The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1925, Page 1

ome ee ~ | he DAILY WORKER Raives| DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government THE In Chicago, by Outside Chicag Vol. Il. No. aot. Subscription Rates: SIGMAN * fee PAPER MAJORITY WHILE Lis <"%.%* “'S MEMBERS AS LGW. tan. ATION CLOSE By WILLIAM F. DUNNE (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 18.—One hundred and ten tired but still militant delegates cast their votes for Zimmerman for secretary-treasurer of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union at the final session of the eighteenth biennial conven- tion today. Hyman did not vote for himself and he polled one vote less than Zimmerman’s total for the presidency. eat by a paper majority in the convention—the Sigman administration polling 158, votes—but with the big New York locals and the majority of ;the membership solidly behind them, the left delegates go out.of this convention to face, if the snarl- ing, insulting attitude of the Sigmanites is any guage of their Ft intention to make war on the AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY N making an appeal for $200,000 with which to spread christian propaganda, the president of the American Tract Society stresses the need for counteracting the propa- ganda put out by Communists, and subtly hints that big business has no better friend than religion. He says: “Thuoghtful christian people are be- ginning to realize that to offset the effect of this spread of subversive teaching an almost unlimited number of christian tracts is needed.” One of the greatest tracts ever written says This tribute to America’s greatest bunco-steerer should shake a few dol- Jars out of Teddy’s admirers. ee UITE an interesting ‘incident oc- curred at a meeting of the Amert- can Club of Oxford University,*Eng- land. The club invited no less’ a per- son than Comrade Saklatvala ‘to*ad- dress its members. Saklatvala was barred from this country recently by order of the state department, tho he had his passports vised to attend a meeting of the world interparliamen- tary union in Washington. Jt appeats that the American students in Oxford! desired tocrebuke Kellogg: for “his: ze tion. . co Ae aaa all was not serene. An Ameriean student, of the fascis* or American Legion brand wrote 2 Jetter to a local newspaper suggesting that Saklatvala be not allowed to speak. Apparently - the provocative suggestion was not heeded by the American students, but the young boys of the “bullfrog breed,” the sons of the British slave drivers, were there in numbers and tho they took no offense at Saklatvala’s criticism of the American state department, when the speaker dwelt on the infamies of British rule in India and all over the world, they got rough. But so far as one can gather rfom the guarded re- port in the New York Times—a two column story—the American’ students made it quite hot for the interrupters. eee REMIBR RYKOV of Russia threw a bombshell into the camp of the international militarists, who pretend to hunger for peace, when he de- clared that his government was per- fectly willing to abolish the army and avy if the capitalist powers guaran- feed to scrap theirs. This is the kind of language theta lying capitalist * « a diplomat finds {t hard to answer. Of gourse Rykov knew quite well that (Continued on page 2 this gentleman is Roosevelt's | “Nine reasons for going to church.” | left wing and its militant pro- gram, a long, trying struggle. Lift T, U, E. L. Expulsions, Baroff was elected secretary and Ninfo first vice-president. The ma- chine henchmen were taken care of and the left wing allowed a few places on the executive board. The pressure of the left wing brot full amnesty for those members who had been expelled. for mere member+ ship in the Trade Union Educational (Continued on paxe 2) LOPE Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, “at SUNDAY, mail, $8.00 per year, 0, by mail, $6,00 per year. FIVE BANKS CLOSE IN. DENVER WITHIN rwenry-rouR wouRs| | CZARIST CAUSE DENVER, Colo. Dec: 18—The Metropolitan ‘State Bank and the Capitol HII! State Bank closed their doors here ‘today, bringing the num- ber of banks to close up within 24 hours to five. The North Denver State Bank closed after examiners had. taken charge of the Broadway National & Drovers’ National Banks. Total de- posits of ‘$4,000,000 are involved, “Frozen” assets are given as the reasons for the closing of the banks. Depositors fearing loss of their savings have started runs on the other banks in the city, German: Workers Form Triple Alliance to Resist Wage Slashes) BERLIN—(FP)—An alliance of rail- waymen, state and municipal workers and municipal functionaries has been agreed upon at Frankfort-on-Main by the local and district executives of the unions concerned, for. presenting a united front to the employers. This move is hailed as a first step in Ger- many towards imitating the British industrial alliance and presenting a united industrial front regardless of industry or craft. Soviet President 50 Years Old MICHAEL IVANOVITCH KALININ President of the Union of Soviet Republics. IFwY years of age and 27 years of revolutionary work, these fig- ures’ serve to characterize the life his- tory of Comrade Kalinin. Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin is known thruout Soviet Russia and the whole world as the Soviet Union's “oldest,” as the permanent chairman of the central executive committee of our soviets since the death of Comrade Sverdlov. But Kalinin embodies before all the history of our working class, the his- tory of our labor movement and the history of our party. Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. EMBER 20, 1925 eS” FORD ‘FORSAKES' Pal of Czarists | TOGET ORDERS Henry Pals Around with Monarchists (Special to The Ds Daily Worker) DETROIT, Deos18.—Henry Ford has forsaken the | Russian monarchist | movement. in the United States. He | has given it wp as a bad job, a hope-| lessly lost caus | Ford is still) ‘on friendly personal terms with of the monarchist | leaders and B adencs in them. |Gregory Shin mko has “been the most active mgipers of the monarch- HENRY FORD The Flivver King. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY. WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, This issue Consists of Two Price 5 Cents i. WHEELER DESERTS LAFOLLETTE ON WORLD COURT ISSUE AND NOW ~ SUPPORTS IMPERIALISM OF MORGAN | (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Senator Wheeler of Montana, who last year was candidate for vice-president on the LaFollette third party ticket is now definitely back in the folds of his party, and whooping it up for the world court program of the House of Morgan. This lends weight to the belief that his allaged progres- siveism was only for the purpose of making a national reputa- \tion for himself so he would stand better chance of retaining his seat in the senate. He has definitely broken with the LaFollette group by this action, and now stands in the ranks with such reac tionarfes in —.the democratic party as Swan- \son of Virginia, Ashurst of Ari- ist group in to send Shin accredited rep Shinkerenko i and was ready vinced Ford, Shinkerenko’s! zo. tivity marked man im Russia has not been @efinitely The trip has possible F near future, name. will go alone, Lieutenant on Czar’s Yacht. Shinkerenko the private Rom: Bear, before the} revolution. the refuge ni monarchistic exiles, Shinkerenko the shops, erenko is now em- ployed in the® ¢xperimental labora- tories at a good salary. He was the Motor Co. Shinkerenkohas been in the habit of propounding the virtues and holy traditions of tis monarchist cause. But when the»Bord organization lost confidence in the cause, Shinkerenko apparently founkkit as easy to change his mind as to.change his shirt. Prob- ably the great dissillusionment was automatic and imstantaneous. Ford planned his trunk packed Advisors con- ie last moment, that in the mon- archist movement might make him a Shinkerenko did not go. “But the idea of his going | abandoned. been postponed. It is jay make Shinkerenko his confident representative on an industrial mi nh to Russia in the with Shinkerenko prob- ably traveling under an assumed Or ft may be Shinkerenko as a lieutenant on jov yacht, the Polar Fleeing after the revoliition to this country, influences and his to win the confidence Tho working first in ile secrecy not long has also -been a “NATIONAL PARTY the latest uli stunt ot the Ford) Henry Ford’s Home at Dearborn, Mich., Is Mecca for Monarchists FARMERS PLAN FORMATION OF Conference Lays Base) of Farmer-Labor Party By ALFRED KNUTSON. (Special to The Daily Worker) BISMARCK, N. Dak. Dec. 18—The Shinkerenko’ is living in more! prospects that the working farm- humble quartersethan he did when he hai sees ab ab al ant IC mf felt the splendor of the Romanovs was upon him» But it is believed he (Continvet on page 2) WICKS SPEAKS IN GRAND RAPIDS ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON (Special to The Daily Worker) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 18— The lecture on Locarno by H. M. Wicks’ will take place on Sunday afternoon at 2:30, instead of in the evening as en atin a few days ago. The meeting witt be held in Work- ers’ Hall, 21% Monroe Northwest, Grand Rapids. Admission charge is 25 cents. farmer-labor party at the conference which they are now holding here. The farmers are sick of both old parties. This conference will have a national | significance, because the plan is to | call a cofvention later of farmers and workers from all northwestern