Daily Worker
January 3, 1925
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ieee 140 nt K : st 42 A. 0 1 tho far from dead in- 6 : 2 4 - * 1 5 3 n . 7 tit? Entered as se ee —- , tom! n. WN 4 — Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WOR EUR PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. Price 5 Cents By T. J. O'FLAHEATY. —ͤ— from ‘that admirer of luxury, H. L. Menchen’s fulsome ptaise was the ‘Mencken's fullsome, praise was the S ust be an enemy of beer avert the objected to a defense of * 923 6 „ socialist, Berger, far from F dismayed by such castiga- tion in reply to the reader's protest, ‘pan the remainder of Mencken’s com- ment in his column (it saved him a jc of trouble) and wound up by at- trib the alleged progressivism of N ukee, St. Louis, Toledo, Cleve land and other cities where the old German saloon fi to such cities as Philadelphia and Boston were blue noses were more charac- teristic than red noses. 5 : . : 7 Londen Daily Herald he | wat secret diplomacy 1s again the saddle in Britain since the tories Kicked the laborites out of office. What the laborites were concerned most about was “democracy,” not the emancipation of the workers. Had they been revolutionists they would have done what the Russian Commun- ists did when they overthrew the Kerensky government, they would have opened up the archives and told the world the secrets contained there- m. The MacDonald government gov- ernment did nothing of the kind. It was as much concerned about pro- “tecting the robber empire as any of its predecessors. Now it is.out in the cold, whining like a hungry wheip, aa „ „„ * 7 . 2 K. Thomas, 2 E P ; ii ) og aes 3 . i : pe ea ang 2 wn — here today more of this activity American financial power will emerge victorious over European capitalists. One-Half of One Per Cent! The terms reported to have been suggested by Chairman Clementel, the French - finance minister, are a 10- year moratorium on the French debt of $4,000,000,000 with an interest rate of one-half of one per cent, and all payments to be made within 90 years, did not strike a very responsive chord among officials here, but the opinion was expressed that they at least offer a basis or negotiation. France, it is believed, is desirous of funding her American and British debts simultaneously and on the same terms, on the theory that by so doing the enormity of her obligation will be more impressive to the financial world and work ultimately to her obtaining more advantageous terms than if she dealt with Britain and the United States separately. “Me Too,” Says John Bull. It is known, too, that Great Britain favors a three-cornered agreement, for the spectacle of France paying the United States first has aroused the * > made the British government extreme- immediate settlement. Whether the United States will con- sent to a triple-headed discussion of the French debt remains for the time being problematical. Officials here point blank refused to comment on this phase of the matter, Scientists Tell of | Damages Wrought by Tornadoes in 8 Years WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Tornadoes did more than $67,000,000 worth of property damage in the United States over the eight year period from 1916 to 1923 and resulted in the loss. of 1,929 lives, Herbert C. Hunter, of the United States weather bureau, told the American association for the ad- vancement of science, here today. Arkansas, Dr. Hunter said, was the most frequent sufferer from storms. Mississippi, however, paid a greater toll in lives lost with 257 while Illinois had the highest aggregate property’ loss totaling $7,500,000. The only tornado during the period to take in excess of 100 lives swept over Indiana and Illinois. a Die Stealing Ride. Sealed in a fruit car, the bodies of two youths, aged about 18, were found today when the car reached Chicago from Virginia.. Fumes from a doke N heater in the car are believed to have caused the deaths. : an atmosphere of secrecy around the n . . British taxpayer to an extent that has. ly desirous of obtaining some sort of. such | + Clase C In Action. The well repres- ented in the were other powerful f 1 Crennan, ot the tal and Com- mercial in charge of the publicity. convention. L. D. H. Weld, of and Co., was on ar- 4, > N — 2 * b . a * * vr corprations, speaking defere the American Association for Labor Legis- lation, which prevents all labor legis- lation it possibly can, on the subject, “Obstacles to Protective Labor Organ- ization.” Ernest G., Draper, treasurer of Hills Brothers Co., of New York, was chairman of the session at which Olander spoke. Serve Employers’ Interest 100 Pct. Liberals, socialists and former s0- clalists, LaFollette ‘followers, and large employers formed a united front at this convention of bourgeois and petty bourgeois intellectuals which discussed the “problems of labor,“ only as they related to the interests of the exploiters and employers. Pau! T. Cherington, of the J. Walter Thomp- son Advertising Co.. of New York, spoke on “Advertising,” and during the same session Howard Woolston, of the University of Washington, for- merly a member of the socialist party, disscussed “The Limit of American Population.” Olander, Florence Keliey, the former socialist, now in respectable company, and Elizabeth Christman, secretary of the Women’s Trade Union Leagué, spoke side by side with Thomas I. Parkinson, listed as “first official draughtsman of the U. S. Senate,” and Columbia professor. Warren H. Wilson, of the Presbyterian board home missions, Burchard, “educational publicity specialist” of Chicago, and T. N. Carver, at present on Coolidge’s agricultural commission which is tell- ing the farmers that they are pros- perous, joined with A. A. Golden- weiser, of the socialfSt party, in dis- cussing how economics, agriculture and culiure can be taught in the colleges so ag to best please the em- ployers and confuse the workers. H. Parker Willis, of Columbia Uni- versity, who writes articles for the largest Wall Street journals and John R. Commons, the “liberal,” LaFol- lette’s mainstay in Wisconsin and formerly a member of Frank P. Walsh's commission on industrial re- lations, made common cause with the capitalists at this convention. Piece Work Sweats Worker Better. An example of the gush that was spilled by these “learned” professors at the convention is seen in the speech of Elliot Dunlap Smith of the Den- nison Tag Manufacturing Co. Smith admitted that piece work is used sole- ly to get the maximum production out of employes, and that “profit shar- ing” and “employe representation” are thrown to employes as sops to secure “increasing richness of voluntary ef- fort in addition to the forced efforts of our workers,” in a speech before the American Economic —| (Continued om page 2) GETS BUSY —* THESE COMMUNIST MEMBERS OF GERMAN REICHSTAG SENT TO PRISON DURING CAMPAIGN Den f | ie 3; Ls ty. 0 25 3 R een. ; > . 5 Ca F e ; ) gett OE Tian 4” 2 A ty Ba gard x penn, — * _ — * 4 + 4 N ＋ « a »*» io Te 5 * . es oii & C =* ‘ : . 9 2 > N 5 2 “ds Tithe (1) Comrade Heckert, former member of German Reichs- tag, jailed on charges of “treason”; „Eisen . THESE GERMAN COMMUNISTS THE REICHSTAG IN SPITE OF WHITE TERROR 1 * „ sen N = ; — 1 ° 9 hws . ?. . n jail for “treason.” ria ~~? Tr n jail terms Ar * {?) and (3) Father and son for “treason”; (4) Comrade i to R while r member of > N 8. ot a RE-ELECTED TO TOP: Clara Zetkin; SECOND ROW: Koenen, Froelich, Ruth Fischer, Eichhorn, Geschke; THIRD ROW: Dengel, Rosenberg; FOURTH ROW: Katz, Remmele, Stoecker. —— caitis, J. Manos, captain. | Ward No. 11--Candidate, Victor Zo- . HAS CANDIDATES | FOR ELECTION The Workers Party, Local Chicago. is entering eleven candidates in the coming aldermanic elections on Feb ruary 24, 1925. These elections wily be of the so-called non-partisan char- acter, that is there will be no party designation or label. However, the Workers Party will enter candidates and make a real Communist cam paifh. — Ward No. 3—Edward L. Doty, can- didate. Robert Minor and Gordon Ow. ens, captains. Ward No. 24—H. Epstein, candidate. William F. Kruse, captain. Ward No. 34—Harry Brooker, didate, I. L. Davidson, captain. Ward No. 28-—Nicholas Dozenberg candidate, August O&8ol, captain. Ward No. 31.—-Candidate‘not yet se- lected. L. Candella, captain. Ward No. 32.—Candidate not yet se- lected. M. Stolar, captain. Ward No. 22.—Louis Cejka, candi- date. A. Overgaard, captain. Ward No. 35.—J. L. Engdahl, candi date. N. Juel Christensen, captain. Ward No. 40.— Walter Schuth, can- didate L. Herzon, captain. Ward No. 44.— J W. Johnstone, can- didate, Walt Carmon, captain. Other material will be issued to the press shortly. can- Results. of Membership Meetings : LOS ANGELES. CALIF—For: Majority, 94; For Minority, 14. NEW HAVEN, cod. Fer Majority, 23; Fer Minority. 2 — WOLL’S ‘MONROE DOCTRINE’ OPENS WAR ONRADICALS Mexico Scene of Attack on Communists (Special te The Oally Worker) MEXICO CITY, Jan. 2.—The treachery of the American Fed- eration of Labor as exemplified by the remark of Matthew Woll of the executive council at the El Paso convention, that the unity established between the labor fakers of the American Federation and those of the Mexican Federation meant, “the Monroe Doctrine of Labor,” is bearing fruit in the vicious war upon Communist opposers of ee imperialism in Mex- co, It was announced today that Moro- nes, president of the Mexican Federa- tion of Labor (C. R. O. M.) and a member of the cabinet of Calles, is filing formal protest with the Mexican government against the “presence” ih Mexico of Communists. “Says Morones to Morones.“ Mr. Morones, the labor faker, files charges with Mr. Morones the govern- ment official against the “presence” of these Communists! Undoubtedly, after listening with judicial mein to the complaints of Mr. Morones the labor faker, Mr. Morones the govern- ment official will decide that the com- plaint is justified and recommend to President Calles that the “undesire- ables” be at once deported without further trial, as is possible under the Mexican constitution. The leader of the Mexican federa- tion have become the creatures’ of whole Mexican g. ent under Calles. The bondage of the Mexican labor unions to the industrial and financial interests of Wall street was sealed by the subservience shown Gompers and company by the Mexican federation at El Paso and Juarez. The “Pan-American” Farce.: Following that, the farcical conven- tion of the Pan-American Federation of Labor was held at Mexico City, a “convention” of “Pan-American” labor which united only these two organiza- tions with one mythical labor body in Santo Domingo, the entire continent of South America being conspicuous by its absence. But in this convention also, the sub- jugation of Mexico, and—through the C. R. O. M.—of Mexican labor unions to the financial imperialism of the United States, was the most outstand- ing feature of the whole gathering. Morones’ Threat of Murder. At this meeting of the labor fakers of Mexico and the United States, Mo- rones mode two speeches, both deveted to attacks on Communists in the labor unions, one speech threatening that he, Morones, would “stop at, nothing” to oust the Communists, who oppose the betrayal of labor to its capitalist imperialist enemies, from positions ef influence in the unions. He even then necessary would be used to crush the Communist Party of Mexico. The present action in beginning a war of deportations against the Com- munists, is, therefore, but the start of a bitter contest which Morones hopes will leave the workers of Mexico with- out revolutionary leaders or program to oppose his treachery. Fears Anti-Imperialist League. Particularly is the Morones gang in fear of the new Pan-American Anti- Imperialist League, which is organized to expose this “Monroe Doctrine of labor“ and to rally—not two or three federations, but all—of the workers of ALL America, North, Central and South, to break the power of imperial- ist exploitation over the oppressed working classes of Latin America This fight will not be won in a day, and Morones’ early victories mean only the begirning of a long struggle. SO HE ISN'T EITHER IN JAIL OR IN EXILE, BUT MERELY IN BED (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Jan. 2.—Leon Trotsky, Soviet commissar for war, still is in Moscow, a despatch to the Daily Express today declared. Health Commissar Semiashko told the Ex- press correspondent that Trotsky was confined to his bed in his apart- ment in Moscow, suffering: from catarrahal trouble, but that he was improving, said the despatch. : . intimated that violence and murder if —
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’ * my =! * 1 * bu ; K * ~ — * {eee ae 33 ~—ereeewor m > BAZAAR INN. Y. ye Must Get Behind Our Commanist Fighters! (Special to The Dalty Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—The state supreme court of Michi- gan has sustained the verdict against Charles E. Ruthenberg, secretary of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, who was con- victed not for his principles, but for attending a convention of the former Communist Party, which has been dissolved. Comrade Ruthenberg’s case will be appealed to the United States supreme court. Our Comrades Are In Danger John Lassen, editor of the Elore, the Hungarian revolutionary workers paper, stands before the capitalist court charged with “incitement to violence.” ! Thirty-two other revolutionaries in this country have been indicted for attending the same convention as Comrade Ruthenberg. Deportation warrants hang over the head of a large number of revolutionary work- ers who have valiantly fought in the class struggle of this country. Hundreds of thousands of revolu- tionary workers and peasants are im- prisoned in the capitalist dungeons of Purope and Asia. Their families are being persecuted—they face hunger and destruction. The duty of every revolutionist and sympathizer with the revolutionary movement is clear: HELP must be provided for these fighters. FUNDS must be raised without delay. Labor Defense Bazaar The INTERNATIONAL WORKERS AID and the LABOR DBFENSE COUNCIL have arranged a Joint Bazaar to raise funds. This Bazaar will take place on February 11 to 14 at the Lyceum, 86th St. and 3rd Ave., New York city. There will be national folk dances and evenings, orches- tras, singing societies—refreshments galore, Don’t forget the date and place. You must attend and bring your friends along. STRANGER DISCOVERS DAILY WORKER BUSY: - AND HE GIVES A LIFT The DAILY WORKER business office was busy—as usual. And the DAILY WORKER busi- ness manager was the same—as usual. Katherine, the doughty door. keeper, was on the Job. Enter a large, black-mustached man, with a black fur collar bris- tling from his big overcoat. “| want to see the manager,” said he. “The manager is very busy,” vouchsafed Katherine from behind the switchboard. “Just for a minute,” he pleaded, opening the gate. Katherine left her chair reluctantly to peek around the edge of the in- ner office door, which bore a VII lalnous-looking black sign: “ONE WAS KILLED HERE.” She tiptoed back, whispering de- clsively over the fur collar, “The manager is engaged—he’s having a conference!” The tall strangér smiled sadly, but nonetheless waved Katherine aside 9 approached the menacing door, rémarking: “Il won't detain him long.” A minute later he emerged and Was pleasantly bowed out by Business Manager Loeb himself. Loeb then turned smilingly to Katherine, holding out a note, “Look what he brought!” The note read: “Please accept the enclosed $10.00 to help insure the DAILY WORKER, our best fighting newspaper. With dest wishes for a successful new year, from a freind of the cause.” “| guess he knows even more now about our fighting,” gasped Kath- rine. „ fought td keep him out.” —— JUNIORS, ATTENTION! Saturday at 2 p. m. sharp at 1902 | "SUPPOSE WE SPLIT | W. Division street the Lenin Memor- — WHATEVER FRANCE PII,“ SAYS BRITAIN Special to The Daily Worker LONDON, Jan. reat Britain has no intention of encroaching on “the United-States in the matter of Franco-American debt.” The Brit- ish foreign office made this quick and sharp reply today to a despatch from Washington which appeared in the Morning Post. Great Britain made a “generous offer” to the United States saying it did not object to the United States granting a moratorium to France or a lower rate of interest than Eng- land was paying, the despatch recit- ed. Great Britain would, tho, the despatch sald, be agreeable to a plan whereby the United States would share with Great Britain all pay- ments made by France. “The treasury has made no such offer and we are not aware of any such offer being made to the Unit- ed States,” the foreign office declar- ed. it was added that such an offer undoubtedly would be “offensive” to the United States. MINER TELLS OF SUFFERING THRU UNEMPLOYMENT Thanks Daily Worker for Assistance The distress among the miners of southern Illinois as a result of un- employment is graphically told in the following letetr received by Comrade Walt Carmon, circulation manager of The .DAILY WORKER, from Ross White, president of Local Union, No. 3160, Sessor, III.: “December, 26, 1924. “Dear Comrade: I am in receipt of your letter of Dec. 23 in which you state that you are withholding ship- ments of some, bundles, waiting for a reply from me. In answer I will say that I am still working as a relief committee for the needy miners here, and will say that I am very thankful to the DAILY WORKER and its read- ers for the many donations they have made to assist us here in our battle to try and keep the miners’ children in clothing sufficient to go to school, which has been a great burden. “I explain the necessities at the present time: I will say that the nece- essities are beyond my ability to ex- plain, for there has been no work here for about a year and we have about 400 men who have been unable to find work any where, “But the greatest need we find any- where here is clothing for the children between the ages of 6 to 12 years and our greatest trouble is to keep them supplied with shoes and stockings, and overalls for the boys, for the mothers have managed pretty well so far to keep the girls supplied with dresses by cutting down the dresses of women which have been sent in the donation bundles. “I will close by thanking you for the donations you have made to help us in this very distressing time and will thank in advance for anything you nfiy do to help us in the future. “Your Comrade, Ross White.” DISCARD POSTAL RATES ADVISED BY COOLIDGE Suspended Men Deny New’s Charge (Special to The Daily Work WASHINGTON, D. ro Jen. 2 -The senate postoffiice committee today adopted a new postal rate schedule, sharply reducing the Coolidge admini- Stration’s recommended increase in second class mailing rates. The Sterl- ing Bill, which embodied recommenda- tions of Postmaster General New that postal rates charged to newspapers be greatly increased to pay for the in- crease in postal employes wages, is thus shelved. The vote will now be made on the postal increase bill, un- less Coolidge is able to forestall con- sideration of the bill he votoed by some new manuever. The suspension of six postal super- visors by Postmaster General New, on the charge that they used money im- THE DAILY WORKER FASCIST DEFEAT IN PARLIAMENT EXPECTED TODAY Corks Pop As Usual in American Colony (Special to The Dally Worker) ROME, Italy, Jan. 2.