The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1925, Page 1

The'DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 274. P, Sion | Subscription Rates: NDING ih AUST COURT TO. SEND UNION MINERS TO PRISO By MAX SHACHTMAN, (By |. L. D. Press Service) ZEIGLER, Ill., Nov. 29.—‘The entire resources of the organ- ization will be used to bring those to justice who $0 dastardly attacked the sub-district officials in the discharge of their duties,” was the substance of a telegram sent by Frank Farrington to E. B. Hewlett, one 01 a committee of three appointed by Orient, HL, Local 303 of the United Mine Workers to protest to Farring- ton against the action of sub-district officails bringing to court for prosecution twenty Zeigler miners. The union miners not only of Orient but of the entire county of Franklin and outside of it are aroused by what is known far and wide to be a frame-up against the progressive miners of Zeigler Local No. 992. The militant membership of Zeigler has always been one of the sharpest thorns in the side of the Far- t+rington machine’s attempt at undisputed and autocratic rule. Farrirngton Aids Frame-Up. Farrington is now actively aiding Prison Head Brutally Beats Inmates (Special to The Daily Worker) ALBEMARLE, N. C., Nov. 29.—Tales of most brutal and revolting beatings of Negro convicts for minor infringe- ments of prison discipline are now being related in the trial of M. C. Hanford, Stanley county convict su- perintendent. Witness after witness that has been called to the box have deserved the cruel beatings thi ford has given Negro convicts, Die Within Few Hours Many of the convicts were beaten so unmercifully that they died within a few hours of the beatings. Two of the white convicts in the prison testified that they had seen two Negroes beaten by the superintendent in one afternoon and that both of these men died on the same night. Died From “Overheat.” Dr. C, M. Lentz testified that he had examined the negroes on the evening of their death and denied that these men were beaten and stated that the/ prison superintendent and the war-| dens had told him that the men had died from “overheat.” The judge scored this attempt of! the doctor to make light of the death | of these two Negroes and asked him whether he had ever heard of any ne- groes dying from “overheat.” It was finally brought out that the men had died as a result of the| wounds inflicted by the inhuman beat-| ing delivered them much to the dis- comfiture of the jail superintendent. 7. Inquisition Tortures Used. ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 29.—Methods approximating the torture devices of the inquisition were revealed to be in operation in Georgia prisons to. “dis- cipline” convicts for infringements of jail rules was exposed in a report by the sub-committee of the Georgia house of representatives penitentiary committee on conditions in Georgia prisons. In one camp prisoners were backed up to a post and their arms chained behind it. The arms were then fastened as high as possible and | the chains: hooked to nails. The pris- oner was left in this suspended posi- tion for several hours, Use “Sweat” Boxes, In anothér camp prisoners were fas- tened to a hollow box so that they \could not move their 8. Molasses was smeared over their exposed faces and they were left powerless to brush away the flies attracted by the mo- lasses. “Stock and sweat boxes” were ‘ found in other camps, the report pointed out. Leningrad Province Opens 900 Libraries in Rural Districts LENINGRAD, U, 8S. 8S. R—The provincial political education depart- ment is opening 900 new rural district and itinerant libraries in the villages in the Leningrad province, The Lenin- grad State Publishing House is issu- ing more than one million cheap books on agriculture, Soviet legisla. tion, co-operation etc. The price of these books has been fixed 4 to 6 kopeks. ¢ ;of terror the prosecution to railroad the de- fendants to the penitentiary. The growing resentment against the ac- tions of Lon Fox and Del Cobb, min- ers’ sub-district officials who are! backing the prosecution and bringing | the charges, is being answered by | Farrington in the words he tele-| graphed to Orient, The miners here point out that Farrington conveniently overlooks the years of attacks made by himself and the sub-district machine against the Ziegler officials whom he has finally suspended. The constant rob- bing of elections and general reign experienced by the local unionists for insisting on their rights and duties as members of the United Mine Workers of America receive no mention from | Farrington, spired these attacks himself. 