The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1925, Page 2

Page Two POLISH SOCIALISTS ENTER INTO GOVERNMENT WITH MURDERERS OF CRACOW RAILROAD WORKERS (Special to The Dally Worker) WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 25.—The Polish socialist party, noted for the terrorist tactics of its “groups of action” against the Polish Communists, has entered into a coalition with the murderers of the railroad workers of Cracow, to form a coalition cabinet in Poland. Skryznski, who was minister of foreign af- fairs in the Grabski cabinet, after a number of unsuccessful at- tempts has been able to form a cabinet in which the socialists, the .big landowners, entéred into a coalition. Fear Workers’ Protest. The representatives of the Polish socialist party in the cabinet is one of the obscure members, who was formerly an Austrian officer, by the name of Ziemierski. The Polish so- cialist party did not dare put any of the well-known socialist leaders in the ministry of labor, as they have been so thoroly discredited for their actions that they feared that wide- spread demonstrations of the work- ers would take place against the new government. Ziemierski, who is now the minister of labor, represents the policy of the socialist party which has entered into an alliance with the Wi- tos party to prepare war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Murder Cracow Workers. In the new cabinet, Kiernik, who was a member of the Witos cabinet, which was in power before the Grab- ski cabinet, has been given the post of minister of agriculture. Kiernik was the minister of internal affairs in the Witos cabinet, which is directly responsible for the murder of the railroad workers of Cracow in 1923. The Cracow railroad workers went on @ political strike against the gov- ernment. The government immediate- ly sent troops to shoot down these striking railroad workers. In their combat with the strikers the first de- tachment of soldiers were defeated. More soldiers were dispatched and when the workers strike against the government was broken, the Witos cabinet instituted a reign of terror in Cracow. Many of the strikers were killed and many were thrown into prison for long terms at hard labor. At this time, the Polish socialist party protested the actions of the Witos cabinet. Its protest and demand for an impeachment of Kiernik was look- ed upon and treated as nothing more than a gesture to curry favor in the eyes of the workers. ‘Today the socialists are in the same government with this butcher of Po- lish workers. the clericals and the nationalists + have Skryznski, who formed the cabinet will be minister of foreign affairs, minister of finance and prime minis- ter. He is looked upon with great favor by the group following Gen. Pilsudski. Skryznski attempts to pose as a liberal, Grabski Remain in Cabinet. Wiadislaw Grabski, who was the head of the cabinet which fell, is now minister of education and religion. Grabski represents the big landown- ers of Poland and during the world war was a spy in the Russian ochrana, His record as a spy has been found in the archives of the. ochrana, Osiecki has been appointed as min- ister of commerce and industry. Gen. Majewski, who is opposed by the nationalists, holds the post of minister of war. Soviet Russian Policy. It is hard to tell as yet what the attitude of the new cabinet will be towards SowijJ*Russia. The big land- owners aut industrialists of Poland see in an alliance with Russia, a market for their products and a means by which Poland may keep her head above water. The socialists and the Witos party are opposed to any alliance with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and demand prepar- ations for an immediate war against Russia in which they claim they will have the support of the reactionary powers of Europe. Skryznski, who poses as a liberal and favored commercial relations with Russia in the last cabinet holds the balance of power in the new cabi- net. It is not known what agree- ment he has entered into when the new cabinet was formed. One of the first matters, to. come before the new cabinet will. be the matter of commercial relations with Russia and then it will be seen what concessions were made by, the big landowners behind Grabski, and the group behind Skryznski, in ,this re- gard, to the ‘socialists and the Witos party. WORLD CONDITIONS FORESHADOW TRADE RIVALRY FOR U. S. BOSSES AND LOWER WAGES FOR WORKERS By LELAND OLDS . (Federated Press Industrial Editor) A new argument for high wages is sprung by Director Klein of the federal bureau of foreign and domestic commerce in an address on international trade rivalries. America’s huge productive machinery We've heard that domestic demand is necessary to keep profitably employed. But Klein adds that this tremendous domestic demand by supporting mass production enables American industry to meet foreign competition. Commerce figures of the four leading commercial nations show that we are entering a period of more intense trade rivalry. The foreign ecommerce of the United States in 1924-25 was¢—————________________, 30 per cent above 1913, that of France 5 per cent above, Great Britain within 1 per cent of the prewar level and Germany still 27 per cent below. German Exports Gaining Fast. In four years