The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1925, Page 4

= Page Four THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER PROGRESSIVE MINERS’ COMM Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W, Washington Blvd,, Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months *| $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months 2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all Mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IllInols J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM: F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB | «Editors .. Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at-the: post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. ——_- : artist ates on application, = 290 A Adver ising ri PP Pressure on Germany After several days of conferences’ between German potash manufacturers and British bankers on one side and: the: American state department and Wall Street bankers: on the other a request for a $26,000,000 loan for that industry to. be floated"in the United States was turned down. The excuse of statesmen at Washington was that.the German pro- ducers would not guarantee American consumers against a raise in prices. This is palpably camouflage. Finance capital invests in industries for the purpose of deriving monopolistic prices... As Marx well said, one cannot take the opinions of statesmen regarding their governments at their word any more than: it is possible to believe what an individual says of himself. Before Locarno the bankers of Wall Street were pouring money into German industries. Possibly they will pour more money into that country. But not until Germany is brought under pressure and forced to take a step away from the pact-of Loearno,: where Britain contrived to make that nation a vassal of its imperialistic: aims. The United States bankers do not view with. favor the German na- tion, into which it has poured billions of dolars, being used by Britain, because in the last analysis.it means another ally of England against the imperialistic aims of Wall Street. Hence pressure will be brought to bear upon Germany until the government of that nation realizes its obligations to the banker of the world. England launched the Locarno conference in the hope of|« creating a “security pact” against the spread of Bolshevism—which means against the Soviet Union—but the intensity of the struggle for world supremacy between the imperialist powers and’ the contradic- tions arising therefrom prevented the desired consummation. “ While not abandoning its designs against Russia, Britain is learning that it must reckon with its imperialist rival and the potash conference |® proves that its rival is ruthless. Germany is learning that it cannot become the ally of a’ power challenging the supremacy of the United States in every part of the world and still hope to have access to the gold hoards of ‘Wall Street. - The refusal of the potash loan means that pressure is being brought on Germany to force her away from the influence of Britain. Brookhart’s “Fraudulent” Campaign Senator Brookhart of Iowa, whose right to sit in the United States senate is being challenged, is accused of waging a campaign of fraud to secure yotes in the last election. The fraud consists in the fact that he ran on the republican ticket, while the official republican machine urged support of a democrat, one Steck, against him. A Des Moines reporter testified before the senate committee | hearing the contest that Brookhart and the late LaFollette had. a joint campiagn manager in Iowa. Only republicans of the Cal Coolidge stripe could resort ato such absurdities. We presume the democrat, Steck, is a republican because he was supported by republican newspapers, and that the republican, Brookhart, is not’a-republican because the newspapers did not support him. Foolish as this may seem there is method in the madness of the adminisfration supporters in thus preferting a democrat to Brookhart. The Iowa ‘senator is one of those:irrecon: cilables who will line-up with the Borah bloc against the administra- tion proposal that this country enter the werld court, while Steck, as a democrat, will support the proposal. If -Brookhart~ can be eliminated on the charge that he is not-a regular republican, it will remoye one more obstacle to the administration.