Daily Worker
February 21, 1925
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aie e rr of * 20 at ef d 1g od at a to Before March 5 Vol. II. — 35. time. the king will get _: — * rl iia 155 gen 4 AS WE SEE Ne ay T. J. O'FLAHER 3 . 28 7 N adventurous Kentuckian, Floyd Collins, was caught in a passage- way leading to a cavern. His plight attracted the attion of the entire coun try thru newspaper publicity. It was the kind of a sensation that touches the human heart and it was played up to the limit. Circulation managers like that kind of thing. The capi- talist news mongers cared very lit- tle about the sufferings of Collins. Thousands of Collinses die every year in the mines of this country and they receive only a passing notice. * * 2 URING the world war at least seven million men, the pick of the world’s manhood were murdered on the battlefields of Europe and Asia in a war between rival capital- ist national groups. While the ter- rible tragedy lasted, the governments of the different countries made it a criminal, offense to oppose mass mur- der, Even now in a time of compar- ative peace only the exigencies of pol- ities prevent the government from throwing into prison all those who oppose war. But when somebody dies under dramatic conditions, as Col- lins did, the lachrymal conduits of the capitalist press begin to leak and the public weeps in sympathy. * * * HERE is hardly a day in the year that miners do not die under cir- cumstances just as tragic as those. that accompanied the death of Floyd Collins. They go down into the bow- ele of the earth, to slave for a pit- tance. They are in constant danger of death from a thousand causes by ex- plosions, cave-ins, gas. When the in- evitable takes place; there is a head - line i nthe daily press and then si- lence. The coal operators control mil- lions of dollars. They control thou- sands of newspapers. They do ont like any kind of publicity that might interfere with their profits. * — 2 ING GEORGE of England is ill. So is “Gloria Swanson. Gloria and the king are crowding each oth- Shouid the two pass away at the same er er off the front page. nuisances worthy but because he ‘nominally reigns over more people than ever saw Gloria demoralize a millionaire with a twirl of her hip. HIS is not such a very healthy era for kings, and capitalist dic- tators. Only recently Albania put an ad. in the “help wanted” columns of the * British papers for a king. There is usually a good crop of kings and kinglets in England, but most of them now prefer a job as porter in a movie theater or to take their chances on marrying an American so- ciety girl. The Albanian job went begging, particularly as one of the prerequisites for the position was a steady hand and quick with the trig- ger. “Bill” Hart might take a shot at it. © . > USSOLINI is ill. Some say it is political illness. The mur- derer is nearing the end of his rope. His own bandits are turning on him. His next door neighbor, Primo de Rivera, is in a still worse position. Primo went to Morocco to “clean up” the Riffians but the Riffilans can squint along the barrel of a rifle, and there are now more Spaniards than Rimians in Morocco, with the differ- ence that the Spaniards are dead and the Riffllans are very much alive. The regrettable feature of this, is that the poor Spaniards who lost their lives in Morrocco are mostly mem- bers of the working class. * — * APITALIST dictatorships, wheth- ad er open or veiled are bound to collapse. The decline of the capi- talist system is rapid. Even France is at her wits end to keep the franc from becoming a vaudeville joke. Roumania and Germany are at war. That they have not armies in the field is not due to any indisposition on either side. They simply can’t af- ford to pay the carfare and they can’t afford to start another military war. So they confine their . efforts to a “civilized” war, the kind that paci- fists like Oswald Garrison Williard would very likely approve. In the midst of this chaos and confusion, Soviet Russia is marching forward, youthful and vigorous with the blood (Continued on page 2) SS ke ae 4 cht * ben t $8. by ‘Der year. 46.00 per year. SATURDAY, Fl | it Office at Chicago, ee 1879. „ 1 NEW YORK EDITION JARY Zi. 1925 =” Published daily excep ay by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. Price 3 Cents RS LEAGUE OF NEW ILL HELP FILL MADISON ARE GARDEN ON MARCH 15 By JACK STACHEL, District Organizer, Young Workers League, District No. 2. NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 19.—Spurred on by the gigantic success of the Lenin Memorial meeting the Workers Party and the Young Workers League are to hold a combined press pageant and Paris Commune celebration at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, March 15. *This is the greatest undertaking of this nature ever ventured into by the Communists in this country, and will e b the active participation of every party and Y. W. L. member as well as of every militant worker, |'s in this city. This will be an all-day and night affair with a program that will meet the fancy of every one. A concert and ball will conclude the evéning program. While others will. write on tHe pro- gram, etc., I want to use these few lines to impress upon the party mem- bership, the sympathizers of our movement and particularly the Young Workers’ League membership of Dis- trict No. 2, to get on the job. Also I cannot forget the Juniors, who I know will play a great part in this under- taking. The tickets for this affair sell at 75 cents and every purchaser of a ticket will receive one month’s sub- scription to The DAILY WORKER free. Here is an opportunity to get 15,000 workers to read our DAILY WORKER for at least a month. Then with the excellent DAILY WORKER staff at work, I am certain that we can retain at least half of them as regular DAILY WORKER subscribers and readers. This is the greatest op- portunity we have had for a long time to serve our party and with an expenditure of so little effort. I know of nothing that should receive the preference to this drive for new read- ers, at the present moment. - Tickets come in fives and any one who sells all the five tickets will re- ceive free admission. A free trip to the next party and Y. W. L. conven: tion will be given to any member of the party or Y. W. L. that sells the highest number of tickets. Many oth- er prizes for members and sympa- thizers will be announced shortly Watch the press. I call upon ‘all members of the — W. L. and of the Junior — — * . tory ot our party and 1 WORKERS’ 8 HAS COURSE FOR TRADE UNIONISTS Lectures on n Communist Fundamentals Fridays NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—Oliver Carl- son, well known Communist teacher and lecturer, is giving a cburse on the “Fundamentals of Communsm“ at the Workers’ School of New York. The class meets every Friday, 8 to 10 p. m., at the headquarters of the school, 208 East 12th street. This course is part of the trade un- ion training course given at the Workers’ School. It is intended pri- marily for workers active in the trade unions, and lays special emphasis up- on revolutionary trade union theory and tactics. Comrade Carlson is conducting classes for the Workers Party in Phil- adelphia, Baltimore and other cities in District No. 3. His lectures have been received with enthusiasm every- where and are very well attended. He has spent two years in Soviet Rus- sia and other parts of Europe. His knowledge of Communist theory and of the trade union movements of both Europe and America make his course at the Workers’ School especially val- uable. Comrades should register now for the class. They will find the lectures interesting and instructive. Remember the date—every Friday, p. m., at the headquarters of the Workers’ School. ; Expell Communists in Mexico. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 19.—The sec- retary of the Carpenters’ Union of the Mexican Federation of Labor has been expelled from the federation on char- ges that he made strong Communist speeches. The Federation of Labor is taking active steps to eliminate Communists from the unions, but the rank and file protest against the expulsions is in- creasing. “LOONEY GAS” AT STANDARD OIL PLANT CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM BRIDGETON, N. J., Feb. 19.—In spite of the deaths of five Standard Oil workers from “looney gas” poisoning rec~ still being manufactured in New Jersey. vietim, is reported insane and fatally the dangerous material is Robert Huntsinger, the latest affected by his work in an ethyl gas laboratory in the Penns Grove plant here. “His condition is entirely due to the nature of hile work,” declares Dr. E. C. Lyon, hoasital. * county physician, after attending him at There is little chance for recovery, says Dr. Cumberland county yon, * NOVA SCOTIA MINERS FIGHT Workers Refuse to Fall for “Arbitration” (Special to The Dally Worker) GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, Feb. 19. —Since last November the miners here have not worked more than twen. ty days each. it was this extreme un- employment among the miners, reduc- ing them to poverty, that the British Empire Steel corporation took advant- age of to enforce a cut in wages at the expiration of the agreement on January 15th. The negotiations with the corpora- tion led to the declaration of the cor- poration that a ten per cent cut in wages was necessary. The demands of the miners were formulated at a district convention held in Sydney, Nov. 17 to 24, and included an in- crease of 25 per cent for data] men and a 10 per cent increase for con- tract men. These demands were made on the cerporation, with the result that the negotiations came to a dead- lock. The corporation declared its de- termination to force a cut of 10 per cent on the miners and since it was impossible to get the representatives 3 Gehen tisde Staunch The minister of labor notified the district executive that they should ap- point their representative, but this they réfused to do. This district ex- ecutive was elected on a “red” plat- form, and they were not to be fooled by the arbitration stunts of the cor- poration and its government at Ot- tawa. Finding it impossible to get the district executive to appoint a repres- entative the minister of labor sent one of his stoolpigeons, Quirk, to per- suade the committee to appoint some. one to the board. This he failed in since he is well known as the faker who has always been used by the cor- poration to sabotage every strike of the miners or steel workers of Nova Scotia. After this failed the minister of la- bor appointed Dr. J. W. Robertson of Ottawa as the “representative” of the miners. This Robertson was a mem- ber of the royal commission that in- vestigated the greviance of the steel workers of Sydney in 1923 and white washed the company in the report. Tools Of Besco When the board arrived here, the district committee branded them as tools of Besco and stated that their only function was to help the corpora- tion put the wage cut over, and that the miners would have nothing to do with them. The board hung around Sydney for a few days, ard then sent in a report to the government, the contents of which have not yet been made public. The district committee has how de- manded that the corporation extend the present scale of wages for four months and that the government ap point a commission to investigate the financing of the corporation. If this can be forced on the corporation, the miners will be in a better position to strike for their demands than they are at the present time. Child Labor Law Before Legislature in Michigan Today LANSING, Mich, Feb. 19.—A re- opening of the bitter fight that has been waged here for and against the federal child labor amendment is scheduled for Friday morning. At that time the resolution of rejection offered by Representative Charles Culver in the house will be upon spe- cial order. Thursday evening the senate labor committee “held a public hearing on the measure. A strong lobby of women, repre- senting women’s clubs thruout the state, is now “@ndeavoring to bring dressure 6n ‘thé house members to defeat the Culver resolution. i. COAL BARONS of the miners to @@cept this they a’ 2 an arbitration board, 1 25 000 ‘GARME 1 1 775 0 5 (ORK ERS INNLY. 7 I | Demand Wa (By The ge Increase Shop ed Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 19—White goods workers, silk un wear workers, chil- dren’s dress mers, bathrobe and house dress are once again striking in NW rk under direction of the miscetlanes trades district council, Inte fal Ladies’ Garment Workers, to union organization in all shops and Pmprove conditions. Between 20,( nd 25,000 workers, 95 per cent girig, are employed in these branches ofthe garment trades in New York Men involved are mostly cutterg and some pressers. Least Skilled, Lowest Paid A concerted » of these different trades after a @areful campaign of several months new departure in the union’s Previous strikes were usually "Spontaneous rebel- lion against a ible conditions in one of the * with consequent spread of the strike feeling to other trades in the garment industry. The white goc ae or silk and muslin underwear are and always have been the skilled and lowest paid workers f industry. Many native Americal i. Negro girls have come into this br ich since immigra- tion has been sd. Altho they are the hardest tor @eproach with union ideas, the girl o izers in charge of the campaign fg the international have had consi@@fable success in in- teresting. these orkers. demand Increase Wage in ie 20 per cent, un- ion shop, sant eonditions and the adoption of the 4 itary label are the union demands f the strike. mpetition has un- s dress trade con- N Wakes’ 11 these Waden range trom $16 to $40, dut many girls make as little as $14 and even $12. The higher wages are made by cutters and the most highly skilled operators on the machines. The trades are highly sea- sonal so that average wages are lower than weekly wages indicate. TEXTILE LORDS NOW CUT PAY IN WOOL MILLS Workers Held Down by Reactionary Leaders By ROBERT MINOR. (Special to The Daily Worker) PROVIDENCE, R. I., Feb. 19.—That the big wage-slashing drive which was supposed to affect only the cotton milis has already cut deep in the woolen mills, had to be admitted today after the 800 weavers of the Atlantic Mills met Monday night in Providence to solve the riddle of the queer pay envelopes. Everyone has been saying during the past three months: “They won't dare to cut wages in the woolen mills.” Only last week I asked a veteran weaver of high skill, a long head, and a longer strike reeord, whether there would be any strike. He had replied: “Not as long as they confine the cuts to the gotton mille. But if they cut in the woolen mills, then there'll be (Continued on page 3) WOULD CREATE FEDERAL FIRM Ag Sta “—¢ wos May 1, Skéteched in mMass> State Prison 1924, vy Lydia Gibson. , BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI. SACCO-VANZETTI PROTEST MEET IN CHICAGO AT EMMET MEMORIAL HALL ON SUNDAY, MARCH FIRST Every militant worker in Chicago Ogden and Taylor Aves. Workers of the World. getti and to protest against all efforts | to dan workers because’ of their act- ivities in, economic and political or- ganizations. Every ‘worker in Chicago should constitute himself a committee of one to announce this meeting everywhere, to bring as many workers as he pos- sibly can and to be on the job in every way to put this meeting over big. Among those to address the meeting will be Jack W. Johnstone, secretary of the Trade Union Educational Lea- gue, Antonio Presi, Italian labor editor and P. J. Welinder, secretary of the Industrial Workers of the World. — . * Unions Responded in Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohia, Feb. 19.—Many unions have responded to the call of the Workers Party here for a united front against the frame-ups and perse- cutions of militant workers. A mon- ster mass demonstration of workers will take place in this city on March Ist, in the Engineers Auditorium for (Continued on page 2) FIGHT 8-HOUR DAY FOR WOMEN SPRINGFIELD, II., Feb. 19.—The Illinois manufacturers’ association, which controls a good size block of legislators, has issued instructions to all its members to fight against the bill introduced in both the house and senate of the Illinois tegisidture aim- ing to establish an eight-hour day for women. The letter, signed by John M. Glenn, secretary of the manufacturers, urges the members to send in reports, “ad- vising why the measure should not pass.” “To the members,” says Glenn's letter, “attention is directed to house bill No. 90, introduced in the Illinois general assembly this week, affecting FOR EXPORTERS WASHINGTON. I D. C., Feb. 19.— Legislation creating a federal export corporation to sell in foreign markets the agricultural surplus of the United States will be browght from the house agriculture committee, Representative Haugen, republican, of lowa, chairman of the committee, announced today. War Propaganda Continues. CAMP SKEEL,)Oscoda, Mich., Feb. 19.—The first pursuit group of the army air service teday entered on the last of their maneuvers here, carried on to create sentiment for a larger air fleet for the army.\ | ostensibly ployment and all employment the work of women in plants and cer- tain other places of employment, as an eight-hour measure. It has been carefully drawn with a view of eliminating seasonable em- which renders service to the general public. “There are no conditions in Illinois, having to do with health, sanitary sur- roundings or social conditions, war- ranting legislation on this subject. Please read the enclosed bill carefully, reasons why the measure should not pass and how such a law would affect your business.” : The bill exempts cannery workers and telephone workers from thr eight- hour day for women, giving such workers a ten-hour day,. — — n will attend the Sacco-Vanzetti protest mass meeting on Sunday, March 1 at 2:30 p. m. at the Emmet Memorial Hall, This meeting, which will be held under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party in conjunction with the Labor Defense Council will be participated in by all the progressive organizationg in the city including unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and the Industrial Thus Chicago will witness the staging of a tremendous demonstration by workers as never before to demand the release from jail of Sacco and Van- MANUFACTURERS <*: and advise this office promptly your SOVIET UNION TO RADIO MEETING Say Question 5 Cal Coolidge (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 19.— Whether or not the Soviet Union shal! be included in the invitation list for the world radio conference which is to be called together in Washington next autumn in the latest phase of the Russian recognition game to annoy President Coolidge. t was in 1912 that thesdelegates of all the chief countries of the world met in Lo u and adopted the Lon. don convention on international regul.- ation of telegraphic communication. The American government invited the peoples of the world to hold their next conference on this subject in Washington, and the invitation was unanimously accepted. The date was then set at 1917. But the war upset that plan. The telegraph conference which was to have been held in Paris in 1915, and the radio conference in Washington in 1917, were postponed. Now the tel- egraph conference is about to be held in Paris, and the state department has prepared a list of 50 states that are to be invited to the radio dis- cussion in Washington next fall. They won't say whether Soviet Russia is included. President Coolidge, faced with the question, decides that the issue of in- viting Russia may be one which will require consultation with Britain, France, Japan and Italy. That is to Say, sulted as to whether Russia will do more harm outside or inside this con- ference. All of them now deal with Moscow. Must Have Russia If Russia is to be excluded because Coolidge does not recognize the Soviet Union, then = chance of reaching an agreement in the conference that will be of permanent value to the world may be questioned. The last Washington conference “settled” the fate of China and Japan and the Rus- sian Far East—and- immediately China developed a series of civil wars, fol- lowed by treaties. with the Soviet Union on the part of both China and Japan, . a the big four powers that divided | the world after the war will be con- | AID 10 IRISH FAMINE Excoriates Free State Government The Workers (Communist) Party of America on receipt of a message from Ireland that a large part of the peas- ant and working class population was suffering from the tortures of famine immediately took steps to raise funds for the alleviation of the distress in that country. In conjunction with the International Workers’ Ald. an Irish Workers and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee was organized which is now functioning. * The following statement was issued by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, on the Irish famine: The Famine Victims 750,000 Irish workers and peasants are now the victims of one of the worst famines that ever visited a na- tion whose wounds inflicted by foreign tyranny and civil war are not yet healed. In a stretch of country that reaches from Donegal in the north to Cork in the south on the west coast, and reaching inland for about forty miles, the poor farmers, workers and fishermen are in a state of destitution. The failure of the potato crop over a large area, the flooding of the bogs thru incessant rain thus ruining the fuel supply and the destruction of the fishing industry on the west coast by British steam trawlers, are given as the reasons for the terrible situation that now exists in a large section of Ireland. A famine is no new phenomenon in Ireland. Oppressed by the British gov- ernment for centuries, robbed of their inheritance by landlords and exploited by the capitalist class, the Irish work ers and peasants like the workers of all gountries have always been within toxins distance of want. Tens of thousands of peasants and their families were driven from the fertile midlands to the bleak and des- olate west cost, and their former homesteads were razed to the ground ta make room for the cattle of the absentee landlords. Bullocks now roam the land where thousands of sturdy peasants made their homes. The bar- ren rocks are good enough for the peasants, the cattle are more highly prized under capitalism than workers. To Pay Landlord During the famine period of 1845, 1846 and 1847, enough food was raised in Ireland to feed three times the po- pulation. But it had to be exported in order to pay the landlord’s rent. To- day there is plenty of food in Ireland, but the capitalists own it. In 1847 Ireland was governed from Dublin Castle by English officials. Today, Ireland is governed from London by Irish officials obeying their capitalist masters, and watching the agonies of their own flesh and blood in the famine region with a cynicism un- equalled in the history of British mis- government in Ireland. While the workers of Great Britain, the United States, Soviet Russia and of every country are preparing to ren. der assistance to their Irish comrades, the government of hangmen, the Free State junta is preparing a bill that will make any Irish worker who strives to free his native land the yoke of British imperialism liable to death on the gallows, These execut- ioners dangle the noose before the "(Continued on page 2) NEW IDEAS NOT RELISHED BY IOWA BABBITS By DAVID COUTTS al to The Daily Worker) MARSHAL LTOWN, la., Feb. 19.— It is a long way from Marshalitown, with its sixteen thousand population, to New York and Madison Square Garden. Such are the extremes of this country that even a few miles gives us | sharp contrasts in economics and phy- | chology | Back on Main street in Marshall rented a hall ra meeting. [town the Workers Party fat the Labor Temple ! | Along comes the International News Service, (A. F. of L.) with a story that the bolsheviks are about to kid- nap the labor unions and drop them into Dante's Inferno or some other bot place This dire threat was brought be. fore the Trades and Labor Assembly the night before that scheduled for the bolsbheviks to arrive. Then a pol- itical appointee, one of the delegates had read an article in the DAILY WORKER which stated that fdur men Continued on Page 5 2 f
