Daily Worker
January 13, 1925
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Hail the Militant Workers Party Branches! 8 Inspiring — — — N he Wee nt ‘ ex 22... 5 ay ae) 5 ¥ eas 1 5 aia 22 * — * * A {7 — — — — — - = ™ a cw — — — ‘ wr i) Ves „ 2 a 1 — — Ws , 7 N 5 5) 1 omy * 1 *. 3 3 J * tae me a 4 at wT 7 rite 0 ‘ : 8 x » ~ - 7 — * : ** pa . 8 0 * 4 » the workers to battle. For a year THE DAILY WORKER has been the most treasured possession the bitter struggle for existence, THE DAILY WORKER has held up its banner. It has grown in circul — -— —-———- = — (Kp — — * 5 il a. THE D get eae part, « . chee r . ae * 7 ns * 7 ‘ * . K R * 1 ; N 0 . = of | e American working class. In all this time, without a ation, in power, in second year with every prospect of further gains, new victories, greater service to the world revolutionary movement. Is it then very strange that when THE DAILY WORKER called for help to make their response? . To these militants who make up 1925, this militant page is proudly dedicated. te” their devotion to THE DAILY WORKER by the purchase of Insurance Policies. ! The militants of the working class have sent their shock troops to the immediate sup- port of their DAILY WORKER. The whole militant army will follow until the goal has been reached and THE DAILY WORKER made secure. Hundreds and thousands have heard the call: “INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925!” and they are answering: * 4 4828. ats =. “WE'VE Gar IT. WE’ LL KEEP IT—AND BUILD.” — — the branches of the Workers Party which have up until January 10 sent their su Hail THE influence. the Militant Workers! F it er there has been a fight against the enemies of labor, there has been THE DAILY WORKER, 8 figh „leading, y of subsid in spite of AILY WORKER faces Ke it safe for the struggle in 1925, that hundreds, thousands of militant workers gave pport to INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR faces its WITH EVERY CENT THAT enclose $ to prove my statement. which you will acknowledge by sending me a printed poliey ROLL OF THE MILITANT BRANCHES: ENGLISH. Centerville, lowa 3.00 | Wilkeson, Wash. 5.00 | New Haven, Conn 30.00 [Pittsburgh, Pa., North S........ 27.00 | Boston, Mass. Nashville, Tenn. 21.00 San Francisco, Cal 26.00 | Detroit, Mioh. 4 17.00 — Pa. 15.00 | Oakland, Cal. 3 e eal amen. New York, Downtown - 116.00 8. Tacoma, Wash 15.00 | Leadville, Colo. 15.00 | Rochester, N. v 15.00 | Akron, Ohio 26.00 Clifton, N. 4 4 1.00 New York, West Side .. 121.00 | Marshfield, Ore. 14.00 | Palisade, Minn. 3.00 | Shelton, Conn. 26.00 | Yerkville, Ohio 5.00 @ 289.00 24% Ne J 18 Yorkville, N. Y. 51.00 | Phoenix, Arizona 25.00 Brooklyn, N. Y 155.00 | Philadelphia, Pa, 17.00 | Youngstown, Ohio 13.00 um | Rechester, N. V. — 22 Harlem, N. v. 203.00 Washington, D. C 37.00 Portland, Ore. 12.00 Grand Rapids, Mich 4.00 | Detroit, Mich. 36.00 POLISH FEDERATION — Mich. . Pe Bronx 1, N. Y 110.00 | Jamestown, N. V 19.00 W. Frankfort, 11! 50.00 Lynn, Mass. 8 $ 8.28 Chicago, Il. 11.00 , cago, Til. .... — Bronx 2, N. V. 35.00 Providence, R. 1.00 | Jamaica, N. Y 15.00 Newton Upper Falls, Mass... 13.00 | Milwaukee, Wis. 33.00 | New York, N. Y 8.00 | Brooklyn, N. V 5.00 Bronx 3, N. Y. 17.00 | Worcester, Mass. 3.00 | Alleton, Boston, Mass 17.00 | Central Falls, R. 1 16.00 Cleveland, Ohio 10.00 Clifton, 1 os 4.00 Philadelphia, Pa. 42.00 Mt. Vernon, Wash 18.00 | Erie, Pa. 10.00 | Peabody, Mass. 8.00 $ 248.00 | Chester, Pa. 3,00 St. Paul, Minn 21.00 Portiand, Ore. 30.00 Canonsburg, Pa. 46.00 | Gilbert, Minn. 10.00 | Springfield, Mass. 12.00 Endicott, N. V 4.00 San Francisco, Cal. 63.00 G alassport, Pa. 25.00 | Scranton, Pa. 50.00 LITHUANIAN FEDERATION. Niagara Falle, N. V. e 8.00 $ 211.00 San Pedro, Cal. 33.00 Marengo, Wis. 10.00 | Wilkes Barre, Pa 17.00 Fairport, Ohle see 5.00 Bronwsville, N. v. 18.00 8,468.1 Baltimore, Md. 25.00 Syracuse, N. Vue "iim onl 10 |Hamtramek, Mleh. 14.00 UKRAINIAN FEDERATION, Williamsburg, N. . 60.00 Ashland, Wis. 8.00 Endicott, N. V. 16.00 Philadelphia Pa 100 Bridgeport, Conn.. - 6.00 Boston, Mass. + $ 36.00 Astoria, N. Y. 40.00 PUNCH PERERA IV | Wheeling, W. Va. — 100.00 Log Angeles, Cal. 1200 | Warren, Ohio 7.00 Paterson, N. J. . 3.00 New Haven, Conn. 10.00 | Pittsburgh, Pa. 65.00 -$1,833.25 | Empire, Ohio 5.00 Brooklyn N. enn 16.00 Kincald, III. 10.00 Chieage, III. ee 19.00 Cleveland, Ohio, East. 49.75 | Bruces Crossing, Mien. . 10.00 Port Homer, Ohio 21.00 Montello, Mass. “$ 6.00 | Chelsea, Mass. Be 8.00 | Calumet Cy, 166 8,00 West Frankfort, Ill. — 20.00 | New Rochelle, N. Y 16.00 SOUTH SLAVIC FEDERATION. | Hamtramck, Mich, 52.00 Pittsburgh SRR CCA, 8 1.00 Boston, Mass. Minneapolis, Minn. 50.00 Cicero, III. 8.00 Staten Island, N. v 10.00 Pittsburgh, Pa., North Side... 21.00 Detroit,” Mich. 115.00 | W. Frankfort, n 18.00 | Chicago, 20 CHOBE, Pa. see e — 14.00 Ses. Hi Va. 1 South Brooklyn, N. V. " 155.00 | Cleveland, Onie 1.00 Milwaukee, W 5 f ei Sar 23 55 „ P — | SID 4 AWE, Hit -00 | Minngapolis, Minn. 187.00 Hammerville, PA. 10 | : | 1 IS, to 280 Janonsburg, ee Te +. — 98000 Detroit, Mich. 410.00 Green Lake, Me 9.00 | Kincaid, III. iano Chicago, 11 toe West Allis, NG e 1 oo Cleveland, 051 Yorkville, OI ..cssccs 7.00 Chicago, South Side ...... ...... 62.00 Abington, Masse. 3.00 | New York, Jugo-Slav 36.00 | Gary, Ind. | 10.00 Binghamton, Ni V. 22.00 Neffe, Ohio Ne. Vork, 0. 7. —.— 1.00 Chicago, Mid-City 51.00 | Gardner, Mase. 21.00 | Philadelphia, Pa. $ 21.00 Minncapolis, Minn. 3.00 Rochester, N. V " 43.50 1 a 4.00 — « Chicago, Engliwd. 45.00 Lahesville, Mass. 10.00 | Ambridge, Pa. 50.00 St. Paul, Minn 20.00 | Detroit. Mich. 22.00 Eddystone, Pa. 10.00 $ 164.00 Cleveland, O., West 22.00 | Worcéster, Mass. 38.00 | Denbo, Pa. 30.00 | Waterbury, Conn. 17.00 Chicago i. mye br. 8100 Ashburnham, Mase. ...... 10.00 | Lawrence, Pa. 10.00 | Kansas City, Kan 40.00 Milwaukee, Wis. 3.00 $ 249.00 ARMENIAN FEDERATION. Pittsburgh, Pa., Kast 100.00 Peabody, Mass. 10.00 | Meadowlands, Pa. 9.00 | Portland, Ore. 22.00 Grand Rapids Mich. Ryo . ge Pittsburgh Prog. Women. — 10.00 W. Concord, Mass 15.00 Pittsburgh, Pa. 26.00 | New York, O. T. 2200| Nanticoke Oo, 40.00 Becton, Mase. ” 80.00 Erie, Pa. ........-. 13.00 | PHiladelphia, Pa. 15.00 | Pittsburgh, Pa. 22.00 | New York, Williamsburg.......... 68.00 Struthees. Ohio 10.00 GREEK FEDERATION. Philadelphia, Pa. 15.00 Spokane, Wash. 2.00 | Van Etten, N. Y 7.00 | Republic, Pa. 10.00 | Brooklyn, N. Y 30.00 Plymouth, Pa. 50.00 Chi 11 8 Haverhill, Mass. 4.00 Hammond, Ind. 2.00 Monessen, Pa, 57.00 Turtle Creek, Pa 26.00 | Davenport, lowa 3.00 , : ~ — 2 25.00 Martlerd. Gseah. 19.00 St. Paul, Minn. . 43.00) New Castle, Pa 10.00 | Uniontown, Pa. 10.03 Dunmore, Pa. 6.00 | $ 347.50 — ation, rye Detroit, Mich. 14.00 Kansas City, Mo. 26.00 |‘Daisytown, Pa. 65.00} Fayette City, Pa 15.00 | Haverhill, Mass. 30.00 ‘OY | Blair Station, Pa 34.00 | Foe 8 Rochester, N. v. 16.001 Gleveland, Ohio 77.00 | Bulgar, Pa. 16.00 | Trenton, N. J „ 11.00 LETTISH FEDERATION * 8 00 Shelton, Conn. 5.00 f 00 : . etroit, Mich. 7.00 ’ . Minneapolis, Minn... 25:00] Conneaut, Ohio 8.00 | Barbertown, Ohio 10.06 | San Francisco, Ca. 23.00 Philadelphi , Youngstown, O., C. C. . . 50,00) Fairport Harbor, Ohio 11.00 | Bellaire, Ohio 30.00 | Baltimore, Md. 6.00 8 a phia, Pa. 2.00 | New York, N. V 65.00 31 South Bend, Ind 40 Warren, Ohio 25.00 | Massilon, Ohio 2 38.00 Chelsea, Mass. 18.00 hag Onio 57.00 GE RAE: 22,00 Douglas, N. O., Platt. 1 5.00 | Ahmeek, Mich. 7.00 | Neffs, Ohio 50.00 | Boston, Mass. 44.00 New York, N. V 70.00 $ 200.00 (Continued on Page 4. Chicago, North Side 89.00 | Hancock, Mich. 10.00 Warren, Ohio 30.00 | Shenandoah, Pa. 7.00 | Chicago, Douglas Park 4 i Ironwood, Mich. 22.00 | Yorkville, Ohio 36.00 8 Chicago, Northwest, ................. 89. Racine, Wis. — 15.00 | Dilles Bottom, Ohio 33.00 1,080.25 | + ' — — Shleage, rving Park 70.00| Kenocha, Wie 1300| Valter, ily 8 % JeWis FEDERATION. | SNH/NgHNiii04N40 Kan Rochester, N. V., F. 8. R. .- 23.00 Bovey, Minn. 5.00 Chicago, III. 15.00 | Cleveland — Binghampton, N. “.. 4 Brainerd, Minn. 10.00 Hammond, Ind. 21.00 n —— . a „ 00 chisholm, Minn. 18.00 Johnston City, III 27. 00 co 00 = Y C Still J Boston, Mass. 32.00) Cromwell, Minn. 19.00 | Calumet City, 11 30.00 | — — 10.50 Ou an oin Roxbury, — 60.00 Orr, Minn. 25.00 | Milwaukee, Wis. aye — Pe poe = Omaha, Neb. .... 50.00 | Superior, Wis. 8.00 | Waukegan, Ill. 50.00 ; 3 0 = eye 0 Worcester, Mass. 5.00 Red Granite, Wie 14.00 | Chisholm, Minn. 18.00 mnttadelpnia, Strbry Man. ........ 13.25 | & The Ranks of the Militants Who Give to Brooklyn, N. V.. 16.00) Newberry, Mich. 5.00 | Mystic, lowa . 1 D. C 30.00 | = Albany, N. V. 4.00 Winlock, Wash. 5.00 Racine, Wis. 60.00 | Je, Pa. 2.00 | = s Buffalo, N. V. 20.00 | Hoquiam, Wash. 5.00 | Cicero, Ill. 14.00 | Y¥ngstown, Ohio 50.00 Lackawanna, N. Y. 20.00 | Cofati,- Cal. 34.00 | Verona, Pa. £6.00 | Sow Teete Ne Wed 180 = nsure e al or er McDonald, Pa. 32.00 W. Berkeley,’ Cal 26.00 | Library, Pa. Dino ae a 6.00 | == McKees Rock, Pa 51.00 | Collinsville, Conn. 7.50 | Woodlawn, Pa. 21.00 | teas oe N. Y... 20.00 = | Pittsburgh, Pa., North. — 68.00 Grand, Rapids, Mich 25.00 Expert, Pa. .... 3.00 | pos) trae Magee =~ oe for 1925 N Daisytown, Pa.. 40.00 | Resk Springs, Wyo 12.00| New Brighton, Pa. | —— v ¥ 7.00 | = ' ; Girard, OhIO 13.00 | Spencer, N. V 5.00 | Youngstown, Ohio 2200 — Sb Bronx No. 1. $ 35.00 = Lima, Ohio ......... 8.00 | Diamondville, Wyo. 16.00| West Allis, Wis el Ce oe No. 2.—.—.— 14.00 | == Toledo, Ohio ...... 116.00 | Hanna; Wyo. .... 67.00 W. Frankfort, Ill. 10,00| 0" Yor & T.3 11.00 | == Youngstown, Ohio om 10.00 | Ft. Bragg, Cal 30.00 | South Chicago, III. 31.00 New York, D. T. 2 15.00 Detroit, Mich. .......... 375.00 | Jamaica, N. V 20.00 | Tacoma, Wash. 63.00 222 Mass. 2.00 = Hancock, Mich. 45.00 | Wilton, N. H 5.00 Los Angeles, Cal 21.00 oo oe 0 30.00 | = Bay City, Mich. 10.00 | Fitchburg, Mass. 10.00 | Pueblo, Colo. 12.00 | 85 * . 8.00 5 You can be the proud e n “ae 11,00 | Wilton, N. H. 12.00 | Canonsburg, Pa. 9.00 | Sr. X prs 33.00 — f Orient, iu. 4.00 | Nashwaiik, Minn. 13.75 Christopher, II. 14.00 | Bitteburgh, a 10880 owner of a DAILY WORK- Indianapolis, ind. 50.00 | Detroit, Mich. 60.00 | Mulkeytown, III. 21.00 | 12 : = . Milwaukee, Wis. 27.00 | Mass, Mich. .... 5.00 —— Wis. 31.00 ** Angeles, Cal 100.00 ER Insurance Policy. Duluth, Minn. 86.00 Ashtabula, Ohio 6.00 | Bentleyville, Pa. 70.00 | t 2 —4 Cal 15.00 Owen, Wie. ......... 10.00} Juanita, Wash. 10.00 | Kansas City, Kan a 8.00 Clip the coupon. Buperior, W Is W 16.00 Ramsay, Mich. 10.00 | New Vork 34.00 | ae ee Bothel, Wasn. 3 7.00 | Milford, N. H. ines 60 0 way $ 750.25 2 end te te and the. red Winlock, Wasen . 5.00 S. Prairie, Wash. 5.00 $1,390.00 | HUNGARIAN FEDERATION. |Z ; n 8.00 Keene, N. H. 11.00 Axella. Pa.. $ 15.00 == gold and black symbol of _ Berkeley, Cal. ........ 34.00 Townsend, Mass. 10.00 RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Philadelphia, Pa. 6.00 | = ** Los Angeles, Cal.... 64.00 Enfield, N. H e 15.00 | McKeesport, PR 16.00 | New York, Yorkville 81.00 a militant DAILY WORKER Fargo, N. D 6 6.90 Port Chester, N. V. 11.00 | Bronx, N. V. 18.00 | New York, D. T. .. 2.00 = i j Wing, N. 0 — car ma 16.00 | Duluth, Minn. | 31.00 | New Vork, V. W. I. . 6.00 | New Vork, N. V. 100.00 ten be ane | you. We have made a start! | But the biggest part of the task lays before us. | THE DAILY WORKER asked for $50,000 to make it safe for 1925. $50,000 is the = — amount which must be raised. Make out checks and send communications to Fortunately the branches listed above do not represent all of the militant branches of | THE DAILY WORKER the Workers Party. Nor have all the militants in these branches done their share to build 1113 W. Washington Blvd Chicago. iil = 1 * 6 0 = * 8 7 5 and keep THE DAILY WORKER. Hundreds of militant readers of THE DAILY WORKER . who are not connected with the Party branches will yet want to prove their militancy and | My policy is to protect working class interests—my interests. For this I YOUCAN * SPARE! arian cuπν State. — - = — — — —— te ee ae St —
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. — 9 at. temporary lu le and say: 0 4 WE SEE IT OUR FIRST YEAR. Revolutionary Optimism. Alone in The Field. Some Big Scraps. Worst is Yet to Come. The Leader of the Revolutionary Movement. Our Loyal Army. — — OLUTIONISTS are optimists. When they cease to be optimistic they cease to be revolutionists. Last- ing optimism is born of the knowledge that this rotten capitalist system which breeds so much misery among the workers is destined to pass away, braadly speaking, because it has about reached the end of its usefulness. Speaking in terms of corn beef and cabbage, sauerkraut and goulash, sys- tems are given the boot only when they can no longer keep the popula- .tion’s stomach properly tickled with the necessary elements that go to maintain existence. 2 „ * collective stomach is as sensi- tive to fear as the ears of an ar- tist are to flattery. When it looks as if a particular system was about to declare a moratorium on breakfast, dinner and supper, the collective stom- ach calls upon its allies, the collec- tive legs, eyes, cars, tongue, etc., etc., to go to bat and ease the lazy, ine ffl- cient system out of business. It goes alright, but it does a lot of kicking. Hence the necessity for organizations formed for the purpose of burying it and putting something better in its place. * * 7 Ww I an getting at is that it took a lot of optimism to start The DAILY WORKING. You will no- tice that we are celebrating our first anniversary and we are all asking ' each other—when we have a few min- utes to spare How did we ever get this thing started and kept it going?” But facts have a habit of speaking for themselves. Here we are. 292 „ „ NLY a few years ago, while our party was living in a condition of enforced low visibility, the sanity of many of our comrades was seriously quastioned when they suggested the advisability of starting a daily Com- munist paper. But capitalism is bound to go and Communist Parties are or- ganized to make it go quicker and Communist dailies are the most effec- tive weapons at the disposal of Com- munist Parties to organize the work- ers for the overthrow of capitalism. * * - "HOSE who do not understand that the contradictions within capital- ist society prevent it from solving its own problems might be disappointed lull in the class woll, I expected the revolution before my next birth- day. Now, it looks as if it will never come.” This type does not stay put. It does not found revolutionary dailies. It was not the type that started The DAILY WORKER. * * * N the department of justice raided the spot where the Com- munist convention was held in 1922, Bridgeman, Mich., they grabbed sixteen Oommunists and took them to Berrien county jail. While waiting for bail, we amused ourselves in many ways. One of our means of passing away the time was to get out a few sheets of manuscript which we bapitzed The DAILY WORKER. We hardly expect- 6d that two years and three months afterwards we would be celebrating the first anniversary of a real Com- munist daily. „ > * HORTLY before The DAILY WORKER was launched, the New York Call curled up on the sofa.and never woke up again. Several liberals ‘with more money than ability gave wa shot in the arm and it wriggled along for a couple of months under a mew name and then quietly faded away. It took about $100,000 worth of dope to keep it going for two months. This experience naturally made some people pessimistic about the future of The DAILY WORKER. * — 5 E New York Call died because it was not true to the cause of the workers. It deserted them for a hoped-for prosperity as the handmaid- en of the petit bourgeoisie. But it had too much competition. The time was not ripe for a prostitute socialist dally in America to render itself indespens- able to the capitalists. American capitalism was not yet in the condi- tion of German capitalism where the Vorwarts and other yellow sheets were essential to it. * 88 0 *# ock less than what it cost to keep the New Leader alive for (Continued on page 4) Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. _ TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 192 Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd. , Chicago, III. Price 3 Cents LABOR LEAR RAIL WORKERS DEMAND THEIR WAGE INCREASE Bosses’ Press Uurges an Immediate Showdown — — — By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press tndustrial Editor) nay oe service brotherhoods are demanding a straight in- crease in wages without modifi- cation of the standard rules on all western railroads with the exception of the Chicago & Al- ton, the Southern Pacific and the Western Pacific on which settlements have been made. This means that the rail labor board’s “short order” decisions will be disregarded in the nego- tiations. On many roads the rule changes proposed by the board would largely offset the small wage increase granted. Lots of Southern Pacific Money The Southern Pacific could pay more, according to The Wall Street Journal. But it refers to dividends not wages. The ability of this carrier to make profits far in excess of divid- end requirements is treated as war- ranting an increase in the annual 6 per cent cash payments to stock- holders to 7 per cent. In 1924 the S. P. made about $37,000,00 over and above all interest requirements or nearly $11, a share on the $344,380,906 capital stock. Rail Labor Board In Cold Thé Locomotive Fi@men & Engine- men’s magazine sees the wage settle- —.— in western territory as a clear demonstration of the usele of U. S. aan labor dect Ir says editorially: “It is worthy special note that in the memorandum of agreement between the Southern Pac- ific and the Brotherhoods no reference whatever is made to the railroad labor board’s decision. That the abortive, and insofar as the brotherhoods are concerned, unsolicited decision was designed to aid certain western rail- road managements in an effort to de- stroy the engineers’ and firemen’s schedules must be apparent to anyone having a close knowledge of the facts in the premises. “Said decision; however, far from having that effect, served to arouse the officers and members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and our own brotherhood to the point of fighting to a finish for the. preser- vation of their agreements unimpaired by the abrogation of the single rule.” Commerce Journal Talks Rall Strike Likelihood that a strike will be forced on the brotherhoods by western carriers in 1925 is suggested in signed articles for the Chicago Jour- nal of Commerce by T. F. Woodlock. Evidently after a talk with represen- tatives of the managements on Jan. 3 he urged the public to protest against the working rules of the brotherhoods. . He said in part: “It is clear from the action of the railroad employes in connection with the recent labor board decigion that the brotherhoods are in a mood to defy the public. They have not yet given up the hope of eliminat- ing it from direct participation in the adjustment of labor disputes in the railroad industry and they still hope to abolish the labor board by means of the Howell-Barkley bill. “It is not impossible that this year may see an open conflict after-the fash ion of 1922. For this reason it is im- portant that public opinion should be awakened in good tnme. The place to begin reforms ie in the working rules. Sooner or later we must have a show down on this thing and no time will ever be more appropriate for it than now.” CAPPELLINI, RENEGADE RADICAL, IS FORCED TO OFFER CONCESSIONS TO MINERS HE HAS BETRAYED (Special to the DAILY WORKER) ’ SCRANTON, Jan. 12-—The seriousness of the unofficial anthracite strike situation In District 1 of the United Mine Workers has led President Cappel- lin] to offer the strikers In the Scranton feld the best terms since the strike began. The terms, conditional on the men returning to work, are: Prompt action by conolllatlon board on grievances which caused the strike. Full restoration of revoked charters and funds held up by the interna- tional union when the charters were lifted. Complete amnesty of all leaders of the strike. Strikers opposing the Cappellini plan said it carried no certain assurance that grievances would actually be adjusted. . +> 4 . OMA PRE Dane went renee nee n N The grievances are of long eR. ba Se ee Te te © Alia Dene 9 ee 2 * { ar 4 * gether. putting effective theories into practice TURNING ON THE LIGHT WHO in The -t vT T SPorT N 2 2 1 ‘ i The BAILY WORKER---A Communist Builder —— | By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER HE Workers Party is a young par- ty. Whilst development has been comparatively rapid, it has still a long road to travel before it can be called a Bolshevik party in the full sense of the term. Particularly our party is weak organizationally. It is not firmly knit together, nor is it suffici- ently mobile and responsive to its tasks. During the party’s existence we have conducted much important and successful activity on the econ- omic and political fields. Consequently and struggles of the American work- ing class. But in all of our activity during these years of persistent and energetic work, the party has not made the progress that it should have done in building up the size of our membership and in welding what members we have into a compact and cohesive whole. Oyr party’s organizational weakness are to the greatest extent responsible for our failure to take the maximum advantage of the opportunities created by our activities, to build up the size and strenght of our party. One reason for this is that our party lacks cap- able organizers. We have not devel- oped organizers to any degree com- mensurate with our development in other dircetions. Yet there is no lack of material in the party out of which organizers may be produced. In per- sonal contacts which I have made practically everywhere in the country, I have become acquaintanted with many comrades who have the inher- ent qualities which go to make the most competent organizers. But in most cases these comrades are not developing these abilities nor are they applying them effectively towards the building of our party. In the first anniversary issue of the DAILY WORKER it is particularly appropriate to point out the field open- ed up to us by our English language daily paper for the development of organizers and for the organization of our party. Obviously one of the best ways to build the membership of the party is by building the circula- tion of the DAILY WORKER. In fact it is so obvious that in all too many instances this way of making the par- ty grow has been overlooked alto- But, although it is quite gen- erally understood that by building the DAILY WORKER we are also build- ing the Workers Party, it is not so generally understood that in extending the circulation of the DAILY WORK- ER there is an open road to the de- velopment of organizers for our party. Organizers are not born. They are made. They are products of active participation in the daily struggle. They are made in the process of doing real organization work. In our party we will develop the necessary organ- izers by putting the membership, so far as possible, systematically to work upon organizational tasks. There is no better school for organizers than in the building of the DAILY WORK- ER. This does not consist of filling the columns of the DAILY WORKER with theories of organization, but in by the organized selling of DAILY WORKER subscriptions. Here, in the building of the circula- tion of the DAILY WORKER, lies a we have been able to wield a great of fiifiuence upon the Independent Theater, Jan. 15. field for the development of Commun- ist organizers, which is open to every member of our party. In the perform- ance of the systematic work necessary * 0 ‘o the effective sale of DAILY WORK R subscriptions, and for that matter the sale of any of our party press subscriptions, there is called into play the qualities which go to make real organizers and propagandists. In building the DAILY "'WORKER circulation we approach non-party workers, workers who are not class conscious, We tell them about the DAILY WORKBR and ask them to subscribe. We must explain to them at least the main essentials of the class struggle. We must overcome objections, prove the advantages and ity of organization, of working lass | against the boss and his pliant tools, the trade union burekucrats. We must exploit the growing revolt of.these workers. Wesmust connect up our paper and ing the DAILY WORKER the spokes- All this must be done upon the most far-reaching scale and in the most sys- tematic manner possible. Such work is getting down to funda- mentals. It means real contact with the masses. By carrying it on ag- gressively and persistently we build up our self-confidence and our ability to give expression to Communist prin- ciples. In other words, we develop kronting our party. our party with these workers by mak- | ourselves into organizers. In subscrip- tion campaigns the immediate goal to achieve is, of course, to extend the circulation of the DAILY WORKER. But this is by no means the only ad- vantage to be gained. By the very act of trying to sell such subscriptions, whether he suceeds or not, the com- rade in question is not only doing mis- sionary work for Communism, but is also gaining valuable organization ex- perience. The Workers Party membership must take seriously the necessity for mass participation in the work of spreading the DAILY WORKER. The Difilding of our great Euglish langunge daily must ever and always be kept in the foreground of our program as one of the most important tasks con- A DAILY WORK- ER with a great circulation means |tremendous strides towards the build- man and champion of their grievances. | ing of our organization into a mass Communist Party, a Bolshevized Par- ty, a party of organizers and leaders. Let us work to the end that when the second anniversary of the DAILY WORKER arrives we will have a vast net-work of organizers and militants throughout the party working ceas- lessly to extend the circulation and influence of our paper amongst the struggling masses. LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL RAISES SLOGAN, “STAND FAST AND FIGHT” FOR 32 MICHIGAN DEFENDANTS)}., STAND FAST AND FIGHT! TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE WORKERS PARTY: TO ALL WORKING CLASS ORGANIZATIONS: TO ALL BELIEVERS IN FREE SPEECH FOR WORKERS: The executive secretary of the Workers Party, C. E. Ruthenberg, is in jail. Robert Minor, Communist cartoonist and writer, has been notified that he will be brought to trial within a few weeks. Thirty other party members will be tried as fast as possible“ The prosecuting attorneys in Michigan, with all the labor-hating bootlickers of capitalism at their backs, are prepar- ing themselves for new and more vicious assaults. The Workers (Communist) Party faces a critical situation. Prosecuting Attorney Bookwalter has already declared that he wishes to try the remaining defendants in the Michigan cases in gangs, instead of one at a time. | JIM ROE, WOBBLY, OVER 70 YEARS OLD, COMES OUT OF JAIL (Special to The Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO.