The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1925, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government fo meme a THE DAILY Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at thet BRITISH SPIES CAUGHT IN PARIS PRYING FOR VALUABLE MILITARY SECRETS TO USE AGAINST FRANCE (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, Dec. 8.——While the French and British states- men have been singing peans to world peace, spies have been prying out the military secrets of France preparatory to the next Three men and a woman known to be in the pay of British interests are under arrest here today charged with world slaughter. espionage. The woman has already confessed that the men sent her to make love to French army officers, from corporals to generals, in order to obtain military secrets that would be useful to Eng- The principal activity was directed toward land in case of war. obtaining aviation secrets. The AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY ALVIN Coolidge came to Chicago, told a bunch of fake farmers that they were the cream of the country, that farming is now a fine art and is not practised for the sordid purpose of making profit, fut because it de- yelops character. The local capital- ist papers gave several columns to this intellectual garbage and more of the same kind, and undoubtedly edi- torials will follow eulogising the president for his profoundity. The fake farmers beamed like rotarians at a stag party whenever canny Calvin handed them a mouthful of ballot bait and their ‘wives thréw cat fits every time Mrg. Coolidge smiled at them. erie. HILE Coolidge and the speculat- ing farmers were gorging them- selves on political bunk the ‘poor farmers who really produce the eats out in the great open spaces were nourishing a healthy desire to show Coolidge that his politicaty \psalnr their flivvers or Oxford bags on their sons’ shanks. | According to reports they are mur- muring exceedingly. Every time they hear a bull bellow they think it is Magnus Johnson with a new message of salvation for them, They prefer Magnus’ roar to Calyin’s whispes tho both are as dumb, to the needs of the farmers as the famed Oracle of Del- phi. sale HEN I wads in Plentywood, Mon- tana, last 4th of July, the farm- ers I met were not thinking about the declaration of independence but about the most effective way to get out from under the load of mortgages that was crushing them. When I talked to them of organization, they immediately cocked their ears.. When 1 mentioned bankers, they fished for their shooting irons. Those farmers Would collectively inhale a carload of snuff if Coolidge attempted to tell them what he told the gentlemen in the Sherman hotel and after they (Continued on page 5) INDICTED ZEIGLER COAL MINERS GET PELDGE OF AID FROM THE |. L. 6. W. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec. &— The following telegram has been sent to the Zeigler defendants by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers convention here: “United Mine Workers, Zeigler, Wu. “The eighteenth convention of the 1. L. G. congratulates you on the valiant struggle you ane making to maintain decent living conditions despite efforts of operators flanked by the Ku Klux Klan. “We protest against the arrest of your members for crimes of which they are innocent and the Ku Klux Klan guilty. We pledge our sup: port to do all in our power to win justice for the indicted miners.” This wire was sent to Zeigler defendants in compliance with mo- tion by Zimmerman and was passed unanimously. _ {REWORK Webster Hall, 11th St. ——+ EMBERSHIP MEETING NEW YORK, Dec, 8.—All Workers (Communist) Party members must be present at the membership meeting that will be held in ind 3rd Ave., Sunday afternoon Dec. 13 at one o'clock to hear the reports of the party's Central Executive Com- mittee on the question of party unity and trade union work, This meeting is very improtant and every party member must attend. Admission to the meeting will be by membership cards only. Bring your membership cards with you. i girl is a product of the Paris underworld, being known as a “model” in the Latin quarter, sometimes under the name of Mercelle Monseil, and who now claims her real name is Martha Moreuil. Admitted British Spy Jean Leather is the leader of the By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec, 8— Only today, the eighth- day of its sessions, did the International | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union | adopt rules for its procedure. One | puzzled delegate rose and asked with some reason, “Are these rules for this or the next convention?” An amendment by Hyman that specified time be allowed both sides on important questions and each given the privilege of selecting its Sigman Machine Blocking Business at Convention speakers, was voted down 146 to 136 gang of spies and held the rank of lieutenant in the British intelligence service (the spy service of the