The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1925, Page 1

- ag re : WORKER. | Post Office at Chicago, Hiinots, under the Act of March 3, 1879. <> * The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government NEW YORK EDITION Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER In Chicage, by mall, $8.00 per year. PUBLISHING CO,, 1118 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, RL Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cents egro Labor Is Part| PROGRESSIVE MINERS’ COMMITTEE DEMANDS LEWIS ACT 10 AID THE 198,000 ANTHRACITE STRIKERS Reports from the anthracite strike region tell of increasing miseries among the striking miners, whose little savings are now exhausted, whose local treasuries also are drained, and no help in sight or even promised from the International. Meanwhile that the Lewis leadership makes no effort to bring the full strength of the United Mine Workers to the aid of the anthracite strikers, Lewis orders-union members, as maintenance men, to remain at work, taking excellent care of the operators’ property. The following open letter of the Progressive Miners’ Committee is addressed to Lewis demanding a change of policy and other ian ork ey Lop NO CHANGE IN MINERS’ DETERMINATION, SPREAD ( Struggle for Advancement of | of the Struggle for the Milit Greetings to Negro Labor Congress By the Trade Union Educational League. FFORTS to organize the Negro working m for struggle against oppression, social and economic, are a vital and integral part of the whole movement of labor and the toiling masses of the world towards emancipation from the slavery of capitalist imperialism, The American Negro Labor Congress now in session in Chicago repre- sents the most promising, militant, and energetic effort to link up this neglected and important field of struggle with the world-wide battle front of labor. : Representing the progressive and revolutionary left-wing. of the American trade unions, the Trade Union Educational League welcomes the American Negro Labor Congress, and pledges its support in the achievement of our common aims. The Negroes have a vital part to play in:the remolding of our labor movement into a fighting instrument for the emancipation of all labor. And the trade union left-wing has its necessary work to do in raising the status of the Negro masses to a complete equality, social and eco- nomie, to a full brotherhood of all labor, as the necessary precondition BANK OFFICIAL FORCED UNION TO OUST SHAFIR 4 Amalgamated Head Is 4 Out to Crush Union By JOSEPH SHAFIR. In view of the news given to the capitalist press by Duane Swift, pup- liclty diroector of the Amalgamated , Trust and Savings Bank, I find it is F my duty to the working class In gen- eral, and especially to the members of | the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to ‘¢ the real facts relat- ing to my expulsion. Expelled by Bank Officials. I was expelled on the instructions of ito a powerful labor movement. jan of “Organize the Unorganized,” applies especially to the gro masses, who must be brought into the labor unions. and for a Labor Party points to the absolutely essential the struggle to the political field, to the complete conquest jonomic, and governmental power by the forces of labor, lack, to achieve our common emancipation. nal solidarity, united by our common needs and our com anding, our movement will become invincible. riers against the entrance of the Negro workers into the be broken down. Our common efforts can achieve this. rade Union Educational League, in greeting the American ir Congress, calls for a united front of all workers for: ‘equality, fraternity, and solidarity of white and black removing all racial discriminations and for their common nt imation of the small divided craft unions into powerful in- ns! Our extension of social, United Mine Workers of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, Dear Sir: We anthracite miner! have been on strike now for two Mariempietri, vice-president of the Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank, and member of the General Executive Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. On my return from Atlantic City, where I ‘attended the American Fed- eration of Labor Convention as dele- gate of the Bank Clerks’ Union, I had a private talk with Mack Tulshin, act- ing cashier at the Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank and Duane Swift, the Amalgamated Bank’s business get- ter and it was understood that as far as the unfon was concerned no ques- tion would be raised about the reso- lutions introduced at the convention unless the American Federation of La- bor makes an issue of it. Swift Confers with Mariempietri. Tuesday night, Oct. 13, just before the meeting of the executive commit- tee of the Bank Clerks’ Union took place Brothers Swift, Tulshin and Horween, assistant real estate man- ager of the Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank, held a long conference with Mariempietri and 1, as president of thé union, had to wuit fully 30 utes before I could meet with the members of the executive committee of my union. At the executive committee meet- ing that evening my report was re, Jected.. When I offered to submit the ques- tion as to the constitutionality of my actions at the American Federation of Labor convention to John Fitzpatrick, | president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, they rejected it. What's a Constitution? Horween expressed the feeling of the group at this meeting when he said, “What difference does it make whether you have the constitutional right or not of introducing resolutions at the American Federation of Labor convention, the fact remains that you (Continued on page 2) “ COOLIDGE’S CONFIDENTIAL SECRETARY RESIGNS; GOES 19 PETROLEUM INSTITUTE (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 26.