The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1925, Page 1

PAN BAN ON” “aes PS mane DAILY WORKER Ralses the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government aN ~ Vol. Il. No. 72° ay ras _ SAKLATVALA IN SEATTLE Mass Meeting for His Admission (Special to The Dally Worker) SEATTLE, Oct. 11—One of the most successful demonstrations in Seattle was the protest meeting held last night against the exclusion of Shapurji Saklatvala, In which re- presentatives of unions and other workers organizations participated. Paul Mohr, the veteran labor lead- er, M. Miller, Vincent Brown, M. Han- sen of the best progressive leaders of the organized labor movement, Jean Stovel, progressive woman, leader of labor, George O’Hanrahan, radical, Elmer W, Steele, I. W. W. speaker and Aaron Fislerman, district organ- izer of the: Workers Party were the speakers. Tire meeting was opened by Han- “sen as chairman. He told the large assembly the aims and purpose of the meeting. He was followed by O’Han- | rahan who said that once America was the haven of men of revolution- ary thought. But now and particular- ly, since they world war, it it is the garbage can of dethroned and bank- rupt rulers and aristocratic garbage of Europe. The denial of Saklatvala to enter the United States, he charac- terized as a disgrace. Miller declared organized labor re- sented the bar on Saklatvala. Steele pointed out that because of the indifference of the large mass of workers, the vietims of Centralia tra- gedy are still languishing in the. peni- tentiary. He urged the workers to organize and stand up for their-rights as a class. Saklatvala who represents not have been barred if the workers were awake, he said. , Workers Showed Open Doors Stovel said that the workers shou), have made it possible for Saklatvala to“enter the’ United States. The bar- | ring of Saklatvala by Secretary of |ters justified their action by quotiny State Kellogg, should make the statue |local labor speeches, in which it war of liberty hang its head in shame. The workers should demand that Sak- latvala be admitted into" ‘the United ~ States, she satd. ~ - Mohr declared that the fault lies greatly with organized labor. Saklat- | vala. represents the interests of the working class. England feared the ex- ea", > a ay posal of her atrocities” perpetrated | upon the workers and peasants .of | India. And in order to prevent Sak- latvala from exposing these atrocities before the mass of American workers, the British tories have used Kelloggs, a tool, he said. He urged the work- ers to organize politically and indus- trialy so that eventually they can bring about their own emancipation. Saklatvala Action Significant Fislerman said that the action of the secretary of state, in barring Sak- latvala from entering. the United States, is but only one of the many outrageous acts perpetrated. on the working class by the ruling class and their governmental lackeys. It is, however, a significant one, because it proves the contention of Commun- ists once more that, the much herald- ed democracy of thg-imperialists and capitalists is a Class , dictatorship. iklatvala was denied entry into the United States by Secretary of State Vellogg, at the behest of British tDries because Saklatvala is a Com- munist and as such he represents the interests of the workers of all coun-| urged the workers to rally the banner of Communism by joining the Workers Party. A resolution protesting and. con- demning the action of the setretary of state and demanding that Saklatvala be admitted into the United States Was passed by acclamation, |. DOES THE AMERICAN LEGION SUPPORT “MORGAN’S STATE”? By WORKER CORRESPONDENT, OMAHA, Neb., Oct 11,-Last;week Omaha was the scene of an exhibi- tion of debauchery, ‘rivaling tales from Paris after the armistice, Young men brought here presumably to attend a convention of the American legion, \nt been given money and transportation, decked out in the’ \pntrme and turned loose upon the populace of an American eity. During the first two days an unlimited supply of whisky passed around Groups congregated on sidewalks, streets and hotel lobbies, handing around’ bottles se MONG) Ps MEL 5 a MB ‘among the visitors. app rently trying to become intoxicat- ed / Ms the shortest possible tfme. Nothing Ike this was ever ‘seen dur- ing pre-Volstead days, even young boys participating in the orgy with gusto, No attention wasypald to this “Americanization of the youth,” altho there were about 500 extra police in the city, There was unmistakabley evidence that city, state and federal officers (Continued on page 3) } | speription Rates: 3: the interests of the workers would | stration of the unemployed, wh« | hibited this and the demonstrators { |unemployed is twentynine’ in each THE DAIL Entered as Second-class ‘matter September 21, 1923,%at/ In Chicage, by matt, $8.00 per year, * itside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. *e, & ts RONFIDENT OF *-g PROTECTION OF ing APITALIST INTERESTS (Special to The Daily Worker) NEWARK, N. J., Oct, 11.