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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
GERMAN GENERAL
RAIL STRIKE is
SPREADING FAST
Rank and File Against
Dawes Plan Slavery
Especial to The DAILY woRkER)

Especial to The DAILY WoRkER.)
BERLIN, March 9.-The stubborn
attitude Of the Dawes plan railway
administration, which has granted big
increases in salary 70 themselves
the higher administration officials of
the railways, while grinding the wages
of the real workers down to starva-
ton and discharging them by the tens
Of thousands, making the other speed
up-all this is causing the strike of
the freight handlers to grow rapidly
into general strike.
Why Not Preparations to Working
Class?
The workers are modest in their de-
mands, asking only 10 per cent in
crease, but the Dawes plan manage
ment refuses even to discuss the mat
ter.
In spite Of this, the treacherous vel
low socialists trade union leaders are
urging the strikers to go back to
work, then talk about it afterward."
They sharply conflict with the Com
munists in the unions who are urging
that general strike be declared at
once by all railroad workers in Ger
many.
Even Socialists Admit General Strike
Near.
This seems probable, as even the
socialist daily Vorwarts admits that
general rail strike is coming soon.
Practically every Ber1rn freight yard
is tied up and train service is Grip
pied. Berlin union meetings show
strong rank and file demand to ig-
more the reactionary union officials
and support a general strike, even
against the orders of the officials.
About 1000 men Joined the strike
in Saxony during the day. The strik-
ers held secret meetings and held de-
monstrations in Dresden and other
Saxon towns.
Suppress Communist Daily
The Communist daily paper, the
Rote Fahne Cred Flag has been sus-
pended for two weeks as the German
capitalists fear that its call for q
general strike would further the cause
Of the railway workers. The govern.
ment announces that the Rote Fahne
is suppressed because it attacked the
dead socialist president, Fritz Ebert.
But the fact that the monarchist
papers are not touched, although they
attack Ebert in very insulting terms,
shows that it is not a dead president,
but live general strike situation,
that moves the German capitalist
government to suppress the Commun-
list daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
Coolidge Lies to
Bankrupt Farmers,
Listens to Prof1teers

WASHINGTON, March 9.-No spe-
cial session of congress for legislation
in the interest of the farmers will be
summoned by President Coolidge, be-
cause he is convinced that the enemies
of the best interests" of the farming
industry now control the majority
opinion in congress. That is the latest
suggestion from the White House.
Once more the farmers are told that
the presidents special commission
which reported, a few weeks before
the old congress died, that American
agriculture should cultivate the home
market and help the manufacturers
to build up a higher tariff wall, was
their wisest counselor. Indeed, the
president will listen to no other plan.
Until congress is ready to surrender
its own views and accept the views
outlined by this special commission,
he will do nothing. All other advice,
he holds, comes from selfish sources,
and is aimed to help the promoters
of farm organizations and the middle
men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
TORIES READY
TO SPRING DROP
ON PEACE PACT
France Is Raising an Aw-
full Howl

GENEVA, March 9,-When the
council Of the league of nations meets
here next Thursday, Austen Chamber
lain is expected to make things so un.
comfortable for the "peace protocol
that it will fade away and die
Originally concocted by Ramsay
Macdonald and Herriot its death war
rant was drawn tho not signed when
the British dominions looked on it
with a cold and unfriendly eye, as a
result of the military adventures it
promised to drag its signatories into.
Chamberlain is reported to have
said that agreement could be reached
provided France accepts the Anglo
German pact, proposed recently by
the German government. Britain
wants Poland, Rumania and Checko-
Elovakia to sign the agreement. This
IS Just what the British dominions
DO not want. Perhaps Chamberlain
feels quite safe in dangling this bait
before the French snout, knowing that
Paris win not bite.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
PULLMAN BRANCHES
HOL D SUCCESSFUL
W0MEN'S DAY MEETING

