The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1925, Page 3

| pag mam ag RNR ER RRRNR NaC AEM 98 , CAPITAL CY. _ CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY Wolfe and | Tallentire Tell of Russia (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov, 18.— The elghth anniversary of the Bol- shevik revolution in Russia was cele- brated here In the Playhouse with speakera for the Workers (Commun- Ist) Party, the Young Workers’ League and the Juniors, besides a musical program and tableau repre- senting the conditions of the work- ers in four countries— England, France, Germany and China—as con- trasted with the favorable conditions In the Soviet Union. Eulogizes Frunze. The Playhouse was filled to capa- city, over three hundred being pres- ent, and the first speaker, Comrade Seligman of San Francisco, who was chairman, opened the meeting with a review of the life and eujogy of Com- ‘rade Frunze, late commissar of war in the Soviet Union. After paying si- lent tribute to his memory the audi- ence sang the International and the musical program began, which was well-liked by the audience, Helen Gorewitz, the youngest mem- ber of the Y. W. L. in this city, re- cited two revolutionary poems, and Sophie Jackerman, secretary of the Y. W. L., outlined the aims and ob- jects of the league and appealed to the boys and girls present to join it and help fight for Communism. Tallentire Speaks. Norman Tallentire, district organ- izer, reviewed the struggle between Soviet Russia and the capitalist world in a very able address. Then he dealt with the importance of main- * taining The DAILY WORKER in or- der to defen dthe working class in their present struggles and lead them to mew and more effective struggles. His appeal for a collection brot a re- sponse of $50. Russia Stabilized. Bertram D. Wolfe, of New York, spoke and dealt with the progress of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lies. He showed the gradual growth of power and the technical improve- ments since 1917, declaring that Rus- sia, of all countries in Europe, was stabilized and the other European governments were in a state of chaos. His remarks were well received by the audience and frequent applause interspersed his effective portrayal of the rise of the proletariat to complete power in Russia. Sonal Unveiling of Dublin Memorial Cross Scene Rebuked by Republicans (Special to The Daily Worker) DUBLIN, Ireland, Nov. 13—Enraged at the brazen efforts of the British agents who unveiled a memorial cross to the Irish war dead at 11 o'clock here today in commemoration of arm- istice day, republican sympathizers threw smoke bombs into the demon- station causing considerable confusion and quick dispersal of the crowd after a mere pretense at conducting the ex- ercises. All thinking elements, not bribed by Britain, are incensed that such a per- formance should be attempted, inas- much as the Irish condemned the war and its British associations. Your neighbor will appreciate the favor—give him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. WORKERS’ MASS PICKETING WINS STRIKE; OFFICIALS WHO OPPOSED STRIKERS TRY TO TAKE CREDIT (By a Worker Correspondent.) Now that the 19-week strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America against the International Tailoring Co. and the J. L. Taylor Co., a subsidiary of the International Tailoring Co., has been won, the officials of the Amalgamated are parading about as tho they were responsible for the victory. At the strike meeting that was held they would pat each other on the back and say “stand behind the officials, for they won the strike.” Let us see whether it was the militancy of the workers themselves or the actions of the officials that wom WW. the strike, Company Does Not Sign Contract. ‘When the contract which the union had made with the bosses expired on May 1, 1925, a number of the bosses signed up. The bosses of the Inter- national Tailoring Co. and the J. L. Taylor Co. refused. to sign up a re- newal of the old contract. They did not flatly refuse, but found excuse after excuse to drag out the question of the renewal of the contract, In the meantime, the bosses of the International got in touch with the secabby United Garment Workers of America, which is ‘affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, signed 4 contract with them and then notified the members of the Amalgamated that they no longer could employ them as a contract had been signed with the heads of the United Garment Work- ets’ Union and not with the Amalga- mated. Officials Try Bulldozing Members. In face of this lockout, the officials of the Amalgamated were forced to follow the steps that had been out- lined by members of the shop to strike on May 1, which would have tied up the plant in the very midst of the busy season and thus forced the company to renew the contract. The officials have long ago forgotten the use of the strike weapon and when we insisted on a strike they babied us along tell- ing us that an “agreement would be signed the next week,” “the next day,’ “that a conference was being held that day,” etc., until the bosses had locked us out, The members of the Amalgamated working in the shop, déclared'a strike on June 27, 1925, and the officials were forced to sanction it. Members of the Amalgamated that had been working in other shops, but were out of work at the time, realizing that this strike was not only a strike of the workers in the International Tailoring Co., but a strike of the entire Amalgamated against the wage-slashing and open shop drive of the employers, joined