The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1925, Page 1

. M The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government THE 7 %, Vol. Il. No. 268. Subscri”. %& ates: ¢ B INTEREST AND YOU'RE A RED TO ANTHRACITE UNION BOSSES By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, ARTICLE VIII. HAZLETON, Pa., Nov. 20.—Rough is the road that one ‘travels in the anthracite who has had the epithet “radical” at- tached to him. The distinction can be achieved in many ways but with no more certainly than by the method of insisting, if one is a mine committeeman, that the provisions of the agreement relating to pay for extra work be lived up to by the operators at all costs. Once branded as a “radical” or “red,” in the latest, manner of decribing undesirables, the miner, if not acutally denied any kind of a job, is forced to take the poorest places in the mine and In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'PLAHERTY Chicago Tribune carried a front page story last Thursday, in- forming the public that Mussolini ad- dressed the chamber of deputies in Rome and informed that respectable body that it had no more to do but twiddle its thumbs and take a perma- hhent holiday, The galleries applaud- ed, we are told, and even the deputies upon whom the sentence of political death was pronounced, cheered the dictator to the echo, The story occu- pied almost a column, the remainder being taken up with a little bulletin in black face type, announcing that the House of Morgan had granted a $100,000,000 loan to Mussolini, This will enable Benito to put thru his lat- est edict, which completely disposes of whatever little was left of parlia- mentary government, ses , @ance!. The. great. majority. of those who read the capitalist press may not understand why the million- aire-controlled government of the United States was so generous in its settlement of the war debt with the Italian government while it haggled like a junk peddler with France. It is common knowledge that the financ- ial situation in Italy was approaching a debacle at the time Mussolini’s rep- resentatives came to Washington. The alleged plot against the life of Mussolini was merely a dodge on the part of the fascisti to create popular sentiment in their favor until they succeeded in averting the crisis with the aid of American dollars, Need- less to say there was no plot, but the fiction gave Mussolini the necessary excuse to deliver crushing blows to the opposition. * . fascist dictatorship, with its futile program for the abolitio: the class struggle under capitalism, a dictatorship of the few over the many makes no pretense of showing respect to what our hypocritical scribblers call the “Anglo-Saxon ideal of govern- ment.” Yet the very same press that suffers apoplectic fits over the rule of the workers and peasants in Russia looks bénignantly at Mussolini’s bloody reign of terror. They may not like Mussolini's methods but they are (Continued on page 35 ANTHRACITE OPERATORS AGAIN REFUSE TO GIVE ‘STRIKERS WAGE RAISE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW “YORK, Nov. 20—Anthra- cite operators still refuse to grant the demands of the striking 150,- 000 miners of hard coal, say the op- erators. It was made apparent to- day that this is the sentiment of members of the policy committee of the anthracite operators’ associa- tion, who held a secret meeting here at which the general ike situation was discussed. The ses- sion was presided over by Samuel D. Warriner, president of the Le- high Coal and Navigation company. All but a few members were pres- ent, is a dictatorship witha venge: has to move from one mine to another with the jobs becoming ever of shorter duration. The tendency of most committee- men, in the face of the fierce opposi- tion of the operator's representative (Continued on page 3) 100 PER CENT STRIKE ASKED _ IN ANTHRACITE Call Out Maintenance Men, Is Demand (Special to The Daily Worker) EDWARDSVILLE, Pa.,. Nov, 20— More than 300 striking anthracite miners gathered here today to hear spéeches by B, K. Gebert, and Rad- ywanski, editor of the Novy) Mir. The meeting was arranged under the auspices of Polish fraternal or- ganizations in celebration of the Pol- ul rebelliot agatist the ezar in 1906, its significance in the tion. * B, K. Gebert, who has. béén “work- ing in the anthracite regio#’ in sup- port of progressive policies” for the miners’ strike, devoted his'speech to the strike situation. Fortnulation of the demand for 100 per cent strike and the calling out of the maintenance men with the demand’ ‘that there be no settlement without giving the workers the wage increase for which they are fighting, was given enthusi- astic support by the striking miners present. The Polish miners. are’ responding to the policies of ‘the Progressive Miners’ Committee. Meetings have been.held at a number of places and these are securing support which is growing daily among the striking min- ers. Capitalist Covt. to A Aid Strikebreakers * * * with Bituminous Coal (Special te The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20.