Daily Worker
February 11, 1925
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They are, George Har- vey and the present American am- bassador at London, Mr. Kellog. “The latter gave a dinner to the _of Engtand, not that the king ed it, bail Cae ‘ SSCTON ATES Se Be a IT AGAINST WAGE 'S CALLS UPON LAWRENCE EXTILE WORKERS FOR ACTION pastet the striking The meeting tous but Kellog is leaving for the United States to take over Charles Hughes’ job and he thought it only proper that he should show the king what a yankee could do in or around the court ‘of Saint James. * * ®@ HE women who wore ticht shoes were not pleased because the king did not sit down after he rose from the dining table. Because the king did not sit nobody else did. If the king had sported a pair of bunions, chiro- podists would go out of business, such is the devotion of our American paras- ites in England to royalty. Bunions would become as popular as cross- word puzzles are now. * a7 ” ARREN S. STONE, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers ahd chairman of the man- aging board of the scab Coal Rivers Colleries company has called a con- ference of the chief executives of the sixteen standard railroad labor Organ- izations, to take place in Chicago on February 20, the day prior to the con- vention of the conference for progres- sive politicdl action. Stone was one of the founders of the C. P. P. A. but it appears that he is not very proud of his offspring. The announced in- tention of the meeting is in Stone’s words: “for the purpose of defining and outlining their position in so far as their further activities. and con- nection -~with the conference for pro- gressive political action are concern- ed.” The prospects are not very bright for the poor C. P. P. A. It may be turned over to the socialists in return for their self sacrifice in burying the socialist party. — THORNY CROWN F shies Are ¢ Guanine for (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn, Feb. 9.—The Communists of St, Paul are causing as much excitement in the dove cote of the reactionaries in the labor move- ment here as the radicals in the city across the river. William Mahoney, erstwhile progres- sive, has taken it upon himself to rid the farmer-labor party, or what is left of it, of the Communists, His suc- cecss in doing so is not likely to bring him any laurels more comfortable than a. fresh crown of thorns from the fakers he is — ‘BO hard to please. Mahoney's heart was set on getting rid of Otto Wangerin, secretary of the Ramsey county division of the farmer-labor federation. at its recent convention on Jan. 31, But when the votes were couhted Wangerin was wearing his characteristic smile and Mahoney wore the face of a “Jiggs” who met his “Maggie” at the door while trying to sneak over to Dinty Moore’s for a game of forty-five with the boys. Wangerin Re-elected. In other words, Comrade Wangerin | was yoeiented, er conned Mr. Me} *- * *« Vecn ate i 2 bow one} VA bAA cause of his involvement in the Bar- met scandal. Another scandal has been unearthed in the post office. A leak of $15,000,000 took place under the Marx-Stresemann regime. The in- dustrialists are accused of forcing the government to turn over the gigantic sum of $500,000,000 to them while the passive resistance war took place in the Ruhr. + 7. 7 HIS at a time when the workers were toiling one extra hour for nothing in order to carry on the fight against Poincare. There is more trouble in store for the industrialists and for the social democrats who stood by them against the Com- munists, the only elements that sup- ported the workers against the coal and steel barons. 2 - a HE capitalist papers all over the world thought they saw in the controversy between Trotsky and the central committee of the Communist Party, the beginning of a severe crisis in the Soviet government. But despite the services of their stoolpigeons they do not yet realize what a highly dis- ciplined organization the Communist Party of Russia is. It is the party that forms the government by the mandate of the workers and pea- sants. fo . - = HEN Trotsky lost the confidence of the Communist Party, as the Soviet Union Review points out, his offer of resignation from his position as president of the revolutionary. war council was accepted. But he is still a member of the Communist Party, and the entire party, which has over half a million members supported the central committee of the party so wholeheartedly that the counter revo- lutionary hope of a split in the Com- munist Party has gone a glimmering. Soviet’ Russia was never so strong either industrially or politically as it is today. This is good news for the workers of the world. . > a VEN one of the most reactionary papers in England, John Bull, ad- mits this. This paper in its issue of (Continued on Page 6.) 17 CITIES SHOW JUMP IN RETAIL COST OF FOOD IN JANUARY WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The re- tall cost of food took a jump in 17 cities during January, ranging one per cent to 4 per cent the depart- ment of labor announced today. Louisville and Peoria had an in- crease of 3 per cent; while Detroit, Indianapolis and Springfield, (Ill.,) | ; (Special to The Daily Worker) fe - |, Mass., Feb. 9.—A big mass meeting of textile workers in - faen Theatre here on Friday night unanimously resolved to | cuts ‘and the speeding-up system, to compel the amalgamation ; kers’ unions into one industrial union, and to “workers of neighboring towns. Front Committee at Lawrence. by the Lawrence United Front Committee for the first payday of the new reduced wage scalé, which the workers com- Ye with this outburst of pro- The united front committee is com- | of about thirty members rep- resenting the Franco-Belgian Club (a workers’ organization which functions as a labor union), an Italian work- ers’ group, a Syrian workers’ group, a French-Canadian workers’ group and four branches of Workers (Com- munist) Party. This town, the,scene of such heroic struggles of the past twelve years, including the world-fam- ous strike of 1912, that of 1919 and that of 1922, is today practically with- out the slightest fragment of a union organizatton. Robert. Minor, the principal speak- er, representing the Workers (Com- munist) Party, appealed to the textile workers to revive the old traditions of Lawrence as a stronghold of the fight- ing kind of working class. Pointing out that 70,000 workers in New Pneg- land cotton mills had already been struck by the wage cut, Minor said that the plan of the employers consti- tutes a huge, united drive of all man- ufacturers acting as one man to low- er the whole living standard of an entire working class population. “It is called a 10 per cent reduction,” said Minor, “but that is deceptive. The straight cut often runs as high as 26 per cent, and even that is not the worst. A Fifty Per Cent Cut! “Down in Providence and in Natick the B. B. & R. Knight Co. has cut the weavers’ piece work scale 50 per cent. They have been using old machinery. Now they have put in new maga- zine looms, and they are trying to , stam wee ots o aA the Communints had cr 9 deville habit of in wheté’ they. did not belong -_ “tooling” ‘the’ workers. Why the pe Ge persisted in| lecting Wangerin, Mahoney does not ay, tho he sincerely believes they are not revolutionists: To add to Mahoney’s mental anguish Wangerin ‘introduced a resolution condemning he so-called “unity conference” called yy the reactionaries for the purpose of liquidating the federation as a labor volitical party and making it respect- ible in the bourgeois sense, The reso- tution caused so much discussion that no action was taken on it until the next meeting. Mahoney as Red Balter. The DAILY WORKER 1s getting under Mr. Mahoney’s political hide. In the current issue of his paper, a leading story on the front page is taken up with an attack on Wangerin, the Communist secretary of the Ram- sey county division of the farmer-labor federation; the fake unity manifesto is an anti-Communist document, an editorial is devoted to attacking the Workers (Communist) Party, and a signed statement by Mahoney replies to a recent article in the DAILY WORKER by Earl R. Browder, en- titled, “Mahoney—Agent of Minnesota Bankers.” Comrade Browder’s article is reproducecd in six point.type. It is an effective scorching of Mahoney's position. and the only reason Mahoney published it in his paper is to prove to the capitalists that the Communists eave him on their “no-so0s" list. Attorney General. - Seeks $50,000° from Illinois Legislature SPRINGFIELD, I, Feb, 9—Watch dogs of the state treasury came back ‘to Springfield today to. make a stand in the Illinois legislature Tuesday, against unqualified apprepriation of $50,000 “to run Oscar Caristrom’s office until July 1.” a The attorney general says the sum is needed for the period ending July 1, 1925, ; ~ Charge Against Workers Falls. BARCELONA.—A re-check of the accounts of the telephone company | here today showed that the charge of embezzlement of five million pese- tas against employes .was incorrect, the company announced, The em- ployes who were arrested have been 1 long in the | w rey | ‘instead of 9-size. released. 4 force the weavers to run twice as any looms as before, speeding up nd human endurance. ‘ eid » ividends in the 1915-1920 and bwittéred its stock to three times the ihvestment—is not satisfied in reduc- bing ‘your pay 10 per cent. They are now preparing to put im the. 72-loom }8ystem. One weaver is to take charge not of 16 or 32 looms, but 72! Double Work For Less Pay. “T understand furthermore that the Pacific Mills here have begun to force the spinners to take 18-size spindles All of this means that they are determined to get, not merely the same amount of produc- tion for less pay, but double the amount of production for less pay. What “Going Slowly” Means. “Now, what are you going to do about it? There have been some plans offered. Mr. Wm. T. McMahon, pres- ident of the United Textile Workers, is said to have made proposals as to what to do about it. I hope I don’t do him an injustice, but he is qhoted as proposing an appeal to the United States senate, to the general court of Massachusetts and to the so-called ‘clvic bodies’ of business men and church ladies. The policy is also at- tributed to him of ‘going slowly’ about this matter. Going Slowly Means Going to Defeat. “What does that ‘going slowly’ mean? I'll tell you what looks bad about it. You know there is a popu- lar belief that in the textile industry if a strike is put off thru January and February, and then March, after that there is no strike. I don’t know what there may be in the theory, but it is the belief of this country based on its past experience. Then what does this advice to ‘go slowly’ in February with wages already cut—-what does this advice mean? It sounds as tho Mr. McMahon does not want any re- sistence to be. made to the cuts. Whose friend is he? Is he organiz- ing ‘civic bodies’ of church ladies to attend to your affairs? Why is there no organization—rapid organization of textile workers going on? The church ladies are too busy spending the divi- dends of their husbands’ textile stocks. You will have to depend on yourselves. “You will have to depend on your- selves in organizing yourselves. in this crisis you cannot afford to make any concessions to the petty. ambi- tions—or worse-——of this or that labor leader who has a job as head of some | one of the dozen varieties of labor un- ions which claim to be the whole show but which have only a fragment of organization—and in this city no’ organization whatever. It igh ty in Lawrence it will be ; Dive I don’t want Teinne and to attack any labor union, I don’t take | (Continued on page 2) increaged two per cent. Se ITALIAN FASCIST COUNCIL TAKES UP QUESTION OF WORLD ALLIANCE ROME, Feb: 10.—The' fascist council will discuss a proposal this week tor an international alliance of fascists, it was announced: today. : . REE RUARY 11, 1925 a” Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKHR PUBLISHING C©O., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, UL Price 3 Cents EFAKERS. , 4c j poets des Council igan Defense the Daily Worker) + (By Mail)—The sil was packed last it by the reactionaries ning of the fight to nists from the coun- om two locals; Team- umbers 32, that had with the central EAT PAC SEAT Central Wednesd in the grar expel the Com cil. De e sters 174, not been body for | rs were lined up during the w and when they ap- peared to tak@ the pledge on Wednes- day night tf © fakers applauded vigor. ously. ei Several — fumns of the Seattle Union Ree re devoted to the at- tack on the 4 Fommunists. It appéars that E. B. itor of the privately owned sgeG@iabor sheet has made a better job 9 going over to the enemy than Big prototype, Robly D. Cramer of MilMeapolis. The Seattle Record ig n@ Tonger owned by the Central Labor Mnion. It is owned’ by a profit m concern, the central body selling = endorsement for $15,000. Th A the extent of the Record’s labor character. The leadersmip in the attack on the Communiste WS taken by the react- fonary Bulidimg Trades Council, which met the pr week and arranged to bring the Plumbers and teamsters back to the < al body in order to expel the Communists. But ‘it will take more tham one night to do that job. pers Bible The motio pel the Communists was made by WN. Belanger, business representative) @f Steamfitters Local 473, and a ar of the executive council | s State Federation of Labor. radicals demanded ’ this action a. Wa, ra m of the Américan Federation of Labor, which: ahves central bodies power to oust any delegate against whom written,charges are preferred by three membérs, but provides that a trial be givem:the accused member. According t@* the Seattle Union Record, which seems to be on the inside of the conspiracy, the faction that leg. the fight against the Com- munists at the» last meeting of the council, were busily engaged Thurs- day morning following, preparing writ- ten chargesagainst half a dozen of the Communist members of the coun- cil. - It is rather significant that William J. Tracey, secretary-treasurer of the building tradea department of the American Federation of Labor and John Coefield, president of the Plumb- ers and Steamfitters§ International Union, are here on their way to San Francisco. Metal Trades Fight Gag Law The Seattle Labor Record, publish-: ed interviews with several labor fakers who are opposed to any kind of radicalism but did not publish a line from any delegates who support- ed the Communists. The M. T. Coun- ceil, passed a resolution condemning the criminal syndicalism laws and urging the Central Labor Counc’! to protest the action of the Michigan state supreme court and pledge sup- port to Michigan victjms of criminal syndicalism laws. There were thirty new delegates rushed in at the last meeting take part in the attack on the Comma&nists. They were from the plumVPer: and | steamfitters; teamsters, taxi set garbage wagon drivers; card and league; molders and pressmen. actionary “majority.” T CHARGE WARDEN SOLD SOFT BERTHS TO RICH ~ CONVICTS IH ATLANTA (Special to The Daily Worker) ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 9.—Trial of A. E. Sartain, former warden and-” L. J. Fletcher, former assistant warden, at the United States prison here, were ordered today by Judge . Irwin after he had listened to a lengthy argument by attorneys for the defense, who had demanded a continuance. Sartain and Fletcher are being tried under indictment charging they solicited and accepted bribes from prisoners in return for soft berths. COAL BARONS ORGANIZE SCAB UNION IN W. VA. Treason ‘and Reaction Wrecks U. M. W. of A. | (Special to The Daily Worker) CHARLESTOWN, W. Va., Feb. 9.— While John L. Lewis and his reaction- ary machine were engaged in wagiftg war on the radicals in the United Mine Workers of America, the coal operators were busy destroying the union In West Virginia. Today, noth- ing is left éf the union but a skeleton of’ its former self in this stronghold of open shoppers and black reaction. Coincident with the announcement that Wall Street was putting thru a $100,000,000 coal merger in the Fair- mont-Clarksburg-Morgantown district, came the news that a fake labor un- ion under the name of the “Mine Workers’ Association of West Vir- ginia” had taken out a charter at the office of secretary of state. The pres!- dent of this scab union is Thomas Cairns, a former president of Disirict The Labor Lieutenant. prisenhy Cairns is the labor lieu- -. Ce Ln a, mt of the coal operators, He has Peat nounced ciation was to “preserve the,coal in- dustry of the state from destruction” and the incorporation would show good faith and convince operators that when negotiating wage contracts the association “would be responsible for faithful performance of contractors.” This stoolpigeon, in a public state- ment, undoubtedly written by the at- torney for the coal operators, say: “It has been established in the courts and elsewhere that there has been a con- spiracy to cripple production of the foal mines in West Virginia” and tells of the tent colonies all over the state where the striking miners and their children are huddled in cold and hunger. These gallant unionists have battled for years against the most bloodthirsty and heartless group of ex- ploiters in the United States. Yet Lewis and company instead of assist- ing them have spent thousands of dol- (Continued on page 6) Two Probes Into Train Wreck That Took Six Lives KANSAS CITY, Kan., Feb. 9.—With one investigation baffled, two others got under way today to seek the cause of the wreck of Missouri Pacific pas- senger train No. 104, which side- swiped a freight near Neagrman, Kan- sas, late Saturday with the loss of six lives. The death of Kenneth Bunker, soldier, at Fort Leavenworth, bel is | ig about the composition of the ‘e-| vin Wodell | schedule speed. Sunday, made the sixth death. | The i5 injured were improving to- | day. An unofficial inquiry by the railroad failed to find any cause for the wreck, reporting the road and equipment in good condition and that engineer Mar- was runping within his PHILADELPHIA CEMENT WORKERS, LOCAL 592, DENOUNCE CRIMINAL SYNDICALIST LAW, MICHIGAN CASES - (Special to The Daily Worker) *PHILADELPHIA, Pa., their regular meeting, with about 400 a resolution protesting against the criminal syndicalist E. Ruthenberg, secretary of the Workers Party, under which C. guilty of “assembling with” period of from 3 to 10 years. Members of the Trade Union Educational League who introduced the “Minor, 28 other men and women¢ resolution pointed out that Robert Feb. 9.