The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1925, Page 3

MACHINIST HEAD STOLE VOTES IN GREEN BAY, WIS. Johnston ‘Agent Fakes Election Returns WASHINGTON, Nov: 11. — J. F Anderson, former vice-president of the rath Assn, of Machinists, now appeal ing to the membership for removal of the suspension order issued against him by his recent adversary in the grand lodge election, Wm, H, John ston, president, has made public another affidavit, This one is from the! seoretary of the lodge at Green Bay, Wisc., assert» ing that he did not tamper with the ballots or tally sheets, but that the stuffing of the lodge’s vote in favor of the Johnston ticket was done after a Johnston grand lodge agent, Paul Huybrecht, was entrusted with the mailing of the ballots and tally ‘sheet. He offers a comparison of the actual vote with the one reported at Wash- ington headquarters, whereby it ap- pears that Huybrecht’s own vote was boosted from 100 to 181, Johnston’s from 92 to 168, Davison’s from 100 to 176, and all others on their ticket in similar degree. Opposition candidates were given reductions, Three tellers certify to the same set of statements. Negro Congress Is Ku Kluxers’ Scheme, Delegate Is Warned By A Worker Correspondent CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 11.—A mass meeting of Negro workers will be call- ed here in the near future to carry out plans for organizing colored work- ers, as the result of the return home of the local delegate to the Negro Labor Congress recently held in Chicago. And this, despite the fact.that the delegate was met at the train by fiunkeys of local capitalism and warn- ed that white workers who were sym- pathetic to the Negro Labor Congress were ku kluxers. The opposition of these capitalist morons to the unionizing of the color- ed workers made the workers deter- mined to push their organization. MINER BLACKLISTED FOR SELLING PAPERS; SICK AND NEEDS AID Comrade Tony Stanfi of Mystic; la, is making a brave fight for a chance to live, He is a miner stricken with paralysis,—but despite this attempting to find work to keep him supplied with food. Besides, he has no overcoat and his clothes are thread-bare: For thirty-two weeks, he has been without work, yet can get no ald from the unlon. Militant to the last, however, he will make another appeal at this ‘Thureday’s union meeting that he be given a job or unemployment rellef. ‘The fact that he has distributed the DAILY WORKER |s the reason given by the unlon president for Comrade Stanfi’s belng put on, the blacklist, “It you think to send me any help, please send it by return mail,—! need It very bad,” writes Comrade Stanfi. “Yes, | beg some relief again In my bitter need. And might the local union membership, not the officials, take stepe to correct the Injustice that Is done to me In de- priving me of my living so many long months! “The doctor says that {| must not worry, but keep smiling,—the doctor Is ‘bunk,’ “Yours in misery and suffering, Tony Stanfi * P. 0. Box 444 Mystic, la. Sears Roebuck Has 25,000. Working Now; Highest Wage Is $27 By S. Heller. (Worker Correspondent) Twenty-five thousand are now em- ployed at the Sears Roebuck and Co., as it is the mail order rush season. Need for organization is strongly felt here, especially to resist wage cuts. New methods of reduction are con- tinually being worked out, tho there is no system of increasing wages. No matter if a man works here 10 years, there is no difference made in his pay. If he is married he gets $27 a week, first and last. And the boss will snap up a chance to displace a married man with a single man, as the latter only gets MILL STRIKERS. TIE-UP FACTORY Loomfixers and Twisters Join Weavers phar By ALBERT WEISBORD. WEST NEW YORK, N. J, Nov: 11— The strike at the Hillerest Silk Mill has now reached the end of its sec: ond week and finds the strikers more firm and with better spirit than even before, Masa picketing is being con ducted each morning with better and better spirit. The few people working in the mill—mostly relatives of the boss—have dwindled down to only three. No scabs can be procured that can stand the persuasion of the strik- ers, The moment the first scab walks in, all of the loomfixers who belong to thelr own independent organization, walked out leaving the boss flat on his back. The twisters thave joined the strikers altho they had no demands to make immediately. Yesterday for the first time, twisters, loomfixers and weavers could be seen meeting in one council of the workers, Boss Threatened Worker. The boss is worried. He has sent letters to the workers to come to work, but they have laughed at his effort to frighten them to his face. He has sent his foremen around to the strikers’ homes but his efforts were in vain, Yesterday he sent “concil- liators” around. The workers decided if they came with any concrete pro- posals from the boss they would talk and if they have no real offers to make, they were to slam the door. The workers know that the “federal | conciliators” are only tools of the bosses. The big problem is to broaden the strike and the united front committee of Hudson county is already on the} job to arrange for mass meetings, dances, socials, etc., for the relief of the strikers, should it be needed, and also to bring home the message of the strike to all the silk workers of Hud- son county and to build up a more powerful united front of the workers against the united front of the bosses. Workers Party Aids Strikers. ‘The Workers Party arranged to have all-the strikers attend the No- vember, 7th celebration and all the workers were very glad to get tick- A THEADAILY WORKER Page Three emanate remenmnmemenenenemintnemnr ener mes RO ate a mma 'S FAMILY BURNS TO QEATH; CAUGHT IN APARTMENT HOUSE FIRE (Speclal to The Dally Worker) EAST ORANGE, N. J., Nov, 11.-— Five persons were burned to death when flames swept thelr apartment on the third floor of a six-story frame dwelling at 400 Amherst St. early today. The victims, a father and ‘his four children, were trapped In their bedroom. The mother escaped death by leaping into the arms of a nelgh- bor, with one of her bables In her arms. Seismograph Records Intense Earthquake NEW YORK, Nov, 11—An earth- quake of more than usual intensity was recorded on the selsmograph of Fordham University. Estimates placed the scene of the disturbance approximately 6,000 miles from New | York, The disturbance began at 9.25 and continued until after eleven o'clock, reaching its greatest intensity at 10.05 a.m, To Spend $75,000,000 on Educational Program SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 11—Chile is seriously considering the expenditure of $75,000,000 for an educational pro- gram which will take in the construc: tion of school buildings and remodel- ing of the old ones. Traveling Art how. MOSCOW, (Tass.) Nov. 11— An itinerant exhibition is being arrang- ed in Siberia, consisting of paintngs, engravings, sculptures and also ar- ticles of the applied arts, such as wood carvings, metallic designs, em- broideriés, etc. The exhibition isto visit the prin- cipal towns of Siberia. It is being organiz under the auspices of the leading pSiberian artists. , | SS ‘o Buy 65,000 Horses. MOSCOW, (Tass) Nov. 11. — The commis: tt of agriculture proposes to At twelve million rubles for purchasing 65,000 horses to supply peasants in 1925-26. POLICE HAVE NO ‘RIGHT TO ARREST WITHOUT WRITS Citizens Can Resist Illegal Search When minions of the law attempt unlawful arrests and are so bold as to point thelr pistols, they may be killed and there {s no punishment, declared Attorney Michael Ahern, in his speech before the jury in the trial of the two Genna gunmen, Albert Alselm{ and John Scealisi, for the kill- ing of two Chicago policemen, “Olson and Walsh (the. two police- men who were shot by the Genna gang) when they leaped out of that car with guns in their hand, put them- selves in a position where the de- fendants had a right to shoot them,” stated Ahern as he turned around to Pick up a number of lawbooks to Prove his contention. Must Have Warrant. He then qudted a decision of the United States supreme court in the case of a Chicago gunman “getting” a policeman, that the circumstances under which an officer may arrest without a warrant are when, he wit- nesses the commission of a mis- demeanor, or when he has knowledge of.a felony and sees the perpetrator. He must know beyond question that his man is guilty before he may ar- rest him. Crowe Plays “Big.” State’s Attorney Crowe, who always furnishes trial spectators with much amusement in his attempt to make himself appear as the “defender” of “law and order,” chimed in with, “What if Marty Durkin were to go automobile riding and a policeman saw him, but was not quite positive of his identity, could not the police man seize him?” “If the policeman did not know that the man was Durkin,” Ahern shot back, “the man would have a perfect right to tell the officer it was none of his damn business.” Falls Into Cistern. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Nov. 11.— Miss Anna Wilson, 58, accidentally lost her life at the home of a friend near Coggon, Ia., when she slipped in- N. Y. Superintendent of Schools Would Tax Wealth for Education ALBANY, N: Y., Nov. 11.—The gov- ernor of New York again holds out the lure of an increase in salaries to school teachers, At a conference of 150 educators, legislators and school authorities of the state which met with Governor Smith, he appointed a committee to work out a program of school legislation and finance to be presented to the 1926 session of the legislature, Stewart Browne, representative of real estate owners, immediately began objecting to any increase in taxes on real estate ‘property. Dr, William J. O'Shea, superinten- dent of education, showed his annoy- ance with Browne saying that that gentleman always tried to be funny, “If yeal estate owners were taxed to provide additional aid for the schools,” he said, “it would be the poor who would be forced to pay. The landlords would pass the increase along to the tenants. I do not,sub- scribe to this policy. I believe that additional moneys should ‘come from the wealthy. Tax luxuries for the money.” Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.84 6-16; cable 4.84 11-16. France, franc, demand 3.93;. cable 3.931%. Belgium, franc, 4.52%; cable 4.53. Italy, lira, demand 3.97%; cable 3.98. Sweden, krone, de- mand 26.73; cable 26.76. Norway, krone, demand 20.00; cable 20.02, Den- mark, krone, demand 24.62; cable 24.64. Germany, mark, not quoted. Shanghai, taels, demand 78.75. Johnson Pleads Guilty. NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Henry Wil- son Johnson, formerly superintendent of the children’s home of the Long Island Baptist Association, unexpect- edly appeared in supreme court in Brooklyn today and pleaded guilty to criminally attacking Elizabeth Sul- livan, 13 years old, one of the inmates of the home. Another Cancer Treatment. TORONTO, Noy. 11.—Successful treatment of cancer by a chemical agent of lead was announced today to the Toronto Academy of Science, by Professor W. Clair Bell of Liverpool, England. Professor Bell declared that in sev- Your néighbor will appreciate the favor—give him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. $25 a week, that is, if he is above 25 years old. If under that he may get $22 or $18. -The Movement This is the fourth instalment of a series of articles dealing with the question of World Trade Union Unity. This instalment deals with the British Workers and International Trade Union Unity. Following instalments will deal with the Communists and World Trade Union Unity, and the American Federation of Labor and Unity. The British Workers and International Trade Union Unity. HY is it that the British trade unions are the first to join W hands with the Russian trade unions in the struggle for in- ternational trade union unity? The answer is: The decline of British capitalism, and the growing knowledge of the British workers that the economic crisis which has gripped Britain since the war is insoluble within the limits of capitalism—without breaking the capitalist grip on the industries and organizing production on a socialist bascis. In the basic industries the decline of British capitalism is clearly shown. In 1913 Britain exported 98,000,000 tons of coal while in 1924 she exported only 61,650,000 tons, and this figure includes the exports to Ireland not included in the 1913 figures. Compared with 1923, the 1924 export showed a decrease of 17,- 000,000 tons. For the first four months of 1925, 7,000,000 less coal was exported than for the corresponding period of 1924. The British output of steel fell from 8,500,000 tons in 1923, to 8,200,000 in 1924, which figure is only slightly higher than the steel production fifty years ago. The annual report of Vickers Co., great steel corporation of Britain, has the following to say on-this subject: “I quote the figures for the production of steel because steel is the best index of the state of our engineering and shipbuilding industries, and because these figures show that our country is the only industrial country which is passing thru a period of depres- sion in this respect. We have long lost that foremost place we occupied fifty years ago. , . We have no chance of recovering our predominant position,” "3 We know the important part shipbuilding plays in the eco- nomic life of Great Britain, Shipbuilding is also on the decline, The tonnage of vessels under construction fell from 1,297,000 tons at the end of 1924 to 1,165,000 at the present time, This decline ~ becomes striking when it is remembered that in 1913 vessels were being constructed in British yards to a total of 1,898,000 tons annum representing 59 per cent of the world ship construction, At the present time the amount of vessels being built in Britain is less than 50 per cent of the world tonnage, The textile industry is also declining, In April of this year Sir Charles Macara stated that the loss incurred by the cotton industry since the beginning of the crisis amounted to about £ 200,000,000. The decline in industry means an increase in unemployment. Since the beginning of the crisis the number of unemployed has hovered around a million, and at the present time {s 1,500,000. The number unemployed in May, 1926, was 1,178,800, as com~ pared with 1,040,600 the previous year, According to the Ministry of Labor Gazette out of the eleven and a half million insured work- ers at the end of March, 1926, the number of unemployed amounted to 11.47 per cent, ‘ The standard of living of the British workers has declined al- tho the money wage has increased, Altho wages as compared with 1914 have nominally increased by about 45 cent for metal workers generally, and from 70 to 75 per cent for other workers, they have actually fallen because during that ope the index of prices has risen by 80 per cent to the end of 1924, In the mining industry 400 mines have been closed down and there is no prospect of them ever opening again, About 160,000 i ers are unemployed with no of em) in the 1a vate unemployed prospect playmant. { M ‘ ets. Much enthusiasm marked the announcement that part of the pro- ceeds would go to the strike fund. The well known English economist places the national in- come of Britain in 1800 at £174,000,000 and in 1920 at £4,000,- 000,000, or 28 times more. Sir Josiah Stamp calculated the na- tional wealth in 1919 as £15,023,000,000. «Prof. Henry Clay, of Manchester University, declares that two-thirds of the national wealth was in the hands of less than two ‘per cent of the popula- tion. |” Regarding the physical fitness of the British working class, Pretnier Baldwin stated in a recent speech that of eight volunteers to the army, five are rejected on grounds of physical unfitness. Regarding remedies for unemployment the minister of labor, Steel Maitland, in a recent speech, during the debate on unem- ployment in the house of commons, stated: “Therefore, when people like General Thompson with impatient insistence asked what schemes have been prepared, we reply that none have been prepared, that there are no schemes to prepare.” : This amounts to an official admission by a spokesman of the British capitalists that they cannot solve the problem of unem- ployment. 