Daily Worker
February 12, 1925
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William has not broken into print for a quite somie time, but he has a nose for publicity and is as clever a poser as eyen Sainuel Gom- pers, the best showman since Barnum, William's favorite hobby is the ~“yel- low peril”, His own prospects being rather black, he sees in the Japanese question a chance to sfinggle into the American-British caucus’and pose as the original Japanophobe. rnd . e * PEAKING of the treaty, he is re- ported to have said: “The reper- cussions of this event will shortly be felt in the relations of all the Europ- ean states, and it is bound to cause deep thinking and heart searching in Germany and among the allies. France is backing the black races. Russia is backing the yellow, and the United States and Britain are backing the white. Where will Germany stand?” Where can she stand? She is now owned by the Dawes’ plan and Wall Street and only workingclass revolu- tion will make Germany free, suv as she never was when the maniac Kai- ser Wilhelm Was on the throne. . 7 o RANCE is not backing the black races for the good of the blacks. France is exploiting the black racés and so is England, wherever she has the opportunity. So is every other capitalist country. So was Germany under the Kaiser. But Russia is back- ing the yellow races against their white exploiters for their own good. There is no question about that, and it is no secret. Soviet Russia is the greatest influence for good in the Orient. The masses know Russia to be their friend. This feeling is now so universal that e capitalists have realized the a of spending more millions on lying propaganda among the peoples of the Hast. . . * USSIA is growing in power every day. The prophets of evil who a few years ago were able to break in- to the front pages of the capit Soviet power are iow even find a corner among the adver- Boston terriers. This year. the third session of the Russian federal parlia- ment will be held in Tiflis, Georgia. Tiflis was very much in the news not so long ago. Those who read the Chicago Tribune and take it seriously may have expected disaster for the workers and peasants government on reading the report of the Trib’s Con- stntinopole liar, on the Georgian revolt. + a - NOTHER sign that normalcy _is traveling on seven league boots in the workers’ republic is the recent congress on Soviet Reforms held in Moscow. This congress was called on the initiative of the Rusian Commun- fst Party, which is not satisfied with “well enough” but is always aiming at perfection. In a country of 130,000,000 people or more it cannot be expected that any government can give com- plete satisfaction. But when a coun- try of Russia’s illiteracy under czar- ism is considered and the fact that under the czar, the people never had a chance to have their say on what kind of laws they should have, the great progress made by the Soviet government is extraordinary. Le ah, pater ERTAIN capitalist editors began to see trouble for the government in the calling of this congress. But there ‘was no serious trouble. The congress was an orderly, peaceful, but lively affair. Several leaders of t Soviet government delivered speeches and the proposals of the presidium of the Central Executive Committee were carried out with few slight amend- ments. The congress was called be- cause the government learned that only 31 per cent of the electors par- ticipated, in the voting for the village Soviets. This might be considered fortunate by the democratic solons of Alabama and Georgia but in Russia, such laxity is frowned upon. “The gov- ernment wants the producers:in the rural districts and in the country to participate in the work of building up the new social order. Therefore, it (Continued on Page 4.) * Will Table Geneva Protocol LONDON, Feb. 10.—Great Britian is practically tabling the Geneva proto- col. Austen Chamberlain, secretary for foreign affairs, will tell the league council in March that Britian wili propose amendments to the protocol which are so extensive in scope that he believes they should be laid be- fore the assembly of the Teague of nations, which meets in September. AA AAAADAAAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA . : ar $8. Ly con THURSDAY, I Office at Chicago, Iilinois under tha Act of Maroh 3, 1879. NEW YORK EDITION (Special to the Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Washi; Feb. 10.—Despite the red-baiting campaign opened here by the labor fakers, several local unions have passed resolutions during the past week condemning the crim- inal syndicalism laws and endorsing the Michigan def Among locals tak ng such action are: Maintainance of Way Men; Build- ing Laborers; Painters; Boilermak- ers; Machinists as well as the Metal Trades Council, Following ousting of Communists by Seattle Labor Council Wednesday, the Building Trades Council took similar action last Friday, their action being commended by Tracy secretary build- ing trades department of A. F. of L. who was present at the meeting. be H. Jones, business agent, Painters’ Local No. 300, Communist elector in the fall elections is one of the first to be attacked. Secretary Doyle of Seattle C. L. C. received wire from W. H. Green en- dorging council’s action. Bakers Local No. 9 last Saturday night passed the following resolution with only one dis- senting ‘vote. Bakers Condemns Expulsions “To the officers and delegates of the Central Labor Council of Seattle and vicinity greetings. “Bakers Union No. 9 at their reg- ular meeting almost unanimously pas- sed the following resolution: Whereas the unity of the labor movement of Seattle and vicinity has been en- dangered by”the action of the Central ‘Labor Council at its meeting Wednes- day ‘February 4, in passing a motion to unseat all delegates of local unions alleged to be Communists and, i hor bis move .by the. Conirat |! Labor Cour pa : a wy ~ ee = t-' ing a bitter factional struggl “Gn "the Labor Council and, Whereas it nullifies the ‘constitu- tions of the A. F. of L. (whith zivés the freedom of political opinion to..all members thereof) and el ninates many of the best unionists, 6 ‘most able, fearless, militant and “devoted: workers from active participation :in the council and the labor movement in general, therefore be it rales Resolved that we Bakers Union Local No. 9 protest the action of the Labor Council and urge that im the interest of harmony’ and the labor movement the motion of February 4, discriminating against delegates on account of, political beliefs be rescind- ed and we further urge that the Cen- tral Labor Council instead of waging warfare against a group of earnest sincere and militant workers with years of service in the trade union movement cease their disruptive tac- tics forthwith and mobilize all forces of the Seattle labor movement for a united struggle against the common enemies of organized labor, and we further call upon the body of organ- ized labor in the various local unions in the city of Seattle to support us in this protest until these dis- ruptive tactics are stopped within the ranks of the labor movement in Seattle. Fraternally yours P, K. MOHR The general membership meeting of the Workers Party in Seattle with 200 members present was the most en- thustastic ever held. All fully realized the seriousness of the present situa- tion;’nevertheless members assert the party will grow as a result of this op- position. Collection of $30 was taken to carry on locaherganization. Subscribe for “Your Daily.” READ THE DAILY WORKER U.S. STEELORDERS UP 220,647 TOWS DURING JANUARY (Special to The Daily Werker) NEW YORK, Feb. 10.— Unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel corporation increased 220,647 tons in the month ending January 31, the corporation reported today, unfilled orders on January 31, aggregated 5,037,323 against 4,816,676 on De- cember 31, 1924, and 4,798,429 on ment of Seattle. and ‘Work: ire tisements of second hand .radios and{the interesté “Of the bosses January 31, 1924. DEFENSE BA -- - — - ~ es 8 | JUDGE ENGLISH TOOK GRAFT FROM ILLINOIS BANKRUPTS I$ CHARGE WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—An iIn- vestigation looking to the possible impeachment. of Federal Judge George W. English of the eastern district of Illinois was ordered to- day by the house AEP A commit- tee. The investigation was asked by Representative Hawes, democrat of Missouri, who, with citizens of East St. Louis, lll., charged English with profiting financially from bank- ruptcy cases in his court. STATE RULED BY LAFOLLETTE HITS AT ALL STRIKES If Scabs Are: Workine There’s No Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) MADISON, Wis., February 10.—‘“A strike is not fully determined by the action of the workmen, but by the output of the plant, and, although a strike has been called, a strike may not be in effect if the plant continues to run without reduction of output,” was the opinion of the Wisconsin supreme court handed down today in an action by the state against the West Allis company of Milwaukee. Moulders at the plant had declared a strike and the company advertised for help, but did not announce that a strike was oh, with the result that Officials of the concern were arrested. Tried in the Milwaukee municipal court, the officials were held guilty of violating the statutes and appealed. The decision today reverses the .ver- dict of the lower court. The ruling is expected to have a far-reaching effect in labor annals, and practically annuls the law forbit- ting employers advertising for work- ers during strikes without stating in the advertisement that it is a scab job. fh le HAVE ONLY FOUR DAYS THIS WEEK From the Finnish to the end, this week in New York will have but four days. The other three won’t count. From the Finnish, because the open- ing night of the joint, four-day In- ternational Workers’ Aid-Labor De- fense Bazaar will open with a Fin- nish-ed program. On Wednesday night February 11, the famed Finnish gym- nasts will perform to the tune of a Finnish-ed band. A similar kind of a | choral society will add beauty of tone to the beauty of motion of the gym- nastic exhibition of the Finnish Junior group. That’s Wednesday night— and of course, you'll go. On Thursday—so many things will happen. The German Mass Declama- tion Society will recite poetry in solos duets, and quartets—poetry of mass declamation that rivals orchestral beauty. The Workers’ Dramatic League will stage a pantomine; the Ukrainian Chorus will sing; the Pat- erson Mandolin Orchestra will play— poetry, song and music are all yours if you go on Thursday night, Feb. 12. On Friday night, the Freiheit Sing- ers will give a concert and you will forget everything else. Be sure to mark this down: The Freiheit Sing- ing Society on Friday, Feb. 13, it will be a lucky day. The bazaar will close on Saturday with dances by sixty children of the Modern School; tableux and a play by little Junior Johnny Reds; a pianist of real merit; a concert master of a Leningrad orchestra in a violin pro- gram—an evening’s entertainment of dance, song and music of the very Dest for New York workers. The Hungarian Orchestral and Sing- ing Societies will add further attrac- tions of merit. For New Yorkers, for the four days of February, 11, 12, 13, 14;. the place to go will bé to the International Workers’, Aid-Labor Defense Bazaar, at 86th and 3rd, Aves. Political Friction in Persia Allahabad, India, Feb. 10.—Advices today from Teheran, Persia, state that political friction between the sultan and premier was becoming greater. Premier Serdar Sepas notified the as- sembly they must decide before Thursday whether the sultan or pre- mier will rule. a It’s your paper—Build on it! a ae. te Tea a akY 12, 1925 << - oe PUBLISHING CO., 14 “W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, mi. Sunday by THE DAILY a eae ——_" | WORKER Price Cents FEW OF AT VIG CPP EGATES BERGER’S J. MEETING Pre-Chi igo igo Gathering Maneuvex: Fails (Speciatst Daily Worker) MILWAUKI Wis., Feb. 10.—Vic- tor Be ‘Ss sialist” machine in Wisconsin pile i a grand maneuver, it was | to organize a gigantic conference i@?Wisconsin with a large represe i then come with an accomplishes to the national con- vention of thei: erence for progres- sive political @etion, in Chicago Feb. 21, and ont sis demand the form- ation of a rty. Holding af@pur-iush in his hands Berger mad@® grand biuff. A large hall was re@m™ged in the auditorium with a capa@my of over 1000 seats; but on the 4 thirty dele ful could f hundreds of 4 More tk gates repré the socialist’ rank and fil ous by their al s of conference only sembled. This hand- ‘ be seen among the . ipty seats. e ree-quarters of dele; ear i the officialdom of rty machine with the S Membership conspicu- gence and with only a few trade t » delegates. ph jor was Absent The ful of delegates huddled in @ COrr mY J ented a very pitiful and dep n Bight. The prediction of the Workem-Party had come true. Ernest Umterman of the socialist party wanted — with whom the socialists e uniting. He wondered in sO Many, gidin words if the social- ist party W mp t making the united front with itse He asked) me 3 hae were only a few delegate 7 To this the chairman of the conference, Nickerson, replied laconically “A@k me something easy.” Hanley, ¢ eu Wisconsin State Fe- deration of Labor, was more encourag- ing. He am anced that the absence of delegates fgidue to a high railroad fare. But’ terman was not re assured sin 110 unions in nA ent, and the street car fare of 14 cen did not seemp' like such a heavy bur- den upon organizations with over 20,000 members: Edmund T: Melms of the socialist party was not'dismayed however. He announced that the next conference will be called'ig the balmy summer weather when the loyal supporters of the socialist party will be able to ar-| rive in their touring cars. Platform Question Avoided The Milwaukee Leader announced that the conference was unanimous. Yet the question of a platform was‘ not even raised at the conference. A lone delegate, Miss Keenan; with a feminine imstinct, felt that something should be saifl to conceal that some- thing is rotten in Denmark, so she (Continued on Page 2.) BILL OUTLAWING STRIKES PASSED BY IDAHO HOUSE Vote on Bill Aimed at Lumibers Workers 36-26 (Special to The Daily Worker) BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 10.—House bill No. Il, making the criminal-syndical- ism law of Idaho, more drastic and far reaching, passed the house after a heated debate by a vote of 36 to 26. |MILLER, COMMUNIST, IS ONLY FIGHTER FOR FARMERS IN THE LEGISLATURE OF NORTH DAKOTA By ALFRED (Special to The workers in the state. There is no longer any effort made and file need and want; opposition. BISMARCK, N..D., Feb, 10.—The leadership of the nonpartisan league in North Dakota has completely lost contact with the ‘Masses of farmers and it is concerned almost entirely with how it can “compromise” and “trade” with the so-called independent voters’ association Instead of making an honest and clear-cut fight In the present legislative session in behalf of the needs and demands of the masses of farmers and KNUDSON, Daily Worker) on its part to find out what the rank workers, the league leadership tries to square itself with the banking and business interests, being careful to maneuver so as not to “stir up the opposition too much.” Businessmen Boss Legislature. The result of such tactics is that the legislative show here is bossed by outright upholders of the capitalist system which is responsible for the social and economic evils under which. the struggling farmers now suffer. The league leaders refusing to fight for the farmer who needs help the most. There is compulsory state hail insurance, for example, something that is popular with the farmers gen- erally, and yet, when A. C. Miller, the Communist, introduced a bill in the house the other day, embodying this very essential feature, as well as an- other bill providing for a _ tax on all unoccupied tillable land in the state held out of use; the house in- surance committee, controlled by the non-partisan leaguers, many of them in sympathy with Miller’s plan, agreed unanimously to postpone the méea- sures indefinitely. This is not the way to fight the farmers’ battles in the North Dakota legislature. No Wey to Fight. So also with Miller’s resolution ask- ing for the recognition of Soviet Rus sia introduced in the house a few days ago and killed in committee. ‘In- dividual league representatives ex- pressed themselves in favor ofthis resolution but évidently were afraid to support it in the open. Always Pussyfooting. In this connection it is interesting a non-partisan league convention held in Bismarek a resolution requesting the recognition of Soviet Russia was conyeniently buried in committee. On this occasion particular pains were takén to ascertain the opinion of the individual delegates on the Russian question and practicaily all agreed that Russia ought to be recognized by this country. Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota who was present, at this con- vention also said in private that the Soviet government should be accord- ed recognition by the United States. Yet, despite all this favorable senti- ment for diplomatic and commercial relations with Russia, it was not con- sidered “wise” by the league leader- ship to present the resolution to the convention. ) All this shows lack of courage, and unwillingness as well to fight on the side of the farmers and the workers and against the capitalists and their government. Banker is Floor Leader. F, A. Vogel, banker, is the non-par- tisan ledgue floor leader in the house of representatives and also the chief director of the league legislative cau- cus, Mr, Vogel does not stand for any change in the capitalist system that is robbing the farmer of Neg Dakota of the fruits of his toil. He has al- ways beon considered pretty much to the right of even the average leaguer in the state) In the present session his main ef- forts are directed towards “playing” politics with the “opposition.” As for the bankrupt and exploited farmer, to recall how on October 10, 1923, at he can wait. es. WI TH “PIE IN HOPE OF NEW YORK PARSONS. _ —_— i p he es oil ‘SKY” DOPE Is. (Special te The scheme but a deep laid. well matured docile and. submissive the children of When Rev. Howlett declared that NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The proposal, unantmously made by skypiloting dope dispensers of all creeds to introduce religious training into the public schools, as already reported in the DAILY WORKER of Feb. 6, is no idle }education wants religious instruction. for the children as much as we do,” he Dally Worker) plan to further moronize and render workers, further investigation shows. “The sane leadership of the board of no sooner broached publicly than it was made a reality by Superintendent of Schools O’Shea, assigning P. 8S. 46, St. Nicholas Ave. and 156th street, as an experimental school for the pur- pose, In doing this, he further revealed that discussion of this plan has been going on for some time, the catholics giving religious instruction in the pub- lic schools for the past two years, the only new and significant thing being the “harmony and co-operation” be- tween all creeds It is not intended at present, Dr. O’Shea said, to dismiss classes earlier in order to allow children to receive their training, but that plan may be changed in the future. “I can’t say how things will develop,” he said. “The department of education has not taken any stand in the matter,” said Dr. O’Shea. “Officially, it is not our affair. If religious instruction is to be given after school hours and away from school property, that is something The bill defimes sabotage as “Any acts or efforts’ willfully or maliciously | done to hinder, or destroy property or | slow up work:* This definition of | sabotage, labor union officials here say | makes strikes unlawful. “ I. W. Wright,’ secretary of the State Labor Council, G. H. Oram, general | chairman of the Order of Railway Con- | ductors, G. W. Hunt, of the Brother- | hood of Locomotive Engineers, and | other trade union officials, calted on the governor and told of their oppo- sition to the bail. Debate in the"house on the measure showed that it was promoted by the lumber trust as a move primarily aim- ed against the lL W. W. Representa- tive Smith of Clearwater, told the house “the lumber interests need the amendment.” Representative Taylor of Kceotenai, who voted against the change in the criminal syndicalism law, defended the supreme court de- cision that enabled several I. W. W. members to come out of jail last year. They were imprisoned for organizing the lumber workers. : iin favor of not coming within the jurisdiction of ihe department, so far as I can see.” Meanwhile individual class-conscious capitalists, realizing the value to them of this work, are rushing to aid its extension. A wealthy real estate man on hearing of this movement sent Rey. Howlett an unsolicited check for $500 | saying that he regarded it a good busi- ness investment. Telegraphers Turn Down Company Union And Get Pay Raise The United States railroad labor board yesterday rendered a decision the dispatchers on the Missouri Pacific railroad, yho are seeking a wage raise of approximately $15 a month. The men rejected the company’s plan to replace: membership in the American Train.Dispatchers’ Associa- tion with a company union system. knew whereof he spoke. The plan was? TEATILE WORKERS IN STRIKE CLASH BEAT UP BOSSES But That Is in China, Not in Fakerland SHANGHAI, Feb. 10.—Six thousand Striking employes of the Naigai Wata Kaisha cotton mill today stormed the plant, assaulted and drove out the Japanese managers and overseers and wrecked furniture and machinery val- ued at $30,000, according to police re- ports. Police responded to a hurry-up call but the strikers had disappeared. They found two Japanese severely in- jured and many others suffering minor hurts. A heavy police guard has been stationed about all Japanese mills. The strikers alleged the Japanese overseers beat them with knotted ropes. Airplane Trip to Nome Cancelled As Epidemic Dies Out NOMB, Alaska, Feb. 10.—Steady im- provement in the diptheria epidemic situation here. was reported today by Dr. Curtis Welch. No fresh cases had been reported CARPENTERS LAUGH FAKER OUT OF CHAIR “Open F orum” at Local 181 Meeting There was an open forum at fast Monday night’s meeting of Local 181 of the Carpenters’ Union, when the chairman, lackey of Harry Jensen and Czar Hutcheson, decided that discre- tion was the better part of valor and stepped down from his chair leaving that honorable piece of furniture with- out its usual tishonorable encum- brance. The reason for this strange proce- dure is, that the chairman has not been able to conduct the business of the local ever since he and other satillites of the faker Jensen illegally expelled five good members, active in the Trade Union Educational League, because they protested against a scab agreement between Jensen, Hutcheson on one side and several Chicago contractors on the other. The union members insist that their fel- low workers must be given a fair trial, hence the unpleasantness. The Vacant Chair. But the vacant chair looked appeal ingly to John Steffens, the bully who acted as chairman of the farcical trial commiitee, and one of those responsible for falsifying the record. John thought he would show the rank and file what a brave man could do, s0 he ambled up to the chair, threw out his manly chest like Bernard Mec- Fadden, and declared himself vice- president. The members thought he was rehearsing for the burlesque stage and in order to encourage him, they emé#tted hurricanes of “haw haws” that could be heard blocks away. Instead of the ham actor being pleased at this recognition of his genius for acting the role of clown, he appeared per Murbed as if stricken by stage fright. His appearance in the role of self- ed. Like the famous genéfal In the story who marched up the hill and down again, Steffens retreated from the chair with all his forces intact. [t was a wonderful strategic victory, as Primo de Rivera of Spain would say after he sgusceeds in “evacuating” a town. The mémbers had a good laugh but John proved a bad loser. But the worthy was by no means thru when he travelled the distance from his seat to the gaping chair and back again to his seat. There being no chairman to declare them out of order, the members proceeded to dis- cuss the question that has kept the loca! in turmoil for the past several weeks: the expulsion of the five mem- bers. Report Falsified. Several members took the floor among them one of those who sat or the trial committee. He declared that the report of the trial committee was falsified and that Steffens was one of those who did the falsifyine. Steffens, the bully, then read a clause from the constitution which he thought would prove that the members were legally expelled, but it happened to show that they did not have a trial in accord- ance with the laws of the constitu- tion. This caused a gale af laughter interjected with shouts of “saphead” and “faker.” “Jim” Jensen, declared that the financial secretary, members were ex- néelled because he had written their names off the books. Jensen is said to be afraid of losing his job and never loses an opportunity to show his loyalty to Harry Jensen, his patron. Phe rank and file have the utmost con- tempt for this flunkey and if he ever runs ior office again in Local 181, he will not get enough votes to cover the head of a tack. Local 181 insists that its members Shall have a square deal. Build the he DAILY WORKER! CARLSON BEGINS TRADE UNION COURSE ON FEB. 13, AT WORKERS’ SCHOOL and the number affected to date was 32 with 20 additional suspected cas- es. So promising controlling the board of heaith ing and Mackie at Fairbanks, was the outlook for epidemic that it their planned flight to Nome. It was believed that relay rvnning from ' was unnecessary for them to attempt | ' ' the new dog that the | wired aviators Darl- | Nenana with a| ; Supply of serum wil! arrive in time. | (Special to The Daily patie | NEW YORK, Feb. 10. — Oliver | Carison begins his course on “Trade Unionism and Fundamentze Com- munism,” at the Workers’ School, 08 East 12th street, on Friday evening, Feb. 13. This course is part of the trade union training course that all work) ers attending the Workers’ School are urged to take. i A Ab he Dh Db i De i i i i i i b i i i bh - i ih - - - - - - - - -» - » » - - » - - - - - - » - » » D * - A A DD » » DADAM MAMRARM AL Ltd ter ter tren ferro. A tA Be A Lor an Lr tin rn LL Mt 0 Br A Ss A Ln Ls ie ‘Three Days More at the Lyceum, 86th STREET AND THIRD AVENUE a —— 2 ~ ——— of Feo. | 2,13 and 1 ippoimted vice-chairman was short- o % —— + =-_ %, 4
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as ea a ‘ a Ga aa cs ee ee ee “SAFFRON FRENCH ~ SOCIALISTS DROP INTERNATIONAL’ Their Former Daily Is Now Fortnightly PARIS, Feb. 10.—The French social- ist party definitely dropped the “Inter- national” anthem from its musical menu, when for the first time a French socialist congress opened without the singing of labor’s famous revolutionary song. Premier Herriot was severely critt- cised by several speakers for his hostile attitude towards Germany, but as usual they did not. advocate break- ing with him. Leon Blum, leader of the French parliamentary socialist group challenged the congress to order the group to break with Her- riot. Some of the speakers claimed that they drove Millerand from power. There is a severe struggle going in the French socialist party between those who wish to keep the party in opposition to all governments until it has the necessary strength to resume office and between the element which favors collaboration with the capital- ist parties. The Bargain The terms for the socialist support of the French government were fixed last May in a series of letters that passed between Leon Blum and Her- riot. The socialists have several bills which they want pushed thru parlia- ment and their only hope for getting them by is to continue their support of the present government. Rudolph Hilferding, former German minister of finance was loudly ap- plauded at the congress when he boosted the league of nations and urged the socialists to insist on the svacuation of Cologne, the occupation of which “poisoned democracy.” The administrative committee was charged with the very difficult duty of getting the official organ of the party, the Populaire, which is now published forthightly, back on a daily basis. One deputy demanded that the government provide the necessary funds in return for socialist party sup- port. This suggestion caused consider- able embarassment. The weakness of the socialist party compared to that of the Communists is shown by the fact that the latter’s daily organ, the Humanite has a circulation of over 200,000 daily. Only Few Delegates At Victor Berger’s Pre-C. P. P. A. Meeting (Continued from page 1) proposed a slogan for adoption. “Ideals —Not Opportunism.” But even this was rejected and the innocent reference to opportunism sounded too real to the delegates. So they defeated the proposal on the ground that “we do not--believe in slogans.” ) The question of the form of organ- ization of ephemeral future party was the only question that disturbed the drowsy atmosphere of the conference. Unterman was frightened at the suggestion that the new party should be a dues-paying organization. Why, he stated, we would lose the support of the majority of the mem- bership of the socialist party. It was clear that he was referring to the revolt developing in the socialist party against the Berger policy. Forming a New Party The conference agreed that a new party should be formed with the only qualifications that it should be apart from any other existing party. The socialists while fearing to mention that the new movement should sever its comnections with the capitalist par- ties, readily agreed to sign the death warrant of their own movement. A suggestion was made that busi- ness men of the state should be given consideration since the conference should recognize that LaFollette was supported by business men. But this remark did not arouse any protest. A lone trade union delegate suggest- ed that Sammy Gompers’ blessing upon LaFollette had done more harm than good; and this delegate seemed very much bewildered by the entire proceedings and wondered what in the devil the whole conference was called for. A Labor Conference To prove themselves the friends of labor the conference passed a resolu- tion in favor of the child #ibor amend- ment and a proposal was made that LaFollette be congratulated upon the —e—_, ee NEPAL, ABODE OF GURKHAS, WHOM BRITISH USE TO QUELL — LONDON, England, Feb. 10.—Nepal, in North India, an independent state which is under the influence of the British Empire, has 51.419 slaves, owned by 15,719 persons, it is learned here. The Maharajah Tribhuhana Bikram, who technically has complete power over Nepal, but whe lends his ear to a British resident commissioner stationed at his court, has issued a ruling that slavery must gradually be abolished. The fact that there are 51,419 slaves in Nepal was a startling surprise to the British people, as the fact had never been made public. The Mahar- ajah denounced the slave trader, but said that “those whose slaves are kept for labor purposes are exempt from all blame.” He said he will fix an early date for the liberation of the slaves, but the “transition will be made easy.” The average price of a slave in Nepal is $55.00. The Nepalese troops are used by the British to crush Indian mutinies. MURMUR OF LIFE IS STILL HEARD IN COLLINS’ CAVE Diggers Spurred on in Their Frantic Efforts CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 10.— The daily radio tests today brought back the same murmer of life from the in- ner recesses of Sand Cave to the head phones at which a physician listened. The beats, said by electrical engi- neers to be respirations, transmitted by the microphone, came to the nor- mal speed of health varying from 20 to 27 a minute. Once Dr. William Hazlett of Chi- cago said he thought he counted as high as 32, but this, he said, might be accounted for by other factors along the wire which might give an additional pulsation. This is Collins’ eleventh day of im- prisonment—eleven days spent in a natural straightjacket with icy water trickling over his body, without food, unable to move and yet it is believed he still lives. It is this apparent mir- acle that spurs on digging operations, keeps men working until they drop from exhaustion and holds a nation in suspense. PRISON GUARDS KILLED NEGROES QUIZZ REVEALS Beat andPoisoned Texas Prisoners AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 10.—The joint legislative committee investigating Texas prisons was making plans to- day to conduct the remainder of its probe at the Huntsville prison farm, where most of alleged cruelties, testi- fied to during the past week have tak- en place. The committee’s decision followed testimony yesterday of Dr. E. H. Boaz, of Memphis, formerly confined in the penitentiary, in which he declared four deaths had resulted from cruelty at the state farm. Among these he declared were Joe Furey, stamped to death after being struck on the head with a heavy club: Cc. F. Dillard, whom he declared was allewed to bleed to death after an operation, and two Negroes, one be- ing “given something to drink” after which he died, and the other being struck with a bar of iron and thrown into a pond. A verdict of “death from drowning” was returned by a prison physician, Dr. Boaz declared. Freight Hits Autos At Unguarded Grade Crossing Killing Six CHESTER, Pa., Feb. 10.—Six per- sons were killed, two of them women, today when a Pennsylvania freight en- gine ploughed into an automobile and a motor truck at the Market street grade crossing at Marcus Hook near here. The freight locomotive, running light, according to witnesses, crashed into the automobile first. It hurled this machine, they said, into the truck heavier machine. | stand he had taken on this amend- ment. Nickerson suggested that a let- ter of appreciation would be sufficient. The convention elected two dele-| gates to the national conference, choosing very safely an international | official of the machinists’ an official of the socialist party And then on the following day the Milwaukee Leader proudly announced that the conference was unanimous union and | for the formation of a new political | party distinct from any other exist- ing party, whatever that means. ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 10.—Veterin- arians and county agents of the nine counties under quarantine against the Buropean poultry plague met here to- day to organize for concerted action im fighting the disease which is threat- ening Indiana's $60,000,000 poultry in- dussry. and a second later ploughed into the The locomotive, declared witnesses, rushed down the tracks for more than a half mile before it came to a stop. BIG PROFITS OF ELECTRIC TRUST TO BE PROBED Another Fruitless Invest- igation Begins WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The fed- eral trade commission was under sen- atorial instruction today to open im- mediate investigations into the activ- ities of the alleged electrical and to- bacco trusts. The electrical trust inquiry: was di- rected chiefly at the General Electric company, but it applied to all its sub- sidiaries. ‘ If the trust charges are sustained by federal inquiry, Senator Norris, republican, of Nebraska, declared governmental prosecutions would fol- low. The field of inquiry, he said, would involve telephones, electricity. lights, lamps, and especially, the re- cently opened field of radio equip- ment. Western Electric In the Trust. Norris and Senator Howell, repub- lican, of Nebraska, charged the in- quiry would reveal a working arrange- ment between the General Electric company and its principal competi- tors, the Westinghouse Electric and the Western Blectric company, thru the manipulation of stock control. The Western Electric company is a subsidiary of the American Telephone and Telegraph company. “This investigation will disclose that the General WBlectric and the Western Electric are controlled by the same individuals and together maintain a monopoly’ in the electric field,” Senator Howell said. Huge Profits In Radio. “This investigation will prove the electric trust is making radio lamps for 26 cents and selling them to the public for $6 apiece.” The tobacco investigation will cen- ter around an alleged “monopoly” agreement between the American To- bacco company and the Imperial To- bacco company of Great Britain. This agreement, according to Senator Ernst, republican, of Kentucky, ex- cluded the American concern from selling tobacco in Great Britain and the Britain concern from selling in the United States. Capt. Hibben Gets New Commission, But No Decision (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—After all the thunder of the special military inves- tigation into his character and career, Capt. Paxten Hibben is enjoying the acceptance of his renewed commis- sion and wondering what the trial will do, if anything. Capt. Hibben’s activity in behalf of Russian relief and his announced ad- vocacy of recognition of Russia drew the attention of military authorities, who investigated Hibben on his fitness to retain a commission in the officers’ reserve corps, U. S. army. Hibben’s case ended Jan. 13, but no decision has been announced. His commission expired Feb. 6. Since July 23, 1923, his “fitness to hold com. mission” has heen under investigation by department of justice agents trained in the Palmer red raids and later by the official army inquiry board of officers. Patronize our advertisers. POSTAL WORKERS PAY RAISE GOES BACK TO SENATE House Ignores Senate to Please Coolidge WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10.