The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. II. No’ 343. Subse 68 Oy 4) "ey AH BANK CLERKS’ UNICN EXPELS JOSEPH SHAFIR Members in Fear of Losing Jobs At a meeting at which less than) half of the tnembership of the Bank} Clerks’ Union was present, Joseph) Shafir, president of the Bank Clerks’ | Union and a clerk at the Amalgamat-: | ed Trust and Savings Bank, was ex-| pelled from the union thru the activi- | tles of the renegade Communist, Duane Swift, now publicity director and business getter of the Amalga- mated Trust and Savings Bank and Nat Tulshin. Held in Amalgamated Bank. This meeting which was called to expel Shafir for introducing a reso- lution for the recognition of Siviet Russia, world trade unity and against class collaboration at the American Federation of Labor convention at At- lantic City was held in the Amalga- mated Trust and Savings Bank, in stead of the Federation Building here the meetings are regularly held, at 5 o’clock making it impossible for any of those who work in other institutions to attend. Members of the union that had never attended a meeting since they joined the union were on hand instructed to cast their vote against Shafir. Many of the workers in the Amal- gamated Bank who-were with Shafir did not attend the meeting as rumors flew thick and fast that anyone vot- ing with Shafir would find themselves out of a job. The chief signers of theyédmplaint against Shafir were Duane Swift, Nat Tulshin ;and “Jacobson. Two otters’ had signed the complaint one of them being the telephone operator, who upon being questioned why she signed the complaint anSwered: “Well, they gave it to me, told me to sign it and I did.” Didn’t Know What He ‘Signed. The other signer did not know why Shafir was to be thrown out of the union and on the floor asked the chairman of the meeting, Duane Swift, what the resolutions were about. The chairman of the meeting rar things to suit himself. When a ques tion of violation of the Americar Federation of Labor constitution came up, an item that appeared in| one of the local yellow sheets was read as conclusive evidence that Shafir had violated the constitution of the Bank Clerks’ Union and the American Federation of Labor. The charges calling for the expuls- ion of Shafir were not given” Shafir before the meeting, at the meeting nor after the meeting. When the charges were read, the reader omit- ted the names of the complainants and upon Shafir’s insistence the names were read very reluctantly. Clerks Terrorized. Duane Swift, who very willingly gave an interview to a so-called lib- eral working as a reporter for The Daily News, refused to say a word to the representative of The DAILY WORKER. In attempting to inter- view the clerks in the bank, the sterotyped answer was: “See Duane Swift or Nat Tulshin and they'll tell you about it.” When asked whether they had any opinions of their own or must have all their thinking done for them by bank officials they would glance hastily to the other side of the room where the heads of the different departments sat and would then ad- mit that it it were not for Shafir they would still be working 60 hours per week instead of the 39 hours they are working now and _ getting over- time pay for extra work. Most of them thot the punishment too severe, but when asked why they did not vote against the expulsion would shrug their shoulders as much as to say “We've got to live, so what could we do?” Russian Workers and Peasants Greet Czech Delegation (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 22. The Czecho- Slovakian workers’ delegation recent- ly arrived to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics by way of Kolosova, where hundreds of workers and peas- ants greeted their entry. ription Rate. le Chicago, DEBS PROTESTS AGAINST HORTHY REIGN OF TERROR New York Police Arrest Five More Pickets (Special to The Daily Workér) NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Eugene V- Debs publicly declared his protest against the threatened execution of Mathias Rakosi, and his comrades by the hangmen of Horthy, fascist dicta- tor of Hungary. Five more workers were arrested while picketing the Hungarian consulate in this city. These are the latest outstanding de- velopments in the campaign against the Hungarian white terror, While picketing the Hungarian con- sulate five workers were arrested by the New York police who apparently are deeply concerned over the unen- viable notoriety received by the mur- der government of Horthy, as a result of the agitation against his latest per- secutions of the workers, This is the second batch of arrests made by the police in this case, fifteen others having been taken to the police station last Saturday. The five pickets were detained four hours and given a suspended sentence by the judge who read them a severe lecture on the impropriety of creating public turmoil over the trial of a few In Chicage, by mail, Ou THE DAIL Entered as Second-class matter September per yei by mail, $6.00 per year. AS GREEKS The Real Seat of Power REVOLUTIONARY LABOR MOVEMENT IN HUNGARY GOES FORWARD IN ° SPITE OF HORTHY PERSECUTION By A HUNGARIAN COMMUNIST. For weeks past the Hungarian social-democratic party has been using