—To aid th breaking the anthracite strike by furnishing soft coal to the region which depends on anthratite, the in- terstate commerce commission today began an inquiry into the “reason- ableness” of freight rates on bitumin- ous and semi-bituminous coal from West Virginia, Virginia and western Pennsylvania into, the north Atlantic region. " There hag been’ no move on the part of the United: Mine Workers’ Union officials’ tomeet this danger with a strike in-the bituminous fields. Representatives of the Pennsyl- vania operators appeared to protest against lowering rates from West Vir- ginia mines to a point where operat- ors in West Virginia would be able to underbid the Pennsylvania operat- ors. Russian revolu- French Arsenal in Flames. TOULON, France, Nov. 20—The naval arsenal was on fire today. High wind caused fear that the flames might reach explosive magazines. Vigorous eflorts were made by civilian and naval authorities to prevent a disaster. AMERICA SHOWS ITS FRIENDSHIP FOR CHINA; TWO DEAD, NINE HURT PEKING, China, Nov. 20.—The American legation here today received a Chucking of junks laden with Chinese troops by the American steamer, Mel- Jon, and the killing of two soldiers and wounding nine others by the Amer. loan naval guard aboard the vessel. ‘The Junks were sunk by a backwash from the Meijen, the note stated, yp the steamer had Ignored frantic signals from the Chinese calling ut cab me stop, The naval guard then opened fire on ape Entered as Second-class matter September 31, 1923, at @ SUNDAY, AGED WIDOW WITH FIVE CHILDREN SENT TO JAIL FOR STEALING PALTRY SUM BEDFORD, England, Nov. 20,— Dagmar Campion, aged fifty, the widowed mother of five children was arraigned in court here on charges of stealing goods valued at $3.25. It was her first offense but she was sentenced to a month’s hard labor. SILK STRIKERS INSIST UPON FULL DEMANDS Mill Owners Threaten pon | hoe to Move Mills (Special to The Daily Worker) NORTH BERGEN, N. J., Nov. 20.— Owners of the Hillcrest Silk Mills an- nounce that they intend to move their mills to North Carolina because of failure to beat the strikers into ac- ceptance of the multiple loom system. A strike has been going on for a month, with the workers standing firmly against the proposed introduc- tion of the three- and four-loom sys- tem. The threat to move is an old hoax that is always used in silk strikes, following the example of the Patterson silk mill owners who al- ways threaten to move when. they cannot beat the strikers. But the Pat- terson mills are still where they were. The gesture is made in order to ers, professionals, boot-leggers, and others on the side of the mill owners. Leonard Bi zetti, a pr Roman catholic church of our lady of owners and ore) leaders to try to befuddle the workers into accept- ing the bosses terms, Albert Weis- bord, leader of the strikers who has been arrested twice in the struggle on charges of “disorderly conduct” and is out on bail while the jail sentences imposed upon him are being appealed to higher epurts, was the chief spokes- man for the strikers at the conference called by the priest, The priest, while defending the In- terests of the manufacturers, tried to cloak his real mission by telling the strike leaders that. many of the strikers were suffering and for that reason he intervened to end the strike. This is a typical jesuft at- tempt -to endeavor to create dissen- tion in the ranks of the strikers, some of whom are still under the illustons of religious superstition. They should tell this priest that the question of conditions in the mills, hours and wages of the workers are something entirely aside from his specialty and that he should confine himself to his business and leave the strikers settle their own affairs with the bosses. Won't Yield to Bosses. The employers offered $35 per week for men on the basis of individuai contracts but insisted upon the mul- tiple loom system. The proposals were presented to a mass meeting of the strikers yesterday and they un- animously refused to consider it, re- jecting it by an overwhelming vote. When the rejection was reported, the owners said they would deal no fur- ther with the strikers and would re- move the mills. These threats to move mills, and their occasional actual removal, are possible because of the unorganized condition of the textile industry. Where organized at all tne untons are merely of a local character and there has not yet been created an