The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1925, Page 1

THE The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 261// 6 ? 4 o We - Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, a Sy For The Dany Worker! Our Paper in Danger of Suspension Unless Immediate and Redoubled Help Comes } | HE DAILY WORKER, its plant and building in the hands of | its creditors thru court action, would mean a calamity for the | Communist movement in the United States. That danger is star- ing The DAILY WORKER in the face. \ | It is an immedate danger. UnleSs all the members of the | party and the sympathizers with our cause rally to the defense | of The DAILY WORKER thru a redoubled effort and quick action to send funds, that danger may be a reality during the coming week, gear situation has come about because of the failure to rally quickly enough the support of the funds to save The DAILY WORKER. A working class paper, particularly, a Communist paper, cainnot be published daily without a deficit. Last year we made up the deficit of The DAILY WORKER thru raising a $30,- 000 “Insure The DAILY WORKER for 1925” fund. As a con- sequence of this magnificent support for The DAILY WORKER, the paper went thru until September without further appeals. Now it is necessary to raise $40,000 to liquidate the accumulated debts and insure the publication of our paper for another year. The situation which now exists is that Per agi Ai paper, for raw material and the wages in the printing plant have ac- daruiated and must be met: The DAILY WORKER must deal with capitalist institutions which have the power to go into court if The DAILY WORKER does not meet its obligations. HE situation is that there are accumulated obligations with T the business concerns with which The DAILY WORKER deals which demand payment immediately. If they do not get payment they have recourse to the courts. The Central Executive Committee of the party believes that it is the loyalty of the members of the party to the institution they have built, The DAILY WORKER, that will prevent such a calamity happening to our movement. What is required is quick and generous support. The party members ant rally en masse to the work of saving The DAILY! WORKER for our movement. Within the next two weeks at least $10,000 in cash must come offices of The DAILY WORKER, to avert the catas- trop! erat i be followed ‘by additional sums during the succeeding two weeks to make the total funds needed'to save and insure The DAILY WORKER... This is a heavy task but it is not an impossible task for those who are the vanguard of the Ameri- ean revolutionary movement and who have built The DAILY WORKER and have supported it so splendidly in the past. The Central Executive Committee of the party has taken all the possible steps to mobilize the resources of the party to save The DAILY WORKER. However, all that has been done to secure funds immediately will not help unless the party membership finishes the task by rushing immediate donations to The DAILY WORKER and raising the $10,000 needed during the next two ed Other Party Papers Involved. T is not only the life of The DAILY WORKER which is involved in this crisis. There is bound up with The DAILY WORKER the Workers Monthly and the literature department of the party. The printing plant and the home of the party and The DAILY WORKER are involved. The DAILY WORKER plant publishes the papers of the Young Workers League, the South Slavic sec- tion, the Greek section, and the Polish section. The regular appearance of all these papers is involved in the fight to save The DAILY WORKER. A Miracle of Militant Support Needed. HERE is the latent strength in our movement which has never been mobilized which can save The DAILY WORKER but it -must be mobilized now. The party can save The DAILY WORKER if for once it can perform the miracle of mobilizing all its power for the fight for the institution which is the heart of our move- ment. Pay von Every branch secretary must immediately send in all the “funds available. ! nf “Every circulator of The DAILY WORKER coupon lists must ‘send in the money collected. Every party member must send in a contribution direct to The DAILY WORKER—$10, $5, a $1 bill, Comrades and sympathizers who can-make substantial loal for three months are urged to send in $100, $50, $25, repayment of which will be guaranteed by The DAILY WORKER and the party. $ : f - Comrades, Monday's issue of The DAILY WORKER must have at least a page filled with the names