The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1925, Page 2

ENGLAND'S RULE IN IRAQ-MOSUL Refuse to Abide by the League’s Decision LONDON, Sept -In a semi-offi- cial statement from Turkey to the English government, Turkey reiter- ates her stand that she will not abide by the decision of the league of na- tions. The statement scores the attempt of England to take advantage of in- ternal Turkish difficulties to settle the Traq-Mosul dispute to her own sat- isfaction at the league of nations. The government statement contin- les: “Tho Lord Curzon deolared that Turkey would enter the league of mations on a footing of equality with other nations, Turkey is now expect- ed to make implicit renunciations in a qustion closely concerning her soy- ereign rights. It is impossible to con- ceive that any Turkish government could agree to make »such a conces- sion. The opponents of Turkey must learn that a new mentality now reigns in the country and that there is now @ new state with which they must ne- gotiate terms on an absolute equality. So long as the old methods are fol- lowed no understanding is possible.” Lackey of England, The Constantinople newspaper, Hakkimiet I Millie, declares the league has committed disgraceful suicide and has’ proclaimed to the world that it is the servant of Bri- tish imperialism. It states the mind of new Turkey quite concisely in these words: “Turkey cannot and will not go to The Hague. “The British in their folly are free to address themselves to The Hague, but all decisions tending to annul our rights are considered by us in ad- vance void and without force.” It also scores the tales of the de- portation of Christians from Mosul as “fables of the familiar type.” England Alarmed. This attitude of Turkey has alarm- ed England. The imperialists of Eng- land are alarmed because of the tone of a certain section of the British press which demands that England immediately evacuate Iraq. The die- hards fear that abandoning Iraq would make Turkey more assertive of her rights. The capitalists of England hate to let this bit of rich of] land out of their hands and are trying to force the league of nations to the use of sterner means than a mere note. Kept Press Merger in England, JONDON, Sept. 25. — The Berry brothers are today reported to be completing the biggest newspaper combine in the history of England, by the purchase of the principal Rothermere newspaper. Sir William and Gomer Berry, two brothers who came to London some years ago as unknown trade journal- ists, are reliably reported to have purchased from Lord Rothermere the Daily Maij, the Evening News, and the Weekly Dispatch. It is reported that the price paid is $60,000,000. Make your friend a friend of the DAILY WORKER. Send in his subscription. SAKL %, 16 PAGES PRICE—Single copies, 25 copies, The Daily Worker Publishing Co, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ill. Enclosed find §.... (Continued from page 1) Co-operative National Bank in Cleve- land. * HERE is something rotten in the state of Denmark. Superficial minded people see in the spread of labor banking an indication of labor’s growing power. It is nothing of the sort. The DAILY WORKER patron- izes a labor bank, but not because we believe that the workers can ever emancipate themselves by competing at thelr own game with the capital- ists, The business ventures of the engineers union are not in a satis- factory condition we understand. They may pull thru so long as the Amer- ican capitalist class retain their do- minant position. But when the iIn- evitable clash comes, watch the labor business men getting it in the neck.We are sorry, but the only road to the emancipation of the working class that we would urge any worker to follow is the hard and thorny road of the class struggle. We may have a few more words to say about the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers later on, Re sj OSEPH CAILLAUX is in America to come to terms with the United States regarding the controversy with France over the $4,000,000,000 war debt, The, United States lent that money to France, so that France could purchase guns, bombs, bayonets, pois- on gas, armored cars, -and other lethal weapons with which to dispose of the German army. The big job was to save civilization. You all know that. At least so you were told. ee UR patriotic rulers, hollered their infernal heads off during the war about the “Beast of Berlin” and ‘the horrible “Hun.” They eulogized “glor- ious France” and Pershing made his famous speech entitled “Layfayette we are here,” the greatest mental. ef- fort that the same moron ever went thru, and Charles Schwab and Judge Gary made millions selling shells, etc. to “glorious France” because the in- fernal Huns must be slaughtered, yet today Caillaux—who by the way al- most got his head chopped off during the war for being a traitor—is here in the United States trying to come to terms with Wall Street for the money loaned to France by this country to purchase death “dealing weapons to annihilate the Germans, then looked upon as @ menace to civilization. Any- body who can’t se thru the rest of the farce could not see thru a pair of opera glasses, It is to gag! see \ COOLIDGE AND KELLOGG - ] Kept Out