The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1925, Page 2

i Page Two LATIN-AMERICA RESENTS WALL STREET RULE Anti-ImperialistLeague Ranks Increase That opposition to Wall Street is crystallizing on an unprecedented scale thruout the American continent, is plainly indicated In the organiza- tion, reported today, of two new sec- tions of the All-America Anti-Imper- lalist League—one in Colombia and one In Ecuador, Juan de Dios Romero, well-known leader of the Colombian workers and editor of the weekly, E! Socialista, is secretary of the Colom- bian section. According to reliable in- formation from Bogota, Romero has the support of practically all the labor organizations of the capital city, as well as the Columbian students’ guild. Regarding the establishment of the Colombian section, Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Im- Perialist League, declares that thel movement in Colombia against Amer jean imperialist domination dates from 1903, when President Roosevelt carried out his brazen sequestration of Panama, formerly a province of Colombia. More recently, the maneu- vers of American ofl magnates in Colombia, notably the Standard Oi! Co., have aroused all sections of the population against the steadily in- creasing menace of American imper- ialism. Cuban Section Active. The recently organized Cuban ‘sec- tion of the All-America Anti-Imperial- ist League, is carrying on a systematic campaign for the repeal of the malo- doious “Platt amendment.” The Cu- ban section is now supported by the Havana Labor Federation, the Feder- ation of University Students (with the fortnightly. organ, Juventud), the trade unions of Egla and Guanabacoa, and the resident group of the Chinese Kuomintang party. There are regular sub-sections in Havana and Cama- suey. American imperialism has been showing its teeth in Cuba with parti- cular savagery. Largely thru the in- uence of Gen. Enoch R. Crowder, Am- erican ambassador in Cuba, consider- able numbers of “anti-American” workers—some of them native Cubans ~-have been deported from the coun- try, while many more have been put behind prison bars. Hold Demonstration. Such persecution only helps to give fmpulse to the liberating work of the All-America Antimperialist League in Cuba. At the big mass meeting of the league in Mars Field, more than 10,000 people were present. Reports from Mexico and Porto Rico indicate that there too the work of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League is taking on impetus. In the United States, the league is redoubl- ing its activity. It is establishing lo- eal sub-sections, arranging meetings and conferences, publishing a regular news service, etc. Activity is now concentrated in the campaign for Philippine independence, in which full co-operation is being established with the powerful national independence movement in the Philippine Islands. Form American Section. Officials of the league declare that the big problem in this country is to convince the American working class that its interests demand uncondition- al support of all the national libera- tion movements against Wall Street, and at the same time draw the Latin-Americans and Filipinos into closer association with the American workers, The American section of the league has received the full sup- port of the Workers (Communist) Party. Take Wine Cellar. N. Y¥., Nov. 27.—Following from his BATH, the seizure brandy, Charles Wheeler, proprietor of a government bonded winery at .Gibson's Landing, said he would file @ protest with the federal authori- ties at Washington The raiding party seized the vintages and immedi- | ately dumped them into Keuka Lake. | » of holding the | was ignored. | The customary pra beverages for “anly Do your utmost to give t $2,500 is needed by Dec. 15. HOW? Donations Are Weapons in This Defense Fight! (48 we see ||BRITISH CROWN cellars’ of | $90,000 worth of champagne, wine and | (Continued from page 1) ian mind, which is several degrees below that of the much-abused moron, The editorial starts by praising the gods for thanksgiving day, with its “anticipated delight of sniffing roast- ed turkey and steaming pumpkin pie, chewing cracked nuts and gulping home brew.” Get that from our law and order fiend! “ene @ ATER on the imbecile boasts of the Americans “who at all times were ready to fight under freedom’s flag, and culminating in our entering the world war to perpetuate and spread freedom thrueut the world.” If this person’s mind were capable of receiving impressions, other than from a bottle, I would suggest that he see “What Price Glory?” Not satis- fied with making the world so much more unbearable by the chunks of offal quoted above, he continues: “American: It means heaven thruout the world. A bulwark of freedom, a heaven of rest and safety to the op- pressed of the earth, a land of sun- shine and opportunity for all creeds and conditions of men, a history of accomplishment and glory and unself. ishness,” see O attempt refutation of this twad- dle would be to