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The daily worker., 1925-07-29
!. heMorId Situation.

DESPITE the assertions of the cap
- italists and their agents in the
labor movement (the leaders of the
Second International and the right
wing of the Amsterdam internationally
that capitalism has emerged from its
critical stage and has succeeded in
stabilizing itself, the world situation
continues to remrin revolutionary.
This imposes upon the Communist
parties of the world the duty Of edu-
eating and organizing the working
class for struggle for power and for
the establishment of the dictatorship
OF the proletariat. The capitalists
have been seeking for some means of
avoiding the consequences of the in.
ner contradictions Of capitalism which
threatens its destruction. The world
war was a logical climax of these con
tradictions. The end of the war left
capitalism economically weakened
yet with all the contradictions and
conflicting Interests apparent in
sharpened form, threatening a new
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
MASS PICKETING
ON 9TH week OF
GARMENT STRIKE
AmalgGm0ted Calls
Rock Island Bluff

The Amalsarated strikers employ
ed by the international Tailoring
company and the J. L. Taylor COM
pany began the fifth week of their
waIkout yesterday with their picket
line better organized and showing
even more solidarity than when the
strike began.
Strike benefts Of $1,000 to married
workers and $500 to those without
dependents were pad at the strike
meeting in Hod Carriers Hall. S14 w.
Harrison St
The Amalgamated officials voiced
the sentiment Of the strikers when
they announced that if the Interna.
tional Tailoring company moved its
business to Rock Island, as had been
announced, the union would follow
the company there, and continue it's
picketing. The strikers loudly appla-
uded this announcement.
The company had spread rumors
that the Boone Wooden mills had been
bought and the concern would be
moved. Two foreman were sent out
to Rock Island as bluff to break the
solidarity Of the strikers but they
were not fooled by this maneuver.
Pickets Regularly Assigned
The pickets are now being regular.
ly assigned to duty and are given
definite posts The picket line is or.
CONTINUED on Page 81
The daily worker., 1925-07-29

catastrophe and complete breakdown
ot-the capitalist system.
n The analysis of the world situation
given by the last plenum of the Il. c.
70. l. has proven to be absolutely cor
rect. The so-called stabilization of
capitalism is in reality very tempo
rary, partial and relative in its ma.
ture. World production in the cap
italtst countries OF Europe during the
first half of 1925 is still below the pre-
war level and is continuing on down
grade. AT the same time the political
crisis are appearing almost daily.
struggles in capitalist Europe are con
tinually grown in intensity. New poI-
itical crises are appearing almost daily.
white terror in Bulgaria, the election
OF Hindenburg, the change Of govern
ment in France, ETC., etc, are merely
the result Of the continuing instabili-
ty OF capitalism and the sharpening
OF the class struggle. a14 At
. History proves, however, with in.
- creasing certainty. that the prob.
lems OF capitalism In the in,psrial.
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
u. The Present Economic Sit
uation in the United States.

1 The present economic situation in
l. the United States is marked by the
following Characteristic. The increas-
ing export of capital during 1924 and
the beginning of 1925 continues still
more deeply TO involve the United
States in every imperialist struggle of
today. American capital, in it's urge
towards world domination, is thus be-
coming involved in all the contradic-
tions, crises. and struggles of world
capitalism. This factor is also pro-
ducing sharp conflicts within the cap
italist class of America on the one
hand, such as the struggle between
finance and industrial capital over the
question Of foreign investments and
the tariff and is intensifying the
struggle between the working class
and the capitalist class on the other
hand.
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
Cal Cooks Up Bunk
for Farmers; Plans
Aid to Boss Butler

SWAMPSCOTT, Mass, July 81
Agricultural matters were up for dis
cussion today between President
Coolidge and Representative Freder-
lex Purnell, Indiana, ranking member
of the House Agricultural Committee,
visitor at the summer white house.
Wednesday the president will join
other prominent republicans at the
Essex County rally in behalf of the
candidacy of United States Senator
William Butler, of this state.
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
TRIPLE ALLIANCE u ]. 5. Mine,
Rail AND marine unions, CALL
OF LEFT Wing Mine COMMITTEE
BY ALEX REID
Cseorstary progressive Miners Committee,

(secretary Miners commttee.)
Mo settlement of the wage controversy between the United
Mine Workers of America and the anthracite is
sight the time OF writing The tortured slaves of the
cite coal fields Of America vergng physical collapse
of insufficient wages for their labor properly feed themselves
facing bitter struggle force the murderous coal
barons of the Pennsylvania hard coal grant them
per increase in their wages.
Owners in Luxury-Mners in Poverty
Billions of dollars of profit sweated the blood
the miners year The living
luxury Men who the mines, who don't
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
Arrested for Sunday oMovies.Y

CHAMPAIGN, H., July 27-Propri-
etors of two Urbana moving picture
theaters were under 5000 bond today
for operating their theaters on Sun
day. 1t was the first Sunday in the
history of the city that motion picture
theaters were open and a test case
will be made. A city ordinance pro-
hibits- Sunday movies. Both theaters
played to capacity houses. A hearing
likely will be held early this week.
The daily worker., 1925-07-29

BERLIN, July 27.-In accordance
with the announced purpose of France
to evacuate the Ruhr as stipulated
under the Dawes plan, the withdrawal
of military forces from Essen has
commenced, according to advices
which reached here today.
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
AS WE SEE 1T

THE Chinese workers are assured of
4 "affectionate admiration" of what
is left of the socialist party of Amer
ica. Far be it from us to spurn the
affection Of even an unrepentant pros
titute like the socialist party, in such
a world shaking. emergency, particu-
larly when the messenger of good
will is the Rev. Norman Thomas,
whose sanity officiation tends to
throw halo of sanctity around the
deed. But no sooner were we ready
to say hear. hear" than another par
agraph in the same message of admir-
alton caught our eye This called on
Coolidge. Dawes and KeIlog to- take
the lead in freeing China. Thomas
might as well have called on j. p.
Morgan TO start the social revolution
or on William Jennings Bryan to re-
fuse nomination to run for the presi-
dency.
HTVHE Chinese are getting along
4 rather nicely in their fight for
emancipation, but they are not taking
much stock in resolutions of affection
and admiration unless they are ac-
companied by more tangible proof of
sincerity. The Chinese have found
that American capitalism has been
Just as subversive of their rights as
British and Japanese capitalism, but
1t typically socialist that the Ameri-
can brand should hand the task of
freeing" China to their own ex-
pioiters. The only country in the
world that aided China is Soviet Rus
STA, Why does the Norman Thomas
message ignore this fact?
A MOTHER resolution passed by the
= national executive of the socialist
party throws a big boquet of roses at
Gales, president of Mexico. 1t brands
him as socialist. We have no doubt
that he deserves the aspersion. He is
as much of a socialist as Morris Sig
man or Victor Berger. Recently Gales
called out the troops to break a strike.
In fact his minister of labor, Morone
mot moron) under the tutelage of
Continued on page p
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
Storm at sprInafIeId. Mass.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, July 27. -
Damage estimated at half million
dollars was done in Hampden county
today by a severe electrical storm
that eliminated in a cloudburst here.
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
FRANCO-DEL LGIAN UNIONISTS AT
MOSCOW CALL FOR WORLD UNITY
OF unions AGAINST CAPITALISM
tey International press eAaaaep01aenoe.l

MOSCOW u. s. S. r., July Mail )-The Franco.
Belgian Trade Union Delegation, Of eleven officials OF
the French and Belgian reormis unons has just COM
pleted journey within the Soviet on where studied the
factories the trade unions cultural institutions The dele
cation has handed declaration signed by all its members to
the chairman the A-Russan Trade Union Council Tomsky
from which declaration the following brief quotations taken
raternaly welcomed in all the Republics of the
Soviet of the opinion that the trade union work
The daily worker., 1925-07-29

country and sailing the high
seas in their yachts eating and
drinking of the bodies and blood
OF the murdered men sacrificed to
their lust for profit Over 500 men
were killed last year and 10000 men
injured in the anthracite alone. In
Continued on page 2)
The daily worker., 1925-07-29

- We are today in period Of
10 diminishing production. The pre-
dicted prosperity from the adoption of
the Dawes plan has not developed in
the United States. Production. con
tinues holtingly and hesitatihgly, but
on downward grade. Wages are
being steadily reduced while the cost
of living is rising slowly. The coal
industry finds itself in a chfonically
critical situation resulting in thous-
ands Of miners being thrown out OF
employment. The general instability
Of the wheat market is seriously ef-
fecting the buying power Of large sec
tions of farmers, thus further aggra-
waiting the economic situation. General
unemployment has become chronic
feature of the economic situation in
the United States.
III. The Growth Of Imperial
81 ism and MiIitarisn1.
American Imperialism is extend
4. ing its policy Of the political and
military conquest of its spheres of
economic influence. Latin.America is
evermore becoming a political and
military dependency OF the United
States. This sharpens the relations OF
the Latin-American countries to the
United States and is creating the basis
The daily worker., 1925-07-29
FRENCH FANATIC URGES
POISON GAS AGAINST
RIFFIANS;; FRONT QUIET

Especial to The Daily Worker)
PARIS, July 27.--Warfare by poi
son gas against the Riffs-a move
from which the French have re-
frained--was urged today by Pro-
fessor Jean Feure of the French
Medical Academy in an article in
Figaro. The situation along the
Fez front is quiet
The daily worker., 1925-07-29

ard Of life of its workers. The Soviet
Union thus becomes increasingly an
inspiration to the workers of the cap
italist countries to enter the struggle
to win their freedom from capitalist
exploitation and oppression.
The daily worker., 1925-07-29

The following adopted by the Parity Com
munis) Party: \
The daily worker., 1925-07-29

III the Soviet RepuDllc is logical
ly thought out and that it has
a just basis.
"The masses of membership Of
the trade unions, themselves are
responsible for the direction of the
trade union work, and they them
selves solve the most important
questions.
''In our opinion, many of the funda-
mental principles which are applied
in the Russian trade unions would be
very much in place in the trade
unions of our own countries.
I'm the various shops we have visit
ed, we have seen that the maximum
of results is attained with backward
technique Of production. Despite the
fact that you are exposed to the ostra-
cism of world capital, you perform
wonder by re-establishing success
fully your national industry, despite
the difficult heritage of the imperial
list and civil wars and despite the
blockade.
Each honest proIetarlan, after he
has seen what is being done in the
Soviet Union, must fight still more
energeticaIIy for the unity of the
international trade union move
ment.
Eve no longer wish to bear the re
sponsihilttg with those sectors which
parsue aldisruptive policy-the great
est crime against the working class
movement. Great psychological mis-
takes have been made and still great
er ones will be made unless the hate
against Imperialism and the fraternal
unity of all proletarians are once
again re-established
Unity and Revolutionl
"The ruptures and the difficulties
in the trade union movement are of
advantage only to capitalism and are
exploited by it. Both must go. A
minimum program must be discover
ed. and we must go after loyal strug-
gle againstSall difficulties to the COM
mon aim Of all proletarians- the
world revolution, the overthrow of
CONTINUED on page p
The daily worker., 1925-07-29

The Standard for Workers
and Farmers Government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-16
UNITY DEMANDED
BY BRITISH And
RUSSIAN UNIONS
Dawes Plan Denounced
as a Menace

Observation-Disclosures H..
100000 British and Russian trade
unionists, and addressing its appeal
to the workers Of every country, the
joint advisory council of British and
Russian labor, which convened in
London, declares that "the establish
ment of an ali-inclusive, worldwide
trade union International has become
more necessary than ever"
The joint advisory council, whose
report is signed by Tomsky, on behalf
Of the Russian trade unions, and by
the late Fred Bramley, on behalf of
the British Trades Union congress,
notes the ratification Of the agree
ment for joint action, decided upon
at the, London conference on April Z.
The Russians ratified April 80, and the
British at the recent Scarborough
Trades Union congress.
The report summarizes the world
situation as it affects labor, noting
the increasing attacks of the en-
ployers and the evil effects of the
Dawes plan. The changer of war is
drawn attention to and the increasing
revolts Of colonial peoples against
capitalist Imperialism and exploita-
ton. The object of the guarantee
pact to include Germany In military
alliance directed against Soviet Russia
is also exposed.
THE removal Of all obstacles and
difficulties in the way of national and
international working-class unity" is
called for.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-16
Poland Anxious to
Pawn Her Industries
Especial to The Daily wOrker)