ATVALA to Protect American and British Imperialism But You Can me READ HIS SPEECH “BRITISH RULE IN INDIA” Delivered in House of Commons, July 9, 1925 and quoted by Kellogg as the ‘ , reason for barring him. 100 copies or more, 5c each SPREAD IT WIDE! LOL LLL LL LL LLL LLL LLL OL PO LPO OO Ot tt for which please send .... Saklatvala's speech “British Rule in India.” aes legionnaries serving in Morocco have displayed the ears and tongues of their Rifflan foes on their bayonets, thinking that such barbarity would’deter other Rifflans from fighting for their: country. It will not. I would like to call atten- tion to the fact that the Spanish sol- diers are presumably catholics, and that catholics aré presumably christ- fans. Those who still believe that christianity, or any other religton ts anything but a monstrous fraud might try squaring the action of the Spanish troops with their conception of civil- ized conduct. Fortunately, however, the Rifflans, are giving the christian barbarians an exciting time. Good luck to them. Sunkist Plant Burns. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 25.—Fire of unknown origin today destroyed the Plant of the Sunkist Fruit Packing association in Aldadena. The loss was estimated at $50,000. a PAPER COVER 10c¢ each 8c each +» Copies of [43 WE SEE TT {FINDING GOAT TOPAY FOR RUM KINGS’ GAMBOLS G. 0. P. Bosses Involved in Graft Scandal Captain Wesley H. Westbrook, ex- warden of the county jall stands a good chance of being made the d- Ing goat In the scandal arising out of the liberties accorded to Messers Druggan and Lake, leading bootleg. gers and tenants of the local jail. Westbrook is charged with having accepted money from the bootleggers for services rendered in making their prison life as free from restraint as Possible. It has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that the rum magnates enjoyed considerable liber- ty, the only thing that remains to be shown, who got their dough. The Big Guns Thunder Sheriff Hoffman, one of the big guns in the Barrett-Crowe-Brundage faction of the republican party intends to throw Westbrook to the wolves. He hints that the ex-warden took the al- cohol barons’ money. If he did not, he is out of luck, because he will need a lot of money to save him from oc- cupying a cell in what was once his own balliwick. The big chiefs of the republican party cannot afford to have their honesty impugned and West- brook is about small enough and big enough to fill the role of scapegoat. When Judge Wilkerson yesterday ordered the arrest of Westbrook and a few other lesser lights in the county jail, everybody knew that thére was going to be some hanging done. Paid Thru the Snout Frank Lake, was after testifying that he paid “thru the nose” for every favor he received while in the county jail. Lake first paid $1,000 fora trans~ fer from the jail laundry to an order- ly’s task in the jail hospital. He was compelled to pay $2,500 a month, in addition to “bonuses” and “fines.” Lake declared that he had to pay good Tum money for treatment accorded to other prisoners for nothing. Lake paid $1,500 for the privilege of visiting his sister on her Meath bed and going to her funeral later. For being released before expiration of sentence he paid $2,000. The show continues. This is only another instance of the rotteness of capitalist government. The outcome will be: a few minor flunkies will be slaughtered. The big fellows like Hoffman will escape punishment, R.LL.U. Urges World Solidarity as Goal of Striking Seamen (Continued from page 1) tion Committee endorses and around which we urge all marine workers, organized and unorganized, here and abroad, to rally in support. A Necessity of First Importance, ‘What connections, other than one of mere information, the M. T. W. has built up with the strike committees and official heads of the other unions now on strike, the bulletins of the M. T, W. strike committee does not state, But such connections are of ,the most necessary sort. Looking ahead, we perceive that the need for close co-operation between these and other seamen’s organiza- tions is not going to end with the Present strike. The value of this strike to the M. T. W., the prestige it has gained before the whole world of organized labor must be cherished and held for the future. The lessons it is giving to the revolutionary movement of all the world must be retained and added to by future and more complete solidarity, Now while the seamen of the world are watching the Marine Transport Workers’ Industrial Union and ap- plauding the fight they are putting up, joining with them and looking to them to continue upon the path of international co-operation—now is the time for the M, T. W. officially to set up with their fellow. workers on strike overseas a committee of action or some other form of definite co-operation in order that no break in the fighting front of the seamen may Jead to partial or total defeat and to insure in the future as in the present strike, that the ranks of the rebel toilers of the sea are welded into a compact body which will bring the capitalist exploiters to terms. For unity and revolutionary struggle, Red International Affiliation Committee, Harrison George, Chairman, Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.84 3-16; cable 4,84,9-16, France, franc, demand 4.73; cable 4.73%. Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.36; cable 4.36%. Italy, lira, demand 4.04%; cable 4.04%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.8: cable 26,86. Norway, khone, demand 20.08; cable 20.10, Denmark, krone, demand 24,18; || cable 24.16, Germany, mark, unquoted, Shangha! aels, 80.00, The DAILY WORKER sub- scription list is a Communist honog roll. Is youx name on if _ ADOPT CHANGED STRIKE TACTIC Prepare Organization for ‘Strike on Job’ (Continued from page 1) position in which the. strike leaves the organization in this port. i, S. U. Furnished Scabs. “It was not icipated that the strike would resiit in any sweeping victory, The tt 6f the organiza- tion and the pafation did not justity and the such expectation, steady opposition and) scabbing tac- tics of the I. 8. U. icialdom were not overlooked—but great quantities of strike literature were thoroly dis- tributed over the*water front and the ground well prepkredjfor the organ- ization campaign ich proceeds right on from the strike. A very considerable increase in membership has resulted from the strike and some strong fighting elements have joined the port qelegate body as a result. , Great Interest in World Unity. “Tho there was great activity about strike headquarters today, the membership did not overlook the manifesto, published quite fully in one of the morning papers as cabled from London, of the joint advisory council set up last April by the gen- eral council of the British Trades Un- ion Congress and the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions. The mani- festo, which calls in militant tones for trade union unity thruout the world was strongly commended. Le ie | The manifesto as. quoted in the London cables reads, as follows: Employers’ World Wide Attacks. “The industrial»and economic situ- ation, aggravated by the Dawes plan in most countries,(has become worse since the beginning of this year, Un- employment is world-wide in its ef- fects and is steadily increasing. At- tacks of the employing class on work- ers’.hours and wages become more and more definite and deliberate. “Parallel with the ‘growth of eco- nomic reaction the: political situation has become more and more reaction- ary and obstructive to working class |- interets. In various parts of Hurope reactionary groups’ of capitalists are obtaining more and more power and leadership in the policy of the state and the danger of jwar fs becoming nearer and more levident. Imperialism Pyepares War. “The Anglo-Russian Conference last April, in the following words, ex- pressed the situation as it had de- veloped up to that‘time: ‘Already it would appear that a new war, more terrible and more ‘monstrous than any hitherto, is being prepared.’ “These words still persevere and maintain their full force, Already in Morocco, in Syria, in China the thunder of warfare is giving evidence of the justice of this warning. * “War is being waged on the Riffs in Morocco and upon the Arabs in Syria, while the Chinese workers and peasants are revolting against ex- Ploitation and usurpation and are held down by armed force. New Menace to Soviet Russia. “This is making clear to all work- ers of the world the insincerity of the lofty professions of peace made by capitalist statesmen. The guarantee pact places upon Germany the duty of using sanctions against the states unwilling to submit to the league of nations. The object of this is to in- clude Germany in a military alliance directed against Soviet Russia. This would make Germany a: constant menace to Soviet Rus: and at the same time would create in German} a strategical base for any projected attack upon the Soviet Republics. Clear Way for One World Union. “The establishnient of an all-in- clusive world-wide’ trade union inter- national has therefore become more necessary than ever. The world-wide and active sympathy aroused by the creation of the Anglo-Russian joint advisory council athong the workers of all countries "is unmistakable Proof of the justi¢e and correctness of the line taken by the Anglo-Rus- sian conference, of the practical pro- posals adopted and the inevitable success of the cause of national ‘and international trade ‘union ‘unity. “The joint advisory council, prompt- ed by the firm desire ardently ex- Pressed by more than 11,000,000 British and Russian workers, appeals to the workers of every country, and to their organizations and leaders, to join their efforts with the British and Russian trade union movements in order to secure the removal of all obstacles and difficulties in the way of national and international working class unity, and to help them bring into existence 0¢ all-inclusive world. wide federation of trade unions.” TS WEN 5 a Iliteracy Campaign in 1924-25, MOSCOW.