The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1925, Page 2

MELLA PROTEST DEMONSTRATION SUNDAY NIGHT Chicago Mass Meeting at Northwest Hall Wholesale deportations of Cubans, Panamans and Costa Ricans from their native lands “for expression of anti-American opinions;” “indefinite postponement” of the presidential election in Haiti at the command of Military Governor John H. Russell; arbitrary attacks upon the Filipino independence movement by Gen. Wood; intrigues of American finan- ciers in China; move of American imperialism to share in the partition of Arica; military strike-breaking oc- cupation of the City of Panama, with jailing and slaughter of Panaman workers—these are only a few of the incidents marking the latest de- velopment of American imperialism, which will be exposed before the workers of the antl-imperialist pro- test meeting at Northwest Hall to- morrow night, 7:30 p. m. The primary purpose of the meet- ing is to protest the imprisonment of Julio Antonio Mella and the twelve Cuban labor leaders arrested with him at Havana, at the dictation’ of the American sugar trust. A cable received yesterday from Cuba indi- cates that President Machado, a Wall Street puppet, is bringing back-stairs influence to bear upon the courts to secure a summary conviction of Mel- la and his comrades, Mella is still on hunger strike in prison, Persecutes Cuban Workers. “The reaction in Cuba continues,” says a letter just received from the Communist Party of Cuba, of which Mella is general secretary. “The gov-| ernment, completely sold out to Wall Street, is trying to make the Cuban} workers and peasants bear the bur-| den of the crisis caused by the drop | in sugar prices. Sugar cane workers | are in some cases being forced to| work without remuneration except} their meals. Orders of arrest have! been issued against 44 of the best-| known labor leaders of the Cuban! movement, 23 of them Communists. | Only 13 have been apprehended by the police so far, but the search for the others goes on.” Protest Meeting Tomorrow. Tomorrow night’s protest meéting in Ohieago is under the joint aus- pices of the Al-America Anti-Imperial- ist League (United States section) IT STARTS MONDAY N Monday's DAILY WORKER there will begin a series of articles by WILLIAM F. DUNNE, analyzing the results of the special con- vention of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Just adjourned at Philadelphia. Dunne has been in attendance at the Philadelphia convention sending In dally news stories. His articles will summarize the con- vention results and analyze thelr meaning. The I. L. G. W. U. Convention Adjourns (Continued from page 1.) League but for others who had been expelled and suspendee quring the re- cent struggle of the membership against the whole expulsion and class collaboration policy of the machine, only a modified form of amnesty was granted—the convention merely rein- stated them in the unions and left ti to the locals to grant them full mem- bership privileges or not as they see fit. Battle Over Amnesty. The report of the committee on the question of amnesty, made by Amdur and Antonini, was a cheap and unsuc- cessful attempt to evade the whole issue of political offenses in the union —one of the biggest issues in this convention and before the member- ship. The report stated that the commit- tee recognized no difference, between the members expellea during the in- ternal struggle and other offenders, but Hyman tore this view to shreads with some of the finest satire heard at thé convention. Hochman, whose services to the machine were rewarded with a vice presidency, tried to defend the com- mittee report by reading a leaflet denouncing the machine as a sample of left wing propaganda, but only suc- ceeded in making matters worse, Offer Proof of Gangsterism, The Sigmanites paid dearly for their hypocritical handling of the am- nesty issue, for no sooner had Hoch- man petered out than Goretzky was on his feet displaying a collection of documents, none of which was chal- lenged, offering to prove that the ma- chine had hired. gangsters, paid them thirteen hundred dollars and procured the beating up of members of the union. Rubinstein of Local 2 was also on the floor throwing a challenge to Sig- man which the latter did not care to accept. The machine cannot fight on this issue. It can only sit and wait for the storm to blow over and hope for the best. To Supervise Referendum, To supervise the referendum on im- portant questions whicn will be held ti soonel than six months and not later than a year after the convention, and International Labor Defense. The Place of meeting, Northwest Hall, is at the corner of North and West- ern avenues. CELEBRATE 20TH ANNIVERSARY. Chicago workers will celebrate, the 20th anniversary of the 1905 Russian revolution and the 100th anniversary of the Decembrist uprising in the Schoenhofen Hal!, corner Ashland and Milwaukee Avenues, tomorrow after- noon at 2 o'clock. An excellent con- cert program has been arranged at which the Jewish, Lithuanian, and Lettish singing societies will sing and the Russian string orchestra of