Daily Worker
February 26, 1925
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ait _>* © >a % @ etree 8 ee Sa & Oo © rrr ee eo eo oo oe /? So o |& ee Soa Insure the DAILY WORKER To the Last Spike! - Before March 5 Entered as. es phe vk September Bh 3 Vol. Tl. No. 39. aN RATES: budied eet cat mail, 96.00. per year. - Office at iibelen itinots andor dhe Ae of March 3, 1879. De ee A Oe a ae ere ws — v OG, + pevy Lie oe ek 4 eis NEW YORK EDITION THURSDA 9 - : . ‘ AF x ECENTLY when the question of an additional appropriation for the: trip poe Lhe y+ ween radical {from ‘the Clyde spoke against it. on. the uselessness of the royal family was indulged in by the left wingers and by the one lone Comminist in the house. About ninety labor votes were cast for Kirkwood's motion to reduce the appropriation for the princely junketing trip: MacDonald and practically every member of the British labor government voted with the tories. nasties HE prince is also booked for a trip to South Africa. The initial arrangements were made by J. H. Thomas, colonial minister in the Mac- Donald government. This visit is the object of attack by the rank and file elements in the British labor party and tradé union movement. Ramsay MacDonald again rallied his right wing socialists to the defense of the prince of Wales. So did Mrs. Philip Snowden. Now here comes J. H. Thomas. His defense of the princely jaunt is more damning than anything -hat could be written by any enemy in sriticism of his position. * > » HOMAS says: “I, as a minister was specially responsible and I say not only from personal knowl- edge but from correspondence that there was an overwhelming demand on the part of the people of South Africa to see the prince visit their shores. If he is serying the country by going, as I believe he is, then who | “is there in our party; or in ‘any other party, who would dare deny that he is | entitled to have his expenses paid for the trip?” ” “ * HIS is the type of. “labor” politi- cian that was held up as an ideal | before the eyes of the labor fakers | at the C. P. P. A. conference; by Mor- | ris Hillquit. This is the’ Abramovich type, the type that puts the thterests of the “country” above the ‘interests of the working class. The “interests of the country” under capitalism means the interests of the capitalists. The prince of Wales is simply a drum- mer for British imperialism; a royal advertisement for ‘the goods of the British capitalists. The British labor party is today the most vigorous de- fender of the house of Wettin. - > HEN MacDonald was premier, he won the lasting hostility of the British miners thru his insistence that any bill introduced for the nationaliz- ation of mines should include a pro- vision for compulsory arbitration. The experience of the British wofking class with a socialist government is a valuable one. The socialists every- where have proven themselves to be the most willing tools of capitalism. The capitalist ss in America are not yet reduced t6 fhe extremity of being compelled to callin their yellow allies, but when that time comes, the call will be sent out and the response : ; Some acid comment | Workers Hold Protest Demonstrations Mch. 1 “Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti must not die,” is the cry of the militant workers thruout the world. On March 1, protest meetings are be- ing held in all cities of the country. The 1..W. W., the Sacco-Vanzetti de- fense committee, and other working class bodies are making cgmmon cause with the Workers (Communist) Party in a nation-wide protest against the continued imprisonment of Sacco and Vanzetti as punishment for their activity in leading the oppressed workers of the textile industries in Massachusetts. It has been shown over and over again that Sacco and Vanzetti were condemned to death by a capitalist judge on a framed up charge of mur- der, and with the use of perjured tes- timony. Chaplin at Chicago Meet. In Chicago on March 1, Ralph Chap- lin, the well-known poet and member of the 1. W. W., Jack Johnstone, sec- retary of the Trade Union Educational League, and Antonio Pressi, editor of the Kalian Communist paper, Il Lavo- ratore, will speak at a mass meeting in Emmet Memorial Hall, Taylor and Ogden streets, at 2:30 p. m. The meeting has been arranged by the Chi- cago local of the Workers Party. The Central Opera House in New York has been engaged for:the Sacco- Vanzetti protest mass meeting to be . m., March 1, The spe: bo Fe 4 ite ated: Worker fessor Felice Guadagni of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Moissayé J: Olgin, and Juliet Stuart Poyntz. --The New York meeting will be held wneler : the auspices of the Sacco-Vanzetti' dm fense committee, Italian locals of> the} needle trades unions, and the -Work- ers (Communist) Party. A conference called by the Work- ers Party of..Worcester, Massachu- setts, was held on Friday night in the Day building. to rally the., work.,|. ers to the defense of Sacco and Van- zetti. Thirty-five delegates represent- ing twenty organizations went on re- cord demanding the release of the two class war prisoners and pledging the support of their respective organiza- tions. The conference took the name of the “Sacco-Vanzetti defense confer- ence of Worcester,” affiliated with the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee of Boston. The executive committee of the local conference consists of Evald Anderson, Joseph Ginsberg, J. John- son, H. Sidney Bloomfield, Arne Halo- nen, Harry Epstein, David Kaufman, Gunhilde Helle, and Guiseppi Paggilli. Local unions and Italian organiza- tions will be enlisted in the campaign. Worcester is the home town of Judge Webster Thayer, who presided at the trial and sentenced Sacco and Vanzet- ti after hearing the framed up evi- dence. The Labor Defense and Free Speech ‘council of .western Pennsylvania is conducting the Sacco-Vanzetti meet- i~ in oe aoe Pa., in the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., March 1, at 2 Ip. m., ‘The workers of the steel and pe center will protest against the | capitalist frame up against the two labor leaders. Arturo Giovannitti 'will be the principal speaker. “Let us save Sacco and Vanzetti from the capitalist hangmen” will be the slogan of this meeting. A big parade will be held in Bos- ton, followed by a& mass meeting in Fanueil Hall. Ettor Speaks in Detroit. Joseph Ettor, who himself faced the electric chair for his activity as an organizer in the great Lawrence tex- tile workers’ strike will speak at the Detroit Sacco; Yanzetti mass meeting on March 1. The Connecticut district of the Workers (Communist) Party, in co- operation with the Sacco-Vanzetti de- fense committee, is also holding meet- ings in Bridgeport, Hartford, Stam- ford and Waterbury on March 1. Warren Gets O. K. of Senate Committee for Attorney General ~~ WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Breaking a deadlock of six weeks, the senate judiciary committee today approved |the nomination of Charlies B. Warren as attorney general. The vote was 9 te & GOVERNOR. SMALL, WHG D THE CHILD LA BOR IS FLAYED BY © PUY ¢ > - . ° ~ : ° : . . = EN T, IRS PARTY The Workers (Communist) Party letter to Governor Small concerning issue of child slavery. The letter is‘ as follows: . > 8s An Open Letter to Governor Small T the last elections many work- ers and trade unionists within. the state of Illinois supported your candidacy, being lead to the belief that you were a friend of labor. As the result of an active campaign on your behalf by high salaried trade union officials you received the en- dorsement of many local unions and central labor bodies of the state, as a friend of labor. You of course re- ceived the endorsement of the petty bourgeois LaFollette state organiza- tion. The Workers (Communist) Party then declared that no friends of labor | could be found among the agents of the privileged class. It pointed to your record as a representative of capitalism and reminded the workers of the fact that you, as the leader of the Illinois delegation, participated in the republican convention which had nothing but scorn for labor and nominated the two outstanding reac- tionaries, Coolidge’ and Dawes, to head their ticket. Today we repeat that all these representatives of cap- italism are the bitter enemies of la- bor. _ A New Team—But No New Policy You have now been inaugurated for another term, hailed by those who want to fool the workers, as a pro- gressive. Once more you are show- ing ‘your true color. You. have re- fused to recommend for adoption by the Tilinois ee the child wowed Fuout thie . PPRAG moral well being of the youth is being destroyed by inhuman child. ex- ploitation. While the bosses thereby {Tacréase their profits the child labor practice also enables them to reduce wages in general, lower working con- ditions and weaken the unions. There were in the state of Illinois, actording to the United States census of 1920, at the time that census was taken, 36,933 children between the age of 10 and 16, working in industry and on the farm. 31,132 were em- ployed in factories and like occupa- tions. Ever since, these numbers have increased. Since 1922, statistics shows an.increase of nearly three times in the number of children em- ployed. On The Side of Capital These facts are known to you Gov. Small, and yet you have refused to recommend for adoption by the Ili- nois state legislature the child labor amendment to the constitution. Once again you show yourself clearly on the side of the bosses. _A bill has now been introduced in the state legislature providing for the submitting of the ratification of the child labor amendment to a referen- dum at the general elections next \year. To this the capitalist politi- cians who are in control are reported to have tentatively agreed. Unquest- ionably you as well as they are cher- ishing the Hope that you will thereby avoid putting yourself on record as enemies of labor and be able to main- tain your allegiance to capitalism ‘while depending upon the capitalist machinery of propaganda to defeat the measure. Unite Against Child Slavers! The Workers Party, District No. 8, urges all workers and trade unionists of the state of Illinois to unite in a demand for the ratification of the | THE SPIKE'S THE THING, SAY ACTORS— THEY MAKE A HIT! Not “on with the play,” but “down with the spike,” is the slogan that two stage friends of the DAILY WORKER have adopted. They are Richard and Cari Haupt, each of whom sent the DAILY WORKER their dollar Tuesday to help hammer home the last spike. “How can | get the DAILY WORKER while | am travelling?” Richard Haupt wants to know. “I will’ be making a different town every day on a circuit chautauqua and if it is at all possible, | want to get the DAILY WORKER. ‘tine d find two dollars to se- cife the paper in its fight against | system,—two more nails ‘in the coffin of capitalism.” This letter, points out that Small cannot m of labor unions or of any workers, if he “pu of D 8 has issued an open B evil of child labor. expect the support dodges the burning ON MINE “JOHN L. LEWIS r Daily Worker) p UL, Feb. 24.— The } Coal company’s i here, has been ‘owing out of work | pata employed. the ever 3. " dement to the consti- ois state legislature. children are forced _of the poverty of } a child labor law vide government sup- } going, to’ school is ther urge the demand maintainance of id of workers and me funds for this pur- pose 1 0 @ ‘om special taxes on eee * ' ® going to do about it, i. Your record before Office tells us that ng “to injure the = mployers and at the same t. to keep up the pose of a ~aabor.” But the work- ers ne Sf ed forever. The question | ‘labor is. one on which me of labor” can afford to , . Len Small, you OF ABRAMOVICH Communist Foils Anti- Soviet Committee A committee of followers of Ra- phael Abramovich, which asked for financial aid from the Ershter Krinker Untershitutzing Verain, was told to go about its business and refused aid at the last-meeting of the Verain at Humboldt Hall, 2292 West Division St. This action was taken after Com- rade Tikatsky, member of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, spoke against the motion to give the Abramovich followers $10, which they asked for the purpose of “helping the political prisoners in Russia.” The committee was asked to wait outside while the motion presented by a member of the Verain who was also a member of the Workmen's Circle, was being discussed. Comrade Tikatzky opposed the motion, declar- ing that those represented by the com- mittee were the counter revolutionists who helped - Kolchak, Dennikin, and Wrangel in their attack on the work- ers of Soviet Russia. , attempts te give this counter-revolu- tionary committee any of the work- ers’ money. ._The Abramovich com- result of their to hear the appeal posure of ‘itheir treachery to the workers. Comrade Tikatzky’s speech threw the meeting»into an uproar. of the members attempted to beat up the Communist, but were held back by other members. After thoro.discussion, the vote was by a vote of eleven to ten to refuse | to ald the counter-revolutionists. The Abramovich followers were called in and told that there was “nothing do- ing” and dejectedly departed. Fhe Beis yan 4/ Oe Blin 7 LEFT WING WINS LOCAL2,[.L. 6. W. Completely Whip the Reactionaries NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 24.