‘scheme to: enter. the world court. Unquestionably Borah will_fight to prevent the unseating of one of his supporters. srookhart, like the rest of the LaFollette ¢rew, is endeavoring to serve the interests of the small bourgeoisie while remaining in the ranks of the republican party. His professed radicalism, like that of Borah, fools many workers and farmers, who know they. haye nothing to expect from either of the old parties. The utter futility of the radical bloc in the republican ‘party is becoming apparent to all. Its collapse will aid those forces driying toward a labor Ren in this country. ? - B. S. in His Dotage George Bernard Shaw, fabian scoialist and founder of the “smart aleck” school of literature, is being featured again by the Hearst papers as a renegade Communist. In fact. the Chicago HMerald- Peraminer dubbs him “England’s most famous Communist” and then proceeds to speak of his spectacular “about face,” thus branding him a renegade and apostle, That is certainly not flattering to Shaw, who never professed-to be a Communjst. é The Shavian attack upon the Communist International and his infantile babbling against the Soviet Uniort*contaits nothing, more than the exploded legends woven by the lie factories of the white: guard press. He cannot even rise to. bis’ customary literary level when he talks of Bolshevik gold to British{Communists, the Zinoviev letter and other myths. Shaw, like Wells arid other literary fabians, dislikes the Bolsheviks because they refuse to take fabianism sérious- ly. They listen to the advice of the muddle-heads and then follow their own course, As « novelist and playwright Shaw sometimes exposes the bour- geoisie v well, but when it comes to discussing political subjects his knowledge does not transcend the low level of the Hearst publica- tions that syndicate his fiction as ee al aremernt It is appropriate that the st Getroakee president, Cal Coolidge; have a house built for him on the roof of a scab hotel in Chicago for his accommodation here dyrny his visit next Monday. If the fight between Boke: and Coolidge over the world court goes much farther they will-need a court to settle the fight here. det a member for the w orkers Seis and a new subscription | for the DAILY WORKER. » & « ean ‘DEMANDS LEWIS LEAD NATIONAL MINE STRIKE AGAINST OPERATORS By ALEX REID Secretary Progressive Miners’ Committee. The refusal to accept the Pinchot peace proposals by the hard coal barons in Pennsylvania prove that they are determined to wreck the miners’ union. The miners’ officials had accepted the Pinchot offer notwithstanding the fact that it meant arbitra- tion of the miners’ meager demands and a reversal of the Lewis oft-repeated policy of “no arbitration of the miners’ lives and happiness.” The reasons for refusal of the Pinchot offer are interesting and amusing to the initiated but the progressive miners have pointed out that unless the Lewis bureaucracy changed its tactics in the strike, the operators would not only deny them the check~- {The Needle Trades Council, NEEDLE WORKERS OF LOS ANGELES IN UNITY MEET Must Unite Against Un- employment (By Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Calif., Déc. 4—The conditions of work in the tailoring shops. of Los Angeles are miserable and unbearable. Wages: are small, work is toil, sweat and slavery.. The constant fear of getting “laid off” is eating up the courage and destroys the self-respect and independence. We have to work with all our fervor and energy to hold on to the job. Each Jobless One a Threat. The steady stream of jobless, hun- gry workers constantly knocking at the door is being used’ by the boss against those at work. Only by un- dermining conditions,and wages one is getting. his right to work. Whenever jobless tailor knocks at the door we feel that our gains and achidve- ments, that our places. are in danger. Brothers and sisters! How long are we going to stand for such miserable contemptible conditions of work? How long are we going. to. tolerate them, to suffer and to wait? Let us organ- ize our union and improve our work- ing conditions. Let us unite our scat- tered forces and use the power of our united efforts to protect each and every one of us. The time is ripe, the hour has struck for such splendid work now! Let us not loose any time at this op- portyne moment! We must “hit the iron ‘while it is hot.” Our only power is unity! Call Mass Meeting. The sentiment among the tailors of Los Angeles is for an organization. a volun- tary organization composed of all the needle trades locals of Los Angeles, is calling all the workers in men’s tailoring industry, to a mass meeting | which will be held on’ Wednesday Dec. 9, at 7:30°p. m. in the union headquarters at 224 S. Spring St., Room No. 218. Good speakers will address the meeting. Stea! Standard Oil Payroll. NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—A woman was shot im the leg and a $5,500 payroll stolen when four armed thugs held up an automobile in which two em- ployees of the Standard Oil Company were taking the money from a bank to the company’s plant in Harlem, PAT TOOHEY SPEAKS IN WASHINGTON ON COAL MINE STRIKE MONDAY Pat H. Toohey, leader of’ the progressive miners in the anthra- cite fields of Pennsylvania, ‘will speak here Monday. evening, Dec. 7, at 8 o'clock at the “Workmen’s Circle Hall, 1337 Seventh St., N. W., on-the problems confronting the striking coaldiggers