The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1925, Page 1

I Lf 1.@ The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’. Government THE Vol. Il. No. 278. Subscription Rates: - _ Neg o%, wo fe, ~ sy » s So DELEGATES OF bu. LOCALS AT PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION OF ~ LL G.W.U. REPUDIATE SIGMAN By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. (Special to The Daily Worker) . PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 3—The vote on the acceptance of the credential committee’s report which came after a bitter struggle was 158 for and 107 against. Eleven delegates against whom objections were made did not vote. Their cases will come up tomorrow. In this struggle the progressives polled seven more votes than their estimated strength. & The roll.call vote disclosed complete proof that the small locals in districts away from the great garment centers have beén mobilized by the machine for this convention and the addi- | In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by. mail, $6.00 per year. tional fact that the decisive sections of the membership are Seen ee EEE — AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'}FLAHERTY HE ruling classes of England and France give the impression of being, very anxious to make peace with the Soviet Union. At the pres- ent time Tchicherin is reported to be in Paris while Briand is running er- rands for Austen Chamberlain be- tween the Soviet diplomat and the British foreign office. According to inspired news stories the Buropean powers desire to get Russia into the league of nations, which is nothing more or less than a league of rob- bers. oe is now freely admitted by even the most naive pacifists that Lo- carno was simply a maneuver to iso- Yate Soviet Russia. Germany was bribed to renounce the Rapallo treaty in return for other considerations, not the least satisfactory to German bour- geois pride being the promised return of a few of her former colonies in Africa. ‘The Portuguese, we learn, will be the goats while England will be the generous doner. It is never the acme of wisdom to take everything capitalist statesmen say or do as fact. What Germ: actually did before agreeing to the Locarno pact is yet shrouded in considerable mystery. One thing is certain: England was satisfied “that Germany’s promises were genuine enough to be of some value in the empire's struggle to_re- gain her former prestige, and in her war on Russia. - * * [AT is giving England consider- able worry is the ferment among the subject peoples of the East. To those people Soviet Russia is the beacon of hope; the champion of the oppressed. England, a past master in the art of making trouble for her enemies, by inciting their slaves to rebellion, believes that Soviet Russia employs the same ni@thods and with the same object in view. It is quite true that the workers and peasants who rule the mighty land once under the yoke of the Czar would like to see the robber rule of England wiped off the face of the earth, but they are (Continued on page 4)” definitely supporting the pro- gressives. The large locals in New York, Cleveland and Chicago showed on roll call that the policy of the Sigman machine had been repudiated. It is an empty victory that the Sigman machine won on the report of the credential committee. There was more than one dramatic moment during the debate, but the high point was reached when Farby- sach, closing for the minority of the credentials committee, opened his re- marks with a challenge to Héchman on the denial the latter had made of the charge that he had worked with police and sluggers against the mem- bership. Sigman stopped Farbysach speaking while the convention was in an uproar. As soon as the tumult sub- sided Farbysach quietly announced that he would submit the proof to the proper union authority. The real surprise of the roll call was when a delegate of Local 89, An- tonini’s local, voted with the pro- gressives. The Central “Executive ig class Nghe in the capitalist class and the ‘capit: evidence that the members The imprisonment of Gitlow ers’ government. UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASES IN ~ “CHRISTIAN” POLAND; OFFICIALS LOOT THE GOVERNMENT TREASURY : WARSAW, Poland, Dec, 3.—During the past five weeks the army of the “unemployed has been reinforced again by about 10,000.men in Poland, The _Bumber of re red unemployed is now 207,400, to which may be added more than 100,000 clerical employes of the plants, The crisis is particularly = WORKERS PARTY HAILS LADIES’ GARMENT WORKERS’ PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION STAND ON GITLOW (Communist) Party notes with joy the Benjamin Gitlow ard the demand for his release from prison. Gitlow’s “crime” was his stand for an uncompro- action of your convention in coming to his support as an Garment Workers’ Union are for the workers organizing their power as a class for the fight against their exploiters. capitalists use the governmental power against the work- -ers which you have also experienced thru-use of