The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1925, Page 2

Oo GREEK OCCUPATION OF BULGAR TERRITORY CONTINUES DESPITE ANNOUNCEMENT OF PEACE TERMS (Special to The Daily Worker) ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 23.—Despite the pronunciamento by the Pangalos military dictatorship of Greece that all military movements ‘against Bulgaria have ceased, since the Bulgarian representative at Athens has in behalf of the Zankov government promised to pay the 2,000,000 gold franc indemnity demanded for the killing of Greek soldiers near Demirhissar, occupation of Bul- garian territory continues, The Sofia government has also agreed to make an apology for the raid in which Greek soldiers were killed by Bulgarian regulars. Greece Refuses to Withdraw. Greece still maintains its army in Bulgaria and insists she will keep her troops on Bulgarian soil until the final payment of the indemnity is made. She al-+— so demands that all Greek ports taken by Bulgarian troops be evacuated immediately. Petrich in Flames Information arriving from Petrich | states that the Bulgarian town is in flames following the fierce bombard- ment by the Grecian artillery which has driven the Bulgars out of the town. Jugosiav Troops Rush to Border News arriving from Belgrade state that Jugoslav troops are being massed neat the Bulgarian border. The Bel- grade government will hold its troops in readiness to resist any attempt on | the part of the Greek and Bulgar troops to fight out their battles on Jugoslay soil. Casualties Unknown All news as to the casualties in this Greco-Bulgar flareup is being strict- ly censored and it is impossible to estimate the number of lives lost to satiate the greed of the Pangalos and Zankov governments. DEAD HAND OF LODGE SMITES DEAD WILSON Stupid Book Shows Up Both Satesmen (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Wood- row Wilson had “only himself to blame” for the failure of the United States senate to ratify the treaty of ‘Versailles and the league of nations covenant, according to the late Sen- ator Henry Cabot Lodge's version of the stirring events of 1919-20, pub+ lished by Seribner’s today, in the senator’s book “The Senate and the League of Nations,” which he com- pléted only a month before his death. Picturing the war president as a man consumed by personal ambition, and intolerant of any opinions other than his own, Senator Lodge’s post- humous book foolishly declares that had Woodrow Wilson remained in Washington instead of going to Paris he would have changed the history of the world. But President Wilson, Lodge said, was intent more on the Jeague than on the peace treaty, and he was intent upon the league be- cause he believed he would head it. “The key to all he did was that he thot of everything in terms of Wil- son... The thot of self always over shadowed in the ultimate decision and effaced every other considera- tion.” Senator Lodge did not consider Woodrow Wilson an idealist, but thot himself an idealist. It is a dull book written by one old man calling an- other one names and has no historic or political value whatsoever. Tammany Judge Denies Atheists the Right to Incorporate Society (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Incorpora- tion of “The American Association for the Advancement of Atheism” was disapproved yesterday by Supreme Court Justice Mitchell, who ordered the petition held by the clerk of the court and not returned to Attorney Charles Smith, petitioner of record. Mitchell, state supreme court jus- tice, is 4 Roman catholic and a Tam- manyite, who thinks that those who expose the fraud of religion should be silencéd. Where is the so-called freedom of thought and speech guar- anteed by the constitution? Now about separation of church and state? a Tammany judges ever bother about 4 trifle of that sort, any more than capitalist judges in general bother constitutional provisions when it interferes with their business. N, Y. CAMPAIGN TAKEN TO SHOPS IN NOON TALKS Shoe and Cap Factory Workers Interested NEW YORK CITY—Meetings at hoon-hour in front of the shops are proving one of the most popular fea tures of this campaign. Brownsville, Bronx and Lower New York are the principle districts in which this is being undertaken and especially in Brownsville, it is meeting with great succéss. All of the Brownsville shoe factor- ies elected delegates directly from the shops to the trade union ratification meeting held recently in Manhattan Lyceum. Shoe Factories Take Poll On Tuesday, Oct, 20, P. Cosgrove, organizer of the Boot and Shoe Work- ers’ Protective Union, and Bert Wolfe, candidate for assembly in the district, spoke atethe noon-hour before one of the largest shoe factories in Browns- ville. After the meeting, a poll was taken of all those attending and Wa- terman, Walker and