Daily Worker
January 25, 1925
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2 SZy es — * . 5 ese me — —.— — * tc - @ — — - — 3 1 W. > oy N * . N 3 7 . 3 W 7 FP gee ee ee ee a ede CCC = * * 1 — 93 * Office at Chicago, Nlinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. 5 a, hh Re 5 r RD hey | * — — — . — 2 eee CENTS. Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. - Published Daily except Sunday by T PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., HE DAILY WORKER Price 5 Cents Chicago, III. “(Bpecial to The sian menshevik, who is in the the revolu government of Russia in particula Full of facts A 's speech bramovich, revolutionary workers to resist 2 NEW. YORK, A. 22.—Alex ander Bittelman, central committee of the Workers ( before a conference of active party workers here tonight, osed the counter-revolutionary mission of R.Abramovich, Rus- workers yee and against the Daily Worker) 88 for mmunist) ainst nited States organizing viet and information disclosing the true role of was also a rallying: cry to the and overcome the propaganda of Abramovich, and to acquaint the workers of America with the AS. WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHEATY. APAN is. Wh more enthusiastic J about its treaty with Russia than any of the American capitalist papers whose comments on the pact have so far come to our attention. They can- not understand how Japan, a rather wise nation, could allow itself to be bamboozled by the “gnscrupulous trouble.maker.of Moscow.” But they croak disconsolately. The fact of the matter ig that they feel more like crying than croaking. The Soviet government continues to survive despite all their best prophets. The most recent diplomatic victory of the workers’ and peasants’ government af- fects the interests of the United States even more so that similar action op Page 8 8 ane: aug 7 2 D. PRA RAT al py Ber gat . ake on war Hite. it is more likely that a Soviet ambassador wiil be in Washington before next Christ ‘tribe Onl: with mas. It is reported in the capital tha true facts of Soviet Russia, Georgia, Armenia and the strug- gle for world unity of the trade unions. Comrade Bittelman said: — A Missionary of Counter-Revolution. „R. Abramovich, a prominent men- shevik and a leading figure in the Second International, is now paying a visit to the United States. The pur- pose of his visit is quite obvious. It is to win support for the Russian ae & -revolution. It is to continue the struggle against Soviet Russia which Charles E. Hughes was com- pelled to give up. It is to defame and to discredit the revolutionary work- ing class movement of the world, and, incidentally, to raise money for the Russian unter-rev The International of Traitors. “Abramovich is a well-known figure in that international fraternity of renegades and betrayers of the work- 2 class which parades in the world „ 7 — or’ ae, * Lune | te ait ar : te: Noske, Ebert and Scheidemann are still in power by the grace and in the home of the bourgeoisie, while Abramovich was ignomindusly defeated and ABRAMOVICH IS REPUDIATED BT AMALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28.—Philadelphia Joint board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America repudiated Raphael Abramovich tonight. The request of the socialist party committee for delegates to welcome Abramo- vich was defeated by a vote of fourteen to ten. the Hughes’ policy which wantonly insulted Soviet Russia and gave aid and comfort to her enemies will be modified gradually until the necessary psychological preparation is complet- ed for a complete about-face. Owing to the fact that the Russian debt to the United States is trivial, compared to what other countries owe, the fi. nancial question would not prove 4a serious obstacle. Raphael Abramo vich is out of luck. Nothing succeeds like success and while his socialist stoolpigeons may win sympathy in some quarters, they cannot live on tears. > * * HE labor fakers of Minneapolis have succeeded fn ousting Da Stevens from the Trades and Labor assembly. Stevens has been a dele. gate to the assembly for the past six teen years. He is a member of a trade union for twenty years. The reactionaries failed to expel him or the ground, that as a Communist he nad no right to be a delegate, but the Ine Labor lickspittle Robly D. Cramer, editor of Review went around to homes of the delegates and urged them to help in ousting Stevens be cause, accordng to a complaint sign ed by Cramer and others, Stevens hac “slandered the officialdom” and was euilty ef “conduct not becoming 2a member of the Trades and Labor As sembly.” His crime was that he re- fused to sell out as did Cramer. — — — TEVENS did not get a chance tc defend himself. The fakers pack ed the meeting and sprung the above thrown into the waste basket by the successful mighty uprising of the workers and peasants of Russia. “Now Abramovich and his kind are trying to come back. They have been trying to do so for the last seven years. In company with Lloyd George and Churchill, Clemenceau and Nolens, Horthy and Masaryk, these Russian mensheviks whom Abramovich repre- sents, have been conspiring and plot- ting against the Soviet power by ail means at their disposal. They have been inciting the rich peasants and expropriated bourgeoisie to uprisings and insurrections against the rule of the workers and poor peasants. They have been receiving large sums of nmemey from the imperialist govern- ments of England and France to finance expeditions of bandits into the cities and villages of Russia to plun- der, burn and murder. They are con- tinually agitating in every capital of Europe against recognition of Soviet Russia and for new murderous inter- ventions. The Soviet Government is Now Stronger. “As you know, the 1 im- perialists have been doing all in their power to ‘oblige’ the Russian men- sheviks and their neighbors to the right, the Russiam white guard, and incidentally to reduce Russia to the state of a colony for imperialist plun- der and enrichment. You are well familiar with the numerous attempts by the capitalist governments of Europe and the United States to over- throw the Soviet government and to reimpose upon the Russian masses the (Continued on Page 4.) YOU MUST HELP! Fae, (Continued on page 2) | Ruthenberg in prison! Ten thousand dollars wanted Thirty-one more trials ahead. by February 15. Volunteers wanted to help mail out tens of thousands of letters for the Michigan defense. Come during the day or come at night. Bring others. phone State 5959 if you will Labor Defense Council, 166 West Washington Street, Rathenberg’s Werden Is Fired by Governor (Special to The Dally Worker). LANSING, ‘Mich., Jan. 23,— | The trial of Robert Minor, who was scheduled to appear before the Berrien county court of St. Joseph, Mich., will be de- layed until the United States. supreme court finally acts. on C. E. Ruthenberg’s. appeal for a reversal of his sentence, 9 Bookwalter, proseeuting | ney, has announced. The United States supreme court has been asked to reverse the decis- fon of the Michigan state supreme posed by Judge Charles Ruthenberg. Brandeis Takes Next Step. White on tive secretary of the Workers (Com C. E. Ruthenberg, national (com munist) Party, has signed the pai! $25 m bond of $7,500 necessary for his re lease, and he will be released as soon | Je as Justice Brandeis of the Unite States supreme court formally issues has granted. Comradé Ruthenberg who has served two weeks of a three to ten year sentence imposed on him ‘by the Berrien county court at St. Joseph, Michigan, Monday or Tuesday. Fr Warden Harry 8. Hude er the b us 8 f 3 n berg is confined because t 7 able to speed up the prisoners aout! to suit Governor. Groesbeck and the state prison commission. The govern. or met with the prison board here and decided that Hulburt was not get- ting enuf work out of the prisoners Hulburt was then requested for his resignation to take effect Marsh 1. Wanted $1.20 Profit per Prisoner. Hulburt was receiving a salary of $15,000 a year, $7,500 as wardenof the Jackson prison, and $7,500 as head of all the Michigan state prison indus. tries. The state of Michigan, under |} Groesbeck, wrings the last drop of profit possible from the prisoners ot the state. Groesbeck announced when calling for Hulburt’s resignation, that the prison industries must be made to pay the state a profit of $1.20 for every prisoner in the state. Hulbur! has been able to get 60 cents per pris- foner profit, and hence has been fired Ruthenberg Sends Greetings. Comrade Ruthenberg sent his greet- ings to all members of the Workers Party and all sympathizers who have been aiding the Labor Defense Coun eil in the Michigan cases, when vis ‘ited by George Maurer, sécretary of the Labor Defense Council, Maurer then hurried to Lansing to secure the proper signatures of the Michigan su preme court authorities, and the cler! or the Michigan supreme court then al spatched the bail bond to Justice Brandeis, who will issue the writ that will release Ruthenberg pending hie appeal. The Jackson penitentiary where Ruthenberg is imprisoned is one of the oldest and most unsanitary in the (Continued on page 2) court, which affirmed the sentence im- the writ of supersedeas which he will : be supposes ; — are HILD LAB INCHES 2 * 0] cn CHALLENGES TO BEAT ITS MARK . dae to ben What John Kaspar of the East Pittsburgh, Pa. He writes to the DAILY WORKER ® policies, branch's total remittance Da member. ) asks Moritz J, Loeb, business manager, “that in bership meeting I pledged $100 for our branch little knowl edge with which to ea We mill East branet wins the mos’ policies in pr their num. * writes © Kaspar. Would like to Is anothe: branch in the U that has contributed (in as much as our branch. them to beat ust!“ are the F comrades t. | > TNE notch ac. to take you'll receive to make u be on thc utter the in =: MERE BOYS, SAYS N. COMMISSION Cannot Understand the Crime Among Youth By H. M. WICKS. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—The New York state commission of prisons, in a report just made pre's, sets forth facts regard- ng an astonishing increase in crime among boys, especially dealing with boy criminals of the larger cities. John S. Kennedy, president of the commission, after making public the findings of that body, Suggests that some great foundation” might make efforts to overcome the alarming in- crease in crime among boys -|from 16 to 21 years of age. en 3 8 chai = of the delegation that the. American delegation may withdraw from the opium conference and return home.“ Porter's declaration came as a ing a deadlock situation in the opium dramatic climax to what was apprach confercnee. 1° “We have stayed here more than two months with no results,” Porter said. .“When we ceme we hoped to strengthen the Hague opium agree ment but it begins to look as if our presence in Geneva is weakening in- stead of strengthening it. As goon as we are convinced * this we will leave. “The opium ‘bloc’ is still fighting the ‘competency’ of this conférence tc discuss opium smoking. I abstained from the committee meeting this morning because I want this questior settled.” Bronx Section Activities. NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—A. B. C. of Communism, every Tuesday night. I. Stamler instructor, 1347 Boston Road Every comrade who has not had a thoro training. in Marxian. economics take this course. English, elementary, Monday night. 511 E. 173rd St. 5 English advanced, Saturday after- noon, 2-4, 511 E. 173rd St. Ely Jacobson, instructor. Lectures. * Lectures every Sunday night at 1347 Boston Road, 8 p. m. Affairs. Section vetcherinka, concert anc ball, Feb. 28, for purpose of raisin funds for library. of Berlin this week. of the German proletariat. Poignant Pageant There was a tall figure representing Uncle Sam dragging a German worker in chains. This represented in very graphic form the enslavement of the Germah worker under the Dawes Plan. Another float represented the class war prisoners behind the prison bars. As they went by they called upon the assembled workers to free them. A group of boys and girls dressed in scarlet cried, “Give us back out father”. Thus they demanded amnesty for the political prisoners of Germany. Simultaneously a squad of speakers addressed the crowds at the street corners, calling upon the masses. to revolt against the monarchist govera- V. T. TO HAVE RECORD BREAKING DEMONSTRATION AT THEIR LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING ON FEB. I NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—Twenty+five thousand men and women staged a tremendous demonstration under the leadership of the Communist Party The occasion was the first anniversary of the death of Lenin. The outstanding feature of the demonstration. was a huge parade including a number of revolutionary floats representing events in the history — ment and the infamous Dawes Plan. N. V. Demonstration Feb. 1 This powerful display of strength is a stirring example set for the workers of New York, who are also about to celebrate their own Lenin Memorial on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 1, at Madi- son Square Garden. There is no doubt r ah oy ~agnlagg 8 Today in the Tombs prison, accord jing to the report, there are 122 boys, to 18 of ag vnn have seen that «McAndrew recom. b report expresses grave concern over the fact that the boys assume an air of bravado and defiance “which augurs badly for their future usefulness as citizens.” Continuing, the report reveals : constant increase in crime among youths between 16 and 21. A three years’ survey shows figures for 1922 to be 1,559; 123, 1,824 and for 1924 2,238. These are confined exclusively to crimes of a serious nature and do not include midemeanors, petty of fenses, and disorderly acts. “Geography of Crime.” The report of the commisison em- phasizes the fact that the youthful criminals come from certain well-de- fined areas in the city. The largest single area furnishing this class of criminals is that section from Bat. tery park to Thirty-seventh street on the East Side; the next is from East 70th to East 121st street; and th: third from 18th to 60th street on the West Side. Instead of talking nonsense about the geography of crime .the state prison commission would pursue a more intelligent course by conducting an economic survey of the condition of the working class in these districts. It. is precisely in these sections that the poorest families of this seething city live; it is there that child labor is widespread, that children are de nied opportunities for elementary educational pursuits. Permanently undernourished, offspring of parents whese lives are blighted by the de- mands of modern industry, many of the children in these sections die in infancy and early youth; some of them survive and become uncomplain ing slaves. But among this strata o! workers there are always a number who are more aggressive than others and with proper training would be- come useful members of society. De nied elementary education and an op portunity to get out of their miser- able condition they endeavor to prey upon society. And then the officia! apologists for capitalism stand appal led at the spectacle of crime increase among these unfortunates, and sug: gest a foundation supported by mer of wealth to “investigate.” Instead of writing reports on the “geography of crime” the commission would get closer to the problem by surveying the economic conditions ot the families from which these crim- inals spring. But then those who point to the economic foundation of crime are de- 110 0 ; that the workers of this eity will be aroused to the highest pitch of enthu- | siasm by the story of the German ce- | lebration and will do their utmost to | outside them in the size and spirit of | their demonstration. Tickets for the New York demonstration can now be obtained at the following stations: Of- hee of this newspaper anG.ai Party Ov famers of the home, contemptuous ot “law and order” and, anyway, it would be against religion, which hol: ‘that all crime is the result of bein; possessed of a devil. Furthermore ‘such people are quite likely to be ‘Communists and they, as everyone knows, essail the foundations of ail glorious institutions—including a Pr ~, — — 8 1 ‘* + SPECIAL WOTICE TO NEW YORK MEMBERS ON LENIN MEETING NEW YORK, Jan. 23-—The con. ference for all workers at Lefiin me. morial meeting will take place on Sunday, Jan. 25 at the Labor Tem- ple, 243 E. 84th street at 12 noon. All comrades willing to work at the Lenin memorial meeting must be present. This is very important. Our meeting will be held in Madi- son Square and we cannot have too mahy people on the arrangements committee to assure the success of the meeting. PLATOON SYSTEM | IN SCHOOLS HIT BY COMMITTEE Does Not Recommend This Change in Schools The committee appointed by Super. intendent William McAndrew to study the platoon schools after visiting De- troit, Pittsburgh, Akrou and other cit- ies where the system is in operation has come back with a negative report. This report has been in the hands of McAndrew for two weeks. He har not given any verbal indication of his reactions to the report. Perhajs his recent solicitation in regard to in- ecreasing some teachers’ salaries, which by the way is another one of his dead secrets which only comes out in leaks here and there, may have some connection with this com mittee’s report. Of course no one expects that Me- Andrew will drop the platoons. We mendation gets thru no matter how unjustifiable and detrimental from a publie utility point of view. The committee that investigated the platoons was composed of Miss Mar garet Madden, principal of Doolittle school; Mies Genevieve Melody, Park Manor school; J. H. Hauch, Lloyd achool and Miss Gertrude Corrigan Nobel school. The committee’s report present numerous reasons why the platoon schools decided upon by the board of ‘dueation last summer should not be established in Chicago. Principa among them is the warning that Chi cago’s problems should be solved in its own way. The platoon will not be an improvement on Chicago’s schoo) system. Its installation will be very costly, it will keep the children in school long hours thru waste of time and it will not add to the cultural edu cation of the children. Costa Rica Quits the “League.” GENEVA, Jan. 23.—Costa Rica to- day notified the league of nations that it would resign from the league ef. fective with January, 1927. The announcement was contained in a communication from the Costa Rican minister in Paris in which he en- closed a check for $15,667 in payment of league dues for Costa Rica from 1921 to 1924. When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. |WORKERS FIGHT ENSLAVEMENT OF ILLINOIS YOUTH Extract Millions from Toil Worn Bodies (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, II., Jan. 23.