—An overwhelming victory was won by the left wing in the election that was finished -thig morning in Local No, 2 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union when the left wing elected the chairman and the entire executive board leaving the reaction- aries without a position and far in the rear in spite of the machine tact- ics and right wing propaganda, under the leadership of Meyer Pearistein who was imported from Chicago to }carry out a systematic attack on the progressives. , Win Two to One When the skies cleared it was found that’ the lowest vote given for any of the left wing candidates was over 1,000 while the highest vote the reactionaries could muster was 500. The left wing candidate for chair- man, Brother Boruchovitz, received 1,800 votes against 400 for Nachlin the machine man. The entire executive board was elected with big left wing majority. Has 14,000 Members Local No. 2 is the, most important in New York consisting of over 14,- 000 members. With this election the left wing will have 22 delegates. to the Joint Board out of a total of 60. The left .wing is also in control of the whole administration of Locals 2, 9, e whole New York membership. The present victory ig the more sig- nificant on account of the tremend- ous efforts made by the right wing element. To leave no stone unturned the machine sent Meyer Pearlstein from Chicago to take charge of the situation. He pulled every rope for the reactionaries and used every means to carry the election in favor of the backward element. The mem- bership gave him his proper reward. Now To Build Union The organization is now bending all its energies to build up the local and intensify its work for amalgamation and for the organization of the open shops. Life and sunshine is spread all over the ladies’ garment workers in the entire city and the prophecy of great-things to come is nearing ful- fillment. Miners’ Union Pays Death Insurance of Anti-Klansman MARION, Ill., Feb. 24.—-The death claim af Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, Comrade ‘Tikatzky, who is vice-pres- | ident of the Verain, boldly resisted the | mittee, while’ waiting behind the door squirmed atiComrade Tikatzky’s ex-| ment. taken, and tle Verain went on record | | ‘Green Made rer a who was shot and killed by 8S. Glenn Young, the klan raider in Herrin, ‘on January 24, has ‘been allowed by |the United Mine Workers of America, | accroding to an announcement made ‘here today. Thomas was a member of Miners’ Local Union 1248 at Herrin. At the time this death claim was being paid, federal agents were busy at Benton destroying that Glenn Young had captured in Williamson and Franklin counties raids and which had been held for ' trials. Say Kliuxer Abandoned Child | Deputy sheriffs at the same time, | were | Owens, Some | Young's battle as raid leader and has on Burr took up serving a warrant klansman, who , been accompanying Mrs. Young, the Prox widow, on her speaking en- gagements charging child abandon- Owens gave bond. of Pan-American Fake Federation of Labor WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, has been elected president of the pan-American Fe- deration of Labor by the executive council of the latter body, in session in Washington. . Venezuelan workers were admitted.to affiliation at this meeting. INNEW YORK CITY ‘apa aa UTICA, N. Y., Feb. 24.—Division 82, Street Carmen's Union, assessed itself $1 per r for the bene- fit of the ae textile workers of Utica and a check for $470.00 was paid into the local United Textile Workers war chest. Both the U. T. W. and the man- agement of the Utica Steam and Mohawk Valley Cotton Co., have re- jected a compromise proposition suggested’ by E. H. Dunnigan, me- diator of the U. S. department of labr, for a five per cent cut. The union stands flat against any cut and the bosses want 10 per cent. JENSEN'S THUGS FAILED TD AWE CARPENTERS Local Votes to Seat “Expelled” Members Several thugs under the leadership of Harry Jensen and a smali army of policemen failed to prevent the five illegally expelled members of Local 181, from being present at the meet- ing last Monday night. Jensen and his gangsters were at the door, but the rank and file made sure that the railroaded brothers who were deprived of their right to work at their trade, should not be d admittatice. — tat : sliould bé oda pelea to ee the hall. Several carpenters were standing up looking at the battalion of policemen but when the question was put and those who favored the five expelled members leaving were asked to stand up, everybody but the cops and Har- ry Jensen rushed for seats. The fak- ers did not ask those opposed to stand but the rank and file stood up. The vote in favor of the illegally expelled members staying in the hall was pass- ed almost unanimously. yee, a rote hie “‘pookets’ in DEATH NEAR FOR 123 MINERS IN GASSY COAL PIT One Dead, Another Is Seriously Burned VINCENNES, Ind., Feb. 24.— One miner was killed, another was serious- ly burned and the-lives of 123 others were endangéréed today when a gas explosion shook the mine of the Standard Coal Co., at Wheatland, 16 miles east of here. Ed Cross of Vineennes, was the miner killed. (William Ferguson of Wheatland, was burned on the face and arms. Claim Ferguson Will Recover, At the hospital here where Fergu- son was taken, it was said he would recover. With the recent mine disaster at Sullivan fresh in their minds the mine workers were thrown into a near pan- ic following the flash and explosion. Cause of the blast has not been de- termined but the mine is of the “dry” type and it was believed ignition of a pocket of mine gas was responsible. Property Not Damaged. Immediately after the disturbance, a check was made of all the 125 mtn- ers who entered the shaft this morn- ing. From this report mine officials definitely announced Cross and Fergu- son were the only vivtrms. No serious damage was done to the mine workings, it was said. Miner Killed by Train. DUQUOIN, IIL, Feb. 247A coroner’s in t' was being held today into the h of Martin Kerr, 49, miner, who was killed when struck by a train here last night. Paperg found in from Vincennes, Indiana. He had been working at West Frankfort, Llinois. Chicago Metal Trades Make a Note of This! Due to the fact that The Red Revel Masquerade Ball falls on the date of our regular group meeting (Sat. Feb. 28) the Metal Trades group of the T U. EB. L. meeting has been postponed to Saturday, March 7, 7:30. MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF ° LABOR SAYS $13 A WEEK WAGES ENUF FOR WORKERS TO EXIST the millinery wage board, minimum is ‘$6. the evidence | 'iu the millinery wage board. He does ‘not say he lives on low wages him- self, however. Professions Won't Get Much. Allendorf gives the weekly budget of a worker's expenses which was ap proved by the board at a recent meet- ing. Some of the items are most in- teresting, particularly those allowing 40 cents weekly for doctor, dentist ‘and oculist;: twenty-five cents for self- |improvement and twenty-five more for recreation. The budget for starvation follows: Board, lodging and carfare.-...$9.20 ila FE Ee 2.00 Doctor, dentist and oculist.. 40 Ce © ome eee A5 Self-improvement ................ 25 en ee 40 8 eee ST Sa .25 Reserve for emergency........ 40 i ha - 10 BIR INEED - cccncctaninctindtecticesctccees 25 Tow Re ce RE $13.90 Allendorf says the allowance for pastor dentist and oculist, was made | | larger than it would otherwise have | | been made because most Pre atos wear glasses. are included in millinery “self-improvement.” We'll Choose a Decent Burtal. The ten cents for insurance will en- able a death policy for $226 for a 20- T.ULEIL. GENERAL MEET ING, NORTHWEST HALL TONIGHT BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 24.—Merely thirteen dollars a week! highest minimum wage for the millinery workers which the Massachusetts law should recognize, recommends the minimum department of labor and industries after a public hearing on the report of which has been provisionally approved. dollars is the highest minimum recommended; That is the wage commission of the Thirteen for least skilled workers the How a worker can exist on low wages is explained in a statement issued by Albert A. Allendorf, president of the retail milliners’ association, and one of the new members to be included? | year old man and one of $192 for one of 25 years. “Enough,” says the re- tail milliners’ president, “for decent burial.” A “decent burial” would be, indeed, quite attractive compared to trying to live on $13.90 a week. Forty cents a week i6 allowed for emergency expenses in view of the seasonal nature of the industry. The emergency is not, of course, the need for forming a union. Yet anyone working on this wage would need to organize. It is recommended that the $13 minimum wage figure be raised or lowered according to fluctuations in the cost of living. The $13 is only a maximum, and applies to employes who are at least 19 years of age and have been in the industry at least four seasons of 16 weeks each. | AMERICAN GUNBOATS AID IMPERIALISTS 10 MAKE ATTACK ON CHINA ; Newspapers | | (This would leave the worker, after purchasing his daily paper not quite | enough for the purchase of an ordi- Dary magazine and nothing for books.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Amer- ican gunboats have secured the re- lease of the American ship Chi Chuen, which was seized by the Chinese government at Kwei Chow- fu, and Captain Hawley, master of the ship, according to dispatches received by the state department of Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, Amer ican minister at Peking. The boat was alleged to be smuggling arms into China to aid the Anglo-Amer- icam conspiracy to overthrow the present Chinese government, -¥ - > ——7
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: Refused Affiliation to ee the Labor Party By W. FRANCIS AHERN, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) SYDNEY, Austraila—At a confer ence of the Communist Party of Aus tralia, held at Sudney, it was decided to run Communist candidates in the forthcoming New South Wales elec tions and in the senate (federal par- HNament) elections at the end of 1925. This decision was made because of the refusal of the Australian labor party to admit.Communists to afiilia- tion in that party. Communists took the view that having been denied a/ff- Hiation by the Australian labor party other action must be taken to give expression to Communist principles. Contest Four Seats. The Communist candidates will con- test four of the leading industrial seats in the N. 8S. W. élections. In those constituencies where no Com- munist candidates will stand, the Communists will support the labor party candidates. The conference resolved that all Communist parliamentary candidates Must place a signed undated resigna- tion with the central] executive of the Communist Party to be put into force should they fail to remain true to Communist principles, if elected to parliament. It was also resolved that the salary and fees of any member of the party elected to parliament must be the property of the party, the cen- tral executive to renumerate members out of same. Urge Pan-Pacific Conference. The conference also resolved that a congress representing all countries bordering around the Pacific Ocean should be held during 1925 for the pur- pose of securing concerted action to preserve peace in the interests of the working class. It was suggested that the congress be held at Sydney, and convened by the council of action of the All-Australian Trade Union Con- gress. if the council of action fails to issue invitations before March 31, 1925, then the labor council of New South Wales should be the convener. The conference has decided that the following partial program shall be put forward by the Communist Party candidates in parliamentary elections: Planks From Program. 1, A minimum wage of $30 per week for all workers, irrespective of sex; payment of the full basic wage to all workers in the event of sick- ness, accident, or unemployment; a six-hour day and a fiveday week. 2. Absolute preference to union- ists and no open shop; abolition of all scab and non-union bureaus; con- trol of the registration of the unem- ployed by the trade union movement, and the replacement of the existing government labor bureans by indus- trial bureau directed by labor and in- dustrial councils. 3. Reinstatement of all railway and tramway workers victimized during the general strike in 1917, with full seniority rights and compensation. 4. Free access to all jobs at any time for all accredited trade union delegates, who shall be made honor- ary inspectors, with the full powers of industrial inspectors under the ar- bitration act. 5. Safety first in all mines, with the provision of the latest technical flevices. 6. Full upkeep of children until the sarning age, and motherhood endow- ment. 7. The extension of the system of state education to include training for industry, such training to take the place of the present apprenticeship system; the school leaving age to be extended to 18 years of age. This platform will be added to and adjusted by the newly-elected central executive of the Communist Party. Late Emperor of China in Flight; in Protection of Japs PEKIN, Feb. 24.