The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ f and Farmers’ Government Vol I. No Be, GOLD | itw..22 | FROM LOND STARTS AGAIN ca #% Indastrialists Face New ; Crisis in Britain 4 " (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct, 12.—The arrival tomorrow of $4,000,000 in gold from London for the account of three New York banke, marks. the first export of gold from London to this city in any volume since England returned to the gold standard last April, and is due to the decline in sterling exchange below the point where it is cheaper for British importers to pay their debs in gold rather than buy exchange cur- rency in payment for their purchases in London. ~ Sterling, recently slumped below 4.84 5-16, the rate at which it is profit- able for British buyers of American goods to ship gold rather than buy exchange. The movement is due sole- ly to the desire of British buyers to realize a saving in their purchases of goods, Strive for Balance It is an old law of economics that gold ‘moves to the center of most re- munerative employment under the normal working of capitalist exchange, ‘However, the spokesmen for the fed; eral reserve banks of the United States and the directors and govern- ors of the Bank of England imagine this movement will have the effect of equalizing the rate of exchange be- tween the City and Wall Street to a point where paper tokens will serve all purposes of commerce and it will be unprofitable to transport gold \ either way. That this desire belongs to the realm of fantasy is emphasized by the fact that another $3,500,000 mak- ing last week’s shipments from Lon- don $7,500,000 has been dispatched for further purchases. This movement will unquestionably continue during the autumn movement of American cotton to the mills of England and will rise even higher in November, the annual peak of this movement. 8 Ae an _.. Shake London Market “LONDON, Oct. 12—The bullion movement of last week from the Bank of England to the United States aroused anxiety on the London ex- change. It is feared that the ship- | ment will necessitate shoving up the | London rate on money and would seriously interfere with the business recovery that was hopefully predicted after the rate was reduced from 4% Eves to 4 per cent, If the rate again rises to its former position the industrialists conte. they cannot conclude many operations already planned and point to the fact ‘that competition due to the revival of industries in the war torn nations of continental Europe makes prohibit- ive the 4% per cent rate. “Considering the probable effect of the shipments to New York—that is the raising of the rate on money—the industrialists are out of the frying pan into the fire, The advantages they gain by shipments of gold, will be lost many times over if the percentage on money again climbs to its previous height. For the workers it means an in- crease in unemployment, already near the breaking point. CARELESS BOSSES OF SUBWAY WORK DISREGARD POOR dtd Na eo NEW YORK CITY, 12.—The reckless disregard of the well being of the workers, especially the colored » workers, is shown in the way the con- tractors and officials supervising the subway excavation at St. Nicholas avenue and 128th street allowed care- less work to undermine 100 feet of , Wooden sidewalk covering the excava- “tion at that point. When the sidewalk, fell into the ‘hole, water mains and-gas mains ‘broke, flooding the tenement homes of ty Negro families gas and causing a panic among. the tenants, who had to be removed by police and firemen acrogs the yawning gulf that had been their doorsteps. Discomfort and considerable ex- pense caused many poor colored fam- ilies by the accident, which was not vepaired promptly and which would never have been allowed to happen in wealthy neighborhoods where the ut- most care is always taken to save the silk-stoking population from dirt, odor or inconvenience, Sn ac Rates: ies In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, peso Hi By WILLIAM 2Z, FOSTER AV 'THOUT our press, particularly without The DAILY WORKER, the Workers Party canriot hope to achieve its goal. Surely this is so obvious that repetition would seem to be unnecessary. Yet according to the results so far in the campaign to save The DAILY WORKER, there are, it would seem, many members of the Workers Party and many of its sympathizers who can contemplate the destruction of The DAILY WORKER with serenity. For unless The DAILY WORKER has substantial and immediate support, it cannot continue. : p | DO not believe that there is any worker with a spark’ of militancy in him who can remain unconcerned when the life of The