—Old Jim Roe is out of jail... He has served his criminal syndicalism sentence atid is free once more to look for a job and keep on working for industrial unionism. Roe is over 70, crippled with rheumatism, obliged to spend all his time in San Quentin in the “old men’s ward“ in the hospital. But his spirit is just as eager and his loyalty as firm as when he was arrested in Sacramento for selling I. W. W. papers and sent up for four years, one of the very first to be sentenced under the criminal syndi- calism act. While behind the bars he urged his friends to concentrate the am- nesty campaign on younger men who could still be useful in the class struggle on being freed. “Polikushka” is coming to Gertner’s We intend to pre- vent this. But itis clear that the Michigan authorities are preparing for more trials to follow on the heels of that of Comrade Minor. The brib- ed officials of capitalism state openly state that they will put William Z. Foster behind prison bars. They have already laid their plans for the trial of William F. Dunne. Everyone of the 32 Communists indicted im Michi- gan is in immediate danger. We are confronted with a desperate offensive against the entire Commun- ist movement of America. The leaders are attacked. The or- ganization is threatened. Now, as never before,-the Communists are called upon to show what stuff they are made of. With closed ranks and with undaunted courage, with whole- hearted devotion to our great cause, sparing no sacrifice or expense, we must stand and fight amidst the blows which the capitalist power is raining down upon us. Why is it that the Michigan cases have been revived again, after months of delay, during which it appeared that they had been dropped? On all sides one sees signs of an awaken- ing labor movement to meet the chal- lenge of the lowered standard of liv- ing which capitalism is trying to force upon the workers. President Coolidge Sar Be Carp a Wontinued om page 4) OF SOVIET GAINS BRITISH TRADE UNION DELEGATES TO RUSSIA ISSUE PRELIMINARY REPORT ON RESULTS OF MISSION (Special te The Dally Worker) LONDON, Jan. 12.—The Trade Union Congress de to Soviet Russia has issued a preliminary report on its return to this country. The report notes the rapid progress being made by the Rus- sian workers and peasants since a previous trade union delega- tion visited that country. Millions of new capital advantageously in developing + the tremendous unexploited wealth of Russia, the report Says. The members of the delegation are: A. A. Purcell, John Bromley, Ben Til- let, Herbert Smith, A. A. Findlay, John Turner and Fred Bramley. The preliminary report reads: During the six weeks’ tour the dele gation travelled over 6,000 miles, visit- ing some of the most important indus- trial centers in Russia, for the pur- pose of investigating the industrial, social and economic conditions pre- vailing under Soviet rule. A full report of the delegation’s ac tivities will appear in a few weeks, which it is hoped will effectively re- move many misunderstandings with regard to Russian affairs, mainly due to the misrepresenation of the poli- tical platform and press. The investigations have covered several industries, including transport, mining, boot factories, printing, en- gineering and electrical undertakings, railway shops, oil fields, water power, electrical schemes, warehouses, distri- butive establishments, and the several economic departments responsible for the administrative control of indus- tries. Case of Workers. Social institutions such as hospitals, rest houses, workmen's clubs, holi- day homes and children’s homes, are also visited in connection with the in- vestigations into the working of state insurance schemes for dealing with unemployment, and the health of the workers and their dependents. Facilities were given for free entry into all government institutions, and interviews readily arranged. Documents, charts, and reports have been supplied, and expert translaters are now at work preparing detailed material for the delegation’s report. Pending the publication of the full report the members of the delegation place on record the following sum- mary of their general conclusions: (1) The social, industrial, and eco- nomic conditions of Russia have enor- mously improved since the visit of the British delegation in 1920. Members of both delegations and e expert advisers formerly residing in Russia for many years, are agreed as to the very rapid process of eco- nomic restoration now operating un- der the direction of Union of Socialist Soviet. Republics. Sound Finance. (2) The financial stability of Rus- sia is more secure than was expected. The Russians have almost balanced their budget, and have restored their productivity relative to the pre-war standard at a rate which compares favorable with the general European average. (3) The industrial undertakings are being rapidly developed, especially (Continued on page 4) — could be used DOCTOR N SOVIET RUSSIA TELS OF NEW CANCER CURE LENINGRAD, Russia, Jan. 1 Dr. Molotkev, professor in the aeg- rological academy here, announces the employment of a new methed of treating cancer, which he de clares will effect cures. The treat ment consists in cutting the nerve leading directly to the cancereus growth. According te Prof. Molotkey the nerves play a vital part In alf cases of cancer. At the academy ef medl- cal sciences he exhibited several pa- tients who he said had been cured by the new method. The same treat- ment, he asserts, will alee heal gan- grene and inflammation of the mar- row of bones. THEY WILL TRY ANYTHING BUT Building Trades Fakers Tinker with Calif. (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—President Hedrick and Secretary Tracy of the building trades department, American Federation of Labor, will meet the presidents of the sixteen national and international unions affiliated with that department, at the Sutter hotel in San Francisco on Feb. 12, to seek a full settlement of the disputed bas- is of representation in the California Building Trades Council, which is now doing serious injury to the movement in that state. The state council was taken into the national department many years ago on its own basis of organization, including representation on state and local coyncils based on membership. This gives to the carpenters, now out- side the national department, a ma- jority in the state and local councile— in violation of the laws of the nation- al department. | The sixteen executives of unions affiliated with the department are unanimous in their program of ad- justment, which will not exclude the carpenters, but will deprive them of control of the state and local cown- cils’ policy. Ger, E G. W — — — ~ GREETINGS FROM CANADA! HE Communist Party of Canada sends greetings to the DAILY WORKER on its first anniversary as follows: THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIIinols. Toronto, Canada, Jan. 9, 1926. The Communist Party of Canada sends sincerest Communist greet- ings to the DAILY WORKER, on its first anniversary. We take this opportunity of congratulating the Communists and militant workers in the United States upon their wonderful achievement in making the DAILY WORKER possibile, and trust that their energies Will be devoted to maintaining and extending the influence of this fighting working class paper. The workers of the American continent in the great conflicts ahead with the brutal forces of capital, will require more and more such a militant, fighting weapon as the DAILY WORKER, The Communists of Canada feel proud of the energy and sacrifice of their comrades in the United States that made the DAILY WORKER possible and feel confident that such devotion will ensure the existence of this revolutionary organ for the coming year. Long live the Workers (Communist) Party of Americal Long live the DAILY WORKER! Central Executive Committe of the Communist Party of Canada, L. Cunningham, Chairman. Jack MacDenald, Geeretary. | — AMALGAMATION... ay
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' 28 * ig A ee, ‘ 392 * ‘ * * — n . ——— —— — ae 1 4 * N * J * 7 1 75 2 we Bae eG Ef eS 2 Ern * ? N 25 * a: a > 7 PKS fo Denounce Lying About KNussian Visit (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Dec. 22.— (By Mail.)—The capitalist press of this country continues to ham- mer the British trade union delegation that has recently re- turned from an official visit to Russia. The delegates are enthusias- tic in their praises of the accom- plishments of the workers’ and peasants’ government and bit- ter in their denunciation of the lying campaign conducted against them by the yellow so- cialist press of this continent. A. A. Purcell, chairman of the dele- gation, denounced the Manchester Guardian, favored among American liberals, the Daily Mail, Daily News Vorwarts and Het Volk for their cam- paign of slander and lies. “When we had a reception it was a ‘fake’; when he had no one to meet us it was also a fake.“ And when we did not say anything well—why didn’t we?“ declared Purcell. Yellow Socialist Press. “The German and British press— capitalist and socialist alike,” said Purcell, “vie with each other in dis- torting the delegation’s speeches. Then they followed it up, in quite a dozen instances, by asking me as chairman of the delegation, if I had anythipg to say regarding the visit. “And when they failed to get a re- ply, they reported us as being ‘hypno- tized.’ Fancy trying to get news from hypnotics!” Purcell declared that the official re- port of the delegation would be first given to the Trade Union Congress but that a preliminary report would be made public at once. He gave a hint of what it would be like when he said: “What will it tell us? Ah wait and see. It is sufficient to say that if the working class of this coun- try knew its strength and power to the same extent as that of Russia, the orthodox politician and the capitalist press mercenaries would be speedily proving whether they were really gen- uinely employed.” _ Relations With Miners. Herbert Smith, president of the Yorkshire miners and one of the dele- gates has recommended that the Brit- dish miners send a strong delegation to Russia to establish permanent rela- tions. with the Russian miners. The sentiment created by the re- ports of the trade union leaders has had a damaging effect on the tory preparations for starting another war on Russia. John Wheatley, M. P., and minister of health in the recent labor party government made a strong speech in Glasgow recently on the dangers of the tory plot against Rus- sia. He said: “Despite any vituperation in the press, if any attempt is made by the government of Britain to launch into a war with Russia, I for one, am pre- pared to spend not merely my time, but my life in appealing to the work- ing classes of this country to refuse not merely to join into an attack on Russia, but to utilize the opportunity of war with Russia in an attack on British capitalism.” To Defend Russia. He warned the workers that an at- tack against Russia was in the course of preparation; that the workers of Britain and of all the world had an interest in Russia; that the people of Russia appealed to the workers of Germany, France and England and particularly the latter for aid in re- sisting the attacks of the capitalist enemy. The workers of the world had the duty of defending Russia against her enemies as her enemies were also the enemies of labor all the world over. (The preliminary report of the dele gates to Russia will be found in an- other column.—Ed.) eS RRA NS NAAN 8888 Post Cards in Colors Something New and Different. Use them for your regular cor- respondence. Have a set for your album. No. 1—Lenin directing the revolution No. 2—Lenin, when 16 years old No. 3—The Red Flag of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics No. 4—The Russian state seal and emblem No. 5—Trotsky, commander Soviet Red Army of the ONE CARD 5 CENTS In lots of 10 or more, 2c per card. 1% in lots of 100 or more. Send money order, check or post- age to Literature Department WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA 1113 W. Washington Bld., Chicago, III. TH | LABOR LEARNS OF SOVIET RUSSIA | (Continued from page 3) those responsible for electrical power and equipment. The high degree of organizing and administrative capacity, and the en- thusiasm of the workers under the new system of state ownership, deeply impressed the delegation. (4) The housing conditions of the workers are being rapidly improved. New housing schemes making pro- vision for the erection of model cot- tages superior to some of the govern- ment houses provided in Great Brit ain, are being pushed forward with great energy and ability. (65) A great effort is being made to eliminate illiteracy. , Many kinds of educational activity are being promoted and are being gen- erously subsidised and urged forward by the Union of Socialist Republies and the trade union organizations. More Education. (6) Workmen’s clubs, holiday homes and rest houses are also being used for the education of the illite- rates, including children and adults. The proportion of the workingclass population without education is being reduced. very rapidly. (7) The administrative depart- ments of the Soviet state are well or- ganized and efficiently controlled. This is especially true of those to which the members of the delegation devoted special attention, namely, those dealing with state insurance for health, unemployment and the medi- cal care of the workers and their de- pendents. (8) Religious institutions have complete freedom to exercise their re- ligious beliefs. Members of the delegation visited churches and mosques during the ser- vices. The church has been disestablished and is now entirely maintained by voluntary contributions, and no reli gious instruction is given in schools or other educational institutions. Stamping Out Vice. (9) Every effort is being made to improve the moral life of Russia. Prostitution, gambling and other vices are being rapidly eliminated by educational effort and drastic state regulations. (10) By the creation of workers’ clubs, rest houses, sport and physical centers, trade union organizations are securing for their members trade un- ion benefits and an addition to real wages, which is much appreciated. Many other important changes will be referred to and dealt with in the report, which will contain the neces- sary information to justify the trade union and labor policy supporting the full diplomatic and economic recog- nition of Russia. The report will also prove that mil- lions of new capital could be properly and safély invested in the develop- ment of the enormous economic possi- bilities of Russia, and fully justify the claim made on behalf of British labor that Russia, under Soviet rule, has so far improved the material and moral conditions of its people as to have now earned a permanent place among European nations. Signed on behalf of the delegation, A. A. Purcell, Chairman, Fred Bramley, Secretary. | LABOR! STAND FAST AND FIGHT! | (Continued from page 3) was elected by the capitalists, to help push thru this program of the capi- talists. Governmental reaction, ex- pressed thru federal and state authori- ties, is striding forward to crush all working class resistence. The prosecutors are not interested in the Communists as Communists. It is because the Communists every- where appear as active leaders of the militant workers that they are be- ing brought to trial in the capitalist courts. The ruling class offensive against the Communist is only the be- ginning of a larger and more concert- ed attack against the whole labor movement. The defense of the Communists fs the defense of the very existence of the labor movement. The Labor Defense Council calls up- on all fighting sections of the Ameri- dan labor movement and upon class- conscious workers thruout the country to rally to the defense in this critical moment. To members of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, the situatton ts a su- preme test. Comrade Minor must have the best defense that can be obtained. Comrade Ruthenberg may soon be out of jail temporarily, pending decision on his appeal to the United States su- preme court. But he will not be out of danger. Practically every one of the other leaders of the party, begin- ning with Comrade Foster, may be taken from us—and will be taken from us spon unless the members of the party show such a spirit of mili- tant resistence that the capitalist government is forced to back down. The whole Workers Party must be shaken from top to bottom. There must be a rebirth of activity for the Michigan defense. The local units of abor defense council must imme diately take steps to vigorously carry out its new and enormous tasks. Money must be poured out unstint- ingly. We are in a life and death grapple with the political power of capitalism. STAND FAST AND FIGHT! LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL. HERE COME THE SHOCK TROOPS OF THE WORKING CLASS ARMY (Continued from page 2) CZECHO-SLOVAK FEDERATION. Buffalo, N. V $ 5.00 Endicott, N. Y 12.00 Dillondale, Ohio 22.00 Cicero, III. 5.00 Chicago, III. 8.00 West Allis, Wis 5.00 Baltimore, Ohlo 10.00 Newark, N. J 33.00 Omaha, Nebr. 10.00 $ 110.00 ITALIAN FEDERATION. Cleveland, Central 1.00 Powhatan Point, Ohio 69.07 Philadelphia, Pa. 2.50 Camden, Pa. 5.00 Chester, Pa. 6.60 Chickasaw, Pa. $ 4.00 Chicago, Ill. 5.00 Detroit, Mich. 4.00 Bellaire, Ohio 10.00 Boston, Mass. 12.00 $ 119.07 BULGARIAN FEDERATION. Madison, Ill. .... 10.00 Cleveland, Ohio 10.00 | Detroit, Mich. $ 57.00 Pontiac, Mich. 50.00 Madison, III. 40.00 Chicago, III. 24.00 $ 191.00 $ 171.00 ROUMANIAN FEDERATION. Detroit, Mich. $ 37.00 Akron, Ohio 24.00 Alliance, Ohio 11.00 $ 72. SCANDINAVIAN FEDERATION. Rochford, II. 10.00 West Townsend, Mass. 11.00 Brooklyn, N. V., South... 22.00 Chicago, South Side 16.00 | Chicago, Lakeview 14.00 Chicago, Karl Marx 77.00 Dorchester, Mass. $ 25.00 Philadelphia, Pa. 6. Pocatello, Idaho 3.00 $ 184.00 oo | Detroit, Mich., S. Slav ........ | ESTHONIAN FEDERATION. San Francisco, Cal 10.00 Philadelphia, Pa. 10.00 New York, N. v 36.00 OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. Spanish branch, New York...... 17.00 Caucasian branch, Chicago...... 10.00 Machinists’ Freiheit, Chicago.. 5.00 Shop Nucleus 5, Chicago. 412.00 Shop Nucleus 3, Chicago. 50.00 Shop Nucleus 1, Chicago 11.00 Buffalo, N. Y 366.00 INDIVIDUALS. DAILY WORKER office............ 674.00 Mailed-in remittances. .............. 860.60 Total $14,020.43 RUSSIAN BRANCH, GARY, IND. After page two with the reports was stereotyped we received by messenger $23.00 from the Russian branch of Gary, Ind. This makes the total for the Russian branch of Gary $33.00 in- stead of $10 as reported on page two"! LAST MINUTE REMITTANCES. North Hudson, N. J., English............ $10 Newport, N. H., N. W. P. club 15 Lawrence, Mass. 21 Berkeley, Cal., English Albany, N. Y. ... 12 Baltimore, Md., C. C. C. 11 St. Louis, Mo., “English Hartford, Conn., C. C. 00. 10 Newark, N. J., Hungarian ............. 5 Trenton, N. J., German 4 Trenton, N. J., Jewish 12 Trenton, N. J., Russian 9 00 | Zeigler, III., South Slav 12 Gary, ind., Russian 23 | Denver, Colo., English 10 | Hamtramck, Mich., Russian ............ 5 Binghampton, N. V., C. C. C. 8 Superior, Wisc., Finnish 22 | Chicago, „ EIR Milwaukee, Wisc., Ukrainian .......... ive 0 Individunal GRAND TOTAL $14,417 GRAND DUKE BORIS IS COMING; NEW YORK SOCIETY DAMES ARE READY TO DASH FOR THE BATTERY Lan to the Russian throne, put his ) ' hag Olympic for New York. PARIS, Jan. 12--The Grand Duke Boris, younger brother of the pre- American visit in the light of a social jaunt to renew pleasant contacts made in 1902, in an exclusive interview with International News service just before he boarded a boat train to catch Boris refused to admit that he was going to America to launch propa- ganda for the restoration of Russian monarchy or for the purpose of raising | funds to further that movement care of wr. Nor- man Thomas raised in order to start The DAILY WORKER. A small gum indeed. But it had a loyal army behind it and the geld all to itself. The is . a le ‘were disappear- that the class ani that class 36 the vocabulary of Not if I can help on the evening the American working e ment ever saw. And if it has said a1 word for the capitalist or any of its lackeys ever since, even its worst enemies have failed to nation Fe 2 5 „* O sooner had The DAILY WORK. ER come upon the scene than it proceeded to fere in every strike lor struggle of amy Kind in which the workers were involved. The work ers met it with open arms and the capitalists amu the labor fakers with clenched fists. But it gave as many blows as it received and is today in better condition than ever before. In fact, it lives 2 : se T fought for the garment strikers here in Chicago and everywhere else there was au industrial struggle. It never waited for a moment to find out whether a strike was “justified.” Never has any such doubts. Strikes mean fights against the bosses and that should be the orite outdoor sport of the workers. It covered the Indianapolis con h of the Unit- ed Mine Workers of America and sev- eral other big labor meetings. But, perhaps the biggest job of the year was the way it handled the election campaign, when the unist ban- ner was raised for the first time in a national election with William Z. Fos- ter, the great strike leader as our standard bearer. ' 82 = a el HE future of The DAILY WORK- ER is assured. We say this not because we are intoxicated with joy over our first anniversary, but because our daily has a loyal army of support- ers. It is upon this army, the mem- bers of the Workers’ (Communist) Party that the daily relies. [Tun DAILY WORKER is fighting the battles of labor. It is with them every day, from the mine fields i knows no lines of division betwee workers. It stands for their united action on the industrial fleld and it continues to rally the most class con- scious of them on the political field under the’ banner of the Workers (Cémmunist) Party. 89 ¢ ® HE first Communist daily in the English language has passed thru its first year creditably. We have never yet heard a capitalist praise it. The labor fakers are not enthusiastic over it. But the workers that we have been able to reach—even those of them who cannot see eye to eye with us—know instinctively that it is their friend. As the class struggle grows in intensity, and the American workers will be compelled more and more to come into conflict with’ their masters; as the final struggle for the conquest of power by the workers draws near- er, the DAILY WORKER the trumpet of Communism will become increas- ingly more necessary to the workers to give them leadership and guidance, Compromise Bill for Postal Clerks’ Raise May Get Thru Senate (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The sen- ate will probably pass the Moses bill raising the pay of postal employes and at the same time increasing the rates of postage M. T. Finnan, secre tary of the National Assoication of Letter Carriers announced here today. Finnan together with Senator McKin- ley conferred with Coolidge yesterday about the bill. Coolidge indicated that he would not veto the measure as he did with the bill passed by the last congress which aimed at increas- ing the wages of the postoffice slaves. The Moses bill in its sections deal. ing with postoffice wages is a compro- mise of the bill which was vetoed. It gives only part of the increases asked by the postal workers. Officers of the various postoffice workers’ organiza- 10 tions are boosting the bill on the theory that it is the best they can 4 hope to get. Soviet Russia’s Radio Clubs Now United by Moscow MOSCOW, Jan. 12.