The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 21, 1925, Page 5

ir ttt nn tats ne GERMAN UNIAN HEADS SPEAK breakers, and “Whereas, The conditions surround- ing this invasion of an ostensibly in- dependent country, together with the facts that such invasions are nothing new in the history of Panama and that the United States government has at all times exercised financial and political control over this so- called republic, plainly, reveals the true status of Panama as that of a. subject nation or protectorate, there- fore,.be it ““Resolved, That the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor denounces the use of American soldiers as strikebreak- ers ahd demands.their immediate withdrawal from Panaman territory, and further demands that the United States government publicly relinquish all rights of supervision, interference or control in the affairs of the re public of Panama secured fo it by the treaty and constitution forced upon the Panaman people in 1903, and be it further “Resolved, That we declare that the American workers have nothing in ‘common with imperialistic adventures in Latin-America or anywhere else, but are unqualifiedly opposed to them and further that we pledge our sup- port and solidarity to our striking brothers in Panama in their struggle.” Following the federation meeting a number of those who desired to ask fertwangler questions gathered and began asking questions. When the question of the Communists electing von Hindenburg was raised Fertwen- gler reiterated that it was true. When it was pointed out to him that in the primary elections the so- cial-democrats, the Communists, the monarchists and the people's party had their separate candidates for the presidency of the German republic and that in the regular elections when. the monarchists or nationalists put up von Hindenburg, the Communists of- fered to make a united front with the social-democrats and vote for the so- cial-democrat candidate, the social-de- mocrats instead of making a united front supported the people’s party candidate, Marx, he began to grow nervous and embarrassed taking his questioner by the coat lapel and }fawning over him as tho he could thus make the criticism of the German SO- cial-democracy milder. Fertwangler attempted to. make. all kinds of excuses but when confronted with the fact that the social-demo- eracy of Germany had control of the state power and that no revolution had taken place to make the power away from them but that they had gradually given over the power to the bourgeoisie he claimed he could not discuss the question as his, English was too limited, The questioner then told him to speak in German. The two had been speaking in Ger- man but a very short time when Fert- wangler became very nervous and be- gan to act as tho someone had pushed into a bunch of cactus, He imme- diately turned his back to his ques- tioner and began talking to one of the other listeners who was standing nearby. OUR DAILY . MISSES’ DRESS. as illustrated in the large view. 8% yards of plain material. The width of the dress at the foot with plaits extended fs 1% yard. Price 12c. WASHION BOOK NOTICE! nd 120 in silver or stamps for out Winter, misses’, and patterns, cise and comprehensive article on hy ol e jor bent m4 fuitches). all valuable bints to the home 5147. Cut in 3 sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years. An 18 year ‘size requires 1% yard of figured material and 2% yards of plain 82 inches wide if made If| manufacts made with full sleeves it will require | { THE DAWLY WORKER COLORED FREIGHT HANDLERS TO MEET IN KANSAS CITY TO DISCUSS UNION STATUS | By ESTHER LOWELL, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 19.—Representatives of all colored freight handlers’ federal unions will attend the conference arranged between the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, colored freight handlers who are asking full membership admission in the Brotherhood, and a representative of the The colored delegates to the 45th annual American Federation of Labor convention are working for the fullest pos- sible representation of their organizations at this important meeting which is to be held in Kansas City, Oct. 29, Because of the bitter jurisdictional dispute between the railway clerks and the teamsters, action upon the resolution introduced by the colored delegates was delayed to nearly the close of the convention. ‘The organ- ization committee finally was able to arrange for the Kansas City meeting and its action was approved by the convention. At this conference the colored * freight handlers ; will urge that they be given full. membership in the Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks, Freight, Handlers, Express