in the Pennsyl- vania fields. Toohey’s tour is odthing to an end. Philadelphia will be the last city in which he will spgak in the present tour, He will then return to the anthracite fields to carry on his fight there. DAILY. WORKER Builders Club, of- ficial meeting will take place at the end of the hike around the camp fire in Jamaica Woods, Sunday afternoon, December 6. The presence of every member is requested. One Hundred Candy Girls wanted by The DAILY WORKER New York agency to help sell DAILY WORKER candy at the great Freiheit mask ball to. be held in Madison Square Garden, Saturday evening, Dec, 12, If willing to help, please register at The DAILY WORKER of- fice at once. ‘New York Office is Growing. The room occupied by The DAILY WORKER in the New York headquar- ters has become too small to accom- modate all the volunteers that are 4 Qj belping with the work there, so The Reminders for New Yorkers ‘off, but would make an effort to totally destroy-the union. Out to Crush Union. The statement now made by the spokesman for the hard coal owners, that they will not atcord any fur- ther recognition to th junion, and a categoric denial of th@ other points offered by Pinchot as \basis for set- tlement, places the owfers squarely before the miners as Metermined to wreck their union, Let it be said now ‘tl the accept- ance of the Pinchot by Lewis and his gang of treas leeches in the anthracite was a brazen wget to policy that has aided against the miners thi Nova Scotia Repeated, ‘The policy pursued in Nova Scotia —the keeping of maintanence men on the property during the strike, which action aided the “Beast of Besco” to defeat the miners, is again doing the work, this time in the hard coal, where the maintenence men are re- pairing and caring for the coal com- pany property, This has placed the operators in a position to be able tp fotify Pinchot and the Lewis gang that they re- pudiate any offer of s§ttiement on any basis other than thelr own. The progressive mfhets pointed out sometime ago that bewis, must pull out the maintainencé: nen in the an- thracite and call a’ national strike to save the union, and wWé venture to say now, that had the union officials done so, the Pinchot preposition would have been more favorable to the miners and would have been gladly accéPted by the hard coal owners, Lewis stands in a position today as the head of a labor organization with an opportunity seldom given to any labor leader. Lewis has the power at this moment to make the United Mine Workers’ organization the great- est fighting unit in America,—the power to concentrate the full power of the miners of America in one gigant- ic struggle for the miners’ wages, working conditions and union to break the open shop drive and organ- ize the unorganized 4 miners in the United States. rE ° Is Lewis a Geader? Is he big enough to meet the emer- gency? Some hones{ but sadly de- luded miners feel he Is; and think he will bring out the eritive industry to support the hard comk, diggers and save the Jacksonville, agreement. Had the miners mifitant leadership at this time, which Would call a na- tional strike, one of the greatest vic- tories known in the history of Amer- ican labor would be the result. Would Bring Out Non-Union Fields. 158,000 hard coal miners supported by 300,000 union soft coal miners would not be on strike 24 hours until the non-union fields were with them and victory assured. And what a vic- tory would be, the organization of the non-union fields of West Virginia and Kentucky! Lewis stands at jie crossroads. Will he take the roa@ to victory thru @ national strike, with crowning glory for himself, or the réad to defeat and contemptible, welligserved oblivion thru a partial strike,and arbitration. The progressives Giners’ demand that Lewis call a jonal strike. We pledge our one hundged per cent sup- port to make it # gnecess, We demand no ‘&fbitration! We demand a wational strike! We demand a st e of the main- tenence men! - 1 3 He will like it! "Give your union brother a aud The DAILY WORKER, = DAILY WORKER New York agency has moved upstaiis to Room 32 at the same address, 108 East 14th St. Friends of The DAILY WORKER are invited to call at this office, and to make use of the additional space by volunteering still more work to build our Daily. The next DAILY. WORKER Rescue Party will be different from any of the others in New York. There will be no program, but a package party and the dance. Overy reader of The DAILY WORKER in New York is in- vited to bring a jackage as a present for The DAILY WORKER and then to spend the night keeping step with the splendid orchéstra, Make note of place and date: lem Casino, 116th street and Len venue, Saturday evening, Decem| “1 DETROIT WOKE UP WON IN A DAY LOCALS. OF BY STRIKE . BY “EXPELLED” CARPENTERS’ UNION By A Worker DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 5.