The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 23, 1925, Page 2

Page Two CHICAGO LABOR DEMANDS RECALL OF AMBASSADOR “Release Cuban Labor Leaders,” Workers’ Cry Placing the full responsibillty for the plight of Jullo A. Mella and his twelve imprisoned comrades in Cuba upon the shoulders of American im- perialism, a mass meeting of Chicago workers at Northwest Hall, corner North and Western avenues, Sunday night protested against the intrigues of the American sugar trust on the island and unanimously demanded that the United States government recall Ambi dor Crowder and abrogate the treaty which forces Cuba to main- tain the notorious “Platt amend- ment” to her constitution in the in+ terests of American Imperialist dom- Ination, The meeting was one of many to be held in all the important elties of the United States, under the Joint auspices of the All-America Anti-imperialist League (U. 8. section) and International Labor Defense. Demand Immediate Release. The meeting further demanded im- mediate release of all those kept in jail in Cuba by American inffuence. Quick action is necessary, it was pointed out, if Mella and his com- rades are to be saved. Mella is in a desperately serious condition as a re- sult of the long hunger strike he has been carrying out in prison. William F. Dunne, the principal speaker, gave a survey of American imperialist history with regard to Cu- ba, beginning with the unprovoked war of aggression of Spain in 1898. One of the slogans of this war, he de- clared, was “Via Cuba libre!” (Long live free Cuba!) but Cuba today is suffering under a reign of terror such as even the black regime of the Span- ish General Weyler did not surpass. Under the domination of the sugar trust and the National City Bank of New York, the real “owners” of Cu- ba, colonos in the sugar fields are being forced to work at the point of the bayonet for a bare subsistence, while labor leaders who attempt to organize the sugar slaves are impris- oned, trade unions are smashed and all who protest against American im- perialism are persecuted by the sub- servient Machado government. Workers Must Fight Imperialism. “The greatest share of the responsi- bility for fighting American imperial- ism,” declared the speaker, “Tests upon us—the workers of the United States. The offictal bureaucracy of the trade unions does not take up this task Instead it strives to extend American imperialism by poisoning and rendering harmless the labor movements of the subject countries, while at the same time sharing the ii-gotten gains of imperialism thru the profits of so-called labor banks, in- surance schemes, etc. This makes our responsibility for determined struggle all the greater. We must win the trade unions for class strug- gle, and away from the policy of ‘class collaboration,’ built upon the foundation of imperialist exploitation. ere, inside the very fortress of Amer- ican imperialism, we can strike the most telling blows at the monster that has become the universal exploiter, the enslaver of all the world!” Other speakers included Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League, George Brewer, a young Negro who told of the struggle of the Negroes against race discrimination and oppression in this country; Vicente Orbet, a Fili- pino, who described the iniquities of the rule of Gov. Gen. Wood in the Philippines, and George Maurer, sec- retary of the Chicago branch of Ivier- uat‘onal Labcr Defense. Adopt Protest Resolution. A resolution demanding complete and immediate independence for the Filipino people was unanimously adopted, copies of which ar to be for waried to President Coolidge, to the Filipive independetce Mission now at Washington and to the Philippine legislature, He will like it! Give your union brother a sub to The DAILY WORKER, Admission TITLED BRITISHER SPILLS THE INDIA RUBBER BEANS IN PRESS (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Dec. 21.—Government circles were not too pleased today with, a frank discussion of the rubber situation which appeared yesterday in Lord Riddel’s News of the World under the heading, “Rubber Is Wiping Out Eng- land’s Debt to the United States.” “With rubber fetching today a dollar a pound, America within four years will have pald this country the equivalent"$f the British war debt of four billion dollars,” said the News of the World, “Every American who is trund- ling about in his motor car will have the satisfaction of knowing that thru rubber tires he is helping the British pay off the debt they incurred to save humanity.” Reports that Secretary Hoover plans to encourage the planting of rubber in the United States are described by the newspaper as “moonshine.” The government has been prone to deny that