organiza- tion capable of uniting the shreds or organization. The challenge of re- movals can be met in but one man> ner—the amalgamation of the scat- tered unions into one body, forming the basis for a powerrul drive to unionize the whole textile industry of this country. Ukrainian Student “Disappears” After Beating by Police WARSAW, (L. R. A.), Nov. 20— There is as yet no news of a Ukrain- fan student, Vasili Kostinika, recently arrested by the Lvov secret police. Kostinika’s disappearance evoked ¢ great sensation in the circles of the Lyov barristers, who questioned the ministry of justice about the unheard ‘of thrashing of Kostinika at a Lyoy | Police station. He was beaten on his i | } ‘2 ENDS | The 17th convention of the Industrial ° of the World closed yesterds according to state- ments given out at the headquarters. The conven began on Noy. 9, and has lasted; en days. It began with twelve del 66: ites, unseated one, Warren Lam: the small indus- \trial unions, ed another, Carl | Schultes of tl Marine Transport Workers, and in almost record time for an EW. W. convention. Last, year’s c@hvention lasted three weeks, -. * Sliding Seale Goes Thru. Among the Warious actions of the convention $ most progressive was the adoption of the “sliding scale” al lowing indus unions to set their WORKER. | ‘Office at Chicago, Milinels, under ihe Act of March 3, 1879. SAVE POLISH > NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE ARRANGES DEMONSTRATION TO PROTEST GITLOW IMPRISONMENT NEW YORK, Noy. 20.—A protest demonstration against the imprison- ment of Benjamin Gitlow is being arranged by the International Labor De- fense, New York section on Tuesday, November 24, at Webster Hall, 119 East lith street, at 8 p, m. Comrade Gitlow was sentenced to a term of from 5 to 10 years for a violation of the New York criminal syndicalist law in the court of Judge Weeks in New York City, January, 1920. state supreme court and finally by the United States supreme court. He was first released after 27 months behind bars and must now serve the un- expired portion of his term. lease of Comrade Gitlow. A resolution is now being sent out to all unions in New York City for their adoption, by the International Labor Defense, showing up the nature of the persecution and calling for his immediate release. The International Labor Defense has called upon all workers’ organiza- tions to join in this protest meeting. Remember, November 24, at Webster Hall! This Issue Consists of Two Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, 4 TERROR This verdict was later upheld by | The International Labor Defense is conducting a campaign for the re-| Come out and protest! DEMONSTRATION TURNS INTO A CELEBRATION initiations and dues within certain limits, to con! with the conditions of the industry jand circumstance; of the clause limit- of office to one Rag, Pye of only a small per- also the remo ing officials’ tei year, All this the members, p centage ever 7 5 refused to send international of eonsiders the I. W. W. an inte jal in opposition to all others and| ing general ive board to call a “administrations” s of the 1. W. W. nationally. The rer, reaffirmed the convention which and foreign correspondence “with all international labor bodies. A “Friendly” Split. Mincoff, one ofethe anarchistic dele- gates who madéi this motion, held that the Berlin anarebist international was “close to the I..W. W.” in spite of the Berlin group having attacked the I. W. W. andwembraced the emerg- ency- program split as an affiliated sec- tion, Just how’ “friendly correspond- ence” is to be maintained with a group that ‘s splitting the I. W. W. was not explained, Counterfeiters at Work. SOFIA, Bulgaria, Nov. 20—A gang of international ‘counterfeiters have been found in Bulgaria with plates for counterfeiting 5,000 leva Bulgar- ian notes arid $100 United States gold |certificates, In the gang that was ar- rested, five of them were employed in the state printing establishment. CHIGAGO I. L. D. TO STAGE BiG MEETING DEC, 5 Holly, Minor and Mann to be Speakers Local Chicago Intérnational Labor Defense has calldda mass meeting for Friday, -Decemberr4, at the West Side Auditorium, corner Racine and Tay- lor Sts., to protestsagainst the impris- onment of Anita Whitney, of Califor- nia, and Ben Gittow of New York, con- victed under the @tate crimnial syn- dicalism laws. Speakers will be Wm. H, Holly, Robert):Minor and Fred Mann. All laborwrganizations are be- ing asked to participate. Anita Whitneywwas convicted under the California -¢riminal syndicalism law for a speech delivered in 1920. Her appeal carried to the United States supreme court, was recently de- nied, one court refusing jurisdiction. Benjamin GitloW was indicted with a number of others in 1919 for his con- nection with the left wing the so- clalist party, Tried and convXted in 1920. He spent over two years in pris- on while his appeal was pending be- fore he was admitted to bail, In July, 1925, the supreme court finally denied his appeal and sustained the constitu- tionality of the New York criminal anarchy, law, Justices Holmes and Brandeis dissenting, On November 10) Gitlow returned to Sing Sing. Unless :his release 1s forced by mass protests,He will have to serve strongly that for several ke he was unable to walk, _ the balance of hisssentence from five to ten years ‘ N. Y. Workers Sing at Horthy Defeat NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 20.