The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1925, Page 1

ie pont ee : The DAILY WORKER Raises| § ‘ H the Standard for a Workers j and Farmers’ Government ; F bs NEW YORK EDITION —_—_—— ‘ a Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ultnols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. . Vol. II. No, 235. >hscription Rates: 9:8 Got & Ue Ks ih eye 2 Sg'F on b, ate ay Soe E mayo) + 2 An Fight Wall Street’s Imperialist Rule! In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.0 Der year. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1925 =" PARIS STRIKE NO JOKE; FACTORY STRIKER DEAD, SCORES OF POLICE INJURED, 300 WORKERS ARRESTED PARIS, Oct. 13.—The French authorities are trying to make light of yesterday’s twenty-four hour strike against the continuance of the Moroc- | ALL-AMERICA ANTI- IMPERIALIST LEAGUE AIDS PANAMA STRIKE The following telegram has been. Publisned Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML Price 3 Cents os “OPS TERRORIZE PANAMA WORKERS SOLDIERS SHOOT STRIKERS; ~~ WRECK LABOR HEADQUARTERS; sent by Manuel Gomez, Secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League: can and Syrian wars, but the government is still taking no chances by with-| (Statement by the’Central Executive Committee of the Workers drawing the 10,000 troops and the thousands of sailors from the navy yards| (Communist) Party.) | MERICAN soldiers are fighting striking workers of Pana- | ma, who are protesting against exorbitant rents. The imperialist American government is giving the workers a lesson in why it maintains a big army and navy. It needs soldiers and warships in order to put down the up- risings of the workers whom it is oppressing and robbing in the West Indies, Mexico, Central and South America. HE workers of Panama could not bear the burden of low wages, high living costs, including extortionate rents for the squalid living quarters. They organized to fight against these conditions. Their protest meeting was attacked and two of their number were killed. When they organized a demonstration in memory of the victims of the murderous attacks of the government, the American soldiers were called in to. suppress their protest by force. HA has happened in Panama is happening in all of the countries to the South of the United States. The Amer- ican capitalists are investing the profits they wring from the labor of the workers of this country to exploit the people of the West Indies, Central and South America. rotest against the exploitation thru workers of this country When the which Wall Street grinds them to the earth, the American soldiers are called in to protect the investments and profits of our capitalists. The American government steps in to shoot down the workers who dare rebel against their Wall Street masters, as it has in Haiti, Santa Domingo, Mexico and now in Panama. ORKERS of the United States! The fight of the ex- ploited workers of Latin-America against the Wall Street exploiters and its agent, the American government is which poured into Paris to suppress the strike called by the Communist Party, during which one Communist striker was killed by a boss, Nothing Funny About It, ut it Nor are the scores of police who today are nurgihg their. wounds in Paris hospitals convinced that the propaganda of their superiors that it was ell a joke ig applicable to crowds of+ : striking workers they clashed with in the’ factory districts. In all there were 300 arrests and about 150 injured enuf to need medi cal attention, as a result of the po- lice and troops who were ordered to attack any gathering of workers and disperse al. crowds. New Demonstration’ Over Dead Striker. When a factor owner at Suresnes murdered one of the Communist workers, crowds of work! rounded the establishment t ing reprise!. The murderer was res- ened by the police only after a seri- ous riot. The funeral of the dead worker will be the occasion for a new demon- stration against the open savagery of the government and the Communist Party considers calling a new strike of six hours on the day of the funeral. PRIMO DE RIVERA M. Lepse, Héad Russian Trade Union Far Eastern Delegation. “Panama Federation of Labor, “Panama. “Our organization protesting the use of U. S. troops to. break Pan- aman strike. We join you in de- nouncing the treaty whereby such intervention is justified. We shall mobilize all anti-imperialist forces to resist encroachments of Wall Street's government in Latin America.” . PURCELL AGAIN TELLS ALF. OF L. NEED OF UNITY Jurisdictional Dispute’ Rages After He Speaks By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 13— Another plea for world trade union) MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED (Special to The Daily Worker) BALBOA, Panama, Oct. 13.—The protest of the laboring masses of this city against exhorbitant rents has called forth most terrible reprisals. Panama City since yesterday has been an armed camp with the invading United States forces swarm- ing the street in full war regalia and brutally dispersing even the most casual gatherings of workers. In the wake of pillage and destruction inaugurated by troops dispatched there under Brigadier General C. H. Martin, on Six- teenth street, Panama City, have been sacked and one man is known to have been murdered, while scores of others suffering from bayonet wounds and ferocious beatings are being cared for in improvised hospitals established by the workers, who are denied access to regular hospi-+———_—____- tals to care for their wounded. Thruout the city occasional groups of women and children clamor for word of their husbands and fathers Speaks in New York on missing since yesterday, only to be bestially handled to troops who have evidently been given a free hand by the commanding officers, Heroic Resistance The workers at labor headquarters, called “Bolshevik headquarters, by the army commanders, heroically de fended themselves with any weapons at-their disposal. Chains, flat-irons, spades, stove lids and other missilles Friday, Oct. 16 unity was hurled into. the A. F. of L.