The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1925, Page 1

— ~~ CRS 7 ‘The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ ase Farmers’ Government POLISH POLICE TRY TO DESTROY LABOR UNIONS Use F ‘endish Tortures on Militants (Special te The Dally \forker) WARSAW, Dec. 28—The most fiend- ish tortures that a degenerate mind ean concoct’ are being used against those workers and peasants who dare to organize for the betterment of their conditions in “christian” Poland. Social-Democrats Betray Workers. Time and again workers’ trade unions have been raided and are being persecuted and the only unions that are allowed to exist without any inter- ference are those that are controlled body an@ soul by the clergy. The government which is at present run- ning the country is composed of cler- ieals, nationalists and social-demo- crats. The workers have protested numerous times to the social-demo- crats, who try to pose as working class fighters, and each time the workers have been betrayed and those that protested have been jailed or done away with. ; Torture Victims. Police raiding squads that are sent to bring in active workers never re- turn to the police ‘station empty- handed. If they do not find the worker they seek, they arrest his wife, his daughter or his son. These victims are then put thru the most tetrible tor- tures in order to force “confesisons,” which can be used against workers in the district. following documents which were signed by young workers who were airested and tortured for their sativities in the trade unions in the karea. the devised ani used in “chirs- " Poland: “Document No. 8—R. Melamed, 15 years ‘old, salesgirl, living at No. 6, Skarahanaya street: “was arrested on Aug. 28, and ex- amined the next day from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m., during»which my arms were placed in a vise. I was beaten with & board across the shoulders. I was then ordered to take off my boots. I was handcuffed below the knees, an iron bar was slipped between my knees and elbows, and then turned over, head downwards. Then, water ‘wes forced into my nose, and at the same time my bare feet were beaten with an irén bar. This continued for one hour, when I lost consciousness. When I came to, I was being beaten with a wooden board. Ever since then my hearing has been affected. In confirmation of the truth of all these statements, witness my signa- ture. (Signed) “R. Melamed.” os * * Document No, 9.—R. Kantchug, 16 years of age, weaver, residing at No. 7 Benkina street: -“T was arrested on August 28, and was only brought up for exmination) after being held in a cell two days. ‘The examination lasted three hours.’ During the whole time, I was beaten ueross the back with an iron chain and was whipped with iron whips across the bare arms. My arms were for a long time placed in an iron vise. In confirmation of the truth of all (Continued on page 2) — S ~éntion Rates: torture. Entered as Second-class matt - In-Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per yeer. Outside Chicago, by mail, #600 per year, PARLEY OP SEE THE OLD YEAR OUT, AND THE NEW YEAR IN; AT THE T. U. EL, BALL The greatest affair that has taken Place in Chicago during the old year—1925—and that will start the new year, 1926—is being arranged by the Chicago group of the Trade Union Educateonal League, Every militant trade unionist is expected to attend the fourth an- nual Trade Union Educational League ball that starts on Thursday, Dec. 31, at 8 o’clek in the evening and continues thru tilt 2 o'clock in morning New Year's day. An interesting program has been arranged. The committee has ar- ranged to furnish all kinds of re- freshments and an excellent time is promised to all those who attend. FARMER-LABOR DRIVE GROWS INNORTHWEST Rank and Pile Shown Need of Class Party (Special to The Daily Worker) . BISMARCK, N. D., Dec. 28. — The Nonpartisan League fagtion in North Dakota, headed by William Lemke, R. H. Walker and Ralph Ingerson, which took a forward step at the Bis+ mark conference on December 18 In throwing their forces into fight for a farmer-labor party in the state, will do all in their power to convence the rank and file of the leaguers that the launching of si ue a party is to the best interests < The ermentiiee “party “isstie “has now been raised on a state-wide scale and this in itself is of great import- ance. The league state convention meets sometime in February and the question of organizing the. farmer-la- bor party is likely to be one of the big questions that will come up for con- sideration. League precinct meetings will be held on January 7 and county conventions which select delegates for the state convention are scheduled for the 27 of January. May Jump on Bandwagon. Governor Sorlie and his office- hold- ing crowd do not seem to be much interested in the farmer-labor party and if the