— Resentment against Mussolini’s policy of suppress- ing opposition newspapers is growing, and a move to foroe Mussolini’s resig- nation will be made when the cham- ber of deputies meets Saturday. Even newspapers in which no political ar- ticles have been printed have been seized and suppressed. Hospitals Filled With Wounded. Disorders continued in Florence. The hospitals there are filled with wounded following riots. The fasciat bands which congregated in Florence from many surrounding towns burned the railroad station, and destroyed eight million dollars’ worth of prop- erty. The masonic headquarters and the offices and printing plant of the newspaper Nuovo Giorgnale have also been burned, as well as the home of the lawyer Consoli. The fascisti have been unable to enter the prison and liberate fascist prisoners convicted of crimes. Many were killed in the fight- ing. * In the town of Prato, the fascisti succeeded in capturing the jail and liberating the fascist convicts. Deputy Farinacci, the fascist leader of Cre- mona has advised the fascisti to shoot down all members of the oppobition. The government has completely lost control of the situation. Impossible to Get News. Rumors were being circulated. that Rome is in a state of seige, but the suppression of the opposition papers made it impossible to get authentic news. Those opposed to the fascisti were boycotting the fascist newspa- pers, which were the only ones print- e Police are continuing their seizure of newspapres thruout the country. Homes of well-known leaders of the opposition are being searched. Sol- diers are being given a free hand. Fearing that the borders of the country are now against him, Musso- lini has ordered the removal of nine- teen prefects stationed at points along the border, and has substituted followers with whom he is personally acquainted. An attempt will be made to form a new government when parliament meets tomorrow, with former premier Giolitti at its head. The New Year’s celebration was marred by the political disturbances, but in the American colony, corks popped as freely as usual. 3 * Salandra Quits Committee. ROME, Italy, Jan. 2.— Ex-Premier Antonio Salandra has resigned from the parliamentary finance committee, his action being regarded as indica- tion that the liberals of the right have withdrawn their support from Mussolini. A meeting of 20,000 Tuscan fascisti addressed by Deputy Ricci, demanded that Mussolini take “decisive govern- mental action, by dictatorid| means if necessary, to crush the opposition.” Ricci told the audience that obedi- ence to Mussolini is conditional on how he carries out this demand. The newspaper La Stampa, of Tur- in, the mouthpiece of ex-premier Giolitti, calls on all independent news- papers to go on a strike until the freedom of the press is again estab- lished. [PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK CITY Tuesday night, and every Tuesday night at 1347 Boston Road. Class in A. B. C. of Communism, Dr. I. page| ler instructor. All new members o the party must attend; others should. 7 * „ Bronx Concert and Ball. Saturday, Feb. 28; good music, good concert; proceeds to raise funds for section, and for library at Workers Hall. Comrades keep this day in mind. J Pittsburgh Membership Meeting. The Pittsburgh, Pa., Workers Party membership meeting will be held Sunday, Jan. 4; at 2 p. m. at the Inter- national Socialist Lyceum, 805 James St., N. 8. Pittsburgh. Only members in good s ding of the branches con. nected wi he Pittsburgh C. C. C. oice ad a vote. Thie will have a right will probably albo be extended properly in connection with the im- pending bill, is being made political jal chorus will meet and all Juniors| capital in an effort to defeat the wage who are members of this 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! come late! Watch for the Special First Anniversary Edition of the DAILY WORKER January 13, Don’t 1925 McDermott, assistant secretary of the senate postofiice committee, is.charged with accepting the: money in return for his help in putting thru the bill. The men accused denied the charge, and declare they will fight for re-in- statement. Receiver for Traction Co. ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 2.—The Union Traction Co., of Indiana, op- and central parts of the state, was in island Avenue. the hands of a receiver today on peti.| showing of film “Beauty end Bolshe. tion of the Westinghouse Electric & vik” at Ashland Auditorium on Feb. 5. manufacturing Co., which asserted the traction system was indebted to it in| sponsible to your branch and the party | the sum of $74,193.09. to the branches of the East Pitts- burgh C. C. C., Ambridge, Woodlawn, land New Brighton, but this is sub- ject to decision by the D. E. C. anc chorus increase to the postal employes. E. H. the representatives of the C. E. C. All other members in good standing in the W. P. or Y. W. L. may attend this meeting but will have no voice or vote.—I. Blankenstein, acting dis- triet organizer, District 5. TO CHICAGO W. P. AN- v. W. . | BRANCHES. Conference of Chicago Defense and ‘Relief Committee will meet Saturday } erating 454 miles of interurban and (afternoon, Jan. 3, at 3:15 o’clock at city electric lines n the east, north Greek Hall (2nd floor) 722 Blue | Preparations on for All delegates attend! Your are re- — — . —̃ | MORE LIVES LOST IN THE CAUSE OF ECONOMY ROCKFORD, Itt, Jan. 65-—One woman was killed, another was probably fatally burned, a man was seriously injured and a score of persons narrowly escaped today when an interurban electric crashed into an automobile hurling it into a waiting room which was fired by the blazing gasoline In the machine. The dead woman was Miss Della Studebaker, 44. The injured are: Miss June Scott, 24, thrown clear of the wreckage into the flames, and Oscar Hultberg, secretary and treasurer of the Forest City Metal and Heating Co., driver of the car. HOW TO PAY? THAT [S$ ONE | BIG QUESTION Commeiiity Pay Means Unemployment Here (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 2,—A mystery which has cloaked the more or less secret arival in this country of Mon. tagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, and Sir Alan Anderson, a director of the same bank, was fur. ther deepened today by the conflict- ing reports bearing upon the purpose of their visit. The rumors narrowed down to the following: 1. That they had come to discus with American officials the problem of inter-allied debts. 2. That they would arrange in New York to float a big loan for Germany. 3. That they were concerned only with putting England back on a gold basis. The English bankers were not ac- cessible today. Nobody seemed to know what had become of them afte) they had stepped down from the gangplank of the liner Caronia late Tuesday afternoon. The most reasonable explation which was accepted by Wall Street was that Norman and Anderson, would arrange for future payments of interest on Britain’s debt to America to be paid, if possible, in some new way. Heretofore it has been the custom to pay the interest in American securi. ties, but this has been having the tendency to depress the market by dumping large quantities. paid in ured goods, Ameri- can workers will soon be suffering great unemployment and the employ- ers seize the opportunity for a new open shop drive. Kansas City South- Slavic Branch Votes For Minority Thesis KANSAS CITY, KANS.—The thesis of minority of the. central executive committee was indorsed ufianimously by the South Slavic branch of Kansas City, Kans., after thoro and careful discussion.. The resolution declared: “The South Slavic branch of Kan. sas City, Kans., indorsed the tactic of the use of the class farmer-labor party slogan, as a correct united front maneuver on the political field to build a mass Communist party. “We urge the comrades thruout the country, to study the thesis of both sides, and make your own careful judgment on the same,” The branch put all its strength into selling the policies they have on hand to “Insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925.” We have already sold $45.00 worth.—Organizer, 8. B. Bross; secre- tary, Mike Sarar. Easton, Pa., C. C. C. Votes Unanimously For Minority Position EASTON, Pa.—At the last meeting of the city central committee held Dec. 28, after a thoro discussion on the thesis of the majority and minor- ity, the minority theses were ap proved by a unanimous vote. At the same meeting a decision was adopted making it compulsory for every member to buy a DAILY WORKER POLICY. Philadelphia Hungarian Branch Unan.- imous for Minority. PHILADELPHIA, Pa--The Hun- garian branch of this city unani- mously endorsed the minority. theses, after-a thorough discussion. PIONEER IN RADIUM RESEARCH DIED AS MARTYR TO SCIENCE BORDEAUX, Jan. 2.— Professor Emile Bergonie died today, a mar- tyr to science. He was a pioneer in radium research and recognized for his work with an award of the grand cross of the legion of honor. His experiments with the danger- ous element necessitated first the amputation of fingers, then both his hands, then both his arms. He re- fused to abandon his work and was for thie work. 4 | engaged in recting radium re- search up te the time ef hie death. i IT Another Year Must See Progress Toward Real “Peace in Industry” Here By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. N the kept press gives space and prominence to the views of the banker head of the department of labor at Washington, James J. Davis, of Pittsburgh, on the outlook for “Peace in Industry” durin 1925. This is part of the great flood of hokum with which the nation’s subsidized sheets have been regaling their unthink- ing readers with the beginning of the new year. a „ Davis says: We approach the new year with confidence and gratitude.” 9 Which is true! The election of the two strikebreakers, Coolidge and Dawes, keeps the capitalist state intact. Green succeeds Gompers as head of the American Federation of Labor, and big business is assured that labor’s officialdom will make no militant drive against it. „We“ —the capital- ists —are confident of their position. Davis says: “The American worker has been steadily employed at good wages.” Which, of course, is a lie. the coming year will see a growing The past year has seen, and obless army. It is esti- mated that at least 10,000,000 workers suffered part time unemployment during 1924. The close of the year saw the jobless on the march in several of the larger cities. * xe *. * Davis says: “The conciliation service of the department of labor Is being used more and more toward the prevention of strikes and lock- outs.” Which is true! But this service is always used on the side of the employing interests. Strikers always learn that the agents of the government, brought in during strikes, turn out to be the best supporters of the interests of their exploiters. They will learn that this is true because the gov- ernment is a capitalist government. It is the government of labor’s class enemy. 5 a * * Davis says: “The immigration policy of the country is being/placed on a workable selective basis.” That is also very true from the employer’s standpoint. Workers are being selected in other countries, who will best serve the interests of the American open shoppers, and brought here. They are taught to become “good citizens,” which means obedient slaves to scab employers., Davis again urges legislation for enrolling “the aliens who are in our country,” which is his old scheme to maintain an espionage system over foreig sure even of his “selective” system. n-born workers. Davis isn't Even the most brain- numbed workers may rebel under the tyranny of the Amer- ican industrial machine, he fears. ** * Davis says: We should also try in the coming year to make in- dustry less dangerous to the life and limb of the worker.” Which is ghastly humor! The new year starts with the first fatal mine blast in the non-union coal field of Tennessee. year, just as last. ; confident of its position. * Naa te is cheap. * . * Others will occur with certain regularity during the whole italism is in the saddle, The whole working class. must turn the tables on the American ruling class this new year. “Peace in industry,” on New Year’s Day, 1926, must not mean the degrading peace of capitalist industrial bandits, inflicted on labor at the price of labor’s wellnigh complete submission. Another new year’s day will arrive too soon to find the real “Peace in Industry” that will come with the complete victory of labor, but great strides can and must be made in the days, the weeks and months ahead before another year dawns. That progress can only be made by struggling under Communist standards for the working class principles that will ultimately emancipate labor. REACTION RAISES ITS FIST | AGAIN IN THE UNITED STATES NEW YORK, January 2.—The con- firmation of the sentence upon Com- rade Ruthenberg, secretary of the Workers Party, with the threatened reopening of the case of Comrade Foster, chairman of the Workers Par- ty, indicate that the arrest of Com- rade Lassen, editor of the Uj Elore, is not an isolated fact. Many revolu- tionary workers in the United States have deportation warrants hanging over their heads. Secretary of Labor Davis wishes to put the foreign work- ers in the United States under the control of the police department, which could recommend deportation at once, in case the conduct of these workers does not please the capitalist government. Even if these workers have become citizens, their naturaliza- tion papers can be canceled and they may be deported. May Remove 5-Year Limitation. The latest proposition is that of Representative Johnson to remove the five-year limitation upon the right to deport foreign workers. Thus it is evident that a concerted plan to de- stroy the militant revolutionary labor movement is under way. This is only part of the general attack that the capitalists of this country are soon going to launch against the organ- ized labor mevement. The arrest of Comrade Lassen is one of the links in this chain of facts. Comrade Lassen, who did trojan work in the revolutionary movement of Hungary and fied from that country to the United States to get out of the clutches of the white terror, has been arrested by the United States govern- ment, charged with “inciting violence.” The United States government is greatly interested in the Horthy gov- ernment of Hungary, a ward of the league of nations. Only a short time ago, Hungary was granted a loan of $5,000,000 by Amer- ican bankers. The masses of Hun- gary, both workers and peasants, are in a.state of revolt. Even the social- democrats, who have been staunch supporters of the Hor. —— * are going into the opposition. Scan- dalous scenes have taken place in the Hungarian parliament, resulting in the ejection and arrest of social-dem- ocrats. Only One Hungarian Communist Paper The Uj Elore is the only revolution- ary paper that the workers of Hun- gary have been able to read, for all revolutionary papers in Hungary have been suppressed by the bloody Horthy regime. The American government, working hand in hand with the vile Horthy government, is now attempt- ing to cripple the Uj Elore, by the ar- rest of its editor. It the workers of this country do not protest against these plans of the capitalists and the capitalist govern- ment, the general offensive of the bosses against the workers will be successful. Lassen must be freed from the grip of the capitalist law! Horthy and Coolidge must not be allowed to claim another victim! This means that every militant class-conscious worker must be mobilized to the defense of Comrade Lassen. This means that all sympathizers must be brought together to support the defense of Comrade Lassen! This battle must be first fought out in the capitalist court. It will cost a large sum of money—and only the workers will furnish It. Every Revolutionist Must Help. It is your revolutionary duty ‘to do your utmost at this time. Show your solidarity by contributing as only pro- letarians will contribute, when a fel- low worker is attacked. Get your friends and sympathizers with the proletarian movement to contribute. The Labor Defense Council, New York Division, 208 East 12th St., New York City, appeals to all workers to send in their checks as soon as pos- sible, in order that the defense may not be crippled tor funds. = government, for the DAILY WORKER. ee * * 8 By ANISE. (Federated Press Staff Cor.) re- ‘}eent report of the All-Russian C | Council of Labor Unions gives inter- esting information on this point. Strikes take place occasionally, tho not nearly so often as in other coun vor of the workers. Disputes Come Before Committee. When disputes arise they are first considered by the committee on rates tion on both sides. When the dispute cannot be settled the unions usually demand arbitration before the courts of the department of labor. Managers Removed. The policy of the unions regarding strikes in governmental establish-. ments is based on the principle that be considered a normal method of set- tling disputes, and should be resorted to only against beaureatcratic distor-. tion of government functions, in which case the strike should end not only with the settlement of the matter in dispute, but with the removal of the managers responsible for the bad con- ditions. Only in a small number of cases, 11 strikes, involving small establishments, were the unions forced to use the strike. In the- other cases of dispute they called the management before the arbitration courts. The usual causes of strikes in capi. talist countries, number of hours, recognition of the union, working con. ditions, are absent in Russia, where union recognition is a matter of course and hours are fixed by law. Delay in payment of wages has been the chief cause of strikes in govern: ment establishments. Strikes in private establishments have had a different character, occas- ionally concerning questions of work- ers’ rights and working conditions. But private industrial establishments are few in number and do not employ many men. Labor Fakers Work for Bosses. : INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 2.