The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1925, Page 3

LABOR DEFENSE SENDS PROTEST TO POLICE HEAD Workers Indignant at Illegal Search (lL. D. Press Service) Great indignation has been aroused by the action of the Chicago police department in searching the person of every man who attended a meeting of the International Labor Defense, held on Friday, Deo. 4, In West Side Auditorium, The meeting was called to protest against the imprisonment of Benjamin Gitlow and of the supreme court decision in the case of Anita Whitney. Several prominent Chicago intellec- tuals and progressives, voicing the feelings of thousands of others, joined the International Labor Defense in protesting this unwarranted conduct on the part of the police, The fol- lowing letter signed by Rev. David Rhys Williams, Dr. John A. Lapp, of the National Catholic Welfare Coun- ceil; Edward C. Wentworth, Emil Arn- old and Rey. Norman B, Barr, was sent to Chief of Police Morgan A. Col- lins and given to the press: “Morgan A. Collins, “Chief of Police, “Chicago, Tl, “Dear Sir: “In behalf of the International La- bor Defense, I protest against the un- warranted procedure of members of the Chicago police force in forcing workers who attended a mass meeting under the auspices of the above-nam- ed organization, last Friday evening, Dec. 4, in the West Side Auditorium, to submit to the indignity of a search of their persons, “The meeting was called to protest against the criminal ‘syndicalist laws Which are on the statute books of sev- eral states in the union, and particu- larly against the imprisonment of Benjamin Gitlow of New York and Charlotte Anita Whitney of California, and there was no ground for any ac- tion of interference by police officers at the meeting. “The International Labor Defense is an organization which provides legal defense for workers who suffer prose- cution and persecution for their ef- forts to better the conditions of work- ing men and women, “The International Labor Defense is operating openly and legally and com- prises in its membership and on its executive council men and women of diverse views and prominent in the labor, radical and progressive move- ments. “The constitution of the United States and of the state. of [Illinois guarantees the right of free speech and free assemblage and the principal aim of’ the International Labor De- fense is to defend the workers in the exercise of those rights. “In raiding a peaceful meeting, your officers have violated the rights of everybody in the audience who was compelled to submit to the indignity of a search for weapons. “Are meetings of workers in Chi- cago to be submitted to such interfer- ence, while other public meetings are to go unmolested? “We emphatically protest against the action of the police on last Friday evening and demand that you state publicly on what basis you compelled those attending this meeting to sub- mit to the indignity of a search of their persons without any warrant and without any disturbance actual or sug- gested at this meeting.” The preversity of the Chicago capi- talist press was never revealed to bet- ter advantage than in connection with this meeting. On the morning of the date of the meeting the Chicago Tribune carried a news story, that forty policemen were to “maintain or- der” at the gathering. A newspaper photographer was present to take pic- tures of the expected disorder, but no disorder materializing, except that manufactured by the police, and tho the photographer took a picture of the policemen “frisking” the male mem- bers of the audience on their way into the hall, neither the story nor the picture appeared in any of the capital- ist papers, with the exception of the Daily News, which carried a lying Paragraph about the amount of the collection, The meeting was addressed by Wil- liam Holly, Pete Jensen of the Fed- erated Shop Crafts, Robert Minor, George Maurer and ©. E. Ruthenberg. A good collection was taken up for the defense of the Ziegler miners. He will like it! Give your union brother a sub to The DAILY WORKDR. $1.25 Six Months The Workers Monthly y HE DAIL¥;WORKER Page Threé “scercummoguarerener tent ie ae Police “Frisking” Workers Attending Meeting’ This picture shows how the Chicago police searched all those coming to the recent protest meeting of the International Labor Defense at the West Side Auditorium in Chicago. CHINESE DEMAND UNEQUAL PACTS BE DESTROYED Call On Workers to Combat Imperialism 1 @ (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, Dec,.10-+At a mass: meet- ing of Chinese workers, the following resolution was passed appealing to the workers in the western,.countries to aid the Chinese workers in their fight against the imperiafsts of France, England, America and Japan and force the scrapping 6f the tnequal treaties that now bind the workers in China: Against Unequal Treaties. “The population of Peking raises its voice in passionate protest against the unequal treaties. Tnése treatees are the barbaric lever with which the imperialist powers haye forced the Chinese people into the basest slavery and have subjected China to the most brutal exploitation. The Chinese peo- ple can not and will not tolerate any longer the customs slavery which England, America, Japan and France have forced upon our country. “The