The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1925, Page 1

DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class mhtter September '2., 1928, at Abb Pot Office at Chicago, Mincis, umder the Act of March 3, 1879. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6 1925 S” The DAILY WORKER. Raises the Standard for a Workers’ This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE. | } and Farmers’ Government In Chicage, by mail, $8.00 per year. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd,, Chicago, ll “SRS ENTOMBED IN COLORADO ew : | : LF SIGMAN MACHINE CLASHES WITH |WUMBER CAUGHT BY RAGING FIRE , LEFT WING'OVER COMMUNISTS I MAY REACH 60; RESCUE SQUADS UNION AT 1.L.G.W.U. CONVENTION FEAR ALL DEAD FROM BLACK DAMP Vol. II. No. 279. Subscription Rates: Price 5 Cents FINNISH BUREAU UNANIMOUSLY ELECTED: FOR BOLSHEVIZATION tion, in view of the the branches main- juarters, halls, which will be located in Chicago and con- stitute an executive council which will carry on the work between the sessions of the whole bureau; Cor- gan from the Mesaba Range; Ten- The conference of the Finnish sec- tion of the Workers (Communist) Party opened last Sunday and closed its work on Thursday night with fact that me tain large h are the ities for the mem- By WILLIAM F, DUNNE, the unanimous election of a bureau bership, F Problems in cdnnec- hunen and Heikkinen from the Min- (Special to The Daily Worker) (Special to The Dally Workers of 13 members and an appeal to the | tion with the bhases of the activi- | nesota-Wisconsin territory, and Par- BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 4.—Twenty-five miners are entombed PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Dec. 4.—A near riot lasting ten min- mempershie of the Finnish section | ty of ‘the ization have been tas fiat she Lard ney aha in the Cardinal mine, 18 miles south of here with little hope en- jected to Rubin of Local 2 speaking in Yiddish against the unseat-| |. ,,ganization. stronger movbiflent among the Fin- | murte of California, Comrade Luoto |ing here at noon today, ing of Marks. Sigman opened the session this morning by speak- ing on the introduction to the Executive Board’s.report. He took the occasion to make a veiled attack on Judick and the Freiheit, because of its criticism of his policy. . - The objection to delegates became the order of business on The men were.trapped when fire caused by defective wiring blocked the exits. A later report states that the number now believed caught in the mine was between forty and sixty. The danger to the en- tombed men lies in the fact thatt— The convention, which had on Tuesday unanimously accepted the | drawing u* unity resolution of the Central Exe- | work of thi cutive Committee, discussed the | nuclei and st various problems of the Finnish sec- a from the Rocky Mountain district, and Comrade Nieva from South Dakota. The convention adopted a mani- festo addressed to the membership d at the same time Wembership into the y thru the shop nuciel. Bureau. the conclusion of Sigman’s weak speech and the case of E.| tion in relation to the work of reor- ; of the Finnish section, urging every |the fire is raging in the tunnel, r Marks of Local 2 was taken up. The case against Marks appears} 9@Mization during the intervening | The bureau) of thir- | member to become a member Of a {which ig a mile and half long may to be that he, during the Palmer raids, denied membership in the days. Resolutions were adopted for | teen membe ‘ de eaalage candidates. | shop nucleus: or re dene of | araw But all the air, causing fatal Communist Party: the guidance of the branches of the | This bureau phen Janhonen, | the party during the reorganization. |«})¢0% “damp.” ! Finnish section in relation to the membership coming into the shop Sjoman, ict; Karhu and Matt The manifesto points out the need It is thru this entrance-that rescue, of bolshevization of the Workers sl trance-that rescue if rescue is possible, must be made ee The joker in the proceedings is that the charge against Marks is preferred PACT ENSLAVES GERMAN TOILERS AS WE SEE IT nuclei and street nuclei_and the nnayivania-Southern | (Communist) Party and that the lang tittle hope is expressed that an by bitter enemies of the Workers| work of the workers’ clubs, T! ict; Puro, Burman, | Finnish membership must support |ntrance can be gained whtil late to- By T. J. O'FLAHERTY (Communist) Party of America, latter is an important prob for | Sulkanne id Wilkk' who (Continued on page 2) night. The guiding rule of the Sigman ma- chine in such cases seems to be that if one is a bad Communist he should not be taken into the union, but that if one is a good Communist —_$_—$—$—_$_— nL iS AJOR” GEORGE L. BERRY has announced his candidacy for the presidency of the International Print- Rescue Crews Arrive. The fire starting between 8 and 8:30 this. morning was soon beyond control 5 P " one of the men working at the mouth of od ing Pressmens’ and Assistasts ei | shiowld be kicked out. Marks will be the mine and alarms were sen: to Commanists E xpose to succeed himself. No doubt he wWill.