there is any artificial in- DETROIT, ATTENTION! Grand Concert and Ball Given by Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish Branches Workers Party For The DAILY WORKER CHRISTMAS on Friday, December 25, 4:00 P. M. at INTERNATIONAL HOME, 3014 Yemans St.,, Hamtramck, Mich. crease in the price of rubber, and such frank discussion as that in the News of the World is discouraged, lest it calls forth American retaliation in the form of restrictions that will raise the price of wheat and other staples to Great Britain. AS WE SEEIT -: (Continued from page 1) more. Ida found it more profitable to tickle the chins of our money kings with feathers than to place red hot tacks on their chairs. That’s about all there is to the mystery. s+ * “(\UR” ambassador to Mexico has been snubbed by the Mexican gov- ernment, according to reports eman- ating from American circles in Mex- ico, When Mr. Sheffield returned to the capital of our southern neighbor and presented the views of the state department, the Mexican official who received him, is alleged to have said something in Spanish that sounded to Sheffield remarkably like a sugges- tion to scratch his ear. Sheffield was disposed to discuss American inter- ests in, Mexico with the foreign of- fice. If we remember rightly, it was understood some time ago that Wall Street had everything its own way in Mexico. It has not and it wili not, no matter how many leaders fali for the gold dollar. es ee HE executive council of the Am- erican Federation of Labor favors the world court. William Green is instructed to keep in touch with de- velopments and acquaint his fellow fakers on the council with his “pro- gressive studies.” Which means ‘that whatever the agents of the Wall Street bankers in Washington whis- per in Green’s ear, Green will blow it thru the fat heads of his co-workers with a wind machine. The. world court is about as useful to labor as the electric chair is to a condemned criminal, ae UR very interesting rerorg tore pictures appeared in the mber 6 issue of the Chicago Tribune. Three of them were related to the Armistice day celebrations in Europe. Marshals Foch and Joffre of France were shown in conversation. The caption said they may have been recalling heart- breaking reverses in the world war and “happier reminiscences of glori- ous triumphs.” Is it possible they By T. J. O'Flaherty | may have recalled the 800,000 French dead, who lost their lives to foist a Dawes’ plan on Germany and an in- visible franc on France? Premier Stanley Baldwin of England, flank: by ex-premiers MacDonald, the social- ist and George and Asquith the liber- als, with the royal family, is shown reading a memorial to Britain’s dead heroes. Over 1,250,000 live, but hun- sry British heroes are trying to exist on a miserable dole, seven years after the glorious victory. se. 8 N the third picture, Germany “proudly lists its battles on a world war monument at Karlsruhe,” and the German soldiers to the number of over a million who were killed in the war are glorified. Many of those who lived after the dread carnage were polished off by the social-demo- cratic leaders in the two revolutions that followed the war. Still another picture shows German divers with a new diving apparatus trying to raise a sunken British submarine. What pup- pets the workers are? They are ‘taught to hate the workers of other nations when it suits their masters and they are used to assist the capi- talists of the same nations when hate no longer serves. ene a BRMANY recently “honored” Bar- on Manfred von Richthofen, the most famous of her war aviators. There was nothing surprising about the German bourgeoisie bringing the remains of a popular hero from its French resting place in order to feel the nationalistic ego of the people. But it did create a ripple of surprise to see a representative of Great Bri- tain’s military forces offering tribute to’a soldier on whose head they had set a price a few years ago. No doubt, the Communist Party of Germany called the attention of the workers to the ease with which the capitalists can forget their differences when it is to their interests to bury the hatchet. The workers have no clashing in- terests yet they clash. But they are fast learning the need for unity, (Continued from page 1) order for the operators, while these operators are defying the union. In Carbondale, Pennsylvania, five local unions have officially protested the loading and shipping of coal by the Sweeney Brothers of Scranton, who are shipping about 100 cars a day from Prompton. The locals intimate that if their request for a discontinuance of this practice is not obeyed, mass pick- eting will follow. The plant is op- erating at full capacity both day and night, with