The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1925, Page 1

—s The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 258. Subscription Rates: Gataide Chicago. in Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per yearn by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 3923, WEDNESDAY, Ni the Post OMce st Chicago, Hlinols, under the Act of Merch 3, 1679. OVEMBER 11,1925 <>" Publish PUBLISHING (| ned_Daily t Sunday by THE DAILY 13.W: Washington Blyd., Chicago, Il, NEW YORK EDITION WORKER Price 3 Cents FURRIERS’ SPECIAL CONVENTION BEGINS; LEFT WING DELEGATION TO WAGE WAR ON REACTIONARIES By M. SPIVAK. (Special to The Dolly Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Noy. 9.—This date must be recorded in the history of the Furrier’s Union as an awakening of the rank and file at large against their own leaders and oppressors. On this} date, November 9, a special convention -will take place by the demand of thousands of fur workers at the historical Cooper Union meeting of April 25, who voiced their protest against the reactionary and despotic rulers of the International administra- tion and its official so-called labor organ, the Forward. The delegates at the convention will have to be forced to exert every effort to succeed in carrying out the orders and the demands of the workers whom they represent. At the recent conventions the majority of delegates consisted of reactionaries and machine boys who did not care for the interest of the work- fF 4Q909m 6 NEW YORK | apor':: tall pernotial ‘enloyitients AWAITS PURCELL MASS MEETINGS Toilers to Hear Speech on World Unity (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—The workers of New York City are impatiently awaiting the day of the two big meet- ings that are to be held in the Cen- tral House and the New Star Casino, at which Albert A, Purcell, president International Federation of Trade Un- ions and standard bearer of the British _Jabor, movement, will. speak™on the necessity of organizing on an interna- tional scale to combat the encroach- ments of the capitalist class. The date set is Tuesday, Nov, 17. In contrast with class collaboration policy followed at the Atlantic City convention of the American Federa- tion of Labor, Mr. Purcell stood as a stalwart enemy of capitalism: It was Purcell who introduced the following resolution ,on’ imperialism at the re- cent congress of the British trade | unions at Scarborough: “This Congress believes that the domination of non-British peoples by the British government is a form of capitalist exploitation, having for its object the securing for British capital-| ists (1) of cheap sources of raw ma- terials: (2) the right to exploit cheap and unorganized labor, and to use the competition of that labor to degrade the workeny’ standards in Great Brit- ain. “It declares its complete opposition to imperialism and resolves: (1) to support the workers in all parts ‘of | the British empire to organize trade unions and_ political parties in order to further their interest: and (2) to support the right of all peoples in the British empire to self-determination, including the right to choose complete » separation from the empire.” The trade union committee for or- ganizing the. Purcell meeting hag an- nounced that its next conference will be held on Sunday, November 15th, at 3p, m. at Beethoven Hall, to take the final steps for the two big mass meet- GIVEN PURCELL ‘AVES ON TOUR THRU THE U, S.. | ND CANADIAN CITIES: ‘ " the Purcell tour has announ- ced the following dates for his Speeches in several cities. of 'thé paige States and Canada: a4 Veland, Ohio, Nov. 10, at \8 Pp. at the Engineers’ Auditorium, corner Ontario and St. Clair, ety Toronto, Canada, Nov. 11, at 8 pe m, at Central Labor Union, Montreal, Canada, Nov. 13, at 8 | Curtis, Fosdick and Belkna, p.m, at Central Labor Union, were of greater interest to them than to bother with drafting new plans, participating in the dis- cussions amending the constitution, COOLIDGE STILL RELIES ON LEWIS AND HUNGER TO BREAK THE STRIKE WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Another appeal for presidential intervention in the hard coal strike-was rejected today by President Coolidge. Congresswoman Edith F. Rogers, republican of Massachusetts, pres- ented a gloomy view of the New England fuel situation at the White House this morning, and asked the president to appoint an “impartial board of inquiry” to investigate and try to end the strike, but admitted that she received little encourage- ment. President’ Coolidge, was of the opinion, she. said, that a feder- al board would not be of much help at present. GARMENT STRIKE VICTORS RETURN adopting resolutions and helping “to reconstruct our union on a new and solid foundation, # For many the call of a convention was not clear enuf and the ordinary worker delegate who was elected to the convention unexpectedly, got lost there. The politicians and their ad- juncts immediately got him over