The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1925, Page 2

ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN DEMAND WAGE INCREASES Brotherhoods Out for War-Time Pay General chairmen of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Firemen and En- ginemen went into session here to draft their demands upon the rail- roads of the United States and Can- ada for a return to the scale of wages which prevailed during the war. The new contract will also ask for charges in working rules and. condi- ions. — wage increase which will be demanded is approximately 7 per cent more than was granted in the ago when 5 per cent of the 12 per cent lopped off by the United States railroad labor board in 1920 was re- stored. A demand for the full 12 per cent will be served on those roads on which the New York Central scale has not been put into effect. Switchmen Meet Next. The switchmen’s organization will meet here in about two weeks toform- ulate similar demands, according to a call issued by the union president. Backs Trainmens’ Demands. This meeting of the Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen follows the conference held by the general chair- men on the western roads of the con- ductors and trainmen. The present conference of the firemen and engin- eers declares itself to stand behind the fight of the trainmen in its de- mands to return to the war-time basis. Rebels in Syria Still Gain Against the Forces of France (Continued from page 1) Syrians now in progress. Such a course has been recommend- ed by Lieut. Col. Cecil L’'Estrange Ma- lone, former M. P., and well-known war aviator. French efforts to secure British support for their campaign against the Djebel Druses in Syria is believ- ed to be the purpose back of a con- ference held this afternoon between Foreign Minister Austen Chamberlain and M. D. Jouvenel, French high com- missioner designate for Syria. M, D Jouvenel is understood to have made a plea for close co-operation be- tween the French and the British in the Near East. The British have taken action to prevent the rebellion spreading into Palestine, but it is doubtful whether they will consent to taking any action beyond the limits of the frontiers of their own mandates, as British policy is to discredit France and take the mandate for herself. Take this copy of the- DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. (Continued from page 1) © tional. Also that “the convention, it- self sent out a call for a world.con- vention of militant labor organiza- tions to be held in Moscow in 1921.” Cascaden was publicity representative at the 1920 convention and sent*this call out. ne Cascaden tells of how thousands of I. W. W. rushed to Russia, aided and are still aiding the revolution, ‘suffer- ing privations in the red army and in the long, painful reconstruction. It is right in this economic reconstruction Period that the I. W. W. should be most helpful and friendly, The organ- ization is reminded that it supported the revolution at its beginning. Cas- eaden holds that it was the “differ- ence” between those in America who supported it, that “started the pre- sent semi-official opposition.” Two Points Caused It. Reference is made fo the high lopinion of the Russian Bolsehviks of the old I. W. W. But Cascaden, as delegate to the first congress of the R. 1. L. U., says his oppoosition to the R. I. L. U. was based at that con- gress on two proposals. One the or- ganic connection between the Red In- ternation] of ‘Labor Unions and the Communist International of political parties. Second, on the proposal of the congress to recognize the One Big Union of Canada as the “real revo- jutionary force in that country.” These differences and how they no longer exist are recited in detail, and the hostility deplored which was based on them. Full documentary proof is given to show that the organic con- nection between the economic R, I. L. U. and the political Communist Inter- national was ended and only a neces- sary co-operation established at the second congress, 1. W. W. Has Ignored Change. This change had been recognized by the French asd other syndicalists, who promptly affiliated. But the I. W. W. had ignored that their main ob- jection to affiliation. was removed. Considerable documentary proof is given to show that Russian unions exercise great power in the Soviet government and are not “dominated” as the enemies of that government imply. As to the One Big Union of Canada, Its refusal to endorse the R. I. L. U. upon the motion of its delegate to the first congress, its opposition to in- dustrial unionism, etc. proves, says Cascaden, that he was right in his stand