—The former boy emperor of China has fled Pekin. Deserting his refuge in the Japan- ese legation, Hsuan Tung, presumably disguised as a coolie, made his way by train to Tien Tsin. He was fol- lowed on another train by his wife and retinue. The party is now living in the Jap- anese concession at Tien Tsin pend- ing a trip to Japan, it was learned to- — GENERAL T. NORTHWEST U, E. L. MEETING: VEST HALL; REPORTS BUILDING AND PRINTING I T HT, N METAL, USTRIES The regular monthly meeting of corner Western and North avenues. Comrade Jack Johnstone, secretary Educational League will be held tonight at 8 p. m. in North West Hall, E. L., will tell of the present situation in the Carpenters’ Union, where local Chicago of the Trade Union of the national committee of the T. U. Hutcheson is leading a campaign of ¢ expulsions in Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles. Reports on the activities of the militants in the unions in Chicago will be made at the meeting. Particu- larly interesting are the reports re- garding the situations in the metal, printing and building industries. Fol- lowing the reports, discussion will take place in which those who are interested are invited to take part. These meetings of the Chicago T. U. E. L. are gatherings of all trade union militants who are fighting for progress in the unions. The problems confront- ing them in their struggle are dis- cussed and every militant, irrespect- ive of the union he belongs, gets a comprehensive view of the situation in every union. ” 7 eee Readers of the DAILY WORKER as well as all trade uniopists and members of the Workers Party are invited to attend. Springfield, Illinois, Invites All Workers | to Its Study Class That the circuit school conducted in District 8, has been of great value to the members in the district, is proven by excellent results that have been so far gotten in Springfield. The comrades, has increased where it is now in the neighborhood of 30. Mem- bers of the Young Workers’ League, membérs of the Workers Party and sympathizers of the Communist move- ment have been attending these class- es and from the lively interest taken in the various sessions, exemplify the need for this educational work as part of the general work of the party. Last Monday night Comrade Lerner, circuit teacher, spoke on the Matertal- ist Conception of History. The meet- ing was the best attended yet. The comrades present promised to add even more to the attendance in the coming lectures. The next lecture is to be held next Monday night, March 2, and will deal with the role and tactics of the Com- munist Party. The sessions take place at 221% S. 4th street, Spring- field, Illinois, at 8 o’clock. All comrades who desire to listen to the remaining lectures in the cir- cuit should attend the next lecture. A lively discussion is expected as in the case of the past lectures. Judg- ing from Comrade Lerner’s lectures in the past, comrades will gain a great deal from the three lectures remain- ing to be given. Milwaukee to Hear Lectures on Tirade Unions by Lerner After the completion of the regu- lar circuit tour of District 8, in Mil- waukee, a short course in trade ution history and tactics was started two weeks ago. This course has met with the best response, the comrades of all the various branches in Milwaukee at- tending. Two lectures of the four lectures have already been delivered. The next two lectures are of espe- cial vital interest to all party mem- bers and sympathizers, inasmuch as they deal with the .rebellion in the trade unions and tactics in the trade unions. Comrade Lerner, who has conducted the circuit course in Milwaukee and who is delivering the lectures in this short course, promises to make these two lectures even of greater interest than the previous ones. This course has been eagerly welcomed and lec- tures given so far have aroused a great deal of enthusiasm and interest. The comrades are urged to attend the next lecture on Rebellion in the Trade Union Movement, which will take place Friday night, February 27, at party headquarters, 802 State St., Milwaukee, » Report Quake at Denver. DENVER, Colo., Feb. 24.—One of the most serious earthquakes that has been recorded for more than a year was reported here today. The quake lasted 29 minutes, be- ‘ginning at 6:01 p. m. yesterday and ending at 6:30 with the maximum at 5:13. The distance of the disturbance was placed as approximately 2,200 miles south west. day. Threatening articles in the Chin- ese press are said to have ee) sd the flight of the fomrer emperor. Get your tickets for Red Revel Ball, circuit, which started with some 12 | NEW YORK WORKERS TO CELEBRATE ON WORLD WOMEN'S DAY NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—The New York district of the Workers (Com- munist) Party will hold a mass meeting to celebrate International Women’s Day, which is the inter- national holiday officially design ated by the Communist Internation- al. The meeting will be held at the Labor Temple, East 84th St., near Third Ave., on Friday, March 6, at 8 P. M. The speakers will be Comrades Rose Pastor Stokes, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, M. J. Olgin, Warshafsky and Anna Thompson of the Young Workers League. CLASS IN MARXIAN ECONOMICS EVERY WEDNESDAY EVE, Here Are This Week’s Ten Questions Class held every Wednesday even- ing, 2613 Hirsch Blvd., Chicago. Max Lerner, instructor. This week’s les- son; Chapter 10, “People’s Marx.” Questions on Chapter 10 1. Describe the effect of machine production on the members of the workingman’s family—how does it affect the relationship between the workingman and the capitalist—des- cribe the conditions prevailing upon the introduction. of machinery as to the above—also conditions which exist today. (Look up report of in- vestigations of vice commission, state of Illinois, 1916. for modern data or other modern. material.) 2. Describe the effect of machin- ery on the resistence of the workers against the despotism of capitalism under machine production as against the manufacturing period. Is the in- troduction of new machinery ever used as.a.weapon to break strikes. Illustrate. 3. How are the wages of the male worker affected by the employment of the other members of his family? 4. Describé the factors that oper- ate to make the working day longer for the worker under machine pro- duction—what economies are effected by the capitalist in having his ma- chines operate all the time. Describe the special incentive for the prolonga- tion of the working day which makes itself felt most acutely during the early life of machine production. 5. What is the driving force which impels the capitalist to introduce new machinery—what contradiction does this eventually bring about and what is the further reaction of the capital- ist to reduce the effect of this con- tradiction as much as possible? 6. What effect has the production of commodities with aid of machinery on the value of commodities and what resultant effect on the cost of living? 7. Describe the process of the in- tensification of the workday by the capitalist once the workday is limited —what effect has the intensification of the workday upon the length of life of the worker, etc. Give modern illustrations for above. 8. Describe the process which creates an industrial reserve army. What effect has this upon the wages of the workers? mind of the worker? chine production bring to the fore? Red Revel Committee 166 W. Washington St. have their delegates there. All final arrangements made tonight. When you buy, 9 What effect has the machine process under capitalism upon the 10. What great paradox does ma- Meets Tonight at 8 Wednesday, February 25, 8 p. m., All party and league branches must must be et an “Ad” ' ie | , sree ~% 2 7 a ¢ > ay i ah : ae Z - . * » 2 r . HE DAIL ¥; RK , +, 3 ¥ * »~ 41% : = See : « : iy 2. (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich—The expulsion of And Its Philippines By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Wall St'Rule Fear : For Its Porto Rico pr Willam Reynolds by the general exe- cutive board of thé United Brother hood of Carpenters’ and Joiners, pre sents one of the most. @agrant out- rages on trade union justice which the history of trade unionism sets forth. The trade uniop movement has been the victim of, persecution and nurtured in the struggle, and as a result a rugged sense of justice and fair play has been develeped in their ideology. ‘eu These guarantees of rights have been secure from attack during per iods of militancy in the paat, but the wave of class collaberation now sweeping the whole trade union move ment has weakened the morale of the rank and file so that son’s 6x pulsion policy, which is (the car- penters’ edition of the , prehensive drive on the left am the whole labor movement, has @, consider able progress before the,;rank and file have become alive? aroused to the situation. . Unjustified and Illegal Expulsion. On January $th the G, B. B. of the Brotherhood expelled Wm, Reynolds president of L. U. No. 2240 for alleg- ed membership in the Trade Union Educational League. There was no charge laid against Reynolds. He had no opportunity to defend himself. None of the constitutional guarantees were observed by the G. DB. Br’ Section 55 of the constitution which protects the rank and file was totally ignored. The first Reynolds knew oi the expulsion was a notification sent him by the secretary of the district council four days after the action war taken. je .> Local 2140, to which ‘Reynolds be- longs, has in its two meetings since the expulsion, taken action to sustain and protect the rights wf! Reynolds. The action of the G. w. i% has been re- pudiated. A circular letter has been sent to all local unions inthe Broth- erhood and many favorable answers have already been received. The various local unions: have, with one exception, taken favorabie action on the case and in the exceptional lo- cal union favorable action has been forestalled by the arbitfary ruiung of its president, James Sharrock, as yel. low a one as ey ree ot as police or got out an tion.” , The district council 18 overwhelm. ingly against the expulsion and har also been thwarted in é#pressftig™ its will by the would be czar, Sharrock, fortified by a contingenf’of police. Police and Injunctions. At the inception ofthis struggle an injunction was sec#Fed against Reynolds restraining himt from attend- ing his own local union“or any other meeting of the carpenters in Detroit. This injunction was “prayed for” in a bill of complaint sighed by Sam Botterill, general organizer; James Sharrock, president of ‘the Detroit district council, and Haréld’ Fish, sec- retary of the district éotihcll. The injunction has been violated dozens of times but the spineléss’ curs who secured it lack the guts to enforce it. The police have been ¢alled by the reactionaries on many occasions to guard them from the wrath of the rank and file. At the Feb. 12 meet- ing of the district council a shift of five police worked from eight to eleven, and a similar shift from 11 to the end of the meeting. At the meeting of Local Union 2140 held Fri. Feb. 13, General Organizer Botterill tried to read the minutes of the local union to a police sergeant to convince him that Reynolds had been expelled and should be ejected from the room. Instead, Reymolds and an- other member ejected a‘shyster law- yer, sent to Detroit bys the general office, when he refused t@ keep order. Bribery Tried, Hutcheson’s tools haye tried brib- ery in the shape of offers of jobs on the general office payrolj, threats of further expulsion, injunetions, police and open club wielding thuggery, but they stand today utterly discredited and defeated before the gank and file. Let Us Hear Fron Others! The carpenters of Detroit expect those carpenters everywhere who are militant in defense of the right of trial and other constitutional provis- ions to rally to the defense of the members of Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detrejte who have been expelled without trial and whose Cause rests with those; who have fought against the reactionaries in TODAY, the fears of American imperialism, incidental to the recognition of the Russian Soviet Governime’ . bub-— bled to the surface. They ooze out of the black hatred of capitalism for Soviet rule. Washington wants pledges from Moscow; “assurances against the incitement of revolutionary violence'in this country and in the Philippines and Porto Rico,” is the way that Laurence Todd, the Washington correspondnt of the federated press puts it. : | * + 2 8 Sorry day for Washington that the Communist Inter- national was not in existence when American militarism administered the water cure to the Filipino desire for inde- pendence, and brought the islands under the sway of its dollar diplomacy. Washington might then seek a basis for charging that the Communists were responsible for the cour- ageous struggle of the Filipinos that continues under the bloody dictatorship of the militarist strikesbreaker, Gen- eral Leonard Wood, whose dissolute son is now being chased over western Europe by irate creditors, chiefly keep- ers of gambling resorts. * * ¢ Washington, with Coolidge or any other agent of cap- italism in the White House, will never admit that the same forces that led to the overthrow of czarism in Russia, are inherent in capitalism in the United States, and Ate thruout its colonies, for the overthrow of American Wal Street rule. All discontent instead, according to the auto- cracy of capital, as well as the aristocracy of labor, is due to Communist activity. Washington always claims that the Communist struggle for power is imported to the United States from Moscow, just as London, or France, or Berlin, all claim that it is im- ported into Great Britain, France, or Germany from the same source. The servile press will argué long to this effect, both in its news and in its editorials, in the days ahead. »s * * This discussion will bring before millions of workers and poor farmers, who had never thought of it before, that the United States has a colonial empire, that extends from Porto Rico, around the globe to the Philippines, islands of the orient and the occident. Washington shows the same anxiety over its colonial possessions as England does over India, Egypt and other subject nations writhing beneath its crunching heel. ‘ This anxiety does not in the least temper its rule. The Porto Ricans have been protesting these many years to their capitalist masters in Washington against the dire op- pression visited upon them, resulting in the abrogation of all political rights and the forcing upon them of the worst economic conditions. * * 8 © The inspiration of the triumph of the workers and pea- sants of Russia over czarism will help. That inspiration would and does span the seas without recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States, But the germs of the victory for the American work- ers and poor farmers are planted deep in American capital- ist soil, both at home and in the dependencies. The workers and peasants of Russia had the guidance of the teachings of Marx and Lenin that are ready to hand for all the oppressed everywhere in warring upon their op- pressors. * ss FF 8 The power of the Communist International grows as the workers and poor farmers everywhere accept these teachings and not thru any “incitement to revolutionary violence” from Moscow,—mere figment of the capitalist imagination. This wail from Washington means that capitalism is bending in the United States, is bending to its knees, while the working class is beginning to rise and stand erect. Recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States will be the signial for greater struggles for power by the whole American working class, in league with U. S. imperialism’s slaves in all its colonies. Boasts of Supremacy NEW YO Feb. 24.