The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1925, Page 1

eee The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No, 229. Subscription Rates: THE DAIL Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at IN CONVENT Uns, AT NEW YORK Delegates Stress Need for Co-operation (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 6.—The Most outstanding difference between the convention of the Marine Trans-| Port Workers’ Industrial Union of the I, W. W. which opened here Thurs- day, and the union’s past conventions ig the determination shown favoring a polloy of Internal discipline and co- Operation with all forces locally, na- tionally and internationally against the employers. Delegate Shultz of San Francisco was elected chairman and Francesan of Buffalo the secretary. The other delegates seated were Ross of Chica- 80; Hooley of Houston, Texas; Hoop: er of New Orleans; Moléndyke of Mo- bile, Alebama; Larson of Norfolk, Va.; Gibbons of Baltimore; Varleck of Philadelphia; Fenton of New York; and Rohm of Brooklyn. Three G. E. B. Members Attend. William Drennan, membér of the general exective board of the I, W. W. from the M, T. W. was in attend- ance, as were two other G. E. B. members, Matson of the Metal Min- ers and Hendrickson of the Building Construction Workers. i 3 The originally | convention was go, ‘TED WORSE THAN “sq SAN ALOATRAZ ¥ 43CO, Cal., Oct. 6.— Croucn syumbull, Communist Soldiers st. ig sentences in Alca- traz prison, were visited by Austin Lewis, their attorney, who is retain: ed by International Labor Defense. Both are in good spirits and healthy but complain of partial treatment. Crouch was denied the privilege of taking a university extension course in Russian. Both class war prison- ers work in the laundry, Lewis is awaiting court records from Hono- | lulu to. proceed with the legal fight | here. 160 MILLIONS OFFERED U. S. “Greatest Offer in His- tory,” Says Gureivich (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 6.—M. Gurievich, head of the foreign department of the supreme council of national economy, has issued a statement in which he reveals the detalis of a $160,000,000 | offer to American businessmen, the the total amount to be spent in a scheduled to meet on Sept, 15, but! period of one year and to be followed. was postponed to use the ‘delegates who were arriving in New York at that time, in the activities of the big strike which has now ended with an organization drive, in preparation for future struggle. The convention expedited some| work by disposing of some resolu-| tions without refering them to com-| mittees, where theré was no differ- ence of opinion. Among these was | the resolution of greetings and aj pledge of support to the members of the I. W. W. imprisoned for the move. ment. This resolution stated in con- clusion that—"*We pledge our every effort to use our economic power and all other honorable means to free our. fellow workers Inearcerated in the Nastileg-of Ahe master class.” Drennan Chosen Acting Secretary. Edmund Jeppson, who as a mem- ber of the general organization com- mittee had teken.over the office of secretary-treasurer when his prede- cessor had quit, submitted his report and resignation from office, which were accepted with a vote of thanks for services rendered, William Drennan was chosen by the convention to act as the union's sec- retary-treasurer until the office is filled by an election. Drennan, Fen- ton, Francesan, Hooley and others all stressed in their preliminary speeches, the purpoSe of the union leadership to bufld the M. T. W. upon a policy of good discipline and to strive for sol- idarity and co-dperation, locally, na- tionally and internationally, BOSTON WORKERS TO PROTEST BAN ON SAKLATVALA eee by future business dealings that in the next five or six years will Involve the expenditure of $2,000,000,000. The statement is. prefaced with the obser- vation: “We wish to make,American businessmen the greatest offer in busi- ness. history,” Tremendous Industrial Development As a result of an especially favor- able harvest, the best since the reyvo- lution, and a general improvement in conditions within Russia, the Soviet government has worked out a program of industrial development that within the next year will bring industry, up to within 90 to 95 per cent of the pre-war standard and future years will far-eclipse anything ever experienced in the Nistory. of Rusgia. sia velopment ‘includes 20,000 tractors, $12,000,000 worth f oil equipment, $35,000,000 worth? of metallurgical machinery, $20,000,000 worth of cop- per, brass, zinc and electrical equip- ment, six to seven millions in machin- ery for coal mining, and from four to five million in nfachinery for rubber industries. yi 4 Mast be’ Based on Credits | The statement of M. Gurievich says» “We regard America as the best mar ket for tractors, agricultural, oil, elec trical.and coal machinery as well ag for most of our metallurgical equip ment, copper and other metal. But we’ cannot place orders without credit, which America refuses to give.”,.. He exposes nicely the stupidities of the American bourgeoisie, when he points to the fact that most of the credits extended to Russia by other countries, particularly Germany, act- ually are financed by money provided by American capitalists. German in- dustrial concerns, for