the Workers House will play. There will be many speakers in English and a committee representing both the Jett and right will be chosen, each side selecting its representatives, The left wingers aré ‘saying already that the referendum’ Will give them con- trol of the next convention, A number of internal reforms have been authorized by the convention, notably the change in the mode of re- presentation to the’ New York joint board, but other important measures such as the shop delegate system were delayed and sabotaged by the machine until a-discussion of it was possible only in.the closing hours of the session. In spite of the rush of business on the last day the Sigmanites made a Place for Hillquit on the program. His speech was a plea for unrry combined with @ eulogy of the present officials other languages, and contained what t probably the en 1 nt me ins we | FROM CUBA TO THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS LIBERTY IS BEING STRANGLED TO PILE UP PROFITS FOR WALL STREET Anti-Imperialist Protest Meeting Tomorrow, Sunday, 7:30 P M. Northwest Hall North and Western Aves. dulio A. Mella is dying in a Cuban jail for opposing the American Sugar Trust. SPEAKERS: Wm. F. Dunne, also NéBvo, Cuban and Filipino speakers. Auspices All-America Anti-Imperialist League and International Labor Defense. ‘Sinuevanteareenccnneeananeaennait ee ee TTT MLL ULL TONIGHT! Come to the CONCERT AND DANCE to be held at Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., Chicago For the Benefit of Jewish Daily Freiheit and Y. W. L. Solos from Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra—Songs—Recitations _ Joint Auspices Freiheit Youth Clubs and Young Workers (Communist) ‘ League. ADMISSION 35 CENTS. (Doors Open 7:30 P. M.) TONIGHT! largest numbers of personal pronouns of the first person ever heard in one oration, The Real Achievement, The real achievement of this con- vention will not be found in the offi- cial minutes except as they record from day to day the struggle of the left wing. The real achievement of the convention is the hardening and consolidation in three weeks of strug- gle of the left wing bloc, its gaining of invaluable experience in maneuver- ing and its consciousness of its power. For the left wing in the American labor movement the I, L, G, W. con- vention holds a great wealth of con- crete lessons which, when system: atized and applied will make a tre- mendous contribution to the whole struggle of the militant workers against reaction as it appears in the trade union movement of the United States. The left bloc came out of the convention stronger numerically and organizationally than it went in and this in itself is some achievement in one of the largest unions affiliated to the American Federation of Labor. Rank and Filers Good Fighters. The left wing delegates on the last day of the convention showed the strain of the prolonged session. Every session was an ordeal and especially for those rank and filers for whom this is the first convention and who came thru with colors flying and to whom much praise is due, The Sigman machine ts not happy 2 a result of its empty convention victory; its morale is low, the mem- bership has no confidence in it and with the convention record in its hands the left wing can now proceed to extend and consolidate its influence in the large centers outside of New York, Left Holds the Future, The record of the left wing is in striking contrast to that of the ma- chine in this convention. The left fought for the basic needs of the mem- bership day in and day out, and it has nothing to fear from the machine except that in their desperation the reactionaries will continue the provo- cation of the split which was the principal feature of their convention strategy, The convention showed plainly that the life and growth of the Internation- al Ladies’ Garment Workers as an ef- fective instrument of the workers de- pends upon the rapid increase in the mass strength of the left wing, THE DAILY WORKER STRIKEBREAKERS AT EDISON CO. Scabs Unable to Turn Out Strack Work (By Worker Correspondent.) The Edison Electric Appliance com- pany, 62nd avenue and 19th street, unable to get any workers to scab on the striking sheet metal workers has decided to force the scabs that are in the plant to! work overtime. Shortly afternoon esterday deputy sheriffs escorted Bill Krause and Bar- ney Mitchell out of the shop and to their homes. It was rumored on the picket line that these two strike- breakers had worked overtime and that they were being escorted out to get a little sleep in order to be able to do the same again today. Belleve In Santa Claus. The workers that’ ecabbing in the shop are | believers in Santa Claus, as they expect the com- pany to fill their Doc! with silver dollars this Christmas their scab- by practices. One jot} them boasted that the presents that the company was going to hand out would be large and that he would be satisfied to get the present and be called scab for many years to come: What disillu- sionment this sentle believer in the legend of Santy Claus will receive! The picket line at the