The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1925, Page 1

\ ’ THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, THURSDAY, DECEMMBER 3, 1925 -<»*" ; Ce cai ae. q a0 "C4 : 4 ed + The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ NEW YORK EDITION and Farmers’ Government In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING €O., 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, I Vol. Il. No. 276. Price 3 Cents Subscription Rates: PITTSBURGH Lab. .EALIZES THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE IS AT STAKE IN TRIAL OF ACCUSED WORKERS (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 1.—Great interest is being expres- sed among the organized workers here over the trial of the Pittsburgh workers who are facing trial for- an alleged violation of the Pennsylvania state sedition laws. The opinion is freely expressed by those that watched the picking of the jury for the trial of Edward Horacek, an active member of the Machinists’ Union and a candidate of the Work- ers (Communist) Party for mayor in the elections here, that this MINE BARONS TURN DOWN THE OFFER OF GOV. PINCHOT TO END COAL STRIKE; COOLIDGE TO ACT ay (Special to The Dally Worker) HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 1.—Despairing of further efforts of Governor Gifford Pinchot to end the anthracite strike the min- ers’ tri-district wage scale committeemen left Harrisburg today. This marks the collapse of the last effort of Pinchot to create a basis for settlement. His proposal was that the miners return to work and that a | special board of arbitration be created to “adjust” wages in the Finnish Convention Unanimous for C. E. C. Unity Resolution HE convention of the Finnish Section le the Workers (Communist) Party, which has been in session since Sunday morni yesterday voted upon the report of the Cen- tral Executive Committee and the unity, resolution of the C. E. C. of the party. The con- vention, consisting of 17 delegates and with a consultative vote of all leading Finnish comrades including the editors and business managers of papers, secretary of the sec- tion, etc., unanimously took their stand for the unification of the party on the basis of the resolution submitted by the C. E. C/jwhich was published in The DAILY WORKER nearly two weeks ago. T The vote includes the stand in the ¢ohvention on the question of reorganization of the Finnish Section on the basis of shop'nuclei and international branches and the or- ganization of language fractions in place @f the federation which~has existed heretofore to bring every Finnish comrade into the| php nuclei and international branches and into ction. trial is the first step of the steel BORAH AGAN ASSAMS THE ~ WORLD COURT trust in the persecution of those who were active in organizing he workers against the in- -olerable conditions in the steel plants. The court room was filled with many active trade unionists and former members of working class political parties who watched with great inter- est the opening of the trial of six ac- cused workers. Object to Free Speech. the reorganized fractions of This decision was arrived at after three days of debate in which every phase of the situation of the party, the past factional struggle, the work of reorganization, the need communist forces was thoroly discussed. with a two-hour statement of the views of the Central Executive Committee by C. E. Ruthenberg, general secretary of the party, and during the debate which followed every delegate and all leading comrades took the floor to present their views. The discussion was closed by a speech by Comrade Lovestone for the C.E.C. The spirit of the conven- ainst any right wing tendency and holds to the line of of unification of all tion is for an energetic struggle the Communist International and its work among the masses the Finnish § ited fight to build 'y. ‘or a of thisscou The discussion opened the party and again extend anthracite for the next five years. This rank proposal which would have betrayed the miners into the hands of the bosses for that period of years was eagerly accepted by the reactionary president\of the miners’ union, John L. Lewis. Want to Crush Union, Altho the miners’ officials accepted the proposal which would have result- ed in a shameful betrayal of the strike the employers refused to ac- POLICE ESCORT SCABS ABOARD The counsel for defense and the as- + : sistant prosecuting attorney, Estep, Dope Heads Who sept any terms that would even per- r Big Fish ehooeing af Ge uby, Wham tye Otaig Were Aided by Federal mit the union to survive in any form. | choosing of the jury, when e defense a by i : €: resages 1g 1 g t counsel asked a prospective juror | What the bosses want is complete ex-| Ee Against Coolidge (Special to The Daily Worker) whether he believed im the right of free speech, the prosecutor objected to the question. The jury was chosen yesterday and the trial before visit- MINERS’ TRIAL Narcotic Chief on Trial Kittie and William Gilhooley, eharged by government agents with AGAINST RIFFS termination of every semblance of | unionism. Lewis is fighting only to maintain his job as a labor lieutenant of the capitalist class and the capital-| sur- | Only Eight Pass 1.W.W. Picket Line WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—A terrific|ing Judge Prather of an adjacent | Deine: Renee Peernational dope ists say they don’t need Lewis, that | ——— denunciation of the advocates of the | County will start this morning. jring with headquarters in Chicago, they can Hrowbeat the workers with-/ By A Worker Correspondent Determined to Fight. |New York, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, out’ any intermediary assistants of| gROOKLYN, N. Y., Dec. 1.