The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1925, Page 1

J ~National Dairy. Products company’ has | The DAILY WORKER Raises che Standard for a Workers’ ; and Farmers’ Government Vol. II. No. 272. ANTHRACITE 5. Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, —eeeeees—Ss—tste Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the West Office at ce as duunola, wader the Act of March 3, 1879, a i ™ Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year, SATURDAY A$ REALIZE AT LAST THAT OPERATORS ARE ONT TO CRUSH MINERS’ UNION By WILLIAM F, DUNNE. Article X. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Nov. 25.—President Lewis’ intimation | contained in his letter to Coolidge, that a general strike in the coal industry may be called as a result of continued violations of the Jacksonville agreement, and the increasingly “hardboiled” | attitude of the anthracite operators, have put an end, tempo- rarily at least, to hopes of an early settlement of the strike here. One of the local papers, The Telegram, whose policy is some- what sympathetic to the United Mine Workers of America, says: SS Hopes for the: settioment of ‘the 1COT YOUR LETTER’ SAYS | CAL TO LEWIS Pleads Need of Study ~ for Full Reply | (Special to The Daily Worker) | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25.—“1 | got your letter,” such is the-meaning | and comparative brevity of President | Coolidge’s reply to the hesitating sug- gestion that if the government did not make the soft coal operators live up to the JacksonVille agreement, the United Mine Workers might strike in all bituminous fields. Cal adds that he would make a fully reply “after study.” Coolidge understanding that the suggestion of a soft coal strike thra- out the country: is not made to up- , hold the Jaeksonville agreentent, but isa last recourse of Lewis, to get, a compromise settlement in the anthra- cite strike, shrewdly delays indefinite- ly any real answer to Lewis’ “threat” and let the continued hunger of the anthracite strikers’ families do the work of the operators. How’ many} months Coolidge is going to “study” he did not say. Fakers More Worried Than Cooldige. That William Green, president, and Frank Morrison, secretary, of the American Federation of Labor are more worried over the possibility of a strike in the bituminous mines than is Coolidge himself, is seen-in their obvious anxiety that there should be no such strike. They take the view that if a gen- eral mine strike were to take place, congress would enact some legisla- tion outlawing strikes entirely—and of course, they would have to take the position of all class collabora- (Continued on page 6) Dairy Concern Takes Steps to Create Milk Trust in United States NEW YORK, Noy. 25—The National Dairy Products company has con- wacted to buy 84 per cent of the com- mon stock of the Sheffield Farms ‘Co., Inc., and 89 per-cent’ of the common stock interest of the Sheffield Farms By-Products company, Inc., and 84 per cent of the common stock of the Sheffield Condensed Milk company. ° Since its incorporation in 1923 the acquired more than seventeen " ice cream and’milk companies in the east and middle west. In order to finance its purchasé of the common stock of these companies in order to perfect its grip on The daity products industry, the company is trying to raise $15,000,000 by ‘the sale of-bonds thru New York brokers. hard coal strike, running so high in some quarters just a week ago, have gone glimmering. The past week saw a definite end to the expecta- ion of a ‘back-to-work-by-Christ- mas” move. In fact, at this time the deadlock in the hard coal industry gives every evidence of a fight to a finish, This is sorry news indeed for a community that has been fed up in the last two weeks on prom- ises of early compromise, but as it is the truth, as unpalatable as it is, it should be faced and the reality | that confronts the community realized. The operators are standing pat on j their demand for an agreement con- taining a “no-strike” clause. Accept- ance,of this means suicide for the| United Mine Workers, A new plan for the settlement ot | the strike has been brought into this | region the last week, by one Barker, } who is said to he an emissary of! Governor Pinchot. Pinchot’s Open Shop Plan. His proposal is that the new con tract, containing the provisions want-| ed by the operators, be submitted to j the rank and file ofthe union and that | a Woardof five persons, none of them members of the, Supervise the vote. A committee of Schuyit county businessmen recent de a similar proposal. boli One member ots otis board is to be named by Pinchot, one by the United States chamber of commerce, one by New York and‘ Philadelphia newspa- pers, one by Cardirial Dougherty and one by Thomas Mitteti, head of the Philadelphia traction system, The outrageous ‘nature of this pro- posal is obvious and ig a good indica- tion of the kind’‘of aid the miners can expect from Pinchot, but it has (Continued on page 6) PITTSBURGH WILL HOLD MASS MEETING AGAINST FRED MERRICK’S TRIAL PITTSBURGH, Pa., Noy. 25.