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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
u. S. Is Watchdog
for Wall Street,
Not for World

GENEVA, May 10. - The United
States is not willing to act as an ain
ternational watch dog" at the Panama
Canal and violate the flags of other
nations to search for arms, Congress
man Theodore Burton, chairman of
the American delegation to the Ge-
neva arms traffic association, told
the committee on arms today.
Burton declared the United States
was willing to inspect domestic and
foreign shipping only for the purpose
Of preventing liquor smuggling but
believed that mutual confidence
should govern internationals arms
commerce, making the searching of
ships unnecessary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
WEST VIRGINIA
MINERS FIGHT
UNDER HANDICAP
Van Bittner Careless
and Inefficient
tspseIaI e Ths DaIly workerl


WHEELING, w. Va, May 15.-The
strike at Warwood, West Virginia is
not going in good shape, because,
although we came out on strike on
April 1, the union officials did not adj
NIT US to the union until April 18th.
That was too long.
When we came out, we were out 80
per cent, and about 80 per cent are
Negro miners, so we asked for a
Negro organizer. But the internation-
al organizer, Van Bittner, said the
union had no Negro organizer. JOS
eph Angelo is our organizer in War
wood. But after the Negroes went
back to work they got Negro organ
izer.
Too Late
But It was too late, and the men
went back because they saw no work
going on from the union officers. Now
the ones who are still out are given
relief only grudgingIy and insufficient
ly. They give single men from 81 to
So week, and married men from
$3.50 to 81 a week.
1t appears that the U. M. W. Off
cials do not care much about organ
izing the West Virginia miners, be-
cause the officials are cooperating
with the police and we have to kiss
their hands to get organized.
No Bittner on Picket Line
Van Bittner is chief international
organizer, but we have not seen him
on the job. He only came to Wheeling
for trial in the federal court, not to
talk to the miners or share the hard
ships of starvation and the danger Of
smuggling on the picket line. However,
the strike is reported to be better in
other parts of the panhandle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
Zaritsky Again Heads
the Capmakers' Union

NEW YORK, May 15.-FP) Max
zaritsky is still president of the Cloth
Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers In
ternational Union. The 18th biennial
convention Of the organization re-
elected Zaritsky. Max Zuckerman re-
mains general secretary-treasurer.
Attempts to make the jobbers res
ponsible for the industry were APP
proved by the convention and action
during negotiations next year for a
new agreement is expected. A budget
plan and increased per capita tax OF
6 cents were adopted by the conven.
ton before final conclusion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
Amalgamated Metal
Workers Continue
Old Affiliation

NEW YORK CITY, May 15.-The
secretary of the United Labor Council
has received letter from ]. Geraghty,
secretary Of District Council No. Of
the Amalgamated Metal Workers of
America, stating that District No. /
voted to continue their affiliation to
the United Labor Council of Greater
New York and authorizes each of their
locals to elect two delegates each who
will be sent to the council thru Dis
trict No. /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
New YORK ReaIsters Quake.

NEW YORK, May 49, An earth
quake OF moderate intensity traced its
zig-zag record on the seismograph Of
Fordham university today. The first
tremor was noted at S:O7 a. m, East
ern daylight time. The greatest in
tensity was reached at s:15 and the
entire quake lasted forty minutes.
The distance from New York was
approximately 1900 miles. The Aleu-
tian Islands in the northern Pacific,
territory subject to shocks, are this
distance from New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
Give % of Mob That
Mutilated Man from
Two to Thirty Years

WILLIAMSON, N. c., May 15-sen-
fencing of the twenty-eight convicted
and confessed members of the mob
that removed Joseph A. Needleman,
tobacco salesman, from the Martin
county Jail on March 20, and mutilat-
ing him, by Judge N. A. Sinclair,
marked the first time in the history
of North Carolina that a mob had
been indicted, tried and convicted en-
masse. Prison sentences, ranging
from thirty years down to two years,
and total approximately sixty-three
years, were imposed on the five prin-
cipals in the case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
CHICAGO YOUNG
WORKERS LEAGUE
PLAN ACTIVITY
Numerous Campaigns In
City Program