a fore of men heavily guarded by gunmen. The coal is being reclaimed from the old Grav- ity roadbed, loaded into cars and shipped to New York state. Local teamsters and carters are be- ing approached to dissuade them from hauling coal from stripping opera- tions and prepared sizes of bitumin- ous coal furnished by dealers, Scran- ton teamsters have refused to accede to this call for solidarity, Need a General Strike, It is pointed out that the greatest aid to be expected is not funds for relief,- altho many miners’ families re starving and living on charity at present, with prospects for the future getting darker every day. But the greatest aid that could come would be for Lewis to declare a strike in all the mines of America, a 100 per cent 50 Cents. Coal Barons Refuse to Negotiate strike that would take out the main- tenance men, too, and let the opera- tors either yield the union demands or lose their mines to undrgeround water and cave-ins. Miners say that this would not only win the anthracite strike, but would win into the union whole districts of coal mine fields now working under non-union conditions. Iowa Farm Land One Third Depreciated, Says Congressman WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Federal aid in the promotion of farmer co- operative marketing was commended today in the house by Representative Dickins (republican) of Iowa. He de- clared its operation too slow to be of benefit to the present day hard pres- sed farmers. Farm lands in Iowa have depreciated one-third, he said. Corn is selling at 50 cents a bushel, while it costs 62 cents to raise, Milwaukee Council Votes for Government Ownership of Mines (Special to The Dally Worker) MILWAUKEE, Dec, 21.—By 22 to 2 the Milwaukee city council approved a resolution calling upon the federal government to acquire all coal mines and operate them for ‘the public wel- fare. The aldermen were almost unanimous in regarding government ownership as the only permanent cure for fuel shortages. Fight on Prohibition. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—An amend- ment to the constitution, wiping out compulsory prohibition and substitut- ing @ government regulation of the liquor industry, was proposed in the senate this afternoon by Senator Bruce, (D) of Maryland, one of the leaders of the congressional wet bloc. You do, the job twice as well— when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKBDR with your story in it. ’ THE DAILY WORKER SY Membership of: the Amalgamated Called to Act for Union (Continued from page 1) time and again, three times in suc- cession, a cut in wages. They only made a fuss that they would “organize the unorganized” tailors, but have done it only upon the crook of the finger of the manu- facturers’ association (the organiza- tion campaign of Philadelphia.) As it looks now the leaders of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers have made themselves a sub-committee of the bosses’ association, The Reign of Terror. The most ‘active members of the union have been suspended. Locals have been disowned. ‘Workers are thrown out of shops when they dare protest against the criminal behavior of our leaders, Terror has been insti- tuted by which not only the expulsion policy has been put in effect but also individual members have been beaten up, This chapter of history in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers “of America has no comparison. Meet- ings of locals of the union have been turned into battle grounds by Hill- man’s gangsters. ar The official press of; the Amalgam- ated is turned into, sheets by which the Hillman maching/sdught to cover up its criminal actiyities with ether- ized and radical phrages. No word has been said sot fi struggle that the membership 1 against the bureaucrats. Not a syllable has been written about the living problems of the tailoring industry. Everything there had been pianted in rosy colors. Forced to Revolt. The unbearable conditions in the shops on the one fand, the contin- uous conceding policy of the Hillman machine to the bosses on the other, the terror against the membership as a good third, were the forces that brought the membership into uprising against the bureaucrats. The struggle embraces more and more workers over the country. New York is in revolt. There is almost no local where the machine agents have not been defeated, There is no shop where the workers have the slightest faith in our leaders who mislead. They have tried todabricate lockouts and strikes in order to regain the trust of the menthership. But they were mistaken. Themembership re- fuses to recognize them. The only or- ganization that has the trust of the membership in New York is the Amal- samated Action Committee. Chicago