The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1925, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY 'WORKER VON HINDENBURG SIGNS LOCARNO PEACE’ PACTS | Means Germany Is Vas-| sal of Britain | (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Germany, Nov. 29—Pres-| ident von Hindenburg signed the Lo-| carno treatiies enabling bill yesterday | evening and also the bill providing for Germany's entry into the league| of nations. Berlin envoys have already left for) Lendon where the pacts will be signed | on December 1. Communists are inereasing their agitation against the pacts, declaring} that they tend to make the German working class the pawns of British, imperialism in its efforts to dominate} the world. Government to Resign. As soon as the pacts are signed the LutherStresemann government, ac- cording to prearranged plans, will re- sign and a new government will be organized. It is thought that Hinden- burg will have difficulty obtaining a premier who can create a government that will be able to cope with the in- ternal situation which is momentarily becoming more serious. ‘American Movie Picture Magnates Gain Control of German Productions BERLIN, Nov. 29.—The American moving picture interests in the Uni- versal Pictures corporation have gain- ed control of the Universe Film asso- ciation of Germany and have drawn up an agreement as to the showing of German films in America and Amer- ican films in Germany and the other parts of Europe where the German corporation had the right to exhibit its movies. The American movie interests were able to gain control of the German Independent Producing company thru loaning the Universe Film association $3,750.000, Thru this means the American mov- ing picture interests have succeeded in breaking down competition in the European market and have establish- ed a monopoly. SWEDISH GOVERNMENT _ RE-AFFIRMS SENTENGE OF COMMUNIST EDITOR STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 29,— The sentence of’ four months’ im- prisonment upon O, N. Engranez, editor of the Stockholm Communist daily Folkets Dagbladet, for his at- tack on the president of Finland and the Finnish government for jailing a number of active Communists, has been confirmed by the Swedish gov- ernment. The Dagbladet in an article com- menting on the sentence passed by the Swedish governmen:, declares that it will defy any attempts to muzzle its exposures of the char- jat West Frankfurt acter of the Finnish government. 'REACTIONARY MINE UNION HEAD . SEEKS TO PREJUDICE SENTIMENT BY SUSPENSION OF CORBISHLY By MAX SHACHTMAN. (1. L. D. Press Service.) ZEIGLER, Ill., Nov. 29.—A new act of treachery against the men on trial now in the Zeigler frame-up was accomplished today by the Fox-Cobb- controlled sub-district executive board of the United Mine Workers, ording Secretary George Thornton, of Rec- Zeigler Local 992, has received official notication from the sub-district president of the suspension for six months of Henry Corbishly, Matt Crnoevich,, Frank Skibinski and Walter Bielsky, The action is allegedly based upon charges presented to the sub-district executive board by “Lige” Walker, against the signers of a leaflet en-+ titled “The Facts About Zeigler.” The charges had been previously thrown out by the trial committee of the local union, The leaflet contained an ef- fective and truthful story of the in- cidents leading up to the latest oc- currence in Zeigler and Ipaced the blame for the matter onthe shoulders of those to whom it belonged. Part of Frame-up. “Everyone knows why this decision was made right now,” declared Henry Corbishly, deposed president of the local and one of the leading defend- ants in the case. “The Farrington machine wants to show in court we're such bad disrupters of the union that we had to be suspended for six months, and in this way they hope to prejudice the judge and jury against us. The same men who are behind our frame-up are behind this suspen- sion. “It's significant that when we await a decision on some question of wages or of the checkweighman affecting the interests of the miners it takes from two to three months, in spite of the fact that the sub-district office is less than an hour away from Zeigler. This suspen- sion decision was made a little over a week ago and is timed to take place just before the actual opening of the trial. ~ “We had to get the truth to the miners and the public somehow,” con- tinued Corbishly, “and there isn’t a paper in the county that would print our stories. Lon Fox and Del Cobb see to