The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1925, Page 1

| The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government { { THE DAILY WORKER. | DEPENDS Outside Chicago, VICTORY G OUT ALL MAINTENANCE MIEN FROM MINES By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. Article IX. SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 24.—The operators’ ultimatum of a five year aggreement containing a no strike clause (the provision that work shall not stop while negotiations are in progress and the further provision that the operators shall have the right to re-open the wagé question at any time) has been followed in this district by renewal of propaganda by agents of the operators among the miners. It is stated by miners and sympathetic businessmen that all the machinery which the coal barons have at their disposal here is being utilized to create sentiment for the terms of the opera- tors’ ultimatum. Dressed as miners, these agents, some of them businessmen whose enterprises face bankruptcy as a result of the strike, are circulating among the workers and urging a FILIPINOS NAii U.S. LIES ABOUT INDEPENDENCE | miners into submission. They hope “American Press Scored for Fake News indignation is a mild term to ex- press the attitude of Filipinos resi- dent in this country to the fake news stories ‘which are appearing, in the capitalist dailies, purporting to show that the Philippine people do not want independence and would support Gov- ernor General Wood's iron heel rule if it were not for a handful of “troublemakers.” ¥ is pointed out that this argument is se base and so contrary to pal- pable fact, thafit discredits out-of-hand everything else that the. newspaper correspondents have to say about, conditions in the Philippne ‘Islands. Everybody in the -Philippinesknows that popular opinion there is so over- whelmingly in favor of independence that no Philippine candidate can be elected. to any office who does not declare himself. for it unequivocally. Both houses of the national legtslat- ure are controlled by the national party from top to bottom. Despite the illegal intrigues of Gen: Wood, the legislature voted almost unani- mously to send the independence mis- sion headed by Senator Osmena to the United States. Moreover, not a single Filipino voice was raised against the demand for independence, the only objection offered to sending the mis- sion was that it might not go about} ont large local with about 1,200 members, its task energetically enuf. Attention of The DAILY WORKER is called to the big “independence fund” recently. raised in the islands by popular subscription. The fund was greatly oversubscribed, The Fil- ipinos xesponded almost as one man, and within a few months millions of besos were collected for the purpose of intensifying the struggle for com- plete and immediate independence from American imperialist .domina- tion. 4 | | The Facts | | Regarding the | | Economic Life of Russia _. SATURDAY in the | Magezine Section i of | . The Daily Worker Authentic document pre- senting the real situation L TODAY in the Union of f Soviet. Republics. \ Are ‘reports of bumper crops facts? | fy Russia advancing? | rlow about the workers? | Al doubts dispelled; all | “a chons answered by ‘8. Do not miss this save if you want to be in- ame on the ecnditions in tue Orkers’ republic. JBSCRIBE! ‘settlement on the operators’ terms. Demands for Relief Increase. The breakdown of the local capital- ist enterprises which depend upon’ miner’s trade is proceeding by geo- metrical progression—each week sees double the amount of business cessa- tion over the previous week. Among the miners the number of appeals for relief is increasing rapidly. There can be little doubt now that the coal barons intend to starve the that as the strike continues there will arise by economic pressure and pro- paganda enough sentiment for their terms to enable them to get support for them from the miners themselves, Officials do Nothing. The union officialdom is doing little if anything to counteract this disrupt- ive campaign. An incident which oc- curred in Local Union 1687 of Wilkes- Barre is illuminating in this respect. The strikers are now attending the local meetings in large numbers, when these are held—in itself evidence that the rank and file are now taking a deep interest in the strike: At the local meeting in question a resolution was introduced calling for the organization of an international strike relief fund, the sending out of a call fer assistance to all organized labor bodies,.the prosecution of the fight. for the full demands...of the: miners with renewed energy, the ré- jection of all arbitration proposals, the calling out of all maintenance men and a general strike in the whole