2 The decline of British industry is caused by (1) The effects of the world war and the peace-burden of debts, increased French competition by use of reparation coal and Alsace-Lorraine iron ore. (2) The growth of capitalist industry in the colonies such as India and the dominions such as Canada and Australia, competing with British industry because these countries now ex- port commodities themselves. (3) The increased competition of the United States. The exploitation of cheap labor in the textile mills of Bom- If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. bay throws thousands of textile workers into the streets in Lan-} cashire, The growth of great capitalist enterprises thruout the empire causes the starvation and misery of the British workers. In the past the imperialist psychology of great numbers of the British workers had an economic basis in the fact that the super- profits derived from the exploitation of under-paid colonial slaves was used to supply them with a comparatively high standard of living, The skilled workers—the aristocracy of labor—were im- perialists to the backbone. But today the British capitalists, burdened by taxation growing out of the effects of the war and the curtailment of industry, can no longer afford to bribe these workers with better wages and conditions as in the period of capitalist expansion prior to the world war. The significance of the recent wage conflicts in Britain les in the fact that it was the wages of skilled workers—the railroad workers, engineers Tland building workers that the bosses attacked. Recently Mr. Stanley Machin, prominent member of the British Chamber of Commerce, stated that the wages of the 9,000,000 workers in the “sheltered” trades must, be reduced. By “sheltered” trades he means the highly skilled workers organized in unions who occu- pied a privileged position so far as wages and hours are concerned. These hard economic facts are the basis of the radicalization of the British labor movement. Besides this the British workers have gone thru great political experiences which are enlighten- ing millions of them to their class position in society, In 1920 the Polish war on Soviet Russia was supported by the Lloyd George government, and Churchill was planning to de- clare war on the workers’ republic and crush it, All over the coun- try the workers organized councils of action to prevent “war on Soviet Russia, Lloyd George wag forced to abandon the offensive and declared sickly that ‘the councils of action were swinging at an empty door with a sledgehammer,” attempting to pretend that it was never intended to declare war on Soviet Russia. But the workers saw what could be accomplished by united action. In 1921 the attack of the mine owners on the wages of the miners made the question of the triple alliance of miners, railroad- men and transport. workers going into action together one of practical importance; The workers were defeated by the “Black to an open cistern. Friends found her body head downward in several feet of water. eral instances the treatment had remarkable results. UPTON SINCLAIR SCORES GOV. OF CALIFORNIA Points Out Taft’s Book to Aid C. S. Victims 1. L. D. News Service. Governor Friend W. Richardson din California is not a slave to public opinion tho he is not known to be #0 cold to suggestions coming from that section of society that derives its in- come from exploiting the many, Richardson’s contempt for public opinion was learned when he replied to a letter written by the noted novel- ist, Upton Sinclair, appealing to the governor to pardon Charlotte Anita Wh!tney, who was convicted under the criminal syndicalism law of the state of California and whose conviction was upheld by the United States su- preme court, in its refusal to accept jurisdiction on her appcal Claims He Enforces all Laws. In his reply to Sinclair, Governor Richardson declared that he was in receipt of letters and telegrams ask- ing for pardon for Miss Whitney, The governor disclaims responsibility for passing the law but asserts that he has taken an oath to support all laws winding up with the statement that: “It is my duty to stand up for the laws and to protect society, and I will not issue pardons merely because of popular clamor.” To which Sinclair replied: “I am deeply touched by the gov- ernor’s loyalty to the code of laws of this state, but I would like to ask the governor, as a practical man, how many thousand laws there are on the statute books which he does not en- force