Daily Worker
January 10, 1925
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Daugherty was at the way in which he was ed out of the department ot jor doing the right thing by the gang. He was ely, the goat aS Outside Chicago, by mall. $0.00 Der year. Soot hae under the Act of March 3, 1879. Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. | grace, yielded to the clamor for pointed out at-the time event ot Coolidge * back inte the White House the, presi- dent find a way of d and politi ly délousing the former at- 7 — ISTERDAY’S newspapers tell us that Harry preg former at the United States. Tell of Class Murders orate the martyrdom of Karl f-|Liebknecht and Rosa Lux burg. who died six years ag ing, in Northwest Hall, North and | Workers’ League; | world in the Liebknecht meetings, .| against the persecution of the social- | workers.” COMMUNISTS AND I IV MINNEAPOLI: REAL FIGHT F MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Jan. 9 in the Minneapolis labor movement in the elections for the Minneapolis the World Over ‘The Communist youth all | over the world will commem-| since the “opén shop” launched their attack against the un ions in 1921, the unions have been tinually going down until today martyrs to the brutal violence locals ere mere skeletons ot their | former selves.. The group in contro. of t German white terror, — 1 body at U 8 —— by the corrupt remnants of social-democracy. Meetings will be held today and tomorrow in all the princi- pal cities of the country. Meeting at Northwest Hall. The speakers, at the Chicago meet-|jocal unions. The left wing is a constructive program—its Western Ave., tomorrow night, Jan. 11, at 8 p. m., will be John William- son, national secretary of the Young Alexander Bittel- man member of the central executive . e of the Workers Party; Peter Herd of Chicago, and Barney Mass, member of the national execu- tive committee of the Young Work- ers’ League. The Young Communist Internation- al is making its voice heard round the ity to the working class where the rank and file will opportunity to pass judgment and struct their assembly delegates. - The slate and program is as follows: Minneapolis Trades A Labor ly Elections, Jan. 7 1 1926. . For president—George A. Painters’ No. 186. For vice-president—Carl — Railway Carmen No. 299. 2 ists and fascist preachers of violence and oppression of the workers against the class justice of the capitalists, the Communists are raising the slo- gan of “justice administered by the Babor. — Labor R v. R. Dunne, Bookkeepers’ No. 1760 Sargent at —— Blacksmiths’ No. 205. Register clerk—L. A. Carpenters’ No. 7. An important feature of the pro- gram of the Chicago meeting will be the speech of Al Galatski, represent- ing the junior groups, and a recita- tion. by Ida Middleman of the junior D W. L., who will re- 8 4 iw 2 4 dun ‘capitalist editors detest nete torship in general and one dic. tatorship in partuclar.. The particular one as anybody whose brain is not addled with cross word puzzles will be guessed immediately. It is the dic tatorship of the proletariat in Russia. But there are halt a dozen capitalist dictatorships existing in a more or less pr jous condition thruout Eu- rope and our capitalist moralists dc ot expend much jndigantion on them. en the Italian specimen for in- stance. > „ ® . : ‘eye of the reasons why our be- whiskered secretary of state does not ‘recognize Soviet Russia is be. cause that government was not elect- ed by the votes of capitalists of all descriptions, legalized swindlers as well-as by the votes of the workers. The Russian government, born out of @ revolution, grants only to those who participate in the. production of the nation’s wealth the right to vote. In America, it is for all practical pur- poses the other way around. + — * UsSOLINT S dictatorship is praised because it saved Italy from the “menace of Bolshevism” that is from the rule of the workers. It is puite clear that it is not dictatorship our American capitalists fear but the kind that dictates for the workers and not to them. Mussolini is skating on thin ice at the present time. His dic- tatorship has hit a snag. It could not help doing that. Even a first class brain could mot avoid disaster. His friends on the American capitalist pa pers who objected so strenuously tc the suppression of the bourgeoisie in Russie finds words of praise of Mus. solini even when he is trampling on the freedom of the press which our edi- torial ostriches worship so dearly. Of course they do not object to the sup pression of Communist papers. Benito was their idol while his show was running smoothly. Even now they have a soft spot in their hearts for him. Auto and Bus Collide Causing Injury and Death to Passengers GALESBURG; lll, Jan. 9. — Two were killed and two injured when a motor bus, carrying ten persons, was in collision today with a small touring car occupied by four Burlington rail-; road workmen betwen this city and Manmouth. _f The gead are: Everett Kissick Harold McKnight, both Burlington em- ployes of Monmouth. A third oCcupant of the car and W. B. McCul- lous driver ofthe bus, were ae > — = knocht” The * Workers’ League 6 Psat Pa doe- 5 Charley. Ashley’s poem, “Lieb- Trustee—William Mauseth, ists’ No. 91. 2 % N 1 „ thie ‘te fhe moe eS a eee bes. * „ Fe : kh 0 e 7 atl Bo ee ey 5 Ae . * ee 3 ue me 1 1 ly oe Olty—San 11. eee? Cal” St. and 27 2 p. m. pec- tor, 8. Don, and Ludwig Lore. Tab- leaux, dancing, singing. Violinist, Mischa Lifshitz. ‘Music by Lithuanian mandolin ‘orchestra. Buffalo—Jan. 11, 8 p. m., 159 Grider street, Party and league speakers. Detroit, Mich.—Jan. 11, 2 p. m. Speakers, Max Schactman, editor the Young Worker, and others. Milwaukée, Wis.—Millar’s Hall, 802 State St., 2 p. m. Speakers, John Ed- wards and others. Cleveland, Ohio—Jaites Hall, 6006 St. Clair St., Jan. 11, 8 p. m. Speak- ers, Nat Kaplan and Oliver Carlson. Kenosha, Wis.— German-American Hall, 8 p. m. Speakers, Robert Garver and others. Baltimore, Md.—Progressive Labor Lyceum. Party and league speakers. Philadelphia, Pa.—Eagle Temple, Broad and. Spring Garden St., Jan. 10, 8 p. m. Speakers, Oliver Carlson, L. Lore, and H. M. Wicks. Pittsburgh, Pa.— Speakers, Salzman and others. South Bend, Ind.—Jan. 11, 2:30 p. m., 1216 W. Colfax Ave. Speakers,“ Harry Gannes and others. Gardner, Mass.—Casino Hall, 65 Main St., Jan. 11, 8 p. m. Speakers, Sid Bloomfield and others. Frie, Pa.—Jan. 11, 8 p. m. Party and league speakers. Providence, R. I—Jan. 11, 8 p. m. Speakers, William Simons and others. Hibbing, Minn.—Jan. 11, 8 p. m. Party speaker. Other meetings have been arranged but the time and locations have not yet been received by the national office. All readers of the DAILY WORKER should attend these meetings and bring their shopmates. ü hers sor «ey: Deen trade union movement. We urge all (Continued on Page 2.) BRITISH AND AMERICAN SAILORS GET TRUTH ABOUT SOVIET RUSSIA (By Rosta Telegraph Agency.) from Odessa that a meeting was held at the international club there in honor of the English sallors from British ships anchored in the port. A report was made in English on the internal and external situation of the Union of Soviet Socialist. Re- publics. In the discussion that followed the report several English speakers declared that during their stay in Odessa they had been amply satis- fied as to what an amount of faise- hood was circulated on the Soviet- Republics by part of the English press, and that now they. knew themselves that the Soviet power is really the power of workers and peasants defending the interests of the proletariat not only of Russia but of all the world. * „ „„ Twenty American sallors from the steamer Nobles, which has brot to Novoroseyisk Fordson tractors, technical materials for the “Azneft” (Azerbeidjan „Oil Syndicate), have come on a visit to Tiflis. They have been greatly interested in every- thing they have seen. in conversa- tions with their hosts, the American sallors have stated that the work- ers in America are openly agitating in favor of recognition of the Sov- let government. THANK YOU, COMRADE ALLEN! THREE DOLLAR remittance from H. Allen of Berkeley, Cal., for a subscription to a political prisoner has been applied to a six months sub for the DAILY WORKER for Joseph Wallace, a prisoner in the Moundsville, W. Va., jail for participation in the famous March of the Miners in 1922. We are sure the gift of a subscription of a fighting working class newspaper to a fighting miner will be a welcome one. Thank you, Comrade Alien! Max „n Memorlam— Lenin“ to be shown Jan. 15 at Gartner’s Theater. Northwest Hall North and Western Aves. Auspices | Young Workers 3 Local Chicago 9 tion means the giving of life and ital; 2 oS movement in| se fons te | in- For recording 3 — W. paign to build and strengthen vied } MOSCOW?) Jan. 9.—It is reported“ tl ̃ A LLL LLL P — ̃ ! ̃ -V.MAM m = IRY 10, 1925 = Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKI(R PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. Price 5 Cents ‘ N oar ee . ; f the present x . I K * that working class in the left wing fights Dau WORKER | Jncalculable Strength the first anniversary of one of the history of the movement of America and the }world—the founding of the be printed in the English lan- '} workers, the Pullman and Hegewisch | skirmishes of the class struggle. The HAS MADE THE ~-BOSSES QUAKE to the Working Class Militant workers all over the country have begun to celebrate the most outstanding events in ommunist DAILY WORKER, the first Communist daily newspaper to guage. In New York an excclient concert Where professionals will render fitting revolutionary entertainment will be given at the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., on Sunday evening, Jan. 11. At 9 p. m. a grand ball will start, with ‘splendid entertainment in 1 The entire staff of the DAILY WORKER will be present at the first birthday party given in Chicago, Mon. day evening; Jan 12, at Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. This celebration is reported in another column. The DAILY WORKER has been a thorn in the side of the capitalists, the labor fakers, and all other enemies of the working class, but it has been a bright red star of hope to the toil. ing workers of America. The DAILY WORKER has stood the picket lines thruout the country. playing a prominent part in the Chi- cago Ladies’ Garment Workers’ strike the strike of the Paterson, N. J. silk carbuilders’ strikes, and many other DAILY WORKER has been an incal- culable power for strengthening the 3 itis th 1 . A (independent >t iat: „is to be seen by N m 4 agreed im the senate the first day of the slative session. Under this agree- ment, control and jobs are divided and the non-partisans will drop contests of senate seats. There is much ‘talk of harmony, Lieutenant Gov. Maddock (leaguer) “declaring “that the senate would do much good for the state by working without bitterness of feeling.” Sorlie, the new non-partisan governor, is al- so for “co-operation.” All this, of course, simply means that the ex- ploiters of the farmers have the up- per hand. it fs common talk among the rank and file leaguers in many parts of the state, who are still imbued with the militant spirit, that there is no funda- mental difference between the “rival” political factions in North Dakota. The Communist Legistator. To offset this degraded compromise and political trading, A. C. Miller, the Communist member of the legislature, is rousing a considerable enthusiasm among the farmers for the Workers Party program which 18 fundamentally based upon the need for unity between the poor working farmers ahd the in- dustrial workers. Comrade Millen stresses this great need and the broad nature of the class and workers must fight together against exploiting classes. He is in- troducing a resolution for the recog- nition of Soviet ‘Russia and for the ratification of the child labor amend- ment and the taxation of big incomes to defray the expense of educating the children of workers and poor farmers. Program Touches Immediate Needs. These measures of A. C. Miller touch the immediate needs of the great mass of poor farmers, and a fine response is given his bills for com- pulsory state hail insurance with a flat tax to be levied on all tillable land; all tax titles to revert to the state and the proposal that all public tunds be deposited in the Bank of North Dakota and state-owned branch banks established, one in each county. Alsace Registers Earthquake. BELFORT, France, Jan. 9. —An earthquake was registered in Alsace today. The shock was recorded at 2:40 a. m. INTERNATIONAL Kari Liebknecht Day Sunday January 11, 8 P. M. struggle which these poor farmers in the 1 oped machinists,’ min- ve N other trade unions. tor power, ke 2 to press the immediate ande of the workers in thelr every. day striggles. The DAILY WORKER | has been the standard bearer of the American Communist movement, ral lying the workers to demand contro! of industry and government, and the overthrow of the employing class. When the call came for the DAILY WORKER readers to establish a fund to insure the DAILY. WORKER for 1925, the response was immediate and substantial, and the workers are con- tinuing to respond. Celebrations of the DAILY WORK- ER’S first birthday are being held in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, Rochester, Buffalo, and all prin- cipal cities of the country. Night Shirts Are Asked to Join in Church Revival PARIS, III., Jan. 9.— 4 long step toward church unity has been taken in Paris, six protestant churches hav- HARRY M. DAUGHERTY, OUSTED ~ FROM DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, . IS AGAIN ‘SILENT CAL'S’ ADVISER (Special to The on Potomac avenue. eral to succeed Stone ‘who was supreme court to succeed McKenna. among those doing the selecting. Among the guests at a reception given by the president on Thursday night, was Harty M. Daugherty, who left Washington Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, b. C., Jan. 9. The expected has happened! Harry M. Daugherty is again quite at home in Washington, not in the “little green house on K street” but in the big White House Harry Daugherty, once the head of the powerful of justice and chief of the law enforcin is again back on the job, tho unofficially—yet. President Calvin Coolidge, is selecting a new attorney-gen- department agency of big business, elevated to the United States Harry M. Daugherty is in disgrace only & few months ago: His walking papers were written by Calvin Coolidge. Killing Big News. Daugherty’s appearance at the re- ception had big news value, but it was not played up by the capitalist press. Those versed in political strategy declare that Coolidge and the big busi- ness elements he serves have a very warm spot in their hearts for Harry Daugherty and furthermore that their hard. business heads tell them that he was and is and can be in the future a very useful man for them. Breaking the Strike. They cannot forget that he was largely instrumental in breaking the shopmen’s strike in 1922 thru the use of all the necessary governmental powers to do the job. Since then, rail- side by side with striking workers on roads have not bean bothered with any serious strikes and the railroad shop eraft unions are but pitiful car- ricatures of their former selves. Big business wants the “public” to get used to the presence of Daugherty in Washington. The next election is a long way off and democrats and “progressives” were interested in get- ting Daugherty’s scalp only because they believed such an Operation would bring them votes. Expecting More Trouble. Big bustasas knows that it is not taking precau . Daugherty secured a wealth of experience during his term of office. He is one of the white-haired boys of big business. He “does his stuff’ as he is told and it was un- fortunate that he had to be made a from him could have knocked the G. O. P. elephant for a row of giggling donkeys. Daugherty will be rewarded. WORKERS PARTY BRANGHES READY FOR ‘SUB’ DRIVE Get e ee Voters at Same Time The DAILY WORKER special Chi. cago subscription drive is in full swing. All party branches are sup ing united in a three weeks’ evan. gelſcal campaign. Pastors Nr congregations are speaking and converts are to affiliate with the church of their choice. the ku klux klan have been urged by the leaders to attend the services as individuals and aid in the campaign. OLGIN TO LECTURE AT WORKERS’ SCHOOL of the ‘plied with the special sub-card folders containing five one dollar subs. The joining of the subscription drive to the aldermanic campaign has | presented an opportunity to get real It is understood that members of action on house to house work for the DAILY WORKER. Every party mem- ber is instructed when he carries his petitions about in the precincts to have with him and try to sell, sub-cards from his subscription folder. Put Workers in Charge. Either the secretary of the branch ON TUESDAY, JAH. 13 (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—On Tuesday, or the branch DAILY WORKER agent has charge of the folders. A strict record is being kept of everyone tak ing a folder from the branch. Every member is expected to return either Jan. 13, Molssaye J. Olgin will lect- ure at the Workers’ School, 208 E. 12th street on “Cultura! Aspects of the Russian Revolution.” This is the third lecture in his series on Russian revaluation given on alter- nate Tuesdays. Registration for this series is still open. : 14 the folder or the money. The campaign captains in the wards in which we bave candidates have an additional supply to make certain that every petition,: worker receives a folder. Below are printed the quotas of the (Continued on page 2) Resalts of Mem bership Meetings rr P . ̃ — rvX—— ̃— r ————— Max Shachtman, A. Bittelman, Peter Herd and a Junior J. W. L, ORCHESTRA MILWAUKEE, WIS.—At a general membership meeting held here last Thursday evening, to discuss the immediate tasks of the party, the theses of the C. E. C. (majority) was endorsed by a vote of 63 to 13. SPEAKERS: ABMISSION 50c EE ⅛——2—, . w ˙²»B̃ — ——ũ—B — — ꝑ — — —— — — ee — troubles. © But it is Gerke Voyzey, his MINERS’ UNION VOTES HEAVILY AGAINST LEWIS rade ves Display u Surprising & Strength (Special to The The. Daily Werker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 9 Election reports from the min- ers’ union locals continue to show a heavy vote for the pro- gressive candidates. How the reactionaries man- age to sneak in despite these returns is a mystery only to those who do not know the ways of the labor fakers. A little better organization on the part of the radicals will. take eare of that deficiency. Five locals in this district give 109 votes to John Lewis and 332 for votes. tor Murray Staples; 137 for Willlam Green and 219 for Joseph Nearing. For district officials the vote was: goat of, but he kept his mouth shut during those trying days when a word | — — —— Pat Fagin, candidate for president. 163; William Guller his opponent, re- ceived 855 votes. The other progres sive candidates defeated the reaction- | aries by approximately the same proportion. „ * * Voyrey Beats Lewis. WASHINGTON, Pa., Jan. 9.—Local Union 4917 gave John L. Lewis three votes while George Voyzey, progres sive, received 42 votes; Philip Murray received 8 and Arley Staples 36; Wil- liam Green received 18 and Joseph Nearing 27. 2 ee Don't Think Much of Lewis. COLLINSVILE, II., Jan. 9%-—The members of Local Union 4648 do not think so very much of John Lewis judging by the result of the elections. The returns show that Lewis polled only 160 votes to 358 for George Voy- zey, his opponent; 203 for Philip Mur- ray; 336 for Arley Staples; 248 for William Green; 236 for Joseph Near- ing. In Local 685, Lewis received 178 votes and Voyzey, 372; Murray polled 175 and Arley Staples 352; Green got 226 and Nearing 303, MEMBERS OF J. W. L. IN N. Y.! REMEMBER THE MEMBERSHIP MEETING The general membership meeting of the Young Workers’ League was arranged in New York City prior to the conclusion of the discussion tn both the league and the party and it is expected that every member will attend the meeting which has been arranged for Friday, Jan. 16, in Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. The position of the national exe- cutive committee of the V. W. . on the future outline of work and the political policy of the party will be presented by Comrade John Will- lamson. executive secretary of the league. it is imperative that every mem- ber of the league in New York City be present at this meeting as it will be of the greatest importance. it is expected that the activity of the New York. league will increase manifold afer A thoro discussion of the immediate tasks that lie before the Young Workers“ League on @ national scale. This meeting will be limited to members of the Young Workers’ League only. Admission will be by paid up membership card. Comrades, of New York City. cancel ail other meetings immedi- ately and prepare to attend the gen- eral membership meeting en mases. a ee 7
