The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government = _Vol. Il. No. 228. Sts POWERS GATHEN' FOR WAR ON - SOVIET RUSSIA Locarno Meet Directed Against Soviet Union (Special to The Daily Worker) LOCARNO, Switzerland, Oct. 5 — The foreign ministers of France, Great Britain and Germany are gathering here for the conference they hope will create a solid block of Western imperialism against Soviet Russia. The so-called security pact to be signed by Briand, Chamberlain and Stressemann is being hailéd in the Eu- ropean press as a final guarantee of world peace while, as a matter of fact, the convention, if it is signed, will pledge Europe’s three largest capitalist powers to united warfare upon the workers’ and peasants’ re- public, » Britain Is Leader. The “security” proposals came from Germany but no secret is made of the fact that Great Brita inspired them. Britain is extremely worried ovey the “swing to the left” of the British working class, her extremely’ critical colonial situation, and the growing power of the Soviet Union, England, with the support of France, who herself is no better off, is coming to the Locarno conference to forte Germany into a new entente against Russia. Soviet Foreign Minister Tchitcher- in’s recent trip to Berlin and ikcua| is being viewed with the greatest raal by Briand of France and particular! Chamberlain of Great Britain. While | Stressemann, German foreign minister, | who arrived today, reassured the oth- er powers that his talks with Tchit- cherin included no political considera- tions and resulted only agreement that has been hanging fire | for two years, at the same time he said “Germany is laboring under heavy burdens. We must maintain as broad relations as possible with the yest of the world. No nation can ig- npre the importance of Russia with a pulation of 160,000,000." Germany Plays Carefully. < The ceittral prope to be settled | before .the compact can be signed is Germany's eastern frontier. France is willing to make a settlement of the Rhine question if her puppet, Poland, is accorded proper consideration in the East. Germany will hold out for. concessions in securing her eastern frontier and will doubtless “use her Russian agreement as a_ persuader. This situation is further complicated by Tchitcherin’s visit to Warsaw where he was well received. Ger- (Continued on page 2) GERMANY WILL SEND _ ENTIRE INDUSTRIES TO UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Emigra- tion not only of skilled workmen but of entire industries from Germany, reported today in cablés to the de- partment of commerce, is becoming a source of worry to the German government. Figures disclosed that for the first six months of the year emigration from Germany was 30,849, a material increase over the same period of 1924. Contracts have been closed be- tween several German corporations and the Bethlehem Steel company and Dupont interests,“for the trans- fer of entire German industries to United States, officials said. The Bethlehem company virtually will finance a branch of the German Mortonenwerk Mannhein, which is to manufacture motors in United States under the German patents and with the entire personnel of the home works, Me 2 in’a trade) | the. American_ “ion Rates sito tee i a4 2 We Ke . a COOLIBGE HOPES TO BOLSTER UP 1928 ELECTION Worried About Fight in Central States (Special to The Daily Worker) STORRS, Ohio, Oct. 6.—President Coolidge’s special train that passed thru here*this Morning on its way to going thru the Ohio and pi valleys for more than justrthe trip to Omaha. While the visit to Omaha has its importance, the real purpose of the presidential trip is to lend as- sistance to Coolidge’s partisans in the central states who are up for re-elec- tion in the congressional run. of 1936. The Iowa situation is especially complicated by the election contest now going on between Broohart and Steck for the corn state senatorship. The administration leaders know that even it Brookhart is beaten in the present contest he will run against the other old guard Albert S. Cummins who will seek re-election ip 1926, The president hopes to have some -influ- ence there and in Missouri, always a doubtful state, where republicans face a hard fight to elect a successor to the late Senator Seldon Spencer. Lifting of S-51 * Peril to Divers NEW LONDON, Conn., Oct. 5.—A final effort was to be made today to remove additional bodies from the hull of the S-51 in her grave off Block’ Island. The increasing danger to the divers is expected to cause the im- mediate search for bodies to be halted and lead to the turning over of opera- tions to a salvage crew. The divers have experienced a'’num- ber of narrow escapes from death. In cutting thru the hatch of the torpedo compartment, “Tug” Wilson, navy diver, became tangled up in the radio wires of the wrecked submarine. Wil- liam Reed, another diver, went to his rescue and succeeded in freeing him. When Reed's suit began leaking he was forced to signal for a quick hoist to the surface, AMSTERDAM INTERNATIONAL REFUSES TO AID THE STRIKING CHINESE RAILWAY WORKERS BARLIN, Oct, 5.