RIGA, Latvia, Oct. 1.-THE larger
Polish banks are unable to pay their
obligations to Latvian creditors, and
those doing business with Poland
have lost large sums Of money. Mon
ey transfers made to Polish banks
have not been paid. The total claims
on losses of this nature are well over
a million dollars in American money.
AS result the director of the Lat
Wan state bank reports that It is
impossible to do business with Po-
land.
AS Poland is already in financial
difficulties, owing to insisting upon
maintaining one of the largest stand
ing armies in Europe and due to- the
pressure Of the German customs war
against her. similar war threatened
by Latvia will be ruinous, it is stat
ed hero.
To overcome this condition. Poland
is trying to pawn" her Industries to
any country that will grant her a loan
to overcome her financial difficulties
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-16
FRENCH FRANC FALLS
BELOW BELGIAN FRANC
ON LONDON EXCHANGE

LONDON, Oct. 14.-For the first
time since the war the Belgian
franc was worth more than the
French franc on the stock market
here. The Belgian franc was quoted
at 1o6.55 to the pound sterling,
while the French franc was quoted
at 1oe.75. The fall In the French
currency Is due to the unsatisfae-
tory outcome Of the recent confer
enee In Washington. Depressing re-
ports from Paris Indicate a further
fall and II is not unlikely that Il
may definitely hit the tabboesan,
sinking TO new low levels sufficient
to produce an alarming crisis. The
proIonoIng Of the Loearno confer
enee is also having an adverse ef-
feet upon French currency and Bel
CLAN currency also Is likely to suf-
fer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-16
SHANGHAI LABOR UNION
SUPPRESSED BY TROOPS;
WOMEN STRIKERS SHOT
especial to The Daily Worker,


SHANGHAI, China, Sept. IS 10y
MalD-chines soldiery of Chang
Tso-Lin, tool of foreign imperialists,
are savageIy suppressing the labor
unions, dissoIvins the organizations
by force and arresting union lead
ers. Nine union workers were shot
to death yesterday without trial,
three. of these were women who
were pIcketIne Japanese mill.
The General Labor Union has been
closed by troops, tho the Seamen's
Union is still operating. Ii Lis
san, president of the General Labor
Union who led the anti-BrItish boy
colt, has escaped the military as
sassIns by disappearing. Strict
censorship of the cables prevails.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-16
COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL EXPECTS
CLOSER COOPERATION FROM u. S.
SECTION, SAYS CABLE REPORT

EDITORIAL NoTE-The following cable has bee
eeved DAILY WORKER
scr
MOSCOW, Of
embodied
munist Party hopeful
future up o me-.
The American Communists their pledge
method gaining working
program
remarked that he American reaeonay
Among the accomplishments Of the party which the
modest the executive lists Of
comme the organization Of
work "the Negroes and farmers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-16
A. F. OF [. CONVENTION
PROTESTS U. S. TROOPS
INVASION OF PANAMA

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Oct. a.
A resolution was introduced today
at the A. =. Of L. convention, asking
am Investigation Into the reason,
American troops are being used in
breaking the strikes Of union work
ers and In "queIIlns disorders" arI-
sing from the strike Of tenants
against high rents at Panama City,
republic Of Panama. William Green,
president Of the A. =. Of L. was
authorized to protest the use Of
American troops In a message to
President Coolidge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-16
BARRED
BY N. Y. BOARD
FROM BALLOT
Protest Meeting for
Friday EUening
Especial to The Daily Worker

