The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1925, Page 1

( YORKER. Published Datly except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago; IL ie The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ NEW YORK EDITION and Farmers’ Government Price 3 Cents ARGENTINE TRANSPORT WORKERS GIVE WELCOME TO SOVIET STEAMSHIP BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 14. — The Transport Workers’ Union of Bue- nos Aires has decided at a meeting to support the committee which has been set up to organize a reception | COMMUNIST IN TENTH DAY OF; HUNGER STRIKE. SENATOR BORAH'S DEMAND FOR RECOGNITION OF SOVIET UNION AROUSES INTEREST IN CAPITOL Denying Locarno—Their Own Child ‘ 7 (s) to The Daily Worker) for the Vasvia-Vorovsky, the first . 7 WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-Senate resolution No. 74, which| Soviet vessel which has vielted Toilers Free| Physical Condition Is was introduced by Senator Borah and reads: “Resolved, that the | S°¥th American ports. The anarch- Leader Dangerous! y Weakened ist paper La Protesta and the re- senate of the United States favors the recognition of the present) sormist apse: HtPAwedMne ied at. Soviet government in Russia,” is the subject of-much comment | tempting a_ revolting campaign (Spectal td Fhe Dally Worker) (Special to The Daily Worker) among members of both houses of congress. | against the Russian revolution dur- NEW YORK) Dec. 14—The follow-| HAVANA, | CO0s, Use: te tam Borah, in the strategic position of chairman of the foreign ing the visit. of the Vorovsky, but ling statement ed by District Two, | { SretPrOue: Machado government of | relations: committee, influences groups in both houses when he} without any success, (New York) lagethe Workers (Com-| Cuba, acting under orders from Am- \ speaks on international affairs, and it, is believed that when this | erlcan imperialism declares that it i I ANA EEE: munist) ails the release of will let Juli resi } - esolution, which was laid on} H member of the Cen-) secretary of the Communist Party, die LV ithe table at the request of ‘Bo-| 5 tral Committee of the! f@ prison for his terrible crime of op- rah to be taken up later, finally comes a Workers munist) Party, as a posing the American sugar interests. AS WE SEE IT before the senate there will ensue one victory for thi janized workers of Mella is entering upon the tenth day By T. J. O'FLAHERTY of the greatest debates of the yan New York, vigorously protested of his hunger strike. His pulse fs re- session, i ee priate. ed Free Ro 4 ren corded at 68, respiration at 20, and jentiment Growing. e worke: n the struggle his entire physical condition is dan- CONSIDERABLD store of ‘specu! * in ‘spite of the refusal of the simi aoe prt aman tn Cesuely. weamener. lative food is furnished to Europ-| ban diplomatic Circles in the visit to France of George Tchitcherin, Soviet foreign minister. Comrade Tchitch- erin is holding conversations with the French premier and according to re- ports, the discordant note is missing. It would not be surprising if Britain throws a fishy eye across the channel while the Soviet envoy and Briand are confabbing. Britain framed the Lo- carno pact to isolate Soviet Russia, but the last word has not yet been said and France as well as Germany may not be so happy playing the role of serfs to British and American cap- italism, as the speeches of Briand and Luther would lead one to suppose. see NE quarter of a page of last Sun- day's Chicago Tribune was devot- ed to news of Soviet Russia. Along side of the column which carried the news of the pourparlers between Paris and Moscow there was story of a ban- quet given to Soviet missions in America by some of the biggest bank- ors in this land of big bankers. Among ‘tliose present were the ‘vice-fresident of the Chase National Bank .and our old reliable gusher, Charles Schwab, the shrinking violet who shed tears a few years ago when he was charged with spending a quarter of a million dollars\a month in expenses while working for the government for one dollar a year. " " * © P.HE bankers and manufacturers ‘gathered together in New York to honor the Soviet economic ambassa- dors and sup with them, never said a word about the “dirty trick” the Rus- sian workers and peasants pulled off on the czar when they deposited him under a ton of granite. They did not shed tears over the countless dukes, grand dukes and dukes not so grand who now flop around in restaurant kitchens washing dishes and making} themselves generally useful. What they (Continued from page 2.) Negr: o Mail Carrier Files $100,000 Suit Against Persecutors NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Samuel A. Browne, Negro letter carrier, has filed a suit with the county clerk of Rich- mond for $100,000 against nine of his neighbors, who have constantly per- secuted him in an effort to force him out of the Castleton Hill district where he purchased a home. Browne points out in