task the left wing, weak in num- bers and attacked on every side, has innumerable problemg to solve and obstacles to overcome’: To meet the situation, it is necessary that there be a great national’ conference of trade union progressives and revolu- tionaries, which ‘shall map out the Program of the left wing and strengthen its organization. The T. U. E, L. general conference offers such a meeting. Therefore,(let every ldcal- ity send its full qu & of delegates to this third general conference, which must be made the largest and most important in the history of the Trade Union Educational League, ————- Hurt in Oil Blast on Boat JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 18,— Wireless operator J. V. Simmons is missing, and fire chief G. W. Haney, and two other firemen were injured as a result of a series of explosions aboard the Texas Oil Motor vessel Solitaire in port here early today. The boat was wrecked, Irving Park Branch Meets Tuesday Night An educational meeting of Irving Park Workers Party branch will be held on Sept. 22 at*$ p. m., at 4021 Drake Ave, A.speaker on an interest- ing and important question is being secured. Some, business matters will also be taken up. All members should Build the DAILY WORKER, | be present. / INTERNATIONAL SEAMEN’S STRIKE GRIPS WORLD TRADE OF BRITAIN LONDON, Sept. 20—The shipping companies are discussing a com- plete cancellation of sailings owing to the general “outlaw” strike of seamen against the wa per month, which the co id beginning Septem! Spite of the fact that Havelock Wil- son, reactionary head of the con- servation N, S. U., signed an agree- ment to accept the cut, the mem- bers of his union are on strike. The companies hate to surrender to the strikers, but on the other hand, the trade of the British em- pire is being rapidly destroyed by The threat to cancel all sailings indefinitely is probably a bluff to make the strikers think that the companies are “going out " rather than grant the lemands. Strikers regard this as ludicrous. From Melbourne cable. reports Say that new and more serious labor troubl ahead as Premier Bruce announced the dissolution of parlia- ment and the calling of a general election as a result of the seamen’s strike. This is said to have been caused by the state premiers’ failing terroristie pro- nd measures taken to break strike, ‘ CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Sept. 20.—Police authorities of Durban have notified skippers ‘of British ships that they mole feed the sea- men who on strike there. Tak- i dvantage of this, the British steamer Portcurno, pulled away from the dock while the strikers were at mess on board, and put out to sea. i After she was 100i miles out the firemen struck, forcing the vessel to return to Durban. Public halls and even the jails at Durban are being turned into hotels for the strikers, The shipping companies have to pay the bills, tho not doing so with any visible good will, The skipped of the British steam- er Athelfoam at the Cape Town docks has committeed sul: press reports that worry strike being the « Passengers taking the chance of coming from England to South Africa on scab ships. are now being compelled to cook thelr own food, Sailors are. ing over the chuck some of these birds must be eating. +b —____ooooOo \ Make your friend a friend of the DAILY WORKER. Send in hig ggbscription, Sin 2) Seeartpine Woikers Must Fight the Security Pact That Aids War of Bosses on Labor By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, under the pretense of establishing an “era of good will” for Europe, the imperialist bandits of western Eu- rope, led by the robber cliques of Paris and London, are put- ting the finishing touches on their proposed “security pact” that is to receive the official seal of the capitalist foreigh ministers at Lucerne, Switzerland, on Oct. 5. It is claimed that the draft of the document has already been completed and that it is satisfactory to all concerned but that takes into consideration only the capitalist gov- ernments. It takes no account of the awakening working masses. ° * e es The workers and peasants of the Union of Soviet Re- publics were quick to see that the ‘‘security pact” was merely an instrument for achieving the security of capital- ist western Europe against workers’ eastern Europe. More that that. It is the creation of an alliance of capitalist na- tions to prepare for open war against the rule of the work- ers and peasants. That this threat to the Soviet Union, hidden under the alluring and subtle phrases of the security pact, is recognized by the German workers, is seen in the accompanying car- toon reproduced from one of their publications, Under the cartoon appears this appeal: “Workers! Will you permit the capitalists to march over your backs against Russia?” Be- cause it is over disarmed Germany, prostrate under the Mor- gan-Dawes’ plan, that the armies of the Versailles allies must march in order to reach the western frontiesr of the Soviet Republics. It is not surprising that the German social-democracy takes its stand, against the interests of the German workers, in support of the Luther-Hindenberg government's policy of entering the league of nations and supporting. the security pact. wit wei | possible has been done to win the German overnment of Von Hindenberg for this anti-Soviet pact. he clauses of the Versailles Peace Treaty that treat Ger- many as a conquered nation and as a war criminal are to be scrapped. British imperialist rule, that faces an increasing drift toward revolution at home, and that is most anxious to organize the attack against the Soviet Union, accepts its enemy of 1914 as an equal. The German menace to civiliza- tion of ten