The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1925, Page 2

WORKER ' BRITISH LABOR Churches Trying to Hide LUMBER JACKS Hed anaes Their Role of Defenders|| HAVEN'T EVEN tu of the Capitalist State Parliament U pholds| Page Two SCAB STEEL CO. FIRES WORKERS BY THOUSANDS HE. Doe ey INTERNATIONAL LADIES’ GARMENT “ WORKERS’ CONVENTION UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTS ZEIGLER MINERS’ FIGHT (Special to The Dally Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec, 3.—-The International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union convention by unanimous vote, on motion of Zimmerman, ordered a telegram sent pledging sympathy and support to Zeigler miner defendants. Wages Cut Two Months Before By A Worker Correspondent BENWOOD, W. Va., Dec, 3.—Over a thousand wage-slaves were thrown out of the work this week, when the National Tube Co,, a big open-shop stee! mill, closed down for the winter. It shut down completely, shutting out thousands of workers and their fami- lies from means of keeping from Starving thru the long winter months. Two months before closing down, the mills had cut wages five per cent. This was done shap by shop instead of all at once, to save the bosses from trouble that might arise if all the workers knew their plan at the same time. This scab company employs mostly foreign-born workers, because they fan exploit them easier, as few can talk English and they don’t know enough to get organized. Steal Two Truckloads Silk. NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Five bandits drove off with two truck loads of silks from a garage in Brooklyn, after hold- mg up and binding the owner and night manager. The “Loot” was valued at $50,000. —— DAILY WORKER STILL HAS LOAD TO BE CARRIID Only F irst Inroad Made on Debts Only $266.30 came into The DAILY WORKER office the past two days, Wednesday and Thursday, to help lift the burden of debt. This put the drive forward but a few inches, when it should be carried on by leaps and bounds. Of the $40,000 necessary to make the paper secure before the new year begins, only $27,643.52 has been accumulated during the long and strenuous drive. The Workers Party of New Bright- on, Pa, leads the list today with $70.00. Other donations are as fol- lows: J. G. Wieland, Santa Rosa, Cal. $1 00 Goodman, Philadelphia, Pa. 5.00 Bulgarian Br., W. P. Chicago 5.00 ‘W. Wolf, Douglaston, N. Y. 1.00 J. L. Nelson, Chicago ... 5.00 J. Jensen, Bridgeport, Conn. 3.00 H. Haggensen, Houston, Tex. 10.00 J. Wrilato, Mariners Harbors, New York ... - 6,00 Lithuanian Br. W. P., Cleve- land, Ohio . 15.00 Lithuanian Br., W. bury, Conn. .. - 5,00 ‘Workmens Circle, Cleveland, 0. 31.00 Czecho-Slovak Br., W. P. Buf- falo, N. Y. .. - 10,00 J. Zabadal, R. Katz, Ch. Wil- hem, Jos. Vodicka, Buffalo, 6.00 Mich. .- 2,00 Sympathizer, Pine Island, Minn. 3.00 Lettish Br., W. P., Cleveland, 0. 5.00 Lettish Educational and Singing Society, Cleveland, Ohio ......... 5.00 Finnish branch, Workers Party, Monessen, Pa. .. «15,75 * Jewish Br., W. P. Rochester, N. Y. (Karchefsky, Rosen, Bi- gelman, F. and S. Kelin, S. Kurlansky) .. 18,06 Russian Br., W. P., Lynn, M 6.75 Cc. C. C. of W. P., New Brighton, Pa. 70.00 Rose Vexler, Chicago, 1.00 D. Brody, New York . Clara Helpern, Boston, Mass. (collected) . Finnish branch, New Castle, Pa. fakes German branch, Workers Party, San Francisco, Calif, ~ 30.00 J, W. Lindgren, Cotati, Calif. 3.00 Today's Total $266.30 Previously Recorded 27,377.22 orkers Party, 1.00 Total to Date $27,643.52 HERE'S MY tic, Conn. eliminated, trades unions. CRUSHING MINERS’ UNION IS CHARGE Wants Investigation of Cal’s Moves (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec, 3.—(FP)— Sen. Shipstead, farmer-labor, of Min- nesota, announces that immediate in- vestigation should be made by con-/ gress in charges that the Coolidge ad- ministration is party to a plot to crush the United Mine Workers of America by aid of federal governmental ma- chinery, These charges were first made public by The Federated Press, in a dispatch telling of the granting of freight rate reductions by the inter- state commerce commission to non- union bituminous coal. It was sug- gested that a reduction of rates from the western Pennsylvania field in which Mellon, Schwab, Berwind and Rockefeller are dominating figures, to the Duluth market and the New Eng- land market, was now expected, This field has recently broken its contracts with the United Mine Workers and has set up company unions, organized by a renegade union official. Last September a rate reduction was given the non-union coal fields of Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia. On behalf of secretary of the treas- ury, Mellon, a lame excuse has been issued, that he is not an investor in the Pittsburgh Coal Co., which is known as a Mellon property. But: he admits that for the past 20 years, until he came to Washington, he was one of the executive committee‘of its board, put in by his own trust com- pahy which took charge when the coal company got into financial diffi- culties. So, as a banker, he has do- minated the coal company’s policy. He still owns shares in it. And he sharply refuses to predict the resump- tion of relations with the United Mine Workers, Philadelphia Mothers’ League Protest Against All Capitalist. Wars By A. KREITZER. (Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 3.