The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1925, Page 2

\ ee Page Two THE DAILY WORKER Still at It | France Issues 7,500,000 Paper Francs. ASWEESEEIT -:- ByT. J. O'Flaherty (Continued from page 1) scrupulous Communists nestled in the great city of Chicago” there would be no. opposition to his candidacy, mo- destly declares Mr. Berry. The Work- ers Party would be pleasantly sur- prised if it had as many members on its rolls as there are members in the Pressmens’ Union, who would like to see Berry under the monument that covers the dust or what may or may not be the “unknown soldier.” So much for the “Majah’s” popularity in his own union. eee ABOR fakers, as a rule are not noted for intellectual attainments but some of them make an effort to reach some degree of literacy. After assailing The DAILY WORKER in- sinuatingly, George says: “We do not seek the support of any person who believes that the government of the United States or the government of Canada should be overthrown or destroyed. We do not believe there is a corporal’s guard in our organiza- tion who hold such opinions and it is because of this that we seek reno- mination and re-election to the offices which we now hold and those to which we aspire, believing in the great American traditions of free- dom, free from autocracy of Soviet- ism or autocracy from selfishness.” (Emphasis ours—T. J. O’F.) eo OW we know why the average labor faker aspires to office in the trade union movement! To save this and neighboring governments from being overthrown! If Berry whispered this in the vicinity of a Missouri mule’s tail, his face would be decocrated sufficiently to enable him to pose as a wounded hero of the world war and perhaps give him an excuse to apply for the title of general. Berry's only regret for the year, is the action of members of the union in Chicago in striking against open shop conditions in a big print- ing plant. But Berry “fixed” the strikers, and he made no distinctions between conscious radicals and ordi- Dary non-political trade unionists. ee 4 ged pressmen will gain nothing by railing against Berry. They must learn to fight him effectively. They must organize. Of course he is a political crook, but that is the busi ness of the reactionary leadership of the American Federation of Labor. They are the “labor” wing of the capitalist government. Berry knows quite well that there are no Com- munists in the rebellious local of Chicago, If there were and if their policies dominated, there would not even against such a capitalist flunkey as Berry. 2 0.9 HEN the members of Pressmens’ Union No. 3 deposed a tool of Berry’s as president, they replaced him with one of the most bitter Com- munist haters in Chicago, a fake pro- | gressive who expected to carry favor in certain quarters by denouncing the Communists. This lickspittle policy never gets the workers anywhere. hs HE pressmen were licked by Berry and the bosses because they expected to win by playing a lone hand. If they are to get rid of Berryism in the future they must! have both a policy and organization and not depend on the futile method of using “strong” language on the “Majah.” FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY AND ORCHESTRA GIVE BALL AT TEMPLE HALL TONIGHT The Freiheit Mandotin Orchestra and Singing Society is giving a dance at the Temple Hall, corner Van Buren and Marshfield Ave., to- night. Admission will be 50 cents. All are invited to attend, HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! Independent Local Joins U. T. W. SALEM, Mass. —(FP)—Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co. workers are now members of Local 33, United Textile Workers’ Union, and will have a spe- cial organizer for pillow case and sheeting mills. The local, headed by John P. O’Connell, former president Federated Textile Unions of America, withdrew from the American Federa- tion of Textile Operatives affiliated with the F, T. U. of A. several months ago. BIEDENKAPP 0 SPEAK * AT EAST LIVERPOOL AND STEUBENVILLE CLEVELAND, 0., Doc. 4—The East Liverpool committee of the In- ternational Labor Defense will’ hold am meeting Sunday, Dec. 6, in the afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Trades Council Hall. The Steuben. ville committee will hold a mass meeting at Steubenville at 8 p, m., in the Schwaben Hall. Comrade Biedenkapp will speak at both meet- ings on Labor and Defense. A be any foolishness such as resorting | large attendance is expected at both injunctions meetings. _ to capitalist courts for Come to the .| Concert Left Wing Forces Sigman to Seat Delegate of Local 38 (Continued from page 1) informed Zack that» he would not be allowed to continue until he retracted, but as Zack proceeded to ‘elaborate HORACEK FO GUILTY - ONDER SEDITION LAM Prosecutor Plays on Jury’s Prejudices BY ELLA REEVE BLOOR. (LL. D. Press Service.) PITTSBURGH, Dec, 4.