—< The most bitter contest of the present session of the Iilinols general assembly is loomi over ratification of the . —. twentieth amendment to the constitution of the United States, which em con- gress to regulate child labor. The Illinois manufacturers’ tion is vigorously opposing even this mild amendment, and child labor com- mittees representing women’s cluba, and trade union organizations ave fighting for ratification. The anti-child labor committee far oring ratification by the Illinois legis lature declares that the amendment is “an enabling act only.” “It pre scribes no particular kind of child labor law,” says the pamphlet which has been widely circulated in Illinois by this committee, “except to fix an upper age limit beyond which con- gress may not legislate.” Communists Lead Fight. Meanwhile, the Young Workers League is leading the fight to compel congress to enact laws for the full maintenance of all youth while they are securing an education. The Young Workers’ League will soon is. sue a program, and call upon all mili- tant workers to fight for the abolition of child labor and control of industry by the workers to prohibit the exploit ation of the youth of the country for all time. Western Electric Enslaves Youth. The Young Workers’ League points put that there are thousands of young workers in Chicago and thruout II- nois who should be maintained by the government so that they may secure an education. The Western Electric company employs thousands of young workers of school age, who are given much less pay for doing the same work that is done by men. These workers labor for long house stunting their growing bodies with arduous toll. The Young Workers’ League de- (Continued on page 3) Bad Rails Wreck Rio Grande Train Injuring Twelve GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Jan. 23. —Twelve persons were injured, three seriously when Denver & Rio Grand Western passenger train No. 1 west- bound, was derailed near Ruby, 25 miles west of here today. The injured were brot to a lecal hospital and it is feared two may die. Eight cars of the thru train were de- railed after the engine had passed over a broken rail. The baggage car, two express cars, a diner and twe standard Pullmans left the tracks, while two day coaches turned over on their sides. UNORGANIZED SALES CLERKS IN DEPARTMENT STORES OF NEW YORK WORK FOR MISERABLY LOW WAGES (Special! to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—The wealth of the large New York department R. H. Macy & Co., which is one as an example. are sales clerks; stores are built on the low wages they pay their employs. of the largest, and at the same time pays comparatively higher wages than the majority of them, can be cited It has about 6,000 employes, of which approximately 4,000 practically all being + girls. How Macy Sweats Clerks. The average wage of the salesclerk is $15 a week, and a very small com- mission which is given on sales above a certain epecified amount, which var- ies according to the department. It is always arranged that in those de partments where the merchandise is more expensive, that the quota which must be sold before the commission begins, is higher; therefore keeping the commission down to a low ievel. The average wage, including the com mission, very seldom goes above 518 a week. They have what they call the mut val aid association, which every em ploye must become a member of. Ii is used to pay the doctors and nurses in the store hospital. Two per ceni of the monthly wages of every em ploy is deducted regularly to pay for this service, which the store uses for the relief of their patrons. Fifty special store policemen and detectives keep a constant lookout im various parts of the building. Need Union Badly. The above picture can be duplicated in any of New York's department stores, many of them pay even lower wages. When the employes ask fora raise, they are told that they should be glad they are working, as many unemployed are waiting to take their places; in many cases at lower pay. As there is no union, among the de- partment store workers, the manage- ment can “hire and fire,” and reduce wages at their desire, without aay dificulty.
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POOR Fi BORIS PREDICTS RETURN OF CZAR He’d Better Stay Away from Madison Sa. Feb. 1 NEW YORK, Jan. 28—Grand Duke Boris Viadimirovich, cousin of the late czar, in an interview given here recently, predicted the fall of the Soviet regime and the reestablishment of a monarchy in Russia. When asked whether he believed that Rus sia will become a monarchy again, he replied, “Yes I do, because the major. ity of the Russian people understand that form of government better than any other. I do not know when it will be, but there are signs of the Soviet regime breaking up thru the in- ternal struggle among the Commun. ists.” It ig also reported that Boris is re- turning to the United States to claim a sum of over $1,000,00 stored safely in the banks of this country and which was evtorted from the sweat and ‘blood of the workers and peasants of Russia. Another report states that Boris is seeking the aid of Henry Ford and other big financial backers in his attempt to restore the Russian mon- Czarism vs. Leninism. There is but one difficulty in the way of Boris’ beautiful scheme. There {s but one factor which Boris does not consider, when he hopes to have an- other opportunity to add to his mil- ‘Moma from the toil and blood of the ‘Russian workers and peasants. He does not consider that today, these workers and peasants fully under stand what czarism means. He does not comprehend that a new factor has appeared in Russia and thruout the world. That factor is the spirit of Lenin and Leninism, which has perme ated to the very roots of the Russian nation. When Boris hopes that the present discussion in the Russian party will weaken it and break up the Soviet regime, he voices a devout wish for the grand old days of despotism, which will never return. On thecon- trary, instead of weakening the party or the Soviet regime, it will greatly increase their strength and prestige, by informing and educating wider and wider masges of the workers and peas- ants as to the inner problems of the Communist Party and the Soviet gov- ernment. Only the enlightened regime of czarist Russia or capitalist Amer fea have had aught to fear from gen- eral discussion among the masses. America Not a Safe Refuge. Boris and his gang, with their blood stained loot, have fled to America which stands today as the home of the reactionaries of the world. Here he hopes to find a haven from the bold, bad Bolsheviks. But his hopes are doomed to disappointment. The spirit of Lenin will haunt him even hére, as it will everywhere where mer toil under the yoke of capitalist slav- ery. On Sunday afternoon, Feb. 1, there will be a huge demonstration at Madison Square Garden on the occas. fon of the first anniversary of the death of Lenin. A remarkable pro- gram including William Z. Foster, C B. Ruthenberg. Ben Gitlow, Moissaye J. Olgin and a number of wonderful musical numbers including a chorus of 400 voices from the Freiheit Sing ing Society and a full syimphony or- E. 12th St, 153 E. Broadway, 127 University Place, 231 E. 14th St., Drug Store, Madison Ave and ilith St., 1137 Wilkins Ave., Brooklyn; 46 Ten Byck St., 1817 Pitkin Ave., Rrug Store, Moore and Graham Ave., 764 40th St., Bakery, Mermaid Ave. and 33rd St., Coney Island. Se Boris beware! 1 — — — — — ——— jbl ee SH DUKE | LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS Saturday, Jan. 24. Chicago, at 8 p. m. at Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St., corncert and Russian speakers. Philadelphia, Pa., at 8 p. m., at the Lulu Temple, corner Broad and Spring Garden Sts. Speakers: Olgin, Baker, and Carison. South Bend, Ind., at 8 p. m., at Workers’ Home, 1216 W. Colfax Ave. Speaker, Manuel Gomez. Milwaukee, Wis., at 8 p. m., at the Auditorium, 500 Cedar St. Speakers: Foster and Max Bedacht. Seattle, Wash. Painters’ Hall, Un- ion Record Bidg., at 8 p. m. Speaker: Norman H. Tallentire. Passaic, N. J., 82 President St. Sanday, Jan. 25. Washington, D. C. Play House, at 8 p. m Speakers: Oliver Carlson and Comrade MacIntosh. Gary, Ind., 215 W. 18th Ave., at 2 p. m. Speaker: Thurber Lewis. St. Paul, Minn. Commonwealth Hall, 485 Rice St., at 8p.m. Speaker: Earl Browder. Minneapolis, Minn. Humboldt (Fin- nish) Hall, 1817 Western Ave., No., at 2 p.m. Speaker: Earl Browder. Denver, Col., at 8 p. m., Machinists’ Hall, 1715 California St. Speakers to be announced. Omaha, Nebr., at 2:30 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 22nd and Clark Sts. Speak- ers, J. E. Snyder, David Coutts, David Resnick, Tom Mathews, B. M. Mishkis. Grand Rapids, Mich., at 2:30 p. m. Workmen’s Circle Temple, 347 Mt. Vernon Ave. Speakers: E. A. Kosten and Eugene Beshtold. Newark, N. J., Labor Lyceum, 2 p. m., 704 S. 14th street. . Hartferd, Conn. Labor Educational Alliance, 287 Windsor Ave., at 2:30 p. m. Speaker: Joseph Manley. Detroit, Mich., at 2 p. m., House of the Masses, 2101 Gratiot Ave. Speak- er, Robert Minor. Boston, Mass., at 3 p. m., Scenic Auditorium, 12 Berkeley St. Speaker, John J. Ballam. Cleveland, Ohio. Engineers’ Audito rium, Ontario and St. Clair., at 7:30 p.m. Speaker, Benjamin Gitlow. Youngstown, O., at 2 p. m., speak- ers, Ben Gitlow and others. Los Angeles, Cal., at 2 p. m., Blanch- ard Hall, 233 S8. Broadway. Speaker James H. Dolsen. Easton, Pa., at 2 p. m., Lithuanian (Bakers) Hall, N. 7th St., near North- ampton St. Speaker to be announced. Dowell, III., at 2 p. m., Rex Theater, Union Ave. Speaker, John Mihelic. Bridgeport, Conn., at 8 p. m., Work- men’s Circle Hall, 310 State St. Speaker, Sadi Amter. Akron, Ohio, at 2 p. m., Zeigler Hall, corner Voris and Miami Sts. Superior, Wis., Workers’ Hall, cor- ner Tower and 5th. Speaker to be announced. Tacoma, Wash., Labor Temple, City Hall Amnex, at 8 p. m. Speaker: Nor- man H. Tallentire. East Pittsburgh at 2 p. m., Work- ers’ Home, corner Eieetrie and North Aves. Speakers, Joseph Knight and A. Blagelavich. Revere, Mass., Pagle’s Hall, Shirley and Walnut Aves., at 8 p. m. Speaker, I. Amter. January 26. Dillonvale, Ohio. Speaker: min Gitlow. 7 p. m. January 27. Yorkville, Ohio. Speaker: Benjamin Gitlow. 7 p. m. January 28. Bellaire, Ohio. Speaker: Gitlow. 7 p. m. January 29. Benja- Benjamin Powhatan Point, Ohio. Speaker: Benjamin Gitlow. 7 p. m. January 30. Neffs, Ohio. Speaker: Benjamin Gitlow, 7 p. m. January 31. Christopher, III., French Club, at 7 p. m. Speaker: John Mihelic. Sunday, Feb. 1. New York, N. V., at 2 p. m., Mad son Square Garden. Speakers: Foster ¢ wihn Wily: oa CL me SP ~~, oy 4 THE WORLD'S maxes your : taste it. BITTERS below. CIPSEY PRODUCTS Co., Dept. 81. 1183 Foster Ave., Chicago, III. 