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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21


gressive miners and again he fails II
to Drew Pearson, reporter for cap.
italist paper, he is reported to make
the following statements.
1.-THE United Mine Workers once
co-operated with the state depart.
rent in making an investigation
Of Communist propaganda"
1t is of interest TO the rank and
file workers to know that the miners
did nothing of the kind, but that John
L. Lewis, without the consent of the
miners, did use an enormous amount
of money belonging to the miners in
peddling capitalist propaganda on be-
half of the enemy of the workers and
farmers government of Russia. This
money was used by Lewis in opposi
ton to the wishes of the rank and file
of the progressive miners, for the pur-
pose of buying recognition for himself
rom the republican party on the one
land, and the destruction Of the men
acing power of outraged labor on the
other.
He states that "the bolshevlks
are trying to upset the union"
The workers in America know that
the union will not be broken. but it
will be pulled thru its present crisis,
not because of John L. Lewis, but in
spite of him.
No labor faker in the history of the
American labor movement stands out
as clearly as Lewis as an enemy of
received such universal condemnation
from the intelligent workers as he
From coast to coast he is regarded as
the symbol of all that is dishonest and
traitorous in the labor world. and
actually hated by the forward looking
masses in the miners organization.
His betrayals of the miners. are
legion-in Nova Scotia Alberta, Kans-
sas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and
the ver-to-be-forgotten surrender to
Judge Anderson when victory was
within the grasp of the miners of
America.
He refers sneeringly to the Nova
Scotia miners request to be per-
mitted to affiliate with the Red
international of Labor Unions.
He does not mention anything about
the conditions of the Nova Scotia min
ers at that time. They were on strike
and starving and John L. Lewis had
no money to aid them in their brill
liant fight, fight that brot to them
the admiration of the workers Of the
world.
From far-off Russia the workers re-
sponded to an appeal to help save the
miners with donation of $4,000. when
the yellow traitor from indianapolis
was kowtowing and dining with the
coal mine operators in the fancy ho-
tells of Canada. If he had an inch
of decency or manhood in his canary
colored makeup, he would have been
ashamed TO even refer to the Nova
Scotia case.
He refers to the British miners
as minimum wage lovers"
He is either absolutely ignorant of
the British miners. or deliberately in
suits them. or both. No labor man in
America or anywhere else. far less a
labor leader, but knows that a state
ment of that kind is a canard and !
only worthy of the vulture that utters
it. The late performance of the Brit
ish miners in the threatened strike |
which practically meant the national |
ization of the coal mines, and Incl
dentally plan which Lewis has re-
pudiated for the American miners-a !
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21

a fact which is clearly to be seen
In the situation of the working
class in England in consequence
of the conditions of labor in
Germany.
THE opponents and sabotageurs of
trade union unity ask why 1t is that
Just the Russian workers worry them
selves so much about unity, and what
1t has got to do with them. To this
we must reply, that the Russian work
'ers have never regarded their revolu-
ton as purely national matter, but
as the first stage of the world revolu-
ton, and that they have never said
that they could without the support of
the European workers.
"The Russian worker knows and
feels that when revolutionaries are
hanged in Bulgaria, they are workers,
that If the working class suffers de-
feat in France and Germany, then this
defeat is also defeat for the Russian
working class. that the murdered in
China are also workers.
IF one asks what unity has to do
with US, then, first of all, one is not
internationalist, and secondly, no so
cialist, and one has learned nothing
from the history of the revolutionary
working class movement.
Finally one asks what the Soviet
unions, which exist under different
circumstances and allegedly only Of
Communists, have to offer the Europ-
can working class. If one examines
the matter seriously and realizes that
in the class struggle one class is
doomed to destruction and the other
is assured of victory, that the trade
union movement and the struggle for
unity is really a struggle and not cor
respondence and negotiations, one
must also realize that in this struggle
of the European working class, the Rus
sian working class, which can count six
and half millions of organized work
ers and which has for eight years adj
ministered one-sixth Of the earth with
cut the bourgeoisie and the aristoc-
~racy, represents an important support.
Reviews Negotiations with Amsterdam
Tomsky enumerated all the stages
of the correspondence Of the Soviet
Unions with Amsterdam. The Am
sterdamers declare that they recog-
nize the magnitude of the task, but
. evade every practical step, for In
stance, conference for the carrying
out OF the task. When one demands
that the preliminary condition for the
acceptance of the Soviet unions in
Amsterdam is the acceptance Of the
statutes OF the International Fedora
ton of Trade Unions, one seems to
forget that the unity question is not
merely Russian question
Not all the working class organiza-
tons in Europe and none Of the work
ers' organizations in Asia are affiliated
to Amsterdam. The Soviet Unions
have never understood the question
OF unity in any other way than the
unity of the workers of all countries.
The sabotage of the Amsterdamers
forced us TO seek other ways. A way
was found in London, and the joint
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
TOMSKY, RUSSIAN UNION HEAD,
Tells VISITING DELEGATIONS Of
STRUGGLE FOR WORLD LABOR UNITY
(sy international Press Correspondence

