The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government NEW YORK EDITION ‘ Watered ds Sécond-class matter September 21, 1923, at ‘ y § Post Office at Chicago, ilinois, under the Aet*of March 3, 1879. Vol. Hl. No. 225. / ,hscription Rates:. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1925 >" CObn' GIVES AID TO MINE BARONS | TERRORISM AG MINERS IN ANTHRACITE STRIKE SHARED BY POLICE AND FAKERS (Spectat to The Dally Worker) SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 1.—Police Magistrate P. J. McNamara of Scranton, in court Monday ordered Alex Reid of Springfield Ill., secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee; Pat Toohey and August Valentine, progressive leaders in the striking anthra- cite fields; and Alex Zarek, a striker, to be held to “await the In Chicage,"by mail, $8.00 per year. Publisned Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, UL Price 3 Cénts | A STRATEGIC POSITION RALLYING CALL FOR THE EIGHTH : U GEN NBORN ERATIONS ANNIVERSARY DEMONSTRATIONS As the eighth anniversary of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic draws near, the Workers (Communist) Party issues a rousing call to all its units to prepare for the celebration of November 7, the day of victory for the Russian workers and peasants with the opening of an intensive drive for the recogni- tion of the \ is apart. The ¢ dream nion of Socialist Soviet Republics, of which Russia italist class of the world realizes that their hope and a collapse of the Soviet Union is futile. Soviet Russia today stands out as the only nation in Europe where the condi- tions of the working class have England and the other nations t! U.S.FRENGH SETTLEMENT COMPLETED France to Continue Her Aggressions (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 1. After a week or 80 of quibbling the representatives | of French imperial- ism and the American bankers have come to a settlement of terms. The sub-committ of the French secret session and there they decided upon the plan. that will, be rubber. stamped by President Coolidge. Mel- ton, Hoover and other prominent, mpubry r lioan members are to present thei unanimous decision for the president's approval. Thus French imperialism is given a new lease of life to bomb Syrian and Moroccan villages in her attempt to dominate the world’s resources. Tho terms of'the settlenient agreed|into the drive for recogni on are arranged iff the following man- ner: A series of five annual payments. of $40,000,000 from 1926 to 1930, in- clusive. A series of seven annual payments of $60,000,000 from 1931 to 1937, in- clusive, A series of 50 annual payments -of $100,000,000 from 1938 to 1987, in- blusive. The payments cover a period of 62 years. A safeguard clause by which France can open up negotiations again if her financial condition is such that the currency of the imperialist power is in danger, has been agreed to. France agrees to pay the American! bankers $5,620,000,000 for the $4,200,- 000,000 loaned during the war. The terms given to France will al- low her to prosecute her millitary ag- gression wherever she sees fit as the terms of the Franco-American debt settlement neatly dovetail into the Anglo-French agreement and coincide nicely with France's share of Ger- many’s reparations. If the reich con- tinues to exist to execute the Dawes plan faithfully, France will never be forced to pay out more in any year in ‘ discharging her obligations to Great \ H Britain and the United, States than she feceives from Germany. France receives 52 per cent of all reparations and the first five annuities under the Dawes plan will give her ap- proximately $104,000,000 a year. Of this she will pay $40,000,000 to the United States and 5,000,000 pounds sterling ($25,000,000) to Great Britain under the terms of the Churchill-Cail- Jaux agreement of August. It is oniy at the expiration of five years that France begins paying Lon- in 12,500,000 pounds’ ($62,000,000) annually, and at precisely that date her annuities: to the United States in- crease to $60,000,000. | This leaves France a balance of roughly $2,000,- 0co, f Later on, when the Dawes plan is yielding 2,500,000,000 gold marks 625,000,000) annually, France's share fll be about $325,000,000 a year out of which she will pay $100,000,000 to America and $62,000,000 to England. This will leave a balance of about $163,000,000 a year for her, +growing worse. improved. In Germany, France, he conditions of the workers are This anniver- sary finds the economic condi- tion of Soviet Russia better than ever. Industrial and agricul- tural production have nearly reached the prewar standard. More and more factories are being ‘rected. Trade is once more being successfully earried on. With these facts facing the capitalist class in the face, their hope of a collapse of Soviet power has given way to a fear of the ex- ample shown by the Soviet Union. The menace of the Soviet Union stands out as a guide showing them how their condition may. be bettered. The fear of the capitalist, class of their own workers fs increased as long as Russia stands in the position to materially aid the revolting prole- tarians of other lands, Launch International Attack. The capitalist class in their desper- ation have Jaunched a vicious attack on an international scale agagst the Communists of the world and against the Soviet Union. The security pact, the attack on the Communists of Bulg: n and other lands serve as good ex- Arrange Mass i It is up to the workers: of America to frustrate the aims of:its capitalist class. In the united front mass meet- ings to be held all over the country every worker sympathett the cause of Soviet Russia mn awn ‘of the Soviet Union. As many) meetings as can be called must be: He! “on No- vember 7, to celebrate: thé’ eighth