The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ i and Farmers’ Government i Vol. II. No. 264. ceria eellnae | iption Rates: ~ Mage Cuts! Down with wi. i Rule! The National Committee of the Trade Union Educational League has issued a statement concerning the meaning of the reig of terror against the members: begun by the officials of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of America. The statement points out the means the workers should adopt to struggle against this preparation for a surrender of their shop conditions. It reads as follows: ry Outside Chicago, cat hiae e * * * A STATEMENT TO THE MEMBERS OF THE‘ AMALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS OF AMERICA, BY THE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. YYORKERS in the men’s clothing industry are faced with the necessity of a serious struggle against wage-cuts. And at this very moment, a murderous assault has been delivered against militant and progressive members of the union, who are propos- ing a struggle against the employers to defeat the wage-cuts. This assault has come, not from the employers, but has. been delivered by officials and agents of the high officials of the union itself, Members of the A. C. W. of A. were slugged and beaten up at the general membership meeting of the union in Chicago on Friday,,November 13. The same thing happened in New York City on the same night, at the meeting of the Pantsmakers’ Local, which is engaged in a struggle with the bosses. These assaults at regular meetings of the union were fol- lowed on Sunday by a raid upon a private gathering of progres- sive members from various shops, which had met at Biltmore Hall, Chicago, to discuss ‘ways and means of fighting against wage-cuts, where gangsters entered with guns in their hands, lined up the workers present against the wall, and then proceeded to beat them up and to wreck the hall. Many workers were seriously injured by the murderous assaults; several were severely beaten over the head with blunt instruments; one man is reported to be losing an eye as the result of the terrific beating administered. This disgraceful reign of terror occurred durjng the presence in Chicago of President Sidney Hillman. If it was not carried out under his orders, he surely knew at least what was going on. It must have had his consent. It can hardly be passed aside as the result of some local quarrel. It has every appearance of being a definite national, official policy of the administration of the union. Workers! We call to your attention that it was exactly this same kind ‘of tactics that were used by Morris Kaufman of the Furriers’ Union two years ago, when the workers in that industry wanted a struggle against the employers. It was this kind of tactics that were used by Morris Sigman of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, when the workers wanted to fight against the loss of their conditions and Sigman wanted to-hand their interests over to the governor's commission. ; rordar to carry out to surrectier, the first prapers she pion’ n order to carry out surrender, first pre; ere by sli and terrorizing those whom they fear Will Ft a against the employers. ye he officials cannot escape the responsibility for: assaults. Those who committed them are hired by the officials, and one of the thugs was himself a:business agent. Their natnes are known, and will be furnished upon demand to any comniittee properly authorized by the union. “They cannot escape, either, from the meaning of these assault; the meaning that they can only be a preparation for putting over more wage cuts on the already suffering workers in the clothing industry. orkers in the men’s clothing industry, such events as these in your union require an immediate protest and action to remove such conditions, ; iz Demand the struggle against .all wage-cuts! } Demand the cessation of thuggery against the members! Demand the punishment by the union of those who com- mitted these assaults! - Demand the removal of all officials who are implicated in these pogroms! NATIONAL COMMITTEE, TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. DELEGATES TO AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'PLAHERTY C.F. OF L. FIGHT vaio tesa“ OAKLATVALA BAN young girl and sentenced’ to life Fight Non-Concurrétice imprisonment. He raped the girl}, prior to her death. This makes the After Delay By ARNE SWABECK ten thousandth kluxer who was found guilty of a crime having its origin in the Chicago Federation of Labor meeting held last Sunday © once in sexual irregularity. Yet the K. K. K. was organized to protect American womanhood from the assaults of non-}| More an effective protest was' voiced ‘Nordic races who evident.y ace not} against the/barring of the British acquainted with the fine art of se-|Communist Shapurji Saklatvala, mem- duction as practiced by the sadists] Ser of parliament from the Battersea and, evangelists who infest ihe ku] district, London, denied admittance to lux klan - the United States by Secretary of State Kellogg where he intended to Participate in the congress of the