MOSCOW July %, (By Mai).-Today solemn session Of
the enlarged Penum council took
place in the Moscow trade union house together the
representatives. of shop whole German and
Swedish workers delegations
Comrade A. Tomsky chairman of the trade union
unity committee made speech upon of the Sow
let unions to the question Of international trade unity
pointed out how much the situation of the working
affected the situation of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
Snake 10 Feet Iona in Spain.

Spain. Aug. 17.-Troops are trail
ing a monster serpent eighteen feet
long and three feet in circumference
which appeared in the town of Re-
larista and caused a panic among the
inhabitants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
F00t.and.M0uth Disease IN Texa..

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1s-The sec.
ond outbreak of footand-mouth dis
ease in the state Of Texas within ten
months was confirmed on July 2S on
the same premises, 20 miles southeast
Of Houston. where the previous out
break began.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
JOHN L. LEWIS ADMITS HE AIDED
GOVERNMENT AGAINST COMMUNIST
WORKERS; BRAGS OF BEING FINK
BY ALEX REID

(Seeretary Of the Progressive Miners commiee)
John L. Lewis
again showed that he working
the mitans
the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21

MOSCOW krainian trade with
Turkey is reported to be steadily in.
creasing, Ukrainian ploughs and hay
being strongly in demand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
Eleven Sink Win Coal Boat

BREST, France, Aug 49, Eleven
workers are missing as the result Of
the sinking Of a coal boat which was
bound here from Cardiff. Wales.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
BRANCH TO
CARE FOR CROUCH
AND TRUMBULL
N. Y. First to Initiate
Idea of Group Care

NEW YORK, Aug. ia group OF
Russian young workers in New York
City are the first to initiate the prac-
tice of special group care Of partic-
uIar class war prisoners. The young
workers have asked the International
Labor Defense to establish connec-
tions for them with Crouch and Trum-
bull, Communist soldiers sentenced to
military prison by courts martial in
Hawai- and pledged themselves to look
after the prisoners needs and COM
fort until they are released.
The group has organized a branch
of International Labor Defense and
ut their first meeting passed a resolu-
ton that reads in part, 1--WE hereby
pledge our material and moral sup
port to Comrades Crouch and Trum-
bull who are being prosecuted by the
American imperialists solely for their
Communist ideas and principles. We
hereby protest against the Justice"
'meted out by Wall Street which Is
trying to combat and destroy by ter
rorist means every sign Of protest
and rebellion in the ranks Of the work
ers. We call upon every class con-
sciOus worker to join US in our pro-
test and demand the immediate re-
lease of Comrades Crouch and Trum-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21

Build the DAILY WORKER
with subs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21