— The Kelley postal pay and salary in- crease bill, which was approved by President Coolidge, passed the house afternoon by the required two thirds vote. The bill must now be acted on by the senate before going to a conference of house and senate representatives. The house, by rejecting the postal bill passed by the senate, threw the this TONIGHT IMPORTANT Y, W. L. LITERATURE AGENTS’ MEETING A meeting of all literature agents will be held tonight at 7:30 p. m. at room 303, 166 West Washington St. The whole matter of literature sales and distribution in the Y. W. L. branches will be discussed and new plans for this important work pre- sented. Every literature agent is expected to attend and branches will be held responsible for presence of their literature agents. postal pay increase bill back into the senate and thus postponed the wage increase* for the postal workers. Coolidge objected to the senate bill ;on the ground that it does not raise | postal rates sufficiently to pay for the |postal workers’ salary increase. The newspapers and farmers, on the fother hand, object to the house bill because it raises postai rates on news- papers and on parcel post. The effect of Colidge’s attitude has been to fore- stall a wage increase for the postal workers. February 28. the your tickets for Red Revel =“ (SHERIFF LEAVES 2 ae * ? 2 or if i] > 4 ane * a ; Ss Pe oe P rats 7 Py ee De | ee - . af. AS KLAN TAKES HOLD IN HERRIN R a —. | * Klansman Made Herrin . _ Special Deputy HERRIN, Iil., Feb. 10-The ku klux klan tightetied its grip on Herrin last night when Thomas Thornton, avowed klansmah, was appointed deputy sheriff for the city of Herrin by the county board of supervisors. A committee of eight “business men and bankers,” represefiting the group that has supplied the Kian with funds, and supported Glenn Young in his raids on the homes of union miners, was appointed by the ‘mayor of Her- rin, C. EB. Anderson, t pick twenty five special policemen for Herrin. This action was authorized by the city council of Herrin*last night. The city council also authorized the trial of Chief of Police Matt ‘Walker and officers Ross Lisenby ‘and Harry Walker for neglect of duty on the day Glenn Young and Ora Thomas were killed, The miners see in this move of the city council as one more step of the klan for securing complete control of power in Herrin. The policemen are now anti-klansmen, and the agreement arranged by Governor Small, whereby Sheriff Galligan leavés the county for two years, makes possible control of Herrin by the klan. The new klan deputy sheriff of Her- rin, Thornton, will be upder the direct supervision of Randall Parks, acting sheriff of Williamson county, the state’s attorney, and the chairman of the board of supervisors. The men thus controlling the Herrin deputy are klansmen with the exception of Parks, who is only 25 years old. FRENCH PRESS WORRIED OVER RED ACTIVITY Nationalist Organs Score Herriot | (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Feb. 10.—There used to be a theory that if a public man was equally detested by two extremes it near right. But that does not work any longer. It has ggje the way of the flat earth theory.. 2/4 Premier Herriot of Prance, is now the target for two attacks; one com- ing from the reactionaries and one from the Communist... The extreme reactionary organs, like Liberte prove that Herriot has turned over the coun- try to the Communists, but one could never discover this by reading the Communist newspaper.H umanite, Herriot is just as serviceable a tool of the French ruling class as Poin- care was. Letters purporting to come from +Zinoviev are published in the capital- ist press, calling on the French Com- munists to renew their efforts to or- ganize the colonial subjects of France against the French ruling class. Pittsburgh Lenin Memorial Metting To Be Held Feb. 15 PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 10.—The Lenin Memorial meeting which will be held in Pittsburgh on Sunday Even- ing, Feb. 15, at 8 P. M. at Labor Lyceum, 25 Miller St., will be one of the best meetings ever held here. jin addition to a rich musical program- me by the German Workers’ Singing society, and the Lenin and Soviet Russia recitations by Freeda Traher and others there will be such splendid speakers as M. Holtman from New York, M. Saltzman from Chicago and Joseph Knight from Canada. The arrangement committee an- nounces that a big crowd is expected and advises all to come early. Pitts- burgh will not be outdone by any of in Pittsburgh has pledged to bring along a fellow worker. Admission.is free, Hear Australia in France éling by rail from Montrejeau to Toul- _ouse, was able to hear two American \radio~ stations and one Australian broadcaster, using a #ét without an aerial, according to a ‘dispatch from | FIFTEEN DEAD IN |} — JUGO-SLAY ELECTION GUT PAGHIGH SUPPORT BELGRADE, Feb. 19.—The dicta- torship of Premier Pachich gained a small majority in the Jugo-Siavian elections, by the use of troops, who killed fifteen opposition peasant and Communist voters and sériously in- jured more than a hungred others. The military dictatorship thus has a smal! majority in the new “Skupt- china,” or parliament... The opposi- tion is composed largely of Croats and Slevenes, who want national independence and the peasant bice. 'Pau today. e--_ | & was a sure sign that it was pretty | which proves quite conclusively that | hail i) ao Pe tte :* ry a i Frid *> are, ey! P > ice ei Puree d) ; ten & ; PL a ETRE ENT A iy SAI CLOT I ek Foc p Mn o 4 =e = - = ie RY, Fo ee. elites 9 RR oc ind He 8, Oe 4 out Fe Sa ode? ee Pees eat We es ee i ae a: oe : . mae x Ls whe . Kop y 2 Ry sh? ae 0 -* ow x ae we Urge Emma Goldman 4 ial! “e By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL to} Teach Anti-Bolshevism in Capitalism’s Schools PARIS, Feb. 10.—J. Li. Menars, trav- ‘General Returns to West- | ODAY, the University of Minnesota, petted darling of the steel trust profiteers and the food gamblers, feels itself . roud over the fact that one of its J yeas in sociology, itirim A. Sorokin, has been elected to membership in the International Sociological Institute in Paris. : It was under czarism that Sorokin was a chairman of the department of sociology at the University of Petrograd. He is the kind of Russian that finds favor with America’s czars. He teaches the right kind of economics to those who will be called on to maintain the dictatorship of profits in wheat, land, railroads, iron ore and other sources of great gain in the rich state of Minnesota. if Sorokin had come to the United States as a worker, to escape the knout of Russian czarist taskmasters, he would have received much different treatment. Hideous immigra- tion laws would greet him upon his arrival with anti-foreign born legislation, growing ever more strict, to watch over him while he is here, for fear that he may join a labor union, help organize a strike, or become a member of a revolutionary organization like the Workers | (Communist) Party. The anti-czarist Russian finds life hard on the iron ranges in Northern Minnesota; or trying to win a bare liveli- hood from the soil that has been robbed of its timber by the lumber trust. The counter-revolutionary anti-Sovietist has it very comfortable basking in popular favor in the state’s highest educational institution. There he has many gomehow oom to serve the ruling class of this country and of his world. It was because he wrote a series of articles on “Russia of Today” that Sorokin found favor with the International Sociological Institute in France. It is in France that the Russian counter-revolutionaries make a last stand before they are pushed across the ocean into this country. France boils with anti-Soviet propaganda. It was under these favor- able conditions for him that Sorokin's articles on “Russia of Today” found favor in the eyes of like-minded sociologists of other lands. - * * * The hiring of Sorokin by the University of Minnesota to teach sociology is only another manifestation of the poverty of American capitalist intellectual life. It is unable to breed satisfying anti-labor propagandists of its own. It must search the ranks of emigres of fallen capitalism in another land. hg: ae | Thus the Cleveland, Ohio, Plain Dealer mourns the fact that 15,000 workers attended-the Lenin Memorial Meeting in New York City, responding with great salvos of cheers to the Communist appeals of the speakers. The Plain Dealer frantically declares: “There is something wrong about a system of popular education - that permits so many people to think crookedly. The state may put occasional Communists in prison; that does little good. The crown of martyrdom Is often an expensive headpiece for those who force others ’ to wear it.” : Ofcourse, the Plain Dealer means that the 15,000 who attended the New York Madison Square Garden meetin think crookedly from the capitalist viewpoint. They think very straight from the standpoint of the working class. This sheet would claim that the anti-Soviet professor, Sorokin, at the University of Minnesota, thinks straight, but that the pro-Soviet miner in the northern part of the state thinks crooked. But the revolutionary worker knows that he is thinking straight and that the hirelings of the capitalist class fight him with their capitalist reasoning. The Plain Dealer tries to camouflage its declaration by failing to state for which class it speaks. But the workers will draw their own correct conclusion. In its dire extremity the Cleveland ‘Plain Dealer offers the following: “Why not schools to teach loyalty, Americanism, the indespensabi- lity of organized government; the folly and futility of Bolshevism, as demonstrated in Russia? EMMA GOLDMAN WOULD MAKE A GOOD PRINCIPAL FOR SUCH A SCHOOL.” 8. 8:6 So the American capitalist class offers bread to the enemies of Soviet Rule in Russia. Sorokin has his job. Others also have them, or are getting them. Even Emma Goldman has her champions, seeking additional opportunities for her to spread anti-Bolshevik propaganda. , But the mighty struggles of the everyday life of the workers are greater teachers than all the foreign importa- tions that American capitalism may call to its aid. They teach the workers and poor farmers that they must wage an increasing struggle for power against their enemy class, with all its retainers. The puny efforts of the counter- revolutionaries are but glancing blows that hardly touch the growing Communist revolution. : a oe - "PROGRESSES IN GREAT BRITAIN Left Wins Proposal Is Accepted — Definite steps to bring about closer co-operation between the Trades Un- ion Congress and the Trades Councils have now been taken by the general council of the T. U. C» following ac- ceptance by the Hull congress of the recommendation to set up a joirt con- sultative committee. The committee has now decided to call a conference of representatives of trades councils in London on Febru- ary 27, and to hold area conferences in various important centers of the country. Proposals will be submitted to the national conference, under which there would be interchange of inform- ation dealing with activity and policy, and so ensure a definite basis of co- operation. Greater Unity. It is suggested that the area con- ferences should be held during March or April, and that resolutions should be submitted on the following lines: 1. Pledging support to secure for the workers generally a better and higher standard of life; calling on the government to ratify the Washington convention on hours; supporting all workers whose conditions may be threatened; and assuring activity for the inauguration of the Industrial Workers’ Charter adopted at the Hull congress. 2. Towards greater. unity in the trade union movement and 100 per cent organization. 3. Support for co-operative under- takings and the consideration of ways and means of providing food, shelter, etc., for those on strike or locked out. 4. Organization of sports and en- tertainments for workers in conjunc- tion with the unions. j Every Trades Council will be en- titled to send one delegate to the na- tional conference, and up to four dele- gates to the area conferences. Supt. McAndrew’s New Teachers’, Councils Before Board Today A tense note will be struck this afternoon at the board of education meeting when Superintendent of Schools, William McAndrew puts thru his recommendation for his own brand teachers councils. This council is to be composed of sixteen members com- prising the superintendent, represent- atives from principals’ organizations and from a number of teachers’ organ- izations. This committee to take the place of the regular teachers’ councils which were in character teachers’ shop meetings held at regular interv- als in their respective schools. -The Chicago Teachers’ Federation will be well represented and will no doubt be heard from at this board meeting. Mayor Sits on the Fence Interest is centered on what action Mayor Dever will take in regard to replacing the school board trustees whose terms have expired. On May Ist, two more trustees’ terms will ex- pire making a total of six trustees. The mayor has not made new ap- pointments for those four whos terms have long expired and three o those are at present sitting on the board and voting on every problem that comes up even to the extent of deciding on building appropriations. The Teachers’ Federation has time and again recommended to the mayor new members on the board but he has not acted on its recommendations. Making up to Kellogg LONDON, Feb. 10.—King George and Queen Mary entertained Ambas- sador and Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg to- day at a farewell luncheon in Buck- ingham palace. Ambassador Kellogg sails soon for the United States, to become secretary of state on March 4. SPANISH DEFEAT © — «|S BY RIFFS HEAVY, RIVERA ADMITS ern Morocco ate few days— MADRID, Spain, Feb. 10.—Gen. Pri- On the Way From England! The following shipment of the latest pam- phlets will be in our hands within the next mo de Rivera, president of the mill- tary directorate which now rules Spain announced here on his return from Barcelona that he will return to Morocco in a few days. The MoroGéan troops are massing opposite the Span- ish lines, Rivera said,-and the Span- iards face a big task if they would prevent another defeat. “The possible consequence of de- feat in Morrocco,” Rivera said, “is not yet realized by the Spanish nation.” It has leaked out here that in their retreat from Sheshuan to Tetuan, the Spaniards Jost several thousand men who were killed by the Riffians. The retreat here was called “purely tac- tical,” but as the truth ef the military disaster becomes known the military directorate is losing prestige. Get your tickets for Red, Revel Batt, February 28. | Rush in Your Orders Now! Work Among Women .........c..ccccccsesseseesereeee, 35 cents a copy Decline of Capitalism, by Varga................ 35 cents a copy Between the Fourth and Fifth Congress (A report of the E. C. of the C. L.)........ 35 cents a copy Report of the Fifth Congress of the Communist International ............0......... 70 cents a copy The Communist International (No. 7) (Magazine, $2.50 a year, $1.25 six months) .......... is sSaeliliadihisucnsbensedodibianecses 25 cents a copy Here are the latest publications from Europe (we have received a limited number only) for which the sole agent in this country is THE DAILY WORKER Literature Department 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois ee es ULelC KL lO