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Imprisoned Solel y for Opinions A brief was submitted to the Michigan supreme court yester- day, calling for the release of Cc. E. Ruthenberg, national executive secretary of the Work- ers (Communist) Party now, in Jackson penitentiary, and de- manding that Ruthenberg be given a new trial. The brief submitted by Isaac Ferguson, attorney for Ruthen- berg, requests that the previous judgment of the supreme court of Michigan ‘be reversed, on the grounds that Ruthenberg com- mitted no crime by expressing his opinions. The hazy, indefinite and unconstitu- tional character of the criminal syn- dicalism law, under which Comrade Ruthenberg was sentenced to 4 prison term of from three to ten years and @ fine of $5,000, is brought out in the brief, which was submitted to the court by Isaac Ferguson, attorney for Comrade Ruthenberg. “The judgment entered against re. gspondent (Ruthenberg) deprives him ef his liberty and property without due process of law, and denies to him the equal protection of the laws, con- trary to the provisions of séétton 1, article XIV of amendments to the con- Btitution of the United States,“ the brief for Comrade Ruthenberg says in part. “The judgment entered in the circuit court against respondent ought to be reversed and set aside by this court, especially because it is not within the due process of law to pen- alize respondent for the act of assemb- ling with a group of persons who es. pouse certain doctrines when there Was not intent or attempt, in connec- tion with said act of assembling, to achieve, incite or promote an overt get of physical injury to any persons or property or to any governmental establishment or operation.” Violated No Law. It contrary to due process of law and a denial of the equal protection of the laws, as provided by the four. teenth amendment, to proscribe the assembly of any group of because of their belief in cer- tain doctrines.” The brief than declares that the Michigan criminal] syndicalism law is not limited by its terms to the mere act of assembling with other persons, but violation of the law must show in- tent to promote acts of criminal in- jury. This Comrade Ruthenberg did not do, and is not charged with doing, the brief points out. Law Unconstitutional. “The judgment ought to be reversed because the provisions of the criminal gyndicalism statute upon which it is based, establish a prior restrain upon expression of opinion, in violation of the fourteenth amendment,” the brief continues. “The mere expression of opinions, no matter how reprehensi- ble, cannot constitutionally be pun. fished as crime.” “The judgment ought to be set aside because the provisions of the criminal syniicalism statute upon which it is based are too vague anc indefinite to provide an ascertainable standard of guilt of crime.” Right to Assemble. “Syndicalists, Communists, or oth- ers who favor doctrines proscribed by the criminal syndicalism statute, are as much entitled as any other persons to the protection of the law in peace fully meeting together, unless there is involved immediate intent or at- tempt of overt criminal injury.” Marx Can’t Form Cabinet. BERLIN, Jan. 9.—Chancellor Marx today relinquished his mandate to form a cabinet and informed President Ebert he had exhausted all possibil- ities of the construction of a ministry without finding a workable solution. “Polikushka” is coming to Gertner’s Independent Theater, Jan. 15. Amn 1 Get Busy With the Petitions! The aldermanic elections in this must have candidates in the field. This job must be done at once. aldermanie elections. 22 elty are near. in, order te wage an effective Communist campaign during the election period the Werkers Party in order to get our candidates on the ballot, certain legal formalities must be complied with, the most important of whioh is collecting signatures. The petitions can be secured at the office of Leoal Chicago of the Workers Party. Next Sunday--TOMORROW— is a very good day to collect signatures. Get your petitions today and be on the job tomorrow helping to put our candidates on the ballot In the city | LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS | arranged and speakers assigned. person in charge, and state whether It is important that every city in which there is a party organization hold a Lenin Memorial meeting. Many such meetings have already been Every party unit which has not already done so should immediately ar- range to hold a Lenin Memorial meeting and send in to the National Office the date of the meéting, name and location of the hall, time, name of the local speakers are available or wheth- er assignment of speakers should be thru the national office. Following is a list of meetings which have been arranged: Wednesday, Jan. 21. Chicago, III., at 8 p. m., at Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren Sts. Speakers: Browder, Dunne, Eng- dahl, and Swabeck. — Kansas City, Mo., hall to be an- nounced. Speaker, J. E. Snyder. Friday, Jan. 23. Niagara Falls, N. V., at 7:30 p. m., Hippodrome Hall, corner Pine and 19th Sts. Speaker to be announced. Saturday, Jan. 25. Philadelphia, Pa., at 8 p. m., at the Lulu Temple, corner Broad and Spring Garden Sts. Speaker to be announced. South Bend, Ind., at 8 p. m., at Workers’ Home, 1216 W. Colfax Ave. Speaker, Manuel Gomez. Milwaukee, Wis., at 8 p. m., at the Auditorium. Speakers: Foster and Bedacht. Sunday, Jan. 26. St. Paul, Minn. Hall to be announce ed. Speaker, Earl Browder. Minneapolis, Minn. Hall to be an- nounced. Speaker, Earl Browder. Grand Rapids, Mich., at 2:30 p. m. Workmen’s Circle Temple, 347 Mt. Vernon Ave. Speaker to be an- nounced. Hartford, Conn. Hall to be an- nounced. Speaker, Joseph Manley. Detroit, Mich., at 2 p. m., House of the Masses, 2101 Gratiot Ave. Speak- er, Robert Minor. Boston, Mass., at 3 p. m., Scenic Auditorium, 12 Berkeley St. Speaker, John J. Ballam. Cleveland, Ohlo. Hall to be announc- ed later. Speaker, Benjamin Gitlow. Los Angeles, Cal., at 2 p. m., Blanch- ard Hall, 233 S. Broadway. Speaker to be announced. Easton, Pa., at 2 p. m., Lithuanian (Bakers) Hall, N. 7th St., near North- ampton St. Speaker to be announced. Dowell, III., at 2 p. m., Rex Theater, Union Ave. Speaker to be announced. Bridgeport, Conn., at 8 p. m., Work- men’s Circle Hall, 310 State St. Speak er to be announced. Akron, Ohio, at 2 p. m., Zeigler Hall, corner Voris and Miami Sts. Superior, Wis., Workers’ Hall, cor ner Tower and 6th. Speaker to be announced. Sunday, Feb. 1. New York, N. V., at 2 p. m., Madi- son Square Garden. Speakers: Foster and Ruthenberg. New Haven, Conn. Hall to be an- nounced. Speaker, Joseph Manley. Buffalo, N. V., at 8 p. m., Labor Ly- ceum, 376 William St. Speaker to be announced. ‘ The spirit in which the first anni- versary of Lenin's death is to be com- memorated is not one of mourning, but a living proof of the fact that while Lenin is dead, Leninism lives and grows toward the realization of our common goal, the Communist state. In the United States we must make these meetings a real demonstration of party strength, of Leninist follow- ing and devotion to our greatest lead- er and teacher. “in Memoriam—Lenin” to be shown Jan. 15 at Gartner’s Theater. Fire at 20 Below. WINNIPEG, Man., Jan. 9.—Fanned by a strong north wind, whipping thru a temperature of nearly 20 de- grees below zero, fire early today was sweeping thru the Northern Shirt | company’s building. The loss probab. ly will run as high as $250,000. OBERT MINOR Internationally Known Cartoonist, Lecturer and Author will speak on THE STAGNANT SOUTH—A PROBLEM | IV THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Sunday, Jan. 11th, 8 P. M. | at the WORKERS PARTY OPEN FORUM | ASHLAND AUDITORIUM (Lodge Room), Ashland Avenue | and Van Buren Streets Take Metropolitan “L” to Marsbfield Sta., or surface lines on Van Buren QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION Single admission 25¢ Tickets good for any three admissions, 50c in _ MAD ARMAMENT RACE SOON WITH ~ GREAT BRITAIN Coolidge Plans a New “Arms Conference” (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan, 9.— Only the fact that the United States is trying to get the most powerful governments of the world into another “arms con- ference” temporarily halts a mad naval armament race with Great Britain, it is stated in official circles. Coolidge and members of his cabinet, Secretary Hughes in particular, are manuevering for the United States to play the leading role in another “arms conference.” This conference, the Coolidge ad- ministration plans, will discuss means of combatting the increasing strength of Communism thruout the world, the foreign debts owed the United States, enforcement of the “Dawes plan” of enslavement of weak nations, and the extending of American marke Coolidge has declared it w be “inadvisable for this government to begin spending large sums on naval armament at a time when another arms conference is just around the corner“; especially as it would force the United States to enter the arm conference laboring under a disad- vantage. Another reason for the temporary lull in the armament race is the all- iance between British and American capital. As Coolidge said, “We are not going to war with Great Britain,” meaning that there is at least a temp- orary ufiderstanding between British and American exploiters. Representatives Fred Britten, re publican of Illinois is doing his utmost to force an extreme militaristic policy on the government. Britten announced that he will press bis demands for a larger navy at the next session of con- gress. Britten recently tried to stamp- ede the congress into a militaristic program by setting up the cry of the “Yellow Peril.” Admiral] E. W. Eberle, chief of naval! operations, testifying before the senate appropriations committee, said that the United States navy could be made equal to Britain’s by the conversion of four coal burning ships to of] burn- ers. He said that this country leads Britain in the number of destroyers and submarines, but is behind in the number of light cruisers and light air- craft carriers. $1,535,788,299.00 has been spent on the navy in the last 20 years, testimo ny of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur disclosed. Yes, Thomas, and the Democrats Are Backing the Campaign WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—A well-or- ganized and liberally financed cam- paign of misrepresentation has been waged thruout the country to defeat the child labor amendemtn to the con stitution, recently submitted by con- gress to the states for ratification. Sen- Thomas J. Walsh, democrat of Montana, charged in the senate yas- terday. Marine Workers Faoe Deportation. SAN FRANCISCO.— Four marine transport workers, Oga Jensen, Gus Johanson, Pat O’Hara and Kar) Zetter- quist, arrested in a raid on the union's hall, face deportation. The men have been transferred from the San Fran- cisco city prison to Angel Island, the immigrant station, and will be held there until orders come from Wasb- ington. Fox Hunt Stops Opium Probe. GENEVA, Jan. 9.—England has re- quested a postponement of the inter- national opium conference set for Jan 12, it was announced today, because of the injury suffered by the Marquis of Salisbury, in a fox hunt. The mar- quis had just been appointed chair man of the British delegation to the conference, | Build the DAILY WORKER! SOUTH,’ SUNDAY'S : Communists are now confined Communist Communists Lead Work- ers Against F ascism (Special to The Dally Worker) ROME, Jan. 9.—Hundreds of by fascisti‘in Italian prisons, but ns are dally increasing. That the fascisti violence is striking not at the Aventine opposition,” pledged to passive resistance, but at the Commun- ists, whose influence is daily growing,is shown in the numer- ous acts of violence against the Communists, — At Cimisella a huge crewd gathered on the streets and sang “The Red Flag,” a clash with fascist bands en- suing, several fascisti and one Com- munist being wounded by revolver shots, ' At Brescia the workers attacked the police whe had arrested a Communist leader, Three Communist and several fascisti were shot. At Malnate a crowd of workers stormed the police head- quartiers to free a Communist who had been arrested. A street battle occured when fascisti fired into the crowd, and many were wounded. At Castelnuovo, near Reggio-Emilia, the head of the local fascisti, attacked a Communist, who defended himself with a knife, fatally wounding the fa- scist bandit. | A manifesto issued by the opposition declares that Premier Mussolini has not yet free himself of grave charges, and that an election now would insult the intelligence of the nation, and would be but another attempt of Mus- solini to rule by force, The opposition calls for Mussolini's resignation, declaring that “The go- vernment is trampling the fundament- al laws of the state, stopping the free voice of the press, surpressing the right to meet, and persecuting indivi- duals and parties while it telerates the leaving anpunished of devastations and erimes which damage its advers- artes. A criminal association, which is the instrument of violence and death, — high up close to the gevern- m ” - i . 4 TOPIC OF MINOR The Significance of the Negro Problem The southland is nearly an undis- covered country to the revolutionary labor movement. While a few of the northern states show a certain politi- cal backwardness, the south is a solid block of fudealism. This is a potential enemy of work. ing class revolution—and Robert Minor, famous lecturer, cartoonist and journalist bas made a special study of the significance of the south, and will give Chicago workers a chance to hear his analysis of the problem and how to solve it, in his lecture on “The Stagnant South—A Problem of the American Revolution” which will be given at the Open Forum, in the Ashland Auditorium lodge room, 8 p. m. this Sunday eve ning, Jan. 11. The speaker will capably expose the struggle which divides the most op- pressed class, the poorest workers, tenant and share farmers, from the exploiting classes. This struggle is obscured by the real, yet less funda- mental, racial problems between the whites and the Negroes. It may come as a new idea to some. that particularly in the south is a class of real peasantry, in the Eu ropean sense of the word. Here the tenant and share farmers, in great ma- jority Negro, have no idea as have the poor farmers of the north, of ever be. coming land owners. They accept their status of an exploited class, but are by general backwardness and the obviousness of other racial oppres. sion, more conscious of race than of class, The stagnant sonth, from this and all other angles, constitutes a menace to any struggle the revolutionary pro- letariat may engage tn. It is a reser. voir of potential counter-revolution. which, however, can be purified, and only the Communists Im their analy- sis and tactics know what the problem is and how to solve it. It is a gigantic problem, and every worker who wants to hear the method of its solution as set forth by Robert Minor, will come to the Ashland Au ditorium lodge room, at 8 p. m., Sun- day. All workers are invited, but Negro workers are particularly urged to at. tend. TOKYO, Jan, 9-—-No damage re- sulted from three earthquakes felt here during the past 12 hours, accord ing to reports this afternoon. Imperialism Clings to Opium as a Faithful Ally of Its Profit Rule By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. — were the first of the new yeas. They | ODAY, suave statesmen of the stripe extant in London, Paris, Rome, Tokio and the seats of lesser capitalist gov- ernments, are working overtime pulling wires for the control of the Second Opium Conference opening at Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday. Their job is not a difficult one. Huge profits roll in from the sale of this dope used to sodden the minds of the hundreds of millions of subject oriental peoples, especially in India and China. But the great world imperialisms, of Great Britain, France and Japan, with Holland, Portugal and smaller coun- tries, see in ald of the arm The Opium Conference is only a child of the Le greater stakes than the profit in opium alone. “Opium” is the drug that aids in keeping whole peoples enslaved to 3 imperialists, It is a powerful weapon es of occupation. * * * * of Nations, capitalism's black international, Its purpose is not to war on opium; but to use opium as a weapon of imperial- ist interests, This truth looms big as one considers the fact that Soviet Russia had no representatives at Geneva, This might. give the Communists an opportunity to expose this nest of capitalist thieves. It will be remembered that the much-heralded Washing- ton Disarmament Conference declared against the sendin of arms and other munitions of war to China, But the various upstart “generals” of the different imperialist nations have always been well suppliféd with the weapons of slaughter, to battle for their respective masters. * * > * Great Britain and Japan are most concerned in the Geneva dope conference. They control the market and are the real traffickers in the drug raised in China, Cochin- China, and the Dutch and Portuguese possessions, Political expediency demands that the supports and promotes the opium habit in India. thru this diabolical means is rendered more India in her struggle faithful ally of Indian natives in submission. 0 British Empire dale ers British rule. Opium, the drug, is a that other opium, religion, in keeping the Therefore the British states- men are * 7 a. of the opium traffic, ‘Great Britain w h Japan are in China with opium as one of their most loyal field marshals. But the hinese, more loyal than ever to their revolution, are also combatting the opium phase of the imperialist menace. * * * > The extent of the opium trade can be seen from the fact that it puts $3,000,000, oplum profiteers; traffic; annually into the pockets of the 200 vessels are en 000 opium dens are to be found in Asiatic cities; d in the opium 9,000,000 are doomed to die, victims of this curse, within the next two ears. One author ity charges that a larger number of Orientals die every year from the effects of opium than there were coldiers slain in the world war, Thore is no denying that Soviet Russia holds e only solution for the opium curse upon Eastern peoples. The Workers’ Republic, with its Communist program, comes ~ 7 to the the pro eoples of the East with the double drive: (1) take Fit out of the opium traffic, and (2) liberate the sub- ject nations of Asia from the Imperialist yoke. Capitalist imperialism, for its own reservation, must combat both of these solutions of the opium problem. Cap- italism never has and never will take up arms against private profit. Capitalist nations will make no move that will handicap their dictatorships over colonies or subject peoples. overthrown, with it to its doom. The opium curse will remain until capitalism is End capitalism, and the opium plague goes This threat of a Communist solution of the opium traffic will be a nightmare, not a hope, at the opium conference in Geneva. The gathering in Switzerland is just another tea party apologizing for capitalism but proposing no cures for the evils growing out of it. Those cures are only proposed by the aroused working masses driving toward the world’s social revolution. MINNEAPOLIS HAS TAKEN REAL STEP| FOR LABOR UNITY 00 $koglund. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—In our last T. U. E. L. meeting were represented ome of the best working class ele- seed in Minneapolis. Individuals of the local I. W. W. were invited and they responded enthusiastically. A committee of four was selected to visit next Thursday’s meeting of the local I. W. W. for the purpose of hav- ing them elect four members to effect some plan of unity between all left wing elements in the local labor move- ment. If the same spirit be contin- ued, it is no doubt but we are going to effect unity of our forces. A program for the labor assembly election was presented by the indus- | trial committee of the T. U. E. L. and approved. Steps were also taken that a committee will visit all Workers Party branches outlining our indus- trial program, and also having every member of the party join their re- spective unions. The organized labor movement in Minneapolis is in a very weak con: dition, and a campaign to arouse en- thusiasm in the labor. movement is necessary. No campaign to organize the unorganized since the citizens’ al- liance launched their famous open shop drive, has taken place and as a consequence, the organized labor movement has lost its militancy that it formally had. A campaign to organize the wunor- ganized is absolutely necessary and such a campaign must be started in the spring, and on such a broad basis that every worker will hear the call to action. Every y member must come members of unions and give their assistance in the struggles of the working clase 1 . 