The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER WORLD COURT COHORTS FEAR BORAH ATTACK Coolidge Sends Hoover to Chicago March 9 (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb, 24 — Senator- ial “courtesy” appeared strained to the breaking point here today as a result of the speeches made in IIlinois in the last few days by Senator Borah, republican of Idaho, and Senator Reed, democrat of Missouri, attacking the world court, Senator Wm. B. McKinley, who voted for the court, and who faces the voters in a primary in April, declared today that: “The thinking people of Illinois re- sent the invasion of Senator Borah and Senator Reed into their domestic affairs. Steps were being taken today, how- ever, to combat the effect of the Borah and Reed speeches, and to give Sen. McKinley administration backing in his intra-party fight for renomination. It was announced that Secretary of | in| Commerce Hoover would speak Chicago on March 9, Plans are being laid for other administration spokes-j; men to follow him. COMMUNISTS OF GERMANY SHOW UP SOCIALISTS Social Democratic Lead- ers Expel Freiberger (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Feb. 24—German reform- in trade union leaders and the heads of the social-democratic party are angry at the Communists because the latter are trying to form joint com- mittees for united action in the trade unions and the shop councils. The campaign for the expropriation of the properties belonging to the former Hohenzollerns and the various noble families had been agreed on by all three organizations in advance, after terrific mass pressure had been felt by the socialist executives. The exe- ecutive committees of both the social- democratic party and the Federation of Labor have warned their members against any co-operation with the Communists, even in the way of dem- onstrations, public meetings, etc. The national executive committee of the socialists have, indeed, gone so far as to expel Freiberger, chairman of the central committee of shop coun- cils in Munich and leader of the first delegation of German workers to visit Russia, because he had addressed meetings of the International Workers Relief. The socialist soreheads term this organization the “Communist Red Cross.” Freiberger had declared it would be a crime against the Rus- sians and the international proletariat to introduce the western type of de- mocracy in the Soviet Union. ‘fe Raid the Neue Zeit in Bavaria. MUNICH, Feb. 24—The Bavarian authorities have raided the offices of the Neue Zeit, a Communist paper, and banned Communist meetings thru- out Bavaria. Stutzel, the minister of police, stated in reply to an interpel- lation in the diet, that all Communist gatherings would be prohibited until the party erased the demand for the overthrow of the present state from their program. Even Communist deputies would be kept strictly with- Yn the legal limits, he declared. This presents a peculiar situation in Bavaria. The present government is a combination of social democrats and catholics (Centrists). The Bavarian socialists have a very strong left wing, however, which makes life miserable for the party’s right leadership in such conditions as these. Soviet Union Opens Trade Exhibition in Japanese City MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Feb, 24.— A Soviet trade exhibition has been organized at Osaka, Japan. Nearly all the commercinl organizations of the Far Bast are .aking part in the exhibition. Flax Exports Increase. MOSCOW, U. 8. 8S. R., (Tass) Feb, 24—-During the first 9 months of 1925, the Union of Socialist Soviet Russia exported to England 3,283 tons of flax as compared with 1,100 tons in 1924. Tho exports from the Soviet Union amount to 15 per cent of the English imports of flax against 4 per cent in 1924, For the same period, |the Soviet Union has imported to Germany 3,216 tons of flax, or 30 per cent of the to- tal German imports of flax, against 3 per cent in 1924. Fourteen thousand six hundred and elghty metro-tons have been imported to France for the first 9 months of 1925, against 1,520 metro-tons in 1924, the Soviet Union occupying the first plage, as compared with other coun- tries Ip the export of flax to France, | lowed by both organizations in the fu- | mot again occur. CHAIRMAN HANDS DOWN DECISION IN DISPUTE BETWEEN FOOD WORKERS AND A. F. OF L. BAKERY WORKERS’ UNION (Special to The NEW YORK, Feb. 24—Both locals, the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Local 164 and the International Brotherhood of Bakery and Confectionery Workers Local 169, to the controversy arising out of the organization of three shops, Hynchez, Tragna and Moscowitz having agreed that the impartial chairman is to decide the issue. The joint committee of action of the Bakers’ united front in agreement with the representatives of both Joseph Zack, member of Local 38 Internationa] Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, act as impartial chairman in this controversy. The*impartial chair- man having heard and considered the+ - arguments of