Daily Worker
January 9, 1925
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FRIDAY, JA —————e 0, Hiinois under the Aet of March 3, 1879. é Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! | Hold Célebrations from Coast to Coast The first anniversar of the brated. pe will be cele- all Workers Party hes “yh district organiza- cen coast to coast with entertainments, _ balls, po std weeitinas which have been arranged by the various sec- tions of the party. ‘These celebrations will com- memorate the wonderful strides that have been made by the Communist movement since the first English language daily Communist newspaper was born just a-year ago. The. first DAILY WORKER birth. day party will be celebrated in Chi- cago Monday evening, Jan. 12, with a program of music, s, dancing and speeches at Im Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. Supper will be served without was at the Chicago celebra- ‘Giscuss the prospects of the ORKER for 1925. A news- papér will be made up by the editors and members of the staff, which it is promised, will be “just full of good and cartoons.” The Chicago af. will »be in charge of Comrades) and Natalie Gomez, of bined ; pn pd . the observance of the anni- versaty of the death of Karl Lieb- : be nee and Rosa Luxemburfig. The a New York office of the Work- arty and the Young Workers’ ne a issded. ai statement ‘gays, “On Jan. 11 the Com- munist the world over will mmemorate the death of Karl Lieb. knec t and Rosa Luxemburg who six years ago were foully murdered by the ier. henchmen of the socialist lead of Germany. As proof that the t of the working class are doomed and that the revolutionary movement. of the workers—the Com- munist movement—is rapidly advanc- ing, and gathering more and more re- cruits to its fold, we will have at the same time the celebration of the first anniversary of the DAILY WORKER ‘he first Communist Daily in the world in the English language.” The Liebknecht memorial will be freld in the afternoon and the DAILY ‘ «Continued from page 1) ATTENTION GHIGAGD DELEGATES OF LABOR DEFENSE AND |. W. A The Chicago Conference for De- fense and Relief, comprising all branch delegates to,the Labor De- fense and international Workers’ Aid, will meet Saturday afternoon, Jan. 10, 3:30 shart, at Greek Hail, 722 Blue Island Ave. ite first big job is the running of our biggest motion picture venttre, “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” at Ashiand Auditorium, Thursday, Feb. 5, Tickets and advertising matter ready. | There is to be souvenir advertis- ing program. Space costs $20 per page, down to $3 for card space. Delegates and others are urged to bring. along some advertisements from business houses and workers’ organizations. Be on time—722 Blue Island Ave., Saturday afternoon, Jan. 10, 3:30p. m. Branches that have no delegates should have secretary or C. C. delegates attend. ‘wy George Maurer, Labor Defense. William F. Kruse, International Workers’ Aid. siness bfiee.. of the /RAILY ) York will be com.; | STAR CASINO a a” Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, TIL Price 3 Cents ; owe COMMUNIST, IS MEMBER OF NORTH DAKOTA STATE LEGISLATURE}! By ALFRED KNUTSON. (Special to The Daily Worker) BISMARCK, N D., Jan. 8.—The North Dakota legislature has just started its session here and the political line-up is as follows: The nonpartisan leaguers have control of the house of representatives and the “I. V. A.,” or independents, control the state senate by one vote. The leaguers who are house members are “raring” to go and apparently “full of. fight,” firmly believing that it will be possible for them to really do something by getting thru some “progressive” legislation, , evidently forgetting that they are operating in a capitalist legislature and within the frame-work of the private business system of capitalism, which, of course. render impossible any changes that will really help the farmers. The New Governor. A. G. Sorlie is the new nonpartisan league governor. He is pretty much to the right of even the average leaguer in North Dakota. His calibre can be easily ascertained thru state. ments he has made since his election, namely, that farmers, bankers and business men should all work together for the good of North Dakota. Such a policy will, naturally, play directly into the hands of the investment com- panies, the bankers and the grain thieves, who possess both political and economic power, and who are very anxious to be on good terms with the farmers in order the more readily to exploit them. Communist on Job. Comrade A. C. Miller, working farmer, is the only Communist mem- ber of the state legislature. He comes from Williston in the north- western part of the state and was elected to the hous¢ of representa- tives, representing the 4ist legisla. tive district. He has been a member pag ae Workers Party for over a year. * In an interview Miller declared that “it was a hopeless task for the farm- ork of a Feal wotke 5". Fep tative should be directed towards « cating all exploited farmers and work- ers to realize the necessity of buiid. ing up their own system.” MELLON'S GANG GROOMS PEPPER FOR FAT JOBS Making Mewes Trades with Pinchot (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury having acquired control of the repub lican organization thrudut Pennsyl- vania thru the collapse of the Ware machine in Philadelphia, is reported to be preparing to change his repre- sentation in the U. 8S. senate. He is expected ;to find a place on the federal supreme court, or a big European embassy, for Sen. Pepper, who has still four years to serve. Then he will put former Gov. Sprou) in the senate. If Gov. Pinchot, in return for cer. tain concessions by Mellon as to ap- propriations from the legislature to carry Out *some of Pinchot’s minor plans, will agree to name Sproul to succeed Pepper, the latter will resign within the remaining two years of Pin- chot’s term. @herwise Mellon will have to wait until Pinchot leaves of- fice. Snooks Will Snoop In Atlanta Federal Prison After Jan. 20 WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Appoint- ment of John. W. Snook, warden of! the Idaho state penitentiary, as war den of the Atlanta federal prison, was ially announced today by Attor ney General Stone. Snook will take office about Jan. 20 oF as soon as he can adjust his af ifairs in Idaho. ~— “in Memoriam—Lenin” to be shown Jan. 15 at Gartner’s Theater. 107th Street and Park Avenue, — = ro ee. ee ee ee =e Pes New York City and workers to expect any relief] 1, ITALY UNDER MILITARY LAW OF MUSSOLINE Communists Tortured in Prisons (Special to The Dally Worker) ROME, Jan. 8—A state of martial law exists today in Italy in everything but name. Prefects have been ordered to take Wny emergency measures they wish to keep the Fascisti in control of the country and suppress the opposition, regard- less of the present judicial statutes. The jails are being filled with Com- munists and workers who are against the fascisti rule of terror. These pris- oners are being tortured in an effort the state. Cases have come to light in Rome of prisoners who have had their eyes gouged gut, their hands end feet crcinhed, “and _ bodies’ mutt. iden tienticiet: “wore prisoners are be- ing assaulted and all but a few of the fascisti members who were jailed for violent crimes have been released. Former Premier Giolitti is expected to become the new leader of the Aven- tine opposition. All under-secretaries of state who were not members of the fascisti party have resigned, under pressure from Mussolini. Signor Rustignac, a fascist and for- eign correspondent of the New York. Italian daily newspaper, Il Progrosso Italo, has been arrested and quizzed by the senate. He is charged with being implicated in the Matteoti mur. der. The Communists are demanding a social revolution and the seizing of power by the workers, as the only means of crushing fascism for all time. Fascist police raided the Commun- ist headquarters in Milan, and an announced they had, “seized docu- ments incriminating ten dangerous radicals said to have been implicated in many Red outbreaks.” The fascisti are declaring everyone who opposes their mad rule of bayonets as “danger- ous.” OMAHA T.U.E.L, TAKES UP CHILD LABOR BATTLE OMAHA, Nebr., Jan. 8.—The Omaha general group of the Trade Union Edu- cational League is plunging into the child labor fight in earnest. Secretary David Coutts is sending letters to a!) local unions in this territory urging them to appoint a committee on the child labor question. The Workers Party is also getting into the fight here. The City Central Committee has made overtures to the local independent (LaFollette) club suggesting a united front campaign on the child labor question. While time has been too short as yet for definite action, the activity of the T. U. EB. L. and Workers Party militants has already aroused consid- erable discussion in the local labor movement. ‘ to make them “confess” crimes against’ S IN PROTEST 4a which they capitalis municipal . which is of inte working men ° * adopted. Speaks Only f jthree to ten years in the Michigan ‘}unite all workers who believe in de- heat “Now, when great nu ers ate suffering from when police and injur in by the bosses to. when working class children are ermeres from inadequate ing—it is neces to come eward with a program which exposes the real issues in the aldermanic elections to be held on Febriiary 24—~a program which faceg the issues frankly, and which railies the working men and women of Chicago for struggle against the capitalists on the basis of the im-| mediate interests of the workers.” The issues covered by the program include: Public utilities, traction, un- employment, education, police, the use of the injunction inst workers, child labor, race discrimination, muni- cipal employes, contract letting, hous- ing and the right to vote. Each of these issues is not only treated in a general way, but also practical ways and m of attain- ing the end sought are pointed .out. The working class candidates of the Workers Party are all pledged to acon program. Revolution Only Real abuttes. The program concludes: The above program of immediate demands touches issues which are vital to every working man and woman in Chicago. Everyone of these issues is a direct outgrowth of the present system of production for private profit—that is, of capitalism. Because of the monopoly which the bosses maintain over the factoriés, machines, etc., the workers are ob- liged to toil long hours for meager wages, while the goods that they pro- 4 iv the Capitalist class for class reasons, lia itt offices at 166 Wop ge Washington duce are taken by the capitalists. schools, press, etc., it is obvious that the workers have no real opportuiity in this election. Capitalist “demo- cracy” is nothing but a sham. There can be no real solution of the great problems weighing down upon the workers until capitalism is over- ihrown—until the workers seize con- trol of the governnfental power and take over industry. This will be ac- complished thru the establishment of (Continued on page 2) With the capitalist domination Over! bill at millions of dollars below the a — Daily Worker J ubilee, Concert and Ball T.U.E.L.CALLS UPON ALLWORKERS_ . TO UNITE AROUND LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL AGAINST WHITE TERROR In a statement issued by the national committee of the Trade Union Educational League, it calls upon all militant workers to form a united front with the Labor Defense Council to fight the “criminal syndicaiism” “sedition acts,” instruments used by the employing class-of the United States to tyrannize over militant workers i i! laws and CAPPELLINI 1S DENOUNCED AS UNION BETRAYER and their organizations. We print the statement in full: T. U. E. L. STATEMENT | The Trade Union Educational League has, eves since its birth, urg- ed the workers to solidify their forces against the menace of white guard suppression going under the guise of laws against “criminal syndicalism.” It was the efforts of the T. U. BE. L. that aroused the wide support among the unions for the Communists whose convention in Michigan was raided by the agents of Daugherty and Burns in 1922. Workers Fortify For Attack. Today there is a new cause for unity of all workers, Communist and non-Communist, organized and uwnor- ganized, of all races and conditions. The supreme court of Michigan has upheld the conviction of C. E. Ruth- enberg under this infamous law, the charge being only one of “assembling with” other people not*yet convicted of anything, and on Monday, Jan. 5, Ruthenberg was sentenced to from penitentiary and bail denied. Foreseeing this sentence after the action of the supreme court of Michi- gan, the Trade Union Educational League has begun a new campaten to fending any worker imprisoned by bund the Labor Defense Council, é coeenm ie fi dy By ' issued a@ call for ey mili- tant workers, to take up in ir un- ions and fraternal organizations, the issue of the defense of the victims of the Michigan “criminal syndicalist” law. Among the first to respond is local 2376 of the United Mine Work- ers, Christopher, Ill. The resolution of these coal miners, which appeared in the DAILY WORKER Jan. 5, should serve as a model for every worker who will take up the fight in his local union to defeat the tvran- nical reaction in the state of Michi- gan and free all the workers now standing in the shadow of prison. National Committee, Trade Union Educational League. SENATE GIVES MUSCLE SHOALS TO POWER TRUST Underwood Bill Passed by Senate WASHINGTON, D D. ¢. Jan. 8.—The senate today passed the Underwood bill, turning the Muscle Shoals power project, worth many millions of dol- lars, over to private interests. It is well-known in Washington that the huge power trust, controlled by J. P. Morgan and his bankers, was promoting the Underwocd bill. Dur- ing the discussion of the Underwood bill a Washington newspaper charg- ed that, “If the Underwood bill pass- es, a steal will have been. put over on the people of the United States which will put Teapot Dome in the shade.” The power trust, which will event- ually gain control of Muscle Shoals thru the workings of the Underwood cost of the power project to the Unit- | ed States, owns the Alabama Power company, which will eventually con- trol Mascle Shoals. Muscle Shoals consists of several huge dams, houses and hotels on a large tract of land, and large nitrate manufacturing projects. for | the | Senator Norris’ bill, providing the retention of the project by government, was sidetracked by senate. ~ Be eo” -—_ > | : o= Sunday, January 11, Afternoon and Evening Ee STRIKING MINER MURDERED AFTER MAKING SPEECH Shot tisen en His Way Home from Meeting (By Fede rated Press.) NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—The first mur- der has taken place in the hard coal strike near Scranton, say reports from the anthracite capital. Samuel Pace a leading strike committeeman, and secretary of the Bwen Colliery local, where the unofficial walkout against Colliery originated, was slain by gunmen near the Pennsylvania.Hillside his home in Pittston. Several. days ago the writer got ac- quainted with Pace and had a long visit with him at his home on Pine short, strongly built young man of 31, full in the strikers’ cause street, Pittston. He was a of confidence and active night and day in the strug gle. until they got grievances would be adjusted. The meager reports give no inkling steel- jacketed bullets are said to have pierced ‘as returning, of the murdérers. Fourteen his body as he’ ference by the state police. speech. The Scranton. About 125 men assembled out of 1,200 members of the local. The company. men urged the men to go back to work. Pace took the floor and exposed the trick that was being played on the union meeting. He urged the men to stand As he left the hall, tak- ing a group of workers with him, six “Cossacks” of searched him, finally releasing him. But the work of Pace and others was success. men—it was not a regular by the fight. state policemen— the ill fame—seized him and ful. The back-to-work movement was a fizzle, about 26 responding, instead of the 450 announced in the papers by figures were verified to the writer by a Scranton Later the local un- ion called its own Underwood meet- ing, with 800 present and a ringing strike was the company. (These Times reporter.) resolution to passed. stay on Pickets were put on the line The killing of Pace is likely to have an opposite effect from that which the murderers intended. Brookhart’s Seat in Congress Is Contested Before U.S. Senate WASHINGTON, Jar Sen. Brookhart, senate today by Senator Robinson, democrat of Arkansas, minority lead- er. The petition of contest was filed Steck, democratic defeated by Brookhart by by Robinson for Daniel F. a few hundred votes. T. U. E. L. Meeting in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 8.