injunc- tions and police against workers on strike. This must be met by stronger organization of trade unions and organiz- ation of the political power of the workers thru the forma- tion of a Labor ie | and a fight for a workers’ and farm- ur party supports the formation of a united front of all workers to to join with you in the work o' labor to fight for labor's interests. General Secretary of the Worker: acute in Upper Silesia. ‘The number of workers there, which last year was m 169,000, has shrunk to 78,000 and 80,000 men are jobless. Altho: the output per shift has risen from 581 kilograms: to 1,045, the total production of coal Ke has fallen to about 58 per cent of that: of 1913. ! The increasing corruption has re- eently aroused considerable | excite- ment among the people. The Repub- lica of Lodz writes’ that the reports of the superior control board are be- ing animatedly commgnted upon. In no previous year had the irregulari- ties been so great as in the last. The paper asserts that in the ministry of railroads the embezzlements totaled 200,000,000 zloty (about $36,000,000), and that the ministry of war took sec- ond place with 150,000,000 zloty to be accounted for, The little Arma factory in Lemberg is said to have used up 600,000 zloty alone without producing @ single weapon, Before the transportation commis- sion the minjster of railroads openly admitted that contracts for the con- struction of repair shops in Piotro- wize, in “Upper~ Silesia, had’ been signed by the under seqretary and two directors with companies that had ‘charged the nation several dozen per cont. more than’normal rates, ‘The ts 1, which corruption has NN spread to the different departments is shown by the arrest last spring of a district attorney on a charge of hav- ing made away with 5,000,000 zloty,, some of which had been taken from smugglers by the courts, Premier Grabski issued a secret order to sus- pend payments for public works in or- der to be able to pay the state’s work- ers and clerks. hype ‘iden! Lewan! CHICAGO WORKERS! ide of thousands of other workers who de- (mand the freedom of Git- Whitney and the abolition of anti-syndical- ° } Entered as Second-class matter Septembe: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1925 r 21, 1923, abithe Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. eS Publish, GERMAN ENTRANCE TO To ) Lead (Special to The Daily Worker) By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 3— Will- iam Green, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, will be | brot here by the Sigrian machine, not only to make his set speech of greeting, but to lead the fight against the progressives. This is planned as a coup d’etat to smash the progressives and with all nego- tiations conducted with the utmost secrecy, the plan has been exposea thru sources close both to Green | and the Sigmanites, Dicker with Green. 4 Representatives of the Sigman- RECOGNITION OF SOVIETS BY U.S. IS URGED HERE Sheepmen Greet Rus-| sian Spokesmen . Demands not only upon American} interests, but also upon the govern-| ment at Washington, to adopt a more sympathetic attitude towards the! Union of Soviet Republics, were made} by speakers at the dinner given by the American: Rambouiliet Sheep} (Continued: .on page 2). Committee’ of the Workers reeting sent to workers’ interest against the alist system. We welcome the of the International Ladies’ is an example of the way the | | gain this end and is ready building a mass party of / Cc. E. RUTHENBERG. | | | (Communist) Party of America. WA, cago, Mi borrowed n. ment in 1920 v, obtain no loans t Byram, former presi. one of the receivers of . the interstate commerce cu Byram said bankers had retu cause they were not convinced tha increase in freight rates authoriz. by the commission in August, 192¢ would enable the road to pull out o its difficulties, Bolivian Election Over. LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dee. 3—Herando Siles was elected president of Bo- livia. -Abdon Saavedra who has been the virtual dictator of Bolivia and 1s @ willing tool of American capital was elected vice president. DEMON: PRO” Decembe AGAINST THE IN Ben Git voice to the The presence of 107 progressive after the s josed crushing of the results. left wing at ethe Boston conven- A Compromise Offer. tion, coupled with the fact that the Another plan which is favored by International) Ladies" Garment | other International Garment Work- Workers is among the five iargest | er officials is. to offer haif of the | unions in the American Federation | General Executive Board positions of Labor, has created something | to the progressives on condition | like a panic Jn official circies. that Sigman is made- president. that when jet back to Czecho- |in order to introduce some new “evi- Slovaki; iM do all in their | dence.” ies power. to. kers there of.) When asked vas tox what the, evi- the true in the Soviet War on Left Wing ites met Green quietly a few days ago and it is *understood that the whole purpose of the meeting was to intensify the struggle against the