that. There wes only one thing we could do, and we did it, because we're entitled to it. We printed this leaflet to let everyone know what actually happened in Zeigler.” Will Fight an Appeal. The suspended members have an- nounced their intention of appealing to the district executive board, and if necessary to the international execu- tive board or the international con- vention. It is openly’ stated here by sup- porters of the prosecution that the actual charges and issues will be evaded by the prosecution and that every effort will be made to base their side of the case on the /“Bol- shevik scare” and the “red menace” in the hope of prejudice a jury which is likely to be made up. mainly of farmers from the other.side of the county. In private conversations, Farrington men admit that the basis of the in- dictments lies in the, fact that the coal operators in Zeigler were out to get rid of the local progressive union officials led by Corbishly because of the latter’s insistence weighing of coal and wages to the miners in accordance, The frame-up against them is the on correct Farrington’s special agent in Zeigler, CLEVELAND WORKERS HEAR OF MINE STRIKE® ON TUESDAY EVENING CLEVELAND, Ohio Nov. 29—The workers of Cleveland will be able to gain a good insight into the real struggle of the anthracite coal min- ers in Pennsylvania at the meeting that has been arranged to take place Tuesday evening, December 1, 8 p. m., Insurance Center Building, 1783 East Eleventh St., corner Wal- hut Ave. Room 601 at which Com- rade Pat H. Toohey, member of the National Executive Committee of the Young Workers’ (Communist) League and youthful strike leader, will tell of the problems that the striking miners face in the present crisis, Peatiesic ca |Farrington, Illinois Head of Miners, Aids the Capitalist Courts (Continued from page, one) shooting of a progressive Zeigler miner by a known klansman who is CUBA'S EXHIBITS DO NOT INCLUDE ENSLAVED PEONS Imperialists Display Commodities Only | By ESTHER LOWELL. NEW YORK—(FP)—The first booth one sees at the Cuban exposition in New York is that of the National City Bank of New York. From it one | passes to exhibits of West India Oil} Co,, another ramification, as National City bank is, of Rockefeller interests. One sees the auepiiy} of General Electric of Cuba, Otid, Elevator Co., American Car & Fo y Co., Munson | Steamship lines, ingpationa Nickel | Co., National Suga fining Co., etc. one big American ‘concern after an- other until the wonde! is where Cuba comes in. d But Cuba is there, in the corner of the Pennsylvania Hotél roof, with a government exhibit of the island's rich possibilities fof “American ex- ploiters. But nowhere~in the exhibit is there an indication of the status of Cuban workers, excéptiin the United States commerce department’s. booth, Here one finds a report on Living and Operating Expense in+Cuba. Natives get from $30 to $50: to $100 less per month than white clerks, bookkeepers, stenographers and salesmen. | “Unskilled day labdérers are paid from $60 to $75 per month, though more liberal employers may pay as high as $3 per day,” reads the official U. S. report. “Porters receive a mini- mum of about $60 per month.” Domestic servants are paid $30 per | month for maids, $85 for cooks and $50 to $60 for chauffeurs, with meals. being shielded by the Farrington-Fox machine, and the illegal and provocat- ing actions of Fox and Cobb, are also permitted to go by the board in the anxiety of Farrington to rid him- self of his union opponents. Quite a Difference. Local attorneys and union men are indicating a significant camparison between the Herrin cases and the Zeigler cases. In the Herrin trial all of the legal talent and financial re- sources of the union were thrown in the balance on the side of the union defense. Farrington made constant assessments on the membership for the Herrin defense because the na- tionwide publicity given the case drove him into it, because the Herrin (unionists were not in opposition to him, and also because, as the miners explain, he was building up a good reputation for himself in order jo be able to carry on. his current feud with John L. Lewis. It also developed that Farrington has to this day refused to make ac- counting for the hundteds of thous- ands of dollars collected from the miners for the Herrin men. Miners’ Own Money Pays Bill. In this case, however, the entire machinery of the union, the operators and the klan has been brot to bear against the defendants because the latter’s policies hayes been in opposi- tion to those of the officialdom. It is common talk in the county that the result of the co-operation which the| district and sub-district treasuries are ku klux klan and the Farrington-Fox}at the command of the prosecution machine is giving to the owners of|and that miners’ money will be used the huge Bell and Zoller mine No. 1. 