—The Mothers’ League met on the seventh anniversary of Armistice Day to pro- test against all capitalist wars in which working class youth is butcher- ed and maimed to bring more gains to the master class. The last war is supposedly over but yet blood is being shed between cap- italist nations. Thruout the world, Preparations are being made for an- other war, which will sooner or later break out with greater force and viol- ence than it had in 1914, The Mothers’ League pledges itself to conduct a persistent and construct- ive campaign for the ending of all cap- italist warg, Road Company Sa. $266,025 Easy Money AUSTIN, Dec. 3~—The American Road company which made over a million dollars’ profit om road work handed out to it by the Texas high- way commission appointed by the Ferguson, gang in control of the state ,of Texas, handed back $266,025 to the state fearing that further action might involve some of the officials in a jaty sentence and dead to some sensational disclosures. Amon G. Carter, Fort Worth news- paper publisher, one of those oppos ing the Ferggison machine, who was asked to resign from the board of’ regents of the Fort Worth Texas Technological Institute for turning the institution into a speak-easy, accora- ing to “Ma” Ferguson, refuses to ae- cede to the governor’s demand, DONATION: Zimmerman’s motion was seconded by Antonini of Local 89. financial support was voted also to the striking textile wrokers of Williman- Objection on Minutes. Objection to the favoritism displayed in the official minutes to adminis- tration speakers was made by Portnoy who showed by the minutes that important portions of his criticism of the credentials committee had been Fromal protests on minutes were made by machine delegates that the record might not be in favor of the progressives after which the convention took up the report of the objections committee. Sigman Organized Scabs. Secretary Zuckerman of the Cap Makers’ Union addressed the conven- tion at fhe beginning of the sessions and went into the history of the needle His most interesting reminiscence was that Sigman had once organized a union of strikebreakers for which he secured an I. W. W. charter. COOLIDGE TRIES); Moral and DANISH AND NORWEGIAN WORKERS’ DELEGATIONS PLEASED WITH RED ARMY (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., (By Mail) —The Danish and Norwegian work- ers’ delegations, which are now in the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics recently visited the barracks of the red army and ‘the conditions in the military service were explain- ed to them in discussions lasting several hours. The delegations ex- pressed their satisfaction at the fact that the bourgeois sense of disci- pline did not exist in the red army and in its place was a comradely connection and understanding be- tween the men and their officers. The soldiers in the red army have full political rights and receive a good all-a®ound education, Later the delegations visited the Moscow So- viet were they studied the commun- al affairs of the capital. The Danish delegation visited the Centrosoyus and delivered the greet- ings of the Danish co-operatives to the chairman of the Centroyus, Com- rade Chintchuck. The delegation re- ceived detailed information upon the situation of the co-operative movement in the Soviet Union. The Danish delegation then visited vari- ous co-operative shops to observe the organization jin its practical work, a Both delegations later visited the Kremlin, In the een the Danish delegation left MBscow for the Do- netz Basin, Kharkov, afterwards it will visit the Caucasiis and will la- ter return to Moscow: JUDGE PREPARES DECISION BEFORE CASE IS CALLED Papers Have Verdict Two Days Ahead By CARL HAESSLER. Federated Press. By a decision, thoughtfully com- municated to the newspapers two days before it was signed, Judge Denis E. Sullivan, the injunction czar of the Chicago superior court, has given a j temporary knockout to the new Illi- nois injunction limitation law. In ad- dition he has sentenced 9 union pickets to fines and jail. This statute, passed after one of the biggest battles put up in the legislative lobbies at Springfield by organized labor, was practically the only important