attitude of this faction does not change within the next two months it is probable that it will fight against the farmer-labor forces in the state convention of the league. U. S. Senator Lynn J. Frazier is now op- posed to the farmer-labor party but there is a possibility that he may line up on the side of Lemke if he can be convinced that the formation of this party is the “wise” thing to do at this time. R. W. Frazier, member of the Non- partisan League state committee, who has issued the call for the holding of the league conventions, is also openly opposed to the farmer-labor party, but he, like Senator Frazier, may get be hind the new party if he can be con- vinced that it is “right” to do so at this time, The fight for the farmer-labor party must be taken to the rank and file of the farmers and workers of North Dakota. PACKING HOUSE 4 ANSWERED h WORKER! HAVE THE gb ACKING house ee ca ihe /e you answered that list of questions that appeared in a previous issue of The DAILY WORKER on the con- ” ditions of the packing plant you work in? Have you mailed it in as yet? The DAILY WORKER wants you to answer every question that you . "possibly can and to write in a story of the condtions that you must work “under to be used in the special packing-house drive that starts Mon- a day, January 4, story. | mouthp Gy Are your wages enough to live on? Can you make both ends meet? | What are your living conditions? Not only does The DAILY WORKER rs from the packing house workers themselves, but also let- je wives of the packing house workers, Let THEM tell THEIR The DAILY WORKER fights for the workers at all times, It is thelr You can and should help it, Send in a story; and then ar- ‘liane for a bundle to be distributed at your factory. In thi y Ht) ald se in’ Toe ‘about a better understanding among those ier to win your demands bal earner ew onditions,’ Get on the jobl aaeancw ANGLO-TURK CRISIS OVER MOSUL FIELD Kemal Tiiest to Stall Off Opposition / (Special to The Ds Daily Worker) LONDON, Dec. 28—A crisis is near in the Anglo-Turk dispute over the stealing by a league of nations award jof Mosul from Turkey to give it to a British mandate, Irak. The crisis arises from the fact that if the gov- ernment of Kemal does not fight for Mosul, the nationalist opposition to his government may cause an over- throwal of his cabinet and may even result in civil war. This opposition may force Kemal to defy the league of nations and seize Mosul by force and try to hold it against all comers. England may prevent this if it umbends from its arrogance and gives Turkey a com- Promise which takes the basis away from the opposition within Turkey ‘| to accepting the steal of Mosul. Kemal Wants Time. Presumably the Kemal government is angling for time in an effort to get concessions from Great Britain and stall off conflict with its enemies at home. This is seen by ‘the statement of Aghaaglou Ahmed, a deputy from Kars, excusing delay in Turkish ac- tion by saying that Turkey depends on the British labor party to force a retreat, or even a new election, upon the Baldwin government. He said: “After the house of commons vote, when the left members walked out, we believe a majority of English peo- ple will disapprove the action of the. take threats or promises from a han ful of imperialists. When the time comes we will give our decision, and then will not ywalt before putting it 4into action.” This section of the Turkish rulers, expect, or say they expect, a general election in England with a liberal or labor victory. Part of Big Problem. However, the situation in Turkey cannot be separated from the ques- tion of the whole East. A correspond- ent well known for his keen analysis of political events, cables from Syria that the key spirit of the whole East, to get rid of domination and rule by the West, “grips the heart of the whole East.” He adds: “The Orient will not much longer— no longer than force expressed in superior technical military machines compels—tolerate the super rule of Europe. That is the spirit stirring the people from Morocco to China, but especially in North Africa, Egypt and the Near East. Not Religious Question. “The East is getting together. Slow- ly but steadily and surely, with ever- increasing momentum, the barriers of divergence, racially, tribally and re- ligiously, are fast falling. The move- ment is not reljgious fundamentally. It is not the Mohammedan world against the christian western world. It is racial and geographically nation- alistic. Religion plays a smal) part and among the most ignorant. And because the religious factor plays so small a role, the movement includes the Copts of Egypt and the christians and Druses of Syria.” The factors mentioned by the above writer, in spite of all particular Turkish situations, may yet influence the decision of peace or war with Great Britain on the side of war. German Workers Greet Return of Clara Zetkin (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN,—(By Mail).