The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1925, Page 2

) 4 Page Two teeeret GERMAN LABOR BEGINS REVOLT AGAINST DAWES Scattering Strikes Grow | in Volume | By LEN DE CAUX. | BERLIN—(FP)—That German la-| bor is not submitting to coolie condi- tions without a protest is indicated by | a survey of the labor field. There is} no dramatie mass protest to compare with the united front achieved by Bri- | tish labor, no national strikes or threats of strikes, but if we examine | the situation industry by industry we find an increasing volume of local and | sectional unrest. In Berlin the whole | transportation system may be tied up| if the wage demands of the transport | workers are not granted, and the gas, water and electricity workers are} threatening action if their demand for | @ 2%c an hour raise is not granted. In the mining industry in lower Si- lesia the employers have given notice to 31,000 mfners, in an attempt to sabotage the arbitration award of a 7 per cent raise in wages. The min- ers of the Ruhr, who were refused a raise so as not to interfere with chan- vention of the lignite miners of cen- cellor Luther’s attempts to lower pri- ces, have renewed their demand for a 16 per cent raise. The recent con- tral Germany registered a threat to take action against an award which legalizes the 12-hour day. Disputes in other industries include the lockout of 30,000 glass workers in Brandenburg and Silesia, a lockout of 10,000 building workers threatened in ‘Westphalia, and a lockout of metal workers in Hohenlimburg. Serious dis- content is felt among the longshore- men who have been compelled to sub- mit to the 54-hour week; and on the railroads the union is renewing its wage demands asthe advertised re- duction in living costs has not taken place, Unemployment in Germany is on the increase. The number of register- ed unemployed in receipt of relief is now 251,000. Hungarian Legation Astonished at U. S. Protest on Rakosi WASHINGTON — (FP) — Protests | from American liberals and trom | Americans of Hungarian birth or descent, against the threatened whole- | sale execution or imprisonment of alleged plotters against the Horthy dictatorship in Hungary, have made an impression on Budapest. This is indicated by the anxious attitude of legation officials who refuse to discuss | the situation. They appear astonish- ed that the arrest and reported tor- ture of prominent radicals and social- | ists in Hungary should become known in the United States and should lead to public discussion. Negro Labor Hits Ku Klux Klan (Continued from, page one) and assamblage, and in the following resolution condemns these acts as a yrannous infringement on the rights of the working people: Free Speech, Press and Assemblage. “The constitution guarantees the freedom of speech, press and as- semblage, but in recent years certain jreactionary groups which succeeded n winning political power in various sections of the nation, have robbed the | poorer class of people of the above | mentional rights. Therefore be it | “Resolved, That the American Ne- gto Labor Con ss condemns such acts, whether legislative or otherwise, | as a tyrannous infringement on the| rights of the working people.” Following the adoption of the reso- lution on free speech, press and | semblage, the congress adopted the} following resolution condemning the actions of the United States war and navy departments for the segregation | of Negro soldiers and sajlors and de-| nies the right of any power to con-| script members of the race for mili- tary service as long as those mem- bers of the race are denied social} equality: aed Army and Navy. “Be It Resolved, That this congress demands that the war department and navy department of the United States government abolish all Jim Crow dis- tinctions in the army and navy; and be it further “Resolved, That we demand that congress pass a law forbidding the army and navy to make or keep any record whatsoever making any dis- tinction of Negro and white in the military, air and naval forces in time of peace or war or in any way to segregate the races in these services, and be it further “Resolved, That we deny the right of any nation to conscript any Negro while such nation holds our race and class in subjection and inequality.” Brother C. W. Fulp, a delegate from the United Mine Workers, Local 2012, was chairman of the evening session and after a few introductory words introduced Lovett Fort-Whiteman, na- tional organizer ,of the American Ne- gro Labor Congress, press said that the purpose of this congress was to promote race