The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1925, Page 1

| | | | = +s The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Goverriment a} Vol. Il a Re 0 eg & > “#7... Subscription Rates: » Fp v Z Entered as Second-class matt. September 21, 1983, at thi Post Office at Chicago, leat Outside Chicago, r ‘CALL OUT MAINTENANCE MEN AND BITUMINOUS NINERS,’ IS APPEAL OF PROGRESSIVE COAL MINERS By ALEX REID Secretary Progressive Miners’ Committee. The anthracite miners are still on strike—striking for a small In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. increase in wages and a few changes in working conditions, The strike, looked at in the beginning like a vacation to the miners, and accepted by many miners as such, now having run practical- ly four months, finds all concerned in the anthracite in dire want in the winter season with very little to eat and wear, and houses cold for lack of fuel. The anthracite miners’ wages and conditions have been dealt with many times in The DAILY WORKER, and most work- ers understand them. However, for the benefit of readers who have.not yet got the facts we print the following statistics, There are 158,000-workers employed in and around the an- = 2 woe age pay is lessethan $900 per year, or $75 per month, or $37.50 per pay,—of two weeks. From this \ $ VICTIMS TELL OF ATROCITIES Police Methods Rival Spanish Inquisition (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, Dec. 27—The Polish po- lice have instituted a torture system in the Bielostock area among the White Russian workers and peasants) that in its brutality outdoes that of the medieval inquisition. Not satisfied to torture, maim and kill the adult workers and peasants, the “christian” Polish police apply un- heard-of tortures to the young work- ers. - Ting ian ala Young workers are arested, beaten' with chains, thrown to the ground and water forced thru the nose, arms squeezed in a vise, bare soles beaten with soft iron rods in an attempt to force “confessions” of belonging to Communist organizations, Many of the young workers that are arrested, are jailed because of their activity in the trade unions against their bosses. The following affidavits speak for themselves and make plain to every worker the tortures that the White Russian workers and peasants are forced to undergo for the defense of their class interests: + Force Water Thru Nostrils. Document No. 1. A. Greenstein, 16 years of age, carpenter, residing at 12, North Fishmarket street: “I was arested on Aug. 28 and, was examined the next day from 3 p. m. till 7 p.m. During the inquiry I was | repeatedly beater with sticks, -and | water forced into my nose for a whole hour, My arms were squeezed in an} iron vise. In affirmation of all this, witness my signature. 3 (Signed) “A, Greenstein.” Pa Document No. 2. B. Rotschild.—22 years of age, residence 26 North Fac- tory street: N “I was arrested on Aug. 28 and was | brot up for examination four times. During the inquiry [ was repeatedly hit in the face; I was beaten with chains, my arms were placed in an iron vise. 1 was handcuffed, and thrown into the dark cell fro several hours. “During the inquiry, my hands were chained and bound below the knees and I was turned upside down. On my attempting to shout, I was gagged. For one hour water was forced into my nostrils. bf “Apart from this, I was insulted sev- eral times, and more than once my skirt was rafsed, In affirmation of all this, witness my signature. ' - (Signed) “B, Rotschild.” s ee Document No. 3. A. Padomsky, 16 years old, shop-assistant, residing ni Bielostoganskai street. “L was arrested on Aug, 28, and was (Continued on page 4) Sixty-Seven Nildvide in 12 Hours; Break Pre-Christmas Records All records for pre-Christmas hold- ups and robberies were shattered here when 67 robberies took place in 12 hours. im RESERVE NEW YEAR'S EVE IN Ci ( frag sa { / | tacle,....Vietims — with. eyes |was received by Lewis but was re- thracite coal mines. The aver- 37.50 must be deducted the price of expolsives, tools, union dues, coal, ete. Miners Butchered, There are an average of 500 men killed per year in the anthracie.; jIn 1924 there were 538 men killed. | | Besides the fatal injuries there are; | thousands of minor injuries. Classi- | fled as such are broken legs or arms, eyes shot out, ribs cracked, gas or | bowder burns, internal non-fatal injur- ies, ete. Standing outside one of the large hospitals in the anthracite —region, | when the miners are working, you can | see a steady parade of ambulances in- to the hospital carrying the maimed | and torn miners,—indeed the hospitals are well compared with the base hos-| pitals in the world war, and many cases are to be seen in these hospi- tals — victims of gas and powder burns that cause the observer to turn away sick and horrified at the spec- os es. shot, out With skin and flesh toto oe face and bodies, are but a sample of the terrible conditions