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The Forward made objection to fact that the union was receiving the help of the Workers (Communist) Party. Ball of Slugger Raised The bail of William Dorfman, who was arrested after leading sluggers in an attack on William Berman bead of the Laundry Drivers’ Union, has been raised from $5,000 to $10,000 The doctors announced at the hospital where Berman is in a serious condi- tion, that there is no hope of saving Berman’s eye. The preliminary hear- ing of Dorfman’s case is to come up Friday. Dorfman is a laundry boss. The Forward’s treachery ,and Ber- man’s injury have not dampened the enthusiasm of the strikers. On March 2 the contracts in all the laundries in the city expire, and unless these con- tracts are renewed and the union is recognized, a general strike of all Brooklyn laundry workers threatens. The laundry workers are holding a mass meeting on February 27 at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 229 Sack- man St., The bosses have made no attempt to use scabs, fearing a general strike. Transfers Case to Escape Prejudice of the Ku Klux Klan FREEPORT, L. I., Feb. 19.—Ku klux klan republicans will not let Mrs. Jeanne Marino Doane get a fair trial in Freeport on the charge of holding a street meeting without a permit several days before election, she declares. Mrs. Doane told of a Klan flery cross burning beside her home—only one of the many threats she has re ceived, she said. Justice Dike, after hearing her story, transferred her case to the grand jury in Nassaul county. Turks Conclude Ten Million Dollar Deal with American Firm CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 19.—The government has ordered the military commander at Diarbkr to take ener- getic measures to repress the Kurd element, even to use airplane bomb attacks, should he think them neces- sary, a press dispatch states. The Turkish government has enter- ed into a ten million dollar contract with the Ulon contracting company of New York for the irrigation of the Maritza valley, it was announced to- day. The Maritza is the principal river of eastern Turkey. STAGE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY PLAY AT SOVIET SCHOOL A Russian revolutionary play will be staged at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St., this Sunday, Feb. 22, at 8 p. m., in honor of the sec- ond anniversary of the Russian Communist Daily Novy Mir. The affair will be celebrated under the auspices of the Technical Aid So- ciety and the Russian branch Work- ers Party. All who understand the Russian language are urged to attend. Valet AutoStrop - Razor —Sharpens Itself The Safety Razor that Sharpens Its Own Blades COMPLETE OUTFITS $1.00 & $5.00 Per Sale «+ All Stores Selli WO! TO SCABBY ER, MAKES TO REPLY PRINTERS’ AGENCY Open Shep Employing Printers’ Association, ¥ 1202 Monadnock Blk. Chicago, III. In reply to your invitation that we should purchase a ticket to attend the “graduating exercises” of your scab apprentice school on Feb. 24 I wish to state that the Daily Worker Publishing Co. does not intend to give any support whatever to your association, its scab school, or any of the scab herding activities that you are or- ganizing. Since its organization this com- pany has been employing trade union men in every department, and we have no intention of deviating from this course. In spite of all the high-flown phrases used in your publicity, your activity is on a par with any other scab-herding, strikebreaking agency in this country. Your conception of efficiency in the printing industry is one that would rob the workers of any form of organization with which to protect themselves from the goug- ing of the boss printers. Your chief backer, T. E. Donnelly, is notorious for his anti-union activi- ties in this @ity, not only in the print- ing industry, but also in the building industry, as chairman of the Landis ward committee, which leads the at- tack on the unions in the building in- dustry. The money which is to be present- ed to your scab apprentices at your graduation exercises” is a fine “come on” scheme by means of which you hope to lure other young work- ers into being used as tools to break the wages and conditions of the work- ers employed in the printing industry. No doubt it is a good investment from your point of view, if it will aid you in organizing a corps of scabs against the union printers. Our organ, The DAILY WORKER, continually advocates the amalgama- tion of all the unions in the printing industry into one departmentalized industrial union. This step would put an effective stop to your scab- herding activities, which you are able to indulge in today because of the lack of united action among the many craft unions in the printing industry. We hope you will publish this let- ter in your scab Open Shop News, as you do any statement made by printing concerns against the print- ing trades unions. It is also our hope that in the near future the printers’ union will put an end to your scab- herding association in company with other sinister institutions and the wage system itself. The motto of the DAILY WORKER, official organ of the Workers (Communist) Party is “a united front of all workingclass organizations against the capitalists and their instrument—capitalist gov- ernment!” You are part of the sys- tem we fight and this precludes any possibility of being interested in your activities except to expose them to workers whom you may have duped into betraying themselves and their class. Moritz J. Loeb, Business Manager, DAILY WORKER. CAL MAKES PLEA AGAINST TAX ON LARGE FORTUNES Silent One Ye ells About Confiscation Threat WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 19.— President Coolidge denounced federal and state inheritance and estate taxes, defended the holders of large fortunes, and made a plea that the rich should not be so taxed, in a speech here be- fore tax “experts.” : “A prime danger in the tax on estates is the removal of the inspira- tion to work in order to build up a busi- ness or create a property. Personally I do not feel that large fortunes pro- perly managed are necessarily a menace to our institutions and there- fore ought to be destroyed. On the other hand, they have been and can be of great value to our development,” Coolidge said. Commenting on the federal govern- ment’s “imposition” in the revenue act of 1924 of an estate tax the highest bracket of which was raised from 25 to 40 per cent, Coolidge charged con- gress with having sough “social legis- lation in the guise of taxation,” de- claring the rich should not have been taxed so heavily. “The overlapping of federal and state inheritance taxes,” Coolidge said, “has resulted in a situation that amounts to virtual confiscation. The government should withdraw from this field of taxation.” Panic In the Subway. NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—A short eircuit in a heater in a crowded Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit company subway train caused a panic during the morning rush hour today that brought injury to more than a score of passengers and sent four to a hos- pital. School Children Badly Injured As Concrete Wall Falls OLIVET, Mich., Feb. 19..— Four Winton township unit school girls were, suffering serious injuries today and several other school children es- caped injury when a concrete wall weighing two tons fell on them as they were preparing to leave the build ing at the close of school yesterday afternoon. The injured girls are Grace Walker, Marian Southworth, Agnes Halsey and Ruth Sloan. The most seriously in- jured are Miss Southworth and Miss Halsey. The wall was constructed a short while ago te separate the boys’ and girls’ cloakrooms. PITTSBURGH NOTICE! — — — Important DAILY WORKER An agents conference will be held Feb. 2, at 5 p. m. at the Internationa! Ly- ceum, 805 James St Matters of importance will be taken up. This is urgent—be there. ' 4 ‘i Patronize our advertisers. og Rares and Blades boasts of the socialists. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1.) of a new social order coursing thru her veins. * * „ USTRIA is broke. In fact Aus- tria is so down and out that even the salvation army will not take her in. Austria was one of the proud The social- ists proved they were real democrats by allowing the capitalists to hold on to the country tho the socialists had the power to take it over if taney had the will. Now the capitalists have stripped Austrial naked and hundreds of thousands of Austrian workers are walking the streets with a job. Aus- trian papers tell of aged bank clerks, with bald heads, in the role of walk ing advertisements. On the bak portions of the head you may read such inscriptions as “Buy two in one shoe polish,” or “Bring your gums tc Dr. Snippers; he'll put teeth in them.’ Our American white collar slaves whc now glory in an occasional smile from their masters should think of the present plight of their brothers in once proud Vienna. * . * RANK FARRINGTON, president of District 12 of the United Mine Workers of America, supported Len Small, in the recent elections. The DAILY WORKER suggested that Frank did not throw his support to Len without a consideration. Now we learn that Hugh Willis, former mem ber of the district executive board has resigned from the executive board to. accept a position from Small as supervisor of securities with the Illinois industrial commission. - . + NOTHER labor faker and also a member of the United Mine Workers, Martin J. Flyzik, president of District 10, in the state of Wash- ington has accepted a job as super- visor of safety with the department of labor and industries of that state. He was appointed by the recently elected governor. Flyzik was a pro- gressive” one of the tribe expected to organize the “third party” which is now very much up in the afr. The labor faker looks upon a union of- fice as a stepping stone to a job in the capitalist government. Armour Is Eliminated As Packer by Bankers NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—A syndicate headed by Blair and company has of- fered at $23 a share, 750,000 shares of class A participating common stock of the Armour & company of Llinois. Purchasers of this stock will have the privilege of subscribing for the class B stock of the company at $14 a share. This is the first offering of. any common stock of the Armour and company. Both classes of stock will be Usted on the Chicago stock ex- change and the New York curb mark- et. The offering represents part of the company’s stock already issued and outstanding, and is not new financing. The Armour company made a pro- fit of $18,300,000 in 1924. Clemente! Expects $100,000,000 PARIS, Feb. 19—The United States has unofficially. promised to len France $100,000,000-—as soon as th French budget is voted, Finance Min- ister Clemente! told the chamber of deputies today. CARMEN*DISCUSS | TO CAPITALISTS Trade Union Unity Is Urged by Speakers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 18.— Lodge No. 299 of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen held its regular meeting Monday, . 16, with more members present at any meeting in months. The al of Carl Skog- lund to take the obligation of the Minneapolis “a and Labor As sembly (or e Central Labor Union) providing g strikebreaking taining a repud in any revolutionafy organization was discussed at length. A decision wad \t ide to take this matter up again In the next regular meeting at 9 P. The expressed sentiment of the membership was, as, one member stated; “We must put on our fighting clotliés and see to it that the local unions will have the right to choose their own delegates and that these delegates be seated in accord. ance with the laws of the American Federatiqn of Labor.” Working Class Unity Skoglung pointed out in his report that the only “crime” the Communists had committed wag the exposing of the betrayals of the interests of the working class by the reactionaries and the advocation of workers’ and farmers’ control of the industries and the machinery of government. He also pointed out that it was necessary to unite the trade unions for the pur- pose of raising the standard of living for the whole working class instead of a few highly skilled workers as has been the polity; of the A. F. of L. up until now. V. F. Anderson he president of the local made a statement in which he said th e the birth of the amalgamationimdyvement in 1922. a great stride for 0 had been made for the uniting of Me different rail road organizationg,/that this move ment had arouse We bitter opposi- tion of the reactiogapy officialdom and that the basis ohe present attack was the desire ofthe reactionary of- ficialdom to dest 6 ithe left wing. Carmen's { mon Balked He called attenti Dr ito refusal of the carmen's internatidnal officials to comply with thejinion constitution in their refusal te 10 mation ta 01 the members, and for that reason urged all the members to vote and work for the holding of an interna- onal convention in September, where he grievances of ohr organization can be redressed. Alderman Theodore Jensen, a mem- yer of Lodge No. 299, was present and ‘ave a short talk on the conditions existing in the local labor movement Refreshments were served and every member present enjoyed himself and vledged support to the organization in spite of all obstacles; Workers Party Urges Aid to the Famine Stricken in Ireland (Continued from page 1.) eyes of the rebel Irish workers and peasants, while women and children huddle around their cold hearts and men search in vain for employment. Pledges Aid The Workers (Communist) Party of America, section of the Communist In. ternational, sends its sympathies to the stricken workers and peasants of Ireland. It greets a people that never hauled down the flag in surrender to British tyranny, but battled thru cen- turies for freedom. It does not forget that the Irish workers and peasants under the leadership of the great re- volutionist James Connolly raised the flag of revolt in the darkest days of -he world war, en the working class of the world were killing each other in behalf of their capitalist mast- ers. The Workers (Communist) Party of America pledges its aid to the workers and peasants of Ireland in their distress. Its thousands of members from all countries and of every race and color will answer the call for assistancé. The Workers Party sends greetings to the vanguard of the Irish working class who under the leadership of the Comniunist International and the Red international of Labor Unions are waging the battle to free Ireland from he clutches of British imperialism and its creature the Free State and to raise the banner of a victorious Irish workers’ republic. Central Executive Committee Workers (Communist) Party of America WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, Chairman C. E. RUTHENGERG, Ex. Sec’y. —_ Report U. 8. Vessel Seized. SHANGHAI, Feb. 19.—An Ameri- can upper Yangtze steamer has been seized by the Chinese military au- i\horities Kweichowfu, Szechuen prov- ince, according to a message received here today from ‘Ichang, an upper Yangtze port, the captain of the ves- sel was arrested and the American passengers on bo are being de- tained, the message+gaid. = 9 By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ie . Te. there is a whole host of legislatures meeting in various states, all legislating for the They are a part of the ee state; the d class. America’s capitalist ruli talist class. torship of The make-up of the Illinois state legislature, similar to the personnel of all other state | egisiatures, shows how well equipped this lawmaking body really is to serve its cap-. italist master. Nearly one-seventh of the legislature, 61 out of 204 members, consists of lawyers, the most cringin humans in the service of the almighty dollar. it is they who must up- hold the myth of the sanctity of oppressive capitalist justice. Its “law ’n order,” even in the shape of the lynchers’ rope, is sacred to them. Attorneys in the lower branch of the state legislature number 42; in the senate there are 19. Both are therefore well equipped to discover even the slightest taint of working class legislation that might appear. These lawyers are the bellwethers that lead the rest of the legislators in the way they should follow. These followers do not need much urging to keep in line. They do it as a matter of habit. There are profes- sional politicians, many of whom have “studied law.” In the house there are 15 members who hold other public of- fices, cogs in either the democratic or republican old party machines; 13 farmers, ten each of real estate and insurance men, nine merchants, and seven who combine real estate with insurance; with a sprinkling of automobile dealers and publishers, sters, printers, grain dealers, housewives, teachers, team- two bankers, two who combine banking and farming. There are one each of other so-called occupations: cigar dealer, motor repairman, contractor, restauranteur, manufacturer, painter and decorator, junk dealer, lather, barber, hotel keeper, realtor and banker, coal dealer, insur- ance man and farmer, miner, merchant and farmer, preach- er, hay dealer, confectioner, oil dealer, editor, doctor, with only one who confesses that he has “retired from business. This make-up of the state legislature shows how im- licitly big business entrusts its b There is not a real worker or ourgeoisie. the whole outfit. most of them turned landlord and awmaking to the small oor farmer in The farmers listed are “rich farmers,” one to town to live, tak- ing up politics for diversion. The housewives are not the mothers in working class families; but nearly always the wives of big profiteers seeking this sideline in their parasitic lives. Notice the sprinkling of small bosses. It it safe to as- sume that this category includes the “painter and decorator, lather and barber.” There is always a “miner” in the state » legislature; nearly always some reactionary official who has betrayed the Miners’ Union to the mine barons before the rank and file could throw him out. William Green, now pre- sident of the American Federation of Labor, as a “miner,” got some early notoriety as a democratic member of the Ohio state senate. These are all chosen from their geographical districts, supported by precinct organizations, the power of the old party machines. eras italist spokesmen. strike at the roots of all American traditions. There are no spokesmen in Springfield for the 100,000 coal miners in the state, for the steel workers, for the rail- road workers; no representatives. of labor in any industry. Industrial representation would be Sovietism, say the cap- it would be “unconstitutional.’ It would And a lot of other claptrap stuff that should sound like cheap tommy- rot in the ears of the whole working class. * Labor, under capitalism, may send its own representa- tives—Communists—to Chicago’s city hall, to the state capi- tol at Springfield, to congress in Washington. This will be done; even as a Communist sits today in the North Dakota state legislature. The duty of these elected Communists, in these comfortable roosts of the political agents of the great exploiters, will be to raise the standards of the revolution for the overthrow of the whole Capitalist system. It is well that the workers in Chicago, Minneapolis and other cities, where election campaigns are now being held, understand these facts. if they want the Soviet Rule of labor in the mines, the mills and the factories, supported by the poor farmers on the land, then they will vote for the program and the can- didates of the Workers (Communist) Party. If they choose to suffer longer under capitalist exploita- tion then they will vote for the shyster lawyers, the real estate sharks and other bourgeois riff raff who sell them- selves, for small favors, into ‘political bondage to great cap- italists. This last category includes also the “socialists,” shown by the classic exposure of the crooked relations between the German “socialists” Bauer, erstwhile premier, Richter, Berlin chief of police, and others, with the Barmat Brothers, big financiers. The issue narrows: Communism or capitalism? On which side are you? Muscle Shoals Steal Is Up for Senate Approva! WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—The ad- ministration was faced today with its last great obstacle to adjournment of congress March 4, when the senate resumed final consideration of Muscle Shoals legislation. Republican leaders were confident of approval for the Underwood bill, as it came from conference, without unnecessary delay. They were in- formed by opponents of the bill, how- ever, that debate would last “at least two days.” The administration’s worries lay in the possibility of a filibuster by the bill’s opponents. The Underwood bill as it came from conrerehce, pro- vides for the leasing of Musele Shoals to private corporations for almost nothing, compared to its $160,000,000 value. * 2 Patronize 6ur advertisers. Piss YY : = vi _ NOTICE, TWIN CITY MILITANTS! All militant BUILDING TRADES workers will meet in Room No. 2, and all METAL TRADES workers in Room No, 4 at 617 4th Ave., So. Minneapolis on Saturday evening, 8 P. M., Feb. 21st. Every militant working in the metal and building industries should be present with- out fail. St. Paul workers especial- ly should be present. 1 JOB FOR TRADE ACTIVITY k. k. k. Unionists Side with Bosses 1 te. Th Dally Worker) „Ohio, Feb, 19.—Com- rade George Papcun, a member of the Cleveland Workers Party and Young Workers League locals, was fired from his job on account of union ac- tivity. Comrade Papcun was very ac- tive in the Amalgamated Assoctation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, Thrift Lodge No. 92. Comrade Papcecun was fired by the boss because he belonged to the Workers Party and Y. W. L. — whether he would rather quit the W. P. and F. W. L., or lose his job. Thru his activities as chairman of the mill committee the membership in the mill increased from 35 to 135. The company soon tried to find a way to get rid of the ter- rible “red,” because thru his work Papcun usually received favorable de- cisions in the mill committee. Conse- quently they fired him. The reaction- ary Officials, members of the ku klux klan, are fighting on the side of the company and have postponed action at two meetings. This is a case that is causing a great deal of discussion in the mill. This is not the only case. Take, for instance, Brother Nolan, who has been fired because of breaking a roll thru no fault of his own, but thru the faultiness of the roll itself. Also be- cause Brother Nolan was active in the lodge and helped support. Papcun, is a reason why the reactionary officials now will not back Nolan up. Comrade Papcun is putting up a strong fight. The strong left wing tendency in the union will back him up in his fight to expose the local and national of- ficials. Comrade Papcun was exempted from dues payments for a time because of being unemployed, but now the ku kluxers in control of the local demand that he pay up all his back dues. The activity of the reactionaries against Papcun is in strong contrast to their inactivity in keeping up the union, as the membership of the local is de- clining. Sacco- Vanzetti Protest Meeting in Chicago, March 1 (Continued from page 1) the release of Sacco and Vanzetti. The results of the first conference of del- egates from 12 large local unions in this city with representatives of the Workers Party and the Young Work- ers League and a number of influent- ial fraternal organizations assures the tremendous success of this demonstra. tion. Every delegate has promised to visit at least one other union that is not yet represented in the conference. In this way it is expencted to secure the support of scores of additional labor organizations. An executive committee of seven members has been elected at the first meeting of the conference. Max J. Silinsky business agent of the Jour- neymen Tailors’ Union in this city was elected chairman of the confer- ence. A V. Severino member of the Bricklayers, one of the delegates of the Workers Party was elected secret- ary treasurer. Other members of the executive committee are William Polk president of the Street Railwaymen’s Union, John Steele secretary of Local No. 867, of the Painters’ Union, Her- bert Benjamin, Carl Hacker and Geor- ge Papcun. Stee! Workers to Protest YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 19.— Two monster mass meetings in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti will be held in Mahoning Valley on Sunday, March Ist. In the afternoon a meeting will be held at the Hippodrome hall, Warren, Ohio, and in the evening a meeting will be held at the Ukrainian hall, 525 West Rayen Ave., Youngstown, Ohio. Speakers in the various languages will address both meetings and a spe. cial program is being arranged by the committee in charge of the meet- ings. The dastardly frameup of two in- nocent workers by the barons of New England will be vigorously protested against by the steel workers in Ma- honing valley. Readers of the DAILY WORKER are urgently requested to make spe- cial note of the meetings and attend the one in their locality. Scarlet Fever Closes Schools ILLIOPOLIS, Ill, Feb. 19.—Forty cases of scarlet fever were reported here today by physicians. The total population is only eight hundred. All | schools have closed. * Masquerade Ball Given by FINNISH BRANCH, at IMPERIAL HALL, 2409 No. Halsted Street oe ee -— q 3 * fry E. 5 Ko il WORKERS PARTY * c He was given 16 hours to decide f