—- Clara Zet- kin, 70-year old .revolutionist, return- ed to Germany after spending two years in the Soviet Union. She was met at the station by delegations re- presenting the Communist Party, the Communist members of parliament, and the Red Front Fighters—-the workers’ defense corps which the German workers have formed here to defend themselves against violence, Thousands of workers gathered at the station; and a great procession was formed which escorted Clara Zet- kin to the refchstag. Clara Zetkin delivered an impas- sioned speeth against the Locarno “peace” pact in the reichstag showing that the meant as an align- ment of against the workers and the Soviet Union, HE DAILY WORKER. (tember 21, 1928, at the! Post OMco at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 9, 1879 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30,1925 <<» PUBLISHING CO,, Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL. 1s Ww. WALL STREET BANKERS GIVE EAST SIDE TOTS CHEAP PRESENTS (Special to ™ Dally Worker) NEW YOR FP)—Dec. 28.— Wall” Street’s (bankers, brokers, and. professtio: umen are taking into their “back- lonations for the of the district it, New York, Manhattan island nation’s financial s is known as all Street.” The ir millions out of the fathers and etimes children “backyard” and ice into the back- with their little ling Green Neigh- out 2,000 children indy and presents. thelr annual gli yard” with the tenement child below Fulton This lower ends Which skirts rulers’ stone “the backyard men who make! the overwork | mothers and themselves. in other sections gi yard at Chri gifts thru the borhood Assn, are given cheap: (Special to Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 28—(FP)—Brit- ain’s winning of Mosul as part of Irak by the | } of nation’s award is “null and void” if the league ruled without knowi American in- terests we: the Ottoman- nin Asia Minor, ‘s. This <concession includes Mosul,» It was obtained by Rear Ad- miral C. M. Chester of the U. S. navy in 1919 and trebled as to control area in 1923, It gives American interests the right to build railways connecting ports and main lines and allows ex- ploitation of mineral rights 20 ktlo- meters on each side of railways built. The oil in the: region is valued at $10,000,000,000 and rich deposits of gold, silver, platinum, cobalt, anti- mony, salt, coal, copper are available. Standard Oil and Sinclair Oil com- panies have been forcing the Turkish Petroleum company since the war to admit the American oil men to a share of that corporation’s spoils. The allotment of rights was to be: Anglo- Persian Co., 25 per cent; Royal Dutch Shell companies, 25 per cent; French companies, 25 per cent and Standard Oil and Sinclair, 25 per cent. So Americans have a leg in each camp but the American share in the Chester is the greater, running to 70 per cent it is said, Charles M. Hughes, as secretary of state, in 1923, denied that the U. S. government had backed Chester, altho reports: contemporary with Chester's grant tell a different story. fe STANDARD OIL TRUST STRENGTHENS ITS HOLD ON PETROLEUM INDUSTRY (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK,/Oec. 28,—Consum- mation this wtabiof the consolida- tion of the Patific Oil company with the Standatd:Oil company of California marks the third impor- tant project by which the Standard Oil units have amnexed large pro- ducing compani sand properties, and thus strengthened their position in the petroleum field. Early last sprimg the Standard Oil company of ‘Indiana acquired from E, H. Doheny and associ. control of the powerful. Pan-Ame: can Petroleum and Transport com- pany, with large prospective oil fields in Mexico and western Ameri- ca, recently adding to them the prop- erties of the Lago Petroleum com- pany in South America. Last week the Standard Oi! company of New York announced the taking over of the Magnolia company, of which it formerly held stock control, The consolidation of the Standard Oil company of California and Pa- cific Oil will unite’a series of pro- ducing, refining and marketing oil Properties valued at nearly $460,000,- (JOSE RANGEL PAROLED FOR TWENTY DAYS Famed Fighter Broken Physically by Prison (Special to The Daily Worker) FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 12.—} (By Mail.)