The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Rais the Standard for a Worker and Farmers’ Government) “f1+o KON RECA MEH 92 ~~ Sd ° on Rates: Vol. II. No. 247. In Chicage, by mail, 98.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1925 E DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 192%, atthe Post OMce at Chicago, Llinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Bn» 290 PUB! Published Datly except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ASHING CO., 1118 W. | NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL PAINLEVE CABINET FALLS IN FRANCE AMERICAN WORKERS CALLED TO CELEBRATE EIGHTH YEAR OF THE | Eight years have passed since the revolutionary workers of Russia victoriously raised the banner of their rule over their country after their decisive defeat of absolutism and capitalism in Russia. ° But with their victory their biggest problem was not yet solved. It was the struggle against the counter-revolution and the task of reconstructing production under workers’ rule which taxed the ability and capacity of the proletarian revolution to the 5: 9 aR IRD Te iF SE ee AS ‘SUBSTITUTES’ ~ THE BUNK IN COAL STRIKE Anthracite | Operators Aid Use of Soft Coal NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 27—How iittle thé anthracite operators tear the stage thunder of threats by that mythical enity, “the public,” to swear off on anthracite and use soft coal, oll and other substitutes from now on, henceforth and forever, is shown by the anthracite operators’ actions when confronted with these threats. Also’is shown that the anthracite strikers are being betrayed by Lewis not calling out the bituminous miners. Last Wednseday the New York and Pennsylvania officials conferred with each other and with representatives of the anthracite-operators. Major General Berry, ‘chairman of the New Vouk. pate-aoe copmmission. tell. the Past about the atid of the anthracite operators: Operators Don’t Fear Substitutes. “They came to New York to find out just what the situation was here, and they all were told that unless the strike ended soon and -anthracite shipments were resumed, they were in danger of losing part of this great market as a customer of the anthra- cite industry.” But General Berry had to admit that threat had failed to move the anthracite operators, whose hearts seem as hard as their coal. “My impression from talking with them,” he said, “is that they mean to fight it out if it takes all winter.” Not only are the anthracite oper- ators unmoved by the. buncombe propaganda spread far and wide about substitutes for anthracite, but they are taking advantage of the continued working of bituminous mines by the union to urge even that soft coal be used. Anthracite Operators Aid Soft Coal Use. George J. Eltz, director of the Coal Merchants’ Association in New York, says that the anthracite operators are actually sending out engineers and fuel experts to serve to popularize the use of soft coal in New York and show consumers how to use soft coal instead’ of their own anthracite. Health Officer J. J. Hagan of Jersey City has another bright idea for settling the dispute. He is going to get a representative conference of health officers in New Jersey, then he figures that this body will recom- mend to Coolidge that an ultimatum be sent to both miners and operators to “reach an agreement by a certain date, or have the soldiers and militia go to work digging coal.” Who is going to clean all the dead soldiers out of the pits after they have killed themselves with accidents due to their norance of the dangers of coal ining, Hagan fails to state. FORCED 10 STEAL COAL TO KEEP FROM KEEPING TOO COOL WITH GALVIN PARIS, Ill, Oct. 27—Thefts of coal from trains W giving dealers and officials of the Big Four rail- road a great deal of trouble. It is said that bands of women climb on cars when the trains stop on side tracks or In the yards and throw off and carry away tons of fuel, in losses to d rs amount to several tons per car. it is said the “bandits” declare their families are suffering from cold and that owing to lack of employment their husbands have no money to pur- chase | Lae ‘mits. But in these battlefields ulso the revolution marched to victory. | / Glory in Soviet Victory. . (Every new step forward meant a| a ew inspiration for the proletariat of he world. Every new problem solved meant a new valuable experience for the proletariat of the world. The workers of the word glory in the victory of their Russian brothers. The proletariat of the world thanks their Russian brothers for what they taught them, The anniversary of the Russian re- volution therefore is an event which is commemorated by the workers every where. The American workers, too, will gather in all the important cen- ters for anniversary celebrations of the Russian revolution. Under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party such celebrations have been ar- ranged thruout the country, The most important. of these are being held in the following cities: fy Plan Many Meetings” Boston, Mass.