The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1925, Page 2

~¢ ee — Page Two ‘MORE TROOPS WAILS FRENCH HEAD IN SYRIA Damascus Arabs Battle with Fi rench DAMASCUS, Syria, Oct. 22—Gen. Serrail, the French high commission- er in Syria under the league of na- tions mandate, has sent an urgent appeal to Paris for 15,000 troops fol- lowing the uprising of the natives in Damascus against the ruthless repris: als which the French carried on against the participants in the upris- ing of Hama. In the reprisals at Hama, 700 Arabs were killed to sat- isfy the French lust for Syrian blood. Organize Protest Demonstration. When the natives of Damascus heard of the reprisals they organized lareg protest demonstrations in the mosques and on the streets, which later resulted in armed fighting be- tween the French soldiers and the natives in the Musselman quarter of the city. For twenty-four hours the native held the French troops in @ narrow strip separating the Musselman quar- ter from the “Christian” quarter de- spite the heavy bombardment from the surrounding hillsides by French artil- lery and the armored tanks, machine guns, and light cannon that were in action in the city reinforced by air- planes circling overhead dropping bombs on the rebellious Arabs. The Musselman quarter of Damas- cus is a mass of ruins. Homes were destroyed by cannon and fire after the French had battered thru the Arab lines. When France talks of the atrocities committed in Belgium by Germany let her remember the atroci- ties she has committed in Syria and Morocco. Gen. Sarrail in his desperate appeal for more troops points out that the forces commanded by General Gamelin will have to remain in Djebal as the mountaineers are looking for a weak- ening in French forces to go on the warpath again. French Casualties High. French casualties in Syria have to- talled 6,626 killed, wounded and miss- ing since France took over the man- date in 1920. It has cost the French regime from 1920 to 1924 2,000,000,000 francs ($100,000,000) and up to the present month of October it has cost her 197,000,000 francs ($9,850,000) for 1926, > reported Premier Painleve to the fi- nance commission of the French chamber of deputies on the question of expenditure in the Syrian war. French Gold Loan Fails to Reach Minimum Set After Intensive Drive PARIS, France, Oct, 22—The gold Joan which France expected to raise has fallen far short of the quota. The French government launched the loan one month and a half ago with the intention of raising at least 22,000,- 000,000 francs ($1,100,000,000) and as high as 30,000,000,000 francs ($1,500,- 000,000). The loan was floated on a four per cent gold basis, yet after its original period of one month to be raised passed, the time allotted to fill the quota was extended twice. In the en- tire period France was only able to raise 6,000,000,000 francs ($300,000, 000) or just a little over one-fourth of the minimum quota which she had set. The franc has dropped to the new low of 22.61 to the dollar, which is the lowest level since Morgan stepped fm and saved France from bankruptcy with his $100,000,000. The cabinet fearing a defeat in face | of such a condition, has deferred the opening of parliament until October 29. “Speed-up” Postal Work, BOSTON—The “speedup” system for handling mails was denounced by the Boston local of the National Fed- eration of Postoffice Clerks at its monthly meeting. FEDERAL OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE U. S. MAY BREAK COAL STRIKE WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22—That Washington anony- mity “federal officials’ ably the government will have to strike, after all, the cold weather the miners are still showing no si It is suspected that this significant observation of federal officials has added meaning in recent issue in the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, in the insisting that an attempt be made to open the mines with scabs, depending on hunger driving some men back, and on the ready swarms of gunmen and professional | special “Bankers’ Issue, strikebreakers. n statements to the press, say that prob- intervene in the anthracite coal having settled down early while igns of giving up their demands. view of the announcement in WOOLEN MILL WAGE CUTTING STARTS STRIKE Passaic Mill Workers Begin Walkout PASSAIC, N, J., Oct. 22.