—Jose M. Rangel, the | famous old fighter for liberation of the} Mexican workers from tyrannous rule,| known the world around as the out: Standing example of United States persecution of Mexican liberationists, | was furloughed for twenty days by|/ order of Governor Miriam A. Fer. | | | rent Co, -holding. |guson and, broken by years of penal jservitude, saw for the first time in |twelve long years the son and daugh- | ter he had left outside the hell of | Huntsville prison when he entered it \a sturdy and vigorous man. Visits Children, The-old-soldier, veteran of many | battles on Mexican soil, beloved by the | Mexican workers, tock into his arms! with mingled emotions the daughter he last knew as a child of nine years, now Mrs. Beatrice De La Rosa, mother } of two children, and his son, Arthur. He was accompanied from the prison to Fort Worth by his unmarried | daughter, Consuela, who, with his son} Albert—a soldier in the U. S. army at | Fort Sam Houston—alone had seen| him since his imprisonment, “I did not want to come like this, my children,” he said. “Your father: wanted you to see him a free man. That is why I did not want you to see me at Huntsville. But things in life don’t come like we want them to, Ah, if I could only spend my few re- maining years with you who are still to me my ‘ninos,’. my little ones. “Their mother died when they were quite” young,” he told to interviewers, pointing to the portrait of a beautiful | Woman of Spanish features,. Then he jlooked~ at his two grandchildren, Gloria and Leona De La Rosa, aged | four and three. “This younger one,” he said in Spanish, “looks like her grandmother.” Calls on Attorney. The aged old fighter for the ex- ploited and oppressed of his people said he would visit his attorney in Dallas and later go to Waco, Texas, where all his children were born. He thinks he still has friends there. “He is not as I pictured him, so old and so broken,” said his daughter, Beatrice. “From =my childhood memory I saw him coming home fine and straight and soldierly, as he was the last time I saw him, I am almost sorry to have seen him, if I must now sive him up forever.” The old fighter is serving a 99-year sentence for the alleged slaying of a itirely ;proval ef the-other. imperialist. pow- INGLIS BOASTS OF HIS EXPECTED VICTORY IN THE ANTHRACITE FIELD SCRANTON, Pa. Dec. 28.—“I have nothing to say relative to the meeting of the operators’ and min- ers’ representatives in New York Tuesday afternoon in an effort to end the hard coal strike,” declared W. Inglis, spokesman for the oper- ators yesterday. When asked If it was true that the operators have told the miners they could go back to work at once at the old wages pending further negotiations, he said: “| have said that all along.” Foreign Office Not Notified. PARIS, Dec. 27,—The foreign office has not received confirmation of re- ports that high commissioner De Jou- | venal has signed an armistice with the Druses, JAPANESE ARMY INVADED CHINA TO AID CHANG ‘Feng at Tientsin in Between Foes PEKING, China, Dec. 28—An en- new alignment of military forces results from the unexpected defeat amounting to a complete route, of Kuo Sung-lin, leader of the mutiny against Chang Tso-lin. Ugly rumors are in the air, verified in some degree by the continual receipt from the most varied. sources that Japan has invaded Manchuria with the full ay ers, and that it was Japanese troops that turned the victory of Kuo into a defeat and gave Chang Tso-lin his barbarous vengeance of parading Kuo's head and that of his wife thru the streets of Mukden. With very good reason the imper- ialists in China and the whole capi- talist press of the world is covering up the story of Japanese invasion. The masses of China are deeply ex- cited and=only await final proof to turn a boycott and strike movement against Japan which will not only ruin Japanese trade but may result in violent clashes with imperialist troops of occupation. Japan Never Sleeps. Even under the treaty of Ports- mouth and the agreement on the Chinese Eastern railway, Japan is entitled to hold 30,000 troops in Man- churia, and Japan is far too cunning not to take advantage of the full allowance in a time when Japanese |# interests in Manchuria, which is prac- deputy sheriff during an unsuccessful expedition against the government of Mexico. Ontario and Western Railway Train Smashes Passenger Motor Bus PORT JERVIS, N. Y., Dec. 28—The impact of an Ontario & Western R. R. train flung a 25-passenger motor bus 25 feet into the Cuddebackville sta- tion, eight miles from here, demolish- ing the station and the bus. The driver and one lone passenger in the bus escaped with minor injuries, Northwestern Road Fails to Explain Crossing Accident WISNER, Neb., Dee. 28.—Nt satis- factory explanation was advanced for the grade crossing accident near But- terfield crossing in. which Mr. and Mrs. Fred von Zeggern, and their three children, Gustave, 17, Louiga, 18, and Anna, 20, were instantly killed when their automobile was struck by a. Northwestern — train, Quarry C. Consolidation Financed by Wrigley BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec, 28.