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Lene, $a aM ee nee Agents, and that report shows that on who are elegible to affiliate with the ¥ > L A B 0 R UNI ) ) a ee ee aes dene wren UNION LOSE ‘| LABOR UNIONS OF EAST ISSUE ORGAN 2. | is , scuieal ae : (There is great unemployment and consequent suffering among the doch al Ch ; t h F . t t union miners in the bituminous coal fields. At the conference with the R ~y Offic; | Ki ll ST, Lous MAKE TWO At the last meeting of the Matiounl C- ris op er irs Oo operators’ association held in Jacksonville, Florida, last year when a eactionary ciais | EXCELLENT MOTIONS Committee for Amalgamation of the 168 Assert Need three-year agreement was signed by the officials of the United Mine Amalgamated Printing Trades Unions it was decid- n- Workers of America, John L. Lewis agreed with the operators that the PCT OF W AGES led to enlarge the committee by add- We print the following resolution in| Industry must be “deflated.” He accepted the operators’ scheme of McDONALD, Ohio. — The Byers | EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill.. Feb. 9— |ing J. B. Wirkkula and Tom Bell, in te full, as, without comment it tells its} starving out some 200,000 miners. This was his solution of the miners’ | company, Girard, Ohio, makers of ee rm te tha sittmots p nates an perros perenne in activity 0 own story: blem. wrought i ipe, have increased ouls appe P e onal ¢ ©. ‘u- y ON ae ws Ba an l Operators Helped by ture to ratify the child labor Victor Zokaitos, editor of the Amal- Resolution to the International Freeman Thompson, president of Sub-district 4, of District 12, state | their cap y several million dollars, . es lanning nsion of their business, F arrington amendment and kill the state con- |gamationist, organ of the committee, Trades Union movement in behalf of Itlinoils, and John J. Watt, secretary, have a different view of the piann expa i] i d hi i to bad health. he of Amalgamat! nd world solidar- problem. They take issue with this plan of driving out men who have yet in the fage of this, the puddlers stabulary bill resigne Ss post owing to ba ity by Lebel Union No. 2376 U. M spent their wes digging coal. They analyze conditions in the coal fields employed in heir mills have suffered) WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. — The eee ee ee he ao ha gh ie 4 ; ’ Iseveral reductions in their tonnage|southern Gem Coal Co. possessing} An article in the West Fran‘fort ment of Tom Bell. J. B. Wirkkula was ch i | of A, ristopher, Ill., Feb. 4, explode several of the pet theories of the coal operators and the reac- rates without even a word of protest |_; n' Waat Hranké : ‘ alDaily Ametican brings the news that appointed secretary treasurer. =. 1925. tionary officials and set forth the left wing program for the mining a ds ae eee. eee et wero Discussion of the question of the coming from the reactionary official-| pinkneyville went bankrupt without|all creditors of the bankrupt imines . oy, Whereas, International unity of la-| industry. dom now dm control of the Amal- voted to accept an offer of a certain | °Mcial organ resulted in the appoint- bor h be { ti to paying the miners their wages for the p ment. ct’ & committee to mane the Co- r has now become imperative The following series of articles contain a wealth of material dealing | gamated Association of Iron, Steel and last month. Taxes also have not been|coal company to buy the West mine : ge safeguard the interest of the workers with technical but highly interesting facts having a vital bearing on the Tin Workers headed by M. F. Tighe, paid for the last three years. and also the mine in Sesser. So if ee end of “5 wee Se oe of the world to protect them from the) subject as well as a militant program.—Ed. Note.) who has been busy of late in Mahon-| several attempts, made by the|there is anything in the way of pay-|° George Struve, H. Schuessler and “i ravages of imperialism, and amalga- ing valley addressing lodges on such he minein Weet Frank-|ine the miners their back wages, its J. B. Wirkkula. The next issue of the mation of the many crafts in the var- biect “CO ton.” miners, to set the mine in West Frank- | ing : ; Amalgamationist will appear the first ‘ch Article Il. morrow there will be a great many |*" jects as “Co-operation. fort in operation, failed. The miners |/only the stockholders. , ious industries in the United States, is | The rank and file h luded : week in March. ald : inally F E) “Th id|more added to this list of too’ many ° © Aave conciuded! .ven went so far as to allow the com-| There is the job selling case in the the desire and the demand of the rank} And Finally Fact (E) © rap “nn. » Those desirous of building the left Bs worker¢ and what then? that the brand of “Co-operation” that t n the mine and pay thejhands of Frank Farrington. There and file of American labor, and growth of output of mines:” reducti pony. = TP © mine Suc Py . | wing forces in the printing trades un- for oS ™ : years was| Shall we kill the surplus worker, or OS ne Of wage, scales back in small installments are many coal mines in Franklin Whereas, the voice of internation] ARO, CWSS — Se a : and continued decreased in member-|>.. “8 " * ' ions are invited to get in touch with ind r only one 4,000 ton a day mine in Illi-|shall we say to him: “Brother, your in ee thrown ne 4a About a month ago the committee |county waiting for a decision in this|in.e national committee at the follow- the labor has sent thé clarion call for! i, and it was located at Living-|Problem of unemployment today will write i ite o aah © 8cFAP\ men of the West Frankfort mine re-|case. The men want action. ing address: Secretary, National Com on unity around the globe, calling upon! +. minois, but today we see mines|be our problem tomorrow, so there-|"°4P S/0n8 oe na ceived a telegram from Frank Far- mittee ‘tor Amaicamation of enel all the workers of the British Federation|*°’ ¥ Wages Reduced As Union Weak : _ ic en , he Red Int ; hoisting every day for a month’s per- fore let’s get together and solve it ages Ss Union Weakens {rington which read as follows: Milwaukee A he W Trades Unions, 1113 W. Washington of Trades Unions, the nternation- iod, over 7,000 tons per day. At Zeig-|/Once and for all time,” therefore for! Union mills are rapidly entering Farrington’s Proposal. Ep - * . ../ Blvd., Chicago, Il. for al of Labor Unions, the American Fed- ler during the month of October, 1924,|the interest of both we must unite/non-union ranks and the introduction) ,, A certain syndicate proposes to Shows Old Spirit rial eration of Labor, and all other inter- a monthly production of 189,240 tons | gain and serve notice on these own-|of modernized machines in the steel b the West os a in ails or ll A t an natio#® unions and federations to {m-| were mined, making a daily average |¢Fs of the industries that our very ex-|industry is throwing thousands of|2') 0° saaanaad ig per to| The Amalgamated Clothing Work- Says, e 4 bou th med ately affiliate and co-operate in of 7,008 tons. And often we are ad- istance depends upon the industry, the skilled workers out of employment or take 50 ner cent of their wages and ers of Milwaukee are keeping alive Your Job. We Say, ns one international federation of all la-| yw eeq of records being smashed in our |!ives of ourselves, our wives and fa-| into other: trades. The luke warm itis ath Ginter etbtthe' tee 6 tuk the fighting spirit that built the or- “Go Ahea d hoot!” PD bor thruout the world, and such a8/ wn immediate vicinity, just recently |Milies depend upon the industries, and| policy of “adjusting” wages thru so- Se Aael ab teal Snel eee ganization. Class solidarity is their —S . Red International of Labor Unions, or|the Peabody mines reported breaking | because you in your desire to make/called bi-monthly settlements with|*'; pay , —— slogan. At their last meeting they ler- the Amsterdam International, prefer-| previous hoist records of coal. And|Profits are unable to employ us there|agents of the steel barons and some} / dense Call & meeting and Rave! acest the fight against the criminal| YU Testaurant and food workers, ays ably the former, on behalf of the out|records that have been made will|is only one thing left for us, the work-| fossilized representative of the union|th¢ men vote on thes matter, But) by electing three | Wb#t ails you all? Are you all muscle- ter, raged workers of the world who are|pbe broken in the future by mines that |¢rs, the overwhelming majority to do,|usually results in WAGE REDUC.|°ly those holding statements are en- delegates to the local Labor Defense | 00UDd or pencil-shy or has your out. being ground down by international | have not as yet been fully developed, |#0d that is to nationalize, to own and | TIONS. titled to a vote. See me after the Council. They also bought 150 tickets trouble another color? = capitalism in the form of Dawes plans|ag there are mines how under the | establish workers control of these in-| This ey of-allowing the steel|meeting and ‘inform eaten: to the re- ios tha wane picture, “The Beauty All winter now, with jobs in most noel and similar schemes, and course of development that intend to|dustries on which our existence de-|barons to flame their own price, a so.|SU/ts of the meeting. and the Bolshevik,” which is being | 10°" °* auite scarce, there has bees Whereas, the statement made in the | hoist between 10,000 and 12,000 tons | pends. called slidimg scale, is a relic of ye Farrington, Agent of Capita’. run jointly by the local Defense Coun-|” steady demand for rages pay convention of the American Federa-| per day. In closing we have this word of ad- | olden day d it is agreed by all pro- Farrington held a meeting on that cil and the International Workers’ Aid. cooks, and waters. Why is this? tion of Labor at El Paso, Texas, by| So you see that we will not need | Vice for the rank and file: gressives that the A. A. of I. S. & T./particular night in West Frankfort. I don’t know why, but I would like one so-called leader “that foreign la-|S0 many mines as we have now when Be not deceived by this vicious |W. must GANIZE AND ACT or/Here we see Frank Farrington acting : ee we get ae the dishwashers would bor shall get no foothold in economic | these mines are fully developed if we thee nar cee te as pass off thip'stage of trade unionism. |as an agent of a bunch of capitalist | Milwaukee Militant sr Lime ti ity at goes On benind: Ge rinciples or aspirations; is not the | maintain or allow them the right of y the enemies of tador, demanding This Union Can Organize profit hawks, cheating the men outof W . Shclaten or tne’ whales of American la-| 4m 8-hour hoist day. pe the lowering of wages ‘in order to | wi. onion is the logical one to bring |their hard earned wages. orkers, Turn Out! Then, you waiters, in contact with bor, and is not in harmony with the Coal Surplus SOP HTS CHER. THO) OTERIEER | Fetes, about the “eoinplete organization of| Why didn’t he ask the stockholders eee of people daily, how goes princt le of international unity, but is We say if you should immediately the unorganiged steel workers yet not|to be satisfied with 50 per cent. of The next meeting of the local gen-|life’s battle with you? ~ ve Another interesting factor Of WhY| saree to go back to the pre-war thd y ate eral group of the T. U. EB. L. of Mil-| It is YOU who must tell us of your the opposite of the wishes of Ameri- t king full ti e 9 P one organization meeting has been|their holdings? But no, that would; an lab th k and file th Sr a enh cane ae ae) Ing | Wage scale, that ,the wage scale in |), Id on the unorganized nd|be unfair to the rith stockholders! waukee, Wisc., will take place Wed-| work, if we are ever to know, and the o ape re 6 ran “ e ood now is the amount of coal, surplus] 4. non-union field would be forth- ste per. tact ‘ol ficialae ; nesday, Feb. 11th at Miller Hall, cor-;great and growing family of the a and such statement In connection | eoal that is on top, the last figuers we! \ i+, lowered to suit marketing con- |) ng pe gh e offici “ws A Violation of Agreement. ner of &th and State streets. The trade| DAILY WORKER are all set to hear with American labor is characteristic have is taken from a report of the ditions, and therefore, you would ip oe ‘aia “othe . e ay sek a Well knowing that an acceptance/ynions this year have increased ‘the|from you. wore Oe, Bie cae te eo National Association of Purchasing! 145+ get one hour more of work than | ou en are employee! of the proposal would be a violation of number of delegates to the Federated; Let us workers, who don’t know : | what you now get. “No lowering of the agreements, and well knowing Trades Council. The influence of the} Much about theory, and haven’t much mie fara autre an abana ignorance [November 120 there rag 268 us| Mie woah wcnla i our logan” | ya", Sade oth areata ascvtance ould be oon 7-0. i bln ft more rary|sduuton anyway, at nett com- sential revolutionary mission, and|This amount they claim is stored ‘by The Only Solution steel strike, has dealt with the official- ee an i = ws pepe awe “ype ini Rae genet ah tate apates 4 : ie sent- such statement is in line with the |industrial users in the United .States This is the only solution that we|dom of the A. A. of I. S. & T. W. in Southern Gem Coal Co., had done,the/|tions and in the fight stinhoiil’ ta rae ‘ons hopes and aspirations of American |and Canada, that amount is approxim-|°42 see to our problems, we whojhis great book on the Steel Strike. tanion man” Wrank Farrington cue reactionary C. P. P. A All: militants H. C. Fillmore. ‘gan- ; capitalists and imperialists, and ately one year production of all the|create everything and are‘ denied it}The same leadership exists, and a io nerve to lay a ‘proposal “a thislere welcome efiurty be sues and attend » the Whereas, International unity is, and mines in Illinois. In fact it is more |@fter creating it by a few individuals|strong progressive movement which ki 7 Cuban Tobacco 2aS, , ind before the men. this important meeting. , ncils must-be, the only economic power to|tham we produced the last coal’ year interested in their own profit making|is now surging through the union is Workers to H | j hers solidify the revolutionary aspirations | 28 reports show that 73,308,655 tons schemes. So long as we allow this to,the only hopé of saving the union from a , terv- of labor. whose true mission is a revo-1 Were mined the last coal year. continue, so long will there be unem-| going on the rocks, a total wreck. April Congress ‘The Ma adh siesiene. of; the gaeuenh-abety No doubt that the surplus amount ployment and poverty, because it is There is no need for the steel work- F A S T - R N 1 | S T R F T ll be ; omic system, and of coal now stored on top is greater |™°W being fully demonstrated before jers to have false hopes injected by HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 8.—According bt be Si iadee ries Kinecetiieen’ Maltaiiadiae than it was on November 1, 1924. our eyes that industry cannot hire the |speeches from “their reactionary offi- to the labor paper Justicia, the cen- ie | as mores bie Egret sey io a Gigantic Problem agi _ seam: any py ~— as stage wt be a poy a in rea ' wn ye pnd of the National Feder- , st “ , red in the future,|face an @ cries of * * coming ° | * * ation of Tobacco Workers of Cuba, abtinie | “betraying the workers,” is attempting hes 2 aes = Popes seats hm so if we value our lives, we must in|from M. F. Tighe & Co. do not alter TREACHERY IN Pittsburgh Mac : sts will convoke a congress in the city of d to to re-enter the Amsterdam Internation- Sait tines “online: Shheteeh Gina ania turn own those things on which our|thé sftuation. The facts are that the Like Left Wing Men Havana during the coming April. ateee al on its own terms, which are as fol- with And-the thine wocketa prabiakn lives depend, so that life may be ex-| progressive movement is a rank and The purposes of the congress will May lows: First, the prevention of trade ts the same problem that many other tended and maintained. That is the/|file demonstration against the reac- THE T a X T I] a Machinist Lodge 536, at their meet- be to bring within the federation, il ex- union unity internationally; second, . @@2Y returns on the miners’) Bess fo mes edges A the miners’ union. of decency in their makeup, and be it| ©" can be used in industry from now/ man he is a tool for the bosses, | @°%on bave come into the T. U. E. L. | average a ae Be See Se Se ae py further on, and the time is coming when there ae dia get rid of him. Just be ae we in favor of the progressive miners’ cent. At ‘Present there are ee | In spite of the removal of Howat, McLachlan, Myerscough and Resolved, that a copy of this resolu- will be so many unemployed that they | ang fight! I hope to get well and help slate that Lewis ingenuity for steal- =’ eo New SOC, wawtoust, R. I., | MacDonald as possible candidates, the flagrant stealing of votes in ' will be forced to act wheth th ing elections:must have been taxed to} Mall River, Mass., and in many other lel tion be sent to The Illinois Miner, U. orc w er ©Y | in the fight to rid ourselves of all the | ™® °° , havige veal age ; n locals officially controlled by the Lewis forces, the voting of locals Dy M. W. of A. Journal, The DAILY want to or not. Necessity will force} ;ooi¢ of our masters. the limit. Here is another one from | mills. “per Pa oe aa s (Blue Sky) long since out of existence, the long unemployment of the WORKER, The Daily Herald, London, them to do it. Yours for Communism. local 2122 of Pursglov, W. Va. current news columns of the DAIL miners that made it impossible to send out a national speaker, the “Surplus” of Workers. For Presidént: John L. Lewis, 80; | WORKER for daily accounts of this , red England, and be it further You may aay.thet there are teo F. M. Goodell, George Voyzéy, 168 great battle poorly organized state of the left wing nationally, it being able only is Resolved that we request that alll many miners and too many mines, Uragie Hope, Tenn. For ViceSesident: Phil Murray,| The T. U. E. L. has called united to print 65,000 campaign leaflets, this remarkable showing of the left labor papers thruout the world t0/ that there are too many farmers and : 80: Arley Staples, 168. front conferences which are helping wing in the miners union means that the skids are well greased copy and publish the above resolution.|to9 many farms, that there are too EDITOR'S NOTE For Secretary-Treas.: Wm.. Green,|to unite the workers fer common ac- which will carry Lewis and his crooked administration into oblivion. , Committee on resolution, Alex. Reid,|many shoe and clothing workers and 92; Joe. Nearing, 150. tion. This activity should be inten- For President: John L. Lewis, aneyal Gearge Voyzey, 62,843. | . . factories, that there are too many Material sent in for the T. U. E. L. = sified. Conciliation leads to defeat, is d Chas. Reid : ‘ Vice-president: Philip Murray, 126,800 ; Arley Staples, 66,038, : d Leon A I a no - -
