The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1925, Page 1

ao = The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government - Vol. II. No. 231. erie Rates: ¢ Quick Aid Me= MAR; re) a Boy No a a © ALL MEMBERS AND BRANCHES OF THE WORKERS PARTY. Dear Comrades: Our party and its sympathizers raised $10,000 during the month of September TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER. With this help we succeeded in carryin, the DAILY, WORKER thru the dangerous situation in whic! it found itself at the beginning of the month.’ This help which the DAILY WORKER received, how- ° delayed THE REAL CRISIS. This crisis the DAILY WORKER is facing right now. Unless the party members, party branches and sympathizers come to the res- cue of the DAILY WORKER by raising $15,000 during October, the DAILY WORKER faces the danger of suspen- sion before the end of the month. The DAILY WORKER has been fighting off this crisis for some time. It endeavored to hold off making an appeal to the party until a thorogoing campaign could be organized, as was done last year. The consequence has been that the accumulated financial difficulties have now created a crisis which threatens the life of the paper. WE CAN DO IT! We ask our party members and party branches to meet this situation—TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER AND TO INSURE IT FOR FUTURE SERVICE FOR THE PARTY. Our paryt raised $75,000 in the fall of 1923 in order to create the DAILY WORKER. Our party raised $30,000°in the fall of 1924 in order to place the DAILY WORKER on a sound foundation for the year 1925. It must now create a fund of $40,000 to SAVE THE DAILY WORKER and make certain that the party will have this powerful weapon in its hands for 1926. We have raised $10,000 during the month of September. WE MUST RAISE $15,000 TO MEET THE IMMEDIATE DANGER WHICH THE DAILY WORKER FACES and then raise $15,000 more before the end of the year. Every member and branch of the party nfust be mobil- ized for the DAILY WORKER. We cannot permit the power- ful weapon for our party which the DAILY WORKER repre- sents to be wrenched from our hands. The party units have been sent DAILY WORKER collection coupons. Each member must raise at least $3.00 for the DAILY WORKER, or make a contribution of that amount himself. Work must be begun. quickly. LAUNCH CAMPAIGN AT ONCE! Every party branch, every city committee and every district committee.must elect a special committee for the “Save the DAILY RKER Campaign.” City committees must send speak: needs of the DAILY WORKER. WE MUST ORGANIZE FOR A SYSTEMATIC CAM- PAIGN TO RAISE THE WHOLE $40,000 BUT WE MUST NOT FORGET THE IMMEDIATE CRISIS. IF THE PARTY WAITS IN SENDING HELP THERE WILL BE NO DAILY WORKER TO HELP. The party branches which did not respond to the assess- ment sent them must send in their contribution IMMEDI- ATELY. THE BRANCHES WHICH HAVE SENT IN A CONTRIBUTION MUST RAISE AT LEAST AN BQUAL AMOUNT FOR OCTOBER. Comrades!) THIS APPEAL IS A TEST OF THE LOYALTY OF THE PARTY TO THE DAILY WORKER. IF THE PARTY WANTS. + v SAVE THE DAILY WORKER IT MUST RESPOND AS A UNIT. $5,000 must reach the DAILY WORKER by Monday, October 12. We must have another $5,000 by the as Monday, October 19, and the total of $15,000 by the end the month. THERE IS NO MORE IMPORTANT JOB BEFORE THE PARTY THAN TO CARRY THE DAILY WORKER THRU THIS.CRISIS. THE WHOLE STRENGTH OF THE PARTY MUST BE PUT INTO IT. AND WE EMPHASIZE: He Who Helps Quickly Helps Doubly! i Fraternally yours, Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, General Secretary. “BATTERSEA WORKERS APPROVE OF SAKLATVALA’S SPEECH IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT AS THEIR SPOKESMAN LONDON, Oct. 8.-—The Battersea -Labor Club of the Nine Elms Ward fully endorsed and approved of th® speech made by Shapurji Saklatvala, Com- munist member of the British house of commons‘in defense of the workitig ever, onl class of Great Britain and for the independence of India, and is calling upon | the workers of Great Britain and the United States to support Shapurji Sak- Jatvala. it is because of this speech that Shapurji Saklatvala was refused admit- {ance to the United States and the interparliamentary union congress being held at wasn by Secretary of bn Msgr bie resolution was BRITISH RULERS PLAN SPECIAL LEGISLATION TO JAIL COMMUNISTS ‘adopted by the Battersea Labor.Club: Approve Saklatval; Stand. ' “This conference of the rank and LONDON, Oct, 8&—The Daily Mail Says that special legislation Communists being con file membership of trade union branches and political organizations affiliated to the Battersea Trades Council fully approves of ‘and en-| Ji, would: create’ a new -ePiéaliial offense. It is suggested that this could be defined as “attempting to alter dorses the fight put up by their par- liamentary representative, Comrade the constitution by revolutionary means.” Saklatvala, in the house of commons as well as outside the house on behalf (Continued on page 6) Heian! ha Frac OS ih. NOR narra J nine: nr Ma SOR elaine Mae FULL REPORTS OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR CONVENTION IN THE DAILY WORKER! SUBSCRIBE OR RENEW