Thomas received no votes whatsoever, Almost the entire audience signified their intention of voting the straight Communist ticket and writing in the name of Benjamin Gitlow for mayor. Those who did not so signify their intention, When questioned explained that they were not citizens and there- fore had no vote. Thus, the vote was in reality unanimous. Capmakers’ Noon-Hour Meeting On Wednesday, Oct. 21, a successful noon-hour open air meeting was held in the capmakers district, Lower New York, The workers were eager to listen to the speakers. They were par- ticularly interested in the victories of the left wing of the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union because the defeat of the Sigman machine signalizes also the defeat of Zaritzky and the advent to power of the left wing in the Cap Makers’ Union. The workers readily understood why Gitlow was taken off the ballot, particularly in connection with the strike that the Amalgamated is now conducting in this city in the Inter national Tailoring Co. Literature and the special needle trades edition of The DAILY WORKER were distribu- ted and the workers called upon to at« tend a ratification meeting called by the needle trades campaign committee at Hunts Point Palace. Regular noon: day meeting will be held. Simmons, Ku Klux Klan. ATLANTA, Ga., Oct, 23.—Alleging that the use of “fraudulent state: ments” by Amos W. Brazleton, local real estate man, deprived him of $65,000 rightfully due from the ku klux klan in return for the surrender of his contract with the klan, a pett- tion of William Joseph Simmons, for- mer imperial wizard of the Klan, was on file in superior court here today. Simmons seeks to recover the $55,000 from Brazleton, Brazleton, it is alleged, nego- tiated the deal between Simmons and the klan, whereby the former agreed to surrender a contract giving him $1,000 a month for life, for $145,000 cash, Simmons alleged that Brazleton told him the klan offered only $95,000, and that the real estate man retained the $55,000 difference actually paid by the klan as his commission for nego- tiating the deal, 20,000,000 Died of Flu. According to new census figures the deaths caused by the influenza epi- demic of 1918 thruout the world was equalling only that of the black death nearly 20,000,000, the death rate of the Middle Ages, Tf you want to thoroughly un derstand Communism—study it. $50,000 WORTH OF EMBALMED HORSE FLESH DESTINED FOR NEAR EAST CONSUMPTION DESTROYED BY FIRE ROCKFORD, IIl., Oct. 23—Canned horse meat destined for human con- sumption in the Near East and valued at $50,000 was destroyed by fire, which gutted one wing of th ppell Brothers H Packing Co. The fire is believed to have been kindled by persons incensed ‘at the rumors of sickly and worn-out horses being used as food for human con- sumption \ Striking Anthracite . Coal Miners Hear Communist Message (Continued from page 1) about Russie?” Tallentire replied that the workers had established a govern+ ment which wag on their side in the fights against the bosses and he was showing why the workers of Pennsyl- vania should do the same thing. After Tallentite’s speech in relation to the labor party, the need of oust- ing the agents of the bosses and police, the mayor, who was half-drunk, started @ disturbance and demanded that the hall be cleared. He directed the state police to take charge of Tallentire and Zalpis. While they were being pushed toward the door of the hall they were separated from the police and stepped into a waiting automobile before the police had time enough to think and put them under arrest. The interruption of the meeting by the mayor and his police has caused a@ considerable amount of unrest among the miners. It is the subject of general discussion, and the miners are demanding that the authorities do not disturb their gatherings. Many Demand Strike Relief “With the anthracite strike running close to the end of the second month, there is a general demand for strike relief in the local unions, Many of the local unions have already paid out the money in their treasuries to their members and are asking that the na- tional organization use the funds which are being collected from the maintenance men who are taxed $5 every two weeks for relief of the strikers, Resolutions to this effect have been adopted in a number of local unions and the movement demanding that the Lewis machine use the funds of the unions to support the strike is grow- ing in momentum. At Throop, where the bosses en- deavored to mine coal with scabs, 600 men stormed the strikebreakers and stopped the loading of ¢oal. To all ap- pearances, the strike which up to this time was considered as a sort of vaca- tion and picnic by the miners, is en- tering into a stage were the miners have exhausted their funds and suffer- ing is