and Station Employes with all its duties and privileges, They are now under direct charter from the American Federation of Labor, but all their working conditions are determined by the brotherhood’s agreements with employers. The col- ored workers’ grievances, go. to. broth- erhood system representatives, whom colored workers help support by their payment of 50 cents per capita to the brotherhood. Colored freight handlers will have to protect themselves, however, in wew of the threat of the clerks that they will leave the American Federa- tion of Labor, says Albert C. Camp- bell, president Union No, 17,775, Kan- Sas City, one of the delegates to the American Federation of Labor con- vention. The colored workers will have to make some proviso in what- ever settlement they may make with the clerks that in case the clerks withdraw from the American Federa- tion of Labor the colored freight hanl- ers’ unions shall revert to the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. If the brotherhood accepts suspension from the American Federation of Labor rather than obeying the decision of the 45th convention which giyes juris- diction over express drivers, and. help- ers to the teamsters, the: édlored workers may ask for a charter as a national freight handlers’ union. No specific action was taken by the convention on the. resolution intro- duced by one of the colored delegates proposing further organization of col- ored workers, greater attention to- wards having International unions which bar colored workers change their attitude, and American Feder- ation of Labor championing “of the Negro’s social demands as the de- mands of the most abused and ex- ploited section of the working péo- ple.” The resolution related “that fhe most effective and sincere manier by which the American Federation of Labor can ensure a response to its efforts to organize the Negro work- ers js to take up in an aggressive and whole-hearted manner the cause and defense of the Negro against legal and social discrimination and abyses, such as lynching, segregation, disfranchise- ments, etc.” 1, L. D. Meeting Wednesday. The first regular meeting of the Northwest Side Branch of the Inter- national Labor Defense will be held at Humboldt Lodgé Hall, 1621 N. California Ave., Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 8 a, m. A speaker will outline the activity and the role of the I, L, D, in the labor movement in this coun- IN CHICAGO py seTen Social Democrats Visit ake Chicago Federation (Continued from page 1) American Federation of Labor. matter, have occupied the city of Pan- ama and are acting the role of strike- . try. PATTERNS GIRLS’ DRESS, 5116. Cut in 4 sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. A 10-year size requires 214 yards of 36-inch material, with 4 yard of contrasting material for collar, cuffs, belt and pocket facings. impatient if your pattern M Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. * 360° N. FIFTH ora Your Unica Meeting Third Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1925, Name of Local ey Place No. of Meetity Bricklayers, 912 W. Monroe C teres. Diversey, and nd het, ‘Moose’ Ba, Chicago Bed and 26th. Washington St. Firemen and Enginemen, 5438 8. Halsted St. wegerst Employes, Great Northern ote Glove sw ivorkers! Jgint Council, 1710 N. W! r Ave 2. 228 E. 16th St Chi- cago Heights, Ill. 6 Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrison st. Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 Van Buren St. Maring | Fire and Oilers, 357 N. Palniters; $0 W. Randolph st. 180 Painters, N. E. cor. California and Madison. Painters, 6414 S. Halsted St. Paierer N. W. cor. State and Painters, 220 W. Oak St. Painters, Trumbull and Ogden Ave. piastarere, Monroe and Perio Sts. Die Stampers, 19 W. Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. — Clerks, 509 W. Washing- 703 Team 's, 159 N. State St. 7 Waite 234 W. Randolph St. m1 Ugnet ai Union, 180, W. Wash- on 39 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Kedzie and Ogden. 152 Amalgamated Slothing Workers, 1534 N. Robey S (Note: Uni otherwise stated, all meetings are at 8 p. m.) NEEDLE TRADES TALKING UNITY IN PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH, Pa., mass meeting for the purpose of discussing the question of amalga- mation in the needle trades was held Monday, Oct. 19th, 8 P. M. in the Moose Hall, 628-634 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. The meeting was call- ed by joint council of the Amalgamat- ed Clothing Workers and the Journey- Oct. 19.