The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1925, Page 1

rama 4 The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. If. No. 219. International Seamen’s Union, locally have been urging them to scab on the M. T. W. and the +. —_—_—_— AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY HESTER M. WRIGHT, recently a peddler of fake oil stock has join- ed the anvil chorus in favor of the exclusion of Saklatvala fromthe U. 8. This capitalist lackey, is hurt because the New York Times, in an editorial thot that Kellogg had made a mis- take in arousing so much interest in Saklatvala and incidentally in Com- munism by barring him from those shores. Wright writes under the high sounding title of “Secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor and editor of International Labor News Service.” e* * ‘HEN Wright learned that he could not pass his fraudulent stock on the trade unionists he quit the game and nothing more was heard of him until a few weeks ago when the Fe- derated Press had occasion to draw public attention to another labor faker who was putting over a similar <onfi- dene» game im ‘the. western ‘part tne country.” The Federated Press classed the activities of the latest la- bor faker who turned fake oil stock promoter with those of Wright. Evi- dently the stoolpigeon didn’t like this, and the Federated Press published a very satisfactory apology, satisfactory to us. se * HE apology said substantially that Wright was no longer in the fake oi] stock game. It appears that Chester is back on the payroll of the executive council of the A. F. of L. Perhaps Green could not get a dirtier tool for his anti-Soviet propaganda. In his letter to the Times, Wright tells us that he spent many years following the policies of the Commun- ist propaganda machine. He helped Samuel Gompers, prepared 1,000 pages of evidence against the radicals, for the Borah committee but Borah turn- ed it down. Wright did not. tell us that Gompers was also assisted by William J. Burns, then head of, the bureau of investigation of the depart- ment of justice. eee RIGHT says that if he did not care about democracy and its institu- tions, he would not bother about the (Continued on page 6) Subscription Rates: « FLOOD U.S. WIT SEAMEN FLOCKING INTO 1... 70 JOIN STRUGGLE AGAINST BOSSES; .S.U. SCAB POLICY REPUDIATED (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 24.—The effort of the I. W. W. Marine Transport Workers’ Industrial Union to get the seamen of all ports in this country out on strike to improve their own conditions as well as to prove their class solidarity with the deter- mined strike now in progress in scores of ports thruout the world, is meeting with encouraging reports sent into the New York of- fice, particularly from Baltimore. The strong fight for unity and struggle being put up by the Wobblies in BaltimBre has captured the local rank and file of the 7= DAIL y vail, $8.00 per year. » by mail, $6.00 per year, follows: ington; and act of unauthorized and unjustifiable diser as a high-handed attempt to limit the freed whose officials nationally andj and be it further British “outlaw” strikers of the ton, D. C., and to ash gg National Sailors’ Union. Meeting arrange: N i WHEREAS, Secretary of State Kello voke the visa granted to Shapurji Saklatval ing the organized labor movement of that’ WHEREAS, Shapurji Saklatvala has loited mass against English imperialism n India and Ireland; therefore be it we RESOLVED, by the joint demonstration meeting at Union Square, New York City, Sept. 21, that we vigorously protest the action ofithe secretary of state in excluding Shapurji Sak- latvala as an act hostile to the interests of the organized labor movement of the world, as an ination against the foreign-born workers and of speech in the United States; and be it further RESOLVED, that we demand the immédiate admission of Saklatvala into this country; i 5 * 0 iid Ges A | | Demand Admission of Saklatvala! A Ps resolution adopted at the big Union Square demonstration in New York City, against the barring of Shapurji Saklatvala, the Communist member of the British parliament, was as “has instructed the London consul general to re- a member of the English parliament represent- ‘country at the interparliamentary union at Wash- ried on a valiant struggle on behalf of the ex- the Far East, in China, Egypt, and particularly RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be sent to the secretary of state at Washing- by the Civil Liberties Union, Workers (Communist) Party of America, Friends of Freedom for India, International Labor Defense, Young Workers League, Asso- (Continued on page 2) ciation for the Recognition of the Irish Republic. HE EVEN REFUSES TO CONFER WITH THE IMPERIALISTS. BRITISH COAL STRIKE LOOMS AS OPERATORS VIOLATE AGREEMENT (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Sept. 24—Prospects of an autumn coal strike loomed this afternoon. Representatives of the miners, who protested to Premier Baldwin that the mine operators were not carrying out the armistice agreement an- nounced that they were dissatisfied with the results of their conference with the premier. They issued a call for a special conference of the miners’ dele- gates to meet on Oct. 8 to consider whether the miners will continue to carry out the armistice terms or shall quit work. The operators are claimed to be cutting wage rates ragardiess of the agreement not to do so. MacVeagh Formally Appointed WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Chariles MacVeagh, prominent New York at- torney ,today was formally appointed United States ambassador to Japan. He succeeds Edgar A. Bancroft, who died while on duty in Tokio. Pinedo Reaches Japan TOKIO, Sept, 24.