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Waukegan, III., Slavonie National House, Cor. 10th St. and McAllister Ave. Speaker, Peter Herd. Sunday, Feb. 10. Baltimore, Md. Hall to be announce ed, Speaker, Joseph Manley. AS WE SEE. II. By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. Hermanson's at 8 p. m. (Continued from page 1) charge, unknown to the delegates ex. cept those who were on the inside That Paul Smith, the official stool- pigeon of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy should do this work is not surprising That is what he is paid for. But tha Robly D. Cramer should sink so lov and prostitute himself in order to hol“ his job on the Labor Review, only proves that when a fake progressive hits the toboggan of political deprav ity, nothing on this side of hell can stop him. We assure Cramer and the | parasites who train with him, that the fight in Minneapolis has only started H rest of this column, for today may as well be devoted to rene gades. There is Aristide Briand for instance. He once was a member o* the socialist party of France and one of the most frothy mouthed. He de cided to join the bourgeols govern ment, protesting at the same time tha he was doing it for the sake of the workers. But soon his sincerity war put to the test. When the postal em ployes went on strike he promptly called them to the colors and actually mobilized them to break their own strike. In those days Briand was a rabid anti-clerical and atheist. * * * D now find Briand, after several years of service to the capital ists, lined up with the vatican in fight- ing the anti.clerical program of the present French government, which is under the direction of the grand ort- ent, or the French wing of masonry. Herriot has forced the public school system on Alsace Lorraine and is now taking steps to withdraw the French embassy at the vatican. Briand i: strongly in favor of retaining the con- nection with the pope, holding that France shuld be represented there, for the sake of the assistance of the ‘catholic church can render to French interests. 89 8 * HIS renegade is more concerned with the interests of the French bourgeoisie than even Herriot, who 18 a millionaire business man of Lyons The pope threatens to retaliat agaoinst the withdrawal of the French diplomatic representative at Rome by recalling the papal nuncio in Paris, and elevating him to the cardinalate. This will mean activity fn the red hat business if nothing else. P > * — NOTHER traitor is on trial in Moscow, or at least, was on Jan. 12. His name is Ivan Okladsky. Ivar was a member of a revolutionary or. ganization and participated in many attempts to assassinate the czar. But it appears that during all this time he was in the pay of the government When on trial for his attempts to kil) the czar, declared before the court: “I do not ask and I do not need your me mercy, I shall regard this as a personal insult.” . * UT despite this brave speech his sentence of death was commuted and he was afterwards raised to the nobility; drawing from the political! police the highest salary paid for an ordinary official. He drew his last pay on the eve of the 1917 revolution. It is believed that Okdalsky will be sen tenced to death but it doubtful If the Instead he may be allowed to write his reminiscences. Robert Minor’s Trial Is To Be Delayed (Continued from page 1) country. The jute mills and other in- wrecks and soon give them occupa: tional tuberculosis. When the prison board made its re prison budget of $118,000 over last returns from prison industries.” work out of the state prisoners. Sale Hours Changed. the sale of the Russian embroidered leniency. On the contrary if you@hot} leath sentence will be carried out. By the Prosecution. dustries grind the men down to mere port to the Michigan legislature, it was stated that the increase in the year was due to “an overestimation of It ts the aim of Governor Groesbeck by fir- ing Hulburt, to put in a slave driver who will get a greater amourt of NEW YORK, Jan. 23— The hours for linens at the Civic club, 14 W. 12th St., have been changed. They will be daily | from one to two and from five to six. ETE. RL 85 2 arn i * 4 . r — & « The league demands that this ex- ploitation of the youth of Illinois must stop. Miners Taken from School. young workers are expected to follow the trade of their fathers and enter the mines, most of the towns having only the one industry. These lads must work u when their bodies are unformed and their minds immature. During periods of unemp the government ne slects the youth of Illinois. The min- ers are foreed to loiter on the streets because no provision has been made for them to attend school. Paid 17/4 Cents an Hour. In Belvidere, Illinois, the National Sewing M @ company, employing one thous workers, pays the youth half cents an hour. This company manufactures washing machines and sewing machines for the Montgomery & Ward company, in large quantities. Thus while entire families in Belve dere are forced into industry by the low wages, the Montgomery Ward company makes millions of dollars out of the profits of the toil wracked bodies of the young workers. The profits of the Montgomery Ward mail order house, because of the extensiv. exploitation of young labor, were the largest in history during the year jus ended. Net profits of the company last year were $10,483,601, after mil- lions had been paid out in dividends to the millionaire stockholders. This money was taken from the exploited young workers of Belvedere, earning 17% cents an hour, and from the thousands of young workers employed in the Montgomery Ward factories in Chicago. Demand Voice In Industry. The Workers (Communist) Party calls the attention of the Illinois leg islature to these conditions, and de mands that not only the federal child labor amendment be ratified, but that effective means be immediately taken to end the widespread exploitation of thousands of [llinois young workers. While Nathan Leopold rolls around the city in his limousine, the young girls in his paper box factory in Mor- ris, Ilinois are selling themselves be- cause they cannot exist on the $12 a week which he pays. The young workers in the steel mills of East St. Louis, the thousands of young hired hands on Mlinois farms, demand a voice in industry and demand that child labor be abol- ished, and if necessary, their families provided for by the state. Auuae A easy Wanker ta (LE In the mining towns of Illinois the employed by them seventeen and one-| 4 — German Communists in Bitter Struggle With “Henchmen of Morgan” By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL bulwark his dictatorship. herald of chaos“. — battles. progress. Tee it is not a question of the republic or the monarchy, it is the republic or chaos.” These are the words of Deputy Van Kardoff, of Stre- semann’s party, in the German reichstag. They are the familiar words of fascism. Mussolini uses them in Italy to The German republic today is a most energetic defender of capitalism. it is in the hands of the Luther cabinet that even discusses the return of the monarchy. that strikes a blow at these monarchist ambitions, parading under the mask of a capitalist republic, is attacked as the To be sure there is only one such power—the German Communist Party, Soviet Rule in Germany, of course, means something even more than chaos for German capital- ism. it means the end. But the cry of “chaos!” Is raised in Germany, just as Mussolini raises it in Italy, just as the subsidized press raises it in this country, in order to frighten the masses, if possible, against the rising Soviet power. * * > * On the issue of Communism against capitalism, the German reichstag voted 246 to 160 to uphold the cabinet, against which the Communist deputies hurled the the charge, “You henchmen of Morgan.” The socialists were compelled to vote with the Com- munists against the Luther cabinet. Not that they really wanted to. But the treason had they done otherwise would have been too apparent to the German workers. The Luther monarchists, with their cabinet in power, espouse the Mor- gan-Dawes plan, as the saviour of German oapitalism, while the socialists, among the first supporters of the scheme, slip temporarily into the opposition in an effort to get a little prestige with the workers, in order that they might have something to deliver to the capitalist government when the next political trade is to be discussed. * * * Luther Dawes The center (catholic) party, that claims to be for the republic, voted almost unanimously for the Luther monar- chists. But former chancellor Wirth, catholic party spokes- man, cast his vote in opposition, in order that he m line for his previous job when Luther falls. With their experiences of the last six years, since the kaiser was ousted, to fall back on, the German workers must indeed realize how their destinies are being toyed with by these capitalist political charlatans; how every step of all the parties, from the socialists to Ludendorff is against their interests; that the Communists alone are fighting their ght be in The German workers must realize to the full the meaning of the fawning approval with which Chancellor Luther defended the socialist president, Fritz Ebert. Luther excitedly deplored the attempt to “besmirch” the character of Ebert, because of his close connection with the Barmat scandal, a German “Teapot Dome,” only that it dealt with high-financlering. Luther, the monarchist, announced that he is going to stand by Ebert, the socialist, just as he is backing the Morgan-Dawes plan to the limit. An interesting ae ar. the working class. * * It is against this combination that the German Com- munists take their determined stand and The resistance of the German workers the Morgan-Dawes plan grows steadily. When the socialists are again needed in the anti-Communist government, they will be called in to break up as best they can, the unity of the workers. But the proletarian ranks are more impervious than ever to these socialist attacks. greater advances can be expected from the German Com- munists against the German henchmen of Morgan. make steady inst As a result, new and Every power. n a Ee ote 4 . a . ae a „ r * 3 28 — — — F——— 1 