The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1925, Page 1

a The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government COLONIAL WARS MAY WRECK NEN FRENCH CABINET Strike and Revolution Spreads in Syria (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Francee, Nov, 3.—After a) stormy session of the socialist council | here yesterday a motion to give a vote | of confidence to the Painleve govern- ment was defeated by the narrow margin of 1,431 to 1,228. This party forms a powerful bloc in the govern- ment and if the policy is carried out it indicates an early fall of the Pain-| leve cabinet, possibly precipitating) the first crisis today when the cabinet, presents the new program to the| chamber of deputies. | At a conference between Painleve and a number of the socialist leaders “the principal question discussed was the continuation of the colonial ex- peditions in’Morocco and Syria, At the socialist congress at Marseilles a Subscription Rates: decision was reached against the fur- In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. ily b Entered as, Second-clas matter September 21, 1923, ‘at THURSD. , NOVEMBER 5, 1925 WORKER. Post Office at Chicago, | Hitnois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, <—™ KS MIN UNITED FRONT COMMITTEE IN PASSAIC MILLS |Mass Meeting Rouses Much Enthusiasm By ALBERT WEISBORD. PASSAIC, N. Y., Nov. 3.—The Pas- saic textile workers are determined to fight the wage cuts which the boss- es have forced upon the workers. In response to leaflets given out by the united front committee of textile workers,.a big mass meeting was held Friday evening, October 30, at Nibaurers’ Hall. The speakers at the meeting were Albert Weisbord, secretary of the central bureau, united front commit- | tees; Kovess; editor of the Hungarian paper, the Uj Blore; Silansky, of the Slavic Federation of the Workers ; Party; Radwanski, editor of the pa- per, the Novy Mir, and Benjamin Git- } low, candidate for mayor of New York City on the Workers Party ticket. Gitlow Speaks. + NEW YORK EDITION ‘ . Published Datly except Sunday by THE DAILY. PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicags E OW ANTHRACITE 10 CAPITALIST VIOLENCE RULES IN Price 3 Cents = aL NERS CRUSH MILITANT - MINERS; LEWIS MACHINE AIDING The following article is the second of a short series upon the strike of 158,000 miners in the. anthracite region of Pennsylvania, written by Alex Reid of the Progressive Miners’ Committee, who while speaking to mass meetings of strikers was set upon by combined capitalist authority and corrupt union officials and sentenced to six months in the Scranton jail, from where he is just released, * By ALE . * xX REID (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee.) The armed state of capitali ism is well represented in the anthracite mining field. Thruout the coal field the plainclothes men are crowding each other, so of the capitalist state is in evide troops, sheriffs, deputies, local company thugs, and gunmen, a! labor fakers in the anthracite. Wall Street has entirely covered the anthracite with, its protectors. The miners are prohibited from speaking or meeting unless the meeting is sanc- numerous are they. Every arm nce, among them being the fed- eral representatives of the departments of justice and labor, state police, plainclothes men, coal nd last but not least, and more treacherous and contemptible than all the rest combined, are the MINERS FINED tioned by the labor fakers and then| only with an agreement that only cer-| tain subjects will be discussed. The| labor fakers are mixed up with the} coal company politicians, and can be) seen in company with them thruout) ther granting of credits for colonial} warfare, | Socialists Puzzled. | The government socialists realize, that in order for France to maintain} | The speakers, Kovess, Silansky, and | Radwanski, spoke in Hungarian, Sla- | vic and Polish respectively and were wéll received. Then Weisbord intro- duced Benjamin Gitlow and pointed FOR STRIKING , and the colonial wars may bring about her colonies—“her prestige”—in Africa and the Near East, she must continue! the colonial wars. The socialists are} andeavoring to devise a means of straddling the issue so that they will, not have to openly challenge this im- perialist policy, At the same time! pressure from the membership of| their party that is wavering under the | terrific assaults of the Communists! upon the whole governmental policy | makes such a move dangerous, as it) may alienate large numbers of their, supporters, who will go into the Coma munist camp. The parliamentary} _ leaders, of . the..socialists . .m every ounce of their strength and the! Jarge vote in favor of the policy of), colontal despotism was the result ot| their