The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1925, Page 5

CHINA'S TARIFF CONFERENCE NOT QUITE A SUCCESS Japan Depressed Over the Prospects TOKIO, Oct. 1——From reports ar- riving here concerning the Peking tariff conference, the whole thing seems, likely to blow up or result in a superficial shell of an agreement with no one so poor to do it reverence once it it signed. A Japanese statesman puts it in an- other but equally apt way: Not Optimistic. “When you get the pulse of the bankers’ consortium, possibly you will be in better position to foretell the outcome of the ‘cubist’ confer- ence now in session in Peking, while outside the walls of that city armies numbering more than 600,000 await -its decisions in order to determine whether battles shall be fought now or postponed.” Despite all propaganda boosts for the conference, it seems that it is already more or less dead. Ching- wang, the biggest Chinese leader there, is supposed to be in approxim- ate’ agreement with all the enemies of the provisional president, Tuan Chi- Jui, and all these are carrying their armed forces ready for ‘action and all demand a new administration, Moreover, Ching is said to be dealing with the Soviets on tariffs with Rus- sia. There is little hope in Japan that the conference will miss disaster, the Japanese statesman referring to the consortium as the far-fetched hope that an agreement for greatly in- creased tariff would allow Tuan Chi- jui to buy off some of the militarist | governors to support his government. America Splits. That American imperialism is going to look out for the little old banks of Morgan and company first, and will Play to get Chinese favor above Brit- ain and Japan, seems evident with the attitude of the American’. commis- sioner at the whitewash inquiry go- ing on at Shanghai, where the Yan- kee openly denounced the attempt of the British and Japanese to cover up the responsibility and crimes of the Shanghai municipal police, who were mostly British troops, in the mas- sacre of last May. Millionaire Dodges Taxes. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 1.—Pre- parations were being made today to go into court to collect taxes from the reputed $100,000,000 estate of the late John I. Beggs, Milwaukee trac- tion magnate, who it is said, avoided payment of taxes in Wisconsin for several years by Re a legal re- sidence in Missouri, and in turn dodg- ing Missouri taxation by\making an affidavit in that state that his lawful residence was in Wisdonsin, Arrest Picture Magnate. LOS ANGELES, November 1.—King Baggot, prominent motion picture di- rector was arrested by police on charges of being intoxicated, after his wife complained to the, authorities. William Desmond, screen’ star, placed $20 bail for Baggot but police said the director would not be released from jail until later in the day, ‘SUNIORS' AND Missi" DRESS 6258. Cutin 4 Sizes: 14, 16,18 and \20 years, A 16 year size requires 24 yeards of 54 inch matefial, with 4 yard of contrasting 40 or 54 inches wide. The width of the dress at lower edge is 1% yard. Price 12c, MISS' DRESS, 5033. Cut in 8 Size: 16, 18 and 20 years. An 18 year size made as illus- trated in the large view will require 2% yards of brocaded material and 2 yards of plain 40 inches wide. With- out sleeves % yard less is required. ‘The, width at the.foot is) 1% yard, Price 12¢, ns FASHION BOOK NOTICE! 12e 1 fi ie prot an ae ites showing | Serres | OUR DAILY PATTERNS | Negro jone gathers that THE DAILY WORKER RMICK SHEET, __ ROCKEFELLER-McCORW THE CHICAGO WORI yt _ AMERICAN A few al ago, The DAILY WORKER re Fort- -Whiteniiin, national organizer of , ATTACKS } LABOR MEET the statement of Lovett n Negro Labor Congress, NEGI the Ameri made at thé opening session to the ‘effect that, “the subsidized Negro press has been pant and parcel of that con: the success of this congress.” spiracy of. ¥ilence designed to prevent The Negro Labor Congress now. finds itself faced with another sort of op position from the capitalist Negro press. Chicago Whip,, and other papers which pretend to have the interests of the colored workers at heart, have attempted to kill the congress by ig- noring it, the Chicago World has be- come venomously articulate. In its edition of ‘Thureday, October 29, the World runs a$tory of the American Labor! }Gongress, from which the most important fact about thefeongress is that it is being carefully watched by a score or more of secret service men—or, as the World’ puts'it—the labor congress is convening under Uncle Sam’s eye. The fact that a number of spies are among the audience at the congréss affords the . editors of the Chicago World boundless-batisfaction. In reporting the story of the con- gress, the World resorts to a number of cheap tricks. For