—Union Correspondent. recognition and a thirty cents hourly raise was won today for carpenters employed on a prveiously open shop job by an eight-hour successful strike engineered by two “expelled” unions of the Brotherhood of Carpenters of America. As a result of this vindication of class struggle as the only method by which the workers can achieve better hood transferred to the “expelled” lo- cals and a dozen candidates were writ- ten up. Thus further discredit is put upon J, Sharrock, the kept-president of the district council, whe forced the two militant locals out of the council by unscrupulous machine tactics. Paid Officials Refuse to Act. Tho the union scale in Detroit is $1.15 an hour, the open shoppers are generall: paying 85 cents. On one such job, vaploying about twenty men several of S iarrock’s men Were work- ing who reported conditions to Shar- rock and his agents and requested that something be done. Tho this job is centrally located and there are eight paid officials to look after the few. jobs controlled by the Brother- hood (at least an official a job); none- theless, they found themselves unable to visit this job. “Expelled” Locals Lead Strike, When the business agents of the two “expelled” locals in Detroit, Reynolds and Kaller, came on the job and sounded out the men, they found a readiness to strike and a need of leadership, Yesterday morning a strike was called and a picket line thrown around the job. All except a few of the carpenters readily down- ed tools and these hesitating few were assisted in making up their minds by many willing hands, By 9:30 a. m., every carpenter and Advance Sale of Tickets at: Worke! League Offices, 108 East 14th ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ conditions, six members of the brother- ——_—— carpenter’s tool was off the job. By noon, the boss-builders could see a\30 cents per hour raise for the carpen- ters but couldn't see union recogni- tion—or what\they termed “union domination.” However, by 4:30 p. m,, théySgreed to all the union's de- mands .and «it. was agreed that the men should “be written up between 8 and 9 this’ morning. At 9 a. m. the job started 100 per cent union. Diggust’ for Fakers Shown. Following “this, six members of the brotherhood* transferred to the two “expelled” locals and a dozen candi- dates werg written up. Many carpen- English Classes Organized. Classes in English—one for begin- ners and one for advanced students are being formed. The first session will be held on Sunday morning, Dec. 6, at 10 o’clock at the district office and are open to both members of the party and the Young Workers League and sympathizers. Registration is taking place at the district office, 5927 Euclid: Ave. Trade Union Class. A class in trade unionism will be- gin on Sunday ‘morning, Dec. 6, 10 Reminders for Cleveland o'clock at the district: office. This FIRST ‘BALL MADISON SOUARE GARDEN | 49th Street and Eighth Avenue. DANCE OF 25,000 The Largest Workers Party Affai Ever Undertaken FREIHEIT MASK BALL Saturday Evening, December 12 $1,500 in Prizes for Most Interesting Masques - One of the Largest Bands Ever Heard. Admission 50c, Hat Check 0c. Office, 30 Union Squar Street; Offices of Loc ters belonging to locals which Hutche- son has not yet expelled dropped around to view the novelty of a car- penters’ strike in Detroit, and expressed their dusgust at Sharrock and other parasites whom Hutcheson has wished on the Detroit organiza- tion,’ One not “expelled” volunteered the information that whlie the strike was in progress, some of the “organizers” (so-called), were busy clipping out and piecing together one of the brain teasers which the capitalist press pub- lishes to keep morons out of mis- chief, “Defeat” Tradition Broken. It is not expected that Hutcheson will learn anything from this event because hungry, under-paid ecarpen- ters aren’t made of the stuff he’s interested in. But when the yellow- faced, rat-souled Sharrock calls “red” at those whom Hutcheson’s tyranny has driven from the organization, the rank and file may begin to believe, after having seen the “reds” in ac- tion, that some “red” blood is needed. In any event, the tradition of defeat which has eursed the carpenters of Detroit has been broken. The first victory will bring many more to come, course will deal with the history of the American labor movement and be succeeded by a course of discussions on the tactics of the Communists in the trade unions. This course is most important for all comrades, both those now in the unions and those who by party decision will be obliged to join without further delay, This course is open only to party and Young Workers League members. Sunday afternoon, Dec. 6, at 2:00 o'clock a conference will be held at the district office, to discuss work among women. Workers Part: and Young is 2, 9, 22 and t of the In. xm: Ue Furriers’ Joint Board Office, 22 East 22