law favorable to the workers that came out of the 1925 session. It restricts the rights of judges to enjoin work- ers on strike unless persons or pro- perty are shown in imminent danger and it has largely cut down in prac- tise the habit of judges of issuing in- junctions without hearing the other side of the case. The new law had an appreciable effect in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Unfon victory over the International Tailoring Co, and in other union struggles since spring. Sullivan, notorious for years be- cause of his drastic writs, tried in vain to get a chance at the law but was always defeated by motions for change of venue. Then the present case, that of 8 strikers and the busi- ness agent of Local 195, Retail Clerks, arrested for picketing before the de- partment store of Ossey Bros. in the Jewish district came before him. He refused a motion for change of venue because the anti-picketing injunction had been granted in April, 1924, a/ year before the new law. The picket-| ing began on a large scale last Oc- tober under the protection of the new law. The judge, who has often been de-| nounced by the Chicago Federation of Labor, deciéed that the injunction is still in foree and that the new law, which might have superseded the in- junction, is unconstitutional. He seemed especially impressed by the plea of the store owners that the pickets had cut down business 50%. This he deemed destruction of pro- perty. He knocks out the law on the Sround that “to say to one class (capital) that its property may be taken from it or destroyed by another class (labor) without compensation or process ig not liberty; it is’ inviting the’ tyranny of the mob,” & Communist Trial (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Dec. 8.—The censure of the British government, introduced by the labor party delegation into the house of commons for its connection with the indictment and the prejudged sentence of the 12 members of the Communist Party and the Young Com- munist League, was voted down by a vote of 351 to 127. “f During the debate, many of the la- bor members pointed ‘owt that this trial was not only a bloW at the Com- munists but was a blow’at free speech. MacDonald Attacks Indiscretions, Ramsay MacDonald, who is a labor member of parliament and a staunch supporter of the capitalist order, did not criticize the government for the prosecution of the Communists but for its indiscretions, He showed that the charge against the Cojmunists when stripped of its superfihifies was one of ‘possession of docuniehts for publi- cation. He stated that + accusations that the British comb ists received money from Moscow waési not substan- tiated and that the chhrke of mutiny and sedition was not i Secretary's Speech ses Mirth. Great mirth was cau in the cham- ber when a labor member brought out that Home Secretary Sir William Joynson Hicks, had made a speech in 1912 on the Irish question, where he declared “the people of Ulster have behind them the unionist party. Be- hind them is the law of the god of battles. In his name and yours I say to the prime minister, ‘Let your arm- ies and your batteries fire. Fire if you dare, Fire and be damned.’” The home secretary ‘in defending | his persecution of the Communists, brought out that the labor government under MacDonald had arrested the Communist Campbell-and that it only withdrew its charges, against him be- cause they saw that-it was thought undesirable for somesreason or other to prosecute him. Communist Membership Not Crime. « Shapurji Saklatvald, ‘lone Commun- ist member of the British house of commons, made a $hort speech in which he showed that ft could not in these be considered &/crime to be a member of the Confifighist Party and that Communists ha@ just as much right as anyone elsé’ spread their doctrines in the army} The debate was ‘Wpund up by Sir Douglass pra ial « the prose- cutor of the 12 Communists, accepting full responsibility on‘himself, in order to take the blame off the government, and declared that he considered the persecution of the Communist justi- fied. a rey : Recognition of Soviet Rule Is Urged by 5 4 . Chicago Gathering (Continued from page 1) Breeders’ Association, Wednesday night, at St. Hubert’s (nn, celebrating the recent Russian purchases in this country of American Rambouillet sheep. Russians Address Gathering, The guests of the evening were rep- resentatives in this country of the Soviet Union, fneluding J. G. Ohsol, of the Amtorg Trading Co,, and D. N. Borodin, director of the Russian Agri- cultural Agency in America, with of- fices in New York City and V. Skvirsky, of the Russian Information Bureau in Washington, All of them addressed the gathering | that was made up not only America’s representative sheep, hog, cattle and poultry breeders, but, also of