states with the view of forming a national farmer-labor party. William Bouck from Washington, Charles B. Taylor and Pat Wallace | |from Montana, Soltis of Minnesota and Tom Ayres of Somn Dakota are preent at the conference for the pur- pose of aiding the formation of such a party. It is likely that a preliminary pro- gram calling for nationalization of all basic industries will be adopted. Make your sub every week!” slogan—“ A IRAK CRISIS HITS BALDWIN “PARTY UNITY; Britain Is Conciliatory Toward Turkey (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Dec, .18——The action of Turkey in greaking: diplomatic rela- tions with the kingdom of Irak, which is a British mandate, has put the Baldwin’ government. on the defensive and “unofficial” sources. reveal that the government's policy is to be con- eiliatory, with an effort to bribe Tur- key by promises of compensation in the way of land grants elsewhere. When Prime Minister Baldwin read the text of the league of nations deci- sion in the house of commons yester- day afternoon it became apparent that there is going to be serious opposi- tion to the extention of the British mandate over Irak for another 25 years, not only from labor and liberal opposition, but from a strong element in Baldwin’s own party as well. Answering questions on the crisis Baldwin agked the house to wait un- til the return of L. 8. Amery, the colonial minister from Geneva, when an opportunity wjll be given for a full debate. | | | court zona, and Walsh, the senior senator from Montana. In this same aggrega~ tion in support of the world court are the Coolidge-Mellon-Kellogg repub- licans of the type of Cummins of Towa, McKinley of Illinois, Watson of Indiana, and LaFollette’s principal op- ponent, Lenroot, Second Day's Debate, Debate on American adherence to the world court swung leisurely into the second lap in the senate today while waves of propaganda for and against the court rolled high on Capitol Hill. Senatorial mail bags were over- flowing with exhortations to join and protest against joining. Most of the former were in the shape of form let- ters, round-robins, and printed liter- | ature ,timed to arrive with the start of the battle. Most of the latter were in the form of individual letters from foes of the court who seem just to have awakened to the realization that barring unlooked for upsets, the sen- j ate is going to vote the United States into the court. Pacifist Servants of Morgan. Veteran members of the senate said that the organized “pressure” on the issue from specially formed clube, peace organizations, church s0- cieties, etc., was the greatest they had ever seen on a specific issue before the senate. Most of these are mere pawns of Wall Street. The senate. plans to let this “pressure’ ‘wear itself out naturally. There is no disposition to hurry a vote, and no. way of doing-so even if there were a disposition to do.so. It will be late in February or March, it is be- lieved, before a showdown can be had, andthe senate doesn’t believe the “pressure” can be maintained that long. The herculean task confronting the irreconcilables in-overcoming the odds against-them was-emphasized today by a count of noses in the senate, Poll Favors Court. A poll taken on this, the second day of the long struggle, disclosed that the proponents of the court have 63 votes they can count on as a minimum. This is within three of the 66 neces- sary to vote adherence. The count showed 30 republicans and 33 democrats for the court on the Harfing-Hughes-Coolidge terms, 6 re- publicans for the court only if specific and far-reaching reservations are at- tached; 7 republicans, 3 democrats, and 1 farmer-laborite, against the present court in any form; and 10 re- publicans and 1 democrat not conimit- ted and apparently on the fence. There were 2 republican absentees, 3 (Continued from page, 2.) Decembrists Put to Death in)Czarist Russia 100 Years Ago “Wwe 'E could not expeet a proleta- rian class ideology, we could not demand it from the people of those days... The working class only began to form in the days of the Decembrists and therefore * there could be no proletarian class party... The proletariat must and docs appreciate the Decem- brists who dared to leave -their privileged class, who sacrificed their lives in those days when the proletariat did not yet ewist.” —G. Zinoviev, “History of the Russian Communist Party.” 8d July 18, 1826 in the courtyard of Petropavlovsk fortress fry, Lenin- grad (then St. Petersburg) were hanged P. I. Pestel, K. F. Rylyeye P. G. Kakhovsky, M. A, Bestuz! Ryumin, and 8. M. Muryavyev-Apos- tol. What were they hanged for? Be- cause they organized an uprising against the Czar Nicolas the First, known by the nickname of “the Cud- geler.” ‘They all represented the most arig- tocratic families of those days and were brilliant army officers of the guards regiments. 