one thing, since it can’t avoid mentioning the place of the meeting, and since it doesn’t want to aid any wage worker find the congress, it wives an incorrect ad- dress! What is the CHieago World? Why is this paper attacking so bitterly a group of men and women of the Negro race, who are meeting with the avow- ed intention of improving the condi- tions under which the Negroes live, and of doing away with some of the burdens under which the Negro work- ers are being crushed? The Chicago World is a new paper. Its editor is Roscoe Simmons, nephew of Booker T. Washington. Roscoe Simmons is well-known to men and women of the race in Chicago. He is well-known as a frequenter of fast cafes and dance halls. He is notori- ous as a debtor. Never is he seen at a public meeting without a top | hat, evening clothes and a monocle. To the republican politicians Ros- coe Simmons is known as the man who can pile up and deliver to the re- publican party large number of votes from colored working men and _ wo- men, Ss askeonad We last heard Simmons-speak a year and a half ago, when the Asso- ciation of Colored Women was meet- ing in Chicago. Once or twice during the sessions of the women’s conven- tion, there was a flare-up of mi cy, of real rebellion* dgainst the?:condi- tions under which these women had to live. These delegates, women of the United Stategjare wor! ers.. Most Of these womef were o! the middle class. So it was not to be expected that this convention would do very much for Negro women, Nevertheless, because a Negro woman suffers under the double burden of op- pression as a woman and oppression as a member of the race—and because the few working women there suffer- ed also the burdens of .workets— it was inevitable that one or two at- tempts should be made to do. some- thing constructive for the group this convention was supposed to repre- sent. It was always at such times that Roscoe Simmons was called upon. With skillful demagogery with ridi- culous arguments, and with many ir- 4978. Cut in 4 Sizes: Small, 34-36; Medium, 88-40; Large, 42-44; Extra Large, 46-48 inches bust measure. 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This is the man who attacks the hard working group of Negroes who have started the American Negro La- bor Congress. This is the man who can see nothing in this congress but “a smoke-filled room,” a few “tritely worded placards.” This is the man who can report nothing of the con- gress but the gossip that goes on in the back of the hall. It is said that behind the Chicago World is the money of Mrs. Rockefel- ler McCormick, wife of the late Sena- tor McCormick, who belonged to the party which has fooled and bam- boozled and betrayed the Negroes for over sixty years. In the same edition in which it at- tacks the A. N. L. C., the World runs a vicious attack on the New York Pullman porters who have formed a} anion for bettering their conditions and raising their miserable wages. Simmons, in his column, follows up this attack with a word of “advice” to Pullman porters. “Porters, a few of them,” says Sim- mons, “want to go into the union. Others, old, wise, far-seeing, want to let well-enough alone. “Porters. Keep in mind, that you have all to lose. “What shall we do? Ask the Pull- man porters. A good thing to do, the best thing, is to get along with the Pullman company, union or no union. You have been told that your hours are too long. Your hours can’t be too long when you control a job.” So much troubled are Simmons and his co-editors by the organization of the Pullman porters, that the Chicago World devotes not less than four separate articles to attacking the por- ters’ union. There is a story on the front page, calling the union first, a plot of the “Reds,” second;-a~ plot on the part of the Filipinos to get the Negroes’s jobs. Then there is an edi- torial, mentioning that the Pullman company paid out last year a princely sum in wages to sleeping car porters ~the editorial does not say that this sum, divided up by the number of porters, comes to only starvation wag- es for each man, Also, there is a spe- cial article by a lawyer, attacking the “Reds who are behind this union,” and last, the article quoted above, written by Simmons himself in his column, “The Week.” The American Negro Labor Con- gress gave Simmons his answer to his attacks upon the union when it passed a resolution strongly urging all Negro workers to get into the unions, and there to fight for the abolition of all industrial discrimination aganst Negroes. Simmons is getting his an- swer. to his attacks upon the con- gress itself by the way in which this congress is going ahead, thinking, working, and laying plans bcd organ- ization. Roscoe ‘Conkling elias was probably one of the men whom Rich- ard Moore, delegate