offer insult to the -eaders of The DAILY WORKER. The juotations are given, frankly for the purpose of exciting those who happen to read this, to a fury against a syst- »m that breads such sychophants as the author of the ill-smelling editor ial. Go ahead babbits and gulp your home brew even tho you violate the eighteenth amendment! You are the kind that pay your dollars to join the Loyal Order of the Moose; the K. K. K., who enjoy baiting radicals be- cause you are told they are not loyal to the government! eso HE French government suffered wreckage when Andrew Mellon failed to give Wall Street the high sign for a new French loan. Or per- haps Wall Street did the signalling! Washington and Wall Street are one and the same and never more so, than now. There is considerable specula- tion whether the. parliamentary..form of government can exist in France much longer. The big industrialists are talking of a fascist dictatorship, because they fear a workers’ dictator- ship. If it happens that France’s present troubles weaken the govern- ing powers sufficiently to produce panic and chaos a dictatorship is in- evitable and another example of bles- sed capitalist democracy will have gone by the board. Irish Free State and Ulster Preparing for Boundary Dispute War DUBLIN, Nov. 27.—The. Irish Free state is tense today, following the failure of President Cosgrave to come to any agreement with Premier Bald- win of Great Britain, relative to the dispute over the Ulster border, Numerous reports are being circul- ated, one of them being tothe effect that armed men are being mobilized jin Ulster to take over the territory | awarded to Ulster under the terms of the boundary commission. There are also unconfirmed reports that the free state is prepared to send forces to the border. | Wall Street Employs Sharper Weapon Than Prayers on Filipinos MANILA, Nov. 27.—The Knights of Columbus here are urging that a day of prayer for the independence of the Philippines be observed in the islands. DO US A We're simply swamped! (>>). The Framed-up Zeigler Miners! Help Save Them From Prison! them the best possible defense. Local Chicago, International Labor Defense, has guaranteed $1,000 which has been advanced already and is out to raise the full amount. By means of a BAZAA DECEMBER are waiting to be done—and we haven't a big enough office force to do them. Perhaps you want to hely The DAILY WORKER and can spare a day—or a few hours —or maybe only an hour? If you can—come over. You'll be as welcome as a long lost friend. at the NORTH-WEST HALL, Corner North and Western Avenues Ask your shopmates, your organizations, your neighborhood shops for con- tributions of any kind of article—foodst the local I. L. D. office, 23 So, Lincoln St., know that YOU are on by bringing, sending or reporting what you collect or donate, BE A LABOR DEFENSE BUILDER AND BOOSTER! LAYS PLANS FOR TREASON TRIAL ToF ollow Conviction at “Old Bailey” (Continued from page one) acy to utter seditious libel; conspir acy to incite mutiny, and conspiracy to seduce soldiers and sailors from their “duty.” | The attorney general in his closing argument for the crown, said that it did not matter where the prisoners got money from, whether from Soviet | Russia or from other sources, What mattered was what they did. He de- clared that the Young Communist League “reeked with sedition” and | stood for “disruption and breaking up| of the armed forces of the state by the creation of revolutionary organ- izations in the army and navy.” Low Motives of Capitalism Don’t Matter, Judge Swift in stating the position of the court toward the open charge that the case was one of one political party trying to exterminate another, said that this had no bearing on the case, for if the defendants were guilty the motives of the prosecutor did not matter, even if they were low motives, With Justice Swift in control, the Communist prisoners got also a taste of “swift justice” from the jury, who clearly gave no time for deliberation. Altho three counts were charged against twelve prisoners, making thirty-six cases in all to consider sep- arately, the jury was out only twenty minutes. eee Hold Out Evidence. LONDON, (By Mail)—All the evi- dence which Scotland Yard was able to gather thru its raids on the head: quarters ‘of the British Communist Party and the Young Communist League, and thru pilfering the mail of the arrested defendants will not be used in the trial of the twelve Communists who are now on trial un- 44 r THE DAILY“WORKER TURKEY DEFIES THE-LEAGUE AND GREAT BRITAIN Resent F. ixing of Mosul Boundary Line * CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27.