The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1925, Page 1

. The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. II. No. 277. Subscription Rates: Da. | é Bos Vie Peg" Es Bs, CaS p ey # ze INTERNATIONAL LADIES’ GARMENT WORKERS’ CONVENTION DEMANDS RELEASE OF BENJAMIN GITLOW In Chicage, by..mall, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. By WILLIAM F, DUNNE. (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec, 2.—The biggest and best demonstration of the tirst session of the convention of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union came early when a motion by Julius Hochman to protest the imprison- ment of Benjamin Gitlow was amended to provide for a telegram of greeting ‘and sympathy and carried unanimously by a rising vote. 3’ Zimmerm “I am glad aroused a storm of laughter by informing the convention: legate Hochman was able to understand what my attempts to get the floor meant and to anticipate my wishes,” A motion pledging support of every possible kind to the anthracite minérs was carried by a rising vote, evoking enthusiasm second only to that of the oH,_ AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY NE of the most interesting cart- oons of the day is the one in The Chicago Tribune depicting a collec- tion of statesmen signing the Locarno pact, with beaming faces. This means, no more war according to the editors of the capitalist papers. Just ‘the same those smiling statesmen are watching out for poison in their soup. They keep their daggers handy. It would not be surprising if history recorded that the only tangible result of the Locarno pact was, is, or will be, the ornamental garter given to Austen Chamberlain by a grateful king. ee 8 6 is nite to see a fat German bour- geois representative signing his name to the treaty while his former foes stand behind him looking like happy children waiting for their share of pumpkin pie. Germany>vis» again in the family of nations, we are told.~ ft would be interesting to lea the feelings of a wounded war veteran on seeing this and similar cartoons. The boys who went forth to battle tor “democracy” were trainéd to kill Germans, to wipe out the entire race so that democracy would have a chance. Those christian lads were placed in front of dummies made to resemble human beings and order to stick their bayonets into them as they should stick them into the quivering flesh of a German soldier after they gut to France. ajee HIS was patriotism... The nearer ——*Gitlow motion, A telegram of greeting to Debs was also sent by rising vote. Molly Friedman moved to send a tel- egram of greetings and support to Philips Davis of Chicago, in jail for the 1924 strike, and included in the motion a telegram of gratitude to Fitz- patrick, Nockels, Oscar Nelson, Walk- er and Olander for aiding the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers strike. Zack moved to separate the two poifits. This was done and a telegram to Davis was endorsed by rising vote unanimously, while thc other telegrams received only a per: functory majority show of hands. A telegram of sympathy and. sup- port were also sent Sacco and Ven- zetti and Thomas Mooney. Fight for Credentials. The struggle between the left wing and the machine began with the re- port of Schneider of Local 62 for the credentials committee. The report after giving a list of sums owed to the international bythe various locals and mentioning charges prefered against the whole delegations, recom- mended the seating of all delegates and the reference of all charges to the convention_appeals committee, This. manetivet of the Sigman ma‘ e, which> had™ bee: “by reading of a sheaf of telegrams from machine locals urging, “peace, harmony, unity, sunshine and _happine; is intended in all probability to bring the faked charges against such progressive Lo- cals as 2,/9, and 22 before a hostile appeals cominittee by seating a ma- jorify of machine delegates which wil} elect such a committee, was challen- ged immediately by Hyman after Fa- bysach moved to refer the report back. Hyman charged that the report of the credentials committee which claimed no power to pass on the charges made (Contibued on page 2) Hill. today following the declaration of the state’s chief executive that “the MISSISSIPPI CRIMINAL COURTS ARE COLLECTION AGENCIES FOR EMPLOYERS (Special to The Daily Worker) CLARKSDALE, Mis: Dec, 2.