the strikers in the picketing of the plant. Opposed Mass Picketing. This did not suit the officials. They did not want to see mass picketing. They elected and hired “committees” that would take care of the trike!” In order to discourage mass picketing on the part of the strikers and those who were aiding the strikers, the officials had joint meetings of various shops called, where they told the workers that they should not go down on the picket line as “committees” were handling the affair and that their picketing of the plant might destroy whatever “good” work the “commit- tees” would be able to do. Their appeals were unheeded and mass picketing continued. The objec- tions of the officials became stronger and it was only after the mass picket- ing of the New York plant by the New York Left-Wing Committee of Action, following which over 80 of those in the shop in key positions, that were turning out the struck work, walked out, adding to the victory of the work- ers who had organized the mass picketing, did these officials silenced their sharp tongues, Left Wing Violates Injunction, The injunction which the bosses had taken out in New York forbid- ding the strikers to go within ten blocks of the struck plant, was viol- SESS aaa ean A 15 Ib. Turkey Will Be Given Away at the DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT given by Branch No. 3, of the Y. W. L. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1925 at the South Side Community House, 3201 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Proceeds to The DAILY WORKKER and YOUNG WORKER. Admission 50 Cents—to include wardrobe. THE STRUCTURE OF ' SOVIET RUSSIA wittrid R. Humphries The author was 4 Y. M, C. A. inthe te Se gives his impress organization worker in . nomic and political of the new Workers’ State. Paper 10 Cente a] CONSTITUTION OF SO- C) VIET RUSSIA fig Here {6 the frame-work of the government that prepares the en under way for a new social order, Paper Paper 10 Cents Paper DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W.Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. WORKERS IN BIG BIZ CITADEL WILL HEAR OF COAL MINERS? STRIKE WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 13— Pat Toohey, member of the nation- al executive committee of the Young Workers League and recently re- leased from jall in the anthracite coal region for his participation in the anthracite miners’ strike, will speak here Monday evening, Deo ber 7, at the Workmen's Circle Hall, 1337 Seventh Ave., N. W. Circulars are being printed and ‘will be distributed to all union meet- ings in the city in an effort to get as many workers to this meeting as possible so that they may learn the MARRIAGE LAWS OF SOVIET RUSSIA novation "in. ine that ie ot great (30 COMMUNISM AND THE FAMILY ‘Alexandra's Kollontal PO na neg Vary prominent vole ees ‘in whe played layed 0. VOCy, Be , Tye X reats c. The probleme of amity condition of the miners in the Penn- sylvania anthracite coal fields. ated and shattered not by any official action or organization work of the officials, but by the left wing, whom the Hillman machine kept out of the strike meeting, after they had hope- lessly shattered the injunction that J.-L. Reiss, president of the Interna- tional Tailoring and J. L. Taylor com. panies, had hoped would gain the bosses an important victory in the fight against the amalgamated. “Readjustments” Promised. When signing the contracts with the bosses on May 1, 1925, the offi- cials promised the employers that if conditions necessitated a change in rate of production or wages, that each plant, that found itself unable to meet its competition, could appeal to the union and that a “readjustment” con- ference would be held and attempts would be made to “readjust” the con- ditions in the plant. The bosses are now taking advant- age of that promise, which they know the union officials will break their necks to keep, and are appealing for a “readjustment” conference. Shall We Lose Victory? The strike of the workers of the International Tailoring company was a strike against wage cuts. Tho-the bosses were forced to grant the de- mands of the workers following the mass demonstrations in front of their plants that were so tied up, that they were unable to fill the smallest por- tion of the orders that they had on hand, yet in these “readjustment” conferences of the union heads and the bosses, this victory of the work- ers will be negated by the granting of wage cuts and the sacrificing of other conditions which the strikers won, not only for themselves but also for other shops, There is but one course open to those of us who are in the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, and that is we must take advantage of this victory which ws have won and organize ourselves against wage cuts and “readjustments” that the bosses will attempt in their efforts to make us return to the standards of 1910, We have learned from this strike that we can fight, and that our offi- cials cannot fight and don’t want to fight, and that it’s up to us who have won the fight, to protect our inter- ests. legal THE DAILY WORKER fs te UNITY iT KEEP EIGHT-HOUR DAY Workers Must Unite to Fight Bosses NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—Albert A. Purcell, noted British trade union leader, who is to speak at the two meetings at Central Opera House and the New Star Casino on Tuesday, Nov. 17 points out the fact that the issue of the eight-hour day is vitally bound up with the question of inter- national trade‘union unity. In a state- ment released today by the trade union