—Plenty of unorganized labor and berough au- thorities who drive labor organizers out of town when the chamber of commerce asks them to: That is the boast of the chamber of commerce itself, in the manufac turing city of South River, a typical New Jersey industrial burg, thirty miles out of New York. Boast of Open Shopper. | The following frank statement. of the iron heel on labor is supplied by W. A. Allfair, himself, the president of the South River chamber of com- merce. It was sent to a New Yorker who read an advertisement in -the New York Times by the South River chamber, advertising the city as ad- vantages to prospective purchasers of factory sites, because of the “abun- dance of unorganized labor.” The New York man sought information on the point and here is the answer: “Replying to your favor of Febru- ary 5, 1925, relative to labor condi- tions in South River, I might advise that this town has an abundance of unorganized labor. “There have been several instances in which labor agitators from differ- ent sections of the country have come in here, but the borough authorities have taken the matter in hand, and they have yet to make a foothold. “Two years ago one of our large brick plants at Sayreville, which is across the river from South River, were disturbed by labor leaders from New York who attempted to form labor unions among the brick makers. The result was that the borough au- thorities, with the chamber of com- merce, took a leading part in the matter, and the strike was beaten, and the Sayre & Fisher company are today operating as an open shop. War on Labor Organizers. “Sometime within the past year or so, labor agitators visited South Ri- ver to organize the needle industry into a union organization. The au- thorities were advised, that the lead- ers were in town by the chamber of commerce and the result was that the chief of police notified the parties who had come here from New. York to organize this movement, that they would be allowed thirty minutes in which to leave town, and they left immediately. “There has not been a strike of any character within fifteen years, and there is no union here of any kind among the laboring class of peo- ple, or semi-skilled laborers.” The letter of South River’s busi- ness head is indicative of the way the manufacturers run the politics of the typical New Jersey industrial town. For Salel An automobile, belonging to ©. F. Fraser, Detroit, member of Local No. 17, International Brotherhood of Bleo- trical Workers, who lies in St. Joseph’s sanitarium, Mt. Clemens, Mich., with his right arm badly burn- ed while working at his trade. Will- iam Frost, secretary of the local, is trying to sell Fraser’s car for him. Fraser’s arm will have to be amputat- ed. Subscribe for the Daily Worker! February 28. for the DAILY WORKER. the past. — | State LaFollette Forces in Session The “provisional progressive party of Illinois” met at the Lexington hotel yesterday, and tried to organize around the skeleton of the forces which worked for LaFollette in Illi- nois during the presidential election campaign. The name “provisional” was used, Charles J. McGowan, leader of the present “progressive party of fli- revolutionary worker. Give us your order NOW! 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we ‘ - € ei oa Ot ee sf P DAILY wart BL 18 UNORGANIZED “CENTRAL DISTRICT ‘YOUR HIGHNESS, Puts Over ‘Wage cuts| WILL YOU TOSS by Degrees By JOSEPH MANLEY. Baltimore, Maryland, to one of a gastronomic turn of mind, recalls vi- _. sions of oysters while to one inclined to literature, it stands for the rapier- like wit of Henry L. Mencken and the of Edgar Allen Poe; being the home of the former and the burial place of the latter. Baltfmore, to the -revolutionist, suggests modern Amert- can methods of capitalist exploita- tion; for close to the city proper, at Sparrow’s Point is the famous, or in- ‘famous, steel plant of Charles M * Schwab. #This steel plant is one of the most ‘modern in the world; its methods of exploiting the workers, its use of skilled labor-saving machinery and manner of providing “homes” for its employes are the very latest. The plant is situated on a peninsula that juts out into the bay. This peninsula also provides accomodation to the “company town” which houses thou- sands of the steel workers. Schwab’s Little Empire. Except for a roundabout road, the only entry to this “company town” and plant is by street car or train, both of ‘which run over a trestle built on piles driven into the surrounding water. The steel company dicks or cops usually “inspect” all who get off both street car or train in this pri- vately owned domain. The writer rah this gauntlet during the days of the steel organizing -campaign and found a town of several thousand steel slaves buying their “homes” and : groceries from the same man— Charles Schwab. The big general store, the churches and the school are all dominated by the Bethlehem Steel corporation. This -corporation has introduced a “scientific’ method of cutting wages. ,_ Every other month or so for almost the past year, small cuts of 1 per cent or 2 per cent on every ton of steél produced by the steel worker has been inaugurated. This was to avoid arousing the men by a sharp reduc- tion and to make the cumulative re- duction still greater. This strategy has been successful for the company. eam Ways of. Cutting Wages. However, they are not content with merely a reduction of the workers’ tonnage price. Now they are engaged in the introduction of machinery that will tend to eliminate the few remain- ing and relatively high priced and highly skilled men in the industry.. Mechanical doublers operated by com- mon labor making $6,00 or $6.00 per day, in place of the skilled doubler making $13.00 or $14.00 per day, is an accomplished fact. These mechanical doubling ma- chines are apparently successful and will, no doubt, be introduced thruout thé industry. Representatives from other steel plants at Woodlawn, Pa.; Weirton, W. Va.; McKeesport, Pa.; and Canonsburg, Pa., have been closé- ly watching the operation of these mechanical doublers and all indica- tions point to their introduction into these respective plants. Only Hope is Left Wing. What proposal has “Mike” Tighe to make against this destruction of this last vestige of skill in the steel industry upon which “his” union is based? Not Tighe, but the left wing, yes, the revolutionists in the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, see this revolution in the steel industry. It is they who possess the vision and ability to or- ganize such plants as the one at Spar- row’s Point, Maryland. Trade Union Work Los Angeles Shows New Activity in LOS ANGELES.— Central Labor Council decided to write a letter to . the Jewish Daily Forward to quit ad- ' vertising the Burr Creamery Oo., which was placed on the unfair list. One of the delegates of the cigarmak- ers’ union stated that the Forward was in a habit of advertising scab concerns ii the east, then apologizing, pleading ignorance. Brother Koffman of the Bakery Workers’ Union, informed the writer that his local and she German local are conducting a big struggle against the Ward Co., and that the Central Labor Council has placed the Ward Co. on the unfair list. Union men and organized labor of Los Angeles are requested to inform their friends that Ward Co. and Van- ity Cake Co., are on the unfair list. “Demand the Union Label on your Bread,” is the slogan of the bakery workers of Los Angeles. Don’t make any appointments for March 7. The Los Angeles branch of the Trade Union Educational League is giving the first color-light ball on that night at the Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave. The last meeting of the league was well attended and general activity is evident recently. Subscription drive for the DAILY , WORKER will be started from March 15 to April 15. eGt ready, comrade! pln WORKER myst grow | ME THE SAPOLIO? Ford F actory a Home for Jobless Nobles T is a February day in the Ford Mo- tor company plant in Detroit, Mich. Wheels are roaring. Parts are drop- ping out of machines like coffee from a grinder. Guides are escorting visi- tors thru the factory to show them how furiously and tediously Henry Ford’s organization can make men toil. Two non-American men in shop togs are washing windows. “Your Highness, will you toss ‘me the sapolio?” one of the two says to the other. In another department are two oth- er similar men. One of them says: “Would you lend me your wrench a moment, Duke?” A Godfather to Monarchists. The four men are Russians. The two addressed as “Your Highness” and “Duke” are members of the form- er Russian nobility. The reason they are working at the Ford Motor Co. is that Henry Ford is their fairy god- father. Only as all good fairy god- fathers he believes men ought to do over the ordinary worker. He waves the wand lightly over these refugees. These two former noblemen, who still believe they are noble, are only two of many members of the former nobility and czarist army who have been given jobs at the Ford Motor Co. The head of the Russian mon- archist underground movement in the United States is Boris Brasol, of New York City. ,His agent in ‘troit. is Gregory Shinkarenko, form ant on the czar’s royal yacht, Polar Bear. Shinkarenko is among other things employment agent for dreaming of a rastoration. Henry Has Illusions. restoration. Probably many contracts have been written in water to bind the dukes and counts and princes to their so- called word of honor. Two years ago Madam Alexandre Gomberg was in Detroit to see Henry Ford, according to an interview pub lished in a daily paper here. She sai in the interview Ford had given he son Alexander a contract in connec tion with Ford’s reported intention o building a plant in Russia. On the death of Alexander in France in the war the contract, she continued, was transferred to a second son, Oscar. He was killed later fighting on the Russian front. Her reason for com- a third son, an employe at the fac- tory here. Carrying out such a con- overthrow of the Bolsheviki. The Tall of the Romanoffs. men. They went to the most expes ive hotel. luxurious automobile was sent to the hotel for them. chauffeur of the car. born, where Ford has his home and a Ford paid the hotel bill. of the men was her husband, Prince Orloff. The second man was namec Sokoloff. He died recently in Paris. He was formerly a Russian judge who Europe the first report of the execu- tion of the Russian royal family. At the time of his death he was engaged in completing a 10-volume work about the last of the Romanovs. It was to be his life’s greatest work. Prince Orloff’s wife is a daughter of Grand Duke Peter, In certain circles of Detroit, and presumably elsewhere, former nobil.- ity are still addressed by title. They are constantly plotting and hoping. They are well organized. Barsol was the speaker at the Detroit open forum a few weks ago. Ford’s Slave Pen. While the wheels roar and 100,000 men exhaust themselves in the Ford Motor Co. plants, Ford’s own home and family are taking on more and more of an aristocratic appearance His son and only child, Edsel, is re- ported contemplating moving east eventually. Henry Ford has become a collector of antiques. His large home at Dearborn is in the center of an extensive park, which is a part of a larger farm, on which he “peasants” cultivate grain with tractors for $6 a day—when they work. @ high steel wire a little work.’ He cracks the whip. lieuten- the the hungry helpless white guard refu- gees who drift into the middle west, Henry Ford also is dreaming of a It is believed here that the old nobility of Mother Russia have promised him vast lands and conces- sions in return for his ‘hospitality.” Fzations, ing to see Ford, she said, was to in- duce him to transfer the contract to tract, of course, would depend on the A year ago last fall three strangers arrived in Detroit—a woman and two Every day while they were there, quartered in a suite of rooms, a Shinkarenko was The party drove frequently between the hotel and Dear- part of his plant. When they left The woman in that party of three was Nadedhda Romanoff Orloff. One disguised as a peasant, smuggled into T. U, E, L, EXPOSES FARRINGTON AID TO LEGIONNAIRES Faker Ua darios the Enemy of Workers The following is a copy of a letter of endorsement for the American leg- ion signed by Frank Farrington, pres- ident of the Illinois Mine Workers. This disgraceful faker has the gall to thus praising the white guard bulwark of capitalist rule which is responsible for the murder of workers and has broken strike after strike—the Amerti- can legion. It will bé noted that Farrington tries to cover his treachery with the plaus- ible argument about joining the legion to “fight from the inside.” If the legion was a labor organization that might be logical. In the case of the U. M. W. of A. the policy of the T. U. E. L. to work within the union to bring it closer to revolution is, take note, desperately opposed by fakers in the union, including Franf Farring- ton. The left wing of red miners will take Farrington’s word to heart and work to put him and his kind out of control. The letter follows: Springfield, lil., January 6, 1925. Mr. J. J. Bullington, Belleville, Ill: Dear Sir: With this I reply to your letter of December 8th in which you ask for my opinion concerning the ac- tivities of the American legion in labor controversies. Frankly, I tell you that I do not know of any reason why the organ- ized labor movement should be un- friendly to the American legion. It is true that on different occasions, individual members of the legion have been guilty of conduct un- friendly to the organized labor movement, but I have never heard of a single instance where the Am- erican legion, as an organization, has been guilty of doing anything harmful to the organized labor movement and instead of there be- ing enmity between the two organ- a spirit of friendliness should prevail. Thousands of the members of the United Mine Workers of America are eligible for membership in the take their place in that organiza tion and do their part towards mold ing the policies of the Americar legion, then the legion would be sure to be right on labor matters, if perchance there should be a dis- position to be unfriendly, which I am sure, does not exist. My experi- ence has been that it is best to fight from the inside rather than from the outside and if union men should have any reason for being antagon- istic to the American legion, the thing to do would be for those who are eligible to hold membership in that organization, should get into the legion and correct the wrong, instead of refraining from joining the legion. Briefly stated, the above is an out- line of my attitude towards the Am- erican legion. Yours truly, Signed, F. Farrington, president. Kenosha, Wise., Attention. The famous movies “Polikushka”, “In Memoriam-Lenin” and “Soldier Ivan’s Miracle” will be shown in Ke- nosha Saturday, Feb. 28, from 4 to 11 P. M., at the German American Home, 665 Grand Ave. All labor or- ganizations are requested not to ar- range any other affairs on that date. fence with barbed wire along the top. A river flows thru the grounds. The park is 12 miles from the Detroit city hall but within the fence roams a herd of 300 wild red deer. To one side of the “castle” the town of Dearborn lies in the shadow of the great influence. + For the first time since early in 1924, all the plants of the Ford Motor Co. are reported operating on full time six days a week. The Highland Park plant now employs 55,000 men and the River Rouge plant 65,000. In January, 103,022 Ford cars, 395 Lin- coln cars and 4,156 tractors were sold. A daily wage of $6 is a week wag? of $36 in a six-day week. If a man has a wife and three children $36 a week will give each member of the family approximately $1 a day for pose as a friend of the workers after} American legion and they shoul | UNION EDUCATIONAL L Page Three GUE WORKERS STRIKE . t STANDARD OIL AND OTHER BIG JOBS NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 24.—The open shop iron league still has a lot of tied up construction work on its hands ‘Im the strike of 2.000 mem- bers 6#the International Associa- tion of! Bridge, Structural and Or- namental tron Workers. : The fight began on the attempt to use Hon-union labor on the new StandaF@’ Oil sky-scraper at 26 BroadWay. The union is consider ing spfeading the strike to other cities against, members of the iron league.® “Many great projects are fied up with the strike against some of the biggest contractors in the ineemry. TEL. CALLS FOR UNITED FRONT TO AID THE BAKERS Capital United; Why | Not Workers? The Bakers of New York, Brook- lyn and vicinity are among the worst exploited in the country. The profits of the bosses and the bread trust are ever increasing. Several causes exist for the increasing profits of the bosses and the miserable working con. ditions of the bakers. The bread trust is daily consolidat- ing itsepower. In the year just pass- ed, 1924 this consolidation made un- heard of strides. It is steadily ab- sorbing and eliminating the old style bake-shop with its old-fashioned meth- ods. It is swallowing up even the small modern bakety. Giant edpital under the name of the Continental Baking corporation bot off various! bakeries in the cities and large towns stretching all across the country frdm the Atlantic to the Pa- cific. This same capital, whether it used the name of the Continental, the Ward, the: @ushman or other company, is bringing about a veritable mechan- ical revolution in the baking of bread. ‘Etemy of All Unions. The by the process .of introduction of automatic bakeries with their gravity and traveling sys- tems_.of production, which turns out every. hour thousands of standardized loaves untouched by human hands, is eliminating. skill as the basis of the akers’ trade. The bread trust in its cruel demand or profits at the expense of the bak- rs’ lives.js not content with elimin- iting only.the skill of the baker in the industry, but also eliminating all organizations of the bakers which may win for them some measure of protec- tion against this ruthless trust. Facing this giant trust the organ- izations of.the bakers are small and poorly equipped to do battle with it. Quarrels and jurisdictional disputes destroy the unity and militancy of the membership of these organizations. Just as the bosses stopped their Own quarrels among themselves and consoliadted their power, so the bak- ers’ organizations must stop their quarrels and unite against their com- mon enemy—the bread trust. Two Necessities. To lay the basis of this unity of the bakers and their organizations; to in- crease their wages; to shorten their hours; tions and to abolish the present slav- ery of the bakers’ life, two outstand- ing facts face those, who at all take seriously this problem. 1. A united front of all the Bak- ers’ organizations. 2. Organize the unorganized in the baking industry. A united front of all the bakers’ or- ganizations~—A. F. of L. and independ- ent—must be formed. This united front will come into being only if the rank and file are aroused from their apparent imdifference. To stir up the rank and file and to fight against the encroachment of the bread trust, a strong agitation in all the organiza- tions must be started. To help organize the unorganized in the baking industry, the rank and file of the bakers must demand a militant organizing campaign on the part of all the bakers” Organizations. All rank and file bakers, who are in favor of this united front and the or- ganization of the unorganized, are urged to attend the monster mass meeting of bakers from all organiza- tion at Cooper Union, 8th street and 3rd avenue, New York City, on Sat- urday, Feb. 28, 2 p. m.. rent, food, clothing, schooling, medi- cal care and recreation. six requires nearly as much income as an adult. At the Ford Motor Co. the capital- ist systém with its speed-up plan, es- pionage, discipline, specialization and quantity production have been brought to a higher development than at any time and place in the world. One hundred twenty thousand men employes mean at least 300,000 men, A child of | women ari children. Thousands more | ate Mitre iy atectad ~~ free. The meeting is under the auspices of the Bakers’ Section of the Trade'| Union Educational League. Get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER —_—-— ’ DrilA. Moskalik so» DENTIST S. W. Cerner 7th and Mifflin Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA. — to better their working condi- Admission | | EASTERN DISTRICT BARBERS TRY OUT AMALGAMATION; FIND IT IS 0, K. T.U.ELL. Adherents Led the Movement By ART SHIELDS. NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Amalgama- tion with the Journeymen Barbers’ International Union, was a good move for the 1,500 mfembers of his organiza- tion, says Peter Midolla, president of the Independent Journeymen Barbers’ Union of Brooklyn. Having heard of the rivalry that ex- isted for years between the independ- ent union and the A. F. of L. I asked Midolla the reasons for the amalga- mation that has recently been an- nounced. Conditions Force Unity. “Both organizations felt the need of unity,” said the local president. “Our union had a strike last summer. It was long and hard. It was a lot harder because we lacked the sup- port of the rest of the trade unions. A barbers’ strike needs all the public backing it can get. Some of the boss barbers did not renew the agreement until some time after the strike was over. Eventually we got agreements for $32 a week and commissions in all shops, which is even better than before—wages used to run form $30 to $32—and we had a pretty strong lo- cal, but we saw the need of more strength and unity. “There used to be trouble when A. F. of L. barbers came to work in Brooklyn and refused to recognize our union. There was confusion of differ- ‘tent kinds. Proportional Representation. “Now we are linked up with the rest of the union barbers of New York thru the joint board. In the negotia- tions that came before we formally amalgamated with the A. F. of L. the international men promised to make certain changes in’ the joint board which we requested. They agreed to proportional representation on the joint board. Each loeal is to be repre- sented -according to, the size of its membership.. We expect that change to be made shortly. “Three organizers who will be ex- pected to go after the unorganized men in New York and Brooklyn and Queens, and there dre thousands, will be selected by the joint board, not op- pointed by the international. That was another thing we asked for and have been promised. The situation is very encouraging.” The T. U. E. L. has many adherents in the trade, it was said at the independents’ hall and aided the amalgamation movement i well. JACKSONVILLE AGREEMENT KILLS 51 COAL MINERS But Lewis Says There Are Too Many Left By A Rank and File Miner. Fifty-one miners’ lives are snuffed out. This is a front page story for a day, then it is forgotten, except by the Communist and left wing press. A Kentucky cave explorer holds the attention of the capitalist press for -three weeks. It is good copy, first page stuff, but 51 miners—who in hell cares about them? It is cheaper to blow them to pieces than to install safety appliances. Besides there are 200,000 “too many” miners, accord- ing to John L. Lewis, Frank Farring- ton and the coal operators, and, of course, this makes 61 less. The condition of that Indiana death trap exists in almost every mining center, and the wonder is that there are not more of these terrible dis- asters. A resolution demanding that safety appliances be installed, was turned down in District 12 conven- tion; because the Jacksonville agree- ment says that no changes can be made without the consent of the op- erator. “We have signed an agreement, and you will have to live up to it, even if that means going to your death,” is the attitude of Lewis, Farrington, et al. “Go down into the mine or go hungry,” say the coal operators. Thus | we see labor’s so-called leaders in | open alliance with the employers. Fifty-one miners killed, fifty-one ifamilies broken, mothers begome | scrub women, the children myst go to work at an earlier age now in order to make up the family budget; but what does this matter, we are a drug on the market? “We would rather than 500,000 members,” \: ‘We agree with you,” says the coal ‘| operator, “onl we intend to break up the roere\ Br completely.” Be- tween the of them, it will be done unless the rank and file wake have 300,000 says Lewis. coe clean house’ and fight, ‘Six Quarts of Red Eye and Lafferty’s Tricks Won Election COVERDALE, Pa.—The methods used by the officigidom in Dist. 5 of the U. M. W. of A. in crediting them- selves, with 11,000 votes as against 4,000 for the progressives, are being brot to light. Lewis and his hench- men had to resort to all the under- handed methods known in order to as. sure their election. The president of Local Union No. 56085, John Lafferty, was not a teller, but he had his gang there with plenty of whiskey, on the night of the elec: tion, to interfere with the voting. And when it came to the counting of the ballots, this was delayed until morn- ing when all of the progressives had gone home. Charges were then preferred against John Lafferty, president of Local 5085, for having brot half a dozen quarts of whiskey to the hall on the night of the election and offering it to the members as they came in to vote. When, in this way, the attention of -he membership was drawn to the tricks used by the reactionary offi- cials to-keep themselves in office they were so angry that these officials had to take to cover. And to save the president of the local from expulsion, they had him agree to resign from of- fice. In this way they succeeded in holding up the charges temporarily. At the next meeting of Local Un- ion 5080 we will see if his resignation is carried out. FLY WALKS INTO SPIDER'S HOUSE, SAYING “EAT ME” Decatur Unie ns Joins Chamber of Commerce DECATUR, IllL—The Trade Union Educational League has continually pointed out the dangers of the class collaboration movement within the A. iP. of L. Unless checked by the mili- tant left wing, the trade union move- ment in America if led by the forces or reaction, will drift into the most hopeless bankruptcy and the Ameri- can working class will be the suffer- ers. A typical example of the direction iu which we are headed wus given by the Central Labor Body of Decatur, Ill, early in January, at a meeting where this body went on record to af- filiate with the local chamber of com- merce, Two years ago Decatur, Ill. was the scene of the most reactionary con- vention that the Illinois State Federa- tion of Labor ever held. At this con- vention William Z. Foster and the constructive policies such as amalga- mation of the trade unions, etc., ad- vanced by the T. U. E. L., were con- tinally under fire. This attack was joined in by the re- actionaries