The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1925, Page 2

avweae 4a ALU, ALY. LEFT WING KAILAIN MINERS STRIKE 10 FREE UNION LEADERS Chang Tso-Lin Guards British Mines PEKIN, Sept. 29.—A strike of 10,- 000 miners has been declared in the Kailain region as a protest against the arrest of union leaders. There ate over 40,000 miners employed, in this region. After the outbreak in Shanghai, the workers in the mines began to or- ganize. -Chang Tso-Lin, tool of Bri- tish imperialism, arrested the leaders of the miners’ union and placed them on trial before a military Court. The miners then refused to work the mines. The strikers demand immediate re- lease of their leaders, recognition of their union, an increase in wages and the abolishing of corporal punish- ment. The strike is spreading thruout the region, in spite of the armed troops of Chang Tso-Lin. This company made a profit of over $10,000,000 on its workers last year. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all thelr dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street PITTSBURGH, PA. MOVES CENTRAL BODY 10 ACTION Force Protest Against -Saklatvala Exclusion (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—As a result of the introduction of a resolution by delegate Harry Karp of Carpenters’ |Locai No. 376 on the question of the exclusion of Saklatvala, in the last meeting of the Central Trades La. bor Council of New York City, that tbody has issued a lengthy statement condemning the action of Secretary “of State Kellogg in the last issue of its Chronicle. The statement reads in part as follows: “Admitting Saklat- vala to the parliamentary congress could do no great harm.” Weak as this admission is, it is a good example of the influence being exerted by the left wing even on such a reactionary organization as the Central Trades and Labor Council. Another feature of the meeting was the introduction of a clause in the pre- amble to the effect that workers and employers should have an equal share in the fruits of production. This was to take the place of an old clause which pointed out the antagonism between capital and labor. The labor fakers of the Central Trades and La- bor Council were out to introduce this amendment in order to lay the basis for their present and future policy of class collaboration. Again the left wing stepped into the breach. Dele- gate Rosen of the Carpenters’ Union entered into an emphatic condemna- tion of the proposed preamble. He pointed out that anybody who claims that the interests of the workers and the employer are alike is an enemy of the working class, Elections In Vera Cruz. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 30.—The re- sults of the municipal elections in Vera. Cruz will be hard to count. Riots attended the voting at practic- ally every polling station, Not a booth was standing at the end of the day and practically all the ballots had disappeared. One was killed and fifty wounded, in the conflict that raged be- tween fascists and reds. Big Coal Merger In Progress, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 29.— The Meteor Coal company and the Bell & Zoller Coal company are planning a merger of 45 mines in the Hast St, Louis district. The value of the mines approximates $35,000,000. The Bell & Zoller group operate ‘some of the biggest mines in Illinois. NOT BY THE STROKE OF ONE But by the Combined Efforts of All Will It Be Possible to Save THE DAILY WORKER I am sending you my response to your appeal. CIOBE $. cderersrcreroecenee Name: Street: .... City I en- payable to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. ‘ 3 . State: Address letters and. make checks and money orders the sulphpr is obtained, '|super-heated steam down to the min- “TIGHT UN DUDOLO Ask Raise Awainet the Bosses’ Asking Cut By H. FEINSTEIN. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 29—The agreement of the Window Cleaners’ Protective Union with the bosses’ as- sociation expires Sept. 30. The union has presented demands for a minimum scale of wages, $40 a week and 44 hours’ work. . The previous scale of wages was $38 and 45 hours. The object of the union in the present demands is to standardize the wages as much as possible. Negotiation of the union and the association is going on. Several con- ferences were held, but the bosses have flatly refused to grant any de- mands. The bosses as usual say that they cannot afford to give any increase, and were contemplating making a cut in the wages, and to their surprise the union has presented demands for an increase. The representatives of the bosses’ association have proposed to go before an arbitrator, but the union has flatly refused to accept such proposal, hay- ing experience from the past, that outside interference cannot be tol- erated. A well attended meeting was held Sept. 24, where over 800 mem- bers present, decided unanimously to reject all the bosses’ proposals, and to stand pat by the demands. It was also unanimously passed that, if the demands are not granted on the eve of September 30, a general strike of all the window cleaners of Brooklyn and New York shall be called on Oc- tober 1. § A general meeting will be held on Wednesday, Sept 30, at 64 E. Fourth St., where the last decision will: be discussed. Sulphur Trust Gets Free Advertising at Government Expense (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—Another “educational” film has been com- pleted by the U. S. bureau of mines, in its campaign of free advertising of the operations of basic industrial trusts. Oil and steel and lumber have had their movies, prepared and circu- lated by the federal government. Now the sulphur is obtained, by piping by piping eral beds 1,000 feet below the sur- face, in the Loulgiana-Texas gulf field, and how the pure melted product is gathered at the top of the well, and shipped in trainloads to en- ter into the making of fertilizer, pa- per, fumigation mixtures, pickling of gteel, petroleum refining, rubber, tex- tiles, ete., 1s shown, Capitalism, a Court, a Boss, Some Strikers; Result—an Injunction MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 28— Judge Montgomery issued a sweeping injunction restraining the officers and members and their sympathizers of the Cap Makers’ Union of the Twin Cities, from picketing the Alco Cap |}, company, on request of the boss. The Cap Makers’ Union has been striking against this firm for over a month, as a result of a lockout of union cap makers. A picket line do- ing effective work, caused the boss to ask for the injunction which Judge Montgomery readily granted. That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of a DAILY WORKER. THE DAILY, WORKER ‘CHICAGO MEET VOICES PROTEST FOR SAKLATVALA “We Want Saklatvala,” Mootino Demands Jor when you WOrke!s Will 866 Mines Iron your own point of view? Will the time come when American workers will see their own interests? “But the people of India are differ- ent, They are awaking. And the same is true of the Chinese and the people of Egypt. “The DAILY WORKER the source from which the workers can get in- formation does not have half the sup- port that the Communist papers have in other countries.” ¥ Lovett Fort-Whiteman,: represent- ative of the American Labor Negro Congress, was the hext speaker. Whiteman said that in a'short time we will witness in Chicago a Negro congress which will for the first time draw in our own colonial people here under American imperialism. Liberation of Colonial Peoples “But it will not be only the Negro workers but all the» workers, the Hindus, Chinese and others of colonial peoples suffering the\same humilia- tions. We are extending’ to them an invitation to attend and serve in the liberation’ of the connie peoples of the world.” Comrade Dunne was the last speak- is significant that the individual Am- erican imperialists chose to exclude from this country wassthe represent- ative: First, of the Communist Inter- national, second of the'*English ex- ploited masses and third for the 330 million exploited Indian ‘peoples. Another significant factor in this is that A. A. Purcell, the representative of the British workers to the Amer- ican Federation of Labor convention to be held next week at Atlantic City will be here. “There is ‘Such a ‘thing as laying it on too thick; even’in a capitalist country where ‘capitalism is as stable as in the United States.” The visit of Saklatvala and his ex- clusion are of great importance and have become of international signifi- cance because of the critical condi- tion of British imperialism. Coupled with the visit of Purcell, it is more than the two great imperialist nations can stomach, British imperialism has begged and secured from its most powerful en- emy in the capitalist world the favor of having excluded a spokesman of the toiling millions in that colony which a famous Englishman described as “the brightest jewel,in the imper- ial diadem.” This signifies the unity of imperialism against » ‘sae world’s working class. There is no Indian tnitnigranf pop- ulation in America. American work- ers know little of the struggles of the Indian masses and we ‘aré grateful to our state department for bringing the problems of the Indian,workers and peasants so forcibly to the attention of the American working, class. This will extend the front against imperial- ism and it js exactly that which the British imperialists feared would re- sult from Saklatvaia’s. visit. It s hard for American workers to Yealize the fear with which the Brit- ish imperialists look upon anything that tends to bring the attention of the workers to the, struggles of the Indian workers and péasants, It is also hard for us to realize the thous- and-fold increase of this fear since the Russian revolution. The British rulers long before the Russian revo- | lution had