anniversary of the Union of Sogialist Soviet Republics. . . Distribute Leaflets!) A million leaflets demanding the recognition of the Uniom 6f Socialist Soviet Republics are beiig, printed by: the Workers (Communist) Party to be used in the drive to force, Amer- iean capitalism to recognize the only working class republic in the. world. To supplement the leaflets, buttons are being made to be worn by the workers to show their active sym- pathy for the Soviet Union. Stickers and other methods to rouse the work- ers of America are also to be used. PETITION. “ILE MACH ad te to world capitalism has increased. It |. » Roumania, Greece, Turkey. Se ee Sat oe Communists in —_—— peere et aak ee ‘} that the program of the P: Big Fight At Labor Party Congress (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct. 1. — While the nervous capitalist “fat boys” were beginning to heave long sighs of relief at the “rout” of the Com- munists at the labor party con- gress at Liverpool, the ubiquitious Reds, emingly undisturbed by all their “defeats” intensify their at- tacks on tabor party policies advo- cated for British workers, describ- ed by the Communist Delegate Fer- guson as one of “crawling, snivel- ing gradualism.” And it should be made a matter of particular note to those interest- ed, that altho the motion which upheld the order of the labor 'B. & 0. BILL’ DECLARES RECALL ”, DEFYING TS’ UNION MEMBERSHIP soe GBpebial to The Daily Worker) ‘ai Manresa ocr Oct, on H. Johnston, president of je Internationa fascia in of Machinists, has announced to the executive petition filed the council is il council, no furth agreed upon. This decision, tained in the recall ndin, based upon steps 'to feat that body his decision that the recalt * yi himself and all other members of — by the petitioners to the the recall movement have been the view that the charges con- petition are not specific, was forecast by rr {Continued on page 4) Y. W. L. Convention Opens Tonight! The third national convention of the Young Workers League of America will be opened this evening in Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St., Chicago, Ill. ' ‘The convention will-be opened by the representative of the Na- tional Executive Committee, John start their deliberations at on Williamson, and the delegates will There will be. present, acgording to pre-convention arrangements, some 42 delegates from every section of the country. A asi i! Party executive which “barred” any and all Communists from even be- ing a member of the increasingly respectable labor party, here are thirty of these Communists, many of them national and international figures in the Communist movement right in the middle of the labor party congress, whaling away with might and main with the bitterest criticism of the treacherous oppor- tunism of the social-democratic leaders of the Ramsay MacDonald stripe. Communists Launch Big Offensive. Delegate Ferguson of Glasgow, a Communist who did not seem to mind a bit that Communism was “defeated the day before,” opened a day of good fighting with a resolu- tion ordering James Ramsay Mac- Donald to apologize to the Soviet government for his hasty and scan- dalous publication of the ridiculous forgery known as the “Zinoviev let- ter” without investigation and with his attack on the Communist Inter- national assan el nth hour pre- election effort to appear more re- spectable than the tori¢s, and keep contro! of hissthen sinecure in the “labor” government. The motiow’ lost, of course, but there were some fine things said for the British workers to read in their morning paper. Likewise, Willie Gallagher, whe followed Ferguson, arguing for « resolution condemn- ing the laboriparty for its indiffer- ence to the miseries of the rapidly increasing sarmy of unemployed, took occasion. to say a few things for the earseand eyes of British workers, Perisitethe Thought. Ferguson, when MacDonald intro- duced a resolution providing for the labor party policy to be one of na- tional reconstruction by “parilamen- tary means and by progressive stag- es,” launched an attack on it as one of “crawling, veling gradual- ism” and proceeded to move an amendment calling for vigorous struggle for the overthrowal of capi- talism and the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government. The congress, which included among lots of more of her kind, Lady Cynthia Mosely, the noble lady who le: both grace and funds to the British socialist party, voted down the rude Communist proposal. for class war. So it went on. All- very mystify- ing to the ill-informed who could not get the idea’ why the labor party congress should be so con- servative, even reactionary, when the Trade Union Congress three’ weeks ago, went unanimously to the left with a Communist tone from be- ginning to end. The Trade Union Congress had adopted resolutions saying that overthrow of capital- ism was necessary and that “shop committees are indispensable weap- ons” to do the job. But the Trades Union Congress had said no such kind things about Ramsay Mac- Donald and his leadership of the Labor Party. * Communism, is the most talked of thing in Great Britain. And Com- munists are the life of the show at Liverpool, tho they are not “legally” there at all. : Conscience-Stricken © German Delegation Uses Rear Entrance pees. Bis NEW YORK, Oct. 1—The German delegation to the interparliamentary union congress at Washington on board the North German Lloyd liner Bremen, which docked at Hoboken, were prepared to be off the dock by a |. rear might them. A detachment of Hoboken police were on the docks awaiting the ar- rival of the ship. entrance fearing that there be a demonstration against Mayakovsky Speaks on Russian Poetry at Chicago Tonight The famous Russian poet, Viadi- mir Mayakovsky