Uprising}'Only Begun. The tailors in Chjfago are coming out into open battiagainst the so- called “readjustm and ‘against heir bureaucrats. ‘Phe pogroms that the Hillman agents organized against the membership c@hnot check the fight. On the contrary, it acts only as a spark in powdeié! it spreads the: flame to its full leigth and breadth. Workers of Roclitster, too, have shown that they wish to have nothing to do with the corrifpt Hillman meth- ods and this was shown plainly in their recent election? This is the senti- ment that is prevalént among the workers in our tradé against the Amal- gamated machine. The Hillman game in the Amal- gamated is lost. The bureaucrats feel it. This is the one reason why they hav renewed their campaign of ter- ror on the one hand and peace nego- tiations on the other, The New York locals which elected a commit- tee to speak terms with the bureau- crats play unconsciously into the hands of the machine. There are a few men in the committee who are in earnest and it is to them that we ad- dress the following: 1. Those who desire peace must first of all decide that all expelled members must be reinstated. The dissolved locals must be reorgan- ized. Those vo were thrown out of work becait¥e of their opposition to the Hillman machine must be put to work agaif at their former places, 7 2. The officers .4f the New York Joint board must resign at once and a new election must take place for members of the Joint board and executive committees. 3. The New York organization must be united into one Joint board and each local of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America shall be represented there on’ a propor- tlonal membership basis, abolishing Privileges of one local over another, Those who speak’ of peace must realize that the above is the only basis on which we ¢an come together, If those who speake of peace are in earnest they will not hesitate, a moment in accepting the above, with- out which there is no common ground for a conference, The conferees that will come to- gether upon. these three points as a basis of peace will also have the pro- gram of the Amalgamated Action Committee, which is built up upon the demands of the tailor workers. There is no other program which has for its fundamentals the economic improve- ment of the tailor, The program, in part, is the following: The Program. 1. Under no condition shall an em- ploye be thrown out of the shop. 2. To combat every attempt of the manufacturer to reduce the wages of their employes, be it in the form of “readjustments” as "in Chi Mg Pres. Green, of A.F of L. Took Two Months to Get Out Letter to Aid Miners By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. 'ODAY, William Green, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, finally issues an appeal to all affiliated or- ganizations to contribute funds for the striking anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania. This is an example of the efficiency of the Green regime in control of American organized labor. It has taken two months for Gompers’ successor to write this letter. * * * * It was two months ago, while the sunshine and warmth of October days were still beaming over Atlantic City, that the A. F. of L. convention by unanimous vote, all delegates rising to their feet, decided to come to the aid of the striking miners. ’ Then the convention adjourned. The delegates went back to the bickerings of their various international unions. President Green, according to all reports, went on tour ad- dressing chambers of commerce and other organizations of the business interests, pleading for “peace,” for “friendly relations” between the workers and their bosses. He com- pletely ignored the great industrial war, a crisis in the Amer- ican labor movement, that is raging in the Pennsylvania hard coal fields. To be sure, the A. F. of L. office in Washington sent out a printed copy of the address delivered at Atlantic City by President John L. Lewis, of the miners’ union. This went to “the press” and came from the office of Secretary Frank Morrison, But that was all. White paper, even with ink on it, doesn’t feed hungry strikers and their families. * * * * This is just another act in the bitter tragedy showing how the present leadership of organized labor does not func- tion in the industrial struggle that rages continuously in spite of Green’s class-collaborating orations. The capitalist press has carefully spread the lie that the anthracite strikers are “rich and prosperous,” that they have bulging bank accounts and big automobiles, that they are enjoying the “vacation” the strike has brought them. Per- haps the officialdom believes this stuff. That is one explana- tion of their inactivity. But the Scranton, Pa., Republican, dated Dec. 19, 1925, has just arrived, and over a news dispatch from Pittston, one of the biggest mining centers, there appears the headline: “SOUP KITCHEN LINE-UP IS INCREASED TO SIX HUN- DRED”; “PITTSTON LODGE OF ELKS TO INVESTIGATE SITUATION IN CITY TO DETERMINE EXTENT OF ACTUAL NEED EXISTING.” The item follows: PITTSTON, Dec, 18.