The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1925, Page 2

“a Page Two THE“DALLY We KER CAPPELLIN IN ~ ATTEMPT T0 EXPEL ‘REDS Local Union Refuses to Oust Valentine (Special to The Dally Worker) NANTICOKE, Pa., Nov. 11.—After postponing definite action on the de- mand of Rinaldo Cappellini, burea cratic official of the anthracite miners, that they immediately expel from the United Mine Workers, August Valen- tine, “alleged red,” Local Union 838, Nanticoke, Pa., refused to take action other than definitely stating if Valen- tine was to be expelled, Cappellini must appear before the local union and prefer his own charges and pro- secute the case himself on behalf of the district executive board. This was the fourth meeting, the subject was under deliberation since Valentine was arrested late in Sep- tember when the Scranton police and department of justice dicks broke up a@ progressive miners’ mass meeting in West Scranton, The reactionary miners’ officials immediately clamor- ed for his expulsion and by a unanim- ous decision of the district board, Local 838 was instructed to remove him from membership. Organizers Fail to Disorganize At this particular meeting there ap- peared for the district board two or ganizers, faithful henchmen of Cap- pellini, who demanded the local im- mediately sentence Valentine as he was already expelled by the district board. This, in view of the fact the constitution is quite specific relative to charges being preferred against members first in their own local un- ion with the privilege of either pro- secutor or defendant appealing to the higher units for redress, Organizers Sweeney and Shifcok could not quite convince the local membership they should expel Valen- tine, particularly after Valentine spoke in his own defense quite ex- tensively, and quite conclusively proved the officials flagrantly violated the constitution they claim is so sacred and undefiled. Will Come Up Again The case will come up for final disposition at the next meeting. Pro- gressive forces are organizing to pre- vent the fakers from expelling Valen- tine and at this writing it is quite possible “there will be a hot time in the old town that night.” Local 1483, Plains, as yet has re- fused to expel Pat Toohey after the’ district board demanded same. \their further: TALK OF SUBSTITUTES PUTTING Ye ANTHRACITE OUT OF MARKET IS Laie SHOWN ANTI-STRIKE PROPAGANDA (Continued from/page 1) to the present time their theory has proved correct in that respect. Went Up—Not Down. Since 1916, anthracite production has been on the increase. The mines have produced more steadily in, the last nine years than in any other nine years prior to that in the last one hnu- dred years—since anthracite opera- tions were started, The hard “foal operators are spend- ing a large publicity fund to get across “substitutes” propaganda, and it will be interesting to the. miners to know that other large sums are used by the same hard coal, operators when no: strikeyis.on—to show the workers and public, that these no dan- ger to the industry from the use of substitutes, One may, take his choice, apparently. Prominent among leaflets and peri- Odicals issued by the hard coal operat- ors to prove that no danger besets the anthracite fuel is the following—“An- thracite fuel holds its own,” xperi- ence proves coal cheapest fuel,” “All tests prove coal cheaper than oil.” “George Otis Smith, director of the United States geological survey, said, “Coal will be the main source of power as long as the nation lives.” Believe January or November? In the January, 1925 issue of the Burning Question, a leaflet that.was distributed by the hard coal operators’ conference, is the following statement. “During the past year millions of dol- lars have been spent in the effort to establish substitute fuels, for heating the homes of the country, but all this effort has had no appreciable effect in the anthracite industry, for the con- sumption of anthracite fuel shows no falling off.” In another statement we find the following: “That in all the advertise- ments of the use of fuel oil thruout the country, the Standard Oil com- pany has never turned its refineries or machine companies to the use of oil, menters are returning to anthracite. Of the thousands and thousands of new homes built each year the greater number are equipped to use the fuel that has been found to be the most economical and satisfactory after a test of more than one hundred years.” No Strike—No Substitute Peril, Now in November, 1925, the substi- tutes question is again brot to the front by the coal owners—that substi- tutes are making inroads on anthra- cite—and crippling the industry, When a strike is on we have one kind of statement to the workers about sub- stitutes, and when there is no strike, we see the contrary kind of state- ment, - The mine workers of the hard coal region will not be fooled with this cry of substitutes taking away their employment. They know that oil or bituminous cannot take the place of anthracite. No one believes that it can, and the owners themselves have furnished that proof in the leaflets \that I have referred to and quoted | from. The government has this to say, “The peak of oil production was | reached in 1923 and if kept up at that rate, the total oil supply would be exhausted in thirteen years. It ig the part of economy to use coal and people will continue to do so un-* til they find a real substitute.” In reference to bituminous as a sub- stitute there is no consumer of coal but knows the relative merits of an- thracite and bituminous for domestic purposes. Bituminous is not equal to, |but is a long way behind anthracite in |quality for domestic use, and no user jof hard coal will ever junk their base- burner for soft coal stoves. This substitutes propaganda is but one of the many weapons used to j¢loud the issue in the anthracite by lone of the best organized cliques of or- ganized capital in America, whose un- |}imited resources are being used to but continues to burn coal. Why? Be-/crush the workers—not only in the an- cause coal is the cheapest fuel the Standard Oil company can burn, They don’t burn oil. They sell it to the people who believe it is better than anthracite fuel.” Operators’ “Information.” Bulletins issued by the hard coal op- erators thru their bureau “Operators Bureau of Information,” have consis- tently listed changes, made back to an- thracite by concerns that have triea fuel substitutes and found them too costly. We quote the ming owners’ leaflet Says the Burning Question: “Experiments with other fuels are found to be too expensive, or in other ways unsatisfactory. The experi- PAT TOOHEY TOURS COUNTRY TO ACQUAINT WORKERS WITH ANTHRACITE MINERS’ STRIKE In order to counteract the poison propaganda of the employers against the union. miners that are now on strike, the Workers (Communist) Party is touring Pat Toohey, member of the National Executive Committee of the Young Workers League, thru the country to explain to the workers the issues involved in the present strike of the anthracite coal miners. Comrade Toohey has been active in the United Mine Workers of America for many years and has attended many of the conventions éalled by the min- ers’ union as a delegate. Meetings Being Arranged: Meetings are being arranged for Comrade Toohey at the following cities and dates (halls will be an- nounced later): Boston, Mass., Nov, 17; Paine Me- morial Hall, 9 Appelton St.; New York, Nov. 14, 15; Providence, Nov. 16; Worcester, Nov. 18 or 19; Ro- chester, Nov, 21; Buffalo, Nov. 22; Detroit, Nov. 23, House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin St.; Chicago, Nov. 24, 25, 26, 27; South Bend,-Nov. 28; To- ledo, Nov. 30; Cleveland, Dec. 1, 2; Youngstown, Dec. 3; Pittsburgh, Dec. 4, 5; Baltimore, Dec. 6; Washington, Dec. Philadelphia, Dec. 8 or 9. PINCHOT AND LEWIS SECRETLY DISCUSS ENDING COAL STRIKE PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 11.—In an effort to “mediate” the coal strike, which is entering its 12th week, Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania com- pleted a secret two-hour “breakfast conference” here today with John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, and left in ex- cellent spirits for Harrisburg where he will hold a similar conferente tomor- row with W. W. Inglis, spokesman for the coal operators. Observers of the coal situation noted that these tactics were similar to those undertaken by the governor when he betrayed the 1923 coal strike. Governor Pinchot declined to make public what occurred during the con- ference. Miners who fear Lewis is agreeing to surrender the wage demand of a ten per cent raise are demanding that Lewis publicly reveal why he entered into secret conference with their enemy, Governor Pinchot, \thracite but all over America as well. ReallyMeans—Go Back to Work, With this cry of substitutes, is going |the demand for resumption of opera- ition of the coal mines, pending a set- tlement of the dispute, and a demand for arbitration, which I will discuss in my next article. | Every effort is being made to scare the hard coal miners back to work, and this propaganda about substitutes is |calculated to cause a resumption of op- eration of the mines. The operators \know that if the miners go back to | work pending a settlement, arbitration will have been accomplished and the miners’ strike lost. NO EXCITEMENT ON ARMISTICE DAY IN CAPITAL (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Novy. 11— There was no special observance of armistice day in the national capitol today. Everything ‘went on as usual and the unknown soldier who, four years ago today, was buried at Ar- lington in the Virginia hills, amidst great pomp with the stricken ex-pres- ident, Wilson, in attendance and the late Harding officiating, was practic- ally forgotten. The unknown soldier, like others, in all entente nations, is supposed to symbolize the unknown war dead so that all the war widows and war mothers can derive vicarious satis- faction from the thot that he might be their dead, and to perpetuate the notion that there is something heroic about being slaughtered in an imper- ialist war. Drab Commemoration. When Coolidge motored to Arling- ton to place the customary wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier, he was accompanied only by the secre- taries of war and navy and his wife, who placed a cross on the tomb, Of course, there were movie photograph- ers to take pictures so the yokels in the village movies could see the re- plica of the performance, The Russian Rev- olution by Willlam Z. Foster THE REVOLUTION Through the Rus- sian Revolution by Albert Rhys Williams Williams was a sympathetic spectator KU KLUX KEAN DEFENDANT I PROVED LIAR Alibi Knocked Out in Marder Trial (Special to. The Daily Worker) NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Nov. 11.— Earl Klinck, one of the trio of ku kluxers on trial here for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer’ in one of the most revolting crimes in the annals of the country, was proved to be a liar and perjurer on the witness stand today. Klinck tried to prove an alibi based upon his story that om the day he was supposed to have taken Miss Ober- holtzer from D. C. Stephenson’s garage to her home he was in reality in his capacity as deputy sheriff, tak- ing three prisoners from the Marion county jail to the Indiana state prison farm, Prisoners Prove Lie. The three pisoners, Peter Major, Thomas Tuttle and Harry Mescall, testified that another députy, “Red” Koffal, had taken them to the prison and that Klinck was not with them at all. Officials at the prison testified to the same effect. Klinck is on trial with Earl Gentry and their ringleader, D, C. Stephen- son, the leader of the klan in In- diana and Ohio, charged with the murder of the girl after committing a series of bestial assaults upon her of such depraved nature that the evi- dence presented against these “de- fenders of womanhood” cannot be printed. FIGHT OVER TAX PLAN WILL RISE IN NEXT CONGRESS Attempts to Reach Com- promise Fail (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D.°C., Nov. 11—In spite of the lopping off of $300,000,000 from the Mellon-Coolidge tax propos- als a fight the r of the house when co: convenes is unavoid- able. Powerful 1 | the repub- lican in the M to further reduce the revenue from taxes another 75 or 100 million. The democratic party is a unit against the proposals ‘of the president and secretary of the treasury, not be- cause they represent the,small taxpay- ers, but because they, want an issue that can be used as a base of opera- tions against Coolidge. The republi- can opposition represents very definite economic groupings among the small industrialists of the middle and far west who resent the héavy income faxes imposed upon them. This will be the first) fight in the coming congress and ,all elements ‘claim it will be settled by Christmas in order to be effective in the 1925 tax, Enough Remains. Representative Madden of Illinois, chairman of the powerful appropria- tons committee, states that the house jcould raise the cut to 350,000,000, or even higher and still not unduly dis- turb the treasury. The watch-dogs of ‘capitalism are careful not to cut too much revenue off the tax bills else it might endanger the maintenance of a sufficiently pow- erful oppressive government to keep the workers in subjection and defend abroad the interests of the imperialist masters of the country, No matter which group they repre- sent in congress, they are united in one question—the workers must be held in slavery to! thé capitalists. Strike Ruining the Hospital Business in Anthracite Field (Continued from page 1) losing their revenues and income due to this strike. dp The following is taken from the Wilkes-Barre Times-Lveader of Tues- day, November 3, 1925, bemoaning the fact they are losing out also due to the strike. i “This most acute ’situation will probably be remedied, but it serves to prove the seriousness of the shortage here. Both Mercy and Wilkes-Barre General Hospitals are feeling the pinch of the strike thru a curtailment of thelr revenues re- celved in cormpensation for mine ac- cident cases. In the case of the Here is hot only a history of the Rus- sian revolution, but also many interest- ing sidelights, all enlivened by personal accounts of the author's varied exper- jences in Soviet Russia. Written by an outstafiding figure in the American labor movement—and a book that should be in every worker's library. Paper, 50 Cents DAILY WO PUBLISHING COM 1113. W. WASHINGTON BLVD, of the first hectic year of the revolution. He tells an intriguing and graphic sto of the revolutionary crisis and the su sequent counter-revolutionary in ons. The addition of interesting photographs and color plates of posters issued during this period, add greater value and at- tractiveness to the book. Chleago = TL. Cloth, $2.00 latter institution, it was officially stated that the loss of General Hos- pital is about $3,500 a month, id with Mercy Hospital the loss is said to be more than $3,000.” strates how little is the life of a hu- man being worth in the anthracite mining region. It Is apparent they do not care or wish workers well but regard the re from an eco- nomic standpoint aldo, that while it} and Manuél Roxas, spe ! lasts their ‘@ curtailed, ‘ By J. LOUIS tion from the skies upon the are planning to * * killed from the air when they Mercenary U. S. Airmen in Morocco Are Planning Return to This Country return home. squadron, in which they were enrolled as volunteers, is being disbanded and these Hessians of this modern imperialist war may now return to Paris and New York. ENGDAHL. ODAY, the American mercenaries, who joined the aviators on the French side in Morocco to hurl death and destruc- heads of the rebellious Riffs, The so-called Sheriffian * * Let the wrath of American labor fall upon these murder- ers of the men, women and children of North Africa, who know that the Riff defenders had no planes to return the attack or send in pursuit. The American jingo press will hail as heroes these craven cowards upon their return to the United States. thousands of wo*kers demonstrate against them upon the Let waterfront wherev ¥ they may set foot upon these shores again. On huge placards and banners, held aloft over the heads of the demonstrators, so that all the world may see, let the story of their many crimes be told in words that live and flame. The news dispatches say that their work has been com- * * ples to scatter for their lives. States. * * pleted, “for the time being at least.” Their work of butchery! They won the highest praise from the French hangmen, lead- ing the war against the Moroccans, for their two months of shedding blood. They dropped 49 tons of bombs upon the “enemy”; not upon soldiers able to fight back, but upon old men, women and children., They tell of their success in their own words thru the admission that the entire civilian popu- lation had deserted the villages and fled to the mountains. They argue that it wasn’t bad for these peoples to be driven from their homes, because they are nomads anyway, and accustomed to roam the deserts and the hills. * * Let American workers make it so uncomfortable for these killers in the United States that they will be compelled to leave the land and seek shelter elsewhere. wander the face of the earth as they forced the Riffian peo- Force them to Let American labor declare its solidarity with the op- pressed colonial peoples of North Africa by showing that crinjes committed against the peoples of Morocco are equally attacks upon the working and farming masses of the United ° o:* ‘ ____ In apology for their many murderous deeds, these Amer- ican airmen declare that, “the French are now waging in Morocco the most humane war in history.” This contention bares completely the depravity of the killer caught with blood still warm upon his hands. The French imperialists have shown how they wage colonial wars by the fiendish massacre of thousands in Syria, especially in Damascus. The war in Morocco is_no different, except that the French hire- & fig ~ _ Solidari whether of Fi rd soldiers have found their more than equals in the brave ters led by Abd-el-Krim. The Syrians are learning. oy ie * of American worker: wit i nce or Great Britain a esedae ae Ont and especially the United States, develops the unity of toil the world around, the unity that spells the doom of capitalist imperialism everywhere. LADIES’ GARMENT UNION OFFICIAL AT PURCELL MEET Joint Board Head Will Speak on Unity NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Louis Hy- man, general manager New York joint board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers of the city of New York will speak at the Purcell meet- ings which have been arranged in this city. Two meetings will be held at which Purcell will be the principal speaker, The huge demand for tickets has forced the trade union commit- tee to hire two tremendous halls for the evening of Tuesday, Nov. 17, the New Star Casino and the Central Opera House. World Trade Union Unity ‘The theme of the meetings will be the topic which is stirring the masses of the workers thruout the world to- day—the topic of world trade union unity. It will be remembered that Purcell was one of the principal fac- tors in promoting the cordial relations between the English and the Russian trade unions. He was a member of the delegation which recently visited Russia and issued the report which has been so widely read thruout the labor movement thruout the world. When the report of the delegation to +ions can be forced to make. ions.” Mr, A. B, Swales, the presi- dent of the congress, in his address, emphasized this point in the following emphatic way: “When economic con- ditions forced the ynions to assume a defensive attitude, the employers did not hesitate to take advantage of their stronger position, and they are still plotting and planning to under- mine trade union standards. But there is a limit to the concessions the un- Union policy henceforth will. be to recover lost ground, to re-establish and im- Prove our standards of wages, hours and working conditions, and to co- ordinate and intensify trade union action for the winning of a larger measure of control in industry for the workers, And this policy renders ne- cessary a greater degree of trade union unity.” Union Conference Sunday Purcell is at present touring thru- out the United States and is being enthusiastically received in every city where meetings have been arranged. It is very evident from the reception being given to Purcell that the masses of the toilers are behind him in his mission for promoting world trade’ union unity. The trade union commit- tee for organizing the Purcell meeting has arranged for its final conference before the big mass meetings. This conference to which a number of addi- tional ynions are sending delegates will be held on Sunday, November 15th, at 3 p. m, at Beethoven Hall. Delay Springfield Air Mail. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Nov. 11.—Pros- pects for an early air mail service Russia was submitted at the Scarbor-| Dect: ough conference it was approved un- animously and the following resolu- tion was adopted by acclamation: “This congress records appreciation of the general council's efforts to promote international unity, and urges the incoming general council to do everything, in their power towards se- curing world-wide unity of the trade union movement thru an all-inclusive international federation of trade un- for Springfield went glimmering to- day with announcement from the Rob- ertson Aircraft corporation of St. Louis, to which the post office depart- ment awarded the air mail contract, that it would be unable to start its fliers before April, 1926. Worker Correspondence will make The DAILY WORKER a better paper —send in a story about your shop. PHILIPPINES DEMAND THAT U. S. KEEP PROMISE OF INDEPENDENCE MANILA, P. I, Nov. 11—The Philippine house today passed the senate plebiscite bill substituting the word “immediate” for “six years.” The meas- ure provides for a popular vote on independence from the United States. ‘The above spasm concretely demon-| th» Philippines were promised self-government in the Jones act, and the only interference with them getting It is that of Governor-General Wood and his constabulary. A legislative committee was then appointed to visit America to work for | independence, It will be headed by Manuel Quezon, ‘president of the senate headed by Senator Osme: Lt 4 r of the house. A group is already in America WOBBLIES PUT SKIDS UNDER UNIVERSALISM Adopt Sliding Scale of Finances The 17th general convention of the 1, W. W. is demonstrating that on some fields at least it is not afraid to lay hands on sacred mistakes and traditional folly by putting the word finis on the theory that any member gould step right in to any official position, secretary or editor, and func- tion right. At Wednesday’s session the dele- gates voted to make it definite that officials, elected each year, can be allowed to hold office for three years —so as to learn how to run the of- fice before they leave it. Some few kind words for Bill Haywood were elicited by the debate on the matter, who “held office for years and did good work,” Sliding Scale Adopted Another rather progressive step which did violence to tradition is the adoption, subject to referendum, or course, of a sliding scale of initia- tions and dues, initiations to be from one doflar to ten and the dues from fifty cents to a dollar, according to the sum fixed by the various indus- trial unions internally, Dollar dues was the sum adopted by nearly all industrial union conven- tion held in preparation for this gen- eral convention. The report on finances of the gen- eral organization given Tuesday re- vealed a mild scandal concerning the taking by P. J. Welinder, interim gen- eral secretary-treasurer and member of the general executive board prior to his resignation not long ago, of mileage amounting some $80 on the ground that it was his fare back to Seattle where he came from. It ap- pears that instead of using it for that purpose, he used it to take a trip to Sweden, presumably distiking the climate of the Pacific northwest. The convention also recommended, without making it mandatory, that all the industrial unions with headquart- ers in various cities should move into the building housing the general head- quarters, New York Labor Defense Scores the . Jailing of Gitlow (Continued from page 1) full and free discussion of political issues which is a fundamental of de- mocracy. From the legal point of view, it is a case where a man has received, during the ‘period of un- usual popular excitement following the close of the war, too severe a sentence for a crime involving no moral turpitude. One of the prevail- ing opinions in the court of appeal stated that the judge of that court recognized that the sentence may have been too heavy for the offense. He has already served over two years in prison.’ and “WHEREAS, the Gitlow case is but the last survival of this same conviction from which all of the other defendants were pardoned, the pardon not being applied to Benjamin Gitlow because his case was at the time being made a test for appeal to the supreme court, and “WHEREAS, he has already served a longer term than any of those con- victed with him, therefore be it “RESOLVED, that we protest against and condemn the action of the United States supreme court; demand the repeal of the criminal anarchy law and will work to that end; record ourselves as in support of the Inter- national Labor Defense m fighting this case and call upow all labor bodies and working olass organiza- tions of any sort to take the same stand. Be it further “RESOLVED, that we petition the governor of the state of New York to immediately free the defendant, and be it further “RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be sent to the governor of the state of New York and to the labor press, FEATURE STORIES COMING! Wm. F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, is ed in the anthracite coal eld, Within the next day or two, will come from the pen of this brilliant wriver, stories of conditions ag he finds them: The strike situation, the union, wag conditions, etc.—another series, that added to the present one now ea) Ld Alex Reid, secre! ie Progres- sive Miners’ Committee, will give a complete ple- ture of one of America’s great industries, A good time to order a bundle and