manu- facturers of products being import by the Soviet Union, especially f implement producers, Attend Live Stock Shi The Soviet representativ, as those who came to the evening, had spet day at in the intern: exposition at the sj By way of re that they receiv’ men invited th stock expos’ Georgia, t Republic Georgiy Alt’ sens ng By'J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. BD he ca Presbyterian Church dignitaries meet in the midst of the parasites idling at Atlantic City and put first on the order of the day, “the present spiritual condition of our church and the causes making for unrest.” At the same time the National Study Conference jon the Churches and World Peace opens in the shadow of the nation’s capitol in Washington, starting off with a greeting from President Coolidge declaring “that the co-operation of schools, courts, press, home, governments and churches will be necessary to bring about world peace.” It is the usual bunk that comes out of Atlantic City and the regular stock in trade piffle that may be expected from Coolidge every time he tries to’ say something. ° * The Preskyterian Church will not seriously investigate “causes making for unrest.” Churches have tried that be- fore. Immediately they have found that the causes begin hitting at the pillars of the profit system, the investigation has been quickly dropped. To create the least distrust in the minds of the masses that the capitalist system is not what is claimed for it—that it is the best social system of all time that must continue into time everlasting—to deny that is considered a greater crime than the violation single or in lots of all the commandments that Moses is alleged to have brought down off Mount Sinai. Ns * * * * It is a rule that the church sides with the exploiter in every strike. The rare exceptions only prove this rule. No one has heard of the churches in the anthracite coal fields uniting to insist that the strikers be granted their demands. If any prayers are uttered in the churches of the coal fields, they are for the victory of the mine barons. strike times that the blackcoated churchman dives deepest into his barrel of canned sermons to stock up on dope for the strikers, telling them to be “meek and humble” before the lord. Of course, while the preacher has one eye on the sky, he has the other on the lord of profit, especially coal profits, sitting in the front row and listening happily, know- ing that all meekness and humbleness on the part of the miners is strength to his side of the fight. The Presbyterians at Atlantic City are making the usual gesture that should fool no one, It is during “TIME TO EAT Finish Breakfast on Run to Work By A Worker Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 3-— At the Central Camp, a logging camp at Minerets, Madero county, California, conditions are certainly bad. The log: gers, whose work is very hard, poorly fed, the food being so bad that it is enough to destroy the appetite of the hungriest fellow who comés to the table. For this fare the workers are charged $1.25-per day. The wages are thirty-five cents low, sixty-one cents high per hour; all working for day wages except the |) buckers, who mostly work on contract. But what the buckers are being paid 1 do not know, All workers within this camp are called at 5:60 a, m.; six o'clock the breakfast bell rings, and breakfast on the run while herding to the job. This camp is situated at a distance of four miles from the job, and the loggers come in to eat dinner at the camp. They have so little time al- lowed for meals that the working engine begins to whistle calling them to rush “to board on,” and go back to work almost as soon as they sit down to their meals, Quitting time in the woods is 5:15 Dp. m.,, and they are supposed to be at supper by 6:00 p, m. But the woodsmen cannot get to camp before 6:30 p. m., so they rush straight to the dining room without waiting to clean up because they are afraid if they stay to wash the grime from their hands and faces that the dining room will close and they will not be able to get any supper . There are between five = 8 hundred Coolidge talks of peace being secured thru the co-opera- tion of schools, courts, press, home, governments and churches, Yet this same Coolidge will urge the next congress to pass huge appropriations for the land, water and air services of American militarism, “to prepare” for the next war. American ‘imperialism instinctively demands the co- operation of the schools, courts, press, home, governments and churches for War—the inevitable next war—and not for peace. eH Children are taught jingoism in the schools, the courts the press is the.most faithful lackey in fomenting war pay- stand ready touprgrisen anyone assailing the capitalist state, triotism called “100 per cent