The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1925, Page 2

—— . Page Two Aoi CHICAGO UNIONS PLAN DELEGATON TO SOVIET RUSSIA Raising Funds to Send Six from Chicago (By Federated Press) Delegates from unions of carpent- machinists, painters, printers, needle trades and others, numbering 22, organized into a permanent com- mittee to join in the national move- ment for sending a labor mission to investigate conditions in Russia. Peter Jensen of the railroad ma- chinists was elected chairman, It is known as the Chicago Committee for a Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia with its address as 3451 Beach St. Members hope to raise sufficient funds to send six instead of two rep- resentatives from Chicago tho the cost will be about $1,000 per delegate. Committees are active in New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, Philadel- phia and other centers where Pres. A. A. Purcell of the Intl. Federation of Trade Unions (Amsterdam) made his appeals for world trade unity. The British and Russian unions have been most active in the unity campaign. ers, Foreign Powers Can Display Vintages But Cannot Give Samples WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — Foreign governments that desire to display wine, cordials, whiskies, champagnes, ete., at the Philadelphia sesquecen- tennial next year, as a part of their industrial exhibits, may do so—but the forbidden fruit will have to be sealed, stamped and safe-guarded, the prohibition unit ruled, and under no circumstances can any of it be given away as samples. - The ruling was made upon an in- quiry by the Spanish government as to whether such exhibits could be dis- played and given away. The Movement for World Trade Union UNITY By TOM BELL. The most vital problem of labor is the subject of this timely pamphlet. The facts are here: Reasons for unity; steps already taken; the basis for unity—every essen- tial point for the infor- mation of a worker in or out of the trade union movement. Read it—take it to your local union—give one to your fellow-worker. 15 Cents M3 WWASHINCTON BVO. CHICAGO. ILL Be TUTTI LLL LLL LLLLL LLL LLnL Pe GREAT RUSSIAN MOSCOW ARTISTS to be prese AMERICAN NEGRO in the celebrated play “Young and Old” By H. A. OSTROWSKY \ ——ALSO RUSSIAN AE! at Unity Community Center, 3140 Indiana Ave. CHICAGO, ILL. Saturday, December 12, 1925 Curtain rises Director—Leonard Luganow. SEU SETA DANCING AFTER PERFORMANCE, ADMISSION 50 CENTS, Race Snobs Shut Out School Children; Big Debate Over Parents NEW YORK, Dec. 10—Children of six families in Richmond, Va., have been barred from Robert Fulton pub- lic school on the ground that “they have a touch of colored blood,” the American Civil Liberties Union re- ports. Parents claim the ancestor of not the colored woman with part In- {dian blood that Dr. Plecker of the state board of vital statistics charges on his charts. GERMAN JOBLESS AND BANKRUPTS CREATE GLOOM No Cut in Rediscount Rate, Says Reichsbank BERLIN, Dec. 10.—Industrial de- pression is increasing. The Prussian trade minister's monthly report for November was distinctly unfavorable. jit is true, that report predicts a con- \tinuing although slow increase in the jexport trade; but unemployed work- {men in Germany as of Noy. 15. are stated at 471,353, comparing with 363,- 919 on Nov. 1. This is the largest increase of any fortnight since last, winter. Bank ruptcies in November also numbered 1,320, as compared with 1,139 in Octo- ber and only 718 in August: People who had been hoping for easier money were somewhat disap- pointed by Dr. Schacht’s decision, an- nounced yesterday, that the Reichs- bank discount rate would not be re- duced, but that he would merely mod- ify the bank’s system of rationing dis- counts. This rationing plan was adopted early in 1924 ih order to prevent a new wave of inflation; the bank then announcing that it would not increase the volume of its discounts above that which had been reached in the pre- ceding April. In September of that yéar, however, the bank added 16 per cent, to its ra- tioning percentage. Bankers on the whole approved of Schacht’s decision regarding the bank rate and are tak- ing the ground that there is no use in lowering the rate until credit rationing is either abolished or materially re- laxed. “Christian” Poland’s Justice at. Work WARSAW, Dec. 10—During the de- bate on the prison administration in the Polish parliament the Jewish M. P, Sommerstein said the following on the basis of the material that the in- vestigation commission of the sejm presented: “Most political prisoners are kept already for years under the most ter- rible conditions in arrest on reward, and then it is proved, even by the