The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1925, Page 4

nelle enendalon > Page Four) > THE DAILY WORKER | MOSCOW TOILER PROTEST HORTHY Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mati (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chienee ts $8.00 per year $4.60 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three ‘months + $2.00 three months Address all mail’and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ilinols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \. WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB... Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cogo, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. | Editors Business Manager <i 290 | British Delegation Joins Protest MOSCOW, Oct., 30—An. immense meeting of the Hungarian’ and .Rus- sian workers took place in the. hall of the Trade Union House onthe init- iative of the Moscow ‘Trade Union Council as a protest against the per- Advertising rates on application. | secution of the opposition in-the Hun- garian trade unions by the burea- . > 4 cratic leaders’ and against the arrest M itchell s Court Martial of revolutionary workers and leaders of the Communist Party of Hungary, The trial of Col. William Mitchell before a military court in} Rakosi, Weinberger, ete. ‘The splen- Washington has far greater significance than establishing the fact Hes spe teed earl to overhowinnrty orkers bein: ‘O80! whether Mitchell, in his attacks upon the army and navy, did or did he ae ole ieeting eee not violate military discipline. sisted. of leaders of the Russian trade It cannot be separated from the frantic development of the} union movement, one time leaders of military power of the United States. At a time when millions upon] the sragasinn: rede uae aera millions of dollars are being spent to build up every branch of the plore ici OT, Chel ReUROOM Fate army and navy, when experiments are being conducted on land and} ‘phe one time chairman of the Na- sea, and in the air above and the depths below, when the United | tional Metal Workers’ Union of Hun- States army and navy operates in every part of the world, it is|Sary, Bajaki, spoke upon the present reasonable to expect bitter conflicts within. the service. This is to | *ituatiom of the working class in Hun- 11 the mo: t th sent time ag the technique of war-) 207%? 4pm hee pe pope sig: ees be expected a’ age Mare Bh Mie Ore 8 q’ Hungarian social democratic leaders fare is undergoing marked changes. in the trade unions, the mass expul- Mitchell, as an individual is just the ordinary, swaggering, bom-| sions, and the participation of the bastic, ignorant military bully, with an inordinate ambition for | #w2garian soclaldemocracy in the police’ provocation, the arrest of Ra- power and, like his type thruout the world, he loves the Spot-| iosi and the persecution of the lead- light of publicity. Like all small calibre military puppets he imagines] ers of the socialist workers. party. In his particular branch of the service is more important than any other. | the meantime the chairman informed His mentality and training fit him for the role he is now playing—| the meeting of the arrival of the Brit- that of publicity agent for the manufacturers of aircraft who want a large slice of the military appropriations fund for their own. profit With the backing of these “patriots for profit,” Mitchell indulges in a series of sensational charges against the conduct of the army. Per- sonally he wants a unified air service, independent of the army and navy, with his own clique of officers at the head of it. The manufac- turers of aircraft also desire this separation. *° ‘ In his campaign for a unified air service Mitchell is supported by that braneh of the reptile press than is linked with the air-craft patriots, anxious to get a large slice of the military appropriations fund. The Hearst publications, in particular, endeavor to lionize this puppet. On the other hand the publicity attendant upon the charges against the military machine have caused Wall Street, thru the White House, to act. An investigation independent of the army and navy was ordered by Cootidge. Since the armed-forces of the United States exist for the specific purposes of defending the interests of finance’capital at home and abroad it was but logical that the head of President Coolidge’s committee should have been Dwight L. Mor- row, a partner in the House of J. P. Morgan & Co. Tho the manufacturers of air craft will strive to get a large juicy slice of the military appropriations melon, tho the arms and ammunition manufacturers will find military “authorities” to ex- press in terms of exalted patriotism their special interests, tho the manufacturers of armor plate will prove that battleships are the ish trade union leaders, Hicks and Citrine, who were greeted with en- thusiastic’cheers. * After speeches of protest by sev- eral workers, including a non-party Hungarian worker, Melnitchansky, spoke in the name of the Moscow Trade Union Council. He pointed out that the Russian trade unions had never expelled the opportunists, but that the opportunist