to their side, making a tool of him for themselves. How many delegates at the last convention of 1924 understood the in- 'tricate language of the amended con- stitution which they adopted by giv- ing their votes? The president was given more power by -his clique than the sultan of Turkey. It was the president who hired a lawyer to amend the constitu- tion and by his orders the amended Constitution was*adopted without giv- ing.a copy of the-amended artic! the delegates to read and discuss. A Fine Piece of Reaction. Here is an extract of, the Intricate language of the amended constitution which was not put to a referendum ‘TOTHEIR JOBS Im tiohal Tailoring company, 1 9-Wecks’ Struggle of Amalgamated Ends Yesterday morning 80 strikets en- tered. the building of the International Tailoring company, 847 West Jackson Bivd., for the first time in 19 weeks. Production will not really start in the plant until next week, as the company has,to,dismantle the machinery it has in the, Moline and Rock Island plants and bring it back to Chicago. The workers Antered the factory not. as individuals. beaten in their struggle, but as a group of workers, knowing that they had beaten the’ company, and that tl fight was not} but a fight of the entire union. This at- tempt on the part of the bosses to in- trodueéthe open shop into the cloth- ing, industry, by first destroying the vote of local unions for adoption: “Article 21: Section 7: Any con- duct which shall tend to undermine the solidarity of members, or to fos- ter dissension among the members or jShall otherwise be injurioussto the in- terests of this union, or of any of its members or injurious to any other bonafide labor organizations or to the labor movement in general, and any conduct unbecoming a member of this organization shall be considered ja violation of this constitution. To |slander the union or its officers or to jcall or actively participate in unau thorized protest meetings against the union or its officers or to join an or- ganization that is hostile to our, union shall be considered a violation of this constitution,” Its Interpretation, The following is the interpretation into ordinary working men's jargon: “Any conduct which may be inter- preted by reactionary officials as un- dermining the solidarity of the mem- bers or’ to create indignation among the members which may be injurious to the interest of this union, etc., shall be considered a violation of this ¢on- (Continued on page 2) CZAR KELLOGG AGAIN DENIES KAROLYI VISA the: ‘trade union commiteg Promises to Tell Why Countess Is Menace WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov, 9.— The state department hgs refused tc grant a renewed request of Countess Karolyi, wife of the former: president of the Hungarian republic, for admis- sion to the United States. es F. Curtis of the law firm of laid the request before Searetary Kellogg. The New York City, Nov. 17, evening, | firm had been retained by the coun- at the New Star Casino, tess, _ ESCAPED PEASANTS CALL ON WORLD PROLETARIAT TO PROTEST POLISH , PERSECUTION OF WHITE RUSSIANS a »..-The following appeal received by The DAILY WORKER from a number s» so@f escaped prisoners of the Polish terror against the white Russian peasants op @A4, Workers shows to what ‘extent the ‘Polish’ hangman, under the direction of Grabski, supported by the Polish soicalist party, will go (0, suppress national ‘on Bago 6) bs 2 (Continued snot ogaw Tie union, turned out a complete failure, due to, the-solidarity of the strikers, Refuse to Sign Agreement When, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union made their demands upon the International Tailoring com- pany to renew agreements with the uniow,*the bosses refused to deal with the Amalgamated and the uniom mem- bers then declared a strike and de- matided that the company sign the agfééement and recognize the union. **Phe company officials immediately ®t im touch with the scabbing agency u the garment trades, the United Garment Workers of America affilia- ted with the American Federation of Labor, made an agreement with it and tried to operate the plant. Try to Get Injunctions Amalgamated pickets were thrown wound the shop, telling workers who (Continued on page 2) FRENCH FINANCE IN AWFUL MESS AND GETS WORSE Painleve Bill Would Add to Inflation il convention of the of. the World (I. Monday at 10 a.m. its 3333 Belmoht Ave. on has-survived the $o-call emergency during the past year : elements who were expelled appealing to the capi taliet cout fency program” split e 1. W. W. and affil narchist Internationa’ convention held ir} » Utah. But the split 8,000 to 4,000. out ‘of the |B kW. Wy at first and cansed a great way of confused and dfs- hers, has steadily gone embership is so small ‘the anarchist leaders S Teal standing by con- ial accounts of dues The split is estimat- } Member -of the’ Central Execut munist) Party of America, goes Benjami + n Gitlow ive Committee, Workers (Com- to Sing Sing to serve