army) in the world war. He is known to be still employed in that capacity, but instead of spying against Germany and the rebel soldiers in the ranks of the British army he is now known to have been spying for many months against the former ally, France. His associates in espionage are Wil- liam Fisher, a Pole who has been na- turalized in England and Ernest Oli- ver Phillips, a native of Birmingham, England. Leather was operating in a fashion- able business section of Paris under the name of “Bleriot Barndebt, wire- less manufacturer.” His confederates acted as partners. It was Leather who engaged the girl of the underworld, whom he dressed in gorgeous clothes and furnished with money so that she could visit the important air basis, and establish. intimacies with officers from them. © 8.9, ‘i _London Knows Nothing LONDON, England, ‘Dec. 8—As was to be expected the foreign office un- der the direction of the chief of Lo- carno, Austen Chamberlain, denies any knowledge of the four people arrested in Paris for espionage... Scotland Yard also denies knowledge of the activity of the quartet. It is expected that the foreign office and the Scotland Yar gang will try to concoct - stories of French spies operating. in England in order to force Frame to hush the af- fair, as it is a serious.jolt to the padi fic waddle about the “spirit of Lo carno.” The Evening News, a subsidized sheet-of the government, déclares in its morning edition today that those arrested in Paris charged, with espion- age are employees of a subsidiary company of Burndept Wireless, Limit- ed. = Laborites are going to interrogate the house of parliament on the sensational revelations from Paris. Communists in both countries are preparing to launch joint attacks on both govern- menté for their hypocritical chanting of peace anthems, while using every possible means of preparing for war. Fokker Sees Quantity Production’ of Planes Reduce Price to $1,000 (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Dee. $—Anthony H. G. Fokker, aircraft’ designer, after an airplane trip investigating aviation progress in ten different states, de- clared that in ‘the’‘near future air- planes would -be: produced in great numbers and that due to quantity production the price of airplanes would fall-to $1,000. 4) Breaks. Into Movie House. SOUTHAMPTON,, England, Dec. 8. Jimmy James; arraigned in court here on charges of breaking into a motion ficture house, asked that his case be given an early hearing on grounds that he had swallowed 100 needles. He was sentenced to seven months’ hard labor, CUBAN WORKERS! communist INTERNATIONAL CALLS NDIGNANT AT NELLA ARREST Communist Is Jailed on American Request (Special to The Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 8. — For the second time within a few weeks Julio Antonio Mella, yothful leader of the Communist Party of Cuba and instru- mental in organizing the Cuban sec- tion the All-America Anti-imp: ist League, has been put behind prison bars by the reactionary native govern- ment acting as the servile tool of Wall Street and Washington. Com- rade Mella has begun a hunger strike in his prison cell, Workers indignation Roused. Indignation at this new arrest, carrying with it the threat of renewed governmental terroristic methods, is running high on the islafid, not only among the workers but among all sec tions of the population that resent the continued subservience of the present Cuban government to American im- perialism, The students of Havana, whose monthly organ, Juventud, was founded by Mella, are loud in their protest. A strong rank and file move- ment is rising against the official ad- ministration of the Students’ Federa- tion, which betrayed Mella and aban- dpned him to his fate. Jailed at U. S. Request. Mella’s first arrest some weeks ago, was in connection with the spectacu- lar ‘campaign Of jailings and deporta- tions carried out by the Cuban govern- ment at the instigation of Ambi dor Crowder, This was the climax of similar campaigns in Costa Rica and Panama, where many workers were’ Jmprisoned or deported for the ex- pression of “anti-American” opinions. RKER-in your pocket when you.gectosyour union meeting, } ode v ae? and the committee recommendation ; the Sigman f 1 ; j ce at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. MBER 10,1925 <q» leches adopted. on Portney’s motion and charged WORKER. ten-minute Delegate Portney'aimotion, made | sabotage and obstruction by Sig- following the Pe of the rules | man of the work of the convention. committee, instrueting the commit- The effort of the Sigman machine tee on the work @f the G. E, B, to | to hold up the officers’ report Is bring in its re, lednesday morn- | now obvious, but under the pressure ing 0 cole r debate. An- | of the left wing he is making some tonini, almost ical in his de- | pretense of speeding up the work nunciation of s feft wing, was | of this important committee. answered by iamerman who