Daily Worker
January 5, 1925
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— owns CO w-Ore My a ey oe ae a Batered ae Becondcate mater September Hi, 19%, 4 roe, § - . a >" wee: * eae Be es es : ps Fy J “Te ee 2 S%.4 age ees . see - ; : 4 oy ‘ 3 , by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. MONDAY, J Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Getearet a > .e 4g Pau; Wi eae ts ae 7 , represented by the British John had his price of course. on the payroll of the British pefore the United States sien war and no doubt he drew aie wad from then on. ‘tai shows light on incerity of socialist par- es. He tells of his visit to Sweden dn’ 1920. While in that country he | Premier Branting, socialist, what intended to do to realize the social- it heal, “Nothing at all” replied Braatng ‘That gentleman favored ; of maintaining the Swed- fat pate of exchange and in general s program that any white guard would - willingly. In fact the king was .oné of Branting’s strongest sup- 0 a fact which was taken by prominent leaders of the American party as an indication that there was a split in the ranks of Eur- monarchy, a goodly number of em: being ready to join the social eee - 2 T is undoubtedly true that Branting and every other. socialist premier who succeded in gaining power in Eur- ope since the war did nothing to ad- vance the socialist ideal. On the con- trary they were the most willing agents of capitalism. Witness Ramsay MacDonald in England and the Polish, Austrain and -Czecho-Slovak social. ists. But Spargo does not mention Russia ‘where the workers have ruled for over seven years and where the ground work.for a Communist society And should some one say that 21 has-been a fail- uré in Russia, we y that Commun- ism never existed in Russie, but that the’ workers have all power in their 3 are advancing toward the "eee ms ~ pan al ge t parties have tried to play the role of executioners of socialism, while the Communist patties who are successfully playing the role of the in ‘Sasbes is bankrupt and ‘ould not maititain itself in power but for. the Senate rendered to it by the socialist parties of Europe and the American capitalists. Spargo may con- ole himself with the thot that social- fem will. not be realized in America before his carcass is turned into dust. An‘the meantime he intends to live the of a prostitute. * * * | A. LOCHRAY, editor of the Mid ch Wegt News, and a former booster for a farmer-labor party, later a La- Follette booster and still later a Cal- yin. Coolidge booster, (he can’t sink any lower) is now trying to terrorize he capitalists into believing that they are confronted with an immediate danger which must be met by an ap- propriate expenditure of cash given to Worthy perver the aforesaid Lochray. This faker has turned his fag into a red baiting sheet almost ex- Gusiyely. Sosfar he has not pros- pered by the change. Formerly the Mid-West News came out weekly; now it hurts the eye only once a month. Let ys hope he makes it a yearly. * 7 . T= CINCINNATI INQUIRER re- & cently published a dispatch from the Chicago Tribune’s correspondent, which states that the Communist In- ternational has ordered a revolution to take place in the Balkans“in the month of March. The story does not give the exact hour or minute on which the onslaught is to be made but it got very close to it. It will take place in the second or third week in March. It is also interesting to note that the main object of the revolt is to “heal the breach between Trotzky and former chiefs.” The assumption is that Trotzky is addicted to sulky (Continued on page 2) existing in t calist” bork, is seen by the first} a ; - Protest Michigan Rale As Suppression That the white terror of the capitalist dictatorship is rousin the workers to-a realization o the threat against every worker e “criminal syndi- resolutions beginning to come in protesting against the action of the Michigan state supreme court in sustaining the convic- tion of €. E. Ruthenberg and opening the way for imprison- ment of William Z. Foster, Wil- liam F. Dunne and the other Michigan defendants. Illustrative of the rising protest is the resolution, printed below, from the United Mine Workers of America, Lo- cal No. 2376, at Christopher, [linois. It is to be noticed that these coal niin. ers call upon labor to support the La. bor Defense Council, 166 West Washb- ington street, Chicago, Illinois, in the fight against the capitalist persecu- tion. The resolution is as follows: Resolution Against “Criminal Syndi. calism Laws.” WHEREAS, the many state “crim- inal syndicalism” laws and “sedition acts” are unconstitutional and instru- ments of employing class tyranny over the workers and their organiza- tions, and WHEREAS, the state supreme court of Michigan has upheld the convic. tion of C. E. Ruthenberg for “assemb!)- ing with” the Communists in an opin. ion which calls for the punishment of ideas and the denial of free speech and assemblage, and which evades the issue by ignoring the fact that, as the defense showed, there was not even a violation of the state law since nothing was done in Michigan by the defendant in the way of any overt act or advocacy, and ro el 7 . A ' ” Ke omy aN ; mee 09 be. * he, ar tee tence of ten peace lo aganes 2 and $10,000 fine, for this “erime” of hold. ing an opinion counter to their own, rather than on the law and the consti. tution, and WHEREAS, the sustaining of Ruth enberg’s conviction by the United - | States supreme court will mean alse the railroading to long terms in prison of William Z. Foster, Wm. F. Dunne and 29 other wellknown fighters in the ranks of the labor movement, and would also encourage high-handed suppression by the capitalist control led government of all and any work ing class organizations which dares opose their open shop rule, and WHEREAS, the solidarity of the en. tire working class is eSsential to its welfare and requires that those in the forefront of the struggle must es. pecially have the support of all work- ers, therefore be it RESOLVED, That we protest against and condemn the action o the Michigan supreme court, record ourselves as in support of the Labor Defense Council in this case and call upon all labor bodies and working) class bodies to take the same stand. That we petition the governor of the state of Michigan to pardon the de- fendant inthe event that the United States supreme court sustains the conviction, it being our ‘view that such action on the part of the federal supreme court would be’a nullifica. tion of-the constitution in the interest of instruments of capitalist suppres- sion of the workers, and be it further RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be sent to the governor of the state of Michigan and the labor press. Leon Gremling, President, Ed Johnson, Recording Secretary. 400 Jobless Per Week SEATTLE.—Unemployed workers are flooding into Seattle at the rate of 400 a week. Relief work on the largest scale on record is in operation. Are You Going to the Open Forum Sunday Night? ‘ Resalts of Membership Meetings F SOUTH BEND, IND.—By mistake the Workers Party of South Bend, Ind.. called a meeting of the City Central Committee instead of a general mem- bership meeting. But after listening to Comrade Minor speak for the minor- ity and Comrade Swabeck for the majority, the City Central Committee voted Unanimously, eight to nothing, to support the majority. The committee met January 2. x * * * GARY, IND.—On Saturday. January 3, Gary’s general membership meet- ing, after listening to Comrade Kruse for the minority and Comrade Swabeck , for the majority, voted 15 to 5 to support the majority. “* ,s ee 2 ‘ Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 14123 W. Washington Blvd., Ill. Price 3 Cents MINERS DIE IN BLOW UP OF. UNSAFE POCKET Coal Mine Was Old and Gaseous , (Special to the Daily Worker) W. FRANKFORT, Iil., Jan. 4. —One coal miner is dead, another is dying, ae several _| were severely injured here fd and - Ta OF COG! IO f th nde é Cor < by ee caused ‘ahs The wor rs of the mine were filled with gas. The safety laws were’ directly violated when the men were allowed to}; ,.j work in a mine in which there was danger of the coal falling at any time. . Falling Coal Releases Gas. The falling coal released a pocket of gas, which rushed into the entry where the men were on their way to work, being ignited when it came int« contact with the lamps of the miners Beveridge McKeever, a lad of 21 years of age, was badly burned and died yesterday in the hospital here Ben Polinski is not expected to live. Two other victims, N. W. Malone anc W. T. Wade, were so badly burned about the.face and head that the: will be difigured for life. The Illinois laws require that the mine be thoroly inspected before the men are allowed to enter, and if gas is found in the mine, the men mus, be kept out of the workings. Thir law was evidently violated, according to the news dispatches. The United States department of la- bor, in a recently issued report, de- clares that many of thesé accidents |are avoidable, if the coal operators ‘would use the most scientific meth- ods of laying excessive coal dust and of reinforcing the sides of the entries so that- the coal will not fall. This the operators have not done, the de- partment of labor admits, and hence avoidable mine accidents greatly in- creased in 1924. NEW GERMAN CABINET TO BE DICTATORSHIP Von Seeckt ‘Is Hope of Reactionaries BERLIN, Jan., 4—The social demo- cratic party which ruled Germany after the revolution that sent the Kaiser scurrying to Holland no longer cuts any figure in the Reich government. It is truéEbert stilh remains, but he is indeed the Last of the Mohicans. Tho the yellows polled over 7,000.000 votes in the last elections, when Ebert called on Mark to form a cabinet he picked the most conservative collection that appeared on any government slate since the flight of the Kaiser. The new cabinet formed by Marx is anon party affair and because of its inability to secure a parliamentary majority it is proposed to equip it | with dictatorial powers. ) ¢ s 3 ~ | BERLIN, Dec. 16 (By Mail. heavy industry, to form a new of the social- problem has been solved by GERMAN ‘DEMOCRACY’ IN LAST ~ PHASE; 22 PARTIES CONTESTED RECENT ELECTION; END IN SIGHT , Rs (Special to The Daily Worker) smocratic party have vanished. Sobr turned. The Communist Party is still in existence—to the po nant disappointment of the whole bourgeoisie, but particular! iy the social-democracy. 2,750,000 workers and peasants voted for the Communist Party and its open revolutionary program. The Communist Party will live and grow; crushed—not even by a white terror as it is at present raging in Germany. The 30 million voters who wenf to the polls have received another valuable lesson in bourgeois democracy. The “stabilized” German republic is still a in agony, ++} a4 -_--- )—The elections are over. The old cabinet has gone. Today or tomorrow the social-democratic president of the bourgeois republic will ask Marx (clerical cen- ter) or Stresemann (people’s party), or some other nt of the cabinet. The triumphant tones Sey has ie. it cannot be No this election, no contradiction eliminated. Twenty-two Parties. Twenty-two (22) “parties” partic- ipated in the parliamentary burlesque. One of these “parties” has received 190 votes, another 160. Surely this must be the last, the “highest” phase of bourgeois parliamentarism! What able to a un} shop iron “ote have released | bert Hansen Parente was Capitalist ‘Aacnalinds on 20th Amendment - NEW YORK.—Chiid marriages and child labor held the floor at the public hearing of the New York state com- mission fo examine laws relating to child welfare. Sen. Benjamin Antin, who has been quoted in favor of the federal amendment on child labor, pre- sided. The old arguments for and against the amendment were dragged out with the familiar cry of Bolshevism. James P. Holland, president New York State Federation of Labor, and John P. Coughlin, secretary New York City Central Trades and Labor Assembly, spoke for the amendment. Charges that even worse results than the 18th amendment brought would result from the 20th, were made by Will McCarroll, a director of the New York board of trade anc transportation... Mrs. E. 8. Shumway of the New York committee for pro. tection of our homes and children agreed with McCarroll that the amend ment would mean “nationalization” of children. Limitation of immigration will in- crease the number of child workers according to George W. Alger, chair. man New York child labor commit tee, who argued against McCarroll. Already, he claimed, reports from 39 cities show an increase of 20 per cent in child labor and nine cities report an increase of 50 per cent. He said it was ridiculous to claim that a meas- ure endorsed by Pres. Coolidge, Hard- ing and Lodge could be in any way Bolshevistic. Mrs. F. Louis Slade, president New York state league of women voters, said opponents of the child labor amendment were moved by business considerations. A hasty merriage bill which would make five days’ delay after obtaining license. compulsory is proposed tc combat the child marriages permis- sible in New York. Those favoring the bill say that children are married under 16 in the state to enable them to quit school and goto work. Unemployment Worse in Than for Three Years OTTAWA, Can.—Employment in Ca- nada jn December was on a lower level than 1923 nearly all the time, and for some months lower than either 1923 or 1922, the Dominion bureau of statiatics shows. - FRENCH BID ON DEBT NOT ACCEPTABLE Infinitesmal Interest and $0 Years to Pay (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.— Administration officials today st “9 vu ieported Seradte to Winking | period of a long and tedious oe specialization, what differentiation! Are you a vegetarian? Then form a party! Are you a commercial phrenol- ogist? Then form a party and enter into the parliamentary struggle. Are you a general who sent millions of workers to the grave?—dquick, get a party and come into the “House of the Peoplé.” There is room for every- bod¥: come all of you—while there is still a chance! But what are the concrete results of these elections! The Communist Party has lost one million votes. The social-democrats have temporarily suc- ceeded in fooling a section of the pro- letariat with the Dawes promises, the prospects of American gold, “stabiliza- tion,” paradise itself. With these promises they gained thirty seats in the reichstag. The clerical center and the democrats have made but slight gains. The two. parties of heavy in- ~over ed | ton, bears out the summaries of it that have been cabled in press dispatches from Paris, it is con- sidered a foregone conclusion here that the terms proposed by France will prove wholly unac- ceptable to the United States. These terms are understood to be: 1. A moratorium of ten years. 