—Pro- posal for an increase in second-class | postal rates, to provide for an in- crease in wages of, postal workers, Typographical it 5 union’s executive council authorized letters to members of congress, ap- praising them of the union’s attitude. Patronize our advertisers. Liberals Tell ‘the Bosses How to Sweat the Working Class (Continued from page 1) “In order to secure the maximum of effort all manufacturing concerns rely to some degree upon the compulsion which they are able to exercise thru the power of discharge,” Smith stated, “But in most large concerns the watchers themselves and it is usually found that the watcher needs watching. In the large concerns, therefore, more attention is being paid to schemes which seek to compel effort impersonally. Piece work and accurate measurement of production bring in large returns above the amount of effort personal supervision is able to secure. The in- troduction of piece work rates in one form or other invariably has brought about a substantial increase in pro duction, often reaching as high as 50 to 100 per cent.” Company Unions Defined. Smith then spoke of the latest at- tempt of the employers to increase production, which he termed “The winning of voluntary effort from la- bor.” “Various methods have been tried to bring this about,” said the tag manufacturer. “Among them be- ing profit sharing and employe rep resentation.” b The “economists” gathered at the convention of the American Economic Association, have thrown off the mask of “trying to aid the workers,” and have openly revealed that the much advertised company unions, wel- fare associations and profit sharing plans are devised solely to increase the profits of the employers. The American Economic Association is 4 bosses’ organization, which has its roots in the colleges, and which helps the employers in their problems of keeping labor quiet and of securing an adequate supply of cheap wage slaves. Ukrainian Comrades, Attention! Please note that some of our com- rades are leaving for Russia with the Commune Chliborob (Farmer) which is being located in Ekaterinoslawsko Hub. Krivorozskoho Uez. ? All who wish to give these com- rades a send off should come to our local on Monday, Jan. 5, 1925 at 8 p m. sharp, as the comrades are leav. ing Chicago on that evening at. 11 „ p. m. Our meeting place is 1582 cago Ave. 1 W. — — — MOSCOW, Dec. 22 How are labor disputes settled in Russia? : and conflicts, with equal representa in a workers’ country, strikes cannot 1 will be opposed by the International Chi 97 * 1 tries. They are usually settled in fa “he Union, it N. nounced by President James M. h at the union headquarters here. are employes, »“* ese 8 * 8 4 e444 4 4 4 444 4 ** * @ 4, *% *@ * 4 oO *@ O44 O44 * 6S 4% O88 OOOH
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55833272 Fi 8 ES 5888888 ~ os. SP RSSRRS ESS — . — — (Special to The Daily Work. _ AGRAM, Jugo-Slavia, Jan. bert Thomas. head of the bt partment of the capitalist ; nations, was here visiting his . and cousins of the second ( international. Everywhere he — greeted with coldness. and contempt by the rank and file workers. When Mr. Thomas stopped at the front of the syndicalist building on the 55 Jellica, there were no parades. for him. There was no reception committee to meet him, excepting for himself and a few other traitors of Jugo-Slav workers. When he walked out from his automobile he did surely hear the mighty voice of the Agram workers when they resounded: “Down with the social patriots! Down with the agents of the bourgeoisie! Down with the traitors! To hell with capi- talists! To hell with Mr. Thomas and the Amstedam International. Long live Moscow! Long live the Third International!” We wonder that Mr. Thomas who is president of the international labor bureau and the best agent of the bourgeoisie, should venture to come here. Thomas during the “war for democracy” was the president and minister of munitions in the French government and faithfully served the international slaughter of workers the world over. With that reputation gained for his services to the bosses he is busy visiting here to plant the seed of pacifism. But he is wasting his time for the seed o? pacifism will not grow here. The workers are preparing themselves for a class war against their enemy. No Thomas, Sassen- bach or Vandervelde will succeed in pacifying the rank and file in the Communist organization. Mr. Thomas, it would be much bet- ter for you to go right into Pashich’s office and shake hands with him be- eause your hands are equally damp withthe holy blood of the European workers. .You know that there is nothing for you in Agram or any- ‘where where the workers are getting together and preparing for the bitter struggle against the tyranny of this — e Is at an End. Says Prof. E. Varga in his “The De- cline of. Capitalism,” a pamphlet just received from Burope. Also: “Wil not the militaristic-imperialist policy of Poincare gain the upper hand, which fact would lead to a new ca- tastrophe of the mark, since the Rentenmark, an artificial creation, would by no means be able to with- stand such a blow?” A most timely pamphiet . 250 From the 4th to the Sth World Congress. Report of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, cov- ering 45 different sections, including V. S., Canada, Mexico, Argentine, etc. It briefly summarizes the activities of the Executive Committee and its va- rious sections. The United Front, the Trade Unions, Agrarian Questions, etc. A year book of the C. I. Single copy 25c In lots of ten or more 156 cents. Order while the supply lasts. Literature Department WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, 1113 Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. i i i i a a i a i ee i i i i i i i ee te ie i rey ee ee O44 + +o ee SS BS FSS FFT STSESTSE SSSA TASS ST" ror or? > r country— $2.00 a Year 1113 W. Washington Bivd. yt 2 “Revolution Comes!” A Painting by N. Kravchenko In the Revolutionary Museum in Moscow and one of the most famous paintings produced in Red Russia— Reproduced in three colors on the cover of the January issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY— @ Copyrighted and not to be issued anywhere else in this You can have on fine calendar stock, mounted on art board suitable for framing and without cost WITH A YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE WORKERS MONTHLY 25 CENTS EACH WITHOUT SUBSCRIPTION THE WORKERS MONTHLY KENTUCKY COAL MINERS GET THREE WAGE CUTS IN YEAR, BUT BOSSES T RAISE FOOD PRICES AND RENTS Editor's Note—The following is another article on the working eon ditions that prevail in the nonunion coal mining fields of eastern Kentucky. Alonzo Walters, a native of this region, is now touring the coal fields and will send the DAILY WORKHR exclusive reports on condi- tions now in existence. In a previous article the DAILY WORKER told how William Green, now president of the American Federation of Labor, ignored appeals of these miners for was acting as secretary-treasurer of an organizational drive, when Green the United Mine Workers. The following article, as told to the DAILY WORK R by Alonzo : : 2 „ , ae 2. in the company even field—one of 0 It includes all the north and middle f 7 Walters, deals with conditions in the Hazard, Kentucky. coal fields. (Special to the Dally Worker) , Ky., Jan. 2.—The coal miners in this field have received three ‘the past year, altho the prices for goods which the men are stores have remained the same, and some articles of food and clothing. . undeveloped coal fields in the world. fountainous country lying along the banks of the of its development. The a branch line of the ville and | Nashville, was built in this region in 1912. Coal mining is the only indus- try of importance and thousand of, | wage-workers are absolutely at tlie mercy of the men who own the mines. The coal operators are in a position which enables them to fix wages at their own figure as well as the prices of the necessaries of life which the miners are forced to buy at the com- pany stores. The miners are also forced to live in company houses and pay rent to the coal operators, who frequently raise the rents. The coal operators fix all the con- ditions under which the miners work and whenever a miner complains about this condition he is marked as an “agitator,” fired, evicted and black- listed thruout the entire field. The wages are so low that none of the miners, many of whom have large famnilies. are enabled to leave the coal fields. Most of them, therefore, are careful about incurring the wrath of their masters, The coal camps which Walters vis- itde this week pay starvation wages. The Algoma Block Coal company of Lothair, Ky., pays coal loaders 40 cents per ton; the Columbus Mining Co., of Allais, Ky., pays 43 cents per ton. The coal seam of the Jatter is only 40 inches high. In two of the cor seams, No. 6 and No. 7, which are located half way up, and at the top of Hazard mountain range, re- spectively, the companies pay 50 cents per ton. One of the most vicious practices | of the coal companies in the Hazard field is that which compels the men to do “pillar work.” This work is extremely dangerous and takes num- | per Ib.; ham, 50c per Ib.; erous lives every year. The miners must, for the same wages as ordinary work, dig and load the pillars of coal ‘which are left to support the top of the shaft after the rest of the coal has been dug out of the mine entry.” The hill often falls in behind the pillar diggers, after these pillars have been removed. In addition to digging and loading the coal the miner has to dig out 18 inches of ek rock,” and much over- head slate, for which the company pays absolutely no compensation. Very often the slate falls on the coal miner and kills him before he has had time to remove it. Out of the meager wages mentioned above, the miner must pay from his salary every month, numerous charges and “grafts,” insisted upon by the company. The miner must pay 50 cents every month for blacksmith- ing charges, $1.00 per month for the doctor bill, $2.25 per keg for blasting powder, eighty cents per roll for fuse. ten cents per pound for carbide and [ten cents for a paper of cartridges. The officials of the company further rob hundreds of dollars from the min- ers’ pay-roll by the use of inaccurate scales in weighing up the coal mined $1.25 Six Months Chicago, III. — Enclosed 3 For, ees g te (Mark with cross) For WORKERS MONTHLY (1 year) and picture. copies of picture STREET CITY r SS r * 4 4 444 4 OO * @ 4, *% * 44 OO OO OOOO Oe oO * 6S 4 Oo * O48 OOO ~_* «* «+o *e?orr errr reer Se |S > | — 1 p— STATE „ET d c 4444244444244 OS OOOO 4 Oe OSS O44 4654444464433 OOOH’ of the Kentucky river. The field is in the infancy : | WEW CALENDAR IS URGED WITH THIRTEEN MONTHS: 28 DAYS EACH WASHINGTON, Jan. 2-—The reso- lution of the economic and politi- cal science section of the American association for the advancement of science advocating a new caleniar year was approved by the general council of the association today. The changes proposed in the reso- lution would create 13 months of each month fall on Sunday. The last day of each year would be known as “year day” and would be added to the last week as an eighth day. The general council also approved the program of oceonographic re- search work mapped out by the navy department to be conducted during peace time. The new month would be named “Sol.” by the men. It is common knowledge that the miners must load 3,300 pounds of coal before they are cred- ited with a ton by the tompany. Wages for day men range from $2.00 to $4.50 per day, the latter figure being paid only to the most highly skilled workers such as motormen, wiremen, trackmen and blacksmiths. The company store, at which the miners must buy, charges exhorbi- tant prices for the bare necessities of life. A pair of light overalls costs the miner $2.50; canvass gloves, 50e; flour, $1.50 per 24 Ib. Sack; coffee, 60e sugar, 15c per Ib.; breakfast bacon, 50c per Ib. independent stores near the Allais coal camp sell the above articles from 20 to 40 per cent cheaper, but declare they have no coal miners for cus- tomers because as soon as the miners’ they are fired. The miners are al- most all so heavily in debt to the company store that they are practical- ly slaves to the coal operators. Lothair and Allais once had large, strong local unions, but both were al- lowed to go to pieces for lack of pro- tection from the district officials of the United Mine Workers of America. Jail Communists in Norway for Urging Soviet (Special to The Dally Worker) CHRISTIANA, Norway, Jan. 2.— Three of the leading Communists of Norway have been arrested, charged with “high treason” for expressing their opinions in leaflets issued dur- ing the recent Norwegian elections. The government objects to state- ments that the “proletarian must crush the constitution and replace it with a Soviet government.” The state solicitor is endeavoring to induce the court to rule that mere membership in the Communist Party is treason. the International Learn . 16-page pamphiet, giving outline of language, showing its 1 over Esperanto, etc., sent free The Workers Ido Federation Room 5, 805 James St., N. 8. K PIPTSBURGL, ae 2 BLOXAM's Monumental Works E. 1920 Third Ave. SPOKANE, WASHINGTON Markers, Tablets and Headstones $10.08 and up | have no 4 and | do all my own work, hence can save you from 25 to 40 per cent Yours Respectfully, GEORGE BLOXAM PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering * Dental Service 10 Years. 645 SMITHFIELD ST., Near 7th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor. Arthur St. PIANO, VOCAL and HARMONY LESSONS MARGARITE LEWIS Experienced Teacher and Concert Pianist Phone for Appointment Drexel 1840 * * VA LEAR AND .| filling every office in the union.” 28 days each, making the first of 474 cease buying at the company store HE DAILY WORKER CRAMER WAR ON COMMUNISTS The Latter Win Election Against Fakers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 2.—The bitter fight waged against the Com- munist by the slimy fakers in the Twin Cities can be seen by an article that appeared in the Daily Star, Van Lear’s discredited rag, in which the reactionaries were urged to combine and defeat the Communists in the th elections for officers in the painters union, The campaign of the fakers and their pen prostitutes was a total fizzle. The Minneapolis Labor Review edited by that cheap hiceling Robly D. Cramer, who is now licking the boots of the labor crooks, and getting stepped on by both sides, joined with Van Lear's paper in denouncing the Communists. The Communists won the fight. The whole left ‘wing slate was elected, This is what Van Lear's subsidised organ had to say: Progressive members of Painter’ — union No. 186 hope to wrest control from the Communists sad return to the ideals of the American Federation of Labor as expressed by the late Samuel Gompers, at their annual election Saturday night. In opposition to the Communist slate, the progressives have nominat- a ticket headed by Sherman Stought for business agent. Mr. Stought was business agent of the union for three years and built it up from 500 to 1,700 membership. The issue will be fought out Saturday at the union headquarters in the old Daily News building, Sixth street and Fourth avenue S., where the polls will open from 1 to 8 p. m. Progressive members of the painters’ union affirm that since Mr. Stought's post went to two successive Commun- ists, the union membership has dwin- dled to 600 and that the employers as well as the painters refuse to recog- nize the present communist officials. The progressive nominees have agreed to run the union along the lines laid down by the American Federation of Labor to the Minneapolis Trades and Labor assembly. In addition to Mr. Stought for busi- ness agent, the progressive ticket car. ries the names of H. M. Peterson for president, E. G. Bartlett for recording secretary; Carl Erickson for treasurer, D. M. Renner for vice-president, and D. M. Renner, Dan Duncan, H. M. Pe terson, Oscar Gunderson and W. Skel- ton for the executive board. CO-OPERATIVE GROCERIES IN BITTER FIGHT (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON. — Whether the neighborhood grocers who are now or- ganizing their own purchasing s0- cileties in order to compete with the wholesale departments of the chain grocery stores will be able to survive is a problem. In a recent decision on wholesale prices made by a cracker factory to the chain stores, the commission held that it can’t protect the co-operative buying concern formed by the little grocers in getting as low a price as the factory gives to the chain stores. Few of the consumers who patron- ize grocers in a typical American city know of this development. When the chain store corporation can buy the whole output of factory after factory, and when the factory is compelled to choose between a guaranty of full- chance of production at only part time while selling goods slightly higher to independent jobbers or grocery stores, he gives a low price to the chain store || concern. vith scores or hundreds of others of iis kind, and tries to make the jobber ind factory manager see that dealing with the chain store is not his only salvation. It is thru the formation of these wholesales among grocers that the show-window competitions and general toning-up of independent gro- cery houses has been forced during the past two years. They are fighting in many cities for their lives. InMemoriam-Lenin | On the 21st of January the workers the world over will hold memorial meetings for Nicolai Lenin, the < tional.” time operation at a set price and a : | The corner grocer then federates | Movies for. Workers | Big Towns Schedule Movie Shows. While the educational value of work- ing class movies is equally great wherever they may be shown to work. ing class audiences, their financial basis is to be found in the larger cit- les, where, with but slightly smaller expense the greatly increased crowds turn in much heavier cash returns. During the coming months several of the most important of these “basic” shows are being held and all members and sympathizers of the Workers Party as well as all supporters of the International Workers’ Aid, should make it a point not only to attend themselves but to bring as many of shopmates and friends as possi ble. No other working class affaire are scheduled to conflict with these dates at which “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls“ will be shown. Omaha, Nebr. Alhambra Theater, Jan. 12, an ac tive and experienced Workers Party committee on the job. Cleveland, Ohlo. Every past movie venture in ‘this city has been a success and this time the committee expects to break all records. The show will be held, as usual, in Engineers Auditorium, St. Clair and Ontario streets, Saturday, Jan. 17. Matines and evening and again on Sunday, Jan. 18, evening only. Admission is 50c. Boston, Mass. Another unbroken line of success will be added to by the showing at Symphony Hall, Jan. 16. Everyone knows that these Symphony Hall movies are the classic radical event of the season. Cincinnati, Ohlo. Labor Temple, 1318 Walnut St., will again be the scene of a workers’ film show on Jan. 12. Chicago, III. The long awaited Chicago showing of “Beauty and Bolshevik” will take place Feb. 5 at Ashland (Carmen’s) Auditorium, continuous 5 to 11, admis- sion Hoc, joint auspices I. W. A. and DAILY WORKER. Other Beauty Showings. Bentleyville, Pa., Jan. 9. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 10. Brockton, Mass., Jan. 19. Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 1. Livingston, Ill, Jan. 4. Daisytown, Pa., Home Theater, Jan. 10. Niagara Falls., N. V., Jan. 18. Reading, Pa., Jan. 22. San Francisco, Calif., Mar. 21. North Side English Branch. The next regular meeting of the North Side English Branch will be held Monday night, Jan. 5, at Imperia] Hall, 2409 N. Halsted. street. Arne Swabeck will speak on “Strategy and Tactics of the Communist Interna. Members of the branch must get there at 8 p. m. sharp as very im- portant business will come up before the lecture starts. When you buy, get an “Ad.” JOINT RECITAL Inne Rouelefs Pianist and Composer AND Mischa Kolpunoff Russian Opera Tenor Will take place at KIMBALL HALL Sunday Evening, Jan. 4th, 1925 At 8 P. M. Tickets may be secured at Glick’s Talking Machine Shop. 2100 W. Divi- sion St., or at the Kimball Box Office. JULIN'S SHOE STORE AND | REPAIR SHOP 3224 W. North Avenue Phone Belmont 2713 Chicago Vasu Res. 1632 S. Trumbull Ave. vVhone Rockwell 5050 MORDECAI SHULMAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 701 Association Buliding 19 S. La Salle Street CHICAGO Dearborn 8657 Central 4945-4947 Furnishings LADIES’ MEN'S INFANTS’ Trade Where Your Money Buys the Most Martin’s leader and fighter for the liberation of the laboring masses. with these memorial meetings, Thursday, Jan. 15, a moving picture, | “In Memorlam— Lenin,“ will be shown in the Gartner’s Independent Theatre, 3725 Roosevelt Road. Two other pic tures will also be shown: “Polikush- ka,” and Soldier Ivan’s Miracle.” Admission will be 50e. Tickets are for sale now at Russian Technical School, 1902 W. Division St., Russian Co-operative Restaurants, 1784 W. Division St. and 760 Milwaukee Ave., at 166 W. Washington St., Room 307, at the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blyd., and by all mem- bers of oe Technical Ald Society; U. 8. 3. RA. In connection ! On | 651 West North Avenue East of Halsted St. Where Food Is Good And the service is fine. Meet your friends at the Zlotins & Plotkins Restaurant 100 Per Cent Union 29 South Halsted St. The best of food at a moderate price | Olds, “THE MEN WHO OWN AMERICA,” FORUM LECTURE Sunday y Evening An old saying 1 it that He . plays the fiddler calls the tune.” But it is even more true to say that those who own control This being the case, it would be interesting, wouldn’t it, to know who owns America? That ownership and control must go together becomes self-evident with anyone who gives the subect a mo- ment’s thought. But who are they who own America? Is it that mythi- cal entity called the public? Is it Rockefeller? The Wall Street finan- cial kings? And how much do they own of America? The age of monoply has played strange tricks with government. It might be thought that if those who own America control America, then those who are rich and control 65 per cent, let us say, of all property in America have only 65 per cent of the Leland Olds to Speak on social control, the power to order the machinery of government according nopoly is greater than its proportion of ownership—much as that is. It is a very interesting subject; and if you want to hear it explained in detail by one who knows what he is talking about, come to the open forum of the Workers Party at the lodge room of the Ashland Auditorium neut Sunday evening at 8 o’clock. Leland economic expert of the Fed. erated Press will speak on “The Men Who Own America.” Take surface cars to Ashland and Van Buren, or Metropolitan L“ to Marshfield station. Come early and be sure to bring your friends. 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(Phone: Munroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: 5 months $2.00...8 months $3.50... | it din Chi only): 98.00 per ir” 14 10 — — $2.60...8 months Aadress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER nu w. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL | AM F. DUNNE { — MORITZ J. LOEB........0000ncsem-- Business Manager Qntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, III., under the act of March 3, 1879. P Advertising rates on application The Monroe Doctrine at Work “The Monroe Doctrine of labor,” voiced by Mat- thew Woll at El Paso, is already going into action in Mexico with the proposed expulsion of Com- munists. The Communist Party of Mexico has an influence among the Mexican workers far out of proportion to its membership. The Communists were the first to arm against the reactionary de la Huerta and dozens of them gave their lives for the Mexican re- public. They organized the workers and peasants Chicago, lines for resistance to the landlord and oil magnate” financed uprising. Among their dead are many members of the Young Communist League. The Mexican Federation of Labor has been captured by the officialdom of the American Fed- eration of Labor. It is part of the machinery of the imperialist domination of Mexico and it fol- lows therefore the same anti-Communist policy that the American Federation of Labor adopted by or- ders from the House of Morgan. The foreign-born Communists in Mexico are few in number. The party is a native party. It has grown out of the struggles of the Mexican workers and peasants. It is a part of the Third Interna- tional as are all Communist parties. It has no in- terests apart from those of the masses of Mexican workers and altho the few foreign-born members ef the party may be deported, Communism will re- main and so will the party. The complete surrender of the Calles govern- ment to American imperialism is shown in this latest announcement and its meaning for the Mexican masses will be understood by them. What better proof do we ‘need that the Com- munist slogan of a united front of workers and peasants against imperialist robbers is the thing that modern capitalism fears most of all? Unity from below against oppression from above the answer of the parties of the Communist Inter- ‘National to the murderous game that imperialism plays with the lives of millions as its toys. Unity of the American and Mexican workers against imperialism and its “labor” lackeys is the answer of the American and Mexican parties to the latest outburst of reaction. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. Dangerous Comedy The French Minister of Finance Clementel re- plies to the protest aroused in American financial circles by the elimination of the war debts from the budget by a request for a Dawes plan for France. The Dawes plan, being based theoretically on the ability of Germany to pay certain specified amounts, the French minister declares that this same principle—the ability to pay—be applied to France and all other nations owing money to the House of Morgan. He is careful to state, however, that the system of control installed in Germany, is not included in his Dawes scheme for France, be- cause, he says, “France is not a refractory debtor.” Caught in the act of repudiation it seems to us that the French capitalists are just about as re fractory a class of debtors as has come within our ken. It happens tho that they were on the winning side in the world war, that they are assiduous hunters of the Bolshevik and are never backward in reminding our native babbittry of the debt they owe to Lafayette. For any or all of these reasons they have not been subjected to the pres- sure put upon the German businessbund nor have they had war waged upon them as has the Soviet government of Russia which openly repudiated the debts incurred by the late czar, for which the lives of the workers and peasants of Russia were se- curity. The exchange of notes now going on between the American government of the House of Morgan— which wants money—and the French government —which want to keep it—is one of the high comedy features of international diplomacy. It is comedy, however, with more than a spice of danger. Were it not for the tremendously com- plicated and shaky condition of capitalism the world over the threat of war in this debate, which has all the high moral tone of collection agency literature, would be too grave to be laughed at, As it is, the controverty with France is merely one of the many factors indicating that the House’ of Morgan, with its far-flung financial lines, will "(Mla Saher ool Commande: A new plot of the Communists has been un- is clamoring for the defeat-of the child. labor amendment. The Communists are the staunchest fighters in the struggle to free the child slaves; ergo, it is a Communist plot to break up the home—by depriving parents of the power to exploit the labor of their children or to sell their labor power to more efficient exploiters. The Insurance Field, a publication devoted to the interests of the insurance companies; in a recent issue, publishes the following editorial com- ment: if the United States Is to be made a Communiet republic this twentieth amendment is a forward step toward it. Government as father and mother to children instead of their natural parents would be exchanging bonds of human love for political slavery. With government control come govern- ment schools and government employment, The largest number of children under the age of 18 need practical education in self-support more than book education of which they were usually in- capable. Let the government keep out of the family as well as out of business. When a people are not capable of family responsibility they are not de- serving of existence. No Communism! The above editorial is proof that in certain in- stances the interests of a capitalist class as a whole triumph over those of its respective sections. The prevention of child labor would redound to the profit of insurance companies by lessening the risks of life as well as property, but the desire for unlicensed exploitation by the whole capitalist class is stronger than the group interest. The demand for full government maintenance of school children put forward by the -Workers (Communist) Party of America as the only method under capitalism of overcoming the pressure of poverty that drives children of workers into in- dustry is responsible for, the new outbursts of rage in the capitalist press like that quoted above. The Communists, with their customary disregard of niceties of ethics Uisplayed by the labor fakers tion schemes, have put some punch into the agi- tation for abolition of child labor. They have forced a lot of slobbering “saviors” of children to either get behind a genuine slogan or to get out of the campaign altogether and acknowledge that they were against child labor because it was good advertising. Whoever is against full government maintenance of the children of workers and farmers while they are of school age is against the abolition-of child labor and on the side of the child robbers for whom the poverty of working class parents is a source of joy and profit. Oil and Art A writer who styles himself a revolutionist wrote an article recently under a fictitious 100 per cent | American cognomen, in which he paid a tribute to the death of a bourgeois art collector. This hare- that “all lovers of art are friends.” John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is a lover of art. He proves it by giving one million dollars to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gift was in oil stock and the yearly income from the gift will approximate $32,000. J. P. Morgan is an art collector and a generous donor to art museums. The same is true of most of the millionaires who grind their slaves under the iron heel in order to wring more profits out of luxuries they and their wives and affinities crave for and still haye plenty left over to gratify their desires to pose in public as benefactors and sup- porters of the arts and sciences. | The workers are art lovers, or if not could be, provided they had the necessary knowledge to ap- preciate true art. But those of them who have the knowledge have not the leisure to enjoy art. They have more than enough to do trying to sustain life. Art is not for the working class under the capitalist system. Only when the workers become the ruling class abolishing capitalism will those who carry the burdens of the world on their back be able to enjoy the work of artists which is now the luxury of the parasitical class. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Are Facts Doomed? A British scientist is responsible for the remark- able statement that in the near future the world will come to a realization of the fact that there is no such thing as a fact. He says: “Belief in de- finite facts has been a hindrance to the development | and realization that there are no facts. Thru this understanding we will be led to more rapid pro- gress in wireless, radio science and atomic knowl- edge.“ The Briton made other statements, but none 80 interesting as the above. Until the arrival of the cross word puzzle the most puzzling problem in life was to distinguish between a fact and an al- leged fact. Figures and facts were the playthings of liars and the masses were obliged to take what | they got or live in a vacuum. | But in the event of the British scientist’s pre- earthed and every organ of reaction in the nation | Possible time. and liberal sentimentalists in their class collabora-. * Adopted — 5 — by the Gated Executive Committee, Workers Party. The Fifth Congress of the Com. * munist In onal declared that one of the conditions for Bolshev ization of the existing Communist par- ties in every country, thus making it possible to become and to ction as mass Communist parties, was their reorganization on the basis of shop nuclei. All parties of the Comintern were instructed to begin the work of reorganization on that basis so that as soon as possible the shop nuclei or shop nuclei branch may become the basic party unit. 2. The Third National Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party endorsed the proposal for reorganiza- to make the shop nucleus the rying out this decision at the earliest . While the convention of our party decided that for the im- mediate future, dues should be con- tinued thru the branch, the Commun. ist International stated that dues must be paid thru the shop nuclei, and these instructions are therefore being carried out. Steps have already been taken, in a few instances, as experi- ments, in actual organization of shop nuclei, and these have worked out in actual practice quite well to demon- strate the superiority of the shop nuclei over the present branch form of organization. 8. The central executive committee of the party . however, that the reorganization of the party on the shop ‘nuclei basis in its entirity, is of such a nature that it has to progress carefully in order not to break up pre- maturely or endanger the existing party structure to such an extent as to make it incapable to carry on the necessary work of the party. The party recognizes that our membership is made up of workers speaking differ- ent languages, not all of them also speaking the common. language, Eng- lish, well. The reorganization will be started first in the most favorable in. dustries where the workers, to some extent, exercise shop control, as in the coal mining, needle trades and a few other industries, and on the basis of experience gained in these industries proceed to the others. WHY WE MUST ORGANIZE ON THE BASIS OF SHOP NUCLEI. A Communist party must have its THE DAILY bid en ae Thesis. on ote of aT tee to develop detailed plans for car - roots deep among the masses of the workers and particularly among those workers who because of their ‘elation to capitalism and their ex- veriences under the capitalist system will be the first to revolt against cap. italism. These are the workers em- ployed in the basic industries, in the shops, mines, mills and factories. Thru the shop nuclei as the basic party unit, the party is always in the closest contact with the workers. 