The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1925, Page 3

1 ee oo \\ VOICE DEMAND OF FILIPINOS FOR FREEDOM Want No “Moderation” of Imperialist Rule Not to negotiate for a “moderation” of American imperialist rule in the Philippine Islands, but to voice the demand of the Filipino people for im- mediate and complete independence suthat is the purpose for which Sen- ator Sergio Osmena and the other members of the Filipino independ- ence mission now in Washington, were sent to this country. This fact was made public yester- day by the All-America Anti-Imperi- ialist League, whose sections in Latin- America and the United States are lending full support tot he Philip- pine national liberation movement. The league calls attention to official decisions of the Philippine nationalist party and the Philippine legislature as well, adopted at the time when the mission was elected last August. According to the instructions de- livered to the mission at the time of their “sailing, they must hold out against “any suggestion of comprom- ises such as national autonomy, home rule, or limited independence under American supervision.” As a separate nation of 11,500,000 people, the Filipinos demand the right to govern themselves in their own way, without interference on the part of any imperialist power. It is pointed out that altho the Philippine Islands was granted au- tonomy some nine years ago, this has not prevented Governor-General Wood from systematically opposing every act of the Philippine legislat- ure calculated to safeguard the con- trol of Philippine affairs by the Fil- ipinos themselves. He has been an unrelenting foe of the Philippine Na- tional bank and of every other insti- tution which sought to free the people from the domination of Wall Street interests. “If nothing else is acomplished by the visit of Senator Osmena’s mis- sion,” declares the bulletin of the All- America Anti-Imperialist League, “it will serve to attract world*wide at- tention to the unprecedented out- rages committed by General .Wood's colonial administration. Nor is Gen- eral Wood alone responsible. He was appointed by President Coolidge, who has turned a deaf, ear to every pro- test of the Filipino people demanding his recall, , Obviously then, the mat- ter will not be settled by the remov- al of a governor-general, but only by immediate and complete independ- ence for the Philippines from Amer- ican (Wall Street) rule.” FOR RENT: FURNISHED ROOM. by com- rade. Telephone Keystone 8539. Winecur, 4915 N. Avers Avenue. J. KAPLAN MERCHANT TAILOR Suits Made to Order at Reasonable Prices 3646 ARMITAGE AVENUE Phone Albany 9400 Paradise Restaurant HOME COOKING Banquets and Weddings our Specialty 3346 W, ROOSEVELT ROAD Phone Nevada 0986 CHICAGO To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on . all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. Seiaeaenamned CZECHOSLOVAK WORKERS’ DELEGATION | } THE DAILY WORKER CONDEMN REACTIONARY MENSHEVIKS IMPRISONED IN GEORGIAN JAIL TIFLIS—-(By Mail.)—The Czechoslovak workers’ delegation that is in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics visited the prison in Tiflis where they spoke with the menshevist leader, Prince Andronikoschvili, and with other prisoners for over eight hours, The members of the delegation inquired in particular about the social past of the prisoners, They discovered that the majority were or had been aristocratic officers. The delegates¢——————————_—__________. declared that the treatment in the prison left nothing to be desired and in this the prisoners agreed. On the same day the delegates had a discussion with one time menshe- vik workers who are now working hand in hand with the Soviet govern- ment. Kuprashevili, the oldest member of the Georgian social democracy, greet- ed the delegation in the name of the ex-mensheviks and declared that 11,- 000 one time mensheviks, had since discovered their error and were now working hand in hand with the rest of the working class for the national and cultural reconstruction of Soviet Georgia, Beat Reactionaries, The social democrat, Bachmann, declared in the name of the Czechish delegation that after conversations wien the members of the “‘menshevist committee” now in Tiflis prison, the delegation had come to the conclu- sion that the Georgian social democ- racy no longer had the right to call itself a workers’ party. The opinions of Andronikoschvili are no different from the opinions held by the black- est reactionaries in any of the Euro- pean countries. The one time chairman of the so- called “menshevist labor commission”) Dasmaschvili, requested the delega- tion to inform the Georgian emigrants in Prague that the Georgian working class did not stand in need of their assistance, and that the less the Eu- ropean bourgeoisie talked of Georgia, the better it would be for Georgia and the Georgian working class. Those Georgian emigrants who wish to go the way of Marx should return to Georgia and help us with the work of reconstruction. Those