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

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. II. No. 275. LE ¥ ° ek Subscription Rates: THE Outside Chicago, In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year, UE. ~oAGREES T fo} ee we’ BIG DEMONSTRATION FOR LEFT WING ASL. L. G. W. CONVENTION GETS STARTED IN PHILADELPHIA (Special to The PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. Daily Worker) 30.—The International Ladies’ , Garment Workers’ biennial convention opened here at the Arch Street theater with 1,300 workers in attendance, to the tune of both America and the International—the officials wanted to show | their neutrality (?). A tremendous demonstration occurred when left wing dele- gates marched into the hall carrying banners in favor of amal- gamation, for a labor party, for proportional repr sentation, | against expulsions, against squandering union money, and de- manding the expulsion of Reisberg, the notorious expulsionist | who, as Philadelphia manager, has. kept many of the best mem- | bers of the Philadelphia union 7=oo AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY socialist premier of Belgium forgot to con- MILE » VANDERVELDE, sult Wall Street when his govern- ment made up the national budget. The House of Morgan, hearing of this piece of impertinence got sore and ordered Belgium to lop off 150,000,- 000 francs. Ex-soldfers who fought to free “pore li’l Belgium” from the goose-steppers of kaiserism, must not feel elated, particularly if they are wearing a souvenir fromthe fields of Flanders in the form of a bum lung or a set of ragged nerves. Whoever won the war, the soldiers did not; neither did the small ‘nations. We heve & )sneaking suspicion that our own capitalist got most of the gravy. ** 8 —— T seems to us that the anthracite settlgment suggested by Goyernor, Pinchot of Pennsylvania, is nothing more than an argument to goback to ‘work and take whatever the good boss says he can afford. There may be @ little anti-Mellon politics mixed in, but the spoils of the political trading will not go into the jeans of the coal diggers. , If the operators can afford to grant an Increase in Wages, it shall be done! Who ever heard of a capitalist admitting that he could grant an increase in wages? And the checkoff! Any ‘miner who would like to have his dues collected fer Lewis, by the boss may have this done—provided the boss agrees— after writing a letter embodying his request. You can search the popular ,Continued ¢ Page 4) ee ppiness and-freedom to the people. Not out of the organization for two} years and more. | The stage was covered with flowers from New York and Philadelphia locals and shops. Two baskets of red roses aroused great applause. Patriotic Bunk, Banal preliminary speeches were delivered by local luminaries in the labor movement. An address of wel- come by Adolph Hirschberg, president of the Central Labor Council of!Phila- delphia, was full of sentimental’ rub- bish about patriotism, brotherly love and so forth, Dayid Braginsky, secretary of the Hebrew trades, spoke in Jewish and said he hoped workers would some day take over Philadelphia, but did not say how they were to ac- complish it. ; Mr. Joseph Ritchie, American Fed- eration of Labor organizer, delivered a long speech ranting about the dec- leration of independence being signed in Philadelphia and bringing joy, hap- one coistructivi stion about ef- struggle against the employer. Maurer Also Speaks. James H. Maurer, president of, the Pennsylvania State Federation of La- bor, spoke last and told the delegates to. visit Valley Forge and other. his- toric spots and that in every square mile human blood had been spilled to build unions. He assailed the | state constabulary as a strikebreaking ‘insti- tution. His speech wes somewhat bet- ter than the others, and at least was based upon working class problems. He said the employing class does nothing and owns everything and that (Continued on page 4) LEFT WING NEEDLE TRADES GREETS DELEGATES TOI. L. G. W. CONVENTION (Special to The Dally Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30.—The following meeting was issued by the National Committee, Needle Trades ‘Section, Trade Union Educational ‘League, to the delegates attending ‘the Philadelphia convention opening today of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, in which it exposes the present leadership as unfit to lead the union in its fighte with the bosses and calls upon the delegates to fight for the new lead- ership which will aggressively com- bat the employers in the garment trai “FELLOW WORKERS! . “To those of you who are ready to listen to the needs of the work- ‘in the shops, to those of you who are not in the ‘union to ma a comfortable living from holding offire, we address this appeal. “You are confronted with great responsibilities. The seasons are growing shorter and Shorter year by year, Tens of thousands of our members ‘toil in small bedroom shops ekeing out a miserable living. \ There are hundreds of unorganized shops in and out of town. “Thru the continual civil war in- side our union for which the pre- sent