'HE government of Mussclini has become a blotch upon the face of the earth, It is endeavoring to reach out and sink its fangs into surrounding territory in order to quiet opposition in Italy. Its ambitious plans are in- From the bloody, thieving, corrupt center of banditry, dicated by this map. the fascist chief, under half-idiotic delusions of grandeur, has a vision of con- quest that rivals that of the Ceasars. 1—The arrow points toward Austria, the country threatened by the cut- throat chief of Italy because a miner about Mussolini. 2—The forcible seizure of Fiume is a source of antagonism in Jugo- Slavia against Mussolini, while official of that country told the truth 3—Italy’s threatened seizure of part of the Dalmatian frontier has-evoked a sharp rebuke from the Jugoslavian peasant leader, Radich, who last week defied the fascist chief. 4—Greace has cause for hatred against Mussolini for the threat against Corfu, as well as 5—Where the arrow points to Rhodes already seized by Italy. This an- tagonism aroused in Greece will probably bring Italy into conflict with Eng- land, whose contro! over Greek policy in the Balkans is well known. The antagonisms growing out of this situation may cause an orientation of Italy toward Turkey in a conflict with Britain. 6—Mussolini tried to horn in on the Morocco affair, but both France and Spain soon disposed of his ambitions in that part of the world. His vision of conquest extends to all points of the Mediterranean Sea, where he hopes to revive the power once weilded by the ancient empire of Rome. But the result will once more that “History rep i By provoking a w and arming vindicate Marx's famous observation elf; first as tragedy then as faroe.” the workers of Italy they will have weapons at their command with which to speedily dispatch this braggart maniac who waded to power thru the blood of the working class of Italy and who carries out a policy of government by assassination, to pay attorneys to assist the state prosecuting attorney, Roy Martin, to send the Zeigler men to jail or gal- lows. Besides Martin, the prosecution is said to have assisting it in the court Mr. W. P. Seeber, a former United Mine Workers’ attorney, A. C. Lewis, ja U. M. W. attorney, Rufus Nealy, hired by the U. M. W. and it is de- clared that added to these will be George R. Stone, another U. M. W. attorney, with the likelihood that An- gus Kerr, chief counsel for the dis- trict executive board, who defended the Herrin miners, will be brot here to prosecute the miners of Zeigler. Every one of these lawyers, as well as Farrington’s whole machine, are republicans and supporters of Gov- ernor Small, Farirngton Knifes Defense. Farrington, who has made arrange- ments for this imposing legal array to put thru the frame-ap, has also taken precautions to prevent the de- fendants from raising funds for their defense. He is interpreting the con- stitutional clause which declares that locals may expend their funds only for the benefit «f the union to mean that they cannot give a penny for the Zeigner defense, since the men in- volved are “disrupters and red-necks.” Dozens of sympathetic locals know that the minute they vote a donation to the defense will mean the begin- ning of a similar campaign against them as has been waged against every one that has dared to stand for progressive policies in the union. The defense is finding it difficult to raise the necessary fund among the miners who have not worked for months and sometimes a couple of years at'a time, ‘They are depending upon the workers thruout the country to come to their aid in this case thru contributions to the International Labor Defense which is helping them in their trial. Generous aid is immed- jately needed by these ecdurageous men who are fighting their honest bat- tle against such desperate odds, Build the DAILY WORKER. Read—Write-—distribute The DAILY WORKER, rib Gardeners are paid from $3 to $5 per day, The other side of Cuba is supplied in Dollar Diplomacy, the book by Scott Nearing and Joseph Freeman. : Russia Increases . . Tea Cultivation * * : in Soviet Georgia MOSCOW, U. S. S..R.