Daily Worker
January 2, 1925

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ae ~ n 5 — ed daily HING . ussolini : 2 * x beet rouse po and it looks “tog . tor France at this “The Herriot government is to have a long and pros- 0 r and after it falls, things bund to be more exciting. Mus- i is at the end of his rope polit- ally and may find hinmelt at the end roy her sap eee 5 I dictator of Spain is try- to Rivage s badly battered army in ‘rocco, while King Alfonso is afflicted ith ‘unions from dancing at French yatering places. Germany does not mow what to do and the small na- Hons hardly know where the next ip Coming. from, ss 0 BR these cricumstances it is : 3 1 — get excited. They fear the » Russia went red when the ronment broke down and it It is a simple matter for en Chamberlain to organizé a kan alliance against Soviet Russia a Balkan federation against and it is meeting with suc- rere can be no peace in the Aran, — there is a federation of M is in a bad way mn a 1 D 1 surprising that the rulers; Was for some time affiliated to the — 7 9 1 ‘we. » 4 be t rmenian peel 8 recently celebrated the Fe liberation from ‘nat Mae 900 * 3 — 144 a aE 5 The workers and farmers of Soviet Armenia OUR 60 ‘OMMUNIST DAILY IN MOSCOW PASSES THE HALF MILLION MARK ; * prurda . Their: tip zr es 8 42 80 ao 1 9 . 5 405 vs selling suppressed issues. AND ISSUES BIG SPECIAL EDITION By ANISE. . (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) MOSCOW.—(By Mail.)—Few papers in the world have such a wide circu- lation as the Moscow Pravda (Truth), official organ of the Russian Communist Party, which is celebrating the passing of the half million mark. _A whole special edition is devoted to the history and growth of the news- paper, from the days when, back under czardom, little newsboys were secretly Old photographs now reproduced show the confiscation of early numbers. Photographs of the present year show whole groups of workers crowding NORWAY PROSEGUTES COMMUNISTS WHO STARTED REAL PARTY (Special to The Daily Worker) OSLO (formerly Christiania), Jan. 1.—The royal prosecutor yesterday arraigned the Communists arrested last summer on charges of treason. Many. Communists were taken, among them the leaders Eugene Olavson and Cemrade Schefio. The arrests followed the split in the so-called “labor party,” which Communist international, but which continually refused to abide by its ecisions. The Communist Interna- tional was finally forced to ask that Communists withdraw from the la- bor party. Those arrested were those who withdrew a/id formed the Communist Party of \iorway. TELLS OF LEFT WING TE IN MACHINISTS’ UNION AND _ STRUGGLE AGAINST BUREAUCRACY ers By ANDREW A. OVERGAARD. the month of January nominations of candidates for administra in the International Association of Machinists will take place. The left wing has issued a complete slate and is the, only force which comes | out with a definite and constructive program of action covering every ohase of the struggle of the machinists in thid country. This program calls tor a real militant campaign for amalgamation, for the sevelopment of shop committees, for an extensive organizational drive to machinists into, ive oring the unorganized he union. It calls for independent“ 2 — 2 the basis of the against the class of the Johnston “both on the political field . the infamous „B. & O0.“ —— the railroad companies. The al points out the necessity of the organization for the col- and ending the stupid at ae the Ne- a de | its the Johncton-Davidson bureaucrady of expelling or suspending some of the best fighters in the organization, when they challenged this reactionary lead- ership on the basis of policy, or for belonging to a political party and an educational organization, as happenc in the Toledo case. Complete free- dom of expression must exist in the International Association of Machin mg or r the, union will 8 lost b morale as these 2 1 en e den rae i om bine around a comrade to listen to the reading of Pravda. Show Circulation Growth. Not only is the circulation one of the largest in the world, but probably each number is read by more people on the average than any paper out- side Russia. Workers are still. poor, and some cannot read. so that copies often do duty for entire groups. In the. John Reed Children’s Colony on the Volga, with whose life I am fa- miliar. a single copy of Pravda is passed to all the teachers in turn. The same is true of thousands of reading homes in the rural districts. A graphic chart shows the growth of circulation during 1924, starting at 89,663 in December 1923, passing the 100,000 mark the following month, reaching 422,000 in October. and in December going to 506,745. It is per- haps the most spectacular growth ever known by any newspaper in the world. One reason for this growth has been the large number of contests carried on in the pages of Pravda, and touching the life of the remotest factory or village. These contests began more than a year ago on the subject of the Best Factory Manager. The success of this led to 4 contest on the Best School Teacher, the Best Sanitary Committee in factory or dwelling and several others, including at present the Best Reading-Hut. Gets Many Letters. The numbers of letters from worker and peasant correspondents has also grown spectacularly, partly stimulated by these contests. In January 1924, 690 such letters were published, in November 1108. During the year were published an average of nearly 30 a day. — Hundreds of greetings to Pravda have poured in from all over the Soviet Union as well as from Com- munist parties outside Russia. The tremendous growth is an indication, not only of increasingly good editing of Pravda, but of the general growth of reading habits and political inter- est Lee Russia. * is me organ 7 = — 2 f * 1 * J . a i 1 ft, N — * * a . 5 Dictator Feels Self in Tight Hole (Specia to The Dally Worker) ME, Jan. 1.—Premier Mus- 105 suddenly ¢ 7 * = opposition a series o raids seized o n news- papers and searched the homes of former members of the fas- cisti and promigent is sr gene | “The action is looked upon desperate situation and has de- cided to take the offensive. Por interests of Mussolini, The police excused themselves on the ground that their action was with he object of safeguarding the inte- ‘ests of the country. One of the houses raided was that of ormer deputy Alfredo Misuri, dis- sident fascist. Misiuri in a letter to (Special to The Da Daily Worker) PARIS, Jan. 1.—Fists flew inthe chamber of deputies today. during a discussion of the “amnesty law. Deputy Balantant attacked Deputy Reynaud with his fists and knocked out one of eynaud's teeth. Other deputies immediately separated the fighters. The amnesty law has been made a political issue by the Communists ® a nation-wide campalgn. WALL STREET PUTS SCREWS ON FRANCE Bond Prices Fall and (Special to The Dally Worker) the press made a vicious attack on Mussolini and declared that the search for arms was only a subterfuge. “I 5 to defend the safety ot my person and Most Brates. Steal in History, Say Militants cial to The Dai ZIEGLER, Ill, 1 rn complete returns. from the vot- ing in Local No. 992 for inter- national officers of the United Mine Workers of America, was: John L. Lewis, 214; Geor Voyzey, 634; Phil Murray, Arley Staples, 587; Wm. Baten, 303; Joseph Nearing, 514. In Valier the voting was: 411 for Lewis and 672 for Voyzey, 387 for Murray and 566 for Ar- ley Staples; 501 for Green and 312 for Joseph 3 Break Open Doors This was the crookedest election ever held here,” declared a prominent coal digger to the Y WORKER correspondent. “The steal was. bolder and more open than ever before. Far- rington henchmen substituted 500 fake ballots in Buckner, where they took the door off the hinges and changed the votes. We are trying to get a special subdistrict convention and order a new election,” The vote for district president in Local 3613, Valier, was 372 for Far- rington and 350 for Hindmarsh; 440 for Vice-President Fiswick and 405 for Hewlett; Secretary-Treasurer Nes- bit 383 against 405 fér Louis J. Con- turioux. hes Dick Swift, recording secretary of the local, received 850 votes for the office of auditor, the highest vote cast by the local, eée in Livingston. LIVINGSTON, Ill, Jan. 1.—John L. Lewis ran a poor second to George Voyzey, his progressive opponent, in the voting for officials of the miners’ union for the next term of office. Lewis only received 127 votes against 432 for Voyzey. Phil Murray, reactionary candidate for vice-presi- dent, got 124 to 424 for Arley Staples. William Green polled 200 to 343 for Joseph Nearing. Wales Not Gang Spain. 2 A e of my domicile” ri’s letter was suppressed. British-American Imperialists Still Make Trouble in China 1 SHANGHAI, Jan. 1.— Fighting be- tween troops of the revolting gen- erals, Chenlo Hsan and Sun Chuang Fang, has become more serious, it was reported today. There were more than 100 casualties yesterday. Chang Yuan Ming, military govern- er of Shanghai, sent 1,000 troops to assist. Hsan and has surrounded Fang’s supporters in the arsenal, it was said. The supposition is that British-American imperialists are bribing generals to stir up turmoil and justify armed intervention. Swabeck to Speak at North Side English Branch Next Monday Open meeting of North Side English branch Monday night, Jan. 5, at Im. périal Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. Arne Swabeck will speak on: “Strat- egy and Tactics of the Communist In- ternational.” BiG BUGS OF BRITISH BANKS LAND SECRETLY ~ TO MAKE QUIET DEALS LONDON, Jan. 1.—Great Britain has not sent representatives to the United States te discuss inter-allied debts, the treasury department an- nounced yesterday. The Right Hon. Montague Collet Norman, governor of the Bank of England, and Sir Alan Garrett And- erson, a director of the samé bank, are in America upon “purely bank- ing business which has no connec- tion with the government,” it was stated. This is to be taken with a grain of salt, however, as routine banking business would be conduct’ ed by lesser lights. The statement of the British treas. ury "department followed the secret arrival of the two English bankers in New York late Tuesday. Their names did not appear on the pas- senger lists of the liner, Caronia. Other steps taken to shield. their identity led to a report that they have in my possession enough weapons The’ paper 7 7 published Misu-| P WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.— Administration officials were frankly hopeful today that out of the present flare-up in Wash- ington and Paris over the status of the Fren | bye Lor sal from France that will end the controversy once for all. The. highest officials of the government characterized the debt controversy as a greatest menace to the cordiality of Franco-American relations than anything that has arisen be- tween the two countries in modern times. American Imperialism Punishes France. Congress is openly theatening to take the bit in its teeth on the deb’ situation and even now it was pointed out, as a result of Clementel’s hints of repudiation, and the squabble that has ensued, French bonds are falling off, and a check has been put on the plans of some New York bankers for further French credits totalling around $200,000,000. There is a unanimity of belief ir congress and in all government cir cles that the time has come for ez show.down on France’s intentions. Try This on Your Grocery Bill. Members of the American debt fund. ing commission have twice asked rep resentatives of the French govern. ment to submit to Paris a settlement Loans Are Held Up , It Is Felt Dry Drive Is Only Camouflage The announced intention of the Ku Klux Klan, of cleani up Chicago, ridding the city vice and booze, has been openly made. Only the zero hour when the horde of raiders will be loosed by the invisible empire in all parts of the city remains a secret. Plain Spy System. An organization for carrying on the raids already has been perfected, ac- cording to C. D. Fithian, chief of staff of the grand dragon and attor- ney for the realm of Illinois. It has units in every biock, Fithian says, and is organized by neighborhoods, and wards. Eventually, he said, it will be enlarged to cover the entire state and then the entire. nation. “We will carry onan espionage System so that none may escape,“ Fithian declared. “The botleggers, gamblers and owners of disorderly re- sorts will not be able to guard against Us because they will not know who are spies. We will obtain information and swear out warrants, have our men bers deputized and then make raids. We will have our organization so per- fect that we can send word to klansmen throughout the city ina Tg ng quarters at 76 Monroe Street, added that merely cleaning up booze fs not the only purpose of the secret organi- zation. He said, “That is not the only purpose of the organization. It will become a great political power, .one that can change the compiexion of elections in the matter of an hour or two.“ CHARGE BRITAIN SEEKS TO KILL GERMAN TRADE (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Jan. 1.—Gustav Strese. mann was today the target of a broad side from George Bernard, chief edi- tor of the Vossische Zeitung, who charged the former chancellor and present foreign minister with throw- ing dust in the eyes of the German people in his “Anglophile” utterances He pictured France as a friend of Germany, rather than the deadly enemy Stresemann pictured her. “Stresemann would lead the Ger- man public to believe England ‘inno- proposition based on a ten year mora torium and payments to run over a century, the whole proposition to carry a low rate of interest, lower, in- cidentally than the government is pay ing on the same obligations. M. Jean Parmentier, who headed the French debt mission to this coun try two years ago and Ambassador Jusseran declined to even jsuch a proposition to Paris, they were unauthorized to do so. These refusals, coupled with the Clementel report to the French par liament in which he camly character- ized the French war debt as “politi- cal“ debt, operated to unite adminis- tration leaders here in the belief that the time has come for a showdown. Herrick to “Talk. Turkey.” At the state department a repor was being awaited from Ambassador | Herrick at Paris regarding his confer- ences with Premiey Herriot and Fi nance Minister Clementel. Herrick requested these audiences on state de partment instructions. Neither had any note from the French government been received at the department. Buch a note was re orm from Paris to be in transit. transmit | saying | cent as a lamb’ and France the incar.- nation of evil,” Bernard said. “The ‘contrary is the truth. | | “The British controllers’ complaints resulted in postponement of the evacu- ation of Cologne. sritish industries ‘demanded the destruction.of German industries, which are dangerous com. petitors. “Stresemann’s close relations with Britain personally probably are re- sponsible for Germany's relapse into the old mistake of trying to profit by playing France against England.” JUNIORS, ATTENTION! Saturday at 2 p. m. sharp at 1902 W. Division street the Lenin Memorial Chorus will meet and all Juniors who are members of this chorus must be there. Come on time and bring your books along. | All Juniors who wish to join the chorus attend this meeting. Group leaders don't forget to send your Juniors. We start at 2 o’clock sharp! Don't come late! CARPENTERS OF HIBBING, MINN., VOTE FOR COMMUNIST CANDIDATE 2 7 ~ a N * a ee a> (Special to the DAILY WORKER) HIBBING, Minn., Jan. 1.—The carpenters local here voted one hundred per cent for the Communist candidate for president of the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, giving 16 votes to Morris Rosen, aoe an eee ee, sepsis „PFF a . * „ 4 *