leadership is responsible the treasury of the union has been practically emptied. Our Interna- tional has lost and is losing in mem- bership while the bosses in our in- dustry are bursting with profits and organizing stronger than ever. As result of these miserable conditions to which the present leadership and their poleiy _ has ‘rought us, there has arisen a pow- | iW erful sition “which has the sup- port the overwhelming majority “of the members “The past has proven that no fur- progress is possible with the adership. Their methods have outlived their usefulness and can- ‘not bring results. Ninety. per’ cent gts it of the membership despise these leaders, therefore alnew leadership must arise out of this convention if the union is to survive and pro- gress. . “The union must be reconstruct- ed so that the members have new confidence in its honesty, strength, and fighting abilitie: H “The out-of-towns must be orgaf- ized thru the common effort of all needle trai unions. The old of struggle and sacrifice gressive leadership is ne ry to prevent the complete degeneration of our union, and the further worsening of conditions in the shops. Theréfore, delegates, pe- cially those of you that brought hére as ‘Yes’ men for the old leadérship from small” out-of town ‘locals, we call upon you to let the will of the majority of the membership of our international: prevail, only then will it be possiblé to onganize the unorganized to Prove conditions for you as well as” for those living In the big veities.” The-left wing calls upon you to make ‘our international a strong, clean, fighting union by supporting the new leadership. ‘ “Natonial Committee, Needle Trades Section, Trade Union Edu- cational League.” CHINESE MASSES Wr GRRE Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 18 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1925 Publish: SE” RISING AGAINST TARIFF NiISSION Red Flags Fly at Big _ Pemocsteations..... (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, China, Nov. 30.—Wide- spread disturbances and great demon- strations have kept the city in a tur- moil the past three days. The ex- treme left wing of the Kuomingtang | party has led the demonstrations. They parade the streets with red flags and demand the expulsion of all anti-nationalist elements and many of them demand a Soviet government. The tariff commission trying to stifle the Chinese workers and lay the country open to imperialist pillaging is one of the objects of attacks. Thous- ands of students paraded the streets here with red flags and banners call- ing for the overthrow of the present government thru a popular revolution and the dissolution of the tariff com- mission, Anti-imperialist sentiment is per- vading all the populous centers of this part of China and in most cases it is of a distinctly working class char- acter, BOUCK TO SPEAK TO MONTANA FARMERS AT MANY MEETINGS PLENTYWOOD, Mont., Nov. 30.— William Bouck, one of the most mil- itant spokesman of the farmers in America, and head of the Western Progressive Farmers, is coming to Montana to attend a conference of eastern Montana farm leaders. He will address mass meetings at the Farmer Labor Temple here at 3 o'clock on Saturday and on Sun- day at the same hour at Stivers Hall, Outlook, The announcements of th meetings specifically state that all: bankers and exploiters will be bar- red, Farmers and their families are cordially invited to attend. Altho no information is given as to the sub- ject matter of his meetings promis es are that he will deliver “the most important message the farmers have heard in years.” i} ~ AMERICAN ON GRAFTERS (Special te The Daily Worker) moscow, iv. 30.—Soviet Rus- sia will not Felax “its campaign d corruption, it was “the execution on ive Russians who tale of quartermast- redarmy... | the allegéd ring dealing in quartermaster supplies brought. 123.qpersons before the courts. Besidts the twelve who were executed,bthere were 93 who were given heavy prison sentences. This is the dargest number of ex- ecutions everssarried out in Russia for this offenses RUSSIAN UNIONS AND SCHOOLS IN CLOSE CONTACT Students Belong to Unions in College MOSCOW—(FP)—Students in the higher, schools of the Soviet republic are generally organized in. labor unions. There are some higher schools, such as the Higher Workers Schools (Rabfacs) to which only union men and'women are admitted. In the technical.'eolleges and univer- sities students net in trade unions are a minority. ‘ Membership is: determined by the course the student takes. A student who studies medicine joins the health workers; a student of mechanical en- gineering joins'ithe metal workers. Each student member pays 1% of his income to the union. In many cases the union is. providing him with his entire income. ‘Still he pays back his one per cent, (Adult workers in the shops and minesspay two per cent of their income to'‘the union.) Among the students in many of the higher educational institutions of the Soviet Republic’ the basic unit of or- ganization is the union. In the agri- cultural university at Moscow, with TEACHERS’ UNION NEWS CENSORED BY BOARD OF EDUCATION, BOASTS