—The line-up of youngsters between the age of six and sixteen years at the “free lunch”. handed out at the St. Regis Restaurant, on North Main street, was increased to six hundred this evening, according to a tabulation made this evening by Harold Stein, the proprietor. Patrolmen Merle Finnan and Joseph Sheridan were on duty this afternoon from 4 until 5 o'clock keeping the children in line.. As on yesterday, soup was dispensed with and santiwiches served instead. This afternoon Sigmund Samuels, manager of the Pittston Dry Goods, made known to William Conlon, secretary of the Greater Pittston Chamber of Commerce, that if any public organization opens up a relief station, he will supply the butter and bread that will be needed for the duration of the strike, the relief station to be not only for children, but for grown-ups if it is necessary. An offer has already been made by Daniel O'Shea, manager of the Montrose Beef Company, to supply meat and soup bones, if such a station is opened up. William Coplan, chairman of the Christmas Relief Committee of Pittston Lodge of Elks, stated tonight that an additional thirty applica- tions for aid had been eived in the mail today. Owing to the number of requests reaching 350, the committee have decided to make an investi- gation in an effort to ascertain the conditions really existing in Greater Pittston, It is not known how many of those hungry children come from the families of striking coal miners. But it is a crime that a capitalist sheet is able to publish such a news article, flaunting in the face of the workers their own misery, that must be relieved by the charity of business interests, dispensed under the direction of the local chamber of com- merce, _.,__ If some of these starving children come from the fam- ilies of workers in other trades, made idle thru the strike, then the crime of the American Federation of Labor and its affiliated international unions is all the greater. that is certain is that all these hungry children of the working class. The big fact oys and girls are the They are not the children of the coal barons and their well-paid henchmen. It is also certain that the sight of their children hungry has a demoralizing. effect on the This is a good time of the year to organize oing byte g miners. d relief commit- tees, based ol the trade unions, in every city in the land, to furnish relie for today’s vanguard in the American indus- trial war—the anthracite coal miners of Pennsylvania. Ee EEE any other form as common everyday reduction as in New York, 8. Abolish the production stand- ard, 4. To combat every attempt to Tesucitate piece work, 5. To establish week work over the country. 6. A minimum scale of wages. 7. Open a campaign for the 36-hour week.. 8. One general agreement for the whole clothing industry of the coun- try. 9. To unite into one big needle trade union all the needle trade unions with separate departments for the specific trades. 10, Establish the system of shop delegates who shall become the legitimate body to execute and act upon all union problems. 11. Abolish the Hillman policy of collaboration with the clothing manu- featurers and in its stead, bring in the policy to defend the interests of the workers under all conditions, Enter upon the offensive whenever the first opportunity comes, Call to Action, Comrades! Workers! The left wing of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of the country calls upon you to enter this fight against the Hiliman machine. Only thru ‘strife will the workers pre- or in| serve their union that they have built BESERVE NEM YEAR'S EVE IN CHCAGD FOR THE 7. (LE LBALL AT ITALIAN HALL 649 up by so much suffering, and which was later captured by @ group of ir- responsible politicians, A call to action, workers of New York and of the country over! Or- ganize yourselves and gather about ‘hose who hold the banner of strife. Stand with those who are ready to fight for the interests of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers’ member- ship. Shake off the Hillman machine from your shoulders. It has sold you thru its policies to. the bosses and made the pogroms upon you and your union possible, In no other way can we save our union from annihilation, Let it resound from one end of the country to the other: Down with Hill- manism! Down with gangsterism! Forward to a clean, strong and mil- itant union! Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Action Committee, Boiler Explosion Kills Engineer on ri x Italian Steamship TENERIFE, Canary Islands, Dec, 21 —The first engineer of the Italian mer Asini was killed when a boill- er exploded. The steamer, bound for Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal, put in at this port to bury its dead. CLARK ST. BRITISH MINERS DEMAND RELEASE OF COMMUNISTS Denounce Jeilings as Political Acts (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Dec. 21.—The executive committee of the British miners’ union denounces the action of the British government in jailing the twelve Communists, who were active leaders in the labor movement of England, and joins with the other English unions in their demand thet these working class fighters be im- mediately released: “This committee unanimously pro- tests against the altogether unwar- rantable and severe sentences inflict- ed upon the officials of the Commun- ist Party, considerjng that the whole proceedings were @nfluenced at every stage by political bias. Unite With Other Union, “We unite with the other trade unions in demanding their immediate release and the prevention of this at- tempt to interfere with the freedom of the press, free speech, and person- al liberty of opinion, “Signed on behalf of. the executive committee of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, “Herbert Smith, president, “Rt. Hon. T. Richards, vice-presi- dent. ‘ “W. P. Richardson, treasurer, “A, J. Cook, secretary, Soviet Union Is Ready to Scrap All Her Armaments (Continued from page 1). questions between ourselves and other nations, when those very nations have up to the present refused to recognize us, Moreover, we reject a cardinal doctrine of the league—the idea of the coercion of some states by others. There is yet another reason for our refusal to join the league. I must point out that the insistent invitations that certain members of it are ad- dressing to us come with very ill grace from countries which not only reject all our overtures for mutual ac- commodation, but are actually in occu- pation of our territories.” Referring to disarmament, Tchich- erin said: “After the termination of the war, we were, I believe, the first nation to advocate disarmament and we officially expressed our approval of this policy in our reply to the draft of the treaty of mutual assistance. We not only ve- hemently criticized that treaty for giving enormous international power to a few states, but we rejected it as delaying the practical settlement of the disarmament question. Incident- ally, I have just received the report of the spech made in Moscow by M. Rykoff, chairman of the council of com- missaries, in which he makes the downright offer to abolish not only the army, but also Russian war indus- tries, provided complete disarmament becomes general. He goes on to say that he is ready to give his fullest sup- port to any attempt at even part dis- armament. This readiness of ours to disarm is not a mere rhetorical ges- ture, it is implied in our fundamental attitude to the world. We renounce not only the policy, but even the very idea of conquest. And we need an army and navy only for defense,” Tchicherin in discussing the Locar- no pact declared the pact was part of a drive of the capitalist powers on Soviet Russia and further reitertated Russia's desire for peace by saying “Locarno or not Locarno, we want real peace and the removal of antagon- isms which would tear the whole world to pieces, and we are whole- heartedly ready to make our contribu- tion to this end.” U. S. Court of Appeals Turns Down Plea of Teapot Dome Grafters WASHINGTON, Dec. 21,— Without assigning any reason, the United States court of appeals denied the ap- plication of Albert B, Fall, exsecre- tary of the interior, and E. L, Do- heny, Sr., and B. L. Doheny, Jr., for a rehearing of the appeal they made from the recent decision sustaining bribery indictments against them in connection with the Blks Hill naval oll lease. , Open Air Transport Route Across Florida NEW YORK, Dec, 21.—Florida is to have an air transport line, carry- ing passengers and freight. It will be known as the Florida Airways cor- poration and will operate, at the start, across the southern part of Florida between Tampa, Fort Meyers and Miami, The first route will be opened January 1, and probably will be ex- tended to other cities of Florida, as well as to Atlanta and Cuba, , Four airplanes, purchased from one of Henry Ford's companies, the Stout Metal Airplane company, will form the nucleus of the air transport line. These planes will be flown from De- troit to Florida this week, Admission 75 Cents, Including Wardrobe, n Dancing unti-2 a,