The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1925, Page 2

SPANISH TROOPS REFUSE TO WAR AGAINST RIFFS; Moroccans Wipe Out Whole Battalions GIBRALTER, Sept. 22,— Spanish soldiers and sailors arriving at Alge- eiras on the cruiser Jaime |, which is securing provisions before returning to the fighting against the Riffians on the shores of Alhucemae Bay, report that the Spanish losses have been ex- tremely heavy, despite contrary re- ports of official Madrid communiques. Sailors who took part in the landing of forces declare the Riffians took heavy toll with their deadly fire on the landing party and on the cruisers near the shore. Regiments in Revolt There is much talk here of the re- tu8al of Spanish troops to leave for Morocco. Two battalions of the fore- ign legion were wiped out in the fight- ifg at Ben Karrich, near Tetuan, and ap Asturias regiment quartered at Oarabanchel, a suburb of Medrid, has ehosen open revolt, rather than be shipped to the Moroccan slaughter in order to benefit the bankers. Altho the Spanish government de- nies these mutinies, they cannot hide the fact that Antonio Saehapuiqo, a priest, has been tried by a court mar- tial for “conspiracy against the gov- ernment and fomenting revolt.” The verdict has not yet been announced. Mobilize Fascist Police The entire police and gendarmerie of Madrid has been mobilized in fear of the growing revolt among the sol- diers. Mutinies have occurred not only near Madrid, but at Malaga and | Algeotras, ports of embarkation, it is reported. The Spanish landing force will be withdrawn from the beach at Alhuce- mas Bay, as dictator Primo de Rivera now admits the position is “unten- able,” dispatches from Paris state. The Spanish troops are completely at | a standstill, and are suffering severely under a shortage of food and the Rif- fian fire. see American Fliers Kill Women QUEZZAN, Morocco, Sept. 22.—The | Sheriffian escadrille, made up of Am-| ericans from wealthy families who are | aiding the French bankers in their war on the Moroccan natives, will ignore the half-hearted warning of' Secretary of State Kellogg that they are breaking the laws of the United Btates. The American adventurers, under direction of the notorious scab-herder Col. € les Sweeney, in their last operation, after hearing of Kellogg’s “warning,” bombed the peaceful villa- ges at the source of the Agurdour river, laying waste to scores of plan- tations. They did not aid the military fight against the Riffians, except to kill a few women and children, and deprive other families of their food. Gambling Halls Burn SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 22—A score of gambling casinos, dance halls and saloons at Tia Juana resort village just across the border in Mex- ico, patronized by pleasufe seeking Americas, were destroyed by fire early.today with a loss of over one million dollars, U. S. MINERS CAN FORCE LEWIS INTO UNITED FRONT JUST LIKE | By ALEX REID (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee.) tactics, fight the reactionary officials of the unions themselves. making rapid progress in organizing the workers for trade union unity many parts of the world. The British Victory. tion from the slave conditions under which they now toil. that they. may learn what the united front is or ought to be. the 150,000 anthracite miners in Pennsylvania. to touch coal if the miners were forced to go on strike. draw announcement of @ cut in wages. NOTICE! LOCK-OUT OF COAL MINERS, AUGUST 1, 1925 Official Stoppage of the Movement of Coal Official Instructions to All Railway and Transport Workers as Agreed Unanimously by a Joint Conference of the N. U. Ry A. SLE 8 F., R. C. A, and the Transport and General Workers’ Union Executivi and Approved by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. RAILWAYS. : ak st not be attached to any train, after midnig' » Cams golday, gly, onl imund after this time cars of coal must not be sup- plied to any industrial or commercial concerns, or be put on the tip roads at docks for the coaling of ships. . All coal en route at midnight on Friday to be worked forward to the next siding suitable for storing it. . Any coal elther in cars or stock at a depot may be utilized at that depot for the purpose of coaling engines for passenger and goods trains, but must not be moved from that depot to another. DOCKS, WHARVES, ETC. Coal Exports. rt ‘Tippers and Trimmers will cease work at the end of the 2nd shift on July 3ist. Coal Imports. On no account may import coal be handled from July Sist. General. . A_general stoppase of men handling coal on other classes of tonnage ight. on Friday midni WATERWAYS AND DOCKS. er Is, waterways, etc., engaged in carrying coal will cease Friday midnight, ‘with ‘the exception of men who have coal en route, who Me be allowed to take it to destination and tie up. SAFETY MEN FOR PUM?