—The jury in the case of Edward Horacek, active member of Machinist's, Union ,here charged with a violation of the Penn- sylvania state sedition. law, found Horacek guilty on counts seven and eight of the indictment, charging him with the distribution of {iterature, etc., and of membership jn a party tend- ing to teach sedition, etc., after it had been “deading” one anda half hours. He was found not gujity on all other counts; Bail has been renewed for Horacek and the case will be appealed to a higher court. .» Fight to Higier Court. j The case of the other eight who are also charged with Pidlation fo the same law will not come ‘up until the Horacek case has been fought in the highest court of the country. The jury which tried Horacek was composed of a number of aged wom- en, a foreman, and business men. The personnel of the jury was published in an earlier issue of The DAILY WORK- ER. Plays on Prejudices. The prosecutor in the trial of Ed- ward Horacek, accused of a violation of the state sedition act, made a most inflamatory speech before the jury denouncing the “reds”, Bolsheviks, the Russian revolution and Lenin, playing on the prejudices of the jury to re- turn a verdict of guilty. Thruout his entire speech he made a grand stand play to the jury on their 100 per cent Americanism, - In referring to Horatek, he launched on a tirade, declaring that if he did not like America, he doula go back to Bohemia where he had dome from and that Horacek would nevér receive the enormous salary in Bohemia that he was now receiving. t Workers Party on Trial. Following the display of ignorance by the prosecutor, Jydge Prather in his instruction to the jyry, said that the burden of the Prog lays on the programs of the Workers Party as to upon the low regard in which he held Ninfo as an official, Sigman, after another interruption in the form of a weak five-minute speech explaining why he would not go thru with his previous mandate to deprive Zack of the floor if no retraction was made, al- lowed Zack to finish his speech. It was an embarrassing position for the president ‘of one of the largest inter- national unions. Sigman Retreats. Confronted with a division of his forces while the left wing maintained an ominous and eloquent silence speaking louder than words during his controversy with Zack, Sigman beat a not very graceful retreat, Fac- ing a situation in which the whole ex- pulsion and suppression policy was being aired while the individual in- volved was sure to be seated the ma- chine became “good sports” as they expressed it. Portnoy and Wishnevsky explained that the seating of Rea was no favor but part of the policy of the progres- sives, altho they took no responsibility for the acts or utterances of Rea. Cer- tain of defeat on this issue the ma- chine speakers became ardent ad- vocates of amnesty and toleration. It is probable that as a result of this discussion the expulsion policy has been dealt a blow from whcih it will not recover, Rea was seated by a vote of 111 to Tl. ° Invite New York Shop Chairmen. The shop chairmen elected at the Cooper Union meeting have been in- vited to the convention. An attempt was made to combine the motion to do this with an invitation to Ashpiz, provisional managefs for Local 2 ap- pointed by the machine during the New York struggle, but the motion was divided, the shop chairmen be- ing invited unanimously while 101 votes were cast against the invita- tion to Ashpitz, Machine Seats Slugger. At the end of the morning session after several hours of bitter debate Dolnick of Chicago, charged with slug- ging and running a corporation shop, was seated by a vote of 147 to 107, Settle Suit, A suit for 50,000 damages, based upon the finding of a dead mouse in a bottle of root beer served to Jack Taylor of Harvey, Ill, in @ soft drink parlor in that town, was settled in chambers by the Hydrox Company of Chicago as the sult was called for trial. rand POLISH, RUSSIAN a whether admitted membership in the. Workers Party means,advocacy of se- dition. He also instrugied the jury to examine what the ign erie Inter- national was and the relation of the Workers Party to thé’ Communist In- ternational. In his flistructions the judge actually placed fy the hands of the jury the question of deciding whether or not the Workers Party is illegal or not. It is not so much a trial of Horacek as it jg of the Work- ers Party in Pennsylvania. After his instructions the jury ad- journed to an adjoinifig room to de- cide as to the verdict {6 bring in. Merrick’s Cowardice, Fred Merrick was brought into court and asked if he was a member of the Workers Party,” Merrick answered “No, Not since July.” wi “Will you renounce, future activity in the party?” was Fi next question put to him. “T will,” he answered. “I have gone into business in Parkersburg.” The judge then questioned him as to why he: had given up his activities in the Workers Party. He answered “I realized the hope- lessness of my own activities.” For this cowardly action on his part the judge paroled him, with Attorney Marshall assuming costs and respon- sibility for Merrick. Bitter resentment was felt by many of .the workers in the court-room when they saw this gowardly surrender and renunciation. Will Be Expelled. Fred Merrick, who, was the district organizer of the yorkers (Com- munist) Party in the Pittsburgh dis- trict about a year ago’ and who had for the past year deserted activities in the. party, was instructed by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party to plead not guilty and to fight this case to the end, By his refus@ to do so, Fred Merrick will undou! aly be expelled from membership jm the’ Workers (Communist) Party. i 8 Read Party Manifesto, PITTSBURGH, Dec, 4.