Daily Worker
February 25, 1925
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It is significant that the miscarriage should make its ap in a hotel, situated in the old “levee” district of | Chicago. *> * 6 UST for a feather to put in Hill- quit’s cap, the organization that was once the representative of the. revolutionary working class mave- ment in America is now degenerated into an “educational society,” and, oh shades of Marx! what education the socialist party renegades will offer the workers! Hillquit has a reputation for being a brilliant leader. He is clever. But it is the cleverness of a lawyer skilled in sharp practice. a.) HERE was nothing else for the so- cCialists to do. They have compro- mised themselves out of existence. They brazenly admitted that they re- nounced their principles. Their lead- ers laughed cynically when Commun- ist visitors reproached them with lack of even common political dec- ency. There were a few delegates there who sincerely wanted a labor party. They applauded Hilliquit, thinking he meant to stand by his guns. But Hillquit’s resolution de- claring for a labor party was only a trick used from time immemorial by hagglers at a fair. They usually ask much more for what they have to sell than they expect to receive. ° * * * 4 EVERAL of the right wing dele- gates (Hillquit occupied the ex- treme left wing of the articulate sec- tion Of. the convention) . objected to the use of the words “social and in- dustrial democracy” but Dr. Norman Thomas, in a very ministerial man- would be quite Wonton to go ‘forth into the political wilderness‘ without some principles, the Dr. averred. Y this time the right wing dele- gates were getting suspicious of everything that came from the social- ist faetion. Hays of New York, who seemed to be a little party of his own, and was waiting for his chance to establish his reputation as a founder of at least one party, succeeded in slipping over a short motion that com- mitted the conference to the forma- tion of a party before it had time to say “Jack Robinson.” This made the right wingers leary of new inovations, so they even got suspicious of Nor- man Thomas’ principles. Thomas is a most polite individual and very mild except when he is irritated by the Communists. 7 . - AMES O’NEAL pointed out that “social and industrial democracy” was quite alright, that it was even used by such respectable organiza- tions as the A. F. of L. and the C. P. P. A. This did not satisfy a white haired delegate from Idaho, who thot the term was used by the C. P. P. A. in the days when it was sowing its wild oats. Now that it was dead it was unfair to saddle it with the indis- cretions of its youth. “2 96 PERSON with the heavenly name of Western Starr was particularly severe on the socialists. He is now eo lawyer in the District of Columbia, and is rather proud of the fact that he got rid of his principles early in the season. He now looks with ill- soncealed contempt at the late arriv- als, like Hillquit and Oneal. Another person who hammered the socialists was Will Durant, a typical Greenwich Village freak, with a little streak of hair running down from his lower lip to the tip of his chin. ARLY in the evening the boys and girls were more or less polite but as midnight approached and nothing was being acconiplished tongues be- gan to loosen. The socialists were now getting the medicine they had prepared for the Communists at sim lar conventions. Of course the social, ists disavowed all intentions of cap- turing the delegates! But unfortun- ately Delegate Johnson from Mary- land attended the St. Paul June 17 convention and saw the Communists get a half-nelson on it. He reminded his fellow delegates of that little drama. Other delegates hinted that the socialists would earn the undying gratitude of the conference and per- haps of humanity in general if they did what the brotherhoods did, that is, remove themselves decently from the Whitewashing Begins in Mine Disaster (Special to The DAII DAILY WORKER.) SULLIVAN, tnd., Feb. 23— The whitewashing of the owners of the | City Coal company mine began today, following the recovery of the charred bodies of the 51 miners killed in the explosion in the mine here last week. The report of Deputy State Mine Inspector Albert Dally to the coro- ner’s inquest is expected to be that the “explosion was accidental and unavoidable.” “The disaster emphasizes the need for stricter state laws governing the operation of Indiana mines,” John Hessler, president of District No. 11, ofthe United Mine Workers said. “For a miner to gd down into a mine that does not have a safety exit or manway is absolutely suicidal, and yet some of the mines in the state; operate without this safeguard. Pass Safety Laws Too Late “Had there been no escape shaft at the Sullivan mine, the toll of death would have been far greater. “This is the answer to the house of representatives at Indianapolis in adopting a committee report that per- mits operators and owners of commer- cial mines to produce coal without providing a second outlet of escape.” A conference of general assembly- men has been called to consider mine safety regulation for: Indiana. The senate passed such a bill, but it was amended in the house to omit pro- visions .necessary to s&fety. State mine leaders were invited to attend this conference. Hessler was asked to speak and present the min- conferred with Governor Jackson, in and rush a bill thew both branches’ of | ers’ views on safety legislation. Sims |’ an effort to have the rules suspended'|»' ARREST KLUXER 2 > “STEALING FUNDS OF KU KLUX TREASURY (Special to The Daily Worker) _ SIGOURNEY, lowa, Feb. 23.—H. W. Brown, ku klux klan organizer, was at liberty under $1,000 bonds today, following his arrest on a charge of embezzlement as a re- sult of his alleged failure to turn into the klar treasury its share of membership fees. Brown is said to have been carrying on a kian membership drive in Keokuk coun- ty for six months. Send Houghton to London WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23.— Alanson B. Houghton, the United States ambassador to Germany, was formally nominated today by Presid- ent Coolidge to’ be ambassador to Great Britain, succeeding Frank B. ‘Kellogg, .who is ‘returning to the United States to become secretary of state. burgess in* “county in Virgi- nia by | ® rum for the M@ispensing barrels reis ‘and bewailing the high price it buy his way into UARY 25, 1925 =" Daily except Tac by THE DAILY WORKER HING co., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. Price 3 Cents NOR WASHINGTON, FIRST ERICAN CAPITALIST W E LANDS AND PUBLIC 0 ICE 1001 children the 2 » Dever, who is aiding t the traction barons to sent mil- the city, Charles Moderwell,; enemy of the ‘teachers’ ‘board of education, and other professional politielans lay of George Washington, father of 5 SET in the first Teapot Domer t to tell them that all honest historians of the revolu- old gag about Waishithton never tell- declare that ‘his first victory by liberally sup- fans. + his election as ponent had the hington bought ashington’s own+ on was worth close to a million dollars, which in those days, was a fabulous fortune. Washingten acquired his fortune first by marrying a rich widow, and second by acquiring thru unscrupulous methods thousands of acres of land in western Pennsylvania near what is now Wheeling, W. Va. Washing- ton’s “agents drove the Indians off these-iands, and also drove white set- tlers from their homes at the point of a gun. Washington acquired forty . thou- sand acres of rich land by secretly sending his. ( ued on page 2) gent, William Crawford, | {Special to- Daily Worker) _ PARIS, Feb. 23—Five months of “Operation of the Dawes pian have proposed 394,561,000 gold marks, of which sum 108,000,000 marks wae received during January alone, ac- cording to reports of Parker Gil- bert, agent general for reparations, published today in Le Temps. No- thing is said of the conditions these payments force on the German workers—nor the 138 dead at Dort- mund recently. The period ended January 31 and the money was distributed 161,000.- 000 marks to Franée, 85,000,000 to Great Britain, 38,600,000 to Belgium, 32,000,000 to Italy and remainder to the small powers. Uncle Sam, is going to get his from now on, in fact he- has ail the powers of a pawn-broker. over Europe, and at Paris recently forced the allies to agreed to divide up the loot. Over two. Hite childr phaned by the pro Most of the dead miners had Jarge families, Under the state workmen's compen- sation laws, the familfég ‘will receive only $13.50 a week for fi¥6 years, af- ter which they will reeeive nothing. The mothers and wives:of the dead miners declare this. is small , consola- tion for the loss of their menfolk. Poisonous fumes were still pouring from the mouth of the mine pit to- day. The rescuers @noountered nu- merous “squeezes,” Where the roof walls and ceilings squeezed together and threatened to block the narrow passages of the 350-foot deep mine. The mine, typical of. Indiana mines, was considered dangerous and badly equipped. Blames Qpen Lamps. All the mines of the surrounding country were closed down while the miners flocked to Sullivan to render what relief they could. Indiana has no law prohibiting the use of open flame miners’ lamps, and it is the unanimous opinion that one of these lamps ignited gas which caused the fatal explosion, Secre- tary Work of the department of the interior, declared, “Several hundred thousand open lights are carried daily in the coal mines of the country, each lamp being a hazard to life and property thru fire or explosion. Open lights have been responsible for many coal mine disaster& in the past.” Indiana mimes’ are noted for théir gas pocket formations, and it is these open Ights’-which ignite the lamps, causing the explosions. The state legislature has approprt- ated ten thousand dollars for the fe- lief of the tamilies*ef the vittims. It will Be Several days, Dally said, before ‘hing inspectors can enter the mine in safety. Black damp and deadly gases still! are abundant in the mines, several arteries, he said, making. ihspectfon. at present im- possible. + \, Miners who é8caped with their lives, today express amazement that the en- tire tipple*was not blown from the mine. They described how two blasts shook the pit, the first caused by ig- nition of an accumulation of mine gases and the second an explosion of a still larger volume of gas com- pressed by the vacuum which followed the first blast. Two separate investigations were to be launched to determine responsibil- ity for the explosion. Representing the state, Inspector Dally planned to be- gin tomorrow hearing witnesses. The state’s investigation will extend over a period of several days and will in- clude visits to all entries of the wrecked coal mine. Proseeutor N. K. Harris also an- nounced he would profe the blast. (Continued on page 2) Subseribe for the DAILY WORKER. the state legislature for the appro-| * were or- 0° Zim y ARM OF THE DAWES PLAN AT THD | | | i th | it Puts Up the “Open Shop” Sign in the U. S. A. RECOGNITION IS _— BOUND 10 COME, SAY SENATORS Declare ee Policy Is Discarded (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23.— While Senator Borah denies that he intends to go to Moscow to study and observe the Soviet government—and possibly get sOme business now going to England or Japan—previous to making his fight for recognition of the Soviets by the United States, it is known that he has had several con- ferences with President Coolidge on the subject of: recognition. Leaders Scorn Hughes, Policy Talk Administration leaders in the sen- ate are positive that there will be a new policy towards Russia soon after the new administration is inaugur- ated, regardless of the reports that the old isolation policy of Hughes will be followed. Borah, it is rumored, may be among others appointed on a commission to go to Russia, as was the case in Mexican recognition. Borah, however, refuses to: say what his talks with Coolidge Rave resulted in. ,Borah After Business Jt sis dnewn that Borah is firmly convinced that recognition of Russia “MODEL MINE™ NO. 9, AT NOKOMIS, ILL, CLOSES INDEFINITELY (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) NOKOMIS, If, Feb. 23.—Scores of coal minersiim this vicinity are leaving for othemtcamps. That they have begun drifting away, say “old timers,” augured an inedfinite shut- down of mine-of No. 9, belonging to the Illinois andIndiana Coal! corpor- ation as a remit of the storing of mine machisery, the drawing of fires and the sémling of the mrne. it has been conéidered the “model mine of Ilinois.¥': is inevitable andbthe sooner the bet- ter for this nation. He argues that other nations are taking advantage of the American’ policy of non-recogn- ition and are obtaining valuable trade | concessions. The recent agreement whereby valuable ore and oil lands in Sagha- lien Island were turned over to Japan by Russia for certain concessions, it | is believed, is a big factor in the move to modify the American policy. War Vet Dies in Fiames GLOUCESTER® Mass., Feb. 23.— A crippled war veteran was killed, two firemen injamed and 15 men, wo- men and childrem filed for their lives when fire sweptUcthe Belmont hotel here today. Theslosse was estimated at $100,000, NEW CONFAB TO BRING VICTORY, SAY STRIKERS Street nema Are Con- fident of Result A conference between commission- er of public works Sprague, represent- ing the city, and Michael Carrozzo representing the 2,500 striking street cleaners and garbage collectors will be held in City Hall at 5 o’clock to- morrow, afternoon. This conference is expected to terminate the strike, which has lasted for a week, and has completely tied up the city’s street cleaning and gar- 'bage disposal system. Rubbish litterg, the street. Barrels, | boxes and cans can be seen on almost every block overflowing with gar- _bage, ashes and rubbish. Papers and debris have drifted away from alleys where they were piled in same cases ing the dirty mass into the streets and sidewalks. Gutters are stopped- up. The strikers have given Carrozzo full power to act for them, but reject- ed the compromise offer of Sprague, to raise their pay ten cents a day. As | one of the street *cYéaners said, bread with.” f with mad “Why! Debs speak of Soviet Russia?” many feet high and the rain is press- | | Peeating and building industries. Senate Hands Blow to Sen. Underwood's Muscle Shoals Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—The Un- derwood Muscle Shoals bill was dealt a stinging blow in the senate late to- day, Upholding the ruling of the chair that the conferees injected new legis- lation in the original bill, the senate voted to send the measure back to conference where eomsiderable delay is expected before it can be, brought out again for fina] action. The vote was 45 to 41. KEPT OFF PUBLIC PLATFORM HERE Him Speak in Open Raphael Abramovich, anti-Sovie( agent of the Second (socialist) Inter. national, now spreading propaganda in the United States against the First Workers’ Republic, was the honored guest of the national convention of the socialist party, which convened yesterday in the Douglas Park audi- torium. Abramovich Didn’t Speak Sunday Abramovich sat on the platform at the socialist mass’ meeting Sunday in the Ashland audorium, where Debs was the main speaker, but the social- ists did not dare put him up to speak before a public gathering. It was the obvious intention of the socialists to make sure, Sunday, at the Ashland Auditorium that their spy would be able to make a speech in at least one American city, even tho only for a few seconds, without being compelled to quit because of workers’ demonstrations against him for his slanders against Soviet Russia. How- ever their plan was abandoned when the socialists leaders became Con- vinced that the audience was com- posed of workers who were for So- viet Russia and would tolerate no vilification of the Workers” Republic from the lying Abramovich. The meeting was dead. The &Seech- es of the leading socialists such as | Oneal, Viadeck and Kirkpatrick rous- ed no enthusiasm. Only when Debs mentioned the necessity of defending class war prisoners was there ap- plause. When he spoke of the Com- munists and supporting them in their fight against the criminal syndicalism laws, an outburst of applause came from all over the hall, much to the distress of the socialist leaders. the end of the meeting the work- ers in the audience started singing the al, and shouting: “Down ’ didn't It will be impossible for Abram- ovich to speak at a public meeting in Chicago now that the revolutionary workers know he is here. He will be forced to vent his spleen against the Soviet Republic. in private to small audiences of socialist leaders and trade union bureaucrats. Morris Hillquit opened the conven tion Monday and after a few words in- troduced Eugene Debs, who is chair- man of the party. Hiliquit then introduced Abramo- vich, as “a delegate from the Russian social-democratic party.” After Abra- movich spoke, declaring Russia to be “oppressed by the Communists,” Hill- quit translated the speech and com- mittees were elected The socialist delegates present showed their . approval of Abramo- vich’s hackneyed attack on the work ers’ and peasantss government of Russia. Makes His Stock Speech. Abramovich made his stock speech, calling for “demiocracy” and attack- ing the Soviet government as a “dic- tatorship.” The tool of the Second International, and counter-revolution- list for once during his tour, was per- | mitted to finish his lies. At every pre- vious start in his speeches before American workers, Abramovich has been forced to swallow his words and stop talking, because of the disap- proval of his audiences: But Abram- ovich found in the socialist delegates a sympathetic audience. Johnston Hopes for Rebirth. William H. Johnston, president of the Machinists’ Union and chairman of the disbanded C. P. P, A, conven- tion left with a handful of La- Follette followers, after the bolting of the delegatés representing the rail (Continued on page 2) REPORTS ON SITUATION IN BUILDING, METAL AND PRINTING INDUSTRIES, AT GENERAL T. U. E. L. MEETING, FEB. 25 The next regular monthly meeting of local Chicago of the | Educational League will be held on Wednesday North West Hall. corner Western and North avenues Comrade Jack Johnstone, secretary of the national Trade Union ad evening, February 25, in committee of the T. U. E. L., will tell of the present situation in the Carpenters’ Uni where | Hutcheson is leading a campaign ote ‘expulsions in Detroit, Philadelphia,;— |. are gatherings of all trade union Chicago and Los Angeles. | militants who are fighting for progress Reports on the activities of the/in the unions. The problems confront- militants in the unions in Chicago will | /ing them in their struggle are dis- be made at the meeting. Particu-| cussed and every militant, irrespect- Harly interesting are the reports re-/ive of the tinion he belongs. gets a garding the situations in the metal,| comprehensive view of the situation Fol- lowing the reports, discussion will | take place in which those who are “That's not enough to _ a loaf of | interested are invited to take part. These meetings of the Chicago T. U. | invited to attend, bee well as all in every union Readers of the DAILY WORKER trade unionists and members of the Workers Party are ~ ——_—— —., AE emermr oa anes AOI pratense ' Be im = Socialists Wo n’t Le
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. ~ te 4 - ‘ t $s : P : THE DA k £ - .—s a - w. ; pt STR EE - Coes Loaves LaFollette “Progressives” Rails in Kentucky US. SOCIALISTS Debs on the Platform; Hillquit Translates (Continued from page 1) road brotherhoods and the socialists. He predicted a “rebirth” of the third party. Johnston did not seem to be disturbed at the withdrawal of the la- bor elements and the socialists. “The new third party will incorpo- rate progressives and liberals and will not indicate an extreme movement such as ‘labor’ or ‘farmer-labor,’” Johnston said. Johnston said the party will be a LaFollette party which will be named at a convention, the date of which has not been set. He said the various states will hold conventions before the national convention ane “an exe- cutive committee of five will be an- nounced in a few days.” Consider Secondhand Broadcaster. Only one resolution was adopted in the early hours of the convention. It dealt with the pufchase of a second hand broadcasting station in Phila- delphia, advised by Leo Harkins, “so- cialist” organizer. In his speech Debs was strong for starting a weekly paper and getting hold of a printing plant. Both these steps indicate the utter bankruptcy of the “socialist” movement, which is frantically striving for some sort of expression. Report on the “C. P. P. A.” Debs heads a sub-committee that will bring in a report on “socialist” participation in the «conference for progressive political action. Hillquit had assured the convention that the “socialists” had wisely participated in the ©. P. P. A. CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 28.—Caught beneath their overturned locomotive after it left the rails, J. C. Maringer, 40, engineer of Covington, Kentucky, and Leroy McKinley, 27, fireman of Latonia, Ky., were crushed to death on the Louisville and Nashville rail- road, eight miles south of Covington, Kentucky today. Herbert Darnes of Lima, Ohio, was found seriously in- pured near the wrecked engine. He is thought to have been “beating” his way south. . As the engine reached a curve near Grants tunnel, {t jumped the track. The train was the second section of the southland limited. The first sec- tion, a well’ filled passenger train, took the curve safely a few minutes before. COOLIDGE USES AIRCRAFT PROBE TO FOSTER WAR WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23.— After their work was effectively stop- ped by the Coolidge administration, the house aircraft committee com- menced drafting its report. The in- vestigation conducted by the commit- tee into aircraft conditions is being used by the corporations controlling the Coolidge government to speed up the building of a larger army and navy. “Scandals” aiming to show that both the army and navy are too small were presented to the committee, and immediately the kept press got busy with cartoons and headline stories meant to force the American workers into another mad “preparedness” drive which would lead to war. | Plutes Remember George Washington tips as to the future disposition of these lands which he learned thru his position in the army. When Washing- ton, who was the father of capital- ism in the United States, died, his stolen lands, exclusive of his wife’s Mount Vernon estate, were valued at five hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Married Stupid Woman. Washington was satisfied to g0 thru life with an admittedly stupid and homely woman, Mrs. Martha Cus- tis, because when he marfied her he took charge of her fortune of fifteen thousand acres of land, in addition to three hundred Negro slaves and thirty thousand pounds. In his first letter to William Craw- ford, dated Sept. 21, 1767, Washing- ton outlined his plot for the seizure of western lands. He first cautiously requested Crawford to stake out for him, with the utmost secrecy as to who was behind the plot, “a tract of about fifteen hundred, two thousand or more acres.” “Could such a piece of land be found you would do me a singular favor in falling upon some method of securing it immediately from the at- tempts of others,” Washington wrote, “As nothing is more certain than that the lands could not remain long un- granted, when once it is known that rights are to be had,’. Washington had learned from his official friends that land was going to be grated, by (Continued from page 1) —————————— E.asy to learn Because it has the one and only Standard Key- board—exactly like the big typewriters. Its ease of operation and beautiful work make writing a pleas- ure. Price, with case, *60 Easy payment terms can be arranged when you Order from The Daily Worker 1113 W. Washington Blivd., CHICAGO, ILL. JULIN'S SHOE STORE AND REPAIR SHOP 3224 W. North Avenue Phone Belmont 2713 Chicago a » fn --— —— 'the National the state of Pennsylvania and imme- diately sent Crawford out’ to secure it for him, in the approved tea-pot dome style. Thru the next ten years Washington stubbornly fought, both the Indians and the white settlers, to maintain these lands. Hé later made use of “tips” obtained thrif his posi- tion as general of the Américan army to make more secure the lands which Crawford had staked ott, on a per- centage basis. Get Around The Law “It is possible,” Washington con- tinued, “That the custom in Pennsy)- vania will not admit so large a quant- ity of land as I desire. If so this may be arranged by making several entries to the same amount, if the ex- pense is not too heavy. _ “All I want if the land can only be secured from others, that is. all I want at present. By this time it may be easy for you to discover that my plan is to secure a good dea) of land. You will consequently come in for a very handsome quantity. I recom- mend that you keep this whole matter secret.” Crawford replied that the staking of land had been “stopped by the In- dians” as “the Indians are not paid for the land.” Nevertheless, Craw- ford set to work. He asked Washing- ton as a favor, to secure for him the title of a Negress who had run off and taken refuge with the Indians, “The wench I have ran away from them and came to Fort Pitt,” Craw- ford wrote, “I am afraid there are some scheming already to purchase her.” It was only thru the aid of Lord Dunmore, governor of Virginia be- fore the revolution and a notorious lackey of King George, that Wash- ington was able to secure his land. On June 16, 1794 Washington wrote, “My land on the Ohio and Great Ken- hawa rivers amounts to 32,373 acres.” Upon a second survey, however, it was found that Washington's land was even greater in extent. Sordid History The sordid history ef Washington's land grafts is written: im his own hand in letters to his agent Crawford. These letters show how Washington pitted his Negro slaves and his white convict laborers, who were also used as slaves during their term of im- prisonment, against ‘the western white settlers and against the Ne- groes. They show how Washington drew governors, army officers and agents into his plots, and bought them off on a commission basis. They show the cunning and cupidity of the first bie American capitalist. To Serve His Country Is to Neglect Himself, Says McAndrew of Boy (Special to The Daily Worker) CINCINNATI, Ohio, boy should have it drilled into him that he enters school for the same purpose as joining the army, to serve his country not himself.” said William McAndrew, superintendent of Chi- cago Public Schools and president of the department of guperintendents of Education Association today at the opening of the 61st an- nual convention of that organization | here, Feb. 23.—"A’ NEW YORK STRIKE Scabs Afraid to Go-Out for Lunch (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 23.—Bight girl pickets were brought into various courts Saturday from the garment workers’ strike lines where 20,000 workers, mostly girls, are fighting for organization and better conditions and wages. Sara Platkin:of the Bronx, was ac- cused of attacking a scab. The scab was trying to go to work at the Pearl- man Dress company, 55 West 16th street. The judge in the Jefferson Market court held Sara for $500 bail on a charge of “disorderly conduct.” If scabs are to be beaten up, it must in an orderly manner, apparently. Workers Party and Trade Union Edu- cational League members are leading the rank and file fighters. Sylvia Goldstein, Anneida Mazzei and Marie Absepin were other girls haled before judges, Anneida draw- ing a hold over for $200 bail, the other two being dismissed after non- appearance of the complainant. They had upset a fine tray load of sand- wiches being taken into a shop for the scabs who were afraid to go out to eat lunch. Four other girls who had entered a shop to do a little or- ganizing were dismissed with a judic- ial bawl-out. An organization committee of 300 was sent out with instructions to or- ganize every shop not pulled out by the strike on Thursday. Two Workers Fired for Aiding Rescue Work at Sand Cave CHICAGO; Feb. 23.—-Two of the volunteer “miners” who left their work here to go to Cave City, Ky., to aid in the rescue work for Floyd Col- lins, cave explorer, imprisoned in Sand Cave, returned today to find that their absence had cost them their jobs. They are: E. F. McIntyre and Al- fred Woolven. Both carried “honorable dischar- ges” from the Sand Cave work signed by H. T. Carmichael, general super- visor of operations which stated they had done “heroic and valuable work in connection with the attempted rescue and deserved every consider- ation for their service” but these availed naught. Migratory Birds, Not Workers, Are Government Pets (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 23.—Among radical labor circles there is some amusement and much indignation at the Calles government's announce- ment that it would “offer every assist- ance” to the “special representative” of the American government to ar- rive at an agreement upon the “pro- tection of migratory birds.” It is pointed out that while Calles and the Yankees are solemnly chat- tering about protecting migratory birds, thousands upon thousands of migratory workers, who pour into the United States are treated worse than cattle, half-starved, over-worked and driven from steel mills to beet fields, extra gangs on the railroad or to the stopes of metal mines of the west. Sinclair Oil Thru in Soviet Russia: MOSCOW, .Russia, Feb. 23.—The Sinclair Oil company failed to Nive up to its agreement with Soviet Russia, and its concessions in Saghalin are virtually dead, Gregory Pyatkov, chairman of the concessions commit- tee, is quoted as saying in press dis- patches. The Japanese are given con- cessions in the Saghalin territory by the terms of the Russo-Japanese treaty. The Soviet government is reported to have donated more than 100,000,000 gold rubles for buying seed grain to insure a plentiful crop next year. KNIT GOODS WORKERS STILL ON STRIKE IN NEW YORK SHOPS (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 23.—The knitted underwear workers, those in the spring needie trades making fabrics for knitted garments, are continuing their strike in Brooklyn and Maohattan shops under joint jurisdiction of the _ international Ladies’ Garment Workers and the United Textile Workers. The union, until late independent, is growing in spite of the dull season in the trade. Arrests of pickets occur in this strike, but not so frequently as in the white goods and children’s dress workers’ strike where several times as many workers are involved. Rec- ognition ef the union and generally improved conditions are sought by ‘without the the - thing would not go. “delegate had no particular ob 0 labor but he wanted a party dependent Am- ericans.” He wa of listening what he wanted. was in a daze. .money and so were the other two. He the strikers, . | — r | Get your tickets for Red Revel Bail, brualy 28. | “P™"ORGET that class conscious stuff,” said MoKaig, of Idaho. A delegate from the north side of the city of Columbus, Ohio, warned the socialists that unless that party dis- apeared from human ken, the people living on the north side of Columbus would have nothipg to do with ft and to Hillquit’s in which consisted | tions between jsay MacDonald and King George Ap glowing terms. ie E were many twitching lips and itching palms in the audience at the thot of kissing some royal anat- omy, as the ‘6 socialist law- yer dwelt on the rise to office and governmental h of the British la- bor leaders, “B,.