unexpired term of 5 to 10 years. it Present only from 1,000 r OF CAPITALIST e bosses in the lumber industries is, how- Delegates Attend. war accounts in part tremely low dues and cutting in two oft the per capita paid to the general organization, have conspired to bring only a handful of delegates, 12 in all, to represent the approximately 16,000 members shown by dues payments to the indugtPial urfions. This number permits of pearly 80. delegates. The 1924 jconvention represented : . some 80,000 members, and the 1923 speak to\ striking anthracite miners. onvention! a little over 38,000. Thus’ ore it appears, ‘that altho the organiza- By ALE ion has survived the anarchist at- ack, it is greatly weakened in num- bers, and some of its tactics may be held “accountable for the losses which preceeded the split. Problems to be Discussed. slaughtering and« crippling workers this article, one ofa series, by Ale: (Articl LIFE FOR GAIN PROFITS SHOWN That capitalist’ production wastes not only materials’but human life, for sake of profit, is illustrated in x Reid, secretary, of the Progressive Miners’ Committée,"‘who recently was released from jail at Scranton, Pa;, where the capitalist dictatorship confined -him when he wished to - . ° ‘X REID, Seoretary Progressive Miners” Committee. je Vil.) The terrible suffering of hard coal miners, their wives and families, is but one phase of the anthracite question. An enor- mous industrial waste is involved thru loss of time, which is rep- Considerable time of the conven-| resented in the increased cost of anthracite, but which touches tion will be devoted, it is expected, | lightly—if at all—the profits of to discussions of some of the tactics,|in a succeeding article dealing and to the revamping of the financial | mental protits. system, hereto applied universally without regard for the special requir- ments of the various industrial unions. to allow for these unions to set their own initiations and dues’ fees to conform with the conditions they face in their particular industry According to reports preceding the gathering of the delegates the twelve to be seated are as follows: Agri- cultural Workers No, 11. three dele- gates, O'Neill, Thorpe and Foster (J. B, Foster); Lumber Workers’ No. 120, one delegate, Frank Whiting; Metal Miners, one delegate, Paul Lundgard; General Construction No. 310, two delegates, T. P. Kelley and James V. O'Conner; Building Construction No. 330, two delegates, Joe Wagner and John Kiviniemi; Marine Transport No. 510, one delegate, Francezan; and 40 PLANES SPRAYING TEAR GAS OVER CITY WILL FORGE EVACUATION WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—Forty en- emy aircraft, spraying tear gas out of the skies, could force evacuation of the district of Columbia, seat of testified by Major General Amos A. Fries, chief of army chemical war- fare, at the courtmartial of Gol. William Mitchell. Fries was the first defense wit- PARIS, Noy. 9—The finance bi|ftom the combined small industrial) ness for Mitchell, ‘ions, introduced by Premier Painleve, met/Un!ons, with serious opposition as soon as it Lamson. was examined. There ig nothing in it of a levy on capital as demanded by|# the left. The bill lays taxes, however, ‘gainst every conceivable object ip n effort to dodge a levy on capital o mugh hated by capitalists, but it ingers these sensitive gentlefolk by an increase on incomes, Moreover, there is cbncealed in the bill an intention to inflate the cur- rency, Thig inflation has gone so far that already the franc reached 25;40 to the dollar, The statement of the Bank of France shows that during the past week note circulation went up by 1,333,000,000 francs, making a total trelaton slightly over 48,000, 000,009, and only 3,000,000,000 under the legal limit. ‘Advances to the government by the bank, to furnish funds for carrying on the wars in Syria and Morocco to- talled 1,450,000,000 francs last week, bringing this to within 600,000,000 of the 32,000,000,000 limit legally set. As the franc declined, holderg rush- ed into the bourse and swamped it with orders, for, buying industrial stocks, (a visiting the convention, this including cussion over\the matter of excludin only such papers as would print re-| date of regular primary election, by two delegates, Minkoff and In the rulew-committee’s report was ! North Dakota to Hold recommendation usnally voted ; down in other:conventions, to exclude Election June 30 to all but holdersvof I. W. W. cards trom|’ Choose U. S. Senator reporters for:both capitalist and labor! BISMARCK, N. D., Noy. 9.— A spe papers. This» convention also voted | cial election to name a successor to against the «motion after some dis-|the late Senator Edwin F. Ladd was called Saturday for June 30, 1926, the ports that displeased the delegates.| Gov. A, G. Sorlie. ELECTION BOARD WORKS.HAND IN GLOVE WITH “PATRIOTS” TO BAR COMMUNIST WORKERS FROM BALLOT “By SYLVAN POLLACK. (Special to The Daily Worker) NRW YORK CITY, Nov. 9.