years ago becomes today the politically of the self-appointed saviours of civilization and “world culture.” . * ° e The American workers who went meekly into the world war, who assented to the imperialist Versailles Peace, who remained quiescent during the military attacks on the Rus- sian Soviet Republic, who have not raised their vo! against the Morgan-Dawes’ plan, are even now aiding their class enemies by not opening an attack against the “se- curity pact,” that must have the consent of Wall Street's No eid at Washington, before it can really become effective. , The gesture is made that the supervision of the pact be placed under the league of nations, But the league is the creature of the Versailles Peace of the great capitalist na- tions. The entrance of Germany into the league means the sear, Son Germany for the Franco-British war against the Soviet Union, in spite of the Rapallo treaty and in spite of the growing commercial relations between Germany and Soviet Russia. ues * The biggest obstacle to the functioning of this capitalist alliance to establish its security will be found in the organiz- ed resistance of the class conscious workers within the frontiers of Germany, France and England. Let the workers of the United States take their stand against this capitalist “security pact,” that is also a threat to them, and help’ build labor's security pact thru its own growing international soli- darity. For a capitalist attack — the workers and peas- ants of the Soviet Union is an attack against the workers of the whole world. Lenin Memorial Album 4 his life. A new booklet from Germany with text in English, German and French —and 33 photographs of the t leader during different periodate INJURED MEN “FIRED TO HIDE BOSSES’ BLAME Steel Trust “Safety” Talk Is the Bunk (By Worker Correspondent.) GARY, Ind., Sept, 20—Two Gary steel mill workers, Eddie Santon and Charles Wissenberg, were badly burned at their work and were rushed to the steel company hospital in an ambulance for treatment. These two workers were connecting an oll switch while working over live wires which accidentally became crossed, causing a flash that burned the arms and faces of the two men, The Gary mills print a small pamphlet, The Circle, every two weeks for the “benefit” of its employes, which pamphlet seems to be very so- licitious about safety for its employes, but if the officials had put in a safety device this accident would not, have happened. After this occurrence, which had endangered the lives of two men, the steel company did put in a safety device, but nevertheless they dis- charged the injured men after they were released from the hospital charg- ing that the men were “inefficient.” Accident Shut Down Whole Mill, The accident damaged the electric power system in the mill to such an extent that most of the departments using electric power were forced to shut down until extensive repairs could be made. The rolling mills and other mills in which electric power is used to operate the large steel making machinery were without sufficient power to operate from about 4:30 in the afternoon until some time after | midnight, About 8 p. m. sufficient power was obtained from an electric power plant in S. Chicago to furnish lights within the plant but it was then four hours later before the power system had been re-established so that the vari. ous mills could operate normally. The power system breakdown also had its effect on the Gary Heat, Light and Water company which receives its power from the U. 8S. Steel com- pany plant. Workers Always Blamed. , After the accident, Superintendent Gleason appointed an assistant super- intendent to make an “investigation,” the resylt being that two men, who had been doing this kind of work for the last five years, found themselves without work because of “ineffici- ency.” This accident has caused many workers to ask why it is that they are always responsiblé for all the ac- cidents and taking this opportunity members of our shop nucleus are tell ing them the reason, Polish Minister Quits WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—(FP)—~ Wladislaw Wroblewski, Polish minis- ter to the United States, has resigned while on vacation., He has been pro- mised a good job in Warsaw or in some European capital, Like the diplomatic representatives of Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Rumania, whose governments have been butchering working class agitat- ors, the Polish minister was welcomed in Washington as a supporter of law and order, and was a social favorite. Do Not Take too Much Water WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Diver. sion of water by power companies on the Niagara river has not exceeded the amount allotted in the interna- tional agreement, it was ‘announced today in the report of the Niagara control board, made public by the state department. SEVEN HUNDRED POLISH WORKERS ARE JAILED, STARVED AND FORTURED WARSAW, Poland, Sept, 20— Seven hiindred working men, wo .men and children have been arrest- ed in the town of Byalestock, on charges of “being Communists.” The police, agents of the Grabsky regime of white terror which is the lackey of French imperialism, made houss to house searches, When unable to find the sons and daughters, they took aged ints instead. The prisoners we ack- led, taken to the town of Bielsk, and confined in an abandoned ho: 5 The Polish secret police milit- ary authorities then matically tortured the prisoners, holding them several days without food, and final- ly releasing 600. The others were retained for further torture by the military police. More than one hun- dred further arrests were made in the homes of workmen in the town of Praga, Wain laigertanne: