The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1925, Page 1

“ff The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Subscription Rates: ) ee ro We 9. be P, Fgit gy 4d. tg Vol. II. No, 270. — *, ; By oe GREEK COMMUNIS1. “ARRY ALL MUNICIPALITIES IN THESSALY, THRACE AND MACEDONIA SECTORS ~ (Special to The Dally Worker) ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 23.—In the recent municipal elec- tions held in Greece, the Communist Party carried every muni-| cipality in Thessaly, Macedonia and Thrace by.-overwhelming| majorities, despite the fact that many of the leaders of the Greek Communist Party are in jail and some have been exiled. In the other parts of Greece, the reactionaries won by small majorities thru fusing their forces together in, a desperate at- tempt to defeat the Commun- ists. li The government party, under the leadership of the would-be Greek Mus- solini, Premier Pangalos, did all that it could to keep the workers of Greece away from the ballot. box and after AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'PLAHERTY In_Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, FORCING Money Wages Remain Stationary, But They Buy Less and Less By WALLACE T. METCALFE (Worker Correspondent) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. 23.— Wages of the sheet and tin plate mill crews working under the union scale will remain ‘unchanged for the Nov., Dec., period as the result of the bi- monthly examination of sheet sales. The average sales price of 26, 27, 28 gauge sheets (black) was found to | have been $3.10 per 100 pounds in the} Sept.-Oct. period or the same as in the July-August period. The examination was held» by’ Jas H. Nutt, secretary of the Manufactur- ers Association and a committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers headed by President Mike F, Tighe. The volume of shipments was found to have been very heavy and if business keeps up the union committee expect the scale to be advanced at the next bi-monthly ANY people surmised a few years ago, when thrones began to top- ple ‘and their former occupants ad- journed to hastily improvised graves or to eke out a living at any form of employment from telling fortunes to shining shoes, that the old and once highly esteemed aristocracy was as functionless in modern society as the appendix in one’s body, provided one has been treated by a doctor who specializes in disposing of appendixes. In which case one need not worry about. appendicitir * s 8 UKES, counts and even lords were never more in demand than to- day. Tho the youthfyl female section of America’s dollar aristocracy is tiring of the thrill formerly secured by an- nexing a European count regardless of age’ or sex, and are turning their eyes in the direction of millionaire bootleggers, a new field has opened up to the Old World's cast-off relics of feudalism. We are referring to examination, MINUTES OF the election did all it could to hinder the counting of the ballots. Many Communist ballots were destroyed by them in ‘an effort to defeat the workers’ candidates. Call Reactionaries’ Conference. Premier Pangalos is now calling a conference of all the reactionary lead- MORGAN BANK SHOW POWER Secret Orders Issu Thru Government PEKING, China, Nov. 23—The Jap- anese are extremely resentful at what they call the “surrender” of the powers to the threat of complete re- pudiation of all treaties by China, as ers of Greece in order to decide on steps of crushing their Communist opposition. Pangalos, who became premier because of his promises to end the persecutions of the workers and the Communists and who calls himself an upholder of, the republic, is forced to call, this conference at which leaders of the. two | royalist factions in Greece will meet with him to devise repressive measures against the Communists. To Combat Communists. In January, the elections to the Greek senate, which has been ‘created \Pmce at Chicago, duinols, under ihe Act of March 3, 1873. EMBER 25,1925 <q": PREAD OF COAL WAR Published AGAIN ‘DEFEAT Try to Elections he Daily Worker) y Nov. 23.—The Pain- ed last night after program by a vote hough the vote was as a vote of confid- of the government's created an impasse t continuation of the ent intolerable. As PARIS, Fi leve cabinet a defeat of of 278 to not annouw ence, the 2 finan that paler a Paineleve s00n a it was announced Painleve that he would pres- ent the igmation of his cabinet, which he di tantly by receiving the B of ail his ministers and presen them to President Doumergue. After a president, discussion with the Mmleve, left the Elysee ergue summoned M. ident of the senate esident of the cham- to discuss with ita A new premier. Votes Decide. va oting on other parts | of the program of the government, the Communist rho have 26 deputies, refrained H voting. But when article fives moratorium © cast their ‘es came up, they he yellow socialists recently, will take place. Im. March, advocated by Soviet diplomacy. in elections will be held for. represent- fact Japan may split away from the the real estate business. A Chicago ‘real estate promoter who specializes in Florida recently imported an Eng- lish duke and is using him. to--good: advantage in inducing the newly rich “tor consider the merits of his*amy ious property in Florida. o-.8 N investment of $10,000 in sunken orange groves Will give .the win- some daughter of’ a hot dog magnate the privilige of shaking the duke’s hand, She may be allowed to make him drunk for double the amount. The duke is not placed on exhibition at the reai estate shark's palatial offices. He is held in leash for the favored ones. who are considered worthy fish for banquets where the duke is wined and dined. It is re- ported that since the duke’s arrival the real estate man who imported him’ more than trebeled his catch of suckers and was able to dispense with fifty per cent of his sales force. +. 8 2 | Dib ‘ had William Jennings Bryan lived until now, it is doubtful if his prolonged duel with the devil of knowledge could have his advertising value to the Florida réalty company that was paying him a-thousand dollars a week as a means to attract a crowd: One ambjtious (Continued 96 page 2) ‘The Facts 2, Eg 3 NEXT SATURDAY in'the ~ Magazine Section of The Daily Worker Authentic document pre- senting the real situation |. TODAY in the Union of | Soviet Republics. | of bumper Are © reports |) erops facts? | Js Russia advancing? How about the workers? | All doubts dispelled; all | questions answered by | FACTS. Do not miss this | issue if you want to be in- | termed on the conditions in | the» workers’ republic. » SUBSCRIBE! maintained | || the election have now dwindled to 158. atives to the lower. chamber of par- liament, the bople. The. conference being called by Pangalos will,discuss the fusion. “illaver, royalists, and the re cere tions, The conference also intends to devise means of keeping -the Coth- munists off the ballot, ty Declare Elections Void. _ In Xanthi and Saloniki, Where. the Communists won the muniéfpal:elec- tions, the Pangalos govérnment_ re- fused to allow them to take; their places and declared the election, void. This is undoubtedly what théy will tempt in those parts. of Gree¢e where the Communists were able to tarry all municipalities. consortium of bankers which has bossed the handling of Chinese affairs policies, 3 tches’ from Chinese press tell of “the” meth- ods used by the international bankers’ consortium in controlling the diplom ats of the various imperialist powers, and even an alleged copy of minutes of meetings in J. P. Morgan’s New York office are given, Show Bankers’ Dictatorship. These minutes cover three days in October, the 19th, 20th, and 21st, but give no hint of the reason fOr the re- cent decision of the imperialist pow- ers, to grant China full tariff auton- (Continued on page 4) CZECHO-SLOVAK COMMUNISTS NOW HAVE 42 SEATS IN ASSEMBLY; SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS MEET DEFEAT (Special to The Daily Worker) PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Nov. 23.—The Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia was able to increase its delegation in the national assembly from 27 to 42, according to the state press bureau of Czecho-Slovakia.. The composition of thé incoming national assembly, based on incomplete returns is as follo The governmental parties witch had 173 delegates before The opposition parties JENSEN'S. RECORD WHITEWASHED BY JOHN FITZPATRICK Reactionary Officials Praise Each Other Officers of the district council of the Carpenters’ Union, officials of local unions, prominent members and cele- brities who were willing to spend a Pleasant evening in expressions of mu- tual admiration, participated in a banquet on the occasion of the dedica- tion of the new building of the car-' penters’ district council, located at 12 Hast Erie street. The big guzzle took place on November 7, Prominent among those present were Harry Jensen, president of the council, and John Fitzpatrick, presi- dent of the Chicago Federation of La- bor, Fitzpatrick evidently came to do honor to one he would not have touched With a forty-foot pole a few which were composed of 121 delegates have increased to 142, Government Parties. The standing of the parties that make up the coalition government is as follows: Social-democrats, who had 55 sea! have been reduced to 29, The