— That the criminal courts of Missis- sippi are being used for the collec- tion of private debts by corporate interests is evidenced by the min- utes of Justice S. J. Avery’s court at Jonesville. Thirteen Mexican men and women were brought to this section to work on the Barksdale plantation at Jonesville, but before they left their native country they signed a legal document binding themselves to labor at a stipulated sum and to refund the amount of transportation advanced by the own- ers of the plantation. On their ar- rival, they discovered that better wages and conditions existed else- where and quit; later they were ar- rested charged with obtaining mon- ey under false pretenses and viola- FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1925 | Pinchot for tion of contract. The case was fin- ally compromiséd in court when the Mexicans agreed to refund to the Barksdale interests $90 and “costs.” SPECIAL SESSION OF LEGISLATURE ON COAL STRIKE May Pass Law to O Coal Mines ° (Special to The Daily Worker) HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec., 2.—The refusal of the\anthracite operators to accept the peace plan of Gov. Gofford Pinchot in the wage controversy prac- tically assures the calling of an extra session of the gtate legislature. This was .the opinion- om operators had turned down industrial peace and declared war.” Just what sort of legislation, if any, the Keystone solons could write into the statute books, to bring about a resumption of negotiations between the operators and miners is problem- actical. There is no precedent for this. The governor has made no state- ment concerning the calling of a spe- cial session of the legislature but it was freely predicted today that the situation in the anthracite industry would bring a definite announcement THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. e*? 1923, af Publish AUSTRIAN BANK EAGER TO INCREASE VOLUME OF TRADE WITH RUSSIA VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 2.—In or- with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the Austrian future handle Austrian bills of ex- change on Soviet Russia due in six months, whether in shillings or for- eign currency, buying them at 75 per cent of their value. Austrians have been wanting to, do this for a long time, and pressure from England, which is heavily in- terested in the National Bank, hith- erto prevented it. Inability to negotiate bills of ex- change has greatly hindered the de- velopment of Austrian trade with Soviet Russia, because the Soviets demand six months’ credit and mon- ey is so tight in Vienna that few business men are able to grant such credit, The National Bank has also decided to list Russian currency in the foreign exchange. MILITARY PRISON TEACHER FINDS NEW RED SCARE “Soviets Kill Prisoners to Avoid Trials” lis Cringes. (Special to The Daily Worker) plying to the threats of} ALCATRAZ, Cal., Dec. 2—Discover- mobilizing the miners |ed—a new Bolshevik atrocity. The old fields, instead of call-;myths of wholesale murder, national- Intenance men in the ization of women, wars between the who are working on! Bolshevik leaders and even the dis- that the mines will | pute between Trotsky and “Kremlin, ape than ever when|the war minister,” have all been ex- (Special th The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec, 2. — John L. Li reply to the operators’ rejection of the proposal of Governor ) arbitration committee acite strike is of an } that jeopardizes the very existe: of the Miners’ Union. In the face of the threat of William W. Ingliss, chairman of the anthracite operators’ negotiating committee, that! the fight woul last a year if neces- sary in order to defeat the demands of the miners, Lewis refrains from any act that would strengthen the power of the Union in its struggle for existence, It is now in the antl evasive nati oming clear that the one impelti motive of the mine barons is to @estroy the union in this strike. The’ statement embodying the refusal of hot’s offer makes that Pinchot’s proposal "granted the operhtors everything wanted except that they would) have to recognize the existence of the union. This they re- fuse todo am@ have thrown down the challenge to Lewis and his machine. v Instead of r the operators in the soft ing out the anthracite improvement be in bi coal minin umned, Lewis -makes|ploded, The latest, une should be ‘ “the” “outraged |welcoméd by the “yellow capitalist public.” press. Instead of amging organized labor to No Trials in Russia. fight the battles against the anthracite} “In Soviet Russia, if one violates Lewis hides his cowardice and treach-|a law, or is even suspected, he is ery behind the: plea that this public|forced by the police to sign his own make its desires known in order to|death warrant and is shot