- ING, ETC., WILL BE PERMITTED TO WORK FOR SAFETY PURPOSES a‘. ROAD TRANSPORT. causa 4 in delivering coal to commercial and industrial con~ enn wih ce day night, uly Bist.’ Men delivering for domestic pur- poses will cease at 12 noon, Saturday, August Ist. LOCAL COMMITTEES. ‘ ais ff carrying out these instructions the members of the orpininations’ herein corte ‘Shall, from each district, establish small sub- committees so as to co-ordinate policy in giving effect to same. SIGNED— COUNTERSIGNED— T. U. ©. SPECIAL COMMITTEE rf GEORGE HICKS (President) : AS. L. E. & F. aa \ PS HUMPHREYS, (President): FoRN BROMLEY (ecretary) B. H JENKINS 0. W. SKINNER N. U. R. F. FOWLER ARTHUR LAW R.C. A. GEORGE LATHAN T. & G. W. U. HARRY GOSLING ERNEST BEVIN T. U. C. GENERAL COUNCIL . B. ES (Chairman) abaen Me CITRINE (Assistant. Sec.) July 29th, 1925. | WV.DOBBIB (President) ‘T. 'H. THOMAS (Political Gen. See.) T. CRAMP (Indus. Gen. Sec.) GILL (President) by t. A. G. WALKDEN (Sec.) It is important that the workers note that J. H. Thomas of “Black Friday” fame, the traitor to the Brit- ish Triple Alliance, even worse than | bor leaders. Thruout the world a bitter struggle is being carried on by the progressive element in the trade unions in behalf of trade union unity and united front Not only have the progressives to fight the bosses, but they have to Yet in spite of the enormous handicaps which the progressives have to work against, they are The notable victories of the workers in Britain in the last threatened strike of the coal miners is a sample of what can bé done thru working class solidarity as presented by the united front of organized labor. The workers in Britain are rapidly forging the chain that will win the workers emancipa- We reproduce a copy of the notice distributed amongst the workers’ organizations in Britain, that was to a large extent responsible for the coal miners’ victory and suggest that our readers show it to our traitorous leaders The importance of an alliance between the transport workers and the miners of America at this time,—similar to the following agreement between the British miners and transport workers is apparent, in view of the strike of This is a fascimile of the order issued by the British railway unions not It caused Premier Baldwin and his cabinet to change their minds at the twelfth hour of the coal crisis, and made them bring sufficient influence on the coal barons to with- leaders are congratulated by big busi. ness for their position with labor, there is something wrong with fhe la- But we can picture our leaders in an HOLD HUGE NY. (Grin BRITISH MINERS DID THOMAS MASS United Front Against Exclusion of Red (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, 22—Thousands of workers attended the huge demon- stration In Union Square ‘called by the Workers (Communist) Party to protest against the exelusionh by Sec- retary of of the Com- munist member of the’ British parlia- ment, Shapurji Saklatvala, from the United States, and five other organ- izations took part in‘ the meeting. Resolutions of protest’ against this fresh atrocity of the Coolidge imper- lalist government were ufanimously passed. The workers carried ban- ners bearing slogans ‘agalrist imper- jalism and demanding the ‘immediate admittance of Saklatvala. ' Those organizations which took part in the tremendous mass meet- ing were, in addition “to the Work- ers Party, the Civil Liberties’ Union, The Friends of Freedom for India, the Young Workers’ League, the As- sociation for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, the International La- bor Defense, and many local unions. Socialiste Consplouously Absent. The speakers at the meeting were Jay Lovestone, Charles Krumbein, William Z. Foster, William Wein- stone, Workers Party, Arthur Gar- field Hayes, Civil Liberties Union, Peter Golden, Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, Sal- eindra N. Ghose, Friends of Freedom for India, Herbert Zam, Young Work- ers’ League, and Ben Gitlow, Inter- national Labor Defense. The socialist party refused to par- ticipate in the anti-imperiplist . pro- test, Norman Thomas declining to’ address this working class) meeting. When Comrade Gitlow spoke for world trade union unity, and mention- ed Comrade Purcell, who ts coming to this country, the large crowd sent up cheer aftér cheer. Working Clase Slogans. Some of the banners carried by the in workers read: “Hail ~Saklatvala, champion of oppressed. peoples,” “No persecution of: foreign-born workers,” “Demand freedom for China, Morocco, and Syria,” “The government ‘at Washington is a cap- italist government, all » hail to the workers’ and! farmers’ government,” “Why. does our bar the friends of Irish tre i “Long live world trade union unity,” “The ministers of the murder regimes of Europe are admitted, why is Saklat- vala, champion df labér, “ex¢luded?” “Long live Soviet Russia,” “Demand the freedom of Haiti, Santo Domingo and the Philippine: iferding and Loebe, German socialists’ are not bar- red, the socialists help {mperialism maintain its rule.” ‘i SAKLATVALACASE STIRS WORKERS OF SOVIET RUSSIA John L, Lewis, signed the notice, It is important because his signature shows the rising power of the Brit- ish left wing, or better known abroad as the Minority Movement. Thomas signed on the dotted line, not because he wanted to but because he knew the power of the left wing was so strong Mussolini in Drive on Masons. ROME, Italy, Sept. 22—Members Masonic order in Italy are the Seton with being debarred from office by the violent anti-ma- agreement with the rest of the work- ers as our British brothers are, The Greens, Farringtons, Lewises and the scabby outfit that re sucking the life blood out of Américan labor will enter into a working agreement like our brothers across the sea with the trans- campaign begun in the fascist aewipapehs Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. MPERIALISTS, UNABLE TO TRICK CHINA, NOW SHOWING SIGNS OF PAIN (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—A flat demand for complete autonomy is belng considered by the Chinese government, it was learned author- Itatively today. The nationalist movement in that country has gathered such momen- tum that conservative leaders may find themselves unable to control it. development in the involved Chin situation which trickled into Washington to- day and caused concern to imperial- ist diplomats who are now anxiously wondering what the outcome of the forthcoming customs and extra-ter ritoriality conference will be. The promises made by the im- perialist powers to revise their treaty relations with Chin: met with the general enthu China which was expected, accord- ing to American observers, Belief is growing in China that the time has arrived to throw off the shackles of foreign domination, seoured by treaties of violence and extending over upwards of 85 years In many cases. Although state department offi- clals and attaches at the Chinese embassy maintain a studious silence on the subject, the verlousress of the situation is generally recogn- ies | port workers, when the progressive miners make them. It is the duty of all class conscious workers to work for the united front and the elemination of our fake lead- ers who are retarding our movement. STATEMENTS OF AIRSHIP CREW ARE SUPPRESSED Shenandoah Survivors’ Stories ‘Not Evidence” LAKEHURST, N. J., Sept. 22.—At the naval investigation of the destruc- tion of the dirigible Shenandoah in an Ohio storm early this month with a loss of 14 lives Lieut. C. EB. Rosen- dahl, ranking surviving officer of the ship, protested against the introduc- tion as evidence of original state- ments by the survivors. These state- ments, whose existence was not known generally until today, were of- fered by Commander Jacob Kline. The statements were obtained im- mediately after the crash of the Shenandoah when Kline headed a board of inquiry which went from Lakehurst to Ohio. Rosendahl protested against their acceptance by the inquiry board as evidence bearing on the loss of the dirigible, There was no protest from Kline, and Admiral Jones announced the statements, pencilled, on small sheets of note paper, would be admitted into the record but would not be accpeted as evidence, ... » rin i salinity ct in Britain and in such a temper that Do man could betray it a second time and still remain an official of the workers in Britain. U. 8, Miners Must Also Force Lewis. John L. Lewis and the anthracite miners are in a similar position to that which A. J, Cook and the British miners were in, in the last day of July, 1925, and we ask, “Will John L. Lewis work for an alliance with the transport workers as A. J, Cook secured?” He will just as quickly as the power of the progressive miners force him to do so. No faker can challenge a real rank and file move- ment—and get away with it. Sixty-six thousand yotes and a dis- credited Jacksonville agreement will force the republican tool Lewis to work for an alliance and that very soon, far sooner than John lL. Lewis really comprehends, should he desire to remain in office, The duty of the officials of the U. M, W, of A. at the present time is to bring out the whole of the miners in America and fight for a national agreement. Since the victory