interparliamentary union, «The protest grew in volume!as the delegates bhe after another put them- selves on record emphatically oppos- D C. Stephenson, former grand dra- ** * HIS man Stephenson was once a great power in Indiana polities. Morons have votes and the grand ‘dragon had the morons eating out of his hand. During the last interna- In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. tional convention of the UnitedMine Workers of America, held in India- napolis, I was reporting the sessions for The DAILY WORKER. A meet- ing of the ku klux klan was announc- ed for the purpose of stating the klan’s position toward the miners’ union. I attended that meeting in the company of a native-bovn, Amer- jean of English descent and a Jewish writer, whether born here or) not, I do not know. The Jew and myself were out of luck, so I thot, but I passed as a native of Belfast and my Hebrew companion had a niece little heard that looked for all the world like the one worn by miniature edi- ions of Jesus, Tho the iiuxers hate (Continued on page 2) ing the action of the executive board turning down a resolution of protest against this exclusion which had been referred to it. Fitz Attacks Communists The board members under the lead- ership of President Fitzpatrick tried to justify their reactionary stand by launching an attack upon Communist delegates and the Workers (Com- munist) Party. While a giance “At the background of this clash will reveal that the methods of the present trade union bureaueracy is everywhei same, it also'shows how deep is conflict between these methods and the class interests-of-the rank and file workers, /»(@ontinued on page 2* arneqaa by mail, $6.00 per year. TERRORISM IN ACW. PART OF CAMPAIGN See Effort to Stop Fight on Cuts The members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union whose meet- ing at the Biltmore Hall at Division St. and Hoyne Ave. was raided by gangsters of the Hillman machine on Sunday morning, and who were a tested by the police after the union- ists and gangsters had engaged in a battle royal when the gangsters tried to beat up the workers, were released by the police shortly after arrest, when the police were convinced that the gangsters and not the workers were the aggressors, Talk among the members shows their conviction that the slugging, be- ginning both here and in New York on the same day, Friday, and in Chi- cago at a meeting where Hillman spoke, is the start of a war of gang- sterism to terrorize the membership’s initiative and prevent any resistance to the wage cuts being put over ‘un- der the pleasanter name of “readjust- ments,” Also in New York. Last Friday’s meeting of the Amal- gamated membership in New York was also a scene of official disruption with workers slugged by gangsters. In New York the trial of ithe of- fivials’ gangster, who beat up Isadore Auerbach at a union meeting in the Forward Hall on Friday, took place in Essex Market court. At the trial the lawyer for the A. C. W. Bushel, tried to make a charge against the beaten up union member and asked the judge to set the gang- ster free! €vidence Too Strong. _ The beaten up member, however, had strong evidences on his person, such as black eyes and bruised face, and the judge realized that the union- ist was the victim and the gangster the aggressor. The judge fined the gangster $10 and set the victim of his attack free. Attention is called to the fact. that ‘eontrol committee of the Pantsmak- -ers’’ Union. SEAT ANOTHER L,W.W, DELEGATE AT CONVENTION Cascaden Visits Meet; Discuss Anarchists The 17th general convention of the Industrial Workers of the World has enlarged itself by seating an alternate to the designated delegate along with the latter, Schultes of the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, being seated with Roger Francezon, the regular delegate, thus making twelve delegates in all. International relations entered the discussion yesterday morning when a letter from Mangano, editor of the I. W. W. paper in the Italian language, ll Proletario, was read, stating that a meeting of 22 Italian I. W. W. in the WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1925 <>” NEW YORK TRADE UNION COMMITTEE FAVORS SENDING DELEGATION TO STUDY ACHIEVEMENTS OF RUSSIA (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—The trade union committee to organize the Pur- cell meetings at a conference in Beethoven Hall, Sunday afternoon, unani- mously went on record favoring the formation of an American trade union delegation to Russia and also voted that the committee continue to work for this project, Next conference will be held December 20. Committee has decided to present to the Purcell mass meeting on Tuesday evening the com- mitt resolution favoring a delegation to Russia. This resolution will be sent to all labor bodies represented on the committee and to all labor con- Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, UL, NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS IN THE ANTHRACITE VICTIMIZED BY ALL: NO STRIKE RELIEF TO AID THEM By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. (Article IV.) (Special to The Daily Worker) n pf. 