—On November 29, the night before the trial of Fred Merrick starts, a mass meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, Pa. to explain the arrest and in- dictment of Merrick and the nine others who were arrested and in- dicted at the same time. The m ing will be held at the International Socialist Labor Lyceum, 805 James street, N at 8 o'clock, ers announced are Dr. William Van Essen, Ella Reeve Bloor, organizer for the Internation: al Labor Defe ind a prominent speaker who is issociated with the Civil Liberties Union. | There is a real united front of workers of all shades of opinion behind the defense of Merrick and his fellow work B, $2,500 must be collected for the Merrick defense before the trial starts on Nov. 30, The Pittsburgh workers are doing their level best to accomplish this task. A big ball will bé held on Wednesday evening, Nov. 25, under the auspices of La- bor Defense, at 35 Miller street. SWISS COMMUNIST PARTY WINS THREE PLACES IN THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AT RECENT ELECTIONS GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 25.—In the recent elections to the Swiss national council, the Communists captured three seats. cantons in Switzerland, elections were not held. _Alemocrats, the clericals, nationalists, etc, met and decided at their confer: 0 ne See We Eee Th) maw) KA ence, who would get the delegates to. the national assembly. .Tho the social-democratic party here claims that the Amsterdam Trade Union International and the Second (Socialist) International «are |! mot Marxian enough for it, it outddes these internationals in their policies bf collaborating with the employers. to, exploit the workers. The incoming national x | assembly In a number of the The leaders of the social will consist of 3 Communists, 60 “rad- icals,” 49 socialists, 42 catholic con- servatives, 30 from the farmers, in- dustrialists and citizen's party, 8 Itberal democrats, 3 social Bpltions ‘and 3 independents. The social-democrats are eonatder- ing an alliance with a group of the petty-bourgeois radicals in lianer group, ‘ be chosen. to)... | | i it VEMBER 28, 1925 ie : : PUBLISE Published Dally except Sunday by THE {ING CO., 1113 DAILY, WORKER W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ll, SRT NEWYORK | EDITION | Price 3 Cents PAT TOOHEY AND DUNNE SPEAK ON THE ANTHRACITE Tell Chicago Workers of Coal Strike Chicago workers heard the story of the anthracite strike from Pat Too- hey, youthful leader of the progres- sive miners in that region, and Will- iam F. Dunne, who had just returned from the anthracite where he wrote special articles for The DAILY WORKER. Dunne gave a history of the anthra- cite coal miners’ union in this coun- iry tracing the different nationalities that it is composed of. First, he said, came’the Scotch and the English and Welsh to this country and now they will be found mostly among the su- perintendents and mine officers. Then came the Irish and they can be found in poSitions of local officials and union officials. Underneath or at the botiom of this line-up are the Bo- hemians, Spaniards, Italians and Slavs who compose the rank and file. The American elements compose the main- tenance men who are holding on to their jobs instead of being in the strike where as union men they be- long. He compared the conditions exist- ing in the bituminous coal fields to those of the anthracite miners, The anthracite miners’ jobs are more stable than the bituminous, Here the population is not migyatory, they buy homes on the instalment plan. They are lnked up with the established groups of the bourgeoisie such as the small business men and churches, It is quite easy for union officials to convince workers that there is an identity of interests between them and the bourgeoisie, But that is