—At Scenic Auditorium, Berkeley & Tremont, Nov. 8, at 2:30 p. m. C. E. Ruthenberg. Springfield, Mass.—Liberty Hall, 592 North St., Nov. 7, at 7:30 p. m. Alexander Trachtenberg. Worcester, Mass.—Belmont Hall, 54 Belmont St., Noy. 7, at 7:00 p. m. Cc, E, Ruthenberg. New York City—Central Opers "205 E67 St, Nov. Ci th g C. E. Ruthenberg, Moissaye J. Olgin, Benjamin Gitlow. Brookiyn, N. Y.—Grand Assembly Hall, 318 Grand St., Nov. 8 in the evening. C. E. Ruthenberg, Moissaye J. Olgin, Benjamin Gitlow. Newark, N. J.—Newark Labor Lyceum 704 S. 14 St, Nov. 6, at 8 p, m. Joseph Manley. Jersey City, N. J.—Workers’ Hall, 387 Grand St., Nov. 7, at 8 p. m. Local speaker. Bayonne, N. J.—Workmen’s Circle Hall, 725 W. 25 St., Nov. 8,2 p. m. Local speaker. Paterson, N. J.—Carpenters’ Hall, 54-56 Van Hauten St., Nov. 7, at 7:30 p. m. Local speaker. Philadelphia, Pa.—Labor Lyceum, 6th &, Brown Sts., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Jay Lovestone, N. H. Tallentiré. Washington, D. C,—Playhouse, 1814 N. Street N.W. Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. Bertram D, Wolfe. Baltimore, Md.—Brith Sholom Hall, (Continued . 2 page 2} N.Y, UNIONS TO CONFER SUNDAY ON PURCELL MEET Delegate Conference to Arrange Meeting NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—The prelim- inary conference for the organization of the mass meeting to welcome A. A. Purcell, who will bring the message of world trade union unity to the thousands of workers in this city, has set the date of tho first regular meet- ing of the conferegce for Sunday afternoon, Nov. 1, at 3,p. m, at Beethoven Hall, 210 E. 6th St., New York City. Hoover Ha rangues. Y. M. C. A. About Illusions of Peace WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—The Lo- carno treaty, the Washington arma ment conference, and other interna- tional agreements aimed at curbing war, were described" by Secretary of Commerce Hoover today as the “most importatt milestones of peace in the history of the world.” Addressing the International Y, M. C. A. conference Noover said that “should a world referendum be taken, an overwhelming sentiment for the abolition of wars would be reflected. “The Locarno treaty is a start on nb the right track. It removes one more barrier against peace,” é RUSSIAN PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION: A. Delegation of the British Labor Party Parlianjentary Group That Visited Soviet Russia. OF NATIONS AND have within 60 hours. Aristide Briand reminded the repre- sentatives of the two contending y the decision of the league of nations, an economic blockade would result. Go Into Closed Session. Following the reading of telegrams and communications between the two contending nations, at the open ses- sion of the conference, the two repre- sentatives of the contending nations were called to the council table to participate in the deliberations. When asked whether the two gov- ernments would accept the league de- cisions, both delegates showed re- luctance in replying. Both recited tales of atrocities and blamed each other as the aggressors. Following the arguments of the Greek and Bulgarian representatives, the league of nations commission held @ private session. During the private session Hyman of Belgium expressed the fear that not only was the future of the league of nations at stake but also that of the Locarno pact. Hand Decision to Delegates, After the private session was over, the representatives of the two powers fighting each other were handed copies of the league’s decision de- manding that orders be issued for “VOICED DURING BALKAN (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Oct. 27.Fears for the future of the | and the Locarno peace pact were expressed in the secret session of the league of nations conference now being decide the Greco-Bulgar controversy, following w' handed the representatives of Greece and Bulgaria, the