The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 255. Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. THE DAILY Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Pos SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1925 by mati, $6.00 per year. plishe PUBLISHING CO., d Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY 1113 W. Washington Blvd., ¢ COAL MINERS GET LC efiant Syrian Nationalist)IRCILL eader Proclaims Republic CAPITALIST GOVERNMENT'S COAL ip _ COMMISSION PROVES ANTHRACITE |. OPERATORS MISREPRESENT WAGES The following is the fourth article of a series upon conditions of the. 158,000 anthracite miners now striking for a ten per cent wage vvaise, the-check off and other demands, Alex Reid, head of the Pro- gressive Miners’ Committee, was recently released from the Scranton, Pa., jail where he was sentenced by a venal judge aided. by the re- actionary union officials. oe * * By ALEX REID (Sceretary Progressive Miners’ Committee). A veritable flood of propaganda is being circulated thruout the country by the anthracite mine owners, in an attempt. to mis- inform the public of the wages and working conditions of the hard coal miners. By a clever manipulation of figures the coal companies’ statisticians are attempting to show the miners are a well paid group. Their favorite method of falsifying is by using ALG.W. A. LOGAL 39, TO RESIST WAGE SLASHING Demands. Joint Board Fight Bosses At the last meeting of Local No. 39, Amalgamated Clothing: Workers of America, the following resolution in- structing the delegates of the union to the Chicago joint board to resist any attempts on the part of the bosses to raise the volume of production and lower the wages of the clothing work- ers in the negotiations now being ‘carried on: “In view of the fact that a number of the Chicago manufacturers have | called. upon the representatiives of our organizations to meet them for the purpose to reduce the cost of the gar- ment, and “In view of the fact that our ex- periences with the manufacturers for the ast year, have taught us, that the ‘promises of a bigger volume of work,’ if readjustments and reconstructions will be made, didn’t materialize, and “In view of the fact that we are again faced with the same conditions as stated above; therefore, be it “RESOLVED, That we, Local 39, of | the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America hereby at this meeting in- struct,our delegates to the joint board to bring the following for its appro- val: “That in the negotiations with the manufacturers our representatives shall not grant anything that will tend to lower our standards; “That wé hereby resolve to protect the interests of our members with all our power, and we further “RESOLVE, That a copy of this re- solution be forwarded to our national president, Sidney Hillman, as our un- animous expression to guard ourselves against lowering of our standards.” Wm, F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORK- ER, goes to the anthracite coal fields neXt week to stay for two weeks. About. Wednes- day, \Nov. 11, daily stories there: . For Daily Worker Readers will appear analyzing the situa- tion in’ this scene of bitter |’ two weeks to: struggle, bringing to workers é the true conditions existing ——*percentage of wage: increases instead of actual money paid. The miners’ wages are cut very of- ten thru no fault of their own, by be- ing prevented from work by falls of roof, accidents, bad air, gas, lack of material, lack of: cars, bad working conditions and injuries: The United States coal commission has the ‘fol- lowing to/say on this question as a result of their recent investigation: “Loss ‘of time involving a depreciat- ed arinual income. number of miners lose some time dur- ing the year thru illness, accidents, shut downs, bad condition of work- ing places or other causes beyond their ‘control. Frequently when a contract miner finishes his working place, it ‘may be some time before he secures another place to work. “To give the earnings, therefore, of only those who work for the full year would eliminate all loss of earnings which were beyon! the mine workers’ control, would re- flect only the cream of. the earnings and would give only an exaggerated idea of the earnings of the miners under actual conditions of everyday life.” When we consider the fact that there are over one hundred different | administration, classifications in and around the thracite minés; and each classificatit is paid a different raté of wages,é will be readily seen how difficult it is to arrive at a scientific basis for esti mating the’ earnings of the miners:( We must deal with the average earn:! ings of the’ mine workers to under- stand their conditions. t The coal commission reports that four-fifths of worked less than 260 days during the year investigated, and that two-fifths of them worked less than 190 days, because of the conditions I have al- ready mentioned, and over whichthe miners have no contfol. In the two largest anthracite districts the com- mission found the “ontract and con- sideration miners were earning less than $1,600 per year gross, and this is a sample of the conditions thruout the hard coal field. Highest Skilled Only $1700 Gross. On the whole the commission found the “highest skilled of all anthracite (Continued .. page 2) EWS! two weeks ‘2 cents a copy Phe 3Y2 cents Saturday copies of The DAILY WORK- ER to be sent every day for | ¢ NAIC .ssincsocoqeorsrnsgiliilyvtoscootessibotos A considerable! the contract ‘miners’ crsecannanevanensanensnansqansosonenyepieee The strike. now in. progress; living conditions; the» trade unions; the betrayals of the Street. ii police and the courts. workers by the officialdom; the This picture of the struggles of, | miners, written by an outstand- ing writer of the American rey- olutionary movement, should re- ceive the widest distribution. oasenesnnennensee Clty siatonininn State. BULLETIN, (Special to The Daily Worker) ALEXANDRIA, Egypt., Nov. 5.