—Theynumber of schools for the elimination of illiteracy on the territory of Russian Soviet Repub- lic Socialist Republic has been in- creased 15 times in the last two years, In 1922-23 the scliools for illiterates took charge of 100,000 pupils, In 1924-25 there were 30,000 schools for illiterates with a total of 1,500,000 edie | WORKER It Is Capitalism That: Breeds Its Disorders, Chaos and Catastrophes By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, the “socialists” in Wisconsin, In trying to hood- wink the’ voters of the state Into voting their ticket in Tuesday's special U. S. senatorial elections, give added tes- timony that they have carefully schooled themselves in the betrayals of the workers as practiced by their counterpart European social-democrats. It has been said that the budget put thru by the late “labor government” in Great Britain, headed by J, Ramsay MacDonald, provided the best financial policy that British capitalism ever had. The Wisconsin “socialists” now place themselves directly in accord with this financial policy, in- timating that in Wisconsin, if given power, they would fol- low in MacDonald's footsteps. ° e Listen to this promise from “Vic” Berger’s Milwaukee Leader: : “When It (the British Labor Party) comes Into power the next tlme, it will proceed to socialize some Industries and impose a levy on capital.” It is declared that MacDonald's Independent Labor Par- * ty has appointed a committee to study ‘ways and means of inaugurating socialism,” the above being evidently the means, while at the same time the world is warned that the I. L. P. committee that is on the job making this investiga- tion abhors the “extremist idea of a sudden and catastrophic revolution.” The |. L. P. committee, therefore, that has the endorse- ment of the Wisconsin socialists,” pledges itself to do every- thing to “avoid methods that would disorder industry,” but to promote the “gradual revolution,” “to keep industries going during the process of socialization.” e ° s e This was one of the pillars upon which the German social-democrats based their betrayal of the German work- ing class; that led them to support the German capitalist re- public in place of the German Soviet republic. In peace time the industries must be kept going, to de- velop progressively, preparing for the day of so-called “‘so- cialization” under capitalism. The workers must not seize the industries, as a preliminary to seizing’ the state power, because that might bring about disorder. So argue the Brit- ish and German “socialists.” And during war, they say, the workers must not strike in industry or seize the state power, because that would bring about the “catastrophic revolution” that every social-democrat fears. This led, of course, in Ger- many, to the “socialist” alliance with the kaiserdom, during the war, in the breaking of strikes, as openly admitted with pride by Fritz Ebert, the late “socialist” president of Ger- many. It leads, during peace, in Great Britain, to the Mac- Donalds, the Hendersons and the Thomases, allying them- selves with British capitalism Inst the growing efforts of the workers to win better cond tions for themselves. ° j It is no act of the workers that brings the “disorder” and the “chaos” into industry, that the “socialists” tell of. It is capitalist management that has brought chaos into the American coal industry, for instance, during peace times. It was the world war of imperialist groups of *fidtions that spread the disorder thruout Europe that still ists to the present day. oon ages except in the Union of Soviet Republics, where the workers and peasants seized power and fearlessly swept aside the wreckage of the czardom and began to build anew under workers’ rule. The German so- cial-democrats prevented labor from achieving the same triumph in Germany. MacDonald's labor party is trying to render the same service to British imperialism; just as Ber- ger’s “socialists” are serving American capitalism in Wis- consin. The Communists fight for workers’ rule. It has been “established thruout the Soviet Union and stands adamant against the capitalist world. The victory nears in Germany. British capitalism is slipping off its precipice beneath which lies its self-created chaos. Even American imperialism, to- day the proudest and mightiest thruout the world, prepares the new wars and the disorders that will bring about its own destruction, engulfing its “socialist” allies along with itself, while the workers and poor farmers, under Communist leadership, pluck their triumph out of this catastrophe and go forward to the new world economy under Communism. rare | ERs NOM ON W. P, REORGANIZATION SOVIET UKRAINE NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—Jay Love- dhe Agricultural Colonies In- stone, member of the central execut- crease Rapidly ive committee of the Workers (Com -munist) Party and head of the re- organization department. charged with reorganizing the party on the basis of shop nuclei, will address a shop nuclei membership meeting, Tuesday, Sept. 29, at p.m. at the Workers Party headquarters, *108 East 14 St. Every party member belonging to a shop nucleus must attend this meeting where many important pro- blems will be taken up, Any party member desiring to be present will be admitted if he has his membership card with him. MOSCOW, Sept. 25.