CYRIL LAMBKIN : te The Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 23. — Boris Brasol, the recognized leader of the Russian monarchists in this country was the speaker at a meeting of the Open Forum here, an established stitution of Detroit, conducted by F. F. Ingram, perfume manufacturer and single taxer. The subject was Sov- jetism at work. Himself an officer of the osar’s ar- my who lost his position and privil- eges he flayed the workers’ and peas- ants’ government of Russia. Nvery ill and misfortune of the Russian masses he laid at the door of the Bolsheviks, whose inevitable fall he predicted. Not a single misfortune did he at. tribute to the raparious czarist reg. ime, to the world war, to counter revolution and the invasions, to the blockade or to the famine, He cited many figures from Rus sian official papers, but the figures were nearly all for the years 1918 te 1921. He read a report of a well known Russian physician about the terrible conditions in the hospitals, but he failed to give the date of the report or to mention the blockade in connec tion with this. He charged the work ers’ and. peasants’ government with breaking up the home by making di vorce easily obtainable, but he aid not give figures showing the ratio oi divorces to marriages. In Michigas the ratio is one to four. He concluded his talk by reading a letter supposed to Rave been sen by the Russian Communist Party tc all its units exhorting them to stee their hearts for the task of destroying their capitalist enemy i blood “Blood, more blood” were the conclud ing words of the alleged document, In his replies to questions during the feverishly hot question period which lasted for forty-five minutes hx that the chairman, Charles M. Novak = bie school principal, lost his caln demeanor, and asked a question him self. When in reply to a questio: whether he did not think that the invs sion of Russia was in some measure re sponsible for the industrial decline th. speaker said he did not think so be chairman himself asked the questio whether the speaker seriously woul maintain the idea of the invasion o cities rather than invasion of a te: ritory. A decided group in the audienc consisted of Russian monarchist: most of whom are straw bosses in th Ford shops. According to authenti information their local leader is se retary E. G. Liebold, private secretar to Henry Ford. This group applaude their chieftain vigorously. The chairman made the announc: ment that a speaker representing th point of view of the Soviets would b invited to address the forum som time before the close of the preser season. Results of Membership Meetings | the minority, two. HARTFORD, CONN.—The discussion meeting by the Hartford, Conn., Local, held Wdenesday, Jan. 14, with-William Simons as speaker for the majority, and Kluehen for the minority, resulted: Majority 18, minority 9. BRIDGEPORT. Conn., Monday, Jan. 12th.—Majority received 20 votes, N. I. STRUCTURAL IRON WORKERS ADOPT RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE CONVICTION OF COMMUNISTS: Workers’ Union at their last general the governor of the state of Michigan NEW YORK, Jan. 33.—The Architectural Iron, Bronze and Structural membership meeting adopted the fol- lowing resolution against “criminal syndicalism” laws which they sent to end to the labor press. Resolution. WHEREAS, the many state “criminal syrnidies laws and ‘sedition acts” e une most'tutiona)l and instruments of |creploying class tyranny over the work- ers and their organizations, and | WHEREAS, the state gupreme court of Michigan hee upheld the convicfion of ‘ „ Ruthenberg for assembling with” the Cemmunists 5. an opinion which calls for the punighment of dess and the denial of tree en¢gech and assembiage, and vhich evades the issue by ignoring the faet that, as the defense showed, there Was not even a violation of the state mn, since nothing was done in Michigan eim act or advocacy, and WHEREAS, Assistant Prosecuting At- orney Bookwalter and others of his class Insist on a maximum of ten years im- prisonment and 310,000 fine, for this crime’ of holéing an opinion counter to their own, thus recommending govern- ment action based on vicious prejudice rather then on the law and the consti- tution, and WHBPREAS, the sustaining of Ruthen- berg’s convietion by the United States supreme court will mean also the rail- roading to long in prison of Wil- tam Z. Foster, m. F. unne, Robert huner and 29 other well-known fighters tn the ranks of the labor movement— and would ase enco e high-handed &.ppression by the capitalist-controlled government and all and any working class organizations who dare oppose their open shep rule, and WHES2£AS8, the solidarity of the entire working class is essential to its welfare and requires that those in the forefront o the struggle must especially have the support of all workers, refore be it RESOLVED, that we protest against the action of the Michigan ee —— be State supreme la support of by ‘the defendent in the way of any overt | in this case and call upon all labor bodies and working class bodies to take the same stand. That we petition the gov- ernor of the state of Michigan to pardon the defendant in the event that the United States supreme court sistaing the conviction, it being our view that such ‘action on the part of the federal supreme court would be a nullification of the con- stitution in the interest of instruments of capitalist suppression of the workers, and he it further | RESOLVED, that copies of this resolu- | tion be sent to the governor of the state ' of Michigan and the labor press. Furnishings LADIES’ MEN’S INFANTS’ Trade Where Your Money Buys the Most Martin’s 651 West North Avenue East of Halsted St. LEARN ESPERANTO _ The international Language The following 1 are received ree: Eeperanto for All, grammar and vocabulary. Esperanto and its Critics, by Prof. Collinson. WORKERS’ ESPERANTO ASSN., | 825 7th st., Rockford, in. | ll Ra Rl re WORKERS PARTY AND YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE Attention! You have been called by the Central of the Workers Party and by the Lab > ; ‘ . ‘ 9 ; * ; ; ; ( ¢ ( ( ( ( * * ‘ „ * ; N ‘ ; 0 é * ; ; ( ; . ; ‘ ‘ 4 ; 7 7 ; é ‘ ; ‘ ; * . ‘ 1 ; ; . ‘ . 7 4 ; ‘ ; ‘ ‘ N ‘ ‘ 7 ‘ 4 ; 9 ; ; ; ‘ ; 4 ; 1 ; ‘ ‘ ; ‘ ; 1 9 . utive Committee Defense Council to take collections in your branches at once and rush Hold Off the Jailer! Hold Back the Enemy! Fight Capitalist Reaction! them in. 32 Communists in danger, the Workers (Communist) Party menaced! , Tens of thousands of dollars needed within the next month or two. Send funds at once to the Labor Defense Council, 166 W. Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL, 166 W. Washington St., Room 307, Chicago, III. Enclosed find 3 Name: to help keep our ** out ot prison. 2 ; Address: City: State: rr in- ; B. sug) slat 11s ER SRT 4 — * 831228 12353 20 Oni — nm W
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figures 918 to known errible — unt BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. f f i f 4 gare that this state bank did not theix business. For a time they were stiff that the so-called ‘“non- ER ownership and sound the death to private banking in the state. ae i + 1 full control of the state governmen for the simple reason that it did not go “teo far” with such experiments. Since that time the league has become still more conservative and even reactionary there is, therefore, still less likelihood now that an attempt will be made to go “too far” in the way of eliminating the private banks. The Communist Position. State Senator Ralph leaguer, chairman.of the house bank- ing committee thinks he has a bank bill that win “solve” several of the problems connected with the Bank of North Dakota and he opposes the proposal made by Miller. Ingerson says his measure is “practical” and “diplomatic” and tells us that any banking bill that is introduced in the legislature ought not to bear the name of a Communist becauge then it will not get very far.” When informed of Ingerson’s state ment Miller said that he was going through with his plans of introducing his bank measure until a better one showed. up “I'll support any other bank bill that is clearly in favor of the interests of the farmers and the workers, but I am against camouflage and diplomatic tricks that merely fool the masses,” Miller said. “We must be frank with the farmers and the workers,” he added. See “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” “Abshiand Auditorium Feb. 6. a die — Res. 1682 l. Trumbull Ave. Phone Rockwell 5050 MORDECAI SHULMAN. ATTORNEY-aT-Law 701 Association Bullding 19 8. La Salle Street CHICAGO Dearborn 8657 Central 4945-4947 George K. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half * imperial | CHICAGO PUEUODRLOUELU ERDAS UREDEDEOORARAADED Aga Where Food Is And the service is fi Meet your friends at the Zlotins & Plotkins Restaurant 100 Per Cent Union 29 South Halsted St. The best of food at a moderate price PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering THE DAILY WORKER oe : USE NEGRI NEXT WAR, “EXPERT” (Special “ie a Worker) LONDON, England, Jan. 23.—Mill- tary “experts” meeting here to plan how to fight the next wer are study- ing the book of J. B. 8. Haldane, called “The Defense in Chemical Warfare,” in whieh Haldane declares that the next war will be fought largely by Negro troops directed by white 4 The “experte” are recalling the number of Freneh and English col- onlal troops slaughtered in the last war, and give much eredence to Hal. danes prediction. Haldane declares that “colored troops can stand pol- son gas better than white.” It ls expected that perhaps the colonial peoples who are to be led to slaughter by the imperialistic na- tlons which exploit thelr labor at home will make vigorous protest against Haldane’s book. _—_— —— — — qi Ignorant of Influenza in Japan. LONDON, Jan. 23-—-The Japanese embassy here announced today it was without information regarding a large loss of life in Japan due to influenza It was said that the influenza had been prevalent in some parts of Japan and a number of deaths have resulted. Refuse to Post Debt Speech. PARIS, Jan. 23-—-The chamber 0’ deputies, by a vote of 290 to 224, re- jected today a motion to post on bulle- tin boards copies of Deputy Marin's speech on the Franco-American debt. Help Wanted. WE NEED A GOOD BOOK- KEEPER - STENOGRAPHER » IMMEDIATELY, must under- stand English and some Ita- lian. Good salary. Apply to “TL, LAVORATORE,” 1113 w. Washington Bivd. (top floor) Reaching Out for More Easy Millions ALBANY, N. T., Jan. 23.