—Cement Finishers’ the Communists and sentenced to prison for a Local No. 592, at unanimorsly passed law in Michigan was found members present, x ike cbiact OERS naa. P came an official partner in the per cent of the revenues receive sentatives. ultimate purpose of the agreem and agreed upon a protocol to c meeting was hedged about with considerable secrecy, only a few days ago that press dispatches from abroad told of it. Knowledge that the agreement was changed after its adoption, and after the official text,had been given world- wide publication, served to increase the suspicion with which the senate irreconcilables viewed the whote transaction. The state department’s oxplanation of the changes as “incidental” and “unimportant” was calculated today to allay this suzpicion and forestall any further outbreak in the senate such as occurred some days ago. insertion of a clause stating that Amer ica should get its 2% per cent “after the deductions of sums allotted for other treaty charges by this agree- ment.” This change had the effect today of further convincing the irreconcilable senators like Johnson, republican, of California, that the Paris agreement really is “a treaty” and consequently should be submitted to the senate for ratification. Secretary Hughes has contended that the agreement was not a “treaty,” and thus was of mo toncern to the senate. DUBUQUE, IOWA, |= WILL SEE SOME REAL BOLSHEVIKS DUBUQUE, Io., Feb. 9.—This town gives the impression of being old, many of the buildings having the ap pearance of age and neglect. There are also quite a large number of big factories that make it look like a bee hive, and the reports given by the workers as to conditions makes the impression More realistic, the droves wax fat at the expense of sweated workers. The visitor is greeted with a large sign board at the railroad depot sta- ting the population is 42,181; factories 120; wholesale houses 40: churches 33; academics 4; colleges 3; univers- ities 1; seminaries 1; parks 8; and, railroads 4. Upon another sign board they ad- vertise that between 1910 and 1920 wage workers in their factories in- creased 18.3 per cent and production 133.0 per cent. This shows the pros pective factory site seeker that Dubu- kue wage slaves are speeded up over one hundred per cent. The city is estimated to be 50 per cent Roman catholic, about 15 per cent are foreign born, and up until the past few months the kluxers had a strong organization. A counter move- ment was started acainst the kluxers through a paper called “Tolerance,” which promised to publish the names of cvery kluxer in town. They pub lished about 50, the first week, then dropped to 10 and then only 3 and Even a Wobbly in K. K. K. The result of these names being publistied in a catholic community started a boycott. Every little “hero” that had promised to save his country for Billy Sunday and the holders of white slaves, against the jesuits, black slave, foreign devils or reds, came out of his hole and hollered in large type that he was not and never had been a kluxer. number of the union members, creat- ing a bitter factionalism that has com and least one wobbly have joined the kiuxers. William Z. Foster, William F. (Continued on Poge 4.) active in the Jabor movement, are about to be tried under this law, and unless the labor movement takes de- finite steps to»combat this law and come to the defense of the Michigan cases, a preceddnt will be set, after which any militant labor leader can be railroaded to prison for actively participating in cthe interests of the workers, ‘CLAIM “RED” RUSSIANS MAN AN ARMORED TRAIN FOR SUN YAT SEN... PEKING, Feb. 10.—Consular reports from Canton today stated that Sun Yat Sen's troops are being assisted against Chen Chiung Ming's forces |of a fire which destroyed the family by an armered train consisting of a locomotive and two cars manned entirely |home. The parents had left the ebilds by “red” Rupsiane. now the paper has ceased publication. The kitfxers have roped in quite a | pletely demoralized the miovement. A | \few of the old-time socialists ati DUBLIN WASHINGTON CONFESSES PARIS PACT BRAWING U.S. INTD DAWES ‘PLAN CHANGED AFTER SIGNING (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Official admission was made by the state department today that certain textual changes were made in the Paris agreement, under which the United States be- Dawes plan in exchange for 21/4, d, some days after it was origin- ally signed at Paris by Ambassador Kellogg and ad allied repre- These changes, however, were of “little consequence,” it was said at the department, and changed neither the context nor the ent. After the agreement was signed, the state department ex~ plained, it was found that certain “obvious errors” were con- tained in the language, whereupon the delegates re-assembled orrect these errors. The second TRACTION GANG COLLECTS HUGE SUM FROM CITY Barons Sit Pretty As Children Lack Schools (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Licking their chops in happy contentment after hav- ing collected $690,362 from the city for One of the changes made was the, alleged failure to dig a few shovelfulr of dirt in the B.M. T. subway near Brodway in alleged fulfillment of con- tract, the failure causing a delay of eighteen months of profit scooping, the traction barons are now eyeing a still bigger gold nugget in the lap of the city valued at a bit in excess of $30,000,000¢ Easier Way to Get Shekels. The traction interests have played long and successfully at the game of collecting nickels from the workers who must use the miserable cattle cars going to and coming from work, but while this game has netted the | Rese millions of dollars every ther@ appears to be @ still oas- ier way to rake in the shekels. Being in possession of the city government it is rather easy to have said govern- ment make contracts with the barons and also fail to fulfil said contracts, whereupon the barons sue and collect. Digrified judges sit high above the common -herd and grant anything the bosses ask for. Much satisfaction was expressed by the counsel, J. W. Hilly, who repre sented the city in the first suit over the fact that the Broadway fumble occur- red during the administration of Mayor Mitchell. So it was not the fault of the present Palm Beaching mayor. That should be balm enough for any heart that might feel sore be- cause of the seven hundred thousand dollar steal, a matter so small that it, will not pay for more than a couple of) sprees of one of the dudes in the tran} sit company’s family. It would be cruel and crude to point out that the pending suit for $30,000,- 000 is on the basis of contract breach, under Mayor Hylan. How can Hilly; get comfort out of that? But maybe the traction gang can. In the meantime 170 school children have gone on strike against being transferred to P. S. No. 5, an anti- qguated building at Webster avenue and 188th street, the Bronx. Investigate the Chiidren. These impudent school lads an& lassies got it into their heads that if the city can pay over to the traction companies these mililons of dollars it lcan also make provision for a dec school house. There may be som Bolshevik_kids in the case at hand, who have heard that the children and not the robbers get the first chance in the workers’ republic of Russia and are demanding for the children of America a more civilized treatment. The authorities are investigating ihe school children—net the traction thieves. Ship Sinks; Drowning 17. LONDON, Feb. 9.—Seventeen per- sons were drowned when the steamer Kilidini sank, Lloyds received word today. Information of the Bombay, but the given. sinking reached location was not ——————— | Fever in Famine District. A mild fever developed |today among sufferers in the famine | dist ‘ricts The fever has been term- “flu.” but physicians in the west of Ireland said it was due to malnu- ae ed hildren Die in Fire Mich., Feb. 9.—Dewey, 4, ) and Mi ible, children of Mr. and Mrs. , Oman Waters, are dead today, victims ren alone in the hame, a ~ ee
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"Wis + * 4 q oe - Bas 2 é “ 2 a3 a 7, i. ‘ % + 3; ae. a d He ™ ite Go a No et ie 4 x 7 cs > tad: reer =a sz .S ce x A . the workers of Cleveland are deeply ‘are their ploitical opinions and their Page Two a = « . q ié Na 4 VANZETTI MEET Labor Unions Unite with W. P. in Protest OLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 9. — That interested in securing freedom for their fellow workers, Sacco and Van- zetti, is demonstrated by the response to the call issued by the Workers Par- ty of Cleveland far a great mass meet- ing and demonstration for the release of Sacco and Vanzetti, and against all persecutions of workers. This meeting will be held on Sun- day evening, March 1, in the En- gineers’ Auditorium, Ontario and St. Clair Aves., and preparations are be- ing made for a packed house. Many Unions Respond. The labor organizations of Cleve- land have been circularized with an invitation to a united front confer- ence February 13 in the Labor Temple, 2586 Buclid Ave., to further the ar- rangements for this great demonstra- tion of working class solidarity, and already many unions have been heard from favorably. All working class or- ganizations are urged to send dele- gates to this conference, and every militant must be on the job to see that his organization supports this meet- ing to the fullest extent. The following resolution was adopt- edt unanimously by Local No. 195, Auto Workers’ Union: “WHERDBAS, the real reasons for the persecution of these workingmen activity in the labor movement, and therefore their conviction and contin- ued imprisonment are in violation of freedom of thought and expression, and the right of organization, upon which the organized labor movement is based, therefore be it “RESOLVED, that we demand the release of Sacco and Vanzetti and con- demn the perversion of justice by the courts as exhibited in this case, and be it further “RESOLVED, that this resolution be re ee = ee - VEL AND WIL |P/TTSBURGH MACHINIST LODGE CONDEMNS C. P. P. A. AND BACKS WORKERS PARTY UNITED FRONT 5 “eect ee — ——— = as, z J : ? (Special to The Both of these are the pet schemes machinists have repudiated his “B. & PITTSBURGH. Pa., Feb. 9-—Pittsburgh machinists are not only against Bill Johnston’s co-operation with the bosses on the railroad and in the in- dustries, but are showing signs of knowledge that his unity with the bosses politically is just as dangerous to the workers. The medium of this political unity is the conference for progressive political action. Daily Worker) of Bill Johnston altho the Pittsburgh O. Plan” but they had not until now and that it is more dange because it is a way to fool the workers. But the T. U. E. L. has been busy expos- ing the capitalist nature of the C. P. P. A. Adopted by Westhouse Lodge. This was brought to the attention of the machinists in this district by the following resolution which was adopted at the Westhouse lodge, where delegates were instructed to bring it into the district council. When the resolution came to the vote in the district council, thé vote was tie and it took the chairman of the council to cast the deciding vote against the resolution. Resolution on the Conference for Pro- | gressive Political Action. Whereas, the conference for pro- gressive political action (C. P. P. A.) will hold a conference in Chicago on February 25, 1925. Whereas, the C. P. P. A. is part of the LaFollette movement which is not a labor movement, but a combination of so-called liberal capitalist politi- cians, bankrupt socialists, and reac- tionary union officials, and includes prominent “open shoppers,” and Whereas, the purpose of the C. P. P. A. is not to organize the workers and poor farmers for active political struggle against their exploiters, but on the contrary to subject the exploit- ed masses to the leadership of small capitalists and professional politi- cians, and Whereas, the C. P. P. A. is organ- ized on a basis of representation which secures it from rank and file influence and insures its complete domination by the class collaboration- ist officials, and Whereas, the most burning need of given the widest publicity.” learned the danger in the, C. P. P. A..@— unify all forces of labor for a real struggle against wage cuts, against child labor, against the jailing and persecution of working class militants and for the defense of the foreign born workers, and Whereas, the policies of the C. P. P. A. can have no other effect than to raise illusions in the minds of the workers, thereby distracting the at- tention of labor from its real needs and weakening its fighting power, and Whereas, the Workers (Communist) Party of America, the T. U. BE. L. and other labor bodies are carrying on an agitation for a united front of labor and the poor farmers for an organ- ized political struggle against the of- fensive of our enemies, the capital- ists, and their government, Therefore, Be It Resolved, That we are opposed to the C. P. P. A. and will carry on a struggle against the attempt of their organization to im- pose upon us their policies of class collaboration on the political field which can only serve the interests of the bosses, and That we refuse to participate in any of the conferences of the C. P. P. A. and call upon every labor or- ganization to do likewise. That we endorse the United Front Campaign of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party and pledge our support in the struggle against wage cuts, against child labor exploitation, against the criminal syndicalist laws, for the defense of the working class militants in the Michigan cases, and for every other measure that will strengthen the forces of labor against the capitalists, and be it further” Resolved, That copies of this reso- lution be sent to the international offi- the working masses at present is to cials, and to the labor press. ONE FRONT AGAINST WAGE CUTS (Continued from page 1) sides against any of these little un- ions: But I tell you they have got to get together now in this crisis and cut out this division which is bring- ing you te ruin. You rank and file workers have got to forcé these vari- ous textile unions to amalgamate now, quickly, and you have got to get a single industrial union of all the tex- tile workers without exception or dis- crimination. Majority Have No Union. “And these existing little organiza- tions can’t hog it all, either, and pre- tend that they now represent the workers. The truth is that the vast majority are not organized at all. They won’t be organized unless you take it on yourselves to do it thru your united front committee. “These mill owners claim that they have to reduce your pay to ‘meget the competition of the southern mills’ where they say that wages are 26 to 30 per cent lower than in New HEng- land ‘because there has never been any labor organization in the southern milis.’, “Then, by God, it’s time for you to put some labor unionism into the south. Again, you can’t have any ef- fect on the south unless you have one, single, huge textile union covering the whole country. And that’s anoth- er reason why you have to force these little unions to merge into one huge organization and draw the unorganiz- ed majority into it. Otherwise there will be no labor unions north or south, and soon they'll be reducing the south- ern wages, and then yours again. “But then they they have to meet foreign compefition. By their hideous Dawes’ plan, they reduce the German workers to starved beggars working in rags, and then they say they have to reduce you toward the same standard to ‘meet the competi- tion.’ “What is the lesson of that? Simply say that you've got to extend your organ- | ‘ization, not only thruout all New Eng- tlamd, and not only thruout Alabama. |Georgia, the Carolinas and the whole country—pbut also thru tries of the world, internationally. “Now I'll tell you that something has already been done in this line. The Red International of Labor Unions is ut all the coun- already organized. The more advanc- ed workers of France, Italy, Germany, Poland, England, the United States and Russia, in this Labor Union In- » * ' . . ternational, are bringing the unions of | conditions. the whole world into a solid block, a united solidarity for resistance on a world scale against this huge attempt to crush the workers into worse worse slavery. “T advise you workers to rely on and yourselves—build up and support your united front rank and file committee. Organize yourselves rapidly, and tell the mill bosses to go to hell with their wage cuts.” French and Italian Speakers Gust Lescarbeault, a French-Canad- jan mill worker, made an impassioned appeal in French for the textile work- fers to organize and resist the wage cut, and to spread their organization to the other mill towns. He was followed by Joseph Salerno, famous in this district for his militant leadership of the textile workers in the past big strike battles, who spoke in Italian. He insisted on solidarity, and he didn’t hesitate to speak plain- ly of a strike. The audience, largely of [talian workers as becomes this dis- trict, wildly applauded him. Samuel Bramhall, a carpenter pro- minent for many years in the Law- rence labor movement, was chairman. John J. Ballam, district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, made an appeal for concrete organiza- tional steps, and introduced the follow- ing resolution, which was passed un- animously: Resolution of Lawrence Textile Workers, Mass Meeting Feb. 6, 1925 The textile workers of New Eng- land are now facing a concerted drive on the part of the mill owners to re- duce wages; The Everett mills, Pacific mills, the Acadia mills and the Lawrence Duck mill have already made wage ts averaging from 10 per cent to 22 per cent; Speeding-up systems, in which Oper- ators are required to run from 26 to 72 looms have been instituted; In Manchester, Fall River, New Bed- ford, and in the Blackstone and Paw- tuxet valleys the mill owners have slashed wages; sg Wage cuts, longer hours, speeding 'up!—that is the message of the textile | bosses united in the National Associa- ‘tion of Cotton Manufacturers. Some of i the companies that make this an- nouncement paid up to 262 per cent dividends in the period of 1915-20, on watered stock; . In answer to this challenge of the textile millionaires, thousands of tex- tile workers are on strike; The bosses are united in their drive to reduce the textile workers to slave The textile workers are |divided into many unions, and none of these is strong enough, to say nothing jot of the great majority who are un- organized and who must be organized. | In view of the above conditions, we, ithe textile workers of Lawrence, in Chicago, Please Help NOW! Fifty thousand letters to be mailed out from 19 South Lincoln St. (phone Seeley 3563) for the Labor Defense Council. Help us fight the reaction in Michigan! Volunteer! Contribute your services, at least. Pad ; mass meeting assembled in the Win- ter Garden this 6th day of February, 1926, do resolve: 1—That we will resist all wage cuts and speeding-up systems and call upon our brothers and sisters to organize and fight the wage cuts and speeding-up systems. 