—A ‘(men Tailors’ Local of the city. The members of the Journeyman Tailors’ Union, Cap Makers and Furriers are also taking a keen interest in this joint movement of the rank and file to impress upon their higher officials the need of amalgamation. The movement of the joint council of the two organizations of this city is evidence enough of the timely need for an amalgamation of all the needle trades unions of this city. In this city, for example, the members of the Amalgamated are practically all custom tailors and in most cases are working in the same shops where members of the Journeyman Tailors Union are working. Yet each of the unions are unable to make demands upon their bosses for the reason of the antiquated form of organization still existing in the needle trades. The rank and file realizes fully that there is no place for six different craft unions in the needle trades. Among the speakers announced were M. J. Sillinsky of the Journeyman Tailors, and Mother Ella Reeve Bloor. Philippine Senate Turns Down Wood’s Island Nominations MANILLA, Oct. 19.—The Philippine senate has disapproved of four Am- erican nominations made by Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood for positions in the constabulary and civil government. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. IN MINNEAPOLIS! Hungarian Protest | MEETING MEETTO SOLVE CHINESE PUZZLE The Heike o of Morgan Shelters Conference (Special to The Daily Worker) 19. NEW YORK, Oct representing the Ame , Japanese, British, French and inese groups of the Chinese consortium will meet tomorrow in. the offices of J. P. Mor- gan & Co. This meetitrg is signific inasmuch as it is the first held New York. Heretofore the meetings | of the consortium have been held| either in Paris or London The general:situation in China will} be discussed with particular attention | being given to.the financial and econ-| omic situation as affected by the various military conflicts in that} country andjalso a review of the ef- fect of the Shanghai events of last May and the Shanghai conference that is endeavoring, to place responsibility for the distyrbances, Moguls in Attendance, It would:,; require astronomical figures to estimate the billion'’s of dol- lars represented at this conference,/| the aim of which is further. financial penetration into and enslavement of China. Thomas W. Lamont of J..P, Morgan & Co, is the American member of the executive council. The British and the French members are Sir Charles Addis of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking corporation, London, and R. Saint Pierre of the Banque de I’Indo Chine, Paris, who are scheduled to ar- rive today. The Japanese representa- tive will be H. Kashiwagi of the Yoko- hama Specie Bank. Forty American Banks. The Chinese consortium is made up of various. groups of fhternational bankers representing the United States, England, France an@ Japan, and was organized late in 1920 under the pretense of aiding China in its financial and economic problems. Originally it was organized for five years, but“ifs existence will be con- tinued indéfinitely. The American group consists of approximately forty banking and’ investment firms, No Néw Loans to China. . It was pointed out that since the inception 6f th econsortium condi- tions in China had been such as to make it impossible to undertake new loans to that country, and it was considered doubtful that any prog- ram would bé outlined at fie meeting which would clarify thé’ situation. It was intimated that several propo- - Delegates in| | now employed in the mines of the dis- sitions were made at, 0} ime to re- proposal would be madi the com: fund China’s debt, But tt no such ing conference. Seven Longshoremen Drown. VICTORIA, B, C., Oct. 19.—Delayed reports reaching here today indicated that seven ongshoremen of the salv- age tug Hope’were drowned late Sat- urday night} when a tide-rip caught their craft and hurled it against the stranded steamer Eemdyk on Ben- tinick Island, near Victoria. Twenty- eight longshoremen were aboard the Hope at the.time, removing a cargo from the Eemdyk Which wert aground Thursday. To those who work hard’for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street PITTSBURGH, PA. All Work Guaranteed, yn 8411 Jos. Campar, MEN'S Unitarian Church Wednesday, at 8 y, rf ~~PROMINENT SPEAKERS City She Shoe Hospital Work Done ‘While U Wait Give Us a Trial and We'll Give You the Satisfaction.. SHOES FOR SALE. JOS. ZELINSKI, Prop., ae pg ene ae but Page Five PENNSYLVANIA LON'S OPEN SHOP DRIVE IN ‘FINANOE GIANTS ™2t COAL FIELDS MEETS WITH LITTLE SUCCESS By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press ! The attack on ticle for Coal Age by Sidney A. Hale. of the United States coal commission and southern Ohio goes far to explode a rapid drift: of union miners to the mines Avhic is trying to operate on a non-union 191 “District