instance. obtain orders from Russia, then with the eon- tract as security, borrow money’ from American concerns, for whichs they pay 4 or 5 per cent, and charge Soviet Will Demand Immediate Admission (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 6—The work- ers of Boston are to hold a united front protest meeting in which the Workers Party will participate against the excision of Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist member of the British house of commons, at Paine Memortal Hall, 9 Appleton St., Friday evening, Oct, 9, at 8 p. m, John Ballam, James P. Reid and others will protest the exclusion and demand the admission of Shaparji Saklatvala to the United States, Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the. shop tomorrow. Russia 9 per cent, thereby frequently making a clear profit of 100 per cent without any risk. se American Money For Power Various European nations, anxious to rehabilitate themselves, use’ Amer- ican money advanced on Russian se- curities, in order to get a firm’ foot- hold in that country, says M. Gurie- vich, adding that he prefers to do vonage with Americans directly, e also warns the: Americati’ inyest- ors and industrialists that if they fail to seize this opportunity to ure Russian business that they will not be considered in these particularlines in future, because if Russia begins with German, British or French fhach- inery it will not be possible thereafter to switch to American. It ig a plain business proposition of their pt: ing the offer now or letting the busi- (Continued on page 2) anal RD ator A | Chicago Membership Meeting, Wednesday, October 7th The Chicago membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party, Local Chicago, called to disouss 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, Ruthenberg and M, Abern. In Chicage, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00'per year. BY SOVIET GOVT. | A. A. Purcell, chairman of Interna’ Hicks, Amalgamated Union of Building Tra cil British Trade Union Congress. Purcell and Swales were members of, and are the British fraternal delegates to. bi WORKER. Pont OMice at Chicago, Mlinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Fa ek 3 Special New York Campaign Issue i eenesesesennseseneeeeeeneesseeenaremes! Workers; ‘ Federation of Trade Unions (Amsterdam); George A, B. Swales, chairman of General Coun- British trade union delegation to Soviet Russia i@'American Federation of Labor convention. Platform of the Workers (Communist) Party : New York € = The Tammany administration of the fi receded it, has been ministration which classes of the city of New York. ably worse. slaves for bi; business. and courts: are: Food costs have sky-rocke Moyers and against pickets and str . ‘the use of the police club against the pickets, put the smployers as an organized strike-breaking machine. vice of grafting contractors and corrupted officials. Such are the “blessings” of any municipal ad- PREAMBLE. Under t! wo ibways are jammed to suffocation. ttle and are given part-time instruction by poorly s become-a huge machine for turning out willing Svee-Inerbasing-sonla in the.interest. of njunctions against picketing, supplemented by rnment of this city at the service of the je treasury of the city remains atthe ser- 'y Elections 1925. , t eight years, like that of the republican-fusion ad- joted exclusively to the interests of the propertied ‘the conditions of the workers have grown intoler- “to enormous heights, overcrowding increases, dwell- ings are not repaired, new homes are not built ge, rent at prices out of reach of the work- ers, and housing conditions go from bad to worse. public schools the children are herded like paid teachers. The public school system: In the ministration under the rule of the capitalist parties, whether the particular servitor of big busi- ne ‘yness in the city hall be selected ¢———_—______—_-—_ SUPER TRUST IN BREAD FORMED BY THREE COMBINES One of Three Charged ' Under Clayton Act WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 6.—Two members of the federal trade commis- sion have made public the charge made by the commission against the Continental Baking company, one of the three big baking concerns whose amalgamation into a gigantic bread trust controlling 157 big’ bakeries in the large cities thruout the country, was announced yesterday. Super Trust With $400,000,000 Capital. The charge, which is supposed to be kept secret under the majority rul- ing ofthe federal trade commission, but which is given opt by Huston Thompson and John F. Nugent regard- less of the secrecy rule, charges the Continental Baking company with violation of the Clayton act restrain- ‘ing compefition. The announcement of the amalgamation of the three com- panies, the Ward, the General Baking and the Continental, is supposedly the Provocation given the two commis- sioners, Incorporation papers have been filed in Baltimore, Md., for the new corpor- ation to be known as the General Bak- ing corporation. The company rep- resents a capital investment of $400,- 000,000. “ 4 Ward to Be Head. William B, Ward of the Ward Bak- ing company is expected to be the chairman of the new company after it has been consolidated. The new company ‘will have a com- bined sales volume of over $200,- 00,000 and the profits will be above $22,000,000 annually, and will control 10 per cent of the bread production in the country, ; Contro| Raw Materials. The combined corporation will con- trol immense holdings of wheat land, flour mills, sugar refineries and dairies. & by Tammany or the republican machine. Only ‘a workers’ gov- ernment can eliminate these evils. , , Waterman and Wall Street. To make it doubly”clear that the municipal administration will con- tinue to faithfully serve the proper- tied classes, both capitdlist parties have nominated frank and open serv- ants of big business. Mr. Waterman is tio mere hired servant of Wall Street. He is one of the Wall Street crowd. He is a millionaire in his own right, having enriched himself by the exploitation of labor. He may be counted upon to faithfully serve him- self and his friends, by making the city government more obedient than ever to Wall Street. Walker, the Traction Tool. Walker is a hired tool of big busi- ness. He has already demonstrated that his loyalty to capitalism may always be depended upon in return for moderate fees, by his acceptance of payments from the meat trust at the same. time that he was a mem- ber of the senate committee on agri- culture which prepared measures dealing with the sale of food stuffs. It was as the servaiit of big business and the traction interests that he made his campaign to replace Hylan. This does not mean that Hylan was a less faithful servant of the bosses, but he represented not only the in- terests of property in general, but more specifically interests of smaller business and of the suburban real es- tate ring that was fighting the trac- tion trust because a five cent fare is necessary for speculation in suburban real estate. For the rest, Hylan has TCHITCHERIN PINS ANTI-SOVIET PACT ON GREAT BRITAIN Germany Grants Large Credit to Soviets. (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Oct. 6—Before leaving Berlin for Witsbaden, M. T. Tchit- cherin, commissar for foreign affairs of Soviet Russia gave an interview to the press, the leading remark of which was the statement that the imperialist Ppowers—‘“whole security policy is directed altogether against the So- viets.” British Plot War For two hours Tchitcherin was bombarded with questions by news: paper men of twenty nations, and he plainly indicated that the controlling imperialist powers in the league ‘of nations are intending ultimate war against the workers’ republic. “British high finance is seeking an excuse for ultimate military measures against us, and France, too, the witid | has changed.” Concerning the rumored security’ | understanding between the Soviet!’ power and Poland and other border states, Tehitcherin said: No Impartial Arbiter Possible “We cannot see the value of arbitra: tion traties for Soviet Russia, since done what Walker and Waterman will}the fundamental difference between do: Put the courts and police at the service of the bosses to break strikes and the whole city machinery at the our political structure and that of thé imperialist powers bars us from fin ing a really unbiased arbiter. Bithgr service of the ;propertied classes as|the arbitral judge would favor ovr against the workers. — For a Workers’ Government. The nomination of the candidates of big bosiness on/both capitalist lickets and ths continuous use of the machit* ery of the government for the bosses and propertied classes against the workers, .¢ @ challenge to the workers of this ciiy to take the government into their own hands, — This chaijonge finds them largely unprepared. In contrast to the power- (Continued page 4) system or he would be against it. No aggression compacts are feasible, per- haps, but I cannot see much use in them. If one wants to make war, ong will not be prevented by a.non-aggres- sive pact.” e “The present negotiations with Ger. many are still in the dark and no one knows where they will lead,” he add- ed, and even though Article 16 of the league of nations’ covenant was inter- preted so as to relieve Germany of (Continued on paxe 2) » | blockade against Ru: Publisned Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ML Price 3 Cents TARNOW, GERMAN EXPULSIONIST, TALKS OF UNITY TO A. FOF L; PURCELL TO SPEAK WEDNESDAY By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Dally Worker) STEEPLECHASE PIER, ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 6.—Gestures of international trade union unity, exchanged between Fritz Tar- fhow, of the Woodworkers’ Union fo Germany, speaking for the German delegation of fifteen visiting this country, and William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, furnished today’s convention episode. The gestures brought forth gates. no enthusiasm from the dele- The only time that they were raised out of their lethargy to any appreciable extent was when the German “socialist” labor official, Tarnow, assured these American democrats and repub- licans, who have taken their stand for “non-partisan” political action, that the power of the Communists in Germany had been overcome, claiming that the Communist waves were reced- ing. A Tarnow Speaks of Unity! Tarnow called them Bolshevist waves, saying that, “Bolshevism was a very good religion for desperate and starving people,” but that the German trade unions do not mean to drive the workers to desperation. Tarnow did not mention the