9 Gon } on palms Pe baa 2) ‘STUDENTS OF PEKING STAGE who in- The BIG PROTEST mend: Arming of the Toiling : Masses (Special to The. Daily Worker) PEKING, China, Nov. 29—Demand- ing that Tuan Chi-jui, provisional president resign, distributing litera- ture of the left wing section of the Kuomintang or people’s hationalst party, calling for the overthrow of the militarist government which is but |the tool of foreign imperialists, the | disbanding of the regular vapred 7 ied the arming of the workers, an dissolution of the so-called p A conference” now being held, thousands of revolutionary students filled the streets of Peking today. Students in Action. They concentrated on the officials of the corrupt provisignal govern- ment. They entered and turned in- side out the houses of seven proini- nent government, officials, including the home of the chief of police, the Chinese finance. minister and the chief secretary of the cabinet. They pulled out one high dignitary from an automobile and. gave him a beating. The defense commissioner of the metropolitan area, Lu Chung Lin, has declared martial law as an attempt to check the demonstrations by stu- dents. but it is well known that no power in China caj*stand against the will of the stidenjs, especially when they are joined with the organized proletariat, which wholeheartedly sup- ports the réd Kuomintang and the na- tionalist Mberation movement to oust all foreign imperialist domination, Mutineers Dig In.- Kuo Sung-lien, the leader of 100,000 mutineer trops of Chang Tso- ,{lin, has established headquarters at Chinwangtao on the Chithi coast. A battle is expected between his troops and Chang’s “loyal” white pee at Shanhaikwan. Altho Japan has protested loudly that she is “neutral” in the matter of Chang being put down and out by mu- tinous troops, the destroyer Tacht- bana has been ordered to sail trom Port’Arthur to Chinwanto, the head- quarters of the mutiny, to “protect Japanese nationals employed there,” Your neighbor will appreciate the favor—give him this copy of the DAILY WORKER, In Chicage, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, ee a 00 per year a” for work among the masses: Young Workers League of 1113 W. Washington Blvd., establishment of unity Yo struggle against right danger Urges immediate application of 1 energetic fight for liquidation of fa Calls on all members Young we tion Central Executive Young Communist International Approves Unity Resolution HE National Executive Committee of the Young Workers (Communist) League has received the following cablegram fra unist International in regard to the r the Workers (Communist) Party and the Workers (Communist) League on the q! the Executive Committee of the Young Com- ution of the Central Executive Committee of itional Executive Committee of the Young on of unification of the party and the league Communist International greets Workers League of America for ad’ commencement of mass work. resolution thruout league and tions and. unity in Workers Party. s League to unite in unity resolu- for mass work. Y WORK Entered ab Second-class matter eptember 21, 1923, of the Fost CMice at Chicags, tilinols, under the Act of Match 3, 1879. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORK EDITION 1 - Price 3. Cents 1113 W.. Washington Bivyd., Chicago, Il, OLINI CALLS HIMSELF THE STATE ‘NEW TERRORIST LAWS ENACTED TO PROTECT ITALIAN TYRANT AS __HETHREATENS OTHER NATIONS (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, Nov. 29—Mussolini and his cut-throat fascists |2re held in such widespread contempt here that more and more | stringent laws are passed every session of the chamber in order to defend the tyrant from the open denunciation of all sections of the population. Yesterday a portion of the new fascist legislat- ive program was adopted and the chamber of deputies adjourned until Wednesday when the remainder of the program will be adopted. Of the ten articles already adopted one of them in- creases the dictatorship of Mussolini and attempts to protect him from political attacks by providing a penalty of fifteen years’ imprisonment for anyone who “insults” the premier or tries to injure his reputation in any manner. Another part of the laws adopted reaches beyond the con- fines of Italy and strikes at those property owners who have been driven from the country for anti-fascist activity. This part of the new laws decrees that any person outside Italy critizing the fascist regime will have his property within Italy confisc ated. This is recognized as a blow at* 7 . Executive Committee, Young Communist International, Vuyovitch, Morgan Is Pawnbroker for All the Bankrupt Capitalist Nations. ZEIGLER MINERS. FIGHT THIEVING COAL OPERATORS Bosses Feauie Militant, Union Leaders By MAX SHACHTMAN. 