NOW! in Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year” Outside Chicago, by § G00 {0}! Save the bay Worxer ‘ers te visit every branch and to present the ee Entered as Second-clasm,matter September mail, $6.00 per year. ees “vl DAILY W 21, 1923, at _SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1925 AEB 290 ee ee All-Russian Union Delegatta to British Trade Union Congress M. Tomsky, Head of All-Russian: Unions, Second from Left. CHINA BOYCOTT ALARMS JUDGES AT CONFERENCE NewU, prising Feared as Sessions Open (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, China, October 8—The American, British and Japanese judges, comprising the international judicial commission to investigate the Shanghai riots of last May, opened their deliberations with but a thirty minute ‘session yesterday in an at- mosphere reniniscent of the tense situation preceding the outbreak they are’ here to investigate. But a small crowd of: foreigners at- Stromg:armed guards formed cor- dops around the town hall where ses-' sion@’are “held, but even the precau- tions “already taken were not con- sidered": sufficient and after a half hour's! Wiscussion the session adjourn- ed amftil the authorities could mobilize strotige? forces to cope with a’ situa- tion’ Yat they. feel. is momentarily growitig’in intensity and volume.” The boytett gave rise to this uneasiness. Charge British Frame-up, i That the strategy of Judge E. Fin- ley, Johnson, representative of Amer- igan.,imperialism, is producing tavor- able results is unquestioned after to- day's, developments. On Monday of this week twenty-two Chinese organ- izations including the unions of stu- dents, teachers, laborers’ guilds, mer- chants’ associations published a mani- festo which was widely distributed in Chinese, English and other languages, admonishing the people not to partic- ipate in the inquiry. These organiza- tions level their principal attacks against England and declare that the British are using the Americans as pawns in the game being played here. The claim is further .made that Downing street is trying to improve its position in China by giving all assaults upon the Chinese people the color of international action, While this is unquestionably. the case it enables the agents of the American banking combine, the House of Morgan, to continue to play the game of defenders of the Chinese people against imperialis:; aggres- sion. Morgan’s Slimy Trail. organ’s policy in this paft of the world for thirteen years has been to demand the “open door” in China so that it could be free to challenge the imperialist policy of any rivals in the international. scramble to reduce China to a nation of helpless vassals. It is probable that Morgan agents are at work among. certain groups in China, but for the most part the Chi- nese people have a healthy. distrust of all capitalist exploiters, whether they come from the United States or else- where. Calm Preceding Tempest. The police forces were mobilized in anticipation of the staging of a hostile demonstration against the conference on the opening day, but a death-like silence envelo; the city. All was oppressively quiet during its half-hour (Continued on page 2) citizen who fs a member | eause on. that | places.in the working class districts NEW YORK VOTERS MUST REGISTER AT ONCE FOR MUNIGIPAL ELECTIONS | NEW YORK, Oct. &—This is reg- istration week. Beginning on Mon- day, Oct. 5, and ending this Satur- day, Oct,.10, at 10:30 Pp. m., every of the Workers Party. or a with-its cause and who lives in the City of New Yerk must register if he is to cast @ vote for Communism on election day. Those who do not register Wow, cannot vote in the primaries next year nor in the elec- | tion this year, Do mot walt till the last day be- day the register are hopeles overcrowded and af- ter waiting. ir line for hoers, you may be bar out... Register to- night. Th iter places are open 10:30 p. m. every d on Saturday WP, “MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN IS NOW IN FULL SWING Only Party Has Worker Candidate for Mayor EDWARD ROYCE, (Workers: Correspondent) NEW YORK, Oct. 8—Out of the numerous parties running their can- didates for office in the mayoraity campaign in N. Y., there is only one party. which has a worker as candi- date for mayor. Ben Gitlow, the Workers Party nominee for mayor, was in the clothing industry for many years. His activity in the trade union movement in N. Y. and thruout the country, has gained him the bitterest enmity of the bosses, and their instrument of oppression, the government. Because Gitlow has for the past 15 years fought in the forefront of labor as @ militant ex- ponent of the need for international trade union unity of the workers, for a labor party, for the abolition of wage slavery, against government by injunction, against the open shop, for recognition of Soviet Res” sia, for complete independence of the Philippines, Hawali, Santa Do- mingo, for war against imperialist war, and for a workers’ and farm- ers’ government in America, the capitalist class has given him a 10 year sentence, four years of which he has already served. He is now out on bail, Running onthe ticket for control- ler is. Wililiam Weinstone, member of the Centra