republican party (agrarian) had 42, now Tave 44, The Czecho-Slovak socialists, who had 27, now have 28, The national democrats, who had 22, are reduced to 13. The populist (catholic party), who! had 21, now have 31. The commercial party, which had 6, now has 13, Opposition Parties. — The standing of the parties that make up the opposition is as follows: The Communist Party which had 27 seats has now increased to 42 seats. Rey. Hlinka’s people's party had 11, (Continued on page 6) Naval Construction to Be Continued, Says British Naval Head LONDON, Nov. 28,—Great Britain is not contemplating any reduction in |'Years ato. its naval construction program, first | Jensen has not been fumigated in the. customs conference and other “the most abominable imperialism in Mor- ‘and who had aided imprison Communists stable. condittons-of France-and the fact that therevis: no dominant group in the chamber capable of maintain- ing a government will force the dis- solution of theoparliament and there- by bring aboutsmew elections, In a political campaign they feel that at this time thersituation is such that the working masses can be aroused against all the capitalist parties. The | hecticconditioms in France may be utilized to. mobilize the workers be- hind the Communist Party in a con- certed .assault) upon the rule of the capitalist class. + lord of the admiralty, Bridgeman an-)#ince those days, but Fitzpatrick can ‘nounced in the house of commons, a ssiontinued on page 6) | Briandvor Poincare. The next catinet, which will be or- ganized with ‘the object of pacifying the conflicting elements among the capitalist parties, may be headed by either Briand or Poincare. ‘The form- er, many times premier of France, may try to create a cabinet by bring- ing the right and left elements of the bourgeois together on a common pro- gram to avoid elections at this par- ticular time. He has been trying to get support from the right and still maintain enough left elements to en- able him to organize a government. On the other hand Poincare, former premier of the bloc nationale, (the industrialist group) may be able to bring the left socialists, who are loyal servants of the eapitalist class, into a bloc with the right in order to try to overcome the Communist menace. In either eventsthe government can be only temporary, as the conflicting elements within the political groups in the’chamber ‘will procuce one crisis after another until a new chamber is electéd with: ome group sufficiently powerful to maitttain a cabinet domin- ating, Whethersthis is possible only time can tell. The Communists. are well pleasdd with the situattow as they view the series of crisessas indicative of the breakdown of bemeseols parliamentar- ism. EGYPTIANS THREATEN NATIONALIST REBELLION AGAINST BRITISH RULE * (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov, 23,— Dispatches from sources in the Near East state that a revolutionary movement is beginning in Egynt to oust the rule of Great Britain, Former Prime Minister Zaghloul Pasha js alleged to be heading the movement, which however, has deeper and more radi- cal roots among the mas: The present prime minister, Ziwar Pa- a pliant tool of Eng has forbidden street gatherings in Cairo as a resultiof armed clashes and 3,000 Britishrtroops have been added to the force of occupation. COOLIDGE GIVES SECOND LEWIS’ STRIKE HINT THE SAME SILENCE AS FIRST (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 23.— The letter of John L. Lewis to Pres- ident Coolidge, containing a mild suggestion that if the government | dogs not intervene to force the op- | erators to abide by the Jackson- | ville agreement, the union may call a strike in all bituminous fields, has been considered by the pres' dent, but comment is withheld. A similar weak threat was made some. time ago by Lewis, but no | attention was given it, and without | the membership of the United Mine Workers force Lewis into a real strike call, it is unlikely that the present hint will get a great deal more consideration than the first one, VICTIM OF THE A.C. W. POGROM ining one of the! against the govern- | ging the resignation |\°f the Amalgamated Clothing Work-|lidge for redress against these op-| BACK AT WORK ‘Union Members Filling | Shop with Protests | (By Worker Correspondent.) | | The news of my being beaten up| jon Sunday of last week by officials | jers and sluggers, and of the previous | Friday’s sluggings at the membership | meetings, reached the shop where I work before | did. The workers who had witnessed the sluggings, the newspaper stories and _palctene had told the story in -gen- tails. ) All Interested. I came to work at 10 a. m. that morning because my section