EDITOR OF CITY NEWS BUREAU Just how “fair and impartial” the capitalist press services are, may be seen by the experience of Morris Backall, an educational expert, who at- temped to get the City News Bureau, an auxiliary of the Associated Press, to cover a story on his suggestion to the executive council of the American Federation of Teache: that they send a delegation to Soviet Russia to ex- amine into the econditions of pedagogy in the Soviet Union. Backall had written a long letter explaining the educational system of Soviet Russia in outline, its diMculties and its marvélous accomplishments, its 3,000 students; except for about 300 peasant lads whe have no union affili- ation, the entiresstudent body is or- ganized in 6 union construction workers; sugar workers ; metal workers; miners, and farm and forest workers. These groups hold mass meetings at least once in six months, At these eetings each union group elects its officers and delegates who elect an executive com mittee of 11 that has charge of all student activities at the university, The basis of this entire student or- ganization, with its central officers and subcommittee activities, are the trade unions to which practically all of the students belong. When these young men and women graduate and enter on their trades, they are already familiar with labor union activities. They. have been union members for years, and their cards are simply transferred from the dniversity union to the local union with which they wish to affiliate, IRITAIN WILL WIN TURKEY- IRAK DISPUTE Serious Crisis May Fol- low Decision _ (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, Nov. 30.—The league of us | Official report that “the Turks have | persecuted the christians and») haw | violated the Irak frontiers,” it w | learned here today. } f } The commission will arrive in Gep- | eva at the end of the week and make its official report to the league coun 1 on December 7. ' The unofficial report appears td cil will continue the British mandate over Irak, without a change of fron- tiers. The Turks have already decided not to accept such a decision, and a seri- ous crisis may easily arise. Engineer Killed at Work. IOWA CITY, Ia., Nov. 30.—Pinned beneath his engine as it left the tracks and rolled: down a steep embankment, Tom Murphy of Iowa City, fifty, was instantly killed this morning in a de- railment on the Rock Island railroad in Iowa City. Fireman C, 8. Clark escaped injury. STEALS FOR HIS BABY; DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR "TN PENNSYLVANIA JAIL (Special to The Daily Worker) BELLEFONTE, Pa., Nov. 30.— Phillip A, Hartman, of Annville, Pa., died in the electric chair in the Western Pennsylvania prison here policeman. Hartman’s career started a little more than a robbed a filling station in Canton,, Ohio, so that his baby, who since, has d ical attention, 2 ernment to investigate the “trial” at the instigation of government for declaring that he had not been and hear their ta lowing a lecture he had delivered official of the government press = that the military ahd government ganized this assault on the French | PUBLISHING CO., nations commission to investigate the | Mosul question has found in its un-/ (Down With Arbitration! By ALEX REID Secretary Progressive Miners’ Committee. make it certain that the league coun- |” for the alleged murder of a state. so-called. j..') year ago, when he is said to have. , might have food and med-; FASCISTI MOB HENRI BARBUSSE BUCHAREST, Roumania, Nov. 29.—Henri Barbusse, noted French author, who had accepted the invitation of the Roumanian boyar gov- their participation in the Tatarbounar uprising, was brutally beaten Several hundred young officers and cadets assaulted Barbusse fol- The leader of the mob was the fascist Barlogau, who is the chief Barlogau had welcomed him, but when Barbusse dared to. expose ants and that their, Wietaats Howe a sham: he. or- ed Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY. 1113 W. | off, these miners. whether wages. WORKER Washington Blvd.,! Chicago, Ill NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents O STRIKE BETRAYAL PRESIDENT OF MINERS SAYS "HELL ACCEPT PINCHOT’S PLAN OF SURRENDER TO COAL BARONS (Special to The Daily Worker) HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 30.—In spite of the basic demands of the strike of the union miners of the anthracite fields, to force the coal barons to pay a higher wage and to enforce the check- President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of |America, in the name of the wage scale committees of Districts \1, 7 and 9, pledges himself to a strike settlement that will betray President Lewis declares he is willing to sit down with the operators and tie the union down to a five-year agreement with the bosses, and that the matter of the wage increase be left to a board of award, which inside the next six months would decide e coal operators “‘can afford” to pay the miners higher he betrayal is contained in a letter to Gov. Pinchot, jot Pennsylvania, accepting the+ }govérnor’s program as a basis | jof settlement of the strike. Would Relinquish