The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1925, Page 2

Page Two NEW YORK LEFT-WING COMMITTEE TEACHES AMALGAMATED OFFICIALS HOW INJUNCTIONS ARE MADE VOID By ART SHIELDS, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Oct. 80.—New York’s hardest strike of the season had its most dramatic day with two mass demonstrations at the corner of 12th street and Fourth avenue where the twin International Tailoring Co. and J. L. Taylor & Co,, filling most of the block, rise in stone and steel and glass for CHICAGO LABOR HIT AVIATORS INNO. AFRICA Attack French War on the Riffians (Continued from page one) ganized workers—the Communists—of France were aiding the ‘Riffs in their struggle to gain independence. He brout out that not only are French Communists aiding the Riffs in words, but also in deeds, and that the French government has jailed one of the Com- munist members of the chamber of deputies for his activities against the | French imperialist policy, Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League, was applauded when he said that “nothing ean destroy a powerful, resolute, de- termined movement of oppressed peo- ples for national liberation.” “But the American aviators,” con- tinued Gomez, “have a sinister signi- ficance. Here we have a situation where a nation is trying to rise, try- ing to find its feet. To the Riffians, these American aviators represent America. “In the Riff we see an alignment of forces which is world-wide. All over the world, the big and powerful nations and trying to bring the weak- er and more undeveloped ones under their control, “Of all the imperialist nations, the United States is the most aggressive, the most militant, and the most powerful. During the past twenty 12 stories. has seen, The second took place an hour later when thousands of celebrat- ing workers welcomed the march in- to their’ midst of 18 foremen and 85 key-position workers in all from the plant that has been fighting the union four and a half months. Leading the first demonstration was the Amalgamated Action Committee, an unofficial left wing movement that advocates open defiance of injunc- tions,, Organizing the second demon- stration was the official body of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union itself. When ‘the Internation- al Tailoring Co. got what it consider- ed the tightest injunction New York City has known in a labor case the union’s tactics were to continue the fight but officially to confine its pick- eting to the J, L. Taylor & Co., an allied concern and located in the same building, and in this course they were technically endorsed by a court when arrests had been made, This morning at seven there were eight or ten Amalgamated pickets bearing the Taylor strike placards and more than that many police- men, One picket, however peaceful, is always considered to justify as many policemen as_ possible, The scene was quiet, but not for long. At 7:30 the left wing marchers came, years we have witnessed an enorm- ous expansion of American imperial- ism, The United States is trying to embrace the whole world. “But there is a strong movement against this growth of American im- perialism. This movement finds its expression in the Americas in the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, whose aim is to unify and coordinate the struggle against imperialism of peoples all over the world. “The All-America Anti-Imperialist League will fight against the Monroe doctrine, which gives the United States the right to exploit and oppress the nations of Latin-America. “The AlkAmerica Anti-Imperialist League will fight the so-called ‘peace- ful penetration’ of China. “The All-American Anti-Imperialist League will fight for equal social, economic and political rights for Ne- groes, and for all races, “These ends cannot be attained un- less we overthrow the powers that rule America. “The All-America Anti-Imperialist League was founded less than a year ago. It now has living sections organ- ized in Cuba, Mexico, Central Amer- ica, and a section is growing up in the Phillipines. “I am going to ask all those of you | who want to fight American imperial- ism to join tonight in forming a sec- tion of the All-America Anti-limperial- ist League.” Resolution Unanimously Adopted The following resolution presented by Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, Was unanimously adopted by the meet- ing protesting against ‘tthe use of American aviators in the war on the Riffs. American adventurers and sol- diers of fortune, who were trained as aviators in the great imperialist slaughter of 1914-18, have crossed over into Africa and are fighting on the side of the French robbers in their war