emigrants however, who are striving for an in- tervention against Soviet Georgia, will meet the former mensheviks in the ranks of the Red Army, Sulakwadidse, who arrived in Geor- gia 6 months ago to perform illegal work for the mensheviks and who after seeing the real situation in Georgia, broke with the mensheviks, spoke to the delegation in the same tone. Condemn Mensheviks, The social democrat, Wunderlich, made the following answer: “We are social democrats, but we want noth- ing to do with such people as we met today in Tiflis prison, nor with their friends in Europe, During our stay in Soviet Georgia and in Soviet Rus- sia we have recognized that a great work of socialist reconstruction has been begun, that here the working class feels that it is the master of its destinities, the captain of its state, Your work is for the benefit of the international working class.” Fight for Miners’ Best Interests (Continued from page 1) to paying for all work according to the well-established rules of the con- tract, is to let the grievances slide. Persisted in this means almost the complete abrogation of all except the major provisions and even these quite often suffer at the hands of commit- teemen who are afraid of ‘their jobs, or who have a keen desire for the better jobs that are handed out to committeemen who are more alive to the interest of the boss: than of the miners. Work for Nothing. Mine costs can be lowered most easily by getting work done:for noth- ing which the agreement” ‘specifies shall be paid for. ‘@ ad work,” (min- ing which producese no cog] but which is necessary to reach the vein) “tim- bering,” etc.,come under. this head. Most of the union officials are averse to disputes with the operators, Committeemen who always are fight- ing a large number of grievances will find sooner or later that they get little support from the higher. officials. A “troublemaker” is unpopular with both the union officials and the oper- ators’ representatives. He may be popular with the miners but the word is spread quietly that he is not a good man to support and unless the com- mitteeman is of unusual ability he finds himself facing union officials and operators alone. 4 This is a general description of the process by which “reds” are handled in the anthracite but a specific instance will be additionally enlightening. The story was told me by a miner whose name will not be given for obvious reasons. It is in his own words with the exception of the justifiable and extremely original profanity: A True Story. “T was elected on the committee for the Blank colliery and the first meet- ing we had I saw that the miners wasn’t getting paid for rock, or iron or timbering. I took the contract and showed where all this had to be paid for and I even made the com- pany pay for back work. Every meet- ing we had a big bunch of grievances and as soon as the miners found out we was making the company pay they brought in every case. “We was getting along fine but pretty soon I began to get poor places at the South Side Community Chicago, MAIN STORE: 665-9 McAllister Avenue WAUKEGAN, A 15 |b. Turkey Will Be Given Away at the DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT given by Branch No, 3, of the Y. W. L. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1925 Proceeds to The DAILY WORKKER and YOUNG WORKER. Admission 50 Cents—to include wardrobe. CO-OPERATIVE TRADING COMPANY Dairy, Grocery & Meat Market House, 3201 S. Wabash Ave., Illinois. BRANCH: 1806 W. Washington St. ILLINOIS to work in while the other committee- men got the best placés in the mine. They never backed me up much un- less I made 'em. “Then one day the district office called up and wanted our committee to inspect buttons at another mine, to cut down expenses, they said. I had my own mine to tend to and this meant getting down an hour or two earlier and seeing that everybody in the other mine had their due buttons before we went to our own work. Tells Fakers to Do Some Work. “IT told the officials that if they wanted to cut down expenses they could get up in the morning them- selves and that I wasn’t going to save money for a bunch of crooks, “The next day I got a telephone call to be at the hall at seven o'clock. I went down and here was the district president, the vice president and the auditor. “They asked me what I meant by calling them ‘crooks’ and I took the quarterly report and showed where they had got $900 wages—$10 a day— for three months and then from $1,100 to $1,300 for expenses.. The auditor had done the best of all, He had an expense. bill. for $1,440 for three months. “None of them ever went out of town except maybe over to Shen- andoah (about an hour’s ride) but they charged up expense just the same, “The president said I ought to be expelled from the union for question- ing the honesty of the officials. They took the case up with the union and then they found that an I. W. W. or- ganizer had stayed at my house one night and they claimed that I was trying to split the