2. An interest fate of one-half of one per cent. 3. Payments to be made over a period of 90 years. Such terms would mark a radical eet from the basic agreements rovided in other debt settlements, and undoubtedly would lead to much opposition in congress, which must, in the end, approve any bargain made by the American debt funding commis. sion. ' The state department announced to. day that at the meeting of the allied finance ministers at Paris next Tues- day, the United States would be rep resented’ by Ambassador Frank B. Kellogg, at London; Ambassador Myron T. Herrick at Paris, in addi. tion to Col. James A. Logan, the cus- tomary “unofficial observer” at Enu- ropean gatherings. Lest the presence of three such dis. tinguished American diplomats at this | conference be milsinterpreted, officials at the department reiterated that under no circumstances would they engage in a discussion of American war debts. PETTY BOURGEOIS FIGHT FOR PLAGE WITH PLUTES ON NEW GERMAN CABINET (Special to The Daily Wor er) — BERLIN, Jan. 4-—Germany on Monday will have a new legislative body in session without a cabinet to direct the government's policies. This situation was made evident when Chancellor Marx again re- ported to President Ebert that he could not form a new cabinet. The reason, he said, was that the cen- trist party is insisting on a coalition which would include the socialdem. | ocrats. The German peoples’ party, Marx said, refused to listen to any coalition plan. Marx has announc- ed the plan to make the new cabi- net even more conservative than the old. — (Continued on page 3) UNSEATING REDS IN FEDERATION Military Traditins Camps Are Denounced The mere talk of expelling Com- munists from the Chicago Federation of Labor met quick and severe apposi- tion in the federation meeting yester- day. Only one delegate, who started the discussion, had the temerity to mention it, and he was talked down by every one elwe who spoke. Likewise the support of the citizens military train- ing camps given by the federation’s delegate to the A. F. of L. convention was hotly denounced by a great many delegates, among them ex-service men in the delegate body. Upon the report of the executve council, Delegate Swabeck of the Painters’ union spoke in vigorous pro- test of the action of the federation’s | delegate to the El.Paso convention of ‘the A. F. of L., particularly in his | support of the resolution making the labor unoin officials recruiting agents ifor the citizens’ military training camps. Denounces Union Recruiting for Army Swabeck denounced the leaders of the A. F. of L, as the willing hand maidens. of capitalist imperialism helping the capitalists prepare for an. other world war. We face, he de- clared, another great war or profound business depression, and the leaders of the American Federation were busy lead the workers trenches, again into the instead of building up the wasting away. He cited the fizzle of the so-called “steel campaign” where tens of thousands of dollars had been spent with no organization to show for it. Delegate Arnold, also from the | Painters’ Union, expressed surprise that Thomas 8. Kennedy, the dele gete from the Chicago fedexation to the El Paso convention, had dared to |support a scheme of making the un iions recruiting grounds and the union officers recruiting agents of the war department in view of the pronounc- (Continued on Page 3) * ernment. collaborating with the capitalists to} membership of the unions which were | RUTH FISCHER IS ARRESTED IN AUSTRIA At the Instigation of the British Government (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Jan. 4—Ruth Fisch- er, fe a — in the German Communist Party, was arrested in Vienna on Saturday morning on a charge of crossing into Austria on a false passport and of registering under a fictitious name. Comrade Fischer is a native of Austria and has made fre- quent trips to her native coun- try previously without molesta- tion. It is freely stated here that the arrest was made at the which has an eco- nomic stranglehold ‘on Austria and is now busy perfecting a cordon of Balkan states for hostile action against «Soviet Russia. The proposed Balkan Federation of Soviet Republics as against the pres- ent governmental satrapies of the big capitalist powers has taken a strong hold in the Balkans and England has taken the lead in organizing the bour- geoisie to resist the Sovietization of the witches’ cauldron of Europe. Using the Pope. It is now admitted for the first time that the Vatican has been dragged into the anti-Soviet plot. The pope is in- structed by the protestant British gov. ernment to use its influence among the catholic populations and keep their minds inflammed against Com- munism. In view of the pope’s alli- ance with the tumbling fascist regime in Italy he must take England’s or. ders regardless of the consequences. He_is between the devil and the deep sea. | France has promised Britain support against Russia but the former is con- ducting negotiations with Krassin and the French have more to fear in the immediate future from Britain than from Soviet Russia. Capitalist na- tions cannot afford to take a long and altruistic view of things, owing to the keen competition between them, Progress in China. Soviet diplomacy has made tremen. dous progress in China and it is con- fidently expected that Sun Yat Sen, ‘the revolutionary Chinese leader, will \be the next president of that country Japan and Russia have not yet signed treaties. but Japan needs the oil on Saghalien Island for the use of her navy, and for her relations with the |western powers excluding France are inone too friendly. One of the princi- pal specific reasons for the revival o hostility to the Soviet government is the defeat of the capitalist powers’ in. trigues in China by Soviet diplomacy. Minnesota Printers Want State Owned Printing Establishment ST. PAUL.—Minnesota typographical unions are combining to have the legislature provide for a state-owned printing plant. Several legislators are pledged to back the measure, which is modeled on the Kansas law. PORTUGUESE CABINET DECIDES TO RECOGNIZE SOVIET RUSSIA ee 1 (Special to the Russia as a Soviet republic. - DAILY WORKER) LISBON, Portugal, Jan. 4.—The cabinet has decided formally to recognize “Tee ——
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a ~ TO TALK CASH; ASKS QUESTION U. S. Demands Return of Blood Money (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Jan. 4.—The French overnment will never pay a ranc of its war debt to the United States if it can possibly avoid doing so. This is the only conclusion to be drawn from the statement of a high official of the French for- eign office when he declared that he did not see any reason why France should pay the bills for a “common war.” But France must pay, at least .’if England is successful in her present intrigues at Washing- ton. It appears that France has made an offer to liquidate its debt to the United States. But considering the condition of capitalism in Burope, the offer is tantamount to _ repudiation. First, France wants ten years’ mora- torium, a rather lengthy breathing spell during which anything is liable to happen in France. Light Payments. Secondly the payments would be spread over an eighty year period, the first payments being rather light, a sum of $20,000,000 anually during the first twenty years. U. S. Ambassador Herrick would not admit thet official overtures were made by France to the United States. Neither would the French govern- ment. May Turn Over Territory. Washington knows quite well that France cannot pay and the present in. sistence is with the object of forcing the French government to mention territorial concessions in lieu of cash. France has. some islands in the west- ern hemisphere that the United States would like to lay hands on. It is also not beyond the range of probability that England may consent to turn over some real estate rather than con- tinue paying several millions of pounds yearly as interest on her war debt. COOLIDGE AGAIN “CHANGES MIND ON POSTAL BILL Submits Compromise for Sterling Bill (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.-— A substitute for the Sterling bill pro- viding for sharply increased mailing rates charged newspapers has been approved by Coolidge. The new bill, presented by Senator Moses, is con- sidered a compromise affair, as it in- creases postal rates, but not as much as the bill formerly backed by Cool- idge. The new bill, drafted by the joint postal committee of congress is look- ed on in some quarters as a grace-|21, has been issued to the. labor berg, captain, W. Ozol. ful withdrawal by Coolidge of his op- position to the bill for the increase in the wages of the postal employes, vetoed by Coolidge during the last ses- sion of congress. However, if strenu- ous objection is raised in the senate to the substitute bill, it is taken for franted that Coolidge senators will prolong discussion until congress ad- journs, if possible. The substitute bill was presented by the Coolidge senators after the newspapers had raised a_ storm of protest against increase in their mail- ing rates. The Moses bill spreads the increase over several classes of mail instead of confining it to the newspapers. Fifteen Injur When Syracuse Car Turns Turtle SYRACUSE, N. Y., Jan. 4.—Fifteen persons were reported to have been injured when a Solvay car, Syracuse bound, ran wild and tipped over today by police. The car, almost filled with Saturday shoppers, was on a turn when the ac cidént occurred. The exact cause is unknown. The trucks left the track and the car tipped over. Many of the passengers were women and children Sa AUUNUUANELINNUSUUENNAONUEAUUETUSOOUEDOOAAUT OUEST AOL TEU UD ETS : AND POETRY! By such well-known poets as Witter Bynner Edwin Seaver Sara Bard Field and ethers—adds artistic value to the many other features and store of information in the Jan- uary issue of The Workers Monthly TULL CLL PEVTLATUE AVALON ALE ATTER AEE TOON EU ELATED ATT a r RAIL UNIONS BACK OUT OF THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT AND ADVOCATE ANCIENT “REWARD AND PUNISH” (Federated Press St road labor organizatfons refuse to take C. P. P. A. held in Washington Dec. By LAURENCE TODD aff Correspondent) WASHINGTON. Jan. 4.—Recommendations that the 16 associated rail- part in the convention called by the conference for progressive political action for Feb. 21 in Chicago to consider a new political party have been forwarded to the presidents of these organ- izations by their spokesmen at the meeting of the national committee of the 2. 12. Johnston of the Machinists dis. sents. Signed by Officiais. The report is signed by H. E. Wills of the Locomotive Engineers, Edward Keating, manager of Labor, their weekly national paper, and B. M. Jewell, president railway employes’ department of the American Federa- tion of Labor. After reviewing the action of the national committee on Dec. 12, when 13 votes were cast against the con- vention, the report recites a long list of arguments used against action. Among them were: “That the so called mandate of July 4 was not the action of a convention, but was the expression of opinion of those who attended the conference; that the railroad labor organizations as such could not and would not become par. ties to the formation of a political party; that therefore it was clearly the duty of the committee, inasmuch | as these organizations were the back: bone of this conference, and had con-| tributed most to its support, to exer- cise good judgment and avoid unnecs. sary expenditure of money, time and energy.” Claim Release from Pledges. The report states that the rail labor group—except Johnston—did not at- tend the final session of the commit- tee which drafted the call, “and we’ hold that by refraining from attending any further meetings we have fre- leased our organizations of any and all obligations to participate in the convention to be called to finance it, or to be in any manner obligated by its actions. Sen. LaFollette was_repre- sented in the conference on Dec. 12 by his son, but the senator’s position regarding the questions above dis- cussed was not stated.” “Labor” Makes Threat. The report suggests that if the rail labor chiefs approve the action of their spokesmen in Washington, Labor will launch an educational campaign “wherein we will frankly and freely discuss with our membership the rea- sons why our associated labor organ- izations take the above position.” They suggest also that the chiefs likewse issue letters to their organ. izations, explaining why the organiza- tion “cannot and will not become’ a party to the formation of a political party,” and why the funds of the or- ganizations, local or general; cannot be expended to send delegates to the convention; but it is to be made clear that each member may attend the con. vention as a delegate, provided he is not a delegate of his labor organiza. tion. To Keep C. P. P. A. Finally, the report urges that the C. P. P. A. be maintained; “that labor organizations remain free to deter: mine for themselves and by them selves_their own political policy, and to support their friends and reelect them—and to oppose their enemies and if possible defeat them.” This report dated Dec. 3 has not ‘hitherto come into print. The call for ithe convention, which wil} be held in ‘the Lexington hotel in Chicago, Feb. | ‘farmer and progressive politica)! groups represented in the C. P. P. “ Coolidge to Be | Eased Into White | House by Banker WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4-—A | banker will have charge of the ar- | rangements of President Coolidge’s | announced today. her, Washington banker, has been ap- | pointed by Coolidge as chairman of the inaugural committee, in complete charge of all inaugural arrangements | apart from the official ceremonies at the capitol. Coolidge has followed | his usual policy of catering to wealth | in this appointment. | | | In Memoriam—Lenin | |meetings for Nicolai Lenin, i of the laboring masses. |\with these memorial meetings, on | Thursday, Jan. 15, a moving picture, “In Memoriam—Lenin,” will be shown | in the Gartner’s Independent Theatre, 3725 Roosevelt Road. Two other pic ures will also be shown: “Polikush- ka,” and “Soldier Ivan’s Miracle.” Admission will be 50c. Tickets are ‘for sale now at Russian Technical School, 1902 W. Division St.,; Russian Co-operative Restaurants, 1734 W. | Division St. and 760 Milwaukee Ave., at 166 W. Washington St., Room 307, ‘at the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W.| by all mem- Aid Society, Washington Bivd., and bers of the Technical U. S. 8. R. Lrsire The Tasty Woorkes jr 425 | QUIT WILSON’ WAR 5 | partment officials are | On the 2ist of January the workers | A general ambulance call was issued |the world over will hold | ' 1e | ‘leader and fighter for the liberation | In connection - AS WE SEE IT | By T. J. O’°FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) moods unless he has half a dozen wars on his hands. l* the revolution does not take place; at the specified time by the Chicago Tribune correspondent and doubt is cast on the authenticity of his infor-|~ mation, he may come back like the official of the British foreign office by saying: “Well, even if such instruc- tions were not sent out by Zinoviev, it is just like what.he would write, had he written them.” What are you going to do about it? : » . + OWEVER it is not likely that the H papers will become dull thru lack of exciting news from Europe in the next few months. We note that Mus- solini is finding it harder to maintain the fiction that he is the greatest ruler since the days of Julius Caesar and the angel guardian of capitalism. His murder crew is now squealing on him and it looks as if his neck would soon make the acquaintance of a rope, or a sharp knife. Those who see a / similarity between the black shirt dic- tatorship in Italy and the proletarian dictatorship in Russia should note the difference between a dictatorship of the majority, as in Russia and a dictatorship of the minority over the majority is the case in Italy. The Rus- sian workers have majority rule in the real sense. The workers and peasants rule and nobody will question the fact that they are the majority. > the underground Commun- ‘arty of Esthonia, in 1920. Elected seer of the Longshore- men’s Union if Reval. Began to or- ganize the umion of Young Proletar- ians. On the 15th of April, 1921, the po- lice raided this union, arrested the majority of the C. E. C., the union was dissolved, Sommerling becoming “illegal” and going underground. He did not cease his activities, and on the third week after the raid, he was arrested. In 1922, in the case of the 115, he was sentenced to 10 years of hard labor. He was exchanged by the Soviet government for some white guard spies. He then became active among -the youth of Leningrad. Af- ter Jan Tomp was murdered. by the Esthonian government, Sommerling went back to Hsthonia, participating actively in the building of barricades, but was again forced underground. Together with two other comrades, Alixon and Kruglik, he stayed in a small village—Ero, ten miles from Reval. The Reval secret service found out about it and five sécret service men Came to take him. They were forced to call out a whole com- pany, and after a nine-hour battle, from 10 p. m. to 7 a. m., Comrade Sommerling, leader of the young Es- thonian Communists, together with his comrades, were dead. CHICAGO PARTY ACTIVITIES ‘Workers Party branches have been assigned to aid in the campaign in various wards in which candidates, members of the Workers Party are running in the aldermanic elections on Feb. 24, 1925. Branches have been assigned to the ten wards in which our candidates are running according to the location of the branch. The Young. Workers’ Working Area branches are also renderirng aid. The following are the branches and their assignments to wards: Ward No. 24—H. Epstein; candidate, Wm. Kruse, captain. Branches work: ing in this ward are: Douglas Park English, Italian W. S. No. 2, and Young Workers’ League Area Branch No. 1. Ward No. 31—Candidate not yet se. lected, captain, L. Candella. Branches working in this ward are: Italian 31st ward, Hungarian, Greek, Italian No. 1. Y. W. L. No. 2, Spanish, Bulgarian, and Mid City English. Ward No. 32—Candidate not yet se. lected. M. Stolar, captain. Branches working in this ward are: Ukrainian No. 1, Polish North Side, Russian and Young Workers’ League Area BrancB No. 5. Ward No. 28—Candidate, N. Dozen- Branches working in this ward are: Lettish and West Side Scandinavian. Ward No. 3—Candidate, E. L. Doty captains, Minor and Gordon Owens. Branches working in this ward are: South Side English, Englewood Eng lish, South Side Scandinavian, Polish South Side. Ward No. 11—Candidate, Victor Zok aitis, manager, M. Manus. Branches working in this ward are: Lithuan- inaugural parade on March 4, it was |'@2 No. 5, South Slav No. 1, Ukrain- William T. Galli- | '#n No. 5 and Y. W, L, No. 8. Ward No. 22—Candidate, L. Cejka; lé i nd * . is cotsin, A ,Overmard.