@ Q, Bill” was not in a very happy position. Motions, points of order, questiona of parliamentary inquiry flew around him. Sometimes he harpooned them, but they usually went by him. Several motions were lost and the delegates were too busy trying to get the floor to bother about them. nalism he said * « @ way Johnston was treated by the body won the sympathy of Leo Harkins of Philadelphia, who used to be a leftwinger a few years ago. He made ai =~spirited speech which was not listened to, while the delegates were leaving the hall, urg- ing them to be nice to “B. & O, Bill” when they met on the following day. “Bill” did a lot of thinking while he was seated behind the presiding table. Some observers thot he knew Others thot that he Heiwas very much alone anyway. Azstfew of the lesser lights in the sixteem standard railway organizations Were there to keep the home fires burning{ .Their main ob- ject was to see thatnothing tangible came out of the convention. They succeeded admirably. eee ABOR was conspicuous by its ab- sence there. Ifthe sentiment for the formation of a labor party can be measured by the. representation from the workers anud@ farmers at that convention, it must be placed at zero. The only organizéd! @lement that fav- ored a labor party-im ‘the slightest de- gree were the” yo rete x they used it only ada | ' After the convention wassrover delegates shook their heads when asked for their opinion of theqchances of the new and nameless patty: Old and sin. cere veterans in ‘thé’socialist meove- ment who have loo#ed on helplessly at the way the parfytraveled from its original moorings were disgusted. The shyster lawyers, shoddy intellec- tuals and homeless political wander- ers, found themselyeés no worse off than when they came. °o es Gurren of the conductors has a wholesome reg for money. He must be a dis of Napoleon Bonaparte. “Nap,” ageording to Shep- hard, once said that;there were three essentials to success. The first was charged the delegates with an indec- ent exhibition of poverty when the chairman appealed for a collection to pay the deficit. The brotherhoods would no longer play the role of rich uncle to this bunch of deadbeats. Yet there was at least; one millionaire among them, brother, or Mr., but -not once Comrade Hillquit. > * 8 T was a good convention, the most entertaining I ever attended. One delegate from the needle trades ad- mitted unofficially that it was the big- gest collection of renegade socialists that ever gathered. together. But they were more intent on spiking the plans of the socialist party than ac- complishing anything’ of value. It was a splendid victory for political hygiene; two rotten political organiza- tions were buried in one day. Probe Deaths of Four Run Down by “Big Four” Train ———a HARRISBURG, flinois, Feb, *23.— Deaths of four coal. miners, killed when they were struck by a Bie Four train while sitt#lmg on the track near here, Sunday night, will be probed at a coroners inquest. The dead were: William Quinn, 40; Luther Foster, 56; Henry Cooley, 39; ‘ and his brother John Cooley, 37. All were Saline county miners. A body believed to be that of James McCurt last night, was identified as Quinn to- day when McCurt was found at his boarding house. The tracks where the accident oc- curred were lined with the curious today. Parts of the bodies were scat- tered along the track an eighth of a mile. : The engineer of the train said all four men were sitting on the west rail and were not’ seen until the engine was almost dn them. = =, Never Héard of Loans to Anti-Soviet Agent Here By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ———~ = yey ting the rela-| ' —_— ‘czarist debts as a preliminary to recognition by the Dee ey oe ODAY, a little more of the truth about Anierica’s partici- pation in the world war comes to light when it is shown that President Woodrow Wilson or | »500,000,000 loaned to the bankrupt nations of western Europe, im- mediately following the war. The Hearst press is petting very excited because this was done illegally. The money was raised thru the sale of the so-called “Liberty Bonds” for war purposes. Congress had voted against t war loans. But Wilson, in Paris, at the Peace Conference, building his League of Nations—the Black Capitalist ‘Inter- national—ordered the loans put thru. Capitalist Europe had to be bulwarked against the threat of the social revolution over all Europe, in the winter months of 1918-19, following immediately on the heels of the war. nett The excuse for extending aid to Czecho-Slovakia was typical of all the rest. It is declared that advances were made to provide “food and food products urgently needed in Czecho-Slovakia as a military measure to prevent the spread of anarchy.” Everywhere that the foundations of capitalism were melting away, these Wilson was on the job with Amer- ican gold to bolster them up. ss. « * ® Additional facts come to light as to the careful solicitude harbored by the Wilson regime for Boris Bakmeteff, who ar- rived in the United States as the Kerensky spokesman after the Bolshevik revolution had placed power in the hands of the workers and peasants. Altho without a government Bakmeteff became one of Wilson’s petted darlings. American gold was lavishly show- ered upon him. Loans were made to him on his own “I. O. U.” while the United States government joined the other nations of the Versailles Peace in a feverish effort to over- throw Soviet Rule. ia ee Oe Much of this has areal been pointed out in the col- umns of the DAILY WORKER. It has been broadcasted to the nation in the educational propaganda of the American ‘ Communist movement. One of the surprises of this latest “scandal” is the ad- mission made by two members of the foreign relations com- mittee of the house of representatives that they knew noth- ing about the loans to Bakmeteff. They are.now “surprised” to hear of them. They confess: HENRY ALLEN COOPER, republican representative from Wis- consin, LaFollette supporter: “I was particularly astonished at the news of the loans to Bakmeteff, the so-called Russian ambassador, who really represented nothing but a government on horseback.” EDWARD E. BROWNE, also republican representative from Wis- consin, and also a LaFollette supporter: “I knew that we had sold our surplus war supplies in Europe at an extremely low figure, but the other facts came as a surprise to me. |! am at a loss to understand why we lent money to the Russian ambassador after the Russian government had collapsed.” * * * @ Both Cooper and Browne have been in capitalist politics for a long time under the tutelage of LaFollette. Cooper was the LaFollette spokesman on the floor of the national republican convention, at Cleveland, last summer. Both of them, actually members of the house foreign relations com- mittee, now confess that they were ignorant of the current information that the American capitalist government at Washington was carefully nurturing the interests of an agent of the Russian counter-revolution, In this country. And Browne, even now with this’ information thrust upon him, doesn’t understand why Amerioan capitalism should do such a “naughty thing.” It is beyond the infantile compre- hension of the capitalist brand of compared? that parades as “LaFollette progressivism.” Yet it is only another dis- play of their usual childish faith in capitalism. 7 cs % x Wilson not only backed the Bakmeteff mission in this country, but the money turned over to the fake “ambas- sador”’ also helped finance his counter-revolutionary embas- sies in Norway and Belgium. Bakmeteff also tried to get money to support his embassies in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, where the pro-Bolshevik sentiment, especially in the trade union movements of those countries, was ver strong. It is claimed that these ambitions of Bakmete were not satisfied. But any honest worker may have his own doubts, * * s ®8 Yet there are capitalists and their political lackeys in this country who claim Soviet Russia ought to repay the United States. Instead the workers of this country should vehemently demand that the United States government indemnify the Russian Soviet Republic for the damage it has done thru supporting counter-revolutionary activities against it. This would easily mount into billions of good American gold dollars. * + # 8 Cooper and Browne, speaking for their brand, of “pro- gressivism,” offer their usual remedy, in the words of the former, “a comprehensive investigation.” Let the workers and poor farmers, who supported this cheap LaFollette by-product of capitalist politics at fast fall’s elections realize that what they need is comprehensive ac- tion under the leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party. And the only worth while action is for the workers and farmers to struggle as vigorously for the overthrow of this capitalist system, as Woodrow Wilson labored to main- tain it, especially in the days of peace negotiations at Ver- sailles. after-the- ”. Warren’s Name Held War in Air Boosters Would Pay for Probe; in Senate Because of Sugar Connections Fe —— : ~ : . , WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—The no- mination of Charles B. Warren, as attorney general today again was held up in the senate judiciary committee. Warren's objected to because he was active as lawyer for the sugar trust. He was president of the Michigan Sugar company. , After a two hour session, the com- mittee could not agree on.a_ report and another meeting was summoned for tomorrow when administration senators announced they would make a final drive to get Warren's name before the senate for confirmation. % ~ ' Must Be Money in It WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23.— Offers of personal finances to enable the house aircraft committee to con- tinue the investigation into aircraft conditions in the army and navy comes to the committee today. The committee abruptly terminated its sensational investigation giving as the reason “lack of funds,” but more reliably understood to be opposition from the White House, war and navy departments. Red Revel Masquerade Bal!, 37 South Ashland Avenue Prepare to: Fight for - More Wages ‘DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 23.— Either e police have abandoned Hutche- son’s fakers or Hutcheson’s fakers have decided that the police cannot be used effectively against the rank and file. Perhaps it is a combination of both. Suffice it to say that when the dele- gates gathered for the district couneil of carpenters’ meeting Thursday, Feb. 19, they found the gallant toreadors (bull throwers, not bull fighters) Sharrock and Botterill, minus their usual police guard. “Brother” Sharrock mounted the préesident’s stand, ordered Reynolds.to leave the hall, and when his command was not obeyed, he emulated the Spanish dictator, Primo de Rivera and beat a strategic retreat, calling on all the faithful to follow him. Five: dele- gates from his Local Union, 1805, and “Jelly” Fish, the secretary, also of that local union, followed the whipped cur out. Council Gets Down toe Business. After the meeting had been purged of this excrement, the solid delega- tions from five local unions and the one man representing Local 1805, as a delegate, held a meeting at which they discussed ways and means of ousting Sharrock from office so that the rank and file sentiment might be carried into action by the district council without further sabotage by Sharrock and his co-weakling secre- tary, “Jelly” Fish. . After some discussion, a committee of six, one from each local union, was elected with instructions to bring charges against Sharrock for violat- ing the constitution and by-laws of the district council and to institute recall proceedings in case the little czar in Detroit or the big czar in In- dianapolis might overrule the trial verdict. This committee stands in- structed to visit all local unions to acquaint the whole membership with On leaving the hall Thursday night, Secretary Fish lingered behind and voiced the opinion that : letting the matter take with the i iMG Bes lat diesEieis It was pointed out to Fish by nolds that he had lost the respect the membership by signing the injunc- tion and that circumstances offered him a rare opportunity to square him- self by returning to the meeting and producing the minutes. He recognised the opportunity, but refused to avail 2§ Must Prepare to Fight Bosses. On Friday night, Local Unions 1884 and 420 carried into effect the policy adopted by the district council dele- gates by demanding the removal of Sharrock and instructing their dele- gates to take action to that end. Lo- cal Union 420 elected by a committee of three to visit Local 1805, to ascer- tain if the rank and file of 1805 sup- ported the action of their delegates and of Sharrock and Fish in sabotag- ing the district council meetings and holding up organizational work at this critical period of the year in the build- ing industry. The rank and file in Detroit have voted overwhelmingly to increase their wages on May 1, and they wish to see action taken to support this demand for an increase. Another Liar for Sale—Cheap! Last Wednesday night, Reynolds brought the matter of his expulsion, the injunction and police, and other phases of the situation to the atten- tion of the Detroit Federation of La- 20r for the first time. In reply, Shar- rock, who is also a delegate, brazenly admitted these acts which constitute when to the labor movement and said he had no regrets whatever. He lied like hell. He further stated that “When the federation got ready to kick out the Communist elements, which it in- evitably must,” (77?) he would assist them by advising them of what mis- takes he had made in kicking out Rey- nolds. The federation should request him to write a book. Mussolini, Still in Bed, Faces New Crisis in Cabinet LONDON, Feb. 23.—Premier Mus- solini, fascist leader of Italy, faces another small cabinet crisis which may materialize soon, according to reports reaching London today, Minister of War Di Giorgio is ex- pected to resign, the reports said, be- cause of new opposition forming to his army reform bill. Cadorna will be invited to succeed him. Finance Minister De Stefani also probably will resign and will be succeeded by Min- ister of Justice Rocco. Premier Mus- solini was still in bed today. . = ——— _—— — =
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New York has just held a great bazdar, which, they. report, was a tre- mendous success. ~ Philadelphia has announced a ‘bazaar for March 20 and 21, Chicago is holding a united front Defensé Conferénce on Feb. 26, Kan- sasi City*is holding a dance for the benefit. of the defense on the 28th, masa: meetings are being held in Cail- fornia by Comrade Ella Reeve Bloor, Cleveland announces a big dance on Feb.:28 and Detroit is to have a big bazaar on March 8. Some Towns Do Weill. Some of the smaller towns are do- ing very well also. Particular men- tion should be made of Muskegon, Michigan, where a defense rally is ar- ranged for March 1. This is in addi- tion to reports that have already been made about Minneapolis, Tacoma, Se- attle, Portland, Los Angeles, Omaha, etc. Organizations which contributed during the last week aré listed below: South Slavic Fed., Chicagé.fd.........: $216.51 South _— Br., Morgantown, . Va. Ly 6 Budgin, 4 lists .... “ 44. on. = * e ‘ Galt 43.08 Ziegler, Uil., nin Meéti hes , rg eng ae 4 Nd 30.00 meg tes Li ute , Mass...... 29.00 Eowhat N.Y der ae am 25.00 we Prank ort, tn pA? Ae MEE 20.00 orkmen's Circle 1 Ww te: Indian- apolis, .In 20.00 GC." G.. : Newark, ia ickesiianin 20.00 Lith. Br. No 47, Chi Kepeapenbhde «Eee Ss. S. No. New Yor 20.00 John Buksa, Yorkville, ORIO.... wae. hor : ‘Sh “ ~ b . a ” | x - ad a DAILY scan: PHIA’S FIRST ANNUA DAILY WORKER BALL PROMISES A BIG TIME NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT Friday, Febryary 27, will be the Red Letter Day among the Philadelphia Communists and sympathizers. Everybody here is prepgring for the first an- nual DAILY WORKER ball. The newly decorated New Traymore Hall at Franklin street and Columbia avenue will be filled with the nt crowd of | campaign. happy rebels Philadelphia has ever witnessed. For the first time our language branches are coming fom in full force | Wishes, the hopes and the class hat- Workers League are working hard to bring all the English speaking friends of the DAILY WORKER. The orchestra is preparing special music to suit the dancing ‘méods of a special ‘surprise will be given when a new dance, to be known as the “Abramovich march,” will be rendered in seven installments in. conformity with the seven install- ment speech of Professor Abramovich recently delivered amid much cough- ing, hissing, booing and other lively demonstrations. ‘The banquet hall Will be open dur- ing the entire evening. All the party groups are coming to the ball in full force including the Freiheit Singing Society, the T. U. EB. L. and the Juniors. The souvenir program is now in the hands of the printer and will bé a fit- ting remembrance of this memorable affair. For the third time the printer had to supply a fresh batch of tickets to supply the ever growing demands. Every friend and sympathizer of the Communist movement knows about the ball and most of them have an- nounced their intention to be present by buying a ticket in advance. March Tickets Out, Have You Got Yours? NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Subscription tickets for the Press Pageant at Mad- ison Square Garden on March 165, have now been sent to all branches of the Workers Party and the Young Workers’ League. If any branch has not received them the responsible comrades should call immediately at the district office, 108 East 14th St., and get their supply. Members who found it impossible to attend their branch meetings should also call to get theirs. The subscription tickets for this af- fair are printed in neat folders con- taining five each. They consist of a one month’s 75c subscription to the DAILY WORKER combined with the Madison Square Garden ticket as «a premium. Every member is expected to sell at least five of these combin- ations. Each one that sells five has a free ticket for himself. The folder also carries the an- nouncement of prizes to those that sell the most substription - tickets. First, a trip to the nexe Workers Party convention with all expenses paid; second, a libarary of books; third and fourth, Lenin watch charms with suitable’ inscriptions. The branch that sells the most will re- ceive a radio outfit for its neadquar- ters, and a similar outfit, worth $100 will go to the branch that sells the most in proportion to ,membership so that both large and ‘small branches have an equal opportunity to win. Quite a number of branches and in- dividuals have already announced their determination to come out first, and are now hard at work. Every member must see to it that nor only himself, but the entire branch be- gin now, so as to have an even chance with the others. Success for this affair means 15,000 readers for the DAILY WORKER in New York. The prizes are merely in- cidental. The “grand prize” 1s really the benefit to the Communist press. Woman’s Charred Body Is Taken from Car Wreck ROCKFORD, IIL, identity of the wo Feb. 23.