efforts. New Syrian Dictator, | The new Syrian high commissioner, who replaced Gen. Sarrail, whose | storming of Damascus was carried to such excess that vast Islam hordes} are arising against colonial savagery) caused his removel, is a journalist, | Henri de Jouvenel, former minister of | public instruction in the bloc nationale! of Poincare. The government hopes | that this change will pacify the rebel) bands that are increasing in numbers and daring. Information received at Jerusalem reveals the spread of the revolt be- tween Dasmascus and Homs, 80 miles’ north of Damascus, where four towns | are besieged and French control of} the mandated area is seriously threat-| ened. Other dispatches describe the} complete rout of French forces. One| thing is certain and that is that} French rule is tottering and cannot be re-established on the old basis with- out a tremendous standing army that will impose still heavier burdens upon the French military budget, already overburdened. The Arab workers of Palestine are | on, strike as a protest against the massacre of thousands of inhabitants | of Damascus and the anti-imperialist | sentiment is spreading like wild fire! thruout the immense vastness of the| Mohammedan world, | Painleve Unyielding. | “There is no question of giving up the French mandate in Syria or evacuating that territory,” said a prominent member of Painleve’s cab- inet, as the crisis became menacing to the government. It is not unlikely that the continued fali of. the’ franc, the fall of the second Painleve cabinet within a short time, possibly today. | ELECTION RETURNS WILL APPEAR IN TOMORROW'S ISSUE |. The DAILY WORKER goes to press too early to obtain the full election returns from New York, Boston, Detroit, Cleveland and New Jersey. Reports of the outcome in these places will be published in tomorrow's Worker, with an analy- sis of the contending forces. ly returns indicate a complete Tam- many victory in New York, the Probable victory of the Hague democratic machine in New Jersey, while in Detroit the re-election of the candidate endorsed by Henry Ford and the Detroit Federation of Labor is still in doubt. 4 PALESTINE ARAB WORKERS STRIKE | AS PROTEST AGAINST MASSACRE OF NATIVES BY FRENCH IN SYRIA PALESTINE, Nov. 3.—The Arab workers of Palestine have declared a strike as a protest against the massacre of Arab workmen in the French KK. K. DRAGON CHARGED WITH DEATH WOUNDS ‘Evidence’ Is Piling Up “Against Trio (Special to The Daily Worker) NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Nov, 3—In- fection caused from wounds inflicted Upon her body by D. C. Stephenson, Eari Gentry and Earl Klinick, as much or more to do with her death than the mercury whieh she took in a suicide attemgt to escape the tor- ture of her assailants, according to testimony given today by Dr. Vi H. Moon, in the trial of therthree kians- men charged with the murder of Miss Madge’ Oberholtzer. Day by day the evidence proving the diabolical character of these creatures isbeing produced, until in any other part. of the world except a ku klux stronghold they would unquestionably be found guilty. ff Medical Demonstration A demonstration in open court of the rapidity with which bicloride of mercury tablets dissolve was staged by the defense today. The demonstration was given as part of a severe cross-examination of Dr. V. H. Moon, pathologist of Indiatta state university, The same bottle of mercury tablets Miss Oberholtzer bought prelimin to a suicide attempt as the result ill-treatment at the hands of the de- fendants was used in court. _ On direct examination Dr. Moon had testified that mercury in tablet form was slower in its action than when powdered, - (Continued on page 3) _ ~ bombardment of Damascus. eee Revolt Spreads. DAMASCUS, Syria, Nov. 3.—The bombardment of Damascus by the French in which thousands of men, women and children were killed, has united many of the divergent groups in Syria to a realization that French rule must go. Revolutionary activities against the French have started in the northern parts of Syria where bands of natives have armed themselves and are preparing to raid the French lines. The outbreaks of the natives in the Aleppo, Hama and Homs districts has the French worried. General Sarrail has again sent an urgent demand for more. troops. General Sarrail, who engineered the attack on the city of Damascus, is now being called to Paris as a gesture to appease the anger of the capitalists and missionaries-of other powers who) had French shells burst over their heads, due to the “carelessness” of General Sarrail who forgot to let the citizens of other nations know that a bombardment was to take place and give them the same chance that he gave French subjects to escape the shells that destroyed parts of the city. French Plunder Village. Following the French bombardment of the city, French officers and sol- diers and their Senegalese troops raid- ed the city, plundering the shops and homes, stealing whatever took their fancy. A number of women that had not fled the city, but had hid in corners were dragged out and outs raged by drunken soldiers. The estimates as to property losses, not counting the plunder of French soldiers, range from 1,000,000 to 2, 000,000 Turkish gold pounds or $4,374,- 000 to $8,748,000, gt ie Recall Sarrail. PARIS, Nov. 3.