and donations of those batepies <4 and un mthisere whe spat acted 7 whe DAILY and who have aided in achieving the miracle o' ing The DA WORKER for the‘ Communist comet : 3 .” Until the catastrophe which faces The DAILY WORKER is averted there is no other work of greater importance for the party than the work on the funds to save The DAILY WORK- We must avert the threatening disaster. Act quickly. Central Executive Committee, 4 wo! ous (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AME C. E, Ruthenberg, General Secretary, # tonnise RICA. Lpe In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. | Union convention opened with an acknowl IS ALE Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at, ‘Post OMce at Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. KAUFMAN MACHINE IN FURRIERS TRIES TO RESCUE ITSELF FROM DEFEAT BY COMMITTEE CONTROL By WILLIAM W, WEINSTONE, (Spec'al to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 12—The third day of the Furriers’ iment by the Kauf- man machine of the blow administered by left wing opposi- tion at yesterday's session in seating Ben Gold, which was a vic- tory of the New York joint board over the international ma- chine. The acknowledgement was grudgingly ade by the appoint- ment of prominent delegates of the New York board as officers of important committees. Gold was made secretary and Gross chairman of the resolutions committee; inchefsky chairman and Gross secretary of the education and organization commit- | tee; Shachtman and Sorkin, joint board délegates, were placed SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, Zz ton the committee on law and constitution, Other delegates p RCE [ fF N were assigned to officers’ re- AT CLEVELAND, 0. Federation of Labor Is Sponsor for Meeting (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Nov. 12.—Albert A. Purcell, president of the Amsterdam International Federation of Trade Unions and fraternal delegate to the! recent American Federation of Labor, convention at Atlantic City from the! British labor unions, received an ova- tion at his meeting in Cleveland at the Engineers’ Auditorium where he spoke on world trade union unity. Cleveland Federation Backs Meet. This meeting was arranged by the Cleveland Federation of Labor and Harry McLaughlin, president of the Cleveland Federation of Labor, acted as chairman of the meeting in which Purcell urged that the workers of all countries unite in a drive against in- ternational capitalism. Purcell outlined the situation of the trade unions in the Variroug countries of Hurope. He showed how the trade union movement in Austria had been split up into three sections, owing to the parcelling up of Austria-Hungary. He showed that the labor movement of Czecho-Slovakai was divided into three different federations, and that in Greecé, Roumania, Poland, Bul- garia and Hungary the trade union moverient is harassed and suppressed. In» Roumania there are 7,000 trade unionists in jail merely for their activities in building up the trade union niovement. In Egypt and Palestine there are the beginnings of trade unions, which are being driven from pillar to post. Tn England there are at least 2,000,- 000 unemployed, including the 1,500,- 000 registered jobless. There are sec- tions of the country where there are thousands of young workers who have left school and have not yet been able to get a position. The state talks about giving these unemployed , a “dole.” That is the sneering word that they use for the unemployment insurance for which the workers fur- nish the funds. When the duke of Westminster gets his hundreds of thousands of pounds. a year, he does not call it a dole, altho he is far less (Continued on Page 2) | avoiding a ports and 6ther committees. Liberality Only Apparent. This appatent liberality is, how- ever, a conegaled policy of diplomacy with which Kaufman hopes to retain control thtif}a maneuver similar to that used ‘by Sigman of the Interna- tional Ladi@s’ Garment Workers’ Union of Migarming the™ opposition, ht and putting thru some deals to patch up a magority against the @learcut left wingers who number about twenty-five in the con- vention and who, together with the anti-Kaufmai elements on the New York joint rd and other sympa- thizers, maK® up a slight majority in the conve: n. In this ‘e, Kaufman is trying to apply the meh adage that He who backward may take a The lef ingers have been watch- ing these meuvers and aimed to force the tht, understanding that Kaufman employing