— The an whose charred from the wreck- age ‘of a Rockford interurban car af- tox it had crashed head on into an- other car near Pecatonica, Sunday, remained a mystery today as an offi- cial investigation to fix responsibility for the wreck get under way. Passengers, who vainly attempted which consumed the cars after the wreck, said the woman was traveling alone. She was trapped in her seat by a twisted side bean of the car, they said. The other fatality in the wreck was George Chapman, Rock- ford, motorman of the Rockford bound car. The 11 persons injured were reported out of danger today. Duluth, Minn. Notes. (Special to The Daily Worker) DULUTH, Minn. Feb. 23,—Over two hundred people attended a meeting of Young Workers’ League at Camel's Hall, here. Comrade Hein nen of Superior, out. lined breifiy the purpose of the league. This was the first time the league un- dertook work ofthis kind and the suc- cess of ole g was encouraging. A maj hose present were young people y responded with enthusia Six dollars an¢ eighty- five cents was |’ collected fer the Labor Defense Coun- cil. sae - > Seete cere > gle. the affair. smallpox epidemic a University brought a classes there today whi ‘| being vaccinated. Get your tickets for tu Revel Ball, } DATES AND SUBJECTS OF CIRCUIT ‘SEHOOL IN DISTRICT NO. 8 _— + --—— Max Lerner, who is conducting the Circuit School, will give the following lectures this week. Alli comrades are urged to attend and if they have not already done so to: eg in the class. KENOSHA, Isc. Tuesday, Feb. 24, 8 P.W., American. German hall, 655 Grand Ave., review on “Workers and Fargiprs,” the ex- ploited colonial people. CHICAGO, ILL. Wednesday, Feb. 25, 8 P. M. 2613 Hirsch Bivd., class in “Elementary economics,” chapter X of People’s Marx. GARY, IND. Thursday, Feb, 26, 8 P. M., 215 W. 1Bth street, review on “Workers and Farmers,” the exploited colonial: peo- ple. MILWAUKEE, WISC. Friday, Feb. 28, 8 P. M., 802 State rebellion In labor movement. St., “Trade union history and tactics,” New York Notes. | Talk on Internationa Situation NEW YORK, Feb. —The next educational meeting of ge Downtown English branch of the Workers Party of New York, will be held at the new headquarters, 108 East 14th Street. The talk will be given on a topic which is most timely at this moment, namely, “The International Situation” by Comrade Bert Millér?' The branch will follow its usual} gdystom of in- viting those who wish to hear the talk, to come down. ,The;meeting will be held on Wetnnemmmrenins. Feb. 25. Bronx, New York, Party News SECTION AFFAIR, #@. Feb. 28, at 1347 Boston Road. *Goneert, Vetche- rinka and dance. Allgiee there, and lets have a good timeayo SECTION LECTURE, :-Sun., March 1, 1347 Boston Road;<8 P. M. Juliet Stuart Poyntz will leeture on “The Modern Conflict—-Communism vs. Capitalism.” SECTION CLASSES, Mondays, at 523 E. 173rd St., Anna Jacobson elem- entary English, 8. P. M: Tuesdays, at 1347 -Bé@ston Road, 8 P. M., Dr. IL. Stamler wilh continue his class in the A. B. C, ef:Communism. All new Party memi¢fs should at- tend this class. Du Saturdays, 523 E. ‘78rd St., 2-4 P. M., Eli Jacobson teadkaes Advanced English. s ¢ @) NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—The working class women of Harlem have done splendid work for the Labor Defense Bazaar. With a booth all their own, they worked like beavers and disposed of most of their wares. Carrying their banners, they participated in the bazaar parade, their faces beam- ing with enthusiasm. Because they ireelized*that they were no longer just women in the kitchen but part of the big movement that will eventually free all working class men and wo- men. The women of the ieee also did their bit. They held’ an open meet- ing before the bazaarsat which Com- rade Amter talked on ‘Krupskaya and the working women in the class strug- Over a hundred qworkers were present. A collection was taken for the Labor Defense Couhcil. The wo- men distributed the Iéaflets announc- ing the meeting to other women in the neighborhood. One member of the council donated a simovar which brought thirty-three dollars at the ba- zaar, while many bazaar tickets were sold. The Hungarian women of the council also did much ‘god work. Those actively connected with the work of organizing ineighborhood: councils found many members of the different councils at the bazaar who expressed extreme enthusiasm over Some came with their children who have recently joined the Y. W. L. or the Juniors. Many of the younger ones were active among the Juniors during the Saturday after- noon session which was devoted to the Junior groups. It was gratifying to see the women coming out of the kitchen to join in the struggles of the Studies '23.—-Fear of Northwestern sation of all tudents are Smallpox Fear Ha EVANSTON, IIL, February 28. aa ‘COMMUNISTS SE RED THEATER TO ‘ROUSE WORKERS BERLIN, Feb. 23.—One of the most effective instruments of propaganda yet devised by the Communists is the proletarian wandering theater which was first put to use during the recent It is popular in the real | Sense of the word, reflecting the ‘with all their friends and sympathizers, the English branches and the Young ,"®4 Of the broad masses. | Wherever’ in the workingmen’s quarters there is a beerhall or other large room with a stage available, the Communists rent it on some conveni- ent evening and offer their “Review in Fourteen Scenes.” As the scenes unfold before the eyes of the workers, two men, one representing the class struggle, the other the bourgeois, fur- nish the proper comment. They thus take the place of the chorus in the ancient Greek tragedy or of the inter- locutor in the American minstrel show. Plea to the Jury. One scene depicts a Communist as he is about to be sentenced to long imprisonment for thinking differently from the accepted standards. He makes a last impassioned plea to the jury, which the listeners swallow whole be- cause it is fed to them in the form of drama. Another scene depicts a visitor from Mars coniing to the earth and finding to his surprise that there are people who actually slave and starve so that someone else may wallow in wealth. He can only explain this situation by remembering that the earth is in part peopled by a race of crazy men called proletarians. The familiar figures of German. poli- tical life, such as General Ludendorff, President Ebert, General von Seeckt, Chief of Police Richter, Prussian Min- ister of the Interior Severing, and other enemies of the working class are imitated on the stage and their statements parodied. All party and Y. W. L. and all friendly organizations are requested not to hold nor allow any other af- fairs or May Day demonstration to be arranged on that date. Participate in this affair and make it a huge demon- stration. —-_— Red Revel Masquerade Ball, 37 South Ashland Avenue Corner of Monroe and Ashland Bivd., February 28, AED stem which is nothing but a speech, but CONNECTICUT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DEBATES ITSELF ON CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT By WILLIAM SIMONS. Before the legislature acted on the child labor amendment, necticut chamber of commerce sent out a referendum to its own members. Just before senate action on Feb. 3, it whelming vote was against ratification. But, at least, the referendum could have been made to seem fair on the But no, their contempt for the working class is so strong, that face of it. they can afford to use as an argu- ment against the child labor amend- ment a referendum which is on the face of it a joke. . The arguments were prépared by two members on each. side, all mem- bers of the chamber of .commerce, and appointed by the president. One in favor, E. A. Richards, of the H. H. Richards Lumber company of West Haven, when asked to speak in favor of the amendment at ajmeeting, con- fessed his ignorance of the subject and asked that he Si, fla with material, Yet he was one of: thie two who presented the arguments} for ratifica- tion! The newspapers) did not carry news of the arguments or the nature of the referendum. The arguments were endorsed by the board of directors of the state chamber of commerce, before being sent out. The arguments for ratifica- tion take up a little less than one fourth of the width of the page; and lines are far apart. The rest of the page is used for arguments opposed, and are close spaced. Four arguments in favor; eleven against. 227 words used in favor, 1064 against. Capital- ist fairness! The arguments in favor are simple assertions, no proof. Detailed statistics are presented in opposition. Gems of the opposition are: “the amendment is socialistic”; “legislation would be enacted that would in practical effect ‘nationalize’ children and in the words of promin- ent socialists, Communists—‘remove them from the pernicious influence of the family.’” Argument 8: “Furthermore we be- lieve that the amendment and the powers sought by it implies at least that the government care and super- vision of the children is more desir- able than practical. care and super- vision.” WEEKLY YOUNG WORKER CELEBRATION Sunday, March 8, 3:30 P. M. at the WORKERS HALL 722 Blue island Ave. Mass Meeting - Banquet - Dance — Admission Free — the Co was already announced that the over This was to be expected. | NEW HAVEN RUSSIANS CELEBRATE THE SECOND. BIRTHDAY OF NOVY MIR NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 23.— The Russian workers and sympa- thizers with Novy Mir, the Russian Communist daily newspaper, cele-. brated the second anniversary of. the paper at a banquet here. Comrade Chramoff greeted Novy Mir and wished it a healthy life be- fore and after the establishment of. the Soviet government of the United. States. The meeting was held un- der the auspices of the New Haven branch of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party. Los Angeles Holds 7 Successful Labor Defense Meeting LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 23.— “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor delivered a ringing message calling upon the workers to arouse themselves and or- ganize effectively to aid the Labor Defense Council defend class war prisoners, at a successful meeting here. Comrade Schneiderman of the Young Workers’ League and Comrade Sydney Bush attacked the anti-syn- dicalist laws. Rev. Vitaker said he had just re turned from Plaza where Professor Gallagher and ten others were arrest- ed. Vitaker said that most of those arrested were unemployed workers. Comrade Gorman acted ag chair- man. One hundred and sixty dollars was raised for the Labor Defetisp Council. The meeting was held un- der the auspices of the wnited’ front conference of 18 organizations,.inelud- ing capmakers, milliners, upholster- ers, painters, machinists, carpenters, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the proletarian party, and the Workers (Communist) Party and the. Young Workers’ League. A resolution protesting against the imprisonment of class war prisoners was unanimously passed by the.5§00 workers present. - _ of magazine. ture Department of the ist) Party. 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“Sots cvaoer: : —_-- --—- — _ -— + TION OF THE TRADE | THE DAII NY DISCHARGES UPLOYEWHOWAS TRUE TO LABOR oie itewaiien | Machinists “eit in Protest wats te zn ; _ The following is a part of a long resolution sent in to the T. U. E. L. ., .eetion of the DAILY WORKER from ean Hawaii. American imperial- gate -ism guards its interests jealously and Carries on its system of terrorism re- lentlessly. In some places the perse- . cutions are thru loss of employment, in.others it cast the leaders of the workers into prison. But whatever .. form this terrorism takes, its purpose ie to break down the organized resis- » tance of the workers. : “This mild protest on the part of * -Honolulu Lodge No. 1245, I. A. of M. +. wlhiows the need for working class in- ternational unity. This protest sent in for action to the American Federa- ... Hon of Labor will sleep soundly with all the other working class protests, in the archives of that organization, unless it is taken up by the militants . pee within the Machinists’ Union and made a live issue. “Whereas, Mr. Wright’s activities have all been outside the jurisdic- tion of the Navy Yard, with the ex- ception of his work on wage data committees for the departmental wage board of review, and have all been for the benefit of labor and in furtherance of labor’s efforts to se- cure better wages and shorter hours, especially on the sugar plantations ‘Of Hawaii where laborers are paid -@ Basic wage of $1.00 a day. for ten hour work; and " “Whereas, in this work Mr. Wright has opposed the rich and “powerful groups that dominate the ‘ territofy of Hawaii, especiaily the , Sugar interests; now, therefore, be it __ “Resolved, That this organization ~B6 on record as protesting against “what it regards as an act of injus- tice and persecution under cover of ‘@ technicality; that it assert its be- “het that Mr. Wright has been dis- ‘criminated against solely because of his stand in support of labor’s prin- ciples and ideals and because he has Tought aggressively for labor’s main Objectives; that it assert its belief that the commandant of the Navy Yard at Pearl Harbor has been too easily influenced by prejudice and the persuasion of those who are in apositions of power in Hawaii, finan- . cially, socially, industrially and po- _ Jitically; and “Be It Further Resolved, That we urge upon the international officers of this organization and upon the Sxecutive board of the American Federation of Labor the necessity of using every effort to secure a re- dress of this grievance that will cor- rect the injustice that has been done, and protect government em- _.ployees from similar acts of discrim- ination in the future by securing - from the navy department or the civil service commission a reversal of the order dismissing Mr. Wright from the service; and “Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this resolution be for- warded to the international presi- dent of this organization, to the president of District 44, I. A. of M.., to the secretary of the American Federation of Labor, to the presi- dent of the Federal Employes As- sociation, to the secretary of the navy, to the secretary of labor, to the chairman of the house commit- tee on naval affairs, to the chairman of the senate committee on naval