and fake progressives alike, and the convention itself really accomplished nothing constructive. The only hope of the convention was the leftwingers who refused to be stampeded by the barrage of reaction and stuck to a man until the end, vot- ing for all the constructive policies of the T. U. E. L. Now comes the De catur Central Labor body, following in the footsteps of the Decatur conven- tion, and votes to affiliate with the chamber of commerce! Another example of the antics of the local labor fakers is given by Johnny Clark, a member of the U. M. W. of A., LOG&l 781, also a representa- ative of the 28th district in the state legislature. On two different occasions recently, when the bill fora state constabulary in Illinois came up in the house of representatives, Johnny Clark was conspicuous by his absense. He is now advocating a bill which is spon- sored by the locai chamber of com- merce, which would give the city of Decatur a new building for a state armory. Unless the rank and file of the Am- erican labor movement follow the lead of the militants and organize to fight happened in ee will happen\ in| every city of the U. S. A., where thefe | is any ment. Cases of | Pardoned I. W. W. to Come Up Hearings in the deportation cases of the I. W. W., Mahler, Oates, Nigra cently pardoned by President Cool- idge, are postponed again to March 17. It is believed the proceedings will ultimately be dropped. The Red International Affiliation Committee, a section of the T. U. E. L., has actively assisted in rousing a protest among the workers of for- eign countries against the high-hand- led and illegal deportation of these ~~ “TFOLLY NOT TO WORK IN OLD UNIONS”-LENIN Without Me Impossible | to Win Power By N. LENIN, April 27, 1920 — In countries more advanced than in Russia, the reactionary tendencies in the trade unions are naturally more pronounced and more conspic- fous than in our country. In Russia, the mensheviki had (and to some ex — tent still have in a very few trade unions) the support of the trade unions due to trade narrowness and opportunism and craft exclusiveness. The mensheviki of the western countries have a greater influence in the ranks of the trade unions: because these unions are dominated by a more powerful element of labor aristocra- cy, who uphold trade union narrow- ness and the self-interest and sordid- ness of these petty bourgeois inspired imperialistic trade unions whose lead- ers are corrupted and bribed by the capitalist imperialists. These statements cannot be suc- cessfully contradicted. The struggle with the Gomperses, .Jouhauxes, Hen- dersons, Merrheims, Legiens et al., in western Europe and America, is much severer than the conflict with our own mensheviki who represent a more homogeneous social and politic- al type. No Compromise This struggle must be carried on without compromise and these react- ionary and incorrigible social patriot- ic, opportunist leaders must be ex- posed, discredited and expelled in dis. grace from the trade unions. It is im- possible to conquer political power until this fight has been waged up to a certain degree. In different countries and in differ- ent circumstances, the degree to which the fight should be carried is not always identical. These condl- tions can be carefully appraised only by trained, thoughful and experienced political leaders of the proletariat of each country. In Russia, for example, the criter- ion of success in this conflict was de- termined by the election to the Con- stituent Assembly in Nov. 1917—a few days after the proletarian up- rising of October 25, 1917. In these elections, the mensheviki were over- whelmingly defeated, receiving 700,- 000 votes (including trans-Caucasia— 1,400,000 votes) as against 9,000,000 votes received by the Bolsheyiki. All To Win The Masses The struggle with the “labor arist ocracy” we carry on in the name of the working masses and for the pur- pose of winning the masses over to our side. This struggle with the so cial-chauvinist and opportunist lead- ers must be carried on in order to at tract the working class to us. It would be sheer folly to ignore this most elementary and self-evident truth. And it is precisely this folly that is being committed by the “left” German Communists, who, because of the reactionary and counter-revolu- tionary character of the leaders of the trade unions, Jump at conclusions and withdraw from the unions, re fusing to work within them; evolving new and fantastic forms of labor or ganizations. In persisting in this unpardonable folly, the Communists are rendering the greatest service to the bourgeo isie. For the mensheviki, the social chauvinist and Kautskian leaders 0! the trade unions are nothing less than agents of the capitalists within the working class movement, (just as we have always said of our own menshe viks) or, in the fine and profound) truthful expression used by De Leon in America, “the labor lieutenants 0! the capitalist class.” Yep! Hutch! The List Is Large and Growing Carpenters’ Union Local 510 o Greenville, Mississippi, has joine the growing list of unions which hav passed resolutions condemning th expulsion policy of Wm. L. Hutche son and demanding the re-instatemen of those expelled by him or the Ger these suicidal policies, what recently | semblance Mr a labor move and Moran, Leavenworth politicals re- | MU HELLER LLLP bp eral Executive Board without tria 'They’re + Reckeumall to Move! Who’s Next: Carpenters’ Local 1742, New Have) Mass., at its last regular meetin adopted the resolution sent out b Local 2140 of Detroit protestin against the expulsion, and deman« ing the re-instatement of those arbi rarily expelled by Wm. L. Hutchéso: PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for the money, | will save 50 per cent on a their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTI —__ 645 Smithfield § o— tt naa — _ 5
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THE DAILY. ss a : z v2 ere tO. uy | *hings | You Compliments THE DAILY WORKER FROM RUSSIAN BRANCH No. 1 of Workers Party. Meets every ist and 3rd Sunday, 2 p. “m., at 8890 COPELAND, Detroit, Mich. Hemlock 5040 S. JOFFE OAKLAND - Upholstering Shop Living Room Suites Made to Order. Also Repairing and Refinishing. Slip Covers Made to Order. 9128 Oakland Avenue near Owen, ‘on Oakland and Clairmount lines. Detroit, Mich. _~S SESE SHeeETEBEEBWEST Be Bee ees TEL. CEDAR 1079 tA oo => > & Thanks to the loyal it necessary to enlarge our Stores in the city, at 8580 the present store. odd pieces of furniture. 4 them still lower. 4 the special prices. ' Be sure to visit us chase. We just desire you Ave., will still be occupied | Hit os in see to the Special Issue of | : Household Goods CDUVAVEDOEVEDVEDASUADUELUAEOUAEAUUEUEUHADUTEUEONTOEUATAETEDALSEL OTTO E EE ET APOE EUAN EDGED NU 8800-8818 W. JEFFERSON AVENUE The PAY CASH AND SAVE HALF policy a big success at the Original Fox Furniture Co. 8580-8757 W. JEFFERSON AVENUE ; ; LECTURE! “THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY” aeeuee eee ANNA LOUISE STRONG :| THE FARNSWORTH Special Russian Correspondent for The Federated Prem: | t RESTAURANT AND LUNCH Will Speak ROOM at the HOUSE OF a “ wAsses | , : Freedman & Green, Props. 3 = FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1925, 8 P. M. 5 mp ADMISSION 25 CENTS. = ae | ERE IS ETO — seid ' | HOME :COOKED MEALS, ‘ GOOD COFFEE and CREETINGS FRENCH PASTRY. to the Special Issue of THE DAILY WORKER| 5238 Hastings Street (Between Farnsworth and Frederick) FROM SOUTH-SLAVIC BRANCH of | the Workers Party of Detroit. —— . | | SS SS HS SS SSS SHS SSTSSHSTSSS BAN S* TAPAS SBSASSASABWSAS STF” FOX FURNITURE COMPANY New and Used Announcement to Our Customers support and liberal patronage of our customer friends for which we take this opportunity to express Our sincere appreciation, we have again found quarters. Three years ago we opened our store at 8800 W. Jefferson Ave. Within six months i we outgrew the place and now three times the space is again inadequate so we have taken over what was formerly known as Orange Blossom Dance Hall. necessary alterations will be opened as one of the largest and most exclusive Furniture This placé after W. Jefferson Ave., cor. of Pulaski Ave., two blocks east from ' WE had our GRAND OPENING Saturday Feb. 21st, to continue thru this week, with a full line of living room, dining room and bed room suites, as well as hundreds of ' Our prices have always been the lowest, but on this special event you will find Besides, for the opening week you will be allowed from 10% to 15% off this Grand Opening Week. It is not necessary that you pur- to look over our beautiful stock in our modern new location. ) We wish to call your attention that our old location at 8758-8824 W. Jefferson with a full line of used and new furniture. The store at 10600 _W. Jefferson, River Rouge, will not be managed by the Fox Furniture Co. any longer. ss will from now on be under new manage ment. | The Original Fox Furniture Company — NEW LOCATION AT as ¥, DETROM#E,\MICH. _*eee ee ee & Meets every 2nd and 4th Sunday, 10 . a. m., at the SOUTH-SLAVIC HOME, | Compliments 1343 E. Ferry Ave., Detroit, Mich. | ot : 5240 HASTINGS STREET GREETINGS to the Special Issue of THE DAILY WORKER neers Compliments BRANCH 337 of the Work- rae... men’s Circle of Detroit. WM:.WIENER | and Meets every Friday, 8 p. m., at TUR- la , OVER HALL, Marston and Melrose. J ‘ROGOFF GREETINGS to the Special Issue of THE DAILY WORKER FROM iv b ol no i. & &! Shop Nucleus:No. I, of Detroit; Mich. Now ‘a meets every Ist and 3rd Sunday, 2 p. m., at the HOUSE OF MASSES, 2646 St. Aubit St. me | Shop Nucleus Tel. Glendale 0700. . Po .g Patterson "S Flowers ¥ Iie “Brighten Dull #furs” 4 | 4142 Woodweitd Ave. Next to Majestic heatre. Detroit, Mien” Io a GREETINGS 53 to the Special issue of 3 Ey THE DAILY WORKER FROM | LENIN BRANCH ofthe Workmen's Circle No. 553 of Detroit. LAND LABOR TEMPLE, 9174 Del mar, near Westminster. ; ¥I THE DAILY WORKER} JEWISH BRANCH of the Work- Meets every Tuesday, 8 p. m., LAND LABOR TEMPLE. 9179 Delmar Compliments to the Special Issue of FROM ers Party. - at OAK- Avenue. THE DAILY WORKER THE GERMAN LIEBKNECHT Meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday, 8 Compliments to the Special Issue of FROM BRANCH of Workers Party. BIG BAZAAR AND DANCE for LABOR DEFENSE Choice Bargains for Old | and Peppy Music for Young * and a Good Time for All at the HOUSE OF MASSES, 2646 St. Aubin Street * ree : - aa aa te tees tte ten ty yy ey D SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1925, 5: :30 P. M.° Admission 25 Cents. Auspices, Detroit Federation of Working Women's Organizations: Everybody come and bring the family and-all your friends:"* .*****o* * ss * * * © ~ i i i i i i i i i i i TT i i i i i i bby - a«~**% *% es % eS S84 SSH H SA S* SSS OS ~“***%*4*4444444% +4 4% 444% 4444444 - ’ 7. To Get the GREETINGS p. m.. at HOUSE OF THE MASSES, Lowest Prices 2646 ‘St. Aubin St. . to the Special Issue of come to Cherry 8051 Cherry 6492 . canal STORE Hemlock - 2376-W | | | ARMENIAN BRANCH of the| 9200 Oakland Ave., A. BIGELMAN GENERAL INSURANCE Workers Party of Detroit. Cor. Westminster Detroit, Mich. Meets every ist and 3rd Sunday, 2 p. Big Assortment of Household _ m,. at 1411 BRUSH, Detroit. } Furnishings and Dry Goods. 509 Hofman Bldg. Detroit, Mich. Meets every Friday, 8 pm., at OAK- M. EISENSTAT STORE» Lb Cleaning, Pressing and ‘ All Kinds of Repairing. 1478 BEAUBIEN STREET SECOND HAND CLOTHING : FOREST VIEW *' GROCERY . | 4724 Cadillac Ave. Detroit, Mich. LAPING & TW ARUCSEK Choice Meats and Groceries 1011 CADILLAC AVE. Cor. Canfield. Phone Lincoln 1117-R Home Made Hungarian Sausages a Specialty S. SEKATELLIAN 820 W. Solvay Ave. Detroit, Mich. Dry Goods -and Men's Furnishings EVERYTHING FOR MEN. SKOLNICK’S CREAMERY 934 Westminster Ave. A Friend of the GREETINGS Vesrhets: to the Special Issue of BENSMA N’S STORE: THE DAILY WORKER] Men’s Furnishings FROM Headwear GREEK BRANCH of the Work- ers Party of Detroit. - | Ladies’ and Children’s 1128-1130 Meets every ist and 3rd Sunday; 8 ps WESTMINSTER AVE. m., at 1411 BRUSH, Detroit, iz Detroit, Mich. ~ FOR GOOD SERCICE GREETINGS go to to the Special Issue of B. Wolf’ s Grocery THE,DAILY WORKER| 4d Confectionery FROM 933 Westminster Ave. HUNGARIAN BRANCH of the cerem We. Workers Party of Detroit. B. DITCH 928 Westminster Ave. Meets every 2nd and 4th Saturday, 8 Pp m. CORNER DEARB : : Gia, ats Detroit, Mich. Study classes every Friday night, 8 D. m. 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es eT HE: oe ae ay: WORKER 16 EFFORW@® TO BANISH COMMUNISTS _ ; g OLE OVER ON AE rc IN EFEO FROM ORGANIZED LABOR 70 FAIL, |SENATORS' USE | "HALF -A BILLION LAST YEAR\PLEA-FOR FRENGH- SAYS LABOR COUNCIL IN AUSTRALIA| OF ‘INFLUENCE’ = died dE (Federated Pres Industrial Editor) ~ §Y¥DNBY, Australia —The action of the Australian labor party in nisl J - 7. ap 8 of, the ofjobless workers would have had work at F cial “Harmful T | ing the Communists out of the labor movement in Australia is condemned by G Is Maki average wages lest- year if sto¢Kholders in industrial companies had limited Debts the labor council of New South Wales in its annual report for the year "7 overnment “tag S their greed for profits to a 6 per cent return on the par value of their hold- > just issued. F ake Investigation ings. This appears from a Wall Street Journal review which shows. ‘that nag rs 24— Owen D. The labor council says that the Communists were expelled in order that WASHINGTON,’ D. C., Feb. 24—| 116 industrial corporations presented their common stockholders with ‘an | Young, agent general for | the middle-class labor politicians, now Gominating the party, could still further WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—With one | Tt is the duty of America to set an} #ssregate profit of $524,904,087, equiy-+— — reparations payments, and, with Gen.