union but the local didn’t expel me, Rubbing It In. “Since then I only land a job In the worst places in the worst mines and never for very long.” There is a long list of cases similar to the one described. They vary only in detail. ‘The operators are powerful, the un- ion officials do not fight for “radicals” who are victimized by the blacklist, the bulk of the miners do not want to risk incurring the same kind of descrimination but nevertheless there ig an under-current of unrest that crops up at unexpected times and causes much worry on the part of the officials. Such an incident occurred a night or two ago on an interurban car. Strembo, vice president of the district for. 17 years, since 1908 to be exact, was on the car, as were two young miners. Strembo is a Hungarian, a church member and is known as the “boss” of a large bloc of Hungarian and Slav miners, He is one of the most enthu- siastic “red-baiters” in the valley. He was puffing his pipe compla- cently when one of the young miners said in broken English: “Mr, Strembo, you smoke pipe but maybe some striking miner ain't got tobacco to smoke in pipe. You get paid wages right along, don’ you? ~ 4 Strembo Moves. Strembo looked at him angrily but then got up and moved to the back of the car, When the two miners left the car at the next stop the conductor, evidently trying to curry favor with Strembo, said: “Those two young fellers don’t be- long to the church, do they?” “Church hell!” said the outraged Strembo, “they probably come from some Communist meeting.” It seems that both the operators and the reactionary union officialdom have the same idea, a correct one by the way, that a “red” is a person who thinks first of all of the interests of the miners. by JAIL SENTENCE — FAILS'T0 CRACK JERSEY STRIKE Albert Weisbord Guilty of Walking on Street PASSAIC, N. J., Nov. 20—In an outrageous hearing Judge Miles of the county court of North Bergen, New Jersey, found Albert Weishord of the United Front Committee of Textile Workers guilty of a frame-up charge of disorderly conduct and sentenced him to ten days in the county jail. This sentence, came after the po- lice officer had, been compelled to ad- mit that Weishord had used no abus- ive language, that he was not speak- ing to anyone,,that no crowd had col- lected, that there were very few peo- ple up and down the street with a sign telling of.the Hillcrest Silk Mill strike. Weishord had refused to stop walking up and down that street, that was all, § The court was very bitter. He re- fused to impose any fine, but wanting to break the strike that had been the center of discussion in Hudson coun- ty for over three, weeks, was determ- ined to send. the leader of the strik- ers to jail and imposed the ten day sentence on Weisbord. The strikers, quickly raised over a hundred dollars among themselves and paid the preliminary expenses for the bond and, Weisbord was released on one thousand dollar bond while the case was appealed. The International Labor Defense, wWew York section, has given full aid to the strikers and will push these cases to a final decision, The United Front Committee of Textile Workers are holding a big mass meeting for the support of the strikers and to protest the arrests and jail sentence. Bfforts are being made to make this meeting a united front demonstration by getting speak- ers from the United Textile Workers, the Associated Silk Workers, the In- ternational Labor Defense, and the United Front Committee of Textile Workers. Danish Prince Coming to U. 5. to Amuse Cream-Puff Gentry Po COPENHAGEN, Nov. 20.—Prince Aage of Denmark, who has served in the French foreign legion (the high- sounding title for-mercenary) and has aided French imperialism in the war against the liberty-loving Riffians, is planning to leave for America after a brief stay in the bright lights of Paris, The prince ris»parading around Paris telling of his {‘adventures” with the “fierce” Riffians.© He intends to speak before the créam-puff gentry in Am- erica on his “Warring” against the Riffs. as PRESS TORCH i Donations sent to The DAILY WORKER today lifted the rescue fund to the amount of $22,217,50, with the Russian branch of the Workers Party of Cleveland, Ohio, topping the list as follows: | Russian branch, Workers Party, Cleveland, Ohio ..... $ Finnish branch, Workers Party, Aberdeen, war. wr Greek branch, Workers Party, Detroit, Mich, M. Leskovitch,’'Battle Creek, Mich. Bohemian Cleveland, Ohib .. Hannah Kuebbéler, Toledo, 0. John Schedel, Fott Wayne, Ind. 1.00 F. Peterson, Stratford, Conn. 2.00 “Daily Worker” office, Chicago 11.45 Italian branch, Workers Party, Torrington, COMM. oe 2.75 Detroit, Mich. Russian branch No. 1, $9.00; Shop Nucleus 2, $16.00; threer@South Slavic branches and /Bulgarian Br., from Soviet celebration (in part) $58,60 ss + 83.60 South Slavic branch,’ No..7, De- troit, Mich. 47.00 Akron, Ohio, W. P. 21.00 Finnish branch, Workers Party, Rochester, N. Y. 15.00 Edward J. Royce, New York 25.00 Boston, Mass., J. Sweineek $1 Natalie Rubin, $5; Rebecca \ Diner, $2! others $4 .. 