against the brave Riffian tribes struggling for independence, American Hypocrisy, While these aviators now fighting Abd-el-Krim were still in America preparing to go to Africa, and while the United States government was still able to stop them, it made no effort to prevent their going. Some of the aviators received passports from the government after they had specifically declared their intention of fighting the Riffians. No amount of hypocritical evasion can conceal the hostility of the Un- ited States government to the na- tional movements of oppressed peo- ples. We call the attention of the American workers, and of all lovers of liberty, to this fact. New Spirit Ariss Among the darker races all over the world, there has risen a new wave of the struggle for freedom. In the Riff country of northern Af- rica, in Mesopotamia and China, in India and the Phillipine Islands, in Jamaica, Porto Rico, Panama, and the other countries to the south of us, the people are demanding the right to conduct their own affairs free from the interference of fore- ign powers. We declare that it is the duty of all intelligent, liberty-loving Ne- @rces in this country to stand by their brothers in foreign countries In these struggles. We declare that the reason 8 P.M. October 31, 1925 several hundred strong, bearing fore and aft big red lettered placards em- blazoned with the name of the Inter- national Tailoring Co., which Judge Churchill has ordered not be adver- tised as a struck firm by the union. More police came and rushed the new pickets violently when the lat- ter insisted on going on down Fourth toanipeininistlion nticestiniieiaiaiidaiante France and Spain are warring or the Riffs is because they want tc bring the rich natural resources o Morocco under the control of the French and Spanish monopolists The soil of Morocco is rich in tin, copper and zinc. Its northern shore makes the approach of ships easy The natives of Morroco can be made to work in factories, on railroads and in mines for very little wages It is because of these things that Abd-el-Krim’s tribesmen are being slaughtered on the soil of northern Africa, We declaré that American >'- tors by fighting on the side of the French are helping the cause of robbery and oppression, We furth- er declare that if the United States government really wished to stop the aviators from going—~as it now pretends—it could easily have done so by refusing to issue passports. We therefore protest against the criminal connivance of the United States government. We further declare that the scheme of American capitalists to spend millions of dollars in Liberia for the purpose of establishing mo- nopoly-controlled rubber plantations and factories, is a scheme which will benefit only the American mon- ey lords, and will cause the Negroes of Liberia endless suffering. Such a scheme 's sure to lead to just such oppressive wars as the French are now waging in the Riff. Africa For the Africans. We declare that Africa should be- long to the African people, not to a smal! band of foreign plunderers. We demand that the American government mow take whatever steps are necessary to recall the American aviators from Morocco. We demand further that the United States government publicly relin- quish all privileges of “extra-terri- toriality” that it enjoys in Morocco, as well as all similar privileges that have been wrenched from the weak« er peoples in other parts of the world, Against the robber policies of France, Spain, England and Un- ited States! Hands off eco! Liberty for the oppressed peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin-Americal C. T. Chi, in hig speech following Manuel Gomez, greeted the assembled workers and greeted the American Negro Labor Congress in the same of the workers of China. He then went on to describe the penetration of China by the imper- ialists in the following words: “Peaceful Penetration.” “Missionaries and ‘scientists in’ the name of god and civilization, penetrat- ed into depths of Asia, disturbing the tranquil life of the people. The geni- us of the scientists and the fervor of the religious missionaries were fol- lowed by the money grabbing desires of business men and blood thirsty am- bitions of ‘beneyolent’ governments. “Fearing that they might be pun- ished for their deceit, when they got to heaven (if they still believe in the Today The first demonstration rushed a supposedly air-tight injunction off its feet, for the preSent at least, and in the doing of it brot forth one of the, wildest police clubbings this reporter ¢———————________—. —-_______4| avenue. They began striking with |” fists and the butts,of their sticks but/ as the workers attempted to stand