The Pullman city central commit
Zee Of the Workers (communlst)
Party held very successful enter
tainment Sunday night to comem-
snorate international Women's Day.
stancik's Hall, east 18th Street.
was crowded with over two hundred
Communists and their friends who
listened to the music, drama and
speeches with evident appreciation.
The Junior group Of Pullman took
a prominent part in the entartain-
snent.
Karl Reeve, reporter for the
DAILY WORKER spoke on the eff
feet of the Coolidge election and the
Dawes plan on the working class of
America. He told of the ultimate
aim of the Workers Party and the
Communist International, and gave
the immediate united front demands
of the Workers Party on behalf Of
the American workers. Reeve told
Of the work of the Communists to
celebrate international Women's
Day.
comrade Yuris acted as chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
B-Hour Day for Women
Up Before Committee
at Springfield Today

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. March 9.-Miss
Jane Adams is expected to answer
tomorrow as the principal speaker to
defend the women's S-hoIr day bill
before the Illinois general assembly.
This measure was introduced in the
upper branch by Senator w. S. Jewell
Lewistown, and in the house by Mrs.
Lottie Holman O'Neill of Downers
Grove. Senator William Sneed of Her
rim is chairman of the senate commit
tee and Representative Charles W.
La Parte Of Peoria of the house com
mittee hearing the measures.
The speaking program for the mes
IRE includes Agnes Nestor of the Chi
cago Women's Trade Union League
and Mrs. O'Neill. The illinois Manu-
facturer's association together with
pther employers will speak against
the bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11

He says: 1--WE have won the fight.
The cause of labor is holy" And,
Cooperate with the sheriff." ETC.,
etc.
After writing all this stun he has
the nerve to sign his name to it as
chief international representative of
the u. M. w. OF A.
Down With Glass Collaboration
The only thing for us to do is to
fight for the progressive miners pro-
gram and put out of office these lack
eys of the coal operators and. elect
real representatives OF the rank and
file miners that will organize the I'M
organized and construct the U. M.
w. of A. to fit the needs OF the coal
miners.
Down with class collaboration
Down. with the Lewis machinel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
West Virginia Coal Miners Are Betrayed By Lewis

to elect him to Office, but each time
he was defeated. Three times he
asked the membership of District IL
to elect him secretary, and each time
he was defeated by large majority.
AS / said before, Lewis was never
elected to any Office. In 1917, John
p White, then president, appointed
Lewis as statistician. Later he was
appointed manager Of the United
Mine Workers Journal.
In 1918, John p. White was induced
to resign and take the job as advisor
to the fuel administration OF the gov
eminent. Frank Hayes then became
president and he appointed Lewis
vice-president.
Examples Of Trlekery and Fraud.
In very short time, Lewis was in
complete control Of the. international
executive board. Hayes was soon dis.
credited, and, thru an agreement with
Lewis, Hayes received years sal
airy in advance and resigned, handing
the presidency over to Lewis.
So we see how Lewis reached the
highest Office in the U. M. w. OF A.
without ever being elected.
An organization is in a pretty bad
state OF affairs when an appointed OF.
fetal has the power and authority TO
remove from Office, and expel with.
out trial, an official who was elected
by rank and file members, as in the
case Of Alexander Howat OF District
ID.
Alexander Howat 10 fighting un.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11

ion miner, a man who cannot be
bought off by the coal operators The
operators tried to buy him, but he
wasn't for sale so they had their tool,
John l.. Lewis to expel him.
Relnstate Alexander Howat.
The very least we can do is to
force Lewis to reinstate him to his
former position as president of Dis
trict IA. Howat, was in jail sacrific-
ing his liberty In the interest of the
Kansas miners at the time Lewis ex-
PEELED him.
Lewis then sent Van A. Bittner to
take charge of District IA, at once
the district dropped from 1900 to
1000 members in a very short time.
Bittner is at present m Fairmont.
w. Va. serving his bosses. He was
not elected TO his present position
either. He was appointed.
Bittner has sent to the officers and
members Of local unions of northern
w. Va. an Official circular, which ap-
pears TO have been written by an at
torney for the coal operators.
Van Blttners Craven Advice.
IL has all the ear marks of a docu-
ment that was written by a lawyer
or a professional politician. Il states
the miserable condition that the min
ers are in, and says that the opera
tors are trying to ensiave 'our peo-
pie" and. "our membership is passing
thru most trying times.
| He is right II we can stand this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
Coolidge Extends
Power of FLUTES
in South America