21.00 L, Cooper, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1.00 G, Simansky, Chicago, Il. 5.00 Finnish branch, Workers Party, Newberry, Mich. 7.67 Finnish branch, Wor Concord, N. H. ... 7.75 F, Lowerie, Chicago, Il. 40.00 South Slavic Br,, New Brighton, FOREN tw iy 40,00 Today's Total $468.47 Previously, recorded 21,749.08 Total to Date $22,217.50 RUSSIAN WORKERS GREET CHINESE GENERAL HU HAN-MIN IN MOSCOW MOSCOW—(Tass)-——-(By Mail)--General Hu Han-Min, general secretary of the Canton government, Mr. Li Liuan-Fang, secretary of the war council, Mr, Tsi Ho-Jung, and two students of the military academy at Whampao ar- rived to Moscow to study the economic and political situation in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The party was given a rousing reception at the station, where representatives of the people’s commissariat of foreign af- fairs, revolutionary war council, Russian Communist Youth Union, pub- Me organizations and workers were present. Katayama Greets General. Sen Katayama and other speakers greeted General Hu Han-Min as a strong fighter for the revolution and a collaborator of Sun Yat-Sen. They pointed out to a spiritual relationship between Lenin and Sun Yat-Sen and called for a joint struggle for the restoration of a full political and economic independence of the Chinese people, General Hu Han-Min, in his respond- ing speech which was frequently in- terrupted by applause, spoke of the struggle carried on by China with the assistance of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Later in the day, General Hu Han- Min was received by Karakhan. Denounces Press Fable. In a conversation with a “Tass” correspondent, General Hu Han-Min declared that the information of Peking & Tientsin Times alleging that he was lured to the Soviet vessel and sent away to the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republics is a fantastic lie from begining to end. The warm reception accorded to him in Viadi- vostok and other cities on his way thru Siberia shows deep sympathy of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics people towards the Canton AS WEE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) with him in principle because they can foresee the day whin their own hold on the masses will become so weak that they must grasp at the straw of fascist dictatorship before they drown in the sea of a workers’ and farmers’ revolution. ** 8 HANG-TSO-LIN, the military tuch- un of Manchuria and tool of Brit- ish and American imperialism, is hav- ing tough luck, He 1s now the only outstanding Chinese general who is not at least making a bluff at fighting for the unity of his country. Chang’s troops are rebelling against him and going over to General Feng, who 18 a follower of the diplomacy of Soviet Russia. Chang has the largest army but most of them are suffering from an uncontrollable itch to cut the tuch- un’s pigtail right off from the hips. 8 © HANG'S troops recently extinguish- ed 8,000 white guard Russian sol- diers who have been doing generat dirty work in China since the work- ers and peasants overthrew the czar’s government. Speaking quite plainly the white guards were killed. Capitat- ist papers would say they were mur- dered. The result is the same no mat- ter how it is told. On the whole China is coming along nicely, We learn from the New York Times cor- respondent that the “Red forces” are making great progress in South Chi- na. M. Karakhan, the Soviet am- bassador to Peking, on his departure from Moscow to his post declared the sympathies of the Chinese masses were with Feng, whose armies are disciplined and devoid of dissension. This is good for China, | oa ae ENERAL Sarrail, French governor of Syria who was recently recalled after butchering the natives in the In- terests of “civilization,” accused the British government of stirring up trouble in the French protectorate, Isn’t this* inconceivable, after the pretty compliments exchanged be- tween Briand and Chamberlain at Lo- carno while they were hatching the so-called peace pact? Yet, this is how it is. And when we tell our read- ers that “peace pacts” between capi- talist nations are really war pacts, many of them doubt our sanity. They think we are too prejudiced. But, while Briand and Chamberlain were framing up on Soviet Russia at Lo- carno, British agents were making trouble for France in Syria and French agents were doing the same for Brit- ain in Mosul, Is peace possible un- der capitalism? Can a flea-bitren cur help scratching himself? oe HEN a radical is arrested in “these United States” the papers pay particular attention to his mus- tache and to his accent. If the former is turned up or sticks out on the sides like that of a French chiropractor, the cast of the facial foliage is held up as proof that the mental furniture of the defendant is as undesirable to a red-blooded American as the cut of his jib. If his accent differs from that of a Kentucky manufacturer ot white