Daily Worker
January 17, 1925

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5 Post Omee nt Chicago, Illinois under the Act. of March 3, 1879. CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. — 17, 1925 290 — PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WuRkKiK Price 5 Cents Chicago, III. ? . DAKOTA POINTS OUT CLASS | OF WORKERS AND POOR FARMERS == N (Special to The Daily Worker) of 758 Dakota are fortunate body state the one Communist, ISMARCK, N. O., Jan. 16—The workers and poor farmers} ature of in having in the le A. C. Miller, elected to such a Not that one Communist can attain for them all that is their due as workers and farmers, but he is actively pointing out to CLEVELAND, Ohio, ‘Jali Bishop William ue ofthis court that you, witli -gomery Brown, should be from. the sacred. ministry,” . the 9 = Waa as 2. an 15 Headgear Workers Sup- [Workers (Communist) Party, MBERS LENIN HEARING TODAY port Communist Fight ‘Attorneys for C. E. Ruthen- berg. ‘ex secretary of the i In Memoriam MANIFESTO OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY ON THE COMMEMORATION OF THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF LENIN. O THE WORKERS OF AMERICA: It will be one year on January 21 since our great leader, Viadimir llyitch Lenin, breathed his last. Do you remember how, one year ago, all the bitterest enemies of the working class rage with joy the death of Lenin? Do you recall the deep sorrow at our loss pyrene by the milions of oppressed people around the globe? One year ago the enemies of the proletarian revolution WEEK'S PROGR OF MEMORIALS IN EVERY LAND Great Gathering to Be Held Here Wednesday world will gather in demonstra- tions next week, to honor the The workers of the entire the on se = 9 oO Se a n N 1 ing under Leonard decl#red at the . hoped to rob us of our greatest achievement, the Workers’ memory of the great leader and them the only means whereby their needs as a class may be heating . a ne, | States supreme court i * Government of Soviet Russia, and from that march on to- — of the — class of attained—and — that the burden of fighting for their Bishop Brown's convict ‘ 4 2851 4 1 f asi) ward crushing the entire labor movement. Millions of work- the world, Vladimir llyltoh | | eae ~*betterment and emaneipation] oneresy” will now be reviewed By. 4 „ and apply for per-] ore were apprehensive because the giant brain and powerful Lenin | | must lie with them, and not be} the house of bishops, the ont 2 on to argue the validity of ’ “AS WE SEE IT By T. J, OFLAHEATY. = 1 > EFUSAL of the Norwegian govern- ment to grant’ amnesty to the im- prisoned Communists‘ may result i 0 general strike according to news patches from Oslo, formerly On tiana. The trade union leaders act from the rank and the government that = the Com ae are released 3 The yellow so- ps 2 beni chortling over 5 4n the Norwegian Com- hen the right wing a carry out the in- munist Interna Sas Communists know the masses to their sige. „„ ee how to N * —— 8 * ot t ue 1 e ley Bt his demise, * other hie — serfous illness. The latest complica- tioh from ‘which wo aré told Sun is suffering is an on his liver. The capitalist reporter who concocted the liver story says that-unless Sun is operated oh he will die. Sun ‘refuses to permit an operation. Therefore he will die. Everything’ is quite log: cal, except the facts. 8 * 86 HE letters from Theodore Roose- velt to Henry Cabot Lodge now running in several papers, reveal the formér as a shallow time-serving poll. tician. There is no redeeming feature in the correspondence. Teddy“ was an accomplishéd mountebank tho not so Unauseating a hypocrite as his com petitor Woodrow ‘Wilson. Roosevelt's advice to Lodge was to stick to the G. O. P. machine, even while differing with it. Lodge saw in Roosevelt the makings of a good demagogue and kept his eye on him, while Roosevelt needed Lodge's erudition and political sagacity: They made a good team; Roosevelt attacking big business and Lodge, his second, assuring the plutes that “Teddy” was only addressing the votes. 1 + „ HE Soviet police have exiled 90.000 Russians without trial ac- cording te a Kerensky paper publish- ed in Berlin: Those of you who have short memories are reminded that a person by the name, of Kerensky held out in Petrograd for a few months in the year 1917 after the czar was given a vacation by the petty bourgeoisie at the instigation of Great Britain. It might also be of interest to learn that the private diary of the British Ambassador Buchanan, stationed in Petrograd (now Leningrad) at the time proved conclusively that it was Britain’s revolution. The czar was go- ing to make peace with the Germans so J. Bull pulled his stuff. But he did not keep his name on the revolu- tion very long. Before long Lenin put his John Hancock on it. Of course, Kerensky has a kick coming and so has the czar (if he could only kick) but Kerensky is lucky that he still has his head = * Cee ad Y the way e has a to a once rather well ‘known Hell an’ Mariar Dawes? He made a lot of noise during the election period and it was epected that he would play oppo site to Calvin Coolidge in the White House during the next four years, Dawes supplying the