—The Andrew Mellon interests are making e bold bid for a huge part of about a billion dollars worth of water power i) the St. Lawrence river. The New York water power commission, composed o five repubilcans, has the disposal of this power and the St. Lawrence Transmission company, wants half a billion dollars’ worth of it. According to its published state ment in Moody’s Manual, this com pany is controlled by the $100,000,00C Aluminum company of America, from which Andrew W. Mellon resigned to become secretary of the treasury His brother, Richard B. Mellon, is still a director and the company’s vice-president; G. R. Gibbons is alac vice-president of the St. Lawrence Transmission company. DISGRACE T0 BEL TO TEXAS KLAN, SAYS GOVERNOR'S HUSBAND (Special to The Daily Worker) AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 23.—-The ku lux Klan is dead politically in Texas, James Ferguson, once im- peached as governor of Texas, and now transacting much of the bus ness for which his wife, newly elected governor, is responsible, sald today. “The politicians are leaving the klan like rats leaving a sinking ship,” Ferguson said. “it's a disgrace now to belong to the kian in Texas.” — 8 York state waived its rights. Since the war it has unsuccessfully tried tc fix a rental, which the St. Lawrence controlled by the Aluminum company of America), could be induced to pay The Aluminum company already has the use of about $50,000,000 worth o St. Lawrence power on which no rent al has been paid to New York stat since the plant began to operate ir 1918. It was authorized then as war measure, provided the assent o the state could be obtained. In con sideration of the war emergency Nev Across the street from the Imperial Hall. reer Page Three ~ GONGERT AND BALL Given by the . Frauen Kranken - Unterstuetz- ungs-Verein Fortschr SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1925 4 . M. Sharp Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Ave, Tiekets in advance 50c, at the door 75¢ River Power company, (said to be When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER, Bring your account to Chicago’s Only Labor Bank TT ee ee The Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank will be at its old quarters at 371 W. Jackson Blvd. for several weeks. at Clark and Jackson will be ready for oc- cupancy soon after February 1. * — — — — e — — The new quarters day Night, the Open Forum. from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. . . . — — — ä — —ö—ö—ä 22 —8—— 9 Spt eee vse weve eevee eee OUR prices. season Ae sissies UNITED CLOTHING CO. Open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Eves. ie — ü 1. 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uu . Washington Bird. Chicago, m. by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING OO. (Phone: Munroe 4712) -duct of the state department, with reference to SUBSCRIPTION RATES . | 8 Ws ag Mag Ae Ton 3 $8.00 per i 1 1 — 2 oe months Adress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 9118 w. Washington Bleu. Chicago, ele L. LOUIS rye DUNNE f Trans MORITZ J. — — Manager Butered as second-class mall Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, III., under the act of March 3. 1879. Washington Discusses a Treaty The senate foreign relations committee of which Senator William E. Borah of Idaho is chairman moet to discuss the treaty signed between the gov- ernment of Japan and the Union of Soviet Social- ist Republics. An official report of the proceedings was not made public but it was unofficially hinted, after the meeting, that more, than one member of the committee used strong language in discussing the policy of Secretary of State Hughes in his con- the United States attitude towards Russia. It was intimated that this policy of hate and hostility was mainly responsible for the compar- atively strong position which the treaty with Rus- sia gives Japan in the Pacific. Without a suf- ficient supply of oil to provide fuel for the Jap- anese navy, it was admitted by U. S. naval offic- ers that the Mikado’s navy would never dare risk a contest with the naval forces of the United States. The concessions granted to Japan on Saghalien Island, guarantees Tokio against any shortage of fuel for her navy and strengthens her immeasurably either in her negotiations with the United States or in the event of war. The senate foreign relations committee fears that besides the published clauses of the treaty there is also a secret alliance between Moscow and Japan. As capitalist statesmen can think only in terms of bourgeois diplomacy, it is not surpris- ing that they should suspect some agreement be- tween the two governments in view of the world political situation. All the capitalist powers with- out exception are hostile to the Soviet government for very fundmental reasons, and even tho Japan is a capitalist power, it happens that her interests in the Orient conflict so violently with the two strongest imperialist powers that the Mikado’s government is for the moment diplomatically isol- ated. Therefore the logical step for Japan to take, from the point of bourgeois diplomacy would be to form a defensive and offensive alliance with Moscow. British diplomacy now. aims at driving the United States and Japan into hostilities. It has been the historical policy of Britain to dispose of her foremost naval and commercial competitor. Navies, as a rule are built for the protection of trade and trade routes. The growing shipping trade of the United States and her expanding im- perialism demand a larger navy. This brings her automatically into conflict with Britain. It would be to Britain’s advantage to get Japan and the United States navies into a mutual an- nihilation contest, with Britain playing a role that would enable her to step in at the opportune moment to her advantage. The foreign policy of Secretary Hughes is now undergoing a critical examination by the senate committee on foreign relations and his willing- ness to commit the United States to Britain’s anti- Soviet strategy has led to developments which do not look good to many prominent senate leaders. The Soviet-Japan treaty brought the implications of this policy dramatically to Washington’s at- tention and the decision of a member of the for- eign relations committee to discuss the question on the floor of the senate indicates the deep impres- sion the latest big development in world policies made upon the United States government. Teapot Dome Again The honorable millionaire’s club known as the United States senate got its last kick out of the Teapot Dome scandal when by a vote of 40 to 30 it adopted the report by T. J. Walsh, of Montana, condemning A. B. Fall and others, implicated in the leasing of the naval reserve oil lands to Doheney and Sinclair. This vote means very little except that it marks the falling of the curtain on the great scandal that thrilled two continents last spring, so far as the senate is concerned. The solons have spoken for the record. Doheney and Sinclair have the oil. Fall has the graft. Everything is well on the banks of the Potomac. The road is now clear for another graft orgy. Vienna socialists have been forced to sell their great bakery founded fifteen years ago and cap- italized at 1,000,000,000 Austrian crowns. This gigantic concern once supplied 40 per cent of — [ment assumed power that he and his colleagues — — — ̃ K 7˙L˙— — — The Soviet e was invited to send dele- sates to the opium conference. Tchitcherin replied in diplomatic language that the conference was no place for a representative from an honest govern- ment. The Soviet government was putting down the opium traffic, not merely talking about it. The German Republic T otters Dr. Luther, chancellor of the new German cab- inet and well known monarchist admitted in his second speech in the reichstag, since his govern- discussed the question of changing the form of the remain a constitutional republic.” This means nothing less than breaking the news gently, that the Luther party has in mind a resoration of the monarchy. His speech created a sensation in the reichstag, but Luther was not worrying about that. The re- public which was born out of the blood sacrifice of the German workers has proven itself to be an instrument of capitalism just as the monarchy under the kaiser was. Luther knows that the German working class cannot be as willing to fight for the preservation of a sham republic today as they were during the Kapp uprising. He also knows that the monarchist elements have gained strength since that time, under the benevolent policy of the social democratic president and the socialist party of Germany. What a commentary on the accomplishments of social-democracy! Those capitalist bootlickers boasted that they saved Germany from the grip of a dictatorship when they crushed the proletarian revolution and blocked the path of those who aimed to establish the rule of the workers thru a Soviet republic. The corpses of the revolutionary lead- ers of the working class were offered by the social democrats as proof of their abiding faith in capi- talist democracy. Today the government which they held up before the eys of the masses as a horrible example of working class rule, the Soviet government, is strong and powerful, with a stable leadership enjoying the confidence of millions, while the German republic, monument to social democracy