both sides came to the following conclusion: In view of the fact that a mere de- cision on the three shops would not solve the problem, it is nec ary to to not only decide on the three shops,| but also to agree on a policy to be fol- ture so that similar difficulties should Therefore, the im-| partial chairman recommends as aj policy for both sides to fight for and} carry into effect the following: Recommendations, 1. That all locals and groups in| agreement with this in the baking in- | dustry should work towards the amal- | gamation of both organizations into one union affiliated to the American Federation of Labor on the following basis: | (a) Both sides, the International | Brotherhood and Confectionery Work-| ers and the Amalgamated Food Work- ers are to agree that in order to or- ganize the biggest factor now pre- vailing in the industry, the baking trust, both sides must take into their organizations all workers skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled. Such workers as cannot be directly organ- ized into the bakers’ union on account of jurisdictional claims by unions op- erating in other industries, such as the teamsters, both sides are to agree that an agreement must be reached with the unions involved for an alli- ance and joint action in whatever con- troversy may occur with the employ- ers: (b) Both sides are to agree that the | chief effort must be concentrated to- ward organizing the tremendous mass of unorganized workers especially in| the trustified concerns and modern bakeries: (c) If the International Brother-| hood and Confectonery Workers will refuse to agree to the proposition of taking in the various categories of help working in trust bakeries then| all those in agreement with this pro-| gressive policy are to support full-| heartedly the Amalgamated Food| Workers in their efforts to organize| the trust bakeries so as to lessen or if possible to eliminate altogether the menace these openshop centers rep- resent to the organized workers as a whole. United Action, Until such a time as the two organ- izations can be amalgamated or reach an understanding for their activities against the trusts and in order to min- imize and if possible to avoid jurisdic- tional friction arising out of the or- ganizational activities of both organ- izations, the following arrangement should prevail: 1. A joint organization committee is to be created of equal representa- tion from both sides to take up all matters of jurisdiction and organiza- tion of unorganized and other matters affecting the interests of both organiza- tions in such a manner as to present a united front to the bosses and to settle all disputes inside the two or- ganizations on the following basis: (a) Organization campaigns to or- ganize the unorganized to be under- taken jointly by both organizations. The territory to be organized to be agreed upon previous to the campaign and each side to concentrate upon the specified territory agreed for each side and whatever shops are organ- ized by either side to be affiliated to those organizing same, This terri- torial division to remain in effect only during the organization cam- paign, after the campaign each side to organize wherever it finds it neces- sary to do so. (b) In the territory to be organized or in any new shops both organiza tions afe to agree upon a joint wage Daily Worker) locals agreed that | this decision is based upon the pol-| | aspects of joint work until such unity | shops either way would not solve the scale and working conditions so as not to allow the boss a favorable basis to discriminate one in favor of the other on account of differences in wages. Maintain High Wages. {c) Both organizations are to co- operate in the maintenance of the higher wage scale now prevalent in some of the International Brother. hood and Confectionery Worker shops, (d) All shops organized outside of major organizational campaigns are to be affiliated with whichever side organizes them, (e), It is understood that both sides must strive to arrange their activities in such a manner as to make new de- mands upon the employers, wages, hours, working conditions jointly and by mutual agreement and that the wage scale of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ bakery locals is to reach as soon as possible the higher scale pre- vailing in the International Brother- hood and Confectionery Worker shops, (f) On the question of thé new boss union; the United Bakery Workers on both sides are to agree upon prac- tical measures to combat and elimin- ate this union as a menace or factor from the field. (g) As soon as a joint agreement can be reached on the question of trust bakeries same arrangement shall prevail as in the organization and di- vision of territory on small bakeries. In reference to the three shops in- volved it is decided that in order not) to play any further into the hands of} these bosses and perhaps engage in costly struggle to change the settle- ment, the shops with the exception of) Hynches’ shop which should be turned | over to Local 