—Sail world court sighalized'the second bar- The six defendants who are accused > and San Franeiseo, are on trial before) | the Lewis type. | Gutieta ailimechead snanaetere fee rage of Senator Borah in a scathing — | the federal district court here. Lawis; to pickets made it so uncomfortable for letter to John Greer Hibben, president idea by Coolidge is branded by as “sheer trickery and a betrayal of the Confidence of the people who voted by a majority of over seven mil- lion to stay out.” - Borah still holds to the childish idea that it would be all right to enter the court if it becomes completely divorced from the league of nations. His provincial mind cannot grasp the plain fact that the two are inseparable and that recent events developing out of the quarrel between Britain and Turkey over Mosul clearly prove the indispensability of the court in pre- of violations of the sedition act are determined to fight their case to the Following the triaf of Eavard Hor- acek, Max Jenking will go before the court, The other four. will follow in due order. Marshall —&' Marshall and Isaac Ferguson of Chtedgo are the lawyers for the apocrine 12, KORACEK’S ONLY. GRIME WAS ORGANIZING TOILERS, DEFENSE LAWYER SHOWS (Special to The Daily Worker.) Coaldiggers Will Face, (I. L. D, News Service) BENTON, Ill., Dec, 1.—The defend- ants in the Zeigler miners’ won a victory in the granting by th court of a motion of the defense for the postponement of the date of open- ing of-the trial. Judge Eagleton of the Franklin county circuit court sustain- ed the motion of Harry E. Morgan, at- torney for the defense, for a conti- nuance, The opening date for the trial has been set for February, 2, 1926. The motion was granted after a denial of the formal motion to quash indict- They were afrested last summer ON WORKERS TO SHASH SIGHAN Expose I. L. G. W. | Spain Has Abandoned (International Press Correspondence) PARIS (By Mail)—The troops in|, The. agreement of vender the fate of the miners to Pin- | follows: Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 29, 1925. Moregce have takenup thetr winter}. Honorable Gifford Pinchot, quarters. The “great pause” has comr menced which. will last until spring. It is time to draw the bal- ance of the results of the campaign up}, to the present, Up to now our main source of in- formation has been the official report of the French governifent. According to this‘everything has proceeded most beautifully, there have been daily ad- vances, victory is near, while the tribes who had renounced allegiance to Governor of Pennsylvania, the} s Harrisburg, Pa. Sir:— ) Gonscious of the imperative pub- ‘ic need, which prompted your pro- osals to the “anthracite operators n@ miners for adjustment of the lets’ Yepresentatives have given to the subject the most profound con- the scabs that tried to sneak onto the . d S. S. Edison at 39th Street, Brooklyn, of Princeton university. The first” during a series of raids, and it was | . i ar re ‘i . edb 4 of the battle palit the Cootiage wrkne th belay Weg eecar T : I F 5 4 cube these raids that Col. Will Gray od | clialy Rogapeaie ds bri Hse fe | last night that after having made. gov: proposal to enter the court by the ganization that they may desire to in ria ei ruary Beach, head of ‘the narcotics bureau Campaign | Surrender of recognition of the union. PRA ieee hascniggy dies! bey Ate back door was fired i e here, and some Of his assistants wer 7 ve’ | gg aa ested of beara saat son rane radii paces vichueas cake eh aidan areas oot prea ay BD. Seti yee pene aoe ror a. |trol_ wagon: haul them to the gang sf RAR nal pe By x N plank. With the protection of the po- jlice, the scabs were escorted on board j like convicts, thus escaping the pick- ets. who were trying to keep rats off the struck boat. ; The Edison is a Greek ship sailing under a British flag. This it does be- cause the Greek tax is so steep that vessels cannot; make the profit desir- able, the Greek government being & heavily in. debt that it goes to ever) The pickets were on the job till pfesent controversy, the mine work- | to.collect revenue. sideration, It 1s obvious that the interests of peace in the anthraci:e 2n4 o'clock this’ morning. At that time : aaiy eight scabs had been able to get aboard, even with the help of the PITTSBURGH, Déc.:1> When the | ments against the progressive miners. France are returning in masses. This} industry require consideration by ‘hoosegow dum A ia 3 ars, J 5 s : pb cart. The ship is phioden agin! and nee gpl trial of Edward Horaeekj°an active | The affidavit of the defense declared Heads’ Terror Policy official optimism has not failed to| hath-sides in a spirit of compromise ] short about 80 mer and fs paying pa members. member of the Machinists’ Union | as its grounds for desiring a continu- have its effect. Even in our own} and. mutual