—-(W. I. R.)—The workers of China need not look to the Dternational Federation of Trade Unions for aid in their struggle againty the imperialist powers that are attempting to shackle China. International Federation of Trade Unions has no aid to offer. The All it doles out is sympathy to the struggling workers. The workers of China can look for aid but in one quarter, they can look for aid from the Workers’ Inter- national Relief, Attempt to Wake Amsterdam. After many months of sending telegrams and communications to the International Federation of Trade Unions, this is the answer to an appeal to (Continued on page 2) « In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. * Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. HILLQUIT AND THOMAS, ARCH ee” | The National Minority Movement of Great Britain which set the pace for the Trades Union Congress that met later at Scarborough | a ~ - ENEMIES OF WORKNG CLASS, OPPOSE COMMUNIST GITLOW By SYLVAN NEW YORK, Oct. 5—In the latest issue of the New a letter from Morris Hiliquit trying A, POLLACK # ler we find to “explain” in true lawyer's fashion his trip from Europe on the scab-run ship, the Majestic. —~ He says that he was told that it was just a minor disagreement in the engine room which would be settled before the boat left: ‘When the question j of a strike is raised, he says that if he had known ih. Ace he would have looked into the matter and on: the basis of ‘his. investigation would’ have decided ‘whether he would bevel J 4 ee es Legal Twisting. This is a fine example of legal twisting and squirming with a ven- geance! More than that, ‘hat Hillquit does not see the ques- tion from a working class point of view, but as a petty-bourgeois liberal who, if he felt that the workers were justified in their demands he would support them, otherwise he would not. But what can,one expect from a lawyer for large corporations and la- bor bureaucrats, such as the Burns Brothers’ Coal company, and the Sig-| man machine of the International La-| dfes’ Garment Workers’ Union. His| connection with the Burns Brothers | Coal company is enough to brand him for what he is, an enemy and traitor to the working class. Today Burns Brothers is making arrangements to bring coal from Scotland to help break the anthracite strike in Penn- sylvania and Hillquit is a heavy share- holder as well as the attorney of that corporation. He has just returned form the con- gress of the Second International which was. held at. Marseilles, France, where the League of Nations was in- dorsed, which in 1917 was called by it shows) (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct. 5.—Great Britain has no legal claim upon the United States for the revision of its debt funding agreement, because of the light terms granted to France in the temporary Franco-American agree- ment, the foreign office stated today. The foreign office stated that Great Britain did not obtain from Secretary of the Treasury Mellon an agreement that the terms for Great Britain would be lightened if the United States granted more favor?’ able terms to any other debtor. Britain Has Little Joy Over Result of French Debt Pow-wow LONDON, Oct. 5.—British diplomats are not altogether happy at the out- come of the French debt negotiations. They feel that Britain has been left holding the sack by the proposal ‘of the socialist party, of which he is a member, the black international, What has changed its color in the last eight years that Hillquit now ac- cepts it? Endorse League of Nations. He returns to New York a short time after his colleague, the Rev. Nor- man Thomas, socialist candidate for mayor of New York City, has signed a declaration jointly with such people as Mr. Lamont of the House of Mor- gan, Bishop Manning and others, urg- ing the United States to enter the world court, and instrument of the League of. Nations and international capitalism, These’ two men, » Hillquit and Thomas, socialist candidate for mayor in New York,are two fitting examples of what the socialist party has degen- erated to—strikebreaking and indorse- ment of the League of Nations. ~ - In opposition to this motly crew we find the Workers (Communist) Party candidate for mayor, Ben Gitlow, trade unionist who has served twenty months in Sing Sing for fighting for the working class and is today in the shadow of returning there to finish hig sentence, the United States supreme court having upheld his sentence, For Comunist Party! Against the socialist party and its (Continued on Page 2) the United States. Britain is held to the agreement made between Churchill and Joseph -Caillaux, which provided that the French debt to England should be payable with $10,000,000 the first year and increasing to $62,500,000 after the fifth year—on the condition that if an agreement less favorable to France was made with American, the British claims on France would be increased accordingly. Now that no final settlement with America can be made, under the Coo- lidge proposal of a five-year temporary payment of one per cent on the $4,- 000,000,000 French debt to America, the result is that while Great Britain will get only some °$60,000,000 \an- nually from France, England will have to pay $200,000,000 annually to America for money borrowed, a con- siderable amount of which was re- loaned to France. Irish Demonstrate in Capital WASHINGTON. Oct. 5.