|“Branches|in “ihe next tesue ot the DAILY : | WORKER. eee HOPE OF FREEDOM FOR RUSSIAN SOLDIER WHO WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—War de- understood ready to recommend release of An- ton Karachun, Russian _ citizen, serving a long sentence at McNeil’s Island prison for desertion from the American forces in Siberia in 1919, if Karachun will return to Russia. Karachun enlisted with- out suspecting that ne would be ordered to fight his fellow-Russians. Armour & Co. and Other Corporations Use Monroe Doctrine RIO DE JANIERO, Jan. 4—The encroaching clutches of Wall ' / imperialism upon the countries of South America, the basis of the new | and aggressive interpretation of the | Monroe Doctrine, is seen -again illu- | strated in the decree signed yesterday 'bl President Bernardes of Brazil, granting business concessions to Ar- |}mour and Company, the Parke-Davis | drug company, and the International Machine company. street Slovak No. 1, Czecho-Slovek No. 3, Lithuanian No. 2, Y. W. L. No. 4, Lith- uanian No. 77 and the Douglas Park Jewish. | Ward No. 34.—Harry Brooker, can. didate; I. L. Davidson, captain Branches working in this ward are: Northwest Jewish, Italian Terra Cot. ta, Y. W. L. No. 6 and the Roumanian date; N. J. Christensen, capain. North- west English, Karl Marx, Scandinav- ian, Armenian: Ward No. 44—J. W. Johnstone, can- didate, Walt Carmon, captain. Finn. ish, Lakeview Scandinavian, North Side English, German Young Workers’ League No. 1. Petitions are already out and com- rades are expected to get on the job at once to. get @ necessary signa tures to place our candidates on the ballot. All petitions must be in at the local office by Jan. 23. Branch secretaries are instructed to call meetings immediately of their branch executive committee and elect a branch elections committee to get in touch with the ward captain. , Do not wait for a branch meeting. ime is brief. Get busy. As soon as the branch elections committee meets with the ward captain a ward commit. tee will be elected. Branches _ will then also be assigned to a section of the ward in which they are to work. The DAILY WORKER will be a feature of this campaign. Every member of the party or league going out to secure signatures on petitions is to take the DAILY WORKER and leave the copy at each place he vis its. Further, these comrades are to try to get subscriptions forthe DAILY WORKER.thru the special DAILY WORKER subscription cards. The details on this program will be giver CHICAGO, ATTENTION! All-friendly organizations, T. U. BE. I, groups, party branches, language federations and Y. W. L. branches! Arrangements have been made for the following major city affairs. Do not arrange conflicting affairs on thes. days: Karl Liebknecht Celebration—Sun- day, January 11, Northwest all, corner North and Western Aves Auspices Y. W. L., Local Chicago. The Red Revel—Saturday, Feb. 28, West End Women’s Club Hall. SPECIAL NOTICE! On Back Numbers of the DAILY WORKER —_ | The heavy cost of handling back numbers for which there has been || a steady demand necessitates the following prices: | 5 CENTS PER COPY | ' on all issues within 30 days of ' current issue. 10 CENTS PER COPY for all issues over 30 days old. No orders for back numbers filled unless paid for in advance. vale s ce Ward No, 36—J, L. Engdahl, candi. “labor Lieutenant” of Bosses Helps Create Chaos Among Workers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. - P TOAY, the anti-Communist, William Green, the new head of the American Federation of Labor, joins the camp followers of the war on child labor. Green is no more than a camp follower in this great struggle. He is even the brand ‘of —e follower ready to desert to the enemy when occasion demands. Go F orward' with hSI “Into the Masses!” — By ERIC VERNEY. (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Jan. 4—On December 2 the circulation of Pravda reached 506,546 copies. ~ . ~ This record-breaking achievement is a landmark in the history of the world revolutionary press, especially as the circulation last January stood at not more than 126,000. During the current year, daily sales reached the following figures: . we * * * Green belongs to the democratic party of ‘the southern chattel owners, before the Civil War, and now the party of the southern cotton mill owners, the worst exploiters of January 126,334 child labor. March 170,445 Gréen is now the head of the American Federation of June ble Labor, just as he was formerly secretary-treasurer of the mead savhad United Mine Workers of America. But he was never aleader. |... Sorta wo Tecaas cen ee of the working class. He always trailed in the rear. He |. nselves. eu Pravda in 1912. We can only realize the full sig- nificance of these figures when we compare them with those of 1912, when the Pravda, following in the wake of the illegal Bolshevik organs ‘| Vperod (Forward) and Proletary, first saw light as a mass workers’ daily. Twelve years ago the circulation of Pravda was about 30,000 copies. But in spite of this comparatively moder- ate figure, it had already become a mass paper, serving the wide interests of the workers. Copies were often passed on from hand to hand until but a tattered remnant was left. During the Pravda’s legal period from 1912-15, the paper was directed by Lenin in exile abroad, and produced and distributed by the comrades in was dragged into pepe en teeny whatever labor measures he supported thru the pressure from the masses from under- neath. That kind of 4 champion always deserts at the first Msi ey © That kind of a misleader, a “labor lieutenant” of the capitalist class, always fight the militants, the class con- scious workers. Green is one of the worst red baiters in the whole labor movement. He makes war on the Commun- ists, who alone wage a real war against child labor; hot , only for immediate relief, but for its complete extinction thru the abolition of capitalism. The big business exploiters of children’are not worried much by Green’s opposition. Only the fight of the Commun- ists rouses them. | * % * He Now the state legislatures are meeting over the country to consider the child labor amendment to the constitution —the proposed 20th amendment—the propagandists of the the enemy are more active than ever. Tons of literature, urging the exploitation of children, are being sent out, for instance, by the National Committee | ®u#s!a under most difficult conditions. for the Rejection of the 20th Amendment. ron dog it steadily increased its It is significant that one of the special letters mailed out |‘™'Uence mong the revolutionary working masses. In those days Pravda (Continued on Page 5.) KLUXER TERROR DRIVE IN ITY MAKES ITS BOW First Victim of Putsch Was Happy Lover contains two pieces of propaganda. : One of these is a reproduction of an editorial from the subservient spokesman of the capitalist class, the New York Evening Post. It is an argument for child labor. fe The other reproduces not only the top of our tag! of Monday, Dec. 1, with its headline, “Communists Fight Child Labor,” but also the entire article appearing in that issue under the sub-head, “United Front Call Issued by Workers Party—Big War on Exploitation of Children Starts.” Ours is the fight they fear. * This National Committee for Rejection of the 20th Amendment recognizes its class foe in the Communists, with their party, the Workers (Communist) Party, and their daily, the DAILY WORKER. This “Committee,” in pitting the propaganda for child labor in the New York Evening Post ogeinst the propaganda against child labor in the DAILY WORKER, shows the class conscious working class position of the Communist move- ment. ku klux‘klan officials in Chicago that the invisible empire had arrang- ed for a campaign of terror and vio- lence in the city, beginning in the ‘/near future and’ on a date kept se- cret for tactical reasons, it was dis- covered on last Saturday, that A. R Gartner, manager of a shoe store in the loop, was kidnapped on Novem- ber 3, by four members of the klan and saved from possible murder by two West Park policemen. One of the kidnappers, Hansen, is said to be a kleagle. of the klan. It appears that Gartner had committed the offense of calling on a@ young woman who is employed by Montgomery Ward & Co., without securing the permission of the offi- cers of the hooded order. It was during the course of one of those visits that Gartner was grab- bed by four men, hustled into a wait- ing automobile and driven west on Washington Blvd. His shouts at- tracted the policemen. Judge Hayes ordered the cases’ re- ferred,to the grand jury for indict- ment on charges of kidnapping. EMPLOYMENT SHARKS MUST QUIT CHARGING DOUBLE FEES FOR JOBS SACRAMENTO, Cal.— Attorney General Webb has announced that the practice of California private employment agencies of charging an * Eg * * Green recognizes no classes. For him there is no work- ing class; no capitalist class. The new A. F. of L. head epitomizes the position of the class collaborationist, when he says: “That children are employed In industry anf commerce... is a challenge to the ideals of our republic and to the humanitarian spirit of our nation.” Child slavery is but part of the greater problem of wage slavery that holds the working class in its shackles. Children in industry is not a challenge to Green’s “republic,” which is the republic of the owning class. It is a challenge to the whole oppressed working class. This nation, Green’s nation, ruled by Wall Street, will never make a place for “the spirit of humanity” until Soviet Rule displaces its Dollar Rule. , Green may speak against child labor. But his collabora+ tion with the capitalist class only helps to cripple the working class in its struggle to abolish the slavery of children. Thus do all the “labor lieutenants” of capitalism try to bring confusion into the ranks of the workers struggling for their own liberation from capitalism. ‘BOSTON Y. W. L. FIVE TO ONE FOR MAJORITY THESIS AFTER HEARING LOVESTONE, BALLAM FOR MINORITY (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 4.—At a membership meeting of the Young Work- ers League held here, to discuss the theses of the C. E. C. and its minority, Comrades Jay Lovestone and John J. Ballam, district organizer of the party, presented the position of the minority, with Comrade Barney Mass, of the Young Workers League. speaking for the majority of the league and party. After a thoro discussion, the vote resulted in 20 voting for the majority thesis and 4 for the minority. This puts the Boston Young Workers League clearly on record in favor of the position of the national executive committee of the league and the central executive committee of the party. sition is made permanent, is illegal. Hitherto workers were charged one fee for the temporary job, and then another if they were kept perma- nently. {PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK CITY > - ” Tuesday night, and every Tuesday} night at 1347 Boaton Road. Class in A. B. C. of Communism, Dr. I. Stam- ler instructor. All new members: of the party must attend; others should. * a o MAKE OUR DAILY SAFE FOR 1925 By ABRAM JAKIRA, District Organizer, District Three. i NEMPLOY MENT ‘is rapidly spreading thruout the country. Wages are being reduced. The Coolidge victory has helped to encourage the ruling class to start an aggressive offensive campaign against the workers and their organizations. The employing class is now solidify- ing its forces for the coming smashing drive against labor. . The situation in Europe is even more acute. important developments during the coming year. _During the short period of its existence, the DAILY WORKER has’ rendered a tremendous service to the labor movement. Every im- portant battle, whether political or economic. of the year past found the DAILY WORKER on the job, leading the workers in the fight against their exploiters. The militants in the labor movement who have had the opportunity to see their DAILY WORKER in action during the year past must be the first ones to realize that during the coming year the DAILY WORKER will be needed more than ever before. They must be the first ones to get busy at once and help to insure the DAICY WORKER for 1925. Buy a policy yourself and make it your policy to sell as many policies as you can to your fellow ° We may expect 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. . Se SORES RE o /o "6 4 | | , } | o : workers and friends! o . 7? » eee ——st—“‘— SS. Following the threat made by the Howard . additional fee when a temporary po- . —————E
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les in itions. ed its onary ravda Monday, on 5, 1925 “i idabedidiéa tron from page 1) ed stand the Chicago federation had always taken against war Wants Communists Expelled. A peculiar reason was then ad- vanced by another delegate that the resolution regarding the class collab- oration in recruiting cannon fodder was all right, because “it took the military training camps out of the hands of the militarists.” How this magic trick was accomplished with. out the militarists knowing it, he failed to state, nor did he make clear why trade unionists should be mor: ‘willing to be led into the trenches by their officials than by militarists, as long as they get killed for imperialism in either case. But this delegate held a, bad opin. ion of Communists. He wanted them expelled. “They ought to be kicked out,” he shouted. .The El Paso con- vention was a fine, peaceful conven- tion. There were no Communists there. Victor Koehler, delegate from the Photo Engravers, took a decidedly dif- ferent view of Communists than Dele- gate Diehl. much right as anyone to express their opinions in the unions. Furthermore, they told the truth. Delegates Praise Communists. Jack Johnstone, so Koehler declar- ed, had taken the floor many times and told the truth. He had stuck by Johnstone and would stick by him. Communists are constructive, and those who want to throw them out are the destructive element, he asserted. Ed Nockels made a wandering speech, the general impression given in it being that the Communists had ‘better be left alone. He claimed that if they were expelled they would only be martyrs. John Schussler of the Photo En. gravers vigorously defended the Com- munists who, he said, “Had the cour- age to disagree with the dictators and autocrats of the American Federation of Labor.” Jon Fitzpatrick in a long speech de- nouncing the Communists, claimed that they were “clever enough to seise on fundamental issues” which, he said, “fodled the delegates.” That is why they picked up militarism. How the delegates were “fooled” he didn’t say. But he disagreed with Diehl on expelling them.. “Don’t get that sort of stuff into your thinking pos ae "he said. “We won't ques. tion any man’s right to represent his organization. The local unions are re- sponsible for their delegates.” Much- argument among the dele- gates brought out the comment that if Communists were wrong, they should be met upon the issues, and not expelled for being Communists. The report carried. An ex-service man spoke, remind- ing the delegates that the delegates criticized had been delegates for a long time and were always welcome as good union men. He, as an ex- army man, was, also opposed to the military training camps and he agreed with Delegate Swabeck that it was an issue, vital to trade union- ists, and important to bring before ‘the body. MUSSOLINI TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVERYTHING ROME, Jan. ~ §.