—All of Russiia’s radio associations have been combined into the “Association of Radio Ama teurs,” covering the entire Soviet ter- ritory, with headquarters in Moscow it is announced. A wireless journal the title of which is, in English, “The Radio Amateur,” is now published twice a month in Moscow. “In Memoriam—Lenin” to be shown dan. 15 at Gartner's Theater, — — — Tuesday, January 13, 1928 Notice in + Passing of an Add ing Machine Gets a Death By J. Louis ENGDAHL. ee | John Reed funior Group , the a apers | Birthday Greetings to The Daily Worker from the 93 f > of Chicago fay Pg LONG LIVE THE DAILY WORKER! We send you hearty wishes for a better and bigger paper. By the way, we are proud otoners grave, he must be of Pennsylvania, to t ills | of MW paCHUSSL ; irc 5 we ) 5 wo rk. It 3 the huge inde surance compan were no such facts to report N home office, No. 1, Madison machine being scrapped at a get their slaves bi 0 enc is, ¢ * Communism is their only ho is passing. ODAY, the New York World gives five inches of space in its obituary department, to record the passing of Walter R. Quick, auditor of the Metropolitan Life Insurance com- pany. “The Metropolitan” is a power in the capitalist world. As each one of its important human cogs drops into the given his “death notice.” : Quick was typical of the loyal slaves of big business. The events in his life read like a column of Jan. 14, 1867; joined “The Metropolitan” when on March 14, 1887, in the bookkeeping departme promoted to assistant to the secretary; audit division, Jan. 1, 1890; went to 1901; then cashier at the head office until 1910, When he came back to home office; on Oct. 13, of that year, appointed assistant to the treasurer to supervise the ing work of the home office; appointed auditor Jan. 21, 1913. Any voucher, any file of papers in the vast machinery of The Metropolitan” could tell as interesting, or utterly a story. Auditor Guick -Was but a card in x of human material with which this life in- carries on its work. He place in life under capitalism. 4 res. Born: ears old. : in 1889 transferred to the acific. Coast office in neral account- had no other Evidently Auditor Quick had not reached that place where he could enjoy a little leisure, at the expense of work- ing class policy holders; where he could travel and join ex- clusive clubs. These facts, if they exi in the obituary of a “figure” in the business world. are usually included There about Auditor Quick. At 58 as he was still close to the job. He had to be, evidently, order to hold on to his place. He died on the job at the Ave., New York City. it is reported that he died “suddenly”; just like any adding moment’s notice, in order to make way for something new and more efficient. And this Auditor Quick was no doubt looked upon as « “successful” among his fellow white collar slaves. Didn't he get a notice in the papers when he died. For that, thousands, of lesser white collar slaves, only a slip of pasteboard in the time clock, will envy him, for some time, until he is forgotten. This is the measure of success amon ever struggling myriads of the middle class. Those who can eet on a few dollars rise accordingly in the estima- tion of their fellow adding machines. the money hungry, Capitalism may attract its multitudes of white collar y various and dubious means, and chain them to the desks of its counting rooms; coddling them into believ- ing that they are better than wage workers in the factories, the fields, the mills and the mines. But the profit hun business will in time drive these petted? pillars o middle class into the ranks of the workin multitudes will in time r of the class. These Ar the 1 . Under Communism this mind-numbing labor of the offices will be so ordered that it will be looked upon as a mere incident in the lives of human beings. R X K & The development of civilization under Communism will draw all human beings out of their pigeonholes, where cap- italism filed them away, and give them a wider outlook on life. In fact, the aim will be to develop real human beings, who can think, and play, and enjoy life, and not to maintain mere machines of flesh, and blood and bones; which is the highest ambition of the present capitalist social order that LOS ANGELES PAINTERS TELL PUPPYDOG CHARITY BEGGARS commerce, the union sends UNION CONDITIONS PREVENT T. B. (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 12.—Painters’ Local Union No. 1348 of this city is opposed to the conditions which produce consumption, that is, scab shop conditions, and in a letter addressed to the local association which operates as a sort of legal begging agency under the wing of the chamber of iis re spects to the open shop. The letter is as follows: Gentlemen:—yYour appeal in behalf the consumptive stricken received. With all due credit to your human- itarian efforts, we cannot refrain from sharply protesting your commun- ication for not carrying the union label—the safest protection against consumption; for its being printed in an “Open Shop” under conditions of work producing consumption. You are undoubtedly aware of the fact that the real and only aim of the so-called “American Plan” or the “Open Shop” is to suppress and de- Stroy the fighting organizations of American labor; to check the resist- ance power of the American worker and to crush the fighting spirit of the producer of all wealth. Its “plan” is to institute the cruel system of ex- treme and unrestricted exploitation of the American worker rendering him a helpless and hopeless slave in the grind mill of poverty, misery, degreda- tion and desease for himself and un- limited wealth and luxury for his greedy exploiter. We do know the truth of all these facts from recent experience. We are Struggling presently under the ruins of an unsuccessful strike for 14 weeks against the shameful plots of the “open shoppers” to rob the meager means of our bare existance; against their efforts to crush our spirit of liberty and independence and to de- stroy our only hope and protection— our fighting organizations. The “open shop” plague leaves the factory door wide open for its faith- ful ally, the white plague, whose mother and direct beneficiary it is, especially so in Los Angeles. By sup- porting the open shop you are support- ing its efforts to reduce our standard at ving and to raise our standard of \ production; to reduce the amount of our food, shelter and clothing, render- ing thereby each and every one of us an easy prey to the germs of consum- ption—the very thing you intend to fight. By giving aid and confort to our bitterest enemy, you are inviting consumption to do.its worst and en- couraging the white plague to run wild and unchecked. Your plan of curing consumption with Christmas stamps while sup- porting its production and distribution through the “open shop”, certainly does not appeal to us, the victims of them both. At our last meeting, we have whole- heartedly donated the sum of $25 to the Los Angeles Consumptive San- atorium— an institution absolutely fair to organized labor. We have also vlected a committee to raise additional funds for the same purpose. We have sent volunteers many a time, mem- bers of our union, to contribute days of skilled work to paint and decorate the buildings on this institution. You will always find us ready and willing to do our duty, but we should never betray our own interests by support- ing the scourge of humanity, the “open shop”. We must refrain from contributing even one single dollar towards an institution supporting it. Believing as we do that “an ounce of prevention is worth more than tons of cure,” we can not under the circum- stances be a party to your plan. We are respectfully returning your Christ- mas stamps and extened to your hon- orable and well meaning body our cordial invitation to help us prevent consumption by bettering the condi- tions of life and work of its prospects, the worker in America. Yours for union conditions, The Painters Local Union 1348, S. — of $12.00 worth of Insurance Polictes to Saus. Be Gay Serle ps nag Birthday Greetings from Prison Permit me to extend to you and your staff my heartiest congratula- tions on the first anniversary of your publication. If your past performance may be regarded as indicative of what the working class may expect of your publication in future, there is no doubt that your journalistic enterprise may look forward to a period of constantly increasing usefulness to the people whom you serve. I remain fraternally Peter Mulberg No. 4795 ) Lock Box 600 Steelacoom, Wash. GREETINGS OF THE JEWISH BRANCH, WORKERS PARTY, OF BOSTON, MASS. “... it was a year of brave fighting. ) 132 A year of courage to the oppressed. We send you, ‘Dally,’ our heartiest congratulations. Until the day of final : 11 confilct you shall lead us without | stop.” : No compromise in the ficht — for emancipation! Long live the Workers Party! Long live the Communist International! hb + + + + + + + + bb + + + b+ DD DS Db Db DD DD DD GREETINGS | ON 8 YOUR FIRST BIRTHDAY Long Live the Daily Worker! 35: Best Wishes for Your | Continued Success. . GEORGE VOYZEY, Verona, III. _-. » - eee DDD LL DD DL — Greetings | tothe Daily Worker Tolstoy Vegetarian Restaurant 2718 W. Division St. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO The Daily Worker FROM GARY WORKERS ) HENRY N. HOLUB’ F. NIKOLAISY
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rs ist 4 * — — es tae a — 2 2 — — 2 — » a4 * 2 jie Mie 8s he “DAILY WORKER! Birthday Greetings to Our Communist Daily From THE JEWISH BRANCH, Cleveland, Ohio * : : 3 : — BIRTHDAY GREETINGS and Best Wishes to the DAILY WORKER : From B. BENSON, 1151 Belmont Ave., Chicago, III. Anniversary Greetings and Best Wishes for the Success of the DAILY WORKER. DR. B. L. HERZBERG, Dentist 3551 & 1612 Roosevelt Road, Chicago, III. ie th haces — — eee — — FE ———— ees a = *. — 9 7 * 1. 1 2 bat 7 F 2 — 4 1 “4 wi 4 2 5 * hes 7 * * 75 4 ö a 4 1 * + * * 50 1 7 BB 3 8 J Greetings to The Daily Worker from COKOS BROTHERS Groceries, Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco and Candies 1111 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. n By GEORGE MAURER. Communist Party, and there- fore the Communist press, has no interests aside from those of the work- ing class as a whole. The interests of ‘the working class, from its most advanced leaders to the most oppress- ed wage slaves are in constant con- tot with the interests of the employ- ing class and its instrument, the capitalist state. As the class struggle intensifies the capitalist class more openly and ruthlessly, and with ever greater frequency, uses its instruments to suppress working clcass opposition to its slave driving rule, and to gain more privilege for the employing Europe's Open Conflicts. In Bureope we see how far things have developed—tascist dictatorship, Horthy’s murdérous irol heel, the white terror, the workers and revolu- tionary working class leaders, Com- munists, murdered, jailed by thou- sands, their organizations attacked by white guards, and we see the workers building their counter-offensive, rally- ing to the Communist Party and press, alding and defending the political prisoners the victims. of the class war. In a full sense, workers and working clase leaders, especially those who are most actively, mflitantly and effective- ly fighting the battle of the workers against capitalism—are made victims of capitalist punishment, the only “political” victims. To a capitalist dictatorship, workers who fight to wipe out that dictatorship are natur- ally its only true (class) political enemies. Workers—Not Dilettante, Suffer During the war, of course, even a few bourgeois supporters of the capitalist order, who happened to be non-resistant pacifists, and a few “philosophical individualists” who op- posed capitalism’s war and draft were made political prisoners. But the overwhelming bulk of political pris- oners and victims in capitalist states were, are and will be in increasing number, workers, especially radical workers and more particularly revo- lutionary workers-—-Communiste—who : fight the class war. The big capitalist newspapers know this well and they have tons of lies, vicious attacks calling for merciless suppression of the class enemies of capitalism, appearing in them. day after day. We see in capitalist news- papers ‘incitement to violence (and what not?) against working class opponents. Lies Furnished Wholesale. When courts. judges, officers of the law “stool pigeon” detectives, ignore the law (capitalist law, mind you) in their zeal to keep the workers in sub- jection, the capitalist dailies sing their praises and dish out pages of ridiculous, fabricated stories about “terrible” Communists, I. W. W., or other workers who dare oppose their ‘injunctions, their strike-breakers and gunmen, their would-be complete open shop rule. Political ‘prisoners, working class victims of capitalism, stand out as one of the most clear revelations of the class war that is waging. The cases of Mooney and Billings, Sacco and Vanzetti, Foster and Ruthenberg in the Michigan Communist cases, the many I. W. W. cases in the west, the deportation cases of alien workers, in all their details expose capitalism ami its interests and methods clearly to the light of day. it Speaks for Whole Class, It is quite natural then that the Communist press, being what it is, speaking for the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, having no interests aside from those of the working class, should champion the cause of political prisoners. Readers of the Communist papers the world over, in all lan- guages, workers who have been read- ing the Communist papers of America need not be reminded of the many cases of working class political pris- oners of capitalism which have been detailed in them, well know that this is because of the importance and significance of such cases. They know that Communist papers call for action, for all workers and workers’ organiza- tions to rally to the support of politi- cal prisoners, to do everything pos- sible in the way of concerted action and mass protest, because Communists and Communist papers know that the cause of political prisoners is the cause of the entire working class. Readers of the DAILY WORKER know how r the DAILY, its predecessor, the weekly WORKER, and other Communist papers were in the Michigan Communist cases, the defense of which, or rather, the working clcass around which, served to considerably strengthen the fighting spirit of the working class and its revolutionary anguard. v What Are Your Duties? Do you know it demanded of you—the relation to the case of W n Do you know your duties as a worker, as a fighter in the cause of the workers, slogan of full freedom and Vanzetti. It calls for mass protest to show Ameri- can capitalism that millions of work- ers realize that their persecution is class persecution, no matter how hard the capitalist executioners try to dis- guise thé baseness of their deeds!” It truly states that legal defense with- out mass protest will not save their lives. It abelaims Sacco and Vanzetti must be freed by a jury of millions of their class—th@ working class for whom they fouglit and for whom they are sehtenced to die!” Dally Worker to the Fore. This call in the DAILY jade the DAILY WORK- PR, official oan of the Workers were tried as yee of capitalism and that their cause is the cause of the whole working class. The editors of and the writers for the Communist press, the most active leaders of the Communist movement, all of those who build, maintain and strengthen the Communist Party and press, are most often made political prisoners. Just see, for instance, who some of the Communists are that are now be- ing defended by the Labor Defense Council and who are editors or writ- 55 . cal „ ee ee — eee ers for the Communist Press—Dunne, Browder, Foster. Ruthenberg, Minor, O'Flaherty, Lovestone, Bedacht among those of the Michigan defendants; John Lassen, editor of the Hungarian paper Elore; Vajtauer, editor of the Czecho-Slavok paper Obrana, etc. To you, who believe in the Communist press, we say, rally to the defense of your working class leaders, the mill- tant fighters for the cause of labor. Your Cause, Too! Workers, the cause of C. E. Ruthen- berg, executive secretary of the ‘Workers Party, class enemy of capi- talism, sentenced to 3 to 10 years in in the DAILY WORKER of Jan. 5, is | your cause. The cause of William Z. Foster, F. Dunne, Robert Minor, Darl R. Browder and the other 27 defendants in the Michigan cases, is your cause. The cause of Lassen and Vajtauer is your cause. The cause of all the workers who are victims of American capitalist tyranny, persecution and railroading, of political prisoners and class war victims in Europe under the white terror, is your cause. You are told about, and called to action for all these cases by the Communist press. Most recent is the call to ac- tion for the Michigan defense. sent out by the Workers (Communist) Party and the Labor Defense Council. Will You Help? You can help this cause of political prisoners by responding t6 the calls AND by building a great, strong, Com- munist press. We are sure that those who are in jafl for uefor YOU— want us to help out utmost to build the DAILY WORKER into a great fighting mass Communist daily. You must rally to the cause of the Com- munist political prisoners—keep them out of prison—if you want the best, most pewerful Communist press. Our cause is one! Frée political prisoners. Free Ruthenberg, Tom Mooney and the I. W. W. prisoners, save Sacco and Vanzetti from death! Keep Foster, Ruthenberg, Minor, Dunne, Browder and the others out of prison, free to fight and lead in the class struggle. More power to the Communist press! Down with capil- talist dictatorship and oppression! Up and on with the DAILY WORKER to the workers’ rule, the Communist — den HARRISON. N its year of Ute the DAILY DPR has layed a tremendous part in relation to the I. W. W., both in that organization’s struggle against the «- its internal struggles, in which a rev- olutionary resistance arose to the steady dry-rot of anarcho-syndicalism, liberalism, pacifism and political ster- ility that has been steadily eating the heart out of the I. W. W.—an organ, ization which, before the war, stood easily ahead of any other in the rev- olutionary struggle of the American proletariat. Tho the DAILY WORKER in the first months of its life went largely unnoticed by the membership of the I, W. W., in the last few months since the I. W. W. has been shaken by in- ternal struggle which aroused the self-complacent to a thinking atti- tude and created an ideological storm in spite of all official efforts to stifle and ignore it, the DAILY WORKER has become a powerful influence in the I. W. W. This influence is far greater than I. W. W. spokesman wish to admit, probably greater than they know—because most of them live in a world of undeality, hob.nobbing with each other and convincing each other that Communist influence has no ef- fect on their rank and file because it has none on them. The Unofficial Friendliness. But in the office’ of the DAILY WORKER where the rank and file of the I. W. W., equally with all workers of all unions, have a chance to be heard, the great number of tributes to he DAILY WORKER from members of the I. W. W., in prison and on the jobs, from the Pacific to the Atlantic and even from overseas, tells a story of warm faith in our workers’ daily that cannot be gainsaid or waved away. In spite of the stupidity of the I. W. W. in refusing all co-operation with the Workers Party and the Trade Un- fon Educational League to fight the menace of criminal syndicalism laws atid free the class war prisoners of whom the I. W. W. furnishes nearly a hundred in California alone, with these and the victims of the white guard Legionnaires of entralia in Washington as the outstanding cases —in spite of fruitless efforts to come to some agreement with the I. W. W. whereby a general and combined fight tor these workers could be carried on, ‘the DAILY WORKER has done all it could without the assistance of the I. W. W. defense organization to give space and public hearing to cases of these persecuted workers. In spite of the fact that the DAILY WORKER is the only real labor daily in the United States, reaching opinion far wider than its small but expanding circulation, and in spite of the fact that the office of the General Defense Committee of the I. W. W. is within a stone’s throw of the DAILY WORK. secretaries suppressive forces of capitalism, and The Daily Worker an poss 2 ' “feaprisoned men re ba prompt and — publicity matter or any other arangement with the DAILY WORKER to which all kinds of unions and union men and large numbers of unorganized work. ers bring their stories of capitalist op- pression. I. W. W. Prisoners Like Their Daily But while the I. W. W. defense gives the capitalist press as good and better news service than the DAILY WORKER, the boys in San Quentin and Folsom have repeatedly expressed their appreciation of our DAILY, which is THEIR DAILY, too. It is, in the field of ideological struggle, however, between the rapid- ly growing group of Communist sym- pathizers, adherents of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions, and the dogmatic leadership of syndicalist con. fusionaries, that the DAILY WORK: Sennen 75 By space given the I. W. W. “'s grave internal struggle against the injunc- tionites and all they stood for, the DAILY WORKER has aided the Red International Affiliation Committee to clarify the understanding of I. W. W. members everywhere as to what the ‘| Red International really proposes in. stead of the lies and misrepresenta- tion they had been fed upon for years almost uncontradicted. Partial to Revolutionary Struggle. In the struggle between the injunc- tionite, job-unionist, pacifist element and the, revolutionary left wing, the Red International Affiliation Commit- tee unhesitatingly took the side of the revolutionary element, tho it criticized this left wing for its lack of program and definite organization and childish faith that the class war can be fought GIANT POWER PLANTS TO PUT TENS OF THOUSANDS OUT OF JOBS AND MAKE SKILL USELESS By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press industrial Editor) Warning that the development of giant power promises serious problems for organized labor was voiced by Carter Goodrich of the University of Michigan in his address to the American Economic Assn. in Chicago, on the effect of giant power on the position of wage earners. Goodrich pointed out that control on.tHe employers’ side is likely to be massed im a huge trust of the sort against which trade unions + have rarely made headway. Immediate displacement of tens of thousands of workers with the result- ing drift and maladjustment is the first. hardship which he mentioned as likely. He noted that a saving of 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 tons of coal represents the livelihood of 50,000 to 100,000 miners. “If to this are added the similar tho less striking disturb- ances where the new power replaces thousands of other workers on the railroads and thruout manufacturing industry it is clear that the problem of immediate hardship alone is a very real one,” he says. The more lasting evil resulting from such displacement will be its ef- fect on the labor standards of the in- dustry out of which these men were squeezed, due to the weakening of the bargaining power of those who re- main. Dealing specifically with the hundreds of thousands driven out of the industries affected he said: “There is every prospect that the greater number of these men will cling for a considerable time to their old industries, ready to accept part- time employment or lower wages and go pull down the standards of their fellows, rather than take up the search for unfamiliar work. The pro- cess may well be long enough drawn out to break down standards that are themselves the product of long years of struggle and even cripple or de- stroy the workers’ chief agency for their rebuilding.” By this agency he means the union. Giant power, he further states, brings with it the familiar threat of | the breakdown of craft skill. He called specific attention to the fact that electric locomotives are recog- nized in a wage agreement on: the Norfolk & Western as calling for less skill than the older type. This may be .enough, he said, together with the displacement of engineers and a much larger displacement of firemen, to make a problem even for unions as strongly entrenched as the brother- hoods. Summarizing he said: “Certain great technical changes in the past have held out promises almost as glowing but have fulfilled them only at the cost of grave and in some cases long continued hardship for the work- ers. Analysis makes clear that here again as in earlier revolutions there are certain factors that will make it very hard for the workers as wage bargainers to claim their share in the great benefits of the change. Wherever the change permits the re- duction of forces or the reduction of skill, the coming of giant power brings real danger to the workers and their unions.” “In Memoriam—Lenin” to be shown Jan. 18 at Gartner's Theater. | .