The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1925, Page 2

WORKERS OF ENGLAND APPLAUD SAKLATVALA'S EXPOSURE OF WORLD IMPERIALISH'S MISRULE (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, England, Sept. 21.—The workers of England have registered their strong protest against the exclusion from the United States of Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist member of the British parliament, who was denied permission to enter the coun- try to attend the inter-parliamentary union convention at Wash- ington. Thousands of Saklatvala’s constituents attended a meeting addressed by the Communist, and several thousand others were unable to jam their way into the meeting hall at Battersea, unanimously voted support to?> Saklatvala in his fight against British imperialism on behalf of the working class. “As long as the wicked and criminal rule of Great Britain in India, Africa and China continues the workers of the west will be in danger,” Saklat- vala said. A resolution was unanimously pass- ed denonuncing America’s treatment of Saklatvala repudiating the false charges made by the Coolidge officials, and expressing the hope that “the sense of honor and justice among the American masses will ultimately pre- yail to permit Saklatvala to go to America.” Speaks to Overflow Throngs After the indoor meeting, Saklat- vala addressed a great overflow ga- thering outside. The huge crowds carried Red flags and sang revolution- ary songs. The tremendous demonstration for Saklatvala disproves beyond @ doubt the propaganda which has been spread broadcast in the American kept press that Saklatvala’s consti- tuents had repudiated him. They showed that they were aolidly behind Saklatvala’s attack on imperialist mis-rule in India and the other colon- ial colonies. They Laborite Protests Only one of the labor party mem- bers of parliament in the group of delegates to the union would express his protest at the exclusion of Sak- latvala, Pethick Lawrence said, “I am sorry Saklatvala is not in the party, becausé, tho I differ widely from his opinions, I think it would have been well that all shades of opinion in the house of commons, extreme or other- wise, should have been represented.” The party sailed on the steamer Coronia, manned by a scab crew. Saklatvala’s protest ro the Amer- ican consul in London remained’ un- answered and the British government will probably ignore it, having instt- gated the barring of the Communist. No Free Speeoh In U. S. A writer in the Evening Standard declares, “America, in the sense of countenancing freedom of opinion, never has been a land of freedom. It is a land of property, with all the force of law and public opinion at the ready disposal of things as they are. Minorities never have had any rights worth mentioning in the United States. There is freedom of speech there, but the thing spoken must al- ways agree with the view of the majority.” METAL POLISHERS STRIKE TO WIN _ WAGE INCREASE (Continued from page 1) ble for a polisher to earn $1.10 per hour. “At present it is impossible for a polisher to know what he will make working on the piece rate basis. Every job has a different piece rate and sometimes the worker will, get but an average of 75 cents an hour. We want to change this so’ that he will be able to earn a decent wage.” The Cribbent and Sexton company employs about 600 workers in its plant manufacturing the Universal stoves, ranges and furnaces. It is considered one of the largest plants making stoves in the middle west. This company systematically opposes all attempts on the part of its work- ers to organize. The molders are the only ones in the shop that have an organization, which numbers 150 workers. The metal polishers’ orga- nization was smashed by the Cribben and Sexton company three years ago. The metal polishers are again reor- ganizing and imtend to carry on the fight until their demands are granted. The company attempted to cut the day rate from $1. an hour to 85 cts. and piece prices were arranged to suit the convenience of the company. This firm pays its laborers but 42 and 45 cents an hour, stove mounters receive but 75 cents a stove and the high wage for one who breaks his neck is about $5.00. The company also employs a number of women in its enameling department. The wo- men enamel various parts of the stoves and ranges and work on a piece rate basis. By working very hard they are able to make about $25 a week. The company is having more and more of its work sent into the enameling shop so as to eliminate the polishers as much as possible. The strike of the polishers has come at the time of the year when the Cribben and Sexton company is in its busiest season. The company is sending its work to the Chicago Plat- ing Company, formerly known as the Cooperative Plating Co., 351 West Superior St., where efforts are being made to turn out the Universal