—At the pres- ent time there are 915 dessiatins of land under tea in Georgia as against 839 dessiatins in 1914. In the pre- war days this was the most highly de- veloped of all tea plantations. The amount of lands adaptable to tea cul- ture alone in Georgia amount to 45,000 dessiatins, If all this area be will be able to 8 poods of black tea w. the entire demand | Socialist Soviet Russia. During the next fivé years it is pro- posed to lay out 5,000 dessiatins in plantations. In order to assure cor- rect methods of tea growing it is pro- posed to inaugurate’’S experimental stations and to equip™4 large and 16 small factories, af tilized, Georgia ply 100,000,000 will statisty the Union of To Establish Aérial Lines, MOSCOW, (Tass), Nov. 19.—Mr. Parkel, director of “Aero-Lloyd” hav- ing recently investigated the possibil- ities of regular aerial communication between Germany and Japan thru Siberia declared that now it has been definitely decided t6 organize two lines of communications in the Hast- ern Siberia: one Irktsk-Vladivostok, and another Irkutsk-Peking. The com- munication will commence probably during next year. Marathon Pianists. BALTIMORE, Nov., 29.—B. G. Bur- ton, 42, of Jamestown, N. Y., estab- lished what is claimed to be a world’s Whole oO / By J. LOUIS their fourth month of battle. tuminous coal. strike, put up the bluff that mined in the non-union fields entire nation. * * There are two big facts selves. These are: First: That great masses Second: of the officialdom. of great proportions. * President John L. Lewis out of the soft coal miners. trying to trick the anthracite profiteers, See steps that must inevitably be their red-baiting campaigns ° * the affair of the rank and file cies to be followed. convention of the American resolutions of sympathy. press on to greater triumphs. Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce Angered by Expose of Pageant record by continuously playing a pia- no for 52 hours and 20 minutes. He also won a side bet of $1,0000. Camilla Baucia, another contender, dropped out after playing 52 hours and 15 minutes. Increasing Water Transport. MOSCOW, U. S. & R.,—Traffic on the Volga has incr by 170 per cent as compared wil last, year, De- mands for the coming. year indicate a farther increase, In,connection with this the merchant fleet will be in- creased by 80 units. ~ ATLANTIC CITY, Noy. 29—The At- lantic City chamber of commerce is filing a libel suit for $2,000,000 in the New York supreme court against the MacFadden Publications, Inc. for a series of articles in the New York Evening Graphic which exposed the beauty pageant held in Atlantic City as an advertising stunt and stated that the pageant had been fixed and the winners had been “decided upon long before the pageant had opened. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. JUDGE SULLIVAN PIGKETING LAW Superior Judge Denis B, Sullivan, Chicago's labor-hating — injunction judge in a decision against the strik- ing retail clerks who have been pick- eting the Ossey Brothers’ department store, cor. Halsted and Maxwell Sts., has dealt a body blow to the legis- lation enacted by the state legislature which allowed strikers to peacefully picket struck establishment without being molested by the courts. In his decision sentencing eight pickets from 10 to 80 days in jail and assessing fines of from $50 to $200 on the strikers, he declared that there was no such things as peaceful picket- ing and that any ‘legislation which permitted strikers td picket an estab- lishment was an intefference with the rights of the owners of that property. In holding the new law unconstitu- tional, Sullivan deé! “Picketing has been held unla’ in this state, HOLDS PEACEFUL UNCONSTITUTIONAL on authority of state and national con- stitutions. The state act passed last summer legalizes peaceful picketing, but that is a contradictory phrase. Evidence in this case shows an as- sault with a razor, intimidation, and above all the depriving of owners of property rights by imperilling their invested capital by unlawtul means.” Boss Slashes Picket. The judge forgot to mention that it was not the union pickets but one of the Ossey brothers who used the razor on a union business agent, In his usual flamboyant style when he wishes to show his masters that he is awake to their interests he de- clared, “To say to one class that its property may be taken from it or des- troyed by another class without com- pensation or process, is not liberty, it is inviting the tyranny of the mob.” ganized fields are ready to strike. in West Virginia have been waging brilliant struggles dur- ing the past year; struggles that still continue. Coal supplies are useless unless they can be hauled over the railroads to the market. strike would furnish another opportunity to develop solidar- ity between the railroaders and the mine workers; in spite the whole American labor movement. rking Class Must Realize Anthracite Coal Strike Is Its Affair ENGDAHL. 