| were hurled at the uniformed inva- convention here today by Arthur A.) ders as they mounted the stairs. Purcell the British fraternal delegate./ These, however, were the only wea- your fight. You must join them in the struggle they are car- rying on against American imperialism. TO RESIGN AS HEAD IAP WORKERS inne as ECLARE your solidarity with the Panama workers. i D Adopt eectationa iy our trade union, hold OF MOROCCOAN POST : Purcell got the floor again when|pons possessed by the workers and (Special 06. Fie Aptis, i eemerd meetin; 4 s ee ow 4 President Green presented him with! when they were exhausted the troops ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 13—The Bs: (Special to The Daily Worke.> « % a gold watch as the gift of the dele-| entered and began the butchery. “fat boys” in their zealous attempt to Demand the withdrawal Panama. working and living conditions. of American soldiers from Support the Panama workers in their fight for better Demand that the American government stop wasting the wealth the workers produce to maintain armies and build a big navy to protect Wall Street investment. Down with the American: Forward to the Workers’ the United States. imperialism! and Farmers’ Government o ve + aoa x Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communteth |. Party of America, AMALGAMATED THUGS BEAT UP WOMAN FOR LEFT, WING ACTIVITIES | Gangsters at the headquarters of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, 409 Halsted street, on Monday, beat up a young woman member of the organization who was distribut- ing leaflets advertising a public mteeting to be addressed by one of the active left wingers in New York on the latest developments in the needle ttades situation there. The victim, Tille Reznick, assert- ed that one Charles Rudnik organ- ized the gang in the Hipreabthy when she entered with the leaflets and after insulting remarks and threats to the effect that unless she left the place, she would be lynched, she wi eized and violently thrown from the office into the library. Up- on emerging the thugs again attack- ed her, one of them admonishing the others “Don’t hit her in the face; you know how to handle her,” beating her until her body was black and blue and then forcibly ejecting her from the premises. This is evidence that the reac- tionaries and their sluggers in the needle tra unions have a united bloc against the left wing and that one and all they unite to suppress criticism of their betrayal of the rank and file. a5 State Publishing House to Print Many Books for Peasants MOSCOW Oct. 13.—The | peasant terature department of the state lishing house intends to place n the market in the autumn 30,- 490,000 books, and by the autumn of 1926 to bring the output to 100,000,- 000 books, covering all questions of interest’ to the village. The state publishing house has re- ceived over 3,000 letters from peasant readers pointing out the merits and defects of the books read by them. ‘These letters serve as basic material tor the study of the interests of the readers. G. E. RUTHENBERG, General Secretary. Russ Professor Finds . Re-agent to Assist in Spring Seed Selection MOSCOW, Oct. 18—Dr. Manoiloy has invented a chemical ré-agent for the selection of spring and “winter seeds. The simplicity of the method renders it accessible to every péasant, The seeds are subjected to the action of a few drops of the reagent; when a violet hue indicates the spring seeds, and a greenish-yellow hue indicates the winter seeds, ELECTRIC POWER TRUST CONTROLS NEW YORK STATE ‘ALBANY, N, Y., Oct. 13—That this is the era of great combinations of capital is exemplified again by the filing of certificates of merger with the secretary of state of New York of power companies that complete the control under one head of electric power throughout New York state from Buffalo to Schenectady. The four ‘companies involved are the Ontario Power Securities corpora- tion, the Niagara Power Securities corporation, the Adirondack Securt- ties corporation and the Wanita Hold- ing corporation. The Niagara Power Securities cor- poration controls the Niagara Lock- port and Ontario Power company, while the Adirondack Securities and the Wanita Holding corporation con- trols the stock of the Utica Gas and Electric, the Citizen Light and Power, the Municipal Gag company. of Al- bany and the Adirondack Power and Light company of Schenectady, '«: These corporations are-merged into an “administrative” corporation under the name of the Mohawk-Hudson Pow- er corporation with a combined cap- italization of $200,000,000. It controls power lines that stretch across the State of New York from Hudson River to Niagara Falls. Charles 8, Reffner is president and Charles B. Peck is secretary. MADRID, Oct. 13.—General San- jurjo, at present in command of the Melitia sector, will succeed General Primo De Rivera, as high commis- sioner of Morocco. Primo will give up the Moroccoan post when Muley Hassan, the Span- ish puppet, is proclaimed caliph of Morocco. 