is tottering on the brink of ruin, with the social democrats helpless and discredited play- ing the role of discarded political prostitutes. The battle going on in Germany today is be tween two extremes, the monarchist-fascist-jun- ker-industrialist reactionaries against the Com- munists, who do not make a fetish of democracy. Both sides know it is a fight to the death, between the capitalist system which the former are pre- pared to fight to preserve, and Communism which the latter will fight to establish. The Communist Party will lead the masses to fight for a republic in Germany—but it will be a Soviet republic. A vegetarian expresses the opinion that there is little difference between a capitalist who works children long hours in a factory and a Communist who eats meat. It could be said with greater justi- ication that there is little difference between the brain that houses such intellectual offal and a garbage pail. The Busted Balkan Alliance After the tory government assumed power in England, the first important move of the foreign office chief, Austin Chamberlain, was to tour Eur- ope in an effort to form an anti-Soviet alliance of all European countries that British diplomacy could rope into such a scheme without endangering any of the imperial interests. ‘Judging by the propaganda that followed in the wake of Chamberlain’s visit, the attempt was crowned with success. Paris, Rome and every cap- ital city in the Balkans broke into print. It looked very dark for the Bolshevik government. But the excitement resulting from the publicity lasted less than a week. Then the fog cleared and the crooks began to talk about the things they were most interested in, that is, their immediate graft. German government, but decided that it “should he spite of the ‘tremendous difficulties that must be overcome at every turn of the road, Why, the mere fact that Aussia’s monetary system had been unally without the help (in fact, against the sabotage) of the “Then „ one must note with the harmonious and tions that exist between the Soviet government and the poor peasantry. Mind you, I speak here of the poor peasantry, and not of the village exploiter, the peasant capital- ist, the ‘kulak.’ It is the former, the poor and to a certain degree, the mid- dle peasants, that count. And with these the wor of Russia and the Soviet gove are in a close and unshakable sl and economic al- liance—an alll wihch forms the very basis of the oe government of workers and péasan “As to the rch pean — this group is quite ‘opposed to the pre- sent order of things in Russia. It 18 among these peasants that the counter revolution, one t whose spokesmen is R. Abramovich, is now in America, is building its nests. But that shouldn't worry us. The revolution must suc ceed not ‘of them but in spite of them. The growth and concentra- tion of the N proletariat and the consequent. of the Russian Communist Party are the best guar- antees that the Russian revolution A spite of all difficulties. nae the “Kulak” “Internation the position of Soviet Russia is very favorable. With- in the last months a number of important lies aes 5 chief among them and France, were n grant recognition to Soviet R a is about to do Ane even the govern- tion, is noticeably beginning to give way. The resignation of the pious Hughes is quite symptomatic in this respect. America Becomes the Center of the Russian Counter-Revolution. “It is important to realize that the Russian counter-revolutionists are be- ginning to feel quite uncomforable in Europe and are therefore gradually shifting over the center of their ac- tivities to the United States. America is fast becoming the center of the Rus- sian counter-revolution. The American labor movement must be careful to Wa the proper conclusions from this very important fact. “We must inquire firet into the reasons for this change in the base of operations. Why is it thai during the past year the United States have been ‘honored’ by so many notables from the white guard Russian colonies of Europe? Why is it that so many czarist officers, generals, diplomats and politicians have migrated recent- ly into the United States? A Nest of Vultures. “There are three basic reasons for this change. First, the capitalists of the United States are becoming the Chamberlain made a special effort to fix the Bal- kans against Soviet Russia. and one of his proposals was the reorganization of the Wrangel army, the remnants of which are still in Bulgaria and Jugo-Slavia. These bandits were used by the Bulgarian government to crush the peasant uprising in 1923. Another part of the Chamberlain scheme was that King Boris of Bulgaria should marry Princess Lieana of Roumania. Since then this proposed marriage has been called off. Perhaps the Queen of Roumania is of the opinion that King Boris’ head is none too stable. ' Bishop Fan Noli, head of the Albanian govern ment was informed by Chamberlain that England would aid him against his adver: Nogu if it expelled the Soviet representative from Albania. Chamberlain’s plot was not confined to the Bal kans alone; Turkey, Afghanistan and Finland were included. Unfortunately however for the tious plan, the robbers could not come to terms and even Engl: sa was compelled to disavow the actions of the foreign minister after their failure was patent. A diplomatic denial usually means Vienna’s bread. The Austrian socialists age broke financially and politically. The workmen’s councils | were also dissolved Exit social-democrats! less than nothing, but in this case it meant that the power of the Soviet government was im- | pregnable. the bourgeoisie and the social-traitors, contact. southern sun. — —ͤ—-— OMRADE LENIN: Hard and unassailable as he was to all those Who were our enemies, working class in general, but to each individual worker and toiler with whom he came in The sons of our class he warmed by the rays of his great love, Lenin was a comrade to each and all of the workers whom he met. Simul- taneously he was a teacher, a brother, a leader and a friend.—Zinoviev. he could be and was lovable not only to the which was like the He got the Yugo Slax world. From this it follows that he and the Bulgarian governments into a vonferer ho is looking for favors at the hands ary Ahmed Bey | ambi- actual dictators in the affairs of the of capitalism generally must first se- cure the good will and approval of \merican capitalism. Second, the de- feat and failure of the schemes and conspiracies of the Russian counter- revolutionists in practically every cen- ter of European imperialism. And third, the growing power and influence of the Communist and miltant trade union movement in all the European countries. “These three factors, in addition to several others of lesser importance, have combined to bring about a situa- tion which made it vitally necessary for the Russian counter-revolution to transfer its center of activities to the United States. Where these conspira- and to the progressive forces of this country as a whole than such an at- titude of alofness and neutrality to ward the reactionary machinations of the Russian counter-revolutionists in the United States. “Why? First let us remember that wherever the Russian counter-revolu- tionists succeeded in establishing a base of operations, they invariably strengthened the reactionary forces of that country against the forces of labor and progress generally. Ask the Turks, the Bulgarians, the Czecho- Slovaks, the Germans, French and English about the reactionary pressure exercised by the Russian counter-revo- lutionists upon the internal affairs of those countries. To Aid Reaction Here. “I might remark, in passing, that it is generally quite difficult to separate the home affairs of a country from its foreign affairs. This is particularly true with regard to problems of a country of such world importance as Soviet Russia. It is conceivable, of course, for a capitalist government to follow a policy of aggression (dip- lomatic, economic or military) toward Soviet Russia and at the same time attempt.to pursue a ‘liberal’ policy to- ward the labor movement at home. But this dualism of policy, if 1 may use this expression, that is, aggres- sion abroad and ‘liberalism’ at home, cannot continue very long under the present phase of capitalist develop- ment, the phase of imperialism. It was quite possible in the old preim- perialist days. It might work for a short while even now, but such dual- ism must inevitably disappear, giving way to reaction at home as well as abroad. “From this it follows that in the measure in which the Russian counter- revolutionists, now concentrating in the United States, will succeed in swaying the American government to their side, this will produce not only aggression and hostility toward Soviet general atmosphere of suspicion and disturbance that will necessarily be created in the United States by the continuous plottings and conspiracies | of the Russian counter-revolutionists, | an atmosphere very favorable to capi- talist reaction but extremely unfavor- able to the labor movement, aside from this, every successful move of these conspirators against Russia will also spell severer and more cruel at- tacks by the government of Strike- Dawes upon the safety and well being of the American toiling masses. The American working class must there fore be on its guard. . Russia but also an intensified offens- in America generally. Aside from the breaker Coolidge and ‘Open Shopper’ An Agent of World Imperialism. “It is in the light of the foregoing that you must consider the arrival in the United States the other day of R. Abramovich, leader of the Russian tionary mensheviks and henchman ot the Second International of Scheidemann, Noske and Ebert. “What is the significance of Abram- ovich’s coming to America, particular- ly at this time? It is very much worth while inquiring into this matter. You will find that the Russian counter- revolution, altho disgracefully defeat- ed, is still alive and