The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1925, Page 2

Page Two ~~ THE DAIL ¥Y“WORKER ™ 2 ee DETROIT POLICE MALLED BREINER JRING RIOTING? Patrolman Admits He Fired Two Shots (Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, Nov. 24. — During the course of the trial of Dr. Ossian H. Sweet and 10 co-defendants for the alleged murder of Leon E, Breiner, who was in a mob of white ruffians that stoned the home of the Negro doctor, Clarence Darrow, noted Chi- cago lawyer, brought out that Patrol- man Frank Lee Gill had fired two shots at the Sweet residence on that night. The patrolman was forced to admit om cross-examination that he had fired two shots at one of the Negro resi- dents whom he saw on the upper rear porch. Dr. Sweet admitted that he had a number of pistols in the house and also a shotgun, in order to defend himself, if it were necessary, since he had been threatened by an organ- ization of white landlords who threat- ened him with death if he did not sell his new home to them and leave the neighborhood, but that on the night that Breiner was slain that none of the occupants of the house had fired the shot. The defense had a photographer come before the trial with a number of protographs to show that Breiner could not have been killed by a shot fired from the house but that the pa- trolman, who admits firing at the house, must have slain Breiner. Police Shoot Breiner? The photographer Stephen Tickey, introduced a number of pictures which shows the possibility that the patrolman may have slain Breiner during the rioting. The police that were at the house at the time of the raid attempted to make it appear as tho there had been no trouble at the Sweet residence and that the Sweets had purposely shot Breiner. The state in its attempt to convict the 11 Negroes for the murder was given a setback when, under cross-examination, the police were forced to admit that they had con- siderable trouble in dispersing the mob. Conference on Ween in Industry to Meet Under Govt. Auspices WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—Problems of women in industry will be dis- cussed at a’ conference in Washing- ton, Jan. 18 to» 21 next, under the auspices of the women’s bureau of the department of labor. Representa- tives of all national organizations in- terested in this field will be invited by Miss Mary Anderson, chief of the bureau. Gaerne nn teen ett EX-PREMIER BRIAND OF FRANCE FAILS TO GET MAJORITY SUPPORT; QUITS ATTEMPT TO FORM CABINET (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, Noy. 24.—Aristide Briand, eight times premier of France, failed to form a cabinet when requested to do so by President Doumergue. Briand endeavored to form a cabinet by securing promises from the various parties that would enable him to have a substantital majority. former Premier Poinca The socialists then 2, but failed. “I am compelled to give up my attempt to form a cabinet,” Briand said, as he went to the Elysee palace to give his final answer to the president. “I had hoped to form a cabinet of rep- resentatives of all parties, each party conserving its full respon- sibility, but the socialists’ re- fusal to participate made this impossible.” Briand advised that Senator Paul Doumer be asked to under- take the task. The socialists, . Who were the mainstay of the Herriot cabinet, resent the at- titude of Briand who tries to ig- nore them and create a bloc with the center and right ele- ments predominating. Briand made an effort to obtain the sup- Port of these elements of the bloc nationale, the supporters of refused to participate in the cabinet unless they had half the portfolios and were permitted to dictate the financial and colonial policy. + Under Herriot the colonial policy of the socialists was brutal suppression of the na- tives of the colonies and mandated areas. It was while the radical socialist, Herriot, was premier that the butcher, General Sar- rail, was dispatched to Syria. Doumer May Succeed. Acting on the sugges- tion of Briand, the president summoned Senator Paul Doumer and invited him to form a cabinet. Doumer asked for 24 hours to consider the matter. That means that within the next twenty-four hours Doumer will con- fer with the various leaders and try to reach an agreement whereby he can be as- sured a majority in the chamber of deputies. Doumer announced that if he accepted he ‘a ’ Painveve ' would act as finance minister and keep Briand as foreign minister. Communists Active. With no cabinet in existence and the economie life of France in a chaotic condition, with unemployment threatening for the first time since the war, the Communists are taking advantage of the upheavals and carrying on in- tense agitation in the proletarian centers. The butchery in Damascus and the resultant war in Syria are utilized to rouse masses of workers, and expose the real character of the government as the enemy of the working class. Prominent Communists flout the notion that any one of the bourgeois parties can create a stable cabinet in France and assert that elections must sooy be held to break the deadlock that has been reached. They state that no matter what sort of artificial agreements may be made to prolong the present chamber, the existing antagonisms are bound to destroy it. The Hungarian Blood-Hound Has a Friendly Visitor REBELS HURL FORGE AGAINST FRENCH HORDES Communists Plan Joint Action in Near East BULLETIN, LONDON, Nov. 24.