— The league of nations was openly de- fled id rebuked today when the Turkish cabinet, meeting under the chairmanship of Kemal Pasha, refused compulsory arbitration by the league in Mosul boundary dispute. The Hague tribunal recently decid- ed that the league had a right to make a unanimous decision on the |question of the boundary dispute, which has been a bone ‘of contention here since the British igreed for oil made it an object oftimperialist con- quest, Hague Decision Vicious. The decision of the’ Hague court that the league had ‘the right to fix boundaries carried with it a revision ‘of the covenant of the league of na- tions which says that such decision must be by unanimous vote. The recent decision said, that the vote must be unanimous with the exception of the parties to the question in dis- pute. The cabinet decision places the matter where it was before—a direct struggle between Britain and Turkey, It cannot be settled permanently by conciliation so will eventually be settled by force. crown objects to as being highly se- ditious: ° Communist Program. “Nationalization of land, railways, communication, transport, engineering, shippifig, cotton and woolen industries and the banks without compensation; disarming of the bourgeois, the arming of the pro- letariat, and the creation of a prole- tarian army, navy and civil guarc; abolition of capitalist law courts and the establishment of. Workers’ tri- bunals; state monopoly of foreign trade and of the press; ,annulment of state debts, with an, allowance to small investors; confiscation of all fortunes over £5,000 ;nationalization mines, der the incitement to mutiny act of 1797. In the presentation of the charges to the court, after the prosecutor and the court and a number of Scotland Yard detectives had gone over it, they put the Communists on trial not for “seditious conspiracy” but have charged them with “conspiring to pub- list seditious libels.” This action of the court restricts the testimony to having the defendants prove that they did not conspire to write certain ar- ticles and statements. Plan Second Trial. These lawyers, that represent the crown, intend thru this method to get @ conviction of the Communists on this act and then to prosecute them under the defense of the realm act and have them convicted of treason. The prosecution is attempting to make it appear that the Communist Party is an illegal organization and the crown attorney is presenting evi- dence to show that the British Com- munist Party is a section of the Com- munist International and that the British Communists thru their con- nections with the Communist. Inter- national want to overthrow the Brit- of all property except that owned by small tenants, and to be paid to the state; aboliiton,of the mon- archy and all heredi y titles; libera- tion of the colonies held in military and political sub, in;’ repudiation of the Versailles treaty and the can- celing of war debts reparations; universal simultaneous disarmament.” Pollitt Pays Charges. Harry Pollitt, who if'a member of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International, @eclared in an answer to the crown aftorney’s charge that the Communists’had conspired in an illegal organigition to over- throw the British eréwn before the jury at the Old Bailey: “Our views may be repulsive, they may be distasteful, wrong, but they are our views ay we have the same right to repeat them as the peo- ple opposed to us... The Communist Party isa perfectly ,legal political party which has been pursuing more or less the even tenor of its way since 1920.” He showed that no secret channels, or secret methods were used and that the party was a legal organization hav- ing a membership of over 5,000 mem- ish government and establish a So- viet republic and then to become a Part of the Soviet Russia. : The crown defender also is. intro- ducing evidence claiming that at the “secret” conference of the Communist Party in Caxton Hall, Manchester, that the following program was adopted by the defendants which the FAVOR? Many little jobs in the#ffice Their trial begins Dec. 1. 10 to 13, 1925 and let e Jjob— ‘8, coin, clothing, anythin; bers of which but ten had ever been in Russia, Scotland Yard Takes Evidence. “Much of the evidence which Scot- land Yard was to have introduced before the trial, was material that Scotland Yard had framed up on the Communists. Scotland Yard had a number of Pravda’s that it was going to use, until it became the public property of the English workers, that this issue of the ada ‘had been faked by Scotland Yi Prosecution Becomes Dramatic. A number of huntorous incidents have occurred sincemthe trial had opened with the crown attorneys making themselves ridiculous telling of the “conspiracies” and the “secret gatherings” and the “foreign emissa- ries” bringing “Moscow gold” to the London Communists, which they had “discovered.” The munist Party of England has alw had its meet- ings open to visitors has announc- ed its meetings openly in the Workers Weekly, the organ of the party, which has been sent thru the mails and it was not necessary to have secret and Coolidge Exposed Self in New York Speech As Cheapest Kind of Liar By J. LOUIS TPRAY the officials of some trade unions are beginning to recover from the effects of Cal Coolidge’s bald declaration to New York profiteers, that prices were going down while wages were