—The first resistance to a program of cutting wages in all the local mills was shown when 380 workers walked out of the Passaic Worsted Spinning com- pany in strike against a ten per cent wage cut, which the company refused to rescind after protest. Attack On Wages The attack on wages has been made on the workers of four plants previ- ously, including the Botany Worsted Mills, the Garfield Worsted Mills, the Pitkin Worsted company and the Gera Mills. Up to now the workers have made no strike movement. But when the Passaic Worsted Spinning com- pany workers struck, the resistance began. In an interview the strike committee says: “Last Monday our committee ap- peared before Mr. Holdsworth and told him that we were the poorest paid mill in the city and therefore it would work a hardship on us to accept a ten per cent decrease. Hey told us he would take it up at a meet- ing of the directors. At the time we went out, all but the third floor spin- ning department went back to work until this morning, to wait for an answer. “This morning the answer came at 11 o’clock. It was to the effect that the mill owners would have to decrease our wages ten per cent. So we simply put on our hats and coats and walked out. The mill is closed down this afternoon as the result. Some Bobbin Throwing. “The third floor spinners refused to go out at first, but they finally agreed to after we had gone up there and there was some bobbin throwing. The foreman in that department was hit on the head after careful aim by one of the workers and he threaten- ed to turn the fire extinguisher on us, but he finally agreed to go out with the rest of us. We are determined to stay out until we hear they will not cut us ten per cent.” Building Tradesmen Plan Work in Soviet Russia’s Rebuilding DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 22.—A meet- ing of the Cooperative Construction company of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, an organization of workers in the building trade, who intend to go to Soviet Russia to build houses for the workers instead for the speculators, will be held Satur- day Oct. 24th at 8 p. m., at the House of the Masses, Room 6, Information can be obtained from A. M. Katz, sec’y., 1610 Collinwood, Detroit, Mich, . German Nationalists Vote Against Locarno BERLIN, Oct, 22—The first obstacle to the successful execution of the Lo- carno security pacts arose today when German nationalists deputies met and decided to vote against the Locarno pacts when they are brought before the reichstag for ratification. Strike Against 28-Loom System. WARE, Mass.—Weavers of the Otis Co, textile mills are striking against the 28-looms-per-weaver system insti- Build the DAILY WORKER!) tuted by the management. 5,000 COAL MINERS STRIKE IN SPAIN WITH THE METAL WORKERS PLANNING WALKOUT IN SYMPATHY PARIS, Oct. 22—Despite a rising employment more than 5,000 coal miners have gone on strike for better living conditions. Thousands of metal workers are preparing to walk out in sympathy with the coal digge cist sanguinary repression in Italy, and all over the capitalist dominions. FIFTEEN WORKERS WHO WERE ARRESTED IN N.Y. PROTEST ARE RELEASED NEW YORK CITY, Oct, 21.—The fifteen workers who were arrested in New York Saturday for picketing the Hungarian consulate in protest against the arrests and death sent- ences of workers in Hungary by the Horthy government, were arraigned Saturday afternoon and sent up for trial in the night court where they were released on parole for the night with order to appear for trial Sunday morning. The fifteen prisoners, Samuel Levich, Max Rosenberg, Eugene Razler, Samuel Einwchner, Antonia Wechsler, Russel Blackwell, J, Mill- er, Lena Chernenko, Louis Schwartz, Joseph Nester, Lenora Diamond, Florence Rauh, Lena Starkman, and Julius Fischman took the op- portunity of their temporary free- dom to attend the ball of the Inter- national Labor Defense held Satur- day evening at The Lyceum, 86th street and 3rd avenue, The ball was attended by a large throng of workers and upon the ar- rival of the prisoners they were giv- ea a rousing ovation, Rose Baron, secretary of the International Labor Defense, explained the circumstanc- es of the arrests and described the conditions of the white terror in Hungary and the threat of judicial murder hanging over the heads of Rakosi and other Hungarian work- ers. The pickets were greeted on their entrance by the enthusiastic singing of the International by all the workers present. The prisoners were arraigned the following morning and received a suspended sentence with $20 fine. Open Shop Taxi Boss Tries Wage Cut But Meets a Strike Call By, WORKER CORRESPONDENT. NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 22.—A strike to take effect at once was call- ed Monday by aco wittee of drivers of the Guardian faxi corporation The strike is the result of a notice to all drivers by the company that the company will pay a commission of 40 per cent to the drivers only if they should book $75 a week or better. Un- til last. week the company has been paying 40 per cent to the drivers if they had worked six days per week. All those drivers that only worked five days received onry 35 per cent. The company is a new company in this cIty and has been advertising for drivers for the past three months. They never were able to hold the driv- ers because of the poor condition of the cars. The cars are supposed to be new, but many of the old timers in the hacking game know differently. The cabs are the rebuilt cabs that were seized from the independent owners who could not meet their notes. The Guardian Taxi corporation is financed by some