Following the defeat of Portnoy’s charged him with asing the language motion, Sigman entered into one of of the capitalist’ press in terming | his long explanations as to why delegates “stupis” and incompe- | the convention was not getting more tent.” $ | work done. These explanations by Zimmerman other left wing | Sigman are one of the principal their attack on in the debate delegates rene reasons for the delay in getting down to work. NEW YORK EDITION | CAL OFFERS THE PROGRAM OF THE CAPITALIST CLASS AGAINST THE WORKING CLASS OF U. . AND WORLD (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8—Impudent threats against the working class of the United States, embodying veiled insinuations of industrial conscription; advocacy of destruction of the Philip- pine legislature to make the swash-buckling Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood supreme dictator of those islands; determination to defend the imperialist designs on China; greater centralization of gov- srnmental powers, the placing of natural resource of private capitalists, the boast in the hands of a formidable army and navy, fake taxation nostrums, claiming credit for first suggesting the Locarno treaties in Europe, and which. is the back door to the league of nations, constitute the high lights of Coolidge’s message to the sixty-ninth con- gress. It is the program of the capitalist government against the working class of this country and the world, A more brazen proclamation of designed plunder never was penned or uttered. May Outlaw Strikes, In the opening statement of the message Coolidge says, “Here and there are comparatively small and ap- parently temporary difficulties need- ing adjustment.” We learn what these comparatively small difficulties are when the mes- sage informs us that “the perennial conflict in the coal industry is still going on” and that the government “has permitted itself to remain so powerless that its only attitude must be humble supplication.” He proposes that, “Authority should be lodged with the president and the department of commerce and labor, giving them power to dedl with an emergency.” Threaten to Outlaw Labor. This is nothing more nor less than a brazen threat of outlawing strikes in basic industries and industrial con- scription. ; -AS-a- means of enforcing a crushing policy against the working class, Coolig informs the country that, “Never fore in time of peace has our country maintained so large and effective a’ military force as it now has. The army, navy, marine corps, national guard, and organized re- serves represent a strength of about 558,400 men. These forces are well trained; well equipped and in high morale.” Plan to Militarize Population. To perfect the military might of the nation Coolidge advocates further militarization of the population, thru JAILING OF BRITISH COMMUNISTS BLOW AIMED AT WORKING CLASS . . R. Dec. 8. mittee of the Communist International sends the following telegram to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain calling upon it to do its duty towards the working class despite the persecutions and decla the decision of the courts is a decision aimed at the English working cl ind especially the vanguard of the British proletariat: he Executive Committee of the Communist International has received the news of the sentence passed upon our English comrades, with the greatest indignation. “It regards the sentence as a continuation of the campaign of persecution directed against the English proletariat. The persecution of our comrades is a persecution of the whole working class and the advance guard. “We are convinced that all class-conscious workers in England will sup- port you against the persecutions of the bourgeoisie. We do not doubt that the English Communists will do their duty towards the working class now ai before, despite all persecutions.” PEACEFUL PLATITUDES THE ONLY FEATURE OF AMSTERDAM NEEDLE WORKERS’ AGENT AT CONVENTION By WILLIAM F. DUNNE (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8.—The speech to the convention of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union by Martin Plettl, president of the Dentsche Bekleidumgs-Arbeiterverband, fraternal delegate froth his union and representative of'the Amsterdam Needle Workers’ Federation, as did the speech of Green,vwas testimony tothe strength of the left wing in the International Ladies’ Garment Work.4——————___—___—_—- ers. in the world where under ordinary a “sound selective service act giving broad authority for the mobilization in time of peril of all the resources of the country, both persons and mater- ials.” Any emergency that might deprive the capitalists of their profits can be construed as a “time of peril,” and if the Coolidge plan is carried into effect he will have the authority to conscript men for industries as well as for the army, ‘ Perfect Air Services. Coolidge took a slap at those cla- moring for a separate air service, but pleased