these diplo- matic may ting out vers as a means of get- ‘@ tight corner. Use Mil Schemes Possible, Meyer lon, yellow socialist, ar- rived in the city today, ostensibly to address the ‘convention,.but really to pull wires the Kaufman machine. How far will succeed in the , events will show. _were. devoted to x and suplementary reports of the general executive board. The latter is a special docu- ment against. the New York joint board, distributed to all delegates and then read on the floor with the inten tion of >rejudicing the delegates, attacks Communists. vd Tt containg |a long series of docu ments regarding the joint board of New York and goes back to 1920 to build up, a case against the present board. It contains an attack against the Communists and the usual Sam Gompers concoctions ingenuously got- ten up in 32 pages: _. After reading, the report was re- ferred to the committee controlled by Kaufman elements. Upon Gold’s mo- tion, the committee was instructed to report the next morning. The remain- der of the day was spent in reading the G. E. B. report, which shows how well the machine organizes the unor- ganized. The report brazenly states that in Mount Vernon it spent $2,000 main- taining two organizers to look after a strike of twenty workers and that after three months the strike was cal- led off because—“firms restricted trade. We decided to suspend strike activities temporarily,” The report also claims organization (Continued om page 2) RENT HOMES TO WORKERS AT COST IS DEMAND PRESENTED AT CITY HALL BY DELEGATION OF WORKING WOMEN NEW YORK, Nov, 12.—Members of the United Council of Working Class Women invaded the city hall today to present arguments for city built houses to rent to workers at prices within their means, not above cost. In 1923 the governor's, commission tion in in New York City submitted a especially the workers, Who are the+ real sufferers. This report gave a picture of un- bearable housing conditjons, unsani- tary ‘surroundings .and~- exorbitant rents—it was a damningy indictment Wm. F. Dunne writes the first of a series of ar- ticles from the _anthracite coal fields---in this issue. Read It—Pass It On for investigation of the housing situa- report which aroused the whole city, against the laws that were passed in 1920—for the report proved that those laws failed to reliev@’ the rent and housing crisis. , The united council pointed out in 1923 that the extension of the rent laws to 1926 would not benefit the great masses of workers, furthermore the council declares that the special commission report on rent and hous- ing stands today as correct as it stood in 1923, The rents remain high, the land- lords make few or no repairs, we are compelled to live in unwholesome houses. Firetraps are still the work- ers’ quarters and the ‘workers are still in the grip of the greedy land- lords as they were in the past years, and as they will be in the future un- der the extension of the rent laws. TThe workers cannot pay $20 per room in the newly built tax exempt houses, consequently, three and four families mustellive in three and four rooms, or livelin firetrap tenements. (Contimwed .2 page 2) _ WORKER. Mitnots,-under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1925 <q” ‘HUSK’ GIRL FATHER 1S FREED FOLLOWING JURY DISAGREEMENT IN TRIAL LITTLETON, Colo., Nov. 12—The trial of the elderly country doctor for the murder of his “husk-girl” daughter has come to an end, Dr. Harold Elmer Blazer has been freed of the charge of murder, foliowing a disagreement of the jury. The jury after many hours of battle were unable to reach a ver- diet. Judge Samuel W. Johnson dismissed the jury which had been hopelessly deadlocked for a num- ber of hours. Upon dismissal the statement by the jury showed that but one man had Stood against ac- quittal of the doctor on the charge of murder, Blazer was freed after the prosecutor had asked that the charges be dismissed. REPORT THAT: "FENG SEIZES PEKING. CHINA Expected to Wage War on Chang Tso-Lin (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 12, — Dispatches from China yet unconfirmed state that the provisional president, Tuan Chi-jui and his war minister, Wu Kwang-hsin are Virtually held prison- ers in Peking by a sudden seizure of the capital city by the troops of Gen- eral Feng. Yu-hsiang. The report comes from Shanghai, This dispatch indicates that Feng Yu-hsiang, who has been consolidat- ing his forces near and west of Peking, has taken the field to colla- borate with the forces from the