these nations have in- creased their foreign commerce as follows: United States 24 per cent, France 22 per cent and Great Britain 82 per cent. The postwar inflation muddle in Germany makes it impos- sible to state the increase in exact figures but Klein says “it represents a more rapid advance than was made by either of its two leading competi- tors.” The share of U. S. exporters in the * import trade of all other countries was 20 per cent in 1923, the latest year for which statistics are available, compared with 15 per cent in 1913. America took 16 per cent of the ex- ports of all these countries compared with 9 per cent in 1913, To keep in- dustry employed it must hold this in- creased share. Labor Efficiency Aids Imperialists, Choosing electrical goods, automo- biles and steel as examples, Klein at- tributes the ability of the United States to compete to “the tremendous domestic demand” and “tremendous mass production due to employment of far greater efficiency both in man- agement and in labor.” But in a previous address Klein pointed out that in Europe the “anti- quated equipment of prewar days is gradually replaced by more modern tools of production, and Europe is trying the experiment of applying American methods.” He asserts that this almost certainly _portends stronger competition for American a porters. He refers to the installation of up- to-date machinery in France, Italy, Spain, Holland and Scandinavia since the war as giving these countries the edge on England and the United States, especially in textiles, It would be interesting to know what proportion of this represents Ameri- can capital building up foreign com- petition for American labor. How Long Will It Last? Whether the United States can hold the market which it requires in the face of foreign competition will thus depend less and less on its technical and more on a greater home market sustaining more intense mass produc- tion with lowering of production costs. If the Locarno treaty is followed by an economic United States of Europe, such as the French industrialist Loucheur hopes for, then European industry may also have its assured do- mestic market, Two capitalist giants will then face a fight to the finish un- less the revolt of the rest of the world against the exploitation of foreign capital has eliminated the market for which they are fighting. The question of immediate interest to labor is whether the domestic de- mand pnder existing wage rates can support this mass production. Ex- perts suggest that much of this de- mand is temporary, based on install- ment purchase plans. If so, a slump will come, with rising costs and in- ability to compete in foreign markets. Then, unless labor is strong enuf to force the other view, employers will resort to their time-honored method of meeting competition—wage cuts, Germans Admit the Locarno Pact Is Blow Against Soviet Rule (Continued from page 1) acter of all capitalist parties and capitalist governments, the national- ists have their own interests to serve. Count Westarp, nationalist spokes- man, demanded the removal of hos- tile troops from German soil and ob- ject to becoming a pawn of Britain in the world struggle of imperialist am- bitions. The landowners realize that their own interests will be sacrificed to the interests of the agents of Bri- tain. Westarp said, in his speech: “If England is working with special energy for Locarno, it is only to force Germ into the circle of nations of the west in the common struggle | against Bolshevism. Our political and economic interests point eastward. We must have full liberty of action in the east.” Voting Strength. The socialists are the largest single group in the German reichstag and their 131 votes will be in favor of Lo- carno when the pacts are up for final voting. With them will vote the people’s party with 51; catholics, 69; democrats, 32; and Bavarian people’s party, 19; making a_ total of 302. Against the pacts are the Commun- ists with 45 votes; the nationalists with 111; the fascists with 14, mak- ing a total of 170. Communist Strategy. Tho in their opposition to the Lu- ther government the Communists find themselves counted with the nation- alists and ts in the voting, their motives are entirely different, The nationalists and fascists want to dom- inate Germany in the interests of the old junker class and restore a mon- archy or a bourgeois dictatorship in the interests of extreme nationalism. On the other hand the Communists vote against the government for the Same reason they vote against all bourgeois governments. Without a vote against the treachery of the so- cial-democrats the Communists could not logically go before the working class and denounce the conspiracy that Britain, with the assistance of the German socialists, tried to launch against the Soviet Union. Just as the French Communists did not vote with the nationalists, but against the government of Painleve so the Ger- man | Communists voted against the Luther government. At the same time, in case of an ef- fort of either fascists or nationalists to establish a government of their own the Communists would fight them to:the bitter end as they have done in the past. N. Y. WORKERS PROTEST JAILING OF BEN GITLOW New York Labor Fills Webster Hall (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—The