to the American Negro Labor Congress from the Ehti- opian Students’ League in New York had in mind when he told his audi- ence that “The American Negro La- bor Congress repudiates foyever the policy of slavish submission follow- ed by such misleaders of the race as Booker T. Washington and others.” HH elliM &t ‘continuously for advice. Workers! Join Your Lecal Co-opérative Store. Demand from your co-operative “Co-operators’ Best” Products 4 (Red Star, Blue Star, White Star and Yellow Star Brands) i bribe by the reagan bikie cara CO-OPERATIVE CENTRAL EXCHANGE, Superior, Wis. SENERAL LIKES COMMUNAL FARM OF NEW RUSSIA Writes ‘Astisle Praising Soviet Policy By WM. F. KRUSE. (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, (By Mail) —The former General Schoenaich, well- known in world pacifist circles, tributes a leading article to the Vos sichen Zeitung, in praise of Soviet agricultural policy with respect to the relations between the communal farm and the backward peasant. His ar- ticle is called “From Moscow to the | Tartar Republic,” and deals extensive- ly with a large social farm at Kornu- chovo operated by the International Workers’ Aid with modern machinery donated by workers in various parts of the world. Impressed With Efficiency. He tells of his trip of 23 kilometers from the Kama River by wagon over reeless rolling, light black soil thru what had been one of the poorest sections of gld Russia, and that he found a capable and well-trained young Holgteiner, named Dose, in ives minor criticism on rse-breeding question hat under the circum- iresults in horse and cattle stock | is good. Then to the principal poift, that of relationishp between the - individualistic peasant and the social farm. “It is highly encouraging thru their farm management. contact with the Dose is Even the poorest farmer no longer uses old wooden plough, sovchos they use a stock plough. The small tractor was just busy at sample threshing and the in- troduction of new seeds and methods by the Sovchos is extremely instruc- tive and the subject of daily speech on the part of the peasants. I saw side by side old local seeds and new, fo me unknown varieties of Alpinski. The Sovchos reaps of local rye 6 center per morgen, of Alpinski 11, of | local oats, 5, and of the Swaelofer 8 per morgen. (As against 4 and 3 by the individual peasant, from 50 per cent to 275 per cent increase.) In my presence a continuous stream of peasants came to try the ears and feel of the grains. Their Social Life “In the mew farmhouse a child- ren’s home and a workers’ club have been installed. In every peasant house I still saw testy pictures, to some ex- tent even with the ever burning ikon lamp. The elders still go steadily to chureh, Thi h meanwhile plays Improved. football. ise there was still a picture offhe Tr, and upon ques- tion the pe it laughingly said that surely he could not leave the wall wholely without decoration. “None of the peasants were mem- bers of the Communist Party, but one thing they have clearly, and that is that the International Workers Aid is trying sincerely to help them. Any- one who {try to take from them their chil home and workers club and re-establish in their stead the old lord of the manor, would en- counter thd Witterest opposition also of the non-Communist peasants... . Russia awakes. These economic un- dertakings of the International Work- ers Aid in Russia were founded by European .and American workers who put $500,000 into productive aid to Soviet Rusia in 1921 and 1922.” Particularly at a time when every effort is being made to persuade the German masses to follow their mas- ters into an alliance with the allied imperialists against Soviet Russia—at this time when the infamous General von Hoffman (who negotiated at Brest Litovsk)qwith his, sabre) openly offers his seryices to the allies, this testimony from bourgeois ranks helps to open the workers’ eyes to the true state of affairs. a a |made in | to see} how these peasants are progressing | social | asked his | On the} motor | | KUSBAS ‘ WITH | S FOR LONY FORGING AHEAD BIG EXPANSION; WANIS EIGHTY AMERICAN. EXPERTS NEW york Nov, -1.