— Two American destroyers, the Lam- son and the Coghlan, with full crews, are rushing from this city to Beirut, as dispatches tell of the con- Solidation of the rebel forces in Syria and the proclaiming of a re- public with a unified army to, drive out the French ravagers. ae ee (Special to. The Daily Worker) DAMASCUS, Syria, Nov. 5.—Confi- dential reports reaching this city of desolation have aroused hope in the breasts of these elements fighting against imperialist aggression. Re- ports from Homs are to the effect that the numerous groups that arose in spontaneous revolt when the storming of Damascus became known are now of SCAB COAL TO GET U.S. HELP ~BY LOW RATES More Than One Way to _| Break Anthracite WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—Another | Move has been made by the Coolidge thru the interstate {commerce commission, to break the fited Mine Workers of America. The commission has issued two or- ders for the reopening of hearings on ‘freight rate reductians between the ‘coal markets in New York and other Atlantic seaboard cities and the Vir- ginia and West Virginia fields where | anthracite and semi-anthracite coal is | produced, | The Virginia anthracite lands have been little developed, and their own- ers, have claimed that the reason for this fact is found in excessive freight rates to New York. It is the purpose of the commission to see whether it cannot lower the freight rates from this Virginia an- thracite field, thereby weakening the position of the anthracite strikers in Pennsylvania. By proposing a lower joint railroad rae from the Kanawha, Coal River, New River, Tug River and Pocahontas fields in West Virginia, the commis- sion will give a new advantage to non- union coal in its competition with union-mined coal in the eastern mar- kets. SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 5. — The cutter Algonquin of the United States coast guard reports that the five peaks in the Alaska peninsula and in the Aleutian islands are belching dense clouds of smoke. By ALBERT A. PURCELL. HE question of the unity of nation- al federations within one interna- tional labor federation constitutes a most highly interesting problem for our consideration. One must, how- ever, only consider it from one par- ticular point of yiew, which could in- dicate the surest, and hence the short- est way to its realization. In the first place we must admit that all parties have committed a great number of errors and that hardly anyone can be freed from this reproach, ~ ~ But to investigate exactly to what extent the one party or the other is serving of reproach would be waste of valuable time and en- Therefore we can disregard the les ergy. Past, as well as the question of ap- portioning blame, and once and for all give up indulging in mutual re- crimination: We have already lost too much time with. such things, which has not helped to narrow down our. differ- festo of the Communist International. ° ’ Purcell Writ thica This Issue Consists of Two. Sections. SECTION ONE. ee cH wi Price 3 Cents consolidat wa 4 ead with one general staff and that henceforth the struggle againstthe scourge of France will be carried out with war-like pre- cision. ‘ Hasis L. Bakffj former leader of the nationalist “peopld’s party,” whose house was burned in the storming of Dariiascus,;and Who has been infiuent- ial, the’ past; we@k ‘in bringing many Druse tribesmen under his leadership, has been chosen @s military leader of the bands operating between Da- mascus and Homs, and has proclaimed a republic, He is the provisional president of the republic, and will insist upon the mandate commission of the league of nations recognizing him as the spokes- man. Thus is the challenge of the national liberatién movement hurled directly at Europe. Exploiters Arming for New Struggles OU, the workers of all countries, have protected Soviet Russia, the stronghold of the in- ternational struggle of the proletariat, from the armed intervention of the imperialists all countries. You have broken down the blockade of the capitalists. But your work is not yet ended. The international band of exploiters is arming for a new struggle.—Mani- SOME STATISTICS ON CHICAGO BANKS THAT JOBLESS MAY STUDY More than 000,000 would be required to nudes the purchase of | stocks and ee } owned by Chicago bahks: Tew bafiks of Chicago alone possess $364,000,000 worth of these securities. In 1 $37,000,000 would have sulficed “Yo, actomplish the same purpos rhis is an increase of 1,000% in stock and’ bond invest- ments, _ Twenty years ago Chicago had but 30 banks, now there are 205. The combined resources of the Chicago banks in 1900 was $446,000,- | 000.’ Today, it is approximately $3,000,000,000. This an increase of 700% in resources. These are some facts published French occupation of Syria is based upon the authority of ‘a mandé i posed by the treaty of Versailles nationalists hold that this mandate has been violated by the aggression of the French and the habit of French military officers engaging in business ventures to plunder the ion, The one demand upon which all ele. ments unite’ is: “smash the manda If the mandate is revoked it. means evacuation of the occupied territory. If not the gauntlet is thrown down to France and it means war to the limit of human endurance. Forces United The unification of the forces for a determined stand against the French invasion embraces the rebels under Hassan. el Kharsat, several thousand under Gomma Sussa, and the most (Continued on page 2) WHEELER ASKS: DISHISSAL OF INDICTMENT Holds Campbell Fre ¢ Was Legal’: | (Special to The Daily Workery~ WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—Senator/ Burton K. Wheeler, vice-presidnetial | candidate on the LaFollette ticket last year, today asked the supreme os of the District of Columbia to ia miss the indictment against hif charging conspiracy to defraud the in a report showing the growth of Chicago business by the Chicago | association of commerée comme- | morating its twenty-first anniver- | sary, that jobless workers can pon- | der over when they walk the streets | searching for work to nthe next | day’s meal, : | | Will Not investigate Death. { COLUMBUS, Oy Noy. 5=—Mystery | to-day surrounded the motive for the | triple tragedy which last night sent Claude Meeker,~. millionaire stock broker and: politician, and his daugh- ter, Marjorie Meeker Wing, to the Wing, to,his grave, but marital diffi- | culties are hinted. Wing and his wife | have lived apart, No. formal inquest | Door. NEW YORK, 5:—Four ban-| dits used tert heavy door-of a fapeshop and escaped | with -$30,000 me of furs just as | police from. a. pany arrived, ry alarm com-} Seeks Labor Unity | 1 whe government in sceuring oi] and gas land permits in Montana. Indicted with Wheeler were Edwin | S. Booth, formerly solicitor of the in-} terior department; and Gordon Camp- bell, Montana oil operator, | His acquittal in Montana last. April) of charges of misusing his senatorial | office to gain favors at the interior for; Campbell was sufficient ground for | the court to throw out the present) case, Wheeler said. He demanded (Continued on page 2) } party, TRADE UNIONISTS IN MESSAGE OF WORLD TRADE UNION UNITY (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS ‘CITY, Mo., Nov. 5.—Albert A. Purcell, president of the Amsterdam International Federation of Trade Union, ex- chairman of the British Trade Union Congress and leader of the movement for world trade union unity, opened up his American tour at Kansas City last night in a speech at the Labor Temple, before an enthusiastic audience of over a thousand trade unionists. Labor ‘must forge its own means of freedom, he said, and the humblest worker is important. The Versailles treaty has sliced in two the former great national unions by dividing up na- tions. merly came as immigrants tot \the United.States, but are now barred by the immigration law, are spreading: over. Burope. Great changes are in process. Solidarity Must Be International In Gréat' Britain’ there is a united front in ‘the labor whions anda labor but while’ all . this*'solidarity within the nation exists, still there até 1,500,000 unemployed, and among theni 250,000 of thé best skilled men of Europe. India, once’ Great "Britain’s big pur- chaser, how’ gets* machines run by wothen and children on a fourteen hour day for afew pennies wages. China has thachines, too, and there are’ 260° cotton?mills ‘in China, Other “backward” nations’ are becoming no lénger “backward? ©All affect Britain, Japan, Gerntary atid tlie United States where’ the cotton mills’ cannot with- | stand the competition. Mining is in a similar fix: In the mines of India, (Continued.on page 3) DATES GIVEN PURCELL ON TOUR THAU THE U. S. AND CANADIAN CITIES The trade union committee ar- ranging the Purcell tour has announ- ced the following dates for his speeches in. seyeral cities of the <United States and Canadat 4. Detroit, Mich., Sunday, Nov. 8. at 3 p. m. at the Cass Technical High School Auditorium, .Grand River Avejcand ‘High St. Pittsburgh, Pa,, Nov. 9, at 8 p. m. fat the Carnegie Library Hall, Feder- al and Ohio Sts. Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 10, at 8 p. m., at the Engineers’ Auditorium, *eorner Ontario and St. Clair. ‘Toronto, Canada, Nov. 11, at 8 p. m, at:Central;Labor Union, Montreal, Canada, Nov. 13, at 8 p. m. at Central Labor Union. New York City, Nov. 17, evening, at the New Star Casino. 