—Fjancisco de Pi- nedo, Italian Rome to Tokio flyer, ar- rived safely at Kagoshima, Japan, late this afternoon, from Mokpho, Korea. ‘TOKIO POLICE START AMAZING WATCH ON RUSS Workers Threaten Rush to Get to Banquet: TOKIO, Sept. 24.—The visiting dele- gation of labor unionists from Soviet Russia are being treated to the most amazing police surveillance ever be- held, When they arrived here Tues- day they were greeted by thousand of Japanese workers who gathered fro! all sides in- spite wf the potice order against demonstrations and who wav- ed red flags and sang the Internation- ale, blithely disregarding that sing- ing this song is banned by law. Four hundred police were necessary merely to control the crowds, the po- lice being unable to do more than check the demonstration, tho they had ordered that not more than thir- ty workers assemble ag a welcoming committee. Police Wall Off the Russians, In a further attempt to stop all demonstrations and hedge the Rus- (Continued on page 4.) | WORKER. e ered'as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at tha Post Office at Chicago, llinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1925 <>” PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL KLATVALA SPEECH NEW FORK 1 NEW YORK EDITION ene eeennenieretinnenicaeng, Price 3 Cents BANNED UTTERANCES OF BRITISH COMMUNIST BEING PRINTED FOR AMERICAN WORKERS IN PAMPHLET Inspite of the ban that the s' tate department at Washington has placed on the entrance to the United States of Shapurji Sak- latvala, the Communist member working class fighter will be he workers. of the British parliament, this ard by multitudes of American The Workers (Communist) Party has already on the presses, for publication in pamphlet form, the speech that Saklatvala made in the British parliament, for w hich the state department at Washington bars him from participation in the interparliament- ary union to take place in Wash be given the widest circulation* possible at the great demonstra- tions already announced for all parts of the country. The DAILY WORKER prints a few excerpts from the speech that is to be circulated in America, Cites Overthrow in China. “It may be said, indeed it is said, for it is a Western idea that the Asiatic people always allow a good deal of latitude to their monarchs. That is Western ignorance,” declared Saklatvala in the British house of commons during a discussion of the Kept SAKLA and quoted by 16 PAGES * PRICE—Single copies, 25 copies, The Daily Worker Publishing Co, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ill. Enclosed find ADDRESS: CITY: ..... COOLIDGE AND KELLOGG for which please send .. Saklatvala’s speech “British Rule in India,” ington, D. C. This speech will independence of India. “Eastern peo- ple have never tolerated anti-demo- cratic rights and privileges in their monarchs. You see in the twentieth century, the Chinese people have over- thrown their monarchy which was 3,000 years old, because the monarchy did not square in with the democratic opinions of the people. “The Persians have overthrown completely one monarchy after an- other and have put their monarchs un- der locx and key for not obeying the (Continued on page 2) , Out TVALA to Protect American and British Imperialism But You Can READ HIS SPEECH: “BRITISH RULE IN INDIA” Delivered in House of Commons, July 9, 1925 Kellogg as the reason for barring him. PAPER COVER 10c each 8c each 100 copies or more, 5c each SPREAD IT WIDE! - copies of British Labor Has Revolutionary Minority By CARL BRANNIN. HE British, government is secret- ly engaged in enrolling a new po- -lice force which will be under direct -control of the army. The ‘National Citizens’ Union is enlisting volunteers to maintain national services in emer- _gency. The army supplementary re- Serve which was opposed last March y. the general council of the Trade Ynion Congress, is being pushed for- again. The British fascisti are ing secret drilling in various in- centers, all these forces aimed at the class taking form in Great Britain’, the second annual conference of the, National Minority Movement held, in Battersea Town Hall (Lon- don) on Aug. 29 and 30, came at a time when some concrete expression was needed on the part of the militant working class element of the British workers, Prep for Struggle. The slogan “Prepare for the com- ing struggle with the bosses” which cried out from the walls of the hall to the delegates might be taken as the keynote of the conference. The first striking demonstration of thig spirit was the action of members of the Battersea Unemployed Workers’ Committee movement in stationing ALL EYES ON BRITISH LABOR AS IT DISCUSSES—“SHALL WE ARM?” ‘“I"HE clase struggle in sharpening”—such is the hackneyed phrase . used over and over again In the case of this or that strike or minor social disturbance symptomatic of the conflict raging between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. But when we say that in England today “The class strugyle is sharpening,” we mean that a general revolutionary situation appears to be developing in which the bour- geoisie a cl. and the proletariat as a class are both preparing for a gigantic collision, Nothing could indicate more clearly the