Americanism", and the home is invaded as the\Wat rages by Liberty Bond and War Saving Stamp salesmen, while super-jingoes travel in packs demand- ing contributioris for the Red Cross, Salvation Army, Y. M. C.A., Y. W. C. A., Volunteers of America. Capitalist governments are so organized, especially the American capitalist state, that the dictatorship can be quickly intensified as war breaks, while the church stands ready to bless it, all, even to sending the helpless soldier hordes into the trenches to maim and murder. In the last war no country was forced to fight without the benediction of the various religions operating within its borders. This co-operation was the easiest to gets the church following the - capitalist armies into war thru its chaplains attached to va- rious military units. * * When the workers understand the fraudulent spectacles provided for them " the Presbyterians at Atlantic City and by the Washington Conference, it will not be so easy to lure them into the next slaughter house that is even now being prepared for them. They will learn to make their own class fight for the abolition of this capitalist state that moullds every possible strength, including especially. the schools, press ee , for its own preservation as the enslaver of man- ind. The power of the workers, victorious under Soviet Rule, is the only power that can end war and inaugurate world peace. and six hundred men employed in this camp during the season, and the camp is owned and operated by the Sugar Pine Lumber cmopany. This com- pany hires men from Sacramento, Stockton and San Francisco, and any footloose rebel who can head that way is advised to get on the job, for there =. is a big field for organization. But this camp will probably shut down in the middle of December. DAILY WORKER Rescue Parties emma! GO TO ’EM! ST. PAUL Saturday, December 6 Commonwealth Hall, 455 Rice St. Where you will meet a group of intelligent workers—and where you are sure to enjoy yourself, Admission 25 Cents. ———————— ees pressed by the masses of statistics given them was shown by the ap- plause given the speakers, and by the tenor of the speeches that followed. little time is allowed for breakfast that part of the woodsmen grab their share of the grub and finish their Saturday, December 5 of the A SPAGHETTI PARTY—Italian san, telling | Sort jiddresses were made by Prof.|| Hall, 1601 S, Camac St, 8 p. m. 418 country. of ey sh " I, secretary of the Amer-|| 4 dinner—a gay party—good Growers’ Association; Prof. J. M. Jones, of Texas; D, A. Spencer, of the U. 8. department of agriculture, as well as other speakers who reviewed cattle, sheep, horse and ent here to pur- friends to meet. Admission free. «ceeds of sheep and f son recently returned to -st purchase of the kind ever ' | KANSAS CITY in the United States. King Complements Mission. J, H. King, of Laramie, Wyoming, vaid a high tribute to the membeis t the mission. He stressed the de- nand that every pressure possible should be brought to bear upon the zovernment for the opening of trade velations with the Soviet Union, Ohsol, Skvirsky and Borodin all emphasized the rapid economic re- covery that the Soviet Union has ex- perienced during the past few years, and held out glowing hopes for the immediate tuturg. Skvirsky as the first speaker gave a host of figures showing the recovery of industry since the world war, the civil wars and the blockade, Ohsol dwelt more on the agriculture situation in the Soviet Unjon showing the how modern methods are being ap} plied everywhere, He also told of the poultry Breeding in the United States. All the speakers claimed that the United States had the best that there was to offer and were ready to make arrangements for the sale of Ameri- ca’s best breeds of live stock to the Soviet peasants,’ Editor's Note-——-The DAILY WORKER will publish extensi X~ tracts from the addresses by Boris Skvirsky and D. N. Borodin in future issues. The speech of J. G, Ohsol is published elsewhere in this ‘state High. «NEW YORK, Dec, 3.—The John Ja- cob Astor mansion and the temple Emanuel, both -Fifth Avenue proper- |; ties have been sold for a total of ap- proximately $10,000,000. Both will be torn down, different kinds of livestock raised by] Read—Write—distribute The DAIL! the Soviet farmers, Borodin followed | WORKER, along similar lines, telling of the growth of Russian agriculture from carly times, under czarism and at th oresent time. f Audience is Deeply Impressed, That the audience was, deeply im- Sunday, December 6 Hall to be announced later, TRENTON Saturday, December 12 Paddretz Hall, cor, Beatty and Whitman Streets. NEW YORK Hl » Saturday, December 19 Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Len- nox Ave, : SAN FRANCISCO Sunday, December 20 Music, dancing, at 225 Valencia eas Bes ks Moth