Executive Committee of the Workers Party, who was ac- tive In the labor movement as sec- retary of the\ Frie of Soviet Rus- sia, International Workers’ Aid, and other labor.organizations, And as president of the board of aldermen, Chas, Krumbein, a worker who has given his best to the working class movement for a great many years, as a labor organizer. On Sunday, Oct, 11, at the Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., the Workers Party together with a large number of trade unions will hold a mass meeting for the purpose sympathizer | ‘Ohio Gang Supports: | | Daugherty was one of the notorious I corruptionists that | | tions. HM. DAUGHERTY IS TO RUN FOR | U.S, SENATE Labor Hater (Special to The Daily Worker) | COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 8.—Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney gen- | eral, will be a candidate in the Ohio | primaries in an effort to secure th | nomination for United States senator. Ohio gang” of came into power with the inaugura- | tion of the late Harding as president of the United States. His adminis: ‘ation as attorney general was char- in his ‘efforts to car- ry out the Harding® “open (scab) shop” policy and: is: responsible for the most sweeping: injunction ever hurled against a later union; the in- famous “Daugherty injunction” issued by Federal Judge Wilkerson, a pal of Daugherty’s, in Chicago. That in- junction was aimed to.destroy the or- ganization of the 400,000 shopmen in the great strike wave of. 1922. Driven From: Office. After the death of, Harding and the succession to the presidency of Cal Coolidge, the Teapot Dome scandal engulfed the administration: in a sea of oil. Daugherty, who*all his life has been a_ ward-heéeéling © political crook of the bar-room type, had fail- ed to cover up his slimy trail of graft and corruption and was the center vf an investigation that shook the ad- ministration. President Coolidge defended Daugh- erty as long as he dared and only re- luctantly requested hig resignation. Since that time the boodle gang in { Ohio has been trying to stage a come- back for Daugherty, whilé the former attorney general, himself, is said to be writing a book on the Harding ad- ministration. Those who know Daugh- erty assert that his alleged writing of a book is a hoax as Daugherty is too ignorant to achieve such a thing. Such a book may be in process of completion, but it will have to be written by someone other than Daugh- erty. Willis May Oppose Him. Senator Frank B, Willis, a political protege of Daugherty, will possibly contest the republican nomination vith Daugherty. If he does, he will, it -8 said, violate an agreement which he’ made with Daugherty when the former Harding manager and cabinet member ushered Willjs into the sen- ate chamber. On the democratic side there are Florence three candidates. Judge Allen, of Cuyahoga county, the only woman supreme court justice in America, is tentatively a senatorial possibility. She is opposed by Maude Murray Miller, who was formerly the society reporter on James M. Cox's Springfield (Ohio) News. But the. third and. real candidate now is’ Claude Meeker, Columbus financier-democratic organization sup- porter, delegate to many national de- mocratic conventions, and once, under Cleveland, consul to Bradford, Eng: land, Democratic Hopes Rise, The democrats are hopeful as they see in the impending conflict between (Continued on page 2) RKER. (i “Pont Omce at Chicago, Lilinols, wie the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents 1113 W, Washington Blvd. Chicago, Il. A. F. OF L. CONVENTION CANNOT DOWN PURCELL PLEA; OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS IN SCAB HOTEL By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Daily Worker) STEEPLECHASE PIER, ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 8—World trade union unity promises to become the outstanding question at this convention of the American Federation of Labor. Thru his ignorant tirade against the Red International of Labor Unions, Breeident Green, in calling to the most backward elements in the gathering, merely managed to show his own lack of grasp of the world "needs of labor. Fraternal delegate Purcell’s invitations to the American Federation that it join the world fraternity of labor, and that it send a delegation to the Union of Séviet Republics as the British Trade Union Congress did, cannot help but draw some recom- mendations from the conven-+ tions committee on internation- 1 al labor relations. This cOmmittee has been a mere de- coration in the past, consisting of fraternal delegates that have gone to the British Trade Union Congress. The spirit that animates the commit- tee is shown by the reply to an in- juiry as to when the committee would meet “Oh, we'll get together in a week or s0.” Hayes to Support Purcell Delegate Max Hayes, of the Typo- graphical Union, declares he in favor of both the Purcell recommendations, and may lead the fight for them in ther committee. Hayes says he will vote and probably speak for the re- cognition of Soviet Russia resolution. The accepted fact that the interna- tional labor relations committee is not supposed to function is shown by the