pre- judiced courts, that they were com- pletely innocent. The chief of the po- litical police in Lemberg tortures the political prisoners with electric cur- rent. There have been cases of the poisoning of prisoners with strych- nine, of the raping of girls and of the wounding of women near their sexual organis.” The minister of justice stated in his answer that the excesses in the prisods were caused by the agitation of the International Red Aid, as the bolsheviki did everything possible to slander Poland and make it appear as | a country of white terror. mted by the LABOR CONGRESS STHETIC DANCING. at 8:15 sharp. Manager—A, H. Pergamene. LO itchiness TULL LLL LLL LLL PCC TTT 1 Le FIRST ANNUA Saturday, December 12, 8 P. M. at House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin, Detroit Prizes-———Detroit Union Orchestra: ADMISSION Auspices Young Workers’ Sport Alliance. TTT LL LLL LLCO L MASK BALL the Refreshments 50 CENTS. the children was a full-bloded Indian | CHINA DOESN'T SWALLOW ALL U.S, PRETENSE Every Kicked Coolie a Broadcasting Station YEW YORK, Dec. 10—China doubts considerably the sincerity of the sympathy professed by the United States, Raymond T. Rich, former teacher in the Canton christian col- lege told the foreign policy associa tion, “Every coolie a foreigner kicks becomes a broadcasting station,” said Rich. “China wants to be mistress in her own house and to run her own show,” Dr. Ping Wen Kuo, vice-president World Federation of Educational as- sociations stated, referring to China's demand for customs autonomy and abolition of extra-territorial _ privil- eges. Better conditions for the masses of Chinese workers is what is needed, Charles C. Batchelder, former acting commercial attache of the American embassy at Peking and now of New York University faculty, told. “The average income is $60 a year and it sts $150 to feed a family of five for a year in southern China,” Colonel Harvey Wants U. S. Capitalist Help for Bankrupt Britain NEW YORK, Dec. 10—(FP)—Form- er United States Ambassador George Harvey, he of the knee pants and silk stockings, is trying to arouse this country to aid Great Britain in main- taining Anglo-Saxon domination of world finance. He writes of the dis- tressing industrials state to which England has fallen since the war in the North American Review. He even notes that English agri- cultural workers are nearly half a mil- lion less than 50 years ago and must work for a week on what some Ameri- can farm hands make in a day. Un- employment is increasing; England is living on her capital; 6,000 more are born on the island each week! Save Engiand for the British capitalists, is Harvey's cry. Lampert Report on Aviation in Congress Supports Col. Mitchell WASHINGTON, Dec, 10. The Lampert report, which will be present- ed to the house of representatives ,by the house committee investigating aircraft backs the viewpoint advanced by Colonel William Mitchell, the tool of the airplane interests, against that expressed in the Dwight W. Morrow report, whose big backer is Gary of steel trust, In the Lampert report, among the recommendations to congress is one calling for the creation of a secretary of aviation on equal footing with that of the army and navy. The recom- mendations call for the expenditure of not less than $10,000,000 to be used in the production of airplanes in fac- tories owned by civilians. It calls for the elimination of com- petition between army, navy and pri- vate establishments, Another point demands that con- tracts for airplane material be made without competitive bids. <6 Charge Col. Mitchell Cribbed Arguments from Sea Captain WASHINGTON, Dec, 10.—A direct attempt by the prosecution to show that Col. William Mitchell “plagiar- ized” parts of his book “Winged De- fense,” was made at the colonel’s court martial. Calling to the stand Captain Thos. C. Hart, navy submarine expert, the prosecution sought to prove to the jury of generals that the part of Mitchell's book dealing with submers- ibles was “cribbed” from a lecture by Hart, German Police Forced By Workers to Arrest Fascisti Murderers BERLIN, Dec, 10.