— Sympath- izers of the Irish republic picketed the interparliamentary union at the capitol today, carrgving banners de- nouncing the union’s action ip re- fusing to seat Miss Mary McSwiny, prominent republican advocate. One banner denounced Americe for ad- mitting delegates who! have “done to Ireland what Benedict Arnold tried to do to the United States,” GREEN PRAISES GOMPERS-AS HE Dull Suaection Precede War on Left Wing By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL (Special. to The Daily Worker) - ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 5.— i that he: preferred the phi- sophy- ot Samel-Gompers. andthe trade unionism that Gompers preach- ed, rather than the vague theories that are offered‘as a substitute there- fore, William Green, former secretary- treasurer of United Mine Workers of America, opened his first convention as president of the American Federa- here today. This attack; made in Gompers’ me- mory, was the first assault in the con- vention against the progressives in the organized labor movement, who have been making big inroads on the reactionaries’ positions in some of the strongest unions since the last con- vention. ful preliminary tribute to Gompers. concluding with, “He kept the faith, so we will keep the faith.” Green an- nounced that a special day will be set aside for memorial services for Gom- pers. Both Divine and Humane The opening of the convention was more than usually dull, with local and state politicians passing it by. Both the mayor of Atlantic City and the New Jersey governor sent substitutes to address ‘the delegates. President Arthur Quinn of the State Federation of Labor did likewise. Quinn’s substitute welcomed ‘the dele- gates, “becfuse you are a humane in- stitution,” this state labor spokesman also proclaiming that the American Federation of Labor is of divine as well as secular origin and therefore it cannot fail. Loves the Government—But Not Its Injunctions Iw his speech President Green also made a plea for organization and at- tacked those courts that cripple labor activities deciaring, we love our gov- ernment! we love America! we love its history and traditions! but we claim the right to criticize the courts that ally themselves on the side of employers. He also said the federa- tion was just beginning to fight for the children of America. Credentials committee report show- ed 389 delegates seated from 99 inter- national and national unions, 4 depart- ments, 25 state federations, 67 central labor unions, 21 local trade and feder- al unions, and 7 fraternal delegates, Stinnes Credits Are Extended LONDON, Oct. 5--An exchange dispatch from Berlin says the German banking consortium which recently ad- vanced credit to the Stinnes interests has prolonged the credit until the end of 1926, | OPENS SESSION Green made the attack after a care-| Pupltaned Daily except Sunday by PUB jthe Communists now. | where these socialists were + THE DAIL Washington Blyd., 1ING CO., 1113 W. —<* ‘Special New York ~ Campaign Issue Y¥ WORKER Chicago, IL Price 3 Cents | GERMAN LABOR FAKERS VISITING ALF. OF L. CONVENTION 10 GIVE ~ BACKING TO WAR ON COMMUNISTS By J. LOUIS (Special to The and Europe are known. war, and they are all Coolidge Welcome Socialists The delegation came to Atlantic City direct from Washington, D. C., well re- ceived at the nation's capital. There was a reception for them at the head- quarters of the American Federation of Labor. But that wasn’t all. They | were received by Cal Coolidge himself, the president declaring that he was | glad to meet these spokesmen of Ger- man workers, only a few days after Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist mem- | ber of the British parliament. and spokesmen of British workers, had been barred from landing with Cal’s official sanction. Secretary of Labor Davis went a little farther, The Pittsburgh million- aire was host for these socialists at) luncheon, leaving a good impression upon them. The members of the delegation have reached what seems to be an ironclad pact among themselves not to talk for publication. Very little has appeared about them, even in the capitalist press. Tarnov—Anti-Communist Leader There is ScRumann of the transport workers, Scheffl and Johade of the railway men, Huseman of the miners, to mention only a few, who acknow- ledged Tarnoy, of the woodworkers as their chosen spokesman. But Tarnov ig reserving himself for the speech that he ,will make to the convention of behalf of the whole delegation.” In pulsions of Communists from the unions. Kurt Heinig, secretary of the Allge- meiner Freier Angestellten Bund, known as the “Afa Bund,” was the only one who would give his views at any length. His organization is a tion of Labor:on Steeplechase Pier | federation of 14 unions, with 600,000 