| the policy of. liberalizing. the party United States .semator, Burton K. example for the world in reducing | alent to a return-of 14.5 per cént. - Y Charles mma Sein , co-author of the| and make it ‘easier’ to appeal to the |r Wweetery” Comecene - eamans, 6h ° armament, and to invite other nations ; Wheat, Might Have—But Didn’t— — oung Workers Show for Germany, begged | shopkeepers and local manufacturers [ ABOR D AILY IN ready under rey decom > perm ee to follow that example, dent | 2 Happen. ‘Extraordinary Spirit Politicians and statesmen of both| by throwing out’of the party the only — faenre a na toe 0 te ie : Coolidge declared Here eednean oes. ee of 6 per cent on | G Strik — and the United States to cease| real revolutionary forces in Australia. ' bean ret " Rae: ee wv nebo a ¢ large. delegation of women attend- | thé e stock of these in arment €/ their “harmful talk” about France’s| “Despite their efforts, however,” AUSTRALIA PUTS he Daic geile an n inf be ne coon the women’s conference. gn nation- | Concerns abo 0g meant a profit of , war debt im a speech here today. says the report, :“every day,.the Com- sins 308 a ake a othet alanis al defense as peace insurance. mop Waster Fipevins a margin of| The Young Workers League of Dis- | It bg’s second address | munist issue in politics becomes more are under scrutiny—among them Sen: ‘Abolition of the army and navy, he 0 ire efther for a ré-| triét No. 2 is actively engaged‘ at the | since ala a oe and more the main issue. The shadow ator Spencer, republicas, of Missbust dismissed as unworthy of serious diction hen or an increase in| present time in helping the workers |™made at of Communism is over the labor move- : ee tae ee tee “ thought. wages. Hither would have had the|of the white goods industry who are | ercises in Hopkins university. ment. All efforts to banish Commun- 008 uae Bursum, Fpypyoeae, OF “Hyen the most law-abiding of.com- effect. of Rot . the demand for|on strike win their demands for the Battle is Over Debts. ism and Communists are bound to Gali ars ditto Stirs Seltin influenes munities do not dismiss their police |*00¢ Prod ts," clo , Shoes, auto-| complete organization of all the shops : “We find irritation and misunder-| fail, The good old times of playing |} Pj d Wrath g Influence. ” he said. “No more can a great mobiles, etc., stimulating industry tO} and an increase in wages. In this} standing,” Young said, “between two] at politics are gone. Revolution has 1ecar ra The indictments in each instance bation take the risk of leaving itself that extent; and making more jobs. . | strike involving more than 20,000/great nations and two great peoples stepped. upon the stage.” — have the same background that they to be menaced by disorder.” At the average hourly rate of pay| workers the majortiy are young girls| who have every reason to work to- (The Federated Press.) used their influence before govern- | ; xf 4 os jin America in 1924 this excess profit receiving wages as low as $12.00 per | gether. ‘two nations are now} 3 : —_| SYDNEY, Australia—Arising out of| ment departments to obtain conces- ‘| Women Strong for Defense would have® paid f6f 12,760,000 ‘weeks | week. _| looking at each other with suspicion the dispute at the office of the Labor| sions and government action in return _, The president paid , tribute. to the|of work or. would have.furnished @| ‘The Y. W. L. members who are in-|and do Women who composed his audience. | year’s work to cover 250,000 unem- ‘volved in this strike are showing “And w They were advocates of a strong and | Ployed wage earners. And these Cor|spiendid courage and extraordinary | 2uthority, militant national ‘defensé, as Opposed | porations are but*a shall: sempiing of militancy. In fact, one of the Workers domestic © . oJ : irritation. Your Union Meeting | Daily—the official organ of the New| for which they received lawyers’ fees. Because no impartial South Wales branch of the Australian In pursuit of its present policy, the from the handicaps of “Fourth Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1925. j|labor party, where some of the staff department of justice apparently in- cs in either country, Name of Local and Place went on strike in sympathy with five} tent on setting up a standard for com- to the other convention of women |the total which make up the country’s | Party members has expressed herself | has been gle to study the question | wo. of Meeting. dismissed writers, members of the| mittee members, or in other words, here a few weeks ago who favored | industry. that the hardest job that-she has. is|°f the t or the practical Blacksmiths’ District Couneil, 119| Hurstville Labor league carried a mo-| to establish a line where a senator's less armament and ‘supported the An Interesting List. to check the league members. _ method of payment of the French S. Throop St. Boller Maker Monroe and Racine. | tion censuring E. C. Magrath, one of| duty to a constituent ends, and where an 1 league of nations and the world-court.| The net profits ard the rate of re- The lea i : ase | debt. * 40 Carpen aera bive. Be eres ti ee pean grihid pecubary Snlaiedl ti 6 ano Most of today’s audience were dele-| ‘urn on capital’in the Varidus indus- eague is carrying on splendid + 242 784 7 woe ore, Western and Lexing- propaganda among the thousands of I beg the politicians and states- trial f both countries to stop thei 5448 S. Ashiand A an oar Pgh” 9 sage kag ds agg ctlgeenp ms r t ly delicat esti gates from woman's patriotic organi- groups was: ; young workers on strike. In this}@°" ° untries to stop their! | garpenters, S448 S$. Ashland Ave. | omce and calling upon him to show s an extremely delicate question, zations. Companies industry" Profit Rate| work of propaganda are involved not harmful tale until the facts are 84 Carpenters, 1638 N. Halsted St.|causé why he should not be expelled| 42d one that the department is ap Repeats “Defense” Hoax found.” Pct roaching with a maximum of caution 4 Motors ..... 13,362,000 36.6 ‘only the Y. W. L. strikers but crews H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2253/ from the labor movement. proacaing The womanhood of Sparta has be; 4 Accessories .... 8, 2,163,000 14:4] of Y. W. L. members of other trades| Soom Sonera wor Soheol. 1, Ce eros A few days later the New South | ™U°P sutton indeod. come legendary, the president said,} 2 eather and shoes 6927000 80 |/@t Present unemployed who distribute ye gpa : “goa the debt | 2507 Carpenters, 1881 Maple Ave., Evan-| Wales executive of the Australian Spencer Firm got Woe but “our own history is proof that the 4 Metals and mining. 7,532,000 8.1) Hterature and help the union taking bay ~— — \ a Wenner ston, It. Kvwe labor party held 4 meeting, carried a In ‘Wheeler's’ case, he stands Go women of Sparta were made of no} fg Mail OFderB annem 17 das'000 ang | down the shops that have not yet been | ©10" Some Seuéey Must be created to) 18) Cd carriers, 1382 W. Division St.| motion of confidence in Magrath, and|C¥8¢d of seeking from the interior ve iovel etal.” 8 Oils and pipe lines , 14,363,000, 10.0 | taken down on strike. get at facts as a help toward inter- 562 Hod Carriers, 810 W. yd Ap me St. ‘ department public lands concessions stouter or more ioya - @ ‘ Ghetn othe '34' 004-000" 83.4 national peace. Such an agency, he 4 Jewelry Workers, 19 W. Adams St. | Ordered the resolution censuring him behalf of tituent client fr “We are compelled to recognize 7. Te shane cae + fuctdaoap 9p 08,000 * 7| Two of our members, Comrades Eda/ saiq would be the Walter Hines Page 104 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. | be expunged from the league records, | °" °° ” r cod ' risry . Po wa thet suivant ee ome hs *» Steet sndustry. anal - itrses - ‘ Eisman and Bessie Eisman, members school of international relations to be Marin “Scoka, Ser i N. Clark St. | The executive also expelled three Pg Sn, eee ge si astaat dare fa: Pengo 42 Miscellaneous. ........ 174,095,000 18.4| 9% the Brownsville branch, were ‘ar-| established at John Hopkins by the| 128 Machiniete, Wig 8. Aghiand Bivd. meinbers of the Hurstville league who| 1, the case of Spencer, it is charged that he has been instrumental in se curing for the Fouke Fur company of St. Louis, an exclusive monopoly in handling government sealskins, while I eagle a Understated at That. rte while on the picket line on the| endowment fund of whose board of 378 Maintenance of Way, Se Sone 9. were prominent in the attack on Ma- out committing the na ve om * These figures undersfate the rate of sn nical gy of insulting the pol-| ¢ rastges Ceear Srenisent. “. © 4 +N Fests “| grath on the grounds that they were ism. Whatever preparations we make|' 112, on the’ cash ‘actally ifvested |1°°m™a2 They are now out on bail. ——— 6 Plasterers, 910 W. Monroe 8t. Communist and therefore not eligible shall be limited to the reasonable re- in the industry’ by “the 'stovkhoHers A meeting of all Y. W. L. members Hot In Australia Railway Carmen Gist. Council, 5445 | » membership in the Australian la- quirements of security.’ because in such industries as the auto- SeVCRE NS A: FS. Saenn een: meee ae ee oataeiiate sce Feb. 24.—| £87 Rallway Carmen, 5444 Wentworth | bor party. his law firm in St. Louis acts as at- 1840 Railway C , 5446 Ashiand Ave. mobile, oil, tobacco and chain stores} sgyting L, ceteeh tas ante Cae Three | ve been killed by the | 219 Railway Trainmen, 426 W. 63rd $t.,| Unionists claim that the expulsion | torneys for the company. Ina speech Calles, Breaking His generous stock dividends have vastly}, 4ne union settlement committee, | 2e@t sweeping this section in the last) 44 nected’ Th W. Aéam of the three men was due not to the|on the senate floor, defending the increased the apparent capitalization: | few days.,dfg¢ny have been prostrat-| ,73 Sheet “Yuetal, Tia W. Harrison 8t. fact they were Communist, but be-| seal contract at a time when it was Promises, Faces Armed In spite of a depression which meant |The demands include among ; ether P ts’ U things, shorter hours for the young ed. ; , ones gy es He «e cause they opposed “the antfwork-| under attack, Spencer admitted his easan rising unemployment to tens of thousands | F 753 Teamsters, 175 W. Was ngten, ting class attitude” of Magrath, The | law firm had received fees amounting p the 1924 profits of those industrial workers, low admission fees and reg 769 Teamaters (Meat), 220 S. Ashland ular vacations. Settle for the Beauty and Bolshe- Ivd. paper is still declared “black” by the | to $80,000. As a member of the firm (Special to The Daily Worker) companies compare. very favorably vik tickets. Bring the money and un-| 7° Veneers (Bone), 6969 S. Halsted | ).15, council of New South Wales for he shared fn this. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 24.—Four hun- with those of the previous year. In WwW b say | S0ld tickets either to 19 S. Lincoln | 13046 Tuckpointess, os Be Ww Sateen St. victimising the five journalists be- Bursum’s case is similar. Charges ; dred armed peasants, determined that 1923 they produced a total profit for hen you uy, get an Ad St., or Room 307, 166 W., Washing- 924 has ang Sunes ° re, cause they took a prominent part in have been made that Bursum repre- the promises of distribution of the| Stockholders of '$555,068,000 ~repre-| for the DAILY WORKER. ton St. mn iote—Uniess om stated all|ine formation of a shop committee.| sented the agricultural and livestock . land, made by Calles and Obregon to senting a return of 16. 2 on the ar etings D-. Me An attempt to rescind the “black” mo- corporation of New Mexico in a cat- | get their support, and even written ization of that year. | i Keep up Aircraft “Probe tion was defeated by 81 votes to 20. | tle wd yoapaFinnge se Pht to posto into the Mexican laws, shall not be AN N OUNCE F IRST AN N UAL DAILY WASHINGTON Feb 4-+The con- my ai sen ar th “ nay a violated by Calles now that he has Quake Rocks.Belgium ~ 4 wo | eresstonal aircraft investigation, halt- Fire Sweeps Egyptian Village panics re . gs Fe eth o War Saeace become president and sold out to Wall) LIEGE, Feb. 24.—All Belgium rock- WORKER BALL IN DEFROIT, MICH. ed abruptly om Saturday, will be re-| CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 24—Thirty|{ uP os |e eae ay Pr Street, have seized extensive cultivated| ed to the tremor of an .earthquate | o SeCury Une Wane we sae : | | ‘ 4 Wy sumed on Thursday, the house invest | PeTsons were burned to death and} _ | to have been made and irrigated lands from the haciendas| which lasted 30 5 seconds, early, today. DETROIT, Mich: Feb? 24As the date Pda! al ha “annual « DAILY | igathiig “commnttes’ aeuaceteaay forty-injured in-a fire im the village oft) “t.4. ‘indictment ahd conviction in the state of Durango, on which the} Only ne ‘fatality te Say according Rahmania according to information were ever obtained im the cases n owners had just invested 200,000] to early reports, that at Bygen Bilsen, || WORKER ball comes closer, all our charter memben§gif the DAILY WORKER Branchee—Settle for campaign fund | teaching here today. Five hundred] jonging it was yee ao pesos ($100,000) under assurance of; where a woman died of fear. The} Bricklayers’ Union are hustling to get their quota of tickets sold. Everybody stamp books March 1; last date for houses were destroyed in the confla- other meustionl of con s might be protection from the state government!