|gram of winning the wide masse J. W. W. successful conclusion on any way than the Communist a 8 the overthrowal of capitalism. The DAILY WORKER is not a colorless, „impartial“ tribune in editorial policy and editorially took the position of the Red International Affiliation Commit tee against the splitters of Rowan and company. During the 16th general convention, which lasted 25 days, the DAILY WORKER was a more influential force upon the I. W. W. membership than either the injunctionite group, the convention’s right wing or left wing. So confused and disintegrated by misleadership is the I. W. W. that the R. I. A. C., with its straightfor- ward program of clean-cut revolution- ary struggle attained nearly, if not quite a balance of power in the I. W W. with no more formidable weapon than the DAILY WORKER and a sin. cere purpose to advance the cause of ‘revolutionary industrial unionism among the members of the I. W. W. Every day the convention met, each ‘delegate entered the hall with the ‘DAILY WORKER in his pocket, and all over the nation the wobblies were visiting the news dealers where the DAILY WORKER was sold to see “What the Communists had to say” about the convention. Into the DAILY WQRKER office came great numbers of letters from wobblies cursing their own censor-gagged press and enclos- ing sub money and praise. R. |. L. U. Believers Speaking Up. Friend or foe, they all read the The old fear of speaking up in de- fense of the Communists is passing. Six months ago in the I. W. W. halls, the wobblies would read in silence “what the Communists say” about the I. W. W., and, feeling it incontrovert- wle, would not discuss it even with one another, fearing to be called “Communist” by sneering dogmatists. Today, this fear is passing. Those who agree at least partially with the Oommunists, and those who believe the I. W. W. should affiliate to the Red International of Labor Unions, are standing up like men in wobbly meet- ings and saying so and giving the reasons why other wobblies should do likewise. Keep On Doing K. The “liquidation” lie, which lived too long, is dead; the harmony be- tween the program of the Red Inter- national and the I. W. W. is become clear; the difference,s which are not so vital as the points of agreement, are also clearer discerned and there- fore easier settled; the injunctionites while alive, are not in control; anar cho-syndicalism, pacifism and false democracy are discredited together with their teachers and in the same degree. Much has been done—and to the DAILY WORKER goes a large share of the credit and the duty of keeping on doing it. N — To Action! For the ommunist Defense! RUTHENBERG IN PRISON MINOR CALLED FOR. TRIAL prison and whose statement appeared | DAILY WORKER, and—having got the habit, are inclined to continue | THIRTY OTHERS IN DANGER HOLD OFF THE JAILER HOLD BACK THE ENEMY FIGHT CAPITALIST REACTION Demand the freedom of your working class leaders. Make a united front offensive against the bosses’ “anti- syndicalism” laws. The entire labor movement is menaced. ‘Give Generously and Now to the Defense! Ten of thousands of dollars are needed for the legal battle. Send your contribution at once. Get donations and collections in your branch, union, fraternal society, and in your shop. Send check, money orders or bills to the Labor Defense Council Federation of Labor Bidg., 166 W. Washington St. Chicago, Ill. eee ti oe oe & & & & © Jan. 13, 1927 Jan. 13, 1925 GREETINGS TO THE DAILY WORKER! MAY IT CONTINUE IN THE YEARS OF STRUGGLE TO COME AS THE BEST AGITATOR AND ORGANIZER OF OUR PARTY! 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— — SS un W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Dl. year of its existence to justify the support of the io (Phone: Munroe 4712) working class? To answer this question would re- e — 5 2 - o> N 8 — — — ũ Fũmi ‘DAILY W WORKER, | And We Will Do More Next Year, by the DAILY WORKMM PUBLISHING CO.) What has the DAILY WORKER done in the quire almost a republication of each issue. Even to give an abbreviated index of the subjects would cover all the pages of this special edition. Un- fortunately, our Daily cannot afford the great clerical expense of making an index, and in both the editorial and business departments, unknown to those who are out of touch with the Daily’s in- ternal affairs, the comrades who get out your DAILY WORKER, work shorthanded, long hours and under great handicaps. 8 Hardly had the DAILY WORKER deen born, when it had the sad task of announcing the death of Comrade Lenin, on January 21, and calling for the memorial meetings held from coast to coast. In vast throngs the workers responded, as we hope they respond this year to commemorate the life and work of the great 2 of world Bevery: tion. On January 22, the U. M. W. of A. convention opened at Indianapolis, and the DAILY WORKER stepped at once into the arena of a gigantic strug- gle between the left wing of the labor movement led by the Trade Union Educational League, and the class collaborationist labor fakers of the union bureaucracy. Nova Scotia, Howat and the three- year agreement were issues. The DAILY WORKER’S baptism of fire in the Miners’ Union was but a start of its continuous struggle for the revolutionary unionism of the T. U. E. L. as the American section of the Red International of Labor Unions. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: per year $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months 15 By mail (in Chicago only): 58.00 per year $4.50....6 months §$2.60...8 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE} Editors MORITZ J. LOEB. . . --Bus mess Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, III., under the act of March 3, 1879. — Advertising rates on application Join the Workers Party! 8 Thousands of working men and women will read this issue of the DAILY WORKER who have never before seen a copy of the only Communist daily paper in the English language and who know little of what the Workers (Communist) Party repres- ents in the great struggle between capital ond labor for power to appropriate the wealth which comes from the application of labor to natural resources. To such we say that the Workers (Communist) Party is wholly different from any other sort of political party in existence, unlike the other so- called “radical or socialaist” parties. The Workers Party, unlike the parties who claim to represent all classes of people, represents only the interests of the working class, recognizing that its interests are opposed ‘to all other classes. Not only does the Workers (Communist) Party, recognize that labor produces all wealth, and that the continual struggle between the classes can never be settled or adjusted short of a complete overthrowal of the political rule of the capitalist class which masks its real dictatorship behind fake “democracy,” but it sets out with a definite and practical program for the seizure of powér by the workers and the possession of the means of production by all the workers, mental and manual, who participate in all fields of work which con- tribute to the material and intellectual require- ments of human society. Almost every worker knows that capitalism robs the workers, but few know how to end the exploita- tion. All capitalist class education in schools, churches, magazines, newspapers and movies, tells the workers that exploitation either doesn’t exfst or is dangerous to change, or cannot be ended. * The Workers (Communist) Party cuts through this fog of lies and miseducation with the light of understanding, showing all workers how they are exploited and teaching them to unite all thei: forces as a class to overthrow the already united forces of the capitalist class. History shows that no ruling class volutarily surrenders power over an exploited class without open struggle, and the Workers Party warns that the workers can never emancipate themselves by simply voting and passing laws in congress. But although the Workers Party recognizes that only by revolution can the exploitation of the work- ers be finaly ended, it has no interest seperate from the working class, and aids to the full extent of its power in every struggle for immediate needs such as more wages, shorter hours, abolition_of child labor, the fight against unemployment, the “open shop” and the suppression ef workers’ rights. The Workers (Communist) Party fights for the organization of great, strong industrial unions by amalgamation of old craft unions and organizing the unorganized, and the uniting of all workers and working class organizations in the fight to in the Detroit convention; the A. C. W. convention overthrow capitalism and establish a workers’ and at Philadelphia in May and the unmasking of the farmers’ government. | Hillman treachery, the battle with Levin and his To all the readers of this issue of the DAILY sluggers in the Chicago elections ; the Pullman, WORKERS, we urge that you join the Workers Hegewisch and Paterson strikes; the conflicts in (Communist) Party. Boston and elsewhere; and the campaign against : unemployment, wage cuts, longer hours and the open shop. The DAILY WORKER fought the battles of the revalutionists in the I. W. W. against splitters | nd reformists, likewise in the A. F. of L. the Daily as on the job at the El Paso convention just as Chicago, lines Space forbids detail, and we mention only a few of the major struggles and campaigns in which the DAILY WORKER fought in the forefront of America’s workers: The united front struggle for the protection of foreign-born workers; the relief campaign for the starving workers of Germany; the fight against the Ruhr occupation; the fight against Kaufman’s sluggers in the Furriers“ Union; the C. P. P. A. conference at St. Louis in February and the series of conferences during March in Minnesota; the savage battle between the strikers of the I. L. G. W. and the bosses) police and injunction judges in Chicago and the persecu- tion and expulsions of that union’s best workers by the Sigman gang. Sigman and his wreckers were pilloried by the Boston after the Daily had celebrated May. Day. Then came the Teapot Dome exposures; the martial law and klan murders of miners in Williamson county, the continual exposure of fascism in Italy ind America; the continual struggle for workers n prison for labor. Jacob Dolla, the West Vir- ‘inia miners; Mooney, the I. W. W. Centralia and alifornia victims, and the, Michigan defendants: ave shared our space. The DAILY WORKER followed the line of the Communist International, generally and in par- ticular matters. The Daily has given great space to international affairs;. the fight on the’ Dawes plan; every struggle of our comrades overseas; the wonderful progress of Soviet Russia in its internal and external phases; the rise and fall of Mac- Donald’s fake “labor” government; the colonial struggles for liberation of oppressed nationalities and races; China, the arena of imperialist confliet; and, among many more important events, the recent beginning of a Pan-American revolutionary labor movement, and the campaign for world unity of all labor unions of the Profintern. The DAILY WORKER has fought for the rank and file; against the Toledo expulsions of machin- ists, and the fine battle of that union’s left wing —ͤ [D— — WIPING OUT CAPITALISM | TH at — * 2 P=; ~ er. „ tn 0 * 5 rs 2 * * l . . * 1 * * 2 A Se? 2 Fe oi ws a eee ae ** he — — 13, 1925, = ae ~ 45 Daily” | „ 85 ; | KERS OF 3 * * 4 brunn 5 . 10 ih. : 8 72 UNITE! 235 DICTE ATORSHIP THE PROLETARIAT THE WORLD "ini — a — be increased, closer and more familia: The DAILY WORKER in the May convention at By J. W. JOHNSTONE. , N this, the first birthday of our bouncing Co t baby, the DAILY WORKER, G86 is tempted to boast of our rapid advancement and heap laurels upon the only English Communiet 0 © world. It is achievement t we * not dream of two years ago, {the party especially the DAILY ER staff. can very well be complimented for the work done. 2 A Long Way To Tipperary. But, when we look at the tasks be- fore us, the hard, rough road that we have yet to travel, what we have done is as nothing compared to what we have yet to do. The DAILY WORKER has not yet struck its proper Com. munist stride-—the circulation mus: contact must be made with the grea‘ masses of workers, the DAILY WORKER must become the workers newspaper, A paper that the workers will read and heed, a paper that will be able, thru its columns, to ideologi cally lead the workers in the struggle That is the task that is yet ahead of the DAILY WORKER and the Com taunist press as a whole. We havi not yet cast off our cloak of isola tion. We talk about’ the America: workers, but what we realy mean only the workers of the United State: and, sometimes when we think abou : it, Canada. How much thought, tim: or energy do we give to the workin class movements in that great stretc! of land south of the Rio Grande, Latin America, composed of some 20 repub lies, with a population of approx- imately 100,000,000, a land of grea‘ wealth, terrible poverty, and terrific persecution. | the I. W. W. convention, reporting events and litorially leading the struggle. In the A. F. of „and all subordinate unions, the Daily has tought r wiping out the color line, and full equality of vegroes and Orientals with White workers in all elations of life. Perhaps the leading work of the year has been he first Communist campaign in the United States | n the capitalist elections, the battle. The republican and democratic conventions were ‘posed, and in the middle of the campaign, Cool-| New Bedford. The C. P. P. A. udorsed La Follette was shown to have betrayed the irmer-labor movement, opened with prayer and nuded with thanks to the police. In all these and a multitude of other struggles, he DAILY WORKER has earned the support of he wor ker of America. Its future is in their lands, g od — — It is claimed that former emperor Willie of rermany has undergone a monkey gland operation | that he is now quite sprightly. If this report ist Ge rmany under its Morgan-Dawes gland , eration, that seems to be killing rather than im | provi ing its victim. Labor's Big Job . The young party had | S first round with parliamentary “demoeracy” | 0. M. (Confederacion Regional Obré- nd the Daily was the most powerful instrument ra Mexicana) leadership in the Pan | ige’s manager, William Morgan Butler, was ex- | The rapid advance that American osed as a direct employer and boss of stoolpigeons | imperialism is making thru Latin Am. f a private detective agency in the textile unions eries, makes it imperative that we co convention which | 10 rue, then the ex-kaiser is doing better than capi : Our Task in Pan-America. The task of the Comunist press in Pan-America is to draw these scatter ed working class movements out of their national isolation, thru propa gandizing for the un flcation of al! Communist and left wing forces int a united front for class action. To wage a constant fight against the dom- ination of the A. F. of L. and C. R. American labor movement and in fav or of the united front action of the workers on both continents agains: the rule of capitalist imperialism. ollect our scattered Communist and ft wing forces to meet the assault. This means the unification of the Communist press for common action thruout Pan-America with a definite and unified program of action. In this the lead must be taken by the DAILY WORKER in the north, La Interna cional of Argentina in the south, and El Machete of Mexico for the Central American republics. These three are the recognized leading Communist or- gans in their respective territories. The Ravages of. imperialism. With Chale, Guatemala, Peru, El Sal- vador, Honduras, under the iron heel of a, military dictatorship supported by American imperialism; with the 2 troops occupying Nicarague flag flying above their custom houses; Santa Domingto with a so-called lib eral government set up at the point of American bayonets; government completely in control of Wall Street; Federation of Labor acting as the lw bor-wing of American imperialism—it is truly a hard, dificult and very im- task that contronts the. Com and 9 press of Pan-America. our Pan-American Communist press upon paign. Argentina has the largest Com- munist Party of both continents, with u membership of nearly 40.000. also the oldest Communist Daily in Latin America, eight page the Mexican with the Pan-American movement and the Communist Did You Ever Hear of This? We have, however, a solid basis in which to launch such a cam. It has La Internacional, an paper that circulates in Uraguay, to a certain extent in Brazil and is known thruout Latin America. it is very close to the workers, played n active role in the big harbor work- aa strike of Buenos Aires which last d nearly eight months, is endorsed by meny unions as their official organ and leads the fight for affiliation to the R. I. L. U., which received, on a roll call, a 40 per cent vote. The El Machete, organ of fhe Mex: ican Communist Party, altho only a the state of Vera Cruz. hi.weekly, reflecting the poverty | of ommunist Press in Pan-America the party by the poor quality of paper it uses, can, with joint assistance and action, be built up into a powerfu) Communist voice. The Hl Machete without doubt has the best drawipgs and cartoon of any Communist papel in’ America. Many of its drawings symbolical and powerful, make a s appeal to. the Indian workere s them closer to Com Al Circulation is small, it played local leading roles in strikes | such as the successful strike of the oil workers in the Tampico district o! Our Forces Dispersed and Isolated. Then we have the La Defensa Ob rera, a daily organ of the Communist Party of Chile. This member of ow Communist family is not very wel known outside of its own countr) and is, unfortunately, tainted with th virus of social democracy. There are other Commnrniet rare’ in Latin America, such as Justicia, of Uraguay, and undoubtedly many othe: papers that we know nothing of, such is our isolation. There are many syn pathetic papers like Justicia published in Havana, Cuba, which publisher many articles endorsing Communism and lately published the program o the Workers Party with favorabl comment. The La Lucha de Classe a labor union official organ of Ha —— Tenoreesremmrs sor! How We Live and Work} of the workers, by the workers and for corner of this country where labor is profit. DAILY WORKER. in order to make point. * * Editor The DAILY WORKER:— About four miles from Brownsville, Pa., in the Coke Region, is the mining town known as Brier Hill, the coal camp of the Buckeye Coal company, which is a subsidiary of the Younga- town Sheet and Tube Steel company. A friend of mine worked there from the time he was 15 years old till ihe coal strike of 1922.. During the strike local of the United Mine Workers of America. After the Cleveland agreement in 1922 my friend went to work in the union coal field of district No. 5 but owing to a shut down he was forced to look for a job. After seeking work in union mines for over four months, my friend decided to try his old hunt- ing ground and on Jan. 3 went to Brier Hill. At every mine there is a lamp house and usually the mine fore man’s office is in the lamphouse. While my friend was waiting here to see the superintendent about a job, a company deputy camé to him and asked him if his name was N —— N — — My friend said yes, and the deputy said, Come along.“ The dep- uty took him in a taxi to Squire Hess’ office, and he was booked on a charge of traspassing. My —— was fined | $11.85, with the alt ot 30 days in jail. He explained and Conta Rica; with the American 1 * * 2 merely looking for a job. > * a Editor's Note:—This paper is printed for the workers, poor farmers and those who work and sweat under the present system of society. We want the workers and farmers all over the country to read the to refiect the life of the wide laboring Masses, TO WRITE TO US. This new de ‘partment „How Wh LIVE AND WORK” l appear as often as there will be sufiicient letters from our readers about the life and working conditions under which our masses struggle. Try to make the letters interesting bringing out facts which may not be known to workers in other.sections of the country. It is a paper the workers. We want to reach every being exploited for private gains, for it more interesting and be able better WE WANT OUR READERS Try to make them short and to the — “You have to go to the local super- * ana, Cuba, sympathetic towards Com munigm, which in every issue carrie: reprints from the DAILY WORKER In Peru and Uraguay, we find man; labor union journals sympathetic to. wards the Communist International and the R. I. L. U. Wall Street’s Itch For World ‘Power. American imperialism in its bid fof world domination, is leading us direct to another World war. This imperial istic fprce is determined to unite the western hemisphere into a solid Am- erican imperialistic block, so as to strengthen its position at home, en- trench itself from Cape Horn to the Behring Straits and to throw the Pan- American working class into the next world war in defense of American im. verialism. American imperialism, in its con uering march thru Latin America, is ery versatile in its maneuvers. Ip ‘exico, thru its labor-wing, the Pafi- ‘erican Federation of Labor, with the late but not lamented Gompers as their chief spokesman, it opposes dic- tatorship and sets up a capitalist de. mocracy, because that form of gov: ernment at this time is most suitable r us purpose. The intrigues of Imperialism. In other sepublics mentioned above, supports local military dictatorship, hile in others it boldly and forceably kes over the customs houses, while zain in others it sets up a United Itates military dietatorship.. In Ar gentina, Brazil and Chile, which form a loose united block, it tries to set these countries at war with one an- other so that it will have a pretext for interfering. The Communist press of Pan-Amer. ica has indeed a very important Com: munist task to perform. It will, to a large degree, be held responsible for making the labor movements of these countries really acquainted with each other, to draw them closer together and to help give them Communist or- ientation. What do we know about Latin America? Only what our Com intendent’s office for permission to step on the company’s grounds,” deputy said. generally, but there is’ your case.’ The deputy had remembered my friend’s part in the 1922 strike, an:l was trying to “get even.” Incidents such as the above are very common. My attention has been fined $25.00 and costs or more for such “trespassing.”. And there are people naive enough to hold that America is a “free” country. The coun- try is democratic only for the bosses and their lgckeys, Working conditions are rotten. The Frick wage scale, which is the near- est one to the union scale, is far be- low union wages on contract work. Those union mines which are working are running 50 per cent capacity, but the large majority of them are still completely shut don. The branches of the Workers Party here are all active in raising insur- ance policies for the DAILY WORK- ER, and are accomplishing a great The West Brownsville South Slavic branch has sent In $50.00, in donation. — — The membership is sure of raising $100.00 before the drive ends. Yours for Communism, (une Vincent — 0 the ! jittle. There is no such rule Hennes about us? Very little, and the munist press tells us, and that is very What does Latin America Communist press must tell them. The Pan-American Anti-Militarist League. The duty of the Communist press is deal, even tho work has been slack. | to carry the Communist message to a}! he was secretary of the Brier Hill called to cases where union men were the workers in all America, to herald the birth of a new organization, “The Pan-American Anti-Militarist League,” tq call upon all left wing unions and revolutionary groups to join this league, to help the speedy unification of all Communist Parties, to encour- age the organization of Communist Parties where none exist. Birthday greetings to our vigorous, healthy, and growing Communist baby, The DAILY WORKER, is to raise the slogans: | A United Pan-Atherican Commun. ist Press, as against a United Pan- American capitalist press. A United: Front of the Revélu- tionary Working Class from Cape Horn to the. Behring Straits, Rr N American imperialism. Away with our national isolation!: : Pan-American Communism: for Pan. America! Down with Pan-Americs : alists! 