I'VE ask the International Labor
Defense to establish connections with
the two comrades for us and we, on
our part, will help them until they
are able to join our ranks once more"
In letter of thanks for their offer,
James p. Cannon, secretary Of Inter-
national Labor Defense, replied to the
young workers: This action Of yours
has great significance since it DEM
onstrates the close bonds of solidarity
between our organization OF working
class youth in New York City with
the brave and noble young soldiers
who have been victimized by the milf
tary authorities because they spoke
out for the same principles in the
army which you are espousing among
the exploited workers in the shops"
Sept. 10 Defense Day.
The proposal Of the young people
comes at time when International
Labor Defense is making preparation
for an extensive campaign thruout the
whole labor movement to arouse new
interest in labor's prisoners and bring
them aid and comfort. Sunday, Sept.
13 has been set aside as Labor De-
Tense Day" On this day local con-
ferences Of workers organizations viii
be held in all the large centers Of
the country to establish permanent
local organizations Of the I. L. D.,
These conferences will be followed by
mass meetings at which prominent la
Dor speakers will appear.
AS an important part of this ma
tion-wide campaign for renewed in
terest in class war prisoners, Inter-
national Labor Defense will ask work
ems organizations to take over the
special care of one or a group oil
AmeEicas scores Of class war pris-'
oners.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-26
WHAT HENRY FORD THINKS
OF PROHIBITION
(From Mr.. Ford's page in the Dearborn
independently

(From Mr.. Fords page in the Dearborn
independently
1--WE believe that if the opposition to
prohibition were analysed it would be
found that it was mainly alien We be-
lieye that every true American is for it
heart and soul. We believe that if prohi-
bition were to be put before the nation to-
morrow there would again be an over
whelming flood of public opinion in its
favor. Although the friends of prohib-
ton may not be so aggressive as its enc
mics, they are firmer i'll their convictions.
at is not in the wide open spaces that
the defiance of the prohibition laws is the
most prevalent, but in the crowded urban
centers where alien influence and alien
eagerness for money getting are at work.
After its five years of trial, prohibition
is not failure. 1t is the people who have
neglected to correspond with it who are
the failures. If it took Christianity hun
dreds of years to obtain a footing, why
should anyone consider five years suf-
hcient for tryout of the greatest reform
since the introduction of Christianity itself?
The good that has already come from it
infinitely outweighs the evil, and the evils
that are, do not arise from prohibition,
but the failure to practice it"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-26

the Y. ,. court a state court judge who
appeared as attorney for bootleggers.
Some states attorneys have aroused the
wrath OF federal judges by trying to rep
resent in the federal court. men who had
been indicted by federal grand jurics for
violation OF federal statutes.
1t is impossible to understand the men
tai operation of such officials who take an
oath to uphold all the laws and the next
hour lend their encouragement to the yio-
lation of federal statutes of which state
laws often are duplicates.
The accused has the right to defense, to
trial by jury and to attorneys to repre-
sent him, but he has no right to the moral.
or political or professional support of any
public official. This mans duty lies in
the other direction. Judge Pages re
marks, however much they may have
lacerated the feelings of the mayor of
Madison, will have a salutary effect
throughout the state
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-26
EDITORIAL DISCUSSIONS ON ENFORCEMENT PROBLEMS
Illinois Editors Write About Various Phases
Prohibition Question
But armed

eminent could overlook that But armed
rum-running is war, which no government
dares meet with anything less than war.
If the armed vessels are foreign, they are
enemies, to be swept from the seas. If
American, they are pirates, to be de-
stroyed at all costs. Friendly foreign gov
ernments should forbid their ships to arm.
and outlaw them if they do. Then any
unlicensed privateer coming with arms to
make war on America will have no rights,
except to be blown out of the sea on sight.
Cherish, if you must. such sneaking SYM
pathy for the sneaking bootlegger as your
personal self-respect admits. But not for
the armed national enemy, who makes
open war OH your country, even if it is in
the cause of smuggling in your booze
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-26
THE DUTY OF OFFICIALS
springfield Journal)