| shock was particularly strong at La- nates is anxious to ke this affair a success an settlement. gration. laid open to the same pro a President Calles today ordered the} naken. royce ‘ig Pony age . bu the enthusiasm keeps up this pe proceedings agrarians dislodged, but the latter as- : sejy| D@ll Will Mark @ milestone in the annais o troit festivals. | . EI ae eee ee eT eee . | sert they will fight for possession of| Get your tickets for Red Revel’ Ball, | The best thing about it is ‘that on March 1 the-Young Workers League .. the lands. February 28. is going to make their official organ a weekly and the first issue of this same ; by & s ‘ ae : ™ —* aforementioned weekly is going to : , r ae ] ok me this seal t means nothing but, . it that the bunch will be there and TERRORISTS =, *7, ‘80 Pees? somethin’ coins. : th A NIGHT GOWN. 1A FROCK FOR MATURE FIGURE. WH IT E at the YOWLS are going to see to Ae S OF THE JOB IS DONE when you send in yoar be sold of all the comrades at this | OU R DAILY P ATTERNS : T H E dance. urse you realize what | | | | CRY ocala to to be at the Howse |] b remittance for a subscription with one half of | oe FOR ee ae elt cA this ad. The other half we will do when , places and can’t come to this—The | MERCY First Annual DAILY WORKER Ball. %, we see to it that you receive each month s \ By MAX BEDACHT 4% ¢ a P arty.Actwities Of - Local Chicago Workers Party Activitiee—Chicago WEDNESDAY the best working class magazine | ever turned out in this country— | HE Feb. 25, T. U. E. L. meeting at % North West hall. Red Revel commit- i . " ” ae WORKERS MONTHLY $5 tee meeting. All branches send dele- : me . te _ f gates. S>, . ‘ 6 . . Douglas “Pérk Jewis, 3118 West | ¥" he to lem & Roosevelt Rq. », , | oe ~~ ~ nt % O Englewood, 6414 8, Halsted street. | , = Polish,’ S#ifi Chicago, Solczynski, | . 715 Commercial Ave. * SRR THURSDAY Pye! 3 a Ss Feb. 26th, Labor Defense Council }] @Q conference, Room 301, 180 W. Wash- ~. ington street. =~.) = b | Contrasting the treat- eres a Karl Marx br., 2733 ' 5016. Crepe de chine end filet lace| 5013. Taffeta or faille would be|§ Me2t Of political prisoners ol ae 2439 S. Oakley $2.00 a year $1.25 six months 8 $ ‘- > ls a new pamphlet just off the press. are here combined. One could use| very attractive for this design. 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The friendly at- titude of the Calles government towards American capital expressed by its persecution of anti-im- perialist activities and expulsion of Communists from its personally conducted unions getting their orders from the A. F. of L. officialdom, has greatly heartened the oil, water power and mining barons. No richer field for investment exists on the west- ern hemisphere and the concessions recéived by American capitalists stagger the imagination. ra le It Vow It Is Being Tx yt Woodrow Wilson loaned or donated $1,500,000,- 000 liberty loan money to Burt vernments after the war was over without the duthorization of congress, according to a sérieg of articles now appearing in a newspaper syndicate, This news can now be published, but if it was made public during the war the person responsible for dispensing the information would find himself behind the bars. One of the juicy items of news picked at random out of this scandal dish is connected with Rou- mania. That country wanted money very badly after the war was over. Its government was busy crushing the labor unions and making forays on the territory of its neighbors, taking particular care to grab whatever it could from Soviet Russia, which was then surrounded by armed enemies and ‘torn by civil war. The treasury department was without authority to advance any funds to countries not at war. But the state department actually suggested to the Roumanian government that they declare war ‘on Germany in order to get over the congressional obstacle. Roumania did not have the nerve to do this, so Wilson gave them the money anyway. Another scandal that is rehashed is the Bak- meteff affair. That fashionable burglar lived for years in luxury on the United States treasury while posing as the representative of a government that was as dead as the dodo. Not alone that, but he used those funds to foster counter-revolutionary activities against the Soviet government. The reign of the so-called progressive President Wilson was one of the most reactionary in the his- tory of this country. That mountebank went to Recent dispatches tell of the immense area un- der the rule of American capital in the western provinces of Sinaloa and Durango. Here are the great San Dimas silver mines, some 80 miles south of Mazatlan. There are 40 mines in this concession &hich covers a territory of 250,000 acres. The water power of the Piextla and Rio Verde rivers is to be developed by American capital and | underpaid Mexican labor with the first. units of, the system generating 200,000 horsepower. There is also an irrigation project for over 300,000 acres of rich agricultural land. The power plants will supply a number of Mex- ican cities and another great natural resource whose development forms the basis for airtight po- litical control passes into the hands of American capital. ‘Ts it any wonder, with these great riches to be had -for the taking if the Mexican working class can be lulled to sleep, that extraordinary efforts have been made to make of the Mexican labor movement a duplicate in miniature of the American labor movement—feeble and spineless? The Communist parties of the United States and Mexico, the Trade Union Educational League and the Pan-American Anti-Imperialist league are the only organizations that point out to the American and Mexican workers the dangers of the working elass of both nations, the*grave danger facing them in this looting of Mexico. An Unknown Soldier Identified One of the most novel and successsful stunts used by the capitalist class to dope the minds of the workers with patriotic emotion after the end of the world war was the unknown soldier dodge. Millions of workers were legally murdered by the ruling class during the prolonged tragedy.’ When the war was over, the generals were given | large sums of money and titles. The privates, those who survived, faced starvation. But the ruling class responsible for the greatest murder carnival in human history hit on the bright} idea that the remaining cannon fodder would ac- cept “honor” To show how democratic the ruling classes were, they picked the shattered form of what was once a human being from the corpse pile and honored it. | Each government picked a dead body and “honor- ed” it. Monuments were erected over the graves| of the unknown soldiers, and generals who got their first look at the trenches on a sight-seeing tour when the war was over, have busied themselves placing wreaths on the poor victims’ graves. But the French government pulled a Their unknown piece of cannon fodder boner. was made the target for more speeches than there were shots | fired during the world war. He was given credit for all the virtues that ever lodged in a human} being. But, drat his hide, he turns out-to be, not a patriotic French poiliu, but a hated in other words a German. This is terrible. It is liable to damage the un known business irreparably. Perhaps all the unknown soldiers are corpses of the once hated enemy. may exhume them and submit their ashes to an analysis to learn whether they are lrenchmen, Irish, Dutch, Liberians, Poles, Bushmen. A promising and flourishing industry is threatened with disaster. “hoche,” or soldier (Chemists (;ermans, (Chinese or Patriotism’s Reward The following letter, taken from the Cleveland Press, is eloquent and supplies its own editorial comment: “Back in the spring of 1917 this great eountry of ours wanted men to go over and put an end to that racket in Europe. I was one of those who readily responded. — Thee, a = Ue ee iwinti@s fri : —_—— _—_— _ sw ow~ ok geet oes a = (= RS eS. + ag Se ee a ee — Cae — ag i ——— ay Be een = ee ——— == a, Se ee ee em Pie eK is = . GR ¥°TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE 3}}: 5 “4 of the Daily Worker , ae | From the “Ags wt > Finnish ch of the Workers Party... } Meets every ist and 8rd Sunday, 2 p. m., at FINNISH: 7 HALL, cs 14th Street, corner McGraw. =. } tes es eee aa ~ 4 English. | a? Greetings to the Special Issue, of DAILY WORKER from the anch of the Workers Party of Detroit. Meets every 2nd and 4th Friday, 8 p. m., at the HOUSE OF MASSES, 2646 St. Aubin Street. ‘ : fee SNE cr PRINTING International Phone Melrose 5429 mms; —«s“i(‘«* NARA RR SNA RI YELLOWS QUIT WEEPING OVER PARTY’S CORPSE The officials of the Maftional social. secretaries, were meeting in Douglas Park auditorium yestef@ay afternoon sult of its futile co ration with capitalist politicians. The socialist party will have to “be rebuilt from the ground up” was the sense of the meeting. It was ad- mitted that the party is déad. The pie-card optimists, however, pin their hopes in a last attempt to revive the already rotting corpse. The national convention of the so- cialist party adjourned after issuing a statement trying to explain the fatal adventure in class-collaboration with the LaFollette petty Seurgeois third party elements. The party will con- tinue to fight the Commenists and the workers and pe of Russia and will forget that Marx ever lived, it was disclo the state- ment, but in the fut e socialists will carry on this work ne. The socialist partjcame home, Ok MIM PRINTING Let ‘Your Next Piece of Printing Be Printed by THE PRINTING Printing Go, Printing of Every Description 4417 CHENE STREET * Detroit, Mich. Phone Melrose 5429 | ASK OLD LADIES? HOME FOR “BROKE” SCHOOL TEACHERS CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 24.—A national home for aged and infirm . school teachers was advocated by Olive M. Jones, principal of Public School 120, New York City, in her talk before the department of super- intendence, National Association convention here today. Miss Jones declared that the average “poor house” to which she would have to go as the only place she could afford in view of her meager pension would be obnoxious to any educated and cultured school teacher. : after three year’s woundering, at a banquet given in honor of Eugene Y. Debs, and found the old home in such a badly decayed condition that repair is hopeless. However, with more optimism than brains, one speaker after drother ex-. pounded the “new socialism” which does not deign to notice the teachings of Marx or the lessons of t revolution. James Oneal, ilt- quit, Debs, and many othe “rebuild the party.” “IT am a little embarassed apd nerv- ik : ." Educational . Reet Sees : | ably splendid and intelligent audi- + . — ae __ DETROIT < 's Co-operative Full Line of "Meats, ‘(Gteeeetes, Fruits and Vegetables jabaraent Prices in City Per si a Our Aim » Reinkyy pe’ furhith pure, clean and whisleoume th to the work Py Ing. clase’ “at Set. We pay no dividends” br Intérest on stock ~~~ ) 5 3 xe . or Investment. al surplus goes towards working class edu- seational. I tutions, db. te tv Visit” our market.”’See our prices and then decide where R _ you should give your patronage, “se as . -GENERAL MARKET, 57 5767 Chene al a weal PHONE—MELROSE, 6863 $3 ie “For clean, wholesome, well cc ee “westaurants at the foll Remington Portable - very Feature Common to the Big Machines Yur it is.20 small that ft fits in a case only four inches high. There are six good reasons why the Remington : Portable is the recognized leader—in sales and popularity. They are: and Compactness and Portability Four-Row Standard Keyboard Base of Operation Beautiful Work—Ahway: Universal Service Price, complete with case, $60. Easy payment terms if desired. Order; fcom, THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicage - Valet “AuteStrop The Safety Razor that Sharpens Its Own Blades COMPLETE OUTFITS $1.00 & $8.00 / —Sharpens cane Digi For Sale at All Stores Selling Razors and Blades ous in the presence of this remark- ence,” Hillquit said sarcastically. “James Oneal talks so much in the Marxian phraseology that his wife does not understand him.” This was the closest Hillquit came to mentioning the teachings of Karl Marx, “I don’t kno&y what the cele- bration is all about, but we might as well celebrate anyway,” he added. “This is a divorced party,” Hillquit said. “This socialist crowd is as pep- py and chipper as a divorcee, and + seems to be ready for another wed- ding.” A vdice in the back of the hall said,: ‘Maybe they'll try to marry the Communists next.” And a Communist who was observing ‘the show, answer- ed “nothing doing.” “We have been on a journey,” said Hiliquit, “And we have returned to our home 46 make’ it the home of all truly progressive and forward looking action.” . Abramovich Berates Debs Raphael Abramovich, who has not had the nerve to _ attempt to speak in Chicago before ‘a public gathering following the’ protest of the workers lof other cities dkdinst’ his lies about was introduced here Abramovich said Soviet Russia, without casualties. the revolution was a long time off in | the United States, and deplored the fact that for a time “Debs has been carried away by the Bolshevik illu- sion.” Lilian Herstein, who is being in- tensively cultivated by the “social- ists” was the only speaker of the evening who mentioned Soviet Russia in a favorable light. She criticised the “progressives” for remaining silent about Soviet Russia. The Jewish Forward gave $1,200 to help “rebuild” the socialist party, and Debs ‘added the usual sentimental] FOR SALE. Used Royal Typewriter Price $36—Cash or Terms. Apply 6419 E. Jefferson Ave. Detroit, Mich. Phone: Edgewood 0100-J Ask for G. Ohun. touch to the banquet. fr ) Let 4 Get your tickets for Red Revel Ball, February 28. 641 0ce's ee) TASTELESS CASTOR OIL A super-refined castor oil made Soe anciticindl une. _ Not flavored. at the Laboratories. Ar all COMMUNIST VOTE TO BE ANNOUNCED IN DAILY WORKER Seventy watchers were sent out by the Workers (Communist) Party, local Chicago, to see that votes cast for the four Communist candidates in the aldermanic contest are prop- erly counted. The Workers Party ran candi- dates in four wards. The Commun- ist candidates were Louis Cejka, 2827 S. Spaulding ave., 22nd ward; Hyman Epstein, 3131 W. 15th St., 24th ward; Nicholas Dozenberg, 321 N. Avers Ave., 28th ward, and Harry Brooker, 2708 Crystal St., 34th ward. The DAILY -WORKER Went te press te early for the returns,