pre- judice,” declared Lovett Fort-White- man, after he had read the telegrams, in denouncing the attacks of the press on the congress. “Here each night we see workers, black and white, meet- ing together in a common cause, Workers who are fighting for a com- mon cause regardless of clime, color or nationality.” With a few introductory words he introduced the speaker of the evening, George Wells Parker, “It was five or six weeks ago that I learned of the American Negro Con- gress. When I read the article by ‘William Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, ‘warning the Negro to y away from this con- gress because he said it was directly connected with the Soviets of Russia, the moment I read the article I be- came interested in the congress,” said Parker. “There was a time when they said freedom was bad for the Negro. They also said education was bad for the Negro. They said association with whites was bad for the Negro, No mat- ter what the Negro wants, what he desires, it is a bad thing for the Negro. So when Mr. Green said this congress was a bad thing for the Negro I became interested.” Parker then began to show the re- lation of the Negro to the ku klux klan. In decrying the attempts of many Negro workers to ignore the klan issue, he said: “The klan is not dying. The klan is going ahead by leaps and bounds. I receive at my desk fifteen different klan papers. They are organizing chapters in every hamlet and town. They have set 1935 as the year when they shall take government. “The members of the klan who wear the nightshirts are the dumb-heads. They are pawns in the game. The men who are ruling the klan, the higher-ups, they are brilliant, they are wise, they are adopting measures to, rule the world. The only thing they fear is Communism. “The future for the Negro in Amer- ica is Yark. The stars of hope in your sky are gradualy being blotted out one by one. “The order has gone into the steel Lovett Fort-Whiteman read the fol- lowing answer to the telegram sent by the American Negro Labor Con- gress to Dr. Ossian H. Sweet, who is to be tried the latter part of the | }month with 10 co-defendents for the | jose! is the wpresding of the idea/ct} murder of a hoodlum killed in an at- {tack on the Sweet home in Detroit: | “We, Dr. 0. H. Swet and ten co- defendants thank you for your sym- pathy and support. With such people we cannot fail to fight to establish the right of any American citizen to buy and live in homes commensurate with their means and aspiration.” Another telegram was read from the striking Polish miners of Shamokin, Pa., who expressed their solidarity with the purpose of the Américan Ne- &ro Labor Congress and to unite with the workers of all races to fight against the common foe. “The capitalist white and Negro cc Dance and Enjoy Yourself at Any or All of These DAILY WORKER RESCUE PARTIES Friday, Oct. 30— Rescue Party In Pittsburgh Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Workers League. Auspices Party and Young Workers ==] | Saturday, Oct. 31— | Rescue Party I Saturday, Oct. 31— | Rescue Party | | Saturday, Oct. 31— Rescue Party Monday, Nov. 2— Rescue Party West S: Educat Jamaic; HIKE Club H | Sunday, Nov. 8— maica, Bronx Bronx, Branch j-peraaag ( Nov. 14—~ a Rescue Party ] Sunday, Nov. 15— Rescue Party ae Friday, Nov. 20— Rescue Party ea Wednesday, Nov. 25— Royal Rescue Party B0c. DAILY Sunday, Jan. 16— QUET, In New York Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 East 8lst St., New York. Admission 50c. Auspices Yorkville Branches. West Side Workers’ Halli, 301 West 29th St., New York. Admission 35c. Auspices Brooklyn. Admission 50c, Auspices Jew- ish Williamsburg Branch. Finnish Workers’ Hall, 764—40th Street, Brooklyn. Admission 50c, Auspices South Brooklyn Branches. 108 East 14th St., New York, at 10 a. m. or at end of Elevated, Fulton Ave., Ja- Finnish Workers’ Home, 15 West 126th Harlem Branches. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 Hast 4th St., New Town New York Branches, (near Broadway), . Brooklyn, Auspices Williamsburg Branches, (ALL 8 P, M. UNLESS NOTED) For tickets or information regarding any of the above affairs apply to L. E. Katterfeld, 108 East 14th Street (Tel. Stuyvesant 8100.) ‘ide Branches. ional Alliance, 76 Throop Avenue, a Woods—Daily Worker Builders’ ike, Meet at Daily Worker office, ll a. m. Workers’ Hail, 1347 Boston Road, Admission 50c. Auspices Bronx e8, w York. Admission 50c, Auspices Admission 50c. Auspices Down Palace Hall, 16 Manhattan Ave. Admission WORKER ANNIVERSARY BAN- Manhattan Lyceum, | mills to hire the Negro last. The klan |is Dehind this.” | Parker then read a part of the ku klux' Klan ritual which follows, in which the klan shows that its pur- |race inferiority in attempting to keep the white worker and the black worker divided: “*The social chasm between whites and blacks.is greater now than it has ever been and it must still be made greater. by teaching the inferiority of all races excepting the white. We must not only constantly teach that they are inferior and destroy all facts that might prove otherwise, but we wtust suit. our actions to these teachings so that they will forever believe in their inferiority, “When I read to you another part of the klan ritual it will be an ex- planation to you why Mr. Green is afraid of this congress. “When the workers of the world clasp their hands, I care not if they are of the red sands of Syria or of the Riff country of Morocco, if they say let us form an international work- ers’ organization and let us work it out together, if the workers of the world believe that, then Negroes that is your salvation. That is what Mr. Green and the klan fear.” He then read another part of the ritual which follows, showing the aim of the klan was the division of those who opposed them in order to crush each group much easier: “‘A world coalition of malcontents could cope with us temporarily, but (Continued on page 4.) Goodrich, Back from Soviet Russia, Makes Visit to White House Former Gov. Goodrich of Indiana, Republican, back from his fourth trip to Russia since 1917, told Coolidge that Russia today is showing every sign of economic recovery. He did not directly advise Coolidge to re- cognize the soviet union, but he said that if an.American ambassador were located in Moscow his presence would be of great benefit to American trade and to peace and a better un- derstahding between the two nations. Company Insurance a ‘Menace to Unionism: Ties Worker to Boss insurance of employes, says the Union Co-operative Insurance Co, started un- der the Electrical Workers and other international. unions tends to take the place of wage increases, ties the worker to one employer because he . forfeits his insurance when he changes jobs and it swells the com- pany's till because the cost of labor turnover is reduced, A Correction NEW YORK, Oct, 29.—The address of the Rescue Party that is being ar- ranged by the Jewish Williamsburg branch this Saturday evening, Oct, Bist for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit was er- roneously given as 66 Manhattan Ave, in recent issues of The DAILY WORKER, Please note: The correct address is Educational Alliance Hall, 76 Throop Ave., Brooklyn, | WASHINGTON— (FP) — Company | 1 THE DAILY WORKER ANITA WHITNEY CASE ROUSING WIDE DISSENT Victim of C. S. Law Won’t Ask Pardon By MIRIAM ALLEN de FORD. SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)—The de- cision of the U. S. supreme’ court which sends Anita Whitney to San Quentin has caused a furore in the district where she has years been known and loved. People who vaguely approved of the California criminal syndicalism law ag “a good restraint on those I, W. W.'s” are now shocked and distressed by, its workings. It is possible that her martyrdo6m—for to a woman in frail,heglth, past middle age, and unaccustomed to hardship, it will be no less—may. prove the final blow to this law. Will Not Ask Pardon “I will make no effort to secure a pardon from Gov. Richardson,” says Miss Whitney. “I have done nothing to be pardoned for. He has had a long time to pardon the others, the poor men without,influence, who are in San Quentin off the same charges that I am found guilty of. Let him release those men from prison, and not @oncern himself only with a wo- man who hag the thousands of influ- ential, friends that_I have.” ‘With these words Anita Whitney re- plies to the state and nationwide movement to secure her pardon, Rich- ardson refuses to discuss the case with a delegation from the American Civil Liberties union and has made no reply to the hundreds of letters and telegrams from sources as diverse as the W. C. T. U., the Y. W. C. A., Negro Progressive club of Oakland, and Up- ton Sinclair, * Destined for San. Quentin Miss Whitney’s ondy hope of free- dom lies in a new appeal to the su- preme ourt for a new hearing. Pres. Coolidge, even if he could be ap- proached, has no power of pardon in the case of a state law. Owing to le- gal technicalities, ‘it be a month or six weeks before is, actually ordered to San Quemtin. Although the ostensible reasén' for the convic- tion was her membership in the de- funct Communist party, she would not have beet#midlested had she not, while under in@ictment, insisted on making a speech before a club on the Negro question. Her arrest occurred as she was leaving the hall.’ Coincidently with the court's decision (tho purely by ac- cident), anew protest strike has brok- en out among the criminal syndical- ism prisonerg at San Quentin. At this writing 18) men ar solitary and three in the. dungeon, A letter smug- gied out from the prison states that the strike followed arbitrary punish- ment of P. Mellman.and Joe Varella, criminal syndicalism prisoners, be- cause they were physically unable to speed up to the new tasks demanded in the prison jute mill. The men claim also that they are not receiving even the meager prison ration, and that prison rules are beiig violated daily. It is to the overcrowded women’s department of this prison that Anita Whitney is to be sent for from one to fourteen years for telling the truth as she saw it. t I. L. D. Warns That Whitney Case Shows Attack on All Labor CHICAGO—(FP)— The U. S. su- preme court decision refusing to in- tervene in the jailing of Anita Whit- ney under the California criminal syn- dicalism act, indicates a tendency to outlaw all warns the International Labor De- fense. “At present the enemies of la- bor are devoting their main attention to the radical wing of the movement,” the national office in Chicago of the defense body“states, “but they mean to destroy every organization of the workers that interferes with their rule” Chec!--r Taxis Strike Ag... in Boston, Mass. BOSTON—(FP)—Checker Co. taxi drivers are again striking for the union shop. After a recent strike 15 union drivers weré discharged with- out hearings and séme old men taken off the 9-hour shift’ which pays $4 and put on the 7-hour shift which pays $3 per day, Ford Profit 87.6 Per | Cent on Canadian Co. MONTREAL—(FP)—A net profit of 87.6% on a stock issue of $7,000,000 was made by the Ford Motor Co. of Canada during the year, ending July | 81,°1925. Net profits totalled $6,132,- | 827 an increase of $2,428,140 over the previous year, SSS SSAA SAS SAN CHICAGO MEMBERS, ATTENTION! Notice to all International Labor Defense membens and supporters. Demonstration meeting against Horthy terror—-Saturday, 1:30 p. m, Oct. 31, at 480 W. Washington St., Hall 200, Every |. L, D. member must come, must add’to the demand for the freedom of’ Rakosi and his brother a Jin Hungary. associations of workers, |’ Whitney Case Bares the Betrayal by Union Heads of Class War Prisoners By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, an echo of the refusal of the recent American Federation of Labor convention, to come to the defense of the class war prisoners, is heard in resolutions adopted by the San Francisco Labor Council on the fiendish one to fourteen year prison sentence against Charlotte Anita Whitney. To be sure, the San. Franciseo central labor body, rudgingly consented to join in lat J a pardon for Miss Whitney from Governor Richardson, Pleas for pardons are practically confessions that the capitalist law was right in winning its conviction, and Miss» Whitney's alleged crime was making a speech, five years ago, in conflict with Califor- nia’s vicious criminal syndicalism law. But at the same moment that ‘it-advanced its pardon plea, the Frisco A. F. of L. officialdom expressed its opposi- tion to the release of seventy members of the Industrial Workers of the World, now caged in capitalism's hell hole at San Quentin, held guilty of the same offense charged against Miss Whitney. It is certain that Miss Whitney, staunch fighter in the cause of the labor, did not lend her- self to this double-crossing of imprisoned workers. Yet it is typical of labor leadership of San Francisco. * * * * The luke-warmness with which some of these labor of- ficials rallied to the support of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, while others actually “undermined the fight to save these heroic labor fighters from the threatening gal- lows, accounts for the fact that these class war prisoners are still behind bars. : * * ° ° Just as the whispering campaign of “guilty,” charged against these labor heads, helped create an environment in the employers’ courts, that made it easy for a hireling judge to sentence Mooney and Billings to prison for life, so San Francisco's Labor Council now openly proclaims that the master class had a right to sentence Miss Whitney, frail and past middle age, to prison for a long term, because it holds the I. W. W. members justly imprisoned. The best reply to this