referring of the trade union unity resolution to the resolutions commit- te instead of the former to which it should have gone. The Soviet recogn- ition resolution has gone to the same committee, The first progressive resolution to |come before the convention was that m the organization of the unorgan- zed, it was ordered referred to the executive council which is considered a burial ground for convention resolu- Protests Scab Hotel The delegation of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ International Union is up in arms against i aera ing of headquarters and delegates to Federation -of Labor con: vention here in hotel that “by no stretch of the imagination could be regarded as favorable to the organ- ized wage workers of the ecatering | industry.” The convention headquarters is at the Strand Hotel that ts claimed to be non-union from cellar to garret. The restaurant workers’ delegation | claims that. it has frowned on efforts of local union to make life miserable for A. F. of L. delegates at past con- ventions by insisting on union condi- tions. But even the patience of the officialdom on this union has been | Stretched to the snapping point and ' their complaints are now before the | convention here. Seamen Oppose World Court The delegation of Union has a resolution in against af- filiation of United States with the world eourt. By some peculiar twist of reasoning this resolution was re- | ferred to the committee on interna- tional labor relations. Other resolu- tions declare for the withdrawal from | all nations of extra-territorial privi- | leges in China, pledging assistance to | bakery workers in contest with al Ward Baking company, urging pardon | by governor of Texas of Abraham | Sisneros, Jesus M. Rangel, Jesus Gan- (Continued on page 2) the Seamen’s | CHI CARPENTERS PROTEST BAN ON §. SAKLATVALA Demand His Immediate Admission At the last meeting of the Car- penters’ Local Union No, 429, of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, one of the largest locale In Chicago, a _ resolution protesting against the exclusion of Shapurj! Saklatvala, Communist member of the Brtish house of commons, from the United States and from the interpar- liamentary union congress by the Secretary of State Kellogg and de- manding his immediate admission, was adopted. The following resolution was unani- mously adopted by the Carpenters’ Local No. 429: Revoke Visa. “Whereas, Secretary of State Kel- logg has instructed the London con- | sul general to revoke the visa grant ed to Shapurji Saklatvala, a mem- ber of the English parliament* repre- senting the organized labor movement ot that country, to the _interparita: mentary union at Washington; and | “Whereas, Shapurji Saklatvala has carried on a valiant struggle on be- half of the exploited masses against English imperialism in the Far East, in China, Egypt and particularly in India, and Ireland; there, be it Resolved: By Local Unfén No. 420 | United Brotherhood of Carpenters and | Joiners of America, in regular meet- jing assembled this Friday, Oct. 2, | (Continued on page 2) || ALF. OF L. TAKES STAND AT LAST AGAINST || BOSSES’ SPY SCHEME ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Oct. 8 | —Vigorous opposition to the oon- gréssional bill for flinger-printing and registering 8,000,000 aliens, was urged today in a report of the executive committee of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, adopted at the federation’s convention here today. | The report characterized the reg- istration mea as providing for | an m of espionage | and dangerously anti-union and * anti-American.” NEW YORK WORKERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST RAKOSKI EXECUTION AND SAKLATVALA EXCLUSION ON SQUARE NEW YORK, October 8—Before where scores of famous labor demonstrations have been h several hundred workers gathered after factory the contemplated execution of Matthias Rakoski ernment of Hungary, STATE ASKS T0 CANCEL BILL OF EXCEPTIONS BY SCOPES IN COURT NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 8—A preliminary motion to strike out the bill of exceptions filed by counsel for Prof, John T. Scopes, central figure in the Dayton evolution trial, was made today before the state Supreme court, on the grounds it was not filed within the time fixed by law, it was announced by At- torney G Frank M. Thompson. the historic “cottage” in Union Square, eld in the past, hours to protest against by the white guard gov- against the exclusion of Shapurji Saklatvala by the government of the United States, and against the interp: ariiamentary union for failing to raise these two issues at its present sessions in Washing- ton, The meeting was held under the auspices of the International Labor Defense, Over the heads of the ii tent audience waved the placards: “We demand the admisison of Saklat- vala the friend of labor,” “The Hun- sarian representatives to the inter: parliamentary union are white terror- ists,” “Repeal the criminal syndical- ist law, stop persecution of foreign- born workers.” Emil Gardes of the Workers Party Hungarian Federation told of the ar- rest and torture of Rakoski and a hun- (Continued on page 6) eNom, oe nas ramen latte rn ne oo FE oa