— Judson Welliver, confidential secre- tary to both President Harding and President Coolidge, has resigned to become publicity director for tne petroleum institute of America at a large salary. Welliver has long been recognized as the agent in the White House of the oil interests and is credited with having written most of the speeches of Harding and Coo- lidge. Welliver started his career as a magazine writer of the “muck-rak- er” type, made a special study of oil, and eventually became a confidenti- ent of the oil interests. When ing entered the white house Welliver was sent in to formulate public utterances in the interest of the capitalist group behind the re- iblican party. demonstration of im- N Nien tees is to fake place in the United States on October 27, That day has been set aside for the glorification of the American navy. it has been baptized as The most modern warships, bristling with guns, will pass lew before the highest, government officials, Marines will parade the streets of all the important cities. Innocent school children will be whipped into a jingo- istic frenzy in a thousand meetings, by the specially delegated speakers of the “navy league,” “American de: to emancipation. Our slogan for “Amalgamation of the craft unions into industrial unions,” is of vital importance to the Negro workers, pointing out the only form of unionism which can gather in all workers, white, yellow GERMAN CRISIS LOOMS; CABINET IS IN DANGER Hindenburg ! May Also Resign (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Oct. 26.—Threee nation- allst members, of the Luther cabinet i presentedtheir resignations to the erman chancellor Taét night. ‘They are Herren Schiel, Newhaus and Seh- lleben. They declared they -were un- able-to remain in thelr posts after their party had repudiated the Locar- no pacts. It is reported that President von Hindenburg is also prepared to. pre- sent his own resignation, since he considers the nationalists’ position an open attack on his policy. Send for MacDonald, It developed today that the element within the social-democratic party op- posed to the Locarno pacts is growing stronger and will probably dominate the party. With the nationalist and social-democratic combination oppos- ing the pacts, a cabinet crisis 1s im- minent and the resignation of the Luther cabinet may be expected at any time. Ramsey MacDonald, former social- ist premier of Britain, has been sent for by the supporters of the Locarno pacts and is expected to respond favorably, come to Berlin and try to persuade the socialists to back the treaties. MacDonald is one of the bulwarks and reliable supporters of every imperialist design in Europe and is serving the interests of the en- emies of the working class just as ef fectively as’ ex-premier as he did while he was in office, Thought to be Gesture. The whole upheaval in Berlin is be- lieved to hdve been deliberately planned and staged for the purpose of feigning an imminent crisis in order to gain time, and by stalling force M. Briand, the French foreign minis- ter, to fulfill his promises made at Locerno, The French financial crisis is con- suming the whole attention of the French statesmen so it looks as tho the optimistic reports about Locarno may in reality resolve themselves in- ‘to deep gloom and endanger the rati- fication of the pacts. fense society,” and similar fmpertal- istic organizations, which thoughtful ly “co-operate” with the United tSates government on such occasions, Navy day is a threat, which~the peoples of Latin-America cannot af- ford to ignore—no more than can the working class in the United States itself. ese The first “Navy Day” was celebrat- ed last year, and the. date selected was, fittingly enough, the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, whose, name is cordially hated thruout Latin-Aw#lt- ica. It was Roosevelt who, in 1903, made use of the U. 8, navy im the y | Europe and America hailed it as afte Locarno. signing the pact. “¥ i¢ which hit the toboggan last down with him. of. the Locarno pact. ernment has turned Damascus into her Syrian possessions. | AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY _ ASSETS OVER BILLION NEW YORK, Oct. 26—Testifying at a hearing investigating the “ray dio trust,” Charles A. Heiss of East Orange said the total of the American Telephone anc Telegraph company are $1,660,000,000. The company’s surplus’ and re- serve total is $215,000,000 he testi- fied. Heiss is comptroller of the company. f Szechenyi Has Police Guard Mansion; Fears Picketing for Rakosi WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Municipal police are guarding the Hungarian le- gation, which is located in the fash- fonable outer range of Massachusetts avenue in the capital. One bluecoat is placed inside and another outside the mansion of Count Szechenyi. Can his official staff be worried over the prospect of picketing by the Hun- garians in this country who protest against the hanging of Rakosi and ONE WEEK AFTER A week ago the conferénce at Locarno world. Not since the hectic days preceding war have there been such great upheavals Today war clouds are lowering over the. nations is powerless to.do anything in the vene being openly defied by Greece. In Germany three nationalist ministers of have handed in their resignations and a hand tWat will even force the dissolution of t new elections for Germany, thereby delaying © “th France there is a political crisis following the cotfapse of the s alarming rate. Caillaux, the finance minister, is dragging the cabinet