8 Onotas in “Sub” Drive (Continued from page 1) branches based on the membership. Let us have real competition. Which branch will make the highest per centage of its quota? The quotas per branch are as fol. lows: Armenian 30 Bulgarian 35 Crzecho- Slovak, Hanson PBK 20 Czecho-Slovak Town of Lake . 30 Czecho-Slovak No. 1 35 Czecho-Slovak, Berwyn 3 Douglas Park English 15C South Side English 10C Cicero English 50 irving Park English 80 North Side English 300 Mid-City English 200 Englewood English 75 North West English 175 Finnish 480 Greek 80 German 125 Hungarian 75 Italian Terra Cotta 80 West Side No. 1 Italian —.......... 100 Eleventh Ward Italian 60 Thirty-first Ward Italian 1 Cicero Italian 60 Jewish, Douglas Park 120 Jewish North West 250 Lettish .. 825 Lithuanian No. 2 45 Lithuanian No. 3 10¢ Lithuanian No. 5 100 Lithuanian No. 41 6C Lithuanian No. 74 30 Lithuanian No. 77 30 Polish North Side 60 Polish South Side 25 Rumanian 75 Russian 100 South Siav No, 1 15C Spanish 10 Scand., Lake View 100 Karl Marx 100 Englewood 60 Ukrainian No. 1 — 2. Ukrainian Ne. 5 1C POST ae — * Wee by é a * (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-— One thousand and sixteen dis- abled world war veterans today hammered on the doors of con- gress for belated justice. This battalion of cripples, with their hundreds of war decora- tions from all the allied gov- ernments, but little money for food or medicine, sent a delega- tion to plead for a enactment of the Bursum bill granting regular retirement pay to dis- abled emergency army officers. All other officers who served in the world war have long since received this compensation as a reward for their wounds. The handful who vol- unteered, received emergency com- mission, served thru the war and then were dropped from the rolls alone are excepted. As a result of the plea, Senator Bursum, republican of New Mexico, announced he would demand consid- at the “first opportunity.” | Of the thousand and sixteen veter- ans benefitted by the measure, all served in France and all fell from wounds or disease “contracted in the line of duty.” Since the bill first came before congress in 1920, their Two hundred of the eligibles died while congress delayed and 18 died since congress reconvened in Decem. ber. The total cost of the bill, Bursum said, would be about $600,000 a year, with the amount annually decreasing thru deaths, Communists and Left Wingers Give Labor Fakers Real Fight ate organization of a cil of the unemployed workers under the aus. pices of the assembly and t include all working class organizations. This council to raise the slogan of work or full trade union wages for the unem- ployed. (3) Wages and hours: The assemb- ly to lead an aggressive fight for in- creases in wages and against any lengthening of the hours of labor or reductions of wages. (4) Child Labor: A militant fight to force the ratification of the child labor amendment by the Minnesota state legislature—a fight against the employment of children in Minneapo. lis industries—and a demand that the government give full support to chil- dren of wage earners and farmers so that child labor laws may be made et- fective. For a Fighting Organ. (5) Labor Review. To be made in- to a fighting organ for the trade union movement by adopting the following program: (In order that this pro- gram may be carried out we propose a campaign to get the loca] unions to subscribe for the paper in block so that it may be made independent of its advertisers); (a) It should recog- nize and advocate the class struggle (2) Unemployment: 0 in accord with the preamble of the A. F of L. (b) It shall severely criticise all schemes aiming to bring about class collaboration. (c) It shall give the news of the international work- ng class movement. (d) It shall fight for the unity of the international trade union movement-—organization- al unity between the American Fed- eraticn of Labor, the International Federation of Trade Unions, and the Red International of Labor Unions. (6) Delegates, No persecutions or expulsion of delegates because of their political beliefs or affiliations or because of their support for any work- ing class program. (7) Political. The assembly must carry on a fight for a class program and against the influence of the repub- lican, democratic, LaFollette, and all other capitalist or middle class politi- cians in the farmer-labor federation. (8) Criminal Syndicalism Laws. A militant fight to force the repeal of he Minnesota criminal syndicalism law and all other laws interfering with the workers in their struggle for improved working conditions. Sun- port of all campaigns for relief of class war prisoners. (9) United Fronts. The assembly shall enter into united fronts with all other working class organizations that will fight for the issues enunciat- ed in this program, A VOTE FOR THE LEFT WING ABOVE PROGRAM. a ea ak a eration of the relief bill in the senate . lines have been decimated by death. CANDIDATES IS A VOTE FOR THE —— — —L——¹ k — ͤ— pe — 4 a oe oe * — * 25 2 “ id ‘ * 1 —— — — Bre * 6 op a 2 4. A 14 . ea . 1 4 1 * ‘ 1 « * * 1 „
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dis- ers. basing EE — — it fight e child inesota ist the nneapo. hat the to chil- ners 60 lade et- ly work- relief of assembly with all nizations enunciat- T WING OR THE — RAIL KILLING BEE FOR 3RD PARTY, NOV. 8 ee CLEVELAND, Jan. 9.—The third party, so far as the railroad brother- hoods and associated unions are con- cerned, was killed over a week before the opening of the American Federa- tion of Labor convention in El Paso, Nov. 17. The killing took place in Cleveland, Nov: 8 at a meeting called by Pres. Warren S. Stone of the loco motive engineers for another purpose. There were present, according to Dditor John F. McNamee of the Botherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen’s magazine, the chief exe. cutive or representatives of 17 rail road labor organizations and of the Longshoremen’s Union, the railway employes department of the A. F. of L., of the A. F. of L. itself and Edward Keating, manager of Labor, the rail unions’ weekly. The principal business was the handling of the Howell-Barkley rail road control bill which is backed by rail labor. “Towards the conclusion of this meeting,” McNamee reports, “the question of the establishment of a new politica] party was taken up and considered and a motion setting forth that ‘this body is not in favor of the establishment of 4 third political party’ was adopted. A motion was adopted providing that the chairman appoint a committee of three, in ad. dition to the chairman, to interview Sen. LaFollette to ascertain his views upon the action taken as outlined by this motion.” The conference for progressive po- litical action, of which the railroad unions form the backbone, meets in Chicago, Feb. 21 to consider launch- ing a new party. GUUADUALAATDONUALOVAELNGNEDOAENALDEDOOLD OOO NET TOU AG EEOREDODHAOnOORNOnANUING Where Food Is Good And the service Is fine. Zlotins & Plotkins Restaurant 100 Per Cent Union 29 South Halsted St. The best of food at à moderate price U. S. COMMERCE REPORTS SHOW HOW BAN ON RUSS TRADE _ KEEPS WORKERS HERE JOBLESS WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.— How the failure of the American government to recognize Russia is hurting American trade is once more indicated in Commerce Reports, official publication of the department of commerce, in which the chief of the hide and leather division of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce says, concerning Russian foreign purchases: “Purchases abroad of 3,000,000 feet of chrome and kid leather have just been completed by the Russian state trading — This was a gov- ernment order, placed to cover the needs of the leather syndicate, These purchases were: Germany, 200,000 feet of chrome and 150,000 feet of colored kid; France, 400,000 feet of kid; the United States, 450,000 feet of kid. Part of these orders had already been received and the re- mainder is en route. Terms of four to five. months without intreest were obtained from the firms making the sales, A contract has also been made for delivery. of 3,600,000 pounds of sole leather from a leather factory in Lithuania in a year’s time.“ Huge Contracts in Sweden. In the same issue, A. E. Fenselau, clerk to the American commercial attache at Copenhagen, reports: “Eight. machine-building plants in Sweden are engaged in executing Russian contracts for machinery, four of which will employ about 1,560 work- ers on these Russian orders and four others 200 hands until the end of the year. Three plants in addition to the eight mentioned recommenced opera- pont during the second quarter of Germany, France, Sweden and Lith- uania all have full diplomatic relations with Russia. Unemployment Increased. Meanwhile the Federal Reserve Bul- letin for July, 1924, has declared that production of basic commodities in | the United States was lower in May, 1924, than for May, 1923; that factory employment fell 4 per cent in May, and that “the largest reduction of working forces occurred in the textile, metal, automobile and leather in- dustries.” Without diplomatic relations, Amer- ican exporters of machinery, leather and other goods needed by Russia are compelled to face special difficulties as to credits, insurance, ship papers, inspection of goods, etc., or to cut prices to cover the cost of this extra work if it is done by the Russian gov- ernment trading corporation. WANTED A few coples of The Weekly Worker for April 7, 1923. Addrees, Hammers- mark, o. o. The DAILY WORKER. aii 9 ~~ THE WORLD’S Pp BITTERS health In a few days. below. — — — — — — — — — — — LIPSPY PRODUCTS co., Dept. 31, 1138 Foster Ave., Chicago, III. money. 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Instead Comrade Candella will take charge of captaining the ilth Ward, in which Comrade Victor Zokaitis is the candi- date. The Greek branch has been trans ferred to aid in the llth Ward. The Douglas Park Jewish branch has been changed from activity in the 22nd Ward to the 24th Ward, where Com- rade Epstein is the candidate and Kruse captain. ' The Mid-City English branch has been transferred to work in the 22nd Ward, where Comrade Cejka is the candidate and A, Overgaard the captain. The Hungarian branch has been transferred to aid in the 44th Ward, where Jack Johnstone is the candi- date and Walt Carmon captain. The petitions have been out already a week—which Ward is the first to fill its quota? Ward captains, bring filled out petitions to the local office as soon as you get them. Keep after the members to fill out petitions as soon as possible. WATCH THE DAILY WORKER FOR NEWS ON THE CAMPAIGN! Secret Documents Reveal White Plots Against Red Russia MOSCOW, Jan. 9. — As reported from Berlin, several German papers have published a series of secret docu- ments relative to the peace negotia- tions at Versailles, some of these in- teresting documents referring to the intervention in Soviet Russia. From the latter it appears that in the question of this intervention there was tween America and Britain on one hand and France on the other. Both George considered that intervention | tho was not possible 4 advocated ne- gotiations with the Soviet govern- ment. Winston Churchill was the on- ly English politician entirely in favor of intervention. On the French side, however, Mr. Clemenceau urged the necessity of in- tervention the most energetically and was supported in his views by Mar- shal Foch. The latter, in March, 1917, came forth with his scheme of succor- ing Poland, which was allegedly threatened by the Soviet republics. Altho the marshal’s plan was not en- dorsed by the allied supreme coun- cil, both Foch and Clemenceau per- sisted all thru the years of 1918 and 1919 in urging the necessity of a reso- lute struggle against Soviet Russia, a struggle of which the burden was to be borne by the lesser states of cen- tral and south eastern Europe, such as Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, and Rou- mania. Atlanta. Prison Warden Is Ousted On Bribery Charge BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 9.—The resigna- tion of Warden John Snook of Lem. phie county, “effective as soon as possible,” so that he may become warden of the federal prison at At. lanta, Ga. was tendered the state prison today. Warden Snook will succeed A. E. Sartain at the Atlanta prison. Sar tain is under indictment, returned fol- lowing an investigation of charges that he had accepted bribes for “soft berths” to prisoners. Labor and Women Co.operate. SEATTLE.—The Washington State Federation of Labor and the women’s organizations of the state are the prin- cipal factors in nailing the lies issued against the child labor amendment by those employers and other interests who don’t want the state legislature to ratify it. Patronize our advertisers. FOR RENT. Large room for two people; all modern conveniences. Comrade Cohen, 3244 W. Le Moyne Street Furnishings LADIES’ MEN'S INFANTS’ Trade Where Your Money Buys the Most a Martin’s 651 West North Avenue East of Halsted St. ———— originally a big difference be- President Wilson and Premier Lioyd f une : were being underpaid. ci 6 Co- operative ‘WASHINGTON, p. C., Jan. 9.—The preliminaries to a libel suit against Henry Ford have been completed by Aaron who is asking the bank- ers to control the co-operative market- ing organisations, charging Ford with libelous statements in the Dearborn with acy,” Julius —.— Otto H. Kahn, Al- bert D. Lasker, and other bankers, to gain control ot agriculture. According to the formal document which Sapiro has sent Ford, announc- ing his intention of sueing for libel, Ford said, “This whole Kahn-Baruch- Lasker-Rosenwald-Sapiro program is carefully plann ed to turn over to an organized international interest the entire agricultural industry of the re- public. Between the lines one reads the story of the Jewish Communistic movement in America, which seeks to make the United States what it has already made of Russia.” The national council of farmers’ co-operatives is controlled by these bankers, Who keep in close touch with President Coolidge. It was formed in an attempt to eradicate radical ideas from the brains of the farmers. In line with its program of sabotag- ing all attempts of the farmers to se- cure legislation to better their bank- rupt condition, the “co-operative coun- cil,” meeting in Washington, went on record as Opposing government aid for co-operatives, declaring it “unwise to stimulate artificially such organiza- tions by any sort of governmental aid, special favoritism or subsidy.” This resolution follows out the wishes of Coolidge, @xpressed in a speech at the opening of the convention of the bo- gus tive association. Cool- idge said at that time he would op- pose legislation to aid the farmers. The council is entirely reactionary in A judge—Robert Bing- ham of Louisville, was re-elected chairman of the council. One of the members of the executive committee is former Governor Lowden of Illinois, who pretends to be a farmer, but who does the dirty work of Wall Street in agricultural circles, and who is con- nected with several of the largest corporations in America, including the Pullman 2. company, in which he : The council co- N | do 1 rupt tarmers. W nage . Dis iy in See in Strike SYDNBY, Australia, Jan, 9.— The waterside workers’ strike thruout Australia defies all efforts to secure a settlement. The men are displaying great solidarity and have the support of other unions. At all ports the waterside workers refuse to work on any oversea vessels the cargoes of which have been handled by men employed by the non- union labor bureau of the Oversea Shipping companies at Sydney—a bureau established to try and intro- duce the open shop policy on the Australian waterfront. Vessels loaded by men from the bureau are forced to lay up or leave Australia without cargoes. As the non-union labor bureau is established only at Sydney (all other states being under labor rule) there is no trouble in the other ports ex- cept that unionists will not touch non- union work. The following unions are likely to be also involved in the dispute, cart ers and drivers, motor transport workers, railway workers, seamen, engineers and firemen, ships’ painters, marine cooks, bakers and butchers, and dockers. Negotiations are now taking place union labor in Australia will be boy- cotted on arrival in Great Britain. Burn Girls’ Time Cards to Dodge the Minimum Wage Law TORONTO, Jan. 9.— The changing and theft of employes’ time cards fig- ured in the evidence given before the minimum wage board that the Wil- lards Chocolates, Ltd., had violated the minimum wage law. This is the firm against which the Toronto Trade and Labor Council made charges. The name was kept secret until just lately. Cyril Johnson, former timekeeper, swore that his immediate superior, J. A. Gratton, had ordered him to change the dates on the time cards of cer- tain girl employes to prevent inspec- tors .from finding out that the girls He testified that the girls were being underpaid. He testified that to cover up the al- terations he had been told to make out new cards for all the girl em- ployes and to throw the old cards in- to the furnace. The latter part of his instructions had not been, carried out and “someone” stole those old cards. ,finished, it came out that the com- pany's paysheets for four months : During the hearing, which is not yet LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL ISSUES FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND CALLS FOR FUNDS FOR NEW LEGAL BATTLE in September, 1922. viction. After a year and a half the The great, aggressive defense fight for the Michigan Communists started Hundreds of thousands of pieces of printed matter, publicity, leaflets, pamphlets, folders, etc. were spread far and wide. Workers’ organizations, unions, fraternal organizations, Communists and sympathizers, believers in free speech for workers, were rallied all over the country, and contributed to the work of the Labor Defense Council. An enormous legal battle was waged. The Foster jury disagreed in the spring of 1923, but the prosecution oiled the machinery for Ruthenberg's con- Michigan Supreme Court upheld the conviction, and the prosecution of the speeded up. The law is ignored, the courts show their capitalist colors once again. A whole organization—the Workers (Communist) Party is in danger since 32 of its leaders are menaced. Thousands of dollars are needed im- mediately for the Ruthenberg appeal to the United States supreme court, for the Minor trial and those that will follow. In addition to the legal fight, the cases must receive the widest publicity, the facts must be spread broadcast so that all workers and their organizations will know that THEIR CAUSE is the cause of these Workers (Communist) Party defendants, and will unite in a mags protest and de- mand for their freedom. The Labor Defense Council appeals to all workers to give generously, with- out stint, NOW, in the new emergency. Let funds pour in as in 1922-23. The need is very great. The money is care- fully and economically raised and used. From the beginning in 1922 up to Jan. 1, 1925, the total amount raised was $137,787.14, the total used for direct defense expenses—attorney’s fee and expenses, printing of briefs and records and other legal expenses was $87,456.62. Other expenses, ad- ministrative and for the collection of funds was $50,146.00. This latter sum, about 35 percent covers the entire cost of printing, publicity, leaflets, folders, pamphlets, advertising, etc. as well as rent, postage, circularizing, wages, etc. and is low considering the results ac- complished. The financial statement for the quarter ending Dec, 31, 1924 follows: RECEIPTS: National Defense Fund W. P. $1660.00 Chicago Branch L. D. C. 773.49 Unions and fraternal Soc. 655.24 Finnish Federation 504.89 South Slavic Organizations 433,37 Individuals 427.43 Buttons, coupons and lists 210.50 Interest on Bonds—deposited as bail | 233.74 W. P. branches & L. D. 0. Locals 111.57 23 Balance, Sept 30, 1924 944.94 $5945.17 DISBURSEMENTS: Collection of Funds—Printing, postage, publicity, adv. etc. $1118.79 Adm. erpenses— Rent, light, wages, phone, supplies, etc. Legal Expenses — Attorneys fees, printing of briefs, other cost Loans on Bail Security 1134.14 $008.57 450.00 — — $5711.50 Balance Dec. 31, 1924 233.67 $5945.17 Fraternally submitted, George Maurer, Sec'y. Res. 1632 8. Trumbull Ave. Phone Rockwell 5050 MORDECAI SHULMAN ATTORNEY-AT-Law 701 Asaociation Building 19 8. La Salle Street CHICAGO Dearborn 8657 Central 4946-4947 | JULIN’S SHOE STORE AND REPAIR SHOP 3224 W. North Avenue Phone Belmont 2713 Chicago whereby any vessel loaded by non- | George E. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln 8 One-half si — Imperial | a | CHICAGO Michigan cases has been revived and Dr S ZIMMERMAN DEN I sT Ie I. ORNIA AVE Phone ARMITA AGE 1466 MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray Prices * to Qas Workers Qiven ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination le Free My Prices Are Reasonable : My Work is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY e N — — . rr e ͥ¶ Urges Trade with Turkey. chamber of commerce of the United States is trying to get the senate to promptly ratify the Turkish treaty, a letter sent by Richard F. Grant, president of the chamber of com- merce, shows. Grant declares that trade with Turkey is necessary if America is to get ahead of European countries who are already trading with Turkey. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 9—The| Bulld the DAILY WORKER! . * 4 * 9 g ; z — 2 eS : =. 1 — * ſchn 7 177 FOR I. W. I. MEETING AT CLEVELAND, OHIO The location of the general mem- bership meeting of all Young Work- ers League members in Cleveland has been changed. The meeting, which is of the greatest importance to every Young Workers League member in Cleveland, will be heid in Gardina Hail, 6021 St. Claim St. A member of the national executive committee of the Young Workers League will present the position of the national executive committee andany comrades representing any other viewpoint will be given equal time to present their viewpoint on the activity and policies of the league. Every member must attend this meeting or they will not be consid- ered in good standing. Admission will be by card only. “Polikushka” is coming to Gertner’s Independent Theater, Jan. 15. a= Ani ib it bhi bb ii bh bab bir AA AA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASA A LOS ANGELES INVITATION You are cordially 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, English Br., W. P. ee eee DD DD Db bb hb hb bh hb bh bb AbD DADA AA DDD ad . A ees rere Culture For the professional schools _ BAZAAR be held at Douglas Park Auditorium Corner Ogden and Kedzie Aves. FOUR DAYS——-JANUARY 22.23-24.25 Work in Russia and Ukraina, will General Admission 50c, for all four days ~~ TeTrrTefefeefeofFT,'Tpewro rr.” bh bo bh bh hb bbb bh bh bb bb AD AAA AAD DAA MADAMA AAMAAAAAAAAAAA First Class Program—including Children’s Masquerade Ball, also movie from Jewish life in Russia will be shown, Auspices, Jewish Workers’ Relief Committee. The Daily the editors. games and stunts on ~“-**e eee eeeaeesn ee ee & S&S *& & * | © tt i i ia a nn nai nn nn iin ii in ini ni i i nn iin ni in i i i i i ee ie ee Birthday Party He expects the full social privileges of a real printer. The shop nucleus has granted him permission to make his social debut. The printers also will attend and for this once only, will allow themselves to be seen with Supper Will Be Served Without Charge They will also enjoy the dancing, music, Monday Night, January 12 at IMPERIAL HALL, 2409 N. Halsted Street You can easily borrow the necessary four-bits to get in. SFVSPSEGSESTSSSESTSSSSSE ESA ASSTETSLSEHAESS ESSE ST SSE SESH SESE The Little Devil! You will hardly believe it, yet the little print- ers devil, who makes life miserable in our shop, also insists on attending first 8 Worker rr 4 rr rr naa eo eo > > > o> | ~ ~~ & *
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eee WORKER. a . —Kꝗd]— — — — — — — — — — but five upheld the sentence. It sounds like the! poor devil got a “fair and impartial” trial, but the 1 ; . ye . f Ye 5 4 LA 2 y the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, | net result is that he gets a broken neck. The “dis- Ain AI | DN CAA E A_ e eee un W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, II. senting opinion” of the four judges fail to save his 12 NN ara I — ’ cr (Phone: Munroe 4712) life. But when the postal wage bill was up in the senate, how brilliant was the example of Coolidge’s $3.50... 8 savage aim to keep the working class from getting By mail (in Chicago only one penny more of wages out of the enormous — aa — — fortunes piled up by the capitalist class of this country. He had rallied all the bloatéd, overfed and semi-moribund old senators, half of whom are al- ways absent from their benches in ordinary times, to attendance and support against the postal work- ers. Only two senators were absent on the final SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.00...8 months dorsements in Locals 390 and 337. The next Metal Trades Bulletin will deal with the election and its issues. Comrades are conducting a good fight in Local 181, Carpenters, to re instate expelled members. Barbers’ election returns not in yet. National T. U. E. L. has issued rules | CHICAGO PARTY ACTIVITIES aldermanic election, Feb. 24, was the main feature of the last city central committee meeting of the Workers Party Local Chicago. A com- ' plete report on candidates entered. wards organized for activity, petitions out was presented. The conduct, or- ganization and policy of the campaign 5 58.00 per year Adress all mail and make out checks to T DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. J Tobis ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE{ JE MEMBE nELONG NW. P. Ma sjority of Them Are Working Farmers — to The Dally Worker) — Dela Dela., Jan. 9.— Har- trom Rus- sia, where he Chicago, Ilinels old ye ss Editors i for the T. U. E. L. and how to conduct i Manager work for three years were outlined. MORITZ J. LOER. . Busimess ag — | roll call. pices of the intern Welfare as-| The election campaign will connect] the work. Material sent to all local By A. c. MILLER. Entered as second-class mall Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post. And what a lovely steering committee Calvin had. | oclation. spoke — ae a meeting of itself readily with large national ac-|sroups and branches. Study these Communist Member of the North Office at Chicago, III., under the act of March 3, 1879. . Dakota State Legislature. BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. 9.—Judging by the general make-up of the non- partisan league members in both houses of the legislature, realizing what their economic conditions are, they should all belong to the Workers (Communist) Party. All of them voted for LaFollette in the last elec- tion, thinking that he. represented their interests, while as a matter of ‘Ifact he did nothing of the kind. The business and banking interests of the state, that safely could have supported LaFolletté, on the other hand ‘voted i for Coolidge. In listening to the conversation of league members one gets the idea that they are ready to do a whole lot of injuty to the exploiters of the farmers; but whether this will mater: ialize or not remains to be seen. The compromise and political trading in the senate does not show much fight. ing ability and the agreement on com- mittee assignments is not going to be to the interest of the financial opera- tion of the state industries. The nonpartisan league has a safe workable majority in the house. The large majority of them are working farmers and they are sincere and hon- est in thetr efforts to better the eco- nomic conditions of themselves and their class. However, mere honesty the Society of Ware said that with the exception of the priests, who regarded the tractors as black magic, and bitterly 0 the bring - ing in ot this ced method of farming, they were met with the heartiest of co-operation at every place.“ The priests preached to the peasants to keep away from the trac- tors, but the peasants were quick to see the advantages to be gained and eagerly learned as much as they could about the new method in framing. Ware said: “An example of their co- operation was manifested when they first begun in the spring of 1922. At that time the Soviet government gave us a concession of three. farms in southeastern Russia, and we began work with two shifts a day of seven hours each. Being afraid to leave the machines in ther we were forced to work the entire fourteen hours ourselves. When the peasants saw that we were working the full time they immediately held a meet- ing—which is one of the best things they can do- and unanimously decid- ed that since we were there to help them and were working fourteen hours a day, they would also work the same length of time. “Their eagerness for learning is as- tonishing for people Who have been kept in ignorance for so many cen- turies. Not from the professional men did we receive so much aid as we did from the peasants, These tivities initiated by the central execu- tive committee of the Workers (Com. munist) Party, such as child labor, re- lease of class war prisoners, especial- ly in connection with the recent Ruth- enberg conviction, unemployment, abo- lition of the injunction, education, etc. Resolutions to be introduced in trade unions and other working class organ. izations in connection with the cam. paign are being prepared. Members shall be on the job in their organiza tions to put them over. This is a so-called non-partisan campaign, that is the party label does not appear. However, all candidates of the party will state the full posi. tion of the Workers (Communist) Party. The organization committee in elections will take these matters up extensively. Program for Election Adopted. A program for the election submit- ted by Comrades Swabeck, Gomez and Abern was adopted by the city central committee. This is being printed in full in the DAILY WORKER. A digest of the program will be made for wide leaflet distribution thruout the city in the shops and houses. Full details in connection with the campaign are re- ported in other columns of the /DAILY WORKER. Comrades must get on the job to put our candidates on the ballot by se- curing the necessary number of signa carefully so that you will know how to conduct your work in the trade unions. : Young Workers’ League is calling meetings of various trades in an et- fort to get all its members working in those trades and who have not as yet joined a union, to become mem- bers of trade unions and active in T. U. E. L. Branches are to make sure of taking up at every meeting the attendande of members at union and T. U. E. L. meetings. New Members Must Attend Class. City central committee adopted a motion that all new members of the party must attend two lectures on the program of the Workers Party in charge of Comrade A. Henderson, be- ginning Jan. 13 and further that no applicant shall receive his membership card unless these have been attended. 37 New Members Accepted. Thirty.seven new members were ac cepted into the party at the city cen- tral committee from the following branches and nuclei: Lake View Scandinavian 5, Czecho- Slovak Town of Lake 1. Ukrainian No. 1, 1; Lithuanian No. 2, 2; South Slavic No. 1, 2; Northwest Jewish 4, Engle- wood English 1, Douglas Park English 7. Mid-City English 3, Bulgarian 1, Czecho.Slovak No. 1, 1; South Side English 1, Finnish 4, Nucleus No. 3, 2; Senator Curtis, the senate “whip,” was every- where, working every minute right up to the roll call, urging the doddering old imbeciles to stand fast for reaction against any appeal from voters in their constituencies. They stood. In the republican cloakroom sat Secretary Weeks of the war department, to whom the hesitant and weak were brought for divine guidance. And if this were not enough, the reports tell us that “Mr. Butler of Massachusetts was always within call.” Mr. Butler, you must remember, is the president of the Textile Manufacturers Association, which is trying to force a ten per cent cut of wages upon all workers of that industry. Mr. Butler is the same multimillionaire who hired a swarm of Sher- man detectives to spy upon his mill workers in New Bedford and even to worm themselves into the unions. The Mr. Butler who did both of these things and who was “always within Fall“ to help crush the postal workers’ wage demand, is the same Mr. Butler who was the campaign manager for Coolidge. | The gang was all there. And such a precious gang it was. If only the postal and Other workers would elect a real Communist into that assembly of senile corporation lawyers we would guarantee, not a successful wage raise, but a thoro exposure of the most reactionary gang of capitalist hench- men who ever gathered in any parliament in the world. | Advertising rates op application Honor the Spartacists The Communists of America are honoring on this Sunday the memory of Karl Liebknecht and of his comrade in life and death, Rosa Luxemburg, both lion-hearted leaders of the Spartacus Bund, which carried on the spearheads of its few but valiant lances the star of proletarian revolution thru the midnight of confusion and betrayal, into which the German working class was plunged by traitorous social-democrats at the end of the world war. These traitors, who have fathomed the nether- most depths of political and ethical decadence and counter-revolution, on Jaunary 15, 1919, jointly with monarchist officers who acted under their orders, murdered in the most cowardly and ghastly brutal fashion Liebknecht and Luxemburg, while they were formally under arrest, helpless, unarmed and cut off from their comrades. Karl Liebknecht! How your name rang the whole world around in those days after August 4, 1914! Son of a fighting sire, old Wilhelm Lieb- knecht, comrade.and friend of Marx, even your training of years, to abide by the unit rule in the parliamentary bloc, and the fact that you stood alone against the whole fraction of 110 deputies | 290 4 tures. Lithuanian No. 5, 1: Polish North and sinberity will not save us from of the social-democratie party in the reichstag of * a — Industrial Activity Noted. Side 1. our exploiters if we employ the the kaiser, could not keep you, after the surprise The C hicago Elections selves to meek ae | Comrade Bell reported on the‘indus.| Shop Nucleus No, 6 made up of rail-|wrong principles and tactics. It is of the first vote on war credits, from crying out above the tempest: “The workers have no Father- land, and no enemy but capitalism!“ In the reichstag Karl Liebknecht launched a daring crusade against the imperialist war. His speeches, protected by parliamentary immunity, rang out around the world, and in the armies of France—Germany’s lengendary foe—the conscripts murmured his name in veneration of that power tions. So that the nine candidates endorsed by which they instinctively knew was the only power the Workers (Communist) Party are, before the to save their class from world slaughter—the law, partyless. power of the social revolution. And under many a] But when you read the program upon which “spiked German helmet Liebknecht was a name the candidates are running you will discover that loved but forbidden. each and every one is a Communist. When expelled for violating the decision of the] The democratic and republican aldermanic can- traitorous social-democratic party to support the didates are raising issues. They are the usual war, he answered: Mightier ties of discipline bind municipal issues concerning schools, traction, me—those of international solidarity.” building, ete. They are issues that are almost in- When the kaiser conscripted him and sent him to variably forgotten outside election time. They serve on the eastern front, he addressed a tremen- are raised primarily to give the two old fake par- dous crowd in Berlin on May Day, 1916, and open- ties something to fight with each other about. ly called for armed revolt. A sentence of four years; The platform of the Communist candidates has followed his immediate arrest. (How light the something to say about these issues also. It has kaiser was beside the savage sentence given Ruthen- very important things to say about every phase of berg by American “democracy”. ) municipal life. It says things that the other parties But the wave of revolution which he had un-| would not and cannot say. The Cémmunist candi- chained, released Liebknecht in October, 1918, and dates don’t look upon these issues as merely con- he at once took the fighting position of the Com- | venient grounds upon which to disagree with po- munist guided minority who, recalling the memory litical opponents. Nor do they merely take a of the great gladiator that led the mutiny against negative stand because these issues have ‘been Rome, termed themselves Spartacists and began raised by capitalist parties. an armed struggle against the class collaboration-| They say that the problems of schools, traction, ists of the social-democracy who turned the infant unemployment and building vitally concern the trial activity pointing out that the left wing had made excellent gains in the recent elections in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and were crystalliz road workers organized. Red revel committee on the job for Feb. 28. Comrades will have to be very much on the job now in Labor’ Defense Council activities in view of the con- viction of Comrade Ruthenberg. Lenin’ memorial meeting, Wednes- day, Jan. 21, 8 p. m. in Ashland Au- ditorium. Tickets have been sent te all active comrades. Date of next city. central committee will be an. nounced later, inasmuch as the Lenin memorial meeting falls on the night of the city central committee meeting . has for that reason been called 0 — There is good progress being made in every field in the party. United ef- forts of the comrades will bring even better results. On with the job of Bolshevizing the party and building a mass Communist Party. Martin Abern, Secretary. the private business system that is faulty and we must educate and or. ganize to do away with it and estab- lish the farmers’ and workers’ system. Bills and resolutions of a working 4 class character that really mean some- thing, like the recognition of Soviet Russia, ratification of child labor amendment and taxing of high in- comes to pay for the education of children of workers and poor farm- ers, the levying of a hail tax of all till. able land in the state, should receive the enthusiastic and whole-hearted support of all farmer members of the legislature. “As our work kept us largely in the small farming villages of southeast- ern Russia, we had little to see wins Cane ob Le whee ing left wing forces. A left wing slat« we visited Moscow in the fall, we of International Ladies’ Garment found the warmest welcome awaiting | Workers’ Union, was thrown out by us. The people there seemed to re-|reactionaries. A campaign is being gard us as living gods who were prov- | initiated by our comrades in this con- ing a salvation to them from the fam-|nection. Building Laborers are issu- ine that strikes them every seven |ing a leaflet in conjunction with their years.” industry. (Building Trades group meets every first Sunday of month at Ku Klux Klan l. 722 Blue Island Ave.) Strong in Indiana 6 Nee State Legislature WORKER). They have gotten en. Pittsburgh Jewish Branch Unanimous For Majority Theses The Workers (Communist) Party has entered the local aldermanic elections in Chicago. The law says the candidates must be non-partisan. Like the primary law this provision is another one of those typically American political pretensions calculated to fool the massés into the notion they have dem- ocratic control over “their” governmental institu- Flying Lieutenant in Court, NEW YORK, Jan. 9.— Lieutenant James Hutchinson, of the army air service, went on trial today by gen- eral court martial, charged ;with flying a plane so low over Broadway that passing pedestrians were terrified. The trial is being conducted at Gov- ernor’s Island. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Jan. 9— The ku klux klan candidate for speaker of the Indiana lower house, George W. Free- man of Kokomo, was defeated by Harry G. Leslie of Otterbein here to day. The klan candidate ran strong PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 9.