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30 as to ome, en- n to the the Pan- the next rican im. its con merica, is vers. Ip the Pah: bor, with ompers as poses dic- italist de. h of gov: it suitable alism. ned above, ctatorship, | forceably ises, while a United p.. In Ar yhich form ies to set th one an- a pretext Pan-Amer. rtant Com t will, to a onsible for ts of these with each r together nmunist or- mow about t our Com hat is very America le, and the them. Militariet ist press is ssage to all , to herald ation, “The st League,” unions and join this unification to encour: Commun. ited Pan- Revolu- om Cape . newspaper. Communist r vigorous, unist baby, o raise the against isolation! for Pan. 0 Ust daily paper,” OL Se Re eee eRe Ss 4— Page Seven SECOND SECTION „ :P ˙ i “DAILY” Many CelebrationsHeld Prove Huge Success ~ Thousands of Workers Party members and readers of the DAILY WORKER are rejoicing today that theDAILY WORKE eelebrates the splendid achieve- ments made in behalf of the working class and the Com- movement during the first year of its existence. The DAILY WORKER is one year old today, and the militant workers rejoice that for the first time the workers are led by a militant Communist daily news- paper printed in the ieee language. The Chicago builders of the DAILY WORKER met last night in Imperial Hall at the first birthday party of the DAILY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER staff attended, and com posed an oral newspaper as part of the entertainment. Big New York Meeting. The New Star Casino was jammed with thousands of workers Sunday afternoon and evening, at the com- bined Karl Liebknecht memorial and the DAILY WORKER birthday cele. bration. Great enthusiasm greeted the speakers who told of the accomp. lishments of the DAILY WORKER during the past year and the triumphs which are expected in the Coming year. The proceeds of the delebrations will go toward the fund now being raised to build the DAILY WORKER fo 1925. Arrangements for the Chi- Celebration were handled by : * \ittee of three, made up of Gus- ise, Natalie Gomez and Emma Blat shmidt. One year ago today on North Hal- sted St., in an eee ‘rented N Fill out * hou tie in de Sen 1115 Vas Signed NATIONAL 9 TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. fruit in the establishment of the first English language Communist daily The sneers of the enem- ies of the militant working class were even then only partially silenced. The opponents and false friends of. the Communist movement said, The pa- per will last only a few months.” In Midst of Big Campaign. But at the end of the first year the DAILY WORKER is entrenched in the working class movement to the dismay of the enemies of Communism. It is a daily necessity for thousands of workers and poor farmers, helping thém carry on their everyday strug- gles in the shops and fields and mines egainst their bosses, the open shop- pers, and the entire capitalist class. The first birthday of the DAILY WORKER finds the paper in the midst of a successful campaign to raise funds to make the paper even stronger @uring 1925. The DAILY WORKER is the rallying point of the militant workers and the American Commun- ist movement. In the first year the DAILY WORKER has shown itself as n necessary and permanent weapon in the capitalist class and the establish- ment of the rule of the workers. Comrade Moritz Loeb, business man- ager of the DAILY WORKER, de- N EW YORK 70 [TO ALL PROGRESSIVE COAL MINERS! the DAILY WORKER: Locals—1197, 2278, 1190, 1165, 816, 4917, 1352, 1198, 5651, 6085, 1143, 3874, 3140, 3816, 2689, 3920, 5535; 2579, 2328, 905 locals being omitted. Voyzey, the left winger, 7066. Vice-president: Phi. Murray, Staples, the left winger, 6,447. for Nearing, the left winger, 4,740. | These few returns show that the Lewis machine. lutionary program of action. 593, 4546, 4917, 155, 2506, 1724, 2396, 4561, 5 3160, 2643, 2376, 2468. 4040, 705, 959, 3192, 992, 3703, 3613, 5168, 3776, 4241, 46, , 4134, 4346, 4285, 3244, Nordegg and Hillcrest, Alberta, and three locals from district 12, the number of the locale To all Progressive Miners:—You should send in the 1 election returns of your local to the T. U. E. L. ' So far only the following locais have been recorded in the columns of istan, Pa. 854, 1787, 1896, 1214,3825, 1829, 1197, 2399, 2881, 1190, 4426, 2853, 818, 260, 2, 1165, 4288, 5497, 5873, 1302, 685, The results from these locals are as follows: ‘ For president: John L. Lewis, 3,802; Geo. Voyzey, 10,867; majority for 3,908; Arley Staples, 10,455; majority for Secretary-treasurer: Wm. Green, 4,345; Joseph Nearing, 9,080; majority Progressive Miners’ slate and program has the support of the majority of the members of these locals, scatterct® thru seven districts, 5, 6, 12, 14, 17, 18, and 22, and Indicates the tremendous vote cast for the candidates who stand on a program of action based upcn the class struggle as against the reactionary class collaboration policy of the These results are splendid, and show the wonderful fight that the left wing in the Miners’ Union is putting up against the most powerful reaction- ary machine in the American labor movement. it shows how deeply the T. U. E. L. has penetrated the rank and file of the Miners’ Union with its revo- if your local.is not among those listed above, or if you know the results of any local that is not mentioned, then fill out the form below and send it in to the T. U. E. L. When the election returns are completed an analysis. of the election will be made by the national committee of the T. U. E. . John L. For President Vice-President Se eeoreecereeeeee Secretary-Treasurer ........ Local Union No Geo. Voyzey Phil. Murray, Arley Staples Wm. Green Joseph Nearing Votes Cast Lewis 7 Sty < r 2 7 * ** ‘ ake clared that the DAILY WORKER is now more firmly established than eve! before. “We are conducting well or- ganized subscription drives in all the principal cities and industrial cen ters,” said Comrade Loeb. “Thru the DAILY WORKER builders we now have a staff of efficient field organiz- ers. The literature department of the Workers Party is to be centralized under the control of the DAILY WORKER after Jan. 15.” “An important step will soon be taken by the DAILY WORKER in printing every day a special New York edition of the DAILY WORKER. This will undoubtedly increase the circula- tion of our paper in New York City and the eastern states and increase the influence of the Communists in that section. New York news of in- | terest to the militant working class living in that territory will be printed in the New York edition daily.” Over $15,000 has already been con- tributed by Workers Party members and readers of the DAILY WORKER to the fund to insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925, Comrade Wagen knecht, in charge of the campaign, Results of Membership Meetings on SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.—Majority, 41; LOS ANGELES—(Y. W. L.) Majority, 20; minority, 2. WEST FRANKFORT, ILL.—Majority, 35; minority, 0. ZEIGLER, IU. - Majority, 25; minority, 0. minority, 19. _ CHRISTOPHER, ILL.—-Majority, 10; minority, 5. BALTIMORE-—(Finnish) Majority, 107; minority, 0. BAL TIMORE—(Czecho-Slovak) Majority, 56; minority, 0. BALTIMORE—(Russian) Majority, 8; minority, 0. RACINE, W18.—Majority, 10; minority, 7. said. “All Workers Party members must remember that the DAILY WORKER is the official organ of the Workers Party, and just as the first duty of the comrades of all federa tions is to support the C. E. C. of the party, so is it the first duty of al! Workers Party comrades to support the DAILY WORKER which is the official organ and the mouthpiece of the Central Executive Committee and of the Workers Party.” Comrade Wagenknecht said that while splendid progress is being made in the campaign to insure the DAILY WORKER for the coming year, some branches have not been heard from. “There is twenty thousand dollars in pledges outstanding, and tbese branches should immediately send in Whatever money they have raised.“ The campaign will continue until the DAILY WORKER is made safe for the coming year. The DAILY WORKER is facing the year 1925 with every prospect of being of even greater service to the Communist movement than during the eventful year just passed.” “The DAILY WORKER is gaining influence in Los Angeles,” Comrade Samuel Globerman, Los Angeles rep resentative of the DAILY WORKER. says. “The demand for the DAILY WORKER is steadily increasing.” Los Angeles friends ,of the DAILY WORKER staged a very successful celebration, speakers calling attention to the splendid progress made by the DAILY WORKER in the past year. Aue Wee ait, Uborker for 425 Coaldigiep ih Repudiate Operato 5 Ally — ‘ aS — a 7 (Special to TOPEKA, Kansas, Jan. 12.— The vote against Lewis in the majority of thruout this district wa be et that it was ailments imous. — DAILY WORKER MANAGEMENT MAKES DECISION TO ISSUE SPECIAL EDITION FOR NEW YORK CITY “New York City is going to have a special edition of the DAILY WORKER as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made,” declared Moritz Loeb, business manager. “The decision to publish the edition has already been made and only details remain to be attended to. The decision was made in response to the growing demand of New York comrades and sympathizers for the Special,” said Loeb. It was possible to go to the extra expense owing to the energy put behind the drive to increase the circulation of the DAILY WORKER in New York by our party members. The circulation doubled since last summer. arrangements are being made fo land, Detroit and other cities. pends to g great extent on the wo New York is the first city in line for a special edition, but bring about specials for Cleve- How soon this can be done de- rk of those comrades in creating 4. demand for the DAILY WORKER. This po district against which Lew Ww zed war in con- junction the open sho governor \lier of notoriou memory, no little more than a memory. The fo unions: —~ “tay. Local union $776: Lewis, 5; Voy. sey, 68; G en 6: . 66; Mur ray, 4; Staplespe? Local unton 441: Lewis, 19; Voy. zey, 116; G ‘Nearing, 11; Mur. ray, 15; Stap 4 18 , Local union 46; Lewis, 5; Voyzey, 88; Green, 4; Waring, 84; Murray, 4; Staples, . Local union 0: Lewis, 32; Voy- rey, 182; , 84; Nearing, 129; 131 Murray, 30; 8 ‘ Local union $316: Lewis, 4; Voy- zey, 40; Green, 6; Nearing, 38; Mur- ray, 5; Staples, 39. Local union 2689: Lewis, 22: Voy- zey, 209; Green, 25; Nearing, 206; Murray, 20; Staples, 208. Local union 2920: Lewis, 10; Voy- zey, 162; Green, 14; Nearing, 159; Murray, 12; , 160. Local union 6535: Lewis, 1; Voy- zey, 38; Green, 2; Nearing, 37; Mur- | 38. Vote Against Lewis. VERONA, II., Jan. 12.—Local 5686, went strongly on record for the pro- gressive slate in the national elec- tions. The vote for the national offi- cers was, Lewis, 63; Voyzey, 117; Murray, 64; Staples, 98; Green, 104; earing, 56. For district officers, the voting was: Farrington, 119; Hindmarsh, 66; other candidates, 69; Fishwick, 120; Hew- lett, 54; Black, 66; Nesbit, 89; Con- torioux, 85; other candidates, 97. Secretary Offered Deal. PLAINS, Pa., Jan. 12.— The coal diggers of local 148%, left no ream for doubt as to what they think of John L. Lewis, when the ballots cast in the recent elections were counted. Lewis fecelved only 20 votes to 118 cast for George Veyzey, his progres- sive opponent. Philip Murray got 20 votes, while Arley Staples received 112; William Green 19 and Joseph Nearing, 111. All Down The Line. The members went all down the line for the progressive slate. On election day, the secretary of the local, a Lewis henchman tried to make a deal with the progressives | offering to split the local vote evenly between the two slates. The progres- sive, however, insisted on an honest election and told the faker that they did not want a single vote that did not rightly belong to them. The re urns showed that the members of the local were overwhelmingly against the reactionarios. V. W. L. Functionaries Meeting. Matters pertaining to the work o“ educational, directors and Mteratur- agents of branches to be taken ur 8 p. m., Tusday, Jan. 13, 2613 Hirsc! Blvd. 3 — 20 reg ee ’ 3 <i 1 1 „ E bee? 4 Communist N ö ‘By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. HE Communist daily press has brought into labor journalism in America—the record of the workers’ struggies and the explanation of the causes of those struggics—a new note. It is a note of challenge, of hope, of faith in the workingclass, of confidence in the final victory of the workingclass—a note of unshak- able belief in the ability of the workingclass to conquer capitalism and erect its own social order. In all other organs which claim to voice the desires of the work- ingclass and record their indict- ments of capitalism, trade union journals, socialist papers and pub- lications of the middle class “friends of the workers,” there is always a note of hesitation, of complaint, of hopelessness, of tack of confidence in the working masses who alone have the revolutionary heritage and who alone are capable of storming the 2 fortress of capitalism. By uy, nist press, like the the Oom- munlet International, appeals only to the workers in industry and agri- culture. it rejects the idea that any other social group can or will ‘fight thru to completion the world- wide conflict between the red hosts of workers and the black hordes of capitalism. The Communist Parties, organiz- ed in and accepting the dircction and discipline of the Communist In- ternational are the sole leaders in this struggle by virtue of superior understanding, superior organiza- tion, superior courage. The Communist press Is colored thru and thru with this current springing from the well of Marxian- Leninist knowledge of the class Mruggle. it is for this reason that every news story, every editorial, every article, every announcement, every Une in the Communist press, breathes the class struggle, that its every utterance Is uncolored by any thought or wish to placate the ene- mies of the workingclass, to soften the struggle or to conceal from the workingclass the Inevitable outcome of the daily confiicts—the necessity of revolution. There has never been a daily pa- per like the DAILY WORKER inthe United States. There will never be one like it untiſ the Workers (Com- _munist), Party of America is able to publish in other cities a duplicate of the DAILY WORKER. it has set a new standard of labor reporting and journalism—a standard as much superior in militancy and under standing as the revolutionary Com- munist Parties are superior to the “Peformist and apologetic and traitor- ous parties of the second interna- tional—yet a standard that can be and Is being ralsed as the Commun- ist press grows in age and experi- ence as the most Important part of the Communist movement. The DAILY WORKER has made yournalism many mistakes in the first year of its existence, but these mistakes have been of the head and not of the heart. its worst enemies will admit freely that in not,one single line has it ever expressed doubt as to the righteousness of the strug- gles it recorded or hesitation in throwing itself into those struggle. it has given two biows to capital- lam for every blow it received as the fighting guardian of the inter- ests of the revolutionary working- class and its vanguard—the Com- munist Party. It criticises the labor movement, but only to correct its weaknesses, to make it stronger on the fighting front and not because it doubts or fears the workingclass. it criticises as a part of the work- Ingeclass and not as an expression of an organization that has inter- ests separate from and above those of the workers. The Communist daily press, if it is to fulfill its mis- sion of bsing the voice of the fight- ing workers, must be in closest con- nection with them. The Commun- ist dally press must be the product of the workers of the field of battle and ite stories of the struggle must have the odor and color of the bet- tle, they must carry to the other workers who read them the picture of each conflict, identified by de- talled knowledge of the course of that conflict and the strategy and tactics employed. The Communist daily press can, therefore, be what a Communist press must be, only when its pages are filled with news furnished by worker correspondents — workers who’ know of what they write, be- cause they write of workingclass history which they help to make. The Communist daliy press is a weapon—a weapon whose keen edge is used to cut great gaps in the walls of the capitalist system, to cut down the mercenaries of the capitalist state, to strip their corps- es of the camouflage with which the capitalist press covers them, to show them to the workers in their nakedness as they really are—class enemies, the janissaries and Jackals of reaction. The Communist dally press must have, in every industrial center, in every agricultural district, at least one worker who makes it his busl- ness to furnish the news of the class war day by day. The workers of America have had enough of the patronizing recording of their strug- gles by kindly intellectuals and half- baked college boys whose greatest fear is that some day the workers. will do away with capitalist tyranny and robbery and leave them nothing to write about. In the coming year, the second of the DAILY WORKER'S existence, every effort must be devoted to welding a chain of worker corres- pondents stretching thruout the United States, with links in every place where workers sweat and fight, a chain that siowly at first, but with ever increasing tensity and speed, will strangle the lies and slanders of the capitalist press in the throats of thé vermin who write them, a chain that will show with unerring accuracy to the working- class the hills and valley of capital- ism that they must ascend, explore and conquer before the Commun- Ist papers can send hurtling from their humming presses the news that a bleeding, fighting, tired and waryworn but unconquerable work- ingclass has broken the power of world capitalism, set up its own dic- tatorship, and in a seven-column headline of flaring red, say: Next Order of Businese—Bulld Communist Soelety!“ To the workers’ correspondents of the Communist daily press we give this slogan—“Write as You Fight.” START WEEKLY PAGE OF T. U. E. L. ACTIVITIES IN THE DAILY WORKER! SEND IN STORIES OF YOUR STRUGGLE To All District Organizers, Industrial Organizers, Secretaries of Local T. U E. L. Groups and National Industrial Committees! Dear Comrades: In order to bring more effectively to the front our industrial work, it has been decided to set aside a weekly section of the DAILY WORKER under the head of “T. U. E. L. Activities.” This section will be full of news of what the left wing is doing in all the localities, unions and industries of the country. No need, for me to explain in detail the importance ef the innovation. It will help make the DAILY WORKER more interesting, as well as bring home more forcefully to militants and membership at large the importance and extent of our in- dustrial work. The success of this new industrial department in the DAILY WORKER can be assured only if it has the active co-operation of all our field men. Therefore, we call upon you and urge you to furnish us with a constant stream of detailed information regard- ing the industrial activities of the left wing in your particular sphere of activity. Your reports to this office should not be brief generalizations, but detailed statements of real activities. We real- our features of the labor movement, writ- ten especially around the thot of bringing out the part played by the left wing in these movements and of stimulating our militants into activy-. ity. You should write freely on these subjects. We, of course, will not pub- lish everything that comes in, but use our discrimination so as to make the department bright and interesting. We will be able, to a very large ex- tent, to judge of the efficiency of our industrial organization by the re sponse we get in the building of this industrial department in the DAILY ize that ihis will put a little add | WORKER. tional work upon you. But the advan- will well repay this effort on your part. We are convinced that you wil) give us your most hearty co-operation in this respect. Your reports should cover strikes, unemployment, union elections, expul- sions, shop conditions, and all live tage to be gained by the * We depend upon you to see te it that your community and industries are fully reported in the department. Send all material directly to the na- tional office of the T. U. B. I. Fraternally yours, William Z. Foster, Industrial Director. By MORITZ J. LOEB. HEN we said, “We are going to establish an English Commun- our enemies sneered. Among the officials of the trade un- on movement it was the concensus of opinion that we wouldn't last a * — All down the line, the fakers were amusedly skeptical. It can't be fone,” they said. ‘Our liberal contemporaries were no ess doubtful. They, together with o “progressive” union leaders in York were still nursing the fing- re they burned while playing with the vow York Leader. “Surely,” nay pught, “if we practical people can keep a daily labor paper going a few wild Communists succeed?” Such a thing would be oles, besides being extremely discreditable to the reputations of the world’s saf. est world savers. As a matter of fact there were many Communists who had serious doubts as to our ability to put across so large an undertaking. We were poor not only in finances, but also in experi ence. We proposed to start out on an uncharted journey. | “But,” some argued, “we have about $75,000. It is not much considering waht we will have to do, but even if we ineur the great deficit which is everywhere predicted for us, we will be able to keep going for a little while anyhow.” Ae | spirit of adventure that the DAILY WORKER was started. But there har een no adventuring. Once establish- ed, there has been nothing of romance about our daily. From the first da; the task has been appreciated as a real task, with problems that required real solutions. We were conge erned not with keeping the DAILY WORK ER alive “a little while,” but in build ing a weapon that would fight as long as the revolutionary struggle de. manded. If there has been anything of ad- venture about the DAILY WORKER it has been in the sense that as neve before we have adventured into real ism. For if ever our party has set has been the building of our daily or- gan. It is true that we are not yet very efficient, Neither in .our editorial work in our administration have we deen able to accomplish half of what we desired and hoped for. It is true that the party as a whole has as yet given to the DAILY, WORKER only a small fraction of the support and activity’ which it deserves and, to continue, must have. But we are here! A year ago we started to build. We have been build. ing every day for a year. We are not finished, in fact, we are just begin ning, but at the end of a year we have something to show for our efforts. Every day for a year we have N 7 ee itself to a task with jaws set, — sh | It was to some degree in just this |brains and bodies working, that taak| had eur DAILY | . leading « a be it Can't Be Done - Except by us in our struggles, clarifying our movement, gaining us ever increas- ing influence in the working class. Every day for a year we have been building and strengthening the work- ~~ class. In a year we have almost tripled our circulation. We have established a central party printing plant, safeguarding for the future not only our daily, but also our monthly official organ and all the other propaganda needs of our party. We have bought a building for our daily and for the national offices of the party. We have centralized the party publishing institutions and prepared the way for more ) ettective propa- Communists ganda work in the future. We have started to organize the press distribution of our party upon a sound foundation, thus laying the basis for activity which is bound to multiply a hundred fold our effec. tiveness in increasing the circulation of our daily, our monthly, and the party books and pamphiets. a bitter There has been little said, It has been a struggle, struggle. most of the party did not dream, of the difficulties which were being en- countered, the dangers that were faced. There were times when we didn't know where the money was coming from to meet our daily needs. There were times when the dangers and difficuities seemed almost insur- and overcome. At the end of a year the DAILY WORKER is here, an infant still, but a healthy, fighting one. We have been building our daily for a year. The biggest part of the building has yet to be done. There has been struggle. The heaviest struggle is yet to come. a A year ago we were told “It can’t be done.’ | Now the immediate task is to make ithe DAILY WORKER safe for 1926 while we continue to build it bigge: and stronger and better Our enemies are no longer amusedly skeptical. They are furiously, terrL tiedly skeptical. “It can't be done,” they croak. And they are right. IT CAN’T BE mountable, Obstacles have been met |DONE—EXCEPT BY COMMUNISTS, 1 — — . —— —y-—-—-—¼̃ — — — — r — * —— —