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* / w *s pa ge Tae Ma tn © Le ae a ar Sk So hee j 4 wg ve L ioe BS aN ra Aaa. "ROOK GIVEN ~ THE RASPBERRY Rather Tough on Fink Agency Patron Found guilty of conspiracy to extort under threat and this by Chicago’s favorite big business judge is the in- gratitude experienced by the city’s most successful hunter of red radicals. Maclay Hoyne, the state’s attorney who sent 19 Communists to prison, the man who personally congratulated Chicago and the entire country on his own, efforts to check assaults on pri- vate property, the lawyer oozing with respect for the law and the constitu- tion, this model of the vociferously respectable patriot, is a liar, a bully, an extorter of helpless woman, a con- spirator against property and the con- stitution—if one is to believe Denis Sullivan, Chicago’s most vicious anti- labor injunction judge. Sullivan now orders Hoyne and his fellow conspirator, Fred A. Burton, a coal operator for whom Hoyne is at- torney to restore coal mines and Sse- curities worth almost half a million dollars to an aged farmer and to a housewife from whom the property was extorted by threats of arrest, ex- posure and other pressure. The judge specifically states that the defendant did not seem to feel bound to respect the constitutional rights of either the old man or the struggling woman who had to defend her gravely ill husband against the sharpers. peal. Crook on Property Rights Hoyne starred as a defender of the constitution when he ordered the IIli- in which indicted. After the conviction of the radicals of conspiracy to overthrow the govern- ment Hoyne issued a statement which reads a bit queer in view of his own nois red raids early in 1920, Lloyd and 34 others were subsequent career and conviction: “These defendants and those as- sociated with them,” Hoyne declared “had two sinful objects, one the seizure of priv- ite property without due process of law or compensation, the other the He predicted that the conviction would “ring throughout Chicago and the four and a half years ago, overthrow of the constitution.” country.” It is ringing, but with the phony Hoyne’s red raids proved too expensive for the bankers and business men, it was ru- mored, when reports that $40,000 had been raised privately for the prosecu- tions, some of it finding its way into the Thiel detective agency’s pockets, were ventilated in gossip. He failed sound of a lead half-dollar. of re-election and since then has gone the way of many a public patriot for private profit. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) called a conference to see what could be done about it. * N America the president would ap- point a dozen politicians who would have a good time, spend a lot of mon- ey, make a report and go their way satisfied that they had inscribed their names on a government document. Under the czar, wherever the peas- ants were allowed to participate in -any public function, only the heads of the families went. The Soviet author- ities want every mfly who is able to participate in such proceedings to take part. _ o- 5 NFORTUNATELY the Soviet gov- ermment is obliged to rely on many functionaries who- held posi- tions under the czar’s government and who have not vet changed their mental outlook These officials have been-guilty of arbitrary acts, and ab- stentions from the elections have been caused by the high handed actions of some of those officials. In the future, the provincial and county electoral commission will henceforth consist of five instead of three persons, two of whom must be representatives from the organization of poor peasants, cal- led the Nezamozkniki. The town five persons, one of present the Red Army, trade unions and one one is to be elected by a delegate meeting of women work- | ers. fighting, or talking about equality for women please take notice? « HE UNION SOVIET REVIEW commenting on the congress writes: “The problem before authorities. is how the shortest possible time the old czarist evils of bureaucracy, infcom- petence, bribery, et: This is a ser- ious problem but it will be solved. The alliance between the and the workers on which tatorship of the proletariat is based is working satisfactorily tho not without eccasional hitches. There is no ab solute peace this side of the grave. The Russian peasants are as neces- sary to the industrial proletariat, at this stage of economic development as the city workers are to the peas- antry. Together they will solve their problems and present a united front to the robber bourgeoisie the enemies - peasantry Hoyne will ap- (Continued from last issue) The War Period. Then came the war, rightly desig- nated by Lenin as an event of world historical importance in the life of humanity, and as the greatest test of international socialism, rendering ap- parent the impassable chasm between opportunism and revolutionary Com- munism. The moment came when everyone had to show his colors. The moment came when all vacillation had to cease once and for all, and when a definite end had to be put to what Lenin termed inferior diplomacy, the diplomacy of having one foot in each camp. But did this really come about? Did the war induce Comrade Trotsky to break once and for all with oppor- tunism and support of thé right, and to renounce the role of defender and disguise for the mensheviki, in which role he had been exposed for ten years by Comrade Lenin? Since the time when Comrade Trot- sky entered our party, serving it well, and thereby adding many glorious pages to the history of his own life and to the history of the party, we have not considered it possible to en- ter into this question. But when he takes it upon himself to falsify the history and the ideas of Bolshevism, | when he attempts to appropriate to himself the ideology of the party, when he endeavors to supplant Lenin- ism by Trotskyism in the ideology of the Russian and international prole- tariat, then he himself forces us to put this question. Did the war actually separate Trot- sky from the opportunists? Did the “inferior diplomacy” cease in the face of these great events? Not at all. Just as Comrade Trotsky contrived to combine an _ arch-revolutionary “left” phrase with co-operation with the mensheviki in 1905, in the same manner he managed to combine his internationalism during the war with the support of opportunism. 1915 As early as the summer of 1915, Lenin wrote as follows: “In a reactionary war, the revolu- tionary class is bound to desire the defeat of its government. This is an axiom, contested only by the con- scious adherents or unskilled assist- ants of social democracy. Trot- sky belongs to these last. “Trotsky, who as usual does not agree in principle with the social dem- ocrats on any single question, coin- cides with them in every question in actual practice. . . “Martov and Trotsky are anxious to combine the platonic defense in in- ternationalism with the unconditional demand for unity with the Nasha Sar- ja (Our Dawn), with the organization committee (central committee of the mensheviki), or with the Tscheidze fraction.” At the end of 1915, Lenin wrote: “In reality, Trotsky is supporting the liberal politicians of Russia, who, by their disavowal of the role played by the peasantry, really mean that they do not wish to raise the peasant- ry to-revolution.” Again: “Trotsky, and the company of for- eign flunkeys of opportunism, are do- ing their utmost to patch up the dif- ferences, and to save the opportunism of Nascha Sarja group by the defense and praise of the Tscheidze fraction.”’ 1916. At the beginning of 1916: “The powerless diplomatists, and such preachers of compromise as Kautsky in Germany, Longuet in France, and Martov in Russia, are most harmful to the labor movement, for they defend the fiction of unity and thus prevent the real and matur- ed alliance of the opposition of all countries, the founding of the Third International.” In March, 1916: member of the fa- elec- toral commission must also consist of whom must re-' the local | bourgeoisie Will our American organizations |0ne of the dic- “And Trotsky? He is entirely in favor of the right of self determina- tion, but for him this is merely an | empty phrase, since he does not de- ‘mand separation of the nation op- pressed by the ‘fatherland’ of the so- | cialists in any given case. He pre- | serves silence on the hypocrisy of Kautsky and his followers.” In October 1916, just twelve months before our October: “However good the intentions of Martov and Trotsky may be subject- ively, they are none the less aiding Russian social imperialism by their com plaisance.” In December, 1916: “As early as the year 1902, Hobson recognized not only the significance of the ‘United States of Europe’ (Kaut- sky’s disciple, Trotsky, may take cog- nisance of this), but also the signifi- cance of a fact which the sanctimoni- ous followers of Kautsky in every country are anxious to conceal: ‘that ithe opportunists (social chauvinists) are co-operating with the imperial for the creation of an imperialist Europe supported on the shoulders of Asia and Africa. . the conclusions which we ee drawn from this is the neces- sity of ‘separation from social chau- | vinism.’ 1917. On Feb. 17, 1917. (February, 1917!) | “The name of Trotsky signifies: the| Left phraseology and bloc with the to stamp out in right against the aim of the left!” Six weeks after the February revo- tution, on March 7, 1917, Lenin wrote: ;} “In my opinion, the matter of the ‘greatest importance at the present juncture is not foolish attempts at a ‘coming to an understanding,’}on the lines projected by Trotsky & the social patriots or with the even more dangerous elements of the or- |ganization committee type (menshe- viki), but to continue the work of our party in a logical international spirit.” There is one important point which must not be omitted here: During the whole of this period Comrade Trotsky was a decided adversary of the “Zimmerwald Left,” whose leader was Lenin, and which formed the germ of the Third |nternational. The Third International was not born only eo s* 64-PAGE PAMPHLET ON LENINISM OR TROTSKYISM NOW IN PREPARATION This installment 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 contribution 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. .by means of revolutionary phrases, 0., with | of the struggle against Scheidemann, Vandervelde, and their like, it origin- atetd and grew in strength at the same time in the struggle against the Zimmerwald |“center,” against Kaut- sky and Trotsky. The practical policy of this center was as follows: No final rupture with the Second Interna- tional, no founding of the Third Inter- national, the aims striven for by Len- in as head of the Zimmerwald left. Lenin never altered his character- ization and opinion of the line taken by Comrade Trotsky, either at the time when the tide of revolution was at its highest, or at the time of its lowest ebb. No Leninist taking the name seri- ously can admit even the thought that Comrade Lenin, in thus systematically revealing Comrade Trotsky’s stand- point for so many years in sugcession was influenced by any individual mo- tives. In his systematic and impas- sioned fight against Trotskyism, Com- rade Lenin was solely influenced by the fact that he saw in Trotskyism a certain cugrent hostile to the ideol- ogy and the organization of the Bol- shevist Party; a current which in act- ual practice served the ends of men- shevism. As Comrade Lenin would say, it is comparatively easy to combat menshe- vism, for its open and consisent anti- proletarian character, obviously liber- alin essentials, is at once comprehend ed by only slightly experienced work- ers and is thus rejected by the work- ers. It is more needful to combat the concealed forms of menshevism, those forms which clothe opportunist policy in left revolutionary phraseology, the form which adapts menshevism to the revolutionary feeling of the masses. Those who fight against us with open visor are not our sole enemies, we have another foe in that group which disguises the efforts of open enemies and furthers the cause of the enemies of the party by exploiting the confid- ence felt in these phrases. Lenin merely formulated the rela- tions to Trotskyism, characteristic for the whole Bolshevist Party, altho Comrade Trotsky succeeded at times, in especially difficult moments in the life of the party, in drawing some few Bolsheviki over to him, if only for a brief period, by means of his phrases and inferior diplomacy. Il. Comrade Trotsky Enters the Party. The above described relations be- tween Bolshevism .and Ne sy Sr were characterized by Comrade Trot- sky himself in the words: “I came to Lenin fighting.” This phrase not only evidences a desire to win approbation, but it is very well expressed. Com- rade Trotsky is a master of. elegant phraseology. But the matter in ques- tion is unfortunately much too serious in character to be settled by a well turned sentence. In the first place this phrase is not strictly accurate, and in the second place\it is calculated to carry away the reader by its beauty and to con- ceal Comrade Trotsky’s real thoughts. This elegant phrase is a piece of hyp- ocricy. Is it then really true that the whole history of Trotsky’s attitude as we have followed it here from 1903 till 1917, can be characterized by these words of his: “I came to Lenin fight- ing”? Trotsky is apparently extremes ly satisfied with the history of his re- lations to Bolshevism: at least he wrote in his book: “The New Course,” which appeared a few months ago: “I do not consider that the road by which I reached Lenin is any less suitable or certain than other roads.” For Trotsky this is very reassuring. But is it possible for the party, with- out deceiving itself, to regard the road upon which Trotsky reached our party as suitable or certain? If this road really was a “road to Lenin,” then every one time menshevik and social revolutionist, of whom there are not a few in our party, can make use of Trotsky’s words and declare: “In re- ality | was not a menshevik or social revolutionist, | was merely making my way, fighting, to Bolshevism.” One thing at least is evident: the party cannot recommend anybody to take Trotsky’s road to Bolshevism. The comrades who have come over to us from other parties have gener- THE DAILY. conviction, not that learn anything from’ that he was going as going. to hevism, bu ch the party from Trotskyism, and*substitute Len- | fnism by Trotskyis jin Trotsky’s book, “War and Revolution,” we read: “There were three points in which the newspaper, Nasche Slovo (Trot- sky’s organ> L. K.) had not yet ar- rived at an agreement with the Social Democrat (organ of the C. C. of the Bolsheviki, conducted by Lenin and Zinoviev. L. K.) even after the form- er had finally passed into the hands of the left wing of the éditorial staff. These points referred’to°defeatism, to the struggle for peammey and to the character of the appreaching Russian revolutions, Nasche Sjovo rejected de- featism (which Le d held from the beginning of the, war to be the fundamental principle of really revo- lutionary internatio L. K.) The Social Democrat ‘Fejected the slo- gan of the struggle for peace. . and opposed it by thé slogan of civil war (rejectetd by Trotsky. L. K.) Nasche Slovo finally, supported the view that it must be made the task of our party to conquer power in the name of the socialist reyolution. The. Social Democrat maintained the stand- point of the democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry.” A few lines before Trotsky informs us that the “differences” existing be- tween the Social Democrat and the Nasche Slovo, considerable at first, had diminished. .. Not only Trotsky, but Martov, was at one time a mem- ber of the editorial staff of the Nasche Slovo; Martov, however, resigned his post later on account of the remorse- less criticism exercised by Comrade Lenin, and of the increase of revolu- tionary Communist elements among the editors. After the paper had finally passed into the hands of the left wing of the editorial staff, that is, into Trotsky’s hands, these three points of dispute remained: the ques- tion of defeatism, the question of civil war or peace, and the question 6f the character of the impending Russian revolution. Lenin stood for the defeat of the na- tional bourgeoisie, he impressed upon the workers the necessity of the de- feat of their “own” bourgeoisie— Trotsky was opposed to this! Lenin stood for civil war—Trotsky opposed it! Lenin stood for the democratic dic- tatorship of the proletariat and peas- antry—Trotsky opposed. it! Here, as Lenin pointed out, he caused great confusion with his left phrase on “permanent revolution.” In this last point Trotsky gave the impression of being more left tham Lenin. He was not content with thé mere dictator- ship of the proletariat and peasantry, but demanded perm@hent revolution. Here we have merely a further ex- ample of what Lenin pressed upon us for so many years with regard to Trotsky: a right: With regard to daily questions of tial practice, but skilfully disguised in the phrase- ology of the left. A fourth difference must however be added to these three, one not men- tioned by Comrade Trotsky: the dif- ference in the question of the Second and Third Internationals. Lenin, at the head of the Zimmerwald left, stood for immediate rupture with the Sec- ond International and with Kautsky, and for the foundin€ of the Third In- ternational. Trotsky, and the pro- Kautsky center were against this. But only a few months after the ex- istence of these differences had been definitely ascertained, Trotsky joined the Bolshevist Party. “The March revolution,” he writes, “has wiped out all these differences.” Truly? All of them? And how? Trotsky does not say. Yet the party has a right to put this question, since Comrade Trotsky has. obliged us to occupy ourselves with his history. Are we to understand the declaration that the revolution has erased all differences in such manner that we may assume Comrade Trotsky to have become convinced of his having been mistaken on all these important points? That he has adopted the viewpoint of the Bolsheviki? Com- rade Martinov, one of the best of the menshevist theoreticians, declared candidly: “I have served the working class for thiry years in the way which I held to be the best. Today I see that I have been in the wrong. His- tory confirms the correctness of Len- in’s standpoint with ‘regard to ‘the Russian revolution, and I join Lenin.” But Comrade Trotsky has given the party no such answer. (To be continued.) Red Revel Masqueradé Ball, 37 South Ashland Avenue Corner of Monroe and Ashland Blivd., , February ‘28. d a, WORKER Leninism or. Trotsky ism Candidate on Feb. 22 The 24th watd campaign commit- tee announces that it will wind up its campaign in the Chicago aldermanic election on Feb. 22 with a social at 3837 W. Roosevelt Road. Thus it will cover its campaign deficit, make some excellent last hour propaganda, get watchers for the polls, and have a good time in the bargain. On the program are the well-known Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra, which will give solo and quartette numbers as well as its ensemble, piano recital by A. S. Hambro, and a playlet by the Marshfield Juniors’ entitled: “After Epstein is Alderman.” Great .|mystery enshrouds this play and less news is allowed to leak out than out of a caucus. It will really be a city wide affair because all funds over and above the small ward campaign expenses will be donated to the city campaign fund. Kenosha, Wis., Attention. The famous movies “Polikushka”, “In Memoriam-Lenin’’ and« “Soldier Ivan’s Miracle” will be shown in Ke- nosha Saturday, Feb. 28, from 4 to 11 P. M., at the German American Home, 665 Grand Ave. All labor or- ganizations are requested not to ar- range any other affairs on that date. How New York Branches Are Supporting Their Official Organ. Section I. Quota Paid English Downtown ............$325 $184 English West Side .............. 300 195 Armenian 105 24 Finnish Jamaica 345 35 Finnish Staten Isiand ....... 100 10 German Jamaica seveesenseeesees 15 Hungarian D. T. bias OO 17 Italian D. T. .. uk’ 108 Italian W. 8. bs . 90 Jewish Dv T. No. Ci... 354 44 Jewish D. T. No. 2... 990 8=—s—(«20 Jewish D. T. No, 8... Os 20 Oriental eee Polish D. T. ban 27 9 Russian D. T. ...04.. 135 28 Ukrainian D. T. « 300 1 Ukraininan Staten island... 15 1 Ukrainian Staten Island... 15 Section Il. English Yorkville _ .......... 100 51 English Harlem 375 345 Czecho-Slovak 156 35 Esthonian 75 41 Finnish Harlem 1230 wie German Yorkville .............. 225 45 German Night Workers .... 120 35 German West Harlem ... 54 Greek . 165 85 Hungarian Yorkville .......... 252 88 italian Harlem 45 ‘in Jewish Harlem 270 38 ORGANIZER OF SOCIALIST PARTY IN BOSTON JOINS COMMUNISTS (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Feb., 10.