| cated after the machine | speakers Nederland and Boulder for assltance ‘The only novel feature of the election |haye vented their spite on the Com- is that Berry after treating the union | munists. Antonini led the attack on for several years as his own person-)inheg Communists. al property should go to the trouble of Imperialist Aims (Special to The Daily Worker) Superior, Colo., another mining town responded to appeals for help, rusling a mine rescue car stationed al that seeking endorsements from the mem- bership. Having already secured the sanction of the employing printers there is no reason why the “Majah” should waste good ink singing his own praises in the columns of his own A Left Wing Resolution. The demand for the severance of all relations with the civic federation j Will be made by I. L. G. W. delegates at the next A. F. of L. convention if resolution thirty signed by. 17 dele- point to Bovliler where they wi'l be rushed by high powered automobiles to the scene of the disaster. _Fire Chief Healy of Denver im- mediately rushed a crew equipped with gas masks and fire fighting equip BRUSSELS, Belgium, (By Mail).— The interparliamentary Communist Congress which Is hold'ng its sessions here spent its second day in the dis- cussing of the alliance of American and English capital in the Locarno ser ie é ment to the stricken mine. More than | P&ace pact for the exploitation of the journal which is considerably sub-|gates of the largest locals . passes. 300 miners from adjuining camps | S¥bjugated peoples in Europe and of sidized by scab ads. The question comes up on the initia- \nave been organized into rescue | the colonies. 3 eo. $ -@ z ‘ tive of the left wing after many years. \squads. Comrade Treint-spoke upon the al- : HE hide of a rhinoceros is del-} The resolution so far introduced, if | tered European situation in conse- T jeate compared tothe intellectual | passed, will put the I. L. G. W. far in All Shut Off. quence of the Locarno paet: the skin of “Majah” Berry, -Bat-atothing,| the van ofthe American labor méve- The compressor and fan houses,’ the | SToupings of the capitalist powers, is impossible and readers of The ment. the strengthening of Germany, the ) v aa latter supplying fresh air for the tun- aa wt bbe WORKER,panticularly. | There are. pesolutions against. nel was™ completely’ destfoyed at’ a} Veekening of Pranice and the attath- ' Berry's personal union, will be inter- mmigration restriction, three endors- Hoss estimated! between $10,000 and|™ent of Germany to England. The ested to learn that the series of art-|ing the International Labor Defense, $15,000, Locarno pact is also of the greatest } i icles that appeared in this paper some |for recognition of ‘Russia .and the The working crew of the Cardina}{|!mPortance for the colonial question 2 4 time ago, in the nature of an auto-|sending. of a trade unlon delegation ‘tunnel, which is.a gold and. silver} Which reacts ‘once again upon the blography of Mr. Berry, got on the|there, one for freeing Gitlow signed (mine, is composed of sixty men, ac | °nstellation in Europe. The Locarno Mside of that worthy's skin. by many delegates, two’ resolutions leording to information received from | P@ct prepares the attack upon the So- \ ar brner pies < ay for May \Nederland. Whether all of these men at nion. Locarno is it is true the in rst as an, obligatory liday, two twee i h i 1 ij f th troduction to a temporary understand- r the N ber issue of the Am- ’ ane were in the mine at the time of the |” : 3 ; ‘hy ae emo ym Aocae pitate against the expulsion pétidy, three for \fire could not be learned. ing between America and Great Brit- Bena Ah fabecuationn’ cower ee labor party, one each against child William. Bryant, a miner who was at | #2, but at the same time it means | cite sakers for re-election. Speak- labor and military traitiing camps, two |the’ mouth of the tunnel when the|‘H@ Preparation for the conflict be- } - ‘a 40 the BAS Mr. Berry. declares [2% , No shop. delegate aygtama, ong \Dlaze started was badly burned. tween the imperialist contradictions t See iripos of vontihying. the ste class collaboration. which out- | So far as can be learned there has ci yanecice and England on other ' Siege Se CMin We tae. ap A prind Scompies program Of struggle, |been-no explosfon in the tunned and | *@lds. Sekee 1 paged.” For the benefit of those not oii. pron et and one for officials are holding out hope that the PE ti Speypinia Pact. ; ‘ipal of The WORKER ana men possibly are still alive. » Heckert stressed in his re- 4 in the know, Mr. Berry’s principal |, A . : ‘ j : the Freiheit, marks the fact that America was the iJ visible means of support is