2—That we will work for amalga- mating all existing unions into one industrial union of all textile work- ers. 3—That we pledge ourselves to assist our striking fellow-workers and to join them in the struggle against the textile millionaires. The Workers (Communist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League, which initiated the present united front movement and which took the lead in bringing about the demonstration in Lawrence, is work- ing tooth and nail to establish similar committees with other workers’ organ- izations and groups in all mill towns of New England, and to hold similar demonstrations everywhere. Much success has already been had. The united front committee in Prov- idence, R. I. arranged meetings for Middlesboro, Mass., Sunday, Feb. 8, and for Providence Sunday, Feb. 15, among others. That tite campaign in the Pawtuxet Valley, Blackstone Val- ley, Fall River and New Bedford will soon begin to show results, is the belief of the Proyidence committee. TWO DEAD, SCORE INJURED IN N. Y; SUBWAY CRASH Blame Fog When Three Trains Come Together NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Two persons were killed, a score injured and hun- dreds of children and adults trampled when panic followed a triple rear-end collision of three crowded, seven-car subway trains today. The collision resulted from the heavy fog, obscur- ,}ing the tracks, which run above the | surface at the point of the collision. The crash was the most serious of several resulting from the fog. Struggling, fighting passengers striv- \ing to leave the wrecked trains con- | tributed to a panic that menaced oth- | er lives. Three ambulances were sent to the scene, with police and firemen reserv- | es to aid in getting the injured from | the smashed cars. Nine Hurt in Brooklyn. Nine persons were hurt when two elevated trains went together in Brooklyn. Four other persons were injured when a subway train and an elevated train met in Long Island city. A dozep trans-Atlantic liners were held up at quarantine because they could not negotiate the Narrows. | | ) Give Million For Embassy WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—A bill ap- propriating $1,200,000 for a new Amer- ican embassy building at Tokio was CONTINUE FIGHT THE DAILY, COTTON STRIKE : . - 5. ILL Bosses F omenting Race Feeling Among Workers By ROBERT MINOR. (Special to The Daily Werker) PAWTUCKET, R. L, Feb. 9— A mass meeting of strikers of the Green- halgh Cotton mills here yesterday, de- cided unanimously to continue the strike begun a week ago against the wage cut and to begin picketing the mills this morning when the company attempted to reopen. The picket line was on duty before daylight today and no worker or scab entered the gates. The strikers held another mass meeting this morning at Carpenters’ Hall and reported the strike one hundred per cent solid. Not- withstanding the success here and de- spite the general nature of the textile struggle thruout New England, Will- iam T. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers yesterday de- clared his policy to be against calling & general textile strike to resist the wage cut but only to “fight at the weakest point.” Workers of the Ninegret Mills here yesterday in a mass meeting at Car- penters’ Hall, were practically unani- mous in expressing their desire to strike against the ten per cent wage cut. McMahon addressed the meeting and persuaded them to take no action. The strike of 250 girls of the Paw- tucket Hosiery Mills now in its fifth week, was reported at a mass meet- ing yesterday to be without a break, the picketing being entirely success- ful. ¢* ¢ * FALL RIVER, Mags., Feb. 9.-—An attempt to precipitate a race riot in the Fall River strike situation was made last night when a fight in the Flint street district apparently incited by provocators, involved a hundred Syrian and Portuguese mill workers. Four men are under arrest. No cause can be found for the disturbance ex- cept that unknown persons started shouting denunciations of Portugese workers in the Syrian working class district of Flint street and similar de- nunciations of Syrian workers. Thru- out this section mill Owners have be- gun systematically offering the jobs of striking Syrians to Portugese and the jobs of striking Portugese to Syr- lans. Syrian workers imported from Lawrence by means of misrepresenta- tions to scab on the atriking French- Canadian and nativerfworkers of the Nemasket Mills at leboro, Mass., have in some in } heen puehad. ed to return to Lawrence after a strik- ers’ committee explained the situation to them. SENATORS SLAM MUSSELMAN PACT Declare Treaty Is Not Good for U, S. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The senate foreign relations committee late today considered the Lausanne treaty with Turkey which has been pigeon-holed for more than a year. The treaty would establish full diplomatic relations with Turkey, broken off during the war. Upon invitation of Senator Borah, republican, of Idaho, chairman, Sen- ator King, democrat, of Utah, appear- ed before the committee in opposition to the treaty, declaring it was “un- fair to the United States.” After more than an hour’s discus- sion, the committee failed to reach an agreement and postponed until Wed- ‘mesday further consideration of the treaty. ree. % Re 3 y “i Washington Sdlons Out for Nice Picking Quizzing Big Trusts WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Two gigan- ic federal investigations, one into the General Electric company’s trust act- ivities, and the other into the tobacco industry, appeared certain this after- noon when the senate began consider- ation of the Norris and Ernst resolu- tions. The investigation were linked when Senator Norris, republican of Nebra- Ska, offered his electric trust resolu- tion as an amendment to the tobacco inquiry proposed by Senator Ernst, republican, of Kentucky. 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th a ratic- judic- stedly omin- stroit, farlan e ap- r two ithout clined he de- an of 1 said idered s was icated s final nation lespite early Lodge ni- xt ‘Hutcheson was still in didies. . has > sae ~ ae wr * ae ‘ * y Big: saan Be, Bidet ke wi ate gti: kt beri: Seeds THE A > - pt ‘ a | 4 , > ae one a » es) —_—_ TRADE | aul BaD Linh Arata. od ee INION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE Page Three UNION MEMBERS EXPELLED BY W.H. HUTCHESON Tried and Tes Union Men Got No Trial The names below are a list of the victims of Czar Hutcheson’s expulsion policy. His lieutenants boast that this ‘is only a beginning. All of these vic- tims are old-time members, many of them were active in the union when They were expelled without a trial. If there is any fight in the member- ship of the carpenters’ union they will resent the. czaristic rule of Hutcheson and demand the immediate reinstatement of the expelled good union men. If not, they had better shut up, saw wood and do just what Hutcheson tells them to do, or else’ they will be next. In Los Angeles, Local No. 158, two business agents, J. W. Walker and Fred Miller, and one trustee, EB. N. Diebler, were expelled along with A. Renner, A. Nelson, A. Abramamson and D. Z. McClure. Sixteen Los Angeles Victims. Th Los Angeles Local No. 1976, the secretary. J. Reiss; the business agent, N. Karpiloff and Members L. Babin and M. Bragin were expelled. In Local 424, A. Super; in Local 1848, Brother Corell, and in Local No. 884, Brothers Castner, H. Jacques and J. Newman were expelled. All without a trial, remember. The Five in Chicago. In Chicago, Local No: 181, five mem- bers were expelled, including Kjaer, A. T. Jacobson, Matt Peterson, Nick Olson and Andrew Westerson. Detroit and Philadelphia. In Detroit Michigan, court issue an injunction against Wm. Reynolds, president of Local 2140, and vice-president of the Detroit district council. In Philadelphia. the business agent of Local No. 8, F. W. Burgess, who is also delegate to the Philadelphia district council, is expelled. And merely for daring to oppose Hutche- son in the recent election. All with- out trial, remember. : Members of the Carpenters’ Union, do you want these men reinstated? If oe hee Peay tee rein- statement? Let us know and we will publish it on this page. LEFT TURNS Now look at the militant painters. You can see they are smart, because And you can’t brush aside this statement because it certainly is true that they add a lot they are well red. of color to the movement. + od + IT’S REMARKABLE, BUT— Everytime the left wing activities are mentioned in the executive offices of the A. F. of L. it just makes Wm. Green. * ae + HERE’S THE REASON— When you order a bundle of this is- sue of the DAILY WORKER contain- ing the T. U. E. L. page, you have a lot of fine paper for wrapping—the trade union fakers. ses ONE OF THESE FINE ELEC- ' TION DAYS— The reactionary electrictians are in for an awful shock when the left wing has the volts. * * . TEMPORARILY— The shoe workers in the east are But they are the sole of the trade union movement there and they will run their industry some day cause they stick to the last. a ” under the bosses’ heels. WHICH REMINDS US— Some trade union leaders must have had training as baseball umpires, be- cause-—— They force the workers to make at least three strikes before they call them out. . . BUT— If you haven’t read the article by Jack Johnstone in the February is- Monthly called “The Pan-American Fig Leaf,” then you don’t know the naked truth under- You had better sue of the Workers’ lying his statements. get it. IT’S CERTAINLY TRUE, THAT— Trade union bureauc-rats the poor cheese who supports them. . * ~ TOOT! TOOT! The railroad workers are one group in the left wing that hasn’t gathered up steam yet, But when they get further cuts, the road. No fare—this is where we _ stop with . WALT CARMON. Niels Hutcheson expelled and had a capitalist feed on wage just watch them rail at their leaders, and become conductors of a militant campaign, to break the power of their misleaders, so they can run WHAT Is WRONG IN COAL ; THE . INING INDUSTRY AND THE WAY OUT FOR THE MINERS union mifiers In the bituminous coal Workers of America, John L. Lewis industry must be “deflated.” problem. spent their lives digging coal. They tionary officials and set forth the industry. with technical but highly interesting By Freeman Thompson and John Watt (There is great unemployment and consequent suffering among the fields. At the conference with the operators’ association held in Jacksonville, Florida, last year when a three-year agreement was signed by the officials of the United Mine agreed with the operators that the He accepted the operators’ scheme of starving out some 200,000 miners. This was his solution of the miners’ Freeman Thompson, president of Sub-district 4, of District 12, state of Illinois, and John J. Watt, secretary, have a different view of the problem. They take issue with this plan of driving out men who have analyze conditions in the coal fields, explode several of the pet theories of the coal operators and the reac- left wing program for the mining The following series of articles contain a wealth of material dealing facts having a vital bearing on the subject as well as a militant program.—Ed. Note.) Article |. An organized movement is now be- ing conducted by the coal operators and organizations that favor the “open shop” drive, to frame the minds of the workers to accept a reduction in wages so that the four competitive districts, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio ands Western Pennsylvania may be able to compete against the non-union dis- tricts south of the Ohio river, who they claim on account of a wage scale that is considerably lower than our wage scale, are able to take the markets that formerly belong to the four competitive states. The Illinois operators, associations of commerce, etc., seem confined to having the miners of Illinois accept a wage reduction and similar moves have been made in other states, but the mine workers are standing firm, knowing that a reduced wage scale is not the remedy and will only put them in a much worse plight than they now are in, as a reduced wage scale would not increase the amount of coal used, nor would it prevent those who are in the non-union districts (who have not the benefit of a union to protect them) from accepting fur- ther reduction in the wages they are now receiving, so in the end of such an experiment the mine workers would be face-to-face with the same problem that they now have. Wages and Coal Prices . responsible for the su rmal mand for coal, neither eet the oe normal demand for Illinois coal be laid to the door of “competing dist- tricts,” to the contrary, the govern- ment in a report issued on January 10th, 1925, explains the reasons for sub-normal demand for Illinois coal and the reasons we believe are logical and food for thought for all mine workers. However, before going into the reasons given by the government for sub-normal demand for Illinois coal, we wish to clear your minds of the operator’s “nightmare” called “cheap Kentucky coal] that is taking our mar- kets away from us.” Many of you we know, believe that the reason you are not employed is due to “cheap Ken- tucky coal” that is flooding Illinois, this however is not altogether the case. “Cheap Kentucky Coal” For your benefit we have made a partial survey of certain points with- in and near to Illinois in regards to non-union competition and the letters we have received from these points speak for themselves and cannot be disputed. We have written to .the other side for this information, the letters all being of similar nature, asking for practically the same _ in- formation, and addressed to the sec- retaries of the various chambers of commerce, therefore we shall quote the letter to these secretaries and their replies thereto, which we ask that you carefully read and study: Springfield,. Illinois, October 30, 1924. Chamber of Commerce, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Dear Sirs: I note in the Chicago Journal of Commerce where consWMerable East- ern Kentucky coal is being used in Cedar Rapids. I am after information concerning this matter. Will you fur- nish me with figures of what it costs to buy coal in Hastern Kentucky and also the freight rates per ton from there to Cedar Rapids, also the figures on Central Illinois coal? I am enclosing a clipping of the Chi- cago Coal Market which will give you an idea of what I am trying to find out in regards to the Cedar Rapids market. You will note that the freight rate from Eastern Kentucky to Chi- cago is $2.16 and coal, Lump $2.75, total per ton $4.91. Central Illinois freight rate is $1.65, coal $2.75, total $4.40. Any other information as to why Kentucky coal is sold in your vicinity will be appreciated. I am, very truly yours, JOHN J. WATT, Secy-Treas. Here is the Reply Addressed to Secretary Watt. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, November 21, 1924. Dear Sir:— Sometime ago you requested us to to furnish information and figures on the cost in Cedar Rapids of Hastern Kentucky and Llimois Central coal. The scale of wages paid to the mine. workers in the state of Illinois is not) We referred this matter to cur traffic department and received the following information: Upon inquiry I find that consider- able coal from Eastern Kentucky is used in Cedar Rapids, and a relatively small amount of Central Illinois coal. The reason given is that Eastern Ken- tucky coal is more efficient, and con- sumers are demanding coal that gives the most heat for the money invested. The attached letter refers to rates from Eastern Kentucky to Chicago as being $2.16, however the correct rate is $3.09 to Chicago. The present rate to Cedar Rapids is $5.15 per ton via the shortest route. This rate is high in comparison to rates to other lowa points, for example, the rate to Water- loo, Marshalltown and Des Moines is $4.53 per ton, and the rate to Mason City is $4.86 per ton. This rate dis- crepancy will be corrected. The price of coal at Cedar Rapids is not uniform at all dealers, but the prevailing prices are: Eastern Kentucky Central Illinois ........... These prices include delivery at all points in the city and placing of coal in consumer’s bins or cellar. You will note that there is a margin of about $2.50 between Eastern Kentucky and Central Illinois coal. Yours respectfully, Chamber of Commerce, Chas. D. Marson, Sec’y. Here is a Reply from St. Paul, Minnesota. “Tn complidice titi Your Yequest of the 15th inst., we take pleasure in giving you below the carload rates on bituminous coal to St. Paul, Minn., from respective. districts. We regret very much that we cannot give you the cost at the mines or the selling price in this vicinity. ee Sir:— Northern Illinois ........ $2.61........ $2.44 Central Illinois ............. + || 2.93 Southern Illinois ........ DU ederecs 3.49 Western Kentucky......... 4.00........ 3.87 Hastern Kentucky ........ 4.86 (Via Certain Routes) Eastern Kentucky ........ 5.40 (Rate prescribed by Interstate Com- merce Commission) Arkansas (Group 9)..... West Virginia ................ there are any further rates which you desire we will gladly furnish same to you upon request. Yours very truly, H. Mueller, Traffic Director. Here Is a Reply from Bloomington, lilinois. December 8, 1924. Dear Sir:— We have your letter of the 6th re- questing information to coal used in Bloomington. We are unable to ad- vise you the amount of coal used in Bloomington but for your information wish to advise the present rate from Springfield, Ulinois is $1.42 per ton and from Lincoln $1.14 per ton. Lump coal from these two points selis at an average of $6.00 per ton. The rate from Eastern Kentucky points is $3.19 to $3.34 per ton and from Virginia fields $3.34 to 3.41 per ton. This coal sells from $7.50 to $8.00. In this connection we might state that the Bloomington association of commerce has filed with the Illinois commerce commission a complaint against the present rates from Spring- field and Lincoln and this case is being heard at the present time in Chicago. We no doubt will be gran- ted some reduction and at the present time we are unable to state just what rate will be granted. Yours very truly, Bloomington Association of Com- merce, E. L. Henninger, Mer. Traffic Bureau. And Here is a Reply Received from Decatur, Illinois. January 9th, 1925. Dear Sir:— As near as we can determine there are in the neighborhood of 35,000 tons of Kentucky coal consumed annually at Decatur, about one-half of this quantity going to foundries and gas plants, the balance being utilized in domestic consumption. As far as I can determine the price of Eastern Kentucky coal, which is used here, ranges from $2.75 to $3.25 per ton and the freight rate is from $3.19 to $3.34 per ton. The price at the mine in Spring- field field, I am informed ranges from $2.75 to $3.25 per ton and the freight rate from Lincoln and Springfield is $1.10. So far as I can find the mine lat Niantic is down and the move- ment from le and Taylorville is negligible. ere appears to be a material increase in the use of Ken- tucky coal hére and I am advised that Kentucky has almost entirely sup- planted Southern Illinois coal in this market. However, as a matter of in- formation, this situation may be somewhat affected by the fact that fuel ofl is becoming quite a factor for domestic use. I trust that the infor- mation herein outlined, which covers the situation in a general way, is of value to you, . Yours very truly, M. J. Brion, Mgr. Traffic Bureau. Here is Another Letter from Decatur, Iilinois. January 15, 1925. Dear Sir:— Referring to your letter of January 12, | am informed that the selling price of Eastern Kentucky coal at Decatur ranges from $7.00 to $9.00 per ton and Illinois coal from $5.25 to $6.25 per ton. Yours very truly, M. J. Brion, Mgr., Traffic Bureau. The Riddle In view of the prices people are willing or are forced to pay for this “CHEAP KENTUCKY COAL” the riddle is how much of a wage reduc- tion must we miners in Illinois take to force them to buy [Iliinois coal, when scab coal is selling from $2.00 to $3.75 a ton higher than Illinois coal. Before answering this problem, remember that the solid price the miner receives for a ton of coal is $1.08 and from that amount he must take out all expenses incured in the mining of that coal. At any rate the price you are re- ceiving, (this awful war time wage that the operators keep yelling about) would not cover the difference if you gave it all back to him and some on top of that. So much for this “cheap” Kentucky competition. Now let’s an- alize the reasons given by the gov- ernment for SUB-NORMAL DEMAND FOR ILLINOIS COAL. The report reads in part thus: illinois January 10, 1925. Market Conditions—General. “The weather continues to be and will probably»remain for the next three months«the chief determining’ factor of work time in all indepen- dent mines im illinois. Sub-normal demand for steam coal by industries, heretofore served ex- clusively by thinois mines has been quite notable-throughout 1924. This condition is explained, or at least totally, by ‘Business to compet- ing districts, “To the contfary, close investigation @evelops the following facts: A. Subnormial industrial activity. B. Extensive and growing econ- omics in coal use. Cc. Some substitution © of fuels. ; D. Very wnfixed increase in the use, by smaller industrial plants, of purchased power from public utility companies, and finally — E. The rapid growth of captive and industrial output of mines. The above facts sifbmitted in this government report cannot be contra- dicted as contributing to the sub- normal demand for coal, each fact given is a story in itself, but should be defined briefly in order to show the effect it is having on the sub- normal coal consumption in Illinois. Fact (A) Sub-normal Industrial Activity: We see evidence of that in our own state, even in our immediate vicinity, factories and mills closed down or work part time only. Government re- ports shows that in the steel indus- try the recent summer, that furnaces in blast totaled only 144, as compared with 298 the previous year, and that is one industry that uses considerable coal. Shoe factories, textile mills, many closed, some working part time. This is nation wide, only such crafts as the building trades and road build- ing have held their own and they are small users of coal. No one doubts the statement of the govern- ment on “Sub-normal industrial ac- tivity.” Fact (B) Economics in Coal Usage: Experiments in properly firing boil- ers on locomotives and in the indus- trial has tended to economize in the use of coal by industries and also in buildings and apartments more scien- tifical arrangement of the heating ap- other DETROIT F AKERS’ TOOL RUNS AMUCK WITH CHAIR LEG, LOSES APPETITE FOR GORE AT ONCE stupid supporters as common thugs. DETROIT, Feb. 9.—Hutcheson’s henchmen in Detroit have, in the last week. fallen back to the last line of defense, the employment of their more At a meeting of Local 19 last Monday night Andy Frohman, a member of that local with more bulk than courage or sense, made a lying statement to the effect that Reynolds, the expelled member of No. 2140, did not want a trial. To Be Regretted. When the statement was branded as a lie by Reynolds, this yellow cur who weighs 30 pounds more than Reynolds, broke up a chair and with a leg of it attacked Reynolds. He got in one blow with his club and then Reynolds and everyone in reach got to him simultaneously. He got away without any very serious injury, which is to be regretted, and has since shown no disposition to fight Hutche- son’s battles with chair legs. He is entirely unequipped for any other sort of struggle. Many old reactionaries who have not attended meetings for years, some with very good reasons for staying away, are being rounded up by the machine and used to bolster up the autocratic: rule of President Ball of Local Union 19. These old harpies have all at once felt a supreme concern for the union, and take the attitude that any ideas later than 1880 or any militant strug- gle must be fatal to the organization. The fossils and a few lickspittles such as Sharrock and Fish constitute the sole support of the _ stool-pigeon Botteril. The meeting of the district council on Thursday, Feb. 5. was guarded by three cops and watched over by Lawler Carson of Indianapolis, who seems to have taken up permanent residence here. Reynolds was granted the floor by Sharrock, in spite of the injunction, and read an appeal which he is sending to Hutcheson. Rey nolds prefaced the reading of the appeal by branding as malicious lies all those statements that he would not appeal his case. or that he did not want a trial. He stated that the constitution for- bids the circulation of “begging let- ters” and that this appeal instead of being a “begging letter” was an em- phatic demand that the constitution be observed and his rights be restored. No “Democracy” Here. When Brown, of Local 2140, inquired of the chair what steps were required to remove the president from office, the chair, President Sharrock, re- fused to answer. A committee from 1191 instructed by that local to take up the matter of lifting the injunction against Reynoldss was refused the floor in case they wished to speak on “any phase of the Reynolds matter.” In Detroit at present, a majority in every, local union and a majority of the delegates to the district council are behind Reynolds in his fight for reinstatement. In Local Union 1805 and the district council, where the would-be czar, Sharrock, reigns as president, this renegade and tool of reaction blocks the will of the ma- jority by autocratic rulings from which he recognizes no appeal. In Local 19, an old reactionary, President Ball. has consistently de- feated the will of the majority by the same method. He is now under charges and will be up for trial this coming week. All other local unions have gone on record pnanimously, to support Rey- nolds and to repudiate the unconstitu- tional action of the general executive board. League Building . Trades Militants Fight Wage Cut The building trades of Kansas City, Mo., are facing a threatened cut of 12 per cent. The employers feel that due to the ruinous jurisdictional strike be- tween the carpenters and the sheet | metal workers, called last year by Wm. L. Hutcheson, has demoralized the unions so much that they can put it over. The rank and file, however, think differently about it, they are begin- ning to see the need for a united front paratus so as to spread more heat over a larger area with a smaller) amount of coal used. This causes lesser demand for coal. Fact (C) Substitutions for Coal: No one will dispute the fact that electricity and oils are playing a pro- minent part in displacing coal both for transportation, manufacturing and domestic use. Fact Power: Industries and residences and build- ings, and power are now being supplied | with electrical power by public util- | ity companies who have wires spread | all over the state, selling power direct to such places.--This industry is dis- placing the use a coal to a large ex- tent. EDITORS NOTE | Materia! sent in for the T. U. E. L. section not appearing in this page will be printed in tomorrow's issue, (D) Industries Purchasing heretofore using coal for heat of building trades workers as the only }means to stop the ever increasing }encroachment of the contractors. Some of the leaders wanted to talk the proposed cut over with the em- ployers but the rank and file would not allow it. They are accepting the slogan of the T. U. E. Lit... “Strike Against Wage Cuts!” Two Illinois U. M. W. | Locals Give Returns | Late returns in the U. M. W. of A. | national election shows the following: For President. “NOT GUILTY,” BY BLATCHFORD, WANTED BY |. W. W. PRISONER A fellow worker in Walla Walla penitentiary, one of the numerous |. W. W. prisoners, wants a copy of Robert Blatchford’s book, “Not Guil- ty.” Can any reader of the T. U. E. L. section supply this want? The book is out of print as far as we know. If you have a copy, donate it to the cause. Send it in to the T. U. E. L. office, 1113 W. Washing- ton Bivd., Chicago,-Ill., and we will forward it to this victim of the class struggle. A MINER TELLS HOW FARRINGTON STOLE ELECTION Crooked Tellers and Duplicate Ballots By A COAL MINER. Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois miners, each election becomes more expert in stealing the election for himself and his slate. Last year they were satisfied to erase the cross for the left wing candidate and mark in one for the administration candidate, Had Duplicate Ballots. \ This is rather crude, however. So this year Farrington’s henchmen were supplied with a duplicate set of bal- lots and tally sheet, so all they had to do was to agree among themselves how many votes they would allow the progressive candidate, prepare the falsified ballots before election and proceed to change the ballot boxes. Of courses, this necessitated control of the tellers and Farrington, altho most of the miners in the district are opposed to him, controls a sufficient number of locals to steal enough votes to count himself into office. Bare-Faced Stealing A good example of this was exposed in my own local 224, of Lincoln, Tl. The tellers reported that Joe Tumulty, the progressive candidate for district board member, only, received 26 votes as against Joker Young's, Farrington candidate, 185. However, 78 men in the mine where I work signed a peti- tion that they had voted for Tumulty. At the meeting of local 224, Brother Tumulty condemned the fraudulent election. There were not very many present, considering the size of our membership, but when Tumulty asked all those who had voted for him to stand up, 58 of the few present stood up as having voted for him. So you see, comrades, the real fight we have on our hands. But we are getting stronger, more mature. We have licked Farrington in two elections and the next one we will make sure that he cannot count himself in. We, of course, contested the elec- tion and our representatives went over the ballots and found that almost every one had been marked by the same person. The hand writing being the same. a Build the DAILY WORKER! Jensen Uses Slick Trick to Put Over His Scab Agreement UNIONS, BASIS OF NEW ORDER, NEED A PARTY Craft and Industrial Union Limitations By N. LENIN. While capitalism transmits a hert- tage to socialism of century old craft and trade distinctions among the workers, it, at the same time brings out the trade unions within which, in time, can and will develop broader industrial forms embracing, whole in- dustries; and which will abolish all trade and craft distinctions, eventually bridge the gulf between intellectual and manual labor. The workers then become universally educated, trained and equipped to accomplish all their necessary tasks. Communism tends toward and must accomplish this, but thru a long process of development. To go into raptures over this inevitable growth and to expect these industrial unions of themselves to grow into a full fledged and perfect Communist society is as criminally foolish as to expect a four-year-old girl to become a mother. At the best, this is ridiculous and puerile, and at worst, a nasty crime. Realism Needed—Not Fantasy. fe should and must begin to con- struct Communist society, not out of fantastic notions nor from artificially and man-created materials, but from such materials as are at hand and inherited from capitalist society. It is self-evident that this is a difficult task to accomplish, but any other means to achieve this end is pure cir- cumvention and unworthy of serious consideration. The trade unions tn the early period of capitalism. represented a great ad- vance by the working class. during the transition from their helpless and unorganized condition to the begin- nihg of class unity. When a higher form of class unity of the proletariat begins to develop the revolutionary political party of the proletariat would be unworthy of its name if it failed to understand how to connect their leaders with the working class and the masses in one integral whole. It is inevitable that the trade un-_ ions will show reactionary craft narrowness and conservative charac- teristics. . But there can be no other process ef development of the prole- tariat than thru the trade unions and the reciprocal influence of the work- ing class party. : Functions of Communists in Trade Unions. The conquest of political power by the proletariat is a tremendous step forward. The mission of the party is to educate the trade unions to use new tactics instead of old ones to lead them, and at the same time to remember that the unions are and will be for a long time “schools of Gom- munism” and preparatory schools for the realization of the proletarian dictatorship. The unions are necessary to achieve the solidarity of the workers in order to take over the administration of all the industries of the entire country by the working class as a whole and not by the individual trade or iné@us- trial unions. Patient Leadership Required. Even under the proletarian dicta torship some forms of reaction are unavoidable within the trade unions. Not to understand this means not to have the slightest conception of the fundamental conditions obtaining in the transition period from capitalism to Communism. To fear this backwardness of the trade unions, to attempt to circum- vent it, to try to escape, is nonsensi- cal and indicates a lack of-faith in the role which the proletarian vanguard must assume as the instructor, the leader, and the beacon which attracts to the new life the lowest strata and Last year President Hutcheson and Harry Jensen, president of the car- penters’ district council, signed a Landis award “open shop” agreement without consulting the membership It took away the right to strike and abandoned many working conditions vhich were the result of many hard uught victories. Now the carpenters whether or not they compromise wage increase $1.25 to $1.37%4 per hour. skilled trades in Chicago have been receiving for the past year $1.50 per are voting of from hour. This wage increase offered to the carpenters carries a joker with it; to accept the wage increase means that they also accept the Of course, most of the do not know of this subtie maneuver. The T. U. EB. L. is carrying on a propaganda against the the agreement. carrying a story will be sold agreement. on and distributed at the the vote is taken. Red Reve! Masquerade Ball, Ashland Avenue Corner of Monroe and Ashiand Bivd. 37 South Divernon, Iil., O’Falion, Ill., Local 146 Local 3621 John L. Lewis.. 61 3 Geo. Voyzey .... 71 13 For Vice-President. Phil Murray ... 48 Arley Staples .. 73 ll For Secretary-Treasurer. Wm. Green wns 68 6 Joe Nearing ... bo 9 — ae February 28, will accept a} : iderstanding by Most of the | Problems, consists in correctly consid- the backward elements of the masses, the working class and peasantry. To postpone, however, the realiza- tion of the dictatorship of the prole tariat, until the last reactionary trade unionist or workingman relinquishes his craft or trade union bias, would be a profound mistake. The Art of Politics. The art of politics, the proper un- Communists of their ‘ering and discounting the conditions ,and the moment when the proletarian ‘vanguard may | political power; rank and file | successfully conquer to be able to imme- diately obtain sufficient support from the non-proletarian elements of the laboring masses. and afterward to be lable to safeguard and maintain their | ' acceptance of | The DAILY WORKER, | the agreement, | local meetings on the days on which power and to extend it, educating, leading and attracting the whole labor- ing masses. Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER : for 1925! | ;