Judge George I. Page holding court in
the federal building in this city, scored
the mayor of Madison, Illinois, for APP
pearing as a character witness in defense
of a bootlegger, yiolator of both state
and national laws
Mr. Garesche has been mayor of that
town twenty years. He has served in the
General Assembly and, last November,
was the Democratic candidate for lieu
tenant governor. The rebuke by Judge
Page, therefore, will attract wide atten-
ton.
The court made it plain that his re-
marks were not personal Directed at
Garesche, they were intended, he said for
all public officials who pervert their duty
by shielding lawbreakers.
Judge Pages remarks were timely.
They were severe but none the less nee
essary. While they may appear sensa-
tional, they are in line with prevailing be-
lief and practice in federal courts. Other
members of the national judiciary have
taken and are taking the same attitude.
Some even go further by refusing to per-
NIT to practice before them any official
of state or local government who APP
pears i'll behalf of men charged with vio-
lation of laws. These judges take the po-
sition that it is the duty of public officials
of every class to uphold the law Judge
FitzHenry not long ago excluded from
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-26
CANADIAN BEER
(Freeport Journal Standard

(Freeport Journal Standard)
Some authority on alcoholic beverages
is said to have made discovery about the
new Canadian IA per cent" beer Can
ada measures alcoholic content by weight.
This country measures it by volume. Also
the "A appears to be proof rather than
actual proportion of alcoholic content.
The difference is about one-half. So the
beer now on sale in Ontario would be
called only about % per cent beer in this
country. There seems to be joke OH
somebody. Time only will tell whether
it is on thirsty Americans who vainly
cross the border to quench their alcoholic
thirst or on those on the other side who
plan to sell the beer If it really lacks
the much-discussed kick its sale may
not be so lucrative as. has been antici-
pated. Probably good many gallons will
have to be swallowed before this little
point is settled.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-26
WANT CLASS REUNIONS DRY
Booze Restrictions Put on Yale Class
Reunion by Yale Corporation and
Class Committees

Matters concerning the use of liquor
at Yale class commencement dinners led
to controversy between President Angel
of the university and Newell Marten of
the class of 1875 Mr.. Marten wrote to
the New York Times that he and others
would celebrate their mi-centennial at
Montreal with discreet and we'll ordered
dinners instead of at New Haven because
of what he regarded as hint by Presi-
dent Angel that old graduates were not
wanted at reunions if they intended to set
a bad example to undergraduates by
drinking.
In a reply May % President Angel is
reported in the press as denying that he
has made any restrictions on class din
ners, but says that the Yale corporation
Endorsed a recommendation by class re-
union committees that there be strict
compliance with the law on the liquor
question.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-26
LOCAL OFFICERS CAN ENFORCE
moline Dispatch)

1t is possible for local officers to enforce
the law if they will. In Rock Island
county is plenty of evidence of what can
be done to eliminate the stills and to put
the blind pigs" out of business. 1t took
a murder to bring the issue to crisis,
but once the issue was faced the sheriffs,
police and prosecutors showed what can
be done. Always there will be those who
attempt to evade the law, as always we
have criminals facing the bar of justice
for all other crimes OH the calendar, but
energetic officers make great difference
in the number of violations.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-26
ALCOHOLIC DEATHS DECREASE
Champaign Gazette)


Deaths from bad booze have gone up
in California some 400 per cent above the
minimum of the first days of prohibition,
before bootlegging was organized.
But even that 400 per cent is 800 per
cent less than the deaths from good
liquor before prohibition. So prohibition
must do a lot of prohibiting, after all.
1t will be conceded that the stuff that
is peddled now is far more fatal than the
'pre-war" beverages. 1t would take much
less than one-third as much of it to kill
onethird as many people.
And California meantime has grown
rapidly in population, so that whatever
booze there is has to be divided among
many more people.
Allowing nothing for the greater killing
of the present bootleg stuff, there are lit
tie more than one-hfth as many people
killed by it, in proportion to population,
than there were i'll the 'old days"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-26
PROHIBITION LAW UPHELD
Continued From Page y