strike: | heh initiator of Locarno which will 1 breaking, with the re EE BP the ‘i erty tes All Hope Is Gone. | in a temporary understanding hetwentd American Federa- joesn’t Trust U. S, Planes. eric: Page Lok se Rae oe BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 4—Hopes of preriees and British imperialism in k D ae . orde 7 Co igen see WASHINGTON; Dec, $2 9E “ane saving any of the men entombed to-| ore" oh nat ssi9 all capitalist forces >». a rah. hie good | inten: change of notes between the state de- f seeps nity ah 4h sett against the Soviet Union the existence i AVING ag AE aca Seta partment and the British embassy, it pone Seti: CORSA TA ine, 18 miles|of which is a permanent threat to 4 tions, the Masel sa se into the | was agreed to extend the time that from here, were further dashed late} (Continued on page 3) i Communists. But for a few “un-| ;merican aviators may fly over Can- jtoday when smoke was discovered aR aL a ‘ (Continued on page 2). [adian soil until April 2, 1926. ‘pouring in dense volumes from an . A ou ‘abandoned air shaft, 3,700 feet from The Saturday Magazine f LEFT WING FORCES SIGMAN TO je eatrance, Section of the Daily Worker SEAT DELEGATE FROM LOCAL 38 By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4.—The question of seating one lone delegate, Rea, a member of Local 38 and the sheet, in the afternoon session of the of the machine better than any devel Rea himself played an unimportant part, editor of La Frustra, a little anarchist convention showed the inner weakness lopment to date. but the struggle between Ninfo and Antonini which he aroused brought delight to the progressives. The charges against Rea arisen out of the criticism of Ninfo carried on by La Frustra and resulted in the expulsion of eight members by Ninfo: The case was clearly a polit- ical one and without endorsing the views held and opinions expressed by Rea; the progressives were in favor of Wis being seated, ‘The bitterness of the struggle for powe. between Antonini and Ninfo, al- tho no basic difference on policy existy came to light when Antonini took.the floor and opposed the creden- tials committee report unseating Rea. Hyman foljowed and urged that Rea be seated, “Blackest of Black.” Zack, a member of Local 38 him- self, brought loud and prolonged pro- tests from the Ninfoites when he char- acterized Ninfo and his official family as “the blackest of the black in our international.” Demands that he with- draw the statement were made and the uproar continued until quieted by Sigman, who then renewed officially the demand for a retraction. “Phat statement is my opinion and 1 will not retract,” said Zack. “I stick to it althé 1 want it understood that it does not apply to the members of sLocal ‘38 Who are workers,’ Sigman ne (Continvec OG page 2) suet neh Ee ii wow. |} seem to have¢ This time it is Colorado. Finds Gold Nugget. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 4—Ex- citement ran high here following the discovery of a gold nugget weighing 43 ounces by C. B. Nelson, a prospec- tor. Nelson discovered the large nugget on the Kantishna river, about 60 miles west of Kobe. The nugget is valued at $731. New Chiefcof Goose-Steppers. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Col. March | B. Stewart was appointed by Secre-| tary of War Dawis as superintendent | of the United»States Military Acad-) emy at West bint. He succeeds | Maj. Gen. Fred W. Bladen, who was assigned to command tife \ Philippine | department. | More Applicants than Jobs. TACOMA, Wash.—(FP)—Many ap- plicants for each available job are reported by employment agencies in the Pacific northwest. Municipal work is being curtailed, farmers are laying off men and the lumber districts have many inoré jobseekers than they can handle, The party and supporters of The DAILY WORKER have raised $28.926.88 during the past ten weeks to keep alive this weapon of the working class revolutionary move- ment. The work done to Save and insure The DAILY WORKER for the coming year, is a tribute to the loyalty to the revolutionary move- ment, of the members of our party and the sympathizers who alded in the work. The support given The DAILY WORKER enabled it to sur- vive the crisis which threatened its life. The facts of the situation of The DAILY WORKER were frank- ly told to the membership of the party and the sympathizers with our movement and the response given showed that they realized the seri- ous of the situation and were determined to save The DAILY WORKER for the party. The goal which was set for, The} DAILY WORKER fund at the be-| ginning of the campaign was! To All Party Branches, Party Members, and Party Sympathizers: $40,000. This was the amount needed to overcome the cri and put The DAILY WORKER in a posi- tion so that it would not need again to appeal for donations and contributions for another year. With this total sum at its command, The