nightmares in which they saw Russ! hordes pouring thru the Khyber pass to take India from them, But czarism offered the Indian masses nothing bit a change of rul- ers, The Soviet Union offers them a chance to rule themselves. And over the northern border the Indian masses now hedr the pledge of aid from the land in which the workers and peas- ants have solved all national and co- lJonial questions with proletarian clarity. British imperialists sleep less soundly than ever before. The visit of Sallatyala and the loud outeries of the American and British governments against this lone _Tevolutionary worker gives us an op- portunity to estimate the severe cri- sis in which world imperialism is POW }iunch time in your shop tomor- enmeshed. \No Rainy Seasons in the Class War Being Fought In American Industry By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. the ‘ican.slen-y phrase, “It never rains, but it co-Spanish outlook in North ies, directed from Paris and ake any progress worthy of air weather, it is inconceivable ar, now that the rainy season licate that when it rains, - it ‘it lnpioeesiie going for tanks, jitar egy Ni the only ad- airplane fleets that the. im- the native defenders. * * propaganda proudly paraded alny season had set in, the je their guns, and go home to ng, making it possible. for the the country. But this is only often before carried a gun in with the other, as oppressors 1e British experience with the igo, for instance. 3s sadly laments: n do the gr fest damage to French ling in the Riff, and the proposed nitely postpone: be a war of “christian civiliza- Ton ALaNE Ie ATrrew—earbarians,” who need the up- lifting influences of European capitalism, it would seem that god on high has made a mistake and thrown his influence on the wrong side. Increasing injury has beén heaped upon the French invaders thru the fact that the heaviest rains are falling in usually the driest territory. Some heathen eoples usually had special gods to take care of the pens = doubt concluding that they would: thus be more successful. The so-called christian religion, never provided for weather gods, which the pr’ be aap ex- perts may use to account for the predicament 0 the French and the Spaniards. In fact, this same New York Times cor- respondent declares: “To Abd-el-Krim’s followers, It may seem like a special dispensa- tion of Allah and certainly for Marshal Petaln (French) it is a stroke of bad luck on which he didn’t reckon!” But whatever faith’ they may have.in Allah, the Riffs also believe in keeping, their powder dry, and speed each bul- let with their hatred of and opposition to the imperialist powers of Europe. The airplane casualties, for instance, in Africa have hit the French and Spanish forces harder than were the casualties in the world wear. -The quick liidanes: with which powder magazines of discontent are peaceny among dppressed peoples—in Mo- ne in Syria, and in China, with rumblings from India— merely furnishes the thunder that presages a bad season ahead for the international bandits in all parts of the world, not only during the rainy seseon in the Riff. Every American po sash oritioal eye the sessions of the American Federation of Labor at Atlantic City next week to\study what is offered to promote the solidarity’of . the American working class with these struggles in other lands. If these gteat problems are ignored, or shelved with the usual parliamentary tricks, then the American workers must realize where they have not yet done so, that they have the wrong kind of officials at the head of their economic or- ganization. The official regime, headed by Green, may place its faith in the ghost of Gompers, but the working masses, like the Riffian tribesmen on the African war front, know that they have @ class enemy to face in the shops, the mills, . the mines and the factories, and that-no inch of contest ground is won without a bitter struggle. And it is a class struggle in.which there are no rainy seasons. ° row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. ‘We must use such issues as the ex- When that argument begins at BRUTALRAIDBY POLICE ROUSES | STRONG PROTEST Cleveland, O., Workers Condemn Action « CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 29.