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8 7 ~ GLEMENTEL SAYS HE DIDN'T MEA N TO “REPUDIATE” Cites Tariff Wall Bar * Payment (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Jan. 1.—France’s debt to America will not be discussed at the inter-allied financial conference in Paris in January, but it will be taken up in Washington, Minister of Finance Clementel told American newspaper correspondents today. . “T cannot tell you now just how it will be taken up in Washington,” M. Clementel said in answer to a ques. tion. Tariff Wall—A Capitalist Contradiction. }’rohibition in America and its high protective tariff both were made ele ments of Clementel’s discussion, and both h said were handicapping France M Paying off its debt to Am- erica. The big qvvestion now to be decided by both countries, Clementel declared, was just how the debt could be die. charged. “Payments ta America are a ques tien of method sud transfer,” said the finance minister. “America must tell us how values are going to be trans- ferred, especially with American pro- hibition and its higit protectve tariff shutting out such European products. “The British government has fully agreed that France gha take up its American debt directly aud independ- ently with Washington,” :ve added. On Quoting Excerp*s. Clementel said he did not see how his reports to the chamber of deputies had come to be misunderstood fa Am- erica. He quoted a French philoso- pher as saying, “I could hang anyone by taking his separate sentences with- out the entire text.” He then reiterated his declaration that he had “never for a moment con- sidered that France would repudiate its debt.” Clementel made it plaim that France will never submit to the humiliation of a control commission such as the Dawes plan prescribes for Germany. JOINT MEMORIAL DONORS GOMPERS AND MILLIONAIRE Natl. Civic Federation Mourns Its Losses (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—At a meeting of the National Civic Federation, the leading organization in America in the field of propaganda for class col- laboration, called especially for com- memorating Samuel Gompers and Ma- jor August Belmont, many of the country’s leading big capitalists spoke and President Coolidge sent a mes- sage embodying enconiums of Mr. Gom pers. Gompers Over-Shadows Belmont. August Belmont, the -multimillion- aire traction and race horse magnate was quite put into the shadow by the outpourings in praise of Gompers. Belmont was president of the Nation- al Civic Federation at his death, just as Gompers was vice-president of the game organization, but Gompers re- ceived far more plaudits from the as- sembly composed chiefly of big bank- ers, large industrialists, corporation lawyers and government officials. The meeting was addressed by El- ihu Root, Matthew Woll of the A. F. of L. executive council, Vevert Macy, Marcus M. Marks, Alton B. Parker, John Hays Hammond of the imperial- ist group, Rev. Ernest A4. Stiers and others. H. Snowden Marshall, United States prosecuting attorney in New York during the war, praised Gom- pers for his patriotism. He alleged that Gompers refused large sums Ger- man sources offered if he would stop munition manufacture and shipment. Gompers’ desire for victory by the allies over Germany was too great, he said, to permit him to yield to any offer to align himself with the cause of peace. Coolidge’s Tribute to Sammy. Messages were received at the meeting from President Coolidge, Daniel Willard, president of the Bal- timore and Ohio railroad, and Secre- The message tary of State Hughes. of Coolidge read in part, as follows: “T wish that I might join with you in the memorial services to August but unfortunately, my duties do not per- Belmont and Samuel Gompers, mit me to leave Washington.” Elihu Root in his address describ ed Gompers and Belmont as “men typical of the best citizenship.” German Communists at Mass Meetings | (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Communists have held a ers’ strike in 1918. Patriotic organizations, however, Ebert’s treason to the Germany, Jan. 1. — The : series of mass meetings thruout Germany, at which President Ebert was condemn- ed for choking off the munitions work- te ea a * 1 0 Ne MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT RULES RUTHENBERG MUST APPEAR SENTENCE AT ST. JOSEPH, MONDAY 1 FOR court. . (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LANSING, Mich., Jan. 1.— The supreme court of the state of Michigan yesterday refused to withdraw its mandate directing Judge Charles E. White to sentence C. E. Ruthenberg. for violation of the Michigan criminal syndical- ist law, in order to permit the defense to appeal for a re-hearing before the Ruthenberg must therefore appear before Judge White next Monday at St. Joseph for sentence. Under the peculiar procedure of the Michigan courts It will be necessary for l. K. Ferguson, attorney for Ruthenberg, to go before the Michigan supreme court once more with a writ of error and have the court pass upon it before an appeal can be made to the United States | supreme court. lay that court. Whether Ruthenberg will be granted bail by the Michigan courts during the period in which the way is cleared for the appeal to the United Stated” supreme court is doubtful, and Ruthenberg may be imprisoned until the case ean be brought before the United States supreme court and ball is allowed WAGENKNECHT TOUR FOR DAILY BRINGS RESULTS Comrades in Canton and ! Akron Promise Aid Full realization of the importance ci the campaign to INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925 was shown by the members in Canton and Akron, Ohio, who gathered to hear Alfred Wagerik- necht talk upon the part which our English daily plays today and will play in the future in the struggles of the workers for power. The Canton comrades acceptefl the quota of three dollars per member assigned them, and intend making the gathering of the total sum which Canton is to contribute to the $50.000 found one of the main tasks of the local. In Akron Comrade Wagenknech spoke at some length upon “China, Oil and the Next World War,” relating the next world war, whether it occurs in the occidemt or the orient, with the need of a power- ful English Communist daily, which will not only keep the party mem- bership informed upon the day to day development of the imperialist con- flict, but which will also gather around it tens of thousands of workers, leading these into the struggle upon the side of the proletarian revolution. A good deal of time was given in Akron upon the building of an Eng- lish movement in this large industrial city. It was generally recognized that a large subscription list to the DAILY WORKER is a first essential. The membership meeting passed a resolution calling upon the Akron C. C. C. to at once take steps, firstly to reach and beat, if possible, its quota in the drive to make the DAILY WORKER safe, and second, to plan for am, increase in the DAILY WORKER readers for Akron. The builders intend building the daily in the rubber town, and 500 subscribers was the number of subscribers, men- tioned as the goal. Comrade Sells in a short talk, also insisted upon more activity in securing readers of the organ of the Y. W. L. The comrades of both Canton and Akron send the DAILY WORKER their promise of immediate application to the work of helping all in their power. In both cities it was resolved that every branch would remit for insurance policies before January 8th, so that the names of all Canton and Akron branches would appear upon the militant page of the anniversary issue of the daily. Watch for the Special First Anniversary Edition of the DAILY WORKER January 13, 1925 DAILY WORKER BUILDERS HAVE. OFFICIAL ORGAN a Au A bee ys The DAILY WORKER, organized less than one year ago, has now an official organ of its own. The Builder has made its appearance. It is snap- py, almost as shappy as the DAILY WORKER. The Builder is the mouthpiece of the DAILY WORKER Builders—that army of militants that is carrying the message of Communism to people who could not be reached for many years thru the ordinary means of propaganda. They Have Ideas. The DAILY WORKER Builders are working like beavers to give our Com- munist daily the widest possible dis- tribution. Every one of them has ori- ginal ideas as to how best do the job. So each month this tittle paper comes forth with a flood of suggestions. Dis- trict and city committees, branches and branch menibers are expected to do their duty. The Builders will see that the job is done. It Gives Us Great Pleasure. The Builder introduces the heads of the business department, Moritz J. Loeb, Archie Henderson, Walt Car- mon and Sam Hammersmark. There is not a whisper about the editorial staff, but we get a paper out every day and think nothing of it. Outside of that trifling omission, the editors of The Builders are to be congratulated on turning out a nice little paper, which will help to solidify the DAILY WORKER Builders and give them new enthusiasm for their work. COURT DECIDES LEN SMALL MUST DISGORGE DOUGH Another milestone in the suit brought by the IIlinols prosecuting attorney against Len Small, was reached on Tuesday, when Judge F. W. Burton of Sangamon County cirtuit court held the governor liable for interest paid by Chicago packers on state funds loaned to them by Small, while he occupied the position of state trea- surer. An Original Scheme. The manner tn which Small was able to indulge in this scheme was original. With the aid of other asso- ciates he set up a fake bank in which the state funds were deposited at the usual 2 per cent rate. The money was loaned to the packers at 8 per cent. Two per per cent was unaccounted Small, for A Lot of Money. The amount now due the te supreme court will be resorted to. MOSCOW LAWYERS GREET SACCO AND VANZETTI BY CABLE TO INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID read as follows: international Workers’ Aid, Once again the spirit of international class solidarity with the two Ameri can workers, Sacco and Vanzetti, is manifested by Soviet Russia. it is in a cable addressed to the International Workers’ Aid committee by a group of Moscow lawyers affiliated with the International Red Aid. The cable RUSSIA DEEPLY INTERESTED. Moscow File 1250 December 25, 1924. 19 South Lincoln Street, Chicago, III. GENERAL MEETING MOSCOW LAWYERS PRESIDIUM GREETS DEFENSE COMMITTEE SACCO AND VANZETTI FOR STEADINESS AND | ENERGIES DEFENDING THIS AUST CAUSE. |'PERSISTENTLY CONTINUE FIGHT TO SAVE THEIR LIVES. WE Ebert’s T REUEST YOU TO SEND US ALL MATERIAL CONCERNING CASE TO Expose rts 1 reason | inrorm RUSSIAN PUBLIC SHOWING GREAT INTEREST. PRESIDIUM MOSCOW LAWYERS, Moschovia 16, Rose Karsner, national fora ere American workers. 4 oie pet ON 8 7 International Red Aid. CAMPAIGN TO RAISE FUNDS. secretary of the committee, states that the |. V. A. has requested the Labor Defe and the Prison Cor-fort Club to join the I. W. A. in a combined {ction for the raising of funds for the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti. Comrade Karsner declares is an answer to the call of the Wo united front of all workers’ organizations for the defense of International Council THE DAILY cent was turned over to the state and the six by, state is estimated at nearly one million dollars. Small has appealed to the supreme court and if that court sustains the ruling of judge Burton it is quite possible an appeal to the United Sta- This time WE URGE THAT YOU Workers’ Aid 0 ＋ — . * * 2 — 4 — — os tO — — rr * ¥ - 4 * * . - — 5 * 37 1 2 ab A young professor of sociology at Yale University, Jerome Davis, de- fended Soviet Russia from a stupid attack by Pitirim Sorokin, of the uni- versity of Minnesota, at the final ses- sion of the American Sociological So- ciety at the Auditorium Hotel. One thousand college professors heard "s lies with a con- the actual facts. Professors Get a Jolt. Davis was not expected to take up the cudgels for So was listed on the heading of expected that he perform the usual duty of throwing bouquets at the sleepy-eyed professors who had preceded him. Davis, however, told how he had been in Russia, and threw a bombshell into the dry as dust theo- retically minded body of professors life. “It is quite plain why Professor Sorokin gives a one-sided view of the international relations of Soviet Rus- sia,” said Professor Davis. Sorokin was deported from Soviet Russia for counter-revolutionary activity, and it was only the action of Lenin himself which saved Sorokin from being shot. Professor Sorokin freely admits in his book, ‘Leaves from a Russian Diary,’ that he was actively engaged in plot- ting against the Bolshevik govern- ment. He gays, ‘My neutrality was purely ficticious. My walks, my pic- nics, my visits to the théater, were jn reality meetings where I plotted the downfall of the Soviet government.