DAILY WORKER would be in a position to liquidate its pressing obligations to creditors and have some freedom to mobilize its fore for a subscription campaign and in- crease of its circulation and sup- port, which might in the future place it beyond the need of appea ing for donations, The funds raised is still $11,000 short of this total of $40,000, The party has determined to ask the members and sympathizers with our movement to complete this fund by December 15th. On that date The DAILY WORKER campaign is to be closed. It must be closed with the Aotal of $40,000 registered as the im collected for The DAILY “WORKER fund, 3 There remains avperiod of ten days to raise the amount needed to com- plete the fund.s Every branch of the party every party:member and every sympathizer withythe movement is urged to use these ten days to drive up the total cantributions to The DAILY. WORKER fund to the $40,000.mark. That means that “at it $1,000 must be raised each day during these ten days. There are in the hands of many members of the party and sympa- thizers The DAILY WORKER fund coupons. Each member and sympa- thizer who has one of the SAVE THE DAILY WORKER coupon sheets, should make every effort to sell the balance of the coupons by the 15th and then promptly send the remittance to The DAILY WORKER. The branches of:the party which still have funds collected from the November 7th meetings, or special affairs for the benefit of The DAILY WORKER, shoulirush these in to The DAILY WORKER, The efforts to raise funds thru the party branches ind other units of the party should ontinue and the largest possible donations sent in by the 15th of December. Comrades, the difference between the situation if The DAILY WORK- ER fund is not driven up to the to- tal $40,000 will be, whether The DAILY WORKER shall limp along on the verge of a crisis, with pos- sibilities or having again to appeal to the membership in the near fu- ture, or whether we shall begin the new year with a secure foundation and the road clear for a struggle to WE MUST FINISH JOB make The DAILY WORKER self- supporting by increasing its circle of readers. We ask you to make it posible for The DAILY WORKER to face the new year with confidence and ure ance that in place of going down un- der the difficulties which a working class newspaper must face, it will be in a position to strengthen itself, | Persons’ familiar with the workings of the mine expressed the belief that if the men were caught betweén that airshaft and another at the extreme eastern end of the funnel in which they were trapped, all have been suffo- cated by now. Altho company officials continue to assert there were only 18 men in the mine to the best of their knowledge other estimates varied widely, running as high as sixty. We Must Finish the Job for Our Daily! | to increase its influence in the work- ing class movement, to build itself as a secure instrument for service | to the revolutionary movement in the United States. The party can give The DAILY WORKER the as- surance, if the latter will be’ the case, by making the last ten days count to complete the 340,000 fund. COMRADES, INTENSIFY THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE DAILY WORKER, SELL AND SEND IN YOUR RE- MITTANCE FOR THE DAILY WORKER COUPONS, RAISE MORE FUNDS THRU YOUR BRANCHES, MAKE THE REPORT OT THE FUNDS LEAP UPWARDS BY AT LEAST $1,0000 A DAY. MAKE THE DAILY WORKER SECURE FOR 1926 BY COMPLET- ING THE $40,000 FUND BY DE- °CEMBER 15TH. Yea! Fraternally yours, C. E. RUTHENBERG, General Secretary. fay Hereafter—(Beginning with the next issue, Dec. 12), will be,a |new and unique section, under the editorship of ROBERT MINOR it will contain more carefully se- lected material. It will be more en- tertaining,—for it will print some of the best short stories ever written, by the greatest artists of the world. It will be enlivened by the best car- toonists—geniuses of America and Eu- rope—some of whom you know and some you never heard of. And by po- ets whom the bourgeois editors want to hang for understanding too much of life, and— THEORY!?? Do you sometimes feel depressed and discouraged with \the thought that you don't know enuf of the meaning of life—that you don’t understand enuf of the great Bod- shevik THEORY which is marching tiru the world, placing in the hands of ‘uneducated” workers the power that tears down empires, to blast the “Rock of Ages”—? Do you want the joy of knowing and feeling that you po: something of the great wisdom of the Bolsheviks—? The SATURDAY MAGAZINE of |the DAILY WORKER will try to give jit to you—in short, simple’ explana- jtlons, (but not too simple—not vul- garized) from the pens of the men who are unmaking an old world of tyranny and making a new world for ‘workers. And this, too, will be entertaining and readable. Subscribe to the DAILY WORKER NOW, and the new Magazine section next Saturday, Deo, 12,