—The Druse rebels have deteated the French garrison at Rushaya in a sharp battle and have burned. the town, according to an exchange telegraph message from ‘Beirut. The French shelled the invaders. Two thousand French reinforce- ments are enrouté to Rushaya. sf. (Special to The! Daily Worker) BEIRUT, Syria, Nov. 24.—Fighting .is dying down in)Syria and in Le- banon the Druse are slowly crushing the French forces, ‘The French con- centrated at Rushaya for a drive against the Druse and Syrians in re- volt against foreign: military despot- ism, but their prepkrations were anti- cipated by the rebels. Last night a fierce attack was made on the Rushaya gatrison, sheltering the French forces: and a fierce battle is raging with the invading forces of French mercenaries on the defensive. Censorship Heavy. With each defeat the French forces have increased the censorship and it is exceedingly difficult to get the true facts of the fighting until several days after the events. Meanwhile capitalist reporters are writing lurid stories from their own fertile imaginations in order to satisfy the demands of their newspapers for sensational stories, whether true or not, Reports are current that Commun- ists in Syria and Palestine have creat- ed a committee of action for the pur- pose of resisting combined French and British attacks which have been threatened, as British forces here are apprehensive lest the upheavals in Syria spread to the British mandates areas, Communist ° Party in Czecho-Slovakia Gets the Biggest Vote (Continued tiom page 1) Slovakia, The same is also true of all the other parties with the exception of the Communist Party. Bohemia, Morayia, Silesia. The following number of votes were cast for the various parties in the first sector, Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia: os Agrarians, 686,000, gain 82,000; clericals, 664,000, in 201,000; Com- munists, 657,000 cial-democrats, 552,000, lost 526,000; “~Behomian social- ists, 551,000, gain 80,000; German so- cial-democrats, 406,000, lost 283,000; German agrarians, "397,000; German clericals, 324,000; Zi¥nostnic (party of Small bosses), 275,000, gain 152,000; national democrats, 255,000, lost 132,- 000; German nationalists, 326,000, and the Strana Stran: (bosses’ labor party), 84,000. r | Bubnik Deféated Badly. In this sector thé'followers of Bub- nik put up a tickel and were very badly defeated. All of the Bohemian papers attempted to make it appear that the Bubnik party would poll a larger vote than the Communist Par- ty. All attempts were made by oppo- sition parties to get Communist sym- pathizers to vote with the Bubnik followers. In spite of all these expen- ditures of energy, the Bubnikites polled less than 5,000 votes as they are not mentioned in the official election | returns. Other minority parties that put up tickets were badly hit in this election. Many received but several thousand | votes, Vote in ers In the second sector Slovakia, the returns were as follows: Rev. Hlinka’s party, 472,000, gain 238,000; agrarians, 250,000; Commun- ists 198,000 vee eres, agrarians 106,000; Magyar cléricals 100,000; so- Cial-demccrats 60,000, lost 449,000. itska Russ. In the third se¢tor, Podkapatska Russ, the cee Party polled the largest vote, which was 75,000. The other parties polled such small votes that even the o! jan press bureau has kept silent about the number they polled. In these parliathentary elections, which are the first the Communist Party engaged in, the party gained 930,000 votes, according to the official incomplete reports!’ The social-demo- crats in this elettion lost 1,258,000 votes. V ' Organized on Shop 8, The Czecho-Slovak Communist Party which was able to make this showing in the recent parliamentary elections was reorganized on the shop nucleus basis prior to this election and due to its activity in the new form of or- ganization was able to gain the sup- port of great masses of workers in Czecho-Slovakia, Tho the party at present polled more votes numerically than any of the other parties, it is not the majority party in the national assembly, NOTE: A pre-election forecast of the elections will be found on page six in whith the author ana- lyzes the line-up of the various groups. i i The DAILY ‘WORKER sub- scription list a Communist honor roll. Is your name on it? RY ial Czecho-Slovak- | IODAY, the Chicago Daily News considers it of sufficient import- ance to have the viewpoint of the Russian Communist daily, Pravda, on Coolidge’s recent speech, rush- ed by radio from Moscow to Chi- cago. In fact, the big Chicago daily newspaper, that its late owner, Vic- tor F. Lawson, turned over to La Salle street bankers, is quite ‘start- led that the Pravda should give four columns on its first page to a sum- mary and editorial opinion of what “Cautious Cal” had to say to the money men of New York City. To be sure, what the Daily News publishes is just a gasp in ten lines, to the effect that the headline in the Pravda declared, “America is ‘Saving’, Europe from Revolution,” with this short quotation: “Coolidge sings a hymn to the dollar. America is the bulwark of the world counter-revolution.” SLE HEN the Pravda puts quotation marks around “saving,” it ridi- cules the idea that Amwrican dol- lars can save capitalism in western Europe from the wrath of its op- pressed workers and farmers. All that Coolidge can do is to take the credit for the American dollar, claiming it has so far staved off the inevitable. z se @ ie is interesting to note that the Chicago capitalist daily had to go to a Communist publication to find any disagreement with an at- tack on Coolidge’s utterances. There is no disagreement in the ranks of