'ODAY, the mine barons whistle for courage at the threat of the mine workers that the soft coal fields will come out in sympathy with the anthracite strikers now enterin; At first John Hays Hammond, the leader of the anthracite mine owners, claimed the strike of the 158,000 Pennsylvania hard coal diggers could easily be broken thru the use of substitutes, especially oil and bi- Now the'mine owners, facing a soft coal enuf bituminous coal can be to supply the demands of the that the mine baronsdo not admit publicly, even tho they may realize it among them- of mine workers in the unor- In fact the coal miners A bituminous coal In fact the anthracite strike that was called to better the working conditions of the 158,000 miners in a small area in Pennsylvania may develop into a nation-wide labor struggle * * of the miners’ union forced the mine owners into their present attempted bold front, thru his letter to President Coolidge threatening the walk- It is said that Coolidge is still considering the letter from the mine workers’ president; that he will have a reply to make to it. that this reply will be conciliatory in the least. ‘ As usual Governor Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, is again It is not expected strikers into a position where they will accept a compromise to the liking of the coal Thus the anthracite strike is developing into a class bat- tle of major importance. The holiday atmosphere that was claimed for it, in early September, is comply as the grim clash between the mine workers an ers rushes toward its full implications. The so-called “sus- pension” becomes a strike of the first magnitude, ‘In this instance, it is well to remember that: it was the miner militants, some of whom were sent to jail by the ju- dicial stool pigeons of the coal interests, who urged the dissipated mine own- taken in the strike, if it is to become effective, the calling out of the thousands of main- tenance men still at work, and the spread of the struggle to the soft coal fields. As the strike. continues, even the reac- tionary officials of the miners’ union, who join the bosses in against the progessives, will be forced to espouse at least some of the demands that have been made by the militants since the beginning. of the strug- * ° Thus the anthracite strike becomes more: and more and less the affair ‘of the offi- cials, who have permitted no meetings of strikers and given them practically no opportunity to voice their views on poli- It will also become more the affair of The Atlantic City Federation of Labor passed That was almost two months ago. Sympathy will not help the anthracite strikers very much. What they need is the co-operation, in every possible way, of all American labor, in order to win the present con- flict, no matter what its proportions may become, and then (Continued from page 1) not be removed within the confines of parliamentary legality. While the chamber of deputies still possesses the theoretical power to pass a vote of non-confidence in the | premier, whereupon the king can call for his resignation, the possfbility of a vote of non-confidence is overcome by the device of passing a rule making it impossible for the chamber to vote on the order of the day without per- mission of the premier, Hence his re- fusal to permit a vote to take place renders void the former prerogative of the chamber to vote against him, In Desperate Straits. The government of blood and terror is in desperate straits because the overwhelming majority of the popula- tion literally despises Mussolini and his blackshirt bandits. To distract attention from his ferocious internal suppression he is now indulging in threats against surrounding nations, particularly the Balkans, hoping to provoke a war with some small na- tion as a pretext of further excesses against the home population. The Matteotti Affair. It is known to everyone in Italy that the alleged attempt on the life of Mussolini was a plain fraud, a swindle to distract the attention of the masses from the liberation of the agents of the bandit chief who murdered Mat- teotti, the socialist deputy who had in bis possession documents proving Mussolini a thief and pillager of the national treasury. On the day before the Matteotti murderers were freed, the fraudulent attempt on the life of Mussolini was staged as an excuse to suppress all newspapers that would likely carry news regarding the shameful sanction of the notorious murder. Despised Everywhere. Added, to this nation-wide execra- tion of Mussolini is the contempt in Mussolini Says He’s the State BRIAND AGAIN ORGANIZES A FRENCH CABINET Eight Times Premier of France (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 29.