in the hard coal re- gion, rent, Fabulous Profits, The hard coal operators are organ- ized in one of the largest and most powerful trusts in America, whose profits in 1923 and 1924 mounted into the billions of dollars. Four of those companies alone in 1924 got $17,000,000 profit from the hard coal industry. As against the miners’ demands, the coal barons are demanding a wage re- duction, and changes in working con- ditions that would further reduce the miners’ earning capacity. Many conferences have been ar- ranged for the miners’ representatives and operators since the beginning of the strike but up to the present time all efforts have failed to bring them together. The miners’ representa» tives have accepted the Pinchot basis for settlement, the mayor's committee, and chambers of commerce have put forth a basis of settlement also, which jected by the operators. The offers made as a basis,for set- tlement altho less than the miners or+ iginally demanded and which have been smiled upon by Lewis, and re- jected by the coal barons prove that the operators feel they have a chance to destroy the miners’ union and re- duce the miners’ wages and conditions. The operators thruout the anthra- cite region have launched a campaign of terror. Mililons of dollars are be- ing spent in a flood of propaganda to destroy the morale of the miners, and scare them'‘back to work at the op- erators’ terms. Hundreds of company armed guards are around each mine protecting. the company property,— and ineidentally protecting 10,000 (Continued from page 4) Bars with Coolidge uj on in the] CHICAGO MILITANTS! REMEMBER T, U. E. L. BALL NEW YEAR'S EVE Every left-winger in the Chicago labor movement will be present at the Fourth Annual Ball of the Trade Union Educational League that takes place Thursday ev Gy Dec, 31 and lasts until 2 o'clock in the morning New Years Day, at the Italian Hall, 643 North Clark S| The entire proceeds of the ball will be used to aid the many left- wing papers that are now fighting for a labor party based on the trade unions, recognition of the Soviet Union, world trade union unity and, amalgamation and other militant issues. by mail, $6.00 per year, L. HEAD FEAR SPAIN DECLARES SHE IS NOT “NEGOTIATING” PEACE WITH ABD-EL-KRIM MADRID, Dec, 27. — The Spanish government, which has received many serious set backs in Morocco in its war against the Riffians, has in an official communication to the Press, declared that it is not “nego- tiating” peace terms with Abd‘el- Krim” thru captain Gordon Chan- ning, Krim’s emissary of peace. « In the communication, it states that the French and Spanish gov- ernments are working closely toge- ther in their intervention in Mor- ecco. It is stated quite openly that this note was issued by Spain at the “request” of imperialist France, Abd-e]-Krim, who has bested the French and Spanish troops in many combats in Morocco and has forced these two nations to spend millions of francs in their desperate efforts to crush him, is offering to make Peace with these two nations upon a set of terms entrusted to Captain Gordon Channing, which were pub- lished in The DAILY WORKER about a week or so ago. COOLIDGE AND BORAH AGREE ON ARMS NEET ‘I yreconciliables’ Yield on Geneva WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 27. — President Coolidge got his Christmas present ffom Senator Borah when the latter, after visiting the White House, Bartle ence on “disarmament” to be held at Geneva, Switzerland, in February. Senator Moses of New Hampshire, an-| other so-called “bitter antagonist” succumbed to the blandishments of Coolidge as did Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, who is not so “bitter,” and needed less coaxing. Gibson Will Go. As a result, Hugh S. Gibson, Amer- ican minister at Berne, will represent the United States in the preliminary conference, it is announced. So well did Cal work that Senator) Moses even congratulated the presi-| dent on his decision to accept the league of nations invitation. The agreement between Borah and Coo- lidge provided a participation by the United States under conditions which Borah thinks will leave the United States “independent,” whatever that may mean in these days of interna- tional banking and imperialist yincer- ests. These include. | 4 Three Conditions. 1. The United States is not to join in any security compacts ar- ranged at the main armament con- ference, 2. No agreement reached at the conference proper is to be enforced by the league of nations, leaving each government to obey or not as it sees fit and thinks worth while to keep its “word of honor.” This is the same} scheme as the Washington “limitation of armaments” conference, which has failed beautifully to “limit” any na- tion imMact. | 3. No member of the conference; Shall provide for the reduction of American land armament, which means that the United States will consent to be bound only by the ob- ligations it assumes under special pro- visions for further naval “limitation” and upon such measures as do not really reduce the size of armies, such as agreements on the use of poison gas. No “Disarmament.” MBER 29, Big Demonstrations Ex- pose Aid\to Chang fd e i 5 TRUTH A NEW YORK EDITION Minols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1925 <'” Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY, WORKER PUBLISHING CO, this W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, UL OUT RUSSI GREEN TRIES 70 STOP MOVEMENT — ‘FOR WORLD TRADE UNION UNITY — BY ATTACKING LABOR DELEGATION {Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 27.