—Yes- terday’ morning the largest group hitherto gathered for the purpose of demonstrating against the court mar- tialing of Comrade Rakosi and the other Hungarian comrades by the American-owned Horthy. government, met to march supon the Hungarian consulate in New York City, pre- pared to: picket with appropriate slogans and demand the release of jour: comrades, Just & few “moments before the demonstration was to have begun, Comrade Rose Baron, secretary of the International Labor Defense, New York section, received the fol- lowing cable: “BERLIN, Germany. After two days proceeding, court martial de- clared itself incompetent. World protest of workmen triumphed.” Comrade Baron called together the demonstrants who packed the hall and stood outside the doors eagerly waiting for instructions to proceed. There weré some older workers but most of them were young men and women betwee the ages of twenty and thirty, who had sacrificed their day’s work to picket the Hungarian consulate. She read them the cable, whereup- on the crowd broke into song. It was the “Internationale,” and expressed their own feeling of triumph that |their. previous demonstrations and | the demonstrations of workers thru all other countries had helped to save the lives of their comrades. The demonstrants disbanded after any moment—a standing army, they called themselves—to leave their work benches and their shops at the call of the International Labor Defense to demonstrate against the white terror in whichever country it nfight mani- fest itself. pledging themselves to stand ready at}, BRITISHTRIAL — OF COMMUNISTS DRAWS WORKERS Scotland Yard Steals. Defendants’ Mail | (Special to The Daily Worker) | LONDON, Nov. 20.—The trial of the | twelve arrested members of the Com- munist Party and the Young Commun- ist League of Great Britain is attract: jing great attention. at “Old Bailey” here, Eject ‘Spectator. | As-<the court opened one of the} spectators remarked, “This trial is al farce anyway.” Scotland Yard de-| tectives are very much in evidence, at the” thial “and” the “spectator Who} dared to criticize the class character of. the justice administered in English | courts.was promptly ejected. The) attorney .for the crown, Sir) Douglas: M. Hogg, is seeking to prove thatthe accused “leaders in Britain | jof an, organization calling itself the | ; Communist Party,” were trying to| “overthrow..the British government by | | fomenting. civil war, for which ‘reason | they» made: special efforts to persuade | |'the army and navy to rdnounce their | oaths ofvallegiance to the crown.” Attack Communists. | In hisyspeech the attorney for the | | crown attacked the Communists say- ing: “You may persuade people to change to a different form of government or society. if you succeed in persuading | the majority of the electors, you will | jachieve your end. What you may not do is to attempt to stir up your fel- low citizens, whom you know you can-| not persuade in sufficient numbers forcibly to overthrow the rule of the| majority and the government as by | law established. | “You have a perfect right to say | that property ought to be abolished or the prime minister turned out of | office. But you have not right to say | | to people, ‘Steal your neghbor’s prop- | erty’ or ‘Murder the prime minister. He then read statement after aia (Continued on page 2) | | | RED INTERNATIONAL CALLS ON ITS SECTIONS TO AID CHINESE AND JAPANESE TRADE UNIONISTS Sections. SECTION ONE. Price 5 Cents HEAD OF POLISH - DIET TRIES 10 -— FORM CABINET \Financial Crisis Forces Government Failure | (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 20.