—Aristide Briand, eight times premier of France, has finally succeeded In creating a cabin- et out of the wreckage of the Pain- leve cabinet that a week ago fell for the second time within a month, Briand will retain his post of fore- ign minister while acting as premier. The new cabinet is simply a re- shuffling of the old one with a slight swing to the right. Former Premier Georges Leygues is the only member added to the cabinet and is from the right, Painleve is to be minister of war, to continue his bloody assault against Syria, which is one of the fundamental necessities of French policy. Herriot Fails. It is generally conceded that Briand maneuvered the past week so that he could gain a majority in the cham- ber and that his suggestion that the president call in Paul Doumer, whom he knew could not organize a govern- ment, would give him time to realign the forces in the chamber. Not being prepared to assume the task when Doumer failed it is known that Briand induced President Doumergue to call in Eduard Herriot, former premier and head of the left bloc, knowing that Herriot would also fail. These two failures and the disorganized condi- tion of the government since a week ago Friday gave Briand a chance to break the left bloc, to isolate the Herriot party and obtain a majority. In this art of political trickery Briand is a past master, but not even his astute manipulation of parties within the chamber can assure a tran- quil regime, The economic and finan- cial condition of the country will doom his cabinet to a short and hectic life. Communists are convinced that the present alignment in the chamber is not permanent and that conditions wili force the collapse of the govern- ment and soon force a general de- mand for new elections, Cincinnati Unions to Find Capitalist Laws Don’t Work for Labor (Spécial to The Daily Worker) CINCINNATI—(FP) —“Under pro- per administration justice will be pro- moted by holding that labor unions can both sue as a union and be sued”, rules judge Robert S. Marx of the Cin- cinnati superior court. “The unions maintain offices, collect dues and as- sessments, have large strike funds and use a seal in official correspondence.” The ruling forces Motion Picture Operators Local 165 and Bakers Local 213 to proceed with their defense in court. The movie union is sued for $10,000 by George Kiser who found it difficult to find a job at his trade in Cincinnati after he got in wrong with the Pittsburgh local. The bakers are sued for $4,000 by an openshop master baker who objects to union pickets outside his shop, which he is held in all parts of the world, Even the yellow laborities of Great Britain announce that they will rally the masses against a visit of Mussolini to that country to sign the Locarno pacts. The railway workers have stated that they will refuse to operate a train carrying the vile car- cass of this monster assassin of the working class of his own country, As a result of the attitude of British labor the brigand chief dare not at- tempt the journey to Britain, so he will send one of his mercenaries to represent Italy, The new outbreak of frightfulness is directly connected with the support Mussolini is receiving from the thiey- ing, rapacious House of Morgan, Working class Italy is awaiting the day when the Communists can obtain sufficient power to start a civil war against the despicable Mussolini and scourge him and his criminal bands from the face of the earth, Pinchot Tries Out New Betrayal (Continued from page 1) not exceeding $14 a year, and inelud- ing neither fines nor assessments.” Favors Speed-Up System, Not only is this a thin disguise for the open shop, but the governor of Pennsylvania, who has attained by some strange way the name of a “liberal,” proposes that the board find some way of “increasing efficiency”— in other words, to speed up the min- ers more than at present, His plan is said to have been worked out) by him and the Scranton chamber of commerce, What do you earn? 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