169, International Broth- erhood and Confectionery Workers, these shops are to remain under the present settlement. In conclusion I wish to say that icy of unity between the organized| workers in the baking industry and| takes into consideration the practical| is achieved. The principal problem in| the industry being the growing power | and strong pressure of the baking trust upon the market and the fact! that the Amalgamated Food Worker shops have generally a lower wage) scale and are therefore favored by the| employers who thus take advantage| of crushing or eliminating the Inter- national Brotherhood and Confection- ery Workers’ shops. | Unity or Extinction, The problem therefore, is not pri-| marily one of these three shops. It) would be to the best interest of the} workers in these three shops to re- ceive the higher wage scale of Local| 169 International Brotherhood and| Confectionery Workers, However, since the awarding of these three problem. The impartial chairman con- siders the main question the policy and machinery above outlined as the concise and practical solution of the problem. We are fully aware that these arrangements may lead to a modification of the wage scale but the non-enforcement of the present union| conditions in the shops is due consid- erably to the weakness of the union in the face of the rapidly growing power of the trust, the continued growth of which threatens to crush altogether the small shops which are organized and with it the union if the union does not reorientate itself to effectively face this menace and to unify the al- together weak forces of the workers, Lack of unity under these circum- stances means not only a practical worsening of tonditions but com- plete extinction. As to the present disgraceful situation of injunctions and picketing with label signs in front of the three shops both sides are a great deal responsible as both sides acted without consulting with each other or trying to come to a mutual agreement before the bosses had a chance to enjoy themselves at the ex- pense of the workers. The continued bitterness, hatred and. extermination spirit if continued, is bound to work to the disadvantage of the workers of both sides. Hoping that the workers of both or- ganizations will realize that an agree- ment on the basis of this policy paves the way toward unity and a more defi- nite settlement of the jurisdictional SCHOOL BOARD NOT THERE TO MEET MOTHERS Employ Boss Tactics to Kill Strike Once more the mothers of the chil- dren of the Lowell school were dis- appointed by the board of education, This time the board did not meet at all altho they dragged these mothers to a promised meeting at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon and had them hanging around the building in hopes that the matter wouldibe taken up. | This time they were stalled off with the promise of a meeting next week, The slick business men of the school board use the same tactics to break the backbone of this strike that they use in strikes by Workers, stalls. This is not the first @jsippointment they have given the méthers. Many meetings were: held by the parents with the board trustees. Last Tuesday over sixty mothers appeared before a committee of jthe board. This committee demanfed that the board act at once to, xeturn their children to the Lowell ‘school and proceed with the building of the an- nex to the school promised them two years ago. as For four ‘weeks the @parents have been fed promises by the board. Mr. Kandel, who had appointed himself leader of the parents’ committee of ten, has entirely discredited himself with the parents. As a result a large part of this commitee split away from the Kandel leadership and is now or- ganized into the Parents’ League of the Northwest Section. This organ- ization is a permanent one and will fight for the welfare of the children thruout the year. The parents demand that new schools be built in the neighborhood for these very young children where- as the board of education’s scheme is to fill up the distant and less crowd- ed schools with children from the more congested districts, thus neces- sitating that the children travel long distances and eat their lunches away from. their home. Some of the schools, like the Stone, are fully a mile from their homes, passing many car- lines, the most dangerous of which is North Avenue. AFRICAN FARMERS BADLY TORTURE NEGRO WORKERS Court Hearings Exposes Terror (Special to The Daily Worker) CAPE TOWN, South Africa—(By mail.)