DAILY WORKER is threatened. The first call for help should have brought instantly the money necessary to avert the threatened catastrophe. - Yet it seems impera- tive to point out again the danger and the deeds which are needed to overcome it. JF there are those who feel that the call for support is merely a cry of “Wolf, wolf,” when there is no wolf, let them put such nonsensical, if comforting illusions from their heads... The DAILY WORKER is in the hands of highly. re- sponsible management which concerns itself continuously with the preservation and extension of our paper. To my certain knowledge there has never been a daily labor paper in the United States which has asked so infrequently and modestly for financial support. For a management of this kind to warn of the danger, in a situation not desperately cri- tical, to ask for funds unless in imperative neéd, is spree ig ‘unheard of. THE DAIL Entered us Second-class matter September 21, 1923, atthe: > WEDNESDAY, 0} = fe Daily Worker Office at Chicago, Milnois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. OBER 14,1925 -<qe»™ it is because of this careful management and policy that many comrades have been lulled to belief that the interests of The DAILY WORKER 1 guarded and that no one need be unduly per- less these comrades arouse themselves, they are will inquire why they do not receive The DAILY WORKER any longer @ And will be informed that publication has been suspended because of lack of funds. 'O lose DAILY WORKER now, would be an unquali- fied ity. Not only:-would we receive a tremendous set back ur movement, not veut Be would our enemies be rifice what we have thru our Cute « allow- ‘oyed. For every dollar required now to save ORKER, ten would be needed to start it over again. IF there ate these who can regard this situation with com- posure, they do not belong in the militant section of the labor mot nt. If there are those who can endure this condition Without exerting themselves to the utmost, they do not either. They will not om those who can afford to give. The dollars which A The DAILY WORKER can come from pock- ets whic! fh Spare them only with great sacrifice. A great deed is needed, a great.proletarian deed. Save The DAIL WORKER! WORKER. PUBLISHING CO., 111 WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY IN OPEN LETTER TO N. Y. SOCIALIST VOTERS ASKS ELECTION SUPPORT (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 12—The Workers (Communist) st Be Saved! | ee called into Paris because the Commun workers to strike for 24 hours in pro’ mountains and deserts for the bankers* and concession hunters. Transportation Paralyzed. In answer to the appeal the streets are deserted, taxi cab drivers being out almost completely, a large per- centage of bus drivers, trolley men and subway engineers following suit. The railway men, whose striking would be considered as an offense against the state, are answering the appeal by delaying alf trains and “going slow” while staying on the job. The city is under practical martial law, with~police’ and cavalry detach: ments clattering. thru-.the st everywhere. There little trans- portation tangles’ to: ‘obstruct them. All troops are in°charge of Generals Gourand and Charpy, heads of the Paris garrison. The water, gas and electric power plants are closely guardea by infantry detachments in full’war equipment. Other detachments guard the public buildings and the main post and aie: graph offices. Home of President Guarded, In front of the Elysee, residence of the president of the republic, stout re- publican guards dressed in smart black, red and gold uniforms have replaced the ordinary infantrymen. They are steel-helmeted and their rifles carry fixed bayonets. Machine gun detachments are kept in readiness in the presidential gardens. Big Biz Lackeys Cut Trust Investigation Funds; Oppose Probes WASHINGTON, Oct. 12—Appropri- ations for the federal trade commis- sion have cut from the $997,000 asked for to $883,000. The economic in- vestigations division of the federal trade commission appropriation will be cut $100,000, The minority members of the com- mittee protested this action ‘saying that it was a-trick of the republican administration to hiider the investiga- tions of the bread trust, tobacco trust, Mellon’s aluminum trust, the electric power trust-and the attacks upon co-operative societies by price- fixing combines, Attorney General Sargent refuses to make a ruling on the request of the commission for an. investigation of the bread trust and Mellon’s aluminum trust. SEORETARY OF WAR WEEKS RESIGNATION ~ EXPECTED THIS WEEK WASHINGTON, Oct., 12.