The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1925, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER . ATLANTIC CITY - WORKERS HEAR RED EDITOR Engdahl Meeting Rivals That of Green (Special to The Daily Worker) ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 13.—Urging! of “join the unions,” J. editor of the DAILY the slogan Louis Engdahl, WORKER, in Grand Fraternity Hall here tonight that nearly rivaled in numbers the gathering called by the central labor union that was addressed by President William Green, Vice President Mat- oll and heads of the various trades unions of the Ameri- n of Labor attending the y convention. made his usual at the trad thew W Green the militan but the in roused great enthusiasm planation of the growing world struggle for trade union unity the organization of Negro worker many of whom were in the audience, and other progre ve measures, Second Meeting Success. meeting held in Atlantic City, Hall, at which Engdahl, labor editor of the New York and James V. Fitzsimmons Canton, Ohio, Central , were the speakers, was unexpected success, showing nd for organization among even of this ple: resort. The executive committee of the Chi- Bank Clerks’ Union has wired r ation re of Shafir’s resolu- tion on class collaboration basing at- k on Chicago Daily News report, which claims flat opposition to labor banks and insurance companies. The ution attacks only “the establish- of labor banks, workers’ insur- ance companies, etc., which have nofh- ing in common with true co-operative enterprises.” Wheel-Chair Denizens Disgust British Union Delegate to A. F. of L. ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 12, — Ben Smith, rugged and ruddy-cheeked British fraternal. delegate to the American Federation of Labor conven- tion, was taking the air on the At- lantic City boardwalk when one of thé wheel-chairs peculiar to this boulevard came past with two plump specimens’ of the idle rich inside and a hard working chairpushed behind, straining at his burden. , “The lazy blighters!” snorted Smith. “Imagine an able bodied man pushed around like a baby.: I wouldn't ride in one of those things for ten pounds.” And he strode along for his consti- tutional with the motive power nature gave him. The oose Scientists Leave for Caucasus. MOSCOW, Oct. 12—A scientific ex- 6 on is now exploring the mount- of O: ja for the purpose of ethnological, archeologi- put ological researches in the ricts on the banks of the n, Fingdon and Ardon vutaries, OLOGY by NIKOLA! BU materialist viewpoint, There is a glossary of 700 and valuable addenda and WHITHER ENGLAND? by spoke to a mass meeting) gathering listened in parasite | - | STRIKEBREAKER BERRY PERFORMS BEFORE A. F. OF L. SESSION IN | CHEAP HARRANGUE ON REDS ies from page 1) associates ‘itself with the ration of Labor in de- there shall be no revo today, to morrow, shouted Berry | you, anode an F claring that liution in Americe Jor any other daf, the top of his voice. The brief plause was thin and scatterin; “L am nd to bring this message you,”. concluded Berry. “I wish greatest happiness and to for you the uccess, Technicalities Clog Debate. with the report of the resolu committee, the delegates got arled up with technicalities, esp ially over the question of ‘injunction snd contempt proceedings, with the result that the time for the noon re- cess arrived and none of the pro- gressive resolutionsy were r hed. In response to the notification by But jthe British delegates of the sudden }death of Fred Bramley, prominent | tish trade unionist, general secre of British Tradé Union Con and secretary of the British union delegation’ to Soviet the convention rose for ment in tribute. Executive Report Criticized. Delegate John Frey, of, the Mold- nion threw the first bomshell | when he urged that a statement on jin executive council’s report Delegate John Frey, of the Mould- | ers’ Union threw the first bompshell |when he urged that statement on wages be inserted in section on wage | reductions, to the effect that puchas- ing power of workers be increased in proportion to the increasing produc- | tive power of the working class. Frey got the floor and gave the delegates a lecture on wages accord- ing to the theorles of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, all of which was Greek to the delegates assem- | bled. In the present era of super- abundance the workers are not able to consume all they produce, declar- ed Frey, but he made no mention of the fact that this was a contradic- tion within the capitalist system it- self. Delegate Lynch, of the Printers’ Union, was drawn into the discussion and urged an addition demanding con- {tinuous reduction in the work day to meet this problem. When ‘every one interested was firmly tied up in a knot the matter was seht back to the CHINESE BOYCOTT OF SHANGHAI INQUIRY FULLY SUCCESSFUL (Special to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, China, Oct, 12— The inquiry into ‘the riots and shooting of Chinese students by po- lice in the foreign settlement on May 30 last has reconvened here, but every indication points to the futility of the inquiry ‘owing to Chinese refusal to ’ “participate. Justice Finley Johnson of Manila presides, Counsel retained by the municipal councM has announced that three Chinese 4 have offered to testify despite the rigid Chinese boycott of the proceedings and the Chinese chamber of commerce order to Chinese to Ignore the inquiry. The Chinese chamber is daily running a full page of denunciations against the Inquiry in the leading foreign newspapers, a mo. Sociology and Economics HISTORICAL MATERIALISM—A SYSTEM OF SOCI- KHARIN. All the social sciences closely scrutinized and interpreted from the 8 vo. 320 pp. $3.25 MARXIAN EGONOMIC HANDBOOK by W. H.oEM- METT. A complete elementary primer containing all the essentials for understanding Marx's “Capital.” economic and other terms, appendices. 