firm the police swung at fulf length, flailing viciously in six-foot arcs at the buttocks, sides and legs of the pickets. One of the leaders, Sam Lipsin, collapsed, and was taken to St. Marks Hospital. Women's screams rose in the air as the police beat them viciously, Most of the strikers gave way, police tearing af- ter them with flailing clubs. But sev- eral managed to hold their positions for atime, among these Ben Gitlow, a member of the Amalgamated cutters’ local and a leader of the left wing, also Workers Party candidate for mayor. Gitlow is a tall, heavy man /and the police chose the shorter work- ers around him for their targets, One girl, Jennie Cohen, was arrested and later released in cowrt, but the arrest was on an ordinary police charge, not under the injunction which was a dead letter for the day, There was excitement about half an hour later when 85. workers walked out. Raymond Reiss, vice-president, general manager and so on, of the millionaire owner lost his head and pulled a gun. But without avail, Only three cutters are left, no but- ton hole workers and the key craft positions generally are out of -fix. There are still left about 300 work- ers in the New York plant out of the thousand needed in the busy season, but the absence of key workers has Practically halted production. The Amalgamated has been feeding strik- ers with the assistance of voluntary local union assessments amounting to thousands of dollars. REA SLM MESSE OOD tistence of such a place) they in- nted a few phrases to justify their ‘tions. ‘The White Man’s Burden,’ he Crusade of Civilization” and the idless train of bunk that followed, 1 .f ‘nese are intended as catching oras Phra “Friends, 1s Deceive None, these phrases deceive one. They might claim that, thru ieir missionaries they saved our ouls, but friends, let me assure you, hat what they have done is to lose heirs.” After describing the Amritsar mas- ‘acre of India and the manner in ‘hich the imperialist nations have attempted to crush India, he then went on to analyze the causes of the recent Shanghai strike. _ “We are bound in every side by un- just treaties, fraudulently concluded ) our disadvantage. Using the abun- ant material and the cheap labor yhich we can easily provide, these uperialist money grabbers made mil- ions with little effort, much deceit nd plenty of inhumanity, Labor Strikers, “The Shanghai incident had its ori- in in a labor strike, and the labor crike was the direct result of the un- vearable labor conditions in the for- ign cotton factories of Shanghai.” Imperialism Passing. . “Friends, the world of imperialism passing,” declared Chi in his clos- & appeal for unity of all workers, he movement in China, the war in Morocco, the war in Turkey—numer- ous movements in various parts of the world—and the trend of public opin- on of enlightened circles, pil augur the ill fate aud coming end ‘of imper- ialism. “We don’t have to be afraid that imperialism will stay. It will meet its doom sooner or later. What we want to do is to hasten its death, to wash it away forever from the earth. Unite in One Camp! “Let us join hands with all ene- mies of imperialism, disregarding race, creed or nationality. Let the op- pressed people as well as all enemies of oppression, whether white or black, unite into one camp and face every imperialist activity. with uniform vi- gilancy.” Fifty Applications Signed. Applications that had been passed out at the beginning of C. T. Chi's speech were collected at the end of his speech, Fifty of the workers pre- sent signed the applications and it is the intention of this section to hold many more demonstrations of the type that was held. Congress Donates Hail. The All-America Anti-Imperialist League had issued circular letters calling on all Negro, Chinese, Hindu and white workers to participate in the protest meeting against the parti- cipation of the American aviators in Morocco and intervention in Haiti and China, The American Negro Labor Congress donated the use of the meet- ing hall to the AlleAmerica Anti-Im- perialist League as its contribution. MASQUE Y. W. L. (BRANCH 4) AND JUNIOR SECTION “a GOOD MUSIC. Calls for International / Race Congress (Continued from page 1) darker-skinned peoples in the colonies of imperialism,everywhere.” Corrine Robinson,.delegate from the Young Workers’ League, presented a resolution on the role of the Negro youth in America.out of which the following excerpts are taken: “When thousands, of young Negroes entered the industries of the north during the migration, the bosses did their best to stir up racial prejudices between the young Negro and the young white workers. They did this because they wanted to keep