“ Exposes Plots Against Russia. Davis, who spent a year in Russie for the United States goverumen’, branded as untrue Sorokin's stzce- ment that Russia had. bought recogni- tion from foreign countries by giving each country granting recognition, millions of dollars in gold. “Sorokin’s argument that the Soviet govern- ment has been too generous seems | strange when we think of the agita- tion of other Buropean countries call- ing upon Russia to pay the czarist foreign debts;” he said. . “True, as Professor Sorokin says, the Communist International is plot- ting the overthrow of capitalism, but it is equally true that capitalism is plotting the overthrow of the Com- munist International. It is a battle to the death between two forms of industry. The Soviet government is trying to build an industrial system which is owned and controlled by the people.” Russian Revolution Brot Progress. Davis declared that the “good ef- fects of the Russian revolution out- weighed the bad,” and that, “the phenomena of the Russian revolution may well de found to be the out- standing event of the twentieth cen- tury.” One of the good effects of the Bolshevik regime, Davis declared, was the German revolution, which was brought about by Soviet propaganda. “Il was in Russia at the time, and the Bolshevik authorities allowed me to pass a million copies of Wilson's four- teen points thru the lines into Ger- many,” Davis stated. Another good effect of Soviet rule was the publica- tion of secret treaties, Davis said. The biggest problem faced by the Soviet government is that of adequate economic production, and Soviet Rus- sia is now trading with foreign coun- tries, Davis said. Davis told a friend after his speech that “Russia is a dangerous subject to tackle. It ig difficult to write all dangerous ground.” LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL SOUNDS WARNING NOTE The Labor Defense Council issued the following statement today upon getting news that the Michigan su- preme court turned down the appeal of C. E. Ruthenberg, whom they say must now be senten¢ged to prison: “We are not surprised at this action of a capitalist government court. When the Michigan supreme court up- held the trial court it was just one more example of the class nature of the courts which discriminate against workers and working class organiza- tions, and railroad their militant leaders to jail. “We must be and are prepared to wage a great fight to save Ruthenberg, Foster, Dunne and others who may now be brought to trial, from prison. We must carry on a battle for free speech for Communists and all those who fight the battles of the workers. We must hold off the enemy. Let us carry On an aggressive defense NOW. Remember, the workers of ope are faced with white terror. “Our immediate task is to appeal Ruthenberg’s case to the United States supreme court, to make a drive against all of the — ‘ * * 7 R K E — by taking some pages out of — the facts and still keep away from unconstitutional Our Russian Communist Daily Sets the Pace for Daily Worker Builders By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Daily Worker) * * ODAY, the news comes of the triumphant celebration by our Moscow Communist daily, Pravda, of the increase Of its circulation to the half-million mark. . This is one of the great achievements of the Russian Bolshevik revolution. The fact that 500,000 copies of the official organ of the Russian Communist Party pours daily into the eager hands of Soviet Russia's great producing masses, helps insure the stability of the revolution. * * * 0 “Pravda,” which means “The Truth,“ doesn't publish pages of comics like the subscription-hungry American capitalist dailies. Instead, it gives over its column to rich material that educates and improves rather than poisons _the mind of the reader. The first page, instead of carrying the sordid details of some murder or divorce scandal, as is the American custom, usually features some enlightening article.by a prominent Russian Communist, Stalin, Zinoviev or Bucharin. * * * * There are capitalist newspapers in the United States, Great Britain and France, that have circulations that mount up into the millions. But these leave their readers steeped in ignorance. It soddens them. The Communist “Pravda,” successor to the under- ground Bolshevik newspapers of the days of illegal existence under the czarist regime, has won its half million circulation thru an appeal to the minds of the liberated workers and peasants of Soviet Russia. The masses of reading and earn- estly thinking workers and peasants of the First Workers’ Republic have been growing rapidly in volume since the Bolshevik Revolution of Nov. 7, 1917, and will continue to grow. The circulation and influence of “Pravda” will follow in the wake of this growth. | * *. ne * In Soviet Russia, the “Pravda” is not bought, glanced at and then-thrown, away; the fate of a copy of any Amer- ican capitalist daily. It is estimated that “Pravda” has a larger number of readers per copy than any other daily newspaper in the world. One copy goes the rounds in a school, a library, a reading hut, a factory, shop or mine, in a unit of the Red Army, or the Red Fleet. “Pravda” made its greatest gains during the past year. The circulation last January stood at only 126,000. By March the circulation had gone up to 170,445; then to 307,443 in June; to 379,135 in September, with the final leap over the half-million mark, to 507,546 in December. ‘ 1 2 2 This great achievement of our Russian Communist daily should be an inspiration to every reader of the DAILY WORKER. | 3 It should not only be an urge in the drive to “Insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925" and to win a great circula- tion for “Our Daily,” but it should also arouse all Com- munists and sympathizers to the effective methods used by our Russian Communist press. . — * * It is estimated that there are now 50,000 worker-cor- respondents thruout Soviet Russia, developing contacts bet- ween the Communist press and the workers and peasants. Our DAILY WORKER must also have thousands of worker-correspondents in all sections of the nation. Thru building these vital contacts with the masses, not only the life and the effectiveness of “Our Daily” becomes assured, but the whole working class, under the leadership of its Communist vanguard, will make more rapid forward strides. * ~ * — Hail the achievements of our Russian Communist daily, the “Pravda.” Hail the greater struggles of America’s Work- ing masses to profit by this inspiration thru building their Communist spokesman, the DAILY WORKER. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 1—Wil- liam Green, successor to Sam ers as president of the American Fed. his first press interview that there will be no change in the policy of the federation under his regime. Intimating that he is feeling the left wing criticism of the falling off in membership, however, Green said, “We expect to carry forward the work of organization and education among the unorganized and to contend in a most vigorous fashion for a speedy realization and enjoyment on the part of working men and women of all the rights and privileges to which they are justly entitled.” If this more or less cryptic utte: ance means anything it promises a drive for organization of the unor ganized, who need attention from federation just as the federation needs to avoid competition with unorganized millions. The reference to working women implies that Green possibly recognizes that wage-working women against wage and hour standards of the unions. Asked about the attitude of his regime toward the recognition of So- viet Russia, Green retreated to the El Paso convention resolution which was antagonistic to any recognition. This has been the policy of Gompers and Secretary Hughes and will, there fore, be the policy of Green, it is inti- mated. Aside from the remark on organiza- tion, Green's utternaces were of the usual platitudinous kind of labor fak- ers about “opposing wrong” and fight- ing for the right,” our “just due” and the “fuller and freer life.” FASCIST DEPUTY ATTACKS BLACK (Special to The Dally Worker) ROME, Jan. 1—Strong concentratio: of fascisti militia are gathered at Florence from ‘other Italian cities, in- cluding Turin and Milan, to attend thé funeral of fascisti who were e when Communists repulsed a fascist attack. More violence is feared. Confusion in the ranks of the fas cisti continues to grow. The fascist deputy, Cursio Duckert, utters extrem. threats against Mussolini and the fas cist government unless the demande of the provincial fascisti are met. These demands are that the fascisti leaders share the responsibility for all fascisti acts of violence. The fas- printing attacks on Mussolini. opposition leaders with further vio lenee. “It was only our generosity which preyented us from shooting you all two years ago. Remember we are still in time to do now what we did not do then,” says Farinaccli. The two liberal ministers, Sarrocchi and Casati, have agreed, temporarily GARY EMPLOYS RADICAL BAITING © PRIEST, FATHER De VILLE, TO KEEP STEEL TRUST SLAVES CONTENTED (Special to the DAILY WORKER) GARY, Ind., Jan. 1.—Father John De Ville, head of the Gary Aldering settlement house, feels assured that he will receive from the United States Steel corporation a great deal of support for his efforts to keep the steel trust slaves contented thru the “social work” of his settlement house. Father John who has a nice eye for the social graces when they will help him hold down his fat job, sent to Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of to continue in the Mussolini cabinet. Large posters bearing the head of Mussolini with the title “chief,” were smeared with red ink during the solini was smeared with blood. The posters were all taken from the walls before noon. AS WE SEE IT | By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) the U. S. Steel corporation and to? - James A. Farrell and to George K. ° ; r Leet secretary of the same outfit very Printers’ Protest Shows the Postal nice Christmas presents. In order not to slight anyone of importance who could be of help to himself and to his job he included one for F. M. Water- man treasurer of the steel trust. As if not to overlook the importance of trifles and underdogs who have a little influence with the great ones who pass out the fact donations he included a present to the secretaries of each of these gentlemen. To the scores of stupid dupes who work hard in the Gary Aldering set- tlement trying to bring a little “sweet- ness and light“ into the lives of the slaves of Gary Padre John sent a Christmas card reminding them that Jesus died for them and that they would get pie in the sky in due time. DeVille is the chief labor and radical baiter in this town where the gentlemen of God fall over each other for a chance to serve the steel trust He was the close friend and intimate of Bishop Aldering who recently died and who was Gary’s most useful reli- gious handy man. It is generally un- derstood here that Deville got his present soft“ snap of a job thru the good offices of Aldering who assured the steel trust that he was perfectly safe and could be relied on. (Special to The Daily Worker) Typographical Union asserts. proposed wage statement. “We are in The union’s statement, York in recent months in obtain living wages. zines. The printed matter, greatest educational force in country.” The union's statement, against the Bronx Attention. Sunday, Jan. 4, 1347 Boston Road. 8 p. m., W. W. Weinstone will on “World Court and World ar.”| unions in strikes, and Workers Underpaid INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 1.—Post- al workers are greatly underpaid, a statement issued by the International “The $62,000,000 or so needed to cover the increase would be money well spent,” says the union's complete sympathy with the postal workers in their struggle to obtain living wages.” however, places most of its emphasis on praise of the kept press and the newspaper publishers, who have forced the press- men to strike in Seattle and New rder to “We believe it is bad social policy to place this load on the nation’s newspapers and maga- carried in second class mail, constitutes the the protests increase in newspaper postal rates more stronger than it advocates raise in wages for postal employes, demonstrating the class col laboration policy of the Typograph“ éal Union. The union takes sides with the kept press, which fights the | . | eathli opened four are closed dow. 88S «es x HE November issue of The Geld Age, organ of the bible student association, has an editorial entitled “Religious Persecution in Russia.“ This is an excerpt: “Mr. Wilbur K Thomas, who was head of the Quaker relief commission to Russia says the government officials have gone around John the Baptist and St. James; an“ that when they had finished the jo’ they had enough bones to make tw hundred men. This has hurt the reli; ious trade seriously; for the commo people had been previously taug) that the bones were genuine.” — * * culation manager of the DAIL) WORKER, writing from the west o Ireland tells a story which proves tha superstition has still a very stror hold on the Irish peasantry. In a fish ing village off the west coast the sealr were raising the duece with the fis! and destroying the flshermen's nete One of the fishernien got an idea int his head that if the priest could b induced to sprinkle some holy wate in the sea, that the seals would 8 away. The priest consented to d this for a consideration but the only the priestly mummery was the one killed by McCarthy and ther The rest kept on éating eration of Labor, announced today in remaining unorganized are a threat =. SHIRT LEADER cist paper, Conquista Teello Stato, is Deputy Farinacci is threatening the night, giving the impression that Mus = The fact is that for every one mine and gathered up the sacred bones of e MecARTHx, former cir* seal that appeared to be affected by — 2 ct ce mmi n jm JO ente 0} sν “9g 7 * half, -dro} $1,868,198 of livesto abled the tinue the „ | 4 — 5 F. * ö ( 4 . e “a — __ * d * | :