beginning to develop among them and with it a more militant fighting spirit to make the strike a real fight for the miners’ demands. Membership meetings of members of the Workers Party have been held in every strike center during the last week and the members mobilized for active struggle in the local unions to place them on record for a hundred per cent strike, no arbitration, and no settlement without a wage increase and demand that the nternational union furnish strike relief, Progressive miners truout the dis- trict are also mobilizing for a struggle against the expulsion of Pat Toohey from his local union and similar ef- fotts to throw out other progressive miners from the organization, British Raids on Communists Follow Labor Party Treason not a defeat for the Communists; it was a blow for the working class. The purely liberal resolutions adopt+ ed, the repudiation of the fight against imperialism and the Dawes’ plan, which are degrading our fel- low workers abroad, and thereby striking at British conditions, the failure to: face the capitalist attack on wages and hours, were intended to please the capitalists. The Trade Union Congress has frightened them; the decisions at Liverpool have re- assured them. “The Trade Union Congress issued @ magnificent call for unity against the bosses—in the factories, between the unions, injernationally. The la bor party conference, by repudiating unity and rejecting resolutions based on the Class, struggle, extended an open invitation to the bosses to at- tack the workers. That is why the capitalist press is so delighted with the results and is already demanding that the attack should start by an on- slaught on the Communist Party. Capitalists Prepare Violence, “We are not afraid that the press campaign about Communists’ preach- ing violence, will prevent the workers from realizing that it is the capital- ists who are preparing to usé violence to erush labor. “Fellow workers! Follow the lead of your Trade Union Congress. Form factory committees to secure unity at the bottom! Send delegates from the factories to the trade councils, and thus consolidate your forces lo- cally! Insist on the formation of the workers’ alliance under the supreme authority of the general council, Meet the threat of organized strike-bi ing and capitalist violence by ins ing on the right to tell your brothers in the army and navy that they must not scab on the workers, and by form- ing your own defense corps against the O. M. 8, and the fascisti! “The labor party conference has shown how useless it is to rely on those who only utter left wing phras+ es and will not organize an opposi- tion to the present liberal leadership of the labor party. If you are sin- cere in your hatred of capitalism, and your scorn for its agents and pup- pets in labor's ranks, you must trans late yout anger into organized oppo+ sition. “Organize yourselves! For our part, we Communists, without fore- ing our opinions on you, will be will- ing to fight side by side with you. But no worker will believe that you intend to fight ‘iiléss you organize.” \ 1 jae ; THE DAILY: WORKER NUCLEI FORMED IN SECTION 1 CHICAGO W. P, —e Reorganization Goes Over on South Side By MARTIN ABERN Three shop nuclei and two street nuclei Were the result of the first section membership meeting, held ‘Wednesday, October 21, at Commun ity Center, 3201 South Wabash Ave. Two of the shop nuclei, Nos, 2 and 8, are in the clothing industry and have been in existence hitherto. Shop Nucleus No, 2 has four mem- bers and Shop Necleus No, 3 also has four members. A comrade from outside the industry—a waiter—was attached to function with this shop and meanwhile to work to build a nucleus in his place of work, a restaurant. Shop Nucleus No, 10, a machine shop nucleus, a new unit, was formed, consisting of three members. The members of Shop Nucleus No. 10 work in section thyee and will be transferred to that section® Members in Various Industries, The two street nuclei formed con- tain eleven and nine members, res: pectively, at this time, These street nucle! are made up of members work- ing in various industries, Among the occupations listed in the street nuclei are painters, 4& chemist, a lawyers, student, housewives, bank clerk, office workers, ‘party workers, artists, plumber, flour mill worker, and machinists, Belong to Many Unions, Union affiliations listed among the shop and street nuclei are seven mem: bers of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, three of the Office Workers’ Union, Bank Employes’ Union, Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union, Painters’ Union, and three in the Machinists’ Union. Forty-two comrades were present at this meeting, which included the members from the South Side Bng- lish branch, which contained nearly fall of the colored workers of