—Mussolini spoke today before a packed chamber. He said that he personally would take “normal politicat and historical re. sponsibility for everything” which had brought on the present “moral ques tion,” The dfssension shortly would be cleared up, he predicted, but he did not allude to an eventual solution. Mussolini recalled his first speech to the chamber in 1923 when asked whether there was present now any deputy who was wiling to bring him before a high court of justice. Much curiosity was aroused in the chamber by the obscure remark of Mussolini that there “would be a com- plete clarification of the situation within the next 48 hours.” Musolini’s speech was wildly cheered by the fascist deputies. At the conclusion of the speech, former Premier Salandra met with his own followers to decide upon a course of action to continue his opposition to the fascists. You Can’t be Well Informed! Not on Communist History without having read that revolu- tionary classic “THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY” By Gregory Zinoviev. A second generous installment appears in the January issue of The Workers Monthly es AAA anaaaaaA»DD»ASD»AAASASAASAA _. - * | S ee eee eee . ies ae The Communists had as} <=. 4 - Yes paar ve = | LAME DUCK DEMOCRAT QUACKS AT PARTY AND PRAISES GAL COOLIDGE (Special to the Daily Warker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. — The democratic party was flayed as “useless” and» its policies in‘ con- gress denounced as “ridiculous,” in a farewell speech to the senate Saturday, by Senator Nathaniel B. ’ Dial, democrat, of South Carolina. With biting invective, Dial charg- ed his party had deteriorated “like sheep gone astray” by coalitions with “Bolshevism and Commun- ism.” He praised President Cool- idge as a “better democrat” than his own colleagues, and paid high tribute to the president’s leader- ship. DEMOCRACY’ IN GERMANY ON ITS LAST LEGS (Continued from page 1) dustry and the junkers (the German nationalists and the people’s party) have also made gains. The fascist party (national social- ists) have suffered a catastrophic de- feat, having lost 18 of their 32 seats. Dweedie-Dum Plus Dweedie-Dee. These are the arithmatical results. In reality, however, no essential change has been affected, no problem solved. With the announcement of the first election results, the politi- cians of every party, from the extreme right to the extreme “left” of the so- cial-democratic party, took up their pads and pencils and began to add and subtract: Social democrats plus demo- crats plus center equal so and s0 much; but such a “left bloc” won't do, for it has no effective majority. Then let’s try: People’s party plus center plus democrats plus. social- democrats equal the so-called “big coalition”; that would do, but—the people’s party is in reality but a wing of the nationalists and was “bitterly” fought by the “republican” parties (those loyal to the Weimar constitu- tion) in these elections as arch-reac- tionaries. The social-democrats would like to enter such a coalition, (the “Vorwaerts” lost no time in saying so), for it offers the only chance of getting a ministerial post or two, but the people’s party insists on getting the nationalists into the new govern- ment, Moréover, the, so-calléd “left bloc,” which the social-democrats had so passionately longed for, and is neithér left nor a bloc. The clerical center is divided in itself and is being pushed by its heavy industrial wing towards the right. On the democrats we need waste no words; they are simply dem- ocrats and will go anywhere and do everything—in the interests of the republic or the Vaterland, of course. The Social-Democrats. And the social-democrats? They are uterly at sea. They have thirty new seats but nowhere to go. In the elec- tion campaign they went as far as forming a “united front” with the catholic center and the democrats. A joint appeal was issued with the fol. lowing historical slogan: “Vote for Center, Democrats or Social-Demo- crats!” They submerged, we may say drown- ed, their identity as a working class party. They succeeded, as we have seen, in duping the vacillating section of the workers, but for how long? We must bear in mind that the old reichs- tag was in reality one grand coalition, from Von Tirpitz all the way down to and including Breitscheid. The Dawes plan was put over on the Ger- man proletariat with the votes of the nationalists and the social-democrats. It now remains to be put in opera- tion. What the parties are now fight- ing over is the distribution of the ministerial posts. The bankruptcy of yparliament and bourgeois democracy is illustrated once more. The Party of the Working Class. There is only one party which is dis- interested in the squabble—the Com- munist Party. It is a mass party with a solid nucleus of nearly 3,000,000 class conscious workers and peasants, who can be frightened by no terror, and who know what it means to vote for the Communists. ) The most important fact estab- lished by the recent election is, that the Communist Party has conquered the best and most important sec- tion of the working class, and has driven a PERMANENT WEDGE into the body of the capitalist state. This fact is now admitted even by the bourgeois press. What is the attitude of the Com- munist Party towards the new reichs- tag and the new government? A very simple and clear one: To the working Class it makes no essential difference which agents of the bourgeoisie sit in the government. Whether the so- cial-democrats receive a job more or a job less matters and alters nothing whatsoever. Our class enemy, from the extreme right dow: to and in- cluding the social-democrats is agreed and united on’ its main thesis, which is: (1) To continue the reparations policy on the basis of the Dawes plan. (2) To increase production and aug- THE DAILY WORKER — Page Three ———— —————e -_—- ihe Arrest of Jacque Sadoal 0 on His Return to Paris eee ee Jacques Sadoul is the most popular leader of the He served as an officer in the French army on the western front in the early part of the war. in 1917, he was sent on military commission to Russia and was attached to the French embassy at French workers. Then. Leningrad while Kerensky stil! ruled. viki overthrew Kerensky and the Soviets became ‘the governmental expression of the workers and peasants of Russia, Sadoul threw in his lot w revolution and became a citizen of Soviet Russia. The French militarists court-martialed him a pd om : “gh, z safe. When the Bolshe- ith the proletarian in his absence and sentenced him to death. Soviet Russia and beyond their clutches his life was Recently, however, he voluntarily entered France as a Russian citizen attached to the staff of Leonid Krassin, the first soviet ambassador to France. upon his arrival and in disregard of both his Russian citizenship and diplomatic immunity, he was seized and imprisoned to await execution. All working-class France immediately arose demanding his amnesty. shows Sadoul being dragged thru the streets of Paris. Courtesy of Russky Golos, New York But as he was in At once The picture ment the profits of the exploiters at the sole expense of the working class. The Communist Declaration. The Communist faction of the new reichstag has met today (Dec 16), and has issued a “declaration of war” against every capitalist government— with or without the social-democrats, regardless of what parliamentary ‘combination it puts on. The Commun- ist parliamentary fraction will fight for the life interests of the working masses, and demands: 1. Complete amnesty for all po- litical prisoners of the proletariat, and the immediate release of the im- prisoned Communist members of the reichstag. 2. Complete and unconditional restoration of the 8-hour day, and a shorter working day in the mines and other dangerous industries. 3. A living wage for all workers (and effective support for all unem- ployed. 4. Protection of the poor peas- antry against the effects of the pres- ent crisis and the encroachments of the Junkers. It is self-evident that no capitalist government will or can fulfill these | demands. To do so woulll mean the rejection of the Dawes plan and the. establishment of a truly revolutionary | workers’ government. That in turn’ means revolution and civil war. But the demands of the Communists are so elementary, so simple and clear, that every worker will understand them—and draw the logical conclusion from the. present situation, in which the social-democrats are compelled by the masters they serve to fight against | these demands. ANOTHER PROBE OF POWER TRUST IS ABOUT DUE Resolution to Investigate is Introduced WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Sen. Nor- ris has called upon the senate to au- thorize the federal trade commission to investigate the hydro-electric pow- er trust. Feeling is growing that the Muscle Shoals debate is a blind on the part of the power trust to hide the monopoly’s activities elsewhere, particularly in coal power plants. When his resolution, covering every possible phase of interlocking financial powers and control, thru which the trust is maintained, was offered, Sen. Edge of New Jersey ob- jected to its immeditae consideration. Edge declared that such an investi- gation would cost millions of dollars. He said he was not opposed to giving the facts to congress and the public, but the cost was beyond the means of the treasury just now. Norris answered that the facts could be secured at very small ex- pense, and they would be of the ut- most importance in guiding public policy with reference to the power | situation. He served notice that he would resist Edge’s demand that the | resolution be sent to committee. It is this giant trust, which is develop- ing the super-power systems while extorting. double and four-fold rates for electricity, that is presumably to PUBLIC OFFICIALS CONTROLLED BY EASTERN KY. DRENCH SOIL WITH MINERS’ BLOOD COAL BARONS (Special to the shot down like dogs if they displease was recently killed by a fall of slate very much here. The great and nots afternoon and he and Raleigh Parker of Perry County, started up there. | bad graces of the coal company), ‘reason at all. outright, and a third died the follow- ing day. No. resistance was offéred. When Smith finished firing, he sat down on the counter and serve cheese and crackers to the deputies | ‘There were six killed around Hazard | on Christmas day.” | Tolbert Holiday, at present high sheriff of Perry county has killed a |number of men during his term of of. fice. His father.in-law is J. C. Camp- bell, a coal operator, and principal |owner of the Campbell Coal company IKry pton, Ky. Campbell himself has been a county judge and ig at present a representative in the state legis. lature. ' Raleigh Parker, mentioned above, is notorious for his gun play in disputes. He is known to killed at least eight men. ithose killed by Parker.was a Negro shot down in cold blood on Main St.. | within a block of the county court. house. When asked why he shot the Negro, Parker answered, “Just to watch him fall.” He was never ar. rested s “in good” with the coal operators, and continues to wear his deputy’s | badge. ‘county deputy sheriff, is a notorious |Baldwin-Feltz detective agency gun- man, who took part in the warfare |}against the miners of Mingo county, W. Va. One of the residents of Hazard, Ky. declares, “One or two of these terror- izing deputies are kept. in every min. ing camp to act as bodyguards for the | ‘mine officials. They are ordered to. be ready to quell any manifestations of discontent on the part of the min- ers.” J. W. Bates, of Harlan, Ky. tells of what happened to him after labor have — he was caught addressing a meeting of miners. “| was 'Fonde, Ky., at the point-pf a gun,” ,\Says Bates. Whitehead, an old miner who has devoted years of his life to organizing work among the miners, was beaten into unconsciousness four years ago by two thugs. He was left lying across a railroad track, and it was only the fact that he was found by some switchmen that saved his life. A few months ago James Deaton, deputy sheriff, died, and on his death- bed confessed that it was he who had tried to kill Whitehead. He declared that Richmond Combs, who was then high sheriff of Perry county, had helped him beat up Whitehead. These gunmen, placed in public of- ‘fice by the influence of the coal op. erators, are used to “elect” men to office, by terrorizing those who sup- port opposition candidates. Luther | ‘Watson, of Hardburley, Ky., was told by the mine superintendent of the | Lewis | Hardburley Coal company that he or | lany other miner caught with cam- |paign literature of a certain candidate DAILY WORKER) HAZARD, Ky., Jam. 4.—The eastern Kentucky control the public officials, the schools, the stores and elections. An account of a typical Christmas—in 1923—by 1d John Smith took the lives of three innocent men on Dec. 24. Smith's cousin had been killed. at Glowmawr that “As they were passing Carlisle’s store (an independent store and in the Smith entered and began firing. for no Two men were killed@— One of) for any of his murders, as he Jim Gilkerson, another Perry | TALIAN DICTATOR driven out of | coal operators directly Miners are the coal operators. : Petty Winstead, who in a mines, states, “Christmas wasn’t and Taylor Davidson, deputy sheriffs, oal operators, on his wall. A e deputy,” a hired gunman, sup. y one of the detective agencies, or€ the picture down and warned the /miner not to repeat the offense. | Rufus Roberts, judge of the 36th judicial district of Ky., elected thru coal operators’ sup- the present circuit | |port, was deeply in debt at the time of his election. Within a year after | ‘his election, Roberts built a home ‘costing $30,000. His salary is only) ' $5,000 per year. John Langley, congressman from the tenth Kentucky district, has been sentenced to two years’ imprison-| ment in a federal court for illegal liquor deals. He was elected because | he had the backing of the coal op. | | erators. The coal operators control every election and political campaign that is | ‘conducted in eastern Kentucky. A| ‘candidate who is displeasing to the coal barans is not allowed. to set foot ‘in the coal camps to talk to the min- ers. The elections are held in com- pany buildings, and the election |boards are made up of men picked by the coal operators. The stuffing of ballot boxes is so common it is an ex- |'pected* procedure in each campaign. ‘In the presidential elections, two | thousand more election ballots were ‘gent into Lynch, Ky., than there were registered voters in that mining camp. And all were “voted!” HOUSE OF MORGAN TENDER TOWARDS No Promise Made to Force Debt Account WASHINGTON. Jan. 4—The admi- nistration is avoiding all mention of the fact that Italy is in the same situation as France—unwilling to ac- knowledge her war debt. Tenderness for Italy is not officially explained, but in the past year the Coolidge Hughes-Mellon regime has shown a warm friendliness for Mussolini that has not yet been withdrawn. Mussolini’s power is now challenged by the old leaders of the middle-class parties in Italy, and any pressure from | Washington as to the Italian national 'killed in the Wheatland riot in 1913, |Ford nor ‘with the killings, which resulted when |finances, indicating their essential ‘bankruptcy, might be the excuse for | | toppling Mussolini from his dictator- | ship. The French government is in | ‘the hands of nominal liberals for | | whom the Mellon group has no appre- | ciation. France is warned of a finan- cial boycott. Italy is not worried. get Muscle Shoals if the Underwood |who was opposing the candidate of | bill becomes law. When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. ’ ; ‘the coal operators, would be fired and run out of town. A miner at Dalna, Ky., had posted the picture of a can- \didate who was not in the graces of MUNICIPAL WORKERS TO BE TAXED FOR SIX YEARS BACK INCOME (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 4— Em-: ployes of states and municipalities, working on public utilities who were previously regarded as ex- empt from federal income taxes, must pay back taxes from 1918, according to a ruling of the intern- al revenue bureau has announced. Employes affected include those working for public water works, street railways and other public utilities. ITALIAN RIOTS SPREAD; BLACK SHIRTS 60 WILD Fascisti Uie Torch in Many Cities WANTS LAW TO PUNISH RISQUE FACTS Mustn’t Tell How Bad Peck’s Bad Boy Was _-— (Special to. tne Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.