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* m a ee , is 7 HV 1 + 8 ‘ ‘ — * 3 * * a vl — i ) * OS tag em — — . ˙ allt dint DAILY WORKER pecial New York Pag NEW YORK ENGLISH HARLEM BRANCH IN LEAD; BIG SALE OF INSURANCE POLICIES TO NON-PARTY MEMBERS NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—The total paid in on DAILY WORKER insurance policies at the DAILY WORKER agency here to Jan. 9 was $1,549. Some $200 more have been sent direct to Chicago from the New York district. Pretty fair beginning, considering the fact that New York did not begin its drive until several weeks after the rest of the country. In due time the goal of $9,051 set down as the quota for the New York district will be passed. In amount of policies sold, the English Harlem Branch stands first. This branch sold more shares of stock in the DAILY WORKER last year than any other branch in the United States,+ and is determined to repeat its win- ning of this high. honor. The Finnish South Brooklyn branch stands second, and West Side English third. English Bronx No. 1 and Down- town English follow. There should be a little race between these three Eng- lish branches as well as the Williams- burg English which today stands eighth. The Hungarian Yorkville and Lettish are also among the leaders. But the branch that has sold the largest percentage of its quota to date is the Astoria English branch of eleven members, which has paid $40 of its quota of $55 or 73 per cent. The individual honor goes to Com- rade H. F. Mins, who has already sold nearly one hundred dollars worth of policies, and every dollar of them to non-members. — Kobel of the Esthonian — — C--— within the membership alone. branch has also sold a goodly number of policies to outsiders. These com- rades are setting an example. that should be followed by every DAILY WORKER builder, turning their faces toward the masses outside the party rather than trying to sell all policies And both Mins and Kobel get subs from the same people to whom they sell the policies. New York is ordering over 11,000 copies of this anniversary number. Sounds big, but it isn’t. A little group of Garment Workers who are not party members, headed by Ida Weiss- man, is ordering five thousand copies, nearly as many as the whole party or- ganization put together, and they are going to distribute all these papers to non-Communists. This is another good example to follow. GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING OF V. . L. IN NEW YORK CITY, JAN. 16 NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 12.—A general membership meeting of the Young Workers League of New York will be held Friday, Jan. 16, at Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. At this meeting the statement of the National Executive Committee on the work of the league and its future tasks will be discussed. Comrade John Williamson, executive secretary of the league, will speak for the N. E. C. Discussion will follow. it is the duty of every member of the league to be present at this meeting, so that a large representation as possible can be present. Comrades, cancel all other meetings. Get after every member who may not know of the meeting and bring him there. ee) a> 2404 6% ** & O44 S64 * £2 * % 4 SO OOS Ss FHSS HH HOTT SETS Saturday Eve, Feb. 28, 1925 Please Keep the Above Date Open Concert and Dance Given by The Bronx Section, Workers Party At Workers Hall 1347 BOSTON ROAD Admission 50 Cents. HELP BUILD UP THE BRONX SECTION *** +e 4444 4444444644647 444 444448 O84 O44 SH OOH OHHH HOO SH SS FS e SSS SST TST BRONX OPEN FORUM SATURDAY, JANUARY 25TH, 8 P. M. — 1 — Workers Hall, 1347 Boston Road Alexander Trachtenberg will lecture on AMERICAN IMPERIALISM ALL WELCOME ALL WELCOME , N. Y. Labor Leaders Disagree with Smith On Child Labor Law (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—The’ New York State Federation of Labor has issued a statement demanding that the state legislature ratify the proposed child labor amendment without delay, declaring their opposition to the plan of Gov. Smith and the republican party and democratic party leaders to submit the amendment to a special election. The federation declares that the state representatives were elected on platforms supporting the child la- bor amendment, and therefore delay involved in a referendum is unneces- sary. The New York labor body, however, ‘agrees with all other recommenda- tions in Gov. Smith’s message. There area no specific recommendations which would increase the influence of the workers. Greetings from the Jewish Bath Beach Branch Workers Party 1940 Benson Ave., Brocklyn, N. V. We congratulate the Daily Worker on its first anniver- sary and wish it success in its work for a good militant daily, for the workers in their cause. Bronx English Branch, No. 2, Workers Party 1347 Boston Road, Bronx, N. . Blakesberg's Dairy Restaurant and Bakery 1531 Madison Avenue New York D. Blakesberg, Mer. Greetings from New York City to our on its first anniversary Downtown Jewish Branch No. 1, Workers Party, English Commanist Daily May it live and work relentlessly for the Communist cause. Downtown Jewish Branch, No. 1, Workers Party 105 Eldridge Street, New York City | Conair EDUCATION DEVELOPS RAPIDLY THRU NEW YORK WORKERS — it ihe | (Special to The Dally Worker) g New York, Jan. 13.—New York has been witnessing @ rapid development in Communist educational activity since the of the Workers’ School as an institution controlled and directed by the ers Party. Never in the history of the party has 80 much interest displayed by our New York membership in educational work. This. is in line with the gen- eral intensification thruout the party of our activities on the educational field. The Workers’ School aims to es- tablish itself as the educational cen- ter for New York militants. A frankly Communist organization, it offers workers that training. from a Com- munist standpoint, which is essential | for effective service in the struggle against capitalism. The school now Offers at its central | headquarters a party training course. a trade union training course, and sev. eral general courses. Party Training Course The party training course is intend- ed for party members only. It con- sists of four classes in the luterna⸗ tional Communist Movement, Prin- ciples of Communism, Marxism, and American Economie and Social His. tory. The course on the International Communist Movement, given by Will- jain Weinstone, will treat of the origin, development and dissolution of the Pirst and Second Imternationais. It will’ describe the “eonditions under which each of the Internationals was formed; their principles and tactics; the struggles of.tendencies and wha! each contributed to the working clas movement. It will review the discus sions and decisions of the five con gresses of the Communist Internation al, outlining the principles and tacti-s of Leninism. The course on the Principles of Communism will outline the develop. ment of society from the dissolution of the early Communist society to the period of imperialism, covering the period of slavery, feudalism, and the introduction and evolution of capital ism, the rise and development of the state and other institutions of clam rule. It will in the lessons of Marx and Engels and the necessity ot dictatorshir of the proletariat as the .transition period to the overthrow of all class rule. During the first term, the course in Marxism will consider the philosophi- cal theory of Marx. This will include a study of idealism and materialism, dialectics, historical materialism, the class struggle, and the state and pro- letarian dictatorship. The economic theory of Marx will be taken up in the second term. Alexander Trachtenberg conducts the class in American Economic an Social History. This deals with the forces which led to the discovery and settlement of the American continent, the economic organization and social institutions of the American colonies the class character of the constitution and the establishment of the factory sys- tem, economic expansion. The forces underlying the Civil War will also be treated, as well as the development ot capitalism and the subsequent rise of American imperialism. Trade Union Training Course. This course, open to active militants in the trade unions, Offers several Classes in American Labor History, Communism, and Organization. ‘rhe course in the History of Ameri. can Trade Unionism, given by Solon De Leon, follows the development of Smerican trade unionism from the formation of the first known local in 1792. The growth from local to inter- national organization, from craft to industrial unionism, from “pure and simple“ ideas to independent political action, from a reform to a revolution- ary outlook, will bea traced in detail. Among the organizations whose his- tory will be studied are the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor, the Industrial Workers of the | | World, and the Trade Union Educa-· | tional League. 7 | A course on the Fundamentals éf Communism, with particular reference to Communist theory and tactics in trade unions, will be given by Oliver Carlson. In addition, there will be a symposium by well known militants on the Problems of Organization in Trade Unions, taking up such questions as structure of trade unions, the work of the various committees, parliamentary procedure, etc. A class im Public speaking especially adapted for trade unionists is given every Saturday af ternoon at 3 p. m. General Courses. Among these, is a highly interest- ing and instructive course in the Rus- sian Revolution given by the well known Communist teacher and writer, Moissaye J. Olgin. This takes up various phases of the revolation such as, Problems of the Peasantry, the Theatre and the Russian Revolution, the Problems of the Intelligenzia and the Revolution, ete. At the SCHOOL CLASSES AND LECTURES cal state various coun other fundamental enactments, sian Revolution.” At the next session, on Tuesday, January 27, he will deal with the “Internal Controversies with. in the Russian Communist Party. Every Friday night, Ludwig Lore conducts a class in Current Events Besides this, courses are given in ele- mentary and advanced English on Monday nights, and Public Speaking on Tuesday nights. Workers Educational Centers. The Workers’ School has established elucational centers in various parts of the city, where classes in Commun- ism, American Labor History and Eng- lish are given. Among the most suc. cessful efforts of the school has been the organization of classes in the A. B. ©. of Communism thruout the city and also in the district. These are now in progress as follows: DAILY WORKER For Its One Year of Revolutionary Work Don’t Forget the | Political Prisoners In America, Europe, Asia This, Too, Is Revolutionary Work INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID AND LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL tic. JOINT BAZAAR Tuesday, 8 p. m. Harlem Center, 64 E. 104th street, ‘ “ie Feb 11, 12, 13, 14 Williamsbu:s, 19 Grand street, Tuesday. e ruary + 4 a I * Brownsville Center, 1844 Pitkin Ave., At the Monday. Lower Manhattan, 208 E. 12th street, Lyceum 86th and 3rd Ave Thursday. ’ 8 e d West Side, 345 W. 39th streot, H Send Articles and Contributions to 208 East 12th Street ednesday. Such classes are also being arrang- ed in Yonkers, Newark, and Paterson. In addition, courses in American Eco- nomic Development are given in the Harlem and Williamsburg Centers. Open Forums. Open Forums are being conducted in the Bronx, Harlem and Brownsrille Educational Centers every Sunday night at 8 p. m. These are meeting with considerable success. Among the Jecturers are such prominent Com- munists as Ben Gitlow, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Joseph Manley, William Wein. stone, Ludwig Lore, etc. Library and Rescarch Bureau. The organization of the school lib- rary, to be known as the Brower Mem vtial IAbrary, is proceeding rapidly This will serve as a study center for students of the school, party members and sympathizers generally. In conjunction with the library a re- search bureau will be established to gather and file information on politi. 6 ie developments in the es. A file will be kept of American and European Commun- lat dailies and periodicals, as well as other important labor publications. Much important work is to be done zu this connection, and comrades are urged to come over to the school and help whenever they have time, par- ticularly Saturday aftetrnoons. Registration is still open for many of the courses given at the Workers’ School and the Workers’ Educational] Centers. The winter season of th. school will end on March 16. Ragis- trat‘on for the spring term will begin on February 15. For information and registration ap- ply at the office of the Workers’ School, 208 E. 12th street, Telephone Stuyvesant 4634, or at Workers’ Edu- cational Centers. + . = Organizes Clipping Bureau. NEW TORK. -The Workers’ School is organizing a clipping bureau to clip and file articles and news items bear. ing on the political and economic sd? struggles in the different countries. Keep These Dates Open This bureau aims to provide comrades e with a ready access to various surces February Lenin Memorial, of information, and will prove a valu. Madison Square Garden able asset to the party membership in at Foe. February | 1-14—Defense Bazaar, Lyceum, 86th St. and 3rd Ave. : Volunteers are needed immediately March 15— Press Pageant R > > *S © MEMORIAL | nday, February. 1, 2 P, N Madison Square Garden SPEAKERS: FOSTER, RUTHENBERG, OLGIN, STACHEL CHORUS OF 500 VOICES Admission 50 Cents Auspices: Workers Party of America COMING IN NEW YORK THE GREAT EVENTS to help in the work of clipping and sorting. Comrades are urged to come over to the school headquarters, 208 Hast 12th street, whenever they have time, especially on Saturday after- noons. Madison Square Garden | — 1**n•üů — 1 The Harlem English Branch | of the Workers Party, Local No. 7, Greets with Great Joy the First Anniversary of the Birth of the only Working Class Daily in the United States, The Daily Worker * Harlem English Branch 64 Fast 104th Street, : New York City —=—_
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_~**e* ee Oeste P made by the DAILY WORKER and THE | WORKERS MONTHLY can be effectively followed up by books and pamphlets of the Communist movement. If you sell a worker a sub to the Dally or the Monthly, try to clinch him by selling some of the classic or current Communist publications. . INFORMATION which cannot be fully contained in Com- munist periodicals is often made public by publication in book or pamphlet form. f ! | E for yourself and your fellow worker is at | hand in any one of the hundreds of pamphlets and | ‘books for sale by the Literature Department of the DAILY | WORKER. | | Beginning January 15, 1925 | the Workers Party Literature Department will be | Managed by the DAILY WORKER. = TS — Catalogs and Price Lists Furnished on Request. Classics of the Commanist Movement. New Communist Publications. Revolutionary Novels and Song Books. Subscriptions for All Magazines Taken. — — —— — — — — For any book or pamphlet in print, address Literature Department, The Daily Worker | 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. valuable publication in THE WORKERS MONTHLY. HAT this is a welcome addition to the working class tionary Labor. REATER success is certain. leaders of the world revolutionary labor movement, are a feature of each issue. oan be without them. The wealth of information in problems. HE new January number (third issue) is just off the press—with a wealth of the most valuable contents. Subscription Rates: $2.00 a Year $1.25 Six Months Single Copy 25 Cents Cut Out and Send In! THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. Enclosed $§..............-. 1 months subscription. %% TC STREET CITY: STATE 8 umuunmunmmnumm annum Communist! HE amalgamation of three established working class magazines into one, has given birth to a greater, more press of this country, is easily seen in the immediate and wholehearted response from the ranks of Revolu- ! The best theoretical articles on every phase of Labor's problems, by the o militant worker, and no Communist—of course : many features of each number are indispensible to the worker who gives thought to the problems of Labor—his . 0 OVER THE te — 4 5 a — a a ‘marie L The last step of the ral program for the centralization ‘DAILY WORKER’ TAKES | | | of the 0 ress will go into effect on Jan 15. On this date the admin stration of the p literature artment will be CHANGE TAXES EFFECT JANUARY 46. transfered to THE DAILY WORKER. us the management of | THE DAILY WORKER, The Workers Monthly and the Literature Department will be properly centered under one control. This amalgamation will make possible not only a great sav- ing in overhead expenses and an increase in the iency of all three branches of the party press, but it will also make possible for the first time a really organized and functioning distribution machinery. DISTRIBUTION ALSO CENTRALIZED. Beginning also on January 15, the * DAILY WORKER agents — into The Daily Worker Builders will take on the sale and distribution of the party literature as well as THE DAILY WORKER and The Workers Monthly. The Workers Par- ty Central Executive Committee, in deciding to amalgamate all branches of the party press, also decided to amalgamate the dis- tribution machinery. it is therefore necessary that Workers P units which have literature agents apart from their DAILY WORKER agents, combine these offices or form a DAILY WORKER committee un- der centralized control of the branch thru the appointment of a committee chairman. BRANCHES MUST HAVE DAILY WORKER AGENTS. It is also more necessary than ever that every party branch and shop nucleus have an active and capable DAILY WORKER nt, directly connected with the DAILY WORKER office. Out of the more than 1000 party branches, not more than 400 have active DAILY WORKER agents. Which means that 60 per cent of the party branches are not giving organized support to the party’s English language press; which in most cases means that they are not giving any support at all. For successful distribu- tion of our press we must have NN and for organization the first step is the election of DAILY WORKER agents in every party unit. In those branches which have not yet elected their press representative, the next branch meeting is suggested as the proper time and place to overcome this delinquency. cea LL EE — ———————̃7‚⏑rP———. ————0⏑—½—— ——1¹—— w w- | A Comrade “Keeps His Shirt On.” T was a session of a branch executive committee. “Comrade Chairman,” George Smith was saying, “Howinell can we set the date of this meeting when no one has a calendar on him?“ “Keep your shirt on, Comrade Smith,” the chairman. answered, “Here’s a ‘Tool Box’ | got from the DAILY WORKER and it has a calendar in it.“ He put a circle around the date decided and the meeting was set. The committee arranged the order of business to allow for discussion. For there's nothing a Bolshevik likes more than dis- cussion—unless it’s more discusslon. As soon as the branch meeting opened the DAILY WORKER agent was on his feet. “Comrade Chairman,” he said, “our C. E. C. decided that the first order of business is the DAILY WORKER, and unless it is, this meeting does not go on unless you drag me out!” “Keep your shirt on,“ the chairman answered, “I can make a better speech than you can for our daily and I’m going to do it first.“ And he did—with the result that everyone bought a policy to insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925 but one comrade—_ as all the Policles were sold out. ‘The chairman was at a loss what to do—and the DAILY WORKER agent was again on his feet. “Comrade Chairman, you keep YOUR shirt on,“ he said, “I have a ‘Tool Box’ with me, with a a blank in it and I'll thank the comrade for his money.” Which he did. | As in all good branches, applications for membership were uP for reading. The chairman spoke: “Comrades, of three ap- plications before us two came in from the “Tool Box’ sent out to = | the readers of the DAILY WORKER. We welcome the new com- rades in our branch, and | mention this to show the part our Daily plays in the growth of our branch.” At this point a comrade arose. “Comrades,” he said, “| no speak English, good. | think DAILY WORKER fine pepper, but | Roumanian and | take also Roumanian pepper. Where | can buy heem?” That's easy,” a comrade said from the audience, I also ot a ‘Tool Box’ and in it are all the Communist language papers. he Roumanian paper is—let’s see—O yes, ‘Diptheria.’” That's no paper,” the DAILY WORKER nt said, That's a disease. He means Desteptarea. It costs only two bucks and 'n take your sub.” | The Roumanian comrade laughed good naturedly and gave him the money. And on the next order of business the Young Workers League was brought up. | A little Bolshevik arose, “Comrades,” he said, I have nothing to report this time. But, while you are on this order of business | will also use the Tool Box' to appeal to the young people pre- sent,“ And he read the fine appeal for the League the Tool Box“ contains. | Other business dispensed with, during a five minute recess to pay dues, the DAILY WORKER agent got subs from the mem- bers and visitors for The Workers Monthly and The Communist F so easy with the handy blanks in the “Too! ox.“ After intermission the industrial organizer was on the floor. “Now, comrades,” he said, nobody can tell me they are active in their union, I'll know it when | see their paid up union book. With ‘a handy pocket in the Tool Box,’ everyone should have his book at every meeting. And | make a motion to that effect.“ The motion went over with a bang, and the DAILY WORKER agent was instructed to send to the DAILY WORKER for twenty more “Tool Boxes.” And then the discussion began. And some one got a little hot under the collar. “Comrade Chairman,” he shouted, “| protest. The speaker doesn’t know Labor History from a fried onion. It isn't true that the Knights of Labor were organized in 1869. He must be thinking of the Knights of the Bed Sheet—the K. K. K.'s.” “Keep your shirt on,” warned the chairman. “Look it up in the Tool Box.“ he comrade did, and then had this to say: “Comrades, | apologize.” During the discussion, | noticed some comrades making notes in the “Tool Box.” There are pages in it for that =|purpose. learned also that it has/facts in it on the Labor move- ment. realize what a useful littſe book the “Tool Box“ is. We =| have used it tonight for almost everything. And on the page for addresses | will put down the names of some friends | want our agent to send one to. And | say this: “From now on, not only will ‘I keep my shirt on’ but, | will put the “Tool Box’ in it.” 3 J . ‘ a {3 1 | F ‘on year of its existence the DAILY WORKER s proven its worth to our Party. e T is a record to be proud of. A record of accom- plishment for the. Revolutionary Labor Move- ment in this country. [N every single fight for the working class on the political field—in every single battle on the industrial ground- the DAILY WORKER has carried the Communist banner, cemented together the Left Wing of the Labor movement—has proven also its strongest weapon. OUR Party has grown in this time—and the DAILY WORKER has been an important contributing factor in its growth. The DAILY WORKER has brought the Communist message to thousands of workers—has proven the magnet that has drawn them into the ranks of the Com- munist Party. OR the Workers (Communist) Party 28 ship it has performed a great service. expression of Communist principles, of the tactics of our Party, in the pages of the DAILY WORKER, has served to clarify the Party, to cement it into one, single, fighting unit to Bolshevize it. N this way, the DAILY WORKER (al h still in its infancy) has served our Party © Revolutionary workers in this country—you, who hold its principles. HAVE you done your share to strengthen it—to build it for greater results in its second year of life? HERE is no better service to perform for the revolutionary movement than to build its best weapon. Getting one new sub for the DAILY WORKER is a simple task. Make it your duty to perform it. And here's the sub blank. THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington St. Chicago, III. Ze „„ KAATES 7 SOOO a year §3.50~-E montis Ao 3 montis f2 CMICAGO -§ Soo ayear F450 6 months § 250, 3 monty THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER „ * * 2 * v NAME A ee X. STREET. eee le 1 A* > 4 — — * rer