cowardly outfit is contained in courageous words by Miss Whitney herself as follows: ‘ “I will make no effort to secure a pardon from Governor Richardson. Dhave done nothing to be pardoned for. He has had a long time to Pardon the others, the workers without influence, who are in San Quen- tin on the same charges that | am found guilty of. Let him release those men from prison, and not concern himself only with a woman who has the thousands of influental friends that 1 have.” a * ° * ° Miss Whitney's own words are a challenge to the whole left wing of American labor. The American Federation of Labor regime, now in the hands of the Greens, the Duncans, the Wolls and the Tobins, may desert Sacco and Vanzetti, whose lives are again in the balance before a Massachusetts court next month; may turn their backs on Mooney and Billings, Ford and Suhr, Schmidt, McNamara and Kaplan, while openly betraying the I, W. W. members, but that only means that the fight of labor’s militants for their brothers in chains must grow in volume and determination. * * * . When California labor permitted its most valiant fight- ers to go to prison, in the days before the war, it paved the way for the passage of the present oppressive criminal syn- dicalism law during the after-the-war labor-baiting hysteria. There is no doubt that the labor bureaucracy was glad to see the fighters of the |. W. W. imprisoned. it made it easier for them to act their comfortable role of class collaborators, The logical development of this treason now results in sthe prison gates opening to receive Anita Whitney. Right here California labor must make its stand:. Against the impris- onment of Anita Whitney, for the release of the members of the Industrial Workers of the World, for the repeal of the criminal syndicalist law, for the liberation of all other class war prisoners now held in the exploiters’ dun eons, including the two military prisoners, Paul Crouch and Walter Trum- poo In Sonne ior ok aan halving the workers of the nation or new struggles for all America’s labor vi ihe: dinan abteieaie. victims of the grow- CAPITAL TRYING |Amcricen terion le TO GET FARMERS | forthe Next War WASHINGTON—(FP) — Universal draft of the man-power and material resources and industrial organizations of the United States. in time of na- tional emergency, is proposed in a bill which the American legion, thru its) national legislative committee, an- nounces it will offer in congress in FOR OPEN SHOP Alliance Attempted with Rural Region A new attempt to organize an alli- ance between anti-labor employers and conservative farm organizations in New York, Nov, 18-19, under the auspices of the Natl. Founders’ Aggn., whose president Wm. H. Barr, made war upon the molders and other metal trades unfons for many years past. Recently Barr's own company was in financial difficulties, which the American Federation of Labor charged to his anti-labor policy. This proposed conference igs an- nounced by Henry Harrison Lewis, former editor of American Industri an openshop propaganda magazine which died in 1924. He is now styled “executive director of Better Under- standing Between Industry and Agri- culture.” His list of members of the advisory council for this Better Under- standing includes national and state officers of the Grange, the Farm Bureau federation and minor state Broups of reactionary farmers, Con- Sspicuous officers of the enterprise are ©. A, Dyer, legislative agent, Ohio Farm Bureau federation and Ohio State Grange; W. J. Thompson, for mer chairman national executive com: mittee of the Grange, and Sherman J. Lowell, former master of the na- tional Grange, Wrap your lunch ‘in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give lunch) to your..sho is seen in the plans for a conference | 8 | th it (the DALLY WORKER, not the| tion of women workers. ‘They believe te. December, “The bill gives to the president the authority to take the necessary ‘steps to stabilize prices of commodities,” the Jegion says. “It will draft into he service of the United States all persons between the age of 21 and 30 or such other limits as may be fixéd, without exception on account of in- dustrial occupation, and will proclaim the. material resources and industrial organizations of the country under government control during the period of the emergency.” Minimum Wage Law ; Holds No Terrors for Calif. Bosses SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)—The su- preme court decision in the Arizona minimum wi case imperils the Cali- fornia minimum wage for women, of longer standing than