— Louis branch of the Trade Union Edu cational League meets Tuesday -eve 13 at 8 o'clock at Workers Jan. Hall, ning, Party 2412 No. 14th = street the |John Braun will lecture on the Trade Union Movement. Party, 208 E. —— - = — Pace had a wife and three chil- dren but he said he and the rest had no thought of discontinuing the fight assurance that their Pace told me of some hostile inter- It occur- red after he had delivered a strike Pennsylvania-Hillside company agents had called a meeting of miners in the union hall of the Underwood local, several miles out of Jan. 8— Informal notice of the contest of the seat of republican of Iowa, in the new congress was filed in the The St. His Smoke Screen Is of No Avail (Special to The ” Daity Worker) WILKESBARRE, o~ Jan. 8. —When Rinaldo Cappellini, district president, United Mine Workers of America, called a mass meeting of the striking anthracite miners to “explain’ things yesterday afternoon he brought upon himself the most complete defeat a union be- trayer has ever suffered in this district. The Pittston armory was crowded with 4,000 angry min- ers and Cappellini caught literal hell. They called him “traitor” and ac. cused him of selling them out. They howled down his accusation that Com- munists were his only opposers and for hours plastered him with epithets as he stood alone on the platform. Can’t Fool 'Em No More. “You can fool all the people, some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time,” declared one leader of the strikers’ “tommit- tee, quoting the famous saying of Lin- coln. The-Italian coal miners, aroused to a high pitch of indignation at the mur der of Sam Pace and Steve Frely, and the brazen treachery of the district ident, Cappelini was hardly dteigutouh in his role of coal operators’ agent. The mask of union officer was thin in- deed. He dared not trust his life and limb to the members of his own un- ion, and tho he stood aldhe on the platform, he had the protection of a cordon of police, forty plain clothes- men and a squadron of “Cossacks” near at hand. < “No” Shakes Building. In “explaining” the strike, Cappe- lini declared that only two of the grievances which had been unsettled for months in violation of the agree- ment, justified the strike, and that men affected had returned to work. He demanded to know if he had made good as a district president—and the ‘Noes!” fairly took the roof off the building. Cappelini’s entire record was at- tacked and raked from stem to stern, in office and out, and heckling con- tinued until a genuine riot threatened. Affairs at Critical Stage. Affairs in the mine workers’ organ- ization reached a critical stage Sat- urday when delegates from twenty unions of the Glen Alden Coal com- pany urged by resolution the coming of President John L. Lewis to this (Continued on page 2.) | CHARLIE HUGHES MUCH PLEASED AT VICTORY OVER GREAT BRITAIN (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Marked Satisfaction was expressed at the state department today over the progress being made at Paris in ‘im- pressing on the allied finance min- isters the justice of the American claim to equal participation in the Dawes annuities. Colonel James A. Logan reported to the department after his confer- ence with Winston Churchill, Brit ish chancellor of the exchequer, that the basis for an agreement had been reached. Paris dispatches today say that after half an hour’s session the meeting of the conference was ad- journed until Monday, when reports will be received from certain ex perts, who are to have informal meetings meanwhile. -_ -- -— Tickets for sale at District Office, Workers 12th St., and Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 127 University Place. Admission 50c oe SE Re es ER re gts = 4 we om
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Li, it ‘Ls ir o% Lae * ‘ ae * z =. = Pa hs i - ath XK, : a i. , ——— *» ¥ i. - : > tee tee et Ae i JAIL FOR THE WORKING CLASS No Legal Basis Involved Says Ferguson The imprisonment of C. E. Ruthenberg, national executive secretary of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, solely because of his association with the Com- munists, was branded as ridi- culous by Isaac E. Ferguson, attorney for Ruthenberg, in a statement to the DAILY WORKER. If the decision of the Michigan court is allowed to stand, Fer- guson told the DAILY WORK- ER, it “practically takes away all meaning from the constitu- tional guarantees of free speech and the right of assemblage.” “The idea of Ruthenberg being in prison because of his association with the Communists is utterly ridiculous,’ said Ferguson. “The Communist Party was condemned in Ruthenberg’:' trial because it is supposed to have threatened the United States govern ment. But the United States govern ment has done nothing to prevent the Communists from disseminating their ideas since the deportations under At- torney General Palmer in 1920. “The United States government knows all bout the doctrines of the Communists. Its agents have been able to read, in the five years since 1920, the principles expressed openly by the Communists in their literature and in their press. “And the government has made no move to show that the expression of principles by the Communists is a criminal menace,” Ferguson continu. ed “If there were any reality in the charge against Ruthenbersg,it is ridicu- lous to think that the government would tolerate the recent presidential campaign conducted by the Commun- ists, where they stated the principles, for which Ruthenberg is in jail, hun- dreds of times in every city in the country, Gesture Against Communism. “The courts are using the Ruthen- berg case to make a gesture against doctrines, but there is no real accusa- tion against him according to the normal standards of criminal law. The judges and jury conducting the case all deem it necessary to show that they do not like the principles of Communism. ) “This particular decision of the Michigan court, if it stands unrevers- ed, practically takes away all meaning from the constitutional guarantees of free speech and the right of assembl. age.” Attorney General Andrew Dough- erty of Michigan, has filed a motion, prepared- by Assistant Attorney Gen- eral O. L. Smith, with the Michigan supreme court at Lansing, asking the court to confirm the previous judg- ment that all questions have been set- tled. This moticn will be acted upon by the Michigan court on Jan. 15, finally disposing of the case as far as the Michigan courts are concerned The case will then be appealed to the United States supreme court. Rally Labor for Defense. Meanwhile Ruthenberg is held pris. oner in one of the worst hell holes in the country—Jackson Prison, at Jack- son, Michigan. The Labor Defense Council and the militant section of the working class have rallied to the de- fense\ of Rtithenberg and the other Communists who are facing prison solely because they demand the over. throw ofthe capitalist system of ex- ploitation of the workers, and that the abolition of the profit system be re. placed by the rule of the working class. “Thousands of dollars are needed immediately for the Ruthenberg ap- peal to the U. S. supreme court, for the Minor trial and those that will follow,” George Maurer, of the Labor Defense Council, told the DAILY WORKER. “The facts must be spread broadcast, so that all workers and their organizations will know that their cause is the cause of these Work- ers (Communist) Party defendants and will unite in a mass protest and demand their freedom.” The Trade Union Eduecationa’ League has issued a call to all trade unionists to come to the defense of these militant leaders of the working class—the Michigan Communist de- fendants. The local Chicago organization of the Workers (Communist) . Party already has well under way the fight to release the militant champions of | the working class who are faced with prison terms. “One of the big demands of the ald- ermanic election campaign of the Workers Party in Chicago is the free dom of all class war prisoners,” Martin Abern, Chicago secretary of the Workers Party told the DAILY WORKER, “especially in view of the imprisonment of Comrade Ruthenberg, and the impending trial of Comrade Minor and other leading Communists. From now on the most important task of the Workers Party is the defense of the Communists imprisoned under the Michigan anti-syndicalist laws.” ico oe ee iT aie ae one ee LET US SHOW THE FIGHTING COAL MINERS THAT WE ARE WITH THEM In Tuesday’s issue of the DAILY for daring to fight for their interests. Workers’ Monthly is their magazine; so we have placed on our sub-list every one of the fighting miners re- maining in jail. But the DAILY WORKER is as poor as the poor worker, and subs are a heavy expense. Will you pay for one of these? They have been placed on the sub-list each for a six months’ sub for the DAILY, WORKER ($3.50) and for a six months’ sub for the Workers’ Monthly ($1.25). Send in your remittance and we will tell the fighter you choose that you have con- tributed the favor. But be sure to tell us you are paying for a certain pris- oner or the DAILY WORKER or Workers’ Monthly if you have a pre- ference. : Read what Pat Toohey has to say about it: Jan, 4, 1925. “Dear Comrades:—I ehclose here the names of the remaining miners at Moundsville penitentiary for their part in the march of the miners on | he Cliftonville mine in 1922, at which 1 riot took place and the sheriff and eight union miners were killed. They repeatedly have requested of me the DAILY WORKER and the Workers’ Monthly, but we are about in as bad a fix financially as they are. “IT send you their names to see if you would put them on the mailing list. This list supersedes the list I sent you some time ago, as the men have been pardoned, as these will” be’ also, as soon as the progressives can or- ganize their forces to make a fight in this direction. , “Teddy Arinski, Frank Bodo, Charles Ciallella, John Kaminski, Angelo Mar- ione, Dan Machysak, Andy Rohar, Pete Radokovitch, Joseph Regis, John Stegmack, Joseph Tracz, Joseph Wal- lace, 818 Jefferson Ave., Moundsville, W. Va. “If you are unable to comply with my request, please inform me. The Avella section from where most of the prisoners are from, is a section controlled by the pro-Lewis tools of this district, and if the radicals put up a fight for these men, our party will greatly benefit greatly, by having an opportunity to penetrate hitherto untouched territory. ; “With best wishes, I am, “Fraternally yours, “Pat H. Toohey, “Sec’y Miners’ Defense Com.” SCAB HERDER SUES COMPANY FOR HIS BLOOD MONEY Gets Doublecross When Strike is Broken NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 8.— Edward Thompson, strikebreaker boss, has filed suit against thé, Texas Transport and Terminal Co. fgr $17,420, which he alleges he coal have been en- titled to had he not been discharged. Thompsen was engaged as general su- perintendent in New Orleans over the strikebreaking longshoremen during 1924, and was told by officials that the job was his for life. His salary was to be $55 a week and all the overtime necessary. William Harris, his assist- aut, also files suit for $14,000 on the same grounds. While the strike was in its zenith these men drew the wage agreed up- on; but when the union was licked, they were gradually let out. The transportation company is say- ing nothing, but engaging the best le- gal talent. Fishermen Win Strike. (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, Jan. 8.—The strik- ing fishermen and -cannery workers of Douarnenez won an increase il wages of 25 centimes an hour, after a strike of six weeks, which was led by ‘Communists. During the strike the Communist mayor was suspended by the government for leading a parade. _ THREAD TRUST CUTS WAGES 10 PER GENT OF 7,000 WORKERS WILLIMANTIC, Conn., Jan. 8.— Announcement was made at the plant of the American Thread com- many here today that the wages of its operatives will be reduced 10 per cent, effective January 12. The reduction will be genera! in all plants. Thirty-five hundred opera- tives will be affected here and 7,000 in the entire system. The Trade Union Educational League has called upon all workers thruout the textile industry to resist militantly the concerted drive against their wages being cut in alli branches of the industry. Strikes are expected all over New Eng- land. Build the DAILY WORKER! ~ WORKER an article by Pat Toohey, secretary of the Miners’ Defense Committee, stated the case of the fighting miners who participated in the famous “March of the Miners” in 1922. Twenty-five of these fighting workers have just been pardoned while thirteen others in for the same cause have still to remain behind the bars The DAILY WORKER is a paper of the fighting proletariat—and the WAGES ARE LOW, CONDITIONS BAD ON BRITISHISLES Workers Expect Attack on Hours Next LONDON, Jan. 8— A levelling up and 650,000 British railway workers is pro- posed by the National Union of Rail- waymen. Among the rates are the fol- lowing given in equivalent U. S. mon- ey: engineers, $3.80 a day; firemen, $2.96 a day; machinists, $18 to $18.95 a week; signal operators, $14.20 to $21.02; freight and baggage handlers minimum. $14.20 a week. It is pro- posed to change the basic mileage day of enginemen from 440 to 120 miles for surface men and 100 miles for un- derground men, no man to work more than 840 miles a week. Wages in all British coal mining dis- tricts with one exception are down to the minimum and at least 10 per cent of the mine workers are unemployed. Coal mine owneis have started an agt- tation.in favor of a i_iurn to the long- er working day as a ~eans of reduc- ing costs. Employers and employers’ journals generally admit that British wages are as low as they can be without provoking the unious to fierce revolt. Trade ufiion circles feel that the next attack of employers will be against working hours. Forbes Ignorant of Graft in His Bureau, Is His New Defense Charles Forbes, when head of the United States veterans’ bureau, “was not interested” in hospital building, Col. E. E. Walton, chief of the con- struction service of the war depart- ment testified in Forbes’ defense. Forbes is on trial in federal court here charged with the contracts, according to, Walton. “After he induced the war depart ment to take over the opening of bids and the letting of contracts, - Col. Forbes said he cared only to inspect the plans, and let the department turn over the completed hospitals to him as rapidly as possible,” said Wal- ton. The new defense of Forbes pic tures him as a naive executive who did not know what was going on un- der him and who was not interested in eliminating graft and corruption in the veterans’ bureau. Program for W. P. Aldermen Is Adopted (Continued from page 1) a Soviet Republic, a workers’ farmers’ government. + 7. am and We call upon all labor unions and working class organizations which are in agreement with the imme- diate demands set forth in our pro- gram to establish a united front with the Workers (Communist) Party In the fight for their realization, thru support of the aldermanic candl- dates listed below: | 3rd WARD—E. L. Doty. lith WARD—Victor Zokaitis. 22nd WARD—L. Cejka. 24th WARD—H. Epstein. 28th WARD—N. Dozenberg. 32nd WARD—Peter M. Lucas. 33rd WARD—J. L. Engdahl. 34th WARD—Harry Brooker. 44th WARD—J. W. Johnstone. An energetic campaign will be made to bring the program and candidates of the Workers (Communist Party be- fore the workers of Chicago despite the fact that the election is being run On a non-partisan basis. The entire city organization of the Workers Par- ty is responding wholeheartedly to this election campaign, and it is ex- pected that by the time this election ‘is closed, the workers of Chicago will be well acquainted with the Workers Party and what it stands for, as well as with its daily fighting organ, the DAILY WORKER. Ku Klux Preacher Reported Shot Dies Of Natural Causes | DANVILLE, Ul, Jan. 8.—Rev. Wil- liam WV. Williams, preacher for tke ku klux klan, who collapsed last Novem. ber while delivering a klan speech at Benton, Ill., died today at the hospita) of the national soldiers’ home. When Williams collapsed in Novem- ber, the klansmen charged that he ‘had been shot by anti.klansmen, and it was not until Williams’ death today that it was revealed that William: was suffering not from wounds but from tubercular meningitis. - tf -- standardizing of the wages of N illegally letting}. tain a combination in —_ ree, «err ~*~ ee meee ne ie elie gk dy RR 0s ea ig Meg RRS Cam ~ > . e% ‘ oe ae ; . 2 * @ - ' 7 ‘ ; be. , b “ « = Ph ee : g ; . = ‘ + gaa . a Pe she OF . a ._* Peaks Ae a ae : ae $ . Pus We ee H A - ete, 4 > a: 1, erties ta Sie = " ae? oy gol Da *, 7 = ee ' ~ be : : fh) ee ae a 0% a ‘ + 5 " 5%" oe ete Peet 7 ‘ ’ ‘ r WASHINGTON, pu day, with arch-strikebreaker Coolidge, ar 3 saa hh i aes, 2 ee el et oS ree - a a | . ’ , “y TS a ¥ + PR his con ope ead e a7 = pe + ~ * ~~ oe . ~ Coolidge Makes Love to High-Hat Millionaires (Special to The Daily Worker) Jan. 8.