going up, hypocritically declaring that “this is real and solid progress.” This was nothing if not a rallying ery to the great exploiters to continue their wage cutting cam- paigns, Democratic organs, like the New York World, that still have hopes for the democratic party, are open- ing an attack on Coolidge’s figures, which will no doubt be repeated very often between now and the 1926 congressional election, to dem- onstrate the great prosperity that it is claimed the republican admin- istration has heaped upon the coun- try. eee 3 he can hardly be expected that the labor officialdom “will wage an open and energetic struggle against this deliberate falsification by the presidential strikebreaker. President Wililam Green and Secretary Frank Morrison of the American Federa- tion of Labor, have been visiting the - White House lately to help Coo- lidge draw up his message that goes to congress next month. They have been so busy talking to Coolidge that they have not had time evi- dently to expose, even if they de- gathering in the metropolis. It is contrary to the etiquette of class whom one fraternizes. Thus Green *collaboration to criticize those with and Morrison, quite overcome by their own importance, in being called to the White House, are ef- fectively disarmed in so far as they might render any service to the workers they are supposed to rep resent. j ‘eee HE democrats on the other hand will lie on their side as much as the republicans perjure themselves to mislead working class voters. The democrats will claim that every good thing came out of the Wilson administration and that “prosperity” will never again burst in full bloom until another democratic president sits in the executive mansion. The democratic attack on Coolidge’s ut- terances is therefore only part of that general denunciation thru which it is hoped to return the don- key party to the national political pie counter. oe # 8 T remains, therefore, for the mili- tant elements in the labor move- ment to make the fight to show that actual conditions give the lie to all of Coolidge’s pretensions. Every housewife, without consulting the official reports of the United States department of labor, knows that the cost of living has been steadily in- creasing since Mr. Coolidge went into office. Coolidge doesn’t know this. All his household expenses in sired, the master class propaganda | of factory workers in New York that “Cautions Cal” spewed forth | State are below the 1920 level. So before the chamber of commerce | are the payroll figures reported by ENGDAHL. ‘Washington are paid by the govern- ment. He doesn’t have to worry where his next meal is coming from. In his’ speech he dealt with “wholesale prices,” thus displaying his monumental ignorance. He con- fesses that he doesn’t know that workers cannot buy wholesale; that they buy retail at the corner grocers, the butchers or the chain “tea and coffee” stores. Wholesale prices have dropped 30 per cent since 1920, but the most acceptable index of liv- ing costs shows that retail prices have dropped only 16 per cent. ‘ SE AS HE slight fall in prices in the closing days of the Wilson regime and the early part of the Harding dynasty, for which Coolidge is now trying to claim credit, was but a meager readjustment that took place with the ending of the war that was featured by extor- tionate tolls placed on all the neces- sities of life. So much for Coolidge’s “cost of living.” se © @ O* the question of wages Coolidge also lied. Even the New York World, defender of the rich, con- fesses that “The assumed increase of 20 per cent in wages since 1920 is not borne out by the statistical evidence.” Let Coolidge swallow these incon- trovertible facts: “The average per capita wages the U. S, department of labor, head- ed by ong of Coolidge’s own cabinet members. “That department also reports the average hourly wage of common la- bor in this country at 38 cents, com- pared with 49 cents in 1920. The rate paid by the steel corporation in “that year was 46 cents. It is now 40 cents. Farm labor is now receiv- ing an average of $49 per month, compared ser $65 in 1920.” 6.3.2 HE hie of the textile industry in Coolidge’s own New England states has been one wage cut after another. This cutting came into greater evidence than ever follow- ing Coolidge’s election last year. The avérage weekly earnings in the textile industry for 1924 was the starvation wage of $18.87. This is according to the government's own statistics. Figures gathered by the United Textile Workers’ Union indicate that this average should be much lower, probably $15 per week. It is declared the average in Fall River, Mass., is $17.50 per week. OF ne ag i HUS the Coolidge myth about in- creasing wages and a lowering cost of living is blown sky high, During the coming session of con- gress, and the congressional cam- paign that’ will follow, many such myths will originate in the White House. They must meet with sim- ilar treatment, not enly by labor militants, but by increasing masses of