against it at the first congress. Opposes Anarchists, Cascaden sterly opposes the an- archist international of Berlin. Its influence and that of the yellow so- cialists ‘he feels caused'the attacks he deplores—“for example, an attack on William Z. Foster in the official organ of the I. W. W. at a time when he was about to face trial, It was a reprint from a menshevik paper.” Justus Ebert Was’responsible for that, he says. Other attacks on Soviet Rus- sia cites In the Industrial Pioneer and the Industrial Worker. As tar back as January, 1923, Cas- caden asserts, he had opposed this An Enemy ofthe Red International | sort of slander on Soviet Russia, and defended it in many articles since For four years he had studied the question from November, 1923 to November, 1924, in France and Eng- land, surveying the world movement and consulting with all sides, with the result: “I believe sincerely that the Rus- sian revolution is one of the greatest events of all times.” Upon this basis he “recommends to the I. W, W. that it go half way to restore its previous association with the Russian revolu- tionists, the Red International of La- bor Unions and the Communist (Third) International.” Berlin Supports 1. W. W. Splitters. Cascaden shows that Russia’s ene- mies are the enemies also of the I. W. W. Referring to the Anarchist International he says: “Nor can we associate with the pro- fessional anarchist politicians of the ‘International Workingmen’s Associa- tion,’ who damn every Marxian pro- gram. They condemn the I. W. W. They give support to a small group who left the organization and begged a capitalist court to please grant them an injunction. “The I. W. W. should consider affi- liation with the Red International of Labor Unions. It should seek affilia- tion on the same terms as the French —with autonomy. Already Section 2 of the 1921 program regarding the re- lationship between the two interna- tionals has been eliminated. “|. , It would give support to left wing labor organizations every- where. It would also bring about a recovery of the I. W. W.’s prestige as a great force in the world labor move- ment. “If you of the I. W. W, got control tomorrow, what would you do? The same as in Russia. You would have to organize the police, the secret ser- vice, the army. You would proclaim a dictatorship and you would jail th: mensheviks and others opposed to th: f. W. W. or Bolshevik program Would you make mistakes? Yer Would you retreat?, Yes. Then con sider Russia, “Soviet Russia, the Red Union and the Third International are nearer to us than any other work- ers’ movements. Support them. Back them and then, many believe, the I, W. W. will carry aloft once more in North America the red ban- ner of the proletariat in the great struggle between capital and labor that is drawing near. “To you, fellow workers, I appeal for on my report om the First Con- gress of the Red International of La- bor Unions, a number of members of the I. W. W. made their decisions regarding Soviet Russia,” John Bull In Syria. JERUSALEM, Noy. 19-—Lord Plum. er has appointed Air Commodore Ger- rard im command of the British fore- es in a . desperate effort to check Druse ‘operations in Palestine terri- tory ‘ SRST IE A i RS EF A Le OS IE adh A NO eo RED SE RESTO bt RE AERC on RS 2 8 THE DAILY WORKER CIVIL WAR IN CHINA VICTORY FOR LIBERATION Imperialist Tools. Lose Everywhere (Special to The Dally Worker) PEKING, China, Nov: 19.—After hard fighting, the army of Feng Yu- hsiang commanded by General Teng Pao-san, has captured the city of Pao- ting-Fu, capital of the province of Chihli from Chang Tso-lin’s troops. This city lies 100 miles, southwest of Peking, How Reaction Loging South. In South China,,.alsq, the forces of counter-revolution , ee in retreat. Their generals, Chep Chiing-ming and Teng Pen-yin are in, pgecarious condi- tion, according to Teng’s own Wire to Peking asking for a gruiser to be sent against the liberation forces he terms as “reds.” This is the provinces of Pakhoi and Honan, 5+ In Kwantung province, Chen’s army has been completely driven out to- ward Fukien, where the nattonalist Uberation army is preparing to attack, At Tsingtao the fifth Shantung division of Chang's apuy¥ mutined, and when the brigade of 000 white guard Russian monarchist tBoops tried to at- tack them with aemineh cars, prompt- ly killed the whole three thousand, only a few escaping,. Most of the Fengflen Manchurian troops in Shantung dre natives of Shantung and will doubtless all go over to Wu Pei-fu’s advancing armies, The whole population favors anybody against Chang Tso-lin. see Karakhan Tells of Struggle. MOSCOW, Nov. 19.