— dge Elbert Gary, head of the United States Stee! corporation, who allowed his trust to break every law on the calendar in the 1919 steel strike, presented a resolution to President Coolidge yesterday acking for “law en- forcement,” President Coolidge always throws his doors open to the steel trust head. Gary is 4 handy man when it comes to supplying money ‘to run a presi- , dential canipaign, and besides, Cool- idge owns a fat block of stock in the United States Steel corporation. Gary ate breakfast with the presi- dent yesterday, and acted as chair- man of a delegation of high hatted millionaires, including John D. Rocke- feller, Jr., S. S. Kresge, and other men of big business. They were members of a “committee of one thousand,” seeking to enforce the prohibition laws, and they commended Coolidge for not getting drunk while on duty in the interests of big business. Gary “commended President Coolidge for his personal conscientious obedience to the provisions of the eighteenth amendment.” | Rockefeller must have laughed up his sleeve when talking to Coolidge about law enforcement, if he remem- bered the Colorado coal strike, when his company, the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, hired thugs to mur- der the strikers, and evicted scores of families from their homes. And Gary must have had a good laugh at the expense of the gullible workers, if he recalled that during the 1919 strike, gunmen in the em- ploy of the United States Steel cor- poration brutally . murdered Fanny Sellins, and that all meetings were *| prohibited in all of the steel towns. Strikers were arrested by the hun- dred, many were killed, and the state — constabulary of Pennsylvania was called in by Gary to ride down strik- ers—all for no other cause than that they wanted the eight-hour day and a living wage. Indeed, it was a sélect company of strikebreakers, that sat down at the White House breakfast table yester- breaker of the Boston police strike, leading the discussion on “law en- forcement.” POSTAL WORKERS TO KEEP UP PAY. INCREASE FIGHT Cal’s Veto Is Sustained by Only One Vote : Altho disappointment was in the air at the meeting of 300 members of the Railway Mail Association in the Hotel Sherman, because the senate. failed to override Coolidge’s veto of the bill increasing postal employes’ salariés, they determined that the fight would continue. “We feel this especially because ‘we felt sure of victory,” said Ellis Miller, president of the association. “We be- lieve firmly in‘our cause and have not given up. We have great hopes of an increase in the not distant future. The fact that only one vote was needed to give us the necessary two-thirds vote shows our fight has not been without results. “We believe that the public is with us and wants us to attain money enough to live on—not merely to exist. We want to be able to educate our children and to live in happiness and comfort.” The vote on the bill to increase the pay of the postal workers was 55 to 29, but as only 28 votes against the the bill were required to prevent its passage over the veto of Coolidge by a two-thirds vote, Coolidge’s veto war RS ec wus sustained and the bill will not ‘become a law. - Coolidge pulled every wire he could to stave off the passage of the bill. by a two-thirds vote. He made promises’ threatened patronage, puiled “ex’ posures” of graft, and submitted sev? eral substitute bills. Senator Borah- who at one time posed as a progrest sive, voted with Coolidge. This camd as no surprise, as Borah worked a# hard as any other Coolidge senatof to prevent the postal workers fron# securing their raise. Unsafe Crossing Kills. : BETHLEHEM, Pa., Jan. 8.—Threé school children were killed and twe seriously injured here today at unsafe railroad crossing when a high Valley railroad passenger struck the wagon in which the dren were being driven to school. dead were Roderick, John and } ® 4
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THE DISCUSSION IS ENDED HE discussion of the party’s immediate tasks, that has been carried on in the columns of the DAILY WORKER for the past six weeks, ends today. This Is the decision of the Central Executive Com- A statement summing up the discussion is being prepared by it will be published as soon as it 3 i i ie i ie i i i i i ii i i i i i i i i i i ee SIX STATES AND ONE COUNTY— OR WHO IS LOGICAL AND WHAT ARE THE FACTS By GEORGE MAURER OMRADE RUTHENBERG says it’s “logical.” What? The busi- ness of keeping the slogan and work- ing for a class farmer-labor party. He says, in effect, ‘Oh! Mr. Majority! Look to your logic. You admit that all the conditions and reasons which made for-our united front farmer- Yabor party activity in the past still remain but yet you draw the opposite conclusions to drop the slogan, etc.” Really, and oh, Comrade Ruthenberg! Did you read and understand the majority thesis, does it say that all the conditions are now the same, that the particular condition necessary, a mass sentiment for a farmer-labor party, now exists? You started this “logic” business, Comrade Ruthenberg, and then one of the minority supporters, Comrade Harold John, came along (Daily Work- er, December 10) also with the boast of logic, and said “the left wing, out- side the W. P., must be organized politically inyorder that it can be lead by anybody and the W. P. must be included in that organization so that Communists can lead.” Did you of the minority start with such an assump- tion and then try to give your thesis plausibilty by pointing to six state or- ganizations called farmer-labor parties and which you claim are against the LaFollette third prty movement and for a class farmer-labor party? To be sure your minority thesis does not go so far as Comrade John. You say that actual organization of “a farmer-labor party, fighting the class battles of the workers and farm- ers” may never take place and that it is possible that the best elements can be absorbed into the Workers Party, without passing thru the stage of actual organization into a separate party. Do you affirm that the Work- ‘“ére Party canhot lead the left wing and absorb its best elements without the slogan “for afarmer-labor party” “Or do yow& claim there is a mass need (viewed from a Communist stand- point) for a “class farmer-labor par- ty”? Since your thesis is .so “logical” what about your assertion that if we “abandon the united front policy pol- itically by abandoning the slogan for a class farmer-labor party, we will - gurrender the most effective agitation- al weapon we have for drawing the workers close to our party and build- ing the Workers Party.” Do you really mean that the sole and only united front tactic politically, is the business of working for a class farmer-labor ? e No, probably you were careless in wording it, perhaps you meant “on the parliamentary field” as Comrade Wicks puts it. You do think, tho, that there is lots of sentiment “in the left wing” for a cless farmer-labor United Front to beauty—the business honestly !— hational party and therefore it is desirable to go along as before. And this, after the experience of July 3rd, 1924, the gtowth of the LaFollette third party movement, the disappearance of all farmer-labor parties, and non-development of the sentiment which had been labelled “farmer- labor,” toward a real sentiment and demand for a distinct “class” farmier- labor party. Don’t you know that the sentiment for real class political action is that of Communist sympathizers, that mass sentiment aside from this will be satisfied with a third party, speak- ing in the name of labor. Do you want us to cover up our Bolshevik “whis. kers” and with the “weapon” of the slogan “for a class farmer-labor par- ty” gather together some masses of class-conscious workers, then uncover our whiskers and have those masses say “We knew it was you all the time; why kid us?” Now about those farmer-labor parties in six states and Washington County, Pa., (and the “demand for revival” in Buffalo, N. Y.) as sufficient proof that the required mass sentiment exists, lives, and is growing as living things should. First let me say that to hear Bob Minor tell it the masses are yel- ling for a farmer-labor party. It looks like necessity was the mother of in- vention. The minority wanted to yell for it (a two year old habit) so they began hearing things—yells. Tell us your‘secret, Bob, from where do you get the gift of hearing the loud yell? From the same source as you get the never-to-be abandoned “magic” slogan? Please, Comrades Ruthenberg, Be- dacht, Lovestone, (and Wicks) in the name of Marx and Lenin, give us the dope on those farmer_labor parties in six states and one county (and Buf- falo). Show us that these “numerous” and “staunch” upholders of a farmer- labor party are spreading the germ and getting themselves, stauncher. Ex- plain how they are holding out for a class farmer labor party as against the third party movement of LaFol- lette and the C. P. P. A., against the class-collaboration, peoples govern- ment, ideas of the trade union leader- ship, aristocracy, and followers, and of the farmers. Will the “revolution- ary farmers” see to it? Or the masses of unorganized workers? Or are we (the Communists) running the unions and these six state parties and there- fore able to dictate? What's the sentiment, or demand, in the unions, farm organizations, “‘farm- er-labor parties,” that you are in touch with? How big is the left bloc in the labor movement that possesses a real sentiment for a real F. L. P, which you say our members in the trade unions must split away from the third party movement and crystal- The First Daily Worker Birthday. Party and since 50 cents is all one needs—besides WORKER is also going to be there. AND IF YOU ATTEND you will get music, dancing, games and— A Supper Without 7m ize into a SreeeTenen party; that is, Di RR DRS R eRe RRR ERR RRRRRE RARER RRR RRR RR Ramee ee me he) As We See It from all the advance news that we can gather Tom QO’ is coming in company with. the editors and rinters—with whom they will present a Flaherty office of the DAILY “All this ‘will happen January 12th a IMPERIAL HALL, 2409 N. Halsted St on Monday evening ‘~—> > eee eee SSO 4464 66 6S SS SS SS eS SS SS SS SS HSS FSS FSS SSPSS SSVSVIVSV*WVVWVG how much bigger than the bloc among the poorer farmers (aside from Com- munist sympathizers) that you speak of in your thesis, but propose no ways to reach on the F. L. matters. Tell us, how many of these six state parties are holding together, and, if any, what is it that keeps them going, —the demand of the rank and file member—units for a mass-class or class-mass F. L. P. or the prospect seen by them and the leaders of some kind of a national third party speak- ing in the name of labor and the people? And if they amount to any- thing locally in their respective states, is it because they are genuine class farmer-labor parties? Is it not true that such are farmer-labor in name, but third party progressive in fact? Is it so desirable (if not necessary) that the left wing bloc in the labor movement be at all costs organized into a class party of their own? Or so necessary to our leadership of left wing labor and farmer blocs that the slogan be kept in spite of a new situation? Is our task so helpless, otherwise? Shall we give out to the workers and farmers the impression and hope that a _ class-farmer-labor party will fight their battles, rather than the Commminist Party? Is it de- sirable (or necessary) that we hide our face? Or do you insist that we wear a mask, let’s say, just for the sake of some kind of a fancy “maneu. ver’? Do you disagree with Comrade Ra- dek, writing on the American party future, when he says “while they (the American party) will continue their work with an unveiled face, the masses will have time to get rid of their illusions of LaFolletteism” (Daily Worker, December 4, front page.) Understand, this means we will be most actively working to dis- pel those illusions. If the minority wants to be so “logic- al” and ignore facts, I suggest they add to their slogan “for a class farm- er-labor party—its logical.” Perhaps then, at least, the “great mass of des- perate farmers who are ready to join in a class farmer-labor party” would logically join such a party. So much for the word “logic.” The November 1923 thesis of the minority (page 49 of second year) said that the defection of that part of the labor movement controlled by Gom- pers and Johnston, would “be counter- balanced by the great mass of desper- ate farmers who are ready to join in @ class farmer_labor party.” Comrade Pepper first saw “the LaFollette revo- lution” then he saw a great mass of révolutionary farmers. The minority claims to be “logical,” and ignores facts. Lovestone and Bedacht, to be sure, give what they claim are facts, but not about this farmer-labor business. No, they list a lot of “sins committed by the major- ity.” Maybe to them logic means ir- relevant misrepresemtations. Won't someone, please, draw up for private circulation only a list of “sins” of the minority? I want to contribute some facts to such a list. For instance Comrade Nat Kaplan—and other “leading theoreticians” of the minor- ity have been throwing Pepper in our faces last year, because that “peculiar condition” (of the party) in America is by them deemed essential to the real ization of a mass Communist Party. The majority thesis proposes the correct Communist policy—and has the facts. Prture Ree Sat; Wcrkes for 425 Post Cards in Colors Something New and Different. Use them for your regular cor- respondence. Have a set for your album. . 1—Lenin directing the revolution . 2—Lenin, when 16 years old . 3—-The Red Fiag of the Union of Socialist Soviet Remublics No. 4—The Russian state seal and embiem No. 5—Trotsky, commander of the Soviet Red Army ONE CARD 5 CENTS In lots of 10 or more, 2c per card. 1% in lots of 100 or more. Send money order, check or post- age to Literature Department WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. 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To prove that odes is a conflict, he states that the majori that the con- ditions which independent po- litical action on the part of the work- ers and farmers still exist and, in fact, they will be intensified, and yet the majority concludes that the farmer- labor party slogan is obselete. Now let us see whether the con- clusion of the majority is correct or not. The farmerlabor party move- ment that developed in the last few years was a revolt on the part of workers and poor farmers against the old parties. Then when the LaFol- lette movement appeared it absorbed the farmer-labor party. But Comrade Ruthenberg says that the conditions that jarred the work- ers loose from the democratic and republican parties will jar them loose even been born, much less had a re- cord of achievements which might party Because this party has not yet order to build a mass Communist Par- ty it is necessary to create a farmer- labor party. Comrade Ruthenberg states in the December issue of the Workers Monthly that the differencer of viewpoints in regard to the applica- tion of the farmer-labor united front policy developed in the central ex- ecutive committee of the party im- mediately after the formation of the federated farmer-labor party, and he refers to a thesis in which the present minority, and at that time, the major- ity, stated their position: We quote from that thesis, known as the Augus’ thesis, written by Pepper and Ruthen. berg: “It is our duty to attempt thru a very careful, cautidus propaganda to transform the federated to a Commun- ist mass party” Apparently, the minority of the cen- tral executive committee, or at least, Comrade Ruthenberg, still supports the above statement of the August thesis. Comrade Pepper in defending the thesis compared the federated with the Norvegian labor party, stat- ing that the Norwegian labor party was based on the trade unions and when the International, with which the Norwegian labor party was affiliat- ed, instructed them to reorganize on the individual membership basis, and when the leaders refused, the minority through careful and systematic cam- paigns withdrew from the Norwegian labor party all these members who accepted the C. I. decision, and formed from the LaFollette movement and the farmer-labor party slogan is the instrument with which to do it. What are the facts. The workers that split from the old parties lost faith in them as a result of those parties being in power and proving to be parties of big capital. But they have confidence in the LaFolletteé movement. The majority thesis is correct when it states: “And for some time to come, that is, until the LaFollette movement will begin showing concrete and practical signs of its.antagonism to the workingclass, the great bulk of the laboring masses of this coun- try will progressively accept the LaFollette movement as their po- litical expression. This means that the question of trying to build a farmer-labor party which shall base itself on the mass organizations of the workers and poorest sections of the farmers is definitely out of range of tire oe for the immediate fut The minority T cohtinds that in the Norwegian Communist Party. Pepper believed the same thing was possible with the federated. But Com- rade Pepper just overlooked a few facts, and that is, in Norway, there was no Communist Party based on induividual membership, and the C. I. was absolutely correct in d@mand- ing reorganization because a Commun- ist Party to function must be based on individual membership. But in this country alongside of the federated was the Workers Party based on individual membership. This theory of convert- ing the federated, no matter how many unions would have affiliated with it into a mass Communist Party was a political pipedream, because those Communists in the federated were already members of the Workers (Communist) Party. The radical workers of the trade unions who might have affiliated with the federated will come into the Workers Party prac- tically as quickly without the federa- ted as with it. No substitute for the Workers Party is necessary in order to build a mass Communist Party. How Shall We Fight the LaF ollette Movement? By IDA DAILES N the heat of defense and attack of the conflicting views of the question of our party’s policy, many comrades are losing sight of the main issue be- fore us, or else they are pushing it into the background of the discussion. When we eliminate the past misdeeds that each side hurls against the other, the whole controversy centers on the question, “How can we separate the workers and poor farmers from the LaFollette movement?” Under the heading, Tasks of the Party,” the majority thesis states: “l. Exposure of the hourgeofs nature of LaFolletteism. This becomes the central problem of our agitation and propaganda. It must be carried out along the follow- ing lines: a) Formulate concrete political demands based on immediate burning needs of the masses; b). pop- ularize these demands among the masses; c) call upon the rank and file in the shops, unions, among the “Immediate petitions, and to hold mass mestings demanding that the ‘labor wing’ in the LaFollette combination and the LaFollette group in congress propose legislation along the lines of the de- mands of the masses, at the same time creating the necessary united front rank and file roganization for the struggle; d) by these campaigns un- mask the nature of LaFolletteism and wf the labor lieutenants of the LaFol- lette movement, expose the futility of democratic-pacifist parliamentarism and demonstrate the necessity of fol- lowing the leadership of the only class political party, the Workers Party. ..”’ and then it continues, giving slogans for these immediate united front struggles. The minority thesis offers, in op- position to this, the following: “8. The concrete steps which we must take in carrying out the policy are the fol- lowing: a) Our members in the trade unions shall conduct a strong cam- paign of criticism against the LaFol- lette progressive movement, pointing out that it is a liberal capitalist third party and not a farmer-labor party and raising the slogan of a class farmer-labor party and splitting these trade unions away from the LaFollette progressive movement. (b) Whereve: labor unions are affiliated with units of the LaFollette progressive organ- ization, our members shall seek to these organizations the same criticism | and raise the slogan of the ‘class farm- er-labor party’ and to split them away | from the LaFollette progressive move- ent. c) We shall oppose the affilia- tion with the LaFollette progressive organizations of any unions not al- ready affiliated. d) In relation to the unemployed, to address resdlu prea 0 coming national convention tenatively set for January by the LaFollette pro- gressive organization, our policy shall be, that whereever party members afe in organizations affiliated and entitled to send delegates, to have our party members elected with instructions to make the same criticism against the draw the workers to it. see the absurdity and impossibility #ples by the chances of Any comrade who stops to think for a moment will of moving masses of workers in this fashion. On the other’ hand, the majority thesis proposes a campaign of action, a campaign to get the workers near enough to scratch the paint off the surface of their LaFollette idol and bring to light the dead wood which is the real body of this movement so far as the working class is concerned. We must choose between these two methods that one which is most ef- ficient to accomplish our present aim, the unmasking of the LaFollette illu- sion. To me the two proposals resolve themselves into three words: Talk versus action. Our slogan must be; Forward to action. COMMUNISM VERSUS OPPORTUNISM By A. WINICK. | T this critical time when the des- tiny of our party is discussed in reference to the adoption of either the majority or the minority thesis, it is highly important to analyze the fun- damental differences of the two groups in the C. E. C. of the Work- ers Party. Both factions of the C. E. C., I pre- sume, agree that our aim to which we are striving is the dictatorship of the proletariat, thru which the Com- munistic state will be established. This can only be accomplished thru organizing a strong Communist Par- ty of the vanguard of the working class and poor farmer, which will finally realize their aim. Mention- ing these axioms which no true Com- munist can afford to ignore, is sim- ply to remind some of our comrades who seem to be forgetful regarding the old truths. Now let us look into the thesis of the minority and see their inconsistency. The thesis of the minority does not take into consideration whether the present time is opportune for the slo- gan of a farmer-labor party, yet they proceed arguing in favor of such a slo- gan, and it is only as the result of severe criticism from the comrades of the majority that, no other, but one of the authors of the minority document Comrade Jay Lovestone in an article printed in the DAILY WORKER, De- cember 9, confesses that the slogan of a farmer-labor party cannot be ex- pected with “immediate success.” But allow me to quote a paragraph of his splendid article. He says: “Communists do not measure the validity of their tactics and program with the same yardstick that the vul- gar bourgeois pragmatists do. Com- ary value of their slogans or princi- ‘immediate success.’ ”’ Comrade Lovestone forgets that Communists are not utopians and good party tacticians are not adven- turists, any comrade who is endeavor- ing to revive a slogan which is dead, at. least for the present, seems to be either a utopian or at least a poor tactician, but Comrade Lovestone does not belong to neither category because he asserts himself that he is not expecting from the minority pana- cea an “immediate success.” The LaFollette petty-bourgeoisie combination have received the sup- the recent election showed clearly LaFollette progressive organization in its national convention and raise the the slogan of a ‘class-farmer-labor par- ty’ in order to build a left-bloc and split it.away. e) We shall mobilize all the class farmer-labor elements with which we have contact and which are now affiliated with the LaFollette pro- gressive organization for the same campaign against this as a liberal, third capitalist party and not a labor party and to have them raise the slogan of a ‘class farmer-labor party’ and to split with the LaFollette pro- gressive movement.” I shall npt attempt to expand on the contradictions within section E of the minority thesis. Let us examine the two programs and see which furnishes e more effective methods of fighting the LaFollette movement, Comrades, here we have the whole thing boiled down. Here we have the two proposed methods for fighting the LaFollette movement. It scarcely seems necessary to expand on the subject. However, a litle further clarification will do no harm and may be of some benefit. Our party is distinguished from such parties as the proletarian party and the socialist labor party by one thing among others. This is, our con- ception that the masses of workers do not learn thru abstract propaganda and theoretical education. That is why we aim to win the masses by es- tablishing our leadership in the every day struggles of the workers and to into motion against their exploiters as well as against their misleaders. This conception of mass education in the Class struggle also holds good in re- lation to the LaFollette movement. What does the minority propose? Read each section of their proposal ed, “we shall conduct a strong ec4m- paign of criticism against the LaFol- lete movement, pointing out that it is a liberal capitalist third party and ‘not a farmer-labor party and raising the slogan of a class farmer-labor par- ”" Comrades, what does this mean | I ty.’ become delegates and to make in| but that we must give to the workers | a theoretical exposition of: the pds- | ‘sible virtues of a farmer-labor party as against the vices of the third party | movement? How many workers could be moved to action by an analysis of | the economic bases of the two types of parties? Yet we cannot point to the achievements of a farmer-labor give them experience by putting them | above quoted and you will find repedt4 and definitely, the fighting line is dis- tinctly outlined for the Workers’ Party, on one side the big capitalist “monster” in the center the “yellow plague” and on the left the vanguard of the working class and the poor farmers under the banner of the Workers Party. No retreating into a half-baked farmer-labor, semi-Com- munist Party will bring good results but will only weaken the Workers Party. Our next practical step is a call to the workers and poor farmers to join the Communist ranks, strengthen munists do not test the revolution-jat 166 W. Washington St., port of the working class of America! ; our party within, organize the unem- ployed, etc., etc. It. is clearly understood that the adoption of a program is not measur- ed with immediate results, because it is the basis on which the party rests upon, while a slogan is a question of tactics and may be changed at times due to conditions which arise, tho not at the expense of our fundamen- tals. The attitude of the majority is clear, pointing out that the present time is inopportune for the slogan of a farmer-labor party. Communists have proved the world over that thru a strong disciplined workable party it is possible to exer- cise more influence over the great masses of the proletariat and the poor farmers than thru a loose formless organization— and that is exactly what the comrades of the minority are seeking to build if their thesis of a farmer-labor party is adopted. | In Memoriam-Lenin | On the 2ist of January the workers the world over will hold memorial meetings for Nicolai Lenin, the leader and fighter for the liberation of the laboring masses. In connection 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 tures 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., Room 307, at the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., and by all mem- bers of the Technical Aid Society, U. 8. 8S. R. . When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DENT sT 2232 WN. CALIFORNIA | MY NEW LOCATION Special ‘M-Ray Prices — to Gas Given | Workers ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination its Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Its Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY A 12-Pa ge Issue On the First Birthday of the DAILY WORKER. of the DAILY WORKER. Comrade Bob Minor’s splendid cartoons will be a leading feature. review of the past year of American labor in general and the Workere 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 _A Party in particular—plus the part the DAILY WORKER has played in both—will be another feature. Special contributions by Wm. Engdahi, T. J. 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or ete >. 7 ~ es aos er ~- wr cme e Rm a 3 NE ON Pye ee Ria hia aa ——— \ oh a = pe aS ee pan lie : to THE BALANCE SHEET OF THE = i PARTY CONTROVERSY TO DATE By JAY LOVESTONE. I“ view of the fact that the Comin- tern has not yet spoken’ directly on the immediate party controversy and that the national convention has not yet been held, it may be cqnsi- dered by some a bit premature to talk of a balance sheet of the party dispute. Still, it is appropriate, on the eve of the second stage of the par- ty controversy, to list briefly the as- sets and liabilities of the contending groups in the first round of the con- test. Results of Meetings. In the capital cities of nine of our biggest districts, membership meet- ings have been held to discuss the party problems. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapo- lis and New Haven have had such meetings for discussion and voting on the thesis before the party. In this balloting the Foster-Lore theses received a net total of 1516 votes. The combined strength that the followers of extreme right wing of our party of~the Two-and-a-Half International tendency in our party, and the crystallizing opportunistic, non-Marxian Cannon-Foster leader- ship could muster has been register- ed at about fifteen hundred. At the same time, to use the ex- pression of the American commission of the executive committee of the Comintern, the Marxian group led by Comrade Ruthenberg, the group of “Communist consciousness” in our party, despite overwhelming odds, succeeded in polling 1286 votes. Thus, against a vicious attack, against a barrage of unparalleled slander, and villification, against a united front ranging from the extremest right wing of Lore, Doctor Aronson of New York and “Moscow agent” fame, and Fahle Burman to certain extremely left sick comrades, the Marxian group of our party enlightened the mem- bership to such an extent as to be nosed out by only 230 votes thruout the country. Some Illuminating Sidelights. But the circumstances and condi- tions surrounding the contest are far more illuminating and significant for the party than the cold, dry figures at hand. First of all, the thesis indorsed by the Foster-Lore group was a jumble of false premises and empty promis- ‘es calculated to appeal to every sec- tion of party opinion. To the left sick Communists in our ranks the Foster- Lore group of self-annointed “pure” revolutionists turned a face anti-farm- er-labor party in principle. To the extremmest right, opportunist elements in our party, the C. E. C. majority held proudly aloft the Lore-Poyntz Burman coat of arms of “militant Communism.” To the comrades who still entertained doubts as to timeli- ness of dropping the united front far- mer-labor slogan, the Foster-Lore group yelled: “We are not opposed to the labor party in principle, but not just now, in the future.” The discussion waged in the ranks by the Foster-Lore adherents was pre- cisely along theses lines. The futili, tarian policies of this unholy alliance menacing the progress of the Work- ers (Communist) Party were agitat- ed for thru an appeal to the most backward and harmful sentiments in the party. Vicious whispering cam- paigns were organized on a country- wide basis against the C. #4. C. mi-|} nority members and their associates in many districts. The real issues be- fore the party membership were not discussed by the C. E. C. majority or its satellites. Not a single article was written by any of the Foster-Lore scribes at- tempting to deal with the political and economic conditions of the coun- try. Not even the slightest effort was made by the Foster-Lore group to analyze the LaFollette movement and its recent development. Not an ar- ticle was written by the Foster-Lore group to show that the industrial de- partment of the party has made any effort at all to utilize our participa- tion in the industrial and economic struggles for the purpose of increas- ing the political radicalization of the masses. Not a word was offered in refutation of the criticism made by the C. H.C. minority that the Foster Lore group still maintains the “su percilious attitude towards the inde pendent unions” it was warned ‘against by the Profintern. Last but not least, the Foster-Burman group actually stole the livery of Loreism in order to present some sort of a poli- tical face to the membership in the discussion. Foster-Lore Strength at Peak. No one can deny that the total vote polled by the Foster-Lore group repre- sents its maximum strength. Like- wise, no one can deny the fact that the C. E. C. minority strength was not fully mobilized. The C. EB. C. ma- jority had at its disposal for winning over the membership and mobilizing its adherents of all stripes the com- plete state power—the party machin- ery. Its speakers had the tremendous advantage of speaking first and last in the debates. The Foster-Lore group had its articles placed in the best section of the space allotted to the discussion of party tasks. Cer- tain minority articles were held up in publication for sundry “strategic rea- sons.” Then Comrade Burman, against the protest of a, considerable portion of the rank and file, made outrageous use of the official machinery of the Finnish federation in misrepresenting the issues before the party. Certain organizers of the Young Workers’ League displayed their youthful en- ergy in working overtime for the C. E. C. majority while on tour building up the young Communist movement. Nor were the DAILY WORKER ma- chinery and other party agencies ne- glected. In short, the C. E. C. ma- jority of today, unlike the majority of the C. E. C. of last. year, more than utilized the party “state power” in its widest ramifications. In paran- thesis, the extraordinary energy of our “educational” department which was temporarily moved to New York might also be mentioned. The Role of State Power. Of course, we are not swearing vol- leys against the C. E. C. majority for its use of the party state power in the controversy. Weare charitable enough not even to condemn its re- peated flagrant misuse ot this state power. We do not deny that the C. E. C. majority—the Foster-Lore group —nosed out the Marxian group of Comrade Ruthenberg by 280 votes. We do not begrudge the Foster-Lore group this paltry majority of 230. It certainly was well-earned, consider- ing the efforts invested and the re- sources at the command of the Fos- ter-Lore group. In fact, we marvel at the fact’ that Foster-Lore majority was so slim after the eleventh hour change of rules disfranchising hun- dreds of comrades at these member- ship meetings and in view of the, lack of facilities at the command of the C. E. C. minority to mobilize its real, full strength in the party. A Redeeming Feature. It is plain that the party expression to date is nearly evenly divided. In every big city where the C. E. C. ma- jority position was indorsed, it was lone so only thru an organic merger and complete unity of the Foster- Burman group with the Lore follow- ers. In New York, Boston, and Chi- cago,- the solid block of Lore adher- ents alone gave the majority_of the membership meetings to the C. E. C. majority. Consequently, no matter what damage the party controversy might have brought, it at least has brought one inestimable gain to the party. We have