leaders had con- ducted a systematic campaign of ex- pulsions against revolutionary work- ers. Hicks took the*floor amidst stormy applause. He condemned the action of the Hungarian trade union burea- crats, of, the Horthy regime and the whole terrorist system of capitalism and demanded a struggle against the persecutions and for the international unity of the working class. After the speeches of the represent- atives of the Moscow shops and fac- tories a resolution was adopted un- animously condemning the Horthy gov- ernment and its tortures, and the-so- cial-democratic trade union bureau- cracy. The resolution demanded the sending of a éelegation from the Trade Union Council to Hungary to enquire into the situation, and plan backbone of national defense, the agents of the House of Morgan can-| measures against the persecutions. be depended upon to formulate a program that will aim to make|The meeting ended with cheers for the military might of the United States formidable enuf to back] the arrested working class leaders, with force of arms the economic power of Wall Street’s billions. And the military marionettes who stalk thru the newspaper col- umns in spectacular array and the special interests that baek the various groups will be forced to yield to the desires of the House of Morgan, whose interests transcend any and all of them, The working class will be expected supinely to submit to the dictatorship of the government at Washington, which is itself the mere executive committee of the capitalist class. The Workers (Communist) Party, as the vanguard and defender of the interets of the working class, will wage a relentless campaign to unmask and discredit the whole military clique before the workers so that, altho the most ambitious plans may be perfected, the one essential element of all military ventures-will be lacking—the human cannon fodder. Can Debs Take a Revolutionary Stand? Eugene V. Debs, who, at times during his thirty years of prom- inence in the labor movement, has shown flashes of revolutionary fervor is the sole stock-in-trade of the bankrupt socialist party. Debs and his past reputation constitute the sole support of that party. None of the prominent leaders of the socialists have any standing in the labor movement, so they must lean upon Debs. But one cannot always live on the acts of the past. Debs has for a long time disgraced his previous record by meekly following the socialists into every treacherous path they found it most convenient to tread in the betrayal of the working class. He has had numerous chances to take a stand for the working class and against the so- cialist party traitors. He now has another chance. This time he is confronted with the choice of supporting a working class candidate in the New York elections—Ben Gitlow—or remaining silent while the fakirs around Norman Thomas try to split the working class vote. The executive committee of District No, 2, Workers (Commun- ist) Party, has wired to Debs at his home in Terre Haute, Indiana, requesting him to use his influence to rally the workers in support of Gitlow, who is the only working class candidate, running on a work- ing class, ticket and whose name has arbitrarily. been removed from the ballot by Tammany politicians. The Communists have said to Debs: We have proposed a united labor ticket so that all workers may be combined in common campaign against capitalist oppression. We have gone to extent of expressing willingness to withdraw our ticket in favor of one common united labor ticket if socialist party will do likewise. The only way to strike a blow against arbitrary use of government against workers is by supporting candidacy of Gitlow. The workers of New York will judge your devotion to revolutionary principles by action you take, There are but a few days left in which to respond to this appeal. Debs, who likes to talk much about universal brotherhood, justice, liberty and other shibboleths of a by-gone age, now has an opportunity to show whether he has a modicum of revolution in his make-up or mo chvntd he is just a sentimental religionist basking in the limelight while supporting the vilest elements of labor reaction in the country —the socalist party leaders. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. ; Rakosi, Weinberger, etc., as the work- ers left the hall singing revolutionary songs. Workers Invited to Attend Branches of . the Chicago I. L. D. The Chicago branches of the Inter- national Labor Defense are growing and active and invite every worker interested in defense and relief of class war prisoners to attend the following meetings where they are convenient to reach from the reader's neighborhood: Saturday at $ p. m., the Italian Branch No, 19 meets at 2423 West Harrison Street. Sunday, Nov. 1, the Bulgarian Branch meets at 7 p. m. at 1717 West Congress Street. ‘Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 8 p. m., the South Side English Branch meets at 3201 South Wabash, and the “Tom Mooney” Branch meets the same night at 8 p. m, at 3118 West Roose- velt Road. Thutsday, Nov. 5, at 8p, m., the Russian Branch meets at 1902 West Division