—The| Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- and had more votes than James Jewish branch of the Workers Party] day Night, the Open Forum. Knapp, of Hagerstown. of Pittsburgh, Pa. at its last meeting N The ku klux klan will have much voted unanimously for the majority to say in the making of Indiana’s laws thesis of the C. E. C. This branch is during the term of governor-electione of the most active branches of Jackson, the strength showed by the the party, and last year was very ac. klan in the election of speaker re tive in the farmer-labor movement. veals. The branch was well represented at the general membership meeting on Jan. 4 and helped swell the votes of the majority. The membership of the branch is about 100. The members of the branch were pleased with the discus- sion held last Sunday by Comrades Bittleman and Bedacht. Bosses Defy Night Work Ban PASSAIC, N. J., Jan. 9—Reports made to the New Jersey commissioner of labor show that four woolen man- ufacturers are defying the law against night laor for women between 10 p. m. and 6 p. m., which went into effect Jan. 1. —— — N. T. JUNIORS HOLD MEMBERSHIP MEETING DISCUSSING PAST WORK Soviets into the paralyzing substitute Betriebs- raete. working class of Chicago. And they have taken a stand on every point raised in the campaign. The defiant manufacturers are the Botany Worsted. Mills, Forst- mass & Huffmann Co; Gera Mills, Verona South-Slavic AND MAKING PLANS FOR THE FULURE Liebknecht—and Luxemburg—was again ar- rested and lodged in a military prison in the west end of Berlin. On January 15, 1919, they were or- dered transferred by motor car, under guard, to the Moabit prison, but on the road they were brutally murdered by their guards in a lonely spot in the Tiergarten. The socialists have seen that the assassins escaped with a light term in jail. Liebknecht is dead, but in the coming German revo- lution the workers will fight for power with his name upon their lips. The Gang Was All There In what was admitted to be the first test of strength for Coolidge since the election, the strike- breaker administration won its fight to prevent the postal workers from getting a decent wage. Silent Cal is letting it be known in deeds, not words, that (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 9.—The Junior Section of the Young Workers League here held a general membership meeting at the headquarters of the John Reed (Downtown) group, 105 Eldridge street. In spite of the bad weather and the insufficiency of the preparation, more than 160 juniors were present at this meéting which represents about 25 to 30 per cent of our membership. The meeting was opened by Comrade Morris Spector, the city organizer of the Junior Section, and the greetings of the D. E. C. and of the leaders’ committee were presented by Com rade Anna Thompson, the district junior director. Comrade Martin Gross of the Red Guard (Williams- burg) group was elected chairman and Esther Gross (of the same group) the city secretary, remained secretary for the meeting. The general report for the junior scetion of New York was given by ihe city organizer, Morris Spector of the Foster (Brownsville) group. He gave a general review of the work of They say that the city shall take over all trans- portation lines with workers’ control. They say that the administration of school affairs shall be conducted by joint councils of teachers, parents and students. They say that the “Chicago Beanuti-; ful Plan” shall be turned into a plan to make homes for workers. They not only say what to do on all local questions, but they point out as well how it can be done. The Communist aldermanic candidates in Chi. cago have a practical program. It is a practical! program because it is based on the coming to power of the working class. It is, thruout, a working class platform for which every worker can vote without fear of being either reformistic or pre- posterous. It is a Communist program. members of the Industrial Council of Passaic Wool Manufacturers. The mill owners are acting on ad- vice of counsel, it is said. They de- clare the law against night work for men “unconstitutional. Branch Is Unanimous For Minority Theses VERONA, Pa., Jan. 9.—The South Slavic branch of Verona at its last meeting thoroly discussed the theses of the majority and minority in the party discussion by first listening to a speaker from each ‘by N. then fol- Chauffeurs Sign Agreement. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 9. — The St. Louis taxicab drivers gained two ex- tra days a month off in their new igreement. The regular scale of wag- 2s of $28.50 remain altho they de- nanded a raise to $32.50 and the own- rs threatened to cut their wages to $25. These chauffeurs are 100 per cent unionized with more than 110 mem- bers. This is one of the few cities in the country where the Yellow cabs were forced to recognize the union. lowing by discussion by member ship. It was then take to a vote which resulted in unanimous support = pe minority theses. Chicago Comrades Attention. All comrades and friends are invited to the concert given at the Freiheit Singing Society Hall, 3837 Roosevelt Road, on Saturday evening, Jan. 17 A good musical program has been pre- pared. un the Liebknecht memorial meeting. The meeting finally adjourned at 6:15 D. m., with the general feeling that a strongly-knit city organization of the uniors was already in existence and functioning. The following resolution was passed unanimously, Jan. 3, 1925: Whereas, the report of our city or- ganizer has shown that the further de- velopment of our existing groups and Warren S. Stone, president of the Brotherhood Who Will Win? of Locomotive Engineers, manager of the Coal Of course, the postal workers are still too timid and bound to a tradition of servility to take a see what would happen to the sacred cow of “busi- ness interests.” The darned critter would, we imagine, wrinkle up and die. But they ought, at least, to have an eve open as to who are the enemies of the workers. If the postal workers—or the workers generally —for exmaple, will survey the whole capitalist system with an analytical gaze, they would see that they are foolish to depend upon anything but strike vote and let the autocrat in the White House | ‘employes of his scab coal properties that they must immediately vacate the houses they occupy in Boone county, West Va. “Progressive” reporters in Cleveland, attached to Stone’s payroll, but “in fluenced” by filthy lucre, might find something to report in this. The Russian workers would not object to Ford ‘sending a fleet of flivvers over there provided they did not carry a human cargo. Fertilizer is by no ‘means the scarcest commodity in Russia. White guards may be valuable where lots of dung is Negroes organized a colored branch and named it the Paramount Progres- sive Order of the Moose. This brought a temporary restraining order against the "Negroes by the whites’ Order of the Moose. St. Louis is heavjly popu- lated by Negroes, many of whom are on the police force, in the fire depart- ment and mail service. The outcome of this is being watched here. Millions in Profits for Packers. Swift and company, meat packers, took in $14,125,987.74 in net profits after paying off interest and deprecia- -— — ef emphatic will play. The concert and dance will be held under the auspices of the local Jewish propaganda committee of the Young Workers’ League. Argue Dictatorship in Labor Temple. TORONTO.—J. W. Buckley, repre- |‘ sentative of the American Federation of Labor, is not in favor of the dicta- torship of the proletariat. pressed himself at a meeting in the Toronto labor temple and this brot interruptions from many present. The meeting was He so ex- dissent school struggle, complained of our low literature sales and our laxity in dues payment, and finally presented a sketch of the work in the future, go- ing into some detail on the matter of new groups to be organized. The dis- cussion on the organizers’ report was lively, resolving itself finally into a spirited debate on the question of further organization. The report was finally refefred to the C. C. C. of the junior section and to the leaders’ committee for action. Reports were then presented on school work and school units, on the ST. LOUIS, Jan. 9=-Negroes werf] Dancing will follow the musical the past few months, emphasized the the organization of new groups in the he regards his election as a mandate to crush labor | Rivers Collieries and editor of the Locomotive En-] denied membership here in the Order program from 11 to 1 o'clock. The dnecessity for more school work and — ere 3 re 1 into serfdom if the power of government can do it. gineers' Journal, has served notice on the former of the Moose. A group of St. Louis voung Workers’ League orchestra tor a greater participation in the 0 are going to o tain from the F. W. L. and the W. P. in the matter of providing us with leaders and other comrades to help us in our work, therefore, Be It Resolved, that we make this special appeal to the members of the Y. W. L.—especially to the members of the English-speaking branches—to pay attention to junior work; to or- ganize their junior committees; to aid in every way the junior leaders in their section; and finally and most im- portant, to see to it that at least two or three comrades of each branch take up junior work as their major activ- under the auspices of the Canadian labor party. tion, the financial statement submit- ted to the 40th annual meeting of shareholders show. The surplus pro- fits were listed at $2,125,987.74, as compared to $6%,973,827.36, the previ- ous year. ity, and become junior leaders. A copy of this resolution to be sent to the Freiheit, the Young Worker, the Young Comrade, the DAILY WORK- ER, and te the D. E. C. of the F. W. L., district two, for transmission to the branches. Morris Spector, City Organizer, Esther Gross, City Secretary. their own organized power to get decent treatment | needed. out of a government which is but the executive committee of the whole ruling class. Losing their case by one vote has a suspécious air about it. It is like a man sentenced to be hanged and who upon appeal, is told that out of the nine judges of the supreme court, four were willing to let him live, installation of the proposed prefec- ture system, and finally on the pro- gram and arrangements for Lieb- knecht day. The latter part of the meeting was taken up with the final preparations, under the supervision of Comrade Miriam Silverfarb, leader of the Trotsky (lower Bronx) group, for the participation of the junior section The American ail is now worth only 58 cents, taking the 1913 dollar as a standard, according to the results of a survey made by the chief statis- ‘ician of the International Typographical Union. Why call it a dollar any longer? Approve Big Chicago Budget. The city council finance committee approved a budget of $45,600,000 for this year’s corporate purposes, at a session early today. Last year’s ap- propriation was $46,172,708. “In Memoriam—Lenin” to be shown Jan. 15 at Gartner's Theater. 5 1 N > Seg „ ; ) — — — a a — te — — 5
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8 ey - — „ > So 1 ‘ * 1 1 1 ae 2 are ae 2 aie: Pe . a Ay N mg 2 tai . 5 om „„ 7 * 2 — e. f * = phe a *. 5 75 re wie» \ 4 7 5 e Se ee se “SECOND SECTION _ ‘Thin magazine supple- ment will appear every Saturday in The Daily * Worker. a 8 1 * 0 2 . 4 * 8 . : 7 eh. » a 4 2~ er. ¥ 75 thee ae n * ae . . ' —_ » > . : 7 * 8 a en * 4 17 N = 4 0 ty 4 5 + f — — — ets .? + + oe i * * = . * 4 ‘ : 14 sy . : N es 7 . 5 . * 2 Ar. 8 ca ; » 1 At: iv 2 “tS . Ay ~ ™ —_— . ein he ; ye & 504 * 6 329 Pete | CR 4 . 9 * n 8 hay ‘ a Y Ad „ 7 eT 9 7 7 0 1 “ee E. 5 a. . “ - - ss 7 - * — 41 5 — ‘Mistake at * Time. i 15 (uh , ge : val book “1905,” attempted “to at- if f Regarding Brest and the „ ö s of Opinion in October whatever to a “right” wing. For myself, I endeavored more than re once, before the party and before the Comrade] whole Comintern, to deal with my er- a : . ror. I spoke of it, for example at the had already in 1922 opening of the Fourth World Congress of the Comintern, which took place something by allusions.” 80 on the fourth anniversary be October, Comrade Lenin held the as follows: in his hand, Comrade Trotsky N decided not to undertake a direct at- a personal matter. tack. Comrade Trotsky has now ob- that I, particularly now on the fourth viously decided that “the moment has anniversary of the According to all the rules called upon to say that which I am of strategy, before one strikes the about to say. arrived.“ You are aware com- decisive blow, one must prepare the rades that flve years ago I, along with way by artillery fire. The attack upon the so-called right wing of Bol. mistake, which, as I believe, was the shevism is intended as a smoke-| greatest mistake I have ever made-in screen, particularly regarding the my life. At that time I failed to es- October failures of the writer of these timate correctly the whole counter- | ted a great error. This error revolutionary nature of the menshe- It is an actual fact that at the be- viki. Therein lies the nature of our ginning of November, 1917, I commit- mistake before October, 1017. Al- was though we had fought against the freely’ admitted by me and made good mensheviki for over ten years, never- in the course of a few days. As, how. theless, I, as well as many other ever, these days were not ordinary comrades, could not at the decisive ee was highly dangerous. in any event 1 will not minimize f days but very fateful days, as this moment get rid ot the idea that the was a time of extreme tension the mensheviki and social-revolutionists the Brest peace, Vladimir Hitch, as |lier occasions. To consider the writer of these lines circles of the party are aware, re- as beloning to the “right wing” of the garded these differences of opinion as Bolsheviki, is simply absurd. The i 11 in In his speech on “Trotskyism or that I, working hand in hand w ‘Letinism,” Comrade Stalin very right. Comrade Lenin in the course of near- -ly remarks that in the Sep#%&mber-Oc-|ly 20 years, never once had even a tober period as a result of a number sharp difference of opinion with him, deavored to carry out every step un- der the form of defence. be understood after all the ly shal. except ia the one case mentioned. The epoch of the years 1914-1917, from the was to commencement of the imperialist war up to the commencement of the prole- lying connected with the Kornilovjtarian revolution in our country, was period. I, who at that time, was liv- a not unimportant epoch. Precisely in ing illegally, fell a victim to my fail- these years there took place the de- ure precisely owing to this peculiarity |cisive regrouping in the camp of the international labor movement. The When Comrade Lenin reverted to books “Socialism and War“ (1915) and our error, three years after it had] Against the Stream” deen committeg, he wrote as follows: “Immediately before the October are sufficient witness that during that time I in no way came forward as representative revolution, and soon afterwards, a ſot a right wing of bolshevism. Russia committed errors, of which importance of which Comrade 'f 2 misrepresents, I had not the smallest At the April conference of 1917, the {difference of opinion with Comrade except on a special occasion, to reter Lenin. In the dispute between Com- to such errors, which have been com- rade Trotsky on the one side and showed | comrades Kamenev, Nogin and Rykov hesitations in the period in question/on the other side, I was wholly on the side of Comrade Lenin, as was to be in iki would isolate themselves and un- seen from a number of my reports dertake too great a risk in holding and speeches at the April conference. section The whole dispute was y con- the social |fined within the limits of bolshevism The conflict went so|—as Comrade Lenin and the party far that the comrades in question, as regarded it—and only under the pen as a demonstration, resined from all of Comrade Trotsky does it assume ts, both in the party the form of a struggle of a “right the greatest joy | wing” against the party. Not the least differences of opinion most bit-| occured between myself and Comrade ter polemics in the press on the part Lenin during and after the July days. all these comrades perceivéd their C. of our party against those We had the opportunity to test this And after some at our leisure in the course of severat ks, at the most after some months, weeks as long as I lived together with Viadimir flyitch in hiding. The first some other comrades, made a great after the article of Comrade Lenin „on Compromises.” (in this article Lenin proposes, under certain condi- tions, an agreement with the men- sheviki and the social revolutionists.) My error consisted in the fact that I endeavored to continue the line of the article “On Compromiscs” some days later. In all only a few days, but the days at that time counted as months. In the famous sitting of the Central Committee of the 10th of October, at which the revolt was decided on, and at which for the first time differences of opinion regarding the time to be fixed for the revolt and as to judging the prospects in the Constitutional As- sembly arose between me and Kamen- ev on the one side and the rest of the members of the C. C. on the other side, the first political bureau of the C. C. for the leadership of the revolt was created. The seven following comrades were elected to this political bureau: Lenin, Zinoviev, Kameney, Trotsky, Stalin, Sokolnikov and Bub- nov. In the no less important joint meeting of the Central Committee and a number of Petrograd funtionaries on the 16th of October, after the debates ‘between Comrade Lenin and our- ’i selves, 19 votes were cast for the motion of Comrade Lenin in its final. 2 2 were against and 4 neutral; my motion was introduced by | five days before meeting our comrades. and before discussion we must not ar- Tange any revolt.” My written motion, which was submitted to the vote at this meeting, read: “Without post- poning the measures for investigation land preparation, it is decided that no action be permitted before consulta- tion with the bolshevist section of the Soviet congress.” It was at this time that Comfade Lenin wrote his famous articles against us. I continued to work dili- gently for the Pravda. When the action was finally decided on, in order to silence the exaggerated rumours which had appeared in the press re- garding our differences I wrote a short letter to the editor which was pub- lished by the central organ with a comment of the editor that the dis- pute was ended and that in essentials’ we were and remained of one mind. (“Pravda,” 21st November, 1917.) The unsigned leading article which appeared in our central organ Ra- botshi Put” (The Path of the Work- ers), which appeared in place of Pravada, om the day of the revolt October 25, was written by me. The second article was likewise written by me and was signed by me. In this k¥ last article we read: “It is a great task which confronts the second Soviet congress. The events of history are followed each other with breathless speed. The fina! hour is approaching. The least further hesitation brings the „danger of im- mediate collapse. . “The last hopes for @ peaceful solu- tion of the crisis are past. The last peaceful hopes which—I must confess | —up to the last days were cherished by the writer of these lines have been dispelled by facts.” “All Power to the Soviets.—It is here that everything is being concentrated at the present historical moment.” In the number of our central organ “Rabotshi Put” which appeared on October 26, a short report was pub- lished of my first speech after the period of illegality in the sitting of the Petrograd Soviet of October 25, the day of the revolt. Here we read as 2 Volodarsky as an amend- po ment to the motion of Comrade Lenin. |My amendment read that “in the next Vi on? By C. Zinovieo * Speech of Zinoviev. “Comrades, we are now in the per- iod of revolt. I believe however that no doubt can exist regarding the out- come of the revolt—we shall be vic torious! “I am convinced that the overwhel- ming portion of the peasantry will come over to our side as soon as they become acqainted with our proposals regarding the land question. Long live the social revolution which is now beginning. Long live the Petrograd working class who still achieve the final victory! “Today we have paid our debt to the international proletariat and delivered a terrible blow to the war, a blow at the breast of all imperialists, the greatest blow at the breast of the hangman Wilhelm. Down with the war: Long live in- ternational peace!” Sharp differences arose in our circle again in the first days of November (according to old calendar) at the mo- ment when the right social-revolution- ists and mensheviki were already shattered and when it was the ques- tion whether we would not succeed in bringing over the left social-revolu- . tionists and the best section of the mensheviki to the side of the Soviet I In these days I had to take part with other comrades in the fa- power. mous peaetintions: with the then. exiet- executive committee of the workers’ and peasants’ councils. These differ-: ences lasted actuaily from two to three days, but during this time they were e) ingly heated. On the 2nd of November, 1917, the central committee of our party, in the presence of Comrade Lenin, adopted a resolution which, ** other things, stated: “The central 3 confirms that, without having exciuded anybody from the Second Soviet Congress it is even now fully prepared to note the return of the Soviet members who have resigned (as is known the right social-revolutiohists and the menshe- viki withdrew from the Second Soviet Congress) and to recognize the coali- tion with those whe have withdrawn from the Soviets, that therefore the assertions that the Bolsheviki will not share power with anybody are abso- lutely devoid of all foundation. “The central committee confirms that on the day of the formation of the present government, a few hours be- fore its formation, it invited to its session three representatives of the left social-revolutionists and formally invited them to participate in the gov- ernment, The refusal of the left so- vial-revolutionists, even tho it was only limited to a certain time and subject to certain conditions, places on them the full responsibility for the agreement not being arrived at.”— (Pravda, No. 180 v. 4-17 Nov., 1917.) This paragraph of the resolution, 4 which was doubtless written by Com- rade Lenin, must be specially noted by the reader in order the better to understand that which follows: In the Pravda (the central organ of our party was on the 30th of Octo- ber again named the Pravda),. we read in No. 189 of Nov. 4 the following extract from my speech which I de- livered at the session of the central executive committee of the social- revolutionists and of the social-demo- crats on Nov. 2, 1917: “In the name of the central com- mittee of the Russian social-demo- cratic labor party (at that time our (Continued on page 6) — ee — = „ : 1