8 vo, 350 pp. $3.25 LEON TROTSKY. A bril- Mant analysis of the factors which threaten England's economic supremacy, and a shattering prophecy of England's approaching economic and political decline. There is a specially written “Preface for America,” prophesysing the coming struggle between England and the United States. 12 mo. 192 pp, $1.75 FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIANITY by KARL KAUT- SKY. A detailed investigation into the origin of the “| McCullongh, Obristian Church, from the materialist viewpoint, amply indicated and supported by quotations:frém the greatest ecclesiastical authorities, Catholic and es ant. Large 8 vo. 480 pp. LY DAILY WODKER PUB Dally WoRkr PUBISHING CO 1113 W.WASHINGTON BLVD, Se ee Il committee new report. Delegate Furuseth led a lone fight in heated discussion of contempt pro- ceedings. Confused on Courts. Some of the delegates seemed to rally to the defense of the capitalist courts, demanding that jury trials anaues be sought “in all contempt s, which some claimed involve a fight for rights of bootleggers and | keepers of disorderly houses. Others only wanted to make the fight for jury trial in labor cases. Delegate printers, who was for years editor of the capitalist Omaha, Nebr., Bee in defending the former position declared more newspaper Writers than labor leaders had been hit by contempt proceedings. He re- ferred especially to the case of Carl Magee in New Mexico. As for the bootieggers and keepers of houses of ill repute they seemed to be able to take care of themselves,.he said. Furuseth and Lynch in Battle. In spite of efforts of delegates yell- ing for question, Furuseth again got the floor and said that some. one had been smearing fat on the lips of the delegates and they were trying to find an easy way out. He attacked the much-lauded Clayton act as a “damned fraud,” and said that Dele- gate Lynch had adopted sane ideas on the question of injunctions be- cause “Big Six,” the New York Print- ers’ Union, was beginning to use the injunction against him. Lynch got the floor on point of personal privil- ege and denied “Big had insti- tuted injunctive proceedings against him, Secretary Woll of the commit- tee also got the floor and said Oland- er was talking about injunctions, Ef- forts to refer back the committee re- pot were defeated and the commit- tee report was adopted. for reconsideration and a GENERATIONS TO COME WILL FIND ‘CHILD WORKERS Such Is Geuats Dark Prospect for Labor ATLANTIC CITY, N, J., Oct. 12,— President William Green of the A. F, of L. told the convention of that or- ganization that the new campaign for the child labor amendment to the U. S. constitution will “go on as long as we live and into succeeding gener- ations,” if necessary. From the con- tinued policy of “non-partisan” pol- itical action and opposition to a labor party, the succeeding generations will probably find it necessary to keep up the fight, The principal opposition to the amendment, says Greén is the farm- ing population, who think that the amendment would forbid their sons and daughters to do “work around the farm.” He pointed out that the amend- ment does not at all prescribe the age at which a child shall work, but only enables the congress to pass laws that would set a minimum age for child workers. Green said that “public opinion” was once in favor of the amendment, but that it was changed by “vicious pro- paganda” of chambers of commerce, manufacturers’ associations, hostile textile employers and those who pro- fit by exploitation of child Jabor. These, he said, were the “enemies,” although he did not explain how he finds it possible to collaborate with them in the civic federation and else- where, Commuters Rates to Be Raised on Roads After I. C. C. Award CHICAGO, Oct. 12—By granting an increase in commuters’ rates on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad to- day, the interstate commerce com- mission has put the Illinois com- merce commission in a position to grant similar increases to other roads. Such action is expected to be taken when the state body again takes up a petition for increases which has been before it. The interstate com- merce commission in handing down its ruling ignered a request from the state body that action be deferred until its hearing was ended. ‘ The authority of the interstate com- merce commission to regulate rates within the state was established sev- eral years ago when the state com- mission refused to fdllow an order raising the statutory 2 cents a mile to 8.6 cents, issued by the interstate commerce commission. Colonization of Siberia, MOSCOW, Oct. 12.