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eo vw. Ff * r Oe a MW HOBOTOQHAA PACHPOAAXKA BOTATbIH BIBOP KHM no Honutnme, Skonomuke, Counanentin Bonpocau, aocochun, Heropun, Jlutepatype, Kpuruue, Mcxyccrey. Takxe Je@TCKHe. KHHTH Ipebynre aculeHKy n cnnco xuur, none kaluux pac- Ps newute c sanpocauu u sakasaun, HOO pac- | en GyAeT NPOMOMKAaTbCA O4CHD koporKoe npeug. 1 Nov al BOOK STORE — NNOBMHY W TPETh WEHDI E KHUT 1 rocyAapcTBeHHOrO u- Mu- | 0 1 1 E e * 2 — 1 3 3 ’ CANUCK PLUTES TURN DOWN VETS FOR SCAB LABOR Heroes Apply for Jobs; * Given the Air VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 1. — The blacklist department of the Canadian government merchant marine is being applied to many ex-service men, who, because of their activities as union men in demanding decent conditions aboard the Canadian government’s vessels, are being refused jobs and their names blacklisted. Under the present arrangement neither engineers nor mates are al- lowed to hire their crews. They are allowed to select men whom they deem,capable of filling jobs but the final signing on the ship is left en tirely to the local officials, many of whom have had little or no actual sea experience and who judge all men seeking work on the government vessels by the subservience and in some cases by the applicant’s willing- ness to part with a few dollars to secure the job. No Use for “Heroes.” Recently two ex-service men, J. Bar- rington. No. 463244. who was overseas with the 62nd and 29th Canaaian battalions from 1915 to 1919, and Gordon Music, an ex-service man from the R. N. C. R. from the 27th. of August, 1914, to the 19th of June, 1919, applied for work aboard Canadian government vessels. They, were select- ed by the second engineer and told to report to the shipping office, vut in each case when they appeared to sign the articles, they were rejected with evasive excuses. The men are appealing to. their organizations to deal with the matter. Bosses Import Finks and Gunmen to Break ’Frisco Molders’ Strike SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1.—The struggle between the Molders’ Union and the non-union iron companies con- tinues, with violence charged by both sides. The San Francisco Labor Coun. cil in an open letter charges the in- dustrial association with having im- ported gunmen and private detectives and while posing as an impartial or- ganization having assisted the open- shop companies in their fight on or- ganized labor. Latest victims in the war between the Molders’ Union and openshop plants, J. E. Parente and J. M. Lam- bert, union members, were set upon in the street and badly beaten. Par- ente staggered bleeding into the lob- by of the fashionable Fairmont hotel, causing a near riot among the society ladies who had never before beheld a live molder, particularly one drip-ja ping blood from an attack by hired gunmen of the employers. He has been taken to hospital where it is feared he has internal injuries. Lambert was kidnaped in the as sailants’ automobile and taken to Golden Gate park, where he was again beaten up, suffering a _ dislocated shoulder and two broken ribs. He finally escaped when another auto- mobile scared off his attackers. He is chairman of the executive committee of the union. Must Have Time to Think. NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—Decision in the free speech trial of Roger Bald- win, director American Civil Liberties | Union, for his part in the Paterson Silk strike meeting of Oct. 6 will not de given by Judge Joseph A. Delaney in the court of special sessions, Paterson, N. J., until after the first of the year. Raldwin’s case will determine those of Ferris Dreeka, George Cabbizza, Basil Effsa, Kerrill Konzer and Bracco Natale. all silk workers who were on strike with the Associated Silk Work- ers at the time. Chief of Police John Tracey closed the strikers’ hall and Baldwin made a test case of free speech by calling a meeting on the city hall steps. used their clubs counsel maintained that the meeting was orderly until the police came and that the officers should be indicted instead of Baldwin and the strikers. — — — u-¼F̃wꝗß ũp——— PIANO, VOCAL and HARMONY LESSONS MARGARITE LEWIS Experienced Teacher and _ Concert N N 8 . -| thrown out. we — CE ash., January 1. — There has 2 a better dem- onstration ‘the capitalisg judicial policy, one the rich, another for the ca = given by Louis F. Hart, 80 80 four-year term ; lec. 31. onl. W. W. h. on Nov. 11, rade and demon- fed by the American wh to many, an attack 1 had been planned. bers resisted and rs were short while into the hall. That * 7 2 10 four legion n trying to i. night prom ir men broke into the jail, t k Wesley Everest, an ex-soldier, and 1 him, These men are still sent and respect- able citizens A lodge members of Centralia, known to all, but unpun- ished. A 8 The men who hae dared organize the lumber workers and resist the mob, were “at Montesano, in a county absolutely bossed by the lum- ber trust. The presiding judge, John M. Wilson, ruler out all favorable evidence to thé se, all evidence showing that the raid was part of a premeditated plot. Gov.. Hart sent state troops Camped about the courthouse, to protect the prisoners, act if the jury might be intimidated. The majority of the jorymen have since made affidavits that their verdict was biased as a result of this imtimidation, Hart Serves Masters Well. Since then. ted efforts have been made to persuade Gov. Hart to pardon these who were given sentences of from 25 to 40 years for defending their 00 titutional rights, But these men workers. They have no rich is with money to hire lawyers, and spend in other ways. The governor has no mercy on these victims of one of the rottenest frame-ups in history, The Centralia? victims are still in prison and will de for at least four | more years. The new governor, Col. | Roland Hartley of Everett, is the will- ing servant of the lumber trust. He has often his hatred of the. labor organizations, 5 ly of the I. W. W. He has stated that regard- less of all evidence he believes the wobblies deserve to be in prison, not because they committed any crime, but because they are I. W. W. He be- lteves the radicals should be sup- pressed, whether by legal or illegal methods does not matter. Kept Press Serves Same Master. The labor press both the I. W. W. and the Communists—and the liberal weeklies have told the truth about the Centralia case. But the capitalist press has lied from then until now. It always states that the shoting was | | MACHINIST LEFT WING FIGHT 5 (Continued from page 1 | tionary and progressive elements con- stitute the backbone of any organiza- tion. The left wing candidates also pro. pose to carry on the struggle for bi- annual conventions as against the four-year policy. The arguments of the Johnston crowd that it is too ex- pensive is pure nonsense. If there would have been a convention in 1922 it would have helped tremendously to carry the shopmen’s strike to a suc- cessful conclusion. If the arguments of the present bureaucracy are taken seriously we should never have a con-| vention on the ground of expense. The danger of that policy is that we may have nothing left after four years but a mere shadow of our once powerful organization. The left wing has forced the ma- chine to adopt resolution after reso- lution in conventions for the recogni. tion of Soviet Russia, but nothing has been done by our own officials to carry out the instructions. They keey silent in the American Federation of Labor conventions when the resolu- tian is buried in that old graveyard. The left wing candidates stand for a real campaign to make the United States government recognize the first workers’ and farmers’ government in the world. The left wing also takes cognizance of the present movement in Europe for trade union unity and proposes that the International Association of Machinists participate in this move- ment and fight for the admission of all the revolutionary unions into the Berne International and make it @ real international instrument of strug: gle against capitalism. The left wing is the only group of- fering a real program of struggle The Johnston machine as usual have nothing to offer but the “B. & O.” plan, pet insurance schemes, banking and other measures of class collabo- ration with the bosses. This policy of our union bureaucrats can only result of the bosses and will destroy is abil- ity as a fighting organ of struggle against the bosses. The so-called Anderson group has failed so far to come out and tell the membership what they stand for, nor have they presented a program of ac. tion, altho the left wing group has made all efforts to establish a united front against the present administra- tion upon the basis of a fighting pro- gram. It is not enough to issue a slate and plead for a change of ad- ministration... A change of administra- tion does not solve the problems of the machinists. A fundamental change in policy is necessary to insure the growth of the organization and the so-called Anderson-Hannon group fails to show where their policy is any dif- ferent from the present administra. tion. No declaration on such an im- portant issue as the “B. & O.” plan. No declaration for a campaign to bring about amalgamation. No dec- laration for a struggle against the present policy of expulsion and sus- pension of members for their political beliefs. Nothing said about the polit- ical class collaboration policy! of the present administration. Nothing said about the methods of the Johnston- David ggmbine in their dirty at- tempts at times to assassinate the personal character of loyal members of the union in order to discredit them in the eyes of the membership, especially when these members are in disagreement with the policies of the administration. The left wing candidates should be supported by all militants in the or- ganization as they are the only force that offers a real program in the in. terest of the rank and file. Also most of them are fresh from the workshops and are known for their past activities in the class struggle. We shall take up the personnel of the wt wing slate in the next issue of the DAILY WORKER. In the mean time, get busy, militants, and see to it that your local union nominates and in making the union into an auxiliary supports the left wing slate. IN WISCONSIN May Hire Women for Less Than 25c an Hour (Special to The Dally Worker) SUPERIOR, Wis., January 1.—In a final decree handed down by Judge C. Z. Luse of federal district court here, the Wisconsin minimum wage law as it applies to adult women, is invalid. The ruling does not affect the law in its application to minors. By provis- ion of the decrée the state-industria) commission is restrained from enforc- ing the clause cited. The court ruled that Wisconsin em- ployers may hire adult women at less than 25 cents an hour. The decree was given following action brought by unprovoked and unjustified. And these ithe Folding Furniture company of lies of the local capitalist press are broadcasted over the world. Many people do not know the truth. There have been several pardon scandals in the past few years. Every time the governor left the-state the lieutenant governor would pardon someone. Trial “Custom Made” For Rich. Three and a half years ago four soldiers deserted from Camp Lewis Stevens Point last August. The com- pany asked that the industrial com mission be réstrained from enforcing a minimum wage of 25 cents an hour for adult women as set by the law. The plaintiff held that the measure, by forcing the wage schedule of 25 cents an hour for adult women when it, the plaintiff, could hire women for less, was in effect a violation of the fourteenth amendment in that the minimum wage law provided for the and came to Tacoma. Here they hired taking of property without due process taxicab to take them to Seattle, in- tending to kill the driver and steal the | ¢,., right of contract. taxi. A few miles out of town one 1 these soldiers hit the driver on t head with a rock. The body w 3 Later the soldiers were caught. Edward F. Filion of Windsor, Ont., was granted a separate trial. He had rich relatives. All four were given life sentences and speclal re- commendations were made that they be kept there for life and never be paroled. On Dec. 6, Gov. Hart paroled Filion, over the protest of the parole board. The governor cannot ‘remember why he granted the parole or any circum- stances of the case. Wonderfully short memory he has. When this pardon became known, it stirred up a great | Famous ‘furore. But Filion is free. His three | partners in crime are poor men and will remain in prison. Wealthy Murderer Shielded. the state parole to another rich man. deported. Soudas murdered a woman recaptured and had been in prison sixteen months. It he is deported he will arrive in Greece rich and free. | It was not long ago that Owen Baker of Seattle, an ex-policeman, was convicted of hijacking (holding up booze runners). Hart pardoned him sentence. After hearing protests from all over | Gov. Hart promptly ex- pressed his opinion of the laws and of the people. He granted an executive | John | Soudas, nominally that he might be before he had served one day of his Now Baker is wanted for of law and by interfefing with the gau. Tee Gath Marker . JANUARY MINIMUM WAGE ance Men Kiman U AW SM ASHED Latter Again on Job FORT BRAGG, Cal., Jan. 1.— An- gered at organization work among the lumber workers by the I. W. W., and unwilling to undergo the expense of a criminal synditalism trial, a group of 30 business men of Fort Bragg kid- naped J. F. Campbell, Joe Smith, F. C. Watkins and John Stahl from a hotel lobby, and took them to the railroad station, where they bought railroad tickets and ordered the first three on to the train, commanding them never to return to Mendocino county. Stahl they then took in an automobile and left him in the rain at 1 a. m. 20 miles from a town, after threatening him with injury and death. All four men are now in Eureka continuing their organization work among the lumber- jacks. . PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering .Expert Dental Service for 20 Years. 