—Since the recent revolts police oppression of the natives has been in- creasing. The trouble has been ac- centuated also by the passage of the bill for the color bar by the parlia- ment of the union. The two cases, which follow, are typical of what has been going on in this province. At Eshowe a European sugar planter was ¢harged on 23 counts of cruelty to natives in his employ, The most terrible stories of beat- ings, kickings, imprisonment, and star- vation were told. According to evi- dence the overseers were armed with war, I recommend this for their adop- tion, Impartial Chairman, Joseph Zack. Unanimously agreed upon and coun- tersigned by both delegations, For the International Brotherhood and Confectionery Workers’ Local 169, Abe Fleisher, Chas Dreman, Dave Ross, Nijinsky, and H. Wendmw, For Amalgamated Food Workers’ Local 164, N. Rosenberger, A. Ford- ers, J. Frohlig, Gospfort and Bushi. White House Social Mentors Solve Some “Weighty” Problems WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—~A prece- dent in white house social custom was written into the capital’s etiquette books today, It might be phrased thus: “The president of the United States does not call for a lady nor conduct her home.” For the first time in many years, a president attended a formal function last night unaccompanied by the mis- tress of the white house. The occa- sion was a dinner given by Attorney General John G. Sargent. Mrs, Coolidge suffering from a cold was unable to attend. Because of the close personal friendship with the attorney general, Cal decided he would attend anyway. Finding that Mrs, Wm. M. Jardine, wife of the secretary of agriculture, had no en- gagement, he invited her to accom- pany him to the dinner, The social mentors of the white house scratched their heads and pon- dered over the serious problem of whether Cal should or should not call sjamboks (rhinocerous-hide whips) and kerries (knobbed sticks.) On completion of their daily tasks the natives were locked up in cells for the night. All were dressed in uni- forms of sackcloth, Court Strewn With Weapons. The court room was wn with the instruments used by employer, in- cluding chains, padlocks, sjamboks, kerries, handcuffs and lashes, A verdict of guilty om all 23 counts was found, and the magistrate, re- marking that it was a imposed a series of files. found that no wages he to the natives, the e: dered to pay £240 as Diet of M In a case at Some tive was charged with desertion (i, e., leaving the farmer whom he worked). The nativejadmitted his guilt, but declared he thad no option, as he received insuffi¢lent food. The magistrate elic from the of the native and his family of five dependents was three pounds of mealies a day, and once a week, when slaughtering took place, he was given the pluck and trotters of the slaughtered animal, but not the tripe or head. In addi- tion, he received a wage of 8 shillings a month. He was in debt to his master to the extent of 24 shillings, “Never Complained.” “Do you consider 8 lbs, of mealies and nothing else sufficient food for a fam!- ly of five?” questioned the magistrate. “Well, he never complained,” the farmer replied. The native was order. ed to return to the farm and work off his debt, and the master was ad- for his dinner companton? The answer was finally, “No.” ‘The white house mousine was sent for Mrs, Jardine and she came to the white house, joined the president and went on to the dinner. Returning, the vised to give him a more adequate dillowance of food, First Higher School in Adparistan. BATUM, U. 8. 8. R., Feb, 24—The limousine deposited Cal at the man-| first higher school in Adparistan is be- sion and then took Mrs, home. Jardin Ll ing opened at Batum,,conisting of an Industarial Technicum, - 700,000 Teachers of 20 Million School Children Belong in Labor’s Ranks By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ONEY talks. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, who sent the anthracite.coal min- ers back to work without an increase in wages, demands that federal judges be given increased salaries. that will make the judges “fearless and independent.” He claims that He argues that increased salaries will turn the decisions of the courts more toward the side of labor. 4 William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, has also petitioned of federal judges. congress to increase salaries He echoed the arguments advanced by Lewis. The stand of both was applauded by the employers’ press, * » Money talks. But an increased quantity does not tell judges to be considerate of the working class. It is a more powerful urge that they increase their loyalty, if this is necessary, to the class * * that has given them a place of power. * 2 The New York Times “‘spills the beans,” to use a slang expression, when it makes a terrific plea for increased wages for school teachers. It forgets how it interpreted money’s talks to federal judges. It sounds a different note in explain- ing how money talks to school teachers. The teachers should have higher wages, says The Times. Low wages are dangerous. starvation pittance. The teachers now receive a Teachers in rural schools get wages ranging from $755 to $1,114, which startles the Times to worry for the future of the country. the Times argues that the teachers must be paid higher wages so that they will be more loyal to the capitalist gov- ernment that employs them, not more considerate of the rights of the masses of the workers whose children they teach. The Times applauds the declaration credited to Rene Viviani, the renegade socialist war premier of France, that