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(Continued from last issue) Oomrade Lenin explained the mat- ter to Comrade Trotsky: __. “Martov defends the education of ‘ 3 the peasantry (who are carrying on a revelutionary struggle against aristoo- racy) by the liberals (who betrayed the peasantry to the aristocracy). This is nothing else than the substi- tution of liberalism for Marxism, it is nothing more nor less than liberalism disguised in Marxist phrases. . The struggle between menshevism and Bolshevism is indissolubly bound up with this actuality, for it is here the struggle between the support lent to the liberals (on the part of the men- sheviki) and the overthrowal of the hegemony of the liberals over the peasantry (by the Bolsheviki). Thus the attempt to explain away our dis sensions by the influence of the intel- ligenzia, the immaturity ofthe prole tariat, etc., is merely a naive and childish repetition of liberal fairy tales.” We see that “Trotsky came to Lenin” by means of telling the internationa; proletariat liberal fairy tales on Len inism. “A chasm lies between our stand- point and Martov’s standpoint, and this chasm between the views of vari- ous ‘intellectuals’ merely reflects, de- spite Trotsky’s opinions to the con- trary, the chasm which actually ex- fisted in the year 1905, between two classes, that is, between the revolu- tionary fighting proletariat and the treacherous bourgeoisie.” This is what Comrade Trotsky, ac cording to Lenin, did not: comprehend about Bolshevism. But if he did nc* comprehend this, did he comprehend ‘ anything about it at all? “Trotsky distorts Bolshevism, fo he has never been able to form any definite views on the role played by the proletariat in the Russian bour- geois revolution.” Comrade Lenin, after characterizin Trotsky’s whole representation of Br shevism to the uninformed Germa workers as a refined breach of faith,” closed his characterization with the following words: “In 1908, Trotsky was a menshevist. he left the mensheviki in 1904, return- ed to the mensheviki in 1905. brand- ishing ultra-revolutionary phrases the while, and again turned his back up- on the mensheviki in 1906: at the end of 1906 he defended the election al- liance with the cadets (thus actually siding with the mensheviki again), and in the spring of 1907 he declared at the London congress that ‘the dif- ference between him and Rosa Lux- emburg was rather a difference of in- dividual shading than of political ten- dency.’ otsky plagarizes today from nf ideas of one fraction, tomor- row from, those of the other, and thus he regards himself as a being super- ior to both fractions. Theoretically, Trotsky does not agree with the liquid- ators and Otsovists on any single question, but in actual practice he is entirely in agreement with the Golos and Vperjod group (that is, with the supporters of bourgeois influence over the proletariat. L. K.). I must de- clare that Trotsky represents his fraction only,- and enjoys a- certain amount of faith exclusively on the part of the Otsovists and liquidators.’ (Compl. works XI-2, 292, 293, 296, 307 308.) 1912. The year 1912 was a year of chang- es. In January the Bolsheviki broke off the last remains of organizatory connections with the mensheviki, and formed their own purely Bolshevist Central Committee at their own Bo! shevist conference (at Prague). Th: excluded the liquidators from the party and proclaimed a program of; revolutionary action. After the blo. bath on the Lena, a stormy wave o. proletarian movement arose, for th, first time since 1905. This move- ment appropriated the program and tactics of the Bolsheviki in their en- tirety. The “Bolshevist epidemic” (to use the malicious term coined by the mensheviki at the time) began to spread, and presently gained the final victory. The awakening labor move- ment removed the atically from every position they had contrived to gain during the previous sorrowful years of revolution. This was the of the revolutionary attack under ft} slogans of the Bolsheviki, under the leadership of the Bolsheviki—an at- tack which led to barricade fighting in Leningrad as middle of 1914. What was the attitude Comrade Trotsky with reg: decisive events’ Did revolutionary uplift. counter: early as the adopted by ird to these this wave of this strengthen- ing of the labor movement, perhaps induce Comrade Trotsky to abandon the standpoint of an agent of menshe vism, held by him during the prece: ing years of disintegration and decay? Did his ultra-left theory of “permanent revolution’ after lying unused for years in his drawer, perhaps aid him to break the bonds fettering him to counter-revolutionary menshevism? No. Comrade Trotsky remained true to himself and—to the menshe ~‘gt, bauidators. rie replied to the organizatory de- velopment and establishment of the Bolshevist Party by a closer alliance with the mensheviki in their struggle against Bolshevism. It was due to bis endeavors that the so-called “An- gust bloc” came into being: this bloc was the alliance and organizatory mustering of every non-Bolshevist and anti-Bolshevist group and sub-group. “This bloc,” writes Lenin, “is com- posed of lack of principle, hypocrisy and empty phrases. The basis o. this bloc is evident. The liquidators receive full liberty to proceed as bs fore and Comrade Trotsky covers them by the revolutionary phrase, which costs him nothing and binds him to nothing.” (Compl. works, XII- 1, p. 94, April 1912.) On the orders of this bloc Comrade liquidators system- | which | | beginning | 64-PAGE PAMPHLET ON LENINISM OR TROTSKYISM NOW IN PREPARATION This iInstaliment is part of a pam- phiet“Leninism or Trotzkyism” now in preparation. it includes articles by three outstanding figures in the Russian Communist Party: G. Zinoviev, |. Stalin and C. Kamen- ev, to form a most timely and im- portant contributien to a discussion of world interest. The pamphiet will be of 64 pages, selling at 20 cents and will be ready at the con- clusion of this serial publication. Trotsky spread abroad even more slanders than before against the Bol- shevik leaders of the proletarian ad- vance then beginning. Comrade Len- in characterized Trotsky’s writings at that time as “deceiving and mislead- ing the whole working class.” With regard to an article written by Trot- sky for the German workers, Lenin wrote that it represented “such. a copilation of unconsidered self-praise and sententious lies that there can be no dobut but that the liquidatory com- mission to write this article was placed in competent hands.” (Ibid. p. 93.) But perhaps Comrade Trotsky was only in agreement with the enemies of the Bolsheviki as far as the Bol- sheviki organization was concerned, perhaps there was still some differ- ence between him and the mensheviki, the servants of the Hberals, in ques- tions réferring to the tasks, the aims and thé tactics of the rising proletar- ian movement, in questions referring to the tasks, aims and tactics of the new revolution? Let us ask Lenin again: “Trotsky abused the conference in every key, and assured the good peo- ple that ‘the struggle for the right of combination’ was the basis of the events on the Lena and their after- effects that ‘this demand stands and will continue to stand as central point of the revolutionary mobilization of the proletariat.’ Scarcely had a week passed away, and these miserable phrases, ground out of the same ma- chine which supplies the liquidators with their phrases, were blown away like dust.” “It is only the liberal chatterboxes and the liberal labor politicians,” cpn- tinues Lenin, “who are capable of placing the right of combination in ‘the center of the revolutionary mobil- ization.’ Lenin then compares the policy pur- sued by the liquidators and by Com- rade Trotsky with the revolutionary Bolshevist policy of the Petersburg proletariat: “The proletariat of Petersburg,” writes Lenin, “has grasped that the new revolutionary struggle is not to be carried’ on for the sake of one sin- gle right (the right of combination. L. K.), but for the liberty of the whole people. The proletariat of Peters- barg has grasped that the evil must be attacked at its center, at its source, that the whole system of czarist re- actionary Russia must be destroyed. The proletariat of Petersburg has grasped that it is a piece of ridicul- ous stupidity to make this demand for the righf of combination. There is no greater lie than the liberal in- vention, repeated by the liquidators and immediately afterwards by Trot- sky, that the ‘struggle for the right of combination’ lay at the root of the tragedy on the Lena, and of the mighty echoes awakened by this event all over the country.” (Compl. works, XII-l, pp. 183, 185.) The difference is very obvious be- tween the Bolshevist conception of fundamental tasks and that of the mensheviki and Comrade Trotsky. But Lenin explains again and again the counter-revoluttonary trend of Com- rade Trotsky’s conception of these tasks. Trotsky followed Axelrod. He found |himself superior to the “uncultured,” |“barbaric,” “sectarian,” “‘Asiatic” Bol- sheviki in that he, Trotsky, is a “Eu- 'ropean,” and fights “beneath the tac- tical flag of -European social demo- cracy.” But what is the meaning of this | fact confrontation of “Europeanism” and “Buropean tactics” with Bolshevism? [it means one thing only: renunciation of the fulfillment of the immediate revolutionary tasks in the Russia of the czar and the great landowners, and all for the sake of the parliament- ary tactics of the European socialists. “This famous ‘Europeanization,’” writes Lenin, “is being talked about by Dan and Martov, Trotsky and Lev- itsky, and by the other liquidators, in every possible key. It is one of the main rivets securing their opportun- ism. Their opportunism lies im the that the moment which they choose for imparting a ‘European,’ parliamentary propagandist character to the party is precisely the moment when the party is not faced by Europ- ean tasks, but by an immediate strug- gle on the spot. Their idea is thus to avoid the task of revolution, and to substitute revolutionary tactics by par- liamentary tactics.” The little word “Europeanism,” on the lips of the liqiudators and Trotsky | during the period between 1910 and 1914, further supplemented by the lit- | tle word “barbarism” (of the Bolshe- viki), served to conceal the renun- ciation of the revolutionary tasks and revolutionary tactics of the proletar- iat of Russia. Let us read what Lenin wrote in reply to such a “European” article from Comrade Trotsky’s pen: “This is the daydream of an oppor- tunist intellectual who, in the midst of the difficult and non-European con- ditions facing the labér-movement in Russia the legal Svesda, and therefore em- ployed legal terms; here we should eninism or Totaled read: under the condtions imposed by the revolutionary tasks facing the la- bor movement in Russia; L. K.) has worked out an excellent European plan, and because he has done this, boasts of his ‘Européanism’ to the whole world.” (Compl. works., XII-1, pp. 222, 223, July 1924.) These tactics, actudlly implying ap- probation of the transition of the party from the path of revétution to the path of the then peaceful Europ- ean socialists, were proclaimed at the time when the new wave of revolu- tion following the blood bath on the Lena demanded an expressly revolu- tionary leadership. It is possible that someone will submit the question: “How is it possible that the theory of ‘permanent revolution’ did not re- strain Comrade Trotsky from such unrevolutionary tactics? How could he, the representative of this ultra- left theory, lend his support to such anti-revolutionary tactics, side by side with the mensheviki, during the ob- viously revolutionary situation from 1912 to 1914?” But anyone putting this question would only prove that he has not yet comprehended Lenin’s characteriza- tion of Trotskyism: “Right politics disguised in left phraseology.” “Examine the standpoint of the liquidators,” Lenin confinued to ex- plain to the naive in the year of 1913. “The essential character of their liquidatory standpoint is artifically disguised beneath Trotsky’s revolu- tionary phrases. The naive and en- tirely inexperienced are still often de- ceived by this disguise. But the slightest closer examination imme- diately disperses this self deception.” 1914, Then came the year 1914. The rev- olutionary movement in the proletar- iat made rapid strides forward, the waves of the tempest of revolution rose higher and higher. Trotsky’s viewpoint remained unchanged in the questions of the principles of revolu- tion and the tactics of the proletarian movement. Let us read what Lenin wrote about him in the year 1914: Comrade Trotsky has never yet possessed a definite opinion’ on any single earnest Marxian question; he has always crept into the breach made by this or that difference, and has oscillated from one side to an- other.” (Compl. works, XII-2., pp. 536, 537.) “The liquidators. have their own viewpoint-——a liberal and not a Marx- ian one. Everyone familiar with the writings of Dan, Martov, Potressov and Co. knows this viewpoint. But Trotsky has. no viewpoint, never has had one; he has merely transitions and flittings from the liberals to the Marxists and back again, fragments of words and sounding phrases, swing here and there. In reality, Trot- sky’s resounding, confused and empty phrases, so misleaditig to the untrain- ed worker, serve solely for the defense of the liquidators; Trotsky accom- plishes this by preserving silence on the question of illegality (that is, of the revolutionary organization and policy of the working class. L. K.), by endeavoring to convince us that a labor policy does not exist amongst us at all (that is, no endeavor on the part of the mensheviki to subordinate the labor movement to the cadets, etc. L. K.) Comrade Trotsky addresses a special and lengthy sermon to the seven deputies, headed by Tscheidse, instructing them as to the cleverest methods of carrying out the policy of rejection of illegality and of the party.” (Lenin, XII.-2, pp. 410 to 413.) Then came the tempestuous months of the year of 1914. The labor move- ment advanced from political and eco- nomic strikes to armed demonstra- tions, only interrupted by the mobiliz- ation of the army. In July the work- ers of Petersburg were already at the barricades. It was necessary to strike a balance, it was necessary to show to the working class the political cur- rents and tendencies emerging from illegality and from the influence of the refugees from abroad, in order that they might carry on their mo¥emen: further. Lenin wrote a comprehen: sive article and had it published in May, 1914, in the Bolshevist periodi- cal, Prosweschtschenje (Enlighten- ment). Here he drew the balance of the ten years of struggle between Bol- shevism and Trotskyism, the struggle which we have followed in its vari- hus stages: “The old participators in Russia’s Marxist movement know Trotsky’s fig- | ure very well; there is no need to say anything about him to them.’ But the younger generation of workers does not know him, for he represents a c@rtain type. At the time of the old Iskra (1901-1903), people of this typé oscillated between the economists and the Iskra group. “When we speak of the liquidators, we so designate a certain ideological tendency rooted in menshevism and economism. a tendency closely bound up with the policy and ideology of a certain class, the liberal bour- geoisie. “These people ‘explain’ that they are above the fractions, but the sole basis for this assertion is that they take their ideas from one fraction to- day, from another tomorrow. “Trotsky was an open adherent of the Iskra from 1901 till 1903, and Rias- anov named the role played by Trot- sky at the Party Congress in 1903 that | of a ‘Lenin’s cudgel.’ By the end of 1903, Trotsky was an open menshe- vist, he had deserted from the Iskra ito the economists. He proclaimed that ‘a deep chasm yawned between the old and the new Iskra.’ In the years 1904-05 he left the mensheviki and maintained an irresolute attitude: at one time he co-operated with Mar- tinow (an economist), at another time he dished up his left ‘permanent revo- lution’ again. In 1906-07 he approach- ed the Bolsheviki, and in the spring of 1907 he declared himself in full (Lenin wrote this article for | agreement with Rosa Luxemburg. “During the epoch of the decline he turned to the right again after lengthy ‘anti-fractional’ vacillations, eres. and REAL BOLSHEVIKS pms Meeting in Town of 688 Foster Voters re eres (Continued from page 1) One kluxer told the writer that he subscribed for the kluzers paper through the masonic order, and that it was sold to him because it contain- ed news of the fraternity. The ma- sonic order here is fostering the klan under the pretense of, increasing cir- culation for papers with news of the masons. Taking advantage of this demorali- zation of the labor unions the Dubu- que chamber of commerce have im- ported a “union buster” by the name of Ramsay. He has already succeeded n smashing the teamster’s local which was fairly well organized: they were getting $5.00 for 9 hours and truck drivers $28 to $30 per. week. Non- union teamsters were hired for lower wages and union members blacklisted. Two Strikes On The bakers’ and sheet metal work- ers’ locals are-now on strike, the first for a union agreement and the second for an increase from 85 cents to $1.00 per hour. The bakers have lost about 40 per cent of the shops and the metal workers have also lost out on much fof the work. . The carpenters are fairly well or- ganized and receive 97% cents per hour. The plumbers get $1.00 per hour. Ramsay, the “union buster,” to 80 cents per hour, The bricklayers, masons, carpenters, plasterers and plumbers have formed a conference board here, there is no building trades council, and Mr. Ramsay is promised a real scrap when he tackles the job of smashing any of these locals. “Open Shop” Employment Agency. Ramsay has opened up an employ- ment agency where the serfs are bought at from 21 to 35 Gents per hour for work in the sash and door fac- tories. Mechanics on machines get up to 65 cents per hour. Girls are em- ployed to take finished works away from the machines at $12.00 per week. \This work was formerly done by men. Machinists are hired at from 40 to 45 cents. If a slave quits a job no other plant will hire him or her. The employment agency keeps their list up to date, so the serf must stay with one master. Shop Crafts Have Agreement. In the C. M. & Sti’ Paul railroad shops here they now employ about 600, their normal force is apout 1,000. The car shop has about 100 instead of the normal 300 employed. Machinists re- ceive 72 cents, helpers 49 and sweep- ers did have 41 cents; but now are paid 36% cents per hour. Dubuque shop is the only plant working under the new agreement, with a direct schedule of rates with the company. This is net the infamous B. and O. plan, as all grievances are settled thru the local shop crafts feder- ation. The crafts are*now almost 100 per cent’ organized and receive time ind one half for Sundays and over- time. . There are three large factories here producing mill work for houses and other wood work for trimmings. The Brunswick-Balke-Collender company, makers of pictures, pool tables, etc., also have a large plant here, all ‘of them completely non-union. Workers Party Meeting Scheduled. The socialist local here has dis- banded. The LaFollette flasco finished it, altho a few still get together to yperate their hall which is rented to yther organizations. The Workers Party received a large vote for Foster at the November elec- tion, 688 votes being credited to our candidates. In an effort to lo@ate these sym- patizers a mass meeting will be held at Carpenters’ Hall, 9th and Main Sts., on Tuesday evening, February 17th. J. E, Snyder, district organizer, and David Coutts will be the speakers. August 1912, he joined the bloc of the liquidators. Now he leaves them again, but in all essentials he repeats their ideas. “Such types are characteristic of the crumbling away of the historical formations of yesterday, when the mass labor movement in Russia was not fully awakened. “The younger generation of workers must learn to recognize this type of person, who, without concerning him- self about party decisjons or about the experiences won in the pres- ent labor movement in Russia, simply step forward with th® most unheard of claims.” (XII-2, p. 462.) Lenin deemed it necessary to say this to the younger generation of workers on the eve of a fresh advance of the revolutionary movement in the working class; he here drew the bal- ance of the ten years’ struggle carried (on by Bolshevism not only against menshevism, but also against Trot- skyism. It is comprehensible to everyone that when a characterization of this kind is repeated from year to year, and not merely with reference to this or that error, but with reference to the whole course purstied by Comrade Trotsky, it is not doné for any super ficial reason. Comrade Lenin saw in Trotsky the embodiment of a current, of a political tendetitcy, harmful to Bolshevism. For this reason, and for this reason only, Lenin considered it necessary to warn the party against Trotskyism. (To be continued) +. has promised to reduce their wages; —_- —-- Party Activiti es Of Local C ee TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 Irving Park English, 4021 Drake Av. Northwest English, 2733 Hirsch Blv. Rumanian Branch, 2250 Clybourn Ave. Ukrainian No. 1, 1532 W. Chicago Ave. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 Enlarged Red Revel Committee. Delegates from all branches must be present. Meeting will be held in Room 307, 166 W. Washington St., at 8 P. M. Douglas Park Jewish, — W. Roo- sevelt Road. Englewood English, 688 Groveland Park. Czecho-Slovak No. 1, Spravedinost Hall, 1825 S. Loomis St. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 Czecho-Slovak North Berwyn, So- Kols Oak Park, Roosevelt and Scoville. Lithuanian No. 2, 1900 S. Union Ave., Savicke’s Hail. Mid-City English, 722 Blue~Island Ave. 1ith Ward Italian, 2439 8. Oakley Boulevard. Scandinavian Lake View, 3206 N. Wilton St. Scandinavian West Side, Hall, Cicero and Superior. Scandinavian Karl Marx, Hirsch Blvd. Russian, 1902 W. Division St. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Scandinavian So. Chicago, 641 E. 6lst St. Lettish Branch, 4359 Thomas St. A COMMUNIST COMES— PRESTO! PRINTSHOP GIVEN SECOND WIND... A Communist walked into the DAILY WORKER office Monday. Obviously this in itself wasn’t 80 unusual. But can you imagine what this Communist brought with him? Something that’ most Communists, especially those usually walking in and out of offices (namely, the workers) don’t usually carry around loose or otherwise. it was nothing less than a twen- ty dollar bill! And this unusual Communist with the unusual twenty dollar bill parted company—right * in the DAILY’ WORKER office, a most approprane: place, too. The Communist left and twenty dollar bill remained. But, unfortunately, the bill won't stay for long—at least not intact. it will be divided into the following four parts: $8.00 for a year’s sub- scription to the DAILY WORKER; $2.00 for the next twelve Workers Monthly’s; $5.00 for the Labor De- fense fund; and $5.00 to insure the continuance of all three—to make the labor press safe for 1925, So Communists and Communist dollars come and go; but the print shop is kept operating! Zeich’s 2733 the Joe Manley to Speak At English Branch Wednesday, Feb. 11 NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—The down- town English branch of the Workers Party, which meets at 208 East 12th street, will hold its regular educa- tional meeting this Wednesday, Feb. 11. The speaker of the evening will be Joseph Manley, Trade Union Edu- cational League organizer of the east- ern states. Comrade Manley has had wide experience in the trade union field and his talk should prove highly interesting. Visitors are permitted to attend educational meetings. Where Food Is Good And the service is fine. Meet your friends at the Zlotins & Plotkins Restaurant 100 Per Cent Union 29 South Halsted St. The best of food at a moderate price ALL-NA TION PROGRAM STAGED FOR N.Y. DEFENSE BAZAAR —_—E—OoOoOoOoOoOO NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 4—Workers of all nationalities will participate in the joint bazaar of the International Workers’ Aid and the Labor Defense Council at the Lyceum, 86th St. and 3rd-Ave., on February 11, 12, 13 and 14. The sale of tickets indicates that every nationality will be well represented. In the program, too, care has been taken that many nationalities will be represented. The Hungarian orchestral and singing societies will be there in full force. evénts of the season. The Freiheit Singing Society is ment. The Freiheit Singing Society+ The singing society is another Hungarian organization ahd it is promised that they will make the bazaar a high light in the artistic too well known to need any advertise- will make Friday night, February 13, memorable in the annals of drtistic life of New York. some of its best numbers on Thurs- day, February 12. The Finnish gymnastic and choral clubs hardly need an introduction. The Finnish comrades have taken over a whole evening for musical and ath- letic exhibitions. There will be a Fin- Not to mention that the Finnish Juniors will participate in the gymnastic exhibitions. Finnish night, the opening night of the bazaar, 8n Wednesday, February 11, will be nish band, too. one of the finest of the bazaar. The Ukrainian Workers’ workers are capable of. unique be most enjoyable for this fact. actors can attain. tarian art in this form. der some classical selections. will also play. night, February 14. sympathizer with the Four evenings of real‘ artistic enjoy the struggle. | Movies for Waste | | “Beauty and the following places: South Bend, Ind.—White Theater, 1125 W. Division St., 20. All Nationalities Will Be There! JOINT BAZAAR Lyceum, 86th St. & 3rd Ave. FEB. 11, 12, 13, 14 The Paterson Mandolin Orchestra is another group of workers who can- not be kept from giving expression to their musical feeling. It is known thruout New Jersey and will perform Chorus will sing on Thursday night, February 12, 4nd the workers of New York will be given an opportunity of en- joying the best that the Ukrainian Have you ever heard mass decla- mation? Do you know that it sounds like an orchestra, with its soloists and duets and quartets? The German Mass Declamation Society will render some poems in this form. This is a performance for New. York, and Thursday night, February 12, will The Workers’ Dramatic League will give a pantomime that not only will portray the class struggle, but also will show that the workers of New York are able collectively to reach a plane of art that only well-trained Thursday night, February 12, will demonstrate prole- The children will be there. Satur- day, February 14, is Junior day—and will have a fitting program. The chil- firen of the Modern School, 60 in num- ber, will dance. The Junior groups of the Young Workers League will give & play, some tableaux, etc. A chil-/ing up there?” threateningly : asked. dren's orchestra of 30 pieces will ren- A former concert master of the Leningrad orchestra, at present in this country, has consented to partic- ipate in the program. Russian violin- ists are famous the world over. This splendid violinist is not only a star, but a sympathizer with the cause for which the bazaar is being given. And a young pianist—a young girl—who is making her name in the musical world, ment will make you a better fighter in Eagle Feb. 11. St. Paul, Minn.—444 Rice St., Feb. It's Going to Be Entertaining—There’s Going to Be Lots of Fun—if You Miss It, You Will Miss The Greatest Event of the Season! BRONX JEWISH BRANCH MEETING IS INVESTIGATED Party Dilocusaie Is Inter- rupted NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—“Leninis Trotskyism,” was the subject for’ dis- cussion at a meeting of the Jewish Branch No. 1 of the Workers (Com- munist) Party in the Bronx. Comrade Castrell was in the chair. “Comrade chairman, I want the floor,” shouted a dozen comrades from different parts of the hall, all jumping axcitedly to their feet at the same time. The chairman rapped wildly for order. An _ Interruption. Suddenly the doors were thrown open, and there in the doorway, pic- turesquely dressed in their Sunday best, with their night sticks majestic- ally poised at just the appropriate angic, stood three blue-coated, flush- faced policemen and a rather cor- pulent inspector. The noise and hudlum and hubbub suddenly ceased—and dread silence fell upon the hall. The house manager, a comrade, went quickly to the door to see what great canon of law had been broken and by whom, or what supreme order had been disobeyed to entitle us to be so honored by our illustrious guests. “What's the trouble?’ asked the house manager. “We got orders to raid a billiard parlor,” spoke up the inspector, “and here we are.” “Evidently in the wrong church.” “Say, who’s that guy you got hang- one of New York’s finest, brandishing his night stick in the direction of a poster advertising the Lenin memorial meeting, stuck up on the speakers’ stand. They Ask Questions. “That’s Lenin,” confidently spoke up the house manager. \ “Who’s he? The guy what just died?” asked another of New York’s finest. A “No, he’s been dead.a year now.” “Well, the other fellow that was And then the grand finale Saturday@with him just died, didn’t he?” This will be a grand costume ball—and the prepara- tions that are now being made promise that February 14 will long be remem- bered in the annals of what workers have undertaken in New York City. Every class-conscious worker, every movement, every friend of the working class should devote the four evenings— February 11, 12, 13 and 14—to the joint bazaar, The victims of capitalist justice will benefit, and you will, too. “You mean Trotsky,” said the house manager, attempting hard to smile pleasantly and be sociable. “No, he didn’t die, he is still alive. We were just discussing whether our party should stand by Lenin, who, tho dead, is yet very much alive, or adopt the principles and tactics of Trotsky, who, tho still alive, is yet dead as far as his political prestige and influence in world politics is concerned.” “Well, if he ain’t dead, he ought to be,” spoke up the brave inspector. .|“You all ought to be dead—a bunch of dirty Bolsheviks trying to upset the United States. government. Come, boys, I guess we can go now,” said he, addressing his puppets, and with that they marched majestically down and out, their night sicks still poised artistically at just the appropriate the Bolshevik” and }#ngle above their shoulders, evidently “Russia in Overalls” will be shown at coming to the conclusion that they were not in the land of bribery and booze and had undoubtedly stumbled into the wrong joint. And thus was the Jewish Branch | Bronx investigated! **s% 4444444 44444444 OOOOH HS SS SS OS OSS ee eee eee 44444 i ie ei aie ee i i ee ne ee I i i I a i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i a i International Workers’ Aid i i Come right after work—there is a fine cafeteria. Labor Defense Council Send Contributions to 208 E. 12th Street, New York City. ee ee i ee i i i a i i a oe ee a
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i ee ee a ; ; ; ; ( ; ; ’ ; ; ; ; 4 ; ; ; ; ; ( ¢ 4 ; 4 4 4 ; 4 ; ( 4 ; ( 4 ; ‘ ( ; ‘ ( ; NS Se ee > PEASANTS GAIN. IN JUGO-SLAVIA. DESPITE MURDER Pashich Troops “Guard” Polls; Six Killed BELGRADE, Feb. 9.—The Jugo-Slav government returned itself to power in the elections, by means of violence which claimed the lives of six voters, and. the injury of many others. Five Croatian peasants and one policeman ment stopped all telephone and tele-| graphic communication with outside nations during the elections. © {© According to early returns the vie tory of the Pashich government was nothing to boast about, as the oppos tion elected 152 deputies compared 162 Pashich deputies elected. 3 in Grecian waters. M. Radich, head of the peasants’ | party, was in prison during the elec _ tions, but Dr. Trumbich was a candi- date in Radich’s place and was elect- ed. The peasants gained a great Vict _ ory in Zagreb, Dr. Trumbich and M. Kosutic, M. Radich’s son-in-law, being elected by an overwhelming vote. The. vote in Zabreg was 15,800 votes for the peasants and only 3,600 for the government party. In Bosnia the government support- ers prevented the peasants from voting by force of arms. Violence broke out in many other cities. Troops attacked the peasants in Bosnia and other places, killing a number, it is reported. Chicago Bank Clerks Invite You to Their Ball Wednesday Eve. The Chicago Bank Employes’ As- sociation invites you to attend its dance on the eve of Lincoln’s birth- day, Feb. 11, at the Mirror Hall, 1140 N. Western, at 8 p: m. Tickets are | only 50 cents and they promise you a _ good time. Here is your chance to meet bank | clerks who are class conscious. They | ’ propose to increase their wages which | now are as low as $1,200 a year and reduce their working hours, which at | present are as high as 70 and 80 per week. Tho their union is still young, only 10 months old, it is very much alive and is forging ahead with its plans. Come and meet the militant bank clerks of Chicago. Claim Steamer ts Safe Officials of the Dollar Steamship Line today denied reports circulated from London that the liner President Har- rison had sent out “S. O. 8.” signals They said cables had been received from both Naples and Genoa from the vessel’s command- er and no trouble was mentioned in either. Get your tickets for Red Revel Ball, February 28. RS . ot i NS | Ukrainian Workers Debate Soviets. were killed. The Jugo-Slav_ govern- SAN..FRANGISCO,..Cal.,- Feb. 9,— . To the DAILY WORKER: The Uk- rainian workers of Chicago, at a mass meeting where both sides were dis- cussed, with only one opposing vote went on record as favoring the con- tinuation of the Soviet. government in the Ukraine. : The'mass meeting was called by the Ukrainian branch of the Workers Party to debate what system the Uk- rainian workers in America should support in the Ukraine—the Soviets, monarchistic or any other. Two weeks before the meeting an announcement was made in the Ukra- inian press that the Ukrainian work- fers are ready to meet ‘afiy of those who oppose the Soviet system in the Ukraine, in open debate.’ It was an- nounced that speakers would ‘explain to the workers who dre against the Soviet government how they are fool- ed by Ukrainian ‘reactiénary and counter-revolutionary leaders, The spreading of propaganda in fa- vor of a monarchy in thé’Okraine is led by Dr. Nazaruk, and the “anti-So- viet propaganda is cénteréd in Chi- cago. at the meeting, which ‘was held Feb. 1, but his ideas were put forward by te man he sent to the meeting. - + “Russia has Cyril for the throne, Poland has Pilsudsky, therefore we Ukrainians must have our “monarch; Skoropatsky,” said Nazartk’s repre- sentative. He was answered that in America anybody could be prolclaiméd’ baron, duke, or czar, but by this self-styled title the fact is not changed that they cannot change the Soviet system whereby the workers and péasants do the governing. The second speaker was for “demo- did not set forth any program or ex- planation to justify his democratic pacifism. Comrade Kuizewich, well’ known among the Ukrainians in America, proved in detafl, with historical facts, that the Soviet system is the system which is. wanted by the Uk- rainian workers and peasants. They govern themselves, ‘he declared, build- ing up their own laws, industries, and education, not even for the profits of a few exploiters, but for the good of the workers and peasants. He stated that thefe is no other gov- ernment under which the workers have gained so much, as the workers’ and peasants’ Soviet government. | After debate and discussion, the audience passed a resolution with only: one negative vote, declaring that “We support and continue to stand for the P Soviet governmentof thé Ukraine.” ' (Signed) M. A. K. . To The DAILY WORKER:—I ‘en- close a copy of a letter I sent to the editor of Farm Life in Spencer, Ind, which I hope you will publish in The DAILY WORKER. Frank Voigt. Farm Life, Spencer, Ind., To the editor of Farm Life:—Sov- let Russia is the first real workers’ and farmers’ government. Read over. the seven years of its existence, the OUR DAILY PATTERNS DESIGN FOR “STOUT” FIGURES. 4983. Faille, broadcloth or satin as well as crepé and crepe satin would »e suitable for this model. , The pattern is cut in 8 sizes: 36% PS%, 40%, 4244, 44%, 46%, 48%, and LO, 62 and 54 inches, and waist mea- iigure, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45 and 47 nches. A 42-inch size (bust measure) Lequires 4% yards of 40-inch material, with % yard of contrasting material or facings and collar, cut crosswise. rhe width of the dress at th foot is Ss yard. Pattern mailed to any address on sceipt of 12c in silver or stamps. . FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Bend l2c in silver or stamps for our Ip-to-date Spring and Summer 1925 book of Fashions, showing color plates find * containing esigns of ladies’, ; and children’s patterns, a con- and comprehensive articie on dress- king, also ae pointe | f tee noodio lutrating itches), all A hints to ~ & a : er. | ; ( ; 4 A BOY’S SUIT. 4996. Flannel, tweed, serge or jer sey cloth may be used for this. model. ‘lt is also good for wash materials; \ {for velvet or corduroy. ; ait The pattern is cut in. «,°}6, 8 and 10 years. A Gai “| qitres 8% yards of 27-iftch Pattern mailed to any ess on receipt of 12c im silver or s ps. Address: The DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chica NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—Th + png nished by a New York firm of pattern manufacturers. Orders are forwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re- ceived, and they are by. the man- ufacturer direct to the customer. ) DAILY WORKER does not keep a stock of watterns on hand. Delivery of pat- terns ordinarily will take at least 10 days from the date of mailing th e order. not tient if your Jelayed. te —— PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST : 645 Smithfield Street. He was afraid to show his. face’ cratic” government in the Ukraine, but’ a 4 +’ Dear Comrade:—I wish to point name, everybody suspects him.” .