645 SMITHFIELD ST., Near 7th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor. Arthur St. RADICAL BAITING SOCIETY PASSES HAT FOR DOUGH Makes Plea for Funds to Fight Communists (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 1—The Amert- ca defense society is again hard up for funds. It is again at its old game of squeezing cash out of its support- ers. Its latest appeal is based on the notoriously radical baiting and Soviet Russia hating, capitalist sheet, the New York Herald-Tribune. No doubt they even inspired it themselves. Anyone can send a story to this capi- talist sheet telling about enormous sums of money spent by Soviet Rus- sia in America to take the bankers’ government away from them and get it published. So what should prevent the American defense society from doing it? And especially just before Christmas too! The society’s Red baiting officials bought a truck load of Herald form letter to every banker in the country. They even sent one to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Bank of Chicago. We print the letter in full: New York, Dec. 19, 1924. Dear Sir: The enclosed clipping is from the New York Herald-Tribune of Dec. 2. From it you will note that the Soviet government has just appropri- ated $100,000,000 for propaganda in foreign countries including the United States. The American defense society is the only oustanding agency in the United States which has been active in apprising the citizens of the radical activities here. Yet because of the lethargy of the public generally, we are forced to appeal again and again for funds with which to carry on our work. Despite our reduced finances we have been able to wage a warfare but we would be much more effective if you will give us the funds with which to fight. Will you not give us ammu- nition to meet the activities in Amer- ica of Zinoviev? It will be an invest- ment on your part in patrotism and defense. Your very truly, (Signed) Percy H. Johnston. Percy H. Johnston, Chairman Benjamin L. Allen, Arthur W. Loasby. Julian W. Potter, Special Bankers’ 8 The first honorary president of this red baiting organization was Theodore Roosevelt. When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Seven Places 62 W. Van Buren 42 W. Harrison 169 N. Clark 118 S. Clark 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State 234 S. Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 Specialities: K. W. Rieck Boston Baked Beans and Brown Grea Fine Soups and Fresh Made. Coffee Commiceary and Bakery: 1612 Fulton Ct. Phone West 2549 our paper. COME ON OVER! ; JUST. FOR FUN And at the same time to relieve us of having to. worry about it so much. Our small force is snowed vader by a pile of work and if you have a little time to spare—come over to help us out on the work that will help to build JUST FOR FUN—— COME ON OVER! 1925 WORKERS Edited by Earl R. Browder. MONTHLY | Painting | * Important Articles | Splendid A Story Reviews Editorials A story by Jack Wilgus you will enjoy. gives the world Labor situation in a nut-shell. attention important points of interest to Labor. 1113 W. 8 Blvd. te * others. An The splendid issue just off the press has on its cover a three color reproduction of a great painting, “Revolution Comes!” by N —the most famous picture in the Revolutionary Museum in Moscow. . Kravchenko The issue contains the second installment of that revolutionary classic “The History of the Russian Communist Party” by Gregory Zinoviev; “The A. F. of L. and Trade Union Unity” by Wm. Z. Foster and Wm. F. Dunne—ten articles in all that form important contributions on many phases of Labor’s problems. Included in this issue are also ten cartoons (one of two pages) by such in Seattle in 1915 and cut her to | Cartoons noted artists as Art Young, Adolph Dehn, William Gropper, fred Ellis pieces. He was convicted of first and Hay Bales. degree murder. He escaped from the ‘ Police interfered and Seattle jail, taking with him two other“! Adding to the value of this well rounded: issue are poems by such well freely. Defense | murderers and two burglars. He was 5 Poems known poets as Witter Bynner, Edwin Seaver, Sara Bard Field and 4 International Review section „Editorials bring to vour All in the January Issue of ‘| * 1 r 0 pas Nr * a rue N — Page Three. N Tribunes and sent a clipping with a 2 :

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—— — = n — — — 1 — — — — — Discussion of Our THE DALY ar 1 RKER y’s Imme rt —— rhe ba ee — — 1 Conception of the Minority By EARL R. BROWDER. CHARACTERISTIC feature of menshevism is its mechanical - ®onception of the collapse of capital. fem. It is the completely false idea that capitalism will be destroyed, not by the action of the revolutionary Working class, but by a “dying out,” or an automatic falling to pieces, or a walking over a precipice—after which the working class will joyfully enter into their own. Such conceptions pre- vent the working class from entering the struggle, from steeling themselves for the fierce class war, from throw- ing themselves whole-heartedly into the building up of the revolutionary party which alone can lead the neces- sary struggle for power. Our minority in the present party discussion has a tendency in this di rection that is very pronounced. A striking example is found in the DAILY WORKER of Dec. 30, in the ‘eartoon by Comrade Minor, one of the prominent leaders of the minority. Comrade Minor’s cartoon show: capitalism as a decrepit old man time with the years 1914 and 1918 marked in bold letters. The present, the year 1925, on this path of capital- ism, ends abruptly at a deep preci- pice, and the feeble old capitalist sys- tem is blindly shaking its walking stick over the precipice, preparatory to stepping into space. The imagination of the backward workers looking at this picture will doubtless picture the next step—capi- talism over the precipice—without any act on the part of the working class, which is not in the picture. And if they do supply something to fill in the blank, something to give the final push to capitalism, they will perhaps be inclined to agree with the minority, that a nice little “class” farmer-labor party will be strong enough with its little finger to give capitalism its coup de grace. This is a menshevist cartoon, the significance of which is heightened by the fact that it was drawn right at this time, when the party is concen- trating its attention upon just such theoretical deviations, which find their theoretical expression in the thesis of the minority. wandering alone down the path of Dialectic Materialism vs, Metaphysics By SID. A. BUSH OW that open disctssion on im- mediate party tasks is carried on in the press and all party units for a period of several weeks, the over- whelming majority of the membership, no doubt has a clear conception of the different points of view held by the leading comrades of the party on the subject of carrying on a campaign for a “class farmer-labor party.” From the point of view of sheer pol- emics the controversy over the slogan “for a class farmer-labor party” and the carrying on of a major campaign for it at this time, resolves itself in- to a discussion between dialectic materialists on the one hand, and metaphysicians on the other hand, Those who reason from the point of view of dialectic materialism sur- vey the world of phenomena, analyze their component parts, objective and subjective; discover the changes that have taken place, detect the new trend in events, ascertain the direc- tions of the various tendencies, which are being propelled by the néw con- ditions; and, knowing their goal the dialectic materialists form policies, lay down rules, initiate maneuvers to counteract those tendencies which are obnoxious, and triy to accellerate others which are favorable towards the realization of the goal. And here let us remember that the goal is the principle, the fundamental law, which is not being altered to conform to a changed condition. Only the man- euvers, the policies, that is, the strategy and tactics are being changed —because of changed conditions. The metaphysicians, on the other hand, once they grasp a fact at a cer- ‘tain time, they hold on to it most tenaciously. They cannot believe that the facts they grasped and saw so cléarly could disappear. They cannot conceive that new conditions have arisen which demand a revaluation of previous conceptions, and the present demands the setting into motion such organs of action that must of necessity be different from those hitherto uged. To the metaphy- sicians things appear more or less static, therefore, they cling to the old, outworn and obsolete formula. That is the method of the minority. The thesis of the majority of the central executive committee states: “Three years ago our party adopted | | the position that a labor party policy was the only way of applying the tac- tics of the united front to the pol- itical conditions of America. To this decision our party was moved by the kollowing considerations; The exist- ence of the strong mass movement in the direction of a farmer-labor party as evidenced by a large number of local and state farmer-labor parties, and also by the formation of the Con- ference for Progressive Political Ac- tion, which we interpreted as/the re- sult of this same mass pressure to- wards independent politigal action.” Since that time, hofvever, these farmer-labor parties, tis mass move- ment was absorbed by the LafFollette movement. And whät is this LaFol- lette movement? The majority thesis states:— “The LaFollette combination is .so- cially and politically a bourgeois MOVEMENT hostile and antagonistic to the proletarian class struggle and to the political independence of the oppressed and toiling masses.” But, as this movement, as has been demonstrated byy the last elections, has the support of those elements among the workers and poor farmers who have been the backbone of the erstwhile mass movement for a farm- er-labor party, the majority thesis proposes to carry out the following | united front tactics: — “Exposure of the bourgeois nature of LaFolletteism. This becomes the central problem of our agitation and propaganda. It must be carried on along the following lines: a) Form- ee based burning of the * among the masses; c) call upon the rank and file in the shops, unions, among the unemployed, to. address resolution, petitions, and to hold mass meetings demanding that the ‘labor’ wing in the LaFollette combination and the LaFollette group in congress propose legislation along the lines of the demands of the masses, at the same time creating the necessary united front rank and file organiza- tion for the struggle; d) by these campaigns unmask the bourgeois nature of LaFollettism and the labor lieutenants of the LaFollette move ment, expose the futility of demo- cratic-pacifist parliamentarism and demonstrate the necessity of follow- ing the leadership of the only class political party, the Workers Party; as against the LaFollette party the Workers Party, . as against the fut- flity of LaFollette’s parliamentary reformism the use of the organized mass power of the workers for pol- itical ends under the leadership of the revolutionary working class pol itical party, the Workers Party.” Then, when the class struggle gains momentum the thesis proposes; “As the working masses gain mil- itancy and agressiveness the situation situation will become ripe and the necessity: urgent for a general mobil- ization of all forces (that is, on the industrial economic and political fields, etc.,) of labor for a concerted struggle against the triumphant cap- italist reaction.” The concerted action to be directed by “a general labor con- gress elected by the rank and file of eer. 34” Thus the analysis of economic and political conditions in the majority quoted shows the following: The majority of the central executive com- mittee after analyzing the world of phenomena nothing changes of con- ditions, ascertaining the direction the new events are taking, outlines a pol- icy demanded by the new situation confronting the party. Thus the present strategy regerd- ing the farmer-labor question is ex- posure of the bourgeois nature of La- Follettism“ because at the present the main strength of LaFollettism and consequently the main danger to the class struggle, comes from the ideological hegemony of LaFollette- ism over the minds of large sections of workers and poor farmers.” The strategy is in accord with Leninism. Lenin taught the Communist Party of England that as long as the masses are under the influence of the British ‘labor party and as long as the latter nas not shown its true colors, that is, its petty bourgeois face, the Commun- ist Party cannot split those masses away and gain leadership over them until the labor party is exposed as 12 an enemy of the workers. To expose was the duty of the Communist Party of Britain. The tactics propsed by the majority as stated above aim at the awakening of the masses, intensification of the class struggle and gaining of leader- ship over the exploited masses thru a united front of the Communists, under the banner of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party with the rank and file, thru making the party a mass Communist Party. The strategy, tactics and aims are all directed towards the goal— overthrow of capitalism. The major- ity thesis is, therefore, a thesis of dialetic materialists. The thesis of the metaphysicians of our party, the minority states: “The slogan ‘for a farmer-labor par- ty’ remains our most effective means ot agitation for political action on a class basis by the workers and poor farmers.“ And why? Section four reads: — “For our party the application of this tactics was a success.” That means that because at one time it was successful, in a measure, we must continue using it ‘regardless thesis and the few examples herein. was successful in Russia at a partic- ular period of struggle, the Russian Communist Party committed an error for abandoning it. Because the Friends of Soviet Russia was a tremendous success, we should have continued it regardless of the changed conditions. These examples can be multiplied by the thousands. Yet, the reasoning of the minority has been so blunted by reasons better known to those who support that thesis, that the comrades cannot see the obsurd- ity of it. The minority thesis, admits that conditions have changed, it states: “The development of this movement (of the workers and farmers) side by side with the petty bourgeois pro- gressive movement led inevitably to a struggle on the part of the petty bourgeoisie to im on it and to absorb Yes, the LaFollette movement ab- sorbed what the Workers Party has built, according to Comrade Manley, at a cost of $50,000, and at the expense of the energy of the best forces of our party, which if used to a better advan- tage would have brought the Com- munist movement better resiilts than the campaigning for and building of petty bourgeois reformist farmer-labor parties. The minority admits that conditions have changed, yet it de- sires to keep on the old tracks not matter how decayed they are. The methaphysical conception has brough Comrade Kaplan into a fury. He rages at the majority for having abandoned their previous ideas. He says:— “In the last election campaign the central executive committee of the Workers Party promised the workers and exploited farmers of this coun- try in the party platform that: ‘The Workers Party declares its purpose to continue the struggle to mobilize the workers and exploited farmers for independent political action thru a mass farmer_labor party’.... “After the election” he continues “the same central executive committee declares; ‘Our chief task in the immediate future is not the building of such a farmer-labor party but the strengthen- ing and developing ef the Workers Party itself as the practical leader of the masses and as the only party that represent the working class in- terests and fights for them.