of the British miners and workers generally as a result of the foregoing agreement be- tween the workers of Britain a great impetus has been given to united front tactics in the tight little isle. So much so that our cheap fakers in the American labor movement are hard put to it to explain their posi- tion on that most important question, Praise From the Bosses, Mr. Easley the other day congrat- ulated the American labor fakers that they were not like their British broth. ers. Mr, Hasley ig spokesman for big business. He is president of the Na- tional Civic Federation in Washington. Mr. Wm, Green was one of those to whom Hasley referred, When labor “ { (Continued from page 1) co-operating with British im- perialism against the working class. In ia publishes a cartoon, en- titled, “Free America,” showing Sec- retary Kellogg, dressed as a police- man and armed with a spiked club, occupying the place of the statute of liberty, while Mberty has dropped her torch. The caption reads, “Wanted—Appropriate place to be dropped, by’ the statute “of liberty— Barred from’ the United States.” sei Crowds Cheer Saklatvala. LONDON, Sept. 22—At a protest mass meeting In Battersea, Saklat- vala addressed thousands of workers, declaring he did not care what the capitalist press or the capitalist gov- ernments thot about his speeches be- fore parliament. “I stamd by every word,” Saklatvala said amid cheers, “and challenge any honest person to tace.me in debate on the public plat- form, Great Britain hasrno right to * ”" said Saklat¥ala, “is giv- ing @ royal reception to tory mem- bers of parliament reprsenting the capitalist power of Great Britain. They have gone there as snakes in the grass. They are gldiious heroes who are going to say ‘we are an Eng- lish speaking brotherhood,’ but they got into a blue funk, for they knew if I had told the truth in America they could not stand up and face it. Therefore they intrigued, plotted, and Med, and never came out in the open against me in Great Britain. Will Expose Capitalism. “I have written to America, prom- ising that if I went I would not preach anarchy, but would. expgse the con- spiracy of the capitalist ruling class.” Many other meetings, were held fhruout Great Britain, protesting against the barring ofthe Commun- ist. A. J. Cook, secregary of the Miners’ Federation, addrassed a meet- ing of miners at Sout). Wales and spoke of the growing power of the ging Th By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Topay, the third party bubble in New York City fades completely with the announcement by Congressman F. H. LaGuardia, former president of the board of aldermen, that he would head no movement against the two old parties. William Randolph Hearst, the ubiquitous publisher, worked hard for a third a revolt. Not that he offers him- self as the standard bearer of the small bourgeoisie. The mil- lionaire newspaper owner is merely seeking in this way to advance his own political ambitions, which include even the aspiration to occupy the White House at Washington. * * . Yet the failure of the third party movement in New York City, supported by the widely read Hearst press, again ex~ poses the cringing middle class afraid to organize to fight its own battles. When its pet, John F. Hylan, is defeated in the democratic primaries, it meekly accepts the Tammany Hall choice, Senator James J. Walker, and promises the elector- ate, in LaGuardia’s own words, “a liberal education in public utilities running the city, favoritism in its basest sense, and a real ‘everybody-getting-his’ administration.” Hylan and LaGuardia are pretty much in the same posi- tion that the late William Jennings Bryan found himself when John Wallstreet Davis was picked as the democratic candidate for president last year. Bryan had denounced Wall Street and the House of Morgan. He had bitterly assailed Governor Al Smith, Tammany Hall’s choice for the presi- dential candidacy, as “the tool of the money interests.” Yet Bryan obediently swallowed all his brave speeches and lined up the Tammany Hall outfit in pp oa of Morgan's personal lawyer. So the loud speakers of the third party movement, Hylan and LaGuardia, now accept the old party decisions in the primaries without a whimper. * * While Bryan merely flirted with the LaFollette move- ment, LaGuardia was in open alliance with it, even allowing his name to go before the voters on Hillquit’s “socialist” ticket, when his republican party disowned him in New York, He recently stumped Wisconsin for LaFollette, Jr. It is, therefore, interesting to study LaGuardia’s declara- tion that, “An independent and progressive movement must originate and come from the mass It must not be a one- man.affair and no real progressive wants to be the candidate of any one man.” That is the usual buncombe of the political adventurers who are always on hand to exploit the discontent of the masses, whenever and wherever it arises. Even with the support of 5,000,000 voters, LaFollette would not drive for a third party, going to his grave an office holder of Wall Street's G. O. P. Hylan was a candidate in the democratic primaries in New York's municipal campaign, just as LaFol- lette, Jr., ran in the republican primaries of the special sen- atorial campaign in Wisconsin. 