rang- es and stoves. The superintendent, is visiting the homes of many who have applied for work in the past year endeavoring to round up enough scabs to carry on production. So far his efforts have met with failure due to the mass picketing of the polish- ers from 6:80 in the morning until 5:30 in the evening. The pickets carry a large banner with the inscription “STRIKE ON, This Stove Shop Un- fair To Metal Polishers; DON’T SCAB.” The superintendent has treatened to revoke the strikers’ insurance poli- cies. The company has a policy is- sued for every worker in the plant. After one has been there three months, he is given an insurance po- liey. After he has been in the em- ploy of the company one year, in case he dies, his family receives $500. After two years he receives $600. The graduation keeps on until in his tenth year he is entitled to $1600, The strikers have a meeting every morning in the hall at 736 North Albany —_— Ave, whiob i just across| with subs METAL POLISHERS’ HEAD APPEALS 10 ORGANIZED LABOR FOR STRIKE AID By JOHN WERLIK Business Agent, Local No. 6, Metal Polishers, Buffers and Platers Union. The Cribben and Sexton Co., man- ufacturers of the Universal gas stoves, ranges and furnaces has definitely refused to grant the pol- ishers buffers, and platers in its employ, the right of union repres- entation, j Crude in his tactics and use of terms, Vice-President Smith of the Cribben and Sexton Co. abruptly ended a conference Friday morning at which a good sized delegation of strikers were present with their business agent and international union The strike called against the Crib- ben and Sexton Co. bids fair to de- velop into another “Buck Stove and Range” fight, which is very well known to organized labor in Amer- ica. The Metal Polishers’ Union has the backing of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor and the entire labor movement of Chicago. A delegation is to be sent to the American Federation of Labor con- vention in Atlantic City, Oct. 5th, to lay the entire matter before the Amerloan Federation of Labor con- vention. . The International office at Cincin- nati is sending out letters to over forty thousand local unions all over the country, notifying them of the action taken by the Cribben and Sexton Co, In the meantime the union is ask- ing organized labor to remember t! refusal of the company, which man- ufacturers the Universal stoves, ranges and furnaces to deal with organized jabor. the street from the shop in which they worked. The present superintendent of the company was formerly a superinten- dent of the slave-driving Western Electric and also an assistant super- intendent of the Edison Appliance Co., manufacturers of the Hotpoint electric appliances, known in Chica- go to be a rat shop. Efforts are be- ing made to hire men through the Edison Appliance Co. and send them to the Cribben and Sexton plant to scab on the striking polishers, BITTELMAN SPEAKS TONIGHT AT NORTH WEST SIDE BRANGH Alexander Bittelman, member of the central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, will speak tonight on the “Reorgan- ization of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party” at the ed jonal meet- ing of the North West Side English branch. The place of the meeting is the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard, in the rear of the build- ing, up one flight. The members of the branch are urged to bring their friends. Every member is duty bound to attend. ‘The time is 8 p. m, sharp. AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) but against membef’s of the Kuomin- tang party, which is looked upon by the American government with hard- ly less ‘favor than’ the Communist Party. o a8 WENTY-ONE shots from a 75 cen- timetre gun were fired last Sun- day in honor of the American flag at a German celebration held in Chicago. Only seven years ago, 75 centimetre guns were spitting death at German soldiers in the name of democracy and civilization. To say a good word of the Germans at that time, was to risk lynching and to qualify for a jail sentence. But today German labor is sweating under the Dawes’ plan and German capitalists are the duti- ful servants of the House of Morgan. Naturally, the Germans are again a cultured and civilized people and old man Nietzsche is conveniently forgot- ten, The million and a quarter Ger- mans who fell in the war have noth- ing tO worry about; neither have the one hundred thousand American workers. se 8 ISHOP William Montgomery THE DAILY WOIRKER PEKING PUPPETS CRUSH CHINESE STUDENT MOVE Forbid Protest: Upon Shanghai Affair (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKIN, Chine, Sept. 21. — An il- lustration of what pressure of foreign imperialism is doing to compel the Chinese government at Pekin to sup- press the nationalist revolutionary movement in return forpromises of loans and ultimate» concessions on