— Legislation designed to protect the memory of presidents of the United States against “malici- ous defamation” or “slander” was introduced in the house yesterday by Reprepentnr Reid, republican of Illinois. Along with it, Reid introduced a resolution calling for a con- gressional investigation to de- termine the “truth or falsity” of some of the allegations now ap- pearing in a weekly magazine’s series of articles on Woodrow (Special to The Daily Worker) Wilson, written by a woman ROME, Italy, Jan. 4.—Serious riot- | friend. ing occurred in many towns thruout' he articles Reresentative Reid Italy, with dead and. wounded being | reported from Peretola, Targinnia, | the republican party as well, were Genzana, Verona, Valle, Giuliana, Mary Allen Hulbert Naples, Fano, Borrigo, Cremona, Man- tova, Messina, Torino, Livorno, and other towns, in clashes oetween the workers and the fascisti. A system- atic campaign of the fascisti to ter- rorize the opposition and the Com- munists is marked by fires which broke out here and in other cities. In Rome, mounted police rode thru considered defamatory of Wilson and lwritten by Mrs. Peck. The passage to which particular ob- jection was found was one in which Mrs. Peck alleged she had been ap- proached in 1916 by a man who “de. scribed himself as a representative of the republican party,” and who offered her three hundred thousand dollars tc the streets, disarming all workers, | @mlist in a “precious enterprise which and breaking up anti-fascist demon-| ad as it objective the impeachment strations. The police searched many | of the president of the United States.” homes. A strict censorship has been| Reid’s resolution would have a com: set up by Mussolini on all outgoing | mittee of five members of the house news, and it is difficult to judge the | conduct the inquiry and examine the gravity of the situation. papers of Mrs. Peck for evidence of In Pisa the fascisti attacked the/the alleged attempt to bribe her. Messagero printing plant, destroying it and burning the supply of paper. The Communist Italian newspaper Unite, has been surpressed. EIGHT JURORS IN PARDON PLEA FOR FORD AND SUHR High Death Rate Is Due New Effort to Free Gol- . den State Victims MARYSVILLE. Cal., Jan. 4.—Eight of the jurors who tried Herman Suhr —all who are still living—have signed Patronize our advertisers. DIXIE VICTIMIZES NEGRO MOTHERS WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—How col- |ored mothers die at childbirth, while white mothers in the same region— but in a higher economic grade—are saved, is shown by federal census fig- '@ petition for his pardon. It is rum-|ures for 1923. ored that Suhr may be pardoned with In 1923 the death rate for white “Blackie” Ford next May. District|omthers at childbirth in Kentucky Attorney Manwell, whose father was|and Maryland, was 5.4 per 1,000. In Mississippi it was 6.6, in Virginia 6, in South Carolina, 7.4, and in North Carolina 6.7. But for colored moth- ers the death rate in Kentucky was 15.4 per 1,000, in South Carolina 12.2, in Mississippi 10.9, in” Virginia 10.8, in North Carolina 19.7, and in Mary- land 8.3. The colored mothers ha’ as a rule no money to secure good medical care. Of all the states, U tah showed the lowest death rate, which was 5, while South Carolina had the highest at 9.7 per 1,000. For the 30 states repre sented in the registration area, the average rate was 6.7 for 1923, com- pared with 6.6 for 1922, 6.8 for 1921 and 6.1 for 1915. A 12-Page Issue On the First Birthday of the DAILY WORKER. announces that he will then have both Ford and Suhr rearrested for the death of Deputy Sheriff Riordan. The trial judge, with fine detachment wants: them both hanged. Neither Suhr had anything to do county officers tried to break up a strike meeting Ford and Suhr were leading. No one was ever prose. cuted for the killing of several work. ers by the sheriff’s gunmen. Drtunr0e Te ast, tborker tr M25 HE issue of January 13 will be heaped full of facts and features—all gaily attired with cartoons to best celebrate the very first birthday of the DAILY WORKER. Comrade Bob Minor’s splendid cartoons will be a leading feature. A review of the past year of American labor in general and the Workers Party in particular—plus the part the DAILY WORKER has played in both—will be another feature. Special contributions by Wm. Z. Foster, Wm. F. Dunne, J. Louis Engdahl, writers in the labor movement will add their share to the first birthday T. J. O'Flaherty, Manuel Gomez and others among the best celebration. Give this issue to a worker and you assure the DAILY WORKER a new reader—and your branch of the party a new member. BUNDLE ORDERS MUST BE IN BY SATURDAY, JANUARY 10. ‘PRICE 2 CENTS PER COPY Make your order as large as possible and send it in with your remittance attached to this blank. THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Ill. Here are my birthday greetings in a remittance of $...................... for which you will send me a bundie order of ...copies of the January 13 issue. NAME .............. STREET ... 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cussion of Our F -FARMER-LABORISM IN MASSACHUSETTS By BARNEY MASS. N going over carefully the “cate chism” conducted jointly by Com- rades Lovestone and Bedacht, in the Dec. 20 issue of the DAILY WORK- ER, I was particularly interested in their strenuous efforts to overwhelm the majority by showing the tremen- dous sentiment for a farmer-labor party in this country. They began by stating “Now for some outstanding facts showing the strong undercurrent of sentiment for the building of an independent politi- eal party—in the ranks of the mass- es.” No, 2, under the question five, they quote: “In the conference for progressive political action of Massa- chusetts, the minority demand for a farmer-labor party as against a fraud- ulent liberal third capitalist party was strong and clear cut. Had our cen- tral executive committee given the party members in Massachusetts proper guidance instead of an over- dose of phrases in a tape-worn mani- festo, the party could have struck an effective blow against LaFollette and could have established our lead- ership amongst an increasea mass of workers in the Bay State.” One in Frisco would imagine from this product of Communist research that the textile workers (and inci- dentally there were no textile work- ers present) wanted a class farmer- labor party even more strongly than the northwestern farmers in the pea- sant revolt of 1923. But not one who was on the spot as I happened to be. The implications of the minority are false. The facts are as follows; dissociated from any blind faith in telepathic catechisms. The committee of progressive poli tical action recently held a confer- ence in Boston. To this conference some comrades succeeded to get elect- ed from sympathetic fraternal organ- izations, and one or two progressive locals of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. At a meeting of the patty delegates, the comrades wanted to know just what our proced- ure would be in the committee for progressive political action? Com. rade Ballam suddenly suffered a lapse of memory as to what the policy of our party was in a situation of this kind, and sent a telegram to the na- tional office asking for this informa- tion. Comrade Ballam was quite innocent of the fact that there is only one pol- icy which is that of the C. E. C. ex- pressed by a majority vote. He had to be reminded of this elemental point by a telegram froni the central executive committee, that the C. E. C. statement was the policy of the party. Now in a more favorable po- sition to his interests, he could have told under-studies just what the pol- icy of the party was. As everyone expected, (those who understood the structure of a Communist organiza- tion) in accordance with the election statement of the central committee, the instructions were against pene- tration of the third party. Then Com- rade Ballam, overcome by, this “un- usual” instruction of the C. E. C., made insinuations about disfuptive tactics. He wanted to create the im- pression to the comrades that the C. E. C. was out to kill even labor party sentiment where it existed in mass character. Who wanted a labor party? Some party members of the minority, (in this particular situation). They work- ed hard in our familiar sympathetic organizations to get such a resolution passed. The only union to my knowl- edge, was a local of the A. C. W. of A., after our members fought to put it over. Somehow or another, Ballam was unable to attend personally such a responsible, and delicate affair. (C. P. P. A. conference). It reminds one of the generalship of Wicks in Minne- sota who was everywhere, but where he should be. The whole affair ended up by the few comrades who were delegates to this conference splitting away in a disorderly manner. Some comrades who were elected by frat- ernal sympathetic organizations never showed up to the conference. WHERE IS THE SENTIMENT FOR A FARM- ER-LABOR PARTY IN MASSACHDU- SETTS? If the other examples “of strong undercurrent of sentiment for the building of an independent political party of the worker and exploited farmer—a class farmer-labor party— in the ranks of the mass” are as truth- ful as the one in Massachusetts, then the policy of the minority rests on quicksand. THEC. E.C.1S CORRECT - By HEINZ SCHROETER. E Workers Party is now in a lively discussion over the C. E. C. (majority) thesis on the immediate tasks of our party. Shall we raise the slogan of a (class) farmer-labor party or not? The majority say “no” and the minority say “yes.” What are the conditions that justify the use of a farmer-labor slogan? Are the conditions in existence or not? I say the conditions are not in exist- ence, politically. Even the minority thesis states that “ the La- Follette movement had developed in definite form .” and established “ | . , its leadership over the far- mer-labor forces which stood for a class party .” Then will the slog of a farmer-labor party auto- matically separate the farmer-labor forces from the LaFollette illusions? The minority thesis states that it will. “The political alliance of the trades ‘union bureaucracy with the petty- bourgeoisie will make the slogan of a farmer-labor party an entering wedge between the working masses and their treacherous leaders.” Note that the slogan will make “ an entering wedge -” and destroy the LaFollette illusion in the work- ing masses. Let Comrades Ruthenberg, Love- stone, Bedacht, Engdahl and Gitlow go among the working masses and preach their gospel and see how much of a following they will get. It is true that they will get a few who will follow them (not taking into con- sideration of the farmer-laborites in our party). These few who have ar- rived at such a political maturity, as to recognize that the LaFollette move- ment is a petty-bourgeois movement, also recognize the existence of class- es. Then will Ruthenberg & Co. try to build up a class farmer-labor par- ty, with these elements, in competi- tion with our party? It is true that the progressive de- cline of capitalism will cause a more acute separation of the workers with the petty-bourgeoisie even in the La- Follette movement, but there are no indications, in the LaFollette move- ‘ment, at present or in the immediate future that any such class conflicts will arise because LaFollette did not have the chance to show his betrayal to the working class. His repudia- tion of the June 17 farmer-labor con- vention was not sufficient to create a separate mass movement. It is only after the LaFollette move- ment: shows itself to the working class as a middle class movement will the workers form a separate mass movement and not before. THE RIGHT TO LEADERSHIP; WHAT IS A COMMUNIST PARTY? By MORRIS CHILOFSKY. HE Communist Party is part of the working class, namely: its most advanced, intelligent, self-sacri- ficing, and therefore, most revolution- ary part. The Communist Party dif- fers from the general mass of the workers in that it takes a general view of the whole historical march of the working class, and at all turny and events it defends the interests of the working class and is the leader of the working class. The Communist Party is the organ- ized political lever by means of which the more advanced part of the work- ing class leads all the proletarian and semi-proletarian mass. The Communist Party is to the working class, what the head is to the body. If #eparated, they cease to function. . The class war is not a casual epi- sode. It is war as any other war. The Communist Party is the general staff which guides and pushes forward the proletarian battalions in its sirug- gle against capitalism. Strategy and Tactics. In war we lay out strategic plans and tactics which are valid for the whole period of war, or only for a part of that period. The most im- portant task of strategy is te ascer- tain that main line to be followed by the working class movement, the line most advantages for enabling the rf proletariat to strike its enemy the main blow required for the attainment of certain aims, established by the program. To accelerate or retard the move- ment, to facilitate or hinder it—this is the sphere of tactics and political strategy. Tactics are a part of strategy and subordinate to it. Tactics are not occupied with the war as a whole, but with its separate. episodes and battles. At no time must tactics en- danger our strategic plan. Tactics must not look only to the temporary interests of the moment; they must not desert the solid ground and build castles in the air—tactics must adapt themselves to the tasks and possibili- ties of strategy. The views set forth above are not original; they belong to Comrade Len- in and Stalin. It is surprising to note that comrades of the minority who have in the past had reputations as Marxists, should completely for- get Lenin, the strategist. It is also surprising to note what little atten- tion these comrades attach to slogans and directions. Speaking of slogans, Comrade Stalin says: “In the sphere of polli- tics slogans are of great import ance, for we deal with tens and hundreds of millions of human be- ings, with manifold demands. “The siogan is the concentrated and clear formulation of the paene> diate or ultimate aime of the strug- gie, and is issued by tne leading groupse—in the case of the prole- tariat by Its party.” Comrade Stalin says further. “To confuse slogans with directions, or slogans of agitation with slogans of action is just as dangerous as pre- mature or too. retarded ~- action, which can become catastrophic. “Slogans must be of such a na- ture so as to rally masses of work- ers. It sometimes becomes neces- sary to alter or withdraw slogans, when they cease to have a dynamic effect upon the movement of the masses. Sometimes to postpone them to a more favorable time.” Strategy and Tactics of Our Party Let us see what has been our main strategic aim? It is this: To develop independent political action of the working masses under the leadership of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. This is still our main strategic aim only our tactical means must be changed, because of the changed poli- tical situation. The trouble with the comrades of the minority is this: They have con- fused our tactical means with our strategic aim. To them the farmer- labor party becomes an end instead of a means to an end. At a certain. period under given conditions our farmer-labor party policy was correct but not now. Political Action and the United Front To some comrades of the minority | the farmer-labor party is the all-inclu- sive phase of political action. To them the united front can only be ap- plied thru a farmer-labor party. This conception is wrong and is due, mainly, to a misunderstanding of Communist political activity and also to the misunderstanding of the united front tactic. Political action for the Commun- ists does not merely manifest itself in elections or in parliament and ; neither is it limited to a farmer-labor party. Mass demonstrations against the state is political action, a fight against the injunction is political ac- tion. It