—Re- ports were current here of a $50,000,- 000 stone consolidation that will place under one ownership approximately 75 per cent of. the quarries in the Bloomington-Bedford district in Mon- roe and Lawrence countigs, The reports linked the names of 000, ca zed at $287,000,000 with |prominent Chicago alists «with Fegetinn ning apower of $67,000, | the merger, including Wiliam :Wrig- ann and working capital of |ley, millionaire gum BAppiacturer appear with! and baseball magnate, b) tically dominated by Japanese cap- (Continued on page 2). Belgian Women Demand Repeal. of the Inferiority Sections from Law Code) BRUSSELS, Dec. 28—Belgian wo- men have started a movement for the abolition of certain sections of the Belgian code of laws, which express the inferiority of women. National Farm Board to Meet in February WASHINGTON, D, C., Dec, 28— The national beard of farm organiza- tions announces that its annual mid- winter meeting will be held here Feb. 1, 2 and 3. Spanish Dictator to Come to America MADRID, Dec. 28.—Primo de Rive- ra has announced his intention of at- tending the Philadelphia Sesquicen- tennial celebration if he has “things in hand.” OFFICIAL NEWS OF THE RUSS COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS COMING SOON Every worker who has read the misleading reports In the capitalist press of the Russian Communst Party congress in Moscow. will be able soon to read the official re- ports of the DAILY Wo | Negotiations Begin at | NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents - LEWIS POSITION A IN MEETING. IS DEEP MYSTERY Union League Club (Special to The Dally Worker) 28-—The anthracite NEW YORK CITY, Dec, conference between the | coal operators and the United Mine Workers will open at the symbol of reactionary wealth, the Union League Club, here Tuesday. The operators, who now feel they have the upper hand will demand’ that mining be resumed at once at the wages paid on August 31, 1925, when the strike began; that if no agree- ment is reached the whole. situation shall be submitted to arbitration or that arbitration shall decide parti- cular points which may be left un- settled by an agreement for resump- tion of mining, and that the contract finally signed shall be for five years, Lewis in Position of Retreat. What the Lewis administration of the union will ask is still unknown. Lewis’ retreat from the tri-district de- mands to the Pinchot plan, and then his further retreat from the Pinchot plan to agreement to discuss any plan of settlement, all do not increase his morale as he goes to the door of the Union League Club, to talk settle- ment. If Lewis brings up the Pinchot plan for discussion the operators, who | have refused it before, will certainly not be in a poorer position to refuse it at present. Green Optimistic. William Green, head of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, has stated his opinion that the strike will be oyer in ten days, according to. r6i 3 from his Ohio home in Coshovvn, where he is spending the holidays. He added that he thought manufacturing and business will continue on a “sa- tisfactory basis” and show gradual im- provements, while wages will be maintained on a “high level” and “re- lationship between employers and workers will improve.” The Chicago Typographical Union at its Sunday’s meeting - voted tae limit of its legal donation without special action, a sum of $50, and nott- fied the membership that special action at the next meeting would vote on making the sum $1,000, to aid the anthracite strikers. In addition con- tribution lists were ordered passed around the chapels, Editor of Wall St. Journal Appointed on U. S. Commission WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—(FP)— Reappointment to the interstate com- merce commission of Thos. L. Wood- lock, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, is promised by the White House. Woodlock was nominated last winter but was not confirmed, owing to protests from the south and west. | Coolidge then gave him a recess ap- pointment, His name will again be submitted to the senate for confirma- tion, At the same time the White House announces its willingness to support a bill creating an additional place on the commission, which would be filled by a southern democrat. Woodlock is a specialist on high yaluation for railroad Propertion for rate making purposes. * Hindenburg Wants ; a Social- y rei “BERLIN, Deo, 28. — President you Hindenburg and his cabinet "spent the Christmas holiday working, draw- ing up the application for Germany's entrance to the league of nations, According to the rules of the league, applications must be made before it six weeks pefore a meeting, so Ger- many has to rush its application in to get before the March session, But the interesting item is, that in considering who shall be Ger representative on-the council of league of nations, General Hindenburg himself favors’ appointing a ocialist, preferably Ulrich Rauscher, now Ger- man minister to Poland. One view that Hindenburg hopes to ontleg soclatdemtocrats into joining ‘a ¢