The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1925, Page 3

‘ ] | THE DA ILY WORKER Page Three PICKET HORTHY EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON U. §.. SUPREME COURT REFUSES APPEAL OF ANITA WHITNEY ON SYNDICALISM LAW VIOLATION WASHINGTON, D, C., Oct. 25.—The appeal before the United States supreme court of Anita Whitney, former member of the Communist Labor Party and the Industrial Workers of the World, “for a review of her conviction in the California state courts, for Unitéd States supreme court claimed it had no jurisdiction over the casé and refused to listen to the appeal. Anita Whitney of Oakland, California, was convicted of vio- | lating the state criminal. syndicalism act which forbids “‘member- ship or association in groups teaching the violent overthrow of the government. or the, unlawful destruction of property.” She was charged with membership in the Communist Labor Party maivinmelaadkstaeiveds Tecan tc dntonisee ane eel and also in assisting the I. W. W. to raise funds for the defense of many members who were ar- rested under the state criminal syndicalist act. Court Refuses to Discuss Law The United States supreme court refused to pass upon the constitution- ality of the California criminal syn- dicalist law under which 100 members of the I, W. W. are now serving terms of 14 years or less for belonging to the I, W. W, _ * 2 @ Frisco Workers Protest SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25,—The International Labor Defense is arrang- ing a series of protest meetings in California protesting the refusal of the United States supreme court to review the appeal of Anita Whitney against her conviction in the Califor- nia state courts for an alleged viola- tion of the state syndicalism law. Oakland Meeting Saturday The first of these meetings will be held in Oakland, Anita Whitney’s home town, at the Native Sons Hall, Satur- day night, October 81. Arrangements are being made for protest meetings in Berkeley, Los An- geles and other California cities. United Front Demonstrations All efforts are being made to get as many of the lahor unions and or- ganizations of California as possible behind this united front protest against the criminal syndicalism law of California and the refusal of the supreme court tg act on the Anita Whitney appeal. Anita Out on Bail Anita Whitney is now out on $10,000 bail and had notified her law- yers that she will make ng further legal fight against serving her sent- ence. It is expected to have her say a few words at the protest meetings arranged in her Renate, + NEW YORK, Oct fe ss Amer- ican Civil Lilberties Union has sent a telegram to Governor Friend W. Richardson of California, asking for a pardon for Anita Whitney, whose ap- peal for a review of her conviction by the state courts of California for violation of the state criminal syndi- calism law was denied by the United States supreme court, on the grounds that the governors of Illinois and New York have pardoned members of or- ganizations who were charged with violations of the criminal syndicalism law. The Civil Liberties Union urges the governor to pardon Anita Whitnty as her conviction comes five years after the alleged offense of belonging to the then legal political organization the Communist Labor Party, which has long since been disbanded. > ore | To Save THE DAILY WORKER : { Attention—Chicago! If You Don’t Register, You Can’t Be in the Party Important Section Membership Meetings SECTION TWO » . | (PULLMAN AND VICINITY) ° HE reorganization membership meeting of Section. Two, which takes place in the following branches: Italian, Dauphin Park; Italian, Grand Crossing; Ukrainian Branch No. 3, Polish Branch, Russian Branch, South Slavic Branch, Ukrainian No. 7, Ford Nucleus, Pullman Nucleus, Illinois Steel, Wisconsin Steel, Chicago Heights Lithuanian will take place Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1925. ‘ EVERY Member of the Workers (Communist) Party attached to the above branches or shop nuclei must attend this meeting if he or she wishes to retain membership in the Workers (Communist) Party. Registration of all members will take place at STANCIK’S HALL, 205 East 115th Street, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1925, 8 P. M. All comrades will be assigned to their new party unite here, HORTHY TERROR CONDEMNED AT.’ PITTSBURGH MEET “Rakosi Must Not Die,” Is Slogan By M. RASNICK. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 25.—Sever- al hundred workers gathered in mass meeting at 35 Miller St., to protest against the attempt of the bloody Horthy government to murder Com- rade Mathias Rakosi, former peoples’ commissar of Soviet Hungary. After a vigorous speech by Comrade Bloor in which she pointed out the horrors of the white terror existing in most of European countries as well as in America as resolution of protest was adopted unanimously. The following telegrams were sent to senator Borah, head of the foreign relations committee and to the Hung- arian embassy. “Several hundred workers assembled in mass meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa. resolved to wire you their vigorous protest and indig- nation against the attempt of the bloody Horthy government of Hung- ary to murder Mathias Rakosi, former peoples’ commissar of Soviet Hunga- ry, without even a fair trial. Demand immediafe release of - Rakosi and others, also demand white terror in. Hungary be stopped immediately.” A collection to help in the defense of the ten comrades of Pittsburgh who are under charges since the, maid of 1923 and who are threatened with long terms in prison if proven guilty was taken, and the workers respond- “led generously. Armed Soldiers and. Pictures of Saints Mock Hunger-Strikers MOSCOW, Oct. 25.