—Fol- |lowing the failure of the foreign min- jister, M. Skrzynski, to form a cabinet, |Maciej Rataj, president of the diet |has been called upon to form a cabl- [ast following the resignation of the | Grabski cabinet. | It is declared that only a Wall |Street loan can save Poland. Unable To Solve Crisis. The inability of the Grabski gov- ernment of Poland to solve the finan- ial crisis which has forced the Po- lish mark to fall to unprecedented low levels and -has forced-a number of the largest banks of Poland to the wall caused the cabinet to resign. Tho the inability of the Grabski gov- ernment to cope with the financial situation was recognized a month ago the Grabski government continued to remain in power awaiting the ending of the Locarno peace pact and the negotiation of some agreement be- tween the allied powers of Poland which they hoped would stabilize their currency, The problem that confronts the present head of the diet will be one of choosing a cabinet not out of a majority party in the diet, as there are 10 separate parties in the diet, but choosing a coalition cabinet that will be able to represent the domi- (Continued op page 2) BRITISH RAILROADERS MAY MAKE MUSSOLINI “WALK OR STAY HOME LONDON, Nov. 20—British trade unionists are likely to give Musso- lini a warm reception if he persists in visiting England to sign the Lo- carno treaties, as he is scheduled to do. John Bromley, secretary of the Associated: Society of Locomotive Engineérs {and = Firemen declares that thé Failroad workers are quite likely to refuse to move Benito and his fascist cohorts, if they come. “Our union,” says Bromley, “has not yet considered the matter, but it would not surprise me if some of our members refused to work on a train carrying this dictator. If the volume of murmurings increases, our executive committee may ha to consider the question officially.’ LEFT WINGERS OF THE LL.6.W. TO AID GITLOW All Prisoners Pledged Help of Victors Triumphant left wingers of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers Union have not forgotten the perse- cution of class war prisoners in their joy at the victory over the reaction- ary leaders of the union. At the recent banquet of 1..L. G. W. MOSCOW—(By Mail.)—Upon the return’ of the -Red International of Labor Union's delegation from China and Japan and learning of the progress that has been made by the Chinese and Japanese workers towards organiza- tion on the industrial field and having heard of the persecutions which the workers of these two nations are subjected to, the Red International of Labor Unions calls on all its section in the following declaration to take up the matter of direct connections with these unions and aid them in their fight: “The delegation of the Red Inter~ national of Labor Unions recently re-| : \ . turned ‘from China and Japan, ana Coolidge Says American the Central Council of Soviet Unions| * referred in their report to the con- People Sorry for Queen; Does Not Speak for Us siderable growth and the political maturity of the Chinese trade union movement which is completely at one with the Red International of Labor excite Urea kea ong Unions. At the same time the del- WASHINGTON, Noy, 20—President “eration put us into possession of a| Coolidge today sent the following ex- number of facts which convince us| pression of regret over the serious that the imperialists and a certain| jmegs of Queen Alexandra of Eng- land, to King George, “I learn with deepest regret of the critical illness of your majesty's pe- section of the Chinese bourgeoisie are striving to suppress the growing loved mother, Queen Alexandra and hasten to express the frevent hope, workers’ Movement in the country, Make Connections, tion established between the Soviet|!" Which the people of the United Unions and those of China is a great| States wholeheartedly share, that “The Executive Bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions is of step forwards on the way to winning| your majesty’s anxiety, may soon be _ (Continued on page 2) | relieved by her complete recovery.” the opinion that the direct connec- | members in Chicago, attended by well } over 200, one in the andience arose {and moved that those in charge of the banquet should draft a resolution {demanding the release of Ben Gitiow and all other prisoners of the class war, This was done and a ringing re- solution, pledging the support of the garment workers to all imprisoned | fighters and the carrying on of the | struggle to abolish capitalist society | Was passed unanimously. The banquet was held to celebrate the election of left wing delegates to the coming Philadelphia convention of the I. L. G, W. Many left wing lead- ers spoke, and the applause for the victory lasted for ten minutes, the victory of the policy of class struggle over the policy of class collabora- tion, Greetings from the Fretheit, The DAILY WORKER and the Trade Union Educational League were re- , ceived with enthusiastic applause, After Comrade Steinberg, manager of the Frojheit had spoken, a rank and filer moved to raise a collection in. the audience for the Frethett. About $100 was collected, The meet- ing was the*most joyful gathe: of Pecos garment workers ia | a day, roca ~ , SS RRR