1. L. D. Press Service. ZEIGLER, I11., Nov, 29—The struggle of the miners for each ton of coal} they send up into the world looms in the background of the frame-up and trial of the twenty Zeigler — pro- gressives. The bitter battle of the United Mine Workers of America to incor- porate into state legislation and. into contracts with the_eoal operators -a} point providing for an accurate weigh- ing of each ton of coal as it comes on the scale has become a victory that depends upon the militancy of the check weighman who is elected and paid by the membership of every local union, Miners Cheated at Scales. For some time, the checkweighman at the Bell and Zoller mine in Ziegler complained of the factthat the miners were not being given correct weights for their loadings. The progressive administration of Locale992 therefore provided him with an assistant check- weighmin. who was able to take tally of the cars.as they were run over the scales, The weigh boss, who had been running the cars over the scales so swiftly that the indicator was never ‘(Wontinuea on page 6) t) ogae MINERS! RALLY T0 THE DEFENSE OF FRAMED-UP ZEIGLER COALDIGGERS! 1. L. D. Press Service. ZEIGLER, lll, Nov. 29.—The members,of therZeigler Local, 992, of the United Mime Workers of Am- erica who are under indictment and bond upon oneoor more of the four charges in thestrial which opens at Benton Monday, are as follows: Henry Corbishley, Frank, Cor- bishley, Bert Farthing, Oscar Farth- ing, Pete Blazin). Stevo Meanovich, Matt Crnoeviensta Wise, Ed M eski, John Lakey Frank Skibinski, Stanley Pauraz, William Bartash, Ignatz Simich; Martin Simich, R ivonson, Marian Soyat, Walter Bielsky and Mike Karadich. The prosecution itself moved in the preliminary hearings that ten of the defendants originally named be discharged. One of tne defendants, Frank Cor: bishley, brother of the deposed pres+ ident of the local, is being held un- der all four charges: Assault with intent to murder; conspiracy to murder; murder in the first degree in the case of Mike Sarovich; and intent to murder in the cose of Hez- za Hindman. These charg against young Corbishley are typi- cal of the entire: Zeigler frame-up: he was not even’present in the hall when the fighting or shooting took place. If you wantito thoroughly un- dei'stand Communism—-study it. GITLOW PROTEST MEETING ROUSES NEW YORK LABOR Demand Immediate Re- | lease of Fellow Worker (Special to The Oaily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—That the masses in New York are awake to the great wrongs imposed upon the active leaders in the movement for, working class freedom was shown a most effective manner at the Gitl protest meeting that filled Webstp Hall on Tuesday evening. The me ing was arranged by the Internation: Labor Defense for the purpose of de- feelings ciused by the imprisonment of Ben now serving a sentence of monstrating the outraged Gitlow, five to ten years in Sing Sing. P. Pascall Cosgrove, the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union, acted as chairman-and showed in his opening address how the master class is tightening its lines all over the world imprisoning workers who have been prominent in the work of organ- izing or in leading the masses toward bettering their conditions, Jail Workers, Robert Dunn, of International Labor Defense was the first speaker, “Any- body in this country who is affiliated with ideas and expresses them ir lable to be taken up the river anc find himself an inmate ofa’ first clase American prison, Tha ,trouble with (Continued on page 4) organizer of the Garibaldi’s who have not re~ nounced the traditions of the first Garibaldi who bears an il- lustrous name among certain | | classes in Italy. Cannot Describe Tyrant. Communists here point out that laws against insulting Mussolini are ludicrous becatse the series of best acts of Mussolini are of such a char- j acter that it is not pogsible to calumn- iate him. Hé’‘has committed all crim known to mankind and new words will have to be invented to describe some | of his despicable acts against the people of Italy. It is not possible to | describe him, ‘to say nothing of revil- | ing him, He has managed to pervert parlia- | | ment to such’ a degree that he can- | (Continued on page 2) 1 T.UsFARERS REFUSE 10 DINE ‘Chamber tof Commerce to Be Host Cae i By A Worker Correspondent | Spokane, Wash.