The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government BITTER-END WARFARE DECLARED BY BOSSES ON ANTHRACITE MINERS (Special to The Dally Worker) POTTSVILLE, Pa., Oct. 29—Mem- bers of several miners’ unions in this section in discussing the latest statement of Chairman Samuel D. Warriner, of the anthracite coal op- erators, in which he declared for an agreement which would include a elause to prevent future strikes in the anthracite fields, have agreed that his attitude indicates that there will be an all winter strike as they have no intention of approving such an agreement. Statements by operators in the Sehuykill region showed almost unanimous backing of Warriner’s po- sition, “There will be no agreement ‘made until the miners are willing to sign a ‘no strike’ clause for the fu- ture,” declared several operators. AMALGAMATED BANK HEADS FIRE SHAFIR Left-Wing Fight in the A. F. of L., His Crime The officials of the Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank, a “labor” bank, fired Joseph Shafir, a left wing bank clerk, for introducing re- solutions at the American Federa.ion of Labor calling for the recognition of Soviet Russia and world trade union unity and denouncing clase col- laboration. Joseph Shafir was sxpetge~tirst from the Bank Clerks’ Union at the instructions of the bank’ ~ Ma- riempietri to Duane Swift and Max Tulchin, for “violating the union con- stitution.” When Shafir demanded that Duane Swift produce the article inthe American Federation of Labor or bank clerks’ constitution which he violated all Duane Swift could do was read’ an article in the Federation News attacking Shafir. When an article exposing the col- lusion of the bank heads and a num- ber of hirelings who were in the move to drive Shafir out of the union was printed, Mariempietri told Shafir, that if he “acted right” he could stay until January 1. Shafir instead of re- maining quiet and allowing his ex- pulsion from the union to quietly pass by, published a statement telling of the conspiracy to get rid of him from the union and the bank. A few days later, a meeting of' the bank’s board of directors was held, where the question of Shafir’s ex- Pulsion from the union was discussed @nd his discharge from the bank de- cided on! Wednesday, fifteen minutes before quitting time at the bank Mariem- pietri called Shafir to one side and Sam Levine, one of the heads of the bank, head of the Chicago joint board of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- érs, and general executive board member of the union, discharged Shafir after a well-memorized piece fof slap-stick oratory, beginning with, “there comes a time in the life of humans when they must part—(and then after his five-and-ten oratorical demeanor and voice played out)— you're. services are no longer re- quired.” He refused to give Shafir any rea- son for the discharge. The friend of the workers is the enemy of the bosses! NOW IS THE TIME The series of articles on the A. F. of L. by Wm. F. Dunne, now appearing in The DAILY WORKER, keenly analyzing and ex- plaining in det all the policies of the leading body of American labor,— Are the kind to bring to your trade union, If you can't order a bundle (and you should!) now is » the time to urge the bro- ther or sister in your fo- cal union to SUBSCRIBE! Subscription Rates: NEGRO LABOR MEET ATTACKS KU KLUX KLAN Calls for United Action of All Workers During the Wednesday business ses- Congress, now meeting at 3118 Giles Ave., in a strong resolution attacking the ku klux klan and showing the class character of the government upon the workers of all races and ni tions to unite in a struggle a klan, In the measures taken during the past two or three years against the foreign-born worker—restrictive migration, proposed laws to finger- print immigrants—the American Ne- gro Labor Congress sees the working out of the klan ideas with respect to workers who are not necessarily of another color, but who belong to the class which the American government is interested in keeping down. The resolution adopted by the congress follows in full: Ku Klux Klan, “The ku klux klan declares its Purpose to preserve white supremacy meaning to keep the Negro perma- nently out of ‘his rights of equal. ci- tizenship and degraded to the condi- tions of a wild animal to be perse- cuted, hunted, tortured and burned at the pleasure of white individuals or mobs not content with the legal means of suppressing the Negro un- der ‘democratic’ government, which are bad enough. “The ku klux klan forms itself in- to a criminal band for 1 murder, to act The Klan di: ity and bigotry not only against ‘the Negro but also against other hard- working people who happen to have been born in other countries and brot here to do the hardest labor of the industries of this country ahd also against religious liberty. “This criminal organization shares the authority of the government in many places; it is semi-officially rec- ognized in some states and has com- plete control of other state govern- ments. Not only does the federal goy- ernment fail or refuse to act against the band of bigotry and crime, but can be seen in refusal of congress to. enforce the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments; and can also be seen in |) legislation recommended to congress, including the proposals which seek to force all foreign-born working peo- ple to carry passports and be regis- tered with the police and to be segre- gated in special residence districts as the Negroes are segregated. Thére- fore, United With All Workers, “BE IT RESOLVED by the Ameri- can Negro Labor Congress that we declare the ku klux klan an enemy to humanity, and that we will fight it to the bitter end, and will make common cause with forgign-born work- lers and others who are\persecuted by +" In a resolution attacking the ex ¢lusion of the Negro from the juty in trials where Negroes are tried, was decried as an attempt to prejudice the | Nero and to sentence him long before he is really tried. The congress. in the following resolution makes some ,of its demands that a belief in “white supremacy” be made a bar to anyone why is to.be impanelled on a Jury: Juries, ie “Ie is a general custom of police and criminal courts to accord to every white defendant a jury composed of white persons, but at the same time This custom is based on thé theory that: the white man alone proves the presence of race prejudice in every such trial; therefore, be it “Resolved, By the American Negro Labor Congress that as long 4g the Principle of white supremacy exists a Negro cannot get a fair trial before a white jury or a mixed jury; and we demand that a belief in ‘white supremacy’ shall be a legal bar to anyone serving on a jury to try & Negro; be it further “Resolved, that no Negro owes respect or obediertce to the de eslons of any court in which he is discriminated against.” The American Negro “Labor Con- gress scores the attempts of those in power to strangle the working class Gr the curbing of free speech, press (Continued on page 3). Nee In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. sion of the American Negro Labor which brings into being and protects Such organizations as the klan called inst the im- coercion~and terforization assuming Sit Veale otal the influence of the ideas of the klat’ U.S. PROTESTS ENDANGERING Of AMERICAN LIVES Not Worried About the Natives in Damascus (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, October 29.—The United States government has ledged a protest against the action of General Sarrail, who notified French inhabitants to leave Damascus but falled to notify American\and British oil magnates and church “mission- aries,” for unnecessarily jeopardizing American lives during the bombing SATURDAY, ( of Damascus in which thousands of Arabs were killed. To Be Used Against’ Druse Two American destroyers that were sent toe Alexandria to be used against the Druse tribesmen in case they should have taken Damascus, are now held in readiness to aid the American magnates who were jeopardized by the French General Sarrail. The American position was laid be-| to exclude Negroes from juries to: try Negro defendants in important cases, fore the Paris government by Ambas- sadér Hendrick, who was instructed to inform the French foreign office that this\ government expects France to safeguard the lives of the Amer- icans in Syria whiie she carries on operations against the Druse tribes- men, ae FMD Fighting Still Continue. LONDON, Oct. 29.—The death list in the bombardment of Damascus re- mains undetermined and guerilla (Continued on page 4.) CHARGE $350,600,000 COTTON GROWERS OF THE SOUTH " WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—In the face of criticism and threats of a con- gressional investigation of the methods of the crop TOBER 31, SOVIET-BUILT SHIPS 1925 a” ‘ . WORKER. NEW YORK EDITION Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBIASHING CO,, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL KEEPING UP THE FRAUD LAUNCHED IN LENINGRAD; ORDERS FOR MORE eat BE GIVEN FOREIGN SHIPBUILDERS 10 TRUCKLOAD LENINGRAD) Oct. 20-—The Tirst two a first two ainda to be built under Soviet regime were launched here. Leonid Krassin, commissioner of pes es trade, spoke at the launching ceremony. These two steamers are to be used | for the exportation of timber. It was announced that orders for two steamers, for the Soviet'siFar Eastern trade will be placed soon with German and) Italian shipbuildees, BELGIAN MINERS TO STRIKE MONDAY FOR ALAN LEADERS 5 Pen cenT RASE|! QN TRIAL FOR (Special to The Daily Worker) BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. 29— The Belgian coal miners threaten a general strike next Monday if the government does not grant by that time the demand it has so far re- fused—a wage raise of only five per cent to cover the far greater in- crease in the cost-of living. The government gives the same excuse that is given by all mine operators in all countries—foreign competition. It proposes to buy 50,000 tons a mont’: of Belgfum coal for the staté railways as a relief measure, as heretofore the railways have been using reparations coal produced by the German miners en- slaved under the Dawes plan. 21 Die in Wreck, MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. 29—The death toll in the wreck of the Sunny- land, 'Frisco flier, near Victoria, Miss.,| today reached 21, with the death in a hospital here of Frank Anderson, 19, of Hollywood, Tennessee. _ Fifty- four persons injured in the wreck were still in Memphis hospitals today but all are expected to recover. STOLEN FROM reporting board in estimating the cotton crop, officials of the department of agriculture today remained silent, refusing to comment on the charge made iby Senator T. H. Caraway, democrat, of Arkansas, that cotton planters $350,000,000.” The board caused a sensation by the last cotton report “cost southern predicting a cotton crop this year of 15,226,000 bales, which knocked the bottom out of the cottan market for the second time within the month, While declining to be quoted members of the boarddehowed consider. able resentment at the. charge made by Caraway that their report “had en abled soba to clean up in the market.” GIRL'S DEATH Testimony Re Reveals the. Real Klan | {hitched the hors NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 29—De- scribing it as the “foulest murder that stains the ‘history of our state” Charlies E. Cox opened the trial |\Do against D. C. Stephenson, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry, alleged slayers of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, with an im passioned plea in circuit court here to- day in which he outlined the case th prosecution expects to prove agains the trio. Cox, retained by the Oberholtzer family to aid the prosecution, spokc for more than an hour, told the jury that the state expects to prove the murder charges against the three (Continued on page 4) Panaman Students in Organization Move to Fight Imperialism In the midst of the news of the slow and temporary retirement of Ameri can military forces from Panama comes word that the Panama students have taken the first step