—The demoralization of the socialist party in New England is now complete. the Young People’s Socialist League joined the Workers Party. Only a short time ago the national secretary of The latest active member of the socialist party to leave the S. P. is James Sagermoste, former organizer of the Boston Céntral Branch of the socialist party. In the following letter Sagermoste tells why he took this action and decided to apply for membership in the Workers Party: Boston, Mass., To the Central Branch of Boston, Socialist Party of America. Comrades: As organizer of the Central Branch, I feel it necessary, at this time, to render a report of the present state of our branch and to consider other matters relative to it. In reviewing the recent history of our branch, as well as of the whole social- ist party, I find that since the militant left wing split away from the party in 1920 there has been a steady de- crease in the active membership and in the socialist activities of the party. Our own branch, which was once one of the strdngest branches in the party, has reached such a pitiful state that scarcely one-half dozen members attend the important branch meet- ings. AS organizer, therefore, my im- mediate task would be to take such means as are necessary to revive our branch. However, I have reached the conclusion that it would be impossible and inadvisable for me to accept this task, because of the moral bankruptcy of the socialist party. Lost in “Progressive” Fold. The split, which occurred “a ‘few years ago, has left the socialist party entirely under the guidance of that element who, perhaps because of their own economic and social status, have little in common with those who are striving for the abolition of the capitalist slave system and the estab- lishment of workers’ rule in America. Hence we see the socialist party stead- ily becoming absorbed into the petiit- bourgeois “progressive” movement, whose aims are detrimental to the in- terests of the workers, and further- more we see tha socialist party sup- porting the designs of the labor bu- reaucracies in their efforts, in unison with the other lickspittles of capital- ism to misguide the workers. Due to the ever increasing clash of interests among the great capitalist powers another war seems an im- mediate inevitability. Such a war will spell the death of the capitalist and imperialist system, followed by a civil war which will bring about the establishment of the workers’ rule thruout the world. Instead of prepar- ing and organizing the workers on a clear basis for the impending strug- gle, the socialist party has preferred re os ally declared that they have been mis- taken, that they have had a different conception of the interests of the | working class and had thaeught to | serve these interests in a different | manner, but that they are now con-| vinced that they have been on the'| wrong road. The party did not de- | mand any such avowal from Comrade Trotsky, and was quite right in not doing so. Comrade Trotsky stood the test, and stood it excellently. But this does not by any means signify that the party can permit Comrade Trotsky to designate his fifteen years of fighting against Bolshevism. and Lenin as a suitable and sure path to Leninism { maintain that Trotsky sees the road by which he approached Lenin from an entirely opposite stand- point to ours; that. he does not be- lieve Bolshevism to have proved right and Trotskyism wrong. ‘Trotsky came tothe party with the pps ing, Moved to WA Gr } ~—) A, ‘is Isaac Goldstein, vated in Second-hand Cloth- ears by Emma Goldman’s Recitals MBolohevik Barbarities ( ——e/ library. Feb. 5, 1925. THERE’S A DIFFERENCE!— In the comparison of the persecution of Revolutionists by the White Terror—and the treatment of counter-revolutionists Russia. You will find it in “White Terrorists Ask For Mercy” —by MAX BEDACHT Just off the press, this indictment of the “socialist” traitors of the revolutionary move- ment will prove a valuable addition to a worker’s 5 CENTS A COPY 344 cents in bundle orders. to link its déatinios: with those of the bourgeoisie; for this reason there is no justification for me or any other class conscious individual to attempt to revive a defunct branch of the so- cialist party, under the pretense that the party .represents the working class. In consideration of these facts, I would advise the New Eng- land district organizer to withdraw the charter of the Boston Central branch, as he has recently done with several other defunct New England branches. Party Allied with Bosses. I can no longer retain my position as organizer or even a member of a branch of that party which has so far degenerated that it has openly al- lied itself with the enemies of the workers, supports the labor bureau- cracies, spills venom on the truly revo- lutionary element of the workers, and even has the arrogance to import that white guardist scoundrel, Abram- ovich, to lie, and create hostility toward the only workers’ and farmers’ government in the world. Therefore I hereby tender my resig- nation as organizer and member of the central branch of Boston, socialist party of America in order to apply for the privilege of joining the ranks of the only revolutionary party, the Workers (Communist) Party, which clearly sets as its aim the mobiliza- tion of the power of the working class with the object of destroying the capitalist system and establishing a workers’ and farmers rule in Amer- ica! Long live the Workers (Commun- ist) Party of America! Yours for Communism, JAMES SAGERMOSTE. Don’t Miss Junior Dance. The Junior section of the Y. W. L. invites you to attend their Valentine dance on February 14, at 1902 West Division St. There will be mass games every half hour, lots of fun and sou- venirs for all. The dance was supposed to be held at the Workers Lyceum, bat. will be held at the Soviet Schoot instead. The dance starts at 8 p. m. sharp. Come early. Admission Juniors 5 cents, adults 25 cents. in Soviet Jugo Slav 84 62 Russian Harlem 48 mF Scandinavian Uptown ........ 51 23 Spanish 54 17 Section Ill. a8 English No. 1 Bronx ........... 310 149 English No. 2 Bronx .......... 85 45 .| English No. 3 Bronx .......... 135 17 German Bronx 90 12 ...| Hungarian No. 45 48 weer ....| Jewish No. 1 Bronx............. 600 55 Jewish No. 2 Bronx ie 14 Lettish on 60 70 Lithuanian No. 32 .............. 34 sien .| Russian Bronx. 96 27 Ukrainian 15 Section IV. English Willlamsburg ........ 275 100 German Bushwick .............. 54 --| German Ridgewood ... .... 63 Jewish Williamsburg Lithuanian No. 1 165 43 Lithuanian No: 2 Great Neck 42 Aste Lithuanian No. 3 Maspeth 45 oii Russian No. 1 Williamsburg 60 25 Section V. English Brownsville .......... 150 40 Finnish Innwood ................ 72 28 _|Jewish Brownsville ............ 210 8 Section VI. English Boro Park ............. 75 8 English Coney Island ........ 60 aval Finnish South Brooklyn ....1275 176 German South Brooklyn .... 45 10 italian S. B. oes Jewish Bath Beach ............ 60 12 Jewish Boro Park .............. _ 36 Jewish Coney Island ........... 75 pees Lithuanian Boro Park ........ 36 16 Russian South Brooklyn ... 30 ain Scandinavian S&S. B. .............. 45 67 Section VII. English Astoria 55 40 German Astoria .... .......-+. 15 Hungarian Astoria ............ 54 wis italian Astoria 48 seve italian Corona 45 iad Hungarian Federation ........ 100 Miscellaenous Individuals _ .... 55 Y. W. L. 1 English Bronx ................ 45 14 2 English Brownsville ... 75 28 4 Hungarian 80 32 5 English D. T. 45 : 6 English Harlem ............ 35 8 7 English Yonkers ............ 10 8 Jewish Boro Park .......... 10 . 9 Finnish Harlem ........... 50 10 Jewish Harlem .............. 35 11 Jewish D. T. .... 75 12 Jewish Bronx ................. . 100 en 14 Jewish Brkin. Wmsbg 40 10 15 Jewish Brownsville ...... 45 M6 English Wililamsburg.... 30 ee 17 English Coney Island... 15 ae 18 Jewish Williamsburg ... 45 21 Hungarian D. T. ............ 30 22 Jewish Lower Bronx... 10 3 23 Jewish Coney Island .... 30 24 Jewish Bath Beach ...... 35 25 English Upper East Side 25 abe 27 Greek West Side ............ 15 10 ee. Sy en 90 2 29 Russian Bronx ................ 30 12 Figure out for yourself whether YOUR branch is doing its share. The quota is $5 per member in English speaking branches and $3 per member in all other branches of the party. In the Young Workers’ League about one- third as much. If your branch is among those that have not yet paid anything, then please take it as a per- sonal insult and remedy the stituation at once. The next list will be made up Feb. 14. Let’s make it UNANI- MOUS by that date, Are You Going to the Open Forum Sunday Night? PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. | Dr. A. Moskalik DENTIST S. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts. a PHILADELPHIA, PA. The Daily Worker 1113 v. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. For the enclosed $ send copies of “White Terrorists,” etc., to: Name ee ee Street City State -_. —_—_— ——— ee 2 le lle I ae
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aa | ee ee -_S flict OUT TAILORS! Violate Cosenthsnd Advertise for Scabs (Special to The Dally Warker) PARKERSBURG, West Va., Feb. 10. —The National Woolen Mills, located here and owned by local people locked out its employes who are members of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union two weeks ago and refused to take them back except as individuals, which means that this concern will no long- er recognize the union. An amusing feature of the situation is that the owners of the mills, when they started up business, forced their employes to join the union. Since then the union has developed a back- bone of its own and refuses to take orders from its former owners. Hence the lockout. Can’t Hire Scabs. While the mill owners had a con- tract with the Tailors’ Union, which has several months to run, they simp- ly shut their doors when they got ready to. The members of the union, about one hundred and sixty men and women are firm in their determination not to go back unless the union is recognized and are receiving the sup- port of the railroad and other unions here. The prospects for their victory are bright as the owners of the mills have not been able to fill their places so far, tho they have widely adver- tised for help in other cities. The lo- cal papers are suppressing all: news about the lockout, which has created much excitement here. Secure Injunction. The firm of Ambler, McCluer and Ambler, attorneys for the National Woolen Mills, entered a suit in chancery asking for an. injunction against the local branch of the Tail- ors’ Union, which would prohibit its members from picketing the com- pany’s property. The notorious “Denny” Sullivan of Chicago never displayed more alac- rity. in acceding to the request of the Windy City’s scab garment operators for an injunction than the Petersburg court. The injunction was immedi- ately issued and served on the offi- cers, agents and members of the un- ion. It does not even permit a mem- ber of the union from going near the National Woolen Mills. When you bu an “Ad” for the DAILY. WORKER. r p i rs 4994 eS — ——— — 4984. This is a pretty style for the new plaid woolens and silks. The right front forms a wide revers. The gkirt portion is finished with a sep- arate panel which forms graceful plait fulness. BeQe «tt eo - ke et ce tk ee. lS Slt This pattern is cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, and 46 inches bust measure. A 38-inch size requires 4% yards of 40-inch material. To face euffs and revers portion of the front requires % yard. The width of the dress at the foot is 1% yard. Pattern mailed to any address op ireceipt of 12c in silver or stamps. a = . FASHION BOOK NOTICE md i2c in silver or stamps for our e Spring and Summer 1926 color plates aking, @ ome = nes), all valuable hints to the home ker ® . FROCK FOR MOTHER'S GIRL. 4999. Plaid woolen with flannel in a contrasting shade will be good for this design. It isyalso attractive in velvet, or taffeta, and very good for wash materials. The sleeve may be finished in wrist length, or, short as in the small view. The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. To make the dress as illustrated in the large view, re- quires 3% yards of plaid material 27 inches wide and % yard of plain for a 10 year size. If made with short sleeves % yard less of the plaid ma- terial is required. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Address: The DAILY WORKER, W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. | ) NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—The | patterns being sold thru the DAILY) WORKEK pattern department are fur- nished by a New Yerk firm of pattern manufacturers. Orders are forwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re-| ceived, and they are mailed by the man- wlacturer direct to the customer. The DAILY ORKER does not keep a stock of vatterns on hand, Delivery of pat- teri.s ordinarily will take at least 10 days from the date of mailing the order. Do not become impatient if your pattern is Jelayed. 1113 ~ 2 Oo A Af on ao 2 ©) t “fitter, etc., ‘4; working as a plumber ‘government. A ice, so that the fine southern gentlemen might have their mint juleps at the right temperature. Packing House is University. After working on Alabama railroads, Doty came to Chicago at the age of twenty-one, in 1905, and worked ip Chicago packing houses as a steam- until he. was drafted into the world war in 1918. He is now in Chicago, where he is well known and consider- ed a leader among the working peo- ple of the south side. He is especially active in attempting to break down the remaining barriers against the admission of Negroes into trade unions. Doty soon developed into a power- ful speaker and a skillful organizer. He became a charter member of the African Blood Brotherhood, which sought to bring the black and white workers into co-operation on the class- conscious basis and to win the free- dom of the Negro workers from the racial persecutions which are such a terrible handicap to the struggles of the colored workers. Graduates a Communist. From the first days that the Com- munist movement assumed form in the United States, the young Negro leader threw himself into it with all of his heart and brain. When the Workers (Communist) Party was organized he became a member. The peculiar legal requirements of the aldermanic elections of Chicago do not permit the names of political parties to be announced as officially nominated by any party. This is a way of maintaining the pretense that municipal elections are “non-par- tisan.” Of course, it is a blind to cover the rank dictatorship—the cap- italist distatorship of the city of Chi- cago. Because of the hypocritical legal rules, the Workers (Communist) Par- ty is not permitted to announce Com- rade Doty as its regularly nominated party candidate. The party announces, however, that Comrade Doty runs for the office with the full approval and hearty endorsement of the Workers (Communist) Party, and that he makes his‘campaign unqualifiedly as a Communist. American Imperialism Gets Its Dividends MEXICO CITY, Feb. 10.—The gov- ernment announced today that it would pay 3,000,000 pesos ($1,500,000) in debts left unsettled by the Obregon considerable portion of this amount is owed to Americans. PATTERNS BUYERS NOTICE Mrs. P. Koezler-—-who gave her ad- dress as 2618 N. Central Ave., Chi- cago, lll., kindly let us know the correct address, as the pattern has been returned from the P. O. mark. ed “unclaimed.” Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. -38 > THE. DAILY yWORKER am WORKERS’ NUCLEUS Guides 150 Restaurant ployes NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Shop Nucleus No. 1, food workers, at its first reg- ular meeting demonstrated how ef- fectively a shop nucleus can function. Already the workers in the restaurant are alive to the,fact that a Commun- ist group is actively concerning itself with their affairs: The result Raw been that the com- rades of the’ #HOp nucleus are now in control of thé shop committee. In the shop they, officially represent the workers and t for their interests. At their first, meeting they enrolled two of their ow workers in the party and they, expect in a short time, due to their aétivities in the shop, to enroll many more. The organiser stated they soon will control the kitthen—the most im- portant departmént—in a big restau- rant. BHfforts being made by the members of the shop nucleus to draw two of the cooks into the party. Effective Work. The shop niicleus has worked so ‘ffectively sinée its organization that they have the confidence of all the workers, 150 im Number, that work in the restaurant. This makes the mem- bers of the shop nucleus an important element in the union organization of the food workers, because they can depend upon their fellow workers in the restaurant to support them in any fight they may have to make in the union. On the Job All the Time. The shop nuclets will meet regular- ly twice a month and as often as con- ditions will demand. In the shop where the workers feel most the tyranny of the boss, where the class struggle is daily being. fought and where Com- munist propaganda and work can be most effective.in winning the workers for the party, the.members of the shop nucleus daily carry on Communist work, Their wotk immediately brought results. “1a: The experiencés so far of Shop Nucleus No. 1.18 proof that when the Workers (Communist) Party is organ- ized on the basis of shop nuclei, it will become a real mass party of the work- ers in industry, reflecting in its strug- gles the needs and interests of the workers. ans Council Would Delay Traction “* Ordinance Until After Election j The members of the transportation committee of the city council in an effort to delay action on the Dever traction ordinance until after the al- dermanic elections, stayed away from committee meeting Monday afternoon. The mayor was called in to round up the committee for some action yes- terday. Mayor Dever, in his last report to the city council, delivered in October, told the aldermen that he had brok- en off negotiations with the traction lines because he considered $163,000,- 000 demanded for the lines by the bankers, too high: Now, however, the mayor has given out the report that he will recommend to the city council that this price be paid. The aldermen are anxious to post- pone action until after the aldermanic elections, as they do not want Dever’s ordinance made a campaign issue. Make Job for Wrigley, Jr. Directors of the William Wrigley, Jr., company in meeting today, elect- ed Phillip K. Wrigley, president of the $35,000,000 chewing gum business that bears his father’s name. Young Wrigley is not yet thirty years old. | Movies for Workers | “Beauty and ..the Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls’’ will be shown at the following places: South Bend,.. Ind.