the young Negroes working for even low- er wages than the young white work- ers. These yoting Negroes who are discriminated against’ in this way are forced to work for the lowest imagin- able wages and,in certain shops and industries yourlg Negroes are employ- ed almost entirely in an effort to keep the wages down, and increase the pro- fits. “These young Negro workers get as low as $10 to $15 a week, the young Negro girls and women getting near- er the lower scale. Qn this they are expected to live, These young Negroes who are being forced to work in greater and greater numbers on ac- count of the low wages their parents receive are an important source of cheap labor for the bosses and are used by them in cutting down the wages of the other workers.” Negro Children and Child Labor. “Most of the Negro child laborers are found in the south, where records show that almost 1,000,000 Negro chil- dren of school age were not enrolled nm the public schools. . . “Not only is segrégation the com- mon practice in’ public schools of both the south and the north, but es- pecially in the south, the states dis- criminate against the Negro school children thru unequal expenditures for education, ete: “For example, in South Carolina, there is only $5 invested in school property for Negroes while there is $60 invested for the whites. Similarly there is only $8 invested in school property for Negroes to $74 for white in Louisiana, and much the same in the’ other states’ thruout the south. s+ + The schoo] term is shortened so that the Noches can be sent to work/ it ; cotton fields as early as possible, . . . . In the north, the most marked discrintina- tion consists in segregation, housing of Negro children in the oldest, most unsafe and unsafiitary school build- ings and inferior educational arrange- ments of all kinds, i] International Defense s Up the House of Morgan —- (Continued ‘from page 1) * ian embassy sat yp.and took notice. In addition to the cable and tele- gram bombardment,the I. L. D. or- ganized a giant nation-wide campaign of mass meetings and demonstrations. The Hungarian embassy in New York was picketed and the police of the Hearst protege Mayor Hylan, aided the Horthy government by arresting many of the demonstrators. Change of Methods, When news of these American de- monstrations reached Budapest it is, reported that Horthy decided to make a concession to world opinion by granting the prisoners a civil trial. Whether this is true or not ig hard to determine just now. One thing is certain, Horthy has not relinquished his intention to murder Rakosi and his comrades. The campaign to save Rakosi and his fellow workers will continue and thé American work- ing class are expected to do their share in halting Horthy’s bloody hand. It shouldinot be forgotten that the dollars of Wall Street are paying the salaries of the executioners. NEW YORK, ATTENTION! The Greek Igcal, New York, has its entertaliiment and ball on Nov, 3 ( lon day), at Paim Garden, 58th s' it, between Lexing- ton and Third nues, New York, at 8:30 p. m. The! proceeds will go to Empros, the official organ of the Greek bureau, Workers; Party. The program i rich and picturesque with a drama and comedy in Greek, songs, etc. Comrade jeak, Don’t miss it. Ben Gitlow will Admission 50 cents, To Pray for “Peace.” WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Churches were urged to observe Sunday, Nov. 8, and Wednesday, Nov. 11, as special days on which to devote their efforts to propagandizing for world peace and, international relationship. IVEN BY sane THE DAILY WORKER AN. LG, TAKES Nobel Peace Award Goes Begging Among Flunkeys RULE| of World's Imperialists By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ' ‘ODAY, the Nobel Committee, that has the awarding of the so-called Nobel Peace Prize, announces that it is reserv- ing its decision until next year, confessing that in all the world it cannot find an’ of this alleged honor. organization or individual worthy his is easily understood, since the committee confines itself merely to that part of the world under the domination of war-breeding capitalism, and then only to the to advance its ambitions. * ap tr capitalist class, that foments wars t This is the sixth time that the committee has missed in its selections since the world war broke in 1914, But its selections are more interesting than its failures to select. In 1906 it picked Theodore Roosevelt, the embodiment of American jingoism, who won his reputation as a killer in the Spanish-American war, that marked the real entry of the United States on the blood be-spattered stage of world imperialism. adviser of Wall Street. In 1912 the “honor” fell on’Elihu