progressive elements which are now a powerful factor in the Sigman Plans Betrayal. It is understood that with the help of Green the Sigmanites plan to take all positions in the General Executive Board, move the head- quarters to some otner city than union. | New York, quietly notify the | bosses that the international of- fice will not intervene to aid the progressive New York locals in strikes and lockouts and wait for delegates im the convention, repre- senting the langest garment centers CZECHO- MISSION LEAVES SOVIET UNION WiTH NEW VISION (Special te The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., (By Mail). —The Gzecho-Slovak workers’ dele- gation, which has been visiting the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics for over six weeks, have left the Soviet Union. Representatives of the White Russian trade unions ac- companied the delegations to the frontier, * At the frontier, a great demonstra- tion took plate, and the represent-, atives of the Czecho-Slovak workers and the White Russian trade unions addressed the assembled workers. The Czech vak delegation told the workers peasants that they were well pl with what they had seen in Soviet Union and STATE FAILS 10. REOPEN CASE ON NEW “EVIDENCE’ Koracek Explains Class Struggle to Workers By ELLA REEVE BLOOR. |. L. D, Press Service). PITTSBURGH, Dec. 3—As soon as the trial of Edward Koracek, active member of the, Machi s’ Union and} charged with a violation or the Penn- sylvania state sédition act, started this morning, the prosecutor tried to reopen the case: in behalf of the state fence was, the resecutor said that it velatedto Jathi .B.4 Cannon's’ Jecture, “Russia Stee, ~The judge refused to allow the r to be introduced stating,that the evidence was of no value to the cage and only served to confuse matterg., Raps Nature of “Evidence.” Attorney Marshall, one of Koracek's attorneys, then ‘6pened the case for 1G OPEN NEW |the defense anal¥zing the nature of |the evidence which the state had in- troduced showing that !t has Mttie DEBT ARLEY scsss= with the case in question jand that the indictment did not men- ition a single specific overt act on the seit SS: |part of Koracek which would substan- Officially Notifies Wall Street Agents |tiate the claim of the state that (Special to The Daily Worker) Union and blast:the lies of the cap- italist press. = Koracek plotted or was part of a plot [to overthrow’ the United States gov- jernment. Koracek was then called to the 'stand. On the stand, he stated that} WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—France of-/he was an American citizen, and that | ficially notified the United States to-|he was a draughtsman for the Car-) day that she is desirous of resuming negie Steel company and was a mem-/ negotiations for the settlement of her ber of the Workers Party. He told} $4,000,000.000 war debt at tne eart-|the court in unmistakable language jest practicable moment. ‘the he subscribed to the principles of Ambassador Daeschner, who, it is the Workers Party. reported, is soon to be supplanted by Ran on Workers Party Ticket. Henri Berenger; has communicatee| During his testimony it was also to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon brot out in the court room” that wat the new Briand government will Koracek had been nominated on the rtly take steps to reopen the par- Workers Party ticket in Pennsylvania KER. | ed Dai PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORK EDITION ~AILY WORKER 3Iva., Chicago, Ih except Sunday by THE 1113. W. WasHington Price 3 Cents Sigmanites Invite Green|SERIOUS POLITICAL CRISIS IN GERMANY PREVENTS ENTRY INTO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS MONDAY (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, Dec. 3—Herr Stresemann declared to- night that the entrance of Germany into the league of nations could not be achieved on next Monday as had been desired owing to the political situation in the country. He intimated that Ger- many might enter early in 1926. : i oe The working class centers of the large industrial cities are unanimously opposed to the league program as well as the Locarno treaty and with the Communists exposing the role of the Luther-Stresemann government as a pawn of British im- perialism the situation may be brought violently to a head should Germany at this time enter the league. pies jfor the office of state auditor and that ‘NG WITH SHIP LOAD OF GERMAN ANTHRACITE COAL ARRIVES AT BOSTON TO BE USED TO BREAK MINERS’ STRIKE ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE FILIPINO. INDEPENDENCE MEETING SATURDAY NIGHT That the oppressed peoples of the “American empire” feel the common nature of their separate struggles for .nationai liberation and appre- ciate the importance of common action against Wall Street, is seen in the participation of Cubans, Porto Ricans and Mexicans in the Chicago mass meeting on behalf of Filipino independence, to be held tomorrow, 7:30 p. m, at the Labor Temple, 119 So. Throop St. The meeting will be conducted in the Spanish language. Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, will be chairman; among the speak- ers will be Nemesio Felipe, of the Filipino Association of Chicago; Santiago Rivera, of the local Porto Rican colony, and Adolfo Garcia, editor of the |. W. W. Spanish lahguage” Weekly, Solidaridad. Ad- mission is free. The meeting is un- der the auspices of the All-America Anti-lmperialist League. Meetings in support of the de- mand for complete and immediate independence for the Philippine Islands are being planned by the United States section of the league in all parts of the country, both in the English and Spanish languages. Connecticut Tobacco Growers Want Higher Prices; Threaten Strike (Special to The Dally Worker) HARTFORD, Conn.) Dee. 3.—-A spéech by Joseph W. Alsop, president of the Connecticut Valley Tobacco As- sociation advises growers to go onj strike next year by planting no to- bacco. The suggested tobacco strike would be for the purpose of getting a higher price for tobacco. Alsop says, a two-year’s supply of tobacco is on hand and production must stop or prices will come down. Child labor has long been one of the curses of the tobacco fields of Connecticut. Families with children move on the land during the growing season and little. ones toil with big ones, There are 8,000 tobacco acres in the nutmeg state. | { " STRIKE t What jal to The Daily Worker) 3.—What is said to be the first shipment BOSTON, Mass., De ne coal will be forthcoming to supply country. union unity. otest Mass ay, Dec. 4, Bring Others. Auspices. of coal from Germany ever recorded, arrived here on the steamer Rotterdam today. The shipment con anthracite and will be used for the eastern market to make up for the shortage of coal caused by the strike of anthracite miners in Pennsyl- vania, It is understood that there are a number of ships headed toward Atlantic ports bearing hard coal from Europe and that soon sufficient Yet, in face of this, Mr. John L. Lewis still opposes world trade Come to the 8 P. M., at West Side Auditorium (Racine and Taylor) L: Robert Minor—Pete Jensen, of the Federated op Crafts—Fred Mann and Wm. H. Holly. sof 4,000 tons of Westphalian all the needs of this part of the Meeting International Labor Defense. CHILE FORCED 10 DENY ITS FORMER NOTE League of Nations Un- able to Act (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, December 3.—imper‘alist watchdogs for the league of nations are considerably agitated over the protest of the Chilean minister to Switzerland against General Persh- ing’s actions in the Tacna-Arica boundary dispute. Fearing to incur the open wrath of the United States at a time when that government is approaching the league of nations thru the back door of the world court,..the. British apd Brstiehe.. am statesmen resent a representative of Chile involving them in a dispute that brings up the question of the Monroe doctrine. Thru pressure they have forced the Chilean minister to with- draw his first protest and substitute a document that is a mere statement of fact, without involving action by the league, League is Bankrupt, This is a plain confession of the bankruptcy @ the league. If it can- not intervene in affairs that concern its own membership in any part of the world it becomes a mere debating society. Both Chile and Peru are members of the league. League officials fear to preas the Chilean question for fear American politicians will make capital of it to further estrange Geneva and Washing- ton, On the other hand most of the Central and South American republies take the league seriously and the pres- ence of these republics at league as- semblies gives it a world wide char- acter. But since the permanent seats of the league are occupied exclusively by the big imperialist powers they do not take a stand in the interests of the smaller nations, as it conflicts with their policy, Europe Not Fooled. — , European statesmen are not fooled regarding the real character of the Pershing expedition and the newspa- pers quite openly state that the United States government is there for the purpose of throttling any opposition to American financial interests. Attorney Resents New Civil: Service Ruling for School Board Jobs Because about 20 persons on the school board would be effected, school board attorney, Frank S, Righeimer, demands that civil service employes of the Chicago public schools should not come under the same require- ments with refefence to place of res- idence that the corporation counsel holds shall apply to other city civil service employes. Recently the corporation counsel ruled that all Chicago civil service employes must reside within the elty limits to retain their positions, Sentence Fascist to Death for Murdering Fellow Blackshirt BERLIN, Germany, Dec, 3.—One sentence of death and five sentences to terms of imprisonment were pro- nounced at Schwerin after a trial of six members of a secret extreme na- tionalist organization. The leader, Karl Boldt, was accused of murdering a member of the organization on sus- picion that he was betraying its caus Boldt was condemned to death, LEAGUE .