NEW YORK, October 14.-For the
third time within four years the New
York City board Of elections has de-
prived Benjamin Gitlow Of the right
to run for political office In this city
on the grounds that he 10 an ex-eon-
viet.
Yesterday this board, creature of
that odious combination of graft and
corruption known as Tammany Hall,
threw out the petitions of the Work
ers Party on the grounds that Gitlow
being an ex-convict is not entitled to
run on the pure and undefiled ballot
that will be used by voters in the ell
ection of Nov. 3.
Protest Meetings Spring Up.
No sooner had the announcement
been made than a wave Of indignation
swept the left wing Of the labor move
ment in this city. The Workers
Party has called protest meeting to
take place in Union Square at p. m.
on Friday, just as the workers in the
shops in that part of the city pour out
OF their slave pens. Gitlow and others
will address the meeting and will ex-
pose the real motive behind his ex-
clusion from the ballot
EnedahI Meeting at Night.
In the evening at o'clock Gitlow
will also speak at the Manhattan Ly-
ceum meeting, &c East 4th St., where
!. Louis Engdahl, editor of The
DAILY WORKER, will relate the
story of the farce just closing at At
lantic City, the annual pow-wow of the
American Federation of Labor.
Shyster Candidate Runs.
1t is noteworthy that the board Of
elections made no effort to remove the
name of the socialist candidate, the
Rev. Norman Thomas, petty bourge-
OILS dilletante and defender of the re-
action in the labor movement in New
York.
And, of course, the fact that
Little Jimmy Walker" the Tammany
candidate, has been proved to be a
mere tool Of the poison meat trust and
other polluters of the food supply of
the state even while he was on a
committee of the state senate sup
posed to deal with such violations Of
law, does not prevent his name going
on the ballot.
Neither does the record of the
fountain pen manufacturers, Mr.. Wa
terman, whose factory is scab from
top to bottom, prevent his name ap-
pearing.
1t Is only the true champion of the
working class, a man who has for
years stood staunchly in the fore
front Of labor's struggle, who is bar
red from the ballot.
Other Meetings Arranged
The needle trades workers have
rallied to the struggle against this
exclusion of Gitlow from the ballot
and have arranged a monster mass
meeting to be held in Hunts Point
Palace, 163rd street and Southern
Blvd, on Wednesday, Oct. 81.
Four unions have already passed
resolutions against this act of the
board Of elections. They are Locals
2, 9 and 20 of the International La
dies Garment Workers Union, and
the Joint board of the furriers
This act has already intensified the
campaign for Gitlow and as the peak
of the campaign is reached thousands
upon thousands OF workers will be
rallied to the support OF the Commun.
list candidate when they learn OF the
real working Of that monumental
fraud known as American democracy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-16
Won HINDENDUUG
firm AGAINST
LOCARNO PACT
Allied Proposals Not
Acceptable
Especial to The Dary Worker,

BERLIN, Oct. AIN face Of and
as direct reply to the statement at
Locarno this morning Of Austen
Chamberlain, the British foreign min
lister, that "no nation can afford to
take the responsibility for wrecking
the security pact" President Hinden-
berg, after meeting Of the German
cabinet, announced that his govern
ment was determined to stand pat on
the original demands. The president,
backed by the cabinet Is said to have
found the allied proposals unsatis-
factory and impossible of acceptance.
Last night the. cabinet went into
session ond heard the lengthy report
Of DR.. Kempner, secretary to Chancel-
lor Luther, on the proceedings in the
little Swiss town where the repres-
entatives OF the principal powers Of
Europe are trying to devise a sec
urity pact" guaranteeing their own
frontiers so that their hands will be
free to prosecute an assault upon
Soviet Russia and continue their own
colonial wars to subdue the natives
of Africa and Asia.
May Mean the End.
Last night the action of the cab
met was considered of decisive
moment. determining the final deci-
sion of the German delegation.
The tentative agreement reached
yesterday was scheduled to go to
final reading today, but in view Of
the decision OF the cabinet it is
doubtful if ministers at Locarno will
proceed further until the full details
of the action OF the German cabinet
are known.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-16
Invite Pacific Labor

SYDNEY, Australia OPP - The
Labor Council Of New South Wales at
Sydney is sending out invitations for
Pan-Pacific Conference Of political
and industrial organisations to all
countries bordering on the Pacific, to
be held at Sydney May /, 1926. The
conference Is to harmonise the rela.
tionships Of the workers around the
Pacific
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-16
chamberlsIn's Locarno Threat.

LOCARNo, Switzerland. Oct. IA
No nation can afford to take the re-
sponsibility for wrecking the security
pact" conference here-this state
ment made today by Austen Chamber
lain, British foreign minister, was in.
terpreted as being a direct threat to
the German delegation, and the Ger
man nation.
Negotiations here have already
progressed so far and so favorably
that no delegation can afford to take
the responsibility for wrecking these
negotiations" Chamberlain said in a
statement to the. British press.
Chamberlain's statement was par
ticularly significant in view OF the
fact that the German delegation since
yesterday has presented a number OF
incidental demands as conditions to
its entrance into the security pact"
These demands include evacuation OF
the Rhineland and control of the Saar
Valley and the mandate for some OF
Germans former colonies. These
demands have greatly irritated the
Allies Statement
1t was stated that France is still
insistent upon having free hand in
guaranteeing the pact between Ger
many and Poland. 2'