—The entire manifesto, “United States Today”, issued by the Workers Party in 1923, which analyzed the great strikes of that period, was read to the jury by attorney Marshall in his speech in de- fense of Edward Horacek, active mem- ber of the Machinist union and now on trial for alleged violation of the Pennsylvania state sedition law. State Twists Meaning. During the trial the prosecution has Given by at SCHOENHOFEN HALL, Corner Milwaukée and Ashland UND | In crease British Bank Rate As Gold Supply of England Is Threatened By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Toay. American capitalism again demonstrates to its rival, British capitalism, that it is by far the er. of the two. This voracious beast that travels the World over, to satiate its profit hunger, snaps its challenge to the lean lion in London, that no nation must dare oppose America. * * * When Great Britain reached an agreement to pay its war debt to the United States and then, with a great show of courage, returned to the gold standard, that was a challenge to new struggles in the world’s commercial rivalry. But the bold front of the British suffers another setback. London has been compelled to increase its rediscount rate, at one jump, from four to five per cent, in order to stop “the empire” being bled of its gold. The increase iin the bank rate was made absolutely necessary by the heavy drains on anemic British capitalism. The outflow has aggregated more than $933,000,000 since the Bank of England reduced its rate to four per cent last October, while its gold reserve is $48,500,000 lower than when England returned to the gold standard last April. The British must therefore close their gates against the exit of this precious basis for their cur- rency. But that only weakens British imperialism in its fight for foreign markets, in its attempted “conquests of peace” over other nations, that are now compelled to turn their ex- clusive attention once more to the United States as the sole creditor nation. * . e 7 As if to taunt the British lion, Wall Sreet refuses to ad- vance its rediscount rate by even a fraction. It is indicated that the order to make no change, altho this could easily be done and had in fact been announced, came directly from Secretary of the Treasury “Andy” Mellon, chief spokesman of the American dollar in Coolidge’s cabinet. The American bank rate remains at 31/2 per cent, a full 1/2 per cent below the British. * ° e e Thus England, altho she may parade as the chief inst! gator of. Locarno “security” pacts against Soviet Rule, is nevertheless the helpless puppet of American capitalism. The weekly report of the federal reserve system for the New York district shows that in spite of the wild wave of speculation and the giant loans made, yet the total loans of the New York bank have declined $4,924,000. Reserves and deposits at New York increased $3,565,000 and $14,236,000, respectively during the past week. * * . This is the power that the possession of one-half of the world’s gold supply—$4,500,000,000 out af $9,000,000,000— gives to American finance. It was necessary to force the Locarno compact upon the capitalist nations of Europe, so that the American gold surplus would not only find a safe and “peaceful” spot for investment, but also an opportunity to collect the interest on the investments made. Of course, this ncessitates the enforcement of “industrial peace”, within the various nations, resulting in an alliance between the American dollar and the different national governments to keep the workers in servile submission to the bitter exploita- tion forced upon them in order that the demands of the American shylocks may be satisfied. Thus British capitalism, with the various national ca- pitalisms upon the continent, may be helpless in the grip of Wall Street rule. But beyond lies the as yet slumbering power of the discontented and revolutionary workers, who are developing strength to tear down not only the dreams of Britain's Lombard Street, of the French Bourse and the financial districts of the European capitals, but of New York's center of finance aswell. And back of these battling revolutionary workers stands the power of the workers and =— of the Soviet Union, the bulwark of the world revo- ution. At this writing the United States may furnish the world with its dominant imperialism. But the awakening of the oppressed everywhere will result in the creation of a power against which even the American dollar cannot stand, but before which its rule must collapse and fall. — ss AND UKRAINIAN WORKERS’ GLUBS read excerpts from this manifesto and has twisted and contorted the mean- ing in such manner as will serve their purpose, By reading the entire man- ifesto to the jury, the defense is estab- lishing the “veracity” of the stools who testified for the state. Marshall brought out Lincoln’s con- tention that the people in America had the right to change the govern- ment and that if it did not serve the nterests of the people they had the revolutionary right to dismember the government and replace it by one that would represent them, He pointed out that the Workers Party was trying to organize the workers in this country for a political change and that they were perfectly within their right to do so, ‘ He then caused the prosecutors much discomfort, when he brought out that the Workers Party in Amer- ica was not the only ones that were looking towards Soviet Russia to lead them out of this maze of injustice and wrong. He showed there many others who were looking toward Russia, ‘The attorney went on to prove that not a single act, word or deed had been proven which would. show Horacek working for the overthrow of the government and all the wit- nesses the prosecution had been able to produce were city detectives and former department of justice agents. Raps Lennon, He characterized Lennon, the form- er department of justice head, who Placed stool-pigeons in the labor unions here to spy on their activities Avenues and to commit acts of provocation, as “the little man” who brings the same stack of papers to every trial using them in his attempts to have defend- ants in different trials convicted. The attorney brought out that three of the books and some of the papers that Lennon had introduced as “evidence.” had never been seen by the defendant Horacek