affairs, and to such other members of both houses of congress as may, upon investigation, be considered in a: position to render assistance in this matter: and ~. “Be It Finally Resolved, That scapies of this resolution be furnished to the press, and to the labor papers on,the mainland “Duly approved at a special called meeting of Lodge No. 1245, I. A. of M., held at Phoenix Hall, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan “A. B. Boyd, President, »)9 OOF ~ & a for the DAILY WORKER. OWN IN THE ANTHRACITE PITS A NEW REBELLION IS BREWING AS MINERS WRITE NEW PROGRAM died out. The 12,000 Pennsylvania pits again. Lewis has returned the locals. of the local press. All is calm and quiet in the Anthracite. The general strike sentiment has disappeared from the headlines All is quiet on the surface to the passing observer. pits, during the quiet of the lunch hour and the long pauses while waiting The. rumblings of revolt have “outlaw” strikers are down in the charters to the 12 expelled rebel But down in the for cars, timbers and tools, the voices of discontent are growing in volume and intensity. An “Agreement” —Not a Settlement. The Pennsylvania strike is “set- tled,” but, the grievances still remain and new. ones pile up daily. The con- ciliation board delays and does not act. The union officials have forgot- ten their promise to fight for the min- ers. The general grievance commit- tees, which represent the rank and file, are powerless in the face of the agreement and the Lewis-Cappellini machine. The miners still spend many hours underground waiting for cars or load- ing rock for which they get no pay. The agreement is being violated right and left by the operators, and the vio- lations referred to the conciliation board, where they are delayed indefin- itely and forgotten. But the miners remember keenly and bitterly. New Rebellion Brewing. Beneath the calm surface a new re- bellion is brewing. The lessons of the “Pennsylvania” strike have been driv- en home. The erstwhile supporters of the arch-betrayer, Cappellini, curse his name today in the pits, the union halls and their dingy shacks. Out of all this subdued discontent a new move- ment is being formed. One hears snatches of conversation that give a new note to this brewing rebellion. The progressive forces are organizing. Down in the pits, under the lights of the miners’ lamps, a program of action is being forged; slowly and crudely the caloused hands of the miners are writing a program that will give clarity and guidance to this confused discontent. They Stand on.a Program. Anthracite is on the eve of a dis trict election. .One hears the rumors of candidates from the pits, obscure names that stand.on a program. Con- versation at the miners’ supper tables indicates a new hope. Committees tramp the long muddy streets of mining towns. There are meetings, speeches in many tongues, crude explanations,’ Violent outbursts of temper, but, above all, a spirit of confidence and awakening. The pro: gressive miners’ movement is being crystallized in the Anthracite. PAINTERS’ UNION OF PHILADELPHIA BACKS. DEFENSE Michigan Cases Menace all Labor PHILADELPHIA.— Painters’ Local 1083 unanimously passed a resolution protesting against the action of the Michigan courts in sentencing C. E. Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers Party, to prison for a term of three to ten years. Members of the Trade Union Educa- tional League, who introduced the res- olution pointed out that the existence of the criminal syndicalist laws is a menace to the labor movement, that in this case the capitalist courts be- gan with sentencing a leading Com- munist and are about to try Robert Minor, Wm. Z. Foster, Wm. Dunne and 27 other men actively engaged in the labor movement. They also pointed out, that unless the organized worekrs of America close ranks and present a united front to this latest attack of the ruling class, that it will be only a matter of months before the same laws will be used to crush the trade unions every time they resist a wage cut or put up a struggle to better their conditions. “Arthur Douse, Secretary.” | The lengthy discussion on this reso- lution proved that the members of the union fully realize the significance When you buy, get an “ Ad’ | of the Michigan cases and are pre- |pared to assist in every way the on- jeepay corte of the ruling class against the labor movement. Get a First He Talked “sub” for the DAILY WORKER | Dear Comrades: I Then He Stopped Third, He Wrote This am a cigar 'maker and do not work in a large shop. I have been active in the La- | bor Defense work. For a while |! | merely talked about it to the men in the shop, then decided that the talk- |ing stage was over so started to take | 93 37 ee ‘ iup a collection which resulted in $35 | *? ‘and in — machinery from | being raised for the defense of the |Michigan cases. |lieving that it could be successful in | many places, {ate considerably in building up the I mention this be- and if followed would defense tund. UNION OFFICIALS AND UNION STOOL AD BLACKLIST Peter W shic h Driven from Industry MEADOWLANDS, Pa —Lewis may succeed in removing the 200,000 sur- plus coal miners from the industry, if the coal diggers allow Lewis to drive out the progressives and those who want to save the Miners’ Union from destruction. But, if he should succeed, there would be nothing left but Lewis and his gang, with probbaly a@ company union or two. When the lieutenants of Lewis can- not persuade a progressive to stop fighting or force him to quit his job, they allow the operator to fire him, and when his case is brot before the district board member, he is given no satisfaction and is forced to leave the industry. Bot Flowers for Dead Boss! For example, Peter Wekich, whc was a progressive candidate for dis- trict teller and secretary of his Local Union No. 1829, was fired. This action came after a hot meeting of the Local Union, at which several district offici- als were present, where the financial secretary was severely criticized for charging up to the union, flowers which he had bot for a mine operator who had died. A Union Stool Pigeon. When Wekich asked the reason for his being fired, he was told by the pit boss that he had attacked the pur- chasing of the flowers, that he was a progressive and a supporter of the DAILY WORKER. Wekich wanted to know the source of this information, and the pit boss said that “old man Paterson” (the financial secretary) had told him. The pit committee was given the case but could not get the job back for Wekich. Thecase was then turn- ed over to the board member. But when Wekich went to get his job back, he was put off again and again, until finally the boss told him that he would have to apologize to “old man Paterson,” who had bot the flowers for their deceased boss, before he could get the job back! This Wekich refused to do. Union Officials Aid Blacklist. Soon a new pit boss came, and he refused to deal with the pit committee until the local removed Wekich as sec- retary, which meant driving him out of the industry, depriving him and his family from making a living. ficials saw to it that Wekich was re- moved from the secretaryship of his local union, and the will of the boss was carried out. This undoubtedly is taking place in every mining cen- ter. Lewis, of course, cannot do this to the 66,000 or rather to the more than 100,000 moners that voted for the progressive slate. A little more cen- tralized activity, and Lewis and his gang of parasites will go, and the U. M. W. of A. will then become the most militant section of the American labor movement. Bay State Jobs But Little Better While Wages Are Slashed BOSTON.—An increase of 1.4 per cent in the number of workers em- ployed in Massachusetts factorieg, making January the sixth successive month of gain, left the general level of employment still 4.9 per cent short of January, 1924, according to the state department of labor. Average weekly wages declined to $24.18 which compares with $24.48 a year ago. Massachusetts factories are employ- ing 8.3 per cent fewer workers than the average of 1922. Approximately 40 per cent of those employed are still working only part-time. This, how- when 50 per cent were part-time. | January, Nearly all the 19,780 workers hit by wage cuts in the month were in tex- tiles. These decreases are reflected | in the average weekly wage of cot-| ton mill operatives which fell from $23.96 in January, 1924 to $19.82 in 1925. In textile finishing av- erage wages declined from $25.13 to $29.73 to $27.21 Get your tickets for Red Revel Bali, February 28, Corner of Monroe and Ashland Bivd. “Ashland Avenue ‘ | | od | eorenates ; At the last meeting, the district of- | LOC. 10. 5, LOM. WHIP. OFFICIAL SLUGGING CREW Strong».Arm Men Flee Membership NEW YO) nat . CITY.—Union officials came to the algamated Temple in Brooklyn, N.Y. with an army of guards to. accomplish the union smashing of the Wolf-Blum- berg-Hill Alliance. cure a bers were beaten up. Wolf and umberg escaped with their forces. Meeting decides unan- imously not to allow the union bu- reaucrats to” ‘reorganize the local for their own ses. Wednesday evening at the meeting of Local No. 5, operators, the present leadership of the Amalgamated saw something Which ought to teach them a lesson fof fhe future. They could see whether the members of Local No. 5 watit‘'another local or not, They could’ #6 whether the members agree with’ thé union smashing tac- tics or not. *They could see whether they could go on ruling the rank and file by strong-arm methods in order to crush the determination of the membership to have one strong union in the trade. Guards Can't Stop Left Wing. At the meeting they could see ‘the old revolutionary spirit of the tailors, the same spitit that prevailed at the time when the tailors freed them- selves of the Rickard machine. Two messengers: of the ‘general office, D. Wolf and Hythan Blumberg, came to Wednesday'$ "Meeting all prepared to do their destriictive work. At the entPance to the hall they had theirwgtards on both sides to watch out’sthat active members are not admitted: «eMainly they were after Sam Lipzin, William Abrams and Nel- son—three ofthe most active mem- bers of the local that the general officers decided to suspend. But, when these three came to the place, they proved that an army of guards is not enough to keep them out. The Guards Escape. No soonef: did the membership make way forthe three active mem- bers to entef than the sluggers began their job. -While these members were yess attacked, the operators who pide the hall .rush- and ‘finally got into the chally and the guards were compelled to escape. When Lipsin’ came into the hall he was carriedado the platform as he fainted from the beating received for his long recerd of union activity. An- other welkknown member was also beaten up.. The membership was en- raged against. such methods. The leaders of the local declared from the platform that the two messengers from the general officials will be giv- en an opportunity to speak at the meeting provided they order their army out of the hall. Blumberg’ ‘and Wolf, realizing that thousands atthe meeting are opposed to their unio policy or organizing an- other local; left the meeting together with their army of guards. Two Badly Injured. A doctor Was called in. He ex- amined Lipzin and Polak and declar- ed that they were badly beaten up. Later, the chairman of the local opened the meeting. Speeches were made by Zutkoff, Wiener, Nelson, Abrams, Lifshitz, Manschel, Jacobs and-others. All pointed out that the union bureaucracy wants to break up duction and because it wants a union without corruption. A union, which is able to protect the interests of its members. A Big Demonstration. In conclusion, a unanimous resolu- tion was adepted which stands against the union smashing tactics of the gen- eral officers.. A committee of the lo- cal with a committee of shop chair- men, shall demand from the general office to stop immediately all such tactics and policies. The meeting from the beginning to end showed itself to be one great demonstration of operators deter- mined to preserve their union. Every Faker Has Recipe for Winning lations of the constitution of the U. M. W. of A.» went on in this district ever, marks a gain from August, 1924, | ped coal com is menu ete to insure the election of Lewis and his | gang; knowing that if the election was left to the membership they would all ve swept out of office. is, no doubt, the country... This is in direct viola- tion of the gonstitution. A notice af .the election was posted, the election in the Miners’ Hall. ler, Organizer F o-. MD j ua -é _— Sees il? Elections: Here’s One CANONSBURG, Pa.—Wholesale vio. Here is one example of the tactics | used by the Dist. 5 officials, and which used in other parts of signed by the president and secretary of Local Unjon No. 1826, calling for Lat Board Member Tom Hughes and k Dobbins came to the pit committee and told them to hold the election in the blacksmith shop of instead of at the INTERNA Toki LABOR UNITY — AND UNITED FRONT NEEDED, SAYS JACK GAVEEL, AN I. W. W. By JACK “GAVEEL. HAMBURG, Germany.—(By Mail.)—A question which greatly agitates the seamen of this port and, from what I can see, of other ports in Germany, too, is that of the United Front of all German seamen, or rather of all those now split up amongst some five different rival organizations But this ques- tion is only part of a wider and bigger issue, international in scope; the linking up of all the principal organizations of the “world, conwervative as well as revolutionary, into one mighty international organizatiom- fit to fight shall be adapted to the new conditions that. have arisen thru the latest @bange of front in the weraig ("8 lush camp. I. W. W. Does Not Know Bivelen- ments. Revolutionary workers over in America, even the members of the I. W. W., I take it, little dream of what is going on on this side of the Atlantic.".On the whole, they know nothing, or at least very little, of the new developments in the Buropean labor movement. They may have heard about “some scheme on the part of Moscow and the Communists to link the chief existing organiza- tions into one big union;” but of what it is all about they have no clear con- ception. Not so long ago there was held in Hull, England, a congress of British trade union delegates to discuss the question of the affiliation of the Am- sterdam and the Moscow internation- als. These two organizations are the two main labor bodies of the world. They are international in scope and contain within themselves the prin- cipal labor. organizations on this earth. The Amsterdam International, with headquarters:in Amsterdam and with a membership of some sixteen million is conservative. The Moscow or Red International of Labor Unions, headquarters in Moscow and mem- bership of about twelve million, is re- volutionary. What World Unity Means. From this congress at Hull a dele- gation was sent to Russia. The mem- bers of this delegation met with the delegates of the Russian, Trade Union Congress during its session in Mos- cow and here the question of the amalgamation of the two internation- als was further thrashed out. Wher the British trade union delegates came back to England their reports on Russia and on the progress of the amalgamation program were re ceived with great enthusiasm by the British labor movement. The significance of all this lies in the fact that the British trade union movement is the cornerstone and the foundation of the Amsterdam Interna- tional the same as the Russian trade unions are the basis of the Red In- ternational. Hamburg Meeting of Seamen. On the night of February 5, there was held in Hamburg, Germany, a meeting of seamen. This meeting was called by the German Transport Ar- beiter Verein, a conservative organ- ization linked up with the Amster- dam International, to discuss the question of the united front of the German s n’s unions. All organized seamen had been in- vited with the result that there were present members and officials from some four different organizations, The Transport Arbeiter Verein, The Indus- trie Verband (revolutionary dock- workers), the Schiffartsbund (red sea- men’s organization) and the I. W. W. (two members). The hall which does not hold more than five hundred peo- ple, was filled to overflowing; a pack- ed house as they say over in