be- ing shattered now and one of the chief factors shattering this falsifica- tion has been the progressive min- ers. Lewis launched an onslaught on ‘the left wing in 1922. From that time until the beginning of the strike the tas of the progressives has been to re-establish. itself. The second on- slaught came thru the.state’s attorney who works hand in hand with the offi- cials and whicheresulted in the ar- (Continued-on page 2) CRIMINAL?SYNDICALIST LAW TO BE EXPOSED AT MEETING FRIDAY, DEC. 4 The International Labor Defense of Chicago and its affiliated organ- izations, such as Machinists No. 84, Painters No. 275, etc. have sent de- mands for the release of Anita Whitney and Benj. Gitlow to the governors of California and New York. A campaign against the “criminal syndicalism” laws of those states, and all such states- laws, is on. vi local committee announces that among the speakers at the Protest Mass Meeting on Dec. 4th, at the West Side Auditorium (Ra- cine and Taylor), will be Pete Jen- sen of the Federated Shop Crafts (Machinists); Fred Mann, a. mem- ber of the 1vW. W., Wm. H. Holly of the LiberaliClub and Robert Mi- nor, organizérsfor the International Labor Defense: To Boost: Water Rates. SPRINGFIBLD, IL, Nov. 25.—Ap- plication for imereased water rates in Peoria, Averyville and Bartonville has been filed with ‘the IMlinois commerce commission bx: the Peoria Water- works company; : THE RISE OF SOCIALIST ECONGMY IN RUSSIA SATURDAY The Daily Worker The economie facts on the development of the Soviet Union presented for the first time. READ IT! Get others to read it and SUBSCRIBE! jonly nation which has balanced its [with the tearful plea Volpi is alleged jto have made at Washington before COUNT VOLPI PROVED TO BE A PLAIN LIAR: Italian Debt Head Ex- poses Himself (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 26—Count Giu- seppe Volpi, finance minister for the blood-streaked Mussolini terror of Italy, talked here the other night at a banquet given by the Italian chamber of commerce at the Plaza hotel and while paying lavish tribute to the braggert whose flunkey he is, proved himself a bare-faced liar. He said that “Italy ts the first nation which has been able to rehabi- litate itself from the war. It is the budget and reconstructed itself with- out aid from the outside.” How About Washington? This declaration in direct conflict the debt settlement was reached. The seventy-five per cent cancellation was supposed to be imperative in or- der to save Italy from total ruin. The cancellation was based. upon statis- tics presented by Volpi purporting to show that of all European ‘nations Italy was the most sorely beset by the calamitous results of the war and would’ surely perish without assist- ance from Wall Street. The question arises: Did this scoundrel and defender of a govern- ment by assassination lie at Wash- ington or lie at the Plaza hotel ban- quet or at both places? Zankov Entertains DOUMER FAILS: | Doumer, OVIET PLOT LOCARI D CONSPIRACY AGAINST RUSSIA BARED AT RATIFICATION OF THE PACT IN THE REICHSTAG (Special to The BERLIN, Germany, Nov. 25. Daily Worker) —Not only Communists, but even the nationalists, in the reichstag ripped the mask from the faces of the hirelings of Great Britain who voted to endorse the Locarno pact here today. The socialists were exposed by the Communists as the venal treacherous tools of the most reactionary elements of British This betrayal of the German nation into the hands of the British conspirators against the Soviet Union is but the imperialism. logical culmination of _the+ treachery that flared forth in| | 1914, when the socialists voted for the | kaiser’s war credits; was repeated on! a more vile scale in 1919, when they | murdered the leaders of the working | class, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Lux- emberg, amplified in the crushing mt the March action in 1921, and again their infamous role in the October up- heavals of 1923. | The working class of Germany is| accustomed to foul treachery from the | social-democrats that no infamy they | can now commit can ‘exceed the | crimes they have already perpetrated i against the working class. | Nationalists Join Attack. { While the Communists attack the | | pact from a proletarian point of view | in order to expose the despotic char-| (Continued on page 2) HERRIOT MAY _ FORM CABINET Fume Fight for New Elections France, Nov. 25—Senator hom Aritide Briand recom- mended. yesterday as prospective premier, when Briand, himself, failed) to get support for a cabinet, an- nounced this evening that he also had} failed to. get sufficiern* support and President Doumergue has called upon} former Premier Eduard Herriot to at-| tempt to organize a government. | Herriot is head of the bourgeois | party calling itself radical socialist and is the man directly responsible for the butcher, General Serrail, be- ing appointed Syrian high commis- sioner. Socialists Want Premier. Both Briand and Doumer failed to (Continued on paye 2) DANISH WORKERS TAKE PART IN CELEBRATION OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U, S. S. R.