the army of school children constituted the “scholastic front” during the war, following everywhere the line of the trenches. Poorly paid school teachers, struggling to provide themselves with the barest necessities of shouters. life, do not make good jingo They must have more pay. Teachers must be bribed to poison with the virus of pay- triotism the minds of the young. That is why the school superintendents, now meeting in Washington, D. C., are get- ting a big ovation. They are the “Superior Officers of the Army of Future Defense.” They have under their controt 700,000 school teachers directin 20,000,000 children. In 100,000 school houses these millions of children are being trained to serve the American capitalistic republic. The teachers are gétting wages now that represent the purchasing power of $441 before the war, while the lowest salary of a commissioned officer, who drills the soldiers in the army, was $1,700, with heat, light and: quarters. The Times declares the army officers do not get too much. It feels that the “Army of Future Defense” isn't safe if the school teachers are discontented with the wages they get. * * * * The wages of the school But it is noticeable that everywhere the teachers get an in- crease they are compelled to wage a bitter struggle before it teachers cannot be too high. is given them. When teachers therefore get a small increase, even at the suggestion of The Times, that worries about Wall Street's source of cannon fodder for the next imperial- ist war, they should take it and fight for more as part of the whole working class struggle for a little more than a bare existence under the robber capitalist system. Money talks. Judges are specially picked because they know how to listen attentively and understandingly to its siren song. The workers know that, even if Green and Lewis do not. Money talks. But the teachers will learn to understand its language as they take the bribe-fattened pay envelope, without acknowledging tie bribe, or a to it. The public school teachers belong to the working cla: A.N. L. C. Meetings Met with Enthusiastic Response in Buffalo By G. 1, Worker Correspondent, BUFFALO, Feb. 24. — Lovett Fort- Whiteman, well-known Negro labor organizer, spoke at two meetings in the Labor Lyceum here. Whiteman’s meetings attracted quite a number of interested Negro workers, who listen- ed eagerly to his able analysis of the problems which face the colored work- ers in this country, and in the whole world. A Negro member of the Brick- layers’ Union, B. > Taylor, acted as chairman. Whiteman pointed out that the only manner in which the Negro workers can hope to better their conditions is by exerting their organized strength as workers, together with organized labor of all races. He showed that racial hatred is an instrument used by the bosses to divide the strength of the working class and.make their common exploitation easier, “The col- onial wars in Morocco and Syria, and the looting of the Chinese working class show us that the colored work- e re exploited on an international scale. We must organize the tre- mendous forces of colored workers and become an aid in freeing the whole working class, Fort-Whiteman urged that the work- ers present join the American Negro Labor congress to fight against Jim- crowism, discrimination, and ob- stacles to Negroes wishing to join trade unions: A sizeable group of the American Negro Labor congress was formed in Buffalo. The prospects are that many more Negro workers will soon join this organization, FREE LITERATURE SUPPLIED, MILWAUKEE, Wis.— Free copies of the YOUNG WORKER, Tribuna Robotnicza, Pravda, and Honor and Truth,.can be secured from Frank Ailder, 821 Clylesurn St. Milwaukee, PLAN CAMPAIGN FOR COMMUNIST GERMAN WEEKLY Club Will Hold a Social Evening (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Feb, 24 — To raise funds for the publication of a German Communist weekly newspa- per, the German Nightworkers’ Club, consisting of members of Locals 1, and 164 of the Amalgamated Food- workers of America, have arranged a social evening to be held Saturday evening, Feb. 27, at Labor Temple, 84 St., (between Second and Third Ave.) An attractive program has been ar- Attractive program has been ar- ranged, including the Communist Mass Chorus, The Uthmann Singing Society and other features. Admission is only; fifty ‘cents. All comrades should be present to support the effort to make a success of such an import- ant event as the publication of a Ger- man Communist paper in America, Would Validate Citizenship S WASHINGTON, — (FP) -— Repros- entative Sabath of Chicago has intro- duced in the house a bill and a joint resolution proposing that declarations of intention to become citizens, made by aliens within 30 days preceding the day of a special election or primary election, shall be legalized. Under existing law, such declara- tions, if made within 30 days before special or primary election da: invalid. Great numbers of aliens, ignorant of this trick in the law, have made their first steps toward citizen- ship, only to discover years later that they must start all over again. “Trade unions are the reservoir of the majority of the socially decisive part of the proletariat.”"