tariff and territorial issues, may be seen by the. government's autocratic prohibition of students’ demonstra- tions. f The students have planned a series of demonstrations in all cities to pro- test against the coming certain white- wash of the imperialist) butchery of their comrades at Shanghai on May 30. One diplomatic commission al- ready found the British police troops and the American ohairman of the Shanghai municipal council to blame. Brown intends to appeal his case before the general convention of the protestant episcopal church, which meets in New Orleans next October. The bishop does not take the bible literally and is therefore, charged with heresy by his former co-workers in the lord’s vineyard. The bishop is fortunate that he did not upset the theological apple cart away back in the twelfth century or therabouts. His godly co-religionists would soon have his hide decorating a cathedral door as a warning to others. It is a safe bet that many prominent church officials are sorry those days are no more, ee i igi Chicago Evening Journal, ev!- dently fishing for subscribers among the Irish population of Chi- cago, pays tribute to Col. Charles Sweeney, the American aviator who is at the head of a scabby collection of adventurers fighting against the Riffians. The Journal indulges in non- sensical compliments to the “fighting race” and suggests that Sweeney's ‘appearance on the scene bodes ill for Abd-el-Krim. We hope that one of Abd-el:Krim’s sharpshooters puts @ bullet in the filthy human rat, who has sunk so low that he knows of no better way to amuse himself than by dropping bombs on Riffans women and children. Those who know Swee- ney’s! antecedents are not surprised at his present occupation. His fath- er, shipped the first train load of scabs into Cour d’Alene, Idaho, dur- ing the big strike there many years HB *Erish have no reason to be hf wf vermin like Sweeney, or bie Thee who lend their services “fuling class. for the purpose ofvke g others in subjection. For- t ro there are among the Irish beh d women who fight on the side of freedom from the oppressed. While the capitalist press praises the Swee- neys, the Crowes, the Devers and others of that ilk, they have the same ‘scorn and hatred for the Con- nollys and Lehanes that they have for the revolutionary leaders of all races who throw in their lot with the ex- Ploited and persecuted. The Jour- nal’s eulogy of the fink Sweeney may give patriotic Irish morons a thrill, but it will only fill intelligent Irish workers with disgust. Great Britain is Organizing Fascist Forces in Far East (Continued from page 1) vouring to create a bloc against China in the East, and simultaneously against the U. S. S. R. Strong rumors are abroad that Chamberlain is nego- tiating with the Japanese ambassador, Ishi on this matter, and that he is discussing with him the question of a general attack of the allies on China (presentation of an ultimatum to the Chinese government), and the sharing out of China according to spheres of influence between Great Britain, United States, Japan and France. British Will Fail However, it is very doubtful that British imperialism will be able to realize its plans in view of the present situation in China, The attempts to, carry out these plans will only bring China and U. S. 8. R. still closer to- gether, and then the words of the Jap- anese newspaper will be justified “if the Chinese lion and the Russian bear unite, there is not one force in the world to cope with them,” War Office Fires Mitchell for His Charge of Neglect SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 21— Col. William, Mitchell has been re- lieved of his post as air officer of the eighth corps area, it was an- nounced officially in orders issued at Ft. Sam Houston today. The order relieving Col. Mitchell was issued by Maj. Gen. Ernest Hinds,” commanding” general of the eighth corps area, and states that the air officer will stand relieved from staff duty uritil farther notice. tS Wrap your luneh in a copy of the DAILY -WORKER and give Build the DAILY WORKER | it (the DAILY WORKER, not the st to rs ‘ Imperialiste Insist on Whitewash. But this did not sit well with the imperialists, so they—led by Britain— are naming an “investigation” com- mission of hand’ picked lawyers to do the job all over again and, incidental- ly, to see that, whitewash is spread on thickly. * To protest against this disgraceful affair, the students’ demonstrations were called. But the Peking govern- ment, now become thoroly subservient to the imperialists on this issue, has prohibited all demonstrations and in Pekin the police were stationed at the hall where the mass meeting of students to take place, and prevented any one enigring. This is applying methods in China of the great Yankee “democracy.” The stu- dents could only parade the streets, but they did that several thousand strong