committee» for organizing the Purcell meetings, Mr. Purcell reviews the situation in various countries of the world, and points out the neces- sity for trade union unity if the eight-hour day is to be maintained. His comment is in part as follows: “What is the situation as regards the hours of labor thruout the world today? In Germany, as a result of the Dawes plan,-the eight-hours day is dead; the normal working day is nine to ten hours and more. In France the recognition of the eight-hour day is little better than a mockery. In Czecho-Slovakia the trade unions complain that the employers evade the eight-hour.day ‘by a skillful syst- em of overtime’ and so all over Eur- ope. We need no reminding, I hope, of the long hours worked in India, China, and other eastern countries. Here in England the argument of longer hours on the continent is being openly used by the employers, notably in mining and engineering as a pre- text for lengthening the working day. Russia Has 8-Hour Day “On the other hand, there is one country in the world where the eight- hour day (and the six-hour day in cer- tain trades) is a reality — workers’ Russia. If we are serious in our will to maintain the 8-hour day, then sure- | ly unity with the Russian trade unions is worth while ‘for that object alone. Indeed, it 48 more than just worth while; it is absolutely essential, “Taken all round, then, the 8-hour day is a fine international rallying cry for the workers of the world. What we want ist a world-wide agitation; but for that to succeed we surely must have international unity.” Committee Mets Sunday. The next* conference of the trade union committee before the big Pur- cell meetings will be held on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 15, at 3 p. m., at Beethoven Hall, 210 E. Fifth St, In- terested trate unions are sendéng} delegates to this conference. Standard-Oil Compan: Has Little F ellow B Beat OMAHA, Nex. 18.>-Rumblings of another gas war.in Omaha, which has driven the price to .as low as ten cents a gallon during the last eight months, were heard today as the price cutting companies boosted their price 2% cents, while the Standard Oil Co. remains unchanged at 14 cents. Close observers believe the Stand- ard Oil Co. has eventually got the smaller companies in.a “corner” and now is going to force them out of business. In Hopeless Discord. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—President Coolidge’s Muscle Shoals commission, which he appointed a year ago to ad- vise on a method of disposition of this vast property, is in “hopeless dis- cord,” Russell Bower, American farm bureau representative on the commis- sion, reported to the president. CONNECTICUT DISTRICT ARRANGES FOR REORGANIZATION MEETINGS The following meetings have been arranged in the Connecticut district by the District Executive Committ NEW HAVEN, CONN.—Monday, November 16. NAUGATUCK, R. I.—Thursday, November 19. WATERBURY, CONN.—Friday, November 20. TORRINGTON, CONN.—Saturday, November 21. HARTFORD, CONN.—Wednesday, November 25. SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—Thursday, November 26. NEW LONDON, CONN.—Monday, November 30. ‘These meetings are being held for reorganization purposes and it is ex- tremely important that the membership in the respective cities named above attend these meetings. code Ie an in. 10°Cents the soviets and in 15 Cents Island Paper Company in Hands of Receiver MADISON, Wise., Nov. 13. — The Island Paper Co.,'Menasha, Wisc., one of the largest paper companiés in the state, has gone _ the hands of a receiver. —_——_——— Expedition to the Urals, — MOSCOW, Nov. 18.—An expedition to the Ural Mountains has been or- ganized with the aim of investigat- ing living conditions of the workers at the end of the 18th and commen- cement of the 19th century. More than 360 hitherto uninvesti- gated factory documents have been discovered which are of enormous in- terest to historians, Many relics of the past have also been found. For instance, the expedition has made a collection of headgear of the com- mencement of the 19th century, a col- lection of implements of punishment, some old cut-glass, pictures paint ed by chattel bess a FIVE BIG NORTHWESTERN RAILROADS SHOW LARGE PROFITS FOR SEPTEMBER (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 13— Re- ports filed by the five big north- western roads—the St, Paul, S00, Chicago & Northwestern, Northern Pacific and the Great Northern— with the interstate commerce com- mission for September show an in- crease in revenue and net earnings —camouflage for profits, These roads had a gross revenue of $60,252,016, an increase of 9.5 per cent. Profits Run High. Net revenues, or profits, totaled $16,555,855. As far as the profits of the indi- vidual roads are concerned, the Soo road showed a gain of 87.5 per cent, the Great Northern 40.7 per cent; the Northern Pacific 35.5 per cent; the Chicago & Northwestern 15.4 and the St. Paul 13.3 per cent. All the roads showed a decrease in their maintenance expenditures, with the exception of the St, Paul for the first eight months of 1925, over the same period | Why Rate Incre: It. will be remembered that the interstate commerce commission has granted many of these roads permission to raise commuters’ rates, especially to the Chicago & Northwestern, which was given the right to boost fares 20 per cent be- fore. The Chicago & Northwestern pleaded that the road was losing heavily and that it needed this in- crease in order to be able to make expenses and in the face of the pro- fit that was being realized on the road, the interstate commerce com- mission granted the increase. WIDOW CHARGES NAVAL OFFICERS URGED PERJURY Shows Up Tricks of Wil- bur Agents (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINCTON, Nov. 13.