concession. The mine | money for scabs, However, the scabs Big Fight Threatened. The chairman of the foreign rela- tions committee, in his letter to Hib- ben said, among other things: “Speaking for myself, President Hibben,” says the senator, “the one object for which I shall strive is to separate and divorce this court from the league to the extent and to the end that in joining it we do not violate our pledge to keep this country out of the league. “But, President Hibben, I belong to a-small group of irreconcilables, who voted seven million. majority strong to stay out of the league in 1920 and repeated .the instructions in 1924, 1, myself, have been twice elected by a > and on trial for.an alleged violation of the state sedition ‘act, "opened, Attorney Isaac Fergusot for the de- fense charged the entire Indictment under. which Horacek was imprison- ed and is now being tried as faulty. He showed that in not a single point did the state substantiate its claims of violations of the sedition law by any specific act. He showed that (Continued on page 2) DEBT QUESTION TO BE DELAYED FOR MAJORITY ance that a number of its important | material witnesses were unavoidably absent from the trial and that their evidence would substantially aid_the case for the defense. Henry Corbishly, secretary of the Franklin County Defense Committee, announced that a ren¢wed drive will now be made to get the moral and financial backing of every miner in the district and with the co-operation of the International Labor Defense of every worker in the country. The addition of Judge Sidney Ward to attorneys for the defense has strongly strengthened the victims of the Farrington frame-up. No effort will be spared to present a solid case in February. All thru the county, the PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1—In an ap- Peal to the membership of the Inter-) national Ladies! Garment Workers’ Union, issued’ by the national com-/| mittee of the needle trades. section | of the Trade Union Educational League, to unite in a drive against the reactionary Sigman machine, it! points out that this machine has ac-! cepted the peace agreement in words but that in deeds the machine con-/| tinues to bar the left-wing opposition | from the ballots and it also exposes the organization of the “Friends Don’t Worry” club, which is being used to terrorize opposition members into sil- ence. The appeal follows: “Fellow Workers! “It is but a short time since the | ranks doubts were raised -regarding the quite different and pessimistic de- scriptions which the delegation of the workers’ and peasants’ congresses and other expert comrades gave as to the situation of the French troops, etc. We can say today that our view of (Continued on page 5) PEACE OFFER TO LAFOLLETTE BY COOLIDGE GANG workers. regard your proposals for a settlement as being represent- ative of. the public viewpoint, and have every sincere desire now, as before, to terminate a distressing situation which menaces public health and well being. I am, therefore, authorized by the Tridistrict Scale Committee of Dis- tricts 1, 7 and 9, United Mine Work- ers of; America, to advise you that on behalf of our membership we accept the proposals made by you as a basis of settlement. We stand ready at any time to meet in joint conference with the representatives of the anthracite operators to nego- tiate am agreement with shall en- compass the points set forth by cannot handle the vessel and take her out of port. The I. W. W. and the Spanish sai- lors are striking together and have the situation so well in hand that they are able to guarantee that no one of the men among them will go on the scab ship. The scab crew is composed of navy men, as civilians cannot be coaxed to take the place of the strik- ers. Four Suicides in New York City in Twenty-Four Hours (Special to The Daily Worker) sentiment of the miners is growing you. “2.0 F - NEW YORK, Dec. —Fi i. bsg nr ote OF.» DeOS stronger and bigger for the defend-|ureaucracy of the International | They Can Have Jobs If We-further advise. that promptly | cides were disclos ce. 1 Four sui jo everything within my power to " rehyes Se: bs Y | cides were disclosed in New York in ants, whose temporary removal from |/adies’ Garment Workers’ Union, | following such agreement upon the keep this country out of the league. The party, of which I am a member, ig pledged. to that. policy. “It seems -clear to me, therefore, that those who-voted against our join- ing the league have a right to expect that we shall not go into the league thru a court. That would be sheer trickery and a betrayal of the confi- dence of and pledge to the great ma- jority of the American people. “There Seéris to’me only one honor- ‘able thing for-us to do, and that is, to keep this country out of the league. In order to do this, this court must be divorced from the league so that in joining the court we do not become in facta part of the league.” HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! Briand Wants’ to Get Loyal Support PARIS, Dec. 1,--The Briand govern- ment will not attempt to reopen debt negotiations with fhe United States until it has been assured of a major- eputies, said ity in the cham) of a Senator Pierre ale “The actual yn of the French debt discussions with Washington