toward an international Latin-American student's federation to fight American imper- jalism, According to information made public in this country by the All-America Anti-Imperialist. League, the students’ congress called by the Panama Siudents’. Federation will meet in the City ‘of Panama, June 22, 1926. Studehts’ organizations hruout Latin-Amierith ‘and in the Philippine islands "have been invited to send delegat’~ WHO SET FIRE OF PARCELS? Bosses Seek for Strict Injunction? A truck load of parcel post ship- ments, that were being carted from the International Tailoring com- pany, 847 Jackson Blivd., to the post- office, were destroyed by fire under most peculiar circumstances. What Did the Driver Do? According to the story told by the} police and the company heads, a truck as it passed 727 W. Van Buren street, ‘was stopped by a number of gunmen, )BasOline poured over the parcels and then’ d match applied. The gunmen then sped away and the driver un- es from the burning The company officials blame wagon. the: burning onto the Amalgamated Glothing Workers’ members, who are new on their eighteenth week of their strike. Where Were the Police? The most peculiar thing about the nitning is that this company always was police accompany all its scabs ind shipments out of the shop. This time the driver went alone, » Another Frame-up, The strike leadérs claim that this vas ‘nothing more than another -at- empt to blame the union for crimes which.¢ompany hirelings commig. The International Tailoring company has an dmjanction against the strikers, but under’ the new Ilinoig law, pick- eting. is permissable as long as it is carried on peaceably, The company lawyers are trying to get.a more strin- gent injunction against the union, which will prohibit the union from having effective picket lines in front of the shop by proving that violence is being used. The company has hired men to smash windows, according to affida- vits at Mr, Cunnea’s office, and the bombing of Ray Reeder's home, the throwing of the “acid” bomb, which later turned out to be a bottle of. ci- rate of magnesia, a laxative, and The act of violence committed now are un loubtedly done by hirelngs who will most likely be used by the company in its attempt to get an injunction wrohibiting picket lines around its ant and wjll be used as an excuse © frame a number 6f active union leaders and strikers. Price 3 Cents 11M. PAINLEVE'S NEW CABINET CANNOT LAST Rapid Fall of Franc Spells Doom (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, France, Oct, 28.—Premter Painleve has succeeded In forming his new cabinet today, The only marked change from the one which was dissolved Tuesday is the absenes of the former finance minister, dow eph Caillaux, Aristide Briand Is to remata mi ister of foreign affairs in the reom ganized Painleve cabinet. Painleve will take the portfolio of finanée minister, instead of the ministry af war, while that post will go to Del» dier, A new portfolio has been ereated-— minister of the budget. This will be filled by Georges Bohnet and will re move some of the burdens of the finance ministry from the shoulders of the premier. Temporary Makeshife Close observers contend that the new cabinet is merely a temporary makeshift. Painleve is to go before the chamber of deputies today; but without a definite program. Then the cabinet will. adjourn until Monday to give the political leaders time to de- vise a financial scheme as a substi- tute of the ill-fated ventures of Cail laux, Meanwhile the decline of the franc continues. The new financial program will pro. bably be adopted in the cabinet but {when it reaches the chamber it will probably go down in defeat before the bloc that has already been organ ized and is girding for battle under the. leadership of the deposed min ister, Caillaux, who is an. effective floor leader and “has among “his” Aip~ porters some of the most powerful in that body. Briand Next Premier The present political muddle and the rapid fall of the franc has placed the stamp of death upon the second Painleve cabinet before it is really organized. Aristide Briand, whose policy, is swinging far more toward Britain than ever before will be the next premier. He is striving to pre vent France falling under the dead weight of a Dawes plan and realizes full well, possibly better than any other bourgeois politician of France, the growing antagonism in every part of the world between Britain and America. His diplomacy will be dir- ected toward utilizing that antagon- ism to get the support of England to resist the impending disaster that will ultimately place France in the same semi-colonial position im rela- tion to American banking capital as is Germany today, * e*¢ Washington Optimistic WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Forma- tion of a new French cabinet by Premier Painleve, without Joseph Caillaux, is,not expected to materially affect the debt negotiations between France and the United States, it was said by treasury officials today, The new eabinet is expected, it was said, to appreciate the advan- tages of settling the debt, and to real- ize that without such settlement French credit and exchange will con- tinue to be embarassed thruout the world. 113 Communists in French Prisons for Anti-War Activity PARIS—(FP)—The agitation of the French Communists against the im- perialist war in Morocc§ has brought severe reprisals from the government. 113 members of the Communist party have been sentenced to 68 years im- prisonment and fines amounting to 38,400 franes so far, i | MARTIAL LAW DECREED IN CHILE THOUGH ALL IS OFFICIALLY QUIET BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 29—Re- ports reaching here from Santiago, Chile, where the military dictator- Ship rules with censor over all dis- patches, indicate that the general strike has had the effect, at least, of scaring the officer clique. The dictators have declared martial law over the three provinces of Santia- go, Valparaiso and Aconcagua, altho protesting that “everything is tran- quil.” St rs are operating with each car bearing infnatrymen, ¢ 2