league’s decision that Greece and Bulgaria issue orders within twenty- four hours to their respective commanders the evacuation of occupied territory, and thi left occupied territory+——— withdrawal of troops within 24 hours to their frontiers and that at the end of 60 hours all troops must be in their respective countries. The league showed its distrust of the pledges made by the two powers by appointing a commission of British, French and Italian officers who are to Proceed immediately to the Greco-Bul- gar frontier and see to it that the league’s orders are carried out. Plan Blockade. Plans are now being laid to blockade Greek ports in which England, France and Italy will participate, in case the league decision is not carried out. England has 20 battleships in the Mediterranean waters waiting orders to be put in action against Greece. e 2 Greek Evacuation Plan. PARIS, Oct. 27.—Greece announced to the league of nations council her willingness to withdraw all of her troops from Bulgaria. M, Caparanos, Greek representative, was instructed to make this announce- {Continued on page 2) LOCARNO PACT * ue of nations in Paris*to the league tely begin WARM WELCOME Storm Conference to Ask Autonomy PEKING, China, Oct. ¢27.—Within half an hour after the long-heralded tariff conference got under way, China thru its spokesman, Ching Ting-wang, demanded that China be allowed to exercise its right as a sovereign and autonomous power to set its own tar- iff and to its enforcement by January 1, 1929, by China itself. This demand for self rule of its own tariff by China was backed by a great demonstration of thousands of stu- (Continued on page 2) LOCAL 5 OF THE IL. 6,W. ELECTS LEFT WING SLATE Operators Local Third Left Victory Another local of the I. L. G. W., this time Local 5, the third one in Chicago to elect delegates to the Phi- ladelphia convention, has followed the popular note set in the first two, Locals 104 and 59, and at the meeting Monday night overwhelmingly elected a left wing slate of delegates and as completely defeated the aspiring re- actionaries. The left wingers elected as dele- gates to Philadelphia from Local 5, which comprise some 700 operators, are B. Soll, E. Navle, H, Metrick and R. Sigle. The four candidates put up by the machine of the decadent Sig- man regime were totally whipped. MASS MEETING AGAINST HORTHY TERROR FOLLOWS PICKETING OF WASHINGTON HUNGARIAN EMBASS ‘ WASHINGTON, Oct, 26,—(By Mail.)—The picketing of the Hungarian embassy yesterday by the International Labor Defense, .was* followed by | toads whieh now is being argued. & mass meeting held in the Playhouse on N street last night, where the ANLC. GIVES ENTIRE SESSION TO TRADE UNIONS | Recognize Only Divi- sion of Classes The American Negro Labor Con- | gress, the first mass organization of | | class-conscious: Negro labor, which is/ {meeting this week at the Metropoli-| |tan Community Center, 3118 Giles ave-| | nue,’ completed a discussion of the | | Negro worker and the trade unions | with a mass meeting on Monday night. | |The. subject of the mass meeting was ‘the bar of color préjudice raised by the offieialdom of the trade unions, with | ithe result that very few Negro work-| }ers can gain admittance to the un- ions.’ The speakers discussed ways land means of organizing the colored | workers to fight their way into the {unions, and stressed the necessity of a united front of labor, black and white, against the agressions of the bosses. Again and again the speakers point- ed out. to the audience the slogan which was stretched across the front of the hall: “Organization is the first step to freedom.” Otto Huiswood, a colored worker from New York and a delegate to the congress, urged the congress to take concrete steps toward the organiza- tion of the Negroes into labor unions. He pointed out that when color preju- dice works in such a way as to keep Negroes out of various other organ- zations, "they do not for this reason remain on the outside of these activi- ties, but organize their own. The Ne- gro workers must take the same stand with regard to the trade union ques- tion, Huiswood pointed out. If they cannot force the A. F. of L. officialdom | admit the Negro workers, then | m nize their Fee pees : za tions not to fight the white workers but to get into the movement of the whole working class and fight witlt it in its struggles against the owners. C. W. Fulp, president of the local | union of the United Mine Workers of America in