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oi yor Bk « 2 — — * (concluded trom last Saturday) Relations Between Workers and 5 i 1 i i Ht 7 i J att ES l 782 a 15 211 BE: 248 ul 3 a ; f i | , 3 2 f congress finds itself in a situation that is new to some extent. “Jealousy” of the Workers. We observe a certain kind of rich peasants who are interested in stirring up hatred for the workers among the peasants. We have in our country two classes, or perhaps two classes plus an ap- pendix, a fraction. This appendix consists of the remnants of the old bourgeoisie, of the embryonic new city bourgeoisie, of a part of the bour- geois intelligencia, who hate us organ- ically. Of course, this semi-class is discontented, it is jealous of the workers and of the Soviet power, but they are of no danger. We do not have to worry about them. They will wait as long as necessary. The difficulties do not lie here, but in the inter-relat{pns of the two main classes, the working class and the peasantry. Here the least friction of one degree might give us a big deflec- tion, and here you must keep your eyes wide open. We must remember this sentiment of the peasantry. Trade Unionism and the Bolshevist Attitude Towards the Village. 4 . * 4 > rs * ‘Gel eee. J te oe . 1 . e 3 3 * 5 . RE, 82 7 E 4 . m= E * > - 2 1 n * Ae re 1 Mg * 1 20 1 i ete 3 * * 7 * ~ * a. 1 i" gl 1 * — — me 8 r 6 5. 5 S ; * * — 4 5 * — * . ath a alt 5 that the eight-hour day is a luxury; chinery 5 “I work 16 hours during harvest time] Can the Congress help make any concession on this question? | along work, alongjity of labor is at its already Under no circumstances can we do so. | with work there|some positive aspects of this cam- There are questions in which we can | Stood s is questions as the paign are noticable, but there are also not give in to the prejudices of the | Organization of the civil war, just so some negative aspects. Among the peasants, for they are only prejudices, must we here, together with the ques-| negative aspects is the rigmarole and and the peasantry must grow up and tions of current trade union interests, noise about labor productivity. The understand that the eight-hour day remember the fundamental question workers quite properly nicknamed is the basis of the workers’ economy | Which is of general political import- this prattology. There was a lot of and promotes the welfare of the |22C*; how to help the village to set noise and buzzing without business- country, including also the peasants’|"P an honest, sober, cultural inex-| like advice and things were represent- welfare. There are a number of Vensive Soviet apparatus for which | ed in such a way as it the whole busi- of the backward peasantry and We spoke about this at the Thir-| Y°TKers. ; little document. prs teenth Congress of our party, We Workers’ note handed down at the the peasants, over which we must do some thinking. The first question is that of prices. Now, frequently. sepa rate groups of peasants say: “We give i 5 4 . 153 depends entirely upon us. What Sort of a Soviet Apparatus Does the Village Need? We must set up in the village a real Soviet power, an honest cultural sober Soviet power without graft, without moonshine, a power such as we now nave in the principal centers of the ‘labor movement. We did not have an easy time even in establishing it}. in these principal centers. You re- member how, two or three years ago. we had to stop our meetings by apologizing to the workers for the fact that all sorts of outcasts and adven- We must stop sbort every trade turers’ wormed themselves into our were all surprised to hear that we have more than a million trade un- ionists in the village, and I even think that this will be just as new to you as it was to us at the Thirteenth Con- The educational sugar 100,000, etc., ete., altogether, in excess ot a million trade union members in saying these things, tomorrow the entire peasantry may be saying them. | This is a question which cannot and should not be ‘by ‘that stood in the center. tion at the central committee of our of other day, and into the attention congress as ques- back out of adopt- prejudice of on this Of course it as 2 peasant why the key not so — : oe one mere shen uch. When we speak world reaction, we and should be said by us) but it must| S. 8. R. is not direct- be remembered that this question is . ‘ knocking at the door, and we cannot disregard it. It will return to us in its varied form. The peasant will put this question before us, and I think that it will be useless for us to hide our heads, we must clearly see that which is new in our political and eco- nomic fields, and remember that not] serious matter which the trade union much time is allowed us in this ques-} congress should consider precisely tion. Already at the Eleventh Con-] because we are not sectionalists. gress. of our party Vladimir Mitch told | Here is a trade union congress of Bol-. us about it. It is necessary to use all |sheviks, of Comrade Lenin’s pupils, the forces of the workers and of the] there are no narrow sectionalists party. of the trade unions and of the | here, but men who know how to fight managing boards to push this question | effectively for the needs of the work- ahead to find a satisfactory answer | ing class, who know how to be revolu- to it, to show the peasants that we tionary Bolsheviks, who are worthy| really want to meet their demands. members of the class “enforcing the 175 0 5 — ge i 5 S al significance to the workers of other countries. It is not only a ing us with the peasantry, and one 2 * — i 433 1 6 8 if 5 E HE: storehouse; you don’t find what you want, and you go to the ‘main ware- 5 2 something. This is Leningrad in the cut 4 z 2 4 F : created merely by personal intensity. Here 50 per cent depends upon the : i 1 a 12 gaa 124 f 58 2 nne * i itt house,’ the rubbish heap near Ekat- | erinin’s Park. Tou'll dig in there un- 271 | — — * — .
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knecht's voice which rang thruout S2 | class of re ing masses were | to a real- ization 11 i “In this revolt who the leaders? Who was it that issued the stirring manifestos and proclamations? drowned in blood. The leaders, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were foully murdered by the armed forces The blood of these great working class leaders together with that of thousands of other militant workers stains the hands of the German so- cialists. These leaders had dedicated their lives to the struggles of the workers against the capitalist state and had suffered many times in the prisons of Germany. If was left to the yellow social democrats to commit the crime of murdering our leaders while engaged in the valiant strug- gle to establish a workers’ govern- ment. 2 „ 8 Karl Liebknecht was well-known for his continual sruggle against the Ger- man plutocracy. Born at a time when his illustrious father, Wilhelm -Lieb- knecht, was serving time in jail for socialist agitation, Karl early became interested in the revolutionary move- ment. Early in his activities he real- ized the importance of organizing the socialist youth since he had become |. convinced of the sterility of the old line socialists and their non-revolu- tionary attitude He was instrumental in calling the first International So- cialist Youth Congress in Stutgart in 1907, which assumed a revolutionary position in opposition to the reform- istic struggles of the party. During the world war Liebknecht’s name was on the lips of every honest revolu- tionist. In the midst of the betrayal of the workers’ movement by prac- tically every leading world figure in the socialist movement it was Lieb- the world in defiance of the world war. As a result of his stirring ap- peal to the workers of Germany on May Day, 1916, Liebknecht was im- co-worker, Rosa Luxemburg. Known for years for her constant struggle against the opportunism of the lead- ers of the Second International, she 5 : 5 1 4 tation against the capitalist slaugh- ter. Early in life she was noted for her leading part in organizing the Pol- ish revolutionary party, and giving it , | | While suffer- the first blows, the rest of ardly beasts struck and shot till she was a mass of bloody Thus ended the career of Red —murdered under the socialist reign of terror against working class leaders. While the German working class 1715 Fig f at * — 2 ˙ —Å„᷑ . aes — * parted leaders. We must utilize In- ternational Liebknecht Day as an oc- casion to mobilize the masses of work- ing clase youth. Thruout America the Young Work- ers’ League has issued the call to action. In America where the youth are subjected to the most subtle prop- aganda, thru the most scientific means of dissemination, in favor of capital- ism, the Young Workers League calls upon the youth to rally around its standard on the following issues: ; ) state of all school children of workers under six- teen years of age. Six-hour day, five-day week for all youth labor with full pay. Against capitalist wars and militar- ism. Tribute to Karl Liehknecht off. We must not only mourn our de- Against the enslavement of German workers thru the Dawes’ plan. For a workers’ republic. Young workers of America, rally to the standard of the Young Workers’ League of America. Joint with us in our struggles against the capitalist class and their hirelings. Let us be determined that Liebknecht and Lux- emburg did not die in vain. We must conduct the struggle with ten times more vigor, with a determination that in our final struggle we will be victori- ous. The spirit of Liebknecht lives on. It is imbedded in every young revolationist the world over. Long live Communist Party of Ger- many. : Long live the Young Communist In- ternational. Long live the world leader of the revolutionary working class, the Com- munist International! KARL LIEBKNECHT _ Murdered by German White Guards, January 15, 1919. ROSA LUXEMBURG Letters From Moscow . 2y Anna Porte OSCCW, Nov. 8.—(By green garlands rattled down the cobbled streets, and the fire ladders 5 f : i caught in the green, leaving untouch- ed the red. Without a permit or membership in an organization, no one might enter the Red Square today, so I bethought me of an organization which was care- less in its censorshop, to which I might be said to belong by virtue of my presence in Moscow. At 9:30 a. m. I took my place in the ranks of the English-speaking section of the Immigrants’ Club. Above us advanced a cartoon of the Dawes plan, with unflattering portraits—before us a suffered temporary defeat in 1919, the — red banner announced us as Anglo- n) Saxon Communists.” ed Gertrude Haessle d little Ruth Kennell, just from Auzbas, and Anna Louise Strong— immigrants“ all. About half of us were Jews and as each contingent arrived, they were greeted with the friendly jeer, Near me march- Back on the bugle tones. And under the slogan, “Hands Off China!” marched the students of the Far Eastern Uni- versity. Looking forward and back- ward we could see no end to the lines moving steadily on in rhythmic ad- vance under the red banners of the revolution. Even the Oktyabrati“ ists,” striding valiantly, were out—truck loads of the wee ones born since Red October, lines and lines of the littl, “Lenin- and ranks and ranks of the Communist youth and tramping sturdily, and workers—men and women—and the soldiers of the Red Army, all under the red banners of the revolution. Into the Red Square we marched —over the frost of white that mot tled its cobbles, and past the tribune of e mausoleum where Trotsky istood above his sleeping comrade to see our ranks go by. Very grim he looked and motionless, with hand at awed, cap, while the crowd, not a wuuit spelled out his name and shounted as each division passed. Very determined, too, and: soldierly, and I think he saw us, in his mind, German or Russian) marching on and on, west and still west, until our ranks had doubled, tripled, swelled a hundred fold, and our feet were stayed by the Atlantic breakers. That, at least, is what te Hae” 8 4 2 “Ido for Workers” (Textbook in “An Elementary Grammar” (In English) Room 5, 805 James St., N. PITTSBURGH, PA. 8., — 1580 The Workers’ Ido Federation —
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1 *. 1 * v. 299 Z 2 8 eae ~ rf 15 > ee * eee 4 * — f 9 * 45 + : * eee ae * 1 ‘ 7 1 PM — — "a N OF MISREPRESENTATION. The Fake Child Labor Programs HE WORKERS PARTY demands th®t the emaciated anti-child labor amendment to the federal con-, stitution now before state legislatures for ratification by supplement by full governmental maintenance of all school children of workers and poor farmers. The trade union bureaucrats and liberal anti-child labor organiza- tions who are pretending to be against child labor, are on the other hand interpreting the amendment so as to make it altogether useless, John H. Walker president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, in his annual report to the state con- vention in Peoria on Sept. 8, practical- ly assures the employers that ‘they need not fear that this amendment, even if ratified by 36 states, will abol- ish child labor. “The enemies of this legislation are trying to prevent the different. states from ratifying this measure by making it appear that, if ratified, it becomes an operating part: of the constitution and, that congress will likely pass A law prohibiting any young person from working at any- thing until they are eighteen years of age,” says Walker. “THIS,SORT OF ARGUMENT IS PURELY DBMAG- OGY. IT IS THE RANKEST KIND eighteen year provision included in the amendment enables congress and the legislatures of the different states a eet 8 2 Os 7 8 N A r — — e “a . 5 2 5 phe 2 * The eleventh week of the Chicago Civic Opera company’s season brings an interesting reportoire, with a num- ber of extra matinees and special performances. On Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the second performance of Louise will be sung with Garden, Claessens, Ans- seau, Baklanoff, with Polacco con- ducting. Monday night, Samson and Delilah will be given a second performance with Homer, making her last appear- ance this season. The artists assist- Cnet fone n * ing her will be Marshall, Formichi, Oukraisky, Milles. Elisius, Milar, Nemeroff, Shermont and Corps de Ballet.. Conductor, Polacco. Tuesday night, Tales of Hoffmann will be given for the second time with Macbeth, Forrai, Ansseau, Schwarz. Conductor Lauwers. | The Wednesday matinee will be a special performance of Otello with Raisa, Perini, Marshall and Schwarz. Mornazoni will conduct. Wednesday night, Martha will be sung for the first time with Mason, Perini, Schipa and Lazzari. Moran- zoni again conducting. Thursday night, the Jongleur de Notre Dame will be given its second presentation with Garden, Cotreuil, Kipniss. Polacco conducting. Friday night the first performance of Boris. Godunoff will be given with Van Gordon, Cortis and Chaliapin. Polaceo again conducting. The Saturday matinee will be L’Amrore Dei Tre Re, The Love of Three Kings, with Garden, Ansseau, Baklanoff and Lazzari, with Polacco in the pit. Saturday night, Hansel and Gretel, at popular prices, with Orens, Derz- bach, Lenska, Swarthout, Westen and Beck, followed by the Ballet Divertiss- ment, with Frank St. Leger con- ducting. THE LITTLE DEVIL IS GOING TO GET — E Shop 8 of the DAILY WORKER has granted a special privilege to the little red printers’ devil in the shop. On Monday night at the FIRST DAILY WORKER birthday party at Imperial Hall they will allow him (at the danger of ar- rest of course) to “associate with” Communist printers. But his social debut must be made with proper de. corum (not full dress) or the printers insist he will be a poor little * at the next nucleus, meeting. This is party betause there is sida to be done that night. A newspaper will be made up and the whole DAILY WORKER staff will participate in this novel stunt that will break all established Robert's rules of order There will be other novelties, as all will admit when they hear that no party discussion will be allowed. And woe to the poor suckers who attempt will be on the job. As a free supper will be served, no points of order will be considered But it will be a classy meal the com mittee assures us. fashion. Gladys Swarthout was a good The Flaming Youth orchestra of the it—for Steve Rubicki and his Cheka * W. L. will donate their tinkling tintinabulations to secure a lively movement on the dance floor. And there will be vocal and piano solos by Margarite Lewis whose work will some day make her city-agent-hus- band the better-half of a famous woman. There are other novel stunts in store for those who will spend fifty cents to attend the party of our daily —and they will get other things be- side a free meal to take home with thenf. Comrades Natalie Gomez, and the Emma Blechschmidt form the com- mittee whom you will have to thank for the evening’s jollity, and they are arranging a treat that will make DAILY WORKER parties a by. word in the movement.“ R HA well known sisters, Gussie Kruse and GREAT WORKERS PARTY CONCERT AND DANCE ON TOMORROW, SUNDAY This Sunday, Jan. 11, the Russian and Ukrainian branches of the Workers Party will give a concert and dance at Schoenhoffen Hall, corner MilWaukee and Ashland Aves. Half of the proceeds will go for the Russian Communist daily, “Novy Mir.“ The concert promises to be an interesting one. The Ukrainian ‘workers’ chorus, a man- dolin orchestra, singers from the Russian grand opera, classic danc- ing and other numbers will be on the program. Russian and American dancing will follow the concert. Be- ginning at 4 p. m. Comrades from all nationalities are invited to enjoy a good time and help a good cause. 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- day, January 11, Northwest all, corner North and Western Aves. Auspices Y. W. L.. Local Chicago. Lenin memorial meeting—Wednes- day, Jan. 21, Ashland Auditorium, Van Buren and Ashland. Workers Party, Local Chicago. The Red Revel—Saturday, Feb. 28, West End Women’s Club Hall. “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls,” greatest mo- tion picture program, auspices of the DAILY WORKER and the Internation. al Workers’ Aid, co-operation of Work- ers Party and Labor Defense, Ashland Auditorium, Thursday, Feb. 5, continu- ous show 7 to 11, admission 50, 7,000 attendance expected, come early. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering =xpert Dental Service for 20 Years. 645 SMITHFIELD ST., Near 7th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE. Cor, Arthur St. äUAT— — 2 —ͤ LEARN ESPERANTO The international Language The following — «ts are received ree: Esperanto for All, grammar and vocabulary. Esperanto and its Critics, by Prof. Collinson. WORKERS’ ESPERANTO ASSN., 4 525 7th St. Rockford, III. Bead sek Fe bel BRE S FE Rags SEES Fier e