the par- ty, Englewood English, South Side Scandinavian, Shop Nucleus 2 and 3. The rain contributed to the absence of quite a few membets, who will be attached as they are registered, to some shop nucleus. or street nucleus. Comrades at the meeting were as- signed to reach the absent comrades that those may be registered and as- signed. Twelve of the comrades who at- tended this meeting’ were fund to be either working or living in another section. These were instructed to attend another of the section meet» ings at which they will then ‘be Placed in their proper shop or street nucleus, These twelve temporarily unas- signed comrades were found to be em- ployed as steel workers, butcher in the stockyards, printer, dffice work- ers, draftsman, party workers, milk- man, cement worker, tuck pointer, carpenter, laborers, athletic instruc: tor. Union affiliations were Office Workers’ Union, Draftsmen’s Union, Typographical Union, Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, ‘Tuck Point+ ers’ Union. 5 The meeting was conducted in simple fashion. A few opening words by Comrade Abern; then the com rades filled out the registration cards. 4 ; The C. E. C. commisison, consisting of Comfades Lovestone, Abern and Minor then classified the registration as to occupation, place of work and place of residence. The results were the formation of the three shop nuc+ lei and two street nuclei. Elect Nuclei Officials. The shop and street nuclei formed, held meetings immediately and elect- ed temporary officers and afranged for the next meeting. A provisional section executive committee was formed from temporary represen tives from each shop and street nucleus, The section executive ar- ranged to meet soon in order to take up the immediate party work. As the section meetings in other sections ane held, there is no doubt that many shop nuclei will be organ+ ized, and the others into street nuclei, The remaning sections contain the bulk of the membership, It will, how- ever, be found that large numbers of the members who attend their assign: ed ion meeting, live or work in other sections, The party will trans- fer these comrades where they belong, The membership in the various sec: tions will equalize themselves, com: paratively, which.will admit of effect- ive functioning, ‘The first section meeting {s encour: aging. Comrades should exert all ef- forts to get out the maximum attend- ance at the forthcoming section meet- ings. The next ones to be held ara section 2, at Pullman, Stancik’s Hall, 205 Hast 115th St. on Wednesday, Ootober 28 and section 5, northside, on Thursday, October 29, at Imperial Hall, 2409 North Halsted St. Com- rades should follow the columns of The DAILY WORKER for news on the meeting, time and place of the section membership meetings, When all of the section meetings have been held, Local Chicago, Work- ers (Commiinist) Party will be entire- ly organized on the shop and street nucle! basis. ax Build the DATLY WORKER. Petrich, Bulgaria, Gives Lie to Peace Promises of Locarno, Switzerland By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. The thunder of cannon and the shedding of blood on the Greco-Bulgar- ian frontier blot out thé picture of the dove of peace so care~ fully sketched in the “peace” gathering of the profit diplo- mats in the Swiss village. : The present strife between Greece and Bulgaria may be patched up temporarily. Already the heads of the “terror” TOPAY: Petrich gives the lie to Locarno. government at Sofia have appealed to the league of nations. But “‘the league” is impotent; shown on a multitude of occa- sions, and if the war dogs now loose, are leashed agdin in the Balkans, it will be because the anti-labor tyrants who rule thru violence over the people of Bulgaria and Greece fear most of all the vengeance of their own enraged workers and farmers. * * Imperialist France, following the world war, was given the protectorate of Morocco and assumed the league of But that has not brot peace to ear East. Instead, the French cham- tions’ mandate over Syria. North Africa or to the nha- ber of deputies receives the information that France has lost more than 17,000 men and has spent more than 3,000,000,000 francs in Morocco since oes the “peace” duties of ol “the League.” Premier Pain to the parliamentary lackeys dead and 8,297 wounded Th killed, wounded or missing. that he will ask additional credits of the six months’ period of July-December, 1925, in Morocco alone. * e leve told the story in figures of French imperialism: 2,176 Morocco, and in Syria 6,626 Then the premier announces 000,000 francs for to be spent _It is easier to write imperialist treaties in Paris, for the subjugation of colonial peoples, than it is to carry them into effect. France has been learning that very effectivel dur- ing the last few months In