Primrose, Pennsylvania, and Norval Allen, southern organizer of the American Negro Labor Con- | gress, told of fights waged by Negro | workers to enter the trade unions, and jurged the delegates to adopt con- crete measures of organization. Negro Kept Press Is Silent. The entire capitalist press, includ- }ing the race press owned and con- trolled by a few. wealthy Negroes, has been carrying out what Lovett Fort- Whiteman, national organizer of the congress, characterized before the congress as a “conspiracy of silence.” Months before the congress“ opened, the capitalist newspapers were carry- ing “exposes” of this gathering of Negro labor, branding it as “a tool of Moscow, which will only fool and betray the colored workers.” One and all, they “warned” the colored work- ers to keep away from this congress —to boycott it. And now that their efforts have resulted in complete fail- ure—now that these servants of the bosses realize that in spite of their lying attacks, the American Negro Labor Congress is successfully work- ing out plans for the solution of the problems of the race; now that they see the Negro thinking of himself as a worker, with aims and interests like the aims and interests of the white workers of the United States- now these papers have resorted to the expedient.of ignoring the congress Since the congress opened, only one or two of the capitalist papers have mentioned the gathering. The others have dismisse@ it with a notice, and a lying sentence or two. Of the two large Negro papers in Chicago, neither has up to the pres- ent moment said a word about the congress, The Chicago Defender— {Continued on paxe 2) Rail Head to Appear Before Commerce Body on Freight Increase President Fred Sargent of the Chi- cago & Northwestern railroad was summoned before an interstate com- merce commission hearing here to tell who was the author of the pe- tition asking a 6 per cent increase in freight rates for all western rail- The summons was issued at the CAILLAUX GOES - TOO AS MONEY -—GRISIS GROWS French Communists Promise of Dawes Plan for France Looms | | | i (Special to The Dally Worker) audience that crowded the auditorium listened to speakers relate the reason | (Mand of M. R. Shaunnessey, rail- for the picketing, spite of the presence of uniformed policemen and a large squad of cross-examination, road commissioner for the state of Nevada, who was conducting the when witnesses Doriot, knecht of France”; bottom, from left Top: hailed as the Lieb- to right, Monmoseau and Marcel Cachin. REID-TOOHEY FREED FROM PA. PRISON Progressives Out After Month in Workhouse SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 27.—Alex Reid, secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee and Pat Toohey, progressive leader of the miners in the anthracite region, were released today after a month’s imprisonment following their arrest on September 26th by local police while attempting to address a meeting of miners in Washington Hall, West Scranton. The arrests followed a declaration by Rinaldo Cappellini, U. M. W. of A. official. in .thé: anthracite ‘district, that all Communist meetings should be broken up. In Jail for a Month On Monday, Septetaber 28, Reid and Toohey, appearing before Police Magistrate P. J. McNamara, were ordered “held to await the action of federal authorities.” The judge added | that, “If the federal authorities will not take care of them, I will decide later what is to done with them.” Evidently the federal authorities decided to let «the policesmagistrate do the dirty work, which he was not at all averse to do, as on September 30, Reid and Toohey were sentenced by McNamara to serve six months in the workhouse on a framed-up charge of “vagrancy.” This was done while their attorney, Isaac Shoor of New York, was not notified of the hearing in court, although he had visited the prisoners early that day and had con- ferred with the U. S. district attorney who was “holding” them as MacNa- mara had prescribed. August Valentine and Alex Vareck, two other progressive miners arrested with Reid and Toohey, were released, Valentine proving that he had a bank account and could not very well be a vagrant. Reid, however, was sent- enced to the workhouse in a vagrancy charge, in spite of the $30 he had in his possession, Were Serving Workhouse Sentence Every since then the two progres- sive leaders have been serving their sentence in the Scranton workhouse. Only yesterday did the machinery of (Continued on page 2) PARIS, France, Oct. 27.