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_ to ‘Yanotsky’s opinion, “The workers have lost a real example of a labor leader,” was nothing but a hindrance to the emancipation of the workers. As to the question, “what the policy of the A. F. of L. is? one can answer at once, “The obtaining of increas- ing wages and reduction in the hours of labor.” But this is more of an abstract phrase than a practical aim and even if it were a practical policy, has it any real value? No! On the contrary. It is a disadvantage to those who produce all the wealth we havg, that is, “they” have, they who control the tools of production and in return give the workers just enough to keep “soul and body” together in the form known as wages. It was Gompers with the rest of his clique who was throwing sand into the eyes of the workers, to prevent them from seeing whither they were led. Gom- pers, the great “philosophic anar- “name.” carne the workers to peaceful sleep and content with the famous song, “A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s | work.” ö In my opinion Gompers and the rest of the officials of the A. F. of L., the highest as well as the lowest, were traitors to the workers and were a menace to society Yanofsky says, among other things, “With his life-work Gompers has im- mortalized his name in the history of our struggle.” Yes, Mr. Yanofsky, you are right, but let me tell you how he has “immortalized his” great Gompers was a faithful servant to the capitalist class but not to the workers. It is partly due to him that the latter are today enslav- ed and chained.. It was Gompers who knew how to tighten that chain around the neck of labor. your “philosophic anarchist” a labor leader, Mr. Y Yes, only in as “lead” la | such channels as would be of greatest benefit and profit to the employing class. Gompers’ function was always to Keep labor at the lowest possible point of economic and political con- sciousness. His death means a great loss to the master class he served. As sick as he was he went to Mexico, his nurse accompanying him. But you know, Mr. Yanofsky, as I do, that it was not for the benefit of labor that he went there. It was for the class who recently lost in him a valuable ally. The capitalist class of the United States ordered him to ac- complish a task which was very diffi- cult for him to accomplish and “the a whole. great labor * . whom in the col. umns of Justice you have so highly praised, helped with all in his power to carry the victorious banner of Wall Street into Mexico. The American ruling class is mourn- ing the loss of their lackey who to the very last minute maneuvered in the ranks of labor to please his masters. The sand, Mr. Yanofsky, you try to throw into the eyes of the workers by means of your pen is scattered by the wind. You are dealing today with a new type of a reader of Justice, one who rebels at empty phrases and searches for concrete facts, for these |] facts stare him in the face. Can an HONEST labor leader in his lifetime accumulate $30,000 and after his death be buried in a Sleepy Hollow cemetery. between Rockefeller and Carnegie? it is clear even to a child and to pine especially that Gom- pers, - “philosophic anarchist,” \who, 9 to your statement, was “a passionate lover of liberty,” liv d died for capitalism, for, were it otherwise, he would not have had the honor of being buried among. those who forged gold out of the flesh and blood of the working class. You confess that years ago you con- demned Gompers as a reactionary, as one who was holding back the forces of social revolution in America. But this, Mr. Yanofsky, was at the time when you were the editor of the Freie Ar- beiter Stimme, when you occupied a little room in a basement of an East Broadway tenement where is was cold, dark and dreary. But today as the editor of Justice, sitting in a swivel chair in the building of the I. L. G. W. U. where it is quite comfortable for officials who are nothing else but tools and screws for the capitalist machine—today, you are singing a different song. Today you see Gom- pears as “the idol, the lover of liberty, a person of sterling honesty and as a philosophic anarchist.” Mr. Yanof- sky, your work is in vain. Labor all over the world is awakening and soon will say to you and your associates of Gompersism: “Gentlemen, I defy you! For my power is growing stronger daily. In vain you are trying to curb will, From now on you will no er succeed.” sama sate. thet deep ini your heart, Mr. Yanofsky, you know it very well that all labor fakers and corrupt union officials will have to make room for the rank and file who are capable to control industry and manage their own affairs. In your eulogy ot Gompers you go so far as to say that, “we in the labor movement shall feel orphaned because of his departure.“ Some of the auto- cratic officials may feel that way but surely none of the rank and file mem- bers share this sentiment. I as one of them feel that my estimation is correct and take the liberty of telling it to you. With wrath and indignation will the tombstone and say, “Here lies one who betrayed our ancestors, it was partly due to him’ that they were plundered, outraged and disinherited.” Their cry of protest will shake the world, a protest which will-raise the battle cry, “Do with all sorts of prostitution.” All sorts, including pen prostitutes. Views of Our Readers on Many Subjects The DAILY WORKER and the Negro Workers, To the DAILY WORKER:—It is im- perative that Negroes read, subscribe to and support our Communist daily newspaper, the DAILY WORKBR. By so doing they will be helping them- selves and also aiding our paper. Ne- Fro workers suffer from discrimina- tions, petty police interferences, mob violences, which white workers do not suffer from. Therefore, Negro work. ers have extra difficulties to face on | bai the account of the color of their skins. The Negro newspapers in general, some more boldly than others, con- stantly and doggedly fight against lynchings, burnings, segregation, Jim Crowism, unwarranted police interfer- ence and other discriminations. As Communists we recognize the fact that the capitalist newspapers and other agencies are the ones be- ‘hind the scenes constantly fomenting and stirring up anti-Negro prejudices, The capitalist legislative bodies pass and put into effect discriminatory measures against Negroes. We are convinced that the only way to com- pletely eliminate the evil conditions under which Negroes suffer, is to de- stroy the capitalist system bag and baggage. The stupid and ignorant white work- ers, imbued with their unfounded prejudices against all Negroes, as 2 result of this anti-Negro propaganda, composed the mobs who attack Ne groes, and believe the vicious lies dis siminated by the capitalist agencies against Negroes to be true. Many white workers even join the anti-Ne- gro organization, the Ku Klux Klan. These white workers are badly in need of enlightment on the Negro. Our Communist paper, the DAILY WORKER, in order to enlighten these white workers and at the e time obtain Negro subscribers and readers, must constantly contain.editorials and news articles on the Negro. In this way the anti-Negro propaganda of the capitalist newspapers will be counter. acted. Already the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Daily News have ceased front paging dnd head lining crimes committed or alleged to have been committed by Negroes, as a re- sult of the merciless e expose of their policy thru the columns of the DAILY WORKER and several Negro news- papers, by one of our Negro party members. We know of a white girl, ‘who |i said that she was afraid to come inte the Negro district. No doubt that she had read these stories in the capitalis' hewspapers, of how Negro men kid- napped white girls, took them to some house in the “black belt” and there as saulted them and had other Negroes tc do likewise, and believe the lies to be true. This shows to what extent the capitalist papers will go in Negro We hope that the DAILY WORKER in the future will realize the signifi- cance of constantly publishing editor- fals and articles on the Negro, and will answer thru its columns the at- tacks made on the Negro by the cap- italist newspapers and other agencies. By so doing, Negroes will come to learn that our Communist paper is truly a champion of the Negro work- ers as well as the white workers. Yours Fraternally, Edward L. Doty, Robert J. Bowman, Norval H. Allen, Members of the South Side branch of the Workers (Communist) Party. Gunmen in Demand. Morgantown, W. Va. Editor of the DAILY WORKER:— Yes, Gompersism must be kiled as dead as Gompers is. The rank and file in and out of the unions have no con- fidence in Gompersism. The old dy. nasty must be dethroned. Keep up your drive at the A. F of L. leadership as having proved their unworthiness on many fronts. Judas was a gentle- man compared to them, Their finish is near at hand. unless they are en- dowed by an Eastman a Duke, or a Rockefeller, which would be properly in line with their methods of crush- ing the workers. The boom is on here in full blast Machine guns are in heavy demand by the open shoppers. There is not so much unemployment as one would suppose after seeing the starving min- ers around here. In fact, anyone who is willing to shoulder a gun and shoot down workers on demand is sure of getting a job. Such wonderful pros. perity must be beautiful to behold by the stock market crowd and our money kings. And so it goes from Maine to California. But Arthur Brisbane, the self-ap- — schoolmaster of the world be calm as things will be better in : few million years. It must be ni¢e tc be intelligent and civilized like Arthur Brisbane and his scientific friends— the blind slaves of capitalism. But) fondly hope they will soon relieve the most of us of our stomachs as we have little use for them in these times of high prices, low wages and unem ployment. (Signed) Henry Dondery, Morgan- town, W. Va. To the DAILY WORKER:—I have been employed by an owner of several greenhouses here, and everything went as well as might be expected when employed by a miser of a small capitalist, until this most reactionary employer of mine found out by open- ing my mail that I subscribe to the .| DAILY WORKER. Since then I have been humiliated in the most treacherous manner con- ceivable: my room searched while I was gone; all sorts of petty “jokes” (as I heard the boss call them), from setting carpet tacks into my bed clothes to setting an alarm ringing at my door while I was asleep after hav- ing fired five boilers all night. Orders were given me as if I were on board a convict ship, the last of which was a command to work days in the green- shift. It was impossible to drop off to sleep for a minute on this job be- cause the boss insisted that the tem- perature be kept fluctuating within two degrees, almost an impossibility with his small boilers and in bad condition | This last command I positively >. fused to obey and asked for my wages. He refused to pay until he had found a man in my place This is nothing new. Neither is the fact that the rest of the workers work- ing here are not class conscious and think that by sticking with the boss they will be better off. It only means that we must work harder to reach them. Wishing you the very best results in your Insurance Drive. Fraternally yours, LOUIS BOMAN, Baldwinville. Mass. is flights of imagination bids us | house after a sixteen- hour night firing Letter to Je Editor, Pravda, Moscow, Union of Soviet Republics. Dear Sir:— Russia is to be CONGRATULATED in suppressing Christianity and ALL religions. * They are ALL bad. Last Christmas the christians had a BIG celebration and stole my chickens and other things. Then when I complained to the au- thorities threatened me with $5,000.00 fine and five years imprisonment, for asking that I be protected in accord- ance with the laws of this so-called republic. Emma Goldman may think it harder in Russia than in America, but I assure the people of the Union of Soviet Republics that such is not the case. Were I master of the great Russian language, and young and healthy, I ‘would at once throw in my lot with the people of the Union of the Soviet Republics, for in Russia alone is liberty. It is only a myth in America, and no one ever got any justice in any eourt here. Today. the bleeding laborers are looking to Moscow, and not to Wash- ington, for their salvation. We are looking to Communism, and NOT christianity for our relief, and we are looking BECAUSE christianity has failed, and been proved as the foulest system of graft the world has ever known. 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St ae 8 (Continued from page 1) party was not yet a Communist Party), I declare that the comrades of the soeial-revolutionists (it was the question of the left social-revolution- ists whom the central committe of our party, with Comrade Lenin at the head, tried at that time to induce to participate in the first Soviet govern- ment) should not have started to criti- size us Bolsheviki while events were taking place in the streets of Moscow regarding which our Moscow dele- gates have reported today. (At this time the struggle for the Soviet power was still going on in Moscow.) On this occasion we remind the comrades of the social-revolutionists that before we published the composition of our government we called upon them to take part in the government, but they declared that they would take part in the work of the government, but for the time being would not enter the government.” At the session of the Petrograd Soviet of Nov. 3, 1917, the writer stated: “Comrades:—There are among us comrades from the red army, soldiers and sailors, who in a few hours will hasten to the aid of our Moscow com- .rades and brothers. (Loud and pro- longed applause.) The revolutionary military committee. wished two days ago to send help, but met with ob- stacles precisely from those quarters from which one could only have ex- pected support. I speak here of some leading circles of the railway em- ployes, who in these hours so fateful for the revolution have adopted a ‘neutral’ attitude. In these terrible hours, however, one cannot be ‘neith- er hot nor cold’—I do not wish to speak too sharply, but you yourselves will understand, comrades, how the future will judge these facts. “Just recently a transport of troops to Moscow was held up. When the leaders of the railway workers’ union were asked how they could act in this manner, they replied: We have also held up transports from the other side. “We must appeal to the lower sec- tions of the railwaymen and explain to them what ‘neutrality’ means un- der present conditions. I do not doubt that 99 per cent of the lower sections of the railway employes and workers will side with the fighting soldiers and workers. A whole number of cen- tral committees are sitting on the fence. Unfortunately, among these is the central committee of the railway workers. No one could have foreseen that the leading organ of the railway workers would preserve ‘neutrality’ whilst workers and and soldiers were fighting on the barricades. This state of affairs must be ended. The railway proletariat must stand like one man on the side of the fighting workers and soldiers, they must help them to break the resistance of the bour- geoisie and of the landowners... . “Greetings to the comrades who are hastening to the help of the revolu- tionaries in Moscow (long and stormy applause). Now we are giving back to Moscow what it gave the revolution in 1905. At that time the Moscow proletariat began the revolt, and de- livered the first blow against despot- ism. We are happy we are now able to help, that we now have the possi- bility of throwing our victorious ment. the left social-revolutionists will throw the blame for the wrecking of the un- derstanding upon the mensheviki and for refusing to enter into our govern- ment. the Comrades” was published in the Pravda (No. 183). In this letter we said: (I quote the most important part). “The central committee of the All- m t (the resolution of Nov. 3), which I fully agree with, as it demands the immediate recognition of the decrees regarding the land. peace, workers’ control, and the recognition of the Soviet power. “In reply to the resolution of the central executive committee, the men- sheviki submitted a number of pre- conditions. The central executive committee, as it did not wish to place any difficulties in the way, adopted a resolution proposed by us which re- moved the hindrances in the way of these negotiations. “In spite of this the other side would not make any concessions to the cen- tral executive committee. The condi- tions submitted by the latter were rejected by the mensheviki and the social-révolutionists. The attempt to arrive at an agreement was consist- ently carried out in spite of all ob- stacles; it led, however, to no result. It is now evident that the mensheviki and the social-revolutionists did not want an understanding and only sought for a pretext to wreck it. “Now all the workers and soldiers will know who bears the responsi- bility for the wrecking of the agree- Now—I am _ convinced—also “In the present state of affairs I adhere to the proposition of.the com- rades and withdraw my declaration regarding resignation from the central committee. ‘ “I appeal to my immediate com- rades. Comrades, we made a great sacrificee when we openly raised a protest against the majority of our central committee and demanded the agreement. This agreement, however, was rejected by the other side. We are living in a serious, responsible time. It is our duty to warn the party of errors. But we remain with the party, we prefer to commit errors along with the millions of workers and soldiers and to die with them than to stand aside from them at this decisive historical moment. “There will and shall be no split in our party.” Since Nov. 8 I participated as pre- viously in the work of our central committee. On Nov. 9 I spoke in its recognize the constitutent assembly, “if°the constituent assembly would give expression to the actual will of the workers, soldiers and peasants.” Naturally, now after seven years, it the railwaymen’s union were, as the reader has seen, conducted with the approval of the central committee. The result of the exposure of the mensheviki and of the social-revolu- tionists on the occasion of the rail- way workers’ conference was, that the left social-revolutionists, whom ia . “a> Ne ns Ry tA Ts ‘ Serban x) Ete Me Weg oo 58 e g C N N = 2 "en? i 8 * nee 3 as > S , : 5 of the central executive committee. The central executive committee agreed to this demand and in the name of the central executive commit- tee a platform was drawn up.” It was just the rejection of this platform by the mensheviki and the social-revolutionists at the conference convened by the railway leaders which | led to the change in the tactics of the left social-revolutionists in favor ot the Soviet power. At this time there was published in the Pravda a number of resolutions from tie most important factories in which we find the following. “Whilst we regard the agreement of the socialist parties as desirable, we workers declare that the agreement can only be reached on the basis of the following conditions (These conditions were practically the same as our representatives had submitted to the railway men’s conference.) In our attitude during these days there was again reflected the hesita- tion of these workers—in this respect our error was not a personal, nat an accidental error. | Now, seven years afterwards, do not the words in the resolution of our central committee that “the assertion that the Bolsheviki would not share power with anybody is devoid of all foundation” sound monstrous from our present standpoint? And yet these words were written down by Comrade Lenin on Nov. 3, 1917, and approved by our central committee. Everyone who reflects over these facts, every- one who remembers that the left social-revolutionists at that time rep- resented an important section of the peasants, everyone who reflects at all over the conditions that time, will understand the extent, and the char- acter of our error. It was a great, but nevertheless not a “social-democratic” error. A We, of course, do not say that in order to prove that our error was a small one. We stood outside of the central committee of the party only for three days—from Nov. 4 to 7. In spite of this, this error, as we already said at the opening session of the Fourth World Congress of the Comin- tern, was the greatest error we made in Our life. The only thing we wish to prove here is that it is not correct to draw from this error the conclusion | that there existed a “right wing” in Bolshevism. Every one who experienced those historical days knows that these dif- ferences, how much they strained the relations of such near comrades and friends, left no bitter feeling behind. Everybody adopted a sincere attitude towards the errors of the others. with- exceptional means of solving differ- calmed down without causing great damage. | These differences were swept away by the avalanche of fresh events— ff of the party and the whole party could proceed to the solu- tion of actual tasks. These differences have left behind such little traces in the party that at the first party con- ference (VII) which took place after the October revolt (which dealt was not only one one vote, but also Lenin, Stalin and Sverdlov said the him. He said, that hesitation would only render worse the peace condi-. tions, and that they must be signed at once.” (Minutes of the seventh party conference, page 79.) If the proposal to sign the Brest peace was a “capitulation,” then Com- rade Lenin was a “capitulator.” (As a matter of fact, the tactics of Trotsky at that time would have led to the downfall of the revolution, i. e., to an actual capitulation.) . If Comrade Trotsky himself spoke in the above mentioned way as to this affair, who can give credit.to his present ultra- polemic remarks? Is it not evident that all this has been discovered after- wards? e At the Seventh Party Congress the debates turned upon quite other ques- tions. It was Comrade Trotsky this time who submitted a declaration re- garding his resignationa from ali re- sponsible posts. (Minutes, pages 147-148.) Against Trotsky and against the “left” Communists, there was directed the resolution of Lenin and Zinoviev (Minutes, page 3), and as the central “Polikushka” is coming to Gertner's Independent Theater, Jan. 15. re i ® —— —