—A new sensation was sprung in today’s Ses- sion of the court martial trial of Col. William Mitchell, charged with violat- ing the rules of military discipline for, criticizing his superior officials. Mrs. Zachary Landsdowne, widow of the commander of the ill-fated Shenen- doah, the dirigible that was sent on a political tour of the state fairs by the govrenment, and collapsed in a storm with heavy loss of life, was on the stand most of the morning. She dropped a bombshell into the camp when she accused high navy of- ficials of trying to induce her to give false testimony at the naval court of inquiry on the Shenendoah disaster in which her husband lost his life. Advocated Perjury. The naval officers tried to get her to commit perjury before the board of inquiry, and one of them, Capt. John Foley, was judge advocate of the board of inquiry. Mrs, Lands- downe testified that Mrs. George W. Steele, Jr, wife.of the commandant at Lakehurst, visited her and gave her a letter from Capt. Foley asking her to He about the attitude of her husband toward the flight of the Shenendoah. The other officer who called was Capt. Walter B, Gherardi, aid to sec- retary of the navy, Wilbur, who tried to persuade her not to blame Wilbur and the political aspirations of the Coolidge administration for the ill- fated flight over county fairs so that the farmers of the middle west could be made to realize something of the naval program of the government. The case is being intently watched by agents of airplane manufacturers as well as those who represent the steel trust, manufacturing armour plate for battleships. Former Senator Clark’s Estate Is $47,763,508 BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 13.—Inventory and appraisement of the estate of the late Senator W. A. Clark, filed in dis- trict court here, fixes the total value at $47,763,508. Russia A a.Metter terest in this bock, spring of Cloth, $1.00 Ne A Industrial. Revival in Soviet To workers interested in the development of Soviet Russia there is much of great in- hav Is In etal, for tl til introdeced Page Three GENNA GUNMEN |The Walden GET FOURTEEN |Book Shop YEARS IN JAIL 307 "Plymoath C Court “Shake-up” Is Still-Born Albert Anselmj and John Scalice the two Genna men, who were tried for the murder of two Chicago police- men and during whose trial charges were made that over 300 Chicago policemen were on the payroll of the Genna gang of bootleggers, have been found guilty and sentenced to 14 years in jail by the jurors, who sat at the trial, Verdict Compromise The verdict came after many hours gf battling in which the various tech- nical points raised by the defense at- torneys as to the right of citizens to resist arrest were raised. A number of the jurors stood out for acquittal, others demanded a verdict of guilty of manslaughter and others demand- ed the death penalty. The verdict is looked upon as a compromise. The incident which threatened to expose the whole police force as part of the Genna machinery in selling booze in Cook county has been gloss- ed over by the police and the state prosecutors. Police Had “Evidence.” During a tilt between the attorney for the Genna gunmen and the chief of police, it was brought out that the police had taken the payroll list for three months during a raid, they had staged on the Italian-American Club headquarters on West Taylor Street, within a few hours of the Genna mur- der. The attorney showed that if the police want to “clean up” they had more evidence then he had, When the chief of police attempted to “whitewash” the raiders and him- self by stating that the raid was in search of gallons of moonshine and shotguns, the attorney wanted to know why they ripped off wall-paper, coverings of chairs and wrecked a table and showed the the list he had was one that the raiding squad had overlooked in their eagerness to des- troy “evidence” that might show the “efficient” servants of “law and order” as employes of one of the worst gang in the city. Shakeups Never Come. The shakeups promised by the pol- ice department and heralded by the capitalist press have not taken place as yet. A few patrolman who received the “ten-spots” may be effected, but it is doubtful if the big guns will ever be called to account for their $100-a-month “salaries” from the Gennas, Costumers Strike at Metropolitan Opera; . Picket Line Strong By A Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—The Metro- politan Opera House in New York is being picketed this week by members of Local No. 38 of the Ladies’ Tailors Costume and Alteration Workers’ Union, pn strike against the Metro- politan Opera Co. Many of the strikers have worked for the company as many as 15 years, being specialized mechanics in the theatrical costume trade. Their union is striking as a result of the opera company’s failure to come to an agreement with them. Police Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to vour shop-mate. (Between State and Dearborn dust South of Jackson) CHICAGO Madison Pharmacy INC, BETTER DRUGS Light Luncheon Served 1154 Madison Street, Corner Ann OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Four Phones Chicago George E, Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half block from Imperial Haw PHONE DIVERSEY, 0704 CHICAGO ‘Paradise Restaurant HOME COOKING Banquets and Weddings our Speciaity $346 W. 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