cen- tral provinces ‘of Wu Péi-tu and Gen- eral Sun Chuan-fang of Chekiang tool of imperialist interests—Chang Tso-lin, . e Regards Feng as Important MOSCOW, Nov. 12—Opening of hostiiities between thé christian Gen- eral Feng and..Chang-Tgo-lin_ means Published Daily PU HING Ci NEW YORK EDITION except Sunday O,, 1113 W,. Wi RUMORS AND COUNTER-RUMORS OF ANTHRACITE SETTLEMENT DO NOT SHAME DISCIPLINE OF U. MW. OF A. The following is the first of a series of articles: by William F, Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, who is now in the field of struggle of the 158,000 striking miners in the anthracite: region of Pennsylvania The DAILY WORKER hopes to run an article each day while Comrade Dunne is in the anthracite, among the miners of whom he writes. i 50, ee By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, POTTSVILLE, Pa., Nov. 12—Rumor and gossip, reports ana counter-reports, alleged terms of settlement and denials of any settlement at all, wild statements of desertion of one group or another of the mine owners from the coal operators’ association, reports from “inside” sources of intervention by Coolidge, what Pinchot is said'to have said to Lewis and the latest bulletin from “sources close to Inglis,” chalrman of the coal-owners’ commit- tee, ‘no chance of a settlement before Christmas,” ‘‘we’ll all be back to work by Thanksgiving,” “no work until the miners go back without the union,” “no work without the checkoff,”—miner y THE DAILY WORKER ington Blvd., Chi 1 Price 3 Cents province to drive the arch-reactionary | and merchant, newspapermen are speculating and predicting as to the out- come of the anthracite strike which closed 828 mines employ- ing 158,000 men on Sept. 1. The miners have little to do except talk; it is unorganized talk. Meet- ings are held only at the call of the scale committees or by order of dis-| trict officials. -There is none of the} tenseness ordinarily associated with a strike of this size nor is there ap- | parent any intensification of the class | division that a determined strike us- ually brings forth. Business Opposes “Radical Foreigners.” Everybody supports the miners, bankers, businessmen and workers in} other trades except that the “radical foreign element’ is unanimously de- {nounced. This of course does not in-| clude “good foreigners” like President | |Capellini of District 1 Precisely because of the preponder- | ance of foreign-born workers and their | sons in the ranks of the striking min- jers, the Lewis-Capellini machine has made every possible effort to secure all the necessary stage properties for a 100 per cent American strike, Snecess. has attended their efforts so far, -‘The“disetpline--of<the- United Mine | Worekrs is something to marvel at. the beginning of: a most important military phase inthe Chinese revolu- tion, according to Soviet officials who have been in. close touch with the visiting Cantonese Generalissimo Khu «han Min, who is here. The time is well chosen for Feng to wage a decisive war, Soviet officials declare. There is no effort to conceal the Soviet sympathy for Feng. Italian and American Movie Interests Want Soviet Russia’s Films MOSCOW, Nov, 12. — Italian and American cinema firms are negotiat- ing with Russian producers for the exportation of Soviet films’ for which there is a growing demand abroad. Among the films to be shortly.sent to Italy, Germany, America and France are: “The Cross-Country Automobile Race,” “The Moslem Women,” “Lena Goldfields,” ete. The Red Star Cinema company has released a Scientific film just completed, entitled “Rejuvenation.” The film is the restilt of three years’ work under the guidance of leading sctentific specialists. Bremen Enters Port with Six Casualties; Storm Damages Ship NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—Battered form stem to stern, after riding out the most terrific storm in the thirty years” experience of her captain, the y North with six casualties among her pas- sengers and many of her crew dis- abled crept into port and docked at Hoboken. Her entire superstructure was damaged. German Lloyd liner Bremen, | In the whole 450 square miles of~an- thracite. territory ‘in whieh 158,000 workers produce the-domestic fuel for the whole Atlantic. seaboard, not a single miner is working, who has not been granted permission to-do so by the union. Well Disciplined, The official orders are for no meet- ings-and no meetings are held. The men are instructed to stay away from the business districts of the