his complaint that these nine neighbors met in a real-estate office in the district and conspired to intimidate him into sell- ing his home by sending him threaten- ing letters, by trying to force an early foreclosure of his mortgage, by trying to have him transfered to another postoffice and by causing persons on July 17 and August 31, 1924 and July 17 of this year to attack the house and destroy his belongings. |istration to reverse its Stand on recog-| nition of Russia, there is ample evi- | dence that sentiment thruout whole country is increasing in favor of recognition. Manufacturers realize that Russia offers a splendid market | for their commodities and they are | demanding recognition in order to re- sume normal asiaione sang Russia, TURKS DEFY LEAGUE ON IRAK FIGHT British Prepare Naval Attack on Turkey (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, Switzerland, Dee, 14— Tewfik Rushdi-~Bey, Turkish foreign minister, announced last night that the Turkish delegation would have nothing more to do with the council of the league of nations as far as the Mosul dispute is concerned. They will not participate further in such deliberations and have stated their opposition to Britain and their resent. ment against the league in no uncer- tain terms. The Turks were infuriated at the news from London to the effect that the British government was prepar- ing for a swift naval attack upon the Dardanelles. This is interpreted as an attempt to capture and hold Con- stantinople, long an objective of Great Britain, will Resist Britain. In spite of British naval prepara- tions and the threat of wholesale air bombings against their country, the Turks declare they are prepared to resist by force of arms if necessary the efforts of Britain to seize the dis- puted territory in Irak. The Turkish statesmen point out that most of the mandates areas in the middle east really belong to them and were forcibly annexed by the various countries holding league man- dates after the war. Even with a so- called unanimous decision on the boundary dispute, which theoretically would array all Europe against Tur- key they are unyielding as they know that the fierce antagonism that is now smouldering will force new align- ments at the outbreak of a European war, and that it is unlikely that either Italy or France will engage ia war against Turkey on the side of Britain. He will like it! Give your union brother a sub to The DAILY WORKER, ANDERSON APPEAL AGAINST HIS. EXPULSION BY JOHNSTON ENDORSED BY 143 LODGES; WILL GO TO BALLOT WASHINGTON, Dec, 14.—Appeal by J. Fe Anderson, former vice-presl-/ dent ofthe International Association of Machinists, to the general member- ship to reverse the action of President Johnston, who suspended Anderson from membership, will be put up to the lodges thruout the United States and Canada, Anderson announces that 143 lodges have endorsed his appeal, altho less than 90 were required to put the question to gen Conlon states that when the required number of endorsements are filed at|’ | vote. Acting President Washington headquarters the ballots will be sent out. No meeting of the exgoutive council for discussion of the matter will be held. A meeting which had been planned has now been indefinitely post- poned. Some 265 of the larger lodges, according ‘to Anderson, had decided to send delegates to this meeting, to express their view of the Johnston-Ander- » gon controversy which arose from the race between the two last spring for the presidency of the organization, tt ry / the | FRAMES UNION Metal Polishers Appeal | to Locals for Aid The following appeal is being sent} out by the Metal Polishers’ Union, | Local No. 6, to local unions all over the country telling of the attempt made by the Cribben, Sexton & com- Pany, corner Chicago Ave. and Sacri |mento Bivd., to frame-up the polish-| ers’ union, which is leading a strike In} the plant manufacturing the Universal | | Stoves, ranges and heaters: Third Degree Union Heads. “Walter W. Britton, international | president of the Meta! Polishers’ Union |and John Werlick, business agent of Local No. 6, were accosted by three | plainclothes officers on Wednesday, December 2, and whisked to the of- fices of the state’s attorney at the} county jail and shut of frony the oat-4 side with no means of communicating with an attorney. Both were subjected | to.a gruelling cross-examination on the | Cribben and Sexton stove shop strike and.accused of plotting to blow the firm out of existence. “People believed to be private de-| tectives and known owners of the un- fair shops were permitted to view mass meetings jernor Smith that Benjamin (Continued on page 25 “The noua of Benjamin Git- low by Gove r Smith is a victory for organized Jabor $f New York City. Benjamin Gi - was imprisoned be- cause he chi med the interests of the workers, « was freed because hundreds of sands of organized workers of New York City, in sup- port of thé. cai ign conducted by