—Despite all efforts |of the local Cooks and Waiters Union | to get visiting officials of the Interna- | tional Typrographical Union to dine | will banquet at a soab hotel as guests | of the local chamber of commerce. One union restaurant even offered \to close its doors to the public for the |time being, just to make it especially }pleasant for these so-called “union” ‘leaders, so that they could do their feasting for once. in their lives, at least, in a fair restaurant. But the chamber of commerce and scab joints are More to thé taste of this motley crew. ‘ J. Ford White, sietlitent, and Albert Leslie, secretary, Of the local I. T. U., are in charge ofthe éntertainment of the officials, who’ ate’ James M. Lynch, 1. T. U. president; J.-W. Hays, secre- tary-treasurer; af ‘Seth R. Brown, vice-president, “It promises to bea red letter day in the history of Local 193,” comments x local scab sheet, fn referring to the eee. of commerce banquet for the tionary officials, to be held in the bizkit weacait ata a) the city. "AT UNION HOUST) at a union house, these labor-fakers | ARBITRATION ‘IS PINCHOT'S ~NEW BETRAYAL | Miners’ Heads Consider | Proposal Today | (Special to The Daily Worker) HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 29.—Gov. | Pinchot of Pennsylvania is again try- | ing to betray the anthracite miners into arbitration as he did in 1923. | In a proposition laid before. Presi “hitent Yom h Tae sie he Serle cose | mittee of the mfners?-tinion, who are | to consider it Monday, Pinchot makes the first move for betrayal, the first proposal always made. by an enemy jot triker o back to work at existing conditions, and accept the award of arbitration when it is made later.” Grants no Concessions. Pinchot proposes ‘no. concession to the union and his proposals may well have been written by the mine own- Not only no..concessions are | given, but he asks the miners to bind themselves to at least a fl ear con- tract in a time when the cost of living is steadily rising. Pinchot’s main bid for the support |of his anti-union scheme is his pro- posal that under all circumstances there be no increase in price. He plays up artfully the alleged interests | of the “consumers.” But the governor offers very Mttle indeed—nothing in fact—to the unjon. He creates a “board of arbitration” of two from each side, these four to choose three more “impartial” mem- bers, all seven to decide “whether the operators can pay increase in wages without an advance in the price of coal.” The award to be made in six months, retroactive to the resumption of work, Wants Open Shops. Pinchot’s proposal gives no comfort to those who thought that he would agree to sponsor the union check-off of dues and thus get, formally, at least, a closed shop. He says: “Full recognition of the union, the eheck-off, shall not be granted by the operators, but any operator shall honor the volun y individual writ- ten request of any member to assign the amount of his present union dues, (Contes ued on one 2) FRANCE, (By Mail)-<The walls ing the following flaming messages: “In France—the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie: long hours, miserable wages, the worst hygeni¢ conditions. the Moroccan and the Syrian wars,, oppression and brutality of the boages, no vacations, eighteen months in the barracks! “In Soviet Russia--the dictatorship of the proletariat: for the youth a vorking day of from two to six hours, he best sanitary measures in the ‘actories, sport and — play-grounds. ‘plenty, universities for workers, workers’. faculties, techwical (Continued on pidge 6) Paris, where the First National Congress of the Youth of France was held by the vanguard of the the Young Communist League of France, VOICE OF FRENCH YOUNG WORKERS AND PEASANTS IS HEARD AT THE NATIONAL GRESS OF FRENCH TOILING YOUTH of the great hall at Grange-aux-Belles, Peasant French toiling youth- Proletarian and were covered with banners ca’ + Azerbaijan Miners Will Build Rest Home (Special to The ,Daily Worker) MQSCOW, U. S. 8S. R., Noy, 29,— The Miners’ Unionin Azerbaijan this year disiributes the. fund to raise the standard of living of the workers as follows:, 306,000. rubles to build san- torfa and rest homes, 100,000 rubles » build hydropathic institutes, 30,000 educa-|/rubles for co-operatives and 816,000 rubles to build private dwellings,