“ Comrade Kaplan thinks that this is an unpardonable change of front on the part of the majority of the C. E. C. When Lenin insisted upon the signing of the Brest Litovsk Treaty he was reproached by comrades of the Russian Communist Party for chang- ing his slogans and formulas almost overnight. Lenin called those com- rades “HENS.” The substance of his reply was as follows: “When you draw a cicle with a piece of chalk around a hen she will walk around and around the line and fear to jump over. But in the case of the hen it is more pardonable than with you for the hen did not draw the line. When you yourselves draw up for- mulas and slogans to fit a certain oc- casion you also can do away with them. And why, because conditions demand it. The lessons: should be studied by the comrades of the minority. Comrade Lovestone, altho one of the authors of the minority thesis, which gfates that the farmer-labor movement was absorbed by LaFollet- teism, nevertheless, true to his met- aphysical conception, still maintains (DAILY WORKER December ist) that there is.a demand on the part of the masses for a farmer-labor party. Comrade Lovestone being in chars of the research department, and there fore a faithful reader of many dozens of journals sees RED in every Amer- ican white guardist who happens to mumble the phrase “farmer-labor par- ty.” On the strength of such informa- tion he is constructing a theory to prove the contention of the minority. But by the time Comrade Lovestone finishes he will find out that he built a castle which has hot air for its founda- tion. Because—and if he is not too busy writing he probably already found out that—Comrade Hathaway’s report, Comrade Manley’s and Com- rade Cannon’s articles punctured, demolished and blown to tit-bits the foundation wpon which he built his castle consisting of five points. According to Comrade Reeve pol- itical action means nothing else than campaigning for a petty bourgeois re- formist farmer-labor party. He says: “What will the workers eventually say of the Communist movement of America if we desert the united front on the political field now?“ Ane again “We must according to the ma- jority leave the workers and poor farm. ers entirel to LaFollette on the politica] field.” It is really a pity to find that there are members of the party whose knowledge of what constitutes pol- itical action in the Communist sense ‘is so abridged. The educational de- partment must get busy. In the mean time it would be advisable that the comrades supporting minority thesis study carefully tue thesis of the majority there they will learn that constitutes political action. | its leadership |‘ THE R ESU —— Tee , Sof THE FIRST "MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS 87 > * sy c. E. RUTHENBERG. It is much simpler vocate a ity of the C. N. C. The C. E. C. ma jority has taken full advantage of this situation. It has raised the sectarian slogan “Build the Workers Party” against policies proposed for the building of the Workers Party in an effort to confuse the issue and create the impression that the minority the- sis had some other ‘than the building of the W Party. As a consequence the 1 ty has been in the position of cate the membership to an under. standing of a Bolshevist policy, while the majority was able to rely upon the natural appeal of the mere slogan “Build the Workérs Party,” without pointing out the way to the accomp- lishment of this desirable end. In arranging the membership meet ings at which the question of the party policy was to be voted upon the C. E. C. majority so scheduled those meetings that the cities in which the O. E. C. majority was in a position of advantage held their meetings first. The C. E. C. majority also took full advantage of the opportunity given it by_control of the party machinery. A lecture routing for Comrade Lovestone was cancelled and Comrade Carlson sent out to Will the dates. Comrade Cannon was sent to New York three weeks ago, ostensibly for “educational work” but actually to build the fences of the C. E. C. majority in the party fight. Comrade Manley was trans- rk as eastern T. U. to strengthen the C. E. C. majority in the New York district. Comrade Harry Winitsky was put in the DAILY WORKER pay roll as part of the campaign to insure “The Daily,” but devoted most of his time to spreading malicious fumors in support of the majority. Comrade Carlson was sent to Philadelphia as educational circuit lecturer weeks be- fore the educational circuit was or- ganized, acting as the majority repre sentative in the Philadelphia district In spite. of the natural appeal of the slogan “Build the Workers Party” even when no statement of policy to attain that result is attached to it, in spite of the C. E. C. majority select- ing the most favorable fighting Comrade Ruthenberg is one of the authors of the minority thesis. (This is not one of thosé whispering “sec- rets” of Comrade Bedacht). As quoted above, the minority thesis agrees with the majority that the tarmer-labor absorbed by the LaFollette movement. And what does the minority proposes to do? The minority thesis states as follows:— “We shall mobilize all the class farmer-labor elements with which we have contact and Which are now af- fifated with the LaFollette progres- sive organization for the same cam- paign against this as a liberal, third capitalist party and not a labor party and so have them raise the slogan of a ‘class farmer.labor party’ and 80 split with the LaFollette progressive movement.” To split away the class conscious workers, for only those will split away because they will discover that La- Folletteism is a snare for them and herd them into a class farmer-labor party. This means just as Comrade Dunne says (DAILY WORKER Dec. 5th) “That the minority want that the Workers Party create another party which will compete with it for the leadership of the masses.” The comrades of the minority who under the leadership of Pepper at- tempted to liquidate the Workers (Communist) Party by . substituting for it the hoch-potch conglomeration that was named F. F. L. P. were frustrated in their attempt by those as constituting the present majority of the central executive committee of the party. The present attempt on the part of the Lovestone-Ruthenberg min. ority to liquidate the Workers Party and substitute for it a so-called “class farmer-labor party” must be given the final and definite death-blow by the coming national convention. Comrades, let us be done with this “farmer-laborism” in our party once and for all, Let us unite to eradicate this sort of, opportunism from our party. On to a mass Communist Par- ship of those who vote. great importance to our party. movement on the political fleld was ground for the first test of strength, in spite of the mobilization of the party machinery in support of the C. E. C. majority, it was able only to se. cure the slim majority of 111 votes in the five districts in which member- ship meetings were held last Sunday, and two of these districts went on record for the minority thesis. . Anothe the resul _| eleventh hour change, in the rules cov- factor which entered into last Sunday was the ering the meetings, which denied members not attached to the city cen- tral committees in the cities in which the meetings were held the right to This rule, disfranchising the party members from nearby cities, was made in order to cut down the strength of the minority, particularly in the Chicago meetings. In Chicago even the members living in Pullman, which is industrially and geograph- ically a part of Chicago, who were overwhelmingly for the minority posi- tion, were denied the right to vote in the Chicago membership meeting. The votes of the Pullman comrades alone would have changed the result in the Chicago meeting. The New York “Victory.” The vote in New York City is of It ie the final fact in the development of a new grouping in the party. The New York “victory” is the seal on the con. solidation of the Foster and Lore groups in the party. The fact that Comrade Lore cast his vote for the Foster thesis and has written an article in support of that thesis, is not a matter of chance Comrade Lore can vote for the Foster thesis because thru the Foster thesis the C. E. C. majority has taken great strides toward the sectarian policy of the Lore group. The Foster-Cannon group in the party stood between the Marxian group and the Lore right wing of the party. The Communist International in its decision last May urged that it co-operate with the Ruthenberg group and carry on a struggle against the Lore group. In place of that it is now in the process of consolidation with the Lore group and the new alignment in the party will be a Foster-Lore group against the present C. B. C. minority. Next Sunday's Meetings. When the vote is in after next Sun. day’s meetings in Boston, Philadel- phia, Pittsburgh and Buffalo the pres- ent slim majority for the C. E. C. ma- jority thesis will have been converted into a majority for the minority the sis. The retreat toward sectarianism and the Foster-Lore alliance will have been repudiated. But this vote of the members in the larger cities of the country will not settle the issue. Our party was drag ged out of the mire of sectarianism thru years of struggle. It was only thru tremendous effort that the party was taught that sectarian propaganda ‘alone will not bufld a party which can be the leader in the struggle for the proletarian revolution. Once the party repudiated sectarianism it be gan to m progress and grow. It is not sufficieht that 60 per cent of the party repudiate the retreat to sec tarianism which is innate in the poli- cies of the C. E. C. majority. The work of educating the party to aclear understanding of the issues must go on. We must carry on the fight until th overwhelming bulk of our member- ship understands that a _ sectarian phrase cannot take the place of a Bol. shevik policy in building the Com- munist Party in this country—the Workers Party. By LESLIE R. HURT OST: Somewhere, between. the time following the recent national elections and the present date, one perfectly. good demand for a class farmer-labor party. Its loss is causing its former owners gréat worry. If this demand is found a suitable reward will be paid for its immediate return to the present majority of the Work- ers (Communist) Party. No questions will be asked. The finder, or finders, may apply direct to Comrades Foster, Cannon, or Bittelman, care of: The Workers Party, Chicago, Illinois. — LaFollette Communists To The Fore The deep and mysterious circum- stances surrounding the absolute dis- appearance” of the demand for a class farmer-labor party in this country is now occupying ithe attention of every thinking member of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers League. The Foster-Cannon- Bittelman group say they have dis- patched several scouting expeditions in an endeavor to locate the missing demand, but, according to their find- ings reported each day thru the .dis- cussions in the DAILY WORKER, “thére aint no sich animule.” Some of the majority adherents, the “LaFol- lette Communists,” adyance the opin- ion that LaFollette, himself, swal- swed up the demand. Foster, Cannon, Bittelman, Hatha- ‘way, afd others of the present C. E. C. majority of the Workers Party, ad- mit that the unemployment situation lia becoming more and more intense each day,-—that thousands upon thou- sands of poor farmers are giving up the land to come into the industrial centers as competitors against the city wage slaves for jobs,—and that the child labor campaign demands im- mediate attention. But then they go on to say that there is no demand for a Class farmer-labor party. Where We Are At? The theory is advanced that the 6n- ly solution is the separate maintain- ance of a Workers (Communist) Par- ty. Does the majority think for one minute that the workers are now ready waiting only for the call, to dash into the Communist ranks? Is it a fact that the farmers have assimil- why: so such revolutionary education that they will climb over one another in the stampede to get into the Work- ers Party? If that be true then the time is, in- deed, ripe for the overthrow of cap- italism. In listening to the arguments put forth by majority followers in Min- neapolis, one would naturally feel that this group desired that they be ‘set up “all-seeing gods,”—as virgin Com- munists.” They tell us that a terrible looking to the establishment of a class farmer-labor party,—frankly admit that “LaFollette Cémmunists” are un- After their fakers as LaFollette, Mahoney, | Cramer, Wiggins, and others of the same caliber, the majority has ar- rived at the conclusion that any at- tempt to form a class alliance of x- ploited farmers and wage earners would be disastrous to the Conifhun- | danger lurks within any movement LaFOLLETTE COMMUNISTS AT WORK IN MINNESOTA shysters,—it naturally follows, so they say, that any future attempt is bound to fall down in a like manner, regard- less as to whether the movement be- gins by working “from the bottom.” They, these pure and virgin Com- munists, shout, “No compromise with the petty bourgeoisie.” Yet, what are the sentiments of others regarding small compromises with the petty bourgeoisie? Speaking in the Pres- idium of the E. C. of the C. I. on May 20, 1924, Comrade Zinoviev said, “We must support the