Checkoff. ; On the matter of the checkoff which | |is one of the demands that the miners | went on strike to enforce and which | falso means that the operators recog ‘nize the union in the mines, Lewi: cepted the governor's proposal which | provides that any miner who wants to! have his dues deducted from his p envelope must make a written reques that the union deduct his dues from | | jand their blood, in his letter he ex- with the bosses and dicker over the} wages. A board of award cannot be expected to give the miners any tn-| Bosses Not Surprised. ‘ According to press reports John L. Lewis, authorized by the execut- ive board of Districts 1, 7 and 9, has | accepted the Pinchot terms, as a basis of settlement of the dispute between the miners and coal oper- ators. Mine-Owners Victory. The proposed settlement, means that the miners return to work for the same wages, and working condi- tions which they had when they came out on strike, and their dis- pute be handed over to “impartial |, arbitrators.” It is not yet known that the operators will accept the Pinchot proposal, but it is expected they will as it practically means a victory for the mine, owners. _ Arbitration is the dominant note thruout the governor's plan, and the fact that Lewis has accepted it,— after his many statqments, that he would not arbitratethe lives and happiness of the coal. diggers— shows to what extent the Lewis “gang of treacherous union workers wilt go for peace in. the industry, even tho that peace. means the acrifice of the miners meager de- mands. Why the Charge. Jonnny? John L. Lewis has pointed out that arbitration of the miners’ food, \isehooling and citizenship would not \yiBe tolerated by him or the union, “arbitration of the miners’ wages 4 means exactly that” and: they would of the 500 Bessarabian peasants for officials by the Roumanian fascisti allowed to see the accused peasants in one of the halls here, bureau. Upon jarbusse’s. arrival, it officials refused to allow him to writer, would be dickering over their lives, | accept Pinchot as the basis for settlement of presses his willingness to sit down | the strike. crease in wages and this action of| Members of the anthracite coal opera- Lewis is placing the union at the mer-|tors’ scale committee went into secret cy of the coal operators for five years. | session at one o'clock this afternoon. ; i Jat the “Ritz-Carlton ‘hotel to” discuss” ‘When the operators heard of the|Gov. Pinchot’s proposal for the settle- jaction of Lewis, they declared that} mént 6f the coal strike, which was }they “hed expected it right along” and ‘accepted by the miners. NORWEGIAN FASCISTI ASK GOVERNMENT T0 OUTLAW COMMUNISTS (Special to The Daily Worker) OSLO, Norway, Nov. 30.—The Fedralandsiaget, a Norwegian fase- ist organization, has sent the gov- ernment.a letter demanding that the Communist Party of Norway be de- his pay. | ¢lared an illegal organization. In spite of the declaratiens that | === os Lewis made that he would not arbi-|that they “were not surprised.” The | trate the wage demands of the union| operators are holding a meeting at i miners that went on strike because he | which th: decide whether they will C26 the proposals laid down by see Coal Barons Meet in Secret. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 30. not be the victims of arbitration a second time. The miners demand to know now why the Pinchot arbitration plan is accepted in face of the former, arbi- tration denunciation by Lewis. We, the progressive miners, know why, and Lewis knows that we know. Lewis Aided Operators. John L.. Lewis :has contributed to the defeat of the anthracite miners by his permission to the maintenan- ance men to work during the strike. The maintenance men have secured the coal-owners property during the strike, and have aided the coal owners to break the strike, by keep- ing the property in a condition that enabled the operators to wash and ship Stock coal all during the shut down, Lewis stands accused of betray- ing the miners by his acceptance of arbitration and his refusal to call out the: maintenance men, The miners will have to act on this plan—should the operators accept it, at a reconvened convention of the Tri-District miners, Refuse ‘Arbitration! refuse to arbitrate your If your de- Miners! “wages and conditions. mands were worth fick the beginning, they are worth fight- ing for now. If Lewis was sincere in stating he would not arbitrate your lives and happiness at the be- ginning of the strike then he is @ traitor now. Call Out Maintenance Men! Refuse arbitration, bring out the maintenance men at once, and fight for your demands. Demand the union officials stand by the Tri- District program and fight for the same. Down with the arbitration! One strike, all strike! All maintenance men out! More Moonshine Casualties. Grahama, Ont., Noy. 30~Raoul St germain, whisky-crazed, ran amuck here, shot and killed Mike Lascesco. railway laborer and William Lefebre. fur trader, and seriously wounded ©, Syroide,. section foreman. Captured after a running, fight, Stegermain re- covered his senses today and found a_ murder charge lodged against him,