plant has], turned away many workers who are out of a job and came past the plant, imtending to apply for work. The union men were successful in pull- ing out another of the scabs, thus diminishing the force. Little Work Comes Out. Tho the company is making the scabs work overtime, little work is being turned out as, those that have remained are not able to do the work that the skilled mechanics have performed in the plant, Break Prohibition Law. One of the pickets on the line at the plant remarked today, “Where in hell is the prohibition department? Look at these gunmién going around all lit up. Why, hell,othey’re break- ing the eighteenth amendment here left and right. If we‘went out and got drunk that way,:we’d be down in the coop sobering off, but these guys can do as they please because they have got the company with them.” —_— . “Living Newspaper” Out Tonight. The third issue of”! he living newspaper. issued by the Yhicago worker correspondents of he Novy Mir, will He; out Saturday, Dec. 19, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. ¥ PITTSBURGH FOR UNIFICATION. AND MASS WORK PROGRAM OF C. E. C. BY OVERWHELMING VOTE (Special to The Oxily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Dec, 18—The meeting of the district’ executive com- mittee of the Pittsburgh district and the membership meeting which were held here on Wednesday and Thursday have gone on record. overwhelmingly for support of the central executive committee program for unification of the party and the development of our work among the masses. The question was first discussed in the district executive committee which voted eleven in favor and two opposed and one abstaining for the cures unity resolution. The district execu- tive committee of the Young Work- ers League also discussed the resolu- tion and adopted the resolution by a vote of nine in favor, one opposed and temporariry abstaining until after the membership meeting. The membership meting held Thurs- day night was one of the largest held in Pittsburgh recently. After a thoro discussion of the unity resolution, it was approved by a vote of O4in favor and 12 against, 4 of the comrades Present abstaning from voting. The Young Workers League committee members who had abstained’ in the vote on the previous day voted for the unity resolution at the membership meeting and declaredjtheir future sup- Port of the central executive commit- tee, e BORAH OPENS SENATE FIGHT‘ ON WORLD COURT IN FIERCE (Continued from page 1). democratic absentees and one vacancy when the poll was taken, Big Guns in Reserve. It will be the task of the irreconcil- ables to wean over enough of the un- committed ones, and wean away enough of those nominally committed to reach their goal of 83 votes, It will be no easy task, and were the debaters of lesser renown than Borah, Johnson, Reed, et al, it would be writ . . (Special to The SPEECH AGAINST ADVOCATES . ee ten off by underwriters as a hopeless undertaking. ‘ The irreconcilables are reserving their major fire until after the Christ- mas recess, Senator Walsh, democrat, of Mon- tana, was scheduled’today to’ deliver the principal speech, Walsh, like Swanson of Virginia; who spoke yes- terday, is for the league as well as the court. € . * - Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 18,—Senator William B. Borah, republican, of Idaho, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, and implacable foe of the league of nations and the world court, launched his long-awaited fight in the senate this afternoon against adhesion to the court, The galleries quickly filed to capacity as Borah took the floor. Washin- ton had long been eager to hear his attack upon the administration’s world ——$$<$ court program. Borah, after denouncing the court a8 a creature made by the league of nations to do the league's bidding, in- troduced three reservations designed to emphasize America’s aloofness from the political entanglements of Europe. Borah concluded a vigorous speech against adherence by calling upon his republican colleagues not to vote the United States into the court just be- cause a Court was endorsed in the re- publican platform, New York Membership Must Report Monday NEW YORK CITY, Dec, 18—Urgent party matters require that all com- rades who are free or who can take off a few hours on, Monday, Dee. 21, should report at the district office, 108 East 14th Street, New York City, at 11 a, m. on a matter of utmost importance to the party. No one should fail to attend who can possibly manage it. t } Mussolinis in the Trade WORK OVERTIME! Unions Talk at Banquet About “Popular Rights” the capitalist powers have no inten- By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY the December (Christmas) edition of the Painter and Decorator, the official organ of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, arrives. More than half of its space is given over to the report of the union's delegation to the October convention of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor convention at Atlantic City. Anyone with scissors, paste and a lead pencil could have prepared this