the States. One of the officials of the Transport the local because it stands against re- ductions of wages, standards af pararbeiter Verband started off the dis- cussion with an hour’s talk on the subject in hand and altho he said nothing revolutionary or vital, the usual trade union slop, still on the whole his attitude was one of sym- pathy with the new movement. Yes, énce he even made a hit with me and that was when he said that as an official of a conservative union he ‘could help only very little in the es- tablishing of the united front. ‘After the first speaker there were others, and plenty of them. Plain Seamen Discuss Vital Subject. Here you had plain seamen discuss- ing a subject which is of vital im- interesting and instructive way. One of these was Fellow Worker Walter of the Schiffartsbund, Germany's red Sailors’ Union, which is linked up with the Red International of Labor Wnions and which has branches in fifteen German ports and in four for- eign ports. Dramatically, and yet faithfully, Walter pictured the deplorable decay of that prestige which German séea- men at one time enjoyed amongst the other sailors of the world. What had become of that prestige? Where were the German seamen’s unions? Where was their solidarity? Gone, all gone! Today 80 per cent of the German sea- men are unorganized while the rest are split up in some six different mu- tually destructive organizations, a bunch of helpless cattle, so to speak, at the slaughterfest of the German shipowners. Amalgamation or Annihilation. Walter then spoke on the united front and showed what it is, insofar as it touches Go i Semen; the amalgamation of the different Ger- marine the workers’ battles in a way that portance to the working class in an. meet and stop the terrible havoc which the flerce.,and ruthless on- slaught of the German shipping lords is playing with German seamen and their organizations everywhere, from Konigsberg to, : burg, and Bre- men. “The united font of all German seamen,” an ig into the conser- vative uni uence and control them f tionary purposes,” such was He en of the discus- sion of the principal speakers. An I, W. W. Against Solidarity! Of course, things did not always go smoothly., There were some who spoke against the solidarity of the workers and amongst them a mem- ber of the I. W. W. conspicious by the big wobbly button on his coat. But the number of dissenters was negligent. There was also quite a bit of mud slinging, and, of course, nothing definite, except a thorough threshing out of the subject and a general airing of views, was accom- plished. However, nothing else can be ex- pected from a meeting of this nature where the serious and business-like atmosphere of a conference with its delegated: power is lacking. But the thing to. bear in mind here is that the sentiment was one decidedly In favor of the united front of all the German marine transport workers’ organizations. This sentiment came to the fore strongly every time an opponent of the new idea had the word. Such a one was continuously and most vio- lently .interrupted from all sides and in the face of the most pressing en- treaties, from the chair (an official of the conservative Transportarbeiter) to preserve order and to give the speaker,a chance to continue. Otte Reiger—A Barnacle on the iW. W. And now comes Otto Rieger sup- posed to be the representative of the I. W. W. amongst the Hamburg sea- men, But is he? He may be official- ly,.but I'll be damned if I can see where he really is. For what we say of oné who, claiming to be a member of the'l, W. W., nay its sole and only representative in the port of Ham- burg, gets up at a meeting of Ger- man seamen, like he did at this meet- ing, “to announce, apparently inno- cently and fully convinced, that the I. W. W. is not a centralized organ- ization; to prove which he tells these workers what Bill Haywood has to say about it! A seream, isn’t it? Who is this fellow and why does the I. W. W. depend on such people to represent it? For that this Rieger has not even the inkling of a concep- tion of what the I. W. W. is, is clear from the statement which I have quoted him as saying at this meeting, But that it not all. : How Long WIIIi the M. T. W. Permit This? There are sinister and unwhole- some reports floating around this port about Rieger. Stories of a trust betrayed and of heavy working class funds that were misused, to say the least. That the man is hated as any scab in this town and that he has given the I. W. W. a bad name amongst seamen here, of that there cannot be the least doubt. Last night I met him for the first time and all doubt that might have existed in my mind previously as to his unpopularity and the bad repute in which he stands amongst Hamburg seamen was dispelled then and there, when I listened to the remarks and the accusations that workers from everywhere in that hall were hurling at his head while he was talking. And it didn’t stop here. The I. W. W. itself was dragged into it, more than one seaman at this meeting getting up to say that according to his opinion the I. W. W.’seare scabs who refuse solidarity with other organizations and with other members of the work- ing class. Questions that Need an Answer. Who is this Rieger, what has he pulled off to make the Il. W. W. so unpopular here, not to say more, and why does the L. W. W. keep him here? These are questiens that I should like to have answered. Does the l. W. W. keep this fellow in a fat job perhaps, because it thinks more of an insigni- ficant and dead local than of its revo- lutionary principles? And before I forget, what is the I. W. W. going to do for the united front movement? Will it continue to policy followed all these many years build up an international one big ing with the existing organizations? Wake Up—And Act. America wake up! Your jails are part of w terrorize you. transport wofkers’ unions to | only stick to its oid traditional policy (a without any success) of trying to union outside of and without reckon- full of class war prisoners. You have laws forbidding organization on the ers. You let the K. K. K. Yet the L. W. W., the TRUST IN ROYAL COMMISSIONS! District 26 Militants. Expose Govt. Fake _The following editorial from the Maritime Labor Herald; the miners’ paper of Nova Scotia, shows the at- titude of the militants of District 26, U. M. W. on the question of govern- ment commissions to “investigate” the British Empire Steel corporation, which is attempting to cut their wag- es ten per cent. “The Futility of a Royal Commission. “The miners want the present rate of wages continued for four months and a royal commission appointed with power to go into the affairs of BescO. The remarkable thing about the men’s offer is that it tallies com- pletely with the suggestions of Dr, Roberston, altho the miners declare that their offer had absolutely no con- nection with or sprang from these suggestions. ~ “Be that as it may, we wonder what any commission can do in the matter. The yellow press says that such a commission can get at the truth, and once that has been properly establish- ed, then, and then only, can peace and harmony be permanently brot into the industrial life of the country. Of course that’s all pure bunk. “Very often ft is only when mes learn the truth that hell is let loose— and if ever the truth of the completely rotten condition of Besco is told, then look out for war and not peace. But what does the yellow press want to know the truth about? Is it about the miners and their wages, and whether they could live on less? “There are hundreds of mine work- ers who have been living on $3.25 a day, and only worked 150 days in the year. Do you want three or four, well- fed parasites to whom the govern- ment will pay $20.00 per day and ex- penses to sit in judgment and find out the ‘truth’ whether a miner and his family can exist on less than $478.50 per year or not? “And suppose that the ‘truth’ that this royal commission finds is that he can! Do you think that ‘truth’ will establish peace? You yellow-bellies pretend that you . don’t know the ‘truth’ about such a simple proposi- tion as that stated above, and that is the very reason you want a royal com- mission. There is nobody so blind to the truth as those who do not want to gee. o , “Then again, the miners claim that Besco is using the wealth created in the coal mines by the labor of the miners to pay dividends on idle junk at Halifax. Besco does not deny this now, but says their business is a unit and all of it, including the Halifax shipyards, must stand or fall together as far as dividends are concerned. But you want to find out the ‘truth’ about it, do you? “And suppose your truth-finding, fact-finding commission does discover the fact and truth that Besco does use the coal mines to provide dividends for other concerns than the coal mines, and the truth and fact is that Besco is a unit in all its undertakings and has a perfect right, in ‘truth’ to do so, and that that is the very purpose ba which Besco was organizeh Will at truth and fact—even sancitfied by the blessing of three parasites ‘call- ing themselves a ‘royal commission’— bring peace into the coal } trae? We do not think so. “The fact of the matter is that if the miners refused to believe they could get any truth and justice out of a commission on which they had a right to appoint one working class rep- resentative, and for that reason re- fused to appoint a man, then they cannot now believe the ‘truth,’ ‘fact,’ ‘justice,"—or any of the other pretty phrases with which the yellow press loves to tickle them— can be obtained by a royal commission on which they will have no right to name any repre- sentative, but which will be com- posed wholly of men outside the ranks of labor. “Peace in the coal industry—and all other industries—can came only when the workers own and control them, and not one minute before then.” PTT TTT LL ULL LLL PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. Get your tickets for Red Reve! Ball, February 28. ic organization in your states, instead of fighting for the international] unit- ed front of the proletariat, is splitting up into two hostile fractions which at this very minute are flying at each other’s throat in an internecine war which must end in the destruction of » eeonom- arenes soneerned, anctn, yaw om om = ; aa ee OM ee A ee a
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a 8 A thelr n all ie -- OO re O- All Labor Masses Behind Communists ATHENS, Qieme, Feb. 23.—Peas- ants, led by the Communists, have re- volted in the province of Larissa, and seized the estates of the large land- In the town of Liivadia the - seized the land, and twenty Commanists have been arrested. The towti'is now controlled by troops sent out by the fascist government. The ‘executive committee of the Young Communist League of Greece is reported in prison, in Salonica foliow- ing the issuance of a statement jointly with the Young Communist League of Bulgaria, demanding that the fascist governments of both countries be forced to resign. The manifesto calls for the independence of Macedonia, and the revolt of the workers and peasants of Greece and Bulgaria. Peasants Take Land. In Larissa and Kazaklar, under the banner of the world war veterans of Greece, led by the Communists, the peasants confiscated the land. Fifteen have been arrested. The Confederation of Labor issued a manifesto pledging support to the peasants in their fight on the land owners. The peasants took action after the laws passed for their betterment were not enforced. In Liivadia, Comrades Piliotis and Krompili were arrested for speaking at a meeting of the world war veter- anse after the police had ordered the meeting broken up. A crowd of 1,500 peasants and workers stormed the jail, and after threatening violence to the police, secured the release of the two comrades. Another mass meeting was immedi- ately held, and the two liberated Com- munists spoke to an enorumous crowd which had gathered in front of the jail, The fascisti government immedi- ately. sent out four hundred troops who arrested twenty leading Commun- ists.of the district. The troops are ‘etrorizing the peasants. Whole Labor Movement Aroused. The entire labor movement of Greece ls aroused, and peasants and workers’ organizations are flooding the fascisti government with telegrams demanding the release of twenty arrested comrades. Membre of the chamber of commerce of vadia, which had asked for the troops, demanded that the arrested Communists be shot. Twenty-five of the national leaders of the Communist Party of Greece are now behind the bars, as well as doz- éns of asants and workers thru- out the country. The Greek branch of the International Workers’ Aid hae secured the support of the masses of the workers and peasants in demand- ing the release of these prisoners. Fascisti Decide Against Ballot for Women in Italy /ROME.—A commission of seven considering a fascist plan to have Women vote at provincial and local municipal elections decided against the plan by a viva voce vote. The minority included Signor Michele Bianchi, Mussolini’s confidential sec- retary. Copynght, i s, STEEL TRUST IS WARY OF UNION MINERS IN MILLS Only Fow. Wanted and for Opén Shop “We'll take unemployed union min- ers in job lots C4 two or three or even half a .dozen .and. if. they are easily assimilated in.our great open-shop or- ganization then we'll'take some more on the same basi@,'but nix on the wholesale business.” That’s the ans- wer of President. By ington of Tili- nois Steel to the rik man Bynum of diana state in- dustrial board." Buffifigton stands next to Gary in the ‘steel trust. Bynum spills thé Whole deal in a letter to H. L. *Dymes, ifepresentative United States department | of labor... at Indianapolis, .. His. investigation show- ed about 17,000 out of $2,000 Indiana coal miners out Of-WeMand a consoli- dation scheme under way which will close more mines. He learned that steel mills in the northwestern part of the state were going to need meg, cularly 15,000 to man a new : 1. So he pro- posed to the tr@gt that it take the unemployed miners. Vargas on Embassy Staff. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Ganuto Vargas, secretary of the Pan-Ameri- can Federation of Labor, has been ap- pointed by Présfielit, Calles of Mex- ico as labor attach’ to the Mexican embassy at Washington. Vargas has been secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor since the death of John Murray of Los Angeles, fourd.- er and first secretary of that body. [ —— OUR DAILY PATTERNS _—s A SIMPLE FROCK FOR A “LITTLE MISS.” kone. This desirable model is simple of construction and very com- fortable. The long portions of the sleeve may be omitted. The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. A 4 year size requires 2 yards of 36 inch material if made with long sleeves and of one mater- fal. For collar, band cuffs and pocket of contrasting material % yard will be required. If the dress is made with short sleeves 1% yard will be Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send l2c in silver or stamps for our up-to-date Spring and Summer 18926 Book of Fashions, showing color plates and opiates designs of es’, misses’, children's patterns, & con- cise and anieosheneiee article on dress- making, also some points for the needle trating various’ simple STeshes). all valuable hints to the home sa” A COMFORTABLE SUIT FOR THE SMALL BOY. 5006.5 Welvet and pongee, or velvet and broadcloth may be combined for this style. it\fs good also for linen, seersucker other wash fabrics. The sléeve may be in wrist or elbow length. ; The pattern is cut in 3 sizes: 2, 4, and 6 years. A 4 year size requires 1% yard for the blouse, and 1% yard for the trousers, cuffs and collar 36 inches wide. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Address: The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd,, Chicago, iil. NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—The tterns being sold thru the DAILY ORKEHK pattern department are fur- nished by a New York firm of pattern mianufacturers. Orders are torwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re- ceived, and they are mailed by the man- ufacturer direct to the ——- The DAILY WORKER does not Keep a stock of vatternms on hand. Delivery of t- tert. ordinarily a take at least 10 days [rot the date of mai the order not sition of Chair-| impatient if _— pattern on | Your Union Meeting | 1925. FOURTH TUESDAY, FEB. 24, Name of Local and No. Place of Meeting. 