in any other state, It is possible that the Califor- nia minimum of $16 a week for ex- perienced women workers may be maintained, since jt is by constitution- al amendment, and the wage is fixed by the industrial welfare commission, not directly by the stat in Arizona, California employers favor the law as they contend that if invalidated the result would be intensive unioniza- the present law holds this in cheok,... A ia WORKERS NAIL, SCAB ‘ADS’ IN UNION JOURNAL Bureaucrats, as Usual, Pass the Buck (By Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 20,—At the last meeting of the Pittsburgh Central Labor Council the officials passed around a sort of “scab” catalog in the form of a year book, supposed to have been published by the working class of Pittsburgh. When the regular order of business, consisting of noth- ing but petty gossiping, had ended, Vice-President Miller called for “Good and Welfare” discussion and report. A delegate from the Miners’ Union named Hughes got up and inquired who got the ad for the year book from the Pennsylvanian Steel Co., the scab company responsible lately for the death of Fannie Selins. And the vice-president’s answer was a lot of raving about it not being his fault because Beaty, a former spy, went around to get the ads and |forced everybody to give him an ad regardless of whether it was a scab or union firm. Delegate after delegate got up to show that all those firms that adver- tised in the “labor” year book were hostile to organize labor. Hspecially one delegate must be mentioned, That is Gordon of the bakery workers, This young fellow pointed out that the year book has a kick coming from both sides, Not only has it to be criticized for its ads, but for its composition in general. “What do you find here,” he asked, “except articles by four labor of- ficials? Where does it tell you how the workers of Pittsburgh live, how many were killed in the past year, how much profit the master class piled up?” He made a fine speech, but the only result of it all was that a motion was adopted that hereafter all ads collect- ed be referred to the executive com- mittee. AUTO WORKERS’ MASS MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA Local 14 Issues Call for * : Organization (By W6rker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 29.— Join an industrial union and beat Ford and the General Motors Co, at their own game! This is the slogan that Local 14 of the United Auto, Aircraft and Vehicle Union of America has raised in Phila- delphia for their mass meeting Mon- day night, Nov. 5, at their’ hall, 1534 Ridge Ave. Thousands of leaflets have been distributed in the auto factories factories calling on workers to join Local 14, which is an industrial union open to all auto workers. The leaflets point out that the only way for the auto workers to meet the miserable conditions that are being forced onto them in the shops is for them to join this union and oppose the bosses with a united front of all crafts. Special protest is to be made against wage cuts and speed-up devices. The meeting will be held at the union headquarters of Local 14, where business sessions take place the first and last Thursdays of every month. Rail Telegraphers on Strike for Increase Against U. S. Board WASHINGTON—(FP)—Reports re ceived by rail labor officials in, Wash- ington from division points along the Atlantic Coast Line indicate that the strike of the 1,200 members of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers on that road, begun Oct. 19, is effective, From Richmond to the tip of Florida traffic has been crippled. The issue is a demand made by the men last February for an increase in wages of 7 cents an hour, together with .a two weeks’ annual vacation with pay. The U. 8. rajl labor board rejected both demands, and then tried to avert the strike by an inquiry into possible adjustment. of individual f wage inequaliti This inquiry has now been abandoned. The Atlantig Coast Lime is advertising for agents, telegraph operators and signal to men to take “permanent positions. Now Pickets Must Warn Anybody But Prospective Buyers WASHINGTON — (FP) — Police judge McMahon hag reversed police judge Schuldt, who in September held Dorothy Ferguson guilty of vio lation of the police regulations when she picketed a downtown clothing store a8 unfair to organized labor. Henceforth, pickets will assume that the passers-by whom they warn were not intending to make purchases, Me- Mahon held that picketing is gtill law- ful, under the Clayton act, as claimed by the lawyers employed in th by the American