5 : LaFollette, Jr., had the support of masses but, like his father before him, even the most energetic efforts of the old arty bosses are unsuccessful in ousting him from the polit- foal ranks of the biggest capitalists.” LaGuardia’s statement when read correctly merely means that these political opportunists are always on hand to exploit, for their own advantage, the discontent arising out of new sufferings imposed on the many. In this way they act as the best agents of big business in betraying these movements of discontent. LaFollette was capitalism's best agent in making war on the farmer-labor movement toward independent political action. Some other LaFollette, a LaGuardia, a Hylan, or a Hearst himself, will come to the front to betray again the next great revolt against Wall Street. But they will have a harder time of it. oS eon In ‘the New York campaign, as everywhere else, the fight for the labor party grows in virility. The proposal fora united front working class movement against the capitalist parties was proposed by the Workers (Communist) Party. \ The “socialists,” as usual, turned their backs against it. But it receives increasing support from rank and file workers, who will pioneer the way toward the creation of the mass movement, that will wage an intelligent fight against cap- italigm thru refusing to be led astray by fake third party decoys in the next crisis. re Partyites MEETING Surrender to Old Party FOR SAKLATVALA||Leadership in New York NEW VICTORIES WON BY CLOTH WORKERS” UNION Amalgamated Members Gain in Cleveland NEW YORK, Sept, 22,—("P)—Vio- tory and union conditions for the workers in the Slavin Manufacturing Co. of Cleveland are reported by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers which has been conducting the strike. Another Rochester firm signs up with the union and goes on the 44- hour week and strikes against shops in Montreal and Philadelphia are go- ing ahead. The strikes against the big International Tailoring Co. and J. L. Tailor & Co. of New York and Chicago are continuing at a hot pace. STRIKE GROWS IN GULF AND THE ATLANTIC Spirit of Struggle Sweeps men } (Continued from page 1) cials of the International Seamen's Union, who are trying to get their un- informed members to sign on struck ships. As soon as the crews of the Melville Dollar and the William Penn went ashore, the I. 8. U. lead- ers’ delegates rounded up some of their members, and signed them on under the guise of being “good union men.” In Baltimore, likewise, the I. 8S. U. business agent, one Hodgson, went to the mate of a struck ship, promised him a crew and confided that he would scab the M. T. W. out of existence. The mate being a de cent fellow, gave him the time of his life. Union scabbery is denounced by all seafarers and the I. S, U. stands to lose by it, for the demand for unity immediate world trade union unity. How! Down Traitor Thomas. At the very moment when Saklat- vala was receiving a great ovation in Battersea, J. H. Thomas, labor party member and flunkey of British imper- jalism, was being howled down by workers in Newcastle. Thomas, who was a member of MacDonald's cabi- net, and who aided in the exploita- tions of the British colonies, was un- able to speak. He was to have ad- dressed a demonstration staged by of- ficials of the railwaymen’s union, but was interrupted when the audience started to sing “The Red Flag.” Thomas finally had to call the meet- ing off without uttering a word. Rea Anti-Fascist Alliance Protests. NEW. YORK, Sept. 22—A resolu- tion protesting against the govern- ment’s refusal to admit Shapurji Sak- latvala to: this country was passed by the Anti-Fascist Alliance of America, at a meeting in the Central Opera House, Bast 7th St., attended by three thousand workers, Norman Thomas, socialist candi- date for mayor, when invited to ad- dress the united front protest mass meeting at Union Square, refused to appear, and took occasion to deliver an attack on the Soviet Union. Thomas took a stand: which indirectly supported the Coolidge government, oe Debs’ Statement, TERRE HAUTH, Ind,, Sept. 22—~ Eugene V. Debbs, member of the In- ternational Labor