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. e De. eee * A wc yttecsen — fod * . 2 nnn . 7 e ene ELEM, * * The Chinese Masses Are Jewish Branch, Workers Party nnn. —— % ˙—ꝛ¹Ü? By MARTIN ABERN. NYONE who reads the glowimg his- tory of the Spark, the Russian revolutionary newspaper of years ago; anyone even remotely acquainted with the history and development of Prav- da, organ of the Russian Communist Party, and its powerful connection with, and influence over the masses of Russian workers, need not be told of the gigantic importance of the press. For malevolent influence, consi. der the scorpion capitalist press of Am- YOKOHAMA, Jan. 12.—The|erica! How did the Spark, Pravda, lull in the hostilities in and other working class newspapers ina is but an armed peace, — such immense influence? Be- ready to burst into flame of ause they were working class papers? war at any moment, pte or are ogra a, 23 * ever likely to have any real hold on reports the hearts and minds of the workers. 2 n f 7 The success of the revolutionary or- gans in Russia lies in their close con. —— with headquarters |tact and sympathy with the daily eking. needs and aspirations of the strug- Hits Foreign Treaties. gling workers. Pravda succeeded be- Such a government, once firmly ¢s- cause it spoke the needs and aims of tablished, would be a deathblow to all the workers. But more important: the aims of the powers. The * The workers themselves spoke In would be more acute than > vi — Pravda. They made the paper their San has ingens pa! p. * 7 own by writing always in it ot the stated that he w a r rage a ers | ives they lived and worked. Hence, present treaties with foreign po ’| Pravda was, or is, not just a paper. In that he will have the backing not It is the blood, bone, muscle, brain only of China, but of all Asia, and, and body of the workers. Pravda is Russia playing the leading role. It the worker. The famous Workers will then be up to the powers to either . Backing Sun Yat Sen By JACK ARMITAGE (For The Federated Press.) THE DA! by e ee Columns” or “On the Job” made a living paper. Shop Nuclei Will Invigorate Com- munist Press. Yet not even Pravda could succeed so well without something else. That is, the Communist Party organization. But, further, a certain type of party organization: The shop nuclei, party units organized in the shops, at the place of work. That spells permanent mass contact. The party in Russia is completely ¢rganized on the basis of shop nuclei, to do all party work. The Communist press gives concen- trated propaganda and daily direction to the work in the shops. Communist nuclei units in the shops. Communist things, report the conditions of work, their struggles and lives, all the little things which arise daily and which mean so much to them. These are written in and commented upon by the press and result in building the press and party. The DAILY WORKER, our American Communist daily, tries in every way to reach the masses of workers. It wants the workers to write about themselves and their work in the DAILY WORKER. Real success in this field will come when the Workers (Communist) Party is a party of shop nuclei, Until our party, moreover, has its base and absolute majority of membership in the large and basic in- dustries, steel, coal, railroad, etc. dan- lumns | be gers in the party and in its press will ignominiously climb down or to con- ° quer Asia. Klan Tries to How far the armed forces of the Capture Indiana’s Educational Laws powers could get is a question. To occupy treaty ports is an easy mat- ter, but that would barely affect even China. To all intents they are occu- pied at the present moment. For the Cicer uf Napelson's | Power in the state legislature here, march to Moscow. China would wel- hen Walter Bossert. grand dragon of come it as part of her strategy. The the klan in Indiana, sought to have coast, and some of the rivers, could James Knapp of Hagerstown named be held but to conquer the interior chairman of the committee on educa is a different proposition. tion. It is thot unlikely that Harry Sees Lightning Change. Leslie, speaker of the house, will ap- The situation in oriental countries boint the klansman as Lesie is un- is undergoing lightning change. Rus- friendly to the klan. sia will be a powerful influence in The intense desire of the klan forces China, both militarily and politically. to secure appointment on the commit- Some are inclined to the belief that tee on education points to a klan Japan will not throw in her lot with | campaign to force its educational pro- China. However, things political in gram on the state. Japan are altering rapidly. Recent events in the Yang-tse val- ley show the trend of public opinion in-China. It is here that the country is most thickly populated, for the Yane-tse carries along its valley one- eighth of the world’s populatfon. Radi- cal propaganda has been extensively And thodically disseminated among these people, most of it emanating from Shanghai and Canton. These people are in no mood to tolerate | concessions to foreigners. With the people of the Yang-tse and south China at his back Sun Yat Sen holds a strong position. He has al- ways been the idol of the Cantonese | tlers taken from Wrangel island by a and the overseas Chinese, who are Soviet government icebreaksr, has radical in thought. These people have | died at Vladivostok, the state depart- literally poured money into his war ment declares. (Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 12.—The ku klux klan made another bid for Rent Raise Defeated. VIENNA, Jan. 12.— The govern- ment’s move to make Austrians who now pay no rent pay small amounts was blocked in the Austrian parlia- mentary committee on justice by the social-democrats who created a dis- turbance with whistles and bells, causing the committee to adjourn, without passing the rent law. Dead in Siberia. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12.— Captain Charles Henry Sells, the Am- erican commander of the band of set- chest, especially from America and | Australia. | At the moment foreign newspapers | are full of the most ridiculous calu- mnies regarding Sun. That may be well enough for foreign readers, but it | will have no influence on the Chinese. | Sun Yat Sen is the chosen leader of the revolutionary elements in China. | It is hardly to be conceived that he | would sell them hto the hands of their enemies, as some writers would About a.year ago the writer re- have us believe, and that is the only | viewed the firstWrogram of the Chi. thing which would discredit him with cago Solo 989 This organiza- his followers. tion gave one concent and then gave Foreign financial ** — will have | up the ghost. In ba pet with the to find a strong man to¥stem the wave Adolph Bolm ballet til this year of radicalism which has fast spread the ballet of the Chicago opera, the thruout China. The question today is R bee shee Geen One not, will there be war, but where will dead. * end? The situation at Pekin is 4a The amalgamation calls itself the match which may set fire to the pow- | Allie d Arts, and has given two pro. der barrel of -the orient. ‘grams so far, with tremendous suc. cess. „The second program, given its sec- ond repetition at the Eight Street Theater last Sunday, was divided in two sections, one given over to the or- | chestra, the other to the ballet and or- chestra together. The orchestral section opened with two compositions the reviewer regrets | not having heard, a tone poem de. scribing an evening party, by Arthur | Bliss, and a symphonic movement by Paul Juon. Arthur Bliss is one of the | | least known of the new English Long Live the DAILY WORKER | school. Juon is a German who has written a great deal of queer and and the Communist Movement! | sometimes bad stuff. Miss Hager, Excellent Soprano. The third number was a group of “four pleasant songs,“ by Stravinski, | sung by that pranos Mina Hager. They are typical of Stravinski in his lighter moods, which is to say they are cryptically Birthday Greetings to The Daily Worker from V. BERNAU REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE of every kind 2034 N. HALSTED STREET Notary Public Lincoln 3208 By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. Allied Arts Concert. GREETINGS On the First Birthday of the First Communist Daily in the United States. St. Paul, Minn. * = tre hPa 2 — pe aye hee — + ee ~ * Af NORKER try, bp etc.) This would not be necessarily conscious or pre- meditated, but by materia! objective and mental considerations. In organizing shop nuclei, we aim to establish our party in the basic indus- tries and thus reach the living ma terial for bolshevization of the Work- ers (Communist) Party. The influ. ence, circulation, content and view- point of the press are automatically thus affected. Even now our Press does not give sufficient reading matter on condition: in the wor „ not due to the un- willingness of the p to print such information, quite the contrary. Our party e must first be in the large » & condition which lays the basis w a workers corre- spondence, When dealt with, the cases have been concerned, too often, with individual or special cases of ex- ploitation or with those employed in isolated or small shops. If there is nothing better, 1 can, of course, | it, obviously, it will be more t and striking for our Communist press, for the DAILY WORKER, and our Commun. ist cause, when shop reports will come mainly from the big industries, mines, mills, ete., thus making a single illustration ot shop struggle common to thousands of — in the same ——̃¶ ͤck!! me 7—7˙Ün.!. The Communist Press and Shop Nuclei industry. Then, too, letters from the workers “On the Job” stuff, have been dependent on chance and on a few “willing” comrades, or, let us say, loyal and energetic ones. Shop Correspondents Thru Shop Nuclei. With Communist shop nuclei organ- ized, every shop will have a regular and special shop correspondent. Sueh news of workshop life will interest broad masses of workers. They will feel it is their story that is being told, that it is their paper. The shop nu- clei will be another direct link be tween the workers and our Communist press, and also inversely so. Plainly, we are but in the sheerest beginnings of our work in the fleld of shop nuclei and a GREATER COM- MUNIST PRESS. Still we must build right, rest our foundation solid—in the shops. To organize shop nuclei is to lay the best groundwork for in. creasing systematically the circula- tion of the DAILY WORKER and other Communist papers; is to make it possible for the DAILY WORKER) to become in fact the written expres- sion of the workers’ drudgery, wrongs hopes and aims. munist press thru the shop nuclei is also to build more shop nuclei and to get increasing contact with the work- ers. Thru shop nuclei and a Com. munist press—hopes translated into deeds—a mass Communist Party. Revolutionary Committee of the Voangest Soviet Republic—Moldavanian First Row from Left to Right: Krivorukov and Stroev. man of the Committee, Comrade Stary. Third Row: Badaev and Batlushkin. e i | Center: Chair- most excellent of so- brief and delicate and cubistic in style. Two langorous slow -waltzes, the “Valse Triste” of Sibelius and a waltz by d'Indy closed the orchestral sec- tion. The ballet opened with a little thing called “Love the Magician,” by Manuel di Falla, who is a past maste1 at the composition of Spanish dance rhythms. The story was about a lady pursued by a ghost, and it was done perfectly, as the Bolm company al. ways does things. (And as many others don’t—got to the opera this year and see how ballet should not be done.) Henry Eichheim, who used to 1 in Chicago, directed a pantomime o? his own called “The Rivals.” Eich heim specializes in Oriental music. Not the woul-be Oriental music of | Rimiski- Korsakov and Irving Berlin, | but the real authentic stuff. He has spent considerable time in the far east, and his melodies are genuine, “The Rivals” is concerned with two Chinese generals, one the best looking in China. The handsome comander kills the ugly one in a duel. But the dead man't wife, one the homliest | over. Reminsoff’s. curtain shows the spirits of the ballet dancing in the air between high office buildings. When one thinks of ballet one is too often inclined to think of the art solely as it is cultivated in Russta and presented by Pavlowa or Fokine. The Allied Arts, by giving us ballet of Spain, America and France, will cor. rect that error. And the performance of the latest in small orchestra music by Mr. Delamarter and his organiza- tion helps to make the Allied Arts wirth while. All Art Is Propaganda. (Upton Sinclair will publish from his Pasadena, California, office early in February a work of criticism entitled “Mammonart.” The book is a study of literature and all the arts from the point of view of economics. The au- thor advances the thesis that all art is propaganda, whether consciously or ‘unconsciously. He examines the arts. beginning with Homer and the Old Testament, and coming down to the present day, inquiring to what extent they have been used to serve and | glorify the ruling classes. This vol. who is the most beautiful woman in ume is the fifth in a series of studies the land, arrives to fight the victor. ot culture from the point of view of | After considerable pantomime, woman prays for victory, they kill | each other and die embracing. Eichheim scored this bloody affair It has all tle noise | Fire Drives Sheen with gory music. and rattle of the Chinese tonal art. but has enough melody to make it in 28 to western ears. verry, In Program. There was a a deal more on the program, impossible to review in de- tail. includ- | ing an armistice during which the | the class struggle; the other works. ‘already published, being “The Profits ,of Religion,” “The Brass Check.“ “The Goose-Step” and “the Goslings.” Families Into Streets In Standard Oil Town WHITING, Ind., Jan. 12.— Sixteen families were driven to the street There was a burlesque of a cir-| early today, homeless and bereft of cus, played to that ancient cireus tune all belongings, by a $100,000 fire that Offenbach’s overture to “Orpheus in tomime, set to variations on a well known operatic aria, the Tartar dances in Borodin's opera destroyed a three-story brick block. the Underworld,” a masked ball pan- | The block was located on the main ‘street and. housed four stores, a the- ater, and apartments above. “Price | Started in one of the apartments and The fire Igor,“ and a lot of short individual spread so rapidly that it was soon | work. | The scene painter for the Allied Arts is Nicholas Remisoff, who did many of the scenes for the Chauve Souris. These scenes are done in the | fantastic, highly colored, extravagant ‘fashion tha put the Chauve Souris out of control. Aid was sent by the Chicago fire department, the Hammond, Ind., and Indiana Harbor departments. for the DAI Ly WORKER, an “Ad” SS ONLY ONE NIGHT! THURSDAY, JAN, 15 From 6:30 to 11 P. M. Polikushka Famous Story by L. N. Tolstoy in 6 reels, by Moscow Art Theatre In Memoriam- and Russian Comedy Will be shown at Gartner’s Independent Theatre 3725 Roosevelt Road Near Independence Boulevard TICKETS 50c Children 280. > A BIRTHDAY GREETINGS FROM NN RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL FOREIGN ! ANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATE RS. RUBBER TYPE,Erc. NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO, 524 So. Vearvorn Street Phone Wabash 6680 CHICAGO MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO-— i i i i i i i i i i i i ee ee ee ed English Comrades Begin Forming Factory Groups (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, England, Jan. 12.—-Trans- formation of the English Communist Party on a factory group basis is mak ing solid progress. London has sfx teen factory groups, organized on the shop nucleus basis, and Glasgow five Other districts report that difficulties in the way of organizing factory groups are fact being met. A district congress was recently held in the Tyneside for the special purpose of. informing the comrades of this district on the means of carrying out this new form of organization. 2 To build our Com- A Soldier Ivan’s Miracle; The Jewish Branch No. 1, Bronx, N. 7. Greets The Daily Worker on its First ‘Birthday. May It Grow Ever Bigger and Better in the Coming Years. ~ 1110 N ANN injunctions—» 1 Hi 1 unn 2 IAT TT Birthday Greetings to the only English langu Daily in the World! Long Live the Daily Worker! THE ORGAN OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST OF AMERICA Long may your banner wave In the land of Teapot Dome scandals and anti-labor Communist ) PARTY Society for Technical Aid, U. S. S. R. 1902 W. Division St., Chicago, III. e at 3118 West GREETINGS TO THE DAILY WORKER FROM THE | DOUGLAS PARK ENGLISH BRANCH CHICAGO, ILL. (We meet every Ist and 3rd Monday Roosevelt Road) = Are We on the Job? I’ll Say So! 2 { THE BRONX RUSSIAN BRANCH OF THE WORKERS PARTY looking back upon a year of real achievement is intent.upon “Telling the World” that our branch was, is, and will be doing all possible—and then some—to keep THE DAILY WORKER supplied with ammunition for the purpose of felling Capitalism. With Communist Greetings, G. ROUBIN, Branch Organizer. More Privileges for Political Prisoners PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Jan. 12. —An important change affecting po- litical prisoners is to be introduced in the Czechoslovakian prison sys- tem. It will give these offenders many more privileges than are enjoyed by | prisoners of other classes. He was 71 years old. Lenin Physician Dead. LEIPZIG, Germany, Jan. 12.— Dr. Adolf von Struempell, senior mem- ber of the medical faculty of the Uni- versity of Leipzig who treated Premier Lenin of Russia at his last illness, . * . oemee E = —— —U— ——: — 2 — 2 „% — — — 2 — ee — — * — — . Üͤ˖—v— m p SSeS. sisal: msrse>-stetien ö i i 5 N '
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7 - = — — * — wate rare E. — — — „ 6—— ** eth — — e rr —— 2 r —— , git —— = — : Bis: ie . ——— — — = .:... ß. ĩ ͤ eae : ; 5 . N ; 2 — AI 2 : * oe 4. — A — — —u½-—᷑ a ea RO ~ 5 en — eee Birthday Greetings to * The Daily Worker out THE DAILY WORKER, yet the real task of establishing a left-wing movement would certainly fail of its complete success if we did not have the daily. That is because a real left-wing movement ig impossible unless it is a class-movement, not a partial or sec- tional movement, and it must extend the movement. Every important prob- lem that confronts the labor move- ment, nationally and internationally, is studied and analyzed by the best informed and best trained thinkers of the international working class in the columns of the DAILY WORKER. All the great advances made by the Russian working class, the first sec- tion of the proletariat to become the rulfig class of its country, are de- geri and reported in detail. Out of the small contributions of the 20,000 It has been the DAILY WORKER that has finally put the revolutionary labor union movement of América upon a permanent basis. But we cannot be content with con- gratulating ourselvés on what has been done. It is necessary to make every small achievement the starting point for a greater one. It is neces- sary to extend the small struggles. for revolutionary progress in which we are now engaged only the beginning of You Probably Never Thought of it! And yet another sure way of building the DAILY WORKER is by getting an ad. By EARL R. BROWDER O you members of the trade un- ions, you who carry on the fight from day to day and from year to year for the revolutionary class strug- gle, you who are on the real firing- line of the Communist movement of America—do you realize what THE at all costs extend beyond the boun- — 2 WORKER means to you in] daries of the separate unions and in- your fig ! dustries, setting up the bonds of sol- Now De vou Find Your Fellow- All fadicals buy their books and magazines from | __CESHINSKY’S Community Book 4 Stationery Store Phone: Humboldt 2696 2720 W. Division Street Chicago idarity between the revolutionary Fighters? Perhaps you hadn't stopped to think about it, but it has been mainly THE ‘|}DAILY WORKER which furnished the organized and unorganized. It workers of all uhions and industries, precisely because the DAILY WORK- ER has done this needed thing that is to 30,000 supporters of the DAILY WORKER has been ‘built up a mighty machine for organization and struggle, a part of the international revolution- greater struggles. It is necessary to deepen our program and widen the scope of its continually. There is one fundamental prere- The R. I. L. U. and the Daily = influence always and When you go to your dentist—your doctor —your bank—the people you buy from—do you ask them to advertise in YOUR Paper? DULUTH, MINN., ATTENTION DANCE Wednesday Night, January 14 means of your finding one another so that you could fight together, so that you could work out the programs upon which you unite, so that you could carry Your programs out to the work- ing masses in your particular fleld of today we can say the left wing is a reality in the American labor move- ment, that the R. I. L. U. has set its roots firmly in the American working class. ary army of the proletariat. Build a Mightler DAILY WORKER Yes, surely, on this first anniversary of the birth of our fighting daily, we can be proud of what it has accom- plished. We can say without hesita- quisite to all these tasks which faces us. That is to BUILD THE DAILY WORKER, and to INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925. Let this be the watchword on the There are advantages in it for them and j it will help to build YOUR paper. International Solidarity first anniversary of the first English- one 3 to 5 over 8 pe gh Solidarity ot the revolutionary |tion that it is the DAILY WORKER |language Communist daily in the _ . RATES: ie lea 8 AT e have had enough experience to orkers by groups, by industries, and|Which has enabled the Trade Union| world. Times Printed ' , 1 . [learn that THE DAILY WORKER is on a national scale—that is a large Educational League to ‘penetrate jnto| Supporters of the Red International — N r «a GLENCOE H ALL, 222 W. ist St our most powerful weapon. The min- task that our movement has under- every mook and ¢ranny of the labor|of Labor Unions will unite in enthust- inch inches — ’ ers know it. It was when THE DALLX taken, and has only been through movement with the message of the|astic support of our greatest weapon . Duluth, Minn. WORKER first appeared that the/ine DAILY WORKER that great pro- Red International of Labor Unions.'—the DAILY WORKER. Once only $1.00 950 90c i , f tens of thousands of rebelling miners gress has heen possible in this direc- —— 4 Auspices: Workers Party in the United Mine Workers ot Amer- tion. But even these steps are not- aff neat 8 ’ ica began to powerfully mobilize their enough. In the present age of im- 1 : ag a week— 950 doc 85c 4 f real forces against the treacherous perialism, the final stage of capitalism, — , Lewis machine, and thus to lay the ir labor solidarity does not extend be- N 4 — The most reliable and best Fire] foundations for a fighting union of yong all national boundaries it cannot Da Every day— Insurance for the workingman /™iners. It was THE DAILY WORK-/h. said yet to exist. And it is pre | 3 months or more doe 880 80c ER which rallied the support of wide cisely in the field of international ey circles of the working class to the . Workmen's Furniture Fire Insurance Society Organized 1872 solidarity of the revolutionary work- ers of the world that the services of the DAILY WORKER to our move- ment have been emphasized. International solidarity is more than a phrase or a sentiment. It can only exist on the basis of real contact of the workers of the different countries, When your union or branch has a meeting of a knowledge of their manners of ; | life, of their working conditions, of or dance—other workers im your town will their problem, of their struggles, of 8 know about it they will if they see it in the the history of their organizations, of — DAILY WORKER. Fin their programs, of their contacts in international conferences, congressps, | PEELE i — — 5 ONE YEAR NEARER IT’S GOAL striking textile workers in Paterson. It was THE DAILY WORKER which connected up the thousands of fighting carpenters who supported the can- hee didacy of Morris Rosen in the election 1 in the United Brotherhood of Carpen- > ters, and thus for the first time in 3 8 39,000 Members the history of that organization broke Be — the undisputed rule of reaction, It was THE DAILY WORKER that made it possible for the militant members of the machinists organization to launch a powerful campaign against the B. & O. plan of class collaboration, and to organize a strong resistance to both the reactionary administration of Johnston and to the fake “progress- ives.” Making a Left-Wing Movement These things are only a few samples Write to the Advertising Department of the DAILY WORKER for information or to send in your ad. : Ap lications for admission of same 2 be received every Tuesday Eye. “trom 7:30 P. M. to 9:30 PF. M. in 4, Room 214 Haymarket Theatre etc. Such necessary international “Building, 716 W. Madison St. contact is only possible on a highly 2 organized scale. Tremendous outlay of energy is necessary, at great finan- clal cost, with great organizational burdens—and it is only when all the rich results of such efforts can be 7 > Insures Furniture, Household Goods and Clothing from $100 Birthday Greetings to the Daily Worker to $1,500 at very reasonable rates of the manner in which THE DAILY| made available to thé tens of thou- 5 2 b WORKER has sunk its roots deep in- sands of the workers everywhere, at a 25 to the life of the American labor move- a low cost and every day in the year, TH : ° *..|ment in the trade unions, a movement that it becomes possible to lay the A. Hofmann, Fin. Sec Y | which will be the foundation of the foundations of international ‘solidarity. a DAIL 2 a = 4827 WEST END AVENUE revolutionary unions of the future, the] Think of the overwhelming riches of ‘by WORKER Photo Studio a? — Phone Austin 9382. American section of the Red Inter-] international infofmation and contact ss —— 1 f ; Pe a national of Labor Unions. with the workers all over the world < * It must be remembered, in judging that the DAILY WORKER has made a4 J. the supreme value of our daily, that] available for the ee pl pede te Seo | 8 8 even if the specific work in the se Every important struggle of the work- rs ate unions and industries, could, ae ers 4 tact land is ee by the Comrade Sol Fishman is 15 years old and one of the older members of the sibly, be carried on in a fashion with-! best writers and the best fighters in“ 23 Junior Groups in Chicago. Juniors, this is our Birthday] Party! Tho we are the littlest readers jof the DAILY WORKER, we have everything in common with it, for we are It, and It is We. | Isn't the DAILY WORKER a | pioneer just as we? Isn’t ‘the DAILY WORKER young, energetic, audacious and militant, just as we? Isn’t the DAILY WORKER “always ready” to fight the battles of the exploited workers and farm- 5 215 Artistic Photographs at Reasonable Prices For further information consult. your Secretary of the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund. J. Franzus, Prop. 2722 West Division St.“ Phone Humboldt 4088 Chicago, Illinois — — — —— ee — ne a —— SS SSS — SST TVS RR — ¹w — ˙ : LO ¹˙ꝗ;ÿ r: e ei — We will read carefully what e our grown-up comrades tell us of the duty of a Communist, of their struggles to pave the way for bringing our beloved Daily into, existence, and when then speak of the tasks of the future, we will |} roll up our sleeves and with Com- 0 ; . 9 * „ Dre DULUTH, MI NN., ATTENTION LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 3 P. M. Afternoon and Evening 4 rade Fishman, who drew the car- toon for our column, we will start on the road with ouf message and keep right on no matter what the obstacles. Juniors! Are you ready? ALWAYS READY! SPEECHES IN ENGLISH, FINNISH AND BY Y. W. L. MEMBER Songs, Recitations and Other Program CAMEL’S HALL, 12 EAST SUPERIOR ST. Admission 25 Cents ers? Doesn't the DAILY WORK- ER shout the truth about the workers’ sifuggle for emancipa- tion from capitalist exploitation into the teeth of the capitalist / lying sheets, just as we little Jun- iors heroically shout the truth about the vicious capitalist sys- tem into the teeth of our false educators? So you see, in fact, we and the DAILY WORKER are synon- ymous. And the little Communist David who threw the stone at the greedy 3 capitalist monster Goliath in] Robert Minor’s birthday cartoon f | _ ON ITS FIRST ANNIVERSARY .*-***** 7??? ** ooo * oOo Se SS ; * 7 ; 7 de. % ee Se FS SSS SSSTSSsSEsSsssssseSsTEsSSssSesVsPPsesPesV_sP_ FBP’ VesVesVe Vee ese seseses were dese seeded LITE J Printing cards, Envelopes, Letter Heads, Pluggers, Announcements, Programs, Pamphlets Booklets, Books, Newspapers * in this edition is really us. We Juniors, offsprings of the 8 masses, are destined to lead the g | way in the United States out of A black reaction to a workers’ gov- : ernment, to the United States of Soviet America. 1 THIS IS REALLY OUR BIRTHDAY! We are going to celebrate as true Communists. Can be done better, quicker and for less money on your presses in your own printing plant. vy No Printing Job Too Small, No Order Too Large, — =e * — — —— — - We Wish You Success For 1925 —— „„ lr — — — Tord * . = — For Our Prompt Attention ; : And As Long As the Workers of America MUST SELL AT ONCE vv Have to Fight the Bosses! oe eee POOL ROOM, HAT CLEANING Help keep our Communist printing plant busy. pr Pe AND 5-CHAIR SHOE SHINING 4 When ordering your next lot of cards, stationery or print- — „ — 2 ·— — —C TILL | 3 vy STAND. | ing of any kind, keep in mind your own plant in Chicago Also Electric Sign. Store in and send your order to u First-Class Condition, with vy 5 Long Lease. 8 Workers of the Daily Worker Printing Plant 940 WEST MADISON STREET — Call Monroe 1298 between 12 and 2 o'clock. i” | | The Daily Worker Publishing Co. 2 Naefe . ? * PITTSBURGH, PA. mem- R ASNIC K 4 . | bm | Dm. DENTIST 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, III. | a — erin LE 4 : 14 S AVI, Gon arteer Bee 12 III HAI int geeiceicic clelcielé * — — ' 8 —