on the change “the- arrogant attitude of the|spot. There is no trial.” This “in- operators.” \formation” was given to the military Knowing perfectly well that the|prisoners at Alcatraz by C. F. Stanby, public never makes its desires known /! San Fraticisco attorney, who is con- fon anything for the reason that it is|ducting an educational (?) class here. not a unit but composed of all classes|This class is not called a course in in ‘society, Lewis ean safely hide be-|Hearst journalism, as one would nat- hind such a brainless formula. urally suppose. It masquerades un- der the name of “business law.” Sere renprotnted, Stanley must think the prisoners PUBLISHING der to increase the growing trade | National | Bank announcces that it will in the | NEW YORK EDITION ed Daily e pt Sunday by THE DAILY WORKE: » 1118 W.- Washington Blvd., Chicago, Price 3 Cents PERSHING'S SCHEMING IN CHILE AND PERU EXPOSED: AS LEAGUE OF NATIONS RECEIVES APPEAL | (Special to The Daily Worker) | WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2—General Pershing's imperial- | ist crusade into Chile and Peru under the pretext of arranging a plebiscite at the behest of President Coolidge received a severe | Jolt today when it became known that the Chilean minister at Berne, Switzerland, had filed a formal protest against American | aggression with the league of nations, in the form of a memo- randum on the whole Tacna-Arica question. It is Well known here in Washington that Pershing is there not for the purpose of organizing the preliminaries for a plebis- cite to determine the settlement of the territorial dispute over Tacna-Arica, but in order to prevent such a settlement as an excuse for permanent American occupation. The objective is control of the territory so that the nitrate fields may find an out- let profitable to American im-+ perialism. an outlet profitable to American im- ri EXPERT WITNESS Affront to Coolidge. Because of the delicacy of the situation comment is withheld here among official circles, but the admin- istration is distinctly displeased over the action of the Chilean government. | It is a direct affront to Coolidge as it exposes his game in Chile and Peru. American imperialist adven- turers, operating in Central America, connived to induce the governments of Chile and Peru to request a plebis- city under the “neutral” protection of the United States. This request was answered by sending the swaggering war monger, Pershing, down there to {keep things in such a state of uncer- tainty that the resultant disorder could be utilized for American invas- fon. Naturally Coolidge and his govern- ment cannot but resent the fact that their’ schemes are known and are being exposed. Whether the league of nations will take action is problematical, as it would mean ®& direct clash with the present United States government in- terpretation of the Monroe doctrine. Charles Evans Hughes, while sec- retary of state, Interpreted anew this document, adopted. in 1823, to mean jthat the United States had the right of control over both the North and South American continents. Whether Burope will oppose the United States in this stand depends entirely upon FALLS DOWN IN KORACEK TRIAL Judge Intercedes for “Star” Investigator PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2—Much mer- riment was caused in the court room during the trial of Edward Koracek, member of the Machinists’ Union and active trades unionists charged with violation of the Pennsylvania e sedition law, when the stan witness for the state, Mrs, O'Connell under cross-examination gave the Myer. ‘When the attorney for Koracek called her attention to the discrepancy inher “expert” testimony, she became excited and tried to explain away her testimony. Judge Intercedes. The Prosecuting attorney was very much excited at this falling down of the star witness. Judge Prather en- tered into a lengthy explanation and tried to aid Mrs. O'Connell in ex- Dlaining away her discrepancies. He stated that Mrs. O’Connell was trying challenge the American government. | #¢curacy.” the ability of Burope at this time to|‘® “re-establish her reputation and — Both Chile and Peru are members As soon as the court opened At: the soldier approached the hyena} in ferocity,:the nearer he came to being a once hundred per cent Amer- ican. The Germans were a bad lot those days. Every time the face of von Hindenburg appeared on an Am- CZECHG-SLOVAK MISSION PRAISES am Lewis is sald to be sorely disap- rointed at the failure to conclude the trike on the basis of the Pinchot pro- posals. Unquestionably that is his de- | sire