Street. Friday, Nov. 6, the South Slavic Branch meets at 1806 South Racine, at 8 p, m. Paint Manufacturing Co. Head Arrested in Booze Ring Quiz That the government ‘investigation of a $9,000,000 beer syndicate with headquarters here has not feazed the ring entirely was indicated when fed- eral agents, prowling the railroad yards, found a car load of bottled beer from Scranton, Pa. being un- loaded: After following loads to a hotel and to a paint manufacturing ‘company and causing the arrest of the man- agers of each on charges of conspir- acy to violate the prohibition Jaw, the agents seized the rest of) the carlod, consisting of barrels of the bottled product. Politiciane Mixed Up The district attorney's office, shut- ting down on publicity as to what it was doing was said to have.been put in possession /of the names. of the “higher-ups” who, it was. réeported, have for three years been handling beer, aleohol and slot machines in Chicago under political and police | protection. The operations of the ring is gaid to have netted the three lead- between $200,000 and $250,000 a Another “Red Invasion” Is Nipped in the Bud ie Argus E Eyed Police! ASSIST REBELS: By WALLACE T. METCALF. Worker Correspondent. FARRELL, Pa,, Oct. '30—Arrested again by the Farrell police for dis- tributing alleged seditious literature amongst the Negro steel workers, Andy Kovacovich, one of the defend- ants in the Mercer county sedition trials of 1924, was held in jail for several days and fined $26.00 and costs by Burgess Fish of Farrell, The capitalist press had visions of an- other big “red” uprisi being staged by the Comm “and pictured worker Kovacovit m “King of the Reds.” Chief of- Po! moted to count; county, led in won additional countryside fro sion,” It is stated his trusty pistol and “demanded”, “other party was rell directing the, The workers pleased with * n ture and the N ‘ae finding out that the steel “press is hand- ing them the same‘ol@,line of “bynk” as of yore. The steél<barons in Penn- sylvania will have a very difficult task to stem ‘the “Red invasion.” Immediately after the Red invasion, the K. K. K. burned a few crosses to let it be known “that law and order” still reigns in the land of steel and coal, WHOLE FORCE OF HILLCREST MILL GOES ON STRIKE Mill Strike > Committee Is Organized By ALBERT RT WEISBORD PASSAIC, N. J. Oct. 30.—All of the workers of the Hillcrest Silk Co. ot West New York; New Jersey are on strike against the attempts of the company to double thé work and act- ually cut the pay at the same time. The strike is a Huti@red per cent effective and is under the direction of the united front committee of textile workers thru its secretary, Albert Weisbord. A strong picket line has been established and it seems assured that no scab will dare to work in the place, yk, now pro- tive, of Mercer é and again iifor r “saving the her red inva- y hock pointed Byacovich’s face e@ ,inyasion.” YF kd are much Workers’ <Demands The workers are: fighting for the following immediate demands: 1. No more than two looms under the same price conditions as before. 2. Ten per cent increase of wages for all night workers based on the day rate. 3. No more than two shifts in the mill. a % 4, One-quarter of,a cent more per yard for every two picks more than 46 picks per inch of eloth. 5. Recognition of the mill work- ers’ committee, 4 Organize Mill Committee In a number of enthusiastic meet- ings the strikers haye expressed their determination to fight until the last. ditch for these demands. They have also expressed their determination to fight until the last ditch for these demands, They have also expressed that since they are now together that they remain organized under their own mill committee. At their last meeting they decided to organize themselves into a mill workers’ council called the Hillcrest Silk Mill Workers’ Council. Questions of permanent national or- ganization will come up later. In the meantime the workers are behind the inited, front committee of textile vorkers, cy ney mn Pittsburg, Attention! Pittsburgers, come, and enjoy the greatest costume carnival and dance that has ever been arranged in Pitte’ burg by the Progressive Women’s Circle on Halloween, Saturday, Oct. 31, at 8 p. m. at the International So- cialist Lyceum, 805 James St.,, N. S. Pittsburg,, Pa. . Dancing and a general good time is the special program for the evening along with plenty of-refreshments. Four valuable prizes will be given away to the best costumes, including the most revolutionary; Everyone should come early and enjoy the whole evening and make sure to se- cure tickets in advance at the Work- ers party office, 805 James St., N. S. Pittsburg, Pa. Admission is 35 cents Come and enjoy the whole evening. More Arrests in Mail Theft. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 80-—-Other ar- vests may be made in connection with the sensational $600,000 mail truck robbery, Oct. 8, it was indicated fol- lowing the returning by the federal grand jury of two “John Doe” and two “Jane Doe” indictments, In addition to these indictments a true bill was returned against Gene- vieve Derscher, affas Jennie Guerimo, arrested in Chic&go. last week with her sister-in-law, ,Mrs, Dorothy Lee Tesciona. Mrs. 