mule, this is given as added reason why its owner should be de- ported. Britain has learned many of our tricks it seems. Most of our pa- triots would be offended if they knew that a man was hustled out of the London court where the British Com- munist leaders are being tried because he said the trial was a farce and said it with an American accent. z oe @ S THESE lines are written, Martin Durkin has not been captured, Since the man hunt started Durkin has done everything except scratch @ match on Chief Collin’s pants, Dur- Comintern, kin who evidently likes thrills is got- | Russian Communist Party, government, General Hu Han-Min further stated that the present polit- ical situation in Canton is quite stable and that the Kuomintang has power fully and firmly in its hands, There should be no anxiety for the fate of Canton in connection with Chen Chuin- Min’s action supported by Chang Tso- Lin, “We fought”—said General Hu Han- Min—‘and defeated Chen Chuin-Min when its army consisted of 30,000 men. Now he has no more than 10,000 and we are sure of the victory.” With regard to the tariff confer- ence, General Hi Han-Min said that it will not give any favorable results to China, but will serve as a practical lesson to those who still believe in the possibility of a peaceful settle- ment of the outstanding questions be- tween the Chinege people and the imperialists, Pleased With Russia. As to his impressions in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, General Hu Han-Min gaid that as yet he has seen little of the yast nation but that he is deeply impressed by the close cooperation between the government, Communist Party and the people in the reconstruction of the country. General Hu Han-Min intends to stay in the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics for a few months. By T. J. O’Flaherty ting tired of playing hide and seek with a lot of blind policemen. Why the city and federal officers do not engage William J. Burns to catch Durkin is beyond our understanding. It was Burns who discovered the per- petrators of the Wall Street bomb ex- plosion, 99 times. The last time he promised to arrest the culprit inside of forty-eight hours, was two days before, he left,the department of just-| . ice with his superior oil can Harry Daugherty. By all means let us have Burns and a little more innocent amusement. ; * 28 HAS. EDWARD RUSSEL, mem- ber of the Root expedition to throw mud at Soviet Russia, erstwhile defender of Philippine Independence, renegade socialist and a few other things, is now on the payroll of the Irish republicans in the United States. For a consideration, Russell is willing to tilt a lance at any enemy. Has the Irish republican movement in the United States fallen so low that it must utilize a discredited hack like Russel? But this much can be said, for Russell: at some time in his life he raised his voice against the rob- bers of the working class, in the United States. There were thousands of others in the camp ot the trish na- tionalists who distuinguisned them- selves only as the Simon Legrees of American capitalism, Irfsh radicals are strong in favor of driving the last vestige of British imperialism out of Ireland but they have no desire to be used as puppets by renegace social- ists, papal tools and American cap- italists. : Page Three “ Ft RENTS GO UP FOR WORKERS IN NEW YORK Segregation of Negro Race Effective NEW YORK, Nov, 20,—(FP)—Be- lieving that the rent laws that halted indiscriminate rent boosting for the last five years will not be renewed by the state legislature when they expire next February landlords have commenced already to raise their charges and in no place more so than in the Negro district of Harlem, the up town part of Manhattan Island. Frank Crosswaith, executive secre- tary of the trade union committee for organizing Negro workers gave the Federated Press an example from his own family, where his aunt had her rent raised $17 a month. Unofficial Segregation. The unofficial segregation that con- fines the Negroes to certain quarters of the city makes them that much more the victims of the landlords. They cannot escape as can white workers and take their pick of loca- tions. The rent hearings have come to an end with nearly twenty witnesses from tenants organizations taking the floor and telling of the crowding at high prices to which they are sub- jected. Little of the new housing comes within the rental possibilities of the ordinary workers and these are con- demned to take the older and more unsanitary tenement dwellings. Such new cheaper rental apartment homes that have been built in the Long Island section of the city are to @ large extent of the firetrap variety, insurance experts admitted. 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Here is the analysis of its importance and a text book to guide every worker to suceess in this field. Where? When? Why? How? ‘ new factors contrib- to its growth were ped. The question of r correspondents re- its first attention in } t 1