—(L.R.A)—A letter has been received from one’ of the imprisoned in the so-called section “H” of the Doftan penitentiary, giv- ing details about the hunger strike of Max Goldstein who has since died and others, We publish the following quotation therefrom: “They support their sufferings with courage and firmness. The corner of Doftan where the hunger strike is proceeding, is surrounded with a high enclosure, on which are suspend- ed as a mockery pictures of two greatest saints of the holy churelf, and at the side of this picture stands a soldier with loaded rifle and bayon- et, reminding us not only of heavenly but also of earthly rulers. There, be- hind this enclosure, the painful drama of our best comrades M. G. Bonkhor and Max Goldstein is going on,” Was Your Flivver There? DETROIT, Oct. 25.—U: of the railroads by the automobile manu- facturers totaled 734,730 carloads of cars and parts in 1924, was indicated in a compilation of James S, Marvin, chairman of the conference of the automobile traffic managers at their conference in Detroit, (Special to The sdipshg Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 26.— For the second time within a year Ambassadors’ Row in the capitol was stunned by a Communist de- monstration In a heavy rain a pick- et line was thrown around the Hun- garian embassy at 16th and O Sts., protesting against the savagery of the Horthy ,regime .that has let loose another blood bath ‘upon the people; of that unfortunate country. Banners defying the Hungarian government and demanding freedom for Rakosi, former commissar of the short-lived Bolshevik government of Hungary, who is in momentary ‘ . . hook “ye | danger of execution at the hands violation of the state criminal syndicalism law, was denied. The} ad of the white terror, were carried by 'the pickets. The Hungarian ambassador in Five More Pickets * Arrested in Front of Horthy Embassy (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) - NEW YORK, Oct. 26—Five more workers, members of the International Labor Defense, who were picketing ‘the Hungarian consulate on Morris Sti, near Broadway, not far from Wall St., the headquarters of American capitalism, were arrested. The picketing is part of the world- wide protest against the fascist rule that is now in power in Hungary, and is at present attempting to send Mathias Rakosi to the gallows for being a fighter in the front ranks of | the working class. Those arrested were: Joseph Va- das, Aleander Kozma, Gertrude Tob inson, Joseph Nestor and Sylvan A. Pollack. When brought before Judge Brough, in the White St. court, they were found guilty and released on a suspended sentence. Joseph R. Brod- sky, appeared as attorney for the defendants. Fifteen workers who were arrested on the same grounds last Saturday, were also released. Mitchell Court-Martial to Be Open to Public for “Good of Service” WASHINGTN, D. C., Oct. 25.—The war department is contemplating hay- ing the court-martial sessions of Colo- nel Willfam Mitchell’s trial for “con- duct prejudicial to good order and military discipline” open to the public. The charge and the mode of pro- cedure in the trial will not in any way allow Mitchell to spill the beans on the army or navy departments’ method of handling the air service. Mitchell will merely state avhether he is guilty or not of writing and stating certain facts as to the “cri- minal negligence” of the war and navy departments. It will resemble the evolution trial of Tennessee in many respects. Court-martial trials as a rule are kept secret but the war department officials are making a deviation from ordinary procedure “for the better- ment of the discipline within the ar- my.” Rich Program Offered for Opening Week by Chicago Opera Co. The fourth season of the Chicago Civie Opera Company, will open on Tuesday evening, (Nov. 3) with the Chicago premiere of Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier”—the first opera in the comic vein to be accorded such distinction in the Chicago annals of the lyric stage. In “Der Rosenka- valier” “ho less than twenty-three principals’ are named, necessitating the appearance of such a group as Raisa, Mason and Forrai on the feminine side, and Kipnis, Mojica, Cortis, Beck and others in the leading male roles, Wednesday evening introduces “Manon Lescaut,”with Ernesto Torti, baritone, making his American debut. The cast will include: Muzio, Beck, Cortis, Cotreuil, Mojica, Oliviero, Rimini, Trevisan. “Carmen” on Thursday evening will introduce Marguerite D’Alvarez as a guest artist in the title role, and Serge Oukrainsky and the ballet for the first time of the season. The cast will include D’Hermanoy, Ansseau, Cotreuil, Kipnis, Mojica. There will be no performance on Friday evening, Saturday being given over to “The Masked Ball” in the afternoon and “Rigoletto” at night. The first Sunday -afternoon per- formance brings the ever popular “La Traviata” with Claudia Muzio as Violetta, Antonio Cortis as Alfred, and @ cast embracing D’Hermanoy, Beck, Nicolich, Oliviero, Torti, Richard Bonelli, an American baritone with an extensive Buropean routining: ex- perience, will make his debut in the |’ role of Germont senior, Monday brings the close of the first week with von Flotow’s tuneful “Martha” with Edith Mason in the title role and Tito Schipa ag Lionel. The fifteen important parts will in- troduce the following, among the many singers: Anna Correnti, Irene Pavloska, Lazzari, Tort), Trevisan, . Put a copy of the DAILY ‘WORKER in your’ pocket when 22 Test cement 46 Washington is. the notorious scoun- drel, Szechenyi, who is influential at the state ‘house, but during the picketing, which tasted from 12 to 1:30 p. m., he did not make his appearance, NEWSPAPERS RAVE. The Washington newspapers car- ried lurid stories of the picketing of the embassy, publishing photos of the Communists, led by Bernard Herman and Joseph Shatzky, and the banners carried in the picket- ing. This is the second time within the past year that the Communists have invaded Amabassadors’ Row. The first time was last spring when | the Workers Party staged a gigan- tic protest before the Polish em- bassy against the sentence of death imposed upon Comrade Stanislav ROCKEFELLER AN GARY MAY FAVOR _ WINES AND BEER Anderson pa Attack on Volsted Law (Spesial to The DAILY WORKER.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—A story that has been going around the capi- tal for weeks, to the effect that un- less the new prohibition regime is able to make some headway in en- forcing the Volstead Act, administra tion officials, backed by Elbert H. Gary and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., will unite in asking congress to mod- ify the law, found its way into print today in the Fellowship Forum, a weekly newspaper whose principal editor is Wm: H. Anderson, deposed head of the anti-saloon league in New York stateg} , Is Pious John D., Jr, a Wet? Anderson Challenges Mr. Rockefel- ler to deny) the story that he has promised to support a modification of the law if Gen.- Lincoln C. And- rews’ new “military organization” is unable to enforce the dry laws any more adequately than they have been enforged. The story is head- lined: “Have wets won support of Mr. Rockefeller?” The Rogkefellers, father and son, have long been numbered among the principal ‘financial backers of the league, amd Anderson resents the loss of their financial support. The story on which Anderson's at- tack is based is that Rockefeller and other outstanding public men have become convinced that bad as beer and light wines might be, the pres- ent wave of “immorality” and dis- respect for law, particularly on the nart of the younger generation, is in- finitely worse, and that in the inter- ests of “national morality” a law should be framed that is possible of enforcement. Minneapolis Liberal Club Condones Action of Secretary Kellogg MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 25— At the last meeting of the Saturday Lunch Club, which poses as a “liberal” organization, 4 resolution protesting the barring of Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist member of the -British House of Commons, by Secretary of State Kellogg from the United States, for a speech made in the British parliament for Indian independence, was laid on the table after being presented by one of the members of the club. Thru this action the Saturday Lunch Club has illustrated how the so-called “liferals” of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis chamber of com- merce meet on the same _ political ground. 5 The motion to table was made by a blow-hard liberal who runs a small law-business. 5 He's Willing. Mayor William B, Dever of Chicago has signified his willingness to run as United State: ator from Illinois in the coming elections, to the demo- crat bosses, who are looking around for possible “strong” vote catchers, Mayor Dever’s chances to be the democrat choice are very high as the republican camp is split on the question as to-who will be their vote grabber. FOR RENT Beautiful Front Room for » One or Two Comrades In modern South Side apart- ment. All conveniences, priv- ate, no other roomers. Inquire at information desk, DAILY WORKER Office. To those who werk hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK ae ae ed 645 Smithfield Street i\McAndrew Gets Bosses’ Lanzutsky ey the Polish white ter + ror, This, like the Lanzutsky demon- stration is part of a world-wide movement to liberate the valiant | fighters of the working class who have fallen into the bloody clutches | of the white guard governments. POLICE THINK IT OVER. Near the close of the demonstra-\ tion the District of Columbia police \ arrived and ordered the pickets to | disperse, They refused and toldthe | police they intended to’ continue | to picket until 1:30, as planned. | This determined stand was some- what of a surprise to the police so they held a consultation among themselves and evidently decided to permit the picketing to continue until the time set by the Commun- ists had expired, rather than make arrests, Organization to Pass Favorable on Schedule The joint committee on school af- fairs, an organization comprizing del- egates from 27 civic bodies in Chi- cago which does not include one la- bor union or one teacher organiza- tion went on record yesterday after- noon as favoring the proposed McAn- drew teachers’ salary schedule. In a resolution copies of which will be sem to Mayor Dever, the board of educa- tion and the superintendent of schools they recommend that