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

” trast The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government™ Subscription Rates: WELCOMED BY N.Y. UNIONISTS Labor, Crisis Demands World Unity (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Represent- atives of over 100,000 trade unionists meeting at Beethoven’ Hall Sunday | afternoon laid the final plans for the | big reception planned for A. A, Pur | cell official representative of the British trade unions in this eguntry. Mr, Purcell is to address a mass meet- ing here on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the New Star Casino, under the auspices of the trade union committee for or- ganizing the Purcell meeting. The conference was addressed by Alfred J. Boulton of the Stereotypers’ Union and a prominent figure in the local labor movement, in reference to Purcell’s visit Boulton said: Labor Crisis Demands Unity “We are glad to have him here to speak on world trade union unity. Eng- land instead of going forward, has gone baekward since the world war, altho the sun never sets on the British empire, according to an old byword, we can now say that wages never rise. The crisis in England demands trade union unity.” Mr. Boulton then went on to con- conditions in. England with those in Russia. According to the re port of Col. Haskell, of the American relief administration, Moscow is one of the busiest centers in Europe. Con- ditions in Russia today as compared with those of four years ago, are noth-| ing short of a miracle. Russia is the only country in Europe, where day by day conditions are growing, b the first time in history, Russia has a workingman’s goyernment, Ihsist on Investigation. ~ After two hours discussion, Wash- ington and Hamilton decided to re- cognize the revolutionary government. of France, while the reactionaries re- fuse to recognize Russia altho she has been established for eight years. We want a scientific investigation of Rus- sia. We are going to hear both sides in spite of Coolidge and the other re- actionaries, The conference is planning a mid- night banquet for Purcell. The next meeting will be held Sunday, Nov. 15. cmes™ a an a f bews above picture, taken at the Pavilion in the historic park at Stony Point-on-the-Hudson on. Labor Day, Sept: 7, 1925, shows about half of the New York, DAILY WORKER Builders’_Club, which consists of the most devoted and energetic comradés in New York. 3 es Membership in the club ig limited to those that prove their loyalty, to the movement not merely with ‘words, but with works. To become @'mem- ber of The DAILY WORKER ‘Build- Entered as Second-c! In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6,00 per year. tions or donations for The that amount of tickets for least. twenty: hours under the dir WORKER New York agency. are three one thousand by the date of ere’ tiab of Néw York one must se- eure, ten dollars’ worth. of subscrip- DAILY WORKER within three months, sell DAILY WORKER Rescue Parties, of work at tion of the manager of The DAILY There hundred in the club at present and a campaign is now being launched to increase this number to The uary. To celebrate that event a banquet is being atrgnged!to be held in Manhat- tan Lyceum on: Sunday, January 16. No tickets will’be sold for this anni- versary banquet; and only those will be admitted who have first qualified for membership in The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club by produc- ing the #equired!ten dollars worth of subs; 'donations;) tickets sales or twen- ty” hours work for The DAILY tt OMce at Chicago, Hlinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. IVEMBER 4, 1925 ez Die pene WORKER. The are invited to the glorious bring their friends along. 14th street at 10 a. m, nue, Jamaica, at 11 a, m. ext meeting of The DAILY 5 ; . = : - WORKER Bateene: Club will take | the foilowing article, the first one of a series to be written upon place this coming Sunday, Nov. §,-in| the anthracite miners, their strike, its significance, and the pro- Jamaica Woods. All readers of The |posals of the Progressive Miners’ Committee for the miners, by DAILY WORKER around New, York! the secretary of the committee, Alex Reid, a miner who has spent participate in’ this} 29 years working in the mines and who, while speaking for the DAILY WORKER Builders’ hike thru Progressive Miners’ Committee autumn woods and to The crowd will gather in two places at 108 East and at the eo, NEW YORK EDITION Publisned Dally except Sunday by THE DAILG PUBIISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, I Pressers’ Local 35, hitherto a st nest of gangsterism. The left wing elected the MILITANT PRESSERS OF LOCAL 35, 1.L.6.W.U, SMASH REACTION IN ELECTION BY NINE TO ONE (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 2—The left wing of the Inter- National. Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union has won another sweeping victory in the election held for the Cloak and Dress WORKER Price 3 Cents ronghold of the arch-reactionary entire administration, consisting of the manager, the chairman and twenty-four executive mem- bers, carrying also the entire delegation of ten for the coming convention at Philadelphia of*- the I. L, G. W. For the First Time in Years This is the first time in the last six or seven years that the pressers had an election of their own under the supervision of a ‘rank and file election committee elected by them- selves. Being led by the militant group of progressives, they have suc- ceeded in the course of a short per- iod in ridding their union of the most vicious clique—Breslau and company —who was made to resign. The election that took place Satur- lay was the culminating point of this militant left wing struggle. For five long hours the pressers stood in line for blocks, anxious to cast their vote for the left wing. They were determ- ined to complete the job of extermin- ating strong arm rule and misrepres- entative officials, and the results are evidence to this determination, Left Wings Nine to One Of the twelve hundred ballots cas§ in the election, the left wingers J, Goreabky and H. Gerchikoff, the can- didates respectively for manager and chairman, polled respectively 917 and 821 