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For, while cutting the cotton mills one by one, cautiously isolating and defeating one group of cotton textile workers at a time, the wage*cutting noise has been carefully kept out of the woolen mills. Open, frank ‘announcements of “ten per cent” wage cuts (often amounting N. * 4 a =? 7 * E ate” 4 4 ae 3 Flap COLLINS DIED IN KENTUCKY CAVE “Floyd Collins died of exhaustion, thirst; starvation and cold.” This was the opinion Dr. William H. Hazlett, the only medical man to view the body of the Sand Cave explorer after it had been found gave today on his return to Chi- 0. “Coflins was doomed after the original cave-in of the natural pae- sageway,” Dr. Hazlett said. “Even if it had been possible for me or another surgeon to have reached him, it would not have been pos- sible to save him, in my opinion. “Collins was held in such a way that even when I did get down into the passage, | could reach only his. face and chest, it would have been Impossible to have freed him by to 15 and 22 per cent in fact, but mputatlon.“ called 10 per cent) have been posted on the walls of cotton mills. But nothing of the sort in the woolen mills. ~ * Violation of Promise. All of the frictions that have been ‘found in the woolen mills in the pre- sent period—the past few weeks— Dr. Hazlett's trip to the cave was financed by Mrs. Emmons Blaine for whom Collins once had acted as a guide. speed. “But wages have not been cut in the woolen mills, for if wages were cut have come out of something else than announcements of wage cuts. For in- stance, the Middleboro strike arose out of the attempt to slip in two kinds of filling on a two-loom job in vio- lation of a promise made more than a year ago, when a big wage cut was accepted on the promise. Now comes the trouble in the big Atlantic Mills, known popularly in the Olneyville section of Providence as “the Delaine mill.” “There has been no cut in the At- lantic Mills“ —as far as you could prove it. It’s Like CroseWord Puzzle. The only trouble is that weavers who were making $35 a week are now only getting about $20 a week for 50 per cent more of labor. And the superintendents can prove that there has been no cut. That is the riddle that is agitating the working class community of Ol- neyville: How is it that weavers’ wages are 43 per cent lower, altho there has not been any cut, and there couldn’t have Deen a cut because if there had been a cut there would have been a strike? No strike—no cut. No cut—no strike. But 43 per cent less wages. This queer business began six months ago, when the superintendent came around to show the weavers “how they could make more money.” It was at that time that the campaign Was begun which has since been de- Acribed by an organ of the mill own- ers with the words: “Who ought tc be the labor. leaders in the textile in- dustry? The mill agents, superintend. ents and overseers.” At that time, all of a sudden, all over New England and the South as well, the mill bosses began taking a deep personal interest in the welfare of every mill worker, both cotton and wool, “to see that they got more money.” In the Atlantic mill in Providence the superintendent began being the “labor leader” by showing the weavers that in shop No. 5 on fine worsted dress goods, they could run thrée looms “with no more exertion.than two,” and thereby make more money. How Trick Worked. Then, when the weavers got broken in to three looms, the superintendent gave them what is called a different style of goods to make. It looked the same as the former goods, and took a similar material, same kind of filling, but it had a different name—and the plece-work pay was different. While the former goods paid the weaver $12 per “cut” (that is, per roll of cloth,) the new goods paid the weaver $8 per cut. After about six months of this the weavers suddenly woke up to the fact that in simple arithmetic $8 is two-thirds of $12, and two looms is two-thirds of three looms, and that they were weaving the same kind of goods with a changed name. ‘There-] fore, they had had their amount of production increased. 50 per cent, in theory—50 per cent more work for’ (theoretically) the same pay. And the work had become vastly more compli- cated. “Seventeen-harness” work had been put in on three-loom jobs. The former 100-yard cuts had increased to 110-yard cuts. Make Less Money. Then the weavers began comparing Vnion Card Owner Is aes be a strike.” The weavers and loom fixers in th Atlantic Mills belong to the Unite Textile Workers. Under its auspice the weavers and the loom fixers ar: holding meetings in order to solve the riddle of the 43 per cent less pay with out a wage cut and the back-breaking speed-up system. Looked Bewilldered. I asked a weaver whether there would be a strike. “Under McMahon?” he answered. “no, no; there'll be no strike under McMahon.” He looked sad and be wildered when he said it. William T. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers, is one of the old Gompers school of trade union officials. His idea of labor unionism is to “get an adjustment” in each iso- lated instance of discontent, by any compromise that may be necessary to avoid a fight. He expresses his pol- icy as “fighting only at the weakest point.” What this means was well exemplified about three weeks ago up at Woonsocket in the Manville-Jen- ckes Mill when 150 weavers. struck for four days for “fewer looms and more pay.” One of McMahon's representa- tives was sent to “get an adjustment.“ The McMahon policy as then applied was—not to call out the three thous- and other workers to support the weavers, but to order the #50 weaver: back to work “so as to keep the 3,000 from losing time,“ and when 4 voune weaver demanded of McMahon’s ag- nt, Won't you call on the loom fix- Ts not to fix looms for)setbs?” Me- Mahon’s agent yelled at him, “No! You are an I. W. W.!“ United Front Committee. Under this policy it is. evident that the cutting of the wages and the speed- ing up of production per worker, which is evidently now well launched in the woolen mills, will be put thru with the same maneuvering tactics that were used to cut the cotton mills, without any strike or any sort of tni- flied resistance, if the mill superin- tendents who aspire to “be the labor leaders” assisted by the McMahon type of labor official, can prevent uni- fied opposition on the part of the work- ers. But the feeling of the textile work- ers here is running high with the real ization that not only the cotton mills but also the woolen mills are slated by the textile combine for the general reduction of living standards to little more than half of what they were. Several weavers in the Atlantic mills, members of the United Textile Workers, have connected themselves with the united front committee here with the intention to try to bring the union into the united front in spite of McMahon. Capitalist Politician And Helps Open Shop JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Another perfectly good union cdrd owner has gone wrong and a mass meeting of union labor held here denounced W. M. Turbett, chief clerk of the house and urged Gov. Baker not to reappoint him. Turbett once was a “Missouri Pacific machinist and held office in his union. But wien there was a large house printing contract to be ave oe 4 . * ribs: 8 So Pe, > * DA ‘ 7 as 3 a Ge alt. — 4 52 . * “ 2 * > ; pay envelopes and disclosed that where they had been making $35 a week, they were now lucky to get $20 out of a week's work. They are mak- ing less money running three looms | than they formerly made running two. But the “pay has not bee cut.” For if the pay had been cut in the woolen: mills there would have been a strike. Then look at the loom-fixers. Loom axers are highly skilled experts, prac tically always they are workers who first learend weaving from A to Z, and, having gained thoro mastery of the loom, graduated into fixers. Loom fix- | ers’ pay is about $40 to $42 a week. More Looms Per Man. They used to aspire to $1 an hour with the 48 hour week; but long ago they got bluffed out of trying for it. More than that. The theoretical stand- ard is that there shall be one loom- fixer to every twenty looms in a shop. But long ago the bosses crept up on : the fixers, so that now it runs about 27 looms to every loom fixer, and the fixers ere crowded to a break-neck let this week, he sent to the Con P. Currant company of St. Louis, a notor. iously anti-union concern and leader of an unsuccessful drive to destroy the St. Louis printing trades’ union during the 44-hour fight. Dawes Will Loaf Thru Summer After Giving Up Bank Job Vice-president Elect Charles G. Dawes will leave on Feb. 28 for Washington to attend the inaugura- tion ceremonies, but before that date, it was understood here today, he will be forced to resign as chairman of the board of the Central Trust com- pany. . Dawes expects to remain in Wash- ize himself with the duties of his of. fice and then return to Evanston for the summer. He does not expect to ington only long enough to familiar- RUSSIA Rome was not built in a day... But it burned down over-night. And it was not insured! it has taken years to build the DAILY WORKER. Not only dur- ing the one year of its existence, have its buliders toiled. Their work started at the beginning of the labor movement in America, with the is- suance of the first labor pamphiet, the first union hand-bill. THE DAILY WORKER is the living embodiment of all past struggles for a labor ideology as separate from the capitalist press. YET THE DAILY WORKER MIGHT BE SWEPT OUT OF EXISTENCE OVER-NIGHT! Not by a fire,—with a capitalist Nero to enjoy it: but by a shame- ful debacle,—by nothing more than the final overwhelming accumula- tion of petty debts. AND THE DAILY WORKER IS NOT INSURED! Not $20,000 has yet been raised in the insurance policy drive! At least 400 of the 988 party branches have not bought a single policy! Many branches close at home haven't yet hammered the spike. We need them to help sink it deep into the timbers of 1925. Comrades and branches of Dist. 8, here is the spike! Here is the ham- mer! Where are YOU? ARMEN- 1AN—Granite n In.; Chicago, ti, BULGARIAN—4dndianapolis, Ind. CZECHO-SLOVAK — Oak Park, I. ENGLISH—Shop Ne- leus 2, Shop Nucteus 4, Chicago; Cicero, III.; Silvis, III.; Springfield, In.; Gry, ind.; Hammond, ind.; Livingston, I.; Peoria, I.; Selle - ville, H.; New Athens, I.; O’Fal- ion, III. FINNISH—West Wis.; Reck island, Wli South Bend, ind. HUNGARIAN— indiana Harbor, ind.; Hammond, Ind.; Racine, Wis. ITALIAN— Chicago, I.; Cicero, Ill. JEWISH —Milwaukee, Wis.;,Seuth Bend, Ind.; Northwest, “Chicago, II. LITHUANIAN—Auora, cago 77, Chicago 2, ; Racine, Wis.; Louis, N— Kensington, Chicago; West Frankfort, III.; indiana Har- bor, ind.; South Bend, ind.; Kan- sas City, Kansas. SPANISH—Chi- take up residence in Washington un- til next Fall. * cago, I, SOUTH SLAVIC—indi- ane Harti, Ind; East Chicago, III.; UKRAINIAN — Chicago 2; West Hammond, ind THE DAILY WORKER 514.00 STRIKES SPIKE WATCH IT 2 J ‘< ‘1 o- — vo — * America’s Comintern Anniversary |. Greeting: “The Daily Worker Safe for 1925" Hands to the Hammer! Drive Home the Spike! $32,000 Before March 5! Each Reader His Dollar! DAILY WORKER Here is my dollar to HAMMER ce ee -F I am with you for insuring the xe TO THE LAST SPIKE. IT HOME! at i" 9 — — ———— — HANDLE Uf THE HAMMER THE DAILY WORKER has the print- ing machinery. it has six up-to-date linotype machin- es operating fifteen hours a day. ite newspaper press prints not only THE DAILY WORKER and Ii Lavora- tore, the Italian paper, but also THE YOUNG WORKER, and The Greek and Swedish weeklies. its cylinder press prints the WORKERS MONTHLY and all the party pamphiets and books. But printing presses alone do not make Communists, nor do they build Commun. ist parties. Nor do Communist news- papers and magazines and books. Not they alone. In addition to the printing plant, there must be HUMAN machinery to make pos- sible the growth of the Communist move- ment and the continuance of its publica- tions. Today we are calling for MEN to take their turn at the hammer. This hammer was made for USE. Like the printing press, it must be operated 15 hours a day for the next 15 days to ORIVE HOME THE DOLLARS. In some respects, printing presses are like human beings. They must be fed (and paper costs more than ham and eggs) and they must drink (ink’s ex- pensive). They live in a house, and it needs coal and light. They need the at- tention of a printer's devil and an edit or, and of a small army of stenographers, filing clerks, linotype operators, press men, mailers, book-keepers, and binders. Presses, besides, have children: hun — — — ö Your Union Meeting | THIRD FRIDAY, FEB. 20, 1925. Bakers and Conf., 3420 W. Roose volt. Bookbinders, 175 W. Washington * N. 3 810 W. Harrison St. Trades Council, 180 W. Washington. Carpenters, 175 W. Washington. Carpenters, 2705 W. 3 a Carpenters’ Dist. Council, 180 W. ashington St. Carpenters, 4339 S. Halsted St. Electricians, 2901 W. Monroe St. Electricians, 4141 W. Lake St. Electricians, R. R., 5324 S. Halsted Firemen and Enginemen, 5438 8. Halsted St. St. Glass Workers, Emily and Marsh- fleid 1 3. 328 Se 232. Hod Carriers, Monroe and Peoria Ladies’ Garment Workers, Joint Board, 328 W. Van Buren St. 83 Machinists, 113 8. Ashland Bivd. 113 Machinists, 113 S. Ashiand Bivd. 273 Painters, 2345 So. Kedzie Ave. 637 Painters, School and Shefield Ave. 863 Painters, 3140 Indiana Ave. 1332 Painters, 3140 Indiana Ave. Pattern Makers, 119 S. Throop St. 612 Piumbers, 9251 8. Chicago Ave. 346 * 3 Village Hall, Kol- zie, : 376 se „ petra Village Hall, Kol- zie 0 998 Railway Carmen, 5445 S. Ashiand ve. 328 Railway Clerks, 20 W. Randolph St. 679 Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. 1366 Railway Clerks, Ft. Dearborn Hotel. 4 Railroad Trainmen, 1536 E. 64th St. 119 Railroad Trainmen, 3349 North ve. 196 Railroad Trainmen, 9120 Commer- cial Ave. 367 Sheet Metal Workers, Ashiand and Van Buren. South Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly, 9139 Commercial Ave. Stage Hands, 412 Capito! Bidg. 12 Stove Mounters, 3608 Wolfram Ave. 3 Teachers (Women), Women’s City Club Rooms „ 4:30 p. m. „ een (Com. ] 312 8. Clark 484 Waitresses, 19 W. Adams Street, Women's Union Label League 220 „ Ashiand Bivd. (Note--Unless otherwise all meetings are at 8 . m.) GENERAL STRIKE IS PLANNED BY SWEDISH LABOR Capital and Labor Not Pals Despite Fakers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 19.— News from Sweden to workers here shows that a general strike ot all workers in Sweden is contemplated. The reason for the strike is the threat of. the Swedish Employers’ Associa- tion to lock out 130,000 workers if they do not accept wage reductions and poor working conditions. The Swedish employers’ association is re- peating the method that was used in 1909 which culminated in a general strike at that time when the organ- ized labor movement wis practically destroyed. The Swedish Faker. Herman Linquist, the Swedish Gompers, as one of the delegates t. the disarmament conference held i: Washington, D. C., year 1921, spoke in different parts of this country from the same platform as Mr. Bigelow, then president of the employers’ as- sociation of Sweden. In Minneapolis Linquist stated that the labor question had been solved and that capital and labor were friends and that no fight would take place in the future. He bragged abput the fact that he was the president of the Swedish riksdag when the eight- hour law was made and passed. Since that time this law has been violated by the employers at every turn and Mr. Linguist has been sitting idly by without putting up a struggle against the employers’ attack upon labor. As a consequence, the workers of Swed- en will very likely be called upon to engage in a general strike at a time when conditions for such a strike are against the workers. stated Produce Company Wrecked by Bomb PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 19.—In- cendiary dynamite explosions blast- ed terror into the center of the whole- sale produce district and demolished three buildings here today with a loss of $130,000, according to fire de- partment officials. Firemen are dig- ging into tons of debris following re- ports that five men might have been trapped, but owners of the buildings explosions. buildiggs were destroyed. CLEVELAND, Minn., Feb. 19.—At Way of Plundering (Special to The Daily Worker) i FRESNO, Cal., Feb. 19.—Leaving behind in their wake wholesale de- struction and terror, over 400 raiders, belonging to the Sun Maid Raisin cor- poration, transported in 150 autome biles swept over Fresno and Madera ~~ counties last night, destroying vine“ yards and threatening raisin growers with death if they refused to line up with the Sun Maid Raisin corporation, is the story told to District Attorney George K. Lovejoy, by K. Arakellan, @ one of the biggest grape growers of Madera county; Godfrey Jensen, of Sanger; K. Yagi and K. Mitsano of Fresno county. Use “Iron” Tactic. These are not isolated cases, there are hundreds more but the grape growers have been terrorized into submission not daring to face the wrath of the Sun Maid Raisin corpor- ation—the raisin trust of California. Arakelian had previously refused to sign up when over three hundred acres of his vineyards were ravaged, so he had to sign. Yagi was visited one night and ask ed to sign a similar contract. He refused, so they threw a rope around his neck. With the rope around his neck he was easily “persuaded” to sign up. Jensen declares that his ranch wag visited, four acres destroyed and the windows in his house were all brok- en. This was done in his absence as Jensen comes from the land of the Vikings and is a fairly good sized specimen of his race. The district attorney declares he has no jurisdiction in the matter, yet he has jurisdiction when it comes to framing up and railroading a member of the I. W. W. Nearly one dun- dred members of the I. W. W. are ly- ing in the penitentiary for merely be- longing to an organization that is al- leged to do these things. The raid- ers of the Sun Maid Raisin corpora- tion do not advocate force and wo- lence, they engage in it and the dis- trict attorney declares he has no juris- diction in the matter. Raisin Growers Give Up. The raisin growers around Frpsne had a rough time during 1924. It is estimated that fully 95 per cent have gone bankrupt. Many of tem are leaving their land without even taking the trouble to be sued for back tax- es. They just walk off and make for the cities of Oakland and San Fran- isco with the hope of finding a job s an unskilled laborer. The Sun Maid Raisin corporation vants to create a monopoly so that he raisin growers would be forced to sell to them. The raisin growers ob- ject to the prices paid by this cor- poration. They are paying from % to 2 cents per pound for raisins. It must be understood that these raisins are cleaned the bad ones sorted from the good. It depends upon the rep- resentative of the corporation as to whether the raisings are classified as good or medium, if the latter, the farmer gets % cent per pound, if they are good he gets 2 cents. These ral- sins retail in San Francisco for ten to twelve and one-half cents per pound. Growers Get Low Prices. A raisin grower averages around 2,000 pounds per acre. This means that a man with four or five acres, such as Jensen works all the year round and produces 8,000 to 10,000 pounds of raisins. At the end of the year he receives for his labors, raw materials used, etc., any sum ranging from $45 to $180. This may seem incredible, but it is the statement of a raisin grower who has joined the Workers Party. His friends were for Coolidge. They still hope that some thing might be done. The Sun Maid Raisin corporation is fast destroying such hopes. One raisin grower is going to stick it out. He thinks that he will make are certain no one was caught in the be better than the last.” Police believe the bombings may | sin gang get after you?” we asked. have been the work of a blackhand | “I'll keep my own counsel,” he replied gang or by business rivals of the Lan- | with a seriousness that bodes ill for dolina Bros., produce company whose the raiders of the Sun Maid Raisin another try and maybe “this year will “What are | you going to do if the Sun Maid Ra- corporation. The president of the Sun Maid Rai- sin corporation. Ralph Merritt, has the annual meeting of the farmers’ co-| been sugs: operative store here, it was decided | to expand the business to twice its present capacity. Stock to the amount of $4,500 will. be sold. | of agriculture. WANTED | Lady to share small apartment: Stu- | dent, or one studiously inclined. $25.00 per month. Call Lawndale 2475, Sunday. sted as the next secretary PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their | money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. dreds of thousands a day that must de bundied quickly out into the werld into | The circulation | the homes of workers. and traneportation system of the DAILY WORKER is one of the costliest features of the entire enterprise. And the task-master of all is the Dor LAR. itt is the dollar that drives and the dollar that MUST BE DRIVEN. Where are the MEN and where are the WORKERS PARTY branches to hit the spike on the head and drive heme the dollars? Wherever the DAILY WORKER the necessary men should be found. Workers, post yourselves at the handle of the hammer and don’t drop your tool goes, „ ont ven have FINISHED THE JOB of insuring the DAILY WORKGER fer 1825/ m ᷑ Z ~~ 0 | C’mon Over! c'mon over. There is so much work piled the DAILY WORKER. We'll be for fun, c’mon over! 6 If you have a day, an hour, or a minute to spare—why, small force in our office that we need your help so very badly, to insert letters, address, seal and stamp envelopes and ever so many other little jobs that have us swamped. lf you volunteer your services that's a fine way to help glad to see you—so just = up on the *
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— ——— S „ — Ww * * . be 2 5 el * * (oa —— — —_ — * “IE especial convention of the Russian section of the Workers Ist) Party of America id last week in New York as au- were by the Central Executive Committee to settle important prob- lems directly connected with the | life of Novy Mir, daily organ of the Russian section, adopted the report of the C. E. C. made by Comrade Bittelman by a vote of 11 to 2. Great improvements have been made in both the Communist liter- ary character and financial condi- tion of Novy Mir and the report of Comrade Bittelman detalls the methods outlined by the C. E. C. to accomplish this result. * * * OMRAD ES: This is a special con- vention. The Central Executive Committee authorized the calling of this convention mainly for one rea- son. We felt that only dy means of a special convention of your section can we have our Russian daily and thereby enable the Russian Section to develop and grow. We were convinced so strongly of the necessity of such a convention that we felt justified im overruling your bureau on this point. Your bu- reau—this must be stated—was op- posed to the calling ofthis convention because the comrades did not believe that the convention would help in this situation. The Central Executive Committee thought otherwise and al- tho the convention must yet prove whether it will really and definitely save and establish Novy Mir, we have no doubt that this will be the case. We are convinced that the responsible leadership of our Russian Section gathered now in convention will be able to solve the difficulties of the situation and insure our party a daily Communist organ in the Rus- sian language; that is, a fighting mili- tant Novy Mir and a living, function- ing organization of the Russian Com- munists in the Workers Party of America. Where Are We At? N approaching the problem of our party and of its Russian Section it might be well to throw just a glance at the present situation. You will notice that one of the char- acteristic features of the present mo- ment is the almost complete absence of any organized political opposition in congress against the Coolidge ad- ministration. Neither the democratic party, which is supposed to be the sworn official opposition, nor the so- called progressive bloc led by Sena- tor LaFollette which is supposed to be the genuine “honest” opposition— neither of them are in any way op- posing the rule of big capital as ex- emplified in the administration of Coolidge. Surely the miserable little struggles in congress over pork-bar- rels and similar matters of “state” cannot be considered real political op- position against the rule of big capi- tal. It would seem as if the electoral victory of the republican party com- pletely crushed the opponents or would-be opponents of the capitalist parties. even the farmer-laborites who are supposed to be on the extreme left of our bourgeois parties, even they have shut their mouths as far as political struggle is concerned. HE only organized political opposi- tion to the rule of big (and small) capital in the United States comes from the Workers (Communist) Party. It will do us no good to un- derestimate, or, for that matter, to overestimate the significance of this fact. It is becoming clearly appar- ent that the only real opposition that will ever be developed in the United States against the rule even of big capital, in distinction from opposition to capitalism as a whole, will come only from the movement that the Workers Party will be able to create. Of course, as the class antafonisms in the United States become sharper and the position of capitalism less se- cure, we will find ranked against big capital also the petty bourgeoisie. But this will only happen inasmuch as the Communist movement of America will begin developing real strength to ex- - ert pressure upon the non-proletarian ca words classes and to drive them into strug: gle against big capital. In other the Workers (Communist) Party of America, small as it is, is the only force capable of developing the movement against capitalism in tre United States. E victory of the republican party I in the last election resulted, as we have foreseen and foretold, in in- creased capitalist exploitation all along the line. Wage cuts are on the order of the day. Persecution of mili- tants in the labor movement has just begun. The proposed child labor amendment to the constitution of the United States, a miserable hificant measure in itself, has been brazenly defeated. The republican ad- and insig- | ministration is openly assuming re- sponsibilities for the Dawes plan (something that they didn’t dare to do till now) and is proceeding in a confident manner to impose the will of American finance capital on every colonial and senii-colonial country in the world. HE mood of the working class in the United States shows a dis- tinct spirit of depression. The work- ers do not readily enter into struggle. They are trying to avoid éonflicts with the capitalists even at the expense of great sacrifices. Needless to say that the reactionary trade union bureau- cracy is cultivating this spirit of pass- ivity with all means at théir disposal. We must not overlook, however, the fact that it isn’t so quiet and peaceful in the labor movement as it may seem on the surface. The recent so- called outlaw strikes in the anthra- cite regon, the strike movement in a number of textile centers in New Eng- land, the tremendous victory of the left wing candidates in the United Mine Workers of America in which John L. Lewis received 136,209% votes and the progressive candidate, George Voyzey received 62,843 votes, or about 53 per cent of the number of votes cast for Lewis. The continued growth of the left wing in the arch- reactionary Carpenters’ Union as evi- denced by the splendid fight of the left wing in the Detroit locals, the suc. cessful fight of the Communists and the left wing generally in the Minne- sota labor movement; all these are signs of life and struggle in the Am- erican labor movement, signs which portend great possibilities for the near future. HE prosperity talk of the capital- ist press undoubtedly had a dis- tinct psychological effect upon the American masses. However, you can- not cure the ills of capitalism. by psychological effects alone. These ef- fects which have allayed for a mo- ment restlessness and dissatisfaction are already beginning to pass away. The hard realities of life and struggle resulting from the gradual disintegra- tion of capitalism, the unworkability, for instance, of the Dawes plan, the sharpening imperialist conflicts be- tween the so-called great powers—all this is forcing upon the American workers a period of new awakening which our party must not overlook in the planning of its policies and tac- | tics. We must equip ourselves for coming big struggles in which we not only participate but will attempt ‘to assume a leading role. Our Present and Immediate Objective. T the present time our party. is carrying on a number of impor- tant agitational campaigns. We are attempting to initiate a strike move- ment against wage-cuts. This attempt | has already produced results. In spite ot the apathetic mood of the working masses generally and in spite of the absence of a unified economic center in the textile mills of New England, strike movements are developing. We are also carrying on a cam against child labor exploitation. are undoubtedly familiar with the icy of the party in this campaign. Executive Committee that the ap ent parliamentary defeat of the chil labor amendment should serve as a new impetus to a revived struggle against child labor