definite action be taken upon the schedule at the earliest possible time. To arguments advanced against the schedule by some of the delegates because of the financial burden on the already depleted treasury of the school board and the increased cost of education, the assurance was given that McAndrew’s plan to, cut the wages of teachers of service, compris- ing the large bulk of.the staff, and his plan to increase the size of the classrooms for each teacher from 3 to 20 pupils would cut the cost of teachers salaries sufficiently to take care of the increase for the principals, | etc. It was also argued that the refer- | GITLOW. CALLS ON THOMAS FOR UNITY INU. 3. Letter to Socialist NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Benjamin Gitlow, Communist. candidate for | mayor of New York City has called | mas’ assertions that he is for world Thomas, What will the socialist can+ didate do about this letter? York workers read this letter care- fully. Norman Thomas, socialist candidate for mayor, 7 East 15 St., New York City Dear Mr. Thomas: The Headgear Worker, official or- gan of the millinery workers, in its ssue of October 2nd, which has just ome to hand, carries extracts from a etter, sent by you, to the effect that you favor trade union unity. You are quoted as saying ,among other things, “I believe we must work for trade union unity because it is a meces- sity—and if I were an English worker, the naked necessity of making a. united front against capitalist im- perialism would force me to find a daily basis for an understanding for working jointly with the Commun- ists.” The views you express in this quo- tation compel us to write and ask the blunt question: “If you are in favor, of unity with the Communists |in Great Britain to fight the Dawes plan, why do you not promote such unity in this country?” Is not “our” vice-president, Mr. Dawes, spokesman of the House of endum will have to be held in April for an increase in the education fund | regardless of the schedule betause of the present bankrupt status of the| school treasury. | On Thursday, three ‘weeks from | yesterday a meeting will be ‘held to take up the question of teachers’ coun- ceils. Affiliated bodies to this com- mittee are such organizations as the Chicago city club, the sunion league | and the association of commerce. Party Reorganization Brings Great Demand for English Classes NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—The opening of the first English courses at the Workers School is showing surprising results. Altho only twenty-five will be admitted to a class, there were over 35 at the first meeting of the ele- mentary English class, and applica- tions have since been received that warrant the starting of at least two more elementary English classes at once. The Workers School will start as many classes as the registration warrants. The fee for each course is $2.50 for three months, once a week. The registration for the mtermediate and advanced English is of similar magnitude and demands are coming from the federations for courses in their headquarters ag well as in other sections of the city. To the Finnish Federation, English teachers who speak Finnish are be- ing supplied and the same plan will be pursued with the other federations where possible. Those wishing to register for Eng- lish can do so any day or evening in Morgan, the author of this plan which enslaves German labor and breaks down the labor standards of all Eu- rope? Does not thig plan mean also reduction of the living standards of American labor? Is it not driving the American workers toward another world imperialist war? Are there no reasons for unity of working class forces in America for a mutual de- fense against the same powerful cap- italist imperialism of Wall St. against which you propose that the British workers and the German workers and the Russian workers unite? There is an old saying, Mr. Tho- mas, that “The grass is always green- er farther off.” Look about you and you will see that it is precisely here in America that world imperialism has its center of power and it is precisely here in America that the major battle on behalf of the world’s workers must be fought, Class War tn America What do we find in these United States? The use of the courts, the police, the army and the entire ma- chinery of government to enforce the open shop, break up picket lines and defeat strikes, And against this, the most powerful capitalist class in the world, with a machinery of oppres- sive government unparalleled in his- tory, is opposed a divided, disorgan- ized and in large measure politically and economically unorganized work- ing class. The wage cuts in New England, in New Jersey, in the south and the west; the bombardment of the West Virginia miners with injunctions—in our own city of New York, the’ bar- barous housing conditions, the rising living costs, such flagrant use of the Room 84 of the Workers School, 108 Bast 14th St. Prison Doctor Tells of Filthy Condition of Holy Cross Jail WARSAW, Oct. 25.