WASHINGTON, March 9.-In his
capacity as arbitrator of the long
standing boundary dispute between
Chile and Peru, President Coolidge
book occasion to extend the influence
VI American imperialism in the South
American countries. Coolidge decided
The nocthorn boundary question out
tight in favor CT Peru.
However, Coolidge decided that a
plebiscite should be held 10 Tacna and
africa to determine which Of the two
nations shall acquire control Of these
provinces. In this plebiscite. America
will take a prominent part, and will
award the disputed provinces TO the
country giving the mos; favorable
terms to American capitalists
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11

Jacksonville agreement. Wherever
the miners have tried to compel the
coal operators to live up to the agree
ment, their efforts have always been
blocked by the reactionary Lewis dis
trict machinery. Expulsion from the
union, revocation of charters such as
happened in District 1, have been the
methods used by Lewis to aid the coal
operators to enforce their will upon
the miners.
The only hope of the miners is the
spirit shown and expressed in District
&c, Nova Scotia. This strike must be
broadened out to cover the entire min
ing industry of the Un.ced States and
Canada.
A united front of the miners and the
railroad workers against the united
front of industrial and finance CAPT
tai.
Naturalization of the mines, with
management by the miners union.
Against wage cuts-For wage in
creases.
A national agreement to cover the
entire coal industry.
Unemployment insurance to be paid
out of the profits of the industry and
administered by a committee of
miners.
The six-hour day and ive-day week.
These slogans should be the basis
of a nationwide strike and upon which
there should be no compromise. The
holiness which the coal operators
show in their wage-slashing open
shop campaign must be met by de-
termined effort on the part of the pro-
gressive rank and file. To expect the
Lewis administration to start the fight
against the coal operators without tre-
mendous pressure from the member
ship is expecting the impossible. Ev-
cry local union must demand from the
executive boards of their sub-district,
district, and the international that pre-
parations be made for nationwide
strike against wage cuts, and that the
strike be conducted upon the basis
of the class struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
Continued from page u


as they are in West Virginia today?
What could they say? The situa-
tion is enough to make them turn
over in their gravesl
Are we going to stand to one side
and let John L. Lewis and the coal
operators take away from US what
we have fought for?
Union Can Be Destroyed only From
Inside.
1t is almost impossible for the coal
operators to destroy or cripple the u.
M. W. of A. without the aid OF John
L. Lewis and company.
Lewis has done more harm to the
organization since he became presi-
dent than the Baldwin-Felts Detective
agency ever did do or could do.
Lewis Busy Destroying Y. M. w. Of A.
The whole history Of Lewis activi-
ties in the U. M. w. of A. is one OF
betrayals to the miners; he has work
ed in the interest Of the operators
ever since he became president.
Lewis was never elected to any Of.
fee in the U. M. w. Of A. Every po-
sition he has held, including his pres
ent position, he got by being appoint.
ed, not elected by the miners. Be-
cause, where he was known, he could
not be elected for president Of To-
cal.
Never Eleeted-AIways Appointed.
For years in his home state, I'LL
nois, he tried TO induce the miners
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
NAM offIeers To pIssIpate

MELBOURNE, Australia, March 9.
IAN extensive program Of feasting,
dancing and parties has been ar
ranged for the officers of the Amer
lean fleet on their arrival here next
summer.
The fleet is to manuever in Pacific
waters 10 impress the English, Japan.
ese and South American countries
with the power Of the United States
IN the Pacific. No entertainments
have been arranged for the common
sailors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11

kind of times without kicking, we can
stand most anything.
He says that the operators have
imported hundreds Of gunner and
erected forts and have manned them
with machine guns and high powered
flashlights to keep the miners in
subsection, and also staten that over
four hundred miners ana their fami-
lies have been evicted from their
homes by these gunner.
Then he says, There is only one
thing to do in this crisis, and that is,
keep our heads and depend upon the
righteousness Of our cause" A very
good tactic, indeedl
How About the country's Duty to
MIners7
This hunkey of the coal opera
tors also has in his Official circular"
such bunk as this: Remember your
duty to your country, and, bear your
cross with patience, and be a good
citizen" etc.
He also advises, or rather instructs,
the members TO expel member IL
he takes the floor in a local union
meeting and advocates any progress
sive measures. claiming that anyone
advocating ways and means OF fight
ing the operators and their gunner
are tools Of the coal operators.
Faker Wants Miners to Help the
Sheriff.
Well, Moundsville penitentiary has
got several Of these tools" for guests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
Indiana Democrats Double Crossed