North Africa and Abd-el-Krim says his people can kee If the protests among th up the war for six years if necessary @ discontented workers and peasants of France can be taken as a oriterion, it looks as if that won't be necessary. The growing solidari of the French proletariat with the battling Moroccans will attend to that. _ _ Aristide Briand, the French foreign minister, ing officer, has hurriedly called “the league” as presid- together for Monday to consider the matters at issue between Greece and Bulgaria. Balkan wars before 1914, were not considered as important by the so-called they are held to be at the present time. “great nations” of Europe as The Communist International has come into existence since the great war and points the way to real peace amon southern Europe, the peace that will ri farmers of their oppressors, the Soviet Union deeper into The celerity with which sponds to the call for help ing on the a: and the Frerte ressions of the Greek fascists, face each other these peoples of the workers and and push ‘the red frontier of western Europe, the Frenchman, Briand, re- from the Bulgari workers, would indicate that Paris han jeter ss just as there is basis for the claim that Great ulterior motives; Britain is egg- The British again as they did not _ ago in the Turkish turnover that brot Mustapha Kema Pasha into power. b ° * The lie is given to Locarno. ‘@ ° It is not so easy to settle the contraditions within the capitalist system; to eliminate the basis of conflicts between competing i can only be achieved thru the triumph of tine, the present ruling class and economy. New war flames i ms, That triumph of the workers over the development of a world in the Balkans must light the way for greater solidarity between the workers and farmers of the many Balkan states in t Soviet Federation. heir struggle for an All-Balkan UPR By oe sharma, | te NOS Engdahl Pictures Reactionary Antics at Atlantic City (Continued from page one) introduced. On the questions of amal- gamation, trade union unity, class collaborattion and the labor party, he depicted the line-up against the propositions, His description of Green stating that the resolution on class collaboration’ was’ a piece of im. pudence aroused laughter among the audience. Naturally Green would view -with disfavor a resolution strik- ing at his connections with the .cap- italist class of this country, On the labor party question all the big guns of the convention—Prési- dent Green, John P. Frey, of the molders, Jim Lynch of the printers— declared that some day a labor party would rise, but the time was not yet ripe for it. Aside from delegates sup+ porting the left wing in all its de mands, Max Hayes, of the Interna: tional Typographical Union, was the only one who took the flor for a labor party. Purcell’s Reception. The appearance of A. A, Purcell, of the British delegation, and his plea for world trade union unity and recognition of Soviet Russia, caused the machine to mobilize its batteries to defend its reactionary position. Particularly illuminating was the de- Acription of the fulsome praise given to the Coolidge administration in re- fusing to recognize Soviet Russia, Green entinclated a Monroe doctrine (%) of labor, to the effect that since the doctrine of the government was “protection” of both North and South America from European domination, so the A. F, of L. must regard labor in the same light; hence the Pan- American Federation of Labor, The closing ‘remarks of Comrade Bngdahl were greeted with enthusi- asm as he concluded with the predic tion that the left wing forming in the labor movement in this country would eventually gain leadership of the la bor movement and place it in line with the working claas of the rest of the world, instead of playing the game of imperialist as it does today. Gasoline Price War Continues in Attempt to Kill Independents (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, IIL, Oct. 23—~The gasoline price-outting war in this section still continues in the effort to force inde- pendent dealers from the field. In Paris dealers are holding out for the old rate while neighboring county towns are selling for 13 cents. Reports state that individual rural dealers have made a new low rate of 12 cents per gallon, Union Bootblacks on Strike in New York’s Upper West Section (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—About 800 bootblacks of upper westside New York shops are striking for $22 to $26 a week; one day's rest in seven; hours of B a. m. to 8 p. m. except Saturdays 8 m. to 10 p. m. and Sundays or holidays 8 a, m. to 3 p, m. The workers are members of the new: ly organized United Hat Cleaners’, Shoemakers’ and Bootblacks’ Inde pendent Local Union, Judge to Hear Plea Against Higher Fares This morning a hearing will be held in eral Judge Adam ©. Cliffe’s court, Attorneys for the Chicago and North Western railway company will plead for a temporary injunction to restrain the Illinois commerce com: mission from interfering with the col- lection of the increased, suburban passenger fares which becomes ef: fective Tuesday morning. Attorney General My a Carlstrom is expected to appear for the commission to op: pose the railroad’s plea. Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shop-mate, GALLES EXHIBITS VERSATILITY IN MEXICAN AFFAIRS Cute Senorita Was Only Aiding the Nation (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) MEXICO CITY, Oct, 23.—President Calles of Meico may be harsh and un- bending towards the labor unions who do not want their wages out and theit unions destroyed or turned into aids to the bosses, but Senor Calles has a forgiving and kindly side to his nature. Ths is shown by hs speech at San Luis Potosi, where he came to the de- fense of his finance minister, Pani, who, in an expedition into the United States on mission of state business, probably a call at Mr. Morgan’s well known bank, was accompanied by a beautiful actress of old Spain, one Gloria Faure, who from all accounts endeavored to compensate Senor Pani ir some measure for his enforced absence from home and fireside. “Boys May Be Boys.” This became a public scandal in Mexico when in the house of parlia- ment @ rude representative of the op- pressed peons, or speaking in their name at least, one Soto y Gama, said that Senor Pani—and other govern- ment leaders as well, ought while in office at least, act like respectable married men, Instead, Senor Pani, with the treasury of the Mexican re- public in trust, was cavorting off into the empire of the Yankee, disobeying the Mann “white slave act” with Senorita Gloria in the most brazen manner, “Boys may be boys,” said Senor Soto y Gama, but they should- n’t be finance ministers. Calles, in his speech settled the matter, as dictators are wont to do, by charging that the derelictions of Senor Pani had been raised by the “enemies of the government” and that too, for mere “political reasons.” “Senor Pani,” said Calles, “is doing splendid work to reeem the nation.” What Price Gloria? And he added that while some dem- agogic politicans were trying to find objects to throw in Senor Pani’s way, he, Calles, would not. Thus, intimat- ing that the Mexican republic shouki be grateful to Senorita Faure for her collaboration with Senor Pani in “re- deeming the nation” by a visit with Wall Street. This done, Senor alles declared that any of the railroad unionists who tried to resist his ordérs to reduce the number of men employed and ott the wages of those at work, should be tried by courtmartial and éxeouted; again proving’ the versatility of the president of Mexico; one Plutarco Calles, New York Industrial Group Organizers to Meet on Monday Night NEW YORK OITY, Oct. 28.—Ail leading party members in each indus- trial group and all branch industrial organizers meet Monday, October 26, at 8 p. m., at 108 Hast 14th St. All groups must be represented: needie trades, metal trades, building trades, leather trades, printing trades, ete. This is the regular monthly meeting of all industrial functionaries. All comrades concerned must be present without fail. / (Signed) Bert Miller, Industrial Organizer, Attention, Pittsburgh! Everybody Must Come PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 23—~A meeting of all barbers, members of the Workers Party, of Pittsburgh and vicinity will be held in the party head- quarters, 805 James St. N.S. Pitts- burgh, Tuesday, Oct, 27, 8 p.m. All members must attend. A meeting of all members of the Workers Party engaged in the food industry, both union and nonunion members, will be held in the party headquarters, 805 James St., N. 8. Pittsburgh, Pa. on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 8p. tm. Everybody must attend. Tf you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. State Governors Ask Repeal of ax on the Rich {Continued from page one) Iilinois, one member of the committee, declared that “for months there has been an intensive and expensive edu-) cational campaign on in my district to repeal this law.” : Arguments ‘used against the estate tax are “economically unsound,” said Rainey, “but they are widely disse- minated. 1, for one, would like to know where the money comes from to finance this campaign.” Both Chairman Green of Iowa, and Representative Garner democrat of Texas, expressed surprise at’ the growth of thé “tax clubs” in their respective stat The Texas and I tax olubs e had a fleld day fore the committee, urging repeal of the estate tax. A score of states were represented before the committee today, either [by the governor or his representative, among which were Illinois, and Mim- noesota,