No. says Hale, according to union figu area,” 23,000 are+ trict, Less than 400 men have ac- cepted the conditions of employment at the two Banfiing operations of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. The Pomeroy Bond group of mines are in District No. 6. This district had a union membership of 48,000 at the peak of power in 1920; the most claimed for the 1917 scale and co-operative op- erations in the Pomeroy Bond area is less than 700, The combined totals in the two fields when compared with union membership of over 220,000.in the central competitive fleld as a whole, is pitiably insignificant.” So scarcely more than 1 per cent of the union miners in the two. dis-) tricts where Pittsburgh Coal is mak-| ing its antiunion drive have gone over to the enemy altho the scheme has been in operation since May 1. The Dark Hollow mine which op- ened about May 1 had a working force of 156 men by the middle of July. The average for the “first week of Septem- ber was still 156. Similarly the For- est Run mine which opened the last week of May had an average of 131 men by the end of July. From then} on the number slowly “dwindled with| an average of 123 employed the middle | of September. Hale’ says the union has been com- pletely successful in holding its lines against the fake co-operative diversion by which Indiana operators tried to get out from under the Jacksonville contract, thaf“It has checked’a simi- lar move in Ohio, and that Iinofs is still firmly union. He also shows that antly union Pennsylvania ‘western field holds ‘its share of the country’s total output. In 1923 it turned out 202,703,000 tons, 35.9 per cent of the total, compared with an avérage of 35.7 per cent in the 5 years 1916-1920, 32.8 per cent in the 5 years 1911-1916, and 34.1 per cent in the period 1906- 1910. Mellon’s contract-breaking Pitts- burgh Coal Co. now has behind it the Pittsburgh chamber of commerce which has a special department. in charge of the renegade E, S, McCul- lough, former. vice president of the miners’ union, to recruit mine labor willing to desert the union. To quote Hale: “Neither the Pittsburgh Coal Co. nor the Pittsburgh chamber of commerce can now retire without a heavy loss of prestige.” School Board Gives Roofing Job Contract to Landis Award Firm A strike of all men working on the new Peterson school at Catalpa and Christiania avenues is imminent un- less the board of education ‘cancels its roofing contract with the Marcus Roofing company, a Landis award con- tractor. George Jones, business agent of the Roofers’ Union, said the strike order was being held off only until the return of Patrick Sullivan, presi- dent of the Chicago Building Trades Council, who was attending the con- vention of the American Federation of Labor. Hamtramek, Mich. Eighth and La Salle Oct. 21 the supremacy of the Pennsylvania western field, led by Secretary Mellon's Pittburgh Coal~Co., | has fallen far short- of notable success, according to facts in a special ar- | ndustrial Editor) United Mine Workers in the Hale was on the engineering staff His review of western Pennsylvania the capitalist press attempt to show ch the Pittsburgh company 7 scale’ basis. 5 of the United’ Mine Workers, “has a membership of approximately 45,000 of whom, | the western Pennsylvania SOGIETY DAME FALLS OUT OF BED, DIES IN BOTTLE-STREWN ROOM LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19. — Mrs, Craig Biddle, a prominent society woman of Philadelphia, died sud- denly here in her apartment yester- day and the coroner's inquest re- vealed traces of alcoholic poison- ing. The apartment was strewn with empty bottles. Bruises found on the body of the woman are said not to indicate violence, as she rolled out of bed shortly before she died, the fall causing the bruises, It is not thought she was poisoned as the autopsy revealed no traces of poi- soning, her heart being swollen no more than is usual in deaths from drunkness, ** Pious Christian Family PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 19.— The Drexel-Biddle family is one of the most prominent in Philadelphia. They have ‘been in the publishing business here «and the founder of the family, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, is noted as founder of the Drexel Biddle bible cla: » and author of books of fairy stories, All of them are 100 per cent Americans and pious christians. SSE SSE ss right down thru 1923 the predomin-| J 4 SUGTAODOSVEUUOGADHUENSYSOOAAEEAAA TE LSU EVENS NAT Famous Russian Poet Mayakovsky Comes Back to Chicago TODAY TUESDAY, OCT.20 He will speak at Schoenhofen Hall, Cor. Milwaukee and Ashiand Aves. An Entirely New Program. Come and listen to him. 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