2. It is the workers in the shops who must be moved into action against capitalism under the leader- ship of the Communist Party. Thru the organization of shop -nuclei, we create the conscious feelers which en- able us day by day to reach and have contact with those workers whom we must bring to the support of our move- mont. 3. The shop nuclei will also serve as a medium to draw new members to the party from the ranks of industria) workers who must be the backbone of a Communist party. 4. Thru the shop nuclei form of or ganization our party will be more se. cure against the attack of our enem- les. Shop nuclei branches cannot eas. ily be destroyed and driven apart. The members meet day by day in the shops and factories, they can con- tinue their work and retain their or- ganization as long as they work in the shop and be in a very strong po- sition to frustrate all efforts to de stroy the Communist movement. When the shop nuclei form of organ- ization is fully established, our party will become a manifold stronger fac tor in the labor movement, than un- der the present territorial organiza. tion form, which is an inhertance from the social-democratic parties. HOW TO PROCEED TO ORGANIZE SHOP NUCLEI. District organizations, city cen- * tral. committees and branches, shall take up the question of the or- ganization of shop nuclei. Where city central. committees exist, the work must be under the guidance and direc- tion of the city central committees which should create special commit- tees to direct this work. 2. The industrial registration of the party, which is just being com- pleted will serve as the foundation for the work of organizing shop nuclei. Committees in charge of the work must make a survey of the industrial registration for its territory for shop nuclei possibilities. No exact number has been fixed for the organization of shop nuclei; three or more members working together in a shop can or. ganize into a shop nucleus. brained radical justified his eulogy on the theory | their toil, so that the exploiters can enjoy all the and begin the task of abolishing all classes. By ROCHESTER, N. Y., AND ERIE, PA., RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF SUPPORTING “DAILY” TO THE LIMIT (Special to the DAILY WORKER) N. Y., Wagenknecht, insurance campaign director for the DAILY WORKER, took on added interest becausé the membership present clearly understood that the building of the party, especially the English speaking membership of the party, depended to a very large extent upon the building of a large DAILY = a full realization that an alive lc : | : WI THE YO CONDUCTED - BY TH WORKERS: YOUNG WORKERS DEMONSTRATE ON INTERNATIONAL LIEBKNECHT DAY Elaborate advertising has been Carlson. Ave. Speaker: Harry Gannes. GARDNER, MASS.—Jan. 11. Speakers: Commemoration meetings ahd demonstrations will be held in every city and town thruout the country on International Liebknecht Day, Sunday, Jan. 11, under thé auspices of the Young Workers League. conducted by the league and it is expected that the meetings this year will far exceed those of previous years. The following are only a few of the many meetings that have been arranged. Future items will give a complete list of meetings: CHICAGO, ILL.—Northwest Hall, Jan. 11,8 p. m. Speakers: man, Alexander Bittelman and Peter Herd. „ PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Eagle Temple, Broad and Spring Garden, Jan. 10, 8 p. m. Speakers: Oliver Carison, H. M. Wicks and Ludwig Lore. DETROIT, MICH.—Jan. 11, 8 p. m. Speaker: CLEVELAND, O,—Jan. 11, 8 _ m. Speakers: Max Shacht- John, Williamson. Nat Kaplan and Oliver NEW YORK, N. Y.—Star Casino, Jan. 11, 2 p. m. MILWAUKEE, WIS.—Jan. 11. Speaker: John Edwards. PITTSBURG, PA.—Jan. 11. Speaker: SOUTH BEND, IND,—Jan. 11, 2:30 p. m., Workers’ Hall, 1216 W. Celfax Max Salzman and others. Sid. Bloomfield and others. The meetings in Rochester, WORKER circulation in these cities and Erie. Pa., addressed by Alfred In Erie the comrades were interested, firstly in completing their quota in the carry the message left with them by the speaker back to their branches. Secondly, the members present want- ed to know what methods were the surest in getting new subscribers for the daily. And then also, interest was displayed in securing the more active support of the local members in all tasks of the party. The discussion eventually resulted cal, an active membership, increasi in members, is to à very great extent based upon firstly, having a powerful soner or later find war necessary to whip its diction being fulfilled, the world can breathe easier | well edited English daily, and sec debtors into line. Against that time, ont far off because of the in- tensive expansion of American imperialism, the Workers (Communist) Party of America urges the working class of America to prepare. and the millions of People who live by collecting facts of doubtful parentage may stop breathing. Join the Workers Party and subscribe to the DAILY WORKER. } * ondly, in securing a wide circulation for it. That supporting the DAILY WORKER with finances at once, and then making a conscientious effort to secure at least 500 subscribers in Erie was an immediate and most im- drive to make the daily safe for 1925 ing and branch members promised to +— Policies were sold at the meet- portant task of the Erie comrades was agreed upon. In Rochester the situation is very similar to that in “Erie. The Roches. ter local accepted the selling of in- surance policies for the DAILY WORKER and the increase of circu- lation for the city, as an immediate and necessary task. Insurance poli cies were sold at the meeting and a report of the branch members pres ent showed that the Russian, Lithu- anian, Ukrainian and English branches ‘had already sold about $100 worth of DAILY WORKER insurance. Here the membership and the speaker also engaged in a short discussion upon the question of increasing the activity of the local comrades. And as in Erie, building the DAILY WORKER was pointed out as one of the best antidotes for inactivity. 8 When, the shop nuclei aft : 11 1 4 b At a later stage of development ot the shop nuclei organization, a sufficient number of shop nuclei are q 3 . | 0 ning in the shops E organized and fun and factories in a | these shop nuclei shall be combined | DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE SHOP NUCLEUS. tioonal organization. During this period, the nuclei members shall have the right of voice and vote in the branch, having the same status as ex empt members. But the shop nuclei mete ct: shall, from the inception of the shop nucleus, including the inter- mediary period, pay their dues to the shop nucleus financial secretary and receive stamps from him. ganization of shop nuclei and instructs _ the incoming central executive com- mittee and all other subordinate party units to carry on an extensive propa- ganda and education among the party membership so that they will become acquainted with this plan of organiza- tion and understand why the 3 ) ization of the party on the shop nu ac Py nat he res ry enn ah basis is necessary, and thus make it | possible that it becomes an accomp- branch may be chartered at once as iighed tact on the largest possible the basic party unit, with full party scale in the near future. The central powers. . executive committee shall, however. 2. Where there are city central narcis, good judgement and caution committees, the shop nuclei send dele- ! in proceeding with the reorganization gates direct to the city central com. plan so that the party unite and the mittees. When the shop nucleus is party chartered as a regular party unit, such b oye eee 2 we delegate shall be seated with the shop nuclei basis. same rights as other delegates. Dur. WoRKERSGS PARTY OF AMERICA, ing the intermediate stage of its or. ganization, such delegates shall ha e . ga 9 ve C. E. Ruthenberg, Exec. Sec’y. a voice but no vote. Just Off the Press! 4. When the shop nucleus has been chartered, its members have the right of voting on the party questions in their shop nucleus in the same manner as formerly in the party 2 They then of course no The January issue of onger have powers in the branch ex ent es — The Workers Monthly 5. The shop nucleus makes the shop Edited by Earl R. Browder ‘ in which it is organized the field of its agitation and propaganda, distributes Containing and sells literature, circulates sub- 10 ARTICLES scription lists for funds, carries on On many phases of Labor’s the trade union, industrial and politi- problems. „3% 10 PHOTOGRAHPHS LANGUAGE BRANCH MEMEBRS e AND THE SHOP NUCLEUS. 3 The language branch members who are transfered to member ‘ 5 POEMS ship in the shop nucleus, retain, at Of real value and beauty. the same time, their membership and A SHORT STORY 22 * “ned — language You will give others to read. ranches insofar as the questions of their language sections are concerned. INTERNATIONAL NOTES They have the right to vote on all G questions affecting the language sec- EDITORIALS tions in their language branch. Since however, they vote on party questions in the shop nucleus, they. have no vote on party questions in their language branch. 2. A record shall be kept of lan- LELAND OLDS Famous Labor Statistician Will Expose ‘The Men Who Own America” Sunday, Jan. 4th, 8 P. M. at the WORKERS PARTY OPEN FORUM ASHLAND AUDITORIUM (Lodge Room), Ashland Avenue and Van Buren Streets Take Metropolitan L“ to Marshfield Sta., or surface lines on Van Buren QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION Single admission 25c Tickets good for any three admissions, 50c 48 pages with a cover repro- duction of the most famous revo- lutionary painting in Russia. For Red Branches Your branch is RED, of course. But, from time to time, proof must be forthcoming so that there may be no doubt. THE MILITANT PAGE Will Be a Page of Red Party Branches Upon this page of the BIG RED SPECIAL BIRTHDAY EDITION of the DAILY WORKER, to be issued January 13, the names of all branches that have remitted for sale of INSURANCE POLICIES will be printed. Will Your Branch Show Up Red Upon the Big Red Page of the Red Birthday Edition of the DAILY WORKER? _A REMITTANCE FOR INSURANCE POLICIES SOLD MADE .° BY YOUR BRANCH SECRETARY BEFORE JANUARY 8 WILL PUT THE NAME OF YOUR BRANCH WHERE IT BELONGS.
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| Eee. e . . * rr 2 +e 0 R 2 4 N * 1 a ay ree r * * ry ej e umme nes PT i | 7 N. — . 7 . ots 57 e * „ mae UF op « ea one 2 $:* ex & king . e enn cae 3 - e pager’ be pany ga 2 os ** deco SECTION ne 4 ment will appear every Saturday in The Daily Worker. unions. The place of our trade unions y of} in history has been fixed and verified | some important positions in our trade movement. One naturally feels like contrast- Gees Of 2994 Wail the’ Sint b ei ta eee Maer without any economic conflicts even of a local na- ture. This is of tremendous signi- ficance to the destinies of our coun- try, and it is one of the fundamental and most significant proofs that the trade unions have worked well, that the part directing the Communist activities of the trade unions was fol- the true course. Since Febru- ö have put into this campaign and all the enthusiasm as necessary for a solution of problems. I heard some statements to the tions of principle. and untrue. There are no serious questions of principle in the sense that we do not have to discuss anew be. ber of ‘+ tion is most by the experience and collective wis- dom of the. advanced section of the working class. But this does not in the least mean that the presént con- gress is not faced with a large num- y important questions of principle. I shall take the liberty ky @ touching ropa some of them. think that the most important of these questions is primarily the ques- tion of international unity in the trade union movement. This ques- intimately inter-linked with the present international situ- ation, and vitally affects the working class of our country. We have all of us become convinced, during the last few years, that international matters cannot be considered as lux- | uries, third courses, as questions that ‘| ought to interest only the heads. Not a bit. Every rank and file worker sees that the international labor movement has entered such a stage that where the events taking place in one country most vitally affect the interests and struggle of the workers of the other countries. That is why to us the international unity of the trade union movement is not a desert {or a question within the jurisdiction only of the leading heads. No! This is one of the fundamental questions most closely related to the everyday 8 of the workers’ lite and to * 74 E ny . As >, . 5 — - . ’ N * 1 5 . 4 1 ‘ * N = - a 8 8 4 15 d N * 0 eae i E basic questions of the trade un- 7 om Ly. 1 nee . ha N 2 * ＋ Fee te 4 AE 1 — 8 are uning ot 8 wt ~ a * 7 a N . —— “democratic-pacifist MacDonald was in power in Herriot in France; Vander- ‘xpected to assume power and Davidovitch in Jugo- lar changes appeared to t in a number of other The Comintern was right * stated that that was the be- of a certain democratie paci- wave. However, the fifth congress stop there, but prophecied “era” is nothing but a his- masquerade of the bourgeoisie 14 > Fes 17 12 i a st wa it for something genuine and im- agining that we would have to change the tactic of the international labor movement, Now the facts have de- their point of BS new wave, this time not of pacifism, ‘not of democracy, but of the black- est bourgeois reaction. If only sev- eral months ago the bourgeoisie was playing pink, it has now again chang- ed to black. The victory of the black hundred republican party in America headed by Coolidge, the victory of the black hundred conservative tories in England, headed by Baldwin, repre- sent the beginning of a new chapter of the blackest world reaction. There is not the least doubt that we will see similar future. One need not be a prophet to foresee that Herriot's star in France is already setting and things will happen this way: either he him- self will turn black (laughter) which is quite possible, or some black lit- tle fellow will be moved to his place. The first is more probable. We see similar processes in the small states. There are a number of countries representing the vassals of the big capitalist powers. They want to be in everything like their mas- ters. Especially ch stic in this respect is Jugo-Slavia. You remem- ber that as soon as the democratic N wave was victorious in France: and England, it was reflected in Jugo-Slavia. by ‘the advent of the more or less democratic Davidovitch u m y. Now the reverse is tru ‘The bosses had Hardly come to power, hardly put their stake upon black, when a black hundred government, headed by Paschish, appeared in Jugo-Slavia. We observe the same in a number of the central European states which live by the reflection of the big imperialist powers. We are thus facing the beginning of a new phase of world politics, of the darkest imperialist reaction. Yes- terday the capitalists put their stake upon the social democrats and men- ‘sheviks, today they are again staking upon the blacks, which will not pre- vent them, of course, from staking again upon pink-yellow or yellow- pink, or some similar color (laugh- ter). Th.s shows the serious insta- bility of the capitalist regime. It is no longer what it used to be before the war, when one auc the same capi- talist party ruled for decades, and when What is now considered a storm in a tea cup, a change of liberals by egeneration, of the instability of the capitalist system. All these chang- es in policy do not of course, pass with impunity to the bourgeoisie, tho outwardly things smooth. See how “easily” MacDon- ald was superseded by Baldwin. At 4 p. m. MacDonald was invited to Buckingham: Palace and he person- ally announced to the king that now that the elections are taking place he resigns. The king said: “Alright, your resignation is accepted.” (Laugh- ter) At 5 p. m. Baldwin was invited ‘and asked whether he would not agree to form a new government. He kindly agreed. Alright, I'll form a new government.” (Laughter). The change of government passed painlessly for the bourg- oisie, but among the people all these perturba- tions pass very far from painlessly or tracelessly. The workers took it aul very „and have develop ed a real appetite for power. We see how the English workers behaved during the election campaign. True, ‘they have not yet got used-to Russian methods (applause), but I hope they will get used to them (applause). However, they behaved, to tell the truth, not quite like gentlemen as is the custom in England; at some meetings the workers were putting their fists before the lords, express- ing quite an unambiguous desire to make some corrections in their physi- ognomies. (Applause, laughter). This is something new in British history, jand it shows that not only in the election cimpaigns are the broad working masses becoming imbued with strong passions, and that among them smoothly as in Buckingham Palace. The richest bourgeo:sie in the world, that of Great Britain, finds it impossible to rule any longer by the old methods. Our business, the busi- ness of the leaders of the working class, is to watch these ep sodes, to watch how the bourgeoisie passed i | “Comrade ane. Speech. ‘Delivered at the Sixth All-Russian Trade Union Congres) | 4 the role and importance ot the trade from one extreme to another, and to take corresponding measures. The diplamats of the Second Inter- national have often tried to stir up distrust for, the Russian trade unions ‘and tor our party. They ask why do the an Communists and trade unions all of a sudden evince a de- sire for the unity ot the world trade union movement. Comrades, I think that were there even no other rea- sons, the one that I have mentioned at least exists. The new phase of the blackest world reaction is a suffi- cient reason why every honest work- ing class militant should say that under this situation international unity of the trade union movement is as necessary as the air that we breathe. If from America and Eng- land, from these mighty imperialist countries, a new 2 of a ., if if 25 uF has come to an end, and are directly moving upon 5 f 5 1 f 2 E 4 3 1 7 7 8 a minimum program, in order to have a united international trade union movement and be prepared to put up the united front against the world bourgeois reaction? The riddle is — appear rather events do not pass off so tendencies, to all the devoted sons of our class, is: Let us unite, in order to fight this black reaction, to meet ‘this pressure, to break the black line, to deal a blow into the heart of the enemy, and to make the great- est strides along the path which in our opinion would unite the workers of the world. (Applause). This is our answer to the question why we are so powerfully stressing the slo- | gan of international labor unity, that has so unequivocally been formulated by the Comintern and by recent congress of the R. I. L. U. hope that it will meet with same mighty response at your congres was evoked from the best worke the entire world (applause). t appears to me that the biggest le in the way of international unity is represented by the social democratic leaders of the German as of — unions, the most inveterate trade union bureaucrats of Germany. In them lies the chief obstacle. Of course, there are plenty of secondary obstacles. M. Jouhaux is not one whit better than the German bureau- crats; still the main group that knows just what it is doing, that knows for what object it is splitting the international trade union rove- ment, that does not act blindly, but pursues deliberately the tactic of the the British workers in the first place, in order that they might know that if any one prevents international unity, that if anyone represents the chief obstacle, it is the German so- cial democrats, the bureaucrats of the German labor movement, who are ready to do anything and everything (Continued on page 8) ——