—In connection with the hunger strike of political prisoners going on in the Prison of the Holy Cross, the Polish section International Red Aid communicates almost incredible particulars concern- ing the prison regime. When questioned about conditions in the prison the prison physician, Doctor Bilnik, made the following statement: “In the prison 60% of the prisoners are tuberculous, 30 of these are in dying condition, For all patients only 3 liters of milk are ordered, The prisoners are doomed to certain destruction.” The following description of the Prison of the Holy Cross was recently published by the dourssols Warsaw Courier. “Even birds do not stop there. One can around the prison nothing but black crows.” A Correction. The mearine section of last Sun- day's Worker carried an article on the = poe Federation of La. e is a mistake, The au- of the article 48-Argold Roller, — injunction as has just been made in the case of the International Tailor- ing Co.—do these not require a united working class, Mr. Thomas? Why then do you favor unity in Great Britain or in continental Eu- rope and not in America? Already the question of trade union unity has become a living issue in the Amer; ican working class and the presence of Mr, Purcell, representative of the British unfons and champion of such IMPORTANT. Chicago Members, Attention! Communist Issues Open} General Membership Meeting SECTION FIVE i (NORTH SIDE) LL party members belonging to the following party units: Side English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Roumanian, Italian, Terra Cotta, Lakeview Scandinavian branches MUST attend the gen- eral section membership meeting to be held at IMPERIAL HALL, 2409 North Halsted Street THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1925, 8 P. M. At this meeting all the party members belonging to the above branches will be registered for the purpose of being assigned to the new, proper party units in the reorganization.of the Workers (Com- munist) Party into Shop and Street Nuclei, ha EVERY PARTY MEMBER BELONGING TO ANY OF THE ABOVE BRANCHES WHO WANTS TO RETAIN HIS OR HER M BERSHIP IN THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY MUST BE PRESENT AT THIS MEETING AND BE REGISTERED. | night, N “YOWL SNOW BALL” T0 HIT BALTIMORE FOR DAILY WORKER FUNDS BALTIMORE, Md., Oct, 25.—Com- ing to Baltimore on Thanksgiving ov. 26, is nothing more nor less than the “Yow! Snow Ball” to | be held at Conservatory Ball, 1029 E. Baltimore street, for the benefit of. The DAILY WORKER and The Young Worker under the auspices of the Baltimore Young Workers League. unity, will intensify that demand on ‘the part of the American workers. Norman Thomas, socialist candidate | Why do you not join in that cam- “bluff” ina letter replying to Tho: | paign? And the question of political unity, trade union unity. The following is |} Mr, Thomas—was there ever a work- n part a letter sent by Gitlow to| | ing class that needed that issue raised |more badly than the American work- New | ers divided as they are and still tied as a tail to the kite of the bosses’ political parties? Yet, when we raised the issue of political unity in the city of New York, of a united labor ticket as a first step toward a labor party, your party ignored and rejected our proposal, Communists Demand Action We feel that your remarks on unity remain a pious formula if not trans- lated into action, or an empty phrase as long as you limit yourself to Eng- land or Europe where you cannot actively work for unity and can have no influence on the course of labor affairs. It is in the very nature of your party, Mr. Thomas, that its stan- dard bearer should talk of unity soméwheres else while the party's machine officially unites itself with those fighting such unity in America and makes itself an instrument of disunion and confusion. Unity of labor’s forces, Mr, Thomas, should begin at home. We, therefore, chal- lenge the sincerity of your remarks by giving you and your party an op- portunity to translate them into act- ion. Once more, Mr. Thomas, we in- vite you and your party to join with us, even at this late hour, in the call for a united labor ticket which will be the first step toward unification of labor's political forces in a labor party. We, further invite you and your party to join with us and other labor forces in issuing a joint call for a convention of all the unions and workers’ organizations of this coun- try to promote recognition of Soviet Russia, world trade union unity, in- dependent working class political action and political unity. Any of these issues require |\united action. We stand for a united campaign on any of them or all of them together, We await your answer, Mr, Tho- mas, Very truly yours, x Benjamin Gitlow . Workers Party candidate for Mayor of the City of New York. Aircraft Board to Investigate Airplane as Combat Weapon WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct, 25.—The aircraft investigation board appointed by President Calvin Coolidge is dis- cussing the feasibility of carrying on a series of new aviation tests with the intention of proving the efficiency of the airplane as a combat and de- fense weapon, Up to the present the role of the airplane has been looked upon more as the spy of the army and navy. Its main purpose has been to observe movements of enemy troops, ‘etc., but since the charges made by Colonel William Mitchell, the board is think- ing seriously of the airplane as a@ combat weapon, Instead of having stationary targets or the placing of black powder bombs side of a moving cruiser, the aviation board has ‘decided to have the air- planes drop bombs onto swiftly moy- ing targets. Steps are being worked out to test the efficiency of anti-air- craft guns during those bombings. Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. North