This will probably complicate French endorsement In addition to the home crisis, the French gov- u?"Wtaly is secretly backing Bulgaria in its struggle against Greece and-is-facing a colonial revolt in Somaliland. So much for the peace of Europe, to say mothing of the vacuous boast: of establishing peace thruout the world, while the capitalist system with its inherent antagonisms remain. other radicals by the Horthy white terror? Message: for Navy Day - TO THE PEOPLES OF LATIN-AMERICA notorious outrage against the peoples of Colombia and Panama. This year, the approach of navy day finds the un- fortunate “republic of Panama” once again under American military oceu- pation! The ships of the United States navy are no unfamiliar sight; in any Latin- American country. They have attack- ed Mexico, terrorized Honduras, Nica- ragua and Costa Rica, ruled Haiti and Santo Domingo, and) broken strikes in Havana. For, years they have’ cruised the Caribbeahias the wateh- dogs of the lords of, Wall Street, The navy, moro than any other av to efile National Committee, J. W. Johnstone, id and the press of peace for the whole outbreak of the world during the first week the dawn { ‘ans. The league of » its offer to inter. Hindenburg cabinet et crisis may be at reichstag and mean week and is: still dectining at an a slaughter house in order to hold LEAGUE FAIL TO STOP WAR INTHE BALKANS Workers May Get in Action - BULLETIN ~ PARIS, Oct., 26—Denials and re- criminations. were exchanged with some heat at the opening of the league of nations council meeting here this evening, when the Greco- Bulgarian incident was taken up. Bulgaria denied intruding upon Greek territory and Greeks heated- ly declared that Bulgars were upon Greek soil and that Greece Would only accept a league investigation when the Buigars had withdrawn. Py “se SOFIA, Buigaria, Oct. 26.—Loud wails emanating from the white terror government of Zankov to his backers, Italy and France, to use their influ- (Continued .. page 2) @ struggle against our common oppressor, capitalist imperialism! }afficialdom. of ‘the American Federa- Trade Union Educational League, » Acting Secretary. | | ANLG. HITS AT JM CROWISM IN TRADE UNIONS Demands Immediate End of Restrictions The first American Negro Labor Congress, at its opening business ses- sion yesterday, vote unanimously to endorse a resolution condemning the tion of Labor for refusing to organize the Negro workers into the existing unions, condemning the traitors to the Negro race who profit by attempting to recruit $Scibs from) among the ranks of the colored’ workers, and de- manding the -immediate’ removal of all restrictions. inall unions upon the membership of .Negroes. Race Hatred«Must Be Abolished The resolution’ was adopted after a discussion by the delegates, most of | whom representslabor organizations, | of the restrictions placed upon col- ored workers bythe» bureaucrats of the American Federation of Labor. The resolution reads in part: “Trade unions'are the organs de- vised by the working class as a re- sult of its struggle with the capitalists . Trade unions which fail to unite all workers regardless of nation- ality, color or religion on the basis of the common necessity for resist- ance to the tyrannies of the bosses likewise fail in their duty to the working class. “The failure of the American Fed- eration of Labor officialdom under pressure of race prejudice benefiting only the capitalists of the north and the south, to stamp out race hatred in the unions, to organize the Negro workers and to build a solid front of the workers of both races agaitist American capitalism, is a crime against the whole working class. “We condemn those who would fast- en the stigma of ‘strikebreaker’ upon our race, and we likewise condemn those unscrupulous members of our |race who, acting in behalf of capital- |ist agencies, attempt to recruit scabs, create suspicion and division in the ranks of the working class and bring discredit upon our race. Prejudice Must Go. “We demand the immediate remoy- al of all restriction in all unions upon the membership of workers of our race in them, whether openly stated as in the constitution of the Inter- national Association of Machinists, or (Continued on Page 2) jtion of the union. jend, They are not going to give us months, We have been doing our part} to make the bosses give in to our de mands for a wage increase, better working conditions, and full recogni-| We do not think that you have done your part to help us in this strike. What would you think, Mr.+Lewis, of a man who was fighting three or four thugs who were trying to beat him into submission, voluntarily using only one arm in the fight. It would| lock more as if he were playing| rather than fighting. That's the kind} of fighting we have been making} against the coal operators. We have come out of the mines, given up the work thru which we earn| our living, in order to make the bosses | Pay us better, give us better working | conditions, and full recognition to our| organization. We know we are up| against a hard fight and that the coal) bosses will not give up part of their| profits without fighting to the bitter the means for a higher standard of} life, thru increasing our wages, and better working conditions, without fighting to the last ditch. Yet we have been careful to safe-| guard the interests of the bosses while we suffer the misery and privations which a strike means to us. We left part of the members of ‘our unions} in the mines in order to safeguard the interests of the bosses. We are pro- tecting the bosses’ property altho they are starving us in order to force us to submit to their terms. That’s like using one arm to fight three or four