votes, while the opposition candi- dates who were supported by Sigman and company, polled respectively 121 and 105 votes. The left wing has won Local 36 of the I. L. G. W. U. pressers, by an overwhelming landslide of nine to one, HOW THE ANTHRACITE STRIKERS ARE BEING BETRAYED, WILL BE te PROGRESSIVE LEADER Readers of The DAILY WORKER will be interested to read in the anthracite region, was framed up on by treacherous union officials and local capitalist authorities and railroaded into the Scranton jail where he re- mained for a full month before release a week ago. Other end of the elevated line, Fulton ave-| articles will follow daily. * * By ALEX REID (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee.) (Article 1.) The anthracite coal fields Negro workers and then attempt to. join the American Federation of Lad bor. TWO GREEK COMMUNISTS ELECTED STRIKING DOCKERS OF AS MAYORS DURING MUNICIPAL {LABOR CONGRESS a ELECTIONS DESPITE MARTIAL LAW ATHENS, Nov. 2—In the recent municipal elections held in all Grecian tities, Communists were elected as mayors of Xanthi, the biggest industrial center of Thrace, where the American Tobacco company has its largest ware- houses and factories, and Saloniki. ELECTION EVE REVEL Brownsville section of Workers Party and Young Workers League will hold Bolshevization Rally, election eve., Tuesday “Nov. 3, 1925 at WORKERS’ HALL, 1844 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. - Fine Entertainment - - - + Good Music (jazz) ' Radio News of Elections Dancing ‘Till Morning ADMISSION. 350. ae the: Neighbors Object) AE Fer Fee Fee ea ees a eee revere ever a ere y ere eevee Ie ereneerere Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, BEN GITLOW, KRUMBEIN, JOS. MANLEY, HA W. W. WEINSTONE, Chairman, HEAR 205 East 67th Street, New York City Workers of New York! 3 OLGIN, CHas. FOX, Y. W. L. PERTH, AUSTRALIA, IN BATTLE WITH POLICE }, PERTH, Australia, Nov. 2. Serious rioting broke out here to- day with vigorous fighting between dock strikers and the police. There were. many casualties and armed teinforcements were called out to suppress the strikers. Sixty strikers were arrested. Sympathizers Help DAILY WORKER At a christening ‘party in West Brownsville, Pa., a collection was taken up, with the-result that $15.00 was sent to save the DAILY WORK- ER. M. Perkushick-and M. Parlov spoke for the Communist press. Train Strikes Bus NAHUNTA, Ga., Nov. 2.—Six school childten were reported killed and a score injured, when an Atlantic Coast line passenger train struck a school bus at a grade crossing, several miles from Nahunta. m HEAR Gregory Mat CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE Admission 50 Cents Friday November HAL. TO THE EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.S. S. R.! REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC— The Freiheit Gesangsverein vich, Concertinist |) URGES NEGROES “TO JON UNION Denounce Use of Race as Strikebreakers The American Negro Labor Con- gress which closed its. sessions Satur- day, Oct. 31, at the Metropolitan Com- munity Center, 3198 Giles Ave., in one of its last sessions passed a resolu- tion urging the American Negro work- ers to join the American Federation of Labor wherever possible. Where the unions maintain color bars that bar the Negro worker from the union, the Negro’ is urged*to form unions of HEAR c. In the following resolution adgptla of America situated in three by the congress, the use of the Negro| counties in the eastern section of the state of Pennsylvania com- as a scab is condemned and the con- gress promises to fight any attempt to use the Negro as a strikebreaker to break the strikes of other workers: The Negro and Organized Labor “The Negro workers, who constitute one-seventh of the workers of Amer- ica, are today an important . factor which must be incorporated within (Continued on page 3) Life in the Capital. WASHINGTON, Noy. 2.— Three men were dead, two policemen beaten and a woman is recovering from poi- son, as the aftermath of the national capital's week-end crime. NEWPORT, R. L, Nov. 2.—The ninth body was recovered from the ill-fated submarine §S-51. The body, retrieved from the engine room, was identified as Henry L. Crawford, radioman. prise the hard coal industry of mine workers. It is doubtful if anywhere on the face of the earth there exists another | 450 square miles of territory with po- litical and-economic corruption to equal that which exists here. The Hell Hole of the Mines. | ‘Truly, the anthracite region has been referred to as the hell hole of {the American mining industry where | the miners are politically and econom- | ically enslaved. Here today we have | 150,000 mine workers on strike for a jten per cent increase in wages, full recognition of the union, and a few minor changes in working conditions, All these are members of the United Mine Workers of America, while thousands of members of the same or- ganization have been loading anthra- cite and repairing and maintaining the’ coal” companies’ property, thereby aiding and contributing to their own ! Celebrate Her Economic Victory! Workers of Brooklyn! —. RUTHENBERG, BEN GITLOW, BORIS LIPSCHITZ, ANTON REBECCA GRECHT, Chairman. GRAND ASSEMBLY HALL | 318 Grand Street, Brooklyn Sixth at 8 P. M. \ Auspices, Workers Party and Y..W. L., District No. 2 JACK STACHEL, BIMBA. HEAR REVOLUTIONARY SONGS— Three Proletarian Choruses Constance Menkel, Soprano Soloist this coutry and employ 158,000 on defeat, and this with the active sup- port of the mine workers’ union offici- als, who seem to be entirely incompe- tent or traitorous to the coal-diggers’ cause, . > — Caring for Bosses’ Property. I will return to the question of star- vation wages and hellish working con- ditions in a future article. The pres- ent article deals with a condition in the anthracite region that calls for the immediate attention, not only of the hard-coal miners; but the bituminous miners as well, namely—stock coal loading, and washing, and maintaining and repairing the coal companies’ property. Thruout the anthracite field the miners are slowly awakening to the fact that the strike is being misman- aged and the coakdiggers are com- (Continued on page 2) Admission 50 Cents