'Tpsciona was original- ly indicted with the six men held here in connection wifh, the gigantic mail \sueed Bond of Mrs, Derscher was set | $100,000. Ga: ; -| Workers’ Aid carried on many other ‘Gurley-Flynn and Haywood. He was SAXON WORKERS © OF OTHER LANDS Show Solidarity with Chinese By WILLIAM F. KRUSE. (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany—(By mail).—In little Saxony, which in 1923 held the attention of the revolutionary work- ers of the entire world, the spifit of international solidarity lives on in action to help rebel workers all over the world as well as in its own district. In fifty-five industrial cities and towns great meetings were held to raise money to aid the Chinese workers. Class Solidarity Felt, In addition and at thé same time this single section of the International activities, 53 mass meetings and 12 landern-slide lectures to spread the truth about Soviet Russia and par- ticularly the British trade union report, 30 concerts and 12 dramatic programs to raise money for strike relief. The largest single campaign was on behalf of the striking building trades workers who for months waged a bitter struggle thruout Germany only to have it end in a compromise two weeks ago. During the fight, however, in Leipzig alone over 25,000 pounds of bread were distributed, in three days of special stress 2,500 food packages were given out, while 100 workers in direst need were maintain- ed for an extended period during the struggle, Since the young are always the severest sufferers under privation special attention was given to the children of the strikers, 150 being har- bored by other workers’ families in Leipzig, 70 in Chemnitz, and similar groups in smaller centers. .During the school vacation 70 Leipzig strik- ers’ children were given free vaca- tions among the comrades in Wen- dish-Luppa, and 20 from Chemnitz were cared for at Freital. Wherever an industrial conflict raged and the workers asked the co- operation of the I. W. A. immediate action was taken, Thus with 50 “disciplined” wage slaves of the glass factories of Bischofswerda, and like- wise with the locked-out textile work- ers of Limback and Falkenaux were supplied with food packets and 43 children from the latter town, being | eared for in Chemnitz and Limbach. | The Saxop children who returned | from vacations among I. W. A. mem- ‘ers in Holland and France have done eoman service’ in spreading the virit of internationalism among the ounger generation, telling of the omradely sympathy of French and dutch workers whom they had thot were enemies. United Front on I. W. A. THese were some of the interesting facts brot out in the state conference af the International Workers’ Aid re- cently held in Chemnitz. There were 80 delegates represerting 12 subdis- tricts of 59 city organizations con- taining over two thousand individual members, and 145 organizational affi liations (factory councils, co-operativ- @s, unions, sport clubs etc.) with about 50,000 total membership. Labor reactionaries of various stripes had tried for a time to destroy the non- partisan character of the organization. Here Communist and social-democrat mingle on free terms with syndicalist and non-partyite. It was shown that fully 65% of the individual member- ship is not affiliated with the Com- munist Party, and in the organiza- tions the situation is the same. But in this proletarian active relief work there is absolute unity of effort and anyone who attacks it is shown up as an agent of the capitalists. The splendid record of everyday activity and thoroly democratic control have convinced all of Saxony’s workers of the sincerity, effectiveness and ne- cessity of this united front fighting relief organization. The delegates were all of solid ‘pro- letarian stock and went at their busi- ness with cheerful determination. Af- ter a few words in English as greet- ing from the American workers, a detailed report on the world and domestic political situation and the work of the I. W. A. was delivered by William Muenzenberg, I. W. A. international secretary. Wobbly in R. T. U. 1. After the meeting a one-time Amer- ican “wobblie” came up to ask about certain well known figures in the I, W. W. of his day—Ettor, Giovanitti, astounded at the tactics of the “in- junetionites” and gloried in the creation of the “Committee for R. T. U. I Affiliation.” The armed struggles of 1918 and 1923 shoulder to shoulder with the Communists in the — very ‘orefront of the fight had drawn him nto the ranks of the party and he left. with the wish that a similar ex- perfénce might be granted all his Am- erican comrades, and with similar result, Following the reports the confer: ence took up a detailed discussion: of |° past work and new tasks, A hopeful militant spirit pervaded the rele delegation and its 1,000 visitors, and | outside on the streets a parade. teell ‘Cigar Workers Urged — to Resist Wage Cuts; to Mobilize Sunday NEW YORK, Oct, 30—In order to de- ‘cide on immediate action to resist wage cuts,, Amalgamated Tobacco