economic and cultural deve- lopment of China and the well being of its four hundred million inhabitants imperatively demands the abolition of all the limitations imposed by the treaties: The custom robbery, the foreign court, the exterritoriality of the stolen districts, and of the im- perialist citizens in China. These limitations must be unconditionally abolished, The imperialists with to drown the struggle of the Chinese people in blood, e Remember Shanghai! “We have not forgotten the murder- ous activity of the imperialists in Shanghai and Hankow. The garrulous diplomats who have been sent by the great powers to the tariff conference in Peking will not be able with all their speeches to weaken the deter- mination of our people. : “We will struggle with all means for the abolition of the slave treaties, “We cry to you, the toiling masses of the west and of the whole world in the name of the Chinese people: Exploited peoples of the west, unite with the oppressed peoples of the east and destroy imperialism!” —___ Bank President Dies, CHRISTOPHER, I!l., Dec, 10,—Nel- son Browning, former president of the First National Bank of Ziegler since its organization four years ago, died here after @ short illness, $2.00 a Year IOWA CORN GROP WORTH LESS NOW THAN IN 1924 DESPITE GREATER YIELD DES MOINES, Ia. Dec. 10.—lowa crops in 1925 were valued at $57,000,000 tess than the 1924 crops by Charles D. Reed, director of the lowa weather and crop bureau of the state department of agriculture in his annual crop summary and re- |. View presented at the meeting of the lowa agricultural society here. This loss stands regardless of the fact.that with a production of 478,- 590,000 bushels, lowa greatest corn crop in its history. The average price per bushel to the farmer was fixed at 56 cents on Dec. 1. WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. BOMBAY TEXTILE STRIKERS APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE Workers in Need of Fi- nancial Aid NEW YORK, Dec. 10—President C. F, Andrews of the All-India Trade Union Federation has issued an ap- peal to the people of India for aid to the Bombay strikers. He states in his appeal that only one or two of Bom- bay's 85 cotton textile mills have been able to work any of the time with wage cuts began, Sept. 1. Altho 45 per cent of the 150,000, strikers have gone to their homes in the country districts, Andrews states that the remaining 55 per cent in Bombay are in great need, some of them starving. The workers have no savings out of their 30c a day wages and no credit now with store keep- ers, money lenders and those who prey upon them with usurious inter- est when they are working. A com-| mittee of assistance to the textile workers has been organized in Bom-| bay. It includes representatives of the All-India Trade Union Congress; Cen- tral Labor Board; Bombay Textile Workers’ Union; Madanpura Mill} Workers’ Union; Girni Kamgar Maha} Mandal; Girni Kamgar Mandal and Kamgar Kitwardahak Sahba. Because of the great number of workers and families who need help, this commit- tee has not been able to do much and, Andrews asks Indians and friends to contribute. American friends of Indian trade un- jonism can send their contributions grew the | Take this copy of the DAILY| full staffs since the strike against the | APPEAL IS MADE IN PITTSBURGH FOR NEW TRIAL i\Labor Defense Assists Edward Horacek fs | By ELLA BEEVE BLoor. fs (he fews Service) PITTSBURGH, Dec. 10—The lawyer representing Edward Horacek, active | member, of. the Machinists’ Union and jrecently convicted of a charge of vio- \lating the Pennsylvania state sedition jlaw, has applied for a new trial. As yet no decision, has been handed down, 1, L. D, Conference | The Internatignal Labor Defense |branch, which {gactively assisting the |defense of Edwatd Horacek, recently jheld a conferent¢e at which 50 dele- gates representiig unions and other working class “Organizations _ partici- pated. One of the new affiliations to the committee is the miners’ union. Tom Ray, milftant fighter in the United Mine Workers of America was elected chairman and Margaret Yea- ger secretary of the conference. Report on Past Work. Ella Reeve Bloor gave a detailed re- port as to work that has been accomp- lished and the work that has been planned for the Pittsburgh district by the International Labor Defense. She urged every branch to immediately get in touch with the National Office of the International Labor Defense and which is to be cifculated among the workers calling 6n them to aid the | workers, who are’ facing prison and are now imprisoned for their activi- ties in the labor movement. In her talk she’also gave a history of the recent triaf’of Edward Horacek Labor Defense. Philadelphia Unions to Join in Pioneer Youth Organization peel) (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 10—Children of Philadelphia trades unionists are to be brot into the Piéneer Youth move- | ment and taught about the labor move- ment instead of being caught in jun- ior chambers of commerce and organ- izations established among them by employers. A conference of 160 Philadelphia trade union delegates including repre- sentatives of the Central Labor body and State Federation, organized the Philadelphia branch of Pioneer Youth and will assist in getting children