mining towns as far as possible and this or- der too is obeyed With ‘the exception of the younger miners who play a little. pool and. drink more or less temperately in the “soft drink” par- lors. Only the lack of the usual long strings of loaded .coal cars, and the idle hoisting apparatus at the mines indicates that a strike has been on for more than two months. The demands for strike relief are not widespread as yet. Most of these demands have come from the Potts- ville distriet where there is little op- portunity for the strikers to obtain other employment., In the Scranton- Wilkes-Barre section many of the strikers have gone, to work in the textile factories, on, public work, etc. The demands for relief made by the locals have so far brot the reply from the officials “to clean out the local treasuries first.” But in at least one instance the use,of the local treasury |for strike relief brot also the threat | of revocation of its charter by Cap- ; ellini. 4 | Class Struggle Taboo. | ‘The class stmiiggle is taboo in this |strike. The gossip among the miners \is of the actg and utterances of repub- \lican and démocratic politicians with | which the Lewis-Capellini machine is tied to such an extent that only a | surgical operation such as was re- | quired by the famous Siamese twins preachers and+ | around Republic. CLASS WA RAGES IN PA. MINES Union and Non-Union Miners Fight Cut By GEORGE PAPCUN (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov, 12, —_A call will be issued fora general strike of all miners in the coke region on Monday, Nov. 16. Meetings will be | held in all important sections of the region where the coke that fires the steel mills of Pittsburgh is furnished by miners now unorganized. * At Marianna in the unionized field 600 coal. miners are out on strike against the 1917 scale. Here the com- pany has built iron fences around the mines. Armed guards are held in reserve. Searchlights from the roofs and mine.tipples send their glares. thru the night and search every road and open space. Try to Shoot Pickets An attempt to open'the mines with seabs last night falled. Shots were fired by deputies at pickets but there were no~casualties. Seven miners, in- cluding all the local union officials were evicted from company houses. The entire city looks like an armed camp under martial law. Up in the coke region, where the non-union’ miners also are striking the strike is spreading slow but sure There a huge and enthustastic meeting of. strikers was addressed by George Papcun, A. Jakira, Tom Ray, L. Jutic and others. Numerous pickets are on the job. Sixty pickets watching Tarhill Mine No. 1. The company is quite dis- turbed. State police are searching for strike leaders-and arrests are ex- pected. The four pickets arrested the other day were fined and released. The - International Labor Defense helped by paying the fines. Here, too, armed deputies are guarding the mines. Strikers have received orders to vacate the company houses, but these orders are ignored. The strikers are (Continued on page 2) DATES GIVEN PURCELL ON TOUR THRU 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 several cities of the United States and Canada Montreal, Canada, Nov. 13, at 8 pom. at Central Labor Union. jcan extricate the masses of the min- \ (Continued ‘on puge 2) New York City, Nov. 17, evening, at the New Star Casino. MILLION FARMERS FACE STARVATION AS CROPS FAIL IN GEORGIA ; APPROPRIATION ASKED OF COOLIDGE (Special to The Daily Worker) ASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—More than one million farmers in Georgia face starvation as the result of complete crop failures due to drought. Endurin, the “poor white trash,” as the plantation owners sti in‘danger of death from lack of food. Georgia has requested Coolidge people in the famine-stricken region. The demand for such a small appropriation, $500,000, means but 50c for each of tho: and is an insult to the farmers of Georgia. It is only a political gesture of Bell to enable So deplorable is to authorize an mg “ha Farmers in 32 co ig almost unbelievable privations gmatize the poor farmers of that state, are the.condition-that Congressman Bell of yn of $500,000 for the relief of the ies are affected, Bell said. ffected, him to maintain ‘the support of his constituency, The government can spend millions for dirigibles, air- lanes, submarines and other equipment for imperialist slaughter but cannot adequately provide ‘or famine sufferers within the confines of the United States. x