@on’t you follow the moral of this sentence and not throw mud at a great -tinuation. lies and slander-wp to date. Then look over the record of the nations, who were compelled to recognize Sov- jet Russia, the country comprising one-sixth of the earth, the so-called most enlightened country of the world is the only large nation who has not recognized Russia, in fact, there are very few of smaller nations left who have not made any move at all to recognize Russia. Why is that? Very plainly, because the American press is owned or controlled by interests who do not want the American peo- ple to rule. We have a dictator D of Wall Street, Do you want me to prove it? Here is Farm Life, a paper which should ‘be printed in the interest of the farm- ers, which should be on the side of ‘the bankrupt farmers. It cannot re- frain from giving Russia a kick at every possible opportunity. On page 7, Jan., 1925, in writing about Es- thonia, and high cost of living, it says: “But we can sympathize with ‘Esthonia, too close to Soviet Russia for comfort.” And on the same page, writing about fertilizer, it starts an article: “If you give a dog a bad Why nation, and retard progress? Have 4you got to keep the farmers in ignor- ance of the real state of affairs in the republic three times the size of the United States? Are the financiers of this country nearer to you than the farmers and workers? I am sorry for the editor! Yours truly, Frank Voigt, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. To The DAILY WORKER:—tThe DAILY WORKER is certainly a hum- dinger. Was much interested in the resolutions of the Finnish comrades, particujarly this section “Sensational éxaggeration should be avoided, for it Jeads the workers astray and when they get accustomed to it, they cease to have confidence in their own pa- per.” The practice of trying to crowd too much on the first page should be avoided particularly as this is a weakness of capitalist papers with their murder trials, divorces and oth- er trash that clutter up their sheets. It is displeasing to have to read one column of an article (consisting large- ‘ly of head lines) and then have to scout thru the paper to find its con- So cut down the headlines and arrange the matter more as ar- ‘ranged in the inside. Remember that l words. you C therefore, eyery page is a first page to those that read the DAILY WORKER. Also take _your-old DAILY. WORKERS out- into th world, comrades, and give to your ae on cars, particu- y+the young men—don’t waste ‘them on the gray-beards. At ‘em, Davide with your little sling shot. J. R. Weagant, Los Angeles, Cal. ‘s\Edtfor DAILY WORKER, your attention to high class editorials and articles, I mean in your articles and editorials, there are too many , cannot understand. It seems to me you editors, writers, can use more simple words. I .think I am right because the DAILY WORKER is not published for college students, but for the workers, try to pick more simple words so the workers will have a chance to understand every word of it. Comradely yours, Dean Kuitis. Spain Rival of Italy. MADRID.—The directory was ure- ed today by the newspapers of Ma- drid to encourage the immediate es- tablishment of fast steamship lines from Spain to South America, to check the hold that Italy is getting on this route with new ships. PATTERNS BUYERS NOTICE Party who ordered pattern No. 5000 in size 12 or 10 and a fashion book, kindly let us know your name and address. No address was enclosed and the only indication is an Ohio P. O. stamp on the envelope, the name of the town was illegible. Mrs. P. Koezler—who gave her ad- dress as 2618 N. Central Ave., Chi- cago, Ill., kindly let us know the correct ess, as the pattern has been returned from the P. O. mark: ed “unclaimed,” pull A 4 rTrTrrYTrTrTYrrYrYrTYreYreYrerrrTrrTrTyrTyrTyrTy, Yee If you are desirous of a pleasant evening spent on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday WEDNESDAY, FEB, 11, 1925 you will attend the Second Annual Dance of the | CHICAGO BANK EMPLOYEES ASSOSIATION TICKETS 50 CENTS. Entree 8 k. Bruno, the Italian Philosopher. y, Feb. 10, 1925. and Place eeting Workers, 1939 Mil- Calu met 514 W. 117th Street Carpenter Tl wikten’s Hall, High- Cleens, | Getdicy, 59 W. Van Buren re Engineers (Locomotive), 5058 Went- wort ve. Enoineers (Locomotive), 2647 W. Electricians, 505 S. State St. Eaa inspectors, 418 N. Clark St. Hod Carriers, 62nd and La Vergne on, 3046 W. 26th St. ers, 777 W. Adams St. ers, 777 W. Adame St. 84 Machinists & Ss. eee aves 915 Machiniste,. 4126 W. Lake S$ 275 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 409 S. Halsted St., 5:30 p. m. Garment rrarners, 175 W. Wash- oriitesen ore Bt W. Monroe St. Carpente ¥ % and Sheffield. Carpenters, Carpenters, . ‘Chicago onrecktent ingfleld d 26th. arpente eld an pcaee enters, ‘prin . Washington St. Carriers, 225 e. 15th Street, 6 Hea oe f Garriers, bis Ww wee “heuscleun St., Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St. Machinists, ong =o Ave. — Cutters, 175 W. Washington treet. Meat Cutters, 9206 Houston Ave. Nurse "s Hall, Pe Park. » Madieen st. 1170 Railw 11037 Michigan Ave Railway Cagmen, 5324 8. Halsted Street. Railway Cae, Moose Hall, Chi- ago H Raiiway Cc orks, 5438 S. Haleted St. Ralliroad Trainmen, 3359 W. Labor Council, cass Hall, on 8t. Teamsters’ preerict Pownall, 220 S. Ashiand Bouleva by ag 180 W. Washington 8617 Vincennes » 7:30 Ry Raliway Clerks, 549 W. Washington Street. 357 WN. Railway. aren: Marine Fire and Oilers, Clark St. Painters, 20 Ww. Randolph St. Painters, N. E. cor. California and Madison 1 nters "6414 S. Halsted St. W. cor. ease and 55th. W. Oak St. Tre t we : Pa th hg N. ntare nters, Trumbull alt Ogden Ave. Plasterers Monroe ne Peoria Sts. “ ae" |, Clerks, 50 W. Washing- 7 Walters. 234 W. Randolph St. Ser BUILDERS AT WORK New Haven Also Wants to “Get in On It’! We Are Ready to “Talk Turkey.” EW YORK comrades have been “at it” for months. so well, they now have a special New York edition. They have bullt For bullding The DAILY WORKER Is no novelty to them, but a fact that has come of understanding of the importance of this work as a medium to build the local. And now we hear from New Haven District Organizer, William Si- mons, who writes us that at a meeting of the district executive commit- tee on the fifteenth, a motion was passed: “That information be secured as to the possibility and advisability of getting the New York edition of The DAILY WORKER in this district.” Acting on the resolution, Comrade Simons writes us for “facts and figures” and we hastened to give the details that will insure the local comrades the special New York edition which will carry a front page of more immediate news interest to them and which will carry news of the struggle in the New England states in greater proportion. Plans are being perfected for all New England states to receive the special eastern edition. To other locals thruout the country we are passing on this tip:.. if the subscriptions merit it (and we are sure that in the near future they will) The DAILY WORKER will not only be printed In “sectional” edi- tions, but ‘state editions as well—and the day may soon arrive when “local” editions will be possible. The builders can hasten the day that this will be possible. the plans are dependent only on a high subscription list. After all Build up your sub list and you will find The DAILY WORKER ready to “talk turkey.” When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. -' = Dear Comrddes:—The follow- ing is the second of a series of stories about revolutionists, men fof science, ete which I intend to write to you ag,often as possible. Among the gf@at' men who gave their lives in efforts to prove the falsity of the various religions was Giordano Bruno. Bruno was an Italian philosopher who lived between 1548-1600. During his}: youth he, for some unknown rea- son, became a clergyman. As such he often showed where certain parts of the bible were doubtful and he even said some parts were untrue. For this he was perse- cuted and forced to leave Rome. He went to Paris where he was well treated by. Henry III.,: the king of France; who cared to listen to a freethinker and man of science as Bruno was. Later un- der French proctection, he went to England, then again to France and finally to Zurich. While in Zurich, a Venetian nobleman in- The nobleman. time. pleaded and begged Bruno to come as his guest, so anxious seemed he to speak to a philosopher. Bruno suspected nothing and went. to a short Venice. Here Bruno, the. free- thinker, the man years ahead of his .time, was captured by -the- inquisition in a trap they had pre- pared for him, using the noble man (?) asa tool. He was put in prison, where he languished, for 7 years. In 1600 he was executed the order of. the inquisition. 1889, almost 300 years after his) death, a statue was erected.at his) place of execution by popular de- mand. So died Bruno, a martyr for truth, for free thinking and for the same freedom we today are fighting for. So even today our own Comrades Minor, Ruthenberg, and others in the United States| being tried for free thinking, 80 were Liebknecht and Luxemburg) in Germany killed for freethought. Fraternally yours, FRED H. HERZBERG, vited Bruno to come to Venice for AS WE SEE IT | By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) January 17, 1925, says that Soviet | Russia, “has made prodigious strides towards industrial triumph.” John Bull further declares that the differ- ence between the position in Soviet Russia in 1920 and 1924 is as great as that between night and day. To quote further: “It. is quite possible, as Mr. Bertrand Russell prophesied even in his destructive criticism of Bolshevik policy, that Russian indus- trial prosperity may one day have no rival in the world except that of the United States. | “The Bolsheviks have set up a board.of-planning, and this board de- vélops Russian-iadustry as thoroly as Lord Leverhulme develops the soap trade; feeble industries are nursed | with the profits of.strong industries, and strong industries are every day being rendered more efficient.” This is the enemy's testimony. - > - HE Moscow Financial Gazette re- | ports that during the period from Jan. 1, to Dec. 31, 1924, the area under crops increased by 8 per cent; the total number of live stock. by 24 per cent, the amount of goods handle¥ by the railroads 35 per cent, and the turnover of wholesale trade by 40 per | cent. The volume of currency circu- | lation is approximately two and a half | times as great as at the close of 1923. While this is taking place in Russia, Austria, dominated by the social dem- ocrats is looking arewnd for a receiver | and German social)democrats are get- | ting kicked out of the reichstag for | graft, and Germany ‘which was in the hands of the after the armis- tice is now in the hands of the Wall | Street bankers. Somme difference. ——— Branch 4, Y. W. L.! at Rome by being burned alive tn dont Five ee Hindus i in South , Africa Are Robbed , of the Franchise MADRID, India, Feb. 9.—Conditions among the Indians in British South Africa have reached their very worst, C, F, Andrews, who recently arrived here from a tour of South Africa, de- clared “The signing of the Natal or- dinance by the governor-general is the last straw that breaks the camel's back,” said Andrews. “The right of franchise which has now been de- finitely taken away was itself a very slender act. It never meant more than a few hundred votes and its value lay purely in the recognition of this very modest form of citizenship © for a few Hindus, thus taking away something, at least, of the stigma of the color bar. “But now this has been destroyed and the position of Indians in Natal will soon be as hopeless and helpless as ‘that of the Indians in Transvaal. “After the refusal on the part of the governor-general to ecountermand a racial order like this it is quite cer- tain that other racial ordinance will follow. As a result the meager rights which the Natal Indians still possess, apart from citizenship, are likely to be taken one by one just as the fran- chise has taken away by this racial ordinance,” HAVE A HEART! Come to The JUNIORS’ DANCE FEB. 14, 1925 Workers’ Lyceum JULIN'S SHOE STORE AND REPAIR SHOP 3224 W. North Avenue Phone Belmont 2718 Chieageo el capitalism. of Soviet Russia. see 5544454444444 4 4444444844444 HOH HH SHH HHS SHH HHH HSS SS Ready Now! 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LOEB........ccsseese- Business Manager Chicago, Ilineis —_—— Ontered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, lll, under the act of March 3, 1879. 290 Advertising rates op application Communists and the Capitalist Offensive A Harding replaces a Wilson, a Coolidge re- places a Harding, a cultured barrister replaces a third-rate shyster as head of the department of justice, but the persecution of the Communists con- tinues. Perhaps there is some change in method, but the purpose remains the same—imprisonment and silencing of the most conscious and militant sec- tion of the American working class and their best fighters. 4 Following the denial of the appeal of Ruthen- berg by the Michigan supreme court and his im-' prisonment until an appeal was taken to the United States supreme court, the scene shifted from Bridgeman to Cleveland where an attempt was made to deport Severino to fascist Italy. Once more the scene changes and before Burger, a Dangherty heldover of the department of justice, Krumbein, district organizer of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and Katterfeld, New York agent of the DAILY WORKER, an attempt is made to force them to testify in the Severino case. They naturally refused and Burger threatens contempt of court proceedings. All these events indicate that the Coolidge gov- ernment of the House of Morgan is preparing an- other attack on the Workers (Co(mmunist) Party. It could hardly be otherwise. Only a blissfully ignorant optimist could be- lieve that the only party informing the workers of America of the murderous plans of American im- perialism implicit in the Dawes plan and the Paris pact and organizing the workers for resistance will remain immune from well-planned persecution. The consolidation of the forces of the blackest enemies of the working class shown by the results of the last election means that a new era of arro- gant brutality is a certainty. The Communists will be the first to suffer. Then the capitalist offensive will be broadened and the whole labor movement will be brought into the line of fire. The Communists are fully alive to the danger, but the labor movement as a whole is not. It is our task to see that every section of the organized workers understands exactly what the attack on the Communists means. As always, the interests of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and of the working class are in- separable. Only One Mess Greece talks of war on Turkey. Great Britain is the overlord of Greece, but fears to encourage her vassal in this new adventure be- cause it would strengthen Russia and Turkey. France and Italy prepare to back Turkey—their bulwark against the further advance of British im- perialism in Asia Minor. Bulgaria crouches to spring upon Dedegeatch, the Greek port in the Aegean Sea that Bulgaria covets. Jugo-Slavia, in the event of a Greco-Turkish war, is ready to grab the Greek port of Salonica which she needs because Italy has cut her off from the sea. the alliance between Over all stands the Communist International ap- pealing to the working class of all these nations to throw off the chains of capitalism—to turn im- perialist war into war on capitalism. Greek Communists call on the workers to fight the war plans of their government and twenty are imprisoned. Thousands of workers demand their release and demonstrate against the government. This is a brief sketch of just one of messes in which world capitalist finds itself. It is inextricably enmeshed in the web of its own contradictions and national rivalries when the acutely critical condition demands unity. Is it any wonder that the whole world constantly trembles on the verge of war? The Need for Simplicity We have from a worker-reader \iar with Marxian words and phrases,;and interested in involved articles dealing with certain phases of Marxian theory and practice. It would be a mistake to think, however, that the DAILY WORKER and the Communists must ac- cept this condition as one that cannot be changed and cease to struggle against it. The Communist press not only must try to write its news and educa- tional material in such form that any worker who can read can understand it, it must not only base its agitation and educational articles on the daily problems and struggles of the workers—what Lenin called “the facts of life’—but it must also work unceasingly to raise the level of understanding and make classic phrases of the class struggle part of the language of the American workers. The class struggle rages here in America in spite of the fact that the labor union officials and the middle class advisers of the workers deny it. It is j part of the same struggle that goes on all over the world and its terms are well known to millions of workers wherever the breakdown of capitalism has created the conditions for widespread revolu- tionary work and has brought great masses of workers into the ranks of the labor and revolution- ary movement. The best way we know of to keep the contents of the DAILY WORKER in as simple language as | possible is to get constantly such criticism as that mentioned. In addition to this, but more difficult and more important, are news stories and articles written by the worker-readers of the Communist ‘press themselves. This is the way that the DAILY WORKER can become a real mass organ and it is a paper made up of such material that we want and the working class needs. Textile Workers Battle Our news from Lawrence, Pawtucket and other textile centers tells of a sharpening of the struggle against wage cuts and speeding-up schemes of the bosses, of mass meetings called by the united front committees, organized by the Workers (Commun- ist) Party and Trade Union Educational League. At these meetings the greatest interest is dis- played in advice to unite all the protest movements and small unions in the industry into a solid front against the mill owners and their shop organiza- tion headed by Colonel Butler, the campaign man- ager of Coolidge and backed by the House of Mor- gan-Coolidge-Dawes government. The wage cuts and the speeding up system has now affected almost the entire textile industry. The economic basis for a united front of all the textile workers has’ been laid by the mill owners themselves and for the first time in the bloody his- front movement wnder way. Always before,- the: resentment of the workers has spent itself in strikes and demonstrations af- fecting only a smallipart of the industry at one time. This year there is a force in the textile centers that brings to the textile workers not only the idea of industrial solidarity but a realistic or- ganizational program tried and proven effective in a thousand struggles of the workers in all the capitalist countries. It is the program of the Com- munist International and the Red International of Labor Unions—the united front from below against the capitalist class and the agents of cap- italism and the capitalist state wherever they are found. | For the first time there is a rea] basis for the belief that the textile industry will be organized— organized by amalgamation of the existing unions, by organization of the unorganized workers and by united front actions into a union born of the struggle. West Virginia’s Coal Miners The territory around Fairmont and Parkersburg, -West Virginia, is the scene of one of those strug- gles between workers and capitalists which basic industry in America furnishes in bloody colors. The local unions of the United Mine Workers of America in this section are making a last ditch fight to save their organization and prevent a wage cut. Their fight is a desperate one and in the last few days a union miner has been killed by coal company gunmen. In the state as a whole the coal mining industry is now only about ten per cent organized. In whole districts the union has been destroyed by methods exactly the same as those used by imperialist powers in breaking the resist- ance of colonial peoples. That is what the miners of West Virginia are in their present unorganized condition—colonial serfs of the steel trust which owns or controls the mining industry. The hope for the West Virginia mivers lies not in the present officialdom of the United Mine Work- ers with its program of “meeting the boss half way,” but in the program of the left wing, centering a letter asking | around the Workers Party and the Trade Union Educational League, for which 66,000 votes were for the use of more simple language in the articles | counted in the recent union election. and editorials we publish. We agree with the implied criticism and we try to use and have our contributors use a language that} is clear and understandable. The DAFLY WORK-' ER is published for the workers in industry and for the masses of poor farmers, and anything that | There is just as much menace to the steel trust domination of the West Virginia miners’ lives in this proof of the militants’ numerical strength as ithere is to the rule of Lewis and his army of high- salaried henchmen. The two must be fought together and the steel keeps the DAILY WORKER from being read and | trust will not be forced to deal with miners as a understood is a bad thing for both the class strug- gle and the DAILY WORKER. The task of making articles and editorials of the utmost simplicity is not as easy as might be’ unit until the left wing program becomes the pro- gram of the union. The bosses have a united front to force wage thonght. The temptation for all editors and authors cuts. The workers must also havea united front of special articles is to write for the best educated | to resist wage cuts. 3 . tory of the textile industry there is a real united | ge Rea a et Oe Mata ee AR Ba Re ee tee ; sail +a 3 ‘kin ob agree ae ~~ > 4 2 ' a. ae a” | > b Re * ¢ Pn AS DAIL =| ALLIES W U.S, aw Squabble Grows Over War Debt of Billions (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 9.