The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1925, Page 1

Entered as Second-class matter, Seuseonbisir Ma, 1923, at | _ SUNDAY, This Issue Consists of Two Sections. The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government SECTION ONE. od \ | SCR. ont GMee. nb, Chicaee, —-aple, under the Act of March 3, 187%. vi Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1118 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, fl, ANTHRACITE BARONS JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, HEAD OF U.S. COAL COMMISSION, SHOWN UP AS BOSS OF LABOR SPIES | By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Governor Pinchot’s key position in the anthracite strike is brought out in the demands of the ene- mies of the miners’ union that he call a special session of the Pennsylvania legislature for the purpose of repealing the miners certificate law. F ‘ This statute disqualifies any one from doing the skilled work of a regular anthracite miner who has not seryed two years as a helper in the same field. Oe In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. Price 5 Cents » Vol. IL. No. 273. Subscription Rates: ATTACK AS GERMAN REICHSTAG - RATIFIES THE LOCARNO PACTS (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Germany, Nov. 27.—Chancellor Luther and For- eign Minister Stresemann, who recently became the mercenaries of British imperialism, succeeded in securing the approval of the Locarno pacts by the reichstag. The section of the bill covering the pacts was passed by a vote of 271 to 159 at the second reading yesterday and today was passed after the third and final reading. An enabling bill was also passed providing for the German signature’to the Locarno +pacts. The pacts will be signed BY ABRAM JAKIRA (Thru the I. L, D. Service) BY WILLIAM F. DUNNE, (Editor The DAILY WORKER) . L. D. Service) HE. convention of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union opens in. Phila- delphia on Monday. To bring every step taken by this impor- tant body of labor to the atten- tion of the readers of The DAILY WORKER, William F. Dunne, editor, will report this convention of needle trades workers in detail in special dis- patches from the convention floor. No worker should miss this feature. Pass it on to other workers—ask them to SUB- ITTSBURGH holds the at- tention of labor with a case of labor persecution in the trial of ten workers beginning also on Monday. Eight members of the Workers (Communist) Par- ty and two other workers are arrested on a charge growing out of a raid on the Communist headquarters in that city. This second picture of labor's pe eution will receive daily atten- tion in special dispatches from the trial. Send contributions to International’ Labor Defense, 23 frame-up presents em outrageous attack on labor, “Phe trial of the min- ers “involved begins Monday. First hand ‘reports from the court room will be made to DAILY WORKER readers thru the International Labor Defense press servie@ whose representa- tive Max Shachtman, is now on the scene Of the trial. Look for “these stories next week. Send ‘contributions “for the Miners’ Defense t¢@! the International Labor 23 So, Lincoln AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY a Belgian government ig con- sidering taking steps leading to- wards recognition of Soviet Russia. It’s almost time but it is never too late to mend. Perhaps the Belgian politicians didgot think it advisable to recognize the workers’ republic until they’ had settled: the debt; question with the Wall Street government on favorable terms. The Belgian oil in- terests however, have warned the gov- ernment“ that before full diplomatic relations are entered into with Rus- sia, the oil men’s interests must be considered. Belgium will recognize Soviet Russia before long. Nothing succeeds like success. _ England a poor man was charged with murder and sentenced to death after a trial lasting fotr min- utes. This news tickled the misibles of Arthur Brisbane, chief writer for ‘William Randolph Hearst and one of the most highly paid penmen in the world. Arthur claims~ that speedy hangings reduce crime. Arthur has at ** in London December 1. SCRIBE! The ratification of the Locarno treaties closes one chapter of one of the bittterest political struggles since the creation of the German republic, The open and brazen submerging of the independent interests of the Ger- man nation to the imperialist aims of England drew fire from the national- ists who still hold to the old tradi- tions of Germany before the war from the small business classes and pro- fesisonals around the fascists fho see themselves crushed and tehir inter- etsts submerged/in the general servil- ity to Britain, and from the revolu- tionists, the Communists. Unquestionably the signing of the pacts will increase tremendously the power of the Communists as the hor- rors of the world war are still fresh in the memories of the’ masses and they resent being made cannon fod- der in the imperialist struggles of Britain. Having steadily gained in strength the past few months and’ tremendous- ly increased their prestige by the successes in the last municipal elec- tions, the Communists"’have become the most important political factor in the republic, even tho they are