144 Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, 1569 No. Robey St. 133 Boot and Shoe Workers, 1939 Mil- waukee Ave. 21 Bricklayers, 912 W. Monroe 378 Brick and Clay Workers, ee vin inspectors, 166 W. Washin “sep +4 os Join Council, 514 reet. ‘68 Carpenters, jak a a and Sheffield. 141 Carpenters, 1 272 Carpenters, Moose Hall, “Chicago Heights. 461 Carpenters, i’ cpeaian Hall, High- land Park, 1786 Carpenters, *apein field and 26th. Clerks, eee 9 W. Van Buren Stree 15 Gundusiere (Sleeping Car), Capitol Bidg. + 0 a. Mm. E fectricians, 505 S. State St. 1030—Electricians, 741 S. Western Ave. 302 Engineers (Loc.), 5058 Wentworth Avenue. 402 Engineers, 180 W. Washington St. 645 Engineers (Loc.), 2433 W, Roose- velt Road. 826 Engineers (Loc 35th St. 8705 Egg Inspectors, "EN y Stark st. “7 Fe mee Employes, en 'W. Randolph Str Podaral "Union, 3046 W. 26th St. yy and Efiginemen, Ogden d Hatters, a Acamera), 166 W. Wash- Hod’ Garr pn 228 &. 15th St., Chi- bs Ww. Harrison St. 15441 715 Aven Hod Sarcierts 814 W. Harrison St. aagres Garment Workers, 328 W Bu vo _=—s 777 W. Adame St. eather Workers, 777 W. Adame St. Machinists, 2548 S$. Homan Ave. Machinis 4126 W. Lake St. Machinists, 6234 Princeton Ave. Meat Cutters, 175 W. Washington Street. Meat Cutters, 9206 Houston Ave. Marine Fire and Oilers, 357 Clark. Musicians, 175 W. Washington &t., p. m. 17368 Nurses, Funk’s Hall, Oak Park. 147 Painters, 20 W. Randolph St. 180 Painters, N. E. cor. California and Madison Painters, 6414 S. Halsted St. 184 191 Zalnters. N. W. cor. State and 55th. 275 AINTERS, 220 W. OAK ST. Palateen Trumbull and Ogden Ave. 502 Plasterers, Monroe and Peorla Sts. Piumbers, 1507 Ogden Ave 80 W. Washinaten St. ot Madison b Plumbers, 1 402 Plumbers, maha 415 Raltway Car Halil, Blue ‘sland, Rallway Carmen, "11087 _ Avenue. Railway Carmen, 5324 §&. Street. Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washington Street. Railway Clerks, cago Heights. Railway Clerks, 5438 &. Halsted St. Railway Clerks, 509 W. Washing- ton St. p. m. Mic igan Halsted Moose Hall, Chi- eprese Trainmen, 3359 W. Madi- i seertet Council, 220 S&S. Ashiand Biv 727 Teamsters ea 220 S. Ashiand Bivd. 67 Tile Layers, 180 W. Washington St. 7 Waiters, 234 W. Randolph St. (Note—Unless otherwise stated meetings are at 8 p. m.) all == Soviet Moving .. Picture in Ea st i. Pittsburgh Soon EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 23.— The performance of the moving pic- ture taken in Soviet Russia, “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” will be given in Bast Pittsburgh in Turner Hall, Feb. 28, 8 p. m. Two Die in Oil Blast PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23.—Two when the oil barn No. 9 owned by the crew Levick company, containing 75,000 gallons of crude oil exploded on the west bank of the Schuylkill river. It’s your paper—Build on it! PRUDLURLHUAELL HAD) CUDA ADEA ARON DOUDEEALAEAUOEEE A AADAETO TEENS HET Where Food Is Good And the service is fine. Meet your friends at the Zlotins & Plotkins Restaurant 100 Per Cent Union 29 South Halsted St. | food at a moderate price ny WORKER BAKES BREAD NOW ING NATION Food. ow Sere’ Union Warns Labor NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Ward Bak- ing company, giant non-union bread and cake company, leads a scab list put out by the New York Bakers’ Council of the “Amalgamated Food Workers’. Unién' “in an appeal to the public to aV¥oid non-label bakery products. «©. Six Hundred] Million Dollar Trust. a United es company, formerly Shultz, ma of certified bread and the Got mpany, bakers of bread, cake, ‘@nd‘ fancy pastries, two more companies on the scab list are both part of the $600,000,000 Continen- tal Bread aggregation, the rising trust in the bakery infustry. General Baking company (Bond bread), Cushman and Sons, Inc. (Bam- bee bread, cake, etc.), Franco-Ameri- can Bakery amd the Howard Bakery are other great;machine baking con. cerns the public. is warned against ' because of their. opposition to organ- ized labor. si Furnish 70 Per Cent of Bread. “The great wholesale bread compan- ies now supply 70 per cent of the bread consumed by the American people,” says Secretary-Treasurer Burkhardt of the union. The way the industry is consolidating and eliminat- ing the small producer is shown by government statistics which tell of 20,1738 plants im 1921, falling to 18,739 in 1923, tho the number of workers rose from 148,500 to 162,615. The problem before organized labor is the problem of organizing the big companies w ch are absorbing the little concern# Mat dealt with the un ions. ! ‘) PRODUGTION OF RAW MATERIAL [ABOVE LAST YEAR Sight Inctease OverLast pa January “! a Textile ml¢“consumed 589,725 bales of cotton in’ Ja@huary; as against 532,- 047 bales in” mber and 578,468 bales ‘fii ’J "9924." Stocks of cotton at mifff and warehouses on Jan. 31 totale@,297,289 bales, in con- trast with 5)943/128 bales at the end -|of the previous’ Month and 4,610,807 bales a year Ggo, while exports in- creased over “both comparative per- lods. So say@? the department ef commerce in its summary of domestic conditions. Production of bituminous coal in men were killed and four injured ‘|January aggregated 51,900,000 tons as ‘contrasted with 45,780,000 tons in De- cember and -66)801,000 tons in Janu- ary, 1924. Alithracite production in January amounted to 7,400,000 tons, as against 7;896000 tons in the prev- ious month and 7,924,000 tons a year ago. t January preduction of Portland ce- ment totaled 8,916,000 barrels as against 10,485,000 barrels in Decem- ber and 8,788,000 barrels in January 1924. Italy Masses Its Troops Along the Egyptian Border ROME, Italy, Feb. 23.—Italy hag, massed troops along the western borders of Egypt, a dispatch from Cairo states. Italy recently demand- ed of premier Ziwa Pasha that Egypt give up its .clAims to the Oasis at Jarabub.. Theipremier refused, and it is thought that Italy is attempting to force Egyptian compliance by a show of arms?) Aventine ‘Opposition Dropped The Aventine opposition has an- nounced its desertion of the policy of abstention from parliament. Approx- imately 120 opposition deputies will now return to the chamber to fight Mussolini in the parliamentary tribu- nal, it was anpounced. Tram Crash Took Seven MANILA, Pods Feb. 23.—The death of the Corregidor Island tram car crash today smounted to seven when Abertino Lopes, a Filippino scout died. a4 ie 5 ee Ry aoe we 3 ; te a yx to Detroit. best in the country in this respect. ITEM .in their work. to a local subscription campaign, in were secured. feelin’” that goes with a Communist column is for. me > - BUILDERS # 3 ‘WORK Detroit Is Going to Get It! HE next day or two will see a special edition of 5,000 copies going it will be paid for by advertising secured by the local comrades and will be widely distributed by them to further establish the DAILY WORKER in Detroit—a. city that right now te one of the very This alone is reason to congratulate the Detroit comrades. City DAILY WORKER Agent Alfred Goetz and the local»DAILY WORK- ER committee and other comrades have made this gnly as-ONE SINGLE This “Detreit Special” arrives as a finishing touch And when this work is over, the local comrades are going to celebrate a task well done at a DAILY WORKER ball to be heid on March 1. They deserve the pleasure in store for them with all of the ‘grand and glorious We are going to turn this column over to Comrade Goetz for the Detroit Edition, just ase we will turn it over to any BUILDERS who have shown that they have done a job in’fine fashioh—or th those who can give a practical suggestion on how the task can be done. if you’have any way that will serve to promote the interests of “our dally"—gend @ in for others to learn how to do it. That’s what this . oa —s es ee — % , 5 ot re Sahib dali a ett ens 2 Re Pe ik AES sv But which about, 300 new subsoriptions duty well performed. Letters From Our Readers Editor DAILY WORKER: ° Silent Cal Coolidge broke his silence again by urging new reforms for inheritance taxes. Somebody in Morgan’s office pulled the string and Cal spoke again, This time Silent Cal, the great lead- er of American democracy, is shed- ding bitter tears for the unfortunate heirs of millionaires. He advises that the property of deceased. persons and personal property of non-resident de- cedents should not be taxed. | It seems to an outsider that 100 per cent of the 140,000,000 population of the United States consists of prop- erty holders and that the president, by making the new law, lightens the burden of American people. I would advise Mr. Coolidge to take a little trip in his Mayflower yacht to the slums and tenement palaces, where heirs of the working men dwell, heirs to their fathers’ hard life and starva tion, He would see thousands upon thous- ands of little victims of our democ- racy, afflicted with tuberculosis, rick- ets and many other diseases. Speak- ing about property holders the presi- dent refers to a small class of hie paymasters who are the actual mast: ers of this country and he leaves out the bulk of the nation—the great, struggling class of toilers who are pro. ducing all the wealth and property of the few the president is referring to. And then Mr. Coolidge goes on tell- diminution in revenue from the new law they can make up their losses only by higher taxes in other fields. And the same president said a mouthful at that. “The other fields” is nothing else but the dry hide of the workers and poor farmers. Yes, it is always the toiler who pays and pays and pays! And Wall Street is trying to squeeze out all it can from the mus- cles of the laboring class. When Mor- gan hired Coolidge as gold mine fore- man he knew what he was doing, he ‘| could not place a better man on that job. Coolidge is a good chemist: the gold goes to his bosses and the dirt to the workers. And this they call democracy! A large country governed by a gang of grafters and profiteers. It is not democracy but something worse than czarism. The difference is that czar. ism rules with a bare bayonet and bullets and here, in this free country, this brutal force is covered with a thin coat of cheap, saloon diplomacy. Mr. Coolidge is going a little too far. Beware, the red monster is coming to life. Rasgon. Adherents of “Democracy.” To the DAILY WORKER: I attend- ed the nomination conference of the Workmen’s Circle, a fraternal organ ization, whose leadership is under con- trol of the Forward and the socialist party. I was there as a delegate from one of the branches. I want to relate an incident from the “democratic” lead- ership of those so-called opponents to dictatorships. When the left wing delegates re- quested the chairman of the confer- ence for representation on the com- UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS mittee, the arch democratic chairman ing us that if the states are to suffer_ who turns pale at the mention of the word “dictatorship” answered that there are no factions in the Work- men’s Circle. He ridiculed the refer- ence to a left wing, despite the fact that according to their own figures one-fourth of the 621 delegates present were left wingers. The entire conference was a com- edy. One of the right wingers shouted: . “Hurrah. for America, down with Russia.’ The rest of them cheered, but their cheers, were drown- ed in. an-.outcry of “boo” from the left and even some rights, for even they could not stand that. Of course: we retaliated by making a lasting ,;demonstration for Soviet Russia. From all parta of the hal) came outcries: Long live the only workers’ republic. Down with the traitors! I write these lines not because this spectacle was a surprise to me, but to show ‘the, workers once more, that those.who shout against the dictator- ship of-the proletariat are not against dictatorship, but only against prole- tarian ... dictatorship. Dictatorship a prefix of a capitalist. tions. Per ees eee rw ee a ee ep ON rm _Page Pigs! S ONE EVERY DAY Pink Count Has Lips Padlocked by U. S. NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—‘I’m sorry, but by agreement with the state de. partment I may not receive report ers.” Thus Count Mi¢hael Karolyi, former | Dresident of the Hungarian Republic, confirms his friends’ statements that he was allowed to enter this country to visit his wife only “on - condition that he seal his lips on politi¢al ques- Karolyi is a socialist and a foe of the Horthy dictatorship. Something New In Tricks. “Insofar as the records show, this action of the state department is un- precedented, " declared the Liberties Union. “There is no warrant either in law or policy for muzsiing the oppon- ents of a foreign government... . A Vanderbilt in the Game. "We assume that the réverdal ia our policy is due to the financial re- lations between American bankers ,and the Hungarian government; which would prompt the present state de partment to heed the Hungarian am- bassador’s protest against admittiag Karolyi.” The Hungarian diplomatic represen- tative who opposed Karolyi’s entranes is said to have considerable pull a@ Washington. He is the husband eof Gladys Vanderbilt. Schenectady Workers to Hear Talk Upon Soviet Recognition On the evening of Maroh 1, at 7294, a mass meeting will be held im thé Turner Hall, Albany. street, Scheneco tady, under thé “auspices‘of the Schenectady Turnverein Fortim ‘“H. M. Wicks will speak on “Amertoag Recognition of Soviet Russia.” Quee tions and discussion will follow. Bring all your friends. Admission fres., THE WHITE TERRORISTS CRY FOR A. B. following letter comes to us bens “Chitrege boy 15 years old witc signs. me as Sinbad. This ex traordinary youth has sent us som
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Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, lll, under the act of March 3, 1878. 290 Chicago, iNinele Editors Business Manager —— Advertising rates op application The Super-Power Fraud Super-power, the amalgamation of electric power plants into one huge system, the most recent effort of American capitalism to further strengthen ‘its control of industry by centralizing ownership of this all-important natural resource, has been stamped with the approval of America’s labor fakerdom from the late President Gompers, his suc- cessor William Green down to Farrington, presi- dent of the Illinois district of coal miners. Noonan, president of the Brotherhood of Electrical Work- ers, is also among the loudest ballyhooers for this new and powerful weapon of’ the bosses. Steam and water-power operated planis are to be linked together and with “cheap” power the mil- lenium is to be ushered in. * No more effective disclosure of the incurable cap- italist character of American labor officialdom has been made to date than this unqualified endorse- ment of a scheme that must, long before it is com- plete,.throw out of employment hundreds of thou- sands of workers. Farrington has gome so far as to make super- power the central issue of his platform and in the capitalist press of Illinois his praises are being sung. It should be remembered in this connection that among the Illinois coal miners particularly, unem- ployment is rampant. Farrington holds before their eyes, after years of studied betrayal of their interests, the glittering vision of power plants built at the pit mouth consuming coal which happy miners, secure in the knowledge of permanent em- ployment, dig in the depths below while chanting praises to Farrington their benefactor. No crueler fraud has ever been foisted upon workers. The mere fact that the great capitalists are in favor of this new development is sufficient to assure any thinking worker that it will do away with labor now employed. All advances in indus- trial technique are for this purpose. Eliminatjon of coal haulage, the electrification of railroads, the increasing development of water power electric plants and the wider radius of trans- | mission resulting.from improved methods, all dis- | place labor. Cheaper production floods the mar- kets with goods for which there are no buyers—| the most obvious and inconsistent of all of capital- | ism’s contradictions. We cannot keep silent while workers are fooled | j into making asses of themselves by boosting schemes that will make more profits for the cap- italists, increase their power over the working class | and add to