The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1925, Page 1

i Labi The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government + Vol. Il. No. 290. Subscription Rates: susie Eiceee, FO. a In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, THE DAIL Entered as Second-class matter September 21,1923, at by mail, $6.00 per year. SIGMAN DRIVES TOWARD SPLIT, FORCING LEFT 10 LEAVE HALL, BUT IS COMPELLED 10 RETREAT By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, (Special to The Dally Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 17.—The Sigman machine late this afternoon abrogated the most important provision of the peace agreement, the section providing that the question of pro- portional representation should be submitted to a referendum vote and the left wing delegation, following the lead of Hyman, left the convention. The crisis was provoked with coldblooded deliberation by President Sigman, Dubinsky and others, and was evidently part of a preconceived plan to place the blame for a split on the left wing. This plan failed, however, because the spokesmen for the left wing immediately issued a statement repudiating any sug- AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY GipNey HILLMAN, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, is running a race with Presi- dent William Green of the American Federation of Labor for the class coh laboration stakes. Green is swallow- ing Hillman’s dust. The labor faker who nods patronizingly at the class struggle has put it all over the labor taker who preaches the doctrine of unity between capital and labor. Green is touring the country theorizing on the advantages to be gained by “both” labor and capital from co-operation in- stead of struggle, while the members ot his own union are engaged in a life and death struggle with the an- thracite operators in Pennsylvania. 7. © "69008 to..the...capitalists, Sidney. Hillman, who recognizes May Day as the international holiday of labor, yet is adding new laurels to his class collaborationist crown, tho he never even once mentions the hated term or anything suspiciously like it. The current issue of the Advance, official organ of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, unofficially edited by the word juggler J. B, Salutsky—now Hardman because the “sky” sounds too Muscovy—tells a story that may well mark a milestone in the degen- eration of the A. C. W. and a fresh innovation in the conspiracy to trans- form the labor unions of this country into industrial leagues of nations that will keep the workers quiet while the bosses rob them with the assitance of the labor fakers. see ‘HO has not heard of “Golden Rule Nash"? This fellow Nash has been running an open shop mail order house clothing factory in Cincinnati ‘Continued on page 2 BRITISH TRADES UNION HEAD PRAISES ELECTRIFICATION PROGRAM IN SOVIET UNION ” By WALTER (Acting Secretary of British Trades Union Cédngress) Our train had jogged its persistent way from Leningrad thruout the night and now with the daylight we were approaching our destination. gestion of a split and voicing a determination to stay in the union in spite of all maneuyers by the real disrupters—the Sig- manites, Force Sigman Retreat. So raw was the provocation of Sigman and so obvious the violation of the fundamental basis of the unity agreement that even capitalist papers here, ‘like the Evening Ledger, place the blame for the crisis upon Sigman. At nine o’clock negotiations opened between the administration and the left wing and an agreement was reached that the administration would urge the convention to adopt the re- ferendum provision upon the return of the left wing delegates to the con- vention. The convention will resume its sessions at 9 a. m. The situation is critical and much depends upon the manner in which the Sigman machine carries out the agreement, _, After the-left wing hed walked. out} the machine attemhpted to reorganize the convention, read the left wing out P of the union and proceed with the business of the convention but opposi* tion to .this policy came from a num- ber of administration delegates who were not close enough to the machine to»be blinded to all reason and who still retained some loyalty to tlie Bnion. -. é These unexpected defections forced Sigman to change his policy. After stating that he would crush the New York locals in two months after the convention, even the promised sup- port of Green and the A, F. of L.| could not counterbalance the decreas- ed morale of the machine followers. The situation was a very dangerous one, not only for the left wing in the I, L. G. W. but for the entire Amer- ican minority movement. . ‘The split in the I. L. G. W. was not only imminent this afternoon, but it had actually occurred. The maneuver (Continued from page 2.) M. CITRINE Visit Volkhofstroy Power Station. A few minutes before 9 o'clock in bend of the Volkhof River. Electric Station. There seemed something incongru- \ous about this evidence of twentieth- century scientific development right in the heart of the wild beauties of nature, 5 Here all was solitude and repose, and it was wondrous to think that the ingenuity of man had harnessed the flowing might of the great Volkhof River to his service. To Supply Leningrad. Yet we knew that in a few months’ time this rapidly flowing water would be supplying the inhabitants of Lenin- ered and its surrounding districts with the electricity, to light their streets, homes, and buildings, to drive their tramears, to turn the whirring wheels of factory machinery, and to preterm the numerous functions which electricity is so well able to ac- complish, A wondrous agent truly, and one which has been transmitted to the present generation thru thé assid- (Continued on page 33 There, rising like -a gigantic- monument againg: the background of woodlands and green fields, was the famous Volkhofstroy | the morning we came in sight of the DAILY WORKER BUILDERS’ CLUB WILL HOLD MEETING IN NEW YORK SATURDAY. NEW YORK, Dec. 17—The DAILY WORKER Buliders Club of New York will hold an official meeting this Saturday evening at 9 o'clock in connection with The DAILY WORKER Package Party at Harlem Casino, 116th Street and Lenox Ave. A number of matters of importance to The DAILY WORKER and the New York movement are to be con- sidered and every New York DAILY WORKER Builder should be there on time, Satan Order a bundle of The DAILY WORKER for every meeting of your union, : WGiiT: SATURDAY, DEG. 19, DAILY WORKER) PACKAGE PARTY, HAR 1S UNABLE 10 (PROCURE SCABS Armed Deputies Seek Unemployed Workers Me By, A Worker Correspondent When the worker from Council Bluffs, lowa, who had been sent to the Edison Electric Appliance com- pany, 52nd Ave. and 19th St., by the Landis award employment office to scab in the struck plant and who re- fused to work after learning of the sheet metal workers’ strike, went to get his kit of tools, he was refused admittance to the shop. He was taken into the office and there attempts were made to induce him to stay and scab. Despite the fact that he had been out ‘| of work and had a family dependent on him he told them to “go to hell” with their job and demanded his tools. The armed deputies were then told to give this “guy” his tools and let him “get the hell out of here.” " Chase After Unemployed. It has been the custom of the plug- uglies- calling themselves deputy. sheriffs in this plant to run a couple of blocks after some worker whom they thought needed a job and get him ‘to come to the office and make offers to the unemployed worker to seab, The deputies strenuous efforts to recruit scabs are not getting them anyWhere, * The deputy who was so well lit up yesterday, that the waitress in the '|restaurant he ate in watched him out of the corner of her, eyes so that he woudn’t drown in his bowl of soup, cume’ swaggering out of the plant yésterday, shouting “Where in hell is that god damned DAILY WORKER,” Daily Worker Aids Strike. The DAILY WORKER has become a real weapon in this strike and the blows that it lands are telling on the scabs and the armed plug-uglies. Copies of The DAILY WORKER are being distributed in the neighborhoods where those that are scabbing live, so that their neighbors can know who and what their “respectable” neighbor is doing. Threats of violence have been made by the deputies that they are going to “get” The DAILY WORKER'S cor- respondent on the picket line for his telling the truth of the strike situa- tion. on , Office at Chicago, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1925 NEW YORK EDITION Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. CZ 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blva., Chicago, lll. Price 3 Cents (es gp : . 5 VEN gp ESS Eo, : F) Rae? : SS soe tok “ d a Osan R87 THE WAR OVER OIL TURKEY BREAKS DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH IRAK OVER LEAGUE DECISION ON MOSUL (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, France, Dec. 17.—Turkey has severed diplomatic relations with the kingdom of Irak as the result of the award of Mosul to Irak by the league of nations council, it was learned here today. This is the first step toward war between Turkey and Great Britain as the league mandate over Irak is adminis- tered by Britain and the country administering the mandate is supposed to defend the territory against aggression, Under article 16 the other nations of the league are also supposed to aid in warfare against any nation violating the covenant of the CUBAN RULERS OUT TO CRUSH LABOR UNIONS | Tewfik Rushdi Bey, Turkish vepre-| Mella Ends the Second | sentative at Geneva, stated this morn-| Week of Hunger Strike jing ‘that his government would break | diplomatic relations with Irak “whose | sovereignty over Mesul, Turkey will refuse to recognize.” league. ot ,Paris opinions that the refusal to recognize a decision in relation to dis- puted borders is not a violation of the covenant and therefore France will not be called upon, in case of jwar, to aid England. In London, however, the opposite opinion pre- vails and the papers supporting Bald- win are to state this evening that the jaction of Turkey does constitute violation of the covenant of the league, and that France should aid Britain in lease of war, 2 i A partial list of the other victims of American imperialism arrested in When questioned he said he did not Cuba with Julio A. Mella at the behest care to venture an opinion on whether | Of the American sugar trust was made | or not this action would change the| Public today by the United States sec- |relations. between Turkey and Great|tion of the All-America Antl-Imper- letsatn. ialist League. The list, Just re- ceived from Havana, includes some of the best-known labor leaders in Cuba: | Alfredo Lopez Arencibia, Manuel G. Frenandez, Sandalio Junco, Antonio ow LONDON, Dec. 17—No official no- (Continved on page 2) CANCEL CONTRACT WITH GRIBBENASEXTON PLANT Lubliner andfTirinz, {he Chicago moving picturestheatre magnates, have cancelledaa'contract with the of their biggest and most beautiful theaters on the northwest side, This contract was a large one as it in- cluded the heating apparatus for two large apartment buildings on either side of the theater also. FINKS KIDNAP AND SLUG TWO UNION PICKETS Detective Agency Head Attacks Polishers Alexander Goreeki and Joseph Kra- son were severely ybeaten up by slug- gers, reported towbe city detectives in the pay of the struck concern, as they were picketing the Cribben, Sexton & company stove mandfacturing plant located at Chicago Ave. and Sacra- mento Blvd. As the pickets were pacing back and forth, an automobile owned by I. (Continued!on paxé 2) London Trades Council Sends Communists to Labor Party Meeting LONDON — (FP) —.The London Trades council refuses to enforce the Communist exclusion that the Labor party decided on at the Liverpool con- ference, and has elected three