—A raid in which 800 Chinese. workers, students, and merchante were arrest: ed and thrown Into jail hae caused great excitement in Cleveland, Follow: ing a tong killing, the police heads raided the homes of as many Chinese as they could find, loaded them Into patrol wagons and then dumped them into dirty cells. None of those ar rested were guilty of the crime com- mitted and had to be released, “Chinese weré herded into cells like cattle, For two days my husband had nothing to eat. When I asked per- mission to bring him food I was told to stay at home and mind my own business.” relates one of the wives whose husband: was arrested and thrown into jail because he was Chinese. y Mistreat Women. “One woman that was in the same cell with me, was thrown into the cell with two children clinging to her skirts, One child was six years old and the other two, The woman ¢2- pects another child soon. Doctors say they do not know what the effects of this brutal treatment .will have on her health,” related one of the women that were taken out of their home and thrown into a cell that was so crowded that they had to remain standing in the cell all night. Solving a Murder! Hundreds of doors were smashed. Windows were broken. Heads were clubbed. Eight hundred Chinese kept incommmunicado for days. This is the way the police solve an unsolved murder in Cleveland—when it in- volves Chinese workers, There were over 20 murders that were committed during the year that the police has made no effort to solve. FRANCE STARTS NEW OFFENSIVE AGAINST DRUSE Tanks and Airplanes Fight Syrians : BAGDAD, Iraq, Sept. 29. — The French have thrown 20,000 troops, 44 tanks, 32 armored cars and 140 air- planes in an offensive against the Druse tribesmen in Syria in an at- tempt to crush the revolt. The French, under the leadership of General Gamelin, -were able to get relief to the garrison at Sueida. The members of the garrison have been sent back to France for the duration of the war as they were in no condi- tion to remain im the country after the siege. Most of them were sick. Water and food was furnished these men in small quantities by airplanes during the siege. Great demonsgrations. are being held in different parts of Syria against French domination. If you want to thoroughly un- er, Dunne said it must bé-seen that it clusion of Saklatvala to drive home to the American workers the inter- national nature of the class struggle. We must give real aid to the colonial peoples who hold the fate of capital- ism in their hands jointly with the working class of the imperialist na- tions. To give real aid we need to concen- trate on our daily tasks in the trade unions and all mass organizations of the workers. We carry on our ‘revo- lutionary work in a country where the great mass of workers do not as yet feel greatly the need for relent- less struggle. Our task is therefore that much harder and greater is the need for the humble, everyday work ot preparing the basis for a revolu- tionary labor movement which will join with the exploited of all the world under the leadership of the real enemy of world imperialism at which the exclusion of Saklatvala was designed to strike at the Communist International, Mitchell Talks of Future Wars with Japan n and England (Continued from page 1) apart from the army and navy, They have opposed to them the old guard of the war college and the navy school. Mitchell and his fellow dis- senters appear to have the backing of powerful groups. Mitchell is under charges for court martial because of certain unseemly things is alleg- ed to have said about the army. He doesn't seem to be worrying about it and thé defiant stand he has taken would indicate that he is by no means ea a lone battle. A obi book on Communism will make you a ie Com- munigt, derstand Communism—study it, For the ae time in the history of international class solidarity, we hear the voice of the Chinese workers calling to the workers of other countries for a helping hand, For the first time in the history of proletarian revolts in China, we find the Chinese workers awakening to the spirit of international proletarianism, For the first time in history the Chinese workers are ‘beginning to understand the true meaning of capitalism, militarism, and exploitation. THEY ARE AWAKENING! In all the principal cities of China today, the workers are rising in revolt against their oppressors, feeling the breath of freedom that comes to them from the workers’ government. of Soviet Russia, they too, want to be free. The iron hand of international ~:perialism is pressing harder and harder upon their throats in an effort to starve them and keep them in submission, abject slavery and servitude. The success of international capitalism spells starvation, exploita- tion, imprisyamient, and death tor the workers of all countries, "MUST THEY STARVE? THE CHINESE WORKERS ARE WAGING A BATTLE FOR LI AND FREEDOM. THEIR VICTORY WILL BE. OUR VICTORY, A LIBERATED. CHINESE WORKER, MEANS A LIBERATE WORKER EVERYWHERE. ’ | THEY NEED OUR HELP—MORALLY AND FINANCIALLY, WE MUST RALLY TO THEIR SUPPORT AND HELP FEED THEM. IN ENGLAND, GERMANY, FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, RUSSIA, EVERYWHERE THE WORKERS ARE SUPPORTING THE WORK- ERS OF CHINA. so WILL 3 WE. a : SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION TODAY, BIG OR LITTLE, TO THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID ‘American Section Workers’ International Reliet 1553 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. formerly 19 So. Lincoln Street DO PET Ope yt