'the} east proposed to the convention that the I. W. W. affiliate to the Berlin In- ternational Workingmen’s Association known as the anarchist international, providing, however, that the anarchist international would expel from it the emergency program split from the I. W. W. which recently affiliated to the Berlin group. Berlin Not Popular. Discussion of the letter was not at all favorable to such action, but was cut off by a rule that the convention entertain no motions from indivi- duals, +Gordon Cascaden an “old timer” in the I. W. W. and a delegate in 1921 to the fisst congress of the Red In- ternational from the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada, whose bitterly antagonist report given out on his return was used as the chief basis for all attacks on the Red In- ternational and expulsion of its sup- porters, visited the convention yester- day morning, Cascaden was reported to have dis- tributed copies of a report to the dele- gates and to the I. W. W. press, the nature of which was only hinted at as being quite significant to the question of international relations. The DAILY WORKER unfortunately could not ob- tain a copy at the hour of going to press, but hopes to get one for pub- leation, The reporter was likewise ungue- the chairman a copy of a resolution proposed by a branch of the I, W. W. in Canada. Considerable’ of the time Monday was spent in discussion oyer constitu. tional changes and° grievances nay ih naan inenmei non ne enesiseheel ventions, Delegates: at the conference represented 183,000 trade unionists of New York City, A third halt is being held in reserve to accomodate the expected crowd at Tuesday’s mass meetings. eit HORTHY STARTS [MEXICAN LAND DEATH TRIAL OF) LAW DISTURBS MATHIAS RAKOS! U. S. INVESTORS The Court: martial trial of Mathias Rakosi, people's commissar in the Hungarian Soviet government, and over one hundred members of the In- dependent Party began yes- terday, acco: to a cable from Berlin received & je national office of the Inter: Labor Defense. ‘The fascist dictator, Horthy, known as the “hangman of Hungary” prom- ised that @xecutions of Rakosi and the most pro mt of those arrested would follow & few hours after the death sentences were handed down by the court, mé Under ssure from labor organ- izations and sympathizers all over the world, Horthy had postponed the trials for a time, but evidently he is now of the that there is a sufficient lull in the campaign to save him go ahead with the Hungarian j Olution ers. After the Soviet government of Hungary was crushed with the aid of the funds ‘of the Hoover relief ex- pedition, Rakosi was arrested and only saved from execution by the ac- tion of the Soviet government of Rus- sia tm securing his release in ex- change for Hungarian white guards in the hands of the red army. Rakosi returned recently to Hun- gary to reorganize the workers who have been persecuted and demoraliz- ed since Horthy selzed power. He was arrested almost immediately af- ter he entered Hungary. Court mar- tial trials were immediately arrang- ed and speedy executions promised. So great was the storm of' protest aroused by Horthy’s bloody program that he postponed its execution. Floods of cablegrams poured in on him from every part of the world. Even the Prussian diet, refused to receive the Hungarian minister of education until the proceedings against the former people’s commis- sar, Rakosi, were stopped. The mo- tion to this effect was passed with the votes of socialists, Communists, democrats and centrists. Ih the United States # vigorous campaign under the direction of the International Labor Defense was car- ried on, A committee of liberals headed by Upton Sinclair and Roger Baldwin, sent a cablegram to the Horthy government, demanding the cancellation of the proposed death sentences, and civil trials, instead of court martial. Mass meetings, demon- strations were held in the large cities. The Hungarian legation in Washing- ton and the consulates in New York and Chicago were picketed. This stop- ped Horthy’s bloody hand for a while but evidently he has not yet given up his intention to murder his political opponents. The British trade union movement and the labor party protested against the threatened execution of Rakosi, yet despite this, Ramsay MacDonald leader of the labor party paid a com- plimentary visit‘to Horthy a few weeks ago and banqueted with his foreign minister. This act was con- strued by the European trade union: ists as an endorsement by MacDonald of Horthy’s persecutions of the work- ers. The International Labor Defense declares that it will renew its cam- paign to save Rakosi with redoubled energy. which fol- Great Lakes Waterway Conference. ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 16.