large corporation THE DAILY WORKER LL.D. WIRES KELLOGG" ON Fears Rakosi Charges, Is Accusation The refusal of the state department to permit Countess ng ihe Karolyi of Hungary to enter ,the United States is directly cofthected with the court-martial trials of}Mathias Rakosi and more than a hi ded members of the independent socialist party of Hungary, and the attempts of the Wall Street backers jof the Horthy government to veil these procedures with secrecy, declares James P. Can- non, secretary of the International Labor Defense. Countess Karolyi has been refused a vise for her passport by the United States consul of Paris by order of the state department, Countess Karolyi is in no way connected with the revo- lutionary or labor moyements of Hun- gary, but is a representative of liberal bourgeois elements who have been op- posed to the Horthy martial law regime. The, International Labor Defense has wired to Frank Kellogg, secre- tary of state, pointing out that the re- fusal to admit even the bourgeois. op- ponents of the Horthy murder regime to enter America, is proof of the fact that the American backers of the Horthy regime are afraid to let the American people know even a slight inkling of the actual state of affairs in Hungary. The telegram signed by James P, Cannon, secretary of the In- ternational Labor Defense, is as fol- lows: “Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, “Washington, D. C. “Today’s issue Chicago Tribune states Countess Karolyi, of Hungary has been refused permission to enter the United States by, order state de- partment. Why does the state depart- ment deny the American people the} opportunity of hearing eyen the bour- geois political opponents of Horthy while the representatives of the blood- thirsty Horthy government which is financed and supported by Wall Street are received with open arms? “The Horthy, government maintains} itself against the will of the Hun- garian people by wholesale imprison- ment, torture, and murder of workers and peasants. At this moment, Mathias Rakosi and more than one hundred members of the independent socialist party of Hgpgary are con- fined in Horthy’s torture chambers and facing court-martial and execu- tion. “The American people would join this protest if they knew the facts. Are the American . supporters of Horthy afraid that Countess Karolyi, who is in no way identified with the revolutionary and labor) movement of Hungary, might nevertheless give some slight inkling of the actual state of affairs there? “(Signed) J. P. Cannon, Sec’y, “International Labor Defense.” Politicians Turn Cold Shoulder to Mellon Tax Proposal WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. — Secy. Mellon’s reception before the house ways. and means committee, when he proposed that surtaxes on the biggest private incomes be cut in two—from 40% to 20%—and admitted that he | strike. would like to see them cut to a max- imum of 15 per cent, was far from cor- dial. Even the republican majority and one of its main bosses Jesse Don- ella, Donella has always been known as a open shop boss. He was presi- dent of the City. Taxi Service in 1922, when that company refused the de- mands of the mogul checker drivers for an increase in commission of five per cent, The men went out on strike and in less than two weeks they won. Donella also was one of the bosses of the Quaker Holding company. The men on that job early this year went out on strike for an increase in pay from 35 to 40 per cent, The strike lasted three hours and the men agai won, Donella was at one time a gar- age superintendent of tne open shop Yellow Taxi corporation, If the company does not give the men the increase that the men de- mand a meeting will be called of all taxi chauffeurs in a day or two call- ing upon them to support the strik- ers. The Guardian company has three garages and employs about sey- en hundred drivers. Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. West Workers! We Mu The bloody “black shirts” are a menace to the working class of the whole world; must unite internationally to crush such mercenaries, Come to the Side Auditorium Racine Ave. and Taylor St. of the big committee showed coolness toward some of his suggestions, as they contemplated the effect Mellon’s proposals would have on the republi- can party vote. The democrats were evidently pleased that he had taken go reactionary a position, Two days of hearings showed that the committee would accept only a modified form of the Mellon proposals and that the democrats would present a minority report which ‘would force further concessions. Mellon’s demand for repeal of the inheritance and gift taxes, and his further,demand for the repeal of the publicity clause in the income tax law, were met with quiet smiles from the opposition to this mouthpiece of big business. British ‘J ployers Try to Win the Youth for KAROLYI BAN) Role of Strikebreakers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. teeta meager news arrives of the opening in