exploitation. We must utilize the defeat of this meas- ure to explain to the American work- ing masses the real nature of the state legislatures and of the federal government as organs of capitalist rule. We must emphasize that organ- ized direct struggle of the masses themselves, in addition to parliament- | ary means, is the only assurance that any concessions at all could be wrest- ed from capitalism. Attention must be drawn to our campaign against the criminal syndi- calist laws for the defense of our Michigan prisoners. This campaign we must carry on with redoubled en- ergy because it offers our party great opportunities for arousing compara- tively large sections of workers against the political machinery of @apitalism. And now I must mention, if only in passing, our campaign against Abramovich, the emmissary of the Russian counter-revolution and of the Second International. N developing our campaign ‘against his activities we must concen- trate on exposing the Second Interna- tional and bringing to the forefront of the American class struggle the leadership of the Communist Interna- tional. We must revive our agitation tor the recognition of Soviet Russia, | keeping in mind, however, that at the present stage of development a fight for Soviet Russia is a fight for the so- cial revolution and for the Communist International. And last, but not least. we must extend and intensify ur | propaganda for world trade union | i i big business. A propaganda novel read after you have enjoyed it. 100%. THE DAILY WORKER, Literature-Department 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Iti, THE STORY OF A PATRIOT By Upton Sinclair. A most interesting story by N master-propagandist, built a- round a red-blooded “he-man,” hundred-per cent American who turns out to be a spy of you can hand to your shop-mate to Paper, 25 Cents unity and in the first instance to arouse support for the Anglo-Russian Unity Committee. LL of thse campaigns are natypr- ally carried on along the lines of our united front tactics. However, and this must be emphasized, the ques. tion of what organizational forms these campaigns must take would be determined by actual conditions of the struggle. As long as any or all of these campaigns are in their agitation land propaganda stage, these cam- paigns are to.be conducted by the Workers Party in its own name. It is only when the agitation process is far enough, that is, when it succeeds in creating a mass movement of any proportions involving large numbers of non-party organizations, that we shall resort to organizational means on a united front basis such as, call conferences, organize committees, etc. Strengthen the Party. AND in hand with these cam- paigns must go on the work of building and strengthening our party internally. I need not spend much time on the proposition to shop nuc- lei. It is a decision of the Communist International. It is a decision also of our own party. What is necessary is to get the party membership to accept the decision not only in words but in deeds. We must see to it that the re- organization on the basis of shop nuc- lei is transferred as soon as possible from the sphere of mere discussion and propaganda to the sphere of ac- tual organization. Every party unit has a duty to perform in this case. I am sure that the Russian Federation will fulfill its duty. N concluding the general part of my report I wish to say that now more than ever the problem of developing a militant left wing in the trade unions and of establishing our leadership within that left wing is of supreme importance to our party. Now and for some time to come the main field of class struggle, tho by no means the only field, are the trade unions. Aside from the general Communist principle that we must win the trade unions in order.to achieve our historic mission, the present situation in the United States makes it doubly important that we strengthen ourselves in the trade inion movement. These are our front- Une trenches and it is there that we must concentrate to establish our- selves in the labor movement of the ‘United States. We must look upon ‘this work as upon the Work of estab- lishing our first base from which we shall be able to extend our activities into the wider fields of class strug- gié. We consider it the duty of every unit of the party and particularly of our language sections to make every member of the party a member of a trade union, an active participant in the left wing, a Communist leader in the daily struggles of the workers in It is the opinion of the Centtat j the shop and in the. union. The Russian Section. OU will permit me, comrades, to speak a few words on the situation the Russian Section. In approach- tig this subject I cannot abstain from making a comparison between the con- tion of the Russian Federation of to- y and that of six and seven years 0 There was a time, and most of you comrades remember that time, when the Russian Federation was the leading section of the Communist movement in America. It was leading not only by virtue of its numbers but also by the fact that it was the most active and intellectually alive section of our movement. Since that time great changes have taken place. Large numbers of Rus- sian Communists and Communist sym- pathizers migrated from the United States to Russia. The center of grav- ity has been moved from the lan- guage sections to the center of the party with the result that the Russian Federation no longer plays the part in our movement that it played years ago. However, we shall all remember that the Russian Federation was prac- tically the pioneer in the building of our movement, that without its efforts and sacrifices it would have been im- possible to bring about the formation of a Communist Party in America at the time when it was actually formed. The Russian comrades may well take pride in this fact and derive from it additional faith and enthusiasm for the future work in our party. E must not, however, close our eyes to the fact that Communist influence among the Russian speak ing workers of the United States did not grow as fast as it should have grown. Nor has the Russian Section succeeded in increasing its member ship, which, during the years 1923 and 1924 has remained practically station. ary. I might cite a few figures: The average monthly dues payments for the First six months of 1923 was 955 Last six months of 1923 was 963 First six months of 1924 was 898 Last five months of 1924 was 957 Thus we can see that during the last two years the Russian Federation failed to increase its membership which, by itself, would be a sign of a certain stagnation in the life of the Russian Section. Furthermore it is an established faet hat during this same period the counter-revolutionary elements have considerably strength ened their influence,upon the working class Russian ~ speaking colony. I realize of course that one of the rea sons for this fact is the migration intc the United States of numbers of Russian counter this would only ex but not their influ assume that had the been more active among the Russian speaking masses these counter-revolu- tionists would have been much less successful than they really were. T must also be remembered that dur- ing this same period the party as a whole has been making great strides in its development, it increased its membership (every féferation shows that increase) it increased its influ- ence, while the Russian Section prac- tically remained sta try and to re- main stationary in life as a rule means going back, and*tiiat is what is actually happening in the Russian Sec- tion. We must sound a 1 of warning that unless some radiedl measures are taken by our Russian Section to come into closer contact with the Russian speaking masses, the situation may yet become worse. I am sure the con- vention will take all hetessary steps to improve the situation. HE fate of our Rüssian organ, Novy Mir, reflects very clearly the general situation in the Russian Fed- eration. Why is it that our Russian organ, up to a month ago, failed to evoke sympathetic response from any considerable number of Russian speak- ing workers? This is a fact, to which we must not close our eyes. All credit to the members of our Russian Sec- tion for their sacrifices and hardships in maintaining Novy Mir. We know quite well what a terrific burden it was for our Russian membership to maintain their paper, but then we must ask ourselves the following question: How is it that so few non- partisan Russian workers were won over to the support of Novy Mir? The answer is, the Novy Mir, until its re- organization by the Central Executive Committee, suffered from the same de- fects that the whole Russian Section did. Together with ‘the federation, Novy Mir was living in a world far removed from the actual living world of the Russian masses in America. Neither the federatioh nor Novy Mir reflected to any considerable extent the needs, grievances, suffering, and joys of the Russian masses in Amer- ica. This must be understood in or- der to improve the ‘#ftifation. Novy Mir was not sufficientl¥ interesting or sufficiently attractive dot alone be- cause of editorial defects but because of the wrong policy and the wrong point of view that pevitveated the en- tire organization. "! < JHAT was this wre policy? Its most characteristic feature, as far as I can see, wasit6o much gen- eralization and not enotigh concrete- ness in our agitation and propaganda. We seemed to be working on the theory that to agitate for Soviet Rus- sia and the Communist International is by itself suffleient to win the masses to our leadership. This atti- tude can be proven wrong theoretic- ally. It has been proven wrong in practice. It didn’t work. What the leadership of our Rissian Section failed to realize was thät in order to make Soviet Russia and the Commun- ist International real winning issues among the Russian masses in the United States it was necessary to link these issues up with the things that are more immediate in the life of the Russian masses. This our comrades failed to understand and because of that our federation did not grow and our daily organ had reached some time ago a point where the leading comrades of the organization decided to close the daily, Novy Mir. We Maintained Novy Mir as a Daily. T this point it mighf be well to re- late a few incidents of how we succeeded in maintaining Novy Mir as la ‘daily ‘in New York. A8 you probably know, the leading organs of the Rus- Kan Federation, the bufeau of Chica- go and the management committee in New York, had already decided to close Novy Mir and to/Degin the pub- lication of a weekly ige#Chicago. In the minutes of the bureau of Dec. 13, 1924, we find the following decision: “The bureau approves the decision of the management committee to begin the publication of a weekly in Chi- cago. In connection w this it is de- cided to send immediately a represen- ative to visit Districts 6, 7 and 8. A ‘committee is elected consisting of Comrades Borisoff, ang, Omelianovich to outline the necesgary practical measures to put into ofect this decis- ion and also to recommend an editor. Comrade Striz is appgjnted to visit Districts 6 and 7. a) 2 the minutes of the bureau of Dec. 22, under point 3, we find the fol- lowing: “The bureau confirms its former decision to close Novy Mir and to begin the, publication of a weekly in Chicago. It is decided to notify New York by wire of this decision, also that all collected funds in the last ployed for the publication of a week- ly in Chicago. It is decided to send Comrade Deviatkin ta en York to clear up the question ef isoff, Deviatkin and Steer are author ized to prepare a declaration in the name ot the bureau Novy Mir.“ HE Central Executive Committee. as soon as it 1 ‘isions, immediately t — — -- — a ii : ing up Novy Mir. We said that it is never too late to close the daily, that it would be a crime to give up Novy Mir as long as there is a single penny in the pocket of a single member of the federation. On Dec, 24, two days subsequent to the last decision on the matter by the Russian bureau, we called a meeting of the political com- mittee of the party to which we in- vited representatives of the bureau, Comrades Borisoff and Striz. After a long discussion in which the ee from the bureau argued very strongly in favor of closing the daily and be- ginning the publication of a weekly in Chicago, the political committee of the party passed the following decis- fon: “Motions by Bittelman: 1. That we continue the Novy Mir as a daily. 2. To reorganize the editorial board of the Novy Mir. 3. That we outline a campaign for new subscrip- tions. 4. That we call a conference in every city of nonpartisan organiza- tions to secure sup for the paper.” E realized that by deciding to continue Novy Mir we haven't really solved the problem of Novy Mir, We felt that one of the immediate problems was a radical change of pol- icy in the paper, a change that would make Novy Mir a real living organ of the struggling masses in the United States. We also realized that in or- der to make this change of policy some reorganization in the editorial staff had to be carried out. Further- more, it was at the same time that we came to the conclusion, due in part to the insistence of the New York members, that a special convention of the Russian Federation must be held in order to definitely improve the situ- ation in the Russian Federation and in Novy Mir. Consequently, the political commit- tee of the party at, its meeting of Dec. 30 passed the following additional de- cisions: “Motions by Comrade Bittel- man: 1. That the Central Fxecu- tive Committee appoint Comrades Bourgin, Olgin and Brailovsky as the responsible editors of the Novy Mir. 2. In order to save the Novy Mir mo- bilize the Russian Section for the Novy Mir, we authorize a special con- vention of the Russian Section.” In passing these decisions we felt that we were doing what was necessary in the interests of the Russian Federa- tion and the party. Bureau Opposes Special Convention. OR the sake of submitting to the convention all the facts in this matter, I must relate that the bureau of the Russian Section did not agree with the Central Executive Committee in the matter of continuing Novy Mir. At its meeting of Dec. 25, after the secretary of the- bureau reported the decisions of the Central Executive Committee, the bureau adopted a mo- tion that it retains its former opinion that it is impossible to continue the daily, but it submits to the decisions of the Central Executive Committee and will carry them out. On Dec. 29 the bureau passed an additional de- cision that it is opposed to the calling of a special convention. You will see, comrades, that in the last two months the Central Executive Committee of the party overruled the bureau of the Russian Federation on a number of very important points. First, on the question of continuing Novy Mir; the bureau was in favor of closing it up, the Central Executive Committee wished to continue the daily. Second, on the question of a special convention; the bureau was opposed to it, the Central Executive Committee was in favor of it. Third, on the question of the reorganization of the editorial board; the Central Ex- ecutive Committee decided to appoint an editorial board of three consisting of Comrades Olgin, Brailovsky and Bourgin, the bureau was opposed to this editorial board, favoring a board consisting of Olgin and Bourgin. In overruling the bureau on all these matters, the Central Executive Com- mittee was perfectly aware of the fact that it is adopting a rather determined and energetic course in solving the problems of the Russian Federation and the only reason why the Central Executive Committee adopted this course was because it was firmly con- vinced that only by these actions could we save the Novy Mir and bring new life into the Russian Section. It is our opinion that the events of the last month have proven conclusively the correctness of the Central Execu- tive Committee position. Opposition of Old Management Committee. MUST report to the convention that the carrying out of the above de- cisions of the Central Executive Com- mittee met with some determined op- position and disagreement on the part itary of the editorial board. cision was greatly resented by the old the closing |management committee, of Novy Mir and of the publication of | now I would find it difficult to explain a weekly in Chicago. Comrades Bor- why, for instance, ha closing of matters of an editorial nature. ever, these comrades are party mem- | bers aud they seem to have telt justi- of these de a strong and | cutive Committee against this decis- are oom position * clos- | ion. of some responsible comrades in the Russian Federation. You are probab- ly familiar with the fact that at the jvery first meeting of the new editor- |ial board (Olgin, Brailovsky, Bourgin) campaign for Novy Mir should be em- Comrade Brailovsky on a motion by Comrade Olgin was appointed’ secre- This de- altho even the management ‘committee and the manager were called upon to pass judgment upon How- in protesting to the Central Exe- Here is a copy of @ telegram 8 sent to the Central Executive Com- mitee on Jan. 14 by the old managing board, signed by its secretary, M. B. Svetlow. It reads: “Due to the fact that Braflovsky has been appointed editor stop I as secretary and Ashk- enudse as manager and also the man- aging board in its entirity cannot take upon ourselves the responsibility for the further existence of the paper es- pecially at the present moment when We are putting up a strenuous strug- igle to save the ‘from death until the federation convention stop We therefore gsk the Central Executive Committee which at present took over all matters pertaining to the Russian Section into its own hands to appoint a new managing board and manager of the paper. Unanimously Menaging Board, M. B. Svetlow secretary.” ‘WILL draw the attention of the comrades to the closing sentence of this telegram which reads, “We therefore ask the Central Executive Committee which at present took over all matters pertaining to the Russian Section into its own hands to appoint a new managing board and manager of the paper.” In other words, the com- rades of the managing board handed in their resignation to the Central Executive Committee because they did not agree with some particular change made in the editorial board. I wish to asy you, comrades, the fol- lowing question: Is this the way in which Communists should behave? Is this your conception of Communist discipline? Do you believe that, when a group of comrades, singly or collec tively, happen to disagree with the Central Executive Committee on cer tain matters, they have a right to pre- sent a pistol to the head of the Cen- tral Executive Committee demanding either submission or else they resign? And this is precisely what this first telegram meant. In passing, I wish to remark that it isn’t true, of course, as the telegram maintains, that the Central Executive Committee has taken over into its own hands all mat- ters pertaining to the Russian Sec- tion. The truth is, as you comrades will readily admit, that the Central Executive Committee stepped into the propositi n of the Novy Mir only in order to save it and nothing else, and that we did save Novy Mir, at least for the presefit, hob dy. I hope, will deny. S we later learned, the protest and threat of resignation of the old managing, board moved the editorial board to change its decision regarding. Comrade, Brailovsky and to appoint Comrade, Olgin as the editor-in-chief. This was clearly a concession to the old managing board, but a concession made merely in the interests of Novy Mir and surely not because the old managing, board was right in its pro- test. The Central Executive Commit- tee adopted the same point of view and thereupon wired to Comrade Svet- low the following: “Central Execu- tive Committee confirms Olgin editor- in-chief. and instructs entire staff to give loyal cooperation stop Obstruc- tion endangérs life of paper stop Con- vention can. settle. all differences soon * sending this telegram we thought that we conciliated the managing board but that was not the case. The comrades of the old managing board, as you will see from their latest tele- gram, seemed to have made up their minds that they will either have their own way or else not work. Here is their telegram of Jan. 17, in reply to our telegram as quoted above: “We emphatically protest against your insinuations of obstruc- tion. It is our opinion that the Cen- tral Executive Committee is misled and therefore creating obstruction. For all differences were created by re- moval of editorial board and by ap- pointment of trio. If Central Execu- tive Committee was anxious for changes it could as it advises put them into effect at convention which is only in four weeks. The appointment of Olgin instead of Brailovsky as edtior- in-chief does not change situation as , Olgin is busy and unable to devote all“ time to editgrship which makes Brail+ ovsky practically chief editor. Olgin failed already to appear today in edi- torial room. We object to removal of Bourgin from editorship. Were your de sire to better paper sincere you would have instructed the two additional men to help Bourgin who was appealing constantly for it. Svetlow and Ashke- nudse as well as the managing board the loyally on the job they take off responsibility. Henceforth all respon- sibility rests with Central Executive Committee. Therefore we demand you either to restore formal normal condi- tions or appoint new manager and managing board.” I draw your atten tion again that you carefully read the closing sentence of the telegram which is signed for the managing board by Comrade M. B. Svetlow. It reads: “Therefore we demand you either to restore formal normal condi- tions or appoint new manager and managing hoard.” ERY clear and distinct language, isn't it? I just wonder what Com- rade Ashkenudse or Comrade Svetlow would say if they were addressed in this manner by a unit of the party. under their jurisdiction; say, .by a branch of the Russian Federation. Imagine, for example, the Russian branch of Trenton, N. J., sending in a telegram to Comrade Svetlow as the \ : : move Comrade Ashkenudse as manag- er of the paper or we refuse to sup- port the Novy Mir.” I haven’t the least doubt that Comrade Svetlow would im- mediately demand resignation or ex- - pulsion of the branch from the party. OW, comrades, the Central Execu- tive Committee felt that it shouldn’t needlessly sharpen the con- flict, even if it were necessary to over- look certain breaches of party discfp- line. Confronted with this second ul timatum of the old managing board, the Central Executive Committee de- cided that it will accept one of the al- ternatives of the ultimatum; viz., the resignation of tue old managing board. On Jan. 20, in reply to the above tele gram, the Central Executive Commit- tee sent to Comrade Svetlow the fol- lowing telegram: “Central Executive Committee accepted resignation man- ager and managing board. Appoints Comrade Oblon acting business man- ager until aftér convention with two comrades to be named acting with him as managing board. ou will see that Comrade Oblon has business affairs Novy Mir turned over 0 him in best possible shape.“ Having taken this action, which we are certain was the only possible ac tion to be taken under the circum- stances, we felt that this closes the incident, at least until the convention of the Russian Federation. But it didn’t. The comrades of the old man- aging board and some members of the old editorial board found it necessary to appeal to the Comintern. I will read to you later their appeal. At this point I wish to state that it is of course the right of every member of the party to appeal to the Communist International. I hope, however, that this convention will express very defi- nitely its opinion on the merits of the appeal. HE Central Executive Committee has nothing to retract and noth ing to apologize for in what ft did in the Novy Mir matter. It comes before you with the clear understanding that we have done all in our power to help you save your daily paper and to en- able you to continue effectively Com- munist work among the Russian speaking workers in America. The Immediate ‘Tasks of the Rus- sian Section.—, T will be your duty, comrades to carefully examine your past experi- ences and present conditions of your work in order to formulate concrete steps for the best possible manner, of carrying out the general party tasks among the Russian working masses. Our message to you could be express- ed in the following words: Don't per- mit yourselves to become isolated from the Russian masses. Let your organization and your press reflect to the fullest possible extent the . daily life and struggles. of the Russian workers in the United States. OU must win the sympathies of the non-partisan masses by organ- izing them and by leading them in the solution of their daily needs. You must under all circumstances break the influence over these masses of the Russian counter-revolutionists, wheth- er they masquerade under the name of monarchists, liberals, anarchists, or socialists. You must increase your membership. You must win your mem- bership to the idea of shop nuclei and you must mobilize your entire federa- tion to work with the party in carry- ing out the shop nuclei reorganization. You must also convince your member- ship of the necessity of joining the unions and actively participating in the building of a militant left wing. In other words, you must make your federation and your daily organ a real, living, militant section of the Workers Party of America. Long Live the Russian Section! Long Live the Novy Mir! Long Live the . Party of Am- erica!” Long Live Soviet Ruseta! Long Live the Gommynist Interna. tional! *. 4 ~~ — Amalgamated Strike in Stamford STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 19.—The Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Un- ion is conducting a strike at the Stam- ford Manufacturing company plant where boys’ shirts are made. The strike gained intensity since two girl members of a committee presenting demands were assaulted. — Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum. SS Dr. S. ZIMMERMAN DEnT1S’1T 2252 N.U4 KNIA AV ARMITAGE Special Prices to Workers ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination Is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work ts Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DEGAY M ö— — 4 1.