—-The re- signation of John W. Weeks, as secretary of war, will be formally announced “in a day or two,” Secretary Weeks was clearing up his desk in the department. It is expected that acting Secret- ary Dwight F, Davis will be named to succeed him, . FRENCH COMMUNIST STRIKE CALL TIES UP PARIS TRANSPORTATION; TROOPS GUARD FRENCH CAPITAL PARIS, Oct, 12.—Over 10,000 troops from garrisons near Paris, sailors from French navy yards, crews of tanks and armored cars, all have been ist Party has appealed to the French test against the war in Morocco and Syria, which is sending thousands of young French workers to death in THREE PARIS POLICE INSURED.IN ATTACK ON COMMUNIST STRIKERS (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Oct. 12—Communist work- ers this afternoen clashed with the police .of St. Denis, a suburb of Paris, Me p The _P an “The: it “tervened and in the fight that follow- ed the chief of the St. Denis police and two other gendarmes were ser- _lously injured The Communist mayor of. St. Denis is reported to have aided the assailants of the police in escaping arrest, TRY HEAD OF KU KLUX KLAN FOR MURDER OF GIRL Drove Girl to. to Suicide, Is State Charge (Special to The Daily Worker) NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 12— “Murder by mental coercion,’” loomed today as the theory of prosecution in what promises to be Indiana’s most famous murder trial, in which one of the leading K. K. K. of the coun- try is charged with a most atrocious crime. D. C. Stephenson of Livingston, wealthy Indianapolis business man, coal mine operator and former dragon of the ku klux klan and one time dominant figure in Northern Indiana Politics, is the principal defendant. Kluxer Had Two Accomplices. With him in the prisoners’ chairs are Earl Klick and Earl Gentry, who the state charge were hired by Stephenson and at his direction re- duced pretty Madge Oberholtzer to such a mental state that she killed herself with a slow-acting poison last March. In a death-bed’ affidavit Miss Ober- holtzer declared she had been kid- napped by (Stephenson, Klick and Gentry, taken to a number of towns in the state and assaulted. The trial opened here today with Judge ‘Will M. Sparks of Rushville, on the bench, and the cream of the legal profession in Indiana on one side or other of the Counsel table. Driven to Suicide. Altho the girl died from poison, ad- mittedly self-administered, the charge against Stephenson and the other two is murder in the first degree. The state’ contends that she killed her- self because she was in a mental con- dition of desperation and irresponsi- bility due to the direct acts of the defendants. The trial opened with the examination of a special vonire | of 109. sth STEEPL L. Berry, the By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Daily Worker) CHASE PIER, ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 12.—George rikebreaker president of the Printing Pressmen’s ‘ Union, direct from the American legion convention at Omaha, Nebr., opened the second week of the A. F. of L. convention here today with munists. didn’t have time to make the trip to Atlantic City. Berry is a past. vice commander of the American legion and was urged by members of! that organization as a candidate for) vice-president at the democratic national nominating con- vention last year. Still Breaking Strikes. Berry comes to this convention al- most direct from Chicago where he directed the attempt to smash the strike of the pressmen in the Cuneo printing plant just as two years ago he went to the Portland, Oregon, con- vention of the A. F. of L. and was received with great acclaim because of his war against the New York pressmen, fighting for better condi- tions in the press rooms of*the big capitalist newspapers of that city. Berry proved the best ally of the newspaper owners in that struggle. Assails Communists. The .Green regime might have chosen a less foul-smelling red bait- er. to offer a prelude to the report of the resolution committee, that is to present the progressive propositions to the delegates here, bat it seems he was the bestoon hand to offer. “There »is nothing wrong with America,” declared Berry. “No fault can be found with the American form of government. The fault ” with the people.’ He said he hadiread the speech of President Green in attacking the British fraternal delegates, Purcell and Smith, «nd ‘declared he was whole-heartedly im accord with it. Applause Weak, “The American: legion joins with (Continued on Page 2) her attack against Communism and the Com- room in America for Sovietism or Commun- labor official, who was specially delegated to . the American. Jegion gathering, and |, y this officer-inspived ‘organization 0 prisset ots to te for it at the A. F. of L. convention because the newly elected commander+ MILITARIZE ALL PRIVATE AIR FIRMS Madden Upholds Coo- lidge on Aviation (Special to The Daily Worke.