the Internati | Labor Defense and the Workers (C@mmunist) Party, aid- ed, by friendly @fganizations, thru re- ;solutions in. th unions and thru nded his release. Against Capitalist Class. “The victory ofthe New York work- fers is not only: iit the freedom of Git- | low, but also im the admission of Gov- Gitlow | was imprisoned forthe expression of | a political opinion antagonistic to! fhe interests of the capitalist class. In other words, that he committed a political ‘crime’ and was a_politi- cal prisoner. non the part of the iy Aniterica, with of free speech and freedom of opii working class aré\dmprisoned because their opinions do not coincide with those of the spoksmen for big busi-| ness. “Benjamin Githew returns from jail to carry forward the fight for which | he was imprisonéd—for the establish- (Continpvert on page 2) distributed in Chicago. among them. WORKERS ENTHUSIASTICALLY GREET DAILY WORKER WHICH FIGHTS FOR THEM IN THEIR EVERY-DAY BATTLES ESTERDAY'’S issue of The DAILY WORKER, which carried a story on the strike of the sheet metal workers of the Edison The DAILY WORKER was enthusia: garment workers who are facing an important election, and by the striking sheet metal workers and by those at work at the main plant of the Edison Electric Appliance company. The DAILY WORKER is a tremendous weapon ‘in the hands of the workers in their everyday struggles with the bosses. It can be- come a still greater power thru the co-operation of thousands of work- ers. who will act as worker correspondents, writingystories of their everyday struggles to be published in The DAILY WORKER, and thru distributing bundles of their paper containing these stories. Electric Appliance company in Ciecro and also the the statement on the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America elections was widely As the workers in the garment trades district went™to their shops, girls were on hand distributing copies of The DAILY WORKER ally weceived by the The War in the Near East 5 in, members of the; The nationalist parties ot Germany Genying their parenthood of the Lo- carno “peace” pact, altho they preferred it, and participated in its creation. | (From Simplicissimus.) ] Anglo-Russian Unity Committee Deplores Amsterdam Refusal BERLIN, Dec. 14—The ‘Anglo-Rus- a Committee for World Trade | Union Unity yesterday met here and jamong other actions issued a state- ment pointing out the. deplorable ef- \fect of the decision of the general |council of the Amsterdam iInterna- jtional in refusing to meet in an un- conditional conference with the Rus- jsian International. The statement and by Pugh for the British. jference proposal. ers led by Oudegeest, Jouhaux and company, voted solidly against it. PERSHING SORE AT CHILE FOR MAKING APPEAL Also Don’t Like Any | Hostile Publicity | (Special to The Daily Worker) | ARICA, Chile, Dec, 14. — General Pershing made a vicious attack on Chile and its representative, Senor Augustine Edwards for daring to ap- peal against Pershing’s position on the matter of holding a plebiscite Feb- ruary 1, 1926, instead of April 15, as proposed by Pershing. Pershing declares that the compli- been “when accorded at all, formal rather than substantial.” Riles the General. It was particularly annoying to the honorable general of the U.S. army, that Senor Edwards had not only made a scathing criticism of his, Pershing’s, handling of the matter, but Nad “released such, address to the press.” “This, after 1 had specifically drawn his attention to such an understand- ing and agreement, advising him that such publication could only be regard- ed by the commission as-conspicuous and an unfortunate violation thereof.” A New Plan.) | Considerable sentiment among those. will of the U. S, bankers, favors a division of the Tacna-Ariéa territory, instead of giving it all to one or to the other. If Peru gets the Tacna region under such a plan, it will have it only in spite of the fact that 500 miles of desert separate Peru proper from the Tacna region This plan, however, is the “solu tion” offered by the “Pan-American diplomatic corps”—— a body something Syrian rebels fighting Reastsls Pl barricades against French } imperii — like the diplomatic corps at Peking, China, which is taking more and more the position of dictator/of Chilean af- fairs. Search for Perry. Search for Ira D. Perry, Jr., million aire’s son, confessed hold-up man and murdered. who was paroled from Joliet prison after serving only three years of life sentence, turned to New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Newark, N, J. union to’ discuss admission of the Russian unions to the Amsterdam was |signed by Tomsky for the Russians The British-delegates in the general coun- jcil voted solidly in favor of ‘the con-| The reformist lead-| ance to the commission's decrees had | in Chile who wish to keep the good| i | | U.S. BANKING POWER GROWS DURING YEAR Corner on Gold Supply) of World. (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Stagger- ing