—According to existing plans of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Agricultural Settlement Socie- ty, 4,000 Jewish families are to be put on the land during the current year. The desire among the Jewish masses for agricultural colonization is so great that the available fund of arable lands is far from adepuate to satisfy all applicants. It is proposed to increase the rate of colonization by 20—25 per cent in the next year. The government of Soviet Ukraine has set aside 60,000 dessiatines of land for the purposes of Jewish coloni- zation in thg Ukraine. Forest lands have also been assigned for the use of Jewish settlers in building their homes. Special credit organizations are being established to finance the Jewish colonists, Chicago Membership Farmer Blown to Bits. PARIS, Ill, Sept. 25—Charles Dunn, a. well known farmer of this county, was instantly killed late Thursday evening by a premature explosion of dynamite. He was removing a large rock in his corn field. When his father did not return home, a son went in search and found fragments of his body scattered over the ground, Four Drown in Wine Vat. ‘ AVINGTON, France, Sept. 25.—Four persons, overcome by fumes of wine, met death by drowning in a wine vat he ) A wine producer was first over- come by the fumes from the vat and fell into it. His son and two other persons attempted to rescue him, but] were also overcome by the fumes and) fell into the vat and were bs and M. Abern. msi COUNTY PRISON MATRON BEATS NEGRO INMATE Took Bath at Wrong Hoar in Jail Mrs. Elizabeth Wright, matron at the Cook county Jall on North Dear- born Street, was responsible for the inhuman Beating up of Theresa Allen, a Negro inmate awaiting grand jury action. The matron had a number of Negro and white prisoners beat up Theresa Allen for an infringement of Jail rules, The representative of the DAILY WORKER learned that the infringe- ment of the jail rules was the taking of a bath at the wrong hour. The ma- tron ordered Theresa Allen to solitary confinement. Theresa protested, then thé matron coerced a number of pris- oners into beating up the yiolator of jail discipline. ‘The attorney for Theresa Allen was surprised to find his client in the con- ditions that he did. Hardly able to stand, clothing covered with blood, one eye completely closed and the other black and swollen, she told her lawyer, how five women, three color- ed and two white beat her into an unconscious state and then’ threw her into solitary. The lawyer had her re- moved to the hospital immediately. Due to vigorous protest on the part of many leading Negroes the matron was dismissed. Warden Weideling in dismissing the matron commented: “It was proper to enforce discipline, but guards are hete for that purpose—not the other prison- ers.” Matron Witnesses Hanging GLASGOW, Sept. 25.—Magistrate Mary Bell, the matron who sentenced him to death, watched the hanging of John Keeny. It was the first. time in English history that a woman was an official witness of an execution. The law requires that the magistrate pas- sing sentence witness the execution. She arrived at the prison at 7:45 o’clock, witnessed the preparation for the gallows and then accompanted the procession up the scaffold. JOBLESS MINERS JAILED FOR NOT GOING HUNGRY Fishing Costs Thern $28 Each in Penna. By CHARLES BOSWELL (Worker Correspondent) MARIANNA, Pa. Sept. 25.—On Tuesday in the borough of Marianna, 15 or more locked out coal miners were arrested on a charge of “illegal fishing” and fined $28 each, with the alternative of paying the fine or going to jail. It happens that the water in Ten Mile creek, from which the coal com- pany owned by the Bethlehem Stee! corporation gets its water supply, has become almost dry and, as a result, thousands of fish were dying owing to the stagnation of the water and the water pumped from the mine. Some of these miners who have been deprived of the “right to work” since the 15th of May, caught some of these fish used them as food, and pro- nounced them excellent. The state of Pennsylvania, however, requires that one contribute one dollar to the political grafters for the priv- ilege of fishing—even though you are starving and the fish are going to die anyway. So these miners had, in the opinion of the magistrate, injured the law $28 worth. One man who had not taken any of the fish himself, was given some by another man, but he also was fined a like amount, and on his refusal to pay the $28 was taken to jail and $3 more added to his fine—for “contempt of court.” This is a sample of “law” and “just: ice” as administered in the coal camps of the state. It is also an illustration of the graft practiced by those who “re sworn to uphold the dignity of ae law. Can we have respect for this kind of law? Can we respect the kind of men who administer it? NEW YORK, ATTENTION! There will be an Important’ meeting of all branch Industrial, organizers and leading comra In each industrial fraction, M | day evening, pt. 28, ati 8 o’clock, at 108 14th street. Each industry and craft must be represented by at least one leading comrade. BERT MILLER, Industrial Org, Meeting, Wednesday, October 7th The Chicago membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party, Local Chicago, called to discuss the reorganization of the party on the basis of shop nuclei, will be held WEDNESDAY, OCTO. BER 7, 1925, 8 p. m, at NORTHWEST HALL, North and Western Aves. All party members must attend. Speakers: C, E, Ruthenbetg -