the aircraft manufacturers by advocating a more efficient service, Since he contemplates no foreign. war for a time, the increased power of the air service theans that the govern- | ment will have more planes at the disposal of the industrial magnates to | drop bombs on workers or spray them with poison gas’ in case they go on| strike in numbers that menace the profits of their masters. The armed forces exist and must be perfected, “not.im the-interests of ag- gression but in behalf of peace. They (Continved. on page 2) a plea to enter the world court ——— et INO FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE BILL TO PASS Islanders’ Desires Simply Don’t Count WASHINGTON, Dec, 8, — Anothe¥ showdown regarding the purposes of American imperialism In the Philip- pine Islands will come in the present session of congress. Senator King of Utah has introduced a bill under which it is said the Filipino people would be’ given the independence which they have been clamoring for vainly for the last 27 years. The measure is said to provide for the calling of a constitutional conven- tion in the islands for the establish- ment of an independent Philippine re- public, A separate resolution by Senator King would direet the president te ne- gotiate with all. powers if the Paci- fic for guarantees of non-interference with the political independence of the Philippines, The immediate withdrawal of all American naval forces from Haiti was also proposed in a-resolution introdu- ced by King. . No Danger of Adoption, Interviewed in Chicago regarding (Continued on page 2) PHIL MURRAY, HEAD OF U. M. W. OF A., WORRIED FOR CONSUMING PUBLIC PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7.—Usual- ly it is the employers who conjure up in the capitalist press the image of an indignant but long suffering “public” who is the “chief sufferer,” so-called of all strikes and the “in- nocent bystander” victimized by the | strikers, Now, however, the fakers at the head of the United Mine-~ Workers of America are worrying about “the public,” the poor and long-suffering “consumer.” Philip Murray, inter national vice-president of the U. M. W. of A, last night said in a speech here that “the strike is a war on the public” which the operators are continuing because “they want to increase the price of coal to the consumer.” Philip did acknowledge that. the section of the “public” the operat- ors are particularly after is ‘the miners, whom the bosses wish to drive back W th reduced wages and a smashed union, RESOLUTION OF T. BOSTON, MASS., DISTRICT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SUPPORTS THE UNITY HE PARTY’S C. E. C. BOSTON—(By Mail.)—The district executive committee of Dis- Undoubtedly it was also testimony to the fact that masses of the Ger- man workers are showing new inter- est in the and sympathy for Soviet Russia and are supporting more en- ergetically than ever before the ef- forts of the Anglo-Russion Trade Union Unity Committee, Lots of Opportunity. Here was Pilettl, one of the leaders in the war on the left wing of the International Federation of Trade Unions, an opponent of world trade union unity, a part of the social-demo- ‘atic bureaucracy which has led the erman workers im chaing to the throne of the Houseof Morgan, a toe of the Russian workers’ and peasants’ government, speaking to an A. F. of | L. Union in convention—the one place —send in a story about your shop. cireumstances no vituperation is too venemous and no slander too vile, when hurled at the Communist and Soviet Russia, to secure rounds of ap- plause. But the Sigman machine is not bait- ing the “reds” just now. It is not a profitable pastime when 75 per cent of the membership is supporting the left wing in which the Communists are playing an active part. So even prominent social-democrats from Wall Street’s German colony are told to temper the wind to the shorn lamb, (Continued on page 2) 8 Worker Correspondence wilt The DAILY WORKER a better paper trict One (Boston) of the party, after hearing the presentation of the party situation by Comrades Jay Lovestone and James P. Cannon, voted thirteen in favor of the unity resolution of the Central Exe- cutive Committee with none against. Comrade Karras abstained from voting. The vote was taken after an extended discussion in which all of the members of the committee participated. Comrades Lerner and Bloomfield declared that their first reaction had been against the unity resolution, but after hearing the report of the C. E. C. NePreee they were wholeheartedly in favor of the resolution. The endorsement of the unity resolution by the Boston district executive committee follows an endorsement in Detroit by a vote of 9 to 2, the unanimous endorsement by the Buffalo district executive committee. On Tuesday night the Boston membership held its meet- ing to discuss and vote on the resolution. (Editor’s Note:—Full report of Buffalo membership on page four.) i meeting | ase “ae