—Severa] hundred northwest leaders are asked by Gov. Theodore: @hristianson to at- tend a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway conference here January 5 and 6. ‘ an’sHand| Dominate Mexico (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Nov. 16—The Mexi- can house has passed almost unani- mously the bill of the Calles adminis- tration concerning the limitations put upon foreign property holdings. in Mexico. It now goes to the senate. The bill. which is to be a part of Article 27 of the constitution is dis- turbing the great corporations holding oil and mining properties, as well as agricultural holdings. It provides that foreign property rights shall continue until the death of the owners, providing the owners accept the obligations of Mexican citi- zens so far as the property is con- cerned. Hits Big Interests. The bili also provides that more than fifty per cent of corporation stock shall be held by Mexican citi- zens, and it is this phase of the bill which is; causing a flurry among the big American companies, the capital of which runs into many millions. } oAgents.of these. are. ar- guing that there is not enuf capital in Mexico to allow citizens to purtlids .| fifty or more per cent of the stock now held by thousands of coupoh clippers all over the United States} and other countries, and that. the stock in Mexico industry owned,,in, foreign countries will be depreciated on the market. ¥ Ambassador Sheffield is playing a watching game of silence. ’ Points to U. S. Hypocrisy. J ading Mexican newspapers are’ pointing out how autocratic the Unit- ed States has been in its treatment of Mexico, citing the letter of Secre- tary Kellogg to the Mexican govern- ment last June 12, threatening inter- vention to Mexico because of alleged “violations of international obligation and failure to protect American citi- zens in Mexico.” This threat against the sovereignty of Mexico was followéd by long sig- nificant silence by the U. S. in spite of wide protest by Mexicans at the imperialist domineering attitude of the U. S. government. Leading Mexican papers point out that. there has. been no especial change in the treatment of American ‘work. Now they big strike boss.” citizens, and that if the U. S. govern- ment thot it had a case in June it still has the same complaint, so it asks Sheffield to speak up. His sil- ence will be taken to mean that he has no case now, nor in June. Race Line Drawn in Prize-Fighting by Safety Decree By A Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, 0., Nov. 16.—Safety Director Barry, the eminent preserver of order in this city, who recently got into trouble by arresting all the Chinese residents of this city, and upon protest by the Chinese ambas- sador at Washington, had to apologize for his ride¢iulous action, has made a new decree. | A white boy will not be allowed to batter the face of a Negro boy—or vice versa. A Chinese boy will not} be allowed to knock in the face of} a white boy in q prize fight—or vice | versa. No, siree, not in the saintly city of Cleveland. If Chinese or Negro prize fighters) insist upon trying out their prowess, | they must do it with members of their own race, White prize fighters must be preserved from the infamy of get- ting beaten by a black or yellow boy. Let the whites, blacks and yellows batter the faces of members of their own race. Racial pride demands that! the white race be preserved from the indignity of black eyes, bleeding noses, and knockouts administered by a member of a “lower” race! And that’s that, stated. Saved once mores as the safety director}’ MAHANOY CITY, Nov. 16.—This little city of 15,000 popula: tion is a typical anthracite mining community and here can be seen a cross section of the anthracite strike, The overwhelming majority ians, Poles and Slavonians. But of the population are Lithuan- the local authorities are Ameri- cans—or Irish, which for all practical purposes offers the. best advantages in the anthracite. God Grants No Credit. There are 26 churches here. It is a matter of public knowledge that a miner who does not attend and con- tribute to one of the holy 26 has a hard time getting credit at the stores when he needs it. These miners who are bold enough to refrain from pub- lic worship in any of the forms prac- fieed here are looked upon with sus- vicion and are unwelcome guests even jt}the boarding houses. But numerous as are the brethren of Christ, they are outnumbered by the bootleggers. Almost every other door in the business section seems to be a saloon. This does not include the “speak-easys” whose proprietors appear to be of a somewhat lower caste than the owners of the open saloons. Study the Bootleggers’ Caste System. The reason for this caste distinc- tion I was not able to discover, but it probably springs from the fact that most of the latter are crippled miners who have taken up this method of getting a living and are therefore not of the legitimate rank of the high priests of Bacchus. The distinction between th® Ameri- can elements in the local unions and the foreign-born is quite clear here. The foreigners are supposed to pay their dues and keep their mouths shut. Their applications for strike re- lief are given scant consideration. In common with the _ prevailing: opinion thruout the United States| among the native-born and more privileged workers, it is said in Ma- hanoy City that “all these foreigners have got money.” » + Strike