4 BRAZIL BECOME SUBJECT NATION OF U. S. CAPITAL 35,000,000 People Pay for Bankers’ Banquet PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 13—That imperialism knows the art of combin- ing business with pl e is seen by the recent banquet ai Pittsburgh Bankers’ Club given by the officers of the General Electric company to Dr. Jose M. Sampaio Correa, chairman of the finance committee of the Brazil- jan senate and head of the Brazilian delegation to the interparliamentary conference held at Washington. Many figures of note in the’ realm of financial imperialism broke bread and bottle with the Brazilian delega- tion, There were Owen Young made famous by the Dawes plan, A. S. Dn- rant of the General Electric, Sidney C. Mitchell of the Electric Bond and Share company, and many New York bankers dealing in Brazilian finance, including Dillon, Read and company, Lee Higginson and company, Blair and company, White, Weld and company, wna, Dety Police Attempt at TOKIOW—(By > Mail.)—The journey of the delegation»of the Soviet Union {on “Japanese territory to Tokio be- came a literal procession of triumph, a powerful demonstratoin of interna- tionat proletarian ‘solidarity such. as Japan has never: before experience: Tens of thousands:of workers awaited the delegaton at'all railway stations. Peasants, men and women, members of parliament, members of various unions, came to!the delegates with speeches of weleome and requests for advice. ie The storminess of the greetings un- nerved the Japanese government who took all possible measures to isola- ate the delegation: On the evening before“the arrival of the delegatoioncin Tokio all the prominent leaders*of the left wing of the trade, unions were arrested. In Tokio the police forbade the demonstration of welcome and allow- ed only 30 delegates to greet the Russian delegation on the platform. Despite the prohibition, however, an immense mass of workers assembled before the station. As the leader of the miners’ union, Kato, commenced hts speech of wel- come, he was arrested and carried off by the police in the presence of the Russians. The same was also done with the whole delegation of the Japanese trade unions which was to accompany the Russians upon their journey. Then a»regular street fight Ladenburg, Thalman and company,| commenced between the police and and Halsey Stuart and company. Dr. Correa held out lucious bait for bankers in his address, pointing out the importance of Brazil as a great reservoir of natural resources for the industry of the world. He “pointed with pride” to the eco- nomic development of Brazil, the population of which had increased from the 4,000,000 it had in 1822 when Brazil bécame independent, to the Present population of 35,000,000 com- prising large greups of immigrants. “Our industrial output,” he said, “principally along the line of textiles, woolen and silk fabrics, hats, boots and shoes and iron, is already great. Our agricultural development has been remarkable, and the position of our products in the world’s trade is the best, not only by the quality of the products, but their variety.” It is understood among financial circles that the New York bankers are placing a big loan with the Brazil- fan government, onthe strength of which news the Brazilian unit of ex: change, the milreis, receritly sky- rocketed to unprecedented heights on the New York exchange. the demonstrators; Banners confiscated and mass arrests carried out. Despite everything however, the Police could not prevent the demon- stration and only: after many hours of hard work and ‘the combined ef- forts of over a thousand police were they able to clear ithe square. The police took ail measures to pre- vent any contact! being established between the Russian delegation and the Japanese trade «unions. Canadian Labor to Run Canididates in Federal Elections WINNIPEG, Oct; 18—The Canadian federal elections Oct, 19 will find la- bor candidates in Manitoba, In some constituencies labor will back farm- er candidates. ¢ In Vancouver and Nanaimo in Cal- gary, Edmonton, Port Arthur, Toronto and the eastern provinces labor can- didates are also on the ballot, Communists support the Canadian labor party candidates in accordance with their united dront policy. ity of the ~) Engtand”* gates. Other gifts were presented to, the other fraternal representatives but Purcell came first-and he was the only one who spoke at any length or had anything worth while to say. All Headed for Emancipation. “T accept this gift not for myself but as an expression of the solidar- workers of America and of have our differences but we will man- age to work together because we are all headed in the same direction, the unity of all labor, the emancipation of the workers of the world in every part of the world.” But within a few moments the dele- gates showed how far the American Federation of Labor would have to go to catch up with workers of other countries by plunging into a bitter jurisdictional dispute between the Teamsters’ Union and the Railway One of the defenders was m' and)his body hurled to the street be- low, many were bleeding from ba- yonet wounds, others clubbed intp in- sensibility by the butts of rifles, while the premises were wrecked and the furniture demolished into splinters. Raid Arms Stores Simultaneous with this outbreak of -terrorism, hard: stores and other shops selling arms and munitions were looted so that the city would be at, the complete mercy of the in- vaders, Stores were closed and barricaded and+ this morning Brig. Gen. Martin reports to General Lassiter, in com-, mand of the Panama Canal depart- Ment of the United States army that “peace reigns” in the city. But it is the peace of death, the peace of the desert, where the only sound is the tramp of