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: * VY % - forms, inherited from soci By JOSEPH ZACK. HE deeper we get into work 1 amongst the masses of the prole- tariat, the more able are we to per- ceive the shortcomings of former methods and forms of Organization. We are now entering upon the most important phase of transforming our organizations from social-democratic 1 al racy and developed in the era ot and social 8 f 15 i sas HE 1215 full : f workers made an attempt in that di- to hit at their exploiters, to defend themselves over the heads and despite the reactionary leadership. It arose 5 resistance to dustry have undoubtedly developed the clearest conception of this form of organization, altho they conceived of it mainly as a union reform affair and not as a means to organize the dous effect upon the needle workers, gave the shop delegate movement in the needle trades a tremendous im- G. W. U., makers’ Local 25 with 22,000 members, actually attempted to put it into practice (shop delegate system) and participation at the shop delegates’ council meetings. and enthusiasm ran high. This shop delegates’ council, which was sanctioned by the officials under pressure as an advisory body, naturally assumed more and more power for itself so that the bureau- crats forced their dissolution with the present president, M. Sigman, as the executioner. The agitation for the shop delegates’ system (which advo- cated organization in the shop in the form of a shop committee and shop delegates from all shops to form a central body of the trade to manage the union) continued unabated until the T. U. E. L. took the field, when the capturing of executive boards and local offices became the main objec- tive in the first flush of victories. A mild form of shop organization, such as shop chairmen, occasional shop chairmen meetings, price committees, Ste., has been officially practiced in the needle trades for many years. The bureaucrats were, however, careful not to let it go beyond that. The of the T. U. E. L. adopted ago gives an interesting picture as to how the unjons’ management could be conducted under the shop delegate form of organization and why it is necessary and advantageous from a union point of view. It gives a precise ized. union can function with a shop committee system as its, basis. pation, a more intense activity on the part of the masses in behalf of the union. With the present small num- ber of active members it is not only } difficult to maintain what we have, but well nigh impossible to make progress for the future. The number siderably the present bureaucratic sys- tem of management and leadership of our organizations. This system must give way to one that will make mass interest and mass activity on the part of our membership possible. The structure, the internal machinery of our unions must be changed to estab- lish the broadest contact with the masses in the shops. We must strive by all means in our power to eliminate all the artificial devices set up by the locals in the trade. the trade. The creation of these joint cals of many of their powers and made from the interests of the union. Due to these state of affairs within our 7 1 organizations it has become pos- si for the paid officers to usurp much power. In order to establish a closer bond between the shop and the union, to arouse the initiative and in- dividual activity of the rank and file in behalf of the union, to enable the workers to have a more direct influ- ence upon the affairs of the union, to Rta three years 1 — and simple idea as to how a centril-| a * r Sen, 7 wad - yo ey eT oC a we N * . * n 3 * 1 a) eee ~ ere * b ret . 3 ** 7 „ ˙ b * 9 + ‘ane. 4 85 . 4 6 \ a i * * 8 * ' 4 a +? * 4 | regu- | dele- gates to the shop delegates council will be able to bring their wishes directly to the assembled delegates of all the other shops in the trade. The | shop delegates’ council elected on a proportional basis representing all the workers in the shops of that trade will have full power over all questions manipulated joint boards which they have no means to influence nor to par- ticipate in its deliberations. The executive board and its officers elect- “ted by the shop delegates’ council will run the of the union, re- ceiving dues, complaints, handle busi- ness agents, etc., under the direct of the shop delegates’ supervision 22572 qf iF 7146 5 i the workers in the shops.“ built upon sand. The machinery of the labor lieutenants of capitalism con- ceived by the needs of the past, main- tained for the purpose of choking the fighting spirit, of putting a damper on manipulating the masses much the ‘same as other bourgeois “democratic” methods, cannot serve the purpose of militant struggle agdinst exploitation the shop (factory), shop committee, Betriebsrate, to represent the workers in all affairs in the shop, as well as in the general shop delegate body con- trolling the union (shop delegates’ It proposes to substitute completely the present bureaucratic apparatus of union management and control, which so wonderfully serves the purposes of the bourgeois union bureaucracy, and which, while appear- ing democratic, like bourgeois democ- racy can easily enough at any time be legally or illegally transformed into a dictatorship over the workers, as experience has already amply demon- strated, and substitute for it a rank and file system from the bottom. program of the Needle Trades Section abolish the fruitless organizational To us in the United States, where 15 1 1 f FE 8 1 the class struggle, of faking and ad F 2 2 - 1. 4 x ” * . ° - 7 lt HE — = f — 3 tr 2 t n. > 7 ae * ai * . i is i 7 . cbs | ul : i | . * l ee : 4 gS 11115 5 At i situation is ripe in each instance either for strikes, organization cam- paigns, etc. nauseum, the shop committee movement will revive and regain old militancy as soon as the party gets into action along these lines. Let me say in conclusion, that shop committees are the road to the organt- | zation of the unorganized, the most effective weapon against the cracy—it marks the transition from a | policy of propaganda to one of action. It is amalgamation from the bottom. 7 ity WORKER, When for the — —äœä]u Build the DAILY WORKER! _ DAILY WORKER for 1925! * 3188 — Help Insure THE a „ a iif a * — 4 * th > q — * j - * — K 2 N ö * 8 2 2 8 z ‘ ; d r . hes * A ' pF © 7 y + Ss 2 a 8 x J N . 7 * one ¥ = +i 8 as ; ‘ ge Yt ee . —K— ee ee ee * — — 7 ’ rr — J . 1 * W a — * * 1 ~~ 1 5 ‘ 2 * " - 7 q ‘-¢ 7 4 : a¢ chy 1 4 K *. P 4” r A * * * 7 — * * * * . 2 * 4 wr ee FN )
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Fea . 7 — « 1 * 3 * 8 2 * 7 a iat - an 84 y a « 2 41 0 . . - * > ; se ö 4: 7 4 * 8 8 * > > > 7 » y ä > oe - — c te ö yk DO ˙ UA ae ae ee F tee eee LS tte, 5 r C . * fees Vuh) bs * or Pig so" en 527 ‘ Se MTS ae ae Pe RP a PS — — — r 5 . 5 N 12 * e — . ; 8 S oe oT, ey 811 11111215 115 the last man in the world to deny it. that it could not imagine the further development of our movement without _ This is what actually took place. Does Gitlow disprove it? Of course a SEEE example let us take Comrade Rut- henberg. Comrade Ruthenberg is of the minority. The majority brands him as a liquidator. Yet, after having spent three years in ~ GITLOW IS NOT A LIAR ä—ĩ— . — — Did you read the above carefully? .| What is its meaning? It is this: Be- 13 geo 9 is Now, comrades, what do you think of “that? I address myself now par- ticularly to those of you who hav in the revolutionary struggles of the proletariat of Russia between the years of 1903 and 1911—-what do you think of a Communist who undertakes to defend his policies by reference to his jail record and to the sacrifices that he brought for the movement? Did Lenin do it? Did you ever hear such arguments from Zinoviev, Stalin, Kamenev, etc? Why, my dear Gitiow, if it is a matter of jail records, we can give you all you want, only we want to be sure that you will honor jail re- cords under the czar as highly as you honor some jail records under President Wilson. Also that you will give us credit for exile into. the - “cold” portions of Russia, and for participation in armed struggles against czarism, and its agents. And mind you, we were doing all this as proletarians, as workingmen, as ; ue to refer to jail fact that! proof of the correctness of our the convention icy, ie because we do not believe means that the: convention was cap in this kind of bunk, which is cheap % And that was all I said. the methods of bourgeois salesman- Quite naturally this does not please ship. we thought we were members Gitlow. But, then, permit me to ask of a Communist Party and not trav- a question: Is it my duty to please ling salesmen to advertise chewing Gitlow, or to tell the party the truth? gum. : , My Second “Lie”. Nghe In my report to the C. E. C., I said My. Third. N. ot opportunism Gitlow asked the Hun- Stance, that because the Russian Com- garian convention to examine the munist Party initiated the movement ‘personnel of the majority and minor-|for and participated the building of ity. He attempted to prove that be- Soviets, although the Soviets were cause some of the leaders of the mi-|20n-partisan, non-Communist political nority, at one time or another, went to | Organizations, therefore, the American r OE ee eneas te ah are not pa e eens ee eee Gitlow calls this a lie. And how] Which is also a non-partisan, non-Com- does he prove it? Read the following |munist, political organization.” portion of his article: _ Gitlow does not like the way I re- “What I said was in answer to ported his argument at this point. He the charge that the majority calls | dislikes it so much that he calls it a the minority liquidators. In refer- | lie, and he proceeds to tell, in his own ence to this I asked the delegates | words, what he really said. Read it: to examine the personnel of the “The above is a complete fal- minority and their service in the | sification of what I said. When the Communist movement to determine | political secretary of a Communist whether or not the minority is made | Party resorts to such deliberate up of comrades who want to liquid- methods of misrepresentation in the ate the Communist Party. I pointed | furtherance of factionalism, the par- out that the minority was composed | ty is bound to suffer severely. Now of members who had been active in | What did I say on the question of the left wing of the socialist party | Soviets? I said that the Russian and in the organization of the Com- | Communist Party participated in munist Party of the country. I | the Soviets even though the Soviets stated further that these comrades | ‘were not Communist bodies and had fought for the party, defended | even though they were not integral it in all kinds of situations, and had | parts of the Bolshevik Party. That gone to jail for it. These are facts. | did not stop the Russian Bolshevik Bittelman and the whole majority | party from raising the slogan of all cannot deny them. As a further | power to the Soviets thereby gle that major- ity that maintains that only through thru the instrumentally of other or- ganizations. The farmer-labor party I therefore contended could be made an instrument of our political strug- gle even though it is not a Com- But it can’t be helped. The interests of the party demand that we all know that because the Russian Party par- ticipated in Soviets,’ therefore, the American party must participate in the farmer-labor movement. This is ‘the new Marxism and Communism of right here. our farmer-laboristic minority. I am leaving aside, for the moment, the fact that it is not the question now of participating in but of initiating and creating a farmer-labor party. Gitlow has either entirely misunderstood the discussion, or he is consciously twist- ing the issue when he represents the thing as though it were a question of our pa.ty participating in a movement that already exists. There is ng such thing. The question is: Shall the Workers Party create a substitute for itself in the shape of a farmer- labor party? This is the issue. I am willing to assume that Gitlow did not understand what our contro- versy was all about. He may have sincerely believed that the whole fight is about participating in an already existing movement. That's why he has written the above lines to the effect that since the Russian Party participated in Soviets, the Workers Party may participate in a farmer- labor party. He is pitifully wrong, just the same. But where is my “lie”? a As to Factionalism. Some day there will be written the history of our party, and then we shall know which faction or tendency in our movement contributed most to. the development of our party. We may be compelled to begin writing history much sooner than would be necessary otherwise. If the salesmen of the minority (a la Gitlow) will continue the way they started, we may find it advisable and for the goed of the par- ty to start writing history immediate- ly. But one fact must be established It is the fact that never in the history of our party did a minority opposition defy so flagrantly and brazenly the funddmentals of or- ganization of the Comintern, as did the present minority. The caucys is eyerything, the party is nothing—this is the motto of the present minority. But we shall leave this aside for the moment. We want the party first to realize the menacing / nature of the policies of the minority, and then we will speak in more detail about their practices of organization. Our main task now is to have the party repudiate definitely and completely the right-wing farmer-labor opportun- ism of the minority. In pursuing this task, we shall speak to the party as plainly and frankly as is possible, and will leave to the minority all the privileges and all the rights of adver- tising their virtues and of calling us names. MINORITY DID NOT PROVE THEIR CASE By MORRIS KUSHINSKY HE nearer the discussion of our poor case in justification of their pro- posed policy. Of all the arguments advanced by the minority all) through the discussion none were of any strik- ingly convincing nature. In my opinion the minority has still got to phove that there is NOW in lexistence a mass sentiment on the part of the American workers for a farmer-labor party. Those of us who are actively engaged in the everyday work of the American labor unions, know the facts that point to the con- trary. : As a matter of fact we see that ever since the presidential election the ‘issue of a labor party, as far as the unions with the slogan, “For a farmer- ing to stone walls. Follette movement besieged the labor | unions for their endorsement and sup- port of their candidates, we, the Com- munists, have learned the means of , effectively combatting this custom, and have gained a great deal % the way of showing to great masses of workers that the Communists are the only real friends of the working class. In short, the late developments in the American labor movement and the activity of our comrades therein have removed many barriers which were in the way of our propagation of the class struggle from a Commun- ist point of view and to show to the workers that the only political party worthy of their support is the Workers (Communist) Party. Now, after all the experience we have gained and after the many hard- ships we have overcome, for us to come again before the American work- ers and try to raise the slogan of a farmer-labor party, would amount to as much as to try to inject new life into a dead corpse. At the same time, to talk now to the American workers, of a mysterious “class farmer-labor party,” would mean to be “hiding be- hind the bush” for the simple reason that we might just as well and with just as much advantage come right out clearly and unhesitatingly with the propaganda for the Workers (Communist) Party. To my mind the proposed policy of the minority means retreat from gained positions. It means retreat that is not warranted by actual con- ditions in the labor movement at the present time. This proposed tactic of the minroity if accepted would mean a step backward that would create a situation whereby we would have to play a hide and seek game. This would not mean a retreat where- by we could strengthen our position for a new attack upon our enemy, but one that would tend to destroy our gained influence and prestige in the labor movement. This is an out and out un-Leuinist, un-Bolshevik tactic. In conclusion let me say that we, the Communists, active in the labor movement, have greater and more important tasks to perform than to force upon the American workers (Continued on page 4)