—The anger aroused in the French press for the blunder caused by General Sarrail in the bom- barding of Damascus, before giving proper notice to citizens. « lands to permit them to bombardment and which (Continued on Dag } FASCIST DEBT ENVOYS AROUSE WORKERS’ IRE Smuggled in Under Heavy Guard (Special to The Daily Worker) | NEW YORK, Nov. 3—Battery Park yesterday was turned into an armed camp for the purpose of protecting the Italian fascist debt mission from the open hostility of thousands of workers who had gathered to express | their contempt for the blood-streaked | bandit government represented by the mission, The mission, headed by Count Giu- seppe Volpi di:Misurata, fascist min- ister of finance, came on the Italian liner, Duilio. When the crowd gather: ed the representatives of the United | States state department, treasury of- | ficials and someone from the Italian embassy, who were at the pier got busy on the radio and had the ship stopped out im’ thea harbor, while a cutter of the coast guard pulled along side and thexmission left+ the ship and entered the cutter which rushed madly down the bay at full speed. Armed Guard on Job Smuggled into a waiting auto, with drawn curtains,.and surrounded on all sides by other: autos full of armed Policemen, coast guards, detectives and federal operatives, many of them riding on the dashboards of the cars “Botany “Mills ‘Consol | meeting. with drawn revolvers the craven pol- troons were taken to the Pennsylva- nia station where a special train was waiting to rush them to Washington where they will try to beg the govern- ment for liberal financial terms so that Mussolini may be able to con- tinue the murder of the working class and the wholesale terror against his political enemies. Boost ‘Potato Prices. Early frosts sand farmers not rais- ing the amount iof potatoes raised in former years iv given as the excuse for boosting potato prices from $4.25 to $5.25 per 100 pounds by the Chi- jesse commission merchants, | jout that Gitlow and the Workers ; Party thot this meeting far more im- portant than the different very im- portant election meetings which a candidate for mayor was supposed to attend at this time. The chairman ‘pointed out that only a few days ago when the Amalgamat- the valley. The whole foregoing forces are cite with an iron hand. The labor fakers, co-operating “with the police! ed Clothing Workers’ Union left wing decided to break the injunction that the capitalist judge had handed down, ‘Benjamin Gitlow was to be found on the. very front lines of the picketers and that when the workers decided | to strike and picket plants of ae the other plants. of Passaic that Ben- jamin Gitlow would \be ready then too. Benjamin*Gitlow then spoke on the need for Orginization and the fight against the wage cut. His speech was received with tremendous enthusiasm and seeneg ry ‘Yasted for some time. And with thiS the workers decided unanimously, }) organize themselves behind the w ted front committee of textile workebs, Enroll Members. The united front committee has opened headquarters at 25 Dayton avenue, Pass#ic; and at once at the meeting overa ‘hundred paid the ini- tiation fee of. fifty cents and enrolled COMRADE FRUNZE IS BURIED IN MOSCOW (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 3—Gen. Mickhail Frunze, minister of war of the Un- ion of Soviet Republics, was buried today in the revolutionary martyrs’ cemetery before the walls of the Kremlin while crowds stood in im- pressive silence in the streets. Ali Russia mourned the passing of the yoling military leader whose un- timely death on Saturday shocked the country. At the time of the low- ering. of his coffin into the grave behind the tomb of Lenin, every garrison within the vast demain of into the organization. The organization drive will be con- tinued all next week by means of meetings in several languages. There will be Italian meeting, Hungarian meeting, "Polish meeting and Slavic These meetings will be an- nounced later. Efforts will be made to get the various nationalist work- ers’ clubs into the united front against the textile bosses. the Union of Soviet Republics fired a salute of 50 guns. All branches of the government, including the army and navy were represented at the funeral, while the Communist organizations and the trade unions were conspicuous. Members of the foreign diplomatic corps eccupied prominent places. FEAR CHINESE AUTHORITIES MAY EXECUTE ARRESTED LEADERS OF SHANGHAI TRADES UNION COUNCIL SHANGHAI, Nov. 3.