Great Brit- ain of a series of so-called training centers for unem- ployed juveniles’ in the great industrial city of Birmingham. The announcement is made by “Labor Minister” Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland. Since his lordship is the labor minister of the Baldwin tory government, that would place him about on a par with Coolidge’s secretary Pittsburgh millionaire. of labor, James J. Davis, the *. . * * When the capitalist press in this country publishes this bit of news, it tries to leave the impression that this move of the Baldwin government is an altruistic effort to solve the unemployed problem. The boys are given thoro train- ing as apprentices in the big Birmingham munition works, that has been transformed into a so-called training school. A start has been made with 400 jobless boys from 19 to 25 years of age. Another center will be organized at Newcastle, to train boys for work on the * * As a matter of fact, even farms. at this distance, it can readily be seen that these schools are but training centers for strike- breakers. The British army of jobless is rapidly approaching the two million mark. of decreasing. A large percentage of the And it is a different sort of usually finds in the United States. It is increasing in numbers, instead jobless belong to labor unions. unemployed army than one It is an army of jobless that does not scab. Arthur A. Purcell, fraternal delegate of the British Trade Union Congress, to the recent American Federation of Labor, pointed out this fact with some pride. Few blacklegs come from the work. Instead these jobless ranks of those who are out of hold meetings declaring their solidarity with workers on strike, and join in the picket lines of the strikers. * * Under these conditions it is difficult for the bosses to organize an army of strikebreakers to take the places of those workers using the strike weapon to maintain their standard of living. It is in this dilemma that the employers have evidently fallen back on their “training centers” for boys, unemployed boys, whose minds can be poisoned with jingoism, making them pliable material to be moulded into strikebreakers, just as fascism wins carefree youth, ignorant of its catspaw role in the hands of labor’s enemy. * * * * fi It is inconceivable that the products of these “training centers” could be of much use in a national industrial up- heaval, in the mines, on the railroads, or on the docks. But these strikebreakers could probably be useful in combatting the local struggles of workers’ where smaller numbers are engaged. They could thus be considered as auxiliaries for the infamous “O, M. S.”, the | organization for the mainten- ance of supplies, the fascist: atmy with which British em- ployers hope to resist syccessfully future onslaughts by Britain's organized workers. Thus the British capitalistsjaré- not interested in solving the problem of unemployment. They can find no solution under capitalism, even if they had the slightest desire to look for it. Instead, they are trying to meet the conditions grow- ing out of unemployment, an idle working class, hungry, dis- contented and, with winter coming on, * * * * The organization of these “training centers” desperate. is only another confession by British employers of their fears for the future. These “centers” must fail of their purpose be- cause youth in Great Britain is being won, in increasing numbers, to the standards of tish labor will successfully labor's struggle for power. Bri- meet and overcome even this maneuver of its capitalist enemy. 300 Taxi Drivers of New York on Strike NEW YORK, Oct. 22—Over three hundred taxi drivers employed by the Guardian Taxi Corp. are out on The vote to strike was taken Sunday night at a meeting of chautf- feurs. The demands of the drivers are as follows: A flat rate commission of 40 per cent, regardless of the days on’ the job instead of the old system of work- ing six days for 40 per cent. The drivers are against the new program of the bosses which would give the men 40 per cent only if they booked $75 a week or over. A Mr. Smith representing the com- pany offered the men 40 per cent provided they worked six days per week this wffer was flatly turmed down by the drivers. All the night men at the E. 18 St. garage are out and it is expected that in the morning the day men will follow them. SOVIET LABOR UNION DELEGATES TO VISIT MEXICAN CONVENTION (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct. 22.