war, during which these German trade union leaders supported the kaiser, the war that brot on the resuiting misery to the masses of the German workers. He merely said that the war had resulted in depleted union treasuries and reduced member- shipsgwhich they were now trying to rebuild. He did not admit that. his campaign of expulsion of Commun- ists from the German unions had nearly wrecked the unions instead of building them, however. Tarnow also dodged all mention of the role of the German “socialists” in the reichstag, the fact that all mem- bers of the delegation are socialists be- ing ignored completely. They were only trade unionists and as nearly as possible spoke only the language of Americar trade unionists. Tarnow made strong défense of the German capitalist republic claiming that only fools and political block- heads believe it possible to reestab- lish the old monarchial system. He declared it was the duty of the @er- man trade unions to defend democ- within the republic . “Afraid to Mention R. 1. L2°U> The trade union unity gesture came in an invitation to send delegates to the next German trade union con- gress, no mention having been made however, of the unity struggle ‘be tween the Red International of La- bor Unions and the Amsterdam Trade Union Iinternational. President Green made a flowery speech in reply using the old expres- sion so familiar to Gomperism that the German delegates had “kept the faith.” In his return unity gesture, Green said, “We want to promote and intensify the friendship now estab- lished between the workers of Ger- many and the United States; to pro- mote the good will and solidarity of the trade unions of the world.” Similar gestures were made, how- ever at the El Paso convention last year, when Gompers was still at the helm, and Peter Grossman came as the lone German delegate, but no American delegate was sent to Ger- many. No one sgems to know even now whether these gestures will result in concrete action at this convention. Conflict with British, In fact, another angle of this trade union unity question could be visual- ized on the platform as A. A. Pur- cell and Ben Smith, the two British delegates, listened to ‘the German, Tarnow. The Germans are wholeheartedly (Continued on page 2) MOSCOW, Oct. 6. FINANCIAL BLOCKADE OF THE ‘ SOVIET UNION IS COLLAPSING “The first hole has been made declared Finance Comm ‘commenting on completion of arrangements for a hundred million mark loan to Russia by the Deutsche Bank of Germany. MORRISON FROWNS UPON RED WRITERS. AT ALF OF L, MEET| By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, (Special to The Daily Worker) ATLANTIC CITY, N, J., Oct, 6— Communists are not popular at this, as well as at past, conventions of the American Federation of Labor, with the result that beth J. Loule Engdahi, of the DAILY WORKER, and M. J. Olgin, writing for both the Novy Mir (Russian), and Fretheit (Jewish) Communist dailles of New York City, are without the badgee handed out to the capitalist re- porters at the press tables. Both Engdah! and Olgin applied at the office of Seoretary Morrison for their press badges. “is that the Communist daily in Chicago?” asked Morrison, as he looked over Engdahl’s application, Engdahi replied that it was and Morrison frowned and deciared the application would have to be held up and considered, “What is the objection?” asked Engdahil. ¢ “Well,” said Morrison, “there is a lot of ill feeling about the DAILY WORKER,” and would offer no further explanation. Morrison Is still considering. Olgin handed jn his credential for Golos Truba (Voice of Labor), the official organ of the,Council of All- Russian Trade Unions, for which he also writes. Secretary Morrison was out, but Olgin was received by a clerk in the office, who held up the application for press privileges. Later Olgin suffered the same ex- perience with Morrison that Eng- dahl had previously met with, But both Engdahi and Olgin stil! eccupy places at the press table, however, minus any press badge! Engdahi will speak Sunday night, October 11, in Philadeiphia, on “The American Federation of Labor Convention.” Move to Reconcile Living and Orthodox Churches Collapses MOSCOW, Oct. 6.—Efforts to recon- cile the two factions of the Russian church were on the verge of a break- down as adherents of the two churches engaged in a bitter exchange of charges today. A conference of the bishops of the living church was called to foster a peace movement between the living church and the old Russian orthodox church, but the effort did not meet with success. Metropolitan Peter gt the old church refused to attend the conference and meet with the bishops of the living church. in the financial ir Sokoinikey today In i : Party of America, the third national norning, e@eg When Chairman Herbert Zam announced that the called for the election of the National Executive Committee, Comrade Jack .W. L. CONVENTION ELECTS NEW N.E.C.; RESOLUTION ON PARTY REPORT IS UNANIMOUS With enthusiastic cheers for the Young Communist International and the ‘communist International, for the Youth League and Workers (Communist) convention of the Young . Workers (Communist); League of America came to its close at one o'clock Tues@ay last order of business Stachel took the floor to recommend that a larger executive committee than (Continued on Page 2) 1