coal industry. The local union membership was in favor of the resolution but the travel- ling auditor, J. B. Gallagher, was pres- ent, and after the introduction of the resolution he issued an instruction that no more meetings of the local, which has 1,600 members, be held. The local officials seem to be eager to discuss everything in the world but the strike. Do They Pay Organizers for This? At the last meeting of Local 1052, a some 500 were present. The officials showed up late accompanied by an organizer named Gleason. Gleason spoke in favor of the drive for the “community chest”—a class collabora- tion charity movement—and urged a day’s pay assessment for this fund which is administered by the local parasites, to be taken from the third pay of the miners after the*strike was over. He also asked permission for the local officials to attend the banquet ‘which was to wind up the “community chest” campaign. Both of these motions were repeat- | edly defeated by the members but the chairman finally declared them carried, : In Local Union 151 some 18 famil- ies have been given relief and one of the coal companies was allowed to employ 30 miners to repair a shaft. The relief committeemen in this local who examine each request for strike pay receive $10 per day. Always the “No Strike” Clause, As this strike continues and the defeatist propaganda of the operators and their agents is intensifled—many of these stoolpigeons even urging a 10 year contract with a no strike clause—the fact becomes clearer that the left wing, the Progressive Miners’ Committee, has the responsibility for the. prevention of the loss by the union of the gains it has made since (Continued on page 2) 5,000 JAPANESE TEXTILE WORKERS" In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. CAL BACKS PERSHING IN TACHA-ARICA ROW; WEEKS GOES TO CHILE WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24.— President Coolidge continues to sup- port General Pershing who is boss- ing the alleged plebiscite commi. sion overseeing the dispute between Chile ‘and Peru concerning the Tacna-Arica dispute over the bound- ary between the two countries, ‘ Coolidge says he will back »up Pershing regardless of the with- drawal of Chilean representatives from the commission after charging unfairness in the plebiscite ar- rangements. Some significance is seen in the departure for Chile from the Ar- gentine of the U. S secretary of war, John W. Weeks. Weeks has been visiting the Argentine, and im- perialist diplomacy is seen to be behind these “visits” of the Yankee official, EGYPT DEFIES JOHN BULL'S MERCENARIES Workers Rally to the Nationalists (Special to The Daily Worker) CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 2o.—Premier Ziwar “Pasha, who was legally shorn of his powers when the parliament met last Saturday and passed a vote of no-confidence and elected Zaghloul Pasha in his place,’is ready to resign and relinquish all claim to the office. As the tool of Britain Ziwar finds his position more and more untenable as the Egyptians are rising against him and the power he represents, “In its desperation to maintain complete control of the Suez Canal and to lord it over the Sudan British imperialism has gone to great excesses. Forbid Hotel Meetings. British agents forbade parliament to meet last week and heavy guards Continued.ont page 2) - —— ROUMANIAN DEBT PLAN REJECTED Standard Oil Does Not 0 Like Laws (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24—The Roumanian debt! commission propos- al’ was turned down by the American commission. Apparently the Rouman- ians asked for as favorable terms as those granted to Mussolini. The fund- ing of the $46,000,000 debt is still in the air. . Standard Oil Evens Score. The Mellon counter proposal is along the general lines of the British debt settlement. Seemingly the Stand- ard Oil displeasure with the Rouman- jan laws as pertaining to oil conces- sions has the effect of making Uncle Sam a harsh creditor. THURSDAY, Daily Worker) a, Nov .24—The ex- ipped ithe people of (Special to VIENNA, Ai citement that | Austria during + days immediately preceding ak of the world war is in evids belligerent fascist gove! came known thf that Mussolinl ¢ number of his for discuss with t! upon various launches unp! tria and Jugo-Si Dr. e jere because of the of the braggart of Italy. It be- j political channels led into Rome a ign ambassadors to ™@ the probable effect lations in case he d attacks on Aus- “president of the party, disclosed dur- vention of that n by which Italian nvade the country 000, unless the gov- for an anti-fascist rian deputy in par- ogant endeavor of d the terror dom- ounding countries is bound to leadito a fierce struggle, and if fascist invade Austrian The joth Italy and Aus- ing the recent party a secret p \fascisti plan to with a force of ernment apologiz speech of an Au liament. This Mussolini to ex Communists of mly have us against “but also Czecho- ) Roumania “and Italy it will not \s "said Re Turkey.” Radich addedithat he had no quar- rel with the Italian people but that every means wonld be used to crush the blackshirtso of fascism in case they invade the country. After go- ing into what hesimagines the politi- tions in Europe,,most of which he ;misinterprets because of political in- experience and ithe political short- (Continued on page 2) 9-YEAR OLB BOY LOSES LIFE WHILE PICKING COALS FOR FAMILY FIRE ROYALTON, Ill., Nov. 24.