fireworks; and Calvin the silence. Surely th eral did not use up all his obscenity during the election fight! > „ *® partial report made by tho vis- iting British trade unionists t0 Rus n. *. > ws 8 8 or “= N — 7 7 S “chi e 8 trusted merely to the capitalist controHed legislature. | The secretary of the agricultural district of the Workers Party, Alfred Knutson, has issued in the name ot the district executive committee, a statement outlining the program of among the workers and farmers. The statement is as follows: Calls for Clase Struggle. “The farmers and the workers of North Dakota and the United States will never be able to emancipate} themselves from the exploitation of the banks, the investment companies. the grain combine, the railroads, the steel trust, the coal barons, the Wali Street financiers—in short-the whole capitalist system of business and its government—without a fight, without a struggle. “As far as Ph dros . mange of there oun U4 “boul -" lcapitalists, big or little, who are rob. bing the farmers and the workers, is a clear betrayal of their basic needs and can have no other outcome for them than certain defeat and disaster. Calls for Pressure on Legislature, „„The following bills and resolutions constitute the legislative. program of the. Workers Party and are being placed before the North Dakota legis- lature by its representative, A. C. Mil- ler, member of the house of represen- tatives from the 41st legislative dis- trict.. Every working farmer, who is a member of the state legislature, ‘should give his whole-hearted support to these measures which touch the im médiate needs and demands of the farmers and the workers, and all farm- ers and workers thruout the state should by resolutions, petitions and letters to their representatives in the state legislature, urge their immedi- ate and prompt adoption. No Foreclosure—No Eviction. “ “1. A bill prohibiting foreclosures of mortgages on land tilled by work- ing farmers. No farmer shall be evicted or dispossessed for failure to pay his debts. All lands held by trust companies, banks, and corporations generally, to revert back to the state without compensation. This bill or ciple that the land belongs to those who toil upon it. “2.. A bill providing for state aid to co-operatives controlled by workers and working farmers. “3. A resolution prohibiting the use (Continued on page 2.) \ | Comrade Miller in the legislature and | with the power to put thes n tence” into effect. The. house: bishops will review the case at: general church convention ia Orleans next September. It takes two-thirds vote of the house of ops to confirm the sentence, ar ure to obtain a two-thirds the Michigan procedure and to have Comrade Ruthenberg re- jest court’s decision. Comrade Ruthenberg is now serving from Mich,, prison for his Communist leased on bail pending the high- 3 to 10 years in the Jackson. ples. the bishops would amount to d proval of the sentence. AMERICAN RULE LIKE MINE, SAYS | FASCIST LEAD Meno — — S.J an. > 8 * - x * | 8 4 * +> A way resolution is to be based on the prin- 22 ** 5 1 — n e tht 2 . souteae 1 the 3 % ‘els 2 ustified ists: in the Un i States. executive power in erte has eae ed almost completely out of the con trol ot the legislature,” Mussolini 42d “When the parliamentary system of any country is discovered to be fail- ing, the executive ‘authorities must assert themselves to take the situa- tion in hand, must assume full execu- tive control. Look at America for in- stance,” Mussolini also said that the “prin- ciples of the British electoral sys- tems” had been incorporated into his eléctoral bill, which allows the nobles and the bourgeoisie three votes to one for the industrial workers and peas: ants. The opposition in the chamber oi deputies took the offensive by pre senting a motion that it is impossible for the present Mussolini governmen‘ to hold a general election, as long as it curtails freedom of.speech and of the press, and “the individual liberty of its citizens.” The motion was put forward by the three former premiers,.Salandra, Gio litti and Orlando and is signed by 27 deputies, forming the petty bourgeois wing of the opposition. Millionaires’ Lackey to Remain. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover an- nounced that President Coolidge had offered him the post of secretary of agriculture, but that he had not ac- cepted the offer and would remain in the commerce — GREETINGS JEWISH BUREAU. SENDS BIRTHDAY - TO DAILY WORKER the paper’s first anniversary: political life of the United States. tuture power of the working class. } “Long live the DAILY WORKER! (Special to ‘The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The Bureau of the Jewish Federation has sent the following telegram, greeting the DAILY WORKER on the occasion of leadership in all political, economic and cultural activities of the workers made it an organizational center of first importance and a hope for the “Long live the Workers (Communist) Party! „M. HOLTMAN, Secretary, Jewish Zureau.