— The co-operation between the board of elections and “patriotic” organizations in keeping the name of Ben Gitlow off the ballot in the recent mayoralty election, can be seen as the result of action taken at a meeting of the Allied Patriotic Societies, Inc., which was held at the Army and Navy building, New York City. John R, Voorhis, president of the board of elections and vice-president of the Allied Patriotic Soeleties, was instrumental in having a resolution (Continued a page 4.) the coal owners, as we shall see with the| coal magnates’ monu- Four million labor days a year are lost to 150,000°mine work- ers thru accidents, fatal and of lesser degree. —+ Three hundred accidents. Each man in the dustry loses twenty-five days on an average ‘per’ year as a result of in- jury sustained*in the anthracite in- dustry, Lie Factories Busy. | The coat owners thru their public- ity agents, and the capitalist press, |have continuously stated since the beginning of the stiike that the an- work in-—similar to clerking in a de- partment store or employment of,a similar nature, in/spite of thé easily available statistics that give the lie td such a canard, and in spite of the wails of hungry children and woe of (Contin' om page 2) and thirty-four thousand days each month, because of those] Governor Gifford Pinchot of Penn- in- CK TO PRISON MUST: SERVE THE REST OF 5 T0 10 ~ YEAR SENTENCE | Firat Released After 27 Months Behind Bars | (Special to The Daily Worker) | NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—Benjamin Gitlow, member of the Central Exe. |} cutive Committee of the Workers Party and candidate for vice-president of the Workers (Communist) Party in the presidential elections of 1924, has | been taken’ to Sing Sing prison to | serve the unexpired portion of his | term. Gitlow was sentenced to a term of from 5 to 10 years for violation of the New York criminal syndicalist law in the court of Judge Weeks in New York City, January, 1920. This verdict was later upheld by the state supreme court. and finally by the United States supreme court. Helped Organize Left Wing Gitlow had been arrested in Noy 1919 for his participation in the organ- ization of the left wing movement in the socialist party and for the pub lication of the “Left Wing Manifesto,” which was issue by the central com- mittee of the left wing. group. His trial before Judge Weeks short ly followed his arrest. In this court the judge made no attempt to hide his bias against Gitlow and passed the sentence of from 5 to 10 years with great glee. Serves 27 Months in Prison After he had served twenty-seven months of his sentence, Gitlow was released on appeal to the New York state supreme court on May 1, 1922 ‘The state.supreme court upheld the verdict of the lower court and Gitlow was remanded to Sing Sing in the month of September. Gitlow was released from Sing Sing on a writ of error, January, 1923, and the case was appealed to the United States supreme court. The United States supreme court upheld the con- stitutionality of the New York crimin- al syndicalist act and the verdict of the New York court and has now ordered Gitlow to serve the unexpired portion of his term. The International Labor Defense is conducting a campaign for the release of Comrade Gitlow. “SPEECH ASSILNG HIM AS PROTECTOR OF BOOTLEGGERS SENT CAL | (Special to The Daily Worker) Chicago, Nov. 9—The speech of sylvania before the convention of the anti-saloon league of America, in which he accused the Coolidge administration of sanctioning whole- Sale bootlegging by issuing dishon- est permits at Washington, will be sent direct to Coolidge. A resolution to this effect was passed unanimously today by the resolutions committee of the league. the American government, it was | thracite industry is a safe place to| Support of the league Is alieged to come from bootleggers who want to keep. the Volstead act in effect so their business will be good, and the whole program of the thing is con- sidered mére camouflage. The Pin- chot speech -wilf have little effect on the government bootleggers. MINERS OF COKE REGION BEGIN By GEORG region at Republic, Pa., have begun son mine No. 1, fs on strike. Mine “League and the Workers (Commun ditions. great prospects of success. George duet the strike, 1 “The wage cut is being effected 1917 wage scale, “STRIKE AGAINST THE WAGE CUT IN FORCE WITH THE 1917 SCALE — PAPCUN. (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 9—The unorganized miners of the coke a revolt against wage cuts. Thomp- rs in other pits are coming out also. A strike committee of action is being formed. The Young Workers ist) Party are assisting the strikers. B. L. Junic spoke at the meeting of striking miners on Nov. 7, George Papeoun addressed the strikers Saturday. The strike demands are for the 1923 scale and better working con- The strike committee is trying to pull out other mines with Papcun is in the fleld helping to con- by forcing the miners to accept the a a CT _