as it would then assure him aj soft berth as lieutenant of the cap- are so ignorant that they will believe any mythological tale of the bosses. In the militarist propaganda (alias “business law”) course, he states that Bolshevism-and anarchism mean the same thing and that a Bolshevik | torney Marshall made a motion that the seventh count on the indictment, charging Koracek with membership in (Continued on page 2) af the league, $6 ‘the United States | cannot object to’ the league stepping | into the controversy without chaileng-| jing all the Central American nations holding membership in that body and thereby assuming a belligerent atti-| erican screen, the morons hissed. The same morons cheer the same face now. The noble Von is now president of the country, our 100 per centers swore to wipe off the face of the earth. He supports the Locarno pact and the international bankers are duly grateful. There are many les- sons to be drawn from the happy re- union of Europe's capitalist nations, but fortunately that reunion cannot be lasting. The conflicts inside the (Continued on page 3) LABOR DEFENSE PROTESTS GITLOW RUSSIAN WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS FOR WHOLE-HEARTED CO-OPERATION MOSCOW, U. S. S. R—(By Mail.) The Czecho-Slovak workers’ delega- tion which had been in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics for more than six weeks issued a statement thanking the workers’ organizations of Soviet Russia for, their co-operation in their investigations of conditions in the Soviet Union and declare that they were allowed to move freely while they were In the Soviet Union. ~Jn the statement, which was signed by every mem- ber of the delegation, it points out that they talked to whomever they desired to, went Where they wanted to and did as they pleased without any inter- ference’ on'the part of the Soviet government. In the following statement, which the delegation issued, it points out that the unions! in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics are not merely unions that fight to maintain union conditions for the Russian workers but that they are decisive partners in determining the economic and political life in the Soviet Union: © —_—_ italist class while the miners~con- tinued to slave under the miserable conditions they endured before the strike, is one opposed to all government. “Some countries would put you in iprison for complaining about condi- \tions,” said Stanley, Perhaps he is |well aware of the fact that a resident jof San Francisco would not need ‘o In spite of the terror against them|walk three feet to find himselt in conducted by the police, the courts jone of these countries, and. the Lewis gangsters under the} part of the so-called “business law” direction of Rinaldo Cappellini, presi-|course is devotion to the noble art dent of one of the districts here, the |of war and willingness to be used as progressive miners are waging 4/cannon fodder for the bosses. Stan- struggle in the anthracite to rescue Jey, the capitalist-militarist instructor, the ‘strike from the certain defeat into jcautions his pupils against all anti- which it will sink if Lewis and his|war organizations such as the Quak- compromising, ‘hesitating, treacherous jers, He thinks they should receive policy triumph among the rank and|the hate and contempt of all loyal file, |slaves of Morgan, Stanley has not yet Just awakening to the serious situa-jreached the question of what should tion confronting..them the miners in| he done to the Communists who pro- the anthracitesare becoming restless! pose war against capitalist wars. and a deep distrust of the officials Useless Bunk. Progressives Active. tude toward the rest of the capitalist world, League Is Futile. While the futility of the league is well known, the publicity attendant upon the protest of Chile will result jn the exposure to the whole world of the conniving of Pershing and Coo- lidge. Recent European squabbles in| of its impotency when it comes to set- tling any dispute, eyen of the most minor character, The DAILY. .WORKER sub- |Scription list is a: Communist jhonor roll. Is your name on it? TUBERCULOSIS CLAIMS MORE ILLINOIS WORKERS THAN OTHER DISEASES SPRINGFIELD, T., Dee, 2—Ac cording to the weekly report issued by the state director of health, tuber- the league have convinced statesmen | Ulosis holds the highest disease rate among Illinois workers, PY mae were 491 cases of tubercu- 10! sis, 357 of scarlet fever, 200 of pneumonia, 128 of diphtheria, 160 of measles, 66 to typhoid, 13 of smallpox and only"? of influenza reported to