At the meeting Of the city central
committee OF the Young Workers
League, local Chicago, held on We'd
nesday, May 13, the following matters
were taken up with special interest
and emphasis:
Division of league branches into
factory committees, assigning each
group a factory in which the commit
tee is to take charge of a campaign
until a nucleus is established there.
To assist in the most advantageous
division of the branch into such COM
mittees, the city organization commit
tee is to meet with the B. E. C's Of
Branches Nos. /, 3, and during the
coming week.
Membership Drive.
In connection with the membership
drive, the need for increased outside
activity was stressed and the Work
ers Party branches also will be visit
ed by our comrades in an effort to
get their cooperation in our mem
bership drive.
The organization OF working area
branch in Pullman. ILL.,, and in Cicero,
III.
The organization Of a campaign in
the heavier industries to begin early
in June.
League Picnic June IA.
Election of a committee to begin
i'm m adfafa oroopf1otiop 20 tko Ioa,.,,.
picnic to take place in the Beyer's
Grove, on June IA. Committee con-
sists Of AL MeItz, Weintraub, Mela-
med, Katilus, e. Bern, Letchinger, Bo-
risov, Gomez and " Meltz, with exc
cutive committee consisting of A.
Meltz, ~ Gomez and V. Meltz
Election of comrades to assist the
party IN arranging their big picnics
in the summer.
Support of the Champion, the Off
cial organ of the American Negro La
Dor Congress.
Participation in the campaign to es-
tablish a party book store in Chicago.
Participating to the fullest extent
in the mass demonstration arranged
by the party city central committee
protesting against the white terror in
the Balkans. Meeting to be held on
Sunday, May IL, 1926, $3.50 D. m. at
Hod Carriers Hall, S14 w. Harrison
st.
Attending the party branch indus
trial organizers meeting on Friday,
May Is, at 10 S. Lincoln St., D. m,
by all league branch organizers.
A date Of July 10 is reserved for
an outing and picnic together with
the Waukegan comrades.
Intensive Training Class.
The organization Of an intensive
training class for a score Of leading
comrades in the league who are need
ed to Immediately take care and full
responsibility for the various nuclei
and potential nuclei. Class to begin
on May 25, Monday, at 2613 Hirsch
Blvd. and to continue for six weeks.
On finances, thoro discussion took
place and a meeting Of all financial
secretaries is called on Saturday, May
%, at D. IN. to work out a uniform
system of handling finances.
The Junior director had a report Of
good work.
The branches reported on their ac-
t;vity and their problems, with an
excellent report Of activities coming
from Branch No. 5.
On the Negro activities, the commit
tee has been functioning well, leaflet
is gotten out and factories at which
campaigns are to start assigned to
branches.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
French defeated In Morocco

TETUAN, Morocco, May 15.--The
French have suffered severe reverses
to their 10000 men, and further rein
forcements are being rushed from
southern France, dispatch from Ra-
bat states TO engage in a counter at
tack on the Rifian tribesmen who
have entered French Morocco.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
PLEASE, MISTER ROCKEFELLER"
is TIMID PLEA OF HIS COMPANY
UNION REPRESENTATIVES IN N. J.
tHy rhe federated Preasl

NEWARK 14-Three employees rep
Oil
All
getting week o year.
Wants a
Bayway agreed
cmpny
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17

teur CHAMPAIGN and p. Kolko of wau.
kegan, Wis. The committee on ar
engagements claim that this picnic will
be 80 full OF big doings that It will
be long remembered as the best one
day open air affalr ever given by the
T. U. u. L. and SOC gets tho whole
works.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17

A MoNG other attractions arranged
= for the T. U. d. L. picnic to be
held on Decoration Day. May 30. at
Altenheim Grove, is a hammer drill
by the Finnish Athletic Club and a
wrestling match between ]. PAWN
en-, central states welterweight anna
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
Two Die In Wreck.