and they have leartied another lesson than what they are taught in the schools. Feng and Chang Threaten War. The Pekin politicians are disturbed at the news that General Feng Yu- hsiang, who-has allied If armies to the cause of the Kuomfiitang party for nationalist Hberation, may try to occupy the province of Shansi from his present position in the provinces of Honan and Shensi, Shansi is known as Chifna’s “model province” and its holding by Feng would mean a solid“block of north- western states under his control. To prevent this,‘ the “imperialists are sending their'tool, Chang Tso-lin, with ne army wéstward, the troops being ose of General ChangyTsung-chang of Shantung province. on the Shangtung-Honan borders. CLOTH STRIKER SHOT BY GUNMEN WHO SPED AWAY Harry Novak, 5740 South Green St. member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, was shot by gangsters as he was sitting in his automobile in front of his home. Novak was active in'the Amalgamated strike against the International Tailor- ing company, 847 W. Jackson bivd., and it is believed the ‘shooting was directed against his strike activities. Novak's brother, Osear, who was with him was also shot. Both will re- cover. Big Furriers’ Union in New York Demands Saklatvala be Admitted (Continued from; page 1) interests of the British workers against the onslaughts of the British employing class, BE IT RESOLVED, that we vigor- ously protest against the action of the Secretary of Btate Kellogg, in exclud- ing Shapurji Saklatvala, as an act hostile to the interests of the organ- ized labor movement gf the world, as an act of unauthorized and unjust- {fiable discrimination against the fore- ign born workers and as a high-hand- ed attempt to limit,the freedom of speech in the United States, and Demand His ittance BE IT FURTHER SOLVED that we demand the imm@diate admission of Shapurji Saklatvala to this country and the removal of) all restrictions which may have been initiated by the secretary of state without the author- ity of congress against those seeking admission to this country, and BE IT FURTHER: RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be sent to the Secretary of State Kellogg at en D. C. and to the press, ani BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we call upon all affiliated organiza- tions affiliated with this body to take similar action, Cal Turns Down Union Member. WASHINGTON, .Sept. 21—Presi- dent Coolidge has (turned down the request that he appoint Miss Ethel Smith, of the Natl. dederation of Fed- eral Employes, as the minority mem- ber of the civil service commission in place of the late,Mrs. Helen Gard- ner. Miss Jessie Dell, 25 years in the civil service, ommd a native of Georgia, was By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL., ‘ODAY, Wall Street's military satraps, from their swivel chairs in the various departments of war, at Washington, D. C., announce vie have almost perfected their proposals io for the selective service law that is to “round out the national defense act.” “Selective servi is the polite name for conscription, the drafting of men, whether they will it or not, to be led into the next war's slaughter house, like so many sheep driven ‘to the killing pens of Chicago's stockyards. All plans are to be submitted to the next congress, to be converted into the necessary legislation, so that not a moment will be lost in the mobilization of man power im- mediately the war drums begin to beat for the next murder of the millions. e * ° * Never before in its history has the nation seen such war preparations as one may witness at the present time. Indus- try is being mobilized, transport plans are considered, the battleships versus the airplane discussion rages with greater heat than is aroused in the consideration of any other prob- lem, while the cog Wis f laid plans for conscripting man power for the next blood-letting, shows that no time is to be lost in making good on the casualty lists immediately the quarrels of American imperialism burst into flames. * ° ° e The national defense act provides in detail for industrial mobilization. Fhese plans have been perfected. But evidently the war department felt that the memories of the last war were too fresh to raise any considerable dis- cussion of the mobilization of cannon fodder for the next war. The smell of hyman carrion rotting upon the battlefields was too recent not to leave its after effects. But pose 5 the warmakers are satisfied that they can now put their plans into law in preparation for the next “national emergency.” It is in the hands of a servile con- gress to declare when this “national emergency" exists, and then the president may proceed to draft forthwith for mili- tary service all male persons between 18 and 30 years of Conscription of Workers for New War, the Plan Before Next Congress age, or such ather limits as he may