—Following the custom of the American Federation of Labor’s whole bureaucracy of labelling Price 3 Cents See LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING COMMITTEE WILL MEET AT DAILY WORKER, TUESDAY The delegates to the Lenin Me- | morial Commitee will meet in The DAILY WORKER office on Tuesday evening, Dec. 29 at 8 ’clock. Every Workers (Communist) Party nuc- leus should see to it that its dele- gate is present. Any working class organizations desiring to, participate in the celebration of the Lenin Me- morial Meeting which is to be held in the Coliseum on Sunday, Jan. 24, are invited to send delegates. (Special to SHANGHAI, pei demonstrations ib ferent parts o 4 Dally Worker) 27—Monster mass being held in dif-| the| rwo Workers Killed ina, against Japanese invas! ne Manchuria, in Train Collision Resolutions ofprotest are being adopted by demonstrations | CHARLESTON, S. C., Dec, 27.— Two members of the train crew were showins, em ibunese troops Were jy ied and several passengers injur- brot into Manchuria under the guise of being railway guards—detailed to guard the Manchurian railway—and that when General Kuo Sung-Lin re- volted and Chang Tso-lin was defeated and was fleeing from his opponents, these Japanese railway guards put on the uniforms of the Manchurian war- lord and aided toldefeat Kuo’s detach- ments. ey Not only hag men been furnished Chang, but thousands of guns and much war material and money has been paid out-of/the Nippon treasury and the treasury of the Manchurian railway to be used against the nation- alists. who demand the immediate can- cellation of all-extra-territorial rights of foreign powers ‘in China, « / Japan Aldo Chang. The workers’ and students’ organs point out that When Chang’s army was forced to retfeat, the Japayese in an ultimatum warned Kuo not to ap- \proach any closer that six miles to Mukden, thus allowing the fascist general, after the scare that was given him, to iy “his retreating troops to outfit. Japanese soldiers Be agli RE RS A Under the IPiperialist Flag. TOKIO,.. Dec. 27—Mukden was treated to a t revolting sight when the headssand legs of General Kuo Sung-lin and:his wife were car- ried around thruithe streets and then hung on the south gate of the city at the command of the imperialist tool and would-be fasdist dictator of China, Chang Tso-lin, as an “object lesson” to those who “defy the ordérs” of the Manchurian ;war-lord. General Kno Sung-lin, who was one of the Manchurian war lords’ most trusted generals, recently revolted jand with a large detachment of Chang .Tso-lin’s trops marched on Mukden and forced the would-be fascist ruler of China to-evacuate the city and flee to tht countryside renouncing all claims to being the ruler of China. Due to the assistance of Japanese soldiers and the heads of the Manchur- ian railway, Chang Tso-lin’s army was able to defeat the rebel general and then followed the most revolting dem- | onstration of barbarism. Gen Yang, a Meutenant of Chang Tso-lin’s brutally murdered General Kuo’s wife following an unsuccessful attempt to attack her. Fear Fate of Kuo Relations. Great fears are -being felt in Muk- den over the fate of the for remaining widows of General Kuo Sung-lin and his ten children It is expected that the war-lord_jvill.mext vent his wrath on them. The: subordinates, who were under Kuo's command are also to face the axe; as Chang has de- clared that he will give little mercy to those who participated in the re- yolt that drove him:hot-foot from Muk- den to seek qefuge: Japanese Cruiser on Way. The Japanese cruiser, Hiarto has been dispatched from Port Arthur to Chingwangtao imoorder to crush any “disorders.” No attempt is being made to hide the Japanese sympathies for Chang Tso-lin and it is to be ex- pected that these(ships will be held in All these conditions clearly indi- cate that it is not a “disarmament” conference bit one to “reduce” arm- dments—of other countries, Hach nation having the same idea. The re- sult will be another farce such as the Washington conference, An agreement by the preliminary conference that American representa- tives would be entitled to sit in the armament conference under the re- servations outlined between Coolidge and Borah will insure American par- ticipation, and the preliminaries will give the United