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back out of it. You must stand above the everyday, sometimes inevitable friction between the managements, words on labor productivity have al- ready been read to you. They have now become clothed with flesh and blood. Productivity of Labor is. of Decisive importance at Present. 2 : EE. Hilt 15 7111 9555 : : : i 5 * 7 =| - * * 1 N — n 7 hs at a ‘ a 7 8 * = « 2 — a ee . N iy 11 i f Fe i 1 TEAL : 4 tf 1 5 g Still nearer to the masses! ter how near we come to them, we must not boast of the successes or 3 15 Gy 52 E 128 b 2 more than upon the Red Army. There al labor movement we are for unity. . The Problem of the Commanders in] and satisfy the growing needs of the We shall fight under this slogan reso- mined our international stability 100 the Real Sense of the Word. masses. The material welfare of the lutely and to the end like Bolsheviks per cent. Of eourse, it is of great Decperes tome that in this eon. workers and peasants has Improved, On the question of the peasantry importance even now but at the nection the problem of commanders|*"4 with it grow their cultural de- we have a new situation. We have present moment no one can make in the real sense of the word again | mands and grow politics. It is wrong | various difficulties that are perfect- open war upon us; their hands are | arises. I am not speaking here of to assume that if the peasants will | ty surmountable, and we shall remove too short. The importance of produc |the commanders in the red army. 2) gg le Page emg ge FF pe ; | tivity of labor is of decisive interna- speak of the teacher who also belongs | tie. Just the contrary. With On the question of productivity of tional significance both for the des-|among the eommanders. I am speak. Srowth of the material welfare of the labor, down with we“ and “you”! It tunies of our country and for the des- here of the production command- peasants and workers will grow their is clear that this is now the funda- tinies of the international revolution. trade unions have begun | cultural and political demands and in mental question of our entire econo- It should attract, like a magnet, the | to the production personnel terests. that they will put before us. my. of our world situation. This is heart of the workers of all the capi-|from among their ranks, have begun | the leaders of the trade unions and | of greater importance than diplomacy that socialism is developing here. It | them be answered. question ef all questions. alone can strengthen us economical- ple The trade unions nearer to indus- ly and. politically and consolidate our real specialists. The question of com] We are now teaching the workers try! union with the peasantry. Here is manders in the broad sense of the ot the world to Bolshevize the labor The Problem of the commanding the key to the entire situation. Only | word, never stood as clearly as now. movement. But we ourselves must Personnel is raised for the first time in raising productivity lies the reply it now stands broadly in relation to also remember this. We are of course, on ‘he proletarian arena. to the question of the relations be- the peasantry, in relation to land im- the most Bolshevist party in the The problem of the proletarian stu- tween labor and the peasantry, to the world, we are the dents is a part of this question. question of concessions and to our All these questions are dominated entire international situation. by the economic question. Metal, was I heard men speaking along the e une of “we are very much to the left, — se nh 1 we are not interested in the country ternal —— . This in what decided the boors,” we are interested in the the new attitude to the teachers. our labor movement as a whole needs of 3 workers, we must raise the heavy in- This is no mere unprincipted nirta- it. As long as you live, study Len- Tate sg By ayy a rtaln dustries at any price. For this sake tion, but a new historical situation.|inism, perfect yourselves and then — 5 0 anon we must agree to concessions, and similar attitude is necessary all] you will be a real Bolshevik. No self 1 ae me 8 have as many of them possible, | along the line. satisfaction. We know our strong| Well then, * 2 But we must also know our heretofore been put into the tional att to a loan | the lower and middle should be sought | weak sides, but we must see both the | have — A 3 be very primarily from amongst your owa conscious and unconscious attempts civil war, 2 ago asm: 170 Ki bad. Here you have the other stde'ranks, and this question should be to revise Leninism, that are some- 8 Ae ot this which looks very] tackled in all seriousness. Now that times made even in Lenin's name. ere e much like menshevism. We think oth- the country is warming up, when the] Honest and Dishonest Wrongdoers. *” * Vladimir ‘Tilteh 5 he erwise. We think that there is no alarm over bread and butter has been} You remember how at the begin- * — energy, the — special need of being particularly lav- forgotten, when new politica? and eco- Ding of the revolution, when Vladimir fs. ur * becoming the slaves of foreign capi- The Trade Unions Nearer to Produc- tion. K The next question of principle is the question of the trade unions ap- proaching more closely to production. At the Fifth Congress we spoke little about this. At the sixth this must doe said loudly and resolutely. Two and a half years were spent to raise the workers’ wages. There is no rea- son for repenting, that was quite as it should have been. But now anoth- ers and the peasantry are clearly de- menace (they are not necessarily a One of the sub-groups of this prob- lem is the question of the proletarian students, Let me say a few words on this question. Trade union nuclei are now beginning to be organized among the students. You may discuss how they should be organized: the * Ilitch came from abroad, he brought with him a new term “honest defend- ers.“ When we lived abroad there was no talk about honest defendists. We only knew the dishonest, dyed in the wool fakers of the Second Inter- national who drove the workers to the slaughter. And when Vladimir Ilitch came here and saw masses of soldiers and peasants who sincerely and enthusiastically marched off to the defense of the revolutionary “fath- erland,” he nicknamed them honest defendists and he preached petient, systematic, constant explanation and patience for them. We now have among us some hon- est “misunderstandings” of Leninism. Let us see what is taking place. Ev- erybody now calls himself a Leninist. There are men who would like to Len- inists, but cannot be, because they have not been boiled in the fire of the organizational discipline of the Bolshevist party, they have learned little, etc. These are men who could be said to be honestly misled. They are honestly wrong; they need explan- ation; they do not quite understand Lenin’s ideas, the vanguard must . therefore patiently enlighten them. But there are men who interpret! power of the masses, all the brains and talents possessed now by the party and the trade union movement, all this must be put into metal. text- ile, coal, railways, oil, higher pro- ductivity of labor (stormy applause). and everything should be solved from the point of view of the problems which Lenin has taught us, in the light of true Leninism, in the light of the modest, quiet, unshowy, but firm work of Bolshevizing our labor movement. If we solve this problem, our congress will be marked as a seri- ous stage in the history of the labor movement of our country, in the his- tory of the struggle of the world working class for the emancipation of labor. (Stormy, lasting applause, deafening the sound of the orchestra). Watch for the Special First Anniversary Edition of the DAILY WORKER January 13, 1925
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ot the feudal jungle. That partly er- ture who lives on the edge of the luminated when Senator Pat Harrison, democrat of Mississippi, clashed with} Senator Bruce, democrat of Maryland, last Monday afternoon in the senate. Harrison comes from the depth of the Southern political and economic jungle. Bruce coines from the edge plains the differénce. And from their sharp difference we obtain a little pic- ture of the deepening class antagon- fsm in that vast, unhappy, decaying and yet living human mass which we call the Solid South. Bruce and Harrison are, both equal- ly political vultures. Superficially they are of the same ‘school of vultures— both are members of the immortal party of Jefferson.” But the school of political vultures which is: called the democratic party is dividing. The vul- clearing has learned to live on a dif- ferent kind of meat—the meat which is the political garbage of modern capitalist society while the vulture from the heart of the wilderness still lives on raw jungle meat. Bruce of Maryland repremnts the bourgeoisie of that northern fringe of the South which has been reached by the march of modern industry—the big bourgeoisie which has been made big, rich powerful, and has been orien- tated toward the financial metropolis. Bruce took his stand with the big bourgeoisie of the country as a whole on the Mellon tax plan. Harrison of Mississippi represents a decaying, backward, ultra- ignorant petty-bourgeoisie, and the decayed remnants of a feudal landlord class. Mississippi has never ceased to be a “slave state“ —it is a slave country, not in the sense that all capitalist countries are lands of wage-slavery, but in the sense of still retaining to a large degree the old system of pro- duction thru the bodily ownership of chattel-slaves by feudal masters, with an elaborate system of restrictions against “free” competition of workers in the wage-labor market and the “free” production of farm products. Twenty-four years ago there were 137,852 families of agricultural serfs working as “share-farmers” and ten- ant-farmers” in Mississippi, with many other scores of thousands of slave laborers without even the claim to hold land as tenants; and since that time the proportion of serfs has increased. Practically all of the laboring and tenant farming class are completely. without political rights, and without. redress in courts of law. Less than one-tenth of the adult population of Mississippi exercises the right of the ballot. Thru a system of agricultural “credit” the entire class is practically bound to the land as “debtors” for life, their children inberiting the “debts” and living on in slavery with- out hope of freedom. It is a notable fact that in Mississippi we have a large «agricultural class which has never even known the hope of owning land. The greater portion of these are Negroes—more than half of the population of the state are Negroes— and as such are disfranchised; and those who are not Negroes are mostly disfranchised as ignorant.“ Virtually no schools are provided. Lynch law and the stake are the only law for them, and the paranoiac preachers’ “God” is the only court of appeal. There are no cities of consequence in Mississippi, no manufacturs, no minerals (and therefore no mines), and until recently there was no sea- port. Mississippi is one great cotton plantation, varied here and there with sugar-cane plantation. The vast field of primitive agricul- ture is broken only by a few stunted cities and towns, and by lumber camps in which the timber cutting is done largely by labor recruited thru “vag- rancy” laws under which slave-hun- ters are rewarded at two dollars per head for the destitute and homeless laborers that are caught in a moment in illegal idleness and sold to pay costs” of their conviction for vagran- cy, tho they often receive not even a form of trial. For being caught idle, de e the Rolla South wes: thi nickels), wants the burden of taxation South, and for another half century men, women and children are sold by oislo— they are a peculiarity primitive and stunted petty-bourgeoisie. The type represented by Harrison is the cross-roads store-keeper, who lends “credit” to the impoverished tenant- farmers and who thus becomes their bedily owner; and the landlord who spends his life haggling with a dozen or a score of “share” farmers, taking customarily one half of their crops as rent and the «ther half in repay- ment of “loans.” The Mississippi system of serfdom is a backward form of production and cannot be made to produce large re- sults, nor to produce a really wealthy bourgeoisie. Herein lies the peculiar form of stagnation characteristic to the most backward sections of the Solid South. The master class for the most part remains an impoverished exploiting class, and this gives the class character to Senator Pat Harri- son’s constituency. It is this which orientates the Mississippi senator on a myriad of questions, including the question of whether the burden of the income tax shall fall directly upon the small parasitic incomes or the large parasitic incomes. Sentator Harrigyn. representing the snivelling, nickel nursing parasites, wants the big bourgeoisie of the far- away industrial centers to pay the income tax, Senator Bruce Senator Bruce of Maryland, repres- enting a, class of parasites which has been introduced Ao the more efficient method of exploiting thru wage-slav- ery in industrialized production (and which nurses dollars instead of to fall upon the smaller incomes. So the two “democratic” senators fight. On the face of it, the two should be members of separate parties, each fighting for separate class interests. But it is not so simple as that. The case was stated sharply by Senator Bruce. He taunted Harrison with the very plain fact that the Mis- sissippi democrat might logically be expected to line up with “Wisconsin, Nebraska and North Dakota”—mean- ing, of course, that the Southern cockroach bourgeoisie might logically line up with the LaYollette move- ment which represents the cockroach bourgeoisie of the country generally. But at the same time Senator Bruce taunted Harrison with the reason why he DOES NOT line up with the coun- try’s general petty-bourgeoise move- ment. Bruce gave the reason as: “ONE SINGLE, COHESIVE FEAR.“ Fear of the Negro He meant altho he did not pron- ounce the words—the “single, cohe- sive fear“ of the NEGRO. He meant that the Sovthern cockroach bourge- oisie does not dare to face the slight- estdisturbance of the political surface of the South, the slightest disturbance of its relationships to the Negro. He meant that the backward exploiters of Harrison’s constituency do not dare to break the front of the democratic party. The “Party of the Immortal Jefferson” (and of Jefferson Da vis, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wil- son) stood for half a century as the guardian of chattel slavery in the as the preserver of its remnants. For half a century the democratic party in the South has been the accepted political medium for preserving what is called “White Supremacy.” The master class of the South in general and of Mississippi in par- ticular had never had the slightest aversion to contact with the Negro. To mention the most extreme test, the Southern master class has shown a distinct preference for inter-breeding with the Negro race in numberless in- stances. At the same time, the ruling. class has exercised the most brutal repression and savagery against the Negro. Why? are not of the class of the big bourge-| Why does “the one single cohesive are exploited as laborers and peasants. But they can be held in political sub- jection and directly applied terror more conveniently as Negroes. The coincidence, that the exploited class is mostly black of face, enables the ruling class of the South to obscure its class oppression under the easy cover of race oppression. (In fact the whites of the same economic classes are almost equally terrorized and oppressed). Contradictions The rotting, putrifying, impover- ished and discontented petty bour- geoisie of the Solid South has many impules toward solidarity with the similar class of the North as against the more wealthy bourgeoisie. But it dares not let go or disturb its front for the “One Single Cohesive Fear” that it may lose its hold on its serf class which is mostly black of. face. The big bourgeoisie of the North also at various times during the past thirty years has been inconvenienced by the stagnant cohesiveness of the Solid South. Democratic and republi- can politicians alike have made re- peated gestures toward breaking up the Solid uth of the democratic party. As a child in Texas in 1896 the writer was astonished to see a local banker’s sons actually flaunting a republican banner, (considered an un- speakable offense) which meant that the danger of the Bryan movement capturing the government thru hereby using the political strength of the South in a debtor’s drive against the big _bourgeoisie,. was ‘frightening the Southern bourgeoisie. Since that} time republican politicians, Roosevelt, | Taft, Elihu Root, Harding and Cool- ig have made overtures to the South- ern bourgeoisie by offering to commit the republican party to “white suprem- acy” in the Southern states. Today, subsidized Negro newspapers continue to flaunt the of Frederick Douglass (of the War period) that “the Republican party is the Step: All else is the Sea,“ but Mr. C. Bascom Slemp strives to introduce the republican party to the Southern rul- ing class as the thing it is—another party of “White Supremacy”—which means Capitalist class supremacy ever the toiling masses whose faces are largely black. And it has already been proven that the democratic and repub- lican parties act on a “gentleman's agreement” by which they co-operate in killing every gesture (however ster- ile) toward granting political rights to Negroes. History forces the question of the breaking up of the Solid South upon the order of the day. Yet neither the republican party nor the democratic party (both of the big bourgeoisie), nor any party of the petty bourgeoise, wil do it or can desire to do it at the cost of extending citizenship rights to the most exploited of all classes in America, the Negro toilers. Such citizenship rights would not free the Negro masses from exploitation, ter- ror and suppression. The break-up of semi-feudal restrictions would make the exploitation more efficient and pro- ductive, and put the terror and sup- pression on a more secure basis. But the existing exploiting class has its lines of operation laid in feudal con- ditions, and dares not face any change. which tend to substitute a new and more capable set of exploiters in their’ place. This is the impasse. : The big bourgeoisie, generally speaking, has an interest in breaking up the backward system of feudal pro- duction. But in concrete cases it be- comes the interest of the big bourge- oisie to make a truce with the rem- nants of feudal conditions. Thus it is, that the republican party in attempting republican and democratic that means) of the black masses. None but the most exploited masses of the Southern jungle (whose faces are mostly black) can set these mass- es into motion, and no party whose purpose is not revolution will dare to lead such a movement. Senator Bruce in a moment of anger can taunt Senator Harrison with in- discrete hints of the fear of the masses whose faces are black. But when his anger cools, the knees of Senator Bruce must also tremble With the one single cohesive fear.“ The Workers (Communist) Party alone can and must become the em- bodiment of the “one single cohesive tear“ —the leader and liberator of the exploited masses of the backward South whose faces are both black and white. ere ee 5 THREE. MOVIES. WN ONE EVENING — The workers of ‘of Chicago will have the opportunity to see three live work- ing class pictures in one evening for the price of one. All the pictures were made in Russia during the revolution. The first is “Polikushka,” the«fa- mous story of serfdom by L. N. Tol- stoy. Made into a movie by the world famous Moscow Art Theatre. The second, “Soldier lvan's Miracle,” a comedy, tells a serious story about religion, but in a funny, peculiar Rus- sian way. 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