A FOUR POWER PACT
Cohen, Joseph E.
A FOUR POWER PACT Witches' Cauldron In Europe —Reaction Stirring Another By JOSEPH E. COHEN ANOTHER witches' cauldron is being" stirred in Europe. The reactionaries in England, France and Belgium...
...To be euro, the juggling of the war debts cannot much longer entertain our own bankers and investors...
...Gathering More Dynamite But fruit there will be none...
...A meeting of the Workers' party at Buffalo, on May 1, wa* interrupted by the police when Jacob Dworkin addressed the audience in Yiddish...
...Norway's City Workers Unit* The Norwegian Firemen's Union has recently decided by referendum to amalgamate with the Municipal Workers' Union...
...Will there then be talk of armed collectors...
...They are going through the repeated motions of assembling dynamite, that brought such fearful havoc, a while ago and the end of which is not yet...
...The Christian Unions won 903 seats, against 769 last year, while the other scattered groups made only a poor showing...
...9. Following Judge Baker's decision, application was entered by this company in the Federal Court at Wheeling on May 11 for a new injunction restraining the United Mine Workers from engaging in organizing activities in the Pan...
...Dworkin and Tljomas Sullivan, the chairman, were arrested...
...Once war cannot be made, capitalism will end...
...An Executive Committee to serve for two years, and made up of representatives of Austria, England, France, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia and Holland, was elected and Mynheer Northoff of Holland was chosen General Secretary...
...It is, like the old one, an arrangement with regard to a prospective war...
...Five men of Coder Grove were convicted on May 16 on a charge of "conspiracy to commit assault," growing out of the mob attack on John Barker in April, and were sentenced to seven months in the Parish Farm...
...The organization is to be a genuine trade union body and it hopes to obtain the cooperation of the International Federation of Trade Unions in the task of defining its jurisdiction and avoiding disputes with the existing Internationals that cover much of the same ground...
...Labor, with but a flavor of power in England, sent forth a dove of hope...
...Until their like return the friends of peace are be-leagored...
...They look to see the spinning applee drop into their expectant laps...
...However long and fearful may be the travail of the Great Bear out of absolutism into democracy by way of revolution, industrial democracy remains the goal...
...This point was raised some time ago by L. Ver-nochet, French Secretary of the International of Educational Workers, the existing teachers' Organization, which is not affiliated with either the Red Trade Union International or the International Federation of Trade Unions, but is considered pro-Moscow...
...They may be ready to chance their all upon another throw of the dice...
...Such a society is fit only to be kicked out through the windows—its banquet tables, its orgies, its debaucheries, its scoundrel-isms, together with all those who are seated leaning on the backs of others, whom they keep down on all fours...
...Unions in Portugal, Greece and Norway sent expressions of sympathy and announced their intention of affiliation, while groups in Hungary, Denmark, Switzerland and America asked to be excused for not having sent delegates...
...The membership of the Japanese Federation of Labor is now estimated at 450,000...
...Other members of the mob were given shorter sentences, except five who turned State's *vi dance...
...Here is the remaining chance for enduring peace...
...The peace of Europe can be maintained or.ly if, by contrast with the four-power aggressive pact, there is the unbreakable combination of the forces of the toilers...
...The United States Supreme Court on May 25, in a decision in the Coronado< Coal Company case, absolves the Internationsl Union of the United Mine Workers of Amer...
...For when the might of%h% workers is so fortified that it bears as a unit against splitting into hostile, frenzied armies commanded by the interchangeable spokesmen of capitalist powers, then will war no longer be possible...
...Certainly not the Balkans...
...Franc* and Belgium tendered an open band...
...No doubt they would raise their hypocritical eyes to heaven and deny it...
...One of the arguments advanced in favor of amalgamation by President Emil Giroig of the Glass Workers was the constant improvement of glass-blowing machines, with the consequent displacement of skilled workers by unskilled...
...ruary, 1924, resulted in conviction, which was reversed by the District* Court of Appeale last December...
...Coleman and Knapp were released in $1,000 bail 8. "Peaceful persuasion" to join the union was upheld by a decision of Federal Judge W E. Baker at Wheeling on May 8 and declared not n violation of the injunction granted two years ago to the Virgiia...
...In the other camp are the brooding revolutionists, who are quite as remorseless in their faith in dictatorship at home and world revolution in the yet unaffected lands...
...This will add about 35,000 to the some 430,000 slready in tho Building Workers' Union and lend impetus to the movement for the unification of all workers engaged in construction...
...John Thomas Scopes, s teacher of biology in Rhea Central High School at Dayton, Tennessee, was arrested on Msy 6 on a charge of violating the statute which forbids the teaching of evohj...
...Both of the men were discharged by Judge Maul in the City Court...