—Engineers who would like to try their industria that is springing’ up on the steppes of cent of the Kusbas Autonomous Industrial C the New York office of the enterprise a Eighty men are wanted as soon a eight and nine thousand workers in the says the manager of the New York branch of the colony—particularly ex perts who can give suitable instruc | tion to apprentices as well as doing con-| their own work. $2,000,000 For New Construction. This first call for a considerabl roup of Americans a couple y announcement by 8. J. Rutjers, presi dent of the board of managers, that |two million dollars will be spent th coming fiscal year, that began Octo- ber 1, on new construction. Of thi one million ts profits from last year’s operations, the best yet. The seconc million is from the Russian bureau for the financing of industries. Next year’s program calls for great ly increased output. Coal is to in crease from about 500,000 tons to 760,000 and chemicals to double. Open- ng this November of new coke ovens will double the by products. Chemical production generally doubles if th proposed figures are reached and steel will gain considerably. The Kusbas colony is situated in the midst of the richest Siberian coal and iron flelds, with fine timber and agricultural lands about, and all with- and skilled mechanics from Ameri 1 era manship in. the new industry 1 Siberia under the guidance sked to communicate with t 799 Broadway ar olons #8 possible. There are now between colony but more experts are needed, \ shipment distance of old Russia ‘oke goes largely to steel plant Kusbas indus- the local fter requirements of teel plants and other ries are met Who Is Wanted, List of American experts ludes: 2 mine forem nachine ‘niining; 4 expert mach 1iners who can h apprentices; bosses, 4 traffic men, 4 timber nen and 4 general miners. The me- ranical department calls for 4 me hanies instructors and all around nachinists; 3 master mechanics cap- ble of managi a shop; one tool good repair and set up me 8; 8 moulders; 3 electricians. of them an electr ation fore one “boiler house foreman ne nan; The construction department calle and brickwork fore: nen; one. brick makin 5 7@ ‘ood carpenters; 2 bricklayers. Tech- nicians wanted include 4 surveyors; 2 1 ical. designers and two traughtsmen; one architect; one con truction designer; one construction ‘oreman. or’ 2 concrete UNITY AND STRUGGL WAGE CUTS THE ONLY HOPE OF PASSAIC TEXTILE MILL SLAVES By LOUIS ARTICLE Il. PASSAIC, N, J., Nov. 1.—In a pre E AGAINST KOVESS. vious issue of The DAILY: WORKER |dealing with the conditions of the Passaic knitters, we brought out the fact that the wage reductions, following one after another, are part of a system- atic wage reduction campaign for wh starvation. We proved that only organization the present and future wage reductions, with which the millionaire textile barons are trying to reduce the al-+— ——_—_—— +. ready low. wages. But the question remained a ques- tion: How should the Passaic knit- ters start to organize themselves?. United Front for Organization. | In some cities of New Jersey differ- ent kntters’ unions have local organ- izations already. In one place the United Textile Workers’ Union has a-local. In another place the: Amal- gamated Textile’ Workers’ Uniom has a local, and in many cities there are small textile organizations, scattered about, contesting with each other. But aside from all unions there is a place where the textile workers are bound together by the chains of ex- ploitation, and that is the factory. With the unions already in.:exist- ence and the power of the faetories united, the first steps towards the. or- ganization of the Passaic and.other New Jersey textile mills, must. be done. a The First Step. Most of the textile aware of the fact that there is ‘a committee functioning in America which has for its aim the uniting of all textile unions into one industrial union. The name of this committee is National Committee for Amal- gamation in the Textile Industry. A section of this committee was or- ganized in Passaic, another in Pater- son and is also functioning in other New Jersey cities. The amalgamation committee will in the shortest possible time prepare the ground for organizing the Passaic | knitters. The first step will be the calling of a united front conference to which all unjons in the textile industry, and the workers of the larger factories will be invited. The mill workers and unions will start the work together. Two duties. To help the Passaic and in general, workers are all New Jersey textile workers, and to better their conditions, two steps are necessary. First: To fight against wage reduc- tions, Second: Organize the unor- ganized. The Workers (Communist) Party of | America, the vanguard of the revolu- tionary workers of America, wilt give its full support to the fight and to the organization of the Passaic knit- ters. Its press is open to the knit- ters, speakers are at the their dis- posal, moral support is always ready Am Looking for aFriend of Mine JOSEPH B. DUJMOVICH The last heard of him he was at Nia- gara Hotel, 530/2 Tusc. St. E., Can- ton, Ohio. Write to Paul Parlick, 240 West} Hazard St., Summit Hill, Pa. To those who work hard for money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST, 645 Smithfield Street PITTSBURGH, PA. SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES ken - Uni uetzunge