will speak on the new Russian Literature and Poetry tonight at the Temple Hall, corner Van Buren and Marshfield Aves. The admission will be 50 cents. Lécture starts sky will action of federal authorities.” Pat Toohey was unceremoniously arrested when he ap- peared at the hearing to aid the defense of the other three; while Zarek had been arrested when he went to the police station to bail out the first two. Zarek w tributing Handbills announcing a meeting without firs \ a cra a permit for the meeting. Bu later the magistrate said he would not hold him on that charge. This Is “Justice.” The judge declared, however, that: “If the federal authorities will not take care of them I will decide later what is to be done with them.” This |is taken to mean that if the favorite proceeding of deportation is not be gun by the federal government, the progressives will be persecuted on some other frame-up. That the traitorous leaders of United Mine Workers’ Union willing and even anxioups to play the role of stoolpigéons, is seen in the attendance the hearing of D, W. Davis, representing the international officials of the U. M. W. of A. and James Gleason and John Boylan, mem- bers of the executive board of Dis- trict 1, U. M. W, of A. Stoolpigeons Roost in High Office. Gleason charged the four progres- sives with “attempting to disrupt” the union, without adducing any proof of such a charge and in face of the; fact ‘essive Miners’ Committee especially stresses tte mevitetér*greater solidarity in- the union and urges a militant struggle against the coal operators.” * The strange scene of union officials appearing in a capitalist court room with a complaint against members of the union of “disruption” of the union the are was easily explained, however, when it] . is known that the union officials are preparing to sel] Out the wage de- mands-of the strikers.and compromise on the check-off, and wish no opposi- tion from the arrested progressive leaders, whose program of greater solidarity and a more militant strug- gle against the operators is just what the treacherous union officials do not want. Betrayal in the Wind. This coming sell-out is understood since the conference between the committee for mediation elected by the Scranton chamber of commerce and John L. Lewis on Tuesday, And the same day there arrived in sus- Picious conjunction Tom Kennedy, international secretary-treasurer of the U. M. W. of A., James A, Gorman, secretary of the joint conference of union officials anid operators, and Sam- uel Pierce, publicity director for the anthracite operator! Doheny Shares Big Dividend. LOS ANGELES, Cal. Oct, 1.—Pan- American Petroleum, E. L, .Doheny’s Qalifornia oil company, declared a dividend of temper cent on its $20,- 000,000" capitalization here today. The company reported earnings of over $5,000,000 for the first eight months of ‘the year. as first held on a charge of dis- obtaining BANKERS RAISE HALF MILLION. FOR COLLEGES Make Liberal Donation to Goose Step Plan (Special to The Daily Worker) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. t— Delegates to the American Bankers association meeting here fell all over each other giving money to a scholar- ship fund for economic students. A half million to endow 100 scholar- ships in economics in various colleges will be raised before the convention is over. The object ie to train young men in the affairs of finance to carry on the traditions of banking when the old fellows have passed away, it “The Good of Our Acts.” One.of. the bankers, overcome with his own kindness said, “Let u® make it possible for others to live abund- antly. .Let us spread as far as pos- ble the good of our acts.” Another id, “I.think it is quite possible to work out an economic plan and to show people by systematic and small savings, by. systematic curtailment of waste, continued over a period of years, ‘it is possible for the average man to approach the coming of age with a feeling of comfort and seren- ity The. bankers all seemed enthusias- tic about their plan of turning out a hundred goose-steppers a year and are confident they are performing a great philanthropic deed. After the convention they will go home and pull in some more mortgages, leaving several thousand workers and farm- ers homeless Flood In Mexico MEXICO CITY, Oct. 1—Crops are ruined and many thousand are home- less in the state of Guanajuato where the rising of the river Lerta has caus- ed a serious flood. Four Seamen Arrested NORFOLK, Va. Oct. 1—Four sea- men who were denied citizenship in America and who find they cannot get a boat back to their home port. of Hamburg have been lodged in the city jail awaiting deportation. Build the DAILY WORKER ROUMANIAN BOY ARS RUSH SECRET TRIAL OF TATARBOUNAR PEASANTS FEAR WORLD-WIDE DEMONSTRATION KISHINEV, Be rabia. (By Mail)—The trial of the Tatarbounar peas ants opened in Kishinev on August 25. There are 1,000 peasants on trial. The indictment is 600 pa testify against th ploitation of the B long and 600 witne: Peasants who dared to revolt against the inhuman rablan peasants by the Roumanian boyars. s and “specialists” are to The date of the trial and the indctment was made known to the lawyers but 24 hours before the actual. trial began. The crime charged in the indictment is “crime against safety of the state” for which punishment is extremely high, death or long prison terms. Secret Trial Held. As the lawyers did not have the proper time to prepare their cases, they demanded that the trial be postponed. This right was denied them, All preparations were made for a secret trial by the Roumanian government. The great fear of the boyars was a demonstration by the proletariat of the world similar,to the demonstrations that took place against the Polish lerds " (Continued on page 5)