protest, meeting arranged by the International Labor Defense against the jailing of Benjamin Gitlow, member of the Cen- tral Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and Communist candi- date for mayor in the New York elec- tions, and calling for his release, jammed the Webster Hall. Many work- ers were not able to get into the hall. Bertram Wolfe, Sam Lipzin, Robert Dunn and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn were the speakers, who demanded the immediate repeal of the New York state criminal syndicalist act, the re- lease of Benjamin Gitlow and the building of the International Labor Defense into a powerful shield with which it will be possible to protect members of the working class against the onslaughts of the bosses. Cos- grove was chairman of the meeting. Every appeal for the release of Git- low, the repeal of the criminal syn- dicalism act and the strengthening of the International Labor Defense met with an enthusiastic approval from the assembled workers. The collection to aid the International Labor Defense to continue its task, netted $220. Jailed For Bootleg, BALTIMORE, Nov. 25. The two Jones brothers, Winfield and Neufield, sons of the former head of the anti- saloon league in Georgia, left here to- day for Atlanta to serve a two-years’ sentence following conviction'of di- verting alcohdl to bootleg channels thru a drug company they managed. CONCERT ADMISSION 60 CENTS, NEW YORK CITY Class War Prisoners’ Xmas Fund given by the G. A. Uthman Saenger Chor Saturday, November 28, 1925, 8 P. M. at LABOR TEMPLE, 243 East 84th Street. All proceeds go to the International Labor Defense. & DANCE COME ONE, COME ALL! THE DAILY WORKER PAT TOOHEY AND DUNNE SPEAK ON THE ANTHRACITE Tell Chicago Workers of Coal Strike (Continued from page 1) rest of Pat Toohey and Alex Reid. With the result that the miners are turning more to the Progressive Miners’ Committee. Progressive groups are forming éverywhere with two things in mind, ‘frst, to prepare efficiently for the waging’ of the strike and second, if the strike is declar- ed off by officials by the’means of the five-year agreement with a no-strike clause, at the coming’ convention, the progressive miners will'bring @ sufli- cient number of militants to prevent the betrayal of the men on strike. All over the anthracite region there is propaganda for the five-year con- tract. The miners are asked to con- sider the welfare of business men and bankers. And nothing js being done by the offigials to jcounter-act this propaganda. For that reason the re- sponsibility for saving the union falls upon the progressives. Toohey Speaks. Pat Toohey spoke after Dunne and his speech gained for him the repu- tation of the most, interesting and promising of youthful workers, for his speech showed an understanding of the workers’ struggle, the class-col- laborating union officials and the sources that make up the advocates and upholders of the capitalist gov- ernment of America. Toohey said the strike of the an- thracite miners is a puzzle to the min- er, “Is it a strike or not?” they ask. In the soft coal regions in a strike all the trimmings are put on. There are mass demonstrations with jail- ings and every -sort of persecution. This does not exist in the anthracite. The leaders of the miners’ union set forth the proposition that this strike will not be agile} unless the miners win the check-off, basing the entire struggle on the check-off—an issue that does not'take in wages, hours of labor, bettering of ,condi- tions. And the operators say we will not concede the chtex-off until we are good and ready."'!? “What is this checkff?” you may ask. What is this mighty issue? Just a little proposition Whereby the op- erators become the collectors.of union dues for Lewis so that he or the other officials do not nee do so them- selves. Soon you thear that the miners have won. Tite fact will be that Mr, Lewis will get'the check-off and the operators willthave gotten rid of their surplus coal. 8: Going back to theigtrike, Toohey told how, under the diewis machine system of cone@ueting this strike, which they call a vacation, 10,000 union men are now seabbing in the bituminous anthracitegregions. These 10,000. maintenance mén are really do- ing everything which opmes under the class of scabbing “and:still Lewis thinks the miners are going to win the strike as long as he permits these union men to scab on their fellow workers.” He then related the deplorable con- ditions under which the anthracite miners work in @ way that only one who has gone into the mines daily with them and been all his life one of them could relate. He said they slave like beasts in gas, water, mud and slime and get home without a decent day’s wage. One-third of the anthracite miners, he said, is made up of children between the ages of 12 and 17. These children are suposed- ty working eight nours a day but every miner knows that in reality *ney work 12 hours for the operator loses none of the time on the nu- merous preparatory moves which take time and which is not counted into the eight hours, . He told of the demands of the pro- gressive miners, thé chief among them being world trade unity which Lewis calls a. pipe’ dream, “But steamers that are today coming from Wales and Scotland