—C, |, \for the past six years, the 1,838 blasphemy decisions had ja century ago. |Bimba’s speech was a “decent, order- BLASPHEMY TRIA OPENS; CASE IS VERY WEAK (Continued from page 1). dismissal of the charges, pointed out that when the blasphemy law was passed, church and state in Massa- chusetts had not yet been separated, that at that time nearly the whole population was of the congregational- jist faith, while now there is a cosmo- politan population with many. relig- jfous differences. He declared that |anyone had the right to believe or dis- believe in a god, and ought to be guarded in that right. Cannot Improve the Thing. The prosecuting attorney, I. Man- uel Rubin, declared Bimba was not on trial for heresy. He argued, how- ever, that the people must be pro- tected in their belief in god, and that jthe crime consists in utterances de- }signed and calculated to destroy and disrupt the veneration that men may jhave in god. He said the law under which Bimba is being held was re-en- acted by the state legislature in 1921. He declared that there can be no \improvement upon this law, that it must stand for all time. He said it was upon the veneration for religion that the government is founded, and that Bimba in seeking to, destroy the government, was first seeking to de- stroy that veneration and the belief in god. In urging the court to go ahead ‘with the sedition charges the prosecutor cited the case against Ben Gitlow in New York and William Bross Lloyd in Illinois. Judge King announced that he wanted to get thru the trial as quick- ly as possible. He said he would be jglad to grant both motions to dis- miss. He had heard, he said, of the dissentions among the Lithuanians in the northeastern section of the city He said that been made by a divided court and he was inclined to believe with the min- jority. But he said he would still have to abide by the decision made nearly He didn’t think that ly confession of faith or unfatth, and that it was possibly out of place at the time and occasion.” So he wanted to go on with the case. Question Sedition Charge. In regard to the sedition charge he pointed out that it was passed in 1919 |while war sentiment was still rife in the land. “Possibly at this time,” he said, “there is no occasion for an en- forcement of this statute.” “The language used,” he continued, “is not the ordinary language of in- citement. It is more the language of prophecy.” Nevertheless, he overruled both motions and the trial’ got under way 4with the swearing in of 15 govern- ment witnesses, First Witness Caught in Lie, Eucado told how he had attended the mass meeting at which Bimba made his speech. The gathering had been advertised as a protest against the white terror in Lithuania. The defense brot out that Bimba’s declara- tions about god had been,made in connection with his description of the tortures visited @1 imprisoned Com- munists in Lithuania. He had asked how there could be a god when a clerical government (Catholic) in Lithuania murders and tortures its workers. The witness tried to bring in the usual oratorical trick about the ex- istence of the soul. He declared that Bimba had said that he didn’t have a soul, that he had soles on his shoes. but the witness, Eucado, was forced to admit that the speech was in Lith- uanian in which language the word for soul is “dushe” and that for sole of a shoe is “padas” so that it was im- possible to make this play upon words in Lithuanian as one can in English. It was very evident that Eudaco had been’ carefully coached in an in terpretation of Bimba’s speech that the prosecution is seeking to get across to the court. He conveniently forgot everything else. He couldn't remember what Bimba had said in his speech immediately prior to or after the alleged damaging statements, thus failing to give any general trend of Bimba’s utterances, “Aren't you more interested in fight- ing the people who brot Bimba here than you are in fighting the princi- ples for which Bimba stands?” asks Attorney Hoffman, Eudaco refused to admit this, how- ever, ucla Revolutionary Song Composed by Soldiers, LENINGRAD, U, 8. 8, R., Feb, 24.— A worker of the Pushkin Home of the Academy of Sciences at Leningrad has discovered by chance a small manuscript containing the poems of a noted contemporary of Pushkin, A, I. Poleshayevy. Among the poems was found a folk-song on the Decembrist revolt, which had been composed by soldiers immediately after the revolt, and recorded by Polezhayey under the title, “Soldier Song on December 14th, 1825." The song ends in threats at the address of Nicholas I. Ask Borah Support Against Mussolini ‘INNSBRUCK, Austria, Feb, 24 —A message appealing to Senator Borah to lend his support in terminating Mussolini's high handed attitude to- ward Tyrol was sent today following Thesis,'a Tyrolean protest meeting; chia ' ' i atcaaistatietcemaaman teeta eae Rin