“ 8 af j . * 78 22228 Labor unions thruout the country taking action on the Michigan ou? The Head ‘ e official organ of the * Hat, Cap, and Millinery Work- rs’ “Intl Union, declares thru its edi- te „J. M. Budish: “The ‘inherently victous tendencies r t these n laws is best 7 b the sentence imposed ichgan court on Charles Ruth- „ Nelther he nor the conven- which he attended have been as- a. of any criminal act or of even rage to free speech and assembly in | volved in the conviction. hand of Lenin was no longer at the helm. But Lenin, embodiment of the working class revolution, proved as powerful in death as in life. For he had created that which cannot die so long as there is still a working class struggling against the exploitation of the capitalist class; and this, Lenin’s greatest service to the toiling masses, is the world party of the proletariat, leader of the struggle for the new society, THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL. In this World Party of the workers, Lenin is still the leader. Thru the years of struggle which culminated in the Workers’ Government that holds one-sixth of the globe, there has been accumulated in the Communist International all the revolutionary knowledge and determination of the working class. In the teachings of Marx and in Marxism, and in these teachings applied in the epoch of imperialism, the final stage of capitalism—in the teachings of Lenin and in Leninism—the working class of the world has the sure guide that protects the fruits of past struggles and leads ever onward to new and greater victories. On January 21, millions of workers in every land will come together in memory of Lenin.. The spirit of these atherings will be, not so@much of sorrow, but rather of iron 2 that our great cause of Which Lenin was 1 Dt to coms ait any criminal sateen 8 ry ae the Labor Defense Counell for Com- rade Ruthenberg’s defense, goes to the Detroit English branch, which sent $26.30. to the Labor Defense Council office at 166 W. Washington St., Chi. cago. Close upon the heels of this contribution came $20.00 from the Young Workers’ League of Philadel. phia, the money having been raised at the Liebknecht memorial meeting there. Tho city central committee of Hart ford, Conn., sent a check for $23.00 to go toward the defense of Ruthen- berg and the other Communists ar. rested at the Bridgeman convention of the Communists in August 1922. Robert Minor, writer and cartoonist for the DAILY WORKER, will appear at the Berrian county court in St Joseph, Michigan for trial early in February. All comrades and sympathizers who wish to write to Comrade Ruthen- berg are given the following correct mailing address: C. B. Ruthenberg. No. 17,332, Jackson State Prison, care mail superintendent, A. L. Van Horn Jackson, Michigan. Two Workers Killed, Three Are Missing In Factory Fire An aged watchman, Frank Korda, 1932 North Francisco Ave., and Rus sell Watson, a chauffeur for the City Distributing .company, are known to have been killed and three people are missing, as a result of the explosion and burning of the Varnish Manufac- turing company belonging to Frank S. Lewis. The explosion was followed by the burning of gasoline, and other volatile “The Bureau of the Jewish Federation of the Workers (Communist). whiskey, Party sends its flaming greetings to the DAILY WORKER, the first Com- munist daily newspaper to be printed in the English language, on its first birthday. The DAILY WORKER is a béacon light in the darkness of the “The DAILY WORKER'S faithful adherence to the principles of the class | of iad and its penetration into the depths of proletarian life and struggle fornia prisons today. as liquids stored in the factory. It was rumored that the varnish factory was being used to make moonshine and one theory of the fire is that a still exploded. “Onlooker” is Executed. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 16.— Three youths were hanged in Cali John Sears, 21 years of age, and Jack Ferdinand, 30, ‘were hanged in San Quentin prison, and John Geregac, 22 years’ old, was executed at Folsom prison. Geregac died for a crime in which he claimed to have played the part of an unwilling ‘onlooker. 5 . ce 24 é bono ee . first unit of the Workers: Party to send money to Jer shall forge onward, overcoming all ene- “a a wn tay ' 8 Aly, sont 1 e ending its dominion over the ‘inde and hearts ‘of the workers, continually leading the struggle that can end only with the destruction of the capitalist dictatorship, the estab- lishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and thru this, the building of the Communist society. The Workers (Communist) Party of America, section of the Communist International, the party of Lenin, calls upon the entire working class of America to observe the 2ist day of January in the spirit of revolution, in the spirit of Lenin. Unite for militant struggle against the forces of capital- ism! Unite to resist the daily aggresssions, the wage-cuts, the “open shop” drives, the union-smashing campaigns! Unite in support of the Michigan Communist Defense as a part of the defense of the working class! Unite to destroy the blood-sucking capitalist system and all its instruments of oppression that are used against the workers! Unite with the revolutionary workers of the entire world under the leadership of THE COMMUNIST INTER- NATIONAL! Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America! CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, William Z. Foster, Chairman. Earl R. Browder, Acting Secretary. UNION AND SCAB MINERS BATTLE: ONE MAN IS HURT AND ONE SCAB IS DEAD FAIRMOUNT, W. Va., Jan. 16.— Eight union miners and five non- union miners were placed in the county jail here today and other arrests are expected this afternoon in connection with the shooting to death of Walter Tobin, an non- union miner and the probably fata wounding of John Kelly, union miner, in a free-for-all fight at Granttown, a mining settlement near here, last night. Sheriff J. C. Riggins is maintain- ing several extra deputies on guard at various points in the county to prevent another outbreak. — * Chicago Teachers Meeting at Art Institute Today The Chicago Teachers’ Federation meets this morning in Fullerton Hall, Art Institute, at 10:30 o'clock, In view of the recent announcement by Superintendent McAndrew on his open shop plan of reorganization of teachers’ councils, which he will sub- | mit in the form of a recommendation | to the board of education and the failure of the board at its last meet- ing to get action on the secret mark ings controversy this meeting will have important matters to consider. There will also be other reports emong which is the one on the legis- lative program. Chief engineer E. J. Kelly will speak. Anti-Fascisti War Closes University. Crash in Loop. NAPLES, Jan. 16\—The university Three girls and two men were seri- here remained closed today. Police ously inlured and scores of others action was necessary prior to closing | Were thrown inte a panic when two on account of friction between fascist street cars collided in the loop today during the morning rush hours. The front vestibules of both cars were London Fog Bound. virtually demolished. Traffic was para- LONDON, Jan. 16.—London and its lyzed for several blocks around. environs again were fog bound today. and anti-fascist students. Watch for When you buy, get an “Ad” The Red Star. Seam Were: ere ve “ONE MAY SAY THAT NEARLY EVERY ACT OF LENIN'S DURING THE LAST TEN YEARS SET IN MOTION MILLIONS OF PEOPLE OVER THE WHOLE WORLD,"—ZINOVIEV. —, a ~ . * „„ — —— — — —— — — o~ „ ‘x ) om der Bue Sve F. Dunne, J. 1 The Russian workers and peasants, under the leadership of Lenin, in 1917 established the first workers’ government of the world, which stands today as the shining example and in- spiration to the struggling pro- letarian movement. An Indestructible Monument. Lenin’s monument is everlasting and indestrucible. It is the Russian Soviet government, the Third (Com- munist) International and above all, the legacy of Leninism. The members of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, the American followers of Lenin, call on the workers and poor farmers of the country to join with them in these great demonstrations, in honor of the man who forged new weapons and new tactics for the ac- complishment of world proletarian revolution. At the Chicago Lenin memorial meeting the speakers will be Earl R. * The list of Lenin momériat eee planned for the United States will be found on page two. WEAVERS STRIKE AT FALL RIVER OVER WAGE GUT Big Resentment Stirs the Textile Workers (Special to the Dally Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 16.—Turmofl reigns among the textile workers as the bosses begin their assault on wage scales. Small craft strikes are begin- ning, little detachments of workers are being defeated, but underneath 8 promise of an wuuprising wave of greater strikes may be observed. One thousand weavers were out on strike at Fall River from the Davis, Granite, Lincoln and Barnard mills, but yesterday the 300 from the Davis mills went back to their looms. These are all fine goods mills. Accepted 10 Per Cent Cut—Got Mere. The weavers struck over what they termed was an excess cut, over the “agreed” ten per cent cut. The treas urers of the various mills held meet- ings with the weavers’ union officials trying to convince the workers that their pay wasn't cut so much as it | Was. | More weavers joined steadily the strikers from the Lincoln mills, the strikes so far being confined to the | weavers, no effort apparently being made to spread the strike to other de- | partments and crafts. From the Granite mill, No. 3, 150 weavers struck on Tuesde y. Weavers Only Strikers. Notices of the cut were posted that morning, and at once the upper weave shops struck, went to the lower weave room and took the workers there ont with them, but made no effort to call out the workers thruout the mill, con- fining their action to weavers. | ‘They declared that the new scale i¢uts their wages more than 10 per cent and in some cases 15 per cent, Resentment prevailed at union head- quarters, and complaints were made that the cut of pay made the weavers | unable to live. Protests were heard against the limited craft character of the union, and the fact that even the | weavers in Graftiite Mills No. 1 and 2 did not strike. | United Promises Mass Picketing. The Dyers’ and Bleachers’ Union, a part of the United Textile Workers, was organized Monday with the 50 Kerr Mill dyers as a start. This am (Continued on Page 2) — * 5 |