movement for an in- dependent labor party. It is our. task to direct the river into its own course. The second question is a question of the petty bourgeoisie. Comrade Mar- tynov has quoted what Lenin said many times. The petty. bourgeoisie we can support. The petty bourgeoisie has no goal. The support of the Bol- sheviki consists in driving the petty bourgeoisie on, in giving its blows, in showing up its limitations to the mass- es, in going ahead of the petty bourge- oisie. That is supporting it also. As revolutionaries we can support the petty bourgeoisie in driving it for- ward.” Going on still further, he says, “Our task.consists of starting an indepen- dent movement. I do not wish that the opinion should be formed in the minds of the comrades that we un- derestimate the work among the farm- ers.. That was an important chapter in the work of our party and should be continued.” Frowning At the C. I. It may be that the majority group takes the same attitude regarding ad- vice from recognized Russian com- Trades as was assumed by a certain member of the Minneapolis English branch, Thursday, Dec. 18. Among other things this comrade said, in ef- fect, this, “It is my opinion that we look too much to Moscow for advice and instructions. Aren't the Ameri- can comrades capable of judging con- ditions in their own country? Must we send cablegrams every time we think something had ought to be done here in America,—asking the Russian soviet’s permission?” In his mind no centralized authority is netessary,— no disciplinary, executive committee should be consulted in matters involv- ing the success of the Communist movement in this country. And since the majority group headed by Com- rades Foster, Cannon, and Bittelman, are, not disposed to listen to advice from members of the E. C. of the C. I. they place themselves in the same category. Who Are the Social Democarts? The minority comrades are being constantly accused of displaying so- cial-democratic tendencies. Such a charge is ridiculously untrue,—a stup- idly ignorant assertion. Comrade Jay Lovestone, by his several articles in able to cope with the enemies of the the DAILY WORKER, has pointed out Workers Party on the political field. just who the social-democrats in the Foster-Cannon Group’s United Front. Workers (Communist) Party really ‘hobnobbing” with such | are. His recap to date shows that on twenty-nine different counts the Fos- ter-Cannon measures and policies re ceived the vote of Lore. Speaking of Lore in the Presidium of the E. C. of the C. L on May 20. 1924, Comrade Radek had this to say of the comrade; “In conclusion some- thing about he Lore ees. I believe 1 2 Second-and.a-Half International.“ dek further continues, For Wat on gon I believe that the C. E. C. acted in- correctly when it regarded the lapses of Lore as a lapses of a peculiar fel- low. This is a centristic tendency in the party against which the C. N. C. must fight. The comrades must oppose Lore in tne press, they must attack him.” The writer heard Comrade C, A. Hathaway make the remark at the Dec, 18th meeting of the Minneapolis English branch of the Workers Party that is was the minority group_that had worked with and received the support of the Loreites. Hathaway claimed that the present majority. de-. sired to carry on an educational cam- paign against Loreism, but that the minority insisted on persecuting Lore. He explains that is the reason why Comrade Lore consistently votes with and supports the majority group. A very weak and unsatisfactory answer, but seemingly it is the best excuse that the majority adherents are able to put. forth. A New Brand of Communism—On Wheels The good virtuous Communists com- posing the majority group loudly shout. “The Workers Party must purge itself of this dangerous ele- ment that infests the organization’ with its idea of a class F.-L. party.” Speaking of dangerous elements,”— who are they? During the time when the DAILY WORKER, the only Com- munist daily in this country, printed in the English language, was appeal- ing, yes, almost begging, for the mem- bers of the party to get out and secure subscriptions for the publication, what was happening in the city of Minneapolis? Comrades C. A. Hathaway, Cart Skogland, and E. S. Youngdahl, as well as others of the majority, were. “breaking their necks” in the cam- paign put on by the Farmer-Labor Ad- vocate to build up their subscription lists. The Farmer-Labor Advocate, edited jointly by Wm. Mahoney and Ralph Harmon, is published at St. Paul and represents the greatest con- glomeration of labor fakers and pol- itical microbes ever banded together. The reward offered by this publica- tion. was not “a mere enlightened working class,” but a beautiful autom- obile to be given as a prize to the person securing the greatest number of subscriptions. A capitalistic ‘‘cateh- penny” affair designed to perpetuate the “pie cards” of a couple of labor fakers. Comrade Walter Frank, who ‘was then DAILY WORKER agent, pointed out to both Comrades. Hathaway and Skogland that if they would devote the time spent on building the F.-L. Advocate to securing subscriptions for the DAILY WORKER many new read- ers to our publication could be ob- tained. Both Hathaway and Skogland, however ‘contended that if the auto- mobile was won by a party member the district would be materially ben- efitted. In conclusion,—the majority insists there shall be no class F.-L. party in any way supported: by the Workers Party. Like the S. L. P. and the proletarian party we are to our way alone. Just’ imagine, comrades, the thousands upon thousands of workers who will dash into our party the min- ute we abandon the idea of a class F.-L. P. Just stop to consider the great strides the S. L. P. and P. P. have made in the matter of building doubt, hold the overthrow of capital ism in the palms of their hands by virue of the fact that they have such a huge number of followers in their camps. Because the present majority were Cramer, and Wiggins stamp, men who had been pointed out as not being de- pendable, the idea of a class far labor party must be thrown -to four winds. The writer says, let us begin from the bottom to form such a party. By this method, by going in- to the political arena again and ex- posing who the real fakers are, we will rally around the Workers Party those worth-while farmers and work- ers who really desire to achieve the overthrow of capitalism. The minority are being charged with about everything “under the sun.” The majority is so busy, how- ever, concentrating their efforts to fighting the enemy within the party, that little time can be alloted to wage a struggle against the capitalists and their lackeys. As Comrade Frank, the DAILY WORKER agent, says, “the district organizer of district number nine, Comrade C. A. Hathaway, and his immediate majority group follow- ers were so busy gathering subscrip- tions for the reactionary Farmer Labor Advocate that they couldn't be bothered about our own WORKER.” It remained for Com- rade Frank, of the minority, to con- duct the D. W. subscription cam almost unaided in this city. Yes, t. minority group is a “dangerous ele- ment” all right,—all right. Now in spite of the inactivity of Comrade Skogland in the D. W. that we are h the per up their their membership,—they, no DAILY ° — — — — 2 1 — C 1k ] — 5 1 | ie. “doubled-crossed” and given the “Jud- as kiss” by fakers of the LaFolle am _ — = agains S Dat a . pom = i See ee ee ee er a ae 2 — Je WILI

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~ ? > = * 7 8 — D 7 e d e 6 r “a 2 * 4 8 1 - a- n - 10 2 in le 1 ul os hy _~ Ss f i — — mec doclety. dren Fund and all AGAINST-HIBBEN Doss Net Li — (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 1— The has- been dtichess got away just in time. Her husband's secret agent in the United States has uncovered himself in a way that might embarrass her czarinish highness. Boris Brasol, who admits that he is “the Grand Duke Cyril’s representa- tive in America,” was the final witness in the army trial of Capt. Paxton Hibben. His admissions under cross- examination would have increased the disfavor with which Cyril's wife, Victoria Feodorovna, was looked upon by the American workers who saw money-royalty bending the knee to the pretenders of Russia. Brasol, formerly of the Russian im- perial guards, admitted he was guilty of working to overthrow a government with which the United States is not at war, technically liable therefore to deportation. He said he had been a member of the Russian national which favors overthrow of the Russian government by force and violence. He said the organization had ceased to exist. Brosal claimed that as a Russian lawyer W did not know American law and that he was un- aware of deportation possibilities. 3 Stool Eats His Words. During the war Brasol was employ- ed by the United States government and reported activities of Russians to the military intelligence department but he would not call himself a spy. Brasol was forced to retract his state- ment that Maxim Litvinov was presi- dent of the Russian Red Cross in 1922, altho he had sworn it previously. He was shown a photograph of Capt. Hibben under microscope and ad- mitted that his former testimony that Hibben wore the Russian five-pointed star was wrong and that he had N. E. R. (Near East Relief) insignia on his uniform. Brasol had to admit that he knew nothing actually about relief work despite his earlier charges that relief supplies sent by Quakers, Nansen relief, British Save the Chil- others except Hoover’s went to Russian Soviet authorities and the red army. Argument of the counsel for defense Capt. Hibben will be heard at the or the möntu. “This “board of in quiry, will decide whether formal charges should be made of disloyalty against Hibben. BLOXAM’S Monumental Works E. 1920 Third Ave. SPOKANE, WASHINGTON Markers, Tablets and Headstones $10.00 and up I have no Agents and | do all my own work, hence can save you from 25 to 40 per cent Yours Respectfully, GEORGE BLOXAM RUSSIAN “JOURNALIST” VLADIMIR - VORONTZOFSKY IS EXPOSED AS SPY AND AGENT PROVOCATEUR [Statement by the entre Bureau Party of America.) 7 > of the Russian Section 6f the Workers About half a year ago the central bureau of the Russian section of the Workers Party of America published a statement concerning the expulsion of a member of the Russian branch of the Workers Party in San Francisco, V. Vorontzofsky. The central bureau labelled his actions as unworthy of a Communist, “a former member of the Russian Communist Party,” which he claimed to be. The central bureau in its statement warned the workers and workers’ organizations against persons of such type. Novy Mir also published a resolution adopted by the Russian branch of the Workers Party in San Francisco from which it is clear that Vorontzofsky, besides his other ex- | ploits, has distinguished himself by absconding with the funds of the branch. At that time the central bureau was not in a position to give information concerning the activities of V. Vorontzofsky in Soviet Russia. information is at hand. It is contain- ed in a letter from the editor of the newspaper, “The Red Banner,” of Viadivostok, a member of the Russian Communist Party, Nicholas Novitsky. This letter is printed below. It is. clear from this letter that Viadimir Vorontzofsky has acted as a spy provocateur in the employ of the Markuloff government in Siberia, and the authorities of the Soviet gov- ernment are still looking for him for a theft which he committed in 81 beria. . All this shows that in the person of Vladimir Vorontzofsky we deal not only with a degenerate, as was sup- posed by the central bureau, but also with a rascal and traitor who is in the service of the enemies of the working class. He is now continuing his “laudable” activities in New York, having con- nected himself with a circle of “pro- letarian” writers and participating in the publication of a Russian literary journal. Whether he continues dur- ing his time left free from his poetical inspiration to serve the cause of coun- ter-revolution is not known, but it would not be surprising if he does. Such types cannot be tolerated, not oniy among revolutionists, but not even among sincere and honest peo- ple of any type. They should be im- mediately exposed and driven out. To work with Viadimir Vorontzofsky is to cover oneself with the same shame with which this spy provoca- teur is stamped. For our party, the Vorontzofsky af- fair-is a hard but valuable experience which must firmly impress upon our consciousness the necessity of being very careful as to whom we accept into our party. We request other newspapers to re- publish this statement and the letter of Comrade Nicholas Novitsky. Novitsky’s Letter Regarding Vladimir Vorontzofsky. “Having learned from Comrade Gur- man, who in turn has received a com- ‘munication from San Francisco, that Vorontzofsky, who arrived in Ameri- ca from Shanghai, has joined there the Communist Party and advertiz- es himself as a ‘Communist’ and gives false information concerning his past, thereby misleading people with whom he comes in contact, I deem it nec- essary to give that information in regards to this rascal which he him- self conceals and which will help the comrades to give the correct valua- tion to.this rascal. = “Vorontzofsky has in fact, worked during 1918, in West Siberia, under ‘the Soviet government, but is even up to the present sought by the au- thorities of the criminal department for the theft of money which was en- trusted to him. During the time of MILITANT BIRTHDAY SPECIAL The Daily Worker 100 Copies for $2.00 50 Copies for $1.00 Your opportunity to make propaganda for Communism. A wonderful chance to pop- ularize the DAILY WORKER among the workers you know. Twelve big pages of . working class news and special articles. Cartoons that hit telling blows. will be dated January 13, 1925, the first This issue anniversary of the DAILY WORKER. And the Militant Page The page upon which the names of all militant Workers Party branches will be printed. This will be a feature in the Big Birthday Special of the Daily. Who are the militant branches? The those that understand that the D are ILY WORKER must be insured for 1925. The are those that have remitted, or that will remit for insurance policies sold before January 8. WILL THE NAME OF YOUR BRANCH APPEAR UPON THE _ Militant Page? _ Remit