Com- munists as its. representatives to the London Labor party. The London Trades council is the central trade union body for the whole of London. Of the 21 Communists nominated by local Labor parties in London, eight were elected in the recent mu- nicipal elections. The Communists were in nearly every case put forward by gffe trade unions. ritish at Mosul in the Near East. struck Cribben, Sexton & company | stove manufacturing plant for the | “Universal” heating system, which | was to have been installed in one | Penichet, Octavio Garoia, Rafael S. Marrero, Francisco M. Breteau and Manuel Lendrove. Mella, who is general secretary of the Communist Party of. Cuba, is en- tering upon the fourtneeth day of his hunger struke. The Machado govern- ment of Cuba, always a’ready tool of Ambassador Crowder and the sugar barons, shows no sign of relenting. Colonos Still on Strike, The strike of the colonos against the big American-owned sugar cen- WORLD COURT FIGHT OPENS AS PACIFISTS IN THE SERVICE OF IMPERIALISM FLOCK 10 CAPITOL ays bac erg, Aacetanaiy thé repressive measures of the gov- WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The long-heralded world court. nment. Military “supervisors” have | fight, which bids fair to repeat the memorable league of*nations | 1.0, piaced at all strategic pelle al struggle, began in the senate today. s .___|the affected district. Some of the cén- |. Three years of evasion, side-stepping and pigeon-holing |(rals (or grinding mills) have regular came to an end when senate resolution No. 5 was called up to |detachments of soldiers assigned to become the unfinished business of the chambers. It will hold the | them. (Continued on page 2) three years. By SEN. CLAUDE C. SWANSON (Leader of the fight to join the World Court) H ros permanent court of interna- tional justice is an additional in- strumentality to be used by the United St , when adhered to, for the settlement of international dif- ferences and the preservation of world peace. | believe the president of the United State jarnestly ad- vocating it and believe the world court resolution will be adopted. ‘The subject will be debated and will be kept before the senate as con- tinuously possible until disposed of. There is no disposition on the part of its proponents not to have a full, fair and open débate of the subject, and | have seen no disposi- tion from any source toward a fili- buster, If a filibuster should ce- velop, there will be sufficient time to determine upon a counter course and bring about ratification of the world court plan. LEM CASINO, TIGTH ST. & LENOX AVE. SOVIET UNION CELEBRATES THIRD YEAR OF PROMBANK’S ACTIVITIES | This eyent was marked by Centralize Financial Resources. The president of the supreme council of national economy of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, F. B. Dzgr Commercial-Industrial News that) Prombank is the nearest assistant of the | with Julio A. Mella dying in his pris- (Continued on page 3) |Three Views of zhinsky, indicated in an article in the ;By SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH (Leader of the opposition to the World Court) Y contention is that the world court should be divorced from the league of nations, As it is now, it is a component part of the league, a department of the league, and there is no possible way, as a prac- tieal proposition, to avoid becoming identified with the league if we join the world court as proposed. What- ever may be said in favor of a world court, an independent judicial tri- bunal, that is not the proposition | which we have before us. We are asked to join a tribunal which is the legal adviser and counsellor of the league and whose opinions and judg- ments, including its advisory opin- jon are to be enforced by the gue, even by military force if necessary. It seems to me utterly untenable to contend that in joining such a tribunal we do not become in all practical effect a member of the league. “The case of Mella and his com- rades involves more than @ mere strike,” warns Mafuel Gomez, secre- tary of the All-American Anti-Impe- rialist League, in a bulletin issued to- day. “It makes urgently necessary a united front between all the oppressed peoples of the ‘American empire’ with MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 17—The third year of the existence of the |the forward-looking workers of the Commercial & Industrial Bank of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics | United States against the ever-widen- (Prombank) has just been brought to a close. ! i the whole Russian press and brought forth numerous articles, interviews and |The oppressed peoples are suspicious informative memoranda, characterizing the work of the bank-for the past of all Americans, and with reason, It ing menace of American imperialism. is up to the American workers to show that they have no part in the imperialistic schemes of Wall Street and Washington, and to lend support to their exploited brothers abroad. (Continued on page 2) the World Court| SYAReON. the democrat, speaks for the Wall Street banking com- bine that controls the democratic party. Instead of guarantecing peace, as Swanson contends, both the, league and the court stimulate new wars. The republican party also supports Wall Stre proposal that the United States enter the court. Borah is an insurgent, speak- ing for the middle and far west in- dustrialists. He thinks the court would be all right separated from the league. This is utopian, because every court must have its police to enforce its decrees. In this c: the nations affiliated with the league constitute the armed force and the court is the legal cloak for impe- rialist pillaging. As against the cap- italist league of nations and world court we propose the world revolu- tion in order to establish a league of proletarian nations upon the ruins of capitalism, Admission Fifty Cents. Bring a Package or come prepared to Buy a Package, ; Vi i Tan aT ce A se