the profit press. The ap- plause of the harlot dailies differs only in degree. Thus the Chicago Journal, which is democratic in politics, declares that what Coolidge said in his ad- dress had been uttered better and more frequently by Woodrow Wil- son, even before he became presi- dent. The Journal confesses utes the best thing Coolidge said at NeW York was the following: “While it is true that the govern- ment ought not to be and is not committed to certain methods of acquisition which, while partaking of the nature of unfair practices, try to masquerade under the guise of business, the government is and ought to be thoroly committed to every endeavor of production and distribution which is entitled to be designated as true business.” e* ¢ HE Journal, however, declares that the best that Coolidge did in his New York speech was cheap buncombe compared with the word Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Official Tricks the Members (Continued from page 1) less to reject it. After long discus- sion it was passed. No More Autocracy. But one point was made clear. In the future all assessments must be submitted to a referendum vote. A motion to that effect was passed in- structing the Joint Board delegates to bring this recommendation up to the board. The Joint Board report was accepted and nominations fol- lowed, both for the local and the Joint Board. The next order of business was the question of who was responsible for the sluggings. But no sooner did the local finish nominations, than the president declared the meeting ad- journed. Can't Stop Their Mouths Forever. There is no doubt that if the offici- als had permitted discussion, they would have had a busy hour explain- ing the fascist tactics and defending the sluggers who beat up the broth- ers and sisters of the local. As it is many are waiting for the certain chance that the time will come when they will speak and be heard. Egyptians Defy the Mercenaries of Great Britain (Continued trom page 1) were thrown around the government- al buildings and the important streets. In spite of this terror the parliament met at a hotel in defiance of the au- thorities and passed a vote repudiat- ing the government and electing a new premier. On Monday the British controlled government that exists only by power of bayonets and has no legal existence warned local hotel managers against permitting political meetings within their buildings. Defy British Tools. In spite of this order many hotel managers have volunteered to house the parliament and the members of the opposition who are fighting for complete liberation of Egypt trom the yoks of Britain have defied the author- ities #nd announced that they will hold the next session of parliament \ Chicago Bankers’ Sheet Startled at Communist Criticism of Coolidge By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. cuttin ett artifices coined by the president who “kept us out of war,” and then fooled Europe with hig “14 points.” It, therefore, cites the “crystallized English” of Wilson, as follows: “Big business is mecessary and natural. The development of busi- ness upon a great scale is inevit- able and desirable. But that is a different matter from the develop- ment of trusts, because trusts have not grown. They have been manu- factured, not by natural processes, but by the deliberate planning will of men more powerful than their neighbors in the business world. 4 deny, as they claim, that the trusts are inevitable.” cate eee 'T is difficult to find the parallel that the Journal editor claims exists between these two utteranc- es. Wilson was still living in the era when the government kept up a sham battle against the trusts. His was the day of the Industrial Relations Commission, that sought to expose the iniquities of “big business.” It was Wilson’s commis- sion that “investigated” the food trust. But that is now past. Coolidge’s administration has put its O. K. on mergers among these same great packing interests. It has refused to investigate the bread monopoly. It is urging the consolidation of the na- tion’s railroad system. The White House recognizes all “big business” as “true business,” especially when it maintains “open shop” conditions and crushes every attempt of the workers to organize and fight against the wiping out of all living standards. Even LaFollette before he died, had to admit that “trusts are inevitable.” No doubt, Wilson also changed his mind ‘in fact, if not on paper. But they dll adhered to the social system that kept these trusts in private hands for private profits. ie eS AVING thus established the worship of the dollar at home, and shielding it with prison sen- tences for protesting workers, the way is cleared as effectively as pos- sible for the spread of this dollar worship to other lands. But the Chicago Daily News, in common with other capitalist dailies, is worried about what Mos- cow thinks of this dollar worship. And well it may worry. The same fight against dollar worship that the Russian workers and peasants won in 1917, will be crowned with vic- tory in every land, even in the Unit- ed States. LEWIS AND CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE CONFER SECRETLY; BOSSES MEET PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24 —If John L. Lewis is going to carry on a war against the mine operators, he is choosing a peculiar way to battle. At least the fact that he was closeted for several hours in secret consultation with J. Elvin Markle, chairman of the joint com- mittee of anthracite operators and of the miners, does