—Great Britian’s note to France made public today, offering to reduce the French war debt to England, will not change’ the policy of Coolidge, who will con- tinue to demand he to in full of France’s war de to the United States, it was said in government cir- cles here. France and Great Britain negotiated a treaty in 1916, léng before America entered the war, mémbers of Calvin Coolidge’s official family state, and agreed to make a common cause against Germany. They pooled money men and resources, and after the war, divided Germany’s colonies, and the bulk of the reparations. More than one billion dollars war borrowed by France from the United States after the armistice, and four billion dollars was borrowed in all. England’s note agrees to cancel some of France’s war debt, but infers that the English debt to the United States should receive similiar treat- ment. The French government regards the British debt coldly, because of the “joker” in the note which proposes that France pay part of her debt out of her own national resources, regard- less of what monéy France is able to extract from Germany. French officials declare it is a “dangerous principle for France to admit that she should pay her war debts even if Germany does not pay.” The French want. to pay England only from money that is taken from Germany. Heavier Burden on Peasants Edward Hilton Young, M. P. finan- cial adviser of the British treasury gepartment duringythe world war, who has been in the United States confer- ring with American’ bankers, declared before sailing for Liverpool from New York that France should tax her peasants more. Young said that France should pay her war debts to Bngland and France by levying a heavier tax upon the peasants. Young declared that the French peasants are unwilling to pay these taxes, but the Herriot government should organize @he machinery to make the peasant@«pay the debts. England Knows How to Tax “The French government should organize the machinery for the col- lection of taxes and) then levy them,” said Young: “Vhe;peasants are un- willing to be taxed” Young added that England has “solved her debts:-problem to the United States by learning how to tax her subjects.” Coal Barons Organize Scab Union in West Virginia Mine Fields (Continued from page 1) lars of union funds paying for “ex- poses” of Communists purchased from agents of the department of justice. Miners Resentful. Many of these miners comment bit- terly on the action of William Green, former secretary-treasurer of the Min- ers’ Union, and now head of the A. F. of L. in leading the fight at the Portland convention to expel William F. Dunne, from that body because he was a Communist, Had Green de- voted his energies to fighting the coal operators in West Virginia, and else- where as the Trade Union Education- al’ League urged, the strikers in the tent colonies would not be today at the mercy of the coal barons and their scab labor leaders. There are 100,000 coal miners in this state, which is about one-fourth the present membership of the United Mine Workers of America. With this state almost entirely in the grip of the open shop, the coal operators feel that they can smash the union in the rest of the country as the coal pro- ducing ability of tHis state is enorm- ous. The recent merger is only a be- ginning, and thé new fake labor or- ganization, bears the same relation to this merger that a company union does to the concern which owns and controls it. The Bosses’ Flunkeys. The incorporators of the Mine Workers’ Association of West Virginia are J. S. Querey, Lincoln Holstein, Robert Morris, W. M. Earle and C. C Matson, all of Charleston. The guiding hand in the great coal merger is Charles R. Flint, a 75-year- old financial wizard of New York City, and the brains in the organiza- tion of such giant concerns as the United States Rubber company, the American Woolen, company and the American Chicle eompany. the miners of Wé thing but bright. era of industrial feudalism, that beat anything in the history of that’black region looms on the horizon. * Red Revel Masauepade Ball, 37 South Ashia Avenue Virginia are any- Corner of Monroe_and Ashland Bivd., Febrapry 28. The prospects if the near future for COM RED Reve "ARRANGEMENTS ITTEE MEETS NIGHT AT-LOCAL OFFICE TOMORROW Party, 166 West Washington street. Judging by the interest taken by land avenue. Delegates from every Chicago branch of the Wikre Party are expected to attend the meeting of the committee on arrangements of the Red Revel Masquerade Ball, tomorrow night, at 8 p. m., at the local office of the Workers | the party units in the Red Revel it will be the biggest success ever achieved by Loéal Chicago in any affair of this kind. The branches are expected to elect delegates to the éniarged committee and the delegates are expected to make snappy reports to the branch meetings and get the selling of tickets under way. will be held on Feb. (88 in the Women’s wort ead Club Hall, 37 South The Red R me | SALZMAN TOUR IN DIST, 5 | Feb. 11 to 18—Cannonsburg, Hous- ton, Midland, Meadowlands. Feb. 21—Pittsburgh, general mem- bership meeting. Feb. 25-26—Wheeling, W. Va. Feb. 27—Bellaire, Ohio. Feb. 28—Powhatan Point, Ohio. March 1—Neffs, Ohio. March 2—Yorkville, Ohio. March 3—Martin’s Ferry, Ohio. March 4-56—Dillonvale. March 8&—Pittsburgh. ganizational conference. SMALL WASHES HANDS OF KLAN WAR IN HERRIN SPRINGFIELD, HL, Feb. 9.—Gov. Small washed his hands of the Herrin ku klux klan violence today, when he issued the statement that he was not concerned in receiving an official re- port from the Williamson county board of supervisors. The bd&ird was to ratify the agreement between Sheriff Galligan and the ku klux klan in a move to end the klan riots. Small Said today that he expected no official report from Marion. Galligan has moved to East St. Louis, altho he stated there hé has no intention of resigning. Galligan is keeping his part of the agreement to “exile” himself from Williamson county and turn his duties temporarily over to his deputy, Randall Parks. SOCIALIST SHEET TELLS READERS 10 District or- (Special to The Daily Worker! | LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 9. e Burr Creamery company has been placed on the unfair list by the €en- tral Labor Council of'Los Angeles. This concern has thrown out all union help. But the Jewish yellow socialist Forward is still accepting advertise- ments from the Burr Creamery in its Los Angeles edition and urges its readers to buy Burr Creamery prod- ucts. Workmen Dig Toward Collins As Troops Guard Cave Mouth CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 9.—Less than ten feet of rotten decayed rock separated Floyd Collins from his res- cuers, if a test by-Dr. W. D. Funk- houser, archeologist of the University of Kentucky, is found to be correet. The test is now being rechecked. It is thought that a hole seventy feet down in Sand Cave, where Collins is imprisoned may lead the rescuers to Collins tomb. It is doubtful, according to those digging the shaft to Collins, whether he can be reached before Thursday. Beauty and Bolshevik at South Bend Feb. 11 SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 9.—The city central committee of the Work- ers Party has arranged for the show- ing of “Beauty and Bolshevik” at the White Eagle Theater, South Bend, ind., for Feb. 11. In view of the splen- did success of the film in Chicago, witnessed by several members from South Bend, the members expect a fine turnout. Proceeds will benefit the International Workers’ Aid. Eleven Jap Sailors Drown. VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 9.—Ele ven Japanese sailors were drowned in’ the harbor here when the pinnace in which they were bound for the cruiser ldzuma collided with the Canadian Pacific tug Nanoose. SOVIET MINISTER TO MEXICO DEMANDS HIS PAPERS HELD IN U. S. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 10.—The So- viet minister here has started a court action against the representa- tive of the czar’s government to get possession of the Russian archives. The former minister says the miss- ing doquments are now In posess- lon of representatives of the old Russian government in Washing- AID SCAB DAIRY| = W VA. CONVICTS: Pays iisly Seventy Cents Per Day for Each FAIRMONT, W. Va., Feb. 9.—The Gordon .Shirt company, thru a con tract with the state board of control, was given the right to exploit the labor of four hundred convicts in the West Virginia state penitentiary at compensation of only 70 cents per day. This fact was revealed here when tract null and void in Marshall circuit court at Moundsville, last week. Mar- cellus A. Jolliff asked that the Gordon Shirt company be restrained from carrying out the provisions of the contract on the ground that under its operation the tax payers of the state would lose $60,000 a year. The judge’s decision was based on the technicality that the state board of control failed to advertise the con- tract for four weeks as required by law and was therefore null and void. Evidently leasing convict labor to a private explditer is perfectly in ac- cord with the christian sentiments of the ruling class of West Virginia but this low form of robbery must be done in accordance with the law. i’ Class in Elementary Marxian Economics , Re-opens Under Lerner The class in Elementary Marxian Economics, formerly conducted by Earl R. Browder, will reopen tomor- row evening under the direction of Max Lerner, former district organ- izer for Ohio, at 2613 Hirsch Blvd. nm, starts meted at 8 P. M. “| brothers | financial scandals. Judge P. D. Morris declared the con-. TBAUER SMELLS $0 ‘BAD SOCIALISTS MUST DISOWN HIM | FormerChancellor in the Barmat Scandal BERLIN, Germany, Feb. 9.—Former Chancellor Bauer, social-democrat, has‘been forced to resign his seat in the reichstag and has been “disown- ed” by the social-democratic party, after vers implicated in the Barmat and the Prussian state bank 'The social-democratic paper, Vor- warts, has repudiated Bauer, in an at- j tempt to get out from under the ex- posures of corruption in the former Gérman governments. Left Socialists No Cholce. "p. The social-democratic paper points pout that Bauer has been repudiated by the governing board of the social- democratic party, and declares his, so- -cialist colleagues “always looked as- kance at his relations with the Bar- mats.” They also “deplore the fact that Bauer became involved in conflicting testimony in the Prussian state bank @/ enquiry, and failed to make a’ clean breast of his operations; leaving the party no ¢hoice but to disown him.” The socialtiemocratic party of Ger- many has been most heavily hit by the revelations of corruption of form- er government officials, which make the practices of America’s Teapot Domers appear lily-white. Numerous investigations are now in progress in the reichstag and the Prussian diet. The public prosecutor is expected today to request the reich- stag to suspend the parliamentary im- munity of former minister of posts, Hoefle, of the clerical party, who has also been forced to resign. Maybe Dawes Taught Them. New disclosures show that the gov- ernment state agencies, including the stute railroads used illegal methods to safeguard themselves during the period of inflation. The state railroads lost nearly 10,000,000 marks in an at- tempt to purchase gold on the “Black Bourse,” in return for the rapidly sinking paper mark. Hoefle loaned government money to the swindlers, Barmat brothers, an:! thereby lost $15,000,000 of the govern- ment’s money. Red Revel Masquerade Ball, 37 South Ashland Avenue Corner of Monroe and Ashland Block, February 28. By THURBER LEWIS bebficee! The Reformers, No. I —Owens, Wright, Evans ITH the exception of more or less obscure rank and file agita- tors in the various strikes that de- veloped out of the early organization of trade unions, no outstanding ex- ponents of the class struggle present themselyes prior to the Civil War. The history of the early labor move- ment is bound up with the record of the early reformers. With few ex- ceptions they were intellectuals. Their connection with the real labor move- ment was in the nature of a “liaison.” They saw in the growth of working- class organization nothing more than a hook whereupon to hang their utopian hats. Each reformer endeay- ored to get support from the working- class for his particular social formula. But they were rebels insofar as they protested against things as they were, and as such inspired a large section of the more vigorious minded work- ers of the time to follow their lead. Despite their ignorance of the class- struggle, they represented in their day the advance guard of radicalism in America. A history of the labor move- ment is not complete without them. Reformism first appears in 1826 when Robert Owen, the great English philanthropist and utopian, came to America and established a colony called “New Harmony” in Indiana. The effect of this innovation on the labor movement was slight. It did, however, supply personalities whose influence on the currents of working- class life were of considerable import- anve. Robert Owen’s s80n, Robert Dale’ OWéfi; ‘was one of these. He originated a system of educa- tion he called “State Guardianship”, which provided for free boarding-hous- es for children’s education. He was led to this by the failure of his fath- er’s colony which he thought due to the educational handicaps with which the colonists began. He thought uni- versal education the best and quickest way to social reform. Universal educa- tion found favor with the working- class. At the time, education was the restricted privilege of the rich. The workers looked upon young Owen as a leader because he represented for them an immediate demand they thought within their reach. He took.an active and leading part in the political movement af 1829-32 ton, that expressed itself as the “Working- man’s Party” in New York City While he obviously utilized the move ment merely as a means to secure the adoption of his social plan, and while e served ag a curb on the more ex treme elements like Skidmore, at the same time his contribution to -the spreading of rebellious social ideat was not inconsiderable. Frances Wright was another pro duct of New Harmony” whose in fluences were felt in the rising labo: movement. Like Robert Owen sh¢ was a native of Scotland. A residencs of some years in France supplied th« background for her radical ideas. She came to this country in 1818 and de voted herself to anti-slavery and Neg ro educational work in Tennessee, Sh« later became a leader in Owen's “Nev Harmony” and after its failure joinec Robert Dale Owen in his universa education propaganda in New Yor! City. She played a leading role in the Workingman’s Party anc gave a great deal of her energy ad vocating the cause of women’s rights , Fannie” Wright, as she was called was, along with the rest of the re formers, chiefly interested in the ad vocation of immediate changes of no very fundamental sotial import. Bu that she had, intellectually a visio: of the magnitude of the class strug gle s shown by this observtion, mad by her in 1830: “What distinguishe the present from every other struge! in which the human race is engage: is that, the present is, openly and ack nowledgedly, a war of class and tha this war is universal.” That wa twenty years before the Communis manifesto was written. 1 A George Henry Evans was a nati \of England who became the editor o ‘the “Worgingman’s Advocate,” th organ of the workers’ political move ‘ment begun in 1829. He was a cc worker of Robert Dale Owen and leader In the Workingman’s Party He was of middleciadss origin bw worked as a printer in this countr until he became editor of what migh be called the first working-class hew: paper. iHs subsequent career wa taht of land reformer, and tho b never failed to give his support to an working class movement that spran up during his life time he foreve nursed a pet theory that had to with equal distribution of land, a “Re . > ee - | ~-— = © p> &emamaaron i a ee eee i”