the misery of the masses. There is something fascinating about the tech- nique of the production and transmission of electric power—something little understood by those out- side of the industry. It is the cheapest kind of power | yet discovered when generated by water. Once the installation is made the largest power plants oper- ate with a force of three or four men for each shift; depreciation is extremely low—all generating ap- paratus today is made foolproof and few repairs are required. Oiling and control are automatic. Electric power is efficient and therefore labor sav- | ing. Let the miners ask themselves how how steam-operated electric plants, a general re- as part of a super-power system, are going to compete with water power except by cutting the wages of the coal miners to the starvation level. Let the miners ask themseles how a ‘general re- | duction of labor costs squares with the promise of more employment under super-power made by their officials. The answer to these two questiors is com-| plete proof of the monstrous fallacy of the idea| that the progress of capitalist development means: progress of the working class except by creating the necessity for and the organization of social revolution. The mners and all workers make progress only; as they organize and exert their power in their! own interests and let the capitalists take care of themselves as best they can. Peace But— : eace but There is not a capitalist militarist in the world who is not in favor of peace. There is not a burglar in existence who would not prefer to get away with his loot without the necessity of depositing some lead in the anatomy of his victim. But war is as inseparable from the operation of capitalist society as violence is from the profession of burglary. Calvin Coolidge, president of the United States by the grace of a policemen’s strike, ptomaine poisoning, Wall Street and the immaturity of the political consciousness of the American working class, delivered a speech yesterday before a conven- tion of war-like females, who like their blood thick and hot. The president declared that he did not want war, vet the country must be prepared to pro tect peace by being ready for war. This is capitalist logic. A man who walks down the street. with a Smith ¢ a ee between his ‘tae £°h) Pompaon, aS | gan in one hand and a bomb ‘tit the other may have the best intentions in the world, but he will not im- part that feeling of security to those who are not similarly equipped, that is essential to a peaceful atmosphere. The first thing you know there is a scramble for hardware, bigger and better than what the walking arsenal is toting. This is how it works with the capitalist nations. Preparedness for war begets preparedness and god is always on the side of the best poison gas. But here is where we are going to disappoint the pacifists who have been gurgling with joy over the preceding paragraphs. War between nations is inevitable under capitalism. The burglars cannot agree on the division of the loot. War between elasses is inevitable under capitalism. Therefore the preparedness of capitalist governments has a two-fold object: protection against the enemy abroad and also against the enemy within. The enemy within is the working class. It is folly to expect that governments will disarm as long as there are conflicting classes. They will not. Governments—all governments—are organs of suppression. There will never be peace on earth until classes are abolished and that will not come about until the capitalist class is abolished and the rule of the producing class established on its ruins. This will necessitate a war—a war that will truly end war. | The Punishment Fitted the Crime Since the reactionary labor leaders began play- ing with the idea of political action thru the C. P. P. A., the socialists were handy tools in their hands in ferreting out the presence of ‘radicals who might be expected to inject an atmosphere of class struggle into the middle-class talkfests held under the auspices of the conference for progressive polit- ical action. At the Cleveland convention the anti-Commun- ist stoolpigeon on the credentials committee was the then national secretary of the socialist party. One of the questions he asked the representatives of the Workers Party who presented their creden- tials was: “Do you believ@ in dictatorship?” They were not admitted, of course. At the most recent and last convention of the C. P. P. A. another yellow socialist was honored with the position of chairman of the credentials committee. But there being no Communists pre- sent, the reactionaries began to transform the deepest yellow into purple and by the time the ©, P. P. A. and its invited guests got thru with the socialists the latter found themselves homeless. They crawled until their stomachs were calloused, but it was of no avail. Having played the role of stoolpigeon for the labor fakers, the socialist party was treated as a stoolpigeon is usually treated by his employer when his services are no longer re- quired. Deserted by the brotherhood leaders and swatted by the so-called progressives, the poor socialists al- /most excited the pity of the few Communist ob- 'servers who watched the comedy. It was a case of the punishment fitting the crime. There’s a Difference When Floyd Collins, a cave explorer, was caught in a narrow passageway leading to the cavern and held there until death released him from his suf- ferings, the capitalist press of the country featured his agony and the attempts made to rescue him for almost three weeks, not for the sake of the captive, but in order to boost circulation. As the DAILY WORKER pointed out, there are thousands of deaths every year in the bowels of the earth and preventablevones. But they are due to criminal negligence born of greed and the respon- sible ones are the big capitalists. Because of this fact the pages of the capitalist press are silent. One of those tragic incidents occurred a few days ago in Sullivan county, Ind. Fifty-one miners lost their lives in a mine disaster. The story broke into Fionn 2 Wears. o ee > a - “% The i—The R. e »* the ha nee he Unithe Union By TOM er ae PRESS dispatch intimates that the Amsterdam International Fed- eration of Trade Uflions at the re- cent session of the executive has agreed to allow the Russian trade un- ions to enter into the industrial sec- retariats affiliated with Amsterdam and also their ess to enter into negotiations as’ @jthe calling of an international ss of trade unions for the fo of a single International of 1 Wnions. This shows that the fight for unity by the Red International.; bor Unions has resulted in ram file pressure being brought to the Amster dam officialdom M forces them to make a pretense oF desiring unity. HE organs of the national unions affiliated with Amsterdam.and the social-democratic les of Europe have sabotaged thé. movement for world trade union ahity by devoting themselves to the tagk’6f proving to the working class that the slogan of world trade union waityput forth by the Red International of Labor Un- ions is a “Moscow plot. o |" is quite evident that the leaders of the Amsterdam’ International’ are not agreeing to this: unity of the’ trade union movement (even tho they are but paying lip service to it in their resolution) with a willing heart, but because of the fact that the British Trade Union Congress, thru its delega- tion to the Sixth All-Russian Trade Union Congress has already agreed to take some practical steps towards the unity of the world trade union move- ment, and since the British trade un- ions are in reality the backbone of the Amsterdam International, the leaders of the continental European trade un- ions must pape along with this tendency in to prevent a break between the British trade un- ions and the Amsterdam Interna- tional. ati fF INCE its formatio#, the R. I. L. U. has consistently combatted the treacherous reformisticiileadership of Amsterdam, because #tis this leader- ship that is responsible for the split in the trade union movement of the world. As long ago as November, 1922, the R. I. L. Th, at its Second World Congress, expressed its view- point on the necessity of trade union unity in a thesis ‘imewhich the fol- lowing paragraph is eontained: “if the workers mot succeed in attacking capita ligyo by. the unit. ed front, they aly suffer new defeats, ery and slavery but they will even | izations and remain ¢pmpletely dis- armed,” CORts HIS serves to prove that the slo- gan of world trade Mion unity is np mere diabolical plot“on the part of the R. I. L. U. or the Communist In- ternational, but that this policy and | this slogan flow from the fundamental conception of the R. L L. U. as to the the front pages of the capitalist press for once. | But it was speedily relegated to obscurity by the latest murder or the most recent development in the Stokes divorce trial. [t.is well for the system to feature an incident like the Floyd Collins case. It shows the bour- 'geoisie in action trying to save one life, the life of a bourgeois on the make. But it is not so good to picture the tragedy of a mine disaster which shows | the capitalists in another light, in the light of greedy boodle hounds, who are willing to send their slaves to certain death rather than cut into their profits by installing safety devices. The Elections Today the workers of Chicago are voting for candidates to serve in the city council. With the exception of four Communists, all the others stand for the capitalist system. which is responsible for the dilapidated condition in which the municipal machinery of the second largest city in the United States is in. The Communist candidates go before the voters with a program that appeals to the workers and to | the workers alone. While anxious for the opportunity to expose the ist class from the tribune of the city council , they nevertheless point out that only thru the mass ac tion of the workers, thru their economic organiza- tions and thru their determination to get rid of the capitalist system can they free themselves from their present servitude with all its attendant miseries. | The working class voters in the wards in which 'Comrades Dozenberg, Epstein, Cejka and Brooker are running should cast their candidates who stand for their interests and who will fight for their interests. The shyster lawyers and business men who are running on the capital. ist tickets will make rosy promises, but the only & Wesson sticking out of each one of his pockets, |class they will serve is the capitalist class. ‘ } race t | the Communists are) capital. | ballots for those | ERE SEES SESE SECTS UTCTCCTT TUTE role of the revolutionafy’trade unions and adherents of therk, IL L. U. in every country. INCE 1914 the leuers of the un- oe Sy ae oe — — * et me * " 2 . eo ih 2% > - Smet Sak aay e « e 24 cP ik 2. 7 tlt tee’ . owt : aa bal . ‘ 7, i ie Lf. at ile he a Fj oe te, jal tad © ” pee ry oF ; 4 “ n 2h ere - ‘ 4 ery ye. P78 See ee Ries 3 a aay vl aoe . > . eae ae ee - oa ; ’ \ Jrive ssp Par 5 3" s nares a ~~ + sr ae, | ae a agents of the capitalist class within the ranks of labor. The begin- ning of the world war was the signal for the division of tne trade unfon | movement, because of this treacherous leadership, into national groups ac- cording to the Gduntries in which they. were organized, for the purpose. of fighting to defend “their” geuntry. During the war the trade unfon bu- reatcracies were the most efficient re- cruiting agents for the classes of all countries. T the conclusion of the war, when the period of the first wave of the revolution started by the seizure} of power by the working clags in Russia in November, 1917, the bureau- cracies again devoted their services ions affiliated with Amsterdam to capitalism in preventing the vic-| tory of the revolution of the working class in Central Europe. In Germany, for instance, the leadership of the Gen- eral Federation of Trade Unions, un- der Legien, made an agreement wihtes 4 ‘of the Rus the large industrialists by which, in return for the eight-hour day (on pa- per) and the building up. of class col- laboratian committees of workers and bosses (Betriebsrate), they agreed’ to sabotage the seizure of power by the German working class by means of dissolving the workers’ and soldiers’ councils and shooting gown revolu- tionary workers in the name of “dem- ocracy.” TH the growth of the revolu- tionary minorities within the trade unions affiliated with Amster- dam, the bureaucracies proved that they were willling even to smash the trade unions rather than allow them to fall into the hands of revolution- ary leadership. The splitting of the trade union movement by the reform- ists has been carried so far in France and Czetho-Slovakia that the trade union movement was cleft in twain in order that the reformists could maintain their position of leadership. These desperate measures were taken by the social democratic leadership in order to maintain their position of close alliance with the capitalists that they had maintained thruout the period of the world war. The role of these labor leaders has been correctly stated time and again by the R. I, L. U. as that of the last bulwark. of capitalism. HE capitalist offensive upon the standard of living and the organ- izations of the working class begin- ning in 1920 found its greatest allies in the leaders of Amsterdam, sitce they sabotaged every effort of the organized workers to defend them- selves against this vicious attack and it was precisely owing to the success of this attack by the international capitalist class upon the working class that the R. I. L. U. issued the slogan of the unity of the world trade un- ion movement in order to success- fully combat this attack of the capi- talists upon the standard of living and the trade unions of the working class. T the Third World Congress of the R. IL. L. U., July, 1924, the follow- ing appears in a resolution regarding the question of international trade union unity: “Never for a moment stopping ite determined fight against all mani- “te 500 COMRADES WANTED FOR BIG | PARIS COMMUNE PAGEANT MARCH 15 HE workers of New York saw a wonderful spectacle on Feb. 1, when 15,000 Communists and Communist sympathizers crowded Madison Square Garden in the name of Leninism> On March 15, in celebration of the Paris Commune, the Garden will again be filled with Communists and their followers. In order better to portray the action of the workers of Paris against the bourgeoisie whose assembly was gathered at Versailles, the committee in charge has arranged a pageant, that will excel anything attempted by the Communists. Huindreds of comrades and sympathizers will participate in one of ghe finest spectacles that New York has ever witnessed. The pageant wil require a good-selzed band and above all a large number of comradesste act in the mass scenes. All comrades of the Workers (Communiét) Party, the Y. W. L. and the Junior groups, who are willing to devote thémselves to the pageant and to participate in it, should © report AT ONCE to Comrade Fralkin, at the district office of the party. Little time can - lost, as there are only three weeks left. | 7 % ¢ timely pamphlet’); . EE POPE ne a 5—WM. F. DUNNE’S: SPEECH at the Portland ’ ; 5 A. F. of L. Convention*ine1923. 0p 4 EEE SOT RT RO ee CE 6—WHITE TERRORISTS K FOR MERCY. ~ ¥ : | By Max Bedacht. @pst.off the press!) SC ERS? es ome ff SEES — —_ RA - F i | j ———— ene SSS SSS SSS SSS friends. , ae d te “4 4 M7 c have shown that they aro 410 Wedalty | = oe ad 2 4 et bs eter 3 tap : “ ee a. ry hE yee oe d Trade. | festations of reformism within the international labor movement, mer- » cllessly revealing all its treacher- Y ous. substance, untiringly explain- ing this to all workers who do not understand yet the role of reform- ism aé a brake to the struggle of the proletariat for emancipation, the Third Congress, in the interests of a united leadership in the struggle Union nee + a“ >a firmed their desire for trade unfon unity. Negotiations carried on during the congress between the British dele- gation and the Central Council of the Russian trade unions resulted in a resolution being passed at the All-Rus- sian Trade Union Congress calling for the formation of an Anglo-Russian Unity Committee which would work for a closer alliance between theyrade unions of Russia and Great Britain ( » ce — .renrnr ee ©