Verein ry lst @ Grd Thursday, Wioker Park) Mall, W. North, Av ich the workers were prepared thru can save the Passaic knitters from MINNEAPOLIS ARRANGES FOR RUSS REVOLUTION CELEBRATION ON NOY. 8 (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. A celebration of the eighth anniver- sary of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics will take place in Minne- apolis. on Sunday, Nov. 8, ‘at the Moose Hall, 43 South Fourth street, at 8 p. m. with C. A. Hathaway, J. F. Emme of St. Paul and J. P. Can- non of Chicago, as the speakers. for the knitters, who have the best opportunity now for their fight and organization. When it comes to organizing, every Passaic knitter:must see clearly. He must realize the fact, that in order to escape wage reduction he must fight, and prerequisite to the fight is organizing. But not only must the Passaic tex- tile workers understand that the Pas- saic textile barons are attacking them, they must also understand that what now happens in Passaic is a part of a country-wide organized attack. Even this is not all. In order that the knit- ter should see clearly his condition, he must be informed of what hap- pens in the American textile trade, and how the same or similar things happen in other countries and all these happenings have one common reason. What this is we will speak about in the next article. Worker Correspondence will make The DAILY WORKER a better paper —send in a story about your shop. Comin In the Workers “Marx and Engels on a ®*' November Movement"—by HEINZ NEUMANN Page Five MINN, WORKERS PROTEST HORTHY MURDER REGIME Demand Rakosi and His Comrades Be Freed MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 1— Under the auspices of the Internation- al Labor Defense, a mass meeting was held last Sunday evening at the Uni- arian church protesting against the attempted expulsion of the heroic eader of the Hungarian labor move- ment, Mathias Rak and the per- secution of 105 Communists and left ocialists. A tel am of protest was dispatched to the Hungarian embas- sy in Washington, D, C., by the meet- ing State Senator S. A. Stockwell spoke on behalf of the liberals. John Ga- riel Soltis spoke as the FORPORERE of the local I. L. D. . A, Hath- y, district organizer of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, spoke on be- yalf of that party. Not So Nice Right Here. Senator Stockwell, who has always istinguished himself in the defense f persecuted. workers, called atten- jon to the fact that while the Horthy regime in Hungary was a horrible thing, the fact remained that things were not much better in our own country. He cited the continued in- carceration of 128 men in the prisons of America, as proof of his conten- tion. “While we protest against the at- tempted execution of Rakosi by the Horthy government, let us not for- get to clean our own house, too,” the senator declared. John Gabriel Soltis analyzed the struggle of the Hungarian proletariat under the Austro-Hungarian empire, up to the collapse of that ramshackle kingdom. He pointed out that the L. L. D. was interested in the case of the Hungar- ian workers, as it is in the cases of all workers hounded by capitalism, for the good and sufficient reason that the,blow struck at Rakosi and his comrades is also directed at the Am- erican working class. In this connection he made an ap- peal for all workers to join the I. L. D,..to which appeal there was a fine response. Wall Street Backs Horthy, C.A. Hathaway made a splendid ad- dress on the Hungarian revolution. He clearly proved that American finance is the prop which supports the Horthy white terror, and, three- fore, is behind the attempted legal murder of Rakosi. Hathaway also outlined in detail how the Hoover food commission in 1920, strangled the Hungarian Soviet government. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Postmaster General Speeds Up Workers as Form of Wage Cut WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Secretary- Treas. Thos, F, Flaherty of the na- tional federation of post office clerks announces that speeding-up of clerke in postoffices in all the principal cities is being intensified, and that a bill prohibiting this form of over-working of federal employes will be introduced in congress in December by Rep. Schneider of Wisconsin. Postmaster General New, defeated last winter in his opposititon to a wage adjustment for the postal work- ers, is directing this system of com- pelling the men to work faster and stil faster. Flaherty says the records show that the individual clerk handles more letters in a given time today, and at a less cost, than at any time in the entire history of the depart- ment, Sees; Issue of the Monthly the American Labor P. 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