'TWO MEETINGS FOR PURCELL TO hospital and the Sen-in-law, Shirley | BE HELD TONIGHT IN CHICAGO Purcell will speak to the trade unionists of Chicago tonight in two | separate halls, The first meeting will be held at 7:45 p. m. sharp at the Wicker Park Hall, 2040 West North Avenue, with Morton L. Johnson of the Electrical Workers acting as chairman. The second meeting will be held chinists’ District Council, as chairman. at 9 p. m, sharp, at the North Side hg ram on the} turner Hall, 826 North Clark street, with Louis Look, president of the Ma- The trade union committee arranging the Purcell tour asks all to note the famous visitor to begin and end hi: ences but-on the contrary had widen ed them. Personal differences have often created friction “which could easily have beem removed if . both sides had not proclaimed them from the house tops. FURTHER hindrance has been thé’ following: Many comrades have proclaimed in the loudest man- ner the necessity of declaring that only an energetic attack upon capi- talism caf lead to the broad highway ndits weathered | the hour of the. two meetings tonight and be prompt in attendance to allow ‘speechegGe. ‘sche Today the workers of Italy and other countries, who for- > MIKHAIL FRUNZE NOW LIES UNDER _KREMLIN WALLS | Soviet War Head Rests | Near Lenin | (Special to The Dally Worker) | | MOSCOW, Nov, 5.—The body of the |late Soviet war minister, Mikhail | Frunze, has been laid at rest next to |that of late Soviet premier, Ilyitch | Lenin, As Frunze’s body was borne in a coffin draped with the Red Flag of Soviet Russia to its final resting | place in the tomb of the Red Square before the Kremlin, thousands of Rus- Sian workers and peasants with hats in hand and t in their eyes watch- ed the procession, Fifty -hours before the body of Mikhail ‘Frunze was laid at rest, peas- | ants and workers and Red Army sol- |diers began to gather in the Red | Square to pay their respects to the” leader of the world’s. invincible. Red Army. Over 250,000 passed. by the bier and took their last look at Mik- hail Frunze. Twenty thousand soldiers of the Moscow garrison, from the Caucasus, the Ukraine and other parts of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics stood rigidy at -at- tention for many hours as their final tribute to their dead comrade, “The Communist Party mourns the loss of a most loyal and devoted mem- ber; the Soviet government mourns the loss of a daring and efficient serv- ant, the Red Army mourns the loss of a fearless and popular chief,” de- clared I. Stalin to the assembled throng. Stalin was followed by Gregory Zi- noviev and other leaders of the Com- munist Party and the Red Army, who showed the devotion of Frunze to the cause of the working-class and told of how he had died of overwork trying to better the condition of the workers ‘in Soviet Russia and called upon the as- sembled Russian workers and peas+ ants to emulate the example of Mik-+ hail Frunze. Following the speeches a small group of Soviet leaders bore the coffin to its grave under thé .wall of the Kremlin while the cannon.in the for- tress boomed a hundre@-fold‘salute. on World Trade Union Uni union federations allow a place in their midst for 6very membér, regard- less as té how far he: may differ from the point of, view f the leadership, the intérnatfonal’must also serve all national organizations as a powerful instrument, Strong enuf to lift the whole working elass out of the slough of capitalism; an aim in ‘order to achieve which itis absolutely neces- sary to make-use of evety means. But if there exists a capitalist of the solidarity of the working class the other side has regarded this as something superfluous, urging that such a declaration has been repeated a hundred times in the course of the last twenty years, ete, slotigh there alsd exists a slough of the: international” trade tinion move- ment, ° a ‘0. far-as I am aware the national organizations which we’ have in mind are permeated ‘by the infinite de- Whatever the case may be, and’ apart from the question what sacri- fices it may require, the cause of in+ ternational unity is of such enormous importance, that not a single person, not a single nation can ‘consider themselyes as too big to remain out- side the great international family. In the same way as the national trade ALBERT A, PURCELL, sire to work for the overthrow of cap- italism, .Our chief difféntty now con- sists in finding out methods, It is this which has roused a great storm. But a storm alwayg arises when dif- feretit polite of view clash with one another. Our chief task at present is to unite the divided heads of the in- ternational,labor movement Neither the International ra- tion of Trade Unions nor thé In- tefnational of Labor Untons ¢am be in any way satisfied with the situation at present obtaining; neither the one nor the other. can Say that they really comprise’ the working class of the whole world—and expression is to be-wnderstood in#the actual sense of the’word. But if this is the case therc ne.tur- ally, arises a ‘simple proposal, und I believe that if the general council of the British trade unions were re- quested to take over the task of unit- ing in the near future, the divided Buropean labor movement, my col- leagues would regard this as a request to perform 4 useful service in the in- terest of solidarity, and 1 am convine- ed that it will ly be popsible to obtain’ their consent. to thi: But it we. are. contemplating a uivéting Of "this sort, then I believe that the past must be regarded as dead and buried, and that the only (Continued on’ page 2), Lm with detachments”