The chief justice smiled broadly, and
told the young attorney:
1T will be a novel case indeed, if it
does what you say"
In the term of court starting last No
vember and ended this week. more than
100 liquor law violators appealed unsuc-
cesSfully to the court for reviews of their
convincing the court their cases were
worth an argument.
Considerable attention was attracted to
the courts refusal to grant reviews to
more than a dozen of the SIS men CON
vlcted i'll the Gary, Ind, liquor conspiracy
case, Ill which the mayor and other promi-
nent officials are now serving terms in
Atlanta federal prison.
Every angle of prohibition enforcement
is attacked i'll the suits brought before the
court. Decisions affecting policy of pro-
hibition enforcement made by the court
this term included
l. Approved the stopping and search
ing of automobiles for liquor upon reason
able belief without warrants.
2. Approved a New Jersey law requir-
ing procurement of license to sell liquor,
over the argument that the Volstead Act
rendered void all licensing acts
s. Commended the tactics of Icy Elm
stein and Moe Smith. famous New York
llquor-sleuths, in conducting raids in the
course of an opinion validating convic-
ton and seizure of liquor made by them.
a. Denied a review of the conviction of
man whose person was searched without
warrant for liquor
5. Upheld the Stronger than Volstead'
Georgia state prohibition enforcement
code, which forbids even the possession of
liquor in the home
6. Denied two former prohibition
agents reviews of their convictions for c3s-
tortion of money from an illicit liquor
seller
!. Upheld conviction made under the
1922 tariff act for attempting to smuggle
liquor into the country.
In addition to these there were MANY
cases charging that the men convicted
had been deprived of their constitutional
rights, either by allegedly illegal search
and seizure, improper indictments, defects
in court procedure, but every one failed.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-26
THE BREAKDOWN OF LAWS
AGAINST LIQUOR

Northwestern Christian Advocated
The headlines here quoted from a great
Chicago newspaper are we regret to say,
literally and unhappilly true. Back Bar
rooms Trap $4,000 Girls Saloons Con-
tribute Daily to Delinquency of Vast
Number
The facts printed under the headlines
are appalling in their revelation of ruin
wrought by the aw-defying liquor trade.
The investigator whose article bore these
headlines reported that most of the wo-
men drinkers in the saloons covered were
amateurs who might have been the daugh-
tiers of almost anybody. Out of POI cor
ner saloons, all but twenty-eight have
back rooms for women, and of these,
eighteen have other agencies for demon
alizing the sex such as questionable hotels
or rooming houses, so that only ten are
conducted for men only"
1t is evident that law so openly and
defiantly fouted must be hopeless of en-
forcement Only the blindest partisan
could insist on its retention on the statute
books. No matter how well-intentioned
the lawmakers may have been, these facts
and many others just as frightful which
could be produced are proof positive that
their work was in vain.
In spite of all preference or prejudice.
even III the face of positive conviction. the
effort to keep alive such body of impo-
tent legislation is foolish and even dan
gerous. The particular laws, state and
national, whose breakdown is so wildly
shown i'll the quotations here given. might
better be wiped off the slate entirely.
Note: To avoid misunderstanding. let
It be explained that the date of the condi-
tons above described is 1914 not 1925.
These were the good old days for which
so many people are said to be signing.
In those days the sensible" plan of reg
ulating the saloons was in full possession
OF the field
The persistent wet propaganda may
make some people forget the facts, SO that
. they say The former days were better
than these
In point of fact the former days were
days when the open saloon broke every
law intended to control it, days when beer
and whisky were used to debauch and de-
stroy and no possible victim was safe.
The girls might have been the daughters
OF almost anybody"
Prohibition has not yet succeeded; but,
even with law-breakers high and low do
ing their utmost to make it imperative,
and with the inheritors of a great Jour
naistic tradition prostituting their birth
right in encouragement and connivance,
prohibition is infinitely better than the
conditions which obtained in the days
when the saloon was in the saddle, and
man could raise a thirst.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-26
ENEMIES OR PIRATES
(Elgin Courier)

Bootleggng is one thing. Rum-running
is another And rumrrunning in armed
and armored ships, as now threatened, is
still another. Bootlegging is law-break-
ing. In this, the most lawless country in
the world, there will doubtles always be
some of it. Rum-running is law defiance,
plus smuggling No self-respccting gov
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-06-26
WET PROPAGANDA
(Wheaton Illinoian)

The Chicago Tribune bewails the fact
that hrst-class drinker and business man
of Chicago got drunk along with a po-
iceman, and burned his home, falling
victim to the flames. Their blatant wet
government, and should be treated as
such.