Root, legal In 1918 it went to Woodrow Wilson, who sent the United States into the European war, obedient to the dictates of the international financiers. Then in 1921 the committee picked Hjalmar Branting, the late “socialist” premier in Sweden, who tried to betray the workers into the “Black International” of capitalism, the League of Nations, an enemy of the. Bolshevik revolution in Russia; This ‘is surely a fine selection of stool of international big business. * . Alfred Bernhard Nobel, who furnished the piyoons of the profit bandits is typical of all the rest. ° . Id to pro- Vide these “peace prizes,” was a Swedish chemist and engineer, who spent his lifetime lnventee. Thru the-manufa mite and the exploitation of the Baku oil fields in the turing deadly explosives. and manufac- cture of dyna- lear East, he amassed a great fortune that made this possible, He declared his peace award was “to be or society that renders the greatest serv international brotherhood, in the supp , or in the establishment or furtherance of of standing armi peace congresses.” iven to the person @ to the cause of ion or reduction re: If this peace committee had looked to the world of rev- olutionar labor in 1914, 1915 and 1916, it would have found many individuals and organizations fighting for international brotherhood. There was Viadimir Ilyitch.Lenin, exiled in Switzerland; Karl “Liebknecht-in a German prison, later martyred; and the Zimmerwald Conference that raised its appeal to world labor, demandin; fraternity and quit fighting the masters, that it-recognize its own attles*'of* the imperialist The opportunities for selection aré @Vén greater today. At no time in all the world’s history have there been such organizations, fighting for the brotherhood of mankind, as the workers have established themselvé¥' in the Communist International, the Red International of Labor Unions and the Young Communist International. Voices are raised in every land against the imperialist bloodshed, Doriot,. in France; Saklatvala, in England; Rakosi, in Hungary; Lanzutski, in Poland, with hosts of others. But those who award the Nobel attack on these militant fighters for’ tizes help lead the Rid only world peace possible; demanding that these soldiers of peace be sent either to prison or to the * * executioners’ block. : : : International brotherhood and world peace will not be furthered because a profiteer in explosiv: hands out prizes to the intellectual and political flunkeys of.kis own class. It will come when the workers demand anew world eceonomy based on Communism, that comes to blot out the present war-breeding capitalist social order. ‘ World of Islam Begins to Stir as French Attack Grows (Continued from page one) ized” warfare) tore ghastly holes in the bodies of pedestrians, while whole sections were gassed with the most poisonous fumes, Thousands upon thousands of corpses litter the streets, where they are still laying in heaps, a putrefying mass, The systematic slaughter is still going on outside the city and was only arrested by the counter offensive of the exiles and the tribesmen combining their forces and trying to win back the city laid waste by the agents of French imperialism. Islam Stirs Restlessly Despite the activities of the censor- ship and the pen valets who have tried to hush up the atrocities by modifying thelr first stories, the news of the bombardment of Damascus is spreading like wildfire thruout the world of Islam, and everywhere the rule of European and American cap- ital has become the object of new and deeper hatreds than ever before. Revolutionists observing develop- ments among the Mohammedans in Asia, Asia Minor and Africa are elated over the turn of affairs and see in the reaction to the shelling of Da mascus and the murders in the streets the possibilities of an issue that may unite the colonial and ,semi-colonial natives in one mass upheaval that will result in expelling from their bound aries all agents of American and Bu- ropean capital, thus breaking the back bone of the imperialist power of both Britain and France. and seriously threatening the power of the United States in this part of the world. Powers Protest PHILADELPHIA AND CHESTER PARTY WOMEN TO HOLD MEET SUNDAY PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 30.