a minority. .The facts of history have various times opposed capital. pimish-|brot them/to the fore and the nation 7 he. ee speech in England there is a general belief jitating the proletarian revolution. here in the United States that there is less capital crime in England than in the United States, Perhaps, but if one is to judge by the English papers, it seems that outside of horsey racing, the other key industry in England is murder. +6 UR smug and complacent scrib- blers who howl for the blood of the bandits who shoot to kill in order to get money quickly are quite un- moved by the slaughter that takes place in the nation’s industries every year, And those killings are avoid- able. But safety devices cost money and the daughters of our plutocrats must have dollars to spend at the watering places of Europe while they amuse themselves playing with the broken down kings and dukes of the old world. Before society can even | begin to eliminate murder it must hang the capitalist system, the main cause of crime. oe & { DO not know of any greater torture | ns to favor it, |is, confronted jowing to the yoke of Britain or Clara Zetkin Acclaimed. With her hair snow white, the signs of age showing plainly’ ii" her face, and limping to the speaker’s desk upon crutches, Clara Zetkin, the fa- mous German Communist’ made a dramatic appearance in* thé reichstag today and launched a’ bitter protest against the Locarno treaties. “Soviet Russia is sufficiently strong in power and does not need an old woman to represent her,” said Clara Zetkin denying that she represents the Soviets in the reichstag, “IT have come from Rugsia to give my waning strength to the cause of the laboring classes, who are suffer- ing under the yoke of the Dawes plan. “The Locarno pacts are the bargain of the western powers in which Ger- many is merely a pawn.” From the reichstag, at the close of the session, Clara Zetkin proceeded to |the Lustgarten where a gigantic mass meeting of Communists is now in si af Farrington M achine Frames Militants BY MAX SHACHTMAN (By I. L. D. Press Service.) ZEIGLER, Ill, Nov. 27.—Twenty union miners in Zeigler face from one to fourteen years in the state peniten- tlary for the crime of having militai ly fought against the combined forces: of the Farrington machine, the coal operators, and the ku klux klan. Their trial, which opens Monday at, one. of the flimsiest and most brazen frame-ups known in the history of the: labor movement. ‘and Frank Corbishly, and Matt Crnoe- viech, are well known thruout the en- tire United Mine Workers’ district as militant fighters for the needs and in- terests of the coal diggers. For years they have carried on a courageous struggle against the powerful Bell and Zoller mine company on the one hand and against the Farrington-Lewis ma- chine and their treasonable policies on the other, with a consistent fight against ku klux klanism in between. Farrington Frame-up. The struggle has centered around the right of the 1300 members of the Zeigler local of the union, 992, to elect its own officers and to elect them le- gally. For the past six years every local election has been stolen or des- troyed by the Farrington machine and its tools. Special organizers, among them the notorious William Hogan| and “Lige” Walker, have been here doing nothing but drawing their pay and disrupting the union. In April of this year, Henry Corbishly was elected president at a special election held under the supervision of four interna- tiotial board members. i the county seat in Benton, is based on” ‘The Daily Worker) S. S. R., Nov. 27.— annual convention, t benefit of the strikers and Hongkong. They lution declaring their extending greetings ries was William Z. ‘ isp ke on behalf of the Mua aseliai Will Not Visit England (Special to Fhe Daily Worker) LONDON, Now. 27.—Mussolini, fasc- ist dictator of Italy, has changed his mind about visiting England to sign the Locarno ;treaties in the British foreign office mext Monday. Benito: has changed his mind be- cause he was given to understand that British unionists were planning to re- fuse to run trains on which he would and to surround him on all sides with ers, Instead of Mussolini, the treaties will be signed by a nobody in parti- cular, named Sciaoloja, acting as | Musso's agent. Foreign Ministers ;Stresemann and Vandervelde will So. Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill, CHANG'S ARMY CRUMBLES AS Feng’s Troops Arrive at China’s Capital SHANGHAI, China, Nov. 27. — News of continuous defeats of Chang Tso-Lin's “loyal” troops by mutineers overshadows all else in the news from the scene of battles in the north. Even the report that the old provisional president, Tuan Chi jui has resigned, packed his baggage and ordered a spe- cial train to take him to Tientsin, is less important than the mutiny in Chang’s armies. Kuo-Hung-lin, formerly a command- er of one of Chang’s armies, is lead- ing the widespread mfutiny, marching north to Mukden and sweeping" all Be- fore him. General Chi Chin-chun, an- other of-Chang's divisional command- ers, has surrendered with his whole division, resulting in the taking of the city of Chin Wangtao by mutineers under Kuo. | Chang in Desperate Fix. Chang Tso-lin at Mukden has only 10,000 troops at that