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Accusing the army and navy of squandering “millions of dollars in a meaningless experimental aviation orgy,” Congress- man Martin B. Madden of Illinois, chairman of the house appropriations committee, today recommended to the {| president’s air board a new military aviation policy directly linking private | aircraft manufacturers to the national | defense. Madden flayed the present policies of the army and navy as wasteful and charged both air services with a flat “failure” in their efforts to develop | military aviation. | Madden declared that if congress |carried out the demands of “some of these bureaw people,” it would bank- rupt the government. Madden took the stand primarily to defend congress against charges by high army and, navy officers that a “lack of funds” had ruined the na- \tion’s military air forces. Citing statistics to disprove the charges, Madden told the board that congress (Continued on page 5) * GERMAN¥ SIGNS ECONOMIC TREATY WITH SOVIET RUSSIA; HAILED “AS BREAKING LONG BLOCKADE (Special to The Daily Worker) * MOSCOW, U. 8, S. R., Oct. 12.—The Russ-German economic treaty was |labor bureaucrats. signed with imposing ceremonies at the foreign office here late today. The treaty affects many of the relations between Russia and Germany and is much broader in scope than a mere commercial and trade treaty. It is hailed here/as breaking the economic blockade against Russia, It recognizes the stipulations of the treaty of Rapallo, signed in 1922. | tomon Published Daily except Sunday by THE-DAILY WORKER 2 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL Party of New York in entering workers asking them to choose We assume that you are sufficiently enlightened and conscious of the in- terests of your elass to have cut loose from the parties of bosses, the re- publican and democratic parties. We assume that you do not -desire an- other four years of injunctions against picketing, police breaking up of meetings and picket lines and a city government at. the service of the bosses. There are two tickets claim- ing your support and offering them- selves as parties of the Workers— the candidates of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and those of the So- cialist Party;s You must choose be- tween them. The Socialist Party Against the Unity of Labor. There should not have been two sets of candidates dividing labor's forces in this campaign. The differ- ences between the Workers (Com- munist) Party and the Socialist Par- ty are profoundly fundamental, but the weakness of labor in this city state and nation; the powerfully or- ganized drive of the master class against labor resulting in lowering of wages, open shop conditions, injunc- tions and police clubbing, persecu- tions and deportation of militant workers, the menace of new wars compel every section of the labor movement to join together in united action against the employing class. The Workers (Communist) Party proposed to the Socialist Party at its convention in June the calling of a conference of all labor organizations for the formation of a united labor ticket in the present campaign as a step in the direction of.a Labor Par- ty. This nronees) the Socialist’Party cialist Party last with the Tepublican ‘poli- Maud LaFollette, with the #epub- lican war, jingo La Guardia, with the democrat Wheeler and with the ex- ploiters of labor who supported them and betrayed the movement for a La- bor Party; but the Socialist Party re- fuses to*join with militant sections of the labor movement for the unity of the working class and for the building up of a Labor Party in the United States. This year, the Socialist Party con- tinues its betrayal of the Labgr Par- ty movement by completely omitting the Labor Party in its platform. To- gether with the wreckers of the la- bor movement, the Greens, Berrys, Wolls, Johnstones and other labor fakers, it divides labor's forces and helps keep labor tied to the capital- ist parties. The Socialist Party has jcompletely deserted the path leading |toward working class freedom and has gone into the camp of the small business men, the labor bureaucrats, the professional elements who de- ceive the workers and who support the capitalist system. Thomas Supports League of Nations. The reverend Norman Thomas is a sky pilot, a “respectable” liberal min- ister who can steer the workers on heavenly matters, but