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na: DEFENSE BAZAAR Elaborate Program for March 8 DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 19.— Those who are really fond of an old fashion- ed good time, will do well to visit the bazaar and dance given at the House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin, Sunday, March 8, from 5.30 in the afternoon untill way into the night, This affair will be held under the auspices of the Detroit federation of working women’s organizations who, it Will be remem- bered, gave a very successful supper only a few months ago. This time, we have heard, they are going to do themselves proud. Choice. Bargains They have combed almost every section of this city for fancy and valuable gifts and things for the bazaar and those who are lucky enough to be on the inside, inform us that they are going to take plenty of money along so as to be prepared tc grab off some of the choice bargain: that are going to be offered for sale It has been hinted that there is going to be a very elaborate program and most of us outsiders have been hanging around everytime the com- mittee met, trying to find out what's what. So far however, there have been no leaks but we will let our readers know of anything we may learn about the program. All we want to say now, is that anyone who knows the “women” knows that their silence is significant. They must have some- thing up their sleeve and are afraid they'll spill it if they say even one word. Excellent Orchestra An excellent orchestra has been en- gaged and those who are fond of hav- ing their toes trodden on will have plenty of time to divert themselves as there will be dancing galore. All in all it’s going to be one of the biggest affairs of the season. The admission is 26 cents which is outrageously low but as everyone knows the “women” always show the greatest hesitation in going thru a man’s pocket. Come on comrades, on to the Wo- men’s Federation Bazaar for the La- bor Defense. Lets show em that if they know how to prepare a good time for us, we know how to enjoy it. Plan to Ald Inventors NEW YORK, Feb. 19.— “We pro- pose to ald workers with a serious purpose who have some device ot merit, whether it be a toy to amuse youngsters, Or an apparatus to speed manufacture, or an improvement in transportation or communication,” an- nounces the newly formed Inventors’ International Institute. The organiza- tion will pass upon practicability of inventions and possibility of obtaining patents. Engineering experts are on the staff. 1 * 5 4 tee * . 0 ~~ Wee | NEW IDEAS. TA BOO-IN IOWA 4 ay av | (Continued from page 1) bossed the town. and twenty-two churches kept them mujiks under the sway of superstition. St. George brandished his sword, the kluxers shook in their night shirts, the blind followers of Gom- pers and Green swore by their job trusts and sacred contracts and so the battled raged, There were three champions tor progress “who urged that as men of honor they should keep their promise to rent the hall. The night shirts, witch burners and others morons won a glorious victory for god and their sacred institutions. The infidels and bolsheviks were ban- ished from the holy land of supersti- tion and the czars of "Marshalltown. No meeting was held as the time was too short to make other arrangements. This is in sharp contrast to the monster demoristration held recently it Madison Square Garden, New York, when twenty thousand bolsheviks and sympathizers, throbbing arith protest against the power of the czars and heir retainers, chééred enthusiastic- ally for Lenin, Soviet Russia and the overthrow of ny — * super stition. Intolerance at Siéux City A hot battle raged in the Labor As- sembly at Sioux City over the rent- ing of the Labor Temple to the Work- ers Party. It started in with but three for fulfilment of their bargain to rent the hall, and after two hours of hot argument it ended with a majority in favor. + Great credit should be given to those who, in the face of overwhelm- ing odds; battled fer the right of free speech and against the’ damming up of the avenues of education. “Boycotting” the Bolsheviks At Fort Dodge, Boone ‘and Cedar Rapids the trade union members and former socialists ignored the Workers Party meetings held theré: The meet- ings were fairly well advertised in all three places but ignoratice, apathy, prejudice and cowardicé—gaused thru the collapse of the soclalikt party and the LaFollette flasco—has ‘tnothered the spirit of revolt. The Workers Party {¢ ‘practically unknown in this terriory in spite of fact that a large vote was chst for our ticket last November. A tfemendous amount of propaganda Hteratit® will have to be circulated beferd any real constructive work can be ‘done The Appeal to Reason was at one time a tremendous force in Iowa, it fact: it was the only challenger of the cap- italist sheets. The workers aha farm- ers now seek for expresston ot their protest against the domiuabſon and poison of the daily press By #ubscrib- ing for the klan weekly, étte’s labor or reform sheet... Where “White Guardists“ Come From All thru these little towns" Scattered | I OUR DAILY PATTERNS © | A NEAT HOUSE FROCK 5 „ — — — ii — > ) vow * — — — — — ' 507 5019. Checked gingham was em- ployed to make the pleasing style here portrayed. This model is also attractive in linen, percale, ratine or crepe. The pattern is cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust mea- sure. If made as illustrated, it will require 5% yards of 27-inch plaid gingham, and & yard linen or percale for pockets, collar and cuff facings. The width at the foot is 1% yard, with plaits extended. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. * * FASHION BOOE NOTICE! Send i2c in silver or @tamps for our up-to-date Spring and Summer 1926 Book of Fash shawing color plates and of ladies’, containing misses’, and children’s tterns, a con- cise and — article on dress- 2 — once sores points for the needle ting various simple stitches), all valuable hints to the home éressmaker. Get your tickets for Red Revel E ' Febrwary 28. — ä 1 A NEW Doll, SET. 4196. The little doll mother may not only make dolly’s clothes but also the doll, from the models supplied herewith. The body may be of drill, unbleached muslin, oil cloth or sanitas, with a stuffing of bran, kopak or cotton. Eyes of shoe but- tons, nose and lips of yarn, or, the features may be embroidered or painted. : Dressed as. a clown this doll will be very attractive. The suit may be of calico, cretonne or scraps of silk or satin. One or two colors of mater- ials may be used. For the Rompers —cretonne or gingham is pleasing. Dolly will bé so glad of the dear little pockets in hér rompers, and Pierrot“ in his comfortable costume, if his arms and legs are fastened so as to be movable. The pattern comprising the Doll and the garments, is cut in 3 Sizes: Small—12 inches, Medium—1s6 inches, Large—20 inches in length. The Doll requires for a Medium size &% yard. The rompers % yard. The Suit and Hat, 1% yard of 27 inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Address: The DAILY OIE Re 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chica NOTICE TO PATTERN B n tterns being sold thru, the DAILY ORKER * 5 department are tur - New — firm ot customer. ‘The very 3 flim-flammer or some sther pseudo the clown will do all sorts of tricks over “Migsourt and Iowa the products of Main street learn to become handy with a trowel, hatchet and saw, paint brush or plumbers outfit. There is seldom any union among them and the wages go no further than about fifty cents per hour. They are a tre- mendous reservoir for scabs and strikebreakers as has been shown time and again in all industrial cent- ers and on the railroads and in the mines, Nothing is being done to reach them with education, and those small towns with labor movements—thru fear and intolerance upon the part of the labor bureaucrats that is passed on in their journals and newspapers— are intolerant of all new ideas. The writer was told of a case in Fort Dodge where out of eighteen boys who had grown out of the Boy Scouts sixteen of them joined the state militia. The other two wanted to join their comrades but their uncle, a union member and former socialist, threatened to disown them. Mission of the Militant The Workers Party must get in touch with one or a few militants in every one of these small towns, or- ganize them into the party if possible but at least influence them to spread literature broadcast in the communi- ty. Members of unions must be in- spired to take up live issues in the labor movement, simple at first until they gain confidence and influence, and then to broaden it out until the entire working class and farmers have been reached with propaganda count- eracting the poison of the capitalist press. Men and women of average intelligence and who have energy and courage can soon establish prestige and leadership among the masses. Tue masses, as we have observed in the Iowa campaign, are apathetic and shun direct contact with any new idea; can be reached by a local mil- itant thru the unions or by the per- sistent broadcasting of literature. Leaders who are militants are sadly needed in the small towns. SHORT ITEMS ABOUT MINNEAPOLIS MOVEMENT All party members and sympathiz- ers should take note of the following affairs to be held in Minneapolis dur- ing the next few weeks and 1 pres- ent. . “Beauty and the Bolshevik.” Due to the failure of the films to arrive in Minneapolis for the sched- uled showings on Feb. 13 and 14 they will be shown at the Finnish Hall, 1817 Western Ave., No., ‘on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 8:00 p. m. and at the Labor Lyceum, 1426, 6th Ave. No., on Thursday, Feb. 19. Tickets purchased for the previous showin will be honored at that time. Every one should see these films without fail. English Branch Entertainment. On Sunday, Feb. 22, the Minneapo- lis English branch will hold a big bas- ket social and dance at the Finnish Hall, 1317 Western Ave., No. The social will start at 7:00 p. m. and the dance at 9:00 p. m. Every lady who brings a basket will be admit- ted free and the entleman who buys her basket will share the lunch with her. Everybody assured a good time Good music for the dance. Admis- sion: Ladies 15c, Gents 35c. T. U. E. L. Mass Meeting. Two mass meetings have been ar- ranged by the T. U. E. L. in an effort to arouse the workers aainst wage re ductions, expulsions in the unions, and against the policy of class collab- oration being put over by the reac- tionary trade union officialdom. The first of these meetings will be held at the Jupiter Hall, 2514 Lincoln St., N. E., at 8:00 p. m. on Friday, Feb. 27. The second will be held at the Cam- den Auditorium, 616 Ist Ave., No., on Tuesday, March 3, at 8:00 p. m. The speakers will be Dan. W. Stev- ens, president of Painters’ Local No 186, and C. A. Hathaway, district or- ganizer of the Workers Party. V. R Dunne will preside as chairman. Scandinavian Branch Entertainment The Scandinavian branch of Minne apolis will hold an entertainmen Sunday, March 29, at the Camder Auditorium, 616 ist Ave. No., after noon and evening. Two of the out standing features of the proram wil) be a lecture by J. F. Emme, left wing candidate for president of the Inter tional Association of Machinists) His subject will de “The Left Wing and the Organized Labor Movement.” Elsie Olson, accordion artist, will give several selections on the accord- ion. L. A. Roseland, Communist can- didate for alderman in the tenth ward, will also speak. All workers in- vited. Co-op Trading in Russia. Co-operative trading has the right of way in Russia over both private and government trading in the retail field, Gayernment retailing is to be used only, p combat private trading and te open, mew fields for the co-ops, the Russtas council of industry and trade has ordered. State trading finds geld in wholessie and semi- 7 4 5 business, FILMS WHICH CRITICS ROAST All Admit Pictures Are Genuine and Realistic 1 The very. guest showing ot The „ d the Bolshevik” in Boston re was accompanied by an extrao amount of Nee pub- licity in the daily capitalist papers. While the hig, audience of workers cheered the. ed army love story from first scene to last, the critics were not so well pleased, This was no safe and sane “Polikushka” whose suicide end- ed his tion in the class strug: gle, this was a picture of the new order that nestored the land to the peasant and, won the younger genera- tion, wholesale and retail, for the Bolsheviks. The criticg did not like it. They sniffed at ita. “propaganda.” The act- ing was tre itionally Russian.” After our own slick, Hollywood output, the characters, tumes and setting look unkempt, tasteless and ramshackle.” But even the critics felt compelled to give some credit. “For all that” con- cedes the writer for the Transcript, who had been most bitter in denun- ciation, “the picture has a refresh- ing charm—trefreshing and charming perhaps because it is so distinctly un- American in its light, casual handling of humorous bits, often made humor- ous in spite of themselves, and for the devil-may-care attitude towgrd the whole thing. The actors seem to be thoroly enjoying themselves.” The Advertiser report was short but friendly: A large and appreciat- ‘ive audience,at Symphony hall saw the Russian screen comedy, The Beauty and the Bolshevik, a romance of a Red army commandant and an ‘enemy maid,’ whose father had lots of vodka and more rubles. The Soviet army brigade, which was used in thi: picture, showed excellent horseman ship, winning frequent applause. Th. picture, made in Russia, is realistic in its treatment of the love story.” The Christian Science Monitor said the film 16 “particularly notable, in contrast with American films, for the good will and simplicity of its humor and fog, its total disregard for material splender. No hint of the star system mars it. The actress who plays the, ‘Beauty’ is genuine and frolicksome.”, ; }» Nor did the press neglect the com- panion piece, Russia in Overalls. The Traveller reported. Russia in Overalls,’ a combination of travelogue and newsreel, put out by the Interna- tional Worker Aid was undeniably interesting. .Although this, too, was a case of the; Soviet putting its best foot forward, dt was done success- fully. It left he impression of a live- ly industrial outlook for Russia.” The Monitor said that this film showed “those Who have given money for agricultural, mining and manufactur- ing machinery what had been accom- plished. The film gave views of lum- bering in Siberia, of garment-making in Moscow, of fishing on the Volga, and of oil drilling and mining near Baku.” Many cities have already seen these films and many more are listed to run shows. A list of current dater is published in another column. But there are hundreds of cities where working class organizations, in one way or another, could run this and other film programs with certain suc cess. Full information will be given labor and liberal organizations in in quiry to International Workers’ Aid, | 19 8. Lincoln St., Chicago, III. Brownsville Open Forum to Have Talk On F ascism Sunday BROOKLYN, N. 1. Feb. 19.— Com- rade George Siskind will deliver a lecture on “Faiscism in Italy,” at the Brownsville Workers’ Hall, 1844 Pit- kin Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., on Sunday evening, Feb. 22nd. Fascist circles in the United States ire interpreting the proposed forma- ‘ion of a fascist international as a sign of the pessing of the fascist crisis in Italy. Comrade Siskind's lec- ‘ure will help our comrades and sym- ohatizers’ undéfstand what is actual- ly happening in Italy. The forum is conducted under the auspices of thé Brownsville section committee of the Workers Party. UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS | orcester By HELEN KAHKONEN (Special to The Gaity Worker) WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 19.— The lecture courses conducted under the auspice of the Finnish Federation of the Workers Party, are coming to a close. In these eight weeks we have already had all the lectures on biolo- gy, sociology, history of the socialist and Communist movement, co-opera- tive movement and political economy. Dr. Krishna ot India, a revolution- ist for 36 years, lectured on Colonial Imperialism, History. of Aryan Race, How to Cultivate k Good Memory and How to Think. Dr. Krishna, who is a doctor of philosophy and psychology was a very interesting lecturer. In his lecture, How to Think, he gave us interesting advice. His lecture on Colonial Imperialism was on European contries, imperialist olicies in Asia and Africa. How he European capitalists rob the peo- dle of Asian and African colonies. In India there are 150,000,000 natives that can afford rice soup ny once @ day. English capitalists spend 3225, 00,000 for militarism m fndla to keep an iron dictatorship on the natives, and only $12,000,000 for schools, hos- pitals and other public institutions for the welfare of the people of India. The social revolution of Europe will be postponed until these colonies free themselves from European capitalist domination. The lecture on, How to Cultivate a Good Memory and Powerful Brain, was really a useful subject to all the students here. Men like Marx and Lenin had good memories and pow- erful brains, and so were of great use to the Communist movement. Work- ers must win and they should have a powerful brain, that they all can be good fighters for the cause that will free the proletarlans from capitalist slavery. Astonishing News Of Harlem Dance Is Revealed at Last It has been decided to reveal the ews that only fifty cents including vardrobe, will be charged for admis. ion to the big spring festival and lance of the Harlem English branch, New Vork, which will be held on Saturday eve- Vorkers Party, Local Aing. March 21, at the Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox avenue. 1 combination for fifty cents—a Sat- arday night, the first day of spring, a fine hall, the best music, and Harlem. Everyone in this country should see Harlem at least once in his life. There, is nothing like it anywhere. Harlem is the best background for a gay avening. It you want to forget your, troubles for one evening come to the spring festival and dance on Saturday in the heart of“ evening, March 21, Harlem. You will be doubly welcome if you come in costume. What . —— . 7—*¾„” — — R BUILDERS 1 WORK A TIP QR TWO—OR FOUR. N the advice of Comrade Henderson, the head of our Bookkeeping Department, we are bringing to the attention of our agents and other BUILDERS a tip or two that is sure to bring better service to you on all matters. First, if you are paying a bill—be sure to send your invoice along. This will save us time and it will be returned to you fully receipted. Second, statements have gone out to all party units. Today, when the DAILY WORKER is barely able to keep its head above water to “holler for help,“ is the time to give these statements your attention for payment. If the statement is incorrect in some detail, don't hold it with a grudge. Write in to tell us where, how and why and send in your remittance for the améunt you think is correct. if you are in error, you can bet that our bookkeeping expert will soon tell you about it. a3 These two tips are really important; they save time, loss of patience and enable the DAILY WORKER to grow, as much as most any other effort by our growing army of builders. And if you are a subscriber or agent make note of this tip fom ‘our mailing department: write about all address changes on SEPARATE SHEETS OF PAPER. This will get you prompt attention on the matter and the girl comrades in our mafling room will be your friends for Me. And now the comrades in the circulation department give you an- other suggestion that will save Communist energy and make for faster _ service. This applies to agents paticularly:; if you send in subs for the Workers Monthly, DAILY WORKER and others literature—put ell three on separate sheets. All these suggestions are small ones—but they will contribute to efficiency, save expense and give you better service on all of your requests. | March 8—Pitteburgh. MAX SALZMAN SPEAKS IN PITTSBURGH, PA. FEB, 21, FOR J. W. I. Max Salzman, organizer of the Young Workers League, who is on a tour of the Pittsburgh district of the Workers (Communist) Party for the League, speaks at a general membership meeting in Pittsburgh Tuesday, Feburary 21. Comrade Salzman announces two changes in his dates. He speaks in Powhatan Point, Ohio on Maroh ist “and in Neffs, Ohio, on Feb. 28th Instead of the reverse as was prev- lously announced. ‘Comrade Salzman's dates follow: Feb, 21—Pittsburgh, general mem- bership meeting. Fb. 25-26—Wheeling, W. Va. Feb, 27—Bellaire, Ohlo. Feb, 28—Neffs, Ohio. March 1—Powhatan Point, Ohio. March 2—Yorkville, Ohio. March 3—Martin’s Ferry, Ohlo. March 45—Dillonvale, Ohio. District or- * \‘ganizational conference. NOTICE, CHICAGO! 173 | i Keep Saturday evening, March 28, | | Contrasting the treat- ment of. political prisoners 1926, an open date for a V. W. . Haftet. WORKERS FIND POWER IN. SHOP COMMITTEES Your shop committee must have power, must represent everybody, whether they belong to a union or not, must present everybody’s de- mands to the bosses. Your shop committee must have power to call everybody out on strike if demands are refused, but it shall have no power to accept a compromise of those demands without a shop vote. Your shop committee's first duty is to spread the strike, to con- nect itself with other shop committees, to assist other shops to elect committees, to unite upon demands, to unite the shop committees of one city with those of another, to unite themselves at the head of all the workers in demonstration, parades, and constant mass picketing, to lead marching throngs of strikes to city, state and federal ment authorities with demands for relief to the needy, for rent mor- atorium, for punishment of and protection against police brutality and private siuggers! govern- Yoor shop committee must not be an organ of reconciliation between the capitalist class and the working clase, of collaboration to speed up work, to increase production and in this way to reduce your wages! Vour shop committee must lead the class struggle, it must sound the call for more wages: it shorter hours. must fight! must make demands for And it must make demands on the capitalist govern- ment for release of working class prisoners, Sacco and Vanzetti, Mooney and Billings, and others, for the freedom of Ruthenberg and the thirty other militant leaders of the Workers (Communist) Party, the only political party of the working class able and courageous en- ough to lead the workers against the capitalists. The above from leafiet “STRIKE AGAINST WAGE CUTS.” Many C.C.C’s. and branches have not as yet ordered this leaflet for dis- tribution. your cooperation it can be done. One million leafilets by April ist is the mark set. Will you cooperate? With Local Chicago heads the list with 50,000. No orders from Boston, New York, New Haven and other eastern states. What is the matter with Detroit? Those having ordered a supply are appealed to again to raise ad- ditional funds and send for more leafiets. Make checks payable and address all orders for leaflets to Workers Party, National Office, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. to the mat sion 1113 State: in Russia with that given other countries It is also an exposure of activities of “socialists.” Filled with facts this little book will give much THE DAILY WORKER Enclosed $.......... of “White Terrorists.” Name: Street: Ce: THE WHITE TERRORISTS CRY FOR MERCY : By MAX BEDACHT new pamphlet just off the press. political prisoners in counter - revolutionary you erial for a subject so in present discus- 8. 5 CENTS EACH — — — — — — — — Literature Department W. Washington Boulevard Chicago, III. for copies Send to: „ „„ G at the Laboratories. KELLOGG 5 TASTELESS CASTOR OIL A super-refined castor oil made for medicinal use. Not flavored. ee 8 and purity unchanged. | eless and odorless. Insist on ; 2 bottled and labelled At all ; for ＋ 3 to —_ his tail out. gy et toa? - you buy, get an “Ad” — DAILY WORKER, A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN brush for Nurse Jane.” ——— — . Oh, excuse it N please!”