point, his head- quarters and base of operation. Chang has called for picked troops, mostly cadets, and ordered them to hold the have to ride, to serve him with food | mass demonstrations of angry work- | city “to the death.” | White guard” Russian monarchis | refugees, enlisted by Chang, are b jing rushed to Mukden to aid this im | perialist hireling who seems to be in |srave danger of complete overthrow- | al, altho his death, reported Wednes- day, seems unconfirmed. Feng’s Troops in Peking. | Feng Yu-hsiang’s troops are already jarriving in Peking, and this fact in- |dicates that Feng himself will follow. Chang’s elimination as a power at Peking is clearly certain. Two cab- inet ministers favorable to him have MUTINY GROWS | | The law was passed as a safety measure but it serves the secondary purpose of saying the hard coal men from outside scabs, as long as it is enforced. Hence the drive against the law. The propaganda for repeal was begun by John Hays Hammond, chair- man of the U.S. coal commission at a civic federation meeting in New York earlier in the strike and has been carried on by the Wall Street Journal, most outspoken organ for big money, Repeal the law to break the strike, is the demand. Wants Scabs and Says So. Hammond’s speech at the civic fed- eration minced no strikebreaking words “The effect. of this law (the state ¢ertification law),” said he, “to- gether with the complete unioniza- tion of the mines, gives the United Mine Workers virtually a monopoly of the miners’ labor. The law makes it impossible for other miners to be employed, notwithstanding the fact that they have had many years ex- perience in bituminous mines and are tully competant to do the work of the anthracite miner. “There are’ many competant miners in the bituminous fields, who, owing to) the irregularity of operations, would gladly seek employment in thy anthracite mines... The ‘first step, therefore, to insure resumption of “mining operations is action by the commonwealth of Pennslylvania.” Mining engineers have repeatedly shown that the technical problems in the anthracite fields are different from those.in the soft coal pits and that a bituminous miner may be a source of danger to himself and others if he tries; to direct operations at a hard coal:faee without special training, but Hammond ignores this in this eager- ness to.break the strike. Boasts of Using Gunmen and Dicks Hammond has been breaking strikes ‘or “more than a generation. And sitig Pinkertons to send workers to he‘penitentiary. He tells of such ex- ploits in the February 1925 issue of Scribners’ Magazine in an article en- titled Strong Men of the Wild West The “strong man” he lauds most is Charles A. Siringo, a Pingerton de- tective and gunmen he employed against the Western Federation of Miners in the Coeur d’Alene strike of 1892 when Hammond was president of the huge Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine, still the largest silverlead pro- | ducer in the world. SENTENCE 12 COMMUNISTS TO PRISON Refuse to Leave Party as Price of Freedom (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Nov. 27—Five of the twelve leading members of the British Communist Party, were sentenced Wednesday by Justice Swift to one year’s imprisonment’“‘in the second division”"—which means imprison- ment but not at labor as a convict— while the other seven were sentenced to six months of such imprisonment. The judge in sentencing the men elicited one of the finest examples of Communist unity and spirit when he declared that he would lay the one year sentence only against the five who have been previously convicted of “offenses” against the capitalist system: “1 Will Not.” To the other seven he said he was “anxious to avoid sending them to |prison” and that he would release on |their own word any who would prom- jise to have nothing to do with the }Communist Party. He then asked each one of the seven if they would {so promise In each case the reply was: not!” |~ The five getting the year’s sentence are as follows: Albert Samuel, retary of the Great Britain, Walter Hannington, age 30, machin- “T will Inkpin, age 41, sec- Communist Party of st Harry Pollitt, age 34, boilermaker. William Gallagher, a brass finisher. William Charles Rust, age 22, sec: retary of the Young Communist League of Great Britain The seven who were sentenced to six months’ imprisonment are as fol- lows: John Thomas Murphy, age 36, ma. chinist. sion, The announcements of the In the regular resigned, but their resignations were > hi : | Robert Page Arnott, age 36, jour- for a person of average intelli-| meeting were distributed thruout all|#"fual election which followed in| Sign for Germany and Belgium, and) 9) gecepted. Honan troops are ad- ue gente RG pe bo oi heather and atheetor. 