...Workere' Education Spreading Supplementary to the article on Workers' education abroad printed in The New Leader of June 13, it may be noted that a late report sent out by John W. Brown of the Educational Department of the International Federation of Trade Unions tells of the good work being done by the Education Center of the General Federation of Jewish Workers of Palestine and asks for contributions of interesting books in sny language and on almost any subject to be addressed to the Educational Department of the General Federation of Jewish Labor in Erez Israel, P. O. Box 411, Jerusalem...
...In fact, it would seem that the principal field' for the hew international lies with the tjjtchers, as the Paris conference expressly declared that it was not concerned with postal, railroad and public service workers in general...
...Hardly Austria, Poland, Spain or Portugal...
...What sort of society is this that has, to the extent that ourf has, inequality and injustice for its basis...
...It can be that, before their folly is stopped, another explosion will have happened...
...That explains their talk of greater industrial solidarity in England and with the continent...
...Decidedly not Denmark or the Scandinavian countries...
...The Italian General Confederation of Labor has just established a National Federation of Workers' Education and at a recent meeting of the Executive of the General Confederation of Labor of France it was proposed to hold periodical meetings of regional union leaders at which some representative of the national organization would lecture on current Labor problems...
...Meetings 4/ NEW YORK...
...That does seem very far-fetched...
...The Executive Committee will meet in Strasbourg in October to select a Managing Bureau and lay down definite organization plans...
...Already there is s whimper...
...Instead they will liksly vanish in legerdemain...
...In fact, if the truth must be told, the gentlemen who are fashioning this new entente cordlale are playing with spent coin...
...Pittsburg Coal Company...
...Connors was arrested at San Francisco in 1923 on charges of violating the criminal syndicalist law snd ej> attempting to influence a juror who had received an I. W. W. ksafjag during one of the I. W W. trials...
...TENNESSEE...
...But it was just such connivance as this which kindled the last conflagration...
...The reactionaries in England, France and Belgium have concocted an understanding for "security...
...tion in the schools supported in whole or in part by State funds...
...They deem violent civil strife inevitable...
...Is this the bird of prey to bs hatched from the curious breeding ef the ephemersl statesmanship of the descending social order...
...Dutch Seamen In British Ships The International Transport Workers' Federation reports the conclusion of the following agreement between itself and the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union of Great Britain: "All members of the .Seamen's Section of the Central League of Transport Workers in Holland, or any other seamen's organization affiliated with the I. T. F., shall be allowed to register and to obtain employment on board British ships in Dutch harbors on production of union book showing that they have been members over six months...
...handle district...
...That is back of the drive for the reorganization of the international Labor movement...
...The movement is financed by the trade unions, the Government, the universities and municipal bodies...
...Not theirs the blood guilt...
...Motion by the defense for change of venue on grounds of prejudice was denied...
...Evidently no power in Western Europe...
...6. WEST VIRGINIA...
...Italy, being of a mercurial nature, does not count...
...The agreement is of the like ingredients to that concocted among these nations prior to the war...
...Against whom would this four-power entente stand for security...
...German Glass Workers For Unity By a majority of about four to one the members of the German Glass Workers' Union have voted in a referendum for amalgamation with the German Building Workers' Union...
...If they are not armed against either or both of these, they should throw away their arms...
...LAND OF LIBERTY ____bL .__ dk_¦-¦______'_______ Axnericnn Civil Libsrtio* Utuot, Report ess Cms1 Liberty Situation for Month of May Mot Violence A Ku Klua Klen 1. OKLAHOMA...
...A Modern Holy Alliance They could be armed against Russia...
...Where, then, is the danger...
...And does the four-power fact mssn thst the European domicile is not to be invaded on point of resistance...
...Who menaces their peace...
...That the four-power pact may be a thrust against America is not to ba taken seriously...
...At the 1925 conference of the Workers' Educational Association of New Zealand in Auckland, it was reported that the movement, which was started ten years ago, had more than 3,000 students in 100 classes and was extending its work to the rural districts...
...But if confidence in the growing solidarity of Labor is not misplaced, if reliance upon statesmanlike wisdom in the midst of different elements is not baseless, then the tossing of empty phrases into the four-power pact may be accepted with a smile, as entertainment more than mischief, and as a swan song of departing serenaders, long past their hour of welcome...
...On May 20, Judge John T. Raulston called a special session of the Grand Jury for May 25...
...They keep aflame the camp fires of an army on the match Twe Antagonize With two such antagonists squared against each other, it is indeed far ffom sure that social change can be made by parliamentary proceedure in the old world...
...The trinity stand ready to admit Germany into the deal...
...Clerks' International Growing Through the recent affiliation of the German Foremen's Union, with a membership of 150,000, the number of unionists making up the sections of the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employes, has been brought up to about 850,000...
...His first trial resulted in a hang jury and dismissal of the syndteslist charge...
...Miners Dropping Communists Final results of the spring election of members of the Shop Councils in the mining industry of Germany confirm recent reports of the decline of Communist influence upon the miners...