—The people's department of agxiculture of the Rus- sian Socialist Federation of Soviet Republics has 80 many requests from peasants who desire to migrate to Siberia and the Far East, that the department has decided to send a large survey party to this region with the object of getting all particulars about available lands for settling, The ‘wst, lage group of settlers will start early next spring. on S7AAVATT, WAGES Capitalist Government Holds the Scales.’ LOTS OF RIVALS FOR CAL’S JOB BUT REPUBLICAN PARTY REMAINS CAPITALISTIC AS IT ALWAYS WAS By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Oct, 12—Calvin Coolidge’s Omaha speech to the Ameri- can legion, in the yiew of big republican politicians in the capital, is the opening barrage in his attack on western rivals for the presidential nomina- tion in 1928. Frank Lowden, former governor of Illinois and repesenting the Pullman Car. company fortune;'is already at work, in his own state and elsewhere beyond the Alleghanies, preparing a surprise for the Coolidge organization. Lowden refused any consolation prize+ after his defeat in the convention of 1920, but now claims that it is his turn RIFF RIFLEMEN to take power. Bosses in Minnesota, Mountaineer Moors Tak- Iowa, Kansas and some of the Roéky Mountain states are reported to be : * state and port} * ing Pot Shots starter for his (Special to The Daily Worker) pledged to his cause, Charles Evans Hughes, who was PARIS, Oct. 12—Reports from Mor- occo show that the Spanish dictator nominated and bungled the campaign in 1916 because he tried to be both Primo de Rivera, is having no happy time. The Riffian troops have re- for and against the German-Amer- icans, is, again consulting with the appeared on the hills surrounding Adjir, which was captured recently by New York stete the Spanish, and keep dropping Span- hopes to get his of New England as boom. ty Hoover Plays Tax. Herbert Hoover, intrenched in the cabinet but always a. source of anx- iety to Coolidge, keeps his personal organization alive in; California and other states beyond the Rockies, He is playing for the powerful tho silent support of the chambers of commerce and the trade associations of manu- facturers. > Senator Borah of |» Idaho—Well, Borah remains an enigma, He evi- dently wants to be’ president, and is sure the republican momination will be as good as electiomyin 1928 if the nominee comes fromthe west, But he is not an optimist as to his own future. He has seen'the organization discipline other men who had criticiz- ed it, and he has no doubt that it would nominate anyone else rather than permit him to get an open road to control of American foreign policy. Miners’ Enemy Wants It. Gifford Pinchot, governor of Penn- sylvania and last remaining Bull the soldiery expose themselves while strolling about the streets of Krim’s captured capital. Down on the’ beach below Adjir where the Spanish soldiers aspire to bathe and wash the inhabitants from their clothing, bullets from Rifflan snipers: have made the Spanish go dirty “as they were.” Even in the night a camp-fire or a light brings a hail of well-aimed lead from the crack shots among the mountains. ~ Orders have been issued forbidding sroups of Spanish troops concentrat- ng in the streets or elsewhere. It has been found that the Rifflans have well fitted dressing stations for their wounded hidden in ‘sheltered caves and ravines among the mount- ains, and although their wounded must get to the stations without stretcher- bearers, they get fairly good treat- ment. It seems to the Spanish that Krim has the services of good Euro- pean surgeons and modern methods of caring for the wounded, Moose stalwart to hold the public eye, is maneuvering toward the presiden- tial field. His friends have assured him that Coolidge is very weak in the middle west and west, and the Wis- consin senatorial vote has been cited to prove that any syaranteed progres- sive has a good chance Of reasons why Lowden, Hoover or Hughes should take the place of Coo- lidge in the White House there seems to be none, All four, men see this na- tion as the greatest, most prosper- ous, most sacredly ¢apitalistic and safely anti-radical ow the globe. They want, and would equally strive, to keep American labor im its place— which in their view,is a subservient and near- -the-breadline place, Their methods would differ, only slightly. All would probably, keep Mellon at the head of the treasury, Borah, if he were gp lucky as to win, would follow Ramsqy MacDonald in international affairs, ybut would resist all ‘but the mosty,cautious steps toward public ownership or other ad- vances in solution.ef economic prob- lems that underlie all Politics, Pinchot would try, if he became president, to induce congress to cre- ate a nationwide hydre-electric sys- tem, to break the extortionate rates charged for power and light by the electric power trust, _In foreign rela- tions he would probably be less progressive than Borahy but in inter- Supreme Court Gets Another Chance to Show Plute Loyalty WASHINGTON, Oct. 12—Arizona’s minimum wage law for women, fix- ing $16 a week as the lowest rate to be paid women or girls in factories, stores or hotels, has come to the fed- eral supreme court on a merchant's appeal, based on the decision of two years ago, which nullified the mipt- mum wage law in the district of Co- lumbia. Cost of Food Higher In 1926. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct, 12— The U. S. department of labor, thru the bureau of labor statistics, has completed the compilation showing changes in the retail cost of food in 24 of the 51 cities included in the bureau's report. i For the year period, September 15, 1924, to September 15, 1925, all of the 24 cities showed increases as fol- lows: Atlanta, 13 per cent; Louis- iards with pot shots at long range as |, STREET FIGHTING AND BLOODSHED OVER HIGH RENTS IN PANAMA CITY (Special to The Dally Worker) BALBOA, Panama Oct. 12—Police of this city have instituted a reign of terror a it huge m of workers who engaged In demonstra- tions against high rents beginning Saturday night. Maricano Morones, one of the leaders of the demonstration, was murdered in the rioting Saturday night and today the streets were jammed with indignant workers de- monstrating at his funeral, All re- serves were called out and the en- tire police force mobilized in a vicious drive to disperse the crowds. Fighting in the streets is raging thruout the whole city. WORKERS PARTY OPEN LETTER T0 SOCIALIST VOTERS (Continued from page 1) and supports their corruption .and prostitution of the labor movement against the interests of the workers. Socialist Party Abandons the Class Struggle. i The socialist party has abandoned the class struggle. “It has given up even the mention of socialism in its Platform this year in its efforts to ap- pear respectable and draw the small businessmen and professionals to its banner. It has avoided the language and spirit of the class struggle and has actually included in its platform, a plank which calls for more a discip- lined police force and for more vig- orous enforcement of the criminal Jaw at a time when the: workers are suffering from the attacks of the po- lice and the vigorous enforcements of laws against the workers. Debs and the Socialist Party. Of all the “big figures” left in the socialist party there is only one that has on him the mark of a fighter for working class -interests, and he is Eugene V. Debs. So they, are import- ing him into New York to give a bit of working class color to their cam- paign of small business and profes- sional men’s liberalism. But alas, the one time red color of Deb’s record has faded fast. He is living on a glorious but rap- idly receding past and turning it to {gnoble uses ak sanctioning the pres- ent gang of treacherous and unprole- tarian leaders of the socialist party. He 8 prostituting his noble past to the unworthy cause of cloaking pres- ent-day betrayal of the workers. Thus ‘he has become an ally and support of the present leadership of the socialist party and shares in the guilt that he serves to cover. The Socialist Party Is Undeserving of the Support of the Work- ing Class. The, socialist party is against world trade union unity, The socialist party and the Second International to which it belongs are deadly enemies of the workers’ Soviet republic. The socialist parties of Europe, the allies of the American socialist party represented by MacDonald and ‘Thom- as in England, Renaudel in France, Braun in Germany and the socialist leaders in Bulgaria, Poland, Esthonia and other white terrorist countries, are the supporters of the Dawes plan, suppression of India and China, the war upon Morocco and Syria. The socialist parties of the world supported the capitalists in the last world war in which millions of work- ers lost their lives and millions more were wounded. Today the capitalists are preparing once more to cast the workers of the world into the jaivs of death and the socialist party ut- ters pacifist phrases but does noth- mg to organize the workers against The socialist party of America and thé socialist parties of the world do not deserve the support of any class conscious worker, Comrades leave the socialist party, Fellow workers “join the Workers (Communist) Party, | Join the only party which is fight- ing for a united labor ticket and a labor party, Join the party which is fighting the battles of the workers in the trade unions against the bosses and the reactionary leaders. Join the party which fights for bet- ter living conditions for the workers, Join the party which is fighting war, capitalist’ militarism and imperialism. Join the party which is striving to ‘establish a workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment in the United States, Join the party of! the Communist International, the party to end cap- italism, Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America, Fraternally, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY, New York District, 108 East 14th Street, nal policy he would be