report in fifteen minutes from the official printed minutes of the A. F. of L. convention, : The only genius shown is in cutting out the reaction- ary speeches and printing them in full, while bey semblance of progress displayed at Atlantic City is carefully censored, * J This report, that is typical of the accounts that all stand- pat delegations to the A. F. of L. convention are making to their organizations, comes at the same time that 130 trade union and “public officials” are banquetting Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., in Washington. Lawrence Todd, the cap- itol representatives of the Federated Press, regales us with this information: “The keynote of the speeches and of the letters read from absent labor executives, Including President Green of the American Federation of Labor, and President Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, WAS A RENEWAL OF PLEDGES OF DEFENSE OF POPU- LAR RIGHTS in the spirit of the first LaFollette.” . e ° ° The membership of the Painters’ Union, for instance, in common with the rank and file of other organizations, should know how their so-called “popular rights” are assassinated in the union. President George F. Hedrick, the expulsionist, head of the painters, was chief of his union's delegation at Atlantic City, and there was no minority. The report is therefore unanimous, It starts out with full publication of the speech of Hed- rick’s fellow expulsionist, Fritz Tarnow, spokesman of the German fraternal delegates, who contributed not a single idea to the gathering. Any reactionary on this side of the Atlantic, without the social-democratic label, could have done as well. The historic plea for world trade union unity, delivered by A. A, Purcell, of the British delegation, is dis- missed with seven critical lines. But President Green’s-cow- ardly attack on Purcell, when the British delegate had no opportunity ‘to reply. is also published in full, with special efforts being made to draw, attention to it, e . * This is merely another example of how the labor offi- cialdom that talks about “popular rights” at banquets, plays a Mussolini role in actual practice. It may be well to remem- ber that the painters’ delegation, in addition to Hedrick, in- cluded Charles J. Lammert, general secretary-treasurer; Nick Smith, Local Union No. 19; P. H. Triggs, Local) Union No. 257; John T. Doyle, Local Union No. 43; Charles J. Eisenring, Local Union No, 341, and Joseph F. Kelley, (al- ternate) first general vice-president. These names were signed to the report that made a.virtue off censorship thru the suppression of important developments at the Atlantic City A. F. of L. convention. oe “ee ° & The painters’ journal could well dispense witha few pages of jokes and bourgeois propaganda and conduct an open forum to contain the contributions of the union’s mem- bers discussing vital b age sper The rank and file must raise and win this demand. It should lead to the exposure of the practices of the Hedrick outfit and day when at least a strong minority will sit in the delegation of the painters’ union at A. F. of L. conventions. This applies equally to all other international unions, without exception. ASWESEEIT -:- ByT.J.0’Flaherty (Continued from page 1) gime who was prepared to go to Rus- sia and live for two years to experi- prepare the way for the bv? sees NOT A CHRISTMAS BASKET FUND BUT THE MONEY WILL Come in "Handy Pro- vided the Customers Do “Processional” is one of those plays that needs an introduction because it has not the limb display of a@ Follies chorus or the merry suggestiveness of a “What Price Glory?” Hence it has not been so loudly cursed as the one or so shockingly advertised as the other, The play that we are just now writing about might have remained in semi-obscurity for another aeon or so, but for a conspiracy entered into between the Studio Players, the dis- trict office of the Workers Party and this press agent, to resurrect the dead and present it to all who crave good, clean amusement, on the evening of Dec. 27, at Lawndale Hall, 3487 Ogden Ave, corner of Ogden and St. Louis avenue, There are wrinkles in this play—I believe the polished stag® writers have another and more polite term— that were not smoothed out by the Theater Guild when that corporation produced “Processional.” The fact is that the play has got a lot of dyna- mite stored away in its innards that the Theater Guild were afraid to touch off, lest the $50.00 contributions from the condescending bourgeoisie might go a-glimmering, But be that as it may. The author of the play is John Howard Lawson, It is a satire on present day life, done so cleverly that the audience is warned to be on the job intellectually, every minute of the time, It is one of those de-bunking plays that only happen occasionally. There are plenty of laughs in it and this is no world for those who have not yet learned to laugh. tion of even reducing their arma- ments, Pe rd accepting Rakovsky, the Russian ambassador to France, President Doumergue heard the Bolshevik say this: “The people of the Soviet Union are firmly attached to peace as