6 yl ioe as, gence than to be forced to listen to |Berlin and environs and the arrival of |JUn¢, Corbishly and all of his/asso-| Briand will sign for France—provid-| \.n cing from the southwest. it ep me ie er ema eet |search department. somebody dwell on the blessings to civilization that resulted from Amer- ica’s participation in the world war. A New York reader sent me a clip- pling from the little paper published by the Harlem Evening Hight School. It is the product of a first class rotar- (Continued on page 2) Clara Zetkin from Moscow is viewed here as the first gun in a campaign that will bring the Communist pro- gram before the whole nation in this critical period, The gther political groups are frankly terror-stricken at the sudden turn toward the revolu- (Continued on page 2) Turning Fascism Loose in England clates were returned by an ‘average vote of five to one, with the klan can- didates completely routed. Always on the lookout for the. min- ers’ interests, the local’s executive committee was instrumental in put- ting an assistant check weighman into the mine to see to it that the miners ‘were not cheated by the company mine Manager who saw to it that the cars were moved over the weighing scales so rapidly that it was very difficult for one checkweighman to keep track of them. Frustrated in its attempt to (Continued on page 4.) Rob Postoffice. ing France has» not removed him as foreign minister by Monday. The British government notified Mussolini in a; polite way that while the government would guard him well, and see that he was not physically mobbed, the British government could not guarantee that British labor would not “insult” the Italian dictator, as British labor isegreatly indignant at Mnesolini’s suppression of the trade union movement‘of Italy. TAMMANY BOSS ESTATE VALUED Li Ching-lin, governor of the prov- ince of Chilhi, has declared that proy- ince is “neutral.” He was previously an active partisan of Chang Tso-lin, Open School Again, —Schools were reopened after they iad been closed for two days be- sause of cold weather, |Writes for ‘the Daily’ WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Nov. 27} ing secretary of the union, mailing regulat reports against his fellows, to the mine owners’ association. How the union suspected Siringo and the dick barely escaped with his life. Siringo continued his stooling under difficulties, on one occasion using a note book under a-sidewalk while a miners’ posse was looking for him. Later he took’ part in the armed war between the company’s rifle men— armed strikebreakers Hammond had imported—and the ‘unionists, and at the trial of several union leaders his | testimony sent them to the peniten- | tiary. Not Above It-—Maybe Below it. All this suggests that Hammond, as Arthur McManus, age 35, machinist. Thomas Henry Wintringham, age {2 istant editor of the Workers’ Wer , Official organ of the Com- munist Party, John Ross Campbell, age 30, editor of the Workers’ Weekly. » Ernest Walter Cant, age 33, clerk. | Thomas Bell, an iron molder of Glasgow, Scotland, The Three Counts. | The jury had found all the prison- ers guilty on three counts: conspir- (Continued on page 2) || THE RISE OF ECONOMY i 2. CHARLESTON, Il, Nov. 27.— | ; ‘ . | chairman on the U. S, coal commis- i | foe orig frightened away before sion of the Coolidge administration | | SOCIALIST il they had cut their way into the main and old Wall Street. man himself, | 5 trom Mosabique, Portuguese East | day held up H. S: Wilkerson, cashier TOM MANN. Chang has been for a long time Get others to read it and i Africa, Madame Macore was in a | of the First State Bank of Renner,| Brilliant spokesman of British labor| openly subsidized by Japan, i 9 may fi starving condition, it is said and | and made their escape in a battered | who will contribute regularly to The Japan claims it is maintaining SUBSCRIBE! a rom the wuiuvi vuily Herald ( T).) driven “to frenzy she is alle, to | automobile with, $500 in currency and | DAILY WORKER articles on condi-| the “strictest ne itrality” in the , But the Workers are Getting Ready. ‘have eaten thom. silver, tions in Great Britain. present Manchurian situation, il A wy. vault of the new post office here, fled with $100 in stamps and currency after what is believed to have -been 4 plot to kidnap Postmaster Fred More, had failed. MOTHER DRIVEN T0 FRENZY BY HUNGER EATS HER CHILDREN LISBON, Nov. 27—Trial in one of the most gruesome murders in his- tory has come to an end with the Sentericing of Madame Macore to’ ten years’ imprisonment and depor- tation for the murder of her two children, according to dispatches AT $2,170,761,22 NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—The ap- praisal of the estate of the late Chas, F. Murphy, Tammany Hall boss, given out by M. F. O'’Laughlin, state tax appraiser, showed it to be value at $2,170,761.22, Steal Jewels, Toledo, Ohio, Nov. 27.—Two band- its held up the jewelry store of S. B. Stein here and escaped with jewels valued at between $100,000 and $125,- 000, Women Rob Bank. RENNER, 8, Di Nov. 27.—Two wo- men armed with automatic pistols to- would not be above using private de- | tectives and proyocateurs in the || union today. But he {s not talking of | that. He asks the repeal of the certi- fication law so that the anthracite union strike may be scabbed out. JAPAN CLAIMS THAT IT =| IS ‘STRIGTLY NEUTRAL’ | | SINCE CHANG’S DEFEAT | | i] IN RUSSIA ° i TODAY in the Magazine Section The economic facts on the development of the Soviet , Union presented for the first time. (Special to The Daily Worker) | TOKIO, Nov. 27—Officiaidom of || that the ousting of Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian war lord, is certain. | | Japan was today inclined to believe | READ IT! | | 1