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‘minority since when are strikes, es- ganized, recognition of Soviet Russia, 2 Pes Y * — * a 4% nn r 8 . ’ S 2s, hy - a 1 * * * a . eet ELS as as ea fe. i * : SF ee. oe | 5 ea Gay ME N * — 2 a he ty : OS Ss Se ee > be N55 a 8 S Ae eee ne 11 5 e og 2 3 . r — del „ a > —s > - we Uns Fo we W md 4 * 1 7 . «4 a 4 é 1 tae, 4 8 * * CONTRIBUTIONS FROM A RANK AND FILER FOR MAJORITY THESIS By ETHEL SHOR HAT did Lenin say about slog- ans? He said that slogans are io be used only to mobilize large masses of workers, or call to action not simply slogan for slogan’s sake. The minority fail to prove that there is a demand for a labor party apart and distinct from the LaFollette move- . timent for a farmer-labor party we must create one; we must build the C. I's instructiéns to the British Communist Party that they ‘should join the British labor party; = = © ‘We advocated a labor party for the past two and one half years not be cause we thought the labor party to be a necessary, preliminary step for the workers, but because such senti- ment existed, and it was our duty to participate in that movement of the workers. This is the reason the C. I. instructed the British Communists to seek admission in the British labor party. The comrades have yet to prove that the labor party is an in- evitable step the workers will have to go through. : The comrades of the minority say “the labor party will disillusion the workers the sooner.” Yes, but must we build such an instrument? Accord- ing to this, we should propagate and fight for WAR for surely war disullus- ions the workers more than any num- ber of labor parties. ~The minority says “No, we will not build a farmer-labor party now, but simply advocate it, talk about it, pleas- antly and nicely” but what do their articles read (Askenuzie, Dec. 17)— “we will propagate for one actively, make it the center of our campaigns, unemployment, union activities, etc. Make it the MAJOR issue around which will center all our party activ- ities.” Consistency—that is one of the jew- els the minority does not posses. The minority makes the labor party the only means of political action for the workers. I would like to ask the pecially those which bring the work- MINORITY DID NOT PROVE THEIR CASE (Conitnued from page 3) dead issues such as the one, “For a labor party.” We can not afford to waste our energy and hard earned money for the organization of bogus farmer-labor parties just in order to give activity and exitement to some of our good comrades of the minority who have otherwise nothing to do ere into the direct conflict with the not political struggles. are the “Marxists”!! labor party movement is yet a ques- tion. We will then consider it. But if that will be, the turn it will take is yet questionable. Yes, we must be the vanguard of the proletariat, but let us use reason and sense. Know where and how to apply it. We have only a certain amount of party en- ergy and funds and must use them to the very best advantage. Not shout- ing for shouting’s sake, Let us not make the words “vanguard of the pro- letariat” a fetish to be applied hit or miss. Otherwise; we should at all times in little local strikes, elections, etc. preach only the dictatorship and the Soviets. This is running ahead still further. ‘ Comrade Siminoff renders a huge cry (December 17)—a pre-LaFollet- te man came to him with the ter- rible plaint—he (the LaFollette man) is disgusted with LaFollette, only a labor party will smash the capitalist machine. Surely, if | were Comrade Simonoff, | would know what to answer. When a person speaks of smashing the capitalist machine, he is material for the Workers Party and does not have to go thru another disillusionment and get disgusted with all political parties, The comrades want a mass Com- munist Party. So do I. All agree on this point. But what is the quicker and more effective means. For ex- ample—in the United Council of Work- ing Class Women after working and organizing (and contributing) collec- tions for the Paterson strikers, is it better to take one person aside and whisper, “shy, shy—I am also a Com- munist, I also help the Paterson strikes,” or the Workers Party as an organization helped the Paterson strikes? We have no desire to be modest violets. ™ with their time. Instead of this let us make a real effort to build our Workers (Communist) Party. Let us raise the real live slogans that will put our party in the forefront as the leader of, and fighter for, the inter- ests of the working masses. Let us build the united front of the rank and file on the slogans of unemployment, child labor, organization of the unor- opposition to class collaboration on the part of the trade union bureau- cracy, etc., etc. . Great humbers of American work- ers are ready to listen to us and as we As to Comrade Lore, if anyone has added prestige to Comrade Lore it has been the minorty. What did the C. I. say? Kick him out or fight ideo- logically? The C. I. said—fight him ideologically.... The way the min- ority have fought Comrade Lore, however, and the issues they have fought him on have made him ap- pear as a martyr before the com- rades. Talk to the rank and filers, and what do they say. “Yes, | ad- mit Comrade Lore is wrong on many things, but he is being persecuted, attacked in petty and forced situa. tlons. He has been treated unfair-. ly.” The fight should be waged ideologically, take the wind out of Lore’s sails, by making him admit his mistakes thereby breaking his faise prestige. — Comrade Jakira and the comrades of the minority say: We, the Marxists! ! therefore, we are right!!!” To me, merely a rank and filer, the test of a Communist is not one who has i only “studied” Marx and can recite him by rote, but one who participates ILLUSIONS OR REALITY? By JACK PROKOP, 89 12575 ter’s and Manley's illumination. 4. The trend to organization and growth of the third party is insured by the actions of the C. P. P. A., and all its affiliated. organizations of craft and industrial unions, as well as the debris from the F. L. and co-operative movements of the farmers, whom La- Follette alone is able to “stick to- gether” and lead, altho to disillusion- ment. : 3 When in the past year or orientation of the farmers' political conception and policy (outside the trend for a third party) but on the contrary, it was a proof of an un- paralelled elasticity of the capitalist system in the U. S. A. and its enorm- ous capacity to absorb (temporarily at least) the victim of its exploitation and dump them in other spheres .. . disarmed. Disarmed, because they ceased to be a factor in the farmers’ movement the moment they emigrat- ed into the cities. The possibilities for the bankrupt farmers to earn their living’ in the cities, and further, the alleviation (altho small) which the remaining farmers felt thru che appearence of 2,000,000 competitofs, rather dampened than intensified the (imaginary) revolutionary tendency of the farmers, at the same time re- storing to a great extent . faith in institutions of existing order, re- storing faith in their improvement, by the policies of LaFollette and his program for the third party. — of directives and policies on funda- mental laws of history, economics, politics and sociology . to be lieve that capitalists will stop the expropriation of farmers, and their forcible emigration into cities, or to believe in the much blazened Foolidge. or Coolidge prosperity, unless a mar- ket is found on the moon, Venus or Mars, the fact remains that, during this period of artificial prosperity ac- companied by the “election shock” and its resulting confusion among the farmers (and workers), and before the effects of “the crisis to come” can be appreciably felt, a slogan “for a farmer-labor party” would be in the struggles of the workers, leads them in accordance with the Marx. He should be one who can shape policies in line with Marxian ‘truth. Otherwise, we should invite Hillquit in America and Kautsky in Germany to lead us, for surely they have “studied” Marx, perhaps much Altho it would be folly, for Com- munists, who base their calculations | p- eory of | the wilderness, without - 9 1 aside * 0 — 1 7 like a cry in 5" 5 if te „ ** 8 Fg | : “real fighting units of the working class” such as M | Only this sort or Abiltty to and not the “Napoleonic ability“ the minority that dwelleth high in the clouds, and enable us to fight ex- clusively the prospective third party and gradually destroy the created in the minds of the farmers tions of capitalist order and dert benefit from it. Only this sort ability to lead will rectify the psy- chology of the poor, mislead ‘farmers ‘and workers, and bring them into the fold of the only class. party” in the U. 8. Workers Party. | | The insignificant nucleus, which the ‘minority pretends we have, will serve. the purpose equally, and group itself around and be directed by a week- ly “Farmers’ Critical Review” edited by us, and given away if necessary. It will still cost us less than all the proposed empty maneuvers and save us from the reputation of “very un- stable policies.” The C. I. reversed the slogan on time, and wisely so. In the U. S. A. the development of heterogeneous element composing it, ‘the adversity of their various inter- ests, is the best guarantee for a re- division and reclassification of its ele- ‘ments. Then our harvest will in full measure. As soon as our cam- _paign-predictions of crisis will begin to materialize we will repeat (what we should have said): “After Cool- idge—the deluge!”. and quit LaFol lette’s farcical deceptive banner; join the class-party with sickle and ham- mer. Nr The Walden Book Shop 307 Plymouth Court (Between State and Dearborn more than some of the minority. 4 Just South of Jackson) , CHICAGO and workers about improving institu - oT. Se ee — ERNE
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. 8 * * : ¢ 8 ce x - * 1 4 r — eid 8 ry 7 8 2 5 * — 5 2 . N r N * 1 1 rs ae, * oF 4 é > Lr 4 4 * 2 2 > 2 2 71 5 n wee et n a — i» of * ' > these membership meetings. This dock was denounced; it was flung around in well feigned disgust; it was condemned as m | incarnate. And all this comedy was enacted to get a verdict against the author of the book—not on the book itself, because It anything were needed mew | A few tacts about the book will suffice to show up the majority and to condemn it for what it is: a group of unprincipled demagogues or a group of totally un-Marxian Marxians. Foster-Lore Group Loses its Head. | The subject, plan and the very method of the book as well as the | author were suggested by Comrade; Brooks, the representative of the Comintern at the Bridgeman conven- tion of the Communist of | America. The book was written at a time when the Workers Party. altho already a few months old, still had not overcome the handicap of the primo- geniture of its older brother, the C. P. of A. Only about six months later at the time when this book was publish ed, in May, 1923, the Workers Party, began to function formally as the Communist Party and what is more important began to function as a political party. What was the purpose of the book? Party? No. Wag it to be a history of the achievements of the Workers Party? No. Was it to be a propaganda book pure and simple for the Workers Party No. Great strikes had taken place in the years just past. The steel workers, the miners, the railroad workers, the textile workers had gone thru mass struggles against their exploiters. During the war compulsory arbitra- tion by government agency was estab- lished, ostensibly as a measure of war against Germany. Bub now, in the post-war struggles of the workers. this war measure, “against Germany,” was shown up in its true character as a war measure against the workers. The official leadership of the organ- ised workers in most cases made itself rather an instrument of this so-called ' government arbitration, instead of leading the workers into struggles against this fraud. . Here was a chance for the revolu- j | A Marxian Book and Its Un-Marxian Critics — — 11 i committee does not know that. does not and cannot recognize Marx- an methods. As “true” believers they ‘jeventually achieve industrial free. dom.” To this gem of “Marxism” we could add an indefinite number of others out of the same book, “The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons.” For instance, on page 260: “In what I have called the left wing of the movement there are large and ever- increasing numbers of workers and sympathizers who refuse to face the prospect of a society forever based upon the wage system. They demand an organization that is making for its abolition and the substitution there- fore of a system of industrial justice. IF THEY WERE TO LOOK SHARP- LY THEY WOULD SEE THAT THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT 18 TRAVELING FASTER THAN ANY OTHER BODY TOWARD THE END THEY WISH TO REACH.” (Our em- phasis.) Yes, the chief arbiter of pure Com- munism of 1924 was so much a stranger to Marxism, to Communism in 1920 that he seems entitled to a pardon for not recognizing Marx ex- cept in his beard. The comraae who Was it to be a history of the Workers } could write only four years ago, that “the big question is whether or not they (the trade unions) will be able to develop enough power to stop this exploitation altogether. As for me, I am convinced that they will,” should be a little more careful in his judg- ment about the Marxian qualities of other writers. His. “Marxism,” rank industrialism, can be traced in his writings down to this very day. Why then should a comrade who displayed such misconceptions of the character of the proletarian revolution, nearly three years after the Bolshevik revo- lution in Russia, be able today to find any trace of Marxism in the Gov- ernment—Strikebreaker?” — 8 Foster Refutes Foster. But our arbiters of pure Commun- ism have detected the shortcomings of “The Government—Strikebreaker” only since the toga of the saviors of the Workers Party fell upon their shoulders. Before this critical mo- ment arrived they appreciated “The q ul 8 * 5 * ” 4 és * 8 ra an 1 2 Government — Strikebreaker.” COM- RADE FOSTER WROTE IN THE — SUE OF THE LABOR | “HERE IS A BOOK JULY 1923: WHICH FILLS A GAP IN THE LIT- ERATURE OF THE LABOR MOVE- MENT. DEALING ENTIRELY WITH IT THE AMERICAN QUESTION, OF GENERALIZATIONS AND 7 rs HE HAS BUILT UP HIS ARGUMENT AND z i : ORIGINAL SOURCES, AND THE (| WHOLE IS BROUGHT TOGETHER | wher INTO THE MOST COMPLETE PIC- TURE YET DRAWN OF THE GOV- OF STRIKEBREAKER. LOVESTONE HAS MADE A PERMANENT CON- TRIBUTION TO THE LIBRARY OF THE STUDENT OF THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT.” | Dunne and Olgin Answer Cannon. Comrade Dunne, another one of the present day guardians of Marxism against the danger of opportunism, wrote about the book: “I am very much pleased with ‘The Government —Strikebreaker,’ and consider it a distinctive , contribution to American labor literature.” And Comrade Olgin, a late addition to the army of fighters of pure Com- wrote about the book: “It is a review of the class struggle of the American proletariat for the last three years. It is a cross cut thru the class com- position of American society and ex- position of the government’s role in The book, as a whole, may serve for the workers as an excellent weapon and this is the main thing. It is a reliable book. It is an American book. It is a book astir with the problems of today. AND IT IS A COMMUNIST BOOK IN THE BEST SENSE OF THE WORD. THERE HAVE BEEN NO SUCH BOOKS IN THE WORKING CLASS LITERATURE IN THIS COUNTRY. LOVESTONE OUGHT TO BE COMMENDED «OR WRITING AND THE WORKERS PARTY FOR PUBLISHING THE GOVERNMENT —STRIKEBREAKER.’ NO English reading worker should fail to acquire the book and study it thoroly.” A Marxian Book. The book deals with the great post- war struggles of labor in the United States. In many of its portions it deals with events of periods in which the Workers Party had no physical ERNMENT IN ITS CLASSIC ROLE. munism against right wing deviations,- existence as yet. In the whole period treated in the book the Workers Party had no political existence, while the Communist Party led an underground existence. is Marx, M-A-R-X? Profintern Translates Lovestone Book. The Red International of Labor Unions in Moscow translated the book for publication in Soviet Russia. But, say our new converts to revo- lutionary political action, what does the Profintern know about Commun- ism? Just think of it. the poor and misled Profintern even asked the chief arbiter of pure Communism in Amer- ica, Comrade Foster, to write a pre face to the Russian edition Judging by Comrade Foster’s willingness to comply with instructions from higher units of our international party we request. and wrote a Communist pre- face to the Russian edition of Love stone’s “non-Communist book.” Cannon’s Sudden Conversion to Communism. Eighteen months have passed since the Workers Party has published this book, Only praise was heard from the members of the central executive committee’ majority about the book. The Communist International read the book. The book was reviewed favorably in numerous publications of the Com- munist International. No fundamental criticism was made anywhere. Only now since our present central execu- tive committee majority was con- demned by fate to save“ Communism and incidentally to save it own hide has this majority discovered its revo- lutionary Marxian soul. Only in this moment of desperation has it mustered enough courage to reveal itself as a group of pseudo- Marxians charlatans, trying to retain demagogy that has ever disgraced the activities of any group within any world, A MAJOR QUESTION By SAMUEL SKLAROFF i ie present majority have up-to date furnished no convincing proof the movement for indepen- dent political on is dead. Their idea of proof is constant repetition of a few steeotyped phrases which, when janalyzed in the light of actual condi- tions are revealed as total absurdities. The idea that LaFollette has swal- lowed the farmer-labor movement be- longs to the same class of pseudo-his- tory exemplified by the story of the whale swallowing Jonah. Just as there jare many people credulous enough to swallow both Jonah and the whale, 80, unfortunately, there are many com- rades unrefiecting enough to swallow ‘without examination this latest bit of majority pseudo-history. | If the LaFollette crowd have swal- llowed the farmer-labor movement, A Burning Issue Before The Workers OF COMMUNIST STRATEGY—A MENACE OF DEFEATISM Even Morris Hilquit, the leader of the defunct S. P., seems to know bet- ter than that. In an aritcle on “Let Us Use Our Opportunity,” in the New Leader of Dec. 20, he writes the fol- lowing:—“The LaFollette campaign was a sort of partnership between the O. P. P. A, and the National LaFol- lette Club. This later group served as a cloak for many elements, who, lette for president, “Now that partnership is all off. The coming convention will be held under the rules of representation as provid- ed in the constitution of the G. P. P. A” Under these rules all the unions ‘the country will soon be invited send delegates to the convention to held in Chicago on Feb. 25, 1925, But, say our arbiters of Marxism, presume that he complied with this The Profintern read it and or. dered its translation into Russian. throw all caution to the winds and control of the party by the cheapest Communist Party anywhere in the for various reasons were for LaFol- — —— ee ee — u—-—