—Stocks of prepared sizes of anthracite coal in the eastern Atlantic states are sufficient to last thirty. days longer, according to a survey submitted by the coal committee of the Atlantic state shippers’ advisory board, meet- Ing here in the Robert Treat Hotel. After these sizes are taken there will be enough pea coal to last until about the end of November and in some localities even longer, while buckwheat coal, which can be used for emergency heating purposes for heating of residences will. last until after January 1, On the bituminous coal. situation the committee reported that there is sufficient for two months, and that threata of a strike in West Virginia flelds made by John L. Lewis are not alarming. This capitalist board, in its, refer- ences to Lewis, did not display any animosity toward him and asserted that they believed he would secure a settlement In the anthracite be- fore this situation became menacing to business interests. IRISH LABOR It REBELLIOUS MOOL AGAINST BOSSES Unemployment Fails tc Quench Militancy DUBLIN, Ireland, Oct. 11—The la bor situation is acute thruout Ireland The northern parliament, on reopen ing in Belfast, was faced by a dem proposed to assemble outside the par liament house. The government pro withdrew. When challenged in parliament by the labor members the cabinet minis: declared that if Belfast became red it would be redder than the Clyde. ——~Mueh-Uinemployment. ‘employment in the British Isles. Pr Great Britain the averagé mumber oj thousand; in Belfast itis ninety. In Limerick, Ireland, where thé Shanon river electrifi¢ation’ scheme should be affording plénty of work, operations are held up'By'a wage dis- pute which turns mainly'‘on the ew tion whether unskilled ‘labor on project should be paid more iat be rieultural labor. The’ German con- tractors offered 32 shillings ($7.68) a week with free lodging in hutments and tho this is more than agricultural workers are paid in Limerick, organ- fied labor opposed it as a starvation wage, U.S, BUILDS IN GUNS PREPARING FOR CIVIL WAR By CARL HACKER, Strike Solidarity. The dock workers are in sympathy with the laborers and Tefuse to un- Worker Correspondent. load German vessels carrying mater- ial, When the Germans did the work| CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 11.—The themselves they were attacked and|2°¥ federal reserve, building recently the services of the military and the completed in this city boasts of sev- police had to be requisitioned to pro-|¢Tal “built-in” features, and we won- tect. them. No German labor. is im-|4er just what they are for. For in- ported except the highest skilled grade | tance, as we pass the main entrance and there {s no objection to the Ger-| Wy on E. 6th St., we note that under mans as Gérmans, the third stair there are three small Municipal Workers Call Strike. pieces of stone loosely cemented in Dublin city is threatened with the|@nd-we are told that behind each of strike of 1,800 municipal workers Sat-|these a machine gun is mounted, the urday. This would paralyze all the|first pop of which. knocks the piece street services and the electrical sup-| of stone away and then gives the gun- ply. The proposed strike would be in|ner a clean sweep of the street. the nature of a protest against the We are also that in addition to action of thg city authorities in award-|these three machine guns there are ing to a Paris firm a ten-year con-| also. two others mounted a trifle high- tract for cleaning the streets, er on the same side of the building, : : in addition to which there are also guns similarly mounted on the Superi- or Ave. side. It has also. been stated that on tie upper. floors of the building sufficient arrangements have been made to ac- commodate the entire working force in-so-far as food supplies, water, beds, etc., are concerned. udiest of Russ Tractor Trade in China. MOSCOW, Oct.11—A competition of tractors “is being organized Crimea, in which Soviet and foreign factories will take part. The race is to be started on September 15. The purpose of the competition is to de- cide on the types of tractors best suitable to the conditions of the Crimean soil, The preliimnary arrangements for the contést have already been com- pleted, and replies have been ob- tained from a number of foreign firms desirgus of taking part in the cont Labor Renews Interest In Radlo CHICAGO, —(FP)— After abandon- ing a project to’ maintain a radio broadcasting station the Chicago Fe- deration of Labor is negotiating for a certain hour each day in the air from an established station. In addition to its own broadcasting station WGN, the antilabor Chicago Tribune has recently acquired the ta- mous Elgin station WTAS. \* ‘ f ‘ A. J. Cook Welcom in the’ TUESDAY] OCTOBER 13, 1925 by German Miners at Essen WORKER. | ‘ost Office at Chicago, Mlmois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK EDITION E> 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THD DAILY WORKER PUBIASHING CO., 1113 W, Washington Bivd., Price 3 Cents Chicagg, TL }|A. F. OF