work#! but a few hours a day these days. ‘As*| I walked into the shop all eyes werd turned towards me and as I went} Past the other workers I was shower-| ed with questions from all sides. | “How many sluggers were there?” | “Do- you know who hit you?” “Did they beat up the girls, too?” “How many ‘gats’ did they have?” No sooner did I sit down at my machine than my shop chairman |came toward me, saying, “You knew that you would get a beating. Why did you go to the meeting?” It look- ed as if he had known of the slug- gers’ arrangements before hand. While we continued work, pictures of the bandaged workers were pass- ed around and newspapers contain- ing the story. At the noon hour, the workers gathered around me while I answered their questions. Was It For This? One brother remarked, “Is this the result of our many years of strug- gle and sacrifice to build up the Amal- gamated, to have our own brothers | and sisters beaten up?” 1 was told how some of the brothers | day evening at a general meeting be- | cause they had dared to discuss the | proposed $25.00 assessment. | “I can't understand why all this happened,” said another worker, | “those who were beaten up were our most active members. I know most of them, They are always on the} job in union meetings, fighting against wage cuts and other boss pro- positions. Just because they some- times disagree with the union officials | does that mean they should be slug- ged? And by our own members, too? Remember Sigman. “But what can we do?” asked a girl member. “They have the sluggers and they have the money; and we haven't learned to stick together, to give them a real fight. And if you say anything, you lose your job.” “But they can’t always get away with this stuff,” I told her. “Look what happened in New York in the I. L, G, W. They tried their slug- ging tactics there and look what hap pened.” Sentenced to Death, NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 23.—-Harri- son W. Noel, twenty, convicted mur- derer of Raymond Pierce, taxi driver, was sentenced by County Judge Ed- win C. Caffrey to die in the electric | chair during the week of January 10. Noel was alleged to have” killed Pierce, then used his cab. to kidnap Mary Daly, six, whom he jlater mur- dere? PUBLISHING CO., |ville three-year agreement NEW YORK EDITION Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, iil, Price 3 Cents ‘LEWIS MAKES TIMID HINT OF A STRIKE OF BITUNINOUS MINERS ~ TO ENFORCE 3-YEAR AGREEMENT (Spectal to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23.—With his timid and compromis- ling policy proven bankrupt in the face of the anthracite mine owners’ determination to crush the United Mine Workers’ Union }in the hard coal fields, John L. Lewis is being driven by the rank and file of the U. M. W. of A. to make a weak hint of a general strike of all miners, including the bituminous fields. In a letter sent to President Coolidge yesterday, Lewis humbly asks the capitalist government with strikebreaker Coo- lidge at its head, to come to the rescue of one of the most power- ful unions in America by compelling the bituminous Operators to cease violations of the Jackson-*— + in the soft coal fields. Lewis Makes Timid Hint. Government intervention, hated oA the coal miners, who wish only \fighting chance to fling their masse ‘ {power of a national general strike the heads of the arrogant operators, is direetly asked for, anf such a strike is only hinted at bv asking Coolidge—“‘whether the union men q taki: their the Jack- would be justified in own measures to enforce sonville agreement.” Lewis asserts that, “substantial }coal producing interests have violat- jed and repudiated their written word | of honor,” terests of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh railroad. The futility of appealing to Coo- erators, may be seen in the fact that | Coolidge’s secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon, is heavily interested | Iteis known that-a large portion of ‘But tthe’ brothers and sisters in}the \bituminous miners are- incensed the shop were anxious to get thefde'"at Lewis. for not calling them on Strike before, as they are being | compelleé to remain at work furnis' jing soft coal substitute to anthracite ‘ysers, thus scabbing on the anthra- cite strikers. The action of Lewis is, regarded as forced upon him by| this sentiment. Progressive miners are voicing the | {opinion that Coolidge will give only }@ little more recognition to this timid jgseneral strike hint of Lewis than he/ did to the first hint more than two} |months ago, That Lewis is wholly unwilling to| (Continued on page 6) CHICAGO LABOR TO HEAR COAL MINERS TONIGHT Meeting to Be Held at Northwest