fix, “without defer- ment on account of industrial or agricultural occupation.” . * From.18 to 30 years. of age, the youth of the land, the youth of. the working class may be taken, under penalty of prison or death for refusal, to fight the next capitalist war of their imperialist masters. They may be sent across the Pacific to war on Japan, or into Asia to crush the struggling Chinese republic. They may be sent into Mexico, to smash any resistance there to Wall Street’s rule. They may be sent into Europe to collect the interest and the principal of ne great loans being made is to bankrupt capitalist Europe. T! is all the more likely if the workers of additional European nations decide to rid ‘ar may ensue |- IMoGoverc, 18478 07 .y- fj one a themselves of the capitalist oppression that burdens them and establish their own Soviet rule, repudiating the debts of their late master class, . . Or the youth of America, impressed into Wall Street's new war, may be sent against the frontiers of the Union of Soviet Republics, in another desperate effort to overthrow the power of the liberated workers and peasants and restore in Russia the deposed reign of capitalism. . ° * American capitalism has all of these possibilities in mind when it provides, in the law of the land, for the conscription of man power for the next war. Whether American youth will again meekly submit to become fertilizer for foreign fields remains to be seen. ° e the capialist class. power. Saklatavala Ban Shows Dread of the Imperialists (Continued from page 1.) India, aims a new blow at foreign- born workers by extending the rigor of its immigration exclusion laws, makes a further denial of freedom of speech, and brings sharply before the American workers the issue of inter- national trade union unity.” . Protests against the exclusion of Saklatvala came from many other sources. The Friends of Freedom For India issued a statement denouncing the barring of the Communist M. P., and the Furriers’ Union, Local No. 1 also demanded Saklatvala’s admit- tance to this counrty “ee Borah Against Gagging. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept., 21.— Senator William Borah of Idaho has indicated he will make an issue of Secretary Kellogg's gagging of foreign visitors and barring of foreign redi- cals when congress meets in Sept- ember. He proposes a law forbidding the state department to exclude aliens because of their political views. Borah declared the exclusion from the international gathering in Wash- ington of the only spokesman . of 800,000,000 workers in India will be resented by the people of India, and will cause the British empire a heavy price. He charges that Kellogg inter- vened in a political dispute within the empire, and identified the United States with British imperialism. Won By Wide Margin. MADISON, Wis., Sept, 21.—Robert M. LaFollette, Jr, won from Roy F. Wilcox, his nearest’ rival’in the sen- atorial primaries, by 96,197 votes, ac- cording to figures issued today from the office of the seoretary of state. LaFollette polled 178,081; Wilcox, 81,834. Woodward!!had » 40,366 and That is something that should engage the attention of the whole. working class, just as it worries the warmakers of hen the workers fight in the next war, let it be on behalf of their own Interests; which will be against the cap- italist class, in the struggle to establish their own proletarian Refuse Militants Free Speech in Old Forge, Pa. (Continued from page 1) that comes along gets a corner with- out any trouble. But then perhaps his last remark clears up many things. “The Reds? Nothin’ doin’.” He grants the busiest corner in town to “Open Shop” O’Brien, red baiter. When refused a permission for a permit today by the burgess, the fol- lowing letter was handed him by a representative of the party. “Mr. Burgess: You have refused to permit the proposed meeting of the Worekrs Party to be held. You have violated every principle of free speech. The Workers Party does not intend that the scheduled meeting shall be either broken up or post- poned. We will go thru with the meeting. The issue is clear-cut, a free speech fight. You have permit- ted medicine quacks and other para- sites, including O’Brien the anti- working class faker to speak from the streets, and tell us the traffic is too heavy when we want to speak, “The meeting will be held at the corner of Main and Grace streets op- posite Pilosi theater, beginning at three p. m. sharp, Wednesday, Sept. 23 Our speakers will be Benj. Git- low, ex-socialist assemblyman of New York and vice-presidential can- didate of the Workers Party in the last national election; P. V, Zalpis, who will speak in Lithuanian and Polish and Pat Toohey, secretary of Local Union 1724, United Mine Work- ers and until recently when he re- signed secretary of the Plains Local 1483, U M. W. A, and an Italian speaker. We assure you of our in- tention of establisthing the right of our organization to hold meetings in your city. “Yours for the meeting, “AUGUST VALENTINI ALL BRITISH SHIPS STRUCK IN NEW YORK I. W. W. Announces Gains on Picket Line (Special to The Dally Werker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 21.