an indispensible condition for the de- velopment of their country and salute with joy any real progress on the part of more intimate political and eco- nomic collaboration with the govern- ment, and people of France.” To which Doumbergue replied that “the disposition by which you are animat- ed, coupled with your experience, will permit us to undertake with confi- dence the consideration of the difficult- les still existing between our two countries.” y eee yes 80 many years ago France was waging war against Soviet Russia, In those days French statesmen said they would never shake hands with the “bloody Bolshevik.” But the Red Army won and that settled that. Now France is not only shaking hands with a Soviet envoy but with one who is a leader in the Russian Communist Party. In the near future we may en- joy the spectacle of Calvin Coolidge receiving a Soviet ambassador with words just as sweet and just as mean- ingless, It must not be assumed that there is no danger of war between Soviet Russia and the capitalfst pow- ers simply because they have recog: nized the workers’ government. They are only marking time, ADY ASTOR’ recently offered to ay the passage to Russia of “any ence ‘the joys of Bolshevist rule’” as the addle-brained parasite put it. She had many offers, but she refused to fulfill her promise unless she can get the “right kind of man to undertake the test.” What about hiring our Mr, Nosovitsky or the rum sleuth Spolansky? Those gentlemen would be willing to turn an honest penny at any task that is sufficiently filthy. What the lady wants is a first-class stool-pigeon and sneak. a ere Co CHARLES SWEENEY of Spokane, Washington, the gal- lant gentleman who organized a squadron of American aviators to help the French bomb Morrocan vil- lages and murder women and chil- dren, has been honored by the French government with the high rank of grand officer of the Legion of Honor. A wolf turned loose among a flock of sheep had a hazardous job compared to these cowards, But then, Sween- ey’s father was a scab-herder, His son is not degenerate, Young Workers League and the Freiheit Youth to Entertain Tonight You will be present at the Concert and Dance to be held tonight at Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd, if you want to enjoy yourself and at the same time help to support the Young Workers League and the Frei- heit. An interesting program has been arranged, If you want to thoroughly un. believer in the present Bolshevist re-|deistand Communism—-study it. The manager of the Studio Players in an exclusive interview granted to the press agent guaranteed that all normal people will enjoy the show, This is not a threat to those who may feel like making a legitimate critic- ism., This is the first announcement, Others just as snappy are forthcom- ing. P. S.—The proceeds will be devoted to the activities of District No. 8 of the Workers Party. JEWISH WORKERS CONFER ON RUSS COLONIZATION Every ‘progressive Workingmen’s Circle, Jewish unions, radical organi- zations, will send delegates or their officials to the conference for the Jewish Colonization in Soviet Russia to be held Sunday morning, Dec. 20th, at Liberty Hall, 3420 W. Roosevelt Rd., at 10 o’clock. This conference will be represented also by individuals who are interested in the great accomplishments of the Soviet government, colonizing the Jews that were compelled under czar- ism to live a life of idlers and shop keepers, to become productive peag- ants and tillers of the soil. This con- ference is held as a starting point of a big campaign to interest every Jew- ish worker, every radicar and progres- sive organization to take part in the great reconstruction work that goes on in Soviet Russia to colonize the Jews on the soil and also to bring them into industrial lite of the coun- try. Henry Ford Forsakes the Czarists’ Cause to Get More Orders (Continued from page 1) ‘s living more obscurely simply to issist in an easier death for his repu- ‘ation as a white guard counter-reve ‘utionist. He was always a strong Korniloy man. : Dreamed of Vast Estates. Ford ones dreamed of taking over large tracts of land in Russia inelud- ing mineral and water power re sources, as soon as the Romanove were re-established. Undoubtedly, an understanding existed, Ford's right-about-face in his opin- ion as to how best to exploit Russian resources and may be due in part to visits paid to his offices by such persons as Anna Louise Strong, and his desire for more profits. Russian, Workers Watch, The Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics stands a chance of benefitting greatly from any negotiations opened with the Ford interests, But his past associations will not be forgotten and the representatives of the revolution- ary workers and farmers of Russia will be on their guard against the Shinkerenko of Ford's staff, That Ford has changed hig attitude | toward Soviet Russia may indicate changes are imminent in Washing: ton, Ford is closer to the Coolidge ad- ministration than he has been to any other. And Ford likes to in the fleld, — ee Why not? Ask your neighbor, to subsoribel !