—(By Mail) —The Danish workers’ delegation which is now in the Union of So- cialist Soviet Republics recently visited Moscow where they partici- pated inthe celebration of the eighth anniversary of the Russian revolu- tion. j During their stay in Moscow the | Danish delegation visited the trade union headquarters and have also visited many shops to study the condition of the workers in Soviet Russia. They expressed great sur- prise when they learned the extent , Of power which the unions have in determining the conditions of the workers in the shops. patches from the court room sent o League of Nations Greco-Bulgar Body SOFIA, Bulgaria, Noy. 25, — The league of nations commission to in- vestigate the Greco-Bulgar incident, which threatened to cause a war in the Balkans, is now being officially entertained «by Zankov, the brutal murderes of many of the class conseir ous workers of, Bulgaria some time ago. DEFENSE, 23 S. LINCOLN ST., SPECIAL REPORTS ARE COMING! The trial of the Zeigler miners in southern Monday will be reported in The DAILY WORKER thru special dis- Max Shachtman, special representative of the International Labor Defense, is already in southern Illinois. First hand reports will appear daily showing up the vicious frameup of the militant miners, one of whom was murdered by a ku klux klansman at a local union meeting WATCH FOR THE STORIES SEND CONTRIBUTIONS §'TO CHICAGO, ILL. PERSHING TO | KEEP TROOPS IN ARICA ROW 'U. S. Stirs U; Up Trouble to Excuse Occupation (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, 25. — The United States govepnment took a new step in the furtherance of its imper- ialist designs to accustom South Am- Nov. j erica to the rule of Yankee authority by dispatching the cruiser Lenver to sail at midnight from Balboa, in the , Canal Zone, to Arica “under secret | orders.” The order was issued to the Denver by wireless from the flagship of the U. S. naval squadron already at Arica in the disputed region over whieh Chile and Peru have long stood as rival claimaats: Means to Stay. Dispatches indicate that Pershing is carrying out a policy of extended occupation by U. S. armed forces in the region, under the guise of labor- fous arbitration in the arranging the plebiscite. The plebiscite commis- sion was supposed to meet yesterday, but was postponed indefinitely at the behest of Pershing. Also, Pershing has not yet replied to the note of Senor Augustin Edwards the Chilean delegate in the commis- sion, who witadrew from the commi | sion and charged in his note that Per- shing was unfavorably partial to Chile in forcing thé passage of a re- solution at the last session of the commission calling for the “control of residents” in the Tacna-Arica area, Stirs up Trouble to Keep Job, Edwards asserts that the resolu- ion infringed upon Chile’s constitu- tion and was not based upon fact, The resolution was condemnatory of al- leged deportations from the zone in dispute, of persons hostile to Chile. Chile’s former president, Alessand- ri in a speech yesterday at the funer- al of a Chilean soldier who died in an attack on an outpost, accused the United States of, “stirring up con- flict, discord and hatred” between Chile and Peru instead of trying to solve the Tacna-Arica dispute. ~The longer the conflict is perpetuated, the longer the uniforms of. United States armed forces will be an accustomed sight to South Americans, Another Rail Merger. WASHINGTON, Nov, 25.—Examin ers of the interstate commerce com- mission recommended that the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad and the Illinois Central be granted authority to acquire control of the Alabama & Vicksburg, and the Vicksburg Shreve- port and Pacific roads. IIinois beginning ut thru the I. L. D. pre: ervice. INTERNATIONAL LABOR “hs