SUNBURY, Pa, May 1.-Two men
were killed and two others seriously
injured here today when, according
to authorities, the car in which they
were travelling at high speed, struck
the others beneath the wreckage. The
dead are Homer Amy, 80, Uniontown,
Pa; Benjamin Ditchfield, Shamokin,
Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
PHOTO WORKERS. ORGANIZATION
JOINS A. F. OF L. AND STARTS
DRIVE TO REMEDY CONDITIONS
BY ESTHER LOWELL
Federated Press STAFF Correspondent

NEW YORK, NJ Y, May 15The Photographic Workers
added the Photo Fnhers
The aagamated conducting
direction organizer
make
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

CONTINUED from page u
famous American surgeon is now in
Rome, ready to perform an operation
on Mussolini. Here's hoping the "oper-
alton" is a success.
LNIFTY gold star mothers" have
sailed for France to visit the graves
Of their sons who died for Morgan's
gold dollar during the world war. Not
very many mothers Of dead heroes
can afford to visit the battlefields OF
France and the graves of their loved
ones. Only very few can have this
satisfaction. Thousands Of mothers
whose sons are pushing up French
lilies have not enough money to pay
their fare to the nearest poor house.
THERE is nothing an American
l. babbit will not attempt except
think and act intelligently. A glove
manufacturer of Des Moines, Iowa,
secured world fame by walking up to
the king Of England at the Wembley
exposition and grabbing the royal mitt
shook 1t warmly saying, How do you
do, king; shake hands with America"
No doubt the poor king was as help
less confronted with this sudden crisis
as Harry Thaw when out of the range
of his lawyers for few minutes. Per
haps George thot Morgan was hanging
to the end of his paw and not Des
Moines babbit. So George wrig-
gled his royal fin as best he could and
drew back his face into the caricature
Of a smile.
THE glove manufacturers name is
l. Cownie. He stands a good chance
of being candidate for president-at
least of the Des Moines Rotary Club.
His glove business should take a de-
cided upward swing. When Cownie's
son shook hands with the king and
both posed for the camera the elder
declared: Nov we've shaken hands
with the king of England and Jack
Dempsey and we're happy" There was
life's ambition realized in one fell
swoop.
GENERAL BORIS SAvINKOFF,
" anti-Soviet plotter who confessed
to his crimes in August of 1924, COM
mitted suicide by throwing himself
from the window of his cell in a
Moscow prison few days ago. Savin-
koff told of his relations with the gov
ernments of France. Checho-Slovakia
and England, during the early days Of
the Soviet regime; how those govern
ment financed revolutions against the
workers republic and instigated plots
to murder Soviet leaders. The con-
spirator was first sentenced to death,
but the sentence was afterwards COM
muted to life Imprisonment, which is
I in harmony with the policy of the
Soviet government of not inhicting
capital punishment unless the ex-
IRENE penalty is essential to the in
terests of the workers and peasants
power.
EDMOND VANCE COOKE, the jingle
IL mongering poet, has been poison
ing the minds of the school children
of Chicago for the last two weeks
with recitations Of his own compost.
ton. His tour was conducted by the
Chicago Daily News. Another after
noon newspaper, a competitor of the
News, protested on the ground that
Cookies poems were not patriotic. So
the Daily News came back with a
headline: Cookies patriotic poems
are cheered," and published rhyme
called "All For America" which makes
the German "Deutchland Uber Allies
look like the RED Flag" It's tough
| On the kids
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-26

that they are in their death throes.
When Lenin was taken i'll, the doc
tors forbade him to work, to read
papers and to meet comrades. This
was very irksome to Vladimir IIyitch.
And he frequently said: Can they
prevent me from thinking?" And he
thought night and day trying to find
ways and means to bring the working
and peasant classes nearer to com
plete victory, to help them to over
come all difficulties and to make their
lives bright and free from the fear
what the next day might bring.
Lenin's Last Articles.
When he was already bedridden,
and his right side was paralyzed, but
was still master of his speech, he die
tated to stenographer his last arti-
cles. In these articles he urged his
party to continue to work in closer
union between the working and peas
ant classes to improve our apparatus
and to work continually among the
masses in order to help workers and
peasants to organize their life, to be-
come more conscious and cultured, to
understand better their common inter-
ests and to adopt gradually newer and
better collective forms of work-co-
operation. s91 sD'r
Lenin's Injunction to his party was
to continue to develop the October
work, and the Lenin Party means to
fulfill this injunction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-26
BY N. KRuPsKAYA.