in mind ‘ae fact that this discussion has once and for all established in the eyes of the mem- bership the unity between the Foster- Burman group and the Lore Two-and- a-Half International group in our party. The growing awareness on the part of our membership ofthe menace to the party in such an alliance—an alliance in flagrant violation of the last C. I. decision on the American question—can only prove a source of greatest strength towards a speedy galvanizing and complete unification of our Communist ranks for intensi- fied struggles against the exploiters. their government, and the reactionary trade union bureaucracy. Considering all the obstacles, consi- dering the levekof the discussion maintained by the Foster-Lore group, the Workers (Communist) Party should feel highly gratified at the splendid response given by the mem- bership to the Communist policies proposed by the Ruthenberg group. kur Workers (Communist) Party can well face the future, its rapidly grow- ng. difficult future, with so firm, with o adamant a Communist backbone in its ranks. THE FARMER-LABOR PARTY POLICY IN THE UNIONS By BERT MILLER. AT and Mike, two bricklayers from the Emerald Isle, one day on the front of a building, when suddenly a portion of the scat- | labor party slogan is dead. folding collapsed and Mike fell to the. street. ) working class in generaly, are asked te meekly accept the verdict of Bittel- were working | man, when he pronounces in tones of extreme unction and finality, that .the Having, like Mike, experienced the advantages He lay there for a long time | of life and real activity, the members in a state of unconsciousness until a | of the Workers Party, as well as the doctor was called. The doctor exam- | ined Mike thoroly and pronounced him | question the solemn verdict of even so dead. At that moment, Mike woke up and said, “By God, I ain’t dead at all.” Whereupon his colleague, Pat, ex- claimed in a voice shaking with ex- asperation, “Shut up, ye fool, don't ye tink de doctor knows wot he's tawk in’ about?” And so the members of | the Workers Party, as well as the} At the conference of the C. P. P. A.Party, Immediately you would be — ed ed . eo cod « _ ~~ workers in general, will be prone to “sage” a counsellor as Bittelman. They will instead seriously examine the facis in the situation. The Development of Fafmer-Labor Movement. In 1920 the national farmer-labor party polled 265,411 votes in 19 states. held on Dec. 11, 1922, at which wee! represented 27 national unions, 8 state federations of labor and various agri- cultural and political organizations, a motion for “independent political ac- tion by the agricultural and industrial workers thru a party of their own” was defeated by a vote of only 52 to 64. According to figures published in the Labor Herald, almost twenty state federations of labor endorsed a labor party in 1923, in addition to hundreds of local and national unions. In 1924 the farmer-labor majority in the lower house of the legislature of North Dakota, was increased from one to eleven. (New Republic, Nov. 26, 1924). Ayres received over 18,000 votes for United States senator on a farmer-labor ticket, and Putnam re- ceived 20,876 for governor. Two years ago the vote for the farmer-labor can- didate for governor of Minnesota was 295,479 as compared with 309,758 for the republican candidate. In the re- cent election the farmer-labor candi- date polled 365,000 votes as compared with 400,000 for the republican candi- date. As farmer-labor candidate for the U. S. senate, Magnus Johnson re- ceived about 375,000 votes against 385,000 for Schall, his opponent. True thé Minnesota’ party is part of the LaFollette movement, which we must severely criticize as such and demand a real labor party, nevertheless the results indicate that the farmer-labor party slogan still retains its popu- larity. In Denver the farmer-labor vote for, LaFollette was 4,951 in spite of the fact that there was a separate LaFol- lette-Wheeler ticket. In Montana an energetic campaign was waged by the farmer-labor party. These facts and figures show that the farmer-labor party movement is not a mere bubble, which has for some unexplicable reason appeared and suddenly disappeared from the political horizon, but rather that it is a movement which has years of thoro-going organization behind ‘t and that its roots are sunk deep in the economic struggle of the industrial and agricultural workers. | LaFollette Movement and F. L. P. It is true that the LaFollette wave has for the time being engulfed it. Can such a movement, however, be swallowed for long by the present nondescript shadow of an organization headed by LaFollette? Can this vague vacillating, purely temporary alliance of conflicting elements hold the work- ers who have unmistakably expressed their determination to have a real, independent: political party? Are. eco- nomic conditions at this time for the crystallization of a third middle class party which can retain its hold on the workers who desire a class party? Unless we are blind to facts we must admit that the LaFollette hodge podge will not be able to hold the workers and farmers who, in the face jof increasing exploitation and oppres- sion (a prospect admitted by the ma- jority), will be forced to defend them- selves thru the aid of their own politi- cal weapon, a labor party. Under these circumstances let us examine for a moment what will be the prob- able results if we as active trade unionists were to put the majority's policy into effect, i. e., not to “pro- mulgate the slogan of a ‘farmer-labor party’ at the present time,” calling upon the workers instead to join the Workers Party. The value of a slogan can well be tested by its applicability in the trade unions. in Practice. Under-this policy the members of the Workers Party will then have as their major political task in the labor movement (for. politicale propaganda in the unions must be a prime activity there), to force the acceptance of the complete program of the Workers Party. In the most. reactionary or- ganizations, where workers only yes- terday were blindly following LaFol- lette, Davis, yes, and even Coolidge, you will ask the workers to come out ‘or the dictatorship of the proletariat ind to join the Workers Party. (See statement on C. P. P. A.) Those mili- ants who have been partially sympa- hetic with your work in the union, but who are political still confused will be squarely confronted with the ssue to accept or reject the complete orogram of the Workers Party. There will be no other alternative. The re- sult of such a foolhardy policy can only be to prejudice the very elements whose support you can ultimately win ind to make it easy for the reaction- aries to expel you without a murmur of protest from your fellow workers. It is a cardinal principle of strategy that you must not. expose your weak- ness to the enemy whom you are fight- ing. When the issue of supporting the Workers Party comes on the floor, will your sympathizers support you? Of course not. Only the Communists will (if they dare at this time) come out openly in support of the full pro- gram of the Workers Party. They will be completely isolated and ex- posed to the danger of being picked out and expelled by the officials. Expulsion on such an issue at this time would be comparatively easy. The workers do not realize the im- portance and necessity of the exist- ence of the Workers Party. The re- actionaries will charge that you are in the union, not for the promotion of the interests of the workers, but pri- marily in the interests of the Workers | ell , 2 placed upon the defensive, whereas Communists should as a rule be on the offensive. You would have on your hands a @ job of showing even the | backward workers, even those who voted for Davis and Coolidge, first they need a politi- cal party of their own class (which they have not yet learned) and second that the political party is the Workers Party. To this the majority would reply, “But see what the Workers Party is planning to do about unem- ployment, child labor, the foreign-born, etc.,” and the unsophisticated workers would ask. “What has the Workers Party done about these issues? Has the Workers Party any representa- tives in congress or the legislature to fight for our interests ” Of course, the Communists understand that these issues cannot be fought out in parlia- ments, but the masses of workers do not. A Confession in Bankruptcy. The majority would have us volun- tarily give over the political leader- ship of the workers to the farmer-la- borites and the socialists. During the coming struggle the workers will need a political weapon. The farmer-labor- ites and the Socialists will come out for a labor party. Shall we sit idly by, shall we merely oppose the propo- sition and present no counter-proposal or shall we oppose and present as a counter-proposal, “Join the Workers Party?” In the first case we relin- quish our role as the vanguard and the leaders of the workers. In the seconti we seem to be fault finding only with no constructive to offer. The third proposition is a futile mass ap- peal at this ‘time, as I have already pointed out. What a sorry figure we will cut before the workers, when we the most energetic exponents of the class farm- er-labor party idea, now keep silent or oppose it entirely. Will we not rightfully be branded as traitors and turncoats by the workers? Compare the predicament into which the application of the majority policy ‘places us, with our favorable position under the minority proposition. As soon as we actively and energetically come out for a class farmer-labor party, a national federation of work- ers’ and farmers’ organizations, both economic and political, the leaders are forced to: take the defensive. Those elements which are _not yet with us but who are in favor of class political action, must line up with us. The masses who are not yet amen- able to the complete program and principles of the Workers Party can easily understand and sympathize with the slogan for a real party repre- senting all the forces fighting in the struggle for the workers and farmers of the country. .We sink our roots more and more firmly in the masses and they learn to have confidence is us. We can, therefore, the more easily state who we are and what we stan: for. We do not place the backward masses in the position of taking or leaving the program of the Workers Party, for which they are not yet ready. However, we energetically ana systematically enlighten the more ‘lass conscious workers as to our full program, and its real meaning. These elements we can win to our party by such a plan of education and activity, on on the basis of a real- istic poliey grounded on the objective conditions which the workers are fac- ing today. |4p jin several states. Contact With the Masses, Not Isolation By HENRY BLEECKER. Tt. movement for a farmer-labor party which started a few years ago was swallowed by the LaFollette movement. For this reason we must abandon the slogan, “For a farmer. labor party,” and start building the Workers Party according to the thesis of the majority of the central execu- tive committee. Instead of a farmer- labor party slogan they propose the slogan “For a labor congress.” Conditions Which Created the Farmer- 4 Movement. for a farmer-labor chavactenals byt (a) Gkdioyment: (b) reduction of wages; (c) strikes; (d) open shop drive; (e).injunctions. In 1921 we passed thru a period of economic depression, six million work- ers were unemployed as a result of this. Those who secured work were ‘orced to work for reduced wages. In the steel strike of 1919 and the miners’ strike of 1920 the government used all its forces to break these strikes: Federal troops, injunctions, etc. The realization of the workers that the government is protecting the interests of the bosses stimulated them teward independent political ac- tion, with the result of the formation of the Chicago labor party. But, this movement made little progress until 1922 when the shopmen and miners’ strike broke out. The .government again played the role of defender for the capitalists. The farmers were suffering from the same economic de- pression. Millions of farmers were driven into bankruptcy. The farms were deserted, and the oppressed farmers made way for the city in search of work. This fermentation among the workers and brought the farmer-labor movement to the fore. Farmer-labor parties sprung International unions expressed themselves in favor of independent political action. The Workers Party and the United Front. The Workers Party was politically unknown t othe masses. Thru its participation in the movement for a farmer-labor’ party and by applying the United Front tactic in accordance with the instructions of thé Comintern, the Workers Party became.a factor in the political struggles of the exploited masses. The LaFollette Movement. Parallel to the farmer-labor move- ment, the small bourgeoisie who are also in conflict with the big capitalists began organizing politically, which ex- pressed itself in the formation of _the progressive bloc im congress under the leadership of LaFollette. The call for the June 17 convention for the sake of organizing the workers and farmers into a political party was unsuccessful on account of the attacks of LaFolleite and the union bureau- crats of the A. F. of L. The workers and farmers deserted the June 17 con- vention, and followed LafFollette be- cause they were under the illusion that a farmer-labor party would be created by LaFollette after the elec- tion. > Who Voted for LaFollette. In the article, “Sound the Alarm,” written in the WORKER of Nov. 15, Comrade Bittelman states that the petty bourgeoisie desérted LaF ollettte in the last election because,s of the terroristic. methods .used by Wall Street to elect Coolidge, and the prom- ise of certain egonomic concession on the part of W to the petty ) a a farmers’ bourgeoisie. He further proves that the 5,000,000 votes which LaFollette received came mostly from the work- ers and poor farmers. The Economic Situation in the Near Future. In their analysis of the economic situation, the majority of the central executive committee state the follow- ing: (Paragraph 6, Economic Situa- tion, majority thesis) The overwhelm- ing weight of economic tendencies now operative, point to an intensifica- | tion.of the class Fit ak resulting in renewed efforts of emplbying class to cut wagez, lengthen hou.s apd to as |destroy the unions. ~ We as Communists must draw the conclusion that this unrest among the workers and farmers will again be expressed in a demand for a farmer- labor party, and not to be isolated from this movement we must take an attive part in it. The Majority’s Slogan for a Labor Congress. The majority of the central execu- tive committee are against the farm- erlabor party slogan. Why? They claim there is no movement for it. I ask thig question, is there a move- ment for the so-called labor congress which the majority urges us to work for? When we look thru the pages of history of the American working class political movements »we find that the idea for independent political action was never expressed in the form of a labor congress. The slogan for a labor congress will only hinder the movement for the formation of a farmer-labor party, which is not only in demand at presént but was histori- cally popular, among workers and farmers. Conclusion. We expect intensive crises in the immediate future. The workers and poor farmers will again start organiz- ing politically thru a farmer~abor partq. It is, therefore, the duty ofthe Workers Party, if it expects to bel come a Communist mass party, to take an active part in this movement. As in the program of the profintern for the’ Trade Union Educational League gin reference to the labor party. “The league shall take an active part in the building of the labor party. This movement not only teaches the workers their first Jesson in class politica] action, but it also furnishes a favofable ground for the left wing to fight the trade union bureaucracy and to bring about trade union prog- ress generally. The league must take full advantage of the favorable situa- tion created by the labor party move- men.” Comrades, the slogan of a farmer- labor party means contact with the masses. Without this slogan—tends to isolation. CHICAGO, ATTENTION! | All friendly organizations, T. U. E. L. 