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N Tere a“ — — AAI I OMS 3 ey tg Brig: 3 5 5 * 3 * i gf 4 — — — 8. ** ips o” 3@ bay 1 . a * 4 ire Ven rae * * ‘ . 2 3 n 1 — a ‘ 4 - ont wee ; = = 28 . * a 2 eeu E DAILY WORKER. , by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, DL (Phone: Munroe 4712) u per year oe 5 5 15.00 per year SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50... — months 32.00. monthe By mall (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.50...3 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE({ MORITZ J. LOEB...... — Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- ee at Chicago, III., under the act of March 3, 1879. — White Goods Workers Strike Twenty-five thousand white goods workers are on strike in New York City. The strike is for the purpose of enforcing an agreement for an advance Chicago, inet Editors .Business Manager Advertising rates on applications in wages, improvement of working conditions and for the unionization of shops now unorganized. The wages of some of these workers are as low as $12 per week and the average is only about $18 or $20. In this industry there are dozens of small cap- italists and for the most part the competition is of the cutthroat kind altho reduced somewhat of late years by the organization of trade associations which attempt to standardize prices, but whose chief business is fighting the union. Three local unions of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers have pooled their efforts in this strike and with the bosses admitting a revival in trade, there are good prospects of some concessions being secured. The bitter opposition to organized labor in Amer- ica is shown by the history of this industry that, compared to the giant combinations in steel, coal, metal mining, transportation and lumber, can be classified as decentralized. In spite of the competi- tion that still exists and the possibility of the or- ganized workers using one boss against another, with few exceptions the workers have been forced to strike every year about this time. For America, the industry is well organized. What becomes then of the policy of “concilia- tion,” “arbitration,” and “friendly understanding” urged by the reactionary trade union officials in completely centralized industries where the work- ers are only partially organized? The very weak- ness of the unions in other basic industries shows the need for militant policies. Constant retreat and surrender serve only to strengthen the posi- tions of the capitalists. As for the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ officials, they too have failed to learn the lessons of the numerous strikes forced on the organization. Amal- gamation does not consist of the mobilizing of local unions of the same union. This should be a matter of course. Amalgamation is the unity of all the unions in the industry—the ‘needle industry in this case— against all the bosses. The success of à policy can only be judged by its effect on the organization adopting it and in considering the International Ladies’ Garment Workers, we must ask these questions: Is the union stronger now than it was five or ten years ago? Has it more job control? Is it keeping pace with the development of class organization among the bosses ? Every member of the union knows that these questions anust be answered in the negative and that the present militant action of three locals of the union is only the result of the left wing activi ties and not a policy having the wholehearted en dorsement and support of the officialdom. Even in the still decentralized needle industry | the capitalists are doing more amalgamating than the unions. This is a dangerous condition that can be corrected only by the adoption of the program of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Trade Union Educational League. The present strike will furnish new lessons that can be brought to the attention of the rank and file by the Commun- ist-led left wing. * A Composite Biography News from Seattle is that Martin Flyzik, prest- dent of District 10, United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, has resigned to become supervisor of safety in the labor department of the state of Washington. Martin was once a breaker-boy in the Pennsyl- Vania coal fields. A ready tongue and a pleasing personality, combined with what passed for revo- lutionary leanings in the pre-war period of the labor movement, won him official positions in the union. Martin swam with the radical tide. When the war put the clamp on social-pacifism Martin became a patriot. In the state of Washington Martin soon was ac- cepted, after evidence of loyalty to American ideals, as labor trimming for the capitalist parties. His present lucrative position has been won by sterling service to fakerdom and reaction. No one can tell what it cost the miners to train and educate Martin, but it took a lot of money. He had the best the coal diggers could give. Now he becomes a puller-in for the Washington side show of the capitalist circus. Substitute for the name of Flyzik the any one of the couple hundred | otherwise. The “Backward Nation” M yth Smashing blows are being delivered from the most unexpected sources these days at the theory of the inherent inability for modern industrial or- ganization on the part of “backward nations” over whom the western nations have thrown a canopy of lies and misrepersentation. Writing for the Weekly Westminster, London, Paul Scott Mowrer, who is also a correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, gives some facts con- cerning the Riffians and their war for independence from which some very important conclusions can be drawn. We quote: The Riffians have taken up all the old Spanish field telephone wires and installed six or seven main lines connecting the military frontiers with the cap- ital. They are like children with a new toy. They telephone interminably. Their telephonists sit at tables, like Europeans, and keep a record in a book, like Europeans! The sultan has two motor cars! He is building a road straight across the country! He. has a motor boat, in which he goes along the coast at night, under the very noses of the Spanish! All these things are the talk of the tents and villages thruout North Africa. The pregnant deduction is made that modern progress does not, after all, de- pend upon Europeans. “When you come back after the war,” | was told in Ajdir, “it will not be like this. You will see a fine, modern city, with a harbor and tramways and hand- some buildings—like Paris or London.” All of the above means that brought into con- tact with modern methods of communication and transportation, the Rifflans, whom the western world classifies as barbarians, have within a very short space of time made themselves masters of several very intricate industrial processes. The capitalist nations have another test by which they determine the degree of “civilization” reached by the races and language groups—success in warfare. The Riffians, once they came into pos- sessions of quantities of up-to-date instruments of warfare, demonstrated an aptitude which has routed the representatives of one of the oldest cultures in Europe—that of Spain. It was not so long ago that the Japanese also were termed bar- barians. The truth of the matter is that there are no races or nations so devoid of intellectual capacity that they cannot become modern in the sense in which the word is generally used. Backward races, so-called, races without an advanced industrial system based on machinery with its accompanying phenomena of universal literacy and complex so- cial organizatfon, are not “naturally” incapable of progress in this direction, but have preserved their primitive cultures because of geographical and climatic conditions, lack of contact with advanced industrial nations, etc. In short, nations and races are “backward,” not for biological but for historical reasons. It is becoming more and more obvious as the revolt of colonial peoples, brown, black and yellow, against the imperialist nations grows, that once contact with an industrial civilization has been established, ne’racial or national group but will adopt modern methods and adjust itself to the new social organfaation necessitated thereby. Imperialism‘ is digging its own grave by forcing the colonial peoples into the world arena where they quickly learn the mysteries of the machine gun and gas engine, of the hand granade and the telephone, of heavy artillery and the locomotive. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. * Capitalist Conflicts The reported demotion of Brigadier-General Mitchell for his advocacy of aircraft as against battleships and exposure of the inefficiency in the navy department indicates that even in the armed agencies of capitalism there is a great con- servatism that balks at change. It is quite easy to take for granted that the aggressions of imperialism are always well- planned and equipped, but occasional facts show There are many shades and gradations in the ranks of the staunchest of capitalism’s sup- porters and capitalism persists only at the ex- pense of infinite painful adjustments. The capitalist class is not a unit. It does not reach its decisions by any easy route, its competi- tive character creates automatically the conflicts within and the workers are permitted to glimpse every once in a while because the intensity of the struggles make concealment impossible. Once the working class is united by revolution- ary leadership, capitalism and the capitalist class will be found to be not so formidable a foe after all. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. The Switch Must Not Be Thrown Cal Coolidge rides an electric horse for exercise, but Sacco and Vanzetti are to go to the electric chair unless the working class‘of America ad- ministers such a shock to the rulers that the cur- rent cannot be switched on. Let’s make the leading lights of capitalism un- derstand that all currents of working class thought are directed now towards March 1—Sacco and Van- zetti day—when the power of the workers. will be at its peak. The motto of the Coolidge administration for the | proposed disarmament conference is very prob- name of ’ “labor leaders” in owe the House of Morgan money.” the United States and we have the description of their careers. It is time the labor movement stopped training officials for capitalism to use. ”? ably: Take away the arms from the nations that [t is always easier to colleet agigbt Hf the debtor has no gun. — -s Send in that new “sub” today! in ar 9 3 8 1 os * Z era * * ee * 1 Res 8 Be Pratt ne 9 THE DAILY WORKER aS. | Red Revel Guests Geting Their Costumes. | Victor Berger Visiting the Panama Canal Prophets are busy prognosticating the fate of the conference for progres- sive political action after its conven- tion here tomorrow. Nobody seems to have any definite idea what it is going to do. The show will open on Satur- day morning at the Lexington Hotel. The conference has andate from the Cleveland convention at which La- Follette nominated himself to con- sider” the formation of a third party. That a third party or*a@my other kind of a party will emerge from to- morrow's convention is a slim hope. For this promise Debs and other soc- ialist party leaders gave their sup- port to the LaFollette campaign and wrote glowing articles about the re- volutionary ardor of LaFollette and his side kick Wheeler, who has now gone back to his democratic vomit. To Hang Third Party To make things a little bit more gloomy for the C. P. P. A. Warren S. Stone, one of its founders has call- ed his faithful labor fakers together today for the purpose of making a noose with which to hang the third party idea at the convention. The only saving feature of the si- tuation will be the absence of the bu- foon Victor Berger who has gone to Panama on a junketing trip investi- gating something or other for Calvin Coolidge. The last congressional junk. eting trip to Panama was the cause of a good deal of unenviable notoriety, in whigh women and wine figured heavily. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers and allied unions passed a motion that “this body is not in favor of the establishment of a third politic. al party.” It is not expected that they will change that decision. Yellows and Anarchists. Debs, Hillquit and Bertha Hale White are the national delegates of the socialist party to the convention. Outside of the needi sgt unions which are ** the yellow socialists and the an 1 it is not likely that any ene international union will be repre med. No doubt socialists will get th — elected from fake organizations if they can raise the carfare. ö The Workers (Communist) Party has denounced the C. P. P. A. as an organization inimical to the interests of the working class atid has issued a statement urging the workers to boy- cott it. WHITE WINGS TO MEET WITH CITY THIS AFTERNOON City Hall Conference May End Strike A meeting of the two thousand striking street cleaners and garbage collectors Chicago will be held tonight or to- morrow morning, Michael Corrozzo, head of the Street Cleaners’ Union announced. This meeting will dis- cuss the results of the conference be- tween the strikers, and the commissioner of public works, scheduled to take place at three o’clock this afternoon. “I do not know what will be the outcome of the conference” Michael Carrozzo told the DAILY WORKER. “But the men will not go back to work until they get their increase in wages.” It is rumored that the city will of- fer the strikers a compromise settle- ment. ' Passes Buck to Weeks WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 19.— Attorney General Harlan F. Stone has decided that Secretary of War Weeks has full authority te regulate the amount of water whieh may be with- drawn from Lake Michigan for drain- age purposes in Chigago, under the recent supreme court decision. 8 MORE THAN rs 30% of the total population in Amerl- ca is foreign born. „The American For- eign-Born Worker By Clarissa 8. Ware. is a most valuable little arse- nal of facts on a large body of the American working class. Most useful inf tion In a pamphlet that se s for only 5 CENTS Order m THE DAILY ORKER Literature ent 1113 W. Washi n Bivd., | Chicago, 4il. — employed by the city of representatives of the 7 =~, E cee . 7 — These are not delegates to the C. P. P. A. Demanding admittance to have their say On the question of whether the “Con” should croak Or still continue to be a joke. * * „% 6 it is not for nothing that these youths yell, it’s not for LaFollette they're raising hell, They’re trying to squeeze into a costumer’s hall To get their rigs for the Red Revel Ball. pP. S.—Now is the time for all good men and women, boys and gls to get their costumes for the famous Red Revel Masquerade Ball, which will be held on Saturday evening, February 28, in West Bnd Women’s Club Hall, Get your tickets early at Workers 37 So. Ashland Ave., corner Monroe. ! Party office, 166 W. Washington St., Room 303. Tn 1 + Tf UTICA MILLS Tho Vote Is Taken, He Forces Work UTICA, N. V., Feb. 15. (By Mail)— The New York mills workers held a meeting today at 2 P. M. at the union hall. The committee reported they had conferred with the employers last Thursday and no settlement had been . |reached about the 10 per cent cut. After the report was given, the chairman said to send a communica- tion to the headquarters of the United uTextile Workers’ Union in New York City, asking an endorsement on the strike. Bouzan Demands Action James J. Bouzan, member of the U. T. W. of A. Local 753 in the New York mills, spoke. He explained how the workers of Utica must go on strike. No communications to New York City was needed when the workers had al- ready decided by a 100 per cent vote, that if, they did not reach a_settle- BROWDER AND JOHNSTON TO SPEAK FOR I. U. El. Jack Johnstone, secretary of the national committee of the Trade Un- ion Educational League, will be the principal speaker at the regular monthly meeting of local Chicago of the league on Wednesday evening, February 25, in North West Hall, cor- ner Western and North avenues. Earl Browder, acting secretary of the Workers Party, will give his re- view of the international situation. In view of the tense situation in Ru- rope, Browder’s summary of world conditions should prove unusually in- teresting. Battle in Unions. Comrade Johnstone will tell of the present situation in the trade unions, and will have a very interesting story to tell particularly of the United Mine Workers’ Union and Carpen- ters’ Union. The Communist candi- dates in the United Mine Workers’ eelctions polled the enormous total of 66,000 votes or half as many as the fakers counted. Hutcheson of the Car- penters’ Union is leading a campaign of expulsions in Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles. Reagers of the DAILY WORKER as well as all trade unionists and members of the Workers Party are invited to attend. Italian Paper Seized. LONDON, Feb. 19.— The Milan Cor riere was seized today for saying Sig- nori Farinacci’s speech at Cromona did not justify the hope that the Ital- ian elections would be carried out in an atmosphere of liberty, according to dispatches received from Milan by the Times. a * Get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER „r 111 Inn 1 ’ ' * Euch Branch, Its ehre March 5th. I LL The Little Red Library ment with the mill owners, then to go Immun Drive Home rhe Last Spike! Organizer Joseph White of the U. T. W. took the floor and opposed Bou- zan, saying, “When it is time for you to go on strike, we will tell you, but don’t listen to anyone else.” White Helps the Bosses In his speechs before the strike. White said that if there was. going to be a strike in Utica, it was going to be a general strike. Now he op- poses the going out of the New York mills workers and claims that he “still has hopes of a settlement.” This in spite of the mill owners tell- ing the workers at the conference that the mill was running at a loss and flatly refusing to rescind the cut. White persists in helping the bosses to keep the workers in the mills. We know from the past that we cannot fight the mill owners one by one. White says—“ We have to organ- ize the workers, then fight the em- ployers.” But the New York mills are organized, now, ready and anxious to strike. White, the “union” organizer keeps them at work, playing the game of thd. bosses. Klansmen Quarrel . in Indiana Courts INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 19.—Suit for $500,000 damages and a petition for an injunction preventing further use of the name klan“ was filed in federal court here today by the knights of the K. K. K. naming as defendant the independent klan of America. The independent klan was incor: porated in Indiana by former mem- bers of the K. KRK. K. Slick’s Job Hold Up INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 19.—Fatlure Washington today held up the form- ality of swearing in Thomas W. Slick of South Bend, as Indiana’s second federal judge. This is the mark on the cover of every book of The Little Red Library. Ready February 15: No. 1—TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA, by Wm. Z. Foster, Jas. P. Cannon and Earl R. Browder, is a brief statement of the trade union movement in America and the history of the development of the Left Wing, with an explanation of the struc- ture and program of the Trade Union Educational League. No. 2—CLASS STRUGGLE vs. CLASS COLLABORATION, by Eari R. Browder, is a study of labor banks, the “B..& O. Plan,“ insurance schemes, and workers’ education. This little book throws the spot-light on the methods used by the labor bureaucracy to divert the working — from militant struggle against cap- m. NE of the first steps of the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. since becoming the central distributing agency for the Communist press in this country is the publication of THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY—an innovation in work- ing class publications. This little library will consist of uniform volumes, pocket size, including reprints of revolutionary classics and new works of the best writers in the American and International movement. It will cover all phases of social and in- dustrial problems, history, philosophy, fic- tion, poetry and art. _Price 10 Cents Each 12 for · $1.00 They can be secured from your local DAILY WORKER agent about Feb. 15 or you can order dite ectly from The Daily Worker Literature Department 1113 W. Washington Blvd. CHICAGO, ILL. Original manuscripts, translations and suggestions for reprint will be welcomed by the publishers. For the present manu- scripts must be Minipod to 15,000 to 30,000 words. “oe 5 of his commission to arrive from
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rae —— —— — 2 E 3 N — e 5 1 — . — ee . 1 1 8 — idl — “SECOND SECTION This magazine supple ment will appear every Saturday in The Daily Worker. 7 ; — 4 4 > = _ * 7 — J 2 > * 127 a : 5 . 4 re 8 1 * bb 1 4 * D 4 — — J 1 x 2 - 9 a ol An “INSULT.” | 4 tion of a defensive 2 on the beginning of the war un- ie thanked them for having now — — the social deuocratic w til the end I stood without reser-| undertaken the leadership of the at- ARTIN (barrister): How does this elne vation on the side of defence of na-] fair, for from. them he hoped that utterance agree with the action | al object of keeping the party commit- tive country, and acted accordingly.| they would guide the movement to taken by the witness with reference tee informed, made its first appear- During the whole war I was opposed to strikes among the workers of war _ | maus tries. I spoke with particular I emphasis to this effect at tho national I donkerened ot the German democratic 8 on Scpt. 21, 1916. workers’ strike im Bay Bern tn January, 1918 broke out a peaceful conclusion, and thus put an end to the insufrection, ich | Was really damaging us seriously in our we ee —— Dec. 10 to the mutiny 1 the fleet? -, | anee during the food strike in 1917. Dittmann (highly excited}, | ae At that. time I was working for the against this unheard of attack, I firm ‘of Schwartzkopff, where about | never any action towards ineit- one-third of the workers were 8. D. ing mutiny in the gert. 1 shalt call the movement broke out in . : ‘legally to account for this. January, I and several functionaries, ROM DITTMANN'S — ote berg ( ter): It is per- went to thé party committee where tertiy disgraceful to insult the witness we first met only the secretary, Her- 3 8 ne approval ITNESS DITTMANN: The al here in such a manner: mann Muller. Muller advised us to zoelal democ democrats, aiid — ‘independ: | 2 — Dec. 10. 5 pass resolutions in the works, demand. Neither" Tbe —— ban W R N a 2 8 whate do with the strike either 1 * a 7 ES 3 05 — — or fndiréctly; on the con- j | trary, it took me completely by sur- Prise. wis N the morning of Jan. 28, 1918, a rapid succession of workers’ dele- gations from numerous Berlin works presented themselves at the office of the social democratic party, bringing reports on the strike, and requesting | that the central committee of the so- cial democratic party should send rep- resentatives to the strike committee, in order to prevent worse from hap- pening. On behalf of the party lead- ers I pointed out that the strike had originated without the co-operation or approval of the social democratic party. The strikers had already the delegates’ meeting request them to do so. After a long discussion this was replied to in the affirmative. ' Here the decisive motive of the ' party leaders was to prevent the in- terests of the country from being | injured by the strike, and to try to bring the strike to an end as speed- Henderson King George MacDonald ily as possible, by means of nego- siptibne with the goverhihedt: KING GEORGE: a nquilty. the Second International exists the King can slumber and arise in FTER a violent contention in the E delegates’ meeting itself, the ma- | jority of the meeting voted for the 9 — — — 8 yy ing that members ot our party com- ents as well, had er deen openly that defence of: native country “ow It 10 Done. — motion, and the committee ot the so- cial democratic party commissioned Otto. Braun, Scheidemann, and myself to the ated roi. that the strike committee was to be reorgan- emphasized this on every occasion. Ledebour too invariably opposed de-| fence nihilism, — The chairman asked the deputy, Dittmann: It was thus your intention to help the strikers to get their de- was the duty of every German. Haase ing: r 1 witness Eimler, a carpenter, spoke of the attitude taken by the witness, Dittmann. at a strike meet- ‘Djttmann spoke after Ebert. He | said) that what. had brot us together | was thé will to peace. mittee should enter the strike com- mittee. But this did appear advis- able to us, for it was very question- able whether we should be in a posi- tion, under the circumstances, to hold a factory meeting at all. We there- ‘fore negotiated immediately with Ebert, Scheidemann, Muller, and tech ad parity Bade, thet fe. that the social democratic party was to be rep- resented in the committee in equal numbers as the independent social democratic party, and that a renewed discussion on the demands already formulated was to be made possible. (Berlin, Vorwarts, Dec. 10.) | MILITARIST THANKS EBERT. | Braun. We told them that we should ; do our utmost to induce the represen- more than Comrade Ebert did. ‘tatives of the functionaries to admit ‘Cae Fahne), Dec. 10. the members of our party committee into the strike committee. The ; Witness Wuschik. | At first Ebert was very gruff, and L declared: I have not the slightest ESS WUSCHIK, party secre intention of taking part in this tary: From 1916 onwards the] movement! Those who have made growth of the Spartacus movement] this bed can lie upon it themselves,” was observable in the works and fac - CHEIDEMANN and Braun were Out of Their Own Mouths.... „ was not until after a lengthy discus- sion that the opinion was arrived at > BERT, social-democratic president of Germany, last that the members of the party com- | December brought suit for libel against the press and mittee, in the interests of national de- individuals of the monarchist persuasion who had ac- |) fence, should enter the strike commit cused him of “treason” during the war. tee, mainly for the purpose The documents introduced and the testimony given at || °f suiding the whole movement inte the trial have just reached us and they constitute the most P°¢¢f! — ond Sere ae damning indictment of the social-democracy evcr compiled. ane 3 ot gg publish herewith the first of a series of articles com- || jmajority” social democrats As ait JN emocrats As dit . largely of this matter —most of it taken from I tering trom the independents“ Ed) the social-democrat press of Germany which published it entered the strike? to show that during the war the German socialists of the Witness: They entered after the Second International outdid the monarchists and capitalists in support of the kaiser, the imperialist war, in crushing the strikes and the revolution that followed the war. minister, von Dandl, spoke on the majority socialist workers took part. I assume that the well disciplined f uths 0.2 © @ strike on Feb. 1, 1918 in the chamber ® 2 2 sas of deputies. In the course of hic N . — mands acceded to? Witness Dittmann: I find this ques- tion very strange in this connection. The formulation is such that I cannot | but assume that you mean we had the intention to press something thru by force, in opposition to the interests of the German reich. (Vorwarts, Dec. 10.) He did not speak of the strike, any DAY i am of the opinion that the strike would have been very rap- 4 idly settled if the German govern- ment had not adopted a formalist standpoint. In Cologne the com- mander of the fortress expressed his thanks to the representatives of so- cial democracy for what they had ac- complished: in preventing Germany's being injured with relation to abroad. | At that time I emphasized, at a strik- _ ers’ meeting, that the strike was non- sense, since the English munitions kers were even foregoing their ays. (Berlin, Rote Fahne, Ded. 10.) N Munich, the then Bavarian prime- 8 right socialist workers took part. I assume that the well-disciplined right socialist workers put pressure on their (Lontinued on page 8)
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* c — —— ee A ins * 8 Se: 1 * iy — n 1 4. be A ie . * 3 4 : ee. a 2 * 3 5 fas * + 2 — 2 3 r 7 7, 4 83 oe 4 * * r 4 that some 25 of Bolshevism will be regarded as the whole of Bolshevism. He points principles aE sé ap 5 ＋ 1 8 8 Ant ah it i | | | revolutionary proletariat to the ants were in the center of the dis- cussion. Thus two most important Bolshevist principles were given in tensive consideration; not abstractly but concretely in connection with the Russian revolution and thus with the world revolution. The fight on both a party organization is functioning, strument is measured by its useful- ness in the proletarian struggle for emancipation. Mere organizational routine means nothing to the party. of these questions supply theoretical but how well does the party as a rallying points of non-Bolshevist ele- whole function outwardly. The ments. But the anti-Trotsky discus- smoothness of the inner organization- sion in the International has streng: ai machinery is important only as far ane 8 1 and | as it facilitates the outward function solidifi retical basis | of the party. In that respect, how- 1 As a Bolshevist party must ever, it is of the utmost importance. RGANIZATION of our party on NOTHER important. Cevelogmens | TE “ine nuclei basis te difficull 660 contributes to the Bolshevization of the Communist Parties. The con- solidation of international reaction be- hind the Dawes plan facilitates the - perialist era and, at the same time, it reveals its inner disintegration. It demonstrates ad ocolus that the era of imperial- ism puts the proletarian revolution up as the order of the day. It proves e ings that went with these forms. The principles of federalism underlying ou rold language group organization have permitted enough segrega- that its pesent is unbearable, and „ur Of the diverse groups within that its future holds only two alter- se 2 . pana A: ps natives—its victory or its defeats. Its the change of the fundamental organ- victory means a twentieth century 1 rari tenia by metre tc aero io’ nic and science. Its d means a not’ n dog proletarian victory and a revolution- Up to this day there are still whole communism. The tasks of the pro- tical seclusion and in some degree letarian struggle become clearer every | et independence from the party as a day and block the opponents of Bol shevization in their attempts to cover — 8 en att ocnaties 45 the revolutionary perspective with an ' 1 mained. Consistent efforts on the opportunist film of inaction and re- 1 ‘ part of the party and also much good LTHOUGH Bolshevization is much oe ae — more than merely reorganization, brought about considerable improve- our party the Workers (Communist) Party, presents a most important 1 2 * condition is decidedly non- phase in its Bolshevization. If we Bolshevik. It fosters and pre- approach this from the correct angle eres a separate loyalty to a sub- there will be little danger that we division of the party. It develops sep- fall into the mistake of oVerestimating en — that are a its importance. political problems In our party, the Workers (Com- party. And no matter how intensely munist) Party, the reorganization is of | the — endeavors a — —.— the utmost importance. In Germany, a 1 uty, some su or any of the European countries, au Of | 3 where the political problems of the ole ing * ä er Communist parties present them- a 2 effo 3 — 1 selves in form of direct revolutionary V. problems, the reorganization becomes It is evident that a fundamental more naturally the adaptation of or- change is required to overcome this ganizational forms to the revolution-|‘ifficulty. The reorganization of the ary functions of the party. In the Party into snop nuclei will bring United States, this is not so simple. About this change, But at the same Of course the functions of our party re also ee are not of less revolutionary import ; + poses ¢ ance than those of the German party; | shevization of the minds of the com- nor is the shop nuclei form of organ- Trades. ization of less importance to our par ty just because ft is further removed from a revolutionary climax of the class struggle than that of Germany. nuclei are all right in theory but in practice they are impossible in the By no means. But at the birth and United States. This very argument, the early days of development of the is non-Bolshevik. It presupposes a Communist movement of America it | dualism of theory and practice. Such has looked for its issues against nat-|dualism is unscientific—non-Bolshe ive social democracy too much im the vik. It theory and practice cannot be realm of abstractions or in away made to conform then there must be European fields. The diff r in | something — N ‘ * * 2 — r ~ 4 — + > »~ *% Eas Lak tk 22 K eke action of the head to the body. The strike of the fist against the enemy emanates from the head. The nerves convey. the will of the head to the arm and fist and that member rises to descend forcefully on the skull of the enery.. ; ; COMMUNIST party that wants to be the leader, the head of the working class, must penetrate the whole body of the working class with a system of nerves. It must per- meate every manifestation of life of the proletariat with an organizational system of nuclei. Every labor organ- ization must be thus permeated. But the basic labor organization, supplied by capitalist itself is the grouping of larger or smaller numbers fight is applied and felt in the shop. The original form that the worker meets capitalism in. is the relation of the worker in the shop to his boss or the boss’ representative. The first form that class solidarity. takes among the workers is the solidarity of the workers in one shop. If our the latter may act in accordance with the party’s strategy aud tactics, it must be -organized in the shop and must thru this organization, thru the nucleus, influence the workers in the Thru party organization in the 1 and leads the wor * these considerations make it | imperative that the shop nucleus shall be the basic unit of our party The reasons why this should be so apply to the United States as much as they apply to any other country in the gi say some comrades, we ave some difficulties here in putting the plan into effect.. Language difficulties, organizational difficulties, etc. 4 Unquestionably there are difficul- ties. However, our comrades must Some say now: “There are serious difficulties in the way of that task; therefore we cannot carry it out.” Way.“ 8 ANY of the dimiculties are already che prin- solved—theoretically. ciples of centralization did that for us. All that is needed ts to Bolshe ve our party and to make our prac. tice conform to our theory. Questions of hall property, printing plants, pa- pers, ete; belong to that category of difficulties. A Bolshevized Commun ist will consider these questions of a —_—" 1 i ] 32 171252 a i 1775 i : i ik | N then the federation will no longer be able to get as seggregators by its mere 7 existence of the federations will then supply an additional ma- the party as a whole but helpful aux- iliaries. Their functions will then be limited not only by a rule on paper but by the fact that the new organ- izational forms of the party do not leave them any other function except the one that gives them a right for ex- istence. Here again the Bolshevization of of workers at the place of work, in| ®TY_ st The task remains to fill the nuclei with life. In the “good old days” we had many iF A 18 5 FE 171 af i f i i : ; : 5 : af 8 i 8 = provement and our branches have be- * | NN .