—Dispatches from Moscow announce that the Russian unions will be represented at the convention of trade unions in Mexico City. The ecutive bureau of the Soviet trade unions y erday announced it had accepted an invitation to send a delegation. Mass Meeting You will hear the truth about the fas- st Crush Fascism! the workers DAUGHERTY INJUNCTION BACKERS LAUD GREEN'S ANTI-COMMUNIST STAND WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Praise for his anti-Communist stand at the recent convention in Atlantic City has been given in a letter to Wil- liam Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, by Mrs. John D. Sherman, president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. During the railroad shop strike of 1922 the General Federation ot Women’s Clubs’ national officers joined in a round-rcbin statement approving the stand of Atty. Gen. Daugherty in enjoining the strikers. Many College Workers, NEW YORK—The New York Uni- versity employment bureau announces the placing of 1,539 students who are working their way thru school in whole or part. Unionists have long complained against the tendency of these college workers to work cheap and break down union standards in partially organized trades. f The attack on Gitlow is an at- tack on the workers of New York. Build the DAILY WORKER, Robert Minor SPEAKERS: Antonio Presi, Dr. Valentino Camera, At- torney Cairloi Gigliotti, Carlo Della Calce. DEBS JOINS IN PROTEST. UPON RAKOS! TORTURE Condemns ‘“‘Atrocious Outrage” of Horthy (Continued from page one) that the workers acting under the direction of the International Labor Defense were fulfilling their interna- tional duty to their class brothers in Hungary in protesting against the threatened executions of a former peoples’ commissar and hundreds of others who are members of the inde- pendent socialist party. The picketing of the consulate is entirely legal and constitutional and will be continued despite the illegal conduct of the police and the courts until there is definite assurance that the proposed judicial murder of Rakosi and his com- rades is cancelled, said Comrade Baron. The inscriptions on the banners carried by the pickets attracted much attention, Some of them read: “De- mand the liberation of Horthy's vict- ims”; ‘“Rakosi shall not be murder- ed”; “The workers of America de- mand Rakosi’s freedom”; and “Wall Street finances Horthy; on Wall Street lies the bloody guilt.” ‘#8 NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 21.—Altho unable to join actively in the protest against the atrocious white terror raging in Hungary, Eugene V. Debs, socialist party head, has expressed himself unequivocally in opposition to the Horthy regime of torture and death being visited upon the Hun- garian revolutionary workers, as may be seen by the following telegrams be- tween the New York International La- bor Defense and Debs: New York City, Oct. 15, 1925. Eugene V. Debs, Academy of Music, Brooklyn N. Y. Life of Rakosi, Hungarian Com- munist, imperilied. One hundred Hungarian workers are facing cution. International Labor D nse arranged protest meeting this Satur- day afternoon at one o’clock, Union Squ: Invites you to participate speaking, International Labor Defense, New York Section, Rose Baron, Secretary. Hotel Casey, Scranton, Pa., + October 17, 1925. Rose Baron, Secretary International Labor Defense, New York City. Dear Comrade.—it is with regret that | find myself unable to attend the protest meeting to be held to- day in behalf of the Hungarian comrades to which you have kindly -invited me. 1 fully share with you the indignation and resentment you fee! at the atrocious outrage with which these Hungarian comrades are threatened and were It possible 1 should certainly attend tod: protest demonstration in this be- half. Hoping your meeting may be largely attended and have all hoped for results, | am (Signed) Eugene V. Debs. At the meeting the following reso- lution was adopted: “Whereas, The United States gov- ernment has seen fit to admit within its borders Gustav Gratz, George Lu- ckacs and other representatives of the government of Hungary to the conferences of the interparllamentary union, and “Whereas, These delegates repre- sent the Horthy regime now in con- trol of Hungary which has been re- sponsible for the slaughter of thou- sands of innocent workers and peas- ants since 1919, and “Whereas, The Hungarian white terror instituted by the Horthy gov- ernment has committed most barbar- ous and cruel atrocities against the workers, and “Whereas, The Horthy government of Hungary has arrested Mathias Ra. kosi and one hundred other workers whose sole crime was the protection of the interests of the workers and peasants of that country, and “Whereas, This attack upon the workers and peasants of Hungary is but a part of a world-wide reign of terror which the capitalists of the world are seeking to put into effect. “Therefore, Be it Resolved by this mass meeting of workers of the city: of New York that we demand that the imprisoned workers and peasants of Hungary be immediately liberated, and that the present inhuman reign, of terror be ended. “And, be it further resolved that we demand the immediate liberation of Rakosi and the Hungarian workers, This meeting further demands that the imprisoned workers of all white terror countries—Poland, Bulgaria, Esthonia, Germany, Italy, be berated. “This resolution to be sent to the state department, the Hungarian con- sulate, the interparliamentary union and the press.” — Ralph Chaplin = ‘