4 ae: substance and significance of that uprising is, of course, not in the program of reforms which they tried to follow (these reforms look ridicu- lous to us) but in the fact that this an open protest, which had seemed to be impossible days. “The cannonade on writes Hertzen, These were not pol- covered Russia. The Decembrists Riliev writes in one of his poems: G08; corer: uprising: was the first expression of in those dreadful the Senate Square aroused a whole generation,” iticians, but consciously self-sacrific- ing martyrs,—intellectuals, lonely, de- voted and lost in the endless snow- themselves recognized this very well. “| know: ruined will be the one who first rises against the oppres- sors of the people. ? am already doomed by fate. But where and when was freedom acquired without sacrifices? I'll die for the country; | feel it, | know it. And with pleas- ure, holy father, | am blessing my fate.” The uprising of the Decembrists is the beginning of the great path of self-sacrifice which was selected by all the best men and women of Rus- freedom, There is a great duty upon those who live in the days of triumphant Come to the Chicago, Ill, sia of that time, by all the fighters for REVOLUTIONARY CELEBRATION of the 20th ANNIVERSARY of the REVOLUTION of 1905 and the 100th ANNIVERSARY of the DECEMBRIST UPRISING SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1925 BEGINNING AT 2 P.M. SHARP _ at Schoenhofen Hall, Cor. Milwaukee and Ashland Av Russian revolution. They have always casts.” “By the order of the crown” tions which spelled life or death to to remember that freedom was not/a committee of inquiry and a court | only by their own efforts, but also by | of justice were appointed. In this | the prisoners were formulated by the committee members, who threatened the efforts of the! self-sacrificing gen-|court, besides the picked army gen- and cursed the prisoners in the at- erations beginning from 1825. 'N the first night after the uprising | numerous arrests were made. Ove: erals, were also appointed a few of the highest officers of the Synod. The uquiry lasted for six months. The | 50 people were:arrested, They were | Prisoners were examined at night. | the war prisoners of the “crown.” Nicolas the First-had no other terms for them. .. In the manifest published upon the which proclaimed a solemn service on the Senaie Square for the sake of “elean- ing up of the place”, the Decembrists ‘suppression of ithe uprising, are referred to as a “bunch of out . Comrade J. LOUIS ENGDAHL,: Editor of The DAILY WORKER, will speak in English. Also Arranged by the Veterans of the Revolution of 1905, The Decembrists write about aces examinations: “at midnight the door of the cett| opens, a veil is thrown over the pris- oner and he is lead in silence over the halls and yards of the fortress. | When the veil was taken off he was already in the large examination hall -/| before the committee of inquiry. Ques-| speakers in other languages. ‘The following will participate in the concert program: Lithuanian, Lettish and Jewish Freiheit Singing Societies, the Russian String Orchestra of the Workers’ House, etc.—over 150 people ADMISSION 25 CENTS. Proceeds for the International Labor Defense. ,, 4 jtempt to wring from them an admis- | sion. of guilt and information against other prisoners. Those who were si- jlent were kept chained in dark cells and starved.” The trial tok place in the absence of the defendants, “What! Have we .already been tried?” asked the surprised. defen- dants when brought into the court room. “Yes, and found guilty”, was the answer, Altogether 121 men were found guilty. The highest criminal tribunal pe tenced all these to death penalty, “The tribunal decided unanimously that these criminals should all be given a death penalty.” But the final sentences were made by the czar him- self. Five were sentenced to death penalty, 88 to hard labor and the rest to be exiled to Siberia or sent into the army as privates. 'N the court-yard of the Petropay- lovsk fortress were put up scaf- folds, They were built slowly and unskillfully, for the hangmen were inexperienced. The scaffolds were tried out first. Berckoff himself, the commandant of the fortress, gave the executioners lessons in hanging. Only in the morning were the scaffolds ready, the nooses were made and ~ greased with lard. The condemned were taken out ot their cells at 2 a. m. They waited till morning, sitting on the grass by the scaffolds, while the preparatiéns were going on. At last eve was ready, The condemned pe ing hands with each other for the time. .A dreadful view, An eye-witness describes what pensd farther. *. . We gould see quite ; faces. ‘They were all calm, but (Continued on page vy "