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ily rot n N ‘ire, 2 soe & 2 Bae, ; sai * * > oN : * 8 —— AP Se * pts ae * 8 — r ary 4 punt — : wa, , or for “pure and simpleism,” for or injunctionites, for or against free and open discussion of policy and principles by the member- ship in the official press, for organ- ization of the unorganized or for rival unions seeking to destroy other un- ons ee R. I. A. C. holds no brief for either of these candidates, as in the abSence of any declaration of pol- icy from either of them it is impos- sible intelligently to choose between them. But we do protest most vigor- ously against the thwarting of the wishes of the members who cast those votes in good faith, and furthermore, in the narrow legalism and formalism shown by the action of the ballot committee we see a strengthening of one of the gravely dangerous men- i His 171111. headquarters to organize or educate by cutting the per capita in half—j| large; |from fifteen cents per member to dum, the last form of the G. E. B. is .| discarded, and we return to the older type of G. B. B. elected one member from and by each large industrial union. LL of this “monkeying” with forms is ridiculous; every sort of G. E. B. so far tried will function fairly well if it represents an enlight- ened membership, and any sort of G. E. B. which is chosen by technical- jities and quibbles, by votes of mem- bers who have had no chance to free ly discuss persons and issues in their organization press, will be unrepre- sentative, and at the mercy of the mediocrities, nonentities who will compose it. In latter case there will certainly be tinual confusion, internal dissension, and the ever threatening split. As far as the 78 propositions them call attention to but very few of them. In our analysis of the ballot dated December 24 (and mentioned above), we stated that there were but nine of the questions that were worth bother- ing about. We shall confine our pres- ent statement also to these nine. UESTION No. 78, calling for the expulsion of Bowerman, Rowan, Ryan, Trotter and Anderson (the in- junctionites), carried by an almost unanimous vote. This is proper. Moreover, we hope that the I. W. W. Communists,” cannot serve in place of a sincere belief in all inclusive revo- lutionary class unionism. But is should be noted as a warning that 80 per cent of the votes in Row- in accord with the R. I. A. C. stand. Likewise ther affirmative vote for question 14, permitting officials to suc- ceed themselves in office, and the vote in favor of question 47, permitting in- dustrial unions to levy their own as- sessments (in affect allowing a rais- ing of dues in those unions which need it) are approved of by the Reds as measures of efficiency. N the other hand, the membership in their present state of confus- ion and misinformation, have voted to the G. E. B. the right to arrange the agenda of the general conventions, and thereby to control them, which is a gag rule by officials, that we who advocate democratic centralization, in- seven and a half cents. Plainly if headquarters is to do anything, if the I. W. W. means anything to its mem- bers, they ought to give it more than 90 cents a year, double and not half rations. There is also, by virtue of the vote on this ballot, an amendment to the constitution which prohibits any of- ficer of a political party from belong- ing to the I. W. W. Here the anarch- istic confusion is clearly shown, be- cause it is also carried in this same ballot that a member of the I. W. W. can become a political officer, I. e., a sheriff, a policeman, a judge, what you will. (Question No. 75.) EMBERS of the I. W. W.]! Your general constitution now says that if you are prominent in a politi- cal party of your own class, you shall be expelled, but if you play dirty cap- italist politics, run on the republican ticket instead of on the Communist, and become a member of th . 2 0 v ts, a 1 strikes and send union men to jail, why, you ‘are all right! Or if, like Covington Hall and many other ter- rible “revolutionists” of the I. W. W., you worked for LaFollette and hoped for a real political appointment, you're a good wobbly if you get it! The Red International Affiliation Committee, and the Communists with- in the ranks of the I. W. W., do not believe that this ballot represents the will of the majority of the members on this matter, nor on some other mat- ters mentioned. The smallness of the vote, the fact that the bulk of the vote comes from the “hall-cat” sec- tion (the branches in the cities) and not from the jobs, where the real, working members are to be found, shows it. „ and the long, involved and frequently contradictory nature of the ballot, but principally the iron cen- sorship over access to facts or writ- ten discussion by the members, every- thing together combined to defeat the true function of a referendum, which is to find out what the members choose between two or more well understood policies, and give them a chance to elect capable and experi- enced officials to carry out these pol- icies. We are forced again to remind the members of the I. W. W. that their organization seems to be absolutely paralyzed. There has not been a large strike won by them for over a year. There is at present almost no organ- izing going on— the financial reports show that. There are no speakers in the field. The only bit of worth while theoretical matter issued for six months is a single pamphlet by Mac- Donald; every other piece of literature aside from the periodicals is factional and shamefully poor stuff at that. The circulation of the papers is down to zero. The general office is cramped now more than ever by lack of funds for educational and defen- sive purposes: Yet the I. W. W. boasts of its fine principles and dreams of taking over industry. EANWHILE, capitalism passes to an ever stronger offensive. Just now the bosses are engaged in actual- ET all members who sincerely wish to work for the release of all class war prisoners ignore taboos and prejudices and build’ a united front ing. For Unity and Revolution. 8 ° RED INTERNATIONAL. AFFILIATION COMMITTEE. THE WHITE TERRORISTS CRY . | MERCY By MAX BEDACHT Is a new hlet just off the press. Contrasting the treat- ment of political prisoners in Russia with that given to political prisoners in other countries It is also an exposure of the counter - revolutionary activities of “socialists.” Filled with facts this little book will give you material for a subject so much in present discus- Ons. 5 CENTS EACH THE DAILY WORKER Literature Department 1118 W. Washington Boulevard Chicago, III. 4 Enclosed 5 1 copies of “White Terrorists.” Name: Street: City: State: “Ido for Workers” (Textbook in German or Russian).. “An Elementary Grammar” (In English) 15¢ The Workers’ Ido Federation Room 5, 805 James St., N. S. PITTSBURGH, PA. —— | *
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ee oe ee — | | 1 8 121 [ it | inh i and 1 — day a vast improvement in our living con- ditions, and this improvement grows year by year along with the growth of our industries. MIGHT mention some of our achievements. At each factory there are creches for our children. On going to work we leave our children there (for eight hours), where they get food, clothing and proper care. i days, for the co 1 price of 25 — per . . ing men. We have so far established one dining hall (a second one will be. opened shortly), at which we get well Denen and sourishing dinners of two courses, and of three courses the working women take advantage of these dinners to get rid of the ery and slavery of the kitchen. ROTECTION of labor is observed in our factories according to the decrees of the People’s Commissariat f Labor, in which the following pro- isions are made: A woman in preg- nancy obtains a vacation of four months—two months before and two months after child-birth; nursing mothers are allowed half an hour in- terval to feed the baby during work- ing hours; a benefit is paid to every mother of a new-born child; women arc debarred from night work for nine months after child-birth. In the summer time working women have their vacations, which ‘nany of i > Te ~ wr se * *. ‘ ind women, but also from wives of 8 * altn so th with our life on the s A Woman Textile Worker, Klintzy, Jan. 16. LINTZY, Gomel Gubernia. Dear Comrades, I should like to tell you about our lite and doings, as I often read in the Soviet papers that your bourgeois pa- pers misinform you about the work- ers in our country. I work in a leather factory which employs over 200 people, 78 of whom are members of the Communist Party and 45 are members of the Young is a 7 : 7 ~ ~ 4 121 Fel 81 ‘a, tee p e 8 7 9 — B 2 20 N rs * f at oe * . y 77 cy 7 * * — “i — . * he 1 4 LE v K * Aa - > ö ee » 7 . ‘ fe = 7 7 A 5 8 4 us RR 1 2 88 * 4 * . * 1 ° ants of the Sinkovka village. They come to our social evenings, and we go to theirs. We have set up for them a threshing machine at the cost of 1,100 poods of corn. We carry on cul- tural work among them. These are only a few particulars about our life. * EXPEL INDIAN 8838 LEADER. Paris.— Following on the expulsion of hundreds of Italian and Spanish workers who had sought refuge in France from the savage persecution directed against them in their own countries, Comrade M. N. Roy, Indian represetative on the Communist In- ternational has been expelled from France by the Herriot government. There are indications that this act of the Herriot government was carried |: out at the request of England, which has reason to fear the organizer of | India’s at ag masses, and has been, 5 pursuing him trom country to country. Great indignation has been aroused among French Communists * this latest fascist manifestation. 2 . CRASSIN ON FRENCH AGREE. ~ MENT. PARIS.—In the course of an inter- view given a representative of Rosta in Moscow, Krassin stated that the first steps taken toward an economic rapprochment between France and the U. S. S. R. promise good results. If French concerns are willing to grant sufficient cerdit terms, he said, the Russian market will absorb an im- mense quantity of the products of French mechanical industries. — * * Seog SHOWS INVENTIVE GENIUS. MOSCOW.— According to news re- ceived from Lugansk, the head miner, Comrade Simonov of the Sverdlov mine of the Dalzhansk mining district has invented a new hewing machine which gives excellent results. Its dis- tinguishing feature is its lightness (8 pounds instead of the usual three poods), and the ease with which it can be adjusted. With the help of this machine, one can cut the layer of coal into pieces without exploding it first with dynamite. This makes the process of ,getting coal r + sige’ easier. Comrade Simonov has slag menten a spade to serve out coal, with a cap- | vention is being used in the mine with 5,000 poods in 24 — Simonov's in- great success. The .scientific-technical department of the Ukrainian Supreme Council of National Economy (V. S. N. H.) has placed the Sverdlov mine at Comrade Simonov’s disposal for the trial and application of his inventions. * * «# WRANGEL’S BANDS IN JUGO SLAVIA. — * BELGRADE—It is reported that tor several days Wrangel has been mobil- izing his forces and preparing for an offensive against the U. S. S. R. The J lav and Bulgarian governments are actively aiding in the mobiliza- tion. Many of the most prominent | figures of czarist Russia coming from France, Czecho-Slovakia, Bulgaria and the other countries where they have been living as refugees, participated | in a secret conference held at Zem- lin (near Belgrade), attended also by a number of officers of the Jugo-Slav general staff and former czarist gen- erals, at which plans were outlined for an offensive against the U. S. S. R. 3 The counter-revolutionaries are speaking openly of their return to Russia in the near future. They claim that the Balkans will be the counter-revolutionary base, and say the Jugo-Slav army will not take ac- tive part in the war, at the start, but will maintain peace in the Balkan countries.” m DRIVE AGAINST ENGLISH RAIL MEN. =" LLONDON—The National Union of Railwaymen and the Association of Railway Employes have presented a national program for wage increases to the companies. The railway direc- tors have not only met the demands of the workers with refusal, but have replied with a counter-proposal for a general wage reduction, ranging from six shillings a week in the provinces to four shillings a week in London. The demands of the railway work- e a-basic wage of 16 shill- | ings a day for mechanics, a minimum of three pounds a week for laborers, the working day and week guaranteed for all railroad workers without dis- tinctions, and pensions from 60 years. For several weeks the capitalist press has been carrying on a violent campaign against the program of the railworkers. The leaders of the na- tional union say that they are “sur- prised” by the companies’ attack. The rank and file are in no mood to ac- cept a wage cut, and even Cramp, the union secretary, admits that a crisis will arise if thé companies persist in their present attitude. ee ot = — 7 | [ MINERS’ SHOP COMMITTEES. “MEET. Jame c 2 1 BERLIN At the conference of shop 2 28 the 3 of central | sizing in particular: |extension of the rights of I will write you more fully later on. During the last few weeks we also | them spend at recreation homes, san-| Communist League. I should like to | Z. Erdman. * — — which re-|atoria and health resorts (those in| remind you of the hard times which | Tanner. r ANG si ovemen 3 Germany. held Halle, — lag — and Comrades etzel, delegated by ‘the Communist Reichstag fraction, spoke on the pres- ent situation of the miners, trade un- ion unity, the next developments in the struggle of German proletariat, ete. Sixty-five shop — were represented. All the resolutions and el pre- sented were adopted unanimously. An appeal addressed to all the miners of central Europe spoke of the necessity of realizing a united front of all the exploited and of conquering the trade unions. The appeal referred to the demands of Gotha program, empha- the seven hour shift; wage increases of 40 per cent to meet the increased cost of living; shop com- mittees; pensions for the aged and invalids fixed at 80 per cent or the) regular 1 ete. 0 tet [RUSSIAN MOVIES AT | GERMAN-AMERICAN HOME KENOSHA, Mis. FEB, 28 The famous movies, “Polikushka,” a six-reel story made by the Moscow Art Theater, “In Memoriam—Lenin,” showing the life and funeral of Lenin, and a Russian comedy, “Sol- dier vs an's Miracle,” will be shown SATURDAY, FEB, 28, from 4 to 11 p. m. at the German-American | Home, 665 Grand Ave., Kenosha, Wis. These pictures have been drawing the biggest crowds in Chicago, New York and other big cities. They will be shown in Kenosha ONLY ONE EVENING, FEB. 28. There will be three showings on that evening. The first will start at 4 p. m. sharp. Make sure to attend. Tell your friends about it. Don’t miss the greatest treat in your life. NOTICE, CHICAGO! Keep Saturday evening, March 28, 1925, an open date for a V. W. . affair. vik tickets. of the total population in-Amerk ca is foreign born. The American For- eign-Born Worker By Clarissa 8. Ware. is a most valuable little arse- nal of facts on a large body of the American working class. Most useful information in a pamphlet that sells for only 5 CENTS | Order from THE DAILY WORKER Literature Department 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. Settle for the Beauty and Bolshe- Bring the money and un- sold tickets either to 19 8. Lincoln St., or Room 307, 166 W. Washing- ton St. * . 8 hd 2 * keep in close contact with the peas- | — ae
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—— ' —— — * — — il dn the Midst of the. K. K. K Being ik td — — — , 6 also a! ent was given to him, thus making him a total of $85,000, plus his yearly salary of $18,000. The corporation made a net profit— a surplus value, as Marx would call it—of $2,000,000 during the year of 1924. This capitalist enterprise was put up only two years ago and em- ploys about 800 workers. Considering these two facts the company made dn enormous profit out of the workers’ toil. I met two comrades, members of the Workers (Communist) Party, working in this capitalist hell. | There’s an organized spy system which is so secretly conducted that hardly a man will notice it, and, of course, the K. K. klansmen are the ones-who claim the leadership. If a man ere shows signs ot e ther imme- ‘diately’ fred“ df reduced to the smallest job to discourage him and he quits of his accord. I've been told by a K. K. K. that they have about 15,000,000 members in this country. “They are,” he says, “for the Americanization of all those who wish to be 100 percenters.” The others they will deport to their re- “spective lands. He himself ts a for- eigner. The admission fee is $100.00. He asked me to join this fascist or- ganization, knowing that I am Ameri- can born. I told him Iam a Commun- ist, a Bolshevik, if you like. But this ignorant patriot let the cat | out of the bag before he found out that I am a Communist. He gave me in a haphazard way the following in- foration about the K. K. K.: They want the yellow race driven out of the country; they are against «the, Jews in the east and their influ. ential power in business; they are against the Negroes, — Workers, for the mass of Negroes are workers; they are against the for- eign born workers because they all come here to preach Communism. I asked him about the Teapot Dome steals. He replied‘ “They ought to be severely punished for their crime.” I asked him if the K. K. K. ever hopes to control the government. “Thru educational methods and peace- ful tactics,” says he. I cited the Herrin riots and others in southern states. His poisonous lips turned blue and exclaimed very harsh- ly, “They were not thé work of real K. K. klansmen.” Later on I was told that no Negro workers are employed there. Com- rades, we have three Communists toil- ing there, myself, a Roumanian and an Italian, and I am of the opinion that it is high time we organized a shop nucleus, even at the risk of our jobs. For Karl Marx said that the way to Communism is not paved with beau- tiful roses. We should always remem- ber this. Tom J. Bergen. “Use Cold Logic with Murderers! To the DAILY WORKER: One of the socialist papers recently published an article named “Blood and Dirt,” written by the Jewish “poet,” David 27 — N them? · These ydlow socialists in Esthonia in a report to their Second Interna- tional complained about the “intri- gues” of the Communists at the time of the Esthonia revolt; These social- ists excuse their actions in — follow- ing way: “From a distance o action may appear counter. xe but we could not help Re Hote was uo ish imperialist premier, remarks in a prophetic vein: : “The — have a custom of mummyfying their rulers.” nary, | won Te 2 at: . oe = Sain * x — “Sat aan Se —— ——— s on Many — their “comrades,” () the menshe- | vike? These who had united with not the question of an uprising, but a conspiracy forced by Moscow... Rus- sian warships were stationed in the who were supported by the capi-| waters of Esthonia. With their help the revolt would naturally turn into a ee revolution, and the prole- tariat would establish its dictatorship over the people.” The socialist party of Esthonia according to what they say in their feport are satisfied that the bourgeois government of Esthonia was successful in crushing this revolt and maintaining the bourgeois “re- will naturally, approve of this action. They will not for a moment consider the contradiction between their action and the theory of the class struggle r ann * the tace of these facts this rene- gade, yellow socialists, asks why Com- munists imprison and attack 80 vigor- ously, these je tg’ ‘te Use “cold logic” with them , “cold logic” against Kolchal Wrangel, when the united with the yellow : overthrow the only workers’ republic on earth? J. Durke Egeberg, Terror of Gary Steel Mills Stabbed by Laborer GARY, Ind., Feb. 20.—H. O. Ege- berg, employment manager of the United States Steel corporation mills at Gary, is recovering from wounds he claims he received at the hands of Z. Plasco, a Mexican laborer. Egeberg refused to hire the labor- er and ordered him from fhe employ- ment office, charging, — being a “trouble maker.” _ Egeberg, formerly a member of the socialist party, is known among the workers in the Gary mills as a ty- rant who “never forgets a face.” discharged for organizing the work- ers into unions find it difficult to get by Egeberg’s blacklist. The laborer was badly beaten by other members of the steel mills staff, and was thrown into jail. The May Day will be celebrated by Workers Party, Local Chicago on May 1, 1925 at the Ashland Auditorium. Comrades—Settle for Lenin Mem- orial tickets. We want-to’ straighten out all the accounts for this affatr, By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. bo Bach mass in b minor, given by the Apollo club at Orchestra Hall last Monday evening, is an in- teresting combination of modernity and antiquity. It was written nearly two centuries ago. As a mass, then, it is fairly modern, but as music it is old, no antique. It leaves one with a peculiar mixed impression of mono- tony, and yet a monotony that be- comes _ tiresome | only after a few eus. The mass has existed as a part of the Roman catholic liturgy for untold centuries. In its classic form it has six sections, but Bach, by elaborat- ing the opening section into three parts, the second into eleven, and the third into seven, changed the simple twenty minute service into a long ora- torio nearly three hours. Anyone familiar with the Bach style can understand the sort of mu- sic he set to the Latin text. The style of Bach was so hidebound that all his melodies sound alike, tho there may be considerable variation in the actual notes. In all the b minor mass there are only two tunes that stand out as essentially different from the dead level of the composer's style. SSUUTERATE RIE Rare AR RL ince Et ne Paneer! a tor It seems as if I. 1 Bach never could have been young. All his mu- sic sounds like the creation of an old man. But in some of the chor- uses ef this oratorio are passages of a great singing glory of tone unsur- passed because unsurpassable. There are some fine solos in the work too, but they were all indiffer- ently done by a mediocre quartet of soloists. They were Arthur Board- man, tenor; Emily Stokes Hager, so- prano; Florence Evans, contralto, and Robert Maitland, bass. The psychology of the hold on mankind is intimately tied up with works like this mass. the masterpieces of architecture, painting and music the church would lose its following. But one may en- joy the esthetic works that religion has turned to its own purposes with- out in the least\ subscribing to the beliefs of the church. One may hear the Apollo club sing “Credo in unum dominum, Jesum Christum,” without in the least believing in one lord, Jesus Christ, and knawing that thru- out the ages the church has been the most reactionary force in society, but nevertheless deriving a thrill of es- thetic enjoyment from the chorus. Harrison Wild, the club’s conduc- — -_—-— ee religious Without | . pe 4 Ts A Thy tor, is on the sick list and Edgar A. Nelson substituted for him. Nelson is one of the ablest musicians in town, as a conductor, organist, plan- ist and teacher, and gave a charac- teristically excellent performance. The Chicago Symphony orchestra accompanied. There was solo work in the orchestra that partly made up for the bad solo voices: Mr. Zukov sky had some extensive violin solos, and Hesselbach and Napolilli did wonders with the obsolete oboe d’ amore, dug up to play this old score. — — —³ Second-Hand Books Used Communist, Labor and Eco- nomic books, pamphiets, magazines and maps in all languages, bought, sold and exchanged at cut prices. Orders handied by mail or in person. Is there some book, paper, pam- phiet or magazine you can’t get or a subject you want literature on? “Tell us your book troubles.” WRITE OR PHONE “Daily” Book Exchange Room Five, 805 James St., N. 8., (Phone Fairfax 1024) Pittsburgh, Pa. PER ae * > | —8— 25. Workmen in the mills who have been