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March o.
Without comment or debate the In
diana senate today passed the Pen
rod "Gerrymander" bill by a vote of
27 to 0. None of the democrats voted.
This bill, transferring Lawrence
county from the third to the second
congressional district, was respons-
ible for the recent Strike" of the
democratic minority, the senators
fleeing to Ohio to avoid arrest for
breaking senate quorum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF T.U.E.L.
ISSUES STATEMENT ON STRUGGLE
OF NOVA SCOTIA COAL MINERS

thousand miners desperate but determined
shall be raised of lowered strike
corporation (BEsCo)
of
militant all their struggles this
having with duastc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
Dover opposes reduced Fare.

Mayor Dever has admitted that pri-
vate persons have already subscribed
$4,000 toward his propaganda cam
paign TO put the traction ordinance
over on the voters. A downtown head
quarters will be opened. The Chi
cago Tribune has opened its guns in
the drive to give the bankers now
controlling the traction lines a long
term franchise on the car lines under
the guise Of the "Dever municipal or
dinance."
Dever. speaking at a methodist
church, declared ave cent fare is
impossible. IL is based on unsound
and dishonest srguments-"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11

of the o. B. u, it is a real achieve
ment for the officials Of District 26,
who, following the united front pro
gram of the Communist Party of Can
ada and the Trade Union Educational
League, have been able to overcome
these difficulties and to weld the 49,
600 miners of that district together
on common program and to fight
the common enemy.
The class struggle is the basis up
on which the Nova Scotia miners and
their officials enter the strike. The
representatives of the Lewis ma
chine, following their ruinous and
descriptive class collaboration policy,
left District 26 sometime ago when in
formed by the Besco, British Empire
Steel corporation, that wage cut was
going to be demanded.
It was thought then that Lewis had
so thoroly demoralized the district
that the miners would be in no posi-
ton to fight against the wage cut. But
the militant miners of Nova Scotia,
with true revolutionary spirit, have
rallied their forces, shattered tempo
rarily by the traitorous conduct of
John L. Lewis, and are determined
that not ton of coal shall be mined
or a pail Of water pumped until every
demand made by them has been won.
The excuse advanced by the coal
operators for cutting the wages Of the
Nova Scotia miners is the old hoary
one that they can't compete with the
coal mined in the United States. Can
ada can't compete with the United
States, Germany can't compete with
France, England can't compete with
France, Germany, Italy, or Belgium,
and then within the national bound
aries, Illinois can't compete with the
non-union fields in Kentucky and w.
Virginia-so therefore, the solution is,
according to coal operators, a wage
reduction all around. And when this
vicious circle has been completed they
begin all over again.
The wage cut proposed by the Brit
ish Empire Steel corporation is a part
of the open shop" drive now being
started in the coal mining industry of
North America. The employers believe
that if they can crush the Nova Scotia
miners and add this district to the
growing number of the non-union coal
fields, that they will then be in bet
ter position to launch a general cam
paign against the union fields.
Already we see conferences being
held by the powerful coal operators of
Illinois, western Pennsylvania, Ohio,
and Kansas for the purpose Of repu-
dating the Jacksonville agreement
and enforcing a general wage cut in
the mining industry. The progressive
miners know that the signing of the
Jacksonville agreement was engineer
ed by the coal operators thru their
union representatives, John L. Lewis,
ct al, for the purpose Of expelling
from the industry 100000 surplus
miners" 1t was the rankest betray-
al ever recorded in American labor
history.
Wage cuts, yellow dog contracts,
closing down Of mines, open viola,
lions of working agreements, have
been the lot Of the miners under the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
Sears Tower Kms Worker.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 9.-One
man was killed and two others badly
hurt and may die, when a steel con-
struction tower fell on them today
at the $5,OOO,OOO Sears, Roebuck plant
under construction here. The tower
fell 80 feet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
COPPER TRUST
STOLE BILLION
FROM TREASURY
Government Accepted
Crooked Tax List
especial to The Daily Worker,