Seven years ago, at the height of
the imperialist war, the October Revo-
lution-the greatest of all revolu-
tions-shook the world.
Who made this revolution? The
Lenin Party alone?
Certainly not; the masses-the
workers and peasants-made it to-
gether with the party.
War, with its devastations and op-
preston, had made life intolerable to
the workers and peasants and to the
soldiers who were drawn from these
sections of the population.
They could not stand it any longer.
To suppress the rising the govern
ment deceived the people: the sol
diers, workers and peasants were told
that they were fighting for the defense
of their country, and thas Tor such a
cause one must be ready to lay down
ones life.
Lenin Party Echoed Workers Needs.
The Lenin Party opened the eyes of
the masses; it told them the truth and
nothing but the truth; it explained to
them the causes of the war and
showed them how capitalists and land
owners are profiting by wars and are
using them for the enslavement of the
masses.
And in spite of all the efforts of the
capitalists, landowners and their lack
eys to besmirch the Bolsheviks, to
make the masses believe that Lenin
was a German SPY, the workers and
peasants realized that Lenin and the
Lenin Party spoke the truth.
The Lenin Party issued the slogans:
Down with the predatory war;" THE
land to the working population" "All
power to the Soviets."
These slogans touched the heart of
every worker and peasant, for they
echoed their most intimate thoughts
and desires.
They saw that the Lenin Party was
standing up for their interests, and
the more their eyes were opened, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-26
Our First Communist Press Day

mands Of the militant rank and file,
struggling to make progress against
this combined host Of enemies.
Even the Communist press 10 not
impervious to these diseases that be-
set and destroy the Socialist and
trade union press. 1t is only thru the
most thoro Bolshevization that the
Communist press, especially the for.
eign-language Communist press that
is inherited from the socialist" par.
ty, can fight of and rid itself of these
dangerous tendencies. One Of the
tragic examples Of this failure to sub
NIT itself to a thoro Bolshevization is
the case of the New York Volkszei-
tung, that was the voice Of the Ger
man workers in the socialist" party
before 1919, but was since then and
until recently recognized as our Ger
man Communist daily in the United
States.
THE Volkszeitung never made a
serious attempt to throw off the
numerous social-democratic diseases
that beset it. AS a result its strug-
gle for the workers was poisoned to
the point of ineffectiveness.
It might be well to cite concrete
example. The Volkszeitung publish
es columns of advertisements of
small businessmen. But even these
small businessmen come in conflict
with their workers, altho some of
them are looked upon as good fell
lows" and others have been members
of the socialist" party of long stand
ing, even back in the old country.
Since some of them have done well,
they have contributed financially to
the Volkszeitung, as a memorial no
doubt, to their own past, but now dead
revolutionary activities. But even such
good" bosses die, and the present
editorship of the Volkszeitung, that
calls itself Communist, must needs
pay them tribute, referring to one
especially who, ''in spite Of his SYM
pathy for the cause of the worker,
was not spared his struggles with
the workers" 1t was this very boss. a
sausage manufacturer, who nearly de-
stroyed Butchers Union No. TIA. in
New York City, but the Volkszeitung
must needs pay him tribute, because
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-26
The Lenin Party and the October Revolution