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.. STRATEGY—A MENACE (Continued from page 5) This issue of independent political action which is declared “dead” by the present majority will soon be dis. cussed by every labor union from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Artic to the Gulf. Relying on Demagogy It is admited by both the minority and majority that our farmer-labor/ policy for the past two and a half years was SUBSTANTIALLY correct. It has more than any other single factor contributed to the growth of our party. It has placed the Workers Party on the political map of America. And now the majority of the C. E. C. pose before the membership as the party builders. With characteristic demagogy they proclaim that while they want to build the Workers Party the other group propose to build some- thing else. At this point I want to ask: What did they think they were doing by means of the farmer-labor slogan for the past two years and a half? Build- ing the Workers Party or something else? Their present arguments would _ seem to indicate that they had in view something else which did not mater- ilize. Let us put the burning question be- fore our party in this manner:—if our manoeuvers on the united political front have in the past brought to the Workers Party certain indubitable gains, gains which if continued would put it on the road to becoming a mass Communist Party, cannot these gains be continued in the future by a correct application of the same policy mod- dified only in so far as to meet chang: ing conditions? Let us analyze the situation correct- ly. The Present Situation The LaFollette campaign did not as yet produce a third party. It was con- dueted by an election alliance which is now dissolved. This alliance con- sisted of many different and divergent ‘ elements. Shall we now by rasing appropriate slogans emphasize these differences and sharpen these diver- gencies, or ignore the whole thing? In the last election campaign there A MAJOR QUESTION OF COMMUNIST — OF DEFEATISM were in the LaFollette camp hundreds 18 85 i gE 3 What We Must Do Shall we adopt a purist attitude and tell these masses that we will have nothing to do with them until they accept the complete Communist pro- gram? Or shall we hasten this process of disillusionment, separate the poten- tial revolutionists among the masses from reactionary leadership, and while advocating independent political ac- tion at the same time lay the founda- tion of a powerful mass Communist Party in America? — The present majority refuses square ly to meet these issues. They raise in- stead many other irrelevant and in- consequent issues, and prate volubly about the united front from below and above while showing no Marxian un. derstanding of the united front at all. Would not a campaign to establish a class farmer-labor pary, (even if its sole immediate achievement may be only the formation of a left farmer- labor bloc within the general move- ment) involve the application of the united front from below by an appeal to the rank and file of the labor un- ions against the opposition WITHOUT A STRUGGLE, and dare to pose before the membership as a Communist leadership! As against purist dogmatism the minority proposes a vigorous cam- paign along both the political and in- dustrial united fronts. As against a policy leading to building of a mass Communist Party in this country. ALL POWER TO THE MINORITY By PAT H. TOOHEY. Fron the writings of the C. I. C. majority followers the impression | is left that there is no sentiment for a farmer-labor party. Altho not a the oretician, not being able to quote Marx and others, I certainly can see the po- litcal childishness of this. Might I ask if it is our function, as Commun- ists, the revolutionary vanguard of the exploited masses to sit idly by and wait for the workers to raise hell over some issue or another and then we, as the hero of old, step in, take the leadship and—etc., etc. | Was this the policy pursued by our party on the foreign exception laws? Was there widespread agita- tion and sentiment against this bill, or did our party take the initiative and create the sentiment and agita- tien? Why agitate for a “labor con- gress” (brain child of the majority Hash-slingers). Why drop the F. L. for it? Was there any great amount of sentiment in 1922, as much as in 19247 What caused this tremendous ing sentiment which existed, as the ma- jority would tell us, up to June of this year? Was it brought about by the ceaseless agitation of our party? Did this sentiment exist when the policy was first adopted, or did the party have to crystallize a germ, to mould that sentiment? If so, then it has been very profitable for the party. But when the majority tells us there is no sentiment for this slogan one is forcibly reminded of the fool who stood by a river bank waiting until the water flowed away before trying to cross. Sentiment for a farmer-labor party exists in Washington county today. To Comrade Blankenstein I would say, go among the workers, associate with them, talk with them, stay among them, suffer with them, worke with them, and then you certainly will be in a position to write, or to speak au- thoritively of the “sentiments” and the “pulse” and the “political tend- encies” of the working class. That cannot be done by holding down a swivel chair daily in Pittsburgh. What C. E. C. Told Us. ers, apparently, did not discover they now claim annihilation farmer-labor party by the LaFollette movement, until recently, for in this program of action, adopted unanimous- ly by the C. E. C., we find the follow- plication of the united front policy in the United States, that the problem of the united front politically was problem of the formation of a party. Since that time the party has carried on a consistent united fron campaign with the end uniting those workers who were ready to break with the capitalist parties in a mass farmer-la- bor party with which the Workers i ii 327528 of the 110 i i f br i : 5 f campaign for a farmer-labor: party must be continued and will be a major campaign of the party in the future.” | Why the Sudden “Discovery”? This was presented to the member- ship late in July. The LaFollette boom was at its height. Our central execu- f — 3 F 848% ‘of medium, and littl® Therefore, let us have a farmer-labor party.” (Pam- phiet: “Parties and Issues in the Election Campaign.”) The minority thesis is a correct Communist thesis. To repudiate the farmer-labor party slogan at this time THEY ARE MAKING IT UNANIMOUS By ISRAEL AMTER. [the union.’ “Another fact troll which we should Plainly sought to do during the 1924 campaign, i. e., swallow it up, absorb educational value and its political | prestige with the working class.” But what did Zinoviev say in the Pre- sidium of the Communist Interna- tional? “I believe that if we study everything we will say that, in the year 1924, things are not so elemen- tary that we... cannot the idea of an independent’ labor 2 2 b its organization ability, and kill its“ party. We must dare to put forth this idea and it must be realized, namely, Ten Splendid CARTOONS By ; ART YOUNG ADOLPH DEHN WM. CROPPER FRED ELLIS HAY BALES Are only a part of the very best issue that has yet appeared— the January number of The Workers Monthly HAVE YOU RECEIVED YOUR POLICY BOOK? do YOU NEED ANOTHER? Write Alfred Wagenknecht, Cam- paign Director, 1118 W. Washing- ton Blvd. INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1928! * sos FOR THINKERS SCIENCE, LITERATURE ECONOMICS, HISTORY, “Ido for Workers” (Textbook in German or Russian). 00 “An Elementary Grammar” (In English) 180 The Workers’ Ido Federation Room 5, 805 James &t, N. &., PITTSBURGH, PA. U i. 1
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e * * * —e 1 J 1 i Th 121. li 28 . : g N 5 23 J f a 5 if] 4 | ; 4 2 1 2 - * , * — 3 eH | r : N ie 5 LIES 1 e HT fi t . 1 bts 7 5 f fi 11 i 57 : af 125 gas i 8 Pus i with the German General Federation of Trade Unions. In this respect the Vorwaerts“ fully reflects the view re- unity which exists in the right wing of the Amsterdam International. „the International Unity Congress, at „We will not submit conditions to one another” says the R. I. L. U. “We will convene a conference of represen- tatives of both Internationals, we ‘will jointly decide the time and place of which the organizations affiliated to the R. I. L. U. and to the Amsterdam International, as well as those trade union organizations which are outside both Internationals, shall be represen- ted. We will discuss at the inter- national congress the concrete tasks of the struggle against the capitalist offensive and against the fascist reac- tion. At this congress we will create the United Trade Union International. Whoever has the majority at this congress will carry through their re- solutions and will have the majority on the executive body. The constitu- tion of the new international will be in accordance with the standpoint of the majority. At this unity congress the Red International of Labor Unions and the Amsterdam International will declare that they dissolve their or- ganizations and enter into the United International. We Communists and revolutionary workers of all countries declare through the Communist Inter- national and the R. I. L. U. that if we find ourselves in a minority, that we the ques- te cl : Let the masses of rkers pro- nounce judgment as to whose tactics— those of the Communists or those of more consistent interests of the working class. afraid of bringing our. ‘before the court of the many ponents in an equally open manner as the fol- lowers of the R. I. L. U. do and will continue to do. We ask, what is there in the pro- posal which can be unacceptable for an -honest proletarian, no matter to what tendency he may belong? If the leaders of the Amsterdam Interna- tional are convinced that they have behind them the overwhelming major- ity, why are they afraid to attend a congress of this sort? The majority will be with them, and the will of the majority of the congress will decide the political line of the United International. Everything is clear re- garding this proposal. We propose to those who everywhere make a great cry over their democratic principles, the most democratic way COnceivable for uniting the divided international trade union movement. Meanwhile however, the opponents of the R. I. L. U. do not desire this proletarian- democratic solution of the question and hide their fear of proletarian democracy by means of the great out- cry over the craftiness of the Com- munists. To mobilize the masses for unity is the most important task at the present moment. The majority of the leaders of the Amsterdam International be- lieve that they will be able to evade this problem and to patch up the growing fissure in their own ranks which is consequent upon the inexorable radicalization of the work ing masses. If the Amsterdam Inter- national does not meet the wish of the majority of its own members it will simply collapse and unity will be re- stored over the heads of the present leaders. This is the reason why we, although we are quite aware of the enormous difficulties’which are lying the in our path, reply to the question. whether the unity of the international trade union movement is possible: yes, it is possible and inevitable. To-. gether with the leaders or without the leaders, the divided international trade union movement will in any event be welded together into a powerful anti-capitalist bloc. ) 5 — THE PARTY: DISCUSSION CONTINYED COMRADE RUTHENBERG’S ESTIMATES By ARNE SWABECK. Pie 0 f : tion of disfranchising of party mem- bers. Thirdly, although Pullman is industrially and geographically a part of Chicago our membership there has 5 for the last two years functioned thru their own separate C. C. C. The Chicago party membership is for the majority posi- tion and the vote recorded at the membership meeting of 399 to 362 is by no means an accurate proportion. tion but they did not attend the meet- ing quite so well. ~~ School. All educational directors should take careful note of the date, Jan. 1, and make no other arrangements for that evening. LIEBKNECHT MEMORIAL AND DAILY WORKER JUBILEE N Sunday, Jan. 11, the New York district of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League will join In an afternoon and evening affair at New Star Casino. Park Ave. and 107th St. The after- noon program will be under the special auspices of the Young Work- ers League in memory of the revolutionary hero, Kari Liebknecht. In NEW YORK WORKERS’ SCHOOL own headquarters, 208 E. 12th street. p. m. enroll. | New York City. at 8 p. m. do so at once, and Class in “A B C of Communism” at Workers’ School. In response to the demand for more classes in the “A B C of Commun- ism,” the Workers’ School in New York City now offers such a course at Its The classes will be conducted by Comrade J. C. Oblans, for many years an active party worker, and will meet every Thursday night, from 8 to 10 The first session will be held Thursday. Jan. 8. Comrades in lower Man- hattan particularly are urged to register and to get sympathizers also to Educational Directors Meet Monday, Jan. 19. A special meeting of branch educational directors will be held on Mon- day, Jan. 19, at the headquarters of the Workers’ School, 208 E. 12th street, Branches which have not yet elected their educational director should send name and address to the secretary of the Workere’ the evening the first anniversary at the door. ’ celebrated with a concert and dance. A joint ticket is issued at 50c which admits to either affair and is good for both if 25c extra is paid of the DAILY WORKER will de * mZ2Y—ᷣ— — ne — ——— —
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— ~~ ed ELER! | 2 rades, that in fighting for the unity . of the world trade union movement Br ny — — ͤ u— — N C *** ae 85 2 — ee Az a et had 2 2 * * 1 * — * re - a ee * — * 5 A * i > ~~ (Continued frem page 1) | to prevent the working class from Gerinany is shortly to go thru the reichstag elections. Black reaction is fmpending there. Following Ameri- ca and England, the conservative groups are marching to power there too, and the social democrats must, | of course, know this. What do they do, how did they build up their front? In what direction is it faced in this | st the election campaign? blacks? Nothing of the sort; they are building their entire front against the reds, against the Communist workers. They are helping the bour- geoisie to enact slavery elections. They have thrown practically the en- tire staff of the Communist Party in- to jail. The entire cream, the heads of the German workers, have been taken off with their aid. They are. preparing for black reaction. Like the flunkeys that they are, they are serving the bourgeoisie the best of the German trade union move- ment are busy splitting the interna- tional labor movement, or to be more exact, preventing it establish- ing unity. “ The workers of a number of coun- in England, for instance. In Germany F : 2 5 a 5 i E . : 111 ili it serve dit D 5 * * 1 1 20 1 1 ve! a, ‘ee ” * * acne * 7 A « — , 2 4 * ; N Te ¢*% | . — 1 a d * N N ü * 4 : airs * . 4 oe He = oe N. — 2 : 5 Aa * r f ; e 7 4 1 7 So 8 2 5 70 a * 1 e 8 £ N , a 7 * 1 * . N 2 wo Me 1 “or rs rvs a 7 « * 9 * be ~ . = at it. Ant; | » | re. f 15 i 1 115 * 5 3 8 2 fs 12 BS 1 at i 5 8 i 5 : i i 4 ; K HE f 4 6 11 the workers of the world.” Yee WORKERS MONTHLY started the New Year right by sur- passing any of the other three num- excellent though they were. The DAILY WORKER plant deserves com- The leading article is by Alexander Bittelman on “Lenin, Leader and Com- rade.” It is an easily read and easily understood article; plenty of meat, and paucity of empty phraseology. “Lenin is not dead” begins Bittel- man. He then proceeds to prove that Lenin lives in the hearts of the class conscious workers of the world and ‘that Lenin leads the world revolution today thru his teachings and the or- ganization he fashioned. Hundreds of books have been written about Lenin since his death, thousands more will be written. There is a keen analysis of the American Federation of Labor con- vention by William Z. Foster, an ar- and several other articles, besides an excellent short story woven around the struggle in the coal mines. Fred Ellis, the noted revolutionary artist, has two good cartoons. There are amusing and effective caricatures on the bourgeoisie by Art Young and pictures of life in Soviet Russia. This number of the Workers Month- ly is the “best yet.” The article on the world’s greatest revolutionist and the articles by Foster and Dunne-on strengthen the knowledge of the union militants and assist them in fighting the revolutionaries. l The Workers Monthly sells for 25 them who do not know which camp = s ticle by Anna Louise Strong, entitled cent® a copy. Subscription price is $2.00 a year. 5 aa! (ap ; on final emancipation and freedom for (Stormy | Lenin will give Communists an appet- ite for more material on the life of the trade union movement should N : ö * * 72 — 14 : * * y 7 | adh, 4 ae — — — : * * N bd . tue, 155 ms | we 2 we > , tae 3 * 1 25 1 — ‘ - ae : — 1 2 > var — * . 5 8 2 ie es, 7 * a f ¥ * 6 eta * 4 + > * ie HY 1 7 1 . * 3 : i * ¥ * * * N — ‘ : 257 i 7 . * : 4 : J : f 3 ‘ d . ‘ 4 9 5 10 F * 1 a a