the iron heel and the muf- Clerks’ organization. American Sort of Unity. President E. H. Fitzgerald led the fight for the Railway Clerks, claiming that whatever teamsters, chauffeurs, helpers and workers in garages that the Teamsters’ Union is seeking, are so tied up with other work over which the Railway Clerks have jurisdiction that they cannot be segregated. He was supported by Delegate G. H. Nicholson. President Tobin of the Teamsters, who is also treasurer of the federation, replied, claiming that the jurisdictional laws of the A. F. of L.. gave the teamsters and chauffeurs in question to his organization. He stressed the fact that his union had been chartered in 1899 and claimed the Railway Clerks was a “war baby” union anyway and even at that the teamsters would only take one-fifth or one-seventh of the membership away from the Railway Clerks. The executive council's report fav- ors Tobin’s position and demands that the Railway Clerks carry it out within 90 days or suffer the loss of their affiliation with the A. F. of L. No decision had been reached at ad- journment. Votes Rap at Secession. The convention voted condemna tion of secession movement of Amer- {ean Federation of Express Workers taking the occasion to condemn any tendency toward the establishment o: fostering of a seceding organization in any industry. With no discussion the convention unanimously adopted the report of the | committee on shorter workday de- manding that eight hours of work be| the maximum and citing instances where the workday had been cut down much more. The resolution cit- | ed the revolutionary changes that had taken place in industry increasing production. Support was also voted the strik- ing textile workers in the Williman- tic, Conn, plant of the American Thread company. President Thomas (Continued on Page 2) fled groans of the victims of this savage outrage. Follow Murder of Worker The new struggle in Panama broke out yesterday as an outgrowth of the riots of Saturday night, when the police killed a worker during a de- monstration against high rents. Sev- eral thousands Panama workers fol-| E: lowed the body of Marciano Mirones, the victim of Saturday's rio’ from Santa Ana Plaza to the cemetery, the leaders carrying red flags. Mirones’ brother, speaking at the grave, pro- mised revenge and urged all to assist him. On the way back from the ceme- (Continued on page 2) prove to big business that they were not “reds” nor “radicals” refused to give J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, one of the official press badges that were handed out right and left to a lot of the “Brass Check” press reporters. At this convention every attempt was made by all of the moss-covered fossils to show their dissociation from the radical movemetit. “Majati” Bérry, a stench in the nostrils of the press- men and pressfeeders in this country for his strikebreaker activities, deli- vered a harangue on the Communists and the reds. Workers Come to Listen In spite of this tirade within the convention and the publicity which the reactionary mass meeting at Atlantic City,-which was called in an attempt to draw the delegates and visitors away from the meeting ar- ranged at Moose Hall for J. Louis Engdahl, a meeting where a Commun ist interpretation of the American Federation of Labor convention was to be given, Engdahl’s meeting drew over 200 (which even The New York Times grants) of the visitors and delegates. J. Louis Engdahl is now touring the’ ern part of the country telling of the attempt to hand American la {bor tied hand and foot to big busi- ness by these “fat bc who were so zealous to become “good boys” in the eyes of the bosses. In addition to the meeting in Atlan tic City, last Sunday night he address- ed large and enthusiastic meeting of workers in Philadelphia. MINERS DEFEND UNION WITH SQUIRREL GUNS IN COMPANY OWNED SOUTHERN VILLAGES By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent? ATLANTIC CITY, Oct, 13.—Company towns where the owner demands the homage of a god; child labor laws that die at the gates of the cotton mills; miners, unorganized, but armed with squirrel rifles and a spirit that keeps mine guards away—those were some of the things related to the Federated Press correspondent by two southern delegates (o the American Federation of Labor convention, Paul J. Aymon of the Chattanooga ‘Trades and Labor Council and W. L. Funder+ turk, representative of lounters' Union. Company-Owned Towns. the Stove “If you want to see what company | towns are like,” Aymon says, “just go a few miles out of Chattanooga on the Central Georgia railroad. owners and managers rule like gods. All child labor laws are ignored and all liberties are taken from the work- ers, The mill owns the police; it owns the church, the schools and the stores, Every cent paid in wages comes back into the company stores— every cent and more, The workers are kept in debt.” You | will find about 15 cotton mill towns, | owned, some by northern and some} | by southern capital, where the mill | Mussolini Fires | Rome Fascist Head for Bungling Job (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Oct. 13.—Following Musso |lini's order dismissing the secretary | }of the Rome fascismo as the result |of the burning of the Scottish rites masons headquarters here, Premier Mussolini gave orders for the dismis: sal of the prefect and the chief of police of Florence. There were serious anti-masonic disorders in Florence a week ago and the police did not in. tervene* —_—_- eee _ da Louis Engdabi-Speaks on A.F.of L Convention-Friday Nite--Oct.16~-Manhattan Lyceum-N.Y, See Page 3 \ ‘