—Faced with nu- merous revelations by the German radical press, the police were force” to proceed with arrests against th: members of the fascist murderers’ or ganizations. It is: doubted that the courts will treat these murderers with the full severity of the law. Some of these arrested bandits have already been released; but revolution ary workers are kept in prison wait: ing for a trial for months and even years, This is German class justice. The fascist murders in eastern Prussia were carried on 80 openly that the police were forced by public protest to arrest them, Many bank rupt business men, who had escapec leaving large debts, were found amony those arrested, and had lived by ter rorizing the workers. It has become known that a letter from Ludendorf was found in the pockets of one of those arrested, Docu ments were also found proving clearly that these people were carrying on espionage work for the allied states and were in close contact with reichs- webr authorities, oy THE DAILY WORKER i annie Spl Polish Bourgeoisie Releases Murderers of Two Communists VILN, Poland, Dec. 10—Murashko, the murderer of Comrades Baginsky and Wieczorkiewiez, who was “sen- tenced” to two years “imprisonment,” has been released on bail. The polish bourgeoisie is not con- tent with the mild sentence against this murderer. He had to be released so that the paid murderers of the Pol- ish bourgeoisie could be spurred to new deeds against the workers. AMERICAN LEGION STRIKE AB COPS Ill. Post Rushes to Break LA GRANGE, IIL, five members of the | the American Legioh@cted as strike- breakers when the police of this Chi- cago suburb walked; gut on strike in be. 10—Twenty- iL Grange post of protest against the fofted resignation of their chief. : “The American legion has respond- ed nobly in this @risis,” Village Trustee W. M. Galvinsaid in lauding the successful strikebreakers. “With- in a few minutes affer part of the police force quit we Had legionnaires patrolling the stre By a coincidence the legion’s strike- breaking took place on the day that Calvin Coolidge, who rose to the American presidency because of his supposed part in breaking the strike of Boston union policemen soon after the war, was speaking in Chicago. British Financiers Back Smuggling of “Cheer” to America LONDON, Dec. 10—America’s boot- leg Christmas “cheér” will be sup- plied by London financiers, according to the Express, s This newspaper declares that head- quarters have beer" épened in the London financial distri¢t for a great syndicate which aims to supply the wants of Christmag,|thirsts in the United States. The greater part Of the shipments by this syndicate are made across the Canadian border, the}Express says. Tremendous Increase in Philipping, Market for U. S. Enperialism NEW YORK, Dec. {0.—(FP)—Phil- ippine imports from the United States have increased 60 times in the 25 years of American rule, the American cham- ber of commerce of the Philippine Islands announces, eréditing American sovereignty for the great increase in trade. af In 1899 the islands, took $1,353,086 worth of goods from the United States against $60,398,603 worth taken last year, Even discounting the decreased purchasing value of the dollar, friends of Philippine independence see that the likelihood of the United States giving up so valuable market to world competition is remote indeed. Reign of Terror Still Continues in Bulgaria SOFIA, Dec. 10—After a year of mass murder the blood thirst of the Zankov gang does not yet seem to be satisfied. Justice is working at full speed and the paper Utro, not a Communist paper, because no left pa- pers exist in Bulgaria, writes in the following manner apout this new wave of “legal” terror; “The district court of Burges pre- sented four death sentences to King Boris which he changed into prison for life. The death sentences of the district court Kustendil against Kis- yev and his comrades and the death sentences at Tirnovo against Paunov and his comrades,,.were, however, signed by the ‘merciful ruler.’ In the meantime the trial against the Com- munists is taking place in Sofia where dozens of death sentences are de- manded,.” Bi) Sentence Texfcab Driver. PARIS, Dec, 10—Harry Farcy, taxi Iriver, was sentenced to one year in erison and ordered to pay 45,000 rancs for killing ten-year old Andre suc with his taxicab. Farcy appealed ind the high cow changed his sen- ‘ence to three-years,imprisonmeht and 30,000 francs damages, If you want to thoroughly un- {evstand Commuanism—-study it. | —_—__oOo 75 Cents Duroflex Covers Amalgamated Members Must Force Officials to Fight on Vital Issues By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. nn adhe 43 a copy of the current issue, Friday, Dec. 4th, of the Advance, official’ organ of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, arrives. It is empty as usual of any statement on the vicious slugging of union members in Chi- cago by thugs under the direction of minor officials of the present regime that dominates the organization. {t still says nothing about the arbitrary dismissal of Joseph Shafir from his job in the Chicago bank of the Amalgamated because he advocated progressive measures at the Atlantic City conven- tion of the American Federation of Labor, as delegate of the Bank Clerks’ Union. These are matters of major importance, that place an in- delible brand of ignominy upon the Hillman-Schlossberg: ad- ministration in the Amalgamated. No effort of any kind has been made by either President Sidney Hillman or Secretary Joseph Schlossberg either to repudiate the sluggings, of which they are very much aware, or to justify the ousting of Shafir, a blow at militancy in the whole labor movement. Instead, in this particular issue of the Advance, more than a page is devoted to an attack on The DAILY WORKER, Thus the Hillman-Schlossberg regime uses the customary trick of trying to draw a red herring across the trail that leads directly to its own guilt. It is trying to direct the attention of the union membership to a side issue, which The DAILY WORKER will not refrain from discussing to the full in its proper place and at the proper time. ‘ * There is no doubt that the Hillman-Schlossberg regime has placd some clever sophists in leading positions on the edi- torial staff of the Advance. They are adepts at word juggling. There is Charles W. Ervin. , at one time editor of the New York Call, socialist daily, that was completely deserted by the rank and file when it fed o’ermuch at the trough of the anti- militant trade union officialdom. There is also J. B. Salutsky, who showed he is no mean adept at playing with phrases in his lengthy report in the Ad- vance on the recent convention of the American Federation of Labor. Bandying words is he'll stick at it, even if it leads Salutsky’s stock in trade, and to extreme misconceptions, or whether nothing at all in the way of an idea is passed on to the membership of the Amalgamated thru the union's official organ. This attitude of course, helped make life uncomfort- able for Salutsky in the Communist movement, where he lingered for a time. roundings. He is comfortable in his present sur- With such tricksters as Ervin and Salutsky, and others of lesser note, in prominent places on the Advance, it is no wonder that attacks on The DAILY WORKER take the place of declarations on the big issues in the union.,), The Amalga- mated officials, from Hillman and Schlossberg down, now that they have made slugging an issue in’the union must know that they cannot combat those who are wronged with silence. rience of the Morris Kaufman Hillman and Schlossberg may learn from the expe- regime in the Furriers’ Union and that of the Sigman administration in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, It is not to be expected that the reigning power in the Amalgamated will agree with DAILY WORKER. anything that appears in The If it chose to do so it could find plenty of material for a page attack in every weekly issue. But such attacks, on side issues, must not divert the at- tention of the Amalgamated’s membership away from the main issues; the development of the union into a militant, fighting organization, the struggle against wage cuts and the elimination of slugging orgies — those of the union's members who disagree with the a ministration’s position, and the punishment of those, as_in the case of Shafir, who cham- pion progressive measures like world trade union» unity, anti- class collaboration, recognition of the Union of Soviet Repub- lics, the Labor Party, amalgamation and organization of the unorganized. The membership of the Amalgamated must force the officialdom into the That is what they fear. But progress. (Continued from page 1) the Marquis Theodoli of Italy, chair- man of the league’s mandate commis- sion, Prevent Hearing. The French and British immedi ately got together and agreed to pre- vent the Syrian from being heard. This unity of action was prompted by the knowledge on the part of Eng- land that if the league granted a hear- ing facts of the most revolting nature would be forthcoming that would make imposible the maintenance of the French mandate. If the facts really came to light in all their ghastly details either the league would be forced to withdraw the French mandate or the league itself would stand revealed as a tool of organized murderers and pililagers operating against defenseless peoples. Britain also realized that the revocation of the French mandate would be follow- ed by a demand that the British man- date in Palestine be revoked. Never Surrender. After being refused a hearing be- fore the league Djabir granted inter- views and declared that the Syrians and Druse would never surrender. He related some of the heroic struggles League Refuses to Hear Syrians open to fight on vital issues. that is the only way to make before arms were captured from the defeated French in order to enable them to equip an army. “We demand jthe complete independence of Syria