— Every woman member of the Work. ers Party must attend the special ‘women’s membership meeting for Chester and Philadelphia, where Comrade Gitlow of New York City will speak on-“Work Among the Women,” Sunday evening, Nov. 1, at 521 York A at 7 o'clock, Se zeal for murder, permitted his forces to indulge in excesses not only against the native population, but reliable re- ports state that he made the blunder of neglecting to tell British and Am- erican inhabitants that he was going to reduce the city to ruins, hence they remained while the French evacuated. As a result a number of Americans and Englishmen were slaughtered in the general butchery, The British press is extremely critical of the mi re and the Am- erican government has sent an official protest to France, Foreign, Exchange NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Great Brit- ain pound sterling 4.8444, cable 4.84%, France franc, demand 4.20, cable 4.20%. Belgium, franc demand 4.53%, cable 4.54, Italy lira, 3.96%, cable 3.96%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.74, cable 26.77, Norway, krone, demand 20.37, cable 20,39. Denmark, krone, demand 24.80, cable 24.90 Germany, mark, not quoted. Shanghai, taels 9.60, Read—Write—distribute The DAILY The French general, Serrail, in his WORKER, RADE BALL at Windy City Ballroom, 1243 N. ADMISSION 50c Inc. Wardrobe, Wood Stret | Today October 31, 1925 COMMUNISTS IN FAST FINISH IN N.Y. CAMPAIGN Big City Is Blazing with “Red Nights” (Continued from page 1) once. Money collected after election will not do the same work as money collected this week. Gitlow Buttons Out, The whole party must be mobilised for the Saturday and Sunday tag days. An attractive button, with a photo of Benjamin‘ Gitlow in black and white and the name of the party and its em- . blem in red, the whole in a red circu- lar frame, has been prepared by the district office in thousands, All of the section headquarters, mentioned above, will have their boxes containing thousands of buttons and will be open all day Saturday and Sunday for the distribution of these buttons, By Monday morning, the eve of elec- tion, every worker in the city of New York must be wearing a “Gitlow for Mayor” button and must have been made to understand, thru personal conversation, what weaiing of this button means, Everything must be set aside for Saturday and Sunday in favor of the final distribution of lit erature ando the two big button tag days. Tag workers will wear a ribbon bearing the words “Write in the name of Gitlow for mayor.” " U. S. Imperialism in New Oppressive Acts Against the Haitians (Continued from page one) Press dispatch reported that “State department officials see no reason to expect serious trouble in Haiti even if President Borno should decide, as he probably will, and has the costitutional authority to do, to with- hold the call until October 1927.” This prediction was fulfilled by Pre- sident Borno on October 10, and Wash- ington has decided not to interfere. Military Rule Political life in Haiti, however, is completely dominated by American interests. . The United States con- trols the republic through a detach- ment of marines, an American-control- led constabulary, an American finan- cial adviser, and an American receiv- er-general who collects all customs revenues, Above. all there is an Amer- | ican high commissioner, at present General John H. Russell of the U, 8. marine corps. Haiti’s political subjection to the United, States is intimately connect- ed with the investments in that repu- blic of the National City Bank of New York, a Rockefeller intitution. Six times during 1914 and 1915 the state department made direct over- tures to Haiti to obtain control of its customs in order to guarantee Amer- ican “Investments. When these over- tures were turned down, American battleships and marines, commanded by Admiiral Caperton, invaded the re- public and assumed control. A Rockefeller Game The “legal” foundation of Amer- ica’s control rests on the treaty of 1915, which was later extended to 1936. The treaty was forced on the Haitian legislature after Admiral Cap- erton seized the capital and the lead- ing ports and declared martial law.’ Subsequently .an American financial adviser appointed by President Hard- ‘ng brought pressure to bear on Haiti to pass laws giving the National City 3ank findncial control, Haiti owes the New York intitution $16,000,000. Furthermore, Haiti’s nationgl bank and railroad are both in the hands of the National City Bank, Over 3,000 practically unarmed Haitians were killed during the pro- cess of turning Haiti into a pretector- ate of the United States. * _ What'll He Do With It? - SOUTH BEND, Id., Oct, 30—Frank Schnelle, 9, dumb, blind and unable to walk as a result of an accident in which his stepfather,,4and two other men were killed on last Christmas eve, was today awarded $15,000 dam- ages instead of the $100,000 asked of the Michigan Central railway in fed- eral court here, The Walden Book Shop . / 307 Plymouth Court (Between State and Dearborn dust South of Jackson) CHICAGO By Nihil —— Fa aa yt