Hall editor of The) in town) William F, Dunne, DAILY. WORKER, arrived }last night, coming straight from the anthracite strike zone where 158,000 and he names the Pitts-} FILIPINOS INt- CHICAGO FOR Speak Here Sergio Osmena, vice president of burgh Coal company, the Consolida-| the Philippine senate and head of the {tion Coal company, the Bethlehem | Filipino independence mission now! Mines corporation, and the coal in-| in the United States, comes to Chi- cago on December 11. The all-Amer- ica Anti-Imperialist League is cooper- ating. with the Filipino colony of this city to make the visit a historic event in the building up of a united front | between American workers and Fili- pinos generally for the overthrow of jin some of these companies named as| American imperialism in the Far violators of the agreement. | East. Don’t Like to Scab. Leading up to the visit of they Filipino mission, there will be a series® panish. On the night of Dec. 11, the Filipino jation of Chicago will give a great banquet in the Auditorium hotel, in honor ofthe mission, Among | the speakers invited, in addition to | Senator Osmena, are John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and Manuel Gomez, secretary of theAllAmerica Anti-Imperialist League. Arrangements are in charge of Cirilo Manat, chairman of the spe- | cial “independence committee” named | by the Filipino association of Chicago. Unions Interested. It is expected that a considerable number of workers, particularly mem- jbers of the most important trade Head of Mixtiee to} fe t unions of the city will attend the ban-_ quet, All the speeches will be broad- casted, so that workers who find it im- | Possible to be present can hear the pda by simply tuning in on their own, or somebody el8e’s radio | set. The full program will be announ- | ced later on. | Bitter experience is teaching the Filipinos that their fight for liberty jis a struggle against Wall Street. | | American workers are also confronted | with the absolute necessity of des- troying the power of Wall Street in | their own class interest; for. this, if | for ho other redéon; declares the All- | Americe AntiIniperialist League in had been beaten up the previous Fri- | workers ‘are’ engaged in a struggle to | its latest bulletin, the American work- better their living conditions. He wil] |€TS must give “inhesitating support speak “tonight at Northwest Hall,|‘® the demand of the Filipinos for North and Western Aves., at eight | complete and independ- o'clock. In addition, Pat H. Toohey and Alex Reid; who have been active in the strike, »will also speak. Dunne ;has ‘béen in the strike zone for the past two weeks, writing of the struggles: of the coal miners. His close contact’ with the strikers and their families»makes it possible for him to give to the workers of Chicago immediate ence. ; British Textile Union Whips Bosses Who Try | to Force a Wage Cut (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—The strike a realistic picture of the situation] yictory of 135,000 woolen workers in there. |the Bradford digtrict of England has Toohey is a young miner, who has| been ratified by the court of investiga- been active in the anthricite strike. For attempting 40 speak at a mass meeting, Toohey, together with Alex Reid, national secretary of the Pro- gressive Miners’ Committee, were ar- rested and sent to jail. While Toohey was in jail the reactionary leaders of the union made an attempt to ex- pel him from the union, using every low and despicable method. However, the rank and file of the union refused to expel Tooley from his local union. | Reid is well known for his activities among the coal miners. has been active in the struggle against the reactionary Farrington machine in the state of. illinois. He will deal with the anthracite strike in relation to the situation thruout the, entire mining industry. All workers are invited to attend this meeting. Admission ig free. The meeting is being held under the Committee, For years he} auspices of the Progressive Miners’ | vernment 1s urged in an editorial pul» tion, representing employers and em- | pPloyes. The court recommends main- taining the old wage scale till the end of 1926, Thb strike’ came in late | July against a proposed five per cent | wage cut. The court's findings are published in New York textile journals. |Crew of Brazilian Ship “Mogi” Killed During Explosion | | | BUENOS AIRES, Nov, 23.—Seven- teen members of the crew of the Brailian shop “Mogi” were killed in an explosion on the high seas. To Muzzle \Goppsition, MADRID, Nov. 23,—Loss of citizen ship for those who “defame” the gO lished by the .ewspaper A, B, G, of ebublic, meetings,.in. English andge “_ | | |