evefy endeavor to destroy any possibility of revolutionizing the working Right from the earliest days of the white terror it has employed for class. this purpose the method of shameless denunciation. in recent times it has surpassed itself In this respect. of the independent socialist labor party appeared at the international so- cialist congress in Marseilles, they were openly denounced, by Payer as “Bol- When the working masses attended a public:meeting of the social- sheviki.” democrats and called their leaders to account for their treachery, bureaucrats called in Horthy’s police to deal with the:revolutionary workers, described them as being hirelings of Moscow and called upon the police to (Continued on page 5) 21, 19) Post Office at Chica, OCTOBER 24, 1925 j But it must be said that ‘When the delegates these , she does WORKER. | o, illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ZS 290 INVADE + | | CHINESE WAR MAY INVOLVE WAR ON SOVIET Japan Desperate, May | Open Big Conflict | | | (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, China, Oct. 22.—The en- | trance of General Wu Pei-fu into the jarena as a challenger of Peking and | its chief supporter, Chang Tso-lin, has jfilled the delegates to the tariff con- | ference due to start here next Mon- day, with grave doubts that their | decisions will give any “possible | good” to China. | For exactly opposite reasons, Wu | Pei-fu agrees with them, he having |declared from Hankow that the cus- | toms conference would “do China no | good” until the country has been uni- {fied and Chang Tso-lin, the “war lord | of Manchuria,” driven back to Man- }churia, As Wu has now claimed that |he has eighteen provinces behind him {and 200,000 or more soldiers in front , of him hot on the trial of Chang’s fleeing troops, his guess is as good as the guess of the diplomats. Japan May Declare War But grave complications loom on the horizon if Chang is driven back. If Feng Yu-hsiang joins the revolt and the nationalist revolutionary forces unite all these elements in a drive against Peking, Chang and their in- trigues with. imperialists, Japan will prepare for to intervene in Manchuria to hold on to its big interests there, particularly the South Manchurian railway and Port Arthur. Japan is fully anticipating that if invade Manchuria to aid Chang, she will be charged with “med- dling in China.” “Therefore, Japan is going to give the best reason fof the invasion that passes current inthe capitalist press,—that is to declare that Bolshevism threatens to: engulf China, and Japanese absolute monar- chy must go to the rescue. The Old Exense Nor is Japan going to stop, even, if to justify her invasion she has fo! de- clare war on Soviet Russia, using as a pretext the excuse that Soviet Rus- sia and the Chinese revolutionary, na- tionalists have an alliance. This possibility was pointed out as long ago as last May by Count Michi- masa Soyeshima, who spoke at the International Round Table conference | in Chicago, predicting a war with So- viet Russia. It is significant, too, that FRANCE LOSES 2,176 MEN AND $47,500,000 IN WAR ON RIFFIANS PARIS, Oct. 22—The French losses In the war against the Rif- fians in Morocco have up to Oct. 1, anfounted to 2,176 killed, including 37 officers and 8,297 wounded, ac- cording to the report made by Pre- mier Painleve before the finance committee of the chamber of depu- ties in an appeal for more funds to carry on the war. hundred workers in a “foreign coun- try.” Rose Baron, secretary of the New York section of the I. L. D. comment- ing on the judge’s statement declared, (Continued on Page 2) Russian Workers Call for World-Wide Protest Against Horthy Terror SCOW, Oct. 22.—Protest meet- ings are being held all over the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics protest- ing the attempted legalized murder of Mathias Rakosi and the frame-up trial of the 100 Hungarian Commun- ists. ‘ The workers and peasants of the Soviet Union call upon the proletar- fans of all lands)to join in the world- wide protest against the revival of the Horthy terror in Hungary, and save the best \representatives and fighters of the “Hungarian working class from the gallows and long pris- on terms which 'the American-made Horthy regime ‘has in store for those that dare to oppose its ruthless per- secution of the aworkers. this comes at a time when France, England, Germany and other Euro- pean nations, have joined in a so- called “security pact” aimed to bring peace among themselves, and a war on Soviet Russia. Hard Problem for Japan Japan is hard hit, even as it is, by the civil war now going on. Unless it is short-lived, it is certain to cost Japan many mililons of yen in lost trade. With business already de- pressed, it would be a hard blow, and Japan is anxious lest she have to risk a war on.Soviet Russia, which her interests might require in spite of the fact that it would not b> a popular war, End Martial Law. SOFIA, Oct. 22—The cabinet has decided to terminate the state of mar- tial law which has been in force since the bomb explosion in the Sveti Kral Cathedral on April 16, in which more than 150 persons were killed. Publisned Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WOR PUBI NEW YORK EDITION it. Price 3 Cents 113 W. Washington Blvd. BULGARIA + Press F anning the Flames of Hatred in Balkan Strife (Special to The Dally Worker) VIENNA, Austria, Oct. 22.