and we will not accept any other power assuming ‘the mandate.” This 4s a blow to England as the statesmen of that nation hoped that “France would relinquish the mandate thereby enabling Britain to exercise it. 10,000 Rifles Against French. “Unless the league acts to end the warfare, the tribes will continue fight- ing until they are wiped out, as they will never submit to French oppres- \sion. The Syrians are capable of put- iting 10,000 rifles in the. field against |the French. Practically all the muni- \{lons we posses we captured from the French, and we sécured enuf ammu- nition to last six months or more, and besides we have a certain amount smuggled into Syria from the Mediter- ranean, “The French are using Armenian and Circassian mercenaries aginst us, which will eventually result in charges that we are massacring these people when they are killed or wounded in warfare. The people of Syria are fi- nancing the campaign, which costs but little, however, FAIRY TALES EF WORKERS CHILDRE Sent Postpaid to Any Part of the U.S. SENATEREGESSES TO DEGIDE FIGHT ON LAFOLLETTE Hated Because He Is Son of His Father (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 10,—With Coolidge reported as favoring the po- litical chastisement of Senator La- Follette, the senate stood in recess today while republican leaders sought to. reach a compromise upon the treat- ment to be accorded him, The insurgent issue, even though apparently settled in amicable fashion at last Saturdey’s republican confer- ence, was revived in the senate, it was said, because house republicans oust- ed the Wisconsin delegation from all party assignments, The influence of the president, rumor had it, favored this course of punishment for the in- surgents who bolted the party in 1924, and leaned toward similar discipline for young LaFollette. Afraid of Next Year. Capitol Hill meanwhile thrilled to a report that a secret session of the re- publican committee on committees of the senate, charged with settling the LaFollette dispute, almost broke up in a row over the issue. One faction, led by Senator Jamés E. Watson of Indiana, and Senator William M. But- ler of Massachusetts, the president's spokesman in the senate, were said to have demanded the ousting of LaFol- lette from all republican ‘ privileges, not so much because of his own rec- ord, but because he was a son of his father, This attitude was bitterly fought by western senators on the committee, who argued that such a course might easily estrange the progressive vote of the west and result in the election of a democratic congress next No- vember. The committee at any rate reached a deadlocked on the question of “what to do with LaFollette.” It will theet again next Monday to render a deci- sion, but behind the scenes, leaders continued to seek an agreement be- tween the rank and file of the party. Coolidge’s influence was said to have been brought into the row by Senator Butler, his close friend and confidant, Butler was reported to have argued to his colleagues that a friendly treat- ment of young Bob would be, in effect, a repudiation of the party’s action last March in ousting his father and three other insurgents. Butler also was said to have urged punishment of young LaFollette be¢ause the house repub- licans had shown no mercy to their insurgents, ‘ Rival Klan Groups in Court Over Name MUNCIB, Ind, Dec. 10—The suit brot by the knights of the ku klux klan against the independent klan of America for damages of $500,000 and to enjoin it from using the word “klan” is set for trial Jan. 19 before Judge Thomas Slick in federal district court at Indianapolis. The independent klan, which has headquarters at Muncie, is charged with violating the rights of the ku klux klan by using “klan” in its name, and of having slandered the officers of the ku klux klan, | CHART John Cernegliaris The funeral of fellow worker John Cernegliaris was held yesterday. in view of the splendid activity of John Cernegliaris in the cause of workers’ defense during the years 1917-1921— the period of the Palmer “Red Raids” the Chicago Local of the International Labor Defense sent appropriate re- membrances thru its Italian section. Comrade Cernegliaris’ untiring work in the workers’ cause up to the period of his illness for the last three or four years was an inspiring example to those who knew him. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. NOTICE! Mr. Samuel Ball will deliver his MASTER LECTURE: “THE ASCENT OF MAN” SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 7:30 P. at Hobo College, Desplaines and Washington St. Admission free. To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. —_—_— $1.25 Cloth Bound ae ed ee v2