knows nothing about piloting labor on earth. Nor- man Thomas is a member of the committee supporting the world court of the league of nations. Only afew years ago when the socialist party still had a breath of working class spirit, it condemned the league of na- tions as the “black international.” Today Norman Thomas is a mem- ber of the committee to support the world court and his fellow members are Thomas Lamont of the House of Morgan and other money masters of America and the world, The Socialist Party for Sigman and Labor Bureaucrats. Thomas and the socialist party sup- ported Sigman of the needle trades in his long fight against the rank and file of the union whereas the Work- ers Party supported the rank and file shee has at last become victorious ‘ Thomas as candidate for Mca stands lawyers, professional elements, smajll business men and Behind Thomas and the socialists, stands the yellow Forward which has become a huge capitalist investment and fights to- gether with the, discredited Sigmans, Breslaus, Kaufmans, and Hillmans (Continued on paye 2) letter sets forth. It is as fol-? lows: Comrades and Fellow Workers: NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents the city elections has addressed the following open letter to all socialist voters and class conscious between the socialist party and the Workers (Communist) Party on the basis of the facts the DEADLOCK OF SECURITY PACT STILL UNBROKEN Optimistic Reports Do Not Mean Anything (Special to The Daily Worker) LOCARNO, Switzerland, Oct. 12— While optimistic reports emanate from spokesmen for the French and Eng- lish at the “security” conference the aim of which is to create alliance of nations preparatory to a drive to throttle Soviet Russia, the real situa- tion belies their statements. | As the spectre of revolution plagues the imperialist spokesmen of the cap- italist nations the numerous conflict- ing interests present obstacles they seem unable to surmount. British Hesitate Austin Chamberlain, the British foreign minister, who has devoted his whole term in office to arranging this conference, finds himself in a maze of contradictions. Much as he favors some sort of patched-up agreement that will temporarily consolidate the forces of continental Europe, he fears to completely endorse the proposed Rhineland pact, which would create an economic unit that would threaten the industries of England. Germany refuses to budge on the uestion of a revision of the eastern trontférs, While Polish and Czécho Slovakian delegates vehemently insist that no such revision be considered. Both these small nations seek a de- claration from Germany that it will not attempt to alter these borders, If the French and British cannot dis- suade the Poles and Czechs from in- sisting upon these demands then Ger- many will refuse to discuss the east- ern border question at Locarno, which means the end of the conference. Mussolini Reported Coming i Reports are current that the fascist chief of Italy, Benito Mussolini, has secretly left Rome and is due to arrive in Locarno Wednesday. This hasty journey of the Italian premier follows the tentgtives agreement of the Italian delegation for their nation to jointly share with England the guarantee of the western frontiers of Germany. In view of the desperate straits of his government, forced to employ the most vicious terror in order to maintain power, the fascist bandit will probably make a special effort to persuade the powers to reach some sort of agreement. Report Russian Pact Sensational reports concerning a secret agreement alleged to have ‘been entered into between Poland and M. Tchitcherin, the Soviet foreign mini- ster, ‘reached here from Paris and have caused apprehension on the part of Briand, and the French observers here. The*‘agreement is teported to contain military provisions that will enable Russian forces to march thru Poland and ally themselves with Ger- mans for an assault upon France. The Jegend (for such it obviously"is) con- cludes with the assertion that Russia has promised Germany the return of Alsace-Lorraine as the frult of a *ie- torious ‘military campaign against i i MUSSOLINI INSTRUCTS ITALIAN DEBT MISSION TO DEMAND EASY TERMS ROME, Oct. GHP Mus- Solini met the membes of the Italian debt mission to the United States and gave them final instructions. Mussolini still stands upon his ik sistence that Italy's debt can only be settied upon the basis of her capacity to, pay, and that the debt settlement must be coupled with her receipt of German reparations, “HENRY FORD—PACIFIST TURNED IMPERIALIST” THE GREATEST EXPOSURE OF HENRY FORD EVER WRITTEN FROM A WORKING CLASS VIEWPOINT,