—Official announcements from Sofia, Bulgar capitol, state that the Greek forces crossed the Bulgarian frontier this morning, bombarded the city of Petritzi, killing five, and occupied frontier posts Nos. 9, 10 and 11. The Bulgarian soldiers resisted with all the power at their command, but were outnumbered and after the five soldiers were killed, retired. At first, reports were to the effect that the origin of the trouble was the unprovoked slaying of two Greek soldiers on the frontier. The Sofia dispatch now charges the Greeks with ex- pelling Bulgarians from Greek Macedonia and Thrace, The usual propaganda of half-starved orphans being de- ported is exploited in the press in order to fan the war hatred into flame. ‘ GREEK AND BULGARIAN RULERS ARRANGE WAR FEARING RISE two antagonistic Balkan states, |Greece and Bulgaria. The po- litico- economic situation in those two countries has been such for the past three year, that only a war would prevent, or rather postpone for a time, the complete collapse of the various bourgeois-dictatorial regimes that fol- low one another with the rapidity of a moving picture film. Especially is this true of Greece, where siné@¥the world war has ended, we have had pver a half.asdozen changes of, gov- ernment, eath of which ‘tried to sink its claws more firmly into the,necks of the working class. Both governments feel their grasp upon the workers’ weakening, notwith- standing the massacres in Bulgaria and the imprisoning and exiling of the Communists and militant workers (Continued on page 3) Tennessee Convicts Escape NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 22.—Karl Foster, a life termer, A. J. Smith, and William A. Hopkins, convicts at the Tennessee state penitentiary, escaped |today, by. short circuiting electric wires strung along the top of the wall, and climbing over on a ladder. KU KLUX HEADQUARTERS ESTABLISHED NEAR THE | HOME OF KAL KOOLIDGE WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Grand headquarters for the ku klux klan have been finally established in the | capital, a few blocks from the white house, it was learned today. The klan has leased the upper floors of the reconverted mansion at Seven- teenth and | streets, formerly oc- cupied by the late Senator Frank B. Brandagee of Connecticut, who com- | mitted suicide there. | WORKERS IN NEW YORK CITY DEMAND RELEASE OF RAKOSI | Demonstration arranged by New York, Section of International Labor Oefense where thousands of Horthy and endorsed the demands tot fiom wid ousands of worker of Rakosi and the other victims of the terror, ar 's applauded the denunciation and exposure of » eeaamersit pesaxeslbesinence seve tte ;and was 36 years of age. OF WORKING CLASS TO POWER By C. CHRISTIE. ‘ According to dispatches from Athens, a war is being cooked now and will soon be ready to be served to the peoples of the Pele Sea RARE OIE dN ARETE HORTHY POLICE FAIL 10 GAIN ‘CONFESSION M. Rakosi Dekes Third Degree Methods The following description of the cross-examination of Comrade Rakosi is*taken from the Pesti Naplo, a bit- ter anti-Bolshevist- Budapest paper. The methods employed by the Buda- pest police presidium in obtaining evi- dence are sufficiéntly well known. The “delinquent” is tortured In the most cruel manner until he signs a previ- ously prepared protocol, which, of course, contains all the usual bogey stories regarding plans for bomb outrages eto, ee At the crossexamination of Rakost the deputy police president, Hetanyi called upon him to give particulars regarding himself. Rakosi stated that he was born in Adony near Miskoles He had passed thru the Orient Academy. His mother tongue was Hungarian, and in addition he could write and speak six foreign languages. He mentioned proudly that he had two brothers whom he had won for Communism. “Are your parents Hetanyi. “I do not know. It does not interest me greatly. I am only interested in alive?” asked (Continued on page 5) ‘SOUTH-SLAVIC SECTION PLEDGES $1000 FOR THE DAILY WORKER Bureau Prepares Big Drive to Save the DAILY WORKER. On Monday October 19th the South Slavic bureau held a special meeting to consider the condition of The DAILY WORKER, The appeal sent to the bureau by the organization department was acted on favorably and the plan pro- posed was fully endorsed. The South Slavic comrades showed that they earnestly accepted the call for help issued by The DAILY WORK- ER, by immediately getting down to work to save the leading party organ. First of all, each member of the bureau pledged himself to pay $5 to The DAILY WORKER campaign fund. Secondly, the bureau pledged itself to raise a minimum of one thousand dollars, inside of the coming month. The Radnik, as the official organ of the Workers Party, printed in Croa- tian, as well as all other agencies of the South Slavic section will be mo- bilized for the fullest use to help save The DAILY WORKER. The South Slavic comrades have been amongst the best elements in the party, responding most favorably to the appeal of The DAILY WORKER for funds which will enable it to live,