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After that, the left! tinct group p in the Carpenters’ Union wing steadily grew in strength, and resulted in a more than credible show- finally smashed the convention con- ing in the election. All of these fights trol of Lewis and forced him to ad- were strengthened thru the fact that journ the convention before the busi-| we have a daily working class paper ness for which it was called was com- in fact some of the fights would have pleted. This victory of the left wing,|been impossible without the DAILY ng] Our First V. ARL REEVE, member of dey DAILY WORKER'S staff, has pre- pared a chronology for our first year as follows: Jan. 13—First issue appeared. ~~ BY THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE of THE TRADE UNION EDU- CATIONAL LEAGUE. . . * BE past year has been a very Sept. 12—Campaign against de- dense day” militaristic program of , Coolidge. Sept. 15—Reports left wing fight in _| machinists’ convention at Detroit. * 5 eo on ion pk * — rr 4 2 1 7 7 - * * — Nang 0 1 ; \ ey . ‘ ‘ * * ¢ we ; — * eit: 3 5 — 1 1 ; : Pes oe 1 ak r, better ht- 4 tive, yes, hectic, year for the for not supporting the struggles ot altho it did not smash Lewis’ control | WORKER. : Jan. 22—Reports national conven-| Sept. 22—Convention of Carpenters’ beats „ fig 8 1 Trade Union Educational League. the left wing, but in over-valuing some ot the union, nor was it able to put The struggle going on now in the N 7 United Mine Workers of 4 Union in Indianapolis reported. iain class. wer That we have made progress is self | phase and under-valuing others. And a program over in the convention. Carpenters’ Union by the left wing ———— Sept. 30—Lovestone writes series A ae evident, just as that a great deal of the credit for the progress made is ue to the fact that we have had a this is an inevitable result, it must be remembered of the lact of WORK ERS’ CORRESPONDENCE as a lead- strengthened and crystallized the left wing and weakened the Lewis ma- chine. against the signing of a scab agree- ment by Hutcheson and Jensen, which has resulted in the expulsion of five of articles exposing Dawes plan. Series e olga, Elmer and Henry Halme of articles on anti-union conditions in Hjalmar Mustonen Jan. 23—Death of Nicolai Lenin an- nounced to working class of America. @ higher standard of living, for a E. L. since the birth of the DAILY|L. G. W. U. and A. C. W. conven-|strengthened and made possible thru : — workday, against child labor, WORKER so as we can get its proper tions, in the Ilinois Miners’ and other the fact that we have the DAILY * E - 3 3 nagar se on the — ere N against injunctions, in fact the DAILLT value in the everyday struggles of district. miners’ conventions. The WORRER. Hundreds could be cited 0 ‘ Pr a te borne et | 0 he 5 an arrington, 2 N WORKER, the official organ ot the the workers. Born on Jan. 13, 1924 |daily was a tower of strength to the such as the Pullman, Hegewisch, Pat tion, in ha * * * en ead of the Illinois miners, continue, 5 3 4 Workers (Communist) Party is the the DAILY WORKER was of invalu- left wing in fighting the reactionary terson, and the “outlaw” anthracite mae 0 * * ARs — oy er oven reo — * 8 urmi | only English language daily in Amer- able service to the Progressive Min-|machine and its class collaboration strike, the fight for protection of the 82 . ie * . ee 1 — L . i ) don that has at all times in all strug: | ers’ committee in the struggle against and expulsion policies in all unions. foreign born, the farmer-labor party * 8 . pred 8 f 3 — 1 a e | 1 gies of the workers, thrown its col the Lewis reactionary machine in the The DAILY WORKER fought with movement, the release of class war on Webk.” erent ey 4 e eee rance recognizes Soviet % Beng . 1 unn open to them and their inter- U. M. WI of A. convention held Jan. the T. U. E. L. in the fight for the re- prisoners, for amalgamation, interna |... by — Libedinsky a Rob t , — 1 ests. 22, 1924 instatement of Alex Howat, Jim Mc: tional unity, recognition of Soviet Rus- Feb il te hg ot 25.000 ie Cole Nov. 17—Leads Communist cam- ; 5 b mmonen ‘ It would be an unforgivable mistake Here was a convention of 2,200 Lachlan, Tom Myerscough, the. expel- sia, etc. . 3 wert itish sort paign against Coolidge’ s anti-Com- fio! — f 0 u the T. U. E. L. allowed the DAILY | delegates, a numerically weak left led Toledo machinists, and the splen Te T. U. E. E., Yn greeting the Wr tn alt eentiids Of muniat “Education_Week” propaganda. “ * Slikk ! * WORKER’S birthday to pass without wing fighting against the strongest and did fight fut up by the T. U. E. L. in DAILY WORKER, promises the full arty to celebrate fifth ee Nov. 21—Jack Johnstone begins = os i 1 congratulating it upon the splendid most reactionary machine in the A. F. the Machinists’ convention. The dis- est co-operation aud support, and Perey report of A. F. of L. convention at rt Veljola ‘ mills of 8 cor tion at daily paper for the past year which ing feature of the DAILY WORKER,| Again in the fight in the Furriers“ members of the Local 181 of Chicago | Jan. 28—Exposure of fire trap Fetes — . 8. Steel corpora ° 8 has fearlessly fought in the interest which is not the daily’s fault but the Union against the reactionary Kauf- and the fight of the re- instatement of schools. o nne Patter dent te Ado h H. Joki of the working class. It has support — of those among the workers who man machine where many of our the eleven Los Angeles car- Jan. 8 0 8 many’ states. Leads “adeno Gitlow| 01 aye ed and given publicity to the policies are in the struggle and yet do not members were slugged, the daily was penters, are rallying the | talist comes Ss “ag * oll campaign. Reports meetings of can- ates Eklund | and tactics of the R. I. L. U., of which write accounts of it for the DIL on the 16 . In the struggle against membership in support of the lef: | with articles on Teapo reat anner Tr. 8. HIN N | the T. U. E. L. is the American sec-| WORKER. On another page the T. the yellow socialists in the I. L. G. W.| wing. thruout the country scandal. Gard r Tarol. Tiida sett tion. U. E. L. is calling for this work. Make U. where a number of Communists|are writing for information on this Jan. 31—Madison sna ah e Maite Ginetta | © m8 “yf a alt The daily has suported every strike, the T. U. E. L. page a living thing and T. U. E. L. members were ex-|struggle, their attention being drawn much too small for Lenin memo metting ih Aahiaad Autiterinis Ch prey 11 . WITKKUIA , every fight of the workers against that will stand out brightly in the pelled and removed from office the to it thru the columns of the DAILY | meeting. 1 r * seit wage cuts, lengthening of working|DAILY WORKER. DAILY WORKER was there; also, in| WORKER. Feb. 2—Series of articles exposing nna Mes hours. It has consistently, and insist- ently urged the workers to fight for Just let us cite a few of the left wing fights conducted by the T. U. the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ strike of New York and Chicago, in the I. These are bat a few of the struggles of the left that have been — misery caused workers by nation’s. housing conditions begins. Feb. 9—Italy recognizes Soviet Rus- of Third Communist International. Oct. 15—-Series of articles exposes 4falseness of Daily ‘News “anti-Red” campaign. Miriam Kanervo ‘Henry Askeli , Karl Hellman achievements of the past year. Thelof L. Some 500 copies of the daily tribution of DAILY WORKERS to the pledges itself to help to make the ey ‘ Bl Paso, and then covers Pan-Ameri-| John Orasmaa Trade Union Educational League, how. were sold every day and passed ‘delegates at the Carpenters’ conven: | DAILY WORKER a real working class 5 i an masa tt can convention at Mexico City. 2 Kokkonen ever, considers that the success of the around, and it is safe to say that one tion, carrying the program of the daily of mass power. Not in the Garment r Nov. 24— Launches drive to secure 3 uori ö ö DAILY WORKER is the joint achieve- halt of the delegates read the DAILY Progressive Building Trades Workers sense of editing, but in the sense of e and the 2 kund to build paper in 1925. Iga Vuorl ment of the Workers (Communist) | WORKER every day. What a tremen-|into this extremely conservative con- helping to bring the ¥ WORKER | nop. As the strike progressen, the Nov. 26--Discussion of controversy 9. E. Toivonen 1 Party and the T. U. E. IL. We also dous effect that had! It strengthened vention for the first time, the subse to the workers, so that ff will be ac- DAILY WORKER took an active wart within-the party begins, the DAILY Laina Toivonen consider that the building up of the the left wing a thousand fold. quent publicity given to Morris Rosen cepted by the masses as their paper Several hundred copies were bought WORKER making possible the most; Amos Maki . DAILY WORKER is a joint task, and The first three days of the conven- the left wing candidate against in the sense that the DAILY WORK py e tay, the DAILY thoro discussion ever held in Ameri-| Mans Johnson : we pledge ourselves that in the com- tion Lewis had his own way, he gav. Hutcheson, which firmly established ER will become the ideological leader WORKER bathe the only paper in can Communist movement. Olga Johnson ; ing year the activities of the T. U.|eled everything down the throats of the T. U. E. L. as a separate and dis- ot the workers im fact. Clvicago giving accurate news of the eee * 1 front fight „ j 4 | strike. Campaigned against the anti-) Dec. 9—44 Communists elected to] J. E. Moilanen ‘ | * * picketing ee he tM German Reichstag. Esther Moilanen t . ence of committee of 15 appointed by r E ommunlst i ress and the ections Chicago Federation of Labor to aid — — f | the strike, and sent its reporters on Clethine Workers’ machine uses 2 ficult phases of the electoral struggle] Daily“ is able to render during the Communist ideas seeping into their the picket line daily, three of them — ase ns ee Sine tate wingers at polls Salar deena 5 By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL for our party. I have been |clections campaign, was best seen in | brains. being arrested. nf ony 2 — election. Aug. Heino first year of the DAILY/|*orely crippled without the pid of its | the large number of “Special Editions“ ®: S48 March 19—Special Teapot Dome cisti ' d a we worgers attack ta rs) K Silta h WORKER also marked the first Communist presy. ordered by the comrades in the big Labor Gets New Outlook edition appears. cael ter 2s be r Tilda Rantala i year in which the Workers (Commun- It was not mefely a matter of win- industrial centers. It was a new outlook that confron-| April 14—Moves into its own build-| or 2 Pea Te ee Oskar Stenberg il ist) Party entered the national. politi- ning the exploijed workers and poor] In this way hundreds of thousands ted the American workers and poor ing at 1113 W. Washington Blvd., from Jan. 6 1925—C E. Ruth Overland Jack 0 Gal arena. It is readily admitted that |farmers away ffom the old parties ad- of workers and poor farmers were farmers when the Workers (Commun-|the temporary rented quarters on N. ecutive eon t Fig Ppp cry cs Prd O. Partanen 0 the success of the Communist cam-|mitedly the instruments of wall not only awakened to the existence | ist) Party and its candidates, Foster | Halsted street. n of the Workers 100 eee 7 b 15 ign was in great part due to the Street rule. But it was during this of the Workers (Communist) Party, for president, and Gitlow, for vice April 14—Exposes anti-Soviet plots 3 to 10 years { 2 — * ne te Alina Rinta . i Beet that our party had its “DAILY” | year that the developing middle class and its program and candidates, but president, raised the Communist stan- of Secretary of Commerce Herbert n ms 5 n prison a y Berrien Atti Stohl 5 ( 8 ready and at hand to help fight its movement under the leadership of La- also came in contact with their first dards, for the overthrow of capitalism, | Hoover. — rs c 8 court for “assembling e — / 2 battles. The Communist press is the Follette for the first time reached na-|°opy of the DAILY WORKER. Thus in the 1924 elections, April 21—Five hundred Pullman car-| tional N . 3 im their na- Pane 4 5 ti biggest calibre gun in the Communist tional proportions, and entered the new contacts were established that; The American masses had been fed | builders strike. Leads strike thruout, Campaign rg N 2 1922. Edwin mt . 0 A ~f _@rmory during electoral struggles. national campaign as a definite factor. | Will result in the future in the estab- on the shibboleths of capitalist demo- reporters acting on picket line, being Michigan det e H — 1 a f 3 Our Communist movement was called | !ishment of strong centers for the cir-|cracy.” They had been satugated with arrested, leading strike meetings, and Jan 4 A Sg e begins. 83 1 8 Win Non-Revolutionary Elements upon to expose before the city and culation of our Communist “Daily.” the idea that they had “rights” under distributing thousands of “Special 1K“ 4 re 8 2 ras of Pah Pray 2 9 It is in the theses of the Second d workers the petit bourgeois char- rs x n discuss division of German war epoils,| Phena Ollita * 1 World Congress of the Communlst acter of the LaFollette movement; The Opposition Is Powerful | Way of labor achieveing “justice” un. May 14—Delegates to Furriers’ con- Jan. 9, 1995 Minera in Pens. All Huovinen 7 International that we find this declara- nd to reveal its real nature as an] It needs the constant, daily hammer- der the social system of private owner, vention make unsuccessful attempt to „nia hard coal fields protest can ockar Mehto 8 : ally of the big capitalists. ing of our Communist press to make ship. Even the socialists, imbued with | unseat DAILY WORKER reporter. off of strike by Rinaldo C — Peter Maki “The participation in the elective | This task would have been impos-| headway for our movement. In every he hope of winning reforms within May 19—Chicago delegates present Ii machine district — Art Maki campaign and the revolutionary pro- sible of accomplishment without the electoral struggle the capitalist the capitalist system, oar quite resolution at convention of Interna- Jan. 10, 1925 She Seo a 2 Sink Geet / paganda from the parliamentary DAILY WORKER. Thru our “Daily” |SPOkesmen have all the advantages. — by the Communists’ frank tional Ladies’ Garment Workers in birthday od ethane — rst John Nasse! 1 tribune has a special Importance for new masses were not only made ac The movie houses, attracting great] statement of aims. Boston, expressing appreciation 1 nounced in many cities 28 Betty Kari 5 tl the winning over of those elements duainted with our movement, but were multitudes, are open to them. They! The prejudice thus aroused, espe- fight made by the DAILY WORKER , 3 = oo a v of the workers, who—perhaps the eduented in its principles and brought bare their entrancés to the schools, auen ue by the een. in Chicago garment strike. Sigman- Hilja Kolehmainen. 80 8 — 9 e nase into its ranks. the churches, in fact, few meeting entations and villincation of the well Perlstein machine, which had unseated 9 oo * stood far away from the revolution Te = places of organizations, whether of /4rmed enemy, was casual roan an | lett wing dologhten,. jam thre a. sab- Aue Re Sub, Antes gr At Nel c — Ir ee shalt eee e e eee workers or non-working class ele- of leaflets. It had to be fought by stitute resloution attacking DAILY erte * — — * 1 * ments, are closed to them. The capi- the Communist daily press, especially; WORKER and left wing. Gareta Soltzoff The realization by the party mem-|talist press is with them 100 per cent. Hur English-language dally, the DAILY| May 22—Injunction issued against | TTD 7 Year of Difficult Struggles bers and their central organizations, And in addition to all these mediums| WORKER, appearing day after day, Greek restaurant strikers. Special] reer 55 The year 1924 was filled with dif- of the magnificant services that our for reaching the masses, they now oe “ge a ol and man- restaurant workers’ strike editions ap- ; : 9 have the radio. It is against this|‘festoes of our party, the speeches | pear. é 0 1 11 t 0 11 stone wall of opposition that the Com- of our candidates, the refutations to May 22—Farrington has DAILY . I rown S War ers! . le munist press must advance to win 1 8 upon 1 could WORKER reporter barred from con- ¢ ; tt 2 progress for our cause. But it does nl one by our * vention of Illinois miners at Peoria ; 7 a make headway. Our Communist party came out of by miscounting vote. Farrington later ‘a Within a few weeks the . 2 Ee ri At many of the meetings of the the last national campaign with new/has his appointive power taken from ? bi major candidates, during last falls masses not only understanding, but him by left wing delegates, who ral. 5 Amal amated Tr t & : 0 Campaign, the DAILY WORKER was believing in the tactics of the Com- lied around the DAILY WORKER. „ * g , us ? of ‘bought and eagerly read. Many who munists in entering the parliamentary] May 29—QyFollette knifes St. Paul |} . N 1 a Ca N ame to hear Coolidge or Dawes, Davis institutions of the bourgeoisie with|farmor-labor party convention and at- % Savings Bank ; m or Bryan, LaFollette or Wheeler, came evolutionary aims. It is on this (acks Communists. . | . meas Coie Seay — — Dar that'we menge. 0 2 8 es a second (Now at 371 W. Jackson Blvd.) . 7 , ; W stuck in their me in Cicero for wr Commemorating the Death of the Great Working Class W Knowledge for the Future articles exposing — ; ‘ll be! a; l ; ch Leader | Our party members have learned| Western Electric plant. Thousands or wi e located in new and larger quarters in te the use of their “Daily” as as weapon] copies sold daily to Western Electric the ; di in the electoral struggle, just as they | workers. ; 5 te Greetings and have learned how to use it in strikes, June 17—Reports conference. of ¢ ö pe , and other combats with the class tarmer-labor parties in St. Paul. ' USTIN BUILDING N in Best Wishes enemy of labor. With this knowledge | July 11—Exclusive announcement } fe | already gained, they will be better that William Z. Foster and Benjamin (Clark and-J K ) ¢ to 5 Wednesday, January 21, 1925, 8 A M. to able to utilize this weapon to even Gitlow are to run for president and E acrson ö th 2 greater advantage in the future. The) | icc- president in first national election ; 4 ö 1 wi The Daily Worker nr n a 2 of Workers (Communist) Transfer Your Savings Account NOW and br | * y. 2 e SC A shia nd A ud itori I m for 1925 Wa Will prove a more] July 18—Campaign for relief ot un- Receive Interest from January First. 1 of | an ever on the side employed in full swing. Articles on 0 * 1 “d ASHLAND AVE. AND VAN BUREN ST. | of labor, in the electoral struggle, as growth of nation’s jobless en Bring your pass book and we collect principal and interest ; it | well as in every other battle of the] July 22—Continuous vigorous at- . for you. 1 | 6 E M T] R E CO. Inc workers against the capitalists. tack on Morgan’s “Dawes plan” to en- J Speakers: | 5 — slave weaker nations, Chicago’s Labor Bank WM. F. DUNNE EARL R. BROWDER [ Vulcanizers to the Trad After 45 Years, Ivan A g : 1 a 4 4 * | e Ok Id ki Bet at Morris, III., owned by Nathan Leo- Open until 8 P. M. on Tuesdays and 5 P. M. on Saturdays. ; . J. LOUISENGDAHL ARNESWABECK [ - Balloon Tire Repairing ANGST, Betraper,; pola, millionaire father of Franks“ A CLEARING HOUSE AND STATE BANK. GORDON OWENS | Faces Revolutionists |°y killer. 1 Yo | All section work done by us on Aug. 8—12,000 clothing workers f V Music by Young Workers League Orchestra. Auspices: Workers Party and Young Workers League, Local Chicago ADMISSION 25 CENTS, WEST Dinner 10.30 to 2.15 “THE PLACE TOC Ar INN. CAFETERIA 734 W. Madison St., Chicago. 2nd Floor—3 Doors East of Halsted St., “Right Over the Big Clock” Strictly Home Cooking and Baking Chi cago, III. Phone Monroe 0120 Supper 4.15 to 7.15 Tires is guaranteed for life of Tire or a new job free. CAPACITY—100 TIRES DAILY 1 D1 W. Washington Bivd. JULIN'S SHOE STORE AND REPAIR SHOP | 3224 W. North Avenue — (Special to The Dailv Worker) MOSCOW, Jam. 12.— After nearly forty-five years Ivan Okaldski, who be- trayed his accomplices in the assassin- ation of Czar Alexander II in 1881, has been brought to trial before a revolu- tionary tribunal charged with treason to his former comrades. After the assassination of Alexan- der Il, Okaldski confessed his part in Krylenko, one of. Soviet Russia's most noted prosecutors, is conducting the case for the government. Altho nearly forty-five years have passed since Okaldski’s betrayal of his com- rades, the government is able to bring to the court a formidable array of wit- nesses who are acquainted with the facts. Thousands of documents will strike in Philadelphia, and 9,000 silk workers strike in Paterson, N. J. Takes prominent part in both strikes Aug. 13—Reporter deported from Hegewisch, III., carbuilders’ strike zone by four policemen. Returns next day and speaks at strike meeting. Aug. 18—Begins campaign for relief of southern Illinois coal miners, many months unemployed. at Curtis the plot and betrayed all the others Aug. 19— Robert Minor reports Gar- : who were implicated. They were vey Negro convention in New York, Courteous Service Reasonable Prices J Monroe 4080 either executed or fled to exile. Garvey sells out to the Klan. Aug. 26—Lovestone writes series of articles exposing ‘“LaFollette illu- sion.” ers’ control of educational system in Chicago. Sept. 10—Reports Illinois State Fed- eration of Labor convention at Peo- ria, aiding small left wing battle gal- Sept. 26—Begins campaign for teach- | 1658 W. Madison St. 5 rr n EAT AT . | | Wholesome Food at Popular Prices. Phone Seeley 6951 Chicago, III. The Most Home-Like Eating Place in This Neighborhood ö Phone Belmont 2713 Chicago be produced in court in an effort to lantly against reaction of labor taker — * establish C guilt. — Ps iI ; xt emit — i —— — — es — — — ——0 ö 1 E , = . —