for to Bther Lowell, Sectetary Bombay Strike Reliet Fund, Room 430, 799 Broadway, New York City. All money received will be sent.on to N. M, Joshi, General Secretary All-India Trade Union Congress, Servants of India Society’s Home, Bombay, No. 4, Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker. } the summer camps and winter clubs of Pioneer Youth. United Textile Workers, Glass Bot- tle Blowers, Printing Pressmen, Typo- graphical Workers, Cigar Makers, Hlectrical Work Molders, Laces makers, Leather Workers, Carpet Workers, Painters, Metal Polishers, Hosiery Workers, Teachers, Federal Workers and other unions of Phila- delphia, are backing the Pioneer order a bundle ofthe Labor Defender | (CAL'S SPEECH ATTACKED ON EVERY POINT | Rocky Road for Con-| gress (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—A rocky road, full of ruts, bumps and detours, stretched away today ahead of the| comprehensive legislative program presented to congress by President | Coolidge in his annual message. Here | and there, the way will be opened for easy sailing, but such spots are en- closed with obstacles. A survey of congressional opinion as congress settled down in the har- | dess today for the six months grind | revealed that on the four major issues | presented by Mr. Coolidge—world | court, tax reduction, aviation and coal legislation—-the administration likely will have ple on two of them and an ¢ r ugh passage on the other two. The troublesome j issues are the world court and avia- | tion, Forces Aligned. On every issue presented in Cool idge’s m age yesterday there is an- tagonistic comment from some of the ablest war-horses of the senate and house. ninth congress will occur on the question of the world} court, and Senator William BE. Borah, | of Idaho, representative of the labor hating industrial combines, will Jead the fight. He is probably the most formidable debater in the senate, and | though debate doesn’t count for much in a gang that is bought and paid for) beforehand, it will furnish interest- ing reading and throw considerable light on the clash of economic inter- ests on the floor of the senate Assail Muscle Shoals. Coolidge’s message received a | broadside from Senator Norris of Ne- | braska on the question of Muscle Shoals. Norris is one of the insurgent republican leaders and said: “To sell the big power plant at Muscle Shoals, as advocated by the | president in his message, would be indefensible, The statement of the president that he considers the plant worth no more than a good battleship is unbelievable. What good would all |the battleships in the navy be if we | had no nitrates and therefore no ex- plosives to fire their great guns. | Muscle Shoal is a. war property but its value in time of peace is im- measurable.” Utterly Misleading. Senator James A. Reed, democrat of Missouri said: “St is probably the most misleading and illogical statement ever issued by the White House. “It utterly disregards and misstates | vital facts, A single illustration will | suffice. The message states: ‘No pro- vision of the statute seems to me to | give this court any authority to be a political rather than a judicial court.’ : “On the contrary it is easily demon- stratable that the league has expre :s- ly confered on the court jurisdiction of questions both political and judi- | cial. This will become apparent as soon as the deba.es begin.” Other comment follows: Senator Borah, of Idaho, chairman of the senate foreign relations com- mittee who will lead the fight against the president’s recommendation for American adherence to the world court, ‘ “I shall have nothing to say about the message.” Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin: “I can say nothing about the presi- dent’s message until I have studied it.” unquestionably Tariff is Bunk, Senator Wheeler, democrat of Mon- tana, vice presidential candidate on the LaFollette ticket; “The presi- dent’s message holds out no hopes for |and the special dentands that the trial| the farmer. He recommends only co- |made on the Pitteburgh International] operative marketing and in his Chi- cago speech he urged the tariff as the only means of relieving agricultural depression. The farmers of the west long since learned that the tariff is of no value to them unless they have some kind of an export corporation to dispose of their surplus crops. “The president carefully avoided giving the farmers any recommenda- tions for actual relief.” Coolidge Aids New Englanders. Senator Caraway, democrat of Ark., said: “With reference to the president's recommendations for the purchase of the Cape Cod ship canal and for sale of Muscle Shoals, the president dis- closed that when private capital makes a bad investment, the government shall relieve them, if the investors are New Englanders. If the government succeeds, as at Muscle Shoals, the president believes private capital should be given the advantage of that success. In.other words, the govern- ment shall go into private business only when necessary to relieve New England investors of a bad bargain,” Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good isstte to give to your fellow worker, 4 The main fight of the sixty-| LANDIS AWARD | Strikes Jobs Where Non- | by the contractors but not rived up to | by them. POLISH COUNT FAVORS COMMERCIAL TREATY WARSAW, Dec, 10.