the state board of health for the past week, INTERPARLIAMENT ARY COMMUNIST permeates .theiriranks as they realize Many of the military prisoners here JAILING FRIDAY To Demand Repeal of Syndicalist Laws ° Benjamin Gitlowy member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers _ (Communist) Party, and Anita Whitney are the latest victims of the ¢riminal syndicalism laws that were enacted to be used against those workers who dared to organize against ‘he employing class, Today, it is the Oommunists that are being persecut- ed, tomorrow, it will be the other ac- tive members of the unions, who will be victimized by the syndicalism laws. The workers of Chicago will be able to raise their protest against the con- tinued imprisonment of Benjamin Git- low and the attempt to send Anita Whitney to jail and demand the repeal of the syndicalism laws at a mass pro- test meeting which is being arranged by the International Labor Defense at the West Side Auditorium, Racine and Taylor Sts,, Friday evening, December 4 at 8 p. m. The speakers will be Robert Minor, Pete Jensen of the Fe- . derated Shop Crafts, Fred Mann and Wiliam H. Holly. ” he “Thanits to the fraternal support of your organization, we have been en- abled in)the last six weeks to see thoroly into the various fields of your economic, cultural and social life in various parts of your gigantic coun- try. We were able to see all that we wanted to sed to speak with everyone with whom we wanted to speak, to examine everything which interested us and we met with no difficulties in this whatever. “We thank you for your hearty wel- Add your iam laws. CHICAGO WORKERS! hundreds of thousands of other workers who de- mand. the freedom of Git- low and Whitney and the abolition of, anti-byndical- come and for your hospitality. “The Soviet Union is a state ‘in which the workers and the peasants rule. Tremendous Changes. “In consequence of the revolution- ary upheavals, there have been tre- mendous changes in the social and economic life of Russia. Whilst in all bourgeois countries, finance and indus- trial capital has occupied an ever more decisive position, in the Soviet Union (Continuea on page 5) voice to*the DEMONSTRATE! PROTEST! December 4, 1925 AGAINST ‘THE IMPRISONMENT OF Ben Gitlow and Anita Whitney the truthfulness of the charges of the progressives and Communists that Lewis is endeavoring to use the strike so‘ that he may remain the agent of the mime owners. The miners are coming to realize that Lewis never fights for them against the mine barons, but only against them whenever they strive to lefeat the mine» owners, expressed the horrors of the last war. They thot they were fighting for free- dom; but they found their reward ‘in the loss of the little freedom that once was theirs. _ Militarist propa- ganda for the purpose of creating more cannon fodder for ihe next war will meet with little success here. What do you earn? What are con- ditions in your shop? How do you live? Write a story for The DAILY WORKER. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—-study it. Protest Mass Au Come and Bring Others. Come to the Friday, Dec. 4, 8 P. M., at West Side Auditorium (Racine and Taylor) Speakers: Robert Minor—Pete Jensen, of the Federated ’ Shop Crafts—Fred Mann and Wm. H. Holly, CONGRESS EXPOSES CAPITALIST AIMS AGAINST RUSSIA IN LOCARNO BRUSSELS, Belgium.—(By Mail.)—The first session of the Interparlia- mentary Communist Congress, in which Communist members of the various parliaments in’ Burape Participated, was devoted to an expose of the real purpose behind the Locarno guarantee pact, which is being used by the im- perialist powers of Burope to divorce Germany from the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and to make a war on the Russian Soviet government a greater possibility, The first session of the congress elected Cachin of Fi Germany, Saklatvala of E: rance, Stoecker of ingland, and Overstraeten of Belgium as members of the presidium of the Interparlia- mentary Communist Congress, In ‘the discussion on the Locarno pact, Comrades Stoecker, Cachin, Sak- latvala, Overstraeten and a delegate from Poland participated in the ex- posing of the real nature of the pact and discussed ways and means of combatting the aims of the pact which the imperialist powers devised at Locarno, Cachin, who was’ the first to Speak, declared that the pacifist {lusions connected with the guarantee pact must be fought. He pointed to the armament race of the great capita! ist powers and their mutual differ. (Continued on page a) Meeting a International Laborf Defense. lig to. ¥ }