—Frank Caldwell, 9, was killed in the Illinois Central railroad yards here when he was picking up coal along the track. The boy evidently had crawled be- neath a car when an engine backed down on the ca ind pinned the lad under the whi POLLS LARGEST of rumors that the Communists CZECHO-SLOVAK COMMUNIST PARTY VOTE IW RECENT ELECTIONS 10 NATION ASSEMBLY (Special to The Daily Worker) PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Nov. 24.—Despite’ the slanderous attacks on the Communist Party candidates aridthe circulation were going to assassinate Masa- ryk, president of Czecho-Slovakia, the Communist Party polled 930,000 votes, according to incomplete returns, casting a larger total vote than any other political party in theeountry. The agrarians, clericals, social«democrats had candidates in the three sections of Czecho-Slovakia,—i. e. inthe first sector Moravia, Silezia and Bohemia, in the second #ector, Slovakia, and the third sector, Podkarpatska Russ—their parties in each STRIKE AGAINST LOW WAGES AND CONDITIONS IN KAWASAKI MILLS TOKIO, Japan, Nov. 24.—Five thousand Japanese textile workers walked out at the Kawasaki textile mills demanding higher wage: and more con- sideration from the bosses. A number of strikers have been arrested fol- lowing a demonstration in which they carried banners protesting against the inhuman conditions they are subjected to. The textile workers of Japan are growing more restless and the govern- ment fears that the walkout of these five thousand Japanese workers may be followed by strikes in other textile mills, The average Japanese worker is forced to work 12 to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for a small wage in the cotton mills and thére is but little do not work fast enough, organization to protect them from the bosses, who beat the Workers if they ted | *of these sections cannot be considered as units as the agrarians of the first sector are opposed to those of the second sector who, are in the movement for the ion of Slovakia from Czecho- (Continued on paye 2) Four Pages Today Owing to failure of a carload of six-page news print to arrive on time, this issue is being published in a reduced size This may con- tinue for several days. Owing to Thanksgiving Day coming on Thursday, the mext issue will be dated Friday. tria will launch concerted drive against the it forces. If the blackshirts to attack Austria} the working of Italy will knife them in the * Radich 7 ns Fascists. BERLIN, Nov,?24—Stephen Radich, leader of the Croatian’s peasant party and Jugo-Slay @ilmister of public in- struction, in;a @peech at LaibachJast night, hurled 4 nee at Mussolini and the I ffascist hordes that threaten to invade Jugo-Slavia and Austria. “Ifthe adveniurer policy wins in cal situation of: the surrounding ral Published Daily except-Sanday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ll, NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Centr» * * “working class of this country. tator, fend British domination of Mosul Palestine. and Japanese bankers, try to gain Morgan in the lead. In Egypt, Britain faces a interests. ing of spring. plore the despot to liberate them. Thanksgiving in the capitalist thankful for their Tot: the world where the conditior The workers of all the worfd can because it is the outpost of the world revolution; a leadership International. savages. passed. GITLOW IN JAIL WHILE SMITH AND WALKER SPORT AROUND SOUTHERN CITIES os apa (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 24—While Benjamin Gitlow, candidate for mayor of New York City on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket is behind the walls of Sing Sing prison serving the balance of a five to ten year sentence imposed on him in 1920 for his connection with the manifesto published by the left wing of the socialist party, the suc- cessful capitalist candidate Jimmy Walker is breathing the balmy air of Florida and Governor Smith is recuperating from election strain on the board walk of Atlantic City. Gitiow returned to Sing Sing on November 9th, shortly after the United States supreme