is sometimes impossible dur- ing a struggle to distinguish between economic action and political action or vice versa. If we Communists are in the work shops organized into nucleus, we will be ready to lead and sharpen all political action. To believe that political action is only limited to a farmer-labor party is absurd. In every argument put ‘forth by the minority they claim that to abandon the F. L. P. policy is to the united front. To listen the these comrades talk is almost to og lieve that the Comintern adopted the united front tactics solely for the Unit. ed States. It is strange that in every country the Communists have applied the united front. We are not the only ones and they did it, not thru a farmer-labor party, buton the basis of the daily struggles of the working masses, e. i., shop committees, eight- hour day, etc. The suropean comrades in apply- ing the united front did it with~the Communist Party as the leader under its own banner. Not handing it over to a party which can never be any- thing else but a reformist party. It spite of the fact that Comrade Ruth- enberg attaches the word “class” to it. Liquidation. | The Communist International has said that there can be only one Com- munist Party in any country. The Workers (Communist) Party is cap- able of developing into a mass Com- munist Party. It needs no other name. To hand over virtu.s to a re- formist party which rightly belongs to a Communist Party, is not Com- munist action. Comrade J. Powell in attacking thé T U. E. L. program, says “The new T.. U. E. L. program has plenty of demands all the way from amalgama- tion to nationalization to abolition of the K. K. K. Yet it entirely over- looks the greatest need of the work- ing class of this country; the neces- sity of a political party.” Evidently it seems that Comrade Powell has forgotten that ‘there is a political party of the workers in this country. He has forgotten the teach- ings of Marx and the Comintern that only a Communist Party is a political party of the working class. He also does not know that the left wing in the trade unions in this country has been following the leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party and are ready to do so in the future. But no! Comrade Powell wants the work- ers to follow a real politicaY party, a farmer-labor party. Comrade Powell is not the only disappointed Communist, here we have Comrade Sylvan A. Pollock, who says no one can find fault with that part of the statement which calls for the strengthening and development of the party, but when it is claimed that it must be at the expense of the unit- ed front tactics of the farmer-labor party, | must disagree. This comrade is ready to give up his own party for the sake of the poor little desert- ed and homeless F. L. P., the orphan, that no one wants at present, not even the working masses. Now, let us see what is Comrade Ruthenberg’s position. In the De cember number “Workers’ Monthly” Comrade Ruthenberg admits at least partly that a broad inclusive farmer- labor party is not possible at present, 7 ; a ¥ WORKER rty ’s Immediate Tas “a - 4 aan J . : a > } “ es, e 7 La ™ i‘ “Monday, January 5, 1308 ¥ 4 ard Majority Shouts :“Stop Thief” BENJAMIN. has contributed so ie develop our party ti ‘ari ‘group to a recogniz- em 6. in the life of the la- of this country than uvers in relation to the shor party.. It is thry this ‘that we have established prestige among the and farn.ers. The the farmer-labor continued as a major , party in the future. The shells @ summary of a state- ment published by our C. E. C. some- time last It was part of the program ¢ te work which was e ‘us by our present ma- ©, BE. C. This part at have had the unanimous ‘of the C. B. C.. (Per- C. I. as to whether he belongs on the C. B. C.) I venture to say that at the time this 6 nt was written, not a single member of our party could have been found thguout the country who would take issue on the question. Eyery member of our party |. felt co -that our farmer-labor party cam was a correct esti- mation of ‘situation in the United States. Altho I traveled over a con- siderable part of the country in the interim, I did not find a single com- rade anyw who thought that we were liq the W. P., that we were ea a reformist party; that we were ts, or any other one of the many terrible things that an advocate for this policy is called today. What produced the miracu~ lous change? If we study carefully the thesis of the majority and the articles which are writtem by its supporters, we that change results from the fact the majority never un- derstood the purpose. of the F. L. P. campaign, unable to conduct it towards its proper objective, and at- tributed th failings to others. The m cannot openly deny that we gained from the F. L. P. cam- paign those advantages which they claimed for it. They are now very anxious to go in a round about way and dis ‘our gains, but they dare not deny that what they wrote as untrue. That they are jastic about the pol- The advantages gained for our party thru the #. L. P, cam- paign were gained up to the time when the present C. E. C. assumed leadership of our party and not since campaign. then. Because the present majority of the C. E. C. does not understand how to apply the campaign to the advantage of our party. This tho would be a poor reason to offer to but can’t we at least use the slogan for a “class” F. L. P.? The only reason for the.use of the slogan at present, that Comrade Ruthenberg can give is that in view of the fact that the class struggle is becoming more intensified; therefore, let’s tell the workers to form a “class” F. L. P. Comrade Ruthenberg is not con- cerned with the illusion in that slogan, or the effect of that slogan, neither does he recognize the role or pos- sibility of a F. L. P., but he wants one at any cost or at least the slogan. Comrade Lovestone, the leader of the minority, is very good at figures and percentage and in his research to justify a F. L. P. or the F. L. P. tactic his reason ig that Magnus Johnson re- ceived more votes in Minnesota than LaFollette. Very good! How will Comrade Lovestone explain that one of our comrades in Massachusetts re- ceived more votes than Foster? The above reason is s¢pposed to prove the potency of continuing the F. L. P. tactic. Now we come to the necessity of a F. L. P. and Comrade Lovestone is of the same opinion as the other disappointed Communists in the minority: that the Workers (Com- munist) Party is not the political lever of the proletariat in this country, but the F. L. P. is. Yes, the Comintern is wrong. The minority has no confidence in the Workers (Communist) Party. They are ready to hand the role of our party, the Communist Party, to the F. L. P. This is outright liquida- tion. This also proves that some of our comrades do mot understand the flexibility of Communist strategy and tactics. To them a slogan or tactic once adopted must stand regardless of the objective or subjective condi- tions. If we claimtobe Marxian dilectic- ians then we must subscribe to this. “The practice of the class struggle is fertilized by theory and in its turn becomes the fruitful soil for theo- retical study.” The tactic of the majority of the C. E. C. is correct in the light of con- ditions and experience, and the com- tades who believe that the role of leadership of the proletariat belongs to a revolutionary Communist Party, should help break the “farmer-labor party” fetishism in our party. ~- the members to justify their abandon- ment of the F. L. P. campaign, so we suddenly diseover that much better off if we don’t bother with it. The nbers of the majority sud- denly made the discovery that we were organizing a rival to the Work- ers Party. That it is non-Communist- ic to engage in building a “reform- istic” movement and that we must build the Workers Party. If it were not.that I know that Comrade Cannon is one of the leaders of the present majority, if it were not for the fact that I have had previous experience with this comrade’s me- thod of pre-convention polemi, I would be as amazed as are many members of our party at present, at the questionable methods used to in- duce our members to abandon a ma- jor policy and fundamental concept of Communism. Knowing this com- rade as I do, I am not amazed. I am simply more ‘determined than ever to help remove such comrades from positions of responsibility. To brand a policy approved by the Comintern and ratified by two party conventions as non-Communistic. Te have a comrade who according to the we are]. Comintern, “fafled to maintain a Com- munist position” stigmatize the very comrades who fought against his devi- ations, as non-Communists, is carry- ing ngs altogether too far. To have comrades,adopt the policy of one who has been declared by the Cc. I, to be a left wing social-deme- crat, form an alliance with him, and attempt to prove that the group op- posing them is a right wing group, is depending too much on the gullibility of the membership. To declare that we must abandon the farmer-labor party paign be- cause there is no sentiment for it among the masses, and then propose as a substitute labor congresses, shows that the proponents have a very rich imagination, but are by no means practical. The present majority have without doubt, done great injury to our party. They have already delayed consider- able activity in furtherance of our major campaign. They have cast re- flections upon the integrity of many of our most able and trusted com- rades. But they cannot succeed in covering up their errors by. shouting “Stop Thief!” The party convention and the Com- intern will decide who the real li- quidators, right wingers, opportunists and non-Communists are. OPEN LETTER TO COMRADE FOSTER By ISRAEL AMTER. EAR COMRADE FOSTER:—You and your group in the party main- tain that you represent the Bolshevik section of the party. You also main- tain that you are the majority in the party. It is true that, being the ma- jority of the C. E. C., you have the machinery of the party in your hands. You contend further that your group contains the active trade unionists in the party. Let ms look into the matter. Who support you in your position on the farmer-labor party slogan—despite the decision of the Communist Inter- national? 1. Elements in the German Feder- ation who follow the lead of Com- rade Lore—a tendency that the Com- munist International branded as be- ing of the Two-and-a-Half Internation- al; elements stigmatized as social- democratic within the Workers Party. 2. The petty-bourgeois elements in the Jewish Federation, most of whom are followers of Comrade Lore. 3. The Workers’ Council . group, with few exceptions, who for more hen two years after the formation of the Communist Party ot America,’ refused to accept the Communist po- sition, amd one of the leading mem- bers of which declared to me in Mos- cow that he was just sist te a Communist. 4. The members of the Finnish Federation who follow the lead of Comrade Burman, who recently sent a dastardly- letter to the branches of the Finnish Federation, containing distortions and bare-faced lies as to the position of the minority, the char- cter of the minority members of the central executive committee and the, actions of the executive secretary of the party. 5. The syndicalistically inclined’ members of the Workers Party, wh are disposed to stress the industria) work of the party, as industrial work, \ and to minimize the importance of the political work. ‘This was especially notable in the Greek Federation branch in New York, many members of which receiyed a letter from the manager of the Greek paper, stating that he is for Foster because Foster stands for industrial work and not so amuch for political work. 6. The new members of our party, who have just come from the social- ist party and do not understand the maneuvers of a Communist Party. This is comprehensible, since they have abandoned the 8S. P. because of its petty-bourgeois character and its efforts to become an integrdl part of the LaFollette movement. With their “purist” tendencies, they are afraid to venture into the struggle for the control and leadership of the mass- es. Are these the Bolshevik elements in the Workers Party, Comrade Foster? Are these comrades, sincere as they may be, considered by the Communist International as the real Communist core of the Wormers Party? .ou were in Moscow, Comrade Foster, and you know what the presidium of the TWom- munist International said of these elements. You have declared and still declare that your group in the party contains the active trade unionists. It is true that the group directing the national work of the T. U. E. L. is with you. Examine the groups and the individ- ual comrades doing the active work in the districts and locals, and you will find that they do not agree with you—either on your abnegation of the farmer-labor slogan or on the manner in which you conduct the industrial work. There is deep concern about the methods that you employ, which is considered a complete perversion of the position of the Red Internation- al of Labor Unions. There is a group, followers of Com- rade Lore, whom you have entrusted with the conduct of the industrial work both in New York City and in the eastern district. These comrades support you in your farmer-labor pol- icy, but they carry out the industrial .work so opportunistically that you ~- ys i i have criticized: them in the majority thesis, without daring to mention them by name. And your criticism is correct, when Comrade Jampolsky, in- dustrial organizer of New York, de- clares that we “do not want a united front with the fakers in the Central Trades and Labor Council” and that “it is not so important for our com- rades to take the floor in the C. T. L. C.,” then he reveals complete ignor- ance of one aspect of our industrial work. When Comrade Zimmerman, industrial organizer for the eastern districts, declares that we can take the floor at a central body only when we are strong, then he demonstrates that he has not the courage of a Com- munist. You are justly ashamed of this group, Comrade Foster, but this is the type of comrades who are sup- porting your political policy and rep- resent you in the industrial work. But the local and district leaders, and the local comrades who are do- ing the active, militant work among the masses, do not side with you. They are in rebellion against your methods of eternally negotiating with | the local and national leadership of the unions; of considering it Commun- ist work merely to get re@olutions put across and to capture offices in the unions. They consider Communist work the building up of our leader- ship among the rank and file of put- ting the T. U. E. L. on a firm organ- izational basis, and thus formimg the only foundation for our Communist activity. The overwhelming majority of the comrades who helped to form the Communist movement and Commun- ist Party in the United States, who aré pertinent-and very have had a_ training in Communist tactics and strategy and the compadés who do the active industrial work, do not side with you, Comrade Foster, they are with the minority. This letter is merely to put you right, Comrade Foster—and to call your attention to a few a 9 long as the American question fs to come before the Communist Interna- tional once more, it will be good also that the Communist International should know the line-up in the Ameri- can party and recognize that it is not merely a struggle that is taking place in the C. E. C. of the party, but a struggle going on thruout the party, owing to the divergence of opinion, hs to what constitutes Communist work on the political and industrial fields. We should like to hear your side, Comrade Foster. We of the minority stand by the above, fraternally yours, Israel Amter. English Branch of Washington, D.C., Is For Majority Thesis WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 1. (By Mail.)—The English Branch of the Workers Party discussed the party |task on Dec. 29 and continued the discussion January 1. At the conclu- sion a vote was taken, resulting in 8 ) votes for the C. EB. C. majority thesis and 6 votes for the thesis of the minority. Several members did not vote. The leadérs of the minority were Comrades Irvine and Powell, whil« Comrade MacIntosh led for the majori- ty. A general discussion followed the chief speakers. Yonkers Hungarian Branch Is Unanimous For Majority Thesis At the last meeting, held on Dec. 30, the Younkers Hungarian Branch No. 16 discussed the C. EB. C. and also the minority theses and decided un- animously 13 to 0 in favor of the majority thesis. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” Remember These Dates. HE entire New York organiza- tlon is expected to co-operate in the following affairs. All affillat- ed and sympathetic organizations pare, requested not to arrange con: flicting dates. s Jan. 11, Sunday afternoon and evening, DAILY WORKER Jubilee, New Star Casino. Feb. 1, Sunday afternoon, Lenin Memorial, Madison Square Garden. Feb. 11-14, Defense Bazaar, The Lyceum, 65th street. March 15, Sunday afternoon and evening, Press Pageant and Paris Commune Celebration, Madison Square Garden. CENTRAL BUREAU OF ESTHONIAN SECTION IS WITH THE MINORITY The Central Bureau of the Esthonian section of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, at its meeting held on Dec. 23, 1924, after discussing the theses presénted by the majority and the minority of the Central Huccutive Com- mittee, adopted the following resolution: The Esthonian Bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party agrees with the minority theses of the C. E. C., which aims at the unity of the workers and por farmers in a political party, +— under the slogan of a “farmer-labor party.” The reasons that impelled the Esthonian Bureau to adopt the minor- ity theses are as follows: 1. In our opinion, it is necessary to carry on a campaign under the slogan of a “farmer-labor party.” ‘We un- derstand that if’ we organize such a party, it will be the best means of bringing the organized and the unor ganized workers and the poor farmers into political action. This will increa- se their class consciousness and also make it possible later to draw the best elements into the Workers (Com- munist) Party. The winning over of these, revolutionary elements by the Workers (Communist) Party will help to make the party a strong and well crystalized party capable of conducting the class struggle in the United States; a party that at the time of the proleta- rian revolution can lead the workers’ and poor farmers to take the power into their hands and establish the proietarian ditatorship. 2. The farmer-labor party, there- fore, is an organization in which the workers and poor farmers will be united in one party, so as to help the class struggle. Comrade Lenin, the leader of the world revolution, said that “if should not possible for us to win over the peagants, the Rus- sian revolution will be lost.” The main function of the Russian Com- munist Party now is “to unite the city with the village,” which means “to unite the workers with the farmers.” This kind of work must be begun in the Workers (Communist) Party so that the day of the proletarian revo lution will not find the American farmers unprepared. 3. The minority theses, therefore, comply with the requirements of the Communist International and also with the program of the Workers (Communist) Party. » We do not share the opinion of the majority of the C. E. C, to the fffect that LaFollettism killed the farmer- labor movement, as stated in the majority thesis that “The farmer. labor party is dead.” We kelieve that 4 this question is alive today and cannot be “dead.” We believe that the major- ity of the C. BD. C., instead of encou- raging the use of the slogan of a farmer-labor party, in their work are killing it. We maintain that the majority of the C. E. C., has not fulfilled or car- ried out: / a) The program adopted at the last national convention of the Workers (Communist) Party, declared that the C. E. C. of the Workers (Communist) Party shall use all of its energy to organize a farmer-labor party. b) The majority of the C. E. C., has ignored the twice expressed demand of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International to form a farme er-Labor Party. The Esthonian Bureau approves the theses of the minority of the C. B. Cr as the most practical theses by which we may form a strong united front in the class struggle against capitalism. . The Esthonian Bureau directs every Esthonian branch of the Workers (Communist) Party carefully to dis- cuss the theses of thé majority and the minority of the C. E. C., so that every members of the Esthonian branches of the Workers (Communist) Party may take a correct position on the party policy. This ,reso.ution was adopted by a vote of six against one. ) A. Kobel Member of the Esthonian Bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party, ; ak aatialh | | ' ' 7 ¢ ¢ ‘ Pi / ; Pa , / ‘ ai ; é ; i? i” if Tt —_— ee > _
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; . #7 ; o oe - o ' - —— ‘| : on Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Munroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: 96.00 per year $3.50....6 months | _- months esas mail (in Chicago only $8.00. per year r s180., .6 months $2.50...3 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 3118 \ W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Hlineis J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE} nectaneaaane MORITZ J. LOEB ness Manager ——— EEE Gntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. > 290 Advertising rates op application Amsterdamers Nervous It is amusing to observe the antics of the Amster- damers when any of their number appears to be, by reason of wide rank and file pressure, driven over to the left enough to make some speeches with a class struggle, not to say a Communist, tone. The executive of the Amsterdam International met at that city on December 1, while the cables were burning with the news from Moscow that the British labor delegation, visiting the Sixth All- Russian Congress of Labor Uniorts at Moscow, had imbibed of the Bolshevik atmosphere and were in both speech and writing hailing the Soviet gov- ernment as the hope of the world and the citadel of working class emancipation. The British delegation, it must be remembered, was headed by Purcell, who is also the president of the Amsterdam International, and who was leading the hurrah in Moscow for everything he saw in the land of proletarian dictatorship. The remaining members of the Amsterdam or- ganization, huddled under the wing (the right wing) of Jouhaux and Oudegeest in the little sea- port of Holland, looked at one another in amaze- ment and consternation. “What bug had bitten Purcell? The British will bring ruin upon us all!” Thus we conceive the thoughts of the nervous reformists at the seduction of their president by ‘the wily Bolsheviks. But, as Losovsky of the Profintern says, “When- ever there is a particularly dirty piece of business to do, the Amsterdamers assign Oudegeest to the job.” Oudegeest is the most able reactionary of the three secretaries of the Amsterdam Interna- tional. So, in his secretarial capacity, Oudegeest made up the press report which goes to all the world, telling of what the Amsterdam executive thinks of such goings on. And this is what we find on page one of Press Report 49: “With regard to the attitude of Purcell in Rus- sia, it was pointed out in the discussions of the executive, that Purcell did not go to Russia as representative of the I. F, T. U. (Amsterdam In- ternational), and that therefore he is only person- ally responsible for his utterances in or about Russia.” Again, on page two we find the following dis- claimer of any “unofficial” conversations between Purcell and the Russian unions regarding the burn- ing question of world unity of all labor unions: “The president of the I. F. T. U., A. A. Purcell, who is at present in Russia as leader of the delega- tion of British trade unions to that country, has on several occasions spoken of the relations be- tween Amsterdam and Moscow, and in the press these speeches have been connected with the nego- tiations between the I. F. T. U. and the Russian trade unions. It is obvious that the negotiations with Moscow are conducted by the Amsterdam executive exclusively on the basis of the Vienna resolutions, and that no definite resolution can be taken before the meeting of the I. F. T. U. general council, which has been fixed for the beginning of February.” . Thus does Oudegeest rescue the fair name of Amsterdam and wash his hands of responsibility for the Amsterdam president who appears afflicted with the “virus of Moscow.” But the masses continue to go left. Let the Scissors Talk A stoolpigeon carrying an Associated Press com- mission is making the rounds of Russia in search of local color to embellish his lying campaign against the Soviet Republic. He has already painted the Ukraine and Georgia. He is now doing Kazan, in the Tartar Republic. It is interesting to note what makes his heart bleed, so instead of arguing with him we use the scissors: “The granite and bronze monuments to -Alex- ander II. and other historical figures of Russia | have been wrecked and replaced with harsh Com-| munistic figures of workmen. From all flagpoles the red flag of the revolution flies. To many it is only that grim reminder of the spiritual death ef | has been in Russia’s possession | the city, which since the days of Ivan the Terrible.” That is sad, indeed! stituted for the imbecile face of the czar. But the eurst 1s yet to come: “The churches present an especially melancholy sight. They are in full process of decay. clergy are to poor to repaint them. Many of them have closed their dors. Others have been converted into Communistic clubs or barracks. The cor- respondent visited the largest of the churches, the famous convent of the Virgin Mother, where mass was in progress. numerous than the congre gation, which numbered | exactly six persons.” Is Cheertal New Year’s day finds the American people liv- ing better than at any other period in the history of this country, declares the rotund Herbert Hoover, in a booster interview to a news distribut- ing agency. The people'live longer and better and their living standards are going up so rapidly that within a short time every man’s home will be his castle in the literal sense as the workers are no longer satisfied with hall bedrooms in which a person cannot even change his“mind without scratching the walls of his brain cell. The work- ers are now demanding flats and individual houses and they are getting them, according to the jolly Herbert. This will be exciting news for the thousands of unemployed miners in Ililnois, for the thousands of unemployed textile workers and for the hun- dreds of thousands all over the country willing to work, but who cannot work because the boss who owns the shops will not permit them. This country is wealthy. On that point we are in perfect accord with Herbert Hoover. But the wealth of this country was built by the workers and we believe it belongs to the workers. The New Year’s resolution that Hoover would wish the toilers to make is, be thankful for being allowed to live in a country like this. We urge the workers to make a resolution that during the coming year they will redouble their efforts to perfect their economic organizations to fight for more of the products of their toil and to join the only political party of labor in America that aims to mobilize the workers for the political struggle against the master class for the overthrow of capi- talism and the organization of the Workers’ Soviet Republic of America. That party is the Workers (Communist) ‘Party. The New Suicide Squad Dispatches tell of the arrest of Comrade Ruth Fischer, of the German Communist Party, in Vienna. The dispatches state openly that her ar- rest was ordered by the British authorities and that itis part of a new drive against the Com- munists thruout eastern Europe and particularly in the Balkans. Some days ago we stated that the tour of Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister, thru the European capitals—the vatican was included for the very good reason that it insists on being de- clared in on any dirty work that is on foot—was for the purpose of organizing a new offensive against Soviet Russia and the Communist Inter- national. The dispatches from Europe confirm our statement. Central and eastern Europe have passed the ar- tificial period of stability secured by liberal injec- tions of alNed gold into the yeins of the anemic paper republics of these territories and the national economics are definitely on the down grade. In} Egypt, India and Morocco there are great nation- alist movements. In China, Soviet Russia has taken the initiative away from western imperial- ism. The Balkan puppet governments are shaken by great revolts of the peasants and workers and the federation of workers’ and peasants’ republics of the Balkans, proposed by the Communists, has stirred the masses of these nations. Great Britain, altho France offers no opposition at present, has undertaken an impossible task— that of uniting tottering European capitalism against Soviet Russia. These alliances are doomed before they are consummated because of the na- tional rivalries of the rulers and the dissatisfaction of the working class they oppress. Such a coalition must wage war on Soviet Russia and Great Britain will find that this time she will not have her usual success in getting some other nation to do her fighting for her. This is not the Europe of 1914 or even of 1918-19. Today the moment that any army leaves its home base for an offensive against Soviet Russia it has a hostile rear. In addition to that all the armies are needed at home to crush the revolts of the native workers. This is their principal function. A war against Soviet Russia today is suicide for capitalism and Great Britain knows this so well that she sets up as shock troops little nations far removed from the center of British capitalism. The new offensive against the Communists and Soviet Russia is testimony, not to the strength but No doubt the American workers will weep salt tears when they learn that) the brawny figures of Rugsian workers are sub-| The | ‘to the weakness of the European exploiters and | oppressors. Cajvin Coolidge is a republican. M. Vandervelde of Belgium is a socialist. Coolidge favors peace, then signs a bill appropriating $110,000,000 for increasing the efficiency of the navy. Vandervelde makes the followimg statement: “We do not ignore the necessities of national defense. We are certain- ly internationalist and anti-militarist and hate war, but we recognize that the nation must have a military defense force.” ‘ Ramsay MacDonald recently delivered a speech on golf. He regretted that the game was not so cheap today as it was in the past. He urged a movement to bring golf within reach of the masses Why not automobiles and tories, Mac? shares if biscuit fac- The new republic of Mongolia is showing a tendency to follow in the footsteps of Soviet Rus- sia. This is putting it mildly, judging from the fact that no employers of labor can vote in that coun- try, and that the flag of the republic is red. The American capitalist press, formerly enthu- The priests and nuns were more|siastic supporters of Mussolini (with few excep- tions), has receAved his latest decision to suppress the oppositioy newspapers without any show of The scissors are eloquent. Comment would be)enthusiasm. Even Arthur Brisbane failed to rise like painting a rummy’s nose £ to the occasion. | : ORITZ Tz J. LOEB. fey. realise the significance of recent organizational changes which have been effected recently in our party with regards the party press. For the first time serious ef- forts are made to centralize the party’s English language press; to bring into one organizati6n the activ- ity for the development of that trin- ity of powerful organizers, educators and propagandists of our party,—The DAILY WORKER, The Workers Monthly and the Literature Depart- ment. More exactly stated, for the first time these serious efforts are bringing real results. For the truth of the matter is that the plans and the resultant efforts were started more than six mtnths ago these are now beginning to bear fruit. Why Centralization? YEAR ago the party press situa- tion was a model of decentral- ization and disorganization. We had a weekly Worker with its editorial and administrative departments in one place; the type was set in another and the press work was done in still another. ‘There were three monthly magazines ‘Published under our con- trol, The Labor Herald, The Liber- ator, and Soviet Russia Pictorial, all with separate editorial and