active. You will! also learn something more vital and important; namely, that the so-called Second International, the agent of of world imperialism and the flunkey of ‘Open Shopper’ Dawes, is now em- barking upon a new crusade against the revolutionary and militant labor movement to crush all opposition to the ‘successful’ enforcement of the Dawes’ plan. “The mission of R. Abramovich, ac- tive counter-revolutionist and repre- sentative of the Second International, must be analyzed and considered very carefully. What does Abramovich want in the United States? The Program of Abramovich. “You have read the statement of the central executive committee of of District 9. are sprinkled thruout the territory Wisconsin, separated from the general labor movement as well as from How can they be united in an amalgamated campaign to bring the Insurance drive to a clean-cut victory? Of the 88 branches In the district, only 32 have a record of achleve- ment. Their total contribution amounts to $674.00 as compared to a But they are just getting into action! Mich., comes their slogan, “We will continue selling the policies until each other. quota of $5,766. they are gone.” The Duluth, Minn., Finnish branch has set the pace by remitting $71.00, closely followed by the St. Paul English branch with $68.00. The sole Ukrainian branch in this district, after dispasing of its first $50.00 books, sends for another, just as these comrades have conquered the rock and iron and barren earth of this region, we are assured that they will conquer their District 9 quota! * 8 Branches in District 9 That Are Leaders in Drive to Insure The Daily Worker District 9 Campaign Speeds Up _LTHO this local of ours is only a small one, 0 than twenty mem- bers, we realize the necessity of the DAILY WORKER, and we will stay in the drive to the end. trying to ‘clean up’ our quota.” This letter from a Finnish comrade in Orr, Minn., expresses the spirit indirectly, it also explains why so many branches have not yet reported in the policy campaign. innumerable other small branches of north Michigan, Minnesota and From Newberry, Czecho-Slovak, St. Paul, Minn $ 15.00 English, Duluth, Minn 36.00 English, Hancock, Mich 45.00 English, Rochester, Minn 7.00 English, St. Paul, Minn 68.00 English, Superior, Wis. 16.00 Finnish, Ahmeek, Mich. 7.00 Finnish, Ashland, Wis 8.00 Finnish, Bovey, Minn 5.00 Finnish, Brainerd, Minn 10.00 Finnish, Ewen, Mich. 10.00 Finnish, Chisholm, Minn 18.88 Finnish, Cromwell, Minn. 19.00 Finnish, Duluth, Minn, 17.00 Finnish, Gilbert, Minn 10.00 Finnish, Hancock, Mich. 10.00 Finnish, Ironwood, Mich. 22.00 Finnish, North Ironwood, Mich. 10.00 Finnish, Marengo. Wis. 10.00 Finnish, Newberry, Mich 9.00 Finnish, Orr, Minn 25.00 Finnish, Palidade, Minn. 4 3.00 Finnish, Red Granite, Wis 14.00 Finnish, Superior, Wis.... 30.00 German, St. Paul, Minn. 24.00 Jewish, St. Paul, Minn. 45.00 Lettish, Bloomvilie, Wis 5.00 Russian, Mineapolis, Minn. ws 3.00 Russian, St. Paul, Minn. 25.00 South Slavic, Chisholm, Minn 18.00 Ukrainian, Minneapolis, Minn. 50,00 Total $674.88 a (ors and plotters were formerly oper- | ating in Constantinople, Belgrade, So- fla, Prague, Berlin, Paris and London, they are now shifting their base to New York, Washington, Los Angeles. world imperialism, is now becoming the center of the Russian counter-revo- lution. A Menace to the Labor Movement. “The American working class, the American labor movement, and every progressive element in Aemrican so- cial lite must take cognizance of this important fact. It will be a fatal mistake to adopt the position that these: migrations to the United States of Russian counter-revolutionists and the visit of such emissaries of reac- tion as that of R. Abramovich, are of no concern to the American masses generally, that it is the business only ‘of the Russians. Nothing will prove * |More disastrous to the working masses Chicago and America, the center of | FINNISH BRANCHES, Ahmeek, Mich.; Aura, Mich.; Iron River, Mich.; Chassell, Mich.; Marquette. Mich.; Michigamme, Mich.; Ontorogon, Mich.; Mich.; Angora, Minn.; Toivola, Min.; Virginia, Minn.; Wentworth, Wis.; Mass, Mich.; Markham, Minn.; Cloquet, Minn, JEWISH BRANCHES, Branches Not Yet Reporting Remittances | ENGLISH BRANCHES, Hancock, Mich.; Pelkie, Mich.; South Range, Mich.; Sault St. Marie, Mich.; Trenary, Mich.; Arthyde, Minn.; Nashwauk, Minn.; Tamarack, Minn. (Wright); Toimi, (North Hurley) fron River, Wis. (Oulu); Owen, Wis.; Phelps, Wis.; man, Mich.; Cloque, Mich.; International Falls, Minn.; Mahtowa, Minn.; Minn, (Saima); Minneapolis, Minn.; Duluth, Minn. LETTISH BRANCH, Minneapolis, Minn. RUSSIAN BRANCH, Duluth, Minn. SCANDANAVIAN BRANCHES, Minneapolis, Minn.; West Duluth, Minn. | SOUTH SLAVIC BRANCHES, Carson Lake, Minn.; Ely, Minn.; Gilbert, Owen, Wis. Bessemer, Mich.; Kreetan, Mich.; Munising. Mich.; Negaunee, Ramsey, Mich.; Rock, Mich.; Wainolo, Florenton, Minn. tibbing, Minn.; de Fer, Wis. ishpeming, Mich.; Mich.; Minn.; Brule, Wis. (Vaino); Defiance, Mich.; Green, Mich.; Her- Pine River, Minn.; Ely, wi 3 tical reproachment between the Unit- ed States and Russia. “2. He wants to mobilize and gain the support of the reactionary bureau- crats in the A. F. of L. against the movement for international unity of the trade unions initiated by the Red International of Labor Union, and he will fight particularly against the re cently formed ‘Anglo-Russian Unity, Committee’ of the trade unions of those two countries. “3. He wants to strengthen the re actionary wing in the American labor movement against its left wing, its militants and Communists. “4. He wants to assist the Amert- can bankers and the American govern- ment to convert our labor movement. to the support of the Dawes’ plan, : which means the support of the im- 8 perialist, plundering ambitions of . American ca and “5. He to collect oe for the Russian ter-rev on. * > Colncidences and — “These are his main tasks. Now, please consider, in connection with the above, the following coincidence of facts. “Gompers died. This meant the re moval from the political scene of one of the bitterest enemies of Soviet Rus- sia and one of the most trusted agents of American imperialism in the labor movement of the United States. The forces of reaction and capitalism in the American Federation of Labor : have thereby been considerably weak- : ened. “Then, what happens? R. Abram- ovich comes to the United States. He is a ‘socialist,’ a ‘labor’ man. He is an ‘expert’ on Russia. He is on friendly terms with the reactionaries in the A. F. of L. He can gain their ear. He will give them the latest dope on Russia and international de- velopments generally. He will bolster, them up, solidify them, and in this way Abramovich will be fulfilling one of the duties of the dead Gompers. ‘Accidently’ Abramovich arrives in the 0 United States just in time. A Flood of Lies Expected. “Another coincidence. Charles E. Hughes is being retired from the of- fice of secretary of state, which means again the removal from a powerful pesition of an uncompromising oppon- ent of the recognition of Soviet Rus- sia. New winds are blowing in the air, There is talk about a coming change in the attitude of the Ameri- can government toward Soviet Russia. Then, what happens? Abramovich comes to the United States. Altho he has been out of Russia for years, he is supposed to possess valuable know!l- edge on conditions in Soviet Russia. He will talk. He will enlighten. He will tell stories about the persecu- tion of ‘socialists.’ He will paint terrible pictures of the ‘slavery and oppression’ of the working masses in Soviet Russia. He will relate brilliant mythology of how Georgia has been ‘crushed” under the iron heel of the Communist dictatorship. “He will probably enrich our knowl- edge on the ‘persecution and oppres- sion’ of the Jews in Soviet Russia. And oh yes, I nearly forgot Comrade Trotzky. Abramovich will also tell us something about Comrade Trotzky. How the latter is being held in strict confinement, under heavy guard, for fear that he might divulge to Abramovich some terrible secrets of the ‘oppressive’ rule of the Soviet government. Menshevik Opposses Labor Unity. “Abramovich will tell us all kinds of stories, but in doing so he will have only one purpose in mind—to continue the noble work of Charles -E. Hughes. You see, comrades, it is merely ‘coin- cidence’ that Abramovich comes to America at the very moment when Hughes is about to retire from the of- . dee of secretary of state. By this I don’t mean to imply that Coolidge will appoint Abramovich to the posi- ion of secretary of state. No, far be it from me to imply any such thing. What I do mean is this, that Abram- ovich will be made very good use of by every reactionary and enemy of labor in the United States. “Then, a third coincidence. The British trade union delegation, head- ed by Purcell, which recently. visited Soviet Russia, was greatly impressed by the strength of the Soviet govern- ment, the continual improvement of the economics of Russia and of the general conditions of the working classes, and particularly by the fact that the Russian workers are actual- ly learning to govern and rule in the interests of the masses and against their exploiters. The report of the delegation is extremely favorable to Soviet Russia and to the Russian Com- munist Party. “Furthermore, while in Russia the British trade union delegation joint- ly with the trade unions of Soviet Rus- sia formed what is known as the ‘Ang- lo-Russian Unity Comimittee’ for the purpose of promoting the movement for international unity of the trade unions thruout the world. You will recognize, comrades, that this is an event of first class importance. It sig- nifies the beginning of an alliance be- tween the workers of Russia and Eng- land which will have far reaching consequences in the development of the world revolution. (The conclusion of Bittelman’s ad- 24 grauer « See SRSSewveoreass we — : dress will appear in Monday's issue.) 97 * „