Workers, Local New York, summon all ized, to a mass meeting at 1°p. m, Sunday, Nov. 1, at the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th St. Prominent work- ers in the trade are in charge of the meeting. Leaflets have been distributed point- ing out reductions-in Wages already put into effect and the need of the workers in the tobacco industry to follow the example of their union brothers in Tampa, Florida and in Cuba, In both’ these ‘places, tébacco workers recently fonght for and re- ceived substantial increases. Due to the fact that the tobacco trade is busy and there are not enuf workers to supply its needs, the Amalgamated. emphasizes the impor- tance of ‘demanding better conditions now. Painters’ Hazards, NEW YORK, Oct. 30—Hazards of building trades occupations were illus- trated when a‘blow torch ignited para- fine and set two painters’ clothes aflame while they were on the scaf- folding of the tefith floor of the Emi- grant Savings Bank-on Reade street. The men shot down .the scaffolding aa--—-—-u” THE DAILY WORKER ee WORKERS STORM BRITISH COURT AT RED TRIAL cigar workers, organized or unorgan- Saklatvala “Le ‘Leads Rush Thru Police Line (Special to, The Dally Worker) ( ~LONDON, Oct. 30—So apprehensive is the British government of the Brit- ish workers’ resentment at the perse- cution of the Communist leaders ré- cently put on trial in the Bow street Police station, that since last Friday's demonstration by crowds of workers in front of the station, police guards has been posted in all directions, as far as half @ mile from the court, te ward off marching workers’ parading to the scehe of trial. In spite of this, crowds gathered in dribbles and-stormed the police cor- don at the doors, led by Shapurji Sak- latvala, member of parliament, whom Secretary Kellogg: recently barred from entering the United States. Some workers fought their way past the guards and succeeded in entering the courtroom, among.them Saklat- vala. When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- rope, one falling the last twenty feet.| tow-—show them what the DAILY Both are in a hospital, WORKER says about it. Why D'ya Think He's Running? | Z//. >. It's to Save the Daily Worker! HE little guy above, waving his life preserver in the air, is quite evidently ‘ulining for all his legs are worth, ff fagt, he’s running for his life! The life of thisibreezy young mili- tant and of all the “live wire” pic- ture people in the pages of The DAILY WORKER; depends Aipon saving The DAILY’ WORKER—and they aren't wastino any time about it between Of course,.the “fat boys” that Gropper draws are. not getting thin worrying over the prospect of losing their worst enemy. Along with O’Zim’s capitalist hogs, the “poor fish,” shades of Sammy Gompers as drawn by, Bob Minor, and all Fred Ellis’ imperialjst monsters—they are belching sighs of relief at The DAILY WORKER'S plight. if they could come to life after The DAILY WORKER went. out of existence—. | they would undoubtedly caper on its coffin. But not a cartoon for. workers, not a Communist. picture, not a revolu- tionary design—would ; have a shadow of agchance to get into a newspaper if The DAILY WORK- ER is lost to labor, italist news- Papers don't print labor cartoons. They don't ‘show the Chinese giant of labor lighting the fire-cracker of revolution; the brawny 1. W. W. ity. ing up all the ships of the sea with his single rope of international solid- arity; Bit Green cracking his whip around the legs of the delegates at the A. F. of L. convention circus, It’s hard to imagine what tife would be jike without The DAILY ey 8 Albert WORKER. But the picture, people can’t imagine it at all. It’s unthink- able. And so they are running their legs off to save it. And DAILY WORKER readers are having a hard time to keep up with them. Friday, only $244.95 was added to The DAILY WORK- ER rescue fund. Of this, $100.00 came from the Bulgarian branch of the Workers Party, Madison, IIl., and $50.00 from the Swedish branch of Rockford, Ill. To these two ‘branches, The DOILY WORKER is indebted for the paper to print to- day’s issue—three huge rolls at $50.00 each. : Others who donated are as fol- lows: Chas. Reubel, St. Clairsville, O. $ 2.00 English Br., W. P., Milwauke Wis .... Slovak Workers’ Society, Mil- _waukee, Wis. . A. Lang, Chicago 5.00 2.00 H. Stomberg, McKeesport, Pa..... 5.00 W. P., South Slavic. Br. . ville, Pa, Russian Br., W. P,, Lawrence, Mass. . German Sick and Death Benefit Ass'n, Detroit, Mich. (col- . lected by Chris Bernert)........ 36.45 / Stoll, Eng. Bry W. “Detroit, Mich. .. J, Budnich and J, Werolowski, thrucEng. W. P., Detroit., M. Nagine, Wine! er, Ne Jewish Br. W. P., Hartford, Browns- wise 15.00 Total todiy cen Phe wousy Reported . Rye. 16,124.68 © Total to Bap. sabres BUY A ROLL OF PRINT PAPER! bere Donations to the. ‘DAILY WORKER RESCUE FUND, { ©1113 We Washington Bivd., ‘Chicago, We Name: “Black-White-Red” patriots gave point aN to the statement that the war still on in full force, 3 ate _ HERE ARE FUNDS TO BUY PAPER FOR OUR DAILY a ‘sasyernnnnlioannnonnenvanannsnccensnancnnnuneqauunguocn sepuinnsonnnoypnonnononasess 4 “a4