business departments and all making separate printing arrangements. There was the Literature Department also apart from the rest of the party’s press. Thou- sands of dollars were being wasted every year in the payment of wages alone to party employes who though they were necessary perhaps fo turn out the work were a needless drain upon the party resources. UT this was not the worst of it. Combined with the extravagent and inefficient production arrangement was the most confusing and chaotic system of distribution imaginable. At the top there were the various busi- ness administrations, competing with each other for the attention and activ- ity of the party members. Below were the party units and the individual par- ty members, confused, discouraged and for the most part inactive in one of the most important tasks of the yncy WORKER . Bcentrated Pro} Communist movement, the distribution of the party press. The result was what might have been expected. In not one of the printed propaganda institutions of the party was any pro- gress being made. Instead there was stagnation and decay; decreasing cir- culation all down the line. . The Plan and the Effort | HB first step which made central- ization possible was decision to buy a printing plant for THE DAILY WORKER and a building to house the plant and the national headquarters of the party. But before even this was done the outline of the plans were made for the complete centralization ‘of the party’s press. It was decided that the English language press must be made a unit from the standpoint both of administration and* distribu- tion. T was not an easy task even to made the plans. Many obstacles stood in the way. Special interests of the various departments of the party had to be provided for. But the principle was established as long ago as last January and ever since then the ad- ministration of THE DAILY WORK- ER has been at work to draft the proper program. It was at first decided to bring all of the three monthly magazines under- the management of THE DAILY WORKER administration. But it later became apparent that the party was not big enough nor strong enough to give successful support to three monthly magazines. It was therefore decided to amalgamate the three into one larger magazine. f | First Fruits HE WORKERS MONTHLY is in its third issue. Already it has more than twice the paid circulation than any of its predecessors! This is not to be taken as a reflection on the Labor Herald, The Liberator or Soviet Russia Pictorial. Centralization is the reason! ENTRALIZING The Workers Monthly with the administration of THE DAILY WORKER has been the first big step in the general cen- tralization program. ‘The advantages a tremendous saving in overhead ex- pences amounting to over $12,000 a year in wages alone. For in place of the various editors and assistants there is now one editor and no assist- ants and in place of the various man- agers and assistants there is the staff of THE DAILY WORKER with the sole addition of one girl helper in the office. — UT it is not in this overhead econ- omy that the greatest benefits are derived. Nor even from the im- provement of the quality in our month- ly official organ that must result from the cent effort, does the great- est advantage come. It is the cen- tralizing. for work, work in the field distributing The. Workers Monthly and THE DAILY WORKER which is the strongest, longest step in advance. NE of the most important tasks which THE DAILY WORKER has been trying to accomplish has been the organization of agents to sell subscriptions and in other ways represent THE DAILY WORKER in the field. While we have made only a beginning in this direction, much has already been- accomplished. ‘The or- ganization of The Daily Worker Build- ers has been a further development of the central idea that the backbone of our press must be the organization machinery which gives our publica- tions distribution. The results so far have proven the correctness of this standpoint. | Two Ways for Progress | centralization of the party press is going to work two ways. First of all it is going to strengthen the organization and effeciency of this distribution machinery’ and secondly it is going to work for the immediate and constant improvement of the cir- culation building activities. As has already been said; the cir- culation of The Workers. Monthly is already more than twice that of any of its predecessors. This was due al. most wholely to the fact that there has been a concentration of sales ef- forts. All of the agents of THE DAIL- LY WORKER have been doing like- wise. The result has been that in the two months since The Workers Month- }When the sale of boks and pamphlets three magazines during the centralization is already | results! What its effects on™ circulation}of THE DAILY Wt itself will be cannot yet be mined but it is certain that the cir culation work of THE DAILY WORK: ER will he assisted a great deal, [Literature nimi eh Net] next step in the centralization program will be the activities of the party partment under the a8 THE DAILY WORKER. For a ; the size of ours, we distribu * tremely small amount of books and pamphlets. When it is that by means of propaganda — education contained in these | tions we must hope to develop Co munist understanding and Co a spirit, it must be said that the a has seriously neglected one ot most important tasks. The one ex cuse for this neglect has been pover- ty, but it is not a valid one. The liter. ature department of the party can be developed into a profitable one trom — the financial as well as the educational point of view. What is needed is a proper " ate tribution machinery. That is what ie centralization is going to ; ; nein ene is in the same hands as the of our periodicals, then for the : our literature will receive the atta. tion which it must have and which it deserve cen: gone to some length in deal ing with this subject, yet in view of its importance I feel that too much cannot be said. For it is not simply a matter of mechanical centralization of the production and administration of our party press. It is a real cen- tralization for work by reason of which for the first time the distribu. tion of our press and its wide and deep peneration of thé masses becomes possible. s* ¢s *# dn subsequent articles | will dea\ with the nature of the work of party press distributors and suggests how this work can be most effectively or ganized and ‘performed.—M. J. L.. ‘| “justice.” _ Views of Our Readers on Many Subj jects Plea for Sacco-Vanzetti. To the DAILY WORKER:—In spite of the new evidence that has come to light, -3 Thayer has refused to grant trial for Sacco and Vanzetti. ar is but another bit add- ed to the monstrous mass of facts to show what sort of “justice” and “equality” militant workers can get in American courts. Unless the work ers compel otherwise, two more work- ing class fighters will have been judi- cially murdered. And at once the mind is irresistibly impelled to note the many points of similarity between the murders of Communists and other revolutionists by the fascisti of Eu- rope and the murders by our courts. Workers, what difference is there between the black shirts of the fas- cisti and the black shirts of our judg- es? Both are worn by our enemies sworn to break every militant organ- ization and murder every fighter of the working class;. both are backed up by the power of the capitalist state and are but the tools and agents of the bankers, bosses and landlords of the world. Yes, what difference is there between the black shirts, east and west? Both are the black shirts of reaction. One is the coarse black shirt of the brutal hangman, plying his bloody business with bullet and bayonet; the other is the silk black shirt of the Judas, with his treacher- ous phrases of “equality before the law” and “justice for all” and his ferocious betrayals “within the law.” Far bettér is the grankness of the hangman than the lulling treachery of the Judas. We must remember this; ‘that the blood and iron policy of the “black hundred” is used only when the workers have come to know their deadly enemies the owning classes—and kave massed for the at- tack against them. A Mussolini means that the state can no longer rely on its regular coercive machinery. A Mussolini means that the entire struc- ture of class rule is tottering before the blows of the proletariat, and is ready to collapse. In America we have no Mussolinis because the Judge Thayers are stiu able to fool the workers with their The rulers of America are still so strong that they do not need extra legal machinery to establish the “law and order” that will crush the workers. The smooth death-dealing ‘| action of the law courts is quite suf- ficient for the purposes of our mas- ters, Workers of America, we must awake! Sacco and Vanzetti must not die! Sprung from the loins of our class, they but personify our dreams and hopes for a better world. We can break our enemies, the capitalist rul- ers of America and their agents, the courts and the government. Only let us tear the black shirts of fear and cowardice from off our red hearts; only let us by mass demonstrations and strikes give proof of our invince- ible solidarity, and class prisoners can be free! Let the Sacco-Vanzetti case be a test of strength. Workers, present a united front for the Sacco-Vanzetti defense.—Albert Weisbord, Boston, Mass. A Negro’s War Experiences. To the DAILY, WORKER: — Being an ex-service man, and knowing something of the activities of the Negro troops at the front, as well as behind the lines in the world war, I have been somewhat interested in the welfare of the race. When I think over my war experiences and remem- per how those Negro troops would go to work early in the morning and work all day unloading supplies from boats, and another shift come on at night and work all night to supply the troops at the front with food, J think of them as a hard working race looking only for the right to make a living by their -work. I expected that the government would give them some protection. But after I came back from overseas, the Washington race riots occurred, fol- lowed by the Chicago and Omaha riots and lynchings thruout the south One of the blackets moves against the Negroes was the order from the mayor of Johnstown that all Negroes that had not lived there for three years would be deported. With all these things driven itno , I wonder just how th: Negroes feel. when. a man like,Charles Dawes—also an ex-service man—and Cautious Calvin, tell them about “the constitution.” I notice the governo of Missouri has offered a reward fo the conviction of any member of the mob that hanged the Negro an: burned his body after dragging it thru the Negro district. Of course it is not probable that anyone will claim the reward, and even if they do it will not stop lynching. The law Of the south does not pro. tect the Negro nor punish the whites who practice violence on the Negro. I have noticed that all congressmen, as well as the gospel sharks are against mob law. I used to wonde1 why somebody didn't do something to stop lynching but I don’t wonde: any more. A little lynching party keeps race hatred stirred up, making it much easier for the capitalists to exploit both races. And the loss of one or two Negroes J 80 bad, aé as \the capitalist slaves breed young as ‘a rule. Both white and black workers. must take what the ca O gt ° them. Which is the he heal "ex ploited class to slaughter : rae | ploited class or for both exploited classes to unite ?—Earl Kirk, | Bend, Ind. AUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN CONCERT AND DANCE SUNDAY, JANUARY 11 The concert and dance which was announced by the Russian and Uk- rainian branches of the Workers Party for Dec. 28, was postponed on account of the party membership meeting, to SUNDAY, JAN. 11, at the same hall, Schoenhoffen Hall, take cars to Milwaukee and Ashland Aves. Tickets sold for Dec. 28 will be accepted on Jan. 11. ’ By Alfred V. Frankenstein. Leo Sowerby, who is probably the most important composer in America today, and certainly the most im- portant in Chicago, played a piano concerto of his own with the Chicago Symphony orchestra last Friday and Saturday. Like most of Sowerby’s work, the concerto is the concentrated essence of pep and dash and vigor. The influence of the jazz artists can be plainly seen. It is a fine, enjoyable work, but compared to the ballad “King Estmere” for-two pianos and orchestra played here last season, it it not so tremendously hot. Perhaps the fact that “King Estmere” is a later composition of Mr. Sowerby ex- plains this. The concerto illustrates one of the pet peeves of this writer. All the interpretative directions of the work were written in English.~ At first blush this may not seem wrong. Supposing, however, that Chaykovski had written all his tempo directons in Russian, Beethoven in German, Dvorak in Bohemian, Berlioz in French. MacCunn in Gaelic and Go- mez in Portuguese, to mention only a few examples. A musician would have to be a linguist of no mean dimensions. There exists a musical esperanto, the Italian language. Italian musical, terms are used all over the world. They are understood in Japan and in Wyoming, and in all places in be tween. ° The curious inconsistency of com- posers, who like Wagner and Debussy and Sowerby use their own languages to express degrees of tempo and method of interpretation, in using the sympols F for loud and P for soft, — ' a tina ; ; abbreviatons of the Italian forte and piano, is also worthy of note. For the past two or three years Mr. Sowerby has beer in Kome. He won a prize that enabled him to go there. Why the organization which paid his expenses should stipulate Rome is pretty largely a mystery. Rome, musically, is the most unim- portant cagital in Europe. A prize sending a man to Paris or Munich or Vienna would seem more valuable. The main “reason for the choice of Rome seems to be that for a century er more the Paris conservatory has been sending young composers to the eternal burg. Preceding the concerto was the sec. ond symphony of Alexander Borodin, the Russian . chemist-teacher_physici- an-musician. Borodin in his day was renowned as a.scientist, and so in- tensely and well did he combine music and science that he died at the age of 40. In this second symphony one runs the gamut of Russian art, as we know it in the west. The first movement is brutally strong, flashing , with color, vital and admirable—the Russian pomp and ceremony cele- brated in some of the Moscow art theater plays. The third movement is the Russian of the wistful, the de. feated and warped, Russia as Gorki and Dosteyevski and Chekov have painted it. In the fourth section ex- uberant notes burst like sky-rockets in the air. (Nikita Balieff sticks his says: “Leddies and}! zhentlemen, || spik no Engleesh”’). A simple-minded suite by old man J. S. Bach and a simple, ingenious * s + Si The repertoire for the Tenth ween’ of the Chicago Civic Opera Company will opem on Sunday at 3 p. m. with the third performance of Madame Butterfly (at popular prices), \with Mason, Perini, Hackett, noff in the leading roles. will conduct. Monday night brings the fifth per formance of La Tosca with Muzio sseau, Baklanoff and Moranzon: conducting. Tuesday night the rst and only per. formance of Romeo and Juliet will be given with Mason, Claessens, Hack ett, Formichi and Cotreuil. Conduc tor Polacco. A special Wednesday afternoon at prices ing from $f to $4, with Muzio, Le Marshall, Formichi; Mlle. Nem and corps de ballet. Moranzoni con ducting. Wednesday evening, the fourth pre sentation of Lucia di Lammermoo: will be sung with Dal Monte, Schipa Rimini, Lazzari in the leading —_ and Polacco conducting. On Thursday evening the third per formance of Werther will be giver with Garden, Freund, Ansseau ant Kipnis, with Polacco conducting. Friday night will be the last per formance of Traviata, with Muzic Schipa, Schwarz; Oukrainsky, Mlle Milar, Shermont and corps de balle and Bakla Mr. Polacec _Cimini will conduct. moon face grin thru the curtains anc | The Saturday matinee will be |'Trovatore, with Muzio, Homer, ‘mont, Formichi and Weber condas ing. The popular price easbidens eve but not simple-minded piece of music, performance will be Rigoletto, Humperdinck’s prelude to Haensel | Macbeth, Hackett aind Formichi, Weber again conducting. matinee will be giver Z | | ELPESESERERSESSSSTGED Pees a