—Count Skrz- ynski, who recently formed a coal- ition cabinet in Poland, when speak- ing of trade with the Union of Soviet (EER SES Republics recent- ly declared that he was in favor of a commercial alliance with the Soviet Union as | it was only thru commerce with Russia that the present slump in Polish textiles can be overcome. “There certain- ly exists a desire WOJKOFF Soviet Minister to Poland. on both sides for amicable rela- | tions,” declared Skrzynski. “This | however, is confined to economic | and trade relations. No other friend- ship is possible. Further develop- ment of the relations with Russia will be worked out in a treaty of commerce now being negotiated. Russia was and can again be an enormous market for Polish tex- tiles. pea BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL FIGHTS Unionists Work “Half-breed” construction of build- ings in Chicago, where union men have to work side by side with non- union, is brot to a showdown by the Chicago Building Trades Council in two strikes called to enforce the prov- isions of existing agreements signed The new Cohan theater down-town and a movie house on the north side under construction are at a standstill because so-called Landis award work- men on a nonunion basis were em- ployed for some of their work by the contractors. Bosses Ignore Contract. Work under the jurisdiction of the Building Trades Council is to be done by union men, the contract reads, but in spite of this nonunionists have been put on the job. All unions affiliated with the'gouncil, including practically | every building trade except the car- penters, ‘cafled off their men. The ujtimatum was served with plenty of notice when the council de ;clared last June that it would clean up on contract violations. At that time it gave’ assurance that jobs already started would not be tied up but now, six months later, the practice has not been dropped by contractors and strike action becomes necessary. Meah Business. clean up the trouble appears, down-town or} “We will wherever it | elsewhere,” says Pres. Patrict. Sulli- } Van of the Building TradeS’ Council. | United States, requesting official | formation concerning the private man- LEAGUE SENDS QUERIES 10 ALL NATIONS Russia and the U.S. Are Included (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, Dec. 10—The league of na- tions today decided to send question- naires to all nations, including the Union of Soviet Republics and the in- ufacture of arms and the ability of each nation to produce war material. This information is sought for the ittee which is prepar- agenda for a league conference. France in the disarmament y the council aid of the com gz a tentative rmament gained a point controversy tods decided that the c ee appointed |to make a preparatory examination of proposed agenda for a disarmament conference should take up the ques- tion of Article XVI. of the league co- venant, wit view to definitely fix- ing the extent and promptitude of league aid to an attacked country. Still Deadlocked. The British and French impasse is still unbroken today. The French have insisted that the disarmament conference shall lay down definite rules for the activities of member na- tions, in the event that they are called upon to make war for the “protection” of an “attacked” member nation. Great Britain opposes this policy, as she wants to be free to play her own imperialist game. Teachers Find 1 That a Pension Fund Is Made to Insure Behavior NEW YORK, Dec. 10—Teachers in New York public schools who have been contributing toward their retire- ment pensions are now finding out sion be one-half the average pay for fail to get half pay pension after 35 years’ service. The amendment to the pension law provides that the pen- sion be one-half the average pay fo the last 5 years’ of service. The state will also have to con- tribute more for the pensions but the teacher member of the retirement board insists that it is not compul- sory for te: ers to pay more Teach- ers must pay more to get full half-pay pensions, however. By putting im their own money they are bound to be thotful of their jobs. Break Four-Year Record When Carload of Wheat Sells at $2.05 a Bushel MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 10.—A four year price record was broken when one carload of Montana wheat sold here for $2.05 a bushel and another car brought $2.04. Trading was erra- “The contractors have had plenty of warning and we mean business.” ANSWER COOLIDGE! Workers’ Program Capitalist the Central Executive Committee sage from the workers’ standpoint, and exploited farmers of this country. Every unit of the Workers Party ganizations. working class. This challenge must b of workers to rouse them to fight again Send in orders immediately. Dist in your community, jgle of the workers in support of their sent with the order. Workers Party of America, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois. Dear Comrades: Enclosed you of the Workers Party The price of the leafiets is $3.50 per thousand. copies of the manifesto of the Central Executive tic early in the futures market, after December wheat opened at $1.67 1-2 Distribute the Party Manifesto Outlining the Against Coolidge’s Program. 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