more modern, Yet neither Pinchot) nor Borah would consciously do anything to disturb the fundamentals of the profit system of industry, The limit of their radical- ism would be an attempt to “smash the trusts” by prosecution, Thus, on the present showing of potential candidates, the republican party in 1928 will be in no essential (different from that party in 1912, eee 1920 or 1924, B ville, 12 per cent; Jacksonville, Min- neapolis, Norfolk, and St. Louis, 11 per cent; Memphis and Scranton, 10 per cent; Birdgeport and New York, 9 per cent; Baltimore, Charleston, 8. C,, New Haven, Richmond, and Roch- ester, 8 per cent; Cleveland, Fall River, Indianapolis, Mobile ,and Pitte- burgh, 7 per cent; Providence, 6 per cent; Dallas, 6 per cent; Manchester, + per cent; and Milwaukee,, hy ber cont, “ ref Vote and work for the Communist ticket. For Mayor—BENJAMIN GITLOW. STON eT LIAM WEIN. For Pres. Board of Alder CHARLES KRUMBEIN. har Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shi tomorrow, incl Cee eer mee ¢ | ‘ ; TOMO AGENT ARRIVES HERE FOR BIG LOAN U. S. Investors to Have Chance to Bite (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—Kenzo Mort, the Japanese financial commissioner, who negotiated the $150,000,000 Am- erican loan to Japan following the earthquake in September, 1928, arrived in this city*today’ for the purpose of beginning negotiations for a $50,000,- 000 loan to the city of Tokio, the Jap- anese capital. The loan is to be used in the work of reconstructing the city and is the second large “earthquake loan” to be floated in the United States. . Though hard pressed for funds the Japanese bankers have contended against foreign loans and a number of large loans were floated internally in Japan. Domestic interest rates in Japan are considerably lower than those obtaining in New York, but against this the Japanese bankers point to the exchange rate being in their favor; yen being now in the neighborhood of 40 cents as against a par a fraction under 50 cents, Wall Street Power Grows The power of Wall Street in the far East is increasing, as it is elsewhere thruout the world. Japan, last month, for the first time in nine years, started gold shipments to New York for the purpose of supporting its rate of ex- change. The initial shipment was $2,- 000,000 and more is on the way. , The loan to be negotiated is to be divided between Ewsrand and the United States. England’s share being $15,000,000 and that of this country $35,000,000. A large portion of it will be used to purchase industrial pro- ducts in this country. Return to Gold Standard That Japan, like the rest of the world, 18 going to reckon its indebted- ness to the United States in terms of the American standard, is indicated by the announcement that its govern- ment is working toward the establish- ment of a gold standard mext winter, after the seasonal pressure on Japan- ese exchange due to purchases of cot- ton and other commodities in the United States. ‘The banks, however, do not expect that such bonds will be very profit- able and will place the issue on the market for the small fry to gobble up, figuring on the discount they receive for floating the loan to guarantee them against any losses. see TOKIO, Oct. 12. — Actions of the Chinese representatives on the eve of the customs conference clearly Indi- cate a determination to break the whole affair by refusing to partlel- pate unless the powers involved are prepared to grant China subsidies. Mr. Wang, head of the Chinese dele- gation intimated as much today and further remarks revealed the purpose of China to demand autonomy in some form. This is in harmony with the ¢row- ing nationalist and anti-imperialist sentiment in China that influences its representatives at all conferences in which they become involved with American and Huropean powers. Powers Express Fears. Representatives of the great pow- ers, preparing to impose an obnoxi- ous customs agreement upon China, fear that that nation will insist upon regulating its own duty on commerce and will resent any interference from outside. This fear is accentuated by the hostile reception accorded the court of inquiry that is sitting in Shanghai, which has the audatity to pretend to “fnvestigate” and fix responsibility for the Shanghai riots of last May, when those powers themselves are the identical ones responsible for the corpses in the streets of that em- battled city. The Chinese people, far more than the diplomats representing that’ na- tion, are thoroly convinced that noth- ing favorable to China can be expect- ed from the vultures of imperialism whether they come from the States, England. France or Ji The hostility of all these been sufficiently exposed so in remote corners of the ese nation the very names nations are despised becauge symbolize to them the long hours of ° unrequited toil endured by men and children, and the bestiality of the agents of these governments in protecting the profits of the hae 3 ers. The Japanese labor movement, like the advawced sections of labor in ta other countries, {s in full sympathy with the aims of the Chinese libera- tion movement. To Save THE DAILY. WORKER