—The shipowners, confronted by the ynex- pected solidarity of the seamen called on strike by the Marine Transport Workers of the I. W. W. in unity with the strikers of Great Britain, Den- mark, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia, are bewildered by the sud- den sweep of the walkout. The M. T. W. has evolved one of the best of picket systems known for conducting the different task of cov- ering the harbor of Greater New York with efficient picketing squads. Strategically placed over the water front, and around the most prominent scab recruiting offices, the M. T. W. pickets spread the news of the fn- ternational general strike of seafar- ers. Ready and Willing. Ordinarily, the seamen are quick to respond. - Peaceful persuasion is enuf. As soon as the situation is explained in a few words, all men who are not scabs by nature walk out. Efforts to recruit scabs are being made by every sort of joint on the water front. But officers are quiting frequently in disgust at trying to break in inex- perienced and irresponsible scab crews. Saturday, the pickets brot off the crews of seven ships and things were lively along North river when the crew of the Dunrobin, a Britisher, walked off 100 per cent, followed by the whole crew of the Norwegian ship Utsir, and the American ship Commercial Spirit. Crimps who refilled the struck ship Matinicoke, with a crew who had not heard of the strike. When the M. T. W. pickets got to tis crew—they, té¢, walked out 100 per cent, The Edgar Bowling crew who arrived in port Saturday, needed only official notirs of the strike and out they went dn a moment’s notice, All Out But Cripples. An M. T. W, picket boarded the Danish steamer Anna Jensen at Staten Island. /After a little conversa- tion the crew all left but one fire- man. He seemed:a little too crippled to shinny over the side. Forecastle conditions were ‘horrible on this ship. Also another Danish tub, the Nord- havet, reached port Saturday and 75 per cent of the crew tumbled off at the first call. The I. W, W. strike commitete an- nounces with some justifiable pride: “We take great pleasure in announc- ing that we have every British vessel in port tied up here, with practically no crew aboard.” i Wall Street Journal Praises Union Scab, The strikers are calling attention of the British seamen to the gushy praise of the Wall Street Journal of Monday’s edition, given to Havelock Wilson, the reactionary faker of the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union. Loud guffaws of laughter with a streak of anger at the traitor Wil- son are had over the following ‘pas- sages from a column of boosts for him by one Herbert N, Casson: “This Nationel Sailors’ and Fire- men’s Union is a legitimate and well- managed’ organization. It is strongly opposed to strikes. At its head is J. Havelock Wilson. He has fought the Communists for years and-is very highly esteemed by both the sailors and the shipowners of Britain.” Y Speaking of the sneaking on board the Majestic of a crew of scabs as she left Southampton, the Wall Street Journal writer says: Union Scabs “Quick and Efficient” “The main fact to notice about this incident is that all the 150 strike- breakers were union men. This vic- tory of a legitimate trade union over a rabble of Communists has made a strong impression upon the wage workers of Great Britain. In fact it was the quickest and most efficient in- stance of strikebreaking that the British people have ever seen.” “When you wants a strike broke ‘quick and efficient,’ you gets a crew of union scabs,” chortled a Limey from a British ship as he went on to ‘he picket line with an N. 8. U, card -a his pocket beside the other pickets carrying the red card of the M. T. W, of the I. W. W. f ys Politicians in all Frauds. Hard on the heles of the ure of undue priviliges and liberties granted federal prisoners in Cook and Kane counties, federal authori- ties were investigating reports that Walter Clinnin, brother of a former district attorney here, had served only three days of a 60 day sentence in the Kendall County jail at York- ville, Ill. The rest of the time, It was said, he spent “playing around” New York City. Evolution Trial Record Out. NEW YO CITY.— A complete story of the Dayton-Scopes evolution trial is being distributed by the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Union of New York. It-is a report written by Leslie H, Allen of the “Liberals,” ‘contain- ing the court records and the official locuments almost in their entirety. fhe title of the book is “Bryan and Darrow at Dagton.” i ay * 7 on » \ \ \9 {