...Criminal Case* 5. CALIFORNIA...
...Upon consent to concede the present boundaries as permanent, Germany could make it a four-power pact...
...Of a total of 5,428 councillors, the Union of Hand and Brain Workers (the Communist organization) elected only 889, against 1,112 last year out of a total of 4,970, while the number elected by the regular Socialist miners' union was 3,351, against 2,618 in 1924...
...Last year the municipal workers amalgamated with the municipal employes, so that all .the workers in the service of Norwegian municipalities will now be organized in a single union...
...The founding of the new International was something of a shock to the conservative French press, which commented bitterly upon the unpleasant possibilities opened up by the existence of such an organization of publie employes...
...They expect no quarter in the class struggle...
...S NORTH C A R O LI N A. A. Griffin, a barber, leader of the mob which took Joseph Needleman from tho jail at Williamston in April and seriously mutilated him, was sentenced on May 23 to thirty years in the penitentiary by Judge N A. Sinclair...
...Practically the same thing happened in the recent election of Shop Councils in the railway industry, the Communists losing much ground, while the Socialist union made good gains...
...Even the seed cannot be returned...
...For they are playing with upheaval...
...As heretofore, when Labor swings out of political influence, it returns to dependence upon its trades union action...
...will be held in Nurem-burg in 1027...
...The next Congress of th* New Internationa...
...But Remsay MacDtmald, Herriot and Ebert are gone...
...Plenty of tinder is scattered about for another and more devastating catastrophe...
...The third trial of Tom Connors, former secretary of the California Branch of the General Defense Committee, began at Sacramento on May 27 before Judge CMBVIes O. Busick, author of the Busick injunction...
...On* hon-dred and twenty-seven men and eleven women, striking miners picketing the New Englsnd Fuel and Transportation Company mine at Grant Town, were arrested on May 15 for violation of a recent court order forbidding more than three persons in a picket line...
...The second trial in Fab...
...ics of responsibility for damages in connection with the coal strike in Arksnsas in 1914, but orders a n*w trial for local unions and individual defendants who were heavily fined by a lower court...
...How Germany Was Helped According to data recently found in European Labor papers, the contributions from the unions in various countries for the support of the German Labor organizations during the inflation crisis, raised through tie International Federation of Trade Unions and the different international trade secretariats, totaled about $300,000...
...Scopes pleaded guilty on May 9 before three Justices of the Peace »nd was bound over to appear before the Rhea County Grand Jury...
...But they overlook the chapter of revolution which followed their war...
...They are Russia and America...
...Pretty soon s howl will go up...
...LABOR JOTTINGS FROM ABROAD Another International—Education Movement Spreading— Dutch in British Ships—Miners Dropping Communists—Japan For Amsterdam Another International Founded After several months of preliminary work, the International Association of Clerical Employes, Petty Officials and Teachers in Public Service was founded at a Congress held in Paris, May 11-16, attended by delegates from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Holland, England, France, Ireland, Rumania and Sweden, representing organisations with about 400,000 members...
...7. On May 16, eleven others wars arrested on the same charge, including U. A. Knapp, attorney for the United Mine Workers, and Mc-Alister Coleman, a newspaper man of New York...
...There are hut two countries against whom the four-power pact might be armed...
...The hell of the poor is the paradise the rich love to solace themselves in.—Victor Hugo...
...In the one camp are the scheming Machiavellas of capitalism, bent upon repeated attempts at imperialism, to keep the minds of the destitute population away from their own misery and focused upon foreign splendor...
...Just as the ancient powers formed a Holy Alliance against political democracy after the French Revolution, so the present, autocracies could form an alliance, altogether profane, against the coming industrial democracy...
...Ray Pierson snd J H. Munroe, alleged Klansmen, were convicted in the State District Court st Okemsh on Msy 21 on a charge of riot in connection with the logging of S, S. Llewelhn, a farmer, on May 4. 2. LOUISIANA...
...Sweden was the heaviest contributor, Denmark the next, the United States third, Austria fourth, and Holland fifth...
...especially as 520,000 of its claimed membership of 600,000' belong to the Russian Teachers' Federation...
...It seems as though they have learnt npthing...
...The jury which convicted the mob virtually cleared Needle-man of the charge of rape for which h« had been arrested The Ku Klux Klan is held responsible for the attack upon Needleman, who is a Jew...
...Japan Favors Amsterdam Negotiations between the International Federation of Trade Unions and the Japanese Federation of Labor have turned out so satisfactorily that when the latter organization is reorganized at its congress next fall, with the Communists elements outside, affiliation with Amsterdam will be proposed, according to a statement made in Geneva by the Japanese Labor representatives to the International Conference to the German Social Democratic Press Service...
...Germany made a gesture of acceptance...
Vol. 2 • July 1925 • No. 27