with 25,000 tons of coal mined by whion miners to this country while the miners here are on strike could fever happen if this ‘pipe dream’ were made a reality by the miners’ union,* Very vividly and with much wit and humor he told how he and other pro- gressive miners were! arrested. Halt Meeting. Gangsters descended upon a mass meeting of the progressive miners’ committee which was packed to the roof,, August Valentine was in the chair. Several 200-pound sluggers walked up to him, dragged him out of the hall and to jail and kept him there four days under the most vile conditions, The next day a miner who worked beside Valentine in the mines, read of the arrest in thé paper. He had a warm spot in his heart for Val- entine and decided to give bail for him, He walked into jail and he was retained as a dangerous red. For tive weeks they lay in jail un- der the most miserable conditions while the Lewis and Cappellini, take leaders, continued ‘to''betray the in- terests of the miners and to advocate the expulsion from the union, But the local men told Mry Cappellini and Mr. Lewis: “We knéw the policies of the progressive miners and we'll not expel them and you can go plumb to hell.” oA ‘and weak nations. Doumer Fails and organize a. cabinet because the Her- riot group refused to support them, insisting that the left bloc have the premiership otherwise boycott any government that might be formed. Up to now Herriot hag steadfastly refused to attempt to organize a gov- ernment, but in view of the decision of the left bloc of bourgeois parties to participate in a government pro- viding the socialists are given ade- quate representation, he may accept. His acceptance willmean a capital levy, which will affect all holders of property and capital and will play directly into the hands of the big bankers who will thereby be able to crush the small fry by advancing money for taxes and taking mortgage security, thus enormously extending Soviet Union Exposes League of Nations As Foe of Small Nations By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, Maxim Litvinoff, acting commissar of foreign affairs in the Union of Soviet Republics, while George Chicherin is travelling in western Europe, gives an explana- tion of the league of nations that should be memorized by every worker interested in the triumph of his class over its exploiters. Here it is: “The league is a mere screen for the further oppression of small It is chiefly a diplomatic stock exchange where the stronger nations arrange their affairs behind the backs and at the expense of the smaller and weaker nations.” ° * * * Capitalist diplomats have been frantically. urging that the Soviet Union join the league of nations and thus put the stamp of its aprpoval on the league’s bloody imperialist policies. The profit press has been spreading far and wide over the world the belief that the Soviet Union would join. vA REPORT CHANG SLAIN BY HIS OWN SOLDIERS Great M utiny Breaks in Reactionary Army (Special to The Daily Worker) “LONDON, Nov. 25.— Startiing re- ports from China today include an unconfirmed Central News dispatch from Tientsin reporting that Gen. Chang Tso-lin has been slain in mutiny of his own troops at Mukden. The Daily Telegraph’s correspon- dent at Peking cabled that Chang As being held prisoner by his mutinous troops. This is also lacking in di- rect confirmation, The armistice agreement, between Chang and Gen, Feng-yu-hsiang was believed today to be definitely at an end, the reason given being the con- tinued military activity of their re- This resulted in Litvinoff again stating the position of the Soviet Union, and he does not mince words in denouncing the league bandits. * * ° ° At the moment that Litvinoff was issuing his statement in Moscow, the socialist reichstag member, Otto Wels, at Berlin, was reiterating the hope, along with the whole flock of German labor oppressors, of all shades of affiliation, that, “The only way out of the dangers of isolation is for Russia to abandon its voluntary isolation, and take up the road to the league.” Communists do not go to the social-democratic parliamentarians for advice. Moscow will have a good laugh at Wels’ very comical antics in the role of bait for the league of imperialist robbers. Now that Germany has been per- mitted to enter the league, Wels can play the part in the reich that J. Ramsay MacDonald assumes in England. oS ee One of the first demands that the German capitalist statesmen made, after they had been admitted to the league, was that they be given mandates over the colonies that were lost as a result of the war. It was urged that the colonies could be exploited to help meet the demands of the Dawes plan. The German socialists, supporters of the league, the Dawes plan and the Locarno “security pact,” must favor such a scheme of intensive colonial oppression, that led Mac- Donald, while labor premier, into championing the worst im- perialist policies against India, Egypt and China; that has led French “socialists” into giving their aid to the butchers’ wars against the Riffians, in Africa, and the Druses in Syria, and similarly, Spanish “socialist” support of the government that wars, altho very unsuccessfully, against ‘the native peo- ples of Morocco. That these “socialists” should even hint the desire