—Less than | one week after Calllaux, finance minl- | ster of France, submitted without re- commendation the proposals of the United States on the settlement of | debts to the cabinet, he went down | to ignominous defeat, dragging with | him the cabinet itself, | Paul Painleve, premier of France, presented the resignation of his cabin- et today and it was accepted by Presi- ; dent Doumergue. The crisis was pro- |voked by Caillaux, whose efforts to stabilize the French currency, miser- ably failed. As a reaction to the failure of the American debt negotiations the franc since the return from Washington of Caillaux, has been steadily declining. In the chamber of deputies the so- cialist bloc, under former premier Herriot, was prepared to insist upon a capital levy. Caillaux rejécted this proposal but proposed heavy taxes on luxuries. Thus he lost the support of both socialists and conservatives. Facing certain defeat in parliament, Painleve requested Caillaux to resign from the cabinet. Caillaux refused, | Stating that the cabinet would either stand or fall with him. It fell. \ Assail United States The United States government is held to blame for the crisig in cur. rency today, the charge being based | upon the refusal to reach a satisfac- tory debt settlement. Instead of a | settlement that would stabilize | French currency for a time, the Am- |erican government proposed a five- | year period in which no principal on ithe debt of $4,200,000,000be paid, but | that interest at the rate of $40,000,000 | per year be paid. {| This is recognized as a move to bankrupt France so that a plan for | the complete domination of France | by American imperialism on the gen- eral lines of the Dawes plan for Ger- many, may be imposed, thereby re- ducing France to the position of a semi-colony. “I decided to resign last Friday, con- forming to the views of my collea- gues” said Painleve, “nevertheless we wished to see Briand, armed with offi- cial authority in attempting to pre- vent war by pacification in the Greco- | Bulgarian incident.” The resignation may seriously af- | {Continued on page 2) Unemployment in | England Increases | WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 27—Un- | employment was still on the increase |in Great Britain at the end of August, reports to the commerce depart- ment showed, and was especially marked in coal mining, textile manu- facturing and tinplate milling. On Sept. 12 the official figures showed 1,418,000 persons out of work, as com- pared with 1,191,000 on the same date @ year ago. The figures are taken from the English unemployment insurance de- partment, which now calculates that 12.5 per cent of the regular working population of the country is out of employment. NEW YORK POLICE ARREST LABOR DEFENSE PICKE TS BEFORE THE HORTHY EMBASSY THIRD TIME By ROSE BARON. NEW YORK, Oct, 27.—While pic’ keting the Hungarian consulate, carry- ing signs protesting against the threatened execution of Mathias Rakosi and over one hundred independent socialist party workers, 38 mambers of the International Labor Defense were arrested, held in jail for a few hours and ‘then released on a suspended sentence. This is the third time the New York police force under the leadership of the finger printing advocate Commissioner Enright, have stepped in to save the face of Horthy, the hangman of Hungary. While: picketing is perfectly legal the police and courts are endeavoring to intimidate the workers from con- tinuing their protests. The demon- strations will be continued however, until there is definite assurance that the gallows erected to kill the flower of Hungary's working class will not be glutted with the blood of Mathias Rakosi and his comrades. The men and women arrested today carried sandwich signs which read: “Labor demands the freedom of Ra- ost, Hungarian labor leader and 105 detectives the speakers hurled deflance at the Wall Street tools of capitalism] had confessed they did not know the | ¥"arian workers about to be rail- : { (Continued on page 2). 4 gig of the petition ¢ (Continued on Page 2) + ‘UNKNOWNS’ AMBUSH | TRAIN DETAILED To (|) ARRY FASC. HEA ROME, Oct. 27.—A train in which | General Secretary Fa: cci of the | fascist party was beveved to be travelling, was ambushed by un- known persons while enroute to Cremona. Shots were fired at the carriage in which Farinacei was be- | lieved to be travelling. Farinacei, however, had missed the train and was not a pi nger on it.