workers and poor farmers, conspiratory meetings as the Com- munist Party was a legal organiza- tion and participated openly in the British municipal and parliamentary elections as a Communist Party for a number of years, explained a number of defendnts, Changes in Classes at Chi. Workers’ School A few changes in the days and loca- tion of some of the classes in the Chi- cago Workers’ School have had to be made, They are as follows: The class in English will meet at 2644 LeMoyne St. every Tuesday and Friday at 8 p. m. The Worker Correspondents class which meets in the editorial room of the “Daily Worker” has been changed to Thursday night at 8 p. m. instead of Friday. The History of the Inter- national Revolutionary Youth Move- ment will meet on Sunday morning at 11 a, m. HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! Philadelphia Sit Up and Take Notice! There is nothing else to be done on Wednesday, December 2nd, 1925, only to go ta the ---BALL--- of the F ruit and Grectry Clerks’ Union NEW TRAYMORE HALL, FRANKLIN ST. AND COLUMBIA AVE: THERE WILL BE DANCING AND GOOD Music. GOOD TIME ASSURED. Don’t Forget the Date—December 2nd. Communists Launch Opposition Attack Against Locarno Pacts (Continued from page 1) tion. The proclamation announcing the meeting in the Lustgarten an- nounced: “Clara Zetkin will speak against the war treaties of Locarno, for an alliance of peace with Soviet Russia, against the Dawes plunder pact, for the independent workers of Germany, against the imperialistic league for oppressed nations, against the black front imperialists under the leadership of London and for the red front under the leadership of Mos- cow.” Thus the question of the red international against the black inter- national of imperialist nations is clearly put. Cabinet Will Resign. Chancellor Luther and his cabinet ere expected to resign immediately after the pacts are signed. The res- ignation of his government was the price he has to pay in order to ob- tain sufficient support for the ratifi- cation. So determined was the gov- ernment to play the imperialist game of Britain that they sold their cabi- net to the opposition parties in order to obtain their support. This brazen Political trading has aroused the masses and efforts will be made by the Communists to prevent the crea- tion of any government, thereby fore- ‘ing new elections, on the issue of re- pudiation of the ratification of the Locarno pacts, . Woman, Children Burned to Death, HUNTSVILL, Ala., Nov. 27—Three persons, @ woman and two of her chil- dren, were burned to death on a farm ten miles south of Huntsville to- day, when fire wrecked the home as they were sleeping. If you want to thoroughly un- lerstand Communism—study it, siemens SEEK NEW HEAD FOR COMMITTEE Langley Sentenced to Atlanta Prison WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 27.— The leaders of the Grand Old Party, will be up against it when the forth- coming session of congress convenes. The republican leaders are wond ing who they wif place in the chair- manship of the committee on public buildings and grounds, which is now held by Representative John W. Lang- ley, of Kentucky, who will soon be taking a two year’s vacation at the federal resort in Atlanta for forget- ting that prohibition enforcement of- ficials must be “seen” in order to be immune for violations of the dry law. The committee appointment is con- sidered one of the most important as the administration is pledged to a $50,000,000 public buildings program. Ignored Sentence. Tho Langley has been under indict- ment for two years and was tried and sonvicted, republican leaders ignored this fact as they hoped that some method could be found to free Lang- ley from an enforced vacation at the federal resort. Now that the court, G. 0. P, LEADERS to which he had appealed has upheld his conviction for conspiring to viol- ate the Volstead act, the republican leaders are searching around to find a good tool for the committee, Parents Protest to School Board. With promises of adjustment of their grievances, if possible, twenty- five parents of children attending the Murphy school, Central Park Ave. and Grace street, were dismissed by a spe- cial committee of the board of edu- cation. The parents’ complaint is the shifting of the Murphy school to the Henry school, St. Louis and Cullom Aves., which necessiates the children traveling distances and over many dangerous crossings to get to school. 7 Escape From Reformatory. BOONEVILLE, Mo., Nov. 27— Breaking thru the panel of a dormi: tory door, seven prisoners at the Missouri reform schoo) here, made their way to liberty. George E. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half block from Imperial Hall PHONE DIVERSEY 0791 CHICAGO Madison Pharmacy NC. BETTER DRUGS Light Luncheon Served 1154 Madison Street, Corner Ann , OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Four Phones Chicago To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. 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