Today-—Order a Bundle of the Big. a te oe wake My a ek 2 5 Now this — Talking — | — RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN CONCERT AND DANCE SUNDAY, JANUARY 11 The concert and dance which was announced by the Russian and UK- rainian branches of the Workers Party for Dec. 28, Was postponed on account of the party membership meeting, to SUNDAY, JAN. 11, at the same hall, Schoenhoffen Hall, take cars to Milwaukee and Ashland Aves. Tickets sold for Dec. 28 will be accepted on Jan. 11. It is expected that the party mem- bership and sympathizers will help to make the affair a success. the Markuloff regime he actually spent three weeks in jail in Viadivos- tok, being planted among the arrest- ed workers by the Markuloff intelli- gence Office, as a spy provocateur. Having accomplished this duty, Vor- ontzofsky was freed and upon his li- beration he printed in the Markuloff official organ a letter of-thanks to the Markuloff authorities. In his letter, this rascal ridiculed Soviet Russia and testified concerning the ‘excellent treatment’ given to the arrested Bol- sheviks by the followers of Markuloff and in a mocking manner assured his readers that the inhabitants of Soviet Russia would be happy if they receiv- ed the same nourishment which the arrested received in the Markuloff prison. “In Shanghai, Vorontzofsky made an attempt, by underhand methods, to become connected with the news- paper “Shanghai. Life,” which was edited by me,and which was pro-Soy- let, but he was not accepted by me because of the information which was receiyed concerning him on the day following his first in the editorial office with a request for em- ployment. “After this failure, Vorontzofsky threw off all pretenses: He openly entered the white guard ranks, work- ed on the paper of the black hun- dreds, ‘Russian Echo, and in that drunken criminal gang which group- ed itself around this paper and around the former Russian consulate and in- ternational intelligence offices he was a figure of no little importance. „His statement that he worked on the paper of the black hundreds on instructions from the Russian Com- munist Party is a stupid and deliber- ate lie. The Russian Communist Par- ty never, for any purposes, utilizes such despicable creatures as white guard. provocateurs, and what sense would there be in such utilization? “Another deliberate lie, calculated to appeal to unftnformed bourgeois and to the childish craving of naive people for Pinkértonian stories is the rumor which he spreads now in America that he received from the Bolshevik $50 for propaganda purposes. It is quite possible that this is the trick of a provocateur for some special purpose. “IT state categorically that Voront- zofsky is an extremely base and dan- gerous individual for uninformed peo- ple to come in contact with. He should be immediately exposed and not be tolerated by any one.” (Seal of The Red Banner) (Signed) Nholas Novitsky, Member of the Russian Commun- ist Party, former editor of Shang- hai Life, Shanghai editor of “The Red Banner” of Viadivostok. April 6, Vladivostok. 50 Die In Hospital Fire. TOKIO, Jan. 1 — Latest estimates this afternoon placed the dead at fifty in the fire which destroyed the | Aoyama sanatarium on the outskirts of Tokio. Twenty bodies have been recovered and many of the missing accounted for. Twenty persons were injured attempting to effect rescues. The fire is believed to have been over a fire box. JOINT RECITAL Inne Rouelefs Pianist and Composer AND Mischa Kolpunoff Russian Opera Tenor Will take place at KIMBAL ALL Sunday Evening, Jan. 4th, 1925 At 8 P. M. Tickets may be secured at Glick’s Machine Shop. 2100 W. Divi- 4 J nd 5 * DAD 2 ¢ oy 1 K 8 =F 3 4 a 4 ¥6 started by an intoxicated cook kicking | LT. WORKER 2 re FET WITH D PROGRAM he Be Held Sunday „ MICH. Jan. 1. — The regular meting of the T. U. E. L. of Detroit, 15 held at the House of „ St. Aubin and Gratiot, on 3rd, 8 P. M. DET Hutchinson expel Local 1191 of the Carpenters | of Detroit. Local 1191 ig one of strongest and most militant lo ih the Detroit Carpen- ters Union, Mai Watcheoon and com- pany wish to expel this local because their Was defeated in the recent election by the vote of Local 1911. Comrad@ Reynolds is vice pres. of the District Council, and a very member of the T. U. E. L. and his talk fs. certain to be of great importance. * Comrade Goetz will speak on the forthcoming @lettion of International officers of the Machinists’ Union. The T. U. E. L., after à futile attempt to get together with the “would be pro- gressives” lined up behind Anderson, decided to put an entire left-wing ticket im to the field. With the aid of their fighting program the Metal Trades Section of the T. U. E. L. ought to make 4 ind campaign for the endorsement of their ticket. These subjects are of great impor- tance to every trade union militant and they should make every effort. to attend this meeting. Your Union Meeting | FIRST FRIDAY, JAN, 2, 1925. and, Conf., 3420 W. Roose- 175 W. Washington 810 W. Harrison St. W. Washington. W. 365th p Council, 180 W. ' Dis. Council, 505 8. | ** Halsted St. 1 * onroe a * ix 5 N . . Wena Emily and Marsh- Hod ers, Monroe and Peoria Workers, Joint Van Buren St. : &3 8. Ashiand. Bivd. 113 „ Ashland Bivd. 273 zie Ave. 637 in 1 and Shefield Ave 863 Painters, indiana Ave 1332 Painters, Indiana Ave. 612 Plumbers; #61 B. Chicago Ave, um 346 ay way Garmen, Village Halil, Kol- zie 8 $76 Railway Carmen, Village Hall, Kol- zie y 998 Railway Carmen, 5445 8. Ashiand ve 328 Railway C 20 W. Randolph St. 679 Clinton St. Railway C Bs 8. erks, Ft. Dearborn Hotel. inmen, 1536 K. 64th St. Raliroad rainmen, 3349 North Ave Railroad Trainmen, 9120 Commer- ve. Shes 15 Workers, Ashiand and south oun * — os and Labor a2 Ce Serie Ave 2 oe 923. W ee | Bidg. 12 stage, M olfram Ave. 3 Te te (Wo men) Women's City Telegraphers Gem. 312° 8. Clark Waitresses, 2 W. Adams St., 3 p. mM. Women’s . l League 220 S. Ashiand Bi (Note-~-Unless otherwise stated all meetings are at 3 p. m. 484 Sunspend Newspaper in Madrid. MADRID, Jan. 1.—The director has suspended publication of the news- ments about the government. You Can't be Well Informed! Not on Communist History a U E. K. make use of this slogan to expose the false leadership of the LaFollettes, the 2 * MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS PHILADELPHIA—Sunday, Jan. 4, Spring Garden streets. BOSTON—Sunday, Jan. 4, 2 . m., street. | PLTTSBURGH—Sunday, Jan. 4, 2 805 James St. N. 8. BUFFALO—Sunday, Jan. 4, 2 p. m Membership meetings at which representatives of the C. E. C. minority will present the party policies, will be held as follows: NEW HAVEN—Thureday, Jan. 1, at 2 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 36 Howe 8k. 2 p. m., Machinists Temple, 13th and Dudley St. Opera House, 113 Dudley p. m., international Labor Lyceum, „ Finnish Hall, 159 Grider street. Membership Votes in Los Angeles 94 to 14 For Majority Theses By a vote of 94 to 14 the Los Angelés local of the Workers Party at a general membership meeting, held on December 28, went on record for the majority thesis on the immediate tasks of the party. The meeting also voted unanimously for the demand of the Foster-Cannon majority calling for a national convention of the Work- ers Party. — Hungarian Branch In New Vork for * * Minority Theses NEW YORK, Jan. 1.— The Hungari- an downtown branch at its last meet- ing after having heard both represent- atives of the majority and minority thesis and a thoro discussion on the theses by the membership endorsed the minority theses by a vote of 24 for the minority and 4 for the ma- jority. The motion declared the slogan for a united front class farmer-labor par- ty an effective means for permeating the masses with our Communist prop- agenda and for building the work- ers (Communist) Party. It further declared it is our Communist duty to yellow socialists and the fake labor leaders. N _ When you buy, get an “Ad.” : | CLEVELAND J. U. E. L. HOLDS ITS MONTHLY MEETING ON SUNDAY (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 1-—The monthly meeting of the Trade Union Educational League will take place Sunday, Jan. 4, at 10 a. m. sharp, at the headquarters of the Workers Party, 5927 Euclid Ave., Room 13. A program has been pre- pared which will include reports from the various trade union groups on conditions in their industries, whieh promises to be very interest- ing owing to recent developments in the trade union movement in Cleveland. Max Sillinsky will also talk on the American Federation of Labor convention just heid at El Paso, to which he was a delegate. All members of the Workers Party who belong to trade unions must at- tend thie meeting. Pullman Membership Meeting Votes for the Minority, 38 to 5 Am overwhelming vote for the mi- nority position in tig’ present party discussion was cast‘ at the Pullman membership meeting. The vote was 38 in favor and only five opposed to the theses of Ruthenberg. Lovestone, Bedacht, Engdahl and Git- low. Thomas J. O’Flaherty spoke for the C. E. C. majority, with the minor- ity position being presented by Rob- ert Minor. Mussolini Gags Press. ROME, Jan. 1.—The government has Post Cards in Colors Something New and Different. Use them for your regular cor- respondence. Have a set for your album. No. 1—Lenin directing the revolution No. 2—Lenin, when 16 years old No. 8—The Red Flag of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics No. 4—The Russian state seal emblem No. 5—Trotsky, commander of the Soviet Red Army and ONE CARD 5 CENTS In lots of 10 or more, 2c per card. 1% in lots of 100 or more. Send money order, check or oe age to Literature Department WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA 1113 W. 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Nash company, one of Omaha’s larges. department stores, closed its doors Saturday night for the last time. Over the unemployed Monday morning. The manager, T. P. Redmond, goes to the Brandeis Stores as superintendent, the Brandeis Stores having bough stock and fixtures of the defunct com- pany. Se ap “Where Do We Go From Here?“ After the farewell speech by the manager the reporter heard the varied comments of the ‘employes. Many, especially among the older women, elosintz in a matter-of-fact way “Where do we go from here?” hummed sevéral girl clerks. “Oh hell!” sighed another so loudly that all within ten feet of her could hear. The Burgess-Nash store was the second largest department store in Omaha, the Brandeis Stores being the largest. This store had been doing an paparently flourishing business for eleven years. Twenty Years and No Pension. Over 100 of the discharged em- ployes had been with the company since it was organized. Many others had service ranging from twelve to twenty-three years in the store, hav- in worked for previous owners of the store. Many of those are beyond the age limit and will fail to find employ ment at that which they nave spent all of their useful life. | Just Off the Press! The January issue of The Workers Monthly Edited by Earl R. Browder Containing 10 ARTICLES On many phases of Labor’s problems. 10 PHOTOGRAHPHS From all over the world. 10 CARTOONS By Labor’s very best artists; 5 POEMS Of real value and beauty A SHORT STORY You will-give others to read. INTERNATIONAL NOTES A world Labor review in brief. EDITORIALS 48 pages with a cover repro- duction of the most famous revo-. lutionary painting in Russia. THE WARS OF THE CAPITALISTS — War wars. How do capitalist wars hap- pen? In the first place a capitalist society lives by robbing work- ers. Capitalists put workers to work*and give them only a small share of what they earn. So workers can buy back only hat small share. But they pro- duce very much more. 7 The capitalists must find some way of using up all these surplus goods that remain un- sold. Otherwise they would not be worth anything. So they look around for new cus- tomers. The capitalists go after ter- ritory where capitalism has not yet developed. Usually capital- ists of other countries desire that same territory for purposes of exploitation. That brings about a war. How do they get a war started? The schools fall in line because the capitalists own the government; the newspapers fall in line; the priests fall in line because they own the churches. All these agencies start at once preaching: against the enemy country. They say everything bad about it. They say we must as “decent” fair- minded” people save the people of that country. They say we must defend “democracy.” Beautiful clothes to dress up their lies! In a capitalist country the schools, churches and news- th papers are used to spread lies. That is one reason why it is so We mean We [hard to got workers to understand ff Communism, They are blinded to the truth by the lies with which their heads have been filled; by the schools when they were children; by the churches all the time and by the news- papers when they grow up. But its our job as Communists to use every method we can to show up these lies. We Juniors of course under- stand the capitalists’ game. So we Juniors will pave the way for understanding for all = ers. We Juniors are against war but we know as long as capital- ism exists there will be wars whether we like them or not. We know that since there are two classes, and those who rob, we must wipe out the robber class. We know that then there will be no more wars. That is why the Communist revolution is entirely different from capitalist wars. In the Communist revolution one worker: will not fight another worker, his friend, but all workers will fight their big- gest enemy, the capitalists, It will not be a war to gain money for capitalists but a war to gain freedom for the whole working class, the farmers and workers, After the revolution the work- ers and farmers will build their Own government, a workers’ and farmers’ government. Ie — 3 = class, the producing clas clase— muvee will Say i ~~ ac 600 employes have joined the ranks ot were visibly affected. Others took the . those who work > Lon ii te ere ite ee — — © — * — gest sin the cau: other si blissfull plangue. when a remain would b his lab Quite so have a e are rew: who owr Journal tions wit HERI] the owned b workers until we not for producin ed it is 1 will alloy ated onl; them pr makers v decent c without | Willin to relleve when th large pr shifts do the overt that. Are Yo Sunday N THRI 45