profound nature of the conficit than the fact that the outstanding discussion in every British labor union circle and publication now is over the question, “Should the Workers Arm?” The following article by Cari Brannin on the conference of the British unions’ revolutionary left wing, the National Minority Move- ment, is a forecast of the actions of tomorrow, for it must be remem- bered that the Trade Union Congress held later adopted overwhelm- ingly the spirit if not letter of the proposals of the revolutionary left wing—and the “minority” seems to be in a way of becoming the majority of British labor,—Editor, DAILY WORKER. themselves as a guard in the hall the ; Minority Movement conference last night before and the nights of the | January. conference, to frustrate any efforts of | The last expression of this definite fascisti groups to prevent the meet- | purpose was tlie adoption of a resolu- ing by placing stink bombs in the au-|tion with owly three dissenting votes ditorlum as wal done at # previous |calling forthe formation thru the ) aba . 4 Trades Councils jn-every possible dis- trict of defense corps to protect work- ers’ meetings, to prevent black-leg- ging and scabbery, to meet the fas- cisti and hired hoodlums of the boss- es with organized force. “Get Ready”—Says Tom Mann. Tom Mann, veteran labor militant, chairman of the National Minority Movement and chairman of the con- vention, made the hall ring with cheers when he declared in his open- ing speech: In the struggle with the mine owners and the miners it is some- thing to be glad of that the min- ers, backed by trade union soll- dartty, successfully held up the owners; altho this has secured nothing for the miners we are en- titled to be proud of it, because it gave evidence of. class solidari- ty of a kind that only needs to be extended properly to secure much greater results; still we have to ask ourselves are we prepared to meet the opposing forces when the next round begins? We must be frank about it and admit that at present we are not ready. The engineers feel keenly the absence of fully disciplined forces capable of national and international ac- tion, and the mituers will require a much more highly diseiplined regimentation of the organized forces of the workers when the next battle begins. For this we ought to really prepare and that without delay, | feel confident’ | may say, without a moment's hesitancy, that all present at this conference are fully determined to be prepared. The real work, however, in the various districts thruout the coun- try will naturally fall to the Trades Councils. In the past Trades Councils have been of very real value to the labor move- ment, and altho there has been a period of comparative lethargy and neglect in regard to many of the councils, we gladly recognize that a marked improvement is showing itself, and with our con- tinued assistance it will in the im- mediate future enable them to be- come of immense value to the movement. “When the Struggle Comes.” We urge the Trades Councils to at once prepare their forces, visit all the branches of unions, affi- lated and others, get in touch with the co-operative guilds and societies, and all the workers’ organizations. The joint consult- ative committee of,the general council and of the Trades Council | is working to link up the latter with the former, and for ourselves we claim that the Trades Councils shall have the right to send dele- gates to the Trades Congress, but at this hour, that which is of greatest urgency is to be in readiness to render valuable ser- vice in the class ‘struggle, espe- cially when a big dispute is on. Get ready then, you have influ- ence in the councils, use your in- fluence, do the work, set the pace, and when the struggle actually comes we shall not only know what ought to be done, but also know how to do it. A number of the Trade Councils have al- ready set up councils of action and hold themselves in readiness for emergencies. The forces will be called upon to act as blacklegs and to crush the workers on strike with their bayonets, Always keep in wind— “cold steel.” Now, can the move- ment allow that the fight between millions of workers against a small. bunch of exploiters should be converted into a fight between the workers of the factories and the workers in the barracks? Such a thing should not be,al- lowed to take place. It is our duty to start immediately a big \ campaign of propaganda among the workers in the army, the navy, and in the air force, in order that they should know the full truth of the matter. “Let us Make Sure.” Let us make sure that there will not be a single soldier, a single sailor, a single airman who will dare to raise a finger against their brothers. There are certain indications ‘that the ruling classes themselves are not too much confident of their forces. They feel that at the time of trial the worker in uniform may think more about his brothers than about his chiefs. That is why they are so anxious to create a real class militia which would be devoted to the existing system heart and soul, That is why the fascisti are ina privileged -position, All kinds of prohibitive laws exist for the working class fight- ers, but not against the fascists. I wish to make it clear that the labor movement does not pay suf- ficient attention to this new anti- labor force which is growing up before our eyes. Let us take the matter seriously We have to organize our forces (Continued on page 3) / ee ee, ere ee