and which he has entirely for- gotten. Better Read Taft’s Book, “I would like to remind him also, upon the highest possible authority, that of Chief Justice Taft of the United States supreme court, that the ‘eat bulk of the laws of this coun- t¥y are enforced in the interest of the rich and not in the interest of the poor. Governor Richardson has, per- haps, not read Justice Taft’s book, en- titled, ‘Justice and the Poor”; I ask him to read it.” The International Labor Defense is conducting a campaign for the release of Miss Whitney and all other vic- tims of the California syndicalist laws. World Trade Union Unity By Tom Bell ing to cgush them. Troops were quartered in the public parks, navy crews were used to man mine pumps, an automobile trans- port service was organized—all the forces at the disposal of the bosses were mobilized to defend the workers. The capitalist state was openly revealed to the workers as the organized instru- ment of oppression of the bosses against them. In 1924 the British labor party elected the strongest single group to the house of commons. The split between the liberals and the conservatives was so great that they could not unite to form a coalition government with the result that MacDonald formed a minority government. Since the beginning of this century the British workers had been educated to rely upon the formation of a labor government as the means of conquering capitalism. The theory of the peace- ful development of capitalism into socialism by means of constitu- tional action as opposed to harsh Bolshevik methods had been thoroughly hammered into their heads. The advent of the Mac- Donald government contributed to their political education by somewhat destroying their faith in the “inevitability of gradual- ism” to use the phrase of Sidney Webb, the “theoretician” of the labor party. e MacDonald government continued the imperialist policy of its capitalist predecessors, Plans were laid for building more cruisers, Macedonian villages were bombed, the Indian masses threatened with terrible reprisals if they dared to challenge Brit- ish rule in India, and the Egyptian nationalist movement sup- pressed, e In internal policy MacDonald pursued capitalist strikebreak- ing methods when he threatened to smash The longshoremen’s strike with force. Philip Snowden’s budget was praised by the capitalist press. No more subservient creatures had ever kissed the king’s hand than these “labor men,” and the workers began to doubt. The energy and devotion of hundreds of thousands of workers had gone to make this MacDonald government possible—and they were rewarded by seeing “their” government pursue the old capitalist policy of keeping the workers and ¢olonial peoples in subjection to the capitalists. As Zinoviev has put it: While the MacDonald labor govern- mem in no way served the Interests of the British working class, the very establishment of such a government gave the British workers a “taste of power” and this has been signalized by the quite definite sweep toward the left on the part of the masses of the British trade unions. Owing to the terrible economic conditions of the British workers they have broken away from their conservative moor- ings and are rapidly moving to the left. The question of how to], combat the capitalist offensive and at least maintain the standard of living of the British workers forced the leaders of the move- Friday” betrayal of Thomas, Hodges & Cg, in calling off the|ment to take up the question of abandoning the policy of class struggle, strike of the sciee Linea Gi But the workerg. added to their rt perience: by, seeing Gearge put the county an a& War or} >t 2 callabofation and to move toward policy class * ¥ GTa be Continued ket ~~ JEWISH BUTCHERS OF LOS ANGELES OUT TO ORGANIZE Launch New Drive for 100 Pct. Union By A Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov, 10.—A delegate from the Central Labor Coun: cil of Los Angeles, M. R. Grunoff, one of the vice-presidents of the Amalga- mated Butchers of North America, walked up to a group of Jewish butch- ers here one day and said, “Boys, will you help me organize a Jewish Butch- ers’ Union in Los Angeles?” That question started what is now known as the Los Angeles Jewish Butchers’ Local 326. The concrete achievements from cir- culars immediately distributed among Jewish butchers and notices in the Jewish newspapers inviting all Jewish butchers to come to a mass meeting tor the purpose of organizing for bet- ter wages, shorter hours and better conditions, is demonstrated by the union cards that adorn the windows of 17 newly organized Jewish butcher shops. But the Jewish butchers tho prond of their accomplishments do not pro- pose to stop here. Our aim is to or ganize thé entire city of Los Angeles. There is a Jowish population of 100,- 000 in Los Angeles, We therefore urge every Jewish housewife to stand by us {n ourorganization drive, Espectal- ly do ‘we make our appeal to the Wo- men Consumers’ Educational League to put their shoulder to the wheel and help the butchers come thru 100 per cent organized, We can do this if the women will help! When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor row—show them what the