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- Jay, January 11, Northwest (‘iall, corner North and Western Aves Auspices Y. W. L.. Local Chicago. Lenin memorial meeting—Wednes day, Jan. 21, Ashland Anditcrium, Van Buren and Ashland. Workers Party, Local Chicago. The Red Revel—Saturday, Feb. 28, ‘West End Women's Club Hall. (4 “REVOLUTIONARY” PHRASE MONGERS~ By SIMON. ‘FELSHIN. thesis of thé majority is not a thesis. It is fly-paper for catch- ing flies. ‘There’ is something in it for everybody. This is a practice fol- lowed by the republican and demo- cratic parties just before elections, so that the majority is living up to the | oy best Américan tradition in the con- struction of its thesis. sectarians and romantic revolution- ists in the party the thesis states that the farmer-labor party tactic meaygs liquidation of the Workers Party and is opportunistic. For those who still favor a farmer-labor party it hints that the farmer-labor party idea is not rejected definitely but that only for the present the movement is dead. To the right wing opportunists it holds out the prospect of a passive, well- behaved, declamation and propagan- da club, which is just what suits them. The spokesmen of the majority are constantly talking about fake farmer- labor parties. I would retort by writ- ing all over the thesis of ¢the major- ty in huge letters so that all may ee: Fake United Front.. It ill-be- .ooves the majority to speak of fake ‘armer-labor parties ang to swear chat they will give us the true, revo- lutionary united front from below when they have been guilty in the past of forming fake united fronts with any one who came along. Only one instance is enough—the fake unit- ed front with John Fitzpatrick in Chicago. Conditions Analyzed. The conditions that gave rise to the farmer-labor party’ movemrent have not changed. It isa fact that 23 per cent of the farmers went bankrupt. The temporary boom barely enabled only a section of the exploited farm- ers te pay off some of the accumulat- ed debts, and their condition is hard- ly changed. Unemployment has not abated to any extent. How then have the conditions changed? The majority says that LaFollette has cap- tured the farmer-labor party move- ment. If that is so it is our duty to go out and save the workers from LaFollette. We must fight for the soul of the masses, and not capitulate before the enemy without a struggle. The attitude of the majority means that we extend a helping hand to La- Follette; that’s what.it means inthe final analysis. A “Majority” Champion at Work. : A typical presentation of the ma- jority point of view is that of Joe Manley, their newly acygutred cham- pion who presented his wares at a discussion meeting of the Harlem English branch in New York. One of the most remarkable transformations is that of Comrade Joe Manley. How can we take a comrade seriously who undergoes such a complete, such a sudden change? I must say that it took my breath away to hear. his brazen tirade. He worked himself up blue in the face, just as he used to do over the very opposite position only a short time ago. He seems to have forgotten completely his recent protestations of faith. The whole performance looked to me like a neat bit of salesmanship. A salesman can take any kind of goods and speak of it with just as much conviction, en- thusiasm and sincerity as of any other kind ef goods. It’s a way sales- men have. But what is this we Com- munists are doing? | Are we selling wares? Comrade Manley says that all the farmer-labor parties that were formed in the past were fake parties. But how about all those articles he wrote telling the very contrary? Why didn’t he speak up then? Was he lying then or is he lying now? Stand By the C. I. Comrades should stand by the in- structions of the Communist Interna- tional which were issued only recent- ly and not only in 1922 as stated by Comrade Manley. These instructions ‘ay explicitly and in such clear lan- guage that every dog in the street can understand: “The first task of the Workers Party is to become a mass Communist Party of workers. It can fulfill this task only by most actively participating in the establishment of a labor party which will embrace all elements of the working class willing BAAS ABARABAASEAAAAARALABAAAABAAABABBAABDAASABBAAAAABABA, to conduct a fight for a policy indepen- dent of the capitalist class and by es- tablishing a bond with -the farmers who are at present in a state of strong fermentation.” Business “Communism” in New York. A deal has been made in New York. e week Lore’s followers spoke in favor of retaining the farmer-labor slogan. The very next week. they lined up solidly with the ity. This is a deal between the ma-. jority and Lore. Lore, the Two-and-a- Half Internationalist was to stay out of the fight until the last minute in order not to inconvenience the ma- egg by openly attaching himself to ie the same time he immediately released his followers so_ that they might line up with the majority and thus present a solid front to the Com- munist minority. The reward to Lore perhaps will be that in case of vic- tory for the majority, he and another Two-and-a-Half Communist will be on the new central executive committee. If such a deal has been.made, it is nothing but a dirty trick and the New York comrades should not be taken in by it. A “Pure” Communist Protests Too Much. Comrade Juliet Stuart Poyntz be- clouds the issue by constantly reviy- ing the third party alliance (that’s their game), failing to mention that her allies past and present were the staunchest supporters of this posi- tion. Comrade Poyntz is now the sec- ond Sylvia Pankhurst. She will have nothing to do with the farmér-labor party because that is compromise, op- portunism, menshevigm, socialism, she says. She wants to be pure, chaste; she does not want to lose her Communist virginity. Sylvia Pank- hurst, the renegade, in her day spoke the very same kind of language, as for instance, when she wrote the fol- lowing: “A Communist Party must keep its doctrine pure, and its inde- pendence of reformism inviolate; its mission is to lead the way, without stopping or turning, by the direct road to the Communist revolution.” And Comrade Lenin handled her as she deserved in his pamphlet, “Left Communism — And [Infantile Sick- ness.” Comrades would do well to read this pamphlet of Lenin, particu- larly now when our party is threaten- ed by this same sickness, this left wing sectarianism wlhitth is only ‘the counterpart to right wing opportun- — ism. Membership Will Not be Fooled Comrades should not be misled by ultra revolutigpary phrases which are only a cloaK\for passivity, lack of revolutionary sonviction, skepticism, the rankest kind of opportunism. Let the revolytionary phrase mongers continue to play at being ultra-revolu- tionary—their shamming will be un- covered in the end. And as for those - of the rank and file who are deluded by this phraseology, they will soon come to their senses. Comrades, we must fight against the defeatism which is threatening to engulf of our party. We must fight against the forces that are trying to turn our party into a propaganda club, a sect. We must combat the one-sid- ed ideology of trade unionism, the pseudo syndicalism in the party which does not understand the true role of a Communist Party. We must Bolshe- vize our party with the methods and in the spirit of Leninism. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun day Night, the Opén Forum, RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN CONCERT AND DANCE SUNDAY, JANUARY 11 The concert and dance which was announced by the Russian and Uk- rainian branches of the Workers Party for Dec. 28, was postponed on account of the party membership meeting, to SUNDAY, JAN. 11, at the same hall, Schoenhoffen Hall, take cars to Milwaukee and Ashland Aves. Tickets sold for Dec. 28 will be accepted on Jan. 11, A te te te et / _»« pena ADA» HA A DABDAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAS A LOS ANGELES INVITATION, You are cerdially invited to the First Birthday Party of America’s only Revolutionary Working Class Paper THE DAILY WORKER which will be held Tuesday Evening, January 13, at 8 P. M. Brooklyn Hall. CORNER SOTO AND BROOKLYN Daily Worker Committee, Eng¥sh Br., W. P. ” . —< : ; wTyvTVT7777707070707070707—"—"—""™"™°—7"™° 7? OrYrYrrYrrYrYrYrYrYrYrrrrrrr”* a Se a rncneaemneeae eases ey \ e
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aSG SSPatPeRaene were P. rTyTrYryrTYTr}Y errr rrrrrTrTrTrTrT TT rrrrrrrrererr i » ers show that thruout the month the Industries EF etc. 8.5 7.9 Textiles and their products 9.5 10.9 Iron and steel products......14.1 17.4 Lumber and its products.... 3.7 6.4 ._ Leather and its products... 6.5 9.5 Paper and printing................ *1.7 *3.3 Chemicals and oils 9.4 9.2 Stone, clay and glass prod.. 6.9 8.7 TODACCO PTOMUCES .ic..ccceeeenee *0.3 *2.1 Vehicles 15.7 22.0 Miscellaneous 7.6 8.4 *Increase. 10 PER CENT FROM FIGURE OF 1923 Vehicles, with Iron and Steel, Lead By LELAND OLDS. ‘Federated Press Industrial Editor) .No improvement in the unemploy- ment situation is shown in the em- ployment report of the U. S. depart: ment of labor for November, 1924. The figures drawn from 6,773 establish. ; ments employing over 2,000,000 work- level of employment remained more than 10 per cent below that of Novem- ber, 1923. The report shows a decrcase in the total amount paid out in wares due in part to wage reductions and in part to reduced operations. Total wages were 13.2 per cent short of those dis- bursed in November, 1923, while per capital earnings were down 3.5 per cent. The general level of employment shown in the department’s index is about 19 per cent lower that the aver-. age for 1919. In other words about 1,700,000 of the 9,096,000 shown in the census of manufacturers in that year were off the payrolls in November, 1924. Decreases in employment of more than 10 per cent compared with a year ago were reported in 20 industries while 28 industries showed total wage payments lower by more than one- tenth. | The situation is shown by industrial groups as follows, the figures repres- enting decreases as compared with, Nov. 1923: . ricer." Dg = In the food group slaughtering and meat packing showed a reduction of 10.6 per cent in both employment and wages while confectionary showed a drop of 16.1 in employment and 14.4 per cent in wages. In the textile group cotton goods showed a reduction of 14.8 in employment and 19.1 in wages, hosiery and knit goods a drop of 11.1 per cent in employment and -11.8 per cent in wages and men’s clothing a drop of 11.9 per cent in employment ahd 17.3 in wages. f The heaviest falling off in the iron and steel group occurred in foundries and machine shops which show 21.3 fewer employes and 25.6 smaller wage disbursements than in Nov. 1923. In the iron and steel] industry proper employment is down 11.2 per cent and wages 14.3 per cent. Under vehicles the automobile in- dustry shows a reduction of 16.1 per cent in the number employed and 24.7 in wage payments, while railroad car building and repairing reports a de- crease of 15.7 in employment and 17.1 per cent in wages. In the miscellan- eous industry gruop are agricultural implements with a drop of 10 per cent in employment and 12.7 in wages, elec- trical apparatus with a drop of 13.2 per cent in employment and 16.7 per cent in wages, and shipbuilding with decreases of 26.4 per cent in employ- ment and 27.9 per cent in wages. The report also shows that in No- vember these industries taken as a whole operated with 81 per cent of their mormal full force of employes and these employes worked 91 per cent of full time. In other words in- dustry was working at somewhat un- der 74 per cent of full-time capacity. WORKERS! SUPPORT YOUR GLASS MOVIES! NOTE THESE DATES! “Polikushka,” the Moscow Art Theater tragedy, will be shown at Dowell, lil., Jan. 11; at Chicago, fil., (Gartner’s independent Theater, Roosevelt and Independence), Jan. 15; and,Los Angeles, Cal., Philhar- monic Temple, Jan. 19. “Russia and Germany,” the eight reel “Tale of Two Republics,” will be shown at .Binghampton, N. Y., Jan. 9; Chicago, ill., (Jefferson Park . House, benefit Rovnost Judu, DAILY WORKER and I. W. A.) Jan 18. “Nicolai Lenin,” one reel, will be shown at the Lenin meetings at Reading, Pa., Jan. 22, and Philadel- phia, Ja., Jan. 24. EMPLOYMENT OFF ” _--—— — =.) —_—— — = - “r- ——_——S —E = A 4 VN VACA HA > 4 ) in4 , vA a> a7 \ a > The discussion on the minority and majority theses has been continued by the Omaha city central committee until Wednesday evening. Jan. 14. At the last discussion, Dec. 29, the party members did not wish to trust their judgment to a vote until after further discussion. Comrade David Coutts de- fended the majority thesis and Tom Matthews the minority. “In Memoriam—Lenin” to be shown Jan. 15 at Gartner’s Theater. MILITANTS? WE'LL SAY SO! “4 EEE” “FT VERY members of our branch will pay for same the first pay that take a $5.00 insurance policy and will we get. At present we are all out of work and have been for some time, but the mill will start up on Jan. 6, and we are promised that it will operate to be true, but let’s hope it is. “Can you place our branch on the a whole year. That sounds too good Militant Page with this pledge?” John Stose, secretary of the Canonsburg English branch, was answered ae keen—and the capitalist government ' speech. This speech was the story of’ | MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS, | KENOSHA, WISCONSIN. The general membership meeting, which is to vote upon the immediate -tasks of the party, will take place in Kenosha, Wisconsin, at the German- American Home, 665 Grand avenue, Saturday, January 10, at 8 p. m. Representatives of both the majority and minority will address the meet- ing, which will be governed by the rules laid down the C. E..C. Attendance is compulsory and ad- mittance will be by membership card only. Waukegan, Ill... Membership Meeting. The general membership meeting of the Workers Party of Waukegan, Ill., will be held on Sunday, Jan. 11, at 2 p. m., Workers Hall, 517 Helm- holz avenue. , Discussion will take place upon the immediate tasks of the party and rep- resentatives of both the majority and minority of the C. E. C. will present their programs. The Waukegan Fin- nish, Waukegan Lithuanian and the North Chicago South Slavic branches must attend. The rules of the C. E. C. for conduct of meetings shall pre- vail and admission will be by mem- bership card only. Pullman City Central Meeting. The city central committee of Pull- man met last night at 10701 Stephen- son Avenue, Pullman. There has been a steady increase in attendance at the Pullman méetings and the com- rades have become vitally interested in all party problems. One of the immediate questions up before the Pullman comrades is the establishing of shop nuclei in the Pullman works. A new Italian branch has been or- ganized in Dauphin Park and is con- nected with the Pullman city central. 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. CHICAGO LABOR DEFENSE. BACKS LWA, MOVIE SHOW “Beauty and Bolshevik” at Ashland Auditorium The active committee which just finished the suctéessful five-day bazaar ‘of the Labor Defense Council, has mobilized in support of the Russian feature film, “The Beauty and the Bol- shevik,” to be shown Feb. 5, at Ash- land Auditorium, under the joint aus- pices of the DAILY WORKER and the International Workers’ Aid. This action was taken at a meeting attend- ed by delegates from a. dozen organ- izations, immediately after George Maurer, secretary of the Labor De- fense Council, had reported on the success of the bazaar. Wm. F. Kruse, of the International Workers’ Aid, outlined the steps necessary to make the show a success. Each working class organization is to distribute as many as possible of is to report to the next meeting the number of headquarters and other places where the large 28x42 colored lithographs can be displayed, as well as the addresses of stores and other places where ticket selling stations can be established. A souvenir pro- gram is to be printed and all branch- es are to endeavor to list all busi- ness houses that might advertize in it. The picture program will consist of “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls,” a two-hour show that will be run thru twice at Ash- land Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren streets, Thursday night, Feb. 5, thus making a continuous show from seven to eleven. The next meeting of the committee in charge will be held at Greek Hall, 722 Blue Island Ave., ‘Saturday after- noon, Jan. 10, at 3:30 sharp. All or- ganizations represented on the Labor Defense Bazaar Committee should see that their delegates attend, all “Red Aid” agents elected by Workers Party branches are to be present, and any organizations who have neither of these delegates should elect repre- sentatives at once, and make sure they attend. THE STORY OF KARL LIEBKNECHT — L. R, B. Our young comrades always like to hear the stories of the great men and women who have fought for the same cause to which we all are pledged—the cause of bring- ing freedom to the working class of all the world. And there is no story more inspiring for the work- ers than the story of the great leader who lived and fought for the workers in Germany—Karl Liebknecht. It is very natural that Karl Liebknecht should have, from the very beginning, been interested in the terrible conditions in which the workers are forced to live. In the very year that little Karl was born (1871), his father—William Liebknecht, who also was a loved leader of the workers—was lying in prison where the capitalists of Germany had thrown him, because he had tried to show the workers their road to freedom. As soon as Karl was able to understand, he pledged himself to continue the work of his. father, and help the workers to get control of the gov- ernment. I wonder how many Juniors know just what the word “Lieb- knecht” means, even if it were not the name of the great German worker. It means in German “love of slaves.” And you will see that Karl Liebknecht was rightly named, for all thru his life he showed that he loved the slaves— we call them workers who are “exploited” by the bosses—and that finally he even gave his life for them. Kar! Liebknecht attended school in Leipzig, one of the large Ger- man cities. When he was in school, he did just what the | Juniors are doing now. He organ- ized little clubs of his school and classmates. They met outside of school and studied together about the working class and about how the workers could be taught the truth about their terrible condi- tions. He took part in debates in his classes and he always shogse the side that would help him show to the other pupils the conditions of the workers, the horrors and uselessness of capitalist wars, and the fact that the freedom of only if the YOUNG got behind the movement. | In all these ways Karl Lieb- knecht prepared himself for tak- ing part in the struggle when he actually got out of school and in amongst the workers themselves. And he had not long been in the active struggle when the capital- ists swooped down on him and tried to put him away where they thought. he would be unable to influence the masses. In 1906, Karl Liebknecht gave a series of lectures to a large group of young workers organized together like the Young Workers League is now, and his subject was “Anti- Militarism.” That meant that he was not in favor of militarism by the capitalistswho used the armies made up of workers to get con- trol for the capitalists, but that he} was in favor of the workers hav- ing armies that would fight for themselves (as the Red Army of Russia does today). When Karl Liebknecht had these lectures put together and printed in a book, the government of Germany arrested him and he was put into prison for a year and a half, and all his books and lectures were ordered destroyed. The German government was afraid to have the workers read the book or listen to the lectures. The capitalists hoped that when Liebknecht went to prison some of the workers would forget about him and his ideas—and that the rest would be frightened and not dare to give their own ideas for fear of getting into jail, too. But being in prison did not stop Lieb- | knecht. The workers loved him even more when they saw that he was suffering because of his love for them. Even while he was in| prison the workers of Berlin | elected him to represent them in | the Prussian congress. As soon as Liebknecht was out of prison, he again started his fight for the workers, this time in the “land- tag,” the name for the Prussian congress. He talked especially Fa a the capitalist control of the Sthools to which the workers’ children went. thru his ers on the outside learned much. the workers would be obtained speeches in the the work- (To be continued) the fifty-cent admission tickets, and | English Branch of Rochester, Minn., Is With the Majority ROCHESTER, Minn.