members including municipal workers of every description. He stated truly when he said, “You have nothing like it in the United States.” Heinig is a typical German social- democrat i. trade union official. He has read Carl Legien’s book on| the latter's trip thru the United States in 1909 and he will doubtless duplicate this feat by writing a book himself upon his return to Germany. Heinig spoke fluently of the Dawes plan and the proposed “security pact” and of the visit of the delegation of German rank and file workers to the Soviet Union, and in these matters he (Continued on paye 2) Indians Take to War Path as Protest KINGMAN, Ariz., Oct. 5—Swearing vengeance against white men if the penalty of death is carried out, against George Dixon Sujynaiie, young member of their tribe, who has been sentenced to be hanged at the military reservation near Prescott on Sam Gompers may rest easy in his grave. social-democrats who where on the side of the kaisér during the against + ‘LABOR FAKERS AID TAMMANY ENGDAHL. Daily Worker) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 5.—Bringing the “delegation | of 15” trade union officials of Germany to the United States and | featuring them as an attraction Labor convention that opened here today, was no doubt carefully planned as an anti-Communist move. This is the only conclusion that can be reached after a visit to the delegation quartered at the Ritz-Carlton, or “The Ritz,” ) as the hotels by this name in the at the American Federation of great cities of the United States These are all INN. Y. ELECTION Also for Injunction Judge Charchill By BERT I MILLER (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 5,—This the time for clear thinking on the part of the workers of New York. The election campaign with its conflicting forces pulling in many different directions offers fertile soil for confusion in the minds of those who labor. On the hand we are faced with the possibility of the élection of Frank Waterman, a millionaire foun- tain pen manufacturer employing thousands of workers under nor- union conditions at starvation wages. Waterman srdpresents the republican party and the large financial interests of ‘the city—the most powerful and aggressive enemies of organized la- bor, Notwithstanding these facts he will undoybtedly receive the support ot such labor leaders as Ryaa of the etmuny- Tarnoy 4ed> the war. of ex-}longsheremen, -who -supported~the strikebreaker Coolidge last year Labor Reactionaries for Tammany. Another alternative is the election of “Jimmy” Walker, lawyer for the beef trust and the milk trust. “Jim- my” is the name which is*used as a means of giving this representative of big business a proletarian color- ing, and in order to serve as a bait for the deluded workers who still fol- low Tammany Hall. “James” is the proper term for this servile lackey of Wall Street. Walker is now receiving the full support of Tammany’s ma- chine in the Central Trades and Labor Council, This machine, headed by Sullivan, is seeking to fasten the claws of the Tammany tiger upon the back of the workers for four more years in return for the rich political { plums which will be handed out after election day. Fakers Sell Out Workers. Utterly disregarding the interests of labor, they drag the workers ruthless- ly, year after year, into the fatal swamp of “non-partisan” political ac- tion. They raise the outworn slogan of “Reward your friends (the demo- crats) and punish your enemies,” in spite of the open contempt for the workers displayed at the entire demo- cratic national convention, in spite of the scrapping of the entire program of even welfare legislation by Gov- (Continued on page 6) October 10 for murder, a number of the members of the Walapai_ tribe have taken to the mountains in a threat to go on the war path. Sujynamie is a graduate Sherman Indian school at Riverside, Cal, and also attended the Haskell In- of tite/ dispatch to the Daily Express. Vesuvius Threatens LONDON, Oct, 5.—Mount Vesuvius is again active, according to a Rome The Express says that the Italian sismo- logist Bendani has predicted violent stitute, starring in athletics at both] earthquakes in India on Tuesday bani institutions, in Italy on Thursday. OPENING SESSION OF THIRD Y.W. L. CONVENTION ACCEPTS CREDENTIALS; ORGANIZES TO SOLVE PROBLEMS The third national convention decisive majority of the delegates to former minority of the National Executive Committee. of the Young Workers (Communist) League in its opening session Sunday, at 1902 W. Division St., showed a have been elected in support of the The orientation of the youth convention at its beginning is in favor of the present majority of the Central Executive Committee of the party by'a count of 29 to 22, On the vote accepting the report of the thajority of the credentials committee the vote was 29 to 20. Comrade Nat Kaplan, member of the National Executive Committee of the} of league, in making the report the majority of the credentials cor mittee, stated that the report took | into consideration a deep-going crisis (Continued on page’) cael @ ;