—White Eagle Theater, 1125 W. Division St., Feb. 11. St. Paul, Minn.—444 Rice St., Feb. 20. Milwaukee, “Wis.—Pabst Theater. March 7. San Francisco, March 21. _., -, ee De DD DD DD De If you are desirous of a pleasant evening spent. on the eve of GETS RESULTS, AY eee ee Ce ee seeeetere BUILDERS AT WORK’ nounce “gets.” BUILDERS. also the environment. WORKER City.” Not satisfied, the local put on this comrade as ful time agent (pardon the pun) so it Goetz more’ results. This is the Idea. for more. “dope.” edition with commissions on advertising they will solicit. Here is a method of building up the local that is certain. tried an PROVEN. locals to write us for information on how they also can do it. fully aware of the possibilities. In his last letter our agent writes: “It will help the party spirit, will mean a lot of good propagand and above all MORE SUBSCRIPTIONS.” Correct! It will mean all that in a nut-shell, and everything to th local. Write as we suggest—NOW—and have the DAILY WORKER bull up your local for you—that’s what it is for! There Will Be More of Everything in Detroit! HE City DAILY WORKER Agent for Detroit is Alfred E. Goetz—pro- Because, really. he gets ideas that are sure-fire Of course, in addition to his natural inclinations there is Detroit has long had the reputation as a “DAILY During the last presidential election Local Detroit had three spécial editions. They did so well on them that they are ready The local DAILY WORKER Committee, always looking for ways and means to do more BUILDING sent Comrade Goetz out for the He wrote us and got it and they are going to pay for the special d it has shown in results what can be done and we want other Comrade Goetz and the Detroit DAILY WORKER Committee are e d — MILWAUKEE SOCIALISTS REFUSE TO (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Swabeck, the socialist party cancelled arrangements for all future deba Party, was scheduled to meet Leo Wolfson, city editor of the Milwau Leader, was turned into a_ lecture HOLD DEBATES WITH COMMUNISTS Feb. 10.—Following the crushing defeat inflicted upon the socialist party by the district organizer of the Workers Party, Arne tes. The last debate in which G. S. Shklar, city secretary of the Workers kee when Wolfson declined to appear de- claring that the debate was given too } much publicity. Shklar was introduced by the sec; | Your Union Meeting | retary of the Workmen’s Circle and in a few introductory remarks stated that the Workers Party is not afraid of publicity, that the Communist fol. lowing the teachings of Marx as stat- Name of Local and Place No. ; of Méeting. Blackemiths’ S. Throop St. District Council, Carpenters, 126 the bankruptcy of the socialist party) g7, when that party pretended to repre- sent the: interests of workers, and 5 gave its support to LaFollette who does not stand for the abolition of private property. Painters, Evanston, iil. Plasterers, 910 W. S. Ashland Ave. Railway Carmen, ideologically, but also in the support | y4o4¢ Tashan: 610 W. Variecn of the masses. Tunnel and Subway Workers, The meeting decided in the future| pote—Uning wthenvise to unite with the Workers Party in | meetings are at 8 p. m.) arranging lectures. The Workers Party is growing in influence here. At the last meeting Help Insure of the Federated Trades Council, the THE delegate of the Workers Party dis- DAILY WORKER turbed the confidence of the socialist for 1925! stated party machine by a denunciation of Berger’s machine and its allies of the LaFollette camp. Second Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1925. 119 Boller Makers pe hee and Racine. 10 rfield Biv ed in the Communist manifesto do} 4° Sarpenters. +m tee and Lexing- not desire to conceal their position sae a ‘ seas, a hiiatlalia ah arpenters, snian Vv and will state it to the worfers. ‘14603 Carpenters, 505 8. State St. “4 Shklar expressed surprise that the | 1784 Carpenters, 1638-N. Halsted St. socialist party was afraid to state ee a m9 ant 2253 race St. Irvin ‘ their position on the political prob }i955 carpenters, 6414 S. Halsted St. lems embracing millions of prole- | 2897 Carpenters, 1681 Maple Ave., Evan- “ " ston, tit. tarians. Should we keep our posi ics been Mie Maeakeke Ave. tion secret from the workers when it 3 Hod Carriers, 1352 W. Division St. involves our attitude toward the ‘police; 562 Hod Carriers, 810 W. Harrison &t. cies effecting millions of proletaris| 94 1 aiest Workers, Workeus tae oy: ans?” ’ anion uren Street. hi Shkl inted ant. 100: Maakinlotn, 178.6, Aahlane Bice, ar pointed ou achinists, . Ashian v In a lecture P 524 Machinists, 735 N. Cicero Ave. Maintenance of Way, 426 W. 63rd St. Sherman & Main Ste., Monroe St. Railway Carmen Diet. Council, 5445 5444 Wentworth Railway Carmen, 5445 Ashiand Ave. St., St. St. St. land nee Trainmen, 426 W. 63rd Workers Party Gains in Influence. 7:30 p._m. 11 Roofers, 777 W. Adams St. Shklar pointed out that Workers | 73 Sheet Metal, 714 W. Harrison Party received over four thousand | 485 Sheet Metal, 6324 S$. Halsted votes notwithstanding its first appear-| 753 Teamsters, 175 W. Weehingten ance on the Wisconsin ballot, while | 75 awe (Meat), 220 S. Ashi the socialist party was losing not only | 769 Teamsters (Bone), 6959 S. Halsted St. 914 fo hee E SEVEN THOUSAND: IN CHICAGO SEE WORKERS’ MOVIE “Beauty and | Bolshevik” Has Big Attendance The great Ashiand Auditorium with its 5,500 seats was filled to over- flowing twice in one night last Thurs- day at the showing of “The Beauty and Bolshevik” under the joint auspices of the DAILY WORKER and the Inter- national Workers’ Aid. Altho adver- tised as a continuous show from 7 to Il the crowd began arriving at 5:30 and by 7:30 every seat was taken. Fully 2,000 waited over two hours to get into the hall and the last show did not end until after midnight, The pictures were received with greatest enthusiasm, a ripple of al most continuous applause and laught er accompanied them and at the high spots they swelled into salvos of cheers. A large and active group of “Red Star Volunteers” were on the job tagging for the Michigan Defense, and William F. Kruse and Morits J. Loeb made collection speeches, Music was furnished by three work- ing class groups, the Young Workers League, the South Slav Balalaika Or- chestra. This music was especially fitting to the Russian proletarian films and constituted one of the most en- joyable features of the evening’s en- tertainment. The films will be shown in the Bus- sian, Slavic and Jewish sections of the city in smaller theatres. Federated Press Holds 5th Annual Meeting in Chicago The fifth annual meeting of The Federated Press, labor news service, which was held in Chicago Feb. 6. authorized steps toward an organized far eastern news bureau, adopted the 1925 budget carrying $25,130 and elec- ted four members of the executive board in addition to the routine busi- ness. The new bureau will have head. quarters in Paris and will devote itself largely at first to Indian news. The affiliation with the Federated Press is to be loose until the fleld is better known. The newly elected members of the executive board are Thomas R. Dow- nie, Galesburg, Ill., reelected as chair. man; Arne Swabeck, Chicago, reelec- ted; Vern Smith, Chicago, to succeed J. A. Lochray; Phil Ziegler, Cincin- *|mati, to succeed R. D. Cramer. Joseph Schlossberg, New York, was re-elected vice chairman. British Urge Probe Of Opium Growth in Oriental Centers GENEVA, Feb. 10.— The interna. tional opium conference in plenary session today adopted the findings of the British investigation of opium growth in oriental centers to ascertain the amount of cultivation and reduc- tion over a period of five years. If reduction of opium cultivation be sufficient in a fifteen years period to make suppression possible, the culti- vation of opium over medical needs will be stopped, the conference de- cided. The conference adopted the plan of making the signatories of the Hague opium convention responsible for the strictest enforcement of provistons against smuggling. tn tt tn te tt te fe tn ls te tn tn tn tn hn te he le a hn te a tn te lin hn tn ln en ln hn tin hn in Mn in Sn fn Lin nin ts Cntr tr irre Me Mr in Lr. Ltr. rr re Lr. ir Lt ncn rt -_wewfr-T!.." Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday WEDNESDAY, ‘FEB. 11, 1925 you. will attend the Second Annual Dance of the CHICAGO BANK EMPLOYES® ASSOCIATION at beautful Mirror Hall, 1140 N. Western Ave. TICKETS 50 CENTS. — Entree 8 o'clock. an Freiheit Singing Society World-Famous Violinist Ukrainian Workingmen’s Chorus Tomorrow Afternoon, Saturday—Junior Day International Workers Aid / 208 East 12th Street. New York C De be he eh be he hy he be he hh he he hh hi hp hh hy he he hy i hh hi, hp i hh he he he dn ha he Ain hi, hin hin Min Me nln An tn ln Alin ll ln Alin Al Ll ln All All, lll ‘ >. toupee ee iS PRIZES © WILL BE : GIVEN FOR THE ‘arszE0STUMES Friday Night Grand Concert International Workers’ Amateur Orchestra Don’t Miss This Treat! JOINT BAZAAR | LYCEUM, 86th and 3rd Avenue Tomorrow Night, Saturday—Grand Finale GRAND COSTUME BALL Labor Defense Council ity —— —_——_— - - . ee ee. Se ee ee EE LS ee ee) i DD De De et i th Dh Db De DD DD Di eee — —_— _— —— Hungarian Singing Society | ee > i eed Spc I
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+4 Ne a a a Fe a THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. 1118 W. Washington Bilvd., Chicago, ti. (Phone: Munroe 4712) ee RATES By mall $3.50....6 ai $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): . $4.50....6 months $2.50...3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Ilinele Jj. LOUIS ENGDAHL } Editors WILLIAM F. DUNNE{ agg ape MORITZ J. LOEB Manager —__ Y Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Lll., under the act of March 3, 1879. p> 290 Advertising rates op application Morgan “Organizes” Miners The organization of a company union by the Morgan merger interests in the West Virginia coal fields, a scab organization headed by an ex- district official of the United Mine Workers, throws light on what course this new and gigantic indus- trial combination will follow in its relations with the workers it employs. It shows further that the so-called Rockefeller plan launched by the Standard Oil controlled Colo- rado Fuel and Iron company after its massacre of coal miners at Ludlow in the 1913 strike is to be tried out on a larger scale. Industrial feudalism accompanied by wholesale murder of miners and their families have given to the steel trust and its West Virginia coal com- pany subsidiaries much unwelcome publicity. The gullible “public” will now be told that the kindhearted company has allowed the miners to have a union and that everything is lovely except that labor union and “red” agitators are attempt- ing to corrupt “our well-paid, loyal and contented employes.” We can expect now another flood of “Poison Ivy” Lee publicity such as followed the initiation of the Rockefeller plan in Colorado. Our reports from West Virginia show that it is going to be much harder to fool the miners than it is the “public.” Most of them are going to keep the old rifles in working order, even tho they are forced into the company union for a time. The Boiling War-Pot News from London is that the coming conference of the admiralty board, at which the report of Ad- miral Fisher on his inspection tour of British~pos- sessions will be heard, will adopt a plan for a huge Pacific fleet as a further strengthening of British “influence” in the Far East that was begun with the project of a huge naval base at Singapore. The British press is very frank—an unusual thing in the public discussion of the imperialist adventures of the British ruling class which is gen- erally “saving” some backward people from domi- nation by other than the Anglo-Saxons who bring only sweetness and light into the lives of the darker-skinned masses—see India and the Sudan. It is pointed out by the British pressmen, as journalists are termed in dear old London, that the destruction of the German fleet makes it possible for Britain to utilize her own navy to greater ad- vantage in the lar East. It is not hard to read between the lines the in- tention of British imperialism to make its greatest bid for power in China, where it is already in con- flict with American, Japanese and French im- perialist interests. We recommend a careful read- ing from now on of the British imperialist press to the social-pacifist elements who were so enthu- siastic over the Washington disarmament confer- ence. In connection with the new naval plans of the British government the recent announcements of the semi-official French press are of great im- portance. We commented on them a few days ago and quoted its statement to the effect that the French government must choose now what power or powers it will support in the Far East. All opinions like those cited are bubbles break- ing over the rim of the imperialist war-pot. It boils more noisily each day. Zinoviev's W arning Zinoviey, in a recent conference of the Russian Communist Party, warned of the danger of a new offensive against Soviet Russia. He pointed out that British imperialism fates two great dangers: 1. The voleanic situation in the Far Kast— threatened loss of British control in China, revolt in India, etc. ganization among the British working class as a result of economic demoralization and the activity of the British Communist Party. Zinoviev reached the conclusion that Great Britain would not wait for an explosion at home or in the Far East, but would start war on Soviet Russia thru Poland or Roumania and perhaps would use both vassal nations. Since the delivery of this speech dispatches tell of renewed military activity in Poland—the speed- ing up of munition factories, concentration of forces on the Russian frontier, ete. In a war of this kind Great Britain, in spite of the deadly rivalry existing between her and the United States, would have the tull support of cur ruling class. Every eftcrt would be made to enlist the sympathies of the working class in America for the crushing of Communism at home and tbhroad. The Workers (Communist) Party must be ready. ee —_———— er ee Pittsburgh Machinists and C2 tee The Westinghouse local cif of machinists, working in one of the gigantic plants of this power- ful industrial corporation, located in Pittsburgh, the stronghold of the steel trust, has endorsed a resolution denouncing the class collaboration pol- icy of the conference for progressive political ac- tion, headed by William Johnston, president of the International Association of Machinists. The reso- lution urged the adoption of the Workers Party program. The resolution failed of endorsement at the Pitsburgh district council of machinists by only one vote—the chairman casting the deciding ballot. In this influential section of the machinists’ union, right on Johnston’s doorstep, is class-con- scious opposition to his scheme of betrayal. The action of the Pittsburgh machinists comes on the eve of the Chicago C. P. P. A. conference, showing that the efforts of the Workers Communist) Party in exposing this organization as another weapon of capitalism against the workers have been suc- cessful. Scab Creameries and Counter- Revolution ries an advertisement of a scab creamery which is on the unfair list of the Labor Council of that city. In New York it slanders Communists and boosts Abramovich, the enemy of Soviet Russia, of the Communist International and the social revolution thruout the world. Is there a connection between these two incidents three thousand miles apart? We'll say there is. The Forward is the foe of the working class. It represents the middle-class busi- nessmen, the lawyers and other professional groups —the crumb- gatherers from the table of capitalism. Support of a scab creamery and counter-revolu- tion are not so far apart as Los Angeles and New York. Not Quite Correct. A Washington correspondent who should know better attributes much of the difficulty of the postal workers to the alleged fact that President Green of the American Federation of Labor is aot yet well acquainted with the capitalist party leaders in the house and senate. . Our opinion is that the better the acquaintance of labor leaders’ with capitalist politicians the worse off are the workers by whom the labor lead- ers are paid. The friendly and fraternal atmosphere which prevails around the American Federation head- quarters and the .congressional and senatorial chambers whenever Jabor leaders and capitalist politicians meét, is‘one good reason why the labor movement is principally an organization which, like the Naples beggar, always goes with knee crooked and hat in Nand. Green. is not useless to the postal workers be- cause he does not know Washington, bit because he knows it too well. Forgery As an Imperialist Method. The skulking duplicity revealed by the alteration in the text of the Paris pact, made before it was submitted to the senate, eliminating the word “treaty” as far as possible, reveals a condition of affairs in the Morgan-Hughes state department as rotten as anything in the czar’s pre-war diplomacy and comparable with the forgery of the famous—or infamous—telegram by Bismarck just preceding the Franco-Prussian war. The Paris pact is so dangerous to the American masses, its obligation to collect by force the Ger- man reparations in the event of revolution or other reasons for default so certain, that none of those engaged in putting it across dare to admit its full meaning or even to face the little group of middle-class politicians in the senate with a truth- ful statement of its far-reaching provisions. American imperialism and its agents have been caught with the goods. They have been flirting with forgery as an alternate course to fight- ing for their murderous and greedy schemes in the open. The whole incident is just about the best evi- dence -yet disclosed of the way in which the lives of millions of workers are staked in the game of international finance, diplomacy and war. Some day the American Soviet government will publish documents, now hidden in the archives of The growing revolutionary sentiment and or- | the state department, that will be even more en- lightening. With 50,000 unemployed jin Cleveland, there ought to be a powerful unemployed council in the Ohio metropolis. The organization. drive starts Tuesday night. It should make rapid headway. | The so-called “baroness,” Olga Wrangel, has de- parted for other scenes of activity. No announce- ment of funds raised in Chicago for the counter- revolutionary