—At the regu. lar meeting of the English Branch, Rochester, Minn., after a thoro discus- sion of the Central Executive Commit- tee theses and the afticles appearing in the DAILY WORKER pertaining to the same, we find that: Whereas, a miority and a minority section of our central executive com- mittee has perhaps unavoidably been formed, thereby unfortunately creat- ing more or less of a muddle of opin. ions among comrades in general, and Whereas, said printed discussions has a tendency in leading the mem- bership in general to conclude that the central executive committee has failed to intelligently interpret instructions from the Communist International, if not willfully functionoing contrarily but Whereas, we are convinced that the position of the majority is correct in- asmuch as they point out that the party must be built by establishing contact with the rank and file of the workers themselves, therefore, be it RESOLVED, that we of the Roch- ester English Branch unanimously ap- prove of the majority thesis, believing that at this time the same to be the proper Communist policy to pursue. (Signed) Nels M. Nelson, Sec’y. Joliet, fll., English Branch Unanimous for the Majority JOLIET, Ill, Jan. 8—The Joliet English branch of the workers Party, after discussion of the immediate tasks of the party as set forth in the theses of the majority and minority of the central executive committee, unanimously voted to support the majority. Greek Branch, Toledo, Ohio, Unanimous for the Minority Thesis TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 7.— After a long discussion of both the thesis of the minority and majority of the C. E. C., our branch unanimously adopt- ed the minority thesis, which sets forth the effective means for permeat- ing the politically backward masses of this country .with Communist prop- aganda and for the building of the Workers (Communist) Party. —T. Dedakis, Secretary. Cleveland Lettish Branch Unanimous For Minority Thesis CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 6-— The Lettish branch of the Workers Party ‘of Cleveland unanimously indorsed the thesis of the minority at. their meeting on Dec. 29, as constructive and the best means of building a mass Communist movement, and condemn- ed the defeatist and sectarian attitude of the majority thesis.—(Signed) Yuria, Secretary. West Brownsville, Pa., Also Unanimous for The Minority Position WEST BROWNSVILLE, Pa., Jan. 7.—The West Brownsville branch of the Workers Party unanimously in- dorsed the minority thesis at the meeting on Jan. 4, after a thoro dis- cussion on the effectiveness of the class farmer-labor party slogan. The vote putting the Workers Party or- ganization of West ' Brownsville on record for the minority thesis was 24 to 0.—(Signed) Vera D. Gridich, Sec- retary. Philadelphia Jewish Central Branch Is For Minority Theses PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 8.—The Central Jewish Branch, the largest Jewish branch of the Workers Party of this city, endorsed the minority theses by a vote of 17 to 13, after a discussion in which Comrade Mois- saye Olgin spoke for he majority and Comrade Harry Bail for the minority theses. Brownsville Open Forum. BROOKLYN, N. Y., Jan. 8.—Is there a likelihood of revolution breaking out in China? What are the chances of its success against the whole gang Comrade Shachne Epstein will speak Geese Be ody hes fxs of imperial robbers whose forces are stationed in the far east? What does Sun Yat Sen represent, and why are the Soviets interested in his success? If you are interested in these and similar questions, then come to Com- rade H. M. Wicks’ lecture on “What Is the Significance of What Is Happen- ing in China,” on Sunday, Jan. 11, at 8:30 p. m., at the Brownsville Work: ers’ Hall, 1844 Pitkin avenue, Brook. lyn. Discussion after the lecture. Lectures are given every Sundhy evening, one week in English and the me ame ee wee ee ee een LOS ANGELES TO CELEBRATE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE Page Five eee ee ee ee a DAILY WORKER JANUARY 13 By 8. GLOBERMAN. COMMUNIST NEWSPAPER. A working class newspaper was principles of Communism every day and have raised a sum of over six-#— Los Angeles Representative of the Daily Worker.) LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 8—A little over a year ago an appeal had reached us from the national office of the Workers Party, asking for a DAILY needed which should propagate the in-the year. We have done our duty teen hundred dollars. After the DAILY WORKER appear- ed, we constantly pointed out at the Workers Party meetings, the in- fluence of our DAILY WORKER in spreading the principles of Commun- ism. The result is hundreds of read- ers. During the year that the DAILY WORKER has been in existence, we have nearly doubled our membership. Our entertainments were always suc- cessful as well as our mass meetings. Without a Communist daily press we should not have been able to make such rapid progress. On the 13th of January, 1925, we shall take inventory of what we have done for the DAILY WORKER, and outline plans of what we shall do af- ter the first anniversary. On the 13th of January, at Brook- lyn Hall, corner Soto and Brooklyn Sts., Los Angeles will celebrate the first birthday party of America’s only revolutionary class paper in the Eng- lish language. Comrades of all na- tionalities are to meet that night to make the final drive for insurance pol- icies to insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925. Our slogan on that night will be, “Double the subscribers, double the circulation of the DAILY WORKER and insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925.” The English branch of the Workers Party has taken the initiative in ar- ranging the DAILY WORKER birth- day celebration. Every comrade and every sympa- thizer is cordially invited to attend the DAILY WORKER celebration. I am sure that January 13 will be one of the most important nights that the Communist movement has ever wit- nessed in Los Angeles. POALE ZIONISTS JOIN ORGANIZATION OF THE COMMUNISTIC YOUTH (Special to The Daily Worker) ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 8—A sign of the growing influence and power of the Young Workers’ League is seen by the recent organization of a branch of the league in this city, the capital of the Empire state. A group of young workers, who had for some time been members of the misieading nationalist organ- ization, the Poale Zion, having be- come acquainted with the princi- ples of the young Communist move- ment, left the Poale Zion. and form. ed a branch of the Young Workers’ League. Additions to the strength of the league are coming in from all countries, especially is the growth of the movement noticéable in various sections of the country where shop and mine nuclei of the revolutionary youth are being or- ganized. All class conscious mem- bers of the so-called “left” Poale league or the Workers Party. All young or old workers inter- ested in the principles and work of the league, or desirous of forminga unit of the organization should com. municate immediately with the na- tional office, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Are You Going to the Open Forum Sunday Night? MASS DEMONSTRATION IN DETROIT BY YOUNG COMMUNISTS FOR KARL LIEBKNECHT DAY HELD JAN. 11 Detroit will take place on Jan. 11, at St. Aubin, at 2 p. m. A mass demonstration will be h leaders—the founders of the Young The greatest event in the history of the Young Workers League of the House of the Masses, Gratiot and eld to commemorate the work of our Communist International—Karl_ Lieb- eo - knecht and Rosa Luxenburg, who were foully murdered by the social democrats of Germany. We must make this a LIVING mon. ster demonstration, a demonstration that will forever be photographed on the memory of all those who attend. The program will be as _ follows: Singing of the International by the entire audience. Remarks by chair- man explaining the significance of Liebknecht day. Speech on role of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxenburg in the struggle of the working class and especially in relation to the youth movement, by Comrade John Williamson, national secretary of the Young Workers’ League. (Chicago.) A tableau by.the Young Workers’ League Juniors picturing the murder of Liebknecht and Luxenburg by the white guardist. Speech on the impor- tance of the Communist youth move- mentin relation to the entire working class by Comrade A. Goetz of the Workers’ Party of Detroit, and a short talk on the work of the Young Workers’ League of Detroit by Com. rade F. S. Friedman. Singing of revo- lutionary songs will complete the pro gram. All workers are heartily invited to come and participate in this demon- stration in honor and memory of our ‘dead leaders, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxenburg. Admission free. Roumanian Comrades Give Benefit Ball for I. W. A. Jan. 10 NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—The Rouman- ian section of the International Work- ers’ Aid has arranged a concert and ball which will take place on Satur- day, Jan. 10, at 8 p. m., at’ 1347 Boston Road, the Bronx. All comrades and friends must attend this ball to help this newsly formed section of the I W. A. which has been doing such splendid work in taking care of Rou- manian class war prisoners and their families. The Roumanian revolutionary pris- oners are brutally mistreated in the capitalist dungeons of Roumanian and their families are shamefully perse- cuted in many instances being left to starve. The Roumanian section of the I. W. A. was formed only a few months ago and is doing excellent ‘work. In these few months the fol- ‘lowing sums have been collected thru |the comrades named below: Jesse Neufeld, $25.55; David Mar- gulis, $52.40; Ida Weissman, $8.00; | Jack Cooperman, $6.0; Leon Margulis, next in Yiddish. On Sunday, Jan. 1g, | $42.30; Samuel Brown, $3.35; Morris on, “Anatole France and Henri Bar- busse.” (in Yiddish.) Watch for further announcements. ‘Lipsin, $6.75; Abramowitz, Anna Kimberg (Russian Branch, Y. W. L. No. 8), $2.80; Bertha Kimberg. Fania Kutchnek, $5.00; Rose Podner, $5.00; L. Roth, $5.20; Eva Bingham, $10.00;; Dimtru Tovescu, $4.60; IL Wolman, $26.75; Total, $179.75. —_———— .-— = = +--+. + Zion are invited to join either the - | Your Union M eeting | >. ie
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; 3 Publishod by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. ee ee E DAILY WORKER. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Munroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months By mail Cin Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50...3 months §6.00 per year $8.00 per year A€dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. . J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE{ - MORITZ J. LOEB " Eee Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, ee The Lenin Memorial Meetings The Lenin memorial meeting, to be held on Sun- day afternoon, February 1, at Madison Square Garden, New York, with similar meetings over the whole nation, will be the answer of America’s work- ers to the black stream of lies pouring from the plute press against Soviet Russia. Experience in the past has shown that this. barrage of vicious propaganda is but the opening gun of a powerful mobilization of the forces of international capital- ism for a combined assault on the Soviet Republic. Preparatory to this coming onslaught, the plute press is trying to give the impression that insur- rection and rebellion are rife in Russia. The so- called revolution in Georgia was hailed with glee and later with disappointment when it proved to be an empty farce, engineered by foreign capital. More recently, the differences betwen Trgtsky and Chicago, Iilinois Editors Business Manager Advertising rates on application the Communist Party of Russia have been pointed | ; out as a sure sign of the hoped-for dissolution of the first workers’ republic. The kept press brings daily reports of mutinies, riots, the jailing of Trots- ky by Stalin, Stalin by Trotsky, and of both by Rykov, etc., ad nauseum. The little entente in the Balkans have completed an alliance whose main purpose is frankly, united action against Soviet Russia. Of course, this al- liance is subsidized and sponsored by England, France and the United States, the strongholds of international capitalism. Even Germany is being. coaxed to join this unholy alliance. Herbert Hoover, who was highly instrumental in overthrowing the Soviet government of Hungary in favor of the present fascist regime, sings a hymn of praise to the prosperity of all countries except Rus- sia and China, the only two countries which have refused to bow to the mandates of international capital. He, of course, does not mention the fact that the workers of Germany, Italy and Japan, three of the leading capitalist countries, are suffer- ing most terribly today, from low living stand-| ‘ards due to low wages, long hours and the attacks on their organizations. In mighty England there are millions of unemployed and the price of bread is rising steadily. And in “happy” America the era of unemployment and wage cuts is just begin- ning. But the workers of the world understand these attacks on the first workers’ republic. They un- derstand that Soviet Russia today stands as the mighty bulwark against the sweeping tide of reac- tion which the employing class desires to let loose. And the Lenin memorial meeting on Sunday after- noon, February 1, at Madison Square Garden will draw the workers from every part of Greater New York and they will seize this opportunity to pledge their faith and loyalty to the first Soviet Republic and to the principles of Lenin. Send in that new “sub” today! Blood on Cappellini’s Hands It is bad enough to know of the hundreds of deaths of coal miners resulting from preventable “accidents” thru the fault of the coal operators of this country, a slaughter which stains every lump of coal with the blood of the workers. But in Pennsylvania the anthracite mine operators are not satisfied with mere occupational murder Of its miners. In the last 48 hours two leaders of the “out- law” strike, called against the operators and their servile tools in the district office of the U. M. W. of A., have been shot down on the street by assas- sins. It is a safe bet that Rinaldo Cappellini, agent of the operators in the office of district presi- dent of the union, who fought the miners at every step, knows as well as anyone who are the murder- ers of Samuel Pace and Steve Frely. The Pennsylvania cossacks—the “coal and iron police’—are a murderous lot. They have a reputa- tion for just such assassinations. But they would never undertake them unless the coal operators had ordered it. And the coal operators. in turn, would never order such provocative acts, if they did not feel assured that their agents dn the of- fice of the union could hold down the storm that would follow. Cappellini has long prevented the anthracite The “Front Factory” Falls The busybodies, reformers, liberals and sob- sister fraternities in New York are disconsolate. “Mr. Zero” has been ordered out of the church. Great gobs of tears for the unemployed will doubt- less course the cheeks of many a philistine as he— or she—will wipe away thé brine to keep it from falling into the dessert while,the lecturer at the civic club expatiates 6n the decadence of christian- ity. The “front factory” has closed its doors. Another lockout. . This is how it came about: An enterprising and forward-looking hombre with a bent for religion and a record of working valiantly to get every spare worker into the trenches during the war, became, after the war, suddenly compassionate for the “under dog.” This hombre, Urbain Ledoux, =— a ee. x Sab ; ¢ o ee 7) gk 5 ame ‘ng eget tis OF ae Toy . ) ‘ . wis, at %. Pte ‘ : . = tne - ¢ ad ‘. “2°. .