relief regulations are very strict~-for-the foreign-born amtners, ‘Ti one has a victrola, a radio or a piano this is considered as evidence that he and his family need no? relief. From Bums to “Big Strike Boss.” \ A committee composed of three Americans who receive $2.75 per hour for their labors, conducts investiga- tions of all requests. for relief three times per week in one of the local unions. Said one foreign-born miner: “Before strike these committeemen just bums, standing round street cor- ner, hanging out in saloon, never This is the strike relief apparatus of two of the biggest locals in this section where about 20,000 miners are normally employed. Foreign Workers Victimized. The manner in which the financial affairs of the unions here are handled is evidence of the general looseness of the whole organization. It should be understood that local union meet- ings, attended by any considerable number of the rank and file, are few and far between at any time. local, district and national officlaldom make the meetings unpleasant for the foreign-born miners so that the more delicate internal matters can be han@led ‘without unpleasant interrup- tions by the membership. By” rea- son “ot this state of affairs strange things occur. The following is one told.ame by a miner who has worked here for 11 years: Local 1333, having about two thou- sand m®mbers, had accumulated in its treasury a sum in excess! of the amount local unions are allowed to keep. \Some of the surplus.had to be disposed of or it would be. requisition- ed by the district. officials. Three trustees were appointed and $22,000 turned over to them. . . How the Bartender Became Rich. This» was eight years ago; two of (Continued on page 2) Protests Force County Board to “Investigate” Cruelty in Almshouse RHINELANDER, Wis,, Nov, 16.—A thoro investigation of charges of cruelty to inmates of the county alms- house was ordered by the Oneida county board after many protests had The f\ been reeeived. MONTREAL HAS ENTHUSIASTIC. PURCELL MEET Workers Cheer World Trade Union Unity (Special to The Daily Worker) MONTREAL, Nov. 16.—Albert A. Purcell, president of the Amsterdam International Federation of Trade Unions and fraternal delegate to the American Federation of Labor con- vention at Atlantic City from the British Trade Union Congress, was enthusiastically received by the French and English workers that at- tended his meeting here. Purcell’s plea for unity on the trade union field was loudly approved by the assembled workers. The necessity for trade union unity was strongly felt by the French and English work- ers as their forces in Montreal are scattered and weak. The existence of catholic unions further divides the drade unionists besides the craft un- ionism of the A. F. of L. unions. At the end of Purcell’s speech, all of these workers rose as one man and loudly cheered Purcell and world trade union unity. When Purcell spoke of the achieve- ments of Russian workers,’ a-demon- stration ensued whith lasted for sey- eral minutes. The meeting was arranged under the auspices of the Montreal Trades and Labor Council and John Foster, its president, acted as chairman of the meeting. James Simpson( vice president of the Canadian Trade Union Congress and leader of the Canadian labor party made a brief address in which he praised Purcell and the mis- sion which he is performing in the United States and Canada thru his series of meetings on world trade union unity, ee © Big Meeting in Boston. BOSTON, Nov. 16.—The same hall that a week before had listened, half filled, to the very polite speech of (Continued on page 2) EXECUTIVE BUREAU OF- RED INTERNATIONAL TO __.MEET ON DECEMBER 22 (By Tass Telegram.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 16.— The Executive Bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions has been called to assemble on Dec. 22, in Moscow with the following agen- da: 1. Report of the executive com- mittee. The next tasks of the trade union movement. This report will be given by A, Losovsky. 2. The Anglo-Russian Committee on World Trade Union Unity, Re- porter, Tomsky. 3. The trade union movement in China, Reporter, a representative of the All-Chinese Trade Union Fed- eration. 4. Pacific Ocean trade union con- ference. Reporter, Heller. 5. Trade union work in the U.'S. Reporter, Foster, 6. Trade union work many. Reporter, Heckert, 7. The trade union movement in Japan. Reporter, a reps ntative of the revolutionary trade unions of Japan. 8. Organization. Reporter, Lyse. 9. The struggle for the ght. hour day and socialization. Report- er, Schuman, 10, Miscellaneous, in Ger- CHANG TSO-LIN’S TROOPS KILL 3,000 WHITE GUARDS IN MUTINY Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 16.—Several thousand Russian white guardé, attached to the Shantung forces of Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, were killed by mutinous Chinese soldiers yesterday according to dispatches re The Shantung troops fired on a brigade of white Russians, which num- bers about three thousand, and reports state that the majority of the Russians were killed. ived here.