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—— ae 4 “ * N sa hd Bu ~~ * —— — 5 . — 5 & > + 2 "he 4 22 or = ay’ 4 pee ES 4 > Eee 2 . it See Sr ye a Cay Ate 2 7 . eee sath ee ee * ~ * on Soviet Russia and the bureaucrats of the Aubecleom movement and their war on Soviet Russia and the Communists. capitalism, and reached the first mile- stone on the road of working class emancipation, the Soviet Government of Russia. It is not us, as individuals, that our enemies hate, it is our program. OW, brothers, what is it Im our program that has caused this brain-storm among our labor lakers? First, we. advocated a united fron‘ campaign against child labor. You say, so do we. Yes, we admit you are for the child labor amendment. But, brothers, did it ever strike you, that it is meaningless without government maintenace of the children of th ploited workers and poor farmers? Is it not due to the starvation wages paid those workers and farmers, tha’ forces them to drive their children into the mills, mines, and fields, in or- der to raise the family wage to a level. where they can supply themselves with the most meager existence of life? The workers cannot afford to keep their children in school up to the age of eighteen, they have not got the price. We say, it is the duty of the working class te force our govern- ment to levy taxation upon profits and high incomes, to ralse the funds necessary for government mainten ce atl Sede eee advocate work or wages for the unemployed. Why are the work- ers frequently thrown into the streets by the millions, why are they depriv- ed of their right to earn their daily bread, in this land of the “free”? Be- cause when the paragites who own the means and tools of production and dis- tribution, cannot find a market for the wealth that the workers produce, and when there is no immediate prospect for another imperialist blood-bath to drown a few million unemployed wage slaves in, they close the industry. They are not concerned about our wel- fare, or the welfare of our children. away | work, They are only concerned about safe- guarding their profits. Ae 2 APITALIST production, is the cause of unemployment, it taker from the workers the right to Therefore, we advocate unior wages for the unemployed, to be paid by the owners of industry. That is not charity. We should not ask for charity. We should fight for our right to live, for the right to work, and the right to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Next to our program is amalgama- tion of our out-of-date craft unions into industrial unions, This campaign that we are waging in the trade union movement for more modern, more mil- itant and progressive forms of organ- ization and methods in our everyday struggle for shorier hours, better wages, and working conditions, is an exigency, that has ben forced upon us by the rapid changes that have, and are, constantly taking. place in our mode of production and distribu- tion, rendering our forms of organiza- tion obsolete. HETHER you want to or not, you cannot stop the forces of evolu- tion. You are pushed toward new forms-of organization or else you have to go backwards, you cannot stay still, stagmation means degeneration and death, “'oo % "Po 05 | Po expect the working class to be victorious in their fights for better working conditions, better wages, shorter hours, etc., against those pow- erful capitalist industrial organiza- tions with their present out-of-date craft unions, it is too silly to even seriously consider. The capitalists know this, that is 1 y they fight the Workers ) Party and its program savagely, for. fear that the workers may learn our program and organize revolutionary industrial un- OU know that you have lost hun- q ran . £ . 4 = 4 * 7 “ * . i oe; „ OE Dace oem ae 3 a EMG OG c members in the trade of the un- ) are not only concerned with dreds of strikes because of your Slander, Slu By LENA ROSENBERG. OU come over to the theater where the meeting is to be held and it ing the chairman and assuring the au- dience that all precautions are being taken against any disturbance. ed himself as one of those socialists who don’t always worry about socia)- ism, we only think of socialism when Viadeck took the chair and express- ; goers, Sleuths—S, P.-ism ally arrested: a number of them and E then made another attempt and there was disturbance from all over the hall, cries.of “ceuntertevo lutionist,” “liar,” and many other such pleasant remarks. Then Abramovich started to yell: “Committee, I can’t speak,” and the Party in order to carry on the strug- gle not only against the capitalists, but also against the betrayers who belong to the socialist party and betrayers of the working class all over the SS — and they felt very nncomfortable be- committee, who consisted of thugs ana cause it is not pleasant to stand for | police, got on the job again and club- somebody when you notice most of bed everybody within reach. the people remain in their seats and that put up any resistance hey met it — —-— tev NOTHER comrade who is well | address and told the audience that he and put into a cell. It took about 260 known to the sluggers for her] was sent by the workers of Russia to policemen to do the job which lasted tn cu os ead eee by the policemen, “You know me, and | terribly oppressed. Immeiatelv the mows: Bir em ge —— rough.” ovich that be is lying and the police | panadelphia refused to hear his lies Finally, after a thoro selection of and sluggers were on the job, using ho are now known as those that they theught were safe, their clubs freely as per Socialist 8 for the prison, 4 remarkable they started the mesting by introduc | Abramovich’s instructions. They n- spirit prevailed. Comrades were | world. 6 ion movement is the d ras ae icy with the enemies of the workers...
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4 a oy 0 ne . r r : a 2 R628 eke pitt d : 1 Re 15 rE 8 . 1 338 i 2 bei mighty serious affair.” self.” bed four days ago?” that is quite a time. ticular hurt.” T thus juncture a clerk tapped smal] sack, if you have i i 82111 177 b ing “I are others — of too, stepped “Why, he woman. “I did not know you were up and around yet.“ “Oh, yes, Mr. Lundquist, this is the second time I’ve been down town. I’m feeling better now. Yesterday I was down to the village; the day before that I took a walk around the house. . Surely I'm feeling better. Next Mon- N day, perhaps, I can come to your house.” “I doubt if you'll be able to do that, e. You had better take it easy for a couple of weeks more. You catch a cold now, after having had the pneumonia, and it would be a “Yes sir, Mr. Lundquist, indeed it would, but I feel that I can make it all right. I’m feeling so strong now that I hardly know what to do with my- “But I thought you only got out of “Oh yes sir, Monday it was. But And I’ve been taking it very easy ever since. Surely to do a bit of a washing won't be par- her it. Sizes? What sizes have you sir? None less 115 8 a 1 fe ; f : g : : s§ 3 good enough.“ “How is Mr. Duquesne?“ inquired Mr. Lundquist. “Jim was feeling better a time back but the last couple weeks he’s been ‘worse. He don't eat much; he’s get- ting thin and pale like; coughs consid- erable, Doctor said he was looking bad, but I figure he'll pull thru all right. Jim always used to be strong and healthy like—that’s what helps.” clerk’s voice again: “Anything else, ma’am?” “Yes sir. Have you a bit of or- ange, sir. One or two will be far too many, I’m sure. Jim thinks perhaps he can eat an orange. He won't touch anything else.” ‘ “You must pardon me, Mrs. Du- quesne,” said Mrs. Lundquist. “But I don’t follow you. I did not know that your husband was sick. How long has he been ill?” “It’s been all of a year and a half since he was himself. Then he had to quit work. He’s been in bed only for a couple months. Of course he was able to get up and walk around a bit at first, but not for a month now has he been out of bed.“ “Well, now, that’s too bad. I didn’t know that. You must pardon me 2 torium, but Jim didn’t want to go. | ‘Twould have cost a good deal, too.” HE turned again to the clerk. “A t of milk, sir, if you please.” She walked guardedly to the counter where the clerk waited. — “Thirty-eight cents, ma’m, it comes to.” Mrs. Duquense. fumbled thru a tat- tered black pockétbook and brot forth two nickles, a dime, four pennies, one by one; another nickel—that was the end. She thrust the money quickly onto the counter and started to leave. The clerk, immediately seeing the shortage, began to count the money loudly, that she might hear. Then, in an embarrassed voice: “The bill is thirty-eight cents, ma’m. This is twenty-nine. Let's see noc. He pondered as tho on a difficult prob- lem in calculus. “That makes just nine cents more.” Mrs. Duquesne fumbled thru her packages, then set them hurriedly down and pretended to ransack her purse. It was empty. She ran her hands thru the two pockets of her dress. “Here, sir. Take back the milk . no, the tea . no, the bread . . no, wait. I'll owe you nine cents. Pay you tomorrow.” . ASTILY she picked up the pack- ages and turned toward the door. The clerk went to wait on the next customer. Mrs. Duquesne passed Mr. Lundquist as she went out. He lifted his hat. “I hope that Mr. Duquesne will be improving soon.” “Yes sir, and so do I. "Twill all come about all right tho. You can tell Mrs. Lundquist that I'll be there Mon- day to do the washing. If she’s got any scrubbing or cleaning before then Pdbegiadto. . .* | “All right. ‘But you must not come until we tell you to. That is, before Monday. You must be careful of your- again, Mrs. Duquesne, but how is Mr. self or you'll be running into con—. 1 N By PAUL JOHNSON 1 Dr. Pratt entered. He ‘sighted Mr. Lundquist. “Good day, Mr. Lundquist.” “How do vou do, doctor, Fine quist. “In fact I believe that if we do ' not get rain soon the small grains will suffer for it. I was toa company as a driver who has got the consumption?“ “Yes, I believe I do. I was down to see him yesterday, I think it was. The poor devil, he’s in the last stage, bull. He wouldn't listen to me. Don’t know as he could afford to go anyway. It’s too bad, tough. He's likely to die most any time now. Did you know him?” “Oh, I'd heard about him. Just a bit curious.“ doctor waved his hand thru the crowd. “Sorry, but I see my wife, so I'll have to leave you. And say, tho le have certainly had bad luck. Mrs. Duquesne just got over the pneumonia. Just one thing after another with them—hard luck.” “Yes, I know” answered Mr. Land- quist as the doctor vanished thru the door. 2 tis emu eau pelt And Mr. Lundquist, for no rea- son at all, went to anether store to E make purchases. The Problem of — i — (Continued from page 2) nomic unit. It will be one of the working class as a whole. the worker immediately in boss, his wages, hours, 2 ae ee ingly personal problems with the a whole. N the hour when . ing class until victory is achieved. the tasks of Bolshevization to drive home to the members and sub-divisions of the party the fact, that the problem of the party is not that of industrial- izjng itself, but that of politicalizing INCE capitalism presents itself to the form of his boss, and since the prob- lems of capitalism are to him first of all the problems of his relations to the treatment, eral conditions of the shop, it will be the great task of the Communists to build on these problems, to extend the view of the worker, to show him in propaganda and action the connec tions of these immediate and seem- big problem of society as a whole, and to make the whole shop a driving force, a nucleus within the working class as capitalism has F reached the turning point of its ca- reer, when the class struggle gets nearer and nearer the final climax of a revolutionary struggle for power, Bolshevization of the party becomes a test of the will to struggle and vic- tory. Our party will pass this test. It will build and rebuild the Workers (Communist) Party of America into an irresistible force behind which will rally in struggle the American work- BOOKS FOR THINKERS SCIENCE, LITERATURE ECONOMICS, HISTORY, Any Book in Print at Once. Wek VERY Cee A Werkerg Party Book Shop Jimmie Higgins Book Shop * — — ä the dail: struggle and the victory the dic tatorship of the working class—A workers’ and ers’ government.” S constitutes my defense against the charges preferred against me “pd being a member of the Worker: (Communist) Party of America. Now. either do your dirty work and join th. yelping, howling mob headed by ou: international and local labor faker: and expel me from this Trades anc Labor Assembly or do your duty to your class, the exploited workers anc poor farmers and protect those who dare to fight in the interest of your class, who dare to speak their. mind against the enemies of the workin; class, the capitalist class, thugs, gun men, stoolpigeons, and last but not least, by their bankrupt policy, thei: faithful servants, the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor. Red Revel Masquerade Ball, 37 South Ashland Avenue Corner of Monroe and Ashland Bivd., February 28. WANTED Lady to share small apartment; stu- dent, or one studiously inclined. $25.00 per month. Call Lawndale 2476, Sunday. 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N t . (Continued from phew: ». laber “When these ‘gentlemen en. tered the strike committée, it was not their task to promote the strike; for this their standpoint was too anti- socialist, too anti-pacifist, too much in favor of the commanders in chief of the army. They took part in the strike for the purpose of preventing its tak- ing any great effect, and with the idea of being ready on the spot should something happen. Bindewald (barrister): Why did the social democratic party not ‘issue warnings against the strike, like the Christian and Hirsch Duncker trade unions? a St NESS WUSCHIK: If the party committee had been anxious for the strike to last as long as possible, and to be carried on with the utmost energy, all it had to do was to give this advice to the workers, many of whom were opposed to the party com- mittee. (Vorwarts, Dec. 10, 1924, edition.) NESS Wuschik: Certainly. In some works the workers were evening the third or fourth day of the strike. At that time the Spartacus movement was active in propagating the idea of refusing military service. One work- man submitted: this question specially’ could not by any means support this proposition of the radieals; however hard it might be for the individual, the call to military service must be unconditionally obeyed. (Vorwarts, Dec. 10, 1924, evening edition.) “Equal Representation.” ITNESS WUSCHIK: However, we did not let loose, and finally succeeded in having three delegates allowed us, the independent social democrats also having three represen- tatives in the strike committee. But we did not obtain this from the mieet-4 ing itself but from .the%strike oommit- tee, which included Haase, Ledebour , and Dittmann. Further hours of per- suasion were required before our party committée was induced to exercise in- fluence upon the action, for the pur- pose of bringing it to an end as speed- called up by the military NO on to Ebert, and Ebert déclared that hes munition ‘workers’ strike he partici- pated in the consultations with the party committee of the S. D. party, as functionary of the trade unions, altho he himself was an independent. Ac- cording to his evidence, President Ebert declared at that 7 in the party commſttee, that - - the party leaders of the 2 8. ‘ No Political Demand! | DOLF RICHTER was then briefly interrogated. At the time of the D. party would by no means share the responsibility for this strike if political demands should be made in place of the economic demands. (Vorwarts, Dec. 10, evening edition.) there be any indication that workers 3 would refuse to obey when called up, this tendency should be decidedly combatted. I also distinctly recollect 17 ed the then chairman of the g commission of the trade =* Bauer, of the views. of the party leaders on this subject. Bauer declared himselt in agreement with | n.) (Continued next week.) Philanthropy: Where the Money Comes From By MARTIN P. MORRISLY. JOLIET, III., Feb. 20.—Here is a 2 of capi in action real food for thought for „elfe of Uu class. On Jan. 26, 1925, the school board voted to abolish three kin- dergarten classes and to stop the feeding daily of 30 undernourish- ed boys and girls. In steps our kind benefactor, Mr. Theodore Gerlach, owner of one of the coun- try’s largest calendar-making fac- tories. He publicly announces that he will donate $1,105 to continue the feeding of poor children each day. And all the church-going peo- ple pray for his soul t he may fly right into heaven he dies. But Communists are different. They investigate. And here is the dope on Theodore Gerlach. In Gerlach’s factory is employed the sister of one of the poorly fed kindergarten tots. This girl is sixteen years of age and every day she works in this factory to help support a big family of brothers and sisters. Her job is painting she was receiving $1.00 per hun- dred or one cent a card. Then Mr. Gerlach, the benfactor, ordered a ‘STAGE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY PLAY AT SOVIET SCHOOL A Russian revolutionary play will be staged at the Soviet School, 1902 ~ W. Division St., this Sunday, Feb. 22, at 8 p. m., in honor of the sec- ond anniversary of the Russian Communist Daily Novy Mir. The affair will be celebrated under the ciety and the Russian branch Work- ers Party. All who understand the Russian language are urged to attend. little cards for which up to Feb. 9 auspices of the Technical Aid So- . cut in wages. So now she gets only 80 cents a hundred. His reason is that one highly skilled worker in a test case of two weeks contin- uous speeding was able to edrn $35 during those two weeks. Tho this may sound like fiction, it is the real truth of oa ist ear @ as witnessed in Joliet, III. ~~ Big Mass to be held MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1925, 8 P. M. 3201 SO. WABASH AVENUE. SOUTH SIDE COMMUNITY CENTER. PEKAK ERS: 8 Meeting F — a ee KARL REE\ E. L. DOTY GORDON OWENS radian, you, buy, get ER. er — pape —— 1 rr 150,000 Irish Workers AND Peasants Are Starving” The failure of the potato crop and the destruction of * fuel supply has left them cold and 1 THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ARE SLOWLY DYING OF 0 27 Give a demonstration of n solidarity by 3 to the relief of the starving Irish workers and peasants, Send all con- tributions to The Irish Workers and Peasants Famine Relief Com- mittee, 166 W. Washington Street, Room 307, Chicago, Illinois. "nS “+e eee eee y =* A 2 0 A peasants. NAME: 25 Irish Workers and Peasants Famine Relief Committee 2 166 W. 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