—Fear is expressed in Shanghai for the lives of the memberé of the Shanghai Trades Union Council that are under arrest on a charge of participating in the Communist movement. A reward of $10,000 is offered by the Chinese authorities for the arrest of Li-li-Sian, the president of the trades council and a still higher reward is offered by the foreign municipal coun-+— cil of Shanghai for the arrest of the secretary of the central executive committee of the Chinese Communist Party. But despite the attempts at per- secuting the workers, the strike move- ment is spreading. In several of the Japanese mills new strikes have broken out as a rseult of the violation by the em- ployers of agreements concluded with the workers. Trade Unions Iilegal. The trade unions, whose dissolution was recently decreed, are still in exist- ence, altho they are forced to work underground. All the nationalist organizations of Peking have issued a joint circular demanding that the government should re-establish the trade tinions of Shanghai. Lives With Bullet in Heart. ‘NEW YORK, Nov. 3,--Abraham Mainitsky, 32, lived for nearly ten minutes today with a bullet. tn his heditt. He died while physicians were ptepafing to operate, Gov. Small Fearing Impeachment, Refuses to Call Legislature SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Nov. 3—Gov- ernor Small will not call a special ses- sion of the legislature fo discuss the matter of traction legislation, due to the impending case against him in the supreme court in which the state treasury is, suing him for $1,000,000. Attempts have been made at a num- ber of sessions to impeach the gov- ernor and the special session can ouly ||| discuss the matter it was called to})| discuss. He fears that legal means may be discovered by which his im-|/ peachment can be brot about and will not call a special session. In the meantime a special commit- tee will work on the matter of traction legislation for the 14 months period, until the next session of the assembly meets in January, 1927. If you want to see the Com- munist movement grow—get a sub jfor the DAILY WORKER combined and are ruling the anthra-j power, have broken up the progressive | (Continued on puge 2) | BY FARRINGTON Labor Czar Helps Boss to Crush Union By 8. MASULEO Worker Correspondent COLLINSVILLE, Nov. 3—Coal min- ers of Local 685, United Mine Work- ers of America, at the order of Frank Farrington, president of the District 12.unions, were forced to turn -bawk $25.00 from their pay this month to the Lumaghe Coat Co. as a fine for protesting against bad working condi- tions, The fine came as a punishment of the miners for two attempt to remedy evils of continual docking of pay and | dangerous transportation, In both | cases, Farrington took the part of the | boss. The miners first “crime” was a 14- | day strike, resulting from their re- | fusal to ride in motor cars provided ‘ by the bosses, following the electrocu- tion of one of their fellow workers. In the effort to get safer transporta- tion to and from the place of work, after reaching the mine the strike | was called. » Farrington, however, j ended it by forcing the men to ride j again on the life-endangering trans- | portation. | The second offense of the miners | | | was their protest against having their | wages docked for not loading four cars of “clean” coal daily. If the coal | was “dirty” and if the tonnage was under that of four car-loads, the bosses took a good slice off their | wages. In opposition to this, the miners agreed among themselves to load no more than one car load daily. This load, however, was to be 100 per cent “clean.” By this means, they hoped to force the operators to elim- | inate the system of “docking,” | Here again, Farrington interfered in behalf of the company, after the men had carried on their fight for seven days. He commanded that they load four car-loads daily of clean coal or lose their full pay check. Not con- tent with giving the victory to the boss and allowing them to keep the men working in dangerous conditions with continual deductions from their pay, Farrington went even so far ag to impose the $25.00 additional fine. SATURDAY | November 7 A 12 page special issue celebrating the Eighth An- niversary of the Russian it Revolution will be issued. | Special articlés—cartoons by noted artists~-many features—will go to make up this—the biggest issue of the year. At 2 cents a copy ORDERA BUNDLE Single copies 5 cents, :