and that Horacek had been pulled out of his bed and arrested and that the entire chargé was based on falsehood. In the cross examination of Hora- cek, before the defense rested its case and the final plea was made by the defense attorney, the prosecutor asked Horacek whether he and his party would use the same methods as were used in Russia at the time of the revolution to effect a political change in the United States, Horacek showed that it is impos- sible to say what the workers in Am- erica will do. He showed that the workers will follow in the path of the Russian workers, who established the first workers’ and farmers’ gOv- ernment, and declared that time alone could tell what methods would. be used to attain the aim sought. SAMOVAR TEA PARTY AT 19 SO, LINCOLN TONIGHT Be sure to drop in at 19 So. Lin- coln tonight. Big Samovar Tea Party. Music by Radio, Branch No. 5 Y, W. L. invites you! TOMORROW, SUNDAY, DEC. 6 Some of the best Polish, Russian and Ukrainian talents will participate in the concert program. AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN DANCES. A good time is promised to all who will attend. CHICAGO DETECTIVES APPLY THIRD DEGREE ON 10 YEAR OLD YOUTH After keeping a 10-year old youth awake all night and applying the third degree, the Chicago detectives claim that he “confessed” that his mother and not rival bootleggere killed his father, John Scardina. The mother is now lodged in Jail and the dicks who applied the “gold fish” methods on the 10 year old youth claim that they have a‘ “confession” from her that s led her husband in a quarrel over an- other woman, The young lad was kept awake all night, with detectives being chang- ed off every so often, questioning the young lad and trying to force a “confession” from him that his mao ther killed her husband, Finnish Bureau Is - Unanimously Elected (Continued from page 1) the first step toward bolshevization in relation to the reorganization of the party and make the large Finnish membership a loyal part of the bol: shevized party. This manifesto is a ringing declaration against the ten- dencies in some quarters of the Fin- nish section, expressed particularly in the Minneapolis resolution, which took a position against reorganization. The Minneapolis resolution and those responsible for it, Séveri Alanne, Vilho Bowman, and others, were un- animously condemned. Co-operate With C, E. C, The seventeen delegates, together with the editors and business man- agers of the Finnish papers, who con- stituted the convention, worked in close co-operation with the repre- sentatives of the Central Executive Committee, Comrades Ruthenberg, Cannon and Lovestone, during the whole period of the convention, All the delegates expressed the belief that the results of the convention will be closer co-operation in all phases of the party. work by the Finnish member- ship. Comrade Ruthenberg addressed the convention just before adjournment, summarizing the work of the five-days session as follows: United Organization. “The Central Executive Committee representatives are of the opinion that in this convention we have laid the foundation for the development of a bolshevized Finnish Section, part of a bolshevized Workers (Communist) Party. The enemies of our movement has been looking forward to this con- vention hoping there would be some sort of disruption or split which would yeaken the Communist movement in the United States. The hopes of the social democrats and two-and-a-half internationalists have been . disap- pointed thru the work which you have done. We believe that we have clear- ed away the misunderstandings that existed among the Finnish member- ship in regard to reorganization, The Central Executive Committee repre- sentatives feel that thru the relation- ships established in this convention with the leading comrades fo the Finn- ish Section, we have the groundwork for close co-operation and continuous aid by the Central Executive Commit- tee in helping the Finnish comrades to solve the many problems which are raised in the work of reorganization. The result of this work will be a pow- erful section of Finnish comrades or- ganized in the Finnish fractions of the party, and around them a broader mass movement in the workers’ clubs than has ever existed before. “Our party has come out of this convention stronger than it ever has been. We will work together in build- ing up a powerful Communist Party in the United States which, in the days to come, will be able to meet the capitalist enemies in open battle and win the struggle for the Soviet Re- public in the United States.” For Bolshevized Party. Comrade Koskela, chairman of the convention, replied to the speech of Comrade Ruthenberg and said: “In the name of this convention of the Finnish Section, I wish to express the endorsement by the convention of the views expressed by the represen- tatives of the Central Executive Com- mittee. The delegates to the conven- tion have found, in the co-operation of the Central Executive Committee rep- resentatives, a great aid in their work in finding solutions for the problems which spring out of the work of the: organization. We thank the members of the committee of the Central-Exe- cutive Committe for their co-operation and assistance, We will go back to the membership of the Finnish Section and inform them about the work and views of this convention and we be- lieve that they will respond to the work of this convention and give their loyal support to the reorganization and take part in the Bolshevized Workers (Communist) Party of Amer- ica,” TICKETS: IN ADVANCE 50 CENTS, AT THE DOOR 65 CENTS, ___ Beginning 3:30 p.m.