States a chance to show the othér nations the position of American imperialism on what it will stand for in the final conference. ICAGO FOR THE T.U.E.L. BALL AT IT readiness to render any assistance (Continued on page 4.) PRIVATE DICKS HIRED TO ‘SHADOW’ FEDERAL SLEUTHS BY GABARETS Chicago cabaret and cafe owners are employing private detectives to disclose the identity of federal ag- ents operating under E. C. Yellow- ley, prohibition..administration, in an attempt to cimoumvent plane for a “mop up” on ‘Mew Year's eve, it ‘ ed and ex-Secretary of War John W. Weeks was slightly shaken up in a head-on collision between the West Indian limited, and the Havana special onthe Atlantic Coast Line railroad, near Monks Corner, South Carolina. Weeks was returning home from a trip to South America. TRY TO BREAK STRIKE WITH A CALL TO WORK Anthracite. ~ Opera! Ws) any and all elements of real opposition to its policies of class col- laboration as “Communist,” President William Green of the A. F. of L. has issued a circular letter to all affiliated unions attacking |the movement among the unions for a labor union delegation to investigate conditions of labor in the Union of Soviet Republics. In this letter of diatribe and falsification not only does Green misrepresent the movement now spreading among American junions for a delegation as a “Communist” affair, but he com- |pletely leaps the boundary of all well-established facts by term- jing the famous delegation of leaders of the British Trade Union Congress who visited Soviet Russia last year as also-“‘a Com- munist committee.” ee Sabotage Trade Union Unity. This move of Green’s, maliciously untruthful as it is, seems aimed not|whdé was president of the world trade union unity which is ex-/delegation visited Soviet Russia, and pected to be favored by a close in- | who is now president of the Interna- vestigation of conditions in Soviet |tional Federation of Trade Unions Russia and friendly contact with the | (Amsterdam International.) labor unions of Soviet Russia by | Not One a Communist, American trade unionists, but also| y¢ is emphatically asserted and appears to be aimed at preventing | proven by British records, that not & recognition of the Soviet Union by the | single member of the British trade United States government. union delegation to Russia is a Com- This is seen in the section of | munist, in fact, many are opposed to Green’s letter hypocritically warning |the Communist Party. In the dele- against the “Soviet representatives” | cation were such outstanding figures which he says have been, “banqueted | of conservative British unions as by bankers in New York” and are} Herbert Smith, Ben Tillett, John now sowing the seed of their perni-|‘Turner, John Bromley, Alan A. H. jcious doctrine in the capital of our} Findlay and Fred Bramley. Advisory delegates were of an intellectual and n.” Attempt Stampe, (Special to The Daily Worker) | i SCRANTON, Pa., Dec, 27.—Large) advertisements in the capitalist news-_ come back to work pending the out-) come of the negotiations which are) supposed to begin Tuesday at New York City, indicate the open shop in- tentions of the operators who seize upon the surrender of Lewis to dis- cuss any settlement, without regard to the Tri-District demands which the strike arose, as an op- Jan American. trade union delegation HG: Grenfell, ~ A. |to Soviet Russia, Green says in part: |George Young, not one a Communist papers »in the anthracite region, in- ee ue 458,000 striking’ miners to | tye over! people.” In his attack on the movement for | governmental origin, such as Harold R. McDonell ana Green's Misrepresentation, }or even remotely sympathetic, all “Information has reached us that|three being of high standing in the central bodies and local trade unions |@rmy or naval forces during the war, i the Britisiy government; In its report the introduetory mote says: : British Report Tells Purpose. “The Trades Union Congress feels it necessary to do all in its power to put the British electorate in posses- sion of the real facts in Russia. The object of this report is to enable the British electorate, in the first place, to en asked to contribute to-a fund to be used to send a committee of al- leged labor representatives to Russia |for the same purpose that a commit- tee of Communists from Great Britain visited Russia and sought to make the world believe that the Soviet govern- ernment was representative of the The only British committee known ! |nal delegate to the Atlantic CItT Poem | vention of the A. F. of L. this yromrader Britigaantze only to obstruct the movement for|Trade Union Congress at the time the Nt x arious parts of the country haye | 0T connected with diplomatic work of eh portune time to smash the union en-| that wrote a report on Russian con-| realize that the Russian revolution tirely—which would be the result of! ditions such as described by Green, | has no real relationship at