thugs who are attacking/ you, Mr. Lewis. It’s playing at fight-| ing in place of making a real fight -to| win, We demand, Mr. Lewis, that you call out the maintenance men and make it a real strike to force the bosses to yield to our demands. | We are against helping the bosses while they starve us into submis- sion, | No Settlement Without a Wage Increase. We are in this fight, Mr. Lewis, be- cause we want a higher standard of} life. We want more of what we pro- duce thru our work. We are for full recognition of our union, but we are against any settlement without mak- ing the bosses pay thru a wage in- crease, We demand, Mr. Lewis, that no negotiations be entered into for a settlement which do not include the} demand for a wage increase. We are against any compromise which doesn’t | give us the thing that is most im-| portant to us, better wages, so that! we can give our families a better! standard of life. | No Arbitration, We believe, our demands are just. We don’t want to be tricked out of what we have been fighting for by referring our demands to arbitration The influence of the bosses is too| big for us in arbitration proceedings We have always got the worst of it when we have on strike now for two} months for the’ demands ‘for which | (Continued on page 2) jand at the plant. TALK OF COMPROMISE By AUGUST VALENTINE WILKES BARRE, Pa. Oct. 26.— The test of the anthracite miners came Saturday when rumors were Spread that the operators offered a five percent increase in wages and some sort of a check-off. Word spread like wild fire and was on the lips of all the miners. It is mot known where the report originated, but both sides, the oper- ators and the mine workers offi- clals denied the report. It is the opinion of some of the miners here, that the rumor was started to test the miners as to whether they will go back with a small compromise in wages or fight to a finish. NEW FRAME-UP ATTEMPTED BY TAILORING CO. Hirelings Place Bomb on Doorstep In an attempt to frame-up the ac- tive union leaders in the International Tailoring company strike, some hire- lings, doubtedly in the employ of the tailoring company, placed a bomb on | the porch at the home of Raymond Reeder, one of the officials of the In- ternational Tailoring Co., 847 we Jackson Blvd, The bomb wrecked the porch and of caused part the walls and the roof to give No one was injured as all of Ray Reeder family were “not at home” at the time. The com- pany offictal immediately blamed the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Un- ion for the bombing As the strike enters the eighteenth week and has tied up the bosses in their busiest season making it im- possible for them to meet their con- tracts despite the fact that members of the s herding United Garment Workers’ Union, are in the shop | strikebreaking, the bosses in their desperation are resorting to frame-up and persecution of active union lead- ers to break the strike A short time ago windows were being smashed at the homes of scabs The company offi elals blamed the union, which was then raided, and a number of active strike leaders arrested, but later re- leased. Upon investigation those who were smashing the windows were dis- covered and affidavits are in the pos- session of Attorney Wm. Cunnea, testifying they were paid by the com- pany to smash windows and terrorize the strikebreakers in an attempt to frame the union leaders. THE ALL-AMERICA ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE branch of the military service as it is developed today, is the direct embodi- ment of imperialistic purpose. “Navy Day” celebrations are a mark of the maturity of the conscious {imperial- ism of the United States, It is characteristic of the two-faced method of American imperialism that glorification of navy day should come close on the heels of President Coo- lidge’s proposalsefor an international disarmament conference. A leading French newspaper has pointed out that while on thesone hand American diplomatists everywhere talk of peace and internationaleoncord, the United ete 9 tne States government is the foremost exponent of militarism in the world today. “Navy Day” and “Defense Day,” military instruction for school- boys, citizens’ military training camps naval demonstrations in the Pacific, widespread agitation for bigger, air forces—these are the order of the day in the country of Wall Street. Every such sign constitutes further proof that the standard bearers of na- tional Mberation in Latin-America must come’ ‘together on a mmon basis to.#ftuggle against American imperialism, All’'the strength is not on the side of Wall Street, History teaches us that the strongest armies and navies in the world have never availed against a united, vigorous and resolute national Mbération move- ment. Moreover, the great mass of exploited workers in the United States itself is on our side, at least objectively, in their class struggle against the capitalists. The most class-cofiscious section, led by the Workers’ (Communist) Party, is lend- ing the oppressed peoples of Latin- America open and consistent support. Let Ws answer the proclamation of navy day in the United States by re- doubling our fight against American imperialism! The All-America Antimperialist League calls upon all anti-imperialist elements in the western hemisphere to unite their forces and, together with the victims of American imper- jalism in Hawait and the Philippine Islands, press forward to the over- throw of the domination of Wall Street. Build a powerful section of the All-America Anti-Imperialist, League in your. country! Down with American imperialism! With fraternal greetings, Manuel! Gomez, Secretary, All-America Anti-Imperialist League,