more they began to believe in Lenin
and his party.
Comrades, said the Lenin Party to
the workers, you cannot win unless
you have the support of the peasantry
and unless you make yourselves
worthy of the confidence of the latter.
Side by side with the peasants, you
are bound to win.
Comrades, said the Lenin Party to
the peasants, the workers will help
you to obtain peace and land and to
shake OFF the yoke of the landowners
and rural authorities Follow it.
And the workers and peasants
joined forces; together they had suf-
fered from the oppression of landown-
ers and capitalists and the rule of the
nobility-and together they rose.
The Lenin Party did its utmost to
help them to their victory, and the
peasant and proletarian masses were
victorious.
In October they took power into
their own hands, and immediately the
decree concerning land and peace was
promulgated.
Fought Devastation.
And after October the Lenin Party
continued to defend the interests Of
workers and peasants. Those were
difficult times. The Brest-Litovsk
Peace was made under very hard con-
ditions. but it rescued the country
from war. Capitalists and laHdown-
ers offered fierce resistance to the
Soviet power. the power of the work
ers and peasants. Foreign powers
helped the former in every possible
way. They wanted to help the Rus
sian bourgeoisie to suppress the work
ers and peasants who had rebelled, but
they were unable to do so.
The worst enemy with whom it was
most difficult to fight was-ruin and
devastation. The country had to make
great efforts and bring many sacrifices
in its struggle against this ruin and
devastation. But the Lenin Party did
everything it possibly could to help
the Soviets to overcome this ruin and
devastation, and one can see already
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-26
Locate Arctic Explorers

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-After 4s
hours of worry because no communi-
cation could be established with the
Bowdoin, carrying Commander Donald
Macmillan, the Arctic explorer, the
airplane carrier Peary re-established
communication today. according to ad-
vices to the national geographic So
ciety.
The Peary is now near Battle Har-
Dor, Labrador, and the Bowdin is lying
in a cove of Greenland waiting for
the equinoctial gales to subside be-
fore trying to sail across Davis Straits
to Labrador.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-26

employed every possible capitalist
trick to make of these dailies profit
able business enterprises. The in
evitable result was the enslavement
of these dailies to big advertisers
with the ultimate and complete be-
trayal of its labor support. The fate
Of the Seattle Union Record and the
Minnesota Star should show labor the
way Of all so-called trade union"
dailies.
TT took the Socialist" daily press a
4 little longer to travel the same
road. The socialist" New York Call,
for instance, expired under a dose Of
'popularization" administered to it by
New York trade union officials, with
the liberal aid of their treasures, af-
ter it had surrendered all pretense to
any socialist" character. The Mil
waukee Leader, the socialist" daily
edited by Victor Berger, lives today at
the whim of the big department store
advertisers of the Wisconsin metropo-
lis, to at least one of whom, Gimbel
Brothers, Berger openly apologized
for having criticised it during the war
days. Berger's Milwaukee Leader
may now be said to be completely sub
merged in the morass Of capitalist
journalism in the state of Wisconsin,
beyond the confines of which it has
ceased to have any influence.
DUT one of the most revealing facts
II about these dailies, that have car
ried the labor label, is that they take
no interest in the great struggles of
the workers, outside of the casual
news interest, abetted by the custom
airy capitalist news service report that
they receive. They have no policy to-
ward the important anthracite coal
strike; no definite stand to be taken
on the important conventions of the
railroad workers being held at Kan
sas City Mo-, and at Detroit, Mich,
except to echo the reactionary pro-
grams of the official conservative re-
gimes, politically as well as indus
trially.
On every field Of battle, whether in
strikes or on the convention floor, it
is our Communist organ, the DAILY
WORKER. that gives voice. to the de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-26
ROIshevizina Our Press.

THIS day was set aside as an ef-
4 fort in the struggle to Bolshevize
our press; to sharpen it to become
more effective weapon in the class
war. This meant the clarifying of
its working class character; bringing
it into closer and still more intimate
touch with the workers at their plac-
es of toll. Special and most import
ant stress was therefore, laid upon
contributions direct from worker cor
respondents, not merely as a feature
of this special issue, but as an inn
sportant daily aid in the editorial work
of our Communist newspaper.
The Communist daily, more and
more, seeks to imbibe itself ever
deeper in the daily life Of the work
ers, in order to be the better able to
fight labor's battles.
On the other hand, however, we
find not only the capitalist press clos
ed and in opposition to the workers,
but the same holds true for the social
democratic, or Socialist" as well as
the trade union" press, in a varying
but equal degree.