court hand- ed down a decision upholding the constitutionality of the New York criminal anarchy law. Federal Prisoners Have Nothing to Be Thankful to U. S. For (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov, 24—Federal prisoners will look in vain for par- dons, this Thanksgiving day, Accord- ing to the White House official spokes- man, Mr. Coolidge expects to receive from the various wardens of federal prisons a few recommendations for special clemency just before Christ- mas, but he sees no reason to expect that he will be asked and advised. to show any mercy by writs of pardon before that time, THANKSGIVING HAT has the world to be thankful for on the day which is sup- posed to be set aside so that we can offer up incantations to the spook in the sky for manifold blessings we are supposed to enjoy? How can the world be thankful when: | N this country 158,000 miners are striking for the right to be recog- | | nized as human beings while the combined infamy of the mine barons, the government and the reactionary officials are leading them to destruction. Thousands upon thousands of children toil long hours amidst the most ghastly surroundings. ; many industries and new ones are threatened, with the workers standard of living constantly falling. The burden of taxation is being piled higher as the capitalist government lightens the debt of the Italian despot, Mussolini, and places it upon the shoulders of the In Italy, where the workers suffer under the most savage tyranny, every day sees new excesses against all who dare challenge the dic- In France the instability of the government is proved by the rapid fall of cabinets and the continuous decline of French currency, while mercenary hordes of French soldiers try to scourge from the face of the earth the natives of Syria and Lebanon. . In England unemployment is increasing at an alarming rate and the permanent army of unemployed that has averaged two million since the war is now increasing every day. British airplanes leer menacingly from the largest air base on earth, ready at a moment's notice to sweep down upon Turkey to de- Wage cuts are in effect in oil, while the American Standard Oil concern withdraws from the Mosul group preparatory to fighting. American warships traverse the Mediterrenean from Gibraltar to Alexandria, thence to Beirut and from there back toward Sidon, as a threat to British forces mobilized across the Lebanon border in In China the diplomats representing American, British, French diplomatic victories preparatory to the complete subjugation of that nation. Each group strives to gain advantages for itself against the others, with the American House of s crisis with the parliament meet- ing in defiance of an edict and de,..ing the premier selected by British In northwestern Africa, in Morocco, the Riffian soldiers fighting against French and Spanish despotism are taking advantage of the rainy season to prepare for the battles that will come with the open- In the Philippine islands the natives there suffer under the iron | heel of Major General Leonard H. Wood, the agent of Wall Street, while representatives of the people of those islands come here to im- world is a vacuous jest, a sardonic grimace at the suffering of the millions that-groan in chains. There ig only one place on the face of the earth where the masses can be ‘That isin the Soviet Union, the one place in of the worker is constantly improving. be thankful for the Soviet Union world revolution, a living inspiration to the struggling workers and peasants thruout the world to rise and de- stroy the capitalist despoiler of humanity. But we do not offer thanksgiving to any god in the skies. victories we gain and will gain in the future we owe only to our own strength, our power of organizaiton, and to the invincible leadership of The built up from the best elements of the working class from every country in the world—the Communist Thanksgiving for the ruling class means a cheap apology for the decaying structure of capitalist society. celebrate this thing, at the best a survival of the cannibal feasts of We refuse to recognize or Our celebrations commemorate living realities; the victories of the Bolshevik revolution, the eighth anniversary of which has just Instead of utilizing capitalist holidays to give thanks to capitalism the revolutionist takes advantage of the rellef granted him from work on the job in order to prepare himself and his class to strike the blow that will shatter capitalism to its foundations. Judge Busick, Labor Hater, to Preside over Ford’s Trial SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov, 24.