NOPOStdA " UC 6aliy WoEKcFy
WASHINGTON, d. c., March o.
Testimony that the government has
lost more than $S5O,O0O,OOO in errone-
GUS tax deductions to big copper In
terests has been presented by treas
ury experts before the senate com.
mittee investigating the bureau of in
ternal revenue, it was declared to-
day.
Heaviest losses to the government
were from the Anaconda Copper com.
pany and the Inspiration Copper
company, L. c. Manson, special com.
mittee prosecutor testified.
This resulted from the treasury ac.
cepting the copper companys valua.
ton claims.
Copper Trust Dictates.
In its tax returns for 1917 and
1918, the Anaconda company claimed
valuation Of s1S4,152,965, altho John
A. Grimes, chief of the metal valua.
ton section of the internal revenue
bureau, said the amount should have
been only $54,S65, S22. The company
received big saving in taxes when
the treasury permitted valuation OF
$1Ss,713,192.
Government Kind to Bosses.
The Inspiration company claimed
valuation of $62,214,SOO. Grimes re-
ported it should have been only ST.
292,O74, but the treasury allowed $92,-
134,730 as a tax basis, said Manson.
I'm other words, they ignored
Crimes valuation?" asked Senator
Couzens. Manson replied in the af
firmative.
Valuing property at a greater fig
ure than it is actually worth, results
in tax saving in figuring depletion
allowances.
Manson also charged the treasury
was losing vast sums annually thru
unscientific methods in checking re-
turns and allowing deductions for de-
pletion, amortization and similar de-
ductible items.
Standard OIL Also Cheats.
Similar losses to the government
have resulted from larger oil com
panies, according to A. F. Fay, con-
sulting engineer for the committee,
who said oil concerns had "set UP a
valuation for depletion purposes
which is absurd in the extreme"
Mellon Stole Millions.
Evidence designed to show that the
government lost millions of dollars in
taxes from the United States Steel
corporation and the Aluminium COM
pany of America thru excessive amor
cization allowances, has been laid be-
fore the special senate committee in
vestigating the bureau of internal
revenue, the committees records dis
Chased today.
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew
Mellon is heavy stakeholder in the
Aluminium company.
L. c. Manson, counsel for the COM
mittee declared that the Steel cor
poration was allowed an amortization
over allowance of $27, 926,O14, and the
aluminium company, cat least $6,500,-
000."
Taxes collected from a corporation
by the government decrease as amor
tization allowance increase.
"The amount of amortization claim
ed by the United States Steel cor
poration, was $S3,4S2,O61," declared
Manson. "The amortization allowed
by the bureau of international reve-
nue. was $55,O63,312. The amount con-
sidered proper by your counsel and
engineers (the committee's) is $27,-
1S6,987. The over allowance was $27.-
926,O14. The tax difference was $21,-
438,313."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
Set income Tax Publicity Case.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March o.
The test case to determine the legah-
ty or illegality of publishing income
tax returns was set for argument on
April 10, by the supreme court to-
day. The case to be argued is against
the Baltimore Post.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
100 Marooned on Barge.

LOS ANGELES, March o. Caught
IN high seas, 100 men and women, all
deathly seasick, were marooned today
two miles off Redondo Beach on
fishing barge, where they had been
held prisoner by rough waters since
Sunday afternoon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
Would Repeal direct Primaries

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March "a
bill now before the house would abo.
fish the direct primary law and revert
to the system OF selecting state can
didates at state convention Of polite.
al parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
MussoIini stu Premier

ROME, March 9.-Premier Musso.
lini, recovering from an attack Of in
fluenza, was kept from parliament by
bad weather when the chamber of
deputies reconvened today. 1t was
thought inadvisable that he leave his
room.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
SUSPENSION MAY BE
LIFTEDIN BRITISH COMMONS IF
CENSURE MOTION is WITHDRAWN
Especial to The DAILY worker)

LONDON March elf motion offered
David Krood
premier
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11

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