—Prior to his departure for Peking, M. Karakhan, the Soviet ambassador to China, said that while the army of General Chang Tso-lin, the Manchuria war lord, pro- bably vas greater in strenght than any other, the sympathies of the peo- ple were on the side of General Feng Yu-hsiang, “the chrigtian general.” “There is widespread dissension among General Chang’s. forces,” de- clared M. Karakhan,’ “while there is no friction whatever in General Feng’s army, Whole regiménts of Chang’s army are deserting and going over to General Feng. Fe v3 army shows high discipline and, great defensive ability.” i oid The ambassador said’ that in spite of the insignificant numbers of men in the Canton army, the Ounton gov- ornment was a very stable one. “This omy,” he added, “is wnited under the cevolutionary leadership and consti- tutes one of the str@ngest elements for the independence;@é China.” STUDENTS ENROLLED IN ENGLISH GLASSES. T 0 HOLD MEETING TONIGHT English classes of 1902 W. Division St. All students ennolled at the Chi- cago Workers’ School for classes in elementary and intermediate Eng- lish will meet tonight at 8 o'clock Sharp at 1902 W. Division St. A general examination will take place with definite assignments and se- lection of permanent, dates of meet- ing. é 29 Suppressions of Newspapers in Month by Polish Landlords WARSAW, (By Mail.)—During the month of September as many as 29 suppressions of different White-Rus- sian, Ukrainian and other papers were ordered by court decisions. Be- sides confiscations a number of ar- Tests were effected and trials of edi- tors conducted. Thus, the editor of the White-Russian Dilo, D. Palico was arrested. The editors of Tribune Ra- botnicha and Tygodnik Rabotchi and of other monthlies,.Newbauer, Inovol- ski, and Novakovskt. were sentenced to 2 and 4 years of;hard labor. The oldest White-Russian paper Krinitza, which hadyexisted for about 20 years and withstood all the blows of the czarist and: @erman-occupation- ist censorship, wage confiscated. The aditor is charged -om)10 counts. The paper of thesdndependent Peas- ‘nt Party, Valka QOrechi was sup- ‘ressed, as well agsthe Warsaw week- y Predvestnie. n Friday at Fire Destroys Film, ~ LOS ANGELE| ‘ov, 19.—Fire of undetermined origin swept the Fine Arts Motion Picture Studio causing a loss estimated afz$100,000, Six nega- tives of forthcoming productions val- ued at $15,000 each were destroyed. GOST OF LIVING 61 PER GENT OVER 1913 AND STILL GOING UP WASHINGTON, D, C., Nov, 19.— Labor department studies of retail food prices show an average in- crease of 1.5 per cent between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15, and of 86 per cent during the twelve months ending on the latter date. » Taking the 1913 level of food pric-, es as 100, the départment places it at 161.6 in October, 1925, and 159 in September, br f attempt has been made—and defeat- ed—to frame upon Tom Ray, pro- gressive miners’ leader who is ac- tive at Republic, Pa. in the min- ers’ strike. ‘4 “found” alleged to be addressed to Ra ) justice. elected by them, after a thoro in- was faked, and the committee is now investigating whether the min- ing company or the union officials are responsible for the frame up against Tom Ray. ed by union officials for his active part in movement, and also, are trying to discredit the Workers Party in order to break the strike, Russian Communists to Hold Fourteenth fourteenth congress of the Russian Communist Party is called to take place in Moscow on December 16. Protection of Children in Russia Is Product of the 1917 Revolution By J. LOYIS ENGDAHL. B lixne without having read the attack in the Chicago Tribune on the care of children in Soviet Russia, the editor of the Russian Review, issued from Washington, D. C., publishes an article on children's health protection in the Soviet Union, in which this initial declaration is made: “The systematic protection of the health of children and youth in the Soviet Union is a product of the revolution. “Before the revolution... . the question of physical and psycho- ~ logical treatment of the abnormal child. was entirely ignored and léft to private charity. “After the revolution of 1917 the protection of children’s health became a concern of the state.” The Chicago Tribune will not publish that. (eae Waar Yee ‘ That is the change, greeted with joy especially by the younger generation in the Soviet Union, that the Tribune is trying to hide from the workers of this country by gross ex ration of the fact that there are still a few homeless children, orphans, who may be found igre 3 wayward lives in the great Russian cities, that have not yet been lifted com- pletely out of czarist