— Judge Busick, the bitter labor hater, was selected by Gov. Friend Richard- son to preside over the trial of Rich- ard Ford, charged with the murder of a deputy sheriff in the Wheatland hop strike riots in 1913, Ford had’ al- | ready served twelve years on a charge jof having incited to murder the dis- trict attorney of Yuba county during the strike. No sooner had the prison board re- actionaries had him rearrested. The present prosecutor is a son of the county prosecutor who was among those killed in 1913. Suhr who was convicted with Ford is still in prison, Neither of the two men were charged with having killed the prosecutor and the deputy sheriff and even the jury that tried the case have since signed a petition acknow- ledging that the verdict was unjust. Shadyside, O., Workers Will Hear About Labor Defense Sunday, Nov. 29 SHADYSIDE, Ohio, Nov. 24.—The International Labor Defense will hold a mass meeting at the Miners’ Temple, Sunday afternoon Nov, 29 at 2 p. m. where Bishop William Mont- gomery Brown and Fred G. Bieden- kapp will speak, Biedenkapp will lecture on “La- bor and Defense.” All workers are invited to attend this, mass meeting. ¢ “Tf you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism--study it. leased Ford on parole than the re-| ZEIGLER MINERas FACE TRIAL FOR’ MURDER, NOV. 30 ‘LL. D. Needs Funds for | Defense (i, L, D. News Service.) | ZEIGLER, Ill, Nov. 24—The trial | of the progressive members of the | Zeigler local of the Illinois Miners’ | Union who were framed by the coal | operators aided by Frank Farrington’s reactionary machine and by the local officials of Governor Smail, is sche- duled to begin on November 30th, Klansman Kills Miner, | Frank Corbishley, a brother of Hen- | ry Corbishley, leader of the progres- sives, is charged with the murder of a radical miner who was actually killed by a member of the ku Klux klan, The indictment of Corbishley is an attempt to whitewash the kluxer, Tho the indictments are based om the flimsiest evidence and would not stand up in a court that was not un- der the thumb of the coal operators, there is grave danger that the miners |may be railroaded to prison and | Frank Corbishley to the gallows un- | Jess a vigorous defense is conducted in their behalf. Need Funds. | The Farrington machine has placed | obstacles in the way of raising funds for the defense of those miners among the local unions jn Illinois. This makes it ever so much more teces- sary for the workers thruout the coum- | try to contribute generously to the | defense of the Zeigler miners who are among the best union men in the United~ States. ‘A.C. W. OFFICER TRICKS MEMBERS BY ADJOURNMENT |Crude Autocracy Not to 4.-Last Forever... | : By BEN GORDON. | (Worker Correspondent) \ ‘The reactionary machine in the | Amalgamated Clothing Workers” {Union is trying to employ all meth- ods to suppress the question of who |is responsible for the slugging of the }members at recent meetings. They \know the members are indignant at | such methods to shut off free discus- |sion on union problems. | Having no defense they are trying |to shut off discussion on the ques- \tion in the local membership meet- yas shown at the meeting of 9 held a few days ago. The members felt angry over the whole affair, They put the responsibility squarely upon the officials A “Ruling.” In the hall there were three mem- bers who were victims of the slug- gers on Sunday a week ago, one with his head still bandaged. No -sooner had the meeting opened than some of the brothers raised the question, The president immediately made a ruling |that this question will be discussed after the nominations take place, be- cause this meeting was both a regu- lar and special meeting. The ruling {was accepted. | Under discussion, of the Joint |Board report, the question of the $26 jassesment came up. Those who \spoke on it brot forth the manner in | which this matter was handled at the general membership meeting, where !no discussion Was permitted and how jthose who were only suspected of | wishing to discass it weres beaten up by none othe® than the officials and members of the union. | The president again objected and | the officials had a hard time convine- ing the members that the assessment matter had already been passed by all other locals and it would be use- (Continued on page 2) SHACHTMAN TO WRITE NEWS OF ZEIGLER, ILL.,. FRAME-UP ON MINERS The frame-up to railroad the mi- litant miners of Zeigler, Ill, one of whom was murdered by a ku klux klansman at a local union meeting somé time ago, will proceed with the case being called for trial at Zeigler next Monday. The International Labor Defense Is sending a special publicity re- presentative, Max Schachtman, to cover the news of the trial. Read- ers of The DAILY WORKER are promised comprehensive reports of the case in daily dispatches from the court sent out by the Press Service,