figures, retiecting the financiat Power of the United States, were con- tained in the annual report of Comp- troller of the Currency, J..W. Mcin- toch mode public today. The combined banking power of all banks in the country is $60,469,400,000 an increase of $4,022,900,000 since June, 1924. Money stocks of the principal coun+ tries of the world were given as $9,- 669,359,000, of which the United States holds $8,221,200,000. The United States has a corner on the gold supply with a stock valued at $4,546,407,000. Great Britain has | $760, 000, France, $710,000,000; Japan, $585,738,000; Spain, $489,164,- 000, and Argentine, $453,175,000. Paper Currency. This country, however, many foreign nations in culation of paper currency. Hungary took first place in a walk, with a total of 4,513,- 898,560,000. krone, with France second with 40,60: h00 francs. United States has 20,946,000 in paper, Bank clearings for the year ending September 30, reached the ‘collosal total of $505,299,000,000, more tha $62,299,000,000 in excess of the pre ceding year, National banks had $10,105,000,000 in loans and investments, $1,500,000,- 000 greater than a year before, while the national bank resources were $24,- (Continued on page 2) Belle Maid Dress Co. Went Injunction to Intimidate Strikers (Special to ‘The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec, 14. — The Belle Maid Dress company, 253 W. 35th street, against whom the workers are | on strike since October 1, has applied | for an injunction against the sfrikers, | Mr, Rothenberg of 5 Beekman street, 8 handling this case. The company’s stubborn refusal to | einstate members who were dis- charged during the stoppage against | the former administration is the cause of the strike. Members of. the union are urged to help picket this shop. gave way to | at ¢he time. The ostensible charge against Mella | and the twelve workers arrested with him is setting off bombs in front of a factory, but it is well known that the bombs were placed by the police department, Mella was miles away There is little attempt conceal the fact that the real reason for his arrest. was activity in he strike of the sugar-cane workers against the American sugar trust, ee 8 Active Leader for Liberation. As general secretary of the Com- to Pmunist Party of Cuba, Julio A. Mella, has-been the most active leader in | the movement to free the island from Wall Street domination. He organ- ized the Cuban section of the All America Anti-Imperialist League, which has systematically exposed the relations of the American ambassador Crowder, to the Cuban government. In name the ambassador of a friend- ly foreign power, Crowder is in fact the representative of an imperial overlord, treating Cuba as its private possession, *Generay Machado, - dent of Cuba, is a mere tool of Crowd- er. The United States government permitted Machado to elect himself president by fraud and now Machado is “making good” with his protectors. Workers and students have been de- ported wholesale for daring to voice “anti-American sentiments.” The case of Mella is of the utmost importance. It will show just how far American imperialism can or Can- not go in its terrorization of an ostensibly free country. Protests are pouring into Cuba from all parts of Central and South America. It is now up to the workers in the United States. CRUSH WORKERS’ DEMONSTRATIONS BY USING TANKS Scotland Yard Head Favors Plan LONDON, De., 14—Sir Basil Thom- son head of Scotland Yard, in his re- cent work “The Criminal” advocates the use of ‘armored tanks against workers, who are on strike or de- monstrate for better conditions. The following excerpt taken from his book will give one an idea of the propanda that the ruling class is now placing in the minds of its defenders. To Crush Workers’ Demonstrations. “The mounted police were useful in their day, but the day has passed. The defence for them ‘is that they are useful in controlling disorderly crowds, but a London crowd intent on mischief in these days would have the men off their horses in the first rush, since the modern paving gives no sure foothold for a horse, how- ever, he may be shot... The modern appliance for dealing with disorderly crowds is the motor-lorry filled with police and dfiven slowly along the | line to which the crowd is to be kept, or, in case of a mob bent on outrage, the light tank.” Suffragist Dies, Neb., Dec. 14.—Mrs. Drap- , suffragist and republican OMAHA er Smith, 7 \leader, died following an eight months’ illness. On Page 5 You Will Find— AGE five, every day, will con’ respondents, in which an effort errors in contributions, tain suggestions to Worker Cor will be made to point out common Worker Correspondents are invited to write their views on our Worker Correspondence page and their criticisms of contributions, Also to ask questions. WORKER, 1113 West Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Address, Editor, DAILY © oe