all to Brit- a break-in the line by a stampede| was the delegation sent by’ the Bri-| /#% evolution, and in the second place, back to work. 7 | that the present results of the revolu- | tish Trade Union Congress, which vis- District President Cappellini, when| ; Sov: she te Wine. tion are represented by a new state, ited Soviet Russia in November and | aiready very powerful and likely to interviewed, announced that there) pecember, 1924, and printed an ex- patie , 7 . Yt ' be very prosperous.” would be no acceptance of the in-| tensive report which is copyrighted in| °° fies . Pie? vitation to return to work.” The Ca-\the United States by the Internation- |pitalist papers, however, are so anxi- Information obtained from Chicago the title trade unionists shows that the local | committee for a ‘trade union delega- | tion to Soivet Russia is not partici- Green Knows Differently. | pated in by any political party and A copy of this report is known to} is solely composed of representatives lini’s announcement as having “noth. | have been studied by Green and the/ of local trade unions, It is stated that ling hostile in it.” }A. F. of L. executive council, and|trade unionists generally are ac- | Another movementyot the operators | ‘bere seems a ere weg cme stanan | custome: to: Being Stacked: #2 ame on. the , “religions front” Je the w ide | {#!sehood for Green's plain perversion | munists” by the A. F. of L, machine |spread circulation throughout the of facts concerning the delegation and | upon any occasion when the member- lanthracite region of a letter signed|'t® report. ea ship creates an opposition of determ- | The head of the British delegation | ined character to the bureaucrats at | by si reign-language priests of | e top of the American Federation. | by sixteen foreign-langu: riests Of} ve] | " lt na I Ide, urging the| ¥#8 A. A. Purcell, who was a frater- the top of t i ti jminers to return to work and leave jup to an “impartial arbitrator’ all | points not agreed on in the negotia-| | tions. : | The impression prevails in the an-) thracite region that work may be re-| f “1 Publishers company, Incorporated, | ous to show that Cappellini should|o? New York City under |not be considered as a bad man from |«Russia Today.” |the operators’ standpoint because of |this refusal to permit union wrecking stampede, commenting upon Cappel- sumed in ten days, or at least that is the second line of propaganda by the | operators who fail to get the men back to work at once. Lewis Surrenders—Diplomatically. In the meantime both sides are pre- paring to meet in the négotiations at |New York on Tuesday, President John |L. Lewis of the Miners’ Union having agreed to enter the negotiations with any terms to be used as a basis of discussion, The telegram of Lewis which’ sur- rendered not only the Tri-District de- mands, but even the Pinchot plan as a basis of discussion upon which the union insisted, was the following, sent to Mayor Durkan of Scranton from Lewis’ home at Springfield, IL: “Springfield, Ill., Dec, 24. “John F. Durkan, Mayor's Office, “Scranton, Pa. “Governor Pinchot has urged that I clarify the wrong impression of the mine workers’ attitude which has been brought about by improper in- terpretation. Accordingly, you are ad- vised that while the mine workers will enter the conference in the light of your invitation and in conformity with our telegrams to your committee, the presentation and advocacy of the governor's plan does not prevent the (Continued on Paga4) MLIAN HALL, 643 NL CLARK ST. } Who are the members of the delegation sent by the Bri | Trade Union Congress to investigate conditions of life and |in Soviet Russia in 1924? William Green, president of the Ar |ican Federation of Labor says they were “a Committee of C 'munists.” Yet Green rea the report they wrote as publish |the British Trade Union Congress and read the. list of the | gates’ names and their ee as published below and pews that not one is a Communist. These delegates ollows: HERBERT SMITH, J, P, Nineteen years president Yorkshire Miners’ Federation. President, Miners’ Feder-| jation of Great Britain since 1921, Vice- |president, 1907. Served on several |royal commissions, President, Inter- national Miners’ Committee. Member! ®4tlonally, of school bourd, West Riding (Yorks) | mentary elections. Elected for county council and other public bedies| S#lford 1917. Seat held u for many years. Member, parliament-| Remained. dockers’ general ary committee, trades union congress, | ¥til amalgamation to 1913-16, and general councjl, 1923-24,| General Workers’ Union, Appointed J, P. in 1915, Member, cen-| ‘@ry of political and tral committee, miners’ welfare and) Partment of am central committee, mining examining | Member of trade; board, BEN TILLETT, general of trade unions since 1889, of Dockers’ Union which 0) from the Tea Coopers and Laborers’ Union established in A pioneer of trade union m Contested several