to have Soviet rule join such imperialist hangmen’s company, shows how little they understand the Bolshevist revolution that rose to power in Russia on November, 1917. * * * * The Soviet Union is not isloated. It has mighty friends in the growing class conscious masses in all capitalist coun- tries. Oppressed colonies and subject nations everywhere are turning more and more to it for guidance and inspiration. The Communist theory that forms the bedrock upon which Soviet rule has been built proclaims the identity of interest between exploited industrial workers in the homeland and the enslaved colonial peoples. Wels, in Germany; MacDon- ald, in England, Leon Blum in France, and their “socialist” counterparts in all lands reject this fundamental, as they give their allegiance to their various national capitalisms. * * * ** _ There is only one international league that the Soviet Union is interested in and that is the World Federation of Soviet Republics that alone, in the words of Litvinoff, fur- nishes the basis for “independence and self-determination of all nations.” the power of bank capital. Communists Active. The Communists are arousing the workers of the country against all bourgeois parties on the issue of the colonial wars as well as the question of French finances and preparing for the time when elections to the cham- ber of deputies will have to be held. Regardless of whether the radical so- cialists under Herriot or any other single group form a temporary cabi- net the economic and political situa- tion is such that no government can last long and the Communists will fight all governments in order to force new elections. Herriot Is Called to Form Cabinet (Continued from page 1) they would Saves Chapman From Gallows. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25—President Coolidge has signed a commutation of sentence for Gerald Chapman, notori- ous bandit, sentenced to be hanged in connection for the murder of a police- man, it was announced at the White House today, following the request of the Connecticut state’s attorney, Al- corn. Miners! e Do your utmost to give them the best possible defense. HOW? By means of a BAZA in This Defense Fight! efefeserelereresaiereleselesel ese ere eseres al elesareserar ei eieiaren eieserarelereleieleleeieiererereien yerelererer (33), The Framed-up Zeigler Help Save Them From Prison! 2,500 is needed by Dec. 15. Local Chicago, International Labor Defense, has guaranteed 1,000 which has been advanced already and is out to raise the full amount. DECEMBER 10 to 13, 1925 at the NORTH-WEST HALL, Corner North and Western Avenues Donations Are Weapons Ask your shopmates, your organizations, your neighborhood shops for con- tributions of any kind of article—foodstuffs, coin, clothing, anything and let the local L, L. D, office, 28 So, Lincoln St., know that by bringing, sending or reporting what you collect or donate. AND BOOSTER! spective lieutenants, both of whom are aiming at Peking. Another report stated that Feng had joined forces with Gen. Wu Pei Fu, and were operating against Chang with a view to setting up a Soviet government at Peking. Chang Tso Lin’s troops to Chinwan- tao, who mutinied, are reported to have fought reactionary troops for several hours, with heavy casualties. The Mukden mutiny is said to have been influenced by Kuo Sung Ling, one of Chang’s field generals, who had Chang placed under restraint. Chang's agents in Shanghai are hastily recruit- ing a counter-revolutionary force of White Guard Russian monarchist re- fugees. The first boat load left this morning for Mukden. Dismiss Case Against Morse for War Frauds WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—The last of the war fraud indictments obtained by the department of justice was wiped from the records of the District of Columbia supreme court, Tt was the indictment of BE. M. Davis of New York and Ernest C. Morse of Cincinnati, former director of sales of war material for the war department, for conspiracy in connec- tion with the sale of the Old Hickory Power plant at Jacksonville, Tenn. Alexander Phillips, also indicted in this case, died in August, 1922, The indictment was nolle prossed by Peyton Gordon, United States dis- trict attorney, Search For Victim. All available coast guard forces were rushed out into the stormy waters of Lake Michigan in search of @ man who was seen on board a launch a few minutes before it dis- appeared in a sheet of flame and smoke a mile off the Diversey bathing beach here, Pvcniecestranilesaas Fascist Mission Li NEW YORK, Nov. 25— With the Italian debt settlement in his pocket, Count Guiseppi Volpi di Misurata, ac- companied by other members of the Italian debt commission, sailed for Italy today. The Labor Defender An attractive, popular month maga- zine, published by International Labor Defense, with lots of pictures and car- toons, and feature articles by the best writers—16 pages of live, important news and photos every month, Editor, Tom O'Flaherty. Subscriptions—$1,00 Per Year (12 Issues) 60 Cents for Six Months SSS THE LABOR DEFENDER 23 So. Lincoin St., Chicago, tl, Enclosed $.. sevens LOR ssorsisasnssssnrbenrsin months subscription to: Name AAArESS csr = City. State .. i Their trial begins Dec. 1. 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