L. TO CONTROL ALL PROPERTY OF STATE AND CiTY (Special to The the present convention of the in the forms of gold watches, to But 10:30 o’clock has been order for the report of the propositions of importance that | interesting debates, are referred Russia, against class collabora- tion, favoring world trade union unity, urging amalgamation and the labor party—have been re- ferred to this committee and will be reported on. Eagerness of delegates to wind up meager business of fruit conven- tion was shown when they refused by |vote of thirty-nine to. one hundred } forty to declare morning half holiday j4n honor of Columbus day, after plea by Delegate D’Alessandro, of Hod Car* riers, made a chevalier by the king of Italy in the days before the war. Monday afternoon has been set aside for Gompers’ Memorial services, Strangle Hold on Federation. The most heated discussion so far in the convention has taken place over the proposal of the laws committee that the constitution be amended to permit the federation to take over ithe property of disbanded state an® city central labor bodies. The whole intent of the proposition was revealed in an amendment by Delegates George A. Perkins of the Cigar Makers’ union to the effect that such “property be held in trust until such time as the state federation or central labor union shall 1esume its activities in conformity with the laws of the federation.” Evidently the federation leaders, who claim they have eliminated all progressive influences, are afraid that thehe are state federations and cen- tral labor unions that harbor consider- able militant strength, that will have ito be disciplined during the ceming year. Delegate Dan Tobin, of the ~ | Feamsters’ Union; reporting for the Jaws committee, referred to thése sub. sidiary bodies that “harbor those with doctrines hostile to the federation.” The discussion, however, did not hinge on issues of ousting militants, but,on the question of whether the federation would be liable for the dabts of local and state bodies, if it demanded tue right to take over prop- EKING GOVERNMENT’S STAND ' AGAINST BRITISH CONTROL WORRIES STATE DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON, Oct, 11.—Indications that the government set up in Pekin last year. will not dare defy Chinese public opinion, but will defy the foreign powers’ control of Ching instead, are engaging the attention of Sec- The state department ‘is informed that British interests in South China are demanding that foreign troops be landed at Canton to sup- press the “red” nationalist movement there. serpreted in some official circles in Washington as an attempt to divert at-| retary Kellogg: This British agitation is tention from the strong stand taken by the Pekin government. In substance, the Pekin cabinet has decided that it cannot take part in a customs conference unless assured beforehand that abolition of foreign control of Chinese tariff rates is to be granted. American influence has been largely thrown to the support of British Now the state department must choose between the British refusal to grant the Chinese demands and the hope of getting China ands thus far. to settle down calmly once more. Anti-Labor Patriots Amalgamate to Nurse White Terror in U. S. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11/— Taking their cue frombig business friends, the anti-labor Sentinels of the Repub- lic are’ planning;a formal merger with h, Woman Patriot, organ of the anti Stuirage and anti-labor propaganda in the “Capital. -A/meeting of the exe- cutive board of the Sentinels will vote on the plan Oct. 13. Since the death of Louis A. oolidge last spring, Bentley W. Wavren, a Boston lawyer, has headed the Sentinels, Nicholas Murray Butler has taken the chairmanship of the drive to raise a sustaining fund in memory fo Louis Coolidge. Mrs. John Balch of Milton, Mass,, remains secretary, and Miss Mary. Kilbreth, active in editing the Woman Patriot, has joined the board. The offices of the organization and the paper are already identical, A rival® organization in“ the anti- labor field, the national association for constitutional government, has just is- sued the October number of its quar- terly, the. Constitutional Review. FRED BRAMLEY DIES AT AMSTERDAM MEET, ~ SAYS LONDON WIRE ters says Fred Bramley, well know parliament, died there suddenly Fr! day night. Federation of Trade: Mr. Bramley, who was 5 national Unions. British, Trades Union since 1923. the famous congres delegation to ment for the international union unity. Organization Begins in St. Louis | held in. St. Louts Oct. 14 to comple plans for a_ citywide trades, LONDON, oct. 11— A message from Amsterdam to labor headquar- labor leader and former member of He had been attending a meet- ing of the executives of the Inter- s This was a representative meeting of the workers of Warren. years old, had been secretary of the Bramley was one of Soviet Russia and has led in the move- trade ST. Louis—-(FP)—A meeting of all officers of labor Organigations will be unionization drive. The aim {is to strengthen weak unions. and organize the nonunion erty.. No one was willing to assume any; debts, but the proposition went thru with the agreement that If it didn’t work very well during the com- ing year it could be changed at the next. convention. Wind Up in Few Days. * The convention’ rejected the ‘propo- tition that women’s auxiliary organi {zutions, be allowed representatives with voice and vote in central labor |bodies. Delegate Henry F. Hilfers, \for the New Jersey Federation of La- bor, was supposed to sponsor this jzesolution, but he started out by de- aslaring that it had no chance of ap- proval, but that he hoped the women jwould keep on organizing their aux- \Giaries, in spite of the fact, as he ciimed, that they were not real wage farners. The convention may finish its work ly Wednesday or Thursday. Arthur ‘\. Purcell and Ben Smith, the two British delegates, are preparing tore {naain until the middle of the week, when-they will proceed to Mexico. resolutions committee, urging recognition of Soviet FEDERATIONS; WIND-UP NEAR By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Daily Worker) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 11.—Monday morning will see American Federation of Labor rapidly grinding towards its close with the presentation of gifts, each of the fraternal delegates. set as the time of the special to which all the most tier forth ve pronns usually draw The progressi FAILURE LOOMS AT LOCARNO ‘PEACE’ MEET Briand Takes Boat Ride —Tells Fish Story (Special to The Daily Worker) LOCARNO, Switzerland, Oct, 1i~ 7 serate efforts to break the dead- lock between Germany and France over the question of the eastern front- jers were made yesterday. Germany still insists that these frontiere af- fecting Czecho-Slovakia and Poland are subjects for negotiations and re- fuses to consider France as guarantor of the eastern frontier. At the morning session a general formula was accépted as a basis for further deliberations, tho Germany re- served the right to reject the thing in its totality in case it proves unsetis- factory. That formula provides that he league of nations shall guarantee the treaties of arbitration, with parti- cular attention to the interests of France. The France-Polish military alliance js to be continued and recog: nized by Germany. Germany Cannot Accept. The delegates to the conference have, not been able to decide whether such a-proposal, if acepted, should place the power of guarantor in the hands of the league as a whole, the council, or. a special body created within the league. All this speculation is based on the assumption that Germany will accept it, but in view of the strong national- ist sentiment in Germany it is gener ally conceded that she cannot accept such a proposal, especially in view of the clause forcing Germany to recog: nize the military alliance between France and Poland Italy Enters Pact. In an effort to reach a satisfactory agreement on the question of the west- ern frontier, embracing the Rhineland a decision was reached at the morn- ing session to include Italy in the pre. amble of the pact, making that nation one of the guarantors, with England, of the western frontiers. Italy, thru its representatives, announced that it would sign the pact That means that the Mussolini government is anxious to enter into an offensive alliance against Soviet Russia Leaders Take Boat Ride. While the afternoon session was abandoned in order that personal dis- cussions could take place, these dis- cussions were of such a natgre that the spokesmen for the leading powers involved went boat riding, leaving (Continued on paxe 2) eos aes n ™~. WARREN, Ohio, Oct, 11— Sunday, Oct. 4, the demand that Sal labor, ‘be, admitted into the United by theassembled workers. 1 | were:workers of all languages- of Negro workers and their families WARREN, 0., DEMONSTRATION DEMANDS QUICK ADMISSION OF SAKLATVALA TO AMERICA At a mass fleeting held in Warren, Ohio, on klatvala, States, the representative of British was enthusiastically endorsed There and nearly half of the audience was made up panei * | listening-to the speches of FE. Curtis, a member of the Amalgamated Associ- ation of Sheet.and Tin Workers, Dan Rogers; a Negro worker, and organ- izer Of the Warren branch of the American Negro Labor Congress, and I. Amter, district secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party. Comrade W. J. White, veteran fight- er in Warren, was chairman of the meeting, and pointed out the mean- ing of excluding Saklatvala from this country. “Did you ever hear of * © 4@ontinued on page 3) te Japahese Sue Whites Who Ran Them Out PORTLAND, Ore, —(FP) —A dam- age suit for $125,000 has been filed in the U, S. district court by 5 Japanese laborers, against 9 citizens of Toledo, Ore, who were instrumental in oust- ing Japanese from that sawmill town last July. The plaintiffs, subjects of Japan; allege violation of the 1911 Japanese-American treaty. The case has intetnational significance, Meeting, Ashland Auditorium, Tonight, 8 P. M. See Page 5