activities of her husband has, been ‘made. Evidently she didn’t get very much. The “socialist,” Abramovich, is reported as the next anti-Sovietist scheduled to visit this city. The Locomotive Engineers’ Journal has 4 lengthy eulogy of William Green in its latest number. To cuderstand the meaning of this’new conciliatory attitude towards the American Federation of Labor it should be remembered that the Engineers’ Brotherhood is in very bad with the United Mine Workers because of its ownership of scab mines in West Virginia. Reactionary laboriofficialdom has its own diplomatic methods’ — In Los Angeles the socia¥st Daily Forward car- | found | sity T lowed” the left ¥ to the official tabulation by the Lewis bureaucracy in thet recent United Mine Workérs’ tional officials is a tremendous victory for the Trade Union Educational League and the Workers (Commun- ist) Party and the militants in the United Mine Workers, can be grasped only in the light of the following: ballots which means #hat many thous- ands of votes cast found their way to sion of the union. apparatus which means unlimited funds # curing votes for the q dozens of “organizet§”jto flood doubt- ful districts to “fix things” during the election. (Kansas) the left wing district slates were ruled off the ballot. In Kansas Alex Howat was nominated by 90 per cent of the locals, and every ballot on which Howat’s mame had been “written in” was thrown out. berta the yellow scamp, Sherman, de- clared his clique elected by acclama- tion after debarring the left wing can- didates. ’ ages of the Lewis Oofficialdom there goes the blacklisting of stealing and faking of ballots (as in THE DAIL The stetyote til votes “al- plate according election for Interna- The full significance of this event (1) The Lewis gang, “counted” the the left wing e Lewis column. (2) The Lewis gang has full posses- spend on se- cialdom, and (3) In districts 18 (Alberta) and 14 In Al- (4) Together with these advant- militants, Illinois), the support of all the local republican and democratic “bosses” and the bootleggers with their “mule.” (6) The expulsion from the union of such outstanding militants as Howat, Duncan McDonald, Jim McLachlan and Tom Myerscough which made it impossible for the left wing slate to contain the names of these well- known militants. GQ (6) None of the left wing candi- dates were known outside of their dis- tricts and were unable to tour the other districts. , (7) The left wing campaign was limited to the distribution of leaflets. iusand ona The only paper that supported the OMe a! oR a2 : Say pid to campaign being the DAILY WORKER. In spite of this even the Lewis’ tellers are forced to admit that the left wing polled over 66,000 votes. And these votes were’ cast against the Lewis policy and for the Progressive Miners’ Committee policy—for class struggle as against class collabora- tion. This event marks the birth of a con- scious revolutionary movement in the United Mine Workers, not based upon adherence to the magnetic personality of some popular leader, but upon the acceptance of the Progressive Miners’ ‘Committee program of militant strug- gle against the operators. © - Voted for Left Program. The mobilization of this vote was the work of the revolutionaries scat- tered thruout the United Mine Work- ers. They fought against a machine built by John Mitchell at the begin- ning of the century and perfected by. White, Lewis and Green. Poverty stricken and tied to the mines these rebels nevertheless achieved this mass | repudiation of the Lewis policy be- cause their program supplies the ans- wer to the problems confronting the miners at every turn. To cure unemployment, prevent wage cutting because of competition from non-union fields, and prevent the operators sabotaging the wages and conditions in union districts the Lewis officialdom advances the pol- icy: Throw 200,000 miners out of the industry as a step toward “deflation” —no breaking of “sacred” contracts even tho the operators smash them to pieces. To the miners the Progressive Min- ers’ Committee says: Nationalization of the mines, take the mines out of the hands of the exploiters; an alli- ance with the railroad workers in preparation for an offensive on the bosses; international unity of all miners to prevent international scab- bing during strikes. Thus the issue is clearly joined. The Lewis policy means continued un- employment, .breaking of rates and working conditions by the operators; smashing of strikes called to make the operators live up to agreements Page beo pege. ts. Eon ' ee) rain aot. ee s ier > oe ey Ses De ee eS ’ ve Ps ‘eh ia - a \ “ ¢ ’ 4 _* Figh tinual out * ‘the non-un- ion flelds the u The left wing ‘lays out a strategical line - “will lead to and the é6ntire working class. It breaks with the Lewis policy of con- tinuous betrayal and kowtowing to the bosses; it opens up a path by means of which the miners can fight the-bosses. This program is practical and leads to action, _ defensive and offensive., | : On the basis of this Waty-ste thous and miners “up dgainst Lewis and declared themselves for a policy of class a er Sooiiieg the Rebels. ‘What is the sxt step in this strug- agents in the ? Plainly: The crystallization of this militant force of sixty-six thousand miners into a defi- nite organization to wrest the United Mine Workers from the hands of Lewis, and to give leadership every day to the miners at every turn jn their struggles. How can this bé accomplished? Thru the policy of the Trade Union Educational League and the Workers (Communist) Party. Thru the patient building of left wing groups of all militant miners. Thru rendering the vague and confused gevolt against the Lewis policy of betrayal into crystal- clear class conscious understanding of the Communist policy of class strug- gle in the mining industry. Thru the propagation and organization of mine committee control of the union as fore- shadowed in the General Grievance Committees of the anthracite miners in their recent. struggle. And, most important.of all, the strengthening of the Workers (Communist) Party in the mine fields, without which the struggle of the miners against their betrayers will lack leadership and di- rection. These tasks fall upon the shoulders of the militants and Communists in the United Mine Workers. Only if the Communists abdicate their roles of leaders of the rank and file can p= ——- - these sixty-six thousand ne be lulled to sleep instead of b jorganized force which will deal with the operators and their office boys in the International Executive Board of the United Mine Workers. > ¢« Indianapolis Next Battle. The next practical objective toward which the militant forces of the min- ers must be directed in their struggle against Lewis and Co. is the coming International convention in January, 1926. This convention is the battle. ground for another great struggle be- tween the revolutionary forces and the reactionary Lewis machine. ) “The practical organization work must go on to prepare the left wing forces for this coming battle. It ig not enough that left wingers be elect. ed to the convention—they must also be organized so that they can act in a disciplined manner against Lewis and;Co. = In the past the left wing has been defeated at International conventions thru lack of organization. In 1922 and again in 1924 the outstanding fail- ure of the left wing forces in the con- vention was their lack of. co-ordina- tion in policy and discipline in action against the officialdom. This cannot be allowed to happen in 1926. The coming convention should reg- ister such an overwhelming opposi- tion to Lewis and his gang that the entire labor movement will realize that Lewis maintains his position in the union by thug rule, by every kind of trickery and flouting of the de- sires of the membership. The forces for administering this trouncing to the Lewis gang consist of the thousands of miners who sup- ported the left wing program against Lewis. They will really fight Lewis only if the militants and Communists boldly take up the task og organizing these militants into a battering ram for the destruction of Lewisism in the United Mine Workers. The next great encounter with Lewis will take place at Indianapolis —there the Communist-led left wing must put Lewis and his bureaucracy on the run. be Factory Nuclei Re-organization - === At a discussion ion which took place | recently in a commission, appoint: ed by the Communist International regarding the question of the re-or- ganization of the Communist Par- ties, the English édmrades pointed out the special diffictiities with which the reorgafi¥ation of the party would meet in Great Britain. To the objections faised by our British comrades, Comrade Piat- nitzky, chairman of the organiza- tion bureau of the Comintern, re- plied as follows (the report of this speech of Comrade Piatnitzky is given by Comrade Pollit, who took part in the meeting): * * * THOROLY understand the difficul- ties which the British comrades have raised; but I ask, comrades: is he fundamental prinefple of factory nuclei right? Is it possible to pic- ture a really energetic Communist Party, the foundations of which are not in the factories and works? We all know that this is impossible. For this reason we must not let the diffi- culties of this reorganization be an excuse for doing nothing at all. We must not worry because this work cannot be carried out in one, night; what we must be clear about, is that we must begin at once with the reor- ganization of the factory nuclei. In spite of all difiuclties we must have the. will power to start the work. Even if only three members are em- ployed in one factory they must form themselves into a factory nucleus. N Russia the party had greater diffi- culties than anywhere else, and yet we have accomplished our task. In one respect perhaps it was easier for us than for you... The separation between political and,trade union ac- tivity which exists in,other countries, and which is responsible for your hav- was always political and never di- vided into different sections. You will however admit, that under the czarist regime we had greater difficulties to overcome than those which you bring forward. ACTORY-NUCLEI ‘are also neces- sary to prevent the party consist- ing only of leadérs who have lost all actual contact with the masses. The leaders who arise from the factory- nuclei prevent the party taking any action which does not correspond to the instinctive demands of _ the masses. easily form the foundation of factory councils. HEN there are less than three Communist members in one fac- tory they must try to find sympathiz- ers in order to found a factory- nucles. The duty of these factory-nuclei is to interest themselves in all that con- cerns the workers, not only in the works themselves but in the trade un- ions, the proletariat parties and the co-operative societies, never existed in Russia. Our ges F the members are not in any fac- tory, street-nuclei must be organ- ized. In long streets they may, if nec- essary, be organized according to blocks of houses. The factory-nuclei must of course work secretly. Never- theless they must develop their ac- tivities in such a way that, altho the heads of the factories know nothing about them, the workmen in the fac- tory in question know that there is a group of their colleagues which repre- sent their interests. HIS group must distribute the party literature and, if possible, issue a factory paper, even if they only write or type it. I would again point out that by means of the fac- tory-nuclei, the leading organizations are kept in constant contact with the ing to fight against both parliament- ary and trade union hureaucracy, has masses, and that thus digressions These factory-nuclei may | %© from the right way are avoided. Two éxamples will prove this to you: 1917 the Moscow district committee of our party learned that Petrograd workers were fighting in the streets of! Petrograd. The intellectuals among- the. district leaders wished to call’ -out the Moscow workers to stréet fighting at once. But those mémbers of the district committee ‘who-Came direct from the factory- nuclei, said: No, the workers are not yét ready for it otherwise we should have recognized it already from their speeches! Let us organize an ordin- ary denionstration, so that we may how many workers take part in it,4and then we shall have an idea of the strength of the will to fight of the workers. “was the right policy: The demonstration was not successful and showed-that a much more intens- ivé propaganda was necessary. Had the: proposal of the intellectuals been carried, the insurrection would have been crushed immediately. OU know what happened in Ger- many in the autumn of 1923. The fact that the party was found wanting was a blow to the whole International. The central committee was in no way in touch with the masses. The Chem- nitz conference, from which decisive resolutions were expected, was no conference of workers from the fac- tories, but a conference of party func- tionaries. You know the result: de- feat and retreat. The true feeling of the masses found expression in Ham- burg, where the workers actually fought in the streets. WOULD point out that it was only thru our factory-nuclei that we in Russia arived at the achievement of our work, before and after the Octo- ber revolution. How do you imagine that it has been possible for us so successfully to defend the revolution in all its varying phases? Only be- cause we were in the closest contact we Twith the masses and possessed their confidence. Our party is a revolution- ary party. We must break away from thé old social democratic ideas and methods. You know in what they consist: In the division between parli- amentary and trade union action. Look at the example of the German social democratic party! In 1903 the trade union leaders were in favor of a general strike in order to carry thru their demands, whereas the parlia- mentary leaders were opposed to. it. In 1906, the parliamentary leaders de- manded a.general strike, whilst the trade union leaders refused it. NEED not call your attention to the dissension and the jealousy which exist between the general council of the English Trade Union Congress and the leaders of the labor party. Is it not easy to sep how the workers are thus split and their fighting spirit weakened? NE word more. Every comrade should take every work of the party into consideration: It is bad when MacManus is regarded only as a politician and Pollitt only as a trade unionist. Every member of the party should attempt to carry thru any work of the party. Work as one party, think as one party, always be ready to carry thru the party policy to the uttermost when it has ouce been de- cided upon. Our party is a political party, it is fighting for the conquost of political power. No member is in too high a position to carry thru the party resolutions or to sulnnit to the party discipline. Try to distribute the work over as large an area us ps- sible, set to work with loyalty and en- thusiasm, and in a short time you will see that the party has become a real political factor in England, and you will soon discover that the de not a mere sentiment. Ths masses will put pressure upon you to compel you to create one. “Don Quixote’ Yin Music. By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. Hard on the heels ef Pavlowa’s per- formance of the ballet “Don Quixote” by Minkus, came the performance last Friday and Saturday of the symphonic poem “Don Quixote,” by Richard Strauss. It was played by the Chi- cago Symphony OrcheStra at Orches- tra Hall. Strauss’ work is called “Don Quix- ote—Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character?’ The program of it concerns the Dam who becomes insane thru the reag@ing of books of chivalry. A theme @) the solo ‘cello represents the Don tiruout, a simple tune sometimes in a-solo viola, some- times in the bass clarinet or tenor tuba, represents San Panza. The eleven Variations onjgthe theme tell how the Don fights windmills, the sheep, the monks the pilgrims, how he cuuarrols with Sancho Psnza / and stands guard all alone one night while Sancho sleeps, how the two im- agine they are riding thru the air on wooden horses, how they ride in “en- chanted” boats, heéw Quixote fights the knight of the white shield, recov- ers his sanity, and finally dies in his bed. The Strauss music overwhelms one with its richness of orchestral color, the novelty of some of the effects, and, withal the braininess of it. | There is an imitation in the second | variation of the bleating of sheep that is a stroke of genius. Another re- markable effect is the way in which a slow down-scale passage depicts the lazy motion of the windmills. Strauss has discovered new color in old in- struments in this work too, for ex- ample the peculiarly, piercing and powerful upper tonés: of. the tenor tuba. Perhaps the nipst unusual of all is his uéee of a theatrical wind-ma- ale chine as an orchestral instrument. What one cdrries away is an im- pression of the clevérness, the ingenu- ity, the résourcefulness of the man. While the music of Franck, Chausson, Musorgski, is the music of great souls, the orchestral works of Richard Strauss are concepts of a great brain. Strauss was surrounded by Handel and Wagner. The program opened with a Hondel concerto for string or- chestra and closed with Wagner's “Siedfried Idyll” and the finale of the opera “Siegfried.” The “Idyll” was composed to celebrate “the birth of Wagner's son. It is a beautiful, pas- toral sort of thing, scored very, lightly, built up on the motives: of peace, sleep, and the bird song, all. from “Siegfried,” and an old German nurs- ery air. The finale of “Siegfried” is ‘on the stage, an unendurably tedious scene. Bernard Shaw calls it a lapse from confused way of saying is is a lapse from grand opera into opera not 80 grand. But in this orchestral version it is quite bearable, due, perhaps to the fact that Mr. Stock may have wielded the judicious blue pencil. Siegfried comes thru the fire, sees Brunhilde, awakens her, and there fate have an important part. But motives of Siegfried the hero and the closes. nELP WANTED! Between the Age of 314 and 85 For further particulars look for anouncement by Red Revel press agent in the DAILY WORKER. ieee o Se : . pain oie oF - ~* av i aan, sy mand for a daily paper in England ia) music drama into opera, which is a. follows the world’s longest love duet, . during which the motives of peace and . is on a significant combination of a | ride of the Valkyries that the scene ~ 2iecqm - ee Re Seaewerweesaszasctrm = -.. OE oh oe a 2 ses wipes wee of ae —, ee a a a ae” ee ee oe. - | ES Ll =< = i s. ~~ - F FF