\ See “~. ; — . 4 OSSES AGES 10 JN LINE River cotton manufacturers have an- nounced a 10 percent wage reduction for their 25,000 employes, to go into effect Jan. 12. No promise is made that the workers will get more work in consequence ‘the reduction. Local unions affiliated with the American Federation of Textile Oper- atives. are on the question of accepting or rejecting the cut. The action they take will probably set the pace for the in the neighbor- ing cotton manufacturing city of New Bedford where the American Federa- tion of Textile Operatives is also func- tioning. . Bosses United Against Workers. The announcement of the Fall River manufacturers is in line with action taken leading cotton con- cerns of New land this fall and early winter. Cuts averaging 10 per cent have been forced thru in th« Amoskeag mills at Manchester, New Hampshire; in Everett mills in Lawrence, in most of the Lowell mills, in the numerous mills of the Manville- Jenckes and B. B; & R. Knight com- paniés in Rhode Island; in nearly all the Maine mills and in many small concerns in the several New England states. Most of the reductions took place following the Coolidge election. Fall River—Poverty. Fall River workers have suffered more from the textile depression than those in any other textile center. The Fall River mills produce cheap cotton print goods, for the most part, the kind of godds mogat-readily produced in southern mills: For eighteen months most of the Fall River work- ers have been unemployed. During 1924 about two-thirds of a million dollars of charity was spent in par- tially relieving the hardships of unemployment. Waiting i Priso Leaves Its Imprint On Sacco-Vanzetti Looking at is white photographs of Sacco and Vanzetti: when they first were imprisoned almost five years ago and the pictures, poy ond taken of them aesthetic and — philosophic Vanzetti. Th the latter photographs in the face of the once buoyant Sacco we read suffering and -dejection. In the face of the soft, Kindly Vanzetti we read defiance and bitterness. Thus have these two fighters for their class, in those few but long years of waiting in prison, been broken and crushed by the rulers of the ‘Opposing class, the capitalists: * . The last act of this tragic drama of life and death for these two work- ers was commenced, on Sept. 30, when Judge Thayer decided against a new trial for them. The shadow of the electric chair rests dark and heavy on Sacco and Vanzetti. Workers’ organizations everywhere are holding protest meetings and tak- ing up collections for the $25,000 fund which the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee must raise to appeal the case to the Massachusetts supreme court and to the United States su- preme court. Rail Workers Pay Goes Down as R. R. Co.’s Profits Go Up Savings of millions of dollars’ for ) railroad stockholders at the expense of railroad employes are reflected in interstate commerce commission sta- tistics showing Unit costs of class 1 carriers in October, 1924. The figures show that train enginemen received only 14.8c per 1,000 gross ton miles compared with 16.4c in October, 1923. a reduction of nearly 10 per cent. Similarly the amount paid railway trainmen per 1,000 ton miles fell from 18.8c in October, 1923, to 17.7c in 1924 and the expenditure for locomotive re- pairs from 28.6¢ to 24.4c per 1,000 ton miles. This last red » involving the total wages p machinists, boiler makers, sheet metal workers, etc. amounted to about 15 per cent. Thes« results are possible because increased efficiency and technical improvement prdouce wholesale layoffs rather than shorter working hours for the men em- ployed. Kellogg Likes His “Job. LONDON, Jan. 8.—Stories in circu- lation that United States Ambassador Kellogg was to resign from his Lon- don post have made him “all the more | the American embassy today. ae ‘—— determined to remain,” it was said at Thies was the second denial in two day: from the embassy on the subject o! 'Kellogge’s retirement. Kellogg is at tending the allied financial conference \in Paris. Ms ae WORKER JOINT BAZAAR OF INTERNATIONAL — WORKERS’ AID AND LABOR DEFENSE’ COUNCIL MAKING FINE HEADWAY NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 8.—The arrangements of the International Work- with is most encouraging. ers’ Aid and the Labor Defense Council for the joint bazaar, which is to take place at the Lyceum, 86th St. and 3rd Ave., from Feb. 11 to 14, are pro- ceeding with great energy. The response that the call for support has met The renewed attacks on the revolutionaries in Europe and India, the ar- rests and brutal treatment of the revolutionary workers in Roumania, Estho- nia, Lithuania—and-the flaring up of+ the bloody regime of Mussolini in It- aly, together with the persecution of the Communists in Germany, the at- tacks on the militant peasantry in Jugo-Slavia—are awakening the soli- darity of the American workers. The conviction of Comrade Ruthen- berg, secretary of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, and the announcement that Comrade Rober Minor will next stand before the capitalist court of Michigan; the arrest f Comrade Las. sen, editor of the Elore, Hungarian labor daily; and the arrest of Comrade Vajtauer, editor of the Obrana, the Czecho-Slovakian labor paper, which took place only a short tirhe ago; the scores of other comrades who are soon to be tried in Michigan and the hundreds of revolutionary workers who face deportation—all of these facts are accelerating the co-opera- tion of all revolutionists in this coun- ‘try and the sympathizers with their revolutionary movement. Up to the present, the following organizations have responded to the call: Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union, who will donate their services and food. Bakers’ Union No. 3, Brooklyn, do- nated $25. The following branches of the Work- ers Party will have booths: English Harlem, Finnish branches of New York City, Williamsburg English branch Brownsville section of the party, Bronx section of the party, Hungarian branches together, Russian Downtown branch, English Downtown branch. Greek and Armenian branches to- gether, English Westside branch— books and art pictures, Coney Island section of the party, Russian art booth, containing hand-woven linen and hand embroidery. The Lithuanian branches also will probably have a booth. This is admirable—and wet the work has just begun. More and more organizations are taking a favorable attitude, and more branches of the Workers Party have still to act on the matter. No trade union, no workers’ organi. zatiofi, no sympathizer dare fail to do their part in making this joint bazaar a huge success. The fate of innum- erable revolutionary workers in Eu- rope and the defense of our American comrades demand immediate action. Large sums of money are necessary. Comrades to work: get articles for the bazaar. Get contributions from labor organizations and sympathizers. Sign up on the Red honor roll. Get your organization to take a booth. ‘ALL TOGETHER FOR THE SAKE OF THE REVOLUIONISTS ANDL (aoe SUFFERING FAMILIES! | BERLIN REPORT SAYS TROTSKY IN CAUCASIAN SANITARIUM, VERY ILL BERLIN, Jan. 8.— Direct news ! have just received enables. me to state that Leon Trotsky, Soviet War Commisar, is aétually sick. It can be stated on the authority of the president of one of the Caucasian republics that Trotsky is suffering from ulcer of the stomach and may die much sooner than is expected generally. He is not a prisoner in the Krem- lin, as has been reported, but is ac- tually in a sanitarium in Sukhum- Kale, on the Black Sea, about seven kilometers from Batum,. The campaign against him is alto- gether “literary.” STEEL HOUSES MAKE WORKERS’ SKILL USELESS British Unions Facing Fight for Life (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Jan. 8.—A way to put the building trade unions out of business and the building trade workers on the permanently unemployed list, is be ing tried out by the Scottish firm of Weir and company, which is erecting steel cottages. The building trade unions are cir- culating a pamphlet showing that a steel house, such as is attempted, can- not be maintained in habitable shape for more than thirty-five years, while brick and stone houses last from 100 to 150 years. The steel houses also, are claim- ed to require more expense to main- tain than brick and stone houses, and as they last only 35 years, the union has quite a talking point in the faci that loans to build houses extend /q, neafly.60 years, and the houses would be collapsed long before they were paid for, according to this theory. The steel houses are erected on a concrete foundation into which the framework is set. This is covered with sheets of steel plate lined with asbestos, and jhe inside walls are made of a composition like American wall boards, or stamped sheet steel like that used widely in America on ceilings. All by unskilled labor. 7,000 COTTON GOODS WORKERS GET 10 PER CENT WAGE REDUCTION pany, beginning Jan. 12. plants at Williamantic, near here. Massachuéetts workers. wage cutting movement began. HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 8.—Seven thousand more cotton goods workers are cut ten per cent by the wage reductions of the American Thread com- . Three thousand are affected The remaining are Rhode Island and in the company’s The cut in the American Thread plant at New Bedford, Mass., is the first action of that kind in any large New Bedford mill since the general -Keep many people from th % * : Friday, January 9, 1925 EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRY nes NOT PASS ACTORS Folly of Tinkering with Capitalism (By The Federated vedi NEW ‘YORK, Jam. 8.— Altho radio broadcasting of first rank singers and periormers by the Victor Talking Ma- chine Co. and the American Tele- graph and Telephone Co. arrangement does not directly concern the Actors’ Equity Association, the actors’ union is very much concerned over the en- croaching power of radio to keep peo- ple away from the theater. Frank Gillmore, executive secretary of the Equity, says: “The Equity is unfortunately limited in any action it might take. It is distinctly the sense of our council tif&it radio is a terrible menace to the actor, but the actor’s time and talents belong to the man- agers, and it is from them that any real actidn must come.” To Fight Radio. ‘ Equity has provided “that if a radio microphone is placed in the footlights for the purpose of-broadcasting the performance, the manager shall then be charged by the actor for an extra performance” with the idea of mak- ing play broadcasting too expensive for managers. “Plays emerge badly over the radio,” Gillmore asserts, “and [ am sure that such perfermances thea An open meeting of the Acto Equity is scheduled for Jan. 26, to consider the danger of radio to actors and arouse the theaters to concerted action,” Morgan Tightens Hold on Phone and Telegraph Systems NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—J. P. Morgan has tightened his hold on the Ameri. can Telephone and Telegraph com- pany by purchasing $125,000,000, 35- year, five per cent sinking fund gold bonds of the company. The Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph com- pany, in addition to controlling the Bell telephone system, the Western Union telegraph company and the Western Electric company, is connect. ed with numerous railroads and with the U. S. Steel corporation and the General Electric company thru inter- locking directorates. The company announces. it will maintain a fund of $1,250,000 dollars @ year for the purchase of these bonds the open market “if available.” The, money from the sale of the bonds will be used to purchase securi- ties held by subsidiary companies, it was announced. ee Population Increase 5 Per Cent Above Food Production Since 1912 Each person (capitalist class ex- empted) must eat five per cent less food than in 1912, according to the Sears Roebuck agricultural founda- tion’s statistics. Population has gain- ed on national agricultural -production to the extent of five per cent in twelve years. Figures made public today show that the population of the United States has increased 18 per cent from 1913 to 1925, while.the total crop production has increased only 13 per cent. Patronize our advertisers. By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. A review of anything so completely Parisian as the opera “Louise,” given by the Chicago Civic Opera company ‘last Wednesday, should be-written in French. For “Louise” is Paris, Paris perfectly rendered in terms of tone and action. The only distinctly Par- isian quality lacking in this perform- ance and this opéra was the smell. The composer, Gustav Charpentier, is a man known for only one work. Mr. Stock now and then plays his “Impressions of Italy,” but aside fro) that only “Louise” has gained any recognition. Charpentier »wwrote both his book and his music. Louise is a seamstress living with her parents on Montmartre. She ir in love with the poet Julien. Her parents object to their marriage. The first act_is concerned with the ‘quar. rels of Louise and her parents over Julien. Rather Fleshy Spirit. the most curious of all opera scenes. It is a scene that Andreyev might have written. Before sunrise, at the junc. ture of two streets below Montmartre the rag pickers are sorting their catch. A coal picker and a street sweeper bemoan their fate. Enters a night prowler in evening dress who makes love to a little newspaper girl. Asked who he is he replies that he is the spirit of Paris. With the coming of the sian these creatures of night- disappear. The sunrise reveals the shop where Louise works. Her fellow workers arrive. a ee ee ee ee and finally she herself. Julien is waiting for her, She promises to run The second act opens with one ofiher former home. away with him. Quite a Mixture. The third act is taken up with a most spectacular scene. The poets, philosophers, grisettes and ruffians oi! Montmartre, come to crown Louisc the muse of Montmartre. She is liv- ing with Julien in a cottage near the summit of the hill. The night prowle: is crowned King of Fools, and con- ducts an elaborate ceremony. Louise and Julien sing an apostrophe to Paris~and the spirit of Montmartre. (For Montmartre is the true Paris. Soaked with the blood of the Com- muniets of 1871, it is the home of the artists, the thinkers, the workers, the hoboes and the prostitutes 6f Pari-. Surmounted with a glittering whit jewel of a church, the basilica of the sacred heart, it stands up and domi- nates the city even more than the famous Eiffel tower across the town.) When the ceremony is over Louise's mother arrives and tells Louise that her father is dying. Louise goes to In the last acti Louise is kept practically a prisoner in her parents’ house. Her father tries to persuade her to leave Julien. She refuses. He becomes enraged, opens the door and tells her to go. Leaving the curtain down on an ar- tistically unfinished story. Plenty of Atmosphere. The plot is thus given in detail in order to get across the idea of the absolutely Parisian atmosphere of the opera. . Charpentier simply took his town and wrote it down in notes. He orchestrates with a truly Wagneriar sense of the possibilities of instru ments in conjunction with the stage. The music of the entire opera is a . - 7 colossal masterpiece,’ as Chaykovski would say, of atmosphere. Added to this one may eulogize the work of the company. It was as close to a perfect performance of oprea as can be given. The part of Louise seems made tc order for Mary Garden. She did it in approved Garden style, except that she. seemed troubled with a cold Georges Baklanoff, besides having one of the finest baritone voices in the company, is perhaps the best actor of all the male stars. He played the father. Maria Claessens, playing the mother, took the role of a relentless vixen with/ considerable more genu- ine feeling than really exits in the role, Lucky It Wasn't Pink. Ferdinand Ansseau’ unfortunately had a brown tie with white polka dots wished on him as part of his costume for Julien. In spite of that he looked like a man. Nothing’more need be said. Jose Mojica, the ‘young Mexican tenor, a person of a high voice, firm and large in volume, who acts with considerable Spanish swagger, played the night prowler, and the. king of fools. Costumes and scenery were, in the main, authentic. One backdrop showed Montmartre surmounted by the unfinished scaffolding of the basi- lica of the sacred heart. Now Sacre Couer has been finished since the nineties, but the costumes of the peo- ple of the plgy were those of 1924. Another backdrop showed Paris sur- rounded by high hills that do not ex- ist. Outside of that the settings were typical _ RS. - = ‘ a] . os “=. . a © 2. - & 4 | b Svweace neeorunsa™ e@ore2e¢creosscrns ._}- ’ edaneerctewreaecdc gnpewoe gf te 9 e b ti H d le r" si 8' LL le ee. ee oe en en. ae ae ell, ee rnrpreens x S