Defense, issued a statement in which he denounced the banning of Saklatvala, 4 “In regard to the action of the state department at Washington in ‘dei ing a passport to Saklatvala I have |to say that I look upon it as every British working class. He demanded decent American should,” t teen 6 one | “as a flat denial of free speech, an outrage against a duly authorized representative of a supposedly friend- ly nation, and a disgrace to the pres- ent administration. “It is moreover, a flagrant viola- tion of our vaunted American tradi- tions relating to freedom of consci- ence and liberty of action within the law. America under the steel clad rule of capitalism, has long since ceased to be an asylum for the op- pressed and downtrodden, and has be- come @ reservation over which Wall Street wields the scepter of auto- cratic power, and this accounts for the brutal action against the Com- munist member of the British parlia- ment which ought to be denounced and resented (especially by the working class) by every organiza- tion, every paper and every individual that cherishes the least vestige of respect for free speech and has any decent regard for human rights in the United States.” o.-2.:.¢ “Sincere” Mr. Hearst. NEW YORK, Sept. 22—Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana, who has just returned from Europe, said he thot the state department had been used by the Baldwin govern- ment, “to~pull chestnuts out of the fire. William Randolph Hearst, one of the chief exploiters of the Mexican workers and peasants, broadcasts a statement in his yellow press oppos- ing the banning of Saklatvala. Hearst, whose interests as an American im- perialist clash with the interests of British imperialism, said, “it does not discourage radicalism. It simply es conservatism ridiculous favored independence for Ind: he continues to enslave the Mexican workers, ; ‘9 Ans |lunch) to your's a in the whole labor movement is against any scabbing at all, and es- pecially against scabbing in the name of unionism, no matter what the ex- cuse, eee Gloom Spreads Over Britain. E LONDON, Sept. 22.—The “dole” has been stopped on striking seamen in Liverpool, with the wives and ohil- dren being forced to go into the poor cad house for shelter and food. But the @ men stand firm against the ship own- t ers’ wage cut, knowing they may as » well fight Tt out on this starvation condition as to have to work and starve besides. C Shops in Liverpo@l are being raid- ed, however, by desperate unemploy- ed. The ship owners are signing on even lads of 15 years. But no active seamen will work, barring Ne fs a natural born scab. Sailings Cancelled, Trade Tangled. The ship owners are daily being forced to cancel more sailings, and trade is tangled up beyond all straightening. Even if the strike end- ed today, months will go by before accumulated shipping could be handl- © ed. Fruit cargoes are rotting in ships held in tropic ports. Oommeroial agents are demanding that shipping companies do something. Over a million tons of shipping is already accumulated in ports thru- out the empire. Australian ports are completely idle. At Sydney, twelve white and fif- teen colored seamen were jailed for striking. The policy of Premier Bruce of ruthless crushing of the strike has produced a political crisis. Parlia- ment has been dissolved and a new election is called with a direct chal- lenge against Bruce being made by his political opponent, Walsh, an avowed Communist and leader of the Austral- jan strikers. All Brittsh bourgeois are filled with gloom at the seamen’s strike follow- { ing on the heels of the miners’ yio- tory and the going to the revolution- i ary left by British unions at the Scar borough Trades Union Congress. Trade Union Congress Denounces Havelock Wlison. At Scarborough there was a spon- ,aneous demonstration against the leader of British union scabs, Have- lock Wilson of the National Sailors and Firemen’s Union, who signed tye Wage cut agreement and is doing , in his power to break the strike of his own members. ib The British labor leader Shinwell, finally succeeding in getting the floor to speak on the sgamen’s strike, Chairman Swales after objection, how- ing to the clear desire of the dele- gates, Winding up a skilfull and amusing statement of the case, Shinwell em- barked on a scathing peroriation di- rected against Havelock Wilson. But before he got to his name, the dele- gates, realizing fully at whom the string of denunciatory epithets was directed, broke into a storm of cheer- ing and clapping. British labor hates a scab. It has no name too ugly for a union scab, Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER haut Wve it (the DAILY WORKER, not the EW soos 0 ae