will be delayed until the cabinet hag re- ceived an assuring majority in the chamber,” M. 1 said, “Naturally we are most anxious to eliminate war debts from the French balance sheet with the greatest speed, provision for their complete ‘ddjustment will be our primary endeavor,” © FORMER U. M. W. A. _ IS SCAB-HERDER VICE-PRESIDENT FOR MELLON’S PITTSBURGH COAL COMPANY MINES By ART SHIELDS a (Federated Press) NEW YORK, Dec, 1—Dispatches froma Pittsburgh reveal the fact that a renegade from the United Mine Workers’ Union is field man for the open shop forces that are seeking to encircle the bituminous men in that section while their anthracite brothers are engaged in the hardest fight of a genera- tion, The renegade is'H?) U. McCullough, former vice president of the Inter- national Union and now the agent of tle Pittsburgh chamber of commerce to recruit scabs for the 54 mines that the Pittsburgh Coal company of oor (Continued ‘on page 5) oak active union werk they now realize to have been a blow at their own in- terests in their struggle for correct checkweighing in the mines and against the treasonable policy of the Farrington-Cobb machine. beaten by the rank and file in a four! months’ strugglé; had to submit and | sive way to a leadership that has the support of the: masses in the shops. The Joint Action Committee repre- (Continued on page 5) NEEDLE TRADES FURNISH LEFT WING THRILLS IN CONVENTIONS OF THE AMERICAN TRADE UNIONS By J. W. JOHNSTONE, _ PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail)— | devious Many trade union conventions have taken place this year but it has been left to the needle trades to furnish the left wing thrills. In October it was the Furriers, and now it is the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, Seventeen months ago when the I. L, G. W, U. convention met in Boston it was the blackest, most reactionary convention that was ever held in the history of this organization. The ad- herents of the T. U. B. L. and other militants were being expelled whole- sale from the organization. Every des- picable method was used to keep the left wing from having representation in that convention, The machine was able to accom. plish this two years ago, Only about fifty sipporters of the left wing pro- convention, while the machine by means*was able to secure | ome 250 delegates. The reactionar- jes ruled that convention with an au- tocratic hand. This time the situation is different. | hen the bureaucrats declared tire T. | . B. L, illegal, this did not accomp-| lish the results that they fondly hoped for, Today in Philadelphia there ig | (Continued on paye 2) | TOOUUET ELA EAA LATE EET “It’s Him! — Osip! The Flying Devil!” MM In the Saturday (Dec. Magazine Section of The DAILY WORKER They Be Good (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The olive branch is*to be extended by the re- publican degulars Senator “Bob” LaFollette of Wiscon- sin, and Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota, two republicans who have been heretofore considered tarred with the brush of insurgency. It was announced today that both young senators will be “inyited” to identify themselves with the regular republican organization of the senate, and if they accept they will be given the usual committee assignments, 30,000 Die for Versailles Peace, BERLIN, Dee, 1.—Thirty thousand German bee swarms, delivered to France under the terms of the Ver- sailles, have perished according to reports received here. The bees were unable to stand the change in climate. 5) “FLYING OSIP” A short story by the famous New Russian short... story writer, IVAN KASATKIN. wwe 4 in the senate to part of the anthracite operators we will arrange. for a resumption of mining ‘at the anthracite collieries / (Continued on page 2) HE farm crisis rai: nation today, ers to accept their fake remedies. The importance of the agricult Bureau Fe What do the farme that have already been offered. out. Let the farmers speak, Write during Coolidge's stay in Chicago. in that issue. the last twenty-four hours. One was quite unusual. Charles Dayton, forty, yot into a trunk to end his life. He ad bored a holde in the trunk thru which he inserted a gas tube. What Do You Say? . LET THE FARMERS SPEAK! is one of the most important problems in the The capitalist politicians are trying to get the farm- ural problem is shown by the fact that President Cal Coolidge is coming to Chicago, next Monday, the day that congress convenes; to address the convention of thé American Farm ation in an effort to show that his Wall Street administra- tion is the “friend” of the land worker. » out on the land, think of his quack nostrums How do these remedies actually work out what you have to say and send it in, The DAILY WORKER will publish a special issue for distribution All letters received will be published One farmer already writes in that the agricultural conference now starting in Chicago is “a farce from the standpoint of the farmer.” It is packed with bankers, smal! business men, rich farmers and so-called “agricultural experts.” Here is an opportunity for the farmers to have their say; an opportunity they will never get thru the capitalist press, Send all your letters to the Editorial Department, DAILY WORKER, . 1113 W, Washington Bivd., Chieago, III.