no more than add to the impression that his sug- gestion that he may call a strike of bituminous miners is only a bluff. The two met and conferred at the Union League Club, and neither would rev what had been dis- cusged. It was learned, however, that the policy committee of the operators had met during the day and, also in secret, had discussed the strike. The two conferences are seen to have a connection. whenever they deem it necessary to | do so. The working masses are rallying be- hind the nationalist movement against Britain and violent outbreaks will certainly follow any attempt on the [part of the inyaders to arrest the members of parliament who are try- ing to drive British forces out of the country, Three Oil Workers Blown to Pieces in » Ark. Refinery Blast ARKANSAS CITY, Kans., Nov. 24. Three men were killed and: damage estimated at more than $400,000 was done when the Arkansas City Refin- ery company, operated under a lease by the Bell Oil Co., exploded here early today. Greece Sends Bill to Bulgaria for Border Violation and Battle ATHENS, Nov. 24.— The Greek government. today dispatched a note to Sofia asking $700,000 for damages, caused by the Bulgarian violation of her frontier. COOLIDGE TO RET iE LEWIS’ PLEA, REPORT Confers with Green Over His Message WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24— President Coolidge has intimated that he will pay no more attention to John L. Lewis’s second hint of a strike in the bituminous mines than he did the first hint given more than two months ago. Lewis’ letter, asking if the miners were not justified in choosing their own measures to enforce the Jack- |sonville agreement if the government did not intervene to compel the op- |erators to abide by the contract, was |placed on Cal’s desk. He conferred |with Hoover, Attorney General Sar- jgent and even with William Green, head of the A. F, of L., it is under- stood, , Will Get Refusal. Evidenly, Coolidge does not view Lewis’ assertions and threats as of any importance, since Lewis makes no move really to call a general strike. His answer has not yet been composed, but it is foretold that Lewis will get a refusal to intervene. This does not mean that Coolidge is opposed on principle to government intervention in strikes, On the con- trary he is going to ask congress in his coming annual message for spe- cific authority to break strikes by government intervention. Let the Operators Do It. In this case, tho, he feels that the operators can break the union with- out his assistance. The only possible danger to this program is the de- mands of the progressive miners to call out the maintenance men and let the mines be flooded, or, to extend the strike to the soft coal fields. Coolidge does not think Lewis really wants to make a 100 per cent strike in the anthracite by. with- drawing the maintenance men, any more than he thinks Lewis was ser- jiously intending to call out the bi- tumnious miners to enforce the Jacksonville agreement. Nothing was revealed by Coolidge or William Green as to what Green’s position was upon the matter of Coo- lidge asking authority from congress to intervene in all strikes he’ feels like. Blows for Fascism Come from Austria and Jugo-Slavia (Continued from page 1) sightedness of the class he serves, Radich hit upon one problem in con- nection with the fascist threat that aroused the audience to a storm of ap- proval. He said that in addition to those national forces opposed to fas- cism “there is another whom I will not name, who will overthrow you as Austrian, Hungarian, Prussian and Russian militarism were overthrown,” Radich referred to the social revolu- tion, but he hestitated to mention the working class by name as the one force capable of crushing the ambi- tious and idiotic dreams of the man- iac, Mussolini. s+ 8 Italian Communists Furious. ROME, Italy, Nov. 24—In spite of the heavy censorship that has pre- vailed since the fake attempt at as- sassination of the fascist brigand, Mussolini, was staged in order to de- tract attention from the government's acquittal of the murderer of Mat- teoti, news of the preparation of fas- cism to attack other countries has infiltrated thru the ranks of the work- ing class and on every side the hope is expressed that the tyrant will pro- voke a war to give the working class at home a@ chance to stab him in the back. It is certain that the workers of Italy will not follow the braggart into wars of foreign conquest to avenge his “honor” because people in other legislative bodies spetk the truth about him. i Anthracite Victory Depends on Spread . of the Coal Strike (Continued trom page 1) 4 1900, The line of the coal barons is fairly clear, it is to prevent the cal ing out of the maintehance men and the bituminous miners at all costs while working overtime to disrupt the strike, discourage the miners and se- cure an acceptance of terms which will make of the union a mere efij- ciency agency for the bosses, 5 The left wing must make evéry ef- fort to overcome this offensive, ac- quaint the miners with the danger and organize the rank and file for the most stubborn kind of resistance. A defeat for the anthracite miners is @ defeat for the whole labor movement and more disastrous than all the other results will be the fact that such a defeat will be administered in the name of a victory for the gospel of the “community of interest” between the operators, business men and min- ers, The incident of the “community chest” already cited is only one sample of the manner in which this propaganda is carried om, 4