degradation resulting from capitalist misrule, One of the first acts of the Bolshevik revolution, in November, 1917, was the establishment of the Department of Children’s Health Protection for both normal and abnormal children. By 1918, when the world war was coming to an end, enabling the imperialist nations to turn their attention to war on Soviet Russia, this department had already undertaken the task of creating standardized children’s health institu- tions “to serve as models for similar establishments in the provinces.” The farce of physical examinations and medical advice is gone thru with in the schools of some American cities. But this only results in telling parents what ails their child- ren. It gives parents no help to take care of their children, or effect a cure. To urge that this be done is labelled “pure Communism.” Soviet Russia in practice shows this charge to be true. It gives the children the actual care they will never receive in any capitalist country. Russian children are not only told what ails them, defects inherited from czarism, but every effort is made to banish all defects. Dispensaries have been established, where specialists may be consulted. But these are only the centers “for the work of all physicians looking after the health of the children.” Thru these dispensaries contacts are made with the broadest masses of the population, “by means of dispensary service, the assignment of children to institu- tions, dietetic feeding, day sanatoria, medical aid, home visiting and so on.” There are forest schools for frail children, specially equipped colonies for serious cases, children’s summer play- grounds, and to arouse interest propaganda weeks for the protection of the health of school children. * * * * There is a mistaken notion that life.on the farm is healthful. Inthe United States it has been shown that the standard of health conditions in rural communities is below that in the cities. This was also true under czarism. Soviet Russia is devoting special attention to the protection of the health of the rural workers. ,, No one could ever imagine American capitalism issuing a decree that employment of youth under 18 years of age without a preliminary medical examination is prohibited. That is a Soviet decree. One result has been the organization of 24,820 workers’ physical culture clubs thruout the Russian Socialist Fed- erated Soviet Republic (Soviet Russia proper). A new race of human beings is developing under the red flag of the revolution in Russia. The upward struggle is not only for the strong. Even the weakest get every possible aid and encouragement. Under capitalism the old ad the strong, let the devil take the degrades all. On the question of health alone the mighty heel of Soviet rule presses ever harder upon the*neck of capitalism. 5 applies: “The race is to indmost.” Such a policy — STRIKING MINERS FIND | | Lo Negro Workers TOM RAY A VICTIM OF || “Waite'wyocaim Snape ATTEMPTED FRAME-UP hoon (Worker Correspondent.) ALLENTON, Pa., Nov. 19—While at work wrecking the old American Hotel here, the third floor coll%psed and instantly killed Morris Johnson, Negro, and knocked A, Oakley, an- other Negro unconscious who later died on his way to the hospital and severely injured the leg of William Stoudt, a white worker who was taken to the Allentown Hospital. All three of these workers are laborers, Louis A, Potruch, head of the com- pany which had charge of razing the building, attempted to throw the blame for the accident on the men for not properly propping up the rot- ten beam which gave way before car- rying on their work. The workers for this company call this the worst slave-driving concern in Allentown and blame the accident onto the speed-up system the company uses, This company is also known for its attempts to force workers to work on Saturday afternoon for straight pay and if the worker refuses he 1s fired immediately. Oftentimes, groups of ten and fifteen workers are dis- charged by this company for this rea- son, By A. JAKIRA. (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov, 19.—An A framed-up document was purporting to show him to be ploye of the department of But a committee of the strikers, igation established beyond a adow of a doubt that the letter reactionary Tom was recently bitterly attack- the progressive miners’ company agents, eteeintenin Portuguese King Abdicates, LISBON, Nov. 19.—~King Manuel of Portugal, a king in absentia, will abdicate in favor of his cousin, Prince Duarte Nuno, according ,to Spanish newspapers, ‘ Congress December 15 MOSCOW, (Tass.) Noy. 19.— ‘The a ————_—_____— . Police Raid Miners’ Hall, Stop Pickets in Pennsylvania (Continued trom page one) weapons and were searched before leaving the meeting place. Miners here have hordes of stool- pigeons to deal with, One of them, Frank Kushman, was elected for a short time to be president of the strikers, It didn’t take long for them to find him out, however, and when he began to interfere with their picket- ing he was kicked out of office unani- mously, He returned back to work the next day and tried to get the men to go with him, but he was unsticcess- ful. Boost Coffee Prices? NEW ORLEANS, La,, Nov, 19.—Es- timates of the amount of coffee de- stroyed in the dock fire Tuesday were Placed at from 84,000 to 100,000 bags with a financial loss of from $2,750,- 000 to $3,600,000. The amount de- stroyed represents about one per cent of the supply used annually in the United States, AS WE SEE IT (Continued trom page 1) an eight, column headline. The de- tails of the plan were given minutely, so that Durkin would have no excuse of calling his enemies “dirty dogs” for not giving him a sporting chance. Durkin is still at large and perfectly safe provided he can spend about 26 cents a day on the newspapers, About the only function those won- derful policemen can Perform effici- ently is breaking up radical meetings or arresting and slugging striking trade unionists, + dee eae We also had the famous Druggan and Lake case which opéned up the scandal in the county jail, There was a big splurge for awhile but it has quieted down. Why? Because every government office from that of the state's attorney to the police de- bartthent is involved, ‘fhe warden was found guilty of having accepted “gifts” from the two millionaire bootleggers. His only defense is chat he has a “cement” head and could not reason correctly. We never Saw the blockhead who could not think a roll of bills looked” good. This same warden boasted of being active in the raids on the anti-war agitators in 1917, His head was all right for that kind of work. *# @ AN Italian gangster ave a banquet in honor of the christening of 1 child, recently. Two United States senators attended the affair and one ot them ; godfather. for. the »aby. A ‘catholic priest officiated and paid his respects to the public spirit displayed by the father, He is fully qualified for the job of undertaker, His owy business would keep a re- spectably large establishment busy, Yet hundreds of officials of city and State accepted his invitation because he controls enough gats to turn de- feat into victory in a tight election, Great and glorious democracy! 2s. oe tHe those with short memories remember the cyclone that raged thruout the country when it was learned that Albert B. Fall, secretary of the interior turned over naval ofl lands to the two oil magnates, Doheny and Fall, Fall got a hundred thousand dollars from one of the burglars and a herd of cattle from the other, At least this much was discovered when detectives went on his trail. He is still at large. So are the burglars, Doheny and Sin- clair. A few goats were thrown to the wolves. Publicly the capitalist politicians denounced Fall for his conduct and privately said: “It's too damn bad the poor devil was vaught with the goods, He needed che money.” ees Wen it happens that 2 man of Sreat wealth goes to jail in the United States, “the earth trembles, the sky darkens, the dead arise and appear to many.” ‘This means that they never go to jail unless they rob bankers. The bankers are sensitive lads. Even the governor of Indiana could not get away with robbing the bankers. When you compare the ease with which millionaires violate their own laws, rob the public domain as well as each other, and Bet away with it, how can anybody with some Sray matter between the ears have anything but a feeling of disgust for ¢ hypocritical babbits who pose ‘as patriots? But let a working man get entangled